Larry Summers and the 'End Game' memo

[Ichingcarpenter]

THE CONFIDENTIAL MEMO AT THE HEART OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
By Greg Palast






When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it.

The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak’s fantasy: that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretly conspired with a small cabal of banker big-shots to rip apart financial regulation across the planet. When you see 26.3 percent unemployment in Spain, desperation and hunger in Greece, riots in Indonesia and Detroit in bankruptcy, go back to this End Game memo, the genesis of the blood and tears.

The Treasury official playing the bankers’ secret End Game was Larry Summers. Today, Summers is Barack Obama’s leading choice for Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the world’s central bank. If the confidential memo is authentic, then Summers shouldn’t be serving on the Fed, he should be serving hard time in some dungeon reserved for the criminally insane of the finance world.

The memo is authentic.

I had to fly to Geneva to get confirmation and wangle a meeting with the Secretary General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy. Lamy, the Generalissimo of Globalisation, told me,

“The WTO was not created as some dark cabal of multinationals secretly cooking plots against the people... We don’t have cigar-smoking, rich, crazy bankers negotiating.”

Then I showed him the memo.

It begins with Larry Summers’ flunky, Timothy Geithner, reminding his boss to call the Bank bigshots to order their lobbyist armies to march:


http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-end-game-memo


It was a conspiracy ... oh wait I used that word....

[hedda_foil]

1. Holy crap! This is explosive.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Yes it is

and it was a conspiracy.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Wonder if the Bat Signal is up yet?

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Greg better watch out

and not get into the bat-mobile.

[questionseverything]

7. just incredible

The year was 1997. US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was pushing hard to de-regulate banks. That required, first, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to dismantle the barrier between commercial banks and investment banks. It was like replacing bank vaults with roulette wheels.

Second, the banks wanted the right to play a new high-risk game: “derivatives trading”. JP Morgan alone would soon carry $88 trillion of these pseudo-securities on its books as “assets”.

Deputy Treasury Secretary Summers (soon to replace Rubin as Secretary) body-blocked any attempt to control derivatives.

But what was the use of turning US banks into derivatives casinos if money would flee to nations with safer banking laws?

The answer conceived by the Big Bank Five: eliminate controls on banks in every nation on the planet -- in one single move. It was as brilliant as it was insanely dangerous.

How could they pull off this mad caper? The bankers' and Summers' game was to use the Financial Services Agreement (or FSA), an abstruse and benign addendum to the international trade agreements policed by the World Trade Organisation.

Until the bankers began their play, the WTO agreements dealt simply with trade in goods – that is, my cars for your bananas. The new rules devised by Summers and the banks would force all nations to accept trade in "bads" – toxic assets like financial derivatives.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. China signed on reluctantly

but only after they got the car parts deal which destroyed US jobs and Brazil backed out of it and then was punished.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

55. You're not supposed to say that!!!

Of course, the left-wing (and by that, I mean us crazy far left-wing nutters) was correct again.

But let's just call it conspiracy nonsense and stick our collective heads in the sand.

[HereSince1628]

66. Is it OK to call it an agenda, a consensus plan

arrived at privately by elites?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

70. I was being facetious ....

By all means call it a conspiracy, because that's what it is. It's also incredibly evil.

And the fact of the matter, despite protestations by the actual Left, and despite always being correct, no one listens to us, or relegates us to fringe status.

If no one is going to listen to us, nothing is going to change.

[Mojorabbit]

127. Yes, nothing is going to change. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

88. 4 years before 9/11.

[blkmusclmachine]

90. Savvy!

Just keep looking forward,

as they empty your wallets and savings accounts.

[nashville_brook]

3. re-reading Shock Doctine, and Klein's Rolling Stone piece on China

what's old is new again.

[Locrian]

52. if I recall...

Summers is in Shock Doctine - wasn't it with the Russian economy?

In 1993 Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs and later in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury.

Much of Summers's tenure at the Treasury Department was focused on international economic issues. He was deeply involved in the Clinton administration's effort to bail out Mexico and Russia when those nations had currency crises.[10] Summers set up a project through which the Harvard Institute for International Development provided advice to the Russian government between 1992 and 1997. Later there was a scandal when it emerged that some of the Harvard project members had invested in Russia, and were therefore not impartial advisors.[11] Summers encouraged then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to use the same "three-'ations'" of policy he advocated in the Clinton Administration-- "privatization, stabilization, and liberalization."[12]

Summers pressured the Korean government to raise its interest rates and balance its budget in the midst of a recession, policies criticized by Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz.[13] According to the book The Chastening, by Paul Blustein, during this crisis, Summers, along with Paul Wolfowitz, pushed for regime change in Indonesia.[14]

Summers was a leading voice within the Clinton Administration arguing against American leadership in greenhouse gas reductions and against US participation in the Kyoto Protocol, according to internal documents made public in 2009.[15]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers

[Fantastic Anarchist]

56. First thing I thought of when reading the OP was "Shock Doctrine."

Textbook example.

[elehhhhna]

4. 5th rec!

And good morning, Agent Mike and other assorted NSA tools! Say hi to Kenny O. for me , we went to HS together.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Oh please, people! Let's get a little realistic here.

You can't expect a man who claimed in senate testimony to be too incapable to figure out retail tax filing software to understand something as complex as worldwide banking regulations, do you?

[pa28]

9. And it's happening all over again, same people, in secret, with the TPP.

K&R for exposure.

[blkmusclmachine]

91. The fix is in.

[KoKo]

10. K&R...Glad to see this!

But, we all know that whatever Obama wants...he gets. Like with Penny Pritzger and other nominations that there was hugepush back on..(and rightful pushback) Summers will probably get it. And, if not Summers...he will come up with someone equally as unsuitable...and it won't be Janet Yellen, but probably some surprise name that when checked out will be a crony of Summers.

[FreakinDJ]

40. WRONG - whatever Wall St wants Obama gets for them

[TBF]

43. This is much closer to the truth -

I really don't think Obama has a lot of leeway here. He is owned by the ruling class. They are calling the shots.

[Amonester]

81. Maybe because they threaten to destroy the world's economy again if

he doesn't give them the billions they want, and he knows they can do it anytime they want?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

82. Not a chance. Nothing other than imagination supports this assertion.

[Amonester]

83. What makes you so certain?

They pulled it once, why wouldn't they pull it again?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

84. You say, "They pulled it once." In reality, they never contacted Obama or anyone else at an

earlier time and "threaten to destroy the world's economy" if Obama "didn't give them the billions they want."

They did not pull that once.

You have nothing to support your implication that they or anyone else has ever threatened Obama. You likewise have nothing to support your implication that Obama has ever succumbed to threats. Or even that he cares about the economy.

[Amonester]

85. Ok, but you also have no evidence they never contacted anyone in his administration

'recently' who then might have 'advised' him about it.

And if you think Obama 'doesn't care' about the economy, you're not paying attention.

[delrem]

89. Oh come on.

Obama isn't being blackmailed.
No matter how someone wants to frame it.

The Pres. of the USA has the means to repel that kind of shit.

[Civilization2]

103. in some dream world of your own creation perhaps,. not in this reality though.

The banksters hold all the cards and play them at will,. . money is power as they say.

[caseymoz]

104. "No evidence of never" means nothing.

You're simply multiplying nothing by zero. All you have is a wild-ass guess.

But yes, it could happen. There are many more things that could happen that don't then are things that could and do. If that's your only evidence, statistics are stacked against you.

I'm afraid to say, given Obama's appointments (of Summers and Geithner, et al) and policies of not prosecuting the financial sector after they wrecked the world's economy, there's more evidence he's in the pocket of Wall Street. Though it's not conclusive, it's a better guess than what you're saying because anything is more than nothing.

Remember, Obama's reputation as an 11th dimensional chess player? Well, what makes you think he's not playing chess against us? Who would be easier to beat than the ones who forgive him for anything? Who don't even know they're being played?

[FreakinDJ]

98. Other than Wall St. Financiers funded his 2008 campaign

and Obama immediately jumped into bed with Wall St. appointing Summers and Gietner to critical positions during the melt down. No Wall St. Financiers have been indicted, brought to justice, incarcerated or at least some of the "Too Big to Fail" institutions dissolved or broken up.

In short - they have been rewarded with over a $Trillion

No - nothing but imagination. You keep telling yourself that

[AnotherMcIntosh]

112. I agree 100% with you that Wall St. Financiers

are involved.

I disagree 100% with the other poster's speculation that Obama is responding to threats from Wall St. Financiers to destroy the world's economy again if he doesn't give them the billions they want. For a person to believe such theory which is based upon threats, they have to disregard the fact that Obama immediately adopted Bush-carryovers and other Republicans for high positions in his Administration. They have to believe that he cares about threats affecting others rather than his personal money. Is he the first Chicago politician to be threatened into running for office, threatened into making liberal and progressive noises, threatened into adopting high-level Republicans and Republican policies, threatened into ...?

I also disagree with the poster who refers to "billions." I think, as you say that you do, that it is trillions.

Here's a guy who has a spy-upon-everyone apparatus and can be threatened into assisting the Wall St. Financiers? He's subject to threats? Somehow, I don't think so.

[blkmusclmachine]

92. Criminal.

[bemildred]

12. Quite. nt

[DeSwiss]

13. K&R

''Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.''
~Robert Anton Wilson

[Hydra]

17. Exactly

I don't know why people swallow the lie that there are no conspiracies. Conspiracies are simply plans that a person or persons don't want other people to know about. Corporations and everyone else have meetings, short term goals and long term goals.

The fact that this is done in cases of planning a crime is seen as absurd...is beyond absurd.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

57. Love that quote.

Thanks for posting that.

[glinda]

14. K & R n/t

[DirkGently]

15. KNR & Bookmarked.

[BlueManFan]

16. In A Related Story The White Denied That Misogynistic Piece Of Shit Larry Summers is

being considered for the post of Chairman of the Fed. We'll see him at his swearing in. (Sorry for the re-post, but I posted this back on August 13 and I'm sure now more than ever that it is going to come to pass. Fed chair will be his reward for helping to break the god damn planet, financially.

[Hydra]

18. Of course

And he'll do it even better next time!

[BillyRibs]

19. The MSM RESPONSE IS......

[whatchamacallit]

20. Lol!

That's about it.

[blkmusclmachine]

93. Old news (and therefore not worth discussing)...

[Ocelot]

21. And these people are Obama's closest cronies

Nothing wrong with the word "Conspiracy" when it involves FACT, not theory (as in this case). Examine history, there have been many conspiracies which have been well-documented, for example the conspiracy to overthrow FDR by big-business tycoons. This is 100% for real.

[BillyRibs]

22. That's why I Laugh so hard when,

Right wingers call the POTUS a Socialist!

[navarth]

50. he's the worst goddam socialist I've ever seen. nt

[Enthusiast]

67. When they do that,

it serves the purpose of generating an effective smoke screen. It gives the right's minions and talking heads something to repeat, no matter how many light years from the truth it is. And it helps cover up the President's true nature.

[GeorgeGist]

23. Show the whole Memo ...

until then I suspect Greg is blowing smoke up welcoming asses.

[gussmith]

44. Good Thought

Let's see the memo.

[deutsey]

51. A pdf is embedded in the article

http://www.gregpalast.com//vulturespicnic/pages/filecabinet/chapter12/Geithner_Summers%20Memo.pdf

[rhett o rick]

60. They really dont want to see the memo. nm

[Civilization2]

105. in fact they hid the first posting of the direct link to it,. claimg the use of the word

"dumbass" defies 'community standards' when it clearly applies to the poster claiming that the link was missing in the first place,. another example of sad and lame denialism by the frightened little children who can not face reality.

EDIT: I just noticed that is was "Ichingcarpenter" that was juried down, for calling a commentor a "dumbass",. this mean they are now locked out of their own OP?!?!? I must say that is wrong! Can we be a little less thin-skinned with the whole "name calling" hurt feelings babying,.

I mean really, "dumbass" is hardly the worst insult I can think of;

I guess we have to keep playing Jeopardy and phrase our name-calling in the form of a rhetorical,. but I for one think it is a little pathetic.

[FlyByNight]

24. Greedy and sociopathic

Summers seems a fine potential choice for Fed Chairman. (Sarcasm should be self-evident.)

[DallasNE]

26. But Is The Memo Authentic?

I am reminded of the Bush National Guard memo that caused Dan Rather to resign from CBS.

Here I am drawn to Goldman-Sachs CEO John Corzine. As most people know, it is Jon Corzine -- not John.

Lack of attention to detail certainly makes me wonder how much faith you can put into this memo.

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. Yep. I'll give this one a minute before dancing upon any figurative bankster graves

however strong my urge may be to dance upon figurative bankster graves.

[deutsey]

39. What's of equal concern to me is that if it's authentic

that doesn't mean it will be mean a damn thing to most people.

I think Palast pretty much proved Jeb Bush's cronies conducted a massive purge of eligible African-American voters from Florida voter rolls before the 2000 election. If so, very few people (Democrats included) seemed to give a damn.

[Fire Walk With Me]

49. Yep...but now I see it's from Greg Palast, whom I respect very much...this is huge...n/t

[arcane1]

59. Concern was limited to that kid who got tazed at a Kerry appearance.

And look where that got him

[StoneCarver]

30. Doesn't it say Jon?

Doesn't the memo say Jon Corzine? I don't see where it says John.
http://www.gregpalast.com//vulturespicnic/pages/filecabinet/chapter12/Geithner_Summers%20Memo.pdf

[deutsey]

33. Yes, it's "Jon" in the memo.

It's "John" in Palast's article. He should correct that.

[DallasNE]

77. From The Link In The Top Post

Goldman Sachs: John Corzine [phone]

Someone else then posted the link to the actual memo and it did show Jon but I came across that later. I just checked the link in the top post and it still says "John Corzine" and it just jumped out at me when I first read it, assuming it was a cut and paste from the not then available memo.

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. Its in the memo...JON

please pay attention to thread.

[JDPriestly]

37. Watch the video that is linked to from Palast's article.

But be careful. My virus protection system found a Trojan when I turned on the video. I don't know what that means. I had just downloaded a new version of Adobe Flash Player so that might have caused the problem. I'm just warning people to be careful. The video tells you that the memo is probably authentic.

[Civilization2]

106. The memo, while damning, is hardly the only "evidence" of this reality.., and it seems legit.

One simply needs to follow the money, read the "laws" implemented by these deranged fools, see how they move from gov. to bankster CEO jobs and havoc they have wrote on the world.

The memo is a nice bit of evidence, but it is hardly necessary to prove the point of the article,. the banksters are reckless terrorists exploiting for short term profits for themselves, at the expense of everyone, and everything on the planet. This is clearly the case, and easily observable to anyone who cares to have even a cursory look into it.

[myrna minx]

27. K&R n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. And then the CT becomes...reality

[Enthusiast]

32. Most of us knew it was a conspiracy.

The problem is - it's an ongoing conspiracy.

[questionseverything]

34. plus one

eom

[Egalitarian Thug]

35. K&R&ITYS

The replies from the dedicated blind are pretty funny, if somewhat pathetic.

[Civilization2]

107. Agreed,. denial is a powerful force, when it lets one keep faith in clearly broken systems.

Sadly, way too many folks are in the grips of denial, since they are having trouble altering their world view to coincide with reality.

Clearly a reality none of us want to be, yet until we see and accept the actual truth, how can we possible make any changes to it?

[Egalitarian Thug]

124. We can't, and that's the hardest thing to accomplish. So many of the greatest minds throughout

history have told us this in a thousand different ways, and still delusion persists in defining us as a species.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

[colsohlibgal]

36. And Obama Couldn't Love The Guy More

Obama couldn't wait to hire Summers and the Rubin clan, Obama apologists have a hard time rationalizing that.

The Big D democratic party is in cahoots with Wall Street just like the republicans.

[avaistheone1]

41. Cause Summers had E X P E R I E N C E

unfortunately not the kind that would really benefit this country.

[polichick]

46. Yep - he talks a good 99% game but seems to love the 1%

[Pretzel_Warrior]

38. That right there is some depressing shit to read.

[blackspade]

45. I can only hope that this 1% facade finally crashes

and burns.

[blkmusclmachine]

99. And how is Obama's Catfood Commission coming along?

Just in time to tank 2014 for the Democrats, yes?

-

[Phlem]

47. K&R!

[Fire Walk With Me]

48. Wait a second, this is from Greg Palast...oh shit, this is real...off comes the lid...

[HardTimes99]

53. The same capitalist parasites who fucked things up so badly are now being entrusted to

repair the rotten capitalist system, enriching themselves on both the collapse and its repair. Meanwhile, the masses are fed a bullshit line of 'austerity' and 'balanced budgets,' all to protect the interests of the global 1%

[blkmusclmachine]

94. Have they got us on our knees, yet??

Change!

[Fantastic Anarchist]

54. Incredible.

And even as well-read and knowledgeable about this stuff as I am, I am still amazed at new revelations. This is straight out of Disaster Capitalism.

The thing about Greece really struck a chord, because in my conversations with people, both American and European, they blame the Greeks on their "welfare statism." I've been stressing that it's the Banksters and their fabricated derivatives con-jobs that destroyed Greece, not "left-wing welfare statism."

It's a total con-job. The capitalists get off scot-free and and manage to convince otherwise intelligent people that it's left-wing economics/politics that are to blame.

It's evil. It's, unfortunately, not going away. All one has to do is to elect so-called a "progressive democrat" and lull everyone back to thinking everything is going to get better.

Thanks for posting, Ichingcarpenter.

[blkmusclmachine]

95. Win The Future!

[Civilization2]

108. indeed,. this is a huge part of their sick game-plan, scapegoat the unions, social programs,.

anything of social uplift is attacked as the "cause" of the havoc these 1% banksters and their corporate politicians have wrought!

It is sad, and more than a little pathetic, that so many people would rather blame the poor than acknowledge the very system itself is rigged to favor the rich.

Amazing really,. I suppose they still hold out hope that "one day" they will join the 1% wealth class, and they don't want to rock the boat till then,. . greed is a powerful force.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

113. It's absolutely evil.

And yes, a lot of people think they'll be 1%ers. They are evil, too.

[whatchamacallit]

58. "Speed it up"

[arcane1]

61. I was thinking about that video too

[whatchamacallit]

63. Yeah it's a rare glimpse of the shape of things

[blkmusclmachine]

96. They make $$$ the new fashioned way,

THEY STEAL IT

[Maven]

62. Wow. What an indictment. Or as Prez Obama calls it, a 'resume builder'

[hatrack]

64. You know, if Summers had been right, once, about anything, I might not be so pissed off

But given his record, I haven't seen any evidence that would warrant not being pissed off . . . which is more than a little ironic, given the reverential status accorded economics as a predictive "science".

[Civilization2]

110. actually he has been right every time; the 1% have won, and the rest of us have paid for it,.

while not even noticing that they 1% have gamed us!

In his calculation that they could "get away with it" he has been 100% correct every time!

Sad but true.

[Egalitarian Thug]

65. "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men

will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - John Maynard Keynes

[Enthusiast]

68. Yeah.

That's why capitalism must have the ever livin' shit regulated out of it.

[Egalitarian Thug]

71. We must also break the cycle of class control. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

69. "The Goddamn Occupiers were right!"

[Berlum]

102. +1,000

nt

[leftstreet]

72. DURec

[corkhead]

73. we should be able to have a good view of the back of the theater soon

"The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." Frank Zappa

[Fire Walk With Me]

116. Hopefully Frank is looking down on all of this and gets to do a happy dance when the bad guys lose.

[CRH]

74. And this was orchestrated with Clinton goons, ...

soon to be adopted by Obama. Can't blame this one on BFEE. And after 5 years of Obama, it seems BAU. How will we ever blame this one on the Repubs?

[Octafish]

86. BFEE Is Buy-Partisan

Know your BFEE: Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4055207

[blkmusclmachine]

97. We all got a good old fashioned bipartisan screwing

(D)'s & (R)'s in cahoots. Tag teaming Main Street.

[Octafish]

109. Money does that to people.

"Money trumps peace." -- George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

All who go along with that are complicit.

[rhett o rick]

114. It's not personal, it's capitalism. nm

[WillyT]

75. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[antigop]

76. How the TPP will impact financial regulations

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPPImpacts_FinRegulation.html

The TPP would provide big banks with a backdoor means of rolling back efforts to re-regulate Wall Street in the wake of the global economic crisis.

The deal would require domestic law to conform to the now-rejected model of extreme deregulation that caused the crisis. The TPP would forbid countries from banning particularly risky financial products, such as the toxic derivatives that led to the $183 billion government bailout of AIG.

The TPP would threaten the use of "firewalls" - policies that are employed to stop the spread of risk between different types of financial institutions and products. While many in the United States have called for a reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, that helped eliminate banking crises for four decades by prohibiting deposit-holding commercial banks from dealing in risky investments, the TPP would bar such reform. The TPP would ban capital controls, an essential policy tool to counter destabilizing flows of speculative money. Even the International Monetary Fund has recently endorsed capital controls as legitimate for mitigating or preventing financial crises.

The TPP would prohibit taxes on Wall Street speculation. That means that there would be no hope of passing proposals like the Robin Hood Tax, which would impose a tiny tax on Wall Street transactions to tamp down speculation-fueled volatility while generating hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of revenue for social, health, or environmental causes.

The TPP would empower financial firms to directly attack these government policies in foreign tribunals, and demand taxpayer compensation for policies they claim undermine their expected future profits.

[snot]

78. +1!

Good connection to make.

[antigop]

79. the TPP is just a continuation.... nt

[Civilization2]

111. Yup, they are not even done with the screwgie,. they will keep at it, till we take them down.,

Why would they stop,. they get everything they want every time, and the bulk of the people blame it all on each other,. never the 1% banksters,. that would be a "crazy conspiracy" Oh no, that just cant be true,. .

[wildbilln864]

80. k&r! n

n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

87. A big heapin' helping of Shock Doctrine

9/11 was the excuse

[99Forever]

100. Is anyone really surprised by this?

This IS WHY he is Barack Obama's first choice. 1%ers, protecting their own at the expense of everyone else.

[Berlum]

101. "You smelly proles need to STFU. There's massive MoneyBuck profits to be made." L. Summers

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

115. OK, so what are we gonna do about it?

That's why they knew they could get away with it, because we are virtually powerless.

[Fire Walk With Me]

117. Exactly, this is the most important question. If we do nothing, we'll become inured to the evil. n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

118. We too are doped with religion and sex (porn) and tv

(a quote, unlike so many attributed to him on the interwebs, that can be positively attributed to John Lennon. Not that I think he's a guru or anything, but that was a great and true line.) And now that the 1% has stolen most of our nation's wealth, we are too tired to do much more than struggle to make a living.

[Fire Walk With Me]

120. "..we are too tired to do much more than struggle to make a living."

Which is all part of their plan. What about OUR plan? Think; what to do?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

121. I wish I knew.

[Fire Walk With Me]

122. They must be removed but fully expect protesting and civil disobedience.

That's what the surveillance state is for, to protect their interests. DHS militarizing police departments...it's all "part of the plan".

To beat them we'll have to think complex and multiplex instead of the simplex reaction of rage in the streets. Attack them in their profit centers. Defeat their legislation. Stop their globalisation. End the TPP. Occupy them where it HURTS them. Reveal their evil. Let no friend or family member remain unaware of this memo and its larger meaning. Activate. Agitate.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

123. Of course. Sorry, I was vague. It's not that I don't know what to do, I just don't think we have

a chance, no matter what we do. Too much of the power is in their hands for us to take it back. Whoever controls the money and the media controls the world. Have you read The Power Broker, by Robert Caro? I just finished it and it left me quite depressed.

I guess I must still hold onto a glimmer of hope or I wouldn't bother with DU at all, so thanks for keeping the faith. Maybe I'll rebound.

[Fire Walk With Me]

119. Extremely creepy words from Plutonomist HW Bush regarding their then future plans:

"New World Order...When we are successful...and we will be..."

Considering the Bush disaster family are effectively behind the post 9/11 surveillance state, raking in $2 billion from their 2/3s stake in Booz Hamilton alone...and are part of the massive grab of water per their buddies Enron's early experiments...if you take the Bush family as Plutonomists, the NWO is the Plutonomy we've seen built since before the 2008 theft of trillions of taxpayer dollars by banks and corporations, it all begins to make sense.


All your money and privacy are belong to BushCo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023490164

Water privatization by the richest rich is happening now ("hydraulic empire&quot incl. the Bush family
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023406830


The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community


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http://our99angrypercent.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/download-citigroup-plutonomy-memos/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

125. The attitude of the rich is that money is THEIRS and the rest of us are thieves.

[winter is coming]

126. Yes, Precious. n/t