Honestly, any film promising to expose the criminality involved in international banking will instantly get my attention.

The intensity of the film was great, yet I can’t seem to shake myself from my own disappointment with the film. My frustration stems not from the facts but rather the form of the film.

Bankster motivation is central to the film. Their interest was not in controlling, but rather in funding conflict. The onus was on controlling the debt and the interest from the debt. Debt control was tantamount to nation control. Owning the debt created power!

A more accurate presentation of the motivation of criminal banksters is unlikely.

However, the film presents the criminal bankers as a major, international banking corporation. The corporation practically controlled the world. Reality is far more sinister. No instantly recognizable boogie-man group publicly presents itself. Rather we have a loosely organized banking cartel affiliated with one another through several political groups instead of one centralized corporation or agency.

Real banksters are more difficult to track and capture because their organization more closely resembles an organized, underground crime syndicate.

Yet, recently their robbery has become more pronounced and public. Has anyone heard the phrase “banker bailout”? Does anyone care to explain why, what was supposed to be only $700 billion has become nearly $13 trillion in less than a year? Has it escaped your notice that representatives from the Federal Reserve have been on a public relations tour?

As our nation is embroiled in two international conflicts, shouldn’t we begin to ask the logical question? Who owns the debt? Some would answer, ‘we the people’. However, this simply isn’t true because he/she who owns the debt also owns the interest.

Who is getting the interest from the debt?

Our biggest national debt is owed to the Federal Reserve who owns 50% of our debt. Another 28% of our debt is owned by foreign entities, leaving 22% actually owned by ‘we the people’ in some form or fashion.

Frightening!?

Nelson Aldrich, and the financial interests backing him, took control of America in 1913.

States would be controlled through contrived crises designed to manipulate the opinion of the populace.

People would be controlled through manipulative direct taxation designed to enslave them. Such was forbidden by the Constitution to prevent just such an outcome.

Economic control would be achieved through manipulating the currency, inflation and deflation, to steal the wealth of the nation. I would need $21.60 to purchase what $1 would in 1913. Since the Fed prints all of our currency at interest, how will we ever have enough currency to pay the interest being charged on the currency? We can’t! Perpetual debt has become the new motto of America under the Federal Reserve System.

How have they maintained this control?

The illusion of choice, allows us the opportunity to vote, even though our vote does nothing more than decide the path. The destination is predetermined!

Haven’t you noticed that both major national parties favor a powerful central government? Neither party supports the truly constitutional concept of decentralized government. Don’t you ever wonder why? Big financial interests provided approximately two-thirds of the campaign money for both major Presidential candidate in 2008.

So many of our past Presidents were under the sway of the money manipulators! Few, very few, have not been so inclined.

The Fed, the powers behind it, and those attached to it, have become more powerful than any politician or party in our nation. We have let them have this power by voting for candidates their money supported. I’m not surprised to see lost jobs and homes while banks are being bailed out. We didn’t heed the warning of Thomas Jefferson:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

We can choose to wake up and get active now, or we can choose to stay on the program and awaken one day in our homeland homeless and conquered.

Restoring the Republic

He then headed up a commission of economists that traveled to Europe to study the central banks of Britain, France and Germany. Upon his return to the United States he worked to pass the Federal Reserve Act.

In order to avoid the messy conflict that would occur if another private central bank was proposed, a regional system with a central board was suggested.

December of 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed in Congress, establishing the framework upon with the current Federal Reserve System hangs.  The National Monetary Commission was morphed into a bigger, more efficient version of itself.

Congress relinquished control over the currency to the private central bank allowing privately owned institutions to control our currency. The Fed became, as it still is today, the only unregulated private business in the nation.

Aldrich had succeeded into creating an economy after his own image and likeness. The income tax would be used both to control the populace and fund the private central bank. The bank would also control the populace through controlling their currency with inflation and deflation without fear of reprisal from the states.

Capitalizing on the outcry from the Panic of 1907, the economic future of America had just been placed on the auction block. Americans were promised a stable economy and a future without the ups and downs of the economic cycle.

Controlling the economic cycle through speculation and manipulation has led to 13 recessions and two depressions. The Fed’s promise of stability seems a far cry from reality.

Yet in every case, it wasn’t the market manipulation of the financial elite that was brought into question…no, it was the freedom of the market itself!

Before 1913, the United States didn’t get involved in foreign wars. We have been involved in one form or another of global warfare ever since.

Why the sudden shift in the United States policy on conflicts in other nations? Find out in Part 4.

Restoring the Republic

Mark “True Patriot” West

China exports a lot, I mean a LOT, of their products to our country. So much so that our nation maintains a trade deficit with China, meaning that we buy more of their products than we sell them of our own.

China’s “concern” for our economy stems from the fact that they need us to keep buying their stuff. Our recession is damaging their economy on a productive level. Meanwhile, the recent isolationist rhetoric gaining ground is frightening them. China is pushing for a new world currency not for their currency reserves’ sake, but to draw attention away from their need.

China needs us to buy their products. Our trade deficit with China has been shrinking of late, just as has our economy. China is scrambling, especially with the value of the dollar diminishing by the second…a billion here, a trillion there…for a solution to its own economic contraction.

We’ve got to understand the flip-side of every scenario. We need China to keep buying our debt. China needs us to keep buying their products. If our currency devalues, so also does China’s. I don’t believe China will use economic warfare against us.

Yet, I also believe that China is one of several nations in this world that would rejoice in our failure. Such an event would mitigate China’s own ascension as the preeminent economic giant in the world.

What do you think China will do? Economic preservation is in China’s best interests. Unless a suitable replacement can be found for the dollar, China will be held captive to the need to export their products.

My wife and I examined our financial situation late last year. We came to a simple conclusion. We have TOO much debt.

Realizing our desire to be involved in several ministries, we had to change financially. We had to begin the destruction of our debt.

Working the numbers we had an epiphany…less debt equals more income…so began the debt destruction era of our marriage.

So a couple of know-nuthin’, unimportant people figured out something that all of the “smart and important folks” in Washington D.C. haven’t. Why don’t they get it? Ignorance.

Either they are ignorant of how to solve the debt problem or they are ignoring the solution because it doesn’t “fit” their agenda. You as a taxpaying citizen have a right to ask and a right to know!

Think about how foolish it would be for me to obtain more debt to pay off my current debt. I would then owe more debt because I would be paying interest on top of what I already owe. Debt construction.

Yet our government continues to foolishly obligate taxpayers to such an ignorant scenario. A billion here, a trillion there…chunk by chunk we are INCREASING what we owe, not decreasing.

Here’s the equation: (A) We now owe more money due to interest, (B) Our money is worth less. A + B = debt construction! We are doing nothing more than transferring an increased debt load to a future generation.

Debt destruction, not debt construction, is the solution our economy needs. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is our debt, nationally and individually. Ignoring this gorilla is stupid and dangerous!

We owe massively more money than we make and we must seek out and destroy our debt.  More individual income will stimulate the economy in a real and lasting way. More individual debt, you know the whole “banks need to lend” thing, will continue strangle the economy and individuals as well.

You should now understand what level of ignorance your government is now operating under. A truly sad tale of money and power.

Any fool can construct debt, only a truly wise person can destroy it!

Defending the True America!

Mark “True Patriot” West

OK, I get it, you want a solution already. If I oppose the current bail-out bill, what would I do differently? Are you ready for a ride?

Let’s begin where we are: Main Street, USA. The bail-out bill, voted down by the House, was very shall we say, unfriendly to us. How can we make it Main Street friendly?

#1 What’s fair is fair! The bill MUST call for a FULL investigation of Wall Street and the Beltway. We MUST find out who did, or didn’t, act in the best interests of our nation and hold them accountable. Has anybody seen the tapes from the Freddie/Fannie hearings in 2004? It’s a real eye-opener!

#2 SAFE! The bill MUST extend FDIC protection of deposits to at least $250K. The folks have got to know their savings are OK!

#3 A little here, a little there! The bill MUST help people stay in their homes but NOT for free! Have them pay a rent or a lower principal/interest payment to keep the capital rolling.

#4 Do unto your neighbor… The bill MUST contain tax incentives for those individuals who seek to help others in this time of financial need! This could affect 401K, IRA withdrawals taken to help others with keeping a roof over their heads.

OK, now let’s shift our focus to Wall Street, USA. How can we help the economy without overburdening the taxpayers. I don’t know about you, but my budget cannot afford a tax increase. How can we make it Wall Street friendly without punished the average Joe?

#1 HOW much?! The bill MUST temporarily suspend the mark-to-market rules that have created as much as 70% of this crisis (that figure according to Chicago economists). This rule was a reaction rather than a proaction. It seems that our Congress has a reactive rather than a proactive tendency.

#2 Show me the money! The bill MUST reduce or rebate the capital gains tax for private investors who buy up the “troubled” securities and entities. Warren Buffett, one man, just poured $5 billion into Goldman Sachs…imagine what other private money can be brought in to fix this problem. Give them the incentive to bail each other out.

#3 Keep ‘em safe! The bill MUST create an insurance to cover the loss of these “troubled” assets that fail to be purchased by the private sector. Each entity will pay a premium that will provide coverage. This, used in combination with #2 should help shore up the “troubled” assets.

#4 Show me the numbers! The bill MUST establish government oversight for the program. This oversight would determine what securities and entities are “troubled” so that the tax issue I raised in #2 can be in place. This oversight would also monitor and regulate the bail-out transactions.

Has anyone noticed that the “media” now calls the bill a “rescue” bill instead of a “bail-out” bill? Don’t you wonder why? I do! Maybe it will turn the people’s “opinion” of the bill if they see it as a rescue rather than a bail-out. How stupid do they think we are?

That’s why I propose what I do. I believe it is the best fit to preserve capital, destroy debt, and enable liquidity. This proposal would rescue Wall Street AND preserve Main Street.

Has anyone noticed the theme of the D.C. bailout talks? Come on, surely you’ve heard it several times by now.

Here is my paraphrase: “We don’t have time to point fingers, we just need to get this done to save America!”

Unfortunately, while time is essential at this juncture, we MUST point fingers. Why? We must determine what part of the economic structure is responsible so that we don’t pour $700 billion into a black hole.

If you have a hole in the bucket, pouring more water into it will not fix the leak! You’ve got to fix the leak before it will hold water. What our Congress is calling us to do is pour more water into a broken bucket rather than fixing the hole. I mean, really…use more debt to fix a debt problem?!