Cry-Baby Obama & his Neo-Con Rubin Minions (Emanuel, Summers, Gensler, Geithner, Kagan, etc.) Complain that "LIBERAL BLOGGERS" are to blame for the DISGUST that Millions of Americans feel for the FRAUDULENT "Of, by, and For Goddamn-Sachs" so-called "Change" administration...

 What a CRYBABY! 
  What a delusional, arrogant, self-important dauphin.  

  President Obama and his subservient sidekick, Vice President Biden,  have done the impossible:  they have single-handedly grabbed "credit" for George W. Bush's  entire disastrous presidency and agenda, and PAINTED the  "Democratic" Party with "credit" for those policy atrocities and their  disastrous consequences.
    Washington (D.C.) inside-the-beltway "journalistic"   hack and Neo-Con courtier  Bob Woodward even  published a book this month,  titled, and calling,  Bush, Cheney's,  and the PNAC Neo-Con's disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "OBAMA's WARS."


Washington Post  Neo-Con warmonger Bob Woodward's  Washington Post (Neo-Con) "hit" piece  on "Democrats" -  Way to go,  President  "Change" !!!   YOU have ALLOWED the New York & D.C. Neo-Cons (the American arm of Netanyahu's Israel "Likud" war-party)  to PAINT  DEMOCRATS with the BLAME, for  BUSH, CHENEY, and the  Wolfowitz-Perle-Feith-Libby-Lieberman-Netanyahu Neo-Con's  disastrous wars!!     The clueless Biden and Obama, are HELPING the treacherous Neo-Cons DESTROY the Democratic Party.

The CONSISTENCY and CONTINUATION of   BUSH & CHENEY's DESPISED  polcies is even more transparent in  Obama's  ECONOMIC policies -  he even has two of  President George W. Bush's FAILED  ECONOMIC HACKS -  Bush's NY Fed President Timmy Geithner, and Bush's Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,  leading his, Obama's, so-called "Democratic" economic policies!!
 (Obama's stupidly selected Geithner - the man who wrote the checks for Paulson & Bernanke's Sept. 2008 "bailouts" to Wall Street, including a September 2008 "liquidity injection" giveaway to the Big Bankers  that nearly DOUBLED the $700 billion T.A.R.P.  "bailout" that Hank Paulson begged & extorted from Nancy Pelosi - for... TREASURY SECRETARY! and just as stupidly, Obama selected "there is NO housing bubble" Ben Bernanke for ANOTHER economy-killing  term as Fed Chairman.) 
  THIS ISN'T CHANGE -  IT IS MORE of Bush & Cheney's  RADICAL RIGHT-WING ECONOMIC LARCENY,   now under  the arrogant and treacherous Obama,  ON STEROIDS of the DIRECT EXTORTION of the American middle class, to provide TRILLIONS of dollars  in DIRECT PAYMENTS to the wealthy (and their bankers), via Obama & Pelosi's  NO OVERSIGHT "bailouts" -  somewhere between  three-  and twenty TRILLION taxpayer dollars that Mr. Obama has GIVEN away to  his "Goddamn-Sachs & JP Morgan-Chase uber alles"  financial swindler friends.    

  We have  copies  of  some Obama 2008 campaign flyers,  one paragraph in one flyer says "Barack Obama was raised by a single mom and his grandparents, and worked his way through college with loans and part-time jobs."   Since becoming president, Barack Obama has done NOTHING  for single moms, college students, and America's working families (much less, heavens forbid, minorities and  the working poor) except possibly to extend unemployment insurance for a dozen months and dish out a few paltry billion dollars in "stimulus" spending. (Which "stimulus" spending, needless to say, the Emanuel-Summers-GoddamnSachs crew made sure that BIG FINANCE got the first, and biggest, cut, just as they made Obama's so-called "Health Care Reform" into ANOTHER give-away to insurance company wing of Big Finance.) 

   We can barely believe we are saying this,  but Obama and Biden (and Pelosi)  are SUCH SLAVISH TOADIES to the RADICAL RIGHT-WING NEO-CON Emanuel-Rubin-Summers-Lieberman-Feinstein-Harman  WARMONGERS and Goddamn-Sachs Treasury looters, that they are actually making  George W. Bush look resolute and principled in comparison!  (At least superficially:   Bush pretended to look bigger, and dominant over,  his Neo-Con enablers and appartchik.  Actually, even a casual examination of the PNAC "American hegemony" war-lobby reveals that it is actually the "Israel uber alles" war lobby, and that they DOMINATED the Bush-Cheney presidency from start - with uber neo-con "Scooter" Libby as Cheney's Chief of Staff explaining to Cheney just how to gut the U.S. Constiution and maneuver America into wars in the Mideast - to finish, with   Josh Bolton, Michael Mukasey,  Michael Chertoff, and other Neo-Con appartchik laweyers  whitewashing  the messes Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and the PNAC cabal had made of the U.S. presidency.)   

 Politico: Obama White House Complains About "Liberal" Bloggers

by  Keach Hagey, Politico.com

 Sept. 29, 2010

 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42864.html

The vice president told Democrats to “stop whining,” the president told them to “buck up,” and if there was any remaining doubt that press secretary Robert Gibbs’s exasperation over the summer with the “professional left” was the official view of the White House, they dispelled it this week.
But who, exactly, makes up this “professional left” that is so bothering President Barack Obama and his advisers? On Tuesday, Gibbs’ deputy, Bill Burton, made it clear that the occasionally critical cable personalities originally associated with this comment have the administration’s blessing.

"If you're on the left, if you're somebody like Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow or one of the folks who helps to keep our government honest and pushes and prods to make sure that folks are true to progressive values, then [the president] thinks that those folks provide an invaluable service.” Burton told reporters.

Noticeably absent from Burton’s embrace was anyone from the blogosphere once courted so avidly by the White House. Peter Daou thinks he knows why:
“With each passing day, I’m beginning to realize that the crux of the problem for Obama is a handful of prominent progressive bloggers,  among them Glenn Greenwald, John Aravosis, Digby, Marcy Wheeler and Jane Hamsher.”
Daou, a progressive strategist and blogger himself, offered the explanation in a post provocatively titled, “How a handful of liberal bloggers are bringing down the Obama presidency,” that put a face on Obama’s critics and suggested why their criticism might be so irritating.  (cont'd)

  "THE CRUX of the problem for Obama is A HANDFUL of [liberal and] progressive BLOGGERS" ???!! 
   Is the Obama White House DAFT ??!!! 

 There's a simple reason that the Emanuel-Summers-Gibbs-Bernstein-Sutphen-Gensler-Lew  (i.e. Obama & Biden)   White House is lauding  GE (mega-corporate giant General Electric co.) owned MSNBC 'news' hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow:  Because Olbermann, Maddow, and their so-called "Liberal" MSNBC side-kick Ed Schultz  are BETRAYING their viewers and followers, by NOT HOLDING  the Pelosi-Obama "Democratic" leadership ACCOUNTABLE, for all those BILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of BAILOUTS DOLLARS extorted from American taxpayers that Obama co. are GIVING AWAY to  Rubin's, Gensler's, and Elena Kagan's  Goddamn-Sachs,  or JP Morgan-Chase, Citi-bank, or the other larcenous "too big To Fail" bankers. 

   Obama and his "of, by and for Goddamn-Sachs"  White House cabal, using the despicable "no oversight bailouts,"  are STEALING MORE  money from American citizens and taxpayers in 2 years, than Bush and Cheney Republicans  could,   in 8 years of trying! 

   The arrogant dauphin has done NOTHING for the YOUNG PEOPLE and minorities  who elected him into office, but is now crying that "liberal bloggers" are to blame for the 20+%  unemployment rate that is dragging down the hopes of not only unemployed youth and hard-hit minority Americans,  but even white "heartland"  homeowners and working families are facing nightmares and financial horrors, as the "Commander in Chief" cries about  liberal bloggers!

Idiot Obama - SLAVE to his Own Ego & Arrogance, and presumptive member of the Neo-Con elites - FORGETS that the United States President _serves_ the people, and voters/citizens of America...

Jane Hamsher, founding editor and publisher of the Democratic-liberal-activist FireDogLake.com website, is one of the most perceptive and "liberal" commentators in America,  but even she goes light when it comes to connecting-the-(very obvious)-dots between the Rubin-Summers-Emanuel-Gensler-Davis-Feinstein-Schumer-Harman (et al)   very Neo-Con "Democrats"  and their Wall Street (Golddamn-Sachs, JP Morgan-Chase, Citi-bank, BoA ) and War Lobby  partners-in-crime on 'the other', Republican side of the aisle (Wolfowitz-Perle-Feith-Lieberman-Bolton-Bolten-Mukasey-Chertoff-Libby-Specter-Coleman-Cantor (et al)) , but in today's Huffington Post, Ms. Hamsher pulls no punches when it comes to the (very nominal) "leader" of the (not so)  "Democratic" Party, President Barack Obama (our emphasis): 

President Obama is at it again, this time scolding Democratic voters in the pages of Rolling Stone:

[I]f people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks weren't serious in the first place...The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible.

When people scratch their heads and wonder how a campaign based on hectoring your supporters expects to turn out voters, the answer is, it doesn't. And you don't see anyone who's actually running for office this November engaging in it. They well know that your job is to inspire and energize voters in advance of the election. Obama did too -- when he was running for office himself.

   So Jane is all but accusing President Obama of a "let them eat cake" arrogance and indifference to the plight of millions of Americans - even as, for example, another HuffPost headline today has the somber message that "Fort Hood Records Record Number of [Army Soldier] Suicides" -  we guess that whole "Global War on Terror" isn't quite as glamorous as the  Neo-Con media once made it out to be.

 Meanwhile, our favorite HuffPost headline (and link) from today has got to be THE LONG OVERDUE "Dem Insiders Trash Rahm Emanuel, His Effect On White House 'Tone'"  story.
   Entirely too late to save Obama's  "legacy" -  blood-in-water Republican sharks will be talking impeachment in just a few weeks from now - but there's no denying that we love this lead sentence from the FT.com story  "Some time in the next few days, Rahm Emanuel,  Barack Obama's chief of staff, looks almost certain to quit his job to pursue his dream of becoming mayor of Chicago."
 
 Needless to say, if  JANE HAMSHER is shy about linking the RADICAL RIGHT-WING NEO-CON policies of the Emanuel-Summers-Geithner-Gensler-Bernstein-Kagan-Orszag-Sutphen-Bernanke  (et al) (Obama) White House with the CONTINUATION of the despised  Bush-Cheney-Wolfowitz-Paulson-Greenspan-Giethner-Bernanke-KenLay-Bernie Madoff  (fraud-o-nomics) economic policies,  well,  you can forget about the Financial Times (FT.com)  from making that connection either - that  "Obama's rollercoaster ride" has nothing to do with  Emanuel  "manag[ing]  the White House rather than the administration as a whole"  (what a patently ridiculous and meaningless sentence! - Emanuel has been stage-managing the ENTIRE  Congress these past 2 years,  including Joe Lieberman's treacherous stab-in-back betrayal of the building senate support for a  "Public Option" in Obama's sham health care 'reform' bill)  but instead because Emanuel & Summers were   pushing the SAME,  DESPISED Greenspan-Bernanke-Paulson (et al)  "encourage financial fraud & larceny" economic policies.  

White House set to change its tone

By Edward Luce in Washington
Published: September 28 2010 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8296e3a2-cb27-11df-95c0-00144feab49a.html 

Some time in the next few days, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, looks almost certain to quit his job to pursue his dream of becoming mayor of Chicago.
Known as Rahmbo by friends and enemies alike and assigned the code name Black Hawk by the secret service, Mr Emanuel’s often capricious style of management has helped define Mr Obama’s rollercoaster ride in the White House during the past 20 months.

  Mr Obama recently said Mr Emanuel would make an “excellent” mayor of Chicago. But if Democratic figures inside and outside the White House are to be believed, Mr Emanuel’s pugilistic approach may turn him into a scapegoat for much what has gone wrong, some of it fair, some not... (cont'd)

Obama & Pelosi's Treachery: HIDING the nature of the EXTORTIONATE Federal Reserve "FIAT MONEY" banking System, even as Big Bankers DESTROY America's Economy....

Over at AntiOligarch.com they have a terrific article, 

"How HARVARD University is COMPLICIT in the TITANIC DEFRAUDING of American Wealth, by Hiding the Fraudulent Money System that Hovers Over America." 

   This system is not "Conservative" (and certainly not 'Liberal') economics - it is Old World style FEUDALISM, where lords, nobles, and barons were literally 'lords'  with life-and-death powers over  all they surveyed, and could demand a peasant family's entire  crop as "rent," even in years when a poor harvest meant that collection of "rent" would mean the starvation of that peasant, serf family.
     We don't have time here to explain how such FAMINE, STARVATION, and SERFDOM conditions were not entirely "ancient" -  the long string of IRISH FAMINES culminating in the Great Famine were caused by British lords, absentee landlords, merchant-bankers, and local, Anglicized Irish lords siezing Ireland's rich grain harvests for export - even at the very height of the relatively "modern"  1845-1852 Great Famine! 
  (That's right, "PRIVATIZATION" is  Anglo-American and now Judeo code for GENOCIDE, and, in the case of the Irish enduring 500 years of brutal English occupation,  GENOCIDE was applied to White_Christian_Europeans  just as energetically as the Muslim Turks applied genocidal conditions to Christian Armenians in 1914; or  as Spanish Conquistadors applied genocidal treatment to natives in the 1500s Conquest of the New World, or as  "Manifest Destiny" Americans applied genocidal conditions to native Americans and African slaves during the 18th and 19th centuries here in America.)

  Worse than merely Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Univesity of Chicago, and other "elite" universities  INTENTIONALLY DECEIVING Americans about the nature of our EXTORTIONATE, elites-owned MONEY SUPPLY,   is that the ENTIRE  United States educational system is part of this titanic FRAUD -  from elementary school to Finance PhDs and graduate students,  our  entire  American academic system and press-media coverage are designed to COVER UP the THEFT of our middle-class American household wealth and resources, to the benefit fo the hyper-wealthy,  who own and control the major banks - the major banks which in turn  OWN the Federal Reserve central bank cartel. 

    Ellen Brown discusses the titanic, larcenous nature of the U.S.  Fed Reserve  banking cartel in her excellent (if chatty) book, "Web of Debt,"  but fortunately,  we now have three terrific videos by investor Mike Maloney that help  explain, in less than an hour,  how  the U.S. dollar is effectively nothing more than a "PROMISE TO TAX us TO DEATH" by the U.S. government,  on behalf of the U.S. Central Bank (the Fed Reserve Bank), and how this system is INTENTIONALLY RIGGED to  defraud America's middle class (and working poor) out of their savings and assets, by recurrent DEVALUATIONS of  the dollar every time the elite and their bankers can concoct a good enough reason to justify swindling millions of Americans out of billions of dollars -  usually war and economic crisis, including the current  economic crisis that the "Too Big to fail" bankers CREATED for and to themselves!!! 

#1.  video - "Gold Standards Suck!" -
     EVEN a "gold-BACKED" currency is LICENSE for Central Bankers to COMMIT FRAUD, to INFLATE the amount of their stated holdings of real, bullion gold.   Since "fractional reserve banking" itself  is BASED on this very deceit - bankers lending out MORE "money" (promisory notes) than gold they actually held in their vaults - our ENTIRE economic and financial systems are ideologically based on DECEIT.

 As Mr. Maloney explains, EVERY  DEVALUATION of the dollar (or rubble, or Zimbabwa's currency, or any other nation's currency) is a means by which the Central Bankers - the Wealthy - EXTORT WEALTH out of the middle- and working-class of that nation.
  Maloney's example of the Zimbabwe dollar being devalued A HUNDRED TRILLION TIMES is the most dramatic example,  but as Maloney explains, every time the United States UNHOOKED from a guaranteed dollar-to-gold exchange,   (before WWI, during Roosevelt's Gold Confistication Act of 1933, and by Nixon in 1973)  it basically meant the the American middle class was  being swindled out of billions or trillions of dollars of household wealth by the wealthy (bankers)  operating behind the Fed - and  the U.S. government.  

    
  #2.  Mike Maloney schools Russian 'Investment Bankers' on Deflation, Gold Value, and the Inherently FRAUDULENT, LARCENOUS, CRIMINAL,  ECONOMY-KILLING  (bubble-creating and "credit-contraction"  "bust" guaranteeing)  Federal Reserve "Central Banker"  Banking System  (part 1.) 

#3. part 2   


  In particular, as Mr. Maloney explains, the "FIAT CURRENCY SYSTEM"  - our familiar dollar bill - is a DEBT BASED CURRENCY SYSTEM.   
Bankers do not "create money" by digging up another 2 or 3 or 4 tons of gold... they "CREATE MONEY" by issuing a LOAN or BOND to a buyer, and then, ultimately, the Federal Reserve Bank makes an entry into its ledger  "CREATING"  that "money" in its ledgers OUT OF THIN AIR which it in turn lends to the bank that wrote the loan or bond.
  When the lower level bank repays that loan, say of $100,000,  the Fed now has that $100,000 sitting in its vaults - the Fed had created nothing but an "magic" entry into its ledgers, but the member/OWNER banks of the Fed are now $100,000 richer - plus interest on that fake, fait $100,000 !!!
   The irony is, that Central Bankers are so thieving, larcenous, and deceitful, and  that our "modern" world economy so reflects their  deceit and fraud,  that the world economy today  is now entirely dependent on GOLD VALUATION to make any sane estimate of the DEBT LEVELS that power (and drag down) the economy - for all our "progress," our financial DECEIT makes us no more "modern" than ancient Phoenician merchant captains sailing in the Mediterranean and Black Sea  4,000+ years ago, trading in gold, silver and direct (commodity) exchange.  

  What Mr. Maloney doesn't quite explain is the INSIDIOUS, treasonous, treacherous nature of The Wealthy who run this system:  THEY are the ones who whip up the public to HATE  "big government," EVEN AS _they_ USE the government as THEIR EXTORTION TOOL !!!!
   What this means in real terms, is that the more the wealthy and their wholly-owned press-media whores decry "TOO MUCH DEBT!" as an EXCUSE to CUT social services,  THE MORE THEY LUST after PILING MORE DEBT on to American citizen & taxpayer backs! 
  Every Finance 101 student knows that EVERY FINANCIAL TRANSACTION is a TWO-SIDED transaction   -  if someone is losing money, then somone is making money -
 - yet the INSIDIOUS  Harvard-Yale-Ivy League dominated U.S. education system, and the ENTIRE  national press-media, are  COMPLICIT with this GENOCIDAL treachery - debt slavery bordering on extermination (what happens to you when you go to a hospital and they turn you away, because you have no money to buy medical care) -  which (wholesale educational fraud & deceit)  is why there are NO loud calls to AUDIT THE FED,  much less demand an accounting from WHO   exactly is PROFITING from OUR DEBT SLAVERY every time Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner OBLIGATE  American families for BILLIONS upon TRILLIONS more dollars in "bailouts" to their Wall Street crony hacks and sponsors.  

Obama's IDIOCY: His TREACHEROUS Neo-Con Emanuel-Summers-Orszag-Gensler White House Wrecking Crew, having spent the past 2 years STABBING Democratic & Independent voters in the back, are about to trigger a Tidal Wave of Midterm Voter Resentment & Backlash, the Oncoming "MASSACRE of Democrats in 2010."

Democrats in worse shape than in '94, new index shows

Voter Confidence Index, a new measure from MSNBC.com, shows Democrats poised for significant losses. Full story - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39333049/ns/politics-decision_2010/

  How IDIOTIC can president Barack Obama be?  After spending the entire 2 years leading up to election 2008 pledging and promising Democratic,  Independent, and moderate Republican voters that he would deliver "CHANGE!" as the top priority of his presidency,  Obama instead foolishly and treacherously selected RAHM EMANUEL to be his White House Chief of Staff on, literally, the day after his (Obama's) election 2008 victory night celebrations!
  Rahm Emanuel is a JOE LIEBERMAN clone - a RADICAL RIGHT-WING TREASURY LOOTING Golddamn-Sachs, Big Finance toady and  NEO-CON WARMONGER - exactly the people who were RUNNING the Bush & Cheney despised presidency and Right-Wing Republican government! 
  Not only was Emanuel in general a Right-Wing Republican warmonger and Big Finance swindler posing as a "Liberal Democrat," but Emanuel  had more than a taint of Big Finance corruption and scandal hanging over him, when, in November 2008, Obama foolishly selected the Chicago  Neo-Con appartchik and Big Finance hit man to be his, Obama's, Chief of Staff!

  Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
New Obama Chief of Staff, Others on Board, 'Missed' "Red Flags" of Alleged Fraud Scheme
by Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz 
November 7, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1
 President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.

  Needless to say, IF candidat Barack Obama had told his "Liberal" and Democratic 'core voters'  "I will appoint ROBERT RUBIN's 'Golddamn-Sachs uber alles' proteges and minions to staff my presidency's  ENTIRE  economics team - and we will  CONTINUE Bush & Cheney's radical RIGHT-WING economics policies, and indeed, we will give TRILLIONS of taxpayer  "bailouts" dollars away to Goddamn-Sachs, JP Morgan-Chase, Citi-bank, AIG, and other failed, bankrupt, corrupt Wall Street 'financial institutions' - and then we will actively HELP those hedge funds and 'banks' OUTSOURCE American jobs to India, China, and Asia for the next 2 years," 
   ...well,  Barack Obama probably wouldn't have won the presidency that November 2008 evening.  
  But that is exactly what he proceeded to do - STACK his administration with NOTHING BUT  TREACHEROUS  Right-Wing Neo-Cons - Jewish war lobby warmongers and Golddamn-Sachs financial swindlers.

  And, as Jane Hamsher predicted fully a year ago, "The Oncoming MASSACRE of Democratic Candidates" in election 2010 is now steamrolling down on the last vestiges of American democracy... thanks to the treacherous and deceitful, if not treasonous,  Emanuel, Rubin, Summers, Gensler, Axelrod, Orszag, Bernstein, Lew, Schapiro, Sutphen (et al) Neo-Cons - Right-Wing Republicans and Israel war-lobby activists  masquerading as "Democrats" - who Obama foolishly stacked his White House with.

 Lessons Learned in VA, CA and NJ: Is Rahm Emanuel Orchestrating 2010 Democratic Massacre?
By Jane Hamsher
 Wednesday November 4, 2009
1993: Rahm is the architect of NAFTA**
     [** note: Emanuel was not THE "architect" of NAFTA - he was just a Robert Rubin/Goddamn-Sachs toady.  It was Rubin, Larry Summers, Goddamn-Sachs, and other Wall Street Treasury-looting economy killers who were the "architects of NAFTA," Emanuel was and is no more than their hired errand boy, their "Economic Hit Man" and loan-shark enforcer.]
1994: Unions stay home after NAFTA. Democratic turnout poor, Democrats give up 54 seats in House.
2005: Rahm as head of DCCC recruits pro-war Dems, threatens to cut funds for any Dem who runs opposing the war
2006: Ned Lamont beats Joe Lieberman by opposing the war, opens the floodgates for candidates to buck Rahm & fuel Democratic takeover of House. Rahm’s pro-war candidates lose.
2007: Rahm blames failure of his pet pro-war candidates on immigration. Makes Freshmen co-sponsor anti-immigrant SAVE act.
2007: SAVE Act triggers Hispanic Caucus revolt on the floor of the House
2007: Rahm demands Democratic candidates inoculate themselves against expected GOP attacks by moving to the right on immigration.” Says Hispanics “don’t vote, ignore ‘em.”
2008: Hispanics provide Obama’s margin of victory in Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.
2009: Rahm Emanuel pushing “triggers” to kill President’s campaign promise of a public option in January
2009: Creigh Deeds reinacts Little Bighorn in Virgina after saying he’ll “opt-out” of public option and Democrats stay home
2009: Bill Owens endorses public option, pulls off surprising upset in district with GOP advantage
2009: John Garamendi defies beltway conventional wisdom that Democrat in CA-10 had to be conservative like Ellen Tausher to hold the seat, says he’ll vote against any bill that doesn’t have a public option (or has triggers), scores decisive win
2009: On behalf of banks, Rahm helps Democrats water down post-Enron investor protections in Sarbanes-Oxley
2009: Jon Corzine loses in the wake of “growing anti-Goldman [Sachs]” sentiment.”
2009: The day after the election, Senate Dems still pushing triggers.
Rahm doesn’t think about Democratic turnout.   His reputation for “winning a Democratic majority” rests on his ability as a self-promoter to take credit for victories that happened in spite of him.  The truth is that his “act more like Republicans” strategy just hasn’t worked out, and we’re getting whiffs of the disaster it spells for Democrats who follow it.

 update, Sept. 26:
 - "Blue Dog Obama Treats His 'Core' 'Liberal' Democratic Voters Like a Hydrant" -
 - "Obama's Forgotten Base," -  by Chris Hayes, The Nation magazine
  - Chris Hayes even uses the word "INSIDIOUS" to describe Obama's  RADICAL RIGHT-WING Emanuel-Summers-Gensler-Orszag (et al, i.e. Robert Rubin's Golddamn-Sachs uber alles minions) crew PROJECTING the LOATHING of THEIR  radical right-wing economics, ON TO "Liberals' for the supposedly "Liberal over-reach" nature of Obama's presidency...
 when in fact EVERYTHING  Obama has done, has been to LEGITIMIZE Bush & Cheney & Wolfowitz's wars,  and to  ENABLE the wealthy elite to LOOT, EXTORT, and PLUNDER the American middle class (namely,  in the form of billions of dollars of war spending, and TRILLIONS MORE taxpayer EXTORTED "Bailouts" dollars, with the treacherous  Obama-Emanuel-Summers crew intentionally giving the American public NO oversight, NO accounting, NO RECEIPTS for our stolen, looted, bailouts trillions. 

Idiot Obama: As President Obama crows about his administration "ENDING the Recession," everyone with a brain knows that ONLY the top-10% feel any uplift... and most of their "financial gains" have come from the TRILLIONS of dollars of TAXPAYER EXTORTED "bailouts" Obama's crew has handed over to Wall Street...

"Recession's over, economists say to a skeptical public" -
"A declaration that the turning point came in June 2009 gets an indignant reaction, showing that many Americans see little difference between the recession and current conditions." (Don Lee, LA Times, Sept. 21, 2010)
 
 While two headlines from today's  so-called "liberal" Huffington Post echoe the above LA Times headline, another 3 of today's HuffPost headlines  reveal the real story:
 if President Obama really believes that America is OUT of a Recession, as he and his White House PR team have been crowing lately,  then he is DELUSIONAL...
...And if Obama is just spouting off the talking-points of his Emanuel/Rubin/Summers/Giethner/Bernanke/Gensler/ "of, by, and for Goddamn-Sachs" presidential  economic wrecking crew,
then he is just another two-bit swindler like they are....

The Recession Is OVER, Says Economic Panel 
AP, Sept. 20, 2010 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/20/the-recession-is-over-say_n_731450.html
 (AP, Jeannine Aversa):   It's official: The longest recession the country has endured since World War II ended in June 2009, according to a group that dates the beginning and end of recessions.
The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., says the recession lasted 18 months. It started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. That was the longest of any recession since World War II. Previously the longest postwar downturns were those in 1973-1975 and in 1981-1982. Both of those lasted 16 months... (cont'd)

 and -  Obama: Reforms, Economy Are 'Moving In The Right Direction'

 Digging just a little deeper into HuffPost's other headlines shows the abject folly of such  ivy-tower feel-good proclamations, and for Obama's grasping-at-straws of such delusional talking points:   While "The Bureau of Economic Research" is just  another typical government-funded "research group" or quasi-government  think-tank, only a fool would claim  economic "victory" in an election year when most Americans LOST money, wealth, jobs, and purchasing power.

1.    Warren Buffett: It's 'Common Sense,'We're STILL in a RECESSION' 
2. 400 Richest Americans Got Richer This Year, As Most Americans' Net Worth Tanked: Forbes
3.  Democrat Senator Al Franken: 'Foreclosure Paperwork Scandal Shows Need To Strengthen HAMP'; "The revelation that massive numbers of foreclosures may be tainted by bogus paperwork from mortgage servicers is further evidence that the Obama administration's anti-foreclosure efforts need a pro-homeowner boost, says Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)."
4. (And just to confirm #3, above, this tidbit of "wonderful" economic news - "Obama Homeowner Program Hits 10-Month Low As Prices Drop And Foreclosures Surge"

  We hate to be blunt, but only an IDIOT would be claiming victory in the economic battle against America's 2008-2010 Recession...  at a time when "most Americans' Net Worth Tanked,"  and while the administration's much ballyhooed "anti-foreclosure efforts" are seen by a sympathetic Democrat Senator as AIDING and ABETTING  FINANCIAL FRAUD by mortgage holders and banks foreclosing  against American citizen/homeowners! 

    Meanwhile, at 3:57 minutes into this RT video, Max Keiser explains the common denominator, or underlying theme, of the above disjointed headlines: for every dollar of GDP growth that American "economics researchers," government statisticians, and Wall Street propagandists claim for America's economy,  it now takes SEVEN to EIGHT DOLLARS OF DEBT, to create that one dollar of (so called)  GDP growth!
 
  In addition to pointing out the MOUNTAIN of DEBT burden that Obama's treacherous  Summers-Emanuel-Geithner-Bernanke-Gensler   (Rubin's Goddamn-Sachs  minions) wrecking crew  have helped  the Goddamn-Sachs/JPM-Chase/Citi/BoA (et al)  financial swindlers pile  on American small businesses, industries,  working families,  homeowners, and taxpayers these past years,  Max and co-host Stacy Herbert also point out that China is now leading the world - not America! - in technological innovation,  China  filed for thousands of technology  patents  last year - a PREDICTABLE consequence of the Goddamn-Sachs-Rubin-Wall Street Neo-Con Hedge Fund swindlers OUTSOURCING  of U.S. jobs, factories,  entire industries, and technologies to China over the past 2 decades.
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 post-script: Max's above 26 minute video is so good, it should be deconstructed into several parts, and in particular Max pointing out that,
A.) the United States government is now effectively the coercion, or extortion, arm of Goddamn-Sachs and the  Jewish state (Israel)  war lobby; 
B.)  and that all of Wall Street's "profits," and in particular the entire raft of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac housing prices, have been ARTIFICIALLY INFLATED  by GOVERNMENT "bailouts" and "pumping and priming" of the financial funds - 
 Wall Street & America's housing market are now  effectively 100% "socialized," entirely dependent on  profits for bankers  guaranteed by "bailouts"   (government extortion of taxpayers) while home prices are COMPLETELY DEVOID of  any  "free market" pricing mechanism relating to supply and demand!

    In short, it is not entirely unfair for "Tea Party" and Right-Wing Republicans to accuse Obama of "socialism" -  he is SOCIALIZING Goddamn-Sachs' and Wall Street's FAKE, ILLUSORY,  "bailouts" based "profits," while extorting American working families, who can no longer afford the (underwater) debt mortgages on their own homes! 
  Perhaps "socialism" in the classic sense - redistribution of income based on egalitarian principles or citizen need - is not the correct word.
  Instead, a better term would   the Goddamn-Sachs led   COMMISSAR  SEIZURES of wealth and assets - for the benefit of the GS and allied Wall Street swindlers - to more accurately describes Obama-Summers-Emanuel-Bernanke-Rubinomics.
   Indeed, one of the subjects that has been whitewashed out of American textbooks and history narratives over the past 5 decades has been so-called "Liberal" President Franklin D. Roosevelt's  GOLD SIEZURE ACT of 1933, ("Executive Order 6102") and the related "banking 'HOLIDAY'" President Roosevelt used to "stabilize" the nation's banking and currency system. 
What even a casual examination of Roosevelt's actions indicates, is that
#1. the wealthiest, most financially connected Americans could easily ship their gold holdings beyond U.S. borders - either to Canada or to Swiss or other European banks, and thus out of reach of U.S. siezures;  and, 
#2. only small investors were wiped out by the "Banking Holiday" - again, the wealthiest, savviest investors had their holding DIVERSIFIED, including currency and gold held in foreign banks, and for the very top wealthiest autocratic families, while their notational wealth may have gone down with the Great Depression, "Banking Holiday," high marginal tax rates, and gold confistication acts, their RELATIVE BUYING POWER and political influence went UP dramatically, after millions of Americans became mired in abject poverty.
   Clearly, "Conservative" dominated media outlets and textbooks, while eager to criticize the (so-called) "Liberal" President Roosvelt, would be reluctant to discuss the Gold Confistication Act of 1933, for it would point out how the wealthy could own gold held in foreign banks, and privilege denied to ordinary Americans. 
  President Barack Obama faces an identical scenario today: a so-called "Liberal" president who in enacting and empowering RIGHT-WING economic policies that FAVOR THE WEALTHY.   We now know that 1933 marked only the first few years of a deep seated depression that would last for nearly another decade, until WWII spending (and mandatory savings, rationing, and high tax rates) generated full, high-wage employment.   Absent the most incompetent of Republican presidential candidates, it is unlikely that President Obama could withstand dim re-election prospects in the midst of a 4 year recession...
   And absent a correction of Obama's economic policies that FAVOR THE  hyper-WEALTHY and connected, bailed-out Wall Street economy-killers,  it is unlikely that America will be out of a recession in 2 more years, either.
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post-post-script: Summing up all of our above comments,  this MyBudget360.com article confirms our above notion that any declarations that "the Recession is Over" are delusiional, and that, far from offering any "Change!" to hard-pressed Americans, President Barack Obama's presidency has instead  been a dismal CONTINUATION of the disastrous  "loot the majority, enrich the Top 1%"  policies of  George W. Bush, "Enron Ken Lay," Dick Armey, Phil Gramm,  Tom DeLay, John Snow, Hank Paulson, and Bush's other Right-Wing Republican supporters - 

The Big Banking SHAM,  How The Recession is Over,  Only  for the Top 1 percent
 http://www.mybudget360.com/the-big-banking-sham-and-how-the-recession-is-over-for-the-top-1-percent/
* The Top 1 percent of banks now Control 80 percent of banking assets while household net worth is down $12.3 trillion from the peak. *

 The headlines read that the recession is over. In fact, the recession has been deemed over since June of 2009 by the National Bureau of Economic and Research (NBER). Yet the fact of the matter is working and middle class Americans are solidly in a deep recession (cont'd)

Larry Summers Legacy of Ruin, Larceny, Theft, and Sabotage Destruction of the American Economy (aka "the INSTITUTIONALIZATION of FREE MONEY for BANKSTERS," i.e. "BAILOUTS for Goddamn-Sachs FOREVER.")

 Dylan Ratigan, one of the few "major media" commentators who has a clue, spells it out for America:    Larry Summers is  THE ARCHITECT of the Obama administration's DISASTROUS, CONTINUATION of Bush-Cheney-Republican ECONOMIC SABOTAGE -  

Summers took Bush & Cheney's  treasonous, economy killing  "TAX CUTS FOR RICH... IN TIME OF WAR"  and   made them EXPONETIALLY GREATER, in the form of  TRILLIONS of dollars of OUTRIGHT GIFTS, money extorted from working-class taxpayers and handed  by the government over to the wealthy ("the investor class"),  i.e. The NO-OVERSIGHT "BAILOUTS." 
 Actually, we should not make the mistake of giving the  dismal Larry Summers too much credit -  like Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and other government apparatchiks, Summers is really nothing more than an high level toady for the Goddamn-Sachs + JP Morgan-Chase + Citi-bank trioka.  
    Summers, Emanuel, and Geithner, in particular are no more than Robert Rubin minions ("proteges") -  and Rubin drove his Citi-group into the cesspit of  BILLIONS of dollars of FAILURE AND LOSSES (saved ONLY by billions of dollars of  taxpayer-extorted "bailouts") in the 8 years leading up to the September 2008 markets meltdowns; just as Larry Summers drove Harvard University's endowment into the SEWER of DEBT, LOSSES, and FAILURE during his term as President of the self-proclaimed  "best and brightest" university, before becoming Obama's economic wizard of larceny, deceit, and continued recession....
 Indeed, THE ONLY  thing the insidious  Larry Summers has really "accomplished" over the past 2 years, is to transfer the blame for Bush, Cheney, and Paulson's devastating  REPUBLICAN right-wing economic sabotage destruction policies, from the Republicans, to the Obama-Pelosi "Democrats."
 Needless to say, both Obama and Pelosi are too greedy, corrupted, arrogant, and flatered to see that the Rubin-Summers-Emanuel cabal have PAINTED the "Democrats" with the blame for Bush, Cheney, & Paulson's (et al) atrocious economy killing policies.

 (If above MSNBC Dylan Ratigan show video, "Larry Summers' Legacy in 2 years as Obama's economics czar" doesn't work correctly, try the below link -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/ns/msnbc_tv-the_dylan_ratigan_show#39312960

 post-script:  Sure enough, due to the INSIDIOUS  Right-Wing ECONOMIC SABOTAGE TREACHERY of Obama's Emanuel-Summers-Orszag-Geithner Neo-Con Golddamn-Sachs toadies,  the Republicans are wasting NO time BLAMING DEMOCRATS for 8+ years of Bush-Cheney-Snow-Paulson-Bernanke economic sabotage -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcY8EPbfco

The TREASONOUS Rage of the Filthy Rich... (Obama's insidious Neo-Con taskmasters)...

Paul Krugman has fallen out of favor with us here at DemNationUSA.

For 8 long years he fought the good fight against Bush-Cheney-DeLay-Armey-Ken Lay Republican,  Right-Wing reactionary economics   (aka "neo-FEUDALISM,  imposed poverty, wage-slavery, and debt-servitude/ serfdom for the peons") 
 ...but as soon as the New York Jewish, so-called "Democratic" Neo-Conservatives had shown their hand with the wholesale co-opting of Barack Obama's (Rahm Emanuel, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, David Axelrod dominated) presidency,  Krugman has gone as weak and useless as a fish out of water. 
 (Indeed,  Krugman even - if grudgingly - come out in SUPPORT of the RE-APPOINTMENT of U.S. economy-killing  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke for Obama's pick,  for  Fed Chairman renomination this year - DESPITE  Bernanke's record of, well,  WRECKING the entire U.S. economy!  Something to do with both Krugman and Bernanke being Jewish academics at the Princeton economics department, or something...  maybe the fact that it was  Bernanke who recommended Krugman for the (despicable, CIA/Mossad front)  New York Times' coveted economics editorial slot in the first place?) 
   Today, a rare exception, a fighting editorial,  even if it is in Mr. Krugman's usual, understated, "musn't dare  upset my establishment masters" academic tone, Krugman takes on the TREASONOUS  American WEALTHY.

  You know, the people - the hyper-wealthy parasites and their bankers -  who PRETEND that THEIR  "profits" from the RIGGED Federal Reserve banking cabal
 (using ZERO interest Fed "money" to purchase "government securities" - which the government MUST PAY INTEREST on. 
Why doesn't the government just CUT OUT the god-damned parasitic middle-men?)
 (i.e. ALL THAT DEBT! that THEY earn "interest" on) -
 don't come at American TAXPAYER expense - all the while the rich bitching, moaning, and griping about those dastardly government tax-and-spend types, even as THEY RIG the economy for PERPETUAL DEBT SERVITUDE, the flip-side of which is THEIR taxpayer extorted "interest payments"  'profits' !!!!!!

   (sigh)  Well, Krugman says it better than we can - we just start foaming at the mouth at the abjectly treasonous, despicable rich, and their JIHAD war against  "We" the American people...  
 (who, we will concede - the American public -  would in so many cases join the treasonous,  hyper-wealthy rich in loan-sharking & extorting their former fellow plebians in a New York minute, if they had the chance...) 
 (italic/bold our  emphasis) 

The Angry Rich
by Paul Krugman, NY Times Op-Ed columnist (Economics)
 September 19, 2010http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/opinion/20krugman.html  
 
Anger is sweeping America. True, this white-hot rage is a minority phenomenon, not something that characterizes most of our fellow citizens. But the angry minority is angry indeed, consisting of people who feel that things to which they are entitled are being taken away. And they’re out for revenge.
No, I’m not talking about the Tea Partiers.
I’m talking about the rich. These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. 
         Yet if you want to find real political rage — the kind of rage that makes people compare President Obama to Hitler, or accuse him of treason — you won’t find it among these suffering Americans. You’ll find it instead among the very privileged, people who don’t have to worry about losing their jobs, their homes, or their health insurance, but who are outraged, outraged, at the thought of paying modestly higher taxes. ....Tax-cut advocates used to pretend that they were mainly concerned about helping typical American families. Even tax breaks for the rich were justified in terms of trickle-down economics, the claim that lower taxes at the top would make the economy stronger for everyone. 
These days, however, tax-cutters are hardly even trying to make the trickle-down case. Yes, Republicans are pushing the line that raising taxes at the top would hurt small businesses, but their hearts don’t really seem in it. Instead, it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. I mean, look at the expenses of people in that income class — the property taxes they have to pay on their expensive houses, the cost of sending their kids to elite private schools, and so on. Why, they can barely make ends meet. 

And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: it’s their money, and they have the right to keep it. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes — but that was a long time ago. 

 The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way.
 Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.... (cont'd)  

 "Some Democrats" would of course include OBAMA's OWN  treacherous, if not treasonous,  economy killing Neo-Con cabal -  Robert Rubin's "Of, by, and for Goddamn-Sachs" minions, including MULTI-MILLIONAIRES  Rahm Emanuel, Lawrence Summers, Gary Gensler, and Timmy Geithner.   

 [update: Eric Janszen seconds our analysis that Obama's Neo-Con "economics" team have a fundamentally TREASONOUS agenda, in his latest commentary,
"The Committee to DESTROY the USA"
 and Les Leopold seconds Krugman's & Karlin's analysis of the whiny, despicable, treasonous rich, "Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine"]

    THERE's A REASON that the DEMOCRATS  ARE  NOT   fighting back against the TREASONOUS  ENTITLIMENT of the "tax cuts for wealthy IN TIME OF WAR"  Rethuglicans & Neo-Cons (Neo-Con & Blue-Dog "Democrats") robber barons and financial swindlers....  Obama is OWNED by the "Goddamn-Sachs uber alles" Neo-Con economy swindlers, and spends his every waking moment, kissing their asses!

 bonus:  Mark Karlin, editor of Buzzflash.com, singles out one of those insanely entitled NY multi-zillionaire entitled rich... 
   wasn't it just a few decades ago, that  New York's  (wealthy or otherwise) Jews were APPRECIATIVE of Uncle Sam, for ending the Nazi reign of terror in Europe?
  As Mr. Karlin points out, today  so-called "King of Wall Street"  Stephen Schwarzman has nothing but contempt for America's goverrnment... much less for the disposable peons for whom it once stood. 
 Like Paul Krugman,  Mr. Karlin is a tad reticent when it comes to  JUST WHO IT IS that is generating all this TREASONOUS  hate and contempt for the American government (and peons who populate the nation)... even as THEY __USE__ the U.S. government to generate their billions of dollars of financial larceny & "bailouts" loot  -  the TREASONOUS, DESPICABLE, ENTITLED, ECONOMY-KILLING  Neo-Con NY, DC, City-of-London, and Tel Aviv Neo-Cons and their army of WASP (Murdoch, Limbaugh, Cheney, Bush, DeLay, Boehner, McConnell, etc.)   and  Scalia/Alito Catholic toady enablers.  

The King of Wall Street, Stephen Schwarzman, Compares Taxes on Financial Firms to Hitler's Invasion of Poland
 by Mark Karlin,   Buzflash.com  Editor's blog,
  http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/11771

The New York Times not so long ago dubbed him the King of Wall Street and he reportedly has a net worth well over 5 billion dollars, but that didn't stop Stephen Schwarzman, founder of the Blackstone Group, from whining about financial "threats" faced by billionaires.
As the UK Telegraph reports, Schwarzman "last month likened the president's plans to levy taxes on the private equity industry as being akin to Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland."
....One might have expected Schwarzman, once the token Jewish member of Skulls & Bones during his senior year at Yale (which I attended a bit after him), to have known better. I recently read the quote to one of Schwarzman's friends from his Yale days, who responded that he had not spoken to Steve for many years, but it looks like "Steve has gotten to the point in his life where the tragedy of the Holocaust was not the death of so many Jewish men, women and children, but rather the theft of their art collections, personal possessions and gold fillings."

I was in synagogue on Kol Nidre, the holiest night in the Jewish calendar, atoning for -- among other things -- according to the prayer book, not being open to the plight of the poor and hungry among us. I don't know if Mr. Schwarzman was at services, but if he was, he must have thought, in his mind, that the poor and the hungry were "Billionaires Without Big Whopper Tax Cuts."
There is a Jewish tradition of "tikkun olam," the healing of the world. It's clear that avarice, greed and Mr. Schwarzman [and the ENTIRE CABALE of despicable "American" Neo-Cons]  are not part of that tradition.

   To which we might add,  Mr. Schwarzman, Robert Rubin, Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, Paul Wolfowitz, Arthur Sulzberger,   and whole legions of American entitled millionaire  Neo-Cons may be arrogantly counting their millions, and applauding their own greatness and  self-worth...  but every day, they are working overtime to make an honest man of Hitler's Nazi "anti-semitic" stereotypes, of a brutal and brutish Jewish overlord class who treat their fellow countryment as despised, disposable serfs, even as THEY USE the U.S. government to EXTORT and ROB their fellow Americans.

Gold Soars to Record Highs, as world financial markets & savvy investors Hedge against the ECONOMIC SABOTAGE of Obama's treacherous Rubin, Summers, Emanuel, Bernanke Economic SWINDLERS...

 Far from delivering the "Change!" that he promised in his every waking moment of his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama has not only selected two of President (George W.) Bush's FAILED, economy-killing retread hacks for the nation's top two most important economic positions (Obama selected Bush's Fed Bank NY President, Tim Geithner,  for the nation's current Treasury Secretary, and Obama renominated Bush's pick for Fed Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, for another economy-killing term as Fed Chairman), but using the "Bailouts,"  Obama has INSTITUTIONALIZED the THEFT of TRILLIONS of dollars of American wealth, extorted from   American consumers, citizens, and taxpayers, and handed directly over to the wealthy via "bailouts" billions that land in big NY bank vaults and in the form of government backed "securities" guarantees (such as the AIG-GoddamnSachs bailouts) that are effectively a gift to wealthy 'investors' whose 'securities' would be worthless were it not for those billions of dollars of "socialized" government guarantees and backing.

   World investment managers  and financial  markets are finally waking up to Obama's fraud, deceit, and right-wing, Goddamn-Sachs/JPM  
 driven economic corruption,  sending GOLD  prices soaring through the stratosphere.

   However, there is a deadly joker in this effort by financial markets to hedge against the titanic financial and economic fraud of  Obama's  "Rubin's minions" - Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Gary Gensler, et al - 
That is, using the  EMERGENCY POWERS that are now  THE DAILY REALITY of America's "war on terror" and "TOO BIG to fail"  era dictatorial government, the Rubin-Summers-GoddamnSachs cabal (aka "the U.S. government")  could try to SIEZE ALL PRIVATELY HELD  GOLD assets... as, indeed, President Roosevelt's economic team did during the Great Depression.  
   With the U.S. military now effectively being the loan-shark extortion & collection arm of Wall Street...
(even worse than it was when U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General Smedley Butler declared "war is a racket" and decried the use of U.S. Marines to enforce American financial "ownership" of Central American economic assets during the early 20th century), Obama's treacherous Neo-Con swindlers could easily be hoping to use future economic chaos - that THEY have CREATED - as an excuse to institute military dictatorship economics,  just as Henry Kissinger & Milton Friedman did in Chile by sponsoring and supporting the Pinochet coup in 1973.)
...it is not "paranoid conspiracy" to imagine the Neo-Cons lusting and salivating for such police-state terror-dictatorships rule in Western nations:  not only do we have the record of an Israel espionage group being hired by PENNSYLVANIA's "Democratic" administration of Governor Ed Rendell to spy on AMERICAN citizen activists groups...
 ...not only do we have the example of GODDAMN-SACHS BRIBING Greek government officials and private bankers to  FRAUDULENTLY HIDE THE DEBT, that would allow Goddamn-Sachs to make an even larger DEBT CLAIM  on Greece's economy (by, what else, allowing the fraudulent GS bankers to SELL MORE DEBT to Greece than EU rules permitted) - leading to the economic strangulation of Greece, and the crushing of Greece's pensions and social welfare system -  but over in Georgia, the former Soviet Republic, we even have the example of Israel's and America's puppet dictator, Columbia Law School graduate,  and economic stooge Mikhail Saakashvili actually breaking out the Pinochet-esque death squads and riot police to crush the massive, peaceful protests that broke out in Georgia when Saakashvilli's Naziesque rearmament and Christian hyper-nationalism looted that nation's treasury and economy (and led to Saakashvili's US/Israel PROXY WAR on Russia on the very day the rest of the world was celebrating peaceful cooperation at the start of the Beijing Olympics 8-8-2008.)
  The below - SOARING gold, MASSIVE ECONOMIC DESPAIR,  and PINOCHET/Saakashvilli-esque RIOT POLICE DICTATORSHIP, is an INCREASINGLY LIKELY PROSPECT for AMERICA and Western Europe, as long as the Obama-Pelosi  Democrats continue to pursue the anti-American policies of the despicable Rubin-Summers-Emanuel-GoddamnSachs Neo-Con economic larceny cabal.

The Rubin-Summers-GoddamnSachs' Neo-Con fantasy: riot police CRUSHING peaceful protests, not as this photo in Georgia in 2007, but in Western Europe and America itself...    An increasingly likely prospect, as the Rubin-Summers SABOTAGE of  America's  economy drives thousands of investors to gold (wealth which the American government SIEZED from private invstors just 7 decades ago in the Gold Confistication Act of 1933), and millions more to desperation... .

Gold Soars to Record on Increased Demand for Wealth Protection
Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg
Thursday September 16, 2010
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gold-Rises-to-Record-on-bloomberg-2632723508.html

Gold rose to a record in London and New York as investors sought protection against turmoil in the global economy and financial markets. Silver rose to the highest price since March 2008.
Bullion climbed as high as $1,277.07 an ounce in London. The dollar fell to a five-week low against the euro today. The metal usually moves inversely to the U.S. currency. Global holdings of gold by exchange-traded products are up 16 percent this year and this month reached a record, Bloomberg data show.
“People are worried about the European financial system and debt market, and the outlook for the U.S. and global economy,” said Mark O’Byrne, executive director of brokerage GoldCore Ltd. in Dublin. “People are worried about equities, debt, property” and currencies, he said.

Obama's FAILURE, FRAUD, DECEIT, & folly: MORE POOR IN AMERICA, and MORE ARRESTS for Marijuana, than EVER BEFORE. Obama is PIMPING RIGHT-WING policies, at the Behest of his Treacherous Emanuel, Summers, Rubin Neo-Cons

Obama's FRAUD - he specifically   PRETENDS concern for Dem politicians "taking on the status quo" - but Team Obama  IS  the "status quo"!  (link)

We must confess, after a lifetime of outrage and outspoken indignation about the degeneration of America's "best in world" freedom, rights, and economic opportunity  ("best in world freedoms" at least for educated and upwardly mobile members of America's  white majority in the post-WWII decades) to the current "banana plantation economics" and "war on terror" COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENTS dictatorial police-state powers advocated by the Neo-Con elites,  we are simply stunned, and nearly speechless,  at how that degeneration has so completely overwhelmed all corners of American society.
     Even the "Best and Brightest"  are too cowed and ignorant to DEMAND an ACCOUNTING  from our Congress for our  bankers-extorted taxpayer "BAILOUTS" trillions-of-taxpayer-dollars;  much less do leaders in academia, the press/media, or "our" government demand a full and complete accounting from the FEDERAL RESERVE;
 ...Americans are simply GROSSLY IGNORANT that the Fed is a PRIVATELY OWNED BANKING CABAL,  and that the banksters who own the Fed now clearly OWN the Obama presidency and the Bush-Cheney Republican Party (and the Clinton presidency before Bush II, and of course including  Hillary Clinton today). 

•    America's Academia and Ivy League:  F- for COMPLICITY in the DECEIT, DECEPTION,   and economic sabotage that is the Neo-Con bankers' war on America.
•   America's  press & media:  F- for COMPLICITY and GROSS IGNORANCE re the STOLEN, taxpayer extorted TRILLIONS which are now wallowing in connected bankers' pockets and bank vaults.
• Drug War: MORE AMERICANS ARRESTED in 2009 for MARIJUANA possession - under so-called "Democrat" President BARACK OBAMA - than at ANY time in American history.... 850,000 Americans arrested for a drug that is far less harmful to users and society than alcohol.   The "war on drugs," at least for marijuana possession prosecutions, is a SOCIAL WELFARE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM for lawyers, police, judges, and the entire "big government" Prison Industrial Complex.
• POVERTY - RECORD INCREASE of AMERICANS IN POVERTY under Barack Obama -  Mr. Obama and his despicable Emanuel/Rubin/Summers/Geithner  gang have delivered the DIAMETRICAL OPPOSITE of the economic "CHANGE!" that candidate Obama PROMISED in his every 2008 campaign appearance...  indeed, in the persons of Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke, Obama stupidly & deceitfully appointed two of President Bush's warmed over, economy-killing retreads to the 2 most powerful economic positions (Treasury Secretary & Chairman of the Federal Reserve, respectively) in America!** (** after the president and Speaker of the House)

   Clearly, Barack Obama is running a RADICAL RIGHT-WING presidency,  no matter how much Liar Limbaugh, FOX 'news,' and other Republican demagouges may complain that he is a "socialist."
    Actually, Obama IS  a "socialist" - he is  providing BILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of taxpayer extorted dollars....  to the wealthy & hyper-wealthy who own Congress, the media, and the White House;  SOCIALISM for BILLIONAIRES and multi-millionaries; at the expense of millions of American families;  at the expense of the very fabric of the constitutional America of "We the people..."
  The deceitful Barack Obama, and his treacherous Larry Summers led  Neo-Con "of, by and for Goddamn-Sachs" bankers cabal  "economics team," are working energetically to UNDO 100+ years of genuinely democratic, progressive, egalitarian, one-man, one-vote progress in America.

  US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009
By Hope Yen & Liz Sidoti (AP), 9-12-2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrI16Lcca0yq7kpyqoCVECFHnjIQD9I5PQJ80

WASHINGTON — The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty... (cont'd)

Barack Obama is running a "WALL STREET MAFIA" presidency -

Buzzflash.com's front page, above-fold  headline link from September 9th says it all: 

 Barack Obama, FAR from delivering the "Change!" he pledged and PROMISED to American voters in every waking moment of his 2008 presidential campaign, is instead delivering MORE of the very GODDAMN-SACHS economic extortion and financial larceny  that landed America in the Bush-Cheney economic recession of 2008 in the first place.

 (Bush's third and last Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, had of course been a CHAIRMAN and career partner of Goddamn-Sachs, before Paulson became Bush's Treasury Secretary in 2006.  So-called "Democrat"  Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, named in the Buzzflash link to a Bloomberg article on the SEC investigation of CitiBank's fraudulent financial disclosure, had also been a GS Chairman before President Clinton selected Rubin to be Treasury Secretary from 1995 to 1999.)

Meanwhile, over at MaxKeiser.com, Max Keiser and his co-host Stacy Herbert explain that Obama is pushing the IDENTICAL,     WAR PROFITTEERING policies on America and the world, that Bush & Cheney did -  America is now in the GLOBAL FINANCIAL EXTORTION business, using the "war on terror" as cover, for America's ruthless worldwide imperialism, military intimidation (applied terrorism),   and the Goddamn-Sachs, JP Morgan, (& etc.) funded 'major media' propaganda and bribery of Congress that enables the relentlessly expanding,  SOCIALIZED  war & intel apparatus.

 

Bloomberg:  SEC Says Citi Execs Charles Prince, Robert Rubin Knew of Losses on Citi's Assets, without Disclosing Losses to Investors -

By Joshua Gallu & Donal Griffin,  Bloomberg News, Sept. 9, 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/prince-rubin-knew-assets-at-focus-of-sec-claim-fueled-losses-agency-says.html
[photos -  Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, former chief executive officer of Citigroup, & Robert Rubin, former chairman of Citigroup's executive committee testify at a hearing of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in Washington.] 

Charles O. “Chuck” Prince and Robert Rubin were among Citigroup Inc. officials who knew 2007 losses were mounting on mortgage assets that U.S. regulators have faulted the bank for not disclosing, a court filing shows.
Prince, the bank’s chief executive officer at the time, and Rubin, who was then chairman, knew the highest-rated segments of subprime mortgage-backed securities were the source of about $200 million in new losses in October 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday in a filing at federal court in Washington. In July, the agency accused the bank and two other executives of failing to disclose $40 billion in subprime assets before losses surged. It didn’t target Prince