a Rolling Stone that gathers insite

[thunderdownunder]

I know its old news but it keeps getting worse Obama gets his Medical Insurance through and the Big Phama jump. That tells me one thing - tis bad for the little people and so so profitable for them. Where are the Jobs The jobs that support everything on top. still 400,000 a week hitting the street and Nothing from anyone to help out those in greatest need. Oh dear ! how much more can the mind take in. Its rotten to the core and festering away and no one wants to lance the boils - except Matt.
But I think he's wrong, He must be wrong, it just could not be, under all the governance out there, someone must have pressed the emergency stop button- You do have an Emergency stop button don't you. Please tell me there is one built into the system somewhere. Please

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...big_takeover/1

[Sidewinder]

Re: a Rolling Stone that gathers insite

I know its old news but it keeps getting worse Obama gets his Medical Insurance through and the Big Phama jump. That tells me one thing - tis bad for the little people and so so profitable for them. Where are the Jobs The jobs that support everything on top. still 400,000 a week hitting the street and Nothing from anyone to help out those in greatest need. Oh dear ! how much more can the mind take in. Its rotten to the core and festering away and no one wants to lance the boils - except Matt.
But I think he's wrong, He must be wrong, it just could not be, under all the governance out there, someone must have pressed the emergency stop button- You do have an Emergency stop button don't you. Please tell me there is one built into the system somewhere. Please

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...big_takeover/1

Nah - all we've got is this big red EASY button...:mad:

[bcassill]

Re: a Rolling Stone that gathers insite

Am in the middle of reading Mike Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon." Unfortunately, I'm about 5 years late to a party that some seem to have foreseen long ago. The elites figured out long ago that the real money was made on Wall Street and in controlling the natural resources like oil that make modern civilization possible, not in manufacturing teddy bears and flat screen TV's. When you begin to see how everything that is done from intelligence to war to foreign policy is done solely to serve the economic policy interests of a small wealthy elite, you begin to understand that the world is every bit as depraved, thuggish, and brutal as anything seen in ancient times. In a world where Wall Street is the nexus of the world's capital flows and each country is an economic vassal of the moneyed interests (since everyone buys and sells in dollars), it is no coincidence that the U.S. military has a ubiquitous presence around the world and consumes better than 50% of world's military budget. In Mafia speak, they ARE the ultimate enforcer that ensures that the game continues by keeping everyone at the casino table. The money titans set the house rules and everyone else if forced to play, or else. This is the reason why the U.S. dollar is not going anywhere for the foreseeable future. Sure, there are the BRIC's and other countries who make noise, but their options are limited in a dollar dominated world where the Euro area is imploding and the IMF is nothing more than another extension of American economic policy. Even the "Chinese Miracle" of infinite growth is being shown to be a mirage of asset bubbles, cooked economic numbers, and increasing social unrest. However, the elites must be afraid in the thought that the game may not go on forever. Hence, the anti-terror laws passed since 9/11. They have nothing to do with terror but everything to do with control since it gives the government carte blanche authority to monitor phone records, emails, credit card transactions, and internet activity to better keep an eye on dissidents and malcontents. Of course, the public will likely not just roll over and play dead on the march towards tyranny. No, we'll need another crisis, one much larger than 9/11, to convince the public to give up more of their civil rights. Whether one is manufactured or simply "allowed to happen" is beside the point. It will likely prove difficult, if not impossible, to sway the American people twice in a row, not with the current level of mistrust and anger towards the government. However, a second incident carries significant blow back risk that could quickly morph into a political crisis. The minute the troops are called out to "maintain the peace" they run the risk of going from being "our heroes" to wearing a bullseye on the back of their uniform along with anyone else seen as associated with the government's efforts to maintain order. With a significant portion of the electorate unwilling to believe that the President is even an American citizen, I find it unlikely that many of them will be willing to give up their 2nd Amendment rights as was the case after Katrina. No, the end will come when you begin to see the first cracks in the American hegemony. We're not there yet, but we are well along the road. How will it ultimately happen? It's anyone's guess, but I'm putting my money on an internal political crisis. The American public are no longer interested in the political theater of Right vs. Left but are increasingly forming a common front against the Wall Street interests and the government that is increasingly seen to serve their interests. This crisis, when it comes, will likely be tied to a 2nd economic crisis resulting from the continuing debt implosion. The subsequent shift in political power away from the money elites, however slight, might be all that is required for the crack to form. At that point, the game is over and the various countries around the world whom we call "allies" will be looking for a way out. Some interested parties will certainly be looking for payback and for a way to unseat us from our perch atop the heap of stinking economic garbage. That will be when the real SHTF.

Got your bunker built yet? :eek:

[don]

Re: a Rolling Stone that gathers insite

No, we'll need another crisis, one much larger than 9/11, to convince the public to give up more of their civil rights. Whether one is manufactured or simply "allowed to happen" is beside the point.

This echoes G. Edward Griffin's insight that only war works to get the general population to not question their lot and sacrifice even further. Too much peace brings a questioning of those in power and great wealth.

[roxtar]

Re: a Rolling Stone that gathers insite

It will likely prove difficult, if not impossible, to sway the American people twice in a row, not with the current level of mistrust and anger towards the government.

You forget that this government is a master at dividing and classifying people into tight little groups, then causing conflict amongst those groups.

I think that when the "SHTF" they'll have pitted us against one another to the point that troops on the streets will indeed be a welcome sight for many of the spaghetti spined that have been told that they've been victimized all their lives and there's nothing they can do without gov't help.

The only thing that's going to cause the necessary kind of widespread distrust of the government is if for some reason, the checks stop rolling out on the 3rd of every month. At that point.... there will be a good number of us that actually CAN take care of ourselves that will be calling for some sort of gov't action.

This all has to come to a head eventually and it's not going to be pretty. I just refuse to give the average American enough credit to think that they'd do anything other than run to the government in a time of crisis, even if it means that they end up collectively on the ground with a knee in their back getting rammed up the "you know what" with no lube.