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Fed's Actions are Criminal; Congressmen Who Facilitate Them Should Be Prosecuted
Lyndon LaRouche
"Hearings in the House Financial Services Committee today underlined, for those who are not stupid, that the Federal Reserve, backed by the White House, totally rejects any and all disclosure of its activities to anyone.
What are they hiding?
The criminality and outright treason of the Federal Reserve in threatening a 1923 Germany-style hyperinflationary wipeout of the United States, with its out-of-control printing of money. The Fed has lent, spent, and guaranteed $11.8 trillion in securities bailouts this year, and according to its own Richmond branch bank, now guarantees just about half of all the liabilities in the entire U.S. financial system. While the Fed has the monetary aggregate of the United States growing at 20-21% annual rate, bank credit to the economy is sharply contracting, particularly in August and September, perhaps at a negative 15-20% rate. This intensifying credit crunch simultaneously with skyrocketing money-printing, is a recipe for an early hyperinflationary explosion of the U.S. economy, as illustrated in Lyndon LaRouche's "Triple Curve" diagram.
Do you want to know why Iran has a nuclear program?
by chycho
I had an American friend tell me that she was fascinated with Iran, and wanted to know my opinion regarding Iran’s nuclear program, especially since a so-called new plant was just announced, or “revealed”, depending on your perspective and source of information.
Below you will find my reply to her question, and a re-post of the first article. Please note that these articles were written over the last few years so there is some repetition between them. Facts do not disappear over time, so I believe it’s always a good idea to repeat some of the important points.
Just to make sure that the most recent US accusations at the UN regarding Iran’s nuclear program are put into context, it’s important to know that CNN has revealed that “The United States was aware of Iran’s unfinished uranium enrichment site for several years.”
My email reply, links to previous posts, and a re-post of the first article follow:
U.S. Interests vs. The Jewish State
By Jeff Gates
Barack Obama’s recent conduct at the U.N. removed all remaining doubt as to Israeli influence inside this latest U.S. presidency. When he uttered the phrase “the Jewish state of Israel,” he provided precisely the provocation required to ensure that peace in the Middle East will continue to be deferred.
When, in May 1948, Christian-Zionist Harry Truman agreed to recognize an enclave of Jewish-Zionist extremists as a nation state, he struck out “Jewish state” and wrote the “state of Israel.” Despite assurances from Zionist lobbyist Chaim Weizmann that Israel would be a democracy, Truman feared the Zionist state might become what it became: a racist theocracy committed to an expansionist agenda that endangers U.S. interests in the region.
Fuck the New York Times and Fuck "Permitted" Marches
Mickey Z.
On September 26, 2009, the New York Times deemed it fit to run an article called "Thousands Hold Peaceful March at G-20 Summit," in which propagandist Ian Urbina informed us of "several thousand demonstrators" converging on downtown Pittsburgh in light of that city's hosting of the Group of 20 (G-20) meeting. Urbina called it a "peaceful and permitted march." The demonstrators, he said, were "calling for solutions to a range of problems that they attributed to the economic policies of the world leaders." Later, he told of speakers urging demonstrators to "fight for an array of social issues they felt had been largely ignored in global economic policy."
"They attributed" and "they felt."
Okay, in a rare case of actual objectivity, Urbina was careful to clarify that not everyone agrees with the protesters. However, that's where the any attempt at journalism ended. If Urbina were capable of even an iota of independent thought, he'd have found out why demonstrators feel and attribute what they feel and attribute. But…it's so much easier to just describe what they looked liked.
Obama Stuck between Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan
By Nicola Nasser
It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line paragraph, and instead to escalate his war of words on Iran, as if the expansion of the war on Afghanistan into Pakistan was not enough over-depletion of an already exhausted U.S. human, financial and military resources, and as if a threat of a third war in the Middle East would serve in any way the U.S. vital interests in the region or contribute to U.S. elusive victory in either one of both wars. Downplaying the most pressing items on the U.S. agenda and leaping forward to the nuclear issue and Iran was only a thinly – veiled attempt to divert attention away from the fact that Obama was stuck between the worse and the worst in both countries.
Fox News Fans Flames of Hatred - National Backlash Developing
Allen L Roland
In Psychology, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness ~ which is precisely what the Republican far right fringe subculture is doing . While Fox News fans these flames a national backlash is rapidly developing:
Quite simply, darkness is the absence of light and hate is the absence of love and compassion. Nothing can grow in total darkness and nothing can grow in total hatred. Hatred eventually destroys all who are consumed by it in their own eventual dark lonely prison of self hatred or denial.
Kirks, Kennedys - NEPOTISM, ENTRENCHMENT USA - BREAKDOWN - Living dead in the USA
By Carolyn Bennett
The Democrats and influential Kennedys and associates declaring a state of emergency have succeeded in shoving a totally unqualified man into the U.S. Senate.
The New York Times is reporting that Paul G. Kirk assumes deceased Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy¡¯s Senate seat because Kennedy¡¯s widow and his sons wanted Kirk to have the Senate seat.
Though Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is said to have considered qualified people with proven records of government service (former Massachusetts governor and 1988 presidential nominee Michael S. Dukakis and former lieutenant governor Evelyn Murphy) for the Senate seat, he ended up declaring a state emergency (upheld by the court) to shove Paul Kirk into the Senate.
The Recession is Over! Now get off your lazy asses and spend some MONEY, dammit!
by Daniel Patrick Welch
These recessions are getting shorter and shorter. If you delay admitting it's happening until the shit really hits the fan, then claim it's all better while the shit is still spraying all over you, eventually it will become a complete non-event, like the ho-hum 'discouraged workers' who keep pushing those jobless claims down. Good going, guys! Way to take one for the statistical team!
The other intriguing development about the "modern" recovery is that it miraculously continues to be a "recovery" without some previously indispensable component. Under Clinton and Bush, we were introduced to the "jobless" recovery. Now, with foreclosures yet to peak and record upside down mortgages still to blow, we are apparently being fed the "homeless recovery." See? With each recovery, we can begin to see past those boring necessities that clouded our vision in the past. With joblessness and homelessness becoming old hat, I can't wait for what's next--maybe a foodless recovery or an airless recover--for future administrations to bestow on us.
Khalid Amayreh Interview: "the mental landscape of every Palestinian man, woman and child is overwhelmed with the Israeli nightmare"
By Mary Rizzo
Mary Rizzo, Khalid Amayreh, Palestinian family in Gaza
Those who seek information about Palestine often tend to be attracted to particular writers and journalists for the special insights and gifts that seem to be uniquely their own. “The Middle East Crisis” is an issue having a profound, complex and multi-faceted dimension of interpretation, that for however long there has been a crisis (and worse), and despite the great abundance of written material available, more than we can ever realistically confront, the reader is driven to seek the voices that can analyse any aspect of the situation clearly. There really are far fewer with this talent than one would expect. The characteristic of this type of writer is that there is a distinctive voice or style, and more than that, there is a strong sense that the coherent and authentic ethics of this person are part of the message. It is not just reporting facts and intelligent analysis, but creating within us a consciousness of the moral situation that underlies the events. Khalid Amayreh is one such “source”. He is a very prolific author, and he is often able to correctly analyse the event of the day and place it into its overall context. This makes his work almost a diary of Palestinian events. However, as useful as it would be if he limited himself to reporting, Khalid Amayreh is far more important as a writer. He is concerned with the human condition and knows that the reader should not be left only with a cold reportage, because that would be telling only half of the story, and the less important half at that. His voice is the one speaking to the human heart, to the reader who sees the oppression that Palestinians are living under, and is mystified at they are no nearer to the end of their suffering. Khalid does not talk about “indiscriminate masses”, his work is almost a passion play, where there are names, identities, human stories behind all of the events narrated. In this interview for Palestine Think Tank, he touches on many issues in his intimitable way.
Police State Raids Against Immigrants
by Stephen Lendman
In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established its largest investigative and enforcement branch - the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm (ICE) "as a law enforcement agency for the post-9/11 era, to integrate enforcement authorities against criminal and terrorist activities, including the fights against human trafficking and smuggling violent transnational gangs and sexual predators on children (who are) criminal (and) terrorist" threats to the nation.
Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama.
On May 23, 2007, as a senator, Obama said:
"The time to fix our broken immigration system is now. We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace."
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