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The Dragon Line-Bastille Day-2012
“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out…and having food and raiment let us be therewith content…But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown Men in destruction and perdition…For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have been seduced from the Faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows…
{1st Timothy 6:9-10}
Welcome Angels and Gentle Beasts to this Edition of:
“The Dragon Line”
“Bastille Day-2012 – † – Off With Their Heads”
Ooh, there’s no bread, let ’em eat cake…There’s no end to what they will take…Flaunt the fruits of noble birth…Wash the salt into the earth…But they’re marching to Bastille Day…La guillotine will claim her bloody prize…
RUSH: 1975
I find it to be a humorous, albeit, disturbing antidote, to a disease that is most asuredly of Orwellian nature, that when you look back over all of world history you discover the inevitable outcome of any governmental structure that strays away from any acceptance of individuality, and thereby establish a grid that, in regards to our present condition as a Nation, shows that we are more similar to, than we are less comparable than, those Nations which in the past, under similar conditions, have seen their downfall. Allow me for a moment to elaborate with this question; Are we (the United States) at this moment in time, in the same position that France was in, in the summer of 1789? For although we have now, and we have always had, freedom of speech, and we are not now, nor have we ever been, at least not since the inception of our Declaration of Independence, jailed in this country for giving voice to our political beliefs, we must investigate our created grid of history for only a moment to see that Rulers and Kings such as Louis XVI saw fit to jail his subjects for merely being in possession of writings that were in disagreement with the thoughts and ideas that gave their monarchy its foundational structure. These writings, distributed among the populace by individuals whose thinking and ideology were contrary to that of the monarchy, were seen as a sort of heresy or treason, for the desire for a sort of cacophony had been voiced by those in power and the seeds had been planted to establish a form of class warfare among the subjects of France, thus feeding the inevitable economic downfall and bringing about a revolution of the people.
Are we not in a similar position today here in The United States of America, after all, Our political leaders, along with the bankers and the corporate elite have certainly put us into a similar position of economic turmoil, and they are without a doubt casting the seeds of inevitable class warfare, however they, that is, those in these positions of power, are approaching the issue from the bottom up instead of from the top down, for they themselves hold position at the top. So instead of attempting to tax the hell out of the poor as King Louis XVI did in 18th century France, they have designed a blueprint that establishes a means by which they are able to bring the poor into a state of dependency on authority, and by blaming the {other} rich, {those who do not side with the views of those in power}, for the conditions of the poor and those less fortunate, they establish a field of battle that distances the populace and organizes them into agreeable groups of social and obedient subjects. They are doing so ever so slowly, and by the means of carefully manipulated speech and bull shit rhetoric, they are succeeding without our consent.
Indeed, for the average man of today, we may well be nearing a point when we will say with assured vigor that; “there is no bread, but the rich eat cake”, and with unemployment at its highest levels in the last seventy years, {8.2% on the books, but really with people who have exhausted their benefits, the true gauge of unemployment is more in the range of 18 to 20%}, those in position in the government, in cooperation with their like-minded minions, will continually inject money into the economy using such terms as Quantitative Easing and the Twist Operation. One need only to take a look at the facts to see that this same plan was implemented by Our own Government, as it has unfolded in just the past few years in the form of the so-called 2008 bailouts. These so-called “bailouts”, which were nothing more than an outright robbery of the American taxpayer, were given to the banks because they were deemed by those in so-called positions of expertise, to be too big to fail, and we were told by these same “experts” that we could not let that happen, and so these bailouts were the kick off to what the elite in power saw as an opportunity, not only to take advantage of a situation and not waste a serious crisis, but also to bring more people into a dependency state of being, and thereby gain even more control.
The Presidents Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel stated as much in an interview in the Wall Street Journal in 2008 when he said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is, it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before”. Shortly thereafter, President Obama took office, and with the help of like-minded Senators and Congressmen he had at his disposal the means to begin to implement a strategy that would do just that, it would utilize the crisis at hand for the sole purpose of gaining control over the populace. They would start by doing things covertly as they readied the seeds for planting by simply printing more money and giving it away to the banks and the companies that were heading for failure. In order for this type of monopoly money to eventually become actual currency, they would state in report after report to the American people, through various media outlets under their guidance, that the people of the nation, and its future generations ;{ i.e. the Taxpayer}, would fit the bill, and therefore the money really does exist, it just hasn’t been earned or generated yet. For the elite in power it was all just fuel to feed the fire, and it would brandish even more opportunity.
When the easy housing loans, that were ordered to be given out by a democratic congress under a democratic President, {Bill Clinton} took effect during the decade between 2000-2010, the fruition of that seed led to the inevitable bubble bursting. At this point, as they had done in the past, they stated once again that we all have a right to a new home regardless of our income and that the way that we will pay for that new home, for a person that cannot afford it on their own, is by taking from those that have sufficient means. Sounds a whole hell of a lot better than saying, “We intend to rob the average American of the dream of home ownership and create a plutocracy for banks to buy back homes at an extremely cheaper rate. If they would have stated their intentions in that manner we would have pulled a trick from Ol’ Mister Potter’s bag and “run ‘em out of town on a rail”…
Of course, the next question that arises is simply one of responsibility, I mean; shouldn’t the average American have been more responsible in the purchasing of a home and in the running up of credit card debt? Don’t get me wrong, I agree, plastic is easy money and it is fun, but only for a season, eventually the bill comes due. We learned this lesson in the latter part of the 1980’s, when the public woke up from a credit riddled nightmare and decided that they would implement austerity measures into their own lives and thereby stop spending so much. At the time this action caused many retail businesses to shut their doors or at least re-evaluate their inventories and business practices. In essence, Main Street had learned its lesson, and it had done so without any help at all from the federal government. Those companies that went under, simply went under, those businesses that failed were considered failed businesses, and, as history has shown, those that were able to adapt to the changes survived and thrived in the restructuring of the self-sustaining, free market economy. Whatever happened to survival of the fittest?
Recently on April 17, 2012}, President Obama appeared on TV once again to discuss the manipulation of price in the oil markets. He has stated in the past on numerous occasions dating back to when he first won the election, that he and his administration would do all in its power to regulate the market and expose the manipulation. Now it is true that the price of oil is affected by many factors. Foreign oil for example, relies on many different divisions of involvement in order to be processed and distributed, supplies for each portion of the work must be manufactured and shipped and assembled, investors must be brought to the table in order to cover the cost of those supplies, drilling rights for territories must be established according to the laws of the province or state where the well will be in operation, and the supply and demand factor must be maintained in order to produce revenue. So, if understanding tells us anything, we must surmise that these factors all play a part in the equation, and that in and among them, some, or perhaps even all are contributing to the problem of manipulation, and we must also, if we are to take the President at his word, believe that what he meant by his previous as well as his subsequent statements, was that he would look into each and every one of those factors. Three years and four months in to his administration Gas prices are more than double what they were when he took office, and the price of oil is at an all time high.
The President has stated in his speeches that we here in the United States of America consume 20% of all of the world’s oil, yet we only produce 2% of it. Are we really using 10 times more than we produce as a nation, and if we are, why in hell would he not want us to at least process some of that 18% right here in our own country? Just recently The President opposed the approval of The Keystone Pipeline, at the very least it would have created a few thousand jobs in those areas of the central mid-west so hard hit by all of the environmental protection legislation already implemented on farmers and manufacturers located in those regions, and it would have been a self-sustaining start to stimulating our economic growth in the free market. But instead, as he has so many times in the past, The President broke out the old teleprompter, and read again those words urging congress to implement measures that would restrict investors from placing enormous orders to buy up the oil cheap and sell it later for a great profit.
Now understand Dear Reader that I do agree that the availability of margin bets and/or oil contracts that are bought now at a price of 2 to 10% of their actual value only to be sold at a price much higher at a later date should be eliminated, I must say that we are well beyond the days when we first started to see this coming. When RUSH released Bastille Day in 1975 we were already well into an economic downturn that led to a near depression that offered itself up to us in the form of rising gas and oil prices and long odd and even day lines at the pump. This decrease in product and the increase in prices were due to this very fact; Large players have the cash to place these bets in this manner while small investors and people saving for their retirement often do not. This allows big banks and investment firms to buy up many contracts cheaply, raise the price artificially, and then sell off a few of them to reap the profits, all this while the little guy who must sell from necessity is forced to take a loss. Now with that in mind we come to our next question. Is the task of placing limitations on the free market system something that our Nation’s elected officials should be in charge of implementing, after all, shouldn’t our free market principles be allowed to reign?
Again I say; whatever happened to survival of the fittest… I mean I believe, as many I’m sure would agree, that an educated investor and consumer is a far better regulator of the principles of a free market system than any member of the federal government. To clarify lets use this hypothetical analogy; if all of the investors who now buy gold and silver were to buy physical gold and physical silver instead of buying contracts in gold and silver futures, it would without a doubt be virtually impossible for anyone to manipulate these markets.
We all saw this very thing happen in the silver market in May of 2011; it was all over the news. On his radio program in early May 2011, Glenn Beck announced that George Soros had recently dumped approximately one ton of silver on the market, apparently he had it in his possession for quite some time, this caused the four-month Bull Run in silver from January 2011 through April 2011 to drop the price of silver from nearly $50.00 per ounce to just below $35.00 per ounce. {see source-A}, This action by George Soros was done in conjunction with the raising of the margin requirements in the Comex market (that is; paper silver contracts) and it caused a 30% drop in the price of silver worldwide and forced many Comex silver investors to sell their contracts. According to the site vCap Futures, {see source-B} the current future contracts for silver are 5,000 ounces for a purchase price of $9,000.00, which, with the value of silver being hypothetically at $32 an ounce, puts the value of the brokered deal at $160,000.00 in silver paper contracts. If the value of silver drops more than 25% to under $24.00 an ounce, and the investment dropped below the maintenance margin of $6,750.00, {or 75% of the initial $ 9,000.00}, investors would be forced to either pay the difference in cash {$2,250.00} to their exchange clearing firm {that is the brokerage house that maintains their investment}, or they would have to sell their contracts at a substantial loss to those who initially manipulated the price in the first place. Can you take a guess at whom that someone might be my young and faithful Padawans, that’s right…Mr. Soros himself…According to an article on SafeHaven dated May 20, 2011-{see source-C}, Mr. Soros stated that he did not believe that the bull markets in gold and silver were coming to an end, around the same time he purchased mining shares in Goldcorp and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Its seems to me a very convenient coincidence that he dumped the silver on the market prior to the investment in order to artificially strengthen the U.S. dollar and thereby manipulate the price of silver down in order to force smaller players out of the game. As I stated before: If all of the investors who now buy gold and silver were to buy physical gold and physical silver instead of buying contracts in gold and silver futures, it would be virtually impossible for anyone to manipulate the market. For this action would “free the dungeons of the innocent” and the manipulators would be symbolically marching to Bastille Day. For just as the song states:
Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace,
naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
as we would bow as they rode by
And we’re marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, oh choirs of cacophony
the king has kneeled
to let his kingdom rise.
The bloodstained velvet and dirty lace along with the naked fear on every face will be the sheer embarrassment of the elite when they wake up and find that there is nothing left to take. We are at a point right now in our history that is reflective of these very premises, we see all over the world the fiat {paper} currencies failing, and I myself do not see this as a bad thing. Bankers from the beginning have always attempted to control the money supply, not just throughout our history here in the United States, but in all history throughout the world.
Nathan Rothschild was able to secure the First Bank of the United States through Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury – (1789–1795): who himself, was in favor of centralized planning for government, this was known as the First Bank of America Charter. In 1791, after the death of Benjamin Franklin, who had opposed from the start the centralized fractional banking reserve system, {this is the type of system that allows the banks to control the supply of money and the interest rate that it bears}, Loans were made for homes and farms, and they were assured for as long the economy was booming, for if it was, then the loans could be paid off by the borrowers, but inflation was now in position to reign, and in contrast, when the price of products and services fell, as fewer dollars were available to pay for these goods, the result was that people lost their homes, their investments, and their lands and farms. Sounds just like today doesn’t it? Our founding fathers knew better than to put their trust in an elite hierarchy of financial manipulators, and at the beginning of our country’s inception they established the free market system in order to reign in the corrupt ideals of the likes of a Rothschild or a Soros. They based our currency on precious metals such as gold and silver because these commodities have an intrinsic as well as a numismatic value, and that established a built-in foundation that assured the currency holder, { the guy with the paper money}, that his funds were backed by actual physical assets, and not simply worthless pieces of printed on paper.
In the year 1811, the United States government decided not to renew the First Bank of America charter and the Rothschild’s lost millions. Now there are some scholars in history that believe that Nathan Rothschild himself was so enraged by this attack against his initial desires for financial control over the nations of the west that he forced the British government to incite the war of 1812 against the United States. Of course we all know, the United States won the war of 1812, but the fact remains yet today that the apple did not fall far from the tree in the garden of socialistic ideology that had been planted by his father; Mayer Amsched Rothchild, a European banker, who is quoted as stating; “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws”. {See source-D}.
Trust me Dear Reader…This attitude is more prevalent among those in high positions of power today than most of us realize…and with that, we come to the last remaining verse and chorus of this well written and enticing musical commentary…
Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mould was cast
For they marched up to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn’t all that money buys
This last verse and chorus remind us once again that history repeats itself. Our grid has now, in regards to our present condition as a Nation, shown us that we are, as stated before, more similar to, than we are less comparable than, those Nations which in the past, under similar conditions, have seen their downfall. For what happened in France in 1789 is happening all over the world today. The corrupt politicians, bankers and elites are being called out for their abuse of power. Over 450 banking CEOs have resigned from office all over the world in the last year alone. The so-called main stream media is in bed with this power elite to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of so-called free market contributions that they do not even bother to cover stories such as these, but the internet certainly does, As of the date prior to this posting, our team of investigative researchers found that on April 19, 2012 a press release was issued by The Federal Court of the United States of America…In it, the Federal Courts ordered that $14 million in fines and disgorgement be paid by manipulators of NYMEX Crude Oil, Heating Oil, and Gasoline Futures Contracts, this was stated as stemming from the Commodity Futures Trading Commissions, {CFTC} charges against Optiver and others for manipulation and making false statements: The following is an excerpt from that article:
“The CFTC’s complaint charged defendants with engaging in manipulation and attempted manipulation of New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) Light Sweet Crude Oil, New York Harbor Heating Oil, and New York Harbor Gasoline futures contracts in March 2007, (see source E…CFTC Press Release 5521-08, July 24, 2008). The complaint further charged Optiver and van Kempen with concealing the manipulation by making false statements in response to an inquiry from NYMEX”.
Now while I am sure that this lawsuit is valid on the part of NYMEX, and that the manipulators were guilty of the various charges, I cannot help but stress that it seems rather convenient to me that just one day after the President comes on television talking about something that he has mentioned time and time again in previous years during his administration, {the manipulation of oil contracts}, that the lawsuit was settled. With this in mind we must ask ourselves this final two-part question; could it all be related, and is it simply no more than a re-election tactic on the part of the current administration to retain control after the 2012 election? If the answer to this two-part question is yes then let it be said, here and now, from every rooftop and blog page worldwide that it is within the availability of information that Power truly lies…Power to reclaim our sovereignty, Power to secure our freedoms, and Power to retain our financial security.
Amidst what began as only minor infractions, we…those of us who see these truths for what they really are, have been cast in the role of the villain, put out with the lot of those that hold other worldly views that are in opposition to the relatively perceived view that has been proposed by the individuals in power who share not in a desire for individuality. For those Nations throughout history, what began as only minor infractions led to an inevitable downfall that ended individualism, and brought about catastrophic failure, and the reasons for the failure of those Nations are not so much a question of mistakes made, but even more so an understanding of the failure that took place beforehand. It is that theory of men such as Nathan Rothschild and George Soros that is set against the successful development of any governmental structure that embraces individuality, and it is that theology that has been acquired and implemented into the original form of our own Governmental stability in this country, and just as it has in the past, done to those nations which are now lost to civilization, it will continue to do to other people and nations until the people of all nations decide to rise up and cut off its ugly head.
Written by: Lori Lynn and David G.
Source-references:
A: http://www.kitco.com {Click on the charts and data tab under the 2011 historical silver charts}.
B. http://vcapfutures.com/resources/futures-contract-margins
D. http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2005/08aug/redshield.html
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