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I knew when Goldman Sachs was the only major brokerage firm to come out smelling like a rose in this globe-shattering fiscal meltdown we're in that it had to be a major player involved in it. Then when I saw that many of the Treasury Dept. people that BO was appointing to run the show were Goldman Sachs alumni, I really started to smell a rat. (Matt's article lets me know I actually can sometimes put 2 and 2 together and come up with 4!) We are a bunch of saps letting our so-called democracy become the sickening corpratocracy that continues to negatively affect every human on the planet that's not in their club. Definitely worth a read. Matt will need a couple of burly bodyguards right about now, methinks.

The Great American Bubble Machine (Rolling Stone Magazine Cover Story)

Naomi

It's just more of the same old stuff.

Pax!

Indeed, Logos ... too bad that "same old stuff" continues to take humanity down the drain. The way I see it ... the banks are the modern-day robber barrons. Coddled by government and allowed to do whatever they damn well like. (Knowing this stuff could mess up my head . . . if I didn't remember that the earth and its fullness are STILL the Lord's!)

I posted what I've copied below to another thread here, "The Federal Reserve Bunk" (typo or true ... or both?), but I forgot to include the video link. But now I think it belongs here, given the subject of Taibbi's expose. The video is called "The CIA Connection" ... and it dovetails w/ what Taibbi has written -- how the interests of the American Government are really interests of a handful of very powerful forces working via CERTAIN BANKS worldwide ... and screwing millions and millions of people in every country along the way, because it's an agenda powered by greed alone. THE CIA CONNECTION

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(From the other thread - reposted here):

This thread's subject was the Federal Reserve Bank ... so I thought this very interesting video from "From the Wilderness" was a good fit here ... it certainly helps connect the dots to a LOT of things.

Some topics ...

Money laundering, the US Government's biggest business --

CIA and drug pushing/manufacturing = the cash flow that has kept a soon-to-be imploded US economy from imploding even sooner than it will. Whoda thunk? (I worked for the CIA years ago in my innocent and naive younger days in D.C. and London. I wanted to live in Europe and they recruited at my college. Little did I know what I truly was part of ... didn't have a clue then.)

The Carlisle Group ... one of the largest suppliers of armaments in the world -- Bush, Sr., is one of its biggest shareholders

And ... surprise of surprises ... the uncomfortable connections among the CIA, the Bin Ladins, the Bushes ... and 9/11.

Methinks it's time to get my vast investment of $40,000 (tee, hee) out of my 401(k). I just picked up a book entitled Crash Proof by Peter Schiff. I picked up the book because Jon Stuart recently had the author on his show, and Schiff made sense in everything he said regarding the whole financial meltdown we're now witnessing.) A book worth picking up, I think. Unfortunately, it came out in 2007 and I'm only getting my hands on it now ... but I think it could help anyone here who may have investments in dollars figure out how to possibly get those investments into more stable foreign investments (as the subtitle implies!). I have no idea if doing that will make any difference when the "chit flies" ... but I'm doing some homework on it now . . . whilst I do my best to maintain a Zen-like peace!

Naomi

They are ALL mad. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?

I've been investing in LP records.

I must have about 500 now.

Seems as good as most things.

Listening to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on vinyl now. If nothing else.....I can enjoy a lot of music.

Cash Flow? Follow the money. Invest in China, it's a booming industrialized and high technological enviroment.

It isn't the banks who have wiped out the manufacturing base in America where the average high school graduate can get a decent job and make a decent wage, it's the politicians who have taxed to death, and put so many constraints on manufacturer's that the manufacturer's see a brighter future on foreign soil. Ross Perot gave warning years ago. Politicians of course follow that money and don't tell us citizens 'the secrets' to their success. They believe the peasantry should remain the peasants because to be otherwise is a threat to their wealth. So the politicians side-track us with war games, fear of losing our freedom, and other stuff that keeps the pesantry mindlessly existant.

Why else do you think the politicians are on a constant propaganda campaign of "buy American" when they themselves are encouraging the growth of foreign owned companies overseas?

btw, there's a good article in RS magazine about Bush and his groupies. "The Bush Crimes", Inside The Interior Dept." April 16th issue#1076

"Staff members at Interior had sex and cut deals with representatives from Chevron and Shell, while their boss snorted coke."

"The COKE-AND-SEX-CRAZED atmosphere at MMS may have been the most flagrant scandal at Interior during the Bush years, but it was far from the only one. "The place was like a vending machine," says Sen. Wyden. "The special interests could line up and out would come the policies they were interested in." Insiders and government watchdogs say four other abuses typified the Bush approach to public resources."