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Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan by Michael Silverstein

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Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan by Michael Silverstein

"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post

"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today
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The Man From
ZOG Is Perplexed

by Michael Silverstein

I have been reading and hearing a lot recently about something called ZOG—the Zionist Occupation Government. It is reportedly a conspiracy of Jews to control the finances and governments of the world, and is especially active and successful in these United States.

In truth, I found the notion rather odd at first. But as more and more material about this extraordinary arrangement has flowed from the Great Plains intelligentsia that seems to be tracking developments in this field closely, I find myself increasingly caught up in the idea. I also find its appeal for me personally growing day by day.

To think. We control everything! The banks, the stock market, the manufacturing and mining sectors, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, the media, health care, the decisions made by Congress and the Administration, all other government activity above the rural county level, and by some accounts, the weather, too, so as to be able to finesse hard-working farmers and ranchers out of their properties via flood and drought.

Sure, I knew we had an edge when it came to dentistry and divorce litigation. But all this other stuff? I never knew that before.

This state of affairs, the Internet pronouncements on my computer screen inform me, is not a new thing either. It has been going on for decades, centuries, millennia, maybe longer. But it somehow goes unnoticed because of the strange power of people like myself to cloud other’s minds, a power not only used to accumulate untold wealth, but to work our wills on gullible women of a different race (or is it a different species?). I never knew that either, especially when I was younger, when such information might well have proven very useful.

Maybe the most poignant revelation for me came when I learned that since the end of World War II, our control—that is to say ZOG’s control—has been nearly absolute throughout the United States, except in a few self-governing communities of liberated and enlightened individuals. What an uplifting feeling that gives me.

Sure, this country has its share of poverty and crime and pollution. During the last 50 years, however, while ZOG and me have been running things, it has also experienced the greatest prosperity in human history, and has emerged as the one and only super power to whom the rest of the world looks for everything from entertainment to military protection, from new products to workable political institutions.

Once upon a time I would have attributed this reality to the collective efforts of millions of American men and women of all faiths and colors, working alone or jointly to advance their own and their nation’s best interests. No more.

ZOG has been in charge, so ZOG gets the kudos. And anyone who thinks otherwise had better not say so near a fortified compound on the prairie, or in the vicinity of certain cabins sited on mountain peaks, where the snow falls deep, where hugs really mean something, and where folks still make an honorable living issuing their own currencies.

Just one thing confuses me about ZOG though. Something specifically involving my own place in this conspiratorial movement. If Jews control this country’s economic system, why can’t I get an American Express Card?

Sure. I was a little late on a few payments on my Visa and Mastercard. It happens. But why should that disqualify a guy named Silverstein from getting his share of the ZOG goodies?

Could somebody from the occupational government please call and let me know how I can cash in? Is there a membership fee? A regular meeting at a local synagogue? A password to slip into the margin of an American Express application?

Some of my Social Security checks have also been late, and my prostate is enlarged. Could you take care this as well?

©2007 Michael Silverstein

 
 

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