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[Nickeson]

Wasserman and Caldicott are not drivle...they are the best there is.

Jana,
I'll take your word that Wasserman and Caldicott are good. Would you please consider the proposition that video is not. By the very nature of the medium the information that comes through video is manipulated, heavily edited (time constraints), transitory, resistant to close reading or close attendance, and prone to misinterpretation. Video diminishes content and the viewer's retention curve. Video is an excellent medium for low content entertainment which is why it is a very poor medium for high content information exchange. Video makes for excellent propaganda possibilities because it creates insulating distance between the viewer and direct experience. Video manages the viewer's experience and diminishes the viewer's autonomous capabilities to manage the process of their own experience,or think for themselves during that experience. Video is a narcotic. I think its excessive presence on this forum is an assault on, and an insult to, both the hearts and minds of anyone who comes here.

[Jana]

It doesn't really matter what we think or what we know, the power systems, the course of inevitable history will continue regardless.

To an extent all human thought and information is propaganda. I just had someone complain about my communication style...my MO of using questions as information gathering opportunities and presenting the poor questioner with a sh*t load of stuff.

"I feel as thought you are trying to forcefully convince me of your view point. Do you know what inframince is? It is a French technical term from the art criticism world from around 1930. Even though its is obscure and out of common use, it sort of applies here. Inframince is one philosophical vanishing point, that place somewhere out of the horizon that concepts merge and parallel lines become the singular heavy line of the horizon, a demarcation between one thing and the other. However, it is usually used as a pejorative indicating that the argument has gotten so far a field, so distant, that the premise is blurred into an imperceivable point in the distance, one which you can never reach."

I will probably come across the breakeven point at some point. I think looking at France's operation would be a good idea as they have the smoothest Nuke Industry in the world. They seem to think Nuc.Power is a "Necessary Disease." Yikes.

I was watching some Journeymantv videos last night. There is a company in france that says they can make Nuc Stations without the need for subsidy.
Right now nuc power produces 16% of the worlds energy and the industry is projecting that rise to 25-30%. If the number of nuc. stations increases there is only about 50 year of easily recoverable Uranium. The new stations use less...and the rods can be recycled,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lkh_y47XaA&feature=related —Nuc Power

Get that the ultimate excuse for building nuc stations is global warming and adherence to the Koyoto Protocols. I see this situation as unstopable—the investment will be toward nuclear...but within a short amount of time vastly superior energy systems will come on line...the nuclear industry may continue to be a parasite on the economy or eventually all the units will be closed down...definitely within 50 years.

FUSION GOING AHEAD IN UK
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford UK, Nuclear fusion project http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn12616-nuclear-fusion-project-gets-the-green-light.html —UK, hopes to develop commercial nuclear fusion using lasers to crush together isotopes of hydrogen - deuterium and tritium - to create helium. This releases neutrons and huge amounts of energy.

[Jana]

The Beast has the earth firmly in its grip and there is nothing we can do to change that. Curb one arm of the Beast and it will cunningly grow another arm in a different direction. To stand like an ant in front of the Beast and scream that it should not be so evil and greedy is wasted energy…for the Beast will always be a Beast.

I could never be an activist against the Beast for I have too much anger in me, and like a child I want everything to make sense and be fair. Hence I will no longer rage against the Beast. The earth would be better off without us humans altogether. Because of the Beast, we are a failed experiment and probably on our way out. Starving in a world of plenty, the Beast will eat up everything and turn everything to radioactive dust.

Till then, we can work on the hundredth monkey effect. Building our permaculture utopias. Generating sanity, order and regenerating the earth. Building energy, regenerosity and revealing in the beauty of nature. Marveling in the intricacies and efficiencies of goodness. Perhaps morphogenically seeding the idea in the Universal Mind that higher conscious life is possible.

[Jana]

MANDATE FOR IRAQI FREEDOM

• The Iraq genocide is classified as a Holocaust. Thus it weighs on the soul of all people of the earth and it is up to all of us to stop it.
• The American People stop this crime by not paying taxes until the international war criminals are brought to trial.
• Stronger codifiers and consequences are developed by the International Counsel for World Peace to determine the illegality of wars of aggression and resource wars, including life imprisonment for the high-ranking offenders.
• Capital punishment is insufficient punishment for the crime of genocide and endangering the global community. Thus international war criminals are impeached and/or prosecuted and sent to Recompensation Top Security Prison for life, with all their capital and property going to the victims of their crimes.
•Impeachment of Bush and Cheney is essential to reinstate the rule of law, reinstate American-pride, sense of state security and to reconstitute the constitution.
• Impeachment of war criminals is also necessary to reinstate faith in the rule of law, which is the basis to economic prosperity, quality of life and soul and the prevention of social sickness and the breakdown of culture.
• The power elite and evil schemers that caused 1 million Iraqi deaths give all their money away to the families of the dead.
• The perpetrators of international crimes of aggression are interned in a "Recompensation Top Security Prison." This is a prison work camp for political-war criminals where they earn money by manual or menial labor for the rest of their lives to give to the people of Iraq...and to the soldiers they forced into illegal war.
• The American aggressor offers a public written and spoken apology to the victim state of Iraq and to the global community for their crime and to make reparations of every conceivable kind.
• Food, medicine, toys, educational materials, and other necessities are offered to Iraq from all corners of the world.
• Help is given with rebuilding and civil reconstruction, permaculture development of the land.
• Contracts with Halliburton, Carlyle Group and all Big US Business should cease. Reconstruction can only be undertaken by non-aggressor nations…ie: friendly countries.
• International Community Work Camp—Huge camps are set up for the international community, for those who which to participate in the clean up and reconstruction.
• The first wave of aid is to remove the DU material. Dr. Rokke said that no gas mask will keep out the DU dust, so these workers will need oxygen respirators etc....
• DU weapons are indisputably classed as a Weapon of Mass Destruction and come under the same international controls as other nuclear weapons.
• All nuclear weapons around the world are outlawed and dismantled. As a show of serious appeasement for the crime of the century undertaken by the US, they decommission their nuclear weapons first.
• If the US really cared for democracy in Iraq, then they would not have spread radioactive waste from one end of the country to the other. What use is democracy to a terminal cancer patient.
• The half a million US military personnel that are dead, diseased and dying from the Iraq wars are dismissed from duty with full wage pension for life. With full medical and psychological care.
• The US Government apologizes to the military and intelligence community for the outright abuse of its personnel, for sending them on illegal wars and for not telling them about the permanent, multiple generational consequences of DU.
• The US constitution is reconstituted and includes legislation that prevents special energy and weapons interests, Monsanto or other big business from either holding a government position or influencing policy through bribes or campaign contributions.
• The International Justice Organization is set up to investigate the moral and legal standing of the Bildaberger Group, Counsel on Foreign Relations, International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, National Security Counsel etc…
• Meetings of the power-elite are to be open to the press or be classified as illegal activity. All participants of such groups that meet with the intent on harming the international community will be jailed for life under the crime of “conspiracy to do grave harm.”
• The US Government nor any faction within it can hire private mercenary and security firms, for there is no ethical reason why they should need to do so.
• The Mafia and Drug industry run by the CIA is stopped. Ibogaine is allowed to be used in the rehab of America’s drug addicts. These people are given the opportunity to live and work on permaculture farms to reintegrate them into useful society.
• Farmers in Afghanistan and South America etc…are given non-GM seeds to grow crops other than drugs. Micro loans or direct aid is given to these people to reestablish healthy village life.
• The International Whistleblower Organization provides safe haven and legal counsel for any individual of any nation that wishes to expose illegal and harmful activities and planning within the corrupt power-elite, government or industry.
• The International Whistleblower Organization works with the International Justice Organization and the International Counsel for World Peace and the International Community Work Camp…to carefully monitor tension around the world, to watch for the stages of fascism that might arise, and to intervene and change the power structures before conflict escalates.
• Politically corrupt leaders are charged with the damage to the souls, bodies and minds of all the young people that they manipulated into killing for them.
• Individuals below the age of 30 cannot make a rightful decision and are overly influenced by ideologies like patriotism, heroism, peer influence, violent movies and their hormones. Coercion of youth into murder is an international high crime.
• Osho said that you cannot right the wrong of murder by killing the murderer. It is the "preservation" of life that we have to honor "with" our lives, not by killing. youtube.com/watch?v=3iKDAhN_hl4
• The First International Law is the ubiquitous law of the supreme value of life and of property that supports that life. This "fundamental ethic of the value of life" is to be ingrained into humans from infancy.
• Murder is a mental illness. Only sick people murder...and murdering makes people sick. War is thus both an outlaw and insane activity.
• There is no honorable war, except for fighting off an aggressor...in which case the hidden cartel behind the US war machine should be thoroughly punished and dismantled for aggression.
• Every deliberate killing results in a criminal trial for the responsible person, whether on the battlefield or anywhere. If you're standing somewhere outside your home with weapons, this is never self-defense.
• Accidental killings are reviewed for negligent participants that should be punished in an equable manner. Any destruction of property is likewise be subject to litigation and/or criminal prosecution.
• Terrorism is overcome not through war, but through education, job creation, apprenticeship, greening the land, equality between the sexes, nurturing-safe childhoods, and generating a sense of vision and hope in the future.
• The bioenergetics of fascism: Sex energy is that energy which is cultivated into Love and communion. Left repressed and uncultivated however, this energy turns to discursiveness, chaos and war and the negative emotions in general. ”Make love not war.”


www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15385.htm  —Video, Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq, John Pilger (also see The War on Democracy).
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15096.htm  —Iraq for Sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sstDwKTCpM&feature=related Bill Moyers, secret government 1987…basically sums it up
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372545413887273321 —The Trap: Episode One (Adam Curtis, BBC)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_tDhmE2ms&feature=related —Petro Dollar Result Part 1 Nothing Lasts Forever 9/11
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNAGE9rLFRg&NR=1 —Chomsky vs. Pearle debate

[Jana]

Bush is still spreading the lie that Saddam would not let the weapons inspectors in to Iraq, and that is why the US invaded. However there is even video/audio recording of him talking about the weapons inspectors in Iraq prior to this.
 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/09/08/ritter.iraq/ — Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter…I bear personal witness through seven years as a chief weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations to both the scope of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs and the effectiveness of the UN weapons inspectors in ultimately eliminating them. www.commondreams.org/views02/0721-02.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/12/21/target_iran_former_un_weapons_inspector

www.ustourofduty.org/pages/events.html  —Scott Ritter tour across America...CHECK OUT HIS DATES NEAR YOU!

 We see with Bush's Saudi trip today, that he was after the 20 Billion dollar weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. Confirming once again that Bush does not work for the American people, he works exclusively for the oil companies and the weapons mongers and Halliburton etc...

Note Virgin Air is doing a trial flight next month from UK to Amsterdam with a new type of biofuel which was unknown 2 years ago, and which is like nothing else out there. That is Virgin has a secret virgin oil?

[Jana]

Last updated January 14, 2008 8:04 p.m. PT
Virgin Atlantic to fly a 747 using biofuel
Trip from London to Amsterdam will be a first

P-I NEWS SERVICES

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., the British carrier controlled by billionaire Richard Branson, will fly a plane powered by biofuel, the first in commercial aviation, 10 months earlier than planned.

The airline will operate one of its Boeing 747s from London Heathrow to Amsterdam, Netherlands, next month using the alternative fuel, Virgin said Monday. The test flight, without passengers, is part of a joint project involving the carrier, The Boeing Co. and engine producer General Electric Co.

The announcement comes as oil, which accounts for 30 percent to 50 percent of airlines' operating costs, sells for more than $90 a barrel and as aviation is increasingly blamed for contributing to global warming. Biofuel contains plant material and burns cleaner than traditional jet fuel.

"Flying our 747 on biofuel 10 months earlier than planned is a major breakthrough," Branson said. "The flight will give our engineers and those at Boeing and GE vital learnings for the passenger flights of the future."

The London-based carrier will release details of the biofuel next month, spokesman Paul Charles said. The fuel is from a "very sustainable" source, he said and will not compete with food or water resources.

The test flight will run on a blended mix of biofuel and kerosene, with at least 25 percent coming from the alternative fuel, Charles said. After the demonstration flight, Boeing will ask other carriers to do tests, which might lead to biofuel-powered commercial flights within a couple of years, he said.

Air New Zealand Ltd., the country's biggest carrier, also plans to develop biofuels suitable for use in commercial aircraft. Test flights will start in late 2008 or early 2009, the Auckland-based airline has said. Next month's flight is able to run 10 months early because the results of initial engine testing were better than expected, Charles said.

Manufacturers such as Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric and London-based Rolls-Royce Group Plc, the world's two largest jet engine makers, are increasing fuel efficiency as they test biofuels that reduce carbon emissions.

Fuel efficiency has improved 70 percent in four decades. Airlines now burn 4 liters of fuel a passenger per 100 kilometers flown, about the same average as cars, according to Boeing.

Still, the aviation industry accounts for 1.6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the European Environmental Agency. Airliner emissions are expected to increase by 3 percent annually through 2015, the agency says.

Branson started an alternative fuels division at Virgin in 2006, pledging profits from his airline and trains for 10 years.

In the middle of 2007, Virgin trains began a six-month trial of a passenger train using biofuel, an experiment the company said could lead it to switch its fleet to a mix of diesel and biofuel.

His green private equity fund, the Virgin Green Fund, has invested millions of dollars in biofuel startups such as Cilion, Ethanol Grain Processors and Indiana Bio-Energy.

[Jana]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iqoJHOSrjQo  —Scott Ritter prior to 2003 invasion
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jfuG0Agtb6Y&feature=related —Scott Ritter on Iran
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8XQan1qo8T4 —Scott Ritter on inevitable nuclear conflict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XctgkYj5aVk&NR=1 —More on the lack of Iranian threat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTWAXiaIzOs&feature=related —Duty of citizenship

Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement  by Scott Ritter   
Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change by Scott Ritter

U.S. Tour of Duty: The Iran Talks  SCOTT RITTER
www.ustourofduty.org/pages/events.html  —Scott Ritter tour across America

[Jana]

It appears that the US is checkmated. The Arab countries will not allow an invasion of Iran, nor have their countries used as a staging ground for invasion. They can easily stop a US attack on Iran by threatening to change over to a europetrodollar. And through even tougher measures of refusing the United States their oil until it makes diplomatic peace with Iran. (see the latest Mosaic TV programs on youtube).
The US cannot invade and create regime change in all OPEC nations, so it looks like a Texas standoff. Simply not going into Iran however won’t restart the US economy…the economy won’t pick up until the green technology is embraced 100%

Rank   Country   Billion barrels
1   Saudi Arabia   265.3
2   Iraq   115
3   Kuwait   98.8
4   Iran   96.4
5   United Arab Emirates   62.8

"Saddam sealed his fate when he decided to switch to the euro in late 2000 (and later converted his $10 billion reserve fund at the U.N. to euros) -- at that point, another manufactured Gulf War become inevitable under Bush II. Only the most extreme circumstances could possibly stop that now and I strongly doubt anything can -- short of Saddam getting replaced with a pliant regime.” William Clark

[jimtzu]

John F. Kennedy vs The Federal Reserve
WhatReallyHappened.com
By John P. Curran

On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.



When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - the author of Profiles in Courage -signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 [the full text is displayed further below] gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated. It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America.




"United States Notes" were issued as an interest-free and debt-free currency backed by silver reserves in the U.S. Treasury. We compared a "Federal Reserve Note" issued from the private central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve Bank a/k/a Federal Reserve System), with a "United States Note" from the U.S. Treasury issued by President Kennedy's Executive Order. They almost look alike, except one says "Federal Reserve Note" on the top while the other says "United States Note". Also, the Federal Reserve Note has a green seal and serial number while the United States Note has a red seal and serial number.



President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. According to the United States Secret Service, 99% of all U.S. paper "currency" circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.



Kennedy knew that if the silver-backed United States Notes were widely circulated, they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve Notes. This is a very simple matter of economics. The USN was backed by silver and the FRN was not backed by anything of intrinsic value. Executive Order 11110 should have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level (virtually all of the nearly $9 trillion in federal debt has been created since 1963) if LBJ or any subsequent President were to enforce it. It would have almost immediately given the U.S. Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the private Federal Reserve Banks and being charged interest to create new "money". Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S.A. the ability to, once again, create its own money backed by silver and realm value worth something.



Again, according to our own research, just five months after Kennedy was assassinated, no more of the Series 1958 "Silver Certificates" were issued either, and they were subsequently removed from circulation. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. It seems very apparent that President Kennedy challenged the "powers that exist behind U.S. and world finance". With true patriotic courage, JFK boldly faced the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt:

1) war (Viet Nam); and,

2) the creation of money by a privately owned central bank.

His efforts to have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1965 combined with Executive Order 11110 would have destroyed the profits and control of the private Federal Reserve Bank.




Executive Order 11110

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:



SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended - (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): "(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption," and (b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof. SECTION 2. The amendment made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.



JOHN F. KENNEDY THE WHITE HOUSE, June 4, 1963 xoxox



Once again, Executive Order 11110 is still valid. According to Title 3, United States Code, Section 301 dated January 26, 1998:



Executive Order (EO) 10289 dated Sept. 17, 1951, 16 F.R. 9499, was as amended by:



Ø EO 10583, dated December 18, 1954, 19 F.R. 8725;

Ø EO 10882 dated July 18, 1960, 25 F.R. 6869;

Ø EO 11110 dated June 4, 1963, 28 F.R. 5605;

Ø EO 11825 dated December 31, 1974, 40 F.R. 1003;

Ø EO 12608 dated September 9, 1987, 52 F.R. 34617



The 1974 and 1987 amendments, added after Kennedy's 1963 amendment, did not change or alter any part of Kennedy's EO 11110. A search of Clinton's 1998 and 1999 EO's and Presidential Directives has also shown no reference to any alterations, suspensions, or changes to EO 11110.



The Federal Reserve Bank, a.k.a Federal Reserve System, is a Private Corporation. Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as: "Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves." Privately-owned banks own the stock of the FED. This was explained in more detail in the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said: "Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank's nine member board of directors".



The Federal Reserve Banks are locally controlled by their member banks. Once again, according to Black's Law Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue money:



"Federal Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by Federal Reserve Board (q.v.)". The privately owned Federal Reserve (FED) banks actually issue (create) the "money" we use. In 1964, the House Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good description of what the FED is: "The Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine. It can issue money or checks. And it never has a problem of making its checks good because it can obtain the $5 and $10 bills necessary to cover its check simply by asking the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them".



Any one person or any closely knit group who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine the power these people would have. This is exactly what the privately owned FED is!



No man did more to expose the power of the FED than Louis T. McFadden, who was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. In describing the FED, he remarked in the Congressional Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932:



"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 he people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the maladministration of that law by which the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it".



Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions, departments, or agencies. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully placed upon this country by bankers who came here from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.



The FED basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the FED banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve Act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the FED over the economy is universally admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, such as President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, that have spoken out against it. His efforts were spoken about in Jim Marrs' 1990 book Crossfire:"



Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.



Kennedy's comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks".



In a comment made to a Columbia University class on Nov. 12, 1963,



Ten days before his assassination, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy allegedly said:



"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight."



In this matter, John Fitzgerald Kennedy appears to be the subject of his own book... a true Profile of Courage.



This research report was compiled for Lawgiver. Org. by Anthony Wayne

[jimtzu]

What is the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) and why do we have it?

by Greg Hobbs November 1, 1999



The FED is a central bank. Central banks are supposed to implement a country's fiscal policies. They monitor commercial banks to ensure that they maintain sufficient assets, like cash, so as to remain solvent and stable. Central banks also do business, such as currency exchanges and gold transactions, with other central banks. In theory, a central bank should be good for a country, and they might be if it wasn't for the fact that they are not owned or controlled by the government of the country they are serving. Private central banks, including our FED, operate not in the interest of the public good but for profit.



There have been three central banks in our nation's history. The first two, while deceptive and fraudulent, pale in comparison to the scope and size of the fraud being perpetrated by our current FED. What they all have in common is an insidious practice known as "fractional banking."



Fractional banking or fractional lending is the ability to create money from nothing, lend it to the government or someone else and charge interest to boot. The practice evolved before banks existed. Goldsmiths rented out space in their vaults to individuals and merchants for storage of their gold or silver. The goldsmiths gave these "depositors" a certificate that showed the amount of gold stored. These certificates were then used to conduct business.



In time the goldsmiths noticed that the gold in their vaults was rarely withdrawn. Small amounts would move in and out but the large majority never moved. Sensing a profit opportunity, the goldsmiths issued double receipts for the gold, in effect creating money (certificates) from nothing and then lending those certificates (creating debt) to depositors and charging them interest as well.



Since the certificates represented more gold than actually existed, the certificates were "fractionally" backed by gold. Eventually some of these vault operations were transformed into banks and the practice of fractional banking continued.



Keep that fractional banking concept in mind as we examine our first central bank, the First Bank of the United States (BUS). It was created, after bitter dissent in the Congress, in 1791 and chartered for 20 years. A scam not unlike the current FED, the BUS used its control of the currency to defraud the public and establish a legal form of usury.



This bank practiced fractional lending at a 10:1 rate, ten dollars of loans for each dollar they had on deposit. This misuse and abuse of their public charter continued for the entire 20 years of their existence. Public outrage over these abuses was such that the charter was not renewed and the bank ceased to exist in 1811.



The war of 1812 left the country in economic chaos, seen by bankers as another opportunity for easy profits. They influenced Congress to charter the second central bank, the Second Bank of the United States (SBUS), in 1816.



The SBUS was more expansive than the BUS. The SBUS sold franchises and literally doubled the number of banks in a short period of time. The country began to boom and move westward, which required money. Using fractional lending at the 10:1 rate, the central bank and their franchisees created the debt/money for the expansion.



Things boomed for a while, then the banks decided to shut off the debt/money, citing the need to control inflation. This action on the part of the SBUS caused bankruptcies and foreclosures. The banks then took control of the assets that were used as security against the loans.



Closely examine how the SBUS engineered this cycle of prosperity and depression. The central bank caused inflation by creating debt/money for loans and credit and making these funds readily available. The economy boomed. Then they used the inflation which they created as an excuse to shut off the loans/credit/money.



The resulting shortage of cash caused the economy to falter or slow dramatically and large numbers of business and personal bankruptcies resulted. The central bank then seized the assets used as security for the loans. The wealth created by the borrowers during the boom was then transferred to the central bank during the bust. And you always wondered how the big guys ended up with all the marbles.



Now, who do you think is responsible for all of the ups and downs in our economy over the last 85 years? Think about the depression of the late '20s and all through the '30s. The FED could have pumped lots of debt/money into the market to stimulate the economy and get the country back on track, but did they? No; in fact, they restricted the money supply quite severely. We all know the results that occurred from that action, don't we?



Why would the FED do this? During that period asset values and stocks were at rock bottom prices. Who do you think was buying everything at 10 cents on the dollar? I believe that it is referred to as consolidating the wealth. How many times have they already done this in the last 85 years?



Do you think they will do it again?



Just as an aside at this point, look at today's economy. Markets are declining. Why? Because the FED has been very liberal with its debt/credit/money. The market was hyper inflated. Who creates inflation? The FED. How does the FED deal with inflation? They restrict the debt/credit/money. What happens when they do that? The market collapses.



Several months back, after certain central banks said they would be selling large quantities of gold, the price of gold fell to a 25-year low of about $260 per ounce. The central banks then bought gold. After buying at the bottom, a group of 15 central banks announced that they would be restricting the amount of gold released into the market for the next five years. The price of gold went up $75.00 per ounce in just a few days. How many hundreds of billions of dollars did the central banks make with those two press releases?



Gold is generally considered to be a hedge against more severe economic conditions. Do you think that the private banking families that own the FED are buying or selling equities at this time? (Remember: buy low, sell high.) How much money do you think these FED owners have made since they restricted the money supply at the top of this last current cycle?



Alan Greenspan has said publicly on several occasions that he thinks the market is overvalued, or words to that effect. Just a hint that he will raise interest rates (restrict the money supply), and equity markets have a negative reaction. Governments and politicians do not rule central banks, central banks rule governments and politicians. President Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 with the promise to end the national debt and eliminate the SBUS. During his second term President Jackson withdrew all government funds from the bank and on January 8, 1835, paid off the national debt. He is the only president in history to have this distinction. The charter of the SBUS expired in 1836.



Without a central bank to manipulate the supply of money, the United States experienced unprecedented growth for 60 or 70 years, and the resulting wealth was too much for bankers to endure. They had to get back into the game. So, in 1910 Senator Nelson Aldrich, then Chairman of the National Monetary Commission, in collusion with representatives of the European central banks, devised a plan to pressure and deceive Congress into enacting legislation that would covertly establish a private central bank.



This bank would assume control over the American economy by controlling the issuance of its money. After a huge public relations campaign, engineered by the foreign central banks, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was slipped through Congress during the Christmas recess, with many members of the Congress absent. President Woodrow Wilson, pressured by his political and financial backers, signed it on December 23, 1913.



The act created the Federal Reserve System, a name carefully selected and designed to deceive. "Federal" would lead one to believe that this is a government organization. "Reserve" would lead one to believe that the currency is being backed by gold and silver. "System" was used in lieu of the word "bank" so that one would not conclude that a new central bank had been created.



In reality, the act created a private, for profit, central banking corporation owned by a cartel of private banks. Who owns the FED? The Rothschilds of London and Berlin; Lazard Brothers of Paris; Israel Moses Seif of Italy; Kuhn, Loeb and Warburg of Germany; and the Lehman Brothers, Goldman, Sachs and the Rockefeller families of New York.



Did you know that the FED is the only for-profit corporation in America that is exempt from both federal and state taxes? The FED takes in about one trillion dollars per year tax free! The banking families listed above get all that money.



Almost everyone thinks that the money they pay in taxes goes to the US Treasury to pay for the expenses of the government. Do you want to know where your tax dollars really go? If you look at the back of any check made payable to the IRS you will see that it has been endorsed as "Pay Any F.R.B. Branch or Gen. Depository for Credit U.S. Treas. This is in Payment of U.S. Oblig." Yes, that's right, every dime you pay in income taxes is given to those private banking families, commonly known as the FED, tax free.



Like many of you, I had some difficulty with the concept of creating money from nothing. You may have heard the term "monetizing the debt," which is kind of the same thing. As an example, if the US Government wants to borrow $1 million ó the government does borrow every dollar it spends ó they go to the FED to borrow the money. The FED calls the Treasury and says print 10,000 Federal Reserve Notes (FRN) in units of one hundred dollars.



The Treasury charges the FED 2.3 cents for each note, for a total of $230 for the 10,000 FRNs. The FED then lends the $1 million to the government at face value plus interest. To add insult to injury, the government has to create a bond for $1 million as security for the loan. And the rich get richer. The above was just an example, because in reality the FED does not even print the money; it's just a computer entry in their accounting system. To put this on a more personal level, let's use another example.



Today's banks are members of the Federal Reserve Banking System. This membership makes it legal for them to create money from nothing and lend it to you. Today's banks, like the goldsmiths of old, realize that only a small fraction of the money deposited in their banks is ever actually withdrawn in the form of cash. Only about 4 percent of all the money that exists is in the form of currency. The rest of it is simply a computer entry.



Let's say you're approved to borrow $10,000 to do some home improvements. You know that the bank didn't actually take $10,000 from its pile of cash and put it into your pile? They simply went to their computer and input an entry of $10,000 into your account. They created, from thin air, a debt which you have to secure with an asset and repay with interest. The bank is allowed to create and lend as much debt as they want as long as they do not exceed the 10:1 ratio imposed by the FED.



It sort of puts a new slant on how you view your friendly bank, doesn't it? How about those loan committees that scrutinize you with a microscope before approving the loan they created from thin air. What a hoot! They make it complex for a reason. They don't want you to understand what they are doing. People fear what they do not understand. You are easier to delude and control when you are ignorant and afraid.



Now to put the frosting on this cake. When was the income tax created? If you guessed 1913, the same year that the FED was created, you get a gold star. Coincidence? What are the odds? If you are going to use the FED to create debt, who is going to repay that debt? The income tax was created to complete the illusion that real money had been lent and therefore real money had to be repaid. And you thought Houdini was good.



So, what can be done? My father taught me that you should always stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand up alone.



If "We the People" don't take some action now, there may come a time when "We the People" are no more. You should write a letter or send an email to each of your elected representatives. Many of our elected representatives do not understand the FED. Once informed they will not be able to plead ignorance and remain silent.



Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution specifically says that Congress is the only body that can "coin money and regulate the value thereof." The US Constitution has never been amended to allow anyone other than Congress to coin and regulate currency.



Ask your representative, in light of that information, how it is possible for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and the Federal Reserve Bank that it created, to be constitutional. Ask them why this private banking cartel is allowed to reap trillions of dollars in profits without paying taxes. Insist on an answer.



Thomas Jefferson said, "If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."



Jefferson saw it coming 150 years ago. The question is, "Can you now see what is in store for us if we allow the FED to continue controlling our country?" "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

[Jana]

Yea if the secret government (power elite) do not have their banking system nor the petrodollar recycling then they no longer have no power...then the corporations can be forced out of government, the military cleaned up and some true legistlation for earthsaving decentralization can come about.

As long as the entire structure of corruption is intact it will continue to get more powerful and more corrupt.

All the good people that arise to do something about it will be systematically eradicated, like the Kennedys or Ron Paul.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlghYpDx0f4 —JFK Speech on the covert power structure
1963 JFK sort to break the back of the secret society by changing US currency to a silver backed dollar…making Federal Reserve Bank notes obsolete. “They” killed him for this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=goCNdMBMwN0  —Coast to Coast-Federal Reserve and the destruction of the economy

[Jana]

Gaviotas is a 40 year old community of the imagination in Columbia...the tech they built was mostly from scratch using the creative process...so it is "do it yourself style" very suitable for permaculture...I am not sure if there is a book out on the details of the inventions themselves...but you could join the friends of gaviotas and get in the loop.

One of the inventions was self regulating drip irrigation using a nossil system...that comprises of a long hollow finger of porous fired clay...inside of which you put an expandable type clay and then a soft compressible plastic tubing is placed inside of this.
Then you would have these feeder tubes running off a main hose, and have the system imbedded in the soil and gravity fed from a pond or ditch.
As the soil dries out the clay inside the pottery finger dries and contracts allowing the plastic tubing to expand and permitting a flow of water into the soil. As the soil gets wet the water seeps into the porous finger and expands the clay cutting off the flow.

You would have to experiment with sizes of tubes, fingers and expansion potential of the clay to get the system right for the type of crop, climate and soil water holding capacity etc.... Once set in place this system would offer perfect permanent irrigation without any effort...ideal for perennials and fruit trees.

To make the porous pottery finger cylinders you could mix coffee grounds into the clay, and once fired the coffee grounds are combusted leaving the clay poked with holes...this way of making porous clay can also be used in making water filters.

[jimtzu]

a clip of bush pardoning himself and others for war crimes. i think he's already signed an executive order to cover himself too.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/jHQ7Prwh7Gc&amp;rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/jHQ7Prwh7Gc&amp;rel=1</a>

[jimtzu]

The “Brutal World”

How did Western Civilization get a monopoly on “moral conscience” when it has no morality?

By Paul Craig Roberts

   “The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the             ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.”                                 Five Western military leaders.

23/01/08 "ICH" -- -- I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo.  Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell:  The West must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction!  In Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not qualify as the use of weapons of mass destruction. 

The astounding statement comes from a paper prepared for a Nato summit in April by five top military leaders--an American, a German, a Dutchman, a Frenchman, and a Brit. It can be found here:    [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/nato/story/0,,2244782,00.html ]

The paper, prepared by men regarded as distinguished leaders and not as escapees from insane asylums, argues that “the West’s values and way of life are under threat, but the West is struggling to summon the will to defend them.”  The leaders find that the UN is in the way of the West’s will, as is the European Union which is obstructing NATO and “NATO’s credibility is at stake in Afghanistan.” 

And that’s a serious matter.  If NATO loses its credibility in Afghanistan, Western civilization will collapse just like the Soviet Union.  The West just doesn’t realize how weak it is.  To strengthen itself, it needs to drop more and larger bombs.

The German military leader blames the Merkel government for contributing to the West’s inability to defend its values by standing in the way of a revival of German militarism.  How can Germany be “a reliable partner” for America, he asks, if the German government insists on “special rules” limiting the combat use of its forces in Afghanistan? 

Ron Asmus, head of the German Marshall Fund and a former US State Department official, welcomed the paper as “a wake-up call.”  Asmus means a call to wake-up to the threats from the brutal world, not to the lunacy of Western leaders.

Who, what is threatening the West’s values and way of life?  Political fanaticism, religious fundamentalism, and the imminent spread of nuclear weapons, answer the five asylum escapees.

By political fanaticism, do they mean the neoconservatives who believe that the future of humanity depends on the US establishing its hegemony over the world?  By religious fundamentalism, do they mean “rapture evangelicals” agitating for armageddon or Christian and Israeli Zionists demanding a nuclear attack on Iran?  By spread of nuclear weapons, do they mean Israel’s undeclared and illegal possession of several hundred nuclear weapons?

No.  The paranoid military leaders see all the fanaticism, religious and otherwise, and all the threats to humanity as residing outside Western civilization (Israel is inside).  The “increasingly brutal world,” of which the leaders warn, is “over there.”  Only Muslims are fanatics.  All us white guys are rational and sane.

There is nothing brutal about the US/Nato bombing of Serbia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, or the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, or the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, or  the genocide Israel hopes to commit against Palestinians in Gaza. 

All of this, as well as America’s bombing of Somalia,  America’s torture dungeons,  show trials of “detainees,” and overthrow of elected governments and installation of puppet rulers, is the West’s necessary response to keep the brutal world at bay.   

Brutal things happen in the “brutal world” and are entirely the fault of those in the brutal world.  None of this would happen if the inhabitants of the brutal world would just do as they are told.  How can the civilized world with its monopoly on morality allow people in the brutal world to behave independently?  I mean, really!  God forbid, they might attack some innocent country.

The “brutal world” consists of those immoral fanatics who object to being marginalized  by the West and who reply to mass bombings from the air and to the death and destruction inflicted on them through myriad ways by strapping on a suicide bomb.

Unable to impose its will on countries it has invaded with conventional arms, the West’s military leaders are now prepared to force compliance with the moral world’s will by threatening to nuke those who resist.  You see, since the West has the monopoly on morality, truth, and justice, those in the outside world are obviously evil, wicked and brutal.  Therefore, as President Bush tells us, it is a simple choice between good and evil, and there’s no better candidate than evil for being nuked. The sooner we can get rid of the brutal world, the sooner we will have “freedom and democracy” everywhere that’s left.

Meanwhile, the United States, the great moral light unto the world, has just prevented the United Nations from censuring Israel, the world’s other great moral light, for cutting off food supplies, medical supplies, and electric power to Gaza.  You see, Gaza is in the outside world and is a home of the bad guys.  Moreover, the wicked Palestinians there tricked the US when the US allowed them to hold a free election.  Instead of electing the US candidate, the wicked voters elected a government that would represent them.  The US and Israel overturned the Palestinian election in the West Bank, but those in Gaza clung to the government that they had elected.  Now they are going to suffer and die until they elect the government that the US and Israel wants.  I mean, how can we expect people in the brutal world to know what’s best for them?

The fact that the UN tried to stop Israel’s just punishment of the Gazans shows how right the five leaders’ report is about the UN being a threat to Western values and way of life. The UN is really against us.  This puts the UN in the outside world and makes it a candidate for being nuked if not an outright terrorist organization. As our president said, “you are with us or against us.”   

The US and Israel need a puppet government in Palestine so that a ghettoized remnant of Palestine can be turned into a “two state solution.”  The two states will be Israel incorporating the stolen West Bank and a Palestinian ghetto without an economy, water, or contiguous borders.

This is necessary in order to protect Israel from the brutal outside world. 

Inhabitants of the brutal world are confused about the “self-determination” advocated by Western leaders.  It doesn’t mean that those outside Western civilization and Israel should decide for themselves.  “Self” means American.  The term, so familiar to us, means “American-determination.”  The US determines and others obey. 

It is the brutal world that causes all the trouble by not obeying.

Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. He is credited with curing stagflation and eliminating “Phillips curve” trade-offs between employment and inflation, an achievement now on the verge of being lost by the worst economic mismanagement in US history.

[Jana]

Paul Craig Roberts for President!

R.D. Laing commented, "In our development it is as if each of us were hypnotized twice, firstly into accepting pseudo-reality as reality, and secondly into believing that we were not hypnotized."

“We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.” Dali Lama
You could say that the human species is delinquent and mentally ill because we set up systems for short-term profit and long-term harm. The word for that is "irresponsibility." What we need is a revolution in responsibility from individuals up to nations and leaders of nations. One of the most useful psychology books is "Reality Therapy, A New Approach to Psychiatry" by Dr. William Glasser. You might find relief in the idea of increasing ones sense of responsibility as being central to improving mental-emotional health and the potential for happiness in life. Glasser says that we are irresponsible and behave badly not because we are mentally ill, but that we are mentally ill because we are irresponsible. He also wrote "The Identity Society” and “Choice Theory."