http://www.eaazi.org/ThorsProvoni/JudoniaComplete/JudoniaCompleteA.htm
It
is heretical, because the very far away border of permitted anti-Zionist
discourse still remains short of discussion: whether Jews did similar things
before Zionism, or do we have a temporary aberration connected with the State of
Israel. The moment one integrates modern Jewish behavior with the pre-modern
Jewish behavior, the moment one notices continuity of pre-Zionist and Zionist
Jewish politics, the moment one leaves the safe ground of condemning occupation,
- one crosses into totally forbidden "anti-Semite" territory. Martillo dared and ventured there, and came with strong
and startling conclusions: the real issue is not Palestine. Unless they are
neutralized, Israel lobbying groups, Israel advocates, Zionists,
Neoconservatives, and Friedmanites will steal America and effectively abolish
the Constitution in all but name to create a society of servitude for all
Americans except for those belonging to the hyper-wealthy transnational Zionist
political elite.
http://www.eaazi.org/ThorsProvoni/JudoniaComplete/JudoniaCompleteA.htm#_Toc199522885
The Pending Collapse
Of The U.S.A.
By Timothy V. Gatto
November 20, 2009 "Information
Clearing House" -- The truth that most people realize but can’t openly talk
about is that America has seen better days and that the system of capitalism has
long outlived its usefulness. The last part of that sentence, that capitalism
has outlived its usefulness, is thoroughly the fault of the capitalists
themselves.
For many years now, transnational corporations have sent
much of America’s manufacturing overseas in order to take advantage of low cost
workers. About the only manufacturing this country does on a large scale is
earth moving equipment (Caterpillar) and military equipment. Boeing,
Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon, General Electric and firms like that are the major
remnants of a once thriving industrial base that made America. Detroit is still
trying to hang in there, but shortfalls in sales have left it up to the workers
in these plants to take it on the chin as their pay and benefits get
cut.
The Dow is trying to make a comeback but the way I see it, much of
the rise of “blue-chip” stocks is really more wishful thinking than serious
thought. The stocks being sold on the backs of some of these companies are being
bought on speculation that the market will go higher based on the rise of the
GDP. The question that I would like to ask, is how far can the GDP go when 70%
of the GDP is based on consumer spending? Where is consumer spending going to
come from when realistically over 16% of the people in America aren’t
working?
In an essay, written by Richard Heinberg entitled “Should We
Prop-up a Dying Economy” (19 October 2009), he argues that the economists and
the people who follow physical science disagree sharply about where this economy
is going. Peak Oil, whether it is present now or just years away, will mean that
the economy will contract. The economists state that growth can happen in any
environment, yet it is apparent that when oil prices spiked in 2008, the auto
industry and the airline industry almost went belly-up. Shrinkage of energy
means shrinkage in the economy, we have all been under the notion that we can
borrow against a growing economy. The facts are that if the economy does not
grow, there will be very little in the growth of capital to repay debts that are
leveraged at an average of an average of 350% of debt to GDP ratio. Where will
new capital come from?
As the price of petroleum becomes higher, imported
goods will become more expensive. When our government fails to repay our foreign
creditors, or pays them back in hyper-inflated dollars, there will be no credit
issued to this country. This can be a significant problem because we currently
use 25% of the world’s oil supply and we buy that oil on credit. He
says;
“We have entered a new economic era in which the former rules no
longer
apply. Low interest rates and government spending no longer translate
to
incentives for borrowing and job production. Cheap energy won't
appear
just because there is demand for it. Substitutes for essential
resources
will in most cases not be found. Over all, the economy will
continue to
shrink in fits and starts until it can be maintained by the
energy and
material resources that Earth can supply on ongoing
basis.”
That is frightening to say the least. I believe that what our
government should be doing is to listen to the scientists and stop listening to
the economists. We have already borrowed almost 24 BILLION dollars, that
is $80,000 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. We are robbing our future
to pay for an economy that is unsustainable. Without economic growth, the
banks, the investment houses and the insurance companies are bound to fail
anyway. We might as well let them fail and get on with the business of restoring
a sustainable economy.
In a talk called “The Five Stages of Collapse”,
by Dmitry Orlov, a former Russian that watched the collapse of the Soviet
Union, they are;
The Five Stages of
Collapse
1. Stage one:
Financial Collapse
2. Commercial
Collapse
3. Political
Collapse
4. Social
Collapse
5. Cultural
Collapse
This isn’t the warning of a horror show, but unless we start to
prepare for a full or partial collapse, it could be worse than it has to be. He
envisions a breakdown of society gradually replaced by stronger knit communities
that must depend on each other for basic needs or it could be a complete
breakdown of utter anarchy.
Meanwhile the Eagle sits on its perch,
fighting wars in foreign lands while spending billions of American dollars doing
it. The average American will see no benefit or harm whether we win or lose
against the Taliban in Afghanistan. What we will have done however, is strap
Americans with more debt and more use of precious resources. The American eagle
is getting a little bit wobbly on its perch and it wouldn’t surprise me to see
all American soldiers taken from all overseas assignments and brought back to
this country just to deal with the economic collapse, and because we can no
longer afford to keep them overseas.
We need to start thinking about
where we live and how we will survive an economic collapse. When the federal
government can no longer function, what will we do to replace it? How are
individuals to survive when essential goods and services become extinct? This
isn’t a future scenario that will happen twenty or thirty years from now, no! We
are already experiencing it.
We can continue to live our daily
lives watching TV and the advertisements that lull us into a false sense of
security that everything is well, or we can start making provisions to deal with
the calamity that lies ahead. We can provision staples, use alternative energy
sources to heat our homes or assist us in heating them, and we can start talking
with each other and get to know the neighbor that lives across the street that
you have never talked to.
I’m really not an alarmist, but I see the merit
of what so many scientists are predicting. Not only will Peak Oil stop economic
growth, but climate change according to a UN report will bring desertification
to 70% of the planet by 2025. Maybe petroleum peaking out is in reality what may
save our planet. Maybe a return to simpler ways to live and work will stop the
CO2 emissions, but I don’t think so. Third world countries are surpassing the
industrialized countries in carbon emissions by burning coal. What I would
like to know is who is really minding this nation’s business? What is the
Federal government doing when scientific fact is thrown in their face? While
Obama listens to Timothy Geitner and Ben Bernanke and other Goldman Sacks
alumni, a company that produces nothing and makes money by buying low and
selling high with government funds, where are the people that see what’s
happening? If I can understand the ramifications of what is happening in front
of my face, what about the President of the United States? Is he really ignorant
or does he just not wish to deal with it? I’m curious; maybe someone in the
executive branch can give us answers. It would be in everyone’s best interest to
have people starting to deal with reality instead of putting their head in the
sand. Maybe the American eagle should be replaced with the ostrich.
Tim
Gatto's new book Complicity to Contempt is available at Amazon, Barnes and
Noble, Abe's and other fine bookstores now.
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