On 24 March 1933, the day after the German Parliament assigned Adolf Hitler the task of finding a democratic solution to the economic crisis in Germany, the Jewish Lobby declared war not just on the Chancellor of the Reich, but on all Germans. "JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY" reads the main headline of London’s Daily Express on 24 March 1933. At that time there had been no persecution of Jews and there were no concentration camps in Germany.

In the New York Times in 1997, the Jewish Neturei-Karta Movement published background information pertaining to the Second World War. Rabbi Schwartz wrote the following comment: "The worldwide boycott against Germany in 1933 and the later all-out declaration of war against Germany, initiated by the Zionist leaders and the World Jewish Congress, enraged Hitler so that he threatened to destroy the Jews. ... The Zionists also refused and blocked rescue efforts and food supplies during the war. Their motto was "Rak B'Dam (Only by blood will we get the land)" (New York Times, 30 Sep 1997, page A16.) The Zionists won the war that began six years after Hitler was elected Chancellor. As a consequence, they have for more than 60 years experienced unprecedented ascendancy as the controlling power in the world.

If Conrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the BDR (Federal Republic of Germany) could see today just how large and powerful this Lobby has become, he would turn over in his grave. Adenauer, ever an opponent of Hitler, was never suspected of being a National Socialist. Nevertheless he warned his country about the great and rising Zionist power in his signature Rhinelander fashion: "...because, ladies and gentlemen, World Jewry is a very 'jrosse macht' (a great power)." (Rudolf Augstein quoting Adenauer in Spiegel, 19/1995, p. 44.) Of course, Conrad Adenauer was not the only official concerned about the power of the Israel lobby. In August 1945 the Office for Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Government of Austria under Dr. Karl Renner prepared a memorandum on the power of world Jewry. This memorandum stated: "There is no such thing as a Jewish state. Nevertheless, the Jews play a very important role in the foreign policies of the governments of the world. This is because, for one thing, they own a large part of the world press, through which they exert strong influence on public opinion. For another thing, they are very skillful at persuading governments to accede to their demands ... The British and American governments are the most pro Jewish. Thus it is for good reason that world Jewry is called the Fifth World Power, whose opposition brought down Hitler’s Germany." (From Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 July 1993, p. 14.)

Chancellor Renner considered the Israeli Lobby merely the "fifth world power." If he could revisit our world and see its present ranking, he would rub his eyes in amazement. Shimon Peres, who was Israeli Minister President from 1984 to 1986, openly bragged in 1989 that "the world has become Jewish" (Spiegel special edition, February 1989, page 80.) His successor Ariel Sharon, under whom Peres served as foreign minister, was even more specific. He assured Peres in these words: "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." (Reported by Israeli Radio Kol Yisrael, quoted by Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, WRMEA, 11 Oct 2001.) Thus the Jews control the "first" world power, if we are to believe former Israeli President Ariel Sharon. This means that Israel has moved from "only" fifth place to first among world powers in a very short time. The Jewish humanist and world-famous Israeli author Uri Avneri pilloried the power of the Jewish Lobby in these words: "America controls the world and we Jews control America." (Avneri-Internet, 9 April 2003.) One has to admit that the centers of Jewish power are head and shoulders above the white race where finesse and cunning are concerned. When the Zionist Lobby is overcome it can only be by Juda itself.

After the Socialistic Experiment Came the Neoliberalistic Experiment

Even before the outbreak of the Second World War it was clear to the Zionist Lobby that their "socialistic experiment" was going nowhere. The original idea was that, with communistic expropriation of the masses through violence and mass murder, the world would be impoverished. All the world’s wealth would be placed at the disposal of the Zionist Lobby, and world power would fall into their hands. However, the Soviet mass murderers did not turn the people (of the world) into willing subjects, it merely terrified them. Then the Zionist Lobby planned a new world war, with Hitler the ideal agent to bring the world under their control. This was to culminate in the "Neoliberal Experiment."

On 26 August 1938, a small group of organizers of "Neoliberalism" or "Globalism" met in Paris. Walter Lippmann, a Jewish publicist and adviser to Woodrow Wilson during the First World War, issued the invitations to the meeting. As Wikipedia explains: "Lippman shared the opinion that the masses are a great beast that has to be governed by the intellectual elite... Like Plato, he saw the public as a bewildered herd floundering in the chaos of local opinions." This is also the way the Zionist Lobby still sees democracy. Democracy, Neoliberalism, Globalism and Communism were all invented by the same Lobby. For years the Lippmann Colloquium remained obscure. Its influence became apparent after the end of the Second World War, when the Globalistic concept took its first tenuous steps. In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it grew rapidly until it ruled the planet.

It is very clear that the inventors of Neoliberalism-Globalism and the inventors of Communism have the same roots. The methods of subjugating and dispossessing the nations are to a very large extent identical in Communism and Globalism. The central goal of both ideologies has been expropriation of the masses. Under the Socialistic Experiment, mankind was dispossessed according to the "Laws of Communism." Under the Neoliberal Experiment, the masses are expropriated through "privatization" according to the "Laws of Globalization". The same ideology of contempt for humanity is common to both ideologies. We recall that Lippmann referred to the masses as "a great beast that must be subjugated."

The Final Act and Crash

The boundless greed, arrogance and presumptuousness of the Zionist Lobby have now combined to hurl the United States and Israel, which have come to be called "USrael," into the abyss. It is indeed ironic that they contracted the fatal virus of decline and fall at the time of their triumph over Adolf Hitler.

By the end of the Second World War, Hitler had glimpsed the fall of the Zionist Lobby, however. In the light of his own fate, the Führer and Reich Chancellor accurately prophesied the Lobby’s decline and fall. He anticipated that despite their murderous triumph, they would not enjoy their victory for long because they would destroy themselves. If ever an institution contained the seeds of its own destruction, it is the Zionist Lobby. During a situation conference on 13 February 1945, on the day that a 250 to 500,000 civilians perished in the Allied destruction of Dresden, Hitler remarked: "Even if I loose this war, the Jews will not be satisfied with their victory. This is because the Jews will completely lose their head. Their greed and arrogance will grow to such an extent that they will bring destruction upon themselves." (From Albert Wucher’s Eichmanns Gab es Viele, Munich and Zurich, 1961, p. 253.)

The magic elixir to achieve "Power over the World Power" was called "Holocaust." This martyr melodrama made the Lobby unassailable, since it stylized and elevated the Jewish Lobby to godliness. Then, with the Privatization swindle following in the wake of superpredatory Globalism, the Lobby expropriated everything the nations of the West had accumulated. The Zionist Lobby had become unassailable because of the Holocaust Myth. Since that time, one financial swindle has chased another other across the world stage, each greater than the preceding. The accumulated assets of the Western masses are incessantly diverted into the pockets of parasites and predators who are aptly characterized as human locusts because of their disastrous effect on civilization.

The politicians whom they have corrupted now merely pass laws legitimizing their thievery.

For example, these corrupt politicians have passed laws allowing the Locusts to take mortgages issued by one bank and pass them to a different bank, in the process requiring the mortgagee to pay the full amount of the original mortgage. Thus, even if a mortgage has been 70 percent paid off, the Locusts can start again at the beginning and demand the entire amount of the original mortgage.

And if a third person takes over the mortgage, the farce begins all over again. Politicians of the "BRDDR" (the combined and integrated puppet governments of the BRD and DDR) have actually passed these laws, and the highest court has confirmed that such swindlings of Investement Funds took place "according to law."

In the course of their globalistic gobbling, speculators of the Jewish Lobbies even buy up foodstuffs, which they then sell back to mankind at a great markup.

According to BRDDR policy, sales of crude oil can take place only through speculators, assuring that the public will be bled most effectively. Here is what the newspaper Arab News reported at the beginning of the OPEC conference: "It is crystal clear that the machinations of speculators are to blame for high oil prices ... Speculators are distorting international free trade." (Welt.de, 22 June 2008.) In short, our corrupt politicians have knowingly passed laws that allow the Locusts to divert the hard earned wealth of the nation into their own pockets. This includes their savings, life insurance, health insurance and pensions. The people are growing ever more impoverished while the Zionist Lobby grows ever more wealthy. The best emblem of the Lobby’s brilliant globalization strategy is the shelter and soup kitchen for the masses, accompanied by the collapse of education, decline of culture, governmental bankruptcies and bank failures. And yet, every time a leader of the Zionist Lobby hugs Mrs Merkel, the German chancellor, she announces on TV that the nation is experiencing an economic upturn. State owned industries, the assets of the working people, are being handed over to the Locusts on a silver platter. Consider the privatization of electric power plants, which was pushed through with promises that it would result in cheaper energy for consumers. The public is now paying a hundred times as much for electricity as when the power plants were publicly owned.

In the course of such horrendous greed even the banks have been forced into insolvency, because they had to hand over TRILLIONS in speculative tribute to the Jewish Lobby. Now that the public’s money has been transferred to others, Joseph Ackermann of the "German Bank" is screaming for assistance from the State.

This is the same Joseph Ackermann who helped ram through "privatization" of public finances because the State presumably was not capable of conducting commercial undertakings!

In the USA at the end of July, the three largest mortgage banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Independent National Mortgage Corporation (Indy Mac) all failed. Simultaneously in the USA, the home of Extreme Privatization, the cry went up for the "incompetent" State (now ruined by "competent" privatization specialists) to save whatever can be saved.

It never occurs to the Zionist Lobby to earn money through the creation of value. Instead, it always goes after the money that others have earned through production and hard work. Thus the globalists have created a system of global parasitism, a gobbling of everything of value that invites comparison with a global swarm of locusts. Parasites do not live forever, however. It is a truism that the parasite dies when it has sucked all the blood from its victim, thereby causing the death of the host. Alternatively, if the diseased body should recover and develop resistance, the parasite will die.

When Vladimir Putin came to power, even through it was with the assistance of the media owned by Boris Beresovski and Vladimir Gussinski, he immediately began to clean the Kremlin of Lobby parasites. Today Russia can be considered free of Lobby-free. It has become resistant to Lobby infestation. Big-time crooks like Michail Chodorkovski are now behind bars while others, like Beresovski and Gussinski, left Russia for Israel or England. Putin subsequentely has restored Russia to its position as a world power.

Russia’s energy resources are no longer being plundered by the Zionist Lobby and used as instruments of their world power. These resources are now being used by the Russian government to promote the international interests of the Russian people. Today Russia does more than just utilize its strategic resources to serve its own policy interests. It is now able to protect these resources militarily, while coming into control of a large part of world energy reserves in other countries as well: "Gazprom recently signed agreements with Azerbaijan and Libya to purchase their entire gas reserves at European market prices... The Russian giant has been doing business in Algeria since 2006. And Europe? Guckt in die Röhre! 'Europe is left out in the cold, literally staring into the pipeline'." (Translator: untranslatable pun). This pipeline is called "Nordstream" and is better known in Germany as the Ostsee-Pipeline (Baltic Pipeline). It is going to greatly increase our dependence on natural gas and on Russia. Still another example is the ‘Southstream Pipeline’ with which Russia hopes to dominate the southern routes and thus undermine the European Nabucco Pipeline." (Die Welt, 23 July 2008, p. 6). Vladimir Putin made it clear to Chancellor Merkel in the spring of 2008 that she should discourage the Ukraine and Georgia from the becoming members of NATO. She very tactfully complied, against the wishes of USrael. Otherwise Germany would have faced difficulties getting energy from Russia. Frau Merkel had to disregard the almighty Zionist Lobby, since it cannot deliver oil to the Bundesrepublik.

With the dying American giant behind it, the Czech Republic still feels confident enough to challenge Russia. It intends to make its territory available for the purposes of American aggression against Russia. The Prague government is once again exhibiting delusions of grandeur. It experienced a taste of Russian power and the possibility of retribution in July of 2008: "The Prague government criticized the sudden decrease in deliveries of oil, and it did not rule out a connection between that and the Czech-American military pact. What followed resembled a cynical comedy, featuring the perfectly directed contempt of Putin for the impotent West. With the following words, the Russian head of state instructed the heads of the Russian oil companies to ‘take care of the problems of oil deliveries... I request that you see to it that such interruptions do not happen’ said Putin, according to Interfax New Agency." (Die Welt, 22 July 2008, p. 5). Putin of course avoided saying "not happen again," saying rather "not happen." No Russian government agency or oil company (state owned) would ever dream of cutting off shipments to the Czech Republic on their own. Putin was giving the Czech Republic one last warning: If you let the Americans in, the oil stays out. We do not need the gift of prophecy to anticipate who will win this little power struggle.

Coinciding with the return of Russia, China and India have now risen to the level of world powers. Thanks to the greed of the Zionist Lobby, the West has now supplied China with technological patents that were developed over a more than a hundred years, which are very significant in this technological age. A nationalistic young elite is evolving in China that is similar to that of the Putin Youth in Russia: "In a letter from China, Evan Osmos depicts a neoconservative and nationalistic student generation that rejects the West... The outbreak of this angry youth culture amazes those who want to introduce democracy more than anything else." (The New Yorker quoted by Die Welt, 22 July 2008, p. 24.)

The Zionist Lobby was very powerful and able to control the planet as long as white flunkeys enforced its wishes militarily and did the dirty work. However, the new non-white world powers are not going to destroy any more countries for the Lobby. They are not willing to torture any more resistance fighters on behalf of the Locusts as US henchmen have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other remote corners of the globe. The new world powers have no interests whatsoever in enforcing the Lobby’s interests worldwide.

With these new world powers, the Lobby will get nowhere fast with their "Holo" dogma and "Chosenite" yarns. Applying imagery from the Chinese Olympics, one could say that by transferring technology from the white to the nonwhite world, the Locusts have amputated the legs of its star athlete while ordering him to continue setting new world records. World power has irreversibly shifted to China, Russia and India. The Zionist Lobby will never be able to establish or re-establish itself in China and India -- this would be entirely incongruous. The Lobby’s style meets with nothing but rejection there, while Russia has managed to purge itself of Lobby parasites.

We have seen the beginning of the end of the Lobby, and events will probably move quickly now. "The fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to herald the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a single superpower. A resurgent Russia's actions in Georgia have shattered that illusion." (The Guardian, London, 31.08.2008)

The Zionist power centers are now based in economically devastated countries such as the BRDDR, England and the world’s major bankrupt, the USA. Politically they have led themselves into the darkness by misinterpreting their persecution of the German nation as proof of their omnipotence. However, the truth is altogether different. The government of Iran has shown the way by officially exposing the Holocaust myth as the swindle it is. Most Islamic governments now see it in the same way, and the Islamic populations have always seen it so. The Revisionist movement is making rapid headway in Russia as well.

Thus the Zionist Lobby has destroyed its own basis: the parasite has paralyzed its host. The West is bankrupt, the dollar "kaputt" and the Euro close behind. Not only have the Western banks (especially the German banks) transferred the money of their depositors to the Lobby under cover of dubious financial projects: even worse, they have assumed countless billions or trillions in debt to cover these movements of money. And this last mentioned is fatal. On behalf of the Lobby, the Western banks have handed over no less than two trillion dollars in currency issuances. At first this was done virtually, then in actuality: "The banking crisis has just begun. The anticipated losses will amount to over 1600 billion dollars. Thus far, only a fraction of these losses have come to the surface," reported the Swiss Sonntagszeitung.ch on 6 July 2008.

These 1600 billions, allegedly dollars but probably euros as well, were initially made available "virtually" -- that is, they were nothing except numbers in the banks’ computers. However the Lobby demanded actual payout of these computer numbers in banknotes.

For this reason the EZB (European Central Bank) in 2007 had to print around 500 billion additional Euros, totally uncovered by anything of value, as well as another 100 billion a year later. "EZB Shooting Another 100 Billion Into Money Market" reads the headline in Die Welt for 1 August 2008, page 17. During this same period, the USA printed a great deal more "colored paper." This brings us to the beginning of unparalleled hyperinflation, since it was more than just the "subprimes" that had been paid with virtual money. In addition to this come the so-called "derivatives" which are best understood as speculations in speculation. Altogether, around 20 trillion Euros must be paid out.

"Banks Losing Trillions in Stock Value" was the headline in Die Welt for 23 July 2008, p. 15. Now "Also major banks will become insolvent as well," announced Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff in Die Welt, 28 July 2008, page 10. In other words, our currencies are "kaputt" and the parasite is now dying with the host. The insatiable Locusts have expropriated everything that Western man has worked for in modern times. Prof. Rogoff emphasizes that despite policies of so-called economic aid programs, the system can no longer be rescued. In his words: "The only thing political intervention achieved is that the train has derailed in slow motion... The wreck cannot be avoided." Even those who want this not to happen now see the "Day of Reckoning" as inevitable. (Die Welt, 28 July 2008, p. 10)

The big winners are obviously Russia and China, who can now do whatever they want with the West. Russia has already announced that in the not-too-distant future it will accept nothing except euros and rubles for its oil and gas. The world will have to buy euros and rubles just as they heretofore had to buy dollars. And when the euro is no longer a convenient medium of exchange for Russia, the Kremlin will logically demand something of value, such as industrial products, real estate, production facilities, etc. Since in the BRDDR nearly all landed facilities including forests, waterworks and even city halls already belong to the Lobby, their expropriation for Russian exchange is not out of the question. The United States no longer have enough value in its currency to cover their debts. The creditor nations are primarily China and Russia who have done everything in their power to bring down USrael behemoth: "But the lion's share is held by the central banks of China, Russia and petro-powers. These countries could all too easily precipitate a run on the dollar in the current climate and bring the United States to its knees, should they decide that it is in their strategic interest to do so." (telegraph.co.uk, 18 July 2008)

There is no doubt that China and Russia are pursuing this policy: "Vladimir Putin, now Russia's premier, has stated repeatedly that his country is engaged in a new Cold War with the United States. It is clear that Moscow would relish any chance to humiliate the United States." (telegraph.co.uk, 18 July 2008.) Both Russia and China are currently supplying the resistance fighters in Afghanistan with weapons. "Time is not on the side of NATO, but rather the region around the Hindu Kush. The Afghan resistance is profiting from the renewal of the Cold War, since Russia and China are both supplying it with weapons. For this reason alone the war is unwinnable." (Die Welt, 26 July 2008, p. 5). Russia is clearly taking a belated revenge for its own debacle in Afghanistan, when USrael equipped Osama bin Laden and his mujahadin with high-tech weaponry in order to kill as many Russians as possible.

Today the "sole remaining superpower" is enduring incredible derision and is no longer powerful enough to punish these new powers. China and Russia are observing with satisfaction the death throes of Western imperialism in Afghanistan and Irak. "A new rebellion has come about... Not only is it testing the remaining power of the West, it is questioning its continued existence." (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 19 June 2008, p. 4).

The contempt that China and Russia are expressing for USrael can hardly be expressed in words. These two countries are even protecting the black dictator Robert Mugabe from censure by the UN Security Council, just to spite the US. The flunkeys for the Jewish Lobby are screaming with impotence because they are being pilloried by Russia. "They were forced to admit that Dmitri Medwedjev, after his return to Moscow, had already forgotten about the Hokkaido communiqué. Instead, he availed himself of the cynical diplomacy reminiscent of the Cold War. Moscow instructed its ambassador to the UN to say nothing but ‘Nyet!’ Russia and China have formed an ominous new axis against democracy... China and Russia are making the UN appear impotent." (Die Welt, 14 July 2008, p. 6). Medwedjew assured Lobby representatives in Hokkaido that he would support the condemnation of Mugabe in the Security Council, but he was apparently overruled by Putin when he reached home, which allowed Mugabe to thumb his nose at Bush and Gordon Brown. Meantime, China is diplomatically and militarily present in every country of Africa that has significant natural resources. Now USrael is on the outside looking in.

In June 2008 the genius president George Bush approved a brilliant idea that had been suggested to him by the Lobby bosses. He demanded that Europe freeze the assets of the Iranian government deposited in European banks. The banks in Germany and Great Britain clicked their heels and agreed to freeze the Iranian accounts. However, it is not for naught that the Iranian Secret Service is considered one of the best in the world. With a little help from Moscow, Iran was able to foil the financial coup. What happened then was a catastrophe for the vassals of the Zionist Lobby. Shortly thereafter the newspapers announced: "Iran Takes Its Money Out of Europe... around 75 billion dollars out of European banks." (handelsblatt.de, 16 June 2008). A mere three weeks later, servants of the Lobby were feeling the full effects of the catastrophe: "Capital Bottleneck Among Major Banks... The investment bank Goldman Sachs estimated the capital shortfall among continental banks at 60 to 90 billion Euros." (Die Welt, 5 July 2008, p. 14)

Shortly thereafter Alexej Miller, the head of Gazprom, signed agreements with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad that were worth many billions. Russia could not care less about UN resolutions, USrael and the Zionist Lobby. As though this humiliation were not enough, Moscow also announced that it is investing billions of its surplus euros in Iran and initiating large joint projects. The same is also true of China. "On Sunday, Gazprom Chief Alexej Miller met with Iranian President Ahmadinedschad and announced the readiness of his firm to assist Iran in developing its oil and gas reserves." (focus.de, 14 July 2008) The head of Gazprom made the announcement even though Russia and China are both officially obligated, in the framework of UN resolutions, to boycott Iran economically.

Teheran has openly responded to Israeli threats of war with tests of new long-range rockets. It now appears that Russia and China have supplied Iran with weapons systems that could deal a devastating blow to the American armada in the Persian Gulf. China is of course interested in having Iran test its high-tech weaponry, which is based on American technology sold to them by Israel. After all, an American fleet is stationed in Taiwan as well. Russia too would like to have its high-tech weapons tested.

The imminent military collapse in Irak and Afghanistan, the probable defeat of USrael in an attack on Iran, and the financial and economic collapse at home have made the whole world spectators to the death struggles of the "Great Satan." Following the collapse of the three largest mortgage banks in the US (the Federal National Mortgage Association or "Fannie Mae", the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or "Freddie Mac" and the Independent National Mortgage Corporation or "Indy Mac"), the catastrophe of the whole USraeli system is inevitable: "If Fannie and Freddie collapse, the entire financial market is certain to follow." (Die Welt, 18 June 2008, p. 6). According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, most financial experts share this opinion. "Indy Mac Bank, which collapsed on Friday, was not even on the list" (of endangered mortgage banks)... Analysts expect that as many as 150 credit institutions could disappear from the market." (SZ, 16 July 2008, p. 23). One of the first will almost certainly be the major Wachovia Bank: "The fourth largest US bank, the Bank of Wachovia, which reported a record loss in the second quarter has thrown cold water on hopes for a subsidence of the credit crisis. Following surprisingly high losses of 8.9 billion dollars, the firm completely deleted dividends and abolished 6350 positions." (Die Welt, 23 July 2008, p. 12)

USrael now has nothing left that can serve as an instrument of world power. Its currency no longer controls the world financially and politically. It has nothing except unpayable debts. It no longer has access to world reserves of raw materials with which the world can be existentially controlled. It has in fact reached the end of the line, since it cannot even finance its remaining military machine. In all probability, the United States will now disintegrate. 50 or even 100 new independent states could arise from the wreckage of the former US. When the United States falls, Israel, the BRDDR and the entire European Union will fall with it.

Finale to a Declining Epoch

Even among the misinformed masses, the realization is growing that the USrael system is disintegrating. Realization is also growing that the robbed, raped and plundered German nation must go through another period of impoverishment in the transition from the tyranny of rule by the Zionist Lobby to a national and independent nation state. In conjunction with the idiotic debate over atomic power, Bernhard Trepczyk used the opportunity to describe the actual condition of the perishing BRDDR: "The Comeback of atomic power is occurring during the final act of a vanishing age of boundless economic growth. After this, the curtain must inevitably come down. Let us be thankful for the golden years that we were privileged to experience. They were wonderful years – but they will never come back." (Spiegel, No. 29, 2008, p. 8). David Bloom, Currency Chief of Honkong and the Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), expressed fears of the collapse of the entire American currency system when the Federal Reserve had to take over Indy Mac. "Regional banks could start toppling ... the biggest threat to the dollar. 'We have a pure dollar sell-off'."  (telegraph.co.uk, 18 July 2008)

How much longer can USrael hold out? Someone who should know is Alex Patelis, the head of Merril Lynch. He considers that the American financial system may not last longer than six more months: "I don't see how the current situation can continue beyond six months," he said. (telegraph.co.uk, 18 July 2008)