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Was The Economic Crisis Manufactured?
Nancy Morgan
RightBias.com
March 6, 2011
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In the summer of 2008 as McCain and Obama were in the midst of their campaigns to
capture the presidency, a series of events dramatically changed the focus of the
campaign from Iraq to the economy. From that point on, Obama took the lead and eventually
won the presidency.
Now, a full two years later, the Pentagon has issued a report on the series of events that led to the
2008 economic crash. Bill Gertz writes in the Washington Times:
Evidence outlined in a
Pentagon contractor report suggests that financial subversion carried
out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations, contributed to the
2008 economic crash by covertly using vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system
“There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered,
capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008,” the report says
Notable for its' absence is any suggestion that the economic events that arguably
catapulted Obama into the White House may have originated in our own political system.
Consider: The economic house of cards started tumbling on June 26, 2008, when Senator
Chuck Schumer leaked a memo questioning the solvency of IndyMac bank. This memo
precipitated a run on IndyMac which led to its failure. Federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y., in explaining the bank's failure. "The immediate cause of the closing was
a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter
to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York."
As I wrote in February
of 2009, this event, coupled with the Lehman Brothers collapse in September,
marked the beginning of the current economic meltdown and provided the environment
that enabled Barack Obama to focus on the economy instead of his position on Iraq
- and, not incidentally, resulted in his election as President.
For the last two years, the media has neglected to connect the dots regarding the
strange gyrations in our financial markets that started in the summer of 2008. After
Schumer caused the run on IndyMac in June, the government moved in:
* Six months later, Jan 2, 2009, a seven-member group
of investors agreed to buy the remnants of failed lender IndyMac for $13.9 billion.
Other investors included a fund controlled by billionaire George
Soros' Fund Management.
Sept. 6, 2008: Fannie Mae begins its downward spiral, which will
end with a crash in November. This crash was avoidable, as the problems with Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac were identified in June of 2006, when 15 Republicans on the
Senate Banking Committee introduced legislation to address the problem. Democrats,
led by Barney Frank, killed the reform efforts.
Sept. 15, 2008: Obama and McCain are virtually tied in their race
for the presidency. Out of no-where, in the space of less than 2 hours, the Federal
Reserve noticed a tremendous drawdown of money market accounts in the U.S. to the tune
of $550 billion. Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania said that if authorities had
not closed the banks, $5.5 trillion would have been withdrawn from US banks, which
would have caused the collapse of the US within 24 hours.
This seminal event marked the ascendancy of Obama's candidacy, and arguably resulted
in his election as president.
Fast forward to February of 2009:
The markets reacted to Obama's proposal to bail-out mortgages and Senator Christopher
Dodd's talk of nationalizing banks by reaching 11-year lows.
Obama continues to stoke the fears of imminent crisis, actually using the word 'crisis'
a total of 26 times in one speech.
Enter George Soros. The infamous one-worlder, billionaire George Soros adds his voice to the media doomsayers
by opining that the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding
that there is yet no prospect of near-term resolution to the crisis.*
The series of 'inadvertent errors', deliberate obstruction, political shenanigans,
behind the scenes manipulation of the money markets and non-stop calls for immediate
infusions of taxpayer cash brought the U.S. to its knees by February 2009. And continues
to this day.
The newly issued Pentagon report, along with the media and our elected officials,
seem intent on not connecting the dots, considering only foreign enemies as the
possible cause of the financial meltdown:
Suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, Islamic terrorists,
hostile members of the
Chinese military, or government and organized crime groups in
Russia,
Venezuela
or
Iran.
This author believes there is enough information to at least consider that this
crisis was manufactured for political gain. Right here at home.
She lives in South Carolina
Article may be republished, with attribution
This article was first published in
American Thinker on March 4, 2011
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