Everyone generally agrees that WW1 was one of the stupidest and pointless wars of all time. If you are like me, all you know about it is that some German or Austrian prince got assassinated and all of Europe went berserk over it. But I am not sure many people know much more than that. I honestly feel sorry for Woodrow Wilson. He has to go down in history as one of the worst US presidents ever. Not only did he sign the Federal Reserve Act, he also got us into WW1.
Back in the early 1900's, much of Europe was controlled by several monarchy's. The French Monarchy was overthrown by the French Revolution and the "Reign of Terror." This revolution is well known to be sponsored by the illuminati. But following the French Revolution, many other monarchy's remained. The Hapsburg Empire (Austian-Hugarian), German, Russian, and Ottoman Empires still remained. But in 1914, a group a young anarchist Slavs, called "The Black Hand" with the motto "Unity or Death", assassinated Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo, Serbia. This assassination is credited as sparking WW1 after Austria invaded Serbia a month later.
What followed was a battle of Great Britain, France, and Russia against Turkey, Germany, and Austria. After years of trench warfare in France, the Allies were on the ropes After a few attacks by German U-boats on American civilian ships the Allies were finally successful in duping the US into getting involved in the war. When the US begun, they had no war infrastructure. The US had no military industrial complex. After declaring war, it took the US an entire year to train troops, and build tanks, planes and battleships.
Finally after the treaty of Versailles, the Russian Empire had fallen by the Russian Revolution and dropped out of WW1. The German, Austrian, and Ottoman Monarchy's ended in defeat and the European leaders divided up the Middle East and Eastern Europe and the mineral rights among themselves. In the end only the British Monarchy remained.
And that right there should tell you what WW1 was all about. 1. Destroy rival European monarchy's 2. Build up US Military Industrial Complex. 3. Divide up mineral rights in Middle East and Eastern Europe. 4. Communist Revolution in Russia. WW2 was just a continuation of what WW1 started.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Banking and Monetary Reforms
In 1913, the US Government gave up its enumerated power granted in the Constitution "To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof" (article 1 sec 8). 1913 was the year that the Federal Reserve Act was passed the day before Christmas Eve. Since that time, money policy has been controlled by a small group of private individuals. These private individuals who control monetary policy in the US and other G20-member states are who Washington Bureaucrats refer to as the "Special Interests". Historians refer to the FED as the "Monster from Jekyll Island" which refers to the Ultra-Elitist Club where the plans for the FED were drawn up.
The US Congress was promised that by giving up their Constitutionally enumerated privilege, to create money and regulate monetary policy that the FED would prevent inflation. However, since the creation of the FED, the US dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power. The FED also promised to create more stability in the markets as opposed to the intrinsically unstable business cycle to that point in time. In reality, since the creation of the FED, the markets have experienced the highest bull markets (roaring 20's, dot.com 90's) followed by the deepest depressions (great depression 30's, S&L busting 80's, bubble bursting 00's).
In fact, Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate Economist, always insisted that the FED caused the Great Depression by contracting the money supply. FDR had always blamed Herbert Hoover for causing the Depression thanks to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Ben Bernake, who was working for the FED at the time, was speaking at Milton Friedman's 90th birthday and confessed that Milt had been correct all along and the FED caused the Great Depression by contracting the money supply. "We did it," Bernake said, "and we're sorry, but thanks you we will never do it again".
Friedman would just live long enough to witness Bernanke and the FED break their promise as the FED stopped releasing M3 data in 2006 (a very important measure of the money supply), and then turned a blind eye to Goldman Sachs who was fraudulently selling banks worthless mortgage-backed securities, and then in 2007, instituted the Basil 2 Accords which tightened fractional reserve requirements for banks. The Basil 2 Accords, issued from the Bank of International Settlement in Basil Switzerland, had the same effect on the US that the Basil 1 Accords had on Japan resulting in Japan's "Lost Decade."
The tightening of fractional reserve requirements resulted in a contraction of the money supply, which resulted in reduced lending, which resulted in the bursting of the housing bubble, which caused the Collateralized Debt Obligation/Mortgage-Backed Securities/Toxic Assets to become worthless, which caused the banks to lose all their fractional reserves and no longer be able to lend money, which resulted in banks to fail, which led to the trillion dollar bailout of only the big banks who were "too big to fail."
A few patriots out there are calling to "End The FED." However, you could get rid of the FED today, and nothing would change. Nothing would change in our economy because it's not really the FED that is so damaging by itself. What is damaging are the financial and monetary systems and instruments that the FED has instituted over the last decade. Those instruments such as Fractional Reserve Lending, Fiat Currency, the HUD/FHA Amortized Mortgage, and Derivative Markets, will remain in place and still control our economy.
So, now the issue remains, what have the Ultra-Elites planned to replace the FED with? Many people have forgotten that the Ultra-Elites where playing the same games in the 1930's as today. Today the media warns us about the Mayan Calendar ending winter solstice Dec 21st 2012 and great calamities that may occur. In the 1930's the media was claiming that the Egyptian Pyramids were warning of a Great Financial Depression. The Great Depression did happen, but as Bernake confessed to Milton Friedman, it wasn't because the Ancient Egyptians said so. The entire thing was engineered. My wife's Uncle is one of the top authorities on Mayan Art History and is the author of the most highly regarded translation of the "Popol Vuh". He says all this 2012/Mayan Calendar talk is nonsense. Just like 1930, something may happen in the next 2 years, but I assure you its not because the Maya knew anything about it, it is because whatever happens was designed and engineered to happen.
So far, the Ultra-Elites have been trying to pass the Carbon Credit Tax. This Robin Hood taxn would be world tax that would go to the UN. The next attempt to get into our wallet was the Financial Reform Act which included at VAT or Ad Valorum Tax which again is a world tax, that would impose a tax on every transaction that occurs supposedly for the purposes of putting trillions of dollars aside for the next bank failure that these people who are proposing have admitted to causing and will cause in the future.
This is the MO or modus operandi of the Global Elite. In their attempt to create a "One World Government", "New World Order", and rebuild the Tower of Babel, they employ agent provocateurs to come in and create disorder, discord, and chaos so that they can come in and act like the saviors in instituting the solution and solving the problem. It just so happens that the Elite are so smart that they knew someone was going to try to sneak onto an airplane with explosive underwear, that is why they had already purchased thousands of naked body scanners to be placed in airports across the US.
When the Police want to break up a peaceful demonstration, a few of them dress up as anarchists, break a few windows and torch a few cars, giving the rest of the police an excuse to forcibly break up the demonstration, fire tear gas, try out their new sound and microwave cannons, and other cool riot control gear. The LDS Church experienced this sort of thing in Missouri. Agent Provocateurs joined the LDS Church, formed a secret inner circle called the "Danites" and went out provoking the Missouri neighborhood to anger against the Mormons until Governor Lilburn Boggs signed an Extermination Order making it legal to kill any member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints within the State of Missouri.
And I won't be surprised if more mayhem is coming up. If the Globalists want to replace the FED with something else, and so far we have rejected their Carbon Tax and VAT, I am sure they are going to "up the anti." It is the Globalist MO to cause or at least take advantage of situations that cause fear and chaos. They then come in like a false Savior or the Antichrist promising safety in exchange for our liberty. Benjamin Franklin warned "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". This was how George W Bush got the Congress to pass the Patriot Act which allows the Federal Government to spy on the American People without a warrant.
To understand the following you need to understand how Fractional-Reserve Banking works. When the US Government want money created they issue US Bonds to the FED. Lets start with say $10,000 When the FED receives a fancy signed piece of paper from the US Treasury, then it turns that $10,000 bond into $10,000 in Federal Reserve Currency. The FED then lends that $10,000 to a FED-member bank at Prime Interest (currently 0%). That Mega-Bank can then lend $200,000 based on that $10,000. That means that the bank created the majority of the money in the money supply and not the US Treasury nor the FED. The mega-bank created 95% of the money out of thin air. You also must know that the money for your house mortgage did not come from your local bank, but came from one of the FED-member, mega-banks like Wells Fargo, Countrywide, FannieMae, and Bank of America. Your local bank just services the loan.
The expiration of the Federal Reserve Act provides a wonderful opportunity. In addition to getting rid of the FED, we must also get rid of the many financial and monetary systems and instruments the FED has instituted.
1. Fractional-Reserve Banking: Full-Reserve Banking would remove the inherent instability and volatility in banking system that drives the business cycle. Banks would borrow 100% of the money they lent and would not risk failure when they lose their small fractional reserves as they have done throughout US history.
2. US Treasury Reform: Allow the US Treasury to create all the money in the money supply and not just a fraction of it as it does now. This would allow the US government to collect fees on all of the money created an not just a small fraction of it. Currently the FED makes the US Government about 50 Bil/year. If that amount represents only 5% of the money supply, then 100% money creation could bring in close to 1 Trillion/year. That kind of money would replace the need for federal income tax.
3. Banking Reform: allow local and state banks to borrow directly from the US Treasury cutting out the Mega-Bank middle men who add not value to the system but soak up all the profits.
4. Lending Reform: institute no-interest loans where home buyers to go to their local bank with 1o% down and a fee to cover administration costs. If approved, the bank and borrower would become joint owners of a property. The borrower would begin repaying the bank in monthly installments including an administration fee. However, unlike the FHA/HUD loan, the borrower would immediately begin to build equity until the loan was paid in full. If the borrower experienced an emergency and missed a payment, that payment would be deducted from his equity and turn into profit for the bank. In this way, the loan turn into a reverse mortgage at any time. Getting rid of the Amortized loan would get rid of a major diver of inflation in our economy as most people don't build equity on their home unless the price of their home increases and they can turn around and sell their home for more then they paid for it.
5. Monetary Reform: replace US Currency on the gold and silver standard. To cover the needs of the US money supply, a basket of commodities could be used. Or on the other hand, coining money could just mean that the Federal government would assure the purity of gold and silver and stamp that gold and silver as "legal tender" which has been certified.
The US Congress was promised that by giving up their Constitutionally enumerated privilege, to create money and regulate monetary policy that the FED would prevent inflation. However, since the creation of the FED, the US dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power. The FED also promised to create more stability in the markets as opposed to the intrinsically unstable business cycle to that point in time. In reality, since the creation of the FED, the markets have experienced the highest bull markets (roaring 20's, dot.com 90's) followed by the deepest depressions (great depression 30's, S&L busting 80's, bubble bursting 00's).
In fact, Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate Economist, always insisted that the FED caused the Great Depression by contracting the money supply. FDR had always blamed Herbert Hoover for causing the Depression thanks to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Ben Bernake, who was working for the FED at the time, was speaking at Milton Friedman's 90th birthday and confessed that Milt had been correct all along and the FED caused the Great Depression by contracting the money supply. "We did it," Bernake said, "and we're sorry, but thanks you we will never do it again".
Friedman would just live long enough to witness Bernanke and the FED break their promise as the FED stopped releasing M3 data in 2006 (a very important measure of the money supply), and then turned a blind eye to Goldman Sachs who was fraudulently selling banks worthless mortgage-backed securities, and then in 2007, instituted the Basil 2 Accords which tightened fractional reserve requirements for banks. The Basil 2 Accords, issued from the Bank of International Settlement in Basil Switzerland, had the same effect on the US that the Basil 1 Accords had on Japan resulting in Japan's "Lost Decade."
The tightening of fractional reserve requirements resulted in a contraction of the money supply, which resulted in reduced lending, which resulted in the bursting of the housing bubble, which caused the Collateralized Debt Obligation/Mortgage-Backed Securities/Toxic Assets to become worthless, which caused the banks to lose all their fractional reserves and no longer be able to lend money, which resulted in banks to fail, which led to the trillion dollar bailout of only the big banks who were "too big to fail."
A few patriots out there are calling to "End The FED." However, you could get rid of the FED today, and nothing would change. Nothing would change in our economy because it's not really the FED that is so damaging by itself. What is damaging are the financial and monetary systems and instruments that the FED has instituted over the last decade. Those instruments such as Fractional Reserve Lending, Fiat Currency, the HUD/FHA Amortized Mortgage, and Derivative Markets, will remain in place and still control our economy.
So, now the issue remains, what have the Ultra-Elites planned to replace the FED with? Many people have forgotten that the Ultra-Elites where playing the same games in the 1930's as today. Today the media warns us about the Mayan Calendar ending winter solstice Dec 21st 2012 and great calamities that may occur. In the 1930's the media was claiming that the Egyptian Pyramids were warning of a Great Financial Depression. The Great Depression did happen, but as Bernake confessed to Milton Friedman, it wasn't because the Ancient Egyptians said so. The entire thing was engineered. My wife's Uncle is one of the top authorities on Mayan Art History and is the author of the most highly regarded translation of the "Popol Vuh". He says all this 2012/Mayan Calendar talk is nonsense. Just like 1930, something may happen in the next 2 years, but I assure you its not because the Maya knew anything about it, it is because whatever happens was designed and engineered to happen.
So far, the Ultra-Elites have been trying to pass the Carbon Credit Tax. This Robin Hood taxn would be world tax that would go to the UN. The next attempt to get into our wallet was the Financial Reform Act which included at VAT or Ad Valorum Tax which again is a world tax, that would impose a tax on every transaction that occurs supposedly for the purposes of putting trillions of dollars aside for the next bank failure that these people who are proposing have admitted to causing and will cause in the future.
This is the MO or modus operandi of the Global Elite. In their attempt to create a "One World Government", "New World Order", and rebuild the Tower of Babel, they employ agent provocateurs to come in and create disorder, discord, and chaos so that they can come in and act like the saviors in instituting the solution and solving the problem. It just so happens that the Elite are so smart that they knew someone was going to try to sneak onto an airplane with explosive underwear, that is why they had already purchased thousands of naked body scanners to be placed in airports across the US.
When the Police want to break up a peaceful demonstration, a few of them dress up as anarchists, break a few windows and torch a few cars, giving the rest of the police an excuse to forcibly break up the demonstration, fire tear gas, try out their new sound and microwave cannons, and other cool riot control gear. The LDS Church experienced this sort of thing in Missouri. Agent Provocateurs joined the LDS Church, formed a secret inner circle called the "Danites" and went out provoking the Missouri neighborhood to anger against the Mormons until Governor Lilburn Boggs signed an Extermination Order making it legal to kill any member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints within the State of Missouri.
And I won't be surprised if more mayhem is coming up. If the Globalists want to replace the FED with something else, and so far we have rejected their Carbon Tax and VAT, I am sure they are going to "up the anti." It is the Globalist MO to cause or at least take advantage of situations that cause fear and chaos. They then come in like a false Savior or the Antichrist promising safety in exchange for our liberty. Benjamin Franklin warned "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". This was how George W Bush got the Congress to pass the Patriot Act which allows the Federal Government to spy on the American People without a warrant.
To understand the following you need to understand how Fractional-Reserve Banking works. When the US Government want money created they issue US Bonds to the FED. Lets start with say $10,000 When the FED receives a fancy signed piece of paper from the US Treasury, then it turns that $10,000 bond into $10,000 in Federal Reserve Currency. The FED then lends that $10,000 to a FED-member bank at Prime Interest (currently 0%). That Mega-Bank can then lend $200,000 based on that $10,000. That means that the bank created the majority of the money in the money supply and not the US Treasury nor the FED. The mega-bank created 95% of the money out of thin air. You also must know that the money for your house mortgage did not come from your local bank, but came from one of the FED-member, mega-banks like Wells Fargo, Countrywide, FannieMae, and Bank of America. Your local bank just services the loan.
The expiration of the Federal Reserve Act provides a wonderful opportunity. In addition to getting rid of the FED, we must also get rid of the many financial and monetary systems and instruments the FED has instituted.
1. Fractional-Reserve Banking: Full-Reserve Banking would remove the inherent instability and volatility in banking system that drives the business cycle. Banks would borrow 100% of the money they lent and would not risk failure when they lose their small fractional reserves as they have done throughout US history.
2. US Treasury Reform: Allow the US Treasury to create all the money in the money supply and not just a fraction of it as it does now. This would allow the US government to collect fees on all of the money created an not just a small fraction of it. Currently the FED makes the US Government about 50 Bil/year. If that amount represents only 5% of the money supply, then 100% money creation could bring in close to 1 Trillion/year. That kind of money would replace the need for federal income tax.
3. Banking Reform: allow local and state banks to borrow directly from the US Treasury cutting out the Mega-Bank middle men who add not value to the system but soak up all the profits.
4. Lending Reform: institute no-interest loans where home buyers to go to their local bank with 1o% down and a fee to cover administration costs. If approved, the bank and borrower would become joint owners of a property. The borrower would begin repaying the bank in monthly installments including an administration fee. However, unlike the FHA/HUD loan, the borrower would immediately begin to build equity until the loan was paid in full. If the borrower experienced an emergency and missed a payment, that payment would be deducted from his equity and turn into profit for the bank. In this way, the loan turn into a reverse mortgage at any time. Getting rid of the Amortized loan would get rid of a major diver of inflation in our economy as most people don't build equity on their home unless the price of their home increases and they can turn around and sell their home for more then they paid for it.
5. Monetary Reform: replace US Currency on the gold and silver standard. To cover the needs of the US money supply, a basket of commodities could be used. Or on the other hand, coining money could just mean that the Federal government would assure the purity of gold and silver and stamp that gold and silver as "legal tender" which has been certified.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Patriots, Militia and Radical Right Extremism
Recent reports by Homeland Security, US Attorney General Janet Napolitano and a Missouri MIAC Report consider Christian White Militia groups and veterans to the be the number 1 domestic security threat. On that note, I just finished reading the book "Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse" by James Wesley Rawles. I think it was a very interesting book that details the philosophy of the Militant Survivalist/Constitutionalist.If you are like me, and awake to how this world really works, then you may understand where this book is coming from. For the rest, the survivalist world view can seem way over the top. I think this book is very important in the way it defines the right-wing survivalist extreme. I am all about balance, and Aristotle's "Golden Mean". Therefore, the value of this book lies in its extremism. Therefore, while some of the issues of this book are important to consider, I think searching for a more moderate worldview is best.
While this book is very extreme. I must confess, if I was not raised LDS, I am not sure I could see another alternative worldview than the false dichotomy that this book presents. In fact, the book does briefly mention a more moderate LDS response to economic and social collapse. But the author discounts it.
1. "Patriots" begins with a very correct assumption that the instability of our "just-in-time", over-leveraged, outsourced, hopelessly indebted, fractional reserve economy is enough all by itself to come crashing down resulting in a complete "mad max" collapse. The US could not withstand a Great Depression today like it did in the 1930's. While the media spooks us with threats of nuclear war, terrorism, pandemics, etc, etc, etc. Our economic condition alone is enough of a threat all by itself.
2. The author's answer to economic collapse, is to buy land somewhere rural, stockpile ammo and food, and build yourself your own compound/bunker/shelter. However, the problem with this "the Colony" or "Jericho" approach is that these compounds become immediate targets for roving bands of escaped convict "brigands" who form "wolf packs" and go from town to town burring and pillaging as they go. Only the most hardcore militia compounds survived these threats.
3. Lastly, these militia groups oppose an UN, international, globalist government that is imposed on The Divided States of America. The Constitution is tossed aside and martial law is imposed on the American people. While Martial Law is a favorite conspiracy subject, I don't think the book is at all realistic about the chances of success a never-ending gorilla war would be. The assumption made in the book is that such a war would be successful because: because God is on the side of the militia, and it worked for Afghanistan. I am not sure how conspiracy theorists could forget that the Russia-Afganastan thing was all WWE stage play.
4. Surprisingly, "Patriots" taks a lot about the people of the LDS faith. The author comments that the collapse did not affect LDS communities as severely as non-LDS communities. This was because LDS have a culture of keeping a year supply of food, are pro-guns, plant gardens, bottle fruit, and sew clothing. That said, the author criticizes the LDS in the book for making a deal with the interim government in exchange for local jurisdiction. The author whose theoretical compound was in Idaho, wished all those Mormons would pick up weapons and join the militia group instead of following their church leadership.
What the author doesn't know, is that the LDS have an alternate way to deal with this scenario. The answer to such a doomsday scenario is found in ancient scripture called The Book of Mormon. The prophet Mormon who lived close to 1500 years ago says he saw our day and knows our doing. Accordingly, Mormon made it very clear in the Book of Mormon just how to deal with roving bands of robbers. The answer according to Mormon was put into play in the Book of Mormon on several occasions. The strategy involves gathering together in the center of the land. King Lachoneus did it, and so did Mormon himself in an attempt to make a last stand against his enemies.
Because robbers must plunder to subsist. If the righteous gather together in the center of the land and take their food with them, the robbers starve. This strategy is known as the Zion strategy. In such a scenario, people will have a choice to choose to be at constant war or find safety in Zion. According to the LDS faith, Zion in North America is known as the New Jerusalem and will be established in Jackson County, Independence, MO. This is the "Center Place". Accordingly, LDS leadership have instructed LDS membership that stockpiling weapons and ammo is not necessary.
In the end you have to always ask yourself who the author is? Rawles was in Army Intelligence and runs a popular survivalist/extremist website. So, the question is: 1. Does he know something from his days in Army Intelligence, or 2. Is he still working for Army Intelligence and this book is a PsyOp. For me, I think the answer to the question rests with three facts 1. The Golbalist are playing Chess and they control both sides fighting to create chaos. 2. The author is putting out an extremist/radical worldview and discounts a more moderate view without exploring it. 3. The author signs his work by including a very random and occult reference to the "Ouroboros".
Dream Act or Nightmare?
As part of the upcoming military appropriations act, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack H Obama will attatch a piece of legislation they refer to the Dream Act. This bill would grant high school age illegal aliens residency if they go to college or enter the military for 2 years. Knowing that most young illegals lack the money to pay for college, most illegals will likely join the military. After a 6-year commitment, these illegals will be eligable for US citizenship, as well as the benefit of the GI Bill which would pay for college.
According to the 2009 version of the senate bill, DREAM Act beneficiaries must:
* Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16.
* Have proof of residence in the United States for a least five consecutive years since their date of arrival, compliance with Selective Service.
* Be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of bill enactment.
* Have graduated from an American high school or obtained a GED.
* Be of "good moral character"
According to the 2009 version of the bill, if the immigrant met all of the conditions at the end of the 6-year conditional period, they would be granted permanent residency, which would eventually allow them to become U.S. citizens. An estimated 65,000 illegal immigrant students graduate each year from High School.
Look, I speak Spanish, and I love Hispanic culture, and food. However, there is a real problem with this bill. For those of us who don't know history, the Dream Act is the exact kind of thing that the Roman Empire did before its fall. Rome needed massive hordes of manpower to run its military machine. Rome had an extensive wellfare program and was bankrupt because of a huge trade deficit with China (sound familiar?). Rome was forced to continue it's conquest, because conquest meant more tribute and more slaves.
However, to supply their military with men, Rome what is know as the Marian Reforms. The Marian Reforms instituted by Gaius Marius were laws that waived the property requirement for men wishing to serve in the legions. Those recruited under these laws would receive their equipment from the State, and serve a sixteen-year term of service (which was later raised to twenty). After that, they would be granted land upon which to settle. In addition, allies (foederati) who volunteered were granted Roman citizenship after the end of their service.
The German Barbarian Foederati Hordes were then lead by conspirator Odoacer in a major insurection to overthrow Romulus Augustus and fracture and finally destroy the Roman Empire. The Foederati Insurrection was the final death nail to the Roman Empire.
The problem with the Dream Act is not granting amneisty or edecational opportunites and benifits to illegal aliens. The problem with the bill is allowing non-US-American's to serve in the US Armed Forces. This kind of thing is extraordinarily bad, because those "Federal" troops are more likely to be loyal to the government and not to the US people themselves.
According to the 2009 version of the senate bill, DREAM Act beneficiaries must:
* Have proof of having arrived in the United States before age 16.
* Have proof of residence in the United States for a least five consecutive years since their date of arrival, compliance with Selective Service.
* Be between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of bill enactment.
* Have graduated from an American high school or obtained a GED.
* Be of "good moral character"
According to the 2009 version of the bill, if the immigrant met all of the conditions at the end of the 6-year conditional period, they would be granted permanent residency, which would eventually allow them to become U.S. citizens. An estimated 65,000 illegal immigrant students graduate each year from High School.
Look, I speak Spanish, and I love Hispanic culture, and food. However, there is a real problem with this bill. For those of us who don't know history, the Dream Act is the exact kind of thing that the Roman Empire did before its fall. Rome needed massive hordes of manpower to run its military machine. Rome had an extensive wellfare program and was bankrupt because of a huge trade deficit with China (sound familiar?). Rome was forced to continue it's conquest, because conquest meant more tribute and more slaves.
However, to supply their military with men, Rome what is know as the Marian Reforms. The Marian Reforms instituted by Gaius Marius were laws that waived the property requirement for men wishing to serve in the legions. Those recruited under these laws would receive their equipment from the State, and serve a sixteen-year term of service (which was later raised to twenty). After that, they would be granted land upon which to settle. In addition, allies (foederati) who volunteered were granted Roman citizenship after the end of their service.
The German Barbarian Foederati Hordes were then lead by conspirator Odoacer in a major insurection to overthrow Romulus Augustus and fracture and finally destroy the Roman Empire. The Foederati Insurrection was the final death nail to the Roman Empire.
The problem with the Dream Act is not granting amneisty or edecational opportunites and benifits to illegal aliens. The problem with the bill is allowing non-US-American's to serve in the US Armed Forces. This kind of thing is extraordinarily bad, because those "Federal" troops are more likely to be loyal to the government and not to the US people themselves.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Protectionism vs. Free Trade
Dear Wayne,
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate anyone willing to talk about these issues or anyone who has the ability to have an educated, well reasoned opinion on the subject? That said, I will try to overlook the indirect "Marxist drone" reference. I don't think that I would equate protectionism with Marxism. Also, I know economics is your turf but I am willing to accept that I am likely as equally brainwashed with regard to medicine (mercury and squalene in vaccines for instance).
You seem to be a rather big Mark Levin fan/disciple. Levin seems to be playing the Reagan conservative, constitutionalist, Neocon "free market" tune. Again, I confess that I consider myself a tradition Lincoln and McKinley Republican. And I have been strongly influenced by Berry C Lynn and Milton Friedman. I don't think their economic philosophies can be fairly described as Marxist.
#1. I think there is good evidence that Reagan was not such a Saint or at least a puppet. He was an avid member of Bohemian Grove. And anyone who was a part of his administration or holds him up as the ideal is very suspect or misled.
#2. Constitutionalism, I think we both agree on this. It's easy to throw this term around to attract supporters. This point by itself isn't enough to be trusted or right.
#3. Free Trade, this is a very interesting term. Despite what Rush and Hannity may want us believe, Free Trade is not a traditional Republican or Conservative value. Lincoln and McKinley were avid protectionist against the East India Trading Company (Walmart) and their cheaper slave produced goods from India. In fact this was one of the major issues for which the Civil War was fought. The South eventually was forced to industrialize when they realized the machine beat the man and they resented paying a higher price for for goods produced in the North. Buying cheaper goods shipped from British Colonies in their minds would serve to preserve their wealth, lifestyle, and power.
I find it interesting how the current free trade mantra became a Conservative value. FDR and many economist blamed the Great Depression on Woodrow Wilson and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Elder Reed Smoot was an LDS Apostle and great Utah Senator that represented and defended the LDS Church in Congress.
The truth is that Milton Friedman always disagreed that Tariffs caused the Depression. Friedman always reasoned that the FED caused the Depression by contracting the money supply.
In fact Ben Bernanke spoke at Milton Friedmans 90th Birthday and said about the FED causing the Depression (read it on Wiki for Ben Bernanke) "Milt Anna, you were right, we did it, and we are sorry. But thanks to you we won't do it again".
However, Frieman would just live long enough to see Bernanke break his promise. In 2006, the FED stopped releasing M3 data on the money supply which immediately ballooned to enormous levels as banks over-leveraged themselves in the fraudulent Goldman Sachs derivatives/CDO/MBS market.
Then in 2007, the FED instituted the Bank of International Settlement/ Basil 2 accords which had the exact same effect on the American economy that the Basil 1 Accords had on Japan causing the "Lost Decade". Basil 2 like Basil 1 tightened the fractional reserve requirements of Banks, and this was exactly enough to sharply contract M3, burst the housing balloon, make all the mortgage derivatives worthless, and bankrupting a heck of a lot of banks. And that let the Federal Government pick winners and losers, bailing out the big boys who were "too big to fail."
And i believe most at the top knew perfectly well what would happen for several reasons. #1 "The Protocols" describe how contraction of the money supply can create a depression in a fractional reserve system. It also says that this system makes "wealth slippery." Interesting that the Book of Mormon also talks about wealth becoming slippery. #2. Ben Bernanke's confession #3. The Goldman Sach's emails revealing the CDO fraud #4. Experience with Basil 1 and Japan and the effect of Basil 2 and the US #4 the FED deciding to not report m3 data just prior to everything. #5 the inherent instability of Fractional Reserve Banking.
According to Barry Lynn, a true Free Market allows the producer and the consumer to get together and negotiate a price without external or intermediary manipulation. The Law must protect a producers equal access to the consumer as well as equal access to raw materials (equal opportunity not equal results). Both of these are ways big companies manipulate to squash their competition.
Free Trade today or "just let the markets work" seems more about letting Big Business operate unregulated. The truth is we need smaller business and smaller government. And we can use the existing bankruptcy and anti-trust laws to do it. If we just let corrupt companies fail and restructure without bailouts, companies would fix themselves. I am not talking about more restrictions or more government or Marxism.
David B
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate anyone willing to talk about these issues or anyone who has the ability to have an educated, well reasoned opinion on the subject? That said, I will try to overlook the indirect "Marxist drone" reference. I don't think that I would equate protectionism with Marxism. Also, I know economics is your turf but I am willing to accept that I am likely as equally brainwashed with regard to medicine (mercury and squalene in vaccines for instance).
You seem to be a rather big Mark Levin fan/disciple. Levin seems to be playing the Reagan conservative, constitutionalist, Neocon "free market" tune. Again, I confess that I consider myself a tradition Lincoln and McKinley Republican. And I have been strongly influenced by Berry C Lynn and Milton Friedman. I don't think their economic philosophies can be fairly described as Marxist.
#1. I think there is good evidence that Reagan was not such a Saint or at least a puppet. He was an avid member of Bohemian Grove. And anyone who was a part of his administration or holds him up as the ideal is very suspect or misled.
#2. Constitutionalism, I think we both agree on this. It's easy to throw this term around to attract supporters. This point by itself isn't enough to be trusted or right.
#3. Free Trade, this is a very interesting term. Despite what Rush and Hannity may want us believe, Free Trade is not a traditional Republican or Conservative value. Lincoln and McKinley were avid protectionist against the East India Trading Company (Walmart) and their cheaper slave produced goods from India. In fact this was one of the major issues for which the Civil War was fought. The South eventually was forced to industrialize when they realized the machine beat the man and they resented paying a higher price for for goods produced in the North. Buying cheaper goods shipped from British Colonies in their minds would serve to preserve their wealth, lifestyle, and power.
I find it interesting how the current free trade mantra became a Conservative value. FDR and many economist blamed the Great Depression on Woodrow Wilson and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Elder Reed Smoot was an LDS Apostle and great Utah Senator that represented and defended the LDS Church in Congress.
The truth is that Milton Friedman always disagreed that Tariffs caused the Depression. Friedman always reasoned that the FED caused the Depression by contracting the money supply.
In fact Ben Bernanke spoke at Milton Friedmans 90th Birthday and said about the FED causing the Depression (read it on Wiki for Ben Bernanke) "Milt Anna, you were right, we did it, and we are sorry. But thanks to you we won't do it again".
However, Frieman would just live long enough to see Bernanke break his promise. In 2006, the FED stopped releasing M3 data on the money supply which immediately ballooned to enormous levels as banks over-leveraged themselves in the fraudulent Goldman Sachs derivatives/CDO/MBS market.
Then in 2007, the FED instituted the Bank of International Settlement/ Basil 2 accords which had the exact same effect on the American economy that the Basil 1 Accords had on Japan causing the "Lost Decade". Basil 2 like Basil 1 tightened the fractional reserve requirements of Banks, and this was exactly enough to sharply contract M3, burst the housing balloon, make all the mortgage derivatives worthless, and bankrupting a heck of a lot of banks. And that let the Federal Government pick winners and losers, bailing out the big boys who were "too big to fail."
And i believe most at the top knew perfectly well what would happen for several reasons. #1 "The Protocols" describe how contraction of the money supply can create a depression in a fractional reserve system. It also says that this system makes "wealth slippery." Interesting that the Book of Mormon also talks about wealth becoming slippery. #2. Ben Bernanke's confession #3. The Goldman Sach's emails revealing the CDO fraud #4. Experience with Basil 1 and Japan and the effect of Basil 2 and the US #4 the FED deciding to not report m3 data just prior to everything. #5 the inherent instability of Fractional Reserve Banking.
According to Barry Lynn, a true Free Market allows the producer and the consumer to get together and negotiate a price without external or intermediary manipulation. The Law must protect a producers equal access to the consumer as well as equal access to raw materials (equal opportunity not equal results). Both of these are ways big companies manipulate to squash their competition.
Free Trade today or "just let the markets work" seems more about letting Big Business operate unregulated. The truth is we need smaller business and smaller government. And we can use the existing bankruptcy and anti-trust laws to do it. If we just let corrupt companies fail and restructure without bailouts, companies would fix themselves. I am not talking about more restrictions or more government or Marxism.
David B
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