Let’s see: I talk about Greece, Spain, Europe in general, California, China, The Mythical Land Of Us, the BRIC countries… all slowing down economically, all suffering from a surfeit of debt. Unfortunately, there are no solutions. It is a worldwide meltdown. California’s budget problems markedly worse than projected by the Governor in January. More cuts, more layoffs, higher taxes, a stampede out of California… very grim.  China’s economy is now slumping. A telecommunications provider which shields its customers from surveillance. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, thanks the U.S. for making sure that drugs remain illegal. How the banks are gaming the system to stabilize housing prices (keeping them off the market). Ridiculous insurance/hospital billing scenarios.

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The European Union is beyond crisis. It is on life-support. Germany has admitted that it accepted Italy into the Union on false pretenses. The problems of transferring from the euro to domestic currencies. A comment on the elections in France and Greece. More on unemployment and the destiny of those less fortunate than their relatives from previous generations. A comparison between how one is received at a South American consulate abroad and a U.S. consulate abroad.

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Why do we allow these toxic institutions? They destroy economies, support their friends in commercial banking to the detriment of everyone else and create inflation and debased currencies. Two previous central banks in the U.S. lost their charters. How long will it be before the Federal Reserve loses its? The demographics of unemployment. The impossibility of sustaining the nation’s elderly with the youth of today. It cannot be done. The financial burden is simply too great. Nobody seems to address this. Why deflation is in our future. How this will affect gold. A look at why the recession will get worse. What will happen when the deficits are curtailed? Nobody talks about that, either. The economic fallout is unthinkable. Yet it has to happen at some point. Ron Paul’s bill to ‘End the Fed’.

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Debt has completely undermined the fabric of American life. The bedrock of success, housing, has died. It will never come back. The backbone of middle class wealth since WWII has been irretrievably broken. Please welcome Lauren Lyster into your lives on RT (Russian Television) and her show, Capital Account. Listen to a few of her words on the clip here. She is brilliant and destined for much success, though probably not in the main stream media. The unemployment statistics are out and not encouraging. European unemployment is at a record high. They are grinding out yet more debt in a panic. This will end badly. Total global debt is now $190 trillion. We have reached the point of implosion. The future is beyond unthinkable. Americans are beginning to leave the U.S. in droves. Millennials are particularly badly hit right now. Australia is now in terrible shape and officially in recession. Retailers are going under. Home prices are collapsing. An account of gratuitous police violence at a N.Y. Occupy event against a non-violent, experienced activist. Stay away!

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A comparative assessment of economic figures over the last century. 2012 is at the bottom of the pile. The current, dire economic situation has spiralled out of control and shows no sign of abating. An assessment of yesterday’s Meet-Up Group in New Brunswick. 25% of Americans state they will need to delay retirement to age 80, two years after they are expected to die! Europe’s governments are collapsing, one-by-one. An explanation of why the U.S. government should have resisted the temptation to interfere with the economy, leaving it alone to implode undisturbed. Having let the bankrupt businesses get out of the way, we’d be in recovery by now. With all the recent restrictions and curtailments of freedom and militarization of the forces of law and order within the country, America is following in the early domestic footsteps of Nazi Germany. With sixteen intelligence agencies (none of whom could stop 9/11, events in Egypt, Libya and  Iran and mistakenly thought Saddam had WMD) they want to add yet another agency. They’re tightening the net. Yet again, you have been warned.

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A puff piece on the recent history of the economy and efforts to save it. Good for the info, bad for the (non-existent) analysis. More on the scandal surrounding the TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). The funds never went where Congress had been informed they were going to go. Unemployed or disabled? The line may be blurred. Americans are not getting reliable information and they are angry. This will render the future very ugly.

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An in-depth look at the horrors of economic life in California. A shopping list of debt, crime, poverty, government overreach, corruption, illegal immigration, education-gone-berserk… More about the unfair rap dealt out to speculators. A quick overview of the general decline internationally as we progress within the international depression. Deflation as evidenced by falling commodity prices. Waco was a squandered opportunity for the people to rise up against the dangers of unwarranted federal interference in people’s lives.

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Lehman was the dress rehearsal for the wreckage that will soon be wrought by the derivatives market, uncontrolled, unregulated and unknown in size. Truly an accident waiting to happen. Charles Biderman talking about misguided nonsense from the financial media. Bill Bonner’s take on emigrating from the United States. Nigel Farage talking about the euro. George Carlin talking about the planet.

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The hideous heritage of Reagan lives on today: The rise of the big corporation. The expansion of big government.  “Free trade”(!) Super profits to multinational corporations. Thanks for nothing, Ronnie! A new commentator gets to be aired here on the Wake-Up Call (Charlie McGrath). More on unemployment and decreased pay and the nightmare of debt. Americans still bullish on the housing market! The history of taxes – all predicated on the needs of war. 2000-2012: nothing has changed… Medical care in Massachusetts. Michael Pettis’s take on China and why its imminent collapse will bring on worldwide deflation.

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Some fun tax facts (if tax matters can be called ‘fun’). Comparisons between the 2008 crisis and the crisis about to hit in Europe. The housing debacle is the exact equivalent of the sovereign country collapse currently in-the-making. And the governments are making exactly the same mistakes as the U.S. made in response to its own crisis, using the dictum, “Do more of what has failed spectacularly”. Elements contributing to the collapse of the  American way of life. Government now fears the people, as evidenced by the extraordinary powers that  the Department of Homeland Security is arrogating to itself. Gun shops are packed with people preparing for a massive outbreak of crime and civil unrest. Anecdotal stories of attacks in broad daylight are increasing and criminals are becoming ever more brazen.

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