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June 19th, 2008 — Books & Authors, Business, Economy, Federal Reserve
By: William P. Christian @ 2:19 PM - EST
Segment 2 of 10 (all will be available via email later)
In our last segment we covered when and where the Federal Reserve gained its roots in our financial system. This week we will discuss the 7 men who traveled to Georgia to create one of the most draconian money counterfeiting schemes in history.
Of these seven men the first I have already mentioned, Senator Nelson Aldrich was the Republican whip in the Senate. One purpose of The National Monetary Commission was to propose legislation to break the grip of the money trust and Aldrich was chairman of that committee. Aldrich was a very close associate of J. P. Morgan. Aldrich was the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and eventually he became the grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller, a former vice-president. The Senator’s full name was Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller; his middle name was handed down from his famous grandfather.
Abraham Andrew, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, later became a Congressman. Andrew was very important in banking circles and could translate the ideas of the Federal Reserve for the bankers in a manner which would leave them with a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Frank Vanderlip was in attendance as well. Vanderlip was President of the National City Bank of New York which was the largest bank in America and representing the financial interests of William Rockefeller and the international investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company.
In attendance was Henry Davison, the senior partner of the J. P. Morgan Company. Charles Norton was present, he was the President of the First National Bank of New York which was another one of the giants. Benjamin Strong was present at the meeting; he was the head of J. P. Morgan’s Banker’s Trust Company. Strong later become the first head of the Federal Reserve System.
Also attending the secret meeting was Paul Warburg who was probably the most important at the meeting because of his knowledge of banking as it was practiced in Europe. Paul Warburg was born in Germany and eventually became a naturalized American citizen. He was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company and was a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France where he maintained very close working relationships throughout his entire career with his brother, Max Warburg, who was the head of the Warburg banking consortium in Germany and the Netherlands. Paul Warburg was one of the wealthiest men in the world. In fact, those of you who are Little Orphan Annie fans will remember Daddy Warbucks. Daddy Warbucks was the characterization of Paul Warburg and everyone at the time was well aware of that fact. If you compare a photograph of Warburg to the cartoon drawing you’ll see the resemblance between Paul Warburg and Daddy WARbucks. And while we’re on the topic of cartoon characters, if you played Monopoly, you’ve noticed the Monopoly Man is J. P. Morgan.
These were the seven men who boarded the rail car sent to Jekyll Island. It will be difficult to fathom, but these 7 men represented 1/4 of the wealth of the entire world. These evil men sat around a table in the basement (or shall we say dungeon) of the Jekyll Island Clubhouse and created the Federal Reserve System. If you don’t’ think it has happened this way keep reading.
So you want proof: Frank Vanderlip who was at the meeting wrote an article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on February 9, 1935. Vanderlip said: “I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System. We were told to leave our last names behind us. We were told further that we should avoid dining together on the night of our departure. We were instructed to come one at a time and as unobtrusively as possible to the railroad terminal on the New Jersey littoral of the Hudson where Senator Aldrich’s private car would be in readiness attached to the rear-end of a train to the south. Once aboard the private car we began to observe the taboo that had been fixed on last names. We addressed one another as Ben, Paul, Nelson and Abe. Davison and I adopted even deeper disguises abandoning our first names. On the theory that we were always right, he became Wilbur and I became Orville after those two aviation pioneers the Wright brothers. The servants and train crew may have known the identities of one or two of us, but they did not know all and it was the names of all printed together that would’ve made our mysterious journey significant in Washington, in Wall Street, even in London. Discovery we knew simply must not happen.”
So you must be wondering, why all the secrecy? What’s the big deal about a group of bankers getting together in private and talking about banking or even banking legislation? And the answer is provided by Vanderlip himself in the same article. He said, “If it were to be exposed publicly that our particular group had gotten together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.” Why would Vanderlip state this?
Vanderlip’s statement is an obvious admission to guilt of something immoral or criminal. Let me tell you why I think they wanted secrecy. The purpose of the bill was to break the grip of the money trust and it was written by the money trust. And had that fact been known at the get-go, we would never have had a Federal Reserve System because as Vanderlip said it would have had no chance of passage at all by Congress. Keep in mind this is not exactly a secret that you couldn’t discover because anybody can go to the library and dig this out, but it is certainly not taught in textbooks. They will not put any of the information in the literature available from the Federal Reserve System because that would be like asking the fox to build the hen house and install the security system.
We will continue with more detail, quotes, and some really amazing facts next time.
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This shall end segment 2, sorry to keep you in suspense; come back for Segment 3 in a few days.
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June 11th, 2008 — Books & Authors, Business, Economy, Federal Reserve
By: William P. Christian @ 2:32 PM - EST
This next month we will issue 10 segments on The Federal Reserve:
Let me recommend a book; The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin. This is a very large book but in my opinion you should own a copy for your reference and library. The Creature from Jekyll Island has references and sources which are complete and accurate. I beg that all economist, economics professors, teachers, investors, bankers, and patriots read this magnificent book. Come with us on this 10 part series as we take a closer look at the Federal Reserve.
Segment 1 of 10
The Federal Reserve Scam:
Epictetus said “Appearances are of four kinds: things either are as they appear to be; or they neither are nor appear to be; or they are but do not appear to be; or they are not and yet appear to be.” Epictetus’ quote reminds us of the various aspects of the Federal Reserve System. Epictetus took a very simple idea but after explaining the idea, most people have no clue what he was talking about. With crafty wording Epictetus simply stated appearances are many times deceiving.
After researching the Federal Reserve I, like many others, have came to the realization it can not be fixed our audited. The Federal Reserve must be removed from our economic system. If an audit took place the Federal Reserve would not be directed to change anything due to the fact the Federal Reserve is exactly as designed to do under the law, which is a design failure. Here is a short list of problems with the Federal Reserve pointed out by Griffin, which should be easy to remember: 1. The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives, 2. It is a cartel operating against the public interest, 3. It’s the supreme instrument of usury, 4. It generates our most unfair tax, 5. It encourages war, 6. It destabilizes our economy 7. It is always devaluing our dollar.
Without any prior knowledge of the Fed it must be hard to say what a person would think of these 7 points, you’re the people I would like to focus these next 10 segments on. I hope everyone would continue reading. Many of you may already agree with these points but for those without opinion please continue to read. We will largely cover the first four points over these next 10 segments and then you shall see the light of truth and how we have been thrown under the bus.
Going back to the year 1910, Jekyll Island was a winter resort for the banking and social elite of the day off the coast of Georgia. This island was 100% privately owned at the time, and had an elitist social club known as “The Jekyll Island Club.” They elite groups, including the Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan types, owned the island and used the local to spend the winter months in warmer climates. There was a magnificent structure there, the clubhouse, which was the center of their social activities. The clubhouse is still there and has since been purchased by the state of Georgia, converted into a state park and the clubhouse has been restored. This is a most beautiful place and you would admire the location. If you were to walk through the downstairs halls you would find a door and with a brass plaque which has engraved: “In this room the Federal Reserve System was created.” Around the clubhouse are cottages as they were called which were used by the families retiring to the Island for the winter months. These are not small cottages like you have imagined in your mind, more or less these are estates, and are fine examples of the period’s architecture. A tour of one cottage showed that there were 14 bathrooms within the structure at one time which should give you an idea as to the size of each cottage.
Back at the clubhouse is where the Federal Reserve System was created three years before the Federal Reserve Act was unfortunately passed into law. In November of that year Senator Nelson Aldrich sent his very own private railroad car to a railroad station in New Jersey to wait for the arrival of six other men who were told to come under total secrecy. These men were told not to dine or acknowledge each other’s existence and if they arrived at the same time they did not speak or look at each other. If the men had been seen together by a reporter or well known person, many questions would have been asked, people would take notice, and then the secret would be hard to keep. It was later told in a book by one of these men that one person carried a shotgun as a decoy, stating “It was a prop used to make others believe I was going duck hunting”, then we later find out this man didn’t even own the shotgun.
The secrecy never stopped when they boarded the rail car. The men were told to use first names only, never to use last names, and some adopted code names. Maintaining secrecy would prevent rail workers and servants from knowing who these folks were. Gossip travels quickly and they wanted to prevent gossip and rumors at all costs. Eventually, after two nights and a day, they came to Brunswick, Georgia. After a ferry ride they came to Jekyll Island and then spent the next 9 days working out the basic details of the Federal Reserve, after finishing they headed back home.
During the three years up to the creation of the Federal Reserve these men denied having any part of any meeting, but after the Federal Reserve System was firmly established these 7 men began to talk openly about their creation we now know as the Federal Reserve. We now have a public record of the events, as a few of these men wrote books on the topic, one wrote a magazine article. Several of these men gave interviews to newspaper reporters so we already have the details as to what happened on Jekyll Island.
You may be wondering who the other six men are. The first of seven men mentioned was Senator Nelson Aldrich, a Republican whip in the Senate, was a chairman of the National Monetary Commission. The NMC was the special committee of Congress created to propose recommendations to Congress for the reformation of banking. The people had great interest in the matter as many banks were making runs on the money, failing to maintain investments, many banks folded, and many people lost their gold and silver. Many citizens were concerned with the concentrated wealth in large New York banks and Wall Street, which was referred to as the “money trust”, a common phrase back in those days. Many politicians were elected by promising to break the grip of the money trust, just like politicians today get elected promising lower oil prices and free health care. The American people were suckered in one more time as President Wilson campaigned on fighting the money trust, even though Woodrow himself was selected, funded, and surrounded by the money-trust goons, many who became his advisors, including one very important Colonel House (we will do a separate piece on Mr. House). Of course the public didn’t know Wilson was funded and controlled by the money trust, and since he campaigned against the Money Trust, Wilson was elected. The same scenario, regardless of the issue, still takes place today in almost every level of government.
This shall end segment 1, sorry to keep you in suspense; come back for Segment 2 in a few days. You can contact William P. Christian here:
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May 28th, 2008 — Books & Authors, Politics
By: D. H. Williams @ 5:18 PM – EST
Appearing on American Pravda Karl Rove plays the dual role of quest and paid contributor. He wastes no time attacking the quotes from Scott McClellan new book saying “he sounds like a left wing blogger.”
Rove claims the Texas friend of George W. Bush and White House Press Secretary for 6 years was, “out of the loop.”
Fake conservative Sean Hannity wastes no time defending the Neo – Cons in the White House. He asks Rove, “Why do I always get suspicious if he [Scott McClellan] really felt this way… why didn’t he leave earlier.”
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May 28th, 2008 — Books & Authors
By: D. H. Williams @ 1:11 PM EST
Former Bush loyalist Scott McClellan has written a tell all book entitled: What Happened – Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.
McClellan is the latest Bush administration official to attempt to deny personal responsibility for years of deception and criminal activity.
On the Iraq war:
“Through media manipulation and outright compliance the Bush Administration was able to mislead the American people about the real reasons for going to war with Iraq.”
“The White House made a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.”
On Bush’s Cocaine use:
“The media won’t let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors,’ I heard Bush say. ‘You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.”
“I remember thinking to myself, How can that be?” McClellan wrote. “How can someone simply not remember whether or not they used an illegal substance like cocaine? It didn’t make a lot of sense.”
“So I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It’s the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true,” McClellan wrote. “And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious — political convenience.”
On Plame Gate:
“He [Bush] too had been deceived, and therefore became unwittingly involved in deceiving me. But the top White House officials who knew the truth — including Rove, Libby, and possibly Vice President Cheney — allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat a lie.”
The longtime Bush loyalist also suggests that Rove and Libby held a secret West Wing meeting to get their story straight about the CIA leak case at a time when federal prosecutors were after them — and McClellan was continuing to defend them despite mounting evidence they had not given him all the facts.
On Bush’s lack of intellectual curiosity:
McClellan writes that the president, He convinces himself to believe what suits his needs at the moment,” and has engaged in “self-deception” to justify his political ends.
“President Bush has always been an instinctive leader more than an intellectual leader. He is not one to delve into all the possible policy options — including sitting around engaging in extended debate about them — before making a choice,” McClellan wrote. “Rather, he chooses based on his gut and his most deeply held convictions. Such was the case with Iraq.”
On Katrina:
“He [Bush] spent most of the first week in a state of denial” and “allowed our institutional response to go on autopilot.”
Mr. McClellan blames Mr. Rove for one of the more damaging images after the hurricane: Mr. Bush’s flyover of the devastation of New Orleans. When Mr. Rove brought up the idea, Mr. McClellan writes, he and Dan Bartlett, a top communications adviser, told Mr. Bush it was a bad idea because he would appear detached and out of touch. But Mr. Rove won out, Mr. McClellan writes.
On Cheney:
“Cheney always seemed to get his way,”
On Rice:
“I was struck by how deft she is at protecting her reputation,” he wrote. “No matter what went wrong, she was somehow able to keep her hands clean, even when the problems related to matters under her direct purview, including the WMD rationale for the war in Iraq, the decision to invade Iraq … and post-war planning and implementation of the strategy in Iraq.”
Scott McClellan who was part of the original Bush team from Texas was a deputy in then Governor Bush’s press office and served with the President until 2006 when he was forced out as White House Press Secretary.
All ready on the defensive former Bush propaganda minister Karl Rove was on American Pravda, aka Fox News last night claiming, “McClellan had been out of the loop on many matters and never expressed his concerns while working for the administration.”
Story originally broke by Politico.
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