Our financial crisis is not the result of lax regulations, irrational exuberance or various unintended consequences and sequences of bad luck leading invariably to the same end. It is the work of crooks — real men with real nefarious plans and schemes.

One of these conspirators is Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, who built and ran the elaborate Ponzi scam known as AIG across four decades. Earlier this month he managed time in his schedule to make a personal appearance before a congressional committee. (Last October, at the height of paranoia over the pending collapse of the giant insurer, the 83 year-old Greenberg offered only a doctor's slip and a prepared statement to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which had called on him to testify.)

For his actual appearance, Greenberg closed his prepared statement with his quintessential post mortem analysis on the collapse of AIG, "Let me be clear: AIG’s business model did not fail- its management did."�That would, of course, be management after he was pushed out of the top spot at AIG in 2005 over an accounting fraud scandal.

According to Mr. Greenberg, the company, management team, and corporate culture he built over his 35 year tenure as its leader all suddenly unraveled in the three short years after his inglorious departure. Yes, over a span of less than 36 months, the veneralbe AIG went from a supposed pinnacle of financial stability to a bottomless pit for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money. This is what Mr. Greenberg, with a straight face, wants people to believe. This is known in the trade as chutzpah.

Greenberg's claim that he had absolutely no hand in the downfall of AIG is so absurd that even members of the aptly named Oversight Committee had to pretend to be outraged for the folks back home, who are being stuck with the bill. Though he is a racketeer orders of magnitude greater than Bernie Madoff ever dreamed of becoming, to date, Greenberg has had to face no more than a few minutes of stage managed questions before a small panel of Congressmen. No ankle bracelets for him. Roger Clemens took more heat from Congress over his alleged/likely steroid use.

Put that in context. Unless you bought Yankee tickets at a doped-up price during the Clemens-Pettite years, or bet against those two pitchers and lost, what these baseball players did or did not do, cost you nothing. On the other hand, the scam that was AIG, designed by Greenberg and collaborators to end no other way than it has, is going to cost you your share of $200 billion and counting... actually, more than your share if you work for a living and don't run in the same crowd of teflon suited financial crime dons as Mr. Greenberg. These guys have long since pulled their winnings off their rigged tables and placed them seemingly out of the reach of us, their hapless marks.

Mr. Greenberg and his co-conspirators appear to be sitting pretty. Their scam is big enough and deep enough into the world's financial establishment that they can afford to underwrite a controlling interest in the U.S. Congress and the ultimate silence that brings. To be sure, they still have to consider the double crossing and backstabbing that is a constant and significant probability among their type, but at the moment they appear to be untouchable... or, at least not at any position of risk than can't be offset by a few opportune suicides.

As grim as it looks for meting out justice to the likes of Mr. Greenberg and his business partners at the moment, there are some things hapless marks can yet do to up the stakes. Number one is to start referring to the likes of Mr. Greenberg and his collaborators as suspected criminals that need to subpoenaed and brought before a federal grand jury investigation.

Number two is to damn the inevitable smears that will be headed your way and start naming names like The John Birch Society has been doing for over 50 years. There are real people running enterprises like AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve. They meet. They conspire. They use their corporate press organs to pass themselves off as reputable businesses and make pronouncements that they are not conspirators because, trust us, everything we do, every nest egg we crack to make our signature designer omletes, is done with the best interests of the humankind in mind. (I really don't make this up. That's a synopsis of how uber conspirator and Greenberg pal David Rockefeller justifies his back room deals in his autobiography.)

At age 83, the mobsters Mr. Greenberg has been running with like David Rockefeller and Sith Lord Henry Kissinger are getting way long in the tooth, but they still wield considerable influence. The best extended listing of names for crime bosses, who were in their prime during the Greenberg era, can be found in the Birch Society commissioned book, Shadows of Power, an expose of The Council of Foreign Relations by James Perloff. This is the must read book if are serious about understanding what is going on in Washington and on Wall Street. We can't easily pursue the solution until more learn what the problem is. Buy and read this book!

Once you are familiar with some crime boss names and who-knows-who's you can better avoid being duped. A quick case study in point:

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is bankrolled by, as you can imagine, Peter G. Peterson. Mr. Peterson is co-founder of the Kissinger aligned Blackstone Group and Chairman Emeritus of the Council of Foreign Relations. That would be the same Blackstone group that has undoubtably had AIG counter party bailout money funneled to it and the same Council of Foreign Relations that Maurice "Hank" Greenberg sits on the board of directors of. These guys talk. A person who does not believe this has serious issues with denial and should seek counseling that we can't provide here.

Knowing that Mr. Peterson has spent a career working business deals with scam artists like Mr. Greenberg, might you be advised to be at least a little suspicious of the ulterior motives behind campaigns being promoted the Peter G. Peterson Foundation? That is, should you trust that those trying to educate americans by producing movies like IOUSA, are going to offer the right solutions for the right problems? With just a bit of confidence, let's suggest that Peterson's IOUSA push is simply an effort to divert attention from the real culprits behind our financial debacle.

Check for yourself. Search Peterson's site(s) for any critical mentions of the counterfeiting conspiracy that is the Federal Reserve System. That would be the FED, the same outfit pumping money (sic: future taxpayer obligations) into the AIG conduit that is now, under who knows how many secret U.S. Treasury programs, routing funds to disreputable counter parties all over the world.

Let us save you the effort. You are going to draw a blank on your search. Peterson, the head of the New York FED, controlling arm of the Federal Reserve System, from 2002 to 2004 is not going to spend a dime of his (stolen) billion dollars he has pledged towards his campaign to educate the American people on the "true" nature of our financial condition.

Even though the PGP Foundation is run by David Walker, the former Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Peterson's outfit is going to be the last place you see a call to audit the FED, let alone a call to End the FED conspiracy outright. No, the honorable(sic) Mr. Walker, a career accounting professional, is asking us to focus only on the debt side of our nation's financial ledger and totally ignore whatever is supposedly on the asset side controlled by the Federal Reserve. That's some real honest accounting there

Mr. Walker must have picked that trick up during his years as a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP before the firm crashed and burned in the Enron scandal. His sleight of hand accounting also probably comes in handy in his current post as chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee (UNIAAC). There's a guy I would trust.

The bottom line: Our county is being run by gangsters. The sooner you dare to call it a a conspiracy, the sooner it will all start to make sense.

"When bad men combine, the good must associate." Come join us in the fight because in the end, Truth wins!

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danwhitehead1 said:

	Is it too late? In his book "The Naked Capitalist" (written, I believe in the early '70s), W. Cleon Skousen clearly stated "The hour is late". That was almost 40 years ago. His book should be a must read for anyone who cares. I wonder if it's too late?
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archtoplee said:

No , it's never "too late!" If the great Cleon Skousen were alive today, he'd tell you that the fun is just beginning! Never, NEVER is it "too late" for those of us who are determined to expose this entire conspiracy. Remove that question from your mind a act like you mean to win. Cotez burned his ships to impress upon the Conquistadores under his command that he came to Mexico with the sole idea of doing what he went to Mexico to do- CONQUISTAR! Robert Welch said essentially the same thing in The Blue Book of the John Birch Society. When you join the JBS you are joining an organization that "means business every step of the way." Great job on the article Jim and great advise.

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Pat Henry said:

Running ahead to lead parades The Audit the fed bill, while inherently reasonable, can be co-opted by this crowd, which wants to supersede the Fed with a GLOBAL "fed," through the IMF, or elsewhere. Tea Parties had CFR member Newt in front to try to misdirect growing outrage. (Same guy who mislead the freshman Congressmen years ago with his rhetoric-strong, but essentially toothless "Contract With America.") You know, it would not hurt to read Golitsyn's New Lies for Old (though that itself may be a limited hangout by hanging out nearly everything and tucking in a few poisoned lines). He notes that in the USSR heydays, the Party always had conservative leaders to insure that any outrage was directed into ineffective action. War is hell, eh? Freedom needs free men and women to keep it alive.

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MarkGlen said:

	Most people are gullible Many people, I think, had decided to invest their retirement $$$s in finantial institutions solely on the basis of an honest looking TV advertisement. A TV adv. could make Pretty Boy Floyd look pretty.
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MarkGlen said:

	Money and crooks Crooks are not dumb, just crooked. Wherever the money is there will be the crooks also.
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MarkGlen said:

Why do people prefer to sleep through the storm? America's problems are a result of sin. And until the sin is repented of and forgiven things will only get worse. Why are there not millions and millions of Americans joining us in this fight against greed? Are they not lazy and ignorant? I ask a coffee buddy the other day to join me in this effort to save America. Two or three days later he said: "I am not going to try to save America." We are no longer buddies. Why was Sodom destroyed and why was Lot hesitant to leave town? The angels had to almost drag him out. Had Abrahan lived in Sodom it may not have fallen. Are you willing to pay the price to save your nation?

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Thomas Paine said:

Well done Mr. Capo! The High Cabal can fall. Now we're getting somewhere. The evil truth continues to surface. That is what the doctor ordered. There is an achilles heal to this criminal High Cabal. It's called 911. There are tons of evidence and witnesses abound ready to come mainstream to disclose this evil to all of America. (if you don't know that, start with Architects and Engineers for 911 truth). Once 911 truth is triggered, the High Cabal comes tumbling down.

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danwhitehead1 said:

	Thank you archtoplee - - - - - - for the timely, and needed, slap across my face. I seem to have forgotten two very old sayings: 1. It's always darkest before the dawn and 2. Truth is always stronger than lies. I also forgot that though God's mill grinds slow, it also grinds exceedingly fine.
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Bliss Tew said:

... The pinstrip banksters shame La Cosa Nostra with the banksters' trillions in stolen value far outstripping common thug-type criminal conspiracies. Pointing he finger as Jim Capo has done is a great service as it takes the pains to bring out the truth. Let us share this article widely on the Internet,not just to choir members, and see if we can get the aritcle to go viral. An ounce of truth can prevent tons of future deceptions from working to rob us further.

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MarkGlen said:

A spade is a spade Anyone that is for gun control is an outlaw. The Constitution is clear: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The Obama administration is an outlaw administration. And any state or city that has "infringed" upon the Second Amendment has broken the law of the land. Call them outlaws and you will be correct. A spade is a spade and an outlaw is an outlaw.

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MarkGlen said:

	Jesus said for you to buy a sword Luke 22:36 (New Living Translation) "“But now,” he said, “take your money and a traveler’s bag. And if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one!" Youngs Concordance says "Sword" as uses in this Scripture means "Fighting weapon" A pistol or a rifle in our day would be equivalent to a sword.
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charlie23 said:

	If they be outlaws If the present "leaders" of our country be outlaws, Why can't we arrest them and charge them with treason or at least punish them in some way for lying to us. They would do the same to us for upholding our Constitution.
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MarkGlen said:

	Lets clean out the hole in the wall Yes, Washington DC is like the hole in the wall once was. It is full of outlaws, but we the people can bring DC in line if we are so mind to. We must elect patriotic Congressmen. That is a hard job, but we have no other choice. There are still a few good people in Congress who have America in mind, but they need help.
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MarkGlen said:

	arresting them is not that easy Charlie23, You might try arresting them, but a congressional security guard would stop you.
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Citizen Joe said:

... I am so impressed by your article, "Some Dare Call it Conspiracy". Not because you dared to call it conspiracy, but rather that you dared to call it crime. Not one person in a hundred on the street can understand the meaning of "conspiracy", but almost everyone understands crime, criminals and being the victim of crime. Let us continue to describe the activities of The Insiders in terms of what people understand and can relate to. Congratulations, you have made a great start. You have inspired me to join in that effort. Please see my blog, "On Crime, Bankers and Politicians" at: http://www.jbs.org/index.php/c...ians.html Citizen Joe

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Citizen Joe said:

"The sack of these United States is the greatest crime in history" "The sack of these United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history." Congressman Louis T. McFadden, who served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for more than ten years. On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee and has YET TO BE ACTED ON. So, this ELECTRONIC BOOKLET should be reprinted, reposted, set up on web pages and circulated far and wide. Copy and paste the following link into your web browser for incredible charges against The Federal Reserve Bank many decades ago. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html Citizen Joe

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whodareswings said:

	JBS and Jews The New American will not tolerate postings of an anti-Semitic nature on this site. All such comments will be deleted.
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