Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Bailed Out Bankers

The Bailed Out Bankers
By Stephen J. Gray

The bailed out Bankers are free as the air
They looted the system, does anyone care?
They are laughing all the way to their very own banks
While taxpayers pay and get no thanks

The unelected bankers are imposing austerity
The International Moneychangers Fund (IMF) does not bring prosperity
The IMF is funded by taxpayers’ dollars
And the taxpayers’ are punished by these banking horrors

This ugly system benefits bankers
Are we in the hands of monetary gangsters?
What is the point in voting for politicians?
If unelected bankers are making decisions

They must be laughing at so-called democracy
When they get to dictate and impose a plutocracy
The bankers are financed with taxpayers’ money
Then they punish the taxpayers, is that not funny?

Surely, the system is a sick joke
When the moneychangers squeeze people until they croak
Banking bloodsuckers are running amok
And all the politicians do is talk

Democracy is dead, murdered by bankers
And the politicians are dumb as dangling anchors
The people are drowning in a sea of political fools
And the bailed out bankers are making the rules

The question is: Will the system collapse?
Is the answer: Maybe or Perhaps?
Can the system survive legalized fraud?
Or a justice system that appears to be dead?

Does martial law and chaos loom?
When the people protest financial doom
Will they be herded into newly built prisons?
Prisoners of the system who will not listen

The money changers are in control
And the politicians know their role
To be subservient to the moneyed elite
Will the people everywhere accept defeat?

If the time comes and they lose it all
Will the people take the fall?
Or will they take a stand against the money changers?
Will they rebel against the politicians and bailed out bankers?



Stephen J. Gray
December 29,2011.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

The E.U. Debt Crisis,The Money Changers and Democracy

The E.U. Debt Crisis,The Money Changers and Democracy
By Stephen J. Gray

Why all the fuss about the European Debt Crisis? It is all being taken care of by “respected” bankers. In fact, the E.U. Observer of December 8, 2011, had the headline: “EU to channel €150bn to IMF for its own rescue.” [1] Now isn’t that banking sleight of hand a nice money trick? A good magical solution with tax-payers dollars! Perhaps there will be a transfer or service fee included in the trans-action. After all, surely, it is good business practice to have a fee for moving financial dealings back and forth. The sub-prime mortgage fiasco is a good example where debt was sold back and forth to various financial institutions and fees charged. So, hopefully in this IMF money deal a banker will get a piece of the action, and it is all secured by taxpayers who are paying for it. Thank goodness for the taxpayers. No wonder some of them are rioting in the streets. But hey, they just don’t know how the financial system works. They pay and the bankers play with their money. One might call it a public private partnership; this free enterprise system is surely educational! Where would we be without the bankers?

The bankers’ penchant for making money out of nothing is surely a “gift.” A CNBC article of November 30, 2011 headlined, “How Does Europe Borrow Dollars From the Fed?” said this: “Neither the dollars nor the Euros come from anywhere. They aren’t moved or debited from anywhere. They are invented right on the spot with a few taps on the key pad. And that’s all. There’s no printing press fired up to make new dollars or euros. This is sometimes called “fiat money.” But that makes it sound as if some command from a sovereign created the money. It’s really closer to “keyboard money,” since it is created by data entry in a computer.” [2] Wow, wouldn’t it be nice if we taxpayers could create money from our computer. Still, I guess taxpayers should be grateful they are in on this deal; they get to pay for it!

Paying for bankers’ profligacy is the role of the people. It is called austerity, and it is imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a cabal of unelected bankers who are financed by the taxpayers of various countries. It is quite a system, first the people pay for them then they are punished by them. It is a form of masochistic monetarism accepted by the puppet politicians of various countries who surrender their national sovereignty to the gods of greed. One bailed out banker was quoted as saying he was doing God’s work. If the God he was talking about was Mammon then surely that fits his work.

“A crisis of economics has been turned into a crisis of democracy.”
David Coates [3]

Meanwhile, the work of saving the Euro continues. National sovereignty has been surrendered to technocrats, bureaucrats, bankers and the unelected. The Euro Observer of December 9, 2011 stated: “…almost all fiscal policy-making would be taken out of the hands of national assemblies and delivered up to European civil servants.” [4] The people are being betrayed by their puppet political “leaders.” Democracy has been ditched and political treason abounds. Referendums are refused and restrictions imposed. The crisis has been collectivized and bankers sanitized. The people are ignored and austerity is the final solution of the banking elite. A smell of fascism is in the air and the perverted money system is in the hands of the moneychangers who hold the power by appointment rather than by political approval by election or referendum. Democracy is dead in Europe slain by the banking elites. The quote below sums it up.

“I think that the European Union, like the Soviet Union, cannot be democratized.”

Vladimir Bukovsky

Stephen J. Gray
December 12, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1]http://euobserver.com/19/114553

[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/45492655/

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coates/banker-power-trumping-dem_b_1101305.html?ref=business&ir=Business

[4] http://euobserver.com/19/114561
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Links Worth Reading Below:
Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
http://www.infowars.com/banker-coup-goldman-sachs-takes-over-europe/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/06/eurozone-shakeup-voting-rights-confidential-paper
http://www.forbes.com/sites/face-to-face/2010/04/29/ecb-president-favors-global-governance/

Sunday, November 27, 2011

I Believe I Saw Evil Today

I Believe I Saw Evil Today
By Stephen J. Gray

“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”

Sophocles

I believe I saw Evil today. I heard it speak. It was posturing and preening on the TV news while standing at a podium. It was celebrating death and destruction and an illegal war. It was dressed in an expensive suit had a shirt and tie, hair immaculately coiffured and face pasted in a smile. Its words were ones of praise and honour for a successful completion of bombing a country back to the dark ages. Evil praised the “brave acts” of releasing missiles and bombs on this country. It praised the winning of the “battle” that reduced a country to rubble. It talked of “human rights” and the end of barbarism after children and civilians were killed by evil’s own barbaric intervention.

Evil’s mission had blitzed and wasted a country in partnership with its evil family of allies, but they called themselves the country’s “friends.” Still, this is how evil operates it perverts the language and truth becomes lies and lies become truths. This is the only way evil can make its case. But, out of evil comes some “good?” So evil in its hypocrisy said it would help rebuild the country it destroyed. Yet, evil had at one time called this country a “staunch ally” and had supplied its dictator with weapons to suppress his own people. Evil, still consorts with other dictators even though their former “staunch ally” is now gone: murdered by evil’s “warriors of democracy.” Still, all is fair in love and war as the saying goes, and the show must go on and the villainous performers must perform on the world stage. So it’s on to find the next enemy and the next war to bring “democracy.”

Democracy is evil’s perverted battle cry as it consorts with other despots and dictators who suppress their own peoples’ freedoms. Meanwhile, evil talks “peace” through war and destruction. All this satanic mayhem is expensive. Bombing costs the taxpayers everywhere huge amounts of money, but that is the price evil imposes on you. “Bringing democracy” is not cheap and neither are the weapons of depraved intent. Evil profits from its evil work, and contracts would be awarded to those friends of evil who sanctioned and promoted this evil campaign.

Campaigns of terror, arrests and torture are now rampant in the country that evil had “liberated.” But, evil begets evil and evil thrives on hypocrisy. Evil leaders’ and its “warrior” partners led the fight from the rear, safely ensconced in their luxury surroundings paid for by the serfs they ruled over. Some of the serfs cheered evil and its workings. These were evils’ “useful idiots” who followed blindly the dictates of evil and believed evil could do no wrong. Evil had now tasted blood, and like a vampire was eager to participate in more wars. It was on a high and acting like it was a king in its kingdom. It was right royally inclined and its subjects were prisoners of its deluded hallucinations. Evil had a dream that was turning into a nightmare for sensible people. But in these perverted and morally bankrupt times evil is described as “good,” and that old saying comes to mind: “Woe to those who call evil good.”

Stephen J. Gray
November 27, 2011.

Note: See info below; then ask is this worthy of a “celebration?”

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

http://cryptogon.com/?p=25695

http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomb-build-benefit-uk-joins-gold-rush-to-patch-up-war-torn-libya.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/leaked-un-report-reveals-torture-lynchings-and-abuse-in-postgaddafi-libya-6266636.html

Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Work of Evil

The Work of Evil
By Stephen J. Gray

“The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Evil supplies weapons around the world to dictators who in turn use these weapons on their own people.

Evil bombs other countries and kills innocent civilians and calls this intervention a “humanitarian mission.”

Evil starts a war in another country based on a lie. It calls this lie a mission to destroy “weapons of mass destruction.” A country is reduced to a hell on earth and huge numbers are killed, others maimed and their homes destroyed.

Evil allows war criminals to go unpunished because they are “statesmen” and “leaders” of the “international community.”

Evil perverts the language to camouflage killing.

Evil calls killing children “collateral damage.”

Evil calls dropping bombs, “dropping ordinances.”

Evil calls launching missiles, “acts of bravery.”

Evil makes huge profits off its carnage of killings and bombings in some countries.

Evil then profits from the rebuilding process in the countries it destroyed.

Evil sends young men and women to fight in illegal wars and calls this “bringing democracy.”

Evil consorts with and props up dictators but does not “bring democracy” to the countries of “friendly dictators.”

Evil calls these dictators, “friends” and “allies.”

Evil bails out financial criminals who looted the monetary system.

Evil takes advice from the financial criminals.

Evil calls financial fraud, “doing God’s work.”

Evil orders the arrest of people who protest the robbery of the financial system.

Evil gives over their countries sovereignty to unelected bankers.

Evil assaults peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Evil spreads propaganda disguised as “news.”

Evil suppresses free speech and promotes the killing of the child in the womb.

Evil calls the killing of the unborn child, “freedom of choice.”

Evil declares it will not allow any discussion of abortion killing.

Evil says: “… we are not opening the abortion debate….”

Evil pretends it supports “human rights” but opposes any rights for the innocent child in the womb.

Evil gives its country’s highest “honour” to an abortionist.

Evil calls this abortionist “a hero.”

Evil imposes “sex education” on young children.

Evil destroys the innocence of these children.

Evil subverts parental authority.

Evil parades naked, and calls it “pride.”

Evil says orgies are okay as long as “no harm” is done.

Evil says criminals are “morally worthy” to vote.

Evil says a pervert’s work has “artistic merit.”

Evil parades of obscenity and nakedness are led by some politicians and police chiefs.

Evil is rampant in positions of power.

Evil has been known to get a prize for “peace.”

Evil thrives on the hypocrisy of the system

The words in the poem below by Josiah Gilbert Holland are surely apt in today’s world.

God, give us men!

GOD, give us men! A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.
Josiah Gilbert Holland


Stephen J. Gray
November 20, 2011.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Corruption and Treachery Incorporated?

Corruption and Treachery Incorporated?
By Stephen J. Gray

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller

The financial system is in crisis mode after being looted by financial fraud artists and nobody goes to jail. The perpetrators are laughing all the way to the bank and the banks are bailed out by tax-payers dollars. People have lost their homes, their jobs, their savings and their faith in the honesty of the financial system. The system is in the process of arresting people who protest and occupy city land because of the failure of the justice system to arrest the financial criminals. Some protesters have been tear gassed, others shot with rubber bullets for peacefully protesting and some in the corporate media state: “We must have law and order.” Hypocrisy is rampant in the editorial pages and in the news, but what do you expect when the corporate media is controlled by a few elite hands?

Law and order indeed! There is no law or restraining orders for the financial criminals who perpetrated the massive monetary scam; but, there is “law and order” for peaceful protesters who try to bring justice to the corrupted system. Meanwhile, the politicians call the robbery of the financial system “economic turbulence” and say they will fix it. What a joke these political performers are on the world stage. Mr Unctuous Change, the Bunga Bunga man, and the rest of the politburo of world “leaders” meet and discuss the financial situation in opulent surroundings. Then they line up to have their picture taken and wave to the world. Or perhaps, they are giving the people the finger, knowing that once they leave political office they will be well taken care of by the elites behind the scenes? Do they really think they are fooling us with their scripted baloney by their purveyors of propaganda? And it’s all paid for by the tax-payers. Then they proceed to tell the people about the necessity of austerity.

Meanwhile, there is no austerity in the war business. The political “warriors” who never fight have billions of tax-payers dollars to spend on wars that they start with their mouths, while others do their dirty work at their command. The political “warriors” and the corporate elites consort with and supply dictators with weapons to use against their own people. It’s a dirty evil game with bloodstained profits for the suppliers. These corporate cannibals feed off death and destruction, then profit off the re-building of the destruction they created.

The destruction of language by these political hypocrites is Orwellian. Dropping bombs is “dropping ordinances,” bombing a country non-stop is called a “safe bombing” mission! Killing children is called “collateral damage.” Releasing missiles on civilians is called an “act of bravery.” But hey, all this perversion of words from twisted political minds and compliant media is called a “humanitarian mission” to “save” the people, while killing the people in the process of “saving” them. Political hands are stained with the blood of the innocents and it is a perversion of words to call these war criminals “honourable,” or “right honourable.” This political gang of so- called “leaders” is a danger to a free society and should be locked up, preferably in padded cells where they could be treated for their insanity. But no, instead they perform on the world stage and masquerade as “humanitarians,” when incompetence is really their forte.

Incompetence rules over us and we are prisoners of a system called “democracy” that is anything but democratic. These so-called leaders have signed away their national sovereignty (the European Union (EU) is one example, and the North American Union (NAU) is in the pipeline though this is disguised as “creating jobs” and “security” for the people.) Parliaments are being bypassed and unelected bankers are running amok dictating monetary policy financed by tax-payers dollars. These are the same bankers who perpetrated the monetary fraud of the financial system; yet, the political puppets impose austerity on their citizens at the behest of the bankers.


So, what is really going on? Are we being herded like cattle in a certain direction that will mean total control by those who have a one world agenda for the planet? After all, they succeeded with the undemocratic European Union (EU). Next could be the North America Union (NAU). Make no mistake, these people have a plan for us all and national sovereignty could be doomed before we realize it’s gone and one world government imposed. Therefore the question is: Are we seeing corruption and treachery incorporated?

"This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter

Stephen J. Gray
November 12,2011.

Info for further reading at links below:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-elites-enjoy-police-protection-2011-09-27

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

Wachovia to Pay $160 Million to End Money Laundering Probe

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avbx.9LIE6.A

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomb-build-benefit-uk-joins-gold-rush-to-patch-up-war-torn-libya.html
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/major-wars-and-suppression-of-american-freedoms-planned-before-911.html
Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html


Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
http://www.infowars.com/paving-the-way-for-a-north-american-union/
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/9621-obama-to-host-north-american-summit-on-security-global-warming
North American Union- The Fall Of Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5bfSZXefc8
Secret memo: One-world agenda dominates SPP summit
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=42703
http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/9679-eu-creates-dictatorship-under-guise-of-financial-stability

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8874507/Europes-Politburo.html
http://globalistagenda.org

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Letter to National Post

Letter to the Editor [Not Published]
National Post
November 5, 2011.

Dear Editor, re: your headline, "No Canadian money for eurozone bailout fund: Harper" National Post, November 5, 2011. Who does Harper think he is fooling? Canadian taxpayers help fund the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The unelected IMF bankers bail out and impose austerity on various countries. The BBC news of November 4, 2011, had the headline:"G20 leaders agree to boost IMF resources" the article went on to state,"The leaders released a final communique, which:...Agrees to support the IMF and give it more money if necessary..." the article further stated :"The G20 leaders' hope is that increased resources will help the IMF to support struggling eurozone economies, such as Greece."[1] But hey, perhaps Harper does not know Canadian taxpayers help fund the IMF and if that is the case, is he just stupid, or devious?

Stephen J. Gray

Sunday, October 30, 2011

The War Criminals Who Bombed Libya

The War Criminals Who Bombed Libya
By Stephen J. Gray

“First, the [Libyan] war is illegal under the United States constitution and our War Powers Act, because only the US Congress has the authority to declare war and the president has been unable to show that the US faced an imminent threat from Libya.”

(Dennis Kucinich, American Congressman, writing in the Guardian U.K Newspaper July 6, 2011.) [1]

Libya has been bombed non-stop for around eight months all in the name of a “humanitarian mission.” The main perpetrators of this atrocity are the so-called “civilized political leaders” of the western world. Their partners in war crimes are NATO and the Al-Qaeda [2] led rebels. The propaganda merchants for the war were mostly the mainstream media who gave credibility to its illegality and mostly covered up the Al-Qaeda led connection to the rebels. The victims of this war are the Libyan people, men women, and children. Their homes destroyed and reduced to “smithereens.” [3] Thousands killed or maimed all in the name of a “humanitarian mission,” and a “responsibility to protect.” Orwellian doublespeak is the vocabulary of this political filth that rule over us: Killing civilians and children [4] in order to save them! Destroying a country in order to protect it! And “proud”[5] of their obscene and dirty work in the process. No words are strong enough to describe the sick hypocrisy and insane rhetoric coming out of the mouths of these so called political “leaders” who call themselves “The Friends of Libya.”

“Friends”of whom? Certainly not of the little child screaming in agony with half its face blown away. [6] [8] This child cries out for justice as do its parents, but, will they get it from the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC)? I would not bet on it. The political war criminals are free right now and congratulating themselves on a “job” well done. To see them issuing statements (and most of the grovelling mainstream media consorting with them) and praising this massive bombing obscenity as a “humanitarian mission” is to see institutionalized evil in action. Our evil political emperors have no clothes, they are obscenely naked and a revolting picture to the eyes of any decent person who believes in the sanctity of human life. They are political fiends who are a danger to all that is good and decent, yet, they boast of a great “mission success” after their bloody atrocities and months of bombings. Innocent children are slaughtered and it is mostly covered up by the sycophantic media who parrot the war criminals propaganda and write editorials and columns that Josef Goebbels would be proud of.

“The effective propagandist must be a master of the art of speech, of writing, of journalism, of the poster and of the leaflet. He must have the gift to use the major methods of influencing public opinion such as the press, film and radio to serve his ideas and goals, above all in an age of advancing technology.” [7] (Josef Goebbles)

Technology in this illegal and obscene war has dulled the senses and corrupted the language. We saw on a TV news story how “surgical strikes” were carried out by the “brave” assassins in the sky. No mention, or very little, of the human consequences and victims below. But hey, if we killed some innocents below it was “collateral damage” and we can always apologise. This illegal war not only had civilian casualties, other casualties were truth and justice. Meanwhile, the war criminals are free and in positions of power. We would do well to remember the words of Lord Acton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Make no mistake, we are seeing the absolute corruption of politics and the brain washing of society to justify the atrocities committed in this illegal criminal war.

Stephen J. Gray
October 30, 2011.


Endnotes:

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/06/libya-nato1

[2] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH30Ak01.html

[3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

[4] Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

[5] http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/20/national-post-editorial-board-canadas-proud-role-in-libya/

[6] http://cryptogon.com/?p=25695

[7] http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb59.htm

[8] Google Censors War Crimes Video
http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

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Info For further reading:

Ron Paul - End Obama's Illegal War in Libya (20-Jun-11)(POLITICAL DISCOURSE series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlnl4soXcE
Civilian deaths won't derail Libya mission: NATO chief
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110620/nato-secretary-general-anders-fogh-rasmussen-110620/

CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27232.html

NATO, Rebels Accused of War Crimes in Libya
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8651-nato-rebels-accused-of-war-crimes-in-libya

NATO Commiting Crimes Against Humanity by Killing Libyan Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhDFyj0VESI

Obama Calls Murder of Children in Libya A “Success”
http://www.infowars.com/obama-calls-murder-of-children-in-libya-a-success/

Google Censors War Crimes Video
http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-censors-war-crimes-video.html

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Thoughts on a Great Victory

Thoughts on a Great Victory
A speech by the Right Hon. Mr. Slick Sicko

Satire by Stephen J. Gray

We are gathered here today to hear my presentation on our great victory over the dictator who used to be our friend and who was called a “staunch ally” by a NATO member country. Our former dictator friend is now dead, murdered by a bullet to the head after being terribly abused by our brave rebel fighters, who are led by an Al- Qaeda associate. Yes, I know Al-Qaeda is supposed to be our enemy but on this occasion they are our friends. Al-Qaeda on the ground and NATO in the air performed heroics to bring this war to a successful conclusion. Thousands upon thousands of bombing sorties were carried out, oops, I mean surgical strikes. Missiles were released on unsuspecting targets and some civilians and children were killed by the brave operators in the sky. Still, the price of a humanitarian mission is to save lives and if we did some killing oops, I mean collateral damage; then that is the price that has to be paid in a safe bombing attack. Cities were reduced to rubble, peoples’ homes were destroyed, electricity and water supplies were damaged and hospitals were overflowing with dead and wounded. We created hell on earth. But, that is the price that had to be paid for this humanitarian mission to be successful. I know some silly and ignorant people have been saying, it would have been cheaper and saved lives if we had sent in an assassination squad like we did with old Osama Bin Laden. But hey, that was not in the cards. Why do things on the cheap? We have an expensive taxpayer funded military arm called NATO whose business is war.

This was a war; and wars cost money and they also make money for some of us. This one lasted around eight months. Billions of dollars were spent by the “Friends of Libya” on bombs, missiles, guns etc. Now all that weaponry will have to be replaced. This will keep the arms manufacturers busy and keep people working. The ruined homes and infrastructure of the country will have to be rebuilt and our people will help rebuild it after destroying it. Is that a make work project or what? And the good old taxpayers of the free world will pay through the nose as always. ( cheers ensue from the respected audience of the international community)

Let me just paraphrase an old saying: “Out of evil work comes good work” ( much laughter and burst of applause ensues from the eminent persons in attendance)
But, I digress.
Working and warring for democracy is never easy but we keep doing our best to see that the world gets it. I know some cynical people will say that we supplied our old murdered dictator and former friend with guns, tanks and tear gas etc to suppress his own people, so how can we say we are believers in democracy? Quite simply, selling him arms and fawning over him was a business decision at the time, all of us elites did it. People say there are no ethics in our kind of business, still, somebody has to do it.

At the moment, we have a financial fraud and moral bankruptcy in the financial system and it just so happens our old deceased friend had “144 tons of gold” and billions of dollars in our respectable banking system not to mention plenty of oil. So when the chance came to bring our democracy to his country we decided to help with a humanitarian mission. In fact, we are hoping we might get a Nobel Peace Prize for our efforts. Still, you cannot please everybody, some people are saying we are war criminals and we should be put on trial. But hey, that will never happen; who would run the world? (A number of hear, hears are heard and a standing ovation ensues)

In closing let me say this, I would like to thank the corporate media who did a great job suppressing the Al-Qaeda and Islamist connection to the brave rebels. NATO for its big bang up job, no pun intended, of bombing the country back to the stone age. And let us not forget “The Friends of Libya,” without your authorization this massive bombing campaign, oops, I mean surgical strikes, would never have happened.
God Bless you all as you continue to bring democracy to the world and support international law.

Stephen J. Gray
October 23,2011.

Info for further reading:
The Battle For Libya Is Almost Over... As Is The Battle For Its 144 Tons Of Gold
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/battle-libya-almost-over-battle-its-144-tons-gold
Al-Qaeda and NATO’s Islamic Extremists Taking Over Libya
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8795-al-qaeda-and-natos-islamic-extremists-taking-over-libya
Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
NATO Reconsidered
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/28/nato-reconsidered

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Letter to National Post

Copy of Letter sent to National Post.

Letter to the Editor
National Post
October 21. 2011.

Dear Editor, re: "Canada's proud role in Libya" National Post, October 21, 2011.
You state in this editorial: " the true heroes... are the Libyan rebels themselves." Don't you people know that: "A significant proportion of the revolutionary army is composed of Islamist fighters, some of whom were previously in the al-Qaida-linked Libyan Fighting Group..." ( Guardian U.K. Oct. 20, 2011) [1]
So here we have Al- Qaeda and NATO destroying and bombing a country back to the stone age, and killing civilians and children [2] and you call this a "proud role" for Canada! Give your heads a shake and do some research before you start sounding off in an editorial. Whatever happened to so-called "investigative journalism?"

Stephen J. Gray


Info links below:
[1]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/libya-bloody-victory-gaddafi-beginning

[2] Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
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Check out my blog: http://graysinfo.blogspot.com for more info on Libya and other issues.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Has Corruption Become Legitimate?

Has Corruption Become Legitimate?
By Stephen J. Gray

People around the world are protesting in the streets, and many of the elites and corporate media are asking: “What is their problems?”
Any thinking person can see what the problems are.
We have massive financial fraud perpetrated on the money system and the fraudsters were bailed out with tax-payers dollars. Meanwhile, we have a cabal of political leaders who call themselves the G20 or Gang of 20 meeting in opulent surroundings debating how to fix the financial system. The solution is staring them in the face. Jail the financial fraudsters! Shut down all these offshore tax havens and publish the names of all the elites, banks and corporations who keep their money offshore. But, of course that will not happen. The powerful elites are too powerful and the politicians are their dumb lackeys.

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” - Ron Paul.


Meanwhile the war campaigns are never ending. Young men and women are sent to foreign countries to fight wars based on lies. The Iraq war was supposed to be about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) but this turned out to be untrue. Young men and women were killed or terribly maimed and disfigured and it was all based on political lies. The people of Iraq also suffered casualties, men and women, children and babies were also killed, maimed and disfigured all because of political liars. Some of them now write books and travel the world on speaking tours after reducing a country to a hell on earth. A decent and moral society would put these “leaders” on trial for war crimes, but hey, these are the “good guys.”

The “good guys” also supply weapons, missiles, tear gas etc. to dictators around the world. They also have been known to supply both sides in a war. Think Libya where the “political pillars of society” supplied the Gaddafi regime with all kinds of weapons and are now helping the Al- Qaeda rebels to destroy the country courtesy of NATO and its bandits of bombing. Libya is another country reduced to rubble and the war criminals are the “good guys.”
Then the “good guys” get contracts for re-building the same countries they help destroy. This is called “humanitarian help” and “bringing democracy” and “responsibility to protect.” Or to quote from George Orwell’s book: 1984. “War is Peace”

Now the “good guys” are gearing up for another war. Iran is the latest enemy to be considered for a “humanitarian mission.” The NATO war horse is surely champing at the bit, and the political “leaders” and the “respected” think tanks dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits are shooting off their mouths calling for combat. As always they will lead from the rear, safely ensconced in their luxury bunkers while others do their killings and bombings. While back at the ranch and the luxury office towers, the arms dealers and bankers count their perverted profits with bloodstained hands.

Meanwhile, families lose mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters in these endless wars in defence of corporate freedom, to pillage, plunder and loot the world.
Somebody once said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.” Based on what we see happening today it would appear the scoundrels are in charge, and young men and women in uniform are dying because of these lying political “patriots” who sell out their national sovereignty to the unelected manipulators and supporters of the New World Order. No wonder people around the world are protesting and asking the question: Does Corruption Rule?

Stephen J. Gray
October 19, 2011.

Info for further reading:
Goldman ‘Too Big’ to Face Prosecution Over Mortgage Securities, Hintz Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

JPMorgan settles bid-rigging case for $228 million
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-08/business/29750189_1_bid-rigging-jpmorgan-chase-competitive-bidding
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Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html

Wachovia to Pay $160 Million to End Money Laundering Probe

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=avbx.9LIE6.A
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Libyan gold rush followed end to sanctions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/libyan-gold-rush-followed-end-to-sanctions/2011/05/25/AGGgbVBH_story.html
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How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mh30ak01.html

nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
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Military Admits: $360M in Taxpayer Money Lost to Taliban & Criminals in Afghanistan
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/

Last stand in Sirte: Extraordinary pictures show Libyan city shelled to smithereens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049108/Libya-wars-stand-Sirte-Pictures-city-shelled-smithereens.html

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo

Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diplomats-suppressed-document-lays-bare-the-lies-behind-iraq-war-428545.html

Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html
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Corporate-Fascists Clamor for Iran War
http://www.prisonplanet.com/corporate-fascists-clamor-for-iran-war.html

Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels

http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/north-america-mainmenu-36/8599-reports-cia-working-with-mexican-drug-cartels

Absurdity of Iranian Assassination Allegations: If This Was a Hollywood Script it Would Go In the Garbage Immediately
http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo65.1.html

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Political “Warriors”

The Political “Warriors”
By Stephen J. Gray

Standing on their platforms on the World Stage
Stood the political warriors of the present age
Dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits
These are today’s warring kooks

They are the warriors who never fight in battle
The rear end heroes who endlessly prattle
Their mouths are their weapons to lay waste a land
While others do their dirty work when they issue a command

Political hypocrites who don’t fight in the blood soaked action
Posturing and pontificating is their satisfaction
“Warrior leaders” creating hell on earth
Cackling and laughing in their insane mirth

Political clowns and dangerous with power
Authorizing bombings by the endless hours
Children are dying and a country laid waste
The “warriors” call this “humanitarian” it’s to their sick taste

They feed off death and call it victory
Their propaganda sycophants will write their history
Political warriors who lead from the rear
While authorizing missiles to instill fear

Do political terrorists control and rule?
Is the world stage a platform for dangerous fools?
People are paying a terrible bloodstained price
But hey, they are being “saved” by political lice

Where will it all end, one might ask?
Political war criminals are up for the task
Creating death and destruction is their forte
Thousands and thousands of “successful” bombing sorties

The slaughtered children cry out for justice
Bombed into oblivion by those who say: “trust us”
Their homes reduced to smouldering rubble
By those who were “saving” them, but caused them trouble

Who will be the next target for this “humanitarian mission?”
By these political killers and the brotherhood of perdition
Like sharks in the water, they have tasted blood
And these “warriors” feed on adulation, even though it’s crud

Are they political filth, as bad as the dictators: they say they abhor?
Birds of a feather! Are they are all warmongering whores?
It would be nice if they had to lead by example
Put them in the front lines of war. Let them have a sample

Let them feel the horror and misery of the bombings they started
Let’s see if they are “heroes” amongst the unwanted
But hey, political cowards don’t fight in war
They just encourage it, more and more

Can we afford these “honorable” ones?
Who are spending billions of dollars on missiles and guns
Are they sick in the head? Are they diseased war carriers?
God save us all from these Political “Warriors?”

Stephen J. Gray
October 8, 2011.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Did the National Post Capitulate on Free Speech?

Did the National Post Capitulate on Free Speech?
By Stephen J. Gray

“We obviously don’t want to offend anyone, but we also understand that everyone has a freedom of speech,” [1] Enzo Loschiavo “National Post’s manager of advertising sales,…” Quoted in Xtra, Sept. 29, 2011. Canada’s, Gay and Lesbian News.

The National Post says it believes in free speech and free expression, yet it recently withdrew an ad after some people were, “offended” and who did not like the ad. In fact, it issued a grovelling apology in defence of its suppression of free expression. The newspaper stated: “The ad in question was attempting to make the case that the Ontario curriculum was teaching very young children about issues that, at that age, should be the domain of parents.” Parents “domain” should certainly include the right to object, and expose what they consider indoctrination of the minds of their children, especially when “human sexuality” is being taught to them. The paper went on to state: “Where the ads exceeded the bounds of civil discourse was in their tone and manipulative use of a picture of a young girl; in the suggestion that such teaching “corrupts” children, with everything that such a charge implies; and in their singling out of groups of people with whose sexuality the group disagrees.” Oh really, when did it become “manipulative” to show a picture of a young person in an ad. Or wrong to “disagree” with anyone on anything?

Newspaper ads show pictures of children and adults all the time, in an attempt to sell the product, are these not “manipulative?” And the National Post “disagrees” nearly every day in editorials as do some of its columnists writing on various issues, such is the role of a free press. But, it seems with its censorship of the ad in question the paper’s stand is as the old say goes, “free speech for me, but not for thee.” The paper also said: “The National Post believes strongly in the principles of free speech and open, unhindered debate. We believe unpopular points of view should not be censored simply because some readers may find them disturbing, or even offensive.” The newspaper’s apology for suppressing free speech and free expression is surely bizarre? They say they believe in “unpopular points of view” and they also say: “This ad will not run in the National Post again.” Are they confused or what? Do they need some kind of help to straighten out their thought processes? Or were they under pressure from special interest groups to suppress the ad?

Xtra, Canada’s Gay and Lesbian news of September 29, 2011, stated: “A coalition of queer community groups has also drafted an open letter response to the ad. The signatories, including Egale, the Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line, the 519 Community Centre, Sherbourne Health Centre, Rainbow Health Ontario, Queer Ontario, Fife House, Ontario AIDS Network, Black CAP and the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation, call on the leaders of Ontario's political parties to denounce the ad and clarify "where each party stands on the position advanced" in it.”

Questions need to be asked regarding the behaviour of the National Post regarding this ad. First they publish it. Then they make a craven apology and say:
“The fact that we will not be publishing this ad again represents a recognition on our part that publishing it in the first place was a mistake. …The Post will also be donating the proceeds from the advertisement to an organization that promotes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.” [2] (emphasis added)

People should be asking themselves; is the National Post practising censorship and trashing the principles of free speech and free expression by capitulating to the strident voices of political correctness?

Stephen J. Gray
October 2, 2011.

Endnotes:
[1] http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Activists_respond_to_transphobic_ad_in_National_Post-10837.aspx

[2] http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/30/an-apology-from-the-national-post/

Note: A picture in the ad can be seen at link below:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-national-post-apologizes-for-pro-family-ad-donates-proceeds-to-gay

Friday, September 30, 2011

The Loss of Freedom in Canada

Note: I wrote the article below in 2002. It was published in Catholic Insight Magazine in its November Issue 2002. Nearly nine years later, nothing much has changed regarding freedom in Canada SJG.

The Loss of Freedom in Canada
By Stephen J. Gray

"Freedom can primarily be characterized by the absence of coercion or constraint. If a person is compelled by the state or the will of another to a course of action or inaction which he would not otherwise have chosen, he is not acting of his own volition and he cannot be said to be truly free." Chief Justice Bryan Dixon in the "Big M Drug Mart Ltd." decision.

Substitute "the judiciary" for "the state" in the above quote and we realise we are not "truly free." To understand how we lost our freedoms we have to go back a number of years to the beginning.

The loss of personal freedom in Canada had its roots in a decision by an appointed Supreme Court judge. His name was Ivan C. Rand. This judge brought compulsory union dues to Canada in 1946. This assault on personal freedom was known as the Rand Decision.

The rationale behind his decision was that trade unions needed money for collective bargaining and since workers benefited from negotiated agreements all persons in the union had to pay compulsory dues. There should be no freeloaders. Collective bargaining evolved into collective coercion, and trade unions became a tax-free money machine for numerous political, social, and moral issues that had nothing whatsoever to do with the workplace. Support of abortion, homosexuality, radical feminists, socialism, and numerous other causes became the agenda of trade unions.

There are over 2 million compulsory union members in Canada. These people, just like everybody else in society, have different social, moral, political, and religious beliefs, yet they are forced to support non-work issues with their forced union dues. Even union members' personal views on society are under attack. Chris Kempling a member of the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF), was disciplined by the British Columbia College of Teachers (BCCT) for "conduct unbecoming a member." What was Mr.Kempling's crime? On his own time, he chose to write letters to the newspapers criticizing the homosexual agenda of the BCTF.

We have reached a dangerous crossroads in Canada when a person can be disciplined by a union for expressing his opinions in letters to the newspapers. Whatever happened to "freedom of expression" in this country? The union bosses say all these non-work issues are decided democratically at conventions. This begs the question: how can anything be democratic if membership and dues are compulsory? And what does this say about our so called Charter of Rights and Freedoms? When a person is in a forced association, how can he have freedom of association?

More Union Involvement

We also have the Vriend decision where the Canadian Labour Congress( CLC) was an intervenor -- what a system this compulsory payment of union dues has become. Another intervenor in this case was the Women's Legal Education Action Fund (LEAF). LEAF has received money from trade unions and also receives government grants. The CLC and LEAF are in favour of "democracy" and "equality" but have no problem taking compulsory union dues to finance their agendas.

Recently we saw the furore over the Durham School Board's attempt to stop a homosexual youth taking his homosexual date to the school prom. The Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) issued a press release in favour of the homosexual couple, stating: "We have pushed employers, legislators, and courts in our demand for equality." The press release was signed by union boss Buzz Hargrove. This is hypocrisy, talking about "equality" while being funded by compulsion. Buzz and his union buddies obviously have clout when they boast they can push "legislators" and "courts" to comply with their demands.

More on Judges

What started with Judge Rand and his edict of compulsion has now opened a whole judicial can of worms that is eating away at tradition, normalcy, and morality.

We have a judge in the Nesbitt and Egan case "read in" words that are not written in the constitution. We have a judge in the Singh decision that allowed criminals to stay in Canada. We have another judge declaring a pervert's work has "artistic merit." Now we have another piece of judicial tripe from a judicial threesome in Ontario on homosexual marriage: "The restriction against same sex marriage is an offence to the dignity of lesbians and gays because it limits the range of relationship options available to them" (Judge Harry LaForme quoted in the National Post of July 13, 2002. The other two judges "concurred" with him.) The judges gave Parliament 24 months to change the "legal definition of marriage." Our elected representatives are now being given ultimatums by the non-elected. One could call this a judicial coup d' etat.

Somebody once said the law is an ass; now the law is three asses braying in unison. As mentioned earlier, some of these court cases have some trade union involvement. It would be interesting to see how much union time and money has been diverted to intervening in cases that are unrelated to the workplace. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is on record as saying that it "leads the labour movement in its support of lesbian and gay issues" (CUPE Quarterly, October 1992). CUPE has also been to court on behalf of "same-sex" pensions. Morgentaler, Canada's foremost abortionist has received money from unions, which is evidenced by the following: "The Ontario Federation of Labour has donated thousands of dollars to the Morgentaler defence" (The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics in Canada, page 301.)

Other ways in which we are losing our freedoms are through appointed human rights commissions. These non-elected bodies have also imposed bizarre decisions. The National Post of July 26, 2002, had a headline on page 2 that stated, "Rights commission tells Ottawa 'do what's right' on gay unions." These non-elected commissars are in existence due to the cowardice of elected politicians who have abdicated responsibility to these kangaroo courts.

There are two common threads to the loss of freedom in Canada, by compulsion and by appointment. The trade unions' weapon is compulsion. The Judiciary's and Human Rights Commission's weapon is appointment. All have one thing in common, they are anti-democratic. We live in a pretend democracy. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become a judicial monster that devours freedom, morality and decency, and vomits compulsion, filth, and depravity.

In this country the peoples' own money, compulsory union dues and tax dollars, are used to fund this loss of freedom. The Court Challenges programme is one example in which the politically correct interest groups receive funding from our tax dollars to take their cases to court. Meanwhile people who are opposed to these groups have to raise their own funds to oppose them. Canada has become a country where the majority is dictated to by an appointed minority, where tax-free unions, funded by compulsion, dictate to their forced membership and use union dues as they see fit, courtesy of an appointed judge, where the Parliamentary system has become subservient to judicial tyranny under the guise of "independence of the judiciary." A more appropriate phrase for these judicial outlaws would be "the perversion of the judiciary."

Robert Bork in his book The Tempting of America--The Political Seduction of the Law, wrote, "Once the judges make the law, the democratic process is at an end." His words aptly sum up what is happening in Canada today.

Stephen J. Gray

Friday, September 2, 2011

Do “The Friends of Libya” include Al-Qaeda?


Do “The Friends of Libya” include Al-Qaeda?
By Stephen J. Gray

“Elements of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups were known to be key players in the NATO-backed uprising in Libya from the beginning, but now it appears that prominent Jihadists and terrorists are practically leading the revolution with Western support.”[1]
The New American August 30, 2011.

There they were a gathering of “humanitarian” hypocrites. An international community of political charlatans who go to war with their mouths, while NATO does their “humanitarian bombing,” that kills children and civilians. Most of this gang calls itself “Friends of Libya,” and they are the instigators of these mass bombings that result in destruction and death in that country. Now these humanitarian “friends” are going to “help” reconstruct it. The New American of August 30, 2011, stated: “Elements of al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups were known to be key players in the NATO-backed uprising in Libya from the beginning, but now it appears that prominent Jihadists and terrorists are practically leading the revolution with Western support.” [1] But hey, all these political hypocrites are going to bring “democracy” after NATO has rained destruction and death on the Libyan people. Surely, thinking people everywhere must be wondering what is really going on?

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
George Orwell


Deceitful politicians from various countries supplied their old friend, the dictator Gaddafi with all kinds of weapons, some even trained his troops then they spend months trying to kill him. Thousands of bombing and missile attacks, over many months were needed by NATO, for this “humanitarian mission” to succeed, and in the process NATO manages to kill innocent children and civilians in this illegal war. Which raises the question: Should these politicians and NATO along with Gaddafi be charged with war crimes? After all, what is the difference between the dictator killing his people and NATO, at the behest of politicians, killing the Libyan people? [2] Are some people in the so called “international community” allowed to plot and kill with no repercussions? And why are the so-called “investigative media” not asking these questions? Has anybody seen the Al-Qaeda connection to the so-called Transitional National Council (TNC), [3] mentioned in any corporate news reports, and if not, why not? I guess the “investigative media” is too busy reporting official versions of the “Friends of Libya” meeting!

One has to ask: Is this a meeting of mutt-heads or political dogs of destruction all poking their noses into the affairs of Libya and sniffing at the chaos and hell on earth most of them created? Oh, I forgot, these are the “eminent persons” and the “honourable ones” dressed in their combat gear of expensive suits that make war with their mouths. Others do their dirty work for them, now they have the gall to call themselves, “Friends of Libya.” Orwell’s, Big Brother is surely alive and well in the political world of today. Bombing children is “humanitarian” and pressing buttons to release missiles from thousands of feet in the air is an act of “bravery.” Or to paraphrase the words of an old song: “You always hurt the friends you love with a hasty missile you can’t recall, but if we killed you dead last night, it’s because we love you most of all.” Of course, truth is the first casualty in an illegal war, and the end result, will probably be a civil war. Perhaps, that was the plan all along? But hey, the arms dealers and their political puppets in governments are savouring the profits and more to come from the war business. This war business is just like any other business. Fast food outlets sell and market hamburgers. The war business sells and markets weapons and needs war to showcase their “products” in action. Therefore, the war in Libya is “good” for their evil business.

In this business NATO plays a lead role. “NATO was formed initially to counter the communist East.” Now that the “Cold War” is no longer available a new reason for being had to be found for NATO. It has become the Military Arm of the New World Order, financed by the peoples’ tax dollars, ever ready to bomb, blitz and kill on orders from the “international community.” One wonders: Is this “international community” made up of political misfits, marauders and morons, dictators and dopes, criminals and crackpots who rule over the taxpaying serfs while pretending to be “honourable” and “eminent persons?” Still, these are supposedly “the Friends of Libya” and a cynic might say, “God help Libya, with friends like this.” They are a curse on society. First, they bomb and blitz it non stop for months then they say they need to “help” it, because it is “devastated.” Can you believe this crazy political gang of war criminals? The quote below says it all.

"We have to help the National Transitional Council because the country is devastated, the humanitarian situation is difficult and there's a lack of water, electricity and fuel," French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on RTL radio. [5]
Reuters September 1, 2011.

Stephen J. Gray
September 2, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8795-al-qaeda-and-natos-islamic-extremists-taking-over-libya

[2] http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8651-nato-rebels-accused-of-war-crimes-in-libya

[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs0DPb8d-Yg

[4] http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/economy/france-unblocks-libya-cash-ntc-denies-oil-deal.html
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Info for further reading:
How al-Qaeda got to rule in Tripoli
By Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/mh30ak01.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

The “Humanitarian Mission” Report

The “Humanitarian Mission” Report
By Stephen J. Gray

The National Air Terror Organization (NATO) oops, pardon me, I mean the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is doing its business with a bang, in fact big bangs—no pun intended. In the past six months it has, according to one report, done over “6,000 sorties.” These bombing missions have killed civilians and children but NATO did apologise for some of its “surgical strikes” going awry. You have to admit “surgical strikes” sounds better than bombing the place to rubble and ruins. Still, I did like how one dingbat politician described these criminal air strikes in an illegal war: He called them “dropping ordinances.” This guy certainly knows how to camouflage killing. But hey, this is a “humanitarian mission” to save lives and if we slaughter a number of innocent lives in the process that’s the cost of the war business.

Talking about business, the oil companies are all lining up to get back to doing what they do best—profiting from oil, and they are all ready to get their hands on that black gold. Gold, as you all know, is all the rage and it just so happens that this old dictator who used to be our friend had a reported 143.8 tons of gold. [1] Wow, what a treasure. Still, the spoils of war go to the victor and this precious cargo will be a boon to the financial system. Hopefully, we can find a “respected” banker to handle and look after this loot. I hear that a central bank has already been formed out of all this mayhem and bloody chaos and that it will take care of the gold and the dictator’s money.

Who will pay for all this death and destruction by NATO? The taxpayers of course! Millions of dollars have been spent on this “humanitarian mission” and “safe bombing campaign,” and all this money came from taxpayers of various governments. These “caring” governments all agreed that the dictator who used to be their friend must go, so the solution was bomb him back to the stone age. But hey, that’s the age we live in today. War criminals, or an old dictator friend, must not be tolerated; unless, of course, they are our war criminals and our dictators and our “allies” and are still our “friends.” Some people are saying NATO and the governments who authorized this “humanitarian mission” are all hypocrites and war criminals and should be put on trial. [2] NATO did kill people, and NATO was approved by governments and even if it was an illegal war you can’t put NATO or the politicians on trial. They are “humanitarians” who run the system, though one straight talking politician did call this evil foray by the system, the “new international gangsterism.” But surely gangsters have a role to play and the system needs them? In fact, perhaps they will be getting a medal for valour in arranging the bombing to save lives, while taking lives by killing innocent children and civilians. Anyway, I am sure a medal will be struck in their honour for “bravery,” perhaps even a Nobel Peace Prize for their “services to humanity.”

Humanity must be protected and that’s why the “international community” will be meeting at a “high level conference” to discuss the safety and security of the country they have just blitzed and bombed to bloody rubble. They are calling their meeting “Friends of Libya.” Isn’t that a nice Orwellian phrase? They approve bombing, mayhem, killing and destruction, and now they are having a friendly discussion to plan its “re-building” and “help” with the distribution of its money held by bankers. One is reminded of that old saying, with friends like these who needs enemies? What a nice bunch they are? Aren’t we lucky to have such “humanitarian” rulers? Birds of a feather flock together as the saying goes, and the political and business vultures of the New World Order are getting ready to feed off the country’s “reconstruction.” Still, these are “honourable people” and respected members of the “international community” doing what they do best, spreading B.S., lies and hypocrisy in the name of “humanitarianism” around the world, when their mission was really about “regime change.”[3] Meanwhile, the taxpaying serfs in various countries pay for their insane and criminal excursions, and the killing and bloody destruction is all done in the name of “responsibility to protect.” God help us all and save us from these dangerous criminal political hypocrites.

Stephen J. Gray
August 28,2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/kucinich-nato-commanders-should-be-prosecuted-by-international-criminal-court-2011-8

[3] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH27Ak03.html

Info for further reading:
The Bloody Aftermath of NATO’s Libya War

Incredibly, as The New American reported months ago, U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that a high-level American delegation to Libya in 2009 was swooning over the Gaddafi regime. U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman called the dictatorship “an important ally in the war on terrorism,” while Sen. John McCain assured the regime that the U.S. government wanted to supply Gaddafi with military equipment….
http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/8761-the-bloody-aftermath-of-natos-libya-war

CIA Libya Rebels are Al-Qaeda Fighters From Iraq
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27232.html

Bloody NATO Massacre Kills 85 Civilians Incl. Children (August 8-9, 2011) near Zlitan/Majer, Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zt18n_Fwo
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Are We Engulfed By Evil?

Are We Engulfed By Evil?
By Stephen J. Gray

Bloody Wars:
Endless war is being waged around the globe. The weapons supplied by governments of all political stripes. A recent example was the illegal war in Libya supported by the “democratic” governments in the West against their “old friend.” It was called a, “humanitarian mission” to unseat a dictator. Meanwhile, there are other dictators supported by the West. Saudi Arabia and communist China are but two examples. Which makes one wonder why are there no “humanitarian missions” bombing these other dictatorships? Oh, I forgot these other dictatorships are “friends” and “allies,” and so this evil political farce continues with politicians claiming to be in favour of “human rights” while sanctioning illegal bombings and the killing of children and civilians by NATO, which of course is funded by the tax dollars of people from various countries. One hypocritical political “leader” even said these missile and bomb attacks as being done by “brave soldiers.” Which makes one wonder what is “brave” about pressing a button thousands of feet in the air that releases a missile that kills innocent children? One might ask; are war criminals not only the dictators, but also, the so-called political “leaders” spouting democracy and human rights as they create bloody mayhem? Meanwhile the profiteers of these bloody atrocities, who never participate in combat and operate out of luxury office buildings are laughing all the way to their stock portfolios. It would be interesting to see the names of just who is making a killing – no pun intended – from financing wars that are unjust. Justice would be served if all the political warmongers and all the dictators were put on trial for crimes against humanity. But hey, who would run the corrupt system if we did that?

Financial War:
Financial war is being waged on taxpayers everywhere by the financial elites of the monetary system. We are told the financial system is in crisis and that austerity is the only solution. The people of Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy etc. are in the process of being punished by the dictators of austerity, also known as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the European Central Bank (ECB) and other banking cabals of the financial world. The unelected money changers are dictating financial policy to puppet politicians who are, I believe, betraying their own peoples’ and their countries sovereignty at the behest of these financial parasites who are funded by the tax dollars of the people. In fact, the peoples’ tax dollars bailed out many of these financial bandits who looted the financial system. None of the perpetrators have gone to jail and some even wrote a letter to Congress telling them to solve the debt crisis. What a joke, first they milk the system then they give advice to the political cows to get their political barnyard in order. If it wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. But hey, financial pillaging is now acceptable and goes unpunished in the “land of the free.”


War on the Unborn:
A hidden war is being waged on the innocents in their mothers’ wombs by abortion. This war is camouflaged by the banal slogan called “freedom of choice.” Killing by choice is sanctioned by governments’ world wide and is today’s “final solution” for unwanted humans. Human life is disposable and hypocrite politicians of all political stripes are mostly in favour of killing by choice. But now, the consequences of killing by choice are starting to show up world wide. Old people are beginning to outnumber young people. Politicians everywhere are bemoaning this fact that there is a demographic crisis. Only they call it “low fertility,” rather than lay the blame on abortion. None of these politicians will admit that the millions of unborn killed by state sanctioned slaughter is the result of their political perfidy. They sowed death and now they are reaping the results of their hidden holocaust.

War on Free Speech:
Free speech everywhere is under attack by unelected so-called Human Rights Commissions (HRCs). These unelected, appointed bureaucrats are terrorizing society. People are dragged before them and forced to pay their own costs, meanwhile their accusers are given a free ride at tax-payers expense. So called “democracy” has been hijacked and freedom is fast becoming a word you can only read in a dictionary. Political correctness has become the rule, and the political rulers who created these HRCs are drawing big pensions and the next generations of politicians allow these unelected, appointed commissars of correctness to continue to rule with impunity. Democracy and freedom are prisoners of the system. The appointed are in control and the controllers are the appointed. But hey, think yourself lucky. Every three or four years you get to place an X in a ballot to choose which political party you wish to punish you. This political game is called “democracy.”

In summing up, I believe the evils that are happening today can only result in some form of horrific tragedy. Society has lost all recognition of right and wrong. We are headed for some great catastrophe. No governments, no politicians, no leaders and no one can continue to perpetrate evil and call it good, for as the good book says:

“Woe to those who call evil good” (Isaiah 5:20).

Stephen J. Gray
August 23,2011.

Note: I have added some links to interesting info below
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Info worth reading and listening to at links below:

http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america
Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9dGHuRExiM
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http://www.thedailybell.com/1327/BIS-Trading-With-the-Enemy-The-Whole-Story.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/333389/title/Financial_world_dominated_by_a_few_deep_pockets
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/military-admits-360-mill-in-taxpayer-money-lost-to-taliban-criminals-in-afghanistan/

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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s On-Going Collusion with Terrorists

http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3578

Al-Qaeda Group To Become Main Power In Post-Gaddafi Libya
http://www.prisonplanet.com/al-qaeda-group-to-become-main-power-in-post-gaddafi-libya.html
EDITORIAL: Obama’s illegal war
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/18/obamas-illegal-war/
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

http://www.infowars.com/genetic-genocide-humanitys-greatest-threat/

www.unmaskingchoice.ca

http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2009/03/freedom-of-expression-and-conservative.html

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Why Are These Looters Still Free?

Why Are These Looters Still Free?
By Stephen J. Gray

“Pension and social security funds have also been stolen and moved offshore, leading to the end of fiscal responsibility and sovereignty as we know it.” [1]
Finance Examiner, November 7, 2010.

The financial system world wide has been looted by financial criminals yet none of the elites have gone to jail. There is very little in depth coverage of these financial crimes in the corporate media. No pictures are flashed across the evening news, asking: “has anyone seen or have information on these financial thieves.” No endless front page stories calling for law and order or for the arrest of these sophisticated financial thugs. No calls for confiscation of their offshore tax free and banking facilities. No demands by politicians to make the financial system safe from rogue bankers. In fact, no calls for jail time, investigations or any prohibitions on these monetary bandits who destroyed the financial system. Instead they got bailed out by tax-payers dollars. Some have been known to advise governments and others are known as “eminent persons” in the financial field. Something is rotten and festering financially. The smell of corruption in high places permeates the system and the system has become a playground for financial gangsters and looters, aided and abetted by people in power.

“Over the past decade, the UK has allowed its capital city to become the home for many of the world’s most cut-throat and dodgy global financiers.”
John Kampfner, The Guardian, July 26, 2007. [2]

Now compare the powerful reaction to the vulgar and criminal looters in the U.K. Police are arresting the looters in England. They are smashing down doors to get at some of the accused. The corporate media world wide are in a reporting frenzy, with stories about the looters and there is a call for martial law. Some people are even asking for the army to be brought in. Meanwhile the politicians are all screaming: “We must have Law and Order.” Who would argue with that? After all, if the law is not obeyed and order becomes disorder then we are no longer a decent, honest and honourable society. Which raises very important questions once again: Why are the looters of the financial system not in jail? Why are the luxurious offices of the economic looters not being raided or their oak panelled doors being broken down, and the well heeled racketeers inside dragged out by the scruff of their necks? Is there one law for the crude rioting looters in the U.K. and no law for the sophisticated financial criminals who looted the monetary system? Where is the political outrage by politicians against their financial friends some of whom contribute money to their political campaigns? Where are the front page stories about these professional corporate criminals who brought down the world’s financial system. Why are they free? Do they have a free pass to break the law with impunity after looting the system? An article from the Finance Examiner of November 7, 2010, headlined: “Catherine Austin Fitts interview on the Looting of America” said this:

“Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush Catherine Austin Fitts blows the whistle on how the financial terrorists have deliberately imploded the US economy and transferred gargantuan amounts of wealth offshore as a means of sacrificing the American middle class. Fitts documents how trillions of dollars went missing from government coffers in the 90's and how she was personally targeted for exposing the fraud.” [3]

The financial fraudsters who looted the system are laughing all the way to their banks and tax free havens. The only people arrested and charged are the crude uncivilized looters in England. Meanwhile the “civilized” financial looters continue their depredations world wide and it’s all done in the name of saving the financial system. What a joke! What a farce, and what does this say about the so-called “justice system?”

Stephen J. Gray
August 14,2011.

Endnotes:

[1]http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/26/comment.china

[3] http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/catherine-austin-fitts-interview-on-the-looting-of-america


Friday, August 5, 2011

The World Banking Politburo

The World Banking Politburo
By Stephen J. Gray

‘I believe the world is ready for a shift to this more “systemic” vision of IMF surveillance’ [1]
“Address by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director,
International Monetary Fund,
At Bretton Woods Committee Annual Meeting
Washington D.C., February 26, 2010”

It would appear from the words of the former managing director of the IMF that the world is prepared for “ IMF surveillance.” The IMF is funded by tax-payers dollars from various countries, so one wonders when did the people anywhere decide that unelected bankers should be watching over them? Especially when it was out of control bankers that caused the financial crisis and then were bailed out by tax-payers dollars. Are we the new tax paying slaves who need to be watched over by bankers who operate in the global markets?

The global marketplace is where capitalism merges with and invests with communist China, and the communist rulers are spoken of as an “ally” by a “conservative” politician. Politicians are elected by the people of democratic countries but is it really only a game played out to make the people think they still have a voice, while their national sovereignty is sold out by treacherous political leaders? The European Union is but one example. Once elected the puppet politicians punish the people with ever increasing taxes. The real rulers of the money system are the central bankers; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). The BIS is in fact the head office where the central banks report to. In fact, it has been called “the central bankers' bank,…” [2] The Money Changers are in charge and governments listen when the money changers dictate policy. Austerity programs are dictated by the IMF and politicians bow to their commands. Greece and Ireland are but two recent examples, where the people are subjected to austerity so that bankers can be bailed out.

Central Bankers are the controllers and issuers of money. [3] Bankers dictate austerity programs through the auspices of the IMF, and politicians of all countries whether capitalist, communist, conservative, liberal, socialist or despotic all are mostly under the monetary control of the central bankers. Bankers have proposed a single world monetary system [4] and it could come to fruition, under the guise of “saving the world.” It is just a matter of convincing the people of different countries that this would be to their advantage. (A pause here for incredulous laughter from cynical persons). Anyway, the banking politburo have seen how easy it is to manoeuvre independent countries into the European Union (EU) and how easy it is to get politicians to sell out their national sovereignty for the Euro. In fact many people wondered if the Euro had been the testing ground for an eventual world currency. The banking politburo could prevail if a single world currency is propagandized properly. After all, puppet politicians of all political stripes in the G20 had earlier agreed on “global economic governance.”

“The Group of Twenty ("G-20") nations, the new Financial Stability Board ("FSB"), and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") are progressing on two fronts: the monitoring and revision of national and regional economic plans to facilitate global economic governance…” [5]

It appears that “global economic governance” is being facilitated. The question is: Are these politicians and political leaders from various countries guilty of political treason? Was “global economic governance” discussed in any of their parliaments? Are they traitors to their countries by selling out their national sovereignty? Should they be impeached? And finally, I ask, what is the point in electing politicians if an unelected bankers politburo are dictating monetary policy to most of the world? The quote below by a famous banker is worth thinking about.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Stephen J. Gray
August 5, 2011.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2010/022610.htm

[2] http://thedailybell.com/1812/Bank-for-International-Settlements-BIS

[3] http://www.webofdebt.com/excerpts/introduction.php

[4] http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=213953

[5] http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/g20-and-imf-officials-institutionalize-economic-global-governance

Friday, July 29, 2011

Here is a Letter I sent to the National Post. Some of my more important words were censored out, And the word "allegedly" was never in my letter.
Letter to Editor
National Post
July 27, 2011.

Dear Editor, re: "Don't call China an 'ally'" National Post, July 27,2011.
You state in this editorial, "China's human rights record remains troubling,..." China is responsible for the slaughter of millions of its own people. Engages in torture, removes the organs forcefully from people, suppresses free speech, has used tanks against dissidents in Tiamen Square, has a history of forced abortions; need I say anymore? I believe a more apt word in your editorial regarding its "human rights" would have been atrocious or inhuman.

Stephen J. Gray
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Here is the National Post Version of my letter published July 29,2011
. or are there better words?
National Post · Jul. 29, 2011
This editorial states: "China's human rights record remains troubling." Troubling? China engages in torture, allegedly removes organs forcefully from people, suppresses free speech and has used tanks against dissidents in Tiananmen Square. I believe better words to describe China's "human rights" would have been "atrocious" or "inhuman."

Stephen J. Gray, Chilliwack, B.C.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/there+better+words/5176182/story.html
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Excerpt below from The Epoch Times July 14, 2011. (emphasis added)
"Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned, and according to some estimates, over 40,000 have had their organs forcefully removed in lucrative transplant operations. To date, the Conservative government has not mentioned any of these issues in a major public speech."
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/baird-heads-to-china-to-build-ties-59098.html

Friday, July 22, 2011

Communist North Korea Claims Discrimination by CPC

Communist North Korea Claims Discrimination by CPC
(Satire) By Stephen J. Gray

Dear Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), it has come to our notice that your Minister of Foreign Affairs has been, how do you say, bad mouthing us. He is reported as saying, "North Korea is simply not a credible chair of a disarmament body,…” [1] We find this statement by your Minister to be very hypocritical. This is the same gentleman and government which supports the illegal bombing of Libya where civilians and little children have been killed. Yet, you people call this a “humanitarian mission.” Your allies even supplied arms to Libya when the dictator was your friend.

Libya of course is a dictatorship, as are we in North Korea yet your foreign minister visits the dictatorship in China and calls them a “friend” and an “ally.” [2] Are some dictatorships more equal than others? Quite frankly we are feeling slighted and discriminated against. Where is the fairness and equality in your foreign minister’s behaviour? We are treated like pariahs, yet China is hailed as a beacon of light in your unfair governmental decisions. How can this be? We are just as good dictators as China! Look at our record. We have starved and jailed our people, we even have Gulags while China has used tanks against their own people, sold poisoned goods to the West, and committed all kinds of atrocities, like forced abortions [3] and taking live body parts from prisoners, and torture etc. [4] Your Conservative Party congratulates them on their 90th anniversary despite its slaughter of millions of its own people. We say shame on you and of course shame on us too. Still, we ask you, who is more ethical, us or them? In fact, we could argue that they have done worse things than we have. We believe your foreign minister and your government should look in the mirror and ask themselves, “Are we hypocrites?” It is all so disheartening to see communist China being praised and congratulated by you conservatives while we are vilified. We believe your minister needs to give his head a big shake and get with some kind of equal opportunity program for dictators. Human rights are human rights, and we believe our rights have been violated and discriminated against. We believe your treatment of us is biased, yet your praise of China could be seen as grovelling and sycophantic. Perhaps we should complain to your Human Rights Commission that we are being discriminated against.

We understand your Human Rights Commissions are very good at arriving at the proper political decisions, so we are weighing them as an option; however we only want to do this as a last resort. Please do not think we are resorting to threats, but we have heard that your minister has been described as a “pit bull” and we do not want to be bitten by him anymore in the world of public discourse. Dog is a delicacy in our country, but we do not think this type of dog is edible. Tee, hee, hee. Sorry, did I make a silly pun or joke? Very sorry, hope no offence taken, please. It really saddens us to write this letter, but in all conscience, how could we let this slight upon our country pass without comment? Your foreign minister should come visit us and he will see that we are just like his friends in China, a dictator who can smile. We will shake his hand and politely inform him of his double standards, we will smile with him just like his friends do in China. Then hopefully we will receive his blessing and the approbation that he gave to China’s dictator. After all, what is good for the goose should surely be good for the gander, as the saying goes. Thank you for your attention to this matter, because one dictator should not be made a favourite over other dictators, we are all equal.

Yours in Comradeship and Concern.
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Stephen J. Gray
July 22, 2011.

Endnotes:


[1] http://www2.canada.com/story.html?id=5036246

[2] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/effusive-john-baird-wraps-up-china-visit-with-praise-for-strategic-partner/article2103353/

[3] http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/index.php?nav=wujian

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7iDZnkn1xo

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Alleged Fraudsters “Agreed” to Fines: No Jail Time

Alleged Fraudsters “Agreed” to Fines: No Jail Time
By Stephen J. Gray

“We participated in things that were clearly wrong and we have reason to regret and we apologize for them,…” Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, quoted in Bloomberg News, November 18, 2009. [1]

Despite the alleged massive frauds perpetrated by financial scam artists in the sub-prime mortgage scandals none of the really big fish have gone to jail. The smell of corruption permeates the system, and yet the system appears to have accepted that some people are too big to fail or jail. An article in Bloomberg news of June 1, 2011, stated,
“ Goldman Sachs Group (GS) won’t face criminal prosecution related to sales of mortgage-linked securities because such a move could threaten the U.S. financial system, according to Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.” [2]

Well excuse me, does this mean that the justice system hands down no jail time for the powerful but gives jail time to the powerless? The article went on to say: “In July, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle a civil fraud suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that alleged the firm misled clients about a mortgage-linked investment.”

Goldman Sachs is not the only financial firm that has plenty of money to pay a fine but does not do any hard time. Here is an excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle of July 8, 2011:

“JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $228 million to settle federal charges that the bank conspired to rig the bidding on investment contracts sold to state and local governments to boost its profits at taxpayer expense.” [3] The article went on to say:

“The Justice Department and the SEC have been investigating for more than four years the ways that banks and financial advisers fixed the bidding on investments sold to municipalities. Prosecutors say the conspiracy cost taxpayers by allowing banks to pay governments below-market rates. JPMorgan's penalties are the largest yet to result from the investigation, which also led to settlements with UBS AG and Bank of America Corp.”

Well, isn’t it nice that these “respectable” bankers “agreed” to pay a fine? Did they also “agree” that jail time was not necessary in their cases? After all, if they were innocent of these charges, why would they have “agreed” to pay fines? But, they “agreed” to pay. What does that say about guilt?

I believe something is rotten in the halls of justice when the powerful can waltz away free after allegedly committing fraud. Many of these bankers and financiers were bailed out by taxpayers’ dollars. Many of them have subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, and some of these powerful bankers have been known to advise governments on monetary policy. Meanwhile, there are over 40 million Americans on food stamps and an article of January 19, 2011, at prisonplanet.com, headlined: “The More Americans that Go On Food Stamps The More Money JP Morgan Makes,” is well worth reading. [4]
http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-more-americans-that-go-on-food-stamps-the-more-money-jp-morgan-makes.html

A woman in Michigan has been threatened with jail time for planting a vegetable garden in her front yard. [5] Perhaps, she would be treated differently if she was a banker? Many people have lost their jobs and homes, their pension funds are in the dumpster and their taxes helped bail out the perpetrators of their predicaments. Yet, the predicaments of the perpetrators are washed clean by them agreeing to pay fines! Are these perpetrators getting special treatment? No jail time has been handed down, yet unimportant people have gone to jail for much less. If there was any justice in the system surely some of these pin striped suited bankers should be doing hard time? Instead some of these bankers and financiers are flying around free as vulture birds and feeding off the misery and despair they created.


Stephen J. Gray
July 17, 2011.


Endnotes:
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aQWV0pN.Y1LQ&pos=1

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/goldman-too-big-to-face-prosecution-over-mortgage-securities-hintz-says.html

[3] http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-08/business/29750189_1_bid-rigging-jpmorgan-chase-competitive-bidding

[4] http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-more-americans-that-go-on-food-stamps-the-more-money-jp-morgan-makes.html

[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/woman-jailed-for-vegetable-garden_n_893516.html