The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.\u201d\u00a0 (The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA<\/a>, David DeGraw)<\/p>\n In an effort to explain our escalating financial crisis<\/a>, the American Nightmare (an Environmental Dream), the \u201cexperts\u201d are under the erroneous impression that the Fed \u201cmissed\u201d the warning signs leading up to the October 2008 meltdown.<\/p>\n The pundits are focusing their angst on the 44th POTUS, who might very well go down as the single most inept president in all of American history<\/a>. (How to Squander the Presidency in One Year<\/a>, David Michael Green)<\/p>\n Barack Obama<\/a> is not inept, greedy or stupid and he isn\u2019t one of\u00a0 \u201cus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n He rose from obscurity to power with his top economics adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller\u2019s Trilateral Commission and he travels in the same circles as other members of the super-secret Skull & Bones Society<\/a> at Yale University, who pretend to be running for president every four years.<\/p>\n The decision to have Obama<\/a> preside over the greatest financial calamity since the Great Depression was made five years ago; the November election was a formality. (Why Joseph Biden will be the Next Vice President of the United States<\/a><\/a>)<\/p>\n To believe otherwise, is to ignore the Bradley\/Palin effect and the decision by John McCain<\/a> to wait until his concession speech to shed the image of a nasty \u201cgrumpy old man.\u201d<\/p>\n In September 2008, when the Obama<\/a> campaign seemed to be slumping and their candidate\u2019s long-standing lead in the polls had evaporated, the senator\u2019s supporters openly worried that a potential victory might be slipping away. Then, providence joined the campaign: The failure of the giant investment bank Lehman Brothers followed by a global financial meltdown in the month of October.<\/p>\n \u201cThings do not happen. Things are made to happen.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 John F. Kennedy<\/strong><\/p>\n And, \u201cspeaking of change\u201d, the escalation of the war<\/a> in Afghanistan<\/a> and Iraq<\/a> and his policies on Guantanamo, state secrets, renditions, executive power, bailouts and the stimulus packages are for the most part identical to those of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n However, the policies at the Federal Reserve<\/a> have changed inexplicably, monumentally and historically:<\/p>\n As of October 2008, the men behind the Federal Reserve<\/a>, all connected to the House of Rothschild<\/a>, are no longer giving up what\u2019s left of their real wealth so the middle class can live the American Dream, a nightmare for the planet.<\/p>\n Brian Deese, special assistant to president Obama<\/a> for economic policy, in his first government<\/a> position, shuffles back and forth from the West Wing to the Treasury Department (Federal Reserve<\/a>) rewriting the rules of American \u201ccapitalism\u201d as he dismantles the US<\/a> Housing, Automobile Industry and the American Dream. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)<\/p>\n Deese\u2019s First Rule: Withdraw Credit and Liquidity:<\/p>\n Causing spending to fall even further, forcing companies to cut back on inventory and staff \u2013 Creating even more unemployment\u2026263,000 jobs eliminated bringing the total to 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work. (The September Employment Rate is 90%<\/a>)<\/p>\n And that\u2019s before the recently announced \u201cplanned three-year budget freeze on government<\/a> discretionary spending.\u201d<\/p>\n Capitalism never made sense<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Fed didn\u2019t miss anything; the October meltdown was an inside job\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Professor Ebeling, the Ludwig von Mises professor of Economics at Hillsdale College, understood something was wrong when he wrote, \u201cThe perverse development and evolution of historical capitalism, the institutions necessary for a truly free-market economy have been either undermined or prevented from emerging.\u201d<\/p>\n But when he claimed, \u201cIt is the principles and the meaning of a free-market economy that must be rediscovered\u201d in order to overcome the burden of historical capitalism and save liberty, he should have written that principles must be rediscovered in order to prevent the planet from attempted murder (ecocide).<\/p>\n American \u201ccapitalism\u201d and our consumer economy never made economic, environmental or common sense\u2014unless the goal was ecocide.<\/p>\n Capitalism and a not-so-free market economy based on consumer products, that is, products we are manipulated to want, not need, was never sustainable. Consumers consume\u2026the resources of the planet.<\/p>\n Who is Responsible?<\/strong><\/p>\n The \u201cexperts\u201d are under the impression this is the natural order of things.<\/p>\n Allegedly, this is another \u201cexample\u201d of the private credit monopoly of rich and predatory moneylenders that \u201cprey upon the people of the United States<\/a>\u201d for the benefit of themselves. [1]<\/p>\n \u201cFor the benefit of the middle class is a more accurate statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The people responsible for the October collapse, our Federal Reserve<\/a>, also get credit for the windfalls of \u201cMonopoly Money\u201d, created out of thin air, which financed our consumer society<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those predatory moneylenders gave the middle class the highest standard of living in the world.<\/p>\n Recall when the American economy appeared headed into a recession at the end of the dot-com bubble, the Federal Reserve<\/a> began slashing short- term interest rates until they reached a historically low one percent. The move re-inflated the economy by allowing homeowners to extract $750 billion in equity from their homes\u2014up from $106 billion in 1996\u2014and apply the dollars toward a multitude of consumer items and other credit card debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n As interest rates plummeted and alleged home equity artificially soared, buyers were able to afford first and second homes, and they did it by taking out risky mortgages with \u201cteaser rates\u201d similar to those offered by the credit card industry. Even as interest rates adjusted upward, the sponsoring banks used complicated financial derivatives to resell the risky mortgages as \u201casset-backed paper.\u201d<\/p>\n As housing prices edged downward and mortgage rates inched upward, the recession was put on hold with the help of an astonishing 10 to 12 credit card offers per month being delivered to some consumer mailboxes. The credit card companies issued 1.5 billion cards to 158 million cardholders and promised an improbable zero percent interest\u2014some deals for up to 18 months. (Similar to mortgage debt<\/a>, the credit card debt<\/a> is put into pools also known as derivatives that are then resold to investment houses, other banks and institutional investors.)<\/p>\n Thank those rich and predatory moneylenders for the short-term interest rates and the liquidity that allowed the debt<\/a> to be pooled, sold and resold.<\/p>\n But blame them because our hyper-shopping has wreaked havoc on the planet.<\/p>\n Who is Behind the Federal Reserve<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and Morgan\u2014all connected to The Global Financial Elite (TGFE), direct the Federal Reserve<\/a> to create money out of thin air.<\/p>\n The process that the Federal Reserve<\/a>, or any bank, uses to create money \u201cconsists of making an entry in a book, that is all,\u201d said Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada<\/a>. \u201cEach and every time<\/a> a bank makes a loan (a debt<\/a>) . . . new bank credit is created\u2014brand new money.\u201d<\/p>\n Money used to pay for the Industrial Revolution, orchestrate the Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970\u2019s, the dot-com and the housing market bubbles, resulted in 60 years of unprecedented prosperity for the middle class.<\/p>\n These scoundrels at the beginning of the 20th century, owned or controlled one-sixth of the world\u2019s real wealth: raw materials, commodities, copper, iron ore, petroleum, lead, silver and gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n So how do they get rich exchanging real wealth for about $500 trillion of the Monopoly money they printed?<\/p>\n They don\u2019t, they are the losers, not the middle class!<\/p>\n Remember those trees we chopped down so just about anyone in America could afford their dream house, or those mountains we blew up so we could have that fat station wagon in our driveway? All of those resources \u201cnow used up\u201d, were once owned or controlled by the robber barons of our history<\/a> books.<\/p>\n Their real wealth, not yours or mine has been \u201ccut, mined and hauled away so Americans could trash the planet with houses, second houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs\u2014 the cheap stuff we associate with the good life that put the planet on the downward spiral to ecocide. (Dem Bones is Connected To De Debt<\/a> Bone<\/a>)<\/p>\n The middle class should be thanking those scoundrels for all that \u201cstuff\u201d\u2014but blame them for conning us<\/a> into trashing the planet.<\/p>\n The Story of Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n The Story of Stuff, an animated video<\/a> about the underside of our consumer society<\/a>, believes the scoundrels are a bloated corporation sporting a top hat with a dollar sign etched on its front.<\/p>\n Film narrator, Annie Leonard argues our environmental damage is the result of the greedy corporations externalizing costs (shift them onto the public and the environment<\/a>) so they can make more money.<\/p>\n But that premise is contradicted on film when Annie stands in line to buy a radio for $4.99 and correctly realizes the price couldn\u2019t possibly capture the cost of the radio but incorrectly concludes that the greedy corporations pollute the environment<\/a> so they can make more profit. [2]<\/p>\n If profits were the motive, then why wasn\u2019t the radio $5.99?\u00a0 A price anyone would consider a \u201cthrow away\u201d or loss leader.<\/p>\n We have come to believe that everything wrong in America is about someone getting rich while we are getting swindled.<\/p>\n That our economy runs on profits is a true statement, but imagine how much those moneygrubbers would have made if the radio was $5.99.<\/p>\n That $1.00 would be 100% pure profit.<\/p>\n The swindlers and scoundrels downward-manipulate the costs of what was in 1910 their real wealth:<\/p>\n Raw materials, commodities, copper, iron ore, petroleum, lead, silver and gold<\/a>, to industry at prices lower, not<\/em> higher as you would expect, so the corporations can still make a profit selling you a radio for $4.99.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Downward manipulation is an uneconomic aberration discovered in the precious metals market by the noted silver analyst Ted Butler.<\/p>\n We are conditioned to believe that prices are always inflated so the greedy corporations can make more money but Ted Butler\u2019s research confirmed the price of silver has been manipulated to stay at the $4-5 price range for years. The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers since industrial users can sell their products cheaply and still make a profit. (The Myth of the \u201cFree\u201d Enterprise Economic System<\/a>)<\/p>\n Behind every consumer society<\/a> is the reality of a credit-based monetary system and a fiat currency.\u00a0\u00a0 Behind every fiat currency is a Federal Reserve<\/a> or a Central Bank controlled by The Global Financial Elite including, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and J.P. Morgan, Ted Butler\u2019s prime suspect in the \u201congoing intentional not accidental\u201d great crime<\/a> of keeping the price of silver low so consumers can buy a lot more \u2018radio\u2019 (silver) for their dollar.\u201d (The Real Story<\/a><\/em>, Theodore Butler, Silver But No Silver Lining<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Annie should be asking herself why those scoundrels intentionally sold their raw materials cheaply so just about everyone could afford the American Dream, a nightmare for the Planet.<\/p>\n Ecocide Results in Cognitive Dissonance<\/strong><\/p>\n The premise that anyone would intentionally damage the planet, which future generations will inherit, results in Cognitive Dissonance (CD). CD is the discomfort felt at the discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation that contradicts a strongly held belief system.<\/p>\n But what if the attempted murder of the environment<\/a> was the goal from the beginning and not the unintended consequence?<\/p>\n Then we were \u201cconned\u201d into shopping for stuff to intentionally because The Global Financial Elite are in a metaphysical war<\/a> with mother-earth (Gaea) and hope to attain immortality in the New World Order. [3]<\/p>\n Now the world around you will finally make sense.<\/p>\n Hot, flat, and crowded Thomas L. Friedman will finally know what planet George W. Bush is on.<\/p>\n Bush lost the war<\/a> on terrorism<\/a> and the war<\/a> in Iraq<\/a>, but is winning the war<\/a> waged on the environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dubya was deadly serious about Ecocide when, after rejecting the global climate change<\/a> targets of the July 2008 G8 summit, he said, \u201cGoodbye, from the (then) world\u2019s biggest polluter.\u201d China<\/a> is now the world\u2019s biggest polluter, Meat, Milk and Motors: The New China<\/a> Syndrome <\/a><\/p>\n Ecocide Eliminates the Stupid Explanations<\/strong><\/p>\n We see the collapse of GM and Chrysler as the result of failed public policy, government<\/a> action, inaction and conclude the leadership is inept, arrogant or just \u201cstupid\u201d because only Ecocide could explain an industry that failed to keep up with the competition and adjust to new market demands.<\/p>\n Did Detroit forget the Volkswagen Beetle was the most successful car in history<\/a>?<\/p>\n An incredible 21,529,464 Beetles were produced with the same body style and the same taillight (World\u2019s 5 Most Successful Cars<\/a>).<\/p>\n The policies and decisions for the last 31 years aren\u2019t inept or stupid if the goal was pollution.<\/p>\n The Beetle as a mobile pollution device was a failure. Its effects on the environment<\/a> were minimal compared to the Detroit lineup of egocentric gas-guzzlers, all designed with a different taillight and eco-unfriendly accessories.<\/p>\n The \u201cEvil\u201d Federal Reserve<\/a> made sure that shiny new automobile with the V8 engine, chrome wheels and bumpers was so cheap just about everyone in America could afford the mobile pollution device of their dreams.<\/p>\n Ecocide Explains Why Alaska is in the Picture<\/strong><\/p>\n Most analysts point to the oil shock of the mid-1970s, set off by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 as the turning point for the US<\/a> economy and automobile industry.<\/p>\n Why didn\u2019t our then-President Richard Nixon and the rest of the U.S. government<\/a> promote mass transit, renewable energy, and high-mileage vehicles?<\/p>\n Because the objective that makes the most sense was to disturb 800 miles of the most pristine country<\/a> in Alaska with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.<\/p>\n In 2008 we had a similar shock when $4.50 a gallon gasoline convinced Americans they should give up their last Arctic wilderness (U.S. Economy in Free Fall, Why is the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in this picture?<\/a>).<\/p>\n Ecocide Explains why Electricity is so Cheap <\/strong><\/p>\n Electricity radically transformed and expanded our energy use. To a large extent, electricity defines modern technological civilization and made the Industrial Revolution and therefore our consumer society<\/a> possible.<\/p>\n Electric power arrived barely a hundred years ago, but high costs and the Great Depression dried up most investment capital and delayed electric service to rural Americans until President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in 1935.<\/p>\n The REA loaned money created by the Federal Reserve<\/a> at low interest rates and helped to set up electricity cooperatives.<\/p>\n Historically, energy is priced below its actual environmental and social cost in order to create excessive demand and discourage conservation. In other words such pricing diminishes the value of energy to users and causes them to use it irresponsibly and increase the amount of pollution coal-fired plants generate.<\/p>\n Why is electricity priced so cheap that \u201conly the rich can afford to burn candles\u201d?<\/p>\n Because cleaner alternatives like wind, solar or even natural gas don\u2019t require mining companies to use dynamite to blast away 800 to 1,000 feet of 500 mountaintops and bury over 1200 miles of rivers and streams. [4]<\/p>\n Ecocide explains why 54% of electricity comes from the most abundant raw energy, coal and is the dirtiest source of power for much of the world. Coal-fired plants harm wildlife, generate smog, soot, acid rain, global warming<\/a>, toxic air emissions and require billions of gallons of our most precious resource\u2014water.<\/p>\n He Ruined the Country<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The private credit monopoly of rich and predatory moneylenders do not \u201cprey upon the middle class\u201d to get rich.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t become wealthier by exchanging gold<\/a>, silver and raw materials for about $500 trillion of the Monopoly money you print.<\/p>\n Moneylenders created the middle class and then conned us<\/a> into trashing the planet because Ecocide was the goal not the unintended consequence.<\/p>\n American \u201ccapitalism\u201d and our consumer economy make perfect sense if the goal was the attempted murder of the planet.<\/p>\n Maybe ecocide is what Woodrow Wilson meant when he confessed that he \u201cruined the country<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n Robert Singer writes for Disinfo,\u00a0The Market Oracle<\/a> and The Peoples Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a> (https:\/\/twitter.com\/rds2301)<\/p>\n If you make people think they\u2019re thinking, they\u2019ll love you; but if you really make them think, they\u2019ll hate you.\u201d\u2013 Don Marquis<\/p>\n Footnotes:<\/p>\n [1] Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee, speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, June 10, 1932.<\/p>\n [2] \u201cCorporations Rule the World\u201d, David Korten (1995): \u201cIf some portion of the cost of producing a product are borne by third parties who in no way participate in or benefit from the transaction, then economists say the costs have been externalized and the price of the product is distorted accordingly.<\/p>\n [3] Ecuador Approves New Constitution<\/a>: Voters Approve Rights of Nature<\/a>, Mari Margil, Associate Director The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. An Ominous Drilling Sign for the Truth<\/a><\/p>\n [4] On March<\/a> 25, Democrats introduced legislation that would prohibit the dumping of mining waste into streams. More than one million acres of Appalachia have already been affected by this practice, Senator Alexander says, \u201cAn estimated 1,200 miles of headwater streams have been buried under tons of mining wastes. More than 500 mountains have been impacted, and homes have been ruined and drinking water supplies contaminated\u201d (Enviros Win Injunction Against Mountaintop Removal Mining<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n
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