Sheila Casey

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Goldman Sachs: "great vampire squid... jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money"

There is no warm cranny in my heart for Matt Taibbi.  He penned one of the most viciously irrational hit jobs on the 9/11 truth movement ever.  But he has now written something of value:  a hit job on an operation that deserves it, Goldman Sachs.  Taibbi's article begins:

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Taibbi acknowledges that there's nothing the ordinary  (or even extraordinary) citizen can do about Goldman's massive rip-off of investors, homeowners, taxpayers and gasoline buyers.  Still, there is some satisfaction in knowing exactly how one is being screwed.  You're still being tortured, but the hood is off and you can watch while they disembowel you. 

The rest of this Rolling Stone article is here.

Webster Tarpley: Obama is more controlled by Wall St. than any previous president

Russia Today interviewed Webster Tarpley about Obama, the economic depression, and what we have to look forward to. (Spoiler: not much.)

The Big Collapse Could Be Very Near

Passing along without comment.  I don't know enough about finance to verify the truth of what Wenzel says, but he sure sounds convincing.  Convincingly terrifying. 

from Global Research, by Robert Wenzel:

The end of the current financial system, as we know it, may be imminent. If you would have asked me even two weeks ago if collapse was imminent, I would have said it was highly unlikely, now I am saying it is possible. Bernanke may be able to patch things up short-term, if he is lucky, but in the long term the U.S. financial structure is in serious trouble. There is just too much Treasury debt that needs to be raised. An international panic out of Treasury securities, even a slow controlled panic, means the Fed will be the major buyer. This will ultimately mean record inflation.

And keep this in mind, we have never seen a collapse of a currency like the dollar. Even the hyperinflation during Germany's Wiemar Period can not serve as an example. Since the dollar is the reserve currency of most of the world, a panic out of the dollar means more dollars will return to the U.S. shores than any country has ever experienced.

Other countries have had collapsed currencies, but never in the history of world of finance has so much currency been held outside a country of issue that could come flying back, almost on a moments notice. If the panic out of the dollar starts, even if Bernanke stops printing money (unlikely), all the dollars flying back into the U.S. could cause a huge price inflation all on its own.

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The rich coughed up more dough under Reagan and Nixon than they will under Obama (graph)

Source: MoveOn.org

Why the Economic Destruction of America May Be Step One of A Global Banking Power Grab

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has a piece on Infowars that lays out his view that the collapse of our economy is being done intentionally from the highest (or should we say lowest) people in our government.

For obvious reasons, these people shall go unnamed, but what they’re now telling me is that the economic meltdown is merely a means to an end. It is being done deliberately, they say, at the very highest levels to achieve a well-planned outcome. What outcome is that? Global rule over all banking, of course.

How to take over the world’s finances

Imagine an international Federal Reserve that creates and controls the money supply for the entire world. The centralization of financial power into the hands of the few would be unprecedented. What power the Fed wields over the United States today, a "global Fed" could soon wield across the entire world.

Achieving such a power grab, however, is no small task. Nations will not voluntarily surrender power over their currencies…

Unless there is a crisis!

In a crisis scenario, nations will give up practically anything — freedoms, finances, and yes, even their own currencies if it means avoiding certain economic disaster. If there’s one thing that the world has learned from 9/11, it’s that the best way to grab power from the People is to either engineer a disaster or piggyback on one that occurs on its own. When faced with the fear of annihilation, the People of any nation will not merely surrender their freedoms and finances, they will beg to turn them over to any apparent "authority" who promises a solution.

Survive the collapse of society as we know it

Dmitry Orlov advises: 

What I generally tell people is that, during the collapse, most people will lose most of their money...the important thing is to avoid losing all your money at once, but to coast down gently, while coming up with ways to survive without money, by relying on personal connections and relationships, home production of various kinds, barter, favors, gifts, and so forth.

I made the horrific discovery in August, 2007, that our world is ruled by a criminal cabal that is engineering the destruction of the world economy, to force us into servitude and a one world fascist dictatorship.  I have seen nothing since then to make me change my mind about this. In fact, due to the amazing gullibility and complacency of the American people, the plan is unfolding even faster than I expected. 

Since late 2007 I've been urging friends to investigate 9/11 and the shadow government.  I sold what I had in the stock market in August '08 and started advising people to stock up on non-perishable food in September.  If you have land, a vegetable garden is an excellent idea. 

Does this seem too far out to believe?  Ask yourself:  If I were a victim of propaganda, how would I know?  Their control is not yet complete.  There are still ways to learn the truth if you are determined to do so.  The story of my awakening is here.

In a book published in 1970 by former FBI agent, BYU professor and Salt Lake City police chief Skousen, the author warns: 

...a gigantic complex of political and economic power which would cover the whole earth...is on the verge of becoming a total reality.

Skousen's book was based on the writings of Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's history professor at Georgetown University, who wrote in 1966: 

...the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.

Georgia Congressman and Democrat Larry P. McDonald said: 

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.

McDonald candidly discussed this vast conspiracy on Crossfire in May 1983 and was killed four months later in the shootdown of KAL 007 over the USSR.  The video of McDonald on Crossfire is here.

J. Edgar Hoover: 

The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

There are more of us than there are of them.  My hope was, that if enough of us could wake up before it was too late, we had some chance of forestalling a terrible fate.  My blog has had 12,500 unique visitors in the past two months, and the Rock Creek Free Press distributes 18,000 copies every month, but this is miniscule compared to the influence of our corrupt and complicit mainstream media. 

I strongly urge you to investigate for yourself.  I am happy to suggest books, websites and documentaries which will be helpful.

Here are some thoughts about what to do with your remaining assets, from someone who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Jon Stewart slices, dices and eviscerates CNBC

How do people like Cramer keep their jobs?  Clearly their accuracy in predicting the market has nothing to do with it.

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Bailout exceeds cost of all US wars combined (plus the New Deal and NASA)

from the Rock Creek Free Press:

According to CRS, the Congressional Research Service, all major US wars (including such events as the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, the invasion of Panama, the Kosovo War and numerous other small conflicts), cost a total of $7.5 trillion in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars.

Casey Research, of Vermont, (no relation) has analyzed the costs of the government bailouts of the housing crisis, the credit crisis and others and has concluded that the total is $8.5 trillion, which is more than the cost of all US wars, the Louisiana Purchase, the New Deal, the Marshall Plan and the NASA Space Program combined.