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Title: 'We Will Recover' - Obama... No We Won't Says Celente
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URL Source: http://rense.com/general85/no.htm
Published: Mar 1, 2009
Author: George Celente
Post Date: 2009-03-01 07:12:30 by duckhunter
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KINGSTON, NY, 27 February 2009 -- The wealth of plain, hard facts upon which The Trends Research Institute's forecasts are based belie the lofty promises made by President Obama's first address to Congress. "We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before," said President Obama. Said Celente, "The government has yet to fix the levees in New Orleans. There is still a hole in the ground where the World Trade Center once stood. Washington has started two wars it can't win and doesn't know how to finish. The massive bank, brokerage, auto and insurance company bailouts have done nothing to resuscitate the sinking economy. The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) that candidate Obama championed has not "relieved." President Obama's $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will not lead to recovery and the nation will not 'emerge stronger than before,'" Celente continued. Distinguished Men and Women With only a succession of past Executive and Congressional failures to point to, and with the same people responsible for those failures still holding high office, the belief that this time around it will be miraculously different is nothing less than willful delusion. "Tuesday's episode of The Presidential Reality Show was a prime time exercise in human debasement and self-humiliation," said Celente. Some low lights: Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) arrived at 8:30 a.m. to secure a prized spot on the House floor for a chance to shake the President's hand on his way to the stage. "It's a special treat for me to do it this year," Engel said, adding, "It's the office, it's the aura ... but it's also the man." Hillary Clinton, America's new superstar Secretary of State, regally acknowledged the dutiful cheers of lesser political lights as she strolled down the House's aisle. Shiny Cabinet members and august Supreme Court justices were announced in stentorian tones by a pair of Sergeants-at-Arms with all the exaggerated pomp of a Groucho Marx send-up of British royalty. And, to punctuate the performance, there was the geriatric pom-pom girl, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, repeatedly jumping from her seat, leading her pack of Democratic trained seals in whoops of applause at every repetition of the magic juju words: "Jobs!" "Prosperity!" "Confidence!" Across the aisle, Republicans smirked, mugged and scowled darkly, in their new roles as minority villains. Few GOP hands clapped. That the public as well as the press should take this three-ring spectacle seriously is as depressing an indication of the state of the nation as the empty rhetoric of the speech itself. Meanwhile, back on the planet, in the midst of a global economic crisis, the public continues to pin its hopes on a President, Senators and Congressmen willingly participating in such obviously orchestrated buffoonery. How is this even possible? How is such behavior tolerated? Why would anyone look up to these people? In one sense it is understandable: President Obama's big show was just another typical political performance. From the excesses of Democratic and Republican nominating conventions, to photo ops of candidates sitting on bales of hay pretending they're just plain folks, to staging whistle stops from vintage trains dragged out of storage especially for the occasion, to contrived Town Hall meetings, to the slick and vicious marketing campaigns ... the public has come to accept such antics as "normal." These political rituals, carefully staged, time-tested and proven, create an illusion of superiority. President Obama made the distinction clear in Tuesday's speech: "I have come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women of this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us here." "Distinguished?" Distinguished for what? Having the skills to do whatever they have to do -- no matter how ruthless or degrading -- to win elections? Yet, the honorific is accepted without question while the implicit patronization of the citizenry slips by unperceived. They are "distinguished" and the rest are merely the "men and women who sent them there." Con Game This is a confidence game. The elaborate staging is designed to inspire the nation's people with "confidence" that their distinguished leaders have the skills to save them from an economic disaster that both political parties were instrumental in creating. Just days earlier, former President Bill Clinton urged the new President to play the confidence game. "I just want the American people to know that he's confident that we are gonna get out of this and he feels good about the long run," and that President Obama "... is hopeful and completely convinced we're gonna come through this," Clinton said on national TV. "Completely convinced" or not, in his speech, the newly elected President pitched "confidence," repeating the word seven times. It worked. Post speech polls, the pundits and the press gave the President high marks for his performance. And President Obama, the most distinguished among all those "distinguished men and women of this great chamber," established his credentials as America's Confidence-Man-in-Chief. Trendpost: What is a Confidence Man and what makes us say President Obama is conning the public? A con man succeeds by gaining the confidence of the victim. In this case the victim is the taxpayer who is being shaken down for trillions to bail out "too big to fail" businesses. The con lies in Obama's assurance "... while the cost of action will be great, I can assure you that the cost of inaction will be far greater." The trillions already spent on bailouts and buyouts make it clear "the cost of action will be great." It is already great, and it has failed miserably. Why should anyone believe that pouring still more trillions into the same bottomless pit will now, somehow, prove effective? And why should anyone believe Obama's assurance that the "cost of inaction will be far greater"? He doesn't know that. Why believe the assurance of the man who failed to recognize the country was in recession until eight months after the recession began? We forecast the recession well before it happened. We are forecasting the "Greatest Depression." And having analyzed Mr. Obama's speech, promises and plans, we can forecast, with assurance of our own, that the cost of action will prove far greater than the cost of inaction. While the public, both at home and abroad, express high hopes and great optimism, the global financial markets remain unassured by the assurances and continue to reach new lows. Trendpost: President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget and the additional trillions earmarked for stimulus packages and further bailouts may provide temporary relief, but will ultimately destroy the value of the US dollar. The global financial system is in collapse. And neither stimulus nor spending packages will reverse it. We remain bullish on gold and stand by our prediction of gold at $2000 per ounce. (See Trends in the News® "Gold $2000," 7 November 2007.) © MMIX The Trends Research Institute® Trends Research | P.O. Box 660 | Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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We are fiddling furiously. BTW, Watching our first snow in four years here in the Heart of Dixie.
"Distinguished?" Distinguished for what? Having the skills to do whatever they have to do -- no matter how ruthless or degrading -- to win elections? Yet, the honorific is accepted without question while the implicit patronization of the citizenry slips by unperceived. They are "distinguished" and the rest are merely the "men and women who sent them there." Exactly. IMO, History will not look upon us kindly when considering the things we have come to think of as "normal".
Without well-thought out plans for projects like high-speed rail connexions, hydro and other renewable energy projects, an Alaska pipeline to salvage natural gas from flaring and using it in cars instead, all of which would enhance long-term employment prospects, Obama is just digging a deeper hole for the Depression. With the administration's preoccupation with protecting Israeli thieves in Palestine at the behest of the Israeli lobby no one's come up with major projects like FDR had in the '30s in the Hoover Dam (which had been in the planning for a decade). Without throwing off the yoke of Organized Jewry it's not likely America will get out of the Depression since it's in no position to be able to offer non-exploitive business development programs in Africa or South America where some are recognizing what a threat Organized Jewry presents and thus don't want to have anything to do with collaborators like America.
Gerald Celente is probably right about a lot of this, but I've heard enough of him already to last the rest of my life. I can guarantee you people will soon grow tired of "doomsayers," even if and perhaps especially if their prognostications are correct. I should be able to survive whatever happens. If not, I've had a good life already anyhow. I'm ready to go home.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
The really sad thing about this is that Obama and company truly believe there disastrous economic policies will work. What are they going to do in a year when they find they haven't worked at all and instead have made things worse? Will they have an epiphany and change their minds and go toward the free market? Or still try more of the same nonsense? At least one good thing out of this is that Obama will be a one-term President. I'm still having a hard time believing he screwed up more in one month than Bush did in eight years,
You can't beat somebody with nobody. Mitt Romney is the GOPer frontrunner. Even the "Obama is the Antichrist" Southern Baptists I used to go to church with won't vote for Romney. They'll just sit it out. If you say "Sarah Palin" or "Bobby Jindal" or "Mike Huckabee" or anyone else currently in the field, I say to you "good luck with that." The only way I could see 2012 playing out the way you'd like would be if the GOP died off between now and then and a new "nationalist, populist" party ran its first nominee in the GOP's place. But the GOPers will probably still have enough clout to nominate a candidate who will just split the vote, allowing the Dem even in an ongoing depression to be reelected. History is not on your side when you look at the 1930s. The worse things got, the better the Dems did at the polls.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Sam, the struggle between who you call "doomsayers" and the "all is well crowd" has been with us since the dawn of time. For each soul Obama and his legions of happy talkers tries to anesthetize, Celente counteracts with reality. In the big picture, given where we are an a nation and a people, Celente is far more on target than anyone the establishment pushes forward.
gotta love this global warming...
Just days earlier, former President Bill Clinton urged the new President to play the confidence game. "I just want the American people to know that he's confident that we are gonna get out of this and he feels good about the long run," and that President Obama "... is hopeful and completely convinced we're gonna come through this," Clinton said on national TV. "Completely convinced" or not, in his speech, the newly elected President pitched "confidence," repeating the word seven times. It worked. Post speech polls, the pundits and the press gave the President high marks for his performance. And President Obama, the most distinguished among all those "distinguished men and women of this great chamber," established his credentials as America's Confidence-Man-in-Chief. well said...there's going to be a mighty fall for CMnC in due time.
Professional politicians got us here so I will give odds on Celente.
At this point in Bill Clinton's first term, everyone had already declared him a one-termer because he started out right out of the gate with "gays in the military" as his first priority. But there is no President "It's My Turn" Bob Dole noted in the history books as succeeding him four years later. I know how much most of you want to be rid of Obama and wish you'd never heard of him. As a nonvoter, I couldn't care less. I'm just saying don't get your hopes up. You can't beat somebody with nobody, particularly if the nobody has a GOP label on him or her.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
i have no desire for either. they're one and the same to me. i want the whole thing to crash in hopes that something can be then salvaged from the ruins.
Great article. I have been telling people ever since the first time I saw and heard the Chimperor in Chief that he is a con man. And I am sure a lot of others saw it as soon as I did.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. They get worse with every election. I thought at the time that America had scraped the bottom of the barrel when Clinton was foisted off on us. But then Bush came along and brought a shovel to dig a tunnel under the cellar. Now Obama is continuing on the same path, digging ever deeper. No wonder the country is more screwed up than a football bat and soup sandwich.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. In the ordinary course of things, you are quite correct. The people, in the ordinary course of things, have no innate love for facts or truth. Facts and truth too often challenge order and apparent stability, and stability is what the people crave most. Disorder strikes at the heart of the ability of the common people to provide for them and theirs, and they instinctively close their ears to the drumbeat of the "doomsayers." That is until "doom" actually arrives. Then all bets are off.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. I can guarantee you people will soon grow tired of even if and perhaps especially if their prognostications are correct. In the ordinary course of things, you are quite correct. The people, in the ordinary course of things, have no innate love for facts or truth. Facts and truth too often challenge order and apparent stability, and stability is what the people crave most. Disorder strikes at the heart of the ability of the common people to provide for them and theirs, and they instinctively close their ears to the drumbeat of the "doomsayers." That is until "doom" actually arrives. Then all bets are off. You're correct. It's a psychological defense mechanism called Cognitive Dissonance. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
A boy examines the new $50 billion dollar note issued by Zimbabwe's central bank on January 13, 2009. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said the new notes that includes 50 trillion, 20 trillion and 10 trillion would be released for the "convenience of the public," according to statement released Thursday. "In a move meant to ensure that the public has access to their money from banks, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has introduced a new family of bank notes which will gradually come into circulation, starting with the 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollar," the bank said in its announcement. The new 100 trillion dollar bill would be worth about $300 in U.S. currency. A loaf of bread in Zimbabwe now costs about 300 billion Zimbabwean dollars -- and like most commodities, the price increases every day. Earlier this month, Zimbabwe introduced a 50 billion dollar bill as the country battles to fight cash shortages stemming from the world's highest inflation rate. The official rate was 231 million percent as of July. The currency is in free fall, forcing traders to peg their prices to international currency to hedge against losses. The Zimbabwean dollar is facing extinction, with most traders now accepting other countries' notes, claiming that they import their products. Even vegetable vendors prefer the U.S. dollar, South African rand or Botswanan pula, and most workers now demand their salaries in foreign currency. Doctors and nurses have been on strike since last September, demanding salaries in U.S. dollars. The strike coincided with a cholera epidemic that now has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Last week, the state media reported that most teachers had left their jobs. As a result, the end-of-year examinations taken in November are yet to be graded after the markers demanded their wages in foreign currency. Schools are yet to re-open this year awaiting the examination results. We're all going to be trillionaire quadzillionaires !!!
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Once again, you've totally lost me. (??)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
The "Soma for the masses to head off civil unrest" plan has been initiated. or aka "Operation ameriKan Soma" is in hyper drive
A trillion dollar note? I wonder when it will get to a gazillion?
That might take a few days.
That the public as well as the press should take this three-ring spectacle seriously is as depressing an indication of the state of the nation as the empty rhetoric of the speech itself.
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These political rituals, carefully staged, time-tested and proven, create an illusion of superiority. President Obama made the distinction clear in Tuesday's speech: "I have come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women of this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us here."
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No place is better than Turtle Island.
#6. To: Turtle (#5)
#7. To: Sam Houston (#4)
#8. To: duckhunter (#1)
BTW, Watching our first snow in four years here in the Heart of Dixie.
#9. To: duckhunter (#0)
Con Game This is a confidence game. The elaborate staging is designed to inspire the nation's people with "confidence" that their distinguished leaders have the skills to save them from an economic disaster that both political parties were instrumental in creating.
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#12. To: Sam Houston (#11)
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Lord Acton
#14. To: Turtle (#5)
I'm still having a hard time believing he screwed up more in one month than Bush did in eight years,
Lord Acton
#15. To: Sam Houston (#4)
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I can guarantee you people will soon grow tired of "doomsayers" even if and perhaps especially if their prognostications are correct.
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#16. To: randge (#15)
#15. To: Sam Houston (#4)
It's presence and "people growing tired of doomsayers" is totally irrelevant to the truths
contained in the post and the eventualities to come. It won't be pretty.
We ain't seen nuthin' yet.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
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Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note
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#18. To: IndieTX (#16)
Soma
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"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#19. To: Rotara (#18)
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#20. To: IndieTX (#19)
Carisoprodol is called a centrally acting muscle relaxant. It works on the nerves to relieve muscle pain. It may also relieve pain by calming your nervous system.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#21. To: Rotara (#17)
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#22. To: Turtle (#21)
A trillion dollar note? I wonder when it will get to a gazillion?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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