Wednesday
Sep232009
Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve Is The Culprit, They Are A Conspiracy
Excellent 6-minute interview with Congressman Dr. Ron Paul conducted by Time Magazine and released last Thursday to coincide with the release of his newest book, End The Fed. Topics discussed include:
- HR 1207 to audit the Federal Reserve, marijuana, the war on drugs, the federal income tax, Iraq & Afghanistan (great comments), Iran, Obama, Bush, liberty, and the Constitution.
Some of his more memorable statements:
- The Federal Reserve is the key element in the formation of financial bubbles. The Federal Reserve is the culprit. They're a government unto themselves. They are a conspiracy.
- If we could get an audit we could reveal exactly what they do. They deal in trillions of dollars of secret agreements with foreign central banks that none of us know anything about.
Sep 23, 2009 at 6:22 AM
Reader Comments (16)
Ron Paul: "This evening, twenty three Republican US Senators are holding a $500 per plate fundraiser in Washington DC for Trey Grayson – my son Rand's opponent in the Kentucky GOP Primary. This big-money, insiders' event will be full of lobbyists and special interests The forces of big government and big banks know who they want in Washington, and they are pulling out all the stops to keep Rand out.
To fight back and to overcome this, many thousands of our grassroots activists are holding a Money Bomb today to help Rand deliver a powerful message to the Establishment. I am contributing, and I hope you will too.
Please visit www.RandPaul2010.com and donate as much as possible. Together, we can tell the Washington Establishment that our Liberty IS NOT FOR SALE and that we will make whatever sacrifice is needed to send Dr. Rand Paul to the United States Senate." http://www.randpaul2010.com/
I plan to donate, but on a side note, does anyone else think the novelty of the "money-bomb" has worn off?
"If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
biggest terrorist on earth=bernanke=fed
Bernanke On Trial For Crimes Against Humanity; To Be Judged By Citizen Councils Led By Glenn Greenwald & Alex Jones
http://dailybail.com/home/bernanke-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-to-be-judged-b.html
REGULATION? SYSTEMIC RISK? THE FED? HAHAHAHAHAH!! F??? JOKE!!!
NO REGULATION WILL CHANGE A THING...THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!!
THE PROBLEM IS THE MONEY SYSTEM, DEBT, FRACTIONAL BANKING, INTEREST, USURY, LEVERAGE, AND THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY THAT PRODUCES NOTHING!!!!
NO RISK WILL BE REMOVED AND THEY WASTE MOUNTAINS OF TIME ON NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!
THE FED??? FUCK THE FED!!! THEY CAUSED IT, NEVER SAW IT COMING, ARE MAKING IT ALL WORSE NOT BETTER AND THEY ARE SEIZING MORE POWER YOU BAMBOOZLED GENERATION
JESUS H CHRIST WAKE UP!!!
Your posts crack me up. Not because of the content, but because I imagine you typing at your keyboard very angrily, on the verge of insanity, finally clicking "create post," then running out of the front door of your house yelling "F*******************ck!" as your neighbor looks up from watering the bushes thinking "what's up with that guy?"
Here is more for you all to crack up @me
Salon Radio: Rep. Alan Grayson on de-funding corrupt defense contractors
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) -- my guest on Salon Radio today -- yesterday pointed out that the bill passed by both the Senate and House to de-fund ACORN is written so broadly that it literally compels the de-funding not only of that group, but also the de-funding of, and denial of all government contracts to, any corporation that "has filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency." By definition, that includes virtually every large defense contractor, which -- unlike ACORN -- has actually been found guilty of fraud. As The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim put it: "the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
The Federal Reserve website (http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm#5%29... states that the Federal Reserve is "independent within the government" and the member banks are stock owners.
So the Federal Reserve is not private or public. However, like any business, the organization can be political. With the member banks as the stock owners, the Federal Reserve may indirectly be manipulated to protect the banks.
And good job Grayson, on this particular issue.
With Global Capitalism Exposed as a Sham, All the Global Elite Have Left Is Pure Force
The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can't blame them. But unless we on the left move quickly this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism.
Every day counts. Every deferral of protest hurts. We should, if we have the time and the ability, make our way to Pittsburgh for the meeting of the G-20 this week rather than do what the power elite is hoping we will do-stay home. Complacency comes at a horrible price.
http://www.alternet.org/world/142788/with_global_capitalism_exposed_as_a_sham%2C_all_the_global_elite_have_left_is_pure_force
The draconian security measures put in place to silence dissent in Pittsburgh are disproportionate to any actual security concern. They are a response not to a real threat, but to the fear gripping the established centers of power. The power elite grasps, even if we do not, the massive fraud and theft being undertaken to save a criminal class on Wall Street and international speculators of the kinds who were executed in other periods of human history. They know the awful cost this plundering of state treasuries will impose on workers, who will become a permanent underclass. And they also know that once this is clear to the rest of us, rebellion will no longer be a foreign concept.
(((((REVOLT ONLY THE SOLUTION DEAR FELLOW AMERICANS))))
HOW TO UNITE AND REBEL?
I plan to donate, but on a side note, does anyone else think the novelty of the "money-bomb" has worn off?
The novelty is gone yes but the importance of these types of fundraisers remain, as you most certainly know...
@ Ken
Allie is not laughing at you...she feels your pain...we all do...we're glad to have your anger around...we just want it always to be readable and consumable...and I appreciate your effort in that regard lately...
@ Ken
Allie is not laughing at you...she feels your pain...we all do...we're glad to have your anger around...we just want it always to be readable and consumable...and I appreciate your effort in that regard lately...
This site can not grow and why?
I have no intentions to engage here anymore.......
Just still feeding important content which reveals, 2nd revolution is only the solution.
Gerald Celente - 2009 Outlook
http://www.forumeter.com/video/186254/Gerald-Celente-2009-Outlook
For example, slavery would never have ended in the American South by words alone. Either war was necessary to end slavery or technological inventions which occurred later in the twentieth century. Idealism has no effect except to rationalize the war effort.
The same was true about the American Revolution. More freedom, equality and justice will only occur with a war or revolution and those wont come until things get so bad that war/revolution rhetoric can't be stopped by the power elite. The wealthy oligarchs and corporatocracy will not give up power without a fight. It's delusional, hypocritical or simply stupid to believe anything else. In the meantime, Michael Moore, for example, will appear to be a nutcase to most Americans just as John Brown appeared to be a nutcase to most Americans, north and south, before the Civil War began.
Words ARE pretty AND essential but not sufficient:
Down with the Federal Reserve!!
End Naked Short Selling!
Stop the war in Iraq!
Universal health care!
Pie in the Sky!
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was necessary but without George Washington America would still be British. In the meantime, I'm not going to pay any attention to the words because I already know them by heart. I'll wait until I smell tear gas in the air again before I start to listen again.
John Brown WAS a nutcase. But putting that aside, people like yourself and Ken (and others) are making a fundamental error. Words and ideas and crafting a worldview are essential to promoting ACTION. Even when people are starving, mass action doesn't happen ex nihilo in a textual and ideological vacuum. The American revolutionaries weren't just sitting around waiting until there was blood in the streets in Boston. "Bunker Hill," you might say, but what got those guys to turn out at Bunker Hill in the first place? They were ideologically prepared for it. The veil had been peeled off for them long before they took down their muskets and started marching around.
But maybe you just mean that people need to get up off the couch and protest in the streets? We've seen some of that already. We may see more. How does the 9/12 thing fit into your picture? Trust me, many of us, myself included, feel the same way as you do, but sitting at home sharpening your pitchfork isn't going to do any good -- you've got to tell other people that you're sharpening your pitchfork. That's what we're doing right now. I thought this summer would have been hellacious for TPTB, but the stock market rally helped take the edge off, I think. Still, the health care town halls are probably a sign of things to come. I hope so!
Anyhow, if you have anything constructive to offer in the way of bringing about desired change, please, tell us about it. We're all ears. If someone said, "We march tomorrow," and I thought it might work, believe me, I'd be there. I don't think we're there yet. I know we're not. There are still people who think Obama is ending the wars and had nothing to do with the bailouts! Until it's those people who are dismissed as idiots, and not people like us, we still have work to do in laying the groundwork for real, revolutionary change. There is hope. There's more hope now than there has been in a long time -- certainly in living memory.
he could make more of a difference....also an acknowledgement that we have not had a revolution for
over 200 yrs and probably won't again for a long time. Play nice in the sandbox and comedians won't
make fun of you...as much.
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jbzG_BlkG2Hfc818EPRRn1bBlP6gD9AT92400
Taxpayers have a right to know where all the bailout money went.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418761585852036.html?mod=loomia&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.353122:b27776856
Words and ideas and crafting a worldview are essential to promoting ACTION. Even when people are starving, mass action doesn't happen ex nihilo in a textual and ideological vacuum. The American revolutionaries weren't just sitting around waiting until there was blood in the streets in Boston. "Bunker Hill," you might say, but what got those guys to turn out at Bunker Hill in the first place? They were ideologically prepared for it. The veil had been peeled off for them long before they took down their muskets and started marching around.
Repeating for emphasis.