Freedom and all of its forms.HOW CAN WE HAVE A SOUND ECONOMY?:
One thing is sure, Americans can not have a sound economy if they do not own the homes they live in, the streets they drive on, the buildings they work in, the companies they work for, and the debt they use as money to trade around the globe.
One of the "equalizers" that preserved American economic domination within its own boarders was always to be the government regulated tariff system and private exchange treaty system. These systems can be established through business negotiation both through local and federal government channels on an international and local State level. Accordingly, our measly public education system has instructed us on, and we bought, this simplistic idea. As it turns out this is an archaic vision and for quite some time "economic policy" was made much more complicated than that and as such lends itself to a purpose defined by the owners instead of the entrepreneurs. Once we begin to examine global monetary/banking systems and ask ourselves, 'who owns money and how do they produce it', a frightening trend appears. In the 'New World' and through the once conquered 'British Empire' a select few banking families emerge and have dominated currency establishment, hard-money production, mass media outlets, government doctrine, and military policy. This of course is a wondrous situation for the powerhouse international business families, however their doctrine allows and in fact demands that the common masses be sacrificed for larger profit and greater control. This more-profit/more control idea has been mainly accomplished by changing government policy, increasing the amount of debt owed to centralized (non-government) banks, and redefining the basis of a monetary system from one of value based (for example the gold standard) to one of debt based (the Federal Reserve).
OK, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "EQUALIZERS"...
(For the sake of clarity and because there is far to much to cover, I'll connect the most obvious and recent dots for you, but if your smart you'll read all this from an independent source and not take my word for it.)J.P. Morgan, one of the largest media men of his time, teamed up with Rockefeller and Rothschild to orchestrate the first and second (this one known as the great) depressions.
They created mass panic through the media and gained public support to change to monetary system into one that was more stable. These families then met in secret on Jekyll Island, GA and drafted a bill to establish the Federal Reserve; which would be a private bank owned by them and investors at the bank of England, and the exclusive source of government and civil "paper" notes, a.k.a. cash.
Woodrow Wilson's advisers, the same men responsible for Jekyll Island, pushed through the 16th Amendment to the Constitution (income tax), the Federal Reserve Act, and new Tariff policies (drastic lowering of tariff).
Concurrently, the same families and investors then bought the most powerful and useful US companies for pennies on the dollar (i.e. US Steel), and combined them just in time for WW I and WW II.
In World War II both tariffs and reciprocity were insignificant compared to trade channeled through Lend Lease; practices encouraged and implemented by the banking families.
After WW I, the world was desperate, and America was 'owed' money. The Republicans (the old 'good' peoples republicans) attempted to restore the tariff system but the world complained and stopped buying American products
Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers made promises about lowering tariffs on a reciprocal country-by-country basis (which they did), hoping this would expand foreign trade (which it did not.)
The banking interests promoted the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established in 1947, to minimize tariffs and other restrictions, and to liberalize trade among all capitalist countries.
In 1995 GATT became the World Trade Organization WTO; with the collapse of Communism its open markets/low tariff ideology became dominant worldwide in the 1990s.The industries owned by these families appeared to fade or collapse in the 70's, but really they simply moved them away from the US and paid less for outside labor. Especially the manufactures of steel, TV sets, shoes, toys, textiles and clothing.
This forced the American citizen into the position of a consumer perpetually in debt instead of a producer perpetually creating wealth and competition worldwide.
For example, Toyota and Nissan threatened the giant domestic auto industry. In the late 1970s Detroit and the auto workers union combined to fight for protection. They obtained not high tariffs, but a voluntary restriction of imports from the Japanese government. Quotas were two-country diplomatic agreements that had the same protective effect as high tariffs, but did not invite retaliation from third countries. By limiting the number of Japanese automobiles that could be imported, quotas inadvertently helped Japanese companies push into larger, and more expensive market segments. The Japanese producers, limited by the number of cars they could export to America, opted to increase the value of their exports to maintain revenue growth. This action threatened the American producers' historical hold on the mid- and large-size car markets. The result; well your Ford isn't even comparable with a Toyota.[wiki, tariffs in American history]The true result is that corporate/banking interests have turned America into the Worlds biggest military industrial complex, forcing us to, under the guise of fighting for our freedom, pirate the areas of interest where they need control.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced for past centuries." David Rockefeller, private banker, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF,
SOME OF THE NUMBERS ARE IN MY PICTURE LISTThese countries (a.k.a. INDIVIDUALS) not only own our debt, but they are now using it to buy our companies, LAND, and funnel massive amounts of cash through US companies to pay for elections.
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.â€
"Give me Liberty or give me Death!"“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.â€â€œYou're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.â€â€œPatriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.â€â€œThe highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plainâ€What will you do?
WHAT TYPE OF GOVERNMENT WOULD YOU WANT?:FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Vi veri veniversum vivus vici:"By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe." Dr. John FaustI hope that you will watch and read all of this page. Make your own sense of the information presented and please read, read, read on your own.That is the only way to the truth. IS IT OK TO TORTURE? It's the age old question; Is it ok, in the name of safety, to allow one innocent person to be violated?My answer is no; that person could be my mother, my wife, me, my daughter, and that is no different from yours.So I say: the Constitution was was meant to protect all men and women, and children. How can we believe that Americans are born with inalienable human rights and other humans from everywhere around the world are not. The answer is that ALL persons have the right not to be treated this way. The greatest inquisitions of history started with this brutal mentality, and the kings proclaimed: if you think otherwise maybe you should have this done to you until you repent your thoughts.Yes our "enemies" in a time of war WILL have plans to attack us, as do we have plans to attack them. That is the nature of war. The problem with this "war on terror" is that we have no means to achieve peace through war. Unless we utterly wipe out every man woman and child associated with "the terrorists" then what will we do? Other wars end by peaceable treaty, is that even available? Do they have demands? Or maybe they, as Bush says, have only the desire to eliminate all Western Civilization. Not likely. (lets assume the official story is true) They decided to destroy symbols, not communications, not bases, not power stations, symbols---they certainly could not have thought that airplanes would destroy the pentagon entirely, like some kind of cartoon like super bomb.By any means, the point is that not only are our representatives using logic that is totally illogical, in addition they are breaking our most sacred laws, human rights.THE SOLUTION: Anyone who signed the Patriot Act must be fired and charged with treason. This may seem extreme, but read the Patriot Act, and you may find that is a generous offer as they would have surely been tarred and feathered by our forefathers.Victoria, non praedaV. ..The River of Freedom (child-like clarity)
I understand the need by many to follow the teachings of a religion, but know where they come from before you dive head first.Zeitgeist - The MovieReligion is not your humanity, but humanity should be your religion.
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