The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (56 page)

Introduction

“Zombie” demeanor from psychiatric drugs: http://www.adhdtreatment.org:10500/adhd/ adderall_stimulant_treatment_for_adhd.html

Zombie ants: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/Fire_ants_turn_into_zombies

Zombie banks: http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi116.html

Largest single increase in debt: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/01/politics/ politicalhotsheet/entry5355738.shtml

A trillion dollar bills to the sun and back: http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/how-much-is-a-trillion/

Obama administration raises deficit projection: http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSTRE57K4XE20090821?feedType=RSS&feedName=wtMost Read

U.S. assets less debt: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080818114023AAQ5bHU

PART I—A ZOMBIE NATION

Economic Decline

$5 trillion of wealth evaporated: http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg296.htm

One in eight mortgages in default: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/11/ mortgage_defaults_hitting_reco.html

Foreclosures by 2012: http://www.realtytrac.com/contentmanagement/realtytraclibrary.aspx?channelid=8&ItemID=6675

Adults and children on food stamps: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?_r=2

Unemployment figure second highest since WWII: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/What-recovery-Unemployment-apf-563122944.html?x=0

Economic collapse like Argentina: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/6146873/Adam-Smith-would-not-be-optimistic-in-todays-economic-world.html

Loss of income tax revenues: http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/07/news/economy/tax_revenue_falling/?postversion=2009100711

Massive federal loans for jobless: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2008-09-08-unemployment_N.htm

No pauper funerals in Indiana: http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_138231725.html

Public housing demolition in Atlanta: http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0141.html

Reverting paved road to gravel in Michigan: http://www.wwmt.com/articles/roads-1363526-mich-counties.html

Family-owned businesses closed their doors: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125478399429765967.html

Peter Schiff on increase in household debt despite savings: http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff49.1.html

Socialism and Loss of Individuality

Lenin on subservience to the State: http://www.fff.org/freedom/0197d.asp; http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729546,00.html

Lenin’s globalist quotes: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/vladimir+ilyich+lenin

Paul Craig Roberts on how a private individual had no need for forms: http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=465&theme=home&loc=b

Norman Thomas on “liberalism”: http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/norman_thomas_quote_ffb1

“We Are All Socialists Now”: Cover,
Newsweek,
February 16, 2009

New World Order

Adolf Hitler on New World Order: http://hitlersdiaries.com/HitlersDiariesPhilosophy2.html

Globalists as “flexians”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-first-huffpost-book-c_b_412999.html

U.S. capitalists funded Bolsheviks: Jim Marrs,
Rule by Secrecy
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000), pp. 192–193

U.S. capitalists funded Nazis: Jim Marrs,
The Rise of the Fourth Reich
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008), pp. 25–32

Nick Rockefeller quote: http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/210207_rockefeller_friendship.html

Catherine Austin Fitts on global financial coup d’état: http://solari.com/blog/?p=2058

Walter Cronkite on America’s ruling class: http://www.newswatch.org/ (August 28, 2009)

Dissension in the Ranks

Dissension at the University of Chicago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&th&emc=th

Paul Krugman on failure of economists and Ben Bernanke quote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&th&emc=th

PART II—HOW TO CREATE ZOMBIES

POLITICAL HACKING

Foreign trade and bonds

Easy credit “forces” permanently altered: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/business/economy/10saving.html?_r=1

Grand Net bonds inflow drop: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2009/0820.html

Weimar territory lies ahead: Ibid.

Dollar losing status as world currency: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeD0JMxdEA_c

China may default on derivatives: http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14365060

Peter Schiff on Chinese not buying Treasury debt: http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff49.1.html

Liars’ Loans

William K. Black on “liars’ loans”: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

Black on pig in a poke: Ibid.

Bush administration refused to replace five hundred agents: Black, op. cit.

Gramm and Deregulation

Brooksley Born on opaque market: http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/resources/legends_in_the_law/born.cfm

Phil Gramm as meltdown culprit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/26/road-ruin-recession-individuals-economy; http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/14/culprits-of-the-collapse-7-phil-gramm/; http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/ 0,28804,1877351_1877350,00.html

CFTC prevented from asking questions: Born, op. cit.

Black on Swiss bank UBS: Black, op. cit.

AIG execs failed to return bonuses from taxpayer bailout: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/less-than-half-of-aig-bonuses-returned/

All people who have failed: Black, op. cit.

Overwhelmed by regulation quotes by Bill Moyers and William K. Black: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

Colonial BancGroup fails: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aOTAckySeznw

Robert Auerbach and Fed banks: http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/ idUSN0756271320090407

They think Americans are a bunch of cowards: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

Downsizing America

CFR explains the president’s agenda for Paulson: http://www.cfr.org/publication/11165/ what_the_boss_wants_from_hank_paulson.html

Henry Paulson on safe banking system: http://cbs5.com/national/henry.paulson.economy.2.775329.html

Paulson’s face: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/ 0,31682,1861543_1865103,00.html

Scandal of such proportions due to relatively few: Black, op. cit.

Martin D. Weiss on three government reports and insanity: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article13977.html

Conspiracy theorists are right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70G7hQov6dI

Representative Kay Granger’s comments: http://granger.houseenews.net/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100045681.12317.38&gen=1

Debt Slaves

Obama on a multiplier effect: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/WireStory?id=7330274&page=3

Stimulus Package

A spiraling public debt crisis: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12517

Charles Millard and PBGC: http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/20/news/economy/ pbgc_refuses_testify.reut/index.htm

Before the Crash

Franklin Raines on home ownership expansion: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html?sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Steven Holmes on Fannie Mae risk: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html?scp=1&sq=fannie+mae+eases+credit+to+aid+mortgage+lending&st=cse

Larry Summers convinces Bill Clinton: http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2009/0330.html

F. William Engdahl on Geithner’s dirty little secret: Ibid.

Bank Stress Tests

Ben Bernanke on comprehensive effort: http://www.cnbc.com/id/30619915

Douglas Elliott on swapping a loan for ownership: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103842153&ft=1&f=1001&sc=YahooNews

Engdahl on bankers’ coup d’état: http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2009/0330.html

Chuck Collins on plutocracy: http://blog.buzzflash.com/interviews/154

Improprieties and Death

David Kellermann’s death: http://www.housingwire.com/2009/04/23/kellerman-the-scapegoat-of-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/

Lyndon LaRouche on Kellermann’s right to justice: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/10172

The Rich Get Richer

G. William Domhoff on power can lead to wealth: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Tax receipts decreasing: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/apers/receipts.pdf

Public Debt, Private Profit

Bank failures and low reserve fund: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_bi_ge/ us_meltdown101_bank_failures

William M. Isaac’s conversation with Don Regan: http://www.kitco.com/ind/schoon/aug172009.html

Darryl Robert Schoon: Ibid. http://www.kitco.com/ind/schoon/aug172009.html

Fed monetizing U.S. debt: http://seekingalpha.com/article/158330-how-the-federal-reserve-is-monetizing-debt

How it All Began

Joan Veon and the transfer of America’s sovereignty: http://www.newswithviews.com/Veon/joan156.htm

$23.7 trillion bailout costs: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0907/S00250.htm

Dennis Lockhart on job losses: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4452bed82adf3124e5884678e236d7fb.361&show_article=1

Greenspan on gold: http://www.restore-government-accountability.com/greenspan-on-gold.html

Greenspan stands by assessment: Ibid.

GATA on hidden gold swaps: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Federal-Reserve-Admits-Hiding-bw-2550373789.html?x=0&.v=1

Any financial instrument subject to seizure: http://www.gata.org/node/5606

Usury

The mechanism converting debt into money: G. Edward Griffin,
The Creature from Jekyll Island
(Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 1994), p. 207

Greider and Henry Ford: William Greider,
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), pp. 12, 55

Barry Goldwater on Americans have no understanding: Barry M. Goldwater,
With No Apologies
(New York: William Morrow, 1979), p. 281

Money for Faith and Debt

Money as function of faith: Greider, p. 53

Massive debt at every level: William Bramley,
The Gods of Eden
(San Jose, CA: Dahlin Family Press, 1990), p. 432

The Federal Reserve Anomaly

The ultimate control by the Fed: Greider, p. 12

Marco Polo and fiat money: Griffin, p. 156

Khazar Empire: http://www.khazaria.com/

Khazars as progenitors of eastern European Jews: James Mitchell, editor in chief,
The Random House Encyclopedia
(New York: Random House, 1977), p. 2318

Benjamin Franklin on prime reason: http://www.quoty.org/tag/currency

Hamilton on debt as a national blessing: Griffin, p. 329

Thomas Jefferson on the evils and unconstitutionality of banks: Martin A. Larson,
The Essence of Jefferson
(New York: Joseph J. Binns, Publisher, 1977), pp. 185–186, 192, 196

Andrew Jackson and the central banks as a curse to the republic: Epperson, p. 134