BRING THE JOBS HOME & STOP THE WARS OR PREPARE FOR COLLAPSE – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

 

BRING THE JOBS HOME & STOP THE WARS OR PREPARE FOR COLLAPSE – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration, interviewed by Elijah Johnson of http://FinanceAndLiberty.com . The most reasonable and authoritative video you will find online about the inherent risk of economic collapse and why to prepare now.

When Does The Current Unsustainable And Lopsided Business Model Of The Precious Metals Market Blow-Up In A Default?

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of the covert economy which exists today. Through nearly 11 years of litigation with the US Government (as the real life character that Will Smith plays in the movie “Enemy of the State”) few people are better able to address the question we put to her [...]

PAPER: Obama administration SLASHED budget for domestic bombing prevention

$20 million budget under Bush became $11 million under Obama
Both administrations neglected domestic bombing prevention, devoting a tiny fraction of the $1 billion earmarked for IED prevention overseas
Obama issued a lengthy ‘National Policy for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices’ in February but a spokesman won’t say if it failed

 

Barack Obama’s administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal. 

Under President George W. Bush, the Department [...]

Former US Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury : “GOLD SELL OFF orquestrated by the FED”

Today a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury told King World News that the smash in gold and silver today was entirely orchestrated by the Federal Reserve.  Former Assistant of the US Treasury, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, also warned KWN that stocks of available physical gold are “rapidly declining.”  Below is what Dr. Roberts had to say in this extraordinary and exclusive interview.

Eric King:  “Dr. Roberts, we have this [...]

Former US Treasury Official – Banks Move To Enslave Humanity

from KingWorldNews:

Today a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury spoke with King World News about the crisis in Cyprus and warned that banks are now moving to enslave humanity. Former Assistant of the US Treasury, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, also told KWN the people of Cyprus need to take to the streets and fight against this oppression. Below is what Dr. Roberts had to say in the second part of [...]

Obama tells Brits “you must stay in NWO (EU)

Philip Gordon, the US assistant secretary responsible for European affairs, said that Britain’s membership of the EU was “in the American interest”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/US-publicly-voices-concerns-over-Britain-leaving-EU.html

After observing the rise in popularity of Ukip and the rise of anti-European sentiment generally, the issue was raised by President Barack Obama in a video-conference call with the Prime Minister on Tuesday. It was raised during bilateral discussions between officials this week. “It is important to state very [...]

Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration

An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.

The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The story is largely [...]

Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration

An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.

The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

The [...]

State Depart official who ‘resigned’ after Libya findings never left

The four officials supposedly out of jobs because of their blunders in the run-up to the deadly Benghazi terror attack remain on the State Department payroll — and will all be back to work soon, The Post has learned.

The highest-ranking official caught up in the scandal, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Boswell, has not “resigned” from government service, as officials said last week. He is just switching desks. And the [...]

U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan Defense Treaty

Bloomberg News
September 21, 2012

 

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy.

“We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace and stability and less on the particular details of this very complex and challenging matter,” Campbell told a [...]

SOPA Returns On The Back Of A Czar: ‘The new SOPA-fragment bill coming before Congress is the Intellectual Property Attaché Act, which strengthens the powers of the titular diplomatic attachés to promote U.S. copyright laws abroad.’

Remember the Stop Online Piracy Act? It was the universally reviled anti-digital piracy bill that was coasting for a quick and quiet passage into law earlier this year until basically the entire internet rose up in protest. Now SOPA is coming back piece-by-piece, according to TechDirt, and if anyone is going to rise up in opposition this time, it should be the conservative media. Because the son of SOPA brings with it a dreaded [...]

WTF? HUD pays $70m to teach grantees how to spend cash

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced it is spending $70 million to improve the way its grant recipients spend billions in taxpayer cash.

Most of the $70 million will go to consulting companies that provide “technical assistance” to HUD-funded communities and non-profit organizations. …

The extra $70-million — provided through HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development — will help communities and non-profits “ensure that scarce federal dollars [...]

Fed agency: Calling Border Patrol violates Hispanics’ civil rights

A federal department ruled last week that the Forest Service violated a Spanish-speaking woman’s civil rights by calling the Border Patrol to help translate during a routine stop, saying it was “humiliating” to Hispanics and an illicit backdoor way to capture more illegal immigrants.

The ruling by the Agriculture Department’s assistant secretary for civil rights could change policies nationwide as law enforcement agencies grapple with how far they can go in trying to help [...]

REPORT: China increases cyber-attacks against US

The Chinese government is increasingly lauching cyber attacks against the United States Defense Department  (DOD) for intelligence purposes, according to a new government report on the Chinese military.

“I think we have concerns about a number of computer network operations and activities that appear to originate from China that affect DOD networks,” David Helvey, acting assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia told reporters today.

“China’s persistent cyber intrusions indicates the likelihood that [...]

Paul Craig on student loan crisis: Student debt has passed one trillion dollars but 50 percent of the young graduates are either jobless or under-employed.

Published on May 5, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews

In this edition of the show Max interviews Paul Craig Roberts, former US treasury official. He talks about the US student loan crisis, where the student debt has passed one trillion dollars but 50 percent of the young graduates are either jobless or under-employed. Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in [...]

The Hill: As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.

Carlo Munoz
The Hill
April 1, 2012

As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.

But DoD needs more than just men and materiel to meet these challenges. It needs additional authority from Congress to do so.

“Most of the authorities that we have right now are narrowly construed to counterterrorism …  [but] I think for some countries [...]

Pentagon unaware of ‘secret deal’ between Obama, Kremlin on missile defense shield

By Carlo Munoz - 03/28/12 01:14 PM ET

An Obama administration official on Wednesday said he was not aware of any “secret deal” made by the White House on missile defense as Republicans continued to hammer the president for his remarks to Russia’s leader on the issue.

Republicans have questioned where there is a deal between President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on missile defense since Monday, when Obama told Medvedev — [...]

Aircraft carrier costs will be half what you think, US tells ministers

Converting HMS Prince of Wales so that it can be used by the Joint Strike Fighter will require significantly less than the £2 billion quoted by officials, the assistant secretary of the US Navy, Sean J Stackley, insisted.

In a letter seen by The Daily Telegraph, he told Peter Luff, the defence procurement minister, that the necessary equipment would cost £458 million before installation. Defence experts estimate the installation cost at [...]

This is unbelievable…no matter how it’s explained!

From Bloomberg:

The Obama administration will extend mortgage assistance for the first time to investors who bought multiple homes before the market imploded, helping some speculators who drove up prices and inflated the housing bubble.

Landlords can qualify for up to four federally-subsidized loan workouts starting around May, as long as they rent out each house or have plans to fill them, under the revamped Home Affordable Modification Program, also known as HAMP, [...]

Obama Admin Invested Billions in Companies Supported by Energy Dept Insiders

Noel Brinkerhoff
All Gov
February 16, 2012

Following on the Solyndra controversy, the Department of Energy under President Barack Obama is now accused of funneling billions of dollars in funding to companies that have connections within the department.

An investigation by The Washington Postfound that the Energy Department has approved nearly $4 billion in federal grants and financing to 21 companies supported by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers.

Of this amount, $2.46 billion [...]

The Real Economic Picture

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
February 2, 2012

If you have any money and you want to understand the lies that “your” government tells you with statistics, subscribe to John Williams shadowstats.com.

John Williams is the best and utterly truthful statistician that we the people have.

The charts below come from John Williams Hyperinflation Report, January 25, 2012. The commentary is supplied by me.

Here is the chart of real average weekly earnings deflated by the US government’s [...]

US demands Lebanon’s anti-Syria move

Press TV
December 8, 2011
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A senior US official has called on the Lebanese government to act “within Arab and international consensus” regarding the situation in Syria, Press TV reports.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said in a press conference in Beirut on Wednesday that “maintaining and strengthening this consensus to send a message to Syria is very important,” a Press TV correspondent reported.

Feltman arrived in Beirut on Wednesday [...]

Paul Craig Roberts: Germany’s Failed Bond Auction was Orchestrated by the Banks

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What’s the biggest impediment to Western economies, is it debt? Growth? Political leadership? We see the leaders of Germany, France and Italy pushing for a fiscal crackdown to solve the Eurozone crisis. As they push for fiscal union, is more Europe the problem or the solution? And in the US we see GOP hopefuls taking the [...]

State Department: Mexican Drug Cartel Activity Is ‘Consistent With’ Terrorism

Actions by Mexican drug cartels are “consistent” with what the U.S. would consider to be “terrorism or insurgency” in other parts of the world, a State Department official told lawmakers on Thursday.

 

“I do acknowledge that many of the facts on the ground, the things that are being done by those organizations, are consistent with what we would call either terrorism or insurgency in other countries,” William Brownfield told a House [...]

PANDER: Obama now opposes repealing healthcare program he suspended last week

From The Hill:

President Obama is against repealing the health law’s long-term care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government’s announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water.

“We do not support repeal,” the official said Monday. “Repealing the CLASS Act isn’t necessary or productive. What we should be doing is working together [...]

House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 14, 2011

This parody may soon be illegal.

On September 22, 2011, H.R. 3011 was introduced in the House. It is entitled the “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act of 2011” and it contains some curious language.

Two thirds of the way through the ponderous bill, in Sec. 295, we find the following:

Whoever, except with the written permission of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security (or the Director of [...]

Top Interior Dept. Official Joins BP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has taken a job with one of the law firms representing BP in legal proceedings stemming from the massive Gulf oil spill last year.

Tom Strickland joined the Interior Department as Salazar’s chief of staff and an assistant secretary in 2009. He worked there at time when the [...]

Obama still highly popular — in Europe

From breitbart:

US President Barack Obama’s ratings have plunged at home but he remains highly popular in Europe, with 75 percent in 12 EU nations approving his handling of global affairs, a poll said Wednesday.

He is also much better liked than his predecessor George W. Bush, whose rating in Europe was just 20 percent in 2008, said the Transatlantic Trends poll by the German Marshall Fund.

Since 2009, when [...]

SEC’s proposals to stop credit-rating agencies from providing inflated opinions to get more business.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to propose a package of regulations that proponents say would stop credit-rating agencies from providing inflated opinions to get more business.

The regulator was forced to write rules due to the Dodd-Frank Act, which was approved in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008. The bipartisan commission voted 5 to 0 to introduce the [...]

US official: Growing threat from solar storm

GENEVA (AP) — A senior official at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says solar storms pose a growing threat to criticial infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation systems and electrical transmission equipment.

NOAA Assistant Secretary Kathryn Sullivan says the intensity of solar storms is expected to peak in 2013 and countries should prepare for “potentially devastating effects.” – [...]

Paul Craig Roberts: ‘The United States is at the risk of a war with China and Russia’

‘U.S. provoking China and Russia in Mediterranean’
Tehran Times International Desk

TEHRAN — The United States is at the risk of a war with China and Russia as its main objective behind engineering the Libyan war and Syrian unrest is to remove the two major powers from the Mediterranean, a senior former U.S. official has warned.

“Washington is all for invading Libya and is [...]

On average, uninsured families can pay only about 12% of their hospital bills in full

 

WASHINGTON — Uninsured Americans — including those with incomes well above the poverty line — leave hospitals with unpaid tabs of up to $49 billion a year, according to a government study released today.

On average, uninsured families can pay only about 12% of their hospital bills in full. Families with incomes above 400% of the poverty level, or about $88,000 a year for a [...]

Obama’s promised trip to Pakistan now uncertain

Washington: President Barack Obama’s promised trip to Pakistan this year, once seen as a reward for a key ally in the fight against terrorism, is now a looming headache for the White House as it tries to determine whether the government in Islamabad was complicit in allowing Osama bin Laden to live for years within the country’s borders.

Obama told Pakistani officials in the fall that he planned to [...]

Crowley out at State after calling treatment of WIKILEAKS leaker ‘stupid’

By MIKE ALLEN

P.J. Crowley is out as the department’s chief spokesman after his Defense Dept. critique. | AP Photo

 

P.J. Crowley is out as chief spokesman at the State Department after he publicly criticized the Defense Department’s handling of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a senior administration official said Sunday.

Crowley, a respected National Security Council spokesman under President Bill Clinton, has been on the outs with Secretary of State Hillary [...]

We Are Victims of A Financial Coup D’Etat

Straight Talk with Catherine Austin Fitts: We Are Victims of A Financial Coup D’Etat

by Adam
This week’s Straight Talk contributor is Catherine Austin Fitts: investment advisor and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Solari Investment Advisory Services, where she offers subscribers guidance for navigating the risks of the global financial system and the political economy (fyi: Chris is on her weekly podcast, The Solari Report, on Feb [...]