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Pacific Stereo Corporation 1970 – 1973
The following text is a reply shared with AUDIOKARMA.ORG at Pacific Stereo the early years
WOW.. this is a BELATED reply.. now living in San Diego, I was an early employee to Pacific Stereo, was trained in the engineering department with several of my musician buddies. You see, we musicians needed income to supplement making money doing music, so we all got jobs with Pacific Stereo working in the engineering warehouses of Emeryville (between Oakland and Berkeley, near the bay). The warehouse had three divisions: 1)engineering and store interior design upstairs; 2)sound room development and equip testing lower floor 1/3; and 3)Wood Construction and Wire Channels development lower floor 2/3. Half my team developed the portable store frames that were inserted into each warehouse. Each warehouse would be totally painted flat black, all walls, ceiling, and floors covered with indoor/outdoor carpet. The wood team would construct from 16-foot sections, an inner frame work of wood with slotted 4×4″ supports, the inner walls, and a couple of sound rooms. Spotted lighting was used to highlight contrasting colored section panels that served as back-board to hang a couple of shelves where stereo hi-fi systems were displayed as “pre-made” combinations.. very attractive to the eye. The 2nd half of my team was the sound room wiring team. We created the first master control panel where any combination of amplifiers, pre-amps, input source (i.e. tape, plastic record, radio receiver) and speaker models, could be mixed without causing damage to any components because of variations in equipment sensitivity (low wattage to high wattage quick changes, safely). After a good long season working for production and installation of stores (I installed most of the early west coast stores including San Diego, and two stores in towns like Akron, OH., I then moved to the new store in Berkeley after installing it, onto the sales team and helped develop and prove the sales training program, i.e. every sales person had the same script but learned how to make it their own. The sales script was well published and documented with simple-person pictures to teach us how to educate the customer, like a sound technician consulting sales with simple examples of explanation that made working with components instead of buying everything in one-console, a safe and understood choice by the customer. They would feel good about spending $500-$2000 in a “custom” component sound system they put together from hearing the combination of components that pleased their ear! After working the floor at the Berkeley Pacific Stereo, I got hooked with a leader called Phil, who was a brilliant sound man who could sell anyone; he looked like a ZZ-Top musician with his beard and long hair; and came up with the concept: Pacific Recycle Stereo, which he and I opened across the street from the new Berkeley store, and that is when Pacific Stereo started taking in components from customers who had developed their ear to sound, and now wanted to trade in their components to purchase changes and upgrades, therefore, recycle stereo !! (LOL) Yes, it was a GREAT journey. And, I took a long sabbatical after several years good service in Pacific Stereo, won a sales contest for weekend vacation at DisneyLand Anaheim, ended up in San Diego and forgot to leave. CBS bought Pacific Stereo after I left, and that history is well known and understood. OH… but the early days were GREAT adventure! And here I am, in San Diego, still playing music gigs and loving my sound ! Peace be with all you readers… ~ Clifford Maverick Taylor
Trump rally in Casper, Wyoming
The Great Reset: Defining How It Works
Here, I will share my research study into something called: The Great Reset.
I’m going to start by using the new Glenn Beck book “The Great Reset” with over 400 pages of source references created by those people who are members of the World Economic Forum meeting annually at Davos an Alpineresort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges.
The Great Reset Lectures
By Glenn Beck (February 2022)
Preface
A Brave Terrifying New World
Never Let a Global Pandemic Go to Waste
Climate Change: The Catalyst for a “New World Order”
Modern Monetary Theory: Fuel for a Global Economic Takeover
Modern Monetary Theory: Fuel for a Global Economic Takeover
The Great Reset: Building a Twenty-First Century Fascism Machine (parts I and II)
Joe Biden and the Great Reset of America
Derailing the Great Reset
TYRANNY VS. LIBERTY
The Michael Bloomfield Story
Bloomfield was born into a wealthy Chicago Jewish-American family. Bloomfield’s father, Harold Bloomfield, was born in Chicago in 1914. Harold’s father, Samuel Bloomfield, started Bloomfield Industries in the early 1930s. After Samuel passed away, Harold and his brother, Daniel, took over the company. Bloomfield’s mother, Dorothy Klein, was born in Chicago in 1918 and married Harold in 1940. She came from an artistic, musical family, working as an actress and a model before marrying Harold.[4]
Bloomfield’s family lived in various locations around Chicago before settling at 424 West Melrose Street on the North Side. When he was twelve his family moved to suburban Glencoe, Illinois, where he attended New Trier High School for two years. During this time, he began playing in local bands, and Bloomfield put together a group called the Hurricanes, named after Ohio rock band Johnny and the Hurricanes. New Trier High School expelled Bloomfield after his band performed a raucous rock and roll song at a 1959 school gathering. He attended Cornwall Academy in Massachusetts for one year and then returned to Chicago, where he spent his last year of education at a local YMCA school, Central YMCA High School.[5]
Bloomfield had attended a 1957 Chicago performance by blues singer Josh White, and began spending time in Chicago’s South Side blues clubs and playing guitar with such black bluesmen as Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell, and Little Brother Montgomery. He first sat in with a black blues band in 1959, when he performed with Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson at a Chicago club called the Place. He performed with Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and many other Chicago blues performers during the early 1960s. In 1962 he married Susan Smith.[4]
Writing in 2001, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer Al Kooper said Bloomfield’s talent “was instantly obvious to his mentors. They knew this was not just another white boy; this was someone who truly understood what the blues were all about.”[6] Among his early supporters were B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan and Buddy Guy. “Michael used to say, ‘It’s a natural. Black people suffer externally in this country. Jewish people suffer internally. The suffering’s the mutual fulcrum for the blues.'”[6]
In the early 1960s he met harmonica player and singer Paul Butterfield and guitarist Elvin Bishop, with whom he would later play in The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.[1] He also began friendships and professional associations with fellow Chicagoan Nick Gravenites and Bronx-born record producer Norman Dayron, who was attending the University of Chicago. He developed a friendship with blues singer Big Joe Williams. In 1963 Bloomfield and his two friends George Mitchell and Pete Welding ran a weekly blues showcase at the Fickle Pickle.[4] He subsequently built up his reputation in two Chicago clubs, Big John’s and Magoo’s. With help from his friend Joel Harlib, a Chicago photographer who became Bloomfield’s de facto manager, he became a Columbia Records recording artist. In early 1964 Harlib took an audition tape by Bloomfield to Columbia producer and talent scout John Hammond, who signed him to Columbia’s Epic Records label.
Bloomfield recorded a few sessions for Columbia in 1964 that remained unreleased until after his death. In early 1965 he joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which included Elvin Bishop and keyboardist Mark Naftalin, along with drummer Sam Lay and bassist Jerome Arnold, who had previously worked in Howlin’ Wolf’s band. Elektra Records producer Paul Rothchild recorded the band in spring 1965, but the majority of the tracks were not released until the 1990s. However, one of the tracks Rothchild recorded during his first pass at producing the group, a Nick Gravenites song titled “Born in Chicago,” was included on the Elektra album Folksong ’65, which sold two hundred thousand copies when it was released in September 1965. “Born in Chicago” became an underground hit for the Butterfield Band. Their debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, was recorded in September and released the following month.
In June 1965, Bloomfield had recorded with Bob Dylan, whom he had met in 1963 at a Chicago club called the Bear. The club was bankrolled by future Dylan and Butterfield manager Albert Grossman, who would play a major part in Bloomfield’s career. Bloomfield’s Telecaster guitar licks were featured on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone“, a single produced by Columbia Record’s Tom Wilson. Bloomfield would play on most of the tracks on Dylan’s 1965 Highway 61 Revisited album, and he appeared onstage with Dylan in July at the Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan used Bloomfield and the Butterfield Band—minus Paul Butterfield—along with keyboardists Al Kooper and Barry Goldberg.[1] The show marked Dylan’s first use of an electric band in a live performance, and Bloomfield’s playing on the songwriter’s “Maggie’s Farm” is considered a landmark electric-guitar performance. After the Newport Folk Festival ended, Bloomfield helped Dylan complete the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited, and Dylan asked Bloomfield to join his touring band. Bloomfield demurred, preferring to continue playing with the Butterfield Band.
After Sam Lay fell ill after a series of dates in November 1965, the Butterfield Band brought Chicago-born drummer Billy Davenport into the group. During the first part of 1966, the band played in California, and they recorded their second album, East-West, that summer. The record’s title track found the band exploring modal music, and it was based upon a song Gravenites and Bloomfield had been playing since 1965, “It’s About Time.”
Bloomfield played on recording sessions between 1965 and 1967. His guitar playing had a huge impact on San Francisco Bay Area musicians after playing with the Butterfield band at Bill Graham’s Fillmore in March 1966, San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom and also in the Los Angeles area due to the storied two-week run at the Golden Bear in Long Beach. He became a mentor and inspiration for many guitarists, especially in the SF Bay Area. He did a 1965 date with Peter, Paul and Mary that resulted in a song called “The King of Names,” and he recorded in 1966 with pop group Chicago Loop, whose “When She Wants Good Lovin’ (My Baby Comes to Me)” made Billboard Magazine‘s chart that year. He also played guitar on recordings by Chuck Berry, Mitch Ryder and James Cotton.
Bloomfield tired of the Butterfield Band’s rigorous touring schedule and, relocating to San Francisco, sought to create his own group. He formed the short-lived Electric Flag in 1967,[1] with two longtime Chicago collaborators, Barry Goldberg and vocalist Nick Gravenites. The band featured a horn section. The band’s rhythm section was composed of bassist Harvey Brooks and drummer Buddy Miles. Miles had previously played in Wilson Pickett‘s touring band, while Brooks had performed with Al Kooper in bands in New York City, and had played with both Kooper and Bloomfield on Bob Dylan‘s Highway 61 Revisited. The group’s first effort was the soundtrack for director-producer Roger Corman‘s 1967 movie, The Trip, which was recorded in the spring of that year.
The Electric Flag debuted at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and issued an album, A Long Time Comin’, in April 1968 on Columbia Records. Critics complimented the group’s distinctive, intriguing sound but found the record itself somewhat uneven. By that time, however, the band was already disintegrating; rivalries between members, shortsighted management, and heroin abuse all took their toll. Shortly after the release of that album, Bloomfield left his own band, with Gravenites, Goldberg, and bassist Harvey Brooks following.
Bloomfield also made an impact through his work with Al Kooper, who had played with Bloomfield on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone“. Kooper had become an A&R man for Columbia Records, and Bloomfield and Kooper had played piano on Moby Grape‘s 1968 Grape Jam, an instrumental album that had been packaged with the group’s Wow collection.
“Why not do an entire jam album together?” Kooper remembered in 1998, writing the booklet notes for the Bloomfield anthology Don’t Say That I Ain’t Your Man: Essential Blues, 1964–1969. “At the time, most jazz albums were made using this modus operandi: pick a leader or two co-leaders, hire appropriate sidemen, pick some tunes, make some up and record an entire album on the fly in one or two days. Why not try and legitimize rock by adhering to these standards? In addition, as a fan, I was dissatisfied with Bloomfield’s recorded studio output up until then. It seemed that his studio work was inhibited and reined in, compared to his incendiary live performances. Could I put him in a studio setting where he could feel free to just burn like he did in live performances?”
The result was Super Session, a jam album that spotlighted Bloomfield’s guitar skills on one side.[1] Bloomfield, who suffered from insomnia, left the sessions after the first day. Guitarist Stephen Stills completed the album with Kooper. It received excellent reviews and became the best-selling album of Bloomfield’s career.[1] Its success led to a live sequel, The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, recorded over three nights at Fillmore West in September 1968.
Bloomfield continued with solo, session and back-up work from 1968 to 1980. He played guitar on Mother Earth‘s cover of Memphis Slim’s “Mother Earth,” a track from their 1968 Living with the Animals album, and on two albums by Texas-born soul singer Wayne Talbert. With Mark Naftalin, he produced the 1968 sessions for James Cotton’s 1968 album Cotton in Your Ears. He released his first solo album, It’s Not Killing Me, in 1969. Bloomfield also helped Janis Joplin assemble her Kozmic Blues Band (for the album I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues, Again Mama!) in 1969, co-wrote “Work Me, Lord” for the album, and played the guitar solo on Joplin’s blues composition “One Good Man.” Columbia released another 1969 album, a live concert jam, Live at Bill Graham’s Fillmore West, including Mark Naftalin, former Electric Flag bandmates Marcus Doubleday and Snooky Flowers, and a guest appearance by Taj Mahal. In the same year he reunited with Paul Butterfield and Sam Lay for the Chess Records album Fathers and Sons, featuring Muddy Waters and pianist Otis Spann. Bloomfield composed and recorded the soundtrack for the film Medium Cool, directed by his second cousin, Haskell Wexler. The film includes footage shot in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. With Nick Gravenites, he produced blues guitarist Otis Rush‘s 1969 album Mourning in the Morning, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with a band that included keyboardists Mark Naftalin and Barry Beckett, along with guitarist Duane Allman.
During 1970 Bloomfield gave up playing because of his heroin addiction:
…and I put the guitar down – didn’t touch it. Shooting junk made everything else unimportant, null and void, nolo contendere. My playing fell apart. I just didn’t want to play.[7]
He recorded his second solo album, Try It Before You Buy It, in 1973. Columbia rejected it; the complete version of the record would not appear until 1990. Also in 1973, he cut Triumvirate with Dr. John and guitarist and singer John Hammond Jr.[1] In 1974, he rejoined the Electric Flag for an album titled The Band Kept Playing. In 1975 he recorded an album with the group KGB. The group’s name is an acronym of the initials of singer and songwriter Ray Kennedy, Barry Goldberg and Bloomfield. The band also included Ric Grech and drummer Carmine Appice.[1] Grech and Bloomfield quit shortly after its release. As the record hit stores in 1976, Bloomfield told journalists that the group had been an ill-conceived moneymaking project. The album was not well received by critics,[1] but it did contain the standout track “Sail On, Sailor”. Its authorship was credited to “Wilson-Kennedy”, and had a bluesy, darker feel, along with Ray Kennedy’s original cocaine-related lyrics.[citation needed] In the same year, he performed with John Cale on Cale’s soundtrack for the film Caged Heat. In 1976 he recorded an instructional album for guitarists, If You Love These Blues, Play ‘Em as You Please, which was financed through Guitar Player magazine.[1]
In the 1970s Bloomfield played in local San Francisco Bay area clubs, including the Keystone Korner, and sat in with other bands. In 1977, Bloomfield was selected by Andy Warhol to do the soundtrack for the pop artist’s last film, Andy Warhol’s Bad[8] (also known as BAD). An unreleased single, “Andy’s Bad”,[9] was also produced for the project. During 1979–1981 he performed often with the King Perkoff Band, sometimes introducing them as the “Michael Bloomfield and Friends” outfit. Bloomfield recorded “Hustlin’ Queen”, written by John Isabeau and Perkoff in 1979. He toured Italy and Sweden with guitarist Woody Harris and cellist Maggie Edmondson in the summer of 1980. He sat in with Bob Dylan at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre on November 15, 1980. Bloomfield played on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” and “The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar”.[10] He continued to play live dates, and his performance at San Francisco State College on February 7, 1981, would be his final appearance.
Although Bloomfield came from a wealthy family, he never inherited a large lump sum. He received annual income from a trust that had been set up by his paternal grandfather, which gave him $50,000 each year.
Bloomfield died in San Francisco on February 15, 1981.[11] He was found seated behind the wheel of his car, with all four doors locked.[12] According to police, an empty Valium bottle was found on the car seat, but no suicide note was found.[13] The medical examiner who performed the autopsy ruled the death accidental, though he was unable to determine a cause of death, because no drugs were found in Bloomfield’s system, and there were no signs of foul play.[14] Bloomfield’s last album, Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’, was released the day his death was announced.[1] His remains are interred in a crypt at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, in Culver City, near Los Angeles.
Bloomfield’s musical influences include Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, B.B. King, Big Joe Williams, Otis Rush, Albert King, Freddie King and Ray Charles.[15]
Bloomfield originally used a Fender Telecaster, though he had also used a Fender Duo-Sonic while recording for Columbia following his 1964 signing to the label. During his tenure with the Butterfield Blues Band he used that Tele on the first Butterfield Album and on their earliest tours in fall of 1965. By November he had swapped that guitar with International Submarine Band guitarist John Nuese for Nuese’s 1954 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop model, which he used for some of the East-West sessions and which he acquired in Boston.
In 1967, Bloomfield swapped the Goldtop with his friend repairman/musician Dan Erlewine for Dan’s 1959 Les Paul Standard and $100. The Les Paul Standard had proven unpopular in the late 1950s because it was deemed too heavy and too expensive by rock and roll guitarists. Gibson discontinued manufacturing the model in 1960. Bloomfield used the Les Paul Standard in the Electric Flag and on the Super Session album and concerts. He later switched between the Les Paul and the Telecaster, but his use of the Les Paul inspired other guitarists to use the model and spurred Gibson to reintroduce the Les Paul Standard in 1968.
Bloomfield eventually lost the guitar in Canada; Wolkin and Keenom’s biography revealed that a club owner kept the guitar as partial compensation after Bloomfield cut short a round of appearances. This turned out to be accurate and the gig in question was at the Cave in Vancouver, booked from Tue. Nov. 12th 1974, for five days, until Sat. the 16th. The band played the first night but the next day, Bloomfield boarded a plane and flew home to San Francisco with virtually no notice to the club, hotel, or band members; his friend Mark Naftalin found a note on a torn piece of paper in the hotel room that read, “bye bye, sorry”. Bloomfield’s two guitars had been left at the club and were retained by club owner Stan Grozina, who wanted compensation for lost revenues.
Unlike contemporaries such as Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, Bloomfield rarely experimented with feedback and distortion, preferring a loud yet clean, almost chiming sound with a healthy amount of reverb and vibrato; this approach would strongly influence Jerry Garcia, who segued from a career in acoustic-based music to electric rock at the height of the Butterfield Band’s influence in 1965. One of his amplifiers of choice was a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb. His solos, like those of most blues guitarists, were based in the minor pentatonic scale and the blues scale. However, his liberal use of chromatic notes within the pentatonic framework and his periodic lines based on Indian and Eastern modes allowed a considerable degree of fluidity in his solos.
Gibson has since released a Michael Bloomfield Les Paul—replicating his 1959 Standard—in recognition of his impact on the blues genre, his role in the revived production of the guitar, and his influence on many other guitarists.[16] Because the actual guitar had been unaccounted for so many years, Gibson relied on hundreds of photographs provided by Bloomfield’s family to reproduce the guitar. The model comes in two configurations—a clean Vintage Original Specifications (VOS) version, with only Bloomfield’s mismatched volume and tone control knobs, missing toggle switch cover, and kidney-shaped tuners replacing the Gibson originals indicating its inspiration and a faithful, process-aged reproduction of the guitar as it was when Bloomfield played it last, complete with the finish smudge below the bridge and various nicks and smudges elsewhere around the body.
His influence among contemporary guitarists continues to be widely felt, primarily in the techniques of vibrato, natural sustain, and economy of notes. Guitarists such as Joe Bonamassa, Arlen Roth, Carlos Santana, Slash, Jimmy Vivino, Chuck Hammer, Eric Johnson, Elliot Easton, Robben Ford, John Scofield, Jimmy Herring, Phil Keaggy, and G.E. Smith remain essentially influenced by Bloomfield’s early recorded work.
American Character ethic
History of American Character Ethic with Benjamin Franklin (1776)
1. The Character Ethic, as it was written by Benjamin Franklin (1776), taught that there are basic principles of Effective Living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
2. Character Ethic as the Cornerstone of success begins with things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.
Glass-Steagall Emergency Banking Act needs to be restored
Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall)
June 16, 1933
The Glass-Steagall Act effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things. It was one of the most widely debated legislative initiatives before being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in June 1933.
![President Roosevelt signs the Glass-Steagall Act alongside the bill"s co-sponsors, Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall, and others.](https://www.federalreservehistory.org/-/media/images/essays/great_depression/glass_steagall.jpg "President Roosevelt signs the Glass-Steagall Act alongside the bill"s co-sponsors, Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall, and others.")
Roosevelt Signing the Glass-Steagall Act (Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images)
by Julia Maues
, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
, Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisThe emergency legislation that was passed within days of President Franklin Roosevelt taking office in March 1933 was just the start of the process to restore confidence in the banking system. Congress saw the need for substantial reform of the banking system, which eventually came in the Banking Act of 1933, or the Glass-Steagall Act. The bill was designed “to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of banks, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations, and for other purposes.” The measure was sponsored by Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA) and Rep. Henry Steagall (D-AL). Glass, a former Treasury secretary, was the primary force behind the act. Steagall, then chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, agreed to support the act with Glass after an amendment was added to permit bank deposit insurance.1 On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt signed the bill into law. Glass originally introduced his banking reform bill in January 1932. It received extensive critiques and comments from bankers, economists, and the Federal Reserve Board. It passed the Senate in February 1932, but the House adjourned before coming to a decision. It was one of the most widely discussed and debated legislative initiatives in 1932.
Some background: In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression, Congress was concerned that commercial banking operations and the payments system were incurring losses from volatile equity markets. An important motivation for the act was the desire to restrict the use of bank credit for speculation and to direct bank credit into what Glass and others thought to be more productive uses, such as industry, commerce, and agriculture.
In response to these concerns, the main provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking. Senator Glass was the driving force behind this provision. Basically, commercial banks, which took in deposits and made loans, were no longer allowed to underwrite or deal in securities, while investment banks, which underwrote and dealt in securities, were no longer allowed to have close connections to commercial banks, such as overlapping directorships or common ownership. Following the passage of the act, institutions were given a year to decide whether they would specialize in commercial or investment banking. Only 10 percent of commercial banks’ total income could stem from securities; however, an exception allowed commercial banks to underwrite government-issued bonds. The separation of commercial and investment banking was not controversial in 1933. There was a broad belief that separation would lead to a healthier financial system. It became more controversial over the years and in 1999 the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 that restricted affiliations between banks and securities firms.
The act also gave tighter regulation of national banks to the Federal Reserve System, requiring holding companies and other affiliates of state member banks to make three reports annually to their Federal Reserve Bank and to the Federal Reserve Board. Furthermore, bank holding companies that owned a majority of shares of any Federal Reserve member bank had to register with the Fed and obtain its permit to vote their shares in the selection of directors of any such member-bank subsidiary.
Another important provision of the act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which insures bank deposits with a pool of money collected from banks. This provision was the most controversial at the time and drew veto threats from President Roosevelt. It was included at the insistence of Steagall, who had the interests of small rural banks in mind. Small rural banks and their representatives were the main proponents of deposit insurance. Opposition came from large banks that believed they would end up subsidizing small banks. Past attempts by states to instate deposit insurance had been unsuccessful because of moral hazard and also because local banks were not diversified. After the bank holiday, the public showed vast support for insurance, partly in the hope of recovering some of the losses and partly because many blamed Wall Street and big bankers for the Depression. Although Glass had opposed deposit insurance for years, he changed his mind and urged Roosevelt to accept it. A temporary fund became effective in January 1934, insuring deposits up to $2,500. The fund became permanent in July 1934 and the limit was raised to $5,000. This limit was raised numerous times over the years until reaching the current $250,000. All Federal Reserve member banks on or before July 1, 1934, were required to become stockholders of the FDIC by such date. No state bank was eligible for membership in the Federal Reserve System until it became a stockholder of the FDIC, and thereby became an insured institution, with required membership by national banks and voluntary membership by state banks. Deposit insurance is still viewed as a great success, although the problem of moral hazard and adverse selection came up again during banking failures of the 1980s. In response, Congress passed legislation that strengthened capital requirements and required banks with less capital to close.
The act had a large impact on the Federal Reserve. Notable provisions included the creation of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) under Section 8. However, the 1933 FOMC did not include voting rights for the Federal Reserve Board, which was revised by the Banking Act of 1935 and amended again in 1942 to closely resemble the modern FOMC.
Prior to the passage of the act, there were no restrictions on the right of a bank officer of a member bank to borrow from that bank. Excessive loans to bank officers and directors became a concern to bank regulators. In response, the act prohibited Federal Reserve member bank loans to their executive officers and required the repayment of outstanding loans.
In addition, the act introduced what later became known as Regulation Q, which mandated that interest could not be paid on checking accounts and gave the Federal Reserve authority to establish ceilings on the interest that could be paid on other kinds of deposits. The view was that payment of interest on deposits led to “excessive” competition among banks, causing them to engage in unduly risky investment and lending policies so that they could earn enough income to pay the interest. The prohibition of interest-bearing demand accounts has been effectively repealed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Beginning July 21, 2011, financial institutions became allowed, but not required, to offer interest-bearing demand accounts.
Endnotes
- 1Glass and Steagall also cosponsored the Banking Act of 1932, which was also commonly referred to as the Glass-Steagall Act prior to the passage of the Banking Act of 1933.
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Emergency Banking Act of 1933
March 9, 1933
Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 9, 1933, the legislation was aimed at restoring public confidence in the nation’s financial system after a weeklong bank holiday.
Roosevelt Signing the Emergency Banking Act (Photo: Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images)
by Stephen Greene, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis“The emergency banking legislation passed by the Congress today is a most constructive step toward the solution of the financial and banking difficulties which have confronted the country. The extraordinary rapidity with which this legislation was enacted by the Congress heartens and encourages the country.”
– Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin, March 9, 1933
“I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”
– President Franklin Roosevelt in his first Fireside Chat, March 12, 1933
Immediately after his inauguration in March 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt set out to rebuild confidence in the nation’s banking system. At the time, the Great Depression was crippling the US economy. Many people were withdrawing their money from banks and keeping it at home. In response, the new president called a special session of Congress the day after the inauguration and declared a four-day banking holiday that shut down the banking system, including the Federal Reserve. This action was followed a few days later by the passage of the Emergency Banking Act, which was intended to restore Americans’ confidence in banks when they reopened.
The legislation, which provided for the reopening of the banks as soon as examiners found them to be financially secure, was prepared by Treasury staff during Herbert Hoover’s administration and was introduced on March 9, 1933. It passed later that evening amid a chaotic scene on the floor of Congress. In fact, many in Congress did not even have an opportunity to read the legislation before a vote was called for.
NY Financial District and President Franklin Roosevelt Fireside Chat (Photo: Associated Press)
In his first Fireside Chat on March 12, 1933, Roosevelt explained the Emergency Banking Act as legislation that was “promptly and patriotically passed by the Congress … [that] gave authority to develop a program of rehabilitation of our banking facilities. … The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks that reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call. The new currency is being sent out by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to every part of the country.”
The Act, which also broadened the powers of the president during a banking crisis, was divided into five sections:
- Title I expanded presidential authority during a banking crisis, including retroactive approval of the banking holiday and regulation of all banking functions, including “any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by banking institutions as defined by the President, and export, hoarding, melting, or earmarking of gold or silver coin.”
- Title II gave the comptroller of the currency the power to restrict the operations of a bank with impaired assets and to appoint a conservator, who “shall take possession of the books, records, and assets of every description of such bank, and take such action as may be necessary to conserve the assets of such bank pending further disposition of its business.”
- Title III allowed the secretary of the treasury to determine whether a bank needed additional funds to operate and “with the approval of the President request the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to subscribe to the preferred stock in such association, State bank or trust company, or to make loans secured by such stock as collateral.”
- Title IV gave the Federal Reserve the flexibility to issue emergency currency—Federal Reserve Bank Notes—backed by any assets of a commercial bank.
- Title V made the act effective.
In that Fireside Chat, Roosevelt announced that the next day, March 13, banks in the twelve Federal Reserve Bank cities would reopen. Then, on March 14, banks in cities with recognized clearing houses (about 250 cities) would reopen. On March 15, banks throughout the country that government examiners ensured were sound would reopen and resume business.
Roosevelt added one more boost of confidence: “Remember that no sound bank is a dollar worse off than it was when it closed its doors last week. Neither is any bank which may turn out not to be in a position for immediate opening.”
What would happen if bank customers again made a run on their deposits once the banks reopened? Policymakers knew it was critical for the Federal Reserve to back the reopened banks if runs were to occur. To ensure the Fed’s cooperation to lend freely to cash-strapped banks, Roosevelt promised to protect Reserve Banks against losses. In a telegram dated March 11, 1933, from Treasury Secretary William Woodin to New York Fed Governor George Harrison, Roosevelt said,
“It is inevitable that some losses may be made by the Federal Reserve banks in loans to their member banks. The country appreciates, however, that the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are operating entirely under Federal Law and the recent Emergency Bank Act greatly enlarges their powers to adapt their facilities to a national emergency. Therefore, there is definitely an obligation on the federal government to reimburse the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks for losses which they may make on loans made under these emergency powers. I do not hesitate to assure you that I shall ask the Congress to indemnify any of the 12 Federal Reserve banks for such losses.”
Was the Emergency Banking Act a success? For the most part, it was. When banks reopened on March 13, it was common to see long lines of customers returning their stashed cash to their bank accounts. Currency held by the public had increased by $1.78 billion in the four weeks ending March 8. By the end of March, though, the public had redeposited about two-thirds of this cash.
Wall Street registered its approval, as well. On March 15, the first day of stock trading after the extended closure of Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange recorded the largest one-day percentage price increase ever, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 8.26 points to close at 62.10; a gain of 15.34 percent.
Other legislation also helped make the financial landscape more solid, such as the Banking Act of 1932 and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932. The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 itself is regarded by many as helping to set the nation’s banking system right during the Great Depression.
The Emergency Banking Act also had a historic impact on the Federal Reserve. Title I greatly increased the president’s power to conduct monetary policy independent of the Federal Reserve System. Combined, Titles I and IV took the United States and Federal Reserve Notes off the gold standard, which created a new framework for monetary policy.1
Title III authorized the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to provide capital to financial institutions. The capital injections by the RFC were similar to those under the TARP program in 2008, but they were not a model of the actions taken by the Fed in 2008-09. In neither episode did the Fed inject capital into banks; it only made loans.
Endnotes
- 1The gold standard was partially restored by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. The United States remained on the gold standard until 1971.
Bibliography
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “Documents and Statements Pertaining to the Banking Emergency, Presidential Proclamations, Federal Legislation, Executive Orders, Regulations, and Other Documents and Official Statements, Part 1, February 25 – March 31, 1833.” 1933, https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/scribd/?item_id=23564&filepath=/docs/historical/federal%20reserve%20history/bank_holiday/bank_emerg_pt1_19330225.pdf.
History Matters, the U.S. Survey Course on the Web. “‘More Important Than Gold’: FDR’s First Fireside Chat.” Accessed September 30, 2013, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5199/.
Silber, William L. “Why Did FDR’s Bank Holiday Succeed?” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, July 2009, 19-30.
How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires…
One of the most common questions I’m asked is: what is your favorite place you’ve visited? While I love dozens of cities and just as many countries, I have four that immediately jump to mind: San Francisco, Tokyo, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. I’ve listed them in descending order of expense, and this is where I’ll tie it back to an oddly common question I get:
How do I become a tango expert?
I’m the first American to hold a Guinness World Record in tango, which was done on a lark while I was living in BsAs (that’s Buenos Aires) in 2005 and competed in the world championships. Fortunately for you, dear reader, becoming a tango expert and living like a rock star can go hand-in-hand if you hack BsAs properly.
First, why BsAs? Four reasons off the top of my head:
1. Created by immigrants from Spain, Italy, and Germany, you get the best food, architecture, and culture from all three. This mix of genetics also produces some incredible physical specimens. In fact, I rank Argentines right up there with Norwegians as the most beautiful people in the world.
2. In my experience, it’s the safest city in South America. It looks like Paris in many places, and I have never felt threatened on the street, even after 2am. Try that in SF or NYC.
3. Argentina is the New Zealand of the western hemisphere. From tropical rain forests in the north to world-class skiing in Patagonia, it has it all. Check out rare tropical birds or watch penguins get eaten by killer whales — it’s your choice. Argentina is the most beautifully diverse country I have ever visited.
4. It is possible to live like a millionaire on $30,000 a year. I’ve been there four times and can tell you this: dollars get you a quality of life that is all but impossible in the US. Even with the getting-there costs, I saved more than $10,000 on my last trip when compared to just sitting on my ass in Silicon Valley, and I was living like a rock star the whole time in BsAs: 5-star meals, VIP tables, you name it.
So, should you take the jump and move to Argentina? I have friends who have done it, but I recommend you take a 1-3-month “mini-retirement” first to take it for a test drive. Here are a few recommendations to get you started:
1. Timing:
Airfare will run between $500-850 roundtrip, so ensure that you’re staying for a while. Remember that it’s summer and hot as hell in BsAs in December-January. November or March-April are gorgeous, and summer time in the US is perfect for skiing in Bariloche or Las Lenas.
2. Flights:
I generally fly Continental/Copa through Panama, as I like to spend 1-4 weeks snorkeling in Coiba in Panama (why not get two trips for the price of one?). If not, Aerolineas Argentina often offers good prices, and you can sometimes get deals by flying into Rio or Sao Paulo, Brazil and then to BsAs on Gol or TAM. check airfares immediately after 1am on Saturday nights (Sunday mornings), when many airlines lower prices based on “flight load” (ratio of sold-to-empty seats).
3. Housing:
One negative to Argentina, especially BsAs — people will attempt to overcharge you. This will happen in any country with weak currency. I’ve rented rooms with families, used Argentine brokers to get shared apartments, rented posh penthouses from expats, and found hidden gems through Germans. My conclusion? It’s not worth the headache to deal with most Argentines and attempt to save a few hundred dollars. I had a huge pain in the ass with a dishonest Argentine landlord who refused to return my deposit — and I speak fluent Argentine Spanish — so now I deal exclusively with non-Argentines. There are some great Argies, to be sure, but they have the reputation among South Americansfor being unreliable (!). Use http://www.craigslist.org or my favorite outfit: http://www.ba4uapartments.com.ar I’m not gay, but I do like how gay-friendly agencies keep their apartments: impeccably clean.
You’ll pay 3x more than an Argentine. A decent room in a good location can be found for $300 USD, a great single bedroom apartment can be found for $700-800 USD, but here’s one tip: if you can get a friend to come with you (or if you have a family), a two-bedroom or three-bedroom can be had for $1,200-1,300, and it will be 10x more luxurious than the one-bedroom. My favorite areas to live are, in descending order of preference: Recoleta (I like near Plaza Francia), Palermo, Barrio Norte, and San Telmo. Puerto Madero is the most expensive area and people fight for it, but it’s quite boring unless it’s a weekend evening.
4. Clubs, VIP treatment, and Food:
Spend an evening walking around one of the best hotels in BsAs, such as The Four Seasons, Sheraton, or Hotel Alvear, and make friends with one of the managers on call. They get VIP tables at all of the top clubs — Asia de Cuba, Opera Bay, Mint, Amerika, etc. — and can get you on the lists, so invite them for drinks and ask them for suggestions of where to meet. If not, just visit the clubs around 10pm on a Thursday or Friday and ask to meet the director of special events, or the manager (“gerente”). Tell him you’d like to bring some friends to the club and ask how to get on the list. Keep his card in your wallet to flash at bouncers. Worst case scenario, just spend $50 USD with a few friends and you can get a 6-person VIP table with unlimited champagne for the night.
For wining and dining, my faves are Gran Bar Danzon and La Bistecca, but more than both combined, I love all of the hole-in-the-wall parrillada (Argentine BBQ) restaurants. Just wander down Lavalle off of Avenida Florida and take your pick: the beef sandwiches for $3 USD (use plenty of chimichurri) will blow your mind.
5. Tango:
I had no interest in tango before visiting Argentina. I thought it was effeminate and ridiculous, something out of Shall We Dance? (the Japanese original is not to be missed) The truth is that social tango is completely improvised (much like my first love, breakdancing). Chest to chest, strangers will embrace and get to know each other more in three minutes than 10 dates would otherwise accomplish. Every night of the week, tango rules the night, only really getting started around 1am. Here are some of my favorite milongas (tango dance halls):
“New wave” (nueva onda) tango and 20-30-something crowd:
“La Viruta” at Armenia and Cordoba, inside the Armenian Cultural Center (odd, I know). 1am+ on Wed, Sat, and Sunday are awesome. I took a kiwi friend of mine there the day before he flew back to NZ, and he said to me: “Thanks for ruining my life.” He had been in BsAs for three months and had never seen such wildlife.
Traditional and older crowd: “Sunderland” or “La Baldosa” — find “El Tangauta” magazine in any tango shop, or at La Viruta, for addresses and all the tango info you can handle. Also use Ctrl-F to find any of the milongas I mention here.
If it is your first time in BsAs, I would recommend having an Argentine friend call the teachers and ask for pricing for an unnamed “friend,” not mentioning that you’re a foreigner. Otherwise, I promise that you will be overcharged. Smelling dollars, someone who should cost 50 pesos/hour will ask for 80 dollars. You should be able to get excellent private lessons for 50 pesos/hour. Good group lessons can be found at the Carlos Coppelo school in front of Shopping Abasto. My favorite private teacher is the young prodigy Gabriel Misse, but he’s going to be more expensive than most. He trained me for the world championships and is amazing. Here is a clip of Gabriel and his partner Alejandra Martinan. It starts off slow, but watch the amazing footwork as they progress. Most amazing? It is ALL improvised on the spot.
If you want to live like a king, it’s just a few thousand miles south. Viva la Argentina!
Recent History of Global Currency Reset
This video begins with a long forgotten clip from the Sean Hannity Radio Show in 2010. This was the single most important moment on Hannity’s show ever and he didn’t even know it:
If you understand what we are presenting to you in this video it will impact your life and the lives of your family members for generations. We’ve known about this for many years and have actually spoken directly to individuals who were inside of the meetings back in the early 2000’s when many of the decisions on this historical event were first being planned. We have been quietly sharing this information through our platforms since the early 2010’s in hopes of helping Conservatives, Christians, Veterans, Charities, and pro-American Patriots use this as a way to bring hope and joy to millions across the nation and the world. Also, this is the absolute key for Independent, Alternative, and Conservative media outlets and journalists to launch their platforms into the stratosphere. Never again will you have to worry about authoritarian censorship, ads being pulled, lawsuit warfare, or being banned/shadow-banned on NWO platforms. YOU will now be in a position to lead, to create, to inform millions, and ultimately (#1 goal of all) help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Remember, after this event you will potentially have a great deal more influence on the world. You will be faced with unimaginable temptations to waste it away, hoard it, or to do immoral things that will ultimately lead to your demise. Look at how many sudden Crypto/Bitcoin “millionaires”, lottery winners, pro-athletes, and those who inherited large amounts of money simply wasted it away within a short period of time. We invite everyone to revisit the Story of the Talents in the Bible (Matthew 25:14-30) as you take this to the Lord in prayer.
Final note: We will not be answering any questions on this event after this video is published. We’ve done what we felt led to do the past several years and this will be our final post on the topic until after the event transpires. Take everything you learn here to the Lord in prayer.
The Massive Untapped Wealth Of Iraq (Babylon)
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https://youtu.be/x7VpHEuJ7r4?t=7m25s
(Proverbs 13:22) “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”
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Update (3-10-18): Interesting to note that this video began DROPPING in views overnight by the thousands. That means one day it had over 30,000 views and the next morning we awoke to it having 17,000 views. What does that mean? Why did they do it? Perhaps the video contains information someone does not want you to know. This is one of the many reasons we rarely post anything on YouTube anymore.
Update (3-14-18): Each time this video hits 30,000 views it drops back down by 10,000 or more. Last night it had 29, 990 views and today we checked it and it was back down to 20,007 views. Mass censorship continues for anyone who isn’t a nihilist or anti-American.
Update (6-9-18): On June 5th and June 6th of 2018 we experienced a massive anti-Trump bot attack. Within 24 hours the bots down-voted this video nearly 500 times (before it had fewer than 50 down-votes since it was uploaded months ago). The bots also left scores of spam/vulgar messages that thankfully were blocked by the “approving comment” feature. We have no idea of where the bot attack originated at this time. YouTube notified us of the attack also which was apparently picked up by their algorithm. Would be great to just be able to upload videos without shadow banning, censorship, or bot attacks like the old days of YouTube. Just another reason we have decided to use this platform so sparingly.
Note: We do not monetize our videos yet YouTube is running commercials on this video and claiming “copyright” despite the fact that we’re using ROYALTY FREE MUSIC. Last year we had a video getting 10k views an hour that, once it hit 90k views, they completely stopped it from going viral. Censorship is real, it is disturbing, and it is one-sided.
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Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar (1983)
Pat Benatar sings:
Also, EVENING by Pat
(Off the True Love album; an old T-Bone Walker song)
Lesson: Funky Guitar with Jimmy Dillion
Anthropology Archaeological Reconnaissance – Clifford VF Taylor (Oceanologist / NAUI Diver)
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”.
Sometimes, for some of us, the need for adversity in the world is a prerequisite for personal growth and development. Therefore, the conscious effort to enhance the quality of our thoughts should be structured as a tool which can be used to manage adversity and maximize our personal growth potential.
Again, these are the words of Roman-Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121AD – 180AD) whose simple statement with immense impact, is for those people who challenge themselves to consider it further:
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
As in times past, the world today is full of things and matters which cause much stress, confusing thoughts, and mixed emotions. Many people wander around in life, looking for answers and someone to make sense of it all for us. This is the base human need which governments and religions evolve from. It’s almost as if we are genetically hardwired to force someone else, or something else, to be responsible and accountable for our lives.
With that projection and externalization comes the inevitable shift-blaming:
- “I’m unhappy because so and so did something mean to me.”
- “My job is horrible because the company has no clue how to run a successful operation.”
- “I’m not passing because my teacher sucks.”
- “I’m poor because rich people are greedy.”
- “I’m dying because corporations are putting poison in the food.”
We can come up with an endless list of such statements, and though some statements may be partially true based on evidence, each statement also suggests that the speaker is helpless to do anything about it, and consequently has accepted a state of victim hood.
There is a well-known phrase which says that if we don’t live our life based on our own plan, than we will be living it based on someone else’s plan. Another way of saying that is “plan your life or someone else will plan it for you.”
What we are experiencing in this existence and within this world is an overabundance of people who are allowing others to plan their life for them. This is the baseline for the master and slave dynamic. We are either a master or a slave to varying degrees. We can be our own master or a master to others. Equally so we can be our own slave or a slave to others. We can even be all of those things at the same time depending on environment and situation.
As an example, a rich person could serve as a type of master over a thousand men but could be a slave to his own weakness to greed and avarice. Likewise, a man could be master over his own inner thoughts and feelings but still be subjected to a master-type influence by things in his environment which are outside of his control.
The difference which Marcus Aurelius is drawing our attention to is that we have full control over our own thoughts and how we want to perceive that which we have control over and that which we don’t. We have full control over our own thoughts which when managed consistently can begin to alter and adjust those things which we originally perceived as being outside of our control.
The suggestion is that if we accept a state of victimhood the quality of our thoughts will always be negative and detrimental to our overall well-being. If we do not accept a state of victimhood, no matter the situation, and focus the quality of our thoughts on what we can control we will soon begin to realize that the area which we do control will grow larger and larger.
This is called re-framing our thoughts. We can even re-frame the thoughts of others. This takes us back to the master and slave dynamic and how someone else will plan our lives for us if we don’t plan it ourselves.
You need to focus the quality of your thoughts on your own frames and how to re-frame those frames which put you in a victim hood type mentality.
We are bombarded every waking minute of our lives with messages that are attempting to force outside frames upon us. We are never told this because than we would not accept the frames that are detrimental to us and beneficial to others.
The world is the way it is today because there are more people who are allowing “masters” to formulate plans and frames for them as opposed to being their own masters. It should also be considered that we are both our own master and slave while simultaneously being master and slave to others as well.
The statement about quality of thoughts by Marcus Aurelius is a great place to start this series on the Wisdom of the Ancients, as it provides us a common frame to begin the discussion. This series will be primarily focused on self-discovery and self-improvement. We explain and trend the things in the world which we feel matter but let’s also begin the process of understanding what we can do to promote and encourage change in the world.
You Are Here: Concept for spreading Audio Arts like Visual Arts
San Diego Central Library Art Gallery
You Are Here
Month/Day through Month/Day, 2018 | S. D. Central Library Gallery
Opening reception, noon – 2 pm, Saturday Month/Day
This exhibit celebrates the creative energy found within San Diego’s higher-education music departments, and brings that unique energy off the local school campuses to the public’s Central Library, downtown San Diego.
Based on the legacy model of On-Campus Exhibitions, this event gives the general public easy and FREE access to the audio and musical talents of local teaching-artists, and their emerging audio / music art students.
Display booths filled with audio music art technology, will put on view new works (Neo Opus) that are as diverse as the sound studio art practices at the schools of higher-education. These works will exhibit:
- Instructors and students working together in a variety of audio / musical methods and styles;
- Including analogy and digital technology, incorporation.
The Exhibition Show includes XX instructors with XXX students representing XX schools of higher-education. Some of the following instructors / schools who are scheduled to participate in “You Are Here” include:
Concept Source Material:
Endless Summertime Fun
The World’s Land Owners are at War!
By JC Collins
The Crowns of the Beast and Our Spiritual Evolution
Sometimes I feel hopeless. The weight of our situation is so overwhelming that emotions overtake me and I suffer fleeting moments of despair. This is always brought on by the realization that we truly are born into a world of slavery. The beast system is all encompassing and has infiltrated all aspects of material and spiritual existence.
But there is hope, and when I remember this I spring back to life and feel empowered under the force of my own right-minded action and integrity.
In researching the history of the international monetary system and the rise and fall of empires, some interesting patterns begin to emerge. The full scope of human undertakings must be considered when compiling a true record of human history. All things are connected on multiple levels, and nothing stands in isolation to the total sum.
The series SDR and the New Bretton Woods which launched Philosophy of Metrics (POM) represented the first step towards full awareness about the machinations of world powers. Over the last four years we have covered a lot of ground and most of the predictions made have been accurate. Promoting understanding of the truth is not popular as the large majority of the disorganized masses have a natural aversion to the truth, and instead desire the false comfort of rumour and fantastical narratives which distract from the cruel reality around them. POM has continued researching and promoting full awareness about world powers and the incremental growth of readers around the world would suggest the hard work is achieving the outlined objectives.
This article is meant to bring together some of the different topics which we have covered. The SDR and monetary information is woven through it all. The first installment of what was meant to be an extended Antichrist series will be consolidated into this piece alongside the ongoing research about the double-headed eagle symbolism and World Adversarial Force. The esoteric themes represent the framework which holds it all together.
Perhaps we should categorize it all under the label “Law of Adversity”, for that is truly what we are learning about. The origins of modern law can be traced back to the Phoenician Empire. Versions of law were implemented from the very beginning of human history, but the Phoenician Empire organized and structured advanced systems of law which have evolved to become the complex legal frameworks which control the majority of the modern world.
Let’s take a quick look at some basics. Here in Canada all land is owned by the Crown. Now most Canadians think that the Crown is the Queen of England, but this is not the case. The British Royal Family serves a purpose and maintains their importance through serving the Crown in whatever capacity is required, as do other families and institutions.
Canadians (as well as Americans and citizens of most nations) are born and go about the business of getting an education and entering the workforce. The time and labor which is accumulated by each Canadian is likely to end up being paid to a bank for a mortgage on a property of some sort. This property can never be legally owned by the person who’s name is on the mortgage documents alongside the name of the banking institution. Even if the mortgage is completely paid in full, the person will still have to request that the banks named be removed from the land title.
But what no one ever really questions is the legal ownership status of the land as detailed on the title document. Here in Canada the terms Freehold Lease or Land Tenure are used. These legal terms mean that the person who spent half of their life, or more, paying a mortgage is now only leasing the land for free, and allowed tenure on the land which is in fact legally owned by the Crown. This legal land owning practice goes back to the Phoenicians and their implementation of systems of law to manage cultural and socioeconomic mandates for the purpose of controlling mass populations.
Legal names on government documents require all capitals. As an example, my legal corporate name is JARED COLLINS, and is required to be documented as such on all legal documents which serve as a contract between corporations. Contract law and corporate law are the frameworks which govern the world, and most people never stop to consider why they are instructed to use all CAPITALS when completing legal documents. The LEGAL you is a fabrication and serves to further enslave use under a system of perpetual taxation and wealth transference.
The purpose of this system is not about consolidating more wealth. It is about preventing the growth and consolidation of wealth outside of the system. This would be wealth which could be used to threaten the existence of the system from the outside. At times certain nations and small empires have been allowed to exist as long as they incorporated parts of the Beast system into their own internal frameworks.
Russia is a nation which has integrated aspects of the Beast system, but has not fully succumbed to the full force of the system itself. The Russian landmass accounts for 4.2 billion acres, which is 11% of the Earths total habitable land mass of 36.8 billion acres. This accounts for a huge Russian presence on the Eurasian continent.
Those who have been following the double-headed eagle articles will know that Russia is the one nation which has never been successfully conquered and enslaved by this outside system of legal influence. Throughout history empires such as Napoleons, as well as the Ottoman Empire, were used along with the German people in two world wars, to achieve the objective of invading and subjugating the Russian land mass. All failed, and the ongoing strategic moves by NATO and America, which constitute the Anglo-American establishment arm of the Crown, represent the continuation of this goal.
It is interesting that urban legend and some old prophecies tell us that both Napoleon and Hitler were previous antichrists as mentioned in the Book of Revelations. Both Napoleon and Hitler were used by powerful forces to attempt the invasion and subjugation of Russia. This comparison and pattern will be important as we move further into this material.
The Phoenicians also structured the governance of their empire around the concept of city states. In the modern world there are three city states which exist. They are the City of London, the Vatican, and Washington DC. I suspect that both Jerusalem and Hong Kong are being positioned for city state status also.
Located in the City of London, outside of banking and financial institutions, is the Crown Temple. The Crown Temple manages the systems of international law and is another corporation which is controlled by the Vatican.
The Vatican City itself, is the trustee of the Catholic Church, and is one of the most powerful and wealthiest organizations in the world. There is ample evidence and thought provoking cases made which support the thesis that the Catholic Church is the Beast and Antichrist from Revelations. Some of the evidence matches with our literal interpretations of the Bible and the Book of Revelations, such as:
- It exists as both a church and a city. The Vatican is both a church and a city state.
- It is seated upon seven mountains. The seven hills of Rome which the Vatican touches are Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
- It is arrayed with purple and scarlet, as well as gold and precious stones. The church is pretty flashy with all the purple and red cloaks, and idols adorned with gold and gems. Not to mention that purple was one of the important colours of the Phoenician priest class.
- Asserts power over all the inhabitants of Earth. There is no doubt that the Catholic Church has immense power around the world.
- It arose within a densely populated region with cultural diversity. Europe could be accurately described this way.
- Eradicated other kingdoms and empires with its rise to power. The Catholic Church did wage war against existing empires in the region of Europe and the Mediterranean, including the Anglo-Saxons, the Vandals, the Visigoths, Heruli, Astrogoths, and Franks, plus others, but there is much more to this, as we will discover. It is interesting to note that there are no bloodlines which exist today which can be traced back to some of these kingdoms (Vandals, Visigoths and Heruli), as if “they were ripped out by the root”.
- The Beast makes war with the saints. The war and violence the Church has committed against the true Christians, such as the Cathars, and centuries later the Protestants, can not be denied. The Inquisition is a stain upon human history, and is estimated the Beast had killed over 100 million of the those who sought spiritual freedom and evolution.
- A single man acts and speaks for the whole. The Pope fills this role, and is the only spokesman for the entire Roman Catholic Church.
- The “sovereign” of this kingdom exalts himself above God. The Pope is called the Father and does in fact exalt himself above God. As a side note on this point, The Sovereign is also another name for the Crown. Pope Leo XIII wrote “We hold upon this Earth the place of God Almighty.”
- The name and number of the Beast is the name and number of a man, and this number is 666. The Pope’s “Crown” holds the inscription “Vicarius Filii Dei”. Translated from Latin this means “Vicar of the Son of God”. Vicar means “substitute”. So the Pope is the substitute for the Son of God upon the Earth. The numerical value of this Latin name is 666.
- The Antichrist speaks pompous words and blasphemies. The claims of the Pope to be God on Earth serves as the ultimate blasphemy. The Church also claims to be able to forgive sins. That doesn’t sound right to me.
- Changed the time and the law of God. The Catholic Church has modified the ten commandments, such as removing the 2nd commandment about idol worship, and along with changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, in fact reset the calendar to year zero 2017 years ago as a part of its efforts to hijack, halt and take control of the spiritual revolution which was taking place at the time. In addition, the Church created and implemented the Gregorian Calendar in the year 1582. It actually removed 10 days from existence. The Protestants resisted the new calendar and Ukraine and Russia never did use it.
Readers will note from other posts that the Protestant Reformation was started by the Knights Templar centuries before, who the Catholic Church arrested and murdered. The Templars used the double-headed eagle as its emblem, as did the Eastern Holy Roman Empire (not the Vatican) who supported and protected the Protestant Reformers. Russia and Ukraine have also use the double-headed eagle and supported the Eastern Holy Roman Empire.
It is clear from the above information that the Catholic Church is the best fit for the Beast and Antichrist. But there is so much more which needs to be considered. There is still the Dragon which gave the Beast its powers.
When it comes to owning land, the Church owns about 177 million acres. This amounts to around 0.5% of the total habitable land on Earth. It has other wealth, such as banks and other financial assets, along with gold and untold historical documents, but its not enough to suggest it alone has dominion over the whole Earth.
The Crown is referenced as owning 6.6 billion acres, which is 18% of the Earth. But the Crown in this regard is only referring to the land accumulated and owned by the British Empire. It doesn’t include the landmass of the United States, China, India, and Africa, all of which good cases can be made for ownership by the Crown. The fact that America, and each of the other regions use the system of international law which is managed by the Crown Temple in the City of London, would strongly suggest that the Crown, or Sovereign, would own those lands as well.
This would put Crown land ownership well over 50% of the Earth’s total habitable land mass.
We will explore that more in future articles.
Consider, the Beast that rises from the sea in Revelations represents the habitable land mass of the Earth. Empires and human weakness attempt to conquer and control this land. Is it possible that Russia is the only land mass which has not yet been conquered and subjugated by the Crown (Dragon), and as such, is the only nation (with perhaps Iran/Persia) which is preventing the full Beast/Antichrist system from being complete?
Russia makes up a huge part of the Eurasian continent. Eurasia has 80% of the worlds resources and contributes 80% to the global GDP. It also houses 85% of the worlds population. It can never be fully controlled as long as Russia is not completely subjugated. Russia has been, and continues to be, the great prize.
The Crown is not the British Empire. The British Royal Family are used by the Crown, much like other nations and people are used. It is my conclusion that the Crown is the reconstituted Phoenician Empire and its system of laws and city state governance structure. The Crown owns the vast majority of the world’s surface land and the people who dwell upon that land. All must be a part of the Beast system in order to participate in commerce and the purchase of goods.
Sounds familiar, right?
There is also building evidence that the Catholic Church was used to create the religion of Islam. It is probable that Islam was the tool used by the Crown (Phoenicians) to control the whole of the Middle East and its Arab peoples. Even the Seafaring People, who the Phoenicians used to invade and wage war against its enemies, evolved into the Jewish people of the modern world. The Hebrews, who absorbed much of the Babylonian religion, wandered without a homeland and were incorporated into the Phoenician forces as the mysteries Seafaring People of the Mediterranean.
Both the United Nations and the Catholic Church have called for there to be a new international monetary system, and the call for a world government is getting louder. The Pope is even working towards merging all religions into one and is openly promoting the tenets of Islam and worldwide liberalism and multiculturalism.
The Protestant Reformation was an attempt by the forces of right-mindedness to counter the Crown and its growing institutions in the world. The Crown went to work on a counter-reformation and began a centuries long campaign against Russia and those who supported right-minded action based on integrity and honour. This war continues today, and until the Russian land mass is successfully conquered there will always be a beachhead from which the battles can be fought.
All of the religions of the world suppress spiritual evolution. The Eastern religions still maintain some semblance of spiritual purpose, but the importing of these religions into the Western world is slowly corrupting them.
The ancient mystery schools also maintained the purpose and process of spiritual evolution, but these were corrupted a long time ago and little from within the esoteric and hermetic schools of the modern world should be trusted. The Crown has attempted to destroy the process of spiritual evolution in the material world. It wages war upon those who carry the double-headed eagle emblem, as the double-headed eagle represents the coming together of the material and spiritual bodies. Two become one.
It is interesting that it was the workers and craftsmen from Phoenician King Hiram of Tyre who assisted the Hebrews with the building of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem. Thousands of years later it was the Knights Templar (double-headed eagle) who excavated under the old temple and discovered something which forced the Catholic Church to turn on them.
Perhaps they discovered truth.
The divisions in this world begin within each one of us. It is the light and darkness which battle for control of our lives. We project this battle out into the material world. The adversity this battle creates encourages learning. We only learn through adversity. This is why no matter what the Dragon or Beast does, it will lose. The more of the world it controls, the more the people of the world are stricken with hardship and adversity. The more adversity, the more we learn how to spiritually evolve.
The World Adversarial Force is the Dragon. The Beast and Antichrist are its systems of governance and controls which manage and engineer the cultural and socioeconomics of the world. The Dragon exists within each one of us. It is the reptilian part of our evolution, just like we are part mineral, plant, and animal. We are also part reptile.
The Crown is the manifestation of the World Adversarial Force from within each one us. Those of us who have fallen victim to the narrative of one group or another controlling the whole of the world have been tricked to leave the trail of enlightenment and spiritual evolution.
Think on human weakness and the sin of greed. We want more of the material things and less of the spiritual. We need a balance of these two things in order for both matter and spirit to evolve together, and the Christ to return within each one us.
Monetary systems and the control of wealth is the greatest weapon used against us. It is why so many of us obsess on gold and currency.
Consider everything I have written here. The Pope wears the same headdress as the Phoenician priests. The Phoenician Empire is rising from the ashes of the mortal head would it suffered thousands of years ago. Its systems of law and governance cover the face of the Earth.
Now consider the cover from the Economist Magazine decades ago where it showed a Phoenix bird standing on a pile of burning dollars. Get ready for a world currency it said. The Phoenician Empire is coming back. But fear not. It has been destroyed on previous occasions and can be again. The Tower of Babel and the blasphemy of Nimrod against God ensured that the people were scattered across the face of the Earth and given different languages so they could never come together and scheme against God again.
But damn, didn’t we find a way.
A one world government and religion, along with a universal language app I’m sure, will not succeed either. Each of us are meant to walk the grail path and learn the Christ process of material and spiritual evolution. We are not a corporation. We are spiritual and material beings. Imbalances will not be allowed to continue towards one inevitable end. Both light and dark must exist in balance with one another.
The Three Laws of Robotics by Issac Asimov
The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov’s Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround“, although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the “Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.”, are:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.[1]
These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov’s robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction. The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the positronic robots appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. Many of Asimov’s robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself. Other authors working in Asimov’s fictional universe have adopted them and references, often parodic, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres.
The original laws have been altered and elaborated on by Asimov and other authors. Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other. In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others:
- A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
The Three Laws, and the zeroth, have pervaded science fiction and are referred to in many books, films, and other media.
Banks in the United States are becoming LESS SAFE, Again!
What I’m about to tell you isn’t some wild conspiracy. Or fake news. It’s raw fact, based on publicly available data from the US Federal Reserve. This data shows a very simple but concerning trend:
Banks in the United States are becoming less safe. Again.
And they’re doing it on purpose. Again.
Few people ever give much thought to the safety and security of their bank. After all, banks go out of their way to instill an overwhelming sense of confidence that they’re rock solid.
They spend tons of money on ornate lobbies in giant buildings. They buy the naming rights to football and baseball stadiums. And hey, they’re insured by the government.
But it turns out that none of these elaborate distractions means anything when it comes to bank safety.
Safety is actually pretty easy to calculate.
Think about the business of banking– it’s simple. Banks take deposits, and then use that money to make loans and various investments.
For a bank, those deposits represent the amount of money they owe to their customers.
So obviously the total value of a bank’s loans and investments (i.e. its assets) should exceed its total deposits.
This is known as solvency. A solvent bank has SUBSTANTIALLY more assets than it owes in deposits.
That way, if a loan or investment goes bad, the bank will still be able to repay its depositors.
The other safety factor is liquidity, which basically means that, eventually the bank is going to have to give some of the money back.
Perhaps a depositor decides to initiate an electronic funds transfer to another bank… or makes a withdrawal at an ATM.
The bank should have sufficient cash on hand to be able to meet these needs.
Banks that lack proper liquidity can rapidly run into catastrophic problems, forcing them to fire sale assets in order to raise cash, which in turns could trigger a solvency crisis.
In both of these scenarios, solvency and liquidity, cash is king.
(Note that “cash” can mean both physical currency sitting in a vault, as well as a bank’s electronic deposits at Federal Reserve and other cash equivalents.)
For solvency, cash is about as risk-free as it gets.
Anything that a bank does with your money is going to carry some level of risk. Buying bonds. Car loans. Student loans. Business loans. Residential mortgages.
These all carry certain risk of default. Cash doesn’t.
So a bank with higher levels of cash will typically have much lower risk to its solvency.
Simultaneously, a bank with a strong cash position is also liquid, and hence more likely to be able to honor its customers’ transactional needs.
Bottom line, a safe, conservative bank maintains high levels of cash, especially relative to the total amount of deposits.
But that’s not happening in the Land of the Free.
The Federal Reserve’s most recent report on “Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the United States” published last Friday showed a continuing trend in the erosion of bank safety.
This is a weekly report, so there’s tons of data. And the trend goes back now at least 2.5 years.
Since late 2014, for example, Fed data show that total cash assets at US banks has been in steady decline, dropping roughly 25% over that period.
But at the same time, total deposits at the banks has actually increased around 15%.
So you can see the issue: cash is falling while deposits are increasing. This is the OPPOSITE of what a responsible bank should be doing.
A conservative bank seeks to INCREASE or at least MAINTAIN the level of cash it has on hand as a percentage of customer deposits.
Banks in the US have been doing the opposite– decreasing their cash holdings while deposits have been rising.
Proportionally, the aggregate cash-to-deposit ratio in the US has fallen by 32% since late 2014.
That’s a steep drop.
So what exactly have they been doing with that money, i.e. the money they should be holding in cash?
The truth is we’ll never know.
Banking is a giant black box. We are provided scant detail about what these people are actually doing with our money.
Sure, they’re making loans. But what loans? To whom? Are the borrowers creditworthy? Is there valuable, high-quality collateral? Does the interest rate make sense to compensate for the risk?
No one knows. Not even the banks themselves know.
When you have hundreds of billions (or even trillions) of dollars of assets on your books, it’s impossible to really know what you own.
So we’re basically all in the dark.
I’m not telling you this to suggest that there’s some major crisis looming or that you should yank all of your money out of the US banking system.
But it’s important to understand that banks are not as risk-free as they lead on.
This huge drop in the cash-to-deposit ratio is a conscious decision. It doesn’t happen by accident. Banks are choosing to hold less cash, i.e. be less safe.
(And the government which supposedly guarantees it all is itself insolvent to the tune of negative $60+ trillion. But that’s another story.)
Why take the chance? Why keep 100% of everything that you’ve ever earned locked up in a system that is actively making itself less safe…
… not to mention the industry’s uninterrupted history of fleecing its customers?
There are too many other alternatives out there.
You could consider transferring a portion of your savings overseas to a stronger, more conservative bank abroad.
Or you could become your own banker by holding some savings in physical cash in a safe at your home or a non-bank safety deposit box facility.
Cryptocurrency is an option (though you’ll have to stomach the extreme volatility for now).
Or even something as mundane as buying Amazon.com gift cards.
There are countless options to distance yourself from this system if you simply have the willingness to see the big picture.
Your Happiness Depends Upon Your Thoughts
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”.
Sometimes, for some of us, the need for adversity in the world is a prerequisite for personal growth and development. Therefore, the conscious effort to enhance the quality of our thoughts should be structured as a tool which can be used to manage adversity and maximize our personal growth potential.
Again, these are the words of Roman-Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121AD – 180AD) whose simple statement with immense impact, is for those people who challenge themselves to consider it further:
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
As in times past, the world today is full of things and matters which cause much stress, confusing thoughts, and mixed emotions. Many people wander around in life, looking for answers and someone to make sense of it all for us. This is the base human need which governments and religions evolve from. It’s almost as if we are genetically hardwired to force someone else, or something else, to be responsible and accountable for our lives.
With that projection and externalization comes the inevitable shift-blaming:
- “I’m unhappy because so and so did something mean to me.”
- “My job is horrible because the company has no clue how to run a successful operation.”
- “I’m not passing because my teacher sucks.”
- “I’m poor because rich people are greedy.”
- “I’m dying because corporations are putting poison in the food.”
We can come up with an endless list of such statements, and though some statements may be partially true based on evidence, each statement also suggests that the speaker is helpless to do anything about it, and consequently has accepted a state of victim hood.
There is a well-known phrase which says that if we don’t live our life based on our own plan, than we will be living it based on someone else’s plan. Another way of saying that is “plan your life or someone else will plan it for you.”
What we are experiencing in this existence and within this world is an overabundance of people who are allowing others to plan their life for them. This is the baseline for the master and slave dynamic. We are either a master or a slave to varying degrees. We can be our own master or a master to others. Equally so we can be our own slave or a slave to others. We can even be all of those things at the same time depending on environment and situation.
As an example, a rich person could serve as a type of master over a thousand men but could be a slave to his own weakness to greed and avarice. Likewise, a man could be master over his own inner thoughts and feelings but still be subjected to a master-type influence by things in his environment which are outside of his control.
The difference which Marcus Aurelius is drawing our attention to is that we have full control over our own thoughts and how we want to perceive that which we have control over and that which we don’t. We have full control over our own thoughts which when managed consistently can begin to alter and adjust those things which we originally perceived as being outside of our control.
The suggestion is that if we accept a state of victimhood the quality of our thoughts will always be negative and detrimental to our overall well-being. If we do not accept a state of victimhood, no matter the situation, and focus the quality of our thoughts on what we can control we will soon begin to realize that the area which we do control will grow larger and larger.
This is called re-framing our thoughts. We can even re-frame the thoughts of others. This takes us back to the master and slave dynamic and how someone else will plan our lives for us if we don’t plan it ourselves.
You need to focus the quality of your thoughts on your own frames and how to re-frame those frames which put you in a victim hood type mentality.
We are bombarded every waking minute of our lives with messages that are attempting to force outside frames upon us. We are never told this because than we would not accept the frames that are detrimental to us and beneficial to others.
The world is the way it is today because there are more people who are allowing “masters” to formulate plans and frames for them as opposed to being their own masters. It should also be considered that we are both our own master and slave while simultaneously being master and slave to others as well.
The statement about quality of thoughts by Marcus Aurelius is a great place to start this series on the Wisdom of the Ancients, as it provides us a common frame to begin the discussion. This series will be primarily focused on self-discovery and self-improvement. We explain and trend the things in the world which we feel matter but let’s also begin the process of understanding what we can do to promote and encourage change in the world.
You make me laugh, Don (Shafer: trumpet player, friend)
This is a voice message response from Maverick to Don Shafer (trumpet player) who had just sent Maverick a text saying: “Sounds like you need to play some blues. I think you committed to the gig.”
That struck such a “funny-bone” with me, that I couldn’t stop hysterical laughing:
And, of course, last Father’s Day my dear friend, Taz, came by the property here in San Diego to pay a visit, and he got me laughing, real hard:
Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness: is the ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening with regards to the mission. More simply, it’s knowing what is going on around you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness
WHEREVER GREAT WEALTH EXISTS OR WHERE THERE IS A PROMISE OF IT…THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE MOTIVATED TO INJECT THEMSELVES WITHIN ITS PROCESS FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN AND AGENDA WITHOUT REGARD FOR THOSE THAT FALL PREY TO THEIR DECEPTION.
THIS IS NO MORE TRUE ANYWHERE THAN WITHIN THE DINAR COMMUNITY. A COMMUNITY WHERE A MAJORITY OF PARTICIPANTS HAVE NEVER BEEN TESTED WITH THESE DECEPTIONS FROM EVIL GENIUSES AND SOCIOPATHS WITH THE PRIMARY GOAL TO ENRICH THEMSELVES WITHOUT REGARD TO THE HUMAN DESTRUCTION AND DASHED DREAMS LEFT IN THE WAKE.
THESE EVIL GENIUSES MAY BELIEVE THEY ARE ENTITLED…MAYBE EVEN DIVINELY PERMITTED…TO TAKE FROM THE MEEK AND UNSOPHISTICATED. THEY ARE SELF ENCOURAGED TO PREY ON THE WEAK TO FEED AN UNDERLYING NEED TO FULFILL AN ARTIFICIAL AND EXAGGERATED EGO AND SENSE OF SUPERIORITY AND ENRICH THEMSELVES VIA THOSE ACTIONS.
I AM SADDENED, BUT NOT SURPRISED, THAT THEY EXIST OR THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST. THEY ARE SO CONSUMED IN COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE AND SELF SERVING PURPOSES THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO PREY ON THOSE WITH LIMITED CAPACITY, UNDERSTANDING, NAIVETE’ AND THEIR REAL OR IMAGINED DESPERATION ATTEMPTING TO ROB THEM OF ANY PROMISE THEY MAY HAVE TO IMPROVE THEIR LOT AND THAT OF THEIR FAMILIES.
WE HAVE LONG SURMISED THAT LONG-TERM WEALTH IS NOT PROMISED NOR INTENDED FOR ALL …EVEN UNDER THE MOST OPTIMISTIC RESULTS.
WE SEE WITH MORE EVIDENCE DAILY THAT WEALTH FOR MANY WILL DISAPPEAR DUE TO THE GULLIBILITY AND BLIND TRUST PLACED IN THOSE PERSONS WITH THE APPEARANCE OF AUTHORITY, TITLE, POSITION OR KNOWLEDGE AND THE RESULTING POOR CHOICES MADE TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF THEM CAUSING THE EVENTUAL LOSSES OF ANY POTENTIAL REALIZED GAINS FROM THE EXCHANGE.
MANY OF US WILL ENJOY OUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS SPECULATIVE ADVENTURE BUT, AS THE PROPOSED STATISTICS FROM YEARS AGO SUGGEST….RETENTION OF THE NEW WEALTH WILL BE FLEETING FOR MANY.
THAT IS WHY WE DECIDED EARLY ON AND, HAVE MAINTAINED THE SINGULAR GOAL, TO EDUCATE OURSELVES AND THOSE THAT CAN SEE AND HEAR… SO THAT WE MAY DEFY THOSE PROJECTIONS AND STATISTICS; AT LEAST WITHIN THE SCOPE OF OUR MEMBERSHIP AND THE WIDER AUDIENCE THAT HAVE DILIGENTLY LISTENED AND STUDIED THE SUGGESTED MATERIALS AND HEEDED THE DIRECTIONS WE ENCOURAGED OVER THE YEARS.
AWARENESS, RESEARCH, VERIFICATION, DIVERSITY, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND, A STEADY APPLICATION OF ALL THE ABOVE, MUST BE EXECUTED NOW AND IN THE FUTURE TO REACH THE GOAL OF BEING THE STATISTICAL MINORITY OF THOSE THAT WILL RETAIN AND MAINTAIN THIS NEW WEALTH AND DEVELOP A STRONG FOUNDATION AND LEGACY FOR OUR FAMILIES AND ALL THOSE WE TOUCH THROUGHOUT TIME.
HANG IN THERE
Don’t Forsake Me
Sar hamamunah, sar hamamunah
Ginat agoz gum patah nah
Ginat agoz gum patah nah
Likrat yadidi umaherah
Don’t cast me away
When I start to fade
When my mind’s unmade
Don’t forsake me
When my strength has ebbed
Don’t forsake me.
I know the day will come,
I know the day will come
And all my life will be haze and spark
Don’t ever leave me in the dark.
Don’t cast me away
When I start to fade
When my mind’s unmade
Don’t forsake me
When my strength has ebbed
Don’t forsake me.
Oh, Oh, Oh,
Don’t cast me away
US by Paul Genova – The State of the Union
Friday, January 27, 2017
Mr. Paul Genova has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Wireless Telecom Group Inc. since June 30, 2016. Mr. Genova served as the Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Telecom Group Inc. from November 16, 2009 to June 30, 2016.
Source: http://aschaper1.blogspot.com/2017/01/us-by-paul-genova.html
I haven’t said too much about this election since the start….but this is how I feel.
I’m noticing that a lot of you aren’t graciously accepting the fact that your candidate lost. In fact you seem to be posting even more hateful things about those of us who voted for Trump.
Some of you are apparently “triggered” because you are posting how “sick” you feel about the results.
How did this happen you ask?
Well here is how it happened!
- You created “us” when you attacked our freedom of speech.
- You created “us” when you attacked our right to bear arms.
- You created “us” when you attacked our Christian beliefs.
- You created “us” when you constantly referred to us as racists.
- You created “us” when you constantly called us xenophobic.
- You created “us” when you told us to get on board or get out of the way.
- You created “us” when you attacked our flag.
- You created “us” when you took God out of our schools.
- You created “us” when you confused women’s rights with feminism.
- You created “us” when you began to emasculate men.
- You created “us” when you decided to make our children soft.
- You created “us” when you decided to vote for progressive ideals.
- You created “us” when you attacked our way of life.
- You created “us” when you decided to let our government get out of control.
- You created “us” the silent majority.
- You created “us” when you began murdering innocent law enforcement officers.
- You created “us” when you lied and said we could keep our insurance plans and our doctors.
- You created “us” when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave our country.
- You created “us” when you took a knee, or stayed seated or didn’t remove your hat during our National Anthem.
- You created “us” when you forced us to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not participating.
And, we became fed up and we pushed back and spoke up.
And we did it..
With ballots, not bullets
With ballots, not riots
With ballots, not looting
With ballots, not blocking traffic
With ballots, not fires,
except the one you started inside of “US”“YOU” created “US”.
It’s just that simple.
Pass this on if you believe this represents most of “US”.
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(1977) Lisa to Clifford.. this workboot shoe represents your future!
Dearest Clifford:
This shoe (workboot) represents your future!
Your drive and ambition will cause you to wear out many pairs of workboots just like this one. This boot is my wish to you for happiness. Unlike regular workboots, this workboot will never wearout, because if it does, it will represent the failure to follow your dreams!
This boot is small like you in comparison to the big world, but powerful in its potential.
Treat this boot as you would me, gentle and kind.
Like this boot, of which many hours were spent to make it, is our friendship which will never wear out, either. Go more quietly and softly along your path to success; the world can’t be conquered by a voice!
Love to you on your birthday, spend it wisely.
Lisa
Dinarland folk lore and utter non-sense
The US presidency will continue according to the philosophic and ideological guidelines of the new and constitutionally elected chief executive, Donald Trump. There is no credible evidence to support rumors of other unelected chief executives to succeed President Trump, including any such persons positioned by foreign powers (e.g., China, Russia, etc.).
President Donald Trump is reported to have purchased dinar along with many other speculative currencies. This has NOT been confirmed by any source, but it is considered possible as the highly speculative quality of this investment is no impediment to Trump. Further, there is no confirmation from any reliable source to the rumor that President Trump exchanged large amounts of dinar at any exchange rate.
There is no independent confirmation by any credible source that the character “zorra” except as partner of a guru who was dubbed by the “zorra” character as “one who knows”. Indeed, there is no credible confirmation from any credible or independent source that ANYTHING either of these characters have provided is anything but their own variations of new age religion and sci-fi fantasy.
Indeed, there is no independent or reliable confirmation of what is provided by ANY of the “usual” and popular dinarland sources. It has been observed publicly on many occasions over nearly a full year that all of the “intel” within dinarland (other than relayed factually news which is publicly available) has met the minimal threshold of accuracy, i.e., none of the “intel” has proved accurate. The primary response to attempts to note dozens of inaccurate predictions is dismissal, labeling as “cabal” agents, and ridicule. There is never – in fact, never – any argument that predictions of 800 number release have been accurate, no proof has been offered of the existence of even one “exchange center” or purported currency exchange (at “teaser” rates or other high rates), or that the fabled “Chinese elders” exist, to name only a few. A popular and convenient “refutation” is that these are secret matters and can’t be proved.
All confirmed sources agree that the “RV/GCR” is theoretic, at best, and much more likely, a useful story-line for sustaining dinarland reader interest. A score of references can be given to support this position, however, the only “sources” available to dinarland “gurus” is the internal and circular rumor mill of their guru community.
There was no relationship between an RV/GCR and the Congressional confirmation of the US President’s appointed Secretary of the Treasury. That has proven to be the case, despite so many predicting the swearing in would “flip a switch” or such a thing. This is an excellent example of dinarland gurus finding some semi-plausible basis for falsely stirring up excitement for the RV/GCR. The falsity of something happening due to these events being supposedly related to the RV/GCR can only be seen retrospectively, however, the dinarland culture has evolved to now where anyone pointing out such a failure is vilified while the falsity is carefully ignored.
All credible sources agree, there will be no simultaneous and sudden revaluation of currencies across the world. It is fully confirmed and documented that there has been NO treaty, ratified (as required by the US Senate), or otherwise, which requires gold backing of currency or revaluation of currencies. Of course, to anyone who has read the publicly available Paris Agreement on Climate Change, this is a known fact.
Read: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php
These are fully and publicly confirmed facts with easy access by any person.
After document review and a detailed analysis of the Paris Agreement, it has become completely clear that dinarland gurus have relied on investors’ trust to use this international accord (not a treaty) to falsely carry their story-line. There is no reference whatsoever in the accord which supports the idea of a GCR. The RV of IQD is neither mentioned or could it be realistically even influenced by the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement was merely another convenient current event which was used and its contents misrepresented to further the otherwise utterly factless story-line of popular gurus. Fortunately, simple fact-checking has fully debunked any dinar guru support of the Paris Agreement for their RV/GCR story-line.
On the subject of treaties and law, generally, be aware that all federal laws are included in the Federal Register, which is publicly available to anyone with internet access. There are no exceptions, if it is law, it is in full text in the Federal Register. Thus, it is extremely critical to note that there has never been passed a law called “NESARA” or anything like it in connection with “economic recovery”. It is not “secret”, it was not signed by a US President at the point of a gun (which would void the supposed law, anyway), and it was not authorized by some of the US Supreme Court (in which case, it would not be law, either). There is also no such thing confirmed anywhere but within new age religious websites and dinarland blogs as “GESARA”, this being a mutation of the acronym NESARA – swapping “global” in place of “national”.
The evolution and adaptation of NESARA is an interesting but unsurprising story. Multiple conspiracy theories have been combined to confuse and mystify a fairly simple story. “National Economic Security and Recovery Act (NESARA) was a set of proposed economic reforms suggested during the 1990s by Harvey Francis Barnard. Barnard claimed that the proposals, which included replacing the income tax with a national sales tax, abolishing compound interest on secured loans, and returning to a bimetallic currency, would result in 0% inflation and a more stable economy. The proposals were never introduced before Congress. … NESARA has since become better known as the subject of a cult-like conspiracy theory promoted by Shaini Candace Goodwin, doing business as “Dove of Oneness”, who claimed that the act was actually passed with additional provisions as the National Economic Security and Reformation Act, and then suppressed by the George W. Bush administration and the Supreme Court. Goodwin’s conspiracy emails have been translated into several languages and have a large following online.” http://investmentwatchblog.com/draining-the-swamp-monetary-and-fiscal-policy-reform-1996/
In a handful of recent posts by a popular guru, there was reference to “GESARA compliance regulations”. Of course, no reference was given. There could not be, as GESARA is a product of guru imagination, repeated often enough as to become a presumed truth – it is not. There are no “GESARA compliance regulations” because there is no such thing as “GESARA” associated with any governing body in the world. The preposterous quality of this make-believe set of rules or regulations places the burden of proof on anyone saying it is real. At very least, since it has been publicly mentioned, it is incumbent on the one who mentions it to offer a single legitimate and confirmable source for the existence of GESARA or its regulations. You can still buy the book which was written by Dr. Barnard (this is the 2005 edition, although the first edition was self-published in 1996): https://www.amazon.com/Draining-Swamp-Monetary-Fiscal-Policy/dp/0965112403
It’s interesting to note that Dr. Barnard urged economic policies somewhat similar to US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but Barnard’s book title ended up as a slogan for the Trump campaign, “Drain the Swamp”. Make of it what you will.
PLEASE NOTE: Do not burn your investment currency. Do not give away your investment currency. Do not even entrust your investment currency to anyone. Do not disregard the investment you have made – there is always a chance within a speculative currency investment that some profit can be made.
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Global Currency Reset – IMF to be frank and candid with exchange rate analysis
President Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Mnuchin, tells the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that he expects a “frank and candid” exchange rate analysis. Frequent readers of my blog posts here, will not be surprised by this development.
With the Trump administration having gone radio silent in recent weeks on the issue of currency manipulation and whether it sees the dollar, or other currencies, as under- or over-valued, there was a notable if vague update from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin who spoke to the IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Tuesday and told her that he expects the IMF to provide “frank and candid” analysis of exchange rate policies.
There was no elaboration of what the apriori US stance was coming into the conversation.
The spokesperson said that in a phone call to Christine Lagarde, Steven Mnuchin emphasized the importance that the administration places on boosting economic growth and jobs in the United States, and looked forward to robust economic policy advice from the IMF regarding its member countries, and the objective of tackling global imbalances.
The readout from the a Treasury Spokesperson of Secretary Mnuchin’s Call with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde is below:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke by phone today with Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In his conversation with Madame Lagarde, Secretary Mnuchin welcomed the key role the IMF plays in promoting global economic growth and stability and in preventing and responding to economic crisis. He noted the importance the Administration places on boosting economic growth and jobs in the United States, and looked forward to robust IMF economic policy advice on its member countries and tackling global imbalances. Secretary Mnuchin also underscored his expectation that the IMF provide frank and candid analysis of the exchange rate policies of IMF member countries.
Needless to say, a full transcript of the conversation would have been far more useful for all those wondering if the dollar is set to continue its recent growth spurt or if Mnuchin hinted that Trump would be happier with a lower dollar going forward.
Uneducated Voters – a period of non-critical thinking and mob mentality
The obvious truth on cultural segregation and a changing political demographic
An ideal Republic demands an informed population which can serve as an electoral body of critical thinkers. Past educational programs within distinct societies and civilizations have been tasked with providing this body of critical thinkers.
As is the case in previous eras, civilizations which transition through various stages of socioeconomic development invariably pass through the obvious periods of enlightenment and heightened culture only to bottom out when civilization reverses and a period of non-critical thinking and mob mentality controls the mechanisms of governance and power.
There are many reasons for the predictability of such a cultural evolution and devolution.
One is the periods of decadence which serve to weaken the power structures and societal foundations. These periods of decadence are preceded by massive expansions of the money supply which inject excess capital into the domestic economies and lead to the waste associated with the onset of decadence.
This erosion and degeneration of cultural responsibility and accountability leads to even further fragmentation of Republic ideals as those who rise to positions of power and control within the governance and commerce frameworks begin to legislate socialist mandates.
These mandates are meant to warp the judicial and educational structures within the civilization for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a cultural segregation which promotes equality but in fact is attempting to encourage further division and redistribution to those at the top of the power structure.
Under such a methodology, sometimes planned and sometimes unplanned, all the civil and official institutions exist to serve the growing power structure. The educational system, once meant to produce a mass population of organized critical thinkers shifts to the far left of the cultural spectrum where it is focused primarily on producing a mass population of disorganized non-critical thinkers who are trained to operate the machinery and mechanisms of the governance and commerce structures but are never educated enough to threaten those at the top of the power structure itself.
This de facto caste type system continues to grow until a mass swell of critical thinkers within the disorganized masses are able to organize and begin the process of sovereign renewal throughout the multiple levels of commerce, education and politics.
It is as if the utter lack of critical thinking reaches a point where it actually sparks a new awareness and birth of critical thinking which then begins the process of rising and challenging the power structure. One of the clear indicators that this transformation has begun is the weakening of the educational system which materializes through a growing division in the electoral body. We are experiencing such divisions and fragmentation now as the election of Donald Trump and the BREXIT vote in Great Britain would suggest.
In both cases the left power structure has hammered the point that it was predominately “uneducated voters” who moved against the existing framework and are attempting to overthrow those at the top. This slanderous attempt at cultural segregation is transparent in that it draws attention to the false promotion of equality which the power structure promotes.
The inevitable corruption and devolution of the educational system ensures that this mass body of “uneducated voters” will develop the critical thinking which is required in order to recognize the corruption and inherent degeneration of the existing framework.
Those who consider themselves to be “educated voters” are in fact conditioned and moulded to maintain and perpetuate the existing power structure. This is accomplished through refocusing the purpose of the educational system from building critical thinkers to such mundane and counter intuitive tasks as conforming and bending to cultural group think.
Those who have avoided the educational system for whatever reason – costs, no interest, not fitting in, etc.. – find themselves in the advantageous position of not having been subjected to the curriculum of mass socioeconomic and cultural engineering. This avoidance of the control integration points both allows and encourages the development of critical thinking as a direct response to the lack of critical thinking which will have reached epidemic proportions within the existing system.
This disenfranchised and disorganized mass begins to organize itself and use the gears and levers of the governance framework to take back control of the system. The once “educated” demographic begins to find itself faced with a mass population of electoral voters who have developed both critical thinking and the ability to recognize the inherent and degenerate characteristics of the collapsing and fragmenting system.
The ruling demographic of “educated” and non-critical thinking electoral voters find themselves confused and unable to understand why the cultural mechanisms of socialism and equality are now falling apart under the weight of the growing demographic of “uneducated” and critical thinking electoral voters. The contradiction between promoting cultural equality while granting special interest groups and pre-defined minority groups select privileges never occurs to them. This cultural segregation takes the form of special laws of exclusion and inclusion which is enforced upon another demographic as the opposite. Inclusion for one demographic means exclusion for another.
The culture begins to develop multi-tiered legal, educational, and business micro frameworks which isolate those “uneducated” masses who have not participated in the macro framework of social inclusion and non-critical thinking. The divide only grows broader from this point as the disorganized masses organize and critical thinking begins to be injected once again into the mechanisms of governance and power.
This will inevitably lead once again to the implementation of Republican ideals and the expansion of an electoral body of critical thinkers. The governance and power frameworks begin to focus once again on the application of a common law for all demographics and the reintroduction of educational, financial, monetary, and political sovereignty.
Lost Any Liberal Friends?
QUESTION:
HI Cliff,
How are you? Was a great inauguration… any comments,
I’d love to hear.
Have you lost any liberal friends, or do you steer clear from them??
Hugs,
Judith
Grace Awake
ANSWER:
Grace:
I’ve been trying for months to inform my liberal, socialist, police-state ideologists that the appearance and election of Donald Trump to the political stage of the world’s most powerful country is a geo-political move of global proportions in support of a new, multilateral currency system with the intent to revalue the currency of emerging nations and re-balance the global economic system. It is a move away from seven decades of unipolar USD based global reserve currency pushed by the Western banking system and American Corporate imperialism.
And, more specifically, the liberal mandates of open societies and left-leaning freedoms have crashed into the walls of rational thought and real-world functioning progressive ideals. This was one of the most predictable outcomes in our world for the simple fact that the liberal-left and its proposed values and virtues are based on a fraudulent position which was promised to empower the people and end the threat of totalitarianism, but in fact weakened the moral fiber of civilization and skewed the diametric truths.
It has long been declared that the alternative to the mandates of liberalism is authoritarianism, totalitarianism, fascism, and the scalable loss of freedoms as society moves further to the right. This gross mischaracterization has been embedded in our culture through left-funded media and education strategies which have both arrested and corrupted the minds of generations.
Whether you consider the development of these diametric left and right political ideologies as chance or engineering matters less than the need to understand the path civilization takes as it shifts between one and the other. The human mind demands opposition as a method of advancement and learning. This foundational principle is hardcoded into our world and the human powerbase has mastered the art of harnessing it for the purpose of socioeconomic engineering. The diametric exists in spite of the human need for oneness and brotherhood.
The truth of the matter is that the extreme of the left or the right both act as catalysts for a return to the other. A civilization surrendered to extreme right authoritarianism will build an inner momentum for a return to the freedoms inherent in the center. This momentum becomes an unstoppable train which overshoots the center and reengineers culture and governance towards the far left. Equally so, a civilization weakened to extreme left openness and unaccountability will develop an outer momentum for a return to decency, strength and personal responsibility. The overshoot is just as dramatic.
The all or nothing approach of the liberal-left towards a full open society establishes a need for totalitarianism in the same manner that the extreme right presents its own justification. Harsh loss of personal freedoms and strong authoritarianism are required to hold both the left and the right in their extreme diametric positions. Neither can use the risk of authoritarianism as the justification to prevent the other from arising as the end result will always be the same.
The frequency of executive orders by the Obama administration and the use of regulations are examples of what we are discussing. The momentum towards a full open society built on the mandates of the liberal left has destroyed itself in the same manner that an extreme right ideology would have.
Those in the world who can grasp and understand the mechanics and methodology of this shifting diametric have an opportunity, and in fact a responsibility, to plan staged cultural and socioeconomic interceptions which would be meant to manage the return momentum and create a structural framework at the center which would hold the weight of a civilization with a growing self-awareness.
The dogma of “do what thou wilt” is the built-in weakness of the far liberal left in the same manner that “do what we tell you to do” is with the far right. The extreme of either ideology emerges near and at the end of civilizations. Other ancillary factors such as monetary policy and war act as further catalysts but the corruption begins within first, such as it does in our personal lives.
The road from fascist Germany in World War Two to liberal-left Germany today which has enacted self-destructive governance policies is a perfect example of this swing between extreme left and extreme right. The open borders and open society framework has failed not just in Germany and Europe, but across the world and political spectrums. The governed populations are beginning to accept that there is an ideological disease which has pushed western civilization to the brink of an identity collapse just out there on the edge of the extreme liberal-left platform.
The response is the “new modern nationalism” which we have discussed and is represented by the election of Donald Trump, the BREXIT vote, and the emergence of strong conservative-right candidates in nations around the world.
But with the death of worldwide liberalism also comes the end of American unipolar imperialism which has functioned as an extension of the international reserve status of the dollar and by default the once influential liberal-left culture which has dominated in varying degrees since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The shift towards a multilateral (or multipolar) monetary framework is releasing American culture from the death grip of this responsibility and allowing for a restructuring of the US financial system, the function of the Federal Reserve, and the geopolitical world.
The geopolitical transformation has been manifesting with shifting alliances in the Pacific as once America allies, such as the Philippines, are moving closer to China. The orientation of Eastern Europe is also a place where further changes can be expected as Ukraine remerges as a strong Russian partner. As an extension, we can assume that once important regions and nations, such as the American military presence in South Korea because of the North Korean threat will be reversed and new balances and borders sought.
Recent statements by Trump would suggest that he has communicated to China that the time has come to address the North Korean situation. Whether the eroding American establishment has indirectly supported the North Korean regime as a pretext to justify its presence in the South matters little now as the script unfolds and China cleans up the mess in its own backyard.
All of this does not bode well for the ideological objectives of worldwide liberalism. But we need to be cautious that authoritarian rulers do not emerge who would take advantage of this swing towards the new modern nationalism. Such rulers can care little for ideological allegiances as long as their rule is enforced and maintained.
The liberal-left and the conservative-right are tools for maintaining the momentum in the pendulums swing arc. The time may be past to prevent the emergence of an extreme right as the world shifts and liberalism is crushed under the weight of the new modern nationalism. But let these words settle upon us as we observe and learn the pattern of human nature and the unseen forces in this world. This is the rational approach and the logical end to that which is illogical and irrational.
With Donald Trump, we are moving this nation toward a multi-lateral global currency system without the old American establishment and their imperialistic form of democracy.
Sincerely,
Clifford “Maverick” Taylor
President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Speach: 2017-01-20
Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.
Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.
And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition.
They have been magnificent.
Thank you.
Today’s ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.
For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day.
This is your celebration.
And this, the United States of America, is your country.
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves.
These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain.
Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny.
The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
For many decades we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.
We’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own. And we’ve spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future.
But that is the past and now we are looking only to the future.
We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first — America first.
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.
Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body. And I will never, ever let you down.
America will start winning again, winning like never before.
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules — buy American and hire American.
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world.
But we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones. And unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.
At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreement honestly but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by God.
Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It’s time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget — that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same Almighty Creator.
So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words — you will never be ignored again.
Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Thank you!
God bless you!
And God bless America.
Tavis Smiley interviews Oliver Stone regarding the film: SNOWDEN
Tonight, a conversation with award-winning filmmaker, Oliver Stone. The DVD and Blu-ray release of his film, “Snowden”, comes out December 27 and there’s also a new book out about his work. It’s called “The Oliver Stone Experience”. We’ll talk about that and much more tonight with filmmaker, Oliver Stone.
Tavis: Pleased to welcome award-winning director, Oliver Stone, back to this program. His latest project is called “Snowden”, which releases December 27 on DVD and on Blu-ray.
There is also a wonderful and very heavy coffee table book called “The Oliver Stone Experience”, which delves into his film work over the years. We’ll get to this later in the program. Before we start our conversation, though, with Oliver Stone, first a clip from “Snowden”.
[Clip]
Tavis: You buy that? You believe that? That secrecy is security and security is victory?
Oliver Stone: No, Tavis. He buys it and that is an argument that the national security people always make, that we are running an empire basically since World War II that has gotten so big and it’s so vast. And we have to know everything in order to preserve it and to maintain it. That’s basically the argument. We have to know everything.
Tavis: Yeah. What do you make of that argument?
Stone: Well, it stems from the film. “Snowden” is–you know, I got into this issue when, you remember, he broke the news in June of 2013. That was pretty stunning stuff.
It was evidence finally that the national security agency had gone way beyond its mandate and it was collecting information not just on American citizens, but on everybody in the world, on corporations, on banks, on governments, on people that it was interested in. It’s a vast operation beyond any comprehension.
Most people were really shocked. I was. Then I got into it with Ed. I went to Moscow and I met him, made many trips. And he told us more and more. He didn’t warm up right away. He was very cautious and he told us more over these nine visits over about a year.
And what happens is that, you see, he and I both agree. I mean, a lot of people agree that, if you really are fighting terrorism which was the original excuse given for this, you have to have selected targeting, which is to concentrate on the terrorist and his people around him, and they’re all findable.
Usually, we have a pretty good trace on them and you use human intelligence, you use signals intelligence. You know, we tracked a lot of the phone numbers of the people at 9/11. We had that before.
This is all true, but we have to really concentrate on that amount of targeting and focus on that and have the agencies communicate with each other. The FBI, the NSA, the CIA don’t communicate. And even though we add more intelligence agencies, the communication is not really working that well.
So here we are in this situation where we’re getting so much information that, in a sense, it’s so vast for our computers—although we build bigger and bigger computers, you know, I’m hearing stories now about new types of computers, you know, quantum computers and stuff like this—it’s getting out of hand. I mean, no one knows what’s going on in the world.
And the movie that we just picked is not only about surveillance. It’s also about cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare which is a new form of warfare which, I mean, Americans don’t know anything about, as well as drone warfare which comes from data mining.
Tavis: I don’t need to ask you, but I’m going somewhere with this, so stay with me. I don’t need to ask you whether you think that Edward Snowden is a traitor or a patriot. I think your views on that are pretty clear. But there are people whose views on Edward Snowden have changed over the years and there are other persons whose views have not changed. I want to talk about a couple of different people in those various categories and get your take on it.
Let me start with former Attorney General Eric Holder who was once a staunch critic of Edward Snowden and has said on the record since then that he does think that Snowden provided a public service. That’s his phrase, that he did provide a public service. You think it was a public service?
Stone: I do, I do. You know, Mr. Snowden, he always gave his motivations. He said, “I’m giving this information responsibly to journalists who’ve reported on this and it’s up to them to propagate what they think is in the interests of the American people.”
He always said that. He never veered from that story. He didn’t make any money off of this. I don’t know of any traitor who gives information away for free. He’s maintained that from the beginning, from the first time he met them in June until now. So the profit motive is out.
People who’ve actually seen this movie, actually seen it, have said, well, I’ve changed my mind on Snowden and I really think he should be pardoned or he should be brought back to the United States and given a minimal sentence for breaking the law. He always said, “I’m breaking this law in the service of a higher law” which is what Martin Luther King said.
Tavis: Absolutely.
Stone: You have to sometimes ruffle the…
Tavis: An unjust law is no law at all, yeah.
Stone: Not only that, I mean, it was just–he was shocked because he’s a bit of a boy scout in that way. He was very pure. He was a Libertarian, Conservative, Army family background. After he’d been in the NSA for a few years, he was surprised at just the crossing of barriers into personal lives every day that we were doing this and not questioning it.
It’s against the Constitution. You have to have reasonable cause to survey somebody, reasonable cause. There was no reasonable cause given and, especially when you take on the whole population of the United States, we’re not terrorists.
Tavis: I want to come back to Snowden’s politics in just a second because it’s a fascinating part of the journey that you took. But I want to stick with this point I made a moment ago of quoting a couple of other people who have their own thoughts about Edward Snowden.
So I mentioned Eric Holder and how he started to change on his view of Edward Snowden, it would appear, from the quote that I referenced a moment ago.
Now Congressman Mike Pompeo who Donald Trump, as you know, has picked to be the head of the CIA–I wrote this down. I wanted to make sure I quoted him correctly–has referred to Edward Snowden–this is a quote–“the traitor, Edward Snowden–that’s how he refers to him–“as the traitor, Edward Snowden”.
This is the guy who would run the CIA if approved by the Senate, nominated by Mr. Trump, and he has called for Edward Snowden to be executed. So what do you make of the guy that may run the CIA who has heretofore at least called for Edward Snowden, the traitor, to be executed?
Stone: Well, you’re jumping way ahead of me here. The movie was based on the idea that you would see it, you know, that this Congressman might see it, but they don’t even give it any thought. They have an ideological stance on it and you’re saying he’s preset, he should be executed. Trump said the same thing at one point a few years ago.
You know, life is much more complicated than that and you should be able to change your views as you go through life. This fellow presumably will get appointed to the CIA. He’s also advocating Guantanamo opening again, more prisoners, and also torture, he seems to be fine with torture.
So it’s all going in one direction which is pretty rigid. It’s another America. It’s going back to the dark side of Mr. Cheney, Dick Cheney.
Tavis: President Obama was asked just on Friday about Edward Snowden, as you probably already know. Certainly Oliver Stone knows this.
Stone: No, I didn’t know.
Tavis: There is a big movement afoot and I suspect it’s going to grow in the coming weeks to press President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before he leaves office–don’t laugh–but there’s going to be a huge press for him to do that before he leaves office.
President Obama was asked about this on Friday and this is a direct quote. “I can’t pardon somebody who hasn’t gone before a court and presented themselves, so that’s not something I would comment on at this point.” That’s President Obama on Friday when asked about whether he would pardon Edward Snowden.
I guess the question is whether you think there is any chance that Barack Obama, before he leaves the White House, would pardon Edward Snowden?
Stone: I wish he would or at least pre-pardon him, you know. I mean, make the condition such that he could be pardoned. No, it’d be the merciful thing to do and a graceful thing for him. I mean, he’s done many good things, but he hasn’t changed the system, the surveillance system at all. We’ve maintained a war state. We’re still very much in this kind of neoconservative lock that we fell into with George Bush.
So I have not seen that sense of pardon in him. He’s a tough man, Obama. I’ve lost a lot of respect. I thought the 2008 election was going to be a different movement. We’re gonna get rid of this madness that we’re living in and I’m very disappointed.
But I do think he’s done some good things. He hasn’t pressed the war in Syria to the place where it could have been suicidal for us as well as the Syrians. But Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, was of another nature and I think she was much tougher than Obama. Obama’s regarded as weak by Trump, so I worry about that.
You know, he wasn’t weak. If you have a powerful country such as we have, the most powerful in the world, you have to learn the power of soft power. You have to be forgiving and you can’t always seek enemies in the world. And this is what I fear is what’s going to happen in this new administration.
Tavis: How do you juxtapose his conservative politics with what he actually did? Because when you get a chance to see the film and read more about this guy, you see that his politics have been a bit conservative.
Stone: He was, yeah. He came from a southern family, two generations of FBI and military. He expressed those opinions when he was young and they’re in the movie, some of them. He was definitely pro Iraq War. He signed up for the military. He went in and he had a fragile body. He broke his legs, not a major break, but it was enough to keep him out.
Then he went over and volunteered for the CIA and he got in because he was quite good on a computer, very smart young man. And, basically, once he got in, he did his job very well except he was posted in Geneva, he was posted in Maryland, he was posted in Japan where he learned a lot about cyberterrorism, and then he moved on to Hawaii.
So he became more valuable as he went. One of the programs he built was Epic Shelter, which was used as a backup program which is very helpful to our global presence. But at the same time, he got more leeway.
He was a contractor essentially for the NSA at the end. And in Hawaii, he was able to access cyber offensive operations as well as defensive operations. He was covering China and Pakistan. But he knows a lot about cyberwarfare and a lot about drone warfare.
So what he was seeing, we were putting these offensive capabilities to use. We were hacking a lot of different places. As you may not remember, because it’s been sort of covered up in history, in 2009, Obama launched the Stuxnet virus against Iran. It was not discovered, I believe, until June or so of the following year, 2010.
But the deal was Obama was told by his “intelligence” people that this Stuxnet virus would not go beyond the borders of Iran and it would end where it ended, and would never be traced to the United States or Israel, who are its originators.
All three things turned out to be wrong. The virus did limited damage in Iran. They rebuilt those reactors and then, on top of that, it moved on into other countries and it could not be stopped for a while. And it was traced ultimately with a lot of research to the United States and Israel. So, I mean, we launched a warlike device which is a form of cyberwarfare in Iran in 2009, and we were doing it since 2006, I’m told.
There were earlier prototypes of Stuxnet, but they weren’t working. So in 2009, we essentially declared a new form of warfare and said here we are, and we thought we’d hide it, but we couldn’t. Other countries figured it out and they started to copy us.
In fact, Russia was soon behind us as well as China is very good at it. They’re smart. There’s a lot of independent hackers in the world that are very like Dr. No’s. They operate on their own and they can do enormous damage.
And as a result, we have all kinds of accusations about cyberwarfare going on. You heard a lot during the election campaign and many of them were silly and really out of hand, based on a sort of McCarthy-like fear of Russia or China.
So we’re in a mess right now. We need a cyber treaty between countries. We really have to sit down and renegotiate this thing because no one knows what–as Snowden says, surveillance is in freefall. I mean, no one knows what’s happening.
Tavis: Is Trump the right person to hit the reset button with Russia, since you referenced it? And what does that look like, do you think?
Stone: I really hope so, because if I had one beef, the major obstacle I had with Ms. Clinton, what I’m most scared of her, was this Russia situation. She was certainly pressing the Russia button making accusations about their cyberwarfare influencing the election and so forth and so on.
It was, I thought, outrageous claims and she should have not made them because she had a short rope to hang herself with…
Tavis: Or put the evidence out.
Stone: Yeah. There was no evidence either.
Tavis: Either/or, I mean, yeah.
Stone: In fact, a lot of people I know in the intelligence world—you can reference James Bamford. He’s written a lot about the National Security Agency–do think it’s probably an insider at the Democratic National Committee that was upset about the bad things that the officers were doing there.
They were trying to block Sanders. They were also selling ambassadorships. Four major officials resigned, you know. They were in some way implicit in this thing. One was a treasurer too.
So these were not mild accusations. These were serious accusations of malfeasance against officials. In other words, Ms. Clinton–well, going back to your original question on Trump. God, I hope so. You know, if there’s one good…
Tavis: The Trump-Putin relationship, friendship, whatever it is, doesn’t scare you?
Stone: No, it doesn’t scare me at all because–I mean, you’re asking me several questions here. No, Russia has not behaved aggressively towards the United States, believe it or not. It’s been the United States has been behaving very aggressively towards Russia for many years. This has been going on since we expanded NATO.
I don’t know if you remember, we had Gorbachev and Baker back in the 90s agreed that NATO would not expand eastward. Well, we’ve expanded to 13 countries. The first Clinton, then Bush, and then Obama, three presidents have expanded NATO to the east. There’s no reason to have that organization which is a defensive organization made after World War II still existing.
Tavis: Of course, the NATO argument, as you well know–I’m telling you stuff you already know–the NATO argument is that if we don’t expand particularly in that region of the world, then Putin runs amok.
Stone: But he hasn’t run amok. He has not run amok. Contrary, if you look at the figures, Russia’s been shrinking. They lost 21 million Russians in the 1990s. They were cut off from Russia. He has never expressed an interest in revitalizing that empire.
He is trying to keep his land mass complete and, if you look at the history of NATO which is taking it right to the border and looking at the hostility of his neighbors, looking at the abrogation in 2002, George Bush unilaterally revoked the ABM Treaty which we had signed with Russia.
Nixon and Brezhnev had signed it in 1972. That’s a big treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. He just said it’s off the table. So how can the United States be trusted if it breaks treaties like this? There’s been a lot of provocation to Russia in many ways.
And because the United States has been very concerned about the Eurasian-Chinese unification sort of, the idea of a big economic bloc emerging from Eurasia with China, China is the biggest economic power in the world besides us. But Russia has 10%. As Julian Assange has said, Russia has 10% of our domestic economy. They don’t have anything like it. They’re a smaller country.
They’re like a European country and they have a smaller military, but they have an effective military. They spend–what is it–20% of our spending on defense. There’s no evidence that Russia is trying to be something bigger than it is. They’re trying to stay alive is what I’m trying to say.
Tavis: Let me circle back to the film. There have been award-winning documentaries that come to mind about Edward Snowden. What were the challenges or the reasons, the rationale, for your interest in wanting to do it as a feature film?
Stone: Because when I heard the story from Snowden, it was inside information. No one had ever written or done anything about the National Security Agency with realism yet. There’s been very few books written on it. Bamford is one of them, James Bamford. But getting inside the dialog, the mindset, the sets, the way they look, this is crucial stuff. We went on Ed’s story and it is his story, his point of view.
There has been no convincing counter story from the National. Security Agency blaming him. He is what he is. He’s a smart young man who worked his way up through the NSA where he saw these horrible things going on and he said, “Let the public decide.”
Well, the public, unfortunately, did not understand it because that story broke in 2013 and there’s been no reaction. We’re still in this state we’re in. There were some mild reforms, yes, but essentially he brought–I think we have accepted the fact that the government is a global surveillance state.
We accept it, but we don’t understand the implications of that. And that’s what I’m trying to say to you. We have gathered more data than any single person. We’ve tapped everybody.
We have 22,000 miles up in space. We have satellites with antenna on them as big as the Eiffel Tower listening in on everything. So let’s say we have a coups recently in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff is removed from office. She was a leftist. She was the inheritor of Lula’s Workers’ Party.
I think it was an interesting story about why she was removed with what information. Because we were tapping Petrobras, which is the oil company of Brazil, as we were tapping a lot of the companies in Venezuela and so forth.
So we gave information maybe to the opposition party and they used that to bring all kinds of corruption charges against her. That’s a possibility. So you get a lot of pressure from this information. You can create coup d’états.
In Ukraine, there was a tremendous amount of help form the United States giving to the Ukrainian government which overthrew, again, its president who was democratically elected, overthrew him, instead of waiting for another election.
So if we keep promoting regime change, as Hillary Clinton has said, in these countries, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Turkey maybe–we tried a month or two ago. There was a big coups in Turkey that came very close–Brazil.
I’m saying these are significant changes in countries and we don’t have that right. It seems to me that we are using this power we have to listen in on everybody to promote the agenda we want.
Now what is the agenda? We’ve never argued this with the public. We’ve never debated what should the United States be doing? Should we be going around the world policing it? Demanding regime change when we don’t like a leader? This has happened since 1940s. It’s been going on.
We’ve had at least 100 changes of government that we’ve been involved in. Is this the right role for the U.S.? If we are really out for the United States, if we think about America first, to use Trump’s quote, which is important, I suppose, to say, look, let’s think about America.
What’s good for our health? It’s not changing regimes around the world because they’re not going to attack us. We’re pretty mighty, as it is. Let me finish my point. The idea is that, if we’re America first, let’s concentrate on America. Let’s build up the infrastructure here, and that’s one good thing he said.
Horrible things he said, but one good thing was let’s try to build up this American infrastructure. Let’s put the jobs here. Now he may not succeed, but we can sure build our bridges and roads and try to re-ignite our country economically. We know we’re sagging. We feel it.
Tavis: Whether Mike Pompeo, the future head of the CIA, or just an everyday American, sees this film, what is it about the film that will get them to reconsider their view of him if they take his…
Stone: You know, a film operates in a dramatic level. It’s…
Tavis: It’s powerful.
Stone: It’s human. It makes the human. You understand his story. The public didn’t understand Snowden in 2013. He thought he was–he’s a guy who gave away secrets. That makes him a bad guy in American parlance, but if you look into why he did it and what his life was like and look at his girlfriend, his relationship, he stayed human.
There was a part of him that was honest and pure, and I think we appeal to that in the American people and they will see why he did it. Many Americans would do the same thing if they could. The thing is, he had the courage at 29 years old.
At 29, imagine what you were like at 29. To walk away from the money, the job, the girlfriend? He had a beautiful life in Maryland, but he said no. My conscience is my guide and he lived up to it.
Tavis: This book is not by you, but it is about you. Tell me about “The Oliver Stone Experience”.
Stone: Well, I happen to like it [laugh]. Matt Seitz is a television critic for New York Magazine and he’s written about film extensively, loves film. He’s a man who’s not harshly judgmental, to put it that way, and he’s a very sweet man. He’s a good writer and he’s written about films and this is five years of his work.
He put it out and I gave him access to my files. He went through them. He used what he wanted. There was no negatives. I didn’t put any conditions on it, and this is what he wrote. Some of it, I agree with, some of it I don’t, but I think it’s interesting because, if you’re interested in any particular film I’ve done over those 20 films over, whatever, 25 years, it’s there.
Tavis: It’s called “The Oliver Stone Experience”, as he just said, analyzing his 20 films over this period. And the movie, “Snowden”, by Oliver Stone on Blu-ray and DVD December 27, if you want to have a copy in your personal library. Oliver Stone, always good to have you on the program, sir. Thanks for coming to see us.
Stone: My pleasure. That was fast.
Tavis: Always. You got so much to say, which is why we want you on.
Stone: Did we actually last for 24?
Tavis: We lasted. We got through it.
Stone: Really?
Tavis: Yes. That’s our show for tonight [laugh]. Thanks for watching… And, as always, keep the faith.
Paraprosdokians
First time I heard about Paraprosdokians, I liked them.
Paraprosdokian is a derivative of a Greek word, which means beyond expectation. It is a wordplay type of literary device. Its final part of a phrase or sentence is unexpected. Its unexpected or surprised shift in meaning appears at the end of a stanza, series, sentence or paragraph. So, paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected and is frequently humorous.
- Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.
- The last thing I want to do is hurt you … but it’s still on my list.
- Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
- If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
- We never really grow up — we only learn how to act in public.
- War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
- I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
- In filling out an application, where it says, “In case of emergency, notify… ” I answered ” a doctor.”
- Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
- You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
- I used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
- To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
- Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
- You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
- I’m supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now. Sadly this is true!!!
So…..
Spread the laughter, share the cheer, let’s be happy, while we’re here.
Rising Star of the Right: Meet Tomi Lahren
Rising Star of the Right: Meet Tomi Lahren
(NEWSER) – Ann Coulter is so yesterday. Meet Tomi Lahren, whom the New York Timesrecently called “the right’s rising media star.” Lahren is a 24-year-old conservative who has an impressive social media following and hosts a show on the Glenn Beck-founded network The Blaze. One of her most-viewed segments was a callout of Colin Kaepernick in which she called for black communities to “take some responsi-damn-bility for the problems of black communities”; it’s been shared more than 1.5 million times since its August debut. Lahren has gotten more attention from the mainstream media since appearing on Trevor Noah’s Daily Show last week; Noah had to specifically ask his audience not to boo Lahren: “Imagine you’re at Thanksgiving again, and your racist uncle walked in.” More coverage of the young star:
- Lahren worked for One America News before getting picked up by The Blaze. Here’s the 2015 segment that went viral and got the Blaze’s attention. In it, she called out President Obama’s “halfway, half-baked, tip-toe, be-friendly-to-Jihadis mentality” after four Marines were shot in Chattanooga, Tenn.
- After the Daily Show interview aired, Lahren tweeted that if she were a “liberal snowflake,” she would complain about fairness, seeing as only six minutes out of 26 minutes filmed ended up airing, per the Huffington Post, which has the full interview.
- New York magazine noted that the interview may have been Noah’s “best work ever,” and that in that moment he may have finally earned Jon Stewart’s seat.
- Vox notes that Noah didn’t “destroy” her so much as “reveal her views,” which it says was a “much better” move. But the Huffington Post says that liberals cheering the interview are “missing the point” and need to start paying more attention.
- Charlamagne Tha God has been friendly with Lahren, and BET reports that the rapper was recently called out as being “not for black culture” as a result.
Its the Most Wonderful Time In Eight Years
Published on Dec 1, 2016
Goodbye Obama!
Songwriter Dana Kamide performs vocals on This wonderful, hilarious Christmas song parody which says it all!
– – Based on the song Andy Williams made popular in the 60’s…
This version also parodies the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” When George Baily begs God (through his guardian angel Clarence) to let him live again…
This time he begs God to help Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” Hillary makes an appearance as the Abominable Snowman in the end… Singer, songwriter and Entertainer Dana Kamide wrote the lyrics and performed the lead vocals and produced the video.
Democrats got Shellacked in last 3 elections. Yet Obama and the media still trying to make up stories why Donald Trump was elected instead of admit that for the last 8-10 years their policies have FAILED AMERICA!
Here are the lyrics:
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
Yet some kids are protesting
while Trump fans investing their time with good cheer
Sing It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
It’s the hap-happiest voting season of all
With each staff member Trump picks, Democrats up to their old tricks …Just trashing them all
but It’s the hap- happiest election season of all
There’ll be one party hosting All three branches toasting
but how low now will the press go
There’ll spin misguided stories Trying to steal Trump’s glory
from a playbook written, long long ago
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
There’ll be much more enjoyment a lot less unemployment
Cuz Trump will be near
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years (go up)
Hillary’s party’s not hosing they’re no longer toasting,
Beyonce, Kanye, Cop Killers, Racists and the Muslim Brotherhood
They ignored true stories of Hillary who wasn’t sorry
for her crimes now and long ago
Now It’s the most wonderful time in 8 Years
We’ll deport all the criminals, Taxes will be minimal
Bad trade deals disappear
It’s the most wonderful time
yes the most wonderful time
Oh the most wonderful time… in 8 years!
Can You Relate: Everything That Kills Me Makes Me Feel Alive
Counting Stars
OneRepublic
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be counting stars
Yeah we’ll be counting stars
I see this life, like a swinging vine
Swing my heart across the line
And in my face is flashing signs
Seek it out and ye’ shall find
Old, but I’m not that old
Young, but I’m not that bold
And I don’t think the world is sold
On just doing what we’re told
I-I-I-I feel something so right
Doing the wrong thing
I-I-I-I feel something so wrong
Doing the right thing
I couldn’t lie, couldn’t lie, couldn’t lie
Everything that kills me makes me feel alive
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be counting stars
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be, we’ll be counting stars
I feel the love and I feel it burn
Down this river, every turn
Hope is our four-letter word
Make that money, watch it burn
Old, but I’m not that old
Young, but I’m not that bold
And I don’t think the world is sold
On just doing what we’re told
I-I-I-I feel something so wrong
Doing the right thing
I could lie, could lie, could lie
Everything that drowns me makes me wanna fly
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be counting stars
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be, we’ll be counting stars
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Everything that kills me, makes feel alive…
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be counting stars
Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I’ve been, I’ve been praying hard
Said no more counting dollars
We’ll be, we’ll be counting stars
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Take that money
Watch it burn
Sink in the river
The lessons I’ve learned
Songwriters: Ryan Tedder
Counting Stars lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
The New America, the De-Fragmentation of Cognitive Dissonance, and Political Consolidation
A pattern is beginning to emerge in the first days after the election. The reactions by the Democratic Party and liberal left regarding the election results have taken on a new and problematic pattern. This pattern is one of desperation as the full nature of what just happened begins to sink in and those in the American establishment have their control framework threatened for the first time in centuries.
But first it is important to understand the nature of the left and right. These two seemingly diametric political positions have been culturally and politically engineered with great precision and cunning to take advantage of the natural instincts and behavior of the disorganized masses. Both at one time represented the organic duality within each one of us. This duality is best understood by accepting that there is an inner battle taking place within each one of us.
This battle is one between bridled and unbridled virtues. The self-control and lack of self-control, best illustrated by the application of self-discipline towards the betterment of individual development, or the lack of self-discipline, either of which will either corrupt civilization, or enhance the qualitative aspects of civilization.
It is reasonable to consider the right to represent the action of self-discipline, as it provides a limited framework on self-destructive human behavior. Equally, it is reasonable to consider the left to represent the lack of self-discipline, as its merits and philosophies result in the degradation of virtues and values.
Both ideals can be maintained in balance within the individual and within the state. This best serves the overall development of both the individual and the state, as it provides the necessary room and adversity for growth and self-evolution to expand and contribute to the betterment of a cultural unification.
Within the United States over the last century a self-serving establishment has developed. This establishment has been allowed to capitalize on the international importance of the US dollar and consolidate much wealth and power within itself. This wealth and power has been prevented from being distributed to the disorganized masses through the psychological technique known as cognitive dissonance.
Most readers will already have a fundamental and workable understanding of cognitive dissonance. The action of creating two opposing positions, the dialectic, and promoting the utter extremes of both, the mass population becomes confused and accepts an undefined and complex center which only benefits the establishment and its redistribution of wealth.
All are forced to live and function within this manufactured center but are conditioned to align and associate themselves with one of the left or right extremes. At times the establishment will use the right to further its objectives and at other times it will use the left to further its objectives. The back and forth at no time benefits the disorganized masses.
The election of Donald Trump is important in regards to topic being discussed here. It is not a coincidence that Trump has been at times associated with both the right and left. This is not important. It has been satisfactorily proven here that Trump was a long-term strategy which was meant to remove the American establishment from the positions of power when the time came. The post How Rothschild Inc. Saved Donald Trump explains this strategy and is becoming more relevant and provable with each passing day.
That post reviewed the history of how Wilbur Ross of Rothschild Inc. ensured that investors stayed with Trump during the trouble years of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It is now being suggested that Wilbur Ross could be the Secretary of Commerce in the Trump Administration. Interesting.
Additionally, it is important to understand that Donald Trump doesn’t really align himself with either the false right or left paradigm. The use of the right-leaning Republican Party was only the vehicle which he used to infiltrate the halls of power and overthrow the establishment from within.
It can be expected that the ongoing tension and violence between the left and right in America, more coming from the intolerable left, will build the consensus that something must be done to bridge the gap and bring about the unification and consolidation of the one American demographic.
No doubt the establishment now only has the liberal left framework from which it will attempt to regain control back from the external international banking interests. Trump has completely taken over the reins of the republican mandates and is in the process of making them his own. The Republican Party will be the vehicle which is used to shift the American population to a more simple and well-defined center. This center will then be used to re-align American cultural interests within the developing international governance framework.
The division within the American masses remained relevant as long as the establishment wished to keep the nation divided and under the spell of a false and corrupt nationalism. The new America which is now beginning to emerge will be unified and positioned to implement enhanced diametric thought-forms within a larger and more macro international governance methodology.
Unbeknownst to the establishment, which grew up around the American order, a process of esoteric transformation was implemented a long time ago. This establishment was used to create and promote the opposing diametric patterns which would force and result in the alchemical transmutation of America. Some people may recognize and know that now; others will not. But international powers greater than those held by the American establishment have never been out of control, and always capable to direct the esoteric and masonic destiny of America.
When Trump announced his candidacy a year and half ago, JC Colins (Philosophy of Metrics) stated that Trump would win. The reasons given included his platform as being fully aligned with the broader and more macro mandates of the international transformation. Some readers considered it to be far-fetched that Donald Trump would be able to overcome the American establishment and take control of the nation’s levers and gears.
The Implosion of American Culture written by JC Colins about two years ago is now happening. The cognitive dissonance which has been used against the masses for so long will not consolidate within the new America and it will be replaced with a more international cognitive dissonance. All is meant to continue the process of alchemical transmutation.
The ancient mystery schools and esoteric mandates promote the alchemical process within each of us. It is our individual purpose and pathway. But this process is also meant to transform nations and the world. America is now, after WW1 (first initiation) and WW2 (second initiation), nearing the end of the third initiation where the transmutation within is completed. The final transmutation of the world is still in the future and a new cognitive orientation within America will now work towards this end. The third initiation is always about re-birth and not death. America is being reborn.
All The Presidents’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
Who Rules America?
All The Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.
Culled from original presidential archival documents, All The Presidents’ Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics, or greed driving bankers.
The author, Nomi Prins, ushers the reader into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protege relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. These families and individuals recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, DC.
All the Presidents’ Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events, such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America’s dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System; how J.P. Morgan’s ambitions motivated President Wilson during World War I; how Chase and National City Bank chairmen worked secretly with President Roosevelt to rescue capitalism during the Great Depression while J.P. Morgan Jr. invited Roosevelt’s son yachting; and how American financiers collaborated with President Truman to construct the World Bank and IMF after World War II.
Prins divulges how, through the Cold War and Vietnam era, presidents and bankers pushed America’s superpower status and expansion abroad, while promoting broadly democratic values and social welfare at home. But from the 1970s, Wall Street’s rush to secure Middle East oil profits altered the nature of political-financial alliances. Bankers’ profit motive trumped heritage and allegiance to public service, while presidents lost control over the economy, as was dramatically evident in the financial crisis of 2008.
The unprecedented history of American power illuminates how the same financiers retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. All the Presidents’ Bankers explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves the reader with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.
Economic Collapse, Bailout & All The Presidents’ Bankers with Nomi Prins
BuzzSaw interview (September 5, 2014)
The following is an excerpt from ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins (on sale April 8, 2014). Reprinted with permission from Nation Books. Nomi Prins is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Wall Street executives Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, John Mack and Brian Moynihan (from left) are sworn-in prior to testifying before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Wednesday.
NIXON’S BANKERS:
When What Was Good for Wall Street Was Good for the President
Wall Street’s War
While the protests against the Vietnam War intensified in the first years of the Nixon administration, the financial elite was fighting its own war—over the future of banking and against Glass-Steagall regulations. National City Bank chairman Walter Wriston was a steadfast warrior in related battles, as he fought with Chase chairman David Rockefeller for supremacy over the US banker community and for dominance over global finance.
Rockefeller’s sights were set on a grander prize, one with worldwide implications: ending the financial cold war. He made his mark in that regard by opening the first US bank in Moscow since the 1920s, and the first in Beijing since the 1949 revolution.
Augmenting their domestic and international expansion plans, both men and their banks prospered from the emerging and extremely lucrative business of recycling petrodollars from the Middle East into third world countries. By acting as the middlemen—capturing oil revenues and transforming them into high-interest-rate loans, to Latin America in particular—bankers accentuated disparities in global wealth. They dumped loans into developing countries and made huge amounts of money in the process. By funneling profits into debts, they caused extreme pain in the debtor nations, especially when the oil-producing nations began to raise their prices. This raised the cost of energy and provoked a wave of inflation that further oppressed these third world nations, the US population, and other economies throughout the world.
Bank Holding Company Battles
When Eisenhower signed the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act banning interstate banking, he left a large loophole as a conciliatory gambit: a gray area as to what big banks could consider “financially-related business,” which fell under their jurisdiction. In practice, that meant that they could find ways to expand their breadth of services while they figured out ways to grow their domestic grab for depositors. On May 26, 1970, the “Big Three” bankers— Wriston and Rockefeller, along with Alden “Tom” Clausen, chairman of Bank America Corporation—appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to press their case for widening the loophole.
During the proceedings, Wriston led the charge on behalf of his brethren in the crusade. Tall, slim, elegantly dressed, and the most articulate of the three, he dramatically called on Congress to “throw off some of the shackles on banking which inhibit competition in the financial markets.”
The global financial landscape was evolving. Ever since World War II, US bankers hadn’t worried too much about their supremacy being challenged by other international banks, which were still playing catch-up in terms of deposits, loans, and global customers. But by now the international banks had moved beyond postwar reconstructive pain and gained significant ground by trading with Cold War enemies of the United States. They were, in short, cutting into the global market that the US bankers had dominated by extending themselves into areas in which the US bankers were absent for US policy reasons. There was no such thing as “enough” of a market share in this game. As a result, US bankers had to take a longer, harder look at the “shackles” hampering their growth. To remain globally competitive, among other things, bankers sought to shatter post-Depression legislative barriers like Glass-Steagall.
They wielded fear coated in shades of nationalism as a weapon: if US bankers became less competitive, then by extension the United States would become less powerful. The competition argument would remain dominant on Wall Street and in Washington for nearly three decades, until the separation of speculative and commercial banking that had been invoked by the Glass-Steagall Act would be no more.
Wriston deftly equated the expansion of US banking with general US global progress and power. It wasn’t so much that this connection hadn’t occurred to presidents or bankers since World War II; indeed, that was how the political-financial alliances had been operating. But from that point on, the notion was formally and publicly verbalized, and placed on the congressional record. The idea that commercial banks served the country and perpetuated its global identity and strength, rather than the other way around, became a key argument for domestic deregulation—even if, in practice, it was the country that would serve the banks.
The Penn Central Debacle
There was, however, a fly in the ointment. To increase their size, bankers wanted to be able to accumulate more services or branches beneath the holding company umbrella. But a crisis in another industry would give some legislators pause. The Penn Central meltdown, the first financial crisis of Nixon’s presidency, temporarily dampened the ardency of deregulation enthusiasts. The collapse of the largest, most diverse railroad holding company in America was blamed on overzealous bank lending to a plethora of non-railroad-oriented entities under one holding company umbrella. The debacle renewed debate about a stricter bank holding company bill.
Under Wriston’s guidance, National City had spearheaded a fifty-three-bank syndicate to lend $500 million in revolving credit to Penn Central, even when it showed obvious signs of imminent implosion.
Penn Central had been one of the leading US corporations in the 1960s. President Johnson had supported the merger that spawned the conglomerate on behalf of a friend, railroad merger specialist Stuart Saunders, who became chairman. He had done this over the warnings of the Justice Department and despite allegations of antitrust violations called by its competitors. With nary a regulator paying attention, Penn Central had morphed into more than a railroad holding company, encompassing real estate, hotels, pipelines, and theme parks. Meanwhile, highways, cars, and commercial airlines had chipped away at Penn Central’s dominant market position. To try to compensate,
Penn Central had delved into a host of speculative expansions and deals. That strategy was failing fast. By May 1970, Penn Central was feverishly drawing on its credit lines just to scrounge up enough cash to keep going.
The conglomerate demonstrated that holding companies could be mere shell constructions under which other unrelated businesses could exist, much as the 1920s holding companies housed reckless financial ventures under utility firm banners.
Allegations circulated that Rockefeller had launched a five-day selling strategy of Penn Central stock, culminating with the dumping of 134,400 shares on the fifth day, based on insider information he received as one of the firm’s key lenders. He denied the charges.
In a joint effort with the bankers to hide the Penn Central debacle behind a shield of federal bailout loans, the Pentagon stepped in, claiming that assisting Penn Central was a matter of national defense.5 Under the auspices of national security, Washington utilized the Defense Production Act of 1950, a convenient bill passed at the start of the Korean War that enabled the president to force businesses to prioritize national security–related endeavors.
On June 21, 1970, Penn Central filed for bankruptcy, becoming the first major US corporation to go bust since the Depression. Its failure was not an isolated incident by any means. Instead, it was one of a number of major defaults that shook the commercial paper market to its core. (“Commercial paper” is a term for the short-term promissory notes sold by large corporations to raise quick money, backed only by their promise to pay the amount of the note at the end of its term, not by any collateral.) But the agile bankers knew how to capitalize on that turmoil. When companies stopped borrowing in the flailing commercial paper market, they had to turn to major banks like Chase for loans instead. As a result, the worldwide loans of Chase, First National City Bank, and Bank of America surged to $27.7 billion by the end of 1971, more than double the 1969 total of $13 billion.
A year later, the largest US defense company, Lockheed, was facing bankruptcy, as well. Again bankers found a way to come out ahead on the people’s dime. Lockheed’s bankers at Bank of America and Bankers Trust led a syndicate that petitioned the Defense Department for a bailout on similar national security grounds. The CEO, Daniel Haughton, even agreed to step down if an appropriate government loan was provided.
In response, the Nixon administration offered $250 million in emergency loans to Lockheed—in effect, bailing out the banks and the corporation. To explain the bailout at a time when the general economy was struggling, Nixon introduced the Lockheed Emergency Loan Act by stating, “It will have a major impact on the economy of California, and will contribute greatly to the economic strength of the country as a whole.” After the bill was passed, not a single Lockheed executive stepped down.
It would take several years of political-financial debate and more bailouts to sustain Penn Central. One 1975 article labeled the entire episode “The Penn-C Fairy Tale” and condemned the subsequent federal bailout: “While the country is in the worst recession since the depression and unemployment lines grow longer every day, Congress is dumping another third of a billion dollars of your tax payer dollars down the railroad rat hole.” (The incident was prologue: Congress would lavish hundreds of billions of dollars to sustain the biggest banks after the 2008 financial crisis, topped up by trillions of dollars from the Fed and the Treasury Department in the form of loans, bond purchases, and other subsidies.)
More Bank Holding Company Politics
Despite the Penn Central crisis, the revised Bank Holding Company Act decisively passed the Senate on September 16, 1970, by a bipartisan vote of seventy-seven to one. The final version was far more lenient than the one that Texas Democrat John William Wright Patman, chair of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, or even the Nixon administration had originally envisioned. The revised act allowed big banks to retain nonbank units acquired before June 1968. It also gave the Fed greater regulatory authority over bank holding companies, including the power to determine what constituted one. Language was added to enable banks to be considered one-bank holding companies if they, or any of their subsidiaries, held any deposits or extended any commercial loans, thus broadening their scope.
President Nixon signed the bill into law without fanfare on New Year’s Eve 1970. In fact, his inner circle decided against making a splash about it. They didn’t think the public would understand or care. Plus, they realized that there was a prevailing attitude that the Nixon administration had favored the big banks, and though it had, this was not something they wanted to draw attention to.
The End of the Gold Standard
The top six banks controlled 20 percent of the nation’s deposits through one-bank holding companies, but second place in that group wasn’t good enough for Wriston, who noted to the Nixon administration that his bank was really the “caretaker of the aspirations of millions of people” whose money it held. Wriston flooded the New York Fed with proposals for expansion. His applications “were said to represent as many as half of the total of all of the banks.” The Fed was so overwhelmed, it had to enlist First National City Bank to interpret the new law on its behalf.
By mid-1971, the Fed had approved thirteen and rejected seven of Wriston’s applications. His biggest disappointment was the insurance underwriting rejection. The possibility of converting depositors for insurance business had been tantalizing. It would continue to be a hard-fought, ultimately successful battle.
Around the same time, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller (David Rockefeller’s brother) approved legislation permitting banks to set up subsidiaries in each of the state’s nine banking districts. This was a gift for Wriston and David Rockefeller, because it meant their banks could expand within the state. Each subsidiary could open branches through June 1976, when the districts would be eliminated and banks could merge and branch freely.
Several months later, First National City Bank was paying generous prices to purchase the tiniest upstate banks, from which it began extending loans to the riskiest companies and getting hosed in the process; a minor David vs. Goliath revenge of local banks against Wall Street muscle.
By that time, the stock market had turned bearish, and foreign countries were increasingly demanding their paper dollars be converted into gold as they shifted funds out of dollar reserves. Bankers, meanwhile, postured for a dollar devaluation, which would make their cost of funds cheaper and enable them to expand their lending businesses.
They knew that the fastest way to further devalue the dollar was to sever it from gold, and they made their opinions clear to Nixon, taking care to blame the devaluation on external foreign speculation, not their own movement of capital and lending abroad.
The strategy worked. On August 15, 1971, Nixon bashed the “international money speculators” in a televised speech, stating, “Because they thrive on crises they help to create them.”16 He noted that “in recent weeks the speculators have been waging an all-out war on the American dollar.” His words were true in essence, yet they were chosen to exclude the actions of the major US banks, which were also selling the dollar. Foreign central banks had access to US gold through the Bretton Woods rules, and they exercised this access. Exchanging dollars for gold had the effect of decreasing the value of the US dollar relative to that gold. Between January and August 1971, European banks (aided by US banks with European branches) catalyzed a $20 billion gold outflow.
As John Butler wrote in The Golden Revolution, “By July 1971, the US gold reserves had fallen sharply, to under $10 billion, and at the rate things were going, would be exhausted in weeks. [Treasury Secretary John] Connally was tasked with organizing an emergency weekend meeting of Nixon’s various economic and domestic policy advisers. At 2:30 p.m. on August 13, they gathered, in secret, at Camp David to decide how to respond to the incipient run on the dollar.”
Nixon’s solution, pressed by the banking community, was to abandon the gold standard. In his speech the president informed Americans that he had directed Connally to “suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets.” He promised this would “defend the dollar against the speculators.” Because Bretton Woods didn’t allow for dollar devaluation, Nixon effectively ended the accord that had set international currency parameters since World War II, signaling the beginning of the end of the gold standard.
Once the dollar was no longer backed by gold, questions surfaced as to what truly backed it (besides the US military). According to Butler, “The Bretton Woods regime was doomed to fail as it was not compatible with domestic US economic policy objectives which, from the mid-1960s onwards, were increasingly inflationary.”
It wasn’t simply policy that was inflationary. The expansion of debt via the joint efforts of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve was greatly augmented by the bankers’ drive to loan more funds against their capital base. That established a debt inflation policy, which took off after the dissolution of Bretton Woods. Without the constraint of keeping gold in reserve to back the dollar, bankers could increase their leverage and speculate more freely, while getting money more easily from the Federal Reserve’s discount window. Abandoning the gold standard and “floating” the dollar was like navigating the waters of global finance without an anchor to slow down the dispersion of money and loans. For the bankers, this made expansion much easier.
Indeed, on September 24, 1971, Chase board director and former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon (chairman of the Brookings Institution and, from 1972 to 1975, the Rockefeller Foundation) told Connally that “under no circumstances should we ever go back to assuming limited convertibility into gold.” Chase Board chairman David Rockefeller wrote National Security Adviser (and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger to recommend “a reevaluation of foreign currencies, a devaluation of the dollar, removal of the U.S. import surcharge and ‘buy America’ credits, and a new international monetary system with greater flexibility . . . and less reliance on gold.”
With the dollar devalued, investors poured money into stocks, fueling a rally from November 1971 led by the “Nifty Fifty,” a group of “respectable” big-cap growth stocks. These were being bought “like greyhounds chasing a mechanical rabbit” by pension funds, insurance companies, and trust funds. The Chicago Board of Trade began trading options on individual stocks in 1973 to increase the avenues for betting; speculators could soon thereafter trade futures on currencies and bonds.
The National Association of Securities Dealers rendered all this trading easier on February 8, 1971, when it launched the NASDAQ. The first computerized quote system enabled market makers to post and transact over-the-counter prices quickly. With the stock market booming again, NASDAQ became a more convenient avenue for Wall Street firms to raise money. Many abandoned their former partnership models whereby the firm’s partners risked their own capital for the firm, in favor of raising capital by selling the public shares. That way, the upside—and the growing risk—would also be diffused and transferred to shareholders. Merrill Lynch was one of the first major investment bank partnerships to go “public” in 1971. Other classic industry leaders quickly followed suit.
Meanwhile, corporations were finding prevailing lower interest rates more attractive. Instead of getting loans from banks, they could fund themselves more cheaply by issuing bonds in the capital markets. This took business away from commercial banks, which were restricted by domestic regulation from acting as issuing agents. But bankers had positioned themselves on both sides of the Atlantic to get around this problem, so they were covered by the shift in their major customers’ financing preferences. While their ability to service corporate demand was dampened at home, overseas it roared. Currency market turmoil also led many countries to the Eurodollar market for credit, where US banks were waiting. Thus, the credit extended through international branches of major US banks tripled to $4.5 billion from 1969 to 1972.
The market rally, cheered on by the media, was enough to bolster Nixon’s fortunes. In the fall of 1972, Nixon was reelected in a landslide on promises to end the Vietnam War with “peace and honor.” Wall Street reaped the benefits of a bull market, and more citizens and companies were sucked into new debt products. The Dow hit a 1970s peak of 1,052 points in January 1973, as Nixon began his second term.
A Coup and the Transformation of the Anglo-American Establishment: TRUMPS NEW WORLD ORDER
During the CNN coverage of the election results last night political commentator Gloria Borger said that Trumps landslide victory “amounts to a new world order”. This comment is a peculiar phrase to use considering its loaded with reference and association with the conspiracy theory culture.
For the last 18 months, I’ve been researching and blogging about how the Trump campaign platform and scripting has been engineered to promote the economic and geopolitical aspects of the transformation of the international monetary system.
For a brief historic review, with the growing reduction of the USD in its reserve capacity, American monetary authorities will be able to re-engineer the dollar from its existing international characteristics to meet the demands of the domestic economy. This domestic dollar will depreciate against the currencies of its largest trading partners which will in turn make American exports more affordable. This will increase jobs and reduce the overall debt-to-GDP ratio, making the national debt more manageable again.
The reduced international role of the dollar will mean that America can no longer print endless money and fund NATO and the UN to the extent which they have. The money will also not be there to defend other nations all around the world. This is aligned with Trump’s script and mandate when he enters office.
In consideration of this scenario, some readers have had a difficult time understanding how the U.S. would go from where we were to where we are now today; post election. Looking back is much easier than looking forward. But the outcome cannot be denied.
It is hypothesized that Brexit and Trump, as well as other populist movements around the world, represent a new modern nationalism which has been engineered to replace the globalization which has become the target of much resistance and protest.
It has always been assumed by the alternative media that globalization would usher in the so-called New World Order. The conclusion is that the engineered resistance to globalization – which was promoted and funneled by the alternative media, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and other international and domestic groups – would serve as the catalyst for such a New World Order. This would manifest throughout nations and regions as the new modern nationalism.
In essence, the anti-globalist movement is the Trojan Horse for the further development and implementation of a more consolidated global governance framework.
The fact that this predicted script has now been followed almost to the letter should not be considered a coincidence.
The actions Trump takes in the first few months in office will further reveal the more complex aspects of this transformation. The alignment between Trump’s foreign policy mandates and the mandates of the larger multilateral transition have been confirmed with the response of Putin to the election results. The Anglo-American establishment which has developed and got rich by the international role of the USD has now been countered internationally by Russia and other geopolitical moves, such as the re-alignment between once American allies, and also countered domestically by the Trump victory.
The international banking interests no longer require this Anglo-American establishment and have orchestrated its removal from the halls of power within Washington. This represents the largest shift in how the world operates since at least World War II. Donald Trump served as the seed for this removal and transformation of the establishment. A casual view of his interviews from the 1980’s is suggestive of this clandestine operation.
A new American establishment is emerging from the ruins of the old. This establishment will be aligned with the mandates of the new multilateral world which is emerging (just look into the B.R.I.C.S. nation agenda). This world will be based on supra-sovereign monetary processes and will promote the new modern nationalism as the springboard of acceptance for the further consolidation of international mandates.
The election of Trump is possibly another piece of evidence that international banking interests just pulled off a non-violent coup in America. Now, we will wait and see the big gears start moving.
HOW ROTHSCHILD INC.
SAVED DONALD TRUMP
A Multi-Decade Strategy to Transform America
Donald Trump has been calling the United Nations weak and incompetent while stating that NATO is obsolete. Both are suggestive of a changing world in which the role of the United States will be consolidated within a larger global governance framework. This framework will be structured around the multilateral mandates of a new monetary system and the objectives of the UN’s 2030 Agenda.
For example, in 2005 Trump said:
“I have to start by saying that I’m a big fan, a very big fan, of the United Nations and all it stands for.”
This statement would appear to stand in contrast to the recent campaign announcements in front of an AIPAC crowd in which Trump spoke more truthful:
“The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It’s not a friend to freedom. It’s not even a friend to the United States of America, where we all know, it has its home. And it surely isn’t a friend to Israel.”
This apparent flip-flop on the United Nations serves as a method of cognitive dissonance, and was promoted by USA Today back in March, ensuring that attention was given to Trumps 2005 statement. The other often reported flip-flops of Donald Trump serve the exact same purpose of cognitive dissonance, and are a constant focus of attention in the mainstream media.
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological methodology where a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, are manufactured. The internal diametric which develops causes extreme mental and emotional discomfort, which further leads to one of the opposing positions being adjusted for the purpose of restoring cognitive balance.
Cognitive dissonance can exist as a natural process of mental and emotional evolution but is widely used in our culture as a means of socioeconomic engineering and transforming of mass populations. Every time you hear the mainstream media suggest Trump is “flip-flopping” on policies or issues, the concept of intentional cognitive dissonance should come to mind.
In a 1988 interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show Donald Trump was asked about running for president and his words and demeanor on the subject of America are verbatim of how he talks in 2016. The talking points and script where decided almost thirty years ago and draw additional dissonance to the contradictory nature of his past and present comments on the United Nations and other politically charged topics.
The fact of the matter is that Donald Trump will establish a modern-nationalism within America which will facilitate the transformation of a culture which has become self-entitled on a false sense of exceptionalism. This exceptionalism has been based on the dominance of the US dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency.
The false exceptionalism stands in contrast and non-cognitive opposition to the natural exceptionalism of Americans which is expressed through hard work, ingenuity and fearless dedication. The modern-nationalism will evolve from these past virtues and harness the will of the people as decades of US unipolar dominance is reversed and replaced with a multilateral approach on global governance.
The question has often been asked about American willingness to support and acquiescence to an international power-broker and the United Nations. Never has it been considered that American nationalism would be used against it as a form of methodical mass transformation. The media attention which is being provided to Trump, though unfavorable for the most part, serves as a strong platform for the Trump message to be promoted and spread.
The cognitive dissonance which is further manufactured between the opposing positions of Trump and Clinton ensures that the positions of either can be fostered upon the people with a quick tweak here and an unseen nudge there. The place of balance between both can be reconciled in a vast number of creative and effective ways. This balance can also be engineered if a third opposing or replacement candidate were to enter the race on either side.
Considering the time and labor which has gone into building the Donald Trump character it is difficult to imagine that he will not become the next president. The case can be made that an equal amount of effort has gone into the Hillary Clinton public image, and the feminist trend towards symbolic androgyny would surely support the rise of a female leader.
But there is something about the Trump brand which is suggestive of a longer and more strategic approach. This multi-decade tailoring started in the 1980’s with the initial cultural injection of Donald Trump. There has been much written about this time period but little attention is provided to the obvious manufactured aspects of the Trump image.
In the early 1980’s Donald Trump was an up and coming real estate developer in New York. There was no connection between the Trump name and casinos or gambling. The obvious nature of the name Trump and its definition related to gambling and card games foretold of the massive empire which would develop in the coming years.
In 1987 Donald Trump purchased his first casino interests when he acquired 93% of the shares in Resorts International. Resorts International has a sordid history which began in the early 1950’s when it evolved from a CIA and Mossad front company which had been established for the purpose of money laundering the profits from drug trafficking, gambling, and other illegal activities.
The socioeconomic engineering benefits of mass population manipulation through means of drug addiction, gambling, and other vices, far outweigh those provided by money laundering alone. It can be assumed that money laundering acted as a secondary advantage in much the same way that the subjugation of the Chinese population through the spread of opium financially benefited the East India Trading Company centuries before.
On October 30, 1978, The Spotlight newspaper reported that the principle investors of Resorts International were Meyer Lansky, Tibor Rosenbaum, William Mellon Hitchcock, David Rockefeller, and one Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
Michael Collins Piper, in his book The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America has done an excellent job of describing the relationship between Donald Trump and Resorts International. The following excerpt sums up the relationship:
“In 1987, upon the death of longtime CIA front man James Crosby, the nominal head of Resorts International, up-and-coming young New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped into the picture and bought Crosby’s interest in the gambling empire.”
“Trump soon became a household name, with his colorful personality and his insistence upon naming a variety of luxury hotels, apartment houses and other commercial ventures after himself. But while the name “Trump” appeared in the headlines, the names of the real movers behind Resorts International remained hidden from public view.”
The support of the Rothschild’s would become even more apparent.
After quickly expanding the reach of Resorts International to Atlantic City in the final years of the 1980’s, Donald Trump found himself in financial trouble as the real estate market in New York tanked. The three casinos in Atlantic City, like other Trump assets, were under threat from lenders. It was only with the assistance and assurance of Wilbur L. Ross Jr., senior managing director of Rothschild Inc. that Trump was allowed to keep the casinos and rebuild his threatened empire.
This was detailed in a Bloomberg article from March 22, 1992.
The connection between Baron Edmond de Rothschild, being one of the original principle investors of Resorts International, and Rothschild Inc. allowing Donald Trump to retain “ownership” over the Atlantic City casinos, which saved him from bankruptcy, should not be considered a coincidence.
Great wealth can both create and destroy men of perceived consequence.
Donald Trump landed on his feet when ironically the real estate market in New York turned and his wealth increased dramatically once more. From there the Trump Empire continued to roll forward and eventually expanded its brand into the realm of reality television, the newest method of socioeconomic and cultural engineering.
For those wondering, Wilbur L. Ross Jr. spent 24 years at the New York office of Rothschild Inc. In the late 1990’s he started a $200 million fund at Rothschild Inc. to invest in distressed assets. In 2000, on April Fool’s day, Ross raised an additional $450 million to invest in troubled companies. The timing of this strategy could not have been better, as this report from New York Magazine stated:
“The 2000–1 rolling stock-market crash, 9/11, and a globally synchronous recession pushed scores of companies into bankruptcy. New Economy highfliers like Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing went bust. But so did Old Economy stalwarts in industries like steel and textiles—victims of excess capacity, global competition, and generous union contracts.”
So it’s of course no surprise that billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross Jr. would support the nomination of Donald Trump for president in this Bloomberg article dated March 9, 2016.
It would appear that Rothschild supported front men like Ross and Trump do extremely well in the worlds of finance and politics. Trump’s proclamations to bring jobs back to America will help “….industries like steel and textiles-…” and will support both domestic growth and an increase in wealth for those like Ross who have invested in distressed American assets.
Donald Trump, “…a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage…” is in fact the establishment candidate for president. The difference is that the establishment is one based on the international banking interests, and not one based on the interests of domestic American elites, which are more represented by the Jeb’s, the Mitt’s, the Ted’s, and even the Hillary’s.
At no time in the history of the modern world and politics has an anti-establishment candidate been given so much media attention and free airtime. The negative reporting of Donald Trump by most media is scripted as such. The cognitive dissonance which is developing surrounding the Trump mandate and transformation of America is a strategy which began decades ago in the 1980’s when Donald Trump first began to canvas our television screens.
One merely need watch the Donald Trump of the past talk about running for president to witness the script in its pure form. All of the talking points about trade deals and bringing jobs back, as well as the United Nations, NATO, and the national debt, all fit within the methodology of the multilateral monetary transition.
It is probable that the plan would be just as workable whether the next president had been Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or a wild card like Joe Biden, though a review of the history (just shared) leading up to this election compels me to think the Donald strategy was the Trump card that will now lead the charge of American nationalism towards a global governance framework under his presidency.
It’s Not About President Trump: The New World Revolution from a Anthropologist Perspective
“Hillary is the Candidate of Yesterday – We Are the Movement of Tomorrow” ~ Donald J. Trump
As these words are being w ritten, we all are in the middle of election day American Presidential vote of 2016. The historic energy surrounding this event is evident to all who have been paying attention. Those who haven’t can still acknowledge that something of interest and importance has been taking place in their peripheral.
The results will now determine the path forward not just America, but also for the world. Trump’s statement “Hillary is the candidate of yesterday – we are the movement of tomorrow” was chosen as a method of penetrating the collective consciousness of the masses and make the mental shift towards the new and emerging world.
The message itself is reminiscent of the direction that Clinton represents (and the establishment she affilliates with); the old political order and someone should have told her, and the shifting new American establishment, that this transformation was taking place.
It has never been considered by the alternative media that the international banking interests would use populist and nationalist movements to transform the world into a more consolidated and centralized system. It was always assumed, and heavily promoted, that a one world governance framework would mean the loss of national sovereignty. But one must consider the nature of sovereignty and national identity to begin with.
What is a nation?
The understanding principle in how the world is structured can be best interpreted by grasping the scalable nature which exists. This scalable micro and macro bi-transitioning can be applied. Let’s use the concept of nation as our baseline. Within a nation the land is divided into states and provinces. Within each of these there are counties and municipalities. Each serves as corporations of some form or another, with tax revenue and a local governance framework, which is meant to produce a revenue stream and profit.
The land is also divided into farm sections. These sections have been traditionally owned and operated by land owners, both small and large. Each farm has its crop and herd of cattle, pigs, chickens, etc.. The animals on each farm do not understand that they serve the same purpose as the animals on other farms. Each segmented parcel of farm land and municipal governance structure serves as the micro-framework within the larger national macro-framework.
As we shift our understanding above the baseline the nation becomes the micro-framework, just like the farm and municipality, while the larger international structure becomes the macro-framework. All would appear to be operating independently from one another but connected through logistical and management processes.
Pride of ownership and participation at all levels throughout the governance architecture exists. There is national pride which is evident in the Make America Great Again movement. There is also pride and participation in the states and cities. These levels below the national baseline are encouraged by sports teams and other methods of rallying the masses around a support structure.
This scalable control methodology provides us some valuable insights. The need and purpose of intentional fragmentation provides important levers and gears for the operation of the larger macro machine. As such, the idea that these engineered-fragments would be removed from the control grid and process would appear to be counter-intuitive. In simple terms, national identity and perceived sovereignty serves a very unique and misunderstood purpose.
When Zbigniew Brzezinski made the “a universal awakening of mass political consciousness” statement back in 2012 it was interpreted by the alternative media as an expression of concern by the elite that the disorganized masses were awakening. On the internet there little discussion that this “awakening” was being engineered with the use of the alternative media, and movements such as Anonymous, to re-position the mass consciousness and transform the world into a new governance framework.
For most people, it was always assumed that this governance framework would eliminate sovereignty and national identity. It was never considered that the nationalist and populist movements which are now sweeping the globe would be the Trojan horse for international transformation.
The engineered threat to national sovereignty was a masterful design and the alternative media was created and slowly expanded to promote the reaction to this false-threat. It would appear that the intention all along was to use the new modern nationalism to implement the new world governance structure. The mass populations within each fragment would demand the new modern nationalism which was engineered to facilitate and accommodate the emerging global governance framework.
Confusion is removed from this methodology when we realize that the destruction of national sovereignty was never meant to be a part of the new world governance. The best example of what is expressed here can be found in the potential solution to the Eurozone challenges. The EU common market should be considered a test run for the larger macro global governance structure.
One of the lessons from this test run can be found in the use of a supra-sovereign currency. Use of the euro created further imbalances in the EU. More accurately, it amplified the deficiencies and imbalances which already existed in the system. The contrast between the surplus members and the deficit members reacted in a specific manner to the use of the euro. This provided valuable lessons and insight on how to restructure the larger macro international system.
The EU member nations could very well return to using their domestic currencies while continuing to use the euro to balance trade among themselves. This would be the same principle which would be implemented internationally.
The supra-sovereign asset, such as the I.M.F.s Special Drawing Rights (SDR), can be used as the international reserve asset while nations continue to use their national currencies for domestic use. National sovereignty can continue to be promoted while the pathways and processes of a larger international governance framework are constructed. Much like the individual states and municipalities exist within the framework of their larger whole.
Since Trump announced his candidacy, his platform has been designed to transition America’s position from the unipolar dominance it has maintained for a long time (7 decades since Brenton Woods Conference 1944) to the more multilateral position which is meant to re-balance the international system. It serves as only one aspect of the emerging governance framework and is being packaged as a new American nationalism.
The results of the election will be extremely telling of this process following the Trump landslide for the American Presidency.
“Hillary is the Candidate of Yesterday – We Are the Movement of Tomorrow”
And the alternative media is all on-board the Trump train.
Clifford Taylor Fleischbein, Clifford VF Taylor, Maverick
Prospective, Good Drummer – Easy to Watch: Forty Six and 2
Maverick and the Coalition with Tamara take the stage for Escondido City Mayor’s “Unity In The Community”
Clifford “Maverick” Taylor Fleischbein is now working for fun in his return to the stage, performing his energetic guitar playing and singing with the young and vibrant Tamara Rodriguez:
The collaboration of these two artists will bring the musical sounds like “I Talked To ItalianO” with the fine blending of Techo-Pop sounds with Maverick’s unique and discernible guitar chops:
The Art of Controlled Patience
Trump Represents the Organic Evolution and Organization of the Masses: Subprime Attack on the Weak
African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians, Asians, and all Americans which make up the composition of the disorganized masses need to read and understand the following.
The existing political platforms which both the Democrats and Republicans have maintained and utilized for generations are no longer effective. In reality, the differences in the platforms are illusionary. The establishment has carefully crafted the perception of variation and choice, but the masses should consider both platforms to be a part of the same machinations used to divide and conquer, while transferring wealth from the bottom to the top.
The simple nature of wealth and wealth transference is never taught or discussed in school curriculums. The diametric system itself is designed to avoid self-exposure and prevents the development of an informed population. The masses are kept disorganized and in a state of confusion. The very nature of the system takes advantage of the human predisposition for externalization and division while promoting a false hope to fight the hopelessness it has created.
The core meaning of wealth, in the human context, is the accumulation of time and labor. Human beings spend their time working hard to improve their rate of survivability. The foraging of primitive man consumed the time and labor afforded during daylight hours. At night man had to hide from predators.
But with the advancement and evolution of spirit and mind, the nature of wealth shifted and the amount of time and labor which human beings were allotted in one lifetime expanded. Rates of survivability exploded and the ruling classes of the developing cultures were forced to manufacture methods of controlling the increasingly bored masses.
The agricultural revolutions served as both the means to free man from the everyday toil of foraging as well as the means to enslave and control him. The ruling elites used this advancement and consolidation of food production to control the distribution and pricing of food, which is the number one contributor of survivability.
These early generations of humanity did not understand that real wealth was the accumulation of their time and labor. The growth of frivolous entertainment and distraction industries took hold of the human imagination and the machinations of elitism took on a foggy un-realization in the minds of the disorganized masses.
Methods of funneling wealth and preventing the lower classes from accumulating their time and labor were developed. Banking, credit and labor systems began to be widely used and became even more complex and intrusive as the industrial revolution provided more freedom and escape from the chains of foraging.
The false prime status of the ruling class was contrasted with the false subprime status of those it meant to control and herd. Existing methods of ensuring wealth transference had to be maintained while new and more effective methods would have to be continuously developed and implemented to balance with the inevitable cultural evolution of the disorganized masses. This evolution would always represent a threat which would force the elites to maintain a pronounced vigilance and watchfulness.
The culture of the disorganized masses would therefore have to be engineered and maintained as a breathing living entity. This entity would ensure all organic improvements and cultural enrichments of the disorganized masses could be harnessed as negative diametric machinations which would contribute to the transference of wealth.
Human time and labor are dramatically different between the ruling elite classes and the disorganized masses. The large population mass are afflicted with hidden measures and tools to eat their time and drain their labor. These distractions and methods of transference are promoted by the same elitism which accumulates the wealth at the top. The fact that the disorganized masses are unable to make this observation is a testament to the effective nature and engineering of the machinations themselves.
The subprime crisis, and subsequent foreclosures, is a perfect example of these machinations. The transfer of wealth from the inner cities and poor neighborhoods in America was massive. This transfer is still continuing and the mass population has yet to fully awaken to the process. Subprime lending will morph into another machination and the disorganized masses will forever remain behind the eight ball because the educational curriculums which are forced into use will never teach and inform about the methods themselves.
The truth-speak of Donald Trump has injected the organic evolution of the disorganized masses with the energy the ruling establishment has forever attempted to dampen. Trump may be running as a Republican but the very nature of his campaign has taken on a new purpose. It is tearing away the illusion of the diametric and providing all with the alternative which has been long hidden.
All American’s now have the opportunity to take back control of their nation and future. The establishment has declared all out cultural war on Donald Trump. The threat of his rise to power within the American establishment should be an indicator that we are witnessing history unfold in real time. Do not let the establishments’ methods of division continue for another moment. This division has been injected along the lines of race, religion, and class. All Americans and all people around the world should be welcoming the election of Trump to the highest office in one of the most powerful nations.
Unfortunately that will only be the beginning of the fight, as human nature will always externalize and self-destruct. What Trump leaves behind could develop into another ruling class which will create new and improved methods of wealth transference. But it’s worth the chance.
Jay Thomas – The ‘Lone Ranger’ Story
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Why Your Life Is Not A Journey – Alan Watts
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Rebalancing Global Currencies, Multilateral Global Banking, and New World Order fair to Emerging Nations
Some nations say: America Has Lost! This is about War, the Vietnamese dong, and the Eurasian Union
The recent statement by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte regarding the countries relationship with the United States puts a fine point on the transition markers of the international monetary transformation. This point should now be considered the counter pivot to Obama’s Asian pivot and the first moment when China has fundamentally geopolitically gained the upper hand in the South China Sea.
Duterte was in China for a state visit. While there he said the following:
“In this venue, your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States. Both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost.”
The impact of saying this in front of 200 business people interested in new commercial alliances is one of the most profound and straight forward statements regarding the nature of the multilateral transformation. This should build confidence in other Asian nations to disconnect from the United States and align future geopolitical and socioeconomic strategies with China.
America has been busy projecting strength in regions around the world. In Eastern Europe it has taken the form of a NATO buildup along Russia’s borders. In the Middle East it has been injected into the Islamic groups, both terrorists and rebels, attempting to overthrow the Syrian government and re-take Iraq. In the South China Sea it has been expressed by maintaining a naval presence in opposition to the Chinese man-made islands. And in the East China Sea American power is justified by the tension between South Korea and North Korea.
In all areas American power is being challenged by the emerging powers. The alliance between Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and growing to include India, the Philippine’s, and soon Vietnam and other ASEAN members, will be the final catalyst to force the American establishment to back down and align with the larger multilateral mandates.
The world will have to turn against the United States at the same time the existing American establishment is overthrown domestically. The ongoing election drama between Clinton and Trump is reflective of this internal power struggle. The international banking interest which now desire a multilateral framework, as opposed to a unipolar framework, are externally pushing back against the American establishment around the world. At the same time Trump is attempting to take control of the establishment’s power base internally.
How far the American establishment is willing to go in order to stay in control of a world which no longer wants its hand holding will have to be seen. At some point the power base supporting the America establishment will shift and the fragmentation process will take place. There is no doubt that the next few weeks and months represent a danger zone and a period of elevated risk.
The move by the Philippines will be the first among many such moves in the region. The larger Eurasian Union and ASEAN+3 mandates will override all American strategies and new trade agreements will be made.
Vietnam is one such nation which will eventually follow the Philippines and re-negotiate its relationship with the United States. They have openly expressed in the past the need to end the currency peg with the dollar and peg to the currency of their largest trading partner, which is China. They have also suggested that they could peg the dong to a basket of currencies. This could be a reference to the SDR but is more likely a reference to the Asian Currency Unit.
The whole region acts as an optimum currency area. Europe also serves as an optimum currency area, which provided the basis for the European Currency Unit, a currency basket which later became the euro currency.
As such, the optimum Asian area will develop an Asian Currency Unit. The Vietnamese dong will end the decade’s long peg to the US dollar and maintain multiple pegs with the Asian Currency Unit and the Chinese renminbi. This will begin the process of dong appreciation which will align with the larger ASEAN+3 trade agreements and geopolitical relationships.
The European Union will eventually join the Asian Union as members of the larger Eurasian Union. Each individual region will develop currency units which will be sequentially integrated within the larger macro currency baskets. The end objective is to consolidate piecemeal all regions and currencies in to the SDR basket. The SDR, decades from now, will be transformed into a true international currency.
This is the logical path forward on global economic and financial consolidation.
The statement “America has lost” is loaded with intrigue and intent. It is sending a message to both the American establishment and other nations around the world. The message is straight forward. The time is now to fight back against the American establishment. The first major transition point of the global transformation is about to take place. Please have a seat everyone. This is about to get interesting!
Let’s hear it: 3-String Shovel Guitar !
Check out this very good shovel guitar and player:
How the Establishment Media is Committing Suicide & Why Clinton Cannot Win
With each passing day the desperation coming from the establishment media in the west is becoming more obvious. The constant hit pieces on Donald Trump roll from one to the other with little interruption. News is beginning to leak out that the orders to stop Trump from becoming president have been issued from the very top of the American establishment.
The ongoing WikiLeaks documents are taking a toll on the Clinton campaign and the response of the establishment is to hit back with fabricated stories and coming at Trump from every possible angle. After the “pussy grabbing” video the establishment media pushed the script of Trump dropping out of the campaign.
This was a clear act of desperation. If Clinton was truly ahead and Trump didn’t stand a chance of winning there would be no calls for him to drop out. They need Donald to drop out for the simple fact that Clinton cannot win against him.
The other tactic included pushing the Republican establishment to force him off the ticket. This has not gained traction either and Trump continues to steamroll forward to November 8th and victory.
Ever since Trump announced his candidacy, J.C. Collins has been suggesting that he represents the international banking interest. These interests are now concerned with balancing the global monetary system and shifting some power away from the American establishment. There is a segment of the American establishment which does not wish to willingly relinquish the power which they have had for almost a century.
The alignment between Trump and Russia is not a coincidence, or an accident. Russia, alongside BRICS members China and India, are positioning geopolitically for this global realignment. The US military movements in the world are reflective of the establishments desire to hang on to their control and hegemony.
This stubbornness and greediness has pushed the world to the brink of war. The American establishment is beginning to crash into the wall of multilateral interests. This is taking place in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, as well as the South China Sea. This represents a multi-front war which the US cannot win. Further acts of desperation could lead to nuclear exchanges.
Donald Trump has expressed his understanding of the situation and has openly suggested that Russia is not behind the Democratic email hacks. The amount of western propaganda directed at Putin and Russia has reached insane levels.
A Russian government official stated today that the election of Trump means peace in the world and the election of Clinton will mean nuclear war. Such a statement should not be taken lightly. Especially taken with other events and news stories which are breaking, such as Russia calling home students of officials who are studying abroad and running nuclear drills in Moscow.
It has always been J.C. Collins contention that war will be avoided during this monetary transition. But, we may go to the very brink before saner minds get control and pull us back from the edge of destruction.
There is no doubt that we are in the danger zone between now and the election. Even after the election a Trump victory could be derailed if war breaks out. Between now and January we are under increased risk of a larger war globally.
The establishment media is complicit in this movement towards war. Their twisting and distortion of real world events is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern world. The bias and misrepresentation has become so obvious that even the younger generations are waking to the fraud.
The availability of alternative news sources and social media have provided the masses another method of gaining access to knowledge. This is not an accident. The internet serves as the base for this new source. Interestingly enough, on the day that the new SDR basket currency became effective (including the Chinese currency), control of the internet passed from the American establishment to an international body represented within the United Nations.
The very tools which the American establishment have used on the international community to spread and maintain hegemony will now be used against it. The international banking interest which have allowed the US to gain so much power implanted the means to take away that power within the very framework of the establishments’ construction.
The implicit bias being openly expressed and promoted by the establishment media will forever destroy the trust of the masses. This will leave an opening which will be filled by new sources of information which will be provided by the international banking interests. Seeds of this have already been planted.
Clinton represents the old American political world which is no longer required. Trump represents the role which America will take on in the multilateral monetary framework. Will the establishment recognize their position and act accordingly? Or will it take a massive war to remove the American machine from the hegemonic halls of global power?
I would encourage readers to revisit the post titled Brexit – The New Modern-Nationalism is Global Governance. Global government is shifting its image and will be repacked as a new modern-nationalism. Don’t be fooled by the calls for America first. The benefits to the American masses under the multilateral monetary system just so happen to align with those of the international banking interests. These will be increased jobs and wealth. This is what Trump is calling for. The script playing out has been engineered over decades with nothing left to chance.
There will be no room in this new world for the bias media which represents the old US micro-establishment.
Taming the Creature from Jekyll Island: Ending Credit-Based National Currencies
Ever since reading G. Edward Griffin’s expose on the creation of the Federal Reserve I have been fascinated with the inner workings of the international monetary system. Though the Creature from Jekyll Island was more about the Federal Reserve, the eventual evolution of the USD as the primary reserve currency used in international trade added a whole new dimension to the covert Congressional shenanigans taking place on that particular Christmas Eve in 1913.
Since the inception of the central banking system back in the 1600’s fiat currencies have been expanding with few limitations. The expansion of debt even funded the industrial revolution and pushed human development to new heights. With that being said the expansion of debt, or more accurately the expansion of credit-based national currencies, will have to come to an end and be reversed at some foreseeable point in the future.
As recently reported by the International Monetary Fund, global debt now stands at an all-time high. This statement is somewhat redundant as the nature of credit-based national currencies, and the central bank system as a whole, is the continued expansion of debt. Each day the amount of global debt will always grow larger. Debt will only reverse when the system begins to change.
The best way to look at this is that all money in circulation has been issued through debt. Likewise, all money in circulation is reflective of the amount of credit-based national currency in circulation, as the currency itself is issued through debt/credit. As the amount of debt decreases so does the amount of currency in circulation.
As the new SDR multilateral framework expands and takes over from the existing USD unipolar based framework the amount of credit-based national currency will begin to decrease. This will take years and perhaps even decades.
The sovereign debt solutions which are being developed should be considered the first movements towards the ending of credit-based national currencies. Foreign exchange reserves will be exchanged and substituted for SDR. This will correlate with larger issuances of SDR based on increased quota amounts.
Initially the substitution process will appear to be the exchange of credit-based fiat currency with a representation of a basket of credit-based fiat currency, being the SDR. In that regards little will change. The fundamental change will take place as the amount of SDR which is allocated to each nation will be based on more than foreign reserve substitution.
In the coming years the amount of SDR allocated to member nations will not be based on the amount of credit-based national currency which exists. The amount of national currency which will be allowed to exist will be based on the amount of SDR allocation.
The future SDR allocations of each member nation will be measured on such factors and weightings as GDP, trade volume, existing reserves, population, and financial share in the world market. These metrics will help establish the amount of SDR allocated to each nation. This SDR allocation will determine the amount of national currency which can be put into circulation.
Eventually the amount of the SDR-based national currency in circulation will outnumber the amount of credit-based national currency in circulation and the fiat money described in The Creature from Jekyll Island will vanish into the monetary past. When this time comes all currency in circulation will be reflective of the factors and weightings stated above. These will not be fiat currency as they will be based on actual, real, and measurable fundamentals.
Perhaps in time gold and other precious metals and commodities will be added to the SDR as well.
What has been described here is the transformation of the International Currency System (ICS) which will be required to facilitate the macro transformation of the International Monetary System (IMS) on a whole. The transformation of both will be completed decades down the road when the SDR basket itself is transformed into the actual bancor global currency which was first suggested during the original Bretton Woods negotiations back in 1944.
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Larry Carlton is back to playing his classic Gibson 335 guitar, but now he is playing through a custom BludoTone amplifier:
http://bludotone.com/index.php/about
Here is a run-down of Larry’s equipment and guitars:
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21081-rig-rundown-larry-carlton
Famous Operatic Duets
The most important thing about singing a duet, is finding a partner that has a singing voice that blends well with yours. There should be some chemistry between you, that makes singing a love song believable. When you sing to each other, your eyes should meet, and it should show feelings between you both. It is a form of acting and takes practice. If it is not a love song, and sung between two of the same sex, there needs to be a presence about each of you, which reveals feelings such as humor, or friendship, or even a bit of the comic showing though.
A duet is when any two people sing and share a song together, They could be having a humorous time together, or more serious. Make sure that each have solo parts. Unless you try to freestyle harmonize, layer or echo lyrics, do not clash roles, trip up lines, or ‘cross lanes’. That means that if you sing lower than your partner, remain there. The limit would be if you are both singing the same note. Stay consistent.
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A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece. It is often used to describe a composition involving two singers. It differs from a harmony, as the performers take turns performing a solo section rather than performing simultaneously. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as “piano duet” or “piano four hands”.[1] A piece for two pianists performing together on separate pianos is referred to as a piano duo.
this is going to be so much fun! Everyone, shut up, I’m about to sing. Kidding! But seriously I’m about to sing. This is going to be even better than that time I played Fantine in Les Mis in high school. Oh, did I mention that already? I’m sorry. I’s probably just because I’m nervous because I haven’t sung in public since I played Fantine in Les Mis in high school. The reviews said my performance was stunning.
Hip Hop Music Without Vocals
Hip hop music. While the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it is most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means thathip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work. Modern hip hop production uses samplers, sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers, turntables, and live instrumentation.
A hip hop instrumental is casually referred to as a beat, and its composer is casually referred to as a producer or beatmaker. In the studio, however, a hip hop producer also functions as a traditional record producer, being the person who is ultimately responsible for the final sound of a recording.
2011 Larry Carlton Trio
Larry Carlton is back to playing his classic Gibson 335 guitar, but now he is playing through a custom BludoTone amplifier:
http://bludotone.com/index.php/about
Here is a run-down of Larry’s equipment and guitars:
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21081-rig-rundown-larry-carlton
The US Dollar Peg comes to an End
Money Base Growth, the Vietnamese dong, and No More QE
By JC Collins
Each week the monetary world is moving closer to a fundamental change. The lack of money base growth, or money based creation, being overall liquidity in the system, is beginning to deepen the global deflationary period which began in 2008, and hasn’t experienced a sustainable shift towards growth since.
This lack of money based creation is most profound in the developed G20 nations and will continue as long as the central banks of the other emerging nations maintain a currency peg to the US dollar. The fact that nations such as China, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Angola, and Azerbaijan, among others, have devalued their domestic currencies against the USD in recent months and years, is a testament to the direction which the monetary world is shifting.
There are multiple methods of expanding the international money base. The main central banks could once again begin a quantitative easing program. Some central banks have in fact started these programs, but no real effect can be made until the Federal Reserve restarts a QE program, since most nations are connected to the USD through an exchange rate regime.
The obvious draw backs to QE programs is a loss of confidence in the dollar and further erosion of the ability to create domestic jobs in America. Something which will be high on the agenda this election cycle.
Another method of increasing money base growth would be for the monetary authorities in the US to willingly devalue the USD by 20% to 30% against the currencies of its major trading partners, and those nations maintaining dollar pegs. This is a sticky issue because though that is the desired outcome, the political will is likely lacking for such a drastic move, and the majority of the American population would understand the larger benefit of increased exports and job creation. It would be considered further weakening of America’s hegemonic position in the world.
The option with the greatest potential at this point in time is for the central banks of other nations, specifically the emerging nations, such as China, Vietnam, and others, to not just devalue their currencies against the dollar, but to actually end and de-peg their currencies from the USD.
China, and the others listed above, have begun this process by devaluing the existing peg, but this is only producing marginal results, as the dollar itself has been strengthening over the last few years.
The USD does not provide an optimum currency area for the rest of the world. As such, its use as the primary reserve currency and exchange rate mechanism is problematic and needs to end. The US monetary authorities, at this time, appear to be unwilling to devalue the dollar to the benefit of itself and the rest of the world.
The world is move around this road block, with some support from within the US system, and further devaluations and outright de-pegging from the USD will continue and pick up pace during the remainder of this year. The September 4th G20 meetings in China could mark the beginning of this time period. The effective date of the new SDR, which includes the Chinese renminbi, will be October 1, 2016. This will mark the next period of transition and will likely spark a renewed effort by emerging nations to devalue against the dollar and end pegs altogether.
East Asia, and Asia as a whole, provides an excellent optimum currency area, which could use the growing role of the renminbi as a new pegging mechanism which will provide fundamental money base creation.
Vietnam expressed a few years ago that they would need to end the dollar peg and peg the dong to the currency of their largest trading partner, China, or to a basket of currencies, which could be the SDR or a regional currency unit used by the ASEAN+3, which has yet to be announced. All would be supported by the expanding role of the renminbi as a reserve currency.
The dollar de-facto and unsustainable optimum currency area, abstract as it is, will be further eroded in the coming months. This by no means suggests that the dollar is dying or will crash. A modest depreciation of the dollar, such as the 20% to 30% suggested above, would be a positive for the American economy. Whether this depreciation is forced on the US or it is enacted willingly as official policy, means little at this point. The transition is happening and any additional devaluations by the emerging nations against the USD will only force the hand and eventually lead to the upward valuation of those currency as the monetary world rebalances from decades of dollar abuse and overuse.
Quantitative easing and other counterproductive monetary policies will not be enacted by the Federal Reserve. It would produce the opposite result of what the American monetary authorities are planning.
Sustainable money base creation can no longer be provided but the USD alone. That more than anything else, is the conclusive evidence that a shift is upon us. – JC
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How Wolves Changed the Eco System of Yellow Stone National Park
Published on Feb 13, 2014
If you likes How Wolves Change Rivers, check out How Whales Change Climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18Hx…
For more from George Monbiot, visit http://www.monbiot.com/ and for more on “rewilding” visit http://bit.ly/1hKGemK and/or check out George Monbiot’s book Feral: rewilding the land, the sea and human life: http://amzn.to/1fjgirx
NOTE: There are “elk” pictured in this video when the narrator is referring to “deer.” This is because the narrator is British and the British word for “elk” is “red deer” or “deer” for short. The scientific report this is based on refers to elk so we wanted to be accurate with the truth of the story.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.
Narration from TED: “For more wonder, rewild the world” by George Monbiot. Watch the full talk, here: http://bit.ly/N3m62h
B-Roll Credits:
“Greater Yellowstone Coalition – Wolves” (http://bit.ly/1lK4LaT)
“Wolf Mountain” (http://bit.ly/1hgi6JE)
“Primodial – Yellowstone” (https://vimeo.com/77097538)
“Timelapse: Yellowstone National Park” (http://bit.ly/1kF5axc)
“Yellowstone” (http://bit.ly/1bPI6DM)
“Howling Wolves – Heulende Wölfe” (http://bit.ly/1c2Oidv)
“Fooled by Nature: Beaver Dams” (http://bit.ly/NGgQSU)
Music Credits:
“Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration, Arson” by Chris Zabriskie (http://bit.ly/1c2uckW)
This video was edited by Steve Agnos with editorial assistance from Chris Agnos (who also conceived the idea for the video) the brothers behind Sustainable Man. For more from Steve Agnos visit https://vimeo.com/steveagnos or https://vimeo.com/thesustainableman
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