- After almost three years of covering the issue of stock
market fraud, and after experiencing revelation after revelation about
just how widespreadand how controlledthe fraud really is, against investors,
against our economic foundation, against America, things have become,
well, let's just say that events have become very predictable.
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- Those of us "who knew" saw the problems with
naked short selling way before it was (finally) in vogue to talk about
it in the major media. Those of us who were paying attention knew about
how hedge funds were dangerously manipulating the market long before the
house of cards began to collapse around them while federal regulators
feigned mock surprise. Those of us who ventured into the seedy underbelly
of Wall Street saw something insidious and menacing, something that we
knew could eventually collapse our entire economy if left unchecked.
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- No, it's not that difficult to know how this plays out,
and believe me, it's not a pretty picture.
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- The brokers will be exposed as the real villains here,
revealed to be just as crooked as the hedge funds (and even more powerful),
and everyone will once again posture in mock indignation, gesturing animatedly
while they launch investigations and promise to enact justice on the "bad
guys." Meanwhile, they'll be scrambling to eliminate the last few
shreds of evidencebeginning with your stock certificates.
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- The Plunge Protection Team, who has been busy propping
up the market while the crooks entice you with hopes of wealth and financial
security, will turn out to be just another cogset up and encouraged by
our federal governmentin the machine that really controls the flow of
money inn America, that system that guarantees that the rich get richer.
This is not by accident, folks. You're not struggling to make ends meet
simply because they have better resources to begin with, or because our
"free enterprise system" (*coughcough* excuse me, I almost choked
on that one) gives "thems that has" an advantage or "thems
that don't." Your parents and grandparents aren't facing a retirement
of living on less and hoping that they can simply pay next months utilities
and afford minimal medical care just because some are born into money,
and others aren't. This is not the luck of the draw, and it has very little
to do with who worked harder to get ahead.
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- This game is rigged.
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- While the deck has always been stacked against the middle
and lower class, the past decade has turned into a money grab unprecedented
in our country's history. Not since Alexander the Great plundered the
Persian Empire have so many been raped, robbed, and pillaged at the hands
of so few.
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- This is one conspiracy that is turning out to be bigger
than even the most paranoid of the so-called "tin-foil hat"
crowd could imagine. This is a pending meltdown of epic proportions, and
I repeat: IT'S NOT BY ACCIDENT. The brokers, the hedge funds, the Congressmen
who are bought and sold by "big money," the regulators, the
mediaTHEY'RE ALL IN ON IT.
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- Now, years after Dave Patch started his InvestigatetheSEC
website, years after The Faulking Truth, FinancialWire.net, and a few
other rogue online publications began to sound the alarm, years after
a few brave (or foolhardy, depending on who you ask) souls began to spread
the word to anyone who would listen, years after advocates like Bob O'Brien,
Patrick Byrne, and Bud Burrell began to speak out, Congress is (again,
FINALLY) launchingor at least talking about launching a broad-based investigation
into the SEC. But why now, just as the DOW is hitting record highs? Granted,
those highs aren't "inflation adjusted" record highs, but still,
the market, at least on the surface looks good.
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- Why now?
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- It's simple, and not hard to see through. While the hedge
funds might not be transparent, their tactics are. While Wall Street is
scrambling to find the next way to give their ultra-rich clients..and
by extension, themselvesthat leg up, that extra advantage, that "edge,"
their methods are becoming glaringly predictable.
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- The game is rigged, and the record highs of the DOW are
an illusion, nothing more than an enticing hologram projected in front
of America in order to distract everyonefor the umpteenth time, from the
fact that they' re being raped, robbed, and left for dead.
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- Putting the Plunge Protection Team in charge of keeping
our stock market afloat is like trusting the major oil companies to not
gouge us at the gas pumps. Every time they loosen the chokehold on the
middle class, it's only so they can reposition their grip so that they
can squeeze us a little tighter.
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- The "pending investigation" into the SEC, the
upcoming expose' of the brokers.the imminent collapse of Wall Street,
or more accurately, the imminent implosion of Wall Street, from the inside
outare all orchestrated events, nothing more. Their plan is to abandon
ship just before it sinks. It 's up to us to stop them before they've
hauled off the last load of money. Our only hope is that the indisputable
truth that greed is all-consuming, that they simply aren't capable of
walking away while they are still a few bones to pick clean, will ultimately
be their downfall.
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- That their greed will be their undoingand that the growing
number of Americans who have had enough will eventually turn the tables
on those who are sucking our country dry, and send them a clear message:
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- ENOUGH IS ENOUGHwe want our country back, and we want
it back NOW. The time of reckoning is near, and those who think that they
can continue to be traitors to America underestimate the resolve of those
who made this country great to begin with, those who worked for their
money, who fought for their country either at home or abroad, and who
will continue to fight as long as they feel threatened or cheated.
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- A word of warning to the greedy, a bit of advice to those
who have sold their souls to the Almighty Dollar: Just because you've
gotten away with it up to now, don't believe for a moment that this is
over. We as a people will not give up, we as a country will not go down
quietly. Your time is coming.
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- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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- This article is also posted on Mark Faulk's blog at The
Sanity Check, along with an excellent comment section, at: http://www.thesanitycheck.com/Blogs/MarkFaulksBlog/tabid/86/
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- Mark Faulk is the Editor of The Faulking Truth, and the
author of the upcoming book entitled "The Naked Truth: Counterfeiting
the American Dream," due out in late 2006. For more information on
the book and on the stock market scandal, go to http://www.faulkingtruth.com
, and to pre-order your copy, go to http://www.theownersgroupinc.com/cart/
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