How the Elite Control Politics

Excellent video by Nuff Respect one of the Internet's best short documentary writer/directors.

The elite keep the masses trapped in a false left-right paradigm that they control by financing the leadership and activities of both political parties. The elite offer up a fake Hobson's choice every four years and the two bought and paid for puppets argue over divisive "football issues" like gay marriage, flag burning, abortion, etc. They get the political base of the two parties hot and bothered and arguing over these topics while ignoring the real issues like: Double digit inflation, the cost of the war in Iraq in blood and treasure, the out-of-control national debt and unfunded liabilities, the illegal immigration crisis, the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, etc.

Both parties are different superficially but absolutely totally aligned on the big issues important to the ruling elite: Socialism, the Welfare-Warfare State, support for the wars and military-industrial complex, the fake "War-on-Terror", domestic spying on the American sheople, the unconstitutional Wall Street "Bail Out", etc. etc. etc.

The MainStreamMedia (which is also bought and paid for by the Central Banksters) only focuses their attention on the elites' chosen candidates while ignoring/smearing honest voices like Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nader, etc.


Who do you think these men work for? You?

John McCain
Merrill Lynch $298,413
Citigroup Inc $269,251
Morgan Stanley $233,272
Goldman Sachs $208,395
JPMorgan Chase & Co $179,975
AT&T Inc $174,487
Blank Rome LLP $150,426
Credit Suisse Group $150,025
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,787
UBS AG $140,165
PricewaterhouseCoopers $140,120
US Government $137,617
Bank of America $129,475
Wachovia Corp $122,846
Lehman Brothers $117,500
FedEx Corp $113,453
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $104,250
US Army $103,613
Bear Stearns $99,300
Pinnacle West Capital $97,700

Barack Obama
Goldman Sachs $691,930
University of California $611,207
Citigroup Inc $448,599
JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919
Harvard University $435,769
Google Inc $420,174
UBS AG $404,750
National Amusements Inc $389,140
Microsoft Corp $377,235
Lehman Brothers $370,524
Sidley Austin LLP $350,302
Moveon.org $347,463
Skadden, Arps et al $340,264
Time Warner $338,527
Wilmerhale Llp $335,398
Morgan Stanley $318,070
Latham & Watkins $297,400
Jones Day $289,476
University of Chicago $278,885
Stanford University $276,038

John Stewart Rips McCain Acceptance Speech

Jon Stewart demolishes John McCain's acceptance speech. For those that still believe there is an ounce of difference between McCain and Bush OR Democrats and Republicans. When will the American people wake up to the fake left-right paradigm and quit getting conned by central bank puppets??

The Esoteric Agenda - Superb Documentary

The Freebees - 9-11's a Lie... 9-11's a Lie...

George Carlin Remembered

George Carlin's Best Monologue Ever! - Etienne

9-11 Truth - Best short video exposing the evidence of controlled demolition

Excellent 9 and 1/2 minute video on the evidence of Thermite/Thermate in the rubble of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 and visible during the event itself.

By the way, you can buy $1 copies of the best documentary exposing the lies of 9-11, Loose Change-The Final Cut, here: http://www.thinkrevolutionstore.com/

We are in an information war! We will either expose the illegitimate, unconstitutional criminal government for the crimes of 9-11 or they will destroy the dollar and bring in martial law and a complete police state. What have you done today to do your part?

GOLD VS. THE DOLLAR

Gold Vs. the Dollar... Who out there doesn't really get this?

Satire: Diebold Gets Busted Throwing Election

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Don't watch this video (if you're happy living a lie)

Are all the distractions of the entertainment society stopping you from questioning why the politicians lied... sacrificing the innocent lives of our soldiers and the civilian casualties abroad ... to make you safe?

Are you ready for the truth?

Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America

Talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot" given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus.

Downloadable audio mp3 of this talk can be found at http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=25782

Interview with Naomi Wolf discussing "The End of America" available at http://youtube.com/watch?v=aW9PulYpjGs

Loose Change - The Final Cut - MUST WATCH

The 9-11 documentary Loose Change - 2nd Edition is the most popular documentary ever. It has been conservatively downloaded on the internet over 50,000,000+ times. Loose Change - The Final Cut is an entirely new documentary by the same folks that brought you the 2nd edition, the independent production company Louder than Words. You can watch the complete movie above but I highly recommend getting the DVD which can be purchased at http://www.loosechangethefinalcut.com/ for $19.95. If you only see one 9-11 documentary this should be it!

I would also recommend reviewing the website Patriots Question 9-11 which lists hundreds and hundreds of architects, engineers, college professors, military officers, intelliegence officers, 9-11 survivors and family members that all question the official story of 9-11.

Ron Paul - House of Cards

Ron Paul is the only candidate that is talking about the real problems of the country especially the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies that are destroying the dollar. Besides Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel all the other candidates are central bankster hand-puppets.

Loose Change - Final Cut - RELEASED - MUST SEE!!

Loose Change 2nd Edition has arguably been the most successful documentary ever produced. The film has been seen by between 50 and 100+ million people worldwide and catapulted the 9-11 truth movement into the popular consciousness. The makers of Loose Change have released their long awaited sequel: Loose Change - Final Cut. The film is without question the best documentary ever produced concerning the events of 9-11 with new revelations that thatblow the lid off the official government conspiracy theory. The film is currently available as a streaming download for $6.95 or as a DVD for $20.00 at http://www.loosechange911.com/. Get the DVD, support the filmmakers, and spread the word!!

Ron Paul for President - 2008

Etienne, from his perch overlooking the open pit sewer that is Washington DC, has come to the conclusion that Ron Paul is the only honest man in Congress. So obviously I am supporting him as President of the United States and encourage all my friends, visitors, and those simply interested in honest government to check him out! Here is a tribute from someone who knows him well.

The following is the forward to Congressman Ron Paul's 1988 book: Freedom Under Siege written by
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. the founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute who served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Paul for a number of years.

Every American who cares about liberty owes a debt to Ron Paul. From his first run for Congress in 1974 through his gallant try for the Senate in 1984 to his present campaign as Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, Ron Paul has been an outstanding leader for freedom.

I had the privilege of working as Dr. Paul's chief of staff in Washington. And in
the often corrupt and always superficial city of Washington, D.C., he was a beacon of honesty and decency.

Even the advocates of big government came grudgingly to recognize him as the man they couldn't sway, the man they couldn't buy. His only concerns were freedom, peace, the Constitution, and honest money, and these same ideals animate his latest book.

Naturally, the criminals who want your tax dollars in their pockets found Ron Paul hard to deal with. Devotion to principle is not the engine of Capitol Hill. The backslapping, vote-trading politicians and lobbyists felt uncomfortable around Ron Paul, almost as though their shirt collars were too tight.

Greatness is often lonely, and it is never easy to oppose colleagues or the statist special interests who wanted Ron Paul to act as their errand boy to the Treasury. They were all amazed, and then aghast, at his refusal to play their game.

New Congressmen are always advised, in shady Sam Rayburn's words, "To get along, go along." They're told: "Don't make waves. Vote for the other guy's spending and he'll vote for yours. Do as you're told and you'll be taken care of." How easy to become part of the system, and reap the rewards of power.

For virtually every Congressman, there is not even a pause before he plunges into the trough. It is, after all, why he entered politics. But that was not why Ron Paul went to Washington. He sought a great rostrum for freedom, and he never sold out. He even opposed public works projects in his own district, a stand that still boggles every politician in America.

As Ron Paul patiently explained, he could hardly criticize federal spending in California while supporting it in Texas. But such consistency was outlandish. No one could believe his ears.

Over the years, Ron Paul's influence grew. Not with the politicians, but with the people. He educated millions, spreading the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard on runaway government, sound money, and the free market. Other Congressmen would be flabbergasted to receive thousands of their own constituents' letters telling them to vote like Ron Paul. As Andrew Jackson said, "One man with courage can make a majority."

Ron Paul has helped build the majority for freedom. In his campaigns, in the Congress, with the F.R.E.E. Foundation and the Mises Institute, calmly and without fanfare, he's worked for us and for our children.

How often I saw him at his desk, at 7:00am and at 11:00pm, poring over legislation and committee hearings most other Congressmen ignored, studying Constitutional history and Austrian economics, and writing some of the most eloquent words ever to come out of the Capitol. He worked hard and cheerfully, earning a fraction of his former income as a physician.

He would get angry at the goings-on. And frustrated. But he was never defeated, because he never forgot why he was there. Not to make a career in the State apparatus, but to help dismantle it.

He never made a promise he didn't keep, never violated his oath to uphold the Constitution, never desecrated free market or hard money principles, never voted to waste a cent or to raise our taxes, was never less than a pure champion of liberty.

We have not seen Ron Paul's like in Washington since the days of the Founding Fathers. And this book helps demonstrate why. On the economy, civil liberties, the IRS, foreign policy, the gold standard, the draft, and the Power Elite, he takes the hardcore, principled Libertarian position. He is the 20th century's Thomas Jefferson.

The Omnipotent State threatens us with inflation, expropriation, depression, war, and slavery. Republicans and Democrats offer only lies and loot-seeking.

But Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party provide honesty and decency: an America where we are free to work and to achieve; an America at peace with its citizens and its neighbors; an America of abundance and compassion; an America of healthy families and decent children; an America tolerant of peaceful differences; an America true to its origins in liberty; an America liberated from the Moloch State.

The remaining years of the 20th century hold out the prospect of State created war, pestilence, famine, oppression, and depravity. If we succeed in changing this specter, Ron Paul and the Libertarian Party will have made the difference.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., is founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises
Institute.
1988

Read Freedom Under Siege Here.

Donate to Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign Here.

Check Him Out Here:

The Ultimate Con & The Ultimate 9-11 Drinking Game

The Ultimate 9-11 Drinking Game

1. Watch the 10 minute and 23 second Trailer for The Ultimate Con.

2. Drink Appropriately

One Drink - Everytime an actual dust-covered office worker survivor says the word: Explosion - Drink Once!

Two Drinks - Every time a minor reporter (local affiliate or on-site network correspondent) says the word: Explosion - Drink Twice!

Three Drinks - Every time an actual dust covered FireFighter says the word: Explosion - Drink Thrice!

Four Drinks - Every time a National Network Anchor (I.E. Peter Jennings, Bryant Gumbel, etc. uses the word: Explosion - Drink 4 Drinks!

Five Drinks - Every time anyone uses the terms / phrases: Secondary Explosion and/or Secondary Explosive Device - Drink 5 Drinks!

After 10 Minutes and 23 Seconds anyone that is still vertical and believes the twin towers (and WTC 7) were NOT brought down by explosives and the event wasn't covered up by the media chugs/beer bongs all the remaining alcohol and is left for dead by other players in attempt to cull the retards from the human collective.

-Etienne

Disclaimer: The Discourse on Involuntary Servitude does not advise, suggest, or promote this drinking game! The firefighters eye-witness video testimony of secondary explosions and secondary explosive devices alone could cause alcohol poisoning throughout the hardiest of drinkers! Play with caution!

Fiat Empire - A Closer Look at the Federal Reserve

An excellent documentary by James Jaeger of Matrixx Entertainment based on G. Edward Griffin's superb book on the Federal Reserve: The Creature from Jekyll Island.

The Movie's Official Website can be found Here: http://www.mecfilms.com/fiat/

The Google Video Can be Found Here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5232639329002339531

My apologies for taking so long to post! Etienne's day job has kept him hopping for the last couple of months. Etienne is still in the fight to defeat the Central Banksters!

U2 and Greenday: The Saints Are Coming!

U2 and Green Day: The Saints Are Coming!

Must Watch Video!! - Aaron Russo's America: Freedom to Fascism

America: Freedom to Fascism by Director Aaron Russo who brought Led Zeppelin to America and produced Trading Places among other films.

http://www.freedomtofascism.com

MUST WATCH VIDEO - 9-11 Mysteries

This is easily the best documentary yet to cover the iron clad case on the evidence of a controlled demolition of WTC 1, 2, and 7. A must watch video!

Now what are you going to do about it? - Etienne

Evidence that the U.S. Government Planned & Executed 9/11

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

NORAD Stand-Down on 9/11: Not Just Simple Incompetence

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

9/11 Truth: Author David Ray Griffin On the Controlled Demolitions of WTC 1, WTC 2 and WTC 7

David Ray Griffin, author of "The New Pearl Harbor" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" lays out the evidence that World Trade Center 1, 2 and 7 were brought down by controlled demolitions using pre-planted explosives and the "911 Omission Commission".

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

Accounts of "Bombs Going Off" in World Trade Center

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

WTC Collapse Showing Squibs

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

The Unmistakable Controlled Demolition of WTC 7

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

9/11 Truth: Mohammad Atta & The Patsies

The Fifth Anniversary of 9-11 is Monday... What are YOU going to do about it? How are YOU going to make a difference? What have YOU done to get the word out? - Etienne

George Carlin - Who Really Controls America

Depeche Mode: "John The Revelator"

Bin Laden Didn't Blow Up The Projects

George W. Bush

Why Good, Decent Honest People Hate the Pigs - Part 2

Articel Here: http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/170806_rubber_bullets.html

Watch the Miami Police Department shoot an unarmed, peaceful protester in the head with rubber bullets (which have killed others before) and then laugh about it. Hey Cops: This is why good, honest decent people think you are Nazi turds! What kind of decent human being would associate with scum like the Miami police department? Aren't there any other jobs in Miami? - Etienne

We Can't Make It Here Anymore - by James Mcmurtry

Must See! Awesome Tune & Awesome Video!

Buck Fush! - Etienne

This is Why You Don't See More of George Galloway on the Airwaves

George Galloway, a member of the British Parliment and one of the more honorable politicians on the planet, DEVESTATES the Rupert Murdoch's SKY News organization's pro-Israeli propaganda campaign. Must See TV!!

This is Why You Don't See More 9-11 Truth Activists on the Airwaves

Watch Kevin Barrett take Hannity & Colmes to the cleaners...

Top Ten Signs of the Impending Police State

From and Alternet article that can be found here: http://www.alternet.org/story/36553/

Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State

By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast. Posted May 26, 2006.

. The Internet Clampdown

One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the government moved to patch up this crack in the sky.

Attempts to regulate and filter internet content are intensifying lately, coming both from telecommunications corporations (who are gearing up to pass legislation transferring ownership and regulation of the internet to themselves), and the Pentagon (which issued an "Information Operations Roadmap" in 2003, signed by Donald Rumsfeld, which outlines tactics such as network attacks and acknowledges, without suggesting a remedy, that US propaganda planted in other countries has easily found its way to Americans via the internet). One obvious tactic clearing the way for stifling regulation of internet content is the growing media frenzy over child pornography and "internet predators," which will surely lead to legislation that by far exceeds in its purview what is needed to fight such threats.

2. "The Long War"

This little piece of clumsy marketing died off quickly, but it gave away what many already suspected: the War on Terror will never end, nor is it meant to end. It is designed to be perpetual. As with the War on Drugs, it outlines a goal that can never be fully attained -- as long as there are pissed off people and explosives. The Long War will eternally justify what are ostensibly temporary measures: suspension of civil liberties, military expansion, domestic spying, massive deficit spending and the like. This short-lived moniker told us all, "get used to it. Things aren't going to change any time soon."

3. The USA PATRIOT Act

Did anyone really think this was going to be temporary? Yes, this disgusting power grab gives the government the right to sneak into your house, look through all your stuff and not tell you about it for weeks on a rubber stamp warrant. Yes, they can look at your medical records and library selections. Yes, they can pass along any information they find without probable cause for purposes of prosecution. No, they're not going to take it back, ever.

4. Prison Camps

This last January the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root nearly $400 million to build detention centers in the United States, for the purpose of unspecified "new programs." Of course, the obvious first guess would be that these new programs might involve rounding up Muslims or political dissenters -- I mean, obviously detention facilities are there to hold somebody. I wish I had more to tell you about this, but it's, you know... secret.

5. Touchscreen Voting Machines

Despite clear, copious evidence that these nefarious contraptions are built to be tampered with, they continue to spread and dominate the voting landscape, thanks to Bush's "Help America Vote Act," the exploitation of corrupt elections officials, and the general public's enduring cluelessness.

In Utah, Emery County Elections Director Bruce Funk witnessed security testing by an outside firm on Diebold voting machines which showed them to be a security risk. But his warnings fell on deaf ears. Instead Diebold attorneys were flown to Emery County on the governor's airplane to squelch the story. Funk was fired. In Florida, Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho discovered an alarming security flaw in their Diebold system at the end of last year. Rather than fix the flaw, Diebold refused to fulfill its contract. Both of the other two touchscreen voting machine vendors, Sequoia and ES&S, now refuse to do business with Sancho, who is required by HAVA to implement a touchscreen system and will be sued by his own state if he doesn't. Diebold is said to be pressuring for Sancho's ouster before it will resume servicing the county.

Stories like these and much worse abound, and yet TV news outlets have done less coverage of the new era of elections fraud than even 9/11 conspiracy theories. This is possibly the most important story of this century, but nobody seems to give a damn. As long as this issue is ignored, real American democracy will remain an illusion. The midterm elections will be an interesting test of the public's continuing gullibility about voting integrity, especially if the Democrats don't win substantial gains, as they almost surely will if everything is kosher.

Bush just suggested that his brother Jeb would make a good president. We really need to fix this problem soon.

6. Signing Statements

Bush has famously never vetoed a bill. This is because he prefers to simply nullify laws he doesn't like with "signing statements." Bush has issued over 700 such statements, twice as many as all previous presidents combined. A few examples of recently passed laws and their corresponding dismissals, courtesy of the Boston Globe:

--Dec. 30, 2005: US interrogators cannot torture prisoners or otherwise subject them to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

Bush's signing statement: The president, as commander in chief, can waive the torture ban if he decides that harsh interrogation techniques will assist in preventing terrorist attacks.

--Dec. 30, 2005: When requested, scientific information ''prepared by government researchers and scientists shall be transmitted [to Congress] uncensored and without delay."

Bush's signing statement: The president can tell researchers to withhold any information from Congress if he decides its disclosure could impair foreign relations, national security, or the workings of the executive branch.

--Dec. 23, 2004: Forbids US troops in Colombia from participating in any combat against rebels, except in cases of self-defense. Caps the number of US troops allowed in Colombia at 800.

Bush's signing statement: Only the president, as commander in chief, can place restrictions on the use of US armed forces, so the executive branch will construe the law ''as advisory in nature."

Essentially, this administration is bypassing the judiciary and deciding for itself whether laws are constitutional or not. Somehow, I don't see the new Supreme Court lineup having much of a problem with that, though. So no matter what laws congress passes, Bush will simply choose to ignore the ones he doesn't care for. It's much quieter than a veto, and can't be overridden by a two-thirds majority. It's also totally absurd.

7. Warrantless Wiretapping

Amazingly, the GOP sees this issue as a plus for them. How can this be? What are you, stupid? You find out the government is listening to the phone calls of US citizens, without even the weakest of judicial oversight and you think that's okay? Come on -- if you know anything about history, you know that no government can be trusted to handle something like this responsibly. One day they're listening for Osama, and the next they're listening in on Howard Dean.

Think about it: this administration hates unauthorized leaks. With no judicial oversight, why on earth wouldn't they eavesdrop on, say, Seymour Hersh, to figure out who's spilling the beans? It's a no-brainer. Speaking of which, it bears repeating: terrorists already knew we would try to spy on them. They don't care if we have a warrant or not. But you should.

8. Free Speech Zones

I know it's old news, but... come on, are they fucking serious?

9. High-ranking Whistleblowers

Army Generals. Top-level CIA officials. NSA operatives. White House cabinet members. These are the kind of people that Republicans fantasize about being, and whose judgment they usually respect. But for some reason, when these people resign in protest and criticize the Bush administration en masse, they are cast as traitorous, anti-American publicity hounds. Ridiculous. The fact is, when people who kill, spy and deceive for a living tell you that the White House has gone too far, you had damn well better pay attention. We all know most of these people are staunch Republicans. If the entire military except for the two guys the Pentagon put in front of the press wants Rumsfeld out, why on earth wouldn't you listen?

10. The CIA Shakeup

Was Porter Goss fired because he was resisting the efforts of Rumsfeld or Negroponte? No. These appointments all come from the same guys, and they wouldn't be nominated if they weren't on board all the way. Goss was probably canned so abruptly due to a scandal involving a crooked defense contractor, his hand-picked third-in-command, the Watergate hotel and some hookers.

If Bush's nominee for CIA chief, Air Force General Michael Hayden, is confirmed, that will put every spy program in Washington under military control. Hayden, who oversaw the NSA warrantless wiretapping program and is clearly down with the program. That program? To weaken and dismantle or at least neuter the CIA. Despite its best efforts to blame the CIA for "intelligence errors" leading to the Iraq war, the picture has clearly emerged -- through extensive CIA leaks -- that the White House's analysis of Saddam's destructive capacity was not shared by the Agency. This has proved to be a real pain in the ass for Bush and the gang.

Who'd have thought that career spooks would have moral qualms about deceiving the American people? And what is a president to do about it? Simple: make the critical agents leave, and fill their slots with Bush/Cheney loyalists. Then again, why not simply replace the entire organization? That is essentially what both Rumsfeld at the DoD and newly minted Director of National Intelligence John are doing -- they want to move intelligence analysis into the hands of people that they can control, so the next time they lie about an "imminent threat" nobody's going to tell. And the press is applauding the move as a "necessary reform."

Remember the good old days, when the CIA were the bad guys?

Federal Reserve Study Warns: USA Could be Going Bankrupt!

Full Story Can be Found Here: US"Could be Going Bankrupt"

Excerpts:

The United States is heading for bankruptcy, according to an extraordinary paper published by one of the key members of the country's central bank.

A ballooning budget deficit and a pensions and welfare timebomb could send the economic superpower into insolvency, according to research by Professor Laurence Kotlikoff for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, a leading constituent of the US Federal Reserve.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''...

...Prof Kotlikoff, who teaches at Boston University, says: "The proper way to consider a country's solvency is to examine the lifetime fiscal burdens facing current and future generations. If these burdens exceed the resources of those generations, get close to doing so, or simply get so high as to preclude their full collection, the country's policy will be unsustainable and can constitute or lead to national bankruptcy.

"Does the United States fit this bill? No one knows for sure, but there are strong reasons to believe the United States may be going broke."

Experts have calculated that the country's long-term "fiscal gap" between all future government spending and all future receipts will widen immensely as the Baby Boomer generation retires, and as the amount the state will have to spend on healthcare and pensions soars. The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

The total fiscal gap could be an almost incomprehensible $65.9 trillion, according to a study by Professors Gokhale and Smetters.

Got Gold? - Etienne

Sec. of Transportation Leon Mineta's Testimony on 9-11 Stand-Down Censored in Final 9-11 Commission Report

In the video above Secretary of Transportation Leon Mineta, who was in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during the 9-11 "attacks", testifies to the 9-11 commission that Vice President Dick Cheney was aware of Flight 77 (or a facsimile of Flight 77) approaching the Pentagon and apparently ordered an Air Force Officer NOT to have the plane shot down as it approached the Pentagon.

Secretary Mineta's explosive testimony was censored from both the final report of the commission and 9-11 commission video archives in the National Archives.

A story about the testimony and censorship can be found Here.

Of course the Bush Administration and the intelligence agencies orchestrated 9-11...

Top 10 Reasons Why the Fable of the 19 Highjackers is Fake

Here is a short (8 minute) clip of Dr. James Fetzer of Scholars for 9-11 Truth speaking to a sold-out crowd of 1200 at Alex Jones' 9-11 Los Angeles Truth Conference where he destroys the myth of the 19 islamic extremists. This idiotic fable where a sinister group of terrorists living in caves in afghanistan are able to move men, money, and material into the US under the nose of the NSA even though many are on terrorist watch-lists and some are even living with FBI informants is easily crushed by Dr. Fetzer.

Of course the intelligence agencies did it... Etienne

Lou Dobbs on the North American Union

Here is Lou Dobbs reporting on the North American Union. What? You have never heard of the North American Union? Here is the scoop. The Bush Administration is stripping away US Soverignty. They are constructing a super highway through Mexico and the US where chinese freighters can dock, unload their goods in Mexico and truck them into the US on Mexican trucks screwing US longshoreman, Teamsters and indepent owner-operators of US trucks. Slowly and surely the American frog continues to get boiled.

Find more info on the North American Union Here.

Etienne

Watch Gypsy Blow the Whistle on the 9-11 "Truth" Commission

We need more Americans to stand up with the courage of this brave Russian immigrant! Look at Zelikow's face and see the fear and the guilt. Of course the intelligence agencies carried out 9-11!

-Etienne

True Courage in the US Military - Lt. Ehren Watada

Officer at Fort Lewis calls Iraq war illegal, refuses order to go

Complete Story Here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003044627_nogo7m.html

Excerpts:

In a rare case of officer dissent, a Fort Lewis Army lieutenant has refused orders to head out to Iraq this month to lead troops in what he believes is an illegal war of occupation.

1st Lt. Ehren Watada's Stryker brigade is scheduled to make its first deployment to Iraq this month. His refusal to accompany these troops puts him at risk of court-martial and years of prison time.

"I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration," Watada said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Fort Lewis. "It is the duty, the obligation of every soldier, and specifically the officers, to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every order — including the order to go to war."...

..."I had my doubts," he said. "But I felt like the president is our leader, and he won't betray our trust, and he would know what he was talking about, and let's give him the benefit of the doubt." Over the past year, his feeling changed as he read up on the war and became convinced that there was "intentional manipulation of intelligence" by the Bush administration.

In January, Watada told his commanders that he believed that the war was unlawful, and therefore, so were his deployment orders. He did not, however, consider himself a conscientious objector, since he was willing to fight in wars that were justified, legal and in defense of the nation.

It is every officer's duty to defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic and well within their rights to refuse to follow unconsititutional orders. The US needs more officers of true courage, moral fiber, and the wisdom to understand the abject, blatant lies coming out of Washinton DC. Lt. Watada should be commended for refusing to particpate in the murder of innocent brown people in what is an obvious attempt to steal their oil and destroy their country so it can be "rebuilt" by Halliburton, Bechtel, and other Bush cronies. - Etienne

Sir! No Sir! - MUST WATCH MOVIE TRAILER

Click the Image Above or Here to watch the Trailer.

Info on the Movie Here: http://sirnosir.com/index.html

And Don't forget to watch the Flash: Punk Ass Crusade!


Click on the Image above or Here for the Flash. (Yeah... I posted it again cause I love it so...)

"We are Going to Spray and Push" - MUST WATCH VIDEO

This should have been titled: "Why Good Honest Decent People Don't Like The Pigs"



To watch the cops and the corporate media get busted lying and covering up the police's illegal, unconstitutional, and morally irreprehensible chemical warfare (pepper spray is a chemical weapon) against peaceful demonstrators exercising their constituitional rights click the image abover or Here:

You have really got to be a mind-controlled zombie robot cop to take orders that are OBVIOUSLY unconstitutional, morally irreprehensible, and without a doubt will result in injury (and potentially the death of) inocent women and children. HEY COPS: This is why good honest decent people don't like you!!!

-Etienne

What the price of Gold is Telling Us - By Congressman Ron Paul, Texas 14th

The complete article should be read by all concerned, thinking americans and holders of the US Dollar everywhere.

Full Article can be found Here:

http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/110/5067/2006-05-26.asp?wid=110&nid=5067

Excerpts:

The financial press, and even the network news shows, have begun reporting the price of gold regularly. For twenty years, between 1980 and 2000, the price of gold was rarely mentioned. There was little interest, and the price was either falling or remaining steady.

Since 2001 however, interest in gold has soared along with its price. With the price now over $600 an ounce, a lot more people are becoming interested in gold as an investment and an economic indicator. Much can be learned by understanding what the rising dollar price of gold means...

Holding gold is protection or insurance against government’s proclivity to debase its currency. The purchasing power of gold goes up not because it’s a so-called good investment; it goes up in value only because the paper currency goes down in value. In our current situation, that means the dollar.

One of the characteristics of commodity money-- one that originated naturally in the marketplace-- is that it must serve as a store of value. Gold and silver meet that test-- paper does not. Because of this profound difference, the incentive and wisdom of holding emergency funds in the form of gold becomes attractive when the official currency is being devalued. It’s more attractive than trying to save wealth in the form of a fiat currency, even when earning some nominal interest. The lack of earned interest on gold is not a problem once people realize the purchasing power of their currency is declining faster than the interest rates they might earn. The purchasing power of gold can rise even faster than increases in the cost of living...

Many central bankers in the last 15 years became so confident they had achieved this milestone that they sold off large hoards of their gold reserves. At other times they tried to prove that paper works better than gold by artificially propping up the dollar by suppressing market gold prices. This recent deception failed just as it did in the 1960s, when our government tried to hold gold artificially low at $35 an ounce. But since they could not truly repeal the economic laws regarding money, just as many central bankers sold, others bought. It’s fascinating that the European central banks sold gold while Asian central banks bought it over the last several years...

...The special nature of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world has allowed this game to last longer than it would have otherwise. But the fact that gold has gone from $252 per ounce to over $600 means there is concern about the future of the dollar. The higher the price for gold, the greater the concern for the dollar. Instead of dwelling on the dollar price of gold, we should be talking about the depreciation of the dollar. In 1934 a dollar was worth 1/20^th of an ounce of gold; $20 bought an ounce of gold. Today a dollar is worth 1/600^th of an ounce of gold, meaning it takes $600 to buy one ounce of gold.

The number of dollars created by the Federal Reserve, and through the fractional reserve banking system, is crucial in determining how the market assesses the relationship of the dollar and gold. Though there’s a strong correlation, it’s not instantaneous or perfectly predictable. There are many variables to consider, but in the long term the dollar price of gold represents past inflation of the money supply. Equally important, it represents the anticipation of how much new money will be created in the future. This introduces the factor of trust and confidence in our monetary authorities and our politicians. And these days the American people are casting a vote of “no confidence” in this regard, and for good reasons.

The incentive for central bankers to create new money out of thin air is twofold. One is to practice central economic planning through the manipulation of interest rates. The second is to monetize the escalating federal debt politicians create and thrive on.

Today no one in Washington believes for a minute that runaway deficits are going to be curtailed. In March alone, the federal government created an historic $85 billion deficit. The current supplemental bill going through Congress has grown from $92 billion to over $106 billion, and everyone knows it will not draw President Bush’s first veto. Most knowledgeable people therefore assume that inflation of the money supply is not only going to continue, but accelerate. This anticipation, plus the fact that many new dollars have been created over the past 15 years that have not yet been fully discounted, guarantees the further depreciation of the dollar in terms of gold.

Purchasing Power - a little poem by Steve Dore

You bought a house in '92, you paid 100k,
What do you think it might cost you now, in dollars of today,
For the record, the price you'd pay is greater than you might think,
Add a hundred thousand bucks, and throw in the kitchen sink

You gotta be makin' twice as much, to see just half the gain,
Don't forget, now, to figure in, that hidden part of this game,
Not to worry, if you can earn more and more from here,
Enough to balance out the cost, inflation takes each year

300 now, from 200 then, what might it be tomorrow,
Purchase power goes down the drain,
No wonder we all got to borrow,
Purchase power, purchase power, losing more each day,
A little bit here, a little more there,
Inflation steals it away

Nobody ever wants to see, their money disappear,
Losing purchase power, is something we all should fear,
History has a lesson, that's gonna be learned again,
Inflation steals you blind, while gold becomes your friend

It's not the metal that's goin' up, it's the dollar goin' down,
Printing presses print away, but no store of value's found,
Over the years, as paper fails, as it will always do,
Gold endures the test of time, pure wealth, tried and true

Got Gold? I have been warning the visitors to this site (and everyone that I know) for over a year that they better get some gold...

The 1st time I posted on gold was on January 24th, 2005 when gold was trading at ~$427

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2005/01/interesting-quote-on-gold-from.html

Did you listen?

The 2nd time that I posted on Gold was on March 4th 2005 when gold was trading at ~ $434

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2005/03/western-banks-rigged-gold-market-study.html

Did you listen?

The 3rd time that I posted on Gold was on Sept. 14th, 2005 when Gold was trading at ~$450

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2005/09/barbarous-relic-its-not-what-you-think.html

Did you listen?

The 4th time I posted on Gold was on Nov. 14th when Gold was trading at ~ $469

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2005/11/federal-reserve-discontinues.html

Did you listen?

The 5th time I posted on Gold was on February 1st when Gold was trading at ~$565

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2006/02/go-gata-and-start-hoarding.html

Did you listen?

The 6th time I posted on Gold was Feb. 9th, 06 when Gold was trading at ~$560

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2006/02/open-letter-to-bill-murphy-of-gata-for.html

Did you listen?

The 7th time I posted on Gold was on Feb. 25th when Gold was trading at ~$554

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2006/02/gold-and-silver-is-going-to-moon.html

Did you listen?

The 8th time I posted on Gold was on March 6th, 06 when Gold was trading at ~$565

http://involuntaryservant.blogspot.com/2006/03/us-government-weeks-from-defaulting-on.html

Did you listen?

Today Gold hit $725.90 (which actually means that the purchasing power of crappy assed US Dollar dropped even further to where it now takes $725.90 to buy a single ounce of Gold).

Thanks for stopping by the site!

Etienne

PS The reason your money is going down the drain is the Federal Reserve is a private criminal organization that lobbied/bribed Congress in 1913 to give it an unconstituional monopoly over the issuance of money and credit in the US. They have used this monopoly to personally enrich themselves at your expense to the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars over the years the proceeds of which they have used to buy outright 99% of the politicians, think tanks, foundations, and MainStreamMedia to ensure that none of them ever tell you about it.

Since they have now looted essentially all the value out of the country and because the Internet is starting to open peoples eyes to what has been going on they are going to crash the dollar so you won't have any resources to do anything about it. They are going to chew up the army in Iraq so they can't protect us when the truch comes out and they are setting up a police state and surveillance society to control us like the slaves we have become when the whole thing comes crashing down. When it happens remember where you heard it first.

You can go back to watching TV now... I think American Idol is on...

Starve the Beast!- SHORT, MUST WATCH VIDEO

Click on the image above or Here.

Another phat multimedia assault against the war machine!

Watch the flash... then watch the trailerhere: http://theaters.sirnosir.com/modinput4.php?modin=50

And then pass this along to your peeps in the machine so we can stop this killing NOW!!

Etienne

Row of Explosives Going Off in the North Tower

Texas Style Shit Sandwiches

Now that I've got everyone's attention... Let me tell you what I really think of the First Family...

Click the image above or Here to see Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart rip both George and Laura Bush unmercilessly on the first episode of the Daily Show following the White House Correspondent's Dinner Last Year.

Stephen Colbert Rips Bush a New Asshole to His Face!!

Click the Image above or Here to watch the video

Here is a Blog with some snaps and commentary: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=4791

Bush glowered. Laura looked confused. Scott McClellan was like a dead deer caught in the headlights. Many of the journalists, celebs, ranking generals and other 'notables' at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner laughed openly, albeit uncomfortably, as Stephen Colbert of "The Colbert Report" just made himself about 500 times more of a national treasure and cemented himself as one of the most fearless satirists of this generation (instantly outpacing Jon Stewart, who, you get the feeling, wouldn't have had the nerve to go as far as Colbert did) by way of a savage and hilarious roast/takedown of President Bush, who was seated not eight feet away.

Have you heard? Did you see? You simply must. It was a revelation.

Even better than skewering that imbecile Bush who seemed like he couldn't tell if everyone was laughing at him about 50% of the time was bitch-slap Colbert gave the White House Press Corp! They TYPE! (and spell check!) classic... Etienne

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boetie

The complete text to the original Etienne de La Boetie's masterwork: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude can be found Here: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/boetie.pdf

Excerpts:

It is incredible how as soon as a people becomes subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say, on beholding such a situation, that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement. It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born. There is, however, no heir so spendthrift or indifferent that he does not sometimes scan the account books of his father in order to see if he is enjoying all the privileges of his legacy or whether, perchance, his rights and those of his predecessor have not been encroached upon. Nevertheless it is clear enough that the powerful influence of custom is in no respect more compelling than in this, namely, habituation to subjection. It is said that Mithridates trained himself to drink poison. Like him we learn to swallow, and not to find bitter, the venom of servitude. It cannot be denied that nature is influential in shaping us to her will and making us reveal our rich or meager endowment; yet it must be admitted that she has less power over us than custom, for the reason that native endowment, no matter how good, is dissipated unless encouraged, whereas environment always shapes us in its own way, whatever that may be, in spite of nature's gifts. …

…I am of the opinion that one should pity those who, at birth, arrive with the yoke upon their necks. We should exonerate and forgive them, since they have not seen even the shadow of liberty, and, being quite unaware of it, cannot perceive the evil endured through their own slavery. It is truly the nature of man to be free and to wish to be so, yet his character is such that he instinctively follows the tendencies that his training gives him.

Let us therefore admit that all those things to which he is trained and accustomed seem natural to man and that only that is truly native to him which he receives with his primitive, untrained individuality. Thus custom becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude. Men are like handsome racehorses who first bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while soon learn to enjoy displaying their harness and prance proudly beneath their trappings. Similarly men will grow accustomed to the idea that they have always been in subjection, that their fathers lived in the same way; they will think that they are obliged to suffer this evil, and will persuade themselves by example and imitation of others, finally investing those who order them around with proprietary rights, based on the idea that it has always been that way.

There are always a few, better endowed than others, who feel the weight of the yoke and cannot restrain themselves from attempting to shake it off: these are the men who never become tamed under subjection. These are in fact the men who, possessed of clear minds and far-sighted spirit, are not satisfied, like the brutish mass, to see only what is at their feet, but rather look about them, behind and before, and even recall the things of the past in order to judge those of the future, and compare both with their present condition. These are the ones who, having good minds of their own, have further trained them by study and learning. Even if liberty had entirely perished from the earth, such men would invent it. For them slavery has no satisfactions, no matter how well disguised.

Dollar falls as Sweden slashes holdings in half

Complete Financial Times Story Here.

Excerpts:

The US dollar fell against the euro in European morning trade on Friday as Sweden’s central bank said it had slashed its dollar holdings almost in half.

The Riksbank revealed that it had cut the proportion of dollars in its reserves from 37 to 20 per cent, as well as selling off all its holdings of yen, which previously amounted to 8 per cent of its reserves.

The central bank balanced these disposals by increasing its holdings of euros from 37 to 50 per cent, as well as building a new Norwegian krone position of 10 per cent.

Although Sweden’s reserves are small, at around $21bn, and the Riksbank said its re-weighting was complete, the news thrust the ongoing issue of potential central bank diversification out of the dollar back into the limelight.

“Today’s announcement will merely add to market fears that the end to the Federal Reserve tightening cycle will encourage more diversification away from the dollar, and into the most liquid alternative of the euro,” said Chris Turner, head of FX strategy research at ING Financial Markets, who reiterated its view that the euro will return to $1.35 by the end of the year.

The dollar slipped 0.2c to $1.2334 against the euro, Y0.15 to Y117.31 against the yen and 0.3c to $1.7811 versus sterling.

Another country diversifies away from the dollar. This is going to be bad. Remember where you heard it first. - Etienne

Bill Maher's Advice to George W. Bush

"Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you anymore. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the Army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people.

Listen to your mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards' maxed out. No one's speaking to you: Mission accomplished.

"Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time. Time to move on and try the next fantasy job. How about cowboy or space man?

"Now I know what you're saying. There're so many other things that you as President could involve yourself in. Please don't. I know, I know. There's a lot left to do. There's a war with Venezuela. Eliminating the sales tax on yachts. Turning the space program over to the church. And Social Security to Fannie Mae. Giving embryos the vote.

"But, Sir, none of that is going to happen now. Why? Because you govern like Billy Joel drives. You've performed so poorly! I'm surprised that you haven't given yourself a medal. You're a catastrophe that walks like a man. Herbert Hoover was a shitty president, but even he never conceded an entire city to rising water and snakes.

"On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky.

I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.

"So, yes, God does speak to you. What He is saying is, 'Take a hint.'"

Fischer vows to "spend every ounce" in defense of the "faith-based" US Dollar

DALLAS, April 11 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will do what it takes to maintain its credibility, which is central to preserving the integrity of the U.S. dollar, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said on Tuesday.

Alluding to the Fed's dual role of ensuring inflation doesn't "raise its ugly head" while still promoting the fastest possible noninflationary growth, Fisher said, "We seek to get it right. And the answer to your question is we will do what gets it right."

The Fed has raised interest rates in 15 consecutive quarter percentage point steps to 4.75 percent and warned that further policy firming may be needed -- language that financial markets bet means that rates will reach 5 percent by mid-year.

Answering audience questions after a speech to the Dallas Friday Group, Fisher said the U.S. dollar is a "faith-based currency" dependent on the credibility of a central bank.

"In addition to a faith-based currency, we are the currency of the world and we must maintain its integrity. As far as my involvement is concerned, I will spend every ounce of energy doing that. I have no doubt that my colleagues will do exactly the same," Fisher said.

Looking over Fisher's Resume it appears that the Federal Reserve Board Member from Brown Brothers Harriman is part of the problem at the Central Bank. Jimmy Carter Economic Advisor, Kissenger Partner, NAFTA negotiator, loose-liped clown. I thought these guys were supposed to be subtle when they spoke? I can't wait until these guys are doing the perp walk on CNN trying to explain away their Enron-style market manipulations and "faith-based currency" to a pissed-off American public. - Etienne