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- Nodaki, on 04/30/2009, -5/+175Asking for lobbying reform or campaign finance reform is completely pointless now. Every single member of the House and Senate (one exeption on both sides) is so far up the lobbyists asses that there is no longer a functioning government of elected represenatives.
When are the American people going to realize the entire system is corrupt.
They are all crooks, both sides are ***** us over with every single word and action. Term limits are necessary, no campaign contributions whatsoever, a small paycheck with dormitories and strict curfews, no media access other than on the floors and committees. Service as a Senator or Rep. should be a sacrifice, not a cushy benefit. - jearly, on 04/30/2009, -5/+150Business as usual.
- emazur, on 04/30/2009, -8/+92it's not just Congress, they own the president as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb_Zkm5zqfY Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back
-Sir Josiah Stamp, a former central banker in England
"[A central bank] controlling our currency, receiving our public monies, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence, it would be more formidable and dangerous than a naval and military power of the enemy"
-Andrew Jackson
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson, and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W.W. [Woodrow Wilson]. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States only on a far bigger and broader basis."
- FDR
The One-world government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately own Federal Reserve bank.
-quote from his book: FDR: My Exploited Father-in-Law
Curtis Dall (FDR son-in-law)
The Federal Reserve Banks are privately owned, locally controlled corporations
-Lewis vs. U.S., 680 F2d 1239, 1241 (1982)
From a legal standpoint these banks are private corporations, organized under a special act of Congress, namely, the Federal Reserve Act. They are not in the strict sense of the word, 'Government banks'
-William P.G. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board (1921)
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance - James Madison
The United States is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing when the credit runs out, the game will stop
- Marriner Eccles, Chairman Federal Reserve, 1931 - 1934
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
-Frederic Bastiat, The Law
Those who create and issue credit and money, direct the policies of government, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people
-Reginald McKenna, Midland Bank of England, Secretary of the Exchequer
"In the United States today, we have in effect two governments. We have the duly constituted government. Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve" -Rep. Wright Patman, 1968, Chairman, House Banking Committee
On the meeting at Jekyll Island in 1910 to form the Federal Reserve:
"If it were to be exposed publicly that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress"
- Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 9, 1935
Frank Vanderlip (president of the National City Bank of New York, representing William Rockefeller)
Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly
-5th plank of The Communist Manifesto - JoeParanoid, on 04/30/2009, -5/+66Bill Moyers had a couple of middle of the road economists discussing the current political/economic situation and even they agreed that the banks are no longer afraid, that the crisis has passed without them having to give anything up. We had one moment when we could have held the money over their heads in exchange for renewed oversight and restrictions and we lost it. So if you think it was bad before, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
- paintgrl, on 04/30/2009, -19/+80FTA:
After all, the reason the winger crowd can’t find a way to be coherently angry right now is because this country has no healthy avenues for genuine populist outrage. It never has. The setup always goes the other way: when the excesses of business interests and their political proteges in Washington leave the regular guy broke and screwed, the response is always for the lower and middle classes to split down the middle and find reasons to get pissed off not at their greedy bosses but at each other. That’s why even people like [Glenn] Beck’s audience, who I’d wager are mostly lower-income people, can’t imagine themselves protesting against the Wall Street barons who in actuality are the ones who ***** them over. . . .
Actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your *****. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish . . . can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff./ end FTA
So true. - elo91, on 04/30/2009, -1/+55Most of our government is based on the ideas of John Locke, and he said when the government stops working for the people that the people should get rid of the government....
- minoss, on 04/30/2009, -8/+53Should have elected Ron Paul.
- PhilPerspective, on 04/30/2009, -4/+42If you were the bankers, would you rather go bankrupt or have the Gov't bail you out with minimal restrictions? Guess which has happened.
- Alderon, on 04/30/2009, -3/+39This is a great piece by Greenwald.
- 1x253, on 04/30/2009, -2/+36So where are all the douchebags yelling tinfoil hat now, huh? Is Senator Dick Durbin some loser digger in his mother's basement alternating btwn porn and digg and "conspiracy theory" websites?
WHY, NO!!! He happens to be an insider (not a Rep, but a ***** Senator, you douchie-douches) with a working knowledge that can only be acquired by going to the parties and being a part of the back room dealings in DC. He knows how campaigns are financed, how influence (or coersion OR blackmail or bribery) is understated and how tracks are covered. So this man who understands the "Inside-the-Beltway" culture better than any of us confirms what the "tinfoil hats" have been saying all along.
So, come on you establishment fanboys, let's hear you attack SENATOR Dick Durbin's credibility, too. Attack Ron Paul all you like, but Senator is a job more scarce than CEO of a Fortune 500 company; you don't get to be Senator unless you're ALLOWED to be Senator and only after you've proven your undying loyalty to the establishment. I guess everyone has their threshold for *****, however. Thank God, Durbin decided to come clean.
HE is a brave and patriotic American. - duncan202, on 04/30/2009, -0/+30I'd add --
Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws. — Mayer Amsched Rothchild - muckemuck, on 04/30/2009, -1/+30HR-1207 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111 ... Audit the Federal Reserve
currently has 109 co-sponsors. - curtisag, on 04/30/2009, -2/+28JP Morgan Chase is the worst of the bunch. I suggest everyone boycott Chase bank.
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -0/+25When a child molester is freed from prison he is prohibited from living anywhere near children. Lobbyist should be prohibited from entering DC!
- inactive, on 04/30/2009, -1/+26What are you some kind if communist? It's the American right to have elections that last 2 yrs with none stop coverage costing billions. So you can elect officials on skewed voting machines from a company that "won" the contract. These officials will pad their pockets on the taxpayers dime and on big business via secret payouts.
- royalecraig, on 04/30/2009, -40/+64The Obama Deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&eur ... - Mashaka, on 04/30/2009, -2/+25How about we make it news?
It's not like mainstream media doesn't just rip off the internet aggregators for most stories anyway.. plaster it everywhere and it'll end up on someone's desk, then someone's production stage, then your television. - canchin, on 04/30/2009, -1/+23It wont and can't be news because the media - especially garbage like the Contrived News Network and Faux News(?) and the moronic talking heads on every bloody so-called news program on all the television channels, aren't interested in real news, and neither is the government or the corrupt in the business that control the government. All they are interested in is social manipulation of what they - the government suck-ups on television - say is news, or are told to say is news.
Just look at the hype over the Swine Flu and how effective it was - purposely done of course - to stop the debate over torture, to effectively hide the incredible corruption of Paulson and Bernanke in their forcing Bank of America to buy Merrill Lynch even though they new the ML had just lost 12 billion dollars.
Between 30,000 and 50,000 people - just in America - die of the flu every friggin' year. It is now being used to deflect people from the truth and the "real news" as well as to keep that good old American fear virus running strong.
There is no such thing in the American media as news - just more weapons of mass deception used to keep the populace in a constant state of confusion and fear.
People have just got to realize that there is nothing of any value whatsoever on television news and that as soon as whatever station they happen to be spacing out to tries to insert the incredible social manipulation that is so rampant in America into a so-called "news" cast, they should quickly get their cat to change the channel for them to something far more real than the so-called news as shown on television - say, something like a Suzanne Somers infomercial or something. - vbullinger, on 04/30/2009, -2/+23I assume you are referring to Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. I could be wrong, but if I am, that means you're way off base.
There are several good members of the House of Representatives, but I can't think of any non-corrupt Senator.
Still thumbed you up, however.
I'd go be a member of congress for free, personally. Ross Perot offered to be president for free :) - kd1s, on 04/30/2009, -1/+21You know everybody seems to understand that we have a problem and we all know the potential solution set. But nobody wants to take it beyond that.
The way I see it there are two possibilities for taking back our government.
The first is by putting our money where our mouths are and financing a viable third party that subscribes to the tenets of term limits and lobbyist limits.
The latter is at the point of a gun. Which btw, is why the founding fathers put the 2nd amendment into the Constitution. They knew that the Federal Government would over time be corrupted, the 2nd amendment was the escape clause. - inactive, on 04/30/2009, -5/+24Minimal restrictions - LOL
The USA should not be propping up business that are failures.
Success should be rewarded, failures should be allowed to happen. - vortexbits, on 04/30/2009, -0/+19People, I highly suggest you read on in the Atlantic's May issue in which Simon Johnson --an economist-- discusses this very matter. You can read it online here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice.
"...If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time." --Simon Johnson - paintgrl, on 04/30/2009, -5/+23Really, so you think the Tea Baggers are mad at the big bad Bankers and wall street as they go out and protest the 3% tax increase on the top 5% of American tax payers?
Or that the majority of Americans have not been voting against their own economic well being for years and years every time they vote on Anti- Abortion issues or gun ownership instead of job creation or education that will benefit them more? How is that populism? - clvngodess, on 04/30/2009, -2/+20It won't implode unless we stop yawning and get off our asses and participate in the process.
As Buckminster Fuller said, (paraphrasing here) "If you find that the old model isn't working, tear it down and build a new one." - Hetman, on 04/30/2009, -2/+19Well they all have lobbyist so they have more sway over congress than we do. Really all those three things you mentioned are different. A congressman could technically take a bribe from bankers for bailout money, take a bribe from the pharmacy companies to push through a new drug, take a bribe from the military industrial complex for a government contrand, take a bribe from the oil companies to shy away from green technology and none of them would interfere with one another.
- sodade, on 04/30/2009, -3/+20This just in: many major corporations (including banks)have thoroughly corrupted our government. Up next: the realization that US capitalism (i.e. corporatism) is a total ***** failure.
- paintgrl, on 04/30/2009, -4/+20I guess you forgot to look at the numbers of small business that actually make 250k after write offs and tax breaks.
only 1.4% of U.S. small businesses make over $250,000 per year. - 1x253, on 04/30/2009, -0/+16emazur
Great compilation of very good quotes. Thanks for not tiring and going to the trouble of continuing to put the info out there. Remember everybody, to those of us who have known this info for so long this stuff is old news, but these economic and political times have forced even the most establishment people to revisit their beliefs and their loyalties. They need this information to help them understand that this did not begin with AIG or Merrill, etc.
Please keep posting the truth. Do not tire. - wangalicious, on 04/30/2009, -2/+18I'm not an active voter, I am one of those "It won't make a difference" people but I blame it on the fact that the majority of people voting are retards and follow what the television media tells them. I get a lot of ***** for not voting, and I've said for years now the ONLY thing to turn me into a voter is serious talk of term limits (never gonna happen).
It's time we get rid of a ***** government that was relevant and hip to what people wanted in the 70s and bring in people that are actually in touch with modern society. We're stuck with these clowns who are completely out of touch with reality as they've been living behind their walls for 30+ years now.
Term limits are a necessity. - Wypie, on 04/30/2009, -2/+18Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
- JasonCox, on 04/30/2009, -1/+17So if Bankers own Congress, and China pretty much owns all the bank debt... Peoples Republic of America?
- zantos420, on 04/30/2009, -1/+16This article is just full of things that piss me off.
- xtmno3, on 04/30/2009, -0/+15The American government treats its people like a herd of cattle. Any animal is dangerous when backed into a corner. However, if you give them some space (that you designate), and let them feel as if they control their own destiny to a degree, they are far more docile.
- paintgrl, on 04/30/2009, -8/+23HA HA you so prove the point of the excerpt that I used.
- duncan202, on 04/30/2009, -2/+16Funny PhilPerspective.. I don't see the part in RBPCP's post that blames the democrats.
- acknotSW, on 04/30/2009, -0/+14Yep, the "too big to fail" precedent has been set.
- Igrift, on 04/30/2009, -7/+21Zeitgeist bitches
- emmeron, on 04/30/2009, -2/+16I'll accept that under one condition: we realize corporatism goes with consumerism, NOT capitalism.
There is no real capitalism to be found here, nor has there been for a long time. - vbullinger, on 04/30/2009, -3/+16It's really hard to argue with or against you, RBPCP.
The government and banks (as well as giant, multi-national corporations) are so intertwined with each other that it's hard to figure out where one ends and the other begins. They feed off of each other and merge more and more every day. They're interconnected and their leaders have a revolving door from one segment to another.
Also, in reference to your 100-day mark: I wouldn't pin this all on Obama. We've been on this march for many decades. - PhreakMac, on 04/30/2009, -0/+12The U.S. Declaration of Independence states that "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government"
- darkened, on 04/30/2009, -0/+12I hate Kucinich for his political beliefs but I atleast give the man respect for having atleast 100x the integrity of average politicians and atleast if he was spending the trillions of dollars that Barry is spending the money would actually be going to us, citizens, not the pockets of the people that caused most of the problems in the economy to start with. And our 800 billion dollar stimulus bill for infrastructure might you know actually have been spent on infrastructure not 8% of it spent on infrastructure and 92% spent on garbage.
- GovernmentSp00k, on 04/30/2009, -2/+14Who are the new rulers of the world today? The "World Bank" & "The International Monetary Fund." Controlling our financial systems and creating "crisis" for their own personal gain. Their empire today is greater than the British empire ever was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xgxCf05Kmw
What do you think the organized crime in powers latest "G20" orgy was about?
The mis-leaders, deception artists, Wall St Bankster hoodwinks and criminals pretending to be "politicians" running our country into the ground want to transform the "International Monetary Fund" (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System, with vast new monetary and regulatory powers. That's the REAL agenda behind the bull *****, double-speak and lies we are marketed.
'By the time President Obama and other world leaders headed off to London for the April 2 economic summit of the G20 nations, most Americans may have been still more than a bit fuzzy about the aims and agenda of the alpha-numeric gathering, but virtually everyone above room temperature had at least heard of it, and more than a few were getting an inkling that its outcome might have a significant impact on their jobs, businesses, pocketbooks, pensions, bank accounts, and stock portfolios. In fact, the outcome may be more far-reaching and significant than that, impacting individuals and nations — economically, politically, and socially — far beyond what is generally surmised.
G20 Agenda
Foremost on the G20 agenda is what globalist movers and shakers refer to as "global financial architecture reform," code words for transforming the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into, virtually, a global Federal Reserve System, with vast new monetary and regulatory powers — and huge new infusions of cash to be provided principally, as usual, by the citizens of the United States, Japan, and Europe. In addition to pledging $1.1 trillion to the IMF, the summiteers are proposing that the IMF assume a central role in the monitoring and regulation of global financial markets, and greatly expand Communist China's influence in the IMF structure. In the run-up to the summit, there was even a stunning proposal made by China, Russia, a UN panel, and others — and tacitly endorsed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency with the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). "
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_27727 ...
US surrenders power to appoint World Bank president http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/13/wor ...
Think about this. The WORLD has lost confidence in the American ability to conduct business without profound corruption. - dissolutionman, on 04/30/2009, -2/+14Or Kucinich.
- Nodaki, on 04/30/2009, -8/+19Obviously another person who cannot get past the title of a Digg article. America ***** Yeah!!
- KSUdesigner, on 04/30/2009, -0/+11That's not George Clinton. George Clinton's is "yippie yo yippie yay"
- insomniacal, on 04/30/2009, -4/+15Change we can believe in.
- shrewd1983, on 04/30/2009, -1/+12The people of this country should be 100% ashamed, democrats & republicans alike. T`o even allow the bailouts to take place in the first place is a crime, you cannot fix a debt based economy by increasing debt. Do you pay off your credit card debts by getting another credit card, come on.
- 1x253, on 04/30/2009, -1/+11Some people might think you're being funny, but that's how "influence" is exerted. Follow the money.
Well said JasonCox. - monkeywithgun, on 04/30/2009, -0/+10Exactly Hetman, The key word is Lobbyist. As long as members of congress are allowed to take what essentially amounts to a bribe, our congress will not be in favor of the peoples needs first. Lobbying reform needs to go a lot further than it has. Lobbyist should not be able to offer anything more than words to congress. No gifts, plane rides, cash, fundraisers, ect. ect. ect.
- toastmin, on 04/30/2009, -1/+11I would just like to point out that Goldman Sachs was Obama's top political contributor in the election cycle and that he appointed a Goldman Sachs alum to allocate Tarp funds. There are no angels in government who will save us with better regulation. There is only banker approved regulation.
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