I have a nagging suspicion. Is it paranoia? Perhaps you can shed some light on it all for me. Here is my very bad dream...

United States assets, real estate, businesses, stocks and portfolios, cash, bureaucrats and politicians are owned more and more often by overseas interests and investors. It has been a relatively quiet progression (compared to OJ Simpson or the recent lunatic who murdered her baby), but one that continued to advance over the years. At some stage, a tipping point was reached, where the domestic ownership of the country was outweighed by the foreign investment and ownership.

Most immediately, it is recognizable in the absolutely massive US debt. While we frequently advocate the forgiveness of foreign debt to struggling countries, there shall be no such relief or forgiveness for us. We are owned.

But as foreign entities, interests, and owners cannot pass our laws directly, they must pursue every and all means they can discover to lobby, pressure, frighten, intimidate, and manipulate our legislative and election processes. Through campaign funding and other such methods of ownership, they can eventually place favorable or at least friendly key players in key positions of power. In this way, they can maintain legislative control over the interests of the properties and wealth which is now theirs.

The recent 700 billion-dollar bailout (which was trimmed down to 820 billion-?) was a bizarre example of the kind of manipulation which may be afoot.  This bailout was raced through Washington with great haste and infusion of fear. Its goals and methods (and even the dollar figure's rationale) were astonishingly fuzzy and semi-specific. Perhaps this is no accident at all. "Fuzziness" and obscurity may be quite intential. Perhaps it is intended as less of a bailout of Joe and Jane America, than a bailout and security package for compensation of foreign interests -- our owners. Perhaps the bulk of this money will make a quiet little journey overseas, before we even knew to say goodbye.

In this environment, generously funded campaigns will surely swell; which will advocate a move toward a regional "Americas", evolving away from historic sovereignty of United States.  This movement will inevitably continue, toward an international administration of great magnitude, with unprecedented power, authority and financial ownership.  The regulatory power within the banking industries of the world will move toward a never before experienced phenomenon.  Though perhaps paralleling ancient Egypt or ancient Rome, do not look for such a physically localized center of power and wealth; the new kings of global authority and ownership will likely not make it that easy to spot or unmask their identities.  The networks and mazes of financial movement and power acquisition will be outrageously oblique and beyond the grasp of even the experts.  You need not doubt this, the current worldwide packaging and selling of complicated and enigmatic financial "instruments" is nothing short of this; and has occurred to the extent that is considered at the heart of the international monetary crisis presently at hand..

In the end, (or already) the United States interests and concerns will be subjugated to international bodies.  As the International Monetary Fund swells in scope, influence, and power, a parallel GOVERNING body will necessarily need to be empowered, to protect and secure enormous financial concerns.  This kind of money will not circulate without "armed guards".  It is impossible for the already growing IMF to not pursue global governing influence to accompany its monetary assets and maneuvers.  

It is the ultimate "too big to fail" scenario.

Once a certain size and proportion has been achieved, all countries will be obliged to endlessly and perpetually sustain the gigantic hovering banking body from which there is no escape. Inevitably, in a globally centralized monetary/governing system, supreme empowerment will surely lead to supreme corruption.  Insiders and enablers will enjoy celebratory rewards, and contrarian's and agitators will be effectively silenced, made invisible, or perhaps even quietly disappear altogether. Can there be any doubt?

I believe we're more than halfway there, and the current global monetary panics (which are either the result of corruption, delusional stupidity, or perhaps intentionally induced?)  are already generating plenty of space for the realities I fear to be invoked and advanced.  The 700 billion-dollar bailout is a perfect example of the opportunistic taking advantage of panic to seize wealth and power.  This is absolutely indisputable.  To simply be awarded $700 billion ($820 billion) as an unelected authority figure, undefined by the founding fathers of the country, to do with as he sees fit (to address the logic that there is no money in our savings!) is absolutely and inarguably the seizing of real money and real power.  And it happened very fast and with a great deal of threat and fear mongering. In this elevated sense of panic, one could easily suspect there are entities who brought about this bedlam, to create the space in which to seize enormous quantities of devalued assets, authority, and otherwise occupy a momentary power vacuum.

Lastly, isn't it ironic that the same young, zealous, radically-dressed Obama loving youth are the same politically-charged youth who would break shop windows in any city hosting the IMF?  Obama is generally poised with an orientation toward the IMF and global super-administration.  One of the very few legislative actions for which Obama can receive credit during his "experience" (Global Poverty Act {S.2433} ), involved a strengthening of global authority, a degree of submission of United States sovereignty, potential U.S. obligations for gun bans, and U.S. commitment to mandated redistribution of US wealth to other regions of the globe.  I fear this is neither the beginning nor the end of Obama 's global-order disposition...And I fear it may be small potatoes beside that which I don't know about our national political scene, whose actions never cease to defy common sense.