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NOTE: I read a few upsetting articles today. The following is mostly just an angry rant.


The problem with trying to convince people that the situation in America is precarious at best is that people are still largely left alone by their benign leaders. When you tell them that they are electing de facto fascists, they laugh at you and go on to think your a nut job. I've found that I cannot compare our current government to the Nazis, no matter how much evidence I produce. No one wants to believe it, therefore, no one will. And the truth is, I am wrong to even make the comparison.

The Nazi form of government was all about government control. It was a merger of the corporation and the government, except that the government was the power behind the merger. Hitler and his minions forcibly took control of all the corporations in Germany and turned them into state owned organizations. In that way, he was able to exert total control over all aspects of life for the German people. This is decidedly not what is going on in America.

What is going on in our beloved country is a slow yet steady takeover of the American Government by the corporations themselves. It is the corporation that has grown more powerful than the government. This is not new in American history either.

In the years after the Civil War, corporate power was extended far beyond anything that the Founders had ever intended. They owned almost all the politicians and many of the Presidents during the period between 1877-1907. This was the era of the Robber Baron. Students of history would know that America's first mega wealthy aristocratic families came to be. They nearly succeeded in totally transforming America into a corporation. The corporation was even granted personhood by the Supreme Court during this period. The law still remains on the books in spite of its obvious discrepancies.

Aside from the people revolting en masse through unions and demonstrations, the reforms of one President brought the Corporatocracy to a grinding halt. That man was Theodore Roosevelt. Though he was ultimately destroyed by the corporate elite, he was wildly popular when he was first elected President. Our children's text books will refer to him only in passing reference as the President who created our National Park System. They will not tell of how he brought the Corporatocracy to its knees by being the first President in decades to be solidly for The People and unable to be bought by the moneyed class.

In the end, he was destroyed and publicly humiliated. By 1913, he was completely discredited and the moneyed class was back in control. Though the rioting and unionization of the working class continued, which forced these groups to change tactics. This is ultimately why the Federal Reserve Bank, Internal Revenue Service, and the Income Tax was created. The real power behind the Corporatocracy is the international banks and their obsession with wealth and power.

Fast forward to today's world. The moneyed interests are faltering. They are the ones losing wealth. This cannot be allowed. At all costs, this must not happen. The Federal Reserve, via the IRS, via the Income Tax as pulled all the stops to rescue the wealthiest Americans from losing any wealth. From this website: http://biz.yahoo.com/cnbc/080725/25851253.html?ref=patrick.net, I found someone who finally tallied up all of the taxpayer money spent on rescuing these criminals. Keep in mind that these numbers do not reflect the bailout for Fannie and Freddie that was just passed by the Senate. That bailout has the potential to cost taxpayers over $800 Billion.

The Federal Reserve = $446 Billion
Federal Home Loan Banks = $274 Billion
Fannie & Freddie = $621 Billion
Federal Housing Admin = $90 Billion

Total losses so far are astronomical. $1.43 Trillion, which is 1,430 Billion, which is 14,300 Million, which is 1,430,000,000,000 dollars. These are conservative numbers. Going through the list of "conservative" estimations of what will be on the books as early as Q3 of next year and the number jumps from $1.43 Trillion to $3.48 Trillion. Now that number includes the current "bailout" plan. Which, by the way, gives Treasury Secretary a blank check until the end of 2009 to fix any problems he deems needs fixing. A BLANK CHECK to the former CEO of Goldman Sachs!

Which brings me back to my point. This is not fascism in the form of Nazism. This is a new kind of fascism. A fascism that has the Corporatocracy in full control of "elected" representatives. On top of that, over half of the nation votes on computer controlled voting machines sold by one of those corporations. Soon, we as voters will need to send lobbyists to Congress to have our voice heard. Have any of you ever tried to get a hold of your Congressperson? It's not easy to get a response. It's damn near impossible to get a response from your Senator. These people do not give a rats ass about their constituents with few exceptions.

I prefer the term Corporatocracy over Fascism, even though Fascism is a more accurate term for what is happening in our government, it brings up comparisons to Nazism that isn't warranted in today's real world. The true enemies of our liberty isn't some paranoid, racist madman. Rather, it is the profit whoring greed of the Corporatocracy that is eroding the very foundations of our great nation.



Here is how America almost became the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. Unfortunately, the bankers won and we lost. It happened over 100 years ago. It continued with the creation of the Income Tax and Federal Reserve in 1913 and then further taxation in later years and finally the ending of the Gold Standard in the 1970’s.

We now have a banking system wholly bent on wealth transfer through inflation and debt. Debt to them. The American government gave away its control over creating money to the Federal Reserve bank, which is a privately held bank(the biggest and most powerful bank in the world), and it holds nearly $10 trillion in OUR debt. If we don’t pay them the minimum payments, we’re finished as a nation.

Our Income tax was created soley for the purpose of paying the interest on our national debt. So every paycheck, a portion goes directly to the IRS which then transfers that money directly to the Federal Reserve Bank. Which is why the Income Tax, Fed Reserve, and IRS all were created at the same time, and enforced by the government even though the Federal Income Tax never came close to being ratified by the minimum number of states that are typically needed to ratify a Constitutional Amendment.

Ironically, it is also the only amendment that was never ratified that the government pretends is a law. The IRS has imprisoned hundreds, even thousands of citizens over the years who have tried to exercise their constitutional rights in defiance of the illegal mission of the Federal Reserve and IRS, neither of which are government agencies yet they pretend to be such.

The longer we let them oppress us, the more likely we will lose more and more of our liberties. Our nation was a great one, but we lost the war against the bankers sometime between 1860 and 1913. Since then we have seen our standard of living peak, then fall considerably over the past 40 years. Our dollar is worth two pennies compared to a dollar in 1913. Inflation happens to all currencies, but more so when the currency is fiat.

America almost became great, but the banks have won and we are no longer the Republic that our Founding Fathers intended us to be. We are just like the European Nations that we broke away from. Nothing has changed, the conditions are the same as they were when our anscestors revolted against their government back in 1776. Except this time, the oppressive government we are living under is not across some distant ocean, it is right here in our backyard. And the government is powerful and absolutely corrupt, so that any revolt by the people would be met with the harshest of brutality.

I am close to the point now where I may lose all faith in the future of this Republic. International Banking has too much power, too much influence, and too much control. They must be stopped and our politicians must be brought into accountability. They answer to The People, not Corporate lobbyists. The cycle never ends and we lose ground each and every year.

Below is a transcript from the history of our banking in America. How we lost control of our own future to European Bankers like the Rothschild's. Copied from: http://www.sovereignfellowship.com/tos/16.3/


Benjamin Franklin:
While visiting England in 1763, Benjamin Franklin was asked how he accounted for the prosperous condition of the Colonies. His reply was: That is simple. It is only because in the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called “Colonial Scrip” — and we issue it in the proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry. Soon that information was brought to the Rothschild’s bank which coerced the English Parliament to pass a Bill providing that no Colony could issue its own money. Franklin said: Within one year from that date the streets of the Colonies were filled with the unemployed. Franklin later said that this was the original cause of the Revolutionary War. In his own language: The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom


John Adams 1787:
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Coughlin


In 1790 Mayer Amschel Rothschild said:

Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.

Thomas Jefferson said:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the overnment at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken from the banks, and restored to the people to whom it belongs. — Lincoln Money Martyred

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up
around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of the moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our Government to trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Couglin

Lord Acton, Lord Chief Justice of England in 1875 stated:
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the People vs. the Banks. — I Want The Earth—Plus 5 Percent

President Andrew Jackson to the bankers who approached him in the drawing room of the White House:
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. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out! — Money - Questions & Answers by C. Coughlin

Abraham Lincoln:
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, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. - Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry


Editorial in the London Times after “Lincoln Greenbacks” were issued:
If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in the North American Republic, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.

The Hazard Circular - published by London bankers, 1863:
The great debt that the Capitalists will see to it is made out of the war must be used to control the value of money. To accomplish this government bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to make that recommendation.It will not do to allow greenbacks, as they are called, to circulate as money for any length of time as we cannot control them. But we can control the bonds and through them the banking issues.


Salmon P. Chase in referring to the National Bank Act of 1862 said:
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry Letter to: Messieurs.

Iklheimer, Morton and Vandergould, No. 3 Wall St., New York, U.S.A.:
Dear Sirs:

A Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress
(National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter. Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world.

Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded, notwithstanding the fact that it gives the National Banks an almost absolute control of the National finance. ’The few who can understand the system,’ he says ’will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (adverse) to their interests.’ Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a National Bank in the City of New York... Awaiting your reply, we are.


Your respectful servants.

Rothschild Brothers.

London, June 25, 1863
— Lightning Over The Treasury Building, J.R. Elsom

Henry Ford said:
The function of money is not to make money but to move goods. Money is
only one part of our transportation system. It moves goods from man to man. A
dollar bill is like a postage stamp: it is no good unless it will move commodities between persons. If a postage stamp will not carry a letter, or money will not move goods, it is just the same as an engine that will not run. Someone will have to get out and fix it. — Money - Questions & Answers, by C. Coughlin

Hon. Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., on December 23, 1913 stated:
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry

Concerning government bonds issued for a construction project Thomas Edison said:
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project, nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the people who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.
In all great bond issues the interest is always greater than the principal. All the great public works cost more than twice as much on that account. Under the present system of doing business we simply add from 120% to 150% to the stated cost.

But here is the point: If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it is capable of issuing a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker
collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution, pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people.If the currency issued by the people were no good, then the bonds would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom

Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England, in an informal talk to 150 University of Texas students in the 1920’s said:
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin...Bankers own the world. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money...and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again...Take this great power away from bankers, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, because this would then be a better and happier world to live in...But if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create (your) money. — “Bankonomics” in One Easy Lesson, by Peter Cook

In 1933 Congressman Louis T. McFadden wrote:
Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board (FED) to conceal its powers, but the truth is-the FED has usurped the government. It controls everything here (in Congress) and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will. — Billions for the Bankers, by Sheldon Emry

Robert Hemphill, for 8 years credit manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta said:
If all bank loans were paid, no one would have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent monetary system. When one gets a complete grasp upon the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible-but there it is. It (the banking problem) is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it is widely understood and the defects remedied very soon. — Famous Quotations on Money, by Sheldon Emry


Emanuel Josephson stated in the Rockefeller Internationalist:
They [the Rockefellers] control most of the important newspapers, magazines, and book publishing houses in the country, including the Curtis Publications, the Hearst Publications, Time, the New York Times, the Associated Press and many others. — The Elements of Economics, by J.L. Carmichael

John Moody wrote:
Seven men on Wall Street now control a great share of the fundamental industry and resources of the United States. Three of the seven men, J.P. Morgan, James J. Hill, George F. Baker, head of the First National Bank of New York belong to the so-called Morgan group; four of them, John D. and William Rockefeller, James Stillman, head of the National City Bank, and Jacob H. Schiff on the private banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb Company, to the so-called Standard Oil City Bank group...the central machine of capital extends its control over the United States...The process is not only economically logical; it is now practically automatic. — Secrets of the Federal
Reserve, by Eustace Mullins

The Banker’s Manifest, 1934:
Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd...

Nobel Prize Winner Frederick Soddy:
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. Starting with nothing whatever of their own, they have got the whole world into their debt irredeemably, by a trick.

This money comes into existence every time the banks “lend” and disappears every time the debt is repaid to them. So that if industry tries to repay, the money of the nation disappears. This is what makes prosperity so “dangerous” as it destroys money just when it is most needed, and precipitates a slump.

There is nothing left now for us but to ever get deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.An honest money system is the only alternative. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom


Andrae Nordskog:
In February, 1850, our State of California issued bonds in the sum of $943.40 to pay for a granite slab to be placed at the 120 foot level inside of Washington’s Monument on the grounds of our National Capitol.

Our Golden State issued short term bonds bearing interest at the rate of 36% annually. In 1873 new bonds, in the amount of $2,277,500.00 were issued to retire the original bonds. Since that time the State has paid over $10,000,000 in interest but not one cent on the principal. — We Bankers, by Andrae Nordskog

John R. Elsom, 1941:
Since the people have either lost the heart to borrow from the Banks, or their collateral has already been taken over by the Banks - the latter being primarily the case - and therefore can no longer borrow, in order to get money into circulation the Government must do the borrowing in lieu of the people. — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom


Summer H. Slichter (Professor Business Economics at Harvard):
The principal way in which dollars are created is by borrowing. This means that the number of dollars in existence at any particular time depends upon the ability and willingness of the banks to lend. The volume of purchasing power fluctuates with the state of men’s minds; the growth of pessimism may suddenly throw millions of men out of work (because of the lack of currency), or the growth of confidence may create thousands of job overnight (because of sufficient currency). — Lightning Over The Treasury Building, by J.R. Elsom



If you took the time to read through these snippets of history, you'll see a pattern. That pattern is a gradual takeover in America by European Bankers. The liberty loving, freedom seeking Patriots of the days of the Civil War lost ground to the monied interests of the wealthy global elite. Soon, America would become just another European-like nation with all the same banking practices, corporate practices, and their interlocking vested interests. That was how America almost became the greatest nation on the face of the Earth.

In the end, America settled for being the best Europe had to offer. And now we're faced with economic calamity not seen since the Great Depression. I refuse to believe that we haven't already walked over the edge of a cliff as a nation, we have come to far down this perilous road to turn back. The only thing that can save us now is for the nation to wake up, for the optimisim to vanish, for the People to retake their government from the bankers who have so skillfully pulled the rug out from under us. Most likely, it'll take a miracle. If you have the money to ride the rapids then you'll be fine, the rest of us are SCREWED.


 

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