por Marvin J. Ramirez
Marvin J. RamirezFROM THE EDITOR: During the hours following the end of the Super Bowl game I was still locked up in my office in the San Francisco Mission District. Earlier that day I had gone to have a late breakfast at a local restaurant on 24th Street.
When I came back to my vehicle, I found two cops preparing to tow my car, as a precaution against occupying the streets after the 49ers game, with the expectation that the situation could erupt into violence on the streets. A sign was posted stating parking was prohibited after 12 noon.
Weeks before, the city had started sucking more blood from the working-class people who rest on Sundays from their crazy week by enforcing no parking after 12 noon. The fine would be $62 for parking in front of their own homes.
By day’s end, the busiest commercial part of the district was occupied by members of the police force, armed with big sticks, ready to break heads of any unsubmissive citizens who might dare to disobey ‘orders,’ and cars whose owners still did not know about the new robo-parking policy.
It was around 8:30 p.m. when I decided to go out to find something to eat, and that was when the real occupying show was in effect – in my eyes.
Helicopter engines roared through the dark sky, the streets for hundreds of blocks were inaccessible to drivers and public transportation. Security police vehicles with sophisticated communications equipment and antennas that looked like futuristic war equipment that looked like they were in a battle against al-Qaeda.
It appeared as though the elite of the crowd control units of the SFPD and the sheriff were running a drill.
Yes, I believe this was a drill, in preparation for future anticipated riots. According to social-political scientists, something big will be happening in the near future, such as widespread civil unrest, and they are preparing for it now.
What is anticipated is an upcoming financial crisis designed by the banking elite to take full control of the population through a police state. (It might not be a coincidence that the Pope is resigning now, either).
With the idea of sharing this fear and anticipating what could happen one of these days, I am sharing the following article, written by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones, two great journalists who have been following events leading to these government preparations and banking takeovers.
Why the banking elite wants riots in America – Part 1 of a series of two
Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing for widespread civil unrest. This trend has not emerged by accident – it is part of a tried and tested method used by the banking elite to seize control of nations, strip them of their assets, and absorb them into the new world order.
There is a crucial economic imperative as to why the elite is seeking to engineer and exploit social unrest.
As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the “IMF riot.”
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the “IMF riot,” detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
“This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices,” writes Palast, adding, “A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury.”
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country’s assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina.
Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
As Ha-Joon Chang explains in the Guardian, the roots of Europe’s riots were sparked by “governments inflicting an old-IMF-style programme on their own populations,” namely the same programs of “austerity, privatisation and deregulation,” that caused the riots of the 80s and 90s in poorer countries.
Although the likes of the IMF and the World Bank have pillaged half of the globe with their economic terrorism, America remains the ultimate prize. The first step of the four step process for bankster seizure of a country – privatization of state-owned assets – is already well under way in America, with infrastructure being sold off to foreign corporations, with the aid of Goldman Sachs, at a frightening pace.
A key component of the banking elite’s insidious agenda to bring about an economic collapse in America by design also centers around the process of de-industrializing the country, eviscerating the nation’s platform for self-sufficiency and replacing it with dependence on banker bailouts. This has already been largely achieved in Europe – with just about every major economy on the continent run by Goldman Sachs-affiliated technocrats.
In the United States, 32 per cent of manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2000, while 56,000 manufacturing facilities have been mothballed since 2001. The Obama administration has also declared war on the coal industry, with Obama himself promising to “bankrupt” anyone who tries to build a new coal plant. Meanwhile, China builds a new coal plant every two weeks.
