Huh?!?

Could this be true?  The Russian news source 'Pravada' excoriating Marxism and extolling the value of individuality and personal freedom?

Read the article for yourself.

The interesting thesis of the article is that the American people are accepting the Marxist onslaught because they are lazy, stupid and ignorant--unlike the Russians who fought back and eventually booted out the Communist bastards.  Certainly, an incendary thesis.  But who can dispute the following points (and I quote from the article and follow each up):

"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people."

Question dear "Citizen": How much is the U.S. taxpayer on the hook for given all of the recent banker/government measures?

Answer: If you think it is in the billions you are a sheeple (i.e., someone who does not take the duty of citizenship seriously).  Who said, "We gave you a Republic, if you can keep it"?  It's worse than this.  Most people think that politically the United States of America is a 'Democracy'.  It is decidedly not and this is was a major sticking point in the Constitutional Convention.  But who cares?...  A 'Democracy' just means you can vote right?  Wrong.

"[T]he population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish."

Question: If you think this is false can you please enumerate the rights that are supposedly guaranteed by the United States Constitution?  Can you explain the difference between a right and a privilege?  What is the basic substance of Plato's 'Republic'?  What is John Stuart Mill's argument for freedom of speech in 'On Liberty'?  Why weren't you taught this?  Was it better to memorize useless trivia and be judged accordingly?

One's mind is only as good as its ammo.  Put differently, knowledge is indeed power.  The power to understand oneself and one's environment.  Bereft of that others can construct your reality.  Have fun in DisneyLand (TM)!

"[T]heir faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers..."

So you go to Church and make your payments in the open and pray together.  Didn't Christ say something about giving alms in such a way that the "right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing?"  Hmmm... and what did he say about praying???  

None of this hypocrisy would exist if people actually read the "Good Book" and used it to lead their lives--but that would involve serious work.

Anyway, the article is a good one and ought to spur self-aware Americans to think long and hard about these issues if they have not.

Did you hear this in the mass-media?:

"Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride."

Nuff said.

Financial Times: If China Loses Faith, the Dollar Will Collapse

If China Loses Faith, the Dollar will Collapse

Excerpt:

The global environment is extremely negative for savers. The prices of property and shares are not yet good value and may decline further. Interest rates are near zero. The Fed is printing money, which will inflate away the value of dollar holdings. Other currencies are not safe havens either. As the Fed expands the money supply, it puts pressure on other currencies to appreciate. This will force other central banks to expand their own money supplies to depress their currencies. Hence major currencies may take turns devaluing. The end result is inflation and negative real interest rates everywhere. Central banks are punishing savers to redeem the sins of debtors and speculators. Unfortunately, ethnic Chinese are the biggest savers. Diluting Chinese savings to bail out failing US banks and bankrupt households will eventually destroy the dollar's status. Ethnic Chinese demand for it is waning already. China's bulging foreign exchange reserves reflect the lack of private demand for the US currency.

China Finally Does the Obvious

China has 'canceled US credit card'
It was just a matter of time. How could the world's largest industrial base keep extending credit to a country with an economy based on consumer spending predicated on debt-expansion and an artificially propped up currency by the end of a gun?

All the stars are aligned. Now it is just a matter of time for the chickens to come home to roost.

Kirk said he was the first member of Congress to tour the Bureau of Public Debt, which trades bonds, and was alarmed at how much debt was being bought by the US Federal Reserve due to absence of foreign investors.

"There will come a time where the lack of Chinese participation may have a significant impact," Kirk said.

"We should track that, because up until last month they were the number one provider of currency to the United States and now they're gone."

By the Balls...

401(k)s Hit by Withdrawal Freezes: Wall Street Journal

Out of work? At least you can liquidate your 401(k) to survive for a year or so, right? Yeah, you have to pay a 10% penalty to the government. And you have to pay taxes based on this income plus everything that you may have made up until now this year. But at least you can rest assured that this money that had voluntarily... and sometimes involuntarily (i.e., mandatory deduction) been taken from your paycheck is yours, right?

Guess again.

The American public has lost its balls. Here is a quote from a man in exactly the situation I mentioned from this article who has been informed that he cannot withdraw his cash:

"I hate to be whiny, but it is my money," Mr. Dursky said.

Whiny? Why not furious?

And it gets worse. The money isn't there because it was gambled.

So while the tax payer is being fleeced to the tune of trillions of dollars and generations of debt for no good reason, a hard working person trying to get a mere 12K out of her retirement account is left hanging.

Some investors have lost hope of recovering their money. Judith Sterner, a 69-year-old part-time nurse, had more than $12,000 in the fund when she tried to transfer that balance to a money market last fall. But her transfer was denied, and her stake has since declined to less than $10,000.

"This $12,000 represents a year of my retirement money that I don't have," said Ms. Sterner, of Morton Grove, Ill.

It is amazing that a population can get fleeced wholesale like this but they resort en-mass to wishful thinking, a defunct nationalism, cultural myths, etc. in order not to see the truth that is right around the corner.

True Traitors

According to the Christian Science Monitor a recently published book on the Bush family:

“Family of Secrets by Russ Baker is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the connections between the unseen forces of money and power that have brought the nation to the brink. Meticulously researched and thoroughly documented, Baker’s book delves into the Bush political dynasty like no other book of its kind. Baker is a serious investigative journalist who writes with clarity and precision. His book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the current national downturn and how the Bush family and its operatives have undermined democracy. ”

For those of us who have been hip to the Bush families history we know that the elder Bush's grandfather was convicted of trading with the enemy (Hitler) in WWII and that each son has been a member the ultra-elite Skull and Bones society at Yale.  

For an excellent introduction to this material please consult an interview with the author, Russ Baker, here.  The interviewer said that after reading this book he got physically sick.

Hysteria

Some of the more interesting sources trying to explain why the death rate in Mexico is higher than the rest of the world from this hyped-flu claim that (1.) it may be weaponized and (2.) in a race specific manner.

Before you reject the idea of race specific bio-weapons you might want to consider that you would have to consider at least some of the following people as conspiracy freaks:

Project for a New American Century (PNAC)

"PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
Roger Barnett
U.S. Naval War College
Alvin Bernstein
National Defense University
Stephen Cambone
National Defense University
Eliot Cohen
Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Devon Gaffney Cross
Donors' Forum for International Affairs
Thomas Donnelly
Project for the New American Century
David Epstein
Office of Secretary of Defense,
Net Assessment
David Fautua
Lt. Col., U.S. Army
Dan Goure
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Donald Kagan
Yale University
Fred Kagan
U. S. Military Academy at West Point
Robert Kagan
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Robert Killebrew
Col., USA (Ret.)
William Kristol
The Weekly Standard
Mark Lagon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
James Lasswell
GAMA Corporation
I. Lewis Libby
Dechert Price & Rhoads
Robert Martinage
Center for Strategic and Budgetary
Assessment
Phil Meilinger
U.S. Naval War College
Mackubin Owens
U.S. Naval War College
Steve Rosen
Harvard University
Gary Schmitt
Project for the New American Century
Abram Shulsky
The RAND Corporation
Michael Vickers
Center for Strategic and Budgetary
Assessment
Barry Watts
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Paul Wolfowitz
Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Dov Zakheim
System Planning Corporation

The above list of individuals participated in at least one project meeting or contributed a paper for discussion. The report is a product solely of the Project for the New American Century and does not necessarily represent the views of the project participants or their affiliated institutions."


From the PNAC document "Rebuilding America's Defenses":

"...[A]vanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."