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Switzerland Follows Iceland in Declaring War Against the Banisters
Isaac Davis, Staff
December 30, 2015
“If you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost
of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control
credit.” –Josiah Stamp
Iceland has gained the admiration of populists in recent years by doing
that which no other nation in the world seems to be willing or capable of
doing: prosecuting criminal bankers for engineering financial collapse for
profit.
Their effective revolt against the banking class, who drove the tiny
nation into economic crisis in 2008, is the brightest example yet that the
world does not have to be indebted in perpetuity to an austere and criminal
wealthy elite. In 2015, 26 Icelandic bankers were sentenced to prison and the
government ordered a bank sale to benefit the citizenry.
Inspired by Iceland’s progress, activists in Switzerland are now
making an important stand against the banking cartels and have successfully
petitioned to bring an initiative to public referendum that would attack the
private banks where it matters most: their power to lend money they don’t
actually have, and to create money out of thin air.
“Switzerland will hold a referendum to decide whether to ban commercial
banks from creating money.
The Swiss federal government confirmed on Thursday that it would
hold a plebiscite, after more than 110,000 people signed a petition calling for
the central bank to be given sole power to create money in the financial
system.
The campaign – led by the Swiss Sovereign Money movement and known
as the Vollgeld initiative – is designed to limit financial speculation by
requiring private banks to hold 100pc reserves against their deposits.” [The Telegraph]
Switzerland is in a key position to play a revolutionary role in
changing how global banking functions. In addition to being the world’s safest
harbor for storing wealth, it is also home to the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS), a shadowy private company owned by many of the world’s
central banks, and acting as a lender to the central banks. The BIS is the very
heart of global reserve banking, the policy that enables banks to lend money
that does not actually exist in their bank deposits, but is instead literally
created electronically from nothing whenever a bank extends a line of credit.
Reserve banking is the policy that guarantees insurmountable debt as
the outcome of all financial transactions.
The Sovereign Money initiative in Switzerland aims to curb financial
speculation, which is the intended and inevitable result of reserve banking,
the tool that makes financial adventurism possible by supplying the banks with
endless quantities of fiat money.
Limiting a bank’s ability to produce money from nothing would be a
direct blow to the roots of the banking cartel, and would cripple their ability
to manipulate the world economy. Here’s how it works, in rather simplified
terms:
“…if we had access to the same computer terminals the banks have, we
could magic in or out of existence all the imaginary stuff we are trained to
think of as important – money – in whatever quantities we liked.
This is how it works: when they print quite a lot of this stuff
there is a boom. When they print too much of it, there is inflation (actually,
the printing of money is inflation). When they stop printing it or simply hold
on to it, there is a depression.” [Source]
In Switzerland, 90% of all money in circulation is electronic, and
for this, The National Bank of Switzerland has become the direct target of the
Sovereign Money Campaign. Swiss law has in the past required banks to back all
currency creation with collateral assets like physical silver or gold, however
in recent decades the climate has changed, and, “due to the emergence of
electronic payment transactions, banks have regained the opportunity to create
their own money.”
The grass roots campaign said in a public statement regarding the
intentions of the referendum, “banks won’t be able to create money for
themselves any more, they’ll only be able to lend money that they have from
savers or other banks.”
This is an interesting twist in the human saga of man vs. banks, and
while it remains to be seen if the referendum passes or not, it must be pointed
out that it does have its own problems, articulated by Sam Gerrans:
“… it does say that the central bank should be given sole right to
create money. This would essentially leave the creation of money in the same
hands as those who control the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England rather
than allow them to farm out the process. But at least it shows that people are
beginning to wake up to where the true power lies.
In the unlikely event that this grass-roots movement in Switzerland
should get its way and its proposed legislation be enacted, and then begin to
morph into something which really does threaten the banking elite, we must not
be surprised if Switzerland is shortly discovered to be harboring weapons of
mass destruction, or to have masterminded 9/11, or to be financing Islamic
State.”
Part of the cultural conditioning of our time is an ingrained,
pre-assumed dependency on sacred cow institutions like banking. Just like it is
impossible for most Americans to envision a world without Democrats and
Republicans, it is difficult for most people to imagine a world without
predatory global banking.
Yet, there are a number of other possibilities
for trading, storing wealth, and facilitating development in the world. This is
not the only economic system we can imagine, and as Iceland has proven, people
can regain control of their collective wealth, so perhaps this revolution will
foment further in Switzerland, presenting a chance to at least bring
greater awareness to the truth about central banking.
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Is the Value of your Money About to Change?
Published on Nov 8, 2014
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(ANTIMEDIA) Iceland — First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for
their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander
will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks,
Íslandsbanki.
IMF Whistleblower or Psyop Plant Karen Hudes: "The Jesuits Run IT ALL!!"
Published on Jan 8, 2015
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Is the Value of your Money About to Change?
Published on Nov 8, 2014
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First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid in
Bank Sale
Claire Bernish
October 29, 2015
If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely
will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over
ownership of the bank. Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks
under State proprietorship.
“I am saying that the government take some decided portion, 5%, and
simply hand it over to the people of this country,” he stated.
Because Icelanders took control of their government, they
effectively own the banks. Benediktsson believes this will bring foreign
capital into the country and ultimately fuel the economy — which, incidentally,
remains the only European nation to recover fully from the 2008 crisis. Iceland
even managed to pay its outstanding debt to the IMF in full — in advance of the
due date.
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Budget Committee vice chairperson,
explained the move would facilitate the lifting of capital controls, though he
wasn’t convinced State ownership would be the ideal solution. Former Finance
Minister Steingrímur J. Sigfússon sided with Þórðarson, telling a radio show,
“we shouldn’t lose the banks to the hands of fools” and that Iceland would
benefit from a shift in focus to separate “commercial banking from investment
banking.”
Plans haven’t yet been firmly set for when the takeover and
subsequent payments to every person in the country will occur, but Iceland’s
revolutionary approach to dealing with the international financial meltdown of
2008 certainly deserves every bit of the attention it’s garnered.
Iceland recently jailed its 26th banker — with 74 years of prison
time amongst them — for causing the financial chaos. Meanwhile, U.S. banking
criminals were rewarded for their fraud and market manipulation with an
enormous bailout at the taxpayer’s expense.
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Get Paid in Bank Sale) is free and open source. You have permission to
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*******IMF Whistleblower or Psyop Plant Karen Hudes: "The Jesuits Run IT ALL!!"
Published on Jan 8, 2015
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Is There a Conspiracy to Bring Honest Money to the World?
Isaac Davis, Contributor
Waking Times
December 12, 2014
It is impossible to unravel our greatest
societal problems without taking aim at the world’s financial system, which is
fundamentally corrupt on many levels.
The global financial system, organized around centrally managed,
privately
owned, fiat, fractional reserve currencies, is an engineered tool of
the world’s banking elite that, by design, enslaves the public to inflation and
impossible to pay off debt. The efforts of the money masters to take control of
the world with their debt-backed money has paid off wildly for them, and the resulting
economic imbalances and fiscal atrocities can be seen in every corner of the
economy and in every nation on earth. While poverty is being globalized, the
banking cartel and their 1% elite are reaping riches greater than the wildest
imaginations of history’s most opulent Kings and rulers.
Freedom for the human race begins with freedom from servitude to
corrupt money.
“The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They
know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy
businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages
or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy
foreigner who bids up our prices. They do not realize that these groups also
are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value
by and through the Federal Reserve System.” – G. Edward Griffin, The Creature
from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Many activists and people with integrity are chipping away at the
financial system by demanding a return to publicly managed, asset-backed
currencies, by creating rogue local currencies, and even by exploring new
technologies like Bitcoin, but, all of these efforts seem to be gaining
momentum much more slowly than the current financial paradigm is stealing our
prosperity and future. For this, many intelligent and prudent folks are preparing
for the worst, a global economic collapse, which would inflict unimaginable
suffering on the world. Under the current paradigm collapse is inevitable.
Is there any hope of overcoming the banking cartels and the
money-changers without the end of life as we know it? Can the human race go
from a completely corrupt economy to an honest economy practically overnight
without suffering the total devaluation of everything so many have worked for?
It seems highly unlikely, but some outspoken people are getting
behind the message that powerful, yet benevolent hands are at work behind the
scenes to do just that: bring about honest money for the world as a replacement
to the fiat fraud and financial plunder we toil under now
Enter The Dragon Family
Outside the circle of usual suspects involved in the debate about
monetary policy are some interesting characters who are unified in a public
message of hope for the world in this regard. Their major claim is that there
is an extremely powerful, yet benevolent, secret Asian organization that has
the connections, influence and capacity to overcome the inertia of corruption
in world finance, doing us all a colossal favor of the highest order.
The primary conspirator in this theory is the so-called Dragon
Family, an above-the-law, outside of the system, extremely wealthy family who
is motivated to save the world from the grip of the evil Rothschildian banksters
and financial manipulators.
A rather basic primer on the Dragon Family is found here:
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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know - The Dragon Family
Published on Mar 14, 2012
In 2009, Japanese nationals were caught trying to transport billions of dollars worth of US bonds to European banks. The US claims these bonds were fake, but others claim there's something bigger afoot. Tune in to learn more about the 'Dragon Family.'
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The Super-Gold Solution from a World Bank Whistleblower
Former World Bank lawyer and whistleblower, Karen Hudes, recently
made statements regarding a behind-the-scenes move by secretive players to
introduce and new gold-backed world currency to replace the collapsing dollar.
Her main claim is that there is a considerable amount of going being secretly
held in bank vaults in Hawaii, Singapore and throughout the US, and that this
gold is being positioned for roll out as a new currency once the dollar begins
to crumble under the stress of corruption and manipulation.
“The gold will be pressed very thin and put between a plastic
envelope which will act just like paper currency, except that the value of the
gold will be equal to the stated value of the currency.” – Karen Hudes
She suggests that within the coalition of BRICS nations there is a
movement to release this wealth to the world as a means of upending economic
collapse:
“Numerous coalitions have formed, such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa) and the Group of 77 (which is actually 130
developing countries) to help releases these gold funds to humanity.” – Karen
Hudes
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Foster Gamble Talks Money Changes
Additionally, Foster Gamble, the creator of the hugely popular and
inspiring documentary film, Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take, recently made a
public announcement making similar claims about a powerful behind the scenes
family making moves to bring honest currency to the world. He claims that the
BRICS nations have created what is called the New Development Bank, and are
actively making agreements that will undermine and replace the dollar, to our
advantage.
His recent statement on this matter is seen here:
A Conspiracy?
So, is there a conspiracy to bring the world honest money? It sounds
like fantasy when you consider the powerful legacy and ongoing history of the
present money masters, yet with such a global awakening underway, the truth
about financial corruption is plain for anyone to see. Something has to give.
The message that there is a hidden hand working to bring honest
money would be exciting, yet there simply is not sufficient evidence available
to support this notion. The downside here is that without the confidence that
this message is true, which we don’t have, the message becomes disempowering,
and we can do without that.
If good-minded and active people are being told that some behind the
scenes, as yet unverifiable, actors are going to swoop in at the last minute
and overrun the corrupt banking cartels, saving us from economic collapse and
financial tyranny, then we are essentially being told to stand down and wait
for the white knight to come to the rescue. The do-nothing approach.
For those of us in the trenches of 9-5 with bills to pay, we have
very little say in what happens with global financial policy at the national
and international level. So, rather than stand-by and wait for this unseen hand
to reveal itself as our savior, it is more empowering and productive to
participate in exposing the financial fraudsters, while exploring tangible,
perhaps even local alternatives to exchanging in fiat dollars.
In doing so, we just might stumble upon a verifiable means of
co-existing here on planet earth without the reptilian need to accumulate and
hoard permission slips of paper issued by corrupt tyrants and soulless
bureaucrats.
Isaac Davis is an outspoken advocate of liberty and an honest
society from the top down. He is a contributing writer for WakingTimes.com
This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to
republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links
remain intact.
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Former Presidents Warn About the “Invisible Government” Running the
United States
Ross Pittman, Guest
Waking Times
September 13, 2013
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”–
George Santayana
According to six of our former presidents, one vice-president, and a
myriad of other high profile political leaders, an invisible government that is
“incredibly evil in intent” has been in control of the U.S. government “ever
since the days of Andrew Jackson” (since at least 1836). They “virtually run the United States
government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both
parties… It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our
executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every
agency created for the public protection.”
As a result, “we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the
most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no
longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and
the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of
small groups of dominant men.”
The sources for the above quotes (and more) are listed below. All of
the quotes in this article have been verified as authentic and have associated
links to the source materials. Also
included below are statements made by David Rockefeller, Sr, former director of
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Federal Reserve Chairman’s Alan
Greenspan and Ben Bernanke that appear to confirm some of the warnings.
Warnings About the Invisible Government Running the U.S.
The warnings listed below, which appear in chronological order,
began with our first president – George Washington. The last president to speak
out was JFK, who was assassinated. Read what they and other political leaders
have said about the invisible government.
George Washington wrote that the Illuminati want to separate the
People from their Government
“It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States.
On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The
idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of
Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the
diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they
are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may… actually had a
seperation [sic] of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to
be questioned.” – George Washington, 1st President of the United States
(1789–1797), from a letter that Washington wrote on October 24, 1798, which can
be found in the Library of Congress. For
an analysis of Washington’s warning, see the article “Library of Congress: George Washington Warns of Illuminati”.
“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more
dangerous than standing armies.” —Thomas Jefferson, dent of the United States
(1801–1809) and principal author of the United States Declaration of
Independence (1776), in a letter written to John Taylor on May 28, 1816
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people
themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one
mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” –
John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech
given on May 27, 1836
Note that it appears that Washington’s and Jefferson’s concerns
regarding bankers and separation of the people from the government was realized
by 1836. This fact was confirmed in a
letter written by FDR in 1933 (see below) in which he wrote that “a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of
Andrew Jackson.” Jackson was the seventh
president of the United States (1829-1937).
Calhoun served as Jackson’s vice-president from 1829-1832.
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the
people. To destroy this invisible
government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt
politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore
Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography,
1913 (Appendix B)
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our
system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men… [W]e have come
to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and
dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free
opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but
a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” –
Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided
to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of
commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so
organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in
condemnation of it.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The
New Freedom, 1913
“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which
like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation…
The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United
States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both
parties, … and control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this
country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive
out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful
corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover
of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative
bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.” – New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York
Times, March 26, 1922
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt
institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and
the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has
cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States
out of enough money to pay the national debt…Mr. Chairman, when the Federal
Reserve act was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a
world system was being set up here… and thatthis country was to supply
financial power to an international superstate — a superstate controlled by
international bankers and international industrialists acting together
toenslave the world for their own pleasure.” – Congressman Louis T. McFadden,
from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10, 1932
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a
financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the
days of Andrew Jackson.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the
United States (1933–1945), in a letter to Colonel Edward M House dated November
21, 1933, as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945.
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by
strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this
country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party
state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our
Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This
group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It
is practically irremovable.” – Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a
conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply
has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our
midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a
philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” —J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths and to secret proceedings… Our way of life is under attack.
Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe… no war ever
posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear
and present danger,” then I can only saythat the danger has never been more
clear and its presence has never been more imminent… For we are opposed around
the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on
covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of
invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free
choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.It is a system which
has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a
tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic,
intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations
are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its
dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is
printed, no secret is revealed.” — John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United
States, from a speech delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers
Association on April 27, 1961 and known as the “Secret Society” speech (click
here for full transcript and audio).
“The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years,
been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political
control of first America, and then the rest of the world. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am
convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in
planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” Congressman Larry P. McDonald,
November 1975, from the introduction to a book titled The Rockefeller File.
“There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own
Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of
national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law
itself.” – Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii, testimony at the Iran
Contra Hearings, 1986
The Federal Reserve
“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people
themselves…” – John C. Calhoun
“… owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the
people.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“… one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I
refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank.“ – Louis T. McFadden
In an interview with Jim Lehrer that was aired on PBS’ News Hour on
September 18, 2007 that you can watch on YouTube, formal Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan said, essentially, that the Federal Reserve was above
the law and that no agency of government can overrule their actions:
Jim Lehrer: “What is the proper relationship, what should be the
proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United
States?”
Alan Greenspan: “Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an
independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of
government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place
and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody
else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the
appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.”
The fact that the Fed is above the law was demonstrated by current
Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, during his appearance before Congress on March 4,
2009 (as shown in this video). Senator Bernie Sanders asked Bernanke about $2.2
trillion in American tax dollars that was lent out by Federal Reserve. Bernanke
refused to provide an answer:
Senator Sanders: “Will you tell the American people to whom you lent
$2.2 trillion of their dollars? … Can you tell us who they are?”
Bernanke: “No”
David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
“We have a well-organized political-action group in this country,
determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…” –
William Jenner
“The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years,
been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political
control of first America, and then the rest of the world.” – Larry P. McDonald
In 1921 the stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an
organization called the “Council on Foreign Relations” (CFR). A full discussion on the CFR is beyond the
scope of this article. Suffice it to say
that the CFR likely plays a prominent role in the invisible government that we
have been warned about. The CFR is alleged to be the arm of the Ruling Elite in
the United States. Most influential politicians, academics and media
personalities are members. The CFR uses its influence to push their New World
Order agenda on the American people.
David Rockefeller, Sr is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller
family. He is the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller,
founder of Standard Oil. Rockefeller
began a lifelong association with the CFR when he joined as a director in
1949. In Rockefeller’s 2002 autobiography
“Memoirs” he wrote:
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the
political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my
encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate
influence they claim we wield over American political and economic
institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against
the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a
more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you
will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
James Warburg, son of CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] founder
Paul Warburg, delivered blunt testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on February 17, 1950:
“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The
question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by
conquest.”
Cognitive Dissonance
“The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil
which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that
human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all
that is good and decent.” —J. Edgar
Hoover
Because of a deep rooted beliefs that the U.S. government is “for
the people” and the protector of the free world, many will reject the notion of
an evil shadow government. When our
beliefs are challenged or when two beliefs are inconsistent, cognitive
dissonance is created. It’s human nature to try to hold our beliefs in harmony
with our world view and avoid disharmony (or dissonance).
For those of you who having difficulty believing the information
presented in this article, I fully
understand. For the first 57
years of my life, I would not have believed in the possibility that a shadow
government could exist. Three years ago
my world view changed. While on vacation in Mount Shasta, I came across a book
titled “Global Conspiracy” that seemed strangely out of place in a metaphysical
book store. I had never heard of the
author before – some guy named David Icke.
I scanned through the book and frankly didn’t believe 99% of what I
read. But, I saw one thing that caught
my attention in that I knew that I could easily verify Icke’s assertion. I did my own research and turned out what
Icke had stated was true. That led me
down a rabbit hole and many, many hundreds of hours of independent research.
So, keep an open mind, do your own research, and use
discernment. Beware that there is a ton
of disinformation on the internet, much of which is intentionally placed to
confuse the public. At a CFR meeting on
geoengineering (see the article “Millions Spent to Confuse Public About Geoengineering“), M. Granger Morgan
stated (it’s captured on video for you to see and hear for yourself):
“First of all, of course, there is a lot of money getting spent to
make sure that a very substantial portion of the public stays totally confused
about this. And, I mean, it’s been really quite pernicious. But there’s been
literally tens of millions of dollars spent on every little thing that comes
along that might, you know, relate to some uncertainty.”
What Can We Do?
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret
Mead
In addition to doing your own research, please spread the word, and
get involved. The Thrive Solutions Hub is an excellent place to join with
others who are taking positive action steps expose corruption and to create a
world in which we can all thrive. You can watch the full Thrive movie on YouTube here.
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Icelander's Force Accountability for Banks - Why Can't We?
George Lakey, Contributorf
Waking Times
June 7, 2012
If Icelanders think their traditional money has lost its legitimacy,
why not adopt the euro or the U.S. dollar? Too much influence from the big
banks of Europe and the U.S., they believe. Better to risk interference from
the smaller and much better-regulated banks of Canada. (Canada, like the
publicly-owned state bank of North Dakota, did far better in the 2008 crisis
than most of the U.S. and Europe.)
For decades, Iceland was part of the “Nordic model” of social
democracy, with the high standards of living, free university education,
universal health care, full employment and other benefits. Like Norway and
Sweden, in the late 1980s the Icelanders flirted with neoliberalism, but unlike
their Viking cousins they went all the way. The right-wing party privatized
banks, cut regulations and lowered the corporate tax rate. The banks, in turn,
created a bubble through hysterical foreign borrowing, and the bubble broke in
September 2008. Banks failed. Unemployment and inflation shot up, and crisis
reigned.
The crowds grew to 10,000 — out of a total population of 320,000! —
and the increasing turbulence forced Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde to announce
that he and his cabinet would resign and new elections would be held. Although
politicians responsible for Iceland’s financial life were resigning, the
campaigners didn’t stop there; they demanded — and won — the resignation of the
governing board of the Central Bank.
The social democrats came back into power and started to clean up
the mess, with help from Sweden and Norway. Iceland was hurt and people had
tough times. However, the social democrats refused to do what capitalist
wizards expected. Instead of trying to pacify international investors, Iceland
created controls on the movement of capital. Instead of initiating an austerity
program, the government expanded its social safety net.
According to The New York Times, “Some economists have argued that
the collapse of its banks forced the country to deal with its problems faster
and aided a swifter recovery.” Iceland’s economy is expected to grow 2.5 percent
this year and next.
But the mood of the cheated Icelanders was not, “Let’s move on.”
In March, Iceland opened a criminal trial against its former prime
minister. Continues the same Times article:
Mr. Haarde was charged, in effect, with doing too little to protect
the country against the depredations of its bankers as they pursued wildly
expansionary lending that resulted in financial disaster for the country.
Haarde was found guilty. Former executives of the failed Kaupthing
Bank have also been indicted.
The movement of Icelanders that rejected a European Union-style
austerity program and instead put accountability where it belonged did not come
out of thin air. Even while some Icelanders were trying to buy glamour through
neoliberalism, others spent the years between 2000 and 2006 protesting the
Karahnjukar hydropower project that the Icelandic 1 percent sponsored along
with the Alcoa and Bechtel corporations.
Decades before that eco-justice campaign, Icelandic women shut down
most of the nation for a day in 1975 to force passage of a civil-rights bill
for women’s equality.
I see two big lessons that the rest of us can learn from the painful
Icelandic experience. First, avoid assuming that activism is a “sometimes
thing,” to be put aside after major victories are won. Icelandic activists
achieved much but then almost lost it. As Canadian labor unions are fond of
pointing out, “The struggle continues.”
Second, it is possible to take your country back from the
mismanagement of the economic elite if your campaign’s strategy generates broad
participation. Iceland mobilized no less than 3 percent of its population in
direct action. For U.S. activists, that implies giving serious attention to
campaign organizing and generating allies. The model of just occasional “mass
bashes” doesn’t cut it.
This article originally appeared at WagingNon-Violence.org, an
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