Filed under: disinfo reporting, economy, subprime credit crisis, tv | Tags: bank bailouts, george w. bush, glass steagall act, martin luther king jr., mccain, obama, palin, patriot act, u.s. election
As I’ve written previously, I generally ignore election campaigns and prefer instead to pay attention to politics *between* elections. The problem with U.S. politics is that they’re *always* campaigning. I’ve been calling an Obama win for over a year now, and of course I’m still convinced (though I still have the strong taste of crow in my mouth since calling an Obama/Gore ticket so vehemently for so long 
. I’ve always held the belief that the U.S. (s)election would always be made out to look like a close race even though popular sentiment would decisively back Obama as President.
I’ll still be blogging away while the world tucks itself in for a nice long 4-year slumber with visions of *Hope* & *Change* dancing in their heads.
Sarah Palin will fade from your memory quicker than a season of Survivor….
Seriously folks… I write because I care. I maintain this blog because I actually *give a shit* and if you’ve read this far, I already think you’re an awfully swell person and just want you to know that Sarah Palin is bad for you. This is an intervention. If you’ve thought about her in the last 24 hours, I’m ordering you to pick up a glass of something with alcohol in it, pick up a bong, download some porn and forget about her. It’ll be easier than quitting smoking. She will never become the President of the United States of America. If you’ve ever spent any of your precious time even *fantasizing* about such a thing happening you need to turn your thoughts to sex *right now*… and not about sex with Sarah Palin, that’s cheating… she *is* hot but she’s not *that* hot. Tina Fey is the obvious second choice, but *even then* you can’t think about having sex with Tina Fey *as* Sarah Palin… that’s cheating too… you need to stop thinking about this woman altogether… it’s a moot point.
Cheney’s the dude that needs to be kept under constant scrutiny… not Sarah freakin’ Palin. She’s not getting the financial backing that’s kept Cheney in the White House off and on for the past 3 decades, nor is she getting the kind of support that Obama’s getting. She’s a “red herring”.
Hope is not a plan…
If we’re truly *Hoping* for a *Change* we need to keep asking the question: where does Obama get all of his money from? Consider this… “campaign contributions” and “fundraising” are terms that are used to describe personal private money given to a Candidate during a “campaign”. This affords a person running for the *office* of the President of the United States of America the opportunity to say to the “establishment” – “this is how much money I can get people to give me”. Not *only* is this money from the “plain folk” – it’s also *huge* cash raised from within the establishment itself!! In other words… the *same* people that made George W. Bush the most highly financed campaigner in U.S. history… the same people that put their money where there mouths are for Bush policies have decided that they like Obama’s take on the world *so much* – they’re making Obama the most highly financed campaigner in U.S. history!! I wonder… did the establishment just change their minds *completely*? And just how does President Obama go about paying his debts to his financiers?
There’s so much freakin’ history happening out there right now I can’t understand how people can sit through a full interview with Sarah Palin. She’s says *nothing* while Cheney travels to Georgia to deal with the Russian war. She says nothing of any consequence while Hank Paulson (former CEO of Goldman Sachs…Goldamn Goldman Sachs is the #2 top contributor to Obama), *creates* the $700 billion line of credit for himself and future Secretaries of the Treasury. She’s not saying anything worth listening to while Obama prepares his incoming Cabinet to keep flooding the world with American dollars (thereby continuing the crash of the economy) and continue further wars in the Middle East (Pakistan, Afghanistan).
5 Questions I have for an Obama Administration:
- Will the Patriot Act be repealed?
- Will the Glass Steagall Act (or something like it) be brought back from the dead?
- Will American troops be brought home, or will they just be redeployed to a neighbouring country?
- Will Obama (a Constitutional lawyer) re-write and *restore* the Constitutional right that Americans have to *not* be spied on by their government? How’s about the right to due process? Will he bring that back? Habeus Corpus? Posse Comitatus?
- Will the *Change* that we *Need* look anything like the *Change* that we *Hope* for?
The great Orator…
For the life of me, I just can’t get as excited as everyone else when Obama speaks. You know… he’s a politician. To get to this point (most highly financed campaign in history, right after W.), Obama had to serve the same masters as every President before him. Folks… you don’t get there (POTUS) without assuring the “money” that you’ll do what needs to get done. Please don’t fall asleep at the wheel for the next four years. Don’t believe the big toothy soothing grin in a year from now when President Obama explains why Pakistan needs to be “dealt with” or why it’s not his fault that his version of a $700 billion line-of-credit needs to be added to the inflationary U.S. money supply.
Instead… keep going back to the words of the greatest American orator. Martin Luther King Jr. King was *not* a politician. He was a true leader. He wasn’t *Hope* for *Change*. He *was* change.
We don’t need another President. We *Need* *Progress* that can *Change* the way that we *Hope*
Filed under: disinfo reporting, economy, peak oil, real estate, subprime credit crisis, tv | Tags: american dollar, bank bailouts, bear stearns, economy, fannie mae, freddie mac, gas prices, hank paulson, hurricane ike, lehman brothers, new world order, sarah palin, subprime credit crisis
“I believe that there’s a plan for this world” - Sarah Palin
Now, you know…
…if *I* said that *I* believed that there was “a plan for this world”, y’all’d think I was crazy and assume that I was talking about some kinda New World Order bullshit, right?… right??
Well, I’m not gonna to talk about any Novus Ordo Seclorum bullshit…
I’m gonna talk about bank bailouts and why “day” is now “night”…
Oh, we got trouble, right here in River City. And that starts with “T” and that rhymes with “B” and that stands for “bailout”. Bank bailouts. Meaning: banks are getting bailed out by the government. The government only has one *real* source of cash… and that source is… you.
And by “you” I mean…
YOU! The tax-payer. HOLD ON! I just wrote the word “tax-payer” and I could feel you itching to click your mouse, but hear me out…
I’m specifically referring to the American tax-payer, (you know, the one that buys everything that makes the economy turn ’round?). The American tax-payer is so incredibly indebted to the rest of the world in purely financial terms, there’s really no mathematical way around the fact that North Americans spend more than they make. You don’t need to understand the intricacies of the “subprime credit crisis” to understand that, statistically speaking, we’re all in a heap o’ shit.
If you work any amount of time in your day in order to pay off debt, you may want to put down the remote and think about “your” cash for a moment…
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Bros., Bear Stearns… those are just the big names… these are the banks that are getting direct government intervention with money that you have to sign on the dotted line for agreeing to “cover” or “pay” (in the form of tax), every April. You are your government’s “guarantee” to its “creditors” (i.e. – China) that your country can pay off its debt. With this in mind… how’s your job going? Are you getting ahead or falling behind?
“So What? I’m not American! HA!”
Yes, you are. At least… your bank account is. And at the end of the day… that’s *you*, Baby… that’s your own personal treasure chest and the *only* thing that really matters to the bean-counters in the Treasury Department. You buy stuff, you borrow to get it, you need it, you want it… they know that…(and by “they”, I mean Hank Paulson, Darth Cheney, Ben Bernanke and a host of other people you’ll never remember the names of). We’re all inextricably financially linked to the U.S. Dollar, and I’m gonna presume that if you’ve read this far, you’re willing to at least entertain the idea that my arguement may have a bit of substance to it.
Back to the plan…
Sarah Palin firmly believes that there’s a “plan” for the world and that it’s “God’s plan”. Of course, her critics (including me), roll their collective eyes at the Christian Republican Fundamentalist world view, but what if there really *was* a plan? What if she was *right* about there being a plan, but was wrong about “what” or “who” was doing the planning? Before you start looking at the picture of The Great Seal on the American Dollar bill that sits above these words and start thinking that I’m going off on a “9/11 Truth” tantrum…
Have you seen a gas pump today?!… Have you?!…
I can’t say that I know of any plan specifically (if I did, I’d be sitting in a boardroom, not blogging), *but* it does occur to me that when you have the price of oil dropping significantly, and the price of gas *rising* significantly, you have at least *one* plan in place that is of great benefit to those making money on the whole deal.
To be sure, the current price spike is being attributed to Hurricane “Certain Death” Ike, (Category 2), and the havoc that we’re all *assuming* it’s going to wreak on oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Now… I don’t know how much of our gas is refined from Gulf of Mexico oil, but considering the fact that we’re (Canada) a net *producer* of oil (and the U.S. is a net *importer* of oil), I’m still unclear as to how gasoline gets to this crazy price in this free-market capitalist society….
Wait a second…
Maybe the “plan” isn’t really “capitalist” or “free-market” at all… maybe (as evidenced by the nationalization of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac), just maybe… we’re living in a perverted scheme of “socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor”. The bank CEO’s fuck up; taxpayers pay up. Call *that* a conspiracy theory…
A strong dollar??
We’ve been living in this mental bubble in Canada that we have a “strong dollar”. Even with the CA$ currently around $0.92 against the US$, we Canadians still believe that we have a dollar that is strong… I’m putting the question out there… “how can it be *strong* when it’s being measured against a volatile and weakening currency”?
How can your dollar be *strong* when it purchases less and less and less every day??
How can a dollar be considered *strong* when – overnight – you need *more* of them to buy the exact same stuff that you bought only yesterday??
Like I said… I don’t *know* what the “plan” is exactly… but I’m not gonna bother pretending that Sarah Palin actually has her “finger on the pulse”.
