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Just What the Hell is All This War All About?! An Impending Finacial Crisis Perhaps? A MUST READ SCREED!!! The right's affection for tax cuts and similarly morals-free avaricious motivations are being co-opted by a regime that is playing on fear like a fiddle as Rome burns. To explore that metaphor: Why did Nero burn Rome (historians recount his soldiers lighting fires, not extinguishing them)? To remove power and position from the Senate and the Roman elite (destroyed their wealth and prime real estate in the seat of power) then rebuild Rome in his image. Why did Wilson, Coolidge and Hoover hand over our largess to the banking elite and destroy the common man's wealth? To rebuild America as a dependent of the famous "military/industrial complex" that Eisenhower warned us about in 1961, way too late. I guess the establishment's story was that Stalin was doing all sorts of awful things to turn his country into a militaristic and industrialized nation, so we had to compete and through his craziness we had some precedent for misbehavior. Funny that the plan began in 1910, before the Russian revolution. What is the New World Order going to look like if we are indeed on the verge of an economic disaster as so many predict? What is the method of the disaster and are we wrong for managing it's nature? Why now?
 Some of these questions are easier to anwer than others.
Why Now? At least partly because the world is running out of many essential resources (let's forget who dunnit): Oil (production peaks in 5 to 15 years) and access to potable water (long on the downtrend). Water shortages will invariably cause widespread instability ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2258803.stm ). Converting to other forms of energy and standards of living is so expensive and unnerving to the public that it is politically impossible without a massive crisis proving it necessary to everyone, so that things like rationing, centralized political power and limited civil rights are tolerated. This is all good stuff, but there are reasons much more powerful and much more expensive.
What is the method of the disaster and are we wrong for managing it's nature? It begins with an understanding of what the right and the Establishment Left both agree on. America is essentially a collection of extremely wealth people with a subordinate massive sea of folks who benefits from their good graces - an oligarchy. The right thinks it is best for America to constantly build up the elites, while the left pushes for the elites to raise the standards of living for the sea of folks. What is also a source of agreement, is that when times go really bad, it matters less how the sea of folks are doing than it matters that the elites have piles of cash for the rebuilding. Wrong or not, this is what capitalism must look like in a pinch. If the state where ultimately in charge in times of distress, we'd be socialist - the market will provide.
The general method of managing a coming economic disaster is to create an earlier one ourselves, one that we control and one that results in the outcome necessary to avoid the worst parts of the 'real' disaster. If that's sounds nuts, then you don't know your American history very well. The great depression was such a manufactured disaster, as were the two World Wars. To use the Great Depression as a model, one has to break that/this disaster down into essential steps:
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It began with manufactured currency crises in the late 1800s through 1907, where British, American and European Bankers took turns manipulating currency markets through massive movements of gold, the standard for currencies. The American public began an outcry for the government to enact measures to protect them from such manipulations. Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island was put in charge of a congressional committee to write recommended legislation to solve the problem. The committee itself did nothing, because Aldrich saw a better way to make himself rich: He could invite the bankers in to write their own legislation as opposed to writing something himself to curb their activities and they would forever be endebted (see today's energy policy). So Aldrich and the bankers did write the plan, and a day before it was due from the committee, it appeared out of apparent thin air and into the hands of committee members and the public for the first time. The Aldrich Plan was championed by popular President Taft, but soon labelled too "Wall Street" by John Q. Public, those currency manipulations coming back to haunt the bankers. Rather than let the Plan go down, the bankers pulled off a complex ruse that is a perfect parallel to the 1992 election: The bankers backed Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican as a third party candidate with no discernable platform (assuring his own candidacy's failure) to sabotage Taft AND ALSO backed Wilson who ran with The "Federal Reserve Act" as a plank in his platform - marketed as a non-wall street solution to the problems supposedly addressed by Aldrich, but actually the exact same thing. Why? Because the only really important thing to these guys was that the Federal Reserve be created, a central bank in everything but name (Google for Jefferson's thoughts on a central bank for why the Fed sucks). One could look at Theodore R's Bull Moose Party as the Reform Party in 1992. The legislation and institutions in question in 1992, of course were GATT, NAFTA, WTO and World Bank. The problem was again currency manipulations and fluctuations caused by the caprices of bankers and financiers, and the ultimate solution, again was to hand total, unregulated control to the purpetrators of the crises.
Back to the 20s and 30s. So the problem with giving a bunch of bankers the right to print money at will was thought to be inflation. They would tend to inflate prices by printing too much money when they decided to cover debts. What people didn't expect was that they would print too little, in order to buy debt. The massive deflation of the Great Depression was a power play in which the Bankers of the Federal Reserve bought the personal, national and institutional debt of the American Public and Europe. Thus they consolidated their power, and today we are simply extending that method into the rest of the world, but not sparing parts of the domestic front either. The main thing to remember, for those out there with aspirations to American Empire: Their concern is NOT for American success, but for corporate success, regardless of borders. If you could own more financial influence than the US, why would you work solely for US interests?
The method of Manufactured Crisis for Increase of Influence, step by step:
1. Pool Wealth: In the 20s buying on the margin and the invention of personal lines of credit gave the little guy access to financial markets and new opportunities to be financially irreseponsible. They poured their money in to the Equities Markets at the encouragement of financial advisors and the establishment elite, who were buying gold, its price being driven down by the relatively large sums poured into equities. The increase in volume of transactions alone made brokerages and the banks that ran them richer (see 1990s).
2. Increase Personal Debt: by 1929, gold had been bought by the right people and institutions. Especially British and American Banks. Americans of all stripes had maxed out their credit. Winston Churchill rang the bell on the day of the crash "by no accident". Debt and personal propert was thrown into a fire sale. Those with money could get incredible value for their money. Banks forclosed on everything in sight. Sitting on a pile of gold was as good as it got then. From that day on, Britain's Monarchy was effectively dead and Europe and America's financial elites empowered to the level we still see today.
3. Become an Arms Dealer (Again) and Manufacture an Enemy, Increasing National Debt: Holding all the cards in a world economy being held down by the depression, what did the moneyed do? They went after the nations of the world themselves. They wanted governments to owe them money, not just people - governments tend to pay their debts and do the collections for you. So, they needed a big government expenditure. They needed a War. They invested in Hitler. Under Hoover's watchful eye, moneyed elites From Prescott Bush's investment bank Brown Brothers, Herriman to Henry Ford created a monster - knowing that he was intending to make war across Europe. If he wins, our guys have already signed exclusive trade relationships, if he loses, our guys make a bundle selling guns and tanks and body bags. Either way, the governments of all involved will have to borrow tons of money from Banks, perhaps like those that own the Fed. Win-Win-Win!
4. Rebuild Rome - During and Post WWII, the elites forced Roosevelt and Truman to reconstruct the US economy in their prefered form and closed the door after them perminently when, in 1945 we went off the gold standard and we all started living in a house of cards, or should I say Federal Reserve Notes, based on nothing but marketing of our nation's ability to project and maintain power and our ability to be around to service debt. Every dollar in your pocket is a share in our nation's military might. That is the source of the right's obsession with military spending and it's seemilngly inexplicatable need for running a massive deficit.
SO what is happening today? Here's the playing field:
Outstanding National Debt of the US: $7,014,237,211,582, increasing $2.37 billion a DAY. This is an excellent source of interest for the Banks who hold our debt. Of this, over $4 trillion is publicly held - by banks and individuals, but mostly banks (See attached .gif, note that significant debt started in 1929 and has never gone down) and the rest held by the central BANKS of other nations, many of which are also owned, a la the Fed, by private banks.
Annual interest income from this Debt: over $400 billion. This is your tax money paying the same banks who created the system that created the debt. More correctly you and your children's and your children's children's tax money. CONCLUSION: THE MORE NATIONAL DEBT THE BETTER for the lenders.
US Adults spend between $1.22 for every dollar they earn. Typical non-mortgage household debt is $38,000 or more. CONCLUSION: THE MORE PERSONAL DEBT THE BETTER.
Corporate Debt: hovers around $4,500,000,000,000. THE MORE CORPORATE DEBT THE BETTER.
Our ability to pay the interest on this debt is in question because of the above stated impending resource shortages. Yet more and more of the world's financial markets are directly tied to our own. Our debt is their debt. What is the crisis, but a crisis of our ability to work for the lenders? Once again, the answer is going to be (not necessarily the best answer) that the lenders will write the new law of the land. In a sense it seems fair, they loaned us the money, we just mis used it, right? Wrong. They designed the system originally, lest we forget, and, like the California Energy Crisis, their design was NOT for the benefit of nation, but for benefit of man (or at least an infintessimal fraction of men). It was the lack of transparency and representation in government lo those many years ago, carried through to today that allowed this to happen under everyone's nose. What are you going to do? Disband the Fed?
The War Against Terror and in Iraq are suspected as a resource grab, which is on one hand true, but on the other hand truer: it is a method, much like WWII for driving Public Debt to even more insane heights. DEBT IS GOOD.
If all this does indeed spell an impending global financial disaster, what will the new order of the world be like once it occurs? Who benefits? Simple. The owners of all the debt. And remember, some of them may be Americans or American corporations (new HQ in a Grand Caymans PO box), but they are not working for the benefit of the sea of folks. or the nation. America has been sold up the river, because it was not enough for these folks.
In the end a post-crisis world will be how it will be, but there are a few things that are easily predictable: personal liberties and freedoms will be limited to the minimum necessary to maintain security for the ownership class, as the market dictates. A larger and larger percentage of the US population will either be prison workers or debt slaves, a trend which is already occuring until their competition with Joe Sixpack brings labor prices/rights in line with the rest of the world. We are NOT in the business of raising standards in the rest of the world, now it is about lowering our own. They may come up some in the process, but we have the further distance to fall.
Whoa! You say: If there is a global debt crisis, then the lender gets screwed out of all that cash!? Bankruptcy, right? Yes, they take a loss in numbers of dollars, but money is all RELATIVE. If everyone has nothing and you have everything, your the man: In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Sleep well, kiddies.
Ed.
BUSH: $2 Trillion Dollars for Starving Children Over Next Ten Years In a move that will ensure America's Moral Authority into the distant future, President Bush announced that his plans for War on Iraq could end up costing almost $2 Trillion samolians, most earmarked for his effort to feed the Worlds Hungry Children. Oh, did I say feed hungry children? I meant BOMB The world's HUNGRY CHILDREN. In a bold move sure to engraciate us with a world public that can only muster a 47% approval rating from the people pf our closest allies, the English, President Bush has decided to go ahead and kill his father's prize student and steal his oil for ourselves like Dead Poets' Society meets Die Another Day but where the overly elaborate evil plot succeeds. But it's a good plot. Nay, a great one.
Karzai Prefers Flesh of Unborn to Felt Considering Atilla-like throne of Skulls from Which to Rule Newly Civilized Afghanistan Gucci's Tom Ford calling Karzai "the chicest man on the planet" with a winning look that is "very elegant and very proud" for a figurehead Western corporate puppet. What makes him so dapper? Everyone agrees: It's the unborn lambskin hat!
"Since the change in government, many people are coming and buying karacul hats," said Aji Ali Mohammed, who has run a karacul shop for 40 years in a bustling bazaar next to the Kabul River, now dried up after four years of drought. "Business is getting better every day."
"The best quality hats are made with the fetuses," said Mohammed. The lack of exposure to light or air keeps the fur especially downy. "They are extremely soft and they have a special shine to them ... it is as pure as a precious stone."
The hat is expensive for ordinary Afghans, costing up to $35 for a really good one. That is more than a month's salary for many in this war-ravaged nation, and 10-20 times as much as simpler headgear like a turban. But despite the cost, the hats are omnipresent in the capital, a particular favorite among middle-aged Oil Company shills like Karzai.
It's a remarkable comeback for a chapeau that went out of style during the Taliban regime, which preferred black turbans or simple white skullcap to the more regal looking karacul. From Milan to Hong Kong, the world's most refined hat shops have universally decree this a much more elengant alternative considering everyone could be wearing those cheap and floppy Massoud Hats. 
"During the Taliban we sold only one hat a month, usually to an Afghan living abroad, but now we are moving about 50 every week," said Abdul Waseh, 52, another karacul shop owner. Now that the benefits of re-civilization and a free market have shown themselves in Kabul once again, who can deny that some people are really benefiting. Fetal lambs, no. But, people yes.  | More Fetal Broad-Tales |
Will The Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS BACK!! That's right! He's back as a voice recording released to al Jazeera and doing a great job (talk about phoning it in...)! He's distracting the peeps and sowing the most profitable forms of fear and instability, possibly even from beyond the grave! OBL is openning doors of all kinds to the newly hyper-militarized and politically empowered American Energy sector. Way to go, buddy! CIA asset #1. Prime example: Indonesia has never been very cooperative with our plans to expand our rights-crushing oil extraction efforts in Aceh Province and colonize the oil shipping routes. Not like the Phillipines, at least. Knowing that Afghan Pipeline oil has to get to us somehow, OBL has provided an explosive reason for the US to colonize said shipping routes and production areas. We have already hire a whole division of Indonesia's military to defend our oil interests amidst domestic seperatist 'terrorism' that we also finance as cover for the abuse of indigenous populations. Weird stuff, but it has worked so far, but it's a lot more expensive to pay both sides of a war than to profit from one you can't lose that's financed by the stupid Americans that actually have to pay income tax! We at AOE say: "Welcome Back OBL! With out you we wouldn't win the Congress or be able to conduct a whole new massive Oil grab!" |
