In several prior blogs, I’ve noted the alarming executive orders and policy changes that seem to suggest that the U.S. may be moving from an open society to a closed one-from a constitutional republic to some form of tyranny.

I’m now suggesting that these moves may be leading up to the implementation of a North American Union tying Canada, the U.S. and Mexico together with open borders and one currency.  I wonder if the next step could be global governance and if our current economic crisis may be used somehow as a catalyst-a pretext-to eventually bring all of this about.

The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch ran an article on Tuesday, Jan. 28 2009 stating that Uniting U.S., Canada, Mexico money could result from crisis. The article also said that, The New World Order is upon us, full of hope, promise and a fair amount of fear.

As previously posted, the respected Financial Times of London also ran a recent commentary considering the increased likelihood of world government due to the financial crisis and other factors.

The above articles are well-done, but failed to cover the news items below, which lend credence to the idea that we could be headed for historic and unconstitutional changes in how our government functions.

Unfortunately, most Americans are still unaware that 4,700 troops were deployed stateside on Oct. 1, 2008; that Congress was threatened a few days later with martial law if the No Banker Left Behind Bail-out wasn’t passed; that the Pentagon has admitted that 20 thousand more troops are on the way for deployment stateside-duties to include civil unrest and crowd control; that Congress-even members of the Homeland Security Committee-have been denied access to executive branch continuity of government plans (PDD 51) (aka, NSPD 51) which authorize martial law; that American citizens can be declared enemy combatants and lose their constitutional rights-even if they’ve never left our country (Military Commissions Act of 2006); that evidence of detention camps being constructed or refurbished-potentially to confine American citizens-goes back to 1999, before the attacks of 9/11; that HR 45 calls for gun licensing and registration; that if/when reintroduced and passed, HR 1022 would allow Attorney General Eric Holder-who is an anti-second amendment activist-to confiscate virtually any firearm he chooses from the American people.  The list goes on and on.

Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard about all this.  If you want to hold your breath waiting to see the mainstream media put all these puzzle pieces together for you, you’re going to turn blue and keel over.

The agenda setting mainstream media is complicit in keeping the American people from seeing the big picture.  (Note for those who haven’t read Chomsky: The Rapid City Journal isn’t part of the agenda setting mainstream media.  If they were, this blog probably would’ve been shut down by now, or more likely, never offered in the first place.)

Based on the comments I’ve received, a minority of my readers still think the prospect of global governance is something to laugh about and ridicule.  Even if these people are paid posters, hopefully this blog will help quell the laughter and bring about what we need instead: motivation to hold our leaders accountable, especially in regard to respecting our Constitution.

Now onto my headline: Legislation has been introduced in the form of House Resolution 645 that lends credence to the story about detention camps for American citizens, as discussed in this San Francisco Chronicle article and other publications.

As noted by infowars.com, the National Emergency Centers Act or HR 645 mandates the establishment of national emergency centers to be located on military installations for the purpose of providing temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster, according to the bill.

The legislation also states that the camps will be used to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations.

Ominously, the bill also states that the camps can be used to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, an open ended mandate which many fear could mean the forced detention of American citizens in the event of widespread rioting after a national emergency or total economic collapse.

Will the camps be used to detain American citizens who are declared enemy combatants and stripped of their constitutional rights?

Since the Army Times originally reported that the battle-hardened troops to be deployed stateside would be responsible for civil unrest and crowd control, this also raises the suspicions of many people regarding the use of these camps.

If troops were deployed stateside on Oct. 1 because of terrorism fears, why weren’t they sent until over seven years after the 911 attacks?

Is it possible that late last year, certain elements within our government knew more about what was coming than they told us?

Now, I’m sure there are explanations for all of this, but would they be true  If the Constitution was still in place to protect Habeus Corpus from arbitrary revocation by the executive branch (Military Commissions Act of 2006), and Congress was allowed access to all of PDD 51, and if the Posse Comitatus statutes hadn’t been subverted, etc., etc., etc., I would feel much more comfortable.

As things stand, I wonder if certain elements of our government are gaslighting us and then providing us with the solutions they want to ease the anxiety they created.  Could this be a deliberate strategy to implement policies and consolidate power in a way that Americans wouldn’t otherwise accept?!

Our country seems to be establishing the framework for socialism and tyranny!

Is the banker bailout a fraud that was never intended to help?!

If this is true, then I believe we will see more bail-outs approved even when we have proof that they don’t work.

For an eye-opening and fascinating lecture, please scroll down and listen to New York Times best-selling author Naomi Wolf discuss the 10 signs that an open society is transforming into a closed one.  Wolf has studied history and sees all ten signs occurring today in the United States.  I tend to agree with her.

Hearing a politically liberal person passionately defend the 2nd Amendment at 23:06 is worth the price of admission alone!  Which would be, let’s  see, ZERO!  What a bargain!

Please keep in mind that when Wolf made this defense of the 2nd Amendment she was worried primarily about Blackwater Security.

Now there are 4,700 Army troops stationed stateside with another 20,000 admitted to be on the way, as I wrote earlier.  I predict that we’ll see more than another 20,000 and sooner than 2011.

Wolf also gave this lecture before the banker bail-outs were even dreamed about.  I think these facts make her presentation even more prescient.

Please check it out!

CALL TO ACTION: Please contact your U.S. Representative (Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin for South Dakota) and politely ask him/her how the abuse of these new governmental powers is going to be limited.

I recommend that PDD 51 (aka, NSPD 51) would be a good starting point.  As I wrote earlier, this is the directive that includes executive branch continuity of government plans authorizing physical martial law in America, in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

The Homeland Security Committee and the entire Congress have been denied access to the classified portions of this document!  THIS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY! Here’s a link to the clip I referred to earlier regarding PDD 51.  Please ask Rep. Herseth Sandlin if congressional hearings on this power grab are forthcoming.  WE NEED SOME ACCOUNTABILITY!

Contact Information:

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, 331 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.  20515, Ph: 202-225-2801.

In Rapid City, 343 Quincy St., Suite 102, Rapid City, SD 57701, Ph: 605-394-5280

LOCAL CALL TO ACTION: Please contact the Voices of the Heartland Film Society and encourage them to show Naomi Wolf’s documentary film, The End of America.

Contact Kim and Don with VOH at : kim_don2001@yahoo.com

Put in the subject line, “Film Suggestion,” and ask them if they would please consider The End of America, and if you’d like, please add why you think this film is important for VOH to show to the Rapid City community.

Thanks to everyone who writes!

Please check out the Youtube video below featuring the trailer for Naomi Wolf’s new documentary film.

We can get the film below shown at the Elks Theatre in Rapid City!  Please contact Kim and Don and encourage VOH to show it!  The agenda-setting mainstream media in the U.S. is not doing their job, so I believe we MUST step up to the plate to get the word out!

Quote of the Week: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

~Edward R. Murrow

Does anyone else see the irony of a (Naomi) “Wolf” warning us about the “wolves” in the government?  Is this the Universe’s/God’s sense of humor?  Anyway…

PS: Check out this music video featuring A Perfect Circle at 2:13 for the sequence with the hooded sheep running around scaring the other sheep.  (Be forewarned, it is graphic.)  I see this as a metaphor for the reaction to the sort of warnings I talk about in this blog.  Like the sheep that run away from the black ones, a certain percentage of the population will run away from what people like me say but won’t bother to check the facts and seriously consider them because of fear and/or denial.  That, I believe, is the true source of the laughter in some cases.

For More Information:

Amazon.com links to two of Naomi Wolf’s books:

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Give me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

If you’d like to hear ideas similar to what Naomi Wolf has to say but would rather hear it from a more politically conservative source, I recommend the following documentary from Alex Jones, which is available for free viewing on Google video.  Please keep in mind that I don’t agree with everything Jones says and he’s not known for subtlety!  However, he is good at citing sources for many of the allegations he makes and he’s obviously very intelligent and articulate, similar to Wolf-just with a different flavor.

Police State 3: Total Enslavement

If you like Police State 3: Total Enslavement, you can find more videos at Google video and Youtube, or you can go to his Websites to find more information at www.infowars.com or www.prisonplanet.com

Another good conservative voice is former Presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Here’s the link to a great book:

The Revolution: A Manifesto

See you next time!

This blog has been a doozy!

I’m exhausted!

I hope I’m wrong about that, but so far it appears that spewing fiat money isn’t solving our problems.

My position is that this economic crisis was created predominantly by easy money, excess spending and debt.  This situation led to a bubble in housing.  Trying to re-inflate the bubble with more easy money and excess spending is only going to make our problems worse, leading to a collapse of this house of cards economy and another depression (assuming we’re not already in one).

So what is Obama’s plan?  Do more of the same.  This seems like a regular pattern with governments: When something doesn’t work, do more of it.

That being said, we may see an Obama bump in the economy, but I don’t think it will last.  He does have some tax cuts on the agenda which may actually help a little.  But basically, his main plan is to follow Bush’s lead and keep those fake money machines rolling.

My new downside target for the Dow is 5,500 or lower. Does anyone care to make a bet?  (Be forewarned; if you’re an optimist, my portfolio has probably done better than yours, going back to about August of ‘07.)

I saw a funny cartoon the other day.  It showed our major financial institutions on fire while Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson tried to put out the fire with fire hoses.  The only trouble was, a massive stream of cash was coming out instead of water, feeding the fire.  I believe this is an excellent illustration of what is happening.

To avoid making things worse, Obama should be listening to people who saw this crisis coming years ago.

Peter Schiff, former economic adviser to Dr. Ron Paul, was one of those people.

I’ve written in this blog before about Peter Schiff.  He wasn’t the only person to see the credit crisis coming, but he was perhaps the most outspoken and well-known.  Some supposedly very intelligent people ridiculed Schiff for his views, but he pushed back hard. (Here’s an example, from my previous blog.)

My main purpose in writing this blog is to highlight the fact that, according to Schiff, no one in our government has contacted Schiff for his input on how to get out of this mess!  I think that’s nuts, since he was one of the few experts to see this recession coming the way it did!

In the video below, Schiff gives a great summary of why no one listened to him, why we’re in trouble, how to get out of it, and what will happen if we don’t.  He also gives some advice on what to do with your money.

The only thing I disagree with him on is the inflation issue.   I think we’re in for massive deflation for the foreseeable future.

I don’t think we’ll see really nasty inflation and a collapse of the dollar for many months or even years, but I do agree that it will come.  (If I’m wrong about that, I’ll pay for it in my portfolio.)

See you all next time and I hope everyone’s new year is off to a good start!

Money Talks Trader’s Group Update: Tuke and I will be meeting at the Firehouse Brewing Company in Rapid at 3 pm on Saturday, January 17, 2009. Check my last blog to see what I look like.  Everyone interested in investing, trading, or the crazy developments in this world is welcome!  See you there!

Tuke is an excellent technical trader and has taught me a lot already about trading and reading the charts.

Portfolio Update: My ProShares UltraShort Real Estate ETF (SRS) did very well Wednesday.  Then it started up huge early Thursday before dropping like a rock.

I got stopped out Thursday at $65 for a profit of $5.01 per share plus a dividend of .86 and capital gains of $164.40.  This comes out to about 15.6% in 26 days.  (Profit in my second batch of SRS-which I sold first- was much lower.)

I put in a limit order tonight for another dose of SRS at $56.50.  I doubt I’ll get it Friday, but things are really volatile right now so who knows?

Quotes of the Week:

“Reality is a mass hallucination.  We gauge what’s real according to what others say.  And others, like us, rein in their words, caving in to timidity.  Thanks to conformity enforcement and to cowardice, a little power goes a long, long way.”

~Howard Bloom in Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century.

“The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express.”

~Rep. Dennis Kucinich

See him in action on Youtube!

Note: Mr. Kucinich’s comments on the Fed start at 3:44, while his “Federal Express” comment is at 3:57.

The New York Times had an interesting article about this topic.

The author, N. Gregory Mankiw, analyzed Senator McCain and Senator Obama’s political positions from the viewpoint that economists are a very small percentage of the electorate and “expect to be largely ignored.”

But what if the candidates suddenly developed an interest in courting economists?

Here is an eight plank platform that Mankiw feels would attract a majority of economists, and one of the things he attempted in the article was to analyze how well the candidates fit this mold. (Please check the Times article for more detail.)

1. Support Free Trade-This one goes to McCain.

2. Oppose Farm Subsidies-McCain

3. Leave Oil Companies and Speculators Alone-Draw

4. Tax the Use of Energy-Obama

5. Raise the Retirement Age (Social Security has Problems)-Draw?

6. Invite More Skilled Immigrants-?

7. Liberalize Drug Policy-?

8. Raise Funds for Economic Research-?

I’m slowly coming around to the idea of raising taxes on energy products, but it hasn’t been as easy conversion.

Does anyone have any thoughts either for or against these positions?