Happy New Year and Bye Bye to 2011!

Happy New Year!

Social implications of economic collapse - why this isn't fixable

Simply put, the United States and much of Europe are borrowing an extraordinary amount of money now just to pay interest on the money they've already borrowed. They cannot even self-fund their mandatory entitlement programs without going into the hole, and their options are limited:


Option 1: Continue borrowing, keep the party going.


As long as the government CAN do this, they WILL do this.  Regardless of their intentions, though, more debt only worsens the situation, creating higher borrowing costs in the long run, and even more debt. As this happens, the pool of buyers begins to dry up, especially from overseas.


Option 2: Inflation


The more buyers stop purchasing Treasury securities, the more the Federal Reserve will mop up the excess liquidity. In doing so, the Fed essentially conjures up money and loans it to the government.  This leads to the coming destruction of the dollar.


No matter what the government monkey statistics say, this is inflationary, plain and simple. The more money they print, the greater the level of inflation in the long-term. Meanwhile, as foreigners simultaneously reduce their US dollar holdings, this inflation will become more acutely felt in the US.


Option 3: Austerity


There's going to come a time when the US government is forced to face its economic reality and make some incredibly deep cuts that would be felt across society, from Wall Street and the military industrial complex to project housing on the other side of the tracks.


Option 4: Default


Eventually, the debt burden is simply going to be too much, and the most obvious solution will be to default. Politicians will make China out to be the enemy and they will probably invent a war just to have an excuse to default on Chinese owned debt. Americans will wave the flag and celebrate defaulting on their enemies.


Option 5: Economic Cannibalism


In the best traditions of Atlas Shrugged, the government will continue its persecution of the productive class- professionals, investors, entrepreneurs, and skilled workers. Existing taxes will rise, new taxes will be created, trade barriers will be enacted, and a maze of cost prohibitive regulations will be passed.


The first option (keeping the party going) is what has been happening for years. Politicians make small concessions to show they're "serious" about fiscal discipline, cutting laughably small programs while dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into wars and entitlement programs.


The worse the debt situation becomes, though, the higher the borrowing costs become, and the worse the debt situation becomes. It's not an enviable position. Existing lenders will continue backing away from the US Treasury market, giving option 1 a half-life measured in months at best.


In the longer term, only options 2-5 remain: inflation, austerity, default, and cannibalism. Each of these remaining options will shake the financial system to its core. More importantly, each of these has the power to create widespread social upheaval.


When inflation eats away at a family's already meager standard of living, when austerity eliminates the benefits to which recipients have grown accustomed, when default vanquishes a retiree's savings, when high taxes make workers feel like they're just government serfs- this is when the real turmoil will begin:


* Rising crime: devoid of a job or means to support their families, people will turn to crime out of desperation


* Class warfare: with dividing lines drawn between have's vs. have-not's, it will become unpopular and even dangerous to be successful


* Corruption: low-level public service officials will look to supplement their income through bribery and kickbacks


* Black economy: An underground, cash-only (probably gold or foreign currency) economy will emerge with people getting paid in envelopes


* Censorship: Of course they'll blame it on national security, but the idea will be to prevent public disparaging of government policy


* War: The government will need another major event to distract people from the real problems


* Protests/Riots: This is when things turn bloody


* Police state conditions: The government will close ranks and send the cops out to show all the little people who's really in charge


There are a number of other manifestations, and many are already showing signs of emergence. The US and European police states are alive and well. Crime is on the rise.


In Europe, cops are doing battle in the streets with their citizens. Think it can't happen in the US? Remember tanks in the streets during the LA riots? Remember New Orleans? Remember any number of G8/G20 protests?


Here's the bottom line: all you have to do is glance at the headlines to see what happens when you strip people of their livelihood, of their ability to put food on the table for their families.


The US has been able to kick the can down the road with the most blunt social implications simply because the country benefits so much from a US-oriented financial system. This is coming to an end very, very quickly.


As a rule of thumb, the greater the economic distortion, the harder the collapse. The US economy has been in a fantasy world for so long, and when its dominant primacy is yanked away, the collapse will be at freefall speed.


Listen... I'm not talking about the end of the world here, I'm talking about difficult times ahead, and the things that go beyond economics. It's time to face facts and look at how society will change (and has already changed).


Will you be prepared or caught unaware?

Why Politicians Don't Matter - and Other Christmas Fairy Tales I Wish Were True

Call me cynical, but tell me if you haven't had any of these thoughts.

There are people who are constantly reminding us that the current way of things is unacceptable...and that they need (or are the only ones with the real solution) to fix it. Without their improving, their constant drive to liberate us from the horror of having to think for ourselves and to accept responsibility for our own actions, we’d be left in a worse situation than that in which we now find ourselves. Clearly, we first need to distance ourselves from the “world improver” class. So let’s make sure to discard them from the debate.  Oh wait...is there anyone left standing?

Not that politicians don’t have some utility. It’s easy and amusing to poke fun at them, to chide them and harangue their idiotic decisions. And one can indulge this guilty pleasure in so very many ways, there's just so much material to work with it's hard to know where to begin.  You just can't make this stuff up!

It’s amusing, for example, to invent various forms of alternative employment for randomly chosen demagogues and sociopaths currently in the government's employ... tasks more befitting of their respective skill sets. One could, without too much difficulty, imagine Secretary of State Hillary Clinton selling fridge magnets from a tin tray at a busy intersection on a hot, midsummer’s afternoon. Picture for a moment the scuffed Ferragamos underfoot, the grey, late ’90s-cut pants suit, mottled with perspiration in all the most unflattering areas, the usually well-coiffed mop frantically frizzing in the humidity, mascara running like Rocky the Raccoon and a thin layer of smog and car soot blowing over those deeply entrenched frown lines, augmenting the lifeless facial landscape like shifting sands across some barren desert.

Fun, huh?

But so what? Beyond a moment’s entertainment, the time and effort spent conjuring such a frightful image is hardly worth the reward. And besides, when you do inevitably stir from your fitful daydream, you’re left with the cold, gut-punch reality that this woman is not offering anything of even moderate use, nor is she putting her considerable (stolen) wealth and (coerced) power behind anything of marketable value. Instead, she is busy waging an “information war” on your behalf, furnishing would-be enemies around the globe with exactly the kind of motivation their own warped doctrines require to justify the pursuit of violence against citizens who happen to hold a US passport.

We really have no voice in the US presidential elections, and I've shared before my belief that the right and the left are equally corrupt.  It is rare for a decent man (collective man, not to exclude the smarter half - and I really do like Michele Bachman) to seek public office. He is ashamed of pandering. He is embarrassed by the stupidity of his own slogans. He is appalled by the low-lifes and quasi criminals with whom he must associate and from whom he must beg support. The Repubican elite had already made up their mind about Mitt Romney being the heir apparent, but the surge of the Newt has put a monkey wrench in what otherwise seemed to be a lock.  Now, how do you think all that happened?

The new choice is now Republican Newt Gingrich. Of course, some people find him completely repulsive, you may as well.  But he does appear to be the man of the hour. You could argue that history needs him, to carry on the work of Bush and Obama, hustling the great nation on its way to oblivion.

They are all swarming around Newt Gingrich now. The handlers, pollsters, word polishers, idea chiselers, fund raisers, donors, hangers on, groupies, roadies — carpet-bagging rascals every one of them. Now they’ve got the scent in their nostrils. Their chests heave. The hearts pump. If they can just keep their man Newt from blowing himself up they’ll be in high cotton for at least 4 years. One will head a commission or a cushy seat at the UN. Another will get a contract to provide the pentagon with new ID badges. Another will ride into a remote Congressional seat on Newt’s coattails. Power. Money. If Newt wins, they win. Newt’s women will think themselves smarter and prettier. The men among them will feel their brains growing bigger.

American presidential candidates generally fall into three categories. Those who are obviously incompetent. Those who are scalawags. And those who are jackasses. The job of the voters is to choose the defect most suited to the time.

Winston Churchill was a disaster as First Lord of the Admiralty during WWI; the Gallipoli campaign was his doing. Then, on how to deal with the Iraqi insurgents, circa 1920, he offered this advice: Use chemical weapons “against recalcitrant Arabs as an experiment,” he suggested, adding, “I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes to spread a lively terror.” Later, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he put Britain back on the gold standard, but at a level that was bound to cause trouble. It came, in 1929.

He may have been incompetent. He may have been a big-mouth imperialist. But Churchill was the man Britain needed in 1940.

When times are good, the public generally prefers a scalawag. Clinton was the perfect president for the ’90s boom years. Warren Harding would have been a great fit with the boom of the ’20s. He drank. He played cards. He snuck out of the White House to go to girlie shows. Otherwise, he left people alone. But he was a little early. Most of the “Roaring Twenties” boom happened during the Coolidge administration. On the surface, Coolidge was a mismatch. Straitlaced. A bit of a scold. But he minded his own business and — like Clinton during the dotcom bubble or Bush during the property bubble — he let speculators ruin themselves without raising an objection.

The trouble with Herbert Hoover was that he was too much of a nuts and bolts engineer. The public turned him out. They preferred Roosevelt’s confident malarkey. They wanted a man with a plan. No matter that the plan was crap. They’d never figure that out.

That’s the problem with Obama. He has no plan. He doesn’t know what is going on, or what to do about it. Which at least marks him as more intelligent than most of his challengers, who have the wrong idea on both counts. But neither brains nor competence is what the public wants now. In an emergency it wants Churchill, not Chamberlain. A Roosevelt, not a Hoover. It wants a bold liar. A hearty delusional.

Gingrich is their man. A letter in The Financial Times compared him to Churchill. He compares himself to de Gaulle. Both are correct, in my view. He is as humble as de Gaulle and at least as competent as Churchill. He is a cad who reportedly told his second wife that she was too old and too ugly to be a president’s wife. He is a scoundrel who took $1.8 million from zombie mortgage lender, Freddie Mac. He makes angels weep; the gods get their backs up. So cometh Newt Gingrich to the Republican race. If you’re dumb enough, you think he’s smart. If you’re corrupt enough, you think he is honest. If you compare him to the field of candidates, he doesn’t seem any more asinine than the rest.

He is incompetent, scalawag and jackass all in one package. A man for all seasons. Most importantly, he is committed to keeping America on course to its own destruction. The US already runs the biggest deficits in the developed world. Gingrich would add to them — by about $850 billion, according to one estimate. He hopes Reagan- era growth will eventually balance the books. He also thinks an Electro-Magnetic Pulse is one of the biggest dangers America faces. And he believes in American exceptionalism — as if the nation can dodge fate with some special math that applies to it alone. But if you begin asking questions about Newt’s thoughts, ideas or plans you are missing the point. America’s empire is decadent and degenerate...rotten at its core. It needs a man like Newt to help it on its way... to where all exceptional empires end up — on the scrap heap of history.

If I were to declare a preference and were he to toss his hat in the ring, I would put my support behind former Senator Jon Corzine. The ex-Goldman chief has the experience that America needs. He has been a front-runner in politics...and in the world of finance, what he doesn’t know about front running is probably not worth knowing. Presuming, however, that Corzine will be too busy fending off lawsuits or jail sentences, I am left to ask the question...is there anyone who is really going to make a difference as our next President?

Given all the above, does it really sound so far fetched to think that Ron Paul could be the next President?  The sheer absurdity of contemplating him in the White House is actually a welcome possibility compared to maintaining our lemmings to the sea wall cliff march that we're on.   All of a sudden, that guy doesn't seem so whacked out and if you actually read the plans he has proposed...he would definitely take us to a different place than we're heading on our current course.  I'd much rather give true hope and change a chance, how about you?

Damn the torpedos...I'm voting for Ron Paul!

An ounce of preparation...and thankfulness

I've been committed to focusing on being thankful for all the blessings I've been given.  Staying focused on being thankful is not always easy, especially in light of what's going on all around us.  I have stopped sharing observations about what's going on because either you get it or you don't and anything I share at this point isn't going to move you if you haven't already confirmed your position and beliefs.

If you are paying attention and not burying your head in the sand, no doubt you've noticed that each week it seems the tension in the streets is escalating and sadly I think that will get worse.

I know it's hard to imagine but there are all sorts of people who feel America needs to literally be torn down and they're committed to that goal.  If you read that and thought to yourself, "that's just not true" then you are experiencing the normalcy bias.

While we're busy living our lives, growing our businesses, paying the bills and raising our kids, others are cranking out schemes to disrupt society for their own ends.  While we have been dutifully paying attention to the positive aspects of building our lives based on the American dream, others have been working out plans to undermine the very fabric of what has allowed us reach for the stars in the first place.  It is almost inconceivable that people would harbor so much malice and hatred that they really want to tear all this down, but all you have to do is listen to them in their own words.

To such people, anything can be justified when they believe 'the system' needs to be collapsed, even the total breakdown of the fabric of society.

Did you know that only 9% of Americans are in any way prepared while 91% are at risk of being blindsided.

In a crisis, you may have only minutes to respond and statistics show you MUST be able to survive for up to 40 days completely on your own without ANY assistance.

Confusion keeps people from getting prepared because there are so many factors to consider.

Unfortunately, that's like a deer freezing in the headlights of an oncoming car.

The fact is that getting prepared is way easier and more affordable than you think when you have a specific plan.

A little targeted preparation goes a long way.

Now, more than ever, you need to be ready.  Not just for yourself, but so that you can be a help to others around you when the proverbial $h!t hits the fan.

Warning From Wall Street Broker: “The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed”; Recommends “ALL customers Withdraw From All of the Markets”

http://www.benzinga.com/news/11/11/2140209/james-koutoulas-responds-to-ann-barnhardts-letter-thinks-shes-taking-the-easy-way

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warning From Wall Street Broker: “The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed”; Recommends “ALL customers Withdraw From All of the Markets” Mac Slavo November 18th, 2011   Editor’s Note: You will rarely, if ever again, see a brokerage firm close their doors not as a result of losing all of their customers’ money, but rather, preemptively in order to prevent them from being wiped out.   That’s exactly what Ann Barnhardt of Barnhardt Capital Management did Thursday morning when she advised clients that her firm was liquidating all customer brokerage and options accounts.  In a series of letters published on her web site, disseminated by Zero Hedge, and brought to us by The Daily Crux, Ms. Barnhardt takes the unprecedented step of shutting down her firm in order to prevent losses in what she says is a system that “is no longer functioning with integrity and is suicidally risk-laden.”  The reasons for her taking the steps she did to save client investments are, in our opinion, nothing short of heroic (prompting even Rush Limbaugh to give her kudos) given recent developments in the global economic crisis that include the collapse of government primary dealer MF Global and the untennable situation in Europe. While most Wall Street tycoons and brokers continue to manage money in a highly leveraged marketplace on the verge of collapse while talking their books on financial news shows in an effort to instill confidence in their customers who are swallowing the hopium hook, line and sinker, Barnhardt will have none of it and chose, instead, to pull the plug and get her customers out.  This is an absolute must read warning for all American investors. Though Barnhardt’s firm dealt primarily in futures and options trading, she cautions that ALL markets have been infected with systemic contagion, including the underlying cash commodities – known in layman’s terms as the physical delivery of goods. With the recent collapse of MF Global, the details of which suggest direct fraud and theft of customer accounts, and the government’s lack of any serious response, Barnhardt seems to think there is a real possibility of cascading, system-wide failures in the broader financial sector.  Look out folks, because if she is right then we’re in serious trouble – and soon. The takeaway is, If you’re not sure what is happening in the markets then get out and get your money to safety, otherwise it will soon be added to the asset pool of the organizations complicit in orchestrating the destruction of our financial markets and economic system. Without further ado, prepare to be blown away: ________________________________________ BCM Has Ceased Operations (source) Posted by Ann Barnhardt – November 17, AD 2011 10:27 AM MST Dear Clients, Industry Colleagues and Friends of Barnhardt Capital Management, It is with regret and unflinching moral certainty that I announce that Barnhardt Capital Management has ceased operations. After six years of operating as an independent introducing brokerage, and eight years of employment as a broker before that, I found myself, this morning, for the first time since I was 20 years old, watching the futures and options markets open not as a participant, but as a mere spectator.  The reason for my decision to pull the plug was excruciatingly simple: I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for every futures and options account in the United States. The entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse. Given this sad reality, I could not in good conscience take one more step as a commodity broker, soliciting trades that I knew were unsafe or holding funds that I knew to be in jeopardy.  The futures markets are very highly-leveraged and thus require an exceptionally firm base upon which to function. That base was the sacrosanct segregation of customer funds from clearing firm capital, with additional emergency financial backing provided by the exchanges themselves. Up until a few weeks ago, that base existed, and had worked flawlessly. Firms came and went, with some imploding in spectacular fashion. Whenever a firm failure happened, the customer funds were intact and the exchanges would step in to backstop everything and keep customers 100% liquid – even as their clearing firm collapsed and was quickly replaced by another firm within the system.  Everything changed just a few short weeks ago. A firm, led by a crony of the Obama regime, stole all of the non-margined cash held by customers of his firm. Let’s not sugar-coat this or make this crime seem “complex” and “abstract” by drowning ourselves in six-dollar words and uber-technical jargon. Jon Corzine STOLE the customer cash at MF Global. Knowing Jon Corzine, and knowing the abject lawlessness and contempt for humanity of the Marxist Obama regime and its cronies, this is not really a surprise.   What was a surprise was the reaction of the exchanges and regulators. Their reaction has been to take a bad situation and make it orders of magnitude worse. Specifically, they froze customers out of their accounts WHILE THE MARKETS CONTINUED TO TRADE, refusing to even allow them to liquidate. This is unfathomable. The risk exposure precedent that has been set is completely intolerable and has destroyed the entire industry paradigm. No informed person can continue to engage these markets, and no moral person can continue to broker or facilitate customer engagement in what is now a massive game of Russian Roulette.  I have learned over the last week that MF Global is almost certainly the mere tip of the iceberg. There is massive industry-wide exposure to European sovereign junk debt. While other firms may not be as heavily leveraged as Corzine had MFG leveraged, and it is now thought that MFG’s leverage may have been in excess of 100:1, they are still suicidally leveraged and will likely stand massive, unmeetable collateral calls in the coming days and weeks as Europe inevitably collapses. I now suspect that the reason the Chicago Mercantile Exchange did not immediately step in to backstop the MFG implosion was because they knew and know that if they backstopped MFG, they would then be expected to backstop all of the other firms in the system when the failures began to cascade – and there simply isn’t that much money in the entire system. In short, the problem is a SYSTEMIC problem, not merely isolated to one firm.  Perhaps the most ominous dynamic that I have yet heard of in regards to this mess is that of the risk of potential CLAWBACK actions. For those who do not know, “clawback” is the process by which a bankruptcy trustee is legally permitted to re-seize assets that left a bankrupt entity in the time period immediately preceding the entity’s collapse. So, using the MF Global customers as an example, any funds that were withdrawn from MFG accounts in the run-up to the collapse, either because of suspicions the customer may have had about MFG from, say, watching the company’s bond yields rise sharply, or from purely organic day-to-day withdrawls, the bankruptcy trustee COULD initiate action to “clawback” those funds. As a hedge broker, this makes my blood run cold. Generally, as the markets move in favor of a hedge position and equity builds in a client’s account, that excess equity is sent back to the customer who then uses that equity to offset cash market transactions OR to pay down a revolving line of credit. Even the possibility that a customer could be penalized and additionally raped AGAIN via a clawback action after already having their customer funds stolen is simply villainous. While there has been no open indication of clawback actions being initiated by the MF Global trustee, I have been told that it is a possibility.  And so, to the very unpleasant crux of the matter. The futures and options markets are no longer viable. It is my recommendation that ALL customers withdraw from all of the markets as soon as possible so that they have the best chance of protecting themselves and their equity. The system is no longer functioning with integrity and is suicidally risk-laden. The rule of law is non-existent, instead replaced with godless, criminal political cronyism.  Remember, derivatives contracts are NOT NECESSARY in the commodities markets. The cash commodity itself is the underlying reality and is not dependent on the futures or options markets. Many people seem to have gotten that backwards over the past decades. From Abel the animal husbandman up until the year 1964, there were no cattle futures contracts at all, and no options contracts until 1984, and yet the cash cattle markets got along just fine.  Finally, I will not, under any circumstance, consider reforming and re-opening Barnhardt Capital Management, or any other iteration of a brokerage business, until Barack Obama has been removed from office AND the government of the United States has been sufficiently reformed and repopulated so as to engender my total and complete confidence in the government, its adherence to and enforcement of the rule of law, and in its competent and just regulatory oversight of any commodities markets that may reform. So long as the government remains criminal, it would serve no purpose whatsoever to attempt to rebuild the futures industry or my firm, because in a lawless environment, the same thievery and fraud would simply happen again, and the criminals would go unpunished, sheltered by the criminal oligarchy.  To my clients, who literally TO THE MAN agreed with my assessment of the situation, and were relieved to be exiting the markets, and many whom I now suspect stayed in the markets as long as they did only out of personal loyalty to me, I can only say thank you for the honor and pleasure of serving you over these last years, with some of my clients having been with me for over twelve years. I will continue to blog at Barnhardt.biz, which will be subtly re-skinned soon, and will continue my cattle marketing consultation business. I will still be here in the office, answering my phones, with the same phone numbers. Alas, my retirement came a few years earlier than I had anticipated, but there was no possible way to continue given the inevitability of the collapse of the global financial markets, the overthrow of our government, and the resulting collapse in the rule of law. As for me, I can only echo the words of David: “This is the Lord’s doing; and it is wonderful in our eyes.” With Best Regards- Ann Barnhardt

It's Going to be a GREAT YEAR 2013!!!

One sunny day in January, 2013, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

 The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The old man said, "Okay," and walked away.

The following day the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The man thanked him and again just walked away.

The third day the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I've told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir.

Where are your priorities and what really matters to you?

Read each question and answer to the best of your ability.


In times of doubt, sadness, loneliness or confusion. Reflect. Repeat. Receive.


1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.


2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.


3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.


4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.


5. Name the last five Academy Award winners for Best Actor and Actress.


How did you do?


The point is, none of us remembers the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They’re the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.


Now here’s another 30 second reflection. See how you do on this one:


1. Name three teachers who aided your journey through school.


2. Name three friends who helped you through a difficult time.


3. Name five people who have taught you something worth while.


4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.


5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.


Easier?


The lesson?


The people who make a difference in your life aren’t the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They’re the ones who care.

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Politicians have delayed addressing the problem yet again.

I'm not sure what it is politicians (European and U.S.) don't get, and it's even scarier that the markets act so naively when it comes to delaying the inevitable.  Folks, we are going to pay the Piper, one way or the other.

I had written an article a few weeks ago titled, "Why Greece Will Fail and a Greek Default is Inevitable" and the fundamental issues, just like with the U.S., is that the only thing they have accomplished is to kick the can down the road...AGAIN!!!

Look at it this way, if you bought a house on the beach in Del Mar, CA for $3,000,000 and financed 100% your monthly payment would be approximately $20,000 per month (30 year, 5%).  Your financial situation is that you can actually afford to pay $5,000 per month (30% of a monthly salary of $16,675 per month, $200,100 annual salary).  So, you fall behind in your monthly payments and you meet with your bank to work out your own personal debt crisis.  You are able to bring your political connections with the Obama administration to put pressure on the bank and they agree to cut your mortgage in half.  You have now succeeded in reducing your mortgage to a mere $1,500,000 and your payment is cut to $10,000 per month! You celebrate and party like you've just won the lottery, right!

If you do, you're an idiot because you still can't afford to pay this adjusted mortgage and you're still upside down.  This is EXACTLY what the European debt crisis is doing...and the markets are partying like this is some miraculous solution when in fact all they've done is forestall the inevitable.

The Greek Debt Reduction deal isn't enough to save Europe, and the problem is likely to come back to haunt investors in the near term.  Just like with the story of your mortgage above, you're going to get another visit from the bank wanting to know how you're going to pay the $10k per month and when they realize you aren't even capable of paying that...you're going to be going through another negotiation, just like Greece and other EU members are going to do.  Greece and many other EU members are flat broke, it's just that no one is willing to speak the truth and call it what it is.  

Most EU members continue to increase their debt, only following the horrible example of the U.S.  The fact that there is an organization called the "International Swaps & Derivatives Association" should be scary enough, but the fact that they project $3.7 billion of debt-insurance contracts won’t be triggered should have you asking the question...how much debt is still outstanding and when does that come due?

IF you follow the advice of Robert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and the new book, "Unfair Advantage" you will be out of the craziness of the markets and focusing on the 5 G's.  Gold, Ground (Real Estate), Grub/Groceries, Gasoline and Guns. 

In my article titled, "The problem with the EU crisis is that no one really knows much of anything" I stated, "At some point, the Europeans are going to be forced to either default honestly and painfully...or to bail themselves out boldly and fraudulently, like we Americans. 

As Americans we are already on the path to financial self-destruction, it's not a question of if...only a matter of time. All Europe is doing is following our horrible example and delaying the inevitable. Our financial implosion will pick up speed, until we finally reach our destination."

Quote for the day - True Entrepreneur

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer." -Nolan Bushnell

Hizb ut-Tahrir in their own words...they say what they mean, and mean what they say

Believe me, I am no expert on the Middle East...so all I'm doing is sharing information about what I've learned by reading their own words on their own websites.  This doesn't sound very neighborly to me...but read it for yourself.


http://english.hizbuttahrir.org
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam. Its objective is to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that executes the systems of Islam and carries its call to the world. Hizb ut-Tahrir has prepared a party culture that includes a host of Islamic rules about life’s matters. The party calls for Islam in its quality as an intellectual leadership from which emanates the systems that deals with all man’s problems, political, economic, cultural and social among others. 


Political Situation in Syria
It seems that Bashar al-Assad will remain in power for the moment once the icons of the old guard who are impeding the execution of the American reforms are removed together with the security teams whose hands are tainted with the blood of the demonstrators and once the unilateral dominion of the ruling Baath party is terminated, even if it led to its dissolution.


Answers to Questions
It is important to study the issues according to their original plane when making a political link. This would be by identifying the root from which the events have originated and the track towards which they are proceeding. It would be wrong to pile up the events and the issues on the top of each other without the presence of a link between them, or for simply suspecting the presence of a link. In order to maintain the soundness of political perception, it is imperative to discard logic and not to resort to universal analogy and generalisation.


The International situation
The United States of America is forging ahead towards strengthening her grip on the international issues in terms of overseeing these issues and conducting the various crisis. She endeavours to rapidly establish a host of fresh relations and conventions, through which she will be able to maintain her unilateral dominance of the international situation, and to prevent any other state or any other force from competing with her or rivalling her or even from aiming at budging her from the apex of the international situation.

Unilateral Dominance of the U.S. over the International Situation

Answer to a question
One of the most important fundamental basics of explaining the current political events in the wake of the unilateral dominance of the U.S. over the international situation is reflected in the fact that the U.S. endeavours to establish and promote the world peace through the regional situations, regimes and the international relations in a manner that would enable her to establish hegemony over the world. 


Changes that the U.S.A has endeavoured to introduce to the U.N
One of the fundamental objectives of the United States, of which she has already achieved a great deal while on her way towards completing the rest of her objectives ever since she effectively participated in establishing the United Nations Organisation, was to destroy the role of Europe in running international politics and controlling the international situation, and to turn Europe into being part of the world policy


A unified Europe, after all these changes, is not expected to have any effect on the international situation. This would rather consolidate the American position as the sole superpower in the international situation. America’s use of the unified European stance in the international issues will help disguise the ugly face of the American supremacy in the international situation, i.e. the “Uni-polar Policy”. America does not object to allowing the European states to gain some benefit in return for this. Meanwhile, the European states see no harm in supporting the American policy aimed at establishing peace and stability in the world, because this serves the interests of the European companies as well as the interests and investments of America.


Out of these information and current events, and out of this profound political perception of the leading superpower’s reality, and what may become of this state and these relations in terms of changes that necessitate accurate pursuance and sound linkage, it is possible to determine the situation of the Islamic World, in order to eradicate America in her quality as a head of Kufr and a state of corruption. At the same time, the hope rests on those who work towards resuming the Islamic way of life to press their ranks closely together, rally their forces, gather the faculties of the Ummah and activate her dormant powers of goodness, under the international conditions that drive nations and various human societies to search for higher values and aspirations than the existing ones, amidst the fierce domestic struggles and the cauterisation by the corrupt values of the Western system and its economic, cultural and social policies, as well as its colonial legacies. Now that the means of diffusion, pursuance and knowledge have become diverse and sophisticated, it is no longer easy to conceal the facts from peoples and nations, and it is no longer easy to get away with the acts of deception and distortion in the long term. Hence, the policies of economic privatisation, the market economy, the so called democracy and  the fight against dictatorship will have direct adverse effects upon the relationship of the ruling factions and the political circles, with the peoples and the rest of the various sections of society. This will lead to instabilities in the viewpoint about the nature of the current relationships in society and will expose the reality of the authority that supervises such relationships. This in turn will pave the way, in an effective manner, to rob them of their sleep and to shake the earth beneath them. It will also develop peoples’ and nations’ desire to seek the right to determine the reality of their respective authorities. Hence, the antecedence in deciding  which direction the settlement of this aspect should take will undoubtedly be in favour of those who seriously work in the field of resuming the Islamic way of life and within a sound programme. This necessitates from the Da'awah carriers to have a tremendous determination and a formidable mettle,  to work assiduously towards pressing close together the ranks of their Ummah and to be her weapon in her war against the Kuffar, so that they succeed together in implementing Islam, uproot the influence of Kufr, restore the light of Islam and its political entity, remove the leading superpower from her position and rearrange the international relations according to what Islam stipulates in terms of justice and mercy.


Allah (swt) says: [9-33] “It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the Deen of Truth to proclaim it over all religions even though the unbelievers may detest it.” T.M.Q. 


The Media Forum of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Neo in the Social Media Matrix

I’ve written previously about the current economic times in which we find ourselves, and uncertain times like these drive me into a big picture, naturally reflective state – “What does this mean for me?” “What should I do with this information?” “What do I value most personally?” and “Is social media turning us into the Matrix?”

One of my all-time favorite movie trilogies is the Matrix.  My number one all-time favorite is Blade Runner, but I’ll save the analogy to that movie for another day.  In the Matrix all humans “live” plugged in to the outside world through cocoons that facilitate all of their interactions electronically.  They see, talk, hear, feel, taste, etc through nasty cable connector plugs that connect to their brain through the back of their head.  No physical interaction is necessary; it’s all done electronically.

Neo in the Social Media Marketing Matrix.

I first noticed the Matrix at the airport and on the M in Washington, D.C.  Everyone was plugged into their iPods or their laptop, no talking, no looks, just zombie-style existence moving through the day.  Everyone is in the same place but very much alone.

The Matrix also lives on planes, trains and automobiles, where individuals text, IM, surf the web, and talk on their phones.  No face-to-face interaction, only electronic communication.

The Matrix is also disturbingly showing up in the classroom.  It’s no secret that many (most?) students are on Facebook, Google Chat, Twitter, and email consistently during classes, including during the middle of lectures by professors in college.

My kids have grown up in a world where they didn’t know the Internet didn’t exist before.  They have grown up in a wired world with a multi-tasking perspective that is all about connections. Technology by itself isn’t necessarily a good thing or a bad thing; it’s how it’s used that determines good or bad, so I’m just providing some observations about impacts I’m seeing.  I think we can safely say that social media has increased the ability of all of us to be, well – social – at least electronically, but with networks much more diverse than we were able to maintain before.

But what price do we pay for social media?  Is social media decreasing our ability and comfort with communicating physically, through face to face interaction?  After all, when Neo emerged from the Matrix, his body was weak, he had to heal and build strength before he could survive in the real world!

While I’ve been amazed at the amount of interaction that an individual can maintain through social media, I’ve been slightly underwhelmed by their ability to translate that electronic interaction into physical interaction.  Furthermore, the decline in effective communication skills and ability to deal with confrontation, conflict resolution and relationship building is an alarming trend that does not bode well for the future of my Digital Youth.

No one talks to each other at the gym or on the bus.  In the real world, people might Google Chat about life issues, but not ask questions verbally.  I’ve seen individuals in group settings who remained silent during group meetings only to unload all their thoughts in a brain dump email after the meeting was over.  A number of folks even question the value of meeting face-to-face period, saying “we can all just figure it out through email.”

I think it is an easily drawn conclusion that the more you use social media, the more comfortable – and reliant – you become on it as a means of communication.  We all know it’s tough to introduce yourself to someone face to face, and it seems that my Digital Youth are practicing that interaction less and less.

I spent some time researching this topic, but was unable to find a direct answer to my question.  There are a number of articles posted on both the perils of social media usage in the classroom, and the potential benefits.  One article proclaims that continuous connection to electronic devices is killing face-to-face interaction, while another suggests it could actually create dissociative disorder.  I found a couple of people asking the same question, one from his video blog, and another who realized he was being unsocial while on his computer during a Superbowl party.   There is even a survey trying to figure out the answer!

So the ultimate paradox is that I’m using social media to both vent and pose the questions.  Social media is supposedly all about dialogue and creating conversations.  So…is social media turning us into the Matrix?  As electronic communication facilitates more and more of our daily interactions, will it decrease our real world ability to connect face to face, or at the very minimum, devalue face to face interaction?

There is coming a "Climax Moment" that will be played out

For those of you who have asked me how I get to some of my conclusions about OWS and the Liberal Left agenda, I'm going to share as much of the truth as I know it and as I've been able to discover it.  Do your own homework, click on the links I've provided...see for yourself whether you agree or disagree with what these sources are saying in their own words.  Mock me, disagree with me, argue with me...but do yourself a favor and insure you're not being duped as a "useful idiot" in the course of fulfilling someone else's agenda.


In order to have a productive discussion about the issues, it's important that you know where I stand and my frame of reference. I believe that what we're looking at, fundamentally...is good versus evil. The second thing I believe is that you have to think like the enemy to understand what evil is doing (globally, in a way never before possible). Nothing makes sense if we filter everything through our traditional lenses where things are supposed to be logical. Marxist, communists, anarchists, revolutionaries, and Muslim extremists have already joined together across the globe (including right here in the good ole USA) to destabilize capitalism and overthrow the western way of life. If you filter all the news and the facts through that filter (like what's happening right before our eyes to destroy Israel), you can start to see that there is an agenda working to be fulfilled and it's not about politics. I'm happy to walk you through the litany of facts over the course of the last 3 years (quite an extensive timeline of facts) where Obama and his administration have overtly and covertly laid the foundation for exactly what's happening across the middle east, and it's coming home to roost right here at home. For the administration to naively think (as most ideologue socialists do) that they could encourage and finance all this "peaceful revolution" and then wonder why they are no longer our friends (or why people are dying) and why they don't embrace democracy is yet another historical marker that reveals the true agenda. Tunisia was likely the Arch Duke Ferdinand moment of our day, so if you understand what's happened to get us to this point I think you'd be surprised how direct the Obama administration intentions have been, and how misguided they are. So do you believe that the "Occupy" movement is a spontaneous bunch of ideological protesters? Do you know the facts about how long these "protests" have been planned, who is behind them and how they tie to the Arab Spring?


Again, I challenge you to answer those questions for yourself by looking at what the Liberal Left says, in their own words.


You have to draw your own conclusions once you look at the words coming out of their own mouths.  Here is what I believe is being shown, in their own words:


1.  OWS is NOT organized by students, it is not organic, it is not spontaneous and there is a specific agenda being played out.


Former ACORN communication director, David Swanson, on theREAlNews.com back in August 2001 said this is "modeled after Tahrir Square and Mass European Protests" - watch it in his words by CLICKING HERE.


This actually started last spring, when it was first exposed by Stephen Lerner at a Progressive Conference in NYC, April, 2011.  The video has been conveniently scrubbed from the Internet...but, again on Sep 10, 2011 a full week ahead of the first OWS movement Stephen Lerner said “It seems to me that we’re in a moment where we need to figure out in a much more, through direct action, much more concrete way how we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate,” Lerner said during the progressive conference in New York.  You can read his words and read the letter sent by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the shocking video (now removed from the Internet).


Stephen Lerner published his own words back in March, which you can read at http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7125/this_can_be_our_moment/  Stephen Lerner serves on the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) International Executive Board and is the architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign. 


2.  Unions are DEEPLY involved in the Planning of OWS and they have a very clear agenda.
On February 26, MoveOn.org, AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work, USAction and dozens of other progressive organizations sponsored “Defend the American Dream” rallies in every state capitol in America.


3.  60's radicals & Revolutionaries are leading OWS and they are trying to recreate 1968 riots, so let's talk about Lisa Fithian. Lisa Fithian is an American political activist who in the early 1990s joined the labor movement, bringing her experience to the Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and Los Angeles and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit. She also provided training and support work to the United Auto Workers Union and with the Detroit Newspaper Strikers. Lisa has continued her work for social, economic and environmental justice, providing training and organizing support to many of the global justice mobilization around the world since the shut down of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle in 1999. She has written throughout the years including the introduction to the post-9-11 edition of Abbie Hoffman's Steal this Book.  Abby Hoffman's Steal this Book includes advice on such topics as growing cannabis, starting a pirate radio station, living in a commune, stealing food, shoplifting, stealing credit cards, preparing a legal defense, making pipe bombs, and obtaining a free buffalo from the Department of the Interior. It discusses various tactics of fighting as well as giving a detailed list of affordable and easy ways to find weapons and armor that can be used in the event of a confrontation with law enforcement. The book advocates rebelling against authority in all forms, governmental and corporate.  Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, and continued practicing his activism in the 1970s, and has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that era.  Hoffman was 52 at the time of his suicide on April 12, 1989, which was caused by swallowing 150 phenobarbital tablets along with hard liquor. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1980. At the time he had recently changed treatment medications and was reportedly depressed.  Lisa Fithian idolizes Abbie, including her rewrite of his book.


The Roots of American Communism - read the chapter titled, "The Manipulated Revolution" Which basically outlines that the American militant is the most inexperienced, never dealt with he masses, doesn't know how to organize and the shift in their focus was to move into positions of authority within Labor Unions and to speak the message of empathy towards the plight of the workers pension and that then their radical end will not seem so bad.  As Van Jones put its, "Drop the radical pose for the radical end."


American's don't want revolution, we don't want socialism, marxism or radical overthrow of our government...do you understand that is what the Socialist left is after?
       
4.  This is an openly anti-JEW movement, read http://patdollard.com/2011/10/foreign-jews-shocked-by-anti-semitism-of-occupywallstreet/ and read more about other protestors at http://toddkinsey.com/blog/2011/10/17/los-angeles-usd-employee-hurls-anti-semitic-remarks/. You can see the video at http://reason.tv/video/show/reasontv-anti-semitic-proteste.


Watch this video to see the evidence of anti-semitism at Wall Street.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlRQCPJcew&feature=player_embedded


5.  The Left Intends To Collapse (Transform) Capitalism - you can listen to the audio of Stephen Lerner talking about the real agenda at http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201103220007. 


6.  OWS now has Muslim support.  Egypt's top "Facebook Revolutionary" now advising OWS.  “An official invitation issued by CAIR’s New York chapter tells members to show “solidarity” with ‘the 99%” by attending Friday prayers in Zuccotti Park at 1:00pm. CAIR’s stated goal in hosting the prayer service at OWS is to “expand the role of New York Muslims in the Occupy movement.’”  Video: CAIR-NY Launches Campaign to Introduce U.S. Muslims
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGD2w3IdEnA


US Group Uses Times Square to Promote Islam (Al-Arabiya)
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/12/23/95052.html


“I am Muslim, I am American” Ad Airing in Times Square (elan)
http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/i_am_muslim_i_am_american_ad_airing_in_times_square-nid972168929/


Read more at http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=cair10242011101.htm and here's the brief CAIR bio:  CAIR is a highly controversial radical Muslim pressure group whose associations are so noxious that it was named as an unindicted co-conspirator [see, U.S. Dist. Court Document U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation For Relief and Development [see doc at, http://www.pipelinenews.org/images/2007-05-29-US%20v%20HLF-ListCoConspirators.pdf] in the nation's most extensive prosecution of domestic funding of the terrorist group Hamas, U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation. In that proceeding, all of the defendants were found guilty on a total of 108 charges.


Wow, so a group with ties to radicalized Islam is uniting with Occupy Wall Street. Shocker.


Add to that the latest from progressive publication AdBusters which advertises, “Open your insurrectionary imagination. Anything, from a bottom up transformation of the global economy to changing the way we eat, the way we get around, the way we live, love, the way we communicate. Be the spark that sustains a global revolution of everyday life! Let us occupy the core of our global system. Let’s dethrone the greed that defines this new century. Let us work to define our one great demand.”


There is coming a climax moment that will be played out in a very visibile, high profile way.  What is it these people want? MSNBC Analyst Cheering Violence: Donny Deutsch 'Repulsed" By the Tea Party Hopes For A 'Kent State' Type Moment So The Occupy Wall Street Movement Can Really Resonate With The American People 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_36PZ_qFkg


It's easy to understand this seemingly odd alliance between the left and the Islamists; they both hold Western culture in contempt and are actively working to subvert it. What is out of the ordinary this go around is the active support being given to the Marxist/OWS movement by Team Obama, the House and Senate Democrat leadership as well as the big labor bosses. Perhaps they feel this is their last chance to grab the golden ring and somehow squeak out a win in 2012.


By allowing the Occupy Wall Street protesters to camp out in New York’s Zuccotti Park, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a “terrible mistake,” Joe diGenova, a former U.S. Attorney in Washington


Read more on Newsmax.com: Ex-US Attorney: Time to Dismantle Anti-Wall Street Camp http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/Wall-Street-protesters-diGenova/2011/10/21/id/415332


Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis

Top Ten Steps to Earthquake Safety - Great California ShakeOut

Hello all,

As part of its ongoing efforts to encourage Americans to prepare for all hazards, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is encouraging all Californians to participate in the "Great California ShakeOut" on Thursday, October 20, 2011. 

The ShakeOut is the state's annual public earthquake drill, organized by the Earthquake Country Alliance. During the drill, which will be conducted at 10:20 am pacific standard time, anyone can practice how to protect themselves during and after a major earthquake - whether at work, at home or at school. To date, over 8.4 million Californians have signed up.

The main goal of the ShakeOut is to get Californians prepared for major earthquakes, so use the ShakeOut as an opportunity to learn what to do before, during, and after an earthquake. Visit Free Earthquake Safety Guide for tips on how to prepare, protect, and recover.

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The problem with the EU crisis is that no one really knows much of anything.

“The euro. Everyone has a view, and everyone is profoundly ignorant at the same time. No one knows the answers — there is no template, no relevant past experience.” Pyrford International, a UK fund manager.

I think that’s it. The EU crisis is extraordinarily complicated on a lot of levels. With 17 different countries that can’t seem to agree on much, it is hard to handicap an outcome. But the essence of the problem is that some of these governments — like Greece — borrowed money they cannot re-pay. So either the rest of the EU comes to its aid, or Greece defaults. A default means lots of losses for banks (and others) holding the defaulted debt (with ripples all the way back to the U.S. FED, we just don't know how much or how bad this is going to be for the U.S. because the FED is not disclosing how much has been lent to Europe by the FED).

There are several governments in trouble beyond just Greece. Portugal, Italy, Spain and others are in trouble, too. So do they all get bailouts? Or not? If the EU breaks up, then we’re talking huge losses and the probable disappearance of a number of banks. Just like in 2008 in the US.

Reckoning today from Paris, France...
Yesterday, rumors circulated that the Europeans had their problems in hand. The Dow rose 180 points. The euro went up too, and now trades at $1.37. For all the talk of a disintegrating Europe, the euro has been holding together pretty well.

Gold fell $23 for no apparent reason.

As the day went on, however, the euro solution looked less and less like a solution and more like a disaster. Moody’s took Spanish debt down two notches...and warned that it was looking at France. The New York Times has the story:

Moody’s warned late Monday of a possible downgrade to France’s flawless credit rating. French finance officials worry that any such move would make it hard for Paris to negotiate solutions, according to an official who was not authorized to discuss the situation publicly.

The rally in American stock markets was set off by a report late Tuesday on the Web site of The Guardian, a British newspaper, that France and Germany had agreed to increase the size of the rescue fund — the European Financial Stability Facility — to as much as 2 trillion euros to contain the crisis and backstop Europe’s banks. But almost as soon as those hopes soared, European officials quickly brought them back to earth, with denials flooding forth from Brussels, Paris and Berlin.

This latest round of rumors and rebuttals about a European solution was a repeat of earlier situations... Such episodes have played out several times since the debt crisis intensified this year. Most recently, investors have been pegging hopes on a meeting of Europe’s leaders set for this coming Sunday in Brussels, anticipating that a comprehensive solution to the debt crisis might be unveiled.

Now that the rating agencies are circling France, the whole rescue project is in danger. It is one thing for the big, strong nations — France and Germany — to rescue the little, marginal nations, such as Greece and Ireland. But who’s going to rescue France?

At some point, the Europeans are going to be forced to either default honestly and painfully...or to bail themselves out boldly and fraudulently, like we Americans.

As Americans we are already on the path to financial self-destruction, it's not a question of if...only a matter of time. All Europe is doing is following our horrible example and delaying the inevitable. Our financial implosion will pick up speed, until we finally reach our destination.

Source:
 Bill Bonner
 The Daily Reckoning
 www.dailyreckoning.com

Do you know who started Occupy Wall Street? Can you answer these questions?

WHO STARTED OCCUPY WALL STREET?>> WHO IS THE FATHER OF OWS?
>> HOW DID THIS MOVEMENT START?
>> WHO PLANNED THIS EVENT?
>> WHO IS PAYING FOR THE MADISON AVENUE MARKETING FIRM? THE NEWSPAPERS? THE FLYERS?
>> WHAT ROLE DID SEIU PLAY IN THE PLANNING OF THIS EVENT?
>> WHO IS STEPHEN LEARNER?
>> WHO IS VAN JONES?
>> WHAT IS THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS?
>> WHO IS GEORGE SOROS?
>> WHAT IS HIS RELATIONSHIP TO CAP?
>> IS HE A CRONY CAPITALIST?
>> DOES HE PAY HIS FAIR SHARE?
>> IS HE GETTING RICH OFF OF THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF WALL STREET SPECULATION?
>> HOW DOES HE MAKE HIS MONEY?
>> HE MADE $7 BILLION DOLLARS LAST YEAR PERSONALLY THROUGH HIS HEDGE FUND AND INVESTMENTS — IS THAT OKAY? IF YES, WHY? IF NO, WHY?

ECONOMY>> NAME THE TIME IN HISTORY THE GLOBAL ECONOMY COLLAPSED (AS IT IS SHAPING UP TO DO NOW)
>> IF YOU CANNOT… PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME… WHY NOT?
>> IF YOU WERE TO PLAN A GLOBAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE – HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE BETWEEN THE CORRUPT SYSTEM WE CURRENTLY HAVE AND THE NEW SYSTEM YET TO BE CREATED?
>> WOULD THERE BE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?
>> COULD PEOPLE DIE?
>> IF NONE, WHY?
>> IF YES, ESTIMATE HOW MANY — AND HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY THOSE DEATHS?
>> BY COLLAPSING THE SYSTEM (WALL STREET) AND CAUSING ECONOMIC CHAOS – HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU DIFFERENT THAN ONE OF THE CORPORATIONS YOU ARE PROTESTING?

FAIR SHARE:AGREED: PEOPLE SHOULD PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE IN TAXES.
QUESTIONS
>>WHAT IS THAT NUMBER? WHAT IS FAIR?
>>IF IT’S NOT ZERO – PLEASE EXPLAIN GE (AND WHY WASN’T IMMELT ON THE RICH HOMES TOUR?)
>> WHAT ABOUT GEORGE SOROS?
>>RUSSELL SIMMONS?
>>KANYE WEST??.
>>ARE THEY WALL STREET CRIMINALS? ARE THEY NOT AN EVIL CORPORATION IN BED WITH GOV?
>> CAN THERE BE GOOD PEOPLE IN AN EVIL CORPORATION? IF SO, HOW DO YOU JUDGE WHO IS WHO?
>> GE PAYS NO INCOME TAX, THEIR CEO IS ON THE PRESIDENTS ECONOMIC COUNCIL – WHY DO YOU NOT PROTEST GE? DO YOU SUPPORT THIS PRESIDENT OR ADMINISTRATION?
>>EXPLAIN GREEN WEEK on NBC
>> IF YES IN ANY WAY…WHY?
>>IF HE IS IN BED OR EXCUSES BEHAVIOR SO BAD THAT THE SYSTEM SHOULD BE COLLAPSED SHOULDN’T HE BE DEEMED GUILTY AS WELL?
>> IF YES, EXPLAIN WHY.
>> IF YES COMPARE GE GREEN WEEK ANSWER ABOVE

CAPITALISM IS DESTROYING AMERICA

ROCKEFELLER, ASTOR MELLON, AND CARNEGIE ARE KNOWN AS “ROBBER BARRONS” AND WOULD PROBABLY BE TARGETS OF OCCUPY WALL STREET.

>>WHO BUILT THE LINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS?
>> WHO BUILT MOMA?
>> THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY?
>> CARNEGIE HALL?
>> CARNAGE MELLON UNIVERSITY
>> THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART?
>> WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROCKEFELLER CENTER AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY?
>> DOES THIS MEAN CAPITALISM HELPED COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY?
>>HOW DID CAPITALISM HELP COLUMBIA?
>>DOES CAPITALISM HELP OR HURT COLUMBIA TODAY?

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION:>> DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY SUPPORT THIS ADMINISTRATION AND ITS POLICIES?
>> DID YOU OR THOSE YOU ARE WITH VOTE OR CAMPAIGN FOR THIS PRESIDENT IN THE PAST?
>> ARE YOU CAMPAIGNING FOR HIM NOW?
>> IF SO, ARE YOU BETRAYING YOUR IDEALS BY HELPING SOMEONE WHO HAS COMPROMISED ON IMPORTANT ANTI-CORRUPTION PRINCIPLES?
>> IF HE HAS NOT DONE ALL THAT HE PROMISED TO DO AND IN FACT BETRAYED HOPE AND CHANGE WHAT STOOD IN HIS WAY?
>> COULD YOU NAME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES?
>> HE CLAIMS THAT HE IS NOT IN BED WITH BANKERS AND BIG CORPORATIONS. IS HE LYING?
>> IS HE JUSTIFIED FOR NOT TELLING THE TRUTH IF IT FURTHERS YOUR OR HIS AGENDA?
>> WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS A LEADER CAN LIE TO YOU AND IT BE JUSTIFIED?

INVESTIGATIONS/FINANCIAL>> WHY HAS THIS ADMINISTRATION NOT DONE INVESTIGATIONS ON BANKS AND BANKERS?
>> WHY HASN’T THIS ADMINISTRATION DONE INVESTIGATIONS ON THE FED?
>> WHY HASN’T THIS ADMINISTRATION DONE INVESTIGATIONS ON FREDDIE OR FANNIE OR SALLY MAC?
>> WHY HAS NO ONE EXCEPT BERNIE MADOFF GONE TO JAIL UNDER THIS OR THE LAST PRESIDENT?
>> WASN’T THE HOPE WE WERE LOOKING FOR AND PROMISED SUPPOSED TO COME FROM A PRESIDENT THAT WAS DIFFERENT? THAT WAS BEYOND POLITICS?
>> WASN’T THE CHANGE THAT AMERICA WAS LOOKING FOR AN END TO CRONY CAPITALISM?
>> WERE YOU WRONG ABOUT THIS PRESIDENT LAST TIME ELECTION?
>> HOW ARE YOU SURE THIS TIME?
>> DID AMERICA LEARN FROM ITS MISTAKE OF NOT DEMANDING A CLEAR DECLARATION OF WHAT HOPE AND CHANGE MEANT?
>> SHOULD THERE HAVE BEEN A CLEAR PLAN TO ENSURE THAT THIS NEW PRESIDENT REMAINED ON COURSE TO DELIVER THE CHANGE PROMISED AND HOPED FOR OF AN END OF CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM?
>> WHAT IS SOLYNDRA? WHAT IS LIGHT SQUARED?
>> DO YOU THINK THOSE WHO HAVE DESIGNED THIS EVENT (COLLAPSE WALL STREET) SHOULD HAVE A CLEAR PLAN TO MAKE SURE AFTER THE COLLAPSE THEY WILL DELIVER THE CHANGE OF AN END OF CORRUPTION AND CRONYISM?
>> DID IT DISCREDIT THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT THAT IT WAS SAID TO BE FUNDED, ORGANIZED AND OR CO-OPTED BY THOSE WHO HAD DIRECT TIES AND INTERESTS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?
WOULD IT TAINT OR HURT OCCUPY WALL STREET IF THAT WERE THE CASE HERE?

EQUAL JUSTICE/SOCIAL JUSTICE>> CAN SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL JUSTICE CO EXIST?
>> IS EVERYONE ON WALL STREET PUNISHED FOR THE CRIMES OF THE GUILTY?
>> IS EVERYONE ON WALL STREET GUILTY?
>> IF NO, ARE YOUR ACTIONS TO COLLAPSE WALL STREET PUNISHING THOSE WHO ARE INNOCENT?
>> IF YES, IS THAT EQUAL JUSTICE IN SEEING THAT YOU WOULD BE PUNISHING THE INNOCENT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
>>DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIR TRAILS? A JURY OF YOUR PEERS? A CHANCE TO FACE YOUR ACCUSERS? GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT?
>>SHOULD WALL STREET BANKERS:
A). LOSE THEIR JOBS
B). HAVE ALL OF THEIR WEALTH TAKEN?
C). GO TO JAIL? IF YES, HOW LONG? IF YOU WISH FOR A JUDGE AND JURY TO DECIDE, WHY?
D). IF YES TO BOTH IN C. SEE EQUAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE INCOMPATIBLY ABOVE.

LYNCH MOBS THEN AND NOW>> DO YOU BELIEVE LYNCH MOBS (IN CIVIL RIGHTS ERA) ARE/WERE WRONG? IF SO, WHY?
>> WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LYNCH MOB AND WHAT YOU ARE BEING ENCOURAGED TO DO NOW? (LEWIS, HOMES OF WEALTHY)

COPS:>> ARE COPS GOOD OR BAD?
>> ARE THERE GOOD COPS AND BAD COPS?
>> IF THERE ARE BOTH GOOD AND BAD POLICEMEN HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
>> IF YOU WERE A COP, A GOOD ONE NOT BAD, WHAT WOULD YOU DO RIGHT NOW IN THIS SITUATION ON WALL STREET?
>> IF YOU WALKED AWAY (AS A COP) AND ALLOWED THE CROWD FREEDOM TO DO AS IT WISHED, WOULD YOU BE A HERO OR A COWARD?
>> WOULD DAMAGE TO PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PROPERTY BE DONE IF THE POLICE WOULD LEAVE? DOES THAT MATTER?
>> COULD INNOCENT PEOPLE BE HURT? DOES THAT MATTER?
>> IF YOU OR ANYONE IN YOUR GROUP ANSWERED THERE ARE NO INNOCENT HERE — DOES THAT MATTER?
>> IF NO ON ABOVE PLEASE CHECK ANSWER FOR CONSISTENCY ON LYNCH MOBS AND JURY TRIALS?
>> DEFINE MOB RULE – IS THIS GOOD OR BAD?
>> THERE ARE MANY PRISONERS THAT HAVE BEEN WRONGLY ACCUSED AND CONVICTED. IT HAPPENS THE WORLD OVER BUT ESPECIALLY IT SEEMS IN AMERICA. THE RECENT EXECUTION IN GA (ACCORDING TO YOU) IS MERELY ONE EXAMPLE. IN LIGHT OF THIS AND KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW, WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH THOSE WHO ARE CURRENTLY INCARCERATED?
>> IF THE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT, HOW WILL YOU ASSESS AND FIX IT?
>> IS IT FAIR TO LEAVE THE POSSIBLE INNOCENT BEHIND BARS WHILE THAT PROCESS IS GOING ON?

COLLEGE: Many of the signs on Occupy Wall Street complain about student loans.

WE AGREE:
>> MANY HAVE STOLEN FROM US
>> NO ONE SHOULD PAY WHAT YOU ARE PAYING (HAVE PAID) FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

>> WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRICE OF EDUCATION?
>> WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRICE OF THAT PRIVATE COLLEGE EDUCATION RISING 8 % JUST LAST
>> HOW MUCH MONEY IS IN YOUR UNIVERSITIES ENDOWMENT FUND?
>> IS THERE NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO LOWER TUITION COSTS?

MOM & DAD

>> ARE YOU SINCERELY WORRIED ABOUT YOUR PARENTS AND WHAT THEY FACE AS WELL AS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR YOU?
>> HAVE YOUR PARENTS WORKED HARD FOR THEIR HOME AND WHAT LITTLE MONEY THEY HAVE SAVED DURING THEIR LIFETIME?
>> IF YOU SUCCEED IN COLLAPSING WALL STREET, WHO IS HURT AND WHO IS HURT THE MOST?
>> ARE YOUR PARENTS HURT? YOUR FRIENDS PARENTS?
>> UNION PENSIONS ARE INVESTED IN WALL STREET
>> YOUR UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT
>> THE AVERAGE AMERICAN (401K) IS INVESTED IN WALL STREET.
>> WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LIFETIME OF WORK BY YOUR PARENTS IF YOUR ACTIONS CAUSE A COLLAPSE OF THE SYSTEM?

FOREIGN COUNTRIES>> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT ANY GOVERNMENT ABROAD WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE OF THE UNITED STATES THAT WOULD HAVE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON YOUR FREEDOMS?
>> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT US TROOPS SHOULD BE CALLED HOME?
>> DO YOU BELIEVE TOUR TROOPS ARE BABY KILLERS? OR PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO WERE EITHER MISGUIDED OR USED?
>> WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE TROOPS OVERSEAS IF THERE WAS AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE?
>> DO YOU BELIEVE IF YOU DON’T PULL THE TROOPS OUT BEFORE A COLLAPSE THERE WOULD BE A GREATER OR LESSER CHANCE OF MORE KILLING?
>> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT FORCES ON EITHER SIDE COULD OR WOULD USE AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AS AN EXCUSE FOR MORE KILLING?
>> WOULD YOU HAVE PLAYED ANY ROLE IN THAT POSSIBLE KILLING BASED ON YOUR ACTIONS HERE TO COLLAPSE WALL STREET?
>> IF NO; DO THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS?
>> IF YES; IF THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS… DOES THAT INCLUDE THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS?
>> IF NOT WHY?
>> IF YES, EXPLAIN WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT THAT GEORGE W BUSH, WHO ALSO THOUGHT HE WAS RIGHT.

EGYPT>> HOW DID THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION TURN OUT?
>> IS IT BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAD?
>> FREE, FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS WERE PROMISED TO BE HELD BY AUGUST OF THIS YEAR, WHAT DATE WERE THEY ACTUALLY HELD?
>> WHO IS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF EGYPT?
>> DO YOU BELIEVE IN MILITARY RULE?
>> WOULD YOU WANT TO LIVE UNDER IT HERE?
>> WHAT WOULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MILITARY RULE HERE AND IN EGYPT?
>> THE MEDIA CLAIMS YOU ARE THE SAME AND ARE STRIVING FOR THE SAME IDEALS AS THE YOUTH THAT OVERTURNED THEIR OPPRESSIVE AND CORRUPT SYSTEM. IS THIS TRUE?
>> IF YES, IF YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO LIVE UNDER MILITARY RULE WHAT RESPONSIBILITY DO YOU HAVE TO CORRECT THE INJUSTICE OF THEIR SYSTEM?
>> IF YOU ANSWER THAT YOU DO HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY.
>> WASNT AMERICAN INSERTION INTO GLOBAL POLITICS WHAT CAUSED THE HATRED FOR THE WEST?
>> HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND NOT HELPING THOSE WHO WILL DEVELOP A REPRESSIVE REGIME?
>> IS IRAN A REPRESSIVE REGIME?

POST REVOLUTION>>IF THOSE WHO TAKE POWER, AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL OCCUPY WALL STREET COLLAPSE, BETRAYED THE REVOLUTION AND THE PEOPLE BY NOT FOLLOWING THE PLAN (THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN DEVELOPED) WHAT SHOULD THE PEOPLE DO?
>>WOULD THOSE NEW LEADERS STEP DOWN OR WOULD AN EVENT LIKE THIS NEED TO BE STAGED AGAIN TO FORCE THEM OUT?
>>IF THEY DIDN’T VOLUNTARILY STEP DOWN WOULD YOU SEEK TO HAVE THEM ARRESTED?
>>IS VIOLENCE AN OPTION TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS OF REVOLUTION?
>>CAN YOU SOLVE VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE?
>>SHOULD THE PEOPLE BE ALLOWED TO HAVE A GUN IN CASE THOSE IN CHARGE DID BETRAY THE REVOLUTION?
>>IF YES, WHY.
>>IF YES, WHY DOES THIS NOT APPLY TODAY?
>>IF NO, WHO AUTHORIZES THE USE OF FORCE AND WHAT FORCE IS ALLOWED?
>>WHO PROTECTS THE IDEA OR YET TO BE FORMED IDEAS OF THE NEW REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY?
>>WHO WOULD ARREST THOSE WHO BETRAYED THE REVOLUTION IF THE SYSTEM HAS COLLAPSED AND THE COPS WERE >>ALL EITHER FIRED OR JAILED?
>>ARE JAILS NEEDED?
>>IF YES, WHO RUNS THE NEW DEMOCRATIC JAILS FORMALLY KNOWN AS THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?

>>ASSUMING THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE CITIZENS POLICE FORCE ENACTED TO REPLACE THE CORRUPT SYSTEM THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WHAT SYSTEM OF TRIAL WOULD YOU ENGAGE?
>>CHE SAID “WE DON’T NEED A TRIAL TO CONVICT THE GUILTY”. DO YOU AGREE?
>>IF NO, WOULD THERE BE A JURY?
>>WHO WOULD BE THE JUDGE?
>>WHAT WOULD THE RULES OF EVIDENCE BE?
>>WILL THE PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS?
>>WHAT ARE THEY?
>>HAVE THEY BEEN WRITTEN DOWN ANYWHERE?
>>IF NO, BECAUSE YOU WERE PLANNING ON DOING THAT AFTER THE COLLAPSE, IF THE ABOVE SCENARIO PLAYED OUT WOULD YOU REGRET THAT DECISION?
>>IF YES, WHAT WERE THEY BASED ON?

>>WHERE DO MANS RIGHTS COME FROM?
>>IF THEY COME FROM A COMMITTEE OR LEADERS, WHY THEN CANT THE LEADERS YOU NOW SAY BETRAYED THE REVOLUTION CHANGE YOUR RIGHTS AND DECLARE YOU A TRAITOR TO THE REVOLUTION?
>>HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED IN HISTORY?
>>IF YES, WHERE?
>>WHAT WERE THE CONDITIONS?
>>WHERE THERE WARNING SIGNS?
>>DO ANY OF THOSE SIGNS EXIST NOW?

ENERGY>>NOW THAT THE ECONOMY HAS COLLAPSED IN AMERICA BUT NOT SOMEHOW EFFECTED THE REST OF THE WORLD, HOW >>CAN WE AFFORD MIDDLE EASTERN OIL TO BUY GASOLINE?

IF YOU SAY WE CANNOT AFFORD GASOLINE AND THAT IS A GOOD THING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LET’S FOR ARGUMENT SAKE AGREE:

>> HOW DO WE FUEL TRACTORS FOR FARMING ON THE SCALE NEEDED TO FEED THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND ELSE WHERE?
>> HOW IS SAID FOOD TRUCKED TO STORES HERE IN NEW YORK IF TRUCKERS COULDN’T AFFORD FUEL?
>> HOW DO YOUR PARENTS GET FOOD FROM THE STORE TO THEIR HOME?

>>NOW THAT THE POLICE FORCE HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A CITIZEN PATROL, ARE YOUR PARENTS SAFE WALKING THE STREETS WITH FOOD IN AN AREA AFTER THE CURRENCY HAS JUST COLLAPSED?
>> IF ONE OF THEM WERE HURT OR KILLED DUE TO A SCENARIO LIKE THIS, WOULD YOU BE IN ANYWAY RESPONSIBLE?
>> IF THEY WERE HURT AND COULDN’T RECEIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT IN TIME BECAUSE THE EMS COULDN’T AFFORD GAS FOR THE AMBULANCE WOULD YOU IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE?
>> HOW WOULD THE HOSPITALS PAY DOCTORS AND EMS WITHOUT A CURRENCY?
>> WHY WOULD DOCTORS OR NURSES BE AT WORK?
>> TO ENSURE THEY DID GO TO WORK, WHO WOULD PROTECT AND FEED THEIR FAMILIES WHILE THEY SERVED?
> HOW DO THE DOCTORS AFFORD GAS TO GO TO WORK?
>> WHAT SYSTEM OF ELECTRICITY IS RUNNING THE HOSPITALS?

CRONY CAPITALISM
DEFINE CRONY CAPITALISM.
>> WHEN THE GOVT TOOK OVER GM, GAVE ALL THE BANKS TARP MONEY AND ALLOWED COMPANIES LIKE GE PAY NO TAXES WHILE MAKING BILLIONS AND SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS – IS THAT CRONY SOCIALISM, CRONY CAPITALISM OR CRONY STATISM?
>> IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

IN ALL THREE SCENARIOS WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, THE SYSTEM OR THE CRONYISM?>> WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO END CRONYISM?
>> HAS YOUR APPROACH EVER BEEN TRIED BEFORE?
>> IF YES, LIST ALL EXAMPLES OF ATTEMPTS FAILED AND SUCCESSFUL.
>> WHY DID THEY FAIL?
>> HOW DID THOSE THAT FAILED BEGIN?
>> WHO LEAD THE WAY ON THOSE FAILED ATTEMPTS?
>> HOW DID THOSE WHO BEGAN THE REVOLUTION FAIR IN THE NEW SYSTEMS?
>> WHO IS THOMAS PAINE?
>> WHAT WAS HIS ROLE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?
>> WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?
>> WHAT DID HE LEARN ABOUT REVOLUTIONS?
>> HOW DID THE FRENCH REVOLUTION END?
>> WHO TOOK POWER IN FRANCE?
>> WAS THAT GOOD OR BAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE?
>> WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION WE FIND OURSELVES IN AMERICA?
>> DO YOU HAVE HOSTILE FEELINGS ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS? WHY?

IF YOU ARE READING IN A GROUP OF LIKE MINDED, OPEN MINDED AND EDUCATED PEOPLE — TAKE NOTE – HAVE THEY PROVOKED ANY SERIOUS DISCUSSION. IF NOT WHY?>> IF SO, DID YOU DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO GET THOSE IN WASHINGTON TO INVESTIGATE AND ARREST THOSE WHO WILL NOT “CHANGE” AND BEGIN TO DO BUSINESS IN A LEGAL AND NON CORRUPT WAY?
>> WHY DIDNT THAT WORK?

IF YOU ARE NOT PLANNING ON THEM HOLDING ON TO POWER PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:A). WHO WILL BE IN CHARGE? WILL THEY BE YOU? OR THE LEADERS YOU HAVE NOT YET CHOSEN?
B). HOW WILL YOU ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO DO TAKE POWER ARE NOT CURRENTLY PART OF THE PROBLEM?
C). WHO WILL FUND THE UNIVERSITIES, HEALTHCARE, K-12 EDUCATION, HOMELESS, AND POOR WHILE A NEW SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO STABILIZE THE POPULATION, REPLACE THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF CORPORATISM, BIG MEDICINE, BIG OIL AND BIG FARMS
D). WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE MILITARY AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.