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he senseless and horrific killings at the movie
theater in Colorado reminded Americans that
life is fragile and beautiful, and we should not
take family, friends, and loved ones for granted.
Our prayers go out to the injured victims and the
families of those killed. As a nation we should
use this terrible event to come together
with the resolve to create a society that
better values life.
We should also face the sober real-
ity that government cannot protect
us from all possible harm. No matter
how many laws we pass, no matter
how many police or federal agents
we put on the streets, no matter how
routinely we monitor Internet com-
munications, a determined individual
or group can still cause great harm. We
as individuals are responsible for our
safety and the safety of our families.
Furthermore, it is the role of civil society
rather than government to build a culture of
responsible, peaceful, productive individuals.
Government cannot mandate morality or instill
hope in troubled individuals. External
controls on our behavior imposed
by government through
laws, police, and jails
usually apply only
after a terrible crime
has occurred.
Internal self
governance, by
contrast, is a much
more powerful regulator of human behavior than any law.
This self-governance must be developed from birth, first
by parents but later also through the positive influence of
relatives and adult role models. Beyond childhood, char-
acter development can occur through religious, civic, and
social institutions. Ultimately, self-governance cannot be
developed without an underlying foundation of morality.
Government, however, is not a moral actor. The
state should protect our rights, but it cannot develop
our character. Whenever terrible crimes occur, many
Americans understandably demand that government
“do something” to prevent similar crimes in the future.
But this reflexive impulse almost always leads to bad
laws and the loss of liberty.
Do we really want to live in a world of police check-
points, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors? Do
we really believe government can provide total security?
Do we want to involuntarily commit every disaffected,
disturbed, or alienated person who fantasizes about vio-
lence? Or can we accept that liberty is more important
than the illusion of state-provided security?
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by
the ability of citizens to live without government inter-
ference. Government cannot create a world without risks,
nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place.
Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute
safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total
state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning
only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen
and a false government security blanket beckons.
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costs are counted the Iraq invasion cost U.S. taxpayers
$3 trillion. Ditto for the Afghan war. In other words,
the two gratuitous wars doubled the U.S. public debt.
This is the reason there is no money for Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, the environment and
the social safety net.
Americans got nothing out of the wars, but as the
war debt will never be paid off, U.S. citizens and their
descendants will have to pay interest on $6,000 billion
of war debt in perpetuity.
Not content with these wars, the Bush/Obama
regime is conducting military operations in violation
of international law in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa,
organized the overthrow by armed conflict of the gov-
ernment in Libya, is currently working to overthrow
the Syrian government and continues to marshal mil-
itary forces against Iran.
Finding the Muslim adversaries that Washington
created insufficient for its energies and budget,
Washington has encircled Russia with military bases
and has begun the encirclement of China. Washington
has announced that the bulk of its naval forces will
be shifted to the Pacific over the next few years, and
Washington is working to reestablish its naval base
in the Philippines, construct a new one on a South
Korean island, acquire a naval base in Vietnam and air
and troop bases elsewhere in Asia.
In Thailand, Washington is attempting to purchase
with the usual bribes an air base used in the Vietnam
War. There is opposition as the country does not wish
to be drawn into Washington’s orchestrated conflict
with China. Downplaying the real reason for the
airbase, Washington, according to Thai newspapers,
told the Thai government that the base was needed
for “humanitarian missions.” This didn’t fly. So
Washington had NASA ask for the air base in order to
conduct “weather experiments.” Whether this ruse is
sufficient cover remains to be seen.
U.S. Marines have been sent to Australia and else-
where in Asia.
To corral China and Russia (and Iran) is a massive
undertaking for a country that is financially busted.
With wars and bankster bailouts, Bush and Obama
have doubled the U.S. national debt while failing to
address the disintegration of the U.S. economy and ris-
ing hardships of U.S. citizens.
The annual U.S. budget deficit is adding to the accu-
mulated debt at about $1.5 trillion per year with no
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n a recent column, “Can The World Survive
Washington’s Hubris,” I promised to examine
whether the U.S. economy will collapse before
Washington in its pursuit of world hegemony brings
us into military confrontation with Russia and China.
This is likely to be an ongoing subject, so this column
will not be the final word.
Washington has been at war since October 2001,
when President George W. Bush concocted an excuse to
order the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. This war took a
back seat when Bush concocted another excuse to order
the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a war that went on with-
out significant success for eight years and has left Iraq
in chaos with dozens more killed and wounded every
day, a new strong man in place of the illegally executed
former strongman and the likelihood of the ongoing
violence becoming civil war.
Upon his election, President Obama foolishly
sent more troops to Afghanistan and renewed the
intensity of that war, now in its eleventh year, to no
successful effect.
These two wars have been expensive. According to
estimates by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, when all
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move away from its use to settle their balance of payments, could set off
inflation that would take interest rates out of the Fed’s control. As interest
rates rise, bond prices fall.
In other words, bonds are now the bubble that real estate, stocks, and
derivatives were. When this bubble pops, Americans will take another
big hit to their remaining wealth.
It makes no sense to invest in long-term bonds at negative interest
rates when the federal government is piling up debt that the Federal
Reserve is monetizing and when other countries are moving away
from the flood of dollars. The potential for a rising rate of inflation is
high from debt monetization and from a drop in the dollar’s exchange
value. Yet, bond fund portfolio managers have to follow the herd into
longer term maturities or see their performance relative to their peers
drop to the bottom of the rankings.
Some individual investors and foreign central banks, anticipating the
dollar’s loss of value, are accumulating gold and silver bullion. Realizing
the danger to the dollar and its policy from the rapid rise in the price of
bullion during 2011, the Federal Reserve has arranged offsetting action.
When the demand for physical bullion drives up the price, short sales of
bullion in the paper market are used to drive the price back down.
Similarly, when investors begin to flee Treasuries, thus causing interest
rates to rise, J.P. Morgan and other dependencies of the Federal
Reserve sell interest-rate swaps, thus offsetting the effect on
interest rates of the bond sales. (Keep in mind that
interest rates rise when bond prices
fall and vice versa.)
The point of all this
information is to e s t a b l i s h
that except for the 1 percent, the
incomes and wealth of Americans
are being cut back across the
board. From 2002 through 2011
the economy lost 3.5 million
manufacturing jobs. These jobs
were replaced with lower-paying
waitress and bar- tender jobs
(1.2 million), ambu- latory health
care service jobs (1.5 million) and
social assistance jobs (578,000).
These replacement jobs in
domestic services mean that
on a net basis U.S. c o n s u m e r
income was moved out of the
country. Potential a g g r e g a t e
demand in the U.S. dropped by
the differences in pay in the job cat-
egories. Clearly and u n a m b i g u -
ously, job-offshoring lowered U.S.
disposable income and U.S. GDP
and, thereby, employment.
Despite the lack of an economic
base, Washington’s hegemonic aspirations continue unabated. Other coun-
tries are amused at Washington’s unawareness. Russia, China, India, Brazil
and South Africa are forming an agreement to abandon the U.S. dollar as
the currency for international settlement between themselves.
On July 4 the China Daily reported, “Japanese politicians and promi-
nent academics from China and Japan urged Tokyo on Tuesday to aban-
don its outdated foreign policy of leaning on the West and accept China
as a key partner as important as the United States. The Tokyo Consensus,
a joint statement issued at the end of the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, also called
on both countries to expand trade and promote a free-trade agreement
for China, Japan and South Korea.”
This means that Japan is in play.
The Chinese government, more intelligent than Washington, is
prospect of declining. The financial system
is broken and requires ongoing bailouts. The
economy is busted and has been unable to cre-
ate high-paying jobs, indeed any jobs. Despite
years of population growth, payroll employ-
ment as of mid-2012 is the same as in 2005 and
substantially below 2008. Yet, the government
and financial presstitute media tell us that we
have a recovery.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, employment in 2011 was only 1
million more than in 2002. As it takes about
150,000 new jobs each month to stay even
with population growth, that leaves a decade
long job deficit of 15 million jobs.
The U.S. unemployment and inflation rates
are far higher than reported. In previous col-
umns I have explained, based on statistician
John Williams’ work, the reasons that the gov-
ernment’s headline numbers are serious under-
statements. The headline (U3) unemployment
rate of 8.2 percent counts no discouraged
workers who have given up on finding a job.
The government has a second unemployment
rate (U6), seldom reported, which includes
short-term discouraged workers. That rate
is 15 percent. When the long-term discour-
aged workers are added in, the current U.S.
unemployment rate is 22 percent, a number
closer to the unemployment rate of the Great
Depression than to the unemployment rates of
postwar recessions.
Changes in the way inflation is measured
have destroyed the Consumer Price Index
(CPI) as a measure of the cost of living. The
new methodology is substitution based. If the
price of an item in the index rises, a lower
priced alternative takes its place. In addition,
some price rises are labeled quality improve-
ments whether they are or not and thus do not
show up in the CPI. People still have to pay the
higher price, but it is not counted as inflation.
Currently, the substitution-based rate of
inflation is about 2 percent. However, when
inflation is measured as the actual cost of liv-
ing, the rate of inflation is 5 percent.
The Misery Index is the sum of the inflation
and unemployment rates. The level of the cur-
rent Misery Index depends on whether the new
rigged measures are used, which understate
the misery, or the former methodology that
accurately measures it.
Prior to the November 1980 election, the
Misery Index hit 22 percent, which was one
reason for Reagan’s victory over President
Carter. Today if we use previous methodology,
the Misery Index stands at 27 percent. But
if we use the new rigged methodology, the
Misery Index is 10 percent.
The understatement of inflation serves to
boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is
calculated in current dollars. To be able to
determine whether GDP rose because of price
rises or because of increases in real output,
GDP is deflated by the CPI. The higher the
inflation rate, the less the growth in real output
and vice versa. When the substitution based
methodology is used to measure inflation, the
U.S. economy experienced real growth in the
21st century except for the sharp dip during
2008 to 2010. However, if the cost-of-living
based methodology is used, except for a short
period during 2004, the U.S. economy has
experienced no real growth since 2000.
In the chart above, the lower measure (blue)
of real GDP is deflated with the inflation meth-
odology that measured cost-of-living. The
higher GDP measure (red) deflates GDP with
the new substitution based methodology.
The lack of employment and real GDP growth
go together with the decline in real household
median income. The growth in consumer debt
substituted for the lack of income growth
and kept the economy going until consumers
exhausted their ability to take on more debt.
With the consumer dead in the water, the out-
look for economic recovery is poor.
Politicians and the Federal Reserve are mak-
ing the outlook even worse. At a time of high
unemployment and debt-stressed households,
politicians at local, state and federal levels
are cutting back on government provision of
health care, pensions, food stamps, housing
subsidies and every other element of the social
safety net. These cutbacks, of course, further
reduce aggregate demand and the ability of
income-stressed Americans to survive.
The Federal Reserve has interest rates so low
that retirees and others living on their savings
can earn nothing on their money. The inter-
est rates paid on bank CDs and government
and corporate bonds are lower than the rate
of inflation. To live on interest income, a per-
son has to purchase Greek, Spanish, or Italian
bonds and run the risk of capital loss. The
Federal Reserve’s policy of negative interest
rates forces retirees to spend down their cap-
ital in order to live. In other words, the Fed’s
policy is destroying personal savings as people
are forced to spend their capital in order to
cover living expenses.
In June, the Federal Reserve announced that
it was going to continue its policy of driving
nominal interest rates even lower, this time
focusing on long-term Treasury bonds. The Fed
said it would be purchasing $400 billion of the
Treasury’s 30-year bonds.
Driving interest rates down means driving
bond prices up. With 5-year Treasury bonds
paying only seven-tenths of 1 percent and
10-year Treasury bonds paying only 1.6 per-
cent, below even the official rate of inflation,
Americans desperate for yield move into
30-year bonds currently paying 2.7 percent.
However, the high bond prices mean that the
risk of capital loss is very high.
The Fed’s debt monetization, or a drop in the
exchange value of the dollar as other countries
rates to rise, J.P. Morgan and other dependencies of the Federal
thus offsetting the effect on
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killing American troops, and a government whose mil-
itary has been unable to subdue a few thousand lightly
armed Taliban after 11 years, is over the top when it
organizes war against Iran, Russia and China.
The only prospect Washington has of prevailing in
such an undertaking is first use of nuclear weapons,
catching its demonized opponents off guard by nuking
them out of the blue—in other words, by the elimina-
tion of life on earth.
Is this Washington’s program revealed by the neocon-
servative warmonger, Bill Kristol, who had no shame
to ask publicly, “What’s the good of nuclear weapons if
you can’t use them?”
This article ﬁrst appeared at Paul Craig Roberts’
new website Institute For Political Economy at
www.paulcraigroberts.org.
responding to Washington’s military threats by entic-
ing away Washington’s two key Asian allies. As the
Chinese economy is now as large as the U.S. and on far
firmer footing, and as Japan now has more trade with
China than with the U.S., the enticement is appealing.
Moreover, China is next door, and Washington is dis-
tant and drowning in its hubris.
Washington, which flicked its middle finger to inter-
national law and to its own law and Constitution with
its arrogance and gratuitous and illegal wars and with
its assertion of the right to murder its own citizens
and those of its allies, such as Pakistan, has made the
United States a pariah state.
Washington still controls its bought-and-paid-for
NATO puppets, but these puppet states are overwhelmed
with derivative debt problems brought to them by Wall
Street and by sovereign debt problems, some of which
were covered up by Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs.
Europe is on the ropes and has no money with which
to subsidize Washington’s wars of hegemony.
Washington is becoming an isolated and despised
element of the world community. Washington has pur-
chased Europe, Canada, Australia, the former Soviet
state of Georgia (and almost Ukraine), Columbia and
continues its effort to purchase the entire world, but
sentiment is turning against the rising Gestapo state
that has shown itself to be lawless, ruthless and indif-
ferent, even hostile, to human life and human rights.
A government, whose military was unable, with the
help of the UK, to occupy Iraq after eight years and was
forced to end the conflict by putting the “insurgents”
on the U.S. military payroll and to pay them to stop
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy,
associATE editor of the WSJ, renowned
columnist for Business Week, Scripps
Howard and Creators Syndicate and has
had many university appointments. His
articles are available on website
www.paulcraigroberts.org.
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structural problems caused by such a system are at the very heart of our debt
problems today.
So where does money come from? In the United States, it comes from the
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them for the U.S. Treasury bonds.
So why does the U.S. government go to all this trouble? Why doesn’t the U.S.
government create the money itself?
Those are very good questions.
One of the primary reasons why our system is structured this way is so that
wealthy people can get even wealthier by lending money to the U.S. government
and other national governments.
For example, last year the U.S. government spent more than $454 billion just
on interest on the national debt.
Over the centuries, the ultra-wealthy have found lending to national
governments to be a very, very profitable enterprise.
The U.S. Treasury bonds that the Federal Reserve receives in exchange for
the money it has created out of nothing
are auctioned off through the Federal
Reserve system.
But wait. There is a problem.
Because the U.S. government must
pay interest on the treasury bonds, the
amount of debt that has been created
by this transaction is greater than the
amount of money that has been created.
So where will the U.S. government get
the money to pay that debt?
Well, the theory is that we can
get money to circulate through the
economy really, really fast and tax it at
a high enough rate that the government
will be able to collect enough taxes to
pay the debt.
But that never actually happens, does it?
And the creators of the Federal
Reserve understood this as well. They
understood that the government would
not have enough money to both run the
government and service the national
debt. They knew that the government
would have to keep borrowing even
more money in an attempt to keep up
with the game.
That is why I call the Federal Reserve
a perpetual debt machine. The Federal
Reserve was created to trap the
government in an endlessly expanding
debt spiral from which there is no escape.
And the Federal Reserve is doing a great
job at what it was designed to do. Today,
the US national debt is more than 5,000
times larger than it was when the Federal
Reserve was first created.
Another way that money comes into
existence in our economy is through the
process of fractional reserve banking.
I originally pulled the following
simplified explanation of fractional
reserve banking off of the website of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but
it has been pulled down since then. But
I still think it is helpful in understanding
the basics of how fractional reserve
banking works.
“If the reserve requirement is 10 percent,
for example, a bank that receives a $100
deposit may lend out $90 of that deposit.
If the borrower then writes a check to
someone who deposits the $90, the bank
receiving that deposit can lend out $81.
As the process continues, the banking
system can expand the initial deposit of
last year the U.S.
government spent
more than $454
billion just on
interest on the
national debt
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$100 into a maximum of $1,000 of money
($100+$90+81+$72.90+…=$1,000).”
When you put your money into the
bank, it does not say there. The bank only
keeps a relatively small amount of money
sitting around to satisfy the withdrawal
demands of account holders. If all of us
went down to the banks right now and
demanded our money, that would create
a major problem.
If I put $100 into the bank and the bank
lends out 90 of those dollars to you, now it
looks like there are $190 floating around.
I have “$100” in my bank account and you
have “$90” that you just borrowed.
The new debt that you have taken on
($90) has “created” more money. But of
course you are going to end up paying
back more than $90 to the bank, so more
debt has been created than the amount of
money that has been created.
And that is one of the big problems with
our financial system. It is designed so
that the amount of debt and the amount
of money are supposed to be perpetually
expanding, and the amount of debt
created is always greater than the amount
of money that is created.
So is it any wonder that our society is
swamped with nearly $55 trillion of total
debt at this point?
A debt-based financial system is
unsustainable by nature because it will
always create debt bubbles that will
inevitably burst.
Are you starting to see why so many
Americans are saying that we need to
abolish the Federal Reserve system?
Our founding fathers never intended for
our financial system to work this way.
According to Article I, Section 8 of the
U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is
supposed to have the authority to “coin
Money, regulate the Value thereof, and
of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of
Weights and Measures”.
So why has this authority been given
to a private institution that is dominated
by the big Wall Street banks and that has
actually argued in court that it is “not an
agency” of the federal government?
Thomas Jefferson once said that if he
could add just one more amendment to
the U.S. Constitution it would be a ban on
all government borrowing:
“I wish it were possible to obtain a
single amendment to our Constitution. I
would be willing to depend on that alone
for the reduction of the administration
of our government to the genuine
principles of its Constitution; I mean an
additional article, taking from the federal
government the power of borrowing.”
But instead, we have become enslaved
to a system where government borrowing
actually creates our money.
The borrower is the servant of the
lender, and we have allowed our
government to enslave us to the tune of
nearly $16 trillion.
There are alternatives to this system.
Things do not have to work this way.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of
our politicians consider the Federal
Reserve to be good for America and
steadfastly refuse to do anything to
change the status quo.
So if you are waiting for “solutions”
to these problems on the national level
you are going to be waiting for a very
long time.
The debt problems that the United
States and Europe are experiencing did
not come into existence by accident. They
are the result of fundamental structural
problems with the financial system.
A debt-based financial system is
always going to fail in the long run.
Unfortunately, most Americans still do
not understand this and so we will all
get to suffer the consequences.
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Congress is supposed to have the
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A
mericans know, deep in their bones, that
something terrible is happening.
Maybe you can't articulate it. Maybe you
don't have the statistics to understand exactly
what's going on. But my bet is, you think about it a lot.
If you are at all like me, you know something has
gone wrong with America that's critical to our national
prosperity, something that jeopardizes the future for
our children and ourselves.
Something that threatens both the financial order,
like the stock market, and the political order.
Well today, I’d like to help identify the real problem
with America, by telling two quick stories.
Both of these stories will give you a very good idea
about the current state of our nation and about where
we are heading next.
The first story involves some of the most powerful,
richest and most-connected people in the country.
Why Are These
Guys Not In Jail?
Last fall, Bloomberg published an article based on
confidential sources about how Henry Paulson, the
former CEO of Goldman Sachs and the Republican U.S.
Treasury secretary during the financial crisis, held a
secret meeting with the top 20 hedge-fund managers
in New York City in late July 2008.
This was about two weeks after he testified to
Congress that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were
"well capitalized."
I knew for a fact that what Paulson told Congress
wasn't true. I wrote my entire June 2008 newsletter
detailing exactly why Fannie and Freddie certainly
had billions of dollars in losses that they had not yet
revealed to investors—$500 billion in losses, at least.
There was no question in my mind…both companies
were insolvent—"zeros," as I explained.
And yet, in front of Congress, the U.S. Treasury
Secretary was saying exactly the opposite. Either I was
a liar...or he was.
Then...only a few days later...what did Paulson tell
those hedge-fund managers?
He told them the same thing I had written in my
newsletter. He told them the opposite of what he'd said
publicly to Congress. He told these billionaire investors
that Fannie and Freddie were a disaster. They would
require an enormous, multi-billion-dollar bailout. The
U.S. government would have to take them over, and
their shareholders would be completely wiped out.
Here you had a high-government official explicitly
lying to Congress (and by extension, the general pub-
lic), while giving the real facts to a group of people
who represented the financial interests of the world's
wealthiest folks. The story didn't come to the public's
attention for two years.
This was the most outrageous example of graft and
corruption I had ever seen. Certainly it involves more
billions of dollars in misappropriated value than any
other similar story that I can recall. These managers
had the risk-free ability to make tens—if not hun-
dreds—of billions of dollars by using derivatives to cap-
italize on what they knew was the imminent collapse of
the world's largest mortgage bank.
Who picked up the tab? You know perfectly well: It
was you and me, the taxpayers.
In an interesting side note: One of the investment
managers present at this meeting was Steve Rattner,
who at that point was already deeply involved in
another bit of graft: his efforts to bribe New York state
pension-fund managers for large investments into his
hedge fund, from which he earned perhaps as much as
$100 million. He later settled the charges for a mere
$10 million shortly after Andrew Cuomo was elected
governor of New York.
The Bloomberg story about a crooked Treasury sec-
retary handing a room full of crooked billionaires'
inside information worth billions of dollars hardly
caused a ripple.
As far as I know, no actions are being planned against
Henry Paulson or any of the hedge-fund managers
involved. No other major media outlet picked up the
story. I saw nothing about it from the Department of
Justice or the Securities and Exchange Commission.
What does that say about our country when even the
most egregious kind of corruption—involving hun-
dreds of billions of dollars—is simply ignored?
It seems like everyone in our country has lost moral
bearing, from the highest government officials and
senior corporate leaders all the way down to school-
teachers and local community leaders.
And here’s the point: the ethos of my fellow Americans
seems to have changed from one of personal integ-
rity and responsibility to "getting yours"—an all-out
attempt, by any means possible, to get the most amount
of benefits with the least amount of work.
Think I’m exaggerating?
Well, that brings me to my second story, about
a group of people who are probably the most
egregious, money-grubbing and immoral class in
America today: retirees.
Now hold on...before you start sending hate mail my
way, keep in mind, I'm not talking about all retirees.
No, there's a very special group who exhibit some of
the most disgusting behavior I have ever seen, even
though they are technically not breaking the law.
Let me show you an example of what I mean...
The Man With 10
Jobs
Bellwood, Illinois is a small, mostly black residential
suburb of about 20,000 people, located just south of
O'Hare Airport.
It's about a 15-mile commute straight east to
downtown Chicago.
The median salary in Bellwood is $57,000 a year,
according to recent census reports.
When I did a recent search on the Zillow real estate
website, I found just over 300 houses listed for sale in
Bellwood right now.
Just one of these homes is listed at a price higher than
$200,000, and only 12 are listed above $100,000.
In other words, this is not a particularly wealthy place.
But the little town of Bellwood made news recently
when a story came out in the Chicago Tribune about a
local, white official named Roy McCampbell.
You see, for running this little suburb West of
Chicago, Mr. McCampbell made an astonishing
amount of money.
In his final year before retirement, McCampbell
pulled in a whopping $472,255.
How did he make so much—more than any other
municipal executive in the entire state of Illinois?
Well, according to McCampbell, he did the work of
10 people for Bellwood. This is great, comical really.
Let me show you the list of jobs McCampbell claims
to have done:
Comptroller, administrator, public safety CEO,
finance director, budget director, human resources
director, mayoral assistant, corporation counsel,
property commission director and development cor-
poration officer.
But hold on... it gets better...
As part of his contract, McCampbell was allowed
FIVE MONTHS worth of sick days each year, starting
in May of 2008.
Yes, you read that correctly... he got FIVE MONTHS
worth of sick days every single year.
And because it's completely impossible for anyone to
take five months of sick days in a year, especially when
you are doing the jobs of 10 people!, McCampbell was
able to get paid for many of the sick days he never took.
This brought his salary up to close to half a million
dollars a year.
When asked about his pay, McCampbell told the
Tribune, "I didn't hold a gun to any body's head to get
this. I'm not trying to do anything bad."
What kind of world do we live in where neither this
guy, nor any of the other local officials who approved
this contract, see a problem with this situation?
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And wait... there’s still more...
McCampbell also was given a free car and free gas
all paid by the taxpayers, who also covered his pre-
miums for health and life insurance, as well as his
pension contributions.
Asked by the Tribune if he ever felt like he was being
overpaid, McCampbell told the paper, "I truly didn't."
And to top it all off, taxpayers are still not done pay-
ing Mr. McCampbell.
Because of salary bumps, bonuses and cashing out his
unpaid sick leave, McCampbell was able to dramatically
increase his final year's pay, which in turn gives him a
pension estimated to be as high as $264,000 a year.
McCampbell, who was 55 years old when he
retired, could conceivably live another 30 years or
more, which could make his inflated pension worth
nearly $8 million.
And don't forget, he didn't contribute a single
penny towards his pension—that was also covered
by the taxpayers.
Unfortunately, in America today, there are Roy
McCampbells in every state, town, municipality and in
every level of government.
The $5 Million
Tollbooth Worker
Maybe you heard about the tollbooth worker from
New York whose average salary was $70,000 a year.
Believe it or not, that's not the absurd part of this story,
although that in and of itself is pretty amazing.
What’s remarkable about this tollbooth worker is how
he was able to legally steal millions from taxpayers in
the coming years.
What this fellow did was work tons of overtime and
cash in dozens of sick days, which more than doubled
his final year's salary to $150,000.
Because his pension is based on his last year of work,
this guy will get a pension of $120,000 a year for the
rest of his life! That's 71 percent more than his highest
year of regular pay.
He's only 50 years old, which means taxpayers could
easily be on the hook for $5 million or more in total.
And like I said, these stories are the “new normal”
in what I call “Corruption USA,” where it’s all about
taking as much as possible, even if you didn’t earn it
and don’t deserve it.
The exact same thing is going on in every state, in every
county and in every municipality of America today.
We have state-funded janitors, firefighters, cops, may-
ors, council members, administrators, etc. who are retir-
ing as early as possible (some in their mid-40s), setting
themselves up for payouts of millions of dollars for the
rest of their lives, because of outrageous public pensions.
In my mind, this "pension padding" is the exact same
thing as stealing. You are taking money you didn't earn
and don't deserve.
And it happens at every level of government,
starting at the top.
USA Today recently did a study on how various legis-
lators around the country pad their final year's salary,
and thus their pension:
"Kentucky legislators add their annual allowance for
stationery—up to $1,500 for senators and $750 for
House members—plus another $15,000 to $17,000 a
year in expense payments to the salary on which pen-
sions are based. Connecticut lawmakers can increase
their pensions up to 50 percent by including mileage
reimbursements that add as much as $15,500 a year to
the salaries used to calculate their pensions."
So the new normal is for government employees to
pad their final year salaries, then retire early, often on
pensions fattened by gaming the corrupt system.
It's a complete disgrace and another prime example of
what I call “The Corruption of America.”
There’s no doubt that something has gone terribly
wrong in our country.
Something has corrupted our society in a profound
way, to the point where most people in our coun-
try think it's normal to defraud the government, or
refuse to pay their debts, or even steal from their
employers or shareholders.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that almost every prob-
lem we face today is really only a reflection of the more
important things our country has lost—like our sense of
honor, humility and the dedication to personal respon-
sibility, which made America the greatest hope for man-
kind for more than 200 years.
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based Stansberry & Associates Investment
Research, the largest independent research ﬁrm
of its kind, with more than 400,000 customers. To
see Mr. Stansberry’s full analysis on what has gone
wrong with America, what is most likely to happen
next, and what you can do to prepare, check out his
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A
s America’s engineered economic implo-
sion accelerates, the parallels with how the
Roman empire fell are staggering. It is now
abundantly clear that the ruling class is pre-
paring for a planned economic implosion after which
they will declare themselves the saviors.
A recent Reuters report highlighting how the Federal
Reserve has been telling major banks in the U.S. to
prepare for a “worst case scenario” financial collapse
and that these banks would not be able to rely on gov-
ernment support underscores once again how the elite
are positioning themselves to exploit the next leg of the
orchestrated financial meltdown.
Just as happened in the aftermath of 2008, the rul-
ing class is getting ready to offer the solution of more
centralized control and more financial serfdom as the
solution to the problem they created in the first place.
By making the public and industry beg for QE3, the
Federal Reserve will once again try to manipulate the
crisis to portray itself as the guardian of a fragile sys-
tem and accumulate yet more power.
America is now ruled by a gaggle of completely corrupt
financial terrorists who will stop at nothing to hollow out
the country in pursuit of their own maniacal and selfish
gain.
This precisely parallels Rome’s rapacious ruling
Emperors and Senators of the fifth century who were
so obsessed with seizing wealth and control that they
ended up destroying their own culture, their own coun-
try and its empire in the process.
Just as in Rome, while the ruling elite got filthy rich,
the people struggled and starved.
More than 100 million Americans are now on gov-
ernment welfare, a third of the entire country, and that
figure doesn’t even include Social Security or Medicare.
22.3 million households and 46.5 million Americans
have now entered technical poverty and live off food
stamps.
Just as in Rome, where the need to constantly gener-
ate revenue to satisfy the cost of defense and a sprawl-
ing bureaucracy ultimately led to the country becoming
bankrupt as Nero and subsequently emperors hiked up
taxes and debased the currency, America is hurtling
towards a similar fate.
Entitlement spending, military defense and a
bloated federal bureaucracy has left the United
States almost $16 trillion dollars in debt, and the
prospect of QE3 threatens to sink the dollar as the
world reserve currency for good.
Just as Romans found their currency becoming
increasingly worthless, the U.S. dollar has lost almost
100 per cent of its value since 1900.
Just like Rome, America was once a Republic that has
been hijacked and turned into an empire. Just as the
Roman Empire crumbled under its rulers’ inability to
afford its maintenance, America’s overseas presence
(the U.S. has troops in a staggering 130 countries), is
bankrupting the country.
Like America, Rome once had an influential middle
class whose wealth allowed them to have a political
stake in their country. Merchants and traders were able
to prosper because taxes were modest and economic
regulation was relaxed. However, beginning in the
third century B.C., the Roman economy became more
regimented and taxes were raised. This eviscerated and
disenfranchised the middle class, just as has unfolded
in America, where middle class neighborhoods are
disappearing and income is polarized between a strug-
gling downtrodden mass of people and a tiny rich elite.
When the economic collapse arrives, it could be
more brutal than anything America has experienced
in its history as a nation.
Consider the fact that during the ten years of the
1929 Great Depression, some 8 million Americans
starved to death. And this at a time when 90 per cent
of the population lived in rural areas and were at least
somewhat self-sufficient. That number is now 50 per
cent and many people who live outside major cities are
not self-sufficient in any way.
Aside from economic factors, cultural and societal
parallels can also be drawn between Rome and 21st
century America.
Rome’s increasing use of illegal immigrants to do
agricultural work its host population refused to under-
take mirrors America in 2012. As Peter Heather writes
in The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome
and Barbarians, “The Roman government allowed
uncontrolled hostile immigration to dissolve the fabric
of their civilization. Illegal and legal Immigrants grew
more powerful while exercising their own character of
their cultures. They did not adopt Roman ways. Second,
vast blocks of once Roman lands became foreign held
and even the Roman population, once outnumbered,
was no match for hostile immigrants.”
“Factors that destroyed Rome now manifest in
accelerating numbers in America. Los Angeles,
Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, San
Francisco, Raleigh and all large cities suffer millions of
illegal immigrants. Uncounted millions of them cannot
and do not speak English. Millions work under the table
without paying taxes. Millions use our hospitals with-
out paying. They immigrate but do not assimilate. They
colonize in ethnic enclaves separated from Americans.
They fracture our country,” writes Frosty Wooldridge.
Just as Roman rulers created bread and circuses to
distract their population from the fact that the coun-
try was collapsing, Americans are also enraptured by
entertainment and sports, which in turn encourages
them to lead superficial, meaningless lives.
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sexual promiscuity and infidelity is lauded. As Dr. Carle
Zimmerman’s 1947 book Family and Civilization docu-
mented, America shares the pattern of its moral decline
with Rome. Zimmerman identified a number of behav-
ior traits that signaled the decline of a civilization.
These included “the breakdown of marriage and rise of
divorce,” “acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promis-
cuity and rebellion,” “refusal of people with traditional
marriages to accept their family responsibilities,” “a
growing desire for and acceptance of adultery” and
“increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions
and sex-related crimes.”
All of these traits have come to shape American soci-
ety in the 21st century.
It does not take a crystal ball to see where all this is
heading, and the planned economic implosion is going
to be the trigger. Europe has already been rocked by
riots over the past two years and federal authorities are
already preparing for similar scenes in America only on
a far bigger scale.
As Ron Paul has warned, the coming engineered finan-
cial breakdown is leading directly to domestic unrest
which will inevitably lead to a state of martial law.
Riots prompted by food shortages, inflation, inequal-
ity and political corruption are inevitable should the
ruling class continue to deliberately implode the econ-
omy – as is the brutal police state response that will
come as a result.
Just as Rome burned when it was sacked in 455AD,
the historical point which marked the formal end of the
Roman Empire, America faces the same fate.
The only way to prevent or try to lessen the kind of
collapse that could make the dissolution of Rome look
like a cakewalk is to use the tools that ordinary Romans
never had – the power of the modern alternative media.
Only by relentlessly emphasizing that the collapse
is being deliberately engineered by those who seek to
exploit it for their own gain can we hope to deflate the
myth that the ruling class are our only saviors in the
coming time of peril.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor
and writer for the infowars site
www.PrisonPlanet.com. He is the
author of "Order Out Of Chaos."
Watson is also a regular fill-in
host for The Alex Jones Show and
Infowars Nightly News.
“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no
man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the
People who once upon a time handed out military
command, high civil office, legions–everything, now
restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses.”
This loss of interest in civic duty and its replacement
with an obsession for entertainment and folly is rou-
tinely cited by scholars as one of the primary reasons
behind the collapse of Rome.
As Kyle Trottier writes, “In many modern books
written about Ancient Rome and her people, the
ancient Romans are often portrayed as people who
enjoyed violence and thought it amusing to see peo-
ple being injured and killed to the point of obsession.
It is now common knowledge that, in Ancient Rome,
people often attended (and enjoyed) gladiatorial
fights to the death, wild beast hunts, naval battles and
chariot racing. Some public thinkers today have sug-
gested that “entertainment” today, as it was in ancient
times of Rome, reflects the decline of culture, into a
plethora of lust, greed, violence, selfish individualism
and bad behavior. Some Scholars suggest that history
is repeating itself and we are now in a reoccurring
cycle of moral decay and social breakdown. From the
excessive amount of glorified violence in Hollywood
movies, video games, music and on the Internet, one
can easily see the downward spiral of decency.”
The moral decay of the Roman culture is also being
aped almost precisely in America. While fertility and
birth rates of the host population continue to plummet,
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broke out. Three weeks later, early on
the morning of February 15, an explo-
sion destroyed the forward third of the
ship anchored in Havana's harbor, killing
more than 270 American sailors.
President McKinley blamed Spain after
the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry declared
that a naval mine caused the explosion.
American newspapers blamed the
Spanish despite a lack of evidence. “You
furnish the pictures and I'll furnish
the war,” newspaper tycoon William
Randolph Hearst told Frederic Remington
after the illustrator reported that the sit-
uation in Cuba did not warrant invasion.
A number of historians and researchers
later argued that the ship was blown up
by the United States to provide a false flag
pretext to invade Cuba and expel Spain.
The United States occupied Cuba from
1898 until 1902, although an amendment
to a joint resolution of Congress forbid the
U.S. to annex the country.
Wilson's Pretext for War:
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Nearly two thousand travelers, includ-
ing one hundred Americans, were killed
on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat
torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a luxury
Cunard Line British ocean liner.
Prior to the sinking, the German
embassy in Washington issued a warning.
Newspapers in the United States refused
to print the warning or acknowledge
the German claim that the ship carried
munitions.
Wilson's government issued a flurry
of diplomatic protests after the sinking
and exploited the tragedy two years
F
alse flag attacks occur when
government engages in covert
operations designed to deceive
the public in such a way that the
operations seem as if they are being car-
ried out by other entities.
False flag terrorism is a favorite political
tactic used by governments worldwide.
They influence elections, guide national
and international policy, and are cyni-
cally used to formulate propaganda and
shape public opinion as nations go to war.
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome
Legend claims Nero had one-third of the
city torched as an excuse to build Domus
Aurea, a 300 acre palatial complex that
included a towering statue of himself, the
Colossus of Nero.
Prior to the fire, the Roman Senate had
rejected the emperor’s bid to level a third
of the city to make way for a “Neropolis,”
an urban renewal project.
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote that
when the population of Rome held Nero
responsible for the fire, he shifted blame
on the Christians for “hating the human
race” and starting the fire.
The Spanish American War:
Remember the Maine
By the late 1800s, the United States
was looking for an excuse to kick Spain
out of Cuba. U.S. business was heavily
invested in sugar, tobacco and iron on
the Caribbean island.
The U.S.S. Maine was sent to Havana
in January of 1898 to protect these busi-
ness interests after a local insurrection
later as a pretext for America to enter
the First World War.
Nearly a hundred years later, in
2008, divers discovered the Lusitania
carried more than four million rounds
of rifle ammunition.
“There were literally tons and tons of
stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds
that were dubiously marked cheese,
butter and oysters,” Gregg Bemis, an
American businessman who owns the
rights to the wreck and is funding its
exploration, told The Daily Mail.
Hitler's Fascist Dictatorship:
The Reichstag Fire
In February of 1933, a month after con-
vincing Germany's president that parlia-
ment must be eliminated, Hitler and the
Nazis instigated the Reichstag fire.
Hitler then urged president Hindenburg
to issue an emergency decree restricting
personal liberty, including the right to
free expression and a free press, lim-
itations on the rights of association and
assembly, warrantless searches of homes,
property confiscation, and violations of
postal, telegraphic and telephonic com-
munications “permissible beyond the
legal limits otherwise prescribed.”
The Nazis used the decree and cracked
down on their political opponents .
They worked behind the scenes to force
through the Enabling Act, which legally
allowed Hitler to obtain plenary powers
and establish a dictatorship.
Gestapo Reichsmarschall Hermann
Göring would admit that “the people can
always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do
is tell them they are being attacked and
denounce the pacifists for lack of patrio-
tism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same way in any country.”
Prelude to World War:
The Gleiwitz Incident
Six years after the Reichstag Fire,
the Nazis staged the Gleiwitz incident.
Nazi commandos raided a German
radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper
Silesia, Germany. The raid was part of
Operation Himmler, a series of oper-
ations undertaken by the SS as Hitler
set the stage for the invasion of Poland
and the start of the Second World War.
SS operatives dressed in Polish uni-
forms attacked the radio station, broad-
cast an anti-German message in Polish,
and left behind the body of a German
Silesian known for sympathizing with
the Poles. The corpse was then offered to
the press as evidence that the Poles had
attacked the radio station.
Israeli False Flag Terror:
The Lavon Aﬀair
In 1954, the Israelis activated a terror-
ist cell in response to the United States
making friends with the Egyptian gov-
ernment and its pan-Arab leader, Gamal
Abdel Nasser. The Israelis were worried
Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal
and continue Egypt's blockade of Israeli
shipping through the canal.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion decided a false flag terrorist
attack on American interests in Egypt
would sour the new relationship. He
recruited and dispatched a terror cell
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fact, North Vietnam had not attacked the
USS Maddox, as the Pentagon claimed,
and the "unequivocal proof" of an
"unprovoked" second attack against the
U.S. warship was a ruse.
Operation Gladio: State
Sponsored Terror Blamed on the
Left
Following the Second World War,
the CIA and Britain's MI6 collaborated
through NATO on Operation Gladio, an
effort to create a “stay behind army” to
fight communism in the event of a Soviet
invasion of Western Europe.
Gladio quickly transcended its orig-
inal mission and became a covert ter-
ror network consisting of right-wing
militias, organized crime elements,
agents provocateurs and secret mili-
tary units. The so-called stay behind
armies were active in France, Belgium,
Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway,
Germany, and Switzerland.
Gladio's “Strategy of Tension” was
designed to portray leftist political groups
in Europe as terrorists and frighten the
populace into voting for authoritarian
governments. In order to carry out this
goal, Gladio operatives conducted a num-
ber of deadly terrorists attacks that were
blamed on leftists and Marxists.
In August of 1980, Gladio operatives
bombed a train station in Bologna,
killing 85 people. Initially blamed on
the Red Brigades, it was later discov-
ered that fascist elements within the
Italian secret police and Licio Gelli, the
head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were
responsible for the terror attack. Other
fascist groups, including Avanguardia
Nazionale and Ordine Nuovo, were
mobilized and engaged in terror.
Operation Gladio ultimately claimed the
lives of hundreds of people across Europe.
According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra,
a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sen-
tence for murdering policemen, the
reason for Gladio was simple. It was
designed “to force these people, the
Italian public, to turn to the state to
ask for greater security. This is the
political logic that lies behind all the
massacres and the bombings which
remain unpunished, because the state
cannot convict itself or declare itself
responsible for what happened.”
that pretended to be Egyptian terrorists.
The plan, however, contained a fatal
flaw. Israel's top secret cell, Unit 131,
was infiltrated by Egyptian intelligence.
After a member of the cell was arrested
and interrogated, he revealed the plot
and this led to more arrests. Israeli agents
were subjected to a public trial revealing
details of the plan to firebomb the U.S.
Information Agency's libraries, a British-
owned Metro-Goldwyn Mayer theatre, a
railway terminal, the central post office,
and other targets.
In order to deflect blame, the Israeli
government tried to frame its own
Defense Minister, Pinhas Lavon, but the
true nature of the plot was eventually
made public.
Operation Northwoods:
Targeting American Citizens
In the covert war against the communist
regime in Cuba under the CIA's Operation
Mongoose, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
unanimously proposed state-sponsored
acts of terrorism in side the United States.
The plan included shooting down
hijacked American airplanes, the sink-
ing of U.S. ships, and the shooting of
Americans on the streets of Washington,
D.C. The outrageous plan even included
a staged NASA disaster that would claim
the life of astronaut John Glenn.
Reeling under the embarrassing failure
of the CIA's botched Bay of Pigs invasion
of Cuba, president Kennedy rejected the
plan in March of 1962. A few months later,
Kennedy denied the plan's author, General
Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the
nation's highest ranking military officer.
In November of 1963, Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Gulf of Tonkin:
Phantom Attack on the U.S.
Military
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon
Johnson went on national television and
told the nation that North Vietnam had
attacked U.S. ships.
"Repeated acts of violence against the
armed forces of the United States must be
met not only with alert defense, but with
a positive reply. That reply is being given
as I speak tonight,” Johnson declared.
Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution, which provided Johnson with
pre-approved authority to conduct mil-
itary operations against North Vietnam.
By 1969, over 500,000 troops were fight-
ing in Southeast Asia.
Johnson and his Secretary of Defense,
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to the National Post article “Colorado
shooting suspect James Holmes was
seeing university psychiatrist”.
Psychiatrists and psychologists have
been involved in developing torture
techniques for the CIA, so to believe in
their “professionalism” and “morality”
is blind foolishness. We live in an age
of moral bankruptcy and mass mind
control. Professional psychologists
help the government in many ways,
from lending their expertise to improve
the mental conditioning of the public
to performing outlandish research on
government subjects, mostly from the
military and universities.
The U.S. shadow government’s love
affair with patsies has really gotten out
of hand. Oswald was only a prototype.
Washington has created an extraordi-
nary league of shadow patsies. Holmes
could be the next-generation model of
mind control assassins; the T-1000 of
government patsies.
Paul Joseph Watson describes the sim-
ilarities between Holmes and another
manufactured patsy in his article,
“James Holmes Is Behaving Like Sirhan
Sirhan,” writing:
“TheparallelsbetweenallegedColorado
shooter James Holmes and Sirhan Sirhan
are staggering. Both appear to have been
drugged, both cannot remember the
shootings they were accused of carrying
out, and in both cases other shooters
were reported by eyewitnesses.”
It is super convenient that individuals
who are connected to some of the big-
gest crimes in U.S. history are mentally
incapacitated at the moment the crime
is committed and never seem to remem-
ber pulling the trigger in the days and
weeks after the event.
Moreover, the political ramifications of
the “Dark Knight” massacre are begin-
ning to be felt as establishment media
pundits, Supreme Court judges, and the
N
ear the end of 1999, a Memphis
court held the “trial of the
century” that resolved the lin-
gering questions surrounding
the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr. Attorney and author William F.
Pepper represented the King family.
After the 30-day trial was over, the
jury concluded that Martin Luther King
Jr.’s death was caused by a government
conspiracy, not a lone gunman. The gov-
ernment’s version of King’s murder was
proven to be fake. A citizen jury legally
put to death the myth of the “lone gun-
man” that has overshadowed America’s
recent political history.
Fast forward to the year 2012. The
“lone gunmen” of the world are being
manufactured by the mind control
technicians in the U.S. deep state
like microchips. The secret “manu-
facture-a-patsy” government industry
has become so advanced and sophisti-
cated that it has enabled the hijacked
U.S. government to get away with the
most atrocious of crimes against the
American people and humanity.
Whenever a state crime is committed
by the deep state a patsy mysteriously
rises to the surface from the shadows.
There is disturbing evidence that sug-
gests the “Dark Knight” shooter James
Holmes is a shadow patsy who was
involved in a secret government mind
control program. He was catapulted onto
the scene of the crime in the Colorado
movie theater after professional gov-
ernment killers finished off massacring
movie goers in the dark of night.
One of the most startling pieces of
evidence is that Holmes was under
the stewardship of an ex-government
psychiatrist named Dr. Lynne Fenton,
who is currently the “medical direc-
tor for student mental health services
at the University of Colorado-Denver
Anschutz Medical Campus,” according
President attack the legitimacy of gun
rights and the honored American tradi-
tion of self-defense.
Kurt Nimmo examines the bipartisan
war on American gun ownership in his
article, “Establishment Media Circles the
Wagons on Gun Control.” He writes:
“The highly suspicious mass shoot-
ing in Colorado arrived at exactly the
right time for the globalists and their
corporate media scriveners. Outlawing
semi-automatic weapons with brand
spanking new assault weapons legisla-
tion will now take center stage and will
be used as a stepping stone for more dra-
conian legislation down the road.”
The dangerous path to all-out gun con-
fiscation begins with government brain-
washing and media propaganda that
gain steam after ritualistic events like
the “Dark Knight” shooting. The fascist
tyrants begin with baby steps, as always,
but their sight remains on their larger
goal: instituting a global totalitarian
regime run by criminal private interna-
tional banks and corporations.
For this dangerous and tyrannical goal
to be realized the American people must
first be disarmed.
Saman Mohammadi is a writer, blogger,
and full-time university student
at the University of Toronto. His
blog The Excavator can be found at
disquietreservations.blogspot.com.
The Shadow Patsy
Rises Again
How Mind Control Is Connected to Gun Control
written by Saman Mohammadi
Lee Harvey Oswald | November 22, 1963
arrested for the assassination of John F. Kennedy
(murdered by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963
while in police custody)
Sirhan Sirhan | june 5, 1968
convicted for the assassination of
Robert F. Kennedy
(serving life in prison)
Martin Bryant | april 28, 1996
convicted for murdering 35 people &
injuring 21 others
(serving 35 life sentences plus 1,035
years without parole)
Derrick Bird | June 2, 2010
suspected of murdering 12 people &
injuring 11
(found dead in a forested area after
taking his own life)
James Holmes | July 20, 2012
suspected of murdering 12 people & injuring 58
(awaiting trail in Centennial, Colorado)
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Banksters Declare We're All Slaves in Their Plot to Destroy the US Economy
written by Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson
In a recent CNBC clip, financial analysts admitted to viewers that America is
under the control of a group of central bankers who are building a world govern-
ment. The clip is a damning insight into how the establishment has dispensed
without any pretense of trying to hide their agenda as it is finalized.
During the video, the host asks guests, “Do we all work for central
bankers – is this global governance at last – is it one world – the
central bankers in charge….aren’t we all just living and dying for
what the central banks do?”
“To answer your question, we are absolutely slaves to central
banks,” responds the guest.
“We beholden to what central bankers and policy makers do rather
than the fundamentals in the economy,” adds another.
This is just one of a deluge of examples where it is now being thrown
in our faces that a banking elite is building a world government at the
expense of the American people.
From treating the issue as a “conspiracy theory” for decades, the estab-
lishment is now tearing away the veil in an effort to force Americans to
blithely accept what has been planned all along.
A global government is now being forcefully pushed as the “solution”
to all manner of problems, but specifically in relation to financial crises.
We are being brainwashed to accept the premise that centralized power in
the hands of a tiny elite is the only recourse, and that a one world
currency is inevitable.
At the height of the last economic crisis, Bilderberg member
and Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman argued that
“everything is in place” for a dictatorial world government to be
imposed by a technocratic elite.
Rachman’s 2008 call for authoritarian technocrats to be put in
charge of the global economy in preparation for the official
birth of global government is now well on its way to com-
pletion, with the economies of France, Ireland, Germany,
Belgium, Italy, Greece, along with the IMF and the
European Central Bank (ECB), all under
Goldman Sachs banker
occupation.
These technocrats have not been bashful in openly announcing what they are doing.
Upon his selection to become EU president in 2009, Herman Van Rompuy
announced that the financial crisis and efforts to combat global warming were
designed to precede “the global management of our planet.” He also declared 2009
to be “the first year of global governance.”
In the same year, Van Rompuy was joined by the Pope who also called for a “world
political authority” to manage the global economy.
World Bank President and Bilderberg elitist Robert Zoellick also openly
admitted the plan to elim- inate national sovereignty and
impose a global government during
a speech on the eve of the G20
summit.
Calls for a one world cur-
rency to be a key compo-
nent of global governance
have been consistent.
In a 2000 speech, a member
of the executive board of the
European Central Bank, Sirkka Hämäläinen
stated, “In conclusion, I should like to come back
to Paul Volcker’s prophecy. He might be right, and
we might one day have a single world currency.
Maybe European integration, in the same way as
any other regional integration, could be seen as a
step towards the ideal situation of a fully integrated
world.”
In a 2010 speech to the Council of Foreign Relations, for-
mer president of the ECB Jean-Claude Trichet made it clear
that the Global Economy Meeting (GEM), which meets at the
BIS (Bank of International Settlements) headquarters in Basel
would “become the prime group for global governance among
central banks.”
Trichet added that the BIS meetings were ensuring that “the system
is moving decisively towards genuine global governance.”
Trichet went on to define how global governance would
operate.
“There are numerous definitions of global gover-
nance. In the economic and financial sphere
I will propose that global governance
comprehends not only the con-
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while using “global redistribution of wealth” and increased immigration to
reinvigorate the pursuit of a one world government.
Bureaucrats at the 2011 UN Climate Summit in Durban outlined plans
for the most draconian, harebrained and madcap climate change treaty
ever produced, under which the West would be mandated to respect “the
rights of Mother Earth” by paying a “climate debt” which would act as a
slush fund for bankrolling an all-powerful world government.
Earlier this year a Scientific American article entitled “Effective World
Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe” argued that
global management of the planet was the only means of combating global
warming.
international financial institutions – but also the informal groupings that
have progressively emerged at the global level. Those informal forums (G7,
G10, G20, etc.) are key in improving global coordination in all the areas
where decision making processes remain national – whether in helping
to work out agreed prudential standards and codes or to facilitate where
appropriate, the coordination of economic macro-policies,” he said.
Numerous other members of the political establishment have openly
expressed the agenda to create global government, not only in response
to the financial crisis but also as an answer to man-made climate change.
In 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon admitted that
carbon taxes levied in the name of abating global warming would be col-
lected by a world body.
“We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage
the implementation of this,” he stated.
In a New York Times editorial entitled “We Can Do It,” Ki-moon also
wrote that efforts to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions “must include
an equitable global governance structure.”
Fellow globalist and environmentalist David De Mayer Rothschild
also disclosed the agenda for global governance in an interview with
Bloomberg news.
“It’s past the point of talking. We know historically that the global gov-
ernance sort of agenda to these issues is very hard to… with all the best
intentions it’s very hard to actually activate,” Rothschild noted.
Similarly,AlGoresaidina2009speechthatattemptstoregulateCO2emis-
sions would be driven through “global governance and global agreements.”
A 2010 UN blueprint for putting the organization back at the forefront
of global governance alarmingly revealed the agenda to rebrand global
warmingas“overpopulation”asameansofdismantlingthemiddleclasses,
Although the agenda for global government is now bearing its teeth with little regard for subtleness,
the following quotes stretching back over decades prove that the plan has been long in the works:
David Rockefeller“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and their great
publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of
discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is
now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational
sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-
determination practiced in past centuries.”
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Jacques Chirac
“For the ﬁrst time, humanity is instituting a
genuine instrument of global governance...By
acting together, by building this unprecedented
instrument, the ﬁrst component of an authentic
global governance, we are working for dialogue
and peace.”
George Papandreou,
former Prime Minister
of Greece
“This is global governance in the making. But we
must agree, and agree to a binding commitment.”
Walter Cronkite
“Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years
ago that we should have a world government, but
only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally,
any attempt to achieve world order before that
time must be the work of the devil. Well, join me.
I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.”
Henry Kissinger
“Today America would be outraged if UN troops
entered LA to restore order. Tomorrow they will
be grateful. When presented with this scenario,
individual rights will be willingly relinquished for
the guarantee of their well-being granted to them
by the world government.”
Gordon Brown“We need a global New Deal — a grand bargain
between the countries and continents of this
world.”
Strobe Talbot“In the next century, nations as we know it will be
obsolete; all states will recognize a single global
authority and realize national sovereignty wasn’t
such a great deal after all.”
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