Hey, let's take a vacation and go down to Joe Vitale's
"Plantation
Harbor"
(with a little help from Mr.
Joe Walsh on guitar and producer for The Eagles Bill Szymczyk)
"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control
things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians,
they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the
idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice.
You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the
important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long
since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses,
the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they
own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of
the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They
spend billions of dollars every year lobbying -- lobbying to get what
they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves
and less for everybody else."
~ George Carlin
"Imagine a man who takes money out of a child's piggy bank
and puts
in I.O.U.'s"
I suppose once Shrub has left office there will
be a litany of complaints about what he and his friends did to this
country
economically. Perhaps an old Steve Miller song sums it up best:
Go on,
"Take The
Money" Enron - to pull off such a scam takes quite a bit of
Skilling ;)
It's OK, we've still got our Great-Wal-Of-Credit Card!
ohhhh-k.... How about a little music from
Hank Williams, Jr. called
"The American
Dream"
Current U.S.
National Debt
Clock (moving up on 10 Trillion , folks, and that's before the
"Bail Out")
Ross Perot -
remember him from the 90's elections when he went on TV holding charts
showing just how bad the economy
really was? Well,
he's done it again with a really good Flash presentation describing
just how deep we've sunk into the outhouse. It's at
Perot
Charts. Kudos, Mr. Perot :)
Bush:
"Wall Street Got Drunk" [VIDEO]
(click to see full size image)
Mark Fiore animations
- Wall
Street Executive Air
- The
New New Deal
What
To Do in the Depression [AUDIO]
Financial
Meltdown 101
Everything you ever wanted to know about the biggest economic meltdown
since the Great Depression but were afraid to ask
Michael
Moore, your heart is in the right place, but... - says Todd
Steinberg
Watch Mark Fiore's animation, "The Clapper"
Turn Capitalism On And Off!
and
"Hopping Mad"
- a primer on Frog-Backed Securities (or, the AIG story)
Articles on the Economy
The
Great Fakeroo Recovery - Lew Rockwell on "prosperity" through the
printing press
Aug. 22, 2009 World
Economy Emerging From Worst Recession Since World War II
- I place this article here with the same regard as I would have had
for the newspaper
headline which stated "Dewey Beats Truman" in the 1944 Presidential
election; an historical marker, if you will. I hope I'm wrong,
but I
doubt it ;)
Don’t Put
Your Money on a US Recovery - Cash for Bankers! Cash for
Clunkers! Don't count on a recovery quite yet, says Bill Bonner.
Romulus,
Remus, Stimulus: A Brief History of Monetary Madness
Thrill,
Risk, Struggle - Jeff Tucker on that classic capitalist flick, Wall
Street.
Oh
Yes, Your Cash Has Got Us Very 'Stimulated,' Indeed - Thanks,
Obama. Article by Vin Suprynowicz.
"The
Worst Is Yet to Come":
If You're Not Petrified, You're Not Paying Attention [VIDEO] - Howard
Davidowitz, who is nothing if not opinionated (and colorful), paints a
very grim picture
Inflationary
Sinkhole Ahead - Peter Schiff on what the Fed has done
to us
No, the Free
Market Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis
Jim Quinn -
IF
YOU BELIEVE – BORROWING LEADS TO PROSPERITY
Is
the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust
U.S.
Taxpayers: The Few. The Proud. The Unprofitable
They Done Us
Wrong: Spending Our Way Into Greater Depression
The United
States: The Largest Ponzi Scheme in the World - Bill Bonner on
the United States
Toxic
Paper - Fiat money is the mother of all toxic papers
Educational Material
and Videos
on Monetary Systems
The
Biggest Scam In History - the Federal Reserve
The
Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
Money
As Debt
Fiat
Empire - Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution
Creature
From Jekyll Island - A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Money,
Banking and the Federal Reserve
Conquering
the Spirit of Debt
Introduction
to Austrian Economic Analysis
Cartoons
Pay
Attention
Mental
States of the Meltdown
Stimulus
Check
Halloween
Arrrrrrrr
Matey
Who
could have ever seen this financial mess coming?
Debt
Purchase
Red
Ink Boarding
We're Not In
A Recession
The Credit Crunch
Naughty,
naughty CEOs
Farewell,
my lovely economy
CEO's
Answer to Slumping Sales
Psychological
Recession
Awards
for CEO Failure
Bookkeepers Wanted:
Pentagon investigators discovered
in August that a small South Carolina company fraudulently collected
$20.5
million in shipping costs, including one invoice of $999,798 for
sending
two washers (cost: 19 cents each) to a base in Texas. According to
Bloomberg
News, the Defense Department was said to have a policy of automatically
and
unquestioningly paying shipping bills labeled "priority." [Bloomberg
News,
8-16-07]
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL
What is the truest definition of Globalization? Princess Diana's death,
and here’s
why: An English princess, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashes in a
French tunnel in a
German car with a Dutch engine driven by a Belgian who was drunk on
Scottish whisky,
followed closely by Italian Paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles. She was
treated by an
American doctor using Brazilian medicines.
This was sent to me by an American using Bill Gate’s technology. You're
probably
reading it on your computer with Taiwanese chips and a Korean monitor
assembled by
Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant and transported by Indian
lorry-drivers,
hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen and trucked
to you by
Mexican illegals!
That, my friends, is Globalization…
