- Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette.
- Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death,
- Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate
- That you hate to make him wait,
- But you just gotta have another cigarette."
- --- Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette (Merle Travis
and Tex Ritter)
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- My name is Edgar J. Steele.
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- I believe that America, finally, has achieved critical
mass and simultaneously has reached or is approaching her "tipping
point" regarding a great many issues.
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- Tipping points inherently are deceptive. Overtly, one
perceives a sudden, dramatic shift, often without notice. Unlike schoolyard
teeter-totters, however, the required force usually is not applied all
at once. Let me give you a personal example.
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- When I was younger and even more foolish than today,
I smoked cigarettes. "Everybody did it," as they say, in those
days.
- Gradually, my disgust with the habit outgrew the coolness
that I imagined cigarettes imparted, Bogart-like, to my image, but smoking
had become an ingrained, habituated ritual and physical addiction.
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- Incidentally, most people tend to overlook the ritualistic
significance of handling cigarettes, which is why, I believe, most find
it so difficult to quit smoking. The physical nicotine addiction, which
is surmounted in about three days, is the least of it.
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- For years, I would quit, then start again ... and again
... and again. Sound familiar? Toward the end of my addiction, I even
changed brands to one that I didn't like at all ("Advantage,"
which was like smoking old, rolled-up newspaper compared to my beloved/
hated charcoal-filter Tareytons). Yet, I continued to put them away,
two packs or more, each and every day.
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- I remember clearly the moment I reached my cigarette
tipping point:
- I was navigating a troublesome 5-way intersection in
Oakland, California during rush hour, signaling, looking around, dodging
other cars, shifting gears, turning the wheel and juggling a cigarette
that slipped from my fingers. Smokers are all-too-familiar with this
situation, source of countless burnt spots in clothing, upholstery, carpentry
and assorted body parts. Once through that intersection without killing
anybody, I snagged up the smoldering butt. Looking at what had become
my very last cigarette with the sort of disgust so many of us feel concerning
George Bush these days, I stubbed it out in the overflowing ashtray.
I haven't had a cigarette in nearly 40 years. Not once, in all that time,
have I wanted one.
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- Other smokers began to challenge me enviously, then,
as it became clear that I was well clear, asking how I had managed to
quit so easily - so effortlessly. I tried to tell them about my years
of growing disgust, but could not point to any single thing, not even
that brief moment in traffic when I reached my tipping point, that helped
them out of their habit.
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- Others thought that I was hiding some powerful secret.
To them, I quit overnight. I knew better. I simply had reached the
point where my desire not to smoke had overtaken my desire to smoke and,
just like that, overtly manifested what had been building for years.
To me, it was a long, drawn-out process, fraught with countless false
starts and too much effort to describe. To them, I had captured lightning
in a bottle.
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- Almost always, tipping points are like my conversion
from smoker to non-smoker. Things seem so normal, so unchanging, for
so long, despite nagging warnings and recurrent little signs to the contrary.
- Suddenly, a tipping point is reached and lasting change
occurs. A stock market crashes. A currency hyper inflates. Economic
depression befalls entire nations. World War suddenly erupts from some
small regional conflict. Infection becomes epidemic. History is replete
with examples.
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- Only the Reality of Change Never Changes
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- In fact, if there is one thing that history should teach
us, it is that the status quo - always - is only temporary. Why should
today be any different? Why should America escape the fate of every empire
that has fallen before her time?
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- The signs of imminent change are everywhere today and
seem, just recently, to have accelerated, both in frequency and in number.
- Individually, the tipping points heaving into view are
manageable.
- Problem is, the accretion of imminent tipping points
worldwide and, particularly, in America is mind boggling:
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- America's war effort in Iraq is on the verge of total
collapse, despite media reports to the contrary. Yet we are about to
invade Iran?
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- The Russian Bear once again has emerged, is heavily patrolling
outside its own borders with nuclear-armed bombers and ships and has
strongly warned both Israel and America not to interfere in Iran.
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- The mortgage market is on the verge of total collapse,
as indicated by the sudden failure of not-so-subprime lenders in addition
to a raft of lower-rung mortgage companies. Yet, that sea of Adjustable
Rate Mortgages has only just begun to ratchet up from their teaser rates.
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- Home foreclosures have doubled in the past year alone
(and foreclosures have been posting new annual records for a while now).
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- Because most money market accounts and a great many financial
derivatives are backed solely by home mortgages, packaged in different
ways and with impressive-sounding names, people and institutions are dropping
commercial paper like hot potatoes.
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- Now that all laws against banking usury have been suspended,
just wait until enough Americans see their credit card balances being
charged interest at the rate of 36% for being a day late with a single
payment or, perhaps, merely going over their limit a few dollars.
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- Bankruptcy no longer is an option for most Americans,
due to changes in the law secretly emplaced by Congress doing the bidding
of the banking industry. This will be interesting as we find out if they
intend to reinstitute debtors' prisons. At least, it will be a way to
get a meal ("Please, sir, may I have some more porridge?")
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- Derivatives in general and hedge funds, in particular,
are on the verge of total collapse, just as so many hedge funds already
quietly have been subsumed by their own industry and government (but,
I repeat myself).
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- The stock market should have crashed long ago and shows
signs now of growing beyond the control, even, of the plunge protection
team composed of banking industry and government people (but, again I
repeat myself).
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- The Choice: Stock Market Crash or Stock Market Crash
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- Many say that interest rates must increase, else the
dollar will disappear into hyperinflation, with the market crashing into
nonsensical dollar values. If interest rates are increased, however,
the resultant increased cost of doing business alone will crash the market.
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- Given how far the market has been stretched by the outrageously
expansionary monetary policies of ex-Federal Reserve Chairman "Easy
Al" Greenspan and, now, "WhirlyBen" Bernanke, a crash,
whether controlled or in a rush, is unavoidable. Nothing - nothing -
can save the stock market now.
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- Remember that financial markets can crash upwards, too.
It just requires a measuring currency that devalues faster than the market
appreciates. In fact, America's stock market has been crashing upwards
for years, already.
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- The Lesson of History is Lost on Everyone
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- As always, history would be instructive if we would but
pay attention. Not just those who fail to study history are doomed to
repeat it, as America's current plight has been experienced, time and
again, by each and every single empire since the dawn of civilization.
Similarly, if one would but see, the path ahead clearly is set out by
the recorded experience of those past empires.
- It isn't pretty.
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- Let's focus on just one such experience, that of post-WWI
Germany.
- Not the same, you say? Germany was a defeated nation,
saddled with crushing war reparation payments and overseen by hostile,
foreign interests, after all. Fair enough objection. Let's dispel it.
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- The Usual Suspects ... Again
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- Time does not allow full development of the concept in
this space, but suffice to say that America, too, is a defeated nation
(subject of the slow, rolling coup that broke into the open with the
assassination of JFK) and now is overseen by hostile, foreign interests
in the form of the usual suspects: the globalists ... central bankers
... some might even say Jews. And that is just the beginning of the similarities.
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- Now, you stop right there! I saw that grimace cross
your face. I heard you mutter in disgust, "Just another anti-Semitic
screed."
- Perhaps. Perhaps not. Try to keep an open mind, because
it is impossible to pin the tail on this donkey with euphemisms like
"central bankers" or, even, "Zionists."
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- Discussing America's impending disaster without using
the J-word is like trying to describe the phenomenon of Elvis impersonators
without using the E-word. In an absurd mixture of metaphor and mostly
just for fun, visit www.jewishelvis.com and listen to Jelvis sing "Blue
Suede Yarmulke."
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- Ahem ... now, seriously, one absolutely must understand
the tribal and clannish Jewish mentality that places race ahead of country,
always in fear of being displaced, always needing total control, always
creating its own opposition and persecution and always ... always overreaching,
thereby leading to ejection or destruction.
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- Just as Germany nearly a century ago was saddled with
Jewish bankers and governmental overseers following the Versailles Treaty,
so is America governed today. The import of this fact goes well beyond
coincidence.
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- America's Federal Reserve Bank is foreign owned (primarily
Jewish), just as was post-WWI Germany's Reichsbank.
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- America's government thoroughly is in the hands of Jewish
interests, just as was post-WWI Germany's.
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- America's media today is entirely owned and run by Jewish
interests and is used primarily as a tool of social engineering via propaganda,
just like post-WWI Germany.
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- America today is saddled with crushing financial obligations
she cannot meet, both at home and abroad. Before much longer, every
single dollar taken in via tax collections will be spent merely on government
interest payments. America quite literally never can repay her debts.
Just like Germany nearly a century ago.
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- Just like Germany of the 1920s, America has begun to
create money infinitely and very recently has made clear her intent to
continue to do so.
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- If you seriously doubt any one of the foregoing propositions,
then you simply haven't been paying attention and you need to do some
fundamental spadework, which the Internet makes so easy.
- Incidentally, if you disbelieve anything I just have
told you and don't do this basic research, if only in an attempt to discredit
me, then you are a fool and I wash my hands of you.
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- Economic Tipping Points
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- That's the background. Now, here's the setup:
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- Germany's Reichsbank literally poured money into the
German economy, starting in 1914 and then accelerating in earnest in 1919,
both directly and by letting all true German street banks create money
through lending and fractional-reserve banking. Just like America today.
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- The German government was run for the internationalist
purposes of its Jewish masters, leading to an inflationary economy, decreasing
morality and so many other indicia of America today. So much money was
created that the amount in foreign hands lent itself to international
speculative short selling of the Mark. Just like America today.
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- Germany's tipping point came when a critical mass of
the Mark enabled the foreign speculation. The speculative short selling,
soon to begin with American dollars, marked the beginning of Germany's
inexorable march into hyperinflation.
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- Between 1914 and 1919, the value of the German mark versus
the American dollar fell from 4:1 to 8:1 (25 cents to about 12 cents),
a decline of 50% in just five years.
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- Now, consider the fact that, between 2002 and 2006, also
a span of just five years, the American dollar fell 50%, as well, during
which time average American wages actually fell slightly in unadjusted
dollars (thus, a halving of the American standard of living, but for
the real estate bubble that enabled Americans to use home equity as a
source of funds).
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- It was at just the point America finds herself today
that Germany reached her economic tipping point: the Reichsbank opened
the monetary floodgates (just as the Fed did within the past week) and
the Mark began to spiral out of control into hyperinflation.
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- One year later, during 1920, the Mark was worth but 2
cents (50:1).
- In 1921, the Mark brought slightly more than one penny
(100:1). In 1922, true hyperinflation set in and it took 1000 Marks to
buy a single American dollar. In 1923, with the end in sight, the ratio
quickly soared from 18,000:1 to 4 trillion Marks to 1 dollar!
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- Gold: $300 Trillion per Ounce?
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- From tipping point to oblivion in just four years. If
the parallel holds true, then gold should be worth $3,000 per ounce later
in 2008, $75,000 in 2009, $750,000 in 2010 and $300 trillion per ounce
sometime in 2012.
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- Could this really happen in America? Yes, though probably
not so dramatically. Once a tipping point is reached, don't forget, things
can appear to change almost overnight. But, consider merely the effect
of the dollar falling by half yet again during the next few years - and
I absolutely guarantee you that the decline will be far greater than half.
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- As I first foresaw long ago (and, in truth, wrote Defensive
Racism to sound the warning), the coming economic debacle will make the
Great Depression look like a church picnic and cause us to start numbering
our economic depressions, just as we now do for widespread warfare.
- At the time, many called me a loon for predicting that
Depression II was coming. Today, the possibility is openly discussed
on CNBC, of all places.
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- In the process, the American middle class will be eliminated,
just as last century in Germany: "Annuities, pensions, proceeds
of insurance policies, savings accounts in the banks, income from bonds
and mortgages - every form of revenue which had been arranged for at some
time in the past, and which often represented the economy, foresight,
and personal planning of many years - now turned to nothing. The middle
class was pauperized and demoralized." ("A History of the Modern
World," Palmer, et al., 9th Ed., 2002)
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- At about the time of Germany's tipping point, one obscure
German observer noted that, "The government calmly goes on printing
these scraps of paper because, if it stopped, that would be the end of
the government. Because once the printing presses stopped - and that
is the prerequisite for the stabilization of the mark - the swindle would
at once be brought to light. Believe me, our misery will increase. The
scoundrel will get by. The reason: because the State itself has become
the biggest swindler and crook. A robbers' state!? If the horrified
people notice that they can starve on billions, they must arrive at this
conclusion: we will no longer submit to a State which is built on the
swindling idea of the majority. We want a dictatorship." Years
later, that obscure observer rose to international acclaim, even being
named Time Magazine's 1938 Man of the Year, when his foresight was proven
true.
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- His name? Adolf Hitler.
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- Happen to know of anybody who, in recent years, has remarked
repeatedly about America needing a dictator?
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- What's the Point of Having a Police State if You Don't
Use It?
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- Do you think our masters don't pay attention to history?
Do you think they aren't readying the framework to restrain the great
American masses who can be expected to rise up, just as did the Germans,
nearly a century ago? If not, then you tell me just what all this Patriot
Act and American police state hooha is for, then.
- It is not to protect you and me. It is to protect them
from you and me.
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- How best to prevent having a truly effective dictator
like Hitler rise up on behalf of the common man? Why - have your own
stooge dictator already in place, of course. How on earth do you think
that somebody as patently stupid as George Bush possibly could have attained
the Presidency? Bush may think he is the man and I see a great many Internet
commentators openly fearing his canceling the upcoming election, but I
see no danger of that happening.
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- Only stooges vetted by AIPAC and the ADL are allowed
to vie for the American Presidency. Therefore, they can give us regular
elections, thereby providing the illusion of democracy, while all the
time maintaining a firm grip on the levers of power. Bush is just a place
marker stooge, readily interchangeable with Clinton, Obama, Giuliani,
Romney and so many others who already have sold their souls to Israel
for their place at the trough.
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- How else do you think we so thoroughly could have tossed
out the Republican congressional miscreants during the last mid-term
election, thinking we would get change, only to get a Democrat- controlled
House and Senate that both go against predominant American stated desires
even more than their Republican predecessors?
- Obviously, they are responding to someone other than
the electorate!
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- Will there be world war? Of course. They must have
something to distract us and to blame for our coming economic misfortune.
When?
- Soon. Very soon. Of course, that is just another historical
profit opportunity for the international banking interests who truly own
and run America as they get yet another opportunity to sell and lend to
both sides at once, then pick up the pieces afterward at pennies on the
dollar.
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- The American Tipping Point
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- Economic reports of just the past couple of weeks demonstrate
that a critical mass has been attained. I believe that America now has
reached her economic tipping point and, from the perspective of history
written a hundred years from now, seemingly overnight the American landscape
will be seen to have changed forever. "But things look so normal,"
you may protest. Yes, but I predict that America in a year or two will
look very different.
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- There is No Hope
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- Do not look to the system for any sort of meaningful
change. Voting is rigged. Everything is rigged. Of the current announced
Presidential candidates, only one would effect meaningful change:
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- Ron Paul. I hesitate to endorse the man because I so
like him.
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- I firmly believe that, if the current media disinformation
campaign fails and Ron Paul actually becomes a leading contender, they
simply will kill him as they have so many before (Huey Long and Robert
Kennedy come to mind). If elected and he lives through to his inauguration
and refuses to knuckle under, they simply will kill him then, just as
they did JFK.
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- Make no mistake - Ron Paul would make a great President,
but it simply ain't gonna happen, folks. But, he says he wants the job,
so he's got my vote, regardless.
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- Possibilities
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- There are possibilities, but none of them are pretty.
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- Perhaps America will get nuked into submission by a world
tired of being bullied at every turn. Once backed by gold, then by oil,
the dollar today is backed by America's nuclear arsenal. Do what we say
and use the dollar to transact international business or we will bomb
you into rubble. Just ask Iraq. A nuclear exchange, finally, will pull
America's trump card.
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- Perhaps a popular revolt will take hold and make meaningful
inroads, despite the militarization of local police forces. This latter
possibility will require our reaching a political tipping point, marked
by government troops machine gunning citizens wholesale in the streets.
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- From our perspective how much longer do we have before
we can expect significant overt change? If this were being televised,
I would look at my watch to drive home the point. Maybe weeks. Maybe
months.
- Maybe even a year or two more, but that is pushing it.
Certainly, by 2012 you will not recognize America, if she exists at all
by then.
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- So there you have it. We're doomed. The only question
is whether our current masters will be able to hold on through the coming
economic tsunami about to sweep over America and the rest of the world.
I'm betting they won't. After all, we know where they live.
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- Mark my words well: one day we will come for them, drag
them out and line them up against a wall - after a fair trial, of course.
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- New America. An idea whose time has come.
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- My name is Edgar J. Steele. Thanks for listening. Please
visit my web site, www.ConspiracyPenPal.com, for other messages just like
this one.
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