Posted on 11/14/2008 6:32:48 AM PST by freedom9
"I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has loaned two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of we the people, who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about)the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palins pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more imporant.)
Mr. Obamas winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.
Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his brown shirts would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant mediadid you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.
(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Dont forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six yearsa shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidencyit was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believeand why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am."
Creeps me out, but I've had the same thoughts as well.
That guy has the coldest eyes.
Fernanado Ortega is THE BEST!
Get a grip.
2001 ?
“with all these people with experiential knowledge warning us in various ways Im getting kind of apprehensive.
A new Hitler?
A second Civil War?
What?!”
Dunno exactly, but you should be apprehensive. Something is definitely in the air.
Keep an eye on the Mayan calendar, too.
No need for mayan anything...just read your Bible.
I second that (e)motion.
Something of historic proportion is happening, this is predicted, God has prophesied as the good book of Matthew is written, this is only the beginning of Armageddon
They can remove my vote from my cold dead hands. Nice to see how many people would easily just give up their vote!
Yes! “Something wonderful is going to happen”
Yep, the Bible relates the story, but the calendar gives it a timeframe.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
What “happened” is that the USA elected a Communist.
As I recall, the scriptures warn that even the elect are deceived.
Please get off your condescending high horse, and check the mathematical calculations of the Mayan calendar before you continue with your preachy sermon.
You can cry and wail as much as you’d like. I will not stop preaching the Lord’s word.
I didn’t do the things, this guy writes about. Did you? Who’s the “we” here? I’m not guilty, identify the people and ideology doing the bad actions. ID the bad actors.
has loaned two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months,
We loaned several trillion about a decade ago...to who?
I've been pondering things for days now. All the bits and snippets from FR and elsewhere are starting to fill in a few of the gaps. Things are still too murky as yet to truly call it a terrorist attack, but indications are it very well was a well planned attack on our weakest link.
Hypothesis: The League of Arab Nations caused the current economic turmoil by driving the commodities markets resulting in the crash of the American (hardest hit) and Global economic systems.
Snippets:
Already, foreign governments have invested about $27 billion in Merrill, Citi, UBS, AG and Morgan Stanley. Jan.08. http://www.gata.org/node/5918
It's not just Wall Street bailouts. Foreign ownership of U.S. assets is accelerating - and that's a worrisome trend. http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/30/news/economy/Colvin_recession.fortune/index.htm
Arab league had invested over 60% of their wealth in commodities over the last 2 years. It drove the oil and food prices up world wide. They then began getting out of commodities. Oil $147 to $78 drop (Bloom). So that would make the democrats right about the speculators, but for the wrong reasons. The oil demand was a false demand created by heavy investment by the middleeast in their own oil commodities. Something that we could never control unless we used protectionism in our own markets.
do you understand Chinese? Its from a Chinese financial newspaper.http://news.creaders.net/headline/newsViewer.php?=id=360999&id=838677&dcid=1 The American government has two options to finance the $700B bailout, the first one is to issue more US debt, the end result is that US dollar will lose more value in the long run, and China will suffer as we have a huge foreign reseve denominated in US dollars. The alternative is to force US government to sell their gold reserve to us, and this alternative is more fair.
Now you'll have to copy paste them links, but they work. Add on that Venezeula is selling Russian their unmined gold and most likely selling to Iran and China. Is the murky picture forming yet...? The global domino effect of the US going into a depression just isn't going to happen. What is most likely is the advancement of a global monetary system based on gold.
Trouble is...America doesn't own any of the gold in its vaults. We have been effectively check-mated and will surrender under Obama in early 2009. Dollars will be worthless.
Ultimately, I hope I am wrong.
No kidding.
The rules will be changed or the evidence finally obliterated once these A$$holes take the helm.
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