DRANT # 320:: COLLAPSE: The Only Chance we Have

This is all by design. There is no "financial crisis". This is not about The Economy, stupid. There have been no mistakes. The Fed, Bush, Congress and The Banks are not fighting with each other. It's not about the details: money, subprime loans, tight credit, repossessions, Wall Street, bailouts, mortage-backed securities, Hedge Funds, NINAs, CDOs, CEO pay, regulation or de-regulation. It is most definitely not about Obamerde, McGoon, or Greedman Sucks, it is about something MUCH bigger, and - it is absolutely positively 1000% nothing new. It is about --- COLLAPSE. And- we need not only to enable it, but facilitate it in any way we can. If this collapse doesn't happen soon, we're dead. It's that simple. To have any chance for us or our planet, the other beings on it, or our grandchildren, to survive much less prosper, we must crank the APOCALYPSE switch to NOW- immediately. "---Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living. If we do not put a halt to it, civilization will continue to immiserate the vast majority of humans and to degrade the planet until it (civilization, and probably the planet) collapses. The effects of this degradation will continue to harm humans and nonhumans for a very long time---" Derrick Jensen, ENDGAME Premise SIX The Pimp Media, progblogs, TVTurds, liberallefties, radio screamers, pseudoCramers, Congressmembers, Economists -- an endless parade of white guys with double chins and zero integrity- are selling us the FINANCIAL CRISIS 24/7 at the top of their lungs. Now Uncle Dave has taught ya to always sniff real hard when that happens. Uh oh. Is that a global doodie diaper ? They're all Chickenlittling the same merdacious emergencical hyperbulle. I've trained ya- to immediately yell "WHY ?" What does it get Them ? Cui Bono ? CuiBonoCuiBonoCui BonoCuiBonoCuiBono ? This time, ya better turn your BS detector up to 11.5, annnnnd- ya better be ready to give them a big shove, and help make their propaganda actually happen -- for real. More about that later. But first- Why are They doing this ? Well, who says a "New Pearl Harbor" has to be planes ramming buildings ? Who says that the form "Terrorism" takes must necessarily be armed insurrection or meticulously planned highjacks ? We have aided and abetted the greatest theft of assets (of all kinds) in all of history. Not since our good pal God gave us humans dominion over The Heavens and The Earth has there been a plunder and re-allocation like this one. Marx would call it a massive "primary appropriation." Whatever we call it, the result has been an incomprehensibly huge UPWARD shift in assets. I don't mean just money. Money is -- I mean this -- incidental. Sure, money and material wealth has been purloined from The Many, and concentrated in the hands of The Very Few on a scale that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. But so too have the more crucial requisites for human life: air, water, food, health care, education, true personal security, and- annnnnd- freedom. They have not just grabbed all the bucks, and left much of the world up to their medullae in debt or in extreme poverty. They have not just bought up all the clean water- to sell it back to us a pint or a bathtubfull at a time, while they grab up for themselves the world's remaining aquifers. They have not just stolen and fouled the food so that only They and their Organic Elite are the only beings on the Planet who can afford clean eats, and tens of millions starve. They have not just fouled the air, so that only Those with special Domes (like the Bush compound in Crawford TX) will be able to both inhale and exhale and the rest of us terminally emphyzemasize. They have not just made it unaffordable for even half of us to take the most basic care of ourselves and our bodies, insuring their own exclusive access to (what they think are) the best Doctors, Hospitals and Medicine, while even more tens of millions die from curable disease. But- they have taken most of the real freedoms away from us and left us in an extreme poverty of personal liberty, rights, self-determination, and ultimately self-worth. Once again, They are trying to scare us into fear and compliance. This *horseshit* monetary crisis is the new 9-11. If They didn't DO it, if they didn't PLAN it, if they didn't EXECUTE it, and I think they did all of these- they unquestionably enabled and allowed it. There is no doubt that at very least, they let it happen. And, exactly as their 9-11 initiated the War of Terror precisely as planned- so too is this new financial 9-11 right on schedule to scare the crap out of us - enough so we will hand over everything we own - pensions, savings, homes, nest eggs-- and cannibalize our children and grandchildren- to feel more secure. Just as the Clear and Present Emergency of Iraq's imminent Nucular Attack on Pittsburgh led to our blind acceptance of an unlegislated Patriot Act passed unread in the dead of night, so too will they try to use this Financial Crisis to force a shotgun wedding - where our dowry is all the remaining rights we own. They have learned, and well they know, that we will trade our very souls to feel safe. They are coercing us into signing a new form of sub-prime mortgage of our freedom, where the initial rate seems affordable, but in the blink of an eye- its all repossessed. And here's the inescapable Cosmic Irony: We must let them have their way, facilitate the collapse, push their toboggan down their highway to hunger and hell, scarcity and starvation, or all we're doing is postponing the inevitable and making it much harder on our grandchildren. We need to help this whole Hindenbergian horror show to accelerate to its unavoidable denouement: and crash and burn- and clear the forest-- for new growth: a new way of life on this planet. Nothing less can save us. The sooner the better. Luckily, our massive unmeasurable greed and arrogance is sooooo huge and overpowering, that we will reflexively revert to a grossly amplified 2.0 version of the very behavior that caused us to apocalypticate in the first place. We seek salvation by indulging further in greed, consumption, exploitation and destruction of the natural resources and the very life of the planet we live on. We seek our redemption in Growth and more Growth. From Expanding "The Economy". From More. We employ all extraordinary means to save the rotting corpse of exploitative globalism, "The Economic System", contemplate amputating one stinking limb at a time--- and never let ourselves notice that that its a putrid DEAD BODY- spreading fatal disease everywhere, and requiring urgent cremation, not palliative care or prophylactic amputations or reconstructive surgery. We seek guidance from those who we know care only about themselves, about salvaging and reinforcing the system that enriches and empowers them at any cost, who have plundered and destroyed anything and anyone that serves not their ends, and now are telling us that we need not only to continue this process, but expand it. In sum, we will JOIN in their plan for our destruction. And that's a very good thing. Our very complicity is the only thing that can save us. The more we leave everything in the hands of The Bankers, Congress, and The Media, the faster this whole thing will come down, and the sooner we can save ourselves, our children and the planet. "---The longer we wait for civilization to crash-or the longer we wait before we ourselves bring it down-the messier will be the crash, and the worse things will be for those humans and nonhumans who live during it, and for those who come after. The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. Any economic or social system that does not benefit the natural communities on which it is based is unsustainable, immoral, and stupid. Sustainability, morality, and intelligence (as well as justice) requires the dismantling of any such economic or social system, or at the very least disallowing it from damaging your landbase---" Derrick Jensen, ENDGAME Next DRANT - we talk about what happened, who did what to whom, and how. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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DRANT #319: The CRASH- Don't Drink The Lehmanade

"---there is no way to avert the payback period that has been building for over two decades. Over this stretch, America has consumed much more than it has produced. As a result, both consumer and federal debt have ballooned to record levels. And now, the payback period is upon us. The bailout buffet won't end with Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE). There's a lot more where that came from because the "Fed's food court" remains open, as does that of the U.S. Treasury. In fact, the autos are in the process of being bailed out with $50 billion in "loans." I expect the airlines to also receive some form of a bailout as well." Mike Stathis, Payback Period is Upon Us When most of you wake up this morning, you'll rise to the news of a massive Wall Street "crash", with stock prices diving, and US Banks disappearing faster than Cheney on 9-11. Breathless botoxed teleboobs will screech on about the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, about Merril Lynch doing a Jonah into the belly of the B of A, and how the U.S.A. -- meaning us, the schmuckoisie -- must once again reach into what remains of our pockets to "bail out" The Economy. But, remember DRANT's Law: when the media pimp choir all start singing one song, grab your bullshit detector and turn it to 11. It's not The Economy, stupid. Its just another day's work for the bastards who have been running these periodic "crashes" for years; another step in the most massive, flagrant and corrupt transfer of wealth in history; and yet another manufactured "shock" designed to induce ever more panic and fear in our poor little so far sonambulatory hearts. "---Around the world, ---there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq --- a few are making a killing while more are getting killed. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine But- its good news ! This "crash" can be, MUST be the threshold - the snapping point where we will jump up, startled - out of our long years of snoozing. Where we finally get so critically wounded in our profound self-interest- we are at long last roused to action. From ICH: "---this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone anyway. It's been developing for quite a long time. Eight years of stealing your children's futures to pay for killing someone else's children while you allow your own ability to produce anything to be shuttled off to the next generation corporate slave countries, does not make for a healthy economy---They took virtually all of your rights, all of your future, all of your money, all of your health, all of your respect, and all of your dignity, and yet some of you would still rather hear how great this country is than accept the truth about what is happening and why. It's the impenetrable American egotism that has led to this abyss and that has led you to be the least educated, most imprisoned, least healthy, most destructive, least honest, most hated populous and culture in the history of the world--and that is no small feat on this planet." Bill Noxid We have all been willing participants in the scam- cannibalizing the future of our children and grandchildren in our paroxysms of instant gratification, gluttony, and slovenly self-deception, so let's not grab the victim's makeup kit just yet. And just as we have stood by and allowed murder and torture in our name, so too have we wallowed in the trough of consumption, eating and driving and shopping and spending and consoooming the riches of this world, destroying the planet and all its creatures and inhabitants in our unquenchable lust and greed, and leaving the check to be paid by our kids. It was a grand collusion- with the Busheviks borrowing a trillion dollars from China, Japan, and various "sovereign" lenders, in league with all of us- borrowing hundreds of thousands against whatever we could- most often the very houses our families slept in at night. We saved nothing, vesting our belief in the self-deluding parlor tricks of speculative real estate deals, mortgage re-finance, credit cards, and unsecured loans. Annnd -- we were all gleeful players in an even bigger scam to finance the murder and genocide of War, in which we have been complicit, by not stopping the seven years of killing, and by paying for it. Our greed led us to murder. "---The central banks of China, Japan and Korea are major holders of these (Mortgage) securities---When you look at the balance sheet of U.S. assets available for foreign central banks to buy with the $2.5 to $3.5 trillion of surplus dollars they hold, real estate is the only asset category large enough to absorb the balance-of-payments outflows that U.S. military spending, foreign trade and investment-capital flight are throwing off. When the U.S. military spends money abroad to fight the New Cold War, these dollars are recycled increasingly into U.S. mortgage-backed securities, because there is no other market large enough to absorb the sums involved.---The Treasury therefore has given informal assurances to foreign governments that they will guarantee at least the dollar value of the money their central banks are recycling. --- A failure to provide investment guarantees to foreigners would thwart the continuation of U.S. overseas military spending!---" Michael Hudson, Global Research In the next few weeks: You will write a check, and the BANK will bounce. You will go to Safeway, and the shelves will be bare. You will have to pay cash, and that will be worth less than half of what it is now. Your IRA wil disappear. Your job will disappear. All the things you let yourself believe in -- that justified your greed-- will be worthless. And you will get scared. Finally. And you will try to blame Bush. Don't ya dare blame the Bush or the banks. We all went for it. We Americans like our redemption in painless easy-swallow gel tab form. No pain, no scars. Not this time. Now its time to fundamentally change the way we live, and the way our government is run. "The alternative of living a lie and serving the corporations that purposefully suppress and poison the true nature of this glorious planet and all of its inhabitants was just not mentally, physically, or spiritually an option for me anymore. Believe me when I tell you---It's not an option for you anymore either. The Universe is watching and you cannot afford to wait one more second to face the truth. It is imperative that you become the stewards and contributors to the Universal Consciousness that you are designed to be, before you face the threat of the end of your time on Earth." Bill Noxid If we are to survive, if we are to hand our children a world in which they have any hope of surviving, much less live decent lives, then we must assume total responsibility for what has been done. We must sacrifice and abjure our own comfort and ease, deny our self-gratification, and our self-absorption, and live for others. But this does not mean that we can allow the Bushes and the Bastards at the Banks to put the blame on us either. They have created this "crash" with an eye toward further destroying the very systems of mutual caring and human generosity that they dismiss as "welfare." They will use this manufactured financial "crisis" to further crack down on our rights, our ability to express our thoughts, our fundamental individual freedom. They will further encourage us to blame the "illegals" for the problems in our lives and in our "economy" and further inculcate mutual distrust and racial hatred. This crash that you will wake up to this morning must be - at long last-- the catalyst for action. It will not be nearly enough to rant, or complain, or demonstrate, or even to vote the criminals out of office, for in our complicity we have aided and abetted them, and removing them cures nothing. Each of us must take on the full task of making the change happen. Each and every one of us- one of us at a time. And it must start now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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