Wall Street and FDR: Chapter 7

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:

9/11 Victims vs. US Justice Dept

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..

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...

...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:)

The Century of Self

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.

Avoiding Puppet Candidates

Brandon Smith writes on How TO avoid candidates in the pocket of the banksters who are shamelessly pumping America's money overseas unaccountably. I know I've been fooled before because I didn't know what to look for. Brandon gives you the seven questions to ask before voting:

1)  Have They Ever Promised To Investigate, Audit, Or Dissolve The Private Federal Reserve Bank?
The Federal Reserve is the primary culprit in the creation of the derivatives and credit bubble.  Its use of artificially low interest rates inflated the housing market and by extension the U.S. economy, energizing international banking fraud and producing perhaps the greatest financial black hole in history.  It is currently staving off the effects of this collapse through the constant printing of fiat money from thin air, setting up the U.S. for a currency implosion of epic proportions.  
If your candidate has never made more than a passing sound bite comment on the Federal Reserve and what they plan to do about the poisonous debt and dollar devaluation that the private central bank has generated, then it is likely they are either too ignorant to understand how the institution operates, or, they know full well the problem, and plan to do nothing about it.  Ask directly any politician you plan to vote for; will they promise to fully audit and or shut down the Federal Reserve, especially if foul play or corruption is discovered?  If they defend the Fed, or dance around the question, then they are not on your side, nor on the side of true free markets and a stable economy.     

Wall Street and FDR: Chapter 6

Prelude to the New Deal

In this chapter we will be setting the stage further for the full explosion of corporate socialism in America that has reached its terminal stage in our nation today. We will be exploring the history of Roosevelt's past and how they were down with collectivism before the Civil War. Says our host, Dr. Sutton:

The full story of the construction of corporate socialism in the United States, as envisaged by the financier-philosophers identified in the previous chapter, is beyond the scope of this book, but we can gain greater perspectives through a brief look at a few facets of the historical process: for example, Clinton Roosevelt's system a century before FDR, Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, and Paul Warburg's Federal Reserve System.