SuperFed!

Just another piece ofevidence that the US gov't is not listening to it's people. We say "audit the Fed!" they say "empower the Fed!" Who wins?

Viva, Viva Palestina

So I am getting more and more upset as this conflict goes on. I'm not sure that this is going to end any time soon either. Check out what the expected winner of next month's election in Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, said about this issue. He is more radical than Olmert, which is a scary thought. At least Olmert has been holding talks with Syria about returning the Golan heights, which were taken by Israel in the 1973 October war.

I was working all day to organize a panel discussion on the conflict, but it looks like that just isn't happening. Most professors seemed reluctant to speak, some said that they were just too busy despite their vested interest in the subject. One guy said that he spoke at a similar event at his old school and said some things against Israel. He was fired because the President of the university was a zionist, so he doesn't do public lectures anymore. The person that really irked me was a Jewish professor that told me that she didn't want to participate because the panel might be anti-Israel. I said that if she acted like that then the panel was bound to be pro-Palestinian, and she practically kicked me out of her office.

In other news, Bernake is actually asking for more money. Somebody needs to shut that fool up before he steals ALL of the money in the treasury (or not in the treasury). Also, Obama is working to get approval for his $700 billion bailout, which in all fairness is going to be more geared toward tax breaks than anything else, but still isn't going to fix the situation. The fed cut the interest rate to 0-.25% which is astounding. "In a speech in London Tuesday morning, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's series of rate cuts since September 2007, saying that inflation was no longer a major concern." No longer a maor concern?! Maybe to his rich ass.

I don't know what to say, you all know the situation. This fed cut is a huge indicator that they are out of options to stall the collapse.

On our Treasury Secretary Designate

Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary designate, drew my attention at first with his current position as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. That's scary from the starting line, because this guy has headed up for about 5 years what is possibly the most important branch of the Fed cartel. Not cool, Tim.
This fellow, living in CNN/Money's 11th best place to live in the US started his life in finance with Kissinger and Associates, then moved on to the Treasury Dept. From there he joined the Council on Foreign Relations economics division and then worked with the IMF on a policy reforming committee. He is also a trustee of the Economics Club of New York,a private club of international top executives and government officials that hosts events regarding policy and issues relating to economics. Check out the website above to see a list of recent speakers. It's a fascinating list, I'd say. You can watch videos of select sections of these people talks on YouTube. He also worked to push through the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns and has played a role in decisions regarding the bail outs and other issues related to our current "financial crisis."
He also serves on the board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements, which is basically the bank for the world's central banks. This group's culture of secrecy has caused many to doubt their intentions. We should be looking at them, too.
Timothy Geithner does not seem to be on our side, here.

Help end the fractional reserve banking system, which shifts wealth from the deserving masses to a few bankers at the top. This is the single greatest barrier to peace that our world faces. We can defeat it, and the snowballing of vast reform for liberty that will follow will be the next step towards a truly advanced human race. I think we too often consider ourselves mature and civilized, failing to realize the fact that technological and intellectual growth will never cease, and has only truly begun taking flight in the last few hundred years. We have solved some problems, but have created others that stand in the way to total freedom and prosperity.

Fed Notes for Protest

This is last minute, so I won't waste time talkin. Hopefully someone of ya can print a bunch of these and prepare them before we leave. After all, protest isn't till tomorrow morning.




Ideas for alternate backs??

Raw Story ain't perfect, but at least they're saying this stuff

I hate to push down the pertinent posts about our membership drive and the Fed protest, but I read a great article about this financial situation that is good reading material/fodder for talking points for the protest, etc.
More on Naomi Klein, I'm getting her book Shock Doctrine for sure.

InBev completes purchase of Anheuser-Busch... Shit. I wonder what the total US and World market share is of this new monster company. Another article says it's now one of the 5 largest consumer goods companies in the world. Yowza. "The new company will have sales of about 36 billion dollars a year, offering consumers about 300 brands, including Anheuser's Budweiser and Bud Light, and InBev's Stella Artois and Beck's."
Good thing I don't drink any of that anyway... Please boycott big brewers, people. These guys really stifle creativity and diversity, and even if you don't care about beer, when you do drink it, at least make it something good. It's usually only a buck or two more.
Maybe my next photoshop job will be a Bud box... hmmm, back to you on that one.

Phew... It's hard creating hyperinflation

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Here's the flier I made to give to students at App over the next week to promote the Campaign for Liberty and the Fed protest this weekend. Thanks to Patrick for help on this, too!!
It's not really so much club promotion, but the email is there. We could write (or print) something on the backs regarding the club (but my eyeballs are about to fall out so I'm not designing the back).
I printed on a Mac using Preview. Just set your program at "Size to Fit" or similar and print. I haven't tried B&W printing, just color, but I bet it looks about as good, since the color is subdued anyway.
Try cutting the edges off and separating the bills with a razor blade cutting over something like cardboard or a spread out newspaper (has to be sorta thick though), it's way faster than scissors, won't take too long. Print out as many as possible! I'm sure at least a few of ya have money on the AppCard you need to use! I can get up with some people to do this and hand them out at like 1 oclock for about a couple hours. I figure lunchish is a good time to get people around the Sanford Mall area, etc!

On a final note, let me know what we should put on the left side of it for handing out at the actual protest! I'd think a campaignforliberty.com reference would be a good start, as well as maybe leaving "Protest the Fed." What do you think?

Hell yea, I'm excited about it all, and now I'm goin to sleep

Fed won't disclose who they're giving money to

Isn't our gov't supposed to be transparent?
If they're hiding things, can't we assume wrongdoing?
More to come...

Martial Law Threats Part of Bailout Push

Check out Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) talking about how our decision makers that ended up passing the bail out bill were threatened with martial law if the bill didn't go through...
Another article about it

Also, Patrick just told me about and I looked up a page for this:
FEDERAL RESERVE PROTEST IN CHARLOTTE, NC!!!!
NOVEMBER 22, 2008 SATURDAY 8 a.m. (thanks for edit dude)
FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING
530 Trade St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Y'all mawfuckaz know I'm gonna be there.
There are conflicting messages about the possible date, but this meetup.com page says the info I posted above, so I'm going with that for now. Will edit if necessary.
I'll make a post on nonviolent protest fundamentals later, I've been looking into it some.


** Update: by filabusta **
It is definitely going to be on the 22nd.
“On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just watched a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers leave the station on a secret mission. It would be years before they discovered what that mission was, and even then they would not understand that the history of the United States underwent a drastic change after that night in Hoboken.”
From Secrets of the Federal Reserve, by Eustace Mullins.

Fed Watch

BBC reports today that US Treasury Secretary Paulson has developed a plan that would ease economic woes. This plan would, "give sweeping powers to the Federal Reserve - enabling it to tackle the kind of turmoil that is currently hitting financial markets," as reported by BBC.

"The Fed would become 'market stability regulator' - allowing it to examine the books of any financial institution deemed to potentially threaten the stability of the financial system."

Which means these reforms would give an insulated financial institution governmental control, further blurring the line between government and the elite bank/corps.

"The review into the sector began early in 2007 after the financial services industry complained that over-regulation from Washington meant US firms were not as globally competitive as they could be."

Banks are trying to hijack the government.

Dammit, I hate reading the news

We are at the mercy of the Federal Reserve Bank... great.
Does no one understand the implications of this? Why is this going on? Propping up the financial system with more manufactured currency will not last forever and will only serve to make the crash even more intense. I'm honestly getting really sketched out at this point. I think I posted about these auctions a bit ago but the scale is unheard of.

You all know by now, but I hate the Fed

Money, Banking, and the Fed
Monopoly Men
There's about 2 hrs of video to watch here, and it backs up a lot of the things I try to explain to people all the time.
Also, read this BBC article about an unprecedented meeting between the US and Iran. I'm out for now.

Whose best interests?

This Washington Post article discusses the recent credit card interest rate hikes experienced by many individuals done in an effort by banking institutions to recoup their recent losses due to the credit crunch and a weakening economy. What we're seeing is increased load on the people of our country to make up for losses incurred by banking corporations when many of us have already taken a hit financially for one reason or another ourselves (often that reason is terribly poor financial planning - the individual's fault for being ignorant in most cases). The Fed's rate cuts in the recent past, amounting to 2.25% since September, are said to be in the interest of our country as a whole. Ideally, lowering interest rates allows individuals and businesses to buy more and to pay less on the purchases they have already made, but when the banks don't pass these rate cuts to the people, and indeed in some cases raise their rates, the people are affected more and the banks are given an opportunity to make up for their lost profits that were due to financial decisions equally foolish to those made by many of our people. Just another example of corporate back-scratching by our government when the powers that be decide to do nothing when it's obvious that the banks are looking out only for their own interests and preserving profits, not the best interest of the people. The article does however mention keeping an eye on the activities of these companies intended on curbing the use of these rate cuts for their sole benefit, but I'm not holding my breath for any real action to be taken or for these "watchdogs" to decide that the banks are in the wrong.

In other news, Keith Olbermann is the mann:

Your house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it...

Story of Stuff
This flash video in the link above is awesome! A professor showed it in class today, and it deals with our culture of waste, essentially. The video is really well-made, concise, informative, and the website that hosts it is full of info to help you figure out what to do about all this STUFF!!!

And for a lighter take on it all, George Carlin talking about stuff. (or is it "shit?") While you're at it, this Carlin skit "Owners of this country," is fucking excellent. I have always loved this man!

Also, the Fed cut interest rates in an emergency decision last night (doubtlessly stemming from worldwide market troubles evidenced yesterday when our domestic markets were closed) in an effort to jump start our dwindling economy. Thanks Fed, that should fix it all (sarcasm)

If you don't know about this, the general idea is that the Federal Reserve is the private bank (owned by private investors, many of them foreign, and run, with little government oversight, by a presidentially appointed board of governors) that prints and through that and other measures, controls the value of our currency here in the United States. The rate at which they lend this money that they create to banks that in turn lend it to the people is called the discount rate. Also lowered today was the federal funds rate, defined as the rate at which banks make overnight loans to one another, and just like the name of the bank itself, there is nothing "federal" about it. We shall see what happens...
Also, if some kind of aversion to private banks is ringing a bell in your head, you'll remember that indeed maybe the largest reason for the American Revolution was to get away from the Bank of England, a private bank that has a not so cheery history with regards to our forefathers. As stated by someone you may have heard of, Thomas Jefferson, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Please guys, read about this system that we're all a part of so that one day we can abolish or reform it so that we can really be free.

Some guy with opinions,
Cory