Alex Jones hosts Max Keiser, Gerald Celente, and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to allege that Wall Street elites orchestrated the 2008 crash and staged terror attacks to justify martial law and a cashless surveillance state. They claim the IRS targets small businesses while ignoring corporate crimes, predict an economic collapse by September 2010, and argue that police forces now serve revenue collection rather than public protection. Ultimately, the discussion suggests the government is controlled by organized looters, urging listeners to prepare for systemic failure or potential revolution against a totalitarian regime. [Automatically generated summary]
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You know, he's been saying for years that Goldman Sachs is engineering financial collapse to consolidate and destroy their competition.
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The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake.
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And we have record bonuses now to be paid to Goldman Sachs, just in England, 3.5 billion pounds.
And of course you notice the inner group, JPMorgan Chase and other groups that own the private Federal Reserve holding company, they're all making record profits while hoarding all the bailout money.
And why has the SEC indicted Goldman Sachs, some of their members, Civilly.
Well, they'll probably give him a $5 million fine and slap him on the wrist and give somebody probation for the trillions that have been stolen.
But joining us is Max Keiser to discuss this.
We'll also get into the FBI saying the number one threat is us, the American people.
Bill Clinton says, you know, if the Tea Parties don't shut up, people don't criticize Wall Street, that a terror attack is going to happen and it's our fault.
I mean, they're out in the open, folks, getting ready to stage terror attacks here.
Well, as you point out, I've been talking about this for a number of years.
Basically, they have been involved, as have other Wall Street banks, in setting up banks to fail because they can profit on the failure.
So, just like we've talked about before about Building 7, during the 9-11 incident, there were many options traders that made a lot of money because the Building 7 collapsed.
Now, here's Goldman Sachs, same thing.
They create a fund, they create bonds that they build to collapse, that they rig with financial dynamite so that it collapses, and they make money on the collapse.
Well, there's no doubt that the stimulus has run out, and now they're saying, okay, maybe it is a depression, we need more money.
Obama's new regulation package allows the top banks and brokerage firms to, through their regulators that they control, to basically feed other smaller regional healthy banks into their maw, and a tax on smaller institutions that's paid through bailout money to them.
I mean, this is, we've got Gordon Brown calling for a world government of and for and by the banks.
Well, you know, it's interesting because Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, of course, famously said that he was doing God's work when he and his cohorts are Creating all of these problems for everybody and creating blackmail situations and extortion to get their buddy Hank Paulson to extort 700 billion if you recall back there at the end of 2008 in front of Congress.
But apparently he's angered the gods because now in Iceland the volcano is blowing up.
And it's what's remarkable, Alex, is that this is similar to almost exactly what happened during the French Revolution.
Actually, the French Revolution started when a volcano in Iceland blew up.
Well, the first two hours were dedicated to the fact that it's 100% the military-industrial complex that controls both parties is going to stage a terror attack to blame it on people that want to end the Fed, people that want to audit the Fed, that want to arrest the people that run Goldman Sachs, that controlled all the regulatory positions, and aren't just ripping our country off, they're ripping off countries from Chile to New Zealand to Greece to Iceland.
When we start the next segment, that's the key here, and I've got a whole host of issues I want to go through.
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Okay, Gerald, I want to start going to call the next segment and back into trends in the next hour, but I'm going to try to shut up here and just ask quick questions, but with key points.
I know governments have staged terror.
I know Operation Northwoods is an official U.S.
government plan to stage 9-11 style attacks.
I don't put it past these bankers, this isn't our government anymore, these corporate mafia, from staging a dirty bomb or even a nuke or busting somebody in a fake attack.
Imagine the clampdown they could have.
The only way I see them being able to launch their war on Iran, which they're now trying to blame suitcase nukes on, is a massive crisis.
We've already been lied to about fictitious WMDs in Iraq once.
Now they're just coming back with the same story.
But I do see them staging terror.
I've seen them hyping that the Tea Parties are violent.
They've been caught planting people in there, even in the AP now, yesterday.
So, everything I see them do is false flag, set-ups, frame-ups.
How do you see them getting us into a war, which the Rand Corporation said two years ago they need to build their New World Order?
The other one is there really may be a terror strike, legitimately, coming out of Pakistan.
This should be the major news.
Every day, virtually, they're sending predator drones in and killing scores of innocent people.
I believe the number is well over a thousand now in the last year.
This is as old as the Old Testament.
It's an eye for an eye.
You have the greatest refugee crisis going on in Pakistan since Rwanda.
And they're escalating that war even more.
And of course the CIA is behind sending these drones in.
Since when was the CIA Supposed to be in the battle like this.
I thought they were only there to collect intelligence.
So we're really looking at something, Alex, where we have well over 200,000 Pakistanis in this country.
They're watching their families get murdered.
You think they're going to be angry?
They're going to say when terrorists strike, they hate our freedom and liberty.
How about they hate your foreign policy and they hate you for killing innocent people.
Look what happened in Afghanistan two days ago.
They strafed the passenger bus.
There's plenty of hatred out there.
False flag or real, we're forecasting in 2010 a 9-11 magnitude terrorist strike.
And we're saying this as well so people can take proactive measures.
What does it mean?
Well, it means the things that you're talking about on your show, the products, the survival products, and it means having gold to us, but it also means what happened after 9-11.
They shut the The Wall Street down.
I couldn't cash in my CDs because I wanted to get away from here because Indian Point nuclear power plant is just north of 9-11 and I'm of ground zero and I'm just north of that.
So when I went to get my CDs, I couldn't get them out because Wall Street was closed their financial instruments.
This time, when 9-11 magnitude terror strikes, we forecast they're going to close the banks.
You're not going to be able to get your money out.
And there's going to be cyber attacks as well.
And when you do get your money out, the little bit they'll let you take out at a time, It's gonna be devalued.
Just like they devalued it under FDR when they called a bank holiday.
Just like they devalued it in Argentina.
They'll devalue it again.
That's one of the ways they're gonna try to get out of this financial mountain of debt that's bringing down the nation.
And just to back you up, We see Citibank and the other big banks saying, well, hold your money for seven days.
We see Bloomberg.
Federal regulators are ordering public and private pension funds.
Since when can you do that in a free country to invest in failed banks?
That's a quote.
In fact, print me the Bloomberg or Businessweek again.
It actually says, and now Argentina just took their pension funds.
Greece is talking about taking their pension funds.
They tried to take the Icelandic pension funds, but the people rioted for a year and said no.
And so I mean, this is incredible.
They're openly saying they're going to take the pension funds.
The cybersecurity bill passed the House, now in the Senate, says for any emergency, including financial, the president can, quote, shut down the internet or selectively shut down the web.
We see internet censorship passing in Italy.
We see it passing in France.
We see it passing last week in England.
We see national publications, mainly singling me out, saying I'm calling for violence when I'm not, calling for censoring us.
I mean, so, clearly you can see them lining everything up and getting ready for a war as a political distraction, but the real enemy is us, fleecing us further, and like a bully, sitting on our chest, pounding us in the face, breaking our will, so the criminal made-offs and kin-lay types that run our society, they're trying to go for broke, and then make sure they can protect themselves from the people.
Failed banks may get pension fund backing as FDIC seeks cash.
Business week.
And this is now all over the news.
It was in the London Telegraph yesterday.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corps is trying to encourage public retirement funds that control more than $2 trillion to buy all are part of failed lenders.
So the big banks move their money out the back door and buy real assets, then they put the public on the hook.
So all these cops and people being replaced by DynCorp now to snatch kids, they're going to take your pension funds.
And it goes on to say the government is ordering the pension funds to invest in failed banks.
Since when in the land of the free, home of the brave, Does the government regulators order the pension funds where to put their money?
Well, it's all selectively enforced.
I want to back you up here.
If they don't, the laws, millions of laws, there's millions, are written where nobody can follow the law.
It's all selectively enforced, so they'll go in and shut them down.
That's what Katherine Austen Fitts said and agreed with me here last week.
But then, you talked about the articles in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times In the last year that I've seen, where not only have they cut almost all of the white-collar investigators off of big banks, big corporations that pay almost no tax, it's reported, but when they do bust a Swiss bank account and make it big news in Reuters today, it was for $200,000.
So they're busting little bitty chump level.
That sounds a lot to a McDonald's worker, but that's nothing, you know, to the elite who are in the trillions and hundreds of billions individually in some cases.
And then I remember reading articles about now they're not even having them go after upper middle class, it's after blue-collar, people $35,000, and that they send two uniformed officers to Sacramento to a guy's car wash that hadn't paid four cents.
In fact, pull that up.
It was two or four cents, Sacramento B. Car wash visit over two cents.
And they threatened him over two cents.
Again, they've got the few investigators going after people for two cents.
Look, if you have two glasses of wine and they stop you, they'll throw you against the car and handcuff you and send you to jail.
I mean, come on!
It's squeezed the little people.
This is classic when an empire is in decline.
And America is that declining empire.
So that's what happens and that's why revolts begin.
As you said, they have the agents provocateur.
That they keep putting in, whether it's a peaceful demonstration, and all of a sudden you see a squad of guys coming out, and they call them anarchists with masks on, and who are they?
They're the police!
And they're making it look as though it's the average person that's causing the damage.
And the same thing as you pointed out, the infiltrators of these tea parties.
So we're really in a very crucial time right now, and we could go either way, but unquestionably, After this stimulus high runs out, the economy is going to crash.
They're going to try to keep it alive for the 2010 midterm elections, but after that...
The AP reported yesterday, several weeks after our initial investigation, that groups all over the country are infiltrating the Tea Party's deposes racist into other things.
Well, here is, uh, Braverton teacher faces investigation over Tea Party infiltration.
He also has a company that supplies much of the city with their internet.
And I've said this is racketeering.
You try to go to peaceful political protest And make them look like kooks, or make them look like racists, as other groups are saying they're going to do, or try to cause violence, as other groups are saying.
That's racketeering.
That's organized crime, getting together to go set people up.
And the black congressional caucus walked out in the Tea Party, tried to get them to spit on them, tried to get them to call them the N-word.
Nobody did that.
The media ran with it and lied.
This is the type of propaganda we're talking about.
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Okay, Gerald, talking about the economy going under.
I know you can't put an exact date on it, but a danger zone, A, B, is there a way to stop it, and C, when they implode it, what type of things are they going to try to steal?
The timing is very tough, but we're looking for something really to happen between now and September.
That's our window, because you're going to start seeing a lot more commercial real estate collapsing, you're going to start seeing more sovereign debt problems, and they're not going to be able to cover it up anymore.
And of course the Fed is winding back on their 1.5 trillion that they're covering this whole housing bubble with.
And that's winding down as well.
So we're going to start seeing some very bad sales coming out in real estate as well.
How can it be stopped?
It can be stopped only a couple of ways.
One is that We have to start doing business with each other.
We're a country of over 300 million people, by American.
And I'm not a protectionist, and I'm certainly not an isolationist.
I travel the world.
But I also have to support my neighbor, and my neighbors support me.
Because if neither of us do good, we all do bad.
And that's the way, really, as we can see it coming back in, is to rebuild this country brick by brick, manufacturing by manufacturer.
It was wonderful to hear about that jeans company, Made in America.
Anybody that's looking to get into business and to make a mark, sell Made in America.
The country's yearning for it and really wants it.
Number two, In how to bring it back is we need a productive capacity as well.
And the best way we see it is with an alternative energy.
But not wind, solar, geothermal, or biofuel.
Something much bigger.
And this isn't hyperbole.
Go back to when we went in the 1990s and we were in a very severe recession.
When Clinton got elected under the mantra, it's the economy stupid.
What got us out?
The internet revolution.
Products were invented, designed, manufactured, marketed, serviced.
We need that with a new energy product.
And by the way, a magazine, I don't have the mentality for it, but for those that do have engineering experience, Infinite Energy.
They're on the cutting edge with cold fusion, zero point energy, charge clusters, permanent magnets.
Something like that, Alex.
You can't print your way out of this.
You can't, you can't spend out of it.
Just like you or I. If we're deep in debt, we don't borrow more money.
officials say the claim is not based on new intelligence.
It is made up just like when Bush put it out.
Okay?
Now there could be some real terror attacks.
That's somebody fighting back like Pakistan.
Or if we attack Iran, they've said we're gonna attack back.
But Gerald Solente, I'm no fan of Iran, I'm America first, but it's not America, it's banks and corporations leading us into these wars that are black holes they steal money out of if they use as political distractions.
I mean, if our country attacks Iran, I mean, what do people expect Iran to do?
I mean, to lay there and take it?
I mean, since when do you, I mean, it'd be like Nazi Germany attacking England and England not fighting back.
Or it'd be like, You know, it's just so asinine, Gerald.
I don't think they, in the last century, they haven't colonized anybody.
They didn't attack another, invade another country.
I mean, when you look at the people that are pointing the fingers at Iran, particularly the United States, France and Israel, you know, their track record of colonization, starting wars, invading countries and occupying them is a lot worse than Iran's is.
So why all of a sudden Iran?
And what if they do get a nuclear weapon?
Well what are they going to do with it?
They're going to attack somebody with it?
Everyone knows that if they used it, they'd be annihilated.
So this is really to get the people angry.
We need Communism is gone.
The Germans, you know, during World War II is long over.
The Japanese, we don't have any more to point fingers at.
And now they're looking at the Iranians and North Koreans.
So when we're talking, by the way, of what's going to bring the economy down, if we have a terrorist strike, this economy goes to zero.
We go down an economic dark hole that we'll never be able to pull out of.
Because go back to 9-11.
We were in a recession.
Right after 9-11, Alan, the Genius Greens fan, who admits he's wrong 30% of the time, a C average, he began to lower interest rates to 46-year lows.
We can't do that anymore to juice the economy.
If there's a terrorist strike, We see an economic terror that will drive this country into the greatest depression a lot faster than we're forecasting.
Absolutely, and that's why Reuters even admits Russia said, okay, kill the poppy fields.
It's up over 12 times what it was nine years ago.
And the U.S.
and NATO said, no, we're going to let them grow and sell the opium.
I mean, it's out in the open, but then cops will raid your house looking for a marijuana cigarette.
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Well, China is only going to go so far with Iran because they're doing a lot of business with them.
And China's holding all the cards.
They're holding all our debt.
So we really have to play the China game, not the other way around.
And that's what we're really looking at.
And all this noise, by the way, about letting the yuan float so that American exports can be more competitive, meaning that it is going to cost more to buy Chinese products.
That's only for public consumption.
China's Producing stuff at slave labor wages.
If their currency goes up a little bit, it's not like everybody's going to be buying U.S.
products.
So China's really the ace in the hole over here.
Because the other problem with China is, last year for example, they had 70,000.
70,000 major disturbances and riots.
If the Chinese economy doesn't keep perking along, They have 1.2 billion problems on their hands.
And let's not forget this.
One of the only reasons why this economy didn't crash worse than it has, and quicker than it has, is because China has been throwing trillions of dollars into pumping up their economy, and by extension, the world economy.
So now when China, as they're doing now, starts to wind back, the economy starts to slow up.
We have a parasite banking economy, a global banking dictatorship, and now we have no more denial about world government.
We have Gordon Brown, Obama saying we're going to have a planetary regime with carbon taxes paid to private banks under a global constitution where the banks will be the government.
I mean, this is moving faster than I even thought it would.
I don't see how they're going to get away with this open tyranny, Gerald.
Um, I was just wanting to read a couple sentences from a story that someone wrote about the health bill, and then I was gonna ask the question to, uh, Gerald.
Yeah, that's one of my later questions is the health care bill, his analysis of it, but go ahead and read your point.
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Make the economy better by having less people file for bankruptcy.
And my question was, what does Gerald think about how the health bill is going to fit in with the crash that he predicts is coming up?
And they say federally they've got to report parents to CPS and ask the kids questions, but the point I forgot to make is it's a war of truth and lies.
I was watching Hardball two nights ago and everything coming out of Matthew's mouth was a lie.
That's why the guy's got 400,000 viewers.
Folks, this radio show, conservatively, has double that every day.
This guy's a joke.
No one is watching Anderson Cooper, and no one is watching these people on CNN, MSNBC.
CNN's lost more than half its ratings in the last year because people are getting wise to him.
But, Gerald, I still can't believe Him saying, there's no rationing, there's no death panels when it does have the bioethics panels.
Tom Daschle said, we will cut care to the old people.
I mean, don't they know the public's gonna find out they're lying?
We're going to come back and take some more calls, but when we come back, I first want to ask Gerald Cilente, because I'm interested in his take.
Time Magazine, Newsweek, I'll ask the question and I'll get the answer when we come back.
Time Magazine, London Guardian, Newsweek, Southern Poverty Law Center, every publication run by George Soros, are lying and saying I'm calling for violence and I'm dangerous.
Why are they singling me out more really than anybody else now on a daily basis?
What does Gerald think that is really all about?
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Because you're making a difference and you're waking people up.
And you're speaking to what a lot of people feel.
And they don't want that to happen.
So, it's logical that they would do that.
They want to stop the force that has the most power.
And it's like cutting off the head of a snake.
They feel as though if they could stop you, they could stop the movement.
In a lot of ways, because you're at the forefront of it.
And they're going to continue to do it and demonize everybody that they can That exposes the fraud going on.
I remember talking about what was going on about how this DC heist, we called it, Wall Street hijacks Washington.
How when we first said that, it was considered outrageous that we would think that.
So anytime that you begin to expose the fraud, the criminality, and the corruption, they want to shut you down because you cost them a lot of money and a lot of problems.
Well, they're probably well aware of that already, and they're just gonna look for any kind of breach that they could give an excuse to come in with, just like they do with everyone else.
So, it's again, you know, you said it before, the only thing you have in this life is your word, and your dignity, and that's all you leave behind is your word.
So, of course, there's always the threat.
I mean, I have to tell you, back in 2002, In the Trends Journal in my column, I wrote, it's getting dangerous.
And I said that I'm going to be careful what I say, because when they come out from the government saying, and you remember during the Bush years, you're either with us or against us.
And you have to be careful what you say.
And we're entering into a period like that.
And I make this really clear.
I'm not willing to die for my country, because what is my country?
My country certainly isn't the Democrats or the Republicans.
So when do you say, hey listen, knock yourself out, do what you want to do, but I'm not going to take shots for anybody.
I make that really clear.
And I make it very clear that we're calling for an intellectual revolution.
So what I would suggest you continue to do, every chance you can, is to say we want a peaceful change.
You see, here's what's going on, Alex.
The more they lose control, the harder they're going to clamp down.
And this is what the people need to know.
And that's why we're saying, the more that they start losing, the more control that slips away, they're going to create a violent situation so they can crack down on it.
I don't know if they want to, but I know that nothing I... Read my lips.
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I didn't have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.
I smoked, but I didn't inhale.
Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
I'm no crook.
How can anybody believe anything they say?
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These are psychopaths and sociopaths.
Look at this guy, this, this, uh, what, Edwards, John Edwards, whiter than white, you know, talking about morality and he gets caught with a chick.
I mean, Spitzer, I talked to that one after another.
Look up the definition of a sociopath.
This is who they are, and this is the way they behave.
They will do anything to maintain their control.
They act with all of the respectability and dignity on the tele- on- on- in front of the folks, and then behind the scenes, they're doing their dirty little stuff.
And again, and they're not even man enough to admit it.
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Continuing with your phone calls for Gerald Cilente.
Then I've got some other questions I want to ask him and some Twitter questions as well.
Let's go ahead and talk to Ron in Texas.
Ron, you're on the air.
Go ahead.
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It's always a pleasure.
Mr. Cilente, it is a complete honor.
I got two questions, actually.
There was a 2005 PNF report by Gary Schmidt that started off saying that Iran's nuclear capability was about 10 years behind.
So my first question is, what do you see in your professional opinion as the reality of their capability?
The other one is, some time ago we had a warhead That was known as the Whiskey 54, which was, uh, nicknamed a Davy Crockett and a Special Atomics Demolition Munition that was man-portable.
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The reason why I'm stating this is this yielded somewhere between 1 and 10 kilotons, so would you say that they would go more, if they played this card, go more route of a kiloton yield, or seeing as how the Megaton to be too destructive and kind of, I guess, be worthless to what they wanted to end up with.
We believe that Iran is eventually going to have nuclear weapons.
I guess you could bring it down to the right to bear arms.
They're in a very hostile region.
They have hostile neighbors.
And it's probably going to be for defensive purposes.
Look, India has them, Pakistan has them, both of them have not signed a nuclear proliferation treaty, as has Israel that hasn't signed it either.
So, we believe at some point they're going to get it.
To use it as a whole other thing, it's like being armed and not going to war for defensive purposes.
And we would say, logically, we believe that Iran is going to move toward nuclear, and there's no stopping them.
And again, under what province do you do that?
When does the hypocrisy stop?
Why can the UK, why can France, why can India, why can China, why can Israel, and why can the United States have nuclear weapons, and Russia, and not Iran?
You know, so, and now they're going to, the way they're going to get us out of it, when all their other schemes fail, is they're going to take us to war!
They're taking us to war in Pakistan!
Look what's going on over there!
We're in Pakistan, we're in Afghanistan, we're in Iraq, and we're going to go, we're fearful of fighting a war with Iran.
We know that every week or two there's a new article quoting him from some message board or audio and at the bottom it says we don't know this is him or not.
This is a boogeyman, a Goldstein, somebody to scare the population.
The Obama administration is warning the danger of a terror attack within the United States of the nuclear weapon is increasing.
But US officials say the claim is not based on new intelligence and questioned whether the threat is being overstated.
And President Obama went on in the 47 You know, Nation Nuclear Summit, they were having to conclude that the risk of nuclear confrontation has gone down between nations, but the risk of nuclear attack from terrorists has gone up.
I mean, this, and then it's got all these top analysts saying, this is political hype and fear-mongering, and Obama's trying to blame it on Iran, when Iran is Shiite, the archenemy of the Saudi Arabian Al-Qaeda Wahhabis.
You know, when I wrote Trends 2000 back in 1996, we front-loaded it with the breakup of the former Soviet Union and all of the suitcase-sized nukes and other nuclear materials that were being sold on the black market.
So again, with the foreign policy going in the direction it's going in, Of course there's going to be major reprisals against the United States.
Anybody that thinks differently is out of their mind.
You can't invade other countries, occupy them, kill hundreds of thousands of people, and not want people to get even with you.
How they do it, whether it's nuclear, a biological attack, whether it's a, you know, whatever it might be, in a stadium, in a shopping mall, it's going to happen.
Alex, you don't need any clearer proof than Afghanistan and Iraq.
Iraq is a war being fought under false pretenses.
There was no weapons of mass destruction.
There was no ties to al-Qaeda.
And go back and look at what the reasoning was to attack Afghanistan.
It was to get Osama bin Laden and close down the terrorist camps.
So they're going to use anything they can, fake or real, to keep the military machine going and to keep the people under their thumb in the height of fear.
And as you mentioned, they're using the fear card again and they're playing the card as a trial balloon because there's going to be real reasons for fear coming down the road.
Okay, I want to go back to calls, but I wanted to bring up another subject.
Back in January of last year, a year and a half ago, or almost a year and a half ago, we got State of New York, Bureau of Cemeteries, internal documents.
We had emergency managers on, saying they're preparing in Indiana and Illinois for millions of dead, that the flu was coming, it was going to kill millions, and that the feds had to take over and have martial law.
We got the documents.
I warned the people.
Then in April, out of the wrong season, wrong hemisphere, H1N1 pops up.
I go on air and I say, I don't know if this is going to be real or not, Whether it's real flu or not, it's psychological terrorism, just like if it's a real nuke attack or not, it's psychological terrorism.
Then, the head of the EU Health Commission, 47-member group, Wolfgang Wudrig, we had him on, documented that they paid off the scientists in our governments, had them lie to make tens of billions on sales.
You talked about it being a fraud, I talked about it, here it is, the Daily Mail, We blundered over swine flu health chiefs.
Global health chiefs have finally admitted that they may have overreacted to swine flu pandemic, landing governments with millions of unused vaccines.
That's the whitewash.
But there we are again, right about the fact that H1N1 was a hoax, but that it was genetically engineered.
That's been confirmed.
And that if you took the seasonal flu shot, that's what gave you the H1N1, they were putting it in the vaccines.
That's in five new studies that they were actually... I mean, this is so diabolical, it's right out in the open and nobody gets in trouble.
Well, look what's going on with the pharmaceutical companies.
They hire doctors, and they pay the doctors to do the research, and then the doctors become spokespersons for the pharmaceutical industry, and they make up fake studies.
I mean, how much more proof do you need?
Hey, ladies, remember all of that estrogen they told you to take for how many years?
And then the people that were saying that it was dangerous for you, and it wasn't doing the things that they claimed it was doing, they would, they would, you know, run them into the ground.
So yeah, it's every level, and again, keep making the connections.
You know, it's the same thing.
It's the pharmaceutical companies, it's big agriculture, it's big banks, and it's the Great War.
It all adds up.
It all goes into the same direction.
World War II, World War I, and the war coming up.
It's a war of profits.
They'll kill anybody, they'll do anything.
As I said before, there's nothing more than money junkies.
What do you see with the population and the relationship with police?
Now because of all these tiny handheld cameras built into cell phones, iPads, you name it, iPhones, we're really seeing police walk up, beat innocent people half to death, throw legless men out of wheelchairs, going crazy and being encouraged to do it, and now the public's really getting to see this.
Where do you see that going and where do you see the attempt to clamp down on free speech on the internet going?
We just saw that federal court ruling that was in favor of a Comcast, where they can now charge different prices for different clients to give them different speeds.
That may come about in the future.
So net neutrality is really under attack.
As far as the police, the police are becoming like goon squads.
Well, that's what happens when a nation goes from first class to third world.
They beat you into submission.
And that's what's going on in the United States more and more.
I hear you people talking all the time about God, gold, and guns.
My question is this.
Now, the thing is, okay, buying gold would be a wise investment, but my question is, if these people have this gold, and the dollar is only worth, as far as I know, maybe four cents, why would they sell their gold Or a dollar.
And by the way, my strategy is personally, I'm heavily invested in gold and have been for years.
I also buy Swiss francs, Canadian dollars and U.S.
dollars.
Because in that play, all I want to do is to stay even, and gold is my wild card, because I believe that they're going to devalue the dollar rather than it inflating.
One way or another, it's not going to be worth, it won't be able to buy a candy bar.
Cindy, Chuck, and Eric, you are straight ahead, final caller for Gerald Cilente.
And we'll give you his website as well on the other side.
You can see it up on the screen if you're watching at PrisonPlanet.tv.
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Chuck in Vegas, you're on the air.
Go ahead.
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Hi Alex, nice to speak to you.
I wanted to quickly just say, I've been listening to your show for a little more than a year now.
It was a breath of fresh air to be able to Get the information that you have.
It's something that I've been inquisitive about for years, and you were speaking vaguely about the recent flu epidemic that we've been having but you know things were suspect even as far back as stars you know what i mean when all these things and the bird flu virus and all these things would just pop up and then go away without any they use the environment they use bugs they use war all as a pretext to take control of our lives yeah
and but my my main comment is now my facebook page is nothing no no BS it's nothing but informative information I either get linked from you or other, the Drudge Report, other... Sure, we're almost out of time, go ahead.
My thing is, what do we do to wake people up?
Like, even in my own household, I speak to my wife about this stuff, and I can engage her shortly, but her standards, I mean, she's more concerned about Jesse James and that whole... Well, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, there's some people, love them to death, aren't ever concerned.
The biggest trend that we're writing about is going to be Internet TV.
Everything you see on that little screen Now goes to the big screen and they're really fearful of that because they can't keep up and compare with the content coming from an Alex Jones.
You're not going to see that on CNN.
So that's the real fear and that's why they're going to clamp down on the media in the future.
I don't know if you know I was there during the earthquake in Chile.
And, uh, you know, when we came over, all of a sudden, a couple of times, they had these roadblocks with helicopters and guys dressed with enough body armor to go to the Battle of the Bulge.
No, it's a place that's on the edge.
But I would say also that You know, I wouldn't buy anything anywhere.
I would just go someplace and check it out, stay there a while.
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He announced two and a half weeks ago that he's retiring from his twice-a-week column.
He's a former Wall Street Journal editor, the father of Reaganomics, the head of policy department of Treasury, and of course his new book is How the Economy Was Lost, The War of the Worlds, Paul Craig Roberts.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is with us and before he sails off into the sunset, at least for a while, taking a break, He's agreed to do a couple interviews with us.
He did one last week, and now he's back on tax day this week to talk about the economy, the value-added taxes, all the things, the carbon taxes they're calling for, and what he talked about last week, the systematic destruction by design of our economy, the total conversion to basically Mexico or another third world nation where you have a tiny elite and a giant underclass.
Dr. Roberts, great to have you here with us today, sir.
Well, you know, Alex, one of the great myths is that Americans are free people.
And once upon a time they were, but they've not been free since 1913.
Because once you have an income tax, you no longer Own your own labor.
And the historic definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor.
If you don't own your own labor, you are a serf or a slave.
So all Americans are either serfs or slaves, depending on the bracket.
There are no free Americans and have not been any free Americans Since 1913.
So when you hear our leaders such as George W. Bush talk about we have freedom in democracy, you certainly don't have freedom.
You're a serf.
All serfs were required to turn over 20-30% of their labor time to the government of their day.
A slave has to turn over about half of his labor time To his honor.
And Americans fall in between those two ranges.
So every American who works and earns an income is either serf or slave or in between that margin.
And that is simply the historic definition of a free person agreed to by the liberals, by Karl Marx By the conservatives, by all historians, that is the definition of a free person.
We don't meet that definition.
And people should be aware of this.
And that's the real message of April 15.
It reminds you every year that you're not a free man or woman.
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Many times when Congressman Ron Paul is on Fox or CNN or MSNBC, they'll say, you're against the government.
You hate the government.
How are we supposed to fund our country?
And many times he's standing in the Capitol or the Capitals behind him and he says, well, we built this Capitol.
Our country had a 10% growth rate on average until 1913 when we got the income tax.
That you will notice is in the Communist Manifesto.
So is a private central bank.
And we have been turned into serfs.
Not just with the income tax, but property tax is a rent.
Serfs paid a property tax as well.
And since 1913 it just expands and expands and expands and expands.
Now the bankers, Volcker and others, want a value-added tax, sales taxes, carbon taxes.
It's all being announced.
Former Wall Street Journal editor, for those that just joined us, father of Reaganomics, is our guest, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, author of How the Economy Was Lost, The War of the Worlds.
Paul Craig Roberts is with us here live today on Tax Day.
Sir, please continue where you left off in the last segment, our journey from liberty to servitude and serfdom.
Well, you know, the main point, Alex, was that a free person owns his own labor, and an income tax means the government has the first claim on your labor, just like feudal lords did, or a slave master.
And so Americans are not free, and haven't been for almost a century now.
We're three years short of a century of living as serfs, while the government tells us that we have freedom.
You know that under the Constitution the income tax is unconstitutional and certainly nobody in the latter part of the 18th century was going to propose an income tax since it was so close to the time that serfs were becoming free labor as opposed to serfs and so the notion of
Having the government have a claim on your labor would have been seen as a step back into the Dark Ages or into the Medieval Period.
And so, how did we get the income tax?
Well, the Democrats wanted it to get the rich.
And they got one passed and it was ruled unconstitutional and they had to have a constitutional amendment.
And the way they got it, if my memory serves, the Republicans wanted a higher tariff.
to protect the industries.
During our great growth period, we had high tariffs.
We did not develop on the basis of free trade.
So, in order to get the tariff, the Democrats said, look, tariffs are like sales taxes, and they're regressive, and people have to pay it who don't have a lot of money.
And so, If you will go along with letting us have a go at a constitutional amendment on the income tax, we'll let you have your tariff.
And the Republicans all said, well, you know, the states will never pass this, so let's make the deal so we can get a higher tariff.
So they made the deal, and when it went out to the states, The states looked at it and said, well look, look how much money you have to have before you even hit a 1% income tax rate.
Nobody in our state has that much money.
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We don't care if this passes, it doesn't affect us.
And so, it passed because the majority of the states came to the conclusion that nobody in the state had an income that large.
But of course, As soon as it's in, World War I starts.
And, of course, they want to finance the war.
And so, all of a sudden, the thresholds at which the tax comes in are lowered, the rates at which are charged are raised, and the whole population is almost subject to the income tax, which was only going to be for the rich.
Well, that's how it happened.
That's how it came into effect.
It was a miscalculation as a part of a deal to be able to raise a tariff in exchange for giving the Democrats a go at a constitutional amendment.
Well, Dr. Roberts, let me add a caveat before you continue.
We notice in the same year, 1913, we get the income tax to now fund the new central bank that so many of our forefathers had fought against.
As Thomas Jefferson said, if you allow private corporations and banks to issue currency and credit, you will wake up homeless on the continent your forefathers conquered.
And we also, that same year, got the 17th Amendment, taking the senators from the states, voted on by the legislatures, and making them federal creatures, so further dominating the states.
And so the central banks that helped, and private banks that helped ram this through, did it in the name of getting the rich guys, the robber barons, but really the robber barons that helped them vertically integrate That's true, and that's one of the subjects of my recent book, How the Economy Was Lost.
Dr. Roberts, I want to talk more about the income tax and all the new taxes they want to pile on that are similar to...
But what about the states and property taxes?
Many states didn't have property taxes until the last 20, 30 years and they go up and up and up.
That's another classic feudal serf tax where you didn't own the land you were on, you were the keeper of it, but you had to pay a percentage to the nobles.
Property taxes really aren't abortable because even if you rent from a landlord he has to pay the tax so it goes in to the rent.
Property tax, the reason given for that and what was used was to fund public schools.
So you find the public school system based on the property tax and therefore this made it
Free, so to speak, since property tax wasn't avoidable, and people paid the property tax, so they used public schools, and this was a great setback to private education, and it was another mechanism for government to condition the thinking of people, to brainwash them through time, to make them think that they are free.
and have democracy, even though they are at the service of the government.
The government has a very powerful claim on their income.
Let me illustrate that a little bit more.
Back during the slavery period in the United States, there were slaves who had special skills.
They were craftsmen.
They were highly trained in some aspect of of arts and crafts and they were their labor was worth more than working in the cotton fields or working on the plantation and so what would happen is the owners of the slave would lease the slave to a businessman in a city or town and the man who leased the slave
Would withhold half of the slave's earnings and send it back to the owner and give the other half to the slave which he used to maintain himself in town where he lived, you know, on his own resources after tax.
Well, that's the way it works today.
Most people cannot avoid income tax because they never get the money.
And by the way, we've seen this new hoax by AP and others, I see it all over the news, that 47% of Americans don't pay income tax after deductions, but what is FICA and Social Security?
Don't they know that their employers are just paying them less because they have to pay all those other taxes and matching Social Security, FICA?
I mean, this lie that 47% of the public are avoiding taxes is a hoax, is it not?
If you're paying, if you're a global corporation, say you're operating in the United States and say Europe, for example, and you're taxed in Germany and France, then that income is an offset to those earnings.
And it is not, again, taxed by the United States government.
It's not really the case that they can avoid taxes.
Why then do we see the mega corporations always lobbying for more taxes?
Or the big health care insurance companies lobbying for health care?
We'll ask Dr. Roberts that question when we come back and talk about where he sees this nation going.
As he said last week, the economy is being destroyed by design.
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And you and other economists talk about how these jobs aren't coming back.
It took hundreds of years to build what we've got, now just a few decades to destroy it.
There was open discussion by the IMF and World Bank now of the dollar going down.
They're saying they need more bailouts, VAT taxes, sales taxes, carbon taxes, when any economist worth their salt knows in a stalling economy, you throw more taxes on, that will just accelerate the economy's implosion.
You see, by wrecking the economy, they have worsened the trade deficit dramatically.
They have worsened The Federal Budget Deficit, which they can no longer finance, and that is a threat to the dollar as a reserve currency, which is a threat to their power of the United States.
And so now it looks like the hard-pressed Americans could be hit with new forms of oppressive taxation, such as a value-added tax on top of the income and Social Security tax and state sales taxes and property taxes.
They have, by putting the dollar into jeopardy and having to rescue the dollar in order to rescue the power of the American military super state, they have to drive the population, or 96% of it, deeper into the ground.
And that's exactly what is on the agenda.
And the result for the American people is going to be horrific.
They're going to be put through the mill In a way that people haven't experienced in the longest, longest time.
Yeah, this taxation rate is much higher for my study than what caused the colonies to rebel, but also they were having fake courts, royal courts that bypass juries, and the right of Magna Carta and habeas corpus, and you look at all those parallels, they're identical to what led up to 1775, 1776, but magnified.
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separately on the police state, regardless of the Emergency Centers Act, regardless of the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, Patriot Act.
We know U.S. citizens are being grabbed.
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All of this is going on.
The denial needs to end about the level of tyranny accelerating in our society.
Well, Alex, I don't know how much of it goes on, but what we do know for certain is that they have removed the barriers to it and can do it whenever they want.
They can grab whoever they want.
We had, you know, the head of Homeland Security fairly recently saying that Homeland Security was shifting its attention from foreign terrorists To domestic American extremists.
And we had not long ago the arrest of a blonde, blue-eyed woman as a terrorist.
So they're already moving away from the Muslim threat.
They used that to get all of those police state measures in place.
And now they can apply them to the general population.
Alex, before we go off into that, let me say one more thing about the income tax.
Many progressives and liberals get disturbed at criticisms of the income tax because they think it's used for the poor.
I was on a show just the other day where the host thought the income tax paid for public schools and roads.
And was unaware that the road system was built with gasoline tax and that the public schools are funded with property tax.
But, what, let me just make a point about the use of the income tax revenues.
The last week David Lindorff published an article
In which he said, if you add up all of the military spending, not just the Pentagon's budget, but all of the other related military spending that's dispersed throughout the budget and other departments, the Supplementalist Wars and the CIA and so forth, that it comes to 53% of the federal income tax revenues.
So that more than half of the federal income tax revenues are used to fund the military.
Now this is an extraordinary thing.
I don't think it was this bad during the dark ages.
But if you have the military function of the government, which has now 53% of the unserved labor goes to support.
This is an extraordinary thing.
And it gives the military security complex such power, because a lot of these funds are recycled into political campaign contributions, that it's almost impossible to budge this.
Now if you look at the size of the American budget and military spending, the total thing that Lindor presents, and you add in that of all of our allies in Europe, Japan, and in the nations that are friendly to us, it accounts for two-thirds of world military spending.
And so how Do we face a threat?
How is Iran a threat?
Now this is really very interesting because Iran's annual military budget is 4.8 billion dollars.
Cost of maybe, what, two weeks of our war in Afghanistan.
4.8 billion is what the Pentagon spends on child care and recreation.
It's what it spends on its replacement helicopters.
And then B, we've got Volcker, Obama, and people like Glenn Beck calling for sales taxes, value-added taxes, carbon taxes, saying we've got to pay this.
What it does is it taxes the value added to a product at every stage.
So if we say, okay, we go dig up the iron ore, and so the act of digging the ore out of the ground, that makes it more valuable because it's now accessible.
So the difference in the value of the ore in the ground and the value of the ore dug out, that difference is value added and it's taxed.
And then the iron ore is converted into iron or steel.
Doctor, I want to move quickly through some other subjects, but going back to overall taxes, because you wanted to come on today, and we're honored to have you.
Specifically, other points you'd like to make about the income tax, and I want to ask you, where do you see all this leading?
Because, I mean, clearly, this is a vertical integration, a criminal consolidation.
They have no appearances of even slowing down, only accelerating.
Well, the people and the vast majority of Americans will find a sharp decline in their living standard.
And there's no way around it because not only are the jobs, the best jobs disappearing, but all of these taxes, particularly a value-added tax, will seriously reduce their purchasing particularly a value-added tax, will seriously reduce their purchasing power.
Expanding on that, the trick again is they've had fake conservatives promoting VAT for almost two decades saying we're going to get rid of the income tax.
But now they're saying, oh no, we're going to have the income tax and the VAT, but don't worry, it'll only be 2%.
You know, as we said earlier in your program today, the reason the income tax amendment passed, the constitutional amendment, to permit one, Was that the vast majority of states didn't have anybody living in them that had income higher enough to be taxed under the original proposal.
So sure, once you have... But the same thing happened to state sales taxes.
So if it's a 2% value added tax, it won't be 2% very long.
Very quickly rise up, as in Europe.
Now as I said, they're 20% or more.
Now, where all this may end is that the dollar may simply collapse.
It may lose its reserve currency role.
In which case, it will be the end of the evil empire because the wars won't be, you can't finance them.
The only way they can finance all of these wars and all of this military spending is that the dollar is a reserve currency and we can pay our bills simply by printing money.
Nobody else can do that.
So if we lose that role, then you will see a collapse in the empire and you will also see a collapse in living standards because it would have a similar effect as a value-added tax in reducing people's incomes.
Because the value of it would fall dramatically, and so all of the imports on which we are dependent would rise in price.
And this would also have the effect of reducing Americans' real incomes.
So for the future, Alex, it's going to be different than the past when people could look forward to a rising level of income.
Now, I'm afraid, they'll have to look forward to declining levels of real income.
All right, I want to take a few calls here in the end of this segment and the next with you.
We really appreciate you spending time with us.
But, you know, we know there's some global organization of this, but it's driven by the greed, the short-term view.
But at the UN level, it's a long-term view.
But it lends credence to what you're saying, that it's just a bunch of looters, and not organized at some point.
Because I'm reading in Texas, and in Ohio, and in Michigan, and New Jersey, and all over, more than 10 states going bankrupt or on the verge.
Some sheriffs and police departments slashing by more than half.
Police saying, buy your own guns to protect yourself.
As taxes go up, more and more goes to interest on the debt and to corporate welfare and actual road warrior type scenarios where one county in Ohio that has over 100,000 people will have one cop on duty for every shift from 116 that they had.
I mean this, we're looking at potential road warrior type collapse.
They said in Ohio, they were going to keep 49 of the 116 deputies and that now only one would be on patrol for the citizens, the rest out collecting revenue.
So now they're admitting we're here to collect revenue.
And we do know that the sort of economy we had that produced rising consumer incomes is being dismantled and that the more likely prospect is falling consumer income.
So you get a mixture of a weaker, poor public and a stronger, less accountable government.
And that...
I think that is enough to make us disturbed and wary when you see the people becoming economically weaker and the government becoming less accountable and more powerful, less restrained by law, by the Constitution.
You're a great writer, and we've got the book holding it up on TV ourselves.
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Hey, Mr. Roberts.
I mean, it's really nice to talk to you.
You've got a lot of experience on, you know, taxes and everything else, and where you came from in life as far as all the information that's been provided to you.
I guess my question to you would be, in all of your research, what would the average individual, knowing... Okay, so they read your books and follow some of the... Yeah, what do we do about this?
Well, we will not be able to do anything about it until it just falls apart.
Though, you know, last week in one of the stands, part of the former Soviet Empire was in Kyrgyzstan.
All of a sudden the people just revolted and threw the government out.
And they did this despite being fired on by troops.
So at some point, maybe people will have nothing left to lose and will revolt.
The only other solution is A long-term solution of restoring veneration of the Constitution so that people say that's what's important is protecting the Constitution.
We can't do anything that undermines the Constitution or the restraints that it places on government.
But that would take a long time.
The law schools would have to have a change of mind.
They would have to teach a generation of law students.
They would have to enter into the judiciary, especially the federal judiciary.
Well, absolutely, by every yardstick, by every measurement.
But I think it's important also just to point out their criminals and give people the alternative of the Republic, of the Bill of Rights, of the Constitution, so that people can recognize this tyranny and counter.
I mean, I'm sure you saw the Wall Street Journal, where they admit that NBC and others have propaganda placement or behavior placement in the shows, brainwashing people with federal funds.
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