"AGENDA: Grinding America Down"

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Curtis Bowers, parlamentar al statului Idaho, dezvăluie agenda subversivă după care America este atacată asimetric:

AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA DOWN

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is

three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.

If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse

from within.” – Joseph Stalin

“The goal of socialism is Communism.” – Vladimir

Lenin

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that

good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” –

Rahm Emanuel

INTRODUCTION

America is in extreme danger on numerous fronts

these days – economic, financial, and political. But underlying

all of these dangers is a far greater menace casting a

shadow over all of them, and threatening to undermine the

very essence and integrity of the nation we inherited from

our founding fathers.

America has been gradually sliding away from its

foundation of liberty and spiritual core for decades. However,

the so-called Great Recession has provided a oncein-

a-lifetime opportunity (i.e., crisis) for those in power to

advance their dangerous agenda at warp speed. They’re

using fear to contrive a need for massive new regulations

in every area of society. If unchecked, their agenda will

extinguish the light of free markets and capitalism, and

you will soon no longer recognize your nation.

I. AGENDA: GRINDING AMERICA

DOWN

Many of us have seen the moral, spiritual, cultural,

and political decline of America since the 1960s, and assumed

it was just the natural (spontaneous) decline of a

once-great nation – like the decline and fall of the Roman

Empire. But a new film documentary by Curtis Bowers

shows that this decline in America was anything but natural

or spontaneous. For the past 50 years, the political left

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Donald S. McAlvany

Editor

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in America (think Communists, socialists, progressives)

has had a systematic plan or strategy for grinding America

down, and they have been working this plan nonstop

for over half a century. Today, they are very close to

achieving their goal of a socialist America. Bowers’

film, “Agenda: Grinding America Down” explores this

strategy from Antonio Gramsci through Saul Alinsky to

Barack Obama and the White House, and how the Communists

in America are nearing victory if there is not a

great awakening in America – and very soon.

Curtis Bowers is among those who have grasped the

massive deception underway and dared to cry, “the emperor

has no clothes!” The masses believed the 1991 fall

of the Soviet Union signaled the end of Communism as a

threat, but Bowers shows how incredibly wrong they

were. America today is under direct siege by the forces of

socialism, Marxism and Communism – all varying degrees

of the same lethal ideology. You will be shocked to

learn as you watch this film that the methods being employed

are straight out of Nazi, Marxist, and radical playbooks.

Americans are in a political slumber and most

haven’t the faintest idea what President Obama really has

in mind with his “hope and change,” and what he is deceptively

orchestrating right in plain sight.

Bowers has produced an alarming and revealing

DVD, with many eminent people telling the frightening

story of America’s accelerating demise. These political

experts deliver crucial warnings of America’s impending

collapse if the nation’s leadership and direction are not

promptly changed. This article will summarize the strategy

of the political left and key points from the “Agenda”

film. You will want to purchase it for yourself, your

loved ones, and fellow citizens who actually care what is

happening to America, our Constitution, and our freedom.

Your future may depend on it.

A. THE HISTORY AND GOALS OF THE

COMMUNISTS IN AMERICA

Karl Marx cleverly incorporated the philosophies of

Friedrich Nietzsche (who said God was dead) and

Charles Darwin (who said humans were just part of the

animal kingdom) to legitimize his own Communist philosophy.

He knew their ideas would justify the brutality

and slaughter that would be necessary to implement

Communism worldwide. Stalin put Marx’s philosophy

into action, never deviating from his brutal march toward

world Communism.

During the 20th century, more people were killed –

135 million people according to the Congressional record

– than all other centuries combined. Of these, it’s estimated

that over 90 million people died under Communist

purges vs. 20+ million under Hitler. The whole history of

Communism is one of mass murder. Communists were

guilty of the slaughter of more people in times of peace

than all the wars of history combined. Communism, the

ultimate form of socialism, is an evil, totally tyrannical system,

and it is the greatest killing machine in all of human

history.

Joseph Stalin understood America’s real strength and

told America’s enemies exactly how they must strike

America to destroy it: “America is like a healthy body and

its resistance is three-fold: its patriotism, its morality, and

its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas,

America will collapse from within.”

History shows that Stalin’s advice was followed, especially

when you look at America today. The entire purpose

is to detach our culture from any moral anchors whatsoever.

Look at the changes in America since 1960 … the

whole culture has been transformed. They have deliberately

destroyed the American family, the foundation block that

builds a society. They believe it takes a village to raise a

child (remember Hillary Clinton’s book It Takes a Village).

The village means the government.

They (socialists-Marxists-Communists) understand the

mortar that holds society together – and they want to destroy

it. They want change and they have sought to subvert

and rot every good and decent thing we believe in, because

they have a vision for a new society, and that means the

destruction of the old society. They basically try to say that

the state itself is ultimate, that there’s no law higher than

the state; and if there’s no law higher than the state, there’s

no appeal against it.

Bowers describes how, in the early 1990s (at a meeting

of the Communist Party, which he managed to get in to),

the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) was split over differences

of how to take America down. Some wanted to continue

working toward a violent revolution, while others

wanted to focus their efforts on using public policy to subvert

America from the inside. To destroy our families, they

wanted to promote cohabitation instead of marriage; they

wanted to try to get children into government programs at

the earliest age possible; and they also said they’d like to

get behind the feminist movement because they felt it

would be very successful – making women discontent with

marriage and motherhood.

Betty Friedan is credited with starting the feminist

movement in this country, to make women feel they were

victims. While Friedan was pushing her book, Feminine

Mystique, she implied she was coming from the point of

being a frustrated housewife herself who just wanted to be

a help to other women. But later, in the 1990s, it came out

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that she was, in fact, a radical propagandist for the Communist

Party and a staunch supporter of Stalin. So, when

she described the American family as a “comfortable concentration

camp,” it wasn’t because of her experience at

home, it was because she was just doing her part to dismantle

our families.

To destroy business, the CPUSA wanted to get behind

the environmental movement, but in 1992 the environmental

movement was very modest. Even so, they thought

environmentalism was the only vehicle capable of creating

enough regulation and red tape to discourage business

growth. And finally, to destroy our culture of religion and

morality, they said if we can get Americans to accept homosexuality,

they thought it would begin to extinguish

our traditional moral values. Henry Hay, a leading member

of the Communist Party, set up the Mattachine Society

to infiltrate the culture of the U.S. to make homosexuality

normal and acceptable.

Bowers remembers thinking at the time that those

plans were not very realistic – not something he would

need to worry about in his lifetime. But today (18 years

later), it is unbelievable how successful they have been.

Our families are totally disintegrating; the environmental

movement has become the most powerful force for destroying

our free markets; and hate crimes legislation

makes it a crime to even say anything against the homosexual

movement.

We failed to notice the incremental, relentless march

of socialism from day to day (or even year to year). But

when viewed from a historical perspective, the changes

are shocking. Such perspective is provided by the book

The Naked Communist, written in 1958 by Cleon

Skousen, a former FBI agent. The book lists 45 specific

Communist goals. Here are just a few of them to show

how successful the Communist agenda has been since

1958: #28: Eliminate prayer in the schools on the grounds

that it violates the principle of “separation of church and

state.” #40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage

promiscuity and easy divorce. #17: Get control of the

schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism.…

Soften the curriculum, get control of teacher associations.

#24: Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling

them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and

free press. #25: Break down cultural standards of morality

by promoting pornography in books, magazines, motion

pictures, and TV. #26: Present homosexuality, degeneracy,

and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” #20 &

21: Infiltrate the press, gain control of key positions in

radio, TV, and motion pictures. #27: Infiltrate the

churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

Discredit the Bible. Bowers points out that by the

1990s, the Communists had achieved almost every single

one of their 45 goals, with virtually no one even noticing.

(i.e., like boiling the frog slowly). For at least the last 50

years, they have been working actively behind the scenes,

in the shadows, trying to move our people and our culture

in a direction designed to destroy us.

B. IS COMMUNISM DEAD?

After the alleged fall of Communism in the Soviet

Union in 1991, the world was led to believe that Communism

was dead. However, this was a cleverly devised strategic

deception (or disinformation) designed to make the

West fall asleep and lower its guard. (See Anatoliy Golitsyn’s

book New Lies for Old for a detailed explanation of

their strategy.) But what is really happening?

There are more Communist Party members in the

world today than ever before. Right now, six countries in

Latin America are Communist. One of the things the

Communists are doing worldwide is not using the name

“Communist,” so what we have is people with Communist

ideas masquerading in the U.S. under a variety of

names. They’re also trying to get away from the word

“liberal” and call themselves “progressives.” If you go to

the CPUSA website, all of the programs and policies they

support are “progressive.” Leftists from hardcore liberals

to Communists to socialists all call themselves

“progressives,” and they all broadly have the same values

and work together.

Whitaker Chambers said: “Communism succeeds because

most people that promote Communist causes are

not Communists – the ‘useful idiots’ that Lenin called

them. It gives them an air of legitimacy that they would

never have if identified with Communists and Communism.”

Most people on the left aren’t Communists – just

“useful idiots” being used to promote a socialist agenda,

which is the first and necessary step toward Communism.

All the groups on the left now have the same goal – a socialist

America – and it is now within their grasp.

C. ORIGINS OF THE JUGGERNAUT:

WHO STARTED ALL OF THIS?

1. FABIANS – Karl Marx, the father of modern day

Communism, died in 1883. The assumption that Communism

would die with him was logical since only nine people

attended his funeral. But that same year the Fabian

Socialist Society was formed in London. The Fabian Socialists

decided they would socialize the world incrementally.

They called it “socialism by evolution” instead of

“socialism by revolution.” They worked in tandem with

the Communists – some Fabians were also Communists,

and there was some interchange in leadership.

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The Fabians’ ominous symbol was a not-very-subtle

key to their nature: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And one of

the deceptive wolves was the Irish playwright George

Bernard Shaw, who was a Fabian leader for almost 50

years. He said (in 1948): “I am a Communist, but not a

member of the Communist Party. Stalin is a first-rate Fabian.

I am one of the founders of Fabianism, and as such

very friendly to Russia.”

2. SDS and WEATHER UNDERGROUND – The

Fabian seed produced U.S. offspring: Students for a Democratic

Society (SDS) and its radical left faction, the

Weather Underground (WU). The WU’s stated goal was

to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent

overthrow of the U.S. government and the establishment

of a dictatorship of the proletariat. A leader in SDS and

founder of the WU was William Ayers, a longtime friend

and neighbor of President Obama. (Ayers directly participated

in the bombing of public buildings in the 1960s and

’70s, and is now a distinguished professor in the College

of Education at the University of Chicago.) Obama’s

book, Dreams from My Father, was written by Ayers.

The Rev. Jim Wallis, who was president of SDS when

a student at Michigan State University, is today the spiritual

advisor to the President of the U.S. They have been

friends for many years, going back to Chicago and the

Chicago political crowd. During the Vietnam War, Wallis

was rooting for the Viet Cong to beat the U.S. Army –

when they did, he was elated. He said it was one of the

happiest days of his life (move over Hanoi Jane). So, Fabian

socialist influence reaches directly into the White

House today.

3. THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL – This group

was founded by Bolsheviks and became an outpost of

European socialism in America. Two leading members

were Herbert Marcuse and Franz Norton, who was a Soviet

agent. The purpose was to stand the entire educational

system of the West, and the U.S. in particular, on its head.

With the help of John Dewey (a noted progressivepopulist

educator of the early 20th century), Frankfurt

School intellectuals were brought to America in 1933 and

placed in Princeton, Berkeley, and Brandeis. Their goals

were the teaching of homosexuality and sexuality to children;

the promotion of excessive drinking; and the destruction

of religion in the U.S.

The Frankfurt School developed the concept of cultural

Marxism – penetrate the culture. Take over the culture

and everything else will follow. They did that, and

today we have a complete cultural revolution. Many are

familiar with the phrase ‘make love, not war,’ which was

coined by Herbert Marcuse. They went after education

and the media, and they’ve been successful in changing

the entire worldview of Americans through what they call

“political correctness,” which is really cultural Marxism.

Their goal is to destroy Christianity, create chaos, and

then move from cultural Marxism to traditional Marxism.

4. ANTONIO GRAMSCI – Gramsci was a neo-

Marxist philosopher and founder of the Italian Communist

Party. He said that “we’re going to destroy the West by

destroying its culture. We’re going to infiltrate and we’re

going to turn their music, their art and their literature

against them.” They planned to penetrate the universities

and write the textbooks, the novels, the poetry, the music,

the book reviews. Once they control the culture, then they

can shape the thought of rising generations. He differed

with Marx. Instead of destroying the church or other basic

institutions, he said infiltrate them and use them to change

the culture. Gramsci didn’t want a revolution on the

streets that could be overturned the next day by police. He

wanted to change society over the long term so that we’d

have a revolution without us even realizing it.

5. SAUL ALINSKY – One of Gramsci’s all-star

disciples was Saul Alinsky, one of the most influential

radicals of the 1930s to ’60s (and a community organizer

in Chicago). He worked closely with the CPUSA.

Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, was the field manual

for leftist activists and organizations. The book’s dedication

reads as follows: “Lest we forget at least an over-theshoulder

acknowledgement to the very first radical … the

first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment

and did it so effectively that he at least won his

own kingdom – Lucifer.” Obama studied and taught Rules

for Radicals at a workshop for four years in Chicago as

the community organizer for ACORN. You ask what

Alinsky’s impact is on the leftist movement today – it basically

defines it. Alinsky took the best of Gramsci and

Fabian socialist ideas, combined, repackaged, and sold

them to ’60s radicals – many of whom are now running

America.

6. CLOWARD-PIVEN – After studying Alinsky,

Richard Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven, came

up with what is known today known as the Cloward-Piven

strategy. The idea is basically that to destroy society or

destroy capitalism per se, they needed to overload the system.

Get everybody you possibly could on welfare, basically

milking the system in some way or another, and increase

the tax burden on the middle class and bring capitalism

one step closer to destruction. The Cloward-Piven

strategy says, “let’s collapse the American economy by

implementing so many entitlements, so much of a welfare

state that it will collapse.”

7. ACORN – Wade Rathke (draft resistance organizer

for SDS) studied the Cloward-Piven strategy and

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formed ACORN (Association of Community Organizations

for Reform Now), the incubator for Obama. So, you

can follow the pedigree of modern day socialism in America

beginning in 1883, when it was nearly extinguished

following Marx’s death, to the Fabians, the Frankfurt

School, Gramsci, Alinsky, Cloward-Piven, and ACORN,

which gave us Obama. From this lineage, you will find a

connection to almost every leftwing person and organization

in America.

D. WHY ARE THEY SO AGAINST

MORALITY?

Atheist Karl Marx said, “My object in life is to dethrone

God and destroy capitalism.” Marxist philosophy is

that people exist for the benefit of the state. God was

Marxism’s competition, so He had to be discredited and

man deified. Marx had the insight to see that dethroning

God and destroying capitalism went hand-in-hand. As you

attempt to dethrone God by erasing morality in society, and

destroying His institutions – the family and the church –

you are destroying capitalism. As families fall apart and

the church loses its influence, society starts to crumble.

Then government has to expand to pick up the pieces.

Almost all the ideas that have made America such a

unique and great country, our founding fathers got straight

out of the Bible. The political left understands this. It is

noteworthy that the Left has a problem with only one religion

– Biblical Christianity. They never complain about

separation of church and state when it comes to Islam,

Buddhism, Hinduism, or any of the other religions. Essentially,

for the left, the choice that they see very clearly is

that people are going to depend upon God or they are going

to depend upon government. They want people to depend

upon government so they have to destroy faith in God.

Dictators of the Left – Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and

all the others – have always come to power by acting like

they’re going to “change things” to make it better for the

people. Yet history has shown us the devastating results

that have happened each time. There’s no example in history

of big government that didn’t abuse its power over the

people. The people who have believed in the God of the

Bible, and that their rights are a gift from Him, have always

stood up for the preciousness of every human life.

Whether the Left knows it or not, their plans and goals can

all be summed up very simply: they are at war with God.

E. HOW DID THEY PULL THIS OFF?

1. THE MEDIA – If you’re trying to attack, trying

to subvert a country, you want to control the news, you

want to control public opinion. Generations of journalists

have been trained to interpret events, interpret the news –

not report the facts. They’ve turned from political bias to

activism. As a result we have a news media in the U.S. that

is extremely liberal – controlling not only the print, but the

television media and Hollywood. Stalin himself said, “If I

could control Hollywood, I could rule the world.”

2. EDUCATION – Children are always the first target

of anybody trying to bring down a system. Lenin said,

“Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I

have sown will never be uprooted.” John Dewey is believed

to be the most influential man in the whole area of

public education. An atheist, socialist, and humanist,

Dewey went to Russia in 1928 to study the hallmarks of

education and bring them back to America. He believed

that education should socialize the child to make him a

willing tool of the state. Dewey, who is still idolized as the

father of public education in America, is the very man who

did everything in his power to dumb down our children so

that they would accept his vision of a socialist America.

Since the 1960s, Leftists have gotten control of the

teachers unions and universities. If you’ve got those two

institutions, you can pretty much dictate all educational

policy. The people who were demonstrating against our

country and against our government in the 1960s have now

become tenured professors in the universities. They’re the

ones who are writing the textbooks, teaching the teachers,

running the teachers colleges. They discovered that they

could do more to remake our country by going into the

schools than they could by throwing bombs. And it’s selfperpetuating.

Once you have the universities, then you

train more cadres from generation to generation.

In William Fosters’ book, Toward Soviet America, he

has a whole chapter on how the Communists have to supplant

the education of this country and ultimately force

every student to attend public school. They’re training

them for the collective and dependency mindset. Thankfully,

they’re being given plenty of competition from the

home school movement – which has more than 3½ million

children in it and is growing rapidly. There is a battle in

this country for the hearts and minds of our children.

3. ENVIRONMENTALISM – The word “environment”

comes from a French word for “surroundings.”

What surrounds us? Everything. Communism seeks to

impact and control everything, and it found in the environmental

movement a perfect vehicle to do so. There is no

way to implement what Al Gore wants (and explained in

the last chapter of his book Earth in the Balance) except by

means of totalitarian world government.

Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and dedicated

environmentalist, found this out too late. To his

credit, though, he quit Greenpeace when he realized that it

had been captured by radical leftists intent on using the

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environmental movement as a vehicle to destroy capitalism.

Few of his fellow travelers have been so insightful,

and green activists of all stripes today promote the environmental

agenda with religious fervor, despite its often

unscientific basis, the clear evidence of fraud in such efforts

as so-called “global warming science,” and the gross

conflict of interest apparent in Al Gore’s profiting from

the cap-and-trade legislation he promotes in the name of

the environment.

F. HAVE THEY BEEN SUCCESSFUL?

The radical left has been so successful they have persuaded

the American people to put one of their own in the

White House. Twenty percent of the U.S. Congress are

members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, they

have chairmanships of most of the major House Committees,

and are easily the single most powerful bloc in Congress.

And virtually all of them are tied to the Democratic

Socialists or the CPUSA or other related organizations.

The Left has started multitudes of foundations and nonprofit

organizations, many of which are using our tax dollars

to grind America down. The political left now dominates

the U.S. entertainment industry, the media, the educational

system, the courts, both houses of Congress, and

the White House. Yes, they have been very successful.

G. HAVE WE PASSED THE POINT OF

NO RETURN?

Is it too late? That depends on all of us, as we ponder

where the nation is headed. Lenin said, “The goal of socialism

is Communism.” It’s the final destination on the

road we’re traveling, and Obama and his fellow socialist

travelers are leading America, pied-piper-like, towards the

precipice. We need to speak up, call things what they are,

and make our views known. Consider sending Curtis

Bowers’ DVD “Agenda: Grinding American Down” to

everyone you think will benefit from it and work to remove

our socialist leaders from office.

The foregoing review is merely a summary and abbreviated

version of the DVD – you must view, study, and

consider the implications of this very timely film! Also,

vote for true freedom and liberty loving candidates in the

November elections. Lastly, pray harder than you ever

have for America in this time of extreme socialist danger.

H. A CALL TO ACTION: WHAT CAN

YOU DO?

In 1964, the insightful book None Dare Call It Treason,

by this writer’s friend John Stormer, was published.

This book pulled together what the globalists, socialists,

and Communists had been doing for decades to bring

down America. It connected the dots and helped millions

of people with a limited understanding of the political

machinations of that day to really understand the times –

to see the strategy of the political left to destroy America.

Eight million copies were sold, making it the best selling

political book in history. This book opened the eyes of

millions of Americans as to the attack that our country

was under. Many thousands of people bought the Treason

books by the dozens, hundreds, and even thousands and

gave them to friends. This writer personally bought and

distributed over a thousand copies of the book.

This was all occurring during the Goldwater/Johnson

presidential campaign – which the conservatives lost and

the political left won. But it was the beginning of a grass

roots awakening in America that culminated in the sweeping

of Ronald Reagan into the White House 16 years later

in 1980.

Curtis Bowers’ new film documentary “Agenda:

Grinding America Down” could have the same impact as

John Stormer’s book None Dare Call It Treason did 46

years earlier. It shows the long-term strategy of the socialists,

globalists, and Communists for tearing America

down (a strategy that is working). It connects the dots.

And it challenges us at this very late hour to get involved,

to stop the leftist juggernaut before it destroys the last

remnants of our God-given freedom.

Please view (study) this film and then buy multiple

copies (as many as you can) and distribute them to

friends, neighbors, business associates, and people of influence

you know or have contact with. Many people are

asking “But what can I do?” This is something you can

do! To order, go to agendadocumentary.com (where you

will see an excellent six-minute preview of the film); call

toll-free 877-527-2111; or send $21 (which includes

S&H) to Copybook Heading Productions, PO Box 231,

Huston, ID 83630. Quantity discounts are available.

Remember, as Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary

for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

What are you going to do for your country, your children,

grandchildren, and the future of a free America? One

thing you can do is to buy and distribute as many copies

of this DVD as possible!

II. THERE WILL BE NO DOUBLE

DIP ...

“Based on all available evidence, it seems the American

public wants to be misled. They have chosen ignorance

over knowledge and understanding. They want to

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believe their corrupt leaders. They want to believe that

things always work out in the long run. They want to believe

that the economy is about to get better. They don’t

want to think about unsustainable debt, unfunded liabilities,

saving for retirement, or Simon Cowell leaving

American Idol. Americans desperately want to be deluded

into another bubble, but there are no evident bubbles left

to blow. The existing American delusion is that the current

fiscal path will not lead to the utter destruction of our

once great Republic.

“All I can say is a big wake up call is coming. Being

down to spit and bubble gum to hold things together will

result in a big fall.” Mass Delusion – American Style –

from the Burning Platform

[The following article was written by Egon von

Greyerz]

No, there will be no double dip. It will be a lot worse.

The world economy will soon go into an accelerated and

precipitous decline, which will make the 2007 to early

2009 downturn seem like a walk in the park. The world

financial system has temporarily been on life support by

trillions of printed dollars that governments call money.

But the effect of this massive money printing is ephemeral

since it is not possible to save a world economy built on

worthless paper by creating more of the same. Nevertheless,

governments will continue to print since this is the

only remedy they know. Therefore, we are soon likely to

enter a phase of money printing of a magnitude that the

world has never experienced. But this will not save the

Western World which is likely to go in to a decline lasting

at least 20 years but most probably a lot longer.

A. THE END OF AN ERA

The hyperinflationary depression that many western

countries, including the US and the UK, will experience is

likely to mark the end of an era that has lasted over 200

years since the industrial revolution. A major part of the

growth in the last 100 years and especially in the last 40

years has been built on an unsustainable build-up of debt

levels. These debt levels will continue to swell for another

few years until the coming hyperinflation in the West

leads to a destruction of real asset values and a debt implosion.

In the last 100 years the Western world has experienced

a historically unprecedented growth in production,

in inventions and technical developments leading to a major

increase in the standard of living. During the same period

government debt, as well as private debt, have grown

exponentially leading to a major increase in inflation compared

to previous centuries.

Until the early 1970s, the growth in credit to GDP had

been going up gradually since the creation of the Fed in

1913. But from 1971, when Nixon abolished gold backing

of the dollar, virtually all of the growth in the Western

world has come from the massive increase in credit rather

than from real growth of the economy. The US consumer

price index was stable for 200 years until the early 1900s.

From 1971 to 2010, CPI went up by almost 500%. The

reason for this is uncontrolled credit creation and money

printing. Total US debt went from $9 trillion in 1971 to

$59 trillion today and this excludes unfunded liabilities of

anywhere from $70 to $110 trillion. US nominal GDP

went from $1.1 trillion to $14.5 trillion between 1971 and

2010. So it has taken an increase in borrowings of $50

trillion to produce an increase in annual GDP of $13 trillion

over a 40 year period. Without this massive increase

in debt, the US would probably have had negative

growth for most of the last 39 years.

Total US debt-to-GDP is now 380% and is likely to

escalate substantially.

The coming hyperinflationary depression and the

credit and asset implosion that is likely to follow will

most probably lead to the end of a 200 year era of growth

for the Western world. If only the excesses from the 1970s

were corrected, we might have a circa 20-year decline.

But more likely we will correct the era all the way back

from the industrial revolution in the 18th century and this

could take 100 years or more.

So, after the tumultuous and very painful times that

we are likely to experience in the next few years, the West

will have a sustained period of decline. All the excesses

in the economy and in society must be unwound. These

abnormal and unreal excesses are not just corporate executives,

bankers, hedge fund managers or sportsmen

earning $10s to $100s of millions but also a total collapse

of ethical and moral values as well as a breakdown of the

family as the kernel of society.

Most people believe and hope that this major trend

change could not happen today with all the measures that

governments have at their disposal. But very few people

comprehend that it is precisely the government interference,

controls, and regulations, as well as money printing,

that have created the problems in the first place. Power

corrupts, and the more pressure a government is under, the

more they intervene – because they believe that their interference

in the economy will save the country – read

Obama, or the world – read Gordon Brown. Little do

they understand that each interference, each regulation,

or each dollar or pound or Euro printed will exacerbate

the problems of the economy manifold times.

October 2010 — P.8

Governments now have two options: continue to

spend and print money like the US, or introduce austerity

programs like Europe. Whichever way they choose will

not matter since they have reached the point of no return.

The economy of the West cannot be saved by any

means. But governments both in the US and in Europe

will still apply the only method they know, which is to

print money.

B. GOVERNMENT IS STEALING FROM

THE PEOPLE

Very few people understand that money printing is a

form of robbing the citizens of their money and their

work. Money is supposed to be a medium of exchange for

goods and services equaling the value of the good or the

service produced. For example, an individual works extremely

hard to earn an annual wage of say $40,000,

which he receives in the form of paper money. The government,

due to its mismanagement and incompetence,

simultaneously prints $40,000 in order to cover its deficits.

So the government has by pressing a button produced

the same amount of money that a man had to work a year

for. This is what is currently taking place all over the

world and what will accelerate in coming months and

years, leading to a total destruction of paper money. Paper

money has completely lost its function as a medium

of exchange or a store of value. This is why gold

is gaining and will continue to gain value against perishable

paper that is called money.

C. DEFLATION, INFLATION, OR

HYPERINFLATION

The only reason that the US could build up such a

major debt is that the US dollar has been the reserve currency

of the world, and therefore the US has been able to

finance its debts and deficits internationally. The US has

now reached a point when debts have to increase dramatically

for the country just to standstill. Like all Ponzi

schemes, this one will also come to an end – and very

soon. The US dollar will decline dramatically and lose its

reserve status, and the US government will be unable to

finance its deficit in any market. This process will lead to

endless money printing, collapsing treasury bonds

(substantially higher interest rates) and the dollar becoming

worthless in a hyperinflationary black hole.

Let us just reiterate that hyperinflation arises as a

result of money printing, leading to a currency collapse,

and not from demand pull. The slight deflation

that we are experiencing currently is a prerequisite for

hyperinflation. The fear of a deflationary implosion

induces governments to print money, leading to a collapsing

currency, which historically has always been

the cause of hyperinflation.

Real M3 (source: Shadow Government Statistics) is

falling at an unprecedented rate. This is the precursor to

economic decline, quantitative easing, and inflation.

Many “experts” make the analogy between the deflationary

period in Japan since the 1990s and the US today.

In our view, the US is in a totally different situation for

the following reasons:

In the early 1990s, Japan could still export their production

to the rest of the world.

In the current downturn, all countries (even China and

India) will suffer, and there will be no one to export

the problems to.

The ability to export made Japan a creditor nation

with major payment surpluses. The US is a major

debtor, and has been for 25 years.

Japan had a very high personal savings ratio at the

time (which has now disappeared). The US has had a

declining savings rate for years (the US savings rate is

now going up, which it always does in a downturn).

The balance of payments and the personal savings

surpluses made it possible for Japan to finance their

budget deficit without resorting to QE. Very soon, the

US will only be able to finance its deficits with QE,

and so will most of the rest of the Western world.

Japanese unemployment was 2% in 1992, and it went

slowly up to 5% by 2000, where it is now. Real US

unemployment is 22% and increasing.

Many major sovereign states are now virtually bankrupt,

and the financial system is on life support. This was

not the case in the 1990s.

The above are some of the reasons why the current

US situation is totally different from that of Japan. QE

will accelerate in the US and worldwide.

What will make this process so much more complex

than the world has ever experienced is that the same development

is likely to take place in many countries around

the world simultaneously. It will most probably happen in

the UK, the rest of the EU, and most other European nations.

Due to the total interdependence of the world financial

system, it will be difficult to forecast which countries

can withstand the coming worldwide tsunami of money

printing, but many Asian countries probably stand a good

chance.

October 2010 — P.9

Can we be wrong in our forecast of a hyperinflationary

depression? Yes, of course we can. But the alternative

can only be a deflationary collapse, which would be unacceptable

to helicopter Ben Bernanke and deficit demagogue

Obama, as well as most other governments.

Conventional wisdom and most experts say that we

will not have inflation, but deflation. The problem with

most conventional wisdom is that it is only conventional

– without an ounce of wisdom. When have the

world’s so-called experts, politicians, etc. ever been

right on the current crisis? They will be wrong again

this time.

The “conventional wisdom experts” also say that it

will be years before we can see inflation or hyperinflation.

In our view it can happen a lot faster. The world economy

is resting on a foundation of matchsticks. All that is

needed is a change in confidence or psychology for this

fragile foundation to crumble. Falling currencies, rising

bond yields, and falling stock markets could very

quickly result in a vicious and fast-spinning hyperinflationary

circle. The frailties of the financial system

could make this happen like a flash fire.

D. WEALTH CREATION

Banks and the financial industry have throughout history

existed in order to finance production and trading of

goods. But in the last 100 years, and especially in the last

20-30 years, it has become a major industry in its own

right – and an important but unproductive part of the

economy in many countries. Today, the financial industry

is, to a great extent, involved in trading for its own and its

clients’ accounts, creating a raft of obscure instruments

that benefit only the banks, and finance consumption

rather than investment. All of these areas are totally nonproductive,

and the only beneficiaries are the participants

in the financial industry.

The rewards have been absolutely astronomical. In

investment banking, hedge funds, and private equity in

particular, the most massive wealth has been created.

Many players have become billionaires or created fortunes

of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in the last 10-15

years, just by shuffling money around. In the past, fortunes

were created by building factories and industries.

But today, any normal employee working in Wall Street

or the city in London will, by just showing up to work,

make hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

This is the proof of a world totally out of balance,

when people dealing in money become the richest segment

of society. Since this activity contributes very

little to the prosperity of a nation (but very much to its

participants), it is not sustainable. The biggest reason

why it exists is the massive amount of money that governments

have created or printed, and the fact that the financial

industry has developed into a fractal wealth creation

machine for the benefit of its participants.

For the last 40 years in particular, the rich are getting

richer and the average person has seen very little increase

in real income. In the US, the real annual income of the

bottom 90% of US families has increased by only 10%

since 1970. And in the expansion between 2002 and 2007,

median US household income dropped $2,000. The perceived

increase in wealth for the majority of Americans

derives from an increase in their debt level, not

from an increase in real earnings. So the improvement

in living standards that the average American and

many other Western countries have enjoyed in the last

40 odd years is primarily based on debt – debt that can

never be and will never be repaid with normal money.

On the other hand, management has achieved a major

increase in income and wealth. In 1973, chief executives

in the US earned 26 times the median income. Today,

they earn 300 times. This enormous widening of the gap

between the top few percent in society and the masses is

morally and socially unacceptable. When the bad times

start in earnest, this is likely to lead to major social unrest

and violence directed against the privileged.

E. THE FOCUS WILL SHIFT

For a major part of 2010, the focus has been on the

problems within the EU, starting with Greece, then Spain,

Portugal, Italy, etc. The problems in Europe and the European

financial system are major, and will lead to massive

money printing. Although the problems in Europe are

very serious, the US economy is in a much worse state.

The diversion of the focus away from the problems in the

US economy onto Europe has suited the US Administration

perfectly. It can hardly be a coincidence, for example,

that US rating agencies downgraded the sovereign debt of

Greece and Spain on the same days Treasury auctions

were held. But the problems in the US economy are deteriorating

at a rapid rate; factory orders, consumer confidence,

existing home sales, retail sales, and the Economic

Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) index are all falling more

than expected, and real unemployment, personal bankruptcies

(which will exceed 1.6 million in 2010), the trade

deficit, and state and federal deficits are all increasing.

The ECRI index is an important leading indicator. It

has now fallen for 10 straight weeks.

There are three insurmountable problems in the US

economy that are of a magnitude and gravity which can

only be remedied by money printing:

October 2010 — P.10

1. Federal and state deficits will soon escalate at an

exponential rate. The US Federal debt has increased

from $8 trillion in 2006 when Bernanke took office to

soon $14 trillion. Many forecasts expect this debt to

go up to nearer $20 trillion in the next 5 years. In our

view it will be substantially higher. Add to that interest

rates of 15% or higher, and the American people

will work just to pay taxes that don’t even cover the

interest payments on the federal debt. This is why the

US will either default or, more likely, print unlimited

amounts of money.

2. The real unemployment rate is now 22%. Since

2007, over eight million Americans have lost their

jobs, and it will get a lot worse. Non-farm unemployment

in the 1930s reached 35% and we would expect

this level to be reached in the next few years.

3. The financial system is bankrupt. Banks are failing

at a much faster rate than last year. In the first seven

months of 2010, circa 110 banks have failed. More

seriously, the assets of the failed banks are worth only

an estimated 30-50% of their balance sheet value.

Banks are valuing their toxic debt at phony values

with the blessing of the government. But even debt

that today is considered safe will soon turn toxic, with

the consumer coming under enormous financial pressure.

Add to that the OTC derivatives held by US

banks of at least $400 trillion. A big percentage of

these are worthless, and there are virtually no reserves

to cover potential losses.

Within the next few years, the three areas above are

likely to result in the biggest money printing program in

world history, and simultaneously lead the US (and many

other countries) into the abyss.

F. MARKETS

There has probably never been a period in world history

that has caused the amount of wealth destruction that

we are likely to see in the next few years. If we are correct

in our assumption that the West will see a correction of

the excesses of the last circa 40 years, but more probably

of the last 200 years since the start of the industrial revolution,

we could see a total annihilation of the assets that

have been fueled by the credit bubbles. The spike in asset

values in the last 100 years, which is unprecedented in

history, is likely to be corrected by a waterfall that could

start at any time. [End of Egon von Greyerz article.]

CONCLUSION

America (and most of the globe) is descending into an

economic/financial firestorm, the likes of which we have

never experienced – not even in the depths of the Great

Depression. And accompanying this gargantuan financial

crisis is the biggest socialist expansion and seizure of

power since the rise of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia

or the National Socialist (Nazi) juggernaut of the 1930s.

This issue of MIA has attempted to articulate the incredible

extent and severity of the political and financial danger

facing America today. The approaching storm is no

ordinary storm – it is a perfect storm of three converging

tidal waves: an economic collapse, a financial meltdown,

and a socialist seizure of political power in the midst of

the storm.

In the extraordinary convulsions that are approaching,

ordinary defensive strategies may be for the most part inadequate.

This writer now strongly believes that maverick

Americans (or foreign readers) should have at least 50%

of their portfolio in physical gold and silver (preferably

either bullion coins or semi-numismatic coins) – with a

portion of those metals held outside the country of your

residence. We have written often over the years of how

these metals can be acquired and stored either domestically

or abroad. Call International Collectors Associates

for more information on same (800-525-9556).

The present price of gold and silver (over $1,270 and

near $21 at this writing) is inconsequential. MIA believes

the economic/financial/political perfect storm which is

approaching will propel gold and silver to multiples of

present prices. But more importantly, they will protect

your net worth (as they have been doing for the past decade).

If you have followed our counsel, you are already

experiencing this.

By way of contrast, have stocks, bonds or real estate

been protecting Americans’ net worth over the past decade?

You know the answer! And that trend will also continue

and accelerate over the next 3-5 years. Please, dear

readers, do not be complacent about your freedom or your

finances. The danger is real and growing! Please think and

pray about what you should be doing to protect yourself

and your family. The storm is approaching!

III. PRACTICAL

CONSIDERATIONS

1. REGARDING MY QUESTIONS IN THE JULY

MIA – “IS ANYONE LISTENING?” “DOES ANYONE

CARE?” – I was overwhelmed by the many responses we

received from readers encouraging me that MIA has really

helped them a lot to navigate through the minefield and

better understand the times. I was very encouraged! I wasn’t

planning to quit – I just wanted to know if anyone was

October 2010 — P.11

listening? I have my answer! Thank you very much! I

will “stay the course”!

2. IF YOU WERE INTRIGUED BY THE ARTICLE

on Curtis Bowers’ DVD, “Agenda: Grinding America

Down,” in this issue, don’t miss the enclosed flyer

with ordering details. This is truly one of the most important

works on this subject in many decades. Be sure to

share it with your family and friends.

IV. FINAL THOUGHT: WHERE

HAVE ALL THE PASTORS GONE?

“His watchmen are blind – they are all ignorant, they

are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark.” Isaiah 56:10

During the American Revolution, Christians, and especially

pastors, were in the forefront of the fight for liberty,

freedom, and liberation from tyranny. These pastors

were not afraid to risk their lives, their reputations, and

everything they had to take a stand for God and country –

and against the evils of their day. Some were imprisoned,

impoverished and even hanged for “treason” against the

crown.

This is a far cry from our pastors and Christian leaders

of today, who have zero understanding of the times in

which we live or discernment regarding the rising tide of

evil in our country; are indifferent and complacent toward

this evil; or do understand it but do not have the courage

or guts to speak out against it.

Whether we are considering the murder (via abortion)

of over one and a half million babies per year; homosexual

marriage; the declaration by Barack Obama of June,

2010 as National Gay/Lesbian Month; restrictions on the

free speech of Christians – some of which is now being

labeled as “hate speech” or “hate thought”; school sex

education, which teaches that gay lifestyles are viable

(even desirable) alternatives to heterosexuality; and so

much more – the response from 99% of American pastors

is resounding silence! Are they so stupid as to not discern

what is happening in America; have they bought into the

left’s “separation of church and state” propaganda; are

they afraid to offend church members by being “political”

and possibly see church attendance or financial support

decline; or are they afraid of losing their tax exempt status

(i.e., intimidated by the government)? This writer would

guess some or all of the above. It’s called “Christian pacifism.”

This writer recently spent several hours in the Holocaust

Museum at the Imperial War Museum in London. A

very sobering experience and a sad illustration of the religious

leaders of Germany in the 1930s and ’40s (both

Catholic and Protestant) either turning a blind eye to the

great evil of the Third Reich, or actually supporting that

regime from its rise to power in 1933, until 1942 – when

its great evil was no longer possible to deny or condone.

As Curtis Bowers (a strong Christian and conservative)

articulates in a very sobering new film documentary,

“Agenda: Grinding America Down,” the political left

(which now dominates the U.S. government, courts, educational

system, the media, entertainment industry, etc.) is

at war with Christianity – is indeed, at war with God. If

you want to see the practical outcome of this Communist/

Socialist war against Christianity, consider the present

Communist regime in China and its war against Christianity.

In that country, serious Bible believing Christians are

persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and sometimes executed.

But the Chinese Communists are as shortsighted as the

rulers of the Russian Empire – not understanding that real

Bible-based, Christ-centered Christianity flourishes under

persecution. Hence, the real Chinese Christian Church,

with over 100 million participants, has been driven underground

– where it functions in low profile, home churches

and is growing rapidly. The Communists cannot stop it.

(And yes, Christians are violating “the law of the land” in

favor of a “higher law.”)

But, in China, there is also the “official,” politically

correct, state sanctioned and controlled, “Three Self

Church” – which preaches the Communist government

line and is devoid of any real, life changing spiritual content.

Is that where the American Christian Church is

headed in our new Socialist dispensation, with most pastors

toeing the government party line – politically correct,

never speaking out against the evils of our day, and giving

only a watered down message approved by the regime in

power? It happened in Nazi Germany, it’s happened in

China. Will it also happen in America?

This writer recently read an interesting article entitled

“Wandering Sheep” by Coach Dave Daubenmire (in

newswithviews.com, Sept. 2, 2010) which discussed the

500,000 Christians and patriots who recently gathered in

Washington at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.

Discussing how weak, effeminate, and irrelevant the

Christian gospel (and most pastors) in America have become

today, Daubenmire raised the question as to how

many of America’s pastors were at Beck’s rally? His conclusion

was probably few to none!

As the coach wrote, “Christianity teaches Jesus

alone... ‘I am the way, the truth, the life, no one comes to

the Father but by me.’ And is the only answer to our probOctober

2010 — P.12

lems. But this commentary is about America’s pastors and

how watered down and irrelevant their message of Christianity

has become in our day. America is filled with hungry,

wandering sheep today – led by clueless shepherds

who neither understand the evils of our day, nor are willing

to speak out or take a stand against these evils. [ED.

NOTE: Shades of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ’40s.]

“I have had the opportunity to speak at many local

Tea Parties. I have been telling anyone who will listen that

the answers to America’s problems are spiritual and moral

– and that the Tea Parties are composed of wandering

sheep who are looking for a shepherd. Unfortunately, the

shepherds are all hiding inside their stained glass fortresses,

safely protected from the battle – cooing that religion

and politics don’t mix. All the while, the sheep they

should be leading are wandering in search of a leader.

“At Tea Party meetings, I listen to the applause and

the cheers as I talk about moral issues and a return to our

Christian culture. The values that Christianity professes

are what the Tea Party folks want taught to their children.

They sense that somehow they have lost their country, and

they want to reclaim it so that they can pass America, and

her values, on to their grandchildren.

“But the cowardly pastors are nowhere to be found.

Go to any local Tea Party and ask for a show of hands.

Rarely will you find a pastor in attendance.... Meanwhile,

the sheep are wandering, cheering on the ‘political gospel,’

trusting in Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to deliver

them from the shackles of the Obama Administration.

Glenn Beck and his ‘gospel of the Constitution’ gives

them more hope for the problems that face America than

anything they hear coming from their cowardly pastors in

their pulpits.”

The Coach goes on to say that many of the millions of

Tea Party folks have stopped going to church, or only go

out of duty. “Sick of being dumbed down, or told that

they must not bring their politics (views) into the church,

they seek nourishment for their troubled souls elsewhere.

And after a while, the food they are receiving from Beck

and his TV guests satisfies their hunger and provides an

outlet in which to engage in the battle. America is in the

condition she is in, not because of the politicians, but because

of the pastors, who are inadvertently helping to

dumb down tens of millions of American Christians.

“Pastors don’t want to lead the sheep and they aren’t

interested in following them. It seems to me that they only

want to tame them. I am sorry to be the bearer of bad

news pastors, but the sheep are out of the pen. You have

not done your job. Glenn Beck is rounding them up for

you.” [ED. NOTE: This entire article is worth reading

and pondering.]

In the Bible’s Old Testament, there are dozens of references

to the shepherds (priests, pastors, prophets) leading

the people astray, dumbing them down, telling them

what they want to hear – that there was peace, when in

reality there was no peace, and that the “good times”

would continue when, in reality, destruction was approaching.

Jeremiah 50:6 says “My people have been lost

sheep; their Shepherds have led them astray....” And

Jeremiah 8:10-11 says: “... prophets and priests alike, all

practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as

though it were not serious. Peace, peace they say when

there is no peace.” Isaiah 56:11 says, “They are Shepherds

who lack understanding....”

These passages also describe Germany’s religious

leaders as the great evil of Nazism engulfed Europe in the

1930s and ’40s, and many of American religious leaders

in our day, as anti-God Socialism engulfs America.

Here is a test for your pastor: after watching a copy of

Curtis Bowers’ DVD documentary, “Agenda: Grinding

America Down,” if you like it and agree with it, buy a

copy for your pastor, encourage your pastor to view it, to

give you his reaction, and, if it strikes a nerve, to speak on

it from the pulpit. His response will tell you a lot!

And finally, as we observe the accelerating pace at

which the foundations are crumbling in America, all of us

(not just pastors) should remember that (as Edmund Burke

warned): “All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is that

good men (and women) do nothing.”

And that is the bottom line!

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