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	<title>Flourishing In Crisis &#187; 3f. The Money Powers and Global Fascism</title>
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		<title>David Icke &#8211; Visionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Icke on Healing the Matrix
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/dicke6.htm
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David Icke on Alex Jones June 15, 2009
The NWO and Your True Destiny Revealed (Part 1 of 10)

Part Two


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Project Camelot Interviews David Ick

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<p>David Icke on Alex Jones June 15, 2009</p>
<p>The NWO and Your True Destiny Revealed (Part 1 of 10)</p>
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<p><a class="alignleft" title="parttwo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibT6IL2eFQ4" target="_blank">Part Two</a></p>
<p><a class="alignleft" title="partthree" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibT6IL2eFQ4" target="_blank"><br />
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<p>.</p>
<p>Project Camelot Interviews David Ick</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/david-icke/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/y4UyEUldOLQ/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
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		<title>Leuren Moret on Population Reduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leuren Moret describes how the use of Uranium endangers us all.
Interview with Leuren Moret about the Uranium Exposure
Information about how the power and money elites are planning a global genocide.
Interview with Leuren Moret about Population Reduction
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Leuren Moret describes how the use of Uranium endangers us all.</p>
<p><a class="alignleft" title="Leruren Moret" href="http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/lmoret.htm" target="_blank">Interview with Leuren Moret about the Uranium Exposure</a></p>
<p>Information about how the power and money elites are planning a global genocide.</p>
<p><a class="alignleft" title="Leuren Moret on Population Reduction" href="http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/lmoret2.htm" target="_blank">Interview with Leuren Moret about Population Reduction</a></p>
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		<title>Obama’s First 100 Days: Worse Than Even We Predicted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[3. The End Of Illusions]]></category>
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As President Barack Obama approaches his first 100 days in office, the corporate media prepares a new round of fawning idolatry about the Obama administration’s “achievements,” yet a summary glance at what Obama has actually done in that short time with regard to expanding the Bush police state and the Neo-Con empire is worse than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=2669&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p align="left">As President Barack Obama approaches his first 100 days in office, the corporate media prepares a new round of fawning idolatry about the Obama administration’s “achievements,” yet a summary glance at what Obama has actually done in that short time with regard to expanding the Bush police state and the Neo-Con empire is worse than even we predicted.</p>
<p align="left">The day after Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States in November last year, we challenged Obama supporters and the administration itself to follow through on the rhetoric of “change” by starting to dismantle the architecture of the Bush police state and beginning to roll back the unwieldy morass of the American empire. Obama has done neither, and in fact his every action has been about ensuring the Bush police state remains in place, that the people who put it in place are protected from prosecution, and that the empire continues to expand.</p>
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<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson</strong><br />
<a href="http://prisonplanet.com/">Prison Planet.com</a><br />
Monday, April 20, 2009</p>
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		<title>Washington Post Highlights Agenda For &#8216;Bank Of The World&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But if you talk about it, it&#8217;s still a conspiracy theory
Steve                            Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, April 20, 2009
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>But if you talk about it, it&#8217;s still a conspiracy theory</p>
<p><span class="mediumtext1">Steve                            Watson<br />
<a href="http://www.infowars.net/index.html">Infowars.net</a><br />
Monday, April 20, 2009</span></p>
<blockquote><p>The                    Washington Post today carries a revealing article that highlights                    the ongoing agenda to forge a &#8220;new economic world order&#8221;                    with a vastly empowered IMF acting as a &#8216;bank of the world&#8217;.</p>
<p align="left">Under the headline<em> <strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041902242.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">A                    Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF</a></strong></em> -<br />
<em>Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run, </em>Anthony                    Faiola describes how the IMF is on course to be transformed                    into &#8220;a veritable United Nations for the global economy.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Gerald Celente Violent Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Modern Art of Cluelessness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need an international Declaration of Independence. We need a charter that says, “I will fight in no more wars for vampire corporations that have been dressed up in patriotism and duty”. “I will no longer buy useless crap that serves no useful purpose.” “I will no longer shop as an avocation.” “I will boycott [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=2688&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><blockquote><p>We need an international Declaration of Independence. We need a charter that says, “I will fight in no more wars for vampire corporations that have been dressed up in patriotism and duty”. “I will no longer buy useless crap that serves no useful purpose.” “I will no longer shop as an avocation.” “I will boycott the products of any country that practices genocide upon the people whose land they have stolen.” “I will no longer accept what my leaders and the media tell me and will assume they are lying every time they speak.” “I will not assume that another country is my enemy because corporations commanded our leaders and their media to proclaim it.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>Sat. April 4, 2009</p>
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		<title>Max Keiser on Banker&#8217;s Bonuses.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Max Keiser on France 24&#8217;s Face Off talking about Bankers Bonuses.


The discussion concludes with agreement that there should be a return to gold standard to avoid a repeat of counterfeiting operations of Central Banks.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Max Keiser on France 24&#8217;s Face Off talking about Bankers Bonuses.</p>
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<p>The discussion concludes with agreement that there should be a return to gold standard to avoid a repeat of counterfeiting operations of Central Banks.</p>
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		<title>Expanded Americorps has an Authoritarian feel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Americorps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your kids will be indoctrinated with more filth, a spy corps against you, with their own &#8220;family&#8221; in the CAMP&#8230;er campus. Grandma is going to be teaching brainwashing down at the after-school program for a couple extra meal vouchers, since she is retired and on SS (and starving).
Nice uniforms for a nice uniform society.
The Examiner
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Your kids will be indoctrinated with more filth, a spy corps against you, with their own &#8220;family&#8221; in the CAMP&#8230;er campus. Grandma is going to be teaching brainwashing down at the after-school program for a couple extra meal vouchers, since she is retired and on SS (and starving).</p>
<p>Nice uniforms for a nice uniform society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Expanded-Americorps-has-an-authoritarian-feel-41889742.html" target="_blank">The Examiner</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Expanded-Americorps-has-an-authoritarian-feel-41889742.html" target="_blank"></a>March 26, 2009</p>
<blockquote><p>With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that on closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism. The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.</p>
<p>Last summer, then-candidate Barack Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the regular military. The expanded Americorps is not quite so disturbing, but a number of provisions in the bill raise serious concerns.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>To begin with, the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service – including elementary school students. The bill also summons up unsettling memories of World War II-era paramilitary groups by saying the new program should “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service,” while establishing “campuses” that serve as “operational headquarters,” complete with “superintendents” and “uniforms” for all participants. It allows for the elimination of all age restrictions in order to involve Americans at all stages of life. And it calls for creation of “a permanent cadre” in a “National Community Civilian Corps.”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But that’s not all. The bill also calls for “youth engagement zones” in which “service learning” is “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This updated form of voluntary community service is also to be “integrated into the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula” at all levels of schooling. Sounds like a government curriculum for government approved “service learning,” which is nothing less than indoctrination. Now, ask yourself if congressmen who voted for this monstrosity had a clue what they were voting for. If not, they’re guilty of dereliction of duty. If yes, the implications are truly frightening.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Why the End of America is Closer than You Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Adams
The America as we know it, at least. This repeated creation of trillions of dollars in new money by the Federal Reserve is the last great looting of the U.S. economy by the wealthy elite. The Titanic is sinking, and high officials have monopolized the life rafts, leaving everyone else to drown with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=2504&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>by Mike Adams</p>
<blockquote><p>The America as we know it, at least. This repeated creation of trillions of dollars in new money by the Federal Reserve <strong>is the last great looting of the U.S. economy by the wealthy elite</strong>. The Titanic is sinking, and high officials have monopolized the life rafts, leaving everyone else to drown with the ship. And while they&#8217;re rowing away from the doomed vessel that&#8217;s taking on water, they shout back to the low-income workers clinging to the rails, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry! The ship isn&#8217;t really sinking. It&#8217;s just &#8216;correcting!&#8217;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Obama Deception</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who are the deciders of world affairs, politics, and social catastrophies?

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		<title>OBAMA DECEPTION DIRECTOR ALEX JONES REACHES OUT TO OBAMA SUPPORTERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Max Keiser &#8211; UK is Doomed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Feb 21, 2009</p>
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		<title>The BDI Index Points To Worldwide Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Wickstrom   Feb 7,2009

The BDI has dropped 94% in a short few weeks which means     raw materials, grains, ores, steel, iron, cement and all imported products     for food manufacturing and product manufacturing even though we actually     do very little of that here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1953&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;">The BDI has dropped 94% in a short few weeks which means     raw materials, grains, ores, steel, iron, cement and all imported products     for food manufacturing and product manufacturing even though we actually     do very little of that here in the US.  We do make bread and other products     that require grains, like cereals. We import clothing, gasoline, various     fuels and, well, just about everything these days and the BDI says global     shipping has shut down. NOTHING is moving. Because this spells disaster     for a country that produces little and imports everything I have been intently     blogging about the subject and asking people to view a short video I have     posted (8 minutes) on: </span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;">http://thegreendragon.ning.com/video/vital-critical-you-must </span> </dt>
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<dt><span style="font-size:xx-small;">The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is an indicator of how much     product is actually out for delivery throughout the world. It cannot be     cheated or manipulated because it deals with actual products that are either     actively being shipped, or are on docks awaiting to be shipped as Freight     On Board (FOB).  As the chart below proves, back in June, 2008 the BDI     stood at a reasonably healthy 11,600.  As of today, the BDI has plummeted     to 791. That&#8217;s about a 94% drop in goods actually being shipped worldwide. </span> </dt>
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		<title>The Recovery Plan From Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Wall Street Wants By MICHAEL HUDSON 
Tuesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the U.S. banking system into a cartel of just a few large banks. This is not altogether bad news for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1932&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#990000;font-size:small;"><span>T</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">uesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the U.S. banking system into a cartel of just a few large banks. This is not altogether bad news for the still relatively healthy part of the banking system (healthy in the sense of still avoiding negative equity). Smaller, less troubled banks will be bought out by the large “troubled” ones, to the personal financial benefit of their stockholders. This cannot solve today’s financial problem: the fact that the debt overhead far exceeds the economy’s ability to pay. In fact, it will spread the distortions that the large banks have introduced, until the entire system presumably looks like Citibank, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this clearly is only Stage One of a two-stage plan that has not yet been announced, although the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>’s op-ed page has provided enough hints trickling out for the past three months to tip the hand of Wall Street’s “dream recovery plan.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is not exactly what most people are hoping for. In fact, it threatens to be a nightmare scenario for the economy at large. Watch for the magic phrase: “equity kicker,” first heard in the S&amp;L mortgage crisis of the 1980s.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first question to ask about the Recovery Program is, “recovery for whom?” The answer is, for the people who design the Recovery <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745319890/counterpunchmaga"><img src="http://www.counterpunch.org/superimp.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="right" /></a>Program and their constituency, the bank lobby. The second question is, what is it they want to recover? The answer is, another Bubble economy, having seen the Greenspan Bubble make them so rich with his particular kind of “wealth creation”: wealth in the form of indebtedness of the “real” economy at large to the banking system, and unprecedented capital gains to be made by riding the wave of asset-price inflation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For the financial elites, the problem is that it is not possible to inflate another bubble from today’s debt levels, widespread negative equity, and still-high level of real estate, stock and bond prices. No amount of new credit or capital for the banking system will induce banks to provide credit to real estate that already is over-mortgaged, or to individuals and corporations already over-indebted. All professional observers have forecast property prices to keep on plunging for at least the next year, which is as far as the eye can see in unstable conditions such as we are experiencing today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While the Obama administration’s financial planners wring their hands in public and say “We feel your pain” to debtors at large, they also recognize that the past ten years have been a golden age for the banking system and Wall Street. The wealthiest 1 per cent of the population has raised its share of the returns to wealth – dividends, interest, rent and capital gains – from 37 per cent of the total ten years ago to 57 per cent five years ago, and an estimated 70 per cent today. Over two-thirds of the returns to wealth now go to the wealthiest 1 per cent of the population. This is the highest on record. We are approaching Russian kleptocratic levels.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yet the financial Hard Right of the political spectrum – the lobbyists now in control of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Justice Departments for starters – repeats the new Big Lie: that it is the poor who have brought the system down, “exploiting” the rich by trying to ape their betters and live beyond their means. Subprime families have taken out subprime loans, the lying poor have signed documents to obtain “liars’ loans,” as Alt-A, no-documentation loans are called in the financial junk-paper trade.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I learned the reality a few years ago in London, talking to a commercial bank strategist there. “We’ve had an intellectual breakthrough,” he said. “It’s changed our credit philosophy.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“What is it?” I asked, imagining that he was about to come out with yet a new junk mathematics formula?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The poor are honest,” he said, accompanying his words with his jaw dropping open as if to say, “Who could have guessed?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The meaning was clear enough. The poor pay their debts as a matter of honor, even at great personal expense. Unlike Donald Trump, the poor are less likely to walk away from their homes when market prices sink below the mortgage level. In today’s neoliberal Chicago School language, the poor behave “uneconomically.” That is, they make choices that do not make economic sense, but rather reflect a group morality. This sociological gullibility is what made them rich pickings for predatory lenders such as Countrywide, Wachovia and Citibank.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I said above, it was a golden age. The financial and real estate bubble is the world that America’s financial power elite would love to recover. The problem for them is how to start a new bubble and make yet another fortune. The alternative would be to keep what they have taken and run – not so bad, but a scenario that perhaps they can improve on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussions about emergency bailouts have focused on putting in place enough new lending capacity by the banking system to start inflating prices on credit once again. But a new bubble can’t be started from today’s asset-price levels. This week’s $2 trillion or so in new bailout money for the banks (“capital,” and specifically finance capital, not to be confused with industrial capital) will only be lent out once prices fall by another 30 to 50 percent. So this can represent only Stage 1. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The question for Stage 2 is, how can the $10 to $20 trillion capital-gain run-up of the Greenspan years been repeated in an economy that is “all loaned up”?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing Wall Street knows is that to make money, you not only need asset prices to rise, they have to go down again – and up again, and down again. Without going down, after all, how can they rise up? The more frenetic the price fibulation, the easier it is for computerized buy-and-sell programs to make money on options and derivatives. What is being planned today looks like a similar up-and-down movement in real estate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first trick is to preserve the wealth of the creditor class – Wall Street, the banks and the other financial vehicles that enrich the wealthiest 1 per cent and indeed, the richest 10 per cent of the population. Stage One involves buying out their bad loans at a price that saves them from taking a loss. This is done by shifting the loss onto the “taxpayers” – labor, onto whose shoulders the tax burden has been shifted steadily, step by step since 1980, with the Greenspan Commission imposing an onerous Social Security tax on the middle class and using the proceeds to slash taxes on the higher brackets. Next comes an “aggregator” bank (sounds like “alligator,” from the swamps of toxic waste) to buy the bad debts and put them in a public agency. The government calls this the “bad” bank. But it does good for Wall Street – by buying loans that have gone bad – or perhaps nearer the truth, loans that never were good in the first place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The harder part is to revive opportunities for creditors to make a new killing. (And it’s the economy that’s being killed.) Here’s how I imagine the plan might work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Suppose a recent buyer has purchased a home for $500,000, with a $500,000 adjustable-rate mortgage scheduled to reset at 8 per cent. Suppose too that the current market price has fallen to $250,000 – a loss of 50 per cent by the end of 2009. After all, there needs to be enough time for prices to decline. Otherwise, there would be no economy to “rescue.” Mr. Geithner and Summers need to “feel your pain” to come out with the package that I’m describing. The government will swap “cash for trash,” printing new Treasury bonds (interest to be paid by “the taxpayer) in exchange for the $500,000 mortgage that is going bad, heading toward only a $250,000 market price.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The “Bad” bank that the Obama plan decided was not quite ready to be created this week will take the form of a public/private partnership (PPP), of the sort that Tony Blair made so notorious in Britain. It will be financed with private funds – in fact, with the funds now being given to re-capitalize America’s banks (headed by the Wall St. banks that have done so poorly). Banks will use the money they receive from the Treasury for selling their junk mortgages at par – along with other bailout funding – to buy shares in a new $5 trillion institution. Something like Fanny Mae or Freddie Mac will be created and its bonds guaranteed (that’s the “public” part – “socializing” the risk). The PPP institution will start with, say, $3 trillion in funds, and will have the power to buy and renegotiate the mortgages that have passed into the hands of the government and other holders. This “Middle Class Homeowner Recovery Trust” will use its private funding for the “socially responsible” purpose of “saving the taxpayer” and homeowners by renegotiating the mortgage down from its original $500,000 to the new $250,000 price.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here’s the patter talk you can expect, with the usual Orwellian euphemisms. The “rescue the homeowners” PPP, a veritable Savior Bank, will go to a family strapped by its home mortgage debt and feeling more and more desperate as the price of its major asset plummets deep into Negative Equity territory. An offer will be made: “We’ve got a deal to save you. We’ll renegotiate your mortgage down to $250,000, the current market price, and we’ll also lower your interest rate to just 5.50 per cent. This will cut your monthly debt charges by nearly two thirds. You will escape from negative equity, and you can afford to stay in your home.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The family probably will say, “Great.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But they will have to make a concession. That’s where the new public/private partnership makes its killing. Its Savior Bank, funded with private money that is to take the “risk” (and also the rewards) will say to the family that agrees to renegotiate its mortgage: “Now that the government has taken a loss while we’ve let you stay in your home, we need to recover the money that’s been lost. So when the time comes for you to sell, or to renegotiate your mortgage, our Savior Bank will receive the capital gain up to the original amount written off. If we’ve made you whole, we want to be made whole too.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In other words, if the homeowner sells the property for $400,000, the Savior Bank will get $150,000 of the capital gain. If the property sells for $500,000, the bank will get $250,000. And if it sells for more, thanks to some new clone of Alan Greenspan acting as bubblemeister, the capital gain will be split in some way. If the split is 50/50, then if the home sells for $600,000, the owner at that time will split the $100,000 further capital gain with the Savior Bank. The Savior Bank will thus make much more through its share of capital gains than it extracts in interest!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This plan will be even better for Wall Street than the Greenspan bubble was! Last time around, it was the middle class that got the gains. To be sure, it really was the bank that got the gains, because mortgage interest charges absorbed the entire rental value. But at least homeowners had a chance at the free ride, if they didn’t squander their money in refinancing their mortgages. And many did use their homes “like a piggy bank” to support their living standards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But this time around, Wall Street is not obliged to make its money by making middle class homeowners rich. Debt-strapped homeowners are willing to settle merely for a plan that leaves them in their homes! It can get for itself the capital gains that have been the driving force of U.S. “wealth creation,” Alan Greenspan bubble-style.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The irony is that the only kind of policies that are politically correct these days are those that make the situation worse: yet more government money in the hope that banks will create yet more credit/debt to raise house prices and make them even more unaffordable; to inflate a new bubble; to give what really should be called the “bad banks” – the Big Four or Five where the junk mortgages, junk CDOs and junk derivatives resulting from junk mathematics are concentrated – yet more money to buy out smaller banks that have not yet been infected with reckless financial opportunism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And by the same token, lobbyists for these bad banks are screaming at the top of their voices that all solutions to the problem are politically incorrect: debt writedowns to bring the debt burden within the ability to pay. That is what the market is supposed to do – by bankruptcy in an anarchic collapse, if not by reasoned government policy. The bad banks, after demanding “free markets” all these years, have stopped the free market when it comes anywhere near them and their bonuses. For them, markets are free of regulation against predatory lending; free of taxing the wealthy so as to shift the burden onto labor; free for the financial sector to wrap itself around the “real” economy like a parasitic vine around a tree and extract the entire surplus in the form of financial engineering.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is a travesty of freedom. But worst of all is the “freedom” of today’s economic discussion from the wisdom of classical political economy and from the experience of economic history regarding how societies have coped with the debt overhead through the ages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An alternative policy to save the economy from being “rescued” by Wall Street</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is an alternative to ward all this off. A debt writedown, followed by a land tax so that the “free lunch” (what John Stuart Mill called the “unearned increment” of rising land prices, a gain that landlords made “in their sleep”) would serve as the tax base rather than labor and industry being burdened with an income tax.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One move would be to prevent banks from lending against the land’s value. They could lend against buildings, but not land. This would cut the maximum permissible loan to 50 to 60 per cent of the total property price – unless the government did what classical economists advocated and tax the land’s market price (its rental value) as the tax base, shifting the tax back off of labor. This would achieve the kind of free markets that Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and Alfred Marshall described, and which the Progressive Era aimed to achieve with America’s first income tax in 1913.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A land tax would prevent housing prices from rising again. This would save homeowners from taking on so much debt in order to obtain housing. And it would save the economy from seeing “wealth creation” take the form of the “unearned increment” being capitalized into higher bank loans with their associated carrying charges (interest and amortization). The key to real estate bubbles is to inflate site valuations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Michael Hudson</strong> is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745319890/counterpunchmaga">Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire</a> (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002) He can be reached via his website, <a href="mailto:mh@michael-hudson.com">mh@michael-hudson.com</a></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, February 12, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) While the Obama administration is attempting to pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in a hurry, NaturalNews readers have begun actually reading the bill, and they&#8217;re finding some worrying language that should raise concern among people interested in preserving health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1935&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Thursday, February 12, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor<br />
<a title="More Articles About Economic stimulus" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/economic_stimulus.html"></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a class="alignleft" title="pharmabill" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025608.html" target="_blank">(NaturalNews) </a>While the Obama administration is attempting to pass the <em>American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</em> in a hurry, NaturalNews readers have begun actually reading the bill, and they&#8217;re finding some worrying language that should raise concern among people interested in preserving health freedom and protecting the health of all Americans.</p>
<p>Specifically, one section of the economic stimulus bill designates nearly <strong>a billion dollars for new vaccinations of children</strong>. This was discovered by Elisha Celeste, a <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/NaturalNews.html">NaturalNews</a> reader. As stated in the bill:</p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal">The Economic Stimulus bill about to be passed by the U.S. Senate is about much more than simply stimulating the economy: It contains <strong>sweeping health care changes</strong> buried deep in 800 pages of practically unreadable text. Some of the more frightening items include:</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">* A requirement that the full health care records of all Americans be tracked in government databases by 2014.</p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal">* $954,000,000 in new spending on vaccines. (Almost a billion dollars in vaccinations!)</p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal">* Over half a billion dollars of spending to &#8220;carry out chronic disease&#8221; and run &#8220;genomics programs&#8221; ( <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025608.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/025608.html</a>).</p>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal">* Big Government control over the actions of doctors, who will be required to &#8220;harmonize&#8221; their medical care to meet new government guidelines.</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">What does any of this have to do with an &#8220;economic stimulus?&#8221; It sounds more like a <strong>Big Pharma stimulus&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">This isn&#8217;t about right vs. left, Republican vs. Democrat or Big Government vs. small government. This is about the insanity of suddenly unleashing a whole new layer of government bureaucracy regarding health care <strong>without any public debate!</strong> Such huge changes to any nation should never be passed under the guise of an emergency economic stimulus bill when, in reality, it&#8217;s hiding 140+ pages of sweeping health care changes that nobody has yet had time to even read (much less actually debate&#8230;)</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">Read my article on this frightening assault to Democracy here:  <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025597.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/025597.html</a></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">Byron Richards explains yet more about the insanity of this bill as currently written:  <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025607.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/025607.html</a></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">By the way, <strong>the FDA has effectively banned a form of Vitamin B6</strong>. And as promised, here&#8217;s the true story of this bewildering development:  <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/025606.html" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/025606.html</a></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">The world gets stranger by the day, huh?</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">I just want to point out, by the way, that I am on the record being against BOTH the Bush bailout bill and the Obama bailout bill. My position has remained consistent: The creation of trillions of dollars in new money will ultimately rob Americans of the value of their hard-earned dollars, causing far more economic harm than help.</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">And yet I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of people are strangely inconsistent on these bailouts. They were against the Bush bailout, but not they&#8217;re suddenly in favor of the Obama bailout (or vice-versa). Folks, these two bailouts are essentially <strong>the same con packaged behind two different faces</strong> (and political parties). This isn&#8217;t about Republicans vs. Democrats, people, it&#8217;s about <strong>the rich vs. the working class</strong>. Both of these bailout bills are essentially about rich people being bailed out by poor people, just so they can keep their million-dollar bonuses.</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">Don&#8217;t believe me? Check this out: Last year, as Merrill Lynch was <em>losing $27 billion</em> to be covered by taxpayers, it paid out an astonishing <strong>700 million-dollar bonuses</strong> to its executives. Read it at the New York Times:  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/business/12merrill.html?bl&amp;ex=1234674000&amp;en=f107eb5fc4dad553&amp;ei=5087" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/business/12merrill.html?bl&amp;ex=1234674000&amp;en=f107eb5fc4dad553&amp;ei=5087</a></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">Or search Google News and see all the other stories about this:  <a href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;nolr=1&amp;q=Merrill+Lynch+bonuses&amp;btnG=Search" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;nolr=1&amp;q=Merrill+Lynch+bonuses&amp;btnG=Search</a></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal">This is the truth about what&#8217;s happening in America today, friends: The rich are getting richer on the backs of the working poor. Presidents may change, but class warfare always is always the same: It&#8217;s about stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.</p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;">Now, it is up to YOU to help stop this economic stimulus bill until we can all get our heads on straight and take a closer look at what it really says. America deserves a reasonable debate on this, after all. What kind of bill is so bad that it has to be passed on a fly-by-night basis anyway?</span></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;">If you live in the U.S., call your U.S. Senator and urge them to stop the economic stimulus bill as currently written, or to at least amend it and remove the massive health care provisions that have barely been read by anyone (including the Senators voting on the bill):</span></span></p>
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<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;">Capital Switchboard – <span class="skype_tb_injection"><span class="skype_tb_injection_left" title="Skype actions"><span class="skype_tb_injection_left_img" style="background-image:url('//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/cb_normal_l.gif');"><img class="skype_tb_img_adge" style="height:11px;width:7px;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/cb_transparent_l.gif" alt="" height="11" /></span><span class="skype_tb_injection_left_img"><img class="skype_tb_img_flag" style="width:16px;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/famfamfam/us.gif" alt="" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_arrow" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/arrow.gif" alt="" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></span></span><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><span class="skype_tb_injection_right" title="+12022243121"><span class="skype_tb_innerText"><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><img class="skype_tb_img_space" style="height:1px;width:1px;margin:0;padding:0;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/space.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" />(202) 224-3121</span><span class="skype_tb_injection_left_img" style="background-image:url('//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/cb_normal_r.gif');"><img class="skype_tb_img_adge" style="height:11px;width:19px;" src="//skype_ff_toolbar_win/content/cb_transparent_r.gif" alt="" height="11" /></span></span></span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Long but fascinating analysis of Socialism in the USA by Dmitry Orlov.

Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He was   an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland   between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1517&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Long but fascinating analysis of Socialism in the USA by Dmitry Orlov.</p>
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<p>Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He was   an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland   between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer who has contributed to fields as    diverse as high-energy Physics and Internet security, as well as a leading Peak Oil theorist whose    writing is featured on such sites as www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net and www.powerswitch.org.uk.</p>
<blockquote><p>A nationalization of the private sector can indeed be called socialist, but only when it is carried out by a socialist government. In absence of this key ingredient, a perfect melding of government and private business is, in fact, the gold standard of fascism. But nobody is crying &#8220;Fascism!&#8221; over what has been happening in the US.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Obama and American Oz, the land of weath behind the curtain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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By Vi Ransel 
1/1/09 
(A Chicago story… A citizen walks into his alderman’s office looking for a job. “Who sent you?” a staffer asks. “Nobody” he replies. Says the staffer, “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” Who sent Obama? In exactly four years he’s risen from an unknown state senator to president. That only happens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1240&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>.</p>
<p><strong>By Vi Ransel </strong></p>
<p><strong>1/1/09 </strong></p>
<p>(A Chicago story… A citizen walks into his alderman’s office looking for a job. “Who sent you?” a staffer asks. “Nobody” he replies. Says the staffer, “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” Who sent Obama? In exactly four years he’s risen from an unknown state senator to president. That only happens when somebody sends for you. &#8211; Sam Smith)</p>
<p>The nature of his administration was evident<br />
as he introduced his transition team and potential members of his cabinet.</p>
<p>The individuals selected are fixtures of the economic aristocracy<br />
and the Washington Consensus establishment.</p>
<p>His Transitional Economic Advisory Board consists entirely<br />
of members and representatives of the economic stratosphere -<br />
CEOs, investment bankers, former SEC and Federal Reserve Chairs,<br />
Clinton re-treads, DLC members, lobbyists, slumlords and billionaires.</p>
<p>In particular, the personnel of his economic transition team<br />
and those considered as presidential cabinet appointees<br />
contradict his campaign rhetoric about changing politics<br />
by building a ground-up movement of the American people.</p>
<p>There is not one representative of the unemployed, unions or workers,<br />
consumers or home owners facing foreclosure,<br />
no representative from the NAACP or NOW or those<br />
without the means to keep warm or get healthcare.</p>
<p>He makes not even the pretense of consulting anyone<br />
who represents the American majority<br />
who will be directly affected by his economic policies.<br />
And as a demonstration of his highest priority,<br />
his first post-electoral meeting was with this team made up entirely<br />
of representatives of the Ultra Wealthy class<br />
to shore up the fortunes of their friends at the banks.</p>
<p>His actions since the election are meant to send a message<br />
to Wall St and the Ultra Wealthy that he stands ready to defend<br />
their social interests and personal wealth not only in the U.S.<br />
but abroad via military violence, all at tax payer expense,<br />
clashing with the mandate given him by the American electorate<br />
to reverse neoconservative and Republican politics.</p>
<p>Barack Obama and his transition team are setting the stage<br />
for business as usual, underscoring<br />
the widening gap between the hopes and aspirations<br />
of America’s hopeful majority<br />
and those of the DLC and the Democratic Party’s<br />
praetorian Upper Class Warriors.</p>
<p>He was invented just a few short years ago in anticipation<br />
of foreclosures, job loss, lack of healthcare, inflation,<br />
disappearing retirement accounts, utility shutoffs,<br />
and reactions to decaying infrastructure and education.</p>
<p>They needed to put a new face on the same old agenda<br />
while continuing the American Class War<br />
by a simple repainting of the existing deck chairs<br />
on the luxury liner, United States of America,</p>
<p>and rolling out a tantalizing symbol of change<br />
from behind which Rich White Men continue to rule,<br />
as we slide, here in American Oz,<br />
into the iceberg of their arrogant hubris.</p>
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<p>To continue reading the rest of this article, continue to&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Zeitgeist: Movie and Addendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[3a. Lies We were taught]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*The failure of our world to resolve the issue of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. &#8216;Zeitgeist-Addendum&#8217; addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long term solution. 

&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><span>*The failure of our world to resolve the issue of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. &#8216;Zeitgeist-Addendum&#8217; addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long term solution. </span></p>
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		<title>This Day of Reckoning, by Michael C. Ruppert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;THIS DAY OF RECKONING&#8221;
&#8211; Obama&#8217;s Speech on the Economy and Signals of  What&#8217;s Coming
&#8211; Economic Collapse Accelerating
&#8211; Leon Panetta as DCI  Scares Me to Death
&#8211; Is the Economic Collapse a Controlled Global  Demolition?
&#8211; Mike Ruppert Videos on Sale Again At FTW  Site
by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/
Jan 9, 2009 – It&#8217;s not possible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com&blog=5113114&post=1465&subd=flourishingincrisis&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>&#8220;THIS DAY OF RECKONING&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Obama&#8217;s Speech on the Economy and Signals of  What&#8217;s Coming<br />
&#8211; Economic Collapse Accelerating<br />
&#8211; Leon Panetta as DCI  Scares Me to Death<br />
&#8211; Is the Economic Collapse a Controlled Global  Demolition?<br />
&#8211; Mike Ruppert Videos on Sale Again At FTW  Site</p>
<p>by Michael C. Ruppert</p>
<p><a class="alignleft" title="ruppert" href="http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/</a></p>
<p>Jan 9, 2009 – It&#8217;s not possible yet for any world leader to tell people that the collapse of industrialized civilization is coming but it appears as though the Obama administration is preparing to say it… at least from what we can see. (It&#8217;s going to become obvious soon enough.) What is not known are what secret plans are being made and what contingencies are being prepared for. There are some clues.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Lindsey Williams (author of The Energy Non-Crisis) predicted in July of 2008 that the price of crude oil would drop from over $100. dollars  to $50. dollars.  Many laughed, but now the price is at $49.00.
Here is his most recent prediction.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Pastor Lindsey Williams (<span>author of The Energy Non-Crisis)</span> predicted in July of 2008 that the price of crude oil would drop from over $100. dollars  to $50. dollars.  Many laughed, but now the price is at $49.00.</p>
<p><span>Here is his most recent prediction.</span></p>
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