Be ready and friendly

Did you know there was an electronic run on the banks last year?

"It was about September 15th.....On Thursday, at about 11 O'Clock in the morning, (At 2 minutes, 20 seconds into this C-Span video clip), Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about an hour-long electronic run on the banks of $550 B which had to be shut down.

Of course this came from overseas. It takes a lot to get the US public excited. What else doesn't the media report? 

"AWashington-Wall Street partnership:

engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble;

Illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S.;

Used “privitization” as form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder."

The derivatives that have the banks in trouble right now (Credit Default Swaps) are like insurance plans that pay out when things fail. There is next to zero honor or ethics at the top levels of business and government. Is Barack Obama not one man waving a sword at a tidal wave? Bush was clearly a puppet of industry.

Does the US President run the government or does the government and industry run the US president?

Our new Treasury Secretary, same as the old? New paint job but we're still going to throw a ton more money at banks.

And again

These bank bailouts will continue to sour the public's appetite for "stimulus" spending. Is the general public distinguishing between the two? Fiscally conservative republicans who lockstep supported Bush's record big government spending are balking at helping American health, education and infrasturcture. In a few years, the public is likely to forget the distinction between the two presidents when it comes to at least spending on banks.

How do you fix banking? Let bad banks fail. These companies are like bad drug habits without jobs.

Bush loyalists are also trying to sabotage the US government, from within the US government.

Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans

"The real story of the leak by Petraeus is that the most powerful figure in the U.S. military has tried to shape the media coverage of Obama and combat troop withdrawal from Iraq to advance his policy agenda - and, very likely, his personal political interests as well."

General David Petraeus, General Ray Odierno, retired Army general Jack Keane and others prepared a campaign to mobilize public opinion against President Barack Obama’s pledge to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 16 months.

Bush admin tried last-minute to rush though sale of offshore oil & gas leases

Obama orders review of cybersecurity

The Soviet Union was taken down in party via an ISI/CIA-financed war of Saudi mujadeen who would later become Al Qaeda* in Afghanistan, but also via the flooding of their market with their own currency. 

Given the role power of the Russian Israeli mob today is it so so far fetched to ask if they played some role in our current problems? It's certainly not far-fetched to point out that not everyone is rooting for us to succeed.

* Al Qaeda was originially the name of the database of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. ( Robin Cook, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons)

For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control.

Bleak assesment. The Russians know a bit about this kind of thing.

Why would Barack Obama use Henry Kissinger in Moscow? Haven't we had enough of Kissinger yet? Can it be argued that during his "reign", we lost our scruples?

The New Hampshire state legislature introduced a resolution to declare certain actions by the federal government completely totally void and warned that certain future acts will be viewed as a “breach of peace” with the states themselves that risks “nullifying the Constitution.”

America needs Howard Dean as HHS. Why is Obama ignoring this guy? To me, this is a good test of exactly how pro-US citizen Obama really is. Howard Dean has passed that test.

Public support grows for spending on mass transit and infrastructure

Independent farmers can lose their farms to Monsanto if the company finds any seeds have blown through the wind onto their land. Ridiculous, isn't it.

Public support grows for spending on mass transit and infrastructure

From a reader:

Yesterday, the Senate version of the economic stimulus package included $1 billion dollars in funding for the nuclear weapons complex. The Senate Appropriations Committee is taking advantage of the current economic crisis to give the nuclear weapons complex free money to expand their programs.

President Obama pledged to "set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons, and pursue it." Such spending is contrary to the president's goal of nuclear disarmament. Giving one billion dollars to expand nuclear weapons capabilities is immoral, unconscionable and irresponsible, especially since it will have no impact on improving the economy, except to divert funds away from real solutions to our economic crisis.

The Senate bill next goes to a Conference Committee in order to reconcile the differences between the House version and the Senate version of the stimulus bill. The House version of the stimulus does NOT have any funding for nuclear weapons. This is our chance to impact the final version of the bill.

Senate Members of the Conference Committee include: Sen. Max Baucus (MT), Sen. Thad Cochran (MS), Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA), Sen. Daniel Inouye (HI), Sen. Harry Reid (NV)

House Members of the Conference Committee include: Rep. David Obey (WI-7), Rep. Charles Rangel (NY-15), Rep. Henry Waxman (CA-30), Rep. Jerry Lewis (CA-41), Rep. Dave Camp (MI-4)

TAKE ACTION: If your senator or representative is on the Conference Committee, call 202-224-3121 (the Capitol Switchboard)

Your Job:
Get friendly.....with your neighbor, with your co-worker, with your family and with your community. Humans have endured much worse than what this nation is going through, but things are likely to get worse before they get better. The ongoing bad news is likely to foster tension, stress and depression in the public. If that motivates you to prepare yourself and your family for the worst, fine, but don't let fear drive your life. The fear of terrorism after 9/11 was used to do a lot of counter-productive expensive things in our name. Industry and political leaders tend to love fear.

If you're reading this, obviously you are alive and thus you are capable of celebrating whatever life we have and extending some good to the people around you. We're going to really need each other as time goes on.

Riots and violence are nothing more than a profit opportunity for defense and security companies. There are more productive ways to move the nation forward, from what New Hampshire is trying as a state, to trying to grow more of your own food, to staying informed and talking to each other and today, to being friendly.

Happy Wednesday friends!

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