The TRUE story

---

Is that there isn't one...

Our government has reached the point, in *my* opinion, that it completely controls the flow of information that 'we' are allowed to receive.

Nearly a year into the obama administration it seems that playing with words and numbers may be the most important 'tool' 'they' have left. I DO NOT mean to imply that this began with the obama administration. But the current administration does happen to be the one that promised us transparency like we have never seen before...

He who controls 'information' controls all. Don't you think?

If you'll look around a bit you'll see that virtually nothing is as it seems anymore.

'They' have been monkeying around with ways to meticulously massage economic data for years, even decades, now. The obvious 'goal' being to have the ability to present said data in a way that the markets and public will find most acceptable. Here is a link to several data sets that have seen reporting methodology change significantly over the last few decades. Look at this carefully, this is very important 'stuff'.

Inflation, Money Supply, GDP, Unemployment and the Dollar - Alternate Data Series on ShadowStats.com

As I have pointed out here, more than once, it is *my* belief that 'they' use complexity and obfuscation to control the dialog.

Anything you are able to portray as extremely complex, extremely difficult to understand, allows you to easily manipulate selected pieces of data to portray virtually any 'story' in any light you wish at any given moment.

My point being that there is no longer any 'honesty' in anything our government tells us. And without honesty there can be no 'trust'.

And... without 'trust' there can be no government or economy...

Even as our government, economy and society/culture continue to unravel the government, with the assistance of the main stream media, continues to tell the American people, and the world, that things are getting 'better'.

To me it is a very 'matrix like' manipulation of reality.

What *I* continue to see, personally, is the fact that the government has done NOTHING to squarely address ANY of our core problems at all!

I am 100% convinced that the government of the United States has already 'fallen'. It has already 'failed'. A 'coup d'état' has already taken place and it is led by Goldman Sachs. It's not at all difficult to discover many of Goldman Sachs's 'ties' to the government of the United States. Took me just a few seconds to find this page listing some of them. Go LOOK and see what YOU can find. Knowledge IS power my friends...

Military historian Edward Luttwak says: “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”.

What ARE our 'problems'?

Maybe I attempt to 'oversimplify' with my constant use of the terms 'greed' and 'corruption'. I am prone to 'over simplification' myself... *I* believe virtually all of our 'problems' can be encompassed with the phrase 'Too big to fail'. It is *my* opinion that our government CERTAINLY 'sees' itself as 'too big to fail'.

Our government's obvious ties to, and dependence on, the financial sector, and I use the term loosely, via the Federal Reserve system, Central Banks, Regional banks, Insurance companies, and drug companies is FRIGHTENING!

This entire market run higher has been nothing more than a collusion by/of the United States government and the financial sector. The government with the assistance (voluntary or forced) of the FED/Central Banks, hedge funds, Sovereign wealth funds, and even very wealthy individuals (Buffet) has manged to reflate the previous bubble to a degree that I would not have thought possible.

Our entire banking system has already collapsed. Our banks are already insolvent. *I* believe our entire medical industry is, or soon will be, insolvent as well. First and foremost the Insurance companies. But also across the board. Hospitals and drug companies.

As cash strapped Americans seek to cut costs and deleverage in any way they possibly can unnessasary medical costs, certainly health insurance, shows up on the chopping block rather quickly. Especially if one is rather 'healthy' and perhaps 'young' to begin with. Most 'young' otherwise 'healthy' Americans families can save 6,000.00 a year by simply dropping their health insurance. This has been going on for YEARS in this country as insurance costs have continued to climb WAY ahead of (mis-reported) inflation. It's not a new thing at all. Now 'they' want to make it 'illegal' to live in the United States of America and not buy health insurance. WTF?!

After our financial system collapsed and as our kleptocratic government watched our economy change rapidly it became obvious to them very quickly that insurance companies, and the entire health care industry itself, was in grave danger of collapse. Due merely to 'cost cutting' by the American people. What a 'predicament' to be sure... Americans MUST delever as never before just to survive this economic disaster. But the conundrum is that very deleveraging threatens to expose the LIE that things are getting better.

And why/how is our economy in such grave danger? Once again use the K.I.S.S rule! (Keep It Simple Stupid). It is NOT nearly as 'complex' as those in Washington and on Wall Street would have you believe! Our government AND corporate institutions have for decades become so enamored of greed and corruption that now 'they' are UNABLE to EXIST without MONEY!

It is NOT 'they' who are important! It is NOT 'they' who matter! It is *my* opinion that 'they' MUST fail if America is to survive...

WE are the only thing that matters. We the people. And I speak NOT only of the 'people' of America! I speak of the people of the world... It is TIME for people all over the world to rise up and finally, once and for all, put a STOP to this man made, contrived, ridiculous notion that 'people' cannot exist without a government to tell them what to do. It is TIME for PEOPLE all over the world to stand up and shout 'WE can do it better!' PLEASE try to understand and remember that WE do NOT need them! 'They' need US! 'They' (in theory) work FOR us! Even though in reality 'they' prove time and time again that 'they' truly work for NO ONE but themselves!

Humans, mankind, took a 'wrong turn' somewhere along the line of history. We (humans) have veered wildly off the course of improving the state of mankind on the planet. We seem to be headed into some very strange direction in which the 'goal' seems to be the 'prevention' of our ability to progress. We all, collectively, do this by turning over our freedoms, our liberty, our aspirations, indeed our mandated task of 'improving' the human condition, to governments...

'Too big to fail' is a LIE! It has always been a LIE! Our economy and financial system has ALREADY failed! Our government is close behind. We, people around the world, can help most by by helping the current oligarchy cease to exist. By DEMANDING it's dismantlement.

Tyranny is upon us now... Will we fight? Or will we simply lie down and die?

THIS time, in THIS great nation, will turn out to be the most important time in the history of the United States of America.

It will BE the time our greedy and corrupt government and corporate elites were destroyed by the PEOPLE.

Or... it will be the time that the people were destroyed by our greedy and corrupt government and corporate elites...

'Time' is running short. The choice is ours...

I pray we choose wisely...

Greg

A Gerald Celente moment

Here is a large portion of the truth as *I* personally see it to be...

Gerald Celente is a brilliant man, IMO. Please take 15 minutes of your valuable time to see what he has to say... "The second American revolution has begun."

Part 1 of 2



Part 2 of 2

1948 cartoon - Make Mine Freedom

Seems we have been at least attempting to deal with the same problems and issues for a very long time in this country. Odd, when you think about it, to see just how little progress we have managed to make...



Greg

Freedom

I don't WANT freedom for the United States of America... We are BLESSED with a wonderful document. Our constitution. It is ours. It belongs to us. We the people. Fight for it each and every one of you. It is worth the effort.

But don't be for freedom for the United States of America. Be for freedom of ALL the peoples of the world.

It is the only way...



Greg

Productivity report

My ass...

productivity

Definition

The amount of output per unit of input (labor, equipment, and capital). There are many different ways of measuring productivity. For example, in a factory productivity might be measured based on the number of hours it takes to produce a good, while in the service sector productivity might be measured based on the revenue generated by an employee divided by his/her salary.

What we hear is that improved productivity is good for our economy... It's good for profits. It's good for earnings. It's good for the bottom line.

That's all fine and good I suppose...

But doesn't it also kinda mean putting the squeeze on those employees you still have who already consider themselves lucky to still have a job? Isn't it really nothing more than saying to those employees You must bust your ass MORE THAN the 110% you busted your ass last week/last month/last quarter. And if you're lucky and produce more work and more profits we'll be 'nice' and not cut your pay... We'll consider being nice and not eliminate your job... Can improved productivity not also be accomplished through drastic cost cutting? Including payroll reductions? Less spending on R&D? Less advertising? Don't all these things 'improve the bottom line'?

Isn't increased productivity merely another way of saying to your employees 'I have you spread over a barrel and am free to rape you as I please'?

Don't get me wrong. Under 'different' circumstances, in a 'different' economic environment I can see where increased productivity would be a good thing. As factories, business' increase capital spending to upgrade equipment and software. As those same companies 'share the wealth' that would be the benefit of cost savings and productivity gains with the employees who help make it happen. You know... like in a healthy, growing, expanding economy...

That is not 'this' economy...

'This' economy seems to me to have become one in which the 'goal' is to screw the American worker/people as much as you can possibly get away with. Most of it done as a way to make the economy 'appear' to be different than it really is...

Anyone else notice how WONDERFUL earnings have been? Anyone else notice/understand how GDP was blatantly manipulated with government spending to make it 'appear' much stronger than it really is? Anyone else notice any of the media 'propaganda' designed to convince us everything is getting 'better' when the opposite is true?

Let's be serious for a moment here... The United States is faced with demographics problems for which there is virtually no known plan... Baby boomer retirement is a HUGE problem... For Social Security for medicare for any/all 'entitlements' 'they' have created. For retailers in ALL sectors (guess I have to exclude medical services and devices though). For tax revenues way into the foreseeable future. For the housing market as they downsize. Demographics is enough in and of itself to completely alter the way of life in America. All by itself. Over 'time'.

But actually demographics may be the least of our problems... That stuff takes time... It's happening, but it happens rather slowly.

We're involved in an economic collapse right now.

I see/sense weird stuff around me... I pay more 'attention' to the economy these days than I used to I guess. But it 'seems' really strange. *I* see both deflation and inflation at the same time. What the hell would that be called?

We have a 'consumer' who now refuses to be defined as such. The 'consumer' in the United States is not only tapped out and over indebted... The 'consumer' in America is in large part very pissed off! Why/how could they NOT be?! Americans are constantly bombarded with advertising from every direction. SOMEONE has their hand out to 'take your money' no matter WHERE you turn! Many people are sick of it... The undisguised brutal efforts to seperate Americans from their paychecks...

It is *my* hope that Americans will ALL see the light. Money IS the problem in large part. Or the 'love' thereof to be more precise... Greed, the love OF money and the resulting corruption it creates CANNOT be corrected by the government forever spending MORE and the FED running the printing presses day and night. That is RIDICULOUS! Our problems CANNOT be addressed by begging the American consumer to buy houses and cars! THAT is what got us where we are!

We have a possible (likely even?) currency crisis staring us in the face...

We have NO jobs!

We have foreclosure like we have NEVER had before. With many more still looming on the horizon...

Tax revenues continue to collapse everywhere... We need tax revenues.... as *I* understand them... For things like expensive wars in the middle east... 'entitlements', social safety nets... 'Junk like that'... So I guess our kleptocratic 'leaders' are planning a nice bunch of tax increases to deal with that little problem. 'They' KNOW how to take our money from us... 'They' are VERY good at that part of the game...

Utilities are going nuts with rate hikes... Seems to me anyway... In the midst of the worst economic decline in many DECADES my own electric company is seeking a 25% rate increase in the state of Kansas. I guess we're 'lucky' in that Missouri faces only a 10% hike... This is the sort of 'help' jobless Americans need?!?!?! Gouge gouge gouge...

Commodities are bubblishious... Don't you think? I'll tell ya what *I* think... I think commodities are the bubble vehicle being used by the government and the banks to 'recapitalize'. Once again on the backs of the American people. 'They', both government and the financial elites, are using OUR money to take on some of the most outrageous 'gambles' anyone has EVER seen! 'They' are 'all in' on the 'audacious hope' 'they' can prop up the economy long enough for the 'consumer' to return...

The 'consumer' is NOT returning. Things have 'changed' and you had BETTER believe in it...

It is NOT capitalism that has failed... It is what 'they' have done to our constitution and economy and society that has failed... It is the 'progressives' who have been proven wrong. The wealth re-distributors who have been proven wrong. It is greed and corruption throughout our government and financial system that threatens to destroy us. People, American people and people around the world, are understanding this more at a gut level now than ever before. That is *my* belief. The 'game' is rigged. The deck is stacked. Taking money from citizens has evolved into a 'science' that is capable of destroying the world in which we all live...

It is *my* belief that it must STOP.

In *my* opinion our economy continues to 'flounder around'... Looking for a tiny narrow ledge on which it might be able to attach it's finger nails...

What might that 'ledge' be?

Be very afraid when you hear talk out of Washington about forcing the 'rich' to pay more of 'their share'. The 'rich' don't pay taxes... The American people pay taxes. All of them. Every single tax increase 'they' implement will be paid, in the end, by the American middle class and lower... The financial elite ALWAYS pass tax increases on the the American people. I would think EVERYONE understands how this works by now... What would you expect?! The greedy bastards are actually going to pay their fair share and do what they can to 'help' the economy? LOL If you believe THAT then you have fallen into the rabbit hole already...

'They' have done their best to DESTROY their own customer base! That is their IGNORANCE on display for all to see!

Health care 'reform' is going to save us all??? Hear this at least this one time... NO ONE will see ANY difference in Health care for AT LEAST THREE YEARS! The government, as bills are now written, will politely 'collect' all the money it can for THREE YEARS before a damn thing changes... Which happens to be about 2012... which is another story all together lol As I have said MANY times before... To *me* all the health care 'hogwash' is about NOTHING MORE than funneling BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of dollars directly into the insurance companies!

I'm just 'rambling' today... I guess my only 'point' being (if there is one) that everything 'they' do only makes things worse... not better. 'They' attempt ONLY to 'whitewash' the rotted fence which is our economy. 'They' KNOW everything *I* know... plus a lot more I'm sure. I'm no economist by any means... I'm just an American guy...

But I'm telling you... 'They' know and discuss much more than 'we' are EVER privy to hearing. 'They' HAVE plans that 'we' know absolutely NOTHING about. 'They' see the collapse just as well as *I* and even better... 'They' have more 'resources' than do I... But 'they' are not about to take the loss of their power lying down... THAT I would bet 'fiat currency' on...

Keep 'telling' the 17.5% of UNEMPLOYED Americans that things are getting BETTER! Keep telling the millions who have lost their homes to foreclosure and the millions more who face the same fate that things are getting BETTER! Keep telling Americans who have seen their retirement accounts vanish before their very eyes that things are getting BETTER!

'Black Friday' approaches now... One of the favorite 'holidays' of our wonderful retailers. The very DAY the OFFICIAL Christmas shopping season BEGINS in America! WOOHOO! I NEVER say, and never intend to say, let the streets run red with blood. *I* am all about PEACEFUL dissent! I want to make 'Black Friday' run red with ink! *I* want to 'hit 'em where it hurts'... Right in the balance sheet... WE can stop ALL this OURSELVES! I plead with EVERYONE to STOP PLAYING the game! Stop spending every dime that you do not absolutely HAVE to spend! Lets ALL have a 1950's Christmas this year! Let's HELP those business' that have grown too LARGE to either downsize or disappear. Lets HELP capitalism SUCCEED! Lets HELP our markets, government and society collapse so that they can be rebuilt as they were/are meant to be. For the betterment of Amricans. For the betterment of mankind. Not the bastardized, ruinous version of capitalism that we have been lead to believe is acceptable.

If you have a ridiculous amount of debt because you or someone else in your family have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous financial elites then STOP paying it! Tell them that 'they' belong in hell and should head that way immediately! 'They' have not yet brought back 'debtors prisons'. Maybe 'they' will at some point, who knows... So make haste now while you can. If you have lost your job and cannot pay your bills make it someone elses' problem too! Don't allow them to force continual pain on you and your family. Help me force that pain onto them, where it belongs. 'They' have all destroyed themselves through egotistical ignorance.

Sorry, not feeling very 'optimistic' today...

Happy holidays...

Greg

Thomas Jefferson quote

---
The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson

Man... that guy was good huh... He always makes *me* feel like less of an 'extremist'... Thank God for that lol

Greg

Muslim terrorist attack kills 11 and wounds 31

'Hasan report'

It's almost Christmas SHOPPING SEASON! WOOHOO!

'They' are already faced with the great Swine Flu panic of 2009... The very LAST thing 'they' are interested in doing is 'playing up' the whole 'Muslim terrorist' thing that a few 'extremist' are talking about.

I already saw the INCREDIBLE difference in coverage switching between CNN and FOX News... CNN was all about a good, yet troubled man, haunted by the stresses of war... FOX News was at least interviewing people and family who knew the man well.

Apparently Hasan made no secret of his 'dislike' of the United States of America's involvement in the middle east. Apparently, even in the military, he made his displeasure about American foreign policy well known. I heard a former fellow soldier talk about Hasan's outbursts. I heard his cousin saying that he had been seeking discharge or guarantee he would not be deployed to the middle eastern conflict since 9/11. He TOLD everyone he could how he felt. Much as I do now. Why did people not listen to him and get him OUT of the military?! Why do people not listen to me now?

I suggest the powers that be were 'afraid' to even 'consider' confronting a Major who also happened to be a psychiatrist. Not to mention a Muslim... It's our new 'politically correct' military. Like it so far? Most all the Americans Hasan shot and 'killed' or wounded were unarmed... That, in and of itself, seems surreal... They were on a military base for crying out
loud...

I do not mean to or intend to speak ill of all Muslim people. That would be stupid. Only the ones who murder 11 unarmed Americans and wound 31.

But jeeze... come on... Is the headline not 'Muslim terrorist attack kills 11 and wounds 31'?!

'Worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11' (sub title...)

Someone explain to me how it is different than a Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. A suicide shooter in the USA.

Hasan had a Jordanian heart...

But... of course... that would NOT bode well for Christmas shopping season now would it?

Lets just wait and see what the MSM news coverage looks like. Lets just wait and see what the White House has to say...

We'll see... I truly hope I am wrong about the media and Washington on this one. I truly do. IF I am not... Then the economy trumps ALL. Even you and I and our personal safety.

Greg