smoke and mirrors. What everyone needs to understand is that our government does not "run" this country, but is merely a facilitator, a mediator if yo will, to do the bidding of the real powers at work: corporations, banks, commodities, MONEY. Those individual who are at the top of the aristocratic ladder. That is a word that everyone seems to forget: Aristocrat! We are all peasants living in 18th century England. Once we have grasped that concept, then we will move forward. What caused Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hancock, etc. over the edge and to declare their rights to be free? I ask all of you that. Freedom comes with a price. Can you live without your cellphones, your computers, internet, cars, grocery stores, malls, starbucks, cable television, etc.? If you cannot, then they have won. But if you are willing to sacrifice those material things and the easy lives we live, then, and only then will we be free from their tyrannical ways. If money wasn't worth anything, then we would finally be equal. S G Thomas | 11.7.09 @ 10:01PM ...and your key sentence: "The signs were all there last fall, ......". The signs have been here a lot longer than that, my friend. I heard about the 'plan' in 1945 and everything has gone 'according to plan'. They tried pushing Ritilin into our schools in 1935, do you know that? The info is there...but the eyes and ears have to be open. The research has to be done.