Downside Risks On 9/14/07
(Updated: 11:20 am CST)
(Conspiracy Nation, 09/10/07) -- “Downside risks have become more dangerous,” states Jean-Philippe Cotis, in a report by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. Almost immediately after September 11, 2001 (9/11), stock markets plunged. The Dow sank by thousands. But which came first, the chicken or the egg? Was the market headed for collapse, and the “terror attacks” served as fig leaf? Or did the “terror attacks” cause the market to collapse?
In some conspiracy blogs, September 14th, this Friday, is being heralded as the big day. Karl Rove and Tony Snow departed the White House in August. Dubya Bush ordered, “If anyone wants to go, do it now. After August, all leaves are cancelled.” Being promoted is a Ken Burns nostalgia documentary about the glory of World War II, to air starting September 23rd.
The “Federal” Reserve is pumping liquidity into the system, at least $200 billion this past month. The same emergency pumping is happening elsewhere. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic are hoarding cash. They do not trust the balance sheets of other banks. They have fears about their own balance sheets. Osama bin Laden, the Lee Harvey Oswald of financial crises, has again been trotted out.
In 1945, Agnes Smedley, recently revealed as a Communist fellow traveler (if not an actual Communist), foresaw that the Capitalists would inevitably engineer yet another World War. That is how Capitalists deal with economic meltdowns: they go to war. FDR was somewhat of an exception: in the 1930s he tried deficit spending as a solution to the Great Depression. But FDR's attempt failed. The Depression went away only “thanks” to World War II.
Prior to 1939, Adolph Hitler had immigrated a subtle army of 3 million Germans into the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia. The Germans needed “Lebensraum” (living space). On March 15, 1939, Hitler blamed the Czechs for “terror” and marched his troops into and occupied all of Czechoslovakia.
On August 31, 1939, news correspondent William L. Shirer, in Germany, made this observation: “Everybody against the war... people talking openly. How can a country go into a major war with a population so dead against it?” (qtd. in Boardman, Barrington. From Harding To Hiroshima)
The next day, September 1, 1939, condemned criminals wearing 150 Polish uniforms were part of a staged “terror attack” against German troops. “And so World War II began, the bogus Polish troops being killed in the process. The code word for the victims was 'Canned Goods.'” (Boardman, op. cit.)
In November 1939, Hitler blamed the British for a bomb which exploded just after he had left a Munich beer hall. The “assassination attempt” was later proven to have been “cooked up by the Nazis in an effort to drum up anti-British sentiment among the German people.” (Boardman, op. cit.) Seven “good Germans” died in the beer hall blast. Get this straight: Yes, governments will kill their own people.
The US government is somehow involved in the attacks on the September 11, 2001, El Diario-La Prensa daily reads in an editorial, based on suspicions by thousands of US nationals. A Zogby poll reportedly shows 51 percent of US citizens believe George W. Bush and his Vice President Richard Cheney orchestrated a self-aggression to justify militarism in the last years.
CIA director Michael Hayden warned on Saturday that al Qaeda was plotting fresh attacks on the United States aimed at sowing death and destruction on a massive scale. Hayden was speaking to the Council On Foreign Relations. (http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14523542&vsv=SHGTslot2)
By “Capitalists” (spelled with a capital “C”) is meant the grotesquerie of big government/big business collusion masquerading as free markets, and not true laissez-faire capitalism (spelled with a small “c”). An erupting blemish on the grotesquerie is the developing Norman Hsu case. The Capitalist press, so big on nonsense news, tip-toes around the Hsu case. (Background: “Puzzle Pieces Of Norman Hsu,” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Hsu2.html)
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