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Ladybbird · 07-04-11, 04:18

The End of America is Coming & Some Americans are Already Preparing-True Facts/VIDEO

About 4 years ago, the Dominican Republic's President, Leonel Fernandez, set up, with other Latino countries, (South America & The Caribbean), a Union of countries, rather like Europe, to become independant of the US for many things, including oil.

Although the US wanted to be part of those meetings, they have always been refused. China and Russia also asked to be part of the meetings and were finally allowed to be present at one.

I posted before about China wanting a new World Currency Reserve, and have done so for a few years now. Well now this has happened. China has joined some other countries in the world and began a new currency. Many Americans in some states of the U.S. have done the same. This is not fiction, but fact.

You should really listen to this video all the way through to hear the factual evidence that is presented. I can completely confirm that what is stated in there about the U.K. and Europe really did happen years ago. Now it is happening in the U.S.

America can't pay their debts to many countries in the world. How are they surviving at present? They are just printing more $$$$$$$$$$ and have done for years. How come they are the only country in the world that can do this???...........because at present the US $$$ is the World Reserve Currency. Now the powerful countries have had enough, hence the new world currency.

I warn you this video is a shocker, at the beginning I thought it was a scam, when the narrator explained he was a Financial Investor, but I decided to continue listening and I am so glad I did. He is not after your money, he gives really sound advice at the end of the video. The American people have no idea of what is really going on and just how many Americans are really unemployed and are on FOOD STAMPS. This report and video were presented recently on a documentary made in the U.S. I am not sure it it was allowed to be aired in the U.S. itself.

Video;

END of AMERICA

If you want more evidence, watch these;

Click;

ZEITGEIST Moving Forward

I have prepared and moved here years ago, and so have many other Europeans and Americans and taken our money and invested it in the Dominican Republic, where we now live.

Barclays confirmed it was safe, this is a previous article from last year;

Barclays hails Dominican Republic bonds, Bloomberg says

New York Stock Exchange.

Santo Domingo.- As the Dominican Republic edges closer to reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, its dollar bonds will “outperform” the market, Barclays Plc said, as reported by Bloomberg.
“Investors should increase exposure to the Dominican Republic’s bonds,” it said, quoting Barclays analyst Alejandro Grisanti.
The New York based news source reports that the country’s dollar bonds maturing in 2013 and 2018 “look cheaper” that its 2011 notes, quoting Grisanti’s report.
In mid July, the Government announced it will seek congressional approval to issue billions of dollars in sovereign bonds, to counter a fall in revenue from taxes and in income from the Petrocaribe oil agreement.
Attributed to Dominican Today

This is great news for those who invest here. Depending on how much you invest, you usually get 13% when you invest in the Banks CD's (Bonds). A great Investment Banker gives 16% on the $ and 19% on the peso investments with him. TAX FREE!!! It is all secure, many Americans and others around the world invest with him. He has an excellent reputation and has been in business for many years.

No Government can touch those accounts to spy to make you pay tax on your money earned. If Barclays plc has approved these bonds publicly, you can be sure your money is safe. Barclays is a long time secure British Bank, that has been international for years. Most of the expats that live here also invest their money with him and live comfortably off the interest. His intermeditary bank in the US is Bank of America.

Listen to these, it will open your eyes believe me, this started in 1933;

US Wants to Control The World

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dissin · 07-04-11, 04:36

ZEITGEIST Moving Forward I have watched this and and have watched all of them, but I posted on another years ago that china would or could be the next America which I got slamed for saying so.

I'll watch this vid now

Thanks

ratchetjaw666 · 07-04-11, 18:18

America is collapsing. But its not necessarily a bad thing. The answer is really quite easy but will never be done. Just shut down the Federal Reserve, go back to the constitution and have a silver, gold backed currency and we just became the world's reserve currency again. Won't happen of course because theres $700 trillion in outstanding derivatives and the bankers would lose a lot of it and a lot of mutual funds and 401k's would be in trouble for some of it. But its time for our generation to pay the cost for what we've done. Default on the debt, start new with a new currency and rebuild.

Ladybbird · 08-04-11, 14:34

Dominican Government Bolsters “Two Chinas” policy

Rosa NG, President Fernandez inaugurate Chinatown.

Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic bolstered its “Two Chinas” policy on Monday, when Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales administered the oath to the economist Rosa Ng Báez, named head of the of Commercial Development Office in Peking.
Last Wednesday President Leonel Fernandez issued Decree 145-11, which replaces Carlos M. Gutiérrez and names Ng, a promoter of Chinese culture and president of the Flower for All Foundation..
The post is equivalent to an unofficial ambassador to the Asian giant, given Dominican Republic’s diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Dominican Today
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This is not the only country within the group that has started the new currency that the D.R. is now doing business with,,,,,,,,, go figure folks.

Ladybbird · 08-04-11, 14:39

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Originally Posted by dissin

ZEITGEIST Moving Forward I have watched this and and have watched all of them, but I posted on another years ago that china would or could be the next America which I got slamed for saying so.

I'll watch this vid now

Thanks

You are right!!!

Many many important things like the docks shipyards etc in the US are no longer owned by the US. They are owned by other countries because of Americas debts to them. The richest man in the world, Calos Slim (Latino business man) owns quite a few of the US's businesses and is the major shareholder in many.

ratchetjaw666 · 08-04-11, 21:12

If you do some research you will find our leaders have been well aware of whats happening for a long time. Here is an article about the Bush family and there preperations.

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http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/bush_paraguay.htm

Don't believe me. Do some research and you'll see whats coming. Some sites have already been scrubbed of some of this information and now a lot of it has been classified top secret so that the public can't read about some of the things that have been done.
Yeah I know it sounds all paranoid doesn't it?lol
But if you do a lot of reading and a lot of filtering you will find there is a core of truth in a lot of this. Where there's smoke there's fie.

wolfen · 08-04-11, 21:53

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Originally Posted by ratchetjaw666

If you do some research you will find our leaders have been well aware of whats happening for a long time.

Please correctly code your links.

Ladybbird · 13-04-11, 16:18

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Originally Posted by ratchetjaw666

If you do some research you will find our leaders have been well aware of whats happening for a long time. Here is an article about the Bush family and there preperations.

Code: [Check Download Links]

http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/bush_paraguay.htm

Don't believe me. Do some research and you'll see whats coming. Some sites have already been scrubbed of some of this information and now a lot of it has been classified top secret so that the public can't read about some of the things that have been done.
Yeah I know it sounds all paranoid doesn't it?lol
But if you do a lot of reading and a lot of filtering you will find there is a core of truth in a lot of this. Where there's smoke there's fie.

You are entirely right. In fact the White House press know they cant ask certain questions. One previous Washiington Post reporter dared to, and he moved to London to work as he was so disgusted. The only others that dared to were the British press and they were banned from any other press meetings!

SanctuS · 13-04-11, 20:27

its nice to see others share the information that is tryin to or is already hidden from the eyes of the sheeple in the US.. im very familiar with Peter Joseph's work with the Zeitgeist and others such as Alex Jones.. its a scary thing for it will inevitably change our way of life in the US when our currency crashes.. nice work Lady for the initial share of this.. more eyes open to this so called hidden subject the better.. most call it conspiracy theories.. but that is cause ignorance is bliss for most..

ratchetjaw666 · 13-04-11, 20:47

Even in todays budget speech by Obama you never see any serious talk about reducing our military industrialized complex. The only thing that will rid us of that enemy is a complete financial collapse. Everything is just so heavily manipulated any more that its hard to distinguish fact from fiction any more.

SanctuS · 13-04-11, 21:11

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Originally Posted by Ladybbird

END of AMERICA

very informational program documentary.. thanx for the share Lady..

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Originally Posted by ratchetjaw666

Even in todays budget speech by Obama you never see any serious talk about reducing our military industrialized complex. The only thing that will rid us of that enemy is a complete financial collapse. Everything is just so heavily manipulated any more that its hard to distinguish fact from fiction any more.

very agreed..

Ladybbird · 13-04-11, 21:16

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Originally Posted by ratchetjaw666

Even in todays budget speech by Obama you never see any serious talk about reducing our military industrialized complex. The only thing that will rid us of that enemy is a complete financial collapse. Everything is just so heavily manipulated any more that its hard to distinguish fact from fiction any more.

Somewhat true, you should view and listen to this;

ZEITGEIST Moving Forward

This was all planned many years ago according to the reports in there. Look at the arguments that are going on now about whether to borrow more $$$$,,,,,,, or they can always print more as the GOPs usually do,,,, that way they always hid the real debt from Americans. What a real shocker when they found out the truth when the DEMS got in.

Thats why I think the report in the first link rings true about many countries no longer wanting the US $ as the World Reserve Currency. Those countries also have had enough of the debts the US has with them, they wont be able to print more $$$ to get around it if a new currency comes about.

If you remember the US and its' economy was in very good condition when President Clinton was in power. Go figure.

dissin · 15-04-11, 13:57

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Originally Posted by Ladybbird

You are right!!!

Many many important things like the docks shipyards etc in the US are no longer owned by the US. They are owned by other countries because of Americas debts to them. The richest man in the world, Calos Slim (Latino business man) owns quite a few of the US's businesses and is the major shareholder in many.

Thanks for responding Ladybbird, but also other countries are buying other countries land from farming to god knows what for and china is doing alot of buying all over the world, many for exports in food and other commodities and the Russians as well. The list goes on.

Makes one wonder WTF is going on

ratchetjaw666 · 15-04-11, 23:45

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Originally Posted by Ladybbird

Somewhat true, you should view and listen to this;

ZEITGEIST Moving Forward

This was all planned many years ago according to the reports in there. Look at the arguments that are going on now about whether to borrow more $$$$,,,,,,, or they can always print more as the GOPs usually do,,,, that way they always hid the real debt from Americans. What a real shocker when they found out the truth when the DEMS got in.

Thats why I think the report in the first link rings true about many countries no longer wanting the US $ as the World Reserve Currency. Those countries also have had enough of the debts the US has with them, they wont be able to print more $$$ to get around it if a new currency comes about.

If you remember the US and its' economy was in very good condition when President Clinton was in power. Go figure.

Have watched the documentary and its pretty good. A little dry and hard to get through the first half hour but it ties up nicely at the end.
And as the documentary says, its not really a democrat or republican issue, its more how they are so easily manipulated thats is more of an issue. Neither side is interested in lowering the debt. This has always been a red herring. Its always been about kepping the people on the top of the **** pile on the top because its no fun being on the bottom of the **** pile. And thats all they consider is that we're on the bottom of the **** pile and should remain there. Currency is and always has been the bigger issue. Not more phony government controls and escpecially not free market capitalism because that never has and never will exist. Its all about control and currency is the best way to control a society. Society gets out of control deflate the currency and everyone steps inline to get that job. WHy do employers ask for credit reports for a lot of jobs? They want people in debt because those people are much easier to control than financially self sufficient people.
What it boils down to is the American dream has always been a lie. There is a cost to everything and the further you're down on that list you bear the brunt of the costs. Whether its financially socially or physically.

Ladybbird · 20-04-11, 18:21

Yes the Zeitgheist triology says it all and everything so far that they warned about so far has come true (especially in the first documentary. That link in the first post is to all 3.

Ladybbird · 27-04-11, 21:42

Just to update you, some hotels and shops in Europe and other countries will now not accept the US $ as payment for services and goods.

"Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of the US than they own of them."
Wikipedia

"For Pre-Payment Bookings, the price will be fixed in the currency for which payment was originally made. Book Now accepts payments only in EURO and POUNDS STERLING."
One European Site's terms

It all started here;
Chinese Yuan; A new world reserve currency?

Only a mere twelve days into the New Year (2011) and China have already set the wheels in motion to use their most powerful weapon, the Yuan, in order to combat inflation. This may well be the first decision of many that will result in the Yuan being phased in as the new world reserve currency.
Blacklisted News/Economic Assassion Blog.

Timothy Geithner Welcomes a New World Reserve Currency

By The Party of No. on March 18, 2011

Two years ago this month there was a lot of talk coming from China and Russia urging for a new world reserve currency in the face of a weakening dollar. In fact the Chinese were calling for the IMF to create a “super-sovereign reserve currency” which would turn the IMF in to a world central bank.It just so happens that the IMF has already had a currency of its own called the SDR since 1969. However at the time that China was calling for a new reserve currency the SDR was not a convertible currency. It was only used to boost the reserves of a particular country, giving that country a stronger balance sheet which allowed that country to borrow more. That all changed in September of 2009 when the IMF made the SDR fully convertible. The IMF also doubled the amount of SDRs in circulation. Last month the IMF announced that it had a plan to use the SDR as the world’s reserve currency and is suggesting that they print trillions of dollars worth within the next few years.What is amazing is that back in March of 2009 when all of the talk coming from China first emerged Timothy Geithner had this to say: Washington is “quite open” to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund. He later had to explain himself further as the dollar started to drop in value. But I think that this statement highlights the fact that the plan all along has been to use the SDR as the new reserve currency, which is being emphasized by the IMF’s recent plan.
What we as Americans need to prepare for is the possibility of a new world reserve currency. If we lose this status, US Dollar demand will drop dramatically and will cause a massive loss in value for the Dollar. This will cut the value of anything that is Dollar denominated. There are many ways to protect yourself, but at ITM Trading we believe that gold is the best way to do it as it is the only true form of real money. Gold is a currency in its own right. It is the perfect hedge against inflation, hyperinflation or currency collapse.
The handwriting is on the wall in regards to where the dollar is headed. We can’t keep printing money to bail ourselves out; the world just won’t allow it for too much longer.
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Boy what predictive words they were......

Don't shoot the messenger guys, I just report the news, I dont make it. Gold and Silver have zoomed in price this year alone. This all supports what the commentator reports in that first documentary link I gave you in post 1. I think he prepared that last year.

SanctuS · 29-04-11, 05:20

nice reporting.. ty Lady..

Ladybbird · 29-04-11, 05:30

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Originally Posted by SanctuS

nice reporting.. ty Lady..

Why thank you so much, what a nice thing to say.

ratchetjaw666 · 29-04-11, 18:27

I doubt the yuan will be the nest reserve currency. I would more suspect that China along with the rest of the BRICS nations will put together some sort of hybrid like the euro. But the writing is on the wall. The US dollar will not be the reserve currency in the future. The only way we will be able to retain that position would be to go back to gold and silver backed currency, but to do that gold and silver will have to be removed from the comex board or it would result in huge inflation. The fact is there will be no changes to US policy on currency. The powers that be would prefer to collapse our economy so that they could purchase assets at pennies on the dollar.

Ladybbird · 29-04-11, 21:44

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Originally Posted by ratchetjaw666

I doubt the yuan will be the nest reserve currency. I would more suspect that China along with the rest of the BRICS nations will put together some sort of hybrid like the euro. But the writing is on the wall. The US dollar will not be the reserve currency in the future. The only way we will be able to retain that position would be to go back to gold and silver backed currency, but to do that gold and silver will have to be removed from the comex board or it would result in huge inflation. The fact is there will be no changes to US policy on currency. The powers that be would prefer to collapse our economy so that they could purchase assets at pennies on the dollar.

I dont think they intend to have the Yuan as the next reserve, there are about 24 other countries that have already formed a Union similar to Europe, organised by China, and they have discussed the next world reserve currency. It is supposed to be called Bank,,,, something, I cant remember the name of it or the name of the new Union. But the IMF and that Asian, European and Latino Unions and markets are preparing well in advance of the release of the new currency by printing a LOT of the SDR. I dont think the IMF would make an official announcement about something as important as this, if it were not true.

Gold and silver have soared in value in relation to this. However, the major monetary metal in history is silver, not gold, as many think.

So whatever happens the reorganistation of the new world currency needs to be done with great care, so as not to encourage the US $ to decline in value too rapidly.
If the U.S. dollar goes into permanent decline, domestic consumption by both individuals and businesses in the U.S. will suffer resulting in a drop in yearly GDP. If the world were to move away from the dollar as a reserve currency, the dollar would devalue making all foreign imports very expensive until a new financial system is put in place. People would buy less, companies would profit less, and the government would lose out in taxes. A theoretical TOTAL loss of consumption would leave the current US GDP at around $4.2 trillion, from about $14.9 trillion. I also think you would see a significant decrease in purchases of foreign cars, electronics, designer clothing, household products/goods. etc. This will affect the worlds' trading in general, all round.
The new Unions I talked about before, have already taken this into account. They have already made deals with each other to sell basic commodities, such as rice, wheat, etc. and more importantly oil, thus it would appear cutting out the need to deal with, not only the U.S., but the Arabian suppliers too.
For example, the Latino and South American Union, set up about 3 years ago, by the President of the country where I now live, Dominican Republic, have already started to construct under the sea pipes, to supply oil from/to each other. The US tried to get involved with this but their offers were refused.
So it has all been forseen and planning started, to overcome it by these new Unions involving different countries. This situation was all caused/increased, by the actions during the last US adminstration, printing more and more $$$, which they are allowed to do, as they have the World Reserve Currency, to pay their debts to other countries. Some of those other countries have now had enough.

Ladybbird · 14-07-11, 19:17

Read this from today 14th July 2011;

US MAY LOSE CREDIT RATING

Ladybbird · 22-07-11, 13:59

Federal Reserve Actively Preparing For The Possibility Of U.S. Default

22/7/11 03:59 PM ET. Huffington Post

The Federal Reserve is actively preparing for the possibility that the United States could default as a deadline for raising the government's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit looms, a top Fed policymaker said on Wednesday.
Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said the Fed has for the past few months been working closely with Treasury, ironing out what to do if the world's biggest economy runs out of cash on August 2.

"We are in contingency planning mode," Plosser told Reuters in an interview at the regional central bank's headquarters in Philadelphia. "We are all engaged ... It's a very active process."
Plosser said his "gut feeling" was that President Barack Obama and Congress will come to an agreement to increase the Treasury's borrowing authority in time to avert a default on government obligations.
Obama was due to meet with top Republicans in Congress on Wednesday to discuss the latest attempts to end the dispute over raising the country's debt ceiling, a row which has raised the prospect of the Treasury Department running out of money to pay its bills next month.

The Treasury has repeatedly said default was unthinkable and that there was no alternative to raising the debt ceiling, and Plosser's remarks marked the most extensive public comments on the matter from a U.S. official.

One aspect of the Fed's contingency planning is purely operational: the Fed is developing procedures about how the Treasury will let it know which checks will get cleared and which won't, Plosser said.
The Fed effectively acts as the Treasury's bank -- it clears the government's checks to everyone from social security recipients to government workers.
"We are developing processes and procedures by which the Treasury communicates to us what we are going to do," Plosser said, adding that the task was manageable. "How the Fed is going to go about clearing government checks. Which ones are going to be good? Which ones are not going to be good?"
"There are a lot of people working on what we would do and how we would do it," he said.
Plosser added that there are difficult questions that the Fed itself had to grapple with.

The Fed lends to banks at the discount window against good collateral. But what happens if U.S. Treasuries no longer fit that bill?
"Do we treat them as if they didn't default, in which case we would be saying we are pretending it never happened? Or do we treat them as if they defaulted and don't lend against them?" Plosser said. "Those are more policy questions."

Plosser, who was a vocal critic of some of the Fed's extraordinary lending during the financial crisis -- which he said veered into fiscal policy and risked the central bank's independence -- warned it would be crucial for the Fed not to do the Treasury's work for it.
"We have to be very careful that we don't become, that we don't conduct fiscal policy in this context," he said. "That we don't substitute for the inability of the Treasury to borrow in some circumstances."

That said, the Fed, which is charged with ensuring financial stability, would clearly feel the responsibility to step in as a lender of last resort if markets seized up after a U.S. default, he added.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke last week warned that a default could have "catastrophic" effects on financial markets.

Plosser, a former dean of the Simon School of Business at Rochester University, was more circumspect.
"It could be very bad. At some level we don't really know what the consequences could be. It could be very serious. It could be less serious. Do we really want to run that experiment?"
Plosser is a voting member of the Fed's monetary policy-setting committee this year.
(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters

pop · 26-07-11, 23:42

This was on the news this morning, Australia and some spokesman from the US says they have till tuesday to default or borrow more money?

Wow its come on rather suddenly.

Ladybbird · 29-07-11, 16:52

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Originally Posted by pop

This was on the news this morning, Australia and some spokesman from the US says they have till tuesday to default or borrow more money?

Wow its come on rather suddenly.

It is not sudden, the US has been in serious debt for many years with many countries, they just kept it from the American people. They owe many countries money, not just China. That is why many will no longer accept the US $$$ for payment for services, hotels etc.

ex President Clinton left the US in a good position, now it is not. Very sad.

Listen to these, it will open your eyes believe me, this started in 1933;

US Wants to Control The World

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Wizard · 31-07-11, 20:01

thanks.................

Ladybbird · 07-11-11, 05:18

Things are getting worse for the US

AMERICA's GHOST TOWNS

You can now find all the Zeitgeist predictive true Documentary Movies on our site;

Zeitgeist.The.Movie.2007.DVDRip.XviD-ZG

Zeitgeist.Addendum.2008.DVDRip.XviD-MoH

Zeitgeist Moving Forward XviD-TehDiNGO

and the trailer for the new one about to come out on the Zeitgeist home site here;

Zeitgeist

Everything they predicted has come true and this all started in 1933 by power and money hungry greedy American money men

pop · 07-11-11, 07:31

The more people know the truth the better.

Ladybbird · 26-03-12, 01:05

Another group of Americans claim the US is actually bankrupt already. Click this;

America Bankrupt?

Ladybbird · 01-10-13, 19:16

SHUTDOWN: Hundreds of thousands to go without pay as federal government loses funding for first time in 17 YEARS. Lawmakers fail to pass budget after Democrats refused to alter Obamacare

At midnight the federal government entered a new fiscal year without passing a budget - leaving it with no funding
Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies to 'execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations'
Republicans offered three stepwise concessions while the White House said it wouldn't negotiate and the Senate Majority Leader refused to sit down with the GOP, saying they had 'lost their mind'
House leaders in the GOP aimed for both parties to appoint 'conferees' – negotiators – who could try to find common ground with the Senate
Democrats blamed the GOP for holding back on government funding unless changes were made to Obamacare
Lack of compromise means a million federal workers go on unpaid leave until the two legislative bodies come to an agreement

By Daily Mail, 1 October 2013

The federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years last night.

Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled Congress failed to pass a budget allowing for the federal government to continue to be funded as it headed into the new fiscal year at midnight.

Late-night negotiations ended in deadlock after the Senate Democrats refused to consider any version of the budget that included changes to President Obama's signature health care law.

This lack of compromise means that nearly a million federal workers will go on unpaid leave until the two legislative bodies come to an agreement.

As the zero-hour drew closer on Monday, with other avenues exhausted, the White House's Office of Management and Budget told federal agencies that they 'should now execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations.'

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Men of the night: John Boehner and President Obama squared off in a proverbial sparring match that ended up in a government shutdown on Monday night

Empty: The federal government will be forced to furlough between 800,000 and a million workers, leaving the halls of Washington much emptier in the coming days (including the Capitol Rotunda, pictured)

Too late: The funding for the federal government ended at midnight on Monday when the 2013 fiscal year came to a close

House Republican leaders on the Rules Committee had discussed the procedures for both parties to appoint 'conferees' – negotiating representatives – for a joint House-Senate conference committee empowered to hash out a compromise of the budget battle that has consumed Washington for days.
The House GOP scrambled all day to avoid being the party without a chair when the shutdown music stops and the federal government moves to a new fiscal year without money to spend.
Republicans have been insisting that a Continuing Resolution funding the federal government – a 'CR,' in Capitol Hill-speak – must include language defunding, delaying or otherwise changing the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation.

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid had said hours earlier that House GOP members had 'lost their minds.' That barb followed the House's decision to send its third such budget proposal to the Senate – one that everyone in Washington understood would be dead on arrival.

On guard: Like all other departments of the federal government, the White House will be operating with a smaller staff than usual during the shutdown

Waiting for word: Reporters were seen idling in the halls of the Capitol late Monday as the budget bill passed to and from the House of Representatives before being rejected by the Senate

'They keep trying to do the same thing over and over again,' Reid said on the Senate floor. 'The Senate will vote it down and the House Republicans will be in the same pickle they're in now, but even with less time before the government shuts down.'

But Reid also said on the floor earlier in the day that he would welcome a conference committee. He qualified that after 11:00 p.m., saying that only a continuing resolution – a 'CR,' in Capitol Hill-speak – free from Obamacare politics would pass muster.

'We will not go to conference until we get a "clean" CR,' he said.
Debate in the House continued long after the clock struck twelve, with Democrats demanding an up-or-down vote on the Senate's version.
The Senate, meanwhile, recessed until 9:30 a.m. Reid said Democrats expect to see the final funding bill from the house then, along with the formal request for a conference. He also said neither has a chance of being debated or voted on.

'When we receive that message from the House ... I’ll make a motion to table it,' he said.
The House passed that measure by a 228-199 vote around 1:00 a.m., officially 'insisting' that its Obamacare-related amendments should be adopted in the Senate, and requesting the conference committee.

The real death-knell for House GOP efforts, however, came at 11:45 p.m. when New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, the top Democrat on the rules committee, said she wouldn't support such a conference.

Faced with a government shutdown whose political implications are far from certain, Obama recorded a video message for U.S. military personnel in which he avoided blaming the GOP, saying only that 'Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility'

The 1995-1996 federal government shutdown lasted a total of 28 days but left few economic scars as GDP growth skyrocketed after the government reopened. Republicans are hoping the public remembers that the result wasn't as apocalyptic as some had feared

The coldest cut: New York Rep. Louise Slaughter, the Democrats' ranking member of the House Rules Committee, killed the idea of a bipartisan conference committee where House and Senate leaders could meet to iron out a solution

Conference committees, she said, should be reserved for ironing out minor differences in competing versions of legislation that both the House and Senate had already passed.
And 'it's too late now,' Slaughter added, looking at the clock in the House chamber.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor tweeted before 11:00 p.m. that the GOP's final attempt at a resolution would be 'a motion insisting on our last amendment and request a conference with the Senate.'

WHAT HAPPENS IN A SHUTDOWN

Up to one million U.S. federal workers may face furloughs without pay beginning Tuesday morning.

All military personnel will continue in a normal duty status but a large number of civilian employees may be temporarily furloughed.

The employees who will be put on unpaid leave are those classified as excepted workers, meaning that the president's staff of 1,265 at the White House will dwindle to 436.

Staff at National Parks and museums across the country will be stopped from coming to work, closing those sites to the public.

Both domestic and international air travel will remain relatively unchanged as air traffic controllers will be kept at their posts and TSA agents will continue security checks. One problem may arise as the State Department will be understaffed, meaning that while it will not stop processing passport applications.

Federal courts will remain open for about 10 business days. By October 15, the federal judiciary will need to provide more guidance.

Meat inspectors for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, considered necessary to national food security, will stay on job.

That amendment came hours earlier, as the GOP-led House passed its third failed attempt at a stopgap budget resolution. Their legislative language sought to delay for a year the Obamacare law's so-called 'individual mandate' that forces Americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

Earlier in the day, Republicans had also sought to close a loophole that subsidizes 75 per cent of the resulting costs for members of Congress, their staffers, and White House aides, and to repeal an unpopular medical device tax.

Twelve Republicans defected from their party in the 228-201 vote, including a handful of moderates who have grown weary of the budget squabbles and some conservatives who don't believe the House GOP's position is strict enough.
As Washington-watchers had seen twice already, the Senate quickly 'tabled' – disregarded – the proposition on a 56-44 party-line tally, leaving a few hours for the House GOP to start the dance all over again before the clock strikes twelve.

House Republicans' strategy has been to make Senate Democrats look like an intransigent 'party of "no," forcing them to either act or face at least part of the blame for the first government shutdown since the 1995-1996 fiscal year.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican seen as a moderate foil to fire-breathing tea partiers like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said Monday evening after the Senate's third consecutive dismissal of a House proposal that 'Americans don't want a government shutdown and they don't want Obamacare. But Senate Democrats have once again blocked a House-passed bill to keep the government open while protecting Americans from the consequences of Obamacare.'

'Unfortunately,' he added, 'Senate Democrats have made it perfectly clear that they’d rather shut down the federal government than accept even the most reasonable changes to Obamacare. It’s past time that Democrat leaders listen to the American people and act.'

Spin room: Senator Ted Cruz is one of the top Republicans pushing for Obamacare to be gutted and pressing to make it a condition of funding the government

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said 'Americans don't want a government shutdown and they don't want Obamacare'

Cruz, who spearheaded a marathon quasi-filibuster last week on the Senate floor marked with absolutist pitches for 'no compromise,' seemed to soften that stance Monday afternoon by hoping out loud for Senate approval of a watered-down GOP proposal from the House.

'If the House of Representatives acts tonight,' he said, 'I believe this Senate should come back immediately and pass ... whatever the House passes. I don't know what it will be, but it will be yet another good faith effort to keep the government running and to address the train wreck of a law that is Obamacare.'

President Barack Obama castigated the Republicans on Monday afternoon, saying they aimed to 'extract a ransom' from the White House as a condition of continuing to fund his administration past midnight, when the federal government's fiscal year ends.
Maintaining their leverage by insisting on changes to the Obamacare law as a condition of writing a new series of checks, he said 'would throw a wrench into the gears of our economy.'

TROUBLE FOR TRAVELLERS AS ICONIC SITES CLOSE AFTER SHUTDOWN

Tourists in the U.S., whether they are American or not, are likely to be seriously affected by the government shutdown.

National parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite will be closed for as long as the shutdown continues, with anyone staying in campsites or on-site hotels forced to leave within two days.

World-famous attractions such as the Statue of Liberty, Philadelphia's Independence Hall and the Smithsonian Institute will also be closed to visitors until funding is restored.

Even American military cemeteries outside the U.S. will be closed, as their operation is funded by the federal government.

Airports are expected to run as normal, as immigration, security and air traffic control are all considered to be essential services which continue to run no matter what.

Passport offices are supposed to stay open, but some are located within federal buildings which are otherwise closed.

Visa applications could also be affected, but the State Department claims that as consular services are self-funding they will be able to continue.

Preparing for the shutdown: The President ran through the various sections of the federal government that will be forced closed as of midnight on Monday if a deal is not struck

Rep. Kevin Brady has argued that Obamacare isn't ready for prime-time, and that a special exemption for members of Congress and their staffers should be yanked out of the White House's implementation plan because it wasn't in the written law

'The federal government is America's largest employer,' Obama reminded reporters at the White House, cataloging the categories of civil servants whose income he said would be threatened by a government shutdown if Republicans in the House of Representatives don't 'pass a budget and pay America's bills.'

Social Security and Medicare payments, he conceded, would continue, and the Postal Service would still deliver the mail. Government workers involved with national security, public safety, air-traffic control, prisons and border control, though would find their daily lives affected.

SAFE: Military servicemen and servicewomen will not see their paychecks interrupted, thanks to the sole bright spot of cooperation in an otherwise politically rancorous Monday

Obama said 'their paychecks will be delayed.'
Office buildings would close, he said, and services for seniors, veterans, women and children 'would be hamstrung.'

Obama said military servicemen and women wouldn't be affected, a change from earlier in the day. That's because House Republicans passed a standalone bill funding Pentagon salaries regardless of whether or not other government agencies shut down at midnight.

And in contrast with a series of other unqualified denials, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declined to block the legislation.

Senators passed it by unanimous consent, in a move that didn't require a roll call vote. Obama signed it into law at about 10:00 p.m.

'They weren't going to stand in the way of soldiers' paychecks,' a senior aide to a Republican senator told MailOnline, speaking on condition of anonymity. 'Harry Reid wasn't about to commit political suicide today.'
As the president took the podium, the White House's Office of Management and Budget issued a statement saying that '[b]y including extraneous measures that have no place in a government funding bill and that the President and Senate already made clear are unacceptable, House Republicans are pushing the Government toward shutdown.'
If a GOP-amended budget reached the president's desk, OMB said, 'he would veto the bill.'

'It does not have to happen,' Obama scolded. 'All of this is entirely preventable if the House chooses to do what the Senate has already done, and that's the simple act of funding our government without making extraneous and controversial demands in the process.'
'One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to re-fight the results of the election.' he said.

Not happy: President Obama said he will not negotiate over Congress' obligation to approve payment of obligations the government has already approved

Dog and pony show: The President met with his Cabinet on Monday in preparation for the seemingly inevitable shutdown

He saved special scorn for the right wing of the GOP, whose tea party House caucus has held moderates in line by refusing to back what Senate Democrats have called a 'clean' spending resolution – one that doesn't involve changes to the Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature health insurance overhaul law.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accused Republicans in the House of being crazy, slamming them for presenting proposal after proposal even though Senate Democrats have promised to kill each one until proposed changes to Obamacare are removed

The federal government has shut down 17 times since the end of the Gerald Ford presidency – many of them when Democrats in Congress strong-armed Republican President Ronald Reagan – but the 24-hour news cycle and online social media have made this year's budget brinksmanship especially toxic.
Club For Growth, an influential conservative political group, immediately renewed its call for House members to support Republicans' plan instead.

After several successive drafts interrupted by a 2:30 p.m. rejection from the Senate, the GOP's proposal sought a one-year delay in the Obamacare law's 'individual mandate' to buy health insurance, and a measure forcing members of Congress and their staffs to forgo insurance subsidies that ordinary taxpayers won't receive.

Earlier in the day, Republicans dispensed with plans to demand a one-year implementation delay in the entire Obamacare law, along with the repeal of a new 2.3 per cent medical device tax.

Senate Democrats said Monday afternoon that they wouldn't support that tax repeal, although a similar measure won the backing of 79 out of 100 senators earlier this year.

The federal government has shut down over legislative squabbles 17 times since the early 1970s, about once every 29 months

Ebullient: Sen. Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, rejoiced that her party had killed a 'radical bill' from House Republicans that 'was deliberately designed to be politically provocative'

Tea party partisans on the Republican Party's right wing had said since before the Obamacare law passed Supreme Court muster that it will have unintended negative consequences on the economy, and that it's an unconstitutional attempt to force Americans to buy a service – health insurance – that they may not want.

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S MESSAGE

Obama recorded a video message on Monday evening for U.S. military men and women. It was broadcast on Armed Forces Television at midnight:

'Unfortunately, Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility, It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much of our government must now shut down until Congress funds it again.'
'Those of you in uniform will remain on your normal duty status. The threats to our national security have not changed, and we need you to be ready for any contingency. ... Congress has passed, and I am signing into law, legislation to make sure you get your paychecks on time.'
'To all our DOD civilians: I know the days ahead could mean more uncertainty, including possible furloughs. And I know this comes on top of the furloughs that many of you already endured this summer. You and your families deserve better than the dysfunction we’re seeing in Congress. Your talents and dedication help keep our military the best in the world. That’s why I’ll keep working to get Congress to reopen our government and get you back to work as soon as possible.'

Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots, said Monday in an emphatic statement that members of Congress should 'do your duty and protect the American public from this catastrophic law! ... Obamacare is not ready! Big labor, big government, and big business all know this and have already asked for exemption from this disaster.'
'You are the duly elected Representatives let the Senate know that a delay of the entire law is absolutely necessary, and fair.'

Obama also assured Americans on Monday that no matter what happens, a government shutdown won't affect the planned Oct. 1 rollout of Obamacare's state-level health insurance exchanges.

'You can't shut it down,' he said, claiming that the law is 'already providing benefits to millions of Americans.'
'You don't get to extract a ransom just for doing your job.'

Senate Democrats have maintained that their Republican counterparts in the House are radicals, bent on forcing the White House into a needless surrender on a health insurance law that has been passed on party-line votes and approved by the Supreme Court.

'We have just tabled the radical bill that the House sent over to us. It was deliberately designed to be politically provocative,' Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski said in a statement. 'Continuing Resolutions have always been about disputes over money. They were not about political, ideological viewpoints over past legislation.'

President Obama slammed the GOP for holding the budget for 'ransom' by sticking to its guns on Obamacare

Tea Party Patriots coordinator Jenny Beth Martin urged Republicans to stand their ground. A 'delay of the entire law is absolutely necessary, and fair,' she said. 'Anything less is unacceptable!'

GLOBAL STOCKS FALL AS TRADERS FEAR A DEBT CEILING BATTLE

Shares around the world fell today following the U.S. government shutdown, amidst fears that Congress might fail to raise the nation's borrowing limit later this month.

In Britain, the FTSE 100 was down 22 points at 6,440, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index tumbled 1.5 per cent and the dollar fell to its lowest level since February.

Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 129 points, or 0.8 percent, to close at 15,129.67. The S&P 500 slid or 0.6 percent, to 1,681.55 and the Nasdaq composite dropped 10 points, to 3,771.48.

While investors are clearly worried about the shutdown, which will depress the national economy by keeping government workers away from their desks, the damage is relatively small compared to the chaos which will follow if the debt ceiling is not lifted by mid-October.

But most House Republicans stuck to their guns, even as some news reports depicted a GOP in turmoil with a group of moderates encouraging conservatives to give up their fight.

'Senate Democrats have a clear choice: Protect special treatment for themselves and the politically connected, or shut down the government,' Texas Republican Rep. Kevin Brady said. 'I hope they put America’s middle class ahead of their own privileged class.
'Obamacare isn’t ready for families, patients and workers,' he claimed. 'Why don’t they get the same one-year waiver others have gotten? I hope the Senate doesn’t protect the politically connected and needlessly shut down the government.'

Brady's statement said the White House has acknowledged a host of implementation problems with the Affordable Care Act which could be fixed given a year-long delay.

As he has in recent weeks, Obama emphasized the value of low-cost health insurance plans, without noting that those policies' high deductibles can make a patient's out-of-pocket medical costs dwarf the policy's official price tag

The president said Republicans were 'sacrificing the health care of millions of Americans' by refusing to endorse the plan advanced by Senate Democrats.
He also hinted at his preference for a long-term solution, instead of stopgap measures that some Republicans have suggested publicly.

'Does anybody truly believe we won't have this fight again in a few more months?' Obama asked. 'Even at Christmas?'

WHAT DOES THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN MEAN FOR AMERICA?

What will happen during the shutdown?

All non-essential government services will close and their staff put on unpaid leave. More than 80 per cent of staff at bodies such as Nasa and the Environmental Protection Agency will be 'furloughed', but courts, the military and veterans' affairs will remain functioning almost as normal. National parks and government-funded museums such as the Smithsonian will be closed. Social Security pension payments and the 'Obamacare' health reforms will not be affected, because they are funded separately.

What happens next?

Democrats and Republicans will return to the negotiating table - but since neither side has been willing to compromise so far, it is hard to predict when they will reach an agreement. The White House insists it will not accept any delay to the implementation of Obamacare, the President's main legislative achievement, which tea party Republicans virulently oppose. The last shutdown, in 1996, lasted 21 days - this one could be much shorter, or it could be even longer.

What is the economic effect?

The shutdown is predicted to cost the American economy more than $1billion a day, according to Goldman Sachs, thanks to the drop in output caused by federal workers staying at home, and the loss of tourism.

SHUTDOWN: President Obama's message following historic loss

Ladybbird · 12-10-13, 21:39

America is Becoming Ungovernable: MAX HASTINGS' Chilling Verdict on the Visceral Political Hatreds Behind the Shutdown of the US Government

By Daily Mail UK, 12 October 2013

Washington this week has basked in autumnal sunshine and bitter hatred. Like players in one of those Hollywood movies about a divided hick town with lynch mobs baying, the legislators of the greatest nation on earth trade insults about blame for the government shutdown, resulting from the stand-off on the U.S. budget.

‘These people are Neanderthals,’ thundered a Democratic congressman. The Senate’s chaplain, Barry Black, rolled his eyes skywards and said: ‘Save us from this madness.’

The ‘madness’ is, of course, the insistence of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives that they will vote to enable the federal government to pay its bills only if the White House agrees to suspend or scrap its national health scheme, which they loathe to the point of obsession.

Madness: Protesters display placards during a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington last week urging Congress to pass the budget bill

Obamacare (properly known as ACA, the Affordable Care Act) is the greatest — cynics say the only major — achievement of this disappointing presidency. It provides subsidies and new regulatory procedures to bring health insurance within reach of the poorest Americans. Long-term, it is intended to lower the horrific costs of public healthcare.

Republicans hate the scheme because they claim that it will make medical care more costly for middle America, and extend the reach of the hated federal government.

Yet it is still an extraordinary step to attempt to blackmail the Democratic administration into dropping a measure that became law in 2010.

As a host of commentators point out, if Obama gave way on this issue — as assuredly he will not — the road would be open for his congressional enemies to pull the same stunt about any other law they dislike.

They could defy the intentions of the Founding Fathers of the constitution as flagrantly as the gun nuts who exploit the 1776 provision for militias to bear arms, to enable modern mass murderers to equip themselves with machine-guns. But the Republicans are seized with a self-righteousness which is impervious to reason.

Not backing down: If Obama gave way on this issue, as assuredly he will not, the road would
be open for his congressional enemies to pull the same stunt about any other law they dislike

All week, a procession of fat, solemn, smug legislators has filled the country’s television screens, blaming the current farce on Barack Obama.

‘The President is using his enormous powers against the American people,’ said Utah Senator Mike Lee, ‘by refusing to recognise the enormous harm Obamacare is doing.’

One of the foremost advocates of the shutdown, Texan Congressman Randy Neugebauer, had the brass neck publicly to berate a Washington park ranger who had to explain to a couple of veterans they could not visit the World War II Memorial which — like all museums and monuments — has been forced to close to the public.

Bobby Jindal, Republican Governor of Louisiana, accuses the President of ‘obstinacy’, while another congressman charges Obama with ‘shamelessly pursuing his own political interests at the expense of the American people’.

This is serpent-speak, of course. But seldom, if ever, has the chasm between the sophistication of America’s East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle American lawmakers yawned wider.

At dinner parties in the capital this week, I have listened to government officials and academics venting fury about the irresponsibility of the Republicans.

‘Their behaviour is holding America up to ridicule,’ said my neighbour on Tuesday night. A State Department official said crossly: ‘We’re still working in my department for the next couple of weeks at least, but we can’t spend any money. This is a huge embarrassment.’

Impervious to reason: Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has accused the President
of using his 'enormous powers against the American people'

In Britain, most MPs of all parties consider Westminster to be as much home as their constituencies.

But the United States is different. The senators and congressmen who fly into Washington on Monday nights and jet out again on Thursdays never cease to belong first and always to Kansas, Montana, Alabama or wherever else they hail from.

President Eisenhower said ruefully about Washington: ‘Everyone is too far from home.’
Most Republican constituencies are not merely thousands of miles from the capital; they are also culturally light years distant.

Many of the legislators orchestrating the federal shutdown feel as foreign among East Coast smart-asses — as they would characterise Washington’s elite — as did the Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett when he was elected to Congress in 1826.

Constituency boundaries have always been ruthlessly manipulated to create safe seats for either Republicans or Democrats. The consequence is that party primary elections are often decisive in determining who gets to go to Washington.

This is how the powerful Right-wing Tea Party, dedicated activists, have gained such leverage. Incumbent Republicans live in mortal dread of being ousted at election time not by Democrats, but by far-out Right-wingers on their own side.

Divided: Seldom, if ever, has the chasm between the sophistication of America's East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle American lawmakers yawned wider

Even if they would like to act temperately in this crisis, they dare not.

What a crew they are. Steve Stockman, a Texan who sits in the House of Representatives, is a former homeless man who has faced drugs charges. He distributed bumper stickers during his last election campaign urging the arming of foetuses: ‘If Babies had Guns, They Wouldn’t be Aborted!’

The grassroots are obsessed with firearms. I have sometimes struck up casual conversations about gun law in rural states such as Kansas or Wyoming; it is like holding a dialogue with Martians.

Many people out there sincerely believe the federal government may descend on their homes at any moment to confiscate their pistols and assault rifles, to appease the evil socialist anti-gun lobby. They insist that they must be ready to defend themselves. I have even heard one group cite a threat from extra-terrestrials.

In Britain, we sometimes deplore the decline of religion. But we should take heed of how malign its influence can be, not only in the Muslim world but also in much of the U.S. To be sure, American churches are packed on Sundays, but the gospel of intolerance which some espouse contributes mightily to today’s Washington political gridlock.

Fear is what a lot of this is about.

The Fox TV channel — the Wailing Wall of the American Right — currently advertises a hot best-seller entitled National Bankruptcy — Why The Middle Class Is Doomed. Most Republicans hate 2013.

They want to reset the clock to around 1955, when the world lived in terror of nuclear annihilation, but when Dwight Eisenhower occupied the White House, women and blacks knew their place, there was no swearing on TV, and sex was kept in its proper place under the carpet.

The British middle classes relish nostalgia: some root for UKIP because they fancy the weather would improve if we could leave Europe. But in our hearts, most of us accept that life moves on; even that some change is for the better.

But rural Republicans are not like that. They believe they have the right, duty and even power to roll back the 21st century. This week I chatted to a diplomat’s wife who attended both 2012 party conventions, who remarked on the contrast between them.

The Democratic event in Charlotte, North Carolina, featured delegates who were every colour of the rainbow, many of them young, all willing to hope.

The Republican get-together took place in a heavily-armed fortress in Tampa, Florida, and was attended almost exclusively by white-haired, white-skinned folk bereft of hope, moved only by their fears. If that seems a caricature, fast forward to now.

Those same Tampa dinosaurs have shut down large parts of Washington for 11 days. There is a real possibility that rather than give way, they will drive the jalopy over the cliff and subject the U.S. and the rest of the world to a traumatic debt default.

America has become the test-bed for a crisis of democracy.

'Exclusively by white-haired, white-skinned folk bereft of hope, moved only by their fears,' Republican senators Mike Lee, Mike Enzi, Tim Scott and Ted Cruz leave the White House yesterday

For centuries, the system has operated on the basis that societies acquiesce in majority poll verdicts.

Now, however, this principle is being fiercely challenged. Obamacare may have passed into law, have been tested in the Supreme Court, and upheld there in 2012. Yet the Republicans refuse to sanction government spending unless the measure is suspended or repealed.

Can anything be said in mitigation of their behaviour?

Obamacare is indisputably flawed — but so are all welfare systems.

There is a frightening debt chasm between U.S. government tax- raising and spending for which both parties share blame, but which Obama has made no real effort to address.

Even Democrats privately fume about the fact that their President may do some statesmanship, but he does not do much politics.

It is vital for all political leaders to privately meet, smooch and cut deals with legislators on whose votes they depend to implement their policies. Yet Barack Obama recoils from glad-handing.

This cool, even cold, man finds it hard to charm his friends, never mind his enemies. His natural habitat is a platform from which he can broadcast to a multitude. All successful reformers in U.S. history, notably including Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, owed most of their achievements to backroom skills such as Barack Obama lacks.

He would argue: ‘Yeah, but that was before the Tea Party came along.’ That was also before a substantial minority of the American people became seized with such manic distrust of their own government that they decided that any and all means are justified to frustrate its purposes.

Their hatred of President Obama is truly frightening.

It is no exaggeration to say that though they call themselves Christians, a terrifying number would rejoice to see him dead. That is how poisonous is the political climate of the U.S. today.

What Happens Next?

Polls show that the American people hold the Republicans chiefly responsible for the current mess. The party’s moderates are desperate to extricate themselves. But behind them stand the Tea Party’s gunslingers, holding ****ed pistols to their heads.

Outrage: Protestors in front of the closed Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
rally against the shutdown, many are angry that America is being held up to ridicule

A year ago, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said that he would have no part of an attempt to exploit the budget to wreck Obamacare, ‘the law of the land’.

Now, however, the wretched man is doing exactly what he promised not to, because he is battered and bullied by the extremists.
That description seems perfectly just, after listening to some of their commentaries on the crisis.
For example, Florida Republican Congressman Ted Yoho asserts that a continuing refusal to raise the government debt ceiling — forcing America to default on its obligations — ‘would bring stability to world markets’.

A Louisiana comrade calls Obamacare ‘the most existential threat to our economy since the Great Depression’.

In a way, the Republicans have done Obama a favour by hoisting their flag of defiance behind a demand so extravagant that the President cannot possibly yield.

He must win in the end, though, because defeat would spell the shipwreck of America’s system of government.

But this is already holed on the waterline.

I wandered down Pennsylvania Avenue the other evening, reflecting on the recorded message that greets phone-callers to the White House: ‘Due to the lapse in federal funding, we are unable to take your call.’

For all: The affordable care bill - known as Obamacare would bring bring health insurance within reach of the poorest Americans and long-term, is intended to lower the horrific costs of public healthcare

Among the gawkers outside the railings of the Obama residence, I noticed a perspiring, overweight man wearing a T-shirt bearing the enigmatic message;

‘GAME OVER’.

Alas, it is not.

America remains the greatest society on earth, but its leadership looks sickly and feeble, for reasons that relate partly to this President but mostly to the fact that the U.S. constitution and its standard- bearers are failing their country.

In the name of freedom, the Supreme Court, third pillar of the check-and-balance system, persistently hands down conservative decisions which worsen the politics. For instance, the Court upholds the right of billionaires to provide unlimited campaign funding. This means that tiny minorities are empowered by Right-wing billionaires who use their riches as a club to bully and blackmail elected representatives.

The scariest part is that, even if somehow America struggles out of this crisis without precipitating a global financial disaster — which we should not take for granted — we are getting a preview of the likely pattern of American politics.

So sclerotic is the system, so mountainous the obstacles to reform, that the greatest democracy on earth looks set to shuffle and stumble towards the future, rather than march boldly as its allies hope and need.

The shutdown crisis shows that democratic freedoms, when brutishly abused, can produce consequences almost as scary as those of tyranny.

The United States of America looks frighteningly close to being ungovernable.

Ladybbird · 13-10-13, 12:55

U.S. Just Days away from 'Very Dangerous Moment'

October 13, 2013, 9:28 am

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim addresses the plenary session at the start of
the annual IMF-World Bank fall meetings in Washington, October 11, 2013.

REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the United States was just "days away" from causing a global economic disaster unless politicians come up with a plan to raise the nation's debt limit and avoid default.

US Borrowing Crisis 'Days away' From Disaster, says World Bank Head

Jim Yong Kim: "We are now five days away from a very dangerous moment"

US Budget Row

The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has warned that the United States is just "days away from a very dangerous moment" because of the government's borrowing crisis.
He urged US policymakers to reach a deal to raise the government's debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline.
The US Treasury will start to run short of funds if no agreement is reached for it to borrow on financial markets.
Mr Kim warned this could be a "disastrous event" for the world.
"The closer we get to the deadline the greater the impact will be for the developing world.
"Inaction could result in interest rates rising, confidence falling and growth slowing," said Mr Kim, speaking at the World Bank's annual meeting in Washington.

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There are three examples in US history that come close to default, with the most recent occurring in 1979”

"If this comes to pass it could be a disastrous event for the developing world and that will in turn greatly hurt the developed economies as well," he added.

'Uneasy'

If the US does run short of cash, this could cause it to default on its debts, a development which would be likely to have a severe effect on financial markets around the world.

The BBC's Andrew Walker said that finance ministers from other countries think the US probably won't default, but they are uneasy and want the crisis resolved very soon.

Republicans and Democrats failed to come to an agreement on Saturday, but Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said the aim was to reach a deal on extending the debt limit before markets reopen on Monday.
The White House rejected a deal for a short-term increase to the borrowing limit.

"It wouldn't be wise, as some suggest, to just kick the debt ceiling can down the road for a couple of months, and flirt with a first-ever intentional default right in the middle of the holiday shopping season," said President Barack Obama.

Shutdown

The US government has been in partial shutdown since Congress missed a 1 October deadline to pass a budget, with politicians being unable to agree funding for current spending.
This has resulted in hundreds of thousands of federal employees being sent home and government offices closing.

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announces the reopening of the Grand Canyon National Park

Republicans refused to approve the new budget unless President Obama agreed to delay or eliminate the funding of the healthcare reform law of 2010.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has estimated that each week the government is shut down, 0.25% is shaved off economic growth, which was already expected to be a sluggish this quarter.

Debt Burden

Mr Lew has also has warned that letting talks over the debt ceiling go down to the wire "could be very dangerous".
The current debt limit of $16.699 trillion was reached in May.

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It would ripple through the world economy in a way that you couldn't possibly understand”

Jamie Dimon Chief executive, JP Morgan

Since then the US Treasury has been using what are called extraordinary measures to keep paying the bills, but those measures run out on 17 October.
Every week, the Treasury also has to refinance $100bn worth of debt in the form of US government bonds known as treasuries.
The US also has to pay interest on its huge debt burden.
An inability to pay that interest, or pay back debt if required, would put the US into default.

On Saturday, Jamie Dimon, boss of the American bank JP Morgan said the possible repercussions did not bear thinking about.

"You don't want to know what would happen," he said.

Debt Ceiling Crisis has Other Nations Angry and Scared

By Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Washington

Mr Obama has vowed not to negotiate terms with Republicans in Congress over a bill to raise the US debt ceiling

US Budget Row

At the start of the current US budget standoff, other countries viewed the situation with a mix of sympathy, concern and bemusement. With the 17 October deadline for raising the debt ceiling approaching, however, the international view has changed to fear and anger.
While many abroad have considered a US government shutdown unfortunate and potentially damaging to the global economy, it is a development the world has survived before. But the last time the US came close to defaulting on a sovereign debt obligation was in 1790, when the country was a backwater ex-British colony, a bit player on the world stage.
More recent examples of sovereign default include Mexico (1982), Russia (1998), Argentina (2001) and Greece (2012). Each of those sparked global financial crises that required US intervention. It is unsurprising, then, that with the US itself possibly causing the economic conflagration, foreign observers are hitting the panic button.

'Fundamentally Wrong'
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L Ian MacDonald Columnist, Ottawa Citizen

"What is chilling is that US politicians are willing to engage in a game of brinkmanship that is tantamount to detonating a nuclear device over their economy," writes the Times of India. "A bunch of intransigent American politicians are holding not just President Barack Obama, but the entire world to ransom."

Although the enormity of the crisis has yet to sink in for many around the world, those who are paying attention are starting to call into question an American system of government that would reach this point.

"There is something fundamentally wrong with a system that leaves a country without direction, in stagnation, without a budget and potentially without the wherewithal to settle its debts," writes UAE businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor in The Arab Times.
"Obama must get his own house in order not only for the sake of the American people, but also to retain his nation's revered top slot in the global economic and geopolitical hierarchy before the world concludes the US is just an aging tiger without teeth."

In 2009, Zimbabwe adopted the US dollar as an official currency in order to stanch hyperinflation and bring stability to its economy. Now, it faces a possible American financial collapse that would drag it down, too.

"If the US defaults on its debt this would result in the country's credit rating plummeting and the US dollar falling and thereby causing havoc in the international financial markets," writes the nation's Financial Gazette.

'Thanks, Washington'

A debt default could cause a large drop in the value of US currency.

As America's largest trading partner, Canada faces a heightened threat, as well.
L Ian MacDonald, a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, writes,

"This is a matter involving the good faith and credit of the United States." And because the crisis is already causing the Canadian dollar to increase in value relative to the US dollar, it is adversely affecting Canadian exports. "Thanks, Washington, we needed that," he writes.

Overseas leaders are also expressing their concerns - particularly in Japan and China, the two largest foreign holders of US national debt.
"The US must avoid a situation where it cannot pay, and its triple-A ranking plunges all of a sudden," Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said.

"The US is the world's biggest economy and a major country issuing reserve currency," China's Vice-Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao said during a foreign ministry press conference. "Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the US and the world."

International Monetary Fund official Jose Vinals said that if the US defaults, it "adversely affects advanced economies, emerging markets, low-income countries. It will be a worldwide shock."

The Economist writes that hitting the debt ceiling could mean the US would "slash spending so deeply that it causes a recession. Or it could default on its debts, which would be even worse, and unimaginably more harmful than a mere government shutdown.

No one in Washington is that crazy, surely?"

It's a rhetorical question, but one that many in the world are starting to take seriously.

Ladybbird · 19-08-14, 07:36

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Most Great Empires in History Have Fallen,.. America Will Be NEXT - Tony Benn, Minister of Parliament- over 30 years ago

Ladybbird · 06-09-14, 18:08

& More of How The US Wishes to Control Americans and the World

-A FOREWARNING FOR AMERICA & THE WORLD: THE BIG EVENT 2014-2016 :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuv...ature=youtu.be

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Ladybbird · 16-07-15, 17:15

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Ladybbird · 16-07-15, 19:41

Secretive Military Operation 'Jade Helm' Gets Underway Across Seven States - as Conspiracy Theorists Who Fear it Signals Imminent Martial Law Flock to Monitor 'War Simulation' Exercise

Jade Helm 15, a two-month, seven state war simulation began on Wednesday in central Texas
The scale of the operation raised suspicions which intensified after a map was released that labelled Texas and Utah as hostile territory
The Army has said that exercise locations were selected to replicate foreign combat zones
Conspiracy theorists seized on the exercise and fear the operation is a Federal invasion of Texas and the imminent imposition of martial law
Groups have formed to shadow the military's activities in their own 'intelligence gathering' exercise
Governor Abbott of Texas ordered the State Guard to monitor events
The exercise launched with little fanfare, out of sight of the general public and many took to Twitter to mock the reaction in Texas
As yet there have been no reports of mass arrests or tanks on the streets

Daily Mail UK, 16 July 2015

The U.S. military began its secretive two-month, seven-state military exercise on Wednesday in Texas, as conspiracy theorists prepared for the worst. The massive scale of the operation raised suspicions among right wing groups, many of whom fear the imminent imposition of martial law.

'Jade Helm 15', as the war simulation is known, is acknowledged by the Army as unique given its size and scope, but they insist there is nothing to fear.

Parts of Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Utah, were selected for the operation as their topography is ideal to replicate diverse foreign combat zones.

However, suspicions intensified after some conservative political websites seized on an Army map that labeled Texas and Utah as 'hostile' for the purposes of the simulation.

What should have been a routine training exercise has since spawned bizarre conspiracy theories concerning a Federal invasion of Texas, gun seizures, mass arrests, shuttered Wal-Marts being turned into internment camps and giant secret tunnels criss-crossing the country.

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A convoy of National Guard troops moves on Camp Swift, which is hosting part of the Operation Jade Helm 15 military exercise, in Bastrop, Texas

A warning sign is posted at a gate entrance at Texas Army National Guard Camp Swift, on Wednesday as Jade Helm operations commenced to the alarm of archconservative Texans

Eric Johnston, the Texas organizer for the civilian volunteer group monitoring Jade Helm 15 military training exercises, talks on the phone on Wednesday

Texas Governor Gregg Abbott's office was flooded with calls from fearful constituents.
Fears spilled into public view in April when about 200 people packed a community meeting in Bastrop County, Texas, and questioned an Army commander about whether martial law was imminent.

Despite the geographic range of the exercise, only 1,200 troops will be involved.
Ironically, Texas was chosen because historically Texans are 'supportive of efforts to prepare our soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors to fight the enemies of the United States'.

Nevertheless, groups have formed to monitor the military's activities.

On Wednesday, as the training exercise began, Eric Johnston, a retired Arizona sheriff's deputy and the Texas organizer of a national group called Counter Jade Helm, wore his handgun on his hip as he monitored activity near Bastrop.
Johnston admits that he does not really believe the soldiers are coming to take his gun away, but nevertheless he is ready.

'I would like to think that if the situation were to turn afoul, many more of our people would stand up and come to assist.'

Johnston, who has a white handlebar moustache and conceals his gun beneath his untucked shirt, has 27 volunteers — some armed— positioned across Texas.
Among their number is a monitor he described as a retired Army ranger. He also described their role as that of a neighborhood watch.

Derrick Broze, who describes himself as an activist journalist (left) with friend Mark Jankins (right) takes video at the main gate at Texas Army National Guard Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas

Preparations under way at Camp Swift for Jade Helm 15

Conservative political websites seized upon this map of the training exercise, included in an Army handout, to whip up suspicions that the military was up to something, as both Texas and Utah were labelled as hostile

The group's website states that Counter Jade Helm is a 'training exercise for the people', 'to practice counter-insurgency, organizational and intelligence gathering and reporting skills'.
The 'objective is not to stop or countermand the military's training, but to practice our own skills'.

Johnston emphasized that Counter Jade Helm is not 'radical' like other groups and doesn't believe a military takeover is around the corner.
But he still has his concerns.

'It doesn't make sense that if they're going to practice infiltration skills if they're going to be in uniform,' he said. 'I don't think this is a prelude to martial law. But they're just not being transparent on what they're doing.'

It is not just private citizens that are suspicious about the massive military operation, as Governor Abbott has ordered the State Guard to monitor the military's movements.

Military vehicles prepare for the multi-state summer military training exercise, that has caused alarm among some citizens

Volunteers for Counter Jade Helm are monitoring the military exercise, and groups have sprung up on Facebook, including in states that are not part of the training operation

A convoy of National Guard troops moves on Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas

Governor Gregg Abbott called on the State Guard to keep an eye on the military's operations

Governor Abbott's actions drew sharp rebuke from critics who accused the new Republican governor of pandering to fringe theorists. At least two people mailed tinfoil to his office, with one note reading, 'For your hat!'

No other governor greeted Jade Helm with similar actions, and Abbott has deflected the mocking as overblown. His office had received 15 calls by lunchtime about Jade Helm, and aides were ready to answer.

Bastrop Mayor Ken Kesselus has spent weeks trying to dampen impressions that his city of 8,000 people is a hive of 'wackos and conspiracy theorists.'

'The last few weeks I've had 22 calls. One was from a guy in South Texas who thinks [President Barack] Obama is a communist, a Muslim and evil person and wanted me to warn everybody to hold onto their guns,' Kesselus said. 'The other 21 calls were from press.'

The exercise launched on Wednesday in the exact manner Army officials have spent months patiently describing to conspiracy theorists:
With no fanfare or cause for alarm, but almost entirely out of sight to the general public.

Pops of gunfire echoed beyond the front gates of Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas, though that hardly seemed out of the ordinary on what is a training ground for the Texas National Guard.

As conspiracy theorists took to social media to report power outages and sightings of trucks and other military vehicles, Twitter seized on the opportunity to mock the reaction in Texas.

No citizens were rounded up and imprisoned at Wal-Mart. Tanks didn't rumble down city streets in a declaration of martial law.

This latest exercise is supposed to end on September 15.

Texas judge denies Operation Jade Helm is martial law plot;

Twitter was quick to mock the reaction in Texas to the first day of Jade Helm 15

People on Twitter played upon some of the crazier conspiracy theories

Others were more direct with their reaction

Counter Jade Helm states that it is a training exercise for the people in response to the military's multi-state training, in which citizens will practice 'counter-insurgency' and 'intelligence gathering skills'

The group is mapping out confirmed locations of the Jade Helm 15 military exercise. The website states that its objective is 'not to stop or countermand the military's training, but to practice our own skills'

Despite the fears of some Texans, Main Street in downtown Bastrop, Texas, is quiet on the first day of the Operation Jade Helm 15 military exercise

Fear as Military Launches Jade Helm

Texas Judge Denies Operation Jade Helm is Martial Law Plot

FEMA Camps, Martial Law & Government Stocking up on Food for the Elite + extra Ammunition

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Tarfoot · 17-07-15, 01:38

Can't help but think they're getting prepared for something big that they're not telling the public.

Ladybbird · 17-07-15, 03:02

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Originally Posted by Tarfoot

Can't help but think they're getting prepared for something big that they're not telling the public.

& it started in 1933.....from greedy men in the US wanting to control the world and its' money Tarfoot... Ive been warning for years that something weird is happening in the US, especially about all the secret underground tunnels, even in New York...

You should check out the Zeitgeist Videos (which are posted on this site) to warn people.....

Everything they have predicted for many years has come true....including the strange weather around the world...

Do you think these stock market crashes and world recessions are not suspicious?

Where the heck has all the money gone? and WHY cant President Obama have access & audit the US's gold reserve?

I know of no other country in the world that allows a PRIVATE COMPLANY to own & run the people's Gold Reserve....It is their money after all...

Thanks for your input...

Tarfoot · 17-07-15, 16:20

A lot of the lost money has gone to build these underground bases and tunnels (D.U.M.B.) deep underground military bases. Trillions of dollars gets lost by the military. It ain't lost, just spent on things they don't want the public to know about. The elites are getting prepared for something big coming soon. There is just too much chatter about Sept. 2015. Also have you ever read about the Georgia Guide Stones? Google it if you haven't, strange very strange indeed.

Ladybbird · 24-07-15, 16:21

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Originally Posted by Tarfoot

A lot of the lost money has gone to build these underground bases and tunnels (D.U.M.B.) deep underground military bases. Trillions of dollars gets lost by the military. It ain't lost, just spent on things they don't want the public to know about. The elites are getting prepared for something big coming soon. There is just too much chatter about Sept. 2015. Also have you ever read about the Georgia Guide Stones? Google it if you haven't, strange very strange indeed.

I agree. I discussed this with some of my friends in the US, they are sensible people, but even they think something strange is happening and more to come to control Americians...

07-04-11, 04:18	#1
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Martial Law >Secret Ops Cause Concern to Many Americans>TRUE FACTS The End of America is Coming & Some Americans are Already Preparing-True Facts/VIDEO About 4 years ago, the Dominican Republic's President, Leonel Fernandez, set up, with other Latino countries, (South America & The Caribbean), a Union of countries, rather like Europe, to become independant of the US for many things, including oil. Although the US wanted to be part of those meetings, they have always been refused. China and Russia also asked to be part of the meetings and were finally allowed to be present at one. I posted before about China wanting a new World Currency Reserve, and have done so for a few years now. Well now this has happened. China has joined some other countries in the world and began a new currency. Many Americans in some states of the U.S. have done the same. This is not fiction, but fact. You should really listen to this video all the way through to hear the factual evidence that is presented. I can completely confirm that what is stated in there about the U.K. and Europe really did happen years ago. Now it is happening in the U.S. America can't pay their debts to many countries in the world. How are they surviving at present? They are just printing more $$$$$$$$$$ and have done for years. How come they are the only country in the world that can do this???...........because at present the US $$$ is the World Reserve Currency. Now the powerful countries have had enough, hence the new world currency. I warn you this video is a shocker, at the beginning I thought it was a scam, when the narrator explained he was a Financial Investor, but I decided to continue listening and I am so glad I did. He is not after your money, he gives really sound advice at the end of the video. The American people have no idea of what is really going on and just how many Americans are really unemployed and are on FOOD STAMPS. This report and video were presented recently on a documentary made in the U.S. I am not sure it it was allowed to be aired in the U.S. itself. Video; END of AMERICA If you want more evidence, watch these; Click; ZEITGEIST Moving Forward I have prepared and moved here years ago, and so have many other Europeans and Americans and taken our money and invested it in the Dominican Republic, where we now live. Barclays confirmed it was safe, this is a previous article from last year; Barclays hails Dominican Republic bonds, Bloomberg says New York Stock Exchange. Santo Domingo.- As the Dominican Republic edges closer to reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, its dollar bonds will “outperform” the market, Barclays Plc said, as reported by Bloomberg. “Investors should increase exposure to the Dominican Republic’s bonds,” it said, quoting Barclays analyst Alejandro Grisanti. The New York based news source reports that the country’s dollar bonds maturing in 2013 and 2018 “look cheaper” that its 2011 notes, quoting Grisanti’s report. In mid July, the Government announced it will seek congressional approval to issue billions of dollars in sovereign bonds, to counter a fall in revenue from taxes and in income from the Petrocaribe oil agreement. Attributed to Dominican Today This is great news for those who invest here. Depending on how much you invest, you usually get 13% when you invest in the Banks CD's (Bonds). A great Investment Banker gives 16% on the $ and 19% on the peso investments with him. TAX FREE!!! It is all secure, many Americans and others around the world invest with him. He has an excellent reputation and has been in business for many years. No Government can touch those accounts to spy to make you pay tax on your money earned. If Barclays plc has approved these bonds publicly, you can be sure your money is safe. Barclays is a long time secure British Bank, that has been international for years. Most of the expats that live here also invest their money with him and live comfortably off the interest. His intermeditary bank in the US is Bank of America. Listen to these, it will open your eyes believe me, this started in 1933; US Wants to Control The World . __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

07-04-11, 04:36	#2
dissin Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 91 Thanks: 98 Thanked 28 Times in 19 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs ZEITGEIST Moving Forward I have watched this and and have watched all of them, but I posted on another years ago that china would or could be the next America which I got slamed for saying so. I'll watch this vid now Thanks

07-04-11, 18:18	#3
ratchetjaw666 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 20 Thanks: 127 Thanked 17 Times in 12 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs America is collapsing. But its not necessarily a bad thing. The answer is really quite easy but will never be done. Just shut down the Federal Reserve, go back to the constitution and have a silver, gold backed currency and we just became the world's reserve currency again. Won't happen of course because theres $700 trillion in outstanding derivatives and the bankers would lose a lot of it and a lot of mutual funds and 401k's would be in trouble for some of it. But its time for our generation to pay the cost for what we've done. Default on the debt, start new with a new currency and rebuild.

08-04-11, 14:34	#4
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Dominican Government Bolsters “Two Chinas” policy Rosa NG, President Fernandez inaugurate Chinatown. Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic bolstered its “Two Chinas” policy on Monday, when Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales administered the oath to the economist Rosa Ng Báez, named head of the of Commercial Development Office in Peking. Last Wednesday President Leonel Fernandez issued Decree 145-11, which replaces Carlos M. Gutiérrez and names Ng, a promoter of Chinese culture and president of the Flower for All Foundation.. The post is equivalent to an unofficial ambassador to the Asian giant, given Dominican Republic’s diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Dominican Today END *This is not the only country within the group that has started the new currency that the D.R. is now doing business with,,,,,,,,, go figure folks.* __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

08-04-11, 21:12	#6
ratchetjaw666 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 20 Thanks: 127 Thanked 17 Times in 12 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs If you do some research you will find our leaders have been well aware of whats happening for a long time. Here is an article about the Bush family and there preperations. Code: [Check Download Links] http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/bush_paraguay.htm Don't believe me. Do some research and you'll see whats coming. Some sites have already been scrubbed of some of this information and now a lot of it has been classified top secret so that the public can't read about some of the things that have been done. Yeah I know it sounds all paranoid doesn't it?lol But if you do a lot of reading and a lot of filtering you will find there is a core of truth in a lot of this. Where there's smoke there's fie. Last edited by wolfen; 08-04-11 at 21:51. Reason: Correctly coded links

13-04-11, 20:27	#9
SanctuS Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 55 Thanks: 108 Thanked 48 Times in 32 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs its nice to see others share the information that is tryin to or is already hidden from the eyes of the sheeple in the US.. im very familiar with Peter Joseph's work with the Zeitgeist and others such as Alex Jones.. its a scary thing for it will inevitably change our way of life in the US when our currency crashes.. nice work Lady for the initial share of this.. more eyes open to this so called hidden subject the better.. most call it conspiracy theories.. but that is cause ignorance is bliss for most.. __________________

13-04-11, 20:47	#10
ratchetjaw666 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 20 Thanks: 127 Thanked 17 Times in 12 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Even in todays budget speech by Obama you never see any serious talk about reducing our military industrialized complex. The only thing that will rid us of that enemy is a complete financial collapse. Everything is just so heavily manipulated any more that its hard to distinguish fact from fiction any more.

20-04-11, 18:21	#15
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Yes the Zeitgheist triology says it all and everything so far that they warned about so far has come true (especially in the first documentary. That link in the first post is to all 3. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

27-04-11, 21:42	#16
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Just to update you, some hotels and shops in Europe and other countries will now not accept the US $ as payment for services and goods. "Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of the US than they own of them." Wikipedia "For Pre-Payment Bookings, the price will be fixed in the currency for which payment was originally made. Book Now accepts payments only in EURO and POUNDS STERLING." One European Site's terms It all started here; Chinese Yuan; A new world reserve currency? Only a mere twelve days into the New Year (2011) and China have already set the wheels in motion to use their most powerful weapon, the Yuan, in order to combat inflation. This may well be the first decision of many that will result in the Yuan being phased in as the new world reserve currency. Blacklisted News/Economic Assassion Blog. Timothy Geithner Welcomes a New World Reserve Currency By The Party of No. on March 18, 2011 Two years ago this month there was a lot of talk coming from China and Russia urging for a new world reserve currency in the face of a weakening dollar. In fact the Chinese were calling for the IMF to create a “super-sovereign reserve currency” which would turn the IMF in to a world central bank.It just so happens that the IMF has already had a currency of its own called the SDR since 1969. However at the time that China was calling for a new reserve currency the SDR was not a convertible currency. It was only used to boost the reserves of a particular country, giving that country a stronger balance sheet which allowed that country to borrow more. That all changed in September of 2009 when the IMF made the SDR fully convertible. The IMF also doubled the amount of SDRs in circulation. Last month the IMF announced that it had a plan to use the SDR as the world’s reserve currency and is suggesting that they print trillions of dollars worth within the next few years.What is amazing is that back in March of 2009 when all of the talk coming from China first emerged Timothy Geithner had this to say: Washington is “quite open” to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund. He later had to explain himself further as the dollar started to drop in value. But I think that this statement highlights the fact that the plan all along has been to use the SDR as the new reserve currency, which is being emphasized by the IMF’s recent plan. What we as Americans need to prepare for is the possibility of a new world reserve currency. If we lose this status, US Dollar demand will drop dramatically and will cause a massive loss in value for the Dollar. This will cut the value of anything that is Dollar denominated. There are many ways to protect yourself, but at ITM Trading we believe that gold is the best way to do it as it is the only true form of real money. Gold is a currency in its own right. It is the perfect hedge against inflation, hyperinflation or currency collapse. The handwriting is on the wall in regards to where the dollar is headed. We can’t keep printing money to bail ourselves out; the world just won’t allow it for too much longer. END Boy what predictive words they were...... Don't shoot the messenger guys, I just report the news, I dont make it. Gold and Silver have zoomed in price this year alone. This all supports what the commentator reports in that first documentary link I gave you in post 1. I think he prepared that last year. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

29-04-11, 05:20	#17
SanctuS Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 55 Thanks: 108 Thanked 48 Times in 32 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs nice reporting.. ty Lady.. __________________

29-04-11, 18:27	#19
ratchetjaw666 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 20 Thanks: 127 Thanked 17 Times in 12 Posts	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs I doubt the yuan will be the nest reserve currency. I would more suspect that China along with the rest of the BRICS nations will put together some sort of hybrid like the euro. But the writing is on the wall. The US dollar will not be the reserve currency in the future. The only way we will be able to retain that position would be to go back to gold and silver backed currency, but to do that gold and silver will have to be removed from the comex board or it would result in huge inflation. The fact is there will be no changes to US policy on currency. The powers that be would prefer to collapse our economy so that they could purchase assets at pennies on the dollar.

14-07-11, 19:17	#21
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Read this from today 14th July 2011; US MAY LOSE CREDIT RATING __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

22-07-11, 13:59	#22
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Federal Reserve Actively Preparing For The Possibility Of U.S. Default 22/7/11 03:59 PM ET. Huffington Post The Federal Reserve is actively preparing for the possibility that the United States could default as a deadline for raising the government's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit looms, a top Fed policymaker said on Wednesday. Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said the Fed has for the past few months been working closely with Treasury, ironing out what to do if the world's biggest economy runs out of cash on August 2. "We are in contingency planning mode," Plosser told Reuters in an interview at the regional central bank's headquarters in Philadelphia. "We are all engaged ... It's a very active process." Plosser said his "gut feeling" was that President Barack Obama and Congress will come to an agreement to increase the Treasury's borrowing authority in time to avert a default on government obligations. Obama was due to meet with top Republicans in Congress on Wednesday to discuss the latest attempts to end the dispute over raising the country's debt ceiling, a row which has raised the prospect of the Treasury Department running out of money to pay its bills next month. The Treasury has repeatedly said default was unthinkable and that there was no alternative to raising the debt ceiling, and Plosser's remarks marked the most extensive public comments on the matter from a U.S. official. One aspect of the Fed's contingency planning is purely operational: the Fed is developing procedures about how the Treasury will let it know which checks will get cleared and which won't, Plosser said. The Fed effectively acts as the Treasury's bank -- it clears the government's checks to everyone from social security recipients to government workers. "We are developing processes and procedures by which the Treasury communicates to us what we are going to do," Plosser said, adding that the task was manageable. "How the Fed is going to go about clearing government checks. Which ones are going to be good? Which ones are not going to be good?" "There are a lot of people working on what we would do and how we would do it," he said. Plosser added that there are difficult questions that the Fed itself had to grapple with. The Fed lends to banks at the discount window against good collateral. But what happens if U.S. Treasuries no longer fit that bill? "Do we treat them as if they didn't default, in which case we would be saying we are pretending it never happened? Or do we treat them as if they defaulted and don't lend against them?" Plosser said. "Those are more policy questions." Plosser, who was a vocal critic of some of the Fed's extraordinary lending during the financial crisis -- which he said veered into fiscal policy and risked the central bank's independence -- warned it would be crucial for the Fed not to do the Treasury's work for it. "We have to be very careful that we don't become, that we don't conduct fiscal policy in this context," he said. "That we don't substitute for the inability of the Treasury to borrow in some circumstances." That said, the Fed, which is charged with ensuring financial stability, would clearly feel the responsibility to step in as a lender of last resort if markets seized up after a U.S. default, he added. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke last week warned that a default could have "catastrophic" effects on financial markets. Plosser, a former dean of the Simon School of Business at Rochester University, was more circumspect. "It could be very bad. At some level we don't really know what the consequences could be. It could be very serious. It could be less serious. Do we really want to run that experiment?" Plosser is a voting member of the Fed's monetary policy-setting committee this year. (Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

26-07-11, 23:42	#23
pop Official Site Mascot/Moderator Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,176 Thanks: 2,013 Thanked 1,002 Times in 636 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs This was on the news this morning, Australia and some spokesman from the US says they have till tuesday to default or borrow more money? Wow its come on rather suddenly.

31-07-11, 20:01	#25
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07-11-11, 05:18	#26
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Things are getting worse for the US AMERICA's GHOST TOWNS You can now find all the Zeitgeist predictive true Documentary Movies on our site; Zeitgeist.The.Movie.2007.DVDRip.XviD-ZG Zeitgeist.Addendum.2008.DVDRip.XviD-MoH Zeitgeist Moving Forward XviD-TehDiNGO and the trailer for the new one about to come out on the Zeitgeist home site here; Zeitgeist Everything they predicted has come true and this all started in 1933 by power and money hungry greedy American money men __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

07-11-11, 07:31	#27
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26-03-12, 01:05	#28
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs Another group of Americans claim the US is actually bankrupt already. Click this; America Bankrupt? __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

12-10-13, 21:39	#30
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: VIDEO-US is Becoming Ungovernable >>ShutDown America is Becoming Ungovernable: MAX HASTINGS' Chilling Verdict on the Visceral Political Hatreds Behind the Shutdown of the US Government By Daily Mail UK, 12 October 2013 Washington this week has basked in autumnal sunshine and bitter hatred. Like players in one of those Hollywood movies about a divided hick town with lynch mobs baying, the legislators of the greatest nation on earth trade insults about blame for the government shutdown, resulting from the stand-off on the U.S. budget. ‘These people are Neanderthals,’ thundered a Democratic congressman. The Senate’s chaplain, Barry Black, rolled his eyes skywards and said: ‘Save us from this madness.’ The ‘madness’ is, of course, the insistence of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives that they will vote to enable the federal government to pay its bills only if the White House agrees to suspend or scrap its national health scheme, which they loathe to the point of obsession. Madness: Protesters display placards during a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington last week urging Congress to pass the budget bill Obamacare (properly known as ACA, the Affordable Care Act) is the greatest — cynics say the only major — achievement of this disappointing presidency. It provides subsidies and new regulatory procedures to bring health insurance within reach of the poorest Americans. Long-term, it is intended to lower the horrific costs of public healthcare. Republicans hate the scheme because they claim that it will make medical care more costly for middle America, and extend the reach of the hated federal government. Yet it is still an extraordinary step to attempt to blackmail the Democratic administration into dropping a measure that became law in 2010. As a host of commentators point out, if Obama gave way on this issue — as assuredly he will not — the road would be open for his congressional enemies to pull the same stunt about any other law they dislike. They could defy the intentions of the Founding Fathers of the constitution as flagrantly as the gun nuts who exploit the 1776 provision for militias to bear arms, to enable modern mass murderers to equip themselves with machine-guns. But the Republicans are seized with a self-righteousness which is impervious to reason. Not backing down: If Obama gave way on this issue, as assuredly he will not, the road would be open for his congressional enemies to pull the same stunt about any other law they dislike All week, a procession of fat, solemn, smug legislators has filled the country’s television screens, blaming the current farce on Barack Obama. ‘The President is using his enormous powers against the American people,’ said Utah Senator Mike Lee, ‘by refusing to recognise the enormous harm Obamacare is doing.’ One of the foremost advocates of the shutdown, Texan Congressman Randy Neugebauer, had the brass neck publicly to berate a Washington park ranger who had to explain to a couple of veterans they could not visit the World War II Memorial which — like all museums and monuments — has been forced to close to the public. Bobby Jindal, Republican Governor of Louisiana, accuses the President of ‘obstinacy’, while another congressman charges Obama with ‘shamelessly pursuing his own political interests at the expense of the American people’. This is serpent-speak, of course. But seldom, if ever, has the chasm between the sophistication of America’s East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle American lawmakers yawned wider. At dinner parties in the capital this week, I have listened to government officials and academics venting fury about the irresponsibility of the Republicans. ‘Their behaviour is holding America up to ridicule,’ said my neighbour on Tuesday night. A State Department official said crossly: ‘We’re still working in my department for the next couple of weeks at least, but we can’t spend any money. This is a huge embarrassment.’ Impervious to reason: Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has accused the President of using his 'enormous powers against the American people' In Britain, most MPs of all parties consider Westminster to be as much home as their constituencies. But the United States is different. The senators and congressmen who fly into Washington on Monday nights and jet out again on Thursdays never cease to belong first and always to Kansas, Montana, Alabama or wherever else they hail from. President Eisenhower said ruefully about Washington: ‘Everyone is too far from home.’ Most Republican constituencies are not merely thousands of miles from the capital; they are also culturally light years distant. Many of the legislators orchestrating the federal shutdown feel as foreign among East Coast smart-asses — as they would characterise Washington’s elite — as did the Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett when he was elected to Congress in 1826. Constituency boundaries have always been ruthlessly manipulated to create safe seats for either Republicans or Democrats. The consequence is that party primary elections are often decisive in determining who gets to go to Washington. This is how the powerful Right-wing Tea Party, dedicated activists, have gained such leverage. Incumbent Republicans live in mortal dread of being ousted at election time not by Democrats, but by far-out Right-wingers on their own side. Divided: Seldom, if ever, has the chasm between the sophistication of America's East Coast and the primitive passions and thought processes of middle American lawmakers yawned wider Even if they would like to act temperately in this crisis, they dare not. What a crew they are. Steve Stockman, a Texan who sits in the House of Representatives, is a former homeless man who has faced drugs charges. He distributed bumper stickers during his last election campaign urging the arming of foetuses: ‘If Babies had Guns, They Wouldn’t be Aborted!’ The grassroots are obsessed with firearms. I have sometimes struck up casual conversations about gun law in rural states such as Kansas or Wyoming; it is like holding a dialogue with Martians. Many people out there sincerely believe the federal government may descend on their homes at any moment to confiscate their pistols and assault rifles, to appease the evil socialist anti-gun lobby. They insist that they must be ready to defend themselves. I have even heard one group cite a threat from extra-terrestrials. In Britain, we sometimes deplore the decline of religion. But we should take heed of how malign its influence can be, not only in the Muslim world but also in much of the U.S. To be sure, American churches are packed on Sundays, but the gospel of intolerance which some espouse contributes mightily to today’s Washington political gridlock. Fear is what a lot of this is about. The Fox TV channel — the Wailing Wall of the American Right — currently advertises a hot best-seller entitled National Bankruptcy — Why The Middle Class Is Doomed. Most Republicans hate 2013. They want to reset the clock to around 1955, when the world lived in terror of nuclear annihilation, but when Dwight Eisenhower occupied the White House, women and blacks knew their place, there was no swearing on TV, and sex was kept in its proper place under the carpet. The British middle classes relish nostalgia: some root for UKIP because they fancy the weather would improve if we could leave Europe. But in our hearts, most of us accept that life moves on; even that some change is for the better. But rural Republicans are not like that. They believe they have the right, duty and even power to roll back the 21st century. This week I chatted to a diplomat’s wife who attended both 2012 party conventions, who remarked on the contrast between them. The Democratic event in Charlotte, North Carolina, featured delegates who were every colour of the rainbow, many of them young, all willing to hope. The Republican get-together took place in a heavily-armed fortress in Tampa, Florida, and was attended almost exclusively by white-haired, white-skinned folk bereft of hope, moved only by their fears. If that seems a caricature, fast forward to now. Those same Tampa dinosaurs have shut down large parts of Washington for 11 days. There is a real possibility that rather than give way, they will drive the jalopy over the cliff and subject the U.S. and the rest of the world to a traumatic debt default. America has become the test-bed for a crisis of democracy. 'Exclusively by white-haired, white-skinned folk bereft of hope, moved only by their fears,' Republican senators Mike Lee, Mike Enzi, Tim Scott and Ted Cruz leave the White House yesterday For centuries, the system has operated on the basis that societies acquiesce in majority poll verdicts. Now, however, this principle is being fiercely challenged. Obamacare may have passed into law, have been tested in the Supreme Court, and upheld there in 2012. Yet the Republicans refuse to sanction government spending unless the measure is suspended or repealed. Can anything be said in mitigation of their behaviour? Obamacare is indisputably flawed — but so are all welfare systems. There is a frightening debt chasm between U.S. government tax- raising and spending for which both parties share blame, but which Obama has made no real effort to address. Even Democrats privately fume about the fact that their President may do some statesmanship, but he does not do much politics. It is vital for all political leaders to privately meet, smooch and cut deals with legislators on whose votes they depend to implement their policies. Yet Barack Obama recoils from glad-handing. This cool, even cold, man finds it hard to charm his friends, never mind his enemies. His natural habitat is a platform from which he can broadcast to a multitude. All successful reformers in U.S. history, notably including Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, owed most of their achievements to backroom skills such as Barack Obama lacks. He would argue: ‘Yeah, but that was before the Tea Party came along.’ That was also before a substantial minority of the American people became seized with such manic distrust of their own government that they decided that any and all means are justified to frustrate its purposes. Their hatred of President Obama is truly frightening. It is no exaggeration to say that though they call themselves Christians, a terrifying number would rejoice to see him dead. That is how poisonous is the political climate of the U.S. today. What Happens Next? Polls show that the American people hold the Republicans chiefly responsible for the current mess. The party’s moderates are desperate to extricate themselves. But behind them stand the Tea Party’s gunslingers, holding **ed pistols to their heads. Outrage: Protestors in front of the closed Smithsonian Museum of Natural History rally against the shutdown, many are angry that America is being held up to ridicule A year ago, Republican House Speaker John Boehner said that he would have no part of an attempt to exploit the budget to wreck Obamacare, ‘the law of the land’. Now, however, the wretched man is doing exactly what he promised not to, because he is battered and bullied by the extremists. That description seems perfectly just, after listening to some of their commentaries on the crisis. For example, Florida Republican Congressman Ted Yoho asserts that a continuing refusal to raise the government debt ceiling — forcing America to default on its obligations — ‘would bring stability to world markets’. A Louisiana comrade calls Obamacare ‘the most existential threat to our economy since the Great Depression’. In a way, the Republicans have done Obama a favour by hoisting their flag of defiance behind a demand so extravagant that the President cannot possibly yield. He must win in the end, though, because defeat would spell the shipwreck of America’s system of government. But this is already holed on the waterline. I wandered down Pennsylvania Avenue the other evening, reflecting on the recorded message that greets phone-callers to the White House: ‘Due to the lapse in federal funding, we are unable to take your call.’ For all: The affordable care bill - known as Obamacare would bring bring health insurance within reach of the poorest Americans and long-term, is intended to lower the horrific costs of public healthcare Among the gawkers outside the railings of the Obama residence, I noticed a perspiring, overweight man wearing a T-shirt bearing the enigmatic message; ‘GAME OVER’. Alas, it is not. America remains the greatest society on earth, but its leadership looks sickly and feeble, for reasons that relate partly to this President but mostly to the fact that the U.S. constitution and its standard- bearers are failing their country. In the name of freedom, the Supreme Court, third pillar of the check-and-balance system, persistently hands down conservative decisions which worsen the politics. For instance, the Court upholds the right of billionaires to provide unlimited campaign funding. This means that tiny minorities are empowered by Right-wing billionaires who use their riches as a club to bully and blackmail elected representatives. The scariest part is that, even if somehow America struggles out of this crisis without precipitating a global financial disaster — which we should not take for granted — we are getting a preview of the likely pattern of American politics. So sclerotic is the system, so mountainous the obstacles to reform, that the greatest democracy on earth looks set to shuffle and stumble towards the future, rather than march boldly as its allies hope and need. The shutdown crisis shows that democratic freedoms, when brutishly abused, can produce consequences almost as scary as those of tyranny. The United States of America looks frighteningly close to being ungovernable. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL** ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

13-10-13, 12:55	#31
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	re: Republican Stupidity Could Cause Global Disaster-US ShutDown U.S. Just Days away from 'Very Dangerous Moment' October 13, 2013, 9:28 am World Bank President Jim Yong Kim addresses the plenary session at the start of the annual IMF-World Bank fall meetings in Washington, October 11, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The president of the World Bank on Saturday warned the United States was just "days away" from causing a global economic disaster unless politicians come up with a plan to raise the nation's debt limit and avoid default. US Borrowing Crisis 'Days away' From Disaster, says World Bank Head Jim Yong Kim: "We are now five days away from a very dangerous moment" US Budget Row The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has warned that the United States is just "days away from a very dangerous moment" because of the government's borrowing crisis. He urged US policymakers to reach a deal to raise the government's debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline. The US Treasury will start to run short of funds if no agreement is reached for it to borrow on financial markets. Mr Kim warned this could be a "disastrous event" for the world. "The closer we get to the deadline the greater the impact will be for the developing world. "Inaction could result in interest rates rising, confidence falling and growth slowing," said Mr Kim, speaking at the World Bank's annual meeting in Washington. “Start Quote There are three examples in US history that come close to default, with the most recent occurring in 1979” "If this comes to pass it could be a disastrous event for the developing world and that will in turn greatly hurt the developed economies as well," he added. 'Uneasy' If the US does run short of cash, this could cause it to default on its debts, a development which would be likely to have a severe effect on financial markets around the world. The BBC's Andrew Walker said that finance ministers from other countries think the US probably won't default, but they are uneasy and want the crisis resolved very soon. Republicans and Democrats failed to come to an agreement on Saturday, but Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said the aim was to reach a deal on extending the debt limit before markets reopen on Monday. The White House rejected a deal for a short-term increase to the borrowing limit. "It wouldn't be wise, as some suggest, to just kick the debt ceiling can down the road for a couple of months, and flirt with a first-ever intentional default right in the middle of the holiday shopping season," said President Barack Obama. Shutdown The US government has been in partial shutdown since Congress missed a 1 October deadline to pass a budget, with politicians being unable to agree funding for current spending. This has resulted in hundreds of thousands of federal employees being sent home and government offices closing. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announces the reopening of the Grand Canyon National Park Republicans refused to approve the new budget unless President Obama agreed to delay or eliminate the funding of the healthcare reform law of 2010. US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has estimated that each week the government is shut down, 0.25% is shaved off economic growth, which was already expected to be a sluggish this quarter. Debt Burden Mr Lew has also has warned that letting talks over the debt ceiling go down to the wire "could be very dangerous". The current debt limit of $16.699 trillion was reached in May. “Start Quote It would ripple through the world economy in a way that you couldn't possibly understand” Jamie Dimon Chief executive, JP Morgan Since then the US Treasury has been using what are called extraordinary measures to keep paying the bills, but those measures run out on 17 October. Every week, the Treasury also has to refinance $100bn worth of debt in the form of US government bonds known as treasuries. The US also has to pay interest on its huge debt burden. An inability to pay that interest, or pay back debt if required, would put the US into default. On Saturday, Jamie Dimon, boss of the American bank JP Morgan said the possible repercussions did not bear thinking about. "You don't want to know what would happen," he said. Debt Ceiling Crisis has Other Nations Angry and Scared By Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Washington Mr Obama has vowed not to negotiate terms with Republicans in Congress over a bill to raise the US debt ceiling US Budget Row At the start of the current US budget standoff, other countries viewed the situation with a mix of sympathy, concern and bemusement. With the 17 October deadline for raising the debt ceiling approaching, however, the international view has changed to fear and anger. While many abroad have considered a US government shutdown unfortunate and potentially damaging to the global economy, it is a development the world has survived before. But the last time the US came close to defaulting on a sovereign debt obligation was in 1790, when the country was a backwater ex-British colony, a bit player on the world stage. More recent examples of sovereign default include Mexico (1982), Russia (1998), Argentina (2001) and Greece (2012). Each of those sparked global financial crises that required US intervention. It is unsurprising, then, that with the US itself possibly causing the economic conflagration, foreign observers are hitting the panic button. 'Fundamentally Wrong' “Start Quote This is a matter involving the good faith and credit of the United States” L Ian MacDonald Columnist, Ottawa Citizen "What is chilling is that US politicians are willing to engage in a game of brinkmanship that is tantamount to detonating a nuclear device over their economy," writes the Times of India. "A bunch of intransigent American politicians are holding not just President Barack Obama, but the entire world to ransom." Although the enormity of the crisis has yet to sink in for many around the world, those who are paying attention are starting to call into question an American system of government that would reach this point. "There is something fundamentally wrong with a system that leaves a country without direction, in stagnation, without a budget and potentially without the wherewithal to settle its debts," writes UAE businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor in The Arab Times. "Obama must get his own house in order not only for the sake of the American people, but also to retain his nation's revered top slot in the global economic and geopolitical hierarchy before the world concludes the US is just an aging tiger without teeth." In 2009, Zimbabwe adopted the US dollar as an official currency in order to stanch hyperinflation and bring stability to its economy. Now, it faces a possible American financial collapse that would drag it down, too. "If the US defaults on its debt this would result in the country's credit rating plummeting and the US dollar falling and thereby causing havoc in the international financial markets," writes the nation's Financial Gazette. 'Thanks, Washington' A debt default could cause a large drop in the value of US currency. As America's largest trading partner, Canada faces a heightened threat, as well. L Ian MacDonald, a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, writes, "This is a matter involving the good faith and credit of the United States." And because the crisis is already causing the Canadian dollar to increase in value relative to the US dollar, it is adversely affecting Canadian exports. "Thanks, Washington, we needed that," he writes. Overseas leaders are also expressing their concerns - particularly in Japan and China, the two largest foreign holders of US national debt. "The US must avoid a situation where it cannot pay, and its triple-A ranking plunges all of a sudden," Japan's Finance Minister Taro Aso said. "The US is the world's biggest economy and a major country issuing reserve currency," China's Vice-Minister of Finance Zhu Guangyao said during a foreign ministry press conference. "Safeguarding the debt is of vital importance to the economy of the US and the world." International Monetary Fund official Jose Vinals said that if the US defaults, it "adversely affects advanced economies, emerging markets, low-income countries. It will be a worldwide shock." The Economist writes that hitting the debt ceiling could mean the US would "slash spending so deeply that it causes a recession. Or it could default on its debts, which would be even worse, and unimaginably more harmful than a mere government shutdown. No one in Washington is that crazy, surely?" It's a rhetorical question, but one that many in the world are starting to take seriously. __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

06-09-14, 18:08	#33
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs & More of How The US Wishes to Control Americans and the World -A FOREWARNING FOR AMERICA & THE WORLD: THE BIG EVENT 2014-2016 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuv...ature=youtu.be . __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

16-07-15, 17:15	#34
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Re: End is Close For the US-Some Americans Now Believe-True Facts/VIDEOs UPDATE - - - RELATED:>>> *US Imminent Martial Law? >Secret Military Ops Cause Concern* Fear as Military Launches Jade Helm FEMA Camps, Martial Law & Government Stocking up on Food for the Elite + extra Ammunition JADE HELM 15 - U.S. Preparing for Collapse of America? A FOREWARNING FOR AMERICA + Military Train for Civil Disobedience : 2014-2016 (Watch all of Video) __________________ PUTIN TRUMP & Netanyahu Will Meet in HELL ..................*SHARKS are Closing in on TRUMP*.......................... *TRUMP WARNS; 'There'll Be a Bloodbath* If I Don't Get Elected'..MAGA - MyAssGotArrested...IT's COMING** PLEASE HELP THIS SITE..Click DONATE & Thanks to ALL Members of ... 1.. THIS SITE IS MORE THAN JUST WAREZ...& TO STOP SPAM-IF YOU WANT TO POST, YOUR FIRST POST MUST BE IN WELCOMES

16-07-15, 19:41	#35
Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 47,612 Thanks: 27,636 Thanked 14,458 Times in 10,262 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	US Imminent Martial Law? >Secret Military Ops Cause Concern Secretive Military Operation 'Jade Helm' Gets Underway Across Seven States - as Conspiracy Theorists Who Fear it Signals Imminent Martial Law Flock to Monitor 'War Simulation' Exercise Jade Helm 15, a two-month, seven state war simulation began on Wednesday in central Texas The scale of the operation raised suspicions which intensified after a map was released that labelled Texas and Utah as hostile territory The Army has said that exercise locations were selected to replicate foreign combat zones Conspiracy theorists seized on the exercise and fear the operation is a Federal invasion of Texas and the imminent imposition of martial law Groups have formed to shadow the military's activities in their own 'intelligence gathering' exercise Governor Abbott of Texas ordered the State Guard to monitor events The exercise launched with little fanfare, out of sight of the general public and many took to Twitter to mock the reaction in Texas As yet there have been no reports of mass arrests or tanks on the streets Daily Mail UK, 16 July 2015 The U.S. military began its secretive two-month, seven-state military exercise on Wednesday in Texas, as conspiracy theorists prepared for the worst. The massive scale of the operation raised suspicions among right wing groups, many of whom fear the imminent imposition of martial law. 'Jade Helm 15', as the war simulation is known, is acknowledged by the Army as unique given its size and scope, but they insist there is nothing to fear. Parts of Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Utah, were selected for the operation as their topography is ideal to replicate diverse foreign combat zones. However, suspicions intensified after some conservative political websites seized on an Army map that labeled Texas and Utah as 'hostile' for the purposes of the simulation. What should have been a routine training exercise has since spawned bizarre conspiracy theories concerning a Federal invasion of Texas, gun seizures, mass arrests, shuttered Wal-Marts being turned into internment camps and giant secret tunnels criss-crossing the country. Scroll down for videos A convoy of National Guard troops moves on Camp Swift, which is hosting part of the Operation Jade Helm 15 military exercise, in Bastrop, Texas A warning sign is posted at a gate entrance at Texas Army National Guard Camp Swift, on Wednesday as Jade Helm operations commenced to the alarm of archconservative Texans Eric Johnston, the Texas organizer for the civilian volunteer group monitoring Jade Helm 15 military training exercises, talks on the phone on Wednesday Texas Governor Gregg Abbott's office was flooded with calls from fearful constituents. Fears spilled into public view in April when about 200 people packed a community meeting in Bastrop County, Texas, and questioned an Army commander about whether martial law was imminent. Despite the geographic range of the exercise, only 1,200 troops will be involved. Ironically, Texas was chosen because historically Texans are 'supportive of efforts to prepare our soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors to fight the enemies of the United States'. Nevertheless, groups have formed to monitor the military's activities. On Wednesday, as the training exercise began, Eric Johnston, a retired Arizona sheriff's deputy and the Texas organizer of a national group called Counter Jade Helm, wore his handgun on his hip as he monitored activity near Bastrop. Johnston admits that he does not really believe the soldiers are coming to take his gun away, but nevertheless he is ready. 'I would like to think that if the situation were to turn afoul, many more of our people would stand up and come to assist.' Johnston, who has a white handlebar moustache and conceals his gun beneath his untucked shirt, has 27 volunteers — some armed— positioned across Texas. Among their number is a monitor he described as a retired Army ranger. He also described their role as that of a neighborhood watch. Derrick Broze, who describes himself as an activist journalist (left) with friend Mark Jankins (right) takes video at the main gate at Texas Army National Guard Camp Swift in Bastrop, Texas Preparations under way at Camp Swift for Jade Helm 15 Conservative political websites seized upon this map of the training exercise, included in an Army handout, to whip up suspicions that the military was up to something, as both Texas and Utah were labelled as hostile The group's website states that Counter Jade Helm is a 'training exercise for the people', 'to practice counter-insurgency, organizational and intelligence gathering and reporting skills'. The 'objective is not to stop or countermand the military's training, but to practice our own skills'. Johnston emphasized that Counter Jade Helm is not 'radical' like other groups and doesn't believe a military takeover is around the corner. But he still has his concerns. 'It doesn't make sense that if they're going to practice infiltration skills if they're going to be in uniform,' he said. 'I don't think this is a prelude to martial law. But they're just not being transparent on what they're doing.' It is not just private citizens that are suspicious about the massive military operation, as Governor Abbott has ordered the State Guard to monitor the military's movements. Military vehicles prepare for the multi-state summer military training exercise, that has caused alarm among some citizens Volunteers for Counter Jade Helm are monitoring the military exercise, and groups have sprung up on Facebook, including in states that are not part of the training operation A convoy of National Guard troops moves on Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas Governor Gregg Abbott called on the State Guard to keep an eye on the military's operations Governor Abbott's actions drew sharp rebuke from critics who accused the new Republican governor of pandering to fringe theorists. At least two people mailed tinfoil to his office, with one note reading, 'For your hat!' No other governor greeted Jade Helm with similar actions, and Abbott has deflected the mocking as overblown. His office had received 15 calls by lunchtime about Jade Helm, and aides were ready to answer. Bastrop Mayor Ken Kesselus has spent weeks trying to dampen impressions that his city of 8,000 people is a hive of 'wackos and conspiracy theorists.' 'The last few weeks I've had 22 calls. One was from a guy in South Texas who thinks [President Barack] Obama is a communist, a Muslim and evil person and wanted me to warn everybody to hold onto their guns,' Kesselus said. 'The other 21 calls were from press.' The exercise launched on Wednesday in the exact manner Army officials have spent months patiently describing to conspiracy theorists: With no fanfare or cause for alarm, but almost entirely out of sight to the general public. Pops of gunfire echoed beyond the front gates of Camp Swift near Bastrop, Texas, though that hardly seemed out of the ordinary on what is a training ground for the Texas National Guard. As conspiracy theorists took to social media to report power outages and sightings of trucks and other military vehicles, Twitter seized on the opportunity to mock the reaction in Texas. No citizens were rounded up and imprisoned at Wal-Mart. Tanks didn't rumble down city streets in a declaration of martial law. This latest exercise is supposed to end on September 15. Texas judge denies Operation Jade Helm is martial law plot; Twitter was quick to mock the reaction in Texas to the first day of Jade Helm 15 People on Twitter played upon some of the crazier conspiracy theories Others were more direct with their reaction Counter Jade Helm states that it is a training exercise for the people in response to the military's multi-state training, in which citizens will practice 'counter-insurgency' and 'intelligence gathering skills' The group is mapping out confirmed locations of the Jade Helm 15 military exercise. The website states that its objective is 'not to stop or countermand the military's training, but to practice our own skills' Despite the fears of some Texans, Main Street in downtown Bastrop, Texas, is quiet on the first day of the Operation Jade Helm 15 military exercise Fear as Military Launches Jade Helm Texas Judge Denies Operation Jade Helm is Martial Law Plot FEMA Camps, Martial Law & Government Stocking up on Food for the Elite + extra Ammunition JADE HELM 15 - U.S. Preparing for Collapse of America? 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Tarfoot Honoured Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: US Posts: 1,914 Thanks: 547 Thanked 1,107 Times in 992 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	re: US Martial Law >Secret Ops Cause Concern to Many Americans>TRUE FACTS Can't help but think they're getting prepared for something big that they're not telling the public. __________________ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4

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Tarfoot Honoured Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: US Posts: 1,914 Thanks: 547 Thanked 1,107 Times in 992 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	re: US Martial Law >Secret Ops Cause Concern to Many Americans>TRUE FACTS A lot of the lost money has gone to build these underground bases and tunnels (D.U.M.B.) deep underground military bases. Trillions of dollars gets lost by the military. It ain't lost, just spent on things they don't want the public to know about. The elites are getting prepared for something big coming soon. There is just too much chatter about Sept. 2015. Also have you ever read about the Georgia Guide Stones? Google it if you haven't, strange very strange indeed. __________________ I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4

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