Headed to... ?

Just watched this video from RT that I found on Gerald Celente's blog. The interview is with Paul Craig Roberts and he discusses the process of America becoming a third world country. We are headed this direction fast, and as he sees it, we are already pretty much there.

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

I watched another video (3 parts) today from Max Keiser's show, On the Edge, consisting of an interview with David DeGraw. A similar message to the video above, he discusses the overall degradation of economies and societies on a global scale. He points out the unsustainable nature of every aspect of growth in the human species and societal structures.

http://maxkeiser.com/2010/10/10/ote76-on-the-edge-with-david-degraw/

Finally, I watched the October 8th episode of Democracy Now, The War and Peace Report. Overall, some interesting stories, but particularly interesting was the segment on the foreclosures and frauds committed by banks, forcing many people out of their homes. Luckily, Obama vetoed the bill that would have allowed for continued fraud with the mortgages and foreclosures. The Ohio Secretary of State speaks passionately and convincingly on the issue.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/8/ohio_secretary_of_state_jennifer_brunner

A further story in the episode shows previous Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu giving a speech discussing the importance of global warming awareness and action. He seems like a truly wonderful and genuine man!

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/8/nobel_peace_prize_winner_archbishop_desmond

Looking within

Here is a video from Max Keiser, an economist who hosts two excellent and very insightful shows, the Keiser Report and On the Edge. Keiser discusses the markets, debt, money creation, the banking crisis, global economy, gold prices and other such topics. In this episode, Keiser interviews William K. Black. Black gives a clear picture of the banking and economic situation and scandals going on. I was so impressed by William K. Black from this episode that I am presently trying to read his book, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. One of the most memorable and terrifying (but understandable and clear at the same time) concepts from this interview is that our economic system is designed to reward the most immoral people. Here is the link:

http://maxkeiser.com/watch/the-keiser-report/keiser-report-68-12-august-2010-guest-william-k-black/

Also, I just listened to another interview with Gerald Celente. One point that really resonated with me from this is that to make change, we have to start with ourselves. We have the power to change what businesses and corporations we support. We have the power to inform ourselves or remain ignorant, to buy crappy food from huge chains or support the local economy, and so on. I believe in this concept fully. The only way that we can make change is by starting from within ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNWqKzw-P_s

Pending collapse

I recently watched this 4 part interview with Gerald Celente on King World News. Gerald Celente is a trends analyst, who is well respected for having predicted many incidents accurately (economic collapses, housing bubbles, terrorist panics, etc.) He publishes the Trends Research Journal, in which he analyzes many trends, for example, religious, economic, political, agricultural, scientific, social, pharmaceutical, etc.

In this interview, Celente discusses a range of topics such as the need for a resurgence of small business, equal opportunity, actual capitalism, as opposed to the current system of continually bailing out the "too big to fails," which therefore prevents capitalism from correcting itself and existing as it is truly supposed to. This is equivalent to the merging of state and corporate power, aka Fascism. Big corporations have legal advantages left and right and in the end, as we can see with the Freddie Mac and Fannie May example, they are not at all solvent but due to the fact that they have become SO big, the government and federal reserve sees their failure as a possible detriment to our economy and therefore gives trillions of tax payers dollars to them in attempts to "save the economy." This is not the capitalist ideology of allowing equal competition and collapse of failed businesses and advancement of success. It is so important to realize that this method is not at all going to "save the economy." Providing money to insolvent corporations is merely going to continue the faltering system and cause a more violent end in the future. There is going to be a collapse of America soon and the people at the top will try to do everything in their power to continue the system of profiteering. Celente equates those top business and Wall street men to "junkies," "money junkies." The unemployment rate is up to around 19-22% now, reaching pre-Great Depression numbers. America's class gap is now the widest of the industrialized nations. He gives more details about this and other issues, some of which take a bit of context, but a lot of it is readily digestible and worth considering.

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNiAAiSMu9Y
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwFwEkYZVs
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtqPBEpt5M
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6UApZHsW8