Too Big to Fail Banks

From Economic Policy Journal via Lew Rockwell from awhile back:

Here they are. The Financial Stability Board has released a list of 29 banks that it considers global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFISs) and thus considered Too Big To Fail.The initial list of G-SIFIS:

• Belgium: Dexia

• China: Bank of China

• France: Banque Populaire, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale

• Germany: Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank

• Italy: Unicredit

• Japan: Mitsubishi, Mizuho, Sumitomo Mitsui

• Netherlands: ING

• Spain: Santander

• Sweden: Nordea

• Switzerland: Credit Suisse, UBS

• UK: Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland

• US: Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, State Street, Wells Fargo

According to the FSB, Systemically Important Financial Institutions are firms whose disorderly failure, because of their size, complexity and systemic interconnectedness, would cause significant disruption to the wider financial system and economic activity.Bottom line: These are the banks through which the banksters operate. Of note, apologist for TBTF bailouts, Warren Buffett holds major positions in at least three of these banks: Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo.

Let's map it out, shall we? I'll note that Bank of China and Nordea did not show on the mapper, so they aren't included.

Here's the link.

Just look down that list of names; if you click on them individually and flesh them out, I would not be surprised to find just about every Fortune 100 corporation represented. You will notice that these corporations go all-in for the green agenda. Why? Because it benefits them. They rigged the carbon swap thing to benefit them. They also want to dramatically dial back the human race, but that motive bridges over into the spiritual realm. You will also see these Fortune 100s promote homosexuality, which also feeds into the zero population agenda. They are done with the excess population, and due to automation they have no use for us. Recall that the control of sex was a central theme in the story, 1984.

So we see that they've positioned themselves so that they will not bear any consequences from the house of fiat money they've built up. Nor will they suffer any losses from the huge amount of social engineering and manipulations their banks have financed all around the world. The saying is true, he who has all the gold, makes the rules, or so they would like to think.

LIBOR Fraud a big, Big, BIG Deal.

In the words, of Marty McFly, "this is heavy."

I like the ex-bankster lawyer who says that these banks business model is to make as much money as possible by any means possible. Also featured is Matt Tiabbi, the man who coined the phrase "vampire squid" to refer to the Elite banking network.

Powerful piece of news right here:

Other gems, include the mention of how the mob learned from Wall Street on how to extort.

Related Articles:


Rolling Stone, Matt Tiabbi: Libor Banking Scandal Deepens--Barclays Released Damning Email Implicating British Government


Global Research: Bank Fraud-The Big Losers in Libor Rate Manipulation

Christian Science Monitor: Lies, Damned Lies and Libor

Reuters: UK Drafts in Fraud Squad as Libor Fine Hits Barclays


Bottom line: these Elite tools jimmy everything possible to transfer as much wealth and power to them as humanly (and demonically) possible.

Postcards from the Edge

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

When Narratives Collide

The mainstream media is having an existential crisis. The rusty old political boxes they have spent decades building are being torn down by cold, hard truth.

We've got people on the left and right agreeing with each other.

This is NOT supposed to happen.

Divide and conquer was the Elites plan. Now they will have to get nasty. Voting machine fraud, Pravda-like reporting, and even the unthinkable acts of political violence are on the horizon.

Think I'm wearing a tinfoil hat?

I ask you were any of these fine gentlemen of quality wearing tinfoil hats?

Paul Wolfowitz Agrees With Ron Paul

on the causes of terrorism:

There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed--but it's huge--is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things.

Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz Interview with Sam Tannenhaus, Vanity Fair
and comes directly from the Department of Defense website. But wait, there's more:

The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it. That second issue about links to terrorism is the one about which there's the most disagreement within the bureaucracy, even though I think everyone agrees that we killed 100 or so of an al Qaeda group in northern Iraq in this recent go-around, that we've arrested that al Qaeda guy in Baghdad who was connected to this guy Zarqawi whom Powell spoke about in his UN presentation. 

If you read the full interview, you'll find him talking about the globalist amorphous and elusive idea of "democracy", which a fancy way of saying that they have puppet control of a country. It sounds better, doesn't it? Like we have democracy here in America, where they have obvious rigged the game in their favor. And when it doesn't go their way, there will be a crisis wherein their strong men will rush in a be the heroes. Same old song and dance.

But you've got to admit, this 2003 interview really exposes the neocon propaganda.
Let's do a Paul Wolfowitz map to see what the ol' boy is into.

link

Ah, Bilderburg, Trilateral, and World Bank president? Truly a man of Elite quality. Remember what Barry Goldwater said about the Trilaterals in his book, With No Apologies:

The Trilateral 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 Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.

So is Barry Goldwater, revered founder of the modern conservative movement a tinfoil hat wearing kook?

Truth Hurts

(warning: a rant-like post wherein I don't backlink )

Just to post some of my casual observations about what is going on. I can't help but notice that many bloggers don't take advantage of the resources of the internet to learn anything new, but seem to just grab what's on the news cycle and comment on it. Meanwhile, many conservative bloggers mock about how bias the mainstream media is all the while spending their time posting on what this same media is determining as newsworthy. In this way, the mainstream media is controlling the narrative of a good section of the blogosphere.

I am finding myself on a real voyage of discovery through the forgotten tomes of the progressive years of yore. It's so exciting I can't understand why everyone isn't retro-blogging the last 100 years. It makes everything make sense. However, it can at the same time be very painful.

When I started to wonder what in the world was our military doing overseas, I started to do my own research. The conservative narrative that I had so dutifully memorized did not pass my Founder's test. That's where I test my knowledge of current events by pretending to explain this to one of the Signers of the Declaration. If I can't, then I consider myself uninformed and set out to read up on it. I came to that point with the Iraq war stuff, after a few years of getting mad at the media for being so hostile to "the mission." I really believed we would find those WMDs -  I was really trying hard  "to stay the course". So at the used bookstore, I see this copy of the book Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill. I had heard that the liberals were giving Blackwater a hard time and I had heard something about contractors taking over a lot of military so I decide to pick it up. I see that the guy is a contributor to The Nation, which I know is a liberal outfit, but thumbing through the book, I see a lot of footnotes for me to check out. I'm also hoping that this book could clue me in to what in the world is going on over there as I'm not getting a straight story from my conservative outlets, which I had been depending on to give me real news. That was a mistake.

I'll have to do a post on that book sometime because it really changed my thinking. Yes Jeremy Scahill is a lib, but you know what? He wrote a darn good book, and I give credit where its due. I didn't care for his linking radical right Christianity to these war profiteers, because I had been trained to label myself that way. But as I read on, I found that these people didn't follow the same Jesus I did AT ALL. They were professing Christ, but were not being a real witness for Him. Remember the scariest words in the English language:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

 As I began to investigate who really determines the foreign policy in our country, I began to realize some sickening truths. The communists are in charge of the entire Defense Department. I got that feeling you get when you realize this is akin to the ending of a suspense movie. The partner finds the files that cinches the whole case, just then he hears a hammer being cocked back. All at once,  he realizes his partner's been working for the other side.  Similarly, we're told the military fights for our freedoms, which sounds well and good, until you wake up one day and find you have no freedom left. Getting back to the communist claim -which I admit is pretty intense, well, just look at all the research I've done on this site to date. What have we learned?

We've learned that central bankers and those attached to central banking through government contracts have a vested interest in expanding government. They also have an interest in making sure that the general population remains largely ignorant of their mechanizations, thus they had an interest in forming the public school system to their specifications. Their specifications involved a revisionist American history and outright social engineering planned by the foremost psychologists of the day. These big money men financed communism and kept it afloat throughout the 20th century, all the while posing as both anti-communists and progressive liberals. These same persons gained effective control of the State Department and would customize the United State's foreign policy to the order of the monopolists. The monied interests most lucrative endeavor was and always has been war. When they go to war, both sides go into debt, debt which is owed to them at interest. To the central bankers, war is the perpetual money machine. So it is true that the love of money really is the root of all evil.  We've learned that the banksters tax-exempt foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie) have been used to advocate abortion, eugenics, feminism, La Raza, homosexuality and all of the domestic social problems we have today. These were "designed" to break down the family, the core unit of a civilized society.

What gets me is that a lot of conservatives will listen intently to this information for about five minutes, agree with it, and then go back to the mainstream media's hamster wheel of 7th grade politics wherein each side calls each other names.Or they'll try to force into their paradigm of "it's all the liberal's fault". The amount of evidence that our nation has been overrun for decades by a group of well-connected monied interests hell-bent on shredding the Constitution is legion, but if Rush or Fox News doesn't mention, I guess it doesn't really exist. However, the narratives these banksters have put out are in the process of colliding. Partisans on both sides are having an extremely hard times keeping their respective versions of reality straight. For years, I heard Rush tell that when we put US troops on the ground, we do it to win it and come home. This is Ron Paul's foreign policy, but it doesn't jive with the very expensive and lucrative war TPTB are planning for Iran, so this type of talk is forbidden. The fact that Iran is going to be one of the last geopolitical pivots to fall in The Grand Chessboard scheme is also not inconsequential. There is definitely a demonic drive to control this region, which I mentioned in a earlier post. So anyway, they've got their talking points on that, and there is no skepticism from those on the right who are skeptical about everything else the press tells them, because the press would never lie to them about needing to bomb a foreign country.

The truth hurts. It's painful to admit you've been had. It's painful to admit that your government no longer represents you. It's downright scary to think that the Federal Reserve controls the military for its own ends. Especially when you consider how much foreign money is involved. Where are the loyalties? I've known people who've defended child molesters because they had invested so much trust in them and couldn't handle the reality of the misplaced trust. Similarly, many conservatives can't face up to the reality that the United States Defense Department is a mule for those monied interests seeking a one-world socialist state. It's just too much for some of them to handle. I know I spent a day or two crying over this because it was so painful to process. Praise God my hope is not in this lost and dying world. But I like to know where I stand and to know what is going on around me so that I might not be hoodwinked or fooled into supporting something that is just more statism in disguise.

So to be clear, I'm not under any illusions about this sinful world being fixable by mortal man, but I am convicted about being a witness to it. Let your light so shine before men. If Christians don't speak out about corruption, then what kind of witness is that to the lost? If we act like we're A-ok (and buddy are a lot of 'em going to be shocked to find their name not on the list) and are dismissive of the natural rights of others. If we act like its hunky dory for the Bill of Rights to end at our shores and admit that government gives us our rights and not God, how sad is that? One of my favorite cinematic moments is in the movie, Once Upon a Time in China,  where the hero begs for just one person to step up and speak out as a witness to the oppression the village was under. No one does, and then the Christian missionary steps up and says, "I will speak; I will be a witness". Of course the tyrant shot him before he could say anything, but how loudly did his courage speak to the villagers --how brightly did his Light shine before men?

(I'm working on my next FDR post, but it's taking a long time for me to really study this as it's pretty complicated and I want to write it in such a way as to make it understandable and not seven pages long!)

Economic 9/11

Gerald Celente tells of his experience with MF Global. He also alerts us that MF stands for something quite unmentionable on a Christian lady's blog. Gerald used to be on the mainstream talk circuit (Oprah, CNN, etc) talking about upcoming trends. When the trends forecasting got too scary, they stopped asking him on.

Wise people know their history and how it repeats.

The Aldrich Plan-Central Banking Exposed

The guy on the chopping block represents the credit unions, small banks, and small businessmen who aren't plugged into the cartel. Your big box stores, Big Agra, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Bailout Banks, Big Oil, etc are part of the "Nat. Reserve Association" in that they have their business intertwined with the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel, giving them an inside track on party the small businessman doesn't get invited to. Special interest rates, no-bid contracts from a organization that can print its own money and use its military to clear out the trash for you. This is what Gen. Butler said was going on back in the '90s, the 1890s that is.Think about how the lobbyist organization, like say, I dunno. The National Restaurant Association, formerly headed by "outsider to Washington politics" Herman Cain, works to gain government influence for its clients. Who are its clients? One that comes to mind is the Darden Restaurant Company owner of Red Lobster, The Olive Garden, etc. that got the Obamacare waiver. All of these "too big to fail" businesses will get waivers while Granny's diner will be penalized. It's all on purpose to do what Rowan Gaither told the Reece Committee those 60 years ago:

"We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House...The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shalluse our grant making power to alter life in the United States such thatwe can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union."

Of course he was talking about the Ford Foundation's operations to undermine traditional American morality, individualism, and everything that's right about our country and turn it into what Norman Dodd said was "communism with American efficiency". And isn't that what we really have here?

Let's go back in history and look at the Aldrich Plan, another moniker of the Federal Reserve Act. From Eustace Mullin's book Secrets of the Federal Reserve:

With their five million dollars as a war chest, the Aldrich Plan propagandists waged a no-holds barred war against their opposition. Andrew Frame testified before the House Banking and Currency Committee of the American Bankers Association. He represented a group of Western bankers who opposed the Aldrich Plan:

CHAIRMAN CARTER GLASS: "Why didn’t the Western bankers make themselves heard when the American Bankers Association gave its unqualified and, we are assured, unanimous approval of the scheme proposed by the National Monetary Commission?"
ANDREW FRAME: "I’m glad you called my attention to that. When that monetary bill was given to the country, it was but a few days previous to the meeting of the American Bankers Association in New Orleans in 1911. There was not one banker in a hundred who had read that bill. We had twelve addresses in favor of it. General Hamby of Austin, Texas, wrote a letter to President Watts asking for a hearing against the bill. He did not get a very courteous answer. I refused to vote on it, and a great many other bankers did likewise."
MR. BULKLEY: "Do you mean that no member of the Association could be heard in opposition to the bill?"
ANDREW FRAME: "They throttled all argument."
MR. KINDRED: "But the report was given out that it was practically unanimous."
ANDREW FRAME: "The bill had already been prepared by Senator Aldrich and presented to the executive council of the American Bankers Association in May, 1911. As a member of that council, I received a copy the day before they acted upon it. When the bill came in at New Orleans, the bankers of the United States had not read it."
MR. KINDRED: "Did the presiding officer simply rule out those who wanted to discuss it negatively?"
ANDREW FRAME: "They would not allow anyone on the program who was not in favor of the bill."
CHAIRMAN GLASS: "What significance has the fact that at the next annual meeting of the American Bankers Association held at Detroit in 1912, the Association did not reiterate its endorsement of the plan of the National Monetary Commission, known as the Aldrich scheme?"
ANDREW FRAME: "It did not reiterate the endorsement for the simple fact that the backers of the Aldrich Plan knew that the Association would not endorse it. We were ready for them, but they did not bring it up."

Andrew Frame exposed the collusion which in 1911 procured an endorsement of the Aldrich Plan from the American Bankers Association but which in 1912 did not even dare to repeat its endorsement, for fear of an honest and open discussion of the merits of the plan.
Chairman Glass then called as witness one of the ten most powerful bankers in the United States, George Blumenthal, partner of the international banking house of Lazard Freres and brother-in-law of Eugene Meyer, Jr. Carter Glass effusively welcomed Blumenthal, stating that "Senator O’Gorman of New York was kind enough to suggest your name to us." A year later, O’Gorman prevented a Senate Committee from asking his master, Paul Warburg, any embarrassing questions before approving his nomination as the first Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.
George Blumenthal stated, "Since 1893 my firm of Lazard Freres has been foremost in importations and exportations of gold and has thereby come into contact with everybody who had anything to do with it."
Congressman Taylor asked, "Have you a statement there as to the part you have had in the importation of gold into the United States?" Taylor asked this because the Panic of 1893 is known to economists as a classic example of a money panic caused by gold movements.
"No," replied George Blumenthal, "I have nothing at all on that, because it is not bearing on the question."
A banker from Philadelphia, Leslie Shaw, dissented with other witnesses at these hearings, criticizing the much vaunted "decentralization" of the System. He said, "Under the Aldrich Plan the bankers are to have local associations and district associations, and when you have a local organization, the centered control is assured. Suppose we have a local association in Indianapolis; can you not name the three men who will dominate that association? And then can you not name the one man everywhere else. When you have hooked the banks together, they can have the biggest influence of anything in this country, with the exception of the newspapers."

Well, we know that these same players bought up the newspapers in short order. That network of control is like the Borg collective today, and its gone global for a long time now. The only holdouts were Qaddafi, N. Korea,  and the Iranians.  Are you getting the picture? These people don't give a hang about you, me, or any individual nation's well-being, including Israel. They just look for how they can manipulate people, emotions, and groups to get what they want. Central Banking is the epitome of the "root of all evil".

Herman Cain vs. The Tea Party

Jack Hunter does what he does best: going chronologically through the last few years of what really happened with TARP and where Mr. Cain stood on it all. Herman Cain wrote a lot of stuff in his column that I've said before will come back to bite him. Seems like a lot of "conservatives" don't care about socialism anymore, they just want to beat Obama. It's really insane!

The Real Deal on OWS- Hegel's Dialectical Play in the Park

I've long suspected that OWS was nothing but an attempt to get "stuff" started - to get the right wing into a frenzied lather over commies and to get all publicly schooled commies to come out of the woodwork and make noise. Call it Hegel's Dialectical Play in the Park. Allow me to introduce to you the players in our little drama:

Banking History

If you're like me, you don't naturally pick up economic lingo. Found this great little video at TN Sons of Liberty that takes you through the last 150 years of banking and how it has changed. Banks are not about the free market. I hear a lot of conservatives screaming about the free market and liberals occupying Wall Street. Both sides don't seem to be aware that the banking industry is NOT the free market. Lots of great analogies to help you understand it all in this video:

Revenge of the Nerds

Picture a high school cafeteria with your obligatory stereotypical groups sitting at their respective tables. Seated at one table, you have your idealistic do-gooders all bent on Saving the Planet and mindlessly believing whatever their state-approved textbooks say along with what their state-certified teachers tell them is truth. At another table, you've got a group that's wise to some of that --they listen to conservative talk radio and are ready to punch a hippie at the drop of a hat. They've been known to pull some pranks on their state-certified teacher for laughs. They will grow up to be fine Republican leaders in their communities. They'll be county Republican officials who'll brag how they brought jobs to their community with special tax breaks. They'll see no philosophical problem with federal mandates as long as their area gets some goodies that they can brag about. The latest copy of The American Spectator sits on the corner of the table atop a copy of Mark Levin's Libery and Tyranny. They're not just meatheads, even though they thoroughly enjoy their sports. They figure they're about as plugged in as it gets to what is going on as they comb back their All-American haircut and zip up their letterman jacket and start to head off to football practice.

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.

Herman Cain - Central Bankster?

 I wrote a post a little while back digging into the past of Mr. Cain, a man who's radio program I do enjoy. Some have been questioning what is the big deal about him sitting on the boards of these corporations. Well, as someone who has been an officer in my church's corporation, I'm not saying that that in itself is a bad thing.

The only thing I've heard is that he was CEO of Godfathers Pizza; if I had not done my own research I never would have known that he was chairman of a regional Federal Reserve Bank. If you are not aware of the perils of the Fed, read/watch the Creature from Jekyll Island or check out The American Dream Cartoon. As we have been exploring the interlock between large corporations and the federal government on this blog, his being on the board of large corporations, such as Whirlpool do interest me.

I've learned in blogging that if someone says it better, then quote them. Today, Vox Day has the essential Herman Cain piece that will make everyone think twice. Vox gives us the ultimate reason why Herman Cain is not a good conservative candidate:

2) He is not even close to being a genuine conservative on the single most important issue presently facing the nation. Indeed, both his economic philosophy and his employment record are quite literally Communist. In the fifth of the "10 Planks" of the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx demanded "Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly." In the United States, credit has been centralized in an exclusive government monopoly granted to the Federal Reserve; Mr. Cain was the deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1992-1994 and the chairman from 1995-1996.

Now, despite his five-year career as an elite bankster, Cain cannot be seriously regarded as one culpable for the massive credit booms and the various financial crises that were their inevitable consequences. Unlike Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, Cain was not at the Federal Reserve proper or its flagship New York bank; it is also worth noting that his two terms of office at the bank preceded the periods of frantic money pumping that took place in 1998 and 2001 and launched the tech and housing bubbles. However, on the Neil Boortz show, his answer with regard to a prospective congressional audit of the Federal Reserve missed the point so completely that it leaves the informed observer wondering if the man is deeply disingenuous or astonishingly clueless:

"Some people say we ought to audit the Federal Reserve. Here's what I do know. The Federal Reserve already has so many internal audits it's ridiculous. I don't know why people think we're going to learn this great amount of information from the Federal Reserve. … Here's the advice I give to people who think we ought to audit the Federal Reserve. Call them up and ask them if you can have one of their PR people explain to you how the Federal Reserve operates. I think a lot of people are calling for the audit of the Federal Reserve because they don't know enough about it! There's no hidden secrets going on the Federal Reserve to my knowledge. We've got 12 Federal Reserve banks, find out which district you're in, call them up and go from there! We don't need to waste money with another commission or an audit. It's not necessary. Because, folks, we've got a lot of other problems we need to worry about."

 This is untrue. There is no bigger or more central problem facing America than the one posed by its current financial system.

So we don't need an audit of the entity that controls our money supply because it audits itself. It's a like a self-cleaning oven - don't worry about a thing. Don't pay attention to the fact that our currency has been devalued by 98% since 1913. Our enemies could only hope to do that much damage to us. One might conclude that the Fed is our enemy. Color me unimpressed with Mr. Cain's answer to the most serious question facing us all - economic collapse. I hear conservatives say that Mr. Cain will really rock the Establishment. Folks, if he worked for the Fed and is still towing their pathetic line like a Soviet apparatchik, Mr. Cain IS the Establishment. That response is something out of Baghdad Bob's script-wizard, everything is fine - nothing to see here - move along and bask in my down-home "fat and sassy" speeches.

Herman Cain was confronted on his enthusiastic 2008 support of the TARP bailouts. Mr. Cain says he was taken out of context, but if you read the whole thing, there really is no other way you can take it, except that central banking is the best thing since sliced bread, which really isn't that great either!
Here's the confrontation, you be the judge:

It reminds me of that scene in Ghostbusters - Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!

Herman, when someone asks if you support the Fed sending our money to foreign banks like Libya and China, you say NO! Mr. Cain seemed more than a little defensive there. If you've changed your mind about TARP, then do it with confidence and a smile, not saying "ok?!" in a defensive manner. That's my political advice for you because in the conservative circles, thanks to Glenn Beck and others, there is a Level 2 awareness of the Fed and if you don't address this issue head-on, it is going to bite you in the behind big time when this gets out. Most conservatives are unaware of Mr. Cain's Fed and bailout loving positions of the very recent past. He'd better get a better game plan of explaining that than saying you don't have time to answer the question and running away. That kind of thing might just go viral.

You Mean the IMF Doesn't Stand for Impossible Mission Force?

 
Most people have no clue what the IMF is or what it is about. I sure didn't just a couple of years ago. If you would have said IMF, I would have thought Mission Impossible, not central banking.

The official line is that it helps stabilize the exchange rates among the nations. It was borne out of the UN and the chaos that followed WW2, so you know it's apart of this whole system of government intervention that like Matt Tiabbi's vampire squid is sucking the life out of the people of the world in general. Apparantly, the Special Drawing Rights (derivatives) thing goes through them, they sold off a buttload of gold in 2008, and basically is at or toward the top of the central banking food chain. That's what I've been able to figure out so far.

I'm not even going to comment on the scandal surrounding the president, as those playing with our money want to keep us distracted from the main things. As always, a picture is worth a thousand words:

IMF map -double click to enlarge

Your mission should you choose to accept it, is to inform everyone you know about the dangers of central banking and planning. Else our country will self-destruct and we will disavow any foreknowledge. Good luck, citizen.