September 11, 2008: American Putsch?
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008: AMERICAN PUTSCH?
With the recession, and President Obama's subsequent stimulus debacle, dominating the media, recent revelations about the true origins of the financial crisis have been (deliberately?) ignored. Contrary to popular perception, the recession and the crisis in the financial markets are two separate and distinct events even though the effects of one affects the other. If you will recall, in September we were led to believe that a financial disaster was imminent. The President, at the urging of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, insisted that drastic action had to be taken immediately or the financial markets would collapse. The stock market plunged and trillions of dollars in value just evaporated. Therefore congress, in a rush, passed the 700 billion dollar bank bailout known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Although most of us "informed" citizens are aware of the long term root causes of the financial collapse (the Community Reinvestment Act and the toxic assets it spawned) this in and of itself would not have presented its effects as an emergency of such dire proportions. These assets had been fermenting for decades awaiting a flame to ignite them. Now the revelations are coming forth...
With the recession, and President Obama's subsequent stimulus debacle, dominating the media, recent revelations about the true origins of the financial crisis have been (deliberately?) ignored. Contrary to popular perception, the recession and the crisis in the financial markets are two separate and distinct events even though the effects of one affects the other. If you will recall, in September we were led to believe that a financial disaster was imminent. The President, at the urging of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, insisted that drastic action had to be taken immediately or the financial markets would collapse. The stock market plunged and trillions of dollars in value just evaporated. Therefore congress, in a rush, passed the 700 billion dollar bank bailout known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Although most of us "informed" citizens are aware of the long term root causes of the financial collapse (the Community Reinvestment Act and the toxic assets it spawned) this in and of itself would not have presented its effects as an emergency of such dire proportions. These assets had been fermenting for decades awaiting a flame to ignite them. Now the revelations are coming forth...
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For The Love Of Hate: The Prosecution Of Geert Wilders
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FOR THE LOVE OF HATE: The Prosecution of Geert Wilders
"And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." [John 8:32].
There
is a belief that permeates our legal system. It is the idea that the
truth is an absolute defense in all things. Well, it turns out this old
judicial truth may not be true after all. "The times they are a
changin," and not for the better! The greatest test Western
Civilization will face is happening now in the Netherlands as the truth
is actually on trial. The mere fact that this trial is happening is a
great victory for all those who oppose freedom, let alone what the
consequences will be for the outcome...
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