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Agenda
1.
Tidbits from Floyd
2.
ONWARD - constitutional amendment.
Overturn
McCutcheon & Citizen United rulings.
3.
Elites discover free trade is killing the economy.
4.
Climate change is browning the Congo
5.
Economist - prepare for wealth destruction.
NOTE: THE
INTERNET HAS THIS POSTING REALLY SCREWED UP.
THERE IS ONE LONG SPACE WITH NOTHING.
JUST KEEP SCROLLING DOWN AND YOU COME TO THE REST, I THINK.
TIDBITS FROM FLOYD
Hi Floyd,
Imagine living in a world where the media called out the real welfare kings. My guess is that it would look something like this:
Earlier this month, Americans for Tax Fairness released a report revealing that Walmart and the Walton family who owns it receive $7.8 billion each year in tax breaks and subsidies.
Even more shocking, Walmart costs taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion because they pay workers so little that many are forced to rely on government assistance programs.
Can you help us tell
Best,
Making Change at Walmart
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The House passed a
$10.10 minimum bill, BUT the Republicans in the Senate blocked a vote on the
bill. In my opinion, we will never have
an increase in the minimum until we get a Democratic Congress.
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There were 288,000 new
private sector jobs in April and the employment rate dropped to 6.3%. The economy has now produced job increases for 50 straight
months.
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A recent poll by The
Wall Street Journal / NBC suggests that one half of Americans feel we should be
less active in the worlds business.
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 Robert Weissman President, Public Citizen |
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Floyd,
Earlier today, our mobilization for a constitutional amendment to rescue our democracy from billionaires and Big Business hit a high-water mark. At a hearing this morning on the Public Citizen enthusiastically thanks Senators Tom Udall, Charles Schumer, Bernie Sanders and others who have helped lead the charge on this issue that is so central to our democracy. Now that we are going to get a first vote on an amendment, over the next few weeks we must drastically ramp up our advocacy throughout the country and on Capitol Hill. We must make sure every senator stands with We the People against the forces of dark money and plutocracy. I’m ready to commit Public Citizen at an unprecedented scale. But I need your help. And I need it right now. Please chip in right now. Whatever you can give — $5, $50, $500, whatever — we must capitalize on this moment before it slips away. Our nation took a real step today toward reestablishing the true meaning of democracy: rule by the people. I’m counting on your help to make sure this step becomes a thunderous march to save our democracy from the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson, Karl Rove’s Crossroads outfits and the You’ll hear a lot more from me in the days and weeks ahead about our advocacy plans. We’ve already done more than most thought possible when we launched our amendment campaign four years ago. Now it’s time to step up our efforts even more and seize this opportunity. Thank you for whatever you can give today. |
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Elites Discover So-Called “Free Trade” is Killing Economy, Middle Class
The New York Times editorial board finally gets it right about trade in its
Sunday editorial, “This Time, Get Global Trade Right.”
Some excerpts:
Many Americans have
watched their neighbors lose good-paying jobs as their employers sent their
livelihoods to China United
States
People in the Midwest , the “rust belt” and elsewhere noticed this a
long time ago as people were laid off, “the plant” closed, the downtowns slowly
boarded up and the rest of us felt pressure on wages and working hours.
How many towns — entire regions of the country — are like this now?
Have you even seen Detroit
“This page has long argued
that removing barriers to trade benefits the economy and consumers, and some of
those gains can be used to help the minority of people who lose their jobs
because of increased imports,” the editors write. “But those gains have not
been as widespread as we hoped, and they have not been adequate to assist those
who were harmed.”
So acknowledging that our
trade deals have hurt the country, they say maybe we could try to do it right
with coming agreements. They write:
If done right, these
agreements could improve the ground rules of global trade, as even critics of
Nafta like Representative Sander Levin, Democrat of Michigan Japan
They write that one
problem is that these agreements are negotiated of, by and for the giant
corporations:
One of the biggest fears
of lawmakers and public interest groups is that only a few insiders know what
is in these trade agreements, particularly the Pacific pact.
The Obama administration
has revealed so few details about the negotiations, even to members of Congress
and their staffs, that it is impossible to fully analyze the Pacific
partnership. Negotiators have argued that it’s impossible to conduct trade
talks in public because opponents to the deal would try to derail them.
But the administration’s
rationale for secrecy seems to apply only to the public. Big corporations are
playing an active role in shaping the American position because they are on
industry advisory committees to the United States
The current
trade-negotiation process is a system designed to rig the game for the giant
multinationals against everyone else:
That lopsided influence is
dangerous, because companies are using trade agreements to get special benefits
that they would find much more difficult to get through the standard
legislative process. For example, draft chapters from the Pacific agreement
that have been leaked in recent months reveal that most countries involved in
the talks, except the United
States United States Peru
These trade agreements place
corporate rights over national sovereignty:
Another big issue is
whether these trade agreements will give investors unnecessary power to sue
foreign governments over policies they dislike, including health and
environmental regulations. Philip
Morris, for example, is trying to overturn Australian rules that require
cigarette packs to be sold only in plain packaging. If these treaties are
written too loosely, big banks could use them to challenge new financial
regulations or, perhaps, block European lawmakers from enacting a
financial-transaction tax. And they’re asking, like
the rest of us are asking, why in the world won’t they do something about
currency?
It’s easy to point the
finger at Nafta and other trade agreements for job losses, but there is a far
bigger culprit: currency manipulation. A 2012 paper from the Peterson Institute
for International Economics found that the American trade deficit has increased
by up to $500 billion a year and the country has lost up to five million jobs
because China , South Korea , Malaysia
What So-Called “Free Trade”
Agreements Did To The Economy
A trade deficit means that
we buy more from the rest of the world than we sell to it. This means that jobs
making and doing things here migrate to there. Before the mid-70s the United States
Now we have an enormous, humongous, ongoing trade deficit that over the
years has added up to trillions and trillions of dollars drained from
our economy. We have lost millions and millions of jobs as tens of thousands of
factories closed. We have lost entire industries. We are losing our entire
middle class to the resulting wage stagnation and inequality.
Here is what happened when
the trade deficit took off. First, look at this chart of the “decoupling” of
wages with productivity. In other words, as productivity goes up, what happens
to the share of those gains that go to labor:
I am sorry! The blog just won't print charts. What it did show was that productivity up
254%, hourly wage up 113%. (Floyd)
Most people understand the
damage that so-called “free trade” has done to the economy, much of our country
and the middle class. Millions of people have outright lost their jobs because
of corporate CEOs who conclude, “It’s cheaper to manufacture where they pay 50
cents an hour and let us pollute all we want.”
Many others have felt the
resulting job fear: “If I so much as hint that I want a raise or weekends off
they’ll move my job to China
But We Globalized And
Expanded Trade
The basic pro-free-trade argument is that all trade is good and these agreements increase trade. NAFTA
negotiator Carla Hills, defending NAFTA, says, “our trade with Mexico and Canada
Of course, this is like
proudly telling people that the Broncos scored 8 points in the 2014 Super
Bowl*. (Hint: the Seahawks scored 43 points.)
Yes, trade is up and
exports are up, but imports are up even more, which costs us jobs,
factories and industries. What happened was NAFTA “expanded” trade against
American workers and our economy, costing about a million jobs and increasing
our trade deficit 480 percent. And don’t even ask what happened with our China China
How Would The N.Y. Times Fix
Trade?
The Times editorial says
we should “press countries to stop manipulating their currencies” and “the
president also needs to make clear to America
OK, but why would the
giant multinationals participate? The point of the free-trade regime
up to now has been to accomplish the opposite: to free the giants from the
pesky laws and regulations imposed by governments, especially from labor and
environmental regulations. The negotiations have been a rigged game designed to
transfer the wealth of entire nations to a few billionaires (including Chinese
billionaires) and giant, multinational corporations. It worked.
Meanwhile … In The L.A.
Meanwhile in the Los Angeles Times, representatives George Miller
(D-Calif.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) have written
an op-ed, “Free trade on steroids: The threat of the
Trans-Pacific Partnership,” talk about NAFTA as a “model for
additional agreements, and its deeply flawed approach has resulted in the
outsourcing of jobs, downward pressure on wages and a meteoric rise in income
inequality,” and ask us not to “blindly endorse any more unfair NAFTA-style
trade agreements, negotiated behind closed doors, that threaten to sell out
American workers, offshore our manufacturing sector and accelerate the downward
spiral of wages and benefits.”
In 1993, before NAFTA, the
U.S. had a $2.5-billion
trade surplus with Mexico
and a $29-billion deficit with Canada Canada
and Mexico
The recent Korea
Obama said it would
support “70,000 American jobs from increased goods exports alone.” In reality, U.S. monthly exports to South Korea fell 11% in the pact’s first two
years, imports rose and the U.S. U.S.
They conclude:
There are many things we
can do to enhance our competitiveness with China
We can invest in our own
infrastructure, manufacturing and job training. We can work harder to address
issues like currency manipulation, unfair subsidies for state-owned enterprises
in other nations and global labor protections. We can enter deals that increase
U.S. exports while doing right by our workers and our priorities, and we can
address the real foreign policy challenges in Asia with appropriate policies
instead of through a commercial agreement that could weaken the United States
and its allies.
What we should not do is
blindly endorse any more unfair NAFTA-style trade agreements, negotiated behind
closed doors, that threaten to sell out American workers, offshore our
manufacturing sector and accelerate the downward spiral of wages and benefits.
No New Trade Agreements,
Instead Fix The Ones We Have
Of course, as we reach
consensus that we got trade wrong, and realize how these “NAFTA-style”
agreements have done so much damage to our economy and middle class, doesn’t
this mean it is time to back up and renegotiate NAFTA and others?
THREE
COMMENTS FOLLOWS.
THERE WERE
24 COMMENTS.
Herp-a-derp,
I was wondering when corporations would figure out that if they keep eroding
the American middle class, there will be a lot less people who can buy their
products.
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Remember
Ross Perot's Presidential campaign that the Free Trade would result in a
"big swooshing sound" out of this country. The stupid public would not listen, would not
vote for any but the "lesser of 2 evils." Let this be a lesson
to you if and when Bernie Sanders runs for president in 2016.
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BUT THE ELECTED MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
CLOSE THEIR EYES TO IT AND CONTINUE TO DO WHAT THEIR "RICH AND
POWERFUL" FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS WANT DONE. NOT ONCE DO THEY PUT THE WANTS AND NEEDS,
SAFETY AND HEALTH, JOBS AND FUTURE, OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR THEM, OR THE
GOOD OF THE U. S. U. S.
CONGRESS MUST IMMEDIATELY REPEAL EVERY
EXISTING TRADE AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENT THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
"WE THE PEOPLE" MUST DEMAND
THAT IN EVERY FREE TRADE TREATY THAT THERE BE A BALANCE IN TRADE DIFFERENCE OF
NO MORE THAN 10% CLAUSE. THAT THE
COUNTRY THAT HAS THE SURPLUS MUST PAY CASH TO THE COUNTRY THAT IS SHORTED, IN
THE CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY SHORTED. WE MUST ALSO DEMAND THAT ABSOLUTELY NO PART OF
A TREATY CAN VIOLATE THE U. S.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF A
U.
CONGRESS MUST INSIST THAT EVERY TRADE
OR FREE TRADE ACT OR TREATY MEET ALL EXISTING LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONGRESS MUST INCLUDE LANGUAGE IN EVERY
TRADE AND FREE-TRADE AGREEMENT THAT OUTLAWS CURRENCY MANIPULATION.
"WE THE PEOPLE" MUST DEMAND
THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNDER "EMINENT DOMAIN LAWS" SEIZE THE
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT OF ANY CORPORATION, INSTITUTION, COMPANY OR
ORGANIZATION THAT MOVES THEIR MANUFACTURING PRODUCTION OR PERFORMANCE OF A
SERVICE TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND FINANCE THE SALE OF THE FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT
TO THE EMPLOYEES TO OWN AND OPERATE, PRODUCING THE SAME GOODS AND SERVICES.
“This page has long argued that
removing barriers to trade benefits the Economy and Consumers, [BUT WE HAVE
FINALLY BECAME AWARE OF THE TRUTH THAT THE ONLY ONE THAT IS GAINING ARE THE
CORPORATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS.] and some of those gains COULD HAVE been used
to help the Minority of people who lose their jobs because of increased
Imports,” [WE COULD CREATE HUGE TARIFFS AND DUTIES TO PROTECT THE EMPLOYMENT OF
AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.] the editors write. “But those gains have not been as widespread
as we hoped, and they have not been adequate to assist those who were harmed.”
WHY IS IT THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE
CONGRESS WILL NOT IMPOSE TARIFFS AND DUTIES TO PROTECT THE WORKING AMERICAN
CITIZEN? SIMPLY BECAUSE THOSE THAT
PROVIDE THE HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO THEIR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS ARE
CONTINUING TO MAKE EVEN BIGGER PROFITS WITH THE GOODS AND SERVICES THAT THEY
ARE PROVIDING AND SELLING MANUFACTURED OR PROVIDED WITH FOREIGN SLAVE LABOR.
"WE THE PEOPLE" NEED TO
DEMAND THAT THE CONGRESS PASS A LAW WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THAT EVERY LAW,
REGULATION, RULE OR TREATY MUST BE PUBLISHED IN IT'S FINAL FORM ON-LINE AND IN
THE PAPER NEWS MEDIA FOR 30 DAYS BEFORE IT IS VOTED ON BY THE MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS. SO THAT "WE THE
PEOPLE" CAN READ IT AND MAKE COMMENTS ON IT AS TO IF WE SUPPORT OR OPPOSE
IT TO OUR ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS.
Negotiators have argued that it’s
impossible to conduct trade talks in public because opponents to the deal would
try to derail them. IS THAT NOT THE
RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE IN A DEMOCRACY OR A REPUBLIC?????
ANYTHING THAT IS KEPT SECRET IS DONE SO
FOR ONLY ONE REASON, YOU AND I WOULD OPPOSE IT. THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT
PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. PRESIDENT OBAMA DOES NOT WANT "WE
THE PEOPLE" TO KNOW WHAT IS IN IT YET THE CORPORATIONS ARE DIRECTLY
INVOLVED IN WRITING IT.....
WHICH THE "TO LARGE TO FAIL
BANKS" WOULD ALSO DO IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IT MIGHT BE CHEAPER TO THESE
CORPORATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO MOVE WORK OFF-SHORE
AS LONG AS WE HAVE A CONGRESS THAT IS NOT CAPABLE OF, OR LACKS THE COURAGE TO
PROTECT THE U. S. WORKER WITH TARIFFS AND DUTIES. THE REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS NEED TO LEARN
THAT THEY REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS AND NOT THE JOBS AND
SECURITY OF THE CITIZENS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. NOR ARE THEY ONLY SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT AND
PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL 1.0%.....
CONGRESS MUST MOVE TO WRITE STRONG
LAWS, REGULATIONS AND RULES TO PROTECT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CITIZENS FROM THE
ABUSES OF THE ELITE RICH AND POWERFUL THAT THREATEN THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF
THE WORKING MAN AND WOMAN.
CONGRESS MUST MOVE TO WRITE STRONG
LAWS, REGULATIONS AND RULES TO PROTECT THE INVESTMENTS OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN
CITIZENS FROM THE ABUSES OF THE ELITE RICH AND POWERFUL THAT THREATEN THEIR
PROPERTY AND INVESTMENTS.
CONGRESS MUST MOVE TO WRITE STRONG
LAWS, REGULATIONS AND RULES TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE ALL MUST LIVE
IN.
CONGRESS MUST PROPERLY FUND EVERY
DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ALL OF THE AGENCIES WHICH HAVE THE
RESPONSIBILITIES TO ENFORCE THESE LAWS, REGULATIONS AND RULES.
WE THE PEOPLE MUST FORM ONE SINGLE
NATIONAL UNION TO REPRESENT THE EMPLOYEES WITH
THEIR EMPLOYER. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO CREATE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR THE
WORKING MEN AND WOMEN IN THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA UNION PER
MONTH FOR THEIR REPRESENTATION.
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NASA
Satellite Images Show Climate Change Accelerates ‘Browning’ of Congo
Tim Radford
EcoWatch / News Report
Published: Sunday 27 April 2014
The Congo U.S.
Scientists from Australia, China, the U.S. and France report in the journal Nature that
they examined optical, thermal, microwave and gravity data collected by
orbiting sensors between 2000 and 2012.
The new study used
satellite data from NASA to track the gradual “browning” of the Congolese
rainforest.
They concentrated on
intact forested regions during the months of April, May and June each year,
which span the peaks of growth and rainfall. They detected an intensification
in the forest’s decline. This decline was consistent with lower rainfall,
poorer water storage below the canopy and a gradual change in the composition
of species.
“It is important to understand these changes because most climate models
predict tropical forests may be under stress due to increasing severe water
shortages in a warmer and drier twenty-first century climate,” said Liming
Zhou, of Albany State University of New York
A team from the Catholic University of Louvain in
Belgium —also known in Belgium
By 2050, according to their computer models, Central
Africa will be on average 1.4 degrees Celsius hotter than it is
today just because of greenhouse gas emissions. And the steady destruction of
the forest will add an extra 0.7 degrees
Celsius to that figure.
Temperature increases on
such a scale will harm plant and animal species and even bring about some
extinction. Where the forests have been cleared, there will be increased levels
of evaporation, and consequent rises in temperature.
Across the Atlantic , things also look
bleak for the Amazon rainforest. Paulo Brando of the Amazon
Environmental Research Institute in Brazil and
colleagues from the U.S. report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences that the piecemeal clearing of the rainforest,
along with drought, has begun to create “tinderbox” conditions and an
ever more destructive cycle of burning.
Over the course of eight years, in one of the longest-running experiments of
its kind, the researchers burned 50-hectare plots of forest in the
south-eastern Amazon, a region vulnerable to climate change. They compared the
tree deaths each year to measure the impact of drought on fire intensity.
“Drought causes more
intense and widespread fires,” said Dr. Brando. “Four times more adult trees
were killed by fire during a drought year, which means that there was also more
carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, more tree species loss and a
greater likelihood of grasses invading the forest.”
This research, too, was
backed up by satellite observation. In 2007, a year of drought, fires in
south-east Amazonia burned 10 times more forest than in an average year—an area
equivalent to a million soccer fields, according to Douglas Morton of the U.S.
Climate change is expected to bring shorter, more intense rainy seasons and
longer dry seasons in the region. Michael Coe of Woods
Hole Research Center, another author, said “We tend to think
only about average conditions, but it is the non-average conditions we have to
worry about.”
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2014 Moneynews.
Tuesday, 29
Apr 2014 10:30 AM
Take immediate steps to protect your wealth . . . NOW!
That’s exactly what many well-respected economists, billionaires, and noted authors are telling you to do — experts such as Marc Faber, Peter Schiff, Donald Trump, and Robert Wiedemer. According to them, we are on the verge of another recession, and this one will be far worse than what we experienced during the last financial crisis.
Marc Faber, the noted Swiss economist and investor, has voiced his concerns for the U.S. economy numerous times during recent media appearances, stating, “I think somewhere down the line we will have a massive wealth destruction. I would say that well-to-do people may lose up to 50 percent of their total wealth.”
When he was asked what sort of odds he put on a global recession happening, the economist famous for his ominous predictions quickly answered . . . “100 percent.”
Faber points out that this bleak outlook stems directly from former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policy decisions, and the continuous printing of new money, referred to as “quantitative easing” in the media.
Faber’s pessimism is matched by well-respected economist and investor Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital. Schiff remarks that the stock market collapse we experienced in 2008 “wasn’t the real crash. The real crash is coming.”
Schiff didn’t stop there. Most alarming is his belief that daily life will get dramatically worse for
“If we keep doing this policy of stimulus and growing government, it’s just going to get worse for the average American. Our standard of living is going to fall . . . People who are expecting Social Security can’t get all that money. People expecting government pensions can’t get all their money . . . We simply can’t afford to pay them.”
Equally critical of the current government and our nation’s economy is real estate mogul and entrepreneur Donald Trump, who is warning that the United States could soon become a large-scale Spain or Greece, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.
Trump doesn’t hesitate to point out
It is this massive debt that worries Trump the most.
“We are going up to $16 trillion [in debt] very soon, and it’s going to be a lot higher than that before he gets finished,” Trump says, referring to President Barack Obama. “When you have [debt] in the $21-$22 trillion [range], you are talking about a [credit] downgrade no matter how you cut it.”
Despite the overwhelming concern expressed by Faber, Schiff, and Trump, the most damning piece of evidence for immediate wealth destruction comes in the form of an ominous chart published last November that has been quietly making the rounds on Wall Street.
The chart, recently republished by Mark Hulbert on MarketWatch, shows a direct correlation between today’s stock market and the one leading up to the historic 1929 collapse.
The shocking parallel confirms what one expert says is in store for our country and economy this year.
Where Trump, Faber, and Schiff see rising debt, a falling dollar, and a plunging stock market, investment adviser and author Robert Wiedemer sees much more widespread economic destruction.
In a recent interview to talk about his New York Times best-seller Aftershock, Wiedemer says, “The data is clear, 50 percent unemployment, a 90 percent stock market drop, and 100 percent annual inflation… starting in 2013.”
Editor’s Note: Watch the disturbing interview with Wiedemer.
Before you dismiss Wiedemer’s claims as impossible or unrealistic, consider this: In 2006, Wiedemer and a team of economists accurately predicted the collapse of the
When the interview host questioned Wiedemer’s latest data, the author unapologetically displayed shocking charts backing up his allegations, and then ended his argument with, “You see, the medicine will become the poison.”
The interview has become a wake-up call for those unprepared (or unwilling) to acknowledge an ugly truth: The country’s financial “rescue” devised in
The blame lies squarely on those whose job it was to avoid the exact situation we find ourselves in, including former Fed chiefs Bernanke and Alan Greenspan, tasked with preventing financial meltdowns and keeping the nation’s economy strong through monetary and credit policies.
Shocking Footage: See the eerie chart that exposes the ‘unthinkable.’
At one point, Wiedemer even calls out Bernanke, saying that his “money from heaven will be the path to hell.”
But it’s not just the grim predictions that are causing the sensation in Wiedemer’s video interview. Rather, it’s his comprehensive blueprint for economic survival that’s really commanding global attention.
The interview offers realistic, step-by-step solutions that the average hard-working American can easily follow.
The video was initially screened for a relatively small, private audience. But the overwhelming amount of feedback from viewers who felt the interview should be widely publicized came with consequences, as various online networks repeatedly shut it down and affiliates refused to house the content.
Bernanke and Greenspan certainly would not support Wiedemer publicly, and it soon became apparent mainstream media would not either.
“People were sitting up and taking notice, and they begged us to make the interview public so they could easily share it,” said Newsmax Financial Publisher Aaron DeHoog. “But unfortunately, it kept getting pulled.”
“Our real concern,” DeHoog added, “is the effect even if only half of Wiedemer’s predictions come true.
“That’s a scary thought for sure. But we want the average American to be prepared, and that is why we will continue to push this video to as many outlets as we can. We want the word to spread.”
Editor’s Note: For a limited time, Newsmax is showing the Wiedemer interview and supplying viewers with copies of the new, updated Aftershock book including the final, unpublished chapter. Go here to view it now.
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If the good Lord is
willing and the creek don't rise, I'll try to talk with you again next week.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the Unite States of America
Floyd
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