Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

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   I think the elites frankly dont much care. many will simply leave the country if things ever get really bad. they know amerikans will never stand up in numbers against them because the ussofa is all about looking out for yourself and not being concerned with anyone else

   By: tom . May 17, 2012 . 12:24 pm |

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     The handful of elites have shown that they’re interwoven into the banks and governments who wastefully enslave the common man for their own gain. They have the scientists and the power, they believe they’re the gods of the planet when in reality they’re the leaches. Through the centuries they have shown they have little regard for humanity and its creative genius, instead it has been a world that has progressed through greed and deception. The internet almost became our liberator, it briefly showed us that it doesn’t have to be this way. I now have little hope except for what Martin Luther King once said…

     Don’t let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice judgment and it seems that I can hear God saying to America “you are too arrogant, and if you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn’t even know my name. Be still and know that I’m God.”

     By: Tim . May 18, 2012 . 9:30 am |

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   According to Bruce Krasting, a move might be afoot to mark Greek originated euros with a G so as to make them useless outside the country. If this happens, Bruce thinks a run on Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese banks will occur immediately, before the same thing is done there.

   By: Mark . May 18, 2012 . 8:09 am |

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   while the general population can be split into warring factions, then they can have all the weapons they want – as long as they’re limited to the kind we use to fight against each other and aren’t the kind that can defend against a determined armoured authority.

   The powers-that-be have a tremendous asset in the media. Hollywood, TV entertainment, TV “news” are all valuable assets for propagating particular mindsets that can set us against each other while instilling unquestioning faith in righteous authority.

   Reality, and the ability to deal with it, is going to be very difficult to achieve until the media nut has been cracked.

   By: mijj . May 20, 2012 . 6:21 am |

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   I agree with mijj, that the media is the primary enemy because it has the power to shape people’s attitudes and beliefs. But there’s another ingredient that we tend to overlook and that’s the spiritual ingredient. Here’s an interesting Bible verse to that effect:

   4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. (Revelation 6:4).

   Most people think that the opposite of peace is war. There is another opposite to peace and that is confusion. Anytime demonic power gets into the mix there will always be confusion, for that is how the system perpetuates itself. The fallen angels work through the top-down-control system to create problems and then work through that same system to provide solutions to those problems (the ‘Order out of Chaos’ ideology). The cold wars are an example of how it works. Another example is the system church… the fallen angels working through top-down-control hammer the congregations with messages on morality in order to awaken people’s guilt, and then turn around and work through the men at the top to offer the solution to the guilt by having them preach messages on the Lord’s grace and mercy. It serves a dual purpose in that it keeps the people in a state of suspended animation spiritually (so that they’ll never grow up spiritually to ever become a threat to the system) and the inner attrition and feeling of emptiness engendered by it keeps them perpetually tied to the system. It’s like a self-feeding curse kind of thing.

   The men at the top are no better off simply because they’re at the top, in fact they’re the worse off for it because they’re living out their lives closer to the source of the confusion. Today’s media makes the demonic control ten times more powerful than in times past… Without todays media the Satanic New World Order takeover would be set back by five hundred years.

   By: Jim Yost . June 5, 2012 . 10:35 am |

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   I’m intrigued to see someone other than me raise this question. In the homogenization of “Globalism”, I’ve observed that for the first time in history, the very elite have become suddenly very visible-even vocal, their “handiwork becoming ever more transparent, and many of the layers of defense that kept them “off the grid” for Millenia, have been methodically removed by their own hands. While we may not have a “too the penny” figure, we know the house of Windsor controls about 30% of the Globe’s Assets.

   Interesting.

   By: R Andrew Ohge . June 21, 2012 . 1:26 pm |

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   what i find puzzling about the “elite” is their animal-like lust for ever more accumulated wealth and power – it seems to be the totality of the “elite” mentality. They appear to have no vision beyond gratifying their own base urges. There’s little sign of higher evolved human qualities like social responsibility and empathy. It’s as if we’re being ruled by a breed of mad dogs.

   ps. the economic collapse is obviously engineered. It’s part of the 2-stroke wealth pump. First, the people create wealth for themselves, as a nation, for all. Then, there’s economic collapse, where, by some “misfortune”, all the wealth vanishes into other hands, social responsibility vanishes, and the people are a mass of alienated individuals enslaved by debt. .. the people then work to clear the debt and then go onto create wealth and society for themselves .. and the cycle continues.

   By: mijj . June 21, 2012 . 2:20 pm |

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