Where’s Jesse James when you need him?

Yeah, we all know the real Jesse James was a psychotic racist who loved to murder unarmed people. But don’t forget he was also a loving husband and father. Sounds like the profile of most Repuglycans, doesn’t it?

It’s the mythological Jesse James I’m a-hankerin’ after. The guy who allowed folks a whoop and a holler as they hi-fived (or the mid-19th century equivalent) whenever he robbed a bank. Because, Lord knows, the banks had been robbing them blind all their lives.

The banks have always been robbing us poor stupes blind. And by “us” I’m talking about every human who ever lived. As a result, we take this for granted, just like the sun coming up every morning.

According to Steve Lendman, Grand Theft America, Thomas Jefferson said:

“I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”

But Jefferson wasn’t the only one:

A half-century later Lincoln said:

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country….corporations (including bankers) have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

Lendman, now in Illuminati mode, continues:

Lincoln refused to pay bankers usurious rates to finance the Civil War and got Congress to pass the 1862 Legal Tender Act. It empowered the US Treasury to issue “greenbacks” that were interest-free because government printed its own money. When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the “Greenback Law” was rescinded. A new national banking act was passed, and the government once again had to pay interest to bankers.

On June 4, 1963, President Kennedy issued executive order (EO) 11110 giving the president authority to issue currency. He ordered the treasury to begin printing “United States (Treasury) Notes” to replace “Federal Reserve Notes.” He began a process to let government control its own money and no longer private bankers under the guise of the Federal Reserve. Months later, Kennedy was assassinated. Once Lyndon Johnson took office, he rescinded EO 11110 and reestablished the current system.

If I were Jon Stewart, I’d be looking at you in that quizzical way he does to a tee.

Is it all too broke to fix? Sure looks like it. That doesn’t mean we have to go out and commit suicide before the count of ten. But we do have to maintain a Plan B. And a Plan C, and so on. All of these plans will probably lead to an early death, but what the hell, we all gonna die anyway. Point is, be ready to relinquish every last thing you love and every last routine you live by.

The world is heading for 21 December 2012, a date of transformation. Back in 2007, Gort Slypesunder published Bring on the Singularity in Bilegrip. It’s worth a read, but the essence of what I’m getting at with 2012 is contained in this quote from Terence McKenna:

Essentially, if we take a look at some of the really species-changing events in our history, we see three really MAJOR developments that changed the entire course of human history. 1) The Agricultural Revolution. 2) The Industrial Revolution. 3) The Information Revolution.

30,000 years ago, we learned how to farm. 350 years ago, we learned how to mass-produce machines. About 50 years ago, we learned how to build computers. As you can see, the rate of change is increasing, as is the ability afforded by the change. With computers, we have the ability to build more efficient things, fly planes and spaceships, educate more people, etc. Each of these enabling technologies will build further development, and at a faster rate.

According to the mathematical model, we should see approximately *61* more of these species-changing developments before December 21st, 2012! All of the same magnitude as the three noted above. Again, it’s only a model, but they predict 18 of those changes on the last day, and 13 of those to happen in the last FRACTION OF A SECOND, as things accelerate towards that infinity point.

Wowks! Talk about all your birthdays coming at once. (Or, gulp, the other end of all that.) McKenna concludes:

As we approach the lip of this cascade into concrescence, novelty, and completion, time seems to speed up and boundaries begin to dissolve. The more boundaries that dissolve, the closer to the concrescence we are. When we finally reach it, there will be no boundaries, only eternity as we become all space and time, alive and dead, here and there, before and after. Because this singularity can simultaneously co-exist in states that are contradictory, it is something which transcends rational apprehension. But it gives the universe meaning, because all processes can be seen to be seeking and moving in an effort to approximate, connect with, and append to this transcendental object at the end of time.

Maybe nothing will happen, but don’t count on it. Human history hasn’t been around forever. Forget the hysteria of religions. Fundamentalist Christians, Muslims and Judaists can’t wait for Armageddon. That’s because they’re locked into narrow, insectoid belief systems requiring military solutions to the problem of infidel gods. Their relentless nay-saying amounts to a collective death wish.

Meanwhile, Lendman ends his article with these cheerful comments:

Michel Chossudovsky (Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland) cites an Army Times article saying that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is coming home (in October) from Iraq as (according to the Times) “an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” Perhaps with a manufactured incident as pretext. To defend the homeland against ourselves. Be deployed against dissent. Erupting public anger. On city streets like in Denver and St. Paul. Displaying civil disobedience. Defiance against fraud, deceit, illegal foreign wars, and nearly eight intolerable years under George Bush and a complicit Congress. Capped by the current financial crisis touching everyone while government rewards crime and hangs its victims out to dry.

Chossudovsky is blunt about the possibilities. The 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade is for combat. It’s not the National Guard or local police. It’s trained for war. “Equipped to kill people” with potent weapons, and a last hurrah scheme may be planned to divert public attention from the financial crisis. A “terrorist” attack with “chemical, biological” or other dangerous weapons. A possible pretext for martial law at a time the administration and Congress are vulnerable. When people are angry about Washington protecting the privileged. Partnering with them in crime. Defrauding the public and stifling dissent. Moving one step closer to tyranny and away from silly notions about democracy. Proving crime indeed does pay and awfully well on Wall Street. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Theirs, not ours.

Expect something like this sooner than later if November’s election goes the way of the last two. You know, where the exit polls indicate Democrat but the votes somehow wind up Repuglycan? And who do we have to thank for that?

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