It is ironic, as Daniel Estulin points out, that America’s fledgling democracy established the Logan act in 1799 to protect itself from Americans fostering foreign associations to intrude in our affairs. Named after Dr. George Logan, a pro Republican and prescient Quaker from Pennsylvania, it has remained almost unchanged and unfortunately unused since its passage, though it reads with great relevance in the shadows of the New World Order’s operatives . . . It states, “Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.” In fact, it is amazing that the Bilderberg Group has met since 1954 with funding from the CIA and is made up of the world’s most powerful people, notably US and world heads of state, made and in the making, numerous international corporate CEOs from business, banking, industry, media, as well as world royalty, plus high-ranking members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tri-Lateral Commission.

Last Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reported that for the first time in history commercial US banks have suffered a $3.4 billion quarterly loss in a giant sector that they thought, until now, was solid: that is, bets on interest rates. The loss was more than seven times worse than their previous quarterly loss in that category. Of the total derivatives loss, only 7.8 percent was in credit default swaps, the instrument that brought down AIG. Notably, 82 percent of total losses were in interest rate derivatives, the solid category. The remainder is in “other.” U.S. banks, alone, control $204 trillion in derivatives today. These facts came from the notable Dr. Martin Weiss.

The so-called Public Private Partnership Investment Program (PPPIP) introduced last Monday, by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner not only stands to bankrupt America but the global financial system as well. This is the worst yet of the bailouts, a swindle if ever there was one, which will cause President Obama’s approval rating to plummet. In fact, count me among those coming to the president’s aid. I really don’t think he understands what this means. Consider Geithner as the face, the voice though not the brain, for this program which advocates turning over the keys to the banking system to a bunch of hedge fund sharks, and all at taxpayer’s expense. The cost could more likely end up being $6 trillion than the $1 trillion in starter money. In fact, it’s more likely that the dastardly plan was launched like a missile from jolly old London, which is in line to lose big if their offshore hedge fund empire is shut down.

Thought it would be an interesting service to readers to provide a handful of articles pertaining to Gaza from worldwide newspapers, leading with one from Israel’s Haaretz, one of the world’s bravest, truth-telling papers. The headline reads Pentagon denies arms shipment to Israel linked to Gaza fighting. It’s a double-talking beauty and appeared on January 10.

Despite its name, the Federal Reserve System is not owned by the federal government. It is actually a private company of bankers with 12 branches or central banks that expand and contract our money supply as they have doing for nearly 100 years. And, even though the Fed is not part of the US government, the Fed’s Board of seven governors is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for 14-year terms.

I’m not talking about the CIA-brand of intelligence. I’m talking about the Barack Obama brand of intelligence, a gift that won him scholarships to America’s top colleges, that brought him to the classroom as a professor, that left his Democratic presidential hopefuls in the dust, and last Wednesday night left John McCain clenching his jaws in palpable anger, stalking off the stage shortly after the debate’s end, while Obama lingered with his wife, talking, joking, posing for pictures, signing autographs with members of the audience.

The toxic mortgage-debt paper is only a cover. The real story under the covers of the history book written since the Great Depression is about the investment bankers and their allies who have returned with a vengeance to totally bankrupt America and its financial system with their greed, which created the present subprime debt and recently raised the national debt ceiling to $11 trillion and change.

With the announcement of Citigroup’s purchase of the Wachovia Corporation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation told us Monday morning of the latest bank to get whacked by the predatory mortgage market, as in what goes around comes around. But not to worry, folks, Citigroup will pay a buck a share, about $2.2 billion, in a brand new deal. How’s that for a buy?

Step right up, folks! It’s the biggest welfare check in history, a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street and friends, arrived at in just four days. But wait a minute. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) points out in his Media Advisory that the real cost of bailouts to American taxpayers when you factor in all recent costs is actually $1.7 trillion, not just the $700 billion about to be added.

Not since the race to go to an illegal preemptive war in Iraq have I seen President Bush pull out all the fear stops like he did Wednesday night, in an attempt to hard-sell the bailout of $700 billion dollars for his Wall Street friends and their banker, mortgage companies, and hedge fund buddies.