HISTORIC PREDICTIONS
SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING
By Tim Wood
I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and
have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do
not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes
these exist, but they are
merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it
feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be
brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for
about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to
people we know they can never pay back. Why?
We learn that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has
'loaned' two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but
will not tell us to whom, or why, or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and
mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past
September. Who has this
money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who
authorized it? I thought this was a government of 'we the people', who loaned our powers
to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We
have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and we no longer teach
our founding documents, showing why we are exceptional and why we are worth preserving.
Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not
revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in
California over a proposition that is so 'controversial' that it wants marriage to remain
between one man and one woman!). Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade
ago? We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write
laws that radically change our way of life, and then allow mainstream Marxist groups like
ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries
are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly
bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government, and our education system is worse than
a joke. (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is
staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at
war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, an
enemy who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to
do so.
Now we have elected President a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much
as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska .. All of his associations
and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything
we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling, if not downright scary. Surely you have
heard him
speak about his idea to create and fund a 'mandatory civilian defense force' stronger than
our military for use inside our borders. No? Oh, of course. The media would never play
that for you over and over, and then demand he explain it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter
and $150,000 wardrobe is more important to the media.
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now! This man
campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his
professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push
us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.
Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the
mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the
streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that
he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom
they
disagreed. He edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises.
Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker.. And he
smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear
that his 'brown shirts' would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to
office as
full-throttled economic crisis was at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he
seized the controls of government power, department-by-department, person-by-person,
bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were
taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to
the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He
did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better
wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in their country, across Europe,
and around the world.
He did it with a compliant media. Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of
justice and ..... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if
you think I am exaggerating..)
Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names,
laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late
1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he
was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don't forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full
of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six
years --- a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency --- it was
rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children
against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of
course. The road to hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I
can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me
cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm
of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and
ignoring what is
transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I
am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I
believe, and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.
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Tim Wood is a professor of History and Political
Science at Southwest Baptist University in Boliver, Missouri. His article appeared on December 16, 2008 at waronyou.com
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AMERICAN CAPITALISM GONE WITH A WHIMPER
By Stanislav Mishin
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American
decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a
passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past
century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon
our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and
give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the
fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American
populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and
betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and
substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans
know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their
lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a
BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture
us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens
of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part
little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega
preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the
"winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may
complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their
flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy
Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His
speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing
has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this
keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at
best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First
came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the
very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of
billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary
street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear
volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of
appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging
themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also
usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again,
congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president
step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of
"pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given
power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come
hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed
this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected,
chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the
guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily
try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two
months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads
to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror
show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise"
Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but
a "freeman" whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically
controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the
American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate
performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator
Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the
modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West,
homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a
virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only
affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a
logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax
break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look
thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land
of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight,
beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only
snicker.
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Stanislav Mishin is a Russian blogger who writes at
his website Mat Rodina. This article appeared on
April 27, 2009 at Pravda.ru
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