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SOTT Focus: State Sanctioned Theft - When Immorality is Law and Resistance is Crime

Simon Davies & Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:05 EST

World stock indexes rebounded strongly last week. The Dow and the Hang Seng were up nearly 10%, the FTSE and DAX were up 13% and the Brazilian Bovespa was up a whopping 17%. Gold pushed passed $800.

In the U.S. retailers reported a better than feared "Black Friday," with sales rising 3% compared to the previous year, although discounts were deep and profit margins low. Black Friday refers to the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday. It is both the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season and the day that retailers start to make their profits for the year. In recent years it has become a bigger and bigger thing, with families waiting in line outside big box stores and malls the night before waiting to get let in at five in the morning, lured by steep discounts on a few big ticket items. This year with the bad economy it got completely out of hand as a Walmart employee was trampled to death in Long Island when the crowds were let in.

SOTT Focus: Sleepwalking our way to hell

Simon Davies & Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:37 EST

We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world. - Professor Arnold Toynbee, 1931 Institute for the Study of International Affairs.

What a week; world stock indexes took another serious beating while J P Morgan fired 3,000 amid speculation that total Wall Street job losses will reach 225,000 and Citibank was bailed out to the tune of $27 billion of new equity and in excess of $300 billion blanket guarantee of some of its toxic assets.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
SOTT.net
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:00 EST

Comment: This is the concluding article in a series written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we have been carrying every day up to the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.

We began this series asking whether the Presidential election campaign promises of Barack Obama represented a sincere intention, as JFK had emulated, to change a system that is rotten to the core.

Kennedy paid the ultimate price for standing up to the corrupt, psychopathic system that has lead to untold lethal Wars supported by a complicit media and massive wealth distribution from the poor and middle classes to a wealthy elite.

Despite all the hype and slick marketing, when we have investigated who will be advising and backing Obama, it looks increasingly likely that he will be unable to live up to expectations. In fact, he seems to be little more than a new 'brand' or face of a move towards an unaccountable one world government.

One forum member points out that this possibility is further supported by Obama's selection of Timothy F. Geithner as Treasury Secretary of the USA. Mr. Geithner is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an advocate of a one world financial system. He proposed this solution to the financial crisis days after meeting with the Bilderburger Group in an oped essay in the Financial Times

"The institutions that play a central role in money and funding markets - including the main globally active banks and investment banks - need to operate under a unified framework that provides a stronger form of consolidated supervision, with appropriate requirements for capital and liquidity."

We have considered, that however unlikely it seems, there is still the possibility that Obama could be using the system to exert change from within, learning from the tragedy that befell Kennedy after he opposed the monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that governs us. However, as one SOTT reader comments:

If Obama had the hubris for "real change", he could change things virtually overnight. I'm placing my house that nothing of any significance changes at all under Obama's administration. Still supporting Israel, still going to war on "terror", still spying on citizens, still crossing over sovereign borders, still [selling out to] billion dollar enterprise.

Change? We'll believe it when we see it!

John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy

As I mentioned in the previous chapter of the present series, I was 11 years old and in my 6th grade classroom when the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination was first broadcast. I was not ignorant of the idea that evil existed in the world, but I thought about it as something that was personal, local even, not some sort of global juggernaut stalking whole societies. John Kennedy's assassination was the event that changed all that.
Even though I was not able to fully comprehend it then, years later I was better able to articulate the raw, horrifying face of evil I had seen on that sunny November day in 1963. I didn't know then that Kennedy himself had already seen it and described it:

For we are opposed, around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy...

Well, of course, George W. Bush says the same thing, doesn't he? The difference is, Kennedy died for saying it, Bush didn't. That suggests that Kennedy had in mind the real conspiracy, and Bush either doesn't have a clue, or is busy directing attention away from it.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
SOTT.net
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:00 EST

Comment: This is the penultimate article in a series written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we are carrying every day as we approach the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.

Joe Biden, now 66, made a peculiar speech back in October, to a group of Obama supporters in Seattle:

We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us. There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'," Biden continued. "Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound.

One of the key policy changes championed by the President-elect is Obama-Biden's New Energy for America plan. Unfortunately, this plan is based on the February 2007 findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who announced a so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming.

Since then, a U.S. Senate Report showed that over 400 prominent scientists disputed the man-made global warming claims of the IPCC and increasing evidence shows that we are actually heading towards a new Ice Age!

Despite widespread propaganda, less than half Americans believe in man-made global warming. Will Americans embrace the new taxes and new 'green' regulations at a time when 36 million cannot afford to feed themselves? How 'green' their energy is coming from (if they can afford to heat their homes) is likely to be the least of their worries.

During his election campaign, Obama recognised the power of the big-oil and energy companies:

"I don't take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won't let them block change anymore."

According to FactCheck.org this is not entirely true. They claim that Obama has in actual fact accepted funds from oil and gas employees and two of Obama's fund-raisers were top oil company executives.

In May 2008 in Dallas, Texas, prominent shareholders, including the Rockerfeller family urged ExxonMobil to take the problem of climate change more seriously. Given their history, should we be concerned that Big Oil is now supporting the fraudulent climate-change political agenda?

John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans

A handbill circulated on November 21, 1963 In Dallas, Texas, one day before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On November 21st, 1963, 44 years ago today, the 1,035th day of John F. Kennedy's tenure as President, he asked the Congress for $95.7 million in supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1964. He also asked his economic advisers to prepare a "War on Poverty" program for 1964. Then, President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy departed for a two-day trip to Texas. It was to be his last full day on Earth.

Windmill Knight and Joe Quinn
SOTT.net
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:59 EST

Remember back in 2005 when Ariel Sharon decided to make a "historical sacrifice" by withdrawing some 9,000 illegal Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip? Remember the drama whipped up by the world's media and the tears on the faces of those who were leaving behind their ill begotten houses and farms? Remember the debates about civil and human rights - the rights of the settlers, that is because as we all know, the Palestinians have no rights. Remember as well how Sharon - the same man who years before was responsible for the massacre of the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in southern Lebanon - was applauded for his restraint and sensibility.

Well, all of that was nothing but the theatrics that came with a calculated step in a long-term war strategy and which is now reaching a climax with the siege of Gaza.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
sott.net
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00 EST

Comment: This is the tenth in a series of articles written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we are carrying every weekday as we approach the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.

The rapidly deteriorating global economy and distractions generated by the election circus has taken front page news away from those pesky Islamic extremists who 'hate us for our freedoms'.

So now the media has been busy reminding us that the fake 'war of terror' is still going on. Barack Obama is now the target of insults of the creativity department of the Intelligence Agencies - Uhhm aka, "Al - Qaeda":

The second-in-command of Islamic militant network al-Qaeda has called on Muslims to harm "criminal" America. In a message purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda deputy accused US President-elect Barack Obama of betraying his Muslim roots.

He likened him to a "house slave" - who had chosen to align himself with the "enemies" of Islam. Mr Obama has said stamping out al-Qaeda "once and for all" will be a top priority during his administration. On Sunday, he said capturing or killing Osama Bin Laden was "critical" to US security.

He has also promised to bolster the US presence in Afghanistan - a policy that would fail, said the al-Qaeda deputy. The US said the message did not signal any increased threat against America.

As we commented in response to this latest propaganda, yes, Obama has proven his loyalty to Israel in more than one way. It follows that if certain parties intend to do President Elect Obama harm, and thus further destabilize the U.S., then the groundwork must be, at least, flimsily established. Unfortunately, the creativity on the part of those who lay that groundwork is, as usual, sorely lacking.

During the G20 summit, the intelligence services themselves recently admitted who the real enemies of the State are:

law enforcement officials said they were more concerned about angry protesters, such as people left jobless by the financial meltdown, than they were about terrorists.

Barack Obama's top choice to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. Encouragingly, as Govenor, she signed a bill that prohibited the implementation of the REAL ID in Arizona:

"Everyone thinks that the REAL ID is just about protecting us against terrorism," said co-sponsor Senator Karen Johnson (R-18). "But it really represents a cash cow for technology companies as well as the birth of the National ID card, complete with all the biometric information that technology can handle - face recognition, fingerprints, etc."

Maybe this appointment signifies a more realistic approach to domestic policy? US foreign policy, however, is shaping up to look uncannily similar: Bush's 'War of Terror' allowed the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and plundering of rich Oil resources. Obama is in favor of moving US 'combat' troops out of Iraq and over to Afghanistan (to protect Oil pipelines and the lucrative drug trade). A change of graveyard maybe, but the absurd 'hunt for dead Osama' looks set to continue.

John F. Kennedy, Oil, and the War on Terror

On November 20th, 1963, between 11:30 - 11:40 a.m., President John F. Kennedy met with Lena Horne, Carol Lawrence, DNC chairman John M. Bailey, and others.

Later that day, he issued a statement on the Extraordinary Administrative Radio Conference to Allocate Frequency Bands for Space Radio Communication Purposes, held in Geneva, Switzerland from October 7 to November 8, 1963. He invited other nations to participate in setting up a global communication satellite system. He spoke of "a peace system worldwide in scope."

Following that, John Kennedy sent to the Congress the 17th annual report on U.S. participation in the United Nations, and then he signed into law bill (HR2073) to allow the conveyance of submerged and tidal lands to Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa if they are needed for economic development or other compelling reason. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Archives

At the end of the day, he had less than two days left...

SOTT Focus: John F. Kennedy and the Titans

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
sott.net
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00 EST

Comment: This is the ninth in a series of articles written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we are carrying every weekday as we approach the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.

In a recent OpEd piece, Greg Bacon points out the precarious position that historical figures have found themselves in after trying to change the system:

Whoever steps forward to take on that pit of vipers known as the Fed is on a suicide mission.

Obama could go the route of that carpenter from Nazareth that kicked the moneychangers out of the Temple and was killed for his efforts.

Or he could take the route of President Andy Jackson, who closed down the 2nd National Bank of the US and got shot for his efforts, but not killed.

Or President Lincoln, who was opposed to an Independent US Treasury, but refused to pay usurious rates to finance the Civil War, so he printed US greenbacks.

Murdered by an assassin's bullet.

Or President Kennedy, who printed US government currency, around 4 billion dollars worth, money which LBJ took out of circulation after Johnson took over after JFK was murdered by an assassin.

You can either take an axe to cut out the cancer infecting America or go about that job with the deft hands of a surgeon using a scalpel. Either way, whoever takes on the task is going to have a bulls eye on their back.

Does Obama pose any threat to the establishment? If that was the case, we wonder, would he not have met with a little greater resistance at some point on his ascension to the White House?

John F. Kennedy and the Titans

On November 19, 1963, 43 years ago today, at a ceremony in the White House Flower Garden, John F. Kennedy welcomed officers of state education associations of the National Education Association. he remarked: "I realize once again in a very personal way what a tremendous flood of children are coming into our schools..."

He was always concerned about children, his own as well as the children of all Americans and the world.

SOTT Focus: The Lesson of Jonestown

Sarah Golstene
Sott.net
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:59 EST

The events of November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana were a tragedy that few can come to grips with even today, 30 years later. But that was not a singular event. As a sign posted at Jonestown read, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

I'm Warren Olney in Los Angeles. Ninety minutes ago came word from Guyana, making this bizarre story more bizarre than ever. Troops from Guyana have found between three and four hundred bodies at the People's Temple commune at Jonestown. No marks of violence on any of the bodies. No marks of anyone alive, despite reports that as many as 1,200 people lived in Jonestown. There had been predictions that a mass suicide would occur from several defectors. We don't know that that's what happened. We don't know what happened to the rest of the people who lived at the commune. We don't know what's happened to attorneys Mark Lane or Charles Garry, or to the Reverend Jim Jones. And we don't know how much longer this awful story will take to unfold. For Edwin Newman and for all of us at NBC, I'm Warren Olney in Los Angeles.

SOTT Focus: John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
sott.net
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00 EST

Comment: This is the eighth in a series of articles written in 2006 commemorating the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK that we are carrying every weekday as we approach the 45th Anniversary of that tragedy for mankind.

Incumbent President George Bush was quick to praise Barack Obama's appointment to the White house. He congratulated Barack Obama on his historic victory and vowed "complete cooperation".

"Last night, I had a warm conversation with president-elect Barack Obama. I congratulated him and Senator Biden on their impressive victory, [...] I told the president-elect he can count on complete cooperation from my administration as he makes the transition to the White House,"

This reminded one forum member of Margeret Thatcher's exiting words to Tony Blair:

I can remember when Tony Blair was elected to the British premiership (after the convenient death of John Smith, the then leader of the Labour party) and how Margaret Thatcher gushed over his appointment. The actual words she used were; "I shall enjoy being a back-seat driver." This from a woman who was the Brit equivalent of a Neocon, speaking about a man who should have been a Socialist; i.e. on the side of the poor, the dispossessed and disenfranchised!

That was a massive clue right there, and NO-ONE picked up on it!

As we are well aware,Tony Blair went on to be a willing lapdog supporting the Neocon's illegal wars, destruction of the economy and clampdown on civil liberties.

Should we be unnerved by similar endorsements by the worst President in US history? A man who has gone out of his way to bring the world to the edge of destruction and go against every single principle that John F Kennedy represented...

John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War

President Kennedy receives the flag of the cuba exiles (Brigade 2506) in Miami in Dec. 29, 1962 and declares: "I promise to return this flag in a free Havana." Kennedy had been misinformed about the exact details of the planned Cuban invasion.

On November 18th, 1963, John F. Kennedy predicted that the month of April, 1964, would bring "the longest and strongest peacetime economic expansion in our Nation's entire history." And he added: "The steady conquest of the surely yielding enemies of misery and hopelessness, hunger, and injustice is the central task for the Americas in our time . . . 'Nothing is true except a man or men adhere to it -- to live for it, to spend themselves on it, to die for it . . . '"

Time was slipping through his hands . . . he had four days to live.

Simon Davies & Donald Hunt
SOTT.net
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:39 EST

"The few who can understand the System (Cheque Money and Credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class. While on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical* to their interests." - Extract from a letter written by Rothschild Bros of London to a New York firm of bankers on 25 June 1863

* (hostile, hurtful)
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