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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Top Ten Trends of 2014– A Year Of Extremes
Gerald Celente's Top Ten Trends of 2014 – A Year Of Extremes
Gerald Celente Writes:
In 33 years of forecasting trends, the Trends Research Institute
has never seen a new year that will witness severe economic hardship
and social unrest on one hand, and deep philosophic enlightenment and
personal enrichment on the other. A series of dynamic socioeconomic and
transformative geopolitical trend points are aligning in 2014 to ring in
the worst and best of times.
Ready or not, here they come.
March Economic Madness:
One of the most difficult aspects of trend forecasting is getting the
timing right. And when it comes to economics, there are many wildcards
that can stall or detour any on-rushing trend. We called the Crash of
’87, the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis and the Panic of ’08 (we even
established the domain name in 2007) right on the button. But we missed
the mark with our Crash of 2010 prediction.
Why? The Federal Reserve and central banks around the world were secretly pumping tens of trillions of dollars into a failing financial
system. These were, at the time, unimagined schemes for nations that
pride themselves on capitalism. And while we are not naïve to the dirty
dealings of the financial industry, rigging the daily multi-trillion
dollar LIBOR and FOREX markets was not on our radar. Thus, what we believed to be economic truths and hard facts were, in fact, cover-ups and lies.
Such unforeseeable
factors aside, we forecast that around March, or by the end of the
second quarter of 2014, an economic shock wave will rattle the world
equity markets. What will cause this econo-shock? How can you prepare
for it? It’s a Top Trend of 2014. Read about it in the Winter Trends
Journal.
Global Chinatowns: Name the continent or pick a country, every one contains its own brand of Chinatown. The Chinese
global buying binge, now in its early growth stage, will noticeably
accelerate in 2014. From coal mines in Zambia, to Borscht Belt resorts
in New York, to factories in
Italy, and to farmlands in Ukraine, a seemingly endless variety of
Chinese development projects are being incubated around the world. If
there is a deal to be had and a need to be filled, Chinese players are
increasingly at the front of the line.
Wealthy investors,
college graduates without jobs, skilled and unskilled laborers will be
migrating out of their overpopulated, congested and highly polluted
nation to foreign shores. Where are the new growth areas? What actions
will be taken to stop or control the trend? Who will benefit? Who will
lose? And what are the dangers and opportunities? You’ll find the
answers in the Winter Trends Journal.
Wake Up Call: Last year we forecast the Great Awakening
2.0, a period reminiscent of the first Great Awakening that provided
the intellectual, philosophical and spiritual ammunition that ignited
the American Revolution. The “Awakening” has begun. Throughout 2014, and
beyond, you will hear the Wake Up Call. It will be loud and distinct.
In 2013, the White
House and Congress proved their extreme incompetence with a series of
public failures. From closing down the government, to the debt ceiling
debacle, to the aborted attack on Syria and, ultimately, to the
disastrous launch of Obamacare, the ineptness of our political leaders
was overwhelming. As polls show, a majority of citizens registered
levels of scorn and ridicule unparalleled in modern America.
But this phenomenon
is not limited to America. Around the world, citizen distrust has turned
into universal disdain for entrenched political parties whose draconian
austerity measures and punishing economic policies have thrown millions
into poverty and pushed millions of protesters into the streets. Civil
wars, civil unrest, revolts and revolutions will be just some of the
cards dealt by an angry public that has lost everything and has nothing
left to lose.
Will those in power
hear the Wake Up Call? Or will they attempt to stamp it down and drown
it out? Hear it or not, the movement is unstoppable. It will be a battle
of the classes. What will it mean? Where will it take the biggest toll?
Can the protests and disturbances of tomorrow bring peace and
enlightenment that will lead to the Great Awakening 2.0? It’s all in the
Top Trends 2014 Winter Trends Journal.
Seniors Own Social Media: Seniors
now comprise the fastest-growing user segment of the social media
world, and the year ahead will see the retail, business, political, health and entertainment industries evolve aggressive strategies to realize the robust economic potential in engaging seniors.
The gamut of possibilities is so grand that we forecast technological and product advances that impact everything from nursing home
life to political campaigns and causes. Read the Winter Trends Journal
to pinpoint how this trend will unfold and affect you and your
interests.
Populism:
Regardless of how professional politicians deride it or how the
traditional media describe it, “populism” is a megatrend sweeping
Europe, and it will soon spread across the globe. Mired in prolonged
recession, disgusted with corrupt political parties, and forced to
follow EU, ECB and IMF austerity dictates, populist movements are
seeking to regain national identity and break free from the euro and
Brussels domination. These movements are positioned to bring down ruling
parties and build up new ones.
The discontent of
the one-size-fits-all Euro Union formula is so deep that populists are
expected to gain some 25 percent of the European Parliament seats in
next year’s elections. “We have the big risk to have the most
‘anti-European’ European Parliament ever,” cried Italian Prime Minister
Enrico Letta. “The rise of populism is today the main European social
and political issue,” Mr. Letta added. “To fight against populism, in my
view, is a mission today in Italy and in the other countries.”
Already, some
nations, such as Spain, have passed new laws restricting public
demonstrations while imposing police-state measures to stamp out
dissent. What is the future of populism? How far will it spread? Will it
lead to the formation of new parties, or lead to civil wars? Read about
it in the Trends Journal’s Top Trends 2014 edition.
Trouble in Slavelandia: Even as total US personal wealth soars above a record high of $77 trillion, fueled by the stock
market’s own record highs, life for the growing number of have-nots in
Slavelandia has become more desperate. In today’s Plantation Economy
driven by the bottom line needs of multinationals and flailing
austerity-prone governments low-paying service jobs and reduced hours
engineered to evade corporate responsibility to provide benefits, are
making it tough for the working poor, a group that now includes
debt-burdened and underemployed college graduates and seniors as well as
the traditional underclass.
Nearly half of the
requests for emergency assistance to stave off hunger or homelessness
comes from people with full-time jobs. As government safety nets are
pulled out from under them as they will continue to be for the
foreseeable future the citizens of Slavelandia will have no recourse
but action. The fast-food worker strikes of 2013, seeking a higher minimum wage, were just a mild taste of what is to come. Learn more in the Winter Trends Journal.
The New Altruism:
Several burgeoning trends identified for 2014 will coalesce in a
welcome trend toward selfless concern for the wellbeing of others and an
interest in the common good. Across the age divide, from people in
their youth to those of advanced years, the search for meaning will
intensify and become more widespread in response to waning resources,
want, and an over-commodified culture. As despair quietly takes more
prisoners, Doing Good will be recognized as the key to escape.
Ironically, the
Internet that has been much maligned for currying narcissism will make
the donation of money, time and talents so easy that people will be able
to enact their better natures without resistance. Be they Boomers in
renaissance or populists in revolt, people will discover and expand the
humanist side of globalism and act accordingly. See why in the Top
Trends of 2014 Winter edition of the Trends Journal.
Private Health Goes Public:
While the world focused on the blockbuster NSA surveillance revelations
and other cyber-snooping episodes of 2013, another powerful trend line
was firmly planted: Your health data has been progressively mined,
assembled and made accessible to a widening group of interested parties.
While signing up for
the Affordable Care Act brought some attention to this developing
trend, around the globe, data on individuals’ health status, behaviors,
prescriptions and even their genetic indicators have been funneled to a
wide range of databases. Those databases have many purposes and a
growing number of hands on them.
The positive and
negative implications of this trend are equally powerful. Individuals
and their health care providers can more easily tie vital physical data
with worldwide medical databases to anticipate and potentially prevent
disease. But, in the wrong hands, the data can be used to exploit,
damage and take advantage of individuals and their families. Security
concerns will rise in equal importance with the potential benefits of
this critical trend line.
What does this mean for you, your family, or your business? The Winter Trends Journal will provide the answers.
Boomer Renaissance Arrives:
Distinct and strengthening economic, lifestyle and societal
determinants are building a creative foundation for the older population
as it discovers new approaches to work and finds long-elusive
contentment in the process.
You already know
that older workers, seeing their retirement plans shattered, have to
work beyond traditional retirement years. You also know that those same
economic dynamics are forcing aging Boomers to entirely rethink
retirement. And, of course, you know that as Boomers are living longer,
traditional thinking about retirement has been stood on its head. What
you might not realize is how these factors are compelling Boomers to
unearth potent creative energies not only to survive, but to realize
potential that evaded them in traditional work roles.
In 2014, we will see
growing evidence of this Boomer Renaissance, accentuated by waves of
self-guided entrepreneurism that alchemizes commerce, survival and
self-actualization into a new world and self view. The Winter Trends
Journal will explore this compelling 2014 trend in depth.
Digital Learning Explodes:
Fears that online educational platforms fall short of providing depth
and effectiveness in the learning experience will all but disappear.
Across the entire educational spectrum, online learning will expand to
include not only course instruction, but also a wealth of real-life
learning experience, with considerable participation by the
skills-hungry business community.
For individuals,
educational institutions, industries, small businesses and up-and-coming
entrepreneurs, the implications are enormous. From traditional
degree-based education to very specific micro skills-based learning,
this trend line explodes. The Trends Research Institute
will break down the implications for individuals, business
professionals and a range of industries in its Winter Trends Journal.
Monday, 30 December 2013
THE REAL QUESTION ABOUT THE DEBT CEILING!
THE REAL QUESTION ABOUT THE DEBT CEILING!
From The What really happened Website
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Needless to say, Franklin's comments ignited a fierce discussion among the British subjects as to why their own economy did not operate on what was clearly a better system for the people. This in turn infuriated the owners of the Bank of England who decided the American system of interest-free public currency needed to be destroyed. So the bankers prevailed upon King George III to issue the Currency act of 1764.
Now, you probably were told in Public School that the American revolution was all about the Tea Tax and the Stamp Act, but in reality, it was the banker predations imposed by the Currency Act that fueled the anger that led to the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution.
"The refusal of King George 3rd to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." -- Benjamin Franklin, Founding FatherBut bankers are nothing if not dedicated to their schemes to acquire your wealth, and know full well how easy it is to corrupt a nation's leaders. Just one year after Mayer Amschel Rothschild had uttered his infamous "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws", the bankers succeeded in setting up a new Private Central Bank called the First Bank of the United States, largely through the efforts of the Rothschild's chief US supporter, Alexander Hamilton. Founded in 1791, by the end of its twenty year charter the First Bank of the United States had almost ruined the nation's economy, while enriching the bankers. Congress refused to renew the charter and signaled their intention to go back to a state issued value based currency on which the people paid no interest at all to any banker. This resulted in a threat from Nathan Mayer Rothschild against the US Government, "Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war." Congress still refused to renew the charter for the First Bank of the United States, whereupon Nathan Mayer Rothschild railed, "Teach those impudent Americans a lesson! Bring them back to colonial status!" The British Prime Minister at the time, Spencer Perceval was adamantly opposed to war with the United States, primarily because the majority of England's military might was occupied with the ongoing Napoleonic wars. Spencer Perceval was concerned that Britain might not prevail in a new American war, a concern shared by many in the British government. Then, Spencer Perceval was assassinated (the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated in office) and replaced by Robert Banks Jenkinson, the 2nd Earl of Liverpool, who was fully supportive of a war to recapture the colonies. Financed at virtually no interest by the Rothschild controlled Bank of England, Britain then provoked the war of 1812 to recolonize the United States and force them back into the slavery of the Bank of England, or to plunge the United States into so much debt they would be forced to accept a new private central bank. And the plan worked. Even though the War of 1812 was won by the United States, Congress was forced to grant a new charter for yet another private bank issuing the public currency as loans at interest, the Second Bank of the United States. Once again, private bankers were in control of the nation's money supply and cared not who made the laws or how many British and American soldiers had to die for it.
Once again the nation was plunged into debt, unemployment, and poverty by the predations of the private central bank, and in 1832 Andrew Jackson successfully campaigned for his second term as President under the slogan, "Jackson And No Bank!" True to his word, Jackson succeeds in blocking the renewal of the charter for the Second Bank of the United States.
"Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and 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. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!" -- Andrew Jackson, shortly before ending the charter of the Second Bank of the United States. From the original minutes of the Philadelphia committee of citizens sent to meet with President Jackson (February 1834), according to Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. HenkelsShortly after President Jackson (the only American President to actually pay off the National Debt) ended the Second Bank of the United States, there was an attempted assassination which failed when both pistols used by the assassin, Richard Lawrence, failed to fire. Lawrence later said that with Jackson dead, "Money would be more plenty."
Finally, in 1913, the Private Central Bankers of Europe, in particular the Rothschilds of Great Britain and the Warburgs of Germany, met with their American financial collaborators on Jekyll Island, Georgia to form a new banking cartel with the express purpose of forming the Third Bank of the United States, with the aim of placing complete control of the United States money supply once again under the control of private bankers. Owing to hostility over the previous banks, the name was changed to "The Federal Reserve" in order to grant the new bank a quasi-governmental image, but in fact it is a privately owned bank, no more "Federal" than Federal Express. Indeed, in 2012, the Federal Reserve attempted to rebuff a Freedom of Information Lawsuit by Bloomberg News on the grounds that as a private banking corporation and not actually a part of the government, the Freedom of Information Act did not apply to the "trade secret" operations of the Federal Reserve. 1913 proved to be a transformative year for the nation's economy, first with the passage of the 16th "income tax" Amendment and the false claim that it had been ratified.
"I think if you were to go back and and try to find and review the ratification of the 16th amendment, which was the internal revenue, the income tax, I think if you went back and examined that carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment." - U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, Sullivan Vs. United States, 2003.Later that same year, and apparently unwilling to risk another questionable amendment, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act over Christmas holiday 1913, while members of Congress opposed to the measure were at home. This was a very underhanded deal, as the Constitution explicitly vests Congress with the authority to issue the public currency, does not authorize its delegation, and thus should have required a new Amendment to transfer that authority to a private bank. But pass it Congress did, and President Woodrow Wilson signed it as he promised the bankers he would in exchange for generous campaign contributions. Wilson later regretted that decision.
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are 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 duress of a small group of dominant men." -- Woodrow Wilson 1919It was at this time that public schools in the United States shifted the history of the American Revolution away from the Currency act, lest some sharp student ask why the nation was now back under the exact same form of banking that revolution had been fought to free us from.
As President, John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking. He understood why Andrew Jackson fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note.
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Now we are once again hearing the politicians in Washington DC wail and moan about the need to raise the government's debt ceiling. The debate is framed by the servile corporate media as whether we should or should not, because the really important question Americans need to ask is why the government is in such debt to begin with. And the answer (which the federal Reserve hopes you never realize) is really quite simple. When you have a privately-owned central bank issuing the nation's currency as a loan at interest, by design the debt always exceeds the available money supply. There is no way to ever pay the debt off, which is why the whole system is a trap. The moment that first pretty printed piece of paper was loaned into circulation..
So, as this debate about raising the debt ceiling starts up again, remember that the reason the corporate media is so focused on whether the debt ceiling should be raised or not, is because they don't want you thinking about why there is such a huge debt to begin with.
The question both government and the corporate media will never ask, and hope you do not ask, is why, when the Constitution authorizes the US Government to create and issue debt-free money, has the United States Government borrowed instantly-created money at interest from a privately-owned central bank and cursed you and your descendants with the out of control interest?
But that IS the question you need to ask yourself, your family and friends, indeed everyone you know.
Why, when the Constitution authorizes the US Government to create and issue debt-free money, has the United States Government borrowed instantly-created money at interest from a privately-owned central bank and cursed you and your descendants with the out of control interest, for the last 100 years?
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
The International Bankers–famous quotes about the evil of international bankers
“The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” – William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, 1694
“A
theft of greater magnitude and still more ruinous, is the making of
paper money; it is greater because in this money there is absolutely no
real value; it is more ruinous because by its gradual depreciation
during the time of its existence, it produces the effect which would be
proration of the coins. All those iniquities are founded on the false
idea the money is but a sign.”- Count Destutt de Tracy, 1754-1836
“If
ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be
like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”- George Washington, 1732-1799
“The
few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its
profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition
from that class.” . . . “Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” - Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, 1744-1812
“All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not
from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of
honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin,
credit, and circulation.” - John Adams, 1735-1826, letter to Thomas Jefferson.
“If
the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be
taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly
belongs.” . . . “Paper is poverty. It is the ghost of money and not money itself.”- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
“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, 1751-1836
“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, 1769-1821, a sympathizer for the international bankers, turned against them in the last years of his rule.
“Nothing
but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress… Our only
safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction – and I have
no doubt that such a course will ultimately lead to restoration of the
currency and the re-charter of the bank.” - Nicholas Biddle, (1786-1844), Banker and American financier
[Speaking
about international bankers] “You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout
you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only
understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there
would be a revolution before morning.” .
. . “If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper
money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to
individuals or corporations.”- President Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
“A power has risen up in the government greater
than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful
interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power
of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27, 1836
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” – “Coningsby, the New Generation”, Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England, 1844
“Of
all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none
has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.”
. . . “We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper,
mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing
nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated
creditors and a ruined people.” – Daniel Webster, circa 1845, leading American statesman
“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.” – Economic Sophisms, Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
I have two great enemies, the Southern
Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at
my rear is my greatest foe. – Abraham Lincoln
“I
see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war,
corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all
wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I
feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever
before, even in the midst of war.” – Abraham Lincoln – In a letter written to William Elkin, 1860
“The
Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and
credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the
buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the
taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be
master and become the servant of humanity. ” – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
“If
this mischievous financial policy, which has its’ origins in North
America, shall be endured down to a fixture, then that government will
furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debt and be
without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its
commerce. It will become prosperous without precedence in the history of
the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North
America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every
monarchy on the globe.” – Editorial in the Times of London, 1862
“The
money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires
against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy,
more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy.” – Abe Lincoln, 1864
“My
agency, in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the
greatest financial mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which
affects every interest in the country.” – Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and Advisor to Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, 1864
“The
death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in
the United States great enough to wear his boots…I fear that foreign
bankers with their craftiness and their torturous tricks will entirely
control the exuberant riches of America, and use it systematically to
corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole
of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth shall become
their (the bankers’) inheritance.” – Chancellor of Germany, Otto Von Bismarck, 1865
“I
went to America in the winter of 1872-1873 to secure, if I could, the
passage of a bill demonetizing silver. It was in the interest of those I
represented – the governors of the Bank of England, to have it done. By
1873 gold coins were the only form of coin money.” – Earnest Seyd, Agent for the Bank of England, 1873
“I
care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the
Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s
money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British
money supply.” Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild, 1840-1915
“It
is advisable to do all in your power to sustain such prominent daily
and weekly newspapers, especially the Agricultural and Religious press,
as will oppose the Greenback issue of paper money and that you will also
withhold patronage from all applicants (for loans) who are not willing
to oppose the government issue of money…To repel the act creating bank
notes, or to restore to circulation the government issue of money will
be to provide the people with money and will therefore seriously affect
our individual profits as bankers and lenders. See your congressman at
once and engage him to support us, that we may control legislation.” – James Buel, American Bankers Association, 1877
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
And 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.” – President James Garfield, 1881. He was assassinated just weeks after making this statement.
“We
will answer their demand for a gold standard saying to them, ‘You shall
not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall
not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold’.” . . . “The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”- William Jennings Brian, 1896
“The
fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a
Pluto-democracy; that is, a sham republic with the real government in
the hands of a small clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through
their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner
of the United States.” – William McAdoo, 1912 – President Wilson’s national campaign vice-chairman, wrote in Crowded Years
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. – President Woodrow Wilson , The New Freedom, 1913.
“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 concentrated. The growth of the Nation 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 world – no longer a Government of free opinion no longer a
Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by
the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men…. Since I entered
politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some
of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and
manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They
know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so
watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had
better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of
it.” – The New Freedom, President Woodrow Wilson, 1913 (after signing into passage the Glass Owen Act of 1913 that established the Federal Reserve System)
“On
September 1st, 1894, we will not renew our loans under any
consideration. On September 1st, we will demand our money. We will
foreclose and become mortgagees in possession. We can take two-thirds of
the farms west of the Mississippi as well, at our own price…Then the
farmers will become tenants, as in England.” – 1891 American Bankers Association Memo, recorded as testimony in the Congressional Record, April 29th, 1913
“This
act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the president
signs this bill, the ‘invisible government’ by monetary power will be
legalized. The people may not know it yet, but the day of reckoning is
only a few years removed…The worst legislative crime of the ages is
perpetrated by this banking bill.” – Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr.
(R, MN), father of the famed aviator, just prior to the passage of the
Glass Owen Act that established the Federal Reserve System.
(The bill was literally snuck through the congress on Dec. 22, 1913.
Many senators had already left for the holidays after being reassured by
the leadership that nothing would be done on the bill until after they
returned from their Christmas recess the following January. All
evidently believed that the congressional session had been legally
retired for their customary holiday break, but this certainly could be
construed as a ruse. And so it transpired that on December 22, 1913,
under the shepherding of President Wilson and certain congressmen of
both sides of the political spectrum, and with at least 27 Senators
absent on holiday recess, the Federal Reserve Act passed. The bill
provided for a privately owned central bank, disguised as the Federal
Reserve System, to not only issue this nation’s currency but to charge
interest against that currency. Today we owe our currant national debt
to the bank corporations that privately own the Federal Reserve Bank,
with the exception, that is, of the debt paper the Fed regularly sells
to other nations like China. The Fed accepts dollar reserves from
foreign customers and sells them US government bonds in return. This is
how the Federal Government borrows from foreign lenders. Some even
suggest this is why we are loosing control of our country.)
“To
cause high prices all the Federal Reserve Board will do will be to
lower the rediscount rate producing an expansion of credit and rising
stock market, then when business men are adjusted to these conditions,
it can check prosperity in mid career by raising the rate of interest.
It can cause the pendulum of a rising and falling market to swing gently
back and forth by slight changes in the discount rate, or cause violent
fluctuations by greater rate variation and in either case, it will
possess inside information as to financial conditions and advanced
knowledge of the coming change, either up or down. This is the strangest
and most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special
privilege class by any government that ever existed. The system is
private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest
possible profits from the use of other peoples’ money. They know in
advance when to create panics to their advantage, and they also know
when to stop panic. Inflation and deflation work equally well for them
when they control finance.” – Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr. (R. MN), 1914
“Every
effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power
but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government of
the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our
foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. No man and
no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit
monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal
Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country of more than
enough money to pay the national debt. What the Government has permitted
the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should now be
restored to the people.”- Rep. Lewis McFadden, (D PA) Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1914
(McFadden rose from office boy to become cashier and then President of
the First National Bank in Canton Ohio. For 12 years he served as
Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, making him one of the
foremost financial authorities in America. He fought continuously for
fiscal integrity and a return to constitutional government.)
“They
have created a super state controlled by international bankers and
international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for
their own pleasure.” – Rep. Lewis McFadden, (D PA) Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, 1914
“In
March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and
powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men
high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most
influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of
them to control generally the policy of the daily press….They found it
was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers.
“An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be
paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to
properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of
preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of
national and international nature considered vital to the interests of
the purchasers.”- Oscar Callaway, U.S. Congressman, 1917
“These
international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control
the majority of the newspapers and the columns in those papers to club
into submission or drive out of office officials who refuse to do the
bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible
government.” – Theodore Roosevelt as reported in the New York Times, March 27th, 1922
“This
warning of Theodore Roosevelt has as much timelessness today, for the
real menace to our republic is this invisible government which spreads
its tentacles like a giant octopus and sprawls its slimy length over
city, state and nation. It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our
executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts,
our newspapers and every agency created for the public protection…To
depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this
octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of
powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international
bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually
run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They
practically control both parties, write political platforms, make
cat’s-paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private
organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for
high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the
dictates of corrupt big business. These international bankers and
Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers
and magazines in this country.” – John Hylan, Mayor of New York City, quoted in the New York Times, 1922
“The
real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation…
The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the
United States government for their own selfish purposes. They
practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the
newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these
papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials
who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which
compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a
self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative
bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the
public protection.” - New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York Times, March 26, 1922
“Capital
must protect itself in every possible manner by combination and
legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be
foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the
common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more
easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government,
applied by a central power of wealth under control of leading
financiers. This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged
in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing
the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend
their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by
discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well
planned and so successfully accomplished.” - USA Banker’s Magazine, August 25, 1924
“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to
be told that the banks can, and do, create money…And they who control
the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in
the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.” ~ Reginald McKenna, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, January 24, 1924
“It
is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a
revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford, circa 1925
“I
see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or
warrants pessimism… I have every confidence that there will be a revival
of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country
will make steady progress.” —Andrew W. Mellon, December 1929, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
“Sell all of your stock now. Don’t ask any questions.” – Joseph P. Kennedy to his friend, father of Ed Kerrigan, 1929,
(right before the crash. During the Great Depression, Joseph P.
Kennedy’s worth grew from four million dollars in 1929 to over 100
million dollars in 1935. Apparently he had insider information and knew
what the Federal Reserve intended to do.)
“The
Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close
relationship with the Bank for International Settlements….The conclusion
is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are
willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a
world financial power independent of and above the Government of the
United States….The United States under present conditions will be
transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a
consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.”- Rep. Louis McFadden – Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency quoted in the New York Times (June 1930)
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by
contracting Americas’ money supply by one third between 1929 and 1933.” – Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist, Stanford University
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