The republican Mother

The Bonus Army

2012-02-20T11:54:00.000-08:00

Listen to the Octogenerian explain the history of the Bonus Army, World War I veterans who were promised a bonus by the USG. Often, the USG lies and short-shrifts. The Bonus Army was the original veteran march on Washington. Of course they called them commies and other names. That's what being a patriot gets you these last 100 years, generally it gets you called nuts. That piece of paper called the Constitution is all in you head, etc.

I can't wait until we get to this period in the presidency of FDR in my book-blogging series, Wall Street and FDR, to see if and how the Bonus Army incident was mentioned..

Update: Be sure to check out the veteran protest today at this link Because when the foreign policy get sooo crazy, somebody's gotta say somthin'!!

Ben Swann: Homeschooled Super-Star

2012-02-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

This guy is really amazing: same age as me with as many kids as me: five. He's a journalist, no really, a real, true blue journalist that investigates stuff. Broadcasting from Fox 19 in Cincinnatti, this guy is single-handedly doing what the multi-billion dollar media refuses to do - get to the bottom of the controversies.

Stories he's broke:

who wrote the offending Ron Paul newsletters and an awesome racism discussion
the vote fraud in Maine
Anwar-Al awlaki and the Constitution
Just go to this link and check out all the awesome videos - it's really amazing

He finished high school at 11, got his bachelor's from Brigham Young at 14, got his master's in history at 16. What have you accomplished lately? Making me feel kind of negligent over here. Apparently, BYU has a great correspondence college program, which is why his mother selected that school. Looks like I need to get some tips from that lady, huh?

Here's just a sample:

The Tholian Web of Regulation

2012-02-17T08:47:00.001-08:00

Another apt metaphor would be death by a thousand cuts over 100 years, but to add to the Star Trek analogy game I'm playing with myself, I present to you the Tholian Web of Regs.

It all starts so innocently. You don't want to eat maggoty meat do you? Why nooo, it is good that a non-partisan organization like the US Department of Agriculture is checking for maggoty meat. Thank you USDA! What's that across the sky?

You don't want poor little children to go without milk do you? Why noooo, I'm a good person and instead of heading up a committee at church to handle this need, I will punt it to the federal government who seems so eager to help. Another streak across the sky.

You don't want another bank panic like what happened in '07 do you? Why nooo, we need a committee to investigate. The Pujo Committee its called? They say we need to break up the money trust. There's a plan, huh? The Aldrich Plan, which later became the Federal Reserve Act. Thank you benevolent government people, for keeping my money safe. Huge streak across the sky.

You don't want these super rich ~~who just paid to change your gold-backed money into monopoly money at public expense~~ to not pay their fair share do you? We'll have a special tax for them and form a special organization called the Internal Revenue Service. It really won't affect the common man, so don't worry about it. bwahahaha, another big streak across the sky, perpendicular to the Federal Reserve Streak.

Along comes the New Deal, where they really add some more lines to the grid.

Then comes the Great Society, where they streak up the spots they missed with Medicaid, Medicare, Educational entitlements, etc.

This doesn't even mention the regs in each industry that not one person in a million is even aware of. Remember the trade councils aka cartels of our FDR study. They tried to nationalize the construction industry using trade associations and licensing.

Then when Bretton-Woods happens, and gold is cut out of the equation, all bureaucratic hell is broken loose. The Pandora's Box of Big Government is thrown open. The Reckoning has truly begun. The EPA, Dept. of Ed, and a whole host of bureaucratic offices are added, each one struggling to find ways to insert their little roots into your life. The Tholians have now deployed many, many ships to box you in, tie you down, and prevent your escape from the system. Like the stepmother in Cinderella said, you can go to the ball IF you get your chores done. Sure, you have freedom IF you play in our mouse maze, IF you stay inside your Tholian web of regulation, you can still eat your peanut butter sandwiches ~~unless your a schoolkid in a certain district that has prohibited it.~~

Now that the Tholian Web is woven, and your are a prisoner therein, let the digestion of the prey begin. You will live under Obamacare, you will pay your taxes to pay for it, you will not object to a SWAT team breaking down your door on hearsay, you will not pour a precious metal into a mold, for that is domestic terrorism. You will accept your selected candidates for office and wave the flag proudly. You will be groped or scanned should you wish to board a commercial airliner. You will register your babies to us so that they may have a special identifying number. No need for tattoos, this is the 21st century. You are the fish, and this is our barrel, understand?

Regardless of what you think about the chemtrail controversy, this picture best illustrates the Tholian Web here on planet earth - just imagine every streak a product of the Tholians:

I don't like to whine, so what is the solution? You can't get out of a trap, unless you fully understand the trap. That's the first step. When a critical mass of people understand what's going on here, it makes it harder for those weaving the web to continue, as mass illusion of control is their greatest weapon. Yes, they have drones and all, but they mostly have publicly schooled people in their employ. There are many, many ways in which these puppet-masters are losing their grip. The fact that I, a little homeschool mom doesn't have her kids in school and am watching soap operas right now, but are conveying this perspective to you is one sign that they don't have total control. One person at a time, one family at a time, from the inside out, we can heal our country via the famous verse:

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 4:6
Lawlessness will prevail if we don't stand up for the law. Regardless your religious inclinations, if you don't have some sort of code, it all falls apart. Ironic that they're using "law" to convert our society into a lawless tyranny, isn't it?

And a bonus verse from the Lord Himself:

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. Matt 10:16

Time to wise up out there!

cross-posted at Don't Tread on Us

Talk Radio Smack-down Hilarity

2012-02-17T06:29:00.000-08:00

This is the funniest dang thing I've heard in a long time. I'm going to have to sit down and write down some of these one-liners. They're real zingers.

The story is in the video: long story short, the Clear Channel Toledo affiliate decided not to renew Mark Levin when his contract expired. He didn't take that too well, and well, emailed while hot under the collar, prompting a response by the radio director of the Toledo affiliate, Brian Wilson, personal friend to all the big names in the liberty movement and buddy can he write a smack-down email.

Just so those of you who are following the soap opera known as reality on planet Earth know, Mark Levin is funded by heir to the Mellon fortune, Richard Scaife, who bankrolled his Landmark Legal Foundation I would assume being the wealthiest guy on the board. Mark Levin supports policing the world foreign policy I suspect because Richard Scaife is highly invested in defense contractors.

This is so classic:

'As an obscure philosopher once wrote "beware the lollipop of mediocrity, lick it once, and you'll suck forever"... suck on mark, suck on, and I say that with all due respect.'

Obama Nominates Morgan Man for FDIC Board

2012-02-15T17:33:00.001-08:00

His name is Jeremiah Norton and if you don't know how JP Morgan figures into the history of 20th century America, you better get with it! And for the record, Norton was promoted by the Republicans in the Senate, having once worked for Congressman Edward Royce. Just so you know, this big Elite stuff is totally above the parties and on this level, principles are thrown out the window. The only principle that remains is get big or get gone.

Check this out:

Art Thompson of the John Birch Society explains how the Non-Govermental Organizations (NGO)s and how they are actually apart of the UN. He also breaks down how the FDIC works to cripple anybody in the banking industry who dares to operate without permission of the banksters. He goes on to show you how the game is played to shut down entrepreneurs by the big boys.

Christian Marine Shot in Cold Blood

2012-02-14T14:04:00.000-08:00

Sgt. Manuel Loggins Jr.

You can read this sick story for yourself here in the LA Times. The whole family would go to the high school track early for what they called "prayer walks". His wife is pregnant and wasn't going, so it was just him and his two daughters ages 14 and 9. According to the article, Sgt. Loggins crashed through a gate at the high school at a high rate of speed and refused the policeman's orders to stop. Then he turns back around, without a weapon, mind you to his car. This threatens the officer who shoots him to death because he was concerned about the welfare of the children. Yeah, like seeing your father murdered in front of you is good for a kid's welfare. Something about this story stinks to high heaven. Look at the pic the Yukon in question in this article. Does it look like it's been through a gate at a high rate of speed? This video shows a front picture of the vehicle, and it looks flawless. Another article says that he was spotted by four officers who came to set up a perimeter? and had dialogue with the deputy who eventually shot him. This is made even more mysterious by the fact that Sgt. Loggins was the recipient of three good conduct medals, and was considered a model Marine who followed orders flawlessly. Somebody out there is trying to get their story straight for sure. This makes absolutely no sense, and the articles say that there are a lot of angry, angry Marines at Camp Pendleton as Sgt. Loggins was a real popular guy there with a winsome attitude.

Check out this wonderful little addendum written by Vox Day on the current score of police vs. people:

607 vs. 71

Exit Question: Should parents have to carry around their kids' birth certificates to prove they are who they say they are? And if I pulled my kid's paperwork out of my purse, would the cop shoot me for thinking I was pulling a piece on him?

I know God's wrath bucket just got another drop more full. One of these days, it won't hold anymore..

Santorum voted for Sonia Sotomayor

2012-02-14T07:32:00.001-08:00

Haven't we learned by now what happens when we don't carefully examine a candidate's record? Erik Ericson at RedState, who would not jive with my particular views 100%, but has put together the fully back-linked accounting of Candidate Santorum's voting record while in the Senate. If you removed the name from the list, I would have thought this to be a liberal democrat's voting record. However, finding Santorum's campaign linked in with so many banksters and Elites, it doesn't really surprise me. He's like the Republican flavor of statism, the guy who'll hand you the convenient form to get your benefits from the new government program along with a slice of fresh apple pie. I hope you guys are smart enough not to take treats from Statists. If your mother didn't tell you not to trust a politician, then let the republican mother tell you - never, ever trust a politician without checking to see who's greasing his wheels.

I'm just going to give you a few of the eyebrow raising picks:

Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge

Wasn't there a big hubub about what a liberal she was? Did she suddenly turn liberal in the last few years or did Ricky vote for a lib to be 2nd Circuit Federal Judge. Where do you people think Supreme Court Judges come from? They don't sprout out of the ground.

Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea

I'm sure the poor North Koreans got a square meal! (Eye roll)

Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.

Tough on terrorism, eh? Well to be fair, most of the Senate went along with this. But to also be fair, the POTUS this time around doesn't need to "go along to get along" for all our sakes. But I get the feeling that Ricky votes like he's told...just like Barry does.

Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.

No wonder he hates Paul harping on a Congressional Declaration of War being Constitutional and all that jive.

Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.

For the record, the people who happen to be born in those countries didn't ask to be born into an Islamic or Communist state, and need real help. But only a fool believes that stuff actually made it to the people. Like Ron Paul says, foreign aid is stealing from the poor people in a rich nation ('cause we all know by now that the super wealthy have loop-holed themselves out of taxation) and gives it to the rich in a poor nation. Free trade is what makes dictators loose their grip over the people and the people of such nations gain more power, and nations doing the trading gain more influence.

Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.

Thanks a lot buddy!

Voted against National Right to Work Act

Unions love him!

Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding

My tax dollars are going to fund the feminist agenda. Great.

Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization

In case you didn't know, UPS is a union shop and Fedex isn't, but it ain't because Ricky didn't try.

Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.

What more union thugs!

Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.

Union thugs exempt from ethics laws? Greasy stuff on these Santorum wheels.

Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.

What's going on in here Santorum doesn't want us to see. Or rather, Santorum's puppet master doesn't want us to see.

Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device.

Who asked him anyway?

Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.

So he pushes anti-second amendment indoctrination crap on our captive public school kids. Hey, Santorum: Why don't you and Bloomberg go get a room, man?

Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.

How else will banksters win elections? And just so you know, most of the Republicans voted against this one. Santorum was only one of a couple or so to vote with the Democrats on this. Thankfully, this measure was defeated.

Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.

The bankster-backed candidates are like a tag team that works to cover all the avenues.

Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.

Voting ourselves special perks are we?

Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)

Not to be vulger, but WTF??!!

Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.

Yes, the veterans don't deserve crap. Give it all to the liberal Americorps indoctrination summer camp, UN at home program. That's the endgame isn't it? After the UN sends our troops to shed THEIR blood for their social engineering by gunpoint programs, thereby winning the Grand Chessboard, dump 'em. Then reinvest that money into getting everyone globally minded. Really pisses the me (&(&) off! I'm sure there's more to this story, but it's telling that all the republicans voted this way and all the democrats against. hmmm.

h/t Jezebel

Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.

The endless Orwellian war=peace wars can't go on unless we keep the con game running, man!

Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.

Of course he did. Inching us to a one-world currency. A real patriot would have nothing to do with international control of our money. And that's why I'd never vote for Santorum, even if he was the last man on earth.

Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.

Ah, the Department of Education. Once known as Jimmy Carter's expensive boon-doggle, just made a little more expensive thanks to our buddy Rick. The DoE is an important part of the globalist indoctrination program, but Rick cares not about the history of public education in America. He's goes along to get along. And he took $100k to "cyber educate" his kids with your money. That really, really burns my grits. I spend $1,000 for 3 kids of my husband's hard earned money where I purchase my own books on discount. The man gets everything for free it would seem.

If, I, a humble little homeschool mom can put these pieces together using Google and a little spare time, then why, oh why can't a United States Senator with a fully staffed office do the same?

Conclusion #1: He chooses not to be curious as to why the lobbyists and powerful men tell him to vote certain ways and just plays the game. He may even rationalize and compartmentalize what he does so he can live with himself.

Conclusion #2: He knows what's going on and doesn't care.

Conclusion #3: He knows what's going on and is all about it. He thinks he'll get a prime spot in the future reinvented government.

The first conclusion is the most likely. The guy doesn't seem that smart.

But anyway, this is just a sampling, maybe only 25% of the full list Erik at put together. You seriously need to check it out. Read the label so you know what you're getting. Can you say hypocrite after mocking Obama voters for not knowing that the guy was a pinko, and then voting for a pinko with a Catholic family man cover? If all it takes to win the conservative vote is to have a bunch of kids and advocate for endless war because the ragheads will "get us", then anyone with enough bankster backing could be president. ~~but really because his donors are heavily invested in perpetual war and make billions and billions from the unauditable Defense~~ ~~Department which receives money from the unauditable Federal Reserve has nothing soever to do with it.~~

I swear, conservative voters are a real cheap date. Tell them that you love marriage, babies, and fresh baked pie. Tell them how America is the most awesomest country ever and anyone who doesn't scream USA! and starts talking about the creation of fiat currency and details, details, government intricacy blah, blah, blah, must be a darn pinko or some crap.... Cuddle up and let me whisper sweet awesomest nothings in your voter ear baby..

Wall Street and FDR: Chapter 8

2012-02-13T11:08:00.000-08:00

CHAPTER 8

Wall Street Buys The New Deal

B.M. [Bernard Baruch] played a more effective role. Headquarters just didn't have any money. Sometimes they couldn't even pay the radio bill for the candidate's speeches. They had practically nothing to carry on the campaign in the critical state of Maine. Every time a crisis came, B.M. either gave the necessary money, or went out and got it.
Hugh S. Johnson, The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935), p. 141. On FDR's campaign in 1932.

I know, the critical state of Maine?? What we glean from this quotation, however, is that our old pal Bernard Baruch was sitting behind the scenes pulling out his wad to keep the Roosevelt train rolling. To back up one election cycle to 1928, there was the Tammany Hall machine candidate, Alfred E. Smith vs. our already known-to-be-a-bankster-boy, Herbert Hoover. As you may recall, Hoover denounced the lasseiz-faire economy in favor of a regulated one, regulated by his friends the banksters, that is.

Enter one John Raskob, VP of both Du Pont and General Motors as well as some other banker directorships. He became head of the finance division of the DNC and gave plenty to Smith's campaign coffers? Well go back to the National Recovery Act and see that its points were heavily supported by Raskob. It would appear that Wall Street thought that Smith would be a better spokesperson for the tenets of the NRA. But make no mistake, Wall Street contributed to both Smith and Hoover. Sound familiar?

Hoover won despite Wall Street more heavily contributing to Smith. And when in office, he did appoint many of Wall Street extraction to the government boards and committees. After the crash hit, as many of you might be aware was due to the contraction of the New York money supply, Hoover was forced to "use the crisis". This is the sort of thing these people live for - a crisis. In 1932, Hoover was pushed to go with the Swope Plan, which was the NRA, aka corporate fascism. Wall Street did NOT like his not going along with their plan. The Elites like the Rockefellers and the DuPonts tended to back the democratic candidate willing to promote corporate socialism. Al Smith, by the way, was also director of the MetLife Insurance Company, a Morgan-controlled company. Just so you know that these boys are tight. So when Hoover didn't go all in for corporate socialism, they pulled all support for him and put it behind FDR. By June 1933, The National Recovery Act was signed into law, along with its coercive elements on small business.

You may notice from the quotation up above that Bernard Baruch went by the acronym BM in the correspondence of these players. I think it's pretty weird too. Hugh Johnson went through a training program in the '20s headed up by BM, which he described as:

I doubt if anybody had any more direct or complete access to sources of information than B.M. and he always gave me a free hand in the consultation and use of such scientists and experts as I might need. I was for several years the only Research Staff which he permanently maintained. That and what went before was a great training for service in NRA because these studies covered a considerable segment of the whole of American industry and the experience with government linked the two together.

Hugh Johnson - 1933 Man of the Year!

Now let's listen to our host, Dr. Sutton explain how the NRA was rolled out to the public, especially one day of note - May Day.

Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic Presidential candidate was, as we have noted, a director of Metropolitan Life Insurance, the largest life insurance company in the U.S. and controlled by J.P. Morgan, and the greater part of his campaign funds came from the golden circle in Wall Street. Bernard Baruch outlined the NRA plan itself on May 1, 1930— an auspicious day for a socialist measure—in a speech at Boston. The content of NRA was all there, the regulation, codes, enforcement, and the carrot of welfare for the workers. It was repeated in Baruch's platform of June 1932—the one that Herbert Hoover refused to adopt. The NRA was presented again by Baruch in testimony before the Senate and in speeches before the Brookings Institution and at Johns Hopkins University. In all, Hugh Johnson counts ten documents and speeches, all presented before the election of Roosevelt in 1932, in which "will be found the development of the economic philosophy of the 1928 campaign and of almost all that happened since. Of a part of this philosophy NRA was a concrete expression."

May Day! May Day! Socialists taking over our nation with a big smiley face. You won't hear this information over at National Review, however. Noooo, they'll just keep on with their talking points that intimate that socialism in this country began with liberal professors in the universities. They won't question where these professors got their funding. They won't wonder why they were never fired for anti-American propaganda. They won't question the power structure at all because if they did, there would be Republicans holding the bag as well. That would never do to upset our left-right paradigmed talking points, now would it? Anyway I've emphasized some points pertinent to us in the 21st century who see things with perfect 20/20 vision:

The following extracts from Baruch's May 1, 1930 speech contain the core of his proposals:

What business needs is a common forum where problems requiring cooperation can be considered and acted upon with the constructive, non political sanction of government. (lol ) It may have been sound public policy to forbid by law anything that looked to regulation of production when the world was in fear of famine but it is public lunacy (you are a loon if you do not agree totally to what BM is saying.) to decree unlimited operation of a system which periodically disgorges indigestible masses of unconsumable products. No repressive, inquisitorial, mediocre bureau will answer—we must have a new concept for this purpose—a tribunal invested like the Supreme Court, with so much prestige and dignity that our greatest business leaders will be glad to divest themselves of all personal interest in business and there serve. Like the Supreme Court also it must be absolutely non-political. (Of course all this is a political invention to consolidate power under BM and his cronies - man what a great acronym!)
It should have no power to repress or coerce but it should have power to convoke conference, to suggest and to sanction or license such commonsense cooperation among industrial units (doesn't Obamacare call us units?) as will prevent our economic blessings from becoming unbearable burdens. Its sole punitive power should be to prescribe conditions of its licenses and then to revoke those licenses for infringement of such conditions. (The MO here is to control all sectors of the economy through licensures. Only those deemed worthy by this all-powerful mind may have a licence to do business. Those deemed unworthy are out of luck. Just ask those GM dealers who didn't donate to Democrats recently. However, don't be fooled into thinking that Republicans are guilty of this same kind of thinking. Rick Santorum isn't going to do away with licensure controls.)
Its deliberations should be in the open and should be wholly scientific, briefed like an engineer's report, and published to the world. Such a system would safeguard the public interest and should be substituted for the blind inhibitory blankets of the Sherman and Clayton Acts. . . . (Unless it's in the interest of "national security" and then it will never, ever be seen by any of us until the Lord Jesus opens the file on Judgement Day.)
It is not government in business in the sense which is here condemned. It is only a relaxation of the grip government has already taken on business by the Anti-Trust Acts. There is no fallacy in restricting ruinous excess production—a policy which the Federal Government is now vigorously urging on Agriculture. Yet if there is nothing in the change of concept from bureaucratic precedent to that of an open forum where business can practice group self-government, acting on its own motion under sanction of non-political, constructive and helpful tribunal —then the idea is not practicable. But that there is a possibility of such industrial self-government under governmental sanction was clearly demonstrated in 1918. Many difficulties suggest themselves. In the first place anything done in the elation and fervor of war must be accepted as a criterion only with caution. (He's referring to his own War Industries Board, which we've talked about previously. That was the prototype for the NRA. He admits that playing around with war is riskly business. Look at what we've got today!)
In the regulation of production price is one consideration. That is a subject which is loaded with dynamite.
There are other obvious reservations. The thought is revived at this critical moment because it seems worthy of consideration as an aid in a threatening economic development 'of unusual extent' and as an alternative to governmental interference and vast extension of political powers in the economic field—an eventuality which, in the absence of constructive action by business itself, is almost as certain as death and taxes.⁵

One thing I notice is that he's pushing all this 7 months after the crash of '29. Even Milton Friedman has remarked that the cause of that crash was a contraction of the New York money supply. Gee, problem-reaction-solution anyone?

Ever hear of the Steiwer Committee? Me neither. But they did a listing of the contributors to the presidential campaign of 1928 who contributed $5000 and above, a princely sum in those days. Dr. Antony Sutton has cross-referenced those names to our friends the banksters and within a one mile radius of that notorious address, 120 Broadway, NYC. Almost 80% of contributions to Al Smith's campaign came from inside that radius. wow Some tables included in this chapter tell you all you need to know.

Major Wall Street Contributors to the Al Smith For President Campaign—1928

Name	Contributions
	1924	1928	1928	Total
	deficit campaign		deficit contribution
John J. Raskob (Du Pont and General Motors)	—	$110,000	$250,000	$360,000
William F. Kenny (W.A. Harriman)	$25,000	$100,000	$150,000	$275,000
Herbert H. Lehman	$10.000	$100.00	$150,000	$260,000
M.J. Meehan (120 Broadway)	—	$50,000	$100,000	$150,000
			Total	$1,045,000

Source: Adapted from Louise Overacker, Money in Elections (New York: Macmillan, 1932), p. 155.

In brief, the percentage of the Al Smith for President campaign funds coming from persons giving more than $5000 and also identified as Wall Street directors was 78.83 per cent. The percentage from donors outside the golden circle was a mere 21.17 per cent. Looking at the total Al Smith contributors another way, the large contributors (over $5000) to the Smith campaign, those in the best position to ask and receive political favors, put up almost four dollars out of five.
The identity of the larger contributors to both the Al Smith campaign and the Democratic National Committee fund is listed in the attached tables.

Contributors of $25,000 or More to Democratic National Committee January to December 1928 (including contributions listed in previous table)

			NOTE
Herbert H. Lehman and Edith A. Lehman	Lehman Brothers, and Studebaker Corp.	$135,000	FDR's chief political adviser
John J. Raskob	Vice president of Du Pont and General Motors	$110,000	NRA administrator
Thomas F. Ryan	President, Bankers Mortgage Co., Houston	$75,000	Chairman, Reconstruction Finance Corp.
Harry Payne Whitney	Guaranty Trust	$50,000	See Chap. 10: "The Butler Affair"
Pierre S. Du Pont	Du Pont Company, General Motors	$50,000	See Chap. 10: "The Butler Affair"
Bernard M. Baruch	Financier, 120 Broadway	$37,590	NRA planner
Robert Sterling Clark	Singer Sewing Machine Co.	$35,000	See Chap. 10: "The Butler Affair"
John D. Ryan	National City Bank, Anaconda Copper	$27,000	—
William H. Woodin	General Motors	$25,000	Secretary of Treasury, 1932

Source: Steiwer Committee Report, op. cit.

Contributions to the Democratic Presidential Primary

1928 by Directors* of the County Trust Company.

Name of Director	Contribution to Campaign and Deficit		Other Affiliations
Vincent Astor	$ 10,000		Great Northern Railway, U.S. Trust Co. Trustee, N.Y. Public Library Metropolitan Opera
Howard S. Cullman	$ 6,500		Vice President, Cullman Brothers, Inc.
William J. Fitzgerald	$ 6,000		—
Edward J. Kelly	$ 6,000		—
William F. Kenny	$275,000	**	President and Director, William F. Kenny Co. Director, The Aviation Corp., Chrysler Corp.
Arthur Lehman	$ 14,000	***	Partner, Lehman Brothers. Director, American International Corp., RKO Corp., Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Co.
M.J. Meehan	$150,000**		61 Broadway
Daniel J. Mooney	Daniel J. Mooney		120 Broadway
John J. Raskob	$360,000	**	Director, American International Corp., Bankers Trust Co., Christiania Securities Co. Vice President, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. and General Motors Corp.
James J. Riordan	$10,000		—
Alfred E. Smith	—		Presidential Candidate Director: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Total	$842,000

Notes: *The following directors of County Trust Company did not contribute (according to the records): John J. Broderick, Peter J. Carey, John J. Cavanagh, William H. English, James P. Geagan, G. Le Boutillier, Ralph W. Long, John J. Pulleyn, and Parry D. Saylor.
**Includes contributions to the campaign deficit.
***Excludes contributions by other members of the Lehman family to the Democratic Presidential campaign that totalled $168,000.

Well now we know that Smith was bought and paid for by the banksta boys, what about Hoover?

Contributions of $25,000 or More to Republican National Committee, January to December 1928

Mellon family	Mellon National Bank	$50,000
Rockefeller family	Standard Oil	$50,000
Guggenheim family	Copper smelting	$75,000
Eugene Meyer	Federal Reserve Bank	$25,000
William Nelson Cromwell	Wall Street attorney	$25,000
Otto Kahn	Equitable Trust Company	$25,000
Mortimer Schiff	Banker	$25,000
Total		$275,000

Source: Steiwer Committee Report, op. cit.

In your high school textbook, should you have gotten that far, they will paint Herbert Hoover as a strict lasseiz-faire economist. However, his own memoirs contradict this assertion:

Those who contended that during the period of my administration our economic system was one of laissez faire have little knowledge of the extent of government regulation. The economic philosophy of laissez faire, or "dog eat dog," had died in the United States forty years before, when Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Sherman Anti-Trust Acts.

Oh yes, they LOVE them some interstate commerce don't they, those darned dirty collectivists.

Good ol' Murray Rothbard doesn't forget that Hoover was a supporter of Teddy R's Progressive Party. Hoover's biggest contribution to us as Commerce Secretary, according to Rothbard, was centralization of the radio industry.

while the courts were working on a reasonable system of private property rights in radio frequencies. Rothbard explains these ventures into socialism on the grounds that Hoover "was . . . the victim of a terribly inadequate grasp of economics."¹¹ Indeed, Rothbard argues that Herbert Hoover was the real creator of the Roosevelt New Deal.

Hoover was not a total free marketer, but he wasn't willing to go as far as BM and 120 Wall Street wanted him to go, to his credit. When he became president, for example, Hoover got rid of 40 regulatory codes that the banksters had put in with the American Construction Council, because the codes were unenforceable. Then there were committees and more committees, all of which Hoover paid little attention to. Note how our host, Dr. Sutton walks us through the people behind the Keynesian hijacking of America:

Then in February 1931 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce formed a group entitled the Committee on Continuity of Business and Employment under Henry I. Harriman. This committee came up with proposals very much like those of the New Deal: that production should be balanced to equal consumption, that the Sherman anti-trust laws should be modified to allow agreements in restraint of trade, that a national economic council should be set up under the auspices of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and that provision should be made forshorter hours in industry, for pensions, and for unemployment insurance. This was followed by yet another Hoover committee known as the Committee on Work Periods in Industry under P.W. Litchfield, president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Then still another committee under Standard Oil Company of New Jersey president Walter Teagle recommended sharing work, a proposal endorsed by the Litchfield Committee. Then came the Swope Plan in 1931.

The Swope Plan mirrored what we've studied with Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and hopefully we will delve into in Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler. This work on FDR is apart of this trilogy of collectivism. Herbert Hoover knew fascism when he saw it as Dr. Sutton illustrates:

In fact, Hoover recognized the Swope Plan as a fascist measure and recorded this in his memoirs, along with the melancholy information that Wall Street gave him a choice of buying the Swope plan—fascist or not—and having their money and influence support the Roosevelt candidacy. This is how Herbert Hoover described the ultimatum from Wall Street under the heading of "Fascism comes to business—with dire consequences":
Among the early Roosevelt fascist measures was the National Industry Recovery Act (NRA) of June 16, 1933. The origins of this scheme are worth repeating. These ideas were first suggested by Gerard Swope (of the General Electric Company) at a meeting of the electrical industry in the winter of 1932. Following this, they were adopted by the United States Chamber of Commerce. During the campaign of 1932, Henry I. Harriman, president of that body, urged that I agree to support these proposals, informing me that Mr. Roosevelt had agreed to do so. I tried to show him that this stuff was pure fascism; that it was merely a remaking of Mussolini's "corporate state" and refused to agree to any of it. He informed me that in view of my attitude, the business world would support Roosevelt with money and influence. That for the most part, proved true. -from Herbert Hoover's memoirs

As you can imagine, the Wall Street machine started in earnest to get their next man up to bat. FDR's 1930 gubenatorial finances were pretty much supplied by Wall Street and as soon as he won reelection, they wasted no time in getting ready for the 1932 presidential election, as the table below gives you a taste of who wanted FDR and his sweet, sweet political control of industry:

Contributors to the Pre Convention Expenses of FDR ($3,500 and Over)

Edward Flynn	$21,500	Director of Bronx County Safe Deposit Co.
W.H. Woodin	$20,000	Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Remington Arms Co.
Frank C. Walker	$15,000	Boston financier
Joseph Kennedy	$10,000
Lawrence A. Steinhardt	$ 8,500	Member of Guggenheim, Untermeyer & Marshall, 120 Broadway
Henry Morgenthau	$ 8,000	Underwood-Elliott-Fisher
F.J. Matchette	$ 6,000
Lehman family	$ 6,000	Lehman Brothers, 16 William Street
Dave H. Morris	$ 5,000	Director of several Wall Street firms
Sara Roosevelt	$ 5,000
Guy P. Helvering	$ 4,500
H.M. Warner	$ 4,500	Director, Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America (stupid MPAA was always bad)
James W. Gerard	$ 3,500	Financier, 57 William Street
Total	$117,500

A lot of these boys got public offices and honor in return for their contributions.

WALL STREET ELECTS FDR IN 1932

Hugh Johnson, BM lackey recounts how their economic planning research was used by the FDR campaign:

Ray Moley and Rex Tugwell came up to B.M.'s house and we went over all the material that B.M. and I had collected and summarized in our years of work. They, with Adolph Berle, had long before worked out the subjects of what they thought would be an ideal scheme of economic speeches for a Presidential candidate, but they had few facts. From that moment we joined Ray Moley's forces and we all went to work to find for Franklin Roosevelt the data which he welded into the very remarkable series of simply expressed speeches on homely economics which convinced this country that here was the leader upon whom it could rely.

The speeches given didn't really have hard facts, but fact-like sounding nuggets that would shut down the thought of the average naive American. Time and again, they cited the War Industries Board as a prime example of how central planning works. In one April 1932 speech, Roosevelt said:

Persistent Experimentation!!!
Compare this panic stricken policy of delay and improvisation with that devised to meet the emergency of war fifteen years ago. We met specific situations with considered, relevant measures of constructive value. There were the War Industries Board, the Food and Fuel Administration, the War Trade Board, the Shipping Board and many others.

Instead of "Hope and Change", FDR's slogan was "The Country Needs, the Country Demands, Persistent Experimentation"

What are they experimenting for? Not what's best for the average person that's for sure. How do you know if you're average? Well, do you dream at night about massive domination in a particular industry or seizing effective control over a corporation, or nay, an entire country? If you answered no to any of these questions, then you might be an average, sane person. Sorry to disappoint you.

Upon accepting the Democratic nomination he said, "I pledge you—I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American People." Oh boy, here we go!


Freidel's list of pre-convention contributors to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1932 Presidential campaign.
1932 Reconvention Contributors
(over $2,000)	Affiliations

James W. Gerard	Gerard, Bowen & Halpin (see Julian A. Gerard)
Guy Helvering
Col. E.M. House, New York (he always want a piece of the action, doesn't he?)
Joseph P. Kennedy,1560 Broadway	Ambassador to Court of St. JamesNew England Fuel &; Transportation Co.
Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Underwood-Elliott-Fisher 1133 Fifth Avenue	Bank of N.Y. & Trust Co. (Asst. Comptroller); American Savings Bank (Trustee)
Dave Hennen Morris
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Hyde Park, N.Y.	FDR's mother
Laurence A. Steinhardt 120 Broadway	Guggenheim, Untermeyer &; Marshall
Harry M. Warner 321W. 44th St.	Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc.
William H. Woodin Secretary of the Treasury	American Car & Foundry; Remington Arms Co.
Edward J. Flynn 529 Courtlandt Ave.	Bronx County Safe Deposit Co.
James A. Farley adds to this list:
James A. Farley adds to this list:
William A. Julian	Director, Central Trust Co.
Jesse I. Straus 1317 Broadway	President, R.H. Macy & Co. N.Y. Life Insurance
Robert W. Bingham	Publisher, Louisville Courier-Journal
Basil O'Connor 120 Broadway	FDR's law partner

Man, I could do a post on every one of those names and really show you how interlocked and incestuous this whole bunch's money really is. I only point this out to blow away the misconception among conservatives that we have a free market economy in this country. Frequently, I'll hear someone defend a large corporation only on the basis that they support capitalism and corporations represent capitalism. This sort of ignorance is a wall to mature understanding on how the power of the state is truly wielded in this nation. So wake up and smell the coffee, it doesn't make one a lib to show how corporations created libs??? But we'll get into that later.

Wall Street and FDR by Antony Sutton is available in its entirety at Reformation Theology.

Dem vs. Repub 1983 Ball Game - Starring Ron Paul

2012-02-12T05:53:00.000-08:00

with some commentary by Barney Frank, I think. Bizarre and yet entertaining for this Sunday. From back in the days when people actually followed baseball, before the Strike and all that.

Some shaky video around 6 min.

h/t The Daily Paul - Your Source for all things Paul

What's hilarious is that the Republicans put Ron Paul way down in the lineup to begin with to the bemusement of the commentators. Even playing a game, the guy can't get a break.

Postcards from the Edge

2012-02-09T07:15:00.000-08:00

Copied from the Woodrow Wilson paper available online:

[Letterhead]
on board the

CUNARD

R.M.S. “MAURETANIA”.

May 26.Dear Governor:

I believe I told you that Mr. Paul Warburg had been in conference with Senator Owen and Mr. Untermeyer. I inclose you his answer to their argument in favor of the issuance of currency by the Government. His reasons seem to me to be conclusive. Why venture along uncertain paths when a well known road can be used? For a moment before I left I thought, perhaps, a compromise might be considered, but I doubt whether it would be safe to conceed the least which they would be willing to accept. The situation is a difficult one and I am sorry that I am not near to lend what help I might.

Your very faithful,E. M. House

A picture of the ship, the R.M.S. Mauretania, appears to the left of the letterhead on the first page.

The number 465 is handwritten and circled in the left margin, just below the salutation.

“[1913]” is handwritten in the upper right corner of the first page; “1913” is lightly handwritten and circled to the right of the date.

The number 52366 is stamped in the lower left corner of the first page.

What appears to be a shorthand symbol is handwritten above the letterhead; a word or abbreviation that looks like “eng” appears below the date.

ALS; Wilson Papers, Library of Congress. Link to original postcard here

****

Let's take this communique and dissect it. I love to dissect things: sentences, animals, messages from un-elected men who hold creepy influence over "elected" officials, etc.

This is a postcard from our ol' pal, Col. House to Woodrow Wilson, whom he called Governor in the year 1913. He's telling President Wilson of a meeting between Paul Warburg, who's really the father of the Fed and Senator Owen of Oklahoma and Samuel Untermyer, well reknown lawyer for our pals the bankster types.

It's May 1913, and the Federal Reserve Act doesn't get passed until Christmas break. So what is going on with it during the month of May that Ed House would be calling it a difficult situation? The argument was over the original Aldrich vision of a central bank vs. the Federal Reserve System. Under the Aldrich Plan, the banks issued the currency and under the newer plan, the government issued the money. If your definition of government is the president appointing a man every 14 years to do the bidding of unseen monied interests. So there was some conflict in getting the Federal Reserve Act passed just the right way. The Elite, as Col. House would be most definietly classified, would be very nervous about getting this just right. It's not everyday you get to hijack a huge country's money supply, thus you wouldn't want any loose ends hanging out there.

For the record, Samuel Untermyer was the lawyer who was the special counsel to the Pujo Committee, which investigated the money trust. Of course it would seem in any committee that investigates our pals the Elites, they always have one of their boys there to "guide" the conversation. Samuel Untermyer was such a person. The Pujo Committee concluded that something needed to be done about the money trust, or the intense interlock between the board directors of all these corporations, which is something I routinely point out in our day. Of course our friends the Elite are there with their hands on the political mechanism to give themselves the desired outcome to this "problem." Not everyone who helped get the Federal Reserve Act passed was a horrible villain, understand. It's easy for us to look back and see how everyone was being played, but not so simple if you were a regular Senator or Congressman who assumed that everyone was like yourself --- at least you loved country no matter your other faults.

So for your consideration, just a snapshot of American history for you to consider and glean what you might.

xposted - Don't Tread on Us

26 Things That Keep People From Going Paul

2012-02-08T11:32:00.000-08:00

These are hilarious and smart, seeing how they come from the mind of the great Tom Woods:

(1) The American political establishment has done a super job keeping our country prosperous and our liberties protected, so I’m sure whatever candidate they push on me is probably a good one.

(2) Our country is basically bankrupt. Unfunded entitlement liabilities are in excess of twice world GDP. Therefore, it’s a good idea to vote for someone who offers no specific spending cuts of any kind.

(3) Vague promises to cut spending are good enough for me, even though they have always resulted in higher spending in the past.

(4) I prefer a candidate who plays to the crowd, instead of having the courage to tell his audience things they may not want to hear.

(5) I am deeply concerned about spending. Therefore, I would like to vote for someone who supported Medicare Part D, thereby adding $7 trillion to Medicare’s unfunded liabilities.

(6) I am opposed to bailouts. Therefore, I will vote for a candidate who supported TARP.

(7) The federal government is much too involved in education, where it has no constitutional role. Therefore, I will vote for a candidate who supported expanding the Department of Education and favored the No Child Left Behind Act.

(8) Even though practically everyone was caught by surprise in the 2008 financial crisis, which we are still reeling from, it’s a good idea not to vote for the one man in politics who predicted exactly what was bound to unfold, all the way back in 2001.

(9) I am not impressed by a candidate who inspires people, especially young ones, to read the great economists and political philosophers.

(10) I am concerned about taxes. Therefore, I will not vote for the one candidate who has never supported a tax increase.

(11) I believe it is conservative to support bringing the Enlightenment to Afghanistan.

(12) Even though I lost half my retirement portfolio when the economy crashed from the sugar high the Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates put it on, I would like to vote for someone who is not really interested in the Federal Reserve.

(13) Even though 50 years of the embargo on Cuba did nothing to undermine Fidel Castro, and in fact handed him a perfect excuse for all the failures of socialism, I favor continuing this policy.

(14) If someone has a drug problem, prison rape is the best solution I can think of.

(15) Even though the Constitution had to be amended to allow for alcohol prohibition, and even though I claim to care about the Constitution, I don’t mind that there’s no constitutional authorization for the war on drugs, and I will punish at the polls anyone who favors the constitutional solution of returning the issue to the states.

(16) I believe only a “liberal” would think it was inhumane to keep essential items out of Iraq in the 1990s, even though one of the first people to protest this policy was Pat Buchanan.

(17) The Brookings Institution says Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America was an insignificant nibbling around the edges. I favor people who support insignificant nibbling around the edges, as long as they occasionally trick me with a nice speech.

(18) I am deeply concerned about radical Islam, so it was a good idea to depose the secular Saddam Hussein — who was so despised by Islamists that Osama bin Laden himself offered to fight against him in the 1991 Persian Gulf War — and replace him with a Shiite regime friendly with Iran, while also bringing about a new Iraqi constitution that makes Islam the state religion and forbids any law that contradicts its teachings.

(19) Indefinite detention for U.S. citizens seems like nothing to be worried about, especially since our political class is so trustworthy that it could never abuse such a power.

(20) Following up on (19), I believe Thomas Jefferson was just being paranoid when he said, “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

(21) Even though the war in Iraq was based on crude propaganda I would have laughed at if the Soviet Union had peddled it, and even though the result has been hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, four million people displaced, trillions of dollars down the drain, tens of thousands of serious injuries among American servicemen and an epidemic of suicide throughout the military, not to mention the ruination of America’s reputation in the world, I see no reason to be skeptical when the same people who peddled that fiasco urge me to support yet another war as my country is going bankrupt.

(22) I do not trust the media. But when the media tells me I am not to support Ron Paul, who says things he is not allowed to say, I will comply.

(23) I know the media will smear or marginalize anyone who would really fix this country. But when the media smears and marginalizes Ron Paul, I will draw no conclusion from this.

(24) I want to be spoken to like this: “My fellow Americans, you are the awesomest of the awesome, and the only reason anyone in the world might be unhappy with your government is because of your sheer awesomeness.”

(25) I think it’s a good idea to vote for Mitt Romney, whose top three donors are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley, and a bad idea to vote for Ron Paul, whose top three donors are the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force.

(26) I have not been exploited enough by the cozy relationship between large financial firms and the U.S. government, and I would like to see it continue.

The Gamesters of Triskelion: Earth Edition

2012-02-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

Science Fiction fans, are you ready for a parallel universe post wherein I compare our current situation to the classic Star Trek episode, The Gamesters of Triskelion. I thought so!

First the symbols:

Triskelion's logo

Trilateral Commission

"The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to
be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and
banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the
United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful,
coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of
power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical."

--Barry Goldwater, founder of conservative movement

In his book, "With No Apologies"

The Thralls
In the episode, kidnapped people fight each other in the ring for the amusement and gambling purposes of the unseed "Providers" who provide for all their needs. All of their needs, except freedom of course. The thralls are kept in line with control collars that will taser them should they not obey or think thoughts inconvenient to the providers.

In our world today, the thralls are the ordinary citizens in every country. Our providers are constantly pitting us against each other in phony, yes phony, political matchups to keep us distracted from the giant sucking sound Ross Perot predicted. Internationally, they pit us thralls against each other for massive profits. Nathan Rothschild said that war is the most profitable business, thus they keep it going.

The Fake Currency
In the episode, the Providers use the currency of "quatloos", which is pretty bogus seeing how the Providers were nothing more than disembodied brains with no civilized economy to have a real currency in. Similarly, our providers have SDRs, or Special Drawing Rights, which is supposedly not a currency, but a reserve of currencies defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund. The SDR represents a basket of currencies, with the stronger ones, such as the dollar, weighted more heavily. We also have the whole derivatives thing going on. Recall that the bailouts began because AIG lost $18 billion with credit default swaps derivatives. We the taxpayers had to fork over $85 billion to cover it. I think you get the idea. We have been transitioning off of a sound currency for 100 years now. We've come to the point were our money is printed in the ether, digitally. You might as well call the Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) quatloos.

The Control Mechanisms
They control us not with taser collars, but with regulations, hoops, licenses, and most importantly, the emotion of fear. The fear of noncompliance makes the ignorant acquiesce to a system that they are only vaguely aware of. No one wants the IRS to break their door down, as many people have experienced. No one wants the social worker to knock on their door because their kid was playing in the yard alone. No one wants to be detained at the airport by the TSA. But let me tell you what: A society that lets its government handle the public's private parts will let its government strip the clothes off people and give them a shower. Just sayin'.

Typical DNC/RNC Master Thrall

We're taught to "trust the experts". The only thing you need to concern yourself with is the little piece of expert-land you've personally trained for. In this way, none of us thinks beyond our portion. This is the way that secrecy was maintained on the Manhattan Project, through compartmentalization. Now I wouldn't attempt brain surgery, but I'll be danged if I'll be trusting the experts at the RNC with my political candidates, the educational experts paid for by the Elites with my child's mind, or the health experts paid for by Big Pharma constantly trying to get me on one of their drugs.

The Gamesters
Some may have an inkling on some of these. I'll just provide a brief, but not comprehensive listing, to get you an idea of who we're talking about. Like the gamesters in the episode, they don't really make themselves seen. Especially when you factor in how their money greatly influences us all, their media attention is nowhere proportional to their influence. But hey, they've bought the media off, so what do you expect?

A picture is worth a thousand words:

link

We have the infamous George Soros, that is the fodder of conservative talk as the nemesis of all things good and American. Is he really that bad? Probably, but using villains to scapegoat all that is wrong with our system is a way to get people to shut off their brains and just go "heresy hunting" according to the guidelines given them by their conservative think-masters. One thing people are not aware of is that George Soros donated to McCain's 2000 presidential bid, and is apart of the Carlyle Group private equity fund that primarily is invested in the defense sector. Who else is apart of Carlyle? George Bush Sr. had a prominent advisory role in that group as well as many of our other Elite friends like James Baker and a host of big wigs from the big banks. The conservative talking point is that liberals think that corporations are eeevillll. Then why are so many liberals involved in so many corporations? George Soros sure is and yet puts his money behind liberal/socialist groups. He said back in 2008 that he wouldn't mind a President Romney ya know.
Read my Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution series to find the answer to that one.

On the flip side, Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon fortune spends his time backing the Heritage Foundation, Landmark Legal Foundation, and a host of other conservative think tanks and nonprofits. But what have they really done but to provide the antithesis to the decades-long hold the liberal media has had? Are we getting the full picture from these groups about the total reality of our situation? No, we're only seeing what they want us to see. Conservatives are only getting up in arms what these groups want them to be up in arms about. Where was the Heritage Foundation on the Fed 10 years ago, hmmm? This is the mechanism by which the banksters have liquidated our country and undermined its sovereignty, but this was not on the lips of the Limbaughs, Levins, or the American Spectator (which Scaife also funded). Don't pay attention to that Federal Reserve Cartel behind the curtain..focus on those dirty ol' libs instead.

Next, we have the Koch family, which many have poo-pooed when mention is made of them pulling strings to support particular candidates, but what are they really into? They tend to support even more conservative candidates than Richard Scaife, and back the Reason Foundation and Cato Institute, both of which are libertarian organizations, but sometimes seem to come up short when it really counts. They have a connection with the Aspen Institute and have given money to the Mark Foley campaign. I haven't done as much work on them as I have the others, so I'll leave this for other to fill in.

Lastly, we have the granddaddy of them all, David Rockefeller, the baby in a family of six that is totally down with depopulating you proles. He's the founder of the Trilateral Commission, his goal is:

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum.... have attacked the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -- as stated in his Memoirs

The man doesn't wave the flag proudly or extol the values of the Constitution. He's moved beyond all that. He's looking forward to a "new world" without nations, but a central controlling authority. You will notice that David Rockefeller doesn't show up on a list of the world's super-duper rich because most of his wealth is hidden. This came up for his brother Nelson, when he was trying to become our country's first unelected VP. At the confirmation hearings, he stated his income was thus and thus, a sum everyone knew was too low, making laughter erupt. He then changed his story to say ok, ok how about this much... If you want to learn more about the Rockefellers and their plans for world domination (which they joke about openly), check out The Rockefeller Files by Gary Allen. It's full of psycho father figures, secretaries falling 10 stories to go "splat", and a full web of intrigue. Also, I'd like to note that David Rockefeller serves on the World Trade Memorial Foundation, which makes since as the Rockefellers developed the World Trade Center. But as I mentioned in a previous post, David Rockefeller and his foundations gave the money for the groups that agitated for the Ground Zero Mosque, which was headed up by CFR member Imam Rauf. Controlled conflict --look for it and expect it if you truly want to understand events unfold.

In the Triskelion world of controlled conflict, you may recognize these fights, which are on display 24/7 thanks to cable news:

Interventionist FP/ Non-Interventionist FP
pro-life/pro-abort
hetero/fruity-tooty
pro-amnesty/immigration control
cutting increases in spending/non cutting increases in spending (actually cutting is never a real option)
gun control/ 2nd amendment
educational choice/ government education is best
global warming is real/ global warming is not real
cap and tax/ no cap and tax (whether to tax you to breathe or not, that is the question)
one world government/ national sovereignty.
right/left

I'm sure some of ya'll can think of more, but you get the idea. We'll argue about the subplots in the Elites little fake wrestling rings, meanwhile they pump the wealth out of our country via their little Fed Cartel and one day we'll wake up enslaved in a one world government. Sounds nuts? Check it out:

The Portsmouth Times 1945
Mount Airy News 1946
Christian Science Monitor 1950
Investor's Business Daily 2012
Even Dick Morris says so!

...all of us here at the policy-making level have had experience with directives...from the White House.... The substance of them is that we shall use our grant-making power so as to alter our life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., President - Ford Foundation (which is responsible for militant feminism, mainstreaming queers, La Raza, the pro-abort movement, Obama's mama's employer, etc.)(as told to Norman Dodd, Congressional Reese Commission 1954)

cross-posted at Left Coast Rebel

Honest Mistakes from the MSM

2012-02-07T06:22:00.000-08:00

This great vid was compiled by a fellow DPer and really puts the manipulation in focus for you with some humorous touches to make it go down easier. Remember that all of the Big Media in this country is owned by a cartel of six corporations, so stop assuming any autonomy of action on their part. Remember how I showed you that the Big Media is hugely interlocked with the Defense Contractors and the Bailout Banks? Gee, I wonder why they would want to put the kibosh on Dr. Paul? At the end of this video, RP acknowledges this fact in a statesman-like way.

If Ron Paul is unelectable, it's because if he were to get past the MSM cone of silence gauntlet, then they'll just Diebold his behind. That's no excuse to lay down, however. I say make them steal it.

This is the Day

2012-02-05T05:46:00.000-08:00

that the Lord has made.

How do you keep from getting down? Remind yourself that the Earth is the Lord's and all the fullness therein. Note that the Scroll mentioned in Revelation is the title deed for the Earth. Who is worthy to open the scroll? No one but Jesus.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. I used to wish to travel the world, but have decided to wait. I'm going to let Jesus clean it up first, no TSA will exist, and travel will surely be more interesting. The Bible says the lions and lambs will exist together and the little child will play on a cocatrice den. Figurative language, literal, or maybe both. I plan on trying it out.

My goal in life now is maybe getting a corner office in New Jerusalem, or maybe reigning with him "out in the field". I know one thing, this old world is rapidly heading toward the final conclusion, and you better make your "calling and election sure". Check out my "Are You Going to Heaven?" link in the upper left for some hard - core - no wishy washy pansy talk on making sure that your soul is securely sealed in the Spirit.

Senator Brandegee Suicide or Cold Case?

2012-02-04T07:15:00.000-08:00

The year is 1924 and The Evening Tribune of Rhode Island is reporting that Senator Brandegee of Connecticut has committed suicide by gas in his upstairs bathroom.

The suicide note read:

October 13, 1924

Dear George:

I enclose $100 dollars for you and $100 dollars for Emma and Rufus.

I am up in the bathroom on the top floor near 17th Street. The top floor. The one above the room I sleep on.

If you or Lundy come up there beware of the gas.

Goodbye.

Frank B. Brandegee

George was his chauffeur and Emma and Rufus his servants. The red portion of the note was written in red crayon, which is odd. I guess no one wanted to confuse George. According to the article, he went out riding around with his secretary W. Lundy the day before who said he appeared to be in a great mood. But that doesn't always mean anything in these cases. He was heard moving around upstairs later that day, but the next morning, they found that his bed had not been slept on, but contained the suicide note. He was discovered in the bathroom with his head on a folded up bath rug and holding the gas tube, which was still attached to the open valve. He as fully dressed. The doctors arrived on the scene at 10 am and said he appeared to be dead for about 5 or 6 hours. He didn't have any family, thank goodness.

Senator Frank Brandegee was a great ally of Henry Cabot Lodge as was a big, big opponent of the League of Nations. The official line of why this man would have killed himself was that he was having financial troubles. This could very well have been true, but it seems odd that the RNC Secretary Weeks would issue a statement saying:

"I exceedingly regret to learn that Senator Frank B Brandegee has committed suicide. I have been entirely familiar with his personal business affairs and I know that the reason for him taking this rash step is due to personal financial troubles resulting from investments in real estate."

A headline the Baltimore Sun said:
Claims Filed Against Estate Of Connecticut Senator Who Committed Suicide LIABILITIES ARE $150,000 Secretary Mellon And Several Colleagues In Upper House Among Creditors

Several more newspaper articles indicate he was borrowing a lot of money. My thoughts go immediately to blackmail. Secretary Mellon is Andrew Mellon, who is the great uncle of Richard Schaife, who is a big patron to Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation and funds many things you are probably not aware of.

Anyhow, other newspaper clippings reported that a mysterious woman came forth as a witness and delivered a letter to Senator Coleman Blease of South Carolina, who handed it over to a Senate committee investigating the DC police for incompetence. The letter indicated that there was knowledge that Senator Brandegee had been murdered.

I can't seem to find that subcommittee to see what happened, I'm guessing not much.

It would seem that Frank Brandegee gave a speech on William McKinley, who you might remember met with an untimely end also.

He was the son of Augustus Brandegee, who was a US Representative. Both father and son were Skull and Bones for those of you looking out for that kind of thing.

Frank Brandegee was opposed to the Versailles Treaty (which many have claimed laid a clear path for World War 2), women's suffrage, prohibition, child labor laws, and the League of Nations. This garnered him enough enemies that elements of both parties joined forces to try to unseat him. Pretty much everything the progressives were for, he was against.

What, did you think I was going to solve a 90 year old mystery in a blog post at the end of a long day? I'm not superwoman, ya know.

Overload: It was bound to happen...

2012-02-04T06:42:00.000-08:00

Combine infinite source of new-to-me information, ADD, and a mind that won't shut off and you've got a big case of overload.

So many posts percolating, so little time. I guess it's time to get out the spiral notebook and prioritize. This is what I'm thinking:

Star Trek analogy posts:

The Gamesters of Triskellion: Earth Edition
The Tholian Web of Regulation
Bearded Spock Universe - Upside Down and Inside out
The Cloud People - The Elites

Retro-blogging posts:

Posts mined from Wilson's eLibrary where the banksters use him like a cheap date
More suspicious deaths from the 1910-140 period
The Mark Levin - Richard Scaife connection
The seed money for the Heritage and other conservative organizations - (No one is above suspicion anymore. After all this time and we have got no where with turning things around, I suspect bankster co-option.)

Book-blogging posts:

Review of The Grand Chessboard
Review of Blackwater
Finishing FDR Series
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - (which is spooky as all get out)

Personality posts:

Meet Your Elites
Historical figures, influential yet lesser known types

Big Idea posts:

American Exceptionalism -What it Is and What it Ain't
Mass Manipulation - The Delphi Technique
Amateurs talk about strategy, experts talk about logistics - military nuts and bolts
Lucis Trust - United Nations - the Antichrist cometh

So anyway, you can see why I'm overloaded!

Ann Barnhardt Tells Willard to Go Home

2012-02-03T18:23:00.000-08:00

This is most delicious.. Ann can tell someone off in such a righteous way. She puts so many men to shame. Love the Patton-esque background.

The Reality of the Situation

2012-02-02T05:56:00.000-08:00

I'm doing a little pitch hitting at Political Realities, given that LD is spending precious time with his mom.

Well, what to write about? I thought of the title of his blog, Political Realities and that got me to thinking, what is the political reality right now? I started blogging when the conventional conservative talking points no longer described the reality I was witnessing, so I set out to find some answers. This took me down a rabbit hole that hit bottom around the year 1900 and have been kind of retro-blogging the past so that I may get a firm handle of the mechanisms at work. This leads me to this fantastic and bone-chilling quote from everyone's favorite "behind the throne" personality, Edward M. "Col." House:

“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.” ~ Edward Mandell House in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson (President) [1913-1921]

In case you're wondering if I pulled that from tinfoilhat.com, it came from Woodrow Wilson's personal papers. This quote was found in a larger essay by Richard Schultz entitled Poetic Justice for an American Patriot and described by Doug Wead, former presidential adviser and historian, as "masterful". I highly recommend you check it out.

It's a little late to go charging Colonel House with high treason, of which he is most guilty on many, many levels. But it's not too late to learn all you can about the schemes of these central planners, who they are today, and what they hope to accomplish. Readers of my blog should know by now that there is a tremendous, almost complete, overlap between defense contractor board members and executives and those of virtually every large corporation of every sector of the US economy. Some conservatives, with absolutely no basis in fact, trust that those planning our foreign policy are red-blooded patriotic Americans just like them. This leads to misplaced trust. If you want to find the source of a huge amount of corruption in this country, one only has to look behind the flag, as they figure that's the last place conservatives will suspect wrongdoing. However, many unconnected military men have said that the Defense Department mainly exists to provide a source of revenue to "friends of the management". Similarly, liberals have a misplaced sense that government, which they naively believe to be "of the people", is a great way to distribute charity and social justice. Of course, they play right into the hands of Col. House, extolling how great it is that the government can "take care" of people. One might liken the situation to Hansel being "taken care of" by the witch, who was really just fattening him up for the kill. So we have two factions in America, both being played by the same planners in different ways. But like in a sick game of Mother May I, both are used to march us toward complete tyranny.

Some of you might have noticed I don't have a lot of "obama-this and obama-that" on my blog as I think that is about as useful as arguing with a suit on display at the mall. The man is paid to read a teleprompter, my concern, is who is writing the script for the teleprompter? These are the real enemies of the United States.

The solution lies into knowledge and exposure of these plans. Learn all you can about those in the last 100 years of American history who would covertly seek to undermine the Constitution in letter and in spirit. Put aside your party bias and think like an American. Don't be manipulated by fear, as this is their chief sheeple prod. Know your rights and assert your rights. Judge a person by their actions and not their words. In short, it's time to grow up and take responsibility for the true history of this nation and the birthright that is God-given to us.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

Thomas Jefferson

cross-posted at Political Realities

Update: I’ve recently learned that the Col. Houses quotes’ authenticity may be in question. I found a citation for it in the book, Fruit from a Poisonous Tree, citing the personal papers of Woodrow Wilson as a source. However, as anyone who’s researched these types of papers know, they’re not always so organized and labeled. That’s why I so enjoy the work of Dr. Sutton who carefully labels the page number, the box of papers, or the specific cable number a quote was taken from. In the event that this quote is not authentic, the meaning is still the same. Collectivism is on the march and those who believe in individual liberty stand in its way. Whether the intentions of the original collectivists like Colonel House were innocent and Utopian or nefarious and tyrannical, the end result is a big mess.

Also, in searching through the online transcripts of Woodrow Wilson, I’ve found some even more interesting nuggets that may wind up percolating into a whole new series of posts. Like I didn’t have enough to do!

Wall Street and FDR: Chapter 7

2012-01-31T10:49:00.000-08:00

Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Trade Councils

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or on some contrivance to raise prices.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (London: George Routledge, 1942), p. 102.

Getting society to work for the Elite is an idea as old as civilization itself. Ask the enslaved Israelites or the peasants living in medieval feudalism.

Our host, Dr. Antony Sutton gives us an old-timey example of the New Deal and the power of cartels buying laws that benefit themselves while posturing this collusion as good business for everyone:

In 1291 the tanners of Norwich, England were brought before the local court charged with organizing and coding their tanning activities to the detriment of local citizens. Two years later in 1293, the cobblers and saddle makers of Norwich were faced with similar charges. By "greasing" the legislators, the political power structure of medieval Norwich was brought around to the view that perhaps the tanners needed protection, after all. This protection came to incorporate the same basic principles of economic planning that almost 700 years later were put forward in the Roosevelt New Deal. So in 1307 the tanning industry of Norwich was legally coded and wages and conditions of work prescribed, all done under the guise of protecting the consumer, but in practice granting a legal monopoly to the tanners.

As we learned in a previous chapter, FDR spent his career on Wall Street setting up this same arrangement for those in bond industry, which has been completely ignored by historians.Some exceptions include Daniel Fusfield who acknowledged that Roosevelt:

"took an active part in the trade association movement that was to develop into the N.R.A. of the early New Deal;

Historians like Fusfield then like to soft-pedal the close ties of men like Roosevelt had between business and public service. They tend to portray these men as "public minded" and doing what is right for business. But when sees that these cartels are formed and make merchandise of the whole political process, one can see that buying up laws and using the police power of the state goes hand in hand with profit maximization.

THE AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL

This group was founded in 1922 and originally proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. (This is a department that Ron Paul wants to cut.) This council was headed up by none other than our subject, FDR, who had just left his job as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Officially, the objectives of the ACC were to establish a "code of ethics", which really meant reducing output and creating a pretext for raising prices and fixing them. According to the New York Times:

The official purpose of the ACC was the following:

. . .to place the construction industry on a high plane of integrity and efficiency and to correlate the efforts toward betterment made by existing agencies through an association dedicated to the improvement of the service within the construction industry. . . ."

This was similar to the War Industry Board we discussed in the previous chapter. This means that now the armament industry and construction industries could be regulated by these boards and councils. Like a disease, this line of thought was sure to spread to every other sector of the economy. Oh, and it's all for the good of the consumer, as always. The specific pretext for needed an American Construction Council was the matter of the Lockwood Commission which was an investigation into the building industry in New York:.

However, as that scandal dealt in great part with exclusive dealing and similar coercive conditions forced upon contractors and erectors by the United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel, the announced public good makes little sense. These industry giants were controlled by the Morgan interests on Wall Street who were, as we shall see, also at the root of the A.C.C. proposal.

So here we have the banksters creating trouble and then creating their own solution which benefits them. The old Hegelian Dialectic at play once again.

Elliott Brown, a friend of FDR, called these trade organizations socialistic and that government will always assert it's interests one way or another. How right he was.

In Herbert Hoover's memoirs, he decried government involvement in free enterprise and claimed that the left wing answer for all business was national planning. In case you missed it, Herbert Hoover's views on World War II are also counter to what you've been taught and Patrick Buchanan has a great synopsis.

The correspondence between Hoover and FDR, paints another picture however.

June 12, 1923
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vice Pres.
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
120 Broadway--you know about this address..
New York City
My Dear Roosevelt:
I am in somewhat of a quandary about your telegram of June 7th. I had hoped that the Construction Council would be solely originated from the industries without pressure from the Administration. Otherwise it will soon take on the same opposition that all Governmental touches to this problem immediately accrue.
The vast sentiment of the business community against Government interference tends to destroy even a voluntary effort if it is thought to be carried on at Government inspiration.
Yours faithfully
Herbert Hoover

In any event, the American Construction Council was a cooperative association of business, labor, and government
formed at Washington on June 19 at the suggestion and under the guidance of Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce (who) has taken the first steps toward putting into operation a program of construction effort which, it is hoped, will eliminate many of the evils which have developed in the industry during the past decade.
Thus, it was free enterpriser Herbert Hoover who became the sponsor of the first of the trade associations, the American Construction Council, which was designed to include
architects, engineers, construction labor, general contractors, sub-contractors, materials and equipment manufacturers, material and equipment dealers, bond, insurance and real estate interests and the construction departments of Federal, State and municipal governments.
The organization meeting of the American Construction Council was held at FDR's house in New York and attended by about 20 persons. This group discussed the concept of the council and particularly whether it

should be a clearing house for the different national associations, a clerical clearing house, or whether it should be an active, aggressive (sic) militant organization in this service of the public good of the construction industry.

Along with our friends the banksters, it was decided that this council would be an agressive organization that would be centrally planning the construction industry. FDR proposed sending construction workers down South to work on projects instead of sitting idle throughout the New York winter. In short, he took a communist view of spreading labor around from a central point.

Not everything went so smoothly for FDR's ACC. Frustrated that the central planning wasn't happening the way he wanted, saying the following in 1923:

The American Construction Council was organized, but frankly, it has not done one darned thing from that time to this except collect dues from some 115 different organizations, I think."

To add to it, the people who were supposed to be collecting a salary from this council weren't being paid and were a little put out on it. The VP of the council of D. Boyd said that they might as well dissolve if they didn't get with it to nationalize the building industry:

If the Council should go out of existence it would, in my opinion, be a country-wide calamity—as I doubt whether after this second effort to nationalize the great building industry on human lines, enough people with the enthusiasm, faith and patience could be found to make a third attempt.

And we know that the plans of these bankster is to nationalize every industry in the United States. Health care was the last frontier for them in a long slog through the American economy.

Wall Street and FDR is available at Reformation Theology.

9/11 Victims vs. US Justice Dept

2012-01-30T14:59:00.000-08:00

over Al Qaeda's frozen assets. Apparently, the Justice Department doesn't want to share the booty with those who actually did the suffering. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,

In a ferocious legal battle pitting government lawyers against victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the Justice Department is fighting to block thousands of individuals and businesses from taking $6.6 million in frozen al-Qaeda assets seized from an alleged terrorism financier.
Frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2007, the money is sought by the attorneys for 6,000 individual victims and insurers who suffered billions in losses from the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The money, in a Chicago brokerage account controlled by senior al-Qaeda operative Abu al-Tayyeb until his arrest in Saudi Arabia in 2006, drew little public notice until lawyers for 9/11 victims moved in June to collect on a 2007 default judgment.

So before you start screaming Obama as the be-all end-all of everything wrong in America, know that this has been going on for a long time. I'll also remind you that the victims' families of the USS Cole are STILL awaiting some justice, in case you care about that kind of thing. Note that the hubub is all about 6.6 million, which is chump change to a government with a printing press.

What's going on here? If you seriously ask that question, be prepared for the disturbing answers that will follow.

Ignorance of military history breeds sure destruction..

2012-01-29T05:55:00.000-08:00

via Combat Veterans for Ron Paul Face book page.

Plus a great round up of war and peace quotes from the same site, which is a pretty boss site:

“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.”
~George Washington

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
~James Madison

“Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.”
~Fredric Bastiat

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. “
~John Quincy Adams

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true…”
~Thomas Paine

“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.”
~Ayn Rand

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
~Alexis de Tocqueville

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
~Benjamin Harrison

“If we don’t stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.”
~Pat Buchanan

“The dangerous patriot…drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions….is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.”
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war…..
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for he must bare the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
~General Douglas MacArthur (wonder why he was taken out of Korea???)

“People who are anxious to bring on war don’t know what they are bargaining for; they don’t see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.”
~General Stonewall Jackson

“The statesman who yields to war fever…is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
~Winston Churchill

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”

~Ronald Reagan

“It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position…”
~Thucydides

“Terror is a tactic. We can not wage “war” against a tactic.”
~Ron Paul

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
~Sun Tzu

“Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.”
~John T. Flynn

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised “for the good of its victims” may be the most oppressive.”
~C. S. Lewis

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
~Plato

“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”
~Murray Rothbard

“Washington…has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.”
~Richard Maybury

“History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents…. A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.”
~Ludwig von Mises

“To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life…”

~Woodrow Wilson (thanks a lot buddy!)

“Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore…prove ultimately futile.”
~Pope John Paul II

“War is the only game in which both sides lose.”
~Walter Scott

So there you have 2000 years of the greatest minds upon planet Earth telling us that our foreign policy is assinine, stupid, and destructive to the average person. Oh wait a minute, that's what the Elite's want! Those 100 years of public mind warping are paying off because when you confront an average neocon with all this, they'll just call you the stupid one. But generally, the American public at large is highly skeptical of the Orwellian war is peace mantra, so maybe there is some hope there.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

What you never knew about defense contracting...

2012-01-28T08:39:00.000-08:00

...will shock you!

This is my biggest map EVER! So check it out and pass it along to anyone who wants to understand where 25% of the Federal Budget goes. It really is mindblowing! What I've got here is a fully fleshed out map of the top ten defense contractors.

According to this article, from Defense Procurement News, profits for these contractors are up. I would venture to say that profits have always been up for these companies since any of us can remember. We had the Cold War build up, the Reagan build up, and now the Islamic Terror buildup. It just keeps giving billions and billions of dollars to these contracting companies, who'll always get the money because the government owns a printing press called the Fed. Nice arrangement, huh? You see, the American citizen would get tired of all these wars a lot faster if there was butter rationing and tires were hard to come by. It's just easier this way, too bad it will all come crashing down sooner or later. But when it does, hey we've got martial law plans in place to be implemented by the ... defense contractors!!! The circle completes itself, no?

Let's really get into it because there is so much to pick out -this thing is HUGE, so it may take awhile to load:)

Link to explorable map

The center of this map consists of the top ten defense contractors, with each board member and executive's node expanded out. Note that one person will not have been a member of all these companies and organizations simultaneously. In fact, some of the people on here are dead and some of the companies have long since become defunct or merged. But generally, all those corporations you see at the bottom mean that a defense contractor executive or board member was also on the board or an executive at that corporation as well. So we're talking one degree of separation here, not somebody's sister is on this committee or this board of directors, making for some pretty tight interlock. Starting from the top, left corner, let's go around this merry-go-wheel of power:

Note how many military men and intelligence officers are also on the boards of these defense companies. Now, I realize that they weren't serving at both places, but shouldn't this at least make the average person wonder about how money plays a role in determining where and how to place our troops around the world? Is there any quid pro quo going on here? Billions of dollars are at stake and I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to ask. I know that Smedley Buter asked and answered it when he said that War is a Racket.
Next we see that these people are members of the influential scientific organizations and societies. We know that they are influential given the mass sums of money that pass through their books.
The big, big think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations are almost a must for membership with this crew. If you are unfamiliar with the CFR and their writing of US foreign policy, then check out this informative post here. The reason that Congress does not declare war anymore is because they don't write foreign policy, the CFR does. It was formed by the same bunch that gave us the Fed. Isn't that chummy?
We also see that some of them are involved in environmentalism, and I would guess that each one of these contractors is all about sustainable development. You see, this is a pretext for controlling resources, nothing more. They get us mundanes to live third world style, and eventually die of Obamacare, and they lock up more for themselves. It doesn't have to be sane, ya'll ---this map should tell you that sanity was a few exits back.
And of course, they're all into the arts, sponsoring the ballet, the symphony and squiggly square drawings. I'm sure it makes them feel good about themselves.
Notice how they are involved in these international business councils. Should American defense contractors be for hire in other countries? It would seem to me that these corporations could care less about American sovereignty.
We see lots of little foundations, the strings of the puppet masters. These foundations are not as large as the bigger think tanks and probably have all their own flavors. One thing they have in common is globalism and towing the Establishment line.
Next we have all of the hometown organizations that you have probably been affilitated with at one time or another. Note the Red Cross. Regular readers of my blog ought to remember that it was Federal Reserve Bank of NY chairman William Boyce Thompson who put together a "mission" of bankers under the guise of being with the Red Cross to go into WW1 Russia for the express purpose of promoting the Bolshevik cause.
Now we visit Orwell's World, with opposite-land sounding organizations like International Crisis Group, and the Council for Competitiveness. As you may have learned, these corporations only want to consolidate power, not encourage competitiveness. They like international crisis, for that is their bread and butter.
Going down the right side, we see a total bipartisan support among these defense contractor big wigs. That tells you right there that there's not a dimes worth of difference between the D's and the R's . They aren't worried one iota about the dems actually cutting back the military. I get a chuckle out of how many of them donate to both the dem and rep. candidates. You can see that they've supported Santorum and Mitt in the past, which is why their so hot and heavy for war, or it might be the other way around, but you have to follow the money to understand people's motivations.
Now we come to a big bunch of government employees. These aren't lackeys, they were all big wigs in the Federal Government. A lot of ambassadors and State Department people are represented here. I wanted to show the distinction between the defense and intelligence sectors of the government and the rest of them, so they are on opposite corners of this picture.
Now the bottom half is the fun part, where you get to see how many corporations you recognize. Again, everyone one of these has an executive or board member who was or is on the board or an exec of one of these ten defense contractors. How that for overlap!!!

Banksters - I think all of the huge banks are represented, except for Wells Fargo. What are the implications that the biggest defense contractors in America are also the biggest beneficaries from the bailouts? Maybe Hank Paulson wasn't talking out of his behind when he said there would be martial law if these bailouts weren't passed. You do know that he used to work for Goldman right? People sitting on the boards of these Insider Banks are also sitting on the boards of the weapons manufacturers and mercenary services companies. What could go wrong?
Big Media, some of the largest are represented. If I did two degrees of separation, I'm pretty sure all of them would be. The Big Media is the same vampiric squid that tells us that Ron Paul is "naive" on foreign policy. Yeah, because I could show RP this map and it wouldn't surprise him in the least; he could probably fill me in on some stuff I missed. But he's naive you understand. No - the American public are the naive ones, out in la la land about what is going on behind "national security", which is a code word for covering bankster behind.
Big Pharma, who advertises the fool out of Big Media. This particular cartel is a gift that keeps giving for you can fear anyone into buying medicine that will make them live longer. Recall that John D's Daddy Rockefeller started out selling snake oil medicine. And when you can government mandate vaccines, you can rake in a gold mine with each child that is born. Look also at the explosion of psychotropic drugs for the general population, am I the only one who thinks that's weird? Eschatology buffs, recall that the word sorcery in the Bible is translated from the Greek term pharmalekia, where we get our word for pharmacy. Coincidence? I think not. Continuing in this line of thought, the microchip containing all your information will be administered via hypodermic. In fact, there's already a patented needle that does it. Look at all these flu shot stations set up everywhere... the infrastructure is already in place.
Big Oil, where the Texas Tee bubbles up, our military is sent in, however, I believe that this is only part of the story. It's not just as simple as the liberals whining about blood for oil, I surmise that there is a strategy as outlined by Zbignew Brzenzski in The Grand Chessboard. To control the geopolitcal pivots is to control the chessboard of Eurasia. Controlling the necessary commodity of oil would definitely play a part in that plan, whether for American use or to manipulate it for the purposes of controlling China and Russia. This plays a part in the raw materials companies listed as some raw materials as lithium may be prized as well.
Big Insurance - just about every big company is listed here. You knew insurance was some kind of scam, but this really drives the point home for me. The same people who have enormous control over the money supply also drain the middle class' bank accounts with Health, Auto, Life, and Home Insurance, which is always going up. You guys do know that it was these insurance companies that wrote Obamacare, right? Did you actually think it was some nefarious communist in a basement somewhere? Recall what Frederic C Howe said about making society work for you. These insurance companies now have a government mandate that you purchase their product. But some of them will go out of business! You think that the ones that put this together don't know that and furthermore care? The big dogs will be taken care of by government and will be firmly latched onto the titty of the Fed. You will notice that I included McKinsey, which is not an insurance firm, but a big business consulting firm. They advised the insurance industry on ways of not paying out on claims legally. This is known as the McKinsey report and was a power point presentation that brutally laid out how to screw the consumer totally. You can check out that whole controversy here.
Energy, Tech, and Telecom sectors seem to be pretty well locked up here. These can all be used to control the modern man quite easily. They want us to cut our energy usage and put "smart-meters" in our homes to spy on and perhaps control our energy usage. I believe that they have similar programs in China, their model of success. As phones become ever smarter, one can see a merger between Tech and Telecom as these Elites hope to have a cloud storage model where everything is stored in a hive mind like the Borg. Your personal PC will soon become a relic of a bygone time. Tracking you with your phone will become apart of life. Instead of fiddling with debit cards, you can just scan your phone, easily held in your hand. Don't want to be apart of the program? They just turn you off like a light. Cash? What are you, some kind of crazy survivalist?
This leads us to the Consumer Products arena, where you will see mentioned Monsanto, who's working hard to patent all food producing seeds, ConAgra, Nabisco, Proctor and Gamble, SaraLee, and Campell's to name a few. Even your dog's food is represented in Purina. So the defense contractors, who have had high up positions in the military and defense department are also on the boards of the bankster banks and these food companies or sit with others who do. What's that? Corporations are good for capitalism because they represent the free market. lol Give me a break!! There is absolutely nothing free market about any of this. Also note that the clothes on your back are heavily represented by the companies shown here. How about the US-China Council type groups up at the top? Maybe they have something to offer the clothing manufacturers in the way of cheap labor costs? The word incest comes readily to mind here. Notice the big chemical companies, which make a lot of the precursor materials that feed into this sector. Notice Huntsman chemical is represented, lest you thought Jon Huntsman wasn't a player in all this. Also note that JP MorganChase administers the foodstamp program, so very every American on foodstamps, they make that much more money. Again, this lesson is brought to you by the Fed, which can print up money to make this kind of thing happen.
Manufacturing--I'm not sure what percentage of the overall American manufacturing sector is represented here, but this is a lot of companies. Many of them make electrical components. Not sure what percentage are still working in America and how many are being Foxconned.
Automotive - Ever wonder why the auto manufacturers don't balk when being told to be green? It's because the same people pushing the green stuff have a controlling influence in the auto companies. Their overall aim is to control mobility of the average person. Profits don't mean much when you can print your own money. That's why a sound monetary system is the biggest threat to these people.
Aerospace - It would seem like they own the whole shebang here. Ever wonder why the airlines don't get up in arms about the TSA groping their passengers? There is an overarching authority here. Stop assuming autonomy in these different industries and areas, especially when there is absolutely no evidence for autonomy. The interlock between aerospace and the banksters would explain how the airlines get constantly bailed out over the years, doesn't it? Also note that Homeland Security and the TSA are represented on this same map, along with L-3 Communications, one of the providers of the naked body scanners. Also note one Loral Corporation, rumored to have given the Chinese Communists missile technology via the Clinton administration. But seeing how the Elites were planning to totally open up China in the coming decade, this shouldn't be much of a surprise. Remember how David Rockefeller praised Chairman Mao in the New York Times, this Fabian really enjoyed seeing Communism work so well:

"Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history."

--David Rockefeller, August 10, 1973 in the New York Times

Also mentioned are business services, which comprise big HR companies. I'm sure the licence to hold a job in America will start as a pilot program in one of these companies.
Moving up the left hand side, you will note a lot of trade groups and lobbying organizations. Some may seem innocuous, but they will all tow the environmentalist and sustainable development talking points. All of our laws are written by these lobbying groups or think tanks which pass it on to lobbying groups for Congressional pushing.
Next we come to Local Politics, where we see that some of these people work on the local level. Note that there is a special area just for Chicago, the home of the political machine.
Note that Northrop Grunman is one of the top two producers of the dreaded drones.

It's important not to get a witch-hunt mentality about all this and accuse these people as being horrible lowlifes or anything. This is an exercise in zooming out to get an aerial view of the defense contractor forest. When we do, we see evidence that our entire economic and industrial system is tied together in a way as to gain complete control of society. This should not surprise the watching and waiting Christian who has read the famous verse in Revelation 17:3-5, which discusses Babylon the Great. Throughout the Bible, Babylon is a symbol for the world system. What system then, could be more worldly than one that totally rejects the idea of a God that created individuals in his image, but rather sees them as tools to be manipulated and eventually culled? Even if the participants in this system cannot see the forest for the trees, the end result is a lot of dead people. I know that it is considered rude and backward to mix politics and religion, but no matter who you are, if you can't recognize this much centralization of power as anything but evil, you are incredibly naive. But wait, Ron Paul is the naive one, right?

Insights are welcome and appreciated. Are you surprised about this level of interlock? Do you think I'm blowing it out of proportion? What do you think?

cross posted at Don't Tread on Us and Left Coast Rebel

The Century of Self

2012-01-27T12:26:00.000-08:00

This is a real good documentary to help clue you into how we got to where we are today. It is an Adam Curtis special illustrating how psychology, pubic relations, and the Sigmund Freud family captured and channeled mass consciousness. As a Christian, I see this totally playing into the prophesied "falling away". As the Freudian influence on psychology waned, a new individualism took hold and was viewed as a means of further prompting demand for products. This began to play apart in the politics of the '80s, so I don't want the mention of Reagan to make all you Ron Reagan fans freak, as I find it a fascinating way to look at recent history with a fresh understanding. A word of warning -the '60s part of the show is pretty icky as you can imagine. Anyway, you don't hear this at school or anywhere else.