<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941</id><updated>2011-10-31T07:24:54.592-07:00</updated><category term='Bilderberg'/><category term='Wall Street'/><category term='911 Nano-Thermite'/><category term='Taliban Peace Offer'/><category term='Bubbles'/><category term='Federal Reserve'/><category term='911'/><category term='Perpetual Mideast War'/><title type='text'>Opening Inner Space</title><subtitle type='html'>As the URL indicates, this blog is all about
opening our minds in the areas of politics,
economics, spirituality and human relationships.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>100</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2959030580565447293</id><published>2010-01-03T22:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T08:55:58.884-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Off The Grid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to reduce my Internet presence and suspend blogging for awhile. Everyone has all the information they need to change the world. As I wrote in my last post, we are facing global change and sooner rather than later. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it is time for me to step away from the computer and to set aside more time for my personal life &lt;a href=http://vowofhappiness.blogspot.com/&gt;which I have hinted at one of my other blogs.&lt;/a&gt; I also need to get back to my regular exercise routine and to do more volunteer work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am up to 400 pushups a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone wants either to publish a daily blog of news that has escaped the mainstream press or just to find better news sites I will give you the sources I have used for 90% of my stories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/&gt;http://whatreallyhappened.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is a great website but a lot of stories do not make it to the main page so I always start at the shared stories contributed by subscribers.&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/shared&gt;http://whatreallyhappened.com/shared&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/&gt;http://www.zerohedge.com/&lt;/a&gt; This site is trendy and gives a lot of inside info on money. He is difficult for the novice to follow as he uses a lot of acronyms and undefined terms. But you must understand banking to understand how the elite steals your money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://maxkeiser.com/&gt;http://maxkeiser.com/&lt;/a&gt; Max is funny and is an easier introduction to money. He has videos and audios plus links to some major news stories. He is a liberal and does not understand America. He also does not tell you how our Federal Reserve system was designed to impoverish you. For that you need the following refernce article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/counterfeiters-suppose-you-were.html&gt;The Counterfeiters You can find this in my March 2009 archives at http://openingmind.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; You can use this to introduce banking as a fraud to the novice. I compare the FED to a counterfeiter who has the right to pass counterfeit money provided he only loans the money to someone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://alethonews.wordpress.com/&gt;http://alethonews.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This website does a good job of getting out anti-Zionist news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/&gt;http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is a good site for Palestinian news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.iamthewitness.com/&gt;http://www.iamthewitness.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is a research site on Zionism. It also has news links and an audio broadcast every couple of weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://bobchapman.blogspot.com/&gt;http://bobchapman.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Lately I have been listening to Bob Chapman's latest radio interviews which are all posted here so you don't have to go looking for him all over the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://solari.com/blog/&gt;http://solari.com/blog/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Catherine Austin Fitts' blog. She posts some new links and articles. She is the one who has done the most research on Wall Street's divine right to steal billions of dollars every week from federal spending you peasants are not allowed to audit. That link is here. &lt;a href=http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/&gt;http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://kpfa.org/home&gt;Guns and Butter is here on Wednesday at 1pm California time http://kpfa.org/home&lt;/a&gt; KPFA has been acting more like a Gatekeeper for the Zionists of late so their donations are down but I respect Bonnie Faulkner even if she is a socialist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/&gt;http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/&lt;/a&gt; This website releases Emergency Unemployment Compensation figures once a week. Click on the press release with this title. ETA News Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report. EUC benefits are minimal and granted to those who have timed out on regular benefits. Scroll down about ten paragraphs until you see the words States reported. I used it to report that EUC claimants had grown 425% in 12 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.shadowstats.com/&gt;http://www.shadowstats.com/&lt;/a&gt; You need to understand how government manipulates statistics to lie to you. It is a subscription site with a lot af free information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/&gt;http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; This is Mish Shedlock's blog. It is a great website for news and analysis. I disagree with him. He is a deflationist. I believe we are in for a terrifying round of inflation as soon as the dollar collapses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://market-ticker.denninger.net/&gt;http://market-ticker.denninger.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Karl Denninger's blog. He also is a good analyst.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.financialsense.com/&gt;http://www.financialsense.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This website has some good interviews once a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://drudgereport.com/&gt;http://drudgereport.com/&lt;/a&gt; Matt Drudge is a Jewish Republican. His site is not as useful as it once was but I still go there daily for breaking news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt; Once a day I look at the front page of this newspaper then I click on Finance and then on Comments. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard told us about the Beijing put in his column. It is the intention of the Chinese government to buy gold if it ever drops below $1,000 an ounce. That and the recent purchases of IMF gold by India has set the gold market ablaze. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.gcnlive.com/&gt;http://www.gcnlive.com/&lt;/a&gt; This is an Internet radio broadcaster. They carry Alex Jones, Mike Rivero (WhatReallyHappened.com) and Webster Tarpley. Tarpley is on once a week on Saturday. He understand politics and economics but he does not not know how to solve problems as he is a socialist and wildly underestimates the influence of the Zionists. He is the one who first mentioned that Wall Street might want to run General David Petraeus for Presidnet in 2012. Like Eisenhower he is of Jewish descent. If he is elected, he will end democracy and sovereignty in America. I should warn you that Tarpley gets carried away sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://rense.com/&gt;http://rense.com/&lt;/a&gt; This is Jeff Rense's website. It is under web attack from Zionists more than any other site on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.mybudget360.com/&gt;http://www.mybudget360.com/&lt;/a&gt;Two or three times a week this man has a great analysis of the real world that faces the average man and woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://europebusines.blogspot.com/&gt;http://europebusines.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This man posts a lot of links related to war and Mideast news from a conservative anti-war point of view. He gets carried away talking about Iran and germ warfare, but he does follow the Ukrainian flu which was engineered in a laboratory and could sweep the world some time in 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.wtc7.net/&gt;http://www.wtc7.net/&lt;/a&gt; Use this site to introduce new people to the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/vanunu.html&gt;http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/vanunu.html&lt;/a&gt; Use this website to tell people that Mordechai Vanunu told us that Israel killed JFK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.bollyn.com/index.php&gt;http://www.bollyn.com/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Chris Bollyn's website. He is the bravest and most persecuted reporter in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to see my news blog or to see my other blog Vow of Happiness, please go to my profile to the right to get to my ywo other blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a favorite news website please feel free to add it in a comment as long as it is not racist. Opposition to Zionism is not racism. It is attempt to save the world from a diseased form of thinking that has brought the world to the brink of extinction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2959030580565447293?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2959030580565447293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2959030580565447293' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2959030580565447293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2959030580565447293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2010/01/off-grid-i-have-decided-to-reduce-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-7903125664374589355</id><published>2009-12-27T14:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T14:54:42.390-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Easily Predictable January Crisis &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Max Keiser has said the next economic crisis will occur soon after Goldman Sachs pays out its employee bonuses in January. Consider the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) My regular readers know that I have found the dancing around the rise in the debt limit issue to be most revealing. It was first announced as 1.8 trillion dollar which was raised to 1.9 trillion but was changed to 290 billion which is barely enough to run the federal government until January 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that point the administration and the Congress can threaten to shut down the government if we do not approve an increase in the deficit that is larger than last year's 1.885 trillion dollars. The 2009 budget deficit was 1.417 trillion. If you include off budget items like the Bailouts, you arrive at the more accurate 1.885 figure which is in excess of 150 billion dollars a month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) I also have reported that the federal government has been fudging unemployment figures by two means. One is to report a narrow definition of unemployment that does not include the 9.8 million Americans forced to work part time who want and need full time work. The narrow definition of unemployment is called U-3 and the broader definition is U-6. The narrow definition of unemployment is reported as 10% and the broader definition is reported as 17%,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January the federal government will be eliminating the birth death model which is one of the government's favorite fudge factors they use to make the unemployment rates appear to be better than they are. The birth death model refers to the cycle of the creation and destruction of small businesses. The government assumes that there are lots of new small businesses out there hiring lots of people. In this job market we all know that this is a lie. This means the elimination of the birth death model in January will dramatically make our unemployment situation appear to be the crisis it really is. Consider this: &lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1uNytJIcw&gt;Video: Depression Stories: Former Truck Driver (Interview)&lt;/a&gt; These men are in Florida and say their official unemployment rate is 13% but the real rate is 20% or more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Rahm Emanuel said, never let a crisis go to waste. When the January unemployment rates are released with all the retail store layoffs and the fudge factors are taken out, the new unemployment rates could reach 19% and be used to stampede the public into passing a Second Stimulus bill to cure what ails us not that the original 787 billion dollar Stimulus cured anything at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our problem is that Wall Street shipped 5,000,000 jobs overseas through NAFTA and outsourcing. We also added 28,000,000 to our population mostly through immigration in the past ten years while losing 7,000,000 jobs since 2007. We have started to adjust to the shutting down of our production lines by laying off workers in supply industries and in retail. We have millions more layoffs ahead of us. Next year we could be laying off millions of federal, state and local government workers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These threatened state budget crises will be added onto the unemployment problem. Please note that the administration and the Congress want to pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens which will make our current unemployment crisis far worse than it presently is. Granting citizenship to 22,000,0000 or more illegal aliens will allow them to bring their children, parents, spouses and other relatives in to this country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to population increases we are supposed to be creating 150,000 jobs a month to keep our unemployment rate at its present level. I recently explained this to a rather nice looking black woman who had an eight year-old daughter. The woman was employed but I pointed out that we had to create 150,000 jobs a month for the next 120 months plus rev up our economic activity enough to lift 9.8 million men and women from part time to full time work before we could even start to make a dent in our unemployment rate sufficient to have enough jobs available for her daughter when she graduates from high school ten years from now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) The 23.7 trillion dollar in Bailouts we have paid out to date did nothing to solve our crisis but has funded tens of billions of dollars in bonuses to the people who created this crisis when they invented mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps and repealed the Glass Steagall Act. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January the banksters can easily bring forward a trillion dollars in bad mortgages. Please consider this: &lt;a href=http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/all-hail-grand-poobah-blank-checks-for.html&gt;All Hail The Grand Poobah; Blank Checks For Fannie and Freddie &lt;/a&gt; Current law allowed the government to spend another 300 billion dollars on bad mortgages but apparently they think that is not enough so they are going for unlimited Bailouts for mortgage loans that the banks knew were bad when they took the applications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bankers and their overly paid employees in Washington will likely try to scare us into a second round of Bailouts in addition to the second Stimulus plus some money for the states to grease the skids for this planned emergency spending in January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said earlier this year, when the Stimulus, Spending and additional war funding bills were passed, we will not be able to sell all those bonds. I was right. We have not been selling bonds to foreigners. What we have done is to make the Federal Reserve create more than a trillion dollars to buy our bonds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we borrow yuan from China and yen from Japan, we get to buy things from them with their money but when we create money to buy bonds all we get is higher prices and rapidly growing federal debts plus a looming rapid increase in our annual 700 billion dollar interest payments that will, as designed, reduce us to debt peonage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is our crisis. It was created by the banks in order to reduce us to slavery. I would like to suggest that instead of another Bailout we take over the Federal Reserve bank and fire everyone in Washington with any ties to Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt;This was originally posted at my new blog&lt;/a&gt; on 12-26-2009 which is where I post six days a week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-7903125664374589355?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/7903125664374589355/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=7903125664374589355' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7903125664374589355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7903125664374589355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/12/easily-predictable-january-crisis-max.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2546031851837838432</id><published>2009-10-23T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T21:28:44.400-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Debt Bombs To My Left, Debt Bombs To My Right, Everywhere I See Debt Bombs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have previously said we are in the end phase of a long term credit cycle of this fractional reserve debt based money. Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy created non-interest bearing debt free money where the government created money freely without interest. If their currencies had survived their assassinations, we would have no 12 trillion dollar national debt today and no interest payments on the same. The Federal Reserve system was created in 1913 and gave our ability to create a currency away to a privately owned bank, The Federal Reserve System. Our currency has Federal Reserve Notes emblazoned upon it and not U.S. Banknotes. I have also explained many times that our system was designed to transfer money from those of us to work to those on Wall Street who have the right to print our money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HULGvC4grsc&amp;feature=player_embedded&gt;Video: Richard Belzer saying Kennedy wanted to get rid of the FED and that's why they Exploded His Head&lt;/a&gt; Belzer plays a detective on Law and Order SVU. Cousin of Henry Winkler ... Was friend of George Carlin. (Notes from IMDB.com.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://gcnlive.com/Archives2009/oct09/WorldCrisis/1017091.mp3&gt;Audio Broadcast: Debt Bomb One&lt;/a&gt; In this broadcast Webster Tarpley who just returned from Iceland has said that a call for a debt moratorium issued by one of the progressive parties in their parliament has gained momentum. They have formed a parliamentary working group with two other parties including the more conservative Independents to discuss a five year debt moratorium on both principle and interest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These debts in question were never agreed to by the people of Iceland. Several bankers from Iceland opened banks in England and when they collapsed Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the people of Iceland had to pay billions of dollars. The total amount owed is equal to the national output. This is a debt that cannot be paid. At some point a debt moratorium will have to be declared and this will spread to other countries very quickly. England, Holland, Germany and Austria will also have to declare bankruptcy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj4crMCg-XY&amp;feature=player_embedded&gt;Video: Debt Bomb Two - Michael Hudson reveals the advice he gave Latvia&lt;/a&gt; When the Latvians won their independence from the Soviet Union, they turned to Sweden, Germany and the European Union. Michael Hudson was head of a Committee of Experts who officially advised the Prime Minister who has already announced the first phase. Following Hudson's advice he said they would copy American mortgage bankruptcy law which limits the debt owed by the borrowers to the current value of the house. It is called jingle mail in American slang. You mail the keys to the bank, they take possession and sell your old home and cancel the remainder of your debts sending you through bankruptcy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swedish banks want the Latvians to pay the complete principle and interest on their homes even though their homes have dropped 75% in value since last year. The Latvian GDP has declined 18.7% and their unemployment has risen to 18.3%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The IMF and EU demand they sell or close half of all schools and hospitals and to also lay off half of all police officers. They have also been told to cut public employee wages by 40%. The EU also told the Latvians that they should close down their agriculture and textile industries so the Europeans can export food and clothes to them from EU surpluses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Hudson told the Latvians to take this fallback position. Print up a lot of their currency, the Latvian Lats, and use them to pay all foreign debts. If this happened, Swedish banks would die overnight. Other countries would follow the Latvians and within a week we would see major countries defaulting on their debts. We would see a Depression far worse than 1929.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://ia311007.us.archive.org/0/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-17October2009/tam171009.mp3&gt;Audio: Debt Bomb Three - Predictable World Crisis in January 2010&lt;/a&gt; Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert talked about the increase of the number of home foreclosures from 2.5 million to 3.5 million. They also said the banks have a lot of delinquent home loans. Some people have not made any payments for up to eighteen months. I heard some months ago that only one third of bad mortgages have been sent into foreclosure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max said the banks did not send these loans into foreclosure because they wanted to convert their Bailout loot into bonuses. Sometime in January of 2010 Max expects the banks to foreclose on enough homes to create another crisis. Stacy pointed out that a lot of these bad mortgages have been bought by the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke cannot show up to foreclose on your house. That will reveal the game is over. Max said the bankers will go to Washington in 2010 and try to get ten or twenty trillion dollars in Bailouts so they can have another around of bonuses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max speculated that the White House and the Congress will be so unpopular that they will create a virtual White House where the House and the Senate can vote over the web from secured walled communities in the south of France or elsewhere. It will be too dangerous for them to actually set foot inside the US. As I have said before, Americans have been buying 50,000,000 bullets a day for a year for a reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max talked about corporate insiders selling their stock. He said governments and Hedge funds are buying gold. Max asked the question: At what price will envy drive most Americans to buy gold? Max and Stacy said the price would be $2,000 before the general public buys. Max said he expects the price of gold to go to $1,250 without a major correction. Few Americans own gold, When the general public owns gold, the price will go from $2,000 to $3,000 or $4,000. He said expects the shoe shine man to show us his gold coin he bought yesterday at $4,000 from Jim Rogers and it has already gone to $4,020. He will think he is getting rich. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The key point here is that the banks have trillions upon trillions of dollars in toxic debts they will reveal to us early next year. The Congress is talking about a Second Stimulus bill of two with a 2 trillion price tag at a time when tax collections are dropping like a rock. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody is going to loan us that money. The Federal Reserve will print trillions of dollars and the IMF will come to us as they did to Latvia. Cut Social Security and Medicare in half. Sell or close half of your schools, parks, hospitals, sewers and water systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKsyF523TCs&gt;Debt Bomb Number Four Video: Trading Bombs &lt;/a&gt; The stocks of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and the Royal Bank of Scotland were shorted by naked selling of millions of shares immediately prior to their collapse. If these trading bomb attacks continue, we could lose some more key international companies. Bankers do not make things and grow food. All Wall Street knows how to do is to set of trading bombs to make money. Consider this alarming recent news from England: &lt;a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6360351/Lloyds-short-selling-doubles-as-traders-predict-share-collapse.html&gt;Lloyds short-selling doubles as traders predict share collapse&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debt Bomb Number Five. In 2003 John Williams of ShadowStats.com said that if the federal government used Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)we would have to set aside money today sufficient to meet future obligations. If we did that and raised our tax rate to 100% of everyone's income with no exemptions, Williams said we would still not raise enough money to balance our budget. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the evidence of this case Returning from China last month, U.S. Congressman Mark Kirk told Fox News China is beginning to cancel Congress's credit card. &lt;a href=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&amp;sid=aKLGZEc7qoqA&gt;This $17 Trillion Divorce Won’t Be a Pretty One:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any unpayable debt is a Debt Bomb. When, not if, the Debt Bomb explodes, the bankers will attempt to send America into a fire sale receivership where all of our public, assets, such as, schools, parks, roads, water, sewers and hospitals will be sold to Wall Street and foreign corporations. That is their dream and our nightmare. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THAT WILL NOT WORK IN AMERICA. We have nuclear weapons and we have the most heavily armed citizenry in the history of the world. Plus we have a history of rebellion. And we have the Internet. I have heard many discussions of late that we should just pay taxes to our state governments and not send any money at all to Washington. We would void the national debt. I would prefer to look at the owners of the national debt and create money sufficient to pay some of the individuals and pension funds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBSO4158dw&gt;Video: Too Many Loopholes in Financial Reform 10/16/09&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5P4cw8sbs&gt;Video: The Firm of Goldman, Sachs, and, SEC&lt;/a&gt; For some reason this man uses strong language to denounce the SEC for hiring a 29 year-old Goldman Sachs executive to become their COO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/barney-franks-bad-loans.html&gt;Barney Frank's Bad Loans&lt;/a&gt; Many of the loans the F.H.A. insured in 2007 and last year are now turning delinquent, agency officials acknowledge. The loans made in those two years are performing “far worse” than newer loans, dragging down the whole portfolio, Mr. Stevens of the F.H.A. said in an interview. The number of F.H.A. mortgage holders in default is 410,916, up 76 percent from a year ago, when 232,864 were in default, according to agency data. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://emac.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/10/16/geithner-summers-bair-on-wall-street/&gt;Geithner, Summers, Bair on Wall Street&lt;/a&gt; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivered this eye-brow-raising comment: “We’ve got unsustainable deficits over a five- to 10-year window.” ... The US government, however, owns stakes in about 600 banks, two car companies, has effectively nationalized an  insurance conglomerate, AIG, and has nationalized housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which have combined balance sheets veering toward half the GDP of the US, once off balance sheet items are included ... At the same time, the Federal Reserve is propping up the mortgage and consumer borrowing markets in an effort to keep rates low with massive purchases of debt securities. Estimates show that the Fed is on track to own 17% of the $10.4 tn market for mortgage debt securities, Treasury debt, and debt issued by Fannie and Freddie ... Top economist Stephen Roach, now chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia said, “there is no exit strategy” ... “we’re stuck” in a hamster wheel of “bubbles perpetuating bubbles”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e97a6addcd4c089b8a907e80e5a2e929.d1&amp;show_article=1&amp;catnum=0&gt;LatAm leftists tackle dollar with new currency&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rare-glimpse-feds-discount-window-courtesy-brewing-lehman-barclays-scandal&gt;A Rare Glimpse Into The Fed's Discount Window Courtesy Of The Brewing Lehman-Barclays Scandal&lt;/a&gt; While it appears that Barclays will soon have to part with $5 billion (or more) to satisfy the increasingly loud chorus of people who claim the bank managed to literally steal Lehman's assets in those torrid days after the Lehman collapse, we use this opportunity to pore through a goldmine of just unsealed documentation to present some rare glimpses into the Federal Reserve's garbage laden balance sheet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://commoditytradealert.com/blog/?p=3346&gt;Free Fall: Dollar May Drop 20% More, Harvard’s Ferguson Says&lt;/a&gt; Professor Niall Ferguson is a member of the Bilderberg Society and is said to represent the Rothschilds so this would confirm the decision to devalue the dollar. And then there is this: &lt;a href=http://commoditytradealert.com/blog/?p=3348&gt;Peterson Institute for International Economics: US Dollar is Overvalued against China’s Yuan by about 40%&lt;/a&gt; No think tank is better connected to the American elite than the Peterson Institute for International Economics. These two articles would confirm Max Keiser's prediction that foreign central banks will not intervene to buy dollars and short gold. The dollar will continue to drop until we stop importing oil and we export something people overseas want. As I have said before, a quick way to change things would be to release all the scientific breakthroughs made by our secret research facilities since they took Tesla's labs, experiments and notes almost seven decades ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BEATO00&amp;show_article=1&gt;In Hawaii, school's out for recession&lt;/a&gt; Hawaii is hard hit by the recession-Depression as is almost everyone. Latvia was told by the IMF and the EU to close and sell half of their schools and hospitals. Fire half of the police. And to cut government wages 40%. Now we see America headed towards the same future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://cbs2chicago.com/local/daley.budget.deficit.2.1257259.html&gt;Daley: City Managers To Take Nearly Five Weeks Off Thousands Of City Workers To Take 24 Unpaid Days In 2010&lt;/a&gt; a $550 million budget deficit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grRQ6dLLl9di4HgR4iI_gOesmUkwD9BEAN383&gt;Higher jobless rates could be new normal Industries that previously jump started employment aren’t able to this time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/article/dylan-ratigan-discusses-obamas-purported-secret-agenda-0&gt;Video: Dylan Ratigan Discusses Obama's Purported Secret Agenda&lt;/a&gt;  "Goldman Sachs is becoming the bogeyman of this administration the way the Carlyle Group used to be used as a sledgehammer against the Bush administration. It's a fascinating narrative that is developing and one that this administration better be very nervous about as well as Goldman Sachs." I would say we reach our conclusion that Obama is deliberately trying to destroy America and the dollar by analyzing his behavior (i.e. his economic and political policies.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href= http://www.mybudget360.com/government-tax-receipts-down-20-percent-year-over-year-wall-street-banks-earning-billions-the-unsustainable-economic-course/&gt;Government Tax Receipts Down 20 Percent Year over Year: Wall Street Banks Earning Billions. The Unsustainable Economy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href= http://www.mybudget360.com/us-dollar-sendoff-stock-market-rally-dow-up-56-from-bottom-in-us-dollars-but-up-only-31-in-euros-how-a-crashing-currency-hides-actual-trends-over-40-ounces-of-gold-needed-to-purchase-dow-ind/&gt;U.S. Dollar Sendoff Stock Market Rally: Dow up 56% from Bottom in U.S. Dollars but up only 31% in Euros. How a Crashing Currency Hides Actual Trends. Over 40 Ounces of Gold Needed to Purchase Dow Index in 2000. Today 9.4 Ounces of Gold will buy the Dow Index. Oil is up 128% from March low.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1519-How-To-Stop-The-Pretending.html&lt;br /&gt;&gt;How To Stop The Pretending&lt;/a&gt; Congress exercised its "power" to extort a change in FASB regulations that made legal intentional and willful misrepresentation of asset values. In effect what Congress did was allow banks to take their $10 bills and use a sharpie marker to add a zero to the denomination - literally -when held in the "asset" bucket. As Mark Hanson of Hanson Advisors has pointed out repeatedly in his mortgage update (he specializes in California Real Estate) 70% of dollar value of second mortgages is in the bubble states, and in September of this year alone the average deficiency between mortgage outstanding value and home value on foreclosures was $200,000. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://seekingalpha.com/article/166660-pay-no-attention-to-the-140-p-e-behind-the-curtain?source=feed&gt;Pay No Attention to the 140 P/E Behind the Curtain&lt;/a&gt; Yes folks, it’s time to dust off those party hats… It’s Dow 10,000 time! Pay no attention to anything else folks. Especially not the S&amp;P 500 P/E ratio… As of Oct 7, The S&amp;P P/E Ratio is 140.82. Yep, 140!!! This isn’t my data; this is directly from the New York Fed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/einhorn-bets-on-major-currency-death-spiral-2009-10-19&gt;Einhorn bets on major currency 'death spiral'&lt;/a&gt; Greenlight Capital is betting on the possibility of a major currency collapse and a surge in interest rates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These two short pieces are from Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge: &lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/article/intraday-market-observations-all-dollar-hope-abandon-ye-who-enter&gt;Intraday Market Observations - All Dollar Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The carry trade in full force as the dollar keeps hitting new lows. (The Carry Trade means Hedge Funds borrow in dollars and invest overseas. It is shorting the dollar and driving down its value.) &lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rumors-dollars-demise-have-not-been-greatly-exaggerated&gt;Rumors Of The Dollar's Demise Have Not Been Greatly Exaggerated&lt;/a&gt; sell dollars, buy everything else. It is no surprise that stocks are trading where they are courtesy of an insane printing press operator and it being the third lowest volume day of the year, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-10/17/content_8806402.htm&gt;China's US-debt holdings drop&lt;/a&gt; Japan's government has changed. The new government has said they want to protect the value of their US Treasury bonds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://jutiagroup.com/2009/10/19/bernanke-gone-berserk-bank-reserves-explode/&gt;Bernanke Gone Berserk! Bank Reserves Explode!&lt;/a&gt; Fact #1. Up until the day Lehman Brothers collapsed in September of last year, it took the Fed a total 5,012 days — 13 years and 8 months — to double the cash currency and reserves in the coffers of U.S. banks. In contrast, after the Lehman Brothers collapse, it took Bernanke’s Fed only 112 days to double the size of U.S. bank reserves. He accelerated the pace of bank reserve expansion by a factor of 45 to 1. (Click here for the proof.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.rense.com/general88/tobin.htm&gt;Address On Iceland &amp;The IMF, Debt Delivered by Birgitta Jonsdottir of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, October 5, 2009&lt;/a&gt; Jonsdottir is a member of Iceland's parliament and is part of a three party working group including the far left and the far right exploring a debt moratorium. The debts in question were created by the failure of a private bank with branches in England and Holland. The government of Iceland was unlawfully assigned the losses of one private bank by Gordon Brown. The debts are equal to the total Icelandic GDP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6400157/Morgan-Stanley-fears-global-central-banks-will-monetise-public-debts.html&gt;Morgan Stanley fears global central banks will 'monetise' public debts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2009/10/22/john-lewis-4-year-olds-are-getting-federal-tax-credits-for-buying-homes/&gt;Congressman John Lewis: 4-year-olds are getting federal tax credits for buying homes&lt;/a&gt; He is black which I suppose is why he has not been accused of being an angry white male.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.zerohedge.com/article/record-treasury-supply-deck-116-billion-bond-issues-182-billion-total-will-debt-ceiling-be-b&gt;Record Treasury Supply On Deck: $116 Billion In Bond Issues, $182 Billion Total; Will Debt Ceiling Be Breached Next Week?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9Y44eXET0&amp;feature=player_embedded&gt;Video Stewart Rhodes of Oathkeepers On MSNBC - Hardball with Chris Matthews &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of my new posts  &lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt;are at my new blog here. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2546031851837838432?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2546031851837838432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2546031851837838432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2546031851837838432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2546031851837838432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/10/debt-bombs-to-my-left-debt-bombs-to-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-7912319738707636252</id><published>2009-10-11T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-12T07:33:02.843-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Want To Stop America's Wars? Buy Gold!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is way past time for all men and women of conscience who oppose war, whether we be from the Left, the Right or in between, to unite and to act decisively to stop America's never ending wars. We never really finished the war in Iraq which was an absolute disaster. We did kill more than one million innocent civilians. Now we are expanding the war in Afghanistan. We have more troops and mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan today than one year ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, there is a debate in Washington about the future of troop levels in Afghanistan. Rahm Emanuel is opposed to more regular US military personnel, but he does want to increase the number of men dedicated to targeted assassinations. No surprise there. Emanuel was probably decisive in selecting Stanley McChrystal to be commander of US troops there. He was head of Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008 which specialized in targeted assassinations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max Keiser has given everyone in the world who opposes war a call to action. You don't have to march on Washington or to subject yourself to LRADS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://ia311004.us.archive.org/1/items/MaxKeiserRadio-TheTruthAboutMarkets-09October2009/tam091009.mp3&gt;Max Keiser was in good form in his latest radio broadcast.&lt;/a&gt; MAX SAID ALL WE HAVE TO DO TO STOP AMERICA'S WARS IS TO BUY GOLD! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In previous shows he said that as soon as gold hits $1,500 an ounce the American Empire will grind to a halt. Instead of risking being beaten by cops and soldiers at protest rallies people around the world should have bought gold. In fact after the famous article by Robert Fisk: &lt;a href=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html&gt;The demise of the dollar. Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading &lt;/a&gt; Max Keiser was interviewed by Russia Today and said he verified the story from his own contacts in Paris and the Mideast. &lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7dH4e8HYFA&gt; Max also said (Video) that one of the motives behind the decision on the part of the Arabs, the Chinese and the Russians was that they refused to finance American military aggression through credit.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How long will it take for us to stop all of these wars? It could happen before Christmas of 2009. Wouldn't it be nice for Christians around the world to celebrate the birth of Jesus by not having to fear another American war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In related news: The Germans have begun a world wide movement questioning whether or not the COMEX (The NY Commodity Exchange) has all the commodities it claims to have. In the summer of 2009 they took all of their gold that had been on deposit in New York and London back to Germany. They convinced the Swiss to do the same. There has long been a question about whether or not there is any gold in Fort Knox  or, if there is some gold there, has the US government either leased it or given it all to Goldman Sachs and J P Chase? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems that the Big Six banks (which includes Barclays, Chase and Goldman) are allowed by COMEX to sell millions of ounces of gold they do not have. All this is a vain effort to drive down the price of gold. Some or all of the gold at Fort Knox could have gone to Bail Out the Lords of Wall Street for earlier criminal activities. Covering bad and illegal COMEX losses might be one reason why Ben Bernanke refuses to tell the Congress what he has done with the two trillion dollars he has created in the past year.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Max said something else the world really needs to pay attention to. &lt;a href=http://maxkeiser.com/&gt;He said that he will interview Michael Hudson next week on his TV show which you can see (here next week.)&lt;/a&gt; You might want to bookmark Max's website so you can see his future video broadcasts and listen to his radio shows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max said Michael Hudson is in Latvia and advising them on their economic debacle. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the EU have told the Latvians to cut their National Health service budget in half amongst other draconian roll backs so they can pay interest to the bankers. There have been similar though less drastic calls made by IMF members against England. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Hudson told the Latvians to refuse to pay the IMF in Euros which are worth much more than the dollar. Instead he advised them to print up tons of their currency (the Lat) and say here is all the money you will get from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they follow this policy, other eastern European nations, Iceland and a lot of other nations in Asia, Africa and Latin America will follow their lead. The first banks to go would be in Austria, but they would all go. All currencies and all banks would be at risk. All we would have left would be canned food, gold and silver. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes. Times would be hard. I am sure Max would agree with me that times will be hard even if we do not buy gold. But, if we all work together and raise the price of gold to $1,500 an ounce, we would not have any more American wars. We might have an American revolution but at least our National Guard would be fighting on American soil and not in Iraq and Afghanistan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note To My Regular Readers: Most of my writings are being posted at my new blog here: &lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt;Almost 117 Days.&lt;/a&gt; I chose that name because I do not think the dollar will last 117 days. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-7912319738707636252?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/7912319738707636252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=7912319738707636252' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7912319738707636252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7912319738707636252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/10/want-to-stop-americas-wars-buy-gold-it.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-5528713274965682588</id><published>2009-10-04T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-04T20:27:05.683-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;An Open Letter To Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Sir, As I write this Open Letter, I note that today is your birthday. I am writing to you because hundreds of millions of men, women and children in America and in other nations might not be able to celebrate their next birthday if you and other U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel do not take their oaths of enlistment seriously. You graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1968 and took this oath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I, Michael Glenn Mullen, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A military man or woman can live a peaceful and uneventful life for ten or more years before being called into action to defend America or the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Destiny has called on you at this time in our history as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to defend America from those enemies domestic and foreign who would solve their problems real or imaginary by starting World War III within days or months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no reason to launch another war by attacking Iran ostensibly to stop the Iranian nuclear project. You are aware that Iran has offered &lt;a href=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/76369.html &gt;to ship enriched uranium to Russia for refinement where French technicians would turn it into fuel rods. &lt;/a&gt; There is now not even a possibility that the Iranians could ever develop a nuclear weapon. The Iranians have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) and allowed nuclear inspections from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA.) Israel has refused both to sign the NNPT and to allow inspections even though requested to do so by the United Nations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you know, both the incoming and outgoing Director General of the IAEA have said the Iranians have no nuclear weapons program. The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) which is compiled by 16 different American intelligence agencies has said under the administrations of Presidents Bush and Obama that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no reason for either the United States or Israel to attack Iran and launch World War III. If the Iranians cut off oil exports from the Persian Gulf, our dollar would collapse as Americans struggled to pay $300 or more for a barrel of oil. We would have to cut federal spending by 46% because foreigners would refuse to buy Treasury bonds denominated in a worthless currency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We would instantaneously go from a recession to a Global Depression far worse than 1929-1939. There would be food riots in every major American city. And things would get far worse as we tried to fight World War III overseas without any financing while American civil society collapsed on the homefront. I therefore conclude that anyone who gets America into a war against Iran unnecessarily is an enemy of both the American people and of all humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men and women under your command in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf would likely have to forfeit their lives for no apparent good reason. American military officers and  enlisted personnel did not take an oath to sacrifice their own lives so our domestic and foreign enemies can kill millions of innocent people in foreign lands with no coherent and believable reason to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I would ask you and your fellow members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to do is to remember your oaths of enlistment and to tell the Israelis and their supporters in the United States that you will force down and, if need be, shoot down all Israeli refueling jets if the Israelis attack Iran. That means the ninety plus Israeli aircraft attacking Iran will either have to return to their bases in Israel or to sacrifice all of their planes and pilots. The Department of Defense has refused to give the Israelis the refueling jets they requested precisely because they do see an attack on Iran as being extremely dangerous and completely irresponsible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are hundreds of millions of people all over the world who will thank you and your fellow officers and the enlisted personnel who serve with you if you can give the world the time it needs to heal its wounds by canceling World War III.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank you for reading this letter and for giving serious consideration to the fact that it is within your power and responsibility as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to defend our nation and our military personnel against all enemies foreign and domestic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would ask every sane person who does not want to see World War III begin in days if not months to circulate this letter as widely as possible to support the Joint Chiefs of Staff and their fellow officers and enlisted men and women. They are in a position to just say No to the otherwise certain destruction of the world we knew. They need our thanks, our praise and our prayers as they face a battle that will require as much courage and fortitude as any the American military has fought since 1776. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-5528713274965682588?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/5528713274965682588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=5528713274965682588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5528713274965682588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5528713274965682588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/10/open-letter-to-admiral-mike-mullen.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1973892526861951307</id><published>2009-09-28T11:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T11:49:14.555-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Monday 9-28 Impeach Rahm Emanuel &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politics is the art of achieving the possible. Now is the time for us to demand the resignation of Rahm Emanuel as Obama's Chief of Staff. And, as far as I am concerned, he can take David Axelrod back to Chicago with him. The Democrats have overwhelming majorities in the Senate and in the House of Representatives so the best we could hope for is to kick Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod out of Washington. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we can get the backing of Obama's die hard supporters to join us in ousting Emanuel and Axelrod because their resignations would force Obama to become President of the United States and to give us the change he promised us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To date Obama has read many teleprompter speeches but has done nothing presidential. He held no hearings to draft a health care plan. He has allowed cohorts of Cheney and Bush to tell him what to do in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The generals are still waiting for his decision on whether or not he will increase troop levels in Afghanistan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of you who voted for anti-war congressional candidates in 2006 will remember what happened after the elections and the Democrats took control of the House. Rahm Emanuel had been in charge of raising funds for the House Democrats. He sent a lot of money to pro-war and pro-Israel Democrat candidates and actually cut off funding for anti-war candidates even in districts where Republicans were vulnerable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cannot afford to allow Rahm Emanuel to be anywhere near the White House when the President of the United States has to make critical decisions about war with Iran, health care and Bail Outs for Wall Street. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my opinion we should also ask all of the 32 or more special czars to resign. I say force Obama to become President and to hold meetings with his Cabinet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the next protest rally, we need signs or even bumper stickers saying Impeach Rahm Emanuel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt;I also posted this at my new blog here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1973892526861951307?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1973892526861951307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1973892526861951307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1973892526861951307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1973892526861951307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/monday-9-28-impeach-rahm-emanuel.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1817291869968786737</id><published>2009-09-17T09:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T16:53:49.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Two Questions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question One: Since Twenty billion dollars of Bernie Madoff's sixty-five billion dollar  Ponzi scheme fraud are in Israeli banks why don't we cut off all economic and military aid plus all loans to Israel until the money is paid back to the American taxpayers? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We taxpayers have been asked to pay 23.7 trillion dollars to  Bailout Goldman Sachs and friends. The Israelis got their twenty billion dollars before the US currency began to drop like a rock so the Madoff money they already have in their banks is far more valuable than the money we are borrowing from China today. Currently we have to borrow 46 cents of every dollar we spend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second question is related to the Bernie Madoff fraud which was reported to the SEC seven years ago by Harry Markopolos. Mr Madoff was too well politically connected to be seriously investigated by the SEC. Page Six of the New York Post told us that Harry Markopolos spoke at a church related function in the Hamptons on Long Island where he said we were facing a far worse disaster than the Madoff scandal in 600 trillion dollars in derivatives many of which were fraudulent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have explained before, banks cannot buy or sell worthless securities. To evade the law, they sold Credit Default Swaps (CDS) with bonds created from worthless mortgages. A Credit Default Swap is a hybrid between insurance and a derivative. Derivatives are bets on the future value of either a commodity like oil or of a bond. A CDS is like insurance in that it requires payments in order to maintain coverage. Previously, I have asked why the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives why they did not cancel all CDS sales and allow the existing contracts to expire. That was before we made payments totaling 180 billion dollars in Bailouts to AIG for CDS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question Two is addressed to all members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives: why have you not asked Harry Markopolos to testify about the possible loss of 600 trillion dollars to American investors, savers, taxpayers and pension funds? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt; I have a new blog.&lt;/a&gt; My latest lead story is: Barry Chamish Says Israel Killed JFK Jr. Later tonight I will post my new lead story for Friday's edition: FED Gave Citibank 230 Billion Dollars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1817291869968786737?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1817291869968786737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1817291869968786737' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1817291869968786737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1817291869968786737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-questions-question-one-since-twenty.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-647108329020460582</id><published>2009-09-11T14:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T14:04:59.082-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;9-11-2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Pentagon spending.  &lt;a href=http://solari.com/missing_money/cbs.html&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vanity Fair had an article called Billions over Baghdad which described how eight of twelve billion dollars shipped from the New York Federal Reserve Currency Warehouse in New Jersey went missing. The Congress never investigated. The media never followed up. I wonder why? &lt;a href=http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-11-2001 a plane was headed directly towards Rumsfeld's office when it took a 270 degree turn and went in to a power dive. The official story is that the airliner went through a sixteen foot hole in the side of the building. No photos of the plane's engines were made available to us. &lt;a href=http://killtown.911review.org/flight77.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hani Hanjour was the alleged pilot of Flight 77. He could not have flown a Boeing 757 anywhere and hit anything.  &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/hanjour.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet we do have the testimony of Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret and on 9-11 the Acting Assistant Secretary of the DOD that, a bomb went off 3 1/2 minutes before the plane was alleged to have hit the Building. Other witnesses to the bomb were Lt Col. Karen Kwiatowski and April Gallop a third generation soldier. Another witness was Per Stig Møller, who after 9-11 was elected to the Danish parliament. &lt;a href=http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id206.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; That bomb killed the military auditors who were trying to trace that missing 2.3 trillion dollars. Since 9-11 another 1.5 trillion dollars went missing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nano-thermite has been found in the dust at the World Trade Center. This material is unavailable to the general public. It is made only in top secret US and Israeli labs. It can be sprayed onto a surface and will cut through steel girders in seconds. It is called nano because of it is measured in billionths of a meter. None has ever been sold to anyone in a cave in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.911blogger.com/node/19761&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did those jets get to their targets past our air defenses? When a golf pro died of a heart attack at the controls of his private jet, an interceptor jet was dispatched in minutes. Follow the NORAD stand down here. &lt;a href=http://killtown.911review.org/chart.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli instant messaging service Odigo warned Hebrew speaking Israelis to leave the World Trade Center Towers two hours before they were struck by planes. &lt;a href=http://www.911blogger.com/node/14666&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elias Davidsson agrees with me. They have these people called ticket agents at airports who will get fired if they let people on the plane without tickets. After you get past the first set of ticket agents, you get to the area where they check your boarding passes. What are the odds that you could get on board a plane without a ticket, get by the security cameras without them recording you on video and get by those people checking for boarding passes without a boarding pass or a ticket? What are the odds that you could do that 19 times in one day if you were foreign born? &lt;a href=http://www.911blogger.com/node/12359&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone in the corporate media ever tell you that the five Israelis arrested on 9-11 while filming the WTC who had positioned their camera prior to the bombing later proved to be Mossad agents?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html?q=fiveisraelis.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richard Gage is an architect and has explained how the collapse of World Trade Center Towers 1, 2, and 7 had to be by controlled demolition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.commentview&amp;comment_id=158&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These sites have collapse videos showing obvious controlled demolitions to an open minded observer. &lt;a href=http://killtown.911review.org/2nd-hit.html&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More videos of WTC 7 collapsing are here. &lt;a href=http://www.WTC7.net&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is additional footage of the collapse of WTC 7 and of the North Tower. &lt;a href=http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_dreams/2008/11/new-footage-of-wtc-7-collapse.html&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone in the corporate media ever tell you that the BBC got their signals crossed from the people who demolished WTC 7 and reported it before it happened? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc7_videos.html&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The controlled media reported explosions at the World Trade Center as it happened but no mention since 9-11 in the controlled media. &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/9-11_wtc_explosions.html&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone in the corporate media ever tell you that the FBI in 1993 allowed the original bombing of the World Trade Center to happen and in fact paid an agent provacateur from Egyptian Intelligence to make the bomb and recruit the terrorists? &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtcbomb.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone in the corporate media ever tell you that one Israeli firm was responsible for the security at all of the airports where the planes were hijacked on 9-11? &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ICTS.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone in the corporate media ever tell you that insider trading that profited from advanced knowledge of 9-11 was traced to the CIA and to Israel?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/illegaltades.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the specific transcripts of the radio transmissions that proved the fires were not sufficient to collapse the WTC.  &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/wtc2_firefighters.html?q=wtc2_firefighters.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This web page has a link the complete transcripts of the radio traffic which proves that the fires inside the World Trade Center were not sufficient to bring down the buildings according to the firemen. &lt;a href=http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/firefighter-tape-excerpts.htm&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has the testimony of first responders who heard bombs and explosions inside the WTC. &lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911_firefighters.html?q=911_firefighters.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Willie Rodriguez and many others heard and saw bombs explode inside the WTC Towers before the planes struck. Debunkers called them liars and worse. You might not have heard this on ABCNBCCBSMSNBCFOX but William Rodriguez Vindicated by Newly Released 9/11 Commission Notes was published here. &lt;a href=http://www.911blogger.com/node/19439&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The debunkers ignored the testimony of these engineers who saw and heard explosions in the Towers before the planes struck. Their union recorded their testimony here. &lt;a href=http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This web page has 250 Smoking Guns that contradict the government's lies about 9-11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://killtown.911review.org/911smokingguns.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article has over 200 unanswered questions about 9-11 from Mike Rivero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/9-11BasicQuestions.html&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be of good cheer. Nobody will believe the government lies about 9-11 after the dollar crashes. That will be our Day of Liberation. We can take this country back. We can rebuild America.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DjBVnddEni8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&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/DjBVnddEni8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-647108329020460582?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/647108329020460582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=647108329020460582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/647108329020460582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/647108329020460582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/9-11-2009-on-9-10-2001-donald-rumsfeld.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8693903560560036749</id><published>2009-09-10T13:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T13:16:26.090-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Let Me Explain Why Obama Does Not Care About Either Health Care or The Anti-War Movement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please look at this video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tVnRzn4rjbY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&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/tVnRzn4rjbY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted this video originally over the weekend. I want you to understand that someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder might campaign for public office. And you might vote for Obama if you agreed with him that health care reform and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were good ideas. You might also have wanted your President to do something to stop the transfer of all wealth to Wall Street through unconscionable and never ending Bail Outs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; But he is only concerned about the unquestioning adulation of the crowds and the money from wealthy criminals on Wall Street who financed his unending road trips. Obama campaigns all over the world and the United States. Yet his poll numbers keep going down. I believe because he never bothered to hold hearings and write his own health care proposal as Hillary did in 1993. That shows how little he cares about us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama did not even bother to read the bill he tries to sell to the voters. They know he is lying when he says that Medicare will only be cut thirty billion dollars a year. Not all opposition at Town Halls comes from the right. Most elderly oppose cuts to their existing coverage. Others object to the President's apparent ready acceptance of the 23.7 trillion dollar cost of the Bail Out knowing that there will be nothing left for health care, Food Stamps, education, Social Security and anything else besides interest on our burgeoning debt and payments for our rapidly growing wars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Government will have zero dollars left over for health care. The Congress really needs to fix the system including Wall Street and the Federal Reserve before they do anything else. That is the underlying reason for all the anger at the Town Halls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why Stephen Lendman, a New Deal Democrat who favors single payer and is very much an anti-war voter, said of Obama, "He's worse than Bush." For an old line New Deal Democrat that is the worst insult you can make. But it is true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama has no concern for either us or for the issues his voters wanted him to solve. He is insane. All his road trips were about him getting ovations from the crowds. He is not an adult. He is a damaged child playing President but with access to nuclear weapons and presiding over powder kegs in Gaza, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan. (In case you missed it Obama has escalated the conflict in Pakistan by sending in armed Blackwater mercenaries.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The dollar is about to crash and his poll numbers will drop even further. He still has strong support amongst minorities and committed liberals who think the problems of the country were created by evil white Republicans. I recently talked to a couple of young black men from Chicago who told me, "He's not doing anything for us." More liberals and minorities will reach that same conclusion as the dollar dies and the crowds turn against him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama is just one more road block on our path to rebuild America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our real enemy is Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve and anyone, including Zionists, who would have us squander our life's blood on foreign wars. Obama is just a puppet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8693903560560036749?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8693903560560036749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8693903560560036749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8693903560560036749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8693903560560036749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/let-me-explain-why-obama-does-not-care.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-5772720830746552139</id><published>2009-09-08T10:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-08T10:32:43.455-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have lost more than 2,000,000 American manufacturing jobs in the past two years. Unlike the previous recessions, the majority of lay offs are permanent and not for just a few months as in the past. The definition of unemployment used up until 1994 is called U-6 and is currently 16.8% as compared to the 9.7% U-3 figure the media allows the government to report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CIA museum has a listening device that looks like a dragonfly but is actually a battery powered drone that eavesdrops on conversations and transmits them to a satellite above. That drone is an example of CIA museum piece technology dating back to 1978. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My question is this: Why have you not gone to the CIA and asked them for one of their more advanced secret batteries to make hybrid cars and alternative energy affordable and more practical? One act of courage just might in part save the world from a Depression many think will be worse than 1929-1939.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please ask this question in public forums to any available politician or media personality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-5772720830746552139?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/5772720830746552139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=5772720830746552139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5772720830746552139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5772720830746552139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/question-we-have-lost-more-than-2000000.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3602009339570616099</id><published>2009-09-06T19:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-09T16:55:53.547-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;My New Blog&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I have started a new blog. It is entitled: Almost 117 Days &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be chronicling both the destruction of the dollar over the remaining 117 days of 2009 and more hopefully the People Power revolution &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the &lt;a href=http://almost117days.blogspot.com/&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be posting news items and comments in Monday thru Thursday editions before 5 pm California time. I will have a separate weekend edition which will be updated until Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can click on my profile and see my other blogs or send me an email. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3602009339570616099?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3602009339570616099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3602009339570616099' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3602009339570616099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3602009339570616099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-new-blog-i-have-started-bew-blog.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8441341308315318301</id><published>2009-09-06T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T14:03:20.615-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Rebuilding America and The World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Way In Is The Way Out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is entering a Depression worse than 1929-1939. We were brought here as a result of a long term credit cycle during which we gave away our democracy and our power to a criminal enterprise known as Wall Street. The simplest way out of this debacle is to reverse the steps that brought us here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Inspector General for the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP) told us that the total cost for the program would be 23.7 trillion dollars, there was no reaction in either the press or the Congress though a few upset citizens did show up at Town Halls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are we to do about Wall Street? They currently are allowed to steal up to four billion dollars a week from unaudited federal spending. On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense spending. &lt;a href=http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-11-2001 a plane was headed directly towards Rumsfeld's office at the Pentagon when it made a 270 degree power dive and directly hit the auditor's section on the opposite side of the building where it killed the men and women looking for the missing trillions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone wanted those auditors dead because we have multiple witnesses to a bomb that was detonated in the auditor's section 3 ½ minutes prior to what was alleged to have been Flight 77 hitting the building. One of these witnesses was Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret, who was Acting Assistant Director of the DOD in charge of the 25,000 men and women in America's special operations. &lt;a href=http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id206.html&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 9-11-2001 another trillion and a half dollars has been “lost” at the Pentagon. This missing money has never been the subject of either a senate or congressional inquiry. In fact a man responsible for helping to lose more than a trillion dollars in the Clinton administration as Comptroller of the DOD has been appointed to an even more powerful position at the Pentagon in the new administration. Not much hope of change there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media is bought and paid for as are the politicians. They both ask us to believe that since the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) found absolutely no traces of Arab DNA on Flight 77. Allah got 19 Muslims on board four planes past the ticket agents with neither tickets nor boarding passes. Allah erased the video from all of the airports showing His faithful adherents sneaking on board the planes. Then Allah guided the four panes past American radar and air defenses for more than an hour. Allah must have guided the planes to their targets having selected pilots who could not fly jumbo jets to prove His Supremacy. And then He resurrected the 19 men bodily in to the Heavens so there would be no trace of their DNA proving Islam to be a superior religion to Christianity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Just ask a skeptic how hard it would be to board an airplane going past the ticket counter and the boarding gate without either a ticket or a boarding pass. Those people will get fired for letting people board without tickets.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are also asked to believe that Osama was able to deliver one hundred boxes of unordered pizzas with bombs hidden inside past multiple levels of security to the auditors at the Pentagon from his cave in Afghanistan. Osama did this to cover up the obvious fact that he had crews of janitors posing as illegal aliens from Latin America whose job it was to steal billions dollars a week from federal offices while cleaning up at night. And Osama stole all those trillions of dollars to keep up his plush life style at his luxury cave in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not willing to believe the obvious lies I was told as a child in school. And I am overjoyed that finally millions of my fellow Americans are beginning to awaken from the dreams Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Washington D.C. and Hollywood dreamed for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what would I do to get us out of this mess? My solution is simple. Abolish pensions!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make it illegal for any employer whether it be the government or a private business to promise to give you money at some future date when you retire. Make them set aside that money today for your retirement, heath and even vacation pay into a co-cooperatively owned trust. This would include Social Security and Disability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Social Security administration has 4.5 trillion dollars in trust funds. When they sell those bonds and pay the baby boomers pensions and health benefits, the Treasury will have to raise your income taxes to pay to redeem the 4.5 trillion dollars even though we already bought those bonds once with our payroll taxes! They expect us to pay for them again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is in addition to the 12 trillion dollars in debts they currently owe and the 20 trillion plus dollars they have promised you will gladly pay for the Bailouts from what is left of your wages after they have successfully cut your real after tax pay in half.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Social Security administration has stolen and squandered 4.5 trillion dollars. No more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the money in the trusts from employer-employee contributions I would add a pro rated share of all the money recovered from RICO lawsuits against Wall Street, the House of Representatives, the Senate, several Presidential administrations and all corporations which were accessories to any of the criminal conspiracies that literally stole tens of trillions of dollars. I cannot say more about these lawsuits until six to nine months after the dollar crashes and it is easy to win them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Co-Operatives will have enough money to fund your retirement and your health care. They will also sell you your insurance and act as your bank. You will have complete self-determination. You will also get control of the Foundations and the giant media conglomerates after the RICO lawsuits are won. Your co-operative will also own shares in the brokerages, Investment banks and large international commercial banks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In short you will have the power to say “No” to crazy power mad men in Washington and New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get the economy moving again I would release all of the scientific information and discoveries the secret part of the government has made since acquiring the notes, labs and inventions of Nikola Tesla at his death in 1943. After WW II the Allies also acquired the German science projects which included a UFO. After a few years, Americans began to see UFOs that broke the sound barrier. In 1962 the United States developed a plane, the  SR-71 Blackbird,  that flew at three times the speed of sound. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than ten years ago our secret government developed a 200 foot long Black Triangle aircraft that flew 40,000 mph. To fly at that speed in the atmosphere  means that they have developed a new material for the plane's skin. The editor of Popular Mechanics told syndicated radio host Art Bell in the 1990s that he was going to publish an article on materials that take on new properties because they were made in the zero gravity of space. Glass made in zero gravity was as strong as steel. That article was never published but at least we can demonstrate how the Pentagon overcame atmospheric friction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black Triangles are also silent and can hover. This is beyond the abilities of Boeing. Jet liners have to maintain a speed of 167 mph to remain airborne. This would suggest to many of us that the Pentagon has developed in some measure an ability to harness anti-gravity. One observer years ago noted that the B-2 bomber had a thrust insufficient to lift the massive weight of the plane. He concluded that the Air Force has anti-gravity and is gradually incorporating it into its more advanced planes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anti-gravity could be used to spin a turbine by turning it on and then off. This would generate free electricity or at least double the amount of electricity produced if our current level of anti-gravity research can only negate half of gravity. we will need all that cheap electricity for electric cars and rail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CIA museum has a listening device that looks like a dragon fly but is actually a battery powered drone that listens to outdoor conversations, records them and transmits them to a satellite. That battery is thirty year-old CIA museum technology. If we released their current best battery, we could have electric cars and effective alternative energy especially if we combined the latter with anti-gravity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Technology would launch a 21st century industrial boom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To more immediately solve the problem of unemployment I would also require the use of E-verify which verifies the citizenship status of immigrants. I would require it for all government jobs including sub-contractors, for all federal and state benefits, for voting, for driver's licenses and for all business permits. The number of private sector jobs has declined since 1999. Yet the past three administrations seem to be oblivious to the severe harm they have done to working Americans by encouraging both legal and illegal immigration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would also seal the border with Mexico. Mexican drug gangs have 250,000 people working for them inside the United States. These people are systematically destroying our cities and using their drug profits to fund a war against the Mexican government. Sealing the border would also open 10,000,000 jobs for native born whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians and others. It would also force wages higher so the working poor could make livable wages and even afford to buy homes. That would lower taxes for the rest of us.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Once we get control of the banking system we can make it illegal for any American bank to do business with banks overseas that launder either bribe money from politicians or money from illegal drugs and weapons sales. Currently the banks launder a trillion dollars in drugs, up to 400 billion dollars in illegal weapons and 500 billion dollars in bribes. All of this bribery and illegal “hot” money takes power away from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lest you think I am being pollyannish, please suspend your judgment until you read my plans for the Federal Reserve and for international banking which includes the goal of abolishing poverty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1913 President Wilson, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives gave the license to print American money to a privately owned corporation the Federal Reserve. Up until now whenever the Treasury runs a deficit, they give the banks for example one hundred billion dollars in Treasury bonds and in exchange the banks give the Treasury bookkeeping entries in their accounts for 100 billion dollars. Please note the banks are not loaning us Mrs Smith's life savings. They are increasing the money supply by 100 billion dollars. They are counterfeiters. I explained this in depth &lt;a href=http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/counterfeiters-suppose-you-were.html&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens over a very long period is that because the banks only create enough money to pay back the loan but not the interest that every year the bankers must loan out more money and put everyone deeper in debt. From 1970 to today we added 100,000,000 plus people through immigration but increased personal debts 2,000%. We also created a 12 trillion dollar fictional US debt. (Note: that reference above also explains why all government debts are fictions.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we audited federal spending we would save 200 billion dollars a year. If there were no federal debts because only the Treasury created money as the martyred Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy wanted, we would save more than 400 billion dollars a year on interest payments. If we increased the money supply of 10 trillion dollars at an annual rate of 4%, the ratio of money to goods and services would remain constant meaning we would have stable prices. This assumes that the economy grew at 4% for purposes of illustration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we add 400 billion dollars to the money supply, we can spend that money into circulation in lieu of taxes. That is why I would favor the repeal of the federal income tax. This would free up revenue for the states to balance their budgets. You might want to take note of the fact that I just showed you how we could free up a trillion dollars in revenue savings to help America recover from the quickly approaching Depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things have only gotten worse since the federal government took over education. Oakland California spends $16,000 a year per child and the kids cannot read anywhere near grade level. Ben Chavis did wonders at a charter school without any suburban white students. In fact after five years he improved test scores so much that Chinese-Americans started sending their children to his school because it was academically superior to anything else they could find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think that we need to pay taxes to support overseas wars and occupations, I would say that such thinking does not belong in the 21st century. If we are to survive as a planet, we must cease to support Israel's fantasy that they have a God given right to kill people, steal their land and to torture their descendants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think we need to pay federal income taxes taxes to support insane politicians in California, New York and points  in between, I would suggest you move to one of those states so you can personally pay a 20 or 25% income tax and cast envious eyes on people elsewhere who have either a small tax or none at all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we take over the Federal Reserve, I would work to issue non-interest bearing currencies in Third World countries. Presently, Africa gets enough foreign aid to pay the interest on their fictional foreign debts for ten of the 365 days in a year. The interest payments for the other 355 days have to be paid by some of the poorest people on earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I would do is to issue regional currencies in Asia, Africa and Latin America to eventually make the people debt free. I would not be willing to accept millions of refugees. Please remember that adding 100 to 105 million people to our population was part of Wall Street's plan to cut our wages in half and to raise our rents and mortgage payments so all of our money would be transferred from us to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, it has been suggested that we have a Tobin tax. I would only agree to such a tax until after the United States had repealed both the federal income tax and the Social Security tax and had regained control of our courts from all international bodies, such as, the World Trade Organization (WTO.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Tobin tax was named for the late economist James Tobin. It is a suggestion that we tax all international financial transactions at a rate of 0.1%. It would take in trillions of dollars. Such a windfall could never be given to the scum we have in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would use America's share to pay off Social Security and Medicare for the baby boomers and to rebuild America's infrastructure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first steps in taking back our power after overcoming our inertia is to get control of our pensions and to abolish the Federal Reserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is comparatively simple to solve America's problems once you no longer listen to Wall Street, the Zionists, the corporate media and the Foundations.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8441341308315318301?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8441341308315318301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8441341308315318301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8441341308315318301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8441341308315318301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/09/rebuilding-america-and-world-way-in-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2823562775234993333</id><published>2009-08-28T09:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T10:42:21.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Max Keiser: Bank Runs, China&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This video is your absolutely last and final warning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DjBVnddEni8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&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/DjBVnddEni8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zero Hedge told us:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) that half of all volume on the NYSE is in five worthless bank stocks &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) that 70% of all trades are made by Goldman Sachs purchases and sales of stocks in advance of trades by brokers so they can clip up to 100 million dollars a day from investors including mutual funds and pension plans. (This means that there is no demand for American stocks.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) that the FED has bought over a trillion and a half dollars in derivatives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Schiff told us that in the last seven minutes of trading the government is intervening to buy 100,000 futures contracts to force up the price of stocks. Sounds to me like the FED and Wall Street are pumping up the price of stocks so they can dump their personal holdings before the dollar and the stock market collapse and you lose what is left of your pensions and your life savings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read a news article the other day saying that the Price Earnings ratio of stocks on the S&amp;P 500 was 129 to 1 for the first 97% of stocks reporting their second Quarter earnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Inspector General for TARP said the real cost of the Toxic Asset Relief Program was 23.7 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karl Denninger said the real amount of bad debts is probably 30 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at these charts. &lt;a href=http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1250798400.php&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; Nobody is buying our Treasury bonds. Most of those supposed foreign purchases were made by the Federal Reserve printing money and giving it to foreign governments and to foreign branches of Bailout recipients to buy American Treasury bonds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said before, from 1970 to 2008 we borrowed money from China to buy everything at KMart and WalMart, money from Japan to buy cars and electronics and money from the OPEC nations to buy gas. In 2009 we printed our own money to buy our own debts. The U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate and the President did not realize that when you borrow money from overseas you get to buy their things but when you print your own money to buy worthless paper products from the Treasury Department all you get is higher prices. Much higher prices. And much lower wages. That is why I have been warning you that American wages in real after tax dollars will be cut in half.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stock market and the dollar are about ready to collapse. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone hear a war starting somewhere? Or maybe a plague? Or both? Or better yet a non-violent people power revolution like eastern Europe after Communism went bankrupt in 1989?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: I am not an investment advisor offering you financial advice and I certainly do not know your personal situation. I also am not advocating a violent revolution. What I have been saying for some time is that the dollar will collapse before the end of 2009 and that this will be our last chance to take back our government from Wall Street after both the currency and the government collapse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2823562775234993333?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2823562775234993333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2823562775234993333' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2823562775234993333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2823562775234993333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/max-keiser-bank-runs-china-this-video.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2698677881187058468</id><published>2009-08-26T20:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-26T22:22:24.147-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Wall Comes Tumbling Down in 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-11-2001 a woman who had training as a medic and lived near the Twin Towers worked as a volunteer. She had been a risk management consultant to several New York banks and after 9-11 managed to trace many parts of the conspiracy to a software consulting firm in Quincy Massachusetts just south of Boston. She was able to find honest CIA and FBI agents with whom she discussed the evidence against that firm which was on a watch list of potential terrorist organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Boston branch of the FBI had wanted to raid the Quincy firm but was denied permission by Michael Chertoff, the then head of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Department of Justice (DOJ.) Knowing this, our brave woman approached the CIA where she found an honest man who told her that the firm in question was a Front Office Operation meaning that it was a CIA front.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our brave woman was told that there was a "Wall" behind which the dishonest creatures at the CIA, FBI and Pentagon operated impervious to those honest men and women on the outside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That firm had been allowed into FAA computer systems with administrative level access to their computers for two years and was physically there on 9-11. They were  supposed to be developing a software system to allow government agencies with different systems to interact with one another. They had access both prior to 9-11 and afterwards continued to have access to the computers at the Pentagon, the White House, the Treasury, HUD, NORAD, the DOJ, the FBI and the Secret Service. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Wall” best describes a recent appointment from the new administration that promised us Hope and Change. One man was alarmed at the appointment of a woman whom he knew to be a member of a criminal conspiracy that was allowing bankers and others in New York to hold onto assets during bankruptcy and thus commit fraud. He collected his several hundred pages of evidence and put it on the web. He then contacted every member of the Senate committee in writing and by phone of the felonies committed by the nominee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A citizen journalist came forward and interviewed him on her Internet radio show and even wrote articles that were published at a couple of high traffic websites. Our citizen activist had a list of news organizations including alleged alternative media and gave 131 news outlets the details of the nominee who should be doing jail time instead of being lauded by the press. The Senate committee received even more calls but none dared to bring up the woman's criminal history. And not one of the 131 alleged news outlets dared carry the story or even mention that the allegations had been made.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a reward our citizen journalist lost her Internet radio program. There would also seem to be a “Wall” between the media including the alleged alternative press and the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-11 two different television networks made mistakes in their announcements that World Trade Center Tower 7 had fallen down. They correctly said it was the third tower to have fallen that day. But the police and rescue workers had trouble getting everyone out of the building prior to its controlled demolition so two news networks ran the story ahead of the building's actual collapse. The news anchors had proof positive that 9-11 was an inside job, but they never ran the story because they knew they are on the other side of the “Wall” from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more than ten years a woman who used to work on Wall Street and also had worked for the first Bush administration has been telling everyone who would listen that Wall Street is stealing billions of dollars a week from federal government spending that we are not allowed to audit. Nor are we allowed to discuss this issue anywhere except the Internet or on late night talk radio. This woman has been sued and investigated nineteen times. There is a “Wall” separating this brave woman and the average taxpayer from the Congress and the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Americans became aware of the “Wall” when President Kennedy was assassinated. Today YouTube has videos of the assassination that proves the government lied about our JFK's murder. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you already knew there is a "Wall" between you and the justice system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Wall” in recent years has seemed to become more apparent to even the casual observer. In 2008 we called our congressmen and senators and said “No” to the Bailout. Yet they voted for it. Eighty percent of Americans want the federal government to build a secure border and to send back the illegal aliens who are working here illegally. An even higher percentage would like the federal government to do something about the 250,000 employees of the Mexican drug cartels and the tens of thousands from other Latin gangs working in the United States. Many Americans are not safe because foreign drug cartels are operating in their neighborhoods. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When evidence of the DEA's involvement in drug cover ups was brought to Time magazine by a DEA agent Time's editors killed the story. We are on one side of the “Wall” and they are on the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My premise is not that the “Wall” exists but that it will be brought down before the end of 2010. If you doubt me, please read &lt;a href=http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1250798400.php&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; story about the dollar and &lt;a href=http://www.mybudget360.com/sp-500-over-priced-with-97-of-companies-reporting-q2-earnings-the-pe-ratio-is-now-at-129-the-most-over-hyped-market-rally-ever/&gt;this story&lt;/a&gt; about the S&amp;P 500 PE ratio hitting 129 to 1 before posting your comments! The dollar will soon crash and the "Wall" will fall down soon afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Berlin Wall was brought down in 1989, Markus Wolf, the head of the Stasi or East German Secret Police, went to Leipzig and tried to lead the anti-government demonstrations. They would have nothing to do with him and told him to go home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will have an even more serious problem as Wall Street can find all sorts of political, religious, business, labor and media leaders to hijack our movement for freedom and self-determination. We can eliminate a few obvious plants by closely examining their backgrounds. All members of the Bilderberg Society, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and any of their employees should be sent home just as the crowds in Leipzig did to Herr Wolf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The majority of Americans probably do not know the names of the men and women who will be leading us after 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to pose a few acid test questions for anyone seeking to even join our struggle. Before today when was the first time you said we should End the FED? Before today when was the first time you opposed the creation of the North American Union? Before today when was the first time you opposed Amnesty for Illegal Aliens and the Path to Citizenship for those illegal aliens already here? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But my major theme is to challenge you to be prepared to win. Yes. I said we need to be ready to win and soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I already have developed plans to reform the banks, health care, insurance, pensions and government. I promise to write about that and how I would revive the economy next time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To survive the coming transition I would hope that you have already heeded my previous advice which was to flee or at least be prepared to flee American cities to a safe haven either in rural America or overseas. Prices are going up so stocking up on provisions is a good idea though telling your neighbors might not be a good thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To personally prepare myself for victory I have been getting caught up on my sleep, exercising and improving my physical health. I am up to a few hundred pushups every other day. I have also started going through the math and physics at &lt;a href=http://www.khanacademy.org/&gt;Khan Academy&lt;/a&gt; to keep my intellect in shape.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spiritually, I want to offer my best to the world. I have been preparing myself for this moment since I was eight years-old and had my vision of what World War III would be if we did not successfully stop it. I have written about my personal beliefs on my other blog. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I challenge you to do and to be the best you can be for the next ninety days and to be prepared for that day in our very near future when the dollar crashes and you are asked to lead America and the world back to sanity. After ninety days, you should be so immersed in the battle against Wall Street and for your personal survival that you will have little time left for reflection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References: I leave it to you as an exercise to identify the people I cited above. Most have appeared in previous essays on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2698677881187058468?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2698677881187058468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2698677881187058468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2698677881187058468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2698677881187058468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/wall-comes-tumbling-down-in-2010-on-9.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-4288411975407088648</id><published>2009-08-19T08:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T07:04:55.961-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Last Congressional Campaign Stump Speech&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: Since I believe the dollar will crash in a few months and the government will soon afterward cease to function, I offer this sample 2010 congressional stump speech to anyone who would like to use it. It is written for a candidate running against a male incumbent in the Democratic primary in Colorado. You will have to make adjustments for your state residence and for the party affiliation of your opponent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why I called this essay The Last Congressional Campaign Stump Speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello. I have been asked why I am running in the primary against an entrenched incumbent. My answer is this: we have no congressman representing us. In the newspapers after our alleged congressman's name appears they say Democrat-Colorado. I can honestly say we have no congressman representing us. If they told the truth in the newspaper they would say Democrat Goldman Sachs or Republican AIG rather than Democrat or Republican Colorado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None of these men and women represent us. Can you name one that went ballistic and tried to shut down the House of Representatives after the Inspector General for the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP) said the total cost for the TARP Bailouts would be 23.7 trillion dollars?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we paid 180 billion dollars to AIG to cover their losses in derivatives did our congressman even co-sponsor a bill making this derivative gambling by banks illegal? No. He did not. That is why I will also call him AIG's man in Washington and not just Goldman Sachs man in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to explain something. It is illegal for banks to buy and sell worthless assets. That is why Wall Street invented Credit Default Swaps which are a hybrid between derivatives and insurance. A derivative is simply a bet on the future value of a bond, of gold, of oil or some other commodity. If you take a bond you know to be worthless, you can pretend it has value by also selling a CDS. For example, you sell 1,000,000 liar loans mortgages to people you know cannot make the payments. You turn them into bonds and buy CDS from someone like AIG who cannot pay off the insurance when these bonds default. After the default, you go to the Senate and the House of Representatives which are on the payroll of AIG and Goldman Sachs and have them stick it to the taxpayers for 23.7 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harry Markopolos, who tried in vain for seven years to report Bernie Madoff's 65 billion dollar Ponzi scheme to the SEC, said we are facing a worse scandal with 600 trillion dollars in CDS. Let me put that in perspective. The total American money supply is a little over 10 trillion dollars. To pay off 600 trillion dollars all we would have to do is for everyone who has dollars to give 100% of all their dollars to Goldman Sachs, AIG and their friends on Wall Street until the total money supply turns over 60 times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congress has decided not to even hold hearings about this 600 trillion dollar scam because they do not want you to get any angrier than you are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to explain something else. Housing, oil and gasoline used to be cheap. The Congress deliberately intervened to raise the price of oil, cut our wages and raise the price of housing. The Congress did not want you to buy an affordable home and pay off your mortgage so you could live rent free for the last several decades of your life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. The Congress and the bankers wanted to raise the price of housing so young people would owe a lot of money on a mortgage they could never pay off. Raising the price of housing helped the bottom line of the banks so the Congress flooded America with legal and illegal aliens and raised home prices through the roof. Then they required banks to make liar loans to people who could not even make the payments with illegal aliens given extra reward points on their applications. Congress did all this to make homes unaffordable and wages unlivable.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course the additional 120,000,000 legal and illegal immigrants plus their children increased the demand for imported oil and raised the price of a barrel of oil from less than three dollars to more than seventy dollars. The Congress did that so they could raise the price of oil to benefit their friends in the Bilderberg Society who own Exxon-Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congress also wanted to cut wages. In 1971 a family of four with one parent working made more than one today with two parents working. That is if you compare the money they have left after paying their home mortgage and paying for the cost of a second car plus higher prices for education, gas and utilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when the current Depression finally hits bottom our hourly after tax wages will decline another fifty per cent when we all go back to work for our new lower wage with sharply devalued dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The immediate cause of our crisis began in 2009 with the passage of the Stimulus bill, the Spending bill and the supplemental appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which included a 106 billion dollar gift to the IMF. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From 1970 to 2009 we borrowed money from overseas to buy oil, cars, clothes, electronics and toys and lived well beyond the means of our country to support that additional 120,000,000 people. Then along came the current crisis and the Congress decided to spend a lot more money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is one thing to borrow money from Japan to buy cars, money from China to buy everything at WalMart and money from the Mideast to buy oil. It is another thing to print money to buy Treasury bonds at auction. When you borrow money from overseas, you actually get to use their money to buy things. When you print more of your own money, all you get is higher prices and therefore lower wages and pensions in real dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have I proved to you yet that the Congress is brain dead?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If our alleged congressman represented you and me, he would have done something. By doing nothing he acted to destroy your life. Let me repeat that. He consciously decided to destroy your life and the lives of everyone in Colorado and in America outside of Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me give you even more proof that I am telling the truth. The CIA Factbook has  lists of nations one of which ranks them by the ratio of their public debt to their Gross Domestic Product. GDP measures a country's total output of goods and services. Using 2007 figures compiled before the Congress voted to bailout their benefactors at Goldman Sachs and AIG, the CIA ranked America as number 22 in the world in the ratio of our debt to GDP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we used 2009 figures, America would be around number nine somewhere between Sudan and Egypt. But, if we add all that Bailout money Nancy Pelosi and Goldman Sachs expects you to pay off, America would pass Zimbabwe and vault to number one in the world in the debt to GDP ratio. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On July 4th, 2008 at 5PM, a bottle of beer cost $100 billion Zimbabwean dollars but an hour later at 6 pm the price had risen to $150 billion. Zimbabwe countered rising prices by printing a ten trillion dollar note and making price increases illegal. And that is the future the House and the Senate and Goldman Sachs and AIG and their friends on Wall Street have planned for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need a Congress that says “No” to Bailouts. But we also need need them to say “No” to Wall Street's other abuses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Schiff went on the air nationwide and told us that the federal government in 2009 was entering the market in the last seven minutes of trading to buy 100,000 futures contracts with taxpayer money to force the stock market up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did the Congress hold hearings? No. Pass a Law. No. I believe they created the bogus stock market rally of 2009 so they and their friends on Wall Street could dump all of their personal holdings before the markets crashed. Thus they also stole another trillion plus dollars from our pensions, savings investments, IRAs and 401Ks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he was not able to trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense spending. Catherine Austin Fitts who was Assistant Secretary of HUD in the Bush I regime has said billions of dollars are being stolen each week from unaudited or poorly audited spending at Defense, HUD and other agencies. This theft has been ongoing for decades under Democrat and Republican administrations. Yet no Democrat or Republican Congress has done anything to protect us from being robbed of billions of dollars every week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catherine Austin Fitts has said that the trillions of dollars stolen from unaudited federal spending has been sent overseas and will be used to buy America for pennies on the dollar at fire sale prices after our economy hits bottom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the money stolen from taxpayers will be added the money they have made laundering a trillion dollars a year in drugs and about 400 billion dollars a year in illegal weapons sales. The banks also launder 500 billion dollars a year in bribes for politicians worldwide. Now you know why politicians break all of their campaign promises. And why one congressman quipped that he had two types of calls on the Bailout "No and Hell NO" but still voted for the Bailout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congress does not care that drugs sold on street corners and elsewhere in America have systematically destroyed whole neighborhoods one family at a time until many cities are on the verge of collapse. Nor does the bought and paid for media tell us the truth about drugs and illegal weapons and gang shootings. How would the criminals destroy America without the assistance of the bankers and the media?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has the Congress held hearings on the billions of dollars stolen each week from unaudited federal Spending? No. Have they passed a law? No. Has the Congress held hearings on the trillions of dollars held by drug cartels and corrupt politicians in the 300 largest international banks? No Have they passed laws? No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incumbent congressman got mad at me last week when someone published a flier announcing his plan to help exactly one man or woman out of the tens of thousands in Colorado who lost a job over the last year. The plan according to the flier was that he was going to hold a lottery. The winning prize was a job at Goldman Sachs where the average pay with bonuses is $773,000 a year. The flier said your congressman was good buddies with the boys at Goldman Sachs and was going to put a little extra in the next Bailout so there would be enough money to hire one person in each of the 435 congressional districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course the drawback was that to be eligible you had to write a letter to the editor of the Denver Post telling them what a wonderful congressman we have and how you can see prosperity around the corner just as soon as the they pass the Bailout and Stimulus Bill of 2010. My lawyer told me to say that I am innocent, that I never touched that flier and that I promise to never to do it  again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to save yourself some hassles, just publish a flier suggesting your congressman or senator hold a lottery offering one of us a job at Goldman Sachs so we will all get behind the two trillion dollar Stimulus and Bailout bill of 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are very lucky that the Crap and Trade Bill did not pass. There is no Global Warming. In fact we have been in Global Cooling for several years. It would have doubled our utility bills and the price of gasoline. A pundit said the money was needed to pay for health care. What garbage. Let me tell you why our incumbent brain dead man in Washington should have voted against both bills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he needed money for health care, he could have saved 200 billion dollar a year by not spending money on foreign military bases. He could have saved even more money if he and Nancy Pelosi had stopped the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as they promised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also could have saved us money by requiring Big Pharma to charge us no more than they do overseas for the same medicine from the same assembly line. He could have saved us money by requiring outcomes based research so that no insurance money need be paid for any medicine that has no proven benefit. That would save us a lot of money on statin drugs which do us no good but do us a lot of harm. Instead he voted to require us to buy insurance which is nothing but a trillion dollar ten year subsidy to his benefactors at the big insurance companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what savings did he propose? Half of the proposed savings were to come from cuts to the elderly on Medicare. And those Death Panels were so unpopular they had to be taken out of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did our Goldman Sachs man in Washington vote to audit the FED. No. He did not. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned bank that has never been audited since its creation in 1913. We get audited by the IRS all the time. In fact HR 3200 which AIG's man in Washington voted for had a provision that allowed the health care bureaucrats to audit your finances and take money directly out of your bank account without your permission or even a court order if they thought you might owe them money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine the abuses on that one. Suppose they need to pass another Bailout because 23.7 trillion dollars was not enough for Goldman Sachs and AIG. They could pay for it by just taking $100 out of everyone's bank account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to explain why I am confident that our current brain dead man in Washington will be leaving office whether or not he wins the primary and the general election in November. Prior to the government's Swine Flu fiasco of 2009 many of us sent letters to every member of the House and the Senate. We followed up those letters with phone calls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We made the not unreasonable demand that since four vaccine makers were selected to receive billions of dollars in subsidies from the taxpayers that we wanted randomly selected samples from the major suppliers to be given us so we could have them analyzed by independent labs with the results to be published before the government would be allowed to inject children, pregnant women and the rest of us with an unknown and unproven substances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These vaccine makers had tested the Swine Flu vaccine on homeless people in Poland and those people died. Another company sent out live Swine Flu virus by mistake and killed all of their animal test subjects. In 1957 the Salk vaccine had to be recalled because it was filled with live polio virus and gave children the disease it was supposed to prevent. Then the Sabin vaccine was injected into innocent Americans without testing. After it was injected it was tested. Researchers found 40 monkey viruses in it. The 40th monkey virus was named Simian Immunodeficiency Virus 40 or SIV-40. It has since been proven to increase lung cancer in people who never smoked. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Swine Flu fiasco of 2009 we were injected with untested vaccines because they were allowed to pull a Bait and Switch and test a few samples of a cleaned up version without the additives mercury and squalene. Mercury has been linked to increased autism. The Amish who do not vaccinate do not have autistic children. And squalene is being taken out of vaccines in Europe because it is known to be harmful. It was also cited as one cause of Gulf War Syndrome. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We could have saved a lot of lives and a lot of grief if we had been allowed to test the vaccines. We warned the Congress that we would file a RICO corrupt enterprises lawsuit against member of the House and the Senate who did nothing to stop Big Pharma from killing and maiming unsuspecting Americans who made the mistake of trusting their government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will file that lawsuit against them as soon as the current Depression hits bottom so we know we will win. That should be before the November elections. This means that the majority of the members of the Senate and the House will have to sell off their assets and leave the country or we will take away everything they own for what they have done to us. Nancy Pelosi has a lot to lose as she is said to have assets of half a billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real enemies of America have always been the Federal Reserve bank, Goldman Sachs, AIG, their friends on Wall Street and their criminal co-conspirators in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I finish let me try to explain to you how the Federal Reserve system was designed to steal your money and why we need to abolish it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The simplest way to explain the FED is to say that they have a license to print our money. It is as if they were legalized counterfeiters whose only restriction is that they cannot go into a store to pass their money. They can only loan their money into circulation and collect interest from the suckers. We now have about 12 trillion dollars in loans the government must pay interest on unnecessarily. If there were no FED, we would have no 12 trillion dollar debt and no interest to pay on that debt and no income tax either. All of the income taxes we have paid have gone to subsidize corporations, to pay for wars we did not need and to pay the banks for printing the money the Treasury should have printed for us without interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine life if there had been no Depression of 1929-1939, no current Depression and no inflation. Imagine an America where you and your family had never paid an income tax and our lives had not been disrupted by inflation and massive job losses. What you have imagined is an America without a Federal Reserve bank and without Goldman Sachs and where we are free to live our lives without their wars and their schemes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you have imagined is still possible for America if we do not return to Washington any brain dead men and women who have sold their souls to the Federal Reserve, to Goldman Sachs, to AIG and to anyone else on Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank you for listening but your family and friends and will thank you even more for just saying “No” to Washington and to Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Notes: The above was written to be turned into a video posted on YouTube. It is intended to be used as a campaign stump speech which can freely be copied and used anywhere in America during the primaries and the general elections in 2010. I entitled it the Last Congressional Campaign Stump Speech as I do not see the current federal government lasting beyond 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first person to put his or her version up on the web does not have to declare their candidacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to talk about 9-11, I would suggest you wait until you have a following as there is a limit to how much your audience can absorb in one speech. I would start with the announcement by Donald Rumsfeld on 9-10-2001 that he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in DOD spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I follow this up with the bomb that killed 600 military and civilian Pentagon employees that was detonated 3 ½ minutes before what was alleged to be Flight 77 struck the building. Most of these men were in the military auditing unit that was trying to find that missing money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best reference was written by Barbara Honegger. She has high quality reliable witnesses,   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id206.html&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would insert this somewhere soon after the part about the TARP Inspector General's statement that we are on the hook for 23.7 trillion dollars and you have explained that it is illegal for banks to either sell or own worthless assets. Remind your listeners that Wall Street began selling Credit Default Swaps so they could legally sell worthless bond Wall Street and pretend they were not breaking the law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This cannot last. A lot of people will be extremely angry when the markets crash. We are very close to the point where we will have our best chance to win. We need to focus blame on Wall Street which has always controlled the CIA, the media and both political parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to avoid the trap of partisan politics. Both parties are to be blamed for the current state of affairs. Neither one of the two major parties will come to our rescue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My hope is that I will inspire Americans in their hour of need to just say “NO” to both political parties, to the media and to Wall Street and all of their wars and financial shenanigans.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-4288411975407088648?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/4288411975407088648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=4288411975407088648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4288411975407088648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4288411975407088648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/last-congressional-campaign-stump.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-7243855342969417874</id><published>2009-08-09T14:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T11:34:10.967-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Rebellion of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this year 2009 the American people will scream an emphatic and unequivocal "No" to those who have exploited them. Goldman Sachs, AIG, the pharmaceutical industry, the Federal Reserve, the bought and paid for media and the criminal enterprises otherwise known as the House of Representatives and the United States Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back during the Persian Gulf War the congress and the Pentagon allowed pharmaceutical companies to inject our troops with untested experimental vaccines containing squalene. One cause of Gulf War Syndrome was that series of vaccinations given without informed consent. Investigators from Insight magazine discovered that 750,000 shot records mysteriously disappeared as a result of a Pentagon coverup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eighteen years-ago the Pentagon, the Senate, the House and the press did their duty and protected the pharmaceutical industry from scrutiny. More than 100,000 young healthy men and women either died young or were made to suffer a daily agony of pain and disability because American politicians were willing to sell their lives for campaign cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not one person was made to pay for killing more soldiers than died in the entire Vietnam war. Fast forward to 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year that same criminal enterprise wants to give billions of dollars to four vaccine makers to vaccinate hundreds of millions of Americans. No problem that test trials on the poor in Poland has already proved fatal. They will just exempt their co-conspirators in Big Pharma from civil lawsuits. No problem that Baxter Pharmaceutical shipped out live virus in vaccines and killed all of their (animal) test subjects. They will simply let all four of the vaccine makers pull a Bait and Switch on their American test trials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will be allowed to test a few thousand Americans with clean versions of the vaccines that contain neither the adjuvants mercury and squalene nor any contaminants nor any live virus so unsuspecting people who trust their government will line up with their children to be immunized by vaccines that were never tested on human subjects. All this was done not to protect Americans from a Swine Flu outbreak that to date has killed fewer than one in two million people in this country. This vaccine program was definitely designed to make money for Big Pharma and may have also been implemented for even more sinister motives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are too many of us who know the truth of what happened in previous campaigns. We know that the Salk polio vaccine had to be recalled because it contained live polio virus and actually spread the disease it was intended to prevent. Then the Sabin vaccine was rushed into the schools without being tested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sabin vaccine was tested AFTER it was injected into millions of children. Researchers found 40 monkey viruses in the Sabin vaccine. The 40th monkey virus discovered was named Simian Immunodeficiency Virus 40 or SIV-40 which subsequently has shown amongst other things to have increased lung cancer in people who had never smoked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other adjuvant in the Swine Flu vaccine is mercury. Ever since the government has mandated our children take vaccines containing mercury, there has been an exponential increase in autism everywhere in America except amongst the Amish who do not accept vaccination. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This mercury is in the compound Thimerosal which Wikipedia describes as an anti-septic and anti-fungal agent used in vaccines though it is supposedly being phased out in Europe and other non-brain dead areas outside the jurisdiction of the House and Senate which I have rightfully named as criminal enterprises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would love to hear someone ask Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary, if men ans women of conscience will be exempted from taking vaccines from Novartis which makes vaccines from aborted fetal cells.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would love to see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answer this question: Why don't you require the vaccine makers to make clean vaccines so they don't have to use mercury compounds to kill a fungus?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or why don't you prohibit squalene as an adjuvant in the forthcoming vaccination program since it has been linked to Gulf War Syndrome and was banned by a US Federal court judge in October 2004? You can cite both Wikipedia Gary Matsumoto's book Vaccine-A as sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Squalene is a naturally occurring substance in humans, animals and plants. However, when it is injected into the human body, our immune system treats both it and all the squalene already present as a foreign invader. The vaccine makers use squalene because it boosts your immune activity. But that is the problem. It also causes autoimmune diseases in which the patient's immune system attacks his or her own body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That would make an excellent follow up question but I think you would have been arrested and denounced as a Nazi after having asked your first question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why did I entitle this essay The Rebellion of 2009? Why is this year different than the Swine Flu vaccination fiasco of 1976 or the failed Salk and Sabin polio vaccinations?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several reasons. We have the Internet and there are millions of us who know the truth and will warn as many people as we can not to take this vaccine. Amongst the first of those scheduled to take the vaccine will be pregnant women. In the past advisories were always given to doctors not to inject pregnant women. When this vaccine starts getting people sick, the first images on television and the Internet will be of pregnant women and the other groups given priority which includes doctors, nurses and first responders, such as, the military, the police and firemen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The program will go from the stance "We are declaring martial law and you will take any shot we give you" to "We are sorry." Doctors and nurses will refuse to give the shots and first responders will refuse to quarantine resistors who say "No" to the government. Though the first few million to take the shot will suffer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This coming forced vaccination fiasco will be the first victory of the American people against the National Security State. This time we will allow no excuses from the politicians to mute our win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; What I propose we do is to send letters signed by doctors and other concerned citizens to every congressional representative and senator demanding that they give us randomly selected samples of our choosing of any vaccine the four manufacturers make. The letters will be followed by phone calls. These samples are to be tested in independent laboratories with all lab results to be published three days before the first inoculation is given. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we will demand the Congress does not pay for any vaccines that are contaminated. Paying for contaminated vaccines only encourages criminally irresponsible threats against our health. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More about these demands in a minute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The major reason why 2009 is not 1976 or 1957 is that the Inspector General for the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP) announced that the total cost of the Bailout for all agencies will be 23.7 trillion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of us who are activists have been saying this both over the Internet and to people we meet in real life. The average person has no comprehension of how much harm the Bailouts will do to them but they will realize that every politician who supported the Bailout has committed treason. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dollar will collapse soon. When it does, the average man and woman will begin to understand how their lives were destroyed by the criminal enterprises known as the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will happen by my calculations at about the same time the vaccination program is seen as a fiasco and thousands of people start demanding compensation. Americans will then fully realize the criminality and the depravity of their politicians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now back to those letters to the 535 men and women in Washington most of whom are willing to sell your life and your children's lives to pharmaceutical companies. In the letter we will notify them that the dollar will soon crash and when it does their government will follow suit. When, not if, the government falls we will sue every politician and pharmaceutical company under RICO as criminal enterprises. We will take everything they own and give it as just compensation to those whom they with premeditation and malice aforethought did deliberately and grievously harm. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g5-8d0n70QY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&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/g5-8d0n70QY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have seen the above video five times. It grows on me every time I see it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-7243855342969417874?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/7243855342969417874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=7243855342969417874' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7243855342969417874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7243855342969417874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/rebellion-of-2009-in-this-year-2009.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-6332795544133947215</id><published>2009-08-05T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-05T18:36:12.499-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Timing The End Game&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government might try to pull a Bait and Switch on those vaccine trials for the H1N1 Swine Flu. Anthony S. Fauci is the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID.) I have heard that Fauci said the trials will be only for the vaccine itself and not for the adjuvants which include squalene and mercury (Thiomersal or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate.) The adjuvants will not be in the vaccines to be tested in August but will be in the vaccines they give us in October.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in the critical and extremely dangerous period of time known as the End Game. In my last two essays I said we could very well win and our oppressors on Wall Street could lose very, very soon if we do two things. One is to be able to survive for that first year after the dollar crashes and their government ceases to exist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they can neither give us bribes nor take our money from us after it reaches xero value. All they can do is to threaten to send goons from Homeland Security, the military or the National Guard to our doors to either shoot us or to send us to camp FEMA. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been a lot of discussion over the Internet about those ads from the National Guard recruiting experienced prison guards to work at internment camps. People are getting paranoid as we approach the day the dollar dies which as I have been saying for several years will be before the end of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fly in the ointment for these machinations from the darkside is that when the dollar dies there will be no bribes handed out and no money to pay the goon squads. It will be a dangerous period but it will also be freeing. That is why I have been advising people to make escape plans from American cities and to build a network of people that can and will support and defend each other in the coming final phase of the End Game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other thing I said we must do is to survive the coming plague. There is no credible threat from Bird Flu (H5N1) despite all those media stories over the past several years. Bird Flu has a 70% death rate but it is extremely difficult to get Bird Flu. It is nothing you should worry about. That is unless you allow someone to inject it into you which is why so many educated people will refuse to take these vaccines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swine Flu (H1N1) virus killed maybe a little over one hundred people in America so we ought not to worry about that either. Many of those who did die were people who probably would have died anyway from their existing conditions. You might remember that the 1976 flu scare started with the death of one soldier at Fort Dix who was sent on a forced march while the men who were resting either at home or in hospital did not die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get letters and the most asked question after my recent essay on surviving the coming plague is how do we avoid taking the flu vaccine. I had said that the adjuvants mercury and squalene will weaken your immune system and that in conjunction with Chemtrail spraying will make us so sick that the coming plague will kill us. It should be noted that the upcoming vaccine is only the first in a series of vaccinations planned by The Powers That Be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing to notice is that Bait and Switch on the test. They will not test the adjuvants in the trials so we will not see how the public responds until after the vaccination program begins. That means we will not get legitimate feedback on the vaccines until millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of others overseas have been injected. This is very bad news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Good News is that the vaccination program will not begin until October. By that time the dollar might begin to freefall so resistance to any government program will be even angrier and better organized that it is now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There have been news stories and viral videos of extremely angry people confronting politicians. The bought and paid for media has responded by saying these people are cranks organized by evil men somehow and somewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media and the politicians have seen nothing yet. Just wait until the dollar dies. 70,000,000 workers will not be able to buy gas to go to work. 40,000,000 pensioners will not be able to buy food and to heat their homes. You might say to yourself that America is a big nation and has a lot more than 70,000,000 workers and 40,000,000 pensioners. I know that. These are the minimum numbers of employed people and pensioners I calculate who will have no way to buy gas, to buy food and to pay their utility bills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the unemployed, those who have unemployment checks will not be able to buy food as the dollar's decline in value and the increasing price of imported oil will wipe them out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real unemployment rate (U6) as opposed to the U3 rate used by the Department of Labor since 1994 is 16.5% and will soon become much higher. The U3 unemployment rate does not include people whose benefits ran out. It does not include recent graduates from colleges,trade schools and high schools who cannot find work. It also does not include formerly fulltime workers whose hours were cut to part time and cannot afford to pay their bills. Nor does the U3 unemployment rate include recently discharged military personnel returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and who knows where else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is very easy to cut the unemployment rate if you do not count all of the unemployed and the underemployed people looking for work. I expect the U6 unemployment rate to soar past 20% within 12 months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can lie to people when times are good and only ten or twenty million or thirty million people are hurting. You can tell them there are only a few people with problems and our system is working. But we will soon have 140,000,000 Americans living in dire circumstances which far worse than 1933. And this will happen within one calendar year from today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means that there will be no series of vaccinations. The planned Swine Flu vaccine for October will be the first and last in this planned series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swine Flu vaccination program will not begin until October so for many people the question of resisting the vaccine will be moot. The government might cease to function before they can get hold of you as it will take time for them to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people. The current health care bill sets aside money for the states to go to your house to make sure that you and your household has taken any and all vaccines they have prescribed for you. This is also a moot point as the dollar will crash before the health care bill is passed and goes into effect. There will be no dollars to pay the goons to come to your house to inject you and yours against your will after the dollar dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we might only have 20,000,000 Americans at risk of being forced to take what I have called the Swine Flu Vaccine From Hell before the government is unable to do anything either for you or against you. That is why I entitled this essay Timing The End Game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wrote a satire where our President had to go before the nation on October 19th, 2009 to tell his fellow Americans that the government was bankrupt and had been taken over by a consortium of Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve and foreign investors. The new name of the country was United States Incorporated. I selected October 19th because it was the date given for the end of the world in a then current movie and it fit my timeline for the destruction of the dollar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-from-new-york-its-saturday-night.html&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To repeat by my calculations no more than 20,000,000 Americans can be vaccinated before the program and the government both grind to a halt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, he government party has made a major miscalculation. They have decided to put pregnant women and health care workers to the top of the list of those to be vaccinated. That is a “Fatal Error.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past vaccination programs always warned pregnant women to avoid taking the vaccine because it could be harmful to their health. To put pregnant women at the front of the line will endanger them, their unborn children and the program. The first real trial of this vaccine will not be in August when their clean version is tested at a few regional centers. The first real trial of the adjuvants and the rest of the vaccine contaminants will be on pregnant women. The Government does not seem to realize how much harm this vaccine will do and how well the opposition is organized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as the first pregnant woman is harmed and gets on a local ten watt television station, the video will be taped and uploaded to YouTube where it will become an overnight viral hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other group of people at the top of the injection list are medical care practitioners including doctors and nurses. These people are not stupid. Many will refuse to take the vaccine. As soon as a few take the vaccine and get bad reactions, the rest will hear about it. That also will get onto YouTube and become a viral hit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the vaccine is only as bad as the 1976 flu vaccination fiasco, then the program will grind so a halt when the doctors and the nurses refuse to be injected. But what about the goons from the military and Homeland Security? From my understanding they are classified as First Responders and will also go to the head of the line. When they see their fellow goons getting sick from the injections, they too will refuse to take this vaccine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is no secret that the military has been the subject of experimental medicine. In the Persian Gulf war, squalene was given without the informed consent of soldiers which is not lawful. Insight magazine ran a story on the Persian Gulf war experimental anthrax vaccination program. The Pentagon covered their tracks by erasing the shot records of 750,000 soldiers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are veterans disabled from Pentagon injections and from Depleted Uranium and other military decisions who have felt betrayed enough to organize themselves into a resistance movement. They are like the unemployed and the underemployed. A man who is sick from a series of illegally administered experimental vaccines alone has no more power than does the black man I saw in a wire news story whose hours at the local Home Depot has been cut to the point it did not pay him to go to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another group that should resist vaccination. A friend said he thought the government was lying to us about flu deaths. They said that a little over 100 people died from the Mexican Swine flu so far this year and then also said that we normally have 34,000 deaths from flu each year. I said I believe both figures. A little over 100 people died from the flu and 34,000 died from vaccination reactions. Most of these people were over 70. The elderly need to be informed and urged to become active.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will soon reach the boiling point of the electorate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amongst the responses to my idea of last week that the future will belong to those who survive the coming plague and the Vaccine From Hell were many who said their injunction against the government would not be a legal filing. It would be bullets. In fact that was the majority of my responses though my sample is skewed because I am only counting Internet responders and these are people who are fully informed to the dangers of this vaccine. I do not advocate violence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it all comes down to this. If you are one of the first 20,000,000 to be lined up by the government for vaccination, you have a real problem. If you or a spouse or a friend or relative is pregnant, then you must do everything you can to resist the vaccination even if that requires you to hire a lawyer or go into hiding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My primary advice to everyone is to jam the system. Every state has different laws. North Carolina has a Health Freedom Act. In the references below I have links to websites with legal information and to standard forms you can use to hopefully slow down the program or even avoid the Swine Flu vaccine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A stepped up method of jamming the system would be to file injunctions to stop the program. There is a standard injunction available from in the references below. The idea is that you use the information, get a lawyer to help you with the filing details and be one of fifty or a hundred lawsuits nationwide. What we need is delay and information. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any lawsuit that allows us to ask for discovery will be helpful fo the rest of the nation. This vaccination program will be stopped if just one judge grants discovery. If people knew what is in the vaccine, they would not take the injection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been suggested that we get a sample of the final vaccine with adjuvants and contaminants to be administered in October and analyze this in a lab. Probably only a doctor could do this. There are medical doctors who specialize in alternative and preventive medicine. You might be able to contact a medical professional friend who can help with this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any test that shows the contaminants in the vaccine will be all over the web in hours. That also will stop the program but it might take a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That leads to my final point that we need to join networks where we can exchange information freely as the bought and paid for media will not protect us. If you or a friend is thinking of running for a political office or to organize to achieve some other political goal, I would suggest you get a table and go to a high foot traffic area and hand out information on the Vaccine. I hereby give anyone permission to use the following lines in either leaflets or bumper stickers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They never use a clean needle when they can use a dirty needle.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I Will Take The Swine Flu Vaccine From Hell When Pigs Fly.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both of these statements are explained in a recent essay on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should say that the coming plague might still be released but your chances of survival will be greatly increased if you avoid the Swine Flu vaccine and we can stop Chemtrail spraying when the dollar collapses and the government ceases to function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Full text of the Health Care bill plus a lot of comments about specific pages from the bill is &lt;a href=http://blog.flecksoflife.com/2009/07/19/the-hc-monstrosity/&gt;here:&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alan G Phillips is a lawyer practicing in North Carolina who specializes in vaccine exemptions and waivers. He helped pass his state's Health Freedom Act. He has some free items of interest on his website and might be able to refer you to a lawyer in your area who can offer experienced professional help with injunctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.vaccinerights.com/&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pandemic Flu Online is a good source of information. You might start here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.pandemicfluonline.com/&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nutrimedical has a few links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.nutrimedical.com/news.jhtml?method=view&amp;news.id=2127&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copy of Court Filing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=https://www.nutrimedical.com/announcements_file.jhtml?id=38&amp;file=Injunction%20Petition%20Template%20SanDiego%20071509%20Latest%20Model.doc&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Court Filing is here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.nutrimedical.com/announcements.jhtml?method=view&amp;announcements.id=38&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vaclib has standard forms for vaccination waivers and exemptions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-6332795544133947215?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/6332795544133947215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=6332795544133947215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6332795544133947215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6332795544133947215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/08/timing-end-game-government-might-try-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-6191031159088010501</id><published>2009-07-29T18:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T05:16:48.112-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Like Hitler In The Bunker But With Nuclear Weapons&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mike Rivero said on his radio show that Barack Obama's rapid decline in popularity worries him. When Presidents fear losing power, they have in recent years started wars and even allowed terrorist events like the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9-11-2001. What worries Mr Rivero is that Obama's popularity is dropping farther and faster than any President in modern history. Rivero expects either an event like 9-11 or another war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's drop in popularity is not confined either to the Right or to Zionists angry that Obama has not incinerated the Mideast. Rivero is a liberal. Stephen Lendman is a New Deal liberal. After six months of the new administration, he summed up his view of Obama in three words: “Worse than Bush.” Both men are very much opposed to Zionism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are probably two or three months away from an economic collapse. The Treasury Department has been having severe problems selling all those bonds Obama and the Congress has asked them to sell so the chances of the dollar lasting until Christmas are rapidly diminishing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means any Wall Street plans to maintain control are already in the works. In the past I have outlined several options available to the bankers that we need to be aware of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have already warned of the Swine flu vaccine which has squalene, mercury and other adjuvants plus contaminants that are guaranteed to weaken our immune system so lab manufactured plagues could subsequently sweep around the world in waves killing a billion people. We have recently learned that the US military will be used to help FEMA manage the pandemic hauling Americans off to quarantine centers if need be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel has been putting too many military assets on its border with Lebanon. Israel has also sent tanks and bulldozers into Gaza again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Obama has invaded and occupied northwest Pakistan with mercenaries from the company formerly known as Blackwater. Pakistan has nuclear weapons and is intentionally being destabilized by Zbignew Brzezinski of the Trilateral Commission who first got us involved in Afghanistan during the Carter presidency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Persons unknown have recently shelled Russians in South Ossetia's capitol city. Georgia has denied responsibility. Americans and Israelis are known to be in the area. Someone is trying to provoke the Russians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course there is always the threat of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities which would launch WW III. Iran could be blamed by the bought and paid for press for the coming plague whether or not the Iranians were responsible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another source could be a new outbreak of Swine and Bird flu in Mexico but that would enrage too many Mexicans living within shooting distance of bankers in the US to be practical. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enter the Reverend James David Manning who has been all over YouTube criticizing Barack Obama. Until today I have not referred to his observations. In the video below he warns us of Barack Obama's megalomania. Our President is currently working with Wall Street to put us under martial law. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama has taken control of the automotive industry. He wants the Federal Reserve to take over the economy. If we give him control of health care and of energy through the health care and Cap and Trade bills, he will have near dictatorial powers which could become permanent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev Manning has given us two separate warnings. One is a near term warning that Obama is so narcissistic that he will not hesitate to stage another event like 911 or to start a war to give himself dictatorial martial law powers if his popularity declines further.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His second warning is more alarming. The reverend unfavorably compared Obama to Hitler in the bunker saying that he is more dangerous than the Nazi leader because America has 10,000 nuclear weapons. He said that Obama will not hesitate to launch a world war if he thinks he is in danger of losing power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bankers have similar plans in case of a rebellion by the soon to be impoverished American people. But note this one difference. When I was a child, I said we would never have a global thermonuclear war because nuclear weapons kill rich people. I said the bankers would prefer mass starvation as a weapon because that would confine the losses in the next war to the poor who are not able to pay taxes to support the uber rich who were given a license to print our money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This difference in views on nuclear war between Obama and his masters could prove fatal to the President. I do see a problem in that he could start a really big war before the Powers That Be could assassinate him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he were killed before he got out of control, his death could conveniently be used to start a race war to make rebellion impossible in a divided nation. I am not now predicting a Presidential assassination. At this time. the maniacal inclinations of Obama and the Bilderbergers seem to mesh nicely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his conclusion Reverend Manning said America is a nation blessed by God and that the American people will rise up in rebellion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think our first victory against the bankers could be the refusal to accept Swine flu vaccines. This vaccine could be a worse fiasco than the 1976 swine flu vaccine that had to be withdrawn after it started getting people sick, killing some and paralyzing many others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Health Organization (WHO) will be donating the Swine flu vaccine from hell to the poor in Third World countries. If educated Americans refuse the vaccine, we will be alive to watch as bankers are chased down in the streets by angry mobs of people whose uneducated raltives were murdered by injection in poor nations as a result of policies implemented by the Bilderberg Society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our dollar and our government will soon collapse leaving those of us who refused  vaccination and do survive the plague to begin rebuilding our nation and the world without Bilderbergers. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NhicCRUUTmU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&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/NhicCRUUTmU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is part 1 of Dr Manning's video. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9hkdlvOWmU&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is  Mike Rivero's website. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://whatreallyhappened.com/&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is his radio show which airs Monday thru Friday at 7 pm Pacific and 5 pm Central time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.gcnlive.com&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-6191031159088010501?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/6191031159088010501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=6191031159088010501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6191031159088010501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6191031159088010501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/like-hitler-in-bunker-but-with-nuclear.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1280152703843601593</id><published>2009-07-24T15:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T06:58:00.745-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Last Gasp of The Lords Of  Wall Street Or America Get Poorer Part V&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They never use a clean needle when they can use a dirty needle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will take this H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine from hell when pigs fly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember reading more than ten years ago an explanation as to why there was a surge in lung cancer amongst those health conscious people who never smoked, The increase in lung cancer was attributed to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus 40 which was found in vaccines routinely administered by American pharmaceutical companies. It causes cancer and lots of other diseases. It was named SIV 40 because it was the 40th monkey virus found in vaccines the government expects you to take on blind faith. Since the pharmaceutical industry makes a lot of money treating cancer patients,  you now understand why I said they never use a clean needle when they can use a dirty one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Mexican Swine flu, which was manufactured in a lab, was first released, we were told by the news media that we usually had 34,000 deaths from flu every year and that these were mostly elderly people. What they did not tell us was that vaccination has no benefit for men and women 70 years of age and older. This is well known and yet every year the health authorities are lining up people 70 and over knowing that the vaccination after effects will kill tens of thousands of elderly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know why I said I will take the Mexican Swine flu vaccine from hell when pigs fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much has been said of the relation between the mercury based preservative Thimerosal in vaccines and autism. Now ask yourself this question: Will you turn your health care over to men and women who are willing to kill your parents and grandparents? These people are willing to ruin your life and your child's life by giving them autism rather than use a clean needle. Mennonites take no vaccines and have no autistic children. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General, once told an interviewer that what American medicine needs most is outcomes based research to tell us which medical practices actually work and which do not. The interviewer was shocked, but what is more shocking is that we have done nothing in the past two decades to improve the situation. A case in point is Statin drugs which are alleged to reduce cholesterol in the hopes of reducing cardiovascular disease. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outcomes based medical research would have told us that cholesterol alone does not create heart disease and that Statin drugs do nothing to prevent disease. The side effects may include:Abdominal pain, abnormal heartbeat, accidental injury, allergic reaction, arthritis, back pain, bronchitis, chest pain, constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, flu symptoms, fluid retention, gas, headache, indigestion, infection, inflammation of sinus and nasal passages, insomnia, joint pain, muscle aching or weakness, nausea, rash, stomach pain, urinary tract infection, weakness. So if we know Statins do not work, why are we spending tens of billions on them every year and probably many more billions to treat the side effects? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about cutting the cost of health care by mandating that only clean vaccines be administered and then only if the vaccine is known to be more beneficial than not taking it? That would exclude the elderly from all vaccinations. How about banning all drugs shown not to work like the Statins? Contrast that with the current health care bill which funds the fifty states so they can send people to your home to make sure you and anyone else living with you has taken any and all vaccines they mandate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe Biden, who might be in the early stage of Alzheimers, has been saying that we need to raise taxes to pay for health care. How about cutting back on the wars in  Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? How about cutting back on the 250 billion dollars a year we spend to maintain more than 700 military bases overseas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I talk to people whose only source of knowledge is TV news. The other day someone told me she heard on Tee Vee that we need Cap and Trade to pay for health care. What gibberish. I will outline my own health care proposals in the near future. What the backers of the current health care bill are proposing is to generate massive taxes by taxing health care benefits, tax increases on small businesses and married couples making over $100,000 a year in addition to those massive Cap and Trade taxes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;What are they going to do with all that money? It isn't going to take care of the sick. During the last month of the 2008 campaign Obama went to see his grandmother who was near death. This is the woman who raised him. He said he was somewhat chagrined by his grandmother's case. She was terminally ill and had had hip surgery. His opinion was that in his health care system she would be denied treatment. Rationing or reducing your current level of access to health care is how people of his mind set think. Rationing of health care is in the current health care bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hundreds of billions they raise in taxes on Cap and Trade and Health Care will be sent to Wall Street to pay for their Bail Outs. If we do need to raise money to benefit us and not Wall Street, I would suggest a Tobin tax. James Tobin suggested we tax international financial transfers. This would force the bankers and their drug cartel clients to  to pay taxes on the trillion dollars in drugs and 400 billion dollars in illegal weapons the bankers launder every year. It would also force the politicians to pay taxes on the 500 billion dollars a year in bribes the bankers launder for them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Monday the Treasury Department's Inspector General for TARP said that the Bail Out could cost us 24 trillion dollars. That is 24 trillion dollars not 24 billion. As soon as the people learn the true cost of the Bail Out, they will likely say no to Cap and Trade and health care taxes especially since the President admitted he did not even read the current health care bill.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A better way to raise money for the government would be to actually audit federal spending so we can save 200 billion dollars a year or more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cap and Trade is a swindle. Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide does not correlate with changes in global temperatures. Most Carbon Dioxide is released from volcanoes, from animals and from bacteria so man caused Global Warming is a scientific hoax. In fact water vapor has more to do with global temperatures than does Carbon Dioxide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Polar bears are increasing in number. That famous photo of a polar bear on a floating ice berg was taken two years ago by an Australian student on her summer vacation.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The seasonal fluctuation in the size of glaciers much like lakes ann creeks is normal. Most glaciers are growing from year to year. Some glaciers are melting due to volcanoes on the ocean floor. There is also those temperatures taken by college professors living on grant money from Foundations. You can look at photos of official temperature reporting stations of thermometers placed adjacent to  Weber grills and HVAC vents in the references below.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The controlled press reports none of these facts so Wall Street was able to pass the Global Warming bill in the House. Wall Street has an insatiable appetite for your money. They want it all. As Mike Rivero said, in the final stages of a collapsing criminal enterprise government the last act is to loot the Treasury before the ship of state sinks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they were really concerned about the environment, they would clean up those toxic waste dumps floating around our oceans. Several of them are three times the size of the state of Texas. It is reasonable to believe that if we do nothing, the oceans will die endangering all life on this planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we say no to any more Bail Outs, tax increases, Cap and Trade and to the current health care bill, all we have to do is wait for their dollar to collapse. When their dollar crashes, their government will fall and we will be free to build a new America without Wall Street, the Bilderberger Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a remaining problem. Wall Street still controls the government and the press. They might try to sell us either a race war at home or a World War that would begin either in the Persian Gulf with an Israeli attack on Iran or in the neighboring (AfPak) Afghanistan-Pakistan war zone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mexican Swine flu was made in a lab. I see no other explanation for the combination of a European Swine flu with an American Swine flu together with a Bird flu from Asia. Many experts agree. So why did they decide to release this manufactured virus in Mexico? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not think they will be shooting us up with a germ warfare virus that will instantly kill us. What I think they will do is give us a vaccine soon after  our schools resume session that will break our immunity and make us vulnerable to the real disease which could be introduced in a few months or so. The H1N1 Swine flu vaccine will contain the additive squalene which has been known to cause autoimmune diseases and lower your body's ability to defend you against disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have heard speculation that the H1N1 vaccine with squalene and other additives in conjunction with Chemtrails will reduce our immune response before the deadly virus is released whenever the bankers feel threatened by the poor folk who lost everything when the dollar dies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the ten year long Mexican Revolution, ten per cent of their entire population moved across the border to the United States. Currently, the population of Mexico is 110,000,000 so if ten to fifteen per cent move north, we are talking about adding  eleven to sixteen million people in as little as 90 days. That is why the Pentagon is planning to defend us against an invasion and FEMA is busy building new detention centers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As my regular readers know, Americans have been buying 50,000,000 bullets a day for the past eight months. This worries Wall Street as there is not enough money in the world to hire a sufficient number of bodyguards to protect them if Americans went looking for them. So the thinking is that a Mexican invasion combined with a few car bombs during some food riots could start a race war. But I have warned La Raza who would be responsible if someone set off a couple of bombs killing Mexican school children in Los Angeles or El Paso. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have said before, a race war would, as planned, deplete us of our ammunition and food stockpiles. It would only benefit Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is another possible location for germ warfare to break out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Israel does attack Iran with American weapons, the Iranians have said they will respond by attacking American forces. As my regular readers are aware, the Iranians have Russian made Sunburn N-22 and Yakhonts N-26X anti-ship missiles which were designed to sink aircraft carriers. They have made their own 150 and 100 kilometer range rocket artillery cannons under license. They can also throw into the mix a lot of NATO and Chinese made anti-ship missiles. The Iranians can sink our Persian Gulf  fleet in minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Iranians can also destroy our forces in the Central Command which has military personnel stationed in 23 Muslim majority nations including Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iranians can buy or build all the shoulder fired anti-aircraft weapons they want for $1,000 each. They could shoot down our helicopters and cut off the supply lines to our troops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many benefits to the bankers if Israel launched World War III. One would be that the price of oil would go above $300 a barrel The Bilderberg Society is run by the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and the Dutch royal family. They own Shell and EXXON. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bankers are always thinking for some reason that people don't like them so the collapse of the American Army and Navy might make them feel safer as all those people are armed and dangerous. As for those Americans arming themselves with 50,000,000 bullets a day, they can blame Iran for their sudden impoverishment and not the bankers, their Bail Outs, their wars, their debt money fraud and their looting of the public Treasury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do foresee a problem with an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities which could kill up to 1,500,000 Iranians in the immediate area if their nuclear reactor is destroyed. The radiation could rise into the atmosphere where the jet stream can take it around the world causing cancers and killing humans and animals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Russians helped Iran to develop their bio-warfare arsenal. The Russians probably have antidotes to Iran's bio-weapons. Wall Street might also have a supply of those antidotes to protect themselves but not you and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; There is one other plus for the bankers if there just happened to be an outbreak of germ warfare in Iran and not in Mexico. The people in America and Mexico could blame the Iranians for the deaths of millions of their people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Internet and talk radio were shut down, most people would not know that those mandatory Swine flu vaccines loaded with squalene were equally responsible for any coming plague.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are headed into an extremely dangerous period. I have called this essay The Last Gasp Of The Lords of Wall Street because to win they have to change America soon. For us to win all we have to do is to survive without dollars and without a government for three months to a year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their dollar and their government will collapse from their greed and their insanity. All we have to do is to block all of their current legislation on Cap and Trade, health care and mandatory vaccinations, tax increases, the Hate Crime bill and Amnesty for Illegal Aliens. Just say No to everything for a little while and we will see rays of freedom breaking through the clouds. We should all soon hear the Last Gasp of the Lords of Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not think that the bankers will win, but my next and final essay in this series America Gets Poorer will be a "what if they win" and could be entitled That Glorious Day. For the past several hundred years bankers have been conspiring together to fulfill their dream that all property, all corporations and all natural resources, such as oil, natural gas, water and food, belongs to the banks and we are reduced to slavery. To the Lords of Wall Street that dark future into which no light penetrates would appear as a Glorious Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the future I will write a series of initiatives to rebuild America and to overcome poverty here and overseas. I promise to finish that series before the world begins to unravel in September. As I said in Final Warning, we might not be able to communicate with one another freely and without reprisals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the URL to the website that has photos of official Global Warming Reporting stations where college professors on welfare from Bilderberg Foundations have placed thermometers next to HVAC vents and to Weber grills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the URL for an in depth scientific video on The Global Warming Swindle: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climate Depot is a great starting point to study Global Warming.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.ClimateDepot.com&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1280152703843601593?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1280152703843601593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1280152703843601593' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1280152703843601593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1280152703843601593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-gasp-of-lords-of-wall-street-or.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2391776843684301211</id><published>2009-07-17T19:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T09:06:17.911-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Coming Great American Fire Sale or America Gets Poorer Part IV&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been chronicling the transfer of all wealth from us to Wall Street and the destruction of America by the latter. This essay will concentrate on the fast approaching sale of American public assets, such as, water, public utilities, parks and roads to foreign buyers as well as the forced sale in bankruptcy of our major business corporations and our homes in foreclosures.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also been warning my friends and associates as to just when we can expect the dollar to crash so they can protect themselves as well as they can. I feel obligated to point out an article in the London Telegraph that China’s Central Bank will soon begin to contract their money supply. The Chinese banks have been loaning money into the housing and stock and commodity market bubbles. The Chinese passed a Stimulus Package of their own and have found that the money has been funneled into the Shanghai stock market. Their government wants to redirect their Stimulus to the unemployed and the rural poor. &lt;a href=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/china-economic-slowdown/5817281/Chinas-central-bank-signals-end-to-credit-boom.html&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem is that when the Chinese contract their money supply we will have no one to buy our Treasury bonds. This does not bode well for us at a time when the new administration is selling 104 billion dollars or more a week in Treasuries. This follows the decision of the European Central Bank to also contract their money supply. The Federal Reserve has been creating money to buy Treasuries. That will only work until foreigners are forced from fear of the devaluation of the dollar to dump their dollars and send us into a Depression far worse than 1929.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This leads me to repeat my earlier prediction that I first made several years ago that the dollar would collapse in the last half of 2009 and that our wages would, as planned by Wall Street, be cut in half if we do not repeal the Federal Reserve Act and reform the system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week Max Keiser, who lives in Paris, was talking with Dr Michael Hudson about the G8 Summit and said &lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ4guomLmpI&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt; that one of the issues was the purchase in the past six months of Third World farms equal in size to the entire farm land of Europe. To repeat that is farm land equal to Europe’s and that happened in just 6 months. The land sold was purchased by dollars that Asia and OPEC were dumping. The poor nations are using those dollars to pay interest on fictional debts to US and London banks. (I explained why government debts are fictional in my previous essay in this series.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Max Keiser went on to say that Americans will be next. If our wages are cut in half by a planned inflation and our farms and corporations are bought out from under us, we will be reduced to near slavery. Wall Street has additional plans to buy our public utilities, water supplies, parks and roads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several members of the Bilderberg Society, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) own oil companies such as Shell and EXXON-Mobil. But these men are also involved in water privatization. Wikipedia lists  the top three water privatization companies. None are either English or American. Vivendi and Suez are French though Wiki neglects to mention that these companies have senoir executives who are members of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact Viscount Etienne Davignon who is a senior executive at Vivendi was the European head of Bilderberg and therefore sat in on the powerful and secretive Bilderberg Steering Committee. Much has been said of the two classes of Bilderberg members. The lower class are just attendees and are allowed to talk about the agenda that was determined by the more powerful and secretive Bilderberg Steering Committee. A few of American attendees are Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, General David Petraeus and former President Gerald Ford. Steering Committee members include Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wikipedia article went on to say that a controversial aspect of the water privatization movement is the fact that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are forcing Third World nations who have been bankrupted by fictional government debts to participate. Nor does Wiki bother to tell its readers that the Presidents of the World Bank and the IMF are Bilderbergers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fly in the ointment is that, as Max Keiser warned us, Americans are next on the list of nations to be put through bankruptcy brought about by fictional government debts. The Congress recently saw fit to give 106 billion dollars to the IMF which we borrowed from China. The IMF will soon lend the United States and England money on the same conditions as Third World countries like Bolivia. That 106 billion dollars could be loaned back to us as early as 2010 when we will be forced to either sell our birth right to Wall Street or to starve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2000 James David Wolfensohn was the President of the World Bank and refused to renew a 25 million dollar loan to Bolivia unless the Bolivians agreed to sell their water resources to private foreign companies. That consortium of foreign companies included Bechtel corporation which is owned by the father and son multi-billionaire team of Walter and Riley Bechtel. Wiki has an article about the 2000 Cochabamba Bolivia Water Wars &lt;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The people had to stage a four day general strike in Cochabamba to be noticed. The Bolivian government sent soldiers and arrested strikers. The Water Wars article is long and fascinating. To cut to the chase we can just say the people won. And several Third World countries have passed laws making it illegal to privatize water resources. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James David Wolfensohn was appointed to run the World Bank by President Clinton and was so admired by Wall Street that he was re-appointed by President Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately for you, your Congress signed onto the General Agreement on Tariffs  and Trade (GATT) which allows foreign companies to sue America in World Trade Organization (WTO) European courts so they can legally force the sale of American water, public utilities, roads, real estate and parks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Bank required Bolivia to sell its water to foreigners because the Bolivians could not refinance a 25 million dollar loan. America is rapidly becoming a Third World Banana Boat Republic. The Lords of Wall Street have created an 11.4 trillion dollar fictional debt that we will soon be incapable of servicing. Our state and local governments are also going bankrupt and are steadily losing income tax and sales tax revenues. Martin Weiss has warned us that the recent lowering of the rating of California's state bonds means that most insurance companies and investment firms will be required by law to sell their California bonds as well as those of many other seates and local governments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you think will happen if Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are forced within the next 150 days to bail out 3 trillion dollars in munincipal bonds? How do you think state and local governments will be able to pay two or three times as much interest on their bonds after having made draconian budget cuts and raised taxes to unconsionable levels?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the state and local governments make an initial round of budget cuts in 2009 they will be forced to sell off our resources to Wall Street and to foreign companies in 2010 in the face of food riots, strikes and the dumping of our bonds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why I entitled this essay the Coming Great American Fire Sale. Our state and local governments will be selling American public assets at a time when real estate prices are at an all time low and the entire world has been deliberately pushed by design into a buyers market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another aspect of the Coming Fire Sale which I have spoken of before. Bankers have been stealing 4 billion dollars a week from unaudited government spending. The bankers also have profits from laundering a trillion dollars a year in illegal drug money and up to 400 billion dollars in illegal weapons. They also profit from laundering 500 billion dollars a year in bribes for politicians worldwide. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that money has been invested overseas and will be repatriated next year when the Lords of Wall Street plan to buy American corporations for pennies on the dollar.  In 2010 they will also be buying foreclosed homes, farms and other real estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By 2012 we will be living in abject poverty, our wages cut in half and with our roads, public utilities, water and parks belonging to consortiums of Wall Street and foreigners. We will control nothing. The jobs that remain will be given to the favored few by corporations that were bought with money stolen from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inflation and unemployment will exhaust our savings and pensions. We did not get into the depths of the last Depression until the third year when our savings had been used up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might be thinking that nobody would vote for this and that everyone will rebel. Nobody would vote for what the bankers have planned for us. That is why I have been saying for years that the bankers have been behind the rise of the National Security State where you have no rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am thoroughly convinced that the bankers know the dollar will soon crash and have decided to go for broke in late 2009 and early 2010 to transform our government so America ceases to exist as a sovereign nation with a functioning Bill of Rights, meaningful elections and vigorous free speech in the public media. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My next essay in this series America Gets Poorer Part V could be subtitled The Last Gasp Of The Lords Of Wall Street.  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2391776843684301211?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2391776843684301211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2391776843684301211' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2391776843684301211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2391776843684301211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/coming-great-american-fire-sale-or.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3456218938788034223</id><published>2009-07-13T19:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T21:03:27.268-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;America Gets Poorer (Part III)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously I promised to explain how the banking system we have been given transfers all wealth from those of us who work to those few who gave themselves a license to print our money. As we shall see, there has been a rise in the National Security State that parallels the extraction of wealth from the common people by the Lords of Wall Street. As President Obama said (to the bankers), “My administration is all that stands between you and the pitchforks.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a previous essay, The Counterfeiters, which can be found in my March 2009 archives, I explained that what our banking system does is to quite literally legalize counterfeiting. Prior to 1913 only the Treasury of the United States could legally print paper American dollars. After the Federal Reserve was created as a privately owned corporation in 1913, the words Federal Reserve Note has replaced the words Treasury Certificate on our paper currency. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy both issued Treasury Certificates. They both realized that prices are a ratio of the money supply to the Gross National Product (GNP)  or total number of goods and services for sale. A balanced increase of 4% in both the money supply and in the GNP means that we can print enough Treasury Certificates to increase the money supply by 4% and suffer no inflation in prices. That is because prices are a ratio of the supply of money to the GNP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our M3 Money Supply reached ten trillion dollars before the Federal Reserve refused in 2006 to any longer tell us how much money is in circulation. So if we had Treasury Certificates instead of Federal Reserve Notes, we could safely increase the money supply by 4% or 400 billion dollars by spending the money we printed rather than by taxing us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why did I say “giving our money to Wall Street?” You will understand once you realize how we fund deficits with Federal Reserve Notes. If the Treasury Department needs to fund a deficit under the current Federal Reserve system, the FED can print 400 billion dollars in new Federal Reserve Notes and then exchange them for 400 billion dollars in Treasury bonds which obligate you as a taxpayer to pay interest and principal to a group of men who were given a license to print our money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why I have called them Counterfeiters. The Federal Reserve, which is owned by the member banks and by Investment banks, can legally print money and enter it into circulation by lending it to either you or your government. Note that under the Treasury Certificate program there is no federal government debt. That is why I have said that government debt is a fiction but that we are obligated to work and to pay real taxes to pay interest on those fictional debts. That fictional US debt is currently 11.4 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our deficit is currently 2 trillion dollars and we have guaranteed up to 13 trillion dollars in loans to the bankers. We could soon face a 20 trillion dollar debt which will require us to pay 2 trillion dollars a year in interest payments at 10% or 4 trillion dollars a year at a 20% interest rate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I pointed out in a previous essay, our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has contracted to less than 14 trillion dollars a year but that includes a government share of almost 5 trillion dollars so our share of the GDP is 9.1 trillion dollars. That means when, not if, we pay 4 trillion dollars in interest to China at al there will only be 5 trillion dollars left over for us which is a reduction of 4/9ths or about 44% in our share of the GDP pie. So our after tax net incomes will have to be cut by more than 50% if we don't abolish the Federal Reserve. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To keep control of the people after the bankers cut our wages fifty percent will be exceedingly difficult even with the rise of the National Security State and the passage of the Patriot Act. That is why we have had so many wars since the creation of the Federal Reserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have talked before about the banking system’s right to launder a trillion dollars in drug money and up to 400 billion dollars a year in illegal weapons sales. They also are allowed to launder 500 billion dollars a year in bribes for politicians around the world. This has lead to corrupt government and the systematic destruction of major areas of American cities. And yet we do not have the right to criticize our betters on Wall Street for the destruction of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also spoken of the divine right of the Lords of Wall Street to steal four billion dollars a week from unaudited government spending. We do not even have the right to ask for permission to audit the books despite the overwhelming documented evidence of theft on a grand scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted he was unable to trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense (DOD) spending. On the morning of 9-11-2001 dozens of military auditors were busily attempting to trace the money that went missing from the previous Bush I and Clinton administrations. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel obligated to point out that the 2.3 trillion dollars we are talking about was from the budgets of previous Presidents as the 2001 budget did not go into effect until October of 2001. Of course the  Bush II administration also racked up an additional trillion plus dollars in DOD spending it could not trace since 9-11-2001. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is the incoming Obama team exempt from criticism. William J Lynn III was a lobbyist for Raytheon and had been part of the group in the Clinton DOD that had helped to loot the taxpayers of a couple trillion dollars. He was confirmed as Obama’s Deputy Secretary of Defense by a vote of 94 to 3. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the morning of 9-11-2001 dozens of military auditors were busily attempting to recover trillions of dollars stolen by from us . Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret, was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense and was in charge of America’s 25,000 special operations troops. Immediately after the second plane of the World Trade Center, Robert Andrews went to the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) on the west side of the Pentagon. Twenty two minutes after his arrival, the CTC was damaged by a bomb that killed dozens of the military auditors attempting to uncover the truth about  the theft of taxpayers money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we are back to business as usual. The Lords of Wall Street are continuing to steal billions of dollars each week. Catherine Austin Fitts says they are sending that money overseas and adding it to their profits from the drug trade and the trillions they have stolen from the Bailouts so they can buy American for pennies on the dollar after they crash the dollar, steal your savings and pensions, foreclose on millions of homes and buy America for pennies on the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have entered a period where tax revenues are declining sharply at federal as well as state and local levels so budgets on the local level need to be balanced by cuts and tax increases. Many politicians including Governor Schwarzenegger have called for a sale of state owned real estate. There has also been a movement to sell our roads and water supplies to foreign buyers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time I will discuss what I have called the coming Great Fire Sale which will transfer all of our public assets like water, utilities, parks and roads. This is in addition to our major corporations and our homes that will be bought in bankruptcy and foreclosure with the trillions of dollars the Lords of Wall Street have stolen from federal spending that we commoners are not allowed to audit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay Tuned for my next installment in this series which could be subtitled The Coming Great Fire Sale.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3456218938788034223?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3456218938788034223/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3456218938788034223' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3456218938788034223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3456218938788034223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/america-gets-poorer-part-iii-previously.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2653911927373881632</id><published>2009-07-10T05:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T05:50:21.924-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Comments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want me to publish your comment do not ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mention any violence or threaten any political figures. I am opposed to a violent solution to our current situation and have sufficient problems with Google. They have not incremented my profile vounter in months. I am in good company. I am on the same list as Layla Anwar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pass along long winded disinformation. I have allowed shorter disinformation pieces through because they were so obviously stupid. One man said that Depleted Uranium is a natural substance which it is not so exposure to it is not harmful. Arsenic is a natural substance but if you expose your neighbors to it, you will be talking to the police in short order. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIKE RIVERO said something quite profound yesterday. He said if foreigners see signs that Americans en masse will no longer pay taxes until Wall Street stops stealing our money they will dump the dollar and the federal government will collapse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2653911927373881632?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2653911927373881632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2653911927373881632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2653911927373881632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2653911927373881632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/comments-if-you-want-me-to-publish-your.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3978988783033250100</id><published>2009-07-04T17:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T18:25:27.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Final Warning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have called this essay Final Warning not because I think World War III is about to begin. What I am saying is that the world will begin to unravel as soon as September and that we might not be able to freely communicate after September or October.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some time ago I started to get intuitions about September. I am now fairly well convinced that the world will start to unravel in September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told my readers several months ago to follow Treasury bond auctions. That was before the Obama administration went wild. Now they are auctioning off more than 100 billion dollars a week in Treasuries. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was 9 years-old, I read about how banks really work. I learned the corrupt nature of our banking system and our politicians at an early age. I knew then that we had a system designed to fail. In 2005 I began to share my intuition that the dollar would collapse in the second half of 2009.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this time I am only willing to say that the world will begin to unravel starting in September and that the dollar should crash before the end of 2009. I am human and could be wrong about the specific date of the run on the dollar. But I don’t see how the dollar can survive through 2010. Max Keiser has said that the only way for foreigners to escape being robbed on a daily basis by the criminal conspiracy known as Wall Street is to &lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3moTXmPbtk&amp;feature=related&gt;dump&lt;/a&gt; the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must repeat my earlier advice that it is past time that you either move away from any large American city or at least have an escape route prepared to a safe haven in either rural America or overseas. As you probably know, I left California the place of my birth and now live in a small Middle America town near some of my closest relatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not want you to become depressed and fearful. Those of us who understand how banks work knew that the dollar would eventually collapse and that it was designed to do so while simultaneously transferring all of our wealth to the Lords of Wall Street. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You who have spent your whole life in frustration because nobody listened to you when you said Wall Street is a criminal conspiracy be of good cheer. Today is your day. Americans will listen if you know what you are talking about. But you need talk to them about the things that motivate them the most which is why I focus on money and the theft of their pensions, savings and paychecks.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world will soon begin to unravel. I have written of the coming Rebellion of the Spirit. As I explained it, the human spirit will rebel at the dark and dreary future the bankers have planned for us. I cannot say when the Rebellion of the Spirit will begin nor if we will be able to communicate over an uncensored Internet or if we will even be allowed to talk freely in private with one another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bankers cannot and will not win this fight. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                 Fourth of July 2009&lt;br /&gt;                                                                                                                 Middle America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and I am not giving you financial advice. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3978988783033250100?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3978988783033250100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3978988783033250100' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3978988783033250100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3978988783033250100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/07/final-warning-i-have-called-this-essay.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1646525576264717442</id><published>2009-06-25T10:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:51:15.357-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;America Gets Poorer (Part II)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twenty years ago few educated people listened when anyone talked about the obvious plan by Wall Street to use the Federal Reserve system to transfer all wealth to them from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now they all listen as they see retirement plans and jobs go up in smoke while homes are being foreclosed and state and local governments slide into bankruptcy. Our unemployment rate is actually higher than it was in 1930.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In many other ways we are much worse off today than in 1930. Our current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has contracted to just under 14 trillion dollars. But 40% of that measure of domestic output of goods and services includes government which produces nothing we consume like food and clothes. If we were charitable and subtracted 35% and not 40% from 14 trillion dollars for government, we would see that Americans are producing 9 trillion dollars in real consumable wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet today we have an 11.4 trillion national dollar debt to service. We are adding 2 trillion dollars a year to that debt and have allowed the Congress and two Presidents to obligate us to pay up to 13 trillion dollars in Bail Outs to their benefactors in Wall Street who own the Republican and Democratic parties. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody disputes the fact that we are on track to a 20 trillion dollar debt. Interest rates have been inching upwards. For the next several weeks  the US Treasury will be selling more than 100 billion dollars a week in  bonds in order to finance the deficit and the Bail Outs. So what happens to us when we have to pay 2 trillion dollars a year in interest with a GDP of only 9 trillion dollars in real output? What happens when the Chinese tell us to double the interest rate and we have to pay 4 trillion dollars from that 9 trillion dollars that used to be ours?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already there are people in China and Japan who are saying they should only sell us bonds in Chinese yuan and Japanese yen so they can protect themselves from a devaluing American currency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my last essay I explained that when we went over 150,000,000 in population we had to begin importing oil and other natural resources. To earn enough foreign currency to buy oil from overseas we were supposed to lower our wages so foreigners making fifty cents to a dollar an hour could afford to buy our exports. We did not do that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead Wall Street decided to give 156,000,000 legal and illegal immigrants plus their children our standard of living by borrowing money from foreigners to buy oil and other imported goods and resources. When, not if, foreigners refuse to accept IOU Nothing Federal Notes and demand that we earn yuan and yen and euros to buy our imports, we will have to cut off all oil imports for the bottom half of American consumers. We will do that by raising the price of gasoline to $4 a gallon and then to 7 and then 10 and then to $20.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have heard that we are on target to add another 50,000,000 and then another 100,000,000  and even another 150,000,000 people. As it stands, we will have to cut after tax and inflation real wages in half to balance our trade deficit. That means foreigners will be able to buy our exports and the working class and the middles class will not be able to either buy foreign cars or even to buy gas to drive to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course if we add another 100,000,000 people, we will have to boldly face a 65% or even a 70% permanent pay cut.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that the bankers on Wall Street knew this would happen when they deliberately supported unlimited legal and illegal immigration. Wassilly Leontieff did an input output analysis of the American economy in the 1930s where the outputs of the mining industry for example, coal and iron, became inputs to the steel industry whose output in turn became inputs to the construction, automotive and appliance industries, such as, washing machine manufacturers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A follow up study at Stanford in 1955 found that Americans enjoyed high wages because they added valuable skilled labor to their abundant natural resources. The study specifically warned us that if we went above 150,000,000 in population we would have to cut wages to pay for imported oil, minerals and other natural resources. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet Wall Street went ahead with their plans to impoverish Americans. Why? I believe their goal is to reduce Americans to slavery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been in place since 1913 another scheme to transfer all wealth from the working and middle classes to Wall Street. As I said, we are on track to a 20 trillion dollar national debt and an annual interest only payment of 4 trillion dollars. And yet, as my long time readers know, all government debts are fictions. I promise to explain just why government debts are fictions in the next installment in this series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Part I of this essay I pointed out that housing prices were forced up through massive immigration and that savings went below zero. Wall Street created a system where 85% of youmg couples could no longer afford to buy homes. The Congress which is owned by the bankers passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 which had a provision which will now be used by the nre administration to bulldoze whole sections of towns with dozens of foreclosed homes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think what this means. They will be bulldozing homes and denying housing to the 80% who will never be able to afford to buy a home. And never forget that they did that after running up the housing bubble and crashing the market so that they could take away all the savings whether it was in our 401K or in our home equity. And they did that while knowing their unlimited immigration policy would permanently cut our wages in half. This kind of clever but insane cruelty boggles the mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have talked many times in the past of Wall Street’s divine right to steal billions of dollars each week from unaudited federal spending under Democratic and Republican administrations alike. They have sent this money overseas where they combined it with their profits from laundering more than a trillion dollars in drugs and up to 400 billion in illegal weapons plus the money for cleaning 500 billion dollars a year in bribes for politicians around the world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;All that money will soon be repatriated after the dollar crashes and they buy what is left of America for pennies on the dollar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now the new administration has decided to turn regulatory control of the economy over to the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Congress gave the FED a license to create our money long ago and now they will soon have the power both to create our money and to run the economy as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will be turniing over control of all our savings, our investments, our banking system, our companies and our government to criminals who have systematically looted this nation for more than one hundred years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this mean we are to formally acknowledge Wall Street as Master and ourselves as slaves? I say no. I was born a free man and will die a free man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I agree with Gerald Celente when he says we will very, very soon have food riots in major American cities. I also predict that if we do nothing to stop the bankers, millions of Americans will decide to kill themselves rather than either to steal from their neighbors or to die slowly of starvation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we to have widespread starvation in America and suicides in the millions because Wall Street will not allow us to tell people through our universities and the mainstream media that government debts are fictions? Will the Lords of Wall Street forever deny us common folk the right to audit federal spending? Were we predestined to become slaves in service to our betters at Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not think so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is more important, our real lives or Wall Street’s dreams of power and glory? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1646525576264717442?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1646525576264717442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1646525576264717442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1646525576264717442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1646525576264717442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/america-gets-poorer-part-ii-twenty.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3150225089363306269</id><published>2009-06-20T18:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-02T14:31:37.859-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;America Gets Poorer (Part I)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can remember working for the minimum wage while I was classified I-A by my local draft board and was waiting to see if I was to be sent to Vietnam. It took eight hours for me to earn enough money to pay my rent for one week in  San Francisco. Today the cheapest room at minimum wage would take a young worker 25 hours to pay for. A worker’s after tax and rent wage has fallen from 32 hours to 15 hours of disposable income in a generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My focus in this essay will be on the American middle class as that is where most of us see ourselves. In part one of this series on what I believe is the deliberate impoverishment of the middle and working classes in America I will summarize a long video presentation by Elizabeth Warren who was astounded at what she discovered to be true and not true about the changes in the American middle class in just one generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video is 54 minutes long and can be seen &lt;a href="http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/642.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In her lecture at Berkeley the Harvard professor of consumer contract law said she found a co-operative employee at the Commerce Department who was willing to run the numbers comparing a family of four from 1971 to a family of four in 2003. Ms Warren said she did not believe the results until the man at Commerce had run different statistics eight times for her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She knew that the median family in 1971 saved 11% of its income and spent only 1.4% of that income to cover credit card debt. Today savings are negative. In 2005 her median family of four had a negative savings of 8/10ths of one per cent and had credit card debt equal to 15% of their income. So if Americans stopped saving and went into deep credit card debt in one generation, she wanted to find out where all that money went. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her first request was to ask how much more Americans were spending on clothes today than 30 years ago. In 1970 a married woman with one sixteen year-old child was more likely to be at home than was a woman with one six month child in 2003. The increased participation of women in the workforce has increased the median family income from $32,000 to $73,000 after adjusting for inflation. Incomes for men have declined but family incomes have risen so she was expecting the middle class to be spending a lot more on clothes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrong. We spend 32% less on clothing. She didn’t believe the results so she asked her man at Commerce to run the figures on food. Surely we were spending more on food including meals out especially with mom working. Wrong again. We are spending 18% less on food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, maybe we were spending more on appliances. Also wrong. We are spending 52% less. We had to be spending a lot more on cars. We were spending 24% less per car. We held onto our cars longer and spent less to repair them. However, she did find that we were spending 52% more on total car expenditures because with mom working fulltime we have to operate more cars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She found we were spending $300 a year more on electronics. We also spent more on dog food but less on dry cleaning and baby food. However these items were negligible and not big enough to affect the totals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So where did all of our money go?  One big ticket item to go up dramatically was the home mortgage. It went up 76% even though interest rates are lower. Home prices have increased a lot. Actually,the price of housing  for unmarried couples only went up 52%. Married couples who have to worry about the quality of schools have to pay a lot more for shelter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She found that the average house today has 6.1 rooms versus 5.8 in 1971. The reason is that new homes have been priced out of the reach of most young couples. The construction industry does not bother to build starter homes anymore like they did in the 1960s. Nothing is being built for the bottom 80% of society. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another big ticket item to go up was daycare. Ms Warren arbitrarily put the increase in spending on daycare at 100% because we spent nearly zero in 1971 and division by zero is undefined. She found that we were spending more for college as well. I checked and the figures are unbelievable. The average fulltime student at a four year public college pays over $6,000 a year in tuition and fees . A two year college will still run over $2,000. All of this required education both at pre-school and at college are seen as needed to prepare the next generation for work. And most of these new and therefor additional expenses are carried by the family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms Warren pointed out that the city of Chicago decided to offer subsidized day care to the public. The tuition for three year-olds was more than for students at the University of Illinois. Parents today pay for 1/3rd of all education costs versus the 1971 family that had most of their costs publicly funded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taxes also went up as the wife’s income was taxed at a progressively higher rate. Taxes are about 24% more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost to the median family of four for employer sponsored health care has risen  74%. And it is inferior care in respect to the amount of time we are expected to spend at home recuperating while a family member takes care of us. In 1971 a woman who gave birth could stay in the hospital for five days for natural birth and up to ten days for Caesarian. She could elect to go home earlier if she chose. Today she is lucky she gets one day in hospital and that is only because many state legislatures decided to protect mothers from being prematurely pushed out of her recovery room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hospital policy is to send them home quicker and sicker. We now have 80 year-old relatives being told by the nurses how to give themselves injections. This is not the same care as a generation ago when nurses gave the shots. We also face the burden of having one parent, usually the mother, to stay home from work to care for a parent, a child or a spouse who might need help for several months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Health care, job loss and family break up are the three leading causes of families filing for bankruptcy. Professor Warren found that a family with two parents and two children in 2005 was more likely to file for bankruptcy than to file for divorce. And that was before the current down turn in the economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look at the big ticket fixed costs the family faces today, you will see that we need to receive 104 checks a year versus the 52 checks a year family of 1971. Back then if a man lost his job and went on unemployment his wife could go to work and even though she did not make much it was sufficient to cover their monthly costs. Unemployment insurance used to pay a much higher per centage of your income. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To cover the mortgage, health care, taxes, credit card debt and cars, the 2003 family needs to spend 75% of their income to cover these basic fixed costs. In 1971 the average family only had to spend 50% of its income to cover its fixed costs. In fact the disposable after basics income for 2003 families was actually less than that of their parents’ generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Professor Warren thinks we are in danger of losing the middle class to poverty. She also says the middle class is so hard pressed to make its financial commitments that it has nothing left over to give to the poor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Professor Warren is a liberal and teaches at Harvard, she cannot say what I will. One reason for cars costing more to operate is the high price of gasoline. We have over 306,000,000 people in this country. We have added 100,000,000 people to our population due to legal and illegal immigration and the greater numbers of children immigrants have. This means we have to import more oil and it is the demand for imported oil that has driven the price of oil much higher. In 1971 a 42 gallon barrel of oil imported from Saudi Arabia cost less than a single gallon of gasoline in Chicago does today. That increased cost was all due to immigration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1972 a new three bedroom home in San Jose California was $40,000 and now should cost $259,000. But does cost twice that. Sales taxes went from 6% to 9 ½ % due to illegal immigration and the higher birth rate. A businessman might gloat about the cheap wages  but we all have to pay taxes to support the families that cannot be supported or educated for near minimum wage workers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note. This is part I of a multi-part series on the plans by those who think they own the federal government to impoverish Americans. I promise to explain how and also why and what these insane men are doing their best to destroy America.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3150225089363306269?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3150225089363306269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3150225089363306269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3150225089363306269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3150225089363306269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/america-gets-poorer-part-i-i-can.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-6484617465162746331</id><published>2009-06-14T20:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T20:34:31.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;NOW IS THE TIME TO CALL 202-224-3121&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bankers are more dangerous than standing  armies.&lt;br /&gt;            Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Albert Gallatin &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time for you and everyone you can persuade to call the United States House of Representatives. The House is holding a hearing on HR 1207 which will require an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank. The FED has never been audited since it was created in 1913. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At a recent hearing, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked by an elected representative what exactly he did with the more than one trillion dollars in new assets he created since last year and used to bail out Wall Street firms. The man was so arrogant that he refused to answer any questions. As if the billions of dollars Wall Street donates every election cycle trumped our votes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the time to take back our democracy from the bankers. I am fully persuaded that if even one tenth of the criminality of the banking system is revealed in the forthcoming hearings, the public will be so enraged that they will force the House and then the Senate to pass the bill requiring the FED to be audited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now is the best possible time for the revelations from the audit to be made public. People are losing homes, jobs , cars, pensions and retirement savings. The dollar is about to crash. And the US debt is 11.4 trillion dollars and growing almost two trillion dollars a year threatening to send us all into permanent debt slavery to Wall Street if we do nothing now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many have become disheartened by a corrupt political system but it is Wall Street and the Federal Reserve that are at the core of that corruption. If we all make one phone call now, we can put an end to the power of all those who have stolen our money and all but destroyed America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1906 there was a reform movement in California that did not get any traction until the earthquake and fire destroyed most of San Francisco. The citizens became so enraged by shoddy government sponsored construction that the reformers took over city hall and then went on to take away the state legislature and the governorship from the railroads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We now have millions of angry people behind us. Please call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and launch the reform movement that is America’s last and best hope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do not know your Congressional representative‘s name, you can go to www.Congress.org and type in your zip code to find out. You can also find their local and congressional office direct lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask them why the Federal Reserve should not be audited at least once in 96 years. Ask them if they think that the bankers are above the law? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to find out before you call whether or not your congressional representative supports HR 1207, you can go here: http://www.dailypaul.com/node/90775&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your representative does support HR 1207, then give them your appreciation and support. They will need it as we are all headed into dangerous and trying times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-6484617465162746331?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/6484617465162746331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=6484617465162746331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6484617465162746331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6484617465162746331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/now-is-time-to-call-202-224-3121.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2561120795822512116</id><published>2009-06-14T17:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T17:49:03.695-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Week That Was 6-14-09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one word that sums up this week’s news is INSANITY. Nothing new there. I was eight years-old when I had that vision of WW III and fully realized the maniacal, hate-filled and self-destructive nature of world leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dollar spirals downwards as interest rates, oil, gasoline and unemployment inch upwards till we reach that day in a few months when it all goes to hell and we have food riots in the streets. All this while insane men fritter away our time and resources. Tick Tock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama  who won the Democratic primaries as an anti-war candidate has been trying to outdo Bush and Cheney. Last month he was sending more troops to Afghanistan. Mr. Obama please explain to us why sending troops to Iraq was a bad idea but sending troops to Afghanistan is a good idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week the President of the United States proposed prolonged detention for people who might be suspected of committing a crime in the future. He specifically mentioned a ten year sentence. No mention of what we do with people after serving ten years for not committing a crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a time when we could have taken a transcript of a speech like this,  removed all identifying references to people and places and nobody would have thought an American President would have uttered such gibberish.  Ten years in prison without trial because someone thinks you might commit a crime in the future!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To balance his dark side our anti-war President has the FBI reading Miranda warnings against self incrimination to prisoners captured in Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has also given the island nation of Palau 200 million dollars to take in a few Chinese Muslims who were captured near Tora Bora in Afghanistan, That works out to a cost of 11.7 million dollars a Muslim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anti-war Presidential advisors do not understand the military. A lot of soldiers will probably just shoot prisoners rather than fill out all that paper work from the Department of Justice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obama DOJ has also been busy covering up torture on an American citizen for Bush and Cheney and the AIPAC spy case for Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken altogether the policies of this administration make no sense especially when you consider that regular gas is selling for $3.00 a gallon in California and interest rates have creeped up to within one point of tipping us over into a very steep Depression from which we might not ever recover. Tick Tock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our friends in Israel have kept pace with America in the competition for insane politicians. The Israeli parliament has passed a law making it illegal to commemorate the Nakba which is a Palestinian day of remembrance for the 700,000 Palestinians forced from their homes at gun point in 1948.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have also made it a condition of citizenship for Israeli-Arabs to swear allegiance to Israel as a Zionist state. Now critics worldwide have reason to compare Israel to South Africa. Imagine an African being forced to swear allegiance to a white separatist government before being granted citizenship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel has continued to expand its illegal settlements on Palestinian territory. By the way, that famous quote from the Iranian President saying Israel should go off the map was part of a longer statement  in which he compared Israel to the Soviet Union. The latter nation is no longer on the map and deservedly so.  It has been replaced by Russia and several other independent nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is past time for the whole world to seriously consider allowing Israel to be replaced by a Greater Palestine which would have to consist of two separate Palestinian states for a generation or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Jewish people want to feel safe,they will have to learn to make their neighbors feels safe. They can begin by removing the blockade of Gaza, withdrawing all illegal settlements from the West Bank, tearing down all sections of the Apartheid wall on Palestinian land  and  stopping all insane talk of launching World War III by attacking Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have said before, Mordecai Vanunu  told us that Israel killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy so they could develop nuclear weapons. The Israelis jointly tested their first nuclear bomb with their  allies in Red China in 1964.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as I have said before, the real reason why Israel killed our first Catholic President is the same reason why they want to launch a war against Islam. They want to be eternally hated by a billion Catholics and 1.3 billion Muslims.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The goal of the current self-appointed Jewish leadership is the same as that of their forbears in 1935 when they financed Hitler’s purchase of weapons with a loan from a Rothschild owned bank that was the monetary equivalent of 50,000,000 ounces of gold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simply put the Israelis are trying to get us all killed just so they can get themselves killed. Israel is the definition of Insanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quote 1 of the week: If torture, er, waterboarding were against the law, Bush and Cheney would be arrested and sent to jail. Bill O’Reilly &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quote 2 of the week: In the long run we are all dead but our children are left to pick up the tab. Thomas Hoenig President of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can watch President Obama explain this insanity  of preventive detention for future crimes you might commit here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVChNmN9y7E&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the Obama administration using indefinite detention without trial in Iraq and Afghanistan please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/former-white-house-lawyer-tells.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about allowing  torture victims to plead guilty and avoid trial please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/06/real-meaning-of-allowing-guilty-pleas.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the torture of an American citizen in Dubai at the request of the FBI please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-detained-tortured-in-uae-at-us.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And go here to read about the judicial: cover up which includes the Obama DOJ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/08/judge-denies-aclu-torture/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is another Obama DOJ cover up of the AIPAC spy case:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/06/doj-moves-to-reverse-aipac-espionage.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another outrageous Obama DOJ assault on free speech. This time against the Las Vegas Review Journal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/47141327.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli cabinet minister who flaked out and demanded a boycott of American products can be read here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371046569&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; You can read about the Jews only suffer controversy here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  http://www.nypost.com/seven/06082009/news/regionalnews/hikind__jews_only_173112.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read a Jewish American’s take on the insane laws the Israeli parliament is passing here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/05/this-is-beginning-to-look-like-panic-israeli-knesset-considering-bill-making-it-illegal-to-criticize.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or you can read this poll that says Israelis think they have one of the most corrupt governments in the world:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97306&amp;sectionid=351020202&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2561120795822512116?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2561120795822512116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2561120795822512116' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2561120795822512116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2561120795822512116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/week-that-was-6-14-09-one-word-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-6626979776558199262</id><published>2009-06-11T19:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T14:40:05.910-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Richard Gage Interview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth was interviewed Tuesday night Wednesday morning by George Noory on the nationwide radio program Coast To Coast Am. The following is a few of the points he made about the collapse of World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 on 911. His website now has 684 registered architects and engineers who have signed his petition for a new inquiry into the events of 911. He was employed for 20 years as an architect but is now working for full time for 911 Truth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tons of molten iron were found at the World Trade Center site. FEMA acknowledged this as a fact but later omitted it from its final report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sulfur and thermite, cutting agents, were found in the molten iron. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nano-thermite was found in the dust debris of the WTC. (Nano-thermite is not commercially available. It is only available from Defense Department labs.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said he has more than 20 other smoking gun items of evidence like Nano-thermite at his website. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are multiple eyewitnesses who saw and heard explosions prior to the collapse of WTC 7. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have more than 100 first responder witnesses to explosions in WTC 1 and 2 prior to their collapse. We did not have transcripts of their testimony until the New York Times successfully sued the City of New York in August of 2002. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Popular Mechanics hit piece on 911 Truth was debunked by the official NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NIST said 80% of the jet fuel was consumed in explosions outside the towers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Office fires have enough fuel to last 20 minutes and must move on or burn out which explains why skyscraper fires can last for 16 to 30 hours. But these fires were not like WTC 1, 2 and 7. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He did not get into the 911 Truth Movement until three years ago after investigating David Ray Griffin’s book The New Pearl Harbor. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he asks most architects if they have seen the collapse of WTC 7 he says they say they had not seen it. When he shows them a video of WTC 7 collapsing at nearly free fall speed against the path of most resistance, he says the majority are convinced that it was a controlled demolition. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WTC 5 burned but did not collapse free fall style against the path of greatest resistance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WTC 7 had 40,000 tons of steel in its path to be overcome when the tower did collapse. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No steel frame building prior to or since 911 has ever collapsed at nearly free fall speed against the path of greatest resistance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A high school physics teacher made NIST retract their original claim that Towers 1 and 2 collapsed at only 40% of free fall speed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steel beams were ejected up to 600 feet away from the WTC. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NIST concluded that the WTC towers were well designed and constructed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His website can be found here: http://www3.ae911truth.org/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see Richard Gage being interviewed by local FOX reporters in Fresno in a YouTube post on the main page of his above website. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-6626979776558199262?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/6626979776558199262/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=6626979776558199262' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6626979776558199262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6626979776558199262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/richard-gage-interview-richard-gage-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-443487130715024232</id><published>2009-06-07T13:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-07T13:40:41.434-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;The Week That Was 6-07-09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to highlight the significant news of the week. This week boils down to Money and to the Mideast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama made a speech in Cairo Egypt . He is an incumbent President and can no longer run against Bush. Obama decided to expand the war in Afghanistan.  Obama spilled his war over into Pakistan creating 2.4 million Muslim refugees without adequate provisions for their care. He also appointed Stanley McChrystal  to lead NATO forces in Afghanistan. McChrystal was the  head of  the Joint Special Operations Command  which is to say he was  in charge of Dick Cheney’s assassination bureau. K T McFarland, a FOX news contributor and former Republican DOD official has just returned from Afghanistan. She sees no goals, no exit strategy and lots of downside to this expanded war. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my opinion Afghanistan and Pakistan could spin out of control long before Israel attacks Iran. I remind you that I predicted no war against Iran in 2009. Let me emphasize that Afpak is now Obama’s war to lose.  And he cannot win it. So why is he there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran announced they will begin production this week of 40 km range ant-aircraft missiles. As I reported previously, the Chinese had been talking to Iran about selling them Hong Qi 9 anti-aircraft missiles which have a range of 75 km. The Iranians have a history of building Russian and Chinese military equipment under license. Most notably those 100 and 150 km range rocket artillery pieces that could together with the SS-N22 Sunburn and SS-N26X Yakhonts (Onyx) anti-ship missiles  sink our entire Persian Gulf fleet in minutes. The Iranians are only saying that these new 40 km range anti-aircraft missiles are fast (supersonic) and accurate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said before, an Israeli assault on Iran’s nuclear works would be suicide for the Jewish pilots. They have to come within a 9 km range of their targets at specific angles to release their American GBU-28s which means that the Iranians can flood the sky with anti-aircraft missiles prior to the Israeli jets reaching the 9 km envelope at which point they can fill the sky with rapid anti-aircraft fire and then release even more missiles as the American supplied jets attempt  to return home. Did I mention that these 90 plus jets would have to refuel both before and after hitting their targets? Israel would be lucky if half of their pilots and planes returned home. For what? Iran is years away from developing a nuclear bomb. North Korea will be selling nukes before that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In passing I should note that the Saudi Foreign Minister has threatened to use oil as a weapon to force Israel out of Gaza. I don’t think we will hear more of this until Israel attacks Lebanon again. Maybe in a few months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple weeks ago I mentioned the Laugh Heard Round The World in reference to that fast approaching day when the President of the United States  goes to China and asks for a couple trillion dollars to fund our deficit and to please throw in a few hundred billion to bid oil away from Chinese workers so unemployed  Americans will vote for Obama’s party in the 2010 elections. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week the Chinese laughed when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tried to explain to them that their nearly two trillion investment is American bonds was safe. I am now seeing articles around the world saying what I have been  saying about the  funding of the deficit. World trade has collapsed so no group of countries in Asia or Europe has enough of a trade surplus to fund our enormous deficits. That means we will have to monetize the debt which is to say that the Federal Reserve will have to create another trillion dollars every few months to fund the deficit and to buy worthless government backed mortgages from Fannie Mae as they did earlier this year, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep in mind that the trillions of dollars the FED is creating is expanding M0, the monetary base which can through fractional reserve banking grow into ten to twenty additional M3 dollars. We are headed to a REALLY BIG INFLATION in the very near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fed did manage a few months ago to bring down interest rates on Treasury bonds and home mortgages when they created a trillion dollars and bought Fannie Mae mortgages and Treasury bonds. If you remember I told you that we need to keep an eye on Treasury bond auctions so we could tell when the dollar was in imminent danger of collapse. Interest rates have creeped back up 7/10ths of a point on Treasuries and half a point on mortgages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If, as expected, those two rates go up another  point, the economy will nose dive big time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State and local governments are facing savage cuts in their budgets which combined with tax increases will produce a counter effect to Obama’s  federal stimulus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would love to force someone from the administration to sit down with an intelligent person and explain how it is possible that they can even think that there is one chance in a thousand that their economic policies will work. And then have them come back and repeat the show the next night with our Mideast military policy as the subject.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quote of the week: Have you hear of the new car to be released by GM (Government Motors)? It’s called the Obama. It goes from zero to Bush in 8.4 seconds. Quoted from Mike Rivero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very funny video.  If Steve Jobs were George Bush or Barack Obama:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/638.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To watch K T McFarland’s video DEFCON 3 made after her return from Afghanistan please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ktmcfarland.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about those new Iranian anti-aircraft missiles please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090718.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about what the Saudi Foreign Minister had to say about using oil as a weapon to get the Israelis out of Gaza please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090732.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read why debt monetization is the only path the Federal Reserve can follow please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article11051.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-443487130715024232?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/443487130715024232/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=443487130715024232' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/443487130715024232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/443487130715024232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/06/week-that-was-6-07-09-i-have-decided-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-4068657911886811069</id><published>2009-05-27T22:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-04T20:37:35.368-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;On The Road- UPDATE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I completed my move and had my Internet installed today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am working on a new essay and am thinking of reviewing my previous essays. Gas prices are climbing as I predicted when oil was half the price it is today. I said that regular gas in California would hit $4.00 a gallon in 2009 though I did say that some of my predictions for 2009 might not come true until early 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I also predicted no Israel attack on Iran in 2009 which seems a safe bet now. The one big prediction I made that is still out there is that a huge inflation will begin before the end of this year. I originally predicted several years ago that the dollar would crash in the latter half of 2009. I have said my timing might be off so don't bet the farm on what I say. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please Note: I am not an investment advisor and am not giving you investment advice.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is not my predictions. The point is that I base my predictions on the reality of a self-perpetuating aristocracy that controls Wall Street, the Federal Reserve bank, the media and our government including both political parties. As I have explained to my readers many times in the past, they have devised a banking system to transfer all wealth from us to them and are pathologically insane men whose real goal is to destroy themselves and the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also predicted a Rebellion of the Spirit as we human beings cannot tolerate the world the Bilderbergers have planned for us. Stay Tuned for further developments.&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have taken my own advice. I am leaving California, the place of my birth. As I have been telling my readera, all American cities will soon be unlivable. I will be going low profile though I will be continuing my blogs. But it might be awhile before I am back online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don't expect comments to be published while I am offline and please do not email me until I am back online.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-4068657911886811069?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/4068657911886811069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=4068657911886811069' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4068657911886811069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4068657911886811069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-road-i-have-taken-my-own-advice.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8693879871097573198</id><published>2009-05-27T07:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T15:25:44.074-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='911 Nano-Thermite'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Treason&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I accuse both political parties, the controlled media and the 911 Commission of treason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing new there. I have said many times that the politicians of both parties  allowed Wall Street to steal billions of dollars each week from unaudited federal spending. The politicians have also deliberately allowed  the Federal Reserve to create a long run credit cycle which will destroy the dollar, steal our pensions, savings and paychecks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; And now they are taking trillions of dollars from us and giving them to the Robber Barons as if bailing out billionaires was in the national interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is new is the publication of the article Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe which appeared in The Open Chemical Physics Journal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can prove treason for yourself by reading the article in the references below and by watching an interview with one of the authors. This article announced that nano-thermite was found in the debris from the World Trade Center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nano-thermite is not commercially available. It is a much more energetic version of thermite which was discovered in 1893. Thermite is an incendiary or cutting agent and not an explosive like C4 and RDX. Thermite is a combination of metal powders and metal oxides and is used to create high temperatures in a focused area over a short period of time. It is widely used to cut metal. Thermate is a related substance and can cut through a steel girder in seconds with a 4,800 degree Fahrenheit flame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nano-thermite was found in the dust of the World Trade Center. Nano-thermite is a superior cutting agent because it  produces a more intense heat. It has a finer molecular structure. Scholars investigating 9-11 believe at a minimum ten tons of nano-thermite were used. It is not commercially available. It would be easily available in that amount only for the CIA, the Mossad and other government agencies. No man residing in a cave in Afghanistan could even place an order. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 9-11 witnesses saw molten iron before they saw and heard explosions. The nano-thermite weakened the steel structures and the explosives brought down World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the past few years I have challenged people to go to www.WTC7.net and to watch the collapse of Tower 7 which was never hit by a plane. Tower 7 collapsed in 6.5 seconds. Nobody has explained how that happened without the use of explosives and thermitic cutting agents. Nobody ever will. Not even the 20 million dollar NIST report can offer a credible scientific explanation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treason is the only explanation for 9-11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treason explains why the media has allowed the governments of the United States and Israel to get away with killing over 3,000 Americans at the WTC and the Pentagon on 9-11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why commit treason on such a grand scale unless you knew you could get away with it? The traitors knew in advance that thousands of people worldwide would never believe government lies. In a democracy those of us with opposing views would continue campaigning and telling the truth until the truth was widely accepted and the traitors were brought to justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefor the Americans and Israelis who planned 9-11 must not have feared the long term ability of the citizens of the United States to take political action. This means they are convinced that either America ceases to exist and/or our nation ceases to be a sovereign democracy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can see the wars they have started in Iraq and Afghanistan. We can see they are currently destabilizing Pakistan and threatening Iran which is years away from developing nuclear weapons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the economic front we can see that they have used the Federal Reserve to create long term credit bubbles in the dot com and sub-prime mortgage pump and dumps. Now we see both political parties clamoring to give away trillions of dollars to the robber barons who had just swindled us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many signs of complete economic collapse in the very near future. Nassim Taleb, the author of the Black Swan, said we headed into a period in American history more dangerous than the Great Depression and the Civil War. He also said he has not been sleeping much lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American government has been intervening in the stock market with ten to twenty billion dollars a day in purchases in the last seven minutes of trading. They are using taxpayer money and Federal Reserve money to prop up the stock market so the uber rich can sell their personal holdings before the markets collapse worldwide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has prepared their citizens for the future by buying up a two to three year supply of commodities, such as, oil, gasoline, diesel, copper, gold and now soybeans. They have prepared themselves against both an imminent collapse of the dollar and a cut off of supplies in case of either war or a even a laboratory manufactured virus that kills 150 to 400 million people and shuts down all protests, rebellions, civil agitation and the world economy as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli and American governments could combine to foment a racial civil war within the borders of the United States. For the past several months Americans have been buying 50,000,000 bullets a day. The only effective way to disarm Americans and to protect the billionaires of Wall Street is to get Americans to shoot a few billion bullets at each other which is why I believe the latest Swine flu epidemic started in Mexico. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One option is to suddenly collapse Mexico sending 15 to 20 millions Mexicans across the border at a time when food riots are sweeping across America. In a previous essay Outbreak I said I think the swine flu was made in a lab and released in Mexico so Wall Street would have the ability to release a much more lethal virus later this year or early next year. They could take out the United States and Mexico with a virus if Americans started chasing bankers with pitchforks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America did nothing when it was obvious that President Kennedy was assassinated with the assistance of the federal government. America did nothing when it was obvious that the Oklahoma City federal building was not taken down on 4-19-1995 by a truck bomb parked forty feet away. It has been obvious that World Trade Center Tower 7 which was never hit by a plane but was taken down by a controlled demolition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now things are different. They have stolen our money so they cannot threaten to send us to bed without dinner. We won't have anything left to be taken away after Wall Street has stolen everything and trashed America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And they know Americans are buying 50.000.000 bullets a day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Nassim Taleb said, we are heading towards a day more dangerous than either the Great Depression or the Civil War. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever does happen, rest assured that our future will not be one the Bilderbergers have designed for us. The human spirit will rebel and will not live under their One World government that intends to replace One Man One Vote with One Bank One Vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This assumes that we do not bite at the race war gambit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can tilt the future in our favor by telling everyone  that nano-thermite, especially ten tons of it, is only available from the US and Israeli military.  They will listen now that they can see their money being stolen from them every day of the week &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read the scientific paper on nano-thermite being found at the World Trade Center please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above is an Adobe PDF file. If you prefer HTML try this excellent author:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosive_residues.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or you can watch the video of one of the authors being interviewed here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_tf25lx_3o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a follow up interview with the scientist who made the above video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.gulli.com/news/world-trade-center-destruction-2009-05-24/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikipedia has an article on nano-thermite here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-thermite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8693879871097573198?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8693879871097573198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8693879871097573198' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8693879871097573198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8693879871097573198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/treason-i-accuse-both-political-parties.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2080639635294459569</id><published>2009-05-23T18:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T18:27:35.062-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Perpetual Mideast War'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Afghanistan Bananastan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am about to add the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan to my short list of signs portending collapse. My regular readers know that I believe US Treasury auctions and rising interest rates will tell us when the dollar will collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am concerned that the US  war against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan will undo both the Obama administration and America. On June 4th Obama will go to Egypt with his teleprompters and advisors to make a major speech on the Mideast. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is no longer a candidate. He is a President.  Kawther Salaam recently wrote of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Hebron. Most of the Palestinians do not have adequate water. They cannot repair their windows or doors without permission of the Israeli military so nothing works. Recently a Palestinian replaced his door so the Israeli army came and smashed everything in his house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis built another illegal settlement on occupied land just prior to Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to President Obama in Washington just to set the tone for the meeting. He told America he rejected a Palestinian state. But he did agree not to attack Iran in 2009. So what can Obama say to the Muslims? He cannot talk about Palestine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will he dare to talk about Afghanistan and Pakistan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has increased American troop levels in Afghanistan and also dared to increase military strikes in Pakistan. Obama has placed General Stanley McChrystal the former head of the Pentagon's super secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)in charge of US forces in Afghanistan. Seymour Hersh has charged that JSOC was Dick Cheney's executive assassination group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Obama has bribed the Pakistani military into attacking civilians within their own borders. They now have two million refugees. Hillary offered Pakistan 110 million dollars to care for the people displaced by US policies. The Pakistani government asked for another half a billion dollars. It is almost certain that the majority of the American aid has gone to pay the military to shoot their own citizens rather than feed and house the people fleeing American bombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan under normal circumstances is not likely to side with the Taliban as only a small percentage of the population is ethnically Afghani and Punjabis are a majority. But dropping bombs on a Muslim nation, killing innocent civilians and forcing 2,000,000 people to flee for their lives will destabilize  any American client state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zbigniew Brzezinski got us involved in Afghanistan while he was National Security advisor to President Jimmy Carter. He convinced the President to and the Taliban in order to force the Soviet Union to invade. Millions of people have died because the US wanted to destroy the Soviet economy through a costly and unwinnable military occupation of a Muslim nation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is that the US should have learned the lesson that invading and occupied a Muslim nation is a very bad idea. Afghanistan has defeated the British three times. They have defeated the Russians and the Macedonians and every other army except the Persians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why are we destabilizing our ally Pakistan and occupying Afghanistan which shot down 1,000 Soviet planes and helicopters? For that matter why are we still occupying Iraq now that the government freely admits Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, had nothing to do with 911 and was not an ally of Al-Qaeda? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some  critics on the Left have talked of valuable pipelines in the region. I disagree. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is past time we admit that our leaders are insane and self-destructive. The American Empire is over. The dollar is terminal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America cannot fight any more wars. We cannot invade Iran. We cannot encircle Russia. We cannot hold onto Iraq and Afghanistan for even one more year because the dollar is dying. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of passing a 91 billion dollar supplemental appropriation for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Senate ought to be investing in new industrial jobs inside American borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of fighting oil wars in the Mideast we ought to be buying 100,000 plus buses for that fast approaching day when the dollar collapses and the bottom half of American society will not be able to afford to buy gas to drive their cars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we need to do is to develop a plan to survive the collapse of the dollar. We need to prepare a system of food distribution to protect our cities and our citizens from the much anticipated food riots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of President Obama creating a new Preventive Detention program we ought to be busily engaged in restoring the Bill of Rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been using movie and book titles for my essay titles. I chose a line “Afghanistan Bananastan” from an old Robert Redford movie not to make fun of Muslims but to warn Americans that perpetual war against Israel's neighbors will soon turn America into a banana boat republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read Eric Margolis on Pakistan Here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://uruknet.com/?p=m54366&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or read Declan Walsh here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://uruknet.com/?p=m54405&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or read about the money Hillary is promising  Pakistan for the refugees WE CREATED  here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22705.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read the Pakistani Prime Minister's response to Hillary's offer here. He says they need 600 million to take care of two million refugees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a3bfe24a-4527-11de-b6c8-00144feabdc0.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read about General Stanley McChrystal and JSOC here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2009/05/21/six-ways/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have never read Kawther Salaam, you can learn more about the brutal Israeli occupation&lt;br /&gt;of Palestine here:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/05/19/salves-under-the-inhuman-israeli-occupation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2080639635294459569?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2080639635294459569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2080639635294459569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2080639635294459569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2080639635294459569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/afghanistan-bananastan-i-am-about-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-7237344177813059351</id><published>2009-05-21T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-21T11:04:34.864-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Laugh Heard Round The World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the not too distant future the American President will be forced to go to China and beg President Hu Jintao to please loan him two trillion dollars to cover his budget deficit. And without stopping to take a breath he will ask him to throw in a few hundred billion extra so he can bid oil away from Chinese workers and give it to the unemployed in America to guarantee his re-election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President of China's response will be “the laugh heard round the world.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American Empire and our extravagant lifestyle is one laugh away from grinding to a screeching halt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This originally appeared as part of my previous essay Bilderberg 2009 but I believe this idea is so significant it needs its own showcase. People all over the world know that they can stop the American Empire on any given day just by saying no to our Federal Reserve Notes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People all over the world know that they send us oil, copper, steel, computers, cars, clothes and everything at WalMart while Ben Bernanke sends them IOU Nothing Bucks. America has been propping up its Empire by taking the fruits of the labors of foreigners with worthless paper. To take the labors of others without payment is one definition of slavery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you understand why Matthias Chang calls our Federal Reserve Notes “American toilet paper.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will not last. I believe it all unwinds before the end of 2009 though the Federal Reserve can create a few trillion dollars to keep the illusion going for awhile longer. It is a matter of when not if.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-7237344177813059351?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/7237344177813059351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=7237344177813059351' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7237344177813059351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7237344177813059351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/laugh-heard-round-world-in-not-too.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-6261798638250270571</id><published>2009-05-20T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T09:21:00.266-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bilderberg'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Bilderberg 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; America suffers from excessive democracy.&lt;br /&gt;               &lt;br /&gt;Quoted from an unnamed member of the Trilateral Commission&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You must learn to show proper respect to your betters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quoted from my English boss at a Silicon Valley dot com in the 1990s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bilderberg Society met in Greece last weekend. I cannot show respect to any people who seek to profit from a worldwide economic collapse which they engineered and are presently meeting behind closed doors to stay in power even if that means another war and the abolition of democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do not care for us, we should not care for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Demand Destruction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Estulin has been writing about the Bilderberg Society for more than a decade. He first heard of the term Demand Destruction in the 1990s but did not understand it in Bilderberger terms until a friend at the World Bank explained that it is a reference to a societal collapse brought on by either a war or a Depression so severe there is little economic activity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estulin has warmed us that we are moving towards a general societal collapse which is even beyond a Depression like 1929-1939.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have spoken before of a long term credit cycle which ends in a financial disaster like the Great Depression. The bankers knew when they created the Federal Reserve Bank that giving a privately owned bank the right to print our currency would do two things. It would transfer all wealth to them And it would also create debts that could never be paid but only canceled through either default or hyperinflation. We will soon see the dollar crash to near zero value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Estulin says that the current stock market rally is designed to fleece the public one last time. It is just another Wall Street pump and dump as were the Dot Com and Mortgage swindles before them. Wall Street would not have run these frauds if they were not convinced ten years ago when they began these swindles that the dollar was doomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estulin has said that the Bilderbergers are debating whether or not to let the current economic malaise drag on for several years or to just crash it all at once later this year after they have liquidated their personal holdings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also said they expect the unemployment rate to double, The definition of unemployment was changed in 1994 to produce lower numbers. If we used the old definition our unemployment rate would be closer to 16% than 8%. Doubling the number out of work would crash the economy sooner rather than later. There will be no prolonged economic collapse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other hot topic is whether or not they can keep in control. They genuinely fear losing power. I gather for some reason they do not believe we love and respect them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look at the list of participants in my references section, you will notice several generals including David Petraeus, James Jones and  NATO commander Jaap de Hoop Sheffer and lots of national security types. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Kerry was not listed but it is said he was a secret attender and has been tasked with pushing a carbon tax through the Senate. A carbon tax will drastically raise the price of fuel and electricity making Americans poorer and less able to compete against foreign countries. It will do nothing for the environment as production will be shifted offshore so a few million more jobs will be lost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And veteran Bilderberg reporter says Bilderberg wants to use the swine flu crisis to set up a world health department just as they want to use the financial crisis to create a world Central Bank and Treasury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview Jesse Ventura, the former governor of Minnesota, said after he was elected that he met with 23 CIA officials who wanted to know how he was elected as an independent. Ventura said it was because they wanted to make sure it never happened again. And that was for a state office prior to our current economic meltdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what are their options when the economy does meltdown? They could use germ warfare to reduce population. They could start another war so they can set up the National Security State which has been their goal since the 1940s. They have been funding academic studies for decades saying they need to reduce the world's population by two thirds. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They could opt for a more moderate virus that would only kill 2% of the world's population like the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-1919. This would give them dictatorial quarantine powers. As I noted in my previous essay, an attack on Iran would destroy the United States and force Americans into a nuclear war. This is unthinkable to sabe men and women. It is not likely to happen this year but Bilderbergers are neither sane nor concerned about us so the Bilderbergrs will launch World War III by having Israel attack Iran on 2010 or 2011 if they feel power is slipping from their hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next step is up to them. They will have to do something soon because the Bilderbergers do not control Russia, China, OPEC and dozens of other countries in Asia, Latin America and the Mideast. The market is bigger than Ben Bernanke,  Tim Geithner and their printing presses. I can almost guarantee the dollar will crash later this year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should be emphasized that there was no talk of attacking Iran. Bankers are not driven by the hysteria they feed to the press when they want a war. This conforms to my New Years prediction that WW III does not begin this year. This was confirmed when Obama and Netanyahu agreed to give Iran until the end of this year to comply with their demands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our job now is to inform those who will listen and stay tuned for further developments. The hour when we can take back our government will soon be at hand. Meanwhile I have in the past offered this advice which you might consider:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Move out of any big American city you would not feel safe in when the expected food riots sweep the America. Nassim Taleb, the author of Black Swan, says America is heading towards the most dangerous period in our history. More dangerous than the Great Depression and the Civil War. You should plan your personal life accordingly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your work will not allow you to leave town, you need an escape plan for you and your family. You must prepare a safe destination and be prepared to stay there for awhile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have said that our after tax and inflation wages will be cut in half. I am expecting a really big wave of inflation to begin later this year so canned food will be a great investment if I am right. If there are food riots, then canned food would be a good idea even if the deflationists are right. Plant a garden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep your head down. If you are at a meeting, the guy who suggests violence is the FBI plant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your most valuable investment in the coming bad times apart from  your family and friends will be a network of people who will come to your aid as you will do for them. Get involved in local small town or county government. When the federal and state governments collapse, Only the 3,000 American county governments will survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be of good cheer. Let me repeat What I have said before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The human spirit cannot and will not accept the future the Bilderberg Society has planned for us. That is why I believe there will be a Rebellion of the Spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was born free and I will die free. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can listen to Daniel Estulin being interviewed about the 2009 conference here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjjaGPMrK90&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tony Gosling gives a history of Bilderberg  in an MP3  interviewed here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2009-05-14%20Daniel%20Estulin.mp3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or select another connection here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.corbettreport.com/index.php?i=Interviews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a list of those in attendance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-2009-attendee-list/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can watch Nassim Taleb say that we are heading for the most dangerous period in American history. here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zZ6qNWeGw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read about John Kerry and the carbon tax here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/john-kerry-at-bilderberg-2009/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-6261798638250270571?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/6261798638250270571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=6261798638250270571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6261798638250270571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/6261798638250270571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/bilderberg-2009-america-suffers-from.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-823951864890984205</id><published>2009-05-16T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-17T18:43:34.244-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Chinatown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China has offered to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 1974 movie Chinatown not one of the credited actors was Chinese. This sale of anti-aircraft missiles could mean the overly publicized desire of the Zionists to attack Iran is at hand. Though I do not believe it will happen this year. If Israel does attack Iran, it will definitely result in a world where all the speaking parts at Sino-American summits are Chinese and the Americans are reduced to nodding yes to all dictates from their masters in Beijing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously, I wrote essays (Russia Bows To Israel, etc.) about the on again off again sale of the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile to Iran which each time was canceled after an Israeli politician made a trip to Moscow. I speculated on just how many American defense secrets they had to give the Russians to cancel the sale. I noted the power of 8 Russian Jewish multi-billionaires and the Jewish Russian mafia that also made the sale to Iran difficult for Moscow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now China has offered to sell the Iranians its Hongqi-9 (HQ-9) long-range high-altitude surface to air missile system. The HQ-9 was patterned after the Russian S-300 P and the American Patriot missiles. The former was purchased from Russia in 1993. At about the same time China was alleged to have bought a copy of the US Patriot system from Israel though the latter nation denies this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should be noted in passing that Israel's nuclear program was opposed by President Kennedy. According to Mordecai Vanunu, the Israelis killed JFK so they could complete their nuclear project. They tested their first nuclear bomb in China in 1964 so there is a history of Israeli Chinese collaboration at the expense of America,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The HQ-9 missile has a range of 125 kilometers and can shoot down aircraft and missiles. It is mobile and is fired from a battery launcher system. It interacts with ground radar to correct its course to an incoming target. The radar can track up to 100 targets and can guide 6 missiles to 6 targets. It has a maximum speed of Mach 4.2 and delivers a warhead of 180 kilograms. It can take out a plane or missile by exploding in close proximity to its target.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; It is probably inferior to the latest Russian version of the S-300 and is definitely no substitute for the S-400 which can shoot down stealth aircraft.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The HQ-9 would be protected by the short range TOR-M1 (SA-15) which can shoot down cruise missiles and jets. The Iranians also have 1,700 anti-aircraft guns in the vicinity of their main nuclear works. They additionally have SA-2, SA-5, SA-7, Stinger and other anti-aircraft missiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Iranians also have 158 jets they can launch but these are older aircraft and could better serve Iran by using most of them to attack soft American targets in Iraq and Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israelis would have to launch 90 or so aircraft plus 9 refueling jets. The Israelis would also have to refuel their strike force both before and after attacking Iran. Of the three routes to Iran the only practical one would require them to violate Iraqi air space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To penetrate the reinforced concrete protecting Iran's underground nuclear facilities those Israeli aircraft would have to strike their targets with pinpoint accuracy at an optimal angle using their approximately 100  American supplied GBU-28s (Guided Bomb Units.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A GBU-28 weighs 4,700 pounds (2,268 kg) and has a 630 pound (286 kg) warhead. It can penetrate 6 meters of solid concrete or 30 meters of earth. It is guided by a laser but must be within its range of 5 nautical miles or 9 kilometers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the Iranians know the targets, the range and the optimal angles, they will know where to concentrate their artillery fire. This assumes the Iranians have protected all approaches to their nuclear works so the Israelis cannot circle around and attack from an unprotected rear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Israeli attack on Iran will not be a cakewalk The Israelis were given 100 GBU-28s but only they and the Iranians know how many they have left after their 2006 invasion of Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The USAF's plan to attack Iran has an initial target list of 1,200 which some say would quickly expand to 3,000 sites in the second round. By comparison the Israeli attack against Iran would probably not achieve its stated goal of stopping Iran from developing an ability to make nuclear weapons. It could not remove all nuclear weapons from Muslim hands as Pakistan already has 30 Hydrogen bombs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What it would do is to launch World War III. That is why the Pentagon has refused Israeli requests for more GBU-28s and for newer and better refueling jets. The US military wants to reduce Israel's ability to start a war that America would have to finish. Most observers do not think that America could survive another global war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran has said that it would respond to any Israeli attack by attacking Israel and the United States. They could sink every American ship in the Persian Gulf. They have the Russian made SS-N-22 Sunburn and SS N-26X Yakhonts (Onyx) which are anti-ship missiles designed to sink American aircraft carriers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sunburn has a range of 90 miles and travels at Mach 2.5. The Yakhonts has a range of 180 miles and travels at Mach 4. The Iranians also have rocket artillery with ranges of 150 and 100 kilometers. They have said they will launch 11,000 missiles and artillery shells in the first 60 seconds of an attack by either Israel or the United States. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US military has troops stationed in 22 Muslim majority nations in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan. There are 1.3 billion Muslims on this planet. The Iranians could purchase 5,000 shoulder fired anti-aircraft weapons at $1,000 a piece and distribute them to anyone willing to shoot down an American helicopter or military transport. The Iranians have 40,000 trained suicide volunteers who could be armed and sent to attack American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Disgruntled troops in Muslim nations could fire artillery shells at an American air base and render the runway and the planes parked on it unusable in minutes.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cut off of oil exports from the Persian Gulf could send the price of oil above $300 a barrel. China and Japan could buy oil by selling a few hundred billion dollars of American Treasury bonds. The American President could go to China and ask them to loan the USA two trillion dollars to fund our budget deficit and to throw in a few hundred billion so we could bid oil away from the Chinese people. I think we could call China's answer “The laugh heard round the world.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the world economy melts down, our unemployment rate hits 25% and our military is soundly defeated, our only response would be to nuke all the Muslims and seize their oil. Of course the oil companies would not lower their prices to the American consumers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what of Israel? Hezbollah would fire their 40,000 rockets and the Israelis could invade Lebanon and Syria while they wait for the Americans to finish their war against their Persian neighbors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fly in the ointment for Israel is that Pakistan has 30 Hydrogen bombs. Only three of those bombs would be sufficient to wipe out their nation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why attack Iran if no one outside Wall Street benefits? World War III would take the Coming Depression off the minds of the voters but other than that it benefits no one. The Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has arrogantly said that he would inform the Americans prior to him attacking Iran and therefore launching WW III. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately for us and the rest of the world, an Israeli newspaper has said that is time for us to learn new ways of thinking. In my Predictions for 2009 essay I said World War III would not start this year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dollar will soon crash and give Americans an opportunity to change their world. Let us all hope Americans can act responsibly when they are impoverished and they see the only choices are to accept another Wall Street war which will end with us being sold into debt slavery or to join a genuine peace movement, reform our banking system and gain control of our government and the news media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The choice is ours. It always has been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read that article about  Iran buying missiles from China please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=25085&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more about the technical aspects of that missile please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.missilethreat.com/missiledefensesystems/id.27/system_detail.asp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HQ-9&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read Netanyahu saying he would tell America after HE HAS DECIDED TO ATTACK IRAN AND IS READY TO LAUNCH WW III please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; http://lataan.blogspot.com/2009/05/israel-now-agrees-to-tell-us-when-it-is.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a link to a 114 page study from the CSIS saying how difficult it would be for Israel to shut down the Iranian nuclear program. Please note that the CSIS is a front for the CFR-Bilderberg crowd:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090316_israelistrikeiran.pdf &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This link is to an article in an Israeli newspaper which culled a few facts from the 114 page report above: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085619.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read that essay Russia Bows To Israel here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-sale-or-russia-bows-to-israel.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-823951864890984205?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/823951864890984205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=823951864890984205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/823951864890984205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/823951864890984205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/chinatown-china-has-offered-to-sell.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-199063261354485520</id><published>2009-05-13T18:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T18:06:17.742-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Federal Reserve'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Funny Money &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My idea is we print green dollars with Ben Bernanke's photo on the front. Across the top I would print “Ben Bernanke's IOU Nothing Bucks.” The only denomination we need to print is 1,000,000. I realize that only coins have “In God We Trust” but we could add “In Greenspan We Trust” to the front.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of my regular readers would agree that the Federal Reserve is responsible for creating what I have called long run credit bubbles which led to the Great Depression of 1929-1939 and the one we are now entering which I believe will be even more severe than the last one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I want to start a collective effort over the Internet to stop the FED from destroying the US and the rest of the world. What we need is publicity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the Great Seal of the United States my idea is a taxpayer straining to carry a banker on his shoulders. Around the border of the Great Seal I would put the words. “The Great Steal of the United States.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The back of Ben Bernanke's IOU Nothing Bucks is where I get controversial. It will be printed in Chinese and English. Since the only Chinese person most Americans can recognize is Chairman Mao, his picture will have to be on the back. I would like to put Mao's picture in the center of a map of the continental United States. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Across the top I would I eould write the words “You Got Zip.” The denomination is the corners would be 0 which will soon be the value of the American dollar. Across the bottom, I would write the address of the group trying to audit the Federal Reserve as a first step to ending it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.EndTheFED.us&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We might add the words “Audit The Fed” to the bottom near the web address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have previously written about using the RICO statute to file a lawsuit to end the FED. It will not work until we get public support. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a co-operative online effort so I will need your suggestions. The fastest way to distribute this would be online but I can't draw and it should be centralized at End The FED or another organization.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to read my essay on taking down the Federal Reserve with a RICO lawsuit, you can do so here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2008/11/taking-down-fed-with-rico-federal.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any suggestions you might have will be greatly appreciated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-199063261354485520?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/199063261354485520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=199063261354485520' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/199063261354485520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/199063261354485520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/funny-money-my-idea-is-we-print-green.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8126159992713890014</id><published>2009-05-10T21:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T22:26:29.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='911'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;MEMORIAL DAY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have listed below the names of the passengers and crews of the four planes hijacked on 9-11-2001. I do not believe we dishonor those who have died in our wars by telling those of us left to grieve their passing the truth. If we do not learn from the mistakes our society made in the past, then we will be condemned to an endless cycle of wars.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two theories of what happened on 9-11. The government side has been told by the Bush and Obama administrations and by all five Democrats and all five Republicans on the 911 Commission as well as the corporate news media. Their version is well known, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there is a fly in the ointment. How did the 19 Arab hijackers get on board those planes? The list of the 19 men was conveniently found in a parked car. Not one of those 19 men was a passenger. Not even one had a ticket. Not even one had a boarding pass.  Nor were any members of the flight crews. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All airlines have employees who will lose their jobs if they let men without tickets and boarding passes on a plane. To imagine that 19 men achieved this feat  without one airline employee being fired is unbelievable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is true that there was a photo of Mohamed Atta at an airport in Portland Maine, but there were no surveillance videos of any of the 19 men on 9-11-2001. So the question is: How did they hijack four planes if not even one of the men was on board?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sincerely believe that the list of names below should be considered as the first casualties of World War III. We dishonor them if we do nothing to protect others from the madmen who plan wars in which people like us are expected to die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My theory of 9-11 is that the four planes were electronically hijacked by what is know as the Command Transmitter System (CTS) which is made by SPC International whose CEO had been Dov Zakheim. CTS can remotely control up to eight planes at once. Rabbi Zakheim, who was a member of the Project for a New American Century along with Richard Perle and Dick Cheney, was the Comptroller of the Pentagon on 9-11. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted at a press conference that 2.3 trillion dollars in Pentagon money from the previous Clinton and Bush administrations was missing,  On 9-11 a bomb was detonated inside the Pentagon that killed over forty military auditors who had been attempting to track down that missing trillions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the witnesses to that bomb was Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret who was the civilian in charge of America's 25,000 Special Operations soldiers. There were other witnesses including two military personnel with top secret clearances and a Danish diplomat. Unfortunately, I do not have a separate list of the military auditors who died that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all respect to those who died on 9-11 and to those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan I submit the following list of those who died as a sacrifice to the games played by The Powers That Be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will never forget those who were the first civilian victims  of World War III. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11&lt;br /&gt;American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center with 92 people on board. &lt;br /&gt;CREW&lt;br /&gt;John Ogonowski, 52, of Dracut, Massachusetts, was the pilot of Flight 11. He lived on a 150-acre farm north of Boston. He is survived by his wife, Margaret, and three daughters, Laura, 16; Caroline, 14; and Mary, 11. A lifelong aviation buff, he joined the Air Force after graduating from college and flew planes at the close of the Vietnam War. He joined American Airlines in 1979. &lt;br /&gt;First Officer Thomas McGuinness, 42, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was Flight 11's co-pilot. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, and a 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter. He was active in Bethany Church in Greenland, New Hampshire, friends and neighbors told The Boston Globe. Rick DeKoven, a church administrator, described him as "a devoted family man." &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Arestegui, 38, was a flight attendant from Marstons Mills, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Collman was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Sara Low, 28, was a flight attendant from Batesville, Arkansas. &lt;br /&gt;Karen Martin was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Kathleen Nicosia was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Betty Ong, 45, was a flight attendant from Andover, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Jean Roger, 24, was a flight attendant from Longmeadow, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Dianne Snyder, 42, was a flight attendant from Westport, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Madeline Sweeney, 35, was a flight attendant from Acton, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PASSENGERS&lt;br /&gt;Anna Williams Allison, 48, of Stoneham, Massachusetts, was the founder of A2 Software Solutions, a firm that assists companies in software development. Allison had more than 19 years' experience in the software development industry and was a frequent speaker and trainer at national and local conferences. &lt;br /&gt;David Angell, 54, of Pasadena, California, was the creator and executive producer of the hit NBC sitcom "Frasier." A native of West Barrington, Rhode Island, Angell entered the Army after graduating from college and served at the Pentagon until 1972. He worked in insurance and engineering before selling a script for a TV series in 1977. In 1983, he joined the TV series "Cheers" as a staff writer and began working with co-supervising producers Peter Casey and David Lee. This team formed a production company, creating and producing "Wings" in 1990 and "Frasier" in 1993. The trio won 24 Emmys. &lt;br /&gt;Lynn Angell, 45, of Pasadena, California, was the wife of "Frasier" creator and executive producer David Angell. The Angells were returning from a wedding on the East Coast to attend the Emmy Awards. &lt;br /&gt;Seima Aoyama &lt;br /&gt;Myra Aronson, 52, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was a press and analyst relations manager for Compuware Corp. &lt;br /&gt;Christine Barbuto, 32, of Brookline, Massachusetts, was a buyer for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She was on her way to California on a buying trip. Barbuto is survived her father and two sisters. She had worked for TJX for five years. &lt;br /&gt;Berry Berenson, 53, of Los Angeles, California, was an actress and photographer. She was the widow of actor Anthony Perkins, who died in 1992, and sister of actress and model Marisa Berenson. She is survived by two sons, Osgood, an actor, and Elvis. Born into an aristocratic family, Berenson appeared in the movies "Cat People" (1982), "Winter Kills" (1979) and "Remember My Name" (1978). &lt;br /&gt;Carolyn Beug, 48, of Los Angeles, California, was traveling with her mother, Mary Wahlstrom. They had gone to Boston to drop off relatives at a nearby college and were returning home. &lt;br /&gt;Carol Bouchard, 43, of Warwick, Rhode Island, was a Kent County Hospital emergency room secretary. &lt;br /&gt;Robin Caplin was from Natick, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Neilie Casey, 32, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, was a merchandise planning manager for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She worked for TJX for eight years. Casey is survived by her husband and a 7-month-old daughter. &lt;br /&gt;Jeffrey Coombs, 42, of Abington, Massachusetts, was a security analyst for Compaq Computer. He is survived by his wife, Christie, and three children, Meagan, 10; Julia, 7; and Matt, 12. &lt;br /&gt;Tara Creamer, 30, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was a merchandise planning manager for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She had worked for TJX for eight years. Creamer is survived by her husband, John, and two children, Colin, 4, and Nora, 1. &lt;br /&gt;Thelma Cuccinello, 71, was a Wilmot, New Hampshire, resident with 10 grandchildren. She was on her way to visit a sister in California. Daughter Cheryl O'Brien gave her mom a ride to catch a bus to Logan International Airport in Boston. "I was the last one to see her," O'Brien said. "I got to kiss her and say 'I love you' and 'Have a nice trip.' " &lt;br /&gt;Patrick Currivan &lt;br /&gt;Andrew Curry Green was from Chelmsford, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Brian Dale, 43, of Warren, New Jersey, was an accountant and attorney with Blue Capital Management. He was married and the father of three. &lt;br /&gt;David DiMeglio was from Wakefield, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Donald Ditullio, 49, was from Peabody, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Albert Dominguez, 66, was a baggage handler for Qantas Airways in Sydney, Australia. He was traveling on holiday at the time of his death. He was married with four children. &lt;br /&gt;Alex Filipov, 70, was an electrical engineer from Concord, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Carol Flyzik, 40, was from Plaistow, New Hampshire. &lt;br /&gt;Paul Friedman, 45, from Belmont, Massachusetts, was a consultant for Emergence Consulting. &lt;br /&gt;Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, of Brookline, Massachusetts, was a senior investment analyst for John Hancock. &lt;br /&gt;Peter Gay, 54, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. vice president of operations for electronic systems based in Andover, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for more than 28 years. &lt;br /&gt;Linda George, 27, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was a buyer for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She was on her way to California on a buying trip. George is survived by her father, mother, sister and brother. She was engaged to be married. &lt;br /&gt;Edmund Glazer, 41, of Los Angeles, California, was the chief financial officer and vice president of finance and administration of MRV Communications, a Chatsworth, California, firm that focuses on optical components and network infrastructure systems. Glazer was survived by his wife, Candy, and son, Nathan. &lt;br /&gt;Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, of Needham, Massachusetts, was an assistant vice president, merchandise manager, for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She was on her way to California on a buying trip. Gordenstein is survived by her husband and two children. &lt;br /&gt;Paige Farley Hackel, 46, was a spiritual adviser from Newton, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Peter Hashem, 40, was an engineer from Tewksbury, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Robert Hayes, 37, from Amesbury, Massachusetts was a sales engineer with Netstal. &lt;br /&gt;Ted Hennessy, 35, was a consultant for Emergence Consulting in Belmont, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;John Hofer &lt;br /&gt;Cora Holland, 52, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, was with Sudbury Food Pantry, an interdenominational program that assisted needy families, at Our Lady of Fatima Church. &lt;br /&gt;Nicholas Humber, 60, of Newton, Massachusetts, was the owner of Brae Burn Management. &lt;br /&gt;John Jenkins &lt;br /&gt;Charles Jones, 48, was a computer programmer from Bedford, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Robin Kaplan, 33, of Westboro, Massachusetts, was a senior store equipment specialist for TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. She was on her way to California to help prepare for a new T.J. Maxx store opening. Kaplan had returned to work this year after battling Crohn's disease, a life-threatening inflammatory illness of the gastrointestinal tract. She is survived by her father, Edward Kaplan, and mother, Francine. &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Keating, 72, was from Palm Springs, California. &lt;br /&gt;David Kovalcin, 42, of Hudson, New Hampshire, was a Raytheon Co. senior mechanical engineer for electronic systems in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for 15 years. &lt;br /&gt;Judy Larocque, 50, of Framingham, Massachusetts, was the founder and CEO of Market Perspectives, a research firm that offers online and on-site surveys. Before founding the company in 1993, she was the principal of Emergent Marketing, an executive marketing consulting firm. &lt;br /&gt;Jude Larson, 31, was from Los Angeles, California. &lt;br /&gt;Natalie Larson was from Los Angeles, California. &lt;br /&gt;N. Janis Lasden, 46, of General Electric was from Peabody, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Daniel John Lee, 34, was from Los Angeles, California. &lt;br /&gt;Daniel C. Lewin, 31, was the co-founder and chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts, company that produces technology equipment to facilitate online content delivery. He is survived by his wife and two sons. He founded Akamai in 1998 with scientist Tom Leighton and a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists and business professionals. Lewin was responsible for the company's research and development strategy. &lt;br /&gt;Susan MacKay, 44, of Westford, Massachusetts, was an employee of TJX Cos., the off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions. &lt;br /&gt;Chris Mello, 25, was a financial analyst with Alta Communications from Boston. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in psychology. He is survived by his parents, Douglas and Ellen Mello of Rye, New York; a brother, John Douglas Mello of New York City; and his paternal grandmother, Alice Mello, of Barefoot Bay, Florida. &lt;br /&gt;Jeff Mladenik, 43, of Hinsdale, Illinois, was the interim president at E-Logic. &lt;br /&gt;Antonio Montoya &lt;br /&gt;Carlos Montoya &lt;br /&gt;Laura Lee Morabito, 34, was the Qantas Airways area sales manager in Boston. She lived in Framingham, Massachusetts, with her husband. She was traveling on company business at the time of her death. &lt;br /&gt;Mildred Naiman was from Andover, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Laurie Neira &lt;br /&gt;Renee Newell, 37, of Cranston, Rhode Island, was a customer service agent with American Airlines. &lt;br /&gt;Jacqueline Norton, 60, was a retiree from Lubec, Maine. She was traveling with her husband, Robert Norton. &lt;br /&gt;Robert Norton, 82, was a retiree from Lubec, Maine. He was traveling with his wife, Jacqueline Norton. &lt;br /&gt;Jane Orth, 49, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was retired from Lucent Technology. &lt;br /&gt;Thomas Pecorelli, 31, of Los Angeles, California, was a cameraman for Fox Sports and E! Entertainment Television. &lt;br /&gt;Sonia Morales Puopolo, 58, of Dover, Massachusetts, was a retired ballet dancer. &lt;br /&gt;David Retik was from Needham, Massachusetts. He was a general partner and founding member of Alta Communications, a Boston-based investment firm specializing in communication industries. Retik graduated from Colgate University and received a master's in accounting from New York University. He is survived by his wife, Susan and their two children, Ben and Molly. &lt;br /&gt;Philip Rosenzweig of Acton, Massachusetts, was an executive with Sun Microsystems. &lt;br /&gt;Richard Ross, 58, of Newton, Massachusetts, headed his own management consulting company, the Ross Group. &lt;br /&gt;Jessica Sachs, 22, of Billerica, Massachusetts was an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. &lt;br /&gt;Rahma Salie, 28, was from Boston. &lt;br /&gt;Heather Smith, 30, of Beacon Capital Partners was from Boston. &lt;br /&gt;Douglas Stone, 54, was from Dover, New Hampshire. &lt;br /&gt;Xavier Suarez &lt;br /&gt;Michael Theodoridis, 32, was a consultant from Boston. &lt;br /&gt;James Trentini, 65, was a retired teacher and assistant principal from Everett, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Mary Trentini, 67, was a retired secretary from Everett, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Mary Wahlstrom, 75, of Kaysville, Utah, was traveling with her daughter, Carolyn Beug. They had gone to Boston to drop off relatives at a nearby college and were returning home. &lt;br /&gt;Kenneth Waldie, 46, of Methuen, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. senior quality control engineer for electronic systems in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for 17 years. &lt;br /&gt;John Wenckus, 46, was a tax consultant from Torrance, California. &lt;br /&gt;Candace Lee Williams, 20, was a student from Danbury, Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;Christopher Zarba, 47, of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, was a software engineer at Concord Communications. He leaves behind a wife and family. He would have been 48 on September 15. &lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press contributed to this report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77&lt;br /&gt;American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CREW &lt;br /&gt;Charles Burlingame of Herndon, Virginia, was the plane's captain. He is survived by a wife, a daughter and a grandson. He had more than 20 years of experience flying with American Airlines and was a former U.S. Navy pilot. &lt;br /&gt;David Charlebois, who lived in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, was the first officer on the flight. "He was handsome and happy and very centered," his neighbor Travis White, told The Washington Post. "His life was the kind of life I wanted to have some day." &lt;br /&gt;Michele Heidenberger of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was a flight attendant for 30 years. She left behind a husband, a pilot, and a daughter and son. &lt;br /&gt;Flight attendant Jennifer Lewis, 38, of Culpeper, Virginia, was the wife of flight attendant Kenneth Lewis. &lt;br /&gt;Flight attendant Kenneth Lewis, 49, of Culpeper, Virginia, was the husband of flight attendant Jennifer Lewis. &lt;br /&gt;Renee May, 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PASSENGERS&lt;br /&gt;Paul Ambrose, 32, of Washington, was a physician who worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the surgeon general to address racial and ethnic disparities in health. A 1995 graduate of Marshall University School of Medicine, Ambrose last year was named the Luther Terry Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Preventative Medicine. &lt;br /&gt;Yeneneh Betru, 35, was from Burbank, California. &lt;br /&gt;M.J. Booth &lt;br /&gt;Bernard Brown, 11, was a student at Leckie Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;Suzanne Calley, 42, of San Martin, California, was an employee of Cisco Systems Inc. &lt;br /&gt;William Caswell &lt;br /&gt;Sarah Clark, 65, of Columbia, Maryland, was a sixth-grade teacher at Backus Middle School in Washington. She was accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;Asia Cottom, 11, was a student at Backus Middle School in Washington. Asia was embarking on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;James Debeuneure, 58, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was a fifth-grade teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in Washington. He was accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;Rodney Dickens, 11, was a student at Leckie Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;Eddie Dillard &lt;br /&gt;Charles Droz &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Edwards, 58, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was a teacher at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas. &lt;br /&gt;Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, of University Park, Maryland, was the director of research at ECOlogic Corp., a software engineering firm. He worked on data systems for NASA and also developed data systems for the study of global and regional environmental issues. Falkenburg was traveling with his wife, Leslie Whittingham, and their two daughters, Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3. &lt;br /&gt;Zoe Falkenberg, 8, of University Park, Maryland, was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham. &lt;br /&gt;Dana Falkenberg, 3, of University Park, Maryland, was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham. &lt;br /&gt;Joe Ferguson was the director of the National Geographic Society's geography education outreach program in Washington. He was accompanying a group of students and teachers on an educational trip to the Channel Islands in California. A Mississippi native, he joined the society in 1987. "Joe Feguson's final hours at the Geographic reveal the depth of his commitment to one of the things he really loved," said John Fahey Jr., the society's president. "Joe was here at the office until late Monday evening preparing for this trip. It was his goal to make this trip perfect in every way." &lt;br /&gt;Wilson "Bud" Flagg of Millwood, Virginia, was a retired Navy admiral and retired American Airlines pilot. &lt;br /&gt;Dee Flagg &lt;br /&gt;Richard Gabriel &lt;br /&gt;Ian Gray, 55, of Washington was the president of a health-care consulting firm. &lt;br /&gt;Stanley Hall, 68, was from Rancho Palos Verdes, California. &lt;br /&gt;Bryan Jack, 48, of Alexandria, Virginia, was a senior executive at the Defense Department. &lt;br /&gt;Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, 43, of Alexandria, Virginia, was the chief operating officer of Metrocall Inc., a wireless data and messaging company. &lt;br /&gt;Ann Judge, 49, of Virginia was the travel office manager for the National Geographic Society. She was accompanying a group of students and teachers on an educational trip to the Channel Islands in California. Society President John Fahey Jr. said one of his fondest memories of Judge is a voice mail she and a colleague once left him while they were rafting the Monkey River in Belize. "This was quintessential Ann -- living life to the fullest and wanting to share it with others," he said. &lt;br /&gt;Chandler Keller, 29, was a Boeing propulsion engineer from El Segundo, California. &lt;br /&gt;Yvonne Kennedy &lt;br /&gt;Norma Khan, 45, from Reston, Virginia was a nonprofit organization manager. &lt;br /&gt;Karen A. Kincaid, 40, was a lawyer with the Washington firm of Wiley Rein &amp; Fielding. She joined the firm in 1993 and was part of the its telecommunications practice. She was married to Peter Batacan. &lt;br /&gt;Norma Langsteuerle &lt;br /&gt;Dong Lee &lt;br /&gt;Dora Menchaca, 45, of Santa Monica, California, was the associate director of clinical research for a biotech firm. &lt;br /&gt;Christopher Newton, 38, of Anaheim, California, was president and chief executive officer of Work-Life Benefits, a consultation and referral service. He was married and had two children. Newton was on his way back to Orange County to retrieve his family's yellow Labrador, who had been left behind until they could settle into their new home in Arlington, Virginia. &lt;br /&gt;Barbara Olson, 45, was a conservative commentator who often appeared on CNN and was married to U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson. She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked and described some details, including that the attackers were armed with knives. She had planned to take a different flight, but she changed it at the last minute so that she could be with her husband on his birthday. She worked as an investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s and later worked on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles. &lt;br /&gt;Ruben Ornedo, 39, of Los Angeles, California, was a Boeing propulsion engineer. &lt;br /&gt;Robert Penniger, 63, of Poway, California, was an electrical engineer with BAE Systems. &lt;br /&gt;Lisa Raines, 42, was senior vice president for government relations at the Washington office of Genzyme, a biotechnology firm. She was from Great Falls, Virginia, and was married to Stephen Push. She worked with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on developing a new policy governing cellular therapies, announced in 1997. She also worked on other major health-care legislation. &lt;br /&gt;Todd Reuben, 40, of Potomac, Maryland, was a tax and business lawyer. &lt;br /&gt;John Sammartino &lt;br /&gt;Diane Simmons &lt;br /&gt;George Simmons &lt;br /&gt;Mari-Rae Sopper of Santa Barbara, California, was a women's gymnastics coach at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She had just gotten the post August 31 and was making the trip to California to start work. &lt;br /&gt;Bob Speisman, 47, was from Irvington, New York. &lt;br /&gt;Hilda Taylor was a sixth-grade teacher at Leckie Elementary School in Washington. She was accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society. &lt;br /&gt;Leonard Taylor was from Reston, Virginia. &lt;br /&gt;Leslie A. Whittington, 45, was from University Park, Maryland. The professor of public policy at Georgetown University in Washington was traveling with her husband, Charles Falkenberg, 45, and their two daughters, Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3. They were traveling to Los Angeles to catch a connection to Australia. Whittington had been named a visiting fellow at Australian National University in Canberra. &lt;br /&gt;John Yamnicky, 71, was from Waldorf, Maryland. &lt;br /&gt;Vicki Yancey &lt;br /&gt;Shuyin Yang &lt;br /&gt;Yuguag Zheng &lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press contributed to this report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93&lt;br /&gt;United Airlines Flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania, with 45 people on board. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CREW&lt;br /&gt;Jason Dahl, 43, from Denver, Colorado, was the plane's captain. He had a wife and son. Dahl had a lifelong interest in flying, said his aunt, Maxine Atkinson, of Waterloo, Iowa. &lt;br /&gt;Leroy Homer, 36, from Marlton, New Jersey, was the first officer on board. He was married and had a daughter. &lt;br /&gt;Lorraine Bay was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Sandra Bradshaw, 38, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Wanda Green was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;CeeCee Lyles of Fort Myers, Florida, was a flight attendant. She reached her husband, Lorne, by cell phone to tell him that she loved him and their children before the plane went down. The couple between them had four children. &lt;br /&gt;Deborah Welsh was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;PASSENGERS&lt;br /&gt;Christian Adams &lt;br /&gt;Todd Beamer, 32, was from Cranbury, New Jersey. &lt;br /&gt;Alan Beaven, 48, of Oakland, California, was an environmental lawyer. &lt;br /&gt;Mark Bingham, 31, of San Francisco owned a public relations firm, the Bingham Group. He called his mother, Alice Hoglan, 15 minutes before the plane crashed and told her that the plane had been taken over by three men who claimed to have a bomb. Hoglan said her son told her that some passengers planned to try to regain control of the plane. "He said, 'I love you very, very much, ' " Hoglan said. &lt;br /&gt;Deora Bodley, 20, of Santa Clara, California, was a university student. &lt;br /&gt;Marion Britton &lt;br /&gt;Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, of San Ramon, California, was a senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company, and the father of three. He made four calls to his wife, Deena, from the plane. Deena Burnett said that her husband told her that one passenger had been stabbed and that "a group of us are going to do something." He also told her that the people on board knew about the attack on the World Trade Center, apparently through other phone calls. &lt;br /&gt;William Cashman &lt;br /&gt;Georgine Corrigan &lt;br /&gt;Joseph Deluca &lt;br /&gt;Patrick Driscoll &lt;br /&gt;Edward Felt, 41, was from Matawan, New Jersey. &lt;br /&gt;Colleen Fraser &lt;br /&gt;Andrew Garcia &lt;br /&gt;Jeremy Glick, 31, from West Milford, New Jersey, called his wife, Liz, and in-laws in New York on a cell phone to tell them the plane had been hijacked, Joanne Makely, Glick's mother-in-law, told CNN. Glick said that one of the hijackers "had a red box he said was a bomb, and one had a knife of some nature," Makely said. Glick asked Makely if the reports about the attacks on the World Trade Center were true, and she told him they were. He left the phone for a while, returning to say, "The men voted to attack the terrorists," Makely said. &lt;br /&gt;Lauren Grandcolas of San Rafael, California, was a sales worker at Good Housekeeping magazine. &lt;br /&gt;Donald F. Green, 52, was from Greenwich, Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;Linda Gronlund &lt;br /&gt;Richard Guadagno, 38, of Eureka, California, was the manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. &lt;br /&gt;Toshiya Kuge &lt;br /&gt;Waleska Martinez &lt;br /&gt;Nicole Miller &lt;br /&gt;Mark Rothenberg &lt;br /&gt;Christine Snyder, 32, was from Kailua, Hawaii. She was an arborist for the Outdoor Circle and was returning from a conference in Washington. She had been married less than a year. &lt;br /&gt;John Talignani &lt;br /&gt;Honor Wainio &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 175&lt;br /&gt;United Airlines Flight 175, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, was the second hijacked plane to strike the World Trade Center, plowing into the south tower. Two pilots, seven flight attendants and 56 passengers were on board. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CREW&lt;br /&gt;Capt. Victor Saracini, 51, of Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, was a Navy veteran. He is survived by his wife and two children. &lt;br /&gt;Michael Horrocks was first officer. &lt;br /&gt;Robert J. Fangman was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Amy N. Jarret, 28, of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Amy R. King was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Kathryn L. Laborie was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Alfred G. Marchand of Alamogordo, New Mexico, was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Michael C. Tarrou was a flight attendant. &lt;br /&gt;Alicia N. Titus was a flight atteandant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PASSENGERS&lt;br /&gt;Alona Avraham, 30, was from Ashdot, Israel. &lt;br /&gt;Garnet "Ace" Bailey, 53, of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, was director of pro scouting for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team. Bailey was entering his 33rd season as a player or scout in the National Hockey League and his eighth with the Kings. Before joining the Kings, he spent 13 years as a scout for the Edmonton Oilers, a team that won five Stanley Cups during that time. As a player, Bailey spent five years with the Boston Bruins and was a member of Stanley Cup championship teams in 1969-70 and 1971-72. Bailey also spent parts of two seasons each with the Detroit Red Wings and St. Louis Blues, and three years with the Washington Capitals. He is survived by his wife, Katherine, and son, Todd. &lt;br /&gt;Mark Bavis, 31, of West Newton, Massachusetts, was entering his second season as an amateur scout for the Los Angeles Kings. A Boston native, he played four years on Boston University's hockey team, where his twin brother, Michael, is an assistant coach. In addition to his twin brother, Bavis is survived by his mother, Mary; two other brothers, Pat and Johnny; and three sisters, Kelly, Mary Ellen and Kathy. The Bavis family lost a brother 15 years ago, and Bavis' father died 10 years ago. &lt;br /&gt;Graham Berkeley, 37, of Xerox Corp. was from Wellesley, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Touri Bolourchi, 69, was from Beverly Hills, California. &lt;br /&gt;Klaus Bothe, 31, of Germany was on a business trip with BCT Technology AG's chief executive officer and another executive. Bothe joined the company in 1994 and was its director of development. He is survived by his wife and one child. &lt;br /&gt;Daniel Brandhorst, of Los Angeles, California, was a lawyer for PriceWaterhouse. &lt;br /&gt;David Brandhorst, 3, was from Los Angeles. &lt;br /&gt;John Cahill was from Wellesley, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, of Turner Falls, Massachusetts, was staff assistant in the office of information technology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. &lt;br /&gt;John Corcoran "Jay" Corcoran, 44, of Norwell, Massachusetts, was a merchant marine. &lt;br /&gt;Dorothy Dearaujo, 82, was from Long Beach, California. &lt;br /&gt;Gloria Debarrera &lt;br /&gt;Lisa Frost, 22, of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, graduated from Boston University this year, with degrees in communications and business hospitality. She is survived by her father, mother and brother. &lt;br /&gt;Ronald Gamboa, 33, of Los Angeles, California, was a Gap store manager. &lt;br /&gt;Lynn Goodchild, 25, was from Attleboro, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;The Rev. Francis E. Grogan, 76, of Easton, Massachusetts, was a priest at Holy Cross Church in Easton. A veteran of World War II, Grogan served as a parish priest, a chaplain and teacher at Holy Cross schools. &lt;br /&gt;Carl Hammond, 37, was from Boston, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Peter Hanson, 32, of Groton, Massachusetts, was a software salesman. &lt;br /&gt;Susan Hanson, 35, of Groton, Massachusetts, was a student. &lt;br /&gt;Christine Hanson, 3, was from Groton, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Gerald Hardacre &lt;br /&gt;Eric Hartono &lt;br /&gt;James E. Hayden, 47, of Westford, Massachusetts, was the chief financial officer of Netegrity Inc. Hayden is survived by his wife, Gail, and their two children. &lt;br /&gt;Herbert Homer,48, of Milford, Massachusetts, worked for Raytheon Co. &lt;br /&gt;Robert Jalbert, 61, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, was a salesman. &lt;br /&gt;Ralph Kershaw, 52, of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, was a marine surveyor. &lt;br /&gt;Heinrich Kimmig, 43, chairman and chief executive officer of BCT Technology Ag, of Germany was on a business trip involving contract negotiations with U.S. partners along with two other BCT execs, the company said in a statement. Kimmig studied mechanical engineering in college. After an internship, he became the design manager at Badische Stahl Engineering, and shortly after, he founded BSE Computer-Technologie GmbH, originally a locally operating software company. In 1999, this company became BCT Technology AG. Kimmig is survived by his wife and two children. &lt;br /&gt;Brian Kinney, 29, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was an auditor for PriceWaterhouse Cooper. &lt;br /&gt;Robert LeBlanc, 70, of Lee, New Hampshire, was a professor emeritus of geography at the University of New Hampshire. After earning his doctorate at the University of Minnesota, LeBlanc joined the University of New Hampshire's faculty in 1963 as a cultural geographer. With a specialty in Canadian studies, he looked at the Franco-American communities in New England's mill towns. He was acting chair and chair of the geography department for nearly 10 years, retiring in 1999. &lt;br /&gt;Maclovio "Joe" Lopez Jr., 41, was from Norwalk, California. &lt;br /&gt;Marianne MacFarlane &lt;br /&gt;Louis Neil Mariani, 59, was from Derry, New Hampshire. &lt;br /&gt;Juliana Valentine McCourt, 4, was from New London, Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;Ruth McCourt, 24, was from Westford, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Wolfgang Menzel, 60, of Germany joined BCT Technology AG in 2000 as director of human resources. He is survived by his wife and one child. Menzel had planned to retire in six months. &lt;br /&gt;Shawn Nassaney, 25, was from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. &lt;br /&gt;Patrick Quigley, 40, of Wellesley, Massachusetts, was a partner at PriceWaterhouse Cooper. &lt;br /&gt;Frederick Rimmele was a physician from Marblehead, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;James M. Roux, 42, was from Portland, Maine. &lt;br /&gt;Jesus Sanchez, 45, was an off-duty flight attendant from Hudson, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Kathleen Shearer was from Dover, New Hampshire. &lt;br /&gt;Robert Shearer was from Dover, New Hampshire. &lt;br /&gt;Jane Simpkin, 35, was from Wayland, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Brian D. Sweeney, 38, was from Barnstable, Massachusetts. &lt;br /&gt;Timothy Ward, 38, of San Diego, California, worked at the Carlsbad, California-based Rubio's Restaurants Inc. A 14-year veteran of the company, he opened its second restaurant in San Diego and most recently worked in the information technology department. &lt;br /&gt;William Weems of Marblehead, Massachusetts, was a commercial producer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press contributed to this report. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how I got that list of names of the passengers and crews of the four electronically hijacked planes. I went to the Internet Archive advances search page  located here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I pasted the old URL below from CNN into the search box along with dates in 2001 when I knew the link was active. When the archive gave the old web page, I clicked on the links after having copied it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result was this URL:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20011007-20011209re_/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the bomb that killed the auditors who were looking for that missing money please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id206.html&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8126159992713890014?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8126159992713890014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8126159992713890014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8126159992713890014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8126159992713890014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/memorial-day-i-have-listed-below-names.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3511865267629413624</id><published>2009-05-05T07:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-03T16:33:47.548-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Down and Out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Why is it that you do and do for the Democrats and they don't do for you? Why is it? I'll tell you why. Because yo' is a chump.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                    Malcolm X&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same can be said of the Republicans. John McCain supported the Bailout which was the biggest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the uber rich in history. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CNN published a web page with tables for each of the seven various Bailout programs. The total cost to the chumps for  these Bailouts is 13.2 trillion dollars according to CNN's report. You can see the tables for yourself here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/index.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;182 billion dollars was given to AIG but this is not the most egregious aspect of thus swindle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That began in 2005 when the Federal Reserve Bank announced they would no longer tell us what the total M3 money supply is. Commentators as far away as Asia told their readers this announcement meant that the US had just admitted they were  bankrupt and Wall Street had decided to inflate the dollar beyond all reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Republicans and the Democrats in the Senate and the House plus the Bush administration all conspired to keep the truth from the voters. The corporate media were paid accomplices to the cover up. The Federal Reserve knew that the US was near bankruptcy. They should never have allowed real estate prices to continue to rise to what they knew were unsustainable levels. Instead they decided to allow a gigantic pump and dump of real estate to continue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taxes have not been raised high enough to pay for that 13.2 trillion dollar gift to the elite from those of required to work for a living to support Wall Street's insanity and greed. Nor could taxes ever be raised that high. Shadow Stats has done nothing but study government statistics and budgets. Their conclusion was that even before Obama took office that the United States could not meet its financial obligations even if Americans were taxed at 100% of their incomes. Their point is that if the government were required to use the same accounting rules as corporations they would have to set aside funds every time they incur an obligation to pay money in the future,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you add 13.2 trillion dollars in new obligations to an existing 11.2 trillion dollar debt,the total is a staggering 24.5 trillion dollars on which you will be required to pay interest. As you have to sell more and more of something, the price declines. When you sell more bonds and drive down the price of bonds, you drive up interest rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sooner rather than later the US Treasury will not be able to sell bonds for less than 10% interest. I believe the dollar will crash long before interest rates get to 10%. We had high interest rates when Jimmy Carter left office and survived only because the world was willing to loan Ronald Reagan tons of money without collateral, No more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means we are headed quickly towards a massive hyperinflation that will impoverish us all. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will soon be Down and the world will want to see if we are Out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American voters are first class chumps. We do for the elite. We fight insane wars. We believe obvious lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction. We allowed the media to publish photos in reverse sequential order from the Zapruder film so “they” could cover up the execution of our President who dared to defy orders from above. We convicted a man of shooting his brother Robert five times in the back even though every one of eighteen witnesses saw  him in front of the target with no opportunity to shoot from behind. We allowed Wall Street to steal billions of dollars each week from federal spending which we are not allowed to audit.Do we demand the right to audit the books? No. That would require courage. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, a flu which was obviously created in a lab by combining swine flu from Europe with swine flu from the Americas with a bird flu from Asia, made the headlines. Do we demand an investigation? No. We would need to band together as Americans and to freely exchange ideas without censorship. We do not have that right any more. We never had that right in my lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within the next twelve months the dollar will collapse. Food riots will be the least of our worries. If the elite wants to, they can introduce a more virulent version of the H1N1 virus and shut down all protests, kill off all resistance and use the quarantine to establish a dictatorship. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do that, what will Americans do to say no? Are we even capable of resistance? Are we willing to believe just any lie? Will we accept permanent poverty and servitude?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is America through as a nation? We shall soon see if we are capable of surviving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been borrowing the titles of my essays from movies and books. I took this title  from  Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) which was written by George Orwell (Eric Blair.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to do your own research on a continuing basis, I would recommend this site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://solari.com/blog/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to get real statistics on the American economy please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.ShadowStats.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3511865267629413624?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3511865267629413624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3511865267629413624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3511865267629413624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3511865267629413624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/05/down-and-out-why-us-it-that-you-do-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-4323882830142375342</id><published>2009-04-30T18:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T17:18:20.122-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Outbreak&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mexican Swine flu is a combination of two different swine flus from Europe and the Americas together with an Asian bird flu and more common human flu. If one Mexican farmer had a human flu and then became infected by one of his pigs, his body could have recombined the two different strains of flu to form a human-swine flu. He would have become what doctors call patient zero for a new epidemic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Mexican Swine flu combines a swine flu from Europe with a swine flu from the Americas with a bird flu from Asia in Mexico where pigs and birds are not normally raised on the same farm.  This has led several medical observers to the conclusion that this was a man made virus manufactured inside a lab.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is too early to say what percentage of those who will be infected will die. During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919 most medical historians say that 2% of those who had the flu died.  50,000,000 are thought to have died. One third of the world's population was infected before the third and most deadly wave of the flu took its toll in 1919. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some non-professionals have criticized the coverage as media driven hysteria and point out that we normally have 36,000 flu deaths per year. What they do not realize is that at least 30,000 of those deaths are caused by pharmaceutical companies and the government agencies they own conspiring together to force vaccines on patients 70 years of age and over for whom there is no benefit in vaccination. This explains why the Mexican Swine flu has killed mostly healthy adults and not many elderly. But, as soon as the promised vaccine is available in September, people 70 and over will start dying like flies.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The difference in the death rate between Mexico and the United States has been reported. I would point out as have doctors that Mexico is further along in the epidemic. But also we must take note that the poor in Mexico have limited access to treatment as do the poor in America. To prevent an epidemic here we need to offer immediate care to the poor in America as this flu must be treated in the first 48 hours. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some critics of the pharmaceutical industry have charged that the Mexican Swine flu is genocide for profit. You can see this view in the video made by Dr Leonard Horowitz listed in the references below. I disagree as I think his analysis is too simplistic. It is true that there is money to be made in the pharmaceutical industry or what could more properly be called the health prevention industry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can also see a lot of profit being made in war but the people who own the government do not allow weapons manufacturers to start wars on their own especially in Mexico which does border the United States. If this is a planned genocide then permission had to be obtained from the highest levels of The Powers That Be which is to say Wall Street and the goals of this war against humanity must serve their interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama has said. “My administration is all that stands between you (the bankers) and the pitchforks.“ This is a clear reference to the coming economic debacle in which billions of people will lose their savings and pensions as well as the purchasing power of their paychecks. They will reason that if they had something and what little they had has been taken away, then someone took it from them. And who is more likely to be held responsible than Wall Street? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the advantages the Mexican Swine flu gives to the bankers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Mexico has canceled all public meetings. If you also shut down the Internet and talk radio, then there will be no organized and informed opposition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2)If there are riots,then you can infect the riot leaders and quarantine them. Once in quarantine, you can inject them with something that will terminate them. And then you can cremate the evidence and demand the public trust the death certificates you print en masse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) The Mexican Swine flu will isolate America's fastest growing population segment and take away any challenge they might pose to your authority. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4)If Mexico collapses, tens of millions of Mexicans will come to America seeking health care and jobs. It will be to your advantage that the Mexican criminal class will follow as there will be nothing left to steal in Mexico. This will divide America into racially warring clans and enhance your tried and true policy of divide and conquer. That is  probably why this is not a Norwegian Swine flu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5)The Spanish flu came in three waves. If the next wave does not come until September or October, then it will arrive in time to divert attention from the collapse of the dollar or at least allow the media to blame the Depression and the food riots on a virus and not the bankers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6)Bankers will also have the option of releasing a much more virulent virus later this year or early next year if they think that they are in danger of losing power after the dollar crashes and this Depression hits bottom. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I have proven my point that Mexican Swine flu could very well have been made in a lab in order to allow Wall Street to maintain control of the economy and the government during the most dangerous year in their century long war against America. Since no educated and honest person with intellectual integrity and courage accepts at face value anything Wall Street and their employees in Washington say, it is their responsibility to explain to us just how swine flu from Europe combined with swine flu from the Americas and bird flu from Asia,   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cannot proceed as a society until they prove they are telling us the truth about this epidemic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I have made my point I suppose I should call this the H1N1 Type A 2009 virus just like Janet Napolitano does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read the statement from OIE that this virus did not come from an animal host please go here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8282347267271b64646e51f83dc4437f.8a1&amp;show_article=1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a video saying that Mexican Swine flu was made in a lab:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnSX_jS0STA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an interesting but long video with Dr Henry Niman who says the 1918 flu was Swine nor Avian:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.wpxi.com/video/19313969/index.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read why Heidi Lore thinks Vitamin D3 is better than a vaccination please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://heidilore.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/avoid-flu-shots-take-vitamin-d-instead/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more about protecting yourself against the spread of a virus please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-sherwood/swine-flu-survival-three_b_191459.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more about the medical director who said Mexican Swine flu was created in a lab please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.infowars.com/medical-director-swine-flu-was-cultured-in-a-laboratory/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read Dr Bill Sardi's newsletter warning on Swine flu please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.knowledgeofhealth.com/newsletters/04252009b.pdf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more from Dr Deagle on Swine flu please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.rense.com/general85/swine.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic which killed 50.000.000 people please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no01/05-0979.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about how CDC reconstructed the Spanish flu virus of 1918 in a lab please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/ABOUT/QA/1918flupandemic.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the conspiracy minded there is this video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qJQCJp4ehc&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-4323882830142375342?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/4323882830142375342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=4323882830142375342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4323882830142375342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/4323882830142375342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/outbreak-mexican-swine-flu-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8944276878315685283</id><published>2009-04-29T11:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T11:44:30.032-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;  One Hundred&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There is a lot of ruin in a nation.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Smith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is Barack Obama's one hundredth day in office. I do not believe America will survive in any recognizable form until April 29th of 2010. America has been in the grip of insane men since before I was born. It has taken them a very long time to destroy everything that generations of Americans have built, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rapper KRS One (Lawrence Krishna Parker) was born in the South Bronx where rap music began as a musical response to the systematic destruction of the neighborhood. What some Americans do not realize is that all of America will soon be like the South Bronx was before gentrification. KRS One said that the President of the United States is like the manager at Burger King. You see the Burger King manager but you will never see the franchise owner. To him George Bush and Barack Obama are relatively powerless employees. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goldman Sachs was Obama's number one contributor. Wall Street gave one hundred million dollars in donations to Republicans and Democrats. In return they get trillions of dollars from the taxpayers. I asked a woman shelving the shelves at a supermarket how many women shelving shelves would it take to earn a trillion dollars. The median American hourly wage is $16.50 an hour, 40,000,000 Americans make $12.00 or less an hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the rate Washington is creating money and IOUs to bailout the billionaires of Wall Street, the dollar will crash and destroy the purchasing power of our savings, our pensions and our paychecks. If prices go up 1,000 % and wages go up 600%. the median worker making $16.50 an hour will with rising unemployment be lucky to have a paper wage of $99.00 an hour. Under our progressive tax code we will pay a much higher tax rate which will impoverish us all by design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why I said years ago that the American worker will have his or her after tax take home pay cut in half by the end of 2009. Cutting the median wage in half would mean that the majority of workers would be living on a take home pay 5 to 7 dollars an hour measured in current purchasing power. People on fixed pensions would be devastated and could lose 90% of their current income. 47,000.000 people on Social Security and disability which are wage based would simply have their incomes cut in half. They would fall from the current $900 to $1,300 range to $450 to $650 a month which would be unlivable. That is why I have been saying that, if we do not reform our government now, before this Depression is over millions of Americans will kill themselves to avoid a more painful death by starvation. And millions of others will begin stealing and looting to avoid the pangs of hunger for themselves and their children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can no longer afford to both eat and to subsidize the Lords of Wall Street. What we are doing will no longer work. It will all blow up in 2009. Barack Obama is the hired help. What we need to do is to start a dialogue about the franchise owners of America Incorporated. By that I mean we have to talk about the Bilderberg Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Trilateral Commission. 300,000,000 Americans ought to collectively have rights equal to or greater than the tens of thousands of criminally insane men who have banded together in half a dozen groups that until now have been above the law. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do realize that many people greatly prefer the new hired help better than the old. Barack Obama is more popular than George W Bush. I have met people who voted for Obama for the following reasons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met black people who voted for Hillary in the primaries but became enthusiastic supporters of America's first black President before November. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met members of other minorities who told me that “we are going to take over this country.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met immigrants and their children who voted for Obama because they want Amnesty for Illegal Aliens not caring what would happen to America even if our population increases by 150,000,000 and wages drop 60%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met two illegal aliens who said they voted for Obama because he promised to pay the mortgage on homes they could not afford to buy. They both said this two days before losing their jobs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The destruction of the economy through Bailouts outweighs any other considerations including those of Zbigniew Brzezinski who love Obama's expansion of the war against the people of Afghanistan. Both the Democrat and Republican parties have rewarded the theft of trillions of dollars by allowing Wall Street to directly suction additional trillions of dollars from our wallets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dollar will crash this year. I guarantee it. The measure of Barack Obama will be taken when the food riots begin later this year and he has a choice of either siding with his billionaire benefactors or siding with those median wage earners who used to have jobs and used to make $16.50 an hour. They will not be able to pay their rent and utilities, to buy gas to drive to work and to buy food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the President of the United States wants to prove he cares about us, he would seize the Federal Reserve Bank and stop the Bailouts before he doubles the national debt and permamently reduces the bottom 60% of American society to bonded slavery regardless of our race, creed and national origin. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8944276878315685283?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8944276878315685283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8944276878315685283' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8944276878315685283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8944276878315685283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-hundred-there-is-lot-of-ruin-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-5341192164463170821</id><published>2009-04-26T18:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T19:39:09.947-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>American Psycho &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even the dumbest voter is beginning to understand that what we are doing will not work. The polls do not yet reflect this reality because the religion of America is optimism and the majority hopes that the President will save them from a Depression worse than 1929-1939.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a Doom and Gloomer. What I am is a reformer who does understand both economics and arithmetic. Realizing that the numbers do not add up is the first step in the recovery process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US deficit for March was 184 billion dollars. The Congress is busily passing the President's supplemental appropriation of 83.4 billion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan. Before proceeding we should note that from this day forward neither the President not any member of either the House or the Senate can call this George Bush's war. They bought in to the swamp and its theirs now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That 83.4 billion dollars has to be spent before the end of the fiscal year which is September 30, 2009. That works out to an additional 16 to 17 billion dollars to our deficit per month. This means we will have 200 billion dollar plus deficits until October. And the Congress and the pundits are talking about a second Stimulus bill and another round of Bailouts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Law of Supply and Demand dictates that there is a limited supply of morons with hundreds of billions of dollars to burn. To buy our Treasury bonds a foreign nation must have a huge trade surplus which they can use to buy either American corporations and  or our Treasuries.  International trade has collapsed so China's surplus is greatly diminished and Japan's has turned into a deficit. And there is a report from Audit Analytics which says one fourth of American publicly traded corporations are bankrupt so the stock market might be over valued. US Treasury bonds are also over valued because no sane person can believe the dollar will be more valuable than China's currency in 10 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A report from a reliable source in England says that Central Banks around the world are running low on capital and will soon find it difficult to finance their national deficits. Several nations have resorted to printing money to fund their deficits because the “well is running dry.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My regular readers are aware that I have said we need to follow Treasury auctions to determine just exactly when the dollar will crash. The Federal Reserve has been buying Treasuries in order to keep interest rates from going through the roof. Despite this rates have increased slightly. But when the FED buys Treasuries it does so by expanding the reserves of the member banks which is called the Monetary Base or M0. When banks begin lending again, they will be able to loan out many trillions of dollars which will be inflationary. Just the fact that the FED is buying Treasuries and expanding the Monetary Base by a 1,000 per cent  will dampen foreign demand for America's IOUs  which has been more aptly described by one Asian critic as American toilet paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I see no reason to change my original prediction made years ago that the dollar would crash by the end of 2009 and that we would suffer a hyperinflation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we are willing to admit that our leaders in Washington and Wall Street are doing will not work and cannot work, it is one easy step to my conclusion that it was never intended to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Everything our self-perpetuating leadership has been doing was designed to destroy America. I therefor conclude that they are psychos. I originally was convinced that our world leaders were insane when I was eight years-old and had a vision of a future war that killed most of mankind. I always like to add that I subsequently decided that my vision was not writ in stone and that we can stop World War III.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been trying to explain to people since I was nine years-old that we have Depressions and Inflations because we have a currency that requires us to create a debt before we are allowed to create money and credit. The Constitution says only the Federal government can coin money, but in 1913 the Congress and the President gave that right to the Federal Reserve bank which is a privately owned monopoly &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you go to a bank to borrow $10,000, the banker is not loaning you Mrs Jonses's life savings. What he does do is to make an entry of $10,000 in your checking account after you have signed a promise to pay him $10,000 plus interest. Please note that he is not risking his own money and that he is adding to the money supply which can be inflationary if he loans out too much as the bankers did during the Dot com and mortgage pump and dumps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the banker only creates enough money to pay back the principal amd does not create enough money to pay the interest, debts can never be completely repaid and the total amount of government and privately held debt must increase. I have called this a Long Credit cycle. This must end with debt cancellation as the burden of paying debts which were designed to never be paid systematically and by design crushes one nation after another. Those nations to be crushed include America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are only two ways to cancel huge public and private debts. One is by defaulting on your obligations which is deflationary like 1929. The other is by bailing everyone out with printing press money which is hyperinflationary so a $400,000 mortgage becomes a mere $40,000 liability after prices increase tenfold. That is the path we are on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In previous essays I have pointed out that the bankers have prepared for the future in which voters realize that all of their pensions and savings were stolen by Wall Street. On April 19, 1995 agents of Wall Street blew up the Alfred P Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City killing 19 children in the daycare center. The Congress  was given detailed proof by General Benjamin Partin, the chief of United States Air Force bomb ordnance. The Congress refused to listen when he explained why a truck bomb 40 feet away from a building could not demolish columns further away from the yellow truck and leave ones nearby intact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Congress and the media had said no to the cover up of the killing of 19 children, we would  never have had 9-11. Four planes were alleged to have been hijacked by 19 Arabs. But not one of those men had either a ticket or a boarding pass. None were crew members. It is far more likely that the 4 planes were hijacked electronically. There is overwhelming evidence that World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and  7 were taken down by controlled demolitions. A bomb went off 3 ½ minutes before what the FBI claims was Flight 77 struck the building killing over 40 military auditors who had been attempting to trace the 2.3 trillion dollars on Defense Department spending that Donald Rumsfeld said on 9-10-2001 he could not find. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that I have proven my point that we are in the final phase of the deliberate destruction of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not believe that the insane men of Wall Street will succeed in controlling Americans. As I have said before, they do not understand the human spirit. We will soon have a Rebellion of the Spirit and we will say no to whatever Wall Street wants to do to us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we must do is to concentrate our resources on explaining to our fellow citizens that we are temporarily in the hands of psychos whose deepest desire is to destroy America. They are insane. They will get us all killed if we do not resist. If you marshal your arguments, it will not take much effort to convince your fellow citizens that their government is run by psychos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will give us the breakthrough we need to reach the mass of voters who had feared that what little they do have would be taken away if they speak out. If instead they see their leaders as an imminent threat to their lives and their livelihood, they will be forced to resist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not advocating a violent revolution. I am just giving you fair warning that your leaders are insane, self-destructive mass murdering liars who will soon destroy the only world we have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These men do not understand this world is not theirs alone.  &lt;br /&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have noticed, of late I have taking my essay titles from popular movies and novels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To watch the YouTube  CBS  video of Donald Rumsfeld saying he cannot trace 2.3 trillion dollars please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj1rT4bszWg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get a friend started on uncovering the truth about 9-11 please send them here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.WTC7.net &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about that bomb in the Pentagon that killed the military auditors who were looking for the 2.3 trillion dollars that went missing from the Pentagon please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id206.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read that report that says 25% of all publicly traded corporations are bankrupt please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/13525910/c_13524647?f=home_todayinfinance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read that report on Central Banks running low on capital please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5220118/The-capital-well-is-running-dry-and-some-economies-will-wither.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to study debt free money please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/articles/article-idx.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-5341192164463170821?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/5341192164463170821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=5341192164463170821' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5341192164463170821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5341192164463170821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/american-psycho-even-dumbest-voter-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2043743200419038791</id><published>2009-04-14T21:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T23:31:39.171-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Live From New York It's Saturday Night Live&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director::  Don't worry Mr. President. This is a major network broadcast and everyone here voted for you. We did have a couple of writers who voted for Ron Paul so we had to fire them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama::  The press said this will be the most important presidential address in sixty years. And today is October 19th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director::  Don't worry about the movie Knowing predicting the world ends today. We did a web search and nobody is talking about it. They are too busy worrying about you closing down the markets. Your wife Michelle might be the only one in North America who remembers a Nicolas Cage movie 7 months after they've seen it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama::   That's good. Did you get the back up teleprompter you promised me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Director::    Yes. If teleprompter A goes down, we have B ready to go. If A does go down, we will flash a technical difficulties blurb on the screen and you can resume       talking without apologizing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama::     I'm ready. Let's do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director::   Okay folks. Let;s go. We are live in ten seconds. Ready. Places. Three, Two, One.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama:: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I want to talk to you tonight about the events of the past three days which forced me to close all stock, bond and commodity markets in conjunction with our allies overseas. This started last week when investors refused to buy our Treasury bonds. We could not have known that people would refuse to buy 98 billion dollars a week of Treasury bonds for the next few years. So it is not our fault. You will be glad to know I have been conferring with other world leaders and we have agreed to take the following course of action. Good evening ladies    and gentlemen. I want to talk...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director:: Cut. Cut. Bob, run that technical difficulties blurb. Jerry, start teleprompter B. Ready? Mr President.    Start reading from Teleprompter B on three. One. Two. Three.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama::   I am pleased to announce that we, the leaders of the world, have decided to reorganize our governments and credit markets. I have also decided to fight unemployment by calling up the National Guard and all Army and Marine Reserve units except for the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona, Those of you being called up will report to the nearest branch of the Federal Reserve bank. Your mission will be to protect the lives and property of our benefactors in the banking industry, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government of the United States is being reorganized by a consortium of Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve bank and overseas investors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ben Bernanke will be the CEO of our new government which is to be named United States incorporated or USI. Mr Bernanke will retain his post as Chairman of the Federal Reserve bank. I will remain here in Washington and continue to offer Hope and Change to the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goldman Sachs has partners in this consortium. Japan has been given my home state of Hawaii. China has been given California, Oregon and Washington. Alaska will revert to its original owner Russia. Our neighbor to the south Mexico has also been taken over by the Goldman Sachs consortium as have most of our European partners. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have decided to give the states of Colorado,  New Mexico, Arizona and Texas to Mexico Incorporated which is owned by a partnership including the three major drug cartels. Those of you who love Mexico will be glad to learn that Goldman Sachs has negotiated a truce between the warring factions thus ending the current drug violence. The three cartels with their 200,000 employees in America will be joining the Mexican Army in the occupation of those four states. Nevada and its casinos will be jointly occupied by China and Mexico Incorporated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of you have expressed concerns about the rising costs of food and fuel and the continuing loss of value of your pensions, savings, IRAs, 401Ks, pensions and paychecks.   You will be pleased to learn that Goldman Sachs and its partners will be issuing two new currencies one of which will have several names depending on your country of origin. We will call it a banco and convert all of your existing accounts into bancos at a generous rate of two dollars for one banco. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will include your pensions. IRAs and 401Ks. They will be invested in the Treasury bonds of our new world government which will operate as a partnership of the       consortium headed by Goldman Sachs, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Robert Rubin, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, will be assuming the position of world leader, His headquarters will be in New York. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those of you who will be employees of the new international government or of the Federal Reserve bank or Goldman Sachs  will be paid in  the other currency that as yet has not been named but will be convertible to gold and will be exempt    from all taxes imposed by United States Incorporated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the next few weeks we will have town hall meetings in those 39 states still within the jurisdiction of the USI.   Those of you living in the 11 states no longer part of the USI will be seeing the advance parties of the one million   occupying troops arrive in the morning at dawn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janet Napolitano, Secreatry of the Department of Homeland Security, has decided to shut down the Internet until she can calm down those extremists who are motivated by racism and sexism. Talk radio will also be suspended until we feel that people have been persuaded of  the wisdom of their new government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All young people in the 39 states will become volunteers in a new organization I have decided to call the Legions of Hope. They will be doing two years of mandatory volunteer service performing many useful environmental, health, educational and other valuable tasks. Their primaey mission  will be to educate their fellow Americans of the many benefits of the New World Order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion I would like to say that to those of you who are still citizens of the USI that we have entered a new era of Hope and Change. To those of you who live in the 11 states no longer a part of the USI I would like to say farewell and also to say I hope the change works out for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good night and God bless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Announcer:: Presidential addresses are normally followed by an address from the opposing party. However, there will be no such address tonight because Goldman Sachs which owns  the Republican and Democrat parties has decided to suspend both parties. The board of directors at Goldman Sachs has concluded that Democratic and Republican politicians have outlived their usefulness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director::   Mr Obama. You can relax now. We are off air. I should tell you that we played a little joke on you. We stopped teleprompter A and ran teleprompter B with a substitute speech written by those two writers we fired because they voted for Ron Paul. Mr President we did all vote for you but you destroyed America in nine months. Tonight was payback, What do you have to say for yourself?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama::   All I have to say is this: I'm Tracy Morgan. Live from New York It's Saturday Night Live.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2043743200419038791?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2043743200419038791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2043743200419038791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2043743200419038791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2043743200419038791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/live-from-new-york-its-saturday-night.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1986751176696818511</id><published>2009-04-09T17:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T18:50:22.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Born Free&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brooksley Born was Chairwoman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 1996 to 1998. She is a lawyer and previously worked at the politically connected  liberal Democrat Washington law firm of Arnold and Porter so it must have come as a shock when the President who appointed her had to replace her due to a severe case of excessive honesty and integrity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On April 21st 1998 Brooksley Born was at the Treasury Department presidential working group with Secretary Robert Rubin former CEO of Goldman Sachs, his top Deputy Secretary Larry Summers and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. She courageously stood her ground and attempted to stop the current real estate mortgage crisis by suggesting the CFTC reign in the financial derivative  market in general and Credit Default Swaps (CDS) in particular. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have explained previously, a CDS is a hybrid between a derivative and insurance. A derivative is a bet on the future value of gold, oil, a bond or some other commodity or financial instrument. A CDS is similar to insurance in that you have to make payments to continue your coverage. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe that Wall Street needed to sell Convertible Default Swaps in order to  knowingly peddle worthless real estate backed bonds. AIG has taken in 180 billion dollars in subsidies from American taxpayers in less than six months. That is a billion dollars a day. And still the Congress, the President and the current CFTC have not moved one inch closer to regulating CDS even though complaints have been made on the President's recent European tour. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At that April 21st 1998 meeting Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, a billionaire, told Brooksley Born that she could not regulate Credit Default Swaps because the CFTC had no jurisdiction. She rightly thought that was a bizarre argument and proceeded to put out a request for comments on her proposal to regulate CDS which could have saved us at least in part from our present calamity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On May 7th Brooksley Born went ahead with her proposal to regulate Credit Default Swaps by officially requesting comments drom the general public. Within hours  Alan Greenspan and  Robert Rubin were joined by Arthur Levitt, the former SEC Chairman, in denouncing her attempt to regulate CDS. They even proposed that a law be passed to stop her from doing what she considered to be her duty as a financial regulator which was to protect Americans from a massive and systematic fraud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On July 24th President Clinton publicly announced Brooksley Born's replacement at CFTC who took office 7 days later on July 31, 1998. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the following year the Glass Steagall Act was repealed by a vote of 362 to 57 in the House and 90 to 8 on the Senate with the active support of Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. During the Great Depression, the Pecora Commission was conducted to learn what we could to prevent  suffering another such brutal economic and social hardship. One lesson learned was that we should completely sever commercial banking from investment banks. That Depression era experience which came at a steep price was distilled into the Glass Steagall Act. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The House, the Senate, the President all supported banning any regulation of Credit Default Swaps and the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act. The FBI warned the nation and the Department of Justice in September of 2004 that we were facing a fraud in mortgage backed securities that could dwarf the Savings and Loan debacle of the 1980s. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can only conclude that it was by design that trillions of dollars were stolen by Wall Street . And we must also conclude that the Bailouts are rewarding uncommon criminals with additional trillions of taxpayer dollars. All Bailouts under Presidents Bush and Obama are in violation of a federal law known as the Prompt Corrective Action Law. It is a violation of that law passed during the Savings and Loan crisis in 1991 to allow a bankrupt bank to continue to operate. Those banks should have been closed, their toxic assets seized and sold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both political parties and two administrations have conspired together to transfer every last dollar of our savings and pensions to Wall Street for campaign cash and favorable coverage in the corporate media. If this situation is allowed to continue, we will all soon be penniless. And that too we must conclude is by Wall Street's design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be negligent not to mention that Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin, Arthur Levitt, Tim Geithner, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke are all Jewish and that Brooksley Born is not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if you look at the references below, you will see an article by Glenn Greenwald who excoriates our uncommon criminals from Wall Street. You will also see an article by Nikki Alexander denouncing our debt money fractional reserve banking system (i. e. the Federal Reserve Bank) as un-American and and toxic. I have long held that the Jewish leadership is self-appointed, does great harm to Jewish people and is completely insane and self-destructive. There are tens of millions of Jewish people in America who will have no place to go if those Jewish leaders are allowed to finish destroying the United States of America.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Jewish friend of mine who opposed Zionism once asked, “Who elected you Jewish leader? What was the vote, who counted it and when did it take place?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion I feel compelled to say what I have said before:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; “I was born a free man. I will die a free man.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been using titles from movies and books of late. If you have never heard the song Born Free which is the title song from the movie of the same name, please go here. Please note that Youtube is becoming unusable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.blinkx.com/video/born-free/Y9F2D8XUNHhCQWuPhXivFg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read a Jewish view on reforming our debt money system please read Nikki Alexander's article at Tikkun here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/20090402223353928&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PBS video - interview with Bill Black on banking fraud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Wall Street's ownership of government. (This is Green Greenwald's article)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/04/summers/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Brooksley Born's Wikipedia  entry:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1986751176696818511?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1986751176696818511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1986751176696818511' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1986751176696818511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1986751176696818511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/born-free-brooksley-born-was-chairwoman.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-8796367497367907869</id><published>2009-04-04T19:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-04T20:07:33.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Black Guy Did It&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“When this is all over, someone has to go to jail.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The above quote is a standard line in mystery films from The Maltese Falcon to National Treasure. In the Maltese Falcon Sam Spade played by Humphrey Bogart tells the bad guys played by Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre that when this is all over the cops will want to send someone to jail. He nominates another bad guy played by a bit actor to take the fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is also a standard part of American fiction that when a bad guy wants to frame someone else for a crime he committed he says, “The black guy did it.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National  politics in America is a spectator sport. No honest men and women are allowed to enter and to make decisions or even to participate in uncensored discussions of the events of the day in either print or televised media. We are permitted to choose sides and to root for Wall Street's anointed Republicans or Democrats. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am dating myself but I actually voted in the 1978 election. We were given a choice between a  Democrat who was a member of the Trilateral Commission which was headed by David Rockefeller in North America and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in Europe and a Republican who was a member of the Bilderberg Society headed by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in Europe and David Rockefeller in North America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned my lesson and have ever since refused to vote for any candidate who is a member of either the Bilderberg Society or the Trilateral Commission. To that list we should add the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) or any candidate with serious campaign cash from either Goldman Sachs or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In normal times when one administration leaves the succeeding one even if from a supposed opposition party WILL not look too closely in to criminal activity.  On 9-10-2001 Donald Rumsfeld admitted he could not trace 2.3 trillion dollars in Department of Defense (DOD) spending. If Rumsfeld were a real partisan, he could have started criminal proceedings and locked up half of the professional Democrat politicians in Washington as most of that money was stolen during the Clinton years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The statute of limitations would have exempted the previous Bush administration from prosecution. But the public would demand real reform if they knew the level of corruption was as  deep as it is so the Clintons were given a pass just as the Bushies were given a pass by the incoming Obama admin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009 is different than all other years. This is the year we lose our pensions and our savings and our wages spiral downwards until our after tax wages discounted for inflation are cut in half. The people who have lost everything will want blood. Barrack Obama knows this and even said that he was the only one standing between the bankers and the mobs with pitchforks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street has been stealing money and manipulating public opinion for more than one hundred years. They have an exit strategy already prepared for when the public realizes  the greatest swindle in human history has taken away their ability to feed themselves and their families. There are two obvious ploys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ploy number one. Someone has to go to jail. Wall Street sacrifices a politician and hopes the public is satisfied when Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner, George W Bush or another politician goes to jail. This will not work. The people I talk to fall into two categories. The smart ones who know things will soon fall apart  and are waiting for that day when they can revolt. The others are too stupid to figure out that the purpose of all these Bailouts is not to help the unemployed get their jobs back but to take every last dollar from the working class and give it to the uber rich. When everyone figures it out the Game will be over. Wall Street knows this and trembles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ploy number two. The black guy did it. Wall Street engineers a race war by piling on after the food riots begin later this year. This is the most likely and by far the most dangerous scenario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to make everyone aware that a race war is not in anyone's interest except for Wall Street bankers. We will win nothing from a violent civil war. I personally know of people choosing sides. They are armed and dangerous to themselves, to their race and to the existence of America as a free and sovereign nation. They are unwittingly coming to the rescue of the bankers they despise. They could provide Wall Street with an easy out by creating a situation so terrifying that the common people will give up all thoughts of revenge as they seek safety from a race based civil war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As my regular readers know, I believe Wall Street has decided that America has been bled dry and will be of no further use and its enraged citizens have become a distinct liability. I assume they are thinking that a race war will destroy America so they can safely go about their business and merge what is left of the United States into the North American Union with Canada and Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wall Street can then issue a new international debt based fractional reserve currency and begin fleecing a new generation of sheep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is time left for us to end this Game and live real lives free from Wall Street's machinations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-8796367497367907869?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/8796367497367907869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=8796367497367907869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8796367497367907869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/8796367497367907869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/04/black-guy-did-it-when-this-is-all-over.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3516542692045806428</id><published>2009-03-23T21:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T22:24:16.830-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>One Million Sayanim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel has one million sayanim worldwide  according to Gordon Thomas  who wrote Gideon's Spies, The Secret History of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence service.) Mr Thomas has also written books on the CIA and MI5 and MI6. The word sayanim comes from the Hebrew word to help. In an interview Gordon Thomas said these one million helpers were recruited by the Mossad primarily  to gather information around the world. Mr Thomas said they feed information daily to their nearest Israeli consulate. Israel has an army of translators who translate the information which is then assembled into a complete picture by the Mossad. The Mossad only has 1,500 agents, They could not operate without their million sayan or helpers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we assume that one-third of all Jews in the world live in America, we could reasonably infer that there are approximately 350,000 sayanim or Mossad agents in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a previous interview published at Jeff  Rense's  website Gordon Thomas said there were 15,000 sayanim in America with military training who were called upon by former Mossad Operations Director Rafael (Rafi) Eitan during an alert on the anniversary of 9-11 in 2003. Mr Thomas said many of these men had police duties and hence powers in either federal or local agencies. I would conclude that the 15,000 sayanim in America only refers to armed agents with military training. The other 335,000 are just spies and are not part of a domestic Zionist para-military force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not fear retribution if you share this information with your friends. Zionists do not care that everyone knows how much power they have. That is why the Mossad co-operated with Gordon Thomas and helped him with his book Gideon's Spies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That earlier interview with Mr Thomas can be read here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.rense.com/general41/mob.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latest interview took place early Saturday morning March 22nd on the Coast to Coast AM radio show and was conducted by Ian Punnett. The statement about the million sayanim worldwide was made just prior to the conclusion of the show.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3516542692045806428?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3516542692045806428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3516542692045806428' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3516542692045806428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3516542692045806428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/one-million-sayanim-israel-has-one.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-5215085501857416060</id><published>2009-03-19T12:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-19T22:02:22.324-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Escape From New York&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my last few essays I have been using titles from well known movies and novels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Watchmen I revealed the one economic indicator that would warn you that the dollar was in imminent danger of collapse and all large American cities would become free fire riot zones ruled by looters, armed thugs and militias. That one indicator is Treasury Auctions. We have a President and a Congress that thinks they can sell forty to sixty billion dollars a week in new Treasury bills and bonds when China only has a five billion dollar a month trade surplus and Japan and Germany are in even worse shape. To sell that many bonds Treasury Secretary Geithner will have to let interest rates climb through the roof. They will crash the economy before the end of 2009. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Silence of the Lambs I revealed why the President and the Congress has not bothered to cancel Credit Default Swaps (CDS) even after agreeing to give AIG 180 billion dollars to cover their losses from CDS. I said they cannot stop selling Credit Default Swaps because Wall Street couldn't sell worthless securities without a guarantee that the buyer has a right to suction dollars directly from your wallet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In The Counterfeiters I explained how the Federal Reserve transfers all wealth produced by working people, small businesses and farmers to Wall Street which has had a license to print our money since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. These men are responsible for both the last and the current Great Depressions. They are also responsible for all of our wars. I said these men are not real people. They are counterfeit men. They do not understand the human spirit. They will fail in their plans to rule the world because real men and women cannot live in the dark place they have prepared for those whom Wall Street will allow to survive the next few years. I predicted a coming Rebellion of the Spirit against our oppressors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escape From New York was a 1981 John Carpenter film set in the future when Manhattan had become a maximum security prison. Don't get me wrong. I love New York. It is one of my favorite cities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purpose of this essay is to warn you that it is past time for you to have made escape plans if you live in almost any large American city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of you will feel safer overseas. I am not qualified to give you advice about relative safety in foreign lands during perilous times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your intended destination is inside the United States, your safe haven should meet the following qualifications:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Does state law allow conceal carry handguns?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you feel safe going to the store even if there were nationwide food riots?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the legislature and governor's office in that state controlled by crazy people? There are American politicians who have in the past sold the right to rob, rape and pillage to their voters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will you be living with people you can entrust your life? If not, you will not live long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you pack and leave at a moment's notice?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you prepared to remain at your destination for three or four years?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it close to the Mexican border? That is a No No. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mexican economy will collapse the day after America's if not sooner. The CIA has warned us that Mexico is near collapse and that ten to fifteen million Mexicans will cross the border when their nation ceases to function. Professional Mexican criminals will be recruited to systematically loot banks, jewelry stores and gun shops in border states. Liquor stores and supermarkets will be left to the amateurs. The three major Mexican drug cartels have tens of thousands of trained assassins to provide cover. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel obligated to point out that Mexico suffers from the same corruption that oppresses all Americans of white, black, hispanic, Asian and Indian origin. We are all in this together. We will all benefit when the federal government takes over the Federal Reserve and acts decisively to prevent Wall Street from stealing two hundred billion dollars a year from inadequately audited federal spending. If we act together we can still prevent the collapse of civil society in America, Mexico and a lot of other nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we don't get control of the situation soon, you will need to plant a garden. You will also need to perform a service or to produce a product that others will want to pay you for at your new location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You need to either find or to create a safe and viable community. It will be your government until a new federal government can be established to replace the one that has been exploiting us in behalf of Wall Street for the last one hundred years.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-5215085501857416060?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/5215085501857416060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=5215085501857416060' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5215085501857416060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5215085501857416060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/escape-from-new-york-my-last-few-essays.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3170541200703390954</id><published>2009-03-13T20:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T21:53:57.657-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Watchmen: Watch This&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In medieval times cities had watchmen to warn the inhabitants of armed ruffians and invading armies. In these perilous time we look to economists to warn of the coming collapse. I believe we are in the tail end of a long credit cycle created unnecessarily by our debt based system which requires us to create a debt before we are allowed to create money and credit. In the tail end of a long credit cycle bad debts are canceled. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am writing this to reveal the one economic indicator we need to follow in order to predict when the dollar crashes and the riots begin . I am not alone in saying we are entering a Depression far worse than 1929-1939. Gerald Celente one of America's most accurate forecasters has predicted food riots in America before the end of 2009. There is one indicator that will tell us when everything falls apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one indicator I follow is Treasury Auctions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deficits must soar at the end of long credit cycles because when money is created the banks require us to also create a debt. The banks create enough debt money to pay the principal but not the interest. So debts will be re-financed until people are swimming in piles of debts they cannot pay, In the end of a long credit cycle all bad debts are canceled. From 1929 to 1939 bad loans were canceled which means that the money supply shrank and prices dropped. For the past few months our Federal Reserve and Treasury have been busy expanding the money supply so the next Depression will be inflationary unlike the last one. The end is nigh and will be foretold by Treasury Auction. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current deficit is 1.2 trillion dollars. The Congress has added a 787 billion dollar Stimulus bill and a 410 billion dollar Spending bill. We also have continuing and numerous Bailouts to be financed by the sale of Treasuries. To this we must add up to 500 billion dollars to be borrowed by FDIC to cover depositors losses at failing banks. And there are other government agencies near bankruptcy that might soon require Treasury assistance. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has a liability to insure hundreds of billions of dollars in private pensions. On March 15th American corporations will have to pay 409 billion dollars into retirement funds. And then there are the 50 state and 3,000 county governments in America who have serious budget shortfalls and also owe hundred of billions in unfunded pension liabilities. They will need additional federal funding to avoid layoffs and benefit cuts. All of the above is to be funded by the sale of Treasuries at auction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That 410 billion dollar Spending bill is to be added to the current deficit which means that it must be spent before October 1st of 2009. That is about two billion dollars a day in additional spending. That means that the Treasury will have to auction off two billion dollars a day or fourteen billion dollars in each week's auction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please remember that a debt based system was designed to fail us and to transfer all wealth from those of us who work to those who were given a license to print our money. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interest rates have already been creeping up both at Treasury Auctions and at London's LIBOR. An analogy of what to expect would be if you were in charge of marketing for an apple growers association. You had been selling 50,000 bushels of apples a week and then 100,000 bushels and then 300,000 bushels a week. Now your new boss says you will be selling 600,000 bushels a week for the next three years. And you will be expected to flood the market with all those apples without lowering the price of apples. That is impossible. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the Treasury doubles and re-doubles the amount of Treasury bills and bonds for sale the auction sale price of those Treasuries will go down just like the price of apples in our example which is to say that interest rates will go up. Rising interest rates will kill the economy. Increased home mortgage rates will stop all home sales and send America into the deep end of the coming Depression. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are also facing another problem. There is a Great Contraction of international trade. Japan no longer has a surplus. Germany's surplus has almost evaporated. OPEC is suffering from declining oil revenues. And China's surplus has dwindled to five billion dollars a month. That means the main customers for our Treasury bonds will not even be able to cover that fourteen billion dollar a week Spending bill. And this assumes that our bondholders are willing to roll over or renew their existing Treasuries. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day very, very soon foreigners will refuse to fund America's debts. They will refuse to buy trillions of dollars in worthless bonds. They will act in their own interest, dump the dollar and buy any commodity or currency available with their trillions of soon to be worthless American dollars. The Congress will respond by printing enormous sums to keep things going. The ensuing inflation will wipe out our Social Security and unemployment benefits, our pensions, our savings, and our paychecks. It will rob us of our futures. We will have nothing left. The nationwide food riots will signal the end of the America we knew. In many cities street gangs and militias will rule. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I expect the dollar to crash this year. I have been saying since 2005 that the dollar would crash in 2009 and that by Wall Street's design our after tax wages adjusted for inflation will be half what they were four years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keep an eye on Treasury Auctions so you will know when to go into survival mode to protect yourself, your family and friends from the looming financial collapse and social upheaval the likes of which we have never seen in America even during the Great Depression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are people on the inside of the Power Elite who are as smart as I am and know that our Treasury Auctions will soon self-destruct and take the dollar with it. They know that we will soon face riots in every major city. They know that our pensions,our savings, our jobs and paychecks will be insufficient to feed and house the majority of Americans. They know what will happen to us and have prepared draconian laws to put those of us who strenuously object to our coming impoverishment and enslavement. Stay tuned and keep your eyes on Treasury Auctions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no need to create a debt when you create paper money and credits which means there is no reason other than greed for Depressions like 1929-1939 and the one we are now entering. To read about debt free money please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/articles/article-idx.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the Democrats plan for yet another Stimulus bill please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/4973841/Democrats-draw-up-plan-for-second-stimulus-bill.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3170541200703390954?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3170541200703390954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3170541200703390954' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3170541200703390954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3170541200703390954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/watchmen-watch-this-in-medieval-times.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1019231920365666413</id><published>2009-03-05T22:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T09:22:03.532-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Silence Of The Lambs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sheep are sheared. Sheep are slaughtered. And they endure it all  in silence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are riots and protests against the bankers in Europe but none in America. Though Gerald Celente said there will be food riots in America later this year. Americans are still content to allow the bankers and their politicians in Washington to fleece us and lead us to the slaughter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am concerned that no one has spoken out more forcefully about the Bailouts in general and AIG in particular. The American taxpayers had already given AIG 150 billion dollars in three installments and now are now giving them an additional 30 billion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of these AIG bailouts have gone to cover Credit Default Swaps (CDS). A Credit Default Swap is a hybrid created with the features of a derivative and of  insurance. Derivatives are bets on the future value of a commodity like oil or gold. Derivatives are regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC.) Insurance is regulated by all fifty states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit Default Swaps are unregulated which is why Wall Street loves them. Credit Default Swaps protect a buyer from the collapse in value of a mortgage backed security. If there were no CDS, then they could not unload their worthless securities all over the world. Hence the riots in Europe. CDS are like your old fashioned insurance policy in this respect: If you don't make the payments your coverage is canceled real quick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why has not one pundit or commentator on controlled TV asked one of those congresspersons or presidential spokesmen why Credit Default Swaps have not been canceled by the Bailout authorities or by the Congress? If we had suspended all payments, then the Credit Default Swaps would have expired soon after election day in 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The correct answer is that the media, the government and Wall Street want to continue shearing the sheep until the day (later this year) when all the sheep are slaughtered, all their savings and pensions are confiscated and riots make their cities unlivable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the sheeple will be well prepared for Wall Street's next step which is the end of all freedom and the end of America as we knew it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said in previous essays, I do not believe Wall Street will successfully crush our Spirit. They will not succeed. But we do need to understand what Wall Street is doing so we are in a better position to survive the coming dangerous and hard times.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1019231920365666413?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1019231920365666413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1019231920365666413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1019231920365666413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1019231920365666413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/silence-of-lambs-sheep-are-sheared.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-2668617897395418368</id><published>2009-03-02T17:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T18:31:38.766-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Counterfeiters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suppose you were a counterfeiter and were given the right to print all money in the United States with the sole proviso that you could not directly buy anything. You could make all the money you wanted but you were only allowed to pass it onto an unsuspecting public by loaning it to them or to their government. Your only source of income would be the interest you collected on the total American money supply which is currently more than ten trillion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, the Federal Reserve Bank issued a notice in 2005 saying they would no longer tell us what the total money supply starting in 2006, John Williams at Shadow Stats says the total M3 money supply is now over 11 trillion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That means that if you were given the same license to print money that the bankers gave themselves in 1913 you would be collecting the interest on 11 trillion dollars. You could transfer all wealth from those poor devils who had to work for a living to your family because you have the license to print their money. That is why I have always said that the goal of the Federal Reserve Bank is to transfer all wealth from us to Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money is a commodity that measures the value of all other commodities and goods and services for sale. Prices are a ratio of money to everything for sale. For example, if we doubled the money supply but did not increase our output of goods and services we might expect prices to also double.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that when I say money I am not just talking about Federal Reserve Notes. The total money supply also includes checking account money which bankers create when you ask for a loan. When you ask for a ten thousand dollar loan, they are not loaning you money from an old lady's deposits. They are adding ten thousand dollars to the money supply. They are counterfeiting money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One reason why the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913 was that Wall Street wanted us to enter World War I so the war would last longer. If your family business were counterfeiting, you would want a war to run a huge deficit so you could create billions of dollars and enter them into circulation by loaning them to the governments so they get their young men killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you could accomplish other worthy goals. The Great War as it was called did not end until General Allenby secured Palestine as a British colony which after just one more war was to become the state of Israel. World War I also bankrupted our allies in England and France making New York the world's financial capitol. It bankrupted the Russians and enabled the Jewish Communists to take over. That they killed 350,000 priests in the first two years and over 64,000,000 other Russians before the collapse of the Soviet Union is not even a footnote in the history books. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were people who wanted to stop World War II before it started. But the counterfeiters would have nothing to do with them. The German General Staff sent two officers to London in March of 1939 to negotiate a peace. They even offered to arrest Hitler. Previously, the Emperor of Japan had offered to break his alliance with the Nazis, to pull out of China and even to become an ally of the United States against the Soviet Union which at that time had been killing millions of Christians every year since 1918.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters said no to peace again and yes to war. 58,000,000 people like you and me died. They were real life and blood people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the Second World War, the Counterfeiters gave  northern Korea to Joe Stalin even though he was never an ally against Japan until the war was over. This enabled the Counterfeiters to train an army in the north and to create the Korean War just five years after the cessation of hostilities. Millions more died. But fortunately for the Counterfeiters they were able to draft lots of young anti-Communist men and send them to Asia to die before they could  start a resistance at home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in 1960 something startling happened in America. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected. He dared to issue Executive Order 11110 which directed the Treasurer of the United States to replace Federal Reserve Notes with Treasury Silver Certificates. This would have led to the end of legalized counterfeiting in the USA. JFK also opposed the nuclear arms race in the Mideast. He demanded the right to inspect the Israeli nuclear works at Dimona.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Something had to be done and it was. The Zapruder film of the assassination of President Kennedy clearly showed the President's body being thrown backwards by the force of bullets coming from his front. CBS radio had Dan Rather go on the air and tell the American people that the Zapruder film showed  JFK being shot from behind. Life magazine followed up by publishing photos taken in the order 1- 2 -3 and publishing them in the order 3-2-1 so their readers would mistakenly conclude that their young President who had attempted to save them from the Counterfeiters has been killed by a lone assassin shooting from the Texas School Book Depository. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of strange things have been allowed to have been published about the assassination of President Kennedy but notice that only one group, the Counterfeiters, brings all the elements together. Through their banks the Counterfeiters currently launder about a trillion dollars a year in drug money plus up to 400 billion dollars a year in illegal weapons sales. They also launder 500 billion dollars a year in bribes. Some have theorized about the role of the Mafia in the JFK assassination but have failed to mention Meyer Lansky and the Counterfeiters, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters have flooded the world with drugs. They do not care that millions of lives have been ruined. They do not care that they are destroying America one family at a time. They do not care that they are destroying American cities block by block and neighborhood by neighborhood. The Counterfeiters are making money and that is all that matters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Others have the quaint notion that the Pentagon wanted JFK to go into the Vietnam War and to win a war against the Communists. To those I would say that Vietnam was a minor motive. The goal was to get us into the the war so the Counterfeiters could kill another generation of anti-communists. Wall Street wanted to send a whole generation of young men to die in jungles of Asia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That millions of Asians also died in the Korean and Vietnam wars was of no concern to them. That million of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were exposed to Agent Orange making their children susceptible to birth defects was of no concern to the Counterfeiters. As you may suspect by now, Counterfeiters are not real human beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems like long ago but Lyndon Johnson was the first president to submit a budget that exceeded one hundred billion dollars a year. George W Bush just left office with a 1.2 trillion dollar deficit or 100 billion dollars a month. Times might be changing. Things might be getting worse for us. But business is great for the Counterfeiters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To the two or three people who still think Bush was a great President I would say that 911 was an inside job and Dick Cheney knew it even if the village idiot from Crawford Texas did not.  I say to them one more time go to www.WTC7.net  and look at the collapse videos of World Trade Center Tower 7. Please look at the intact glass in the building as it collapses. Glass melts between 800 and 900 degrees Fahrenheit. A carbon based fire, such as, jet fuel burning in the open air without the benefit of added oxygen will not burn above 900 degrees. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we know that the steel girders which required 2,200 degrees to melt were taken out within two seconds of each other simultaneously on 47 floors and that there must have been a source of oxygen inside WTC 7 that was adjacent to the girders but not the exterior glass. There is a powdered substance called thermate which you can look up on Wikipedia. It uses a combination of aluminum, iron oxide, magnesium and other substances to generate an intense controlled heat and is capable of easily melting through steel girders with 4,800 degree temperatures in seconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who are not mathematically challenged I would point out that a few fires on several floors would not have brought down a 47 story building in 6.5 seconds. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane on 9-11-2001. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pentagon was also attacked on 9-11-2001. On 9-10-2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that neither he nor rabbi Dov Zakheim,  the Comptroller of the Department of Defense (DOD), could adequately trace 2.3 trillion dollars in military spending from the previous Clinton and Bush I administrations. It would seem that the Counterfeiters were not satisfied with their profits from counterfeiting  and from  laundering drug money. They have been stealing money from unaudited federal spending for decades under both political parties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the morning of 9-11-2001 at 09:32 hours, Robert Andrews, a former Green Beret, was Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations. He was entering the Counter Terrorism Center when it was destroyed by a bomb that had been centered in the auditing center next door. That bomb killed more than forty auditors who were attempting to trace that missing 2.3 trillion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The official story given by the government and the media, which must be apparent to you by now, are wholly owned by the Counterfeiters, is that Flight 77, a Boeing 757, alone was responsible for the deaths of the auditors and there was no bomb despite the testimony of April Gallop, a third generation soldier, Lt Colonel Karen Kwiatowski, Robert Andrews and  Per Stig Moller, the Danish Foreign Secretary, that there was a bomb. The aftermath photos of the Pentagon revealed that there was no wreckage from a Boeing 757 in front of the building nor was there a whole in the front of the building large enough for a passenger liner to enter inside. Besides extensive testing bu the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has revealed that what the Pentagon claimed was Flight 77 had no Arab DNA. Are we to believe that the hijackers were bodily resurrected into Heaven?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CNN listed the names of the flight crews and passengers who were on the four planes alleged to have been hijacked on 9-11. But none of the 19 alleged Arab hijackers were were on the lists. Neither the media nor the government including the FBI has asked how 19 men boarded a total of 4 planes without tickets and boarding passes and without being recorded on surveillance videos. What are the odds that you personally could board a plane without either a boarding pass or a ticket? What are the odds that an immigrant with a foreign passport could do the same? Multiply those odds times itelf 19 times to determine the possibility that the government, the media and both political parties through the bi-partisan 911 Commission have been telling you the truth about the “War on Terror.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what has been happening since 9-11? We have invaded two countries that Richard Perle, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, told the Likud party in 1996in a paper called A Clean Break A New Strategy For Securing The Realm where the Realm to be secured refers to Israel and not to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; So lets review what happened on 9-11 and since then. Men were allowed to use thermate to take down World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 an 7 using thermate and explosives. Men were also allowed to blow up the Pentagon offices of the men and women who had been asked to trace 2.3 trillion dollars in taxpayer funds stolen by associates of the Counterfeiters. Then we invaded two nations that had nothing to do with 9-11 Before anyone protests and says that Osama bin Laden was behind 9-11 please go to the FBI and ask them why he is not wanted for that crime. He denied he had anything to do with it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Benazir Bhutto the former Prime Minister of Pakistan said he was murdered in December of 2001 by Omar Sheikh who was recruited by MI6 while he was a student at the London School of Economics. All of those Osama videos telling us to vote for Bush in 2004, threatening to blow up Washington DC in 2007 and touting the “War on Terror” were made by an “actor” who does not even look like the original character he is playing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters blew up WTC Towers 1, 2, and 7 and the Pentagon on 9-11-2001. They killed the auditors tracing the 2.3 trillion dollars in missing money. They have instilled sufficient terror in the politicians and the media that we have had no serious attempt to recover lost taxpayer money. Once a Counterfeiter has stolen your money it belongs to him forever or so he thinks. And the media has continued to allow the Counterfeiters to pull off other “terrorist events.” On 7-7-2005 the Counterfeiters blew up the London subways and blamed it on four young Pakistani immigrants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; No matter that the London subway schedules made it impossible for thealleged bombers to get to the location of the train stations that were attacked. No matter that the trains were blown from underneath the cars and not by suicide bombers sitting inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters have used the “War on Terror” to set up a National Security State. They have been working for a century  for what I have called That Glorious Day when all wealth will belong to them. They have stolen billions of dollars every week from unaudited federal government spending. They have sent the money overseas along with the gold they stole from Fort Knox. It has joined their profits from the drug trade. When, not if. the dollar collapses, everything will belong to the Counterfeiters or at least according to their plans. They will buy America for pennies on the dollar. They would hope to own the government and to eliminate excessive democracy so you will no longer be allowed to criticize bankers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have heard of the New World Order. I have interpreted it to mean a One World government with One Bank One Vote as the rule. Those of you who don't own a bank will have no vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have entered the final stages. The dollar will soon die. The US debt is a fiction. The US debt ceiling is now 11.3 trillion dollars. It will soon be 15 trillion and after that 20 trillion if the United States lasts that long. We will choke under the burden of the debt. Even at ten percent interest on 20 trillion we will have to triple the amount of income tax we pay long before the 2012 elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters created wars for us and counterfeited money and debts to enslave us. The Counterfeiters stole money from unaudited government contracts and counterfeited money and debts to enslave us, The Counterfeiters stole trillions of dollars from our largest banks and corporations and are now busily counterfeiting money and debts to complete our enslavement. All of our pensions and savings are to be taken from us the Day The Dollar Dies, And the day after those of us who still have a job will see at least a fifty percent paycut that will be permanent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters have devised an exit strategy to save them, their investments and their ownership of the government and the media from the wrath of an enraged citizenry. The plan requires an end to democracy and sovereignty. They have been busy working on the merger of the United States, Canada and Mexico which further down the road will be merged with the European Union. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been much talk of another war in the Mideast. War is a price those of us who work for a living have to pay to maintain the Counterfeiters in the style to which they believe they were divinely appointed. I had a vision of World War III when I was a child. It is one of the two visions that have guided my entire life. That vision will only come true if we fail to act and fail to get control of the banking system, the government and the media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Counterfeiters will fail. Let me repeat, The Counterfeiters will fail. The Glorious Day where all real wealth, the government and the media are belong to them will never arrive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will fail because Counterfeiters are not real people. They understand lying and manipulation. They know how to strike fear into men and women. But they do not understand the human spirit because they are not real human beings. They do not understand that the Spirit of Man will rebel at the dismal future they have planned for us. I have called this the Rebellion of the Spirit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the Counterfeiters cannot win, does that mean we will triumph? Not necessarily. We could all die in World War III though even in my vision there was a remnant left to start the next age of mankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you hesitate to join the resistance against Evil, please consider this: After the Counterfeiters have taken tour last dollar you will no longer be an asset to them. In fact you and several billion other people will become liabilities when people get angry and ask for their money and their jobs back. To understand how Counterfeiters think and to predict their behavior you must understand banking. So now ask yourself this question: What does a banker do when he encounters a non-performing asset has become a dangerous liability? That's right. He liquidates it. That is why I conclude we are about to enter a war unlike any we have ever seen if we do not resist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To stop the next war and to get control of the banking system and the government  we need some better propaganda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that billions of dollars are being stolen each week from unaudited government contracts by Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that the Federal Reserve Bank is designed to transfer wealth from us to Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that those four planes on 9-11-2001 were hijacked electronically and that there were no Arabs on board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that we cannot allow the government to put us into debtor's slavery to cover trillions of dollars stolen by Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan attacked us on 9-11 and that we need to apologize and leave both of those nations now. Of course we do need to help then rebuild. We destroyed their nations and killed millions of their people because we believed lies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to tell people that if Israel had not killed President Kennedy there would never have been a nuclear arms race in the Mideast and we therefore are under no obligation to attack Iran. If Israelis want to feel safe, then they will have to learn to make others feel safe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me first say that I was inspired to write this essay by Andre Gide's 1926 novel Les Faux Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the billions of dollars Wall Street is allowed to steal each week from US federal government spending please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://solari.com/archive/missing_money/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more about debt free money please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.prosperityuk.com/prosperity/articles/article-idx.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read more about the London subway bombings please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.london77truth.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reference to that passenger and crew list of the 4 planes that were electronically hijacked on 9-11 you will have to go to the Internet Archive as the direct link was taken down by CNN,  Once there (www.Archive.org ) I typed in the old CNN URL and the dates when I knew it was online and got this result:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  http://web.archive.org/web/20010911000000-20020117235959/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-2668617897395418368?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/2668617897395418368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=2668617897395418368' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2668617897395418368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/2668617897395418368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/counterfeiters-suppose-you-were.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-1636469190380477431</id><published>2009-02-19T17:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-20T10:18:08.505-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>One Strike You're Out&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In normal times we give people more than one chance to succeed because we used to be a wealthy nation and could tolerate some failures even in our government. But we are in the first year of the Greatest Contraction since 1929-1939. Our new President had one chance to solve America's problems and what he proposed will not work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama decided to borrow trillions of dollars and give that money to the people who destroyed our economy and also to set aside part of that money to reward his voters. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Stimulus was not  intended to create jobs in 2009 even though we lost 1,600,000 jobs in December and January because most of the spending is scheduled to take place from 2010 to 2012. Some critics have said that the Stimulus money will be used to create a political force for the 2010 and 2012 elections, One of the reasons why Senator Gregg declined to accept his nomination to be Commerce Secretary was the proposed transfer of control of the 2010 census from Commerce to the White House. The Senator did not want to participate in political fraud with a fudged census packing the House of Representatives and the electoral college. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Stimulus Bill has a provision that will help the President raise money from men under criminal investigation. The Stimulus bill that nobody read had an interesting provision that would benefit Mr Obama's past and future donors on Wall Street. It is the RAT (Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board). The RAT Board oversees federal inspector generals who are in charge of overseeing government agencies. The RAT Board can stop any inspector general from embarrassing the President and his friends on Wall Street. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, I think Mr Obama is dreaming if he thinks he is going to even be a candidate in 2012 after the food riots shake this country to its roots. Gerald Celente is predicting a dramatic increase in crime and even a surge in kidnappings. This failure will soon become evident to even the most partisan Democrat. I am reminded of something Malcolm X said the week before his assassination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Why is it that you do and do for the Democrats and they don't do for you? Why is that? I will tell you why. Because you are a chump.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course the same can be said of the Republicans. John McCain had a fund raiser hosted by the Rothschilds in March of 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was evident to those of us who opposed George Bush's invasion of Iraq that the Iraqis had no Weapons of Mass Destruction and had nothing to do with 9-11. It is equally obvious to anyone who reads and understands what he or she reads that the Obama plan will not work and was never intended to solve our real problems which are unemployment, economic contraction and a crashing dollar that will transfer all of our real wealth to the international elites who supported Obama and McCain in 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wholesale prices went up 8/10ths of one percent last month. Prices are starting to go back up and will take interest rates up with them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latest Treasury auction was a disaster. Interest rates on Treasuries are already beginning to creep up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China, India, Japan, England and OPEC can no longer buy our Treasuries so interest rates will have to go op, up and away to attract buyers for several trillion dollars. in new US bonds needed to fund the deficit of 1.2 trillion dollars, the 800 billion dollar Stimulus and the continuing Bailout of both Wall Street and home mortgages. A correspondent from Time magazine said this will be the first of a series of Stimulus and Bailout bills. All of the above is to be financed by borrowing at higher and higher interest rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;70% of all homes on foreclosures have not been listed. There are 5,162 homes in foreclosure in San Jose California listed on Yahoo real estate. So if only 30% are being listed by the banks, then we can safely say that there are more than 15,000 homes in foreclosure in the town where I live. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I talked to two women who are illegal aliens but did not let that stop them from voting for Obama. They said they expect the President of the United States to pay their mortgages. That was before Obama announced his solution to the home mortgage crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if 9,000,000 homes are to be rescued by 75 billion dollars left over from TARP how much relief will each recipient get? A little over a thousand dollars. And, if another 5 to 6 million people lose their jobs, who will pay for their mortgages? Clearly we are going to have to borrow a lot more money at much higher interest rates to meet Obama's campaign promises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The current US debt ceiling is 11.3 trillion dollars. In my New Years predictions I said the debt ceiling would go to 15 trillion dollars this year. At the current rate of growth in debt, we could easily expect to have a 20 trillion dollar debt some time in 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ben Bernanke is a student of the Great Depression. He said the lesson he learned is to overcome the contraction in the money supply which explains why the monetary base is growing at 105% and the broader M3 is growing at 15% a year. Bernanke believes he can use the same methods the Federal Reserve used in 1980 to solve the problem of inflation. At that time the Federal Reserve raised interest rates until home mortgages were 15%. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Bernanke raised interest rates to 15% in 2010, our 20 trillion dollar debt would soon cost us 3 trillion dollars a year to finance. This can easily be done by simply tripling the income tax collected. from a trillion to three trillion dollars a year. Of course that would leave the average American with only a few dollars a week in after tax income to pay for food, clothing, shelter, insurance, transportation, education and other necessities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even a perfunctory examination of the facts will tell us that none of these plans will work nor were they even designed to work. So why do they bother? My conclusion is that the real plan is something entirely different. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most likely possibility is that Wall Street is planning to eliminate democracy after they have stolen all of our money. The Federal Reserve announced in 2005 that they would no longer publish the M3 total money supply figures. They knew then that they would be printing lots of money to cover up what they had stolen from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Wall Street has been busy eliminating freedom through the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and executive orders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We might not see the future but we can clearly see what Wall Street has planned for us and that it is not good. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the RAT Board please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/The-RAT-hiding-deep-inside-the-stimulus-bill-39805642.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To watch a video on the Bailout and the Mortgage subsidy please click on this CNBC ERL:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read Paul Craig Roberts explain why the Bailout and Mortgage won't work please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts02182009.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the increase in wholesale prices please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wholesale-inflation-takes-apf-14410311.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-1636469190380477431?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/1636469190380477431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=1636469190380477431' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1636469190380477431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/1636469190380477431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-strike-youre-out-in-normal-times-we.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-3885163014271636188</id><published>2009-02-14T20:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-14T21:07:09.803-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Lies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December job losses have been revised upwards by 53,000. And January's losses were actually understated by 118,000 to account for seasonal adjustments. That brings the total two month job loss to 1,175.000. At that rate creating 3.5 million jobs over the next two years provided you believe the hype about the Stimulus Bill will not stem the rising tide of unemployment. In 12 months we will lose more than 6,600,000 jobs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan administration, has pointed out the difference between the Labor Department's Household survey and their Payroll survey. The Household survey polls 60,000 homes to determine the number of people who have jobs. The Payroll survey counts the number of jobs. Mr Roberts points out that some people have two or more jobs so the two surveys do not give the same results. The Household survey puts total job losses for December at 806,000 and 832,000 for January. That is a two month total of 1,638,000 or more than 7.2 million at an annualized rate or 3.7 million more jobs than promised by that Stimulus Bill over the next two years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But John Williams at ShadowStats.com has revealed a darker side to those unemployment figures. In 1994 the definition of unemployment was changed to exclude longterm unemployed workers who have given up looking for work because they could not fins a job after one year of searching. If you use the original definition, the United States unemployment rate for December was 17.5% and 18% for January.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This requires some explanation for people under 50. I live in Silicon Valley. I know lots of people over 50 who cannot find work. I also know two men, one white and one black, recently hired at $12 an hour. It should be noted that $12 an hour is not a lot of money in Silicon Valley. The last time I looked a 422 square foot studio apartment can be rented for a mere $950 a month. I also met a driver for a document shredding company who told me 60% of their drivers had been laid off permanently. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also know a lot of people over 50 who have been laid off and bo longer look for work. They would like to work but it is a waste of time for them to even apply for a job. All of the high tech jobs are going to younger people from overseas with H1-B visas who work for far less than do Americans. In the best of times men and women over 50 have a hard time finding work at their old pay. In these worst of times young American college graduates can't find work. You can see them on TV being asked how they plan to pay back their college loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of you might be astonished to hear that the ultra-liberal Robert Reich was Labor Secretary in 1994 when unemployment was re-defined so Americans would be excluded from the unemployment count. My conclusion is justified that neither political party cars about us enough to even register the pain of our losses. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My regular readers are aware of my belief that Wall Street's long term goal is to permanently cut our wages in half because they want to steal our money and it is so easy to control impoverished people. To maintain control they cannot allow us to even think about the millions of jobs going to legal and illegal aliens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why must they lie? They know that if we knew the truth and were allowed to discuss it on TV, on  radio and in the press that their government will not stand. The government Wall Street created for us will collapse because it is evil and deserves to die. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please do yourself a favor and study John Williams work on real unemployment and money figures. He says the Monetary Base os growing at an annualized rate of 105%: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.ShadowStats.com &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read Paul Craig Roberts on unemployment please go here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.rense.com/general85/dhdd.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a news story on the January Jobless from BLS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read a news story about the ADP January jobless figures please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Universal-Systems-Starting-iw-14186426.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-3885163014271636188?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/3885163014271636188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=3885163014271636188' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3885163014271636188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/3885163014271636188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/02/lies-december-job-losses-have-been.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-776483295985353366</id><published>2009-02-08T21:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-10T16:21:22.601-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The Bulgarian Strategy And Other Advice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previously, I have said that the United States entered World War I so we could make the Great War last longer. This made it possible for us to bankrupt our allies England, France and Russia. It also enabled the Jewish Communists to overthrow the Social Democratic government of Russia and for England to grab Palestine from Turkey on behalf of the Zionists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little known fact of World War I was that Bulgaria was a German ally. The English knew this and declared war on Bulgaria. The Bulgarian ambassador to the United States must have been very grateful that the Americans forgot Bulgaria when the Congress voted to declare war on Germany and Austria. The Bulgarian ambassador  wisely decided to take down the sign and the flag in front of  the embassy. He spent the whole war years in the relative safety of Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realize that this Bulgarian option might not be a good strategy for many of you. Bur consider this: There are only 12,800 FBI agents. However, they are hiring an additional 800 men and women. Wall Street must have reason to believe they will need the additional help. Your name is in their databases. But there is a limit to how many of us they can arrest without trial so you might seriously consider taking a low profile until what I have called the Rebellion of the Spirit takes place. As I have been saying for some time, the human spirit will rebel at the dark future Wall Street has planned for us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lying low phase might last for more than  3 to 6 months or even a year. During this time you need to prepare yourself, to relocate if need be, to protect your investments and to make a network of friends in whose hands your life will be entrusted. Gardens might be an extremely valuable part of your future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have signs of impending disaster, Forbes magazine has reported that the recent auction of Treasuries was a disaster and that interest rates are creeping back up. China, Japan, Russia and OPEC are no longer running huge surpluses so they can no longer afford to buy our Treasury bills and bonds. And at this time the Obama administration wants to triple or quadruple the sale of new Treasuries. The increased supply will raise interest rates and doom the dollar. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, the US debt ceiling is 11.3 trillion dollars. The deficit is 1.2 trillion dollars. Add another 800 plus billion for the Stimulus bill. Then there is the continuing Bailout. Geithner will announce the Treasury's new mortgage Bailout plan next week. That will be another trillion dollars or more. I saw a correspondent from Time magazine on a PBS talk show saying that there will be additional Stimulus and Bailout bills. My New Years prediction that the US debt ceiling will reach 15 trillion dollars before the end of 2009 looks like a safe bet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is another bad sign. The new Director of the Office of Management and Budget is Peter Orszag. He was a protege of Robert Rubin as were Ben Bernanke and Larry Summers. Peter Orszag's accomplishments include being an advisor to Iceland's Central Bank. As bad as things are going for Iceland, most employers would refuse to hire someone with a proven track record of failure but that is no barrier to finding work  in Washington.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would it be impolite of me to point out that Robert Rubin, Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Ben Bernanke and the previous four Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Bank (dating back to 1970) were Jewish? What are the odds that the next 9 Americans you meet would be Jewish? If we assume that 10% of all white men in America are Jewish, then the odds would be 10 to the ninth power which is a one followed by 9 zeros (1,000,000,000) or one in a billion. If we add Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff, then the odds are one in ten billion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should point out that the Federal Reserve system was created by the Warburg brothers. As I have said before, we do not have a debt free money system. We are required to create a debt before we are allowed to create new money. We have Federal Reserve Notes instead of the Treasury Notes that Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy wanted. But they were assassinated and so we have a fictional government debt rapidly approaching 15 trillion dollars. With interest rates creeping up we could soon face 1.5 trillion dollars annual interest payments to the banks only because we gave them the license to print our money. You might be too young to remember 1980 when Jimmy Carter's Federal Reserve bank introduced the 15 ½ percent home mortgage interest rate. We could see those days again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said in many previous essays, the system is designed to transfer all wealth from those of us required to work for a living to the few who were given the divine right to print our money by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  The Bailouts increase the debt and are designed to hasten the day when all real wealth in America will belong to Wall Street. So do not expect the Bailout to work to your benefit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should also  point out that when Geithner announces his rescue plan for home mortgages next week the number of home foreclosures on the market could triple. 70%of the foreclosures are not currently on the market. The banks are probably waiting for Geithner to give them taxpayer money to write off part of the losses they will have to take at auction. If 10% of the homes are, as planned, rented out for a couple of years. We will still triple the number of  foreclosed homes on the market. Currently, Yahoo real estate lists 4,877 homes in foreclosure in the city of San Jose California. Doubling that number gives us 9,754 homes to be auctioned off. Tripling that number will give us 14,631 homes to be sold in just one city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; There are not that many potential buyers in the market so the FEDS might have to rent out more than ten percent of the foreclosed homes. This might be bad news for the neighbors as the federal government will rent to any idiot or troublemaker unlike most landlords. But, if you have been following my advice, you would have already sold all California real estate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This summer might be a good time to buy a home with a garden in a safe area on a 30 year fixed loan. Hyperinflation will soon lower  the real cost of your mortgage in inflation adjusted dollars to almost nothing. On the other hand if you want to pay cash, you can wait for hyperinflation to lick in. Home mortgage interest rated could easily reach 15 or 20% and kill home sales and home prices.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should repeat that I am not an investment advisor and am not giving you financial advice. Please consult a professional before making major life decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009 will be the Year of the Decision. Lay low if that works got you. I am hopeful for a peaceful Rebellion of the Spirit. The masses are still enthralled by the new Obama administration. I had been thinking of writing an essay entitled 90 Days And Out, because that is how long it will take for the public to figure out the Bailouts will not work and were designed by Wall Street to steal what little wealth they have not yet stolen. April 20th is the target date for the beginning of the end of our enslavement to the New York banks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that time things will unravel so quickly that you might want to have completed your relocation efforts. If you cannot just pack up and leave, you might consider finding an escape route to a safe house now rather than after the food riots start. Wall Street might have to start clamping down on dissent as they think the townsfolk will chase them with pitchforks as they did in the 1930s Frankenstein movies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do not want to predict events beyond the next 90 days except to repeat my earlier forecasts that our after tax real wages will be permanently cut in half and that our debt ceiling will reach 15 trillion dollars this year. We will soon surpass Egypt and Sudan on the list of nations in the rank of debt to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) which measures our total production of goods and services. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But why would you expect to have a government better than Egypt or Sudan? Our government has been seized by a foreign power and we are now all enemies of the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about Peter Orszag please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/polphil/rahm-emanuel-and-barack-obama/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read the Forbes magazine article about the disaster at the recent Treasury auction please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/29/jobs-durable-closer-markets-econ-0129_markets32.html?feed=rss_business_commerce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the glut of foreclosed homes being held off the market please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.cnbc.com/id/28898377&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-776483295985353366?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/776483295985353366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=776483295985353366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/776483295985353366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/776483295985353366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/02/bulgarian-strategy-and-other-advice.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-5281771166233479494</id><published>2009-01-29T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T10:53:31.749-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taliban Peace Offer'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Did Obama Refuse A Taliban Peace Offer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christoph R Horstel is a German expert on Afghanistan and has made some explosive charges against the outgoing Bush and incoming Obama administrations. Herr Horstel has worked for the German government and for the German television network ARD. He is an expert on terrorism and has advised ISAF forces in Afghanistan. He has a masters degree from Basel University in Switzerland and has taught at the Hamburg University Peace Research Institute. He was the last war correspondent remaining in Kabul when Bush's coalition forces took the capitol from the Taliban. I probably am doing an injustice to his resume as I do not speak German and am relying on a Google machine translation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As best as I can understand from the poor quality translation I have from Google, Mr Obama was approached while he was still President-elect with  a peace offer from the Taliban. Apparently, this peace offer from the Taliban had some backing from Hamid Karzai, the current President of Afghanistan. The peace plan was rejected. And we do not even have any prospect for peace talks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Herr Horstel has also charged that NATO is leasing opium fields to Afghan warlords in exchange for their support. It does not appear to me that this plan is working very well as the Taliban controls most of the territory outside Kabul and NATO ISAF military bases. To his credit Karzai is trying to get control of the NATO troops at ISAF (International Security Assistance Force). What Mr Karzai wants to do is to stop all the high altitude bombing that is killing so many Afghan civilians. The US has bombed multiple wedding parties in less than a week's time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christoph Horstel also said that NATO's presence in Afghanistan is intended to destabilize the region and is not intended to bring peace. I would like to point out the  role played by Zbignew Brzezinski in the Carter and Obama administrations. He was the National Security advisor to President Carter and in 1979 wrote a note to Jimmy Carter saying that a 25 million dollar appropriation for the Mujahideen would force the Soviets to invade Afghanistan which they did just prior to Christmas of that same year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because millions of Afghanis have died in perpetual war since 1979 that decision alone should disqualify Mr Brzezinski from any government office or from even talking to a presidential candidate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we can proceed further we need to get a better translation so if you or someone you know speaks German please take a look at the two Part interview in the original language here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2009/01/interview-mit-christoph-r-hrstel.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and part two here: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2009/01/interview-mit-christoph-r-hrstel-teil-2.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The name of that blog translates as All is Sound and Smoke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After we get a more reliable translation, the next step would be to share it with as many people as possible and then to make a list of radio and cable programs that might be willing to interview Mr Horstel over American air waves so he can reach a larger audience. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As soon as soemone sends me a better translation, I will post it here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to get peace talks going with the Taliban so we can remove our troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. That would be a first step towards peace in the Mideast and might even help stop World War III before it starts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The national radio programs I am thinking of contacting are Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Alex Jones of Prison Planet. Locally both Flashpoints and Guns and Butter at KPFA might be receptive to breaking the biggest story to date of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You most likely have your own network of contacts so feel free to forward this information to them in your own words and in your own style in order to get an interview with Christoph Horstel in front of an American audience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-5281771166233479494?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/5281771166233479494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=5281771166233479494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5281771166233479494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/5281771166233479494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/01/did-obama-refuse-taliban-peace-offer.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-653232186620530839</id><published>2009-01-22T10:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T10:39:26.713-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Stay Tuned&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me first say that I personally feel safer after Obama's inauguration than before. My long time readers know that the FBI has been to my house. When a friend of mine was deported back to Africa, he was allowed one phone call to work. He told them that he was being deported by the Department of Homeland Security and they questioned him about me. I do realize that this feeling of increased safety might be extremely temporary and even illusionary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should also say I understand why many people from minority groups gave told me that they are going to take over this country. It remains to be seen if there will be an America to take over and if it does not devolve into the dictatorship Wall Street would prefer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have written an essay about the incoming Obama administration but have decided not to publish it until after he has a few days to reveal himself to us. I formed my conclusions about Obama when he selected Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff and nominated Timothy Geithner, the President of the New York Federal Reserve bank, to be Treasury Secretary. I do not care that he cheated on his taxes. At this point in history, I would love to get someone out of federal prison for income tax evasion to serve as Treasury Secretary.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have said many times before, billions of dollars are stolen each week from unaudited federal spending and  the NY FED is the official depository of the US government which means the billions of dollars went through Mr Geithner's bank every week before it went missing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have instead decided to write the following to give us an early warning test of what to expect from the 44th President of the United States. These are all things he could  do by executive action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He could instruct the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)  to ban all Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Currently, we taxpayers are exposed to tens of trillions of dollars in possible losses. These swaps are a cross between insurance and derivatives. You  make payments to continue coverage so if we ban all payments they will expire thus ending our exposure to this egregious risk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bailout of AIG due to swaps cost us 150 billion dollars so far. Try and wrap your mind around the real meaning of an 8.5 trillion dollar Bailout. Only 100,000,000 Americans have full time jobs that pay much more than the minimum wage. If all 100,000,000 of them took one hundred dollars a week and sent it to New York, it would take us one hundred weeks to pay off a trillion dollar Wall Street binge. It would take 850 weeks to pay off the proposed Bailout if Wall Street did not demand we pay them interest to  rescue them. If the dollar crashes as expected and interest rates go to 15% we would never ever finish paying off the Bailout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are other early warning signs we can look for in the new administration. Will they close Guantanamo? That is just one high profile prison. But what about the secret prisons? Will they be closed? Will the prisoners be released or will they be executed without trial? What about the men we sent to Egypt and other such countries to be tortured. Will these men be freed? Will we pay their medical bills? Will we pay for the rehabilitation and therapy for the men we tortured? Will we pay for the support of those men who were so badly tortured they can no longer work? I don't think so but, as I said, we need to put the ending of torture on that wish list alongside the restoration of our civil rights. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The incoming administration could announce the end of the the National Security Administration  (NSA)  wiretapping program. This NSA program currently enlists AT&amp;T and Verizon as partners who both sub-contract the actual wiretapping out to two separate Israeli companies. This means Israel has a tape  recording of every telephone conversation we made in America. He could say that this program is beyond the limits imposed on government intrusion by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and is terminated forthwith. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new President could eliminate the Slow Fly list at the airports and drastically reduce the numbers on the No Fly List without harming national security. It would be a sign that we were returning to the respect of the individual above the government. Previously I wrote about Naomi Wolf and the Slow Fly List. Let's keep an eye on her travels.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another sign would be a call for an international conference to eliminate the laundering of drug money. The top 300 banks launder 500 billion dollars a year in political bribes, a trillion dollars in drugs and up to 400 billion dollars a year in illegal weapons. How many American families, neighborhoods and towns must be destroyed by drugs and drug related crime before we say “No” to Wall Street's money laundering that made it all possible? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I think that at the present moment of history all of the above is too much to ask for. We will have to wait for what I have called the rebellion of the Spirit against the the Powers That Be for everything  except the revision of the No and Sloe Fly lists and the abolition of Credit Default Swaps. As I have said before, the plans Wall Street have made for our future are so odious that the human spirit will rebel against these  maniacal plans. I make no predictions as to what will be after that rebellion takes place but as I said before Wall Street's deepest and darkest desires will never become our reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now we can settle on the ban of Credit Default Swaps as the litmus test for Change. We can wait until the Rebellion of the Spirit succeeds for the rest. For now I just want President Obama to outlaw Credit Default Swaps so  we can reduce the transfer of wealth from those of us who work for a living to the parasites of Wall Street thus putting a limit to the starvation Americans will have to endure until this nation rises up and says “No” to the bankers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Credit Default Swaps are not banned immediately, then we will know that Wall Street is still in control in the new administration. And they will soon fulfill their plan to drown Americans in trillions of dollars in debt transferring all wealth to them. We will soon know if we can expect Change or just more hot air. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cannot eat hot air. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a ten minute video on the NSA spying program: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI_k9Xt00YE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my standard reference on Wall Street's theft of billions of dollars each week from unaudited federal government spending:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; http://solari.com/archive/missing_money&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-653232186620530839?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/653232186620530839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=653232186620530839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/653232186620530839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/653232186620530839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/01/stay-tuned-let-me-first-say-that-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-7137109844237596658</id><published>2009-01-14T08:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T11:13:50.836-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bubbles'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wall Street'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>David Smick: Right But Missed The Point&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Smick, the author of The World Is Curved, was interviewed by George Noory Monday night on the nationwide Coast To Coast Am radio show. What he said stunned his interviewer and the audience. But the man did not understand the meaning of our present financial crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The author said the sub-prime mortgage at 1.5 trillion dollars is probably the smallest bubble we are facing. He mentioned eight bubbles from emerging markets to Credit Default Swaps. The total figure is 200 trillion dollars. The total world Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is only 50 trillion dollars. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before proceeding I would like to point out that Mr Smick missed the ninth bubble which just happens to be the one most likely to burst in 2009. Smick told Mr Noory how difficult it is for an investor to buy US Treasuries.  The 90 day T-bill is paying a near zero interest rate. The ten year Treasury bond is mow 2.4%. But PIMCO, the world's top bond fund, has warned investors to get out of bonds. If interest rates go up, the value of existing bonds will plummet because bond values vary inversely with interest rates. A massive sell off in long term Treasury bonds would cause the dollar to collapse  and force the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even further to persuade foreigners to finance our deficits and Bailouts. And higher interest rates would crash our economy making taxing collections go down and our deficits go up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George asked Mr Smick how we just happened to develop eight bubbles totaling 200 trillion dollars in risk. This is where David Smick missed the point. He said the bank regulators fell asleep. I say the same thing Catherine Austin Fitts said about Bernard Madoff and his 50 billion dollar swindle. He stole 50 billion dollars and is still living at home in his Manhattan penthouse. Ms. Fitts said Madoff could not have done what he did without his banks, brokers, the IRS and the federal regulators knowing what he was doing. They do not care about us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This same observed behavior we saw in the Madoff scandal can explain that 200 trillion dollar bubble which was seen by bank regulators in several nations, by the SEC, the CFTC, the IRS, the media and professional traders.  The obvious answer is that they wanted to create a 200 trillion dollar bubble so that when it collapses all real wealth is transferred from the people who work for a living to Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;There are 435 men and women in the House and 100 in the Senate. Which one of the 535 has condemned Credit Default Swaps even after having voted to bail out AIG for 150 billion dollars?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We just had a Presidential campaign and both men voted for a 750 billion dollar Bailout and neither candidate bothered to ask that Credit Default Swaps be regulated as derivatives and insurance are. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor am I aware of any journalist who has asked even one politician when they plan to regulate Credit Default Swaps which have exposed the taxpayers to tens of trillions of dollars in potential losses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have spoken before of what I call The Glorious Day. That is the day when all assets and all real wealth belong to the bankers and we who toil for a living are left out in the cold without a vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no other reason for the bank regulators, the auditors, the IRS, the SEC and the CFTC to have allowed a 200 trillion dollar bubble than to fulfill the dream that all wealth would one day belong to Wall Street.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have said in previous essays, the human spirit will rebel as we near the day Wall Street has been dreaming of for the past hundred years. It is beyond my abilities to predict what will be after the coming rebellion of the spirit. I am merely outlining Wall Street's methods and motives so the world will be prepared for their adversaries next couple of moves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read an excerpt from David Smick's book please go to his website here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.theworldiscurved.com/TWIC_Excerpts.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To read about the perils of the bond market collapsing please go here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4218210/The-bond-bubble-has-long-since-burst-investors-ignore-this-at-you-peril.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or to Bloomberg's article here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aLpnpOvxekBY&amp;refer=home&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17379941-7137109844237596658?l=openingmind.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/feeds/7137109844237596658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17379941&amp;postID=7137109844237596658' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7137109844237596658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17379941/posts/default/7137109844237596658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://openingmind.blogspot.com/2009/01/david-smick-right-but-missed-point.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniel F</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17062898366141413906</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17379941.post-9133103860133610284</id><published>2009-01-08T12:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T09:47:19.761-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Predictions 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have decided to give you my predictions for 2009. I have put the most likely events at the top and the least likely at the bottom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) World War III will not start this year though some might date its actual beginning from 9-11-2001.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) There will be no 911 terror attack on US soil in 2009. As I have said before, these attacks were organized by a Hebrew speaking Mideast nation that thinks it owns the government of the United States. The 911 Truth Movement is so widespread that nobody would believe the proposed car bomb attacks against Americans at popular tourist attractions would be anything other than a Mossad ploy to start another war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) There will be no Last Hurrah for Wall Street. Matthias Chang did an in depth study of the Bailout money available and determined there is enough money to run one final pump and dump. I have no doubt that Wall Street would like to fleece us just one more time but market forces would overwhelm them. Instead they have been intervening to keep the dollar and the stock market from crashing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) The first two months of 2009 will be the best time for the markets. After that we will see stagflation and then inflation as the dollar crashes. Market forces will begin to overwhelm our Bailout team within 90 days of Inauguration Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) The current United States debt ceiling is 11.3 trillion dollars. It will reach 15 trillion before the end of 2009. This will make our debt equal to our GDP at 15 trillion dollars. The CIA Factbook lists the debt to GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio for all the nations of the world using 2007 figures. If we used 2009 year end figures, the US would move from 27th to at least 8th. If we raised the debt ceiling to 17 trillion which is a distinct possibility for 2009, then we would surpass Egypt and Sudan for 5th place. At the current rate of growth in debt we would surpass Zimbabwe and be the number one country in debt to GDP ratio by 12-31- 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) We are likely to see another war against Lebanon. This will be Israel's sign to the world that they have rejected the Mideast peace process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Gold will reach at least $1,300 an ounce in 2009. Gold Backwardation will change the gold market. Catherine Austin Fitts has said several times in interviews that part of the Bailout money has been used to cover Wall Street's losses from shorting gold, Wall Street stole gold from Fort Know to sell it to drive down the price of gold and to make themselves rich. Then they began shorting gold in the futures market to drive down the price of gold. Gold Backwardation means that the futures price of gold is less than the price of the physical metal itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) Gasoline will reach $4.00 a gallon in California or $3.39 in other parts of the United Sates out of the reach of our state legislature. The world's GDP is contracting and the demand for imported oil which drives the price up is also decreasing. Oil will not be cut off by a war in the Persian Gulf. It will be the drop in the value of the dollar that will drive up the price of all imported commodities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Prices will double by the end of the end of 2009. Inflation will rip through the United States when foreigners dump the dollar. In the Wiemar Republic in 1923 the Velocity of the money unleashed hyperinflation. If the money supply is one billion dollars in country X and the GDP is two billion dollars, then the money turns over twice in a year. This turn over in the money supply is called Velocity. Currently, the American Velocity has dipped below 1.00 which is a sign that the economy is contracting.  When foreigners dump dollars and refuse to buy our debts, the price of imported commodities, such as, oil will increase. As prices increase, people holding cash will be losing money. This will force them to get rid of their dollars. This will increase the turn over (Velocity) of the money supply. There is an old formula M x V = P x T where M is Money, V is Velocity , P is Prices and T is transactions. If V goes from 1.00 to 2.00 in the above formula, then prices will double if the number of transactions remains constant. If V or Velocity goes to 3 and then 4, then prices will triple and quadruple. With today;s instantaneous communications it would take only 90 days or less for inflation to destroy our pensions, savings and the purchasing power of our paychecks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) Wages in after tax real dollars on 12-31-2009 will be half what they were just five years ago. I made this prediction years ago. I named the actual time  frame of 2004 to 2009 prior to 2005. I am 100% certain that the dollar will crash and our wages will be permanently cut in half. The only question is whether or not the dollar will crash before the end of 2009 or early in 2010. If I am wrong, it will only be on the timing of the dollar's demise. A professional economist once said, “never give a number and a date.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; All of the above predictions involving price increases should be based on the honest statistics from John Williams at  Shadow Stats (www.ShadowStats.com .) Mr Williams has proven that the official Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a lie told from one administration to the next.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my last essay I wrote about some of the realities of 2009. The following can be projected from current events and do not meet my qualifications for predictions. These are the realities of 2009 we must deal with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must repeat my warning that I am not an investment advisor and am not giving investment advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Realities of 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Unemployment will increase in 
