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Both the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement are a reflection of the mood change in the country, which is a result of government overreach, political corruption, dysfunctional economic policies, and a financial system designed to enrich the few while defrauding the many. The common theme is anger, frustration and disillusionment with a system so badly broken it appears unfixable through the existing supposedly democratic methods. The system has been captured by an oligarchy of moneyed interests from the financial industry, mega-corporations, and military industrial complex, protected by their captured puppets in Washington DC and sustained by the propaganda peddling corporate media. The differences in political parties are meaningless as they each advocate big government solutions to all social, economic, foreign relations, and monetary issues.

There is confusion and misunderstanding regarding the culprits in this drama. It was plain to me last week when I read about a small group of concerned citizens in the next town over who decided to support the Occupy movement by holding a nightly peaceful march to protest the criminal syndicate that is Wall Street and a political system designed to protect them. My local paper asked for people’s reaction to this Constitutional exercising of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Here is a sampling of the comments:

“What are those Occupy people thinking?! The whole concept is foreign to me. There are always going to be the haves and the have nots. Get over it. Blame yourself for not paying more attention in school or not working hard enough. Just wish people would take responsibility.”

“If they worked half as hard actually working as they do being a pain in everyone else’s ass, they’d be rich! Being born does not guarantee success or wealth. Only hard work does. Maybe we should let them all occupy a jail cell or two.”

“If the goal is to irritate hardworking suburban commuters on their way home, that sounds like the perfect time and location.”

“Let’s hope they don’t pitch tents and trash Lansdale. They need to look for a job, not occupy the streets.”

“I work, and even if I wasn’t working I wouldn’t (march); I would be out looking for a JOB!”

I was dumbfounded at the rage directed towards mostly young people who haven’t even begun their working careers and have played no part in the destruction of our economic system underway for the last 30 years. The people making these statements are middle aged, middle class suburbanites. They seem to be just as livid as the OWS protestors, but their ire is being directed towards the only people who have taken a stand against Wall Street greed and Washington D.C. malfeasance. I’m left scratching my head trying to understand their animosity towards people drawing attention to the enormous debt based ponzi scheme that is our country, versus their silent acquiescence to the transfer of trillions in taxpayer dollars to the criminal bankers that have destroyed the worldwide financial system. I can only come to the conclusion the average American has become so apathetic, willfully ignorant of facts and reality, distracted by the techno-gadgets that run their lives, uninterested in anything beyond next week’s episode of Dancing with the Stars or Jersey Shore, and willing to let the corporate media moguls form their opinions for them through relentless propaganda, the only thing that will get their attention is an absolute collapse of our economic scheme. Uninformed, unconcerned, intellectually vacant Americans will get exactly that in the not too distant future.

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German professors Dr Andreas Hahn and Dr Moritz Hagenmeyer, who advise food manufacturers on how to advertise their products, asked the European Commission if the claim could be made on labels.

They compiled what they assumed was an uncontroversial statement in order to test new laws which allow products to claim they can reduce the risk of disease, subject to EU approval.

They applied for the right to state that “regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration” as well as preventing a decrease in performance.

However, last February, the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) refused to approve the statement.

A meeting of 21 scientists in Parma, Italy, concluded that reduced water content in the body was a symptom of dehydration and not something that drinking water could subsequently control.

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The New York Times version of events makes Goldman seem so benign that it's literally sickening - Andrew Ross-Sorkin has his grimey little finger/claw print all over this New York Slimes expose.

It's very quite simple as to how this will play out (and why).

Either you do or don't believe some or all of the following:

1) The European Union is inevitably destined for failure (and the odds, for reasons to be reference below, of a fast & furious implosion have grown exponentionally higher over the last 6 months) as it's simply not possibly to have a central bank (the ECB) usurp the ability of the very disparate political, social and economic allegedly sovereign nations of what is now the EU to print their own money, given the radically divergent political social and economic stability/instability the peoples of these nations find themselves facing (e.g. Greeks vs Germans; e.g. Belgians vs. Italians), and given that those nations (few as they may be) that are solvent don't want to face the consequences to their own health of what would be bailing out the many nations that are not solvent (by many, I mean the predominant majority, and not insolvent by any small % of their annual GDP, either, with demographic ticking time-bombs on their balance sheets in the form of entitlements, also).

2) If there is any chance to hold the EU together, whether for another couple of years or maybe 5 or 6 years (before the reality of math slaps the unicorns & rainbows delusion of a common European Union in the face again like a bucket of Icelandic Sea Water poured on the face of Spaniard sleeping in a hammock in Santander on a warm and sunny day), it means that the solvent few must give their consent (via the body politik, who definitely rarely have the best interests of their consituents in mind, but will only do what is best if they feel sufficient rage and the very real theat of untoward consequences for selling out) to the ECB to go ahead and fire up the CERN-esque Printing Press at the ECB.

3) Such consent to print Euros at faster than the speed of light pace will toss all of Europe into an inflationary environment that will make any time since post WWI or circa-WWII look positively tame, and in fact, the inflation resulting from what would have to be a massive devaluation in the Euro, which is not a reserve currency (despite claims of such de facto status or 'waiting in the wings' status to the contrary), will far exceed anything that respective European Nations that form the EU saw back in the late 1970s, prior to turning the legal process of the hows and whys and how much and other such question pertaining to the printing of their own currency over to the ECB. It would not be hyperbole to claim that real average per annum inflation of 10% to 20% a year for a lengthy period of 5 to 10 years could be not only possible, but likely (that would result in a 50% to 200% increase in the cost of living over a 5 to 10 year period, for Europeans, depending on how long the ECB monetization had to endure, for those of you keeping score at home, and that assumes that the process will yield the desired results, and put things back together again - a big assumption). Again, even with this monetization, loose ECB policy and absolute policy goal (stated or not) of inflating away EU Zone debts enacted, it has the possibility of not only not resolving the disease that is causing the EU crisis, but of exacerbating it (especially given that solvent members of the EU will be dragged down and drowned, inevitably, with their far more numerous, non-solvent EU brethren, which carries with it a special set of political and social risks as the process gets to the flailing-clutching-gasping for air stage).

4) If the solvent members, mainly Germany, declare nein!, then the winding up of the European Union turns into an outright implosion, Icelandic style, but on an obviously monentous scale, with debts purged and investment losses accelerating into a process that clears the pipeline in maybe a year or two, but giving the ability of the former EU members (and what could be a new set of non-core former EU members) to get back to a lifestyle consistent with their means, and taking their own monetary and economic policy back from the EU, with no one imposing austerity upon them, with the corresponding element that they need to have the cash to do what they want to do before they decide to do it (e.g. maybe not so generous pensions, transfer payments and huge public sector employment, etc. etc.?). Conversely, the solvent members, whether still forming a core-EU alliance, or parting ways completely, are not threatened with a perverse sinking of their living standards, as they no longer have to subsidize the former hopelessly and helplessly insolvent member states.

5) If the implosion caused by a decision to not authorize the ECB to devalue the EUR is taken, then the brunt of the losses spurned by the non-repayment of debts falls far more on the shoulders of investors (whether individual or institutional buyers of equities or bonds [sovereign and otherwise], and CDS/CDO), rather than the taxpayer hammering that would result from trying to keep the EU intact.

6) There can be no question that this train wreck could have been seen, and was in fact seen coming, for years now, and that there have been the sleaziest type of manuevering (see rest of this section as to the why of the 'sleazy') by the likes of the Goldman Sachs & JPM and their filthy ilk, to seize upon this latest crisis, who have now ramped up efforts to do everything they can to accelerate the crisis, and who are assuredly betting on positions that will reward them many, many times over, while knowing full well that a) they literally have a voice in the governments of key EU Member States and the ECB itself through former (and even present) agents of their firms as to how to influence the decisions that will be made, and b) if things go wrong for them despite 'a', they will simply fall back on their "we're too big too fail because if we did, it would only assure and hasten a global economic collapse, and therefore give us our taxpayer backstop; here's the blank check Mr. President, Mr. Treasury Secretary & our very dear friends (and colleagues) at the ECB & Federal Reserve (and in select EU governments), so go give your scary speeches to the public now about 'martial law' and 'tanks in the streets' and we'll fill in the number on the check."



So, my friends and fellow takers of the red pill, we all can clearly see that Old Man Rothschild - you know, the Great Red Shield House of Financial Empire - which just so coincidentally established its roots in Germany back in the 1600s, and then successfully gained control, through devious and brilliant chessmanship, of the global fiat supply (would you plebes like some inflation or some deflation to separate you from your homes, property, other inherent valuable and even your food?) - is back at the SSDD playbook, with all the right pieces (and lackeys) in place, whether political actors or banking and banker proxies - and is set to reap yet another Great & Bountiful HARVEST for the Money Masters.

It's a Big Club, and 99.9999% of us ain't in it, so remember that if you haven't taken the proper precations, quit playing a rigged game on their terms, as they beat you over the head with the Big Club (as they pepper spray your sister in the face, kick your family out of your house, take your farms, turn the riot police or military loose on the citiizens they always told you were there to protect you, fire live ammunition at you, or even design and implement plans to overthrow your government if you are just so unfortunate enough to be living in an alleged sovereign nation that has rich resources - or anything that can be leveraged to extract blood from you for that matter, such as being able to buy up the rainwater and aquifiers to charge you for the privilege of drinking the water - and especially so if your government has no fractional reserve central bank bearing the Red Shield™ Mark of Approval, ala Federal Reserve 'Bank' or Central 'Bank' of England style).

All you blue pill takers, disregard this, because it's - you know - the talk of conspiracy theorists and such.

For those with a strong enough CONSTITUTION to have already swallowed the red pill, or who think they can and would like to try, The Money Masters, bitchez!

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