Soldier Of Truth In A Lifelong Battle With Lies - Four Winds 10
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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 />
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