The Demagogy Checklist

The Demagogy Checklist

Craig Chalquist, MS PhD

Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness a little bit smaller. -- George Orwell, 1984

What you have to understand is that these are bad people. -- Dick Cheney on why inmates are imprisoned indefinitely, invisibly, and without legal representation at the Guantanamo concentration camp

Demagogy is the attempt to persuade through the arousal of primitive emotions and unquestioned prejudices.

The following checklist is designed to help detect the deliberately propagandistic elements in any speech, sermon, or other public proclamation or communication. What differentiates demagogic propaganda from straight talk is the attempt to fog and manipulate the audience's awareness instead of appealing to its rationality and realism, those qualities upon which every democracy depends.

Therefore, the more of the following that are present, the more underhanded the communique. 

All forms of demagogy seek to unify one group at the expense of another while convincing the audience of the necessity for doing so. Psychologically, all when deliberate, are expressions of pathological immaturity laced with aggressive, paranoid impulses. 

1. Hypnotic rhythms ("We will be strong, we will unite, we will not fail....") intended to lull the attention into trancelike suggestibility.
2. Scapegoating: the attempt to "otherize" a given population (e.g. the Mexicans, the Arabs, those who don't share our views). Psychotherapists call this dynamic projection, an evacuation of our darker motives onto handy opponents.
3. Sweeping generalizations and oversimplifications. Free trade will erase poverty, more weapons will win the war on terror, banning assault rifles is an attack on personal freedom, etc.
4. Black-and-white categorization (we are good, they are evil; we're right, you're wrong).
5. A tone of sanctimonious moralizing.
6. Noble-sounding justifications for rigidity, oppression, intolerance, incompetence, indifference, or violence.
7. The replacement of concrete details with vague appeals to traditional values (patriotism, family, God, church).
8. Intolerance of disagreement ("you're either with us or against us").
9. The branding of the adult capacity for critical self-examination as misguided, unpatriotic, or disloyal.
10. Group narcissism disguised as loyalty (our truth is the only Truth; we are Number One; etc.).
11. No room given to healthy self-doubt or the recognition of ambiguous realities in a given situation.
12. Recurrent appeals to the "self-defense" argument as a justification for domination.
13. A childlike assumption of entitlement.
14. A childlike sense of omnipotence.
15. Euphemisms (e.g., "targeted defense" rather than "assassination"; "spiritual guidance" and not "intimidation").
16. Imposition of group norms described in terms of unity and solidarity (we do this for the good of all).
17. Minimization of the potential dangers of one's actions; whitewashing of unjust consequences.
18. Peer pressure, subtle or outright.
19. Threats, implied or overt.
20. Blaming the opponent for one's own aggressive actions. 
21. 
    It takes tremendous courage to resist the lure of appearances. The power of being which is manifest in such courage is so great that the gods tremble in fear of it. -- Paul Tillich

MARCH 30, 2012 Greece Buys Mega Millions Ticket Prime Minister Travels to Convenience Store in Indiana ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA (The Borowitz Report) – In a move that raised many eyebrows among financial ministers across the Eurozone, the nation of Greece today purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket in the hopes of winning a jackpot topping $540 million. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos made the extraordinary purchase himself, traveling to a convenience story in Zionsville, Indiana where he briefly chatted with the Hoosier Lottery’s Mega Millions mascot. While the odds of winning the jackpot currently stand at 1 in 176 million, experts say that the odds of Greece solving its financial problems on its own are approximately 1 in 975 zillion. The Greek Prime Minister acknowledged that buying a Mega Millions ticket might appear to be a desperate move to the outside world, but added, “At this point it was either that or sell the Parthenon to Mark Zuckerberg.” Asked why he purchased only one lottery ticket, Mr. Papademos said, “That’s all we had money for, and even that we had to borrow from Germany.”

A GOOD THING TO READ: Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers

Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers

'When Martin King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring that war to a close through massive popular opposition, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest construction companies, one of which was in the State of Texas, that patronized the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and had the major construction contracts at Cam Ran Bay in Vietnam. This is what Martin King was challenging. He was challenging the weapons industry, the hardware, the armament industries, that all would lose as a result of the end of the war.'
http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers

THE DOLLAR VIGILANTE: Mexican Drug War Reality TV

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2012/3/28/mexican-drug-war-reality-tv.html

The global drug trade is a key underlying factor in understanding world events. It has become the blood vessel of the global economy without which the system would collapse. It is what provides liquidity to the banks.

Dissident Thinker
http://dissidentthinker.wordpress.com/
A GOOD BLOG TO FOLLOW

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		MARCH 29, 2012 An Argument Against Healthcare From the National Alliance of Funeral Directors WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The following message was released today by the National Alliance of Funeral Directors: This week, several Republican Supreme Court Justices have argued that the Affordable Care Act supported by the Obama Administration is unconstitutional.  At the National Alliance of Funeral Directors, we couldn’t agree more. It was Revolutionary War hero Patrick Henry who said, in 1775, “Give me liberty or give me death.”  From that moment on, legal scholars have agreed that the Constitution guarantees every American the liberty to be dead.  Here at the Alliance, we will fight for your right to be dead to the death. Let’s take a look, if you will, at the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which protects every American’s right to shoot another American.  It says nothing about giving the person who is shot health insurance to prevent him from dying.  This cherished constitutional right to shoot people and make them dead is currently recognized in all fifty states, most recently Florida. In commenting on the Affordable Care Act this week, Justice Samuel Alito compared the Obama healthcare plan to burial insurance.  Coincidentally, burial insurance is the Republican healthcare plan, and one that we enthusiastically support.  Under this plan, every American would be mandated to buy a coffin from one of our member-owned and operated funeral homes.  May we recommend the Peaceful Valley Royale,™ a luxury mahogany casket with sienna satin interior and the finest imitation antique nickel handles ($2899). As the organization representing America’s funeral directors, gravediggers, embalmers and cremators, we are confident that the Supreme Court will ultimately do the right thing and decide that healthcare flies in the face of every American’s constitutional right to the pursuit of deadness.  And when they do, we’ll be waiting for you. Sincerely, The National Alliance of Funeral Directors

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(THIS ARTICLE ON GOLD CAUSED JIM SINCLAIR TO RESPOND WITH THIS STATEMENT:)


My Dear Friends,
A man who the gold gang helped get out of the can with thousands of letter on his behalf is talking trash about the dedication of gold investors.
I firmly believe he is dead wrong, and shooting himself directly in the foot. I knew him in the 70s and I guess nothing really ever changes.
Respect and gratitude is not the long suit of many. Have no fear because we are here.
Regards,
Jim


GT sez:
I PERSONALLY THINK JIM SINCLAIR IS BEING A BIT NARROW MINDED ON THIS.
HE IS NOT A 'GOLD GOD' AFTER ALL AND JUST 'MAY' BE WRONG, OR OFF ON HIS SCHEDULE A BIT AS HE WAS ON  THE $1650 GOLD PRICE. THERE ARE TOO MANY VARIABLES IN THIS LIFE TO BE PRECISE.
IN THE END WE CAN ALL BE SURE THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE AN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND THAT GOLD WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE SURVIVAL OF YOUR MONETARY ASSETS RATHER THAN PAPER MONEY WHICH IS BEING RAPIDLY DEVALUED BY OVER PRINTING IT. OTHER HARD ASSETS WILL RETAIN VALUE ALSO. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT GOLD AND SILVER ARE A MORE FLEXIBLE AND EFFICIENT MEANS OF HOLDING YOUR ASSETS AS HAS BEEN PROVEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.

Geithner Wants to Get Rid of Physical Currency (Better Tracking)

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/03/29/geithner-wants-to-get-rid-of-physical-currency-better-tracking/

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/03/28/treasury-to-cut-costs-by-remaking-coins-replacing-paper/

Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, wants to get rid of paper money. He says it’s part of a cost-cutting measure.

Nonsense. It’s part of the government’s attempt to track our purchases. Its a plan to get rid of the underground economy, where people buy what they want, sell what they want, and leave no digital trail.

The Whole Financial System is Rotten at its Core

http://goldswitzerland.com/index.php/the-whole-financial-system-is-rotten-at-its-core/

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

GO TO http://2012jubilee.info/ FOR THE FLYER APPROPRIATE TO YOUR AREA OF THE WORLD

Grading the nation: How accountable is your state?

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/03/19/8423/grading-nation-how-accountable-your-state

The stories go on and on. Open records laws with hundreds of exemptions. Crucial budgeting decisions made behind closed doors by a handful of power brokers. “Citizen” lawmakers voting on bills that would benefit them directly. Scores of legislators turning into lobbyists seemingly overnight. Disclosure laws without much disclosure. Ethics panels that haven’t met in years. 

The Two Saddest Words In Any Language Are 'If Only...'

In Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Munich Students Movement - 3rd Leaflet

The White Rose
Third Leaflet
Munich, 1942

Salus publica suprema lex 
The good of the people is the law of the land.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30911.htm

Please distribute this as widely as possible.

38 House Members Filtered Government Money to Relatives and Their Employers

http://www.allgov.com/Where_is_the_Money_Going/ViewNews/38_House_Members_Filtered_Government_Money_to_Relatives_and_Their_Employers_120326

Nearly 40 members of the House of Representatives earmarked $150 million to organizations affiliated with themselves and their family members from 2008 to 2010, according to a government watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberative and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."Justice Robert Jackson  - Nuremberg address

FBI PUTS TRACKING COOKIE ON SURVIVALBLOG.COM

Important Message From JWR: The FBI's Cookie Caper and the VPN Imperative

http://survivalblog.com/2012/03/important-message-from-jwr-the-fbis-cookie-caper-and-the-vpn-imperative.html

BE SURE TO READ ABOUT VPN, A WAY TO DISGUISE YOUR IP ADDRESS FOR A PRICE (SEVERAL PRICE RANGES)

US MARINE DRILL SERGEANT BOASTS OF WHAT THEY WILL DO TO CIVILIANS UNDER MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm

YOU HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO GET TO THIS ARTICLE
BUT DO NOT SKIP OVER THE INFO AT THE TOP OF THE SITE.

A UN Handbook for World Domination: Agenda 21

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/03/23/aun-handbook-for-world-domination/

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Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws.  This document has a working title of "Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development" and you can read the entire thing right here. 

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		MARCH 24, 2012 Cheney Receives Heart Transplant; Bush Still on Waiting List for Brain Halliburton Performs Reconstruction of Former VP FALLS CHURCH, VA (The Borowitz Report) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant today, but former President George W. Bush remained on a waiting list for a brain, hospital officials confirmed. As part of a government contract signed while he was still Vice President, Halliburton performed the reconstruction work on Mr. Cheney’s circulatory system at a cost to taxpayers of $14.2 billion. The doctor who performed the surgery called the procedure “extremely invasive – just the way the Vice President wanted it.” A hospital spokesman said that Mr. Cheney was expected to make a full recovery, but that he was “somewhat disoriented” coming out of anesthesia: “When we asked him who the President of the United States was, he said, ‘Is it still me?’” Former President Bush made an appearance at the former Vice President’s hospital, hanging a “Mission Accomplished” banner in Mr. Cheney’s room hours before the operation was completed.

Tungsten-Filled 1 Kilo Gold Bar Found In The UK

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/tungsten-filled-1-kilo-gold-bar-found-uk

1000g Gold bar cut showing inserted tungsten rods

Why gas prices vary so much from one place to the next

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-gas-prices-vary-so-much-from-one-place-to-the-next/2012/03/22/gIQAXSwgTS_blog.html

FUNNY STUFF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zvl9N9GdraQ

THERE ARE MORE CLIPS AT THE END

Drunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone At Neighborhood Bar How Screwed U.S. Economy Really Is

http://www.theonion.com/articles/drunken-ben-bernanke-tells-everyone-at-neighborhoo,21059/

The Ascendence of Sociopaths in US Governance

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30892.htm-

In this article, I'm going to argue that the US government, in particular, is being overrun by the wrong kind of person. It's a trend that's been in motion for many years but has now reached a point of no return. In other words, a type of moral rot has become so prevalent that it's institutional in nature. There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the US is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order. Until then, the trend will accelerate.

The reason is that a certain class of people – sociopaths – are now fully in control of major American institutions. Their beliefs and attitudes are insinuated throughout the economic, political, intellectual and psychological/spiritual fabric of the US.

War Crimes Must Be Stopped

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30888.htm

TBTF Sheriff Bill Black on the MF Global Cover-up: "All those that doeth Evil hateth the light!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVOJPDYp34&feature=player_embedded#!

358 RESIGNATIONS FROM WORLD BANKS, INVESTMENT HOUSES, MONEY FUNDS

http://americankabuki.blogspot.pt/p/131-resignations-from-world-banks.html#endoflist

16 SHTF Barter Items to Stockpile... PLUS MUCH MORE

http://debtreckoning.com/

BE SURE TO READ ALL THE COMMENTS FOR LOTS OF IDEAS

THEN MAKE A LIST AND START GETTING THE STUFF...NOW!

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.

ObamaWorld Ticket: It Now Costs $14 to Get Into the USA.

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/03/20/nazi-collaborators-age-90-must-identify-themseves-to-ehter-the-usa/

North’s first law of bureaucracy is this: “There is no official regulation that will not eventually be enforced insanely.”

Americans: The New Jews

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2012/3/19/americans-the-new-jews.html

NEVER ENDING ATTACKS ON LIBERTY

It is actually becoming nearly impossible to keep up with the pace at which dictatorial controls are being put in place.  Not a day goes by without some massive new attack on freedom by the US Government.

Obama Executive Order: Peacetime Martial Law!

http://www.jsmineset.com/
Obama Executive Order: Peacetime Martial Law!
This Executive Order was posted on the WhiteHouse.gov web site on Friday, March 16, 2012, under the name National Defense Resources Preparedness. In a nutshell, it’s the blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law and it gives the president the power to take just about anything deemed necessary for “National Defense”, whatever they decide that is. It’s peacetime, because as the title of the order says, it’s for “Preparedness”. A copy of the entire order follows the end of this story.
Under this order the heads of these cabinet level positions; Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Defense and Commerce can take food, livestock, fertilizer, farm equipment, all forms of energy, water resources, all forms of civil transporation (meaning any vehicles, boats, planes), and any other materials, including construction materials from wherever they are available. This is probably why the government has been visiting farms with GPS devices, so they know exactly where to go when they turn this one on.
Specifically, the government is allowed to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate. They decide what necessary or appropriate means.
UPDATE: BIN reader Kent Welton writes: This allows for the giving away of USA assets and subsidies to private companies: “(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, 2093; and (c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.”
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MARTIN ARMSTRONG: Monetary History of the World

http://armstrongeconomics.com/research/monetary-history-of-the-world/

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: A Brief History of World Interest Rates

http://armstrongeconomics.com/research/a-brief-history-of-world-interest-rates/

The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillance

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115871/The-CIA-wants-spy-TV-Agency-director-says-net-connected-gadgets-transform-surveillance.html#ixzz1pOKMVgpb

Devices connected to internet leak information

CIA director says these gadgets will 'transform clandestine tradecraft'

Spies could watch thousands via supercomputers

People 'bug' their own homes with web-connected devices

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115871/The-CIA-wants-spy-TV-Agency-director-says-net-connected-gadgets-transform-surveillance.html#ixzz1paNtdH29

US wins extradition of British student over UK-based website

https://rt.com/usa/news/us-extradition-student-uk-493/

'The site itself provided users with links to other sites which, when clicked, would take his visitor to external and unaffiliated pages that often streamed copyrighted material, including American television programs protected by US laws.'

A COMMENT ABOUT THE ARTICLE

Bob Robertson March 16, 2012, 21:36 

 +1 

Haso Keric wrote in #1
Google should face charges. They link more people to pirated material than anyone else... you can find torrents, rapidshare, warez forums etc... via google.

‘SWIFT’ Reaction: Iran May Block Oil Exports

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153853#.T2YQxXks2So

Belgium’s Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which handles most international bank transfers, has eliminated Iran from its services

JIM SINCLAIR: 'THIS IS ECONOMIC WAR'
My Dear Friends,
Major Iranian banks have been deleted from the SWIFT system. This is the means of bank wire fund transfers.
This is a major act of economic war against Iran that challenges others to consider similar tactics. It might be reasonable if Iran had not just had large allies restate their allegiance in the form of China and Russia. This would be reasonable if the West had no economic points of vulnerability.
Unfortunately the Western financial system has real weak points that are in the hands of Iran’s new most powerful allies.
The US dollar utilization as a settlement currency is waning. The US bond market has already lost its main buyers who in China’s case have been sellers.
The Swift System war card would have better been held as a threat than used.
This is going to come home, and hurt after June 2012.
Regards,
Jim

Greyerz - Gold Will React to the $120 Trillion of Additional Debt

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/3/16_Greyerz_-_Gold_Will_React_to_the_%24120_Trillion_of_Additional_Debt.html

Today Egon von Greyerz told King World News that global debt has increased 140% in the last ten years. Von Greyerz also said even though the massive creation of debt has yielded virtually no GDP growth, the gold market will soon react to the money printing binge. Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland. Here is what von Greyerz had to say: “We are all focused on the short-term and that’s natural, but let’s step back and look at the longer-term picture because that is really what is important for us today and for the next few years. The bigger picture is so important because very few people understand that the last 100 years are exceptional in history.”

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

MATT TAIBBI: Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail

The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out?

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314#ixzz1pO36XFgW

Nigel Farage on the Euro - 13th March 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbqumK6qUTQ&feature=player_embedded

Dylan Grice Explains When To Sell Gold (HINT: NEVER!)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/dylan-grice-explains-when-sell-gold

"Eventually, there will be a crisis of such magnitude that the political winds change direction, and become blustering gales forcing us onto the course of fiscal sustainability. Until it does, the temptation to inflate will remain, as will economists with spurious mathematical rationalisations as to why such inflation will make everything OK. Until it does, the outlook will remain favorable for gold. But eventually, majority opinion will accept the painful contractionary medicine because it will have to. That will be the time to sell gold."

...during the “6000 year gold bubble” no one has defaulted on gold. It is the one insurance policy which will pay out when you really need it to.

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

FROM THE SLOG...A BRILLIANT BLOG TO READ DAILY

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/

What Goldman employees never ever think about is the geopolitical response of people having that yardbrush rammed up their economic backside. They never think about the point at which citizens snap, and storm Bastilles. They never think about the social effects of unemployment and ruination. These are the Undead who invent oxymorons like ‘jobless recovery’. The people who lost the plot years ago, and see the human race entirely in the context of its ability to consume goods and watch circuses. For them, the idea that the People come first long ago became an alien concept clung to by ‘saps’.

But at the level below them, the quants and packaging folks continue to sell whisky to the Indians, sorry, Native Americans. I’ve met this lot frequently, because by accident I drifted into financial marketing communications during the 1977-1999 period. They are more muddled and mentally adrift than any other group I’ve come across with the exception of Islamists. You tell them what the result of doing something will be. They ignore you. It happens. You remind them. They say, “No, you don’t understand….we made a small assumption in Chart 57, but we’ve ironed that out now, so everything will be fine next time”. I used to watch their backs leaving meetings, to see if I could detect the wiring beneath those dandy Brooks Brothers suits.

They will never change – and they’re still at it, even in the current environment. 

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THIS, AND GREG SMITH'S RESIGNATION LETTER FROM GOLDMAN SACHS, HAVE OPENED PANDORA'S BOX ON THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS WHOLE CRIMINAL FRAUD ON THE WORLD

Jim Sinclair’s Commentary
This got posted on the official CFTC site? Someone is going to be looking for a new job.
Let us see if it is there this evening.
From: Z A N
Organization(s):
JPMorgan Chase
Comment No: 57019
Date: 3/14/2012
Comment Text:
Dear CFTC Staff,
Hello, I am a current JPMorgan Chase employee. This is an open letter to all commissioners and regulators. I am emailing you today b/c I know of insider information that will be damning at best for JPMorgan Chase. I have decided to play the role of whistleblower b/c I no longer have faith and belief that what we are doing for society is bringing value to people. I am now under the opinion that we are actually putting hard working Americans unaware of what lays ahead at extreme market risk. This risk is unnecessary and will lead to wide-scale market collapse if not handled properly. With the release of Mr. Smith’s open letter to Goldman, I too would like to set the record straight for JPM as well. I have seen the disruptive behavior of superiors and no longer can say that I look up to employees at the ED/MD level here at JPM. Their smug exuberance and arrogance permeates the air just as pungently as rotting vegetables. They all know too well of the backdoor crony connections they share intimately with elected officials and with other institutions. It is apparent in everything they do, from the meager attempts to manipulate LIBOR, therefore controlling how almost all derivatives are priced to the inherit and fraudulent commodities manipulation. They too may have one day stood for something in the past in the client-employee relationship. Does anyone in today’s market really care about the protection of their client? From the ruthless and scandalous treatment of MF Global client asset funds to the excessive bonuses paid by companies with burgeoning liabilities. Yes, we at JPMorgan that are in the know are fearful of a cascading credit event being triggered in Greece as they have hidden derivatives in excess of $1 Trillion USD. We at JPMorgan own enough of these through counterparty risk and outright prop trading that our entire IB EDG space could be annihilated within a few short days. The last ten years has been market by inflexion point after inflexion point with the most notable coming in 2008 after the acquisition of Bear.
I wish to remain anonymous as of now as fear of termination mounts from what I am about to reveal. Robert Gottlieb is not my real name; however he is a trader that is involved in a lawsuit for manipulative trading while working with JPMorgan Chase. He was acquired during our Bear Stearns acquisition and is known to be the notorious person shorting in the silver future market from his trading space, along with Blythe Masters, his IB Global boss. However, with that said, we are manipulating the silver futures market and playing a smaller (but still massively manipulative) role in manipulating the gold futures market. We have a little over a 25% (give or take a percentage) position in the short market for silver futures and by your definition this denotes a larger position than for speculative purposes or for hedging and is beyond the line of manipulation.
On a side note, I do not work directly with accounts that would have been directly impacted by the MF Global fiasco but I have heard through other colleagues that we have involvement in the hiding of client assets from MF Global. This is another fraudulent effort on our part and constitutes theft. I urge you to forward that part of the investigation on to the respective authorities.
There is something else that you may find strange. During month-end December, we were all told by our managers that this was going to be a dismal year in terms of earnings and that we should not expect any bonuses or pay raises. Then come mid-late January it is made known that everyone received a pay raise and/or bonus, which is interesting b/c just a few weeks ago we were told that this was not likely and expected to be paid nothing in addition to base salary. January is right around the time we started increasing our short positions quite significantly again and this most recent crash in gold and silver during Bernanke’s speech on February 29th is of notable importance, as we along with 4 other major institutions, orchestrated the violent $100 drop in Gold and subsequent drops in silver.
As regulators of the free people of this country, I ask you to uphold the most important job in the world right now. That job is judge and overseer of all that is justice in the most sensitive of commodity markets. There are many middle-income people that invest in the physical assets of silver, gold, as well as mining stocks that are being financially impacted in a negative way b/c of our unscrupulous shorts in the precious metals commodity sector. If you read the COT with intent you will find that commercials (even though we have no business being in the commercial sector, which should be reserved for companies that truly produce the metal) are net short by a long shot in not only silver, but gold.
It is rather surprising that what should be well known liabilities on our balance sheet have not erupted into wider scale scrutinization. I call all honest and courageous JPMorgan employees to step up and fight the cronyism and wide-scale manipulation by reporting the truth. We are only helping reality come to light therefore allowing a real valuation of our banking industry which will give investors a chance to properly adjust without being totally wiped out. I will be contacting a lawyer shortly about this matter, as I believe no other whistleblower at JPMorgan has come forward yet. Our deepest secrets lie within the hands of honest employees and can be revealed through honest regulators that are willing to take a look inside one of America’s best kept secrets. Please do not allow this to turn into another Enron.
Kind Regards,
-The 1st Whistleblower of Many
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Tim Geithner Covers for Corruption on Pennsylvania Avenue

http://dailyreckoning.com/tim-geithner-covers-for-corruption-on-pennsylvania-avenue/

03/15/12 Last Friday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner charged in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that those who oppose the Obama Administration’s regulatory regime for the financial services industry “seem to be suffering from amnesia about how close America came to complete financial collapse under the outdated regulatory system we had before Wall Street reform.” Au contraire, Secretary Geithner, it is you who choose to ignore and misrepresent the lessons of the financial crisis by perpetuating the myth that the source of the crisis was a lack of regulation.

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Police drones to be equipped with non-lethal weapons?

http://rt.com/usa/news/drone-surveillance-montgomery-weapon-507/

Law enforcement near Houston, Texas will soon have a $300,000 robotic surveillance drone in their arsenal, and if Montgomery County’s chief deputy has his say, it’s only a matter of time before that aircraft will be equipped to fire from above.

"The Military Industrial Complex Has Got Us By The Throat!" Jack Cafferty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78c8sLQqG4&feature=player_embedded

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30810.htm

"But what is tyranny? Or how can a free people be deprived of their liberties? Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state." -  Noah Webster - (1758-1843) American patriot and scholar

US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-military-unveils-non-lethal-heat-ray-weapon-032512781.html

"You're not gonna see it, you're not gonna hear it, you're not gonna smell it: you're gonna feel it,"

MARCH 14, 2012 A Response from Goldman Sachs From Chairman Lloyd Blankfein NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – The following letter to Goldman Sachs’ worldwide clients was issued today by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Dear Goldman Client: By now, many of you have probably read the regrettable resignation letter published in today’s New York Times by former Goldman executive Greg Smith, explaining why he is leaving the firm after twelve years. In the letter, in which he excoriates Goldman and his practices, Mr. Smith comes across as a man of conscience, ideals, and high moral standards.  And as you read his words, you no doubt asked yourself this troubling question: how could Goldman have hired such a person? At Goldman, we pride ourselves on our ability to scour the world’s universities and business schools for the finest sociopaths money will buy.  Once in our internship program, these youths are subjected to rigorous evaluations to root out even the slightest evidence of a soul.  But, as the case of Mr. Smith shows, even the most time-tested system for detecting shreds of humanity can blow a gasket now and then.  For that, we can only offer you our deepest apology and the reassurance that one good apple won’t spoil the whole bunch. As to those of you who were serviced by Mr. Smith, it’s understandable that you would be concerned about who will be taking his place going forward.  On that front, I have some exciting news: today, Goldman is pleased to announce that our new executive director and head of the United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will be Mr. Joseph Kony.  For those unfamiliar with Mr. Kony’s resume, let me assure you that he has the character and moral standards you have come to expect from Goldman, and like the rest of us here at the bank, he has dedicated his life to doing the Lord’s work. Sincerely, Lloyd Blankfein CEO, Goldman Sachs Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs By GREG SMITH http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=3&hp