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and what they are conspiratorially doing to manipulate the financial markets,

make more profits, rip us off and install a world government under their control

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Bush and the Farmers

By R. D. Bradshaw

Most of the American farmers tend to be a little conservative in their views and values. Consequently, it was only natural that the majority of them voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 (although the Bush family was not and never had been true conservative people at all. They are all smoke and mirrors).

Without a doubt, it must be concluded that the typical American farmer believed in Bush and thought that he would work for them in the White House. But is that what happened after George Bush Junior was installed as US President? My answer here is an emphatic NO!

The Food Aid Scandal

The historic manipulation of the grain prices to screw the farmers and investors (as discussed at length in the Goldsmiths series in the Archives—Goldsmiths at this website) brings up a case involving the government which happened in April 2008. The reader may remember this case.

In early April 2008, there was a report that President Bush had signed an authorization to send $200 million in food aid from the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust (which the US president administers) to feed the starving multitudes in Africa and SE Asia. From an April 16 report (at AGweb.com’s AGDay), the Emerson Trust had $117 million in cash and 33 million bushels of wheat on hand.

On the surface, this report should have been a bonanza for wheat framers; yet it was not. Per the April 16 report, it was not clear what the split would be between wheat and money from the trust fund going to the Third World.

But another report from AGWeb.com on Apr 18 (“Tapping Wheat Reserves” in “Your Spot for Futures Trading, Commodities Info, Ag News, etc”) clarified the real world of manipulating the US wheat market. This one said that $200 million worth of Emerson’s wheat would be sold (obviously on the open US market) and the proceeds would be sent in cash to the starving multitudes—via the US Agency for International Development (obviously, the dictators in these third world countries will be happy to receive the money where they can steal most of it and sock it away in secret Swiss bank accounts).

The tragedy about this whole scenario is that the Emerson Trust was designed to help both starving people in the Third World and US farmers. As Bush manipulated it, it helps Third World dictators and hurts the US farmers and taxpayers. Of course, many social liberals could jump up and down and applaud Bush as a great humanitarian.

But the truth was that Bush and his plutocratic bosses neither cared one whit about the starving Third World or the people of the US. The whole name of the game was to crash the US grain market and screw US farmers (which is precisely what they did).

On April 19, Yahoo.com news had a follow-up story on “US Sees Food Aid on Track Despite High Costs” which noted that Congress was debating changes to US aid policies (possibly in general without reference to the Emerson Humanitarian Trust which the US president seems to already have authority to administer) and that Bush wanted the bill to allow the developing world to use the US food aid to purchase food without using US crops. Per the story, this would save shipping costs and get the food aid faster to the developing world (as if this is believable by US farmers and investors).

In another words, in the plan on food aid packages to the Third World, the US will send them food aid money so that they allegedly can use the money to buy food from other sources than US farmers. Possibly this was the pretext that GWB used when he sold the Emerson Trust wheat in April on the market in order to send money to the starving Third World.

On learning how the government and market manipulators worked in collusion to crash the wheat market in the spring (and literally screw the US farmers), I called a couple of reporters in the AG markets. One with Agriculture.com was rude and nasty for me to waste his time on the matter.

The second one was a nice guy (with Capital Press Ag News of Salem, OR) who said that this was done before in an earlier release and sale because the nations involved didn’t want the US grain; what they wanted was the money (but even this nice guy reporter apparently didn’t report the story or do anything about it).

These reporters I contacted are people who make their livings reporting news to the farmers. Yet, they thought so little of their clients that they seemingly never even bothered to report the story.

So now, if you wonder how the plutocrats started the break in the wheat market in March-May 2008, they did so by having the government sell the Emerson trust fund wheat on the open market to drive the price down. Do you actually think that ABC NBC, CBS or CNN would run a story like this? I never even saw anything in Drudge or Bloomberg on it.

The US farmers should have been really mad over the way Bush and the fat cat plutocrats screwed them. Yet, most never even knew about it--or could have cared less one way or the other, if they did know about it.

This is one of the problems that the Gold Anti-Trust Action Agency (GATA) and newsletters like this one faces in exposing the financial market manipulations. This is hard for some to fully appreciate.

But the truth is that there is much apathy, indifference and don’t care in modern America. The few sources trying to educate and inform the don’t care public face a losing battle. That’s why I continuously say that nothing will change unless and until the plutocrats lose control/or and there is a collapse or WWIII. Only then will people wake up and demonstrate some care and concern. But it will be too late.

So the manipulators started crashing the $13-15 dollar wheat in the spring of 2008. Then the floods came in June-July. With media help, the manipulators’ allied media hyped the floods up in a balloon, in order to sell more options and futures to ignorant investors.

Then, in August, they used their controlled media to flood the news ways with stories about one of the biggest grain harvests of all time (one media source said that the world was now awash in wheat). Their outstanding options closed with them making a big profit. And in a few days, the September contract closed with them making even more money.

As noted in the Goldsmiths series, this writer takes the position that while most Americans are not stupid they are largely ignorant about how the plutocratic market manipulators rip them off and cheat them. This thing on wheat is a perfect illustration of this reality. Then too, someone might make an argument that some of the people who should know what’s going on are actually persons with a single-digit IQ or persons filled with great apathy and don’t care.

The Official Market Manipulations

Back in the 1930s, the Fed/Treasury created something called the “Exchange Stabilization” fund or system to use a vast sum of Federal Reserve Notes to influence, control and participate in the currency markets (this thing was approved by Congress, though it is clearly an unconstitutional action).

Hence, the Fed/Treasury can enter the different currency markets around the world to control the value of various foreign currencies. Thus, they can make the Mexican peso (or any other foreign currency) go up or down (and especially, in collusion with other privately owned central banks--like the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the ECB, the Swiss National Bank, etc).

The last item that the Fed/Treasury can do (or rather is doing since it is being done in secret and evidently illegally) is to rig and control the US financial markets by entering the markets with unlimited supplies of dollars to make selected items go up or down. Though gullible and uninformed US stock and commodity market investors believe that the markets are free and market responsive, they are not. They are manipulated and controlled.

The Fed and the Treasury collaborated on this madness and created something in 1988 with the approval of Ronald Reagan (per executive order 12631 on Mar 18, 1988) called the “Working Group on Financial Stability” (popularly known as the Market Control Unit or the Plunge Protection Team). This unit operates in collusion with the market-makers (the stock and commodity brokers making the markets on the major stock exchanges) to buy or sell certain stocks, bonds, currencies and/or commodities at certain times.

Newspaper reports on at least one occasion in the spring of 2008 mentioned that Bush had met privately with the Working Group on Financial Stability. While the media did not and would not dare state what the Bush, Treasury and Fed team discussed at this meeting or any of the others that they may have held, we can be sure that it involved financial market manipulations. Yet, Bush would continuously proclaim to the media and gullible American people that he believed in free markets. What a joke that Bush charge was.

George W. Bush was accused of not being very swift. So he may not have fully grasped what the plunge protection team was doing when Bush met with them and/or when they did enter the US financial markets on more than one occasion to manipulate and control them to the satisfaction of the plutocrats running the US government. But regardless of whether Bush understood or not, the fact remains that he was president and had to accept responsibility for the actions of at least the Treasury if not the entire plunge protection team.

The Strong US Dollar in 2008

In the Goldsmith series, I mentioned in the summer of 2008 that the plutocrats were planning a sharp uptick in the US dollar, starting in September 2008 and to last into 2009. Whereas the US had been hitting lows of 71 on the dollar index, by September the dollar was at 80. Soon, it would even climb to 87. While many financial market observers believed that the market events of 2008, including the sharp dollar increase, was due to fundamentals, I and a few others took the stance that it all was due to manipulations (as explained in the Goldsmiths, Part X).

As I noted in the Goldsmiths series, the Treasury had plans in process to issue trillions of US dollar bonds and notes in the various US bailouts. They hoped to sell as many of these US IOUs to foreign nations and foreigners. In order to prop up and motivate foreign buyers to buy these IOUs of a bankrupt USA, the plunge protection team (operating under the guidance of the super rich plutocrats) chose to pump the largely worthless US dollar up to make the foreign buyers buy US bonds, notes and IOUs (this is all explained in the Goldsmiths, Parts VI, X, XII, XVIII and XX).

So while this pumped up dollar looked good to Bush and his plunge protection team, it had a strange adverse impact on US farmers. Whereas in 2007 and early 2008, exports of US grains and softs looked good with the weak US dollar, all of a sudden these exports fell dramatically because of the strong US dollar in the fall and winter of 2008. Quickly, the US Dept of Agriculture projection of foreign sales of US food products turned down. Foreign buyers of US grains and softs found that it was cheaper to buy these items from other countries with cheaper currencies.

Of course, one of the prime targets for the manipulators was the collapse of commodity prices; starting in the spring of 2008, intensifying in the summer of 2008, and literally striking hard on September 1, 2008. American grains and softs produced by US farmers took a hard hit, primarily starting on Sep 1^st. As of early 2009, those prices have not recovered.

What this amounts to is that the policies of the Bush administration and its plunge protection people placed incredible damage on the American farmers who largely voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004. If Bush and his team wanted to damage and almost destroy American agriculture, they did so in 2008.

But the Power Behind the Throne

Having mentioned the work of George Bush, the US Treasury and the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank to damage/destroy US farmers, it must be acknowledged that the actions of all of these people ultimately had to go back to decisions made by the ruling plutocrats.

While few people can readily grasp it, but the US, Britain and much of Europe are ruled from behind the scenes by fat-cat plutocrats who really call the shots. So the argument can be made that it is not fair to blame all of the farmers’ problems on Bush.

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