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Originally posted by redhatty
Apparently the threat was successful, as the Judge granted the stay
Judge Grants Stay In Bloomberg/Fed FOIA Case
Last update: 8/28/2009 5:19:42 PM
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Dow Jones NewswiresAugust 28, 2009 17:19 ET (21:19 GMT)
Enjoy, & please all, give serious thought to this idea of at least one day of -
No buying
No work
Dude, I do not trust Obama YET.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker will chair a new economic advisory panel created by President-elect Barack Obama www.huffingtonpost.com...
... get yourself a copy of William Greider's ''Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country.''......
According to Mr. Greider, the Fed is ... ''also a political institution, a distinct power center within the Government, defending its own prerogatives...''deliberately set outside the electoral process'' and is ''insulated from the control of mere politicians.'' ....
He begins in 1979 with President Carter's appointment of the powerful Paul Volcker to the chairmanship of the Fed
Finally, he returns to Paul Volcker and shows how almost singlehandedly he not only effected a redistribution of American wealth but also did so in a way that was diametrically opposed to the Populist dream.
... many of the points he makes bear repeating, particularly those having to do with why the end of inflation in the 1980's served to redistribute the nation's wealth and concentrate it counterproductively, or why the high interest rates that followed may have had little to do with the size of the Federal budget deficit, or why world economic conditions today bear a disturbing resemblance to those in the 1920's. www.nytimes.com...
"Six Degrees of Adnan Khashoggi," Adnan Khashoggi is connected to every shocking event that has occurred since 1960, usually by no more than one or two degrees.
A partial list would include Iran-Contra, Wedtech, BCCI, the Marcos Philippine kleptocracy, the Synfuels fiasco, and the discovery of buried mustard gas in the pricy Spring Valley neighborhood of Washington, D.C www.slate.com... More articles listed www.slate.com...
At the peak of his deal-making activities, in the nineteen-seventies, the Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family, earning hundreds of millions in commissions and fees. Though never convicted of wrongdoing, he was repeatedly involved in disputes with federal prosecutors and with the Securities and Exchange Commission... During the Reagan Administration, Khashoggi was one of the middlemen between Oliver North, in the White House, and the mullahs in Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. www.newyorker.com...
The Bush family,... the Saudi royals....—and other rich and influential Saudi families [Khashoggi ] were naturally drawn to one another as they share similar ideologies and goals: the “new world order” which is to be governed and controlled by a small ruling class elite. brainmind.com...
And Paul Volcker had his own links to Strong. One of these ties ran through the World Bank. Strong, while running a Canadian firm called Power Corporation of Canada in the 1960s, had hired a young Australian, James Wolfensohn, who went on to found his own investment firm, Wolfensohn Associates, where Volcker took a job in 1988 after leaving his post as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. In 1995, Wolfensohn, with Strong’s backing, became President of the World Bank, and promoted Volcker to take his place as chief executive of Wolfensohn Associates. At the World Bank, Wolfensohn then hired his old employer, Strong, as a special adviser. And when Volcker, nine years later, was tapped by Annan to run the UN inquiry into Oil-for-Food, it was from the World Bank, then still under Wolfensohn, that Volcker drew the initial team to set up his investigation.
Volcker for many years, and at least until 2003, also held a seat alongside Yamani senior
– the father of Air Harbour’s chairman — on the advisory board of the Power
Corporation where Strong, serving as president in the 1960s, had then employed
Wolfensohn.
All this is just a sampling of the tangled nest of personal relationships, public-private
partnerships, murky trust funds, unaudited funding conduits, and inter-woven enterprises
that the modern U.N. has come to embody—and which Maurice Strong has done so much
to create. Yet another potential conflict of interest involves a company called Zenon
Environmental Inc., a manufacturer of water purification equipment, which in April,
2000 was registered as an approved Canadian vendor to the U.N. procurement
department. Six months later, Strong joined Zenon’s board, and remained there through
at least 2005, while also serving as a special adviser to Annan. Zenon was acquired last
year by General Electric, and the board was dissolved. www.iowatch.org...
Basically, let's shut everything down for at least a day, or longer if possible.
"With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government." - from the Grace Commission Report famguardian.org...
You my friend have just set the presidence for all others to follow! bravo and you will get alot of people following suit! I dare say we shall see an increase of renters in the near future and banks left holding alot of empty homes that they will not be able to sell. Star for your bravery and finnaly standing up for yourself!
In 1990, Strong told a reporter a fantasy scenario for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland - where 1,000 diplomats, CEOs and politicians gather "to address global issues."
Strong, naturally, is on the board of the World Economic Forum. "What if a small group of these world leaders were to conclude the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?...
In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this about?" "This group of world leaders forms a secret society to bring about an economic collapse," www.taxtyranny.ca...
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - Pg. 405 of David Rockefeller's Autobiography, 2002
"This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. David Rockefeller"
Originally posted by nikiano
I can't wait to find out what they (the banks, the fed) are terrified of what could be uncovered. My guess is that if we do audit he banks, someone will figure out that the banks didn't lose that much money in mortgage crisis or something like that, and that the banks also got billions of dollars in TARP money, which they just sat on and hoarded, while our home values PLUMMETED...
www.freedom.org...
The paper money in your wallet contains these words: "Federal Reserve Note - This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." Why does paper money not state that it is a note from the Treasury of the United States? The Federal Reserve is not the Treasury; so what is it? The Federal Reserve is a "central bank." To put it in every day terms, it is a private corporation which claims to provide a service to the people of the United States by furnishing the money which is used in our banking system.
Another way to look at it is that the monetary system of the United States is in the hands of a few very wealthy and powerful individuals who control virtually every aspect of our economy. What this means is that the power of the Federal Reserve exceeds and supersedes that of our President and Congress. The Federal Reserve is not accountable to them. They have never published an annual report and their meetings are not reported to the press until six months after they have made a monetary decision.
Consider why Americans cannot forgive themselves the interest on the federal debt: it is because they do not owe it to themselves, they owe it to a private corporation that demands interest. How did we get a central bank? Here are three fine books on the subject: The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, Eustace Mullins, Bankers Research Institute, 1993; The Federal Reserve-An International Mystery, Thibaut deSaint Phalle, Praeger Press, 1984; and Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley, originally published by MacMillian, 1965. Dr. Carroll Quigley was Bill Clinton's mentor from Georgetown University and the one to whom he paid special tribute at his first Inaugural address.
Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation Remarks in Congress, 1934 AN ASTOUNDING EXPOSURE www.afn.org...
[Strong] said, "....current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable." www.freedomadvocates.org...
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - Pg. 405 of David Rockefeller's Autobiography, 2002