This video talks about the problem of Americans uncontrollable desire to buy things they don't need.
Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. 4. A television program that could change your life.
Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption.
No doubt, most, if not all of you are aware of the gravity of our collective situation. Following is another article to put into your broadcast weaponry/arsenal to help warn others if you find merit in what Sorcha writes. Even if you don't..? I doubt few will argue with what she presents in this posting [below].
Also, please note we have started our own yahoo group/forum because we address subjects that are not being talked about elsewhere.
In its attempt to establish a world empire dominating every nation on the planet, the U. S. has exhausted its ability to finance the expansion and the country now faces imminent financial collapse. From all indications, it looks like 2006 will spell the end for America. http://i.am/jah/greeneco.htm
Abstract
The American Empire depends on the U.S. dollar. The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
will accelerate the fall of the U.S. dollar and hence the fall of the American Empire.
I. Economics of Empires
A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations or of their subjects. The imperial ability to tax has always rested on a better and stronger economy, and as a consequence, a better and stronger military that peacefully or militarily enforced the tax. One part of those taxes went to improve the living standards of the empire and the other part went to reinforce the military dominance necessary to enforce those taxes.
What do these Words Signify? And What are they Doing on My Birth Certificate??
I was recently putting some important papers in order and ran across my Birth Certificates. I have three Birth Certificates.
I was Born on January 13, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois.
Birth certificate one was issued by Roseland Community Hospital, the Chicago hospital in which I was born in 1938. It is written in ink in upper case and lower case script, contains the name of the attending physician and the hospital superintendent (two different handwritings, and a gold seal with the name of the hospital along with the word "corporate" with a number embossed on it. I am unable to decipher the number.
Birth certificate two was issued by the City of Chicago where I was born. It reads "Notification of Birth Registration" in upper and lower case printed letters This birth certificate has a file number and a gold seal which has "Board of Health" and "City of Chicago" embossed on it and two tiny pink pieces of ribbon sticking out from under the seal. All information on it is filled out in upper and lower case typewriting.
The third birth certificate was issued by the State of Illinois and reads "CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF BIRTH", all in upper case
(capital letters). It also contains a file number but no seal of any kind. All the information regarding my birth is typed in all upper case lettters. At the bottom of the certificate is what appears to be an embellishment. Upon examining this "embellishment" with a magnifying glass, I was stunned to find that it also contains the words "Columbian Bank Note". What does this signify? Should I attempt to "cash in" this Birth Certificate, would I then redeem my status as a living, breathing, flesh-and-blood natural Sovereign Child of God in the eyes of our government?
I am well aware that much has been said regarding the 1933 bankruptcy of our nation and that the Registration of Birth Certificates with our government did not occur till then, The Family Bible was the "official record of births, deaths, marriages" up till then, and each family kept its own records therein.." I have heard, but not yet seen proof, that our government pledges its citizens
(through Registration of Birth) as Collateral to secure loans from various sources (other nations, World Bank, etc.). Have I just come across confirmation of this practise through my own Birth Certificate? Can I "cash in" this Bank Note? Should I do so, would I then gain the monitary amount I have been used as collateral for? What would be the proper procedure for doing so?
Perhaps those of you who are my age and younger will want to check out your own Birth Certificates to discover what our government has used us for and has never told us about. I do not consider myself to be "Chattel" to be traded by my government, and I doubt very much that any of you are willing "Chatttel" too.
Isn't it about time we find out what has really been going on in this nation since 1933, and how our government views us? Are we really merely "Human Resources" -- property to be pledged and used for government's nefarious purposes?? Or shall we just keep on "whistleing in the dark" and "hoping" that our government would not do such a thing to us and really has our best interests at heart??
Are we SLAVES (chattel)?? Or are we Sovereign Children of God??
Anita Karczewski
********************* FOOLPROOF PLAN FOR TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY*********************
JULY 15, 2005: DAY 165
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zionist bankster mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of 911 and the phoney War on Terror:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm
Following is an excerpt from the complete post below.
"...Prison for profit........ it's not just baloney and white bread. More later and thanks for keeping up your daily news. Paul was released from CCP
(ankle bracelet) in Albuquerque and allowed to drive up to Hot Sulphur where he spent another 3 days in jail (my time over the summer has been 5 days in May, 18 days in June-July, 15 days in August and on house arrest, bond from May 24 to June 25, and ankle bracelet from mid-July to August 5,
04). Thankfully, Paul with all his transplant medications, diabetes medications, was in from May
19-24, 04. The rest of the time he was on bond or ankle bracelet house arrest. I doubt he'd have survived a prolonged transport situation. The alleged crime? "Influencing a public office" and "filing a false document." This is what they called our UCC1 financing statement sent when we informed public officials there would be a fee for using our copyrighted property (PAUL SCHMALTZ and PATRICIA SCHMALTZ), which they did anyway...."
Please note what the author says about what happened to them when they tried using the UCC1/strawman approach to dealing with the system and what they have concluded.
If you test the system with all these "patriot" theories/schemes/remedies.., you will come to understand.., THERE IS NO REMEDY IN THE SYSTEM.., BY DESIGN. Government IS force and it is all that it understands. It does not matter if you have right and even their law on your side. It is about control [over you] and ALLEGIANCE.
Profiteering off the prisoners / Prime stockholders in Correction Corp. of America / Funding Streams Exposed / Corporate Public Private Scheme Exploiting, Criminalizing Vulnerable People
I had many opportunities to educate women on the monetary system of jail. The moment an order is written, whether it's a warrant or a traffic ticket, or whatever, the money machine is activated. Every prisoner has a monetary value to our government whether its local, county, state or federal. Bonds are written based on the person's name and social security number and are sold through a brokerage firm such as AG Edwards or Merrill Lynch who has the contract to sell all the prison bonds for the city, county, state or federal prisons. Over 50% of the money market bonds right now are purchased in Japan or China. I've been told by researchers that Walmart and, used to be, Kmart also purchase these bonds, Walmart mostly doing so by emptying out bank accounts at night. Both companies are fronts for enormous money machines.
The way the bond works is that a monetary value is placed on the alleged crime and then factored the way banks factor their money. In other words if a person is convicted of a felony the "value" would be $4 million. The county/city/ state then multiplies it by ten, so the bond that goes out for sale with the prisoner's name and social security number is a short-term "promissory" note. It's offered at $40 million. Perhaps an investor will offer 40% of the $40 million, or $16 million. Once this "promissory note" of the face value of $40 million reaches the banks it is then multiplied again by 200 to
300% and sold as bank securities. For those of you who wonder why the US has more people in prison per capita than any other nation on earth, you'll begin to understand how we can have a weakening economy and still fund wars overseas. It' s all based on prisoners.... in other words, prison for profit.
Knowing all this and knowing that a prisoner can have a "net worth" of say, $10,000 per day in the money markets, helped me explain to many bewildered women why they were in jail. We were only merchandise in a warehouse. The storage was pretty cheap; one woman while in jail researched the cost of feeding prisoners per day which ranged from 74 cents to $2.72 per prisoner per day.
From: "Lynn Schmaltz" Sent: Friday, September 24,
2004 8:46 AM Subject: Re: Paine Webber
"OWNERS OF THE PRISON SYSTEM IN AMERICA"
*Owners of the Prison Systems in America* CORRECTION CORP OF AMERICA headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee owns all private prison systems in AMERICA and are selling the commercial paper. How it Works: A bid bond is done on Form 24, which comes out of the GSA Office (General Services Administration which is out of GAO (General Accounting Office} which is under the Comptroller General. This Blake Bond Bid Bond is promulgated at the time the social security card is issued. When you are arrested the bond is filled out and they issue a Performance Bond, which is done from Form 25, and then they do a Payment Bond, which is a Form
25A.
The Bonds are being underwritten by the Banks. This is where the PAINE WEBBER GROUP comes in. The Plaintiff in all criminal tax cases in the USA is the PAINE WEBBER GROUP as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The PAINE WEBBER GROUP is a group of international businesses. The PAINE WEBBER GROUP is providing the Securities for the prisons and is selling the Bonds, and the Banks, The ABA (AMERICAN BANKING ASSOCIATION) like LEHMEN BROTHERS, in New York City, are the underwriters on the Bonds. The Banks
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N.W.O. Zionist mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of 911 and the phoney War on Terror:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We are past being able to pretend otherwise, no matter what comfort might be found in the deception. The United States has invaded and conquered a foreign nation under false pretexts. President Bush and his cronies lied us all into a war.
But that is not why we are damned.
The culmination of decades of accumulated overspending by the government has created an aggregate debt for the United States federal and state governments of $14 trillion dollars. That’s fourteen million million dollars. Or, to put it in a more personal scale, more than $48,000 for every single living human being in the United States, plus the accumulating interest. http://i.am/jah/greeneco.htm
The interest on that government debt now exceeds all the personal income tax collected by that government. That means that the government isn’t keeping up with the interest on the debt, let alone able to pay down the principle. Even before the wars started with lies, the US Government was sinking deeper into debt by one third of a trillion dollars every year. With Bush’s war, the debt is increasing at another half trillion every year just at the Federal level. And because the federal Government, struggling with payments on past debts, is sending less money back to the states, the states are sinking deeper into debt as well.
The following article is further proof of why the ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous thieving N.W.O. Zionist politicians and their bankster pay-masters and reinstate God’s Perfect Laws of Liberty:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm
Please be sure to study the information at the links I have inserted.
The New American Slavery By Jolly Roger slicingthroats [at] yahoo [dot] com
4-2-5
The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few pay-checks. The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as "the American dream" has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the American nightmare of homelessness, and slow, early death. You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don't lose it. http://i.am/jah/workers.htm
You became a slave when fear replaced incentive as your motivation to work, but I still suggest that you work while you can, because if the company you work for can't send your job overseas, the U.S. government is allowing 2000 people per day to enter this country illegally, because they're willing to do your job for less. It doesn't matter if you're a "white collar" or "blue collar" employee. If you're an American, you're too highly paid. There are billions of people who want your job, and your government is doing all they can to see that you lose it to them. You see, we're not really Americans anymore. Now we're just anonymous faces in the "global village," because our government has sold our nation to foreigners and international bankers, and the new bankruptcy law has doomed the American citizen to a life of debt slavery. http://i.am/jah/syst.htm
Enclosed is my 2005 Form 1040, together with payment. Please take note of the attached article from "USA Today" archives. In the article, you will note that the Pentagon paid $171.50 each for hammers and NASA paid $600.00 each for toilet seats.
Please find enclosed in this package four toilet seats (value $2,400.00) and six hammers (value $1,029.00). This is in payment for my total tax due of $3,429.00.
Out of a sense of patriotic duty, and to assist in the political purification of our government, I am also enclosing a 1.5 inch Phillips head screw, for which HUD duly recorded and approved a purchase value of $2200, as my contribution to fulfill the Presidential Election Fund option on Form 1040.
It has been a pleasure to pay my taxes this year, and I look forward to paying them again next year in accordance with officially established government values.
Interesting developments in the markets....The
nation's largest mortgage player Fannie Mae (FNM) is now circling the
drain. Over the last 6 months FNM has dropped over 31%. Thats a $23
Billion dollar LOSS.
video More evidence of why the ONLY
solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N.W.O. Globalist
mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of 911 and the phoney War on
Terror:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man:
How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of
Trillions
Tuesday, November 9th,
2004 We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the
international banking community. In his book Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man
he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S.
cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by
lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take
over their economies. [includes rush transcript] http://i.am/jah/illumin.htm
John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly
paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of
trillions of dollars.
20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Man."
Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two
countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of
as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and
Omar
Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes.
Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they
opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads
whose goal is global empire*. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring
Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the
CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.
"The current account deficit is going to cause problems," said
McTeer, who resigned Nov. 4 from the Fed. "Flows will turn against us,
and there will be a crisis that will result in rapidly rising interest
rates and a rapidly depreciating dollar that will be very disruptive,"
he said on Oct. 7. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11/11/04
(CBS) Tom Fenton, in his fourth decade with CBS News, has been the network's
Senior European Correspondent since 1979. He comments on international
events from his "Listening Post" in London, and other parts of the world as
well. Most Americans pay no attention to the exchange rate of the dollar,
by Bruce Porteous bruceport [at] xtra [dot] co [dot] nz Fri Nov 26, 2004
A currency dealer displays US dollar notes at a currency exchange office. The dollar plummeted to new lows against the euro on expectations Russia could par down its dollar reserves in favor of euros and amid ongoing concerns over the US budget and current account deficits, analysts said. [AFP] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/26/content_395102.htm
Over the last few days there has been a number of articles in the media about the steady decline of the $US against the Euro. While many economists have forecasted the possibility of the dollar declining against the Euro for sometime, most do not comprehend the significance of this. Some believe that the decline of the dollar against the currencies of American¹s trading partners will help correct the USA¹s trade deficit, and the dollar will stop falling when the trade imbalance is corrected. However, the evidence is that the opposite is happening the $US has declined 40% against the Euro over the last 2 years, and during this time America¹s trade deficit has continues to deteriorate.
IGNORE DANGER SIGNS OF THE COMING FINANCIAL CATASTROPHE AT YOUR OWN RISK
I have been telling Americans for the past 14 years what is coming, but few will listen because Americans are too afraid of the truth. They don't want to know what's just over the horizon. They want their material comforts and fun times. A recent article was published that must be read by everyone (here http://www.eldoradogold.net/pdf/September2004/debt_lochead.pdf ). Carolyn Lochhead has laid it out in frightening detail - all the numbers of what is going to happen in four short years when the baby boomers retire - 77 million of them. The numbers in Ms. Lochhead's article are accurate. There is no money in the U.S. Treasury to fund those numbers . The borrowing by Congress to fund their immoral and unconstitutional wars, UN dues, 18% of the IMFs budget, billions in corporate welfare, trillions in foreign "aid," all these social welfare programs and basic government functions continues to rack up debt at a rate of $1.69 BILLION dollars a day from an empty treasury. Quite a trick.
Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up
some
horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions --especially
his traps
--, and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town
just north
of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.
It was a Saturday morning -- a lazy day -- when he walked into the
general
store. Sittings around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the
town's
local citizens. The traveler spoke. "Gentlemen, could you direct me to
the
Okefenokee Swamp?" Some of the old-timers looked at him like he was
crazy.
"You must be a stranger in these parts," they said.
The Bush administration borrowed another $62.6 billion in May. That's slightly more than two thousand million a day added to our national tab, weekends included. Another way to look at it is that it's more than twenty-three thousand a second, twenty-four hours a day added to your obligation. While you were reading this first paragraph, the government ran up your debt more than a hundred thousand dollars. And this is on top of the taxes you pay them.
REPRESENTATIVE
TRAFICANT REPORTS ON THE BANKRUPTCY OF THE UNITED STATES
United
States Congressional Record, March 1, 1993 VOL. 33, page H-1303 The
Speaker, Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio), addressing the House...
Representative
Traficant Reports On The Bankruptcy Of The United States To all those
who think this is a joke or side issue: It isn't. It's real. Money's
what Bush's war is all about. Terrorism? Hardly!
The Arabs are such ineffective terrorists that Bush & Co. gave the
job to the CIA ....
Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. . . Members of Congress
are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any
Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting
forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it
is a coroner's report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government
has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48
Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; Declared by President Roosevelt, being
bankrupt and insolvent. H. J. R. 192, 73rd. Congress in session June 5,
1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The
Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and
the official capacities of all United States Government Offices,
Officers and Departments and is further evidence that the United States
Federal Government exists today in name only.
The capitalist system is designed in
such a way that if it is not growing, it is automatically in recession.
It is designed to operate only on perpetual growth rather than on
stability. It cannot stand still without collapsing and therefore is
totally unstable.
The global elite are using it to the aim
of not only dominating the world, but owning it - all of it - including
the inhabitants - you.
In order for an economy to function
properly, calmly and peacefully, it has to be built on a firm and
stable foundation and not be a house of cards that teeters from one
crisis to another, incessantly, so that everyone is permanently kept on
edge and worried.
The way to stop the global elite and
destroy their evil system is to
stop consuming and thus feeding it. By feeding it you are allowing it
to grow and keep devouring your substance and driving you further into
debt and slavery to the NWO
elite.
Like many other viewers, I shrank back in disbelief when the images
of the World Trade Centre (WTC) attack first began
to flood the airwaves. How could this happen? Who would want to do such
a thing? How could four different airliners all be hijacked at the same
time? How had security systems and air defenses both failed so
miserably? How would America respond?
And then the answers to such questions started coming in within
hours the authorities "knew" that the perpetrators were linked to Bin
Laden, and President George Bush was already announcing a "War Against Terrorism". While images of the
attack were still being replayed, over and over again, US Congress had
already authorised the President to take "any necessary measures", and
had allocated $40 billion to that purpose. Within days, the US had
persuaded NATO to declare that this "attack on one member nation was an
attack on all". Then it turned out that the $40 billion had come from
America's social-security fund, and $15 billion was being allocated to
bailing out the airline industry. Next we were being told that
Americans would need to give up their civil liberties, and Congress was
rapidly approving the "Combating Terrorism Act of 2001". The War on
Terrorism was going to be largely a covert war, a war "unlike any
other", a war that would go on indefinitely into the future.
A Little Perspective on $87 billion.
or "A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it starts to add up to some real money."
On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look....
What Can $87 Billion Buy?
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute based in Washington, D.C.
On September 7th, President Bush asked Congress for an additional $87 billion for the war in Iraq, acknowledging that the engagement in Iraq is going to cost many hundreds of billions of dollars. This was a surprise considering that prior to the war, the administration dismissed such estimates, and even fired its top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, for suggesting those estimates were correct. To get some perspective, here are some real-life comparisons about what $87 billion means.
$87b Is More Than The Combined Total Of All State Budget Deficits In The United States
The Bush administration proposed absolutely zero funds to help states deal with these deficits, despite the fact that their tax cuts drove down state revenues. [Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]
$87b Is Rougly The Total Of Two Years Worth Of All U.S. Unemployment Benefits
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Benjamin H. Freedman was one of the most intriguing
and amazing individuals of the 20th century. Mr. Freedman, born in 1890,
was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City who was at one time
the principal owner of the Woodbury Soap Company. He broke with organized
Jewry after the Judeo-Communist victory of 1945, and spent the remainder
of his life and the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at
least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the Jewish tyranny which has enveloped
the United States. Mr. Freedman
knew what he was talking about because he had been an insider at the highest
levels of Jewish organizations and Jewish machinations to gain power over
our nation. Mr. Freedman was personally acquainted with Bernard Baruch,
Samuel Untermyer, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy,
and John F. Kennedy, and many more movers and shakers of our times. This
speech was given before a patriotic audience in 1961 at the Willard Hotel
in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Conde McGinley's patriotic newspaper
of that time, Common Sense. Though in some minor ways this wide-ranging
and extemporaneous speech has become dated, Mr. Freedman's essential message
to us - his warning to the West - is more urgent than ever before. - K.A.S.
In 1946 he founded the League for Peace and Justice in Palestine. Arnold
Forster, a high official of the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith or ADL, in his 1988 autobiography Square One, called
Benjamin Freedman an affluent, apostate, self-hating Jew. The magazine
Commentary (published by the American Jewish Committee) for February,
1955, referred to him as Jewish anti-Semite Benjamin Freedman. Freedman
himself stated in 1954:
"The word anti-Semitism is another word which should be eliminated
from the English language. [The word] anti-Semitism serves only one
purpose today. It is used as a smear word. When so-called or self-styled
Jews feel that anyone opposes any of their objectives they discredit
their victims by applying the word anti-Semite or anti-Semitic through
all the channels they have at their command and under their control.
I can speak with great authority on that subject. Because so-called
or self-styled Jews were unable to disprove my public statements in
1946 with regard to the situation in Palestine, they spent millions
of dollars to smear me as an anti-Semite hoping thereby to discredit
me in the eyes of the public who were very much interested in what I
had to say. Until 1946 I was a little saint to all so-called or self-styled
Jews. When I disagreed with them publicly on the Zionist intentions
in Palestine I became suddenly Anti-Semite No. 1."
President Franklin Roosevelt (prior to his being elected president) wrote a letter to Col. Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's close advisor: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned every Government since the days of Andrew Jackson..."
When reviewing the material please keep an open mindset but cross-check the details, as inaccuracies may not just exist but are sometimes quite obvious.
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