Help Wanted: Seeking those with 'David'-like Spirits (must bring your own slingshot)

We at A&G are a pretty relentless and pugnacious bunch..

We know the easy thing would be to write articles that support the 'recovery' narrative.. Write some complimentary pieces on the Fed and banks..  Who knows, maybe throw in a couple daily stock tips for good measure.

Sure we'd ultimately be complicit when the market does dramatically drop and everyday people lose in days what took years  to accrue, but for the moment, it sure would make us popular with the majority.

That would be the easy way.

Just not our style.   We'll keep shouting that the supposed opulently adorned 'Emperor' is completely utterly bare-bottomed naked with tiny-weeny tally-wacker dribbling about until people begin to see the truth of things.

No problem can ever be addressed if never acknowledged.

You see the market go up, and if that's all you know, you assume all is well.

And the media will spout off for good measure, some stats showing job growth or confidence rising to emphasize the point that all is well.  

The term is 'synergy'-- various forces that appear different but really are similar an working together for the same ultimate goals.

For example when you watch Saturday Night Live which is on NBC and the host is the star of one of NBC's comedies and that actor or actress appears on NBC owned talk shows earlier in the week to promote the show...

That's a form of corporate synergy.

The mainstream media works in concert with Wall Street corporate and governmental interests to keep people calm and docile.  This is not hokum.  Its part of the FCC pledge every network must adhere to in order to renew their licensing.  

No entity under the control of the FCC can push forth any ideologies or agendas that stir others into agitation against the Government or to provide any content or points of view which would incite or encourage rebellion among the populace against the State.

This is why there is really no debate in news beyond 'Left' vs 'Right' and why no information is ever presented to the public to cause fear or a lack of confidence in government to solve problems.

For instance, in Cyprus, a full month after capital controls were put into effect to control how much a depositor could access their own money, the government knows the people do not trust them or the banks and the first opportunity they get, they'll Smartly pull their money out.

So Cyprus officially has decided it will simply keep currency controls in effect indefinitely or until trust in the banks has recovered sufficiently because the nation can't afford people rushing in and protecting their remaining assets.

Sorta chicken/egg.. Which comes first, the trust or the freedom to access one's own money without fascist restriction?

No one in America ever talks about a situation like this becoming a realistic possibility one day if the economy implodes upon itself, and these things usually happen without very much warning.

The media will spend 24hrs a day covering a tropical storm or 4 inches of snow and give a million tips for preparation but never a word uttered when it comes to financial survival.  Show me a media outlet that even suggests you should withdraw all non-essential funds from the banks and that will be the First!

Here's the true state of the US economy and by extension the global economy:  All those paper bills and coinage in one's pocket-- they're backed by nothing.  

They only have value so much as others place upon them.  It is the illusion of value in currency and the faith that those pieces of paper can be used to buy products and services which keeps the game going.

Without it, US dollars are as worthless as Confederate dollars.

The Fed prints and prints for purposes of directly benefiting a select few while giving illusion it is to benefit all and keeping up the lie their #1 goal is job creation.  Its all to benefit the banks but that's specifically why the Fed was chartered in 1907 -- to be the financial backstop for banks while run by banks.

The reason there are no overt bread lines for miles and soup kitchens feeding the masses is due to food stamps, welfare, social security and unemployment.   The number of individuals who receive at least one form of benefit from the government to survive is over 100 million people... 1 in 3.

The reason we haven't collapsed yet as a nation as prices go up on everything from food to clothing to healthcare while wages have stagnated is due to access of credit to fill the fiscal void.

We are a society that has devolved from a nation of savers to living paycheck to paycheck to now biding time before the next paycheck comes via credit cards, payday loans, etc..

As long as government can profit from this, it will never do a single thing ever to fix this brutal hardship.

We hire more people today than four years ago but always in the direction of sellers rather than creators or designers; always jobs available that are far below the education one spent a fortune to acquire in college...  

Always temp jobs with no benefits, protections or security.

And employers are always cutting back those hours.   The new 'full time' laborer works 35hrs a week.  This ensures that no overtime is ever paid to anyone.

Shall we go on?

The goal here is not to sadden or depress.. it is to evoke anger!

Anger at your President... At your political party (D or R, couldn't care less)  Anger at the system-- your boss who exploits.. your government that uses you for their need and gives little in return back..

We've mentioned this before--  the Total and we mean TOTAL outstanding debt among all American citizens i.e. mortgages, car loans, student loans, credit cards, etc equals around $2.76 Trillion.

The Fed has spent over $4.5 Trillion since 2008 to help the banks.

If the Fed paid off every US citizen's debt load so we'd all be at Zero, money which would go to the banks anyways, the Fed would still have and an additional $1.8 Trillion or so to do QE and all their other nefarious schemes...

But we're all kept out of the loop so intentionally by those in power and the media, we as a people don't even know what to demand and have absolutely no unity or common purpose to present grievances and seek redress.

Exactly as they want it.

So we at A&G are facing quite a Goliath..

But this is one fight where 'David' is going to need some help...

The concept of 'Winning' after tragedy

A few years ago amid his professional and personal self-inflicted downward spiral, actor Charlie Sheen continually told the world one thing..

He was 'Winning'

Sheen shouted it, rambled it, Tweeted it..

Did so while he was being fired from a TV show paying him $2million per episode.. Did so while sleeping with two skanky porn stars he referred to as his 'Goddesses'..  Did so while continually destroying his mind and body with drugs..

Yep.. "Winning"

Most Americans seem to think the evil bastard or bastards who devised and set into motion the pressure cooker bombs that exploded in Boston on Monday are feeling the same..

Its personalized much like a nasty break up with a spouse, lover or long time friend -- "If (he/she) thinks I am going to sit home and cry, (he/she) can go F (him/her)self.. I'm going Out!"

We have heard constantly over the past couple days that if we cancel sporting events or choose not to attend, or alter our plans in any way, the terrorists 'win'...

At A&G, we put forward the contention that to think of it as win/loss a very faulty argument;  that those evil monsters really don't care either way if you attend a baseball game or run a future marathon..

We contend that the actions of the terrorists were strategic, not sadistic and admittedly we know that's quite a hard pill for many right now to swallow..

So let's go into a little detail..

Many believe when acts of terror are committed against Americans, its because we're hated; that the monsters are jealous of our freedoms or envious of our standard of life.   In a strange way it gives comfort to think like that because it means we have individual and collective importance in the eyes of our enemy..

But we at A&G think and fear differently-- That the criminals look at us as mere blades of grass before a lawn mowing';  One blade or one patch no more or less exceptional to another...   A woman no more sacred than a man; a child no more sacred than an adult..

The fear is we hold no meaning at all; we're simply collateral

And the whole act of terror against us maybe isn't concocted with emotional passions, but done detached; antiseptic...

When you take a can of ant or flying insect spray, and squirt at insects in the home or swarming about, or when you set a trap with peanut butter and cheese to lure and catch an unsuspecting mouse ask yourself, what emotions are going through your mind?  Rage?  Laughter?  Or are you simply completing a task...

If an apple falls from a tree and you're sitting under it, does the tree really care if you were hit on the head, the thigh or not at all?  What is the value of the person sitting under the tree to the tree?  Its devoid of humanity and it does not think like a human no matter how much we try to personify it...

So we argue this whole notion of 'winning' is ludicrous because those who try to harm us don't look at us as we look at us..  They are mentally detached from humanity and the human condition...

To the bastards, we are bugs..  mice..  blades of grass...

So on an individual level, how do we feel like we 'won' against an enemy that to use the tired cliche from the Godfather, doesn't look at their actions as personal but strictly 'business'?

First is we continue to live our lives-- do the things we enjoy doing.  A person has a greater chance of being a fatality behind the wheel of an automobile then a terror bombing, and yet it doesn't stop us from driving..

Second, is we trust our instincts more.  While its impossible to know for certainty if and where another attack may commence, we all have sixth-sense... That little voice in our heads that says 'Ehh, maybe this isn't a good idea'...   Learn to trust more in it and this goes for all aspects of one's life..

Third and lastly,  treat terrorists like a kicking and screaming 3yr old that has a temper tantrum because he/she wants ice cream for dinner-- Ignore and block out of your mind.

If you go to a baseball game or a rock concert or travel, you go because you Want to go and not to prove some point of defiance against ghosts who don't know you personally from any other...

The best way to "Win" if that's a feasible objective, is to make a group of deeply evil people as irrelevant and inconsequential in your minds as they see us.

Peter Paying Paul (then repaying Peter)...

St Paul:  "Could I have that dollar you owe me?"
St Peter:  Of course..but can I borrow $2"

I wanted to take a moment to explain as clearly as possible why the world is in such trouble financially, and do so in a way that doesn't involve background knowledge in finance or many confusing statistics.

The world is economically in bad straits because we are all nations of borrowers. Every nation.  No one has any surplus and yet, we are borrowing from each other. We borrow from banks too but that's a dupe.  Most banks globally are zombie, meaning they're so much in the red that without money being poured into their coffers from nations, they couldn't survive.   Funny isn't it.. nations give banks free money so they won't collapse, then borrow it back at interest or lend to other nations that can't ever repay even the interest.

 And if not for all this and pretend currency created on paper and pretend monetary value placed upon it, the global financial community would have destroyed civilization 3 decades ago.

The reason I pinpoint it to the 1980s because most people do not realize this but in 1983, the Dow hit 1,000 for the first time.  Wall St had been in existence since Revolutionary War days (1770s) and yet never reached 1000 until 1983.  And what is it today?  Just about 13,000.  Each thousand represents $1 trillion dollars so in simple math, in a span of only 24 years, $12 trillion of pretend wealth was created.

Washington: "I much prefer my statue face something more honorable..."

Let's follow the sovereign economic food chain..  Greece needs money.  So does the rest of the PIIGS nations. And Eastern Europe.  So they borrow from the rest of the EU.   Who puts up most of the funding to cover those losses?   Germany.  And what was Germany doing today?


Merkel Looking for Help During Visit to China (Spiegel) -- "German Chancellor Angela Merkel needs help... Germany wants China to make a concrete pledge to invest in the euro bailout fund"

So basically all of Europe are beggars in one form or another.

Now Greece gets its bailouts from a "troika"- the EU, the ECB and the IMF which is pretty much US run and financed though it always has a puppet European leader so it gives the appearance of being international.  So 17.4% of all IMF loans and bailouts around the world come from US taxpayers.

And is the US a creditor nation?  Goodness No!  lol.. Not for many years..  We owe others more than $15 trillion dollars.  And yet the US has the audacity and arrogance to lend to others as if we're in the black.   And who do we owe money to?  Many creditors but namely, the Chinese.

And how do the Chinese lend to everyone?  They're really in an economic housing asset bubble, much like the US was prior to 2007. They had their citizenry build lots n' lots of homes, namely to keep the populace busy.  Problem is, most of the populace can't afford to rent or buy the homes that were built, so they're empty.. just like in Nevada, Florida and Arizona.

But China controls its media even better than the US so details of how weak their economy is, hasn't been truly known yet.  So as a ruse of prosperity, they lend money they don't really have to the rest of the other debtor nations and dramatically devaluing their currency so they can make up the losses via trade policy.

Everyone owes everyone.  This is why Investors are treated like royalty and national economic policies around the world cater to their needs; why Everyone tries to soothe the markets.  The Rats are the only source of  fresh money left in the big game of ponzi.

In a biblical sense, you could easy say the global economies survive by borrowing from "Peter" to pay "Paul" and no nation has the guts to dare call anyone out to repay their full tab. Banks and nations are all grateful simply if debtors can meet their monthly payments

And that's the sad state of the world no one talks about.