Red alert! Over 40 billion dollars of America's national wealth is being shipped out of the country every single month.  Our economy is being gutted and we are bleeding wealth and we are bleeding jobs.  This is a distress call.  Is anyone listening?  Thousands of our factories and millions of our jobs are being shipped overseas. Sadly, the vast majority of Americans really are dead asleep on this issue.  They just continue to run out to the big retail stores and fill their carts with products made in China and yet they seem completely bewildered by the fact that the number of good jobs continues to decline.

The military industrial complex rules our U.S. Congress like Indiana Jones whipping a mouse into submission. At this time, 572,000 military personnel reside on 761 bases in 39 countries around the world according to Bacevich. Costs: into the trillions of wasted dollars over the years. And while every state in the Union runs in red ink, the Pentagon burns through $12 billion every 30 days in three wars that have absolutely nothing to do with our defense, safety or security. The same could be said for the 35,000 troops stationed in Korea for 50 years: no use, no need and no purpose under the sun. The U.S. Government bleeds the American people to an ugly financial death. It has run up a $14.4 trillion debt that will ultimately collapse the entire monetary system within the United States.

Has the time to sell gold now arrived?  Before you start dumping all of your gold, you might want to check out what central banks all over the globe have been doing.  There is some serious hoarding of gold that is going on.  For most of the past two decades, central banks have been net sellers of gold, but now many of them are gobbling up gold as fast as they can.  So why would they be doing this if gold was not a good investment?

Since the end of World War 2, the United States has been the leading military power and the leading economic power on the entire globe.  The U.S. has had the largest economy in the history of the world, the U.S. dollar has been used by nearly all of the nations on earth as a reserve currency and the U.S. military has had a physical presence in most of the countries on the planet.  Today, the U.S. military is in approximately 130 different nations and it has a total of about 700 military bases around the world.  America is now swamped with debts and our influence is fading.  The truth is that what we are witnessing is the end of an empire and the beginning of a depression.

It looks like, as well, the U.S. will ultimately get the same sort of tax courts and tribunals the IMF proposes for Greece since there is no shortage of tax scofflaws in America and no shortage of state-worshiping bureaucrats eager to fill the prisons and coming-soon slave labor penal workhouses with a fresh crop of victims.

The Finance Ministers of 187 nations began meeting in Washington, DC on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 to discuss the growing concerns that the world is now in the grip of an "international currency war" initiated by China. According to the liberal British newspaper, The Guardian, China's economic policies started the "war" by manipulating its own currency to an unrealistic low.

I hesitate to refer to Obama as a "leader" since he has none of the characteristics that world leaders must possess for their nations to be economically and militarily secure. But, that's what happens when you put an inept, totally inexperienced community organizer in a job that requires an experienced leader. (His predecessors were all the single most powerful men in the world.) That may be why the Russians now refer to him as "the Godfather." Obama, like the Chicago mobster he is at heart under the slick talking political veneer, believes he will succeed if he bullies and intimidates the American people enough to frighten them into abject submission. Or, at least, scares them to silence.

A hundred years ago, in America, an old idea was given new legs: Help everybody. And of course, who would carry the freight of this grand “help everybody” premise? Government. Now, that gigantic expansion is running into a brick wall. The federal government and state governments can’t pay for the cost of saving every soul. The point is simple. If you expect to give everything to everybody, it’s wise to add up the price tag, project future outlays, and check your bank account. And if tax increases form the basis of your strategy, you’d also better nail down the percentage of wages you’ll eventually have to extract from working people. 50%? 60%? 70%? 

“They subverted our capitalist system economy in order to achieve a regime change in America. They looted the country and visited financial violence on the American people. American families bear the brunt of the destruction of capitalism and the installation of socialism in their country with job losses, home foreclosures, and retirement portfolio wipe-outs,” Diamond charges. The major media, he said, have concealed the truth about what has happened from the American people.

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Jim Cramer, a clear TV parrot for the status quo, made an astonishing statement, ‘boldly’ putting forward his approval for Fed chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner in the midst of controversy while brandishing the many conspiratorial detractors with a nod to Wall Street’s connection with ‘the Bavarian Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission and Queen of England.’

Following their attempt at "so-called" health care reform in 2009 and 2010 -- the first step in total nationalization of health care -- Washington will next to turn its attention to another broken program, the private retirement system. Although both health care and the private retirement system need real reform, the government, as usual, will use the problems to expand federal control and redirect the contributions currently going into quasi-private programs back towards the bankrupt coffers of the federal government.

If you visit a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Target, Sears, Penny’s, Kohl’s and hundreds of other retail outlets, you will notice 80 to 90 percent of the hard and soft goods “Made in China”; “Made in Mexico”: “Made in Pakistan”: “Made in Bangladesh,” etc. The most popular cars sold in America originate from Japan, Korea and Germany.