“you cannot touch, feel, squeeze anything they make..”
Goldman is a financial services company.. they are ONLY parasitical to the “real economy”. and yet they are the primary recipient of US Govt bailout money thru the (privately owned) Fed and AIG...
I cannot make the Oligarchy case any more clear than this… the rich get paid first when they produce nothing. they are HARMFUL to the real economy because they feed off of it, to the point of collapse… i don’t think i need to do any proving in this regard, anyone can see it from either Oil Speculation pushing the price of gas up to $4 a gallon or the “Sub-prime Mortgage Crisis”. these are caused by Wall Street… “free market” is a code word tyranny of the rich.
there is only political economy. big gov’t has the job of raising the standard of our poor and putting a leash on the rich…
global warming pushed by center-left worldwide financier oligarchy
right wing seems somewhat immune to this line of thinking
feb 2007 UN IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) signals worldwide campaign
GW/CC is political, not scientific
1600 page scientific paper on CC in may 2007… “changes in the scientific part could be made to insure consistency with the summary for policy makers” (paraphrased from political abstract of IPCC)
supporters: eurogarchs, eurocrats, eurpoean central bank crowd, London, Gore & Obama, etc
oligarchs hate science and technology, habit of mind, deep ideological preference because oligarchy cannot exist if science & technology are prevalent… oligarchy is authoritarian and not based on anything real… it’s divine right, not performance
400BC, Athenian writer “The Old Oligarch”, “the Athenian navy uses modern technology and provides an avenue of upward mobility for the hoi polloi and stinking masses. that threatens the class privileges of oligarchs like myself.”
1000BC, Hesiod, “The Trojan War was necessary because the world was overpopulated. Too many people are oppressing the breast of mother earth.”
Al Gore
spokesman for CC faction
Re-inventing Government, An Inconvenient Truth, Current TV
right-wing democrat, reactionary,
father Al Gore Sr voted against Civil Rights Act
voted in favor of 1st Gulf War
selected Joe Lieberman for VP in 2000 (warmonger, reactionary)
prime mover in campaign vs Serbia, 1999
Cripple Creek Coal Co., owned Love Canal, NJ during toxic waste scandal (1998?)
friend of Prince Charles (pro nazi royal family of england)
Sir Maurice Strong (UN 1990s), canada, british operative, Environmental and Development Conference, Rio de Jeniero, 1992.. origin of the Kyoto Protocol.. “we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world would be for industrial civilization to collapse”
Thomas Malthus
industrial civilization allows 6BN to live on planet now and its destruction would undoubtedly weaken the carrying capacity of the planet.. it’s genocide on a global scale
London is world center of finance, not NY
science in US massively corrupted
Clinton/Gore admin.. Gore was environmentalist fanatic
started with Ozone hole and moved to CC
non GW/CC scientists purged during Clinton (1990s)
Global Warming Claims
Global Warming exists and continues
GW is anthroprogenic and due to human activity
response to GW has to be carbon taxes or cap & trade… policies have a foothold in GB & EU.. laws have no effect by their own admission
refutations
planet has survived many glacial epics (ice ages) before
10 ice ages over last 200,000 years intersperced with 10,000 year warming periods
last ice age 10,000BC.. so we’re about 1000 years overdue for another ice age
1300AD medieval warming period
1500-1800 “little ice age”
both of these are larger temperature changes than GW/CC ppl claim is dangerous now.. so we survived before.
roman empire warming period around year 1
oligarchy started policy with (over)population bomb, then ozone hole, now global warming
population growth goes negative in highly industrialized societies — poor have more kids — high technology leads to greater population potential thru efficiency and greater energy sources but industrial development actually causes ppl to have less children.. less infant mortality.. so the general trend is scientific advancement leads to ppl having less children who live longer vs more who die sooner in poverty/austerity/3rd world
population growth negative in japan and would be in US without immigration… which is generally poor ppl.
scientists tend to be mercenaries bought up and controlled by oligarchical foundations — grant/research funding
teresa heinz kerry (portuguese fascist family from africa) pushes this policy thru Heinz Foundation, ally of Maurice Strong pushing Rio hysteria of 1992
north pole ice is shrinking but south pole ice is actually growing
no catastrophic rise in sea levels, as prophesied
causes
peculiarities of the earth’s orbit
solar activity, sunspots +/- 1% normal fluctuations
connections between cosmic rays and cloud formation could be a factor
it is far more likely that temperature fluctuations have astronomical origin, not human
is this a product of human activity?
ice cores lose CO2 over time thru temp changes, osmosis, plate tectonics, entropy, etc
as ice cores get older/deeper there is less CO2
Ernst-Georg Beck found 19th century research data on CO2 levels proves no extraordinarily high level of CO2 now… current levels well within normal range
more CO2 in 1940 than there is now
CO2 sources: earth’s crust, respiration, fuel for plants
CO2 is not bad
CO2 level lower now than previous times in history
Callendar & Keeling 1950-80s
hockey stick CO2 curve is a fraud
proposed policy & solutions
claiming debate is over when it’s not
threatening ppl who dont support this nonsense
carbon tax, cap & trade.. emission of more carbon must be bought from speculative market (parasitical) in form of carbon offsets… potential for Enron market here
cap & trade seems to be aimed at destroying coal industry & industrial civilization… compare to Dark Ages, New Dark Age
big crisis to impose dictatorship (in order to save planet), Left-CIA
what should be done
use technology to solve problem, not austerity
viable public transport & urban mass transit, mag-lev commuter rail… remove 1/4-1/3 of cars from road for commuting
rebuild with mag-lev (or compressed air) commuter infrastructure (no pollution)
macro political struggle of oil (helps) vs coal (hurts) corrupting science
nuclear energy is obvious answer to global warming…
thermonuclear fusion the answer to fission waste concerns
HL Mencken
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it.”
I usually catch some of MSNBC’s Morning Joe a few times a week and I’ll check out the opening and closing shows on CNBC from time to time so I’m used to seeing Dylan Ratigan around. I considered him to be one of the smarter talking heads on the business news programs. Lately, I noticed him missing so i did a little digging…
Ratigan left (CNBC) on March 27, 2009.The New York Times reported he was considering all options but quoted him as saying he was dedicated to covering the economy, “the story that is affecting every American in every setting.”
Apparently, he’s waking up to the oligarchical nature of the US. But wait, it gets better…
In Ratigan’s final CNBC broadcast from the floor of the NYSE he reported on what he called “an important story developing” that Goldman Sachs and “a variety of European banks”, in his assessment and that of his guests, essentially “perpetrated securities fraud” and an “insurance fraud scam” against AIG—and, by extension, the government and taxpayers funding that insurance company’s “bailout”—by insuring their questionable investment vehicles and, upon their devaluation, making claims on them to be paid by AIG “at 100 cents on the dollar” despite all of the markdowns “being forced upon every other” entity including the government, banks, shareholders, bond holders, taxpayers and homeowners.
“I think that it should be a bigger political issue than whether somebody bought an airplane… Forget the private jets, forget who got a million dollar bonus. Fifty billion dollars“, he emphasized, minimizing what he saw as populist side issues to “the real question” of how “government policy makers” are to deal with the “problems of contract law” inherent in the agreements of businesses receiving government assistance during the financial crisis.
“The banks are being asked to take ‘haircuts’ on their toxic assets, why are the Goldmans and the Deutsche Banks of the world not being asked to take haircuts on their toxic credit default swaps? It’s a real question. I will continue to pursue it for sure, I hope others will as well.” Ratigan praised New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s subpoena of AIG to determine the bank payouts as “legitimate inquiry” and looked forward to “a body of lawmakers in Washington D.C. who are going to ask, it appears, some of the same questions that I’m asking.”
very interesting indeed…
more interesting still are the stories from fox & the new york post about why ratigan left CNBC…
fox does give us this little gem from Ratigan,”The value system of capitalism has been corrupted by a small group of bankers, insurance executives and politicians.”
what exactly is “strategic programming” for CNBC? George Orwell would LOVE that term…
these are interesting because the don’t even mention the AIG money story at all…. in other words, they have something to hide… namely: the biggest robbery in history perpetuated by Wall Street… specifically: Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs, of course, the primary beneficiary of the Wall St orchestrated Crude Oil Speculation Bubble… remember Bart Stupak? and the AIG money… hmmm… gee, it’s starting to look like “Government Sachs” is living up to it’s nickname.
“United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Barack Obama. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Geithner’s position includes a large role in directing the nation’s economic response to the financial crisis which began after December 2007. Specific tasks include directing how $350 billion of Wall Street bailout money is allocated. He is currently dealing with multiple high visibility issues, including the survival of the automobile industry, the restructuring of banks, financial institutions and insurance companies, recovery of the mortgage market, demands for protectionism, Obama’s new tax proposals, and relations with foreign governments that are dealing with similar crises.”
He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a B.A. in government and Asian studies in 1983. He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985. He has studied Chinese and Japanese.
His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama’s mother, and they met in person at least once.
Geithner’s maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.
He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. Summers was his mentor, but other sources call him a Rubin protégé.
In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department. He was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003) at the International Monetary Fund.
In October 2003 at age 42, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His salary in 2007 was $398,200. Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.
In March 2008, he arranged the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns; in the same year, he played a pivotal role in both the decision to bail out AIG as well as the government decision not to save Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy, though claims were made after Geithner’s nomination that distanced him from both AIG and Lehman Brothers. As a Treasury official, he helped manage multiple international crises of the 1990s in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand.
Geithner believes, along with Henry Paulson, that the United States Department of the Treasury needs new authority to experiment with responses to the financial crisis of 2008.
Paulson has described Geithner as “[a] very unusually talented young man…[who] understands government and understands markets.”
Hank Paulson? Jim Cramer? Ben Bernanke? Larry Summers?
Zbigniew Brzezinski to Mika: “.. I loved your introduction and I love to be hosted by you so that I’m not in the clutches of the dangerous Joe (Scarborough).”
Brzezinski (on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates): “Gates is a terrific guy. I’ve known him for years. I worked with him. We jointly prepared a report on Iran several years ago. He was my Executive Assistant many years ago in the National Security Council. He’s top-notch.”
the CFR report on Iran is a hoot and worth checking out: “Page 63, Appendix A, Important Dates in US-Iranian History, 1985-86, Washington and Tehran engage in a complex scheme to fund assistance to Nicaraguan rebels through proceeds of US weapons sales to Iran.” – Translation: The Iran-Contra Affair
Brzezinski (on Joe Biden): “Of course, Senator Biden knows everything that needs to be known about Foreign Policy.”
“needs to be known” does not sound like Brzezinski is an outside observer. it sounds like Zbig is in a position of power much higher than Biden and tells him only what is necessary to further the group’s aims. Translation: Biden knows enough for our purposes.
Brzezinski (on strategic planning): “We have no mechanism for global political planning in the US government. We have one in the State Department. And, of course, the State Department thinks everything is diplomacy. We have one in Defense. They all think that all planning is, of course, military. We have to have high level systematic comprehensive long-range foreign policy planning in the White House, probably under General Jones”
Brzezinski (on Afghanistan): “I have been saying for some months now that we have to be very careful not to repeat the mistake the Soviets made. The Soviets went to Afghanistan on the illusion that a bunch of marxists, afghan marxists, sitting in Kabul could be helped by them to build a replica of the Soviet Republic in Afghanistan. And they went in with their military and they ended up with 150,000 – 180,000 military trying to fight the afghans who would simply not give up, who objected to a foreign presence, to an alien philosophy. We have to be very careful that we don’t push too hard the notion that we’re building a modern nation-state that is democratic and constitutional on the basis of support of pro western democrats, afghans in Kabul, that we have on our side while we’re doing it, essentially, with military power which the afghans resist. So, my view is that while some troops may be needed, more here or there to offset Taliban strength, we have to move more and more in the direction of trying to seek decentralized political accomodations in different parts of Afghanistan, with different segments of the Taliban in some places, in exchange for their pledge to have no relationship with, to expel, or even to extirpate any Al Qaeda presence in the area.”
Brzezinski (on National Security Adviser General James L. Jones): “I don’t have any real sort of inside knowledge but judging him from an occasional conference with him, especially from his past, he was a person whose world view was presumably shaped to a great extent by the fact that he was an extremely successful NATO commander in Europe. He’s experienced in dealing with the Europeans. You know, he speaks remarkably good french, which is impressive. And I’m sure it’s going to make the french swoon. He has an Atlanticist viewpoint. He doesn’t have, perhaps, some of the feel for the third world, for the changing world, to the world that I call ‘globally politically awakened world’ that Obama has. I think one of the very specific qualities of Obama is that he has this feel for the 21st century. But working for Obama, he will certainly be solid on the fundamental issues of power, the relationship of the military and the political of dealing with the Allies, and he is a strong person. So, I imagine he’ll be imposing discipline on the other members of the team.”
A couple things come to mind here. The “Globally Politically Awakened World” refers to us, the internet community.
General Jones, as an ex-NATO commander, is used to fighting Russia. according to wiki: “The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay famously stated the organization’s goal was ‘to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down’” – Translation: This just points to more of what we already know, Russia is the enemy once again.
Dr. Brzezinski said some VERY interesting things this morning. He was outlining a strategy for Obama, explain the role of National Security Adviser (and his controlling influence on the President), threatening Russia, and there were many rather bizarre comments made by the talking heads in regard to him.
Great stuff, confirming the new target is Russia, not Iraq or Iran, not even Pakistan… tho they will use Pakistan to destabilize both China and Russia.
Brzezinski: Jim Jones, Obama need a ‘cohesive relationship’
Nov. 25: Former national security adviser and Mika’s father Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the rapport President-elect Barack Obama should be expected to have with members of Cabinet.
I’m surprised more people haven’t seen this Dennis Kucinich clip yet. It deserves more attention. He basically is calling or all the things we want, as people of good will. The original source is Russia Today. It goes without saying that this interview was ignored by the US media.
highlights:
War in Afghanistan, Iraq, & threats against Iran totally unnecessary
We need to go back to Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, and build infrastructure to fix the economy
We need a new energy infrastructure – wind, solar, etc
We need to cooperate with Russia to disarm & develop the world
The Polish & Czech missiles are wrong & should be removed immediately
Georgia was clearly the aggressor in the South Ossetia/Abkhazia conflict
We have to stop Brzezinski and the policy of empire
Paulson’s bailout is a failure
I’ve included a transcript of Kucinich’s answers with some commentary and links to background info. (more…)
Citigroup, went – the price went – down to a very unreasonable price lately. It still was on very solid grounds..
On very solid grounds?? Is he insane?! Of course, this is why they got a $300 billion bailout today. It’s clearly a reward for their long history of stability.. this is a farce of epic proportions.
Citigroup is a credit card company which got into trouble with derivatives speculation and is now feeling the wrath of negative leverage. This is a corporation who could borrow and the Fed’s prime lending rate and charge working people 19-36% on credit cards. This is a can’t lose business as long as you don’t get greedy and get wrapped up in too much leverage… They got greedy. They lost. Plain and simple. We should not be bailing out bad gamblers.
But wait, there’s more. Al-Waleed also talks about Oil speculation:
..no doubt the the price of oil will go up. But I hope this time it will go up in a very steady manner without the speculative element that makes it go to the triple digits in a manner of months. So we in Saudi Arabia we’re against having these big jumps because our interest, as a producer in Saudi Arabia, very much coincides with the interests of the OECD countries and the west and especially the United States.
A couple of interesting things about this clip: it’s rare to see a Rothschild, the famous european banking family, in public. Lynn Forester was introduced to her husband, Sir Evelyn, by Henry Kissinger, of all people, at a meeting of the Bilderberg group, of all places.
Ok, small consolation here but it’s still entertaining to hear about Lehman Bros CEO getting knocked out after bankrupting the company… He still made out like a bandit, to the tune of $480 million. Fuld should be jailed, his assets should be seized and distributed to the people who lost money… stealing from ppl’s retirement fund is about as reprehensible an act as one can commit. Old people will suffer as a result of this.
The other funny thing is – I’m not sure anyone noticed, but – the hedge fund in question was named Harbinger, as in Harbinger of DOOM. How prophetic.
Derivatives is a taboo word these days. It’s rare that someone even mentions them directly. As a protest vote, Ron Paul is good. However, I question his economic polices. Libertarian Austrian School economics is what got us into this mess in the first place. It’s time to get rid of Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek and return to the Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, FDR New Deal, and the American School of economics.
Now I want to show some pictures here of when the french foreign minister was in Tiblisi here. Now he was supposed to arrive at an airport that was destroyed. Now, you can see that it isn’t destroyed. Mr. Saakashvili is enjoying himself immensely as you can see. This is wartime. Atrocities are being committed only a few hundred kilometers away but he’s enjoying himself. And here we go. Again, he’s looking up, “Oh, who are those people up in the sky?” Oh, here we go. Let’s just give it a look..
There you go. Well, there’s a man of great courage there. I mean, he’s protecting his country and countrymen. Okay, these are the kinds of pictures we’re getting from Georgia here. This is the true situation that’s going on here. I don’t think Mr. Saakashvili feels very safe in his own country. It doesn’t look so to me, at least.
I’m not trying to make too much light of that, okay? But I mean that is a realistic depiction of what’s going on.
L!FE: Saakashvili afraid of his own shadow
Saakashvili: Let’s move away. Let’s move away..
CNN: Saakashvili: I talk to McCain several times a day
To Dr. Brzezinski, I can’t say enough about his contribution to our country. Here’s somebody who helped to shape Camp David and bring about a lasting peace between Israel and some of its neighbors. Somebody who has over decades trained some of the most prominent foreign policy specialists, not just in the Democratic party but has trained a number who ended up in the Republican party as well. He is one of our most outstanding scholars, one of our most outstanding thinkers. He has proven to be an outstanding friend and somebody who I’ve learned an immense amount from. And for him to support me in this campaign and then be willing to come out here to Iowa is testimony to his generosity. So if everybody could please give Dr. Brzezinski another round of applause..”
In my view it’s a true statement that Barack Obama “can’t say enough about (Brzezinski’s) contribution to our country”. Zbigniew recruited Obama and essentially created his political career, much like he created Jimmy Carter. You might say Obama is Carter v2.
here is an ex-corporate raider, Sir James Goldsmith, horrified by the GATT treaty.
I started out wanting to take a few teaser quotes out of this interview but ended up making an extensive transcript. It was just too good to stop. Keep in mind that Goldsmith was a corporate raider who has looked into the abyss of GATT and concluded that it will lead to the destruction of society.
this has to be from sometime in 1976-84 or so. If anyone can help me pin down the date, I’d appreciate it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser:
“We know of their deep belief in God and we are confident that their struggle will succeed.”
“That land over there is yours. You’ll go back to it one day because your fight will prevail. And you’ll have your homes, your mosques back again because your cause is right and God is on your side.”
“The purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis will be to make the Soviets bleed for as much, as long as possible.“
anything to inflict suffering on Russia no matter what the cost, eh Zbig?
Revanchism (from French revanche, “revenge”) is a term used since the 1870s to describe a political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war. Revanchism draws its strength from patriotic and retributionist thought and is often motivated by economic or geo-political factors. Extreme revanchist ideologues often represent a hawkish stance, suggesting that desired objectives can be reclaimed in the positive outcome of another war.
Revanchism is linked with irredentism, the conception that a part of the cultural and ethnic nation remains “unredeemed” outside the borders of its appropriate nation-state. Revanchist politics often rely on the identification of a nation with a nation-state, often mobilizing deep-rooted sentiments of ethnic nationalism, claiming territories outside of the state where members of the ethnic group live, while using heavy-handed nationalism to mobilize support for these aims. Revanchist justifications are often presented as based on ancient or even autochthonous occupation of a territory known by the German term Urrecht, meaning a nation’s claim to territory that has been inhabited since “time immemorial“, an assertion that is usually inextricably involved in revanchism and irredentism, justifying them in the eyes of their proponents.
