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I've been getting email on the National Strike posting, this is great! I'm going to put up a couple with my responces. Please take a minute to fill out the survey at the top of the page just under The Marble Bag logo. Web newz is at the bottom of the post, thanks alot! :-D
From: J Subject: RE: A RESPONCE TO: National Strike - To: "'pete pan'" Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 5:57 AM
Dear Pan,
As we both know, you and I often disagree over political issues, too. For instance, I truly believe that George Bush is a man of great integrity, and I like Sarah Palin (though have never been a McCain fan). I wouldn’t support Palin for president, though, because I think experience is critical to doing the job well – experience and the ability to surround ones self with good advisors.
I am a conservative, politically.
We often agree, though, too. And your response to this guy was spot on – imagine actually using the Constitution and the founding fathers’ words as a defense of your beliefs? Brilliant! – and rare. Good for you.
Probably the most important thing we agree on is this: we are being divided as a people by an ideological machine, neither wing of which fully or accurately represents We the People. But because we are so faithful to those sides, we resort to name-calling and contempt, and never hear what the other fellow really has to say. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could hear a person speak without first ascertaining whether there was an R or a D after his or her name? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could disagree without calling each other silly names like Troglodyte? (Troglodyte: A hermit: one who lives alone in solitude. Huh? What does that have to do with anything?)
At any rate, even though I like Bush and Palin – and Rush Limbaugh and a few others you surely don’t – I appreciate your e-mails and your insight, and your thoughtfulness. You set an example. That we are not each other’s enemy, I completely agree!
J
----- Original Message ----- From: pete pan To: J Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 11:42 AM Subject: RE: A RESPONCE TO: National Strike -
Hi J,
I don't completely agree with Rush but I listen to him regularly on the radio while I work. A lot of what he says is right on, but not always. The things Sara Palin says aren't necessarily wrong but many people disregarded her a long time ago over the way she handles herself, cutting out on her term early, and the way she talks, etc... Although she has some following, she isn't going to unite the country. Many on the left disregard the Tea Party's message because Sara Palin has attempted to take ownership of it. I think we need to find a new candidate who is going to pull people in from both sides. I have a sore spot for her because she got in front of the Tea Party (the peoples party) and pushed many people away because they don't like her politically. People tend to throw out the baby with the bath water.
Anyway I'm now on the ballot for Prescient Delegate! Vote for me in August!
Pano :-)
Re: A RESONCE TO: National Strike April 16, 2010 5:23 PM From: J
Hm. I agree with many of your assessments of Palin. I got a survey call recently where I was asked, "Are you a Tea Party patriot?" I answered yes. I was then asked, "Do you support Sarah Palin?" I answered, "For what?" and the survey ended. It was a recorded survey and I am sure wasn't equipped for something other than yes or no, but the truth is, I can't answer whether I support Sarah Palin without finding that out first. I don't support her for president. I support her right to a platform and I heartily approve of much of what she has to say. I suspect she was a decent governor - she had an 80% approval rating that transcended party lines. But those days ARE gone for her, admittedly. She has become very polarizing.
I will indeed vote for you.
J
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From: a Subject: Fwd: A RESPONCE TO: National Strike - To: "pete pan" Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 6:33 PM
I sent this guy your reply and this was his response. What's missing from his take is that the Gov. committed 9/11.
A
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From: X
This guy still doesn't get it. It's not what HE THINKS is a constitutional right (or probably what some anti-Obama organization told him to think), it's what the SUPREME COURT SAYS is a constitutional right, no matter how absurd it is. Didn't these people pay attention in high school civics class? Ergo my point that it is vital to elect a president and a supporting congress who will make SC appointments that lean toward the protection of civil rights, not corporate rights. Corporate control of the government , health care reform, restoration of rights, etc., etc., all start with the Supreme Court decisions. My current outrage is on corporate campaign contributions .... AKA the legalization of bribes. I.E. Corporate money is funding the moronic "Tea Party" with millions and outright lies through shill organizations, and the dupes are either too stupid to know, they don't want to know, or they are dishonest about knowing. Sort of like complaining about the frying pan by jumping into the fire. But I say go! go! go! run some candidates and split that repub-corporate vote!
BTW... personal income taxes are lower now than they were under Bush.... go figure.
Cheers, /X
Re: Fwd: A RESPONCE TO: National Strike April 16, 2010 10:11 PM From: "pete pan"
This guy is a tough case. He's right about corporations being involved in government that shouldn't be. He's quick to categorize me into his idea of the republican party for having conservative/ libertarian views. The shape of this cookie looks like NBC to me. I don't disagree with him one bit about the corporations and government being in bed together, of course that's incredibly wrong. You can't set aside the Constitution and put your faith into 9 human beings to do what's right, so few are so easily corrupted with relatively small amounts of money and effort. He must be getting this idea that the tea party is stupid because the elite put Palin in front of it to keep people like him from getting on the band wagon. Contempt before prior investigation is ignorance. It's almost like they've built a protective layer of it around this chap. I'm not mad at him, he's right about alot but like you said he hasn't seen the view through the wide angle lens yet. Both extremes have pieces of the truth but they are kept polarized.
I admit, I listen to AM radio at work. However I still only pull out the good and throw out the rest. I used to hate Rush, but some of what he says is correct. He does go to far with the pro-corporate, pro-war, pro-Zionist message but I recognize it. This guy needs to recognize Obama's the same guy. The national debt is $13,000,000,000,000 and they keep spending. They all work for the bank that prints the money. The deeper in hock we go the more interest the bank makes. I'm glad this guy is happy with taxes now, he'll be really happy when they bring in a VAT.
Maybe you should show him a video of Building 7 and ask him why more money was spent on investigating Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky than investigating 9/11.
PS: I think Massad did it and certain government officials in the know were in on it. Of course we'll never know unless they conduct a proper investigation.
Why is FEMA trying to cover up NLE 10? If the past is any indication of the future we should be afraid, they were running terror training drills on 9/11 too.
(This is a letter in responce to the "National Strike - April 15-18" post, my reply afterward).
Be specific. Exactly what part of our constitution is being ignored? I presume that people would be protesting the recent "Activist" decision by the Bush-appointed (5-4) Supreme Court to allow corporations to be "People" ... thus thwarting campaign reform and reducing an individual's political power. Who is being taxed without representation? Don't these people know how to register and vote? The real problem is that TOO MUCH representation is going on.... see Supreme Court decision above. Exactly what govt. spending is out of control? Looks pretty controlled to me. There are no new banking system bailouts planned, and the Auto companies have paid back their loans. Finance industry controls are now being developed... just watch who will oppose them. Although it should be brought back under judicial control, I'm glad we have some domestic spying capability... might be a good thing to put some US violence-inducing terrorists in Gitmo. I don't want these liars advocating the slaughter of innocent children (or me) ala psychotic McVeigh. If people think that their rights are being violated, they should be reminded that these rights are protected by the Supreme Court and that they elected Bush, a president who put corporate interests ahead of personal freedoms, who made Supreme Court appointments true to form. What did they expect would happen? And now they are listening to those same people? "Etc."? What is that?... exactly.
The people who do this stuff are so stupid that it has taken them eight years to find out what is happening? What is wrong with them? Short attention span? Brain-damaged memory? Sort of like a perfect storm -- when ignorance meets arrogance. The time for this was eight years ago when the Repubs initiated the largest expansion of the federal govt. in history and plunged the country into the biggest debt in history while cutting taxes on millionaires and corporations, deregulating the health care and financial systems, and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslums. Then.... they blame Obama... the guy who is trying to get us out of this mess (the role of black people... cleaning up after white people?).
Losers always blame something else for their own failures.... i.e. the govt., teenage immigrant welfare mothers on drugs, and God. Americans elected Republican George W. Bush to be President of the United States TWICE!!! And now neither the Republican party nor the people want to face and admit their total fuck-up.
If they really just MUST protest something, protest against $10B/month Bush wars. Unlike this moronic "National Strike", this protest would actually help to make us a better country.
Just my $.02, your mileage may vary. (My Reply)
It's hard to get upset over a reply like this. This person is obviously concerned with finding the correct group to be associated with and conforming his view to fit in with the group. This fellow brought a lot of baggage to the conversation. I didn't say anything about Republicans or Democrats. This person knows nothing of me or that I voted for Obama in the last election. I was disgusted with the Bush administration and like most people recoil at the thought of Sara Palin and John McCain running the country. I really liked Ron Paul but when faced with the possibility of a publicity hound like Sara Palin being in the white house I crossed my fingers and voted for Obama. I now realize I was duped, the big candidates on the "right" and "left" are just different sides of the same coin, and they push the same agenda. They've done a great job in dividing us and we'll soon be thoroughly conquered.
It is sad that this person puts so much faith into the government. Although it is probably a waste of time I will begin to answer his question. (though not completely or thoroughly by any means).
"Be specific. Exactly what part of our constitution is being ignored?"
Amendment I
The right of the people to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
The founding fathers, in an act of the Continental Congress in 1774, said, "If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, the People may retain their money until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility."
This very American Right of Redress of Grievances Before Taxes is deeply embedded in our law.
The founding fathers fully recognized and clearly stated: that the Right of Redress of Grievances includes the right of Redress Before payment of Taxes, that this Right of Redress Before Taxes lies in the hands of the People, that this Right is the People’s non-violent, peaceful means to procuring a remedy to their grievances without having depend on – or place their trust in -- the government’s willingness to respond to the People’s petitions and without having to resort to violence.
How do you now exercise your right of redress? Especially when payment of taxes compounds your Grievances? If you don't pay you go to jail.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Ok, so you mean to tell me that the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretapping of our phones, email, GPS locations are constitutional? The Bush administration started it and the Obama administration has not only voted to continue it but expand it.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
The Obama Administration Authorizing the CIA to Kill US Citizens abroad looks like a pretty clear violation of the VI Amendment to me.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Speaks for itself.
Article I, section 10, clause 1. It states:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Where does the Private For Profit Federal Reserve Bank fit into this? We pay hundreds of billions in interest every year to this currupt institutution. US taxpayers paid $380 billion dollars (on the books) to the Fed in interest payments in '09 can we say rip off? That would pay for our global war to secure oil 3 times over during the same year! The Fed prints the money out of thin air, loans it to the government at interest, and here we are. Government debt is good if you have ownership in the Fed. Since they control the printing presses and have never been audited we have no idea what they do with the money they print, but if Cris Dodd's Fed empowerment bill helps you to to feel safe at night by all means don't get angry.
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson
It's ok to be upset but know who your enemy is, it's not me and it's not the Tea Party.
Under Article 1 section 8
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two years;
The unconstitutional undeclared war in Afganistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and soon to be Iran is by far the longest war America has ever been in since it was founded.
This fellow had that part right, but he failed to recognize that the wars are still happening under the current administration. In other words (nothing's changed)
Article I section 9:
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, [unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herin before directed to be taken].
What is Capitation?
capitation /cap·i·ta·tion/ (kap″ĭ-ta´shun) the annual fee paid to a physician or group of physicians by each participant in a health plan.
capitation, a payment method for health care services. The physician, hospital, or other health care provider is paid a contracted rate for each member assigned, referred to as "per-member-per-month" rate, regardless of the number or nature of services provided. The contractual rates are usually adjusted for age, gender, illness, and regional differences.
capitation fee, n a predetermined per-person charge made by the carrier for benefits available under an insurance plan.
Lesson 1: A national tax for doing nothing (i.e. being taxed for not buying health insurance as mandated by the federal government) is a CAPITATION and must be proportioned, and because Leader Obama’s mandate is not proportioned it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
Lesson 2: The automatic penalty for not buying health insurance in the recently passed healthcare deform legislation is either a tax, or it is a BILL OF ATTAINDER, which is just as UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
If your not pissed off your not paying attention.
(Oh, and as far as calling me stupid for supporting the Tea Party my IQ is 138)
Groups across the country are calling for a national strike (no work, no shopping, no school) starting tomorrow to protest out of control government spending, banker bailouts, domestic spying programs, etc...
DON'T BUY!!! DON'T COMPLY!!! ASK WHY!!! OUR CONSTITUTION IS IGNORED, OUR RIGHTS ARE VIOLATED, WE'RE TAXED WITHOUT REPRESENTATION AND AS LONG AS WE GO ABOUT OUR LIVES AS USUAL THEY WIN AND WE PAY! WE THE PEOPLE SAY NO MORE!
I am now on the ballot in my in my area for precinct delegate. I urge anyone who is upset about with what's going on to get involved. Tomorrow is the 15th and there will be Tea Parties across the country. Sara Palin doesn't speak for me or the Tea Party, she's a publicity hound who's been put in front of the Tea Party to make it look bad. She's running around with her own group, tomorrow is the Real Peoples Tea Party. CHECK IT OUT!!!
I recently asked a young friend what he thought of everything going on in the world. He thinks we should move to a global world currency to replace the dollar.
I hope he's reading. I suggest watching "The Money Masters" videos on youtube. There are 22 of them. It's a couple hours of education, but by the end you'll have a clear understanding of the banking system and a better understanding of world history from the 1500's to the present day. International finance is controlled by a relatively small group of people. These people have been doing it for years and have become very rich and powerful at your expense. You should know about it.
The international financiers would like to impose a one world currency and they are currently creating financial problems to lead us to that end.
First time visitor numbers are down but returning visitors to this blog are up. The numbers are generally pretty low but I'm glad that a few people are enjoying the site. I know that I am. I will try to stay current and post regularly but I can't do it every day. However, if your like me and you can't keep your eyes shut while the train wreck piles up, you've come to the right place. Go through and check out the older content. I've only been seriously posting since last winter so the content isn't even that dusty. (a good amount of it is always relevant) .
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Most Americans don't know what kind of people 9/11 truthers really are. So they can't figure out whether or not they are dangerous.
Below is a list of people who question what our Government has said about 9/11.
The list proves - once and for all - that people who question 9/11 are dangerous.
Email this list to everyone you know, to prove to them that 9/11 truthers are all dangerous nut cases.
Senior intelligence officers:
•Former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg said that the case of a certain 9/11 whistle blower is "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers". He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this and this).
•A 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials (Raymond McGovern) said “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke”, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job.•A 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis (William Bill Christison) said “I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. ... All three [buildings that were destroyed in the World Trade Center] were most probably destroyed by controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings before 9/11." (and see this).
•A number of intelligence officials, including a CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies (Lynne Larkin) sent a joint letter to Congress expressing their concerns about “serious shortcomings,” “omissions,” and “major flaws” in the 9/11 Commission Report and offering their services for a new investigation (they were ignored)
•20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer (Robert David Steele) stated that "9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war", and it was probably an inside job (scroll down to Customer Review dated October 7, 2006).
•A decorated 20-year CIA veteran, who Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East”, and whose astounding career formed the script for the Academy Award winning motion picture Syriana (Robert Baer) said that "the evidence points at" 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job
•The Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 - 2004 (Melvin Goodman) said "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup."
•Professor of History and International Relations, University of Maryland. Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency, former military attaché in China, with a 21-year career in U.S. Army Intelligence (Major John M. Newman, PhD, U.S. Army) questions the government's version of the events of 9/11.
Congressmen:
•According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here)
•Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
•Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
•Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
•Current Republican Congressman Jason Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11
•Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11
•Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new 9/11 investigation
•Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg says that the U.S. government "assisted" in the 9/11 attacks, stating that "I think there was a lot of help from the inside"
•Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee Curt Weldon has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job 9/11 Commissioners:
•The Commission's co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements (free subscription required)
•9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue
•9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"
•9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"
•9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."
•And the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened". He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."
Other government officials:
•U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time."
•Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who's who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11
•Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence."
•The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility
•President of the U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board, who also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer and as a member of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, and who was awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for Heroism, four Air Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, and nine Aerial Achievement Medals (Lt. Col. Jeff Latas) is a member of a group which doubts the government's version of 9/11
•Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan (Col. Ronald D. Ray) said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt"
•The former director of the FBI (Louis Freeh) says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission
•Director of the U.S. "Star Wars" space defense program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, who was a senior air force colonel who flew 101 combat missions (Col. Robert Bowman) stated: "If our government had merely [done] nothing, and I say that as an old interceptor pilot—I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were, and I know what they’ve changed them to—if our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. [T]hat is treason!"
Numerous other politicians, judges, legal scholars, and attorneys also question at least some aspects of the government's version of 9/11.
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." -- Ian Williams Goddard
Try and watch this without getting upset. Who's the real terrorist?
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I am asking of you what you sense is going to happen economically and politically over the rest of this year."
---Here are the responses we've gotten so far. Please answer this question in the comments section at the bottom of the post.---
#1 - A retired female Swede: "Do you want your horoscope as well? You know predictions are hard to make - especially about the future!"
#2 - A Female California high school teacher: "The sheep will remain sedated...until it is too late. I should know! I have a captive audience of 200 young, fresh souls daily. Few get angry, frustrated or even sick and tired. Nope! They feel entitled to a world that we couldn't give them (even if we wanted to). It is true...ignorance is bliss."
#3 - A very successful contractor: "The word from my Billionaire clients is that when people think that the economy is stabilized that there will be a 30% contraction in the stock market.
There are four things I believe in and they are all based on Bible Scripture:
1) Man will be faint out of fear of expectation things that are happening in the Last Days so it will be a difficult situation not only economically but in every other way as well. 2) At the same time it says “Do not harm the oil and the wine” so that tells me it isn’t going to be utter chaos a dooms day so to speak as Hollywood would like us to believe or seems to be seeling. 3) When they say “True peace and security the n the end will come”. Again things will not fall into chaos. The end is much more complicated than that. Democracy is a part of the problem. The Bible says that the last Government will be of “iron and clay” a democracy. It says that iron and clay makes for a weak structure and that is irrefutably correct. We don’t need democracy, we need God. 4) The end of this system of things is coming but not the end of the world including man. 5) I know that you have the pendulum swinging back my way but in a nut shell no one can figure out what the weather is much less the economy. If they could they would be billionaire’s. We got to where we are now because we are idiots and that is not going to change and I know that you agree with that. So what is in store for the economy in America is anyone’s guess and people are usually wrong. (It's the blind leading the blind; what do you think is going to happen?)"
#4 Handyman: I’d say 90% of the people I talk to know that things are going to hell. They all have a different take on it but there is a definate concensus. Lots of people are prepairing in one way or another storing food, supplies, and weapons.
I expect the banker controlled nation of Israel to continue to defi the laws of god and kill more Palastinians and most likely be at war with Iran by the Fall. Many Jews have been duped by the evil beast of global finance and its players. Some have realized that it’s wrong in their hearts though and have turned away.
Here in America the states are beginning to defy Washington . With a little jolt of truth and patriotism we may see the roaring heart of America come to life. I’m really hoping for that. I would like to live free and be happy. I could really be satisfied growing my own vegatables on a small farm AND BEING LEFT THE HELL ALONE!
The privileged few feel the world belongs to them. I don’t expect nuclear weapons to be used on a large scale, they are too distructive. I think an EMP attack is more likely. An EMP would send us into the stone age and drastically reduce the population in short order. Many would starve to death being totally unprepared and unable to survive without the system. Many more would die fighting over the scraps. The first winter would kill off the majority of who’s left, after the second year you’d know who the survivors are. If I was playing chess that’s when I’d send in the drones to find the hold out villages.
I think it will be swift efficient little moves to cut us back. I don’t expect them to waste fuel in a big showy WWII type war. It will just be little nudges. Unless of course we stand up for ourselves. Time will tell…
Ps. I realized that I didn't answer your question. I expect big fiscal problems, the devil will be making deals. If people start to wake up things will get interesting. People are really pissed over the crap they are pulling in Washington. Be ready for excitement. I don't think we are all as dumb as we look.
#5 EMT/Local Government official: Based on real estate sales (my most realistic basis for opinion), we are going to do pretty well. People seem to have decided we have hit the “bottom” and are beginning to purchase real estate. This is an excellent sign for the economy. While dollar volume is down, the number of closings is way up, so that is good news. I can’t predict whether it will continue, of course, but if it does, things will begin to improve.
By the way – I believe NONE of this has to do with the federal gov’t. I think people on the ground are what makes an economy recover. The government is a dangerous, bloated entity, and its most recent actions could undermine the good that has begun occurring in the economy. Probably will, so this optimistic report may become moot. Thanks for asking
#6 - Blogger/Traveler: hmm. I don't have any idea. Things just keep getting worse. I'm thinking we've got a few years yet before shit really hits the fan. Honestly it's been nice not thinking much about economics and politics while being on vacation.
#7 - A female underground Cinematographer: Both a tough & easy question. At the risk of sounding loony, my gut says that there is a undiscussed, added component motivating at least some (probably not all) of the scary, blue-blood family corporate overlords.That component would be the impending global natural disasters (major earthquakes, rising sea levels, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods in some areas, drought in others, dwindling potable water, etc..) Others within the aforementioned "scary people" camp are motivated by religious fanaticism (just spotted an article about Goldfein from Goldman-Sachs claiming his recent bonus was because he was doing "God's work," and of course you know that Eric Prince of Blackwater/Xe is, and comes from, a family of Catholic zealots.) In other words, what's on my mind this minute is how Earth's next cycle of apocalypses (both the Earth's natural reality version, as well as the nut-bag human version) is motivating a major play for control of all of the world's resources, most habitable areas & all of the world's labor force before the shit hits the fan & the overlords lose their hold amidst the chaos. But as for this year, the economy: I believe that there will be some band-aide-like schemes hatched to get people saddled with mortgages again, and similar processes that offer big promises, but mostly deliver big debt loads, as well as the chained-and-can't-rock-the-boat effect that stalls large scale (and necessary) social unrest. Tuition, credit cards, mortgage, high cost of living, stress = ball & chain.To me, the solution, the deliverance for many, will be housing and worker's cooperatives (if you haven't seen John Curl's book on the history of cooperatives in the U.S., "For All The People," check it out!) It is corporations & bankers who deliberately pushed the labor force, both skilled and unskilled, back into a wage slavery that was not the norm (or desire of the common person) from this country's inception. In fact, getting away from that was (supposedly) the very idea in the first place, right?Without control of the means to take care of our most basic human needs, we are not free.I also believe in skills acquisition. There are many "intellectual" socialists, anarchists or other flavors of "left," but too often they end up strictly existing in academic & rarefied circles - cycles of conferences, book tours, teaching, etc., but unlikely to draw from the working class to whom those ideas most effect and benefit because -- well -- they have no practical way to connect.Everyone, and I mean everyone who is not quadriplegic or living with some other devastating disability, should have functional skills in one or more of the following: building; growing & preparing food; making clothes - including making, weaving, spinning, plaiting, whatever the clothing or textile item is derived from; first aide, diagnosis and treatment of illness; mechanics; the ability to recognize and know something of the animals & plants around them; practical skills in survival in general. I shudder to think of living through a long term major disaster with people who have zero skills that are not in some way attached to computer technology, or sales charts, etc.. Corporate interests have sought for years to train us out of doing for ourselves, out of self-sufficiency, into "specializing" in often obscure & passing fields, and created a society of needy, whiny, consumers.I do think the economy will tank if there is not gigantic regulations put on the CEO set, numerous arrests of bankers, and seizure of their assets to be redistributed to those that they stole from (I know - that last one still smacks of a bureaucratic mess, but how can it be worse than what we have?)The biggest obstacles are the mentally unhinged right wingers in this country. I'm not kidding. Their racism, blind obedience to capitalism and Jesus mania make them the most likely "terrorists" that we face - both here and abroad.The other obstacle is those who believe that there is nothing we can do.Frankly, I'm not sure how I will squeak through this year. Trying to solve the issue of how to buy a pro-HD camera, since simply even generating my own projects (which I can do in a heartbeat - from planning to camera to edit & DVD authoring) is effected by not currently shooting in HD, which is what distributors (not to mention many viewers) expect & demand. Camera rental costs are exorbitant. But I have no choice but to figure out a way, since clearly creating products (informational & educational DVD's, political films) and selling them myself seems to be the most reliable & logical way for me to go - not to mention participate in positive change.As far as this year's economy - at what point do we start using a different yard stick other than the stock market & housing prices? To me, the number of people employed at a living wage seems a better index of recovery, but we seem to not even flinch when the indicators used (in the media anyway) have little to do directly with the vast majority of us.So - back to co-ops. We need to find as many ways as possible of removing ourselves - our bodies, minds, ideas, labor, from the corporatocracy & recreate ourselves in decentralized self-sustaining communities that provide food, shelter & health care to one another. If we need to be militant about it, so be it. But it, ideally, should be done quickly, with plenty of useful free information available, and gather enough momentum to truly change things before the establishment knows what hit it (in many ways, the early "hippie" movement was about this, which is why it was such a threat to the establishment.)And we will have to be on guard for the inevitable corporate co-opting (ironic term here...) that will ensue. The same way "hippie fashion" became chic, or punk was co-opted and used for selling junk, or how the "green movement" is being corporatized.That's my 2 cents. Why do you ask?
