WHY THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT LOST

WHY THE PATRIOT MOVEMENT LOST


J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com/
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A short time ago, I sent this reply to AWRM and posted it on my blog about the feds wanting to ban use of any medium of exchange apart from their federal reserve notes.  I saw an opportunity to once again point out a wide open vulnerability of the enemy and to strike at it while there are still accountable local governments that could be taken back and used to shield us from the beast:

Thread bumped here: http://freedomguide.blogspot.com/2011/04/feds-going-after-constitutional-money.html

COMMENT:

The enemy will ratchet the screws they got us under tighter...

No lemme rewrite that: the enemy will ratchet the screws we let them keep us under tighter.

That fits.

What's going to have to fit for you -if you want Freedom-is to take it. We are few in number and geographically distributed so we have little to no power, even in our locales. Especially in our locales because well, we as a movement don't get the steady game, the long game and seek to start, build and expand the Second American Revolution.

The enemy will strike at us largely locally because the feds are too few for national coverage; they rely on state and local governments to enforce their edicts or inform them when they need to bring the federal hammer down on a nail sticking out.

You can build up the underground economy but snitches are bitches that get stitches and wind up in ditches... well they should but we're too nice and law abiding. Laws are an enemy quiet weapons system and being nice to bullies and thieves doesn't pay.

The dollar is a economic weapon that steadily loses purchasing power and the enemy will enforce a monopoly on its currency. What do we do? Use silver and gold, barter items, self-issued script? When we can?

We need a political cover to start up and expand our economic initiatives or it's over. We can either get serious and start taking back communities through recall election to create a local shield, and build and expand the SAR, or we can try enforcing it with our rifles. Because what we're doing now will get us picked off as the enemy's revenuers and snitches take us out one by one, or by bunch.

Get politically active, fight, or give up.

J. Croft

A reply from Safetalker, at AWRM about yet another attempt by me to cheerlead a proper response to the enemy:

J. Croft

Your words fall on ears of lead. They know it is true, but very inconvenient. How can the many with all of those privileges be expected to pass them up for mere Freedoms.

If the rank and file militia man was expected to spend their nights patrolling their neighborhoods to protect the family, or community gardens they would have no time to be here posting Patriot quips.

If they had to spend their weekends planting backup food there would be no trips to the Gun shows or the range to blow off 20 to 50 $1.00 bullets.

How many have even begun cacheting ammo and food stores. How many have sealed cans of gasoline hidden away for when it is gone.

J. Croft nothing has happened since your first articles I read a couple of years ago. The Internet though has given rise to better intel spread.

I, unfortunately, am the same as everybody else. Consigcor posted those articles on Guerrilla Economics that just about had the task down to a step by step affair. Then we read all of the leads on how it didn't work for them.

J. Croft, Thank you for you service to the American people. I say that because unless you are leaving cash behind the American people don't recognize you.

I hope I get bombarded by people telling me to shove it that they do all of the right things. I hope some are even true. I fear though that I am correct.

I realize that those who live out past the 7-11 sign are somewhat ready for next week, but what about the rest.
When the heroic Republican Congress fails to hold their ground on the budget and Lil Barry holds his ground and veto's the continuation bill who will they blame. If this runs into a month and the SSI checks have no place to go, the retirement checks have no place to go. The Meicare checks have no place to be printed. Who will stand up and say it is the correct thing to do.

When the masses move into the streets to protest curtailment of many government functions and the Military comes in to quell them who's fault will it be that Walmart has no gas due to EPA inspectors being on furlow, eggs due to FDA not conducting inspections, imported food since Border Patrol will not inspect the cargo.
Hope you bought your weapons before the FBI folks who do records checks will be on furlow also.

J. Croft. again thanks for your writing. It keeps me sharp and focus.



What can I say to that?  The man speaks the Truth.  We lost and it's our fault.

I've spent the past 6 years attempting to ignite just such a peaceable takeback of our nation using the example set by the GIs of Athens, Tennessee in 1946 when they took back their local government from the political syndicate that had been victimizing them for decades.

No, I'm not talking about the shooting phase-I'm talking... have talked, wrote, about dragging those bastards out via the Recall Election process.  They raised a full campaign ticket of candidates and ran them against a corrupt local oligarchy, and it was only when the Sheriffs shot a black GI, stole the ballot boxes and took two others hostage that the GIs raided a National Guard Armory and laid siege to the jail the enemy was entrenched in-it took dynamite to convince them to surrender, but surrender they did.  The Governor of Tennessee resisted calls to send in the National Guard, rightly fearing a widening conflict.

Perhaps he should've and kicked off the Second American Revolution in 1946. 

Don't get me wrong; in theory the Athens TN strategy can still work, we still have representative government at the local level, but theory gets turned into roadkill when it meets a road traveled on by millions of people identifying themselves as "patriots".

Yes the vast majority of rank and file Patriots are sincere at least in belief.  The problems are the vast majority of them will not lead themselves.  They listen to hucksters, COINTELPRO operatives, ringers and they get led into the various circles and brick walls and have in 2011 America been effectively neutralized even as there's a rising tide of rage for... everything.

WHY WE LOST

What the Patriot Movement has neglected-by design of many of its COINTELPRO leaders, the rest by ignorance and delusion-is that the beast is vulnerable on the million or so local governments.  They are the ones that enforce local and state and federal edicts at the level you're at. 

It is local government that confronts you with armed men to extort from you.  It is local government that takes your home via your children imprisoned in state schools.  It is local government that taxes, imposes more rules, act as the eyes of the state and federal governments.

It is local government that our few in number have even a chance at overthrowing.  Could you imagine it if Patriots got together, mounted a recall election against some poor town run into the ground by scumbag freemasons and cleaned it up?  Not only cleaned it up but made it an example of what American SHOULD be, CAN be. 

We could advertise the hell out of the results, Freedom and Propserity would flow out of that town, the Second American Revolution would grow on its own and we could then take back the state and national offices everyone in the non-moving movement dreams about.  Until that happens, then, no.  The Patriot Movement will be a group philosophical masturbation club open to anyone willing to be led around circles and into brick walls.

The enemy is entrenched in state and federal offices; a half century or more of our actions to clean them out have only led to revealing our impotence and irrelevancy.  No, Ron Paul did NOT win anything in 08 except for about 30 million dollars from the people he hustled.  No, James Trafficant could NOT stop himself getting railroaded into prison.

The only time we have an effect on them at those levels, is when their very lives are at risk-like when the immigration bill came up a few years ago and Nancy Pelosi in the House of Representatives shakily described all the threats that came in.  And THAT stopped them. 

Lindsay Williams stated the enemy is afraid of anarchy, of people doing things-anything-beyond keyboard pounding.  The enemy has little to fear.  In fact WE are our own worst enemy-that we're divided, weak, impotent, is the root cause of why the Gulf of Mexico is full of toxic oil and Corexit.  Why America became the beast's policemen and is now being slated for destruction and reconstruction into a economic colony.

What do we do?  Send threats of suits.  Yeah; some self-styled "libertarian" lawyer is threatening a DMCA suit with me.  Why?  Because I reposted a pertinent article of his about keeping your mouth shut around the cops-and gave attribution and a link like I always do.  We got genocide and tyranny closing in and he wants to nuke Freedom Guide; no wonder we lose.

July4Patriot: I go back to The Mental Militia to raise support for Charles Dyer, the man who awakened so many Americans in public service to abide their oaths and get torn apart.   These folks are the kind of libertarian who'd refuse a helicopter ride off the top of a burning building because, well, because today's libertarian will fight any fight but the ones that are important.  A libertarian would be about the last person I'd count on in any fight, I'd wind up with a knife in the back.  Stewart Rhodes, who runs his oath keeper organization as a way to get names of Patriots and lead them nowhere, openly lied about Charles Dyer and his role in the Oath Keeper Movement.  His very guiding principles are a cleverly worded call to inaction: "reach, teach, and inspire".

Meh, the entire spectrum of movements and organizations purporting to be about Freedom are full of such operatives and shysters.  Ron Paul took that 30 million from the 08 primaries-after laying down for the election fraud-used that money for his 'campaign for liberty' that promised to get candidates into state and local offices... worked for his son Rand. 

Alex Jones: he gives people more than enough ammunition to shoot back at him, his epic disruption of the Austin Gun Rally and his last minute surprise attack on Deborah Medina when she had a chance to dethrone Rick Perry for the Texas Governor... I mean, Ron Paul can deny 9/11 truth but she can't?  His douchebaggery can get epic, but then a whole cottage industry of Jew haters uses those examples and his reluctance to fully attack Israel and Zionists to lead people into donning Nazi death camp guard uniforms about Jews in general.  None of it is right.

We got enemy in every powerful place, and as fractious, greedy and at times fuckheaded stupid they at least are smart enough to present a united front against us.

They laugh at us. 

We deserve it.

Below is an article I reposted from Rense.com.  There's a lot of truth:
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20 Things The Illuminati
Can Teach You
By Stefan Fobes
6-12-9

Today I again, write here about a vast, sprawling movement which comprises a dedicated part of the population who work day in, day out to bring great changes to this world.

In this arena, the majority does not see intelligence, courage, honor, decency, skill, as great things. They speak of these in glowing terms, yes, but the reality is just the opposite. Your worth is decided strictly, by most people comprising this "underground", by the resources you have at your beck and call, and how many worshippers, clones and mindless thralls you have sloshing saliva in your path at the moment. The naive neophytes are fed upon by hungrier, slicker fish who lie, and think of nothing other of their own self-aggrandizment, no matter what the cost to anyone else. Who will take them for everything they are worth and go home and eat fabulous dinners and sleep quite well.

Independently creative thought is generally at a minimum. Raw recruits sit back, read their prepared daily briefs, and follow the included orders from the bigger fish. The reptilian brain by and large, runs the show here.

I'm talking about the malevolent, cutthroat world of Illuminati rituals and their secret society network?

No. I write of the conspiracy research arena.

I see this grotesque attitude permeating what should be the nexus point for the kindest, the wisest, the toughest. What really should be a gathering place for the best of the best. But instead I see constant desperate struggles, by the so-called awakened just as in the world of so-called sheeple, to try to grab power over others and see themselves as better than everyone else around them. The reptilian brain rules.

I see instead of dynamic individual minds who are so in speech and in deed, joining ideas instead of easily infiltratable groups, just innocent lambs waiting to be eaten by the next Illuminati agent with a fancy, cleverly worked out website and a loud enough voice booming with fake intensity.

I see penis measuring contests on who has the biggest hits on Alexa instead of brainstorming on what actually works and then simply going out and doing it.
And so, from a guy who comes from an Illuminati family himself, here are 20 things the Illuminati can teach you. This is not an endorsement of them.
1. They are voracious in their infoseeking. If it takes all night long, or weeks, or years, they will look and look till they get what they have been looking for.

2. Whenever one of their associates or slaves needs something for a mission, Illuminati members make sure this person or persons get the material resources they need to get the job done, whether it be by contributions or whatever. Even if the person is disliked, all that is necessary is that the person has the skills for the job and the plan be workable. No whining on forums, no silly speeches, just gets done.

3. They know how to conserve their resources. They do not throw out all their chips all in on one go.

4. They trust their instincts.

5. If they see an opening, they do not hesitate to take advantage and exploit it.

6. They do not go into deep dark depressions just because they had one minor setback. They use everything they have to find out exactly what went wrong, and correct the problem.

7. They know how to organize themselves.

8. Among them, concepts of color, sexual orientation, and fame are meaningless. The goal goes first.

9. They know what TV is and does - they introduced it, you know! The goal comes before the TV or any of their other mind control devices, such as video games. Watching all those hours every day and being "awake" are like matter and anti-matter. They cannot be in the same place at the same time.

10. They know to not let anyone take what they have. If someone tried to CPS their kids there'd be hell on all involved in trying, even the person who made the call. Literally.

11. You can insult them all you want, call them anything, and they do not take it like Joe and Jane Public would. This is because they have absolutely no pride or morals, but anyone who does with intelligence can easily integrate this into their minds.

12. They would NEVER, under any circumstances, sell out themselves out by giving their family secrets out to the public for peanuts, like so many of the commoners do by selling out their countries and spying on and black opping their fellow humans.

13. In the public eye, wanting a lot of material resources is seen as something to be ashamed of. It is a damn good thing! Everyone should have all the material items they need to do everything they need to do, and should feel pride in having the self-love for holding that perspective and moving with it. This is the mindset the leadership of the Illuminati hold.

14. When information is placed before them that is obviously a threat to their well-being, they immediately take action about it and do not go rushing to drown life circumstances in a TV or bag of takeout, even if they do not know precisely what to do at the moment.

15. Even if all hope seems lost, and the odds are against them, they still keep on working at it 110%.

16. They know the value of building up networks.

17. They feel no guilt about defending themselves from legal, physical, or other attacks. At times I read about people I see acting nice to their agents, saying sorry to them, when it was the agent who had infringed upon their rights. Never be sorry and apologetic to them. It's a clear cut sign of victim mentality and is asking for trouble.

18. They are flexible, to an extent, and do not work with the controlled by them mainstream science and know the reality and value of homeopathy, energy and herbal healing, and do not hesitate to take full advantage of these using all the resources they have at their disposal.

19. They have always understood that they have their livelihood to defend, which is their pyramidal control system and all the luxury that comes with it. Humanity will learn from this, whether it be gently through information like this article, or the hard way. Everyone must understand that their livelihoods are also being threatened, and act upon this via exposure of the agenda.

20. They know to set aside their petty differences when business needs to be taken care of.
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So what am I going to do now?

I don't know but I'm going to pray on it.  I will ask God and go from there.
J. Croft 

SURVIVALBLOG.COM: BUYING IN BULK-WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED BY J.S.P.

Buying In Bulk--What We Have Learned, by J.S.P.

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This article is to share what we have learned in our attempt to leverage our food preps by buying commercially and in bulk with Survival Blog readers. What works in our part of the world may not be reality in your location but I hope what we have learned will be of value to some readers.
To begin with, one of our favorite places to buy in quantitative is “cash and carry” stores. Cash and carry stores were originally set up by large food distribution firms that allowed businesses such as restaurants, bars, smaller retail stores, schools, etc to come to their outlet and buy products for resale. In years past, most such stores required that you had some kind of license such as a business license or resale permit, or a membership, etc.

Yet today, many of these stores have opened to the public with no requirements for purchase. For example in the Pacific Northwest the food supplier URM operates several stores that anyone can walk into and pay cash, use credit or debit cards or write a check.

There are outlets for the big national chain called Restaurant Depot, not far from us. I have never been in one of their outlets but would like to some day. They operate stores in 27 states but to date they maintain a reserved membership status. Their web site states that Restaurant Depot is wholesale only. To qualify for a free membership account, on your first visit you need to show a valid reseller's permit (business license) or tax-exempt certificate (for a non-profit organization) and show proof that you are authorized to purchase for said business or organization.

If Restaurant Depot was my only option for buying food wholesale, given my “don’t take no for an answer” personality I am pretty sure I could garner a membership. For example in some municipalities, obtaining a business license is easy. Or, if you know someone with a business license or have any connections with a not for profit -  A little creativity and I think this would be easily solved.

What I like about buying from “cash and carry” type stores;

1) The prices range from good to outstanding. Many of these stores run weekly specials; Food service is a competitive business, keeping an eye out for their weekly specials has allowed us to take advantage of some screaming deals.

2) Buying in bulk is what theses stores are set up for. You can typically buy food in individual units but if you want to stack up the cases of #10 cans or buy biscuit mix in a 50 lb box, this is the place. Nothing against Costco but this is a whole nether level.

3) Because of number two above, nobody bats an eye when you roll up a flat bed cart to the check out with a thousand dollars worth of groceries. It’s the $75 order that’s the exception; everybody buys in quantity at these stores. Probably just not for the same reasons that us preppers do.

How do you find a “cash and carry”?

REST AT LINK: http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/04/buying_in_bulk--what_we_have_l.html

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FEDS GOING AFTER CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY, BARTER

COMMENT:

The enemy will ratchet the screws they got us under tighter...

No lemme rewrite that: the enemy will ratchet the screws we let them keep us under tighter.

That fits.

What's going to have to fit for you -if you want Freedom-is to take it.  We are few in number and geographically distributed so we have little to no power, even in our locales.  Especially in our locales because well, we as a movement don't get the steady game, the long game and seek to start, build and expand the Second American Revolution.

The enemy will strike at us largely locally because the feds are too few for national coverage; they rely on state and local governments to enforce their edicts or inform them when they need to bring the federal hammer down on a nail sticking out.

You can build up the underground economy but snitches are bitches that get stitches and wind up in ditches... well they should but we're too nice and law abiding.  Laws are an enemy quiet weapons system and being nice to bullies and thieves doesn't pay.

The dollar is a economic weapon that steadily loses purchasing power and the enemy will enforce a monopoly on its currency.  What do we do?  Use silver and gold, barter items, self-issued script?  When we can?

We need a political cover to start up and expand our economic initiatives or it's over.  We can either get serious and start taking back communities through recall election to create a local shield, and build and expand the SAR, or we can try enforcing it with our rifles.  Because what we're doing now will get us picked off as the enemy's revenuers and snitches take us out one by one, or by bunch. 

Get politically active, fight, or give up.

J. Croft

Federal government seeking to make forms of bartering illegal after court ruling

By Kenneth Schortgen Jr
April 4th, 2011 12:03 pm ET
Finance Examiner


The Federal government is trying to establish bartering private currency of any type as an illegal enterprise in a false interpretation of the court's recent conviction of Liberty Dollar's owner Bernard Von NotHaus.

In a case where the government used conspiracy and counterfeit charges against NotHaus to establish that he intended to mint and illegally replace US currency with a private one using silver coins, the US Attorney is now parlaying the conviction to say that this ruling sets a precedent against any private barter transactions which use any form of currency besides established Federal Reserve Notes.

The Federal government also is seeking on April 4th to take receipt of the $7 Million dollars in silver 'Liberty Dollars' that were minted and sold by Von NotHaus.

The idea for using private currency for barter transactions is not new, and in fact is currently being done in a few cities around the country. In Detroit for example, a group of businesses created their own barter currency known as 'Detroit Cheers', and several businesses agreed to the use of local currencies in leiu of federal reserve notes.

A Detroit trio of small-business owners are reviving the idea, following an emerging national trend. The businesses are creating a currency called Detroit Cheers, and more than a dozen city merchants have already agreed to accept it as real money. "The world is just now reeling from economic chaos; in Detroit, that's how we always roll," said Jerry Belanger, 49, a backer of the currency, as he watched the initial run of Cheers bills roll off the presses last week....

Detroit Cheers joins an estimated 75 local currency systems that have sprung up recently in the U.S., said Michael Shuman, author of "The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition." – Detroit News

This attempt by the Federal government to use a single court case to establish a new precident of law in regards to barter and currency gives warning to the states and the public that any course of action towards removing themselves from federal control over economic and monetary policies will be met with force and or prosecution.


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Use the Dollar or Else

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


Look up the phrase "a unique form of domestic terrorism" on a search engine and you will turn up a story about a man whom the US government is trying to cage from now until the time of his death.

And his crime? His unique form of terrorism? He minted silver and copper coins and sold them. In other words, he did what innumerable entrepreneurs from the beginning of time have done. He attempted to provide consumers with a store of value. No one was forced to buy. He met a market demand, and that’s it.

Whom did he hurt? No one. Unlike illegal drugs, which the government bans on grounds that it doesn’t want us to hurt ourselves, these silver coins did not endanger their users. They only gave people an option on what to do with their money. Did the proprietor attempt to claim that these were legal tender for monetary exchange? No, he sold them for what they are.

Could people use them for money? Yes, but people can use anything for money: shoes, shells, flash drives, or books. Whether something is money or not depends on the intentions behind the exchange. Do you acquire something to consume it? It is not money. Do you acquire something in order to trade it for something else? In that case, it takes on money-like properties.

It is wholly understandable that people have doubts about the future of the paper dollar. Many people are seeking alternatives, in their own financial interest. What this proprietor did was provide something that turned out to be a possible alternative to the dollar. And for that, and that alone, he is being hounded and destroyed.

His name is Bernard von NotHaus and he is 67 years old. In the course of the proceedings, he was called every name imaginable. He was called a crook, a terrorist, a crank, and a crazy man. What he actually did, however, should be fully legal and encouraged in any nation, in all times and all places.

A nation that is confident about its money’s future would not fear currency competition. A nation with a dying money uses every possible means to crush the competition. That is precisely what is happening in the case of the so-called Liberty Dollar.

What’s striking here is that no one believes there is any reason to argue the point. It is obvious to his persecutors that he is a criminal. "He's playing on a core idea of the radical right, that evil bankers in the Federal Reserve are ripping you off by controlling the money supply," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "He very much exists in the world of the anti-government patriot movement, whatever he may say. That's who his customers are."

And what is the interest of the SLPC in this case? This is a group that claims to be about stopping hate and racism – and this has something to do with opposing poverty. And yet here they are intervening in a case in which a man is actually trying to prevent people from being impoverished. As for the Fed, it is not exactly an act of hate to point out that the Fed controls the money supply. Bernanke himself admits this!

The government has made no bones about the foundation of its case. Citing a Civil War-era law, prosecutors say that it is a crime to compete with the official dollar. Note that they are not citing the U.S. Constitution, which nowhere prevents such a thing. In fact, private coinage has a rich history in the U.S. It was essential when the West was being settled. Providing coinage services was as common as any other trade.

But since 1971, when the dollar became all paper, there has been a sense that its viability needs the backing of federal guns in order to thrive. This attitude is inconsistent with freedom. The right of private coinage is an essential part of free enterprise. Currency competition, especially in a digital age, is something that every country needs.

As Seth Lipsky wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "it's a loser's game to suppress private money that is sound in order to protect government-issued money that is unsound."

Precisely. As Lipsky points out, NotHaus operated very close to the line in terms of legality. He put the dollar sign on his coins, for example, and sold them with numbers. I can’t comment on his business dealings or the integrity of his operations. But this much is clear: the grounds on which he is being hounded are egregious and tyrannical.

Allowing for alternative currencies is not terrorism. It is a path to monetary reform, merely an application of the principle of free enterprise to a sector that should have never fallen so completely to government control. The people who are working to provide alternatives should not be jailed; they should be celebrated in every country that values freedom.

April 6, 2011

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail], former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. See his books.

Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

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WHEN THE SAUDI MONARCHY FALLS

When the Saudi Monarchy Falls
Why gold and oil will soar but the dollar and America we knew might be finished!

by Ron Holland

Previously by Ron Holland: The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception

http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland45.1.html
Oil at $200 plus a barrel will be the least of America’s problems when the Saudi Monarchy falls.
"If something happens in Saudi Arabia it (oil) will go to $200 to $300 (a barrel). I don't expect this for the time being, but who would have expected Tunisia?" ~ Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani 4/5/11
The most important question facing the United States today is whether the freedom revolutions sweeping the Middle East will impact the authoritarian regime of Saudi Arabia and the major oil producers surrounding this nation of major oil reserves? The second question is if the government is overthrown, will the new government continue the practice of pricing oil in depreciating dollars rather than consider new options?
The future value of the dollar and the dollar status as the world’s reserve currency depend heavily on the outcome of these two questions. This is why the price of gold could soar and the dollar move dramatically lower when the Saudi Monarchy is overthrown. I fear, the probable American military reaction to this scenario threatens what remains of our republic and may be compared by future historians as comparable in scope to Caesar's march across the Rubicon in Roman history.
"I don't think that what the King is doing now is sufficient to prevent an uprising. Saudi Arabia is a time bomb, but one that is constantly being reset," ~ Jaafar Al Taie, managing director of Manaar Energy Consulting
Today, I’m warning about the risk of a dollar and Treasury bond threat which could make the real estate collapse or 2008 market meltdown mere footnotes in comparison. Today in the Middle East, either by stupidity or design, the Federal Reserve’s perpetuation of the dollar and treasury debt Ponzi schemes is now dependent on the survival of a few dictatorial regimes staying in power in the Persian Gulf while surrounded by spreading freedom revolutions.
This is the most dangerous region in the world and the focal point for conflict between Iran and America, the freedom revolution and authoritarian regimes, Sunni and Shiite, Israel and the Arab world, vast oil resources and the oil needs of the West and China, and where the decision will be made to price oil in depreciating dollars or in other currency alternatives. Of all the conflicts and threats in the region, I believe the question as to whether oil continues to be priced in dollars and the dollar remains the world’s reserve currency for now and the risk of a US dollar and debt collapse are the greatest threats facing America and the West.
The real estate bubble and financial meltdown as well as the new stock market bubble are misdemeanors in criminality compared to the Federal Reserve mistake of allowing our currency and debt to be dependent and held hostage based on the survival of a few corrupt authoritarian leaders in fake nations created by London politicians many years ago.
The Saudi Monarchy Will Fall Sooner Rather Than Later
The democracy index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit for 2010 places Libya 158th out of 167 and Saudi Arabia 160^th of all nations in terms of an authoritarian government verses a democracy. I fear the oil producing nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar and the U.A.E. could eventually fall to freedom revolutions which have mutated into movements outside the control of the United States. Whether the current radical elements in the revolutionary movements will move to the forefront and possibly take control depends a lot on the current authoritarian regimes reaction to the freedom revolutions in each nation as well as future United States actions to safeguard the future of oil reserves and the dollar.

The fear of these movements sweeping the region is why the Obama Administration postponed actions which could have toppled Gaddafi weeks ago because another perceived victory there would have dramatically increased the growth and blitzkrieg effect of the revolutionary movements thus making them unstoppable and a real threat to first Bahrain and then Saudi Arabia etc. I previously discussed how the Libyan civil war is just a sideshow and deception to buy time and slow down what had been a cake walk by revolutionaries across the Middle East. The real action is in the Persian Gulf and the region is called the Persian Gulf because historically most of the region was under Persian (Iranian) influence.
Washington has successfully in the past chosen stability and tyranny in the region over the Arab people in the streets and now we are going to pay the price through the unintended consequences of our foreign policy in the region. This foreign policy failure when combined with Washington and Federal Reserve economic policies could be a lethal combination for the United States as well as the future of our children and grandchildren.
Our nation may well suffer severe economic consequences, a dollar and debt mini-collapse as well as the risk of a major war in the Persian Gulf region requiring an increasing degree of police state controls at home, the possible return of the draft and even a more authoritarian government in Washington. This is the dark future engineered by the Anglo-American monetary elites, some Washington politicians and the Federal Reserve which have put our currency at such risk.
The United States cannot allow new revolutionary governments outside our control to replace current regimes with political leaders which could threaten the dollar, our national debt and the US economy. If this becomes a risk, I fear the US military could be ordered to intervene and do whatever is necessary to either prop up or install new governments that will still continue to price oil in dollars. Frankly speaking should this situation develop, this may actually be the only way to defend a collapsing fiat dollar regardless of my personal views against military intervention.
The daily news reports continue to show the spread of revolutionary activity across the Middle East now directly impacting Syria, Jordan, Yemen and other nations around the periphery of Saudi Arabia. It appears the new social media driven freedom movements attack both US backed authoritarian regimes and enemies like Libya and Syria. What is often not recognized but apparent is the initial foreign intelligence involvement in the early birth of these revolutionary movements.
Regardless of their initial birth as engineered opposition movements by foreign intelligence, as has often been the case since the early 20^th century, today these freedom movements have taken on a life of their own. They now threaten not only out of favor authoritarian leaders and enemy regimes but in the case of the United States, the modern day empire which covertly spawned the initial birth of the revolutions today.
Don Tapscott below certainly explains the situation in the region far better than I can and this is what we now face in the Middle East.
The real situation is "Revolution is not happening because of the current systems in place, it is happening despite them," he said. "In the Middle East the old thinking has been support tyrants because they provide stability and keep the oil flowing; the young people are revolting against this very kind of thinking….Technology is enabling revolutions across the Middle East. Young people do not want to be subjects anymore. Until now revolutions have had a leader, technology has changed that," ~ Don Tapscott, the co-author of "Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World."
The Law of Unintended Consequences
The US should have learned from Iraq and Afghanistan how the law of unintended consequences from aggressive military, political or covert actions in a complex system like the Middle East can often create undesirable outcomes far different from what was hoped. Just as our invasion of Iraq destroyed the major bulwark against Shiite Iran and actually created another Iranian ally. Also our Afghanistan venture destabilized Pakistan, and today the freedom revolutions are slowly surrounding the House of Saud and the major Persian Gulf oil producing and US debt holding nations. We should also remember how our blind backing of the Shah of Iran and his excesses helped bring about the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Khomeini led Islamic state and the problems we are dealing with today.
An excellent analogy of the unintended consequences is the long-term result of Germany introducing Lenin and communism to Czarist Russia during World War One. This was successful in the near term to take Russia out of the war and end Germany’s two front war. But the long-term result was a 70 year battle between the communist system and the West which created both the Cold War and contributed to the rise of Hitler in Germany as an alternative against a communist takeover in the 1930’s. Even now, most of the fabricated nations in the Middle East were actually created in London and Paris following the Treaty of Versailles and our oil and dollar controlled foreign policies there are a direct result of fake countries and boundaries created following the First World War almost a century ago.
America’s Weakest Point is the Persian Gulf
"The importance of maneuvering so your enemy is hit in his weakest points." ~ Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War
Although the United States is unassailable from a military standpoint in the region, the Washington dollar and Treasury debt are our weakest points and the entire world knows this.
If you have noticed, whenever Saudi Arabia is mentioned, the establishment news coverage is always followed by a comforting statement stressing how the House of Saud will somehow escape the political change in the region. The fall of the Saudi monarchy or serious unrest in the Shiite oil producing region of Saudi Arabia is the "elephant in the room" that no one wants to discuss or write about and why the threat is being ignored and going unaddressed.
The reason is all of the oil produced in the Persian Gulf region outside of Iran is currently priced in US dollars thus allowing the United States and the Federal Reserve to create more dollars at will. 87% of the oil exported out of the Persian Gulf is priced in US dollars and as I explained last week in The Great Anglo-American Gaddafi Deception, the pricing of oil in dollars is a major contributor to maintaining the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency.
I believe the Washington Treasury debt and US dollar Ponzi scheme would risk collapse if these five nations mentioned above should threaten or seriously consider pricing oil in gold, Euros, SDR’s or any other currency other than dollars. In addition, Israel wouldn’t survive even with its feared Samson option for more than a few months if the US should lose in the region. Therefore the existence of Israel and the economic survival of the United States, our fiat dollar and the continued rollover of our Treasury debt are very dependent on friendly governments controlled and protected by Washington maintaining power at any price in the Persian Gulf.

Thus our economic future is only guaranteed by fake monarchs and Washington backed puppet regimes staying in power in the region. These are authoritarian regimes and dictatorships because the countries are artificial nations with questionable national boundaries. These nation states only began when needed by the British colonial office almost a century ago in London. In fact, the actual delineation of national borders only started with the first oil concessions in the 1930’s as the United Kingdom needed to map the different oil deposits and this was when the European modern nation state concept was first forced on the region by European powers.
Washington’s Greatest Fear Are the Color Revolutions Sweeping the Middle East
In Libya, the rebels are called the Interim National Council (INC) and apparently run by a former Libyan colonel Khalifa Hifter, who broke with Gaddafi over 20 years ago and has lived a quiet life with no visible means of support only a few miles from CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Remember, the rebel forces were initially at the gates of Tripoli, when any kind of military or even diplomatic action would have overthrown Gaddafi but now once again they have been pushed back and cornered in Benghazi for the second time in several weeks after the use of air power.
Certainly the rebels have sadly been reduced to "dogs of war" and held on a leash by the US and allied elites in order to continue the sideshow action for entertainment and nightly news coverage as the new freedom revolutionaries are taught that victory can only be achieved by working within the confines of the Anglo-American paradigm.
What Will China Do? China can manipulate the foreign policy of the United States in the same way the United States forced the United Kingdom to withdraw its forces back during the Suez crisis. This was in 1956 when the UK, France and Israel invaded Egypt to take control over the Suez Canal. Washington threatened to dump the US Government's Sterling Bond holdings if Great Britain didn’t withdraw troops and the invasion ended.
What Will Iran Do? – They are masters at thinking long-term and I do not believe they will take any action to provoke a wounded beast like the Washington Empire. Iran has not invaded another nation in hundreds of years while you well know America’s sordid track record of aggression, drone attacks, aerial bombing and military occupation. Why should they? Their intelligence services were behind the fake weapons of mass destruction evidence in Iraq and they provoked the Bush Administration into invading Iran and toppling their major opponent in the Middle East. They will just sit back and let us do ourselves in.
What Should Americans Do?

• First, we need to audit and eliminate the Federal Reserve which is the vehicle the monetary elites use to enslave our nation and most of the rest of the world.
• Second, follow the real news on the Middle East with alternative news sites and email letters like LewRockwell.com, The Daily Bell and the Swiss Mountain Vision newsletter for which I’m also a contributing editor.
• Third, get as much of your wealth as possible legally and following all of the new reporting requirements out of the threatened fiat dollar currently being destroyed by Washington and the Federal Reserve. Consider other investments, currencies and real estate denominated in the Euro, Swiss franc etc. as well as gold and natural resource stocks. None of your wealth will be safe inside the United States if the dollar status as the reserve currency is compromised by the fall of Saudi Arabia and other friendly governments selling oil for dollars in the region.
• Store large amounts of gold outside the US in protected and safe jurisdictions in Europe, Australia and Switzerland in secure storage programs like Global Gold located in Switzerland.
• Finally oppose all future military activities in the Middle East as the unintended long-term consequences of US control in the region have historically far outweighed any near-term military gain advocated by the Neocons or profits for a few elite controlled financial institutions and international corporations.

If the Saudi Monarchy and other Persian Gulf dictators are overthrown by the current revolutionary movements, the debate will be shifted from should we go to war and occupy the region and restore stability (which actually means they continue to rollover treasury debt and price oil in dollars) to like the trial runs of 9/11 and the Fed induced meltdown, do we choose military action or risk economic and dollar collapse. Both Congress and the American people showed their preference for stability at any price including war and loss of liberties. Therefore I fear our conditioned response is already assured.
In the final analysis, the monetary elites are probably correct that their continued survival and parasitic control over much of the West can only be assured by full occupation of the oil resources of the region rather than depending on the former strategy of authoritarian regimes now shown to be weak and subject to powerful freedom movements.
Although all efforts will be made to stay outside the Moslem Holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a new foreign occupation of the Middle East although cloaked in some UN, NATO or Arab organization agreement will still be seen by the people in the street as another crusade for oil and against the Moslem world. This will be magnified if the US and their former colonial masters also utilize the forces of Israel in this repeat version of the 1956 Suez Crisis and takeover of the Suez Canal.
This kind of action although maybe necessary for the survival of the dollar and oil supplies could begin the end of the West as we know it. But then again, maybe that is the goal of the Anglo-American elites moving toward global governance and control by a few wealthy and powerful families? Maybe they can only succeed in their goals of one world government if they world they govern has become so desperate, poverty stricken and tired of permanent war that we will accept any limitation on our wealth and liberties to just survive.
After all, in the end, most people will sacrifice freedom and liberty for stability. It worked for the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and since the end of World War Two in the Middle East. Why would this not work in Europe and America?
I guess Benjamin Franklin was right."They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." We did this after the 9/11 attack, and we again allowed this to happen after the Federal Reserve created bubble and financial meltdown in 2008. I fear if history is any guide, America and the West will follow the same course of action again in the Middle East but this time straight to the slaughter house of perpetual war and the risk of economic poverty at home.

April 6, 2011

Ron Holland [send him mail] is a contributing editor to the Swiss Mountain Vision Newsletter and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Foundation for the Advancement of Free-Market Thinking (FAFMT) in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

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FUKUSHIMA RADIOACTIVE SEAWATER MODEL; SPENT FUEL RODS DID EXPLODE INTO ATMOSPHERE

Full article at: http://theintelhub.com/2011/04/06/fukushima-daiichi-radioactive-seawater-model-spent-fuel-rods-did-explode-into-atmosphere/

Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Model, Spent Fuel Rods DID Explode Into Atmosphere

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The Intel Hub
April 6th, 2011
ASR Limited, a marine consulting and research firm has released a radioactive seawater model that seems to confirm that radiation will spread throughout the pacific ocean. Remember, US and Japanese officials have gone on the record with their belief that radiation in the Pacific will not hurt sea life.
“On Monday, TEPCO began discharging 11,500 tons of contaminated water into the surrounding water – a serious development in the ongoing containment issues and release of radioactive material at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant,” wrote ASR Limited in an article released Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a confidential document released by The New York Times has confirmed multiple aspects of this disaster that we reported from the beginning.
“Perhaps the worse news is confirmation that radioactive fragments and particles, including the deadly Plutonium “MOX” fuel, has been shot high into the atmosphere during the hydrogen explosions,” wrote Alexander Higgins, a blogger and frequent Intel Hub Contributor.
A quick rundown of the problems that are now admitted confirms what some in the alternative media have reported from the beginning.

• Measures taken to keep the plant stable have created a wide array of problems.
• The weight of the water injections have made the reactors vulnerable to ruptures during an aftershock.
• The release of hydrogen mixed with seawater raises the possibility of an explosion.
• The mixture of seawater with molten fuel is blocking fresh water from reaching and cooling the reactors.
• New explosions could lead to further breaches in the containment vessels resulting in a much more serious release of radiation as well as a radioactive mass that would stay molten for a very long period of time.
• Pouring water to cool the reactors may not be able to be sustained indefinitely
• Fragments and particles of nuclear materials may have blown up to one mile high in the sky.
• Radioactive material lying around the plant needed to be bulldozed over.
• Because of the wide array of complex problems in three different reactors, a successful outcome is less certain than ever.
• Reactor 1 is likely fully blocked from new water entering to cool it and most likely has no water in it at all.
• Similar problems exist in reactor 2 and 3 although blockage is less severe.
• The spent fuel rods pose an even greater potential for damage then the reactors themselves.
• The hydrogen explosion at reactor four is believed to have released a huge amount of radioactive material into the environment in what is referred to as a “major term release”.
• Spent fuel rods are being exposed directly to the environment as opposed to the reactors themselves which are still in their containment vessels.

LINDSAY WILLIAMS: ARAB MONARCHIES TO BE OVERTHROWN, SAUDI ARABIA LAST

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