January 7, 2009 journal, Russia cuts off natural-gas to the Ukraine and to Europe creating a crisis when one-third of the natural gas flowing to Europe is from Russia. Russia is in a major dispute with the Ukraine but their natural gas pipelines flow through the Ukraine to Europe so they cut their entire supply off. Natural disasters continue to plague America. Our governor agreed to apply for a federal loan to pay unemployment benefits after the state fell short by $1 billion in this year's budget. Bernie Madoff the $50 billion bandit of Wall Street may be upgraded from his penthouse to a high-rise in New York prison after he was found to be mailing expensive jewelry to his relatives. A man has to protect his investments. Now Larry Flint of Hustler Magazine is asking the federal government for a 5 billion dollar bailout of the porn industry saying they are down in sales by 22 percent. They are a part of our GDP and just as legitimate in terms of a business as Wall Street. If you bailout one then you must bailout all to be fair. Gasoline has started climbing back up again. Hyperinflation may set in some as the non federal Fed continue to print money. I pray for a halt in the reckless and unmerciful killing in Gaza as Israel's genocide assault. Early report of job losses in December are 700,000 with higher anticipated for January. Devastating floods in Seattle & Portland with Interstate 5 closed between the two cities. Boulder Colorado has a major wild fire that destroyed 100 homes with winds 100 mph. High winds here has left thousands without electric power as we enjoyed the 70 degrees. Even mighty Wal-Mart sales are down and their stock plunged by 9% to $50 per share. The United States expects a $1.2 trillion dollars budget shortfall in 2009, by the time we get there it will be double that I am sure. South Carolina has $1 billion shortfall in 2008. Bank robberies are on a spiraling increase daily even here in this safe area of the country. People are becoming more desperate as they lose their jobs and their homes in this crisis. A Oakland California police shot & killed a young man while having him pin face down. The heinous shooting was captured on videotape and resulted in a massive riot with 100 people arrested already. What could I say about police brutality that would make sense? The economic system of the United States and of the world is coming apart at the seams. My journal on January 2nd recites 10 threats to the American dollar developing in 2009. The report gives some clue as to how much gold was in Fort Knox before it was sucked out by the foreign owned Federal Reserve European bankers. The ratio was never one to one in my opinion. For years they would redeem dollars with gold but never telling how much gold there was in store. As the money supply increased the gold supply decreased. Banks today was loaning out $40 to every one paper dollar they had on record until the crash of the banks in September 08. About that time the Fed stop publishing how much money was in circulation or they were putting into circulation knowing it would weaken the dollar. The Fed authorizes the money and the Treasury prints the money. The I*R*S Collect's the money for the Fed but they are all on the taxpayer payrolls to be supported. The new president is having trouble getting his stimulus package passed already because he is not a member of the good old boys club. He refuses to sign a new bill to give away money if it has any pork attached. Every member of Congress wants an extra piece of fat. There are conflicting figures on the number of jobs lost in December but they never count them all, they only count the ones applying for their unemployment compensation checks. It could be as high as 1 million people lost their jobs in December 2008 and more 2009. Many in Congress object to the public receiving money directly without coming from top. The ball is going to drop and Santa Claus is coming soon smiling with his skeleton face.