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Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe


Authored by chindit and  Submitted by Tyler Durden

NOTE:  Is Tyler Durden referring to the 1000+ people who frequent The UsuryFree Eye Opener every day? As an active "usury free creative" dedicated to doing what I can to help usher in the forthcoming, new age of usuryfree living, I had not considered myself as "Lunatic Fringe."  While Tyler Durden may judge me to be "Lunatic Fringe," I see myself as an awakened, middle class individual, committed to researching, finding and sharing facts that formal education neglects to teach.

 I am dedicated to re-building the spirit of local community with family and friends. Like most debtors, I am struggling to survive financially in a corrupt world of "lies, deceits and deceptions" around every formal institution of authority (economics, education, government, religion, justice, mainstream media, medicine, etc.) - all of which are broken beyond repair. Indeed, the "Lunatic Fringe" know that all of the formal institutions of authority that we were taught to respect and honour are no longer serving we-the-people, but instead they are serving the major, trans-national corporations and the shadow behind all levels of government.

We, the active "usury free creatives" are focused on re-educating those who are ready and willing to be re-educated about the "truth" of modern money creation. Our solution is to encourage people to STOP using their (the bankers' money) and paying them a fee (usury) and learn how to create and spend our own, usuryfree, time currency as the optimal trading currency of this 21st Century.

If what I do earns the title of "Lunatic Fringe," I accept it. I am proud to be one of the awakened ones, at least we, the usury free creatives will have our "economic lifeboats" of usuryfree time currency launched when their economic titanic of usury-based, debt money goes down. May the "Lunatic Fringe" live long and prosper with peace and abundance for everyone on planet earth! Comments welcomed!


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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
"Anyone who spends any amount of time on the internet has seen them.
They are the moonbats, the wingnuts, the whackjobs, the Conspiratorialists.  They are America’s new Lunatic Fringe, and their numbers are growing.
While the rise of the internet fed a segment of society that has always existed, when the cyberworld became an increasingly important source both of entertainment and information, an entirely new demographic joined what was already amongst us.
Who are they and what do they believe? The Lunatic Fringe is not uniform in either its background or beliefs. Some clearly seem to be emotionally disturbed.  Some are racist and hateful. Others are simply naïve and gullible, or uninformed.  Still more are frustrated by an economy and a government that are behaving out of whack with what most people expected from life and from leadership. They want to believe America stands for something noble, but it is increasingly felt by them that it does not. They are confused, frustrated, and disappointed. They feel violated and betrayed. They grow angrier by the day.  Some harbor a diffuse rage which could blow at any time. Others have figuratively thrown in the towel and have joined the ranks of what are called Preppers and Survivalists.
Collectively, though individually they differ, the beliefs of the Fringe conspiracies behind the JFK assassination, the lunar landing, and 911. The collective also includes the Birthers, and believers in everything from FEMA Camps to chemtrails to that retro old favorite of Colonel Jack Ripper, fluoridation. The Fringe holds beliefs that have the world controlled variously by the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Bilderbergers, Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, the Council on Foreign Relations, 33rd Degree Freemasons, the Vatican, the Queen of England, or just The Illuminati.  Every event and every incident in the world is affected by some Master Plan carried out by whomever the believer chooses from the aforementioned gallery of rogues.  For many, al Qaeda is really al CIAda, and the prime directive of that organization, along with all the other USG alphabet agencies, is to further the goals of the elite, usually through some “false flag” operation or “psy-op”, and funded through illicit drug sales.
Believers can “prove” each and every one of their claims via a series of cross-referenced and circular internet links, the source of many undoubtedly just someone’s fertile imagination, but very real to the believers.
To the uninitiated this all seems rather humorous, albeit slightly unsettling.  It would be both wrong and unwise, however, just to slough it off as the ramblings of the insane. The reason such beliefs are gaining favor is because many Americans have lost faith and lost trust in the government and America’s elected leadership. Given what has happened over the last decade, this is not only understandable, it is even, in an odd way, reasonable.  A continual drift to the fringe can be expected because of the many very real things that make the foolish things suddenly more believable.
Why have the people lost faith and trust? There is a host of reasons, perhaps beginning with the war of choice in Iraq and the vociferous and passionate claims of WMD that turned out to be false. That war cost lives, cost sympathy and diplomatic capital, and cost trillions even when America was told by former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz that the war “would pay for itself from oil sales” and that “Americans would be welcomed with garlands”.  Neither was anything close to accurate. Instead the US has war dead, war wounded, a huge bill, fewer friends, and many more enemies.
What truly exacerbated the rush to the fringe were the Financial Crisis and the subsequent railroaded bailouts, which “democratic” America opposed to the tune of 97%, and which were, and still are viewed as rewarding the very people who caused the collapse.  The oft-spoken official claims that “the taxpayer made a profit on the bailouts” just adds salt to the taxpayers’ wounds, as it conveniently fails to take into account the host of programs---from TALF to ZIRP to QEI, II, and III and Twist---that virtually handed the banks the money with which they could “pay back” the bailout cash.
America sees backroom deals and favors to insiders every step of the way, and rightfully so they see this, because that is exactly how the bailout was affected. No one had to pay for his mistakes, and equally significant, no one has been prosecuted despite overwhelming evidence of fraud, malfeasance, and corruption. Americans cannot help but subscribe to the cynical quip, “everyone is equal under the law, except for those who are above it”.  Fines don't count, especially when the money to pay them comes right back through another door.
America's prisons are filled with people who did little more than use a banned substance.  It's time some bankers and officials faced the possibility of similar accommodations, as their crimes are greater and victims substantially more.
The belief that all is not fair is further cemented when the Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer can be taped (PBS, “Frontline”) saying, "Well, I think I am pursuing justice. And I think the entire responsibility of the department is to pursue justice. But in any given case, I think I and prosecutors around the country, being responsible, should speak to regulators, should speak to experts, because if I bring a case against institution A, and as a result of bringing that case, there’s some huge economic effect — if it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly, counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly — it’s a factor we need to know and understand."
No matter how one parses that quote it still says the same thing: some are above the law.
The American people are well aware they have been lied to by the leadership.  They know that a lobbyist has an infinitely greater chance of getting his way than an entire nation of voters.  They know who pays the bills---the taxpayer---as well as who pays the politicians---the lobbyists.  They see the Federal Debt ballooning to Greek-like proportions, and the best Congress can do, other than take vacation or kick the can, is to tell Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to “get to work, Mr. Chairman”, which means print more money, monetize the deficit, and further dilute the value of the dollar.
Even some people within the government are undoubtedly growing frustrated.  Imagine someone in DEA, FBI, CIA, or the military, who sees the slap on the wrist fine handed to a certain non-US bank for a decade or more of drug money laundering and laundering money for Iran, some of which might well have found its way to Hezbollah or to parties aiding the Iraqi insurgency.  There are people in Waziristan who face the wrath of a drone-fired Hellfire missile with less evidence to back up the attack.  This bank, incidentally, received a $3.5 billion payment-in-full upon the US taxpayer bailout of insurer AIG.
When trust is gone, everything becomes an affront, a conspiracy, a power grab by the elite.  The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which gives the President incredibly broad powers, seems to obviate both habeas corpus and the entire Bill of Rights.  When the trust is gone, people are less willing to believe that such a bill would never be used recklessly, or vindictively to put down vocal opponents of whatever Administration happens to be in power at the time.  When trust is gone, the people question new efforts to alter the Second Amendment, even if many are personally outraged at the rash of gun violence that has come to epitomize the United States, so they rush to guns rather than run from them.  When the trust is gone, the message of the Lunatic Fringe is afforded greater reception.  When the trust is gone the Fringe grows into the mainstream.  When trust is gone in some aspects of governance, all governance is questioned.
The government can no longer afford to ignore the Lunatic Fringe, because it is becoming less loon and more understandably and righteously indignant every day.  The government did not create the Fringe, but through callous disregard, incompetence, blatant self-interest, cronyism, selective enforcement, and pandering to its financial support base, the government has fertilized the fringe until it has grown to redwood-like size.  The nation's leadership is viewed not with respect, but with distrust.  It is not the solution, but the problem.  It has morphed from friend to enemy, at least for a not insignificant portion of the citizenry.   The fringe is not going to go away, but instead it will grow.  Its wounds will fester.  It will continue to hammer away at an already fragile society.  It may well lead to significant social unrest, even violence, and that violence is likely to be directed at those seen as responsible for the fiscal, financial and moral decay, which means the elite and the government that is seen as catering to it.  New records in the Dow will not alter the focus, nor ameliorate the bubbling rage, even if the financial media or the Federal Reserve thinks it will.  This growing demographic of citizens must have its concerns addressed before it is too late.
Woe to those who ignore it, because they will become the targets, rightfully or not.
To paraphrase a certain career New York Senator, “Mr. Government, get to work!”  Or better yet, get out of the way."
NOTE: This article is originally published at this website:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Meet the Global Corporate “Supra-Government” - Part 1


By Andrew Gavin Marshall


"We live in a corporate culture, where most of us have worked or currently work for corporations, we spend our money at corporate venues, on corporate products, watch corporately-owned television shows and movies, listen to corporate-sponsored music; our modes of transportation, communication and recreation are corporately influenced or produced; our sports stadiums and movie theaters are named after car companies and global banks; our food is genetically altered by multinational conglomerates, our drinking water is brought to us by Coca-Cola, our news is brought to us by Pfizer, and our political leaders are brought to us by Exxon, Shell, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
In this global corporate culture it is often difficult to take a step back and look at transnational corporations, beyond what they represent in our culture, and see that they are, in fact, totalitarian institutions with power being exercised from the top down, with no democratic accountability, legally bound to be interested only – and exclusively – in maximizing quarterly short-term profits, often to the detriment of the environment, labor, human rights, democracy, peace and the population as a whole.
In this first of a three-part series on the reaches of global corporate power, we'll look specifically at the size and network influence of the world’s largest corporations. This is especially important given that the world's population faces increasing challenges with over 1 billion people living in slums, billions more living in poverty, hunger and increasing starvation; with unemployment increasing, austerity and "adjustment" programs demanding that even those in the once-industrialized West dramatically reduce their living standards; as the environment is plundered and pillaged, and as governments give corporations more state welfare and subsidies while cutting welfare and social services for the poor.
Corporate culture creates, over time, a totalitarian culture as this dominant institution seeks to remake society in its own image - where people are punished and impoverished as corporations are supported, rewarded and empowered.
The network of global corporate control, in numbers
In the year 2000, of the world’s 100 largest economies, 51 were corporations, while only 49 were countries, based upon national GDP (gross domestic product) and corporate sales. Of the top 200 corporations in 2000, the United States had the largest share with 82, followed by Japan at 41, Germany at 20, and France at 17.
Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities in 2010, 42% were corporations; when looking at the top 150 economic entities, 58% were corporations. The largest corporation in 2010 was Wal-Mart, the 25th largest economic entity on earth, surpassed only by the 24 largest countries in the world, but with greater revenues than the GDP of 171 countries, placing it higher on the list than Norway and Iran.
Following Wal-Mart, the largest corporations in the world were: Royal Dutch Shell (larger than Austria, Argentina and South Africa), Exxon Mobil (larger than Thailand and Denmark), BP (larger than Greece, UAE, Venezuela and Colombia), followed by several other energy and automotive conglomerates.
In 2012, Fortune published its annual Global 500 list of the top 500 corporations in the world in 2011. The top 10 corporations in the world, as determined by total revenue, are: Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart Stores, BP, Sinopec Group, China National Petroleum, State Grid, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Toyota Motor.
Among some of the other top 100 are: Total (11), Gazprom (15), E.ON (16), ENI (17), ING Group (18), GM (19), General Electric (22), AXA (25), BNP Paribas (30), GDF Suez (33), Banco Santander (44), Bank of America (46), JP Morgan Chase (51), HSBC Holdings (53), Apple (55), IBM (57), Citigroup (60), Société Générale (67), Nestlé (71), Wells Fargo (80), Archer Daniels Midland (92), and Bank of China (93).
The 10 largest corporations in Canada include: Manulife Financial, Suncor Energy, Royal Bank of Canada, Power Corporation of Canada, George Weston, Magna International, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia, Onex, and Husky Energy.
The 10 largest corporations in Britain are: BP, HSBC Holdings, Tesco, Vodafone, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aviva, Rio Tinto Group, and Prudential.
The 10 largest conglomerates in France are: Total, AXA, BNP Paribas, GDF Suez, Carrefour, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Électricité de France, Peugeot, and Groupe BPCE.
The 10 largest conglomerates in Germany are: Volkswagen, E. ON, Daimler, Allianz, Siemens, BASF, BMW, Metro, Munich Re Group, and Deutsche Telekom.
The 10 largest conglomerates in the United States are: Exxon Mobil, Wal-Mart Stores, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, General Motors, General Electric, Berkshire Hathaway, Fannie Mae, Ford Motor, and Hewlett-Packard.
In October of 2011, a scientific study about the global financial system was released, the first of its kind, undertaken by three complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. The conclusion of the study revealed what many theorists and observers have noted for years:
“An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.” As one of the researchers stated, “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market... Our analysis is reality-based.” Using a database which listed 37 million companies and investors worldwide, the researchers studied all 43,060 trans-national corporations (TNCs), including the share ownerships linking them.
The mapping of "power" was done through the construction of a model showing which companies controlled other companies through shareholdings. The web of ownership revealed a core of 1,318 companies with ties to two or more other companies. This "core" was found to own roughly 80% of global revenues for the entire set of 43,000 TNCs.
And then came what the researchers referred to as the “super-entity” of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, and collectively own 40% of the total wealth in the entire network. One of the researchers noted, “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network.”
This network poses a huge risk to the global economy, noted the researchers: “If one [company] suffers distress... this propagates.” The study was undertaken with a data set established prior to the economic crisis, thus, as the financial crisis forced some banks to fail (such as Lehman Brothers) and others to merge (such as Merrill Lynch and Bank of America), the “super-entity” would now be even more connected, concentrated, and thus, dangerous for the economy.
The top 50 companies on the list of the “super-entity” included (as of 2007): Barclays Plc (1), Capital Group Companies Inc (2), FMR Corporation (3), AXA (4), State Street Corporation (5), JP Morgan Chase & Co. (6), UBS AG (9), Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (10), Deutsche Bank (12), Credit Suisse Group (14), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (16), Goldman Sachs Group (18), Morgan Stanley (21), Société Générale (24), Bank of America Corporation (25), Lloyds TSB Group (26), Lehman Brothers Holdings (34), Sun Life Financial (35), ING Groep (41), BNP Paribas (46), and several others.
In December of 2011, Roger Altman, the former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under the Clinton administration, wrote an article for the Financial Times in which he explained that financial markets were “acting like a global supra-government,” noting:
"They oust entrenched regimes where normal political processes could not do so. They force austerity, banking bail-outs and other major policy changes. Their influence dwarfs multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund. Indeed, leaving aside unusable nuclear weapons, they have become the most powerful force on earth."
Altman continued, explaining that when the power of this “global supra-government” is flexed, “the immediate impact on society can be painful – wider unemployment, for example, frequently results and governments fail.” But of course, being a former top Treasury Department official, he went on to praise the “global supra-government,” writing that, “the longer-term effects can be often transformative and positive.”
Ominously, Altman concluded: “Whether this power is healthy or not is beside the point. It is permanent,” and “there is no stopping the new policing role of the financial markets.”
So, this small network of dominant global companies and banks, many of which are larger than most countries on earth, with no democratic accountability, are also acting independently as a type of “global supra-government” forcing even our dysfunctional and façade-like “democratic” governments to collapse if they do not do as “financial markets” say - such as the recent cases of democratically-elected governments in Greece and Italy whose officials were forced out and replaced with unelected bankers.
In any other situation that’s called a coup d'état. But as Altman’s view reflected, powerful government officials will not oppose this network, whether or not the power is good for human lives and human communities - which is, in Altman’s words, “beside the point.” After all, in his view, “it is permanent.”
Unless, of course, the people of the world decide to have a say in the matter."
NOTE: This article is originally published at this website:

NOTE: Andrew Gavin Marshall is an independent researcher and writer based in Montreal, Canada, with a focus on studying the ideas, institutions, and individuals of power and resistance across a wide spectrum of social, political, economic, and historical spheres. He has been published in AlterNet, CounterPunch, Occupy.com, Truth-Out, RoarMag, and a number of other alternative media groups, and regularly does radio, Internet, and television interviews with both alternative and mainstream news outlets. He is Project Manager of The People’s Book Project and has a weekly podcast show with BoilingFrogsPost.

Letter To Canadian Members of Parliament re: 911



Name : __________________

Address : ________________

________________________

January 30, 2013

To:


___________________________
Member of Parliament

______________ Riding


I would like your assistance.  As a Member of Parliament you will be aware polls show that about a third of your constituents have questions about the events of September 11 at the World Trade Center in New York City.  Our organization has circulated a petition that has over 1500 signatures from across Canada.  In the parlance of Canadian Law, these citizens of Canada have availed themselves of their ancient and undoubted right thus to present a grievance common to them as Petitioners with the certain assurance that our honourable House of Commons will therefor provide a remedy. 

The honorable Minister of Parliament, Don Davies from Vancouver Kingsway had agreed to honor his duty and read the petition into the record at the request of one of his constituents.  Subsequently he decided not to honor that commitment stating that foreign affairs were not part of his portfolio.  Constituents of other Ridings have approached their MP and they too have declined stating that foreign affairs are not part of their portfolio. Each MP has replied that Paul Dewar, the NDP critic is the appropriate MP to read in the petition because he has the foreign affairs portfolio.

Paul Dewar has declined and now stands in default of his duty to act as the NDP’s MP on foreign affairs. 

As we Canadians evaluate the need for additional security and oversight provisions, which will have the effect of eroding the civil liberties that have been available to Canadians for generations, it is incumbent upon us to act rationally and be informed of all the facts. The petition raises the probability that the events of September 11th, 2001, which were the central point of evidence underlying the need for new security measures, have been greatly misrepresented, not only to Canadians, but to the entire world. There is a great body of evidence suggesting that the most significant elements of the official explanation for the events of September 11th cannot be true as presented.

The times are changing and  the events of 9/11 are being talked about openly and this knowledge affects Canadian’s understanding of the events of 9/11,  More Americans and Canadians are exposed to the evidence and reminded that the laws of physics apply every day; including 9/11.  Increasing numbers of NDP potential voters are aware the official account of 9/11 cannot be true.  It is detrimental to the NDP’s credibility to agree with the official account.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has had their new documentary, “9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out” aired on Colorado Public Broadcasting this summer.  Subsequently it was made available on CPT12’s website, video.cpt12.org where it can be watched in its entirety.  "Experts Speak Out" features over 40 registered engineers, high-rise architects, physicists, chemists, and other professionals.  Some of the experts in the documentary are listed below:

Licensed / Professional Structural Engineers

Steven Dusterwald, Licensed Professional Structural Engineer
Kamal Obeid, Licensed Structural Engineer
Alfred Lopez, Registered Professional Structural Engineer
Casey Pfeiffer, Registered Professional Structural Engineer
Jonathan Smolens, Professional Structural Engineer
David Topete, Licensed Structural Engineer
Ron Brookman, Licensed Structural Engineer
Rick Fowlkes, Structural Engineer

Licensed Architects

Dan Barnum, FAIA,  Bachelor of Architecture
Robert McCoy Licensed Architect
Les Young, Licensed Architect
Jody Gibbs, Registered Professional Architect
Joel Miller, High-rise Architect
Bill Brinner, Licensed Architect

Licensed Fire Protection Engineers

Scott Grainger, Licensed Fire Protection Engineer
Ed Munyak, Licensed Fire Protection Engineer

Currently, "Experts Speak Out" has re-established itself as the most shared video on both Colorado Public Television and National PBS (direct link: http://video.cpt12.org/video/2270078138). With nearly a million views over the last few months, ACLU speakers will be encountering more and more people who have seen this video. 

Recently, the Honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy Ferdinando Imposimato wrote a letter calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Towers on 9/11.  He is also a former member of the Italian Senate who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission in three administrations.  He is the author or co–author of seven books on international terrorism, state corruption, and related matters, and a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. 

The times are changing.  I ask for your help in demanding that Paul Dewar do his duty and read in the petition or that you find another MP to do it in his stead. 

My colleagues and myself are now creating a Canadian effort to highlight’s the NDP’s unwillingness to address an issue that a third of Canadians view as a problem.  A recent video documenting Paul Dewar’s stance has been released recently to wide circulation. It can be viewed on the front page of our website http://911justicecanada.ca

I would like your assistance in resolving this matter before we put the full weight of our organization behind this educational outreach activity.

I also request that you reply to this letter.

Sincerely

________________________________________
(Petitioner’s signature)

cc: The Honorable Don Davies, MP, Government of Canada
cc: The Honorable Paul Dewar, MP, NDP Critic on Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada

NOTE: At your request I can forward a copy of this Letter made as a Word document, otherwise just copy and paste it and make your own master copy - then make copies for your family, friends and neighbours to sign and send to your Member of Parliament with copies to Don Davies and Paul Dewar.

Support 911 Justice Canada


On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, I accepted an invitation to attend an event at the Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe St. that was hosted by 911 Justice Canada.




First we viewed the 12:00 minutes video clip of 911 Justice Canada supporters attempting to follow up with Paul Dewar regarding the 911 Petition that was submitted to his office. Paul Dewar is the Foreign Affairs Critic for the NDP (New Democratic Party) - the official opposition party in the Parliament Of Canada - therefore the key person to submit the 911 Petition to the Parliament of Canada.

View the Canadian 9/11 Petition: History, Follow Up With Paul Dewar.

Paul Dewar is shirking his duty to (a) his constituents in his Ottawa Centre Riding and to (b) the people of Canada for refusing to submit the 911 Petition to the Parliament of Canada.

Next we viewed "Loose Change 2nd Edition" and this was followed by a lively discussion among all of those who attended the event. Everyone agreed that we must stay focused on continuing the research and sharing the knowledge with those "who don't know they don't know" if we are ever to set ourselves free from the plans that the New World Order elitists have for us.

Why is it so important that the "truth" be exposed to the Court of Public Review about the vile crime committed on September 11, 2001?

These words from the "Emergency Truth Convergence 2005" offer an answer: "The Fear Ends Here. We urge you again to throw out your fears and embrace the joy and glory of working together as brothers and sisters in a common cause. Let us unite with all who choose to join us and sound an alarm as well as a declaration that we are free and in charge of our own destiny as awakened and empowered citizens shaping a better world. A post-9/11 truth world has a huge upside for all of us - let's keep our eyes on that silver lining beyond the dark clouds currently surrounding us."

On September 11, 2001, I immediately knew that the evil crime committed on that day was an "inside job" - complete with its hidden agenda. On September 12, 2001, I authored an article titled "The Day After" and I still stand by what I wrote on that day.

While this blog is dedicated to exposing the lies, deceits and deceptions about (a) modern money creation in general, and (b)  more specifically, the evil and immoral effects of the design flaw of usury on our orthodox, economic system of usury-based, debt money along with (c) the good news about the usury free time currency movement, I also recognize the importance of continuing to be involved in the 911 Truth Movement.

If the 911 Truth Movement can expose the lies about the events of September 11, 2001, then maybe that will pull out the bottom card in their (the New World Order elitists) house of cards - constructed with usury - and then the phoenix of usuryfree time currency can rise from the ashes and everyone on planet earth will experience the reality of a usuryfree lifestyle.

I am convinced that the truth about the outrageous criminal act of September 11, 2001, must be exposed and therefore, I recommend that wherever you live - find out which local group promotes 911 Truth and make a commitment to attend local events, connect with like-minded thinkers and continue (or begin) your own self-imposed research on 911. 

I have posted a few graphics about 911 at this page at Facebook: "9/11Deceit, 9/11Deceitism and 9/11 de-Deceitization of Society."

In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "911 Justice Canada" has been very active. They have prepared a 911 Petition that is ready for submission to the Parliament of Canada. They have also prepared a "Letter To Canadian Members of Parliament" which is also posted at my blog at this link.

Readers from Canada are invited to make a master copy of the "Letter To Canadian Members of Parliament" and then make copies for other members of your family, as well as friends, neighbours, working colleagues, etc. and invite them to multiply and duplicate your efforts.

Then send it to the Member of Parliament in your riding with copies to (a) Don Davies (b) Paul Dewar and (c) The Court of Public Review

911 Justice Canada has prepared a special page for Paul Dewar. Readers are invited to visit and share your comments. 

911 Justice Canada prepared a Facebook page titled: "911 Petition Follow Up With Paul Dewar" - where anyone can visit and add comments.

And anyone and everyone is invited to go directly to Paul Dewar's Page at Facebook and share your comments and/or ask Paul Dewar why he will not submit the 911 Petition to Parliament since he is the NDP critic for Foreign Affairs.

Other resources for the 911 Truth Movement:


http://www.ae911truth.org

http://www.911sharethetruth.com

http://www.911truth.org

http://canadawantsthetruth911.blogspot.ca

Who Runs The World?



Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings

By Michael Snyder

"Does a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists control the world?  Do men and women with enormous amounts of money really run the world from behind the scenes?  The answer might surprise you.  

Most of us tend to think of money as a convenient way to conduct transactions, but the truth is that it also represents power and control.  And today we live in a neo-fuedalist system in which the super rich pull all the strings.  When I am talking about the ultra-wealthy, I am not just talking about people that have a few million dollars.  

As you will see later in this article, the ultra-wealthy have enough money sitting in offshore banks to buy all of the goods and services produced in the United States during the course of an entire year and still be able to pay off the entire U.S. national debt.  That is an amount of money so large that it is almost incomprehensible.  Under this ne0-feudalist system, all the rest of us are debt slaves, including our own governments.  

Just look around - everyone is drowning in debt, and all of that debt is making the ultra-wealthy even wealthier.  But the ultra-wealthy don't just sit on all of that wealth.  They use some of it to dominate the affairs of the nations.  The ultra-wealthy own virtually every major bank and every major corporation on the planet.  They use a vast network of secret societies, think tanks and charitable organizations to advance their agendas and to keep their members in line.  

They control how we view the world through their ownership of the media and their dominance over our education system.  They fund the campaigns of most of our politicians and they exert a tremendous amount of influence over international organizations such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.  When you step back and take a look at the big picture, there is little doubt about who runs the world.  It is just that most people don't want to admit the truth.

The ultra-wealthy don't run down and put their money in the local bank like you and I do.  Instead, they tend to stash their assets in places where they won't be taxed such as the Cayman Islands.  According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite have up to 32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.

U.S. GDP for 2011 was about 15 trillion dollars, and the U.S. national debt is sitting at about 16 trillion dollars, so you could add them both together and you still wouldn't hit 32 trillion dollars.

And of course that does not even count the money that is stashed in other locations that the study did not account for, and it does not count all of the wealth that the global elite have in hard assets such as real estate, precious metals, art, yachts, etc.
The global elite have really hoarded an incredible amount of wealth in these troubled times.  The following is from an article on the Huffington Post website...
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday. The study estimating the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts - excluding non-financial assets such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses - puts the sum at between $21 and $32 trillion. The research was carried out for pressure group Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax havens, by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants McKinsey & Co. He used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.
But as I mentioned previously, the global elite just don't have a lot of money.  They also basically own just about every major bank and every major corporation on the entire planet.
According to an outstanding NewScientist article, a study of more than 40,000 transnational corporations conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich discovered that a very small core group of huge banks and giant predator corporations dominate the entire global economic system...
An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The researchers found that this core group consists of just 147 very tightly knit companies...
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
The following are the top 25 banks and corporations at the heart of this "super-entity".  You will recognize many of the names on the list...
1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc
21. Morgan Stanley
22. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23. Northern Trust Corporation
24. Société Générale
25. Bank of America Corporation
The ultra-wealthy elite often hide behind layers and layers of ownership, but the truth is that thanks to interlocking corporate relationships, the elite basically control almost every Fortune 500 corporation.
The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.
Unfortunately, this same group of people have been running things for a very long time.  For example, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan said the following during a speech all the way back in 1922...
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation. To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.
These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.
These international bankers created the central banks of the world (including the Federal Reserve), and they use those central banks to get the governments of the world ensnared in endless cycles of debt from which there is no escape. Government debt is a way to "legitimately" take money from all of us, transfer it to the government, and then transfer it into the pockets of the ultra-wealthy.
Today, Barack Obama and almost all members of Congress absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in the past there have been some brave members of Congress that have been willing to take a stand.  For example, the following quote is from a speech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden delivered to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1932...
Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.
Sadly, most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is a "federal agency", but that is simply not correct.  The following comes from factcheck.org...
The stockholders in the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks are the privately owned banks that fall under the Federal Reserve System. These include all national banks (chartered by the federal government) and those state-chartered banks that wish to join and meet certain requirements. About 38 percent of the nation’s more than 8,000 banks are members of the system, and thus own the Fed banks.
According to researchers that have looked into the ownership of the big Wall Street banks that dominate the Fed, the same names keep coming up over and over: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazards, the Schiffs and the royal families of Europe.
But ultra-wealthy international bankers have not just done this kind of thing in the United States.  Their goal was to create a global financial system that they would dominate and control.  Just check out what Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley once wrote...
[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.
Sadly, most Americans have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is at the very heart of the global financial system.  The following is from Wikipedia...
As an organization of central banks, the BIS seeks to make monetary policy more predictable and transparent among its 58 member central banks. While monetary policy is determined by each sovereign nation, it is subject to central and private banking scrutiny and potentially to speculation that affects foreign exchange rates and especially the fate of export economies. Failures to keep monetary policy in line with reality and make monetary reforms in time, preferably as a simultaneous policy among all 58 member banks and also involving the International Monetary Fund, have historically led to losses in the billions as banks try to maintain a policy using open market methods that have proven to be based on unrealistic assumptions.
The ultra-wealthy have also played a major role in establishing other important international institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.  In fact, the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York City was purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.

The international bankers are "internationalists" and they are very proud of that fact.
The elite also dominate the education system in the United States.  Over the years, the Rockefeller Foundation and other elitist organizations have poured massive amounts of money into Ivy League schools.  Today, Ivy League schools are considered to be the standard against which all other colleges and universities in America are measured, and the last four U.S. presidents were educated at Ivy League schools. The elite also exert a tremendous amount of influence through various secret societies (Skull and Bones, the Freemasons, etc.), through some very powerful think tanks and social clubs (the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through a vast network of charities and non-governmental organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).

But for a moment, I want to focus on the power the elite have over the media.  In a previous article, I detailed how just six monolithic corporate giants control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day.  These giant corporations own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.

Considering the fact that the average American watches 153 hours of television a month, the influence of these six giant corporations should not be underestimated." (snip) ...

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