Tea Parties springing up all over the nation...

Looks like the previous post struck a chord across this nation! Not that I am the catalyst, that honor belongs to Santelli, but it seems that I am not alone! Today, I attended the Tea Party here in Houston. Not insanely big, but the people that did show up were nonetheless passionate about the nation, and the criminal kleptocracy that seems to have some sort of magic spell on Weaselton, DC. I don't have an exact number on how many were there, but there seemed to be a coupla-three hundred. I have some pictures, which I'll try to post up here. The speakers were a varied lot, from a young woman who emceed the gathering, to a very fiery preacher who just made sense. There was even a man who brought a pitchfork, festooned with signs. After a time, and after he had been seen by most, the cops came up and had him take it back to the car. No matter, his "point" had been made! I'll see if I can get a pic of him up as well, though it might be a grainy cell-phone shot.

It was great to meet new people, and welcome to those who have checked in here. I'm all for new friends and contributors to my little corner of the cyberspace world. Thanks to all who have checked it out, and to my new buddy who was kind enough to take some photos and forward them on to me! I don't give out names without permissions, and even then, I reserve the right to withhold that information as a means of ensuring privacy.

Here is a shot or several of the Houston Tea Party in progress, if it goes up.

The Start of the New American Revolution?

When I saw this video, I couldn't believe my eyes and ears- someone actually speaking out against Our Lord And Savior! Perhaps this shall be the spark that ignites the inferno of the the New American Revolution? I know that I have been hearing rumblings more and more frequently lately- and this is just one month into Our Lord And Savior's "Era of Dominion". Seems that more and more, people are starting to rise up against Him, even people that I know voted for Him are starting to admit that He deceived them. All of the warm fuzzies from the Coronation have about worn off, now, and people are starting to see that it's possible that the Emperor has no clothes!

Wall Street clearly does not support Him, as witnessed by the sharp drop on Coronation Day, and the further declines since. We are now at the lowest point since October 2002 on the Dow. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I'm calling bottom at 6400. There is, however, the possibility that I am wrong, and that the DJIA will continue its slide all the way down to the 4000's, but I certainly hope not! The fundamentals on this house of cards point to 6400 being a good, HONEST valuation of the entire market, but we'll see.

Here's the video- http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853 Notice how the traders in Chicago, which is where Lord God Obama is ostensibly from, cheer for the common-sense ideas of letting the market do its job, and rejecting the Most High One's plan of having each of us pay for our neighbour's mortgage failures. I do have a question though- can I claim the mortgage defaulters that I help bail out on my taxes? I think 9 exemptions should be about right for me...

As always, I am...

Amir Fazadh

The financial "House of Cards" comes crashing down, yet the oligarchs survive- how?

I read a great article, which I will link to in a second. If you are worried about your 101(k) [used to be a 401k, but isn't worth squat now, hence the name change], if you've lost 40% or more in the stock market, if you are in the process of losing your home, or like millions of Americans, already have lost it and are now homeless, if your job has been outsourced, or is about to be, you owe it to yourself to understand what is happening behind the scenes. You need to know who is doing this to you, if for no other reason than to be able to name your oppressor(s). Please read the following article carefully, it's chock-full of explanations, in very good detail, about the who's, the why's, and the how's. Perhaps it will help at least one person realize the gravity of our situation, and take steps to prevent some of the shrapnel from hitting.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22026.htm

I'd like to hear your opinions, please take a minute or three and write a response or four...

As always, I am...

Amir Fazadh

The People Be Damned!

The People Be Damned The President of Special Interests By Paul Craig Roberts February 17, 2009 --- The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to work. Both are schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders. The schemes will redistribute income and wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters, who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement plans of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the situation of millions of people worldwide who naively trusted American financial institutions. The ongoing theft has simply been recast. Instead of using fraudulent financial instruments, the banksters are using government policy. Michael Hudson captures the nature of the heist in CounterPunch (February 12): “When it comes to cleaning up the Greenspan Bubble legacy by writing down homeowner mortgage debt, the Treasury proposal offers homeowners $50 billion – just [half of one percent] of the $10 trillion Wall Street bailout to date, and less than half the amount given to AIG to pay its hedge fund speculators on their derivative gambles. The Treasury has handed out $25 billion to each and every big bank, so just two of these banks alone got as much as the reported one-quarter of all homeowners in America suffering from Negative Equity on their homes and in need of mortgage renegotiation. Yet today’s economic shrinkage cannot be reversed without a recovery in consumer demand. The economy has lost the “virtual wealth” in higher-priced homes and the stock market, and must rely on after-tax earnings. But I see little concern for wage earners in the Treasury plan. Without debt relief, consumer spending and business investment will not recover.” The big money men cannot conceive of anyone’s suffering except the mega-rich. If billions are not at stake, what is the problem? How can a family losing its house bring down the economy? There was a time in America when the interests of elites were connected to those of ordinary Americans. Henry Ford said that he paid his workers good wages so they could buy his cars. Today American corporations pay foreign workers low wages so CEOs can pay themselves multi-million dollar “performance” bonuses. Congress has had a parade of CEOs, ranging from Bill Gates of MIcrosoft and IBM brass on down the line, to testify that they desperately need more H-1B work visas for foreign employees as they cannot find enough American software engineers and IT workers to grow their businesses. Yet, all the companies who sing this song have established records of replacing American employees with H-1B workers who are paid less. Just the other day Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, Sprint Nextel, Intel, Motorola, and scores of other corporations announced thousands of layoffs of the qualified American engineers who “are in short supply.” IBM has offered to help to relocate its “redundant” but “scarce” American engineers to its operations in India, China, Brazil, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates at the salaries prevailing in those countries.. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000389 On January 28, USA Today reported: “In 2007, the last full year for which detailed employment numbers are available, 121,000 of IBM's 387,000 workers [31%] were in the U.S. Meanwhile, staffing in India has jumped from just 9,000 workers in 2003 to 74,000 workers in 2007.” In order to penetrate and to serve foreign markets, US corporations need overseas operations. There is nothing unusual or unpatriotic about this. However, many US companies use foreign labor to manufacture abroad the products that they sell in American markets. If Henry Ford had used Indian, Chinese, or Mexican workers to manufacture his cars, Indians, Chinese and Mexicans could possibly have purchased Fords, but not Americans. Senators Charles Grassley and Bernie Sanders offered an amendment to the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bill that would prevent companies receiving bailout money from discharging American employees and replacing them with foreigners on H-1B visas. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, no longer an American institution, and immigration advocates, such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association, immediately went to work to defeat or to water down the amendments. Senator Grassley’s attempt to prevent American corporations from replacing American workers with foreigners on H-1B work visas in the midst of the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression was met with outrage from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization concerned solely with the multi-million dollar bonuses paid to American CEOs for reducing labor costs by offshoring American jobs or by replacing American employees with foreign guest workers. On January 23 Senator Grassley wrote to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: “I am concerned that Microsoft will be retaining foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when it implements its layoff plan. As you know, I want to make sure employers recruit qualified American workers first before hiring foreign guest workers. For example, I cosponsored legislation to overhaul the H-1B and L-1 visa programs to give priority to American workers and to crack down on unscrupulous employers who deprive qualified Americans of high-skilled jobs. Fraud and abuse is rampant in these programs, and we need more transparency to protect the integrity of our immigration system. “Last year, Microsoft was here on Capitol Hill advocating for more H-1B visas. The purpose of the H-1B visa program is to assist companies in their employment needs where there is not a sufficient American workforce to meet their technology expertise requirements. However, H-1B and other work visa programs were never intended to replace qualified American workers. Certainly, these work visa programs were never intended to allow a company to retain foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American workers, when that company cuts jobs during an economic downturn. “It is imperative that in implementing its layoff plan, Microsoft ensures that American workers have priority in keeping their jobs over foreign workers on visa programs. “My point is that during a layoff, companies should not be retaining H-1B or other work visa program employees over qualified American workers. Our immigration policy is not intended to harm the American workforce. I encourage Microsoft to ensure that Americans are given priority in job retention. Microsoft has a moral obligation to protect these American workers by putting them first during these difficult economic times.” Senator Grassley is rightly concerned that recession layoffs will shield increased jobs offshoring and use of H-1B workers. On February 13, Pravda reported that “America has begun the initial steps to final outsourcing of it’s last dominant industry”--oil/gas and oil/gas services. Pravda reports that “as with other formerly dominant industries, such as light manufacturing, IT, textiles,” recession is “used as the knife to finally do in the workers.” According to Pravda, “IT is a prime example. The companies used the bust to lay off hundreds of thousands of tech workers around the US and Britain, citing low profits or debt. The public as a whole accepted this, as part of the economic landscape and protests were few, especially with a prospect of the situation turning around. However, shortly after the turn around in the economy, it became very clear that there would be no turn around in the IT employment industry. Not only were companies outsourcing everything they could, under the cover of the recession, they had shipped in tens of thousands of H-1B work visaed workers who were paid on the cheap.” http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/107104-america_dominant_industry-0 It is rare to find US Representatives and Senators, such as Grassley, who will take a stand against powerful special interests. Some do so inadvertently, forgetting that patriotism is no longer a characteristic of the American business elite. Hoping to stimulate American rather than foreign businesses, the House version of the economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, required that funds provided by the bill cannot be used to purchase foreign-made iron, steel, and textiles. The Senate provision was more sweeping, mandating that all manufactured goods purchased with stimulus money be American-made. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, Caterpillar, General Electric, other transnational corporations, and editorial writers whose newspapers are dependent on corporate advertising set out to defeat the buy American requirement. As far as these anti-American organizations are concerned, the stimulus bill has nothing to do with American jobs or the American economy. It only has to do with the special interest appetites that have the political power to rip off the American taxpayers. [see Manufacturing & Technology News, February 4, 2009] Senator John McCain is their man. “Protectionism” exclaimed the man the Republicans wanted as president. McCain said the buy American provision would cause a second Great Depression. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said that buying abroad was “economic patriotism.” The American economic elite are hiding their treason to the American people behind “free trade.” I want to say this as clearly as it can be said. The offshoring of American jobs is the anthesis of free trade. Free trade is based on comparative advantage. Jobs offshoring is an activity in pursuit of lowest factor cost--an activity that David Ricardo, the originator of the free trade theory, described as the betrayal of one’s own country in pursuit of “absolute advantage.” The “free market” shills on the payroll of the U.S. Chamber, NAM, and in economics departments and think tanks that are recipients of grants from transnational corporations are whores aligned with elites who are destroying the American work force. Obama has appointed to his National Economic Council blatant apologists for the offshoring of American jobs. Possibly Obama loves the country that elevated him to its highest office. But his administration is populated with people whose loyalty does not extend beyond elites to the American people.

I found this video very interesting, and very scary. Not for the weak-minded, nor for the faint of heart, it paints a disturbing picture of our near future. Are YOU ready?

From a comment board I frequent...

This post says it all. This guy "gets it"...


We were looking at Indymac depositors standing in lines in a 30's flashback. Money moves over the internet these days. This kind of capital "flight" sank the "Asian tigers" in the late 90's.

So why hasn't the money gone away? Because there's nowhere to go, except under your mattress or into hard assets. But who wants to buy land or real estate in a falling market? Only the rich with deep enough pockets to have patience. A middle class nest egg has nowhere to go.

They've got us in their system. "They" are the private owners of the monetary system, the shareholders in the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, the owners of most of the equity here and in the world, a wealthy elite that is composed of faces you know well and faces you've never seen. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, T Boone Pickens, you know. Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, The Bush Family, you know. There are approximately 6 million wealthy families and individuals here and around the world you don't know. This is the new global aristocracy, sometimes called the "superclass", in the new global market.

It is their system and it is falling apart. They are working very hard to create a better coordinated and regulated international banking system. Paul Volcker and Paul Krugman, for example, belong to a group called the G 20 and they are working on it.

In the meantime, the people of the US are feeling the panic begin to build. You are not alone citizen, by any means. A question is beginning to form in the mind of the people: why are we so dependent on these rich fucks? Why are we bailing them out? Why is it our states are going bankrupt and we have no money and these rich bastards are paying themselves multi-billion dollar bonuses?

Why do we have a private monetary system that serves the rich and bankrupts the rest of us?

Why, citizen? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Did you even know that the system of money & credit we use is a private system owned and operated by the wealthy elite?

Most people in this country do not know it. They think the "Federal Reserve" means "government". Most people distrust government. They are told over and over ( by the "conservative" faction, which is a mouthpiece for the wealthy elite ) that government is wasteful and inefficient and private business can do it all better.

You probably have no idea that the Congress has little say over how the Federal Reserve spends public money. You think that the "bailout bill" or the "stimulus bill" that Congress votes on shows that the Congress has control over the spending of money. What you don't know is that the $700 billion or the $819 billion is just a small fraction of the money being spent without Congressional approval by the Federal Reserve to support the banks insurance companies and big corporations. About 8.5 trillion has been allocated in various ways that you know nothing about. Credit is being quietly lavished on the banks while there is a big uproar over a pittance of $825 billion or so for the people.

I don't know where Mike Whitney is these days when we need him to explain all this shit to us in his entertaining and scholarly way. Vacation's over, Mike! Get back on the job!

In any case, we've got two ways to go: continue with the private banking system and try to fix it again, which Obama is determined to do, or have a revolution and set up a new banking system, on the model of "The Cook Plan" or the "American Monetary Act" from Stephan Zarlenga and the American Monetary Institute. A public banking system is what we need.

But I am sorry to say that I do not think there are enough Americans who understand what it's all about to be able to challenge the private monetary authorities, the rich and relatively well-organized superclass. At this moment it is becoming better organized while the people are growing hysterical.

The global aristocrats don't want the people to become hysterical. There are far too many of them. If the masses of people run amok, the world is fucked. So the rich will do everything they can to keep the game from collapsing and Paul Kanjorski will help them. He doesn't know how to be anything but a lackey to the rich.

And you have been in that position all your life, as well, citizen. I'm sorry if I sound cruel or uncaring. I am neither. But if you cannot in your own mind describe the kind of alternative monetary system that would better serve the people and not the just rich, then there isn't anything else for you to do but to continue to play the game the rich provide you with and hope it works out...
cruxpuppy | 02.10.09 - 3:45 pm

WTF?

OK, so most people understand now that Our Lord And Savior, King Of Kings, God Of Gods Barack Obama is exposing Himself as the fraud that He is. He is in WAY over His head, and the American people know it. There are several problems emerging from this administration that really worry me.

First off, let's start with the basic tenets that got Obama named God Of All Heaven and Earth. His platform and promises- we all know that every politician is beyond reproach, and honest to a fault, Obama wouldn't lie to the people who elected him, would he? His mantra of "Hope and Change, and Change, and Hope" was nothing but a bald-faced lie. He is not looking to change a damn thing about the political system in Weaselton, DC. He thrives on it, in fact. His training was in the Chicago political system, which are known for their honesty and transparency. He started as a "community organizer", working with ACORN, that paragon of fairness and virtue, that noble entity seeking to implant truth and *economic* justice to the American political scene. He claimed to be looking to "shake up Weaselton", banning lobbyists and criminals from His cabinet. To date, it has been nothing but a fiasco, as He appoints tax cheats and lobbyists to His Cabinet, and His latest failure was naming Tom Daschle as His Health and Human Services Director. Hmm. Obviously, the term "vetting process" is foreign to the Democratic party, as they could have stopped all of this a year or more ago, had they just properly vetted Our Lord God Obama. Questions still linger about His origins, His place of birth, and even His status as a citizen of the USA. But the complicit, sycophantic media, along with the "Legislate From The Bench" judges, have collectively squashed the truth. If He is indeed a Kenyan, as some are saying (including His own family members, who were there at the hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, when He was delivered), this means He is an interloper. He is trying to set this country on a final course towards financial ruin, despite His rhetoric. "You need to pass My economic StealFromUs bill right now! If you don't, the sky will fall! We need to make sure that My backers get "paid back" for their support...don't think, just act on your urges! Pass My StealFromUs bill before it's too late! Never mind all the pork, we need the "shovel-ready" jobs it'll create! Just pass it, and quit asking questions!" Only problem is, there is little to no jobs being created, just massive, soul-crushing debt that our great-grandkids will have to pay for. And "shovel-ready"? As in, throw the dirt onto the mutilated corpse of our once-great nation now lying in her grave?

Instead of spending like a drunken W, why not stop, take a deep breath, then look at the problems with our economy and rationally decide how to create or reclaim jobs? The most important stimulus that we could have right now is consumer confidence. With the global market cratering, bringing on a worldwide DEPRESSION, not to be confused with recession, that ain't happening. Jobs are going away permanently, and with many of them, our manufacturing capacity. What happens when we can't beat our swords into plowshares? We'll be forced to beat our plowshares into swords, I guess. I have an idea, by Obama! Instead of spending $980,000,000,000.00 on pork-barrel crap that has nothing to do with job creation or economic stimulus, start cutting back on salaries like the rest of us! Drop CONgressional salaries to minimum wage, allow up to $176 a month in food stamps, and let the weasels get a taste of the REALITY that they force upon their constituencies. No more limos replete with drivers in suits, no more cocktail luncheons, bring a pimento-loaf and cheese sammich to work like the rest of us! And get used to taking the bus, Obamadammit!

The arrogance of these people, and their disdain for the "commoners" is truly stunning. Cutting back, like what the corporate weasels are doing, should be matter-of-course for our revered Gods. I have another idea- let's have biennial reviews of their performance, to be conducted by a panel of seven constituents, drawn at random 5 minutes before the review, with a checklist of performance metrics. It'd be just like a real job then- lackluster performance? Sorry, Senator, love the suit, but you gotta go! Spend outside the budget? Forfeit your job, for starters. Hey, where'd you get the private jet? Forfeit that, too. We are not going to pay for that, either. $100,000 Mercedes? How pretentious...we'll take the keys for that. Hold these weasels accountable for every transgression, no matter how trivial, and be willing to fire them on the spot for misconduct. After all, they shouldn't be above the law, should they?

And the media- their obvious and disgusting ass-kissing and general love-fest with the Lord God Obama needs to come to a grinding halt. The editorializing, the gushing over the latest attempt to turn us into a Communist, or at the very least, Socialist nation, the Obama News Network (formerly known as the Cable News Network), this all has to stop. If you want Socialism, go live in Europe. Doesn't work there, either. They are falling apart, and are just as broke.

The sucking up to the Muslim-Arab world won't get us far, either. I don't want to be a Muslim, the Muslims want me to. I refuse to dress my wife up in a bee-keeper's suit just to go out to the store. And I prefer to pick out my own wife, thankyouverymuch. For Our Lord God Obama sayeth unto al-Arabiyah, "Yea, verily I say unto thee, we are your friends; come, then, enter unto our lands upon thine own free will, and do unto us as you wish, for we are weak, thou art strong, and we desireth thine oil..."

Yeah, a big hearty razzberry to Obama. He's not cutting it, he's trying to prep us for conversion to Islam and communism, and let me tell you, that dog don't hunt!

Bring common sense back to the US! Let's grab OurPitchForksAndTorches and make the weasels listen!

As always, I am...

Amir Fazadh

Well, so much has happened in the last few months, I haven't had time to write. I also thought I'd try to give Our Lord and Savior, Barack Insane Obama, a chance. On second thought, that doesn't seem like such a good idea...

It's been pointed out to me by several readers that I appear to be a racist. Let me be perfectly clear on this- I AM NOT, AND WILL NOT EVER BE, A RACIST. I don't care if Obama is black, white, yellow, red, brown, or freaking PLAID! Skin color has never been a criteria of mine in determining whether someone is a good person or not. Or a bad person. Or a demotivated person, or any other adjective. Let me point out something- I have never played the race card in this presidential contest, but Obama and his team sure have played it up. They continue, with Eric Holder's remarks, to fan the flames of racial disparity- but I do not. Who is the real racist here? Not me! The media does it with regularity, but I challenge you, dear readers, to point out where I have been racist. Can't do it, because it doesn't exist. I am not racist, end of story, end of rant. Thank you very much, and help yourself to some mints on the way out...

The whole reason I was pointing out his likely place of birth was because I, and many other Americans, believe he is hiding something.

Why has he not shown his birth certificate? His school records? His funding sources for law school? His claims of "transparency" ring hollow and have an air of deception to them. His cabinet appointments have been disastrous- many of them are tax cheats. If you or I owed $100,000+ to the Infernal Revenue Bureau, how much leeway do you think they'd give us? Try NONE. There is a growing disparity between the Average Joe and the Ultra-Hyper-Elite Politicos, and they are really trying to make that chasm unbridgeable. This is, in my opinion, a deliberate attempt to consolidate and insulate their power. They are raking in massive, pork-fat-encrusted scads of OUR MONEY, and it will NEVER go back into our economy. They are rapists and murderers, and liars to a fault. They do not, and will never, have the nation's interests at heart. This goes for both halves of the political party, Demican and Republicrat. The only argument that interests them is the semantics. This den of thieves is the most dangerous in our nation's history. It's time for them to stop.

Change? The only change I see in this administration is that they are openly admitting tax cheats, lobbyists, and other fraudsters into the club. It's not about the money any more, it's not about the people wanting change. It's about absolute, unrestrained power. The kind that corrupts absolutely. It's about them buying power to push someone's agenda and social engineering on a now-defenseless public. Let's end this charade. It's not becoming. The only change I see is what I can dig out of my couch cushions, or from between the car seats.

The Economic StealFromUs Package is proof. How much is a trillion dollars? The way they bandy that figure about up on Crapitall Hill, you'd think that was lunch money for a schoolkid. Put it this way- if you spent a million dollars a day since Jesus Christ was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion. For more perspective, if you were to stack $1 bills on top of each other, the stack would reach 1/4 the distance from Weaselton, DC to the frakking MOON! Here is a little slideshow that someone put together illustrating the gravity of the debt we've been put in- http://www.slideshare.net/PresentationProductions/how-much-is-a-trillion-presentation It's amazing. And it all illustrates how greedy these bastards in Weaselton, DC really are. This is not only our future that has been mortgaged, but also the future of our children, their children, and quite possibly three or four MORE generations to come. Since the world ends in 2012 anyway, we're stuck. So expect massive taxation, as those lucky enough to still have a job will be forced to pay for everyone else's welfare check. I expect a minimum of 50%, with a cap somewhere near 90%, unless you're a member of Congress or the Senate...

I'm writing to my CongressWeasel to demand a personal "bailout" of $2.31 billion. Given that it's such a small amount, I think they should have no problem approving it. It won't even show up as a single pixel on the budgetary radar...

With all the corruption and rampant greed being forced upon us, is it any wonder these bastards are trying to pass the Economic StealFromUs Bill? We are, after all, a Socialist country, an Obamanation...