| Saman Mohammadi Infowars.com August 2, 2011 "A sovereign nation can always find the money to pay debts owed in its own currency. The US could, if it wished, pay its bills using debt-free US Notes or Greenbacks, just as President Lincoln did to avoid a crippling debt during the Civil War. Alternatively, it could eliminate the deficit with Ron Paul's plan, which amounts to the same thing." -- Ellen Brown, "Forget Compromise: The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional." Behind all the flim-flammery of this manufactured "crisis," we are watching the creation of a new form of government — or rather, the further mutation of the new form of government that the United States has been crawling toward for a long time. We called it a "neo-feudal oligarchy backed by a militarist police state" here the other day. No doubt there are many other ways you could describe this murderous, ravenous, lopsided monstrosity of a system. But the one thing you cannot call it is a "republic." -- Chris Floyd, "If the Republic Had Not Died A Long Time Ago, This Would Indeed Be the Death of the Republic (Reprise)." "Well, we are reportedly 48 hours out from a total default on the debt to the foreign governments and private Federal Reserve that have taken over this country through economic fraud, and have engaged in a conquest that the British Empire couldn't succeed in, that Hitler couldn't succeed in, that the Soviets couldn't succeed at. They have conquered us through fraud by stealth. But, the moment you ... |