Crime of the Century - Reprise

Despite the fact that the so-called experts and high-ranking politicians are acting surprised by the recent events regarding the economy, there really is no mystery as to how we arrived at this station. There are investigative journalists who have been telling us what is going on for decades. The real question is: why did they go unheeded? We all knew the football scores, we all knew the latest celebrity faux pas’, but we did not know one thing about the economy. In fact, before the patsy called the sub-prime mortgage meltdown arrived on the scene, you couldn’t find anybody who was even remotely interested in the topic. Now you can’t escape the opinions of every pundit and armchair economist in the world.
Below is a list of brilliantly researched books that I highly recommend if you are at all interested in following the marriage of politics and economics in the past century.

Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Rogue Economics by Loretta Napoletani
The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs
And the Truth Shall Set You Free by David Icke

Watch the movie Zeitgeist



...and Zeitgeist Addendum

Black Elk

Centuries ago a Native Indian leader told his people of his vision: that a threat so huge was going to come from the outside and that the only way they were going to keep from being overtaken was to unite against it. His people laughed, for they had enjoyed dominion over the land for a very long time. What could possibly come now, and where would it come from?
The Europeans did come not long after this vision, but the Natives had paid no heed to the warning and had not united. Everywhere there were warring tribes. They were a divided group, and as such were the more easily conquered. For sure there were people who saw this threat and worked together to keep it at bay, but there were also people who saw opportunity in aligning themselves with these newcomers, and this alliance did not bode well for the Native American population. The rest, as they say, is history.
I believe that we are now perched on the promontory of a similar situation, one in which we are only going to succeed in overcoming if we become one united force in every sense of the term. I alone am not going to single-handedly change the path humanity is currently on, nor are you, but that shouldn’t stop us from acting in alignment with our integrity for one moment. The human race stands at a precipice where it must put forth a Herculean effort to get itself out of a mess that it has become deeply entrenched in. It is also at a time of incredible opportunity, for how better to learn a lesson than out of the sheer necessity to survive. The outcome of our future is not guaranteed, and there is much work to be done on each individual’s part. But it is far from impossible for us to learn the lesson from the Native American elder whose vision need not go unheeded.

Questions to ponder:

Are you open to hearing what you need to hear, as opposed to what you want to hear?
What are you doing to strengthen your community, as opposed to separating yourself from it?
If the global, or even national economies, totally collapse, which they very well could, what contribution can you make to your community for remuneration? If you don’t have any skills to contribute, when will you begin work on learning or acquiring these?

Crime of the Century

There is a lot of finger pointing going on right now over the state of the economy. Governments blame the financial industry, banks blame the defaulted citizenry, and the citizens blame both. But the actual truth is that we all participated in this mess that we are now finding ourselves in. While it is true that investment banks never could have gone this far astray without government deregulation, it is also true that Wall Street could never have propagated these highly leveraged instruments without the money coming in from Main Street. That’s you, and that’s me.

When you deposit your money with one of the big banks, you are financing everything that they then do with that money. When you buy a stock on Wall Street, you are personally financing that company. If you have a pension or a mutual fund, even if you do not know what it is invested in, you are financing all of those companies with your energy.

The bottom line is that we, the folks on Main Street have been financing Wall Street, its brokers and investment banks, all along. And we need to take responsibility for that. We also need to help our leaders make the changes that they need to make if we expect them to withdraw power from Wall Street. If we are to make a difference in these times and do our part, we must begin to align our actions with our beliefs, and we must reengineer how the money works so that the criminal enterprises don’t get the vote of the people with their hard-earned dollars.

Things you can do:

-Take your money out of the big banks and put it into a credit union or a small local bank.
-Invest in your own community.
-Do not buy stock in a company whose agenda is not in alignment with your beliefs.

Voting Rights

Now that it has become obvious that our corporations are running our world, including our elected politicians, the only sane way to vote is with your dollar. Every choice you make matters to those companies, who spend millions upon millions to manipulate you into buying their products. If you do your research you will find out which companies are operating in accordance with your ethics, and there probably aren’t many. Chief among your most important purchases is your food. Processed food is at best alien and at worst poison to the human body. If there’s something in the ingredients list that you cannot pronounce or understand, then you probably don’t want to ingest it into your body. If you are tired of box stores crowding out the view, don’t shop there no matter how much you think you are saving. If you are opposed to the war in Iraq, lower your fuel consumption so that we don’t have to invade oil-producing countries under the guise of democracy and freedom. You do not live in a democracy, you live in a corporatocracy (a corporate run state) where any elected politician you put into power is merely a front man of these same corporations. It is time we woke up and called a spade a spade.
Know where every one of your investment dollars is, because you are financing whatever companies you find in your portfolio. Support your local economy, build local community, and take back your power from these institutions that care nothing about you or your family. Women make the bulk of domestic purchases for our homes. We shop for most of the clothing, food, and household items. We hold the power in our wallets to let these companies know that we are not interested in supporting them, or in supporting what they are doing to the quality of our earth, air, water, government, and economy. Say NO to what you have been giving lip service to for decades. Spend wisely; put thought into every outgoing cent from your purse. Take back your power as a human being. Make your stand: live your beliefs. It is time for you to become the role model you rarely see in the world. Become that empowered woman you have always suspected yourself to be. Throw off that cloak of decency and buck the status quo. You have seen what the status quo brings to your earth and to your loved ones. It is nothing short of insanity to keep on financing it with your money, and more importantly, your energy.
Below is a list of suggestions on where to begin. How far you then take it is up to you.

Buy organically grown food that is produced in harmony with the earth
Buy unbleached post-consumer recycled toilet paper
Shop at locally owned and operated stores whenever feasible
Use earth- friendly cleaning products for your home and body
Conserve resources
Minimize garbage
Educate yourself and others

But most of all, have fun knowing that every choice you make, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, is moving your world back into alignment with who you truly are.

The Federal Reserve

While Canada might not be going down in the sub-prime fiasco that plagues our southerly neighbour, we do share one thing in common that is as detrimental to us as it is to them: A Central Bank. Our forebears sought to warn us of the dangers of these institutions, but in modern times we have forgotten to learn from history.
It is important to have a look the Federal Reserve as a model that can instruct us in the concept of central banks in general. There is nothing Federal about this institution, it is 100% privately owned and the owners’ names are kept secret. And it has no real reserves, unless you call a printing press or the click of a mouse, with the capability to make money out of nothing, reserves.

Most people think that these matters have nothing to do with their everyday lives, when in reality there is no other institution that affects them more directly in their everyday lives. The Federal Reserve, in conjunction with Wall Street (or what I like to call the speculative market), act as a siphon in the pockets of the productive. Your wealth is vacuumed up by these institutions, and it is nothing less than the fleecing of the productive by the unproductive.

"The American people are crazy to think that a privately owned institution like the Federal Reserve will ever function in the public interest. The Fed operates behind an iron-curtain of secrecy to protect the interests of its primary constituents; the parasite class... This explains what Thomas Jefferson meant when he said, Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." Mike Whitney

Forget the war in Iraq, study the only thing that matters to corporate heads and politicians: money. If you know how it works, you will understand every political intrigue in the history of the world.

Read The Creature from Jekyll Island by G.Edward Griffin

Read Obama's Speech on Wall Street on Monday

Watch The Dow Jones Illusion

Get a copy of In Debt We Trust by director Danny Schechter

Spellcasters

Beware of spellcasters infiltrating your consciousness and causing you to long for things
that just may not be in your best interest. Currently the largest spell on the planet is
called "The Capitalist Consumer Economy", and you have been programmed into it from birth. It is a valid reality, but so are all others, and you will never know who you are and what you
truly desire until you take a look at your deepest social programming and decide for
yourself.

"If you are trying to find a needle in a haystack, you will fail. If you become the needle,
the haystack disappears."

Happy Trails,

Margo

How Money Works

Many women think that they don't understand money and finances, when in fact they have never been encouraged to do so. Understanding the ecomony is easier than most people think, but it is not easy if you intend to learn about it from mainstream media. Here, there is a
disconnect between the dots, unspoken truths that only someone educated in economic-speak
could read from between the lines.
The good news is that there are some very good books out there that get to the bottom of how
the money works, while reading like mystery thrillers that you cannot put down. I know that
after decades of believing that economists are almost as boring as accountants you are
having your doubts. But as someone educated in economics as well as an avid Agatha Christie
reader, I can assure you that there is no greater topic that deserves your attention in a
world that has elevated fiat currency to the status of God.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G.Edward Griffin
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Visit www.solari.com

Happy Reading!

Margo