FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch Of The Military

Think this will lead to more drugs and weapons flooding the streets? Think this has anything to do with the drug war in Mexico? Think this will go ignored like the 9/11 warnings the FBI provided the Whitehouse and the CIA?

Amplify’d from www.businessinsider.com

The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch Of The Military

The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes). The report says the military has seen members from 53 gangs and 100 regions in the U.S. enlist in every branch of the armed forces. Members of every major street gang, some prison gangs, and outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) have been reported on both U.S. and international military installations. From the report: Through transfers and deployments, military-affiliated gang members expand their culture and operations to new regions nationwide and worldwide, undermining security and law enforcement efforts to combat crime. Gang members with military training pose a unique threat to law enforcement personnel because of their distinctive weapons and combat training skills and their ability to transfer these skills to fellow gang members. The report notes that while gang members have been reported in every branch of service, they are concentrated in the U.S. Army, Army Reserves, and the Army National Guard. Many street gang members join the military to escape the gang lifestyle or as an alternative to incarceration, but often revert back to their gang associations once they encounter other gang members in the military. Other gangs target the U.S. military and defense systems to expand their territory, facilitate criminal activity such as weapons and drug trafficking, or to receive weapons and combat training that they may transfer back to their gang. Incidents of weapons theft and trafficking may have a negative impact on public safety or pose a threat to law enforcement officials. The FBI points out that many gangs, especially the bikers, actively recruit members with military training and advise young members with no criminal record to join the service for weapon access and combat experience. The full assessment is definitely worth checking out, if only for the pictures. Read more at www.businessinsider.com

 

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Confessions of an Economic Hitman (POTUS) #peakoil #energy #obama #EHM @collapsenet #OWS

Read the book entitled "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins and you will understand part of this. then listen to the lectures of Michael Klare and watch the documentary "Collapse" with Michael Ruppert.



Then once you've puked and recovered start paying attention to #OWS and @maxkeiser on the Keiser Report on RT.com.



Are the jackals at work in your hometown? If they fail, expect a visit from Special Forces. If they fail, expect the US Military to knock down your door because you are a TERRORIST and a THREAT to SOCIETY.



Bitter yet?

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Oct 21 Letter from President Barack Obama - CEO of USA Energy Inc.

Good evening,

I'm writing to tell you that all US troops will return home from Iraq by the end of December. After nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq will end. It's not because we won necessarily but because we were thrown out.  Our servicemen and women will be with their families for the holidays.

The war in Iraq came with tremendous cost but also had its benefits for the military industrial complex that we are all familiar with. More than a million Americans served in Iraq, and nearly 4,500 gave their lives in service to the rest of us. Today, as always, we honor these patriots and servants of predatory capitalism.

When I came into office, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. As Commander in Chief, I ended our combat mission last year and pledged to keep our commitment to remove all our troops by the end of 2011. To date, we’ve removed more than 100,000 troops from Iraq.

This is a significant moment in our history. For more information, including video, please visit WhiteHouse.gov/BringingTroopsHome.  The end of the war in Iraq reflects a larger trend of American imperialism around the world. The wars of the past decade are drawing to a close and we must move on to the next battlefield or the American economy will collapse.   You see, for many years we have been debasing our currency by printing trillions of dollars and spending it frivolously in order to create a new world order, one in which the wise capitalists that run our shadow government headquartered in the NY & Dallas Federal Reserves, have been able to consolidate their wealth.   We have been able to successfully distract the people from the real issues of global overpopulation and resource depletion with wars justified by acts of violence like 9/11, which we so cleverly disguised as a war with the middle eastern Islamic extremists.  Since they are so different from the rest of the capitalist gluttons, it was easy to place the blame on them while we continued to rape, pillage, and plunder the planet.  We even opened AFRICOM the Imperial military command post in Africa that will help us secure their resources for the next 30-40 years.

As we have removed troops from Iraq, we have refocused our fight against al Qaeda and secured major victories in taking out its leadership–including Osama bin Laden which has provided vital protection to our national interests in the area (oil). And we’ve begun a transition in Afghanistan, where there are trillions of dollars of virgin gold, silver, and mineral deposits.  Also, we must protect our vital national interests of the Caspian Sea, which are BP, Shell, and Unocal oil and natural gas.

On the first day of my Administration, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and we’ll continue to draw it down.

As we welcome home our newest veterans, we’ll enlist their talents in meeting our greatest challenges as a nation—restoring our economic strength at home. Because after a decade of war, the nation that we need to build is our own.

Today the United States moves forward, from a position of strength despite the fact that everyone says we lost the war.

Please honor our soldiers for they know not what our true objectives are.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama Read more at twistedpolitix.blogspot.com

 

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Letter from President Barack Obama - CEO of USA Energy Inc.

Good evening, I'm writing to tell you that all US troops will return home from Iraq by the end of December. After nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq will end. It's not because we won necessarily but because we were thrown out.  Our servicemen and women will be with their families for the holidays. The war in Iraq came with tremendous cost but also had its benefits for the military industrial complex that we are all familiar with. More than a million Americans served in Iraq, and nearly 4,500 gave their lives in service to the rest of us. Today, as always, we honor these patriots and servants of predatory capitalism. When I came into office, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. As Commander in Chief, I ended our combat mission last year and pledged to keep our commitment to remove all our troops by the end of 2011. To date, we’ve removed more than 100,000 troops from Iraq. This is a significant moment in our history. For more information, including video, please visit WhiteHouse.gov/BringingTroopsHome.  The end of the war in Iraq reflects a larger trend of American imperialism around the world. The wars of the past decade are drawing to a close and we must move on to the next battlefield or the American economy will collapse.   You see, for many years we have been debasing our currency by printing trillions of dollars and spending it frivolously in order to create a new world order, one in which the wise capitalists that run our shadow government headquartered in the NY & Dallas Federal Reserves, have been able to consolidate their wealth.   We have been able to successfully distract the people from the real issues of global overpopulation and resource depletion with wars justified by acts of violence like 9/11, which we so cleverly disguised as a war with the middle eastern Islamic extremists.  Since they are so different from the rest of the capitalist gluttons, it was easy to place the blame on them while we continued to rape, pillage, and plunder the planet.  We even opened AFRICOM the Imperial military command post in Africa that will help us secure their resources for the next 30-40 years. As we have removed troops from Iraq, we have refocused our fight against al Qaeda and secured major victories in taking out its leadership–including Osama bin Laden which has provided vital protection to our national interests in the area (oil). And we’ve begun a transition in Afghanistan, where there are trillions of dollars of virgin gold, silver, and mineral deposits.  Also, we must protect our vital national interests of the Caspian Sea, which are BP, Shell, and Unocal oil and natural gas. On the first day of my Administration, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and we’ll continue to draw it down.   As we welcome home our newest veterans, we’ll enlist their talents in meeting our greatest challenges as a nation—restoring our economic strength at home. Because after a decade of war, the nation that we need to build is our own. Today the United States moves forward, from a position of strength despite the fact that everyone says we lost the war.  Please honor our soldiers for they know not what our true objectives are. Thank you, President Barack Obama

Leveraged EFSF Violates Terms of Post WW2 Maastricht Treaty - Europe's Worst Nightmare

Remember hyperinflation lead to the rise of Hitler and the results were catastrophic. The ECB cannot print money like the US Federal Reserve has or the planet will be thrusted into WW3, making the current economic, trade, and currency wars look like piddlesticks.

Amplify’d from globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

Leveraged EFSF Violates Maastricht Treaty; "Merkozy" Master Plan Comes Unglued

Steen Jakobsen, chief economist of Saxo Bank in Denmark just pinged me with the following email comments "Leveraged EFSF deemed violation of Maastricht. The Master Plan is coming apart!" Steen offers additional background:

AIDLER and CHARLES FORELLE BRUSSELS—European officials debating ways to increase the effectiveness of their bailout fund are focusing on using the fund to provide collateral to back up bond issues by troubled countries, according to people familiar with the matter. Lawyers for governments and European institutions have warned that using the bailout fund to provide direct guarantees would violate the European Union's restrictions on bailouts, pouring cold water on the widely circulated notion that the European Financial Stability Facility on its own could simply stand as a guarantor for euro-zone bond issues. Instead, under versions of the plan being discussed ahead of a critical weekend summit, these people said, countries who want to avail themselves of insurance would borrow an additional amount from the EFSF when they need to tap markets for financing. That extra amount would be kept aside to provide some compensation to creditors in the event of a default. The collateral scheme would serve a similar purpose as the direct guarantee might have: giving investors an incentive to buy bonds from potentially-wobbly countries that need financing. The difference is that it would increase the volume of borrowing that those countries need to do. An insurance plan of some variety would boost the effectiveness of the EFSF. That's because insuring, say, 20% of a country's bond issue consumes less of the EFSF's resources than buying 100% of the issue outright. Such a boost is a key pillar of a comprehensive package of crisis measures that European leaders are trying to forge at a meeting here this weekend. French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew Wednesday to Frankfurt to meet with his German counterpart and other top European officials to try to reach a consensus. France has favored a different method of boosting the fund—allowing it to act as a bank and finance itself through the European Central Bank. But the ECB and Germany have rejected that option. That leaves an insurance scheme as the main contender. The other major pillars of the weekend package are a new bailout for Greece and a broad call for recapitalization of European banks. The countries appear closer on the bank issue, but it is not clear that they'll be able to reach an accord on Greece. "Merkozy" Master Plan Comes Unglued The Merkel-Sarkozy "master plan" was nothing more than hot air all along. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy hoped to put together a big bazooka by October 23 that would shock-and-awe the world. However, that bazooka quickly turned into a pea shooter as noted in Bailout Campaign Bogs Down in Bickering; Dead Before Arrival? Assuming the "Leveraged EFSF" idea is now dead, not only is there no bazooka, there is no pea shooter either. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Read more at globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

 

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Global Opportunity for a Paradigm Shift #transition #ows #greece #germany #revolution #usa #china #russia

Does the world really have to be driven by megabanks and infinite growth without respect for the planet and its inhabitants (including the us, the 99%) in order to be considered successful and happy? Why can't we shift to localization without war and indentured servitude? Why does capitalism have to mean limitless expansion and growth? Why is our economic model predicated on never-ending consumption of the earth's finite resources?



What if we had more time to enjoy our lives and our families.

What if we had more time to participate in our democracies?

What if we had more time to contribute to our communities?

What if we had more time to exercise instead of working 40+ hrs a week?

What if we had more time to learn and teach others?



But we can't under the current model because we must WORK, PRODUCE and CONSUME until we are fat, stressed, and unhealthy, and in DEBT.



We must change the economic model NOW. Globally

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Europe's lost decade as $7 trillion loan crunch looms

Europe’s banks face a $7 trillion lending contraction to bring their balance sheets in line with the US and Japan, threatening to trap the region in a credit crunch and chronic depression for a decade.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 8:30PM BST 16 Oct 2011 261 Comments

The risk is "Japanisation" without the benefits of Japan: without a single government, or a trade super-surplus, or 1pc debt costs, or unique social cohesion.

Even today, the jobless rate for youth is near 10pc in Japan. It is already 46pc in Spain, 43pc in Greece, 32pc in Ireland, and 27pc in Italy. We will discover over time what yet more debt deleveraging will do to these societies.

Stephen Jen from SLJ Macro Partners says the loan to deposit (LTD) ratio of Europe’s lenders is 1.2, much like Japanese banks in the early 1990s at the onset of the country’s Lost Decade (now two decades).

How Europe allowed this to happen will no doubt be the subject of many enquiries. Suffice to say that it was an intellectual failure by everybody: lenders, economists, regulators and the European Central Bank. The ECB misread the implications of the global capital surplus in the middle of the last decade (like the Fed) and gunned the M3 money supply at double-digit rates (like the Fed).

This great error further juiced the fatal flood of lending from North Europe to Club Med. Interestingly, it is what US lending did to Germany in the late 1920s. When the music stopped -- when Wall Street cut off loans, as Germany has now cut off loans to Spain -- trouble ensured within two years. Weimar limped on, but not for long.

The Japanese eventually trimmed their LTD ratio to the current safe level of 0.7pc, the same as US banks. It is a fair bet that new bank rules and market pressure will force Europe to do likewise. Mr Jen said this means slashing the loan book from $19 trillion to nearer $12 trillion, given the dearth of fresh deposits.

It will be an ice-cold douche for the world. European banks have $3.4 trillion of cross-border loans to emerging markets (BIS data), three-quarters of the total. They account for 46pc in Asia, 63pc in Latin America, and 90pc in Eastern Europe.

Either these banks will cut funding to Eastern Europe, or they will curtail loans at home. Most likely they will do both. Mr Jen said a lot of nasty "feedback loops" will blight the whole European region for a long time.

The sheer scale of Europe’s bank excesses -- roughly equal to Alan Greenspan’s household bubble in America -- shows what EU leaders are up against as they thrash out their latest "Grand Plan" to save Euroland.

Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have bowed to pressure from Washington and the International Monetary Fund for bank recapitalizations, by compulsion if necessary. Lenders must raise core Tier I capital ratios to 9pc or 10pc.

This is a wise precaution given that Germany plans to impose a Greek default on Europe’s banking system. But it is also "pro-cyclical". It tightens credit further. Lenders threaten to shrink their loan books to meet the target rather than dilute their share base by raising money in a hostile market.

If governments are forced to step in, it will not be much prettier. The IMF pitches fresh capital needs at €200bn, but what if Credit Suisse is nearer the mark at €400bn? Such sums would push the public debt of several states over the danger line, intensifying the vicious circle as banks and sovereigns drag each other down.

Indeed, it you look at each component of the Grand Plan, every one creates a secondary chain of consequences that may ultimately prove self-defeating. It is why I fear there may be no plausible solution to Europe’s crisis. The structural damage has already gone too far.

We are told the Franco-German plan will offer Greece debt-relief worth having, perhaps a 50pc haircut for banks. Investors are understandably furious. This unpicks the voluntary accord for 21pc haircuts agreed in July. "A deal is a deal," said Charles Dallara from the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Moreover, 50pc is not enough. It creates a banking panic without actually solving Greece’s problem.

A third of Greece’s €364bn debt is owed to the IMF, EU, and ECB. That is deemed untouchable. Angela Merkel has so far managed to deflect popular anger over bail-out loans by insisting that they have not cost German taxpayers one Pfennig.

Stephane Deo from UBS said Greece might have to "repudiate its debt entirely" with a 100pc haircut for banks to give itself enough oxygen to breathe again. This would be an earthquake.

No sane investor believes this will stop with Greece. Portugal is in much the same trouble, despite the heroic austerity drive of premier Pedro Passos Coelho -- a latter day Marques de Pombal. The country’s total debt will top 360pc of GDP next year, and its current account deficit is stuck near 10pc of GDP. This mix is worse than in Greece. It is untenable.

We all told too that the EU’s €440bn bail-out fund (EFSF) -- at last approved after high drama in Slovakia -- will be ramped up with "leverage". It is assumed that German lawmakers will tamely go along with this, a mere three weeks after finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble seemed to promise that no such that leverage would occur.

The proposal du jour is Allianz’s "Achleitner Plan", letting the EFSF guarantee the first tranche of losses on bonds: 40pc for Greece, Portugal, and Ireland; 25pc for Italy and Spain. This would boost coverage to nearly €3 trillion of debt issuance.

This plan is dangerous. It concentrates risk, like a Lloyds spiral syndicate, or the "CDOs" and other instruments of legerdemain in the US subprime bubble. There is a high chance that this bluff would be called if Europe tips into a double-dip recession.

Credit markets have already begun to issue their verdict. Yield spreads on the EFSF’s 10-year bonds have almost doubled over Bunds since July. French spreads jumped last week to a post-EMU record of 92 points. Remember that France’s banking liabilities are 409pc of GDP (ECB data), compared to 338pc for Spain, 331pc for Germany, 250pc for Italy, 213pc for Greece.

Any such leverage must inevitably cost France its `AAA’ rating, with parallel effects in Austria as it struggles with a wave of fresh woes in Hungary, Ukraine, and the Balkans. This sets off its own treacherous dynamic.

Even if the IMF and the China-led `BRICS’ were to step with in half a trillion or so, this would create a fresh problem. Foreign purchases of EMU bonds would force up the value of the euro. The effect would tighten the trade noose even further on Spain, Italy, and France. Perhaps that is why Brazil’s Guido "currency war" Mantega likes the idea. It is exchange manipulation behind diplomatic cover.

There is much talk of EMU fiscal union, most recently the "Soros Plan". But what Germany means by EU economic government is better policing of Club Med budgets, not debt-pooling or eurobonds. It should be clear after the ruling of the German constitutional court last month and the fiery debates in the Bundestag that Berlin will not alienate its sovereign fiscal powers to the EU.

Merkozy’s Grand Plan may buy time. It may shift the stress point from one part of the unworkable structure to another. But it cannot conjure away the 30pc gap in competitiveness between Germany and Latin Europe that has built up over fifteen years. It is this intra-EMU currency misalignment that is asphyxiating Club Med and destroying the banks.

The ECB can of course save Euroland, if it is willing to launch stimulus a l’outrance with bond purchases near 20pc of GDP -- like the Bank of England. A reflation policy would undoubtedly lift the South off the reefs, perhaps by targeting M3 growth of 5pc in Italy and Spain for three years. It would allow EMU laggards to claw their way to back to viability.

Any such attempt to correct North-South imbalances from both ends requires an inflationary boom in Germany. That is the price that Germany must pay. But as events have made all too clear over recent months, this runs smack into German ideology and the Teutonic granite of the Bundesbank.

So perhaps there is no solution for EMU after all. Kultur is the ultimate economic fundamental. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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Restore America Plan from Ron Paul

Dear Jeremy,

My staff and I have put together a bold proposal to remove the burden of out-of-control government from off the taxpayers’ backs and restore our nation’s prosperity.

And I want you to be among the very first to get the details of this plan.

On Monday, October 17, I’ll be in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a major press conference to introduce my Restore America budget plan.

This budget will slash federal spending, cut taxes and regulation, and help reestablish limited government, free markets, and sound money in America.

In short, this budget will put our country back on track.

The press conference starts at 3pm and will be held in the Venetian Resort’sCasanova Room.

While this event is free and open to the public, I fully expect it to be packed.

But there’s one way you can guarantee you have a seat for the unveiling of the Restore America plan.

Along with the press conference, I’ll also be in town for a couple of receptions my campaign is hosting on Monday night at Capo’s Italian Steakhouse.

Our Private VIP Reception starts at 6pm.  Tickets to this very exclusive event are $1,000 and extremely limited.

But anyone who buys a ticket to this reception will get VIP seating at my press conference.

We’ll also be hosting a separate Dinner Reception at Capo’s at 7pm, and anyone who buys tickets to the VIP reception will also gain access to the Dinner Reception.

Purchase your tickets for one or both events here.

Every dollar raised at these events will go toward further strengthening and growing this campaign.

There’s no denying that these are trying times for our country.

But I firmly believe that you and I can save our Republic if we’re willing to make the tough choices necessary to implement fundamental changes.

I’m excited about tackling these challenges with the Restore America budget’s key reforms, and I’ll hope you’ll join us for the 3pm press conference on Monday so you can be among the first to hear the details of this bold proposal.

Remember, all those who purchase tickets to the Private VIP Reception will get VIP seating at the press conference, and they will also get access to our separate Dinner Reception.

And if you’ll be in town on Tuesday, October 18, I would love to see you again as we officially open our Las Vegas Campaign Office at 7:30pm.

The details of the press conference, the campaign receptions, and the Las Vegas Office Grand Opening are as follows. 

Monday, October 17, 2011

3:00pm
Restore America Plan Press Conference
Casanova Room – Venetian Hotel
3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Directions are available HERE.

6:00pm
Private VIP Reception
Capo’s Italian Steakhouse
5675 West Sahara Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89146
Tickets are available HERE.

7:00pm
Dinner Reception
Capo’s Italian Steakhouse
5675 West Sahara Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89146
Tickets are available HERE.  Remember, purchasing a ticket to the Private VIP Reception also gains you entry to the Dinner Reception.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

7:30pm
Las Vegas Campaign Office Grand Opening
Las Vegas Headquarters
19 South Stephanie Street, Suite 110
Henderson, NV 89012
Directions are available HERE.

For more information about the press conference, the receptions, or the Campaign Office Grand Opening, click HERE or call my Nevada office at 702-900-2520 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            702-900-2520      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

I hope to see you at one or more of these events!


For Liberty,


Ron Paul

P.S.  I’m hosting several events in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, October 17, and Tuesday, October 18 – and I wanted to personally invite you to attend as many as you can.

On Monday, I’ll be unveiling my Restore America plan to get America back on track at a press conference I’m holding at the Venetian Resort at 3pm.

Later that day, my campaign is hosting two receptions at Capo’s Italian Steakhouse.  Tickets are very limited, and you can purchase them HERE.

Then, on Tuesday, October 18, I’ll attend the Grand Opening Celebration at my new Las Vegas Campaign Office at 7:30pm.

For more information about the press conference, the receptions, or the Campaign Office Grand Opening, click HERE or call my Nevada office at 702-900-2520 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            702-900-2520      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

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Inside Job or Externally Driven Change

Can nations change from the inside out or must it be forced upon the people, companies, and governments ny an outside force such as resource depletion, trade and currency wars, or worse, military wars, organized crime, or terrorism?

Certainly it can be either way, it just depends on how perceptive, persistent, and persuasive our public figures are.

It should not be based in which one side has greater access to capital, but that is the way things have been for thousands of years.

Athens, Rome, Babylon, Tripoli, Kyoto, Leningrad.  All were centers of great empires at some point in human history.  Each one has been raped, pillaged, and plundered after their fall, which is happening now.  Foreign robber barons from around the world have been buying up our assets and institutions since we lost of sovereignty in 2012.

Just as the USSR changed its name after the fall of communism, so will the United States of America after the fall of the fedral reserve system, the banking oligarchy, and the USD.

Then it will be time for patriots, citizens, consumers, politicians, employees, employers, professors, police, nurses, teachers, and even ex bankers to tuck their tail in shame and begin rebuilding a more balanced and sustainable model. 

6 years will be the key.  Every six years the people will vote for their representatives, not just in the Whitehouse, but also the congress, the treasury, the courts, etc.  From local levels to national.

On the same cycle so we as a collective group of citizens will judge our representatives as a whole AMD individually.  There will be retrospective workshops held every cycle where debates will be held about how well the previous administration did. They will detemine what went.well and didn't work. 

They will be measured by gross national happiness which is polled on a regular basis.

Laws and regulations will be adjusted, appealed, or renewed on a local basis depending on how well they functioned.

Their will be good will and debt but they must be balanced on a an annual basis with no more than 6 years accumulation beyond the zero plus

Letters to a President 9/30/201

Dr Paul,

You just might have a chance of winning! They are listening to you.  Hell, Perry is copying you.  You just have to get out there and do something that no president has done since Jimmy Carter; TELL THE TRUTH.

The Fed, The Weed, The Oil Companies, The Banks - Real American History.

But you also have to TELL US A VISION we can all stand behind, as well as KENNEDY.

Something as grande as Kennedy's Trip to the Moon (assuming that was even real).  But it moved us all towards one goal.  Tell them about the high speed rail we can build that runs on solar, hydro, and hemp bio-diesel.  Tell them about the roaring horse power of the new American Bullet trains powered cutting edge technology.  

That's a vision people will stand behind when the price of gas reaches $10 a gallon, which is what will happen when the Eurozone tumbles.  Investors will flee to the USD and gold, maybe silver, and the Pound Sterling, and YUAN from China.  Some to the indian ruppee and others to the russian ruble. Al currencies will spike as the world economies feel the ripple affect of the Greek and Italian defaults.  Then, imports will become more expensive.  Some will even blame others countries for their misery and then the CIA, MI6, ISI and Mossad will play their games and someone will end up dead.  Then a war will start and where will be be?

And that's why hemp should be legalized.  Because war is politix by another means, and economix is business by other means, and business is sometimes personal.  Because it was made illegal to protect the cotton and papers industries and now it stays illegal to protect the oil and banking industries.  

If every American was allowed to grow hemp in their backyard and sell it on the market at a fair price, it would become a commodity.  And then the bankers and speculators would fuck that up too.

Anyway, hemp could become a source of fuel and income.  Some regulations, but the people could regulate themselves with third party auditing.  Balance the powers.  The people need more equity.  The middle class need more equity.  Less debt.

Got it? I'll explain more in my book.  For now you can follow @twistedpolitix

Dr Paul,



You just might have a chance of winning! They are listening to you. Hell, Perry is copying you. You just have to get out there and do something that no president has done since Jimmy Carter; TELL THE TRUTH.



The Fed, The Weed, The Oil Companies, The Banks - Real American History.



But you also have to TELL US A VISION we can all stand behind, as well as KENNEDY.



Something as grande as Kennedy's Trip to the Moon (assuming that was even real). But it moved us all towards one goal. Tell them about the high speed rail we can build that runs on solar, hydro, and hemp bio-diesel. Tell them about the roaring horse power of the new American Bullet trains powered cutting edge technology.



That's a vision people will stand behind when the price of gas reaches $10 a gallon, which is what will happen when the Eurozone tumbles. Investors will flee to the USD and gold, maybe silver, and the Pound Sterling, and YUAN from China. Some to the indian ruppee and others to the russia http://amplify.com/u/a1dzjm

Economic War Caused by Weather? Killer Cantaloupe, Scary Sprouts

@collapsenet #?4MCR Is this economic war? Caused by weather? Killer cantaloupe, scary sprouts http://j.mp/rfcgDA #peakoil #climate



This could have been contaminated when it was flown over. Airborne dust, virus, bacteria, food scum, carcinogens, toxins, poisons, etc. The damn planes are flying dirty boxes and containers from country to country. State to state, city to city, community to community, person to person, man to beast, beast to insect, insect to microbe to speck of energy.



Human intelligence, is it above that of mother earth? How is it that we FORGOT that the planet is alive and we are simply flies on its back.

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Killer cantaloupe, scary sprouts — what to do?

September 30, 2011, 04:10 AM By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Avoid foreign produce. Wash and peel your fruit. Keep it refrigerated. None of these common tips would have guaranteed your safety from the deadliest food outbreak in a decade, the one involving cantaloupes from Colorado. Whether it’s sprouts or spinach, turkey or hamburger; whether the government doubled, tripled or quadrupled inspections, the truth is that no food will ever be completely free of risk. And a few foods have become so risky that certain people such as children, pregnant women and the elderly may do best to avoid them altogether until growers and the government figure out how to make them safer, some food experts say. An unappetizing fact: Although the current cantaloupe outbreak has been tied to just one farm in Colorado, it’s at least the 19th outbreak involving that melon since 1984. It’s also the first one caused by listeria, a germ that actually likes to be in the refrigerator and thrives in this fruit, which cannot be cooked unless you want to eat melon mush. Listeria also prompted a California farm to recall bags of chopped romaine lettuce on Thursday because of possible contamination, though no illnesses have been reported. The greens from Salinas-based True Leaf Farms went to an Oregon distributor and possibly at least two other states — Washington and Idaho. So what should you do if you see cantaloupe on a salad bar or at the grocery store? Can you be sure all of the tainted stuff has been pulled from the market, since the last bad melons were shipped on Sept. 10? What if no one knows where the cantaloupe was grown? “If the store can’t tell them or the restaurant can’t tell them, I would not buy it at all,” said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America. Laura Anderko, a Georgetown University public health expert, went a step further. “Honestly, as a nurse, I would tell people don’t eat the cantaloupe until this thing resolves itself,” she said. “This stuff happens because our system is not as tight as it needs to be.” The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has confirmed 13 deaths and 72 illnesses in the outbreak so far, has not told people to stop buying cantaloupe. However, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration cannot even say where all of the tainted melon went, because it was sold and resold to many distributors across the nation. “When in doubt, throw it out,” is the CDC’s advice to consumers who have any cantaloupe whose origins they can’t determine. “Even if the cantaloupe is gone, you need to wash the drawer or shelf it may have been on” to make sure other foods don’t become contaminated, said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Beyond that, each outbreak brings fresh lessons on how to make produce safer. And while some of these things aren’t guarantees, they can cut the odds you’ll lose at the food safety lottery. Some new tips food experts offered Thursday: — Shop more often and consume fresh fruits and vegetables within a few days. This gives germs less chance to multiply and gives you more nutrients from your food, too. — Don’t just wash a melon. Scrub it under running water to rinse off any dislodged germs, and let it dry. If you cut it while it’s still wet, “you may be sliding the pathogens more easily from the outside to the inside” on the knife, DeWaal said. — Keep the fridge cold, 40 degrees or lower. Higher than that can let germs grow. — Don’t get a false sense of security if you buy organic produce. That just means less pesticide — not necessarily fewer germs. — Consider dropping especially risky foods from your diet. Bean sprouts are not safe for children, pregnant women or people with weak immune systems and certain diseases, but that doesn’t mean they’re OK for everyone else, said Michael Doyle, a microbiologist who heads the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. Doyle also consults for a lot of food companies, including a major spinach producer that sought help after outbreaks involving that vegetable. He has chaired a food safety advisory council for McDonald’s for many years. “I don’t eat sprouts at all,” he said. If harmful bacteria are in the seeds “they grow in the sprouting process, and there’s nothing to kill them unless you cook them.” You can go too far with this, though. Even Dr. Robert Tauxe, the CDC’s top food-germ sleuth, once confessed over lunch that he refused to live in fear of the fork, and that there were only a few foods he absolutely wouldn’t eat, such as raw oysters and unpasteurized milk. Beyond that, safe handling and cooking can generally keep most foods safe, he said. The big picture is important, said Robert Gravani, a food scientist at Cornell University. A gazillion pounds of produce are consumed each day, and only a tiny fraction cause problems, he said. “I have a hard time saying, ‘Don’t eat produce,’ because of all of the health benefits,” he said. “Everything we do has some degree of risk attached to it.” ——— Online: Food safety tips: www.cspinet.org , http://www.fightbac.org Read more at www.smdailyjournal.com

 

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Weather, Climate, and the Scientific Impact on Human Activity and Economic Cycles

Economic cycles: long cycles and business cycles since 1870

 By Solomos Solomou


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Is America Fomenting War with Pakistan? pt1

The CIA and the news have been reporting quite a lot lately about Pakistan's ISI working with the Hakkani network. It looks like now that OBL is dead, we need a new phantom to chase in order to hide the energy wars. Remember, the Unocal pipeline runs through Pakistan and Afghanistan from the Caspian Sea, all around Iran. On the other side of Iran, the US thought they had secured Iraq. Now it is all falling apart.

Amplify’d from nation.com.pk

All stand united for national defence Published: September 26, 2011

ISLAMABAD – Mounting threat of US attack on Pakistani soil after Islamabad’s blunt refusal to blindly implement Washington’s orders against the Haqqanis has generated a national fervour for country’s defence, swinging Prime Minister Gilani into action. The premiere Sunday contacted leaders of all shades of opinion to take them on board and inform that he was going to call an all-party conference in the days ahead to hammer out with consensus a strategy to deal with the situation. The mainstream political parties across the national spectrum vowed to go to any extent to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, vowing to stand by the government and the army in this noble cause. Gilani, who met President Asif Ali Zardari later the same day, also asked Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to immediately return from New York after her address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. A PM House spokesperson said the premiere Sunday spoke to the foreign minister twice and asked her to forcefully project Pakistan’s point of view on that important platform. The prime minister’s initiative of direct contacts with all the political leaders was appreciated by all political quarters who are concerned over the gravity of the situation because of the widening divergences between Pakistan and the United States. PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujat Hussain, MQM chief Altaf Hussain, JUI-F amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman, ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, Jamaat-i-Islami amir Syed Munawwar Hasan, Awami Muslim League President Sheik Rashid Ahmed, Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan, PML-Q Likeminded President Salim Saifullah Khan, PPP-S Chairman Aftab Sherpao, JUP President Maulana Anas Noorani and Fata leader Munir Orakzai are among the leaders the prime minister talked to. The prime minister told the political leaders that they would be given a briefing on the situation and then in the light of their suggestions a strategy would be framed. No date has been set, though various political leaders said the APC would be held during the next few days. Although there have been ups and downs in the past in the relations between the two allies in war on terror, the ties plummeted to the lowest ebb when the United States alleged that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) supported the Haqqani group, an accusation Pakistan strongly denies, and a number of its officials issued threats that the US could launch ground attack in Waziristan to get the Haqqanis. A session of the National Assembly has already been called for October 3 to discuss the situation arising out of the US allegations of “exporting terrorism” to Afghanistan. It is believed the APC would be held much before the NA session. Political leaders have different assessments about the likely course the US could take in the changed situation. However, all leaders are of the view that the US has lost the battle in Afghanistan despite spending billions of dollars over the past 10 years and was now trying to make Pakistan a scapegoat. Some leaders said that they told the premier that he has taken the initiative very late. Still, they said, it was a step in the right direction. Following the contacts by PM Gilani with mainstream political parties, PTI Chairman Imran Khan contacted JI amir Syed Munawar Hasan on telephone and discussed with him the situation, suggesting him to formulate a joint strategy for participation in the APC. PTI chief Imran Khan said that if US attacked Pakistan, the nation would stand against the US. He said that he would attend all parties’ conference as it is for the national cause. Senator Zahid Khan of ANP said that Pakistan is a sovereign state and cannot be run on the foreign dictation. He said that any foreign interference in Pakistan would not be tolerable. PML-Q Senior Vice President Sheikh Waqqas Akram said that the Core Commanders Conference in this situation was a need of the hour. He said that the nation has full confidence on his military and political leadership and would welcome every decision being made by them. He further said that the people of Pakistan stand united with Pakistan army and ISI. He said that the international community should recognise our sacrifices in the war against terror and the US doesn’t try to blame Pakistan for its failures. When contacted, Senior MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said that every nation in the world has its own interest, which they serve with their full efforts. Sometimes situation requires some specific measures. In case of internal and external pressure, Rizvi said, “We should always serve our national interest.” To a question, he said that this is very serious situation and needs to be dealt with wisdom. The government and other forces are united for the solidarity and integrity of Pakistan. Read more at nation.com.pk

 

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Vote for Ron Paul to End the Federal Reserve #occupywallst

Usury and debased coin have become the new American nightmare, just like Rome. Fractional reserve banking enables the banks to lend out and make a profit with a multiplier affect.

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Milton Friedman:

END THE FED

and

Withdraw from the Bank for International Settlements, the IMF and the World Bank

Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman is known now as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. As our readers will have noted, Dr. Friedman praised our Monetary Reform Act and perhaps unbeknownst to them assisted in drafting it, with suggestions and constructive criticisms. Yet a few of our readers have emailed wondering how Dr. Friedman could support genuine reform in the markets based on reform legislation when he seemed to be fundamentally opposed to government interference in the marketplace.

The distinction is between theory and practice. Theoretically to minimize government interference in the operation of the free markets is an ideal, which follows Frederich von Hayek’s (author of 1944 classic The Road to Serfdom) view that maximizing the ability of business to allocate resources efficiently at the lowest levels without government or political interference combined with the freedom to contract worked best to ensure a productive economy. Conversely, the failed examples of communist and socialist governments, which prohibited or controlled private business nearly totally, seemed to cement Hayek’s view as the correct approach.

The gradual victory of Hayek’s anti-regulatory, pro-market economic views in the West, largely through the influence of Milton Friedman particularly in the 1980s Reagan-Thatcher period (Friedman was an economic advisor to President Reagan) began a worldwide deregulatory trend that eventually included the financial sector. The Economist magazine praised him as “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it“. In 1988 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. Initially the results of implementing his pro-market prescriptions were largely positive. Excessive government regulation, particularly in more socialist economies, had in fact created a stranglehold on businesses – especially small to medium-sized – that was doing far more harm than good.

Pushed too far the same views that initially helped business resulted in an extreme anti-regulatory environment that began to benefit only the largest companies as they were increasingly freed to use their economic power to warp the free markets in their favor. This became particularly true in the financial sector in the 1990’s when they succeeded in getting part of the 1933 Glass-Steagal Act repealed with passage of the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. A host of federal and state regulatory acts stemming from the experiences of the Great Depression were repealed in the 1990s and beyond. Branch banking and interstate banking became widespread resulting in numerous bank mergers consolidating most banking into a handful of banks later deemed TBTF (Too Big to Fail) and so were given special, favored treatment by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and later Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed Chairman Bernanke with taxpayer-financed bank bailouts and low interest loans. The foxes were rewarded for gutting the hen house.

Without recounting those partial causes of the 2007-2010 Credit Contraction, suffice it to note that one result was a trend away from the almost laissez-faire (French trans. “leave it alone”) anti-regulatory approach of the 1980s on.  Some have turned the blame for the current situation on Milton Friedman. Is that fair? It depends on who and what is to blame for the current recession/depression (as Present Reagan sagely noted, “If your neighbor is unemployed it’s a recession; if you are unemployed it’s a depression”).

Let us listen to Milton Friedman on the single cause of severe economic depressions:

“I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.”

Was Friedman right this time too – was this recession/depression caused by a “sharp decline in the stock of money.” If so, what was its origin? Let’s start with a look at the top of the international financial system.

The Central bankers’ Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1988 in its “Basel I” regulations imposed an 8% capital reserve standard on member central banks. This almost immediately threw Japan (which had banks with 3-5% capital reserves) into a 15 year economic depression as those banks contracted credit to comply with Basel I. In 2004 Basel II imposed “mark to the market” capital valuation standards that required international banks to revalue their reserves according to changing market valuations (such as falling home or stock prices). The US implemented those standards in November, 2007. Almost immediately, in December 2007 the US stock market collapsed and credit began drying up as banks withheld loans to comply with the 8% capital requirement as collateral valuations, particularly on homes, began to drop. The snowball effect of tightening credit, which reduces economic activity and values further, which resulted in further tightening of credit, etc., has produced a worldwide recession/depression.

Was Friedman to blame for that, or was the BIS and implementation of its Basel II regulations?

For those unfamiliar with the BIS – it is the central bankers’ bank. It is above all governments, is exempt from the laws of its host country – Switzerland, and its regulations, which are adopted among its 53 member Central banks, become in effect part of the banking law of those nations without legislative approval (such as that of the US Congress). Yet they effect the economies of those member nations and that of the world, as we are still experiencing, a’ la Japan. The BIS is in most respects, when combined with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank, a worldwide version of the US Federal Reserve System. Here is former JP Morgan Chase CEO Walter Shipl­ey on this point re the IMF:

The same thing is true on the international front. The world clearly needs the global equivalent of the Federal Reserve. That is what the role of the IMF is.

What was Milton Friedman’s attitude towards the Fed (and towards the BIS/IMF/World Bank combo which is the global equivalent of the US Fed). For starters, he squarely blamed the Great Depression on the Fed:

“The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead of using its powers to offset the depression, it presided over a decline in the quantity of money by one-third from 1929 to 1933 … Far from the depression being a failure of the free-enterprise system, it was a tragic failure of government.”. —Milton Friedman , Two Lucky People, 233

Friedman was opposed to the very existence of the Fed:

“Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes ‑‑ excusable or not ‑‑ can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic ‑‑ this is the key political argument against an independent central bank. . .To paraphrase Clemenceau: money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”

Friedman was in favor of abolishing the Federal Reserve System and replacing it with a mathematical model that would keep the quantity of money increasing at a steady rate, issued directly by the government (Treasury) and ending fractional reserve banking powers for the banks, which is why he supported our Monetary Reform Act. He said he actually would “like to abolish the Fed“, and pointed out that when he wrote about reforming the Fed it was simply his recommendations of how it should be run given that it exists. Though opposed to the existence of the Fed, Friedman argued that, given that it does exist, a steady expansion of the money supply was the only wise policy, and he warned against efforts by a treasury or central bank such as the Fed to do otherwise.

Friedman emphasized the advantages of free market economics and the disadvantages of government intervention and regulation. He opposed cartels and monopolistic business practices such as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created in the US banking industry, delegating to them the exclusive power to create most of the US money supply. Friedman later concluded that all government intervention associated with the New Deal was “the wrong cure for the wrong disease“, arguing that the money supply should simply have been expanded, instead of contracted. Friedman and economist Anna Schwartz argued that the Great Depression was caused by monetary contraction, which was the consequence of poor policymaking by the Fed. Friedman encapsulated his philosophy in a lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile, saying: “free markets would undermine political centralization and political control.”

Friedman said: “If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years there’d be a shortage of sand”. Friedman’s distrust of massive government has recently been reflected in the public mood resulting in the upset election of a Republican Senator in liberal Massachusetts. After Friedman’s death, Keynesian Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, while regarding Friedman as a “great economist and a great man,” criticized him during 2007 by writing that “he slipped all too easily into claiming both that markets always work and that only markets work. It’s extremely hard to find cases in which Friedman acknowledged the possibility that markets could go wrong, or that government intervention could serve a useful purpose.” However, Keynesian economists William Baumol and Alan Blinder repudiated that view, writing that “Friedman is surely no anarchist … He recognizes that any society needs laws, and that legislation and enforcement of the law are proper roles for government in a free society.” Friedman himself acknowledged cases where, for instance, government regulation or a public monopoly may be preferred to private monopoly (e.g., in money creation, which should be exclusively the perogative of government and never delegated to private banks to create using fractional reserve lending practices as is the present case) and noted numerous areas where he believed government intervention is necessary:

“A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, served as a means whereby we could modify property rights and other rules of the economic game, adjudicated disputes about the interpretation of the rules, enforced contracts, promoted competition, provided a monetary framework, engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which supplemented private charity and the private family in protecting the irresponsible … would clearly have important functions to perform. The consistent [classical] liberal is not an anarchist.”

Rather than an economic anarchist, Friedman was a believer in freedom. He opposed what he saw in communist and socialist command economies as excessive governmental control and restriction on freedom (even in the educational realm), and similar tendencies in the Western economies. He was not a laissez-faire economist, rather he was a monetarist – a school of economic thought that may be traced back to the 16th century School of Salamanca. Monetarists do not generally support government intervention in the markets as this is contrary to a properly functioning free market system. However, if the economic system is already warped by special interests and private monopolistic practices (such as the financial system in the US is and has been since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 cabalizing the US banking industry and allowing their cabal to create money using fractional reserve banking) then monetarists inevitably want to see balance and justice restored to the free market system, in this case by abolishing the Fed and withdrawing from participation in the BIS/IMF/World Bank combination.

Monetarists are neither supporters of socialism nor monopoly capitalism. They are instead supporters of the third way – the free market system – which opposes both aforesaid forms of economic totalitarianism. Friedman was a monetarist and a strong supporter of the free market system (even in the educational system by supporting use of school vouchers).

In the current economic setting, Freidman’s writings suggest that cutting spending to reduce the fiscal deficit would result in less transitional unemployment than raising taxes to do so. In other words, the solutions proposed by the Bush and Obama administrations of massive government intervention in the markets will prolong unemployment compared to reducing government spending (which is diverting national resources away from productive industry).

At the same time Friedman, a strong supporter of transparency, would undoubtedly support Congressman Ron Paul’s push to audit and to end the Fed. He supported prohibition of fractional reserve banking and withdrawing the US from the BIS/IMF/World Bank global equivalent of the Fed (as his support of our Monetary Reform Act which advocates exactly that demonstrates [see Monetary Reform Act Sections 4 and 15 excerpted below this article]). The BIS is responsible for this current recession/depression and with the US Fed has misused its control of great wealth and resulting influence radically to tilt the economic system in the favor of the major international banks and against all other economic sectors. This threatens to subject the political liberty of the entire world to BIS supra-governmental economic regulations since political liberty depends upon private control of private property.

Just as in the Great Depression (renamed the Great [Credit] Contraction by Friedman), the government caused the current severe recession/depression by implementing the BIS Basel II regulations and is again applying “the wrong cure for the wrong disease.” The right cure is to abolish the Fed, prohibit fractional reserve banking and withdraw from the BIS/IMF/World Bank supra-government that initiated this economic crisis. The international banks behind these financial bodies have manipulated the financial system of the world to aggregate more and more wealth into their hands, concentrating vast economic power and hence political power under their control.

What Friedman wrote regarding the US Fed, quoted above, is even more germane to the international combination of the BIS/IMF/World Bank:

“Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes ‑‑ excusable or not ‑‑ can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic ‑‑ this is the key political argument against an independent central bank. . .To paraphrase Clemenceau: money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.” – Milton Friedman

Excepts from the Monetary Reform Act (supported by Dr. Friedman: “I am entirely sympathetic with the objectives of your Monetary Reform Act…I am impressed by your attention to detail in your successive revisions… Milton Friedman”):

Sec. 4. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) RESERVE REQUIREMENT. Section 19(b)(2)(A-D) of the Federal Reserve Act is hereby amended to raise the Reserve Requirement ratio for financial institutions, in equal monthly increments of eight and one-half percent (8.5%), to one hundred percent (100%), during the said transition period.

Sec. 15. WITHDRAWAL FROM INTERNATIONAL BANKS. It is hereby declared as a matter of federal statutory law that membership and/or participation of the United States government, or its agencies, or of the Federal Reserve Board or Reserve Banks or any officer or employee thereof, with the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and all other international banks, is inconsistent with and in direct conflict with the purposes of this Act of Congress. Read more at www.themoneymasters.com

 

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