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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (10061)	3/28/2009 7:24:48 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I watched half of it. What nonsense! Newt doesn't like majority control. He likes super majority decisions - like 60 votes in the Senate. That means nothing gets done. Nothing getting done is one of the reasons for the present mess.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (10061)	3/28/2009 10:14:55 AM
From: clutterer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

kanjorki speaking the truth youtube.com pay attention from 2:15 minutes on.... this is from motley fool The One Jaw Dropping Video that Every Fool Report February 09, 2009 – Fools who read my blogs regularly know I have been fascinated by what may have been included within the dire warnings issued to members of Congress by Paulson and Bernanke behind closed doors on Thursday, September 18, 2008. As the debates lingered on over the week that followed, several members voiced their sense of shock over the severity of the warnings, while refusing to divulge the details to a public that deserves to know. Representative Sherman later revealed that members were warned that Martial Law would result if the $700 bailout plan was not passed, and Iguadland10 posted another video ascribing that particular warning to Paulson. The New York Times quoted Senator Dodd as jumping in when Charles Schumer described the meeting as 'somber': “Somber doesn’t begin to justify the words,” he said. “We have never heard language like this.” Also from NYT: Although Mr. Schumer, Mr. Dodd and other participants declined to repeat precisely what they were told by Mr. Bernanke and Mr. Paulson, they said the two men described the financial system as effectively bound in a knot that was being pulled tighter and tighter by the day. More recently, the shocking revelation from across the pond, reported by The Times and then by Bloomberg, that a massive run on the banks in the UK back in October brought that entire nation's financial system to within three hours of a complete and utter collapse. By the time this was reported in late January, we already knew Britain's financial system was indeed on the edge of bankruptcy, but still it seemed the common assumption among Americans was that such events could / would never take place here. For whatever reason, that appears to rermain the prevailing assumption, despite the fact that the U.S. has the scariest balance sheet of all. Now, we have another video (actually available since late January), and one which I encourage every Fool not only to watch but to circulate as they see fit, in which Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski of Pennsylvania reveals some shocking information regarding a bank run which occured right here and indeed brought this country and the entire world economy to within three hours of complete and systemic financial collapse. In this video, Congressman Kanjorski reveals (at about the 2:15 mark) that the move to raise the move to guarantee money market funds up to $250,000 was an emergency measure to stave off a massive run on the banks that removed $550 billion from the system in a matter of just a couple of hours. Treasury then injected $105 billion to no avail, and shut the system down to prevent a panic continuation of this electronic bank run. By "their" [read Treasury's] estimation, had they not shut it down and issued the guarantee, money market withdrawls would have reached $5.5 trillion by two 'o'clock that afternoon!! He then indicates Treasury's assessment that the run not only would have destroyed the U.S. economy immediately, but would have collapsed the world economy within 24 hours. So there you have it, Fools. Britain we know came within 3 hours of utter collapse, and now we see that the U.S. came just as close a month prior! Indeed, the entire world economy came within a day of systemic failure. It makes you wonder... how many hours do we stand from such a scenario at the moment? Further, what warnings can officials from the new administration utilize to influence Congressional votes that could possibly trump those warnings of Paulson and Bernanke on that Thursday evening back in September? These are fascinating and perilous times, and I urge all Fools to keep watching intently. Our modern financial system is gravely ill, and may never recover... we have to be asking ourselves what comes in its place if only as an exercise of due diligence. Out since January 28, this is practically ancient news in today's world, so my apologies if someone else has posted this. I just caught wind of it for the first time, and thought it of substantial significance. A cursory search shows only one local Pennsylvania news outlet that has picked up the story. Had anyone else seen this? In either case, let's share this video with people and let them know how close we came to disaster in September. Since then, the only thing that has changed is that more money has been thrown at the problem, but the problems have continued to mount in the meantime. I hope financial disaster can be averted, but judging by what I've witnessed so far that hope is muted at best. caps.fool.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (10061)	3/28/2009 10:22:14 AM
From: clutterer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Government, all the while being blown about by the financial string-pullers, has to find some way to keep you and me under control, otherwise we wouldn't be willing to give nearly 40% of everything we make (taxes and excess profits) to a bunch of bozos who hold themselves as somehow smarter than the rest of us. Gotta reality check to consider here. So, in order to keep everyone occupied - including countries like Afghanistan where Mr. Change is throwing even more troops in, on the grounds that Afghanistan-Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world - we build a better and better killing machine. But I'm here to propose this morning that Afghanistan is NOT the most dangerous place. The most dangerous place in the world is the UK. That's right: England. You see, the PowersThatBe are getting ready for one of the biggest crackdowns on personal liberties ever under the guise of protecting the G20-money shufflers. True, "London Protesters threaten Bankers, evoke Executions" but it's a protest and protest is the stuff of which Freedom is cast. So to keep the UK's sheep in line, authorities have identified 200 children as potential terrorists. OMG, bring back McCarthyism and HUAC, at least those made some kind of sense. Having over a million US citizens on no-fly lists just doesn't pass my smell test; perhaps it does yours? urbansurvival.com