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- bucfish, on 10/19/2008, -7/+135Ending the biggest fraud brought about on the American people would be a great step in the right direction. Kennedy tried it with Executive order 11110 but unfortunately he did not see that order come to pass.
- sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -5/+130"when a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."~ napoleon bonaparte
- Observant1, on 10/19/2008, -4/+97the "federal reserve" is Rothschilds favorite game of using a 'national name' to make their private bank look legitemate. the bank of the United States, the second bank of the United States, were the first two they had established in the past. they are no more federal than the franklin mint. if you purchased a collectors edition plate that was promised to be valuable because they were signed and numbered in a limited production run of 100 units, and they turned around and made 10,000 more, you would be pretty ticked off about being defrauded. the federal reserve does it on a daily basis, but is protected as if it were a government entity because of the real control they have bought with neverending debt and compounded interest.
- sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -2/+83lincoln was assassinated after issuing the greenback (which was a debt free non-interest-bearing note) to fund the civil war. garfield expressed his concern about currency problems just before his ssassination. on 6/4/63 kennedy signed executive order 11110 providing him with the authority "to issue silver certificates against all silver in the oreasury." he was assassinated on 11/22/63.
coincidence? - muckemuck, on 10/19/2008, -4/+66Bernanke: The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression
Fed chief says, 'We did it. … very sorry, won't do it again'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=5940 ...
. . Do you believe him? - sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -0/+61"when the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." ~jefferson
(i read a lot, ;D) - mercuryswings, on 10/19/2008, -2/+62“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” - Woodrow Wilson, after allowing the creation of the privately controlled Federal Reserve to happen on his watch.
- liberteebell, on 10/19/2008, -3/+58Until people get out of the false left-right paradigm and open their eyes to the true criminals in charge, the cycles and bubbles will repeat themselves and the consequences are less wealth and less freedom for all of us.
- Airforcefalco, on 10/19/2008, -0/+51I tried to bring those quotes up in a military class along with a few from James Madison...I got called a terrorist.
- kazz67, on 10/19/2008, -5/+51What the Fed and its sibling organisations around the world have created is a system which keeps the whole world in debt to them. This debt which each nation owes it's bankers has been increased to massive proportions via recent, orchestrated, bailouts in America and Europe.
Unless we wake up and expose their practices NOW (oh look, that's almost NWO! lol) and over coming weeks and months, we may well be too late. - Once they get control of the internet our ability to share this information will be massively impeded.
I believe that, once the Fed is exposed as the fraud it is and that news is shared, people around the world will start to question their own central banks operations and expose them to the light of truth.
This could be the single most important issue of our time, as it's the one issue that reveals the true nature and structures of our governments and other 'national' institutions which, in fact, work for the benefit of the worlds financial and political elite. For example, how many people know that the former owners of the Bank of England, since it went into 'public' ownership after WW2, now literally own an 'undisclosed' amount of stock in the British Government? THIS is why they don't publish the national accounts!
Dugg and shared by a Brit. - chilli0007, on 10/20/2008, -4/+42END THE FED!
- Airforcefalco, on 10/19/2008, -2/+40V was such a good movie!
People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of it's people - inactive, on 10/19/2008, -4/+41Better believe it peoples..
- EasySt, on 10/20/2008, -3/+36I wish every American would watch the above, as well as these two videos. Unfortunately, it might not help much for all of our government reps to be forced to watch them; Too many seem to be part of the game, already. Prayers, as always, seem to be in order. That, and voting the bums out. And perhaps declaring all these fancy uber-complex “Special Financial Instruments” Null and Void.
Must See Videos:
Money as Debt: 47 minutes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-905047436 ...
The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America - 215 min
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5153195602 ...
See also this recent WSJ article:
The Government Is Contributing to the Panic
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367942018324645 ...
“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
~James Garfield,
20th President
Assassinated, 1881 - sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -1/+33sheeple call it "conspiracy theory," i call it "coincidence theory." and i agree with your comment.
- Stryder81, on 10/20/2008, -4/+36*Cough* No ***** * Cough *
And your boys, Obama & McCain support it * cough * damn cold. - liberteebell, on 10/19/2008, -1/+29I have come to believe that this IS the single most important issue of our time; the central banks control EVERYTHING from financing wars to the cost of toilet paper :(
- Airforcefalco, on 10/19/2008, -2/+28There are no coincidences, sheeplescareme... only the illusion of coincidence.
- Corrosionx, on 10/20/2008, -4/+27For decades, Austrian School economists have warned against the dire consequences of having a central banking system based on fiat money, money that is not grounded on any commodity like gold and can easily be manipulated. In addition to its obvious disadvantages (price inflation, debasement of the currency, etc.), easy credit and artificially low interest rates send wrong signals to investors and exacerbate business cycles.
Not only is the central bank constantly creating money out of thin air, but the fractional reserve system allows financial institutions to increase credit many times over. When money creation is sustained, a financial bubble begins to feed on itself, higher prices allowing the owners of inflated titles to spend and borrow more, leading to more credit creation and to even higher prices.
As prices get distorted, malinvestments, or investments that should not have been made under normal market conditions, accumulate. Despite this, financial institutions have an incentive to join this frenzy of irresponsible lending, or else they will lose market shares to competitors. With "liquidities" in overabundance, more and more risky decisions are made to increase yields and leveraging reaches dangerous levels.
During that mania phase, everybody seems to believe that the boom will go on. Only the Austrians warn that it cannot last forever, as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises did before the 1929 crash, and as their followers have done for the past several years.
As Friedrich Hayek wrote in 1932, "Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion. ... To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about..."
http://www.leblogueduql.org/2008/09/financial-cris ... - sbarlage07, on 10/20/2008, -5/+28End the Federal Reserve and help turn this country around!
Contact your representative and tell them they need to abolish the fed and support HR 2755 - sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -0/+21nope.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -9/+30The No.1 problem plaguing America is the Federal Reserve System and the fractional reserve banking.
A politician or president will NOT CHANGE A SINGLE THING if these two gigantic problems are not addressed.
This is why I have zero faith in Obama - inactive, on 10/19/2008, -4/+25Contact your representatives and senators...
It used to work years ago... so did contacting the newspapers when they published something outlandish.
When was the last time your representatives listened to your appeals? How long has it been since you've been able to even comment on the main page of a major newspaper blog? Relegated to News Vine?
Clearly there have to be other resources to affect change... any ideas? - 55mph, on 10/20/2008, -3/+23the Federal Reserve is the greatest scam of all time. very few people understand that it is not part of the US government. The deception has been near flawless.
- le0pardess, on 10/19/2008, -3/+22The media is to BLAME. They are spewing the garbage. Hold them accountable for covering up the crimes. Our voices need to be heard by them now not the despots hiding behind them. We have to (((USE THEM))) to raise hell!
- Meekus, on 10/20/2008, -1/+20I've long ago quit being subtle about it... Shout it from the rooftops so everyone knows it -
Obama and McCain BOTH support fiat currency which is the mechanism that is destroying the middle class. Just look how quick both of them ran down to Washington to vote for the bailout. "Change" my ass. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -2/+21" Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves." - Andrew Jackson
Legally, Constitutionally, and Physically, What is a dollar? Watch and learn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FiaUpeJxcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyQB8e-rQg - Meekus, on 10/20/2008, -1/+19Ummm... what? It's bs? Economics 101. Google the Fed. Ask your economics professor. Read about some economists that have won the Nobel Prize like Hayek, and Friedman. Research Von Mises.
Come on now, I know ignorance is bliss sometimes, but to deny how the Fed functions? It certainly is no secret, nor ever was. If you folks are in college and have taken economics, you need to find a better school. - GovernmentSp00k, on 10/19/2008, -1/+18Airforcefalco no *****? Who called you that, the instructor or students? What a total disgrace. Without those brave, visionary men they wouldn't have a country to begin with! You'd think they would realize this.
I never imagined Americas founders would ever be labeled such.
Then again, this isn't the America they founded anymore...
Get a load of this rubbish from the "joint terrorism task force":
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerr ...
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerr ...
Talk about the United States Constitution, you are now considered a "RIGHT WING 'EXTREMIST' "defender of US Constitution against federal government and the UN" aka a "SUPER PATRIOT" and therefore, a "terrorist threat".
WTF?
What *****.
I wonder what America's founders would think now their beautiful Constitution they left for us to protect citizens from their government has been spit on, raped, dismantled and branded "terrorist literature" by occupied USA's neoCON fascist, zionist excrement.. Unbelievable. Never dreamed I would see the day. - Dereliction, on 10/20/2008, -1/+18Unfortunately, this is not simply a conspiracy theory or some sort of wacko, hokum paranoia. What you don't seem to realize is that all dollars are notes backed--not by a commodity or some sort, such as gold, silver, oil, etc.--by the "full faith and promise of the US government". Dollars are valuable only insofar as the US government is perceived as stable and capable of meeting its promises of obligation by way of the dollars it requests to have printed! Welcome to FIAT currency.
Each time the Federal Reserve prints a dollar, it is not because some amount of gold is sitting in a vault somewhere, but because, well, they can print new money on demand. The printed dollars have no inherent nor representative value. Each dollar becomes a debt instrument, however, for which the US government is the ultimate debtor of the produced bill. How so? The Fed exchanges newly printed dollars with the government for US Treasury securities. These securities are, naturally, issued by the US Treasury Department.
As the Fed is both the creator of the dollars and also determines the "cost" of a dollar--the rate of interest--the US government is being lent money by the Fed at a Fed determined rate of interest. That is, Treasury Bonds have a rate of interest determined by the FED! So the answer is yes, the US government is being lent money (not really its own however) at an interest rate. So, Paulson calls up Bernanke and says, "Trade me $700 billion in those fancy printed dollars of yours and I'll give you $700 billion in US Treasury bonds ... and, uh, what did you say the Reserve Rate was?"
It is these securities that constitute the sum total of the US national debt. Held, mind you, by the Federal Reserve in exchange for the Washingtons they inked up. What a business for the Fed! It'd be great if we could compete and just print up money in exchange for debt securities, but, its pretty much illegal to compete with the Federal Reserve. Monopolies are great too, it seems.
How does the US government satisfy the debt? Taxation as a start, of course.The government is not a wealth producing entity in its own right, only the citizenry are actual wealth producers. The government instead is a wealth destroying agent. The business of any government is the production of force, through which it uses (or threatens to use) against citizens (either of its own territory or another) to extract wealth in order to satisfy the debts it has accumulated. Pay your taxes or we'll lock you up, eh?
What you might have picked up in this so far is that the entire economy, right down to the Washington in your wallet, is based on debt. Without debt there would literally be no dollars. None.
In all, the Federal Reserve is the bank the US government uses to maintain its checking and loan accounts in the same way you might keep a checking and loan account with your local bank. It is NOT a part of the government (though it exists by decree of the government via the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, this being the third time a central bank has been created in the US) and it is NOT a part of the Treasury Department (though the two work closely for obvious reasons). Congress can and does pass legislation to cause the Fed to operate by standards they demand but it is not otherwise forced or compelled to report to them outside of any such legislation.
Having said that, what many do not understand is that the "government" part of the Federal Reserve is merely an oversight aspect through which the banking industry is effectively regulated. As mentioned, it is not part of the government nor does it report to it. Instead, the Fed maintains an internal Board of Governors who generate the regulations by which the regional Federal Reserve banks (of which there are twelve) and member banks (around 4,000 I think) operate. Unlike the member banks they monitor, the Fed requires no reserves (and has none) and unlike most "Federal" designated organizations the Reserve is not a Federal agency.
To expand on this, the 12 regional banks are effectively corporations just like any other. The stock of these corporations are owned ... by member banks in that region. In this respect, the Federal Reserve is wholly private. For all intents and purposes, the banking industry is self-regulated. They "own" the Fed, in fairly literal terms, and the Fed maintains oversight over its owning members. It is easy to see how and why we find ourselves in the sort of mess before us.
Ironically, we Americans revolted to escape chains of excessive and unrepresented taxation (and corruptible Old World banking interests alongside), only to be literally bound by them once again ... and look at the state of things! Mind boggling. It was a good experiment while it lasted.
If you do chose to investigate more deeply into central banking, fractional reserve lending, and FIAT currency (which I strongly suggest you do!), just try not to get to despondent over what you find in the process. We're slaves bound in paper chains but the first step is education about the locks that bind those chains to us. - nvpham, on 10/20/2008, -1/+18sadly, i think that the fed has so much of a pervasive stranglehold that they'll take our country down before we can take them down.
- ferrisnox, on 10/20/2008, -2/+19We need to clean up this country including the corrupt politicians.
- Catspaw, on 10/19/2008, -2/+18Nice little video. I will be posting it elsewhere. No wonder the elite are so keen to dumb people down with the mercury in the vaccines, the fluoride in the water and an education system that is an indoctrination camp. The Federal Reserve backed the Nazis, showing that is anti-human. This is of great concern given that fascism is on the rise again and this time the elite bankers have control of the Military Industrial Financial Media Complex. Refer: Secrets of the Federal Reserve,
http://www.whale.to/b/mullins5.html - PabloMac, on 10/20/2008, -0/+16Revolution NOW.
- kidid, on 10/20/2008, -1/+16experience has now proved the mischiefs and dangers of a paper currency, and it rests with you to determine whether the proper remedy shall be applied.
The paper system being founded on public confidence and having of itself no intrinsic value, it is liable to great and sudden fluctuations, thereby rendering property insecure and the wages of labor unsteady and uncertain. The corporations which create the paper money can not be relied upon to keep the circulating medium uniform in amount.
-President Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address March 4, 1837 - najdorf, on 10/20/2008, -4/+19It's not just the fed, the whole financial system basically makes insane amounts of cash without producing anything, that's what's wrong.
- sheeplescareme, on 10/19/2008, -1/+15hr 1959, coming to a republic near you! all revolutions have their base in acts of treason, but i think this one goes a bit too far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcGpjc-fR8E - GovernmentSp00k, on 10/19/2008, -2/+16The controlled media is merely a 4th estate propaganda wing of the US administration.
The CFR controls American media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM - emazur, on 10/20/2008, -0/+14"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." ~ Charles A. Beard
- jedimasterchief, on 10/20/2008, -3/+16Ron Paul has been telling us this for years.
- lazerus9, on 10/19/2008, -1/+13The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Lord Acton - thecoolestguy, on 10/20/2008, -0/+11And if someone tries to create a competing currency, they get thrown in prison:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
http://tinyurl.com/y24vpy - Airforcefalco, on 10/20/2008, -0/+11GovernmentSp00k
It was both and during Airmen Leadership School. I was saying that the wars were illegal and that a lot of bills passed were taking away our Constitutional rights. I brought up the fact that everyone in that room swore first to the Constitution that they would "protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic" and that would include the government if they were destroying the Constitution. I asked them why (if 9-11 wasn't a false flag) we weren't going over to fight the nation where more than 3/4 of the hijackers came from and also why we were giving them billions a year. I asked them why were we looking to invade Iran because they are trying to develop a nuclear weapon when Korea already has one. I brought up Operation Northwoods and the Federal Reserve among other things.
One student said that they would shoot me if I was in Iraq with them. Also an instructor asked me a trick question by asking me if i would nuke Iran if I was ordered to do so. I responded with the fact that I would never be in that position because you needed to be an officer but that if i was an officer I would (the officers that launch missiles are underground and do not have access to the internet or TV) because I didn't know the situation, somehow Iran COULD have nuked the US before i would know about it and that I would be forced to trust the President to make the right call.
It was somewhat funny that everyone was against me (especially when they all swore to defend the Constitution and not many knew it beyond what was common knowledge) and in a rage and I was just staying calm. I did get a few people to question what they previously knew and I know at least one instructor is on our side. I was also quoting Ron Paul. Overall it was a good experience and I would do it again, I was just shocked by their responses. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -3/+14It was Milton Friedman who clearly identified that the Fed caused the Great Depression, not bernanke.
The only reason Bernanke confessed to that was because he was getting grilled by Ron Paul. You see Ron Paul knows his economics, and there was no way Bernanke could lie about the Great Depression since its been so well documented by the legendary Milton Friedman.
Yes, it's basic economics. Depressions essentially come from a huge contraction in the money supply. The ONLY organization who has the power to control/issue/create/reduce money is the Federal Reserve.
They caused the Great Depression. - cl2yp71c, on 10/20/2008, -3/+13I'd digg this more than once if I could.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -1/+11lol
Obama is a good salesman.
"Fresh blood" or full of *****?
He sold his soul to wallstreet and the bankers. - EasySt, on 10/20/2008, -1/+10Only two of its six governors are appointed by Congress. The other four appointed by private banking interests.
The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America - 215 min - Mar 27, 2007
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5153195602 ...
Money As Debt - 47 min - Feb 12, 2007
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-905047436 ... - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+9bingo.
97% of people cannot see this invisible ***** shield.
Federal Reserve --> Republican/Democrat --> Media
Are all bloody interlinked.
Use the Fed to control the economy.
Use the mass wealth to buy up all the media stations.
Manipulate the media to influence the public to choose your favorite candidate. - Stevethegreat, on 10/20/2008, -0/+9Because people don't like reading history and they like to think that there are exclusively evil and exclusively benevolent parties. Of course if that was possible we would either leave in a utopia or a dystopia already.
I do think however that we may verge to a dystopia exactly because people still hold to such childish beliefs. The Bolsheviks thought that by cleaning the old dirt that was encumbering the Russian worker class would make a perfect society. They never thought that by the same power that they're killing the old tyrant the new government would be corrupted, as it happened eventually.
You don't need good intentions, those are easy to be found, if you want a revolution you need a good plan, and the best of all is NOT to make ANYONE excessively powerful, no matter how wise or benevolent he or she may seem at first... - viker7, on 03/30/2009, -1/+10"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws."
-Mayer Amschel Rothschild -
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