June 17, 2008 journal, tens of thousands await relief in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City all over. 1 merchant operating a Burger King underwater as her 40 employees beg for paychecks. This happened to Iowa in 1992, 16 years ago but this is worse and called a 500 year flood. The government has fixed their response problem by not responding at all to this Katrina. Where is the Red Cross? Where is Brownie with his cash cards? New Orleans actually was treated better. How can we respond with National Guard and Army Reserve all in Iraq? If this final treaty is signed then we will build another 30 military bases in Iraq and most likely will have our headquarters there, maybe even move the Pentagon over there. The Bilderberger's met again secretly this past weekend in Virginia outside Washington. All sides were represented including the eternal David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. "The 56th Bilderberg meeting was held this past weekend at the Westfield's Marriott in Chantilly Virginia, according to the World Net Daily and other sources. The secretive conference was not mentioned in the dominant television media or daily newspapers". "Reports indicate that those globalist attending the annual Bilderberg group conference include Secretary of State Rice, Tom Daschle, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the board of governors for the Federal Reserve". This is quoting from the Times Examiner June 11th. The issue of enemy combatants & the Supreme Court decision is being grossly distorted. Obama today made it clear that he supports the Supreme Court decision to give enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay the right to the constitution of charges & a trial. The white hat guys try to make him look foolish but surely American people know better. I cannot believe the Liberal Democrats have to protect our constitution while right wing so-called conservatives trash the Constitution. Everything is reversed and upside-down. Secretary of the Treasury Paulson met with the Chinese today about their money in U.S. dollars surplus they hold of 1.6 trillion dollars as debt against the United States. They are not a free economy and we are not really a free economy either because Sec. Paulson is a fraud negotiating without authority. He like all the others work under the Federal Reserve and the Chinese government have their own agenda as we become more dependent upon them and in debt to them. CNN reports that China has almost "taken over Africa" as the president fiddles while Rome burns. It is announced today for the first time that China has teamed up with Cuba to harvest oil just 50 miles off the Florida Keys forbidden for the United States drilling. China somehow is in charge of the Panama Canal Zone and waterway. American warships cannot go from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean without traveling through the Panama Canal or going around the tip of South America taking days and adding more than 4,000 miles to their journey. We are cut off from our own country. Secretary Paulson is being severely criticized for his naive strategy in dealing with China. I feel like I am separated from my paintbrush and cannot get back to work to create art. China could cut off our credit any minute and we would lose about 70 percent of all our hard goods supply and 30 percent of our food supply. China's U.S. dollar reserve is in jeopardy and they know our banking situation being grave. They know that collapse of the U.S. dollar is an immediate possibility. When dollar goes, so goes this nation Empire. The ice is thin and it is breaking up as we travel down that road with the natural disasters. Now McCain wants offshore drilling which is not likely to lower gas price before 5 years. The president who recently said he was not aware of rising gasoline prices is now asking Congress to lift the 30 year-old ban on offshore drilling, anything for political advantage. This based on it being revealed that China has slipped in our back door to drill with Cuba.