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  Date / Time: 3/11/2009 10:34 PM UTC

  Lies And Deceit In A Crumbling Economy
  

  Here we are AGAIN! ... at the brink of annihilating ourselves and every other species on our beleaguered planet.

   

  For me, today is a time of reflection. It would have been the 54th birthday of arguably America's great danseur, Fernando Bujones who was born in Miami, Florida, on 9 March 1955. Fernando and I were friends; and I always consider it a great gift in my life. The loss to me and my children [when they were young, Fernando was guiding their ballet studies], but far more importantly to the world of dance, is incalculable. He was the first American male to win the prestigious Varna Gold Medal, while he was still in his teens. Even then, in the early 1970s, one could see the magic and élan of his dancing. Fernando was the epitome of dazzling elegance, athletic grace, and a powerful dynamism on stage ­his grands jetées would take one's breath away! He would leap into the air and, momentarily, he seemed suspended there, before gravity brought him down again. Off stage, he was always helping someone. His kindness was stellar.

   

  Tragically, Fernando died on 10 November 2006 from lung cancer. He was only 50. He was not a smoker. I have often wondered: what part did the massive amounts of poisons in our environment play in his cancer? These days, with our environment so enormously polluted, you don't have to be a smoker to die from lung cancer. The amount of toxic particulate matter that we all breathe is staggering. Yet, it never shows up on the usual blood work we all have done periodically. Why? Because we would freak out, if we knew how much toxicity was coursing through our veins every moment. It is off medical radar.

   

  The January issue of "The New England Journal of Medicine," had a major article confirming the vital importance of clean air for all of us. Dr. Pope's report, confirms that the worse our air is, the shorter our life expectancy. (1) The authors conclude that: "A reduction in exposure to ambient fine-particulate air pollution contributed to significant and measurable improvements in life expectancy in the United States." (2) With so many environmental laws deliberately destroyed over the last eight years, we all are at far more risk for developing life-threatening illnesses.

   

  There was so much more joie de vivre left in Fernando, so much more of his awesome talent left to share with the next generation of dancers. Fernando's creative gifts and personal integrity continue to be a role model for all of us. Collectively, we are impoverished by his early passing.

   

  Instead, we have male leaders and corporate CEOs around the world playing patriarchal games of one-upsmanship: "I'll do whatever I want, no matter what the consequences, because I am in charge." In this game of insanity, human lives are inconsequential. Suffering matters not. Childrens' deaths don't matter either. Look at Gaza! Look at Darfur! The historical list of megalomaniac leaders, who brought their countries down, is endless. Their violence is self-justifying. However, it is all irrelevant, when it comes to this deadly 21st-century game. The stakes are so high, when the male ego must be right, no matter what the costs.

   

  Look at US war expenditures ­much of it secret to most US taxpayers. The Pentagon wants a $40-billion increase in its new budget for this year, while millions of American children go to bed each night without enough food, and millions of elderly do not have enough food or medical care. (3) Poverty is now rampant throughout the United States. "In an unprecedented move, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked top military officers and civilian officials to sign non-disclosure forms in which they agree not to reveal deliberations about the politically charged budget." (4)

   

  More secrecy can be found in the fraudulent and deliberate theft of trillions of US taxpayer dollars to fund one-after-another illegal bailouts in the biggest governmental heist in our history. Yet, just a few days ago, Bloomberg reported that the "fed refuses to release bank data, [and] insists upon secrecy." (5) Realistically, given the massive lies and deceit endemic to this broken system, do we really think there will ever be any real accountability or transparency by fraudsters and banksters? Why should they reveal to a comatose public all the criminality they are perpetrating? However, now the veneer is quite thin.

   

  Meanwhile: (a) we are hemorrhaging jobs that will not come back. London's "Financial Times" reports that "US private sector cuts 697,000" last month, with about 23,000 jobs lost daily (6); (b) "more than 8.3 million U.S. mortgages are under water" (7); and, with California leading the way, (c) "46 of 50 states could file bankruptcy in 2009-2010." (8) Does any of this sound like those in charge know what they are doing, except destroying everything?

   

  The deliberate economic collapse and demise of the United States that we know is already in the works, but most Americans remain in the dark, or, if they hear about it, are in such vast denial that "this could never happen here." Michel Chossudovsky's recent article with a diagrammatic pie, shows in bright red the majority of expenditures allocated for the Pentagon and Iraq. It speaks volumes. The parallels with the ancient Roman "republic" are significant. (9) With this collapse, the domino effect is also putting many other countries on the brink.

   

  Killing ­and all the devastation it brings with it, in an out-of-control war economy- is the only part of the US economy that is flourishing. That is the elite's plan: destroy everything else. Violence adds to this scenario, with 1 in 32 Americans incarcerated. We not only have this horrific military budget, but the largest prison population in the West. None of this is sustainable for very much longer, while death and destruction for war and illegal Chemtrail-aerosol crimes, that affect our ever breath, continue to be perpetrated daily by the robotic military.

   

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StrangeTimesRadio 3/12/2009 3:51 PM UTC As you say "Non of this is sustainable for much longer"..... Interesting Times Ahead! All The Best James....

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