{"id":15950,"date":"2011-11-28T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=15950"},"modified":"2011-11-25T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T19:32:57","slug":"the-roads-to-war-and-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/11\/the-roads-to-war-and-economic-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roads to War and Economic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 23, 2011<\/em>: The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items.\u00a0 One was the report on the Republican presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President\u2019s statement about his country\u2019s response to Washington\u2019s missile bases surrounding his country. And one was the failure of a German government bond auction.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the presstitute media will not inform us of what any of this means, let me try.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the exception of Ron Paul, the only candidate in either party qualified to be the president of the US, the rest of the Republican candidates are even worse than Obama, a president who had the country behind him but sold out the American people to\u00a0special interests.<\/p>\n

No newly elected president in memory, neither John F. Kennedy nor Ronald Reagan, had the extraordinary response to his election as Barack Obama. A record-breaking number of people braved the cold to witness his swearing in ceremony. The mall was filled for miles distant from the Capitol with Americans who could not see the ceremony except as televised on giant screens.<\/p>\n

Obama had convinced the electorate that he would end the wars, stop the violation of law by the US government, end the regime of illegal torture, close the torture prison of Guantanamo, and attend to the real needs of the American people rather than stuff the pockets of the military\/security complex with taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n

Once in office, Obama renewed and extended the Bush\/Cheney\/neoconservative wars.<\/p>\n

He validated the Bush regime\u2019s assaults on the US Constitution. He left Wall Street in charge of US economic policy, he absolved the Bush regime of its crimes, and he assigned to the American people the financial cost necessary to preserve the economic welfare of the mega-rich.<\/p>\n

One would think such a totally failed president would be easy to defeat.\u00a0 Given an historic opportunity, the Republican Party has put before the electorate the most amazingly stupid and vile collection of prospects, with the exception of Ron Paul who does not have the party\u2019s support, that Americans have ever seen.<\/p>\n

In the November 22 presidential \u201cdebate,\u201d the candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, revealed themselves as a collection of ignorant warmongers who support the police state. Gingrich and Cain said that Muslims \u201cwant to kill us all\u201d and that \u201call of us will be in danger for the rest of out lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bachmann said that the American puppet state, Pakistan, is \u201cmore than an existential threat.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Bachmann has no idea what is \u201cmore than an existential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it sounded heavy, like an intellectual thing to say for the candidate who previously declared the long-defunct Soviet Union to be today\u2019s threat to the US.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the US electorate lacks the intelligence and\u00a0awareness of their plight as denizens of a police state to elect Ron Paul, the last defender together with Rep. Dennis Kucinich of the US Constitution.\u00a0 Nevertheless, there would be a silver lining in one of the Republican morons being elected president of the \u201cworld\u2019s only superpower.\u201d Once the rest of the world realized that a war-crazed idiot had\u00a0 his or her finger on the nuclear button, the rest of the world would organize and close down the Washington horror before it destroys life on earth.<\/p>\n

Any sentient American who watched or read about the Republican presidential debate must wonder what there is to be thankful for as the national holiday approaches.<\/p>\n

The Russian government, which prefers to use its resources for the economy rather than for the military, has decided that it has been taking too many risks in the name of peace. The day before Thanksgiving, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, in a televised address to the Russian people, that if<\/em><\/strong> Washington goes ahead with its planned missile bases surrounding Russia, Russia will respond with new nuclear missiles of its own, which will target the Amerikan bases and European capital cities.<\/p>\n

The President of Russia said that the Russian government has asked Washington for legally binding guarantees that the American missile bases are not intended as a threat to Russia, but that Washington has refused to give such guarantees.<\/p>\n

Medvedev\u2019s statement is perplexing. What does he mean \u201cif<\/em><\/strong> Washington goes ahead?\u201d\u00a0 The American missile and radar bases are already in place<\/em>. Russia is already surrounded<\/em>.\u00a0 Is Medvedev just now aware of what is already in place?<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s and China\u2019s slow response to Washington\u2019s aggression can only be understood in the context of the two countries experience with communism. The sufferings of Russians and Chinese under communism was extreme, and the thinking part of those populations saw America as the ideal of political life. This delusion still controls the mentality of progressive thinkers in Russia and China.\u00a0 It might prove to be a disaster for Russia and China that the countries have citizens who are aligned with the US.<\/p>\n

Belief in Washington\u2019s trustworthiness even pervades the Russian government, which apparently, according to Medvedev\u2019s statement, would be reassured by a \u201clegally binding guarantee\u201d from Washington.\u00a0 After the massive lies told by Washington in the 21st century–\u201dweapons of mass destruction,\u201d \u201cal Qaeda connections,\u201d \u201cIranian nukes\u201d–why would anyone put any credence in \u201ca legally binding guarantee\u201d from Washington. The guarantee would mean nothing. How could it be enforced?\u00a0 Such a guarantee would simply be another deceit in Washington\u2019s pursuit of world hegemony.<\/p>\n

The day prior to Thanksgiving also brought another extraordinary development–the failure of a German government bond auction, an unparalleled event.<\/p>\n

Why would Germany, the only member of the EU with financial rectitude, not be able to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds?\u00a0 Germany has no debt problems, and its economy is expected by EU and US authorities to bear the lion\u2019s share of the bailout of the EU member countries that do lack financial rectitude.<\/p>\n

I suspect that the answer to this question is that the failure of the German government\u2019s bond auction was orchestrated by the US, by EU authorities, especially the European Central Bank, and private banks in order to punish Germany for obstructing the purchase of EU member countries\u2019 sovereign debt by the European Central Bank.<\/p>\n

The German government has been trying to defend the terms on which Germany gave up control over its own currency and joined the EU. By insisting on the legality of the agreements, Germany has been standing in the way of the ECB behaving as the US Federal Reserve and monetizing the debt of member governments.<\/p>\n

From the beginning the EU was a conspiracy against Germany. If Germany remains in the EU, Germany will be destroyed. It will lose its political and economic sovereignty, and its economy will be bled in behalf of the fiscally irresponsible members of the EU.<\/p>\n

If Greeks will not submit to the tyranny, why should Germans?<\/p>\n

_____________________<\/p>\n

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was appointed by President Reagan Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and confirmed by the US Senate. He was Associate Editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, and he served on the personal staffs of Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Orrin Hatch. He was staff associate of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, staff associate of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and Chief Economist, Republican Staff, House Budget Committee. He wrote the Kemp-Roth tax rate reduction bill, and was a leader in the supply-side revolution. He was professor of economics in six universities, and is the author of numerous books and scholarly contributions. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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