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Is Tar & Feathers Punishment of Congress Considered Terrorism?

Friday, February 19th, 2010
Colonial American Justice

Colonial American Justice

Once upon a time, in this great American land of freedom and morality, if an elected politician or appointed office blatantly misrepresented his constituents, he would be publicly tarred and feathered. It’s a shame this public display of disgrace and truth is no longer practiced.

But I’m sure that the public tar & feathering of a thief or liar would now be considered ‘domestic terrorism’.

Let’s bring back tar & feather public justice for those who fail to represent the people who elected them to office… and for any politician who is immoral and a liar. What better way could there possibly be to cull the Congress of its miscreants?

The Collapse on Our Doorstep

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Here are 21 reasons – a blackjack winning hand – evidencing why we are not in an economic depression nor a recession any longer.

We have now entered a financial collapse brought about by derivative gambling debt… and it’s sitting right in plain sight on our doorstep.

Federal Budget Deficit. The Federal debt limit was just raised almost 100% to $14.3 trillion. It was nearly half that amount ($7.8 trillion) in 2005. The U.S. debt at 84% of the Gross Domestic Product is about to  pass the 90% trigger point.

U.S. Foreign Trade Deficit. The total continues climbing as $400 billion is added each year. Foreigners now own $2.5 trillion of the U.S.

Plummeting U.S. World Trade Dollar. The dollar has already fallen and is continuing on a steady downhill slide. The main index measuring dollar strength as a foreign reserve and trade currency has gone from 120 at the Clinton-to-Bush handoff to below 80 today.

Credit Ratings Down, Rates Up. Economists at S&P, Fitch and Moody’s were (and still are) guilty co-conspirators with the Banksters by misleading – and flat-out lying – to investors before the onset of the meltdown that still conti9nues. What’s coming next? Rising debt, lowered credit ratings, and soaring interest rates… not to mention hyper-inflation a la Argentinian style.

Global Real Estate Disaster. The new Dubai Tower, the  world’s tallest building, is empty. The U.S. commercial real estate bubble is now $1.7 trillion, a “ticking time bomb” that already accounts for 25% of bank balance sheets.

Oil and the Population Explosion. The United Nations estimates the world population exploding 50% – from 6 billion to 9 billion – by 2050. That’s three billion more humans not just demanding more automobiles, but exhausting more resources to feed their version of the Detroit gas-guzzler… not to mention food needed to feed their own hungry mouths.

Social Security Collapse. There are only two choices: Cut benefits or raise taxes. Politicians hate both, so they’ll do nothing. Delays worsen solutions. Without action, by 2035 Social Security and Medicare benefits will eat up the entire federal budget other than defense.

Medicare Collapse. This failing social welfare program is going broke faster than Social Security.  In five years, cost estimates are expected to be over $60 trillion (more than double the 2009 expenditures).

Health-care Insurance Scam. The payment burden is shifting to employee paycheck deductions faster than a speeding bullet. The realistic costs of health care are rising much faster than inflation.

State and Local Government Deficits. With estimated deficits of $110 billion in 2010 (in reality, double this figure due to “creative accounting” techniques used by most government corporations), $178 billion in 2011 (again, a realistic and practical amount is double the “official” estimate), plus more than $450 billion of currently under-funded / un-funded state and municipal employee pension funds. Just wait until April when we get a more accurate peak at the pension fund collapses.

Under-funded Corporate Pensions. Corporate pension funds have quickly become technically bankrupt. They had a $60 billion surplus in 2007. In just two short years, that surplus became a $409 billion deficit in 2009. 92% of corporate pension plans are now underfunded.

Consumer Debt. U.S. Citizens are still living beyond their means. Even with a downturn, consumer debt rose from about $2.3 to $2.5 trillion. Fat Cat Bankers love it — yes love making matters worse by gouging cardholders and mortgagees, blocking help in foreclosures and bankruptcies.

Personal Savings. Before the 2008 meltdown, the savings rate dropped from about 10% (in the early 1980’s) to below zero. Now, the personal savings rate is steadily increasing. This is slowing any hopes of a retail sales recovery. In contrast, Federal and State governments have become non-savers and are spending what they don’t have.

Military Defense Deficits. The “official” costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are $200+ billion annually. In all reality, the figure is closer to $3 trillion when taking into consideration the massive long-term costs for veteran medical care, equipment renewal, and recruitment.

Homeland Insecurity Fiasco. An outrageous cost for alleged “security programs” against purported “terrorists” at airports, seaports, borders, chemical plants, refineries, etc.

Fed/Treasury Bailout Lies. Tax credits, loans, cash and the purchase of toxic assets (OTC derivatives) from Wall Street banksters and their corrupt banks. The cost (so far) to the U.S. Taxpayer is estimated at $23.7 trillion.

Washington Bankster Power. Through lobbyists and former employees working inside the DC corporation,  Paulson, Goldman, Geithner, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, ad nauseaum, now have absolute power over DC corporate-government spending. This is called corporate-socialism. Let’s not forget the U.S. Supreme Court giving them the OK to fund their political puppets without monetary restriction.

The Derivatives A-bomb. Wall Street wants no regulation of this $670 trillion, high-risk, Over-the-counter (unregulated), out-of-control gambling casino operation. Unregulated OTC derivatives destroyed global economies in 2008-09 and will collapse them by 2012.

Dysfunctional Two-Party Politics. This is the greatest confidence game ever created. Daily, both Republicans and Democrats outwardly demonstrate absolutely no desire to cooperate with each other for the benefit of those who voted them into office. Their only goal is to keep making Americans believe that they’re really not sleeping with each other.

WTSHTF “Tea Party” Escalations. These days, nobody trusts anyone who has any authority… and for good reason. For Wall Street and DC (two birds from the same nest), doing what’s right and moral for the American people is just empty political rhetoric. The sleeping sheeple have noticed are are beginning to wipe their eyes, which is why the peaceful tea parties may end up yielding to angry crowds who have no more patience.

Food Shortage Reality. Has anyone bothered to look at the actual food production figures? Are the silos full, half full, or nearly empty? Extreme weather has wiped out crops in all 50 States to the point that silos are half full for winter and spring food needs. There will be more demand than supply simply because crop production was less than what’s needed to break even.

The Red October Surprise: A Financial Bloodbath

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Perhaps it won’t be a surprise to the astute who understand that common sense is learned by experience and can never be taught in any university. The Wall Street and Washington City economic and self-proclaimed experts have no knowledge of common sense international finances.  Ask a mother in the grocery store how to feed a family of four on a set budget and she’ll show you how common sense finances really work.

We are about to enter into a financial void of Twilight Zone magnitude. That’s where what is seen will not be reality… and what is not seen will be all too real. If you’re following the falsified economic and market charts, I can guarantee you won’t know what hit you by the time the news on November 8 kicks in.

bloodbathNow – 17 days before it will hit the fan – I’m giving every reader a red alert financial warning for Monday, October 26, 2009.

It will be a bloody Monday for world finances. It may not show up for a day or even for a few days on the manipulated “official” exchanges, but be assured that this date will be a financial bloodbath for those who have counted on stocks to be their retirement nest egg. You can kiss your retirement goodbye if you keep your portfolio nestled in anything, including mutual funds, that has to do with the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) manipulated markets. The black fund sources they’ve used to manipulate and falsify the financial markets is going to be locked up and unavailable.

How do I know this? If what I have said comes about – as I’m very sure it will – then I’ll reveal everything right here in living colour.

If you have substantial funds in any money market account, you might want to consider cashing them in ASAP. If you have substantial funds in any US bank account, do the same. If you have a credit card, expect your line of credit to be reduced to your current balance. If you have a certificate of deposit, cash it in. Whatever is in the bank when this red October surprise hits will be either frozen or highly restricted for any withdrawal.

If I’m wrong, you have the right to anonymously comment to this post and let the world know I was another internet blogger idiot. But if I’m right, I expect you to comment that I was.

In February 2004, I posted the truth about the collapse of financial derivatives; banks were using them as gambling contracts. Nobody listened even though my warnings were posted on Rense.com repeatedly for 2 years. I surely hope someone takes notice this time… for your sakes. I placed all I could muster up into gold and silver back then and truly can’t complain about the 300+% returns I now have. Can you say the same about your investments?

The Wizard of Oz Has Been Revealed

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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Yes, the great and powerful Wizard of Oz has been found after a 109 year hiatus in hiding. But let’s back up and take a short trip down memory lane to find out what caused him to remain incognito right under our noses for all those years.

If you remember the original story, it’s all about a sweet and innocent girl named Dorothy who fell into disaster as the result of a destructive whirlwind. In order to find her way back home, she was told to follow the yellow brick road where the great wizard of The Land of Oz was isolated inside his palatial city, the Emerald City. After an opium drug-induced sleep during her journey, Dorothy eventually awoke and soon after was face to face with who she was told was the great Wizard of Oz, a supernatural perceived being of immense stature and authority who could give you whatever you needed.

But then Dorthy’s Cairn Terrier dog, Toto, surprisingly revealed that the man behind the curtain – who was controlling the illusional smoke and mirror images of his falsified persona – was nothing but a grand fraud and proficient manipulator. Once his true identity was known, he quickly escaped in a hot air balloon to some unknown land.

Where did the great and powerful Wizard of Oz eventually land when his hot air ran out? To answer that, it’s necessary to understand the definitions and symbolisms behind L. Frank Baum’s book, The Wizard of Oz.

The word Oz is a standardized abbreviation for the word “ounce” or “ounces”. It’s a unit of weight defined in the U.S. Customary System, “an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains (28.35 grams)”. It applies to both gold and silver weight standards.

The yellow brick road symbolizes the international monetary standard based on a “brick of gold weighing one kilogram (kilo)”, or 1,000 grams of gold. The Wizard of Oz even saw fit to create a path of gold bricks winding through the Land of Oz that led directly to his palace.

The dog’s name, Toto, comes from the Latin toto “all”, meaning “entirety, wholeness, completeness”. Common sense dictates that Toto represented all the people, the American masses. When Toto started barking at the curtain that was shielding the Wizard, he was told to be quiet so as not to offend the Wizard. Frustrated at the others for not listening to his vocal warnings, Toto pulled the curtain open to reveal the real wizard.

The name Dorothy comes from the Greek word doron meaning “gift” + the feminine of theos meaning “god”, or simply “gift of god”.

At the time the book was published in 1900, ounces of gold and silver were the standard monetary system of exchange and value throughout all of the American States at a set ratio.  U.S. Treasury minted gold coins – known as $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle coins – contained an oz. of gold combined with other metals to give them a harder strength and to reduce wear. They were accepted, traded and exchanged as a one ounce gold coin. The same weight standard applied to the $1 Silver Eagle coin containing one oz of silver.

The wizard of Oz was the symbolic front man for the gold & silver monetary banking system that he represented. He did not personally own the gold or silver. He was a mere puppet on a string paraded around before the public eye to keep the identity of his puppet master bankers well hidden. His domain was the Emerald City, the only place within the Land of Oz (where everything was gold colored) that was green, even though the yellow brick road led directly there… and that was no mistake.

The Emerald City was symbolic of the Greenback. The Wizard of Oz used his illusional banking powers to exchange ounces of gold and silver into paper greenbacks. But when his smoke and mirror facade was openly seen by the people (in toto), he was stopped and quickly left in a balloon full of (his own) hot air.

Where did the Wizard of Oz end up? Sixteen years later, he landed his balloon in Washington City and became known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Washington City then became the new Emerald City.

Because of the whirlwind political disaster at the time, the silver slippers that once belonged to the Wicked Witch of the East (China was a silver monetary system) were now being worn by Dorothy. The Wicked Witch of the West (the European and US bankers) tried to take them away from Dorothy, but when Dorothy threw a bucket of water on the Western witch, she melted and disappeared.  Water is a purifier and cleanser. That’s why the Western banking witch melted as there was no purity within her. After all, exchanging gold and silver for paper is a fraud and there is no purity in deceit.

Thirty-three years after leaving the Emerald City and setting up shop in Washington City, the Wizard of Oz puppet masters realized they no longer needed smoke and mirror illusions to exchange gold and silver money for worthless green paper. All they had to do was to force the U.S. Treasury and it’s government into bankruptcy. Once it was declared that all the gold and silver money had to be collected and exchanged for Emerald City green paper, they could control and keep all the gold and silver for themselves.

For the following seventy-six years, the Wizard of Oz has enjoyed manipulating his illusional game of green Federal Reserve Note paper while those who control his puppet strings sit on untold fortunes of gold and silver.

Every con artist and illusionist knows his scheme can’t go on forever, so after seizing all the gold and silver money they could for all those many years, they are now about to eliminate their greenback paper FRN$, close down the Emerald City complex, fire the wizard, and emerge with their hoards of gold and silver to open up shop under a new name with a new wizard.

Dorothy, Auntie Em, Henry, and all the others have been enslaved to the desires and whims of Emerald City for five generations. They have lost their Kansas farm along with their gold and silver. Where the countryside was yellow with wheat and corn, it is now green with foreclosures and failures.

A weak tornado is beginning to whirl, but it may never grow into a powerful storm. It just may die out without having any impact.

Meanwhile, the American yellow brick road has been paved over with black asphalt.

The Wizard is filling his balloon with an abundance of hot air in view of everyone and quickly preparing his midnight escape.

The banker puppeteers are hiding in their golden vaults waiting to occupy their new city…only this time, it will be a yellow river and not a yellow brick road leading to the new emerald city, the Golden City of China.

The little people have been sold out, robbed, raped, and pillaged. The Land of Oz has already been foreclosed on. The new owners are waiting in the wings. Dorothy’s great great great granddaughter can only find a job as a factory worker in Beijing.

Toto, where are you?

We need you to pull open that curtain once again to expose the illusions all the Sheeple have been convinced were real.

Can we catch the wizard before he escapes this time?

Wait…. What’s that?

Is that a Cairn terrier I hear barking in the distance?

An Exhausted Nation Cries for Help

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

by John Galt

October 2, 2009

As the empty homes and farms become a blur throughout my drive across the middle of Florida I notice the little things that tell me that our society, our people, our nation is tired, beaten and worn down after a decade of incompetence, conspiracy, criminal activity and an almost surreal level of wealth extraction and destruction.  From every other cyclical down turn our nation had a moral compass that allowed us to rebuild, restore and renew our system yet this time it feels as if the unique character that allows the decadal restoration to occur is being obstructed by a new, unique power structure determined to divert our society down a failed path of socialist utopia, leaving the average citizen enslaved to the nation state.

As I passed through the small village of Wahneta, Florida I noticed a twenty something year old unshaven and worn man sitting on the back of his old SUV holding a hastily made cardboard sign that simply said “I need work” yet the traffic kept flowing as nobody could help. You see similar scenes throughout the Southeastern states in the small and large towns, where the grocery stores are often backed up with lines of women holding their crying children attempting to pay for their groceries with the government food stamps or sitting in the parking lot asking for handouts. It begs a question to the ivory tower economists and their ilk; is this the ‘recovery’ you claim is under way or is it just because you were able to scalp another 15% by manipulating retiree stock accounts for one more churn and putting more citizens out into the streets?

Meanwhile the government of some of the people designed now to profit a few of the people is attempting to assault the remaining freedoms under our Constitution and diminish the ability of the masses to remove the corrupt souls from their positions of power. The opposition is embattled and assaulted verbally and via various goon squads be they private community organizers, trade unions or the ultimate power, the IRS and their gun carrying Gestapo like police force. Thus speaking out or defending your freedoms now is no longer a no-risk proposition, you have to accept that just by reading or speaking out is no longer a luxury it is a danger which will only become more perilous as the grip on a new supreme power center tightens.  The period of heightened danger has arrived, but will those in control listen to what the masses say and others warn?

A Large Dangerous Giant Slumbers but for How Long?

As the statists continue to poke and prod at the giant, they fail to realize who and what this giant consists of. The mainstream media would have you believe it to be a vast right wing conspiracy. The left wing would have you believe it is nothing but a bunch of kooks. The Republican Party would have you believe it is nothing but a group of disgruntled anti-government types who must be minimalized to insure the status quo remains. Yet this game all parties play ignores the fact that tens of millions of Americans are begging, pleading, beseeching these fools to not awaken this giant from its slumber, to allow it to sleep and satisfy its need for freedom, prosperity and peaceful existence.

They have not and will not listen though.

This giant holds true to the original intent of our nation, our traditions, our freedoms and the ideals of its founders. Parts of this giant stand on the wall, protecting these elites from enemies both foreign and domestic. Other members of this giant just work, pay their taxes and create or expand our society via economic expansion though these members are tiring from the acceleration of the assault on their freedoms. To attempt to destroy the heritage and history this giant believes in will awaken this giant and yet the statists persist in tormenting the beast.

I warn you now:

Do not wake up this beast.

Allow it to slumber. Allow it to live under the beliefs, freedoms and original intent of our founding fathers. Allow America to stay a free, Constitutional God fearing nation.

If you do not abide by these wishes, I warn you based on the history of our country and the resolve of the citizens when their ire crosses the border of resolution via traditional manners.

The giant is vengeful.

The giant is merciless.

The giant is righteous yet wicked in its methods.

The consequences of forcing our nation to change against its will is not a swing in the pendulum of history; it is the destruction of the pendulum and rebirth of a new nation.

The giant will end all discussions, all contemplations, all neutrality and settle all matters and any scores without logic or reason if need be.

I beg you elites to quit prodding, poking, attacking and taunting the giant before it is too late.

Actions and Words Have Consequences

If the elites fail to heed these warnings, which they usually do throughout history, the giant will finish its work and resume the task of living and working. It will no longer be a socialist or corporatist utopia. It will no longer be a union as we recognize it today, but a new confederation of nations, each with differing beliefs, governance and economies. The words and actions of those in the positions of the elite are playing the people as suckers yet the fail to realize that if the choice is between enslavement and the deconstruction of the Republic, many will choose the latter while many others will have other options imposed upon them.

As the new creation emerges as a confederation of states and nations, some might elect to unite with other nations almost as colonial subjects, be it a “world” entity like the United Nations or Commonwealth style subjects to continue the Marxist fantasy of world Socialist domination and unification. The union will be irrevocably shattered as many nations and powers will elect to profit and benefit from the dissolution of our country. Alliances will be created out of thin air as mercantilists and geopolitical strategists understand how the new nations will function, much like the destruction of the U.S.S.R. or Yugoslavia.

Many individual Americans will probably reap huge profits from such a historic event by trading freedoms for peace and alliances for funding and power. Think not of this period as just an economic event because it shall be one that shapes two generations of our neighbors and friends, and survivors in democratic countries throughout the world. The arrogant claim of “it can’t happen hear” shall be silenced like the voices of the suffering Jews during the Nazi engineered holocaust of the 1930’s and 1940’s. Yet so few understand that this will cross many borders and eradicate many myths of superiority and invincibility propagated by decades of peace, slothfulness and ignorance of world affairs.

1861 or 1991?

This begs the question that we must all pray someone is paying attention to; will we dissolve as our ancestors did in 1861 or as modern day Yugoslavia in 1991? I fear that we will first test the waters of economic and political incompetence much like Argentina did then proceed to the dreaded outcome as our people suffer greater and greater inequities and the freedoms are destroyed state by state, soul by soul. I thus propose that in our current time line it is 1860 and the mixing cup is being filled. It will be shaken, stirred and poured out on top as a noxious cocktail of gasoline and kerosene on top of a raging fire, which explodes in the face of the elitist cooks.

Remember that throughout history great empires and nations were rarely conquered, most imploded from within. The self-immolation usually consisted of slaughter and pillage that most civilized souls rarely imagined with the elites escaping through the back door like Roman rulers fleeing the barbarians before they arrived at the gates, leaving the nation open for the worst of consequences.

Only God and the victors know what the new evolutionary outcome will be and what it will mean for all individuals who survive. The is no honor in a victory when one surrenders their freedoms to achieve it and that is what makes most Americans unique to the era we are entering. Thus you have to decide whether or not to engage and work with those that only believe in the Founders vision and use God’s guidance in your decisions to come. Compromise in times like these is nothing more than politically correct phrase for appeasement; never trade your values to these vultures, ever.

I remind you that capitulation to tyrrany will result in a modern American holocaust far worse than anything experienced in human history. Thus this is my one and only bugler’s call to action. Prepare as if there is no tomorrow because now, there is not. Remember how tired you are now and the cries for help you hear about you? America is crying for help, exhausted, unable to lift her arms to the heavens with the torch of freedom. You will have plenty of time to sleep though when you are dead. Rest not for we are at the crossroads of history where corruption is the rule of the day, unseen since the times of Lincoln, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and FDR.  Thus you must move beyond “hope” as that is nothing more than a request of others to prepare for you; evil is in full mobilization now and the powers of purity and good are so, so sadly far behind.

Source: http://johngaltfla.com/blog3/2009/10/02/an-exhausted-nation-cries-for-help/

The only thing I can add to this is:

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