OBAMA PLAYS LEAD FOR JAMIE DIMON AND THE FAT CATS ~ WHO OWN AND CONTROL AMERICA

Jamie Dimon’s gold embossed presidential seal cuff links, a gift from the president, are a blatant reminder that Obama plays lead to Jamie Dimon and the  fat cats ~ who obviously control America: Allen L Roland

Forbes rates JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon as the 41^st most powerful person in the world with annual earnings of almost 21 million.

JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. According to Bloomberg, as of October 2011 JPMorgan Chase surpassed Bank Of America as the largest U.S. bank by assets.

So when Jamie Dimon waltzed into the Congressional hearings last week sporting his gift Presidential seal gold embossed cuff links from President Obama ~ it was a not so subtle in-your-face statement to congress and the American people of who not only owns but is in charge of America.

Jamie Dimon posing for Press with his presidential cuff links at recent congressional hearing

Jamie Dimon’s gift cuff links on full display

So let’s see what’s underneath this blatant act of arrogance.

Ellen Brown cuts to the quick with her recent brilliant analysis ~ The US Senate won’t touch Jamie Dimon because JPM derivatives prop up US Debt;

“ What is going on with this panel of senators?” asked Jon Stewart.  “They’re sucking up to Jamie Dimon like they’re on JPMorgan’s payroll.”  The explanation in a news clip that followed was that JPMorgan Chase is the biggest campaign donor to many of the members of the Banking Committee.
That is one obvious answer, but financial analysts Jim Willie and Rob Kirby think it may be something far larger, deeper, and more ominous…. The national debt is growing at $1.5 trillion per year.  Ultra-low interest rates MUST be maintained to prevent the debt from overwhelming the government budget.  Near-zero rates also need to be maintained because even a moderate rise would cause multi-trillion dollar derivative losses for the banks, and would remove the banks’ chief income stream, the arbitrage afforded by borrowing at 0% and investing at higher rates.
The low rates are maintained by interest rate swaps, called by Willie a “derivative tool which controls the bond market in a devious artificial manner.” 
Kirby contends that the only organization large enough to act as counterparty to some of these trades is the U.S. Treasury itself.  He suspects the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, a covert entity without oversight and accountable to no one. Kirby also notes that if publicly-traded companies (including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley) are deemed to be integral to U.S. national security (meaning protecting the integrity of the dollar), they can legally be excused from reporting their true financial condition.  They are allowed to keep two sets of books.
Interest rate swaps are now over 80 percent of the massive derivatives market, and JPMorgan holds about $57.5 trillion of them.  Without the protective JPMorgan swaps, interest rates on U.S. debt could follow those of Greece and climb to 30%.  CEO Dimon could, then, indeed be “the guy in charge”: he could be controlling the lever propping up the whole U.S. financial system.”.

Ellen Brown asks the key question ~ Is there no alternative but to succumb to the Mafia-like Wall Street protection racket of a covert derivatives trade in interest rate swaps?
“ As Willie and Kirby observe, that scheme itself must ultimately fail, and may have failed already.  They point to evidence that the JPM losses are not just $3 billion but $30 billion or more, and that JPM is actually bankrupt ;
The derivatives casino itself is just a last-ditch attempt to prop up a private pyramid scheme in fractional-reserve money creation, one that has progressed over several centuries through a series of “reserves” ~ from gold, to Fed-created “base money,” to mortgage-backed securities, to sovereign debt ostensibly protected with derivatives.  We’ve seen that the only real guarantor in all this is the government itself, first with FDIC insurance and then with government bailouts of too-big-to-fail banks.  If we the people are funding the banks, we should own them; and our national currency should be issued, not through banks at interest, but through our own sovereign government.”
See full article: http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/why-the-senate-wont-touch-jamie-dimon-jpm-derivatives-prop-up-u-s-debt/#more-3936

Commodity Futures Trading Commission head and former Goldman Sachs partner Gary Gensler puts the credit swap problem in easy to understand terms;

“The swap market lacks necessary street lamps,” he said. “I think the American public still isn’t safe on these roads until we get the rules of the road in place. I think the America public was bystanders to taking on excessive risk in 2008, and we still have been.”

Now get this !  JPMorgan receives a government subsidy worth about $14 billion a year, according to research published by the International Monetary Fund. That $14 billion dollars represents 77 percent of JP Morgan’s net income for the past four quarters. In other words, U.S. taxpayers helped foot the bill for the multibillion-dollar trading loss that was the focus of last weeks hearings. See full report: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/12054-jpmorgan-gets-14-billion-a-year-from-the-us-government

And there’s more ~ Here’s How JP Morgan makes hundreds of millions of dollars on food assistance programs / Republic Report.

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/how-big-corporations-cash-in-on-food-assistance-programs/

We are all being played for suckers but If you think things are dangerous here ~ take a look at the Euro zone through the eyes of UKIP Nigel Farage ~ who rightfully calls the whole thing a giant Ponzi scheme. Here’s U.K. Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage discussing the causes of the financial crisis in Europe as well as the inadequacy of its present leadership . 6 minute video http://youtu.be/zTN7hL5fgWo

So there you have it, the global economic and monetary system is coming apart at the seams, the Banksters, both here and abroad, can no longer hide from the truth that Jamie Dimon and the fat cats own America as well as President Obama and congress ~ and that bailing out the banks always ends with tax payers paying the bill.

And speaking of taxpayers ~ where does half of the money that the IRS siphons off from the paychecks of its citizens in taxes every year go?

It's the war machine and a subject that the financial news media is strangely silent about.

4 minute Video:

http://www.realecontv.com/page/11082.html

If you’re not angry, you’re on life support or another planet.

Allen L Roland

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Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com ) 

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on  www.conscioustalk.net

OBAMA TURNS THE PAGE BUT CAN'T ESCAPE REALITY

President Obama has attempted to turn the page on Iraq but can't escape the reality of the failure of Obamanomics and the seething anger of millions of engaged Americans who voted for dramatic change and instead got token change ~ where genuine hope has been squashed by disingenuous hype : Allen L Roland

The problem with living in the luxurious bubble of the oval office is that the President often becomes tone deaf to what is happening to the millions of Americans who are existing on the edge of poverty and facing bankruptcy and foreclosure.

Let me give you an excellent example ~ When Obama released his first budget in February, 2009 he said " There are times where you can afford to redocorate your house and there are times when you need to focus on rebuilding the foundation " ~ obviously referring to our economy.

Well, a year and a half later as Obama faces the obvious failure of Obamanomics, a deepening recession, massive unemployment and a growing seething anger from millions of seemingly betrayed Americans ~ Obama chooses to redecorate the Oval Office in yet another direct reflection of his indifference to Mainstreet America. .

Maureen Dowd, New York Times Columnist provides the details ~ " The Oval Office was done over by the chichi decorator Michael Smith, who was previously paid $800,000 for his part in refurnishing the lair of the former Merrill Lynch C.E.O. John Thain (a $1.2 million project featuring the notorious $35,000 antique cabinet, or commode). The Oval Office, the classiest, most powerful place on earth, is now suffused with browns and beiges and leather and resembles an upscale hotel conference room or a ’70s conversation pit with a boxy coffee table that even some Obama aides find ugly.. The recession redo, paid for by the nonprofit White House Historical Association, was the latest tone-deaf move by a White House that was supposed to excel at connection and communication. Message: I care, but not enough to stop the fancy vacations and posh renovations ."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01dowd.html

So as Obama attempts to turn the page ~ he better look in the mirror. For myself and millions of Americans voted for change in 2008 and saw Obama as an agent of that change and not a master of hypocrisy and disingenuous hype. If he doesn't deliver on that change, he will be a one term president ~ for millions of Americans, including myself, already feel a deep sense of anger and betrayal. Obama is politically self destructing by dramatically turning Hope into Hype and his plummeting approval ratings are stark evidence of this disapproval.

The mid-term elections will show that the people are a force that cannot be ignored by the corpocracy and financial elite ~ as well as those who answer to them.

Allen L Roland
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THE LAST BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO BURST

Here's the World collapse explained in three minutes ~ and then read on about the last bubble that is about to burst . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=player_embedded

The last economic bubble is about to burst and that bubble is the stimulus bubble where countries, not just banks and states, face the reality of their enormous world wide debts and economically collapse while interest rates soar and an ongoing world wide depression emerges from hiding: Allen L Roland

As President Obama pretends to end a war and occupation of Iraq ~ where currently 50,000 soldiers ( all still on combat pay ) are stationed as well as 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors ( not counting the State Department's unprecedented step of fielding its own private military force ) ~ and all living in permanent military bases scattered throughout this illegally occupied country along with the world's largest Embassy ~ let's look at the economic consequences of this military folly.

Despite the song and dance efforts of Ben Bernanke and President Obama to reassure Americans that we are still on the rocky road to recovery ~ the hard reality is that any recovery has been artificially driven and we are actually on the edge of the greatest financial crisis we will ever experience ~ but this time it will be a world wide crisis and depression.

Expect the greatest stock market sucker rally of all time between now and election day on November 4th as every effort will be made to put a good face on our dire economic picture ~ and President Obama has become a master of this ongoing deception.

Think of Wall Street as a giant casino with over 70% of the action High Frequency Trades between the too big to fail banking trading houses. It's Big Table Baccaret where only the big boys play and the small investor doesn't have a chance. As such, it's in Wall Street's ( and the Obama administration's ) best interest to continue the perception of recovery even though it's based on wishful thinking.

The stage has been set and it's now just a matter of time before we collapse from this massive overdose of debt. Obama and Wall Street will do everything in their power to hide this reality before the mid term election ~ but the die is cast and its color is RED.

Here is a must watch ABC Australia Video Documentary appropriately entitled OVERDOSE which simply illustrates in three 15 minute segments how we got here and where we are going. Pass it on because you'll never see it on the mainstream media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26264.htm

Allen L Roland
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OBAMANOMICS / RUNNING ON EMPTY

Let's face it, Obamanomics is all style with very little if any substance ~ to the extent that the White House has no idea of the mistrust and anger that it has generated with its misleading cheerleading of an economic recovery that is little more than a mirage: Allen L Roland

I cringe every time I hear President Obama talking about economic recovery when neither he nor any of his 'economic czars' have fully acknowledged that we are in a deepening Depression and that Obamanomics is running on empty. The Obama administration still seems unbelievably committed to a top down recovery where cash flush banks will loosen credit and the housing and credit bubble will inflate again. Guess what ~ it ain't gonna happen !

Here's what's really happening ~ Transnational corporations have made billions by moving 39% of US manufacturing offshore to boost the GDP and employment of foreign countries, such as China, while impoverishing their former American work force. Congress and the corpocracy have welcomed this as the New Global Economy ~ but it has left Main Street unemployed and over extended.

Sales of US previously owned homes plunged 27 percent in July, twice as much as forecast, which is further evidence that foreclosures and limited job growth are depressing the market.
For example, there have been 300,000 foreclosure filings every month for the past 17 months. This year, 1.9 million homes will be lost, down from 2 million last year. In July alone, 92,858 homes were repossessed. These are Depression sized numbers numbers ~ which cannot be covered up with wishful thinking or happy talk !

Let's start with the very real possibility of a permanent housing collapse.

Shamus Cooke, writes in Truthout of that possibility ~ "The recent chaos that erupted when 30,000 people waited hours in the Atlanta, Georgia, heat to receive applications for subsidized housing is a mere symptom of a worsening national problem " and she's absolutely correct.

Excerpt: " The housing market appears to be on a never-ending downward spiral, with the much-discussed "recovery" always around the next corner... The reasons that such a recovery is impossible at the moment should be obvious: millions of people do not have jobs; millions of others work only part time; millions more work full-time but make very little money; and additional millions fear losing their jobs... Under these circumstances, there can be no recovery in the housing market, which will continue to contribute to the broader depression-like economy in the US. "
http://www.truth-out.org/a-permanent-housing-collapse62505

So what we need now are truth tellers as well as concerned citizens who demand truth and transparency ~ for without those two ingredients, a legitimate economic recovery will be impossible.

Americans do not trust their political leaders, including Obama, who are obviously beholden to an out of control corpocracy and military industrial complex. Rasmussen Polls reveal " that only 23 percent of the people in this country believe today's federal government has the consent of the governed ... The major division in this country is no longer between parties but between political elites and the people," Mr. Rasmussen reports.

On that very same subject, here's a must see video of Chris Hedges' one hour talk on HOW CORPORATIONS DESTROYED AMERICAN DEMOCRACY where Hedges explains how an American empire of production became an empire of consumption and how free market capitalism and globalization have economically brought America to its knees.

Hedges uses the exploitation and demise of Michael Jackson as a metaphor for our present society of sound bites and illusions.

Hedges also explains how Bill Clinton led the Democratic Party to the corporate watering trough and how NAFTA was the knife in the heart of the U.S./ working class. It was Clinton and Summers who destroyed the Glass/Steagal Act and put the Democrats in the same bed with the Republicans and Wall Street financial elite.

Now 50 million Americans are in poverty and millions more are near poverty. The corporate state has hijacked our government and the actual unemployment rate is now closer to 20%.

Hedges correctly identifies Obama as a cheerleader for the Oligarchy and our current flight into corporate illusion and that we all must become invisible witnesses for a moral imperative for true change ~ and that no real reform or change is possible with an out of control Military/Industrial complex powered by corporate greed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRQjF1IPgKQ&feature=related

As Susan Cooke correctly states ~ " It will take a mass movement of working people to rearrange the priorities of those in power, or to put different people in power, so that the country's resources are directed to those creating the wealth, or in the most need of it "

It all starts,of course, with truth and transparency from our political leaders. We must mobilize and nonviolently demand it before the mid-term elections or we will eventually run out of fuel.

Theodore Roethke wrote ~ In a dark time, the eye begins to see ~ So let's end our cultural retreat into illusion and demand the truth from our political leaders and effectively harness the corporate state in the process.

Forty seven percent of the voters believe the Federal budget deficit is primarily due to the wars while joblessness continues to climb. The number one concern for a majority of people is the economy. It is the perfect storm for new organizing efforts to end the wars, cut military spending and rebuild our communities.

Peace Action is helping to organize a national march on Washington, October 2, One Nation Working Together. We are calling on the Obama administration and Congress to create jobs and "move the money" from wars and weapons to our communities.

Sign on, get involved and make a difference.

Allen L Roland
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Slow Creep Of Moral Apathy In America

SLOW CREEP OF MORAL APATHY IN AMERICA

Little by little America's freedoms are being marginalized and our moral apathy is much like Germany between 1938 to 1945 ~ when the people thought they were free but, in reality, hate and fear had left them morally apathetic and impotent: Allen L Roland

While President Obama and the Democrats keep bailing out the Banks, Health Insurance Industry, Nuclear Industry and now Oil Industry ( renewed Offshore drilling ) and Main Street staggers along with close to 20% real unemployment during this severe economic crisis ~ it becomes obvious that there is now only one party, through the magic of Clinton's and now Obama's triangulation, and it serves only the Corpocracy (or financial elite) and always at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Chris Hedges mirrors my thoughts when he wrote ~ " All traditional standards and beliefs are shattered in a severe economic crisis. The moral order is turned upside down. The honest and industrious are wiped out while the gangsters, profiteers and speculators walk away with millions. The elite will retreat, as Naomi Klein has written in The Shock Doctrine, into gated communities where they will have access to services, food, amenities and security denied to the rest of us. We will begin a period in human history when there will be only masters and serfs. The corporate forces, which will seek to make an alliance with the radical Christian right and other extremists, will use fear, chaos, the rage at the ruling elites and the specter of left-wing dissent and terrorism to impose draconian controls to ruthlessly extinguish opposition movements. And while they do it, they will be waving the American flag, chanting patriotic slogans, promising law and order and clutching the Christian cross."
http://www.alternet.org/story/146005/we_stand_on_the_cusp_of_one_of_humanity%27s_most_dangerous_moments?page=entire

Most of Obama's pre-election progressive promises have been broken ~ much like Hitler's were in 1938 after he had gained power during a severe economic crisis. Here's the current list ~ Keeping the Guantánamo torture camp open, Continuing the war against Iraq, Renewing the USA Patriot Act, Continuing "military commission" kangaroo trials, Reserving the right to torture, and Continuing the NSA's "domestic surveillance" program of spying on innocent Americans' emails and phone calls. Note the slow marginalizing of our freedoms against a backdrop of public moral indifference. The dead canary in the mineshaft of public apathy is the growing suicide rate of both active and returning veterans.

In addition, the Obama administration has defended and justified in court almost every moral atrocity that the Bush / Cheney administration perpetrated on international law, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Milton Meyer wrote of this same creep of moral apathy in his classic They Thought They Were Free, The Germans 1938 -1945 ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955 )

Excerpt: " What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated..... by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us..... "Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next.
"You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes.
"That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed ~ "You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined."

We Americans are already seemingly in denial of the well over 1.3 million Iraqis who have been killed and displaced in our illegal war and occupation of Iraq which is now being replicated in Afghanistan ~ an occupation which benefits only the coffers of the Military / Industrial complex while economically starving Main Street .

Think of what could have happened if the German people in 1938 refused to be controlled by fear and instead ~ made a moral stand for social justice and altruism versus funding their Military / Industrial Machine's global designs of Empire building ~ while millions of innocent people died. Sound familiar ?

But let me point out that this indifference to the suffering of others is precisely what ultimately made fascism and the Holocaust possible ~ "The inability to identify with others was unquestionably the most important psychological condition for the fact that something like Auschwitz could have occurred in the midst of more or less civilized and innocent people." Philosopher Theodor Adorno

As Hedges correctly points out ~ " Our mediocre and bankrupt elite is desperately trying to save a system that cannot be saved " because, I would add, the same debt bubble that blew up in 2008 cannot be re-inflated ~ particularly when Main Street is bankrupt and jobless with no manufacturing base while Wall Street remains unregulated, unchecked and unsupervised.

So what's the answer ? Stop our morally out of control Military / Industrial Complex in its tracks by defunding our two illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and electing politicians who are committed to that promise in November, 2010.

It may be too late ~ but anything less will be morally suicidal for our staggering Republic.

Allen L Roland
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Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

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We've Been Had, Folks / Are You Ready To Fight Back ?

WE'VE BEEN HAD, FOLKS / ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT BACK ?

The American people have been had by the Oligarchy or Economic Elite and Clinton, Bush and Obama as well as their appointees are all co-conspirators. They all answer to the Business roundtable whereas mainstream America's needs are seemingly irrelevant ~ from unwanted wars to true healthcare reform. It's time for real change and it begins with ourselves: Allen L Roland

Millions of Americans, including myself, voted for true change in 2008 and what we got was not only Bush lite but the distinct feeling that we were not only being used but laughed at by the Economic Elite. Here's the big picture ~

50 million Americans now live in poverty
Half of all American children will need foodstamps at some point in their lives
Hunger rates are now at all-time highs
50 million citizens are now without health care
1.4 million filed for bankruptcy last year, 60% of them because of medical bills
13 million are expected to lose their homes before the crisis is over
Meanwhile, we incarcerate more people in the world than any other nation, and a new prison opens somewhere in America every week.

Millions of middle class families now live paycheck to paycheck, as their debts pile up, terrified that a pink slip or a bad health diagnosis will send them tumbling over an economic cliff ~ and over 60% of seniors would be below the poverty level without their monthly social security check.

And get this, the AP reported that on Saturday President Obama signed into law a one-year extension of the USA PATRIOT Act ~ which retained three controversial sections that have vastly expanded the government's ability to run roughshod over the Bill of Rights. On Wednesday, the Senate "approved" the bill on a voice vote with no debate. Politico's Meredith Shiner revealed that Senate Democrats showed they were ashamed of what it was doing by "bundling all reauthorization votes of expiring legislation into one, under the name of a Medicare reform act, and putting out a release afterward ~ with no mention of the Patriot Act's passage." http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33562.html

Obviously, this is a congress who answers primarily to the Economic Elite and is now protecting itself against the very people it supposedly represents.

David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report, has done America a favor with a six part series on how the Economic Elite dominate our lives ~ and what we can do about it.

I: Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
II: The Rise of the Economic Elite
III: Exposing Our Enemy - Meet the Economic Elite
IV: The Financial Coup d’Etat
V: Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy

VI: How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won

Excerpts: " Throughout this report, I have presented statistical and fact-based evidence to demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched against 99% of Americans. Despite the efforts of the mainstream media and most current politicians, awareness of this reality is spreading throughout the United States. A recent Rasmussen poll found that only 21% of Americans think that the government has the consent of the governed. An Opinion Research Corp. survey revealed that 86% believe “the system of government is broken.” .... An overwhelming majority of the population has come to the realization that our government doesn’t effectively represent us anymore. It is just a matter of time before people start taking it upon themselves to begin organizing on a mass scale. Our survival instinct will soon overwhelm our conditioned passivity and erupt into a powerful countervailing force. However, the longer we hesitate and delay action, the harder it will be to obtain economic and political justice " http://ampedstatus.com/part-vi-how-to-fight-back-and-win-common-ground-issues-that-must-be-won-the-economic-elite-vs-the-people-of-the-usa

We've been had, folks ! Are you ready to fight back ?

David outlines several steps from Election Reform to Mass Organized Action. It was Henry David Thoreau who wrote on the duty of civil disobedience ~ “All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency is great and unendurable. And oppression and robbery are organized, I say; let us not have such a machine any longer. I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize.”

And David correctly writes ~ " It’s time for 99% of Americans to mobilize and aggressively move on common sense political reforms."

Once again, we must say " YES, WE CAN " Not to Obama this time but to ourselves ~ for we are the ones we have been waiting for.

The great river of inner transformation and change is running ~ jump in and get involved !

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/

This weblog is sustained through donations from people like yourself. Please send check or Money Order to Allen L. Roland, PO Box 1221, Sonoma,CA 95476

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net


Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY