IS THIS STILL A NATION OF LAWS?

READ THESE ARTICLES TO BECOME MORE INFORMED: GT sez: If you're wondering why our leader and his compatriots would choose this path... it's because, if they expose all the treasonous war criminals involved, O'Bomb'a would be assassinated by the 'real' powers that control this world economically...just like Kennedy was for wanting to eliminate the Federal Reserve. How Obama Excused Torture by Bruce Fein (THIS ARTICLE IS TWO PAGES LONG, SO DON'T MISS THE SECOND PAGE) http://www.thedailybeast.com:80/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-17/how-obama-excused-torture/ BARACK OBAMA, TORTURE ENABLER by Ted Rall http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=20090409&uc_comic=ru AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST: Will Obama Wash Bush's Dirty Laundry? "President Obama, You Are Wrong" By Keith Olbermann: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" Takes on President Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA Interrogators for torture. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22460.htm

BANKS 'STRESS TESTS' RESULTS LEAKED

CREDIT TO FLARPH FOR THE INFO. COUPLE THIS INFO WITH THE GEAB ARTICLE JUST BELOW AND YOU DON'T NEED TO BOTHER MAKING ANY OF YOUR PAYMENTS TO THE BANKS ANYMORE...THEY ARE BANKRUPT, ALONG WITH OUR GUV'MINT. JUST PAY YOUR UTILITIES.(Better yet, get independent with solar power and your own well water if possible) STOCKPILE FOOD AND WATER RIGHT NOW! LOTS OF WATER AND A WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM. I USE A KATADYNE PORTABLE FILTER. SEE BAPRODUCTS.COM LEAKED! Bank Stress Test Reults ! (from the Turner Radio Network)-- The Turner Radio Network has obtained "stress test" results for the top 19 Banks in the USA. The stress tests were conducted to determine how well, if at all, the top 19 banks in the USA could withstand further or future economic hardship. When the tests were completed, regulators within the Treasury and inside the Federal Reserve began bickering with each other as to whether or not the test results should be made public. That bickering continues to this very day as evidenced by this "main stream media" report. The Turner Radio Network has obtained the stress test results. They are very bad. The most salient points from the stress tests appear below. 1) Of the top nineteen (19) banks in the nation, sixteen (16) are already technically insolvent. 2) Of the 16 banks that are already technically insolvent, not even one can withstand any disruption of cash flow at all or any further deterioration in non-paying loans. 3) If any two of the 16 insolvent banks go under, they will totally wipe out all remaining FDIC insurance funding. 4) Of the top 19 banks in the nation, the top five (5) largest banks are under capitalized so dangerously, there is serious doubt about their ability to continue as ongoing businesses. 5) Five large U.S. banks have credit exposure related to their derivatives trading that exceeds their capital, with four in particular - JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Bank America and Citibank - taking especially large risks. 6) Bank of America`s total credit exposure to derivatives was 179 percent of its risk-based capital; Citibank`s was 278 percent; JPMorgan Chase`s, 382 percent; and HSBC America`s, 550 percent. It gets even worse: Goldman Sachs began reporting as a commercial bank, revealing an alarming total credit exposure of 1,056 percent, or more than ten times its capital! 7) Not only are there serious questions about whether or not JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs,Citibank, Wells Fargo, Sun Trust Bank, HSBC Bank USA, can continue in business, more than 1,800 regional and smaller institutions are at risk of failure despite government bailouts! The debt crisis is much greater than the government has reported. The FDIC`s "Problem List" of troubled banks includes 252 institutions with assets of $159 billion. 1,816 banks and thrifts are at risk of failure, with total assets of $4.67 trillion, compared to 1,568 institutions, with $2.32 trillion in total assets in prior quarter. Put bluntly, the entire US Banking System is in complete and total collapse.

DO NOT FAIL TO READ THIS ONE THOROUGHLY

Summer 2009: The international monetary system’s breakdown is underway http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-34-is-available!-Summer-2009-The-international-monetary-system-s-breakdown-is-underway_a3129.html Also posted recently on JSMINESET.COM THIS SUMMER the whole thing is going to come apart at the seams. YOU HAD BETTER BE AS PREPARED AS YOU CAN GET AS FAST AS YOU CAN GET THINGS DONE. THIS MEANS DOUBLE TIME MARCH

WHY I CARRY A GUN (pass this one around)

PEOPLE ASK WHY? Why I Carry a Gun My old grandpa said to me son,' there comes a time in every mans life when he stops bustin' knuckles and starts bustin' caps and usually it's When he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin'. I don't carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed. I don't carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place. I don't carry a gun because I'm paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don't carry a gun because I'm evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world. I don't carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government. I don't carry a gun because I'm angry. I carry a gun so that I don't have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared. I don't carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don't carry a gun because I'm a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy. I don't carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love. I don't carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate. I don't carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. (so true!) Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'. ..author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

BRUCE FEIN ON CZAR OBAMA AND 'CHANGE' HAHAHAHA

Czar Obama The president's incredibly imperialist wielding of executive power. By Bruce Fein The president who promised "change" is wielding the tool of state secrets in aiming to dismiss, without the gathering of evidence, challenges to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22413.htm

THINK YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE INTERNET? THINK AGAIN.

Cybersecurity Act Would Give President Power to 'Shut Down' Internet By Greg Fulton A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22410.htm

WHO ARE THE 'REAL' PIRATES IN SOMALI WATERS?

US Has Won a Huge Victory US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat By Glen Ford What a weekend for American foreign policy! The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20 other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had won a huge victory over the forces of evil. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22424.htm

QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT

Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your Honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse: Mark Twain.

THINGS ARE GETTING BAD

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TIC REPORT FOR 4/15/09 GOOGLE TREASURY INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FOR DETAILS

Dan Norcini and Jim Sinclair will have appropriate comments on the report at JSMINESET.COM either tonight or tomorrow Treasury International Capital (TIC) Data for February To view or print the PDF content on this page, download the free Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®. April 15, 2009 tg-89 Treasury International Capital (TIC) Data for February Washington --The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2009. The next release, which will report on data for March 2009, is scheduled for May 15, 2009. Net foreign purchases of long-term securities were $22.0 billion. Net foreign purchases of long-term U.S. securities were $20.8 billion. Of this, net purchases by private foreign investors were $25.9 billion, and net purchases by foreign official institutions were negative $5.1 billion. U.S. residents sold a net $1.2 billion of long-term foreign securities. Net foreign acquisition of long-term securities, taking into account adjustments, is estimated to have been $5.0 billion. Foreign holdings of dollar-denominated short-term U.S. securities, including Treasury bills, and other custody liabilities increased $43.1 billion. Foreign holdings of Treasury bills increased $68.3 billion. Banks' own net dollar-denominated liabilities to foreign residents decreased $145.1 billion. Monthly net TIC flows were negative $97.0 billion. Of this, net foreign private flows were negative $106.3 billion, and net foreign official flows were positive $9.3 billion Complete data are available on the Treasury website at www.treas.gov/tic.

The Liberty Amendment – its origin and progress

NOT THAT LONG TO READ. DEFINITELY INFORMATION YOU SHOULD KNOW WELL ENOUGH TO DISCUSS INTELLIGENTLY WITH YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS WHEN, OR IF, THEY EVER WAKE UP FROM THEIR SOCIALISM COMA http://www.libertyamendment.org/origin.html

THE CASE AGAINST THE INCOME TAX BY RON PAUL

http://ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=199

YOU MUST READ THIS ONE AND ALL THE LINKS WITHIN IT

SOCIAL UPHEAVAL IS VERY, VERY NEAR FOLKS! April 15, 2009 Pushed To The Brink: Americans Near Point Of Open Rebellion By: Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com:80/index1223.htm

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS COMPLETE TAX REVOLT

THE GUV'MINT CAN'T CONTINUE WITHOUT REVENUES. DON'T PAY ANY MORE TAXES...EVER! DON'T PAY YOUR CREDIT CARD BALANCES TO ANY BANK THAT HAS INCREASED YOUR RATES RECENTLY. IF THEY DON'T PLAY FAIR...WHY SHOULD YOU? IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. THEY EXIST ONLY BECAUSE OF THE MONEY YOU GIVE THEM. BUY GOLD AND SILVER AND CEASE USING ANY PAPER MONEY OF ANY KIND. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. IF YOU DON'T DO IT RIGHT NOW, YOU CERTAINLY WILL HAVE TO DO IT IN A VERY SHORT TIME SIMPLY BECAUSE YOUR PAPER MONEY IS DE FACTO WORTHLESS RIGHT NOW. WHY WAIT FOR IT TO BE MADE CERTAIN AS THE MARKET ELIMINATES ALL ITS VALUE EXCEPT AS FIRE STARTER AND BUTT WIPE? EITHER SEE THE TRUTH RIGHT NOW, OR SUFFER TO YOUR DEATH VERY SOON. YOU ARE NOW, AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, IN A WAR WITH OUR, AND ALL, GOVERNMENTS. IT'S YOU, OR THEM. BOTH WILL NOT SURVIVE IN ACCEPTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. ONE WILL SUFFER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHER. IF YOU ARE NOT FOR FREEDOM...YOU ARE AGAINST FREEDOM! IT REALLY IS THAT BLACK OR WHITE, TRUE OR FALSE, WORKABLE OR DESTRUCTIVE. YOU CHOOSE YOUR PATH AND LIVE OR DIE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES. HOW DO YOU THINK OUR REVOLUTIONARY FOREFATHERS FELT?

QUITE AN ARTICLE FROM GATA

Facts, Evidence and Logical Inference by Frank A. J. Veneroso Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 2007-07-19 14:38. http://www.gata.org/node/5275

NOAH TODAY...AN INSIGHTFUL, SHORT VIDEO

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t133/noah.htm

Credit Card, Bank Fee Hikes Spark Outrage

READ THIS ALL, INCLUDING THE LINKS WITHIN. STOP PAYING ALL YOUR CREDIT CARD BILLS....EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! DON'T PAY YOUR TAXES EVER AGAIN! YOU'RE GOING TO BE BROKE SOON NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. WHY NOT CONVERT YOUR REMAINING PAPER MONEY INTO GOLD AND AMMO? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO PROVE TO YOU, YOU ARE GETTING ROYALLY FUCKED BY THESE CREEPS? I AM NOT CRAZY FOLKS! IT IS ALL BUT OVER. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF A FEW WEEKS TO MONTHS BEFORE THE WHOLE PILE OF CRAP COLLAPSES. YOU BETTER HAVE YOUR FORTRESS IN ORDER....RIGHT NOW...OR YOU WILL DIE PAINFULLY. HELL, YOU MAY DIE THAT WAY ANYWAY, GIVEN HOW IMMENSE THIS DISASTER IS. Credit Card, Bank Fee Hikes Spark Outrage Banks Hike Fees Despite Bailout Billions; Consumers and Congressional Panel Ask Why By ALICE GOMSTYN ABC NEWS Business Unit April 13, 2009 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7322929&page=1

LATEST MIKE WHITNEY ARTICLE

"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!" By Mike Whitney While Congress approved a mere $700 billion in emergency funding for the TARP, Geithner and Bernanke deftly sidestepped the public opposition to more bailouts and shoveled another $3.3 trillion through the back door via loans and leverage for crappy mortgage paper that will never regain its value. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22396.htm

BIS Admits $190 Billion Silver Fraud

http://news.silverseek.com/GoldIsMoney/1239035223.php

MARC FABER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3g15QvYNUU&NR=1

WANT TO HEAR AN HONEST MAN TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BANKING SCANDAL?

WATCH THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1b__MdtHY

Geithner, Paulson named in $200 billion lawsuit...AND THE FECES FLIES INTO THE FAN!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94539 Geithner, Paulson named in $200 billion lawsuit AIG-related case claims they violated shareholders constitutional rights Posted: April 10, 2009 10:45 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily EXCERPT: The case, filed earlier by a public interest law firm, Freedom Watch USA, is on behalf of shareholders of AIG who have watched the value of the company plummet by some $214 billion. The class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles is a "wide reaching" claim that will do what Congress cannot, said Freedom Watch USA founder Larry Klayman. "The American people, not the compromised ruling elite in Washington, D.C., have begun a second American Revolution to take the country back from the con men on Wall Street, and on Pennsylvania Avenue – who under successive administrations played a central role in the meltdown of the U.S. financial system and economy," Klayman said. PLEASE NOTICE THAT WHATEVER LINK YOU USE TO ACCESS THE FREEDOM WATCH USA WEBSITE... IT DOESN'T COME UP! QUITE SUSPICIOUS, NO?

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Indictment of Bush Officials May Come in Days

Breaking news: Indictment of Bush Officials May Come in Days Newsweek Breaks Shocking New Revelations About Disappeared Persons From Pinochet to Bush, the Path to Prosecution * The imminent indictment in Spanish courts of former officials of the Bush Administration is being applauded by civil and human rights organizations and legal scholars. The popular wave of support for indictment of Bush officials will inevitably lead to Bush himself. * Newsweek Magazine blew open more shocking news about Bush' system of kidnapping, secret prisons and torture. A secret Red Cross report indicates that many kidnapped and tortured people were turned into "disappeared persons" by the CIA under instructions from Bush and Cheney. A former Bush administration official told Newsweek's Michael Isikoff that the information had been hidden from the Red Cross. "The majority of the people in the CIA program are unaccounted for. We don't know what happened to them," a human rights investigator told Isikoff. * Like Bush, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, thought his power would shield him from criminal prosecution when his regime kidnapped and tortured and assassinated individuals who became known as the "disappeared." It was when Spanish courts brought indictments against Pinochet that everything changed. As Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights said, "the importance of this investigation [in Spain] can not be understated. Contrary to statements by some, the Spanish investigations are not 'symbolic.' Just ask Augusto Pinochet, who was stranded under house arrest in England and who ultimately faced criminal charges in Chile because of the pressure of the Spanish courts. If and when arrest warrants are issued, 24 countries in Europe are obligated to enforce them. The world is getting smaller for the torture conspirators.” Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General has called for the prosecution of Bush and other high officials in the United States, stating, "The greatest danger arising from impunity for President Bush and his cohorts would be that all subsequent officials will feel secure in committing the same crimes and the people, having failed to compel impeachment for such open, notorious and egregious crimes, will feel even more helpless to prevent them. Ultimately the power and the responsibility to prevent criminal acts by government is with the people." Now is the time for massive outreach and publicity. This requires newspaper ads, organizing national call-in days to pressure Congressional representatives, intensive media work, teach-ins and educational forums, and providing literature for people of conscience to distribute in cities and towns across the country. Please consider taking a moment right now to make a donation to this new movement for the indictment of Bush. There is no time to spare. The time to act is now and we will. --All of us at IndictBushNow.org

BLACK MARKET NUKES AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WITH ENOUGH MONEY

http://www.brasschecktv.com:80/page/595.html

SOME MORE HORRIBLE STUFF TO BECOME AWARE OF AND PREPARE FOR

GT sez: OH, AND LEARN HOW TO KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE IN A DIGNIFIED MANNER April 11, 2009 Scientists Begin To Whisper The Unthinkable: Complete Annihilation By: Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com:80/index1222.htm

GT's BANKING HORROR STORY

This is an edited version of the letter I sent to Dan Norcini (Trader Dan on JSmineset.com) with whom I have an email relationship. Dan has been attempting to move up here for the last two years from Houston (what a Bush shit hole!) He's very tardy and may not make it. I offered to protect him and his family and show him how to acclimate to this area as fast as possible. I had suggested to him to rent, not buy, up here, as the market is yet to fall another big percentage. If he must buy in, I suggested a good sized parcel of raw land and to put a nice mobile home on it, and then, when the bottom drops out, build his dream home. So here is my slightly edited copy of my letter to Dan Norcini last night. Here's my banking story: GT ********************************************* Well, yesterday the final straw fell on this camel's back. I usually sit down on Friday night, or Saturday mornings, to pay my bills online. I have lots of cheap loans with banks, as I prefer to be a debtor in a period of inflation. Besides, my big plan has been to buy all the toys I want, in my later years, and then die... thus fucking the banks that have been fucking us for so long. And yes, I have a high sense of ethics, morality, etc. But when the 'powers' keep on fucking us, no matter how fairly and honestly we play the game, there comes a point when you just say, "I am now part of the insurgency!" This is all preamble to the story I am about to tell you. I have definitely appreciated our 'email friendship' knowing how many kooks who attack you. But it is important for you to know at the outset that I am the most honest and dependable person you will have ever known. I have spent a lifetime trying to do 'the right thing' only to have been kicked in the nuts by everyone, including my family...(lots of stories to tell there...GOOOOOD stories!) Stories you won't even believe...and I can DOCUMENT them! But... what we all learn...eventually...is that you can't fool Mother Nature, and Gravity. So here I go with today's most incredible story of the very low level of integrity to which our culture has debased itself. Today, as I began to pay my monthly bills, I logged on to my Sears/Citibank account (Citi bought all the Sears credit business a few years ago) to see what my next payment would be before my paper statement would arrive. I keep a spreadsheet of all my accounts with every possible variable I need to know. I have taken advantage of all the low interest money that has been offered for several years. Hey, it's my own carry trade, right? Borrow cheap from the banks and trade with it. Well, my last teaser loan expired this last month at 2.99% and was supposed to jump up to 14.83%. Not a pleasant rate, but at least I knew what the terms were supposed to be. Well, when I saw what the next payment was supposed to be, I said, "what the fuck is going on?" The payment was DOUBLE what had been at the 2.99% rate. Now my math is pretty damn good having taken calculus and Martian trigonometry, so I knew something didn't fit. It turns out that Citi has chosen to raise the purchase rate on the card of a customer who has paid off every loan, and made every payment ON TIME, and has NO BLEMISH on my superb credit rating, to....hold on to your hat......23.99%!!!!! These IDIOT BANKERS have INTENTIONALLY just created a whole passle of defaults and will get NOTHING. Rather than being 'reasonable', MORAL, and ETHICAL... especially in a time when they KNOW that their 'financial providers' (the majority of Americans) are in a world of trouble, they have chose to GOUGE every last penny they can squeeze out of their dying 'golden goose'. Back to my CitiBank story... I asked to speak to a supervisor when I called in, and got one of those 'syrup voiced' shills they have to repeat the script of rules to you. I told her I knew what the whole game was about (in so many words)...after being told by the initial little girl that they use to field calls... who told me that the time period to 'opt out' of this rate increase had expired on March 31st and that they had notified us in our bills (in a mail stuffer) of this date. Well, I save ALL of the vital mail stuffers, (not the crap offers to buy over-price crap and credit insurance, etc) and would DEFINITELY have saved that one. Anyhow, this 'supervisor shill' tells me that, "I have checked the mystery data, and the opt out period has expired.' She had previously, as they all do, told me how 'sorry she was for the inconvenience', several times, as had the previous little girl. This, after being told REPEATEDLY by the taped message how 'important my business was to them' as I waited for a human being to pick up the damn phone. We all know that one. Well, as I took command of the conversation to avoid the scripted bullshit, the 'superv_shill's' attitude descended rapidly into that of..."they don't pay me enough to listen to an intelligent, and pissed off customer". She fell into repeating, "do you want me to cancel the account?" I told her to not only cancel the account, but that they would not get a single penny of their usury tax from me and that they could go ahead with their practice of ruining a reliable customer's credit rating by defaming me on the credit companies' data banks. As you know, you are only permitted to go up one level to a supervisor to discuss/complain to these criminals. After that, they insulate themselves by requiring you to WRITE to them to some address where, I'm sure the mail goes down a chute to the furnace in the basement. Well, Ms. Superv_shill gave me the address of CEO Vikram Pandit (oh my god, one of the most blatant of the current covey of criminals roaming Wall Street!) Not a VP at Citi, but Vikram himself! Like that asshole is going to care a whit about my objection of HIS DECISION to move the company into LOANSHARKING! (like the message would ever reach him, or anyone with a functioning brain! Second issue... I also got a series of letters for each of my Bank of Amerika accounts that they are also raising my interest rates, and to call them to find out how bad they were going to stab me. They weren't as blatant as Citi, but the whole concept of the TARP takers gouging their client base is BEYOND THE PALE for their exhibition of GREED and lack of any sense of human values. So, what it all comes down to... is that I am THROUGH WITH TAKING ANY MORE SHIT from the assholes that run what's left of this country. I AM NOW ONE OF THE GUERRILLAS who hope to frog march these financial and political pricks out to the cherry trees in DC and hang them!....SLOWLY! For the Wall Street Pricks, I want to take dollar bills and jam them down their fucking throats until they suffocate! I can see this whole country falling into complete BEDLAM this summer, and for sure, before the end of the year. I have all the tools it takes to deal with a moderate sized parcel, and enough weapons and experience to hold off all but the most intensive SWAT attack. I doubt we will survive what's coming anyhow. I fear for peoples' wives and children, especially your youngest babies, in being able to deal with what's coming, because you can't possible educate them fast enough, if at all, to be able to cope with the disaster that is about to unfold. Sad, but true. I'm not a pessimist....I'm just an optimist that hasn't arrived...(Mark Twain) When Citi precipitates the inevitable destruction of my credit record... I am out of here. If there's a heaven...I hope it has all my pets in it and NO PEOPLE! I am prepared to go down in a hail of double ought as the 'do-gooders' come to shape me up to 'fit in' to the new structure. Hey, I've already survived short of 65 years, and I still haven't become a senile idiot. I have much more to convey, but for now this gives you the ESSENTIAL info which you MUST make a decision about....BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE for you to set yourself up in a fairly SAFE environment. There really is no place left that is truly safe. It will take some VERY SANE people to band together to hold off the hordes of imbeciles that will soon be roaming the land to take whatever they can grab to fulfill their immediate needs. All those horror movies of the collapse of civilization are now about to become reality. *****************************

READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY AND ALL THE LINKS WITHIN IT

April 9, 2009 World’s Elite Prepare For End As Earth Said Ready To Hit ‘Reset’ Once Again By: Sorcha Faal A disturbing FSB report on the G-20, NATO and US-EU meetings in Europe involving the leaders of the Western Nations this past week states that on the evening of April 3rd, over 500 of our World’s most elite citizens attended a ‘Black Mass’ at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg presided over by Pope Benedict XVI who was secretly flown into France to preside over this most unusual ceremony. According to these reports, those attending this Black Mass included President Obama and his wife, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, nearly all senior members of Europe’s Royal Houses and the top American and European bankers and corporate leaders. Interesting to note too about those attending this ceremony was the presence of former US Congressional leader Newt Gingrich, who like former Prime Minister Blair made a surprise conversion to Roman Catholicism. FOR THE REST: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com:80/index1221.htm

O'BOMB'A...JUST A CONTINUATION OF THE BUSH REGIME WITH A DIFFERENT FLAVOR #3

Obama Administration Defends, Extends Bush Surveillance Program Wednesday, 08 April 2009 04:21 by Jonathan Turley In yet another break with its campaign promise to fight to restore civil liberties and privacy, the Obama Administration has made a breathtaking claim of state secrets to block a public interest organization from suing the government for illegal surveillance. There is not a scintilla of difference in the legal position of President Obama and the position of President Bush in trying to quash any effort to challenge unlawful surveillance by the government. It appears the “yes we can” means “yes we can do most anything that we want” when it comes to unlawful programs. JONATHON TURLEY IS AN ELOQUENT LAWYER. YOU CAN COUNT ON HIM TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON. http://worldcantwait.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5503:obama-administration-defends-extends-bush-surveillance-program&catid=117:homepage&Itemid=289

O'BOMB'A...JUST A CONTINUATION OF THE BUSH REGIME WITH A DIFFERENT FLAVOR #2

Obama ’s Trip to Iraq - Continuing War and Occupation Wednesday, 08 April 2009 21:35 Share Link: By Kenneth J. Theisen On Tuesday, April 7th President Barack Obama made an unannounced four-hour trip to Baghdad to promote the continuing war there, while pretending to end it. (This is reminiscent of the surprise trips taken there by his predecessor, George W. Bush.) Obama’s Iraq trip was actually confined to Camp Victory, the largest U.S. military base in Iraq. It was more of a photo-op than a trip that involved any real substance. READ THIS ARTICLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT EVERYTHING O'BOMB'A DOES IS JUST ANOTHER STAGED DOG AND PONY SHOW TO KEEP THE GUV'MINT HOLDING THE POWER AND THE MONEY... AT OUR EXPENSE. http://worldcantwait.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5505:obama-s-trip-to-iraq-continuing-war-and-occupation&catid=117:homepage&Itemid=289

CAT DOES TAXES...HILARIOUS

THIS CAT LOOKS JUST LIKE MY BLACK CAT, AND ACTS ABOUT THE SAME WAY. This one is for those of you who have a cat that 'owns' them, not the other way around. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UVNH73eBY

TIMMY GEITHNER'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KD03Dj02.html

LATEST MIKE WHITNEY ARTICLE

Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan: The Glide-path to Destitution By Mike Whitney The United States defaulted on its debt in 1933 when Roosevelt took office and pulled the country off the gold standard, thus, shrugging off the claims of foreign investors who were assured the US would honor its obligations in gold. The dollar plummeted. Bernanke's muddled strategy has the nation walking down that same path once again. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22367.htm

O'BOMB'A...JUST A CONTINUATION OF THE BUSH REGIME WITH A DIFFERENT FLAVOR

CHANGE? WHAT CHANGE? http://www.examiner.com:80/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2009m4d6-Obama-sticks-with-controversial-Bushera-state-secrets-position

JACOB HORNBERGER ...FFF.ORG

Friday, April 3, 2009 http://www.fff.org:80/blog/index.asp How the Socialists Destroyed Freedom, Independence, and Self-Reliance by Jacob G. Hornberger Have you ever wondered how it is that Americans today have such a completely different attitude toward the federal government than the people who founded our country? Our ancestors looked upon the federal government as the greatest threat to their freedom and well-being. That’s why they limited its powers to a selected few in the Constitution. It’s also why they used the Bill of Rights to expressly prohibit the federal government from violating people’s fundamental rights and to expressly require it to honor important procedural guarantees when it went after people in criminal prosecutions. With the exception of libertarians, Americans today don’t look upon the federal government in way our ancestors did. If modern-day Americans had their druthers, they would let the federal government exercise whatever powers it deemed necessary for the welfare and protection of the nation. That’s in fact why such Americans weren’t bothered in the least when the president and the Pentagon established their Constitution-free zone in Cuba as well as a Constitution-free zone in the United States with respect to the war on terrorism. My hunch is that this marked difference in attitude toward the federal government is due to the welfare state. I think the welfare-statists have been absolutely brilliant in causing Americans to look upon the federal government as their friend and provider rather than as the biggest threat to their freedom and well-being. I once read a tale about a farmer who lived near some woods inhabited by a group of fierce, wild boars. The farmer started leaving out corn every day, which attracted the boars. Gradually, the man began building a fence around the area where the boars were feeding on his corn. Ultimately, he was able to enclose the fence while the boars were feeding. Over time, they became mild, domesticated animals. I think that’s pretty much the strategy that FDR and LBJ and other welfare-statists have used on Americans. Such programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education grants, SEC regulations, GI Bill, and the like are much like that corn that that farmer put out to soften up and domesticate those wild boars. By getting Americans to begin feeding on the welfare-state corn, the socialists have been able to convert a nation of independent, self-reliant, fearless people into a nation of dependent, fearful people who are ready to surrender their freedoms to the federal government at the first sign of trouble or crisis. How many times have we heard, “I couldn’t survive without my Social Security” or “I would have died without Medicare” or “I would never have been educated without my education grant or GI Bill”? This has been the great triumph of the welfare-state socialists — making Americans feel so dependent on the federal government’s largess that they could never imagine life without it. Not only does such dependency damage a person’s sense of self-worth, it also induces a child-like mindset toward the government, one that refuses to challenge the government’s policies at a fundamental level. After all, deep within the psyche of the dependent adult is the fear that the government has the power to cut off his dole anytime it wants. The relationship of the American citizen and the federal government is today much like the relationship between a child and his parents. A child might throw tantrums about his parents’ rules and policies, but the child will rarely go too far because he knows that he is dependent on his parents for survival. That’s the way American adults feel toward the federal government — they’ll carp over excesses or abuses but their welfare-state dependency prevents them from going too far. In the last several years, we’ve witnessed this phenomenon firsthand in both foreign and domestic affairs. People will carp about how the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan are not being handled properly or they’ll carp about how the politicians and bureaucrats have mismanaged the housing and mortgage crisis. But the thought that the federal government’s very own policies produced the crises and are now exacerbating them is something that is just too frightening for welfare-state-dependent Americans to accept and confront. How sad. What began as a nation of fiercely independent, fearless, self-reliant people who distrusted the federal government and who never would have embraced socialistic programs has been turned into a nation of fearful, dependent people who look upon the federal government as their parent and provider. Even sadder is the fact that like those boars feeding on that farmer’s corn, Americans have lost their freedom in the process. Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.

TSA THUGS HARASS AND ABUSE ONE OF RON PAUL'S PEOPLE

YOU MUST WATCH AND LISTEN TO THIS SO YOU WON'T BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU ARE TREATED THIS WAY...OR WORSE...IN THE NEAR FUTURE. DO NOT ARGUE WITH THE 'AUTHORITIES'... LET THEM BURY THEMSELVES AS YOU 'POLITE' THEM INTO THEIR OWN TRIAL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM

THE BREAD LINE GROWS

CHART COURTESY OF THE DAILY RECKONING

FROM THE DAILY RECKONING 4/3/09

The New World Order by Bill Bonner London, England In London, last night: "You weren't here today," began the cab driver. "You missed the excitement. You know, the G20 meeting. They held it here in London... "Some lads got out of control. They smashed a window over at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and then broke up the computers and so forth... "Nothing very important, but the media makes a big thing of it. They kept talking about that G20 meeting - as if they were going to change the whole world - New World Order and all that...but what could they change? These hotshots at the banks took some bad bets. Now they've got to pay for them. What's all the fuss about?" Clearly, our cab driver should go back to school. He could study macroeconomics and learn about counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus...and the multiplier effect...and the need to restore liquidity to the financial sector. Then, he could be spouting the same claptrap as other commentators. He could get on board with the plans to save capitalism from...well, from capitalism! It's all very well for the capitalists to make money, he will discover, but when they begin to lose it, well government has to step in and bail them out. The "creative" part of capitalism is fine...but spare us the destruction, okay. Yesterday, the heads of state of the world's 20 leading countries decided to put more muscle into their efforts to stop capitalism's downswing. Notably, they decided to treble the budget of the IMF. In all, today's International Herald Tribune tells us it's a "One Trillion Dollar Deal." Gordon Brown pronounced it a "New World Order," which sounds a lot like what George Bush I was aiming for 15 years ago. One world government. One multi-national police force. Harmonized tax collection. (No more tax havens...nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...) Keep the masses happy with bread and circuses...and "wars" against imaginary and unnecessary enemies. (The War on Terror and now - the War on Depression.) Hey, maybe we'll all have to speak Esperanto, too... But at least now the IMF will be about to bailout more bankrupt governments before it goes broke itself. Most of the money is coming from a country that doesn't have any: the U.S.A. Look up. What do you see? Why, it's our Dollar Crash Flag. The dollar's days are numbered. What's the number? We don't know. But whatever it was a week ago, it is a smaller number now. Yesterday, the dollar gave up a little ground. The euro rose to $1.24. Oil went up to $52. Gold, however, fell hard - down to $904. Gold stocks, on the other hand, did rather well. Hugo Chavez was in the Mideast this week at a meeting of oil producers. He called for a new petro-currency...which, we suppose, is a currency backed by oil. The Associated Press: "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought Arab support Tuesday for a proposed oil-backed currency to challenge the U.S. dollar in his latest swipe at Washington's dominance in global financial affairs." He probably won't get very far with that. But he's not the only one looking for a solution to a crisis that hasn't happened yet. The dollar's been king of the monetary mountain for a long time. But it had better be careful...watch it's back ...give a little of the food to a dog before eating it itself. Rivals are plotting against it. Much of the world wants to dethrone "King Dollar," says the French financial journal, La Tribune. China has already called for a new reserve currency based on IMF Special Drawing Rights. What's more, it's worked out bilateral agreements with many of its neighbors to swap goods, rather than use the dollar as a common unit of exchange. This week, it went further afield, making a deal with Argentina. This is the first deal of its kind in the Latin American world. But it's probably not the last. People see trouble coming with the greenback. They don't want it to hurt their sales of raw materials to China. The Russians, too, have called for a new reserve currency. They, like the Arabs and Chavez, are sellers of raw materials. They don't want to get stuck with dollars that are losing their value. That's the real New World Order...the United States will find it harder to stay in the driver's seat of this bus...and the U.S. currency will no longer give Americans an automatic ticket to the first class section...

GLOBAL CURRENCY BEGINS?

The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 2:06PM BST 03 Apr 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5096524/The-G20-moves-the-world-a-step-closer-to-a-global-currency.html

THE O'BOMB'A DECEPTION (high quality full length video)

Once again, I post this. CREDIT TO MARK SIMONS FOR THIS LINK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw Full length (about 2 hours) video VERY GOOD QUALITY VIDEO

SOUTHPARK EPISODE IS THE FUNNIEST COMMENT ON OUR CURRENT CALAMITY I'VE EVER SEEN

The Importance of Saving Money Season 13: Margaritaville Stan takes his $100 check and makes an investment into South Park Bank. Annndd it's gone. http://www.southparkstudios.com/?kw=southpark Go to the SOUTHPARK.COM website and find one of the most recent episodes where Stan deposits his $100 check in the bank. It just gets crazier by the second as the community likens Stan to Jesus as they all regress to togas and sandals as they stop spending due to lack of money. ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! Right now, you can only watch short clips of the show at the website, as the full version is not allowed to be shown on the internet until APRIL 25, 2009 FOR LEGAL REASONS. If you watch COMEDY CENTRAL, you may be lucky to find it still playing on cable this week before the next episode comes out. This episode MUST be watched in its entirety. You should tape it and save it for sharing with others.

THE POLICE ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS

Why Fearing the Police Is Not Irrational by Brian Cohoon http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/cohoon1.html There was a day in America when we, the people, had great respect for the police. When they would ask you how you are doing, they sincerely wanted to know because they cared. That day has passed with barely a whisper or complaint. Today when a cop (they prefer to be called Police Officers, as they feel "cop" is somewhat derogatory) asks you how you are, they are not doing it because they care but rather to set you at ease so you feel that their follow-up questions are friendly and benign. Since for most of us, our likely contact with the police is during a traffic stop (this is actually an arrest. If you do not believe this, try and leave the scene of the stop, or not stop in the first place), and the follow-up questions inevitably will be: Where are you coming from (sic)? Where are you going? What are you doing? Do you have anything illegal in your possession? What they are not doing is being friendly, but rather they are fishing for information to give them probable cause to search you and your vehicle. There are so many laws today that almost everyone is guilty of something at all times. It is unreasonable to think every individual will know every law for which they may be held accountable. We think "I'm not hurting anyone so I'm not doing anything wrong." While this seems reasonable to most of us (no victim, no crime right?), the law and especially the cops do not see it this way. Take this for example. You are heading home on a Saturday morning from your bank downtown, and get stopped by cops for some perceived infraction. You answer the questions above: "The bank downtown," "Home," "Nothing," "No." This seems perfectly reasonable and safe; you are just complying with the friendly police officer. What you do not know is that a different bank downtown was just robbed and you have given the cop probable cause to search you and your vehicle under suspicion that you are one of the robbers. Maybe this example hits closer to home. You are heading to your diabetic parents' home for a visit and are also going to deliver a box of 100 insulin syringes. You think nothing of it and mention the syringes to the police officer; clearly, you are only being friendly and answering the questions honestly. Well congratulations, if you live in Illinois you just admitted to a crime. Possession or transportation of more than 20 syringes by anyone not a health professional is a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class 4 felony after that. Welcome to the slammer and the humiliation of processing. Every single piece of information the cops need during a traffic stop is contained on your license, registration and proof of insurance. While there are a plethora of reasons why you should not even have to provide those (a huge topic all on its own), in my humble opinion the potential hassle of not complying far outweighs the benefits gained by attempting to circumvent these pieces of documentation. They have no reason to know neither where you have been nor where you are going. It is none of their business and has nothing to do with a traffic stop. So, do not tell them anything. Do not talk to them and do not even open your mouth. Remember they are not your friend. All they want is to find some reason to take you to the station and toss you in a cell, confiscate your vehicle (along with all the contents), put you in a situation that will cost you tens of thousands of dollars to get out of (if you are lucky) or a guilty plea-bargain to avoid jail time (congratulations on the felony record, no more guns for you and good luck finding a new job after you lost your current one during the 9 month legal battle). They will ruin your life if you give them the chance, just to advance their petty careers. And the final question with which you will be faced: "Do you have anything illegal in your possession?" How are you even supposed to know? Can any of us be sure that at any particular moment we are not committing some innocuous "crime"? I certainly do not know all the 70,000 pages of triple column, small font text released in the Federal Register every year let alone all the Local, County and State ordinances currently on the books for which I can be held accountable. So by them asking that question they have just set you up for a second charge on top of any others they can think up. "Obstructing an Officer" will tack on an extra 6 months of jail time to your sentence. Of course, the cops can lie to you all they want with impunity. Lastly comes the really scary part. How often have you heard of an on-duty cop who has done something horrible and then get prosecuted? The tasings, shootings, beatings and occasionally murders by the police go mostly unpunished. Sure, they might get two months of administrative leave (with pay) but nothing is really going to happen to them. They know this. They know that if you make them angry they could just pull you out of your car and beat you to the brink of death, and there is nothing anybody will do about it. The police care about only one thing: Compliance. Do what they say, when they say without question or you will suffer. They will see to that. The men and women so many people depend on to serve and protect them have become thugs whom we fear. And this fear is not irrational. April 3, 2009 Brian Cohoon [send him mail] is a software engineer working in Denver. Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

FROM THE MW THREAD TODAY 4/2/09

FROM CISCOKID This puts the current situation around the world in a very > understandable terms. > It all seems clearer now! > > > Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork . In order to increase sales, > she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed > alcoholics - to drink now but pay later. > > She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting > the customers loans). Word gets around and as a result increasing > numbers of customers flood into Linda's bar. Taking advantage of her > customers' > freedom from immediate payment constraints, Linda increases her prices > for wine and beer, the most-consumed beverages. Her sales volume > increases massively. > > A young and dynamic customer service consultant at the local bank > recognizes these customer debts as valuable future assets and > increases Linda's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for undue concern > since he has the debts of the alcoholics as collateral. At the bank's > corporate headquarters, expert bankers transform these customer assets > into DRINKBONDS, ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then > traded on markets worldwide. > > No one really understands what these abbreviations mean and how the > securities are guaranteed. Nevertheless, as their prices continuously > climb, the securities become top-selling items. One day, although the > prices are still climbing, a risk manager (subsequently of course > fired due to his negativity) of the bank decides that slowly the time > has come to demand payment of the debts incurred by the drinkers at > Linda's bar. > > However they cannot pay back the debts. Linda can not fulfil her loan > obligations and claims bankruptcy. DRINKBOND and ALKBOND drop in price > by 95 %. PUKEBOND performs better, stabilizing in price after dropping by > 80 %. The suppliers of Linda's bar, having granted her generous > payment due dates and having invested in the securities are faced with a new situation. > Her wine supplier claims bankruptcy, her beer supplier is taken over > by a competitor. The bank is saved by the Government following > dramatic round-the-clock consultations by leaders from the governing > political parties (and vested interests).. The funds required for this purpose are obtained by a tax levied on the non-drinkers. > > > "There are two sides of a Balance Sheet, Left & Right (Assets and > Liabilities respectively): On the Right side there is nothing right > and on the Left side there is nothing left!!!" > ~ LEHMAN BROTHERS' ANALYST ~

OLD STORY BUT IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

Monsanto controls the seeds you grow if they are NOT HERITAGE SEEDS (seeds grown from seeds NOT controlled by Monsanto) Monsanto and the guv'mint want to be able to prevent you from growing your own food without them getting a piece of the action. All the seeds you buy in stores or on the internet are NOT HERITAGE SEEDS. There are a few websites that do sell them...Just GOOGLE...HERITAGE SEEDS. Here is a short video (bad sound) and other videos you can click on for more info on this subject. http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=epXNJNjYBvw&feature=related HERE IS A LINK FROM SORCHA FAAL'S website to obtain HERITAGE SEEDS. http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/indexspecialoffer.htm HERITAGE SEEDS ARE NOT CHEAP, BUT YOU CAN GROW SUCCESSIVE CROPS FROM THEM IF YOU SAVE THE PREVIOUS CROP'S SEEDS... AND.... THEY ARE NOT CONTROLLED BY MONSANTO OR ANYONE ELSE.

STAND BY ME (AROUND THE WORLD)

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741 SONG LENGTH VIDEO WORTH WATCHING CREDIT TO JSMINESET.COM for the link

CONFIKER WORM INFO FROM MICROSOFT

GO TO THIS LINK TO GET INFO ON THIS WORM. MICROSOFT INFO PAGE. http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/worms/conficker.mspx DON'T OPEN ANY EMAILS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY

FROM THE MW THREADS TODAY 3/30/09

FROM "PROPHECY" (HIS USERNAME) In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression. Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene’s Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising ‘Change.’ He blamed the ‘Zionists’ around the world for all our problems. He told everyone it was greedy Zionist Bankers who had caused every problem we had. He promised when he was leader, the greedy Zionist bankers would be punished. The Zionists, he promised, would be wiped off the face of the earth. So Hitler was elected to power by only 1/3 the popular vote. A coalition of other political parties in parliament made him supreme leader. Then, when he was leader, he disgraced and expelled everyone in parliament who did not go along with him. Yes. Change came to my homeland as the new leader promised it would. The teachers in German schools began to teach the children to sing songs in praise of Hitler. This was the beginning of the Hitler Youth movement. It began with praise of the Fuhrer’s programs on the lips of innocent children. Hymns in praise of Hitler and his programs were being sung in the schoolrooms and in the play yard. Little girls and boys joined hands and sang these songs as they walked home from school. My brother came home and told Papa what was happening at school. The political hymns of children proclaimed Change was coming to our homeland and the Fuhrer was a leader we could trust. I will never forget my father’s face. Grief and fear. He knew that the best propaganda of the Nazis was song on the lips of little children. That evening before he said grace at the dinner table, he placed his hands upon the heads of my brothers and me and prayed the Living Word upon us from Jeremiah 1:4-5. ‘Now the Word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to The nations.’ Soon the children's songs praising the Fuhrer were heard everywhere on the streets and over the radio. ‘With our Fuhrer to lead us, we can do it! We can change the world!’ Soon after that Papa, a pastor, was turned away from visiting elderly parishioners in hospitals. The people he had come to bring comfort of God’s Word, were ‘no longer there.’ Where had they vanished to while under nationalized health care? It became an open secret. The elderly and sick began to disappear from hospitals feet first as ‘mercy killing’ became the policy. Children with disabilities and those who had Down syndrome were euthanized. People whispered, ‘Maybe it is better for them now. Put them out of misery. They are no longer suffering. And, of course, their death is better for the treasury of our nation. Our taxes no longer must be spent to care for such a burden.’ And so murder was called mercy. The government took over private business. Industry and health care were ‘nationalized.’ (NA-ZI means National Socialist Party) The businesses of all Jews were seized. (Perhaps you remember our story in Berlin on Krystalnacht in the book Munich Signature) The world and God’s word were turned upside down. Hitler promised the people economic Change?

Obama Lies-Senate Uses Sneak Attack On Guns (EMAIL 3/27/9)

Obama Lies-Senate Uses Sneak Attack On Guns As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted that he would not try to take away anyone's firearms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said. Now House Republicans are trying to add an amendment to the public lands "Ominous Spending" lands bill that would codify the right to carry concealed weapons in national parks, less than a week after a federal judge blocked a similar proposal. But, Senate leaders have devised a strategy to use a bill that had already passed the House -- H.R. 146, a proposal to protect Revolutionary War battlefields -- and strip its contents, replacing it with the "Ominous Spending" lands bill. Because the House already passed H.R. 146, the Rules Committee can approve a closed rule that would block a motion to recommit, eliminating the GOP's best procedural chance to stymie the bill. The chamber would only need a simple majority vote to concur with the Senate amendment. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, reacting to the "Ominous Spending" lands bill tactic to force more gun control on U.S. citizen's said "the sneak attack on guns reveals the Democrats clear intention to outlaw guns everywhere" "Obama "has been lying to the nation when he says he will not take guns away." U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly placed an injunction on the Interior rule last week. The judge's ruling infringed on the rights of gun owners as drivers in areas such as Washington, D.C., often drive through federal park lands every day. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) said "It's ridiculous for people to be subject to two different sets of regulations simply because their car moved a few feet," Bishop said in a statement. "The judge's decision last week was wrong." Select Here to Reject Gun Bans and Fax to all 100 Senators and all 435 House Representatives: URL: https://secure.conservativedonations.com/ccrkba_fax/?a=2202 "We warned America that Obama's 'support' for the Second Amendment was empty rhetoric," he stated, "and now his support for the "Ominous Spending" lands bill shows Obama was lying, and now gun rights may be dying." "Right now," said Gottlieb, "I wouldn't take Obama's word if he said it rains a lot in Seattle. Apparently, law-abiding gun owners have nothing to fear unless they drive to work in Washington DC and park or drive in the wrong place." Select Here to Reject Gun Bans and Fax to all 100 Senators and all 435 House Representatives In order to stop Obama and his fellow Democrat gun-grabbers-we need to let the Congress know with thousands of faxes telling them to leave guns alone. Americans like you who understand what our Founding Fathers envisioned for our nation…and who are willing to fight to defend our Constitution and for what it stands. So please, help the Citizens Committee and me defeat those who wish to gut and trash the United States Constitution. Help me flood the U.S. Senate and the House with the sea of FAXES big enough to drown each and every Senator and Representative willing to vote away the Second Amendment. Please, send your Donation and FAX TODAY! Select Here to Reject Gun Bans and Fax to all 100 Senators and all 435 House Representatives Keep calling your Senators and Congressmen today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOU'RE OUTRAGE at ongoing efforts to take guns away! CALL PRESIDENT OBAMA, 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your disdain and ABSOLUTE REJECTION of all GUN BANS. DO NOT BE SILENCED – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! NOTE: We need TENS OF THOUSANDS of faxes and PHONE CALLS and EMAILS delivered to ALL Senators and Representatives right away! For our projects to be successful, we must count on the voluntary financial support from individuals like you who care. Your contribution of $20 or $25 is urgently needed today. Your donation for just $10 will help so much. If you can afford to send $50 or $100 or more it would truly be a godsend. Remember, protecting our freedom is not inexpensive. But then, it's impossible to put a price tag on freedom. Select Here NOW Send Your Most Generous CCRKBA Donation Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever. For more information about CCRKBA go to www.ccrkba.org Thank you. I know I can count on you. Sincerely, Alan Gottlieb Chairman Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 12500 NE Tenth Place Dept Code 2202 Bellevue, Washington 98004

GUN BAN LIST

CREDIT TO GOLDMELTER FOR THIS INFO. The Gun Ban list is out: Here it is folks, and it is bad news. The framework for legislation is always laid, and the Democrats have the votes to pass anything they want to impose upon us. They really do not believe you need anything more than a brick to defend your home and family. Look at the list and see how many you own. Remember, it is registration, then confiscation. It has happened in the UK, in Australia, in Europe, in China, and what they have found is that for some reason the criminals do not turn in their weapons, but will know that you did. Please send this to everyone you can. It will come up for a vote, and it might even be a secret vote if Madame Pelosi has her way, and then it will be a done deal. ...thanks to Colonel Rus. Hal Right to own a gun: Remember... The first step in establishing a dictatorship is to disarm the citizens. Get ready America!!! Gun-ban list proposed. Slipping below the radar (or under the short-term memory cap), the Democrats have already leaked a gun-ban list, even under the Bush administration when they knew full well it had no chance of passage (HR 1022, 110th Congress) It serves as a framework for the new list the Brady's plan to introduce shortly. I have an outline of the Brady's current plans and targets of opportunity, It's horrific. They're going after the courts, regulatory agencies, firearms dealers and statutes in an all out effort to restrict we the people. They've made little mention of criminals. Now more than ever, attention to the entire Bill of Rights is critical. Gun bans will impact our freedoms under search and seizure, due process, confiscated property, states' rights, free speech, right to assemble and more, in addition to the Second Amendment. The Democrats current gun-ban-list proposal (final list will be worse): Rifles (or copies or duplicates): M1 Carbine, Sturm Ruger Mini-14, AR-15, Bushmaster XM15, Armalite M15, AR-10, Thompson 1927, Thompson M1; AK, AKM, AKS, AK-47, AK-74, ARM, MAK90, NHM 90, NHM 91, SA 85, SA 93, VEPR; Olympic Arms PCR; AR70, Calico Liberty , Dragunov SVD Sniper Rifle or Dragunov SVU, Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, or FNC, Hi-Point20Carbine, HK-91, HK-93, HK-94, HK-PSG-1, Thompson 1927 Commando, Kel-Tec Sub Rifle; Saiga, SAR-8, SAR-4800, SKS with detachable magazine, SLG 95, SLR 95 or 96, Steyr AU, Tavor, Uzi, Galil and Uzi Sporter, Galil Sporter, or Galil Sniper Rifle ( Galatz ). Pistols (or copies or duplicates): Calico M-110, MAC-10, MAC-11, or MPA3, Olympic Arms OA, TEC-9, TEC-DC9, TEC-22 Scorpion, or AB-10, Uzi. Shotguns (or copies or duplicates): Armscor 30 BG, SPAS 12 or LAW 12, Striker 12, Streetsweeper. Catch-all category (for anything missed or new designs): A semiautomatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and has: (i) a folding or telescoping stock, (ii) a threaded barrel, (iii) a pistol grip (which includes ANYTHING that can serve as a grip, see below), (iv) a forward grip; or a barrel shroud. Any semiautomatic rifle with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds (except tubular magazine .22 rim fire rifles). A semiautomatic pistol that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine, and has: (i) a second pistol grip, (ii) a threaded barrel, (iii) a barrel shroud or (iv) can accept a detachable magazine outside of the pistol grip, and (v) a semiautomatic pistol with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds. A semiautomatic shotgun with: (i) a folding or telescoping stock, (ii) a pistol grip (see definition below), (iii) the ability to accept a detachable magazine or a fixed magazine capacity of more than 5 rounds, and (iv) a shotgun with a revolving cylinder. Frames or receivers for the above are included, along with conversion kits. Attorney General gets carte blanche to ban guns at will: Under the proposal, the US Attorney General can add any "semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General." Note that Obama's pick for this office, Eric Holder, wrote a brief in the Heller case supporting the position that you have no right to have a working firearm in your own home. In making this determination, the bill says, "there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event." In plain English this means that ANY firearm ever obtained by federal officers or the military is not suitable for the public. The last part is particularly clever, stating that a firearm doesn't have a sporting purpose just because it can be used for sporting purpose -- is that devious or what? And of course, "sporting purpose" is a rights infringement with no constitutional or historical support whatsoever, invented by domestic enemies of the right to keep and bear arms to further their cause of disarming the innocent. Respectfully submitted, Alan Korwin, Author Gun Laws of America http://www.gunlaws.com/gloa.htm Forward or send to every gun owner you know... VIDEO TO WATCH: CNN- Obama To BAN Guns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv3p2lLmjGk

TREASON DEFINED IN WIKIPEDIA

GT sez: Be sure to understand all the terminology you have heard and used during your lifetime...It's going to become important very soon to use it properly as we soon begin to discover just who is a traitor to our country in the creation of this economic disaster.... "In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife (treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petit treason). A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour." READ MORE AT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

I DON'T DOUBT THAT THIS IS TRUE AT ALL AND MAY STILL BE IN PROGRESS

Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Reveal Plan For “Massive Military Takeover Of US” http://www.prisonplanet.com/top-constitutional-scholar-secret-bush-memos-reveal-plan-for-massive-military-takeover-of-us.html AND THIS... Terror Memos Reveal Total Destruction Of U.S. Constitutional Freedoms No official reversal, illegal practices can continue Steve Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, March 3, 2009 http://infowars.net/articles/march2009/030309memos.htm HERE ARE THE NINE MEMOS: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/olc-memos.htm

READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY AND ALL THE LINKS WITHIN IT

March 29, 2009 Obama Gets Massive New Law To Force All Americans Into Cities By: Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com:80/index1218.htm

GLOBAL EUROPE ANTICIPATION BULLETIN

THESE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN WRONG YET IN PREDICTING WHEN THINGS WILL HAPPEN. VERY OMINOUS PREDICTION FOR THE NEAR FUTURE. THIS IS A MUST READ! http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-33-is-available!-Growing-Transatlantic-tensions-on-the-eve-of-the-G20-summit-An-illustration-of-Wall-Street-s-and_a2940.html?PHPSESSID=7f96eb38796490220a969131e624599e

YOU ALL NEED TO READ THROUGH THIS VERY CAREFULLY

CREDIT TO CSPANJUNKIE FOR THIS LINK. http://www.worldreports.org/news/203_wheels_coming_off_white_house_corruption_engine I read this website occasionally and have grown to appreciate the issues it brings to my attention LONG BEFORE other sites, or the major media, ever get around to it by the time it is already an unfixable disaster. You don't have to believe everything that is on the internet, BUT.... Some of these sites will bring your ATTENTION to issues you may have never thought of as being important. THIS WORLD IS NOW ON THE PRECIPICE OF THE DISASTER OF ALL TIMES FOR HUMANS, MUCH AS THE DINOSAURS DIDN'T SEE THE ASTEROID COMING THAT WIPED THEM OUT. Prepare for the VERY WORST...if you want to survive...and you will be able cope with most of which is coming. Put on your WARRIOR PERSONALITY and DON'T EVER GIVE IN TO AUTHORITIES who want to push you around in a crisis. Their only priority is to have you crawl off into a dark place and die quietly so they and their masters will have more of what's left for themselves... It has come down to a WAR between the HAVES and the HAVE MUCH LESSes. Don't be a VOLUNTARY CORPSE!

KARL DENNINGER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

CREDIT TO GEIST FOR THE LINK: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/910-Whats-Disturbing-About-The-Truth.html Don't just watch the video, read what's underneath it. If you are a young person and don't have much to lose, GET OUT IN THE STREETS AND PROTEST. For older persons who don't have the physical ability to go out and protest, the internet is your tool. So USE IT and send emails to your 'supposed' representatives in CONGRESS, and to newspapers and network and cable companies protesting their NON COVERAGE of what's REALLY HAPPENING. The TRUTH IS... us older folks are going to die soon, so it really doesn't matter if we die sooner in the pursuit of a noble goal... That of DESTROYING this despicable bunch of criminals and hoodlums who are rapidly constructing a MASSIVE DEATH SENTENCE through starvation to the peoples of THE ENTIRE WORLD through economic collapse which WILL NOT BE FIXED IN OUR REMAINING LIFETIME. THE TRUTH IS WHAT IS..... A lie is what ISN'T.

JACOB HORNBERGER ON 'THE DRUG WAR'...FFF.ORG

Thursday, March 26, 2009 Hillary Clinton’s Drug-War Inanities by Jacob G. Hornberger Hillary Clinton’s comments on the violence along the U.S.-Mexico border are so inane that I feel compelled to write about two government programs: the war on drugs and public (i.e., government) schooling. On her way to Mexico to discuss the ever-increasing drug-war violence along the U.S. Mexico-border, guess whom Clinton blamed the violence on: America’s drug users and gun sellers! How inane is that? Pardon me, Ms. Clinton, but isn’t there also an insatiable demand for booze here in the United States? Yet, I don’t see much booze-related violence along the border. But here’s my prediction: If you people made booze illegal again, I predict that there would be all kinds of booze-war related violence, not only along the border but also all across the United States. In fact, you’ll recall that that is precisely what Prohibition did — it produced lots of Al Capone-like violence, until booze was re-legalized, at which point the violence disappeared. Why can’t Clinton simply acknowledge that the drug war is at the root of the violence along the border? Why can’t she simply be honest and say, “Look, we understand that the drug war is causing the violence, but that’s a cost we’re willing to pay to keep our 35-year-old war on drugs going”? The reason is very simple: If people were to see the truth, Clinton and her statist cohorts would stand to lose what matters most to them in life — power and money. The reason that statists, both liberal and conservative, love the drug war is because it helps to satisfy their insatiable demand for more power over the lives of more human beings. After all, with the possible exception of U.S. foreign policy, it would be difficult to find a government program better at producing ever-increasing government power and budgets than the war on drugs. Here’s how this power surge works. They first make it illegal to possess or distribute certain drugs, knowing that people are inevitably going to break the law. Then they engage in ever-increasing measures to deal with the ever-increasing crises associated with people’s refusal to comply with the law: warrantless searches and seizures, Soviet-style checkpoints on highways, confiscation (i.e., stealing) of people’s money and other assets, and harsh punishments. Then they get Mexico go crack down on the drug cartels that the drug war itself has brought into existence, knowing that the result is going to be precisely the same as when the U.S. government cracked down on the booze organizations during Prohibition. Then, they cite all the resulting drug-war chaos and crises as the excuse for more intervention, including the militarization of the border and gun control. So, what does public schooling have to do with all this? What else can possibly explain why the American people fall for all this inanity? Public schooling teaches children to memorize, conform, and accept. Critical thinking and challenging the system at a fundamental level bring Ritalan injections. So, you end up with a nation of sheep-like adults with mindsets that cause them to nod approvingly when people like Clinton inanely claim that the drug-war violence along the borders is all because of drug users and gun sellers in America. No, Ms. Clinton, the solution to the drug-war violence along the border does not lie in trying to satisfy your insatiable demand for more power, money, gun control, and bigger government. It lies instead in the immediate end to your beloved war on drugs, a war that has brought nothing but death, destruction, suffering, and misery. Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.

JAMES GALBRAITH ARTICLE

Geithner, Obama Kowtowing to "Massively Corrupted" Banks, Galbraith Says: Like it or not, many people seem to be resigned to the idea there's no alternative to the public-private investment fund scheme Treasury Secretary Geithner detailed this morning. That's hogwash, says University of Texas professor James Galbraith, author of The Predator State. Of course there's an alternative: FDIC receivership of insolvent banks. http://snipurl.com/efy3g

PRISONER LIST AT GUANTANAMO...VERY INTERESTING

Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List : The following list is the culmination of a three-year project to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/guantanamo-the-definitive-prisoner-list-part-1/

CINDY SHEEHAN STRIKES THE MAIN NERVE AGAIN

"We're All In This Together" No we are not, that's the point. By Cindy Sheehan http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22296.htm March 25, 2009 "ICH" -- President Obama basically said that we can't demonize every investor who earns a profit, because "we are all in this together." Sorry, but I am going to have to call a big fat "bull-shit" on this one. When Obama said "we" did he have a mouse in his pocket? Obama, and his family have a very opulent, slave-built roof over their heads. He travels on the public nickel, his children attend an exclusive Washington, DC private school that has organic food on its menu, and has health care that covers everyone in his family from head to toe and side to side and inside out. Even though he and every member of the administration, Congress and the Supreme Court are not hurting for anything, the bastard (sorry if your parents weren't married when you were conceived) Wall Street banksters are receiving billions of dollars of government welfare and are not so good about being in "this together" with us. The only concrete steps the Treasury and Fed have taken are to buy "toxic" assets (if something is toxic can it still be an asset?) so companies like Goldman Sachs (via AIG) can have the public tit rescue them from their stupider than crap mistakes. WE the ROBBED Class are in this together. THEY the ROBBER Class are in it for themselves. How many times does Obama have to demonstrate that his economic recovery is nothing but Reaganomics wrapped in a little bit of populist rhetoric to make it easier for the mis-informed Robbed Class to swallow. If anything transpires to alleviate the suffering in our Class at all, it will be because some of the prosperity got through the cracks in the deeply cancerous system and trickled ON us. Rest assured, this is just a mistake and the only time the Robber Class cares about us, is when the interests of the two classes collide. I will feel like I am "in this" with the Obamas when I have a free house, free health care and if my children would not have to go into lifelong debt to pay for university. I wonder if the wall to wall homeless population (it's growing at an alarming rate) here in San Francisco feels "in this together" with the Wall Street Robbers? I wonder if the people standing waiting for hours in municipal Emergency Rooms waiting to get some, any medical attention feel "in this together" with Congress which has 110% medical coverage? I wonder if the foot soldiers for the Empire feel "in this together" with the War Profiteer Robbers? I wonder if the victims of the drug wars and street wars feel "in this together" with the children of the Robbers who ride to their schools in limos with bodyguards? I wonder if our brothers and sisters living in tent cities with their children feel "in this together" with the Pelosis and Feinsteins of the world who live in their obscenely huge mansions in exclusive neighborhoods and fly back and forth from DC in private jets that suck down gas at an immoral rate? I wonder if our brothers and sisters who just cashed a final unemployment check feels "in this together" with the Robbers who just cashed millions in bonuses? I, myself, feel "in this together" with the homeless, hungry, sick, jobless, struggling, stressed, frightened, confused, yet resilient, brave and strong. WE are in this together. WE need to step outside of the Robber Class system and start to build our own systems to help each other through this Robber Class/Goldman Sachs/Federal Reserve depression.

I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU READ THIS ARTICLE AND ALL THE LINKS WITHIN IT.

GT sez: There is lots more info on this website, some of which you may think is absolutely 'off the wall...crazy'. Just keep reading and dismiss that which you don't believe or accept. March 20, 2009 All Private Guns Will Be Confiscated By September 2009, US Tells Russia By: Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1216.htm Scroll down to the article. GT sez: The purpose in reading Sorcha Faal articles is to make you aware of many of the things that are NOT in the traditional media. You don't have to agree with him/her on everything, but the bulk of what he/she brings up WILL HAPPEN!

READ THIS ARTICLE FROM ROLLING STONE

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/ The Big Takeover The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution MATT TAIBBIPosted Mar 19, 2009 12:49 PM

LATEST MIKE WHITNEY ARTICLE

Bend Over and Say, "Uncle Sam" By Mike Whitney Here's what everyone needs to know: The US government (you) will provide up to 94 percent of the financing (low interest, of course) for dodgy mortgage-backed assets that no one in their right mind would ever buy so that wealthy and politically-connected banksters can scrub up to $1 trillion of red ink from their balance sheets. Ugh! http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22289.htm

NOTICE- DAN NORCINI'S COMMENTS CAN BE FOUND EACH DAY ON JSMINESET.COM ON THE LEFT OF THE WEBSITE'S HOME PAGE WHERE THE LINK TO HIS COMMENTS IS FOUND

I appears that Dan Norcini's Daily Comments have not ALWAYS been posted on the Main Page of Jim Sinclair's Website. You can't afford to miss Dan's comments each day. So, be sure to look for the link to his comments in the dark blue section, on the left side, of the Main Page of Sinclair's Home Page. Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan Posted: Mar 24 2009 By: Jim Sinclair Post Edited: March 24, 2009 at 2:54 pm Filed under: Trader Dan Norcini Dear CIGAs, There wasn’t much in the way of supportive factors for gold in today’s trading session as the Dollar was higher, crude oil was lower and bonds were lower. Equities were a tad weaker but after yesterday’s monster rally, the thinking in many quarters is that global stock markets have bottomed out. That removed the safe haven flow into both bonds and gold and allowed gold shorts to push the market down into stops as weak-handed longs were driven out. Those sell stops were the property of the trading funds who once again were handed their heads by the bullion banks. Failure by the bulls to push up and through the $960 area was the signal by shorter-term oriented traders to book profits if they were long and to add to shorts if they were short. The onus is now on the bulls to hold price above the $900 level. If they can do that, gold has a very good chance at consolidating its recent gains. If not, back down to near the $880 level we go once again. We had an $80 run higher in gold when the news hit that the Fed was embarking on a course of printing money to buy US Treasury and Agency debt. You might recall that news resulted in the single largest daily price drop in the Dollar in many a year. Gold shorts saw their lives pass in front of their eyes with a multitude of them who had gone short below the $900 level squeezed out. The problem for the bulls is that long liquidation tied to the stock market rally, overcame buying coming from those who are looking longer term at the implications of the Fed’s quantitative easing policy and its devastating effect on the Dollar. Make no mistake about it – the Fed believes that it is wise enough and nimble enough to nip the inevitable inflationary aspects of its policies when those begin to occur –and occur they will. Their immediate concern however is deflation and they are apparently determined to avert that at all costs, even if it means giving further impetus to the growing movement among many in the international community to abandon the Dollar as the global reserve currency. As a matter of fact, both China and Russia are becoming quite vociferous about this issue. This shift in sentiment away from the Dollar is momentous. It is the rare breed that is able to spot turning points in history while they are indeed occurring. It is generally only after the fact that the majority are able to point a finger at a particular occurrence and state; “history was made here”. Nonetheless, we are getting a ringside seat and observing the events transpire that will alter our way of life here in the United States forever. As citizens, we have reaped the benefits of the Dollar as the reserve currency, benefits which include a life-style for the average American that is leaps and bounds beyond that of the overwhelming majority of the world’s population. It encompasses everything from the size of our cars and of our homes all the way to the size of our military and our ability to project power around the globe. The loss of the Dollar’s reserve currency status would threaten all of this. That is why many of us are so deeply concerned about what is occurring in Washington with regard to its spending orgy and to the ruinous policies that the Fed’s short-sighted members are currently wedded to. There is still time to save the Dollar but one wonders just who is left in our nation’s capital to lead the charge. Back to gold – I am concerned by gold’s inability to hold near the 700 level when priced in Euros and the 650 level when priced in terms of the British Pound. We also have gold backing down from its highs in terms of most of the other major currencies as well. That has taken some of the luster off of the metal in spite of the fact that reported holdings in the gold ETF, GLD, are still holding near recent record levels. From my current vantage point it seems that while gold lacks sufficient impetus to push it through $960 and on up then to $1,000, it also should be well supported on any price dips given the medium to longer term implications of the Fed’s quantitative easing program. That portends that a range trade is the more likely outcome to look for over the near term with the metal waiting for some sort of signal to break it out either way. The current boundaries of this range are $960 on the top side and $885 - $880 on the down side. Official sector price capping has once again appeared, this time at the $960 level, (they can read the price charts as well), while value buying is coming in near the $900 level and on down. I am not sure what it will take to dislodge the bullion banks from the upper level but once again I would emphasize that hedge funds have it in their power to seriously threaten their death grip on the gold market if they will simply stand for delivery and force the issue. Next week begins that delivery process for the April contract so let’s see if any of them wise up between now and then. The mining shares are weaker today with the paper gold price weakness undercutting efforts of the bulls to push further through the swing highs made back in February of this year. Bonds have been rocked pretty hard today with traders’ focus back on the big supply coming this week. I should note here that bonds have surrendered half of the gains made following last week’s announcement of the Fed’s intent to purchase up to $300 billion in Treasuries. Given the huge surge in treasury buying on the heels of that news, the low of that day near the 123^23 level, takes on extreme technical significance. If that level is tested and fails to hold, bonds are in danger of facing a rapid collapse, especially if the thinking that the worst of the financial news is now behind us gains additional credibility. A lot of money that sought a safe haven in the bond market will flow out of bonds and into equities if investors become convinced that the stock market has bottomed and the economy is poised for a rebound later this year. Please keep in mind that I am not advocating such a view – I am merely stating what will happen if a sufficient number of investors adopt this view and move their funds accordingly. Equities are now sneaking back into positive territory as I put the finishing touches on these comments here just before the pit session close in gold. That is pulling the euro off its lows and serving to push the Dollar back off of its session highs. The yen is especially weak today as “risk” is coming back into vogue a bit and this is serving to bring sellers back into the Japanese currency. It is down against not only the US Dollar, but against all the other majors as well. The Euro-yen cross, while it has lost some of its predictive aspect for risk, still remains a decent indicator so we will be monitoring that for possible clues to both the bonds and to gold. Crude oil is lower today but remains above the $50 level with the quantitative easing play by the Fed proving to have been the catalyst to allow the bulls to shove it out of the range trade and put in a more definitive bottom. The peak gasoline demand season lies just ahead. Even natural gas looks like it too has bottomed out.

MOGAMBO GURU ON ALAN GREENSPAN'S 'GENIUS' 3/23/09

Greenspan Not Reserved About His Innocence By The Mogambo Guru Tampa Bay, Florida Bloomberg.com had Alan Greenspan, disastrous former chairman of the Federal Reserve - who is the one person directly responsible for all of our economic woes with his bizarre monetary insanity Every Freaking Day (EFD) during his demented chairmanship of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, being indignant that he should be blamed for anything, and insists that nothing is his fault, except for maybe having too much faith and trust in his fellow man, which would explain the complete lack of regulatory scrutiny, or even a minimal due diligence attention, to any of the glaring excesses in the banking system, for which he was responsible. He is reported to have said, "Given the decoupling of monetary policy from long-term mortgage rates, accelerating the path of monetary tightening that the Fed pursued in 2004-2005 could not have prevented the housing bubble." Hahahaha! I was at first going to make sport of Mr. Greenspan and cast aspersions on both his intellect and degree of mental illness that would turn a former gold-bug into the monetary inflation monster that he became, but soon I realized the gem of a philosophy that we have here! Hastily, I scheduled a meeting with my boss, who thinks that my poor job performance, the hostility of customers (morons) and mutiny among my employees (more morons) has something to do with my terrible cost- center numbers that were provided. To the contrary, I plan to stress that these are mere statistical artifacts by a bunch of hateful accountants (pencil-neck geek morons) who are probably lying just to get me in trouble. I know that my boss will laugh dismissively at my conspiracy theory, like she always does - but this time I have proof! It was provided by Alan Greenspan himself, lying former chairman of the Federal Reserve - which is itself a Big Fat Lie (BFL) because the Federal Reserve is not a part of government, but is, instead, just a name picked by the true owners of the Fed; shadowy figures creeping around in the shadows, which is why I called them "shadowy" in the first place... "...Mr. Greenspan has now famously said, that not only is nothing my fault, but that the true culprits may be forces...at work, which are already sinisterly creating excess money and credit 'beyond the control of monetary policy'..." I am not, as you would expect, going into a loud, Screaming Fit Of Outrage (SFOO) at the sheer, outlandish corruption of the banking system, Congress, government in general and everything it touches, or the unbelievable corruption and stupidity in everything else, both here in America and around the world. Instead, I have been galvanized to action to, hopefully, to prevent being fired from my stupid job. Now, that task has been made easier after reading that Mr. Greenspan said, "If we are dealing with global forces beyond the control of domestic monetary policy makers, as I strongly suspect is the case, then we are facing a broader issue." Hahahaha! I can't believe my eyes at this unexpected bonanza! Excitedly, I am planning to say to my boss, like Mr. Greenspan has now famously said, that not only is nothing my fault, but that the true culprits may be forces - perhaps strange, malevolent-yet-evil forces - at work, which are already sinisterly creating excess money and credit "beyond the control of monetary policy"; so it could also be controlling people's thoughts, probably with some kind of secret, super ray-gun, or some new chemicals that they put into the water so that the strange molecules get into our blood streams and go to our brains to make us think, "Don't pay attention to Austrian/classical economics, common sense, the entire history of economics for the last 4,500 years or the Lunatic Mogambo Loudmouth (LML)! And for crying out loud don't buy any gold, silver or oil, which is the only smart thing to do, with special emphasis on 'smart', especially since 'everything else is stupid and you will lose your butt, big time.'" And speaking of losing one's butt, Agora Financial's 5-Minute Forecast reports, "The seldom-reported net long-term and total Treasury International Capital (TIC) flow came in way worse than expected." Like most reports, this is complete gibberish to me, and I am soon fascinated with the idea of finding out if I can get a whole burrito in my mouth at one time, and I am halfway out of the office to grab an early lunch to test my new theory when I am stopped by their news that, "in English" for dummies like me, "foreigners - and not just the Chinese - are losing their taste for U.S. debt. Global investors sold $148 billion more U.S. debt than they bought", which I assume was for the year. In response, I have written a blues song about it, and the four lines of lyrics go: "Oh, I'm so blue because foreign devils are selling my debt. "Oh, I don't know what to do. "This comes at a particularly bad time since the Obama lunatics and the brain-damaged halfwits in Congress are committed to deficit-spending almost $2 trillion this year, a sum so staggering that it is not only eye-popping, head-spinning and/or heart-stopping, it is also more than 14% of GDP, and we desperately need these damned foreign devils to buy that new towering mountain of American Treasury debt to fund that suicidal, low-IQ orgy of deficit-spending, and not for them to sell the Treasury crap they already have. "Baby, oh baby, I'm so blue, blue, blue." Okay, I realize this is not my best work and it needs some polishing, so don't bother writing to me about the usual bad reviews ("He is stupid and so is his stupid song!" - Chicago Sun), but the sentiment is perfectly correct: Foreigners refusing to use the dollars they receive, as a result of America's $820 billion per year trade-deficit, to buy more Treasury debt is terrible news to a bunch of socialist/communist dirtbags like Obama and Congress; and the rest of us worthless morons around the world are apparently desperate and willing to sacrifice everything on a long-shot that for once, in all the times it has been tried in all of history, expanding a fiat money supply so that the government can buy its way out of bankruptcy will not, hopefully, end in inflationary tragedy like it always - with stress on the "always" - has before! Hahahaha! We're freaking doomed! Until next time, The Mogambo Guru for The Daily Reckoning P.S. So, as I explain to the kids, all of this is why I am always buying gold and am always on your nasty little butts to buy gold, too, when a government is acting as insanely as this. Whee! This investing stuff is easy!

FROM THE DAILY RECKONING 3/23/09

Get Set for a 15-Year Depression By Bill Bonner London, England Our old friend Congressman Ron Paul says we're headed into a 15-year depression. He's probably right. In the old days, "panics" and "depressions" ended fairly quickly...at least unemployment tended to be short-term. There were no elaborate social welfare systems then. No unemployment compensation. No food stamps or "independence" cards. People had to make do. So, when a depression hit, wages fell quickly and people got back to work. They earned less, but the whole economy would adjust, with lower prices for everything. There were no bailouts and no stimulus plans, either. Mistakes were corrected relatively quickly. Businesses went broke. Men were "ruined" and had to drink themselves to death. Now, things are better. If their businesses go broke, they can go on almost as if nothing had happened... as long as they owe money to the right people. Heck, they might even get a bonus. On Friday, the Dow dropped 122 points. What happened to the rally? Is it over already? We wait to find out. Oil held steady at the end of the week, having risen over $50 to a high for the year. Oil's rise was entirely explained by the sinking dollar - down to $1.35 per euro on Friday. "Dollar sell-off gathers momentum," explained one headline. "Gold soars," Bloomberg added. Gold shot up nearly $70 an ounce on Thursday. It took a rest on Friday...but we don't think it will take a break from its epic run for long. Take advantage of this pause in the gold price and buy some now. You can still purchase the yellow metal for just a penny per ounce. Learn more here. But back to the story of the 15-year depression... Goldman says it wouldn't have lost much money if AIG had been allowed to go broke. So, don't think for a minute that it wanted the government to save AIG just so Goldman could get its $20 billion back. The public and its paid representatives in Washington are up in arms. Reporters have been following the trail of the hundreds of billions of taxpayers' money handed over to Wall Street firms. They discovered that it went into various silk-lined pockets - notably, those of the aforementioned Goldman Sachs, foreign banks and the bankrupt firms' own executives. The politicians were shocked. Shocked! The public was outraged. Whence cometh this outrage? Not from any matter of principle that we've been able to determine. The taxpayers don't mind robbing Peter. But they don't like it when the ill-gotten gains go into someone else. "Hey, my name is Paul and I've been out of a job for six months," they say. "Where's MY bonus?" Congress sprang into action last week to set things right. But rather than give every Tom, Dick and Harry a big bonus, the House proposed a 90% tax on the AIG bonuses...and urged the states to take the other 10%. The whole thing is a dangerous distraction, in our opinion. The bonus amounts are trivial in comparison to the huge amounts of the bailouts. And when the pols start taking money away from people our sympathy is with the takee, not the taker. Besides, it encourages a very bad idea: that politics, rather than a free market, should decide who gets what. The next thing you know, they're going to be telling us which businesses succeed and which fail. Wait a minute...they're already doing that! Which is why Ron Paul thinks we're going to have a depression that lasts longer than most marriages. When markets are allowed to work, they often make mistakes - especially when government is fixing interest rates. Periods of growth are punctuated by crises - including sharp breaks in business activity and bouts of 'creative destruction.' Like forest fires, these episodic conflagrations burn off the dead wood, permitting new growth. But when government allocates capital and resources, it is almost always a soggy disaster from beginning to end. The dead wood never gets cleared away. Instead, it is protected...propped up...leaving the new shoots to struggle in the shade. Not much growth, in other words. We repeat: there were only two examples of major depressions in the last century. Both came after a huge run-up in debt. And both were met with programs that economists should be ashamed of - bailouts, stimulus, loans, props, safety nets and hooks. In both cases - the '30s in the United States and the '90s in Japan - the depressions continued, on and off, for many years. WWII brought an end to the first one - 12 years after it began. The second one continues - nearly 20 years after the crash of the Tokyo stock market. And now we have a third one...and this time the feds are determined to beat it. What's their strategy? More firepower! What's their secret weapon? QE, or quantitative easing, which is actual monetary inflation caused by buying debt directly from the government. Will it work? Will Geithner/Bernanke succeed where others failed? Will economists finally master depressions...and find a way to get "creative" without the destruction? Ah...we think we know the answer. But in the meantime, we're enjoying the show...

THE FUTURE ISN'T HARD TO PREDICT IF YOU HAVE A WORKING 'CRAP DETECTOR'

World Faces 'Perfect Storm' of Problems by 2030, Chief Scientist to Warn By Ian Sample, science correspondent A "perfect storm" of food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources threaten to unleash public unrest, cross-border conflicts and mass migration as people flee from the worst-affected regions, the UK government's chief scientist will warn tomorrow. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22272.htm

CINDY SHEEHAN ON THE ROBBER CLASS AND THE ROBBED CLASS

Myth America By Cindy Sheehan Since this country was founded, it has been governed, or controlled by the Robber Class. Some people call our "Lords," the Ruling Class, the Oligarchy, the Kleptocracy, or Plutocracy. Some call our system Cronyism, a Democratic Tyranny, Soft-core Fascist State, or if you are a member of the Robber Class or Blinded Robbed Class, you call it a Democracy, or Republic. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22269.htm BE SURE TO GO TO THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ARTICLE TO CINDY'S WEBSITE

READ THIS ARTICLE...IT'S LONG, BUT WORTH THE TIME SPENT

The Big Takeover By MATT TAIBBI The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22276.htm