With the stock market indicators showing upticking this quarter, most regular folk relax a bit, and believe the stories that the recession is just that and we'll come out of it soon. Many of us also have a friend or family member who's a real estate agent and they too  will tell you they're busy and see signs of recovery.  Maybe, but I know that the financials, the FED shell games, and the downright weird machination of Central Banks, the International Monetary Fund, on top of the high unemployment and near breakdown of MANY state and local budgets ( heck AZ is literally seeing legislators yelling and suing each other)--this dog don't hunt people.

I am an economics geek and I read a lot of goofy stuff.  I also read a number a great sources that frankly, lean on the goofy and odd to help them right now as no one, not the great minds nor the guy buying gold for G. Gordon Liddy- none of them knows what's coming next.  Plus, this crew in charge of the Department of Treasury, Tim Geithner and his team, there are truly scary ties to huge liberal power brokers like George Soros, lots of desire and history of work to seek World Order theories from the United Nations, and a deeply rooted work history with the IMF.

It DOES read like a historical perspective of UFOs and all of a sudden it turns out you're in the movie Signs with a tinfoil hat on your head. 

When I read the Wall Street Journal and find great tips or insights, I cannot pass them by without acknowledgment.
I read  Market Watch, and a few paragraphs stuck out like glowing bullion:
"Another FDR-style 'bank holiday' of indefinite length, perhaps soon, to let the insiders sort out the bank mess, which (despite their rosy propaganda campaign) is getting more out of their control every day. Insiders want to impose new bank rules. Widespread nationalization could result, already underway. It could also lead to a formal U.S. dollar devaluation, as FDR did by revaluing gold (and then confiscating it)."

If you're a Glenn Beck watcher, you know how he talks of the Progressive Movement, and the Wilson, Hoover, to FDR era of reform and economic rigging we are STILL feeling. I project that it is happening again and the Progressive move including United Nations action, IMF controls, steep regulation and centralization of government, and a move away for Judaic-Christian ethics is in play. John Maynard Keynes and others helped FDR create a deficit spend concept that led to the New Deal.  Well President Obama and his henchmen David Axelrod, Rham Emmanuel, Geithner, Peter Orszag ( Director of OMB-Office of Management and Budget), National Economic Council director Larry Summers, act like they are the smartest guys in the room, they are still more egghead than practical work related knowledge.  These guys have been in public service or school, and Larry Summers has been on the wrong side of almost all fiscal decisions, pushing a very liberal deficit spending agenda.
Summers looks to be in line for Ben Bernanke's job at the FED too, as that entity gets more spooky every day.

This boys club is a TIGHT group of buds, they're certain they're right, and they are not going to EVER consider any supply-side nothing. There is no inkling of hope for negotiation with them either; these are economic bulldozers and they are plowing down the old institutional ways under the name of Change.

The same article I read noted this other very scary paragraph:
"Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year. Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of U.S. cash to purchase currencies from those governments, quietly. But not pound sterling. Inside the State Dept., there is a sense of sadness and foreboding that 'something' is about to happen ... within 180 days, but could be 120-150 days."
 
What could this mean?  Well, the Obama administration could be helping to recalibrate the value of the dollar, restructure gold values, and all other currencies.  I've written before on the gold moving around Europe, Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel likely asking for her share of gold stored in the US back in her hands.  The Chinese have long been wary of the international currency and bond market; something is afoot.

Our leaders who still might like to see the United States as a super power and the dollar strong need to wake up.  Obama is not bi-partisan and he and his crew are totally out of touch with reality.  They have Czars running the show, heck look at Hillary as no more than a figure head, yet she used to be the most powerful Democrat in the United States just over a year ago. 
Maybe deals have been made, as I suspected Bill Clinton wanted to be Supreme Court Justice or----> Is Bill Clinton hoping to be the Secretary General of the United Nations as it become the glory of the world and Bill the Grand Poobah of a New World Order? 

Does it sound like Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets a Roswell docudrama?  Hey, break out the tinfoil haberdashery gear, cuz we're in for a fiscal fiasco the likes of you'll only see in the history books.

What's that Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting times"? Some say it was actually a curse as the interest only comes after the history is written, as for now the witchy brew of ooze is bubbling up. 

See the article referenced at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/schultz-paints-bleak-picture-of-future

In a slap at President Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser for a New York congresswoman challenging White House-backed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary.

Clinton has not endorsed in the race, but his efforts to help Rep. Carolyn Maloney could be seen as a snub to Gillibrand and the Obama White House. Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Clinton, said he will be attending a July 20 fundraiser in New York.

The White House has played an active role in clearing the field for Gillibrand, who was appointed earlier this year to fill the seat vacated when Obama tapped Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. Obama asked Rep. Steve Israel not to challenge Gillibrand, a request he honored. Just days ago, Vice President Biden called Maloney to discuss the race, a clear sign that the White House didn't want a primary fight next year.

Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told reporters last week that the White House would help Gillibrand's re-election bid.

McKenna disputed any suggestions that Clinton is taking sides in the race, and said Clinton's attendance at past or future fundraisers should not be perceived as an endorsement.

"We agreed to this event some time ago as a way of saying 'thank you' to Congresswoman Maloney for her efforts on his wife's behalf last year," McKenna said.

Bill Clinton also did a fundraising event for Gillibrand, but word of the Maloney event comes as the congresswoman moves toward formally announcing her candidacy. An adviser said this week she is running.

Both Maloney and Gillibrand supported Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid, and Bill Clinton had made a point of thanking supporters.

Did you read this?
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.542dd302b00c1d6d3e07387d9c2c4d46.ec1&show_article=


 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has cancelled plans to visit Moscow with President Barack Obama and will send someone in her place, a State Department official said Wednesday.

"Secretary Clinton is not going to go to Moscow. She is going to designate a State Department official to go," the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.

He did not give a reason but Clinton cancelled a trip to Greece and Italy last week because she is recovering from a broken elbow

What do the Clintons know that Barack Obama does not?  Who else WILL be on the trip?  Is this REALLY the same woman who was the head of the Democratic party just over a year ago? Somebody stuck and elbow in her side it seems, jabbing her outta the game.  Otherwise this is REALLY FISHY.

Not and elbow, more like something is afoot, and Obama's Neverland isn't happening.

by Gayle Plato, M. Ed.

In light of July 1, 2009, new budget time clock, the bickering, the social spending plays and ploys, I look at the clouds building along the Northeast skyline of the Valley.  Arizona monsoon brings the heat, stuffy hot air, and lots of big thundering heads.  Many get scared of the cracking bolts- energy that lights up the night with terror and flash. I look at the clouds, a bit seasoned, and I know: this storm is all flash-point build up of energy with little real power. By the time the storm hits the freeway, it might be a sprinkle, some wind and dust cover.  I tell my son not to worry, rather I see a teachable moment about storms. But that’s the nature of things; parents help children understand that nature, while scary at times, is guided by principles and rules. It all blows by, one way or another.

In the light of day comes the reality. There are rules and guidelines in place for reasons. But, we are all voters of recognition and desire respect.  If spending gets out of control, the society “floods” unnaturally, with our money flowing out via the Community Chest.  All the structures are eroded away; natural function is supplanted by dictated regulation. There is no Pass Go card in this game. Years pass by and the programs grow to the billions of dollars with everyone justifying the system. Sooner or later a tipping point is inevitable. Liquidity dries up. This is a desert after all.

The Arizona Education Association might be one of the most vocal statewide groups regarding our fiscal budget.  They’ve been clapping thunder about the looming budgetary storm for months.  Yet, in light of economic crisis, one could hope to find insight and innovative ideas on how to solve the economic problems from a group of educators. Other than articles discussing President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and how it’s only a temporary support, I found a few opinion pieces.  One article currently featured at their website, written over a year ago, holds words of deep brilliance from John Wright, President:

“Property and income tax assessments are the pathway to a more stable system of taxation that produces consistent revenue. To invest in the future, Arizona should transition to a more forward-thinking tax structure. ” (Published: 03.04.2008, Arizona Daily Star)

Then there are some insightful videos with sarcastic innuendo but light on substance (see AEA page:http://www.arizonaea.org/news.php?page=395).
I don’t know if President Wright could pass the citizen civics test portion some AZ high school students bombed ( see story below on this blog), or whether he’s taken an economics class, but no one can promote taxes for growth, especially on a tax base shrinking at exponential rates.  Does Mr. Wright know that Maricopa County is GROUND ZERO for mortgage default?

All social programming is a big thunder cloud with little rain. The drought just gets pushed out a few months or year here and there. Very few systems can claim ANY success without requiring more money every fiscal year.  By the purest math of that, the programs are NOT cost effective. Only programming that is designed to foster personal responsibility and resiliency can offer any permanent value.  Think mentorship v. panhandling; we all know which one makes fiscal and social sense.  All of us not members of the AEA that is.

Moreover, as the state legislature, governor, and all lobbying groups fought this out, I ask AEA members, and any other social agencies shouting loudly, what ideas did you have that made ANY fiscal sense OTHER than taxing money that does not exist?

I proposed the AEA get serious about thinking outside of the box and analyzing how to rewrite the Arizona Lottery funding; the Goldwater Institute developed in-depth analysis about paying teachers much more while creating a cutting edge standards requirement for those teachers.  Flat-tax, rainy day funds, creative financing, selling district school buildings, sub-contracting programs and administration all have been proposed by MANY groups and citizens. Where is just one unique idea coming out of the AEA?

It’s so easy to clap, stomp, and blow hot air.  John Wright owes it to his members, scared educators literally waiting on chair edges to see if their districts are going to be able to keep them as employees, to explain what actual good the AEA did this last year to help solve the crisis. Other than insipid videos and poorly written op-eds, it’s all been blustery blow with nothing more than drips.

From my article at Smart Girl Nation e-Zine:

The Contract With America, of the Republican revolution in Congress,1994, gets mentioned regularly in political circles. Yet the reality of it, what it was, and how it created a framework of service-oriented representation has not been paralleled. It made the careers of the creators and household names of some legislators. The Contract With America was a modern day Gettysburg Address in the truest sense of each document. Both were concise addresses to the people, timely, and deep with meaningWe ARE a Center-Right Nation - Smart Girl Nation, Jun 2009

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Going to quit looking at the world and just watch. Going to go pray and hope God gets me in spite of it all. I also used to be good at listening and reflecting. Always better to stop talking when you’ve very little to say.

Going to find a beach on some weekend I think, just my son and a pool noodle

 

 

When a liberal has-been needs ratings, he'll try to create a show stopper. Letterman played this well. He got more press than deserved, a refortified liberal base, now older and going to bed before he's on, to stay up and watch the grass grow with Stupid Pet Cheap Tricking, Worldwide Pants Dave. Even young Jon Stewarts and Stewart-esses are watching.

Governor Palin needs to get up out of the dirt and not play. Where are her advisors? The lady ran for Vice-President and is the Chief Executive for Alaska; David Letterman is a dweeb. The good Governor needed to write an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, WRITING  just what she said in the interviews, and then let EVERYONE ELSE take the ball and run the play. She is above him and that must be clear. NOW, she's in it like a pit bull with lipstick. Lovely, but not the game. Sarah helps the left go at her by swinging back on their terms in there fields. She allows the topic to be about sex--once again.  You cannot stop the left from being rude or crude. The right has plenty of losers too.  You CAN RISE ABOVE IT.  I would not have gone on the Today Show or shown my anger in that way.  I would not play as if Dave Letterman was a rival--please I want to hurl.

<i>I love Sarah, but does she get this situation?</i> Does she truly WANT to run as a leader of the free world?

Conspiracy Theory

To conspire is to team up and coordinate before a negative event. From Bilderberg, 9/11 Blamers, Ghosthunters to UFOs, we can find this aspect of angst.  We are geared to look for the message between the lines, to look for shadows in the hall. We were raised to value hidden messages as that’s the core of advertising.  Whether  a lady’s image hidden in an ice cube reflection, or a nano-second flash of programming words, we believe in being manipulated. 

Research and development, engineers of innovation attract Dilbert.  It’s the MBA skim-knowledge, marketing type ‘dude’ that get the girl though isn’t it? Focused on a goal and working toward his objective to beat his rival and get higher quotas by the end of the quarter. Basically, the end justifies the means in marketing.  Lobbyists or non-profiteers; used car salesmen or green energy developers: we are all trained to sell. But what happens when no one is buying it anymore? While you might invoke retooling, the trend in democratic circles is to haze the buyer, and shame the citizen into line.  Obi Wan Kenobi’s got nothing on the liberal marketing gurus.  Make it uncool to do anything unique  or to question the authority of the big head. 

We are seeing martial law on Capitalism and this is a painful sword in the side of the common man. 

Liberals promote agnostics of values.  They think having values are good when putting on show for their kids ( say please honey, or make sure to share your things sweetie), but they do not know for sure if personal values, if having an internal locus of control is healthy.  It take a village to raise a child people! Oh and never miss the opportunity in any crisis either.  Everything is about the group think, opinion polling based numbers to be manipulated.   None of them knows the art of opinion seeking:  to understand a commonality of thought and desire. That requires the ability to question, not just developing any old answer. They do not commit to a decision without a certain percentage of favorables.

Triumph of the Nerds

But the ability to question authority seeds development.  We need to ask why and look for what and how. Nerd thinking led to the technology we embrace, and created the foundation of our capitalist base.  Nerds are ultimately individuals who stand alone, often working overtime in their pjs while revolutionizing the future.  BUt the 21st century nerd gets girls, is a girl, has a family, and makes good money.  The guy who skipped frat parties, took up library tables on friday night, and forgot to eat lunch because he was working, that man changes the way information travels. It’s when nerds start organizing,  meeting other individuals, small businessmen, family people, home schoolers, smart girl politicos, all questioning collectively, and looking with descretionary, scientic methods,  that we get the fear factor of the left.  We become  their prototype conspirators.

Faith-based feeling and thought becomes a pathology in a liberal world.  When faith-supported values, from a collection of individuals, desiring to be left alone and raise their familes in a country of  limited government, that  proves we are not of the cool crowd; we get mocked and belittled.  We deserve swirlies and a beat down after lunch.

But in the last twenty years, the dweebs of individualism, the deeply believing judeo-christians, and the average family guys are finding common ground. Merging and evolving parties of political development mixing intellectual pursuit with faith in a higher power does not compute with the old guard libs.  I submit, the insecure self-appointed cool guy bully types are seeing they are not the majority, but only a loud minority. 

The Left is Behind

Liberal Rapture equals all intellectual property and centralized cliques of community organizing getting taken up to Washington DC.  Think of Janet Napolitano as she was swept up in the Liberal Rapture.  Lots of looking at each other happens as they peer down from on high, judging us, the little people, as they  decide who gets a new hip or cancer treatment.  POTUS’ Czar-o-cratic teams find little flaw with plans on paper and put them into practice. It doesn’t really matter if the social experiment  fails, it’s all about statistical significance anyway, as the fly-over state is irrelevant.

Community Organization

Is the Borg of Libs cracking?  What happens when the Borg is proven to have weaknesses?  Resistance is then NOT futile but cogent and vital.  Shane asked if it’s a revolution, and I say, not exactly: I suspect it’s a freedom-loving resistance.  We become not a Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man ,sniveling alone.  A thoughtful, calm Resistance is an Underground Railroad: a resistance to the evil group-think and control.  We are angry as a group of conservatives, but I think the stages of remorse are evolving into action of principle, non-violence, and faith in the Good.    Do not let the liberal media get you down, selling us on the thought that one extremist, the lone gunman incarnate, is anything but a news cycle hook; marketing by the main stream media chomping at the bit for an excellent 20th century stereotype.  He is the posterboy of the  Leftie Fear Base.  He is the reason Janiene Garafalo, Sean Penn, and George Soros get up in the morning.  This story may never lose it’s cycle on CNN.

The Purpose Driven Life

But Resistence is not Futile as long as it’s Purposeful.  Messages don’t have to be as long as my writing :-), in fact, we can learn from the left.  Use their playbook and remember how well they market.  I said in a recent post elsewhere, that we need a conservative, republican platform written like a mission statement with an index card of highlights that would fit in a pocket.  We cannot have a platform longer than the Constitution it supports.  We need purpose driven values and soulful sound bites of tight talk:  Limited Government, Pinpoint Spending, Representation before any Taxation, Check and Balances  which are Clear and Level, and finally a Contract of Commitment with regular Performance Reviews.

We’ll Always Have Paris…

Finally, I put forth the true example of how resistence is played out in the culture of film.  Rick and Ilsa meet up in Casablanca.  Rick was left with his heart on his sleeve, hurting and confused as to what happened?  Ilsa could not get away from the reality of the war, her husband a Resistance Leader, and the juxtoposition of wanting to ignore the reality but faced with Good v. Evil.  Casablanca is a wonderful metaphor of today’s conservative angst, in love with the past and not  ready to face the world as it is.

But then, Rick lets Ilsa go, the Resistance was in the good, and he could not deny he must let values triumph.  Even though he was dumped and ignored, he still loved Ilsa and the life of ignorance in that short time in Paris.  People were literally being rounded up as they fell in love.  But Ilsa never followed him, and he hid out in small business, hurting over the past.  He hid in Casablanca.

Rick is the conservative businessman, denying the world around him. But he does have values and if for no other reason than that he mirrors Ilsa’s commitment in her love and in her desire for life.  She has moved on, the world cannot be ignored anymore as they did in Paris.  Rick must face the world as Ilsa already has done. With “As Time Goes By” playing, Rick knows he cannot take Ilsa away from her mission and her good fight; love triumphs as the Resistance matters more than a love of something once had. We too must see the world as it is as this time goes by.

*Casablanca means White House and Ronald Reagan was up for the Humphrey Bogart’s role- facts that add to the layers of the metaphor, here in my pj media mind.