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Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Will they push the masses back's so far up against the wall that a literal Tunisia-style uprising and revolt takes place against them?
The problem has always been we do not know WHO to introduce to Madame Guillotine.
President Woodrow Wilson, 1913: "Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."[1]
President Franklin Roosevelt, 1933: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."
Originally posted by SpeachM1litant
It's difficult to decide who is worse. The Wall Street bankers who have created this problem, the corrupt politicians and congressmen who helped them obtain their goals, or the populace who stood idly while they did so? It's time to stop just discussing this issue and to do somthing about it, it's time to stop allowing the machine to lead the world to distruction, it's time to stop demonizing unions and teachers, it's time to act. When your children ask you, what did you do during the great collapse of America? How will you reply?
It is alarming when you realize Obama gave some 11 trillion dollars in bailouts to the companies who got the economy into this state in the first place. This article highlights an interresting point. It is stupid to not do anything during an economic collapse, but it is even more stupid to reward corporate bosses for getting the economy into this situation in the first place.edit on 7-3-2011 by SpeachM1litant because: spelt somthing wrong
So, if we are bankrupt, where do we go to file?
Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for new World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and help them make debt repayments on the older debts owed to commercial banks, governments and the World Bank.....
SAPs generally require countries to devalue their currencies against the dollar; [NEXT THE YUAN or SRs] lift import and export restrictions; balance their budgets and not overspend; and remove price controls and state subsidies...
Balancing national budgets can be done by raising taxes, which the IMF frowns upon, or by cutting government spending, which it definitely recommends. As a result, SAPs often result in deep cuts in programmes like education, health and social care, and the removal of subsidies designed to control the price of basics such as food and milk. So SAPs hurt the poor most, because they depend heavily on these services and subsidies.
SAPs encourage countries to focus on the production and export...
By devaluing the currency and simultaneously removing price controls, the immediate effect of a SAP is generally to hike prices up three or four times, increasing poverty to such an extent that riots are a frequent result.... www.whirledbank.org...
Summer 1995
"Today I resigned from the staff of the International Monetary Fund after over 12 years, and after 1000 days of official fund work in the field, hawking your medicine and your bag of tricks to governments and to peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. To me, resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers. It dries up too; it cakes all over me; sometimes I feel that there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did do in your name and in the name of your predecessors, and under your official seal. "
With those words, Davison Budhoo, a senior economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for more than 12 years, publicly resigned in May, 1988. A native Grenadian, Budhoo received his degree from the London School of Economics. He joined the staff of the World Bank in 1966 and later shifted to the IMF, where he was responsible for designing and implementing Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) for African, Latin American and Caribbean nations. His 100-plus page open letter to Michel Camdessus, managing director of the IMF, titled "Enough is Enough," sent shock waves around the world, making front page headlines in many countries (but not in the US)....
www.thirdworldtraveler.com...
...amount of gold held in Fort Knox reached 701 million ounces of gold. This was in 1949. This amount equaled 69.9% of all the gold in the world; never before had so much gold been gathered in one place....
....At some point in the 1950s, $35 became too cheap a price for gold.
From then until 1972, at least 75% of official US gold left the nation in exchange for paper dollars which can be printed at will. However, I think the total amount of real gold which remains is even less. The exact amount that remains is now officially listed at 147.3 million ounces. From the peak, that is a decline of 79%.
In 1988, 22 years ago, I wrote a book about Fort Knox, the gold there, and the documented history of official lies, evasions and incompetence of those who were entrusted with the gold....
...The shocking admission Ft Knox holds very little good delivery gold was made to Mr. Durell by the chief official of the General Accounting Office (GAO).
This happened a few months after the September 1974 tour. During that event, which lasted less than four hours, the visitors were shown only what the Treasury officials conducting the tour intended these elected (non-expert) representatives to see. Only one of the 13 compartments supposed to contain gold was actually opened to the visitors...
None of them were assayed.
But even worse than this was the fact that these eyewitnesses were shown bars that were strangely orangish in hue. This is a sign that they are far from pure gold....
Remember that the gold confiscated from Americans had usually come in the form of gold coins. Pure gold coins are considered too soft and copper is usually added to strengthen them. US coins before 1933 contained about 10% copper and 90% gold. Thus, the bars made from melting them often contained the same proportion. Some of the new bars had the copper removed: these were good delivery bars that went out the gold window before 1971.
But much of what was left, as seen in the one compartment opened in Ft Knox, were quite obviously of bad quality. They were the dregs of what had been the greatest accumulation of gold that had ever been seen....
At the same time, the Treasury agreed to audit the gold. However, they only agreed to audit 20% of the gold...
And that fear is why I feel before any next crash, before the contagion in the ME spreads to the West the elite will drag us into yet another war..
Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border - September 24, 2009
Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border....
....the Obama administration on May 7 said the Border Patrol “plans to move several hundred Agents from the Southwest Border...
There was not enough done to sheild each economy from the next. In the end this could mean that the economy of the whole world could crash. Then who do we ask for help?
...Blair was appointed as the Quartet's Envoy to the Middle East on January 27, 2007, the same day he retired as Prime Minster....
It is believed that Blair has amassed a personal fortune in excess of £20 million since leaving office, mainly through middle east contacts established through his envoy position. In 2009 he made in excess of £5million advising the governments of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and is also an ambassador of investment bank JP Morgan in the Middle East.... mondoweiss.net...
ummmm, yeah. i think i'm gonna need to disagree with you there.
the bush administration has been disbanded and out of office for almost three years....mmmm 'kay.
and barry obama has pretty much run the train into the ground since that time. m'kay
Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Will they push the masses back's so far up against the wall that a literal Tunisia-style uprising and revolt takes place against them?
The problem has always been we do not know WHO to introduce to Madame Guillotine.
President Woodrow Wilson, 1913: "Some of the biggest men in the U. S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."[1]
President Franklin Roosevelt, 1933: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."
This is where you are wrong my friend..
www.save-a-patriot.org...
Let's start with these entire families. I am not advocating the execution of children, but ANYONE over the age of 18 heads to the chopping block!!!!!
Originally posted by DragonTattooz
So, if we are bankrupt, where do we go to file? Brussels? The UN? I think Chapter 7 and a big finger to China is exactly what we need. Let's hit the reset button.
Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Will they push the masses back's so far up against the wall that a literal Tunisia-style uprising and revolt takes place against them?
The problem has always been we do not know WHO to introduce to Madame Guillotine.
Originally posted by mzmusiq
Originally posted by MMPI2
reply to post by vjr1113
the fed should go first. then the whole bush administration.
ummmm, yeah. i think i'm gonna need to disagree with you there.
the bush administration has been disbanded and out of office for almost three years....mmmm 'kay.
and barry obama has pretty much run the train into the ground since that time. m'kay.
I'll have to agree with you there!! and I honestly doubt he will get re-elected for a 2nd term!!