The Thorns of Truth

Tirelessly, the moths of Paranoia nibble
On the wrinkled cloth of your mind
Ravenous rodents incessantly biting
Severing the ties that bind

Pervasively, the clamor of silence
Descends on your question of reason
The ultimate predator of logic awaits
Reality is always in season

Lost on the cacti lined streets of sanity
You begin incandescently screaming
You've pricked your finger on the thorns of truth
And the blood of dashed hopes came streaming

As the serpentine tongue of insanity
Probes the cavern of dreams you've designed
The tattered seams of a shattered heart
Weep openly at kindness maligned

Caressing your spine, the blade of desire
Compels you through the battlefield of chance
While natures orchestra inaudibly plays

You continue to urgently dance.

(A poem about how love, and particularly love lost, can make you feel crazy. Yet we keep trying.)

Reactivated

It has been a while since I last posted here and was speaking with a dear friend who encouraged me to get back into it. So, I guess I will although one of the reasons I stopped posting and sharing all the stories that interest me or of interest to me is that so many others touch on the same subjects and seem to say what needs to be said so much better than I. Be that as it may, I will kick a few things around now ans then and just see where it goes. If nothing else I know I will have one reader. And for that among the constellation of reasons I could name, I love her.

Here goes nothing babe.

Hypothesis

Found this , Tomgram article. Please take the time to actually read this. Read slowly so that the concepts can sink in.

In it the author Tom Engelhardt very ably lays down the over arching plans put in motion even before 9-11. His analysis of those that were in charge, and those still in charge is spot on. I have been a subscriber to "Tomgrams" for over a year. He and his guest writers are better informed it seems than most blogs out there. And there are some gems if you follow the links.

From this particular article, I only wish Tom had made the next logical jump from a "Greater Middle East" to the forces that are bringing them about.

Washington D.C. through many administrations has shown itself to be firmly in the lap of Israel. Seemingly doing it's bidding to bring about a "Greater Middle East" and for whose benefit? Certainly not the USA. America has become the 'War' wing of the IDF. Why should they fight for their own alleged safety when they can direct gulible American boys and girls to die for them?

 

Can't Turn the Spigot Off Blues

Read this. Here are a few shots from the article to give you an idea of the importance of the subject matter.

That blue line down at the bottom heading up from left to right is a support line. It is not a tried and true indicator but generally it is a good barometer of where things should be. Now over towards the end of that line you can see that the actual index has completely crashed through the support line. If you have any excess d011ars, convert them to something tangible. It doesn't have to be precious metals but by all means avoid like the plague anything paper. A CD, for example, is paper. It is only worth what they say it is worth. AND they are the ones holding on to it. People whose wealth only comes in the form of savings accounts, money market, stock market, may soon find those assets locked away while the prices of staples begins to hyper-inflate. Litigation to get your money back? Good luck with that.

The above graph is a good illustration of the value of the d011ar. Most people really don't know what that means and I am not about to try to explain it because I don't totally understand all the implications either. But what I can understand is that as the gov allows trillions upon trillions of paper to be printed they overall value of my paper goes down. Gas, food, precious metals all cost me more with every piece of paper they print.

A typical Hollywood scene shows our hero trapped in a room with water rising around their feet. This is the plight of Americans today. Most are trapped in a room with monetary liquidity rapidly rising around our waist's and no one seems capable or willing to turn off the spigot.

Thoughts

I have a feeling that the price of gold is about to go exponential. 'About' being +/- 5 years. Silver has been in the mid to high 30's for a while. Still up a high percentage over 6-12 months ago. And several hundred per cent from 10+ years, so silver is still a good deal and this pullback can get 5 quality oz.'s for around 200 fedbux.
For a real cheap thrill, try buying some Copper bullion. It is dirt cheap but impressive once you feel the coins in your hand. I buy from here,"Provident Metals" Plus they will resume their rightful place as coinage accepted someday right behind silver and gold. As it has always been. Since Ancient times, there has been a metal coinage. It is a fact of civilized society. With all the various catastrophe's over the millenia, society drifts back to safety of metal money. Unlike a paper note, it degrades very slowly and once struck can last for many, many years of service. It has to because there will be relatively few in circulation.

Who would trust paper money after a global disaster? We know one is coming. We don't know what yet, but it could be this from the Jet Propulsion Labaratory, "Comet Elenin" or here. It may not be The END, but it should be interesting and that's what you'd expect from a Comet if only because they are so rare in one's lifetime. Like Space putting on a show just for us. Humbling and fascinating. That last link also explains that there is a double whammy for around the same time as the Comet is also to be another Celestial visitor, the Comet Honda. In fact Elenin and Honda cross paths somewhere inside of our orbit around the Sun. I mean this is way more than one could hope for in a single lifetime.

On Mother's day

I'm really pleased with the recent developments in the 'family' relationships. So far, from what I've read, I'm relieved that you all turned out to be pretty good kids. Caring for your children as you do. Late in life I decided to raise a young'n.
From the beginning, I followed a variation of the Golden Rule i.e. 'Do Unto Others...' in that I want to be the Dad I wanted as a child. And it seems to be working pretty well, but it has always been true that adults easily remember various stages of Biblical 'Discipline' from their youth.
My advice would be to remember those times from your childhood, and rather than react to situations e.g. spilt milk, broken windows, etc stop and remember if you had a similar incident. If you did/did not like the results, then by all means change it for the next generation. Break the cycle.

But I'm just a man and my opinions may be better kept to myself.

LOL

Happy Mothers day!

Response to Bob Moriarty

Please read Bob Moriarty's article, titled "Silver Rally".

I, and maybe many others, laugh at these kinds of articles where-in one guru or another tells me what a sucker I am for buying silver, especially in the last few days when the run-up to fifty buck an ounce was, and still is, very profitable to us.

He recounts the usual crash and burn history and inevitably of history repeating itself. That is all well and good and in fact, expected. What he fails to take into account is most of us probably bought gold and especially silver, way back when it was 5,10,15,20 an ounce. So the recent highs and the more recent declines haven't affected me very much at all. Yes I might have missed out on some healthy profits but I am still hundreds of percent above the price I paid for it. Most of us are still way ahead of the game. I cannot think of any other investment where I have made hundreds of percent. Stock Market? Puhleeze. Money Market? No again. T-Bills/bonds? Now you're just being stupid. The only thing that is right up there with silver, is gold. This place, Provident Metals, is making and selling copper bullion. Copper bullion in bars and coins may have been around for a while but it has been well hidden. I have been collecting other PM's for years and had never heard of copper as an investment bullion. No more. I have also begun buying copper. In much the same way I began collecting silver oh so many years ago when people laughed a the idea. Copper may never be considered valuable enough to establish a 'big bank' ETF but when paper is useless real coins will buy that loaf of bread your family needs.
Bob just doesn't understand that there are people out here who just cannot accept that paper will ever be as valuable as metal. Someday the paper holders will be the laughing stock but on the other hand, they may make a killing selling toilet paper to those of us who can afford to buy it.

Clear sign of OWO vs. NWO

Viewing the series of events since the Egyptian uprising, these are the times that define the Old World Order clinging to the system that keeps them in power and crushes independence and freedom in every imaginable way.

Countries all over the world now are standing up to their governments in peaceful ways yet on many occasions the leaders of some countries are ordering armed repression killing many protesters in the process.

The interesting aspect is that even some countries that we consider 'enemies' are more than willing to keep the status quo power structure. If anything one would think that these so called 'Rogue' States would welcome Global realignment. Apparently not.

With that in mind the West can't begin to gloat about the strife in the Middle East amongst its People's. Because the Powers That Be in the West aren't immune to protest. You can bet they will cling to the Old Way of doing things as tenaciously as those 'Dictators' of the Third World.

People are beginning to see that, though separated by economic and religious ideologies, all governments are cogs in the machine of human oppression.


Welcome to the revolution.

Troops train in Mock Cities

Why waste money on infrastructure when you can build entire mock city?

How To Store Data In Bacteria

Probably the scariest story you will ever read. The implications of this are straight out of zombie land.

but scientists say the method could soon allow for text, images, music, or even video to be "recorded" in E. Coli, according to Discovery.

Perhaps more importantly however, bacteria isn't susceptible to intrusion.

You're not kidding! translated this means once it has escaped into the human population (whoops!) it cannot be contained. This means that the germs are impervious to any known anti-biotics.

"All kinds of computers are vulnerable to electrical failures or data theft. But bacteria are immune from cyber attacks. You can safeguard the information."

Just one gram of data-storing bacteria could hold the same amount of data as up to 450, 2,000 GB hard drives, according to Computerworld.

Pretty impressive. How does that compare to the number of natural brain cells you already have? Is there a point where a critical mass of 'brilliant' bacteria would 'takeover' a host brain? And at that point why would you even want a 'cure'?


I think what we are really looking at here is the next step in human evolution. Science has provided a way to insert what for all intents and purposes is a method for inserting otherwise bulky machines into our natural physical bodies. RFID chips, bionic limbs, etc. But to get something into the brain was much higher fruit on the 'tree of knowledge'. Here we are on the doorstep of the most monumental step in human evolution, the full and irrevocable integration of man and machine. Once the machine has conquered the mental plane it can then much more easily find the solution to the physical. Think 'Transformers' and you might not be too far off.

And it may already be too late to even try to mount an opinion about this research. If it is that intelligent and immune to attack, then even a small amount 'spilled' somewhere would quickly be able to replicate itself by way of Seasonal flu, cold, and allergy periods. And the most important and seemingly unthought of by Big Science is they are making this bacteria immune to attack. From Big Medicine? From trojan-ware? Exactly what is it NOT immune to. Surely they would have built a back door shutdown code, or held back at least one specific medicine that will kill this
bacteria.

Here's the answer:

In addition, researchers have also developed a three-tier security fence to safeguard the data, and created an encoding mechanism that ensures the data can't be disturbed by mutations in bacterial cells.

No they definitely wanted that whatever goes on in those cell walls, to stay in those cell walls.


Been sneezing lately? Yeah me too.

Two days Early?!

Information that the sun came up two days early at the Arctic Circle this year. That is a huge event. Not two minutes, two days! How can that be explained?

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/here-comes-sun-little-early.html#more

Internet regulations

How long before time on the internet is traded like oil? There are signs of this already. Information packets are like a large pool of money just waiting to be divvied up. Think of all the newly created "agencies" circling in those waters.

Pathocracy

Vitally important info. Definitions and goals;


http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/pathocracy-tyranny-at-hand-of.html

The war on US citizens is prosecuted around the clock with assaults on many fronts, including a deliberate effort to dumb down the educational system, debasing health through contamination of foods (hormones, pesticides, GMOs, chemically adulterated water, cancerous additives such as aspartame), then protecting food cartels that provide fewer food choices while controlling your right to grow food. Healthcare choices are restricted by legal protection of pharmaceutical cartels marketing drug and medical procedures responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths each year. The government directly attacks the individual immune system by mandating and promoting criminally contaminated vaccines -- immune system damaging vaccines that may also cause long term brain dysfunction or damage, or result in delayed cancer.

It is time that humanity faces what it already knows: Historic suffering throughout the ages is related to the evil of the psychopath. We must never consent to being disarmed. Thomas Jefferson said: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."


And another;

A grade 'A' investment for the average American (aside from food) is silver; silver is the currency of the little man -- it is the silver bullet against the vampire of psychopathic government. 
 


http://www.psychopath-research.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/734/site_id/1#import

"One Poor Harvest Away From Chaos"

The precipice is so near. The scary part is how so many are so unprepared. The signs that have been there for, what seems like, so long are still viewed upon with suspicion as conspiracy theory territory.







Geoffrey Lean
'One poor harvest away from chaos'
Millions of the world’s poorest people and the state of the global economy are threatened by the food price rises, writes Geoffrey Lean.
Hunger pains: millions of the world?s poorest people and the state of the global economy are threatened by the food price rises
Hunger pains Photo: Getty Images
By Geoffrey Lean 7:19PM GMT 07 Jan 2011

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'Within a decade," promised the top representative of the world's mightiest country, "no man, woman or child will go to bed hungry."

Dr Henry Kissinger, at the height of his powers as US Secretary of State, was speaking to the landmark 1974 World Food Conference. Since then, the number of hungry people worldwide has almost exactly doubled: from 460 million to 925 million.

And this week the airwaves have been full of warnings that the formidable figure could be about to increase further, as a new food crisis takes hold. Some experts warned that the world could be on the verge of a "nightmare scenario" of cut‑throat competition for the control of shrinking supplies.

The cause of such alarm? On Wednesday, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported that global food prices had hit a record high and were likely to go on rising, entering what Abdolreza Abbassian, its senior grains economist, called "danger territory".

That is bad enough for Britain, adding to the inflationary pressures from the soaring cost of oil and other commodities, not to mention the VAT increase. But for the world's poor, who have to spend 80 per cent of their income on food, it could be catastrophic.

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Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, warns that the rising prices are "a threat to global growth and social stability", and Nicolas Sarkozy has identified them as a priority for the G20, which he chairs this year.

Already they are higher than in 2008, when they drove the tally of the malnourished briefly above a billion for the first time in history, and caused riots in countries as far apart as Indonesia, Cameroon and Mexico. That ended nearly two decades during which the number of hungry people had stayed the same, while the world population grew by 1.2 billion, so that the proportion of an increasing humanity without enough to eat steadily fell.

But the crisis of two years ago, and the one that may be unfolding now, are polar opposites of the one behind the World Food Conference. Then, bad harvests had produced a real shortage. Now, we have bumper crops: the past three years have produced the biggest harvests ever. The issue is not one of supply, but of demand.

The mushrooming middle classes of India and China helped cause
the 2008 price hike by eating more meat, which, in turn, mops up grain: it can take, for example, 8lb of cereals to produce one of beef. And cars contributed as well as cows. Biofuels transferred over 100 million tons of cereals from plates to petrol tanks: to fill a 4 x 4 tank requires enough grain to feed a poor person for a year. Speculation, too, helped drive prices up.

The same factors are at work again, though fortunately the hungry are not yet as badly hit. This is partly because the price of rice, which feeds almost half of humanity, has remained relatively stable; and partly because it is mainly the higher-quality wheat and maize – eaten by the better off – that has got much more expensive.

But things remain volatile, since the world has heavily run down its grain stocks over the past decade, and much of what remains is in China, which does not readily release them even when prices are high. So the present abrupt rises have been brought about by a harvest that is only 1.4 per cent down on last year, and prices remain unusually hostage to the weather.

So if it is all so precarious at times of bumper harvests, what will happen if – or rather, when – we get a really bad one? That is what is worrying Lester Brown, president of the Washingtion-based Earth Policy Institute, whom I first met at the 1974 conference. A former champion tomato-grower – then an enthusiast for the Green Revolution, now a leading prophet of danger and one of the first to forecast the present situation – he is publishing a book on the issue on Wednesday.

"The reality," he says, "is that the world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time."

Imagine, he says, if last year's Moscow heatwave – which sent average temperatures 14F above normal, and contributed to this year's smaller harvest – next hit Chicago and the Midwestern bread basket. The US harvest could slump by 40 per cent, sending prices "off the chart" and cause "the global economy to start to unravel". As the climate changes, such extremes are likely to be more common.

Back in 1974, Kissinger spoke of the "thin edge between hope and hunger". A generation on, it is time to take it seriously.

India’s leopards go out on the town

It was about as long as a small leopard, the biggest of its species ever recorded in Britain. The 4ft predator, which gobbled down a family cat in middle-class Maidstone for its Boxing Day dinner, ended quite a year for the urban fox. In October, one killed 11 penguins in London Zoo; in August, two invaded bedrooms in Folkestone and Fulham to kill a kitten and bite a lawyer; in June, yet another attacked twin nine-month-old girls as they slept in Hackney,

Worried? It could be worse. In India, the role of Britain’s streetfighter foxes is increasingly being filled by, well, leopards. Driven from their natural habitat by its destruction, drawn by the easy pickings of urban life, the big cats are now constantly spotted in the subcontinent’s towns and cities. Stray dogs are a staple diet, but the leopards also regularly kill people. Indeed, in June one even took on the Indian Army itself, injuring 12 adults and children near the gate of the military academy at Dehra Dun.

Both foxes and leopards are aggressive, adaptable animals, and both are thriving. There are now thought to be 34,000 urban foxes in Britain, visiting more than a third of the country’s urban gardens at least once a month. And the leopard – which is also increasingly invading South African cities – has avoided the fate of, say, the endangered tiger: by one estimate more than half a million of them are at large. Could their motto be: “If you can’t beat them, eat them”?

CANADIANS! Stay Out of the US!

This is so wrong on so many levels. Here in the good ole' 'Free' US of A we are going through a semi depression even though our government tells us otherwise. A Canadian couple attempt to go to a shopping mall in the US and here is how they are treated at the border.
I knew the minute I heard of the 'Patriot Act' shortly after 9-11 that it would eventually be turned in such a way as to cause more harm to American citizens than it would ever help. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
The customs agents heard on this tape should themselves be thrown in jail. Is this any way to treat our closest ally? Is his how we want an ally who is helping to shoulder the burden of war overseas to be treated? I think not. Canadians, pressure your government to just say no to American requests for your sons and daughters blood in our bogus, senseless, needless wars.
On behalf of any rational Americans left in this country, I apologize for the extent to which we have allowed our law enforcement agencies to have become what both our countries fought against in the middle of the last century. Jackbooted thugs!
Canadians, save your money, spend it wisely helping your own economy, ours is doomed anyway. Let it go.

Economic collapse: important upcoming dates

Economic collapse: important upcoming dates

November 16, 2008 by disinter

The engineers of the economic collapse aren’t finished with you yet. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to scare you into agreeing to more outright theft of your sovereignty, freedom and wealth.

The first milestones have been reached. As Congress was warned in March, the economic collapse gained steam in September - right on schedule. The federal government has successfully created over $3 trillion, with MUCH more to come, in order to ensure the coming hyper-inflationary nail in the coffin. With that, they managed to nationalize banks and insurance companies and rescued other incompetent partners-in-crime on Wall Street and it is only beginning.

Now for what is coming next:

• It was predicted at the end of October that the U.S. Dollar would collapse within 30 days.
• The dollar collapse will be accelerated by a COMEX default beginning on November 28th. More on what this will look like here.
• Colin Powell has warned of a “crisis” that will happen on January 21st or 22nd, 2009. It remains to be seen whether this staged event will be financial in nature.
• The U.S. government is expected to go bankrupt/default in February 2009.

Make no mistake, none of this is happening by accident. Nor is it happening as a result of “bad” policy, not enough regulation etc. On the contrary, what is unfolding has been planned for decades.

Preposterous you say? Read this, this, this and this.

Stocks will likely rally next week. Don’t let it fool you.

Good luck.

Bush Tragedy

President Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy."

So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a tragedy.

One little boy stood up and offered "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy."

"No," said Bush, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand. "If a school bus carrying fifty children drove over a cliff killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explained the President. "That's what we would call a great loss."

The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room," Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand. In a quiet voice he said, "If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs Bush was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."

"Fantastic!" exclaimed Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," said the boy, "it has to be a tragedy because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

Let the Whining Begin (and it has)

While the Nation gets used to the new reality of an overwhelming Obama victory, the defeated continue puling with each new imagined threat. One of the least realistic threats to the Right is the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine.

The Fairness Doctrine was a flawed mechanism by which a broadcaster would have to air both sides of an issue. If you have a righty on for thirty minutes, you would have to give equal time to a lefty. Back in the days before cable this doctrine did far more for the right side than it did for the left. The 'Big Three' networks were owned by committed leftists back in the day and the right felt that their voices were not being heard.

But that was before cable networks and the twenty-four hour news services. Now nearly anyone with any point of view can and does find an audience. Far from being shut out of the news game, networks like Fox have flourished since 1994 when the Right believed that Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution would sweep away all in its path. Fox news became the officially un-official voice of the right and more recently the 'go-to' news service of the White House and the more radical elements of the Right. Rush Limbaugh began to dream of multi-million dollar paydays during the nineties and the Fairness Doctrine then was as derided as Prohibition.

With these media options leading the way as the mouthpieces of the Right and the White House, those in power could rest easy knowing that the Republican line could and would be out there, heard and adhered to by those whose feeble minds believe everything they hear because if it's on the television it must be correct. And Fox news up until recently has enjoyed better than average ratings. But a funny thing happened on the way to the election.

These past eight years have seen a Government led by unabashed liars and crooks. Whose mantra seemed to be 'Hey look what Clinton got away with. Surely we can get away with anything!' And they almost did. Unfortunately for the Right, the People began to get tired of seeing their sons and daughters sent overseas to die for a cause which was a lie. And a continuously evolving lie at that. First WMD's, then Saddam's a "bad man. A very bad man!" Then it became Iraqi freedom and who knows what it is now. While our troops were fighting for Iraqi Freedom, the government was working overtime to deny everyone else theirs. Illegal wiretaps, a vice-president who is above the law in so many respects, Guantanemo prisoners who have been exonerated but will not be released, and on and on. The lies have piled up so high that by the time of the election, nearly anyone would have defeated McCain or any other Republican. This is what the Right doesn't understand. The Bush Administration with its wars, profligate spending, trampling the Constitution, and unnecessary fear mongering, has so tarnished the Republican 'brand' that it may be many years before they can have a respectable showing in a National election. They can pretty much forget about 2012 as a 'comeback' year because they still have such 'old guard' faces as Congressman Boehner and Senator McConnell in the leadership positions. They still have loudmouths like Rush Limbaugh and his little sister Sean Hannity and his little sister Brian Killmeade and all the other little sisters lying about Obama right up to the election. And now the best they can do is whine about what may become of them.

I've got a newsflash for those on the right who continue to whine and cry and yes, lie about what may happen in the future. Don't worry about it! Stop lying, stop crying, stop the fearmongering, stop WHINING!You have lost your influence, now do the American thing and get out there and redeem your sorry legacy and regain the confidence that you so took advantage of in the past. No one is asking any of these crybabies to kiss the feet of the new administration, just accept the fact that there is more to America than Fox news.

Prophet Of Barack Obama Warns Of Catastrophic US Destruction

'Roots' revisited.

Obama- The Great White Hope

By now everyone knows that in all likelihood Obama will be the president-elect in a few short days. I can't speak for anyone else but I for one will be glad to see him elected. Oh, not for some pie-in-the-sky racial equality, 'can we put that stuff behind us' rigamarole. Oh no, far from any of the New Age rationale of Obama coming to save us bullshit. Although Obama's election may very well be the straw that saves the camel from going over the cliff. Pick your metaphor because none of the old metaphors work and jumbling them together may be the right course these days.

In my nearly fifty years I have been a political junkie almost to the point of rabidity at times. I clearly remember listening to the radio for the election returns on election night 1968 to see if Nixon had won. I don't recall my parents being all that political, in fact I don't think they even voted. But never-the-less I was for Nixon and when he won I was hooked on the political process but I never could bring myself to drink the Kool-aid though. After Watergate, my biggest beef with Ford was that he pardoned Nixon. To my idealistic way of thinking, all men were to be tried by the law no matter their station in life and when Ford issued that pardon, I knew that America had changed. It set up the imperial presidency. It also made Jimmy Carter possible. No matter the election results of 1976, Ford had no chance of being elected.

I won't go through so much of of Reagan's Amnesty , or Bush the Elder's 'Read My Lips ', but with Clinton other than to draw attention to what Ford had wrought, namely; the Imperial Presidency.

Clinton by all accounts, and no matter what anyone feels about the situation, broke the law. Perjury is illegal and should be more so when committed by an elected official. Any elected official. And there are those that say," Hey he was only lying about a blow-job, man, chill out." Okay fine, if he had used his personal resources to cover and hide his personal business I would have no problem, but he didn't. He used the People's resources to obfuscate his personal business. Another example of the Imperial Presidency. Remember this, when one elected official gets away with something, it sets a precedent that others will follow. And government has proven that when it comes to getting away with pushing the envelope, or taking away our rights, they will continue until there are no rights no more.

We are all very and too familiar with all the examples of Bush the Lesser's pushing the Imperial Presidency to its extreme. Most notable during this period is Cheney's setting up of the Imperial Vice-Presidency. Never before has a Vice-President glommed onto as much power and secrecy than in the last eight years. Again folks, this is the precedent and without a snapping back of the office into its rightful position, we may end up regretting that we allowed it to happen through the inaction of our elected representatives.

So now we are faced with a brand new version of a president in the form of a half African-American (?) becoming our first non-White President. Many people look upon this with great hope for a break from the past and the new American morning dawning on the horizon and all those tired cliches personified. But somehow, I kind of doubt it. Oh don't get me wrong. I could never vote for McCain because I have seen the Manchurian Candidate and if ever there was one, it is McCain. On the other hand, I am just as convinced that Obama is the Anti-Christ so where does that leave us?

America has come to the end of its rope folks. That's the truth plainly and simply. Our manufacturing has gone to distant shores, as has the best and brightest of our military forces. Now the countries that we import most of our goods from will soon refuse to take our dollar as payment. What then?

As the twilight of America as we knew it approaches who better to lead us into oblivion but a Black Democrat. This is how devious those that pull the strings are. Let Obama oversee the destruction of America so that whatever remnant there may be won't blame the Republicans and then they will be able to pick up the pieces. They think. I've got news for them.

Obama's election will herald in an era of the down and out feel that can get their leg up as it were. All of a sudden the disenfranchised are gonna start feeling empowered and to a greater or lesser degree they're gonna feel entitled. An Obama presidency is going to see a whole class of people bewildered because they helped put him into the office. Make no mistake, it won't be Obama himself that will put the hurt on the new underclass, it will be those that have common cause with him that will begin to make your lives miserable. Can you say 'back of the bus'? I knew you could.

But beyond that reality is the fact that the perfect storm of financial ruin and regulation are flying over the horizon at such speed that it will astonish all and destroy many. All that you know now and take for granted will be gone. To be sure, you will still have a job to go to. In fact you may be compelled to go to work. You may not however, get there by the means you are used to. Gasoline will become a luxury since the oil producers no longer accept USDollars. On the bright side, stock of Schwinn bicycles will skyrocket!

People lament that Wal-mart has destroyed the 'Mom and Pop' stores. The good news is that Wal-mart will become a 'Mom and Pop' store because China refuses to accept the USDollar and their shelves are empty of everything except bread, milk, and maybe eggs. Break out Grandma's cookbooks girls, you are about to embark on the ultimate Home Economics course.

Boys, you can all get on the internet and read up on the differences between a 'ho' and a 'hoe', because you're about to become as intimately familiar with the one as you were with the other. Begin your preparations NOW to get out of the bigger cities. Your life literally depends on it. Most people aren't aware that most grocery stores only have a three day supply of food under the best of conditions. During a riot, you can expect a store to empty out in a few hours. One need look no further in the past than New Orleans after Katrina or the Los Angeles riots in the nineties to know the conditions you may face in a severe and sudden economic downturn. Get out now!

Many Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that the need for weapons and specifically guns is long past and that is exactly what the government wants you to think because the Great Collapse has been coming for some time. I am hereby naming the upcoming period as the Great Collapse. Not the Great Depression II because that implies that we will weather the storm and eventually get back to "normal". Well, folks, that ain't gonna happen. Normal as you imagine it now is soon going to end forever in your lifetime.

So what has this to do with Obama? It has everything and nothing to do with Obama per se as he is only a symbol don't you see? Each President has implemented or overseen laws and regulations that have moved us in this direction from FDR to now. A case could be made that it began even earlier than that. But with each Administration whether it be Democrat or Republican, our country has slid slowly, almost imperceptibly towards oblivion. You have heard the situation described as the frog in the pot. Take a frog and dump him into a pot of boiling water and he will immediately jump out. But put him in cold water and slowly turn up the heat and he'll eventually boil without jumping out. That's us folks. We have been in this cool water for so long that very few have noticed the rise in temperature. Many now are screaming at the sleepwalkers to wake up because the water is HOT! And getting hotter by the minute.

To that end, Obama is the symbol that the Rulers of the Universe are sending to us that the End is upon us. He is the break with the past, with the old way of doing things that we have come to rely on. And instead of being fearful of this I feel that we should rejoice.

Here now is the opportunity to learn what our ancestors knew and we have been taught to deny. That is, we need each other. We need our families, we need our neighbors. Maybe in ways we never could've imagined. That little old lady down the block probably knows how to can food for a long winter. Do you? Does your wife/girlfriend/significant other? Probably not. Do you know how to repair a lawnmower? Probably not, but I bet the old man that chases the kids off of his lawn does. You see, we as a people are on the brink of events that will forever change our future. We can begin now to make the transition tolerable or you can do nothing, and accept the chains that are being forged around your neck even now. Begin now to acquire the tools you think you may need to make your future a possibility. Go here for some essential products and go here and many other places to read up on ideas for survival.

Above all else though, remember, Obama cannot 'change' the future. That has pretty much been written in stone. But as a symbol he is the best thing we could have hoped for. The Rulers of the Universe have sent us Obama to signal their intentions and we best heed the message.