We have witnessed some remarkable theatrics in the U.S. in the first part of 2009. The U.S. propaganda machine has managed to convince market sheep that the bankrupt components of the U.S. financial crime syndicate have once again become viable businesses.This sham of the highest order was accomplished primarily through two completely fraudulent devices. The first prong of this attack on rationality was to pressure the FASB – the so-called “accounting standards” bureaucracy to create “mark to fantasy” accounting rules, which essentially allowed the con-men running these fraud-factories to write-in any numbers they wanted on their bottom-lines.