1. It seems like we are off to a really dramatic day again. It is quite clear that the Paulson plan has not been so well received in all quarters. What with all the ridiculous conditions that make him essentially Hank the First, King of America and subsidiary planet Earth.

2. Americans suffer from STOCKHOLM SYNDROME!

As the financial system collapses leaving the wealth in fewer and fewer hands of those members of the Cartel who have unlimited greed while loading everyone else with unpayable obligations, we see shreds of fact demonstrating this trend. One example last week: Ex-Goldman CFO Thain ran Merrill for less than a year, orchestrated the merger into Bank America (thereby transferring Merrill’s loss risk upon depositors, FDIC, and the taxpayers by extension), while extorting a $200 million payout for himself and 2 of his lieutenants. Too bad this trend is only accelerating this Monday morning….

The US Citizenry is on its way to loving its captor, the Cartel, hoping they will protect them. The most grand manifestation yet of the "Stockholm Syndrome":

Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which they have been placed. The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August 28 in 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. The term Stockholm Syndrome was coined by the criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, who assisted the police during the robbery, and referred to the syndrome in a news broadcast.[1]

Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm

It should be taken into account that according to Namnyak e.a. (2008) the Stockholm Syndrome "is not a recognized Medical Subject Heading (MeSH), that most sources of information for widely publicized cases were of varying reliability in terms of the events that led to the diagnosis of Stockholm syndrome; the authors had no access to primary sources and identi?cation of a pattern of features exhibited in Stockholm syndrome may be due to reporting bias."[2]