The Plunge Protection Team - Commentary by Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown is author of "Web of Debt", an expose on the financial system running the United States of American. She has an excellent web site:

http://www.webofdebt.com

But back around election time she posted a couple of commentaries on the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, more commonly known as the Plunge Protection Team. The gist of these commentaries is that the financial markets in the US are all rigged - including stock and commodity markets. She includes comments from a wide range of financial observers, and descriptions of how the manipulations work, always to the enormous financial benefit of the elite banks. Here are the links:

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/manipulation.php

http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/stepfordville.php

Keep your eyes and mind open,
Michael Childress

THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE CITIGROUP BANK NATIONALIZATION - Engdahl

Check out Engdahl's take on what is really going on with the Citigroup "bail out", which is really a nationalization of the country's biggest bank:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2008/1126.html

Keep your eyes and mind open,
Michael Childress

European Financial Crises - from Financial Times

Think things are getting bad here? Check out what is going on in Europe! Also note the comment about how Paulson may have led the bail out of AIG in order to prevent collapse of European banking systems!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3118994/Financial-Crisis-So-much-for-tirades-against-American-greed.html

And now the other folks are starting to line up for the spoils!

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econworld2-2008oct02,0,106945.story

Boy, the fun is just beginning!

Keep your eyes and mind open,
Michael Childress

Quick Summary of the US Financial Disaster-in-Progress

Jim Willie is a favorite commentator. In particular, he gets news from around the world through the US media propaganda screen, with lots of surprising perspectives on how the world sees us, the U.S. us, that is. This weeks public commentary pretty much tells it all:

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/willie/willie082908.html

You might wonder why he is so vitriolic about the Powers That Be. He is still as idealistic as we all used to be, I think. Looks like we all should do some serious investigating on J.P. Morgan, apparently a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Rothschild Empire.

Keep your eyes and mind open.
Mike Childress

The Sacking of America by Darryl Schoon

Wonder what the banking whoopla is all about in the US, England, and elsewhere? The main issue is the path down which central banks have taken us. Here's a commentary on this:

http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/schoon/2008/0716.html

Jim Willie's Hat Trick Letter - 16 April 2008

This link takes you to an unfortunately valid diatribe about the U.S. financial, political, and economic situation as it stands at present. It pretty much tells it all like it, sadly, really is:

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/willie/willie041608.html

Jim Willie posts a public commentary about once a week. This is about the only commentary that gives a valid big-picture perspective on what is going on in the world - as opposed to the Pollyanna sound bites you will find in mainstream media. What the talking heads employed by Our Masters tell and assure us today must be kept in the perspective of what they told us yesterday - and Jim Willie is about the only person out there who reminds us of past proclamations.

Perspective is in miserably short supply these days ... and Truth is virtually absent.

Keep your eyes, ears, and mind open.
Mike Childress