“The Rude Guy”
Everyone who is calm and sensible is insane – Rumi

[The Rude Guy Podcast #64 December 19, 2009]

Rich Zubaty, The Rude Guy here. I had to laugh when Barack Obama gave himself a “solid B plus” for his first year in office. In my last podcast I gave him a solid D plus. Obama’s cautious plodding conservative do-nothing style, makes it look like the white guys who have been running the place for the past two hundred years, were a bunch of gung ho activists, doing a whale of a job. I’m a WHITE guy and I don’t even believe that. For progressive activists like me, the bad news is: Barack Obama is a bigger threat to us than George W. Bush ever was. If George Bush had got up before the Nobel Prize Committee and told us: “make no mistake about it, evil exists,” we would have hooted and cat-called, and shouted, “Yeah right George, and you’re it. The evil is you.” If Bush had sent another 50,000 troops into Afghanistan and told us “don’t worry, they’re gonna start coming home in a year and a half,” this is, right after the midterm elections, there would have been protests from coast to coast, and in dozens of European cities. But when Obama says it there’s one single protest demonstration in Bozeman Montana. Good for you Bozeman. If Bush had told us he was gonna fix the demolished economy, and then did everything he could to help Wall Street and nothing to help main street, for ONE SOLID YEAR, leftists would be having “die-ins” on Wall Street, and on the runways of major airports, to shut them down and get the government’s attention, like Thailand did last year.

“Change we can believe in” huh? The Politics of Hope always was bullshit. Obama’s self-centered ambition, repackaged as a populist dream. “Change we can believe in” was a slogan invented by David Axelrod, chief strategist and media advisor for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The job of media advisers is to come up with snappy slogans. Axelrod, a former Chicago Tribune reporter who makes $1.5 million dollars a year as a political media consultant, had already worked for—Mayor Richard M. Daley, senatorial candidate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, and Tom Vilsack — and had run John Edwards failed 2004 presidential campaign. Indeed, Axelrod had a long time friendship with Hillary, through her work for an epilepsy foundation, co-founded by Axelrod’s mother and wife, but…friendships be damned. This was politics. If opinion polls had said that “a peanut butter sandwich on every plate” or a “wrecked car for every homeless person to sleep in” were the winningest campaign slogans, then instead of “change you can believe in” we would have been hearing about peanut butter and junk cars for two years. That’s how deep “change” went with these guys.

Yes, folks, unlike any other candidate in history, Barack Obama ran for president for two years. He never did shit as an Illinois Senator. Didn’t even oppose the war that he had so heartily opposed to get onto the national stage. Where I live shi-shi Obama house parties for the wine and cheese liberals, started in 2006. There were even bogus anti-Kucinich emails, accusing Dennis of being a racist, flooding our inboxes, because they knew Dennis Kucinich had won the 2004 Democratic primary against John Kerry, in this county.

As I’ve said before, I voted for Obama. I was proud of America for electing a brown-skinned president. The entire world was ready to march to his drum, and bring about systemic change, particularly Europe. Even some African and Muslim countries. And now I am appalled, at what a do-nothing conservative sell-out he really is. He’s taking the generals advice, instead of the grunt’s advice, to fight an international terrorist organization that operates under fifty different names, in fifty different countries…by putting 100,000 troops into Afghanistan.

His economic advisers are all understudies and former employees of Bob Rubin, the free trade pirate himself, who wrecked the entire economy by abolishing the Glass-Steagall act as Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, then went over to the freshly deregulated Citigroup to make 120 million dollars before his deregulatory schemes poisoned the entire world economy. Wonder why there are no serious attempts to reinstate Glass-Steagall right now, the firewall between commercial and investment banks? Bob Rubin, the guy who smashed that firewall, is still behind the curtain, pulling the levers to run the U.S. economy.

As Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone said: it would have cost us 1.4 trillion dollars to bail out every subprime mortgage in America, but instead taxpayers ended up paying FOURTEEN trillion dollars to pay off all the bad BETS, on the subprime mortgages, placed by Wall Street banks. And President Obama wants to give us $70 billion to stimulate jobs. Whoopee do. The man lives in a shoe. And the shoe is owned by the big banks.

And that’s what this show is gonna be about. The big banks that own the American economy, and thereby own the American government, including its water boy in chief, Barack Hussein Obama.

There’s no way to completely cover this topic even if I did twenty shows on it, so I’m going to do little more than give you a book report on, “Web of Debt” written by Ellen Hodgson Brown…and quote clips from the free online Google video, “The Money Masters” by Patrick Carmack.

I’m gonna start my report where their book and film end…with the conclusion that…We have to nationalize the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Bank conjures money out of thin air. It makes money with computer entries, and then charges our government interest to borrow it. We are paying interest on computer digits. Our Federal government has to nationalize the Fed, take over the Federal Reserve, and make it a REAL federal agency, with REAL reserves, that behaves like a REAL bank, which operates in the public interest…not in the interest of the twelve member banks that control it now, who won’t tell us anything about how much money they create out of thin air, and who gets to have it. This is what they call a free market. They’re free to know what’s happening, and we’re not.

And this is why the libertarian rightwing U.S. Representative Ron Paul, and the leftist Alan Grayson, BOTH want Congress to audit the Fed. Instead of paying 1.4 trillion for the subprime bailout we paid ten times that much, and we need to know why, and to whom, and for what. We can NEVER have a free market in a country where economic realities are hidden from the people and the government – ESPECIALLY the economic realities about our money and our banks – like the FED hides them from us now.

The FED exists to help banks, not the people or the government. It was named The Federal Reserve Bank to trick people into thinking it was part of the Federal government. But it’s not. And never was. And that sly trick alone should tell you a lot. We don’t need a make-believe government institution, manufacturing money on computer screens, and lending it to the government, and charging us all interest. That’s insane. The government can print its own money and NOT charge us ANY interest. If you wanna talk about how evil exists, THIS is evil, and it’s not even on boy scout Obama’s radar screen. As Baron Nathan Rothschild said 200 years ago, “Let me control a nation’s currency and I don’t care who makes its laws”. Our biggest enemy is not Al Qaeda. It’s the Federal Reserve Bank. The guys who run the Fed will kill and impoverish more of us, than Al Qaeda ever will. In fact, these are the guys funding the corporate imperialism, to rip the resources out of the Muslim nations, that makes Al Qaeda furiously pissed off at us, to begin with. If we stopped fucking with them, they’d have no reason to fuck with us. It’s time to nationalize the Fed. And see how our money is being used and misused. And cancel their insane international agendas that end up getting us into wars.

Banks love wars because nations will borrow and spend themselves into the poor house during time of war.

For Americans the evil partnership between banks and war began way back at the American Revolution.

The American Revolution was not fought over a tax on tea. Who the hell would die for tea? The American colonies had been issuing their own money, their own currency, and had become incredibly prosperous because of that. There was always enough money available to pay people to do things, but not so much that money became worthless. The economy was always growing to absorb the new money supply without inflating prices. English banks saw this and became terrified. They controlled the money supply, and therefore the financial boom and bust cycles, in England, but they could not control the money in America. And if the American model of government-printed money succeeded, it could destroy them. So they convinced the king to outlaw colonial money, which he did. America immediately plummeted into a deep recession. People still wanted to work. But there was no money to pay for guys to come dig posts-holes on your farm, and no money for workers to spend in the stores. The whole economy pancaked because there wasn’t enough physical money.

Pretty much like we have right now. The FED controls the money supply, and it is lending virtually zero percent interest loans to its member banks. They’re taking that money and refusing to lend to small businesses or homeowners. Instead they’re plowing the money into gambling on Wall Street commodity trades – like driving up oil prices – or turning around and buying United States bonds on which taxpayers are paying them five percent interest. So the bastards get free money from the FED, and have the U.S. taxpayers paying them interest on it. Why take a chance on making a small business loan during a recession when they can make free money risking nothing and doing nothing? We are funding our own doom.

[Outrageous]

Anyway, the American Revolutionary war was the first time Americans died trying to fend off large central private banks. European banks.

The Civil War was the second time. The Civil war was not about slavery. It was about European banks trying to take over the U.S. money supply…again. Euro banks lent money to the South, in order to finance their war against the north. If the south had won, they would have ended up in huge debt to the European Banks, and those banks would have dominated the currency of the Confederacy.

At the same time, the Euro banks refused to lend money to the north, thinking that this would either insure southern victory. Or force the North to accept a private central banking system, run by European banks, in order to finance the war. But Abe Lincoln was no dummy. No Barack Obama. He came up with a brilliant solution. “We’ll print our own money,” said old Abe. “And the hell with banks.”

And we did. Abe Lincoln created the paper money known as greenbacks, printed directly by the U.S. government, in whatever supply was justified, and won the war with them.

Then after the war, he announced he was going to print more greenbacks…so he was assassinated. By a LONE assassin. Right? Sorry to tell you this folks. But Honest Abe Lincoln was not assassinated by a distraught southerner as we have been brainwashed to believe. John Wilkes Booth was a paid assassin of European bankers, who could not afford to have a nation printing its own money, because it would expose the choke hold they held on economies everywhere else. Booth was undoubtedly pissed off at Lincoln, but not enough to kill him over a war that was already over and done with…until the European banks, via spies, offered him money to do it.

After Lincoln’s death the move to print more greenbacks was abandoned, and we went back to having banks supply our money. Money supposedly backed by gold. But because banks controlled the gold, they also controlled the secret information that they only held possession of one dollar of gold, for every ten dollars they lent out. 90% of our money was funny money. Like today. But it wasn’t even funny money backed by the government. It was then, as it is now, backed by nothing other than some anonymous slime-balls working for a bank.

So Lincoln was murdered by European bankers. Sounds too far fetched? Well maybe…but what caught my attention was that it happened again and again and again.

In the 1600s, King Charles of England was killed by Cromwell’s cronies, because he wanted the government, not the bankers, to issue the currency.

President Andrew Jackson allowed the charter for the Second Bank of the United States to expire. Jackson paid off the entire national debt and got us out of the clutch of the bankers. An assassin fired two bullets at him but missed.

In 1881 James Garfield became president. He took a bold stand against the bankers, saying, quote:

Whosever controls the volume of money in a country, is absolute master of industry and commerce. And when you realize the entire system is controlled by a few men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression follow. Unquote.

In other words, what’s been sold to us as the normal boom and bust business cycle of capitalism, is a phantasm. That cycle is controlled by bankers, selling long and selling short. Letting us build up wealth through hard labor, then stealing it away from us. As Marx said, labor is capital. And what bankers do is monetize the wealth created by our labor, in stocks and bonds, and then steal our wealth by manipulating the price of the stocks and bonds. Legally! Win/win for them. Lose/lose for us.

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President Garfield was murdered right after making his antibanking statement, a mere four months into his presidency.

What happens at this point in American history is really important, and totally glossed over. It’s called the Populist movement. A nationwide movement of farmers and laborers and small businessmen, against the banks. This movement was epitomized in the book…you won’t believe it…was epitomized in the book: The Wizard of Oz. Yes the BOOK, the Wizard of Oz. NOT the movie. The book. The movie, as usual, perverted and subordinated the actual message of the book.

The Wizard of Oz. What a strange wildly imaginative name. Oz. How the hell did author Frank Baum come up with that? It’s simple actually, once you understand the history. Oz, ooo zeee, is the abbreviation for…ounce. Ooo zee. Ounce. The Wizard of the Ounce meant, in those times, to those people, the wizard of the gold ounce. That is, the bankers who controlled the gold. Who controlled the money supply. Who made the gold appear, and disappear, and thereby controlled the currency and the economy. But, when you ripped back the curtain, you saw that the booming powerful voice of the controllers of the gold, came from a silly old man. A fraud. The gold standard was a fraud because the bankers printed more money than there was gold, and only they knew how much gold they really had.

The scarecrow represented the farmers, who started the Populist movement. The tinman represented the laborers, who joined with the populist movement. And the lion represented William Jennings Bryan, who championed the populist movement. Bryan ran for president several times, and finally became Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. But he quit when Wilson supported the founding of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913, right at the time war broke out in Europe. No coincidence that. The central bankers were on the move again, profiting from war. Archduke Ferdinand was killed by a…LONE assassin, igniting World War One.

Anyway, the message of the book was that the farmers needed to realize they already DO have brains, and the laborers already DO have hearts, and the Populist movement already DOES have courage. And that united they can take the country back from the bankers. Send the Wizard of Oz off in his hot air balloon.

The bankers wanted to print money supposedly backed by gold. The Populists wanted to print money actually backed by silver. The USA didn’t have much gold, but we had lots and lots of silver. Printing money based on gold, meant that foreigners controlled the money supply. If the government printed money based on silver, we could print enough money to be productive again. Like before the revolution. When we had enough money to pay people to do things.

Economics is fucked. In America there has never been a lack of people willing to work hard. The only thing we ever lack, like RIGHT NOW, is the money to pay these people to work. Pay them to create wealth with their labor. And the Populists, and later John F Kennedy, intended to create that money with silver.

I mean, stop for a moment and think about how fucking stupid it is, for an entire country to shut down, just because there isn’t enough printed paper to go around to keep tabs on how much labor has been traded between individuals. We could do this with sea shells or colored stones for fuck sakes. The value is in the labor, not in the paper that acts as a receipt for the labor. The only reason there is such a fuck up about currency is because the rich people…the people who produce NO labor, and therefore NO wealth…the rich people, recklessly gamble with this paper. They scheme with the paper and speculate with the paper and cheat with the paper, and that’s why the money supply gets fucked up. That’s why I hate rich people. Capital comes from labor and these fucks produce no labor, only unscrupulous paper trades of other people’s labor. American Capitalism really sucks. It only works because our armies keep the rest of the world under our guns, while we steal their oil and copper and labor. Until, that is, some Muslims bring the war to us. To the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Architectural symbols of this insane greed we have legitimized on Wall Street.

God damn the Wizards of Wall Street. They are not to be admired. They produce nothing but problems for the rest of us. Why are we waiting for Muslims to bomb them? Maybe that’s our job? Time to pick up the pitchforks and seriously go after them.

[bird]

And what about Dorothy, that sweet little thing. In the movie Dorothy wore ruby red slippers. Remember, this was the first Technicolor movie ever made and the color doesn’t even begin until she lands in OZ. But in the book Dorothy’s slippers were made of silver. The magic slippers that allowed her to go home just by wishing, were silver. And Silver was what the populists wanted to replace gold with. For them, the magic was in the silver.

The point of all this is to establish that one of our greatest American folk stories was based on our fight, 100 years ago, against the evil bankers of Wall Street. And it’s not over yet.

Next came McKinley. President McKinley was a water boy for big money. He should have been safe. And that’s why his story is so curious. What he objected to was British banks making inroads into American banking. But with President McKinley assassinated in 1901, the door was opened to a powerful Anglo-American banking alliance, which itself paved the way for America to enter into World War One, because banks love war. Because banks lend money to warring nations and this was gonna be the biggest war ever.

Without the greedy interference of banks we would not have had World War One, and without World War One we would not have had World War Two. World War One ended with The Versailles Treaty commanding Germany to repay the war debts for EVERY NATION involved in the World War. This would have made the German people slaves to bankers for a thousand years. So Hitler said fuck you to the banks, and printed his own money…supercharged his economy, and then went right on printing money and building up the biggest military force the world had ever seen, because he was absolutely threatened by the bankers. Do you think he pulled his hatred of Jewish bankers out of his ass?… like he had no one better to blame his country’s problems on? No. Post war Germans had to fight tooth and nail against bankers, led by the Rothschilds, to hang onto their country. The bankers would have simply dried up the money supply until the entire country was ruined, then taken the reins by buying up everything at fire sale prices. Of course ALL Jews were not responsible for this. But when you have a crew of Jewish pirates operating outside of any sense of nationhood, or allegiance to anyone except themselves, and their own power, like the Rothchilds, they make an easy target for a demagogue, whose country is being oppressed and indebted by such things as lack of currency. No I am NOT saying Auschwitz was justified. I am saying that Jews should do a better job of policing themselves, or the same goddam thing is gonna happen all over again, maybe even here, and my Jewish kids and my Jewish grandkids, are going to be caught up in it. And they can start out by policing Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod and Robert Rubin and Larry Summers and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs because right now these are the guys hiding behind the wizard’s curtain. They have a charismatic brown-skinned proxy president out in front of the cameras, and they’re pulling the levers. I wouldn’t vote for Al Gore in 2004 because I wouldn’t vote for Joe Lieberman for vice president. So there assholes. We would have been one bullet away from having this insane Orthodox Israeli shill warmonger, for president, and thousands of Israelis would have volunteered to pull the trigger on Gore. Picking Lieberman was the crassest political move I’d ever seen…until Obama slyly backed Lieberman as an Independent in Connecticut, by refusing to campaign for the Democratic Primary winner and antiwar candidate, Ned Lamont. No I don’t hate Jews. I’m Jewish enough to have been thrown in Hitler’s ovens. But fuck me. My kids are Jews. I worry about them. I want them to have a decent future. What I do hate is people gaming and manipulating the system, and if they’re Jews its so much the worse. I hate rich people and bankers because rich people and bankers produce suffering and war, and Joe Lieberman is the mouthpiece for rich people and Connecticut insurance companies and bankers. So much the worse. Obama supported Lieberman and now Lieberman won’t support Obama on healthcare. A lot of people are gonna hate Jews if healthcare doesn’t pass because of Joe Lieberman. What a fool’s circus. These guys are making George W Bush look like “administrator of the century”.

At the turn of the last century, J.P. Morgan was the biggest, most feared banker in America. He was one of the original instigators of the Federal Reserve Bank. When J.P. Morgan died it was discovered that he actually had very little money. Maybe a million dollars. Indeed, most of the money he worked with had been supplied by the Rothschilds, and other European Central bankers, trying to get control of the American money supply. Again. Which they did by founding the Fed under Woodrow The Fool Wilson in 1913. And setting the stage for World Wars One and Two.

Then Franklin Roosevelt came along and took the country off the gold standard, so he would have enough money to fight World War Two. A bill called the Thompson Amendment passed, during his administration, authorized the printing of more government greenbacks. But Roosevelt didn’t print them. He ran up government debt instead. Maybe the botched assassination attempt on his life, when Mayor Cermak of Chicago, was shot dead standing next to him…scared him off. But they tried to get him again anyway. Morgan banking interests approached Major General Smedley Butler to lead the plot to assassinate Roosevelt, but Butler refused, and then informed on the plotters.

However they did succeed against Congressman Louis McFadden, who had launched an impeachment action against the Federal Reserve. They poisoned McFadden before he got a chance to prove his case before congress.

Then there was JFK. Son of a smuggler. No friend to Wall Street banks, who his father regarded as the REAL thieves. Kennedy was pitted against the oil and banking cartel, which wanted to raise oil prices, and entangle the world in debt. He had the Treasury Department issue silver certificates, paper money backed by silver…and also a test run of United States Notes .i.e. greenbacks. Then he was shot – by a lone assassin.

Are you fucking kidding me? How many lone assassins can gun down how many U.S. presidents – who just happen to be battling the greedy schemes of banksters – before we start to notice a pattern here?

It’s a shocking fact to me, that virtually every president who opposed banks and bankers, got shot.

Moreover, this is a shocking fact that I am certain Barack Obama knows. Is he willing to be murdered, to help the people, by opposing the banks. By addressing the REAL problem in America. Is he willing to get shot at like Jackson or murdered like his hero Abe Lincoln? I wouldn’t be, so I certainly can’t expect it from him.

So where will that leave us? Obama will give us some heartfelt speeches about how he didn’t get elected to help-fat cat bankers. Shamefully naïve. While he’s doing that, his White House minders will make calls to Congress telling them not to audit the Fed. So publicly he’ll oppose the bankers, and privately he will protect them. Which is all they want, and all they expect. They know the public hates them. They don’t care what Obama says about them. He’s too courteous to a fault anyway. But as long as nobody actually does anything against them, they don’t care.

Have you noticed that Obama says one thing to the press and two days later his underlings say the exact opposite. Obama says he wants a public option. Rahm Emmanuel says a public option is not necessary. Or he says we’ll start leaving Afghanistan in a year and a half…then, general McChrystal says we’ll be in Afghanistan four or five years. Or, I am not going to deploy antimissile missiles in Eastern Europe. Two weeks later Joe Biden is installing Patriot surface-to-air missiles in Poland. It’s very clear that Barack Obama is not in charge of his White House. I worry more every day that he has no idea what’s really going on there.

It’s scary. Barack Obama intends to be the first successful Democratic War President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That’s his fucking ambition raging again. He doesn’t have a clue. 50,000 U.S. soldiers have refused deployment since these two wars started. March Forward is a group of U.S. veterans, soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, who are trying to encourage Obama’s 30,000 new troops to refuse deployment. Refuse to go. Good for these guys. March Forward is their name. That’s the way Vietnam ended. That’s the only way these wars will ever end. When the soldiers refuse to fight them.

And unless they refuse to fight, they will continue getting blown apart, for decades to come, for Wall Street profits. And poor people will continue paying taxes on windfall winnings they make gambling on the riverboats. While rich people will continue paying NO taxes on windfall winnings they make gambling on the stock market. The richest one percent of the people will continue controlling 90% of the wealth, pulling the strings for the puppets in our government, until the people, like the populist Lion, find the courage to fight back.

Government does not lead the people. The government always follows the people, at a safe distance. Like Barack Obama. Walking behind us, rhapsodizing in beautiful words about what a beautiful future lies ahead of us. As if HE was gonna lead us there. God Almighty this is deranged.

Fuck that. We need action. Nationalize the Fed.

[bird]

To back up everything I said here I refer you to the book “Web of Debt” by Ellen Hodgson Brown, and the “Money Masters” video by Patrick Carmack.

Jason from Boston mailed “Web of Debt” to me. He asked me what I wanted for the holidays, and I told him I wanted a book I’d heard about. Now see, that’s a good donation to make to this show. A book from amazon. Jason also told me about “The Money Masters” video, which is free to watch online at Google videos.

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Happy trails.

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