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Our Sinking Economic Ship<br />

And Related Crooked Crises<br />

Editor’s note: Al Martin wrote several<br />

of the following commentaries well<br />

before the stock market’s 390-point drop<br />

on Friday, July 19, 2002. That speaks<br />

highly for both his “over-the-horizon<br />

radar” and his business acumen—talents<br />

that are well worth sharing in these<br />

pages as the storm clouds continue to<br />

darken over the business world.<br />

That 390-point drop is a particularly<br />

telling clue to the REAL state of the<br />

economy because heroic measures are<br />

usually ALWAYS employed to inflate such<br />

a negative situation by the closing bell—<br />

ESPECIALLY for a weekend! Otherwise<br />

people have all weekend to work<br />

themselves into a panic for Monday<br />

morning. The fact that such a morbid<br />

condition was NOT reversed suggests that<br />

the patient was too sick to revive—even<br />

applying the paddles and high voltage,<br />

so to speak.<br />

As the crooks in high secret places<br />

continue to bleed the American people at<br />

a rate just slow enough to avoid arousing<br />

their outright suspicions, one key<br />

question—which Al asks early on—is a<br />

matter which so many of you who read<br />

this publication are asking yourselves<br />

each day:<br />

“The relevant question to ask then<br />

becomes: How much deprivation do the<br />

American people have to suffer before<br />

they get their priorities straight?”<br />

<strong>In</strong>deed. And that’s the fascinating<br />

experiment impacting even (or maybe<br />

especially) those who would otherwise<br />

simply be hiding behind their nest eggs<br />

and avoiding paying any attention to the<br />

foxes robbing the henhouse.<br />

Many people, for far too long, have not<br />

wanted to bother facing or dealing with<br />

the bigger diabolical issues that have<br />

brought the United States to its current<br />

financial condition. But now that it’s<br />

PERSONALLY affecting them, IN THE<br />

WALLET—well—that’s another matter<br />

entirely! Now we’ll see how long the<br />

sheep continue to look the other way and<br />

simply ignore what’s going on because it<br />

“doesn’t affect” them. (A lot of these<br />

people are the relatives, friends, and<br />

neighbors who you thoughtful<br />

SPECTRUM readers have been trying to<br />

awaken for some time now.)<br />

Just look at the several dire economic<br />

items in this month’s News Desk for a taste<br />

of reality. The scandal of crooked CEOs<br />

is only the very tip of an iceberg most<br />

Americans can’t begin to fathom, given<br />

their lack of true economic education,<br />

compounded by the baloney issued by so<br />

many bought-and-paid-for financial<br />

“experts” and newsfakers. We are thus<br />

grateful to Al Martin for sharing his wellconnected<br />

“insider” perspective on these<br />

matters, as the economic fabric of this<br />

once bountiful nation continues to<br />

unravel before our eyes.<br />

For those newer readers who may not<br />

be familiar with this crusader, according<br />

to his own biographical statement, Al is<br />

America’s foremost whistleblower on<br />

government fraud and corruption. A<br />

retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and<br />

former officer in the <strong>Of</strong>fice of Naval<br />

<strong>In</strong>telligence, he has testified before<br />

Congress (the Kerry Committee and the<br />

Alexander Committee) regarding Iran-<br />

Contra. Al Martin is the author of The<br />

Conspirators: Secrets <strong>Of</strong> An Iran-Contra<br />

<strong>In</strong>sider (2001, National Liberty Press,<br />

$19.95; toll free order line: 1-866-317-<br />

1390).<br />

Al MARTIN<br />

(www.almartinraw.com)<br />

The Global Economic Meltdown, a/k/a<br />

The Jack Stephens Challenge<br />

(7/4/02)<br />

Will we ever get our priorities straight?<br />

The global economic meltdown<br />

continues, and it made me think of the old<br />

adage about the American people being<br />

the most economically naïve people in<br />

the world.<br />

When will the American people ever<br />

learn that all issues of government and all<br />

policies of State (be they political, social,<br />

socio-religious, or military) are all<br />

ultimately subordinate to economic<br />

issues?<br />

We are unique among nations wherein<br />

the majority of the voting populace in<br />

this country votes based on party<br />

affiliation and on socio-religious issues<br />

such as abortion, planned parenthood,<br />

teaching of Darwinism vs. Creationism,<br />

whether the Ten Commandments should<br />

be hung up on the school wall—the<br />

typical so-called “hot button” issues.<br />

Even now, as the economy goes from an<br />

economic slowdown to an economic<br />

meltdown, polls still indicate that socioreligious<br />

issues are still taking precedence<br />

over economic issues in the minds of the<br />

people. The reason why is because we are<br />

indeed the most economically naïve<br />

people on Earth.<br />

[Editor’s note: It’s a downward spiral<br />

of purposely engineered poor education<br />

about the importance of economic<br />

matters, which then makes the<br />

distractions of the so-called “hot button”<br />

issues seem like important issues.]<br />

Americans have traditionally felt that<br />

they didn’t have to know about economic<br />

issues because the United States was<br />

always Number One. We were always the<br />

largest creditor nation. The value of the<br />

U.S. dollar was unquestioned. Our stock<br />

markets would gradually rise forever. And<br />

therefore Americans have always felt they<br />

didn’t have to know about economic<br />

issues.<br />

Two billion people—a third of the<br />

Earth’s population—live in posteconomically<br />

collapsed nation-states.<br />

They live in circumstances where they<br />

wish they could afford the luxury of<br />

deciding where they stand on issues such<br />

as abortion etc., when in fact their Only<br />

Concern becomes the most ultimate<br />

economics: How are they to find<br />

sufficient shelter and food and clothing<br />

and medicine every day in order to<br />

survive?<br />

The relevant question to ask then<br />

becomes: How much deprivation do the<br />

American people have to suffer before<br />

they get their priorities straight?<br />

Because, in a post economically<br />

collapsed United States, the issues of<br />

abortion, Creationism vs. Darwinism, and<br />

so on will be meaningless. The only issue<br />

that’s going to make any difference is<br />

food and water and clothing and<br />

medicine.<br />

A third of the people of the world have<br />

learned that not only do they have to<br />

PAGE 72 www.TheSpectrumNews.org Toll-free: 1-877-280-2866 Outside U.S.: 1-661-823-9696 SEPTEMBER 2002

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