35 Facts about the Gutting of Industrial America

Via the Economic Collapse, which is becoming a top spot on many people's internet menu. Check out these facts and consider carefully your Christmas list. As one mom friend commented in a recent email to the group, "do you really need more cheap foreign-made junk in your house?"

Looking at the Fed

What do we really know? I mean you can think by listening to Fox News or talk radio that you are informed. I spent many years like that, but when it comes down to brass tacks, I had to admit that I didn't know squat. I was a A student in school and thought I was in the know. Looking in on our Lords at the Fed, I thought I'd clue you into its organization.

Breaking Down Planned - Opolis

Welcome iOwnTheWorld readers - look around 'cause my blog is like a curiosity boutique - lots of info you won't find blogged on anywhere else!

Update/Correction: Should read 3000 gallons of water below - I was going off memory when I was writing this up.

Consider the following three videos: If you don't have the stomach to watch them all, I completely understand. Just watch one and skip down to the analysis, which I'm sure you'll find quite interesting.

You would almost believe that this is some sort of farce, a put-on. So I did some digging on what exactly the Forum for the Future is and who is funding it. If you've been a regular reader, then you know by now that the super-duper rich elites work their wiles on the world through the Foundations as revealed in the Reece Committee of 1953 and written about by Rene Wormser. This Forum for the Future is yet another of the "nonprofits"  that seeks to collectivize society.

According to their latest financial report, this UK based NGO has recently opened a New York office with the financial backing of the Tides Foundation and has raised over 200,000 pounds for the 2010 fiscal year.  They brag of the following accomplishments:

We continued to influence business thinking, contributing to ambitious strategies - such as Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan and PepsiCo’s sustainable agriculture goals - that set the benchmark for corporations globally.

We ran a number of cutting edge projects, launching the UK’s first eco-rating scheme for mobile phones with O2, helping eBay make its business model even more sustainable, and trialling ‘disruptive innovation’ in the energy sector.

 One thing I noticed on the back of my Unilever corporation Suave shampoo bottle while showering was a little factoid. Did you know that you can save up to $150 a year or 3000 gallons of water by turning the water off while you condition and shampoo? That's right, you turn the water on to get your hair wet, turn it off to later and back on to rinse. They would prefer you not repeat. So who is behind Unilever, one of the biggest corporate sponsors of Forum for the Future? Well here's the map for Unilever that shows their board members and past and present officers along with the other corporations and nonprofits that these Unilever execs are members of. Isn't it interesting to see how they are connected?

link to explorable map

When you look at their financial statement, you find that only 100 pounds was donated by individuals the Lion's share of their money comes from corporate donors. But wouldn't the green agenda be bad for corporations? Not if the corporations giving the money has got it rigged so that the green agenda benefits them.

Forum for the Future sources of income 2010

 Getting backed to the Planned-opolis videos wherein the propoganda is such to get you ready for having your job chosen for you, your travel restricted, your dwelling place restricted, your food restricted, etc. At the end of the videos, you will find that they were produced as a joint project of the Embarq Corporation, the FIA Foundation, and Vodaphone. Let's look at these three entities and see who they're connected to and why they would want to fund such collectivist propoganda.

If you click on over to the end of their 2010 financial statement, you will find a listing of their corporate partners, which is a humongous list of Fortune 500 companies.

First up, the Embarq Corporation is a spinoff of Sprint/Nextell formed in 2006. As you can see from it's map, whose link is not agreeing with me today, the officers of this corporation are also well-connected:

Embarq Corporation

The CEO is Dan Hesse, who also was CEO of Sprint/Nextel and AT&T Wireless. He sits/sat on the Boards of Nokia and Vanify Fair (my source for cheap khakis). Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs during the Clinton administration, William Owens is currently Chairman of the Board. Ol' Dick Gephardt is on the Board as well as on the board of nine other big corporations, which I didn't expand for some reason? The rest of the gang includes Peter C. Brown, CEO of AMC Entertainment, Steven Davis, CEO of Bob Evans farms, John P. Mullen, CEO of DHL (aka day and a half late!), Dinesh C. Paliwal, CEO of Harman International, Stephanie Shern, a lawyer and board member of three other corporations, and Laurie Siegel, an exec at Tyco.

If you click on embarq.com, you will be taken to the website of Centurylink internet. They acquired Embarq in 2009 in a tax free transaction. Admiral William Owens, mentioned above became chairman of the board. CenturyLink recently acquired Qwest Communications. What we've got here is a change in names, but the players are still the same. On Centurylink's website, they're all about the phony carbon footprint/offset bullcrap.

Next Up, what in the world is the FIA Foundation? According to their website,

The FIA Foundation is an independent UK registered charity which manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research.

The FIA Foundation was established in 2001 with a donation of $300 million made by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the non-profit federation of motoring organisations and the governing body of world motor sport.

The FIA Foundation is an NGO in Roster Consultative Status with the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations and a regular participant in the Working Party on Traffic Safety and the World Forum on Harmonisation of Vehicle Standards at the UN Economic Commission for Europe, and is a leading participant in the UN Global Road Safety Collaboration. The Foundation works with a range of international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank and the UN Environment Programme on road safety and environmental issues.

 Supporters include Mexican President Calderon, British Prime Minister David Cameron, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, UN Secretary General Moon, Nelson Mandela, the whole cast of characters. So repubmom, do you want children to die in the streets? Are you some evil person against road safety? What's your problem anyway? My problem is that they're using something everyone can agree on, like not being run down in the streets, to cloak their real agenda, control of transportation. It's one of the oldest tyrannical tricks in the playbook. The fact that the WHO, World Bank and the UN are the biggest players in this foundation tells you all you need to know.

Lastly, we move on to the Vodaphone corporation, where you will find a sustainability section all about keeping a low carbon footprint, blah blah blah. Vodaphone is a big wireless phone company in Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. In the Egyptian uprising, or whatever you want to call it, Vodaphone cut off a lot of dissenters saying that they had to do what Mubarak told them. I believe that there's a lot of funny business going on with Arabic countries - I sure don't believe what I'm told there. Anyway, the CEO is a Mr. Vittorio Colao who got his MBA at Harvard Business and then went on to work at Morgan Stanley in London. For those of you who've been following my Wall Street & the Bolsheviks series, let me pause a minute and..

Ok, now I can continue. He then went on to McKinsey and Co, a global management bankster firm, after which he got into an Italian wireless company, which became Vodophone Italy and eventually became CEO of the whole Vodaphone corporation in 2008. So what? Well what I'm trying to do here is establish who's doing what behind the scenes. When I get on a names database, I find influential people on corporations I've never heard of funding foundations I've never heard of who are writing policy that none of us are aware of until our esteemed legislators have already passed it. Get me? I'm not saying that all of these people are pure evil, but there is something horribly wicked brewing in the details. You will not find glowing accolades of the power of the individual on the websites of these foundations or corporations,  just how the individual can add to the group.

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

 --Voltaire

Well, I'm off to take a long luxurious shower while I still can!

Update: Just forgot to tie this in a nice neat package for you. Agenda 21 totally ties into all this. Well, I take these people's cute little videos and raise you this informational Agenda 21 featuring Henry Lamb:

Banksters Shootin' Up the Economy

"No bankers were harmed during the making of this fake recovery."

Over at The Burning Platform is a tremendously good series on the financial collapse. If you feel at a loss to explain what is going on to yourself or others, I highly recommend you read these five posts linked here. I've included some of my favorite quotes from this series. What I like is that there is plenty of humorous snark to help you swallow the ugly reality of it all. There's also lots and lots of graphs, statistics, and just plain math to back up what is being asserted. Liberals and Conservatives alike will have their paradigms challenged by these posts, which is why I think that these Clint Eastwood -themed posts reach people of all stripes. That is, if you think you've got the guts to read through them. I suggest you digest and internalize the information presented so that you can intelligently discuss these issues with others.


For a Few Dollars More-Part 1

A Fistful of Dollars - Part 2


It is plain to see by anyone without an ideological agenda that a few thousand corrupt individuals have managed to gain control of the American economic system. 

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -Part 3

Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson became President in 1829 and proceeded to declare war on the Second National Bank. He was the first and only President in U.S. history to pay off the National Debt. He worked tirelessly to rescind the charter of the Second Bank of the United States. His reasons for abolishing the bank were:

• It concentrated the nation’s financial strength in a single institution.
• It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
• It served mainly to make the rich richer.
• It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
• It favored northeastern states over southern and western states.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, huh?

Outlaw Josey Wales - Part 4


Unforgiven -Part 5

The Quigley Formula

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.
- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

Carrol Quigley was a professor of history at Georgetown University, but more importantly, was the official historian of the elite Insiders. He is the only person allowed to examine the early minutes of the Council on Foreign Relations. His book, Tragedy and Hope linked above, is a boil-down of what he discovered from those minutes and his experience from hanging around these Elites. There's nothing mystical or mysterious about it: over time, some families and interests have been able to accumulate enough wealth and influence in order to remake our constitutional republic into a system that is predictable and controllable. Remember what Fred Howe said in his famous book, Confessions of a Monopolist:

These are the symbols, more magic than those of some prince of the Arabian Nights, by which to rule the game. First, let Society work for you; and, second, make a business of politics. Upon an understanding of these rules the great fortunes of America have almost all been reared, from those of the early Argonauts who built the Pacific railways from the sale of government bonds and generous land grants, to the modern princes of finance who have capitalized iron ore underlying the barren lumber lands of Minnesota at thousands of millions; the franchises of New York at hundreds of millions, and the sugar, tobacco and many other trusts at many times their value. These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.

--Frederick C. Howe, Confessions of a Monopolist, page 157, published 1906

 Upon further investigation, I have come to the conclusion that these rules of business have long since gone beyond our borders and have been practiced all over the world by the monopoly men. As we have been learning ins exploring the interlock between Wall Street and Marxists, we are finding that this formula soon took a deadly turn when deadly force of government was used to assert the monopolists will on an unwilling and largely unwitting public. Most people are unaware that we have a Federal Reserve, much less that it is a private banking cartel front. But listen to Carrol describe how the Communists fit into the whole mix:

There does exist and has existed for a generation an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known. 

-- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

So for those audio/visual learners, I'll present the G. Edward Griffin lecture, The Quigley Formula.
If you don't have time for the whole thing, I strongly urge you to check out the last 20 minutes on the futility of voting for Kang or Chang and expecting different results.

Chairman of SEC buys Mansion - Nice Work if You Can Get It

And no, you mundanes can't get this kind of work, they pay big money to make sure you don't make it into their little club. Saw this via The Classic Liberal, an article on Economic Policy Journal feature former SEC Chair Chris Cox's recent CASH purchase of a $5.4 million dollar mansion in Laguna Niguel , CA.

As a fellow house-hunter, it's hard not to blame him from the description,

The 11,000-square foot house sits on nearly an acre atop a hill. The home has 7 bedrooms, 8.5 baths, a “huge” lawn, swimming pool, spa and an outdoor kitchen, with panoramic views of the coastline and valley. There also are guest/maid quarters, a wine cellar, and a master bedroom retreat with a fireplace.

According to the listing, "the house is hidden from prying eyes by a gate and beautiful mature hardwoods, this estate is accessed by a long private driveway that is lined with roses and surrounded by an immaculately manicured landscape."

Now I'm not saying that it's wrong to have a nice house, but since this world is not my permanent home, I wouldn't invest in something so extravagant. It is spiritually safer to buy Bibles for China IMO. But anyway, my mind got to wondering who is the Chris Cox fellow and where did he obtain over five million dollars in Cash? According to the article:

Many held the view that Chris Cox was ineffective during the period he served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Position (which was fine with me), but he sure has played an A game in using the government to private sector revolving door.

Cox is now a partner at the law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP and a member of its corporate, mergers & acquisitions and securities group, advising global companies on strategic issues, corporate governance, securities regulation and other matters, according to the law firm’s website. He is also a principal of Bingham Consulting Group, which focuses on strategic issues involving federal and state governments, homeland security, and multistate litigation.

 I, of course, have made up the Chris Cox map, which isn't cooperating today, so I'll just leave you with his resume: 

Christopher Cox
AKA Charles Christopher Cox
Born: 16-Oct-1952
Birthplace: St. Paul, MN
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Chairman of the SEC
Wife: Rebecca Gernhardt (two sons, one daughter)
Son: Charles
Daughter: Katie
Son: Kevin
    High School: St. Thomas Academy, St. Paul, MN (1970)
    University: BA, University of Southern California (1973)
    Law School: JD, Harvard Law School (1977)
    University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1977)
    Professor: Harvard University (1982-83)
    SEC Chairman (2005-)
    US Congressman, California 48th (2003-2005)
    US Congressman, California 47th (1993-2003)
    US Congressman, California 40th (1989-93)
    Latham & Watkins Associate (1978-82), Partner (1984-86)
    Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism
    John McCain 2008
    National Endowment for Democracy Board Member
    Nixon Center Advisory Council
    Rotary International Orange County, CA
    Santorum 2006
    Tom Delay Congressional Committee
    Washington Legal Foundation National Board of Advisors
    Funeral: Richard Nixon (1994)

You may note that Mr. Cox was SEC Chairman during the whole collapse of 2008. Apparently, failure really pays off. Not that I'm saying he's wholly to blame, but something sure stinks here, doesn't it? Don't know enough to really comment here, unlike some other people, if I don't know what I'm talking about I'll shut up instead of prattling on. I do know that the Security and Exchange Commission is supposed to regulate the securities industry:

What Does Securities And Exchange Commission - SEC Mean?
A government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. In addition to regulation and protection, it also monitors the corporate takeovers in the U.S. The SEC is composed of five commissioners appointed by the U.S. President and approved by the Senate. The statutes administered by the SEC are designed to promote full public disclosure and to protect the investing public against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the securities markets. Generally, most issues of securities offered in interstate commerce, through the mail or on the internet must be registered with the SEC.

Um, EPIC FAIL, Mr. Cox, EPIC FAIL, unless of course, you planned for our economy to be hit and were paid for your silence. Many speculate that this indeed is what happened and that Bear Stearns and Lehman were deliberately, "taken out". 

Moving along, you'll also notice the Orwellian-named group, the Committee for the Preservation of Capitalism. It's just a real laugh riot because the big names on the membership list for this PAC are the biggest bunch of crony collectivists you've ever seen, Bill Gates, the Waltons, Immelt, and a huge slew of lobbyists, including Tennessee's own Don Sunquist, who dares not show his face in Tennessee again.

So for your consideration, we see another person riding the merry-go-round of power in our country.

The American Revolution is NEVER Over

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

--- I Timothy 6:9-11

So was money somehow connected with Lucifer's rebellion in Heaven, for the Scripture says that money is the root of all evil. No, love of power was Satan's motive, and in our sphere here on earth money=power, power=money.

What does that have to do with Independence Day, mama, you may be asking. The idea that a people. need not be governed by a centrally oppressive entity was indeed a revolutionary idea. Even though this is God's ideal government as set up in the book of Judges, with each city in the promised land handling its own affairs, man's sinful heart yearns for a central power to idolatarize. Witnessing the abuses of a tyrannical government, our forefathers set up to craft a document that took into account the sinful nature of man and set barriers to monopolizing power. Time after time, year after year, dark forces have been at work to break down those barriers. Let's briefly recap our history from the "love of money" viewpoint.

“The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the Revolution.”
- Benjamin Franklin

I don't need to give you a history lesson on the British, their central bank, and the untapped wealth of our new continent. What most of us fail to realize is that this same group of central banksters has tried again and again to financially conquer our country.

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance“
- President James Madison (1809-1817) 

The War of 1812, a war whose cause only 1 in 10,000 Americans could probably tell you, was another British-banking production. Running thin on naval recruits, the British navy took to capturing American ships and pressing its sailors into service. Add to that interference with our expanding nation, James Madison asked Congress for a Declaration of War, found here detailing the precise reasons. Failing militarily, the British banking interests try to get us subtly by taking over our banks. Enter Andrew Jackson. 'nuff said?

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in our Constitution; not from want of honour or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
- President John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

 So for the rest of the 19th century, our country hums along, except for the bloody Civil War in which you will find British banking interests trying to profit where they can. Note that I'm not picking on the British by describing the banking interests that way, but that at the time, that was the center of "love of money" banking.

"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or so dependent on its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests."
- John Sherman letter sent to New York bankers, Morton, and Gould, in support of the then proposed National Banking Act, 1863

 Some speculate that Abraham Lincoln may have been assassinated over his support of congressionally approved Greenbacks that cut out the central bankers. Of course John Wilkes Booth may just have been "crazy", but isn't every single assassin in American history been "crazy"?

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
- President James A. Garfield, assassinated 1881 by another crazy man

So the rest of the 19th century hums along and the people increase in wealth and security, so much so that immigrants flock in to partake. But in the meantime, the banksters are still at it. When one traces back the fortunes of the Robber Barons, one finds huge interlock between them and the large banking houses of Europe. Centralization of industry and finance quickly followed in the wake of the Civil War. This didn't impact the average American, save for the Farmer who had a next to impossible time getting the credit he needed to make it. Thus the populist parties emerged to address this problem.

“The Morgan interests took advantage… to precipitate the panic [of 1907], guiding it shrewdly as it progressed.”
- Life Magazine, 1907

Things came to a head in the fateful year of 1913, already having carried out a false flag financial attack (Panic of 1907) to scare the Congress into passing the Federal Reserve Act, the big banksters got all five fingers around America's money. The same year they also got the Income Tax Amendment, although some dispute the integrity of that process. It is interesting to note that all these big money people also chose that year (+/- a couple) to start getting into tax-exempt philanthropy. Funny how that works, huh? One would also note that these tax-exempt foundations all worked very hard from that point on to "reform" our country by getting in on the ground level of our countries great institutions.

Our education system, for example, was corrupted by these foundations. For they said that our teachers shouldn't be chosen by a school board elected by the community, but each teacher had to be licensed. Where could one obtain a teacher's license, why from one of these foundation's approved schools of course! What was taught at these schools? The latest in psychology and German thought control education. Look to one of my other posts on education to get the whole story, but suffice to say, the battle for American Independence can only be won with facts. These banksters have worked overtime for decades to ensure that the American people, once the most well-read and morally astute people in the world would descend into an Eloi (HG Wells was one of them, btw) - like ignorance devoid of any sense of propriety - causing a decimation of our families, the building block of society. For if you can't count on your family to love and sustain you, you'll be forced into the arms of the state. With record numbers on food stamps, (a JP Morgan Chase operation, btw), can you not see why Jefferson advocated an agrarian country?

I know some of you say that its not practical for all of us to "go Amish". But that's not the point, the point is one of self-sufficiency. If you aren't dependent on anyone but your two hands and God, then you are truly free. Those seeking the money dripping off a captive market can't have that - they've bought up a lot of the land and have always been the enemies of the American farmer. Maybe its time we stop buying all of our food at the store and from our local farmers and shift what little money we have left away from the tapeworm of central banking and into our beautiful country.

There is in man, a powerful desire to be like the "father of lies" and obtain as much power as he possibly can. On fallen planet earth, the vehicle that power rides in is money. We are blessed to live in God's richest nation, blessed with every type of natural resource available. To think that the Devil wouldn't go after and oppose such a country founded on God's principles of government is beyond naive.

So patriots, what are you going to do about it? First thing  to do is to arm yourself with the facts - like reading this blog! Those tyrants who have worked to game our system by manipulating our money bank on your ignorance. In fact, they have spent millions if not billions to ensure that they have complete control of our educational system and that it not include subjects like Bible, logic, true blue Constitutional history, Austrian economics, etc. So spread the knowledge, and help your country.

Police Surround Federal Reserve of NY for Flash Mob that Never Showed

Here's the video that explains it all. A last minute flash mob email was put out, but only the organizer showed up. When he got to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which features so prominently in the Wall Street series of books by Antony Sutton, he found approximately forty police officers bracing themselves for the "mob". He told them he was the only one that showed as the video illustrates. So they're watching and waiting for you America 'cause they know you'll be really, really pissed when you find out what a fraud our financial system really is...

h/t Daily Paul

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford

An Example of Multinational Corporate Evil

You may have heard of Andre Geim, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for developing graphene, which is a form of carbon specially structured for nanotech applications. When asked why he never patented graphene, he told Nature News how it is:

We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.

I considered this arrogant comment, and I realized how useful it was. There was no point in patenting graphene at that stage. You need to be specific: you need to have a specific application and an industrial partner. Unfortunately, in many countries, including this one, people think that applying for a patent is an achievement. In my case it would have been a waste of taxpayers' money.

It's so great we live a a free-market economy where inventors can enjoy the fruits of their labor. I mean, it's so great that we reward achievement in this country. You only need a really wealthy corporate patron to get ahead. However, note that they will never let you get too uppity. They will farm your mind, but they intend to reap the profits. They will not allow you to get big enough to compete with them, as I intend to prove in upcoming posts.

Confession is Good for the Soul

Here is an interview with John Perkins, the "economic hitman" who spills his guts on how corporations and the government work together to expand the invisible empire that most Americans don't even realize exists. Mr. Perkins relates what happens to men of integrity in the Third World who stand up to this syndicate - they usually die in an "accident". He also explains how this "system" uses people's weaknesses to control them, always tempting them power and money. This interview is pretty lengthy, but it's better time spent than listening to talk radio or the news channels, because you will actually learn something new. I hope to be able to read his book, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" one of these days. Elements of his story are similar to Gen. Smedley Butler's War is a Racket:

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

I'm finding these testimonies from those who were in this S.P.E.C.T.R.E ish fascist crime syndicate revealing and interesting. Maybe that's because everything I read and hear in the conservative media just doesn't explain the world I'm actually seeing. Liberals are baaad, baa, baa. I get that, but that doesn't explain the situtaion we find ourselves in. People are busy and just want to be told which group to be against, and simply cannot see the forest for the trees. They know which trees they don't like, but are unable to see the big picture. We discussed this in the subversion study. Oh well, check out this interview and tell me what you think!








Update: I found a 2 minute video that summarizes the above interview in cute cartoon format.

That's My Congressman!

Around here, some of us were wishing that Jimmy Duncan would be more of a louder voice in Washington for freedom issues. Well today he made Drudge, calling out Michael Chertoff on the floor of the House. I've written about this, but the Washington Examiner has some even more in-depth information on following the money around these scanners. Here's the speech:

I Guess I'm Not the Only One Who Used Mapping

I can't seem to get an embed, so here is the link to the original JP Morgan map as found in the Pujo Committee hearings. This committee was set up to investigate the money trust in 1912. You see, people had noticed that the free enterprise wasn't so free anymore. With the monopolists hogging many of the markets using corporation law and more shady maneuvers, the public demanded an investigation. Ironically this led to the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which unknown to most people at the time was drafted by the very people that they thought the Reserve would rein in. Anyway, the Pujo Committee grilled JP Morgan pretty hard, and his family claimed that was what caused the heart attack that killed him. The Pujo Committee records are available on my roll under X-files.