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The Project

2012-10-06T17:37:00.000-04:00

In 2001, an inconspicuous manifesto now known as "The Project" was recovered during a raid in Switzerland: A manifesto that turned out to be a Muslim road-map for infiltrating and defeating the West. Today, files containing evidence from the largest terror financing trial in U.S. history, which include details about "The Project", are being withheld by the Department of Justice. In an explosive two-part mini-series, TheBlaze documentary unit investigates how the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the American government and exposes how our nation's safety is in jeopardy as a result of this dangerous government cover up. -- [WATCH] --

Ignorance may be bliss but I can promise you it's consequences are not. Please watch and make up your own mind.

-- http://www.theblaze.com/theproject/ --

...our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour.

2012-07-04T07:49:00.000-04:00

Image courtesy of thedetroitnews.com

--Please take a moment to read this today. Share it with your friends and family. It's how this whole thing got started in the first place. --tFV

WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another...and to assume, among the Powers Of The Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

HE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

HE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

HE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them and formidable to Tyranny only.

HE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

HE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the people.

HE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, Incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean Time, exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

HE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

HE has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

HE has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

HE has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

HE has kept among us, in times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our Legislatures.

HE has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

HE has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

FOR quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

FOR protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

FOR cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

FOR imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

FOR depriving us in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

FOR transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences:

FOR abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government, and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:

FOR taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

FOR suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

HE has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection, and waging War against us.

HE has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

HE is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny, already begun with Circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized Nation.

HE has constrained our fellow Citizens, taken Captive on the high Seas, to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their Friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

HE has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

IN every Stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every Act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

NOR have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them, from Time to Time, of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native Justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our Connexions and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the Rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be,FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connexion between them and the State of Great-Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of Right do. And for the Support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120704/OPINION01/207040310/1008/opinion01/Full-text-Declaration-Independence

Rumors of War III: Target U.S.

2012-04-27T22:27:00.000-04:00

For those of you interested in viewing Rumors Of War III, the entire documentary is available below. Ignorance may be bliss but I can promise you it's consequences are not.

America is under attack. The enemy moves freely amongst us and even advises the very government bodies established to protect us. They’ve already smuggled in at least one weapon of mass effect and are working to set up missile bases within striking distance of the homeland. Their goal is singular and specific: The downfall of The United States of America. The scariest part? It’s happening right before our eyes. You don’t want to miss this documentary – irrefutable evidence of the attack underway being perpetrated by the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah.

Please watch and make up your own mind.

Van Jones: Radical Ends

2012-04-21T21:46:00.000-04:00

I have often said it is better to have an honest enemy than a dishonest friend. Not because I'm desirous of having enemies but because I'm tired of being sold out behind closed doors by those claiming to represent my values. "Honest people don't hide their deeds", as Emily Bronte so eloquently put it. Often it is possible to determine what someone is thinking by listening to what they say. And if you want to know what they believe, watch what they do. But if you really want to know where an individual's headed, take a look at where they came from, who they've been with, and who their associations are. Trajectory can be a powerful thing. Thankfully not as powerful as an informed citizenry.

[Recap - Van Jones: The Radical Pose.]

In 2000 Jones campaigned aggressively against California Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that established harsher penalties for a variety of violent crimes and called for more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. Jones' efforts incorporated a hip-hop soundtrack that aimed to attract young black men clad in such gang-style garb as puffy jackets and baggy pants, who would call attention to the alleged injustices of the so-called "prison-industrial complex." But infighting and jealousies between various factions of Jones' movement caused it ultimately to fall apart. "I saw our little movement destroyed over a lot of sh**-talking and bullsh**," said Jones.[1]

The year prior to this Jones had helped organize a rally in Oakland, California, calling for a retrial on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. Around 2002 Jones produced (for the Ella Baker Center) and appeared [3:50 mark] on an album that starred Abu Jamal. That album featured lyrics depicting America not only as a place where "terrorists are made," but also as "a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil-thirsty ... mother f***ers" who "got people of color playing servant to do that sh** for them."

After the demise of his anti-Prop 21 movement, Jones decided to change his political tactics. Specifically, he toned down the overt hostility and defiant rage that previously had animated his activism. "Before, we would fight anybody, any time," he said. "No concession was good enough; we never said 'Thank you.' Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I'll work with anybody, I'll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends."'[2]

His new approach was modeled after the tactics outlined by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who stressed the need for revolutionaries to mask the extremism of their objectives and to present themselves as moderates until they could gain some control over the machinery of political power.[3] In a 2005 interview, Jones stated that he still considered himself a revolutionary, but a more effective one thanks to his revised tactics.

That same year Jones co-founded Color of Change. By organizing "black folks from every economic class" he could "strengthen Black America's political voice".

Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.

In 2007, Jones shifted his focus slightly to the creation of jobs for poor people to revamp energy infrastructures with wind a solar power[4] and launched Green For All, a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty." A major funder of Green for All was George Soros's Open Society Institute.[5] This prompted Jones to write his first book: The Green Collar Economy.

The Green Collar Economy was released on October 7, 2008 and focused on environmental and economic issues. These issues served as the vehicle for Jones to transport his radical kernel and one day transform the "whole of society". By 2008 Jone's ideologies were no longer being communicated by a “rowdy black nationalist" "wearing combat boots and carrying a Black Panther bookbag”. They were spoken clearly by a respectable African-American wearing a suit and tie with a charismatic smile.

In a January interview Jones asserted that America was plagued by "eco-apartheid," where low-income people typically live in more polluted environments than wealthy people. He described the vision of a green-redistribution the following way:

"The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities because they don’t have a racial justice framework... Let's take money away from the incarceraters and polluters and start giving money to the community base... The gulag economy is overbuilt and the green economy is under built."[6]

In order for this redistribution to take place Jones knew he needed to target the middle class. As taught by Saul Alinsky, the middle class would need to be impregnated with a sense of guilt and shame. In order to take over institutions and get power, the middle class had to be convinced that they were somehow lucky winners in "life's lottery". Alinsky advised his followers that the poor have no power. "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. [7]

Modernizing Alinsky's approach Jones' came up with what he called the "four wheels of the ecological u-turn". These four wheels consist of labor (union workers), progressive (far-left) business, environmentalists (anit-capitalists), and racial justice coming together to transform the system [9:13 mark]. [These are the same groups currently involved in and coordinating the Occupy movement.]

Carl Davidson, former staff writer for the Maoist publication The Guardian and involved with the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) and League for Revolutionary Struggle,[8] promoted Vans' vision for a Green Economy at the Democratic Socialists of America run in April 2009:

"we had to unite a militant minority around socialist tasks, so I offered the solidarity economy movement and its projects as practical examples of cooperative forms that could, within the capitalist present, point to a socialist future.[9]

This was three months after Jones himself made clear his desire to incrementally socialize, by stealth, the U.S. economy:

"Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression altogether ... until [the green economy] becomes the engine for transforming the whole society."[10]

Language is key to understanding the nature of this movement. By clothing a radical Maoist/Leninist ideology in Capitalist Free-Market language Jones was able to say one thing while working towards achieving something much different. This would be particularly important for co-opting America's middle class.

Up until this point Van Jones had functioned primarily under the mainstream radar. That is until he teamed up with another Saul Alinsky proponent looking to fundamentally transform the United States of America. No longer would he be stationed in Oakland Ca. Now he'd be working out of Washington D.C., 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to be exact. What started out as a Radical Pose and re branded to achieve Radical Ends was now organizing to set up an entirely new system:

This movement is deeper than a solar panel ... don’t stop there! We’re gonna change the whole system! We’re gonna change the whole thing ... we want a new system![11]

Coming soon: The Fundamental Transformation

[1]-http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
[2]-http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=2406
[3]-Ibid.
[4]-http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/Van_Jones/
[5]-http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
[6]-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Zb0EVKOkY&feature=player_embedded#!
[7]-http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm
[8]-http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/fugitive-days-by-bill-ayers/
[9]-http://www.zcommunications.org/left-forum-2009-high-energy-colorful-mosaic-by-carl-davidson
[10]-http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
[11]-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlOv8RCkcXE

Van Jones: The Radical Pose

2012-04-02T22:43:00.000-04:00

It would be in every American's best interest to know the name Van Jones. Moreover, people in the US need to know where this man's been, who he's been with, and understand who his associations are. He's "willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends". These words are the road map between Jone's early visible radicalism and his recent "respectable" activism. "The Radical Pose" is the first in a two part series focusing on President Obama's former Special Adviser Van Jones.

Born on September 20 1968, Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones grew up in West Tennessee where he graduated from Jackson Central-Merry High School in Jackson. Jones went on to earn a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from the University of Tennessee at Martin and in 1993 earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.

In 1992, while studying at Yale, Jones interned at Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in San Francisco where he acted as a legal observer during the trial of the four policemen charged with assaulting Rodney King.[1]

If you're not familiar with the term, a legal observer is an individual who attends a public demonstration, protest or other activity where there is a potential for conflict between the public or activists and the police. Jones' interaction during the King trial and subsequent protests was to monitor, record and report on any unlawful or improper police behavior.

As the riots broke out Jones' participation on the streets of San Francisco is a tad fuzzy. In an essay he wrote soon after the rioting and republished in The Huffington Post in May 2007, Jones said he "just marched around and chanted slogans" as other protesters set trash cans afire, smashed car windows and threw rocks at passing motorists. However, he is later quoted as saying,

"Yes, the Great Revolutionary Moment had at long last come. And the time, clearly, was ours! So we stole stuff. Y'know, stole stuff. Radios, tennis shoes. Well, not everybody, of course."[2]

As a result, Jones and many others were arrested. He wrote of his jail experience:

I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of... I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary...I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.[3]

In 1994 Jones went on to join and lead a prominent Bay Area communist organization-Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).[4] They held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades.[5]

STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as “the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples”. In 2006 Van Jones named his newborn son “Cabral”-in Amilcar Cabral’s honor.[6]

According to former Jones colleague Nina Rothschild Utne in every e-mail Van Jones sends, he includes this quote from Amílcar Cabral;

“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories... Our experience has shown us that in the general framework of daily struggle this battle against ourselves, this struggle against our own weaknesses... is the most difficult of all.”[7]

This quote is also found under the preface section of the STORM Handbook.

In 1995, Jones started Bay Area PoliceWatch. PoliceWatch was a hotline and lawyer-referral service for alleged victims claiming police abuse to speak with bar-certified lawyers.[8]

We designed a computer database, the first of its kind in the country, that allows us to track problem officers, problem precincts, problem practices, so at the click of a mouse we can now identify trouble spots and troublemakers. This has given us a tremendous advantage in trying to understand the scope and scale of the problem. Now, obviously, just because somebody calls and says, 'Officer so-and-so did something to me,' doesn't mean it actually happened, but if you get two, four, six phone calls about the same officer, then you begin to see a pattern. It gives you a chance to try and take affirmative steps.[9]

Building off the success of PoliceWatch, Jones created the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996. The center is named after the unsung hero of the civil-rights movement Ella Baker who worked closely with communists for years including secret party member Stanley Levison (for many years the CPUSA's top money man). Based in Oakland, CA, the organization is a "non-profit strategy and action center " with the stated aim of "to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America."

Jones helped organize an October 1999 rally in Oakland, California, calling for a retrial on behalf of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. Around 2002, Jones, who had experience as a record producer, produced (for the Ella Baker Center) an album that starred Abu Jamal. That album featured lyrics depicting America not only as a place where "terrorists are made," but also as "a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil-thirsty ... mother f***ers" who "got people of color playing servant to do that sh** for them."[10]

The radical pose is only part of Jone's story. In part 2, Van Jones: Radical Ends, we'll take a closer look at his transition to a "respectable" activist, his new found credibility, and what he's setting up for next.

[1]-http://keywiki.org/index.php/Van_Jones#cite_ref-2
[2]-http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/04/radicalization-obamas-green-czar/
[3]-http://archive.truthout.org/article/eliza-strickland-the-new-face-environmentalism
[4]-http://keywiki.org/index.php/Van_Jones#cite_ref-2
[5]-http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/Green_Jobs_Czar_-_Van_Jones/
[6]-http://keywiki.org/index.php/Van_Jones#cite_ref-2
[7]-http://freecitynews.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=b8efb64f59a5c357ca9f2965ab8ade6f&topic=207.0
[8]-http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/Green_Jobs_Czar_-_Van_Jones/
[9]-http://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/van.html

[10]-http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

Other links used in this article:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/van-jones-green-jobs-czar-a-self-described-communist-arrested-during-rodney-king-riots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Van_Jones

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/Green_Jobs_Czar_-_Van_Jones/

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-06/politics/obama.adviser.resigns_1_van-jones-white-house-czar?_s=PM:POLITICS

http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business_politics/van-jones/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/speaktruthtopower/van.html

http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/LoudonrprtJones.pdf

http://ironicsurrealism.com/2009/08/29/reclaiming-revolution-history-summation-lessons-from-the-work-of-standing-together-to-organize-a-revolutionary-movement-storm/

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Van_Jones#cite_note-2

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/President/US/Barack_Obama/Scandals/Green_Jobs_Czar_-_Van_Jones/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/04/radicalization-obamas-green-czar/

Loosing Altitude

2012-03-26T18:53:00.000-04:00

Those who've followed the FairView over the past few years are familiar with the idea that the US dollar is being setup to one day lose it's world reserve status. Back in 2009 we discussed an article by Larry Edelson entitled, "A Sneak Peek at the Future...". In that article Edelson pieced together quotes from world leaders calling for a "seismic shake-up of the world currency structure" and concluded that behind closed doors these world leaders were planning for a new world reserve currency. The following are the quotations he referenced:

French President Sarkozy recently declared, "We must rethink the financial system from scratch, as at Bretton Woods" ... and that it's time to "change the rules of the game."

British Prime Minister Brown touts "a new global financial order," describing this as a"decisive moment" for the world economy to adopt a "new Bretton Woods."

European Central Bank council member Ewald Nowotny calls into question the"centrality of the U.S. dollar" and further states that the U.S., Europe, and Asia are developing a "tri-polar global currency system to replace the current dollar-centric reserve structure with more centers of gravity."

At the recent World Economic Forum, Russia's Prime Minister Putin explains that "Excessive dependence on a single reserve currency is dangerous for the global economy."

The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and the unofficial mouthpiece of the Beijing government, warns of the threat of a "financial tsunami" and urges action. "The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States."

On March 19, the United Nations Commission on Reforms of International Finance and Economic Structures, chaired by the 2001 Economics Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, recommended that the dollar be replaced as the world's reserve currency.

On March 23, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank, proposed replacing the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund.

[The entire article can be viewed here and is well worth the read]

Edelson also made a recommendation to 'keep your ears tuned to the media for phrases like "new financial architecture" ... "new monetary system" ... the "rules of the game" ... "Bretton Woods II" ...' and referred to them as "cover words that will ultimately spell a dramatic change in the value of money."

In April of 2011 "hundreds of the economic policy elite gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire" for what has been labeled Bretton Woods 2. "Bretton Woods is where the world leaders met [in 1944] and constituted a post-war world monetary order. This choice reflected the aspiration to bring order out of what clearly is monetary policy anarchy."

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse and the crescendoing debt crises currently plaguing Europe, the world is again experiencing a type of monetary anarchy. As it did in 1944, the infrastructure is being set in place for the emergence of an entirely new monetary system.

In the past week two news stories have come out giving a glimpse of this system. The first is that the Saudis and China are teaming up to build a gigantic new oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. The reason this is such a huge development is that "back in 1973 the United States and Saudi Arabia agreed that all oil sold by Saudi Arabia would be denominated in U.S. dollars". Since that time virtually all oil sales on the planet have been done in US dollars, creating a exceptional demand for the USD being involved in global trade. China and Russia took steps back in 2010 to sidestep the dollar and began "using their own currencies for bilateral trade". The Saudi-China refinery would solidify China as Saudi Arabia's "most important trading partner" and is begging mass speculation that the two countries will soon begin trading without using the USD. The new refinery is slated to become operational sometime in 2014.

The second major news story is that South Africa is going to begin endorsing the Chinese renminbi as the currency of trade in emerging markets. One more step away from the USD with China interestingly right there in the mix.

As this post-dollar trend continues, the lessening demand will continue to drive down the dollars ability to purchase goods and services on the global market. Expect rising prices in the US, especially on commodity based products such as food, fuels, metals and materials. Also expect a rise in acceleration as the dollar continues to loses altitude. Remember panic never prevents anything. Reach up, reach out and prepare for impact.

[Update] India abandons US dollar to purchase Iranian oil - 3.29.12

[Update] Beijing is planning to pay for Iranian Oil with gold - 4.22.12

[Update] China begins selling oil using Yuan - 9.12.12

The Lerner Side Of Occupy

2012-03-21T22:58:00.000-04:00

Last March audio was released of Stephen Lerner discussing a secret plan to bring down JP Morgan Chase and crash the stock market. The audio was made public almost three weeks after the Pentagon released it's 2009 report on Economic Terrorism. Lerner is/was SEIU's (Service Employees International Union) point-person on Wall Street reform and the organizer of the 2010 Bank of America protests outside the homes of senior executives. Reports vary as to whether Lerner has been ousted from his position at SEIU or if he is on "administrative leave". Prior to the 2010 protests a Stephen Lerner had visited the White House four times:

Lerner visited twice for public gatherings, once to meet with a presidential personnel officer who manages economic agencies, and once for a visit scheduled by Tara Corrigan, executive assistant to the-WH political director Patrick Gaspard. Like Lerner, Gaspard spent much of his career working as a lobbyist and executive vice president for SEIU's Local 1199 in New York one of the union's most powerful and notoriously militant chapters.

This March Lerner appears to be collaborating in tandem with activist, professor and honorary chair member of the Democratic Socialists of America Francis Fox Piven. Piven is most notably known for formulating the Cloward-Piven strategy that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system. This strategy would lead to the eventual bankrupting of the Federal Government. In doing so the current US system would be spent into oblivion and eventually collapse. Interestingly, the current US debt load is closing in on 16 trillion dollars.

Lerner and Piven are calling for the Occupy movement to adopt the following six strategic steps into their list of tactics:

1. LOCALIZE: Move Protest into neighborhoods and schools.

“What people have been figuring out how to do is to move the protest into the neighborhoods, into the workplaces, into the schools.” ~Piven

2. OCCUPY FORECLOSED HOMES AND FACTORIES: Broaden agenda to those most affected by the economic collapse.

“I think, in the end, it may turn out that evicting the occupations was the precipitant of expanding the movement, because the movement’s agenda has broadened, and they’re now experimenting with reoccupying foreclosed homes, for example, with ways of rallying to the defense of workers who are locked out or on strike.”~Piven

3. RECRUIT YOUTH: Use the Universities and Professors as spearheads of Recruitment to broaden movement.

“And with the spring, I think there’s going to be a lot of protest in the universities and the colleges. Young people are very responsive to the appeals of Occupy, to their cultural style.”~Piven

4. ORGANIZE WITH LABOR: Further integration between Occupy and the traditional Unions, teamsters and community organizing, leftist organizations.

“And I think it’s part of how we think about combining the horizontal energy and vision and passion of Occupy with the more vertical traditional community- and labor-based groups. And when the two of them meet, we’ll get the combustion of saying Wall Street is drowning the country, and they’re doing it in neighborhoods and communities all over.”~Lerner

5. OCCUPY DEMOCRATS: Specifically target the DNC convention, being held at Bank Of America Arena, to make a point that this is not a partisan movement. In spite of the fact that scores of Democrats have praised the Occupy movement, including President Obama.

“And occupiers and community groups and environmentalists and people from all over the country are going to be coming to Charlotte. And in a way, I think we can think about it as the first convention.”~Lerner

6. BUY STOCK: An example is given by Learner of “a lot of people” buying shares of Bank Of America and taking their shares to the annual shareholders meetings in San Francisco to vote on new polices for the company. This is named The Confront Corporate Power Movement.

“Bank of America shares were recently down to $5, so a lot of people have bought stock and are planning to go to that meeting and try to be citizen shareholder—taxpayer shareholders, and have a say.”~Lerner

The months ahead will be a clear indicator for where the Occupy movement is actually headed. Until now Occupy has been a predominately far left movement and the tactics proposed by Lerner and Piven suggest it's continuance to be so. Wherever the movement goes from here two thing is clear: it's far from over and it's designers are aggressively pushing forward. A full list of original Occupy supporters, sponsors and sympathizers can be viewed here.

With ever increasing similarities between the violent movements of the sixties and the protests of today it may be worthwhile to reflect on the words of John Lennon. Though he agreed ideologically, Lennon's uncertainty about using destructive tactics as a means for revolution was viewed as a betrayal by those on the political left. It may very well have been those uncertainties that lead to his death in 1980.

-Revolution

You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait

You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

[UPDATE] ‘DEMOCRATS, SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS…WE ARE ALL TOGETHER’: PIVEN DRAWS CHILLING CONNECTIONS - 3.22.12

Understanding Inflation

2012-03-15T21:11:00.001-04:00

Inflation is commonly understood as prices going up. Price increases, however, are only the result of inflation. Actual inflation happens when the value of a currency, in this case the US dollar, goes down. Meaning it will now take more dollars to buy the same quantity of a given product. Economists describe this process as more dollars chasing fewer goods and services. It is important to understand that the innate value of a particular good or service does not change in an inflationary occurrence, only the amount of paper dollars needed to acquire them. Consider the following example:

While shopping with her dad Jill found an old 1942 silver dime. In 1942 a loaf of bread cost $.09 (or 9/10 of a dime). Today, however, a loaf of bread costs around $2.50. That's a difference of $2.41 or 28x more than in 1942. It's interesting to note that with silver currently trading at $36.65 per once that 1942 dime that Jill found has $2.62 worth of silver in it. If you take 9/10 of that $2.62 (the amount of "dime" needed to purchase a loaf of bread in 1942) you wind up with $2.36, exactly what you'd need to purchase a loaf of bread today. What this illustrates is that 64 years later it still takes the same amount of silver to buy the same amount of bread. The only thing that has changed is the amount of dollars needed to make the same purchase.

Bread is not the only item affected by a devaluing dollar. Consider also John. John invested $6500 into the stock market in March of 2001 when the market average was 10,300. In March of 2011 when the market average was 12,086, he sold his stock for a gain of $962. In addition to his positive investment return, John's yearly income was increased by 19.2% to $52,335 per year.

On the surface a 14.8% investment gain and a $10,000 raise appears to be a step in the right direction. However, a positive return on investments and increase in income are not necessarily accurate indicators of an increased ability to purchase goods and services. In March of 2001 gasoline cost $1.46 per gallon. Today a gallon of gasoline cost $3.52. That's an increase of 58.5%. During that same 10 year period the price of a bushel of wheat went from $3.55 to $8.55, also an increase of 58.5%.

Oil and wheat are just two of the many commodities that are priced in U.S. dollars. As the value of the U.S. dollar continues to decline, the number of dollars needed to purchase these commodities will conversely continue to rise. That means that even though John increased his investments by 14.8% and his yearly income by 19.3% over a ten year period, the value of the dollars he's acquired in 2011 are worth 58.5% less when it comes to filling his gas tank and buying a loaf of bread. Put another way, even though John has 17.05% more money than he had 10 years ago, it is going to be 41.5% harder for him to purchase the things he needs. This is the destructive nature of inflation.

These concepts are very clearly illustrated in, "The Kingdom of Moltz", a graphic novel dealing with inflation. It is a must watch for understanding how our money system works and where inflation comes from.

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

-- John Maynard Keynes

As a note, both Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke* and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner** subscribe to Keynesian economic theory.

--Originally posted on March 28, 2011

*http://www.financialexpress.com/news/bernanke-bets-on-keynes/446591/

**http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-geithner-just-handed-keynes-his-biggest-victory-yet-2010-10

[Update] Letter: Fed is Fueling Rising Cost of Gasoline by Devaluing the Dollar - 3.17.12

In This Case... The Gold

2012-02-26T02:42:00.095-05:00

Once again confirming that if you want to know what's really going on, follow the money. In this case... the gold. Very few pay close enough attention to global markets and finance to notice what happens behind the scenes. If you do, you already realize that what is reported in the mainstream news tells a very different story than what happens in the world of money. And as far as preventing a European financial collapse, "anybody out there [who] understands fourth grade arithmetic... know[s] from metaphysical certitude that Europe is done", this according to Ann Barnhardt formerly of Barnhardt Capital Management.

"You even want to make a start at trying to bail out Europe we are talking $25 trillion just to start. And it would then--if you were going to bail out the entirety of Europe--you would now be talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars."

To put the impossibility of a European intervention into perspective, Barnhardt goes on to explain that "the total gross domestic product of the entire planet earth is I think just under $70 trillion... [saving Europe] is mathematically impossible".

That leaves us with at least two possible options. Either the smartest minds on the planet aren't really that smart or they're even smarter and more nefarious than we thought. In the past year we've seen several headlines referring to world leaders and their gold. Two notable examples were Hugo Chavez pulling Venezuela's gold from JP Morgan and Muammer Gaddafi sitting on 143 tones of gold in Libya, (we know how things turned out for Muammer). A friend of mine reminded me a few days ago of the age old "golden rule": those with the gold... rule.

To me it looks like the world is realigning just like it did after WWII when the gold-backed USdollar replaced the Pound Sterling as the new world reserve currency. For the first time in 68years counties are beginning to trade amongst themselves in currencies other than the USD and some, including the UN and Timothy Geithner, have even gone as far as to suggest a need for a new world reserve currency. If it's true that history often repeats itself, the only thing left for a new monetary system to emerge would be... war: currently the predominant global headline.

-Projected PIIGS Pillage: 3233.5 Tons Of Gold To Be Confiscated By Insolvent European Banks

"While hardly discussed broadly in the mainstream media, the top news of the past 24 hours without doubt is that in addition to losing its fiscal sovereignty, and numerous other things, the Greek population is about to lose its gold in a perfectly legitimate fashion, following amendments to the country's constitution by unelected banker technocrats..."

[UPDATE] The Swiss Want Their Gold Back - 3.08.12

[UPDATE] Turkey Attempts to Transfer Private Gold to Central Bank - 3.22.12

Beyond Kinder Morgan

2012-02-09T22:53:00.018-05:00

Recently some of you have become familiar with the benefits of investing in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP). I thought you would appreciate a list of pipeline and storage companies similar to Kinder Morgan. The S&P Ranking, Dividend Yield, and Weiss Watchdog Rating is also listed to the right of each company. For example, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners shows as: 5 Star - 5.35 yield / B. Remember I am not an investment adviser, nor do I play one in real life. I do, however, accept "that'a boy" kickbacks in the form of $100 bills.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) 5 star - 5.35 yield / B

Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) 5 star - 5.23 yield / A+

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (MMP) 3 star - 4.76 yield / A+

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP (BWP) 7.71 yield / B

Oneok Partners LP (OKS) 5 star - 4.29 yield / A+

Williams Partners L.P. (WPZ) 4.94 yield

Penn Virginia Resource Partners L P (PVR) 7.98 yield / A-

Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB) 3 star - 3.54 yield / B+

Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (APL) 5.96 yield / B

MF Global Collapses

2012-01-08T15:41:00.009-05:00

Since the collapse of MF Global on October 31 there has been a firestorm of speculation concerning what the future implications of such a failure will be on the financial markets. In recent weeks several outlets have voiced a growing concern that a bank holiday may be declared during the early part of 2012. Below is one such article. In view of current events it might not be a bad idea to pray about keeping enough cash on hand to cover at least one month worth of expenses.

-Gerald Celente Forecasts Bank Holiday in 2012

-Ann Barnhardt: The Entire Futures/Options Market Has Been Destroyed by the MF Global Collapse (Audio)

-Jim Sinclair on MF Global (Audio)

Occupy Supporters, Sponsors and Sympathizers

2011-11-02T15:24:00.008-04:00

-The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers

	Communist Party USA Sources: Communist Party USA, OWS speech, The Daily Caller
	American Nazi Party Sources: Media Matters, American Nazi Party, White Honor, Sunshine State News
	Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran Sources: The Guardian, Tehran Times, CBS News
	Barack Obama Sources: ABC News, CBS News, ForexTV, NBC New York
	The government of North Korea Sources: Korean Central News Agency (North Korean state-controlled news outlet), The Marxist-Leninist,Wall Street Journal, Times of India
	Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam Sources: video statement (starting at 8:28), Black in America, Weasel Zippers, Philadelphia Weekly
	Revolutionary Communist Party Sources: Revolutionary Communist Party, Revolution newspaper, in-person appearance
	David Duke Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, davidduke.com
	Joe Biden Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, Mother Jones
	Hugo Chavez Sources: Mother Jones, Reuters, Examiner.com
	Revolutionary Guards of Iran Sources: Associated Press, FARS News Agency, UPI
	Black Panthers (original) Sources: in-person appearance, Occupy Oakland, Oakland Tribune
	Socialist Party USA Sources: Socialist Party USA, IndyMedia, The Daily Caller
	US Border Guard Sources: White Reference, www.usborderguard.com, Gateway Pundit, Just Another Day blog
	Industrial Workers of the World Sources: IWW web site, iww.org, in-person appearances
	CAIR Sources: in-person appearance, Washington Post, CAIR, CAIR New York
	Nancy Pelosi Sources: Talking Points Memo, video statement, ABC News, The Weekly Standard
	Communist Party of China Sources: People’s Daily (Communist Party organ), Reuters, chinataiwan.org, The Telegraph
	Hezbollah Sources: almoqawama.org, almoqawama.org (2), almoqawama.org (3), wikipedia
	9/11Truth.org Sources: 911truth.org (1), 911truth.org (2), 911truth.org (3)
	International Bolshevik Tendency Sources: bolshevik.org, Wire Magazine
	Anonymous Sources: Adbusters, The Guardian, video statement
	White Revolution Source: whiterevolution.com
	International Socialist Organization Sources: Socialist Worker, socialistworker.org, in-person appearance
	PressTV (Iranian government outlet) Sources: PressTV, wikipedia
	Marxist Student Union Sources: Marxist Student Union, Big Government, marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com
	Freedom Road Socialist Organization Sources: FightBack News, fightbacknews.org
	ANSWER Sources: ANSWER press release, ANSWER web site, Xinhua
	Party for Socialism and Liberation Sources: Liberation News (1), pslweb.org, The Daily Free Press, Liberation News (2)

More Than Democracy

2011-04-04T22:17:00.128-04:00

Originally released in a report from March of 2010, Byron King frames the future of the Middle East in terms of ideology. The intriguing aspect of Mr. King's report is that it was released nine months before the uprisings in Egypt. King suggests that the events in the Middle East are based on an Islamic divide between Sunni and Shia ideology. He also claims possessing Saudi Arabia is the end game and that Iran is pumping money into key areas surrounding Saudi Arabia in an attempt to choke off oil exports to the West.

In addition to framing future events in the Middle East, King recommends one company that is positioned to dominate an oil deposit recently found with the potential of 100 billion barrels of oil. A quick Google search reveals Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company. In related news, Petrobras was just given approval by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) to begin using a FPSO-type vessel platform (a ship that has on-board production and storage facilities) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico; the first new deep water drilling permit to be issued since the BP oil spill.

Something else that sheds significant light on this Springs' events in the Middle East is the origins of the uprising in Egypt. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal there was a secret rally that sparked the Egyptian uprising. The organizers used YouTube and Facebook to advertise publicly the locations and times for several marches that were scheduled to take place on 25 of January. Familiar with the Egyptian army's ability to quickly shut down these types of protests, the organizers used hand bills and word of mouth networking to quietly organize an off the radar march that would take place at the same time. Of all the marches organized for that day this last group was the only one which made it to Tahrir Square. If you remember, most news outlets reported that the events of January 25 were completely spontaneous. However, if we consider both King's perspective and the article written days after the uprising, there appears to be something more than just Democracy afoot. Whatever the future in the Middle East holds, it is becoming clear that there is more to be written.

[Update] Below is an automated map and time line for the 2011 Arab Spring. It's interesting to note the similarities on the Saudi Arabian peninsula from the map above.

Currencies and Oil

2011-03-05T14:35:00.028-05:00

-Legislation... calls for committee to study alternative currencies for use by state

Don't be surprised if you start seeing more stories like this one. The Berkshire region of Massachusetts is already doing something similar: http://www.berkshares.org. Indicators suggest we're heading for an eventual new monetary system.

-Oil Settles at Highest Levels Since September 2008

When it comes to long term trends, oil appears to be riding the long term Bull. Here are

two factors:

1.) Oil is priced in dollars and with a devaluing dollar, oil will hedge itself with higher

oil prices.

2.) Rising global demand from China, India and other emerging countries.

Also, remember that oil is a non-renewable resource. The scarcer it becomes, the more expensive it will be.

Excavating The Truth

2011-03-05T13:47:00.011-05:00

Why are these two articles and this video must read/watch? Because they offer two very different views of what has been reported in the US media. The origins of the 2008 crisis and the 2011 Egyptian uprising are both discussed. These are times that require us to be very discerning in what is forming our view of the world. I am attempting to only post materials that are substantive and helpful for making informed decisions in the future.

-08 Financial Crisis May Have Included Work of Financial Terrorist

-The Non-Spontaneous Origins of the Egyptian Protests

What About You

2009-08-27T21:03:00.186-04:00

For those not familiar with Benito Mussolini, he was the Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 through WWII. His official title was "His Excellency Benito Mussolini, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Founder of the Empire". Mussolini, the founder of Italian fascism, described fascism as "the bureaucratization of the economic activities of the nation."[1] Bureaucratization is when a government gets involved in the "administrative structure of any large organization, public or private" such as a bank, school, or auto company. Simply put, if the economic decision making of any business is being influenced, manipulated or dictated internally by the federal government it is fascist in nature.

With the Federal bailouts of US banks and Automobile companies, are we beginning to witness a shift in the US economy away from capitalism?

So What's Coming...

In recent months there have been many references to what is being called the "New Economy" or "Green Economy". This could be the vehicle by which the U. S. economy will be radically bureaucized by the federal government. In the past, human innovation and demand sparked economic expansion. This "New Economy" however, seems to be one that is grown by government manipulation and creating a desperation to find work.

...Next?

As the job market in the United States worsens, the main solutions offered by Washington will consist of "Green Jobs". These Green Jobs will come with all kinds of government incentives, funding and support. On the surface all will look well. The unemployment rate will go down and people will be back to work. When you dig down a little deeper though, you'll find that these "Green Jobs" which were created to expand the "New Economy" are tentacled with government influence. Legislation will determine what types of products companies can produce and what types of products consumers can buy. Some of this will happen directly though product banning or legislative stipulations based upon receiving government monies. Other products will be banned indirectly through heavy taxation.

In the end, it could be a day like this one when the bureaucratization takes place. And when it does just remember... it was Mussolini who said it, not me.

[1] - Mussolini, Benito; Schnapp, Jeffery Thompson (ed.); Sears, Olivia E. (ed.); Stampino, Maria G. (ed.). "Address to the National Corporative Council (14 November 1933) and Senate Speech on the Bill Establishing the Corporations (abridged; 13 January 1934)". A Primer of Italian Fascism. University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp. 158-159.