Posted on 09/25/2008 9:45:36 PM PDT by joanie-f
Edited on 09/30/2008 5:17:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I urge every reader here to take ten minutes out of your day sometime soon and watch this video. Then, if you believe as I do, that it is the most powerful, most truthful exposé available as to the criminal government/Wall Street elements that are behind our current economic meltdown, please send it to as many people as you can.
I know many of you have volunteered, or will be volunteering, to work for the election of McCain-Palin. I will be doing the same. But there is no amount of envelope licking, phone calling, or wearing out of shoe leather that will be able to match the distributing via e-mail of this ten-minute video that fingers the culprits that the media are attempting to keep under wraps. Those culprits are directly involved in this election and the desire to attain the White House and retain control of Congress.
We cannot allow that to happen, and I believe the compilation of facts that this video represents, if placed in the hands of all thinking Americans, will see to it that it doesn't.
In his attempt to explain the causes of this crisis, the President insinuated in his speech of last night that it all started because America’s economy was considered so brilliant that it attracted investors from all over the world. As a result, banks and financial institutions were awash in money, and that state of affairs planted the seed for this debacle. (*choke*)
That is the greatest whitewash of the reasons for this catastrophe imaginable. Either President Bush is completely ill-informed and he believes that tripe, or he is the most blatant liar since Gepetto’s son walked off the woodcarver’s bench.
After the President’s speech, and after I stopped spitting nails, my husband and I watched Brit Hume and his panel on FoxNews offer up a brief analysis.
Charles Krauthammer, who is among my favorite political pundits, opined that the speech was quite good, and that he was surprised that the President spent virtually one-fifth of it attempting to explain the causes of the current crisis – since, in Krauthammer’s opinion, doing so amounts to simply an ‘academic exercise’.
An ‘academic exercise’? To discern what caused this major economic meltdown? Shall we just accept the notion that ‘too much foreign money’ floating around in American banks was the catalyst?
If we don't uncover the reason for this crisis, and determine who was responsible for it, will there be any reform? Or, post-bailout, will the perpetrators eventually continue with business-as-usual? Anyone who has an even rudimentary knowledge of government at any level has the answer to that question at his fingertips.
We are being fed whitewashed reports about the cause of this economic meltdown. If the true perpetrators of this massive criminal undertaking that promises to have devastating effects on the American people for decades to come are not uncovered, removed from power, and punished, there is no hope of realizing the kind of all-encompassing economic and political reform that will be necessary to not only stabilize our economy, but to ensure our very survival as a free republic.
~ joanie
Joanie, that video is not going to convince anybody of anything.
It moves way too fast, the text is too small and too blurry to read in most of the screens, and that garbage ‘music’ just adds to the annoyance.
I can’t imagine anyone watching this, or taking away anything of substance if they do.
As to 'no one taking anything of substance away from it', I sent the link to nearly two hundred people this morning, some of whom I know were so uncommitted to either candidate that tonight's 'debate' is important to them (I can't imagine being in such a fog, but such people do exist), and so far I have received eleven responses from that subgroup that dispute your 'substance' claim.
From their comments, they did indeed watch it, and it did indeed educate them about the causes of this crisis.
The awful music, and the confines of Youtube notwithstanding, I believe there is a lot of merit in the undertaking.
~ joanie
Joanie, the video is linked on the Drudge Report now, about halfway down the left side of the page.
Thanks very much joanie-f for the ping, link and commentary! Great stuff!
Truth/freedom BUMP!
I found it, had to click on the actual youtube version rather than just his sight.
Thanks for the link to your blog, I didn’t even know you had one.
The best way for me to quickly cover my email distribution for the video was, I freely admit, to use a great deal of your own language from this thread. I hope you won't mind--it was the fastest way to cover a lot of ground.
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Totally correct.
The Democratic party is a criminal organization and ACORN is their THUG ARM being used to ensure they remain in power.
It’s obvious our own law enforcement agencies cannot or will not stop the crime.
They want our nation destroyed. They have almost achieved their goal.
I'll ping you to one I pulled for us dummies. ;^)
THE BANKS HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN REVOLUTION TO TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY.
We need a GREEN COUNTERrevolution before mourning or morning.
GREEN as in the color of money. We need to run on these Banks until D.C. starts paying attention to US instead of these on Wallstreet who want to steal our money a trillion dollars at a time.
A) When they stop the bailouts we stop our run.
B) When they put folks in jail, like they did Milken, then we start to reinvest.
C) They start bailouts again, OFF TO THE RACES AGAIN.
D) GO TO STEP A.
These endless bailouts are like trying to bailout an Aircraft Carrier while allowing the hole in the hull to get bigger and bigger. STop it up FIRST.
It like trying to put out an oil well on fire by adding some water and air.
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Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.’’ .......I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” —Andrew Jackson,,
this is the video direct link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH—o
BTTT
After explaining to my 15 year old daughter, that this “bail out” would effectively socialize our country; but “something must be done”....she, bless her heart, chided me.
She said, DON’T DO IT! I would rather be free and poor, than living in a socialist country.
Wise words from little girl, don’t you think.
Our grandparents suffered through the great Depression. Isn’t freedom worth it?
i know time is a big consideration when making these videos - and it does move fast - i wish it could contain a few details that i think were missing:
jamie gorelick was there with raines (at fannie mae) and got her bonus checks
raines was the only person to get fined (paid by an insurance policy - fannie mae paid the premiums)
indy mac was a spinoff of countrywide (i think to offload bad loan paper) - schumer killed off indy
then again - too much info overwhelms people
maybe republicans could have done more to stop this - but the bottom line is that democrats caused this meltdown forcing their social experiments on us - its time to tell them to shut up and sit down - the adults are taking charge
Our grandparents suffered through the great Depression. Isn’t freedom worth it?
If there must be an economic 'flood', of Biblical proportions, the excruciatingly painful cleansing that would result might just prove to be the painful lesson that sets America back in search of the Founders' vision.
Perhaps, rather than condoning a bailout, instead we need to, somewhat passively, simply watch the corruptors finally receive the horrendous comeuppance that they deserve. That we must suffer along with them is terribly unfair and unfortunate. But sometimes a deep and essential cleansing demands such suffering, on the part of the innocent as well.
Thanks for your excellent comments.
~ joanie
If Jackson only knew how apropos his words would be 180 years later!
Thank you for this. I have it saved for future reference.
~ joanie
Lenin promised us that "they" would use our own systems and processes to bring us down.
Everyone in America should have this video linked in their in-box, by the end of this next week.
Send this video's link to all your friends, family, and other contacts.
Here's TheMouthPiece's 2nd version of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY
Then, ask people to Web search Barack Obama and all of these other names:
- Frank Marshall Davis
- William Ayers
- Bernardine Dohrn
- Khalid al Mansour
- Saul Alinsky
- Jeremiah Wright AND Liberation Theology AND communism
- Tony Rezko
- Jodie Davis
- Mazen Asbahi
- Raila Odinga
There’s now a version 2 of the video that’s about one minute longer than the original, and it was just posted about an hour ago.
The CRA regulations revised in 1995 were part of the Clinton Administration’s initiative to create performance-based and objective standards. The new regulations attempt to satisfy community activists by focusing more attention on the lending, investment, and service records of banks. The regulations also attempt to reduce the amount of paperwork required of lending institutions. Gone are previous “paper trail-generating regulations” such as documenting participation by a bank’s board of directors in reviewing [its] CRA compliance. In their place are regulations that are supposed to flexibly assess lending activities in low- and moderate- income neighborhoods of institutions of various financial capacities.
Effective January 1996, the updated regulations established three different tests for lending institutions and a strategic plan option. Under each test, examiners rate banks according to their lending records and responsiveness to community needs. Banks receive a score based on their evaluations of "Outstanding", "Satisfactory", "Needs to Improve", or "Substantial non-compliance." The last two scores can result in delays or denials of mergers, acquisitions, or expansions of services.
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