On The 100th Anniversary Of The Federal Reserve Here Are 100 Reasons To Shut It Down Forever

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December 23rd, 1913 is a date which will live in infamy.  That was the day when the Federal Reserve Act was pushed through Congress.  Many members of Congress were absent that day, and the general public was distracted with holiday preparations.  Now we have reached the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve, and most Americans still don't know what it actually is or how it functions.  But understanding the Federal Reserve is absolutely critical, because the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems.  Since the Federal Reserve was created, there have been 18 recessions or depressions, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by 98 percent, and the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.  This insidious debt-based financial system has literally made debt slaves out of all of us, and it is systematically destroying the bright future that our children and our grandchildren were supposed to have.  If nothing is done, we are inevitably heading for a massive amount of economic pain as a nation.  So please share this article with as many people as you can.  The following are 100 reasons why the Federal Reserve should be shut down forever... (Read More....)

Israeli To Officially Take Over as Vice Chairman of U.S. Federal Reserve Bank

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Soon to be Fed Chairman, Jewish Zionist Janet Yellen and her cohort soon to be Vice Fed Chair Israeli Zionist Stan Fischer

Current Bank of Israel Chairman Stan Fischer Said to Be Next U.S. Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Under Another Jewish Zionist Chairman

We all know the Zionist banksters control the world money supply. This is NOT news. What is news is that they used to try to hide their occupation of the U.S. American money system by pretending to be Americans. 

Now? Screw it! This time they are just blurting it out!

The Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve is going to be an Israeli bankster who ran the Bank of Israel Bank; Stanley Fischer. Plain and Simple!  Fuck You America!

Now what will Americans do when they ALL realize that their banking system is run by Zionists as stated so on the main street marquee? Well, if they remember Andrew Jackson, they will throw this occupiers out on their bankster assess, arrest them, and thrown them all in prison.  Or maybe Americans will just again just take up the wazoo and bow to their masters?  Hard to say…..

I mean, when these psychotic predators ripped off 99% of all Americans with their mortgage thievery Americans did NOT know who to take out? Some on the right wing stupidly blamed the $ 2 per hour Mexican working man for the lost economy not realizing who had their hands deep into their real pockets. So really, it’s hard to gauge the tipping point for Americans and when they will revolt against their long lost government and the banksters that rule them.

But one truth these foreign global banksters know that “The Men Who Manage Men Manage but the Men Who Manage Money Manage All”  and they play the art of this war like a fiddler on the roof.
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FBI yet again foils their own fake terrorist plot, this time targeting the NY Federal Reserve

By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie



At this point I wish I could laugh at the absurdly obvious nature of the federal government’s involvement in the manufacture of domestic terrorism, but unfortunately it is far too serious a matter.

For those who think the most recent case of 21-year-old Bangladeshi national Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) major role in said case is something of a fluke, think again.

Indeed, the FBI’s business is manufacturing terrorism of all kinds and breaking the law in the process. The two most recent cases I personally covered occurred in February of this year and then in May of this year as well. Let’s not forget that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also thwarted their own little manufactured terror plot in May of this year as well.

The most recent case involving Nafis has not bucked the trend in the slightest. According to USA Today‘s latest update at the time of writing this story, Nafis “allegedly met with an undercover FBI agent who provided him with inert explosives.”

Once again, we learn that the “terrorist” actually never was in contact with any real terrorists (other than those hiding behind the safety of a badge) and was never even able to procure real explosives.

Instead, as is the case with so many other cases of the government thwarting their own plots, we learn that Nafis actually would never have done anything if it were not for the help of the FBI.

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Shocking Stats from Fed Audit

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Shocking Stats from Fed Audit

Historic audit of Federal Reserve reveals $16 trillion in handouts

By Pete Papaherakles

A report on the first ever audit of the Federal Reserve was released on September 1 and it is revealing some startling information. While only a partial review of the 

privately owned and controlled central bank, it is still considered a big win for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

The audit was carried out by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over the past few months. In the House, it came about as a result of an amendment introduced by Paul and Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), which was added to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill that passed in 2010. On the Senate side, Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led the charge for a Fed audit. While the Senate watered down the original language, eventually a compromise between the House and the Senate was reached so that a limited audit of the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending would then take place.

The landmark audit revealed that from December 2007 to June 2010 the Federal Reserve secretly gave out a staggering $16T to major U.S. banks and corporations as well as to large foreign banks in Europe. Although the Fed claims that these secret bailouts were loans, little of the money has been returned and it was all loaned out at 0% interest.

In late 2008 the big banks that caused the subprime debt crisis were given an unprecedented $800B in the government’s TARP “bailout.” But that was only the tip of the iceberg. Goldman Sachs alone received $814B from the Fed and others received far more than that.

The top eight Wall Street banks received over $10T. Citigroup led the pack with a whopping $2.5T. Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch both received about $2T each, while Bank of America got $1.35T. Bear Stearns was given $853B. JP Morgan Chase and Lehman Brothers got $391 and $183B respectively.

Barclays was the biggest overseas winner with $868B, and the Royal Bank of Scotland received a hefty $541B—both from the Federal Reserve. Deutsche Bank got $354B, UBS of Switzerland was handed $287B, Credit Suisse got $262B, Bank of Scotland got $181B and France’s BNP Paribas received $175B. The remaining trillions went to many smaller banks and corporations mostly in the United States and Europe.

To put this $16T in perspective, if the Fed gave this money to the United States at 0% interest instead of their criminal banker friends, the entire national debt would be paid off.
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Pete Papaherakles, a U.S. citizen since 1986, was born in Greece. If you would like to see AFP speakers at your rally, contact Pete at 202-544-5977.

What is the Federal Reserve and why is Sen. Harry Reid now saying no to Audit the Fed

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Published on Jul 27, 2012 by rovero

The "Audit the Fed" bill has been the long time passion of outgoing Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

The bill, now moves on to the Senate but could it be "dead on arrival"?

Ben has a look at why it would be a very strange move for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to prevent the bill from coming to a vote in Reality Check.

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Where Does Money Come From? The Giant Federal Reserve Scam That Most Americans Do Not Understand

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How is money created?  If you ask average people on the street this question, most of them have absolutely no idea.  This is rather odd, because we all use money constantly.  You would think that it would only be natural for all of us to know where it comes from.  So where does money come from?  A lot of people assume that the federal government creates our money, but that is not the case.  If the federal government could just print and spend more money whenever it wanted to, our national debt would be zero.  But instead, our national debt is now nearly 16 trillion dollars.  So why does our government (or any sovereign government for that matter) have to borrow money from anybody?  That is a very good question.  The truth is that in theory the U.S. government does not have to borrow a single penny from anyone.  But under the Federal Reserve system, the U.S. government has purposely allowed itself to be subjugated to a financial system in which it will be constantly borrowing larger and larger amounts of money.  In fact, this is how it works in the vast majority of the countries on the planet at this point.  As you will see, this kind of system is not sustainable and the structural problems caused by such a system are at the very heart of our debt problems today. (Read More....)

5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People

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The Federal Reserve says that everything is going to be okay.  The Fed says that unemployment is going to go down, inflation is going to remain low and economic growth is going to steadily increase.  Do you believe them this time?  As you will see later in this article, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been dead wrong about the economy over and over again.  But the mainstream media and many Americans still seem to have a lot of faith in the Federal Reserve.  It doesn't seem to matter that Bernanke and other Fed officials have been telling the American people lies for years.  As I always say, most people believe what they want to believe, and many people seem to want to have blind faith in the Federal Reserve even when logic and reason would dictate otherwise.  The truth is that things are not going to be getting much better than they are right now.  When the next wave of the financial crisis hits, the U.S. economy is going to fall back into recession, financial markets are going to crash and unemployment is going to absolutely skyrocket.  But you will never hear any of that from the Federal Reserve. (Read More....)

Ben Bernanke Tries To Convince America That The Federal Reserve Is Good And The Gold Standard Is Bad

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Ben Bernanke has decided that he needs to teach all of us why the Federal Reserve is good for America and about why the gold standard is bad.  On Tuesday, Bernanke delivered the first of four planned lectures to a group of students at George Washington University.  But that lecture was not just for the benefit of those students.  Officials at the Fed have long planned for this lecture series to be an opportunity for Bernanke to "educate" the American people about the Federal Reserve.  The classroom was absolutely packed with reporters and just about every major news organization is running a story about this first lecture.  So the Federal Reserve is definitely getting the publicity that it was hoping for.  You can see the slides from the presentation that Bernanke gave to the students right here.  It is pretty obvious that one of the primary goals of this first lecture was to attack those that have been critical of the Fed over the past few years.  In doing so, Bernanke "stretched" the truth on more than one occasion. (Read More....)

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10 Things That Every American Should Know About The Federal Reserve

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What would happen if the Federal Reserve was shut down permanently? That is a question that CNBC asked recently, but unfortunately most Americans don't really think about the Fed much. Most Americans are content with believing that the Federal Reserve is just another stuffy government agency that sets our interest rates and that is watching out for the best interests of the American people. But that is not the case at all. The truth is that the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel that has been designed to systematically destroy the value of our currency, drain the wealth of the American public and enslave the federal government to perpetually expanding debt. During this election year, the economy is the number one issue that voters are concerned about. But instead of endlessly blaming both political parties, the truth is that most of the blame should be placed at the feet of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve has more power over the performance of the U.S. economy than anyone else does. The Federal Reserve controls the money supply, the Federal Reserve sets the interest rates and the Federal Reserve hands out bailouts to the big banks that absolutely dwarf anything that Congress ever did. If the American people are ever going to learn what is really going on with our economy, then it is absolutely imperative that they get educated about the Federal Reserve. (Read More....)

Scope of Fed’s Financial Swindle Is Appalling

American Free Press

December 09, 2011

By Peter Papaherakles

On Nov. 27 Bloomberg released an explosive report revealing that the Federal Reserve lent $7.77 trillion to the top U.S. banks during 2008-2009 virtually debt free. By taking advantage of these rates, the banks earned an estimated $13 billion.

The report goes on to say that although the banks had received a $700 billion TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) bailout from the government in the fall of 2008, they did not want to reveal the real depth of their insolvency. The Fed secretly worked with the top banks and on Dec. 5, 2008 lent them another $1.2 trillion to help them get on their feet again.

“The banks continued to borrow tens of thousands of dollars” says the report. “Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.”

This report is so full of lies and half-truths it’s not funny. What are these mysterious “guarantees and lending limits?” These top banks in essence split all this money amongst themselves. Citigroup got $1.76 trillion, Morgan Stanley $1.36 trillion, Merrill Lynch $1.28 trillion…on down the line.

The banks that received this money are called Primary Dealers and they enjoy a cozy relationship with the Fed. One could even say they are the Fed. They are JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo. The private banks that comprise the misnamed Fed are JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Rothschild of London, Rothschild of Berlin, Warburg of New York, Warburg of Amsterdam, Kuhn Loeb of New York, Lazard Brothers of Paris, and Israel Moses Seif of Italy.

Notice That JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are in both groups and the rest are surely interrelated also. So in essence the banks lent themselves money that belongs to us. If the Fed lent $7.77 to the U.S. at no interest – which is how it is supposed to work – then the economy would be up and running overnight.

Another big lie is that these banks were ever in need of a bailout. In 2008 they all made billions in profits. JP Morgan made $15.4 billion, Goldman Sachs $11.6 billion and Bank of America $15 billion. In contrast, GM sustained a $38 billion loss and still stayed afloat.

The report also does not mention that when the Fed was audited in the summer, it was revealed that it was not $7.77 trillion that was secretly lent out by the Fed, but a staggering $17 trillion! Most of the money went to overseas banks. The European Central Bank alone received an eye-popping $8 trillion and the Bank of England almost another trillion.

Through the sleight of hand known as fractional reserve banking, these banks can lend many times more money than they have and collect interest on it. In the U.S they can legally lend ten times as much, and in Europe 33 times. Usually they lend way more than that. Goldman Sachs, aka the Vampire Squid, has been indicted for lending 333 times more! With this kind of leverage the banks had the ability to turn the $17 trillion into at least $400 trillion! And that’s if they followed the rules. That’s “crazy money” when one considers that the whole world only produces about $60 trillion per year.

All this really reveals a very significant secret. That money is not what we think it is. It is all a grand illusion run by those who get to create it. They decide how much to make available and to whom. By convincing us that we have run out of money, they are creating the illusion of bankruptcy, thus making serfs out of all of us.

The whole “financial crisis” we are seeing in Europe and in the U.S. is all smoke and mirrors. If the Fed can create trillions in virtually interest free money for all their banker friends, surely they can do the same for the government they allegedly represent. There is no depression. The Fed is simply driving us into the ground while their friends earn untold billions from our misery.

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Peter Papaherakles, a U.S. citizen for more than 35 years, was born in Greece. He is AFP’s outreach director. If you would like to see AFP speakers at your rally, contact Pete at 202-544-5977.

Fed may give loans to IMF to help euro zone: paper

(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said.

Die Welt cited sources close to the negotiations as saying the euro zone central banks could pay at least 100 billion euros ($134.2 billion) into a special fund that could be used for programs for nations struggling to control their debts.

"Also other central banks, for example the U.S. Federal Reserve, are apparently prepared to finance a part of the costs," the paper said in an advance copy of an article to appear on Monday.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may discuss the idea in the coming weeks when he visits Europe, the paper said...[Full Article]

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Federal Reserve is a Cache of Stolen Assets

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile... Once a nation parts with control of its credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws... Usury once in control will wreck any nation.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The American Revolution, in no small part, was a repudiation of the central banking tyranny exported to the New World by the Bank of England. Few legacies have grown more despotic than the consequences of living under the rule of fractional reserve banking. Many good willed conservatives understand that the system is imploding. Some envision a second American Revolution that expels the remnant Tories that have hijacked our Federalism separation of powers form of government. Woefully, the prospects for a States Rights revolt are slim. However, the scenario of a domestic French Revolution style carnage is brewing with every escalation of the pompous arrogance worthy of a Jean-Joseph, marquis de Laborde or the manipulative usury of the House of Rothschild.

The eruption of populist outrage is long overdue. The lack of objective mainstream media coverage is expected. Their attempt to spin the natural disguise for a corrupt establishment in the hearts of sincere and persecuted citizens is typical. The elite’s message is that they will either control the movement, or at the very least, strip it from any positive synergism. Send in the clowns, like Michael Moore. Wall Street Capitalism: A Love Affair explains the hideous agenda of the clueless socialists that condemn all things Wall Street, while advancing the ultimate goals of the New World Order globalists.

Street theater no longer is enough. The peasants are rallying their pitchforks, as they storm the Bastille; however, they got their GPS coordinates wrong. The correct address is 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY. That is the location of the dominate Federal Reserve temple. When the public finally comes to grips with the real cause of the unsustainable debt, they will understand that the private central banking system bears the ultimate redress for their sins against America and all humanity.

A Privatised Money Supply, presents an informative analysis.

Assuming a reserve ratio of 1:10 the table below shows how $100 of interest-free government created money (GCM), i.e. cash, is used by the banking system to create $900 of interest-bearing bank-created money (BCM) in the form of loans. The reserve ratio is the ratio of cash reserves (GCM) to deposits (mostly BCM). In our example the banking system consists of 50 banks, but the money creation process would be essentially the same for any number of banks from one to infinity...[Full Article]

Head of Security at San Antonio Fed Admits Institution is Private

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 10, 2011

During the protest in San Antonio at the Federal Reserve on Sunday, a man we initially identified as a police officer admitted that the Fed is private, not a federal agency.

It turns out that the man who asked Alex Jones and fellow demonstrators to leave what he described as private property was not a San Antonio police officer as originally identified, but a captain of security at a privately owned institution that masquerades as a federal agency.

“It’s not a federal building,” he said.

Since 1913 the Federal Reserve has given the impression it is an agency of the federal government when in fact it is privately owned by banks.

A private property sign at the Dallas Federal Reserve.

Despite the fact it was established by an act of Congress, the Fed is the operating mechanism of the nation’s central banking system and is organized as a private corporation.

The Fed’s economic decisions are not ratified or signed off on by the president, Congress or anybody else in the executive or legislative branches of government. Congress is supposedly given “oversight” of the Fed, but this amounts to little more than a review after bankers have taken action on the economy.

The Fed’s shareholders are private banks. “In fact, 100% of its shareholders are private banks,” notes Ellen Brown. “None of its stock is owned by the government.”

Alex Jones and the demonstrators gathered at the Fed branch in San Antonio were in fact trespassing on private property.

Security at the private institution had no choice but to admit this.

Don’t Worry, The Federal Reserve Just Wants To Be Your “Online Friend”

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According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve "is planning on monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook". Apparently we are not supposed to be alarmed though, because as the CNBC headline states, the Federal Reserve just "wants to be your Facebook friend". In fact, the CNBC article says that anyone that feels threatened by the fact that the Federal Reserve will be monitoring what we say on Facebook and Twitter is just "paranoid". Well, if it came out that Barack Obama was setting up a system that would identify "key bloggers" and monitor "billions of conversations" on the Internet to see what was being said about him, wouldn't there be thousands of articles expressing outrage? Sure there would be. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be an independent central bank that is above politics. So why in the world would they need to perform "sentiment analysis" on what is being said about them on "Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube"? The Federal Reserve obviously intends to identify the negative things that are being said about it and the specific people that are saying those things. So is it really being "paranoid" to point out that all of this is more than a little bit creepy? (Read More.....)

Fed Program to “Monitor Conversations” Is Intimidation Tactic

US Army was monitoring protests against Federal Reserve in 2008

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, September 26, 2011

The blogosphere has exploded with interest over the Federal Reserve’s move to follow in the footsteps of the Obama campaign’s “Attack Watch” by monitoring and identifying its critics, but many seem to have missed the obvious intention of the announcement – it’s an intimidation tactic designed to chill dissent.

As Zero Hedge explains, the Federal Reserve, “Is requesting the creation of a “Social Listening Platform” whose function is to “gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.” It will “monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.” The Fed’s desired product should be able to “determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document”… “The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.” Most importantly, the “Listening Platform” should be able to “Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers.”

If the Federal Reserve was really that concerned about what people on the Internet were saying about it, then this program would have been launched several years ago, and not after a heap of vitriol has already been spewed.

The announcement that the Fed is monitoring dissent and attempting to identify individual bloggers is little more than an intimidation tactic designed to chill anti-Fed rhetoric and make people think twice before they criticize the private, run for profit entity that poses as a part of the government yet is no more federal than Federal Express.

Intimidation has been the name of the game when it comes to the Fed for years before this announcement was made.

When the first “End the Fed” protests were started back in 2008, no less than the US Army itself was put on alert.

An advisory released in November 2008 by the US Army Reserve warned its personnel of the demonstrations in advance. “The United States Army Reserve Command is publishing this Force Protection Advisory to advise all Army Reserve personnel of the planned protests at all Federal Reserve Banks and office locations within the United States on 22 November 2008,” read the document. “This message provides situational awareness and recommended mitigation measures.”

On November 22, 2008, Alex Jones led a rally at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas Texas. The Dallas protest is specifically mentioned in the official Army document. Ron Paul’s brother was also in attendance.

The Army had already “established relationships” with local law enforcement and the FBI regarding the protests, who had then promised to keep the Army updated on developments.

This proves that the US government and the Federal Reserve were already well aware of the growing anti-Fed movement, and indeed using the Army as a bulwark against it, three years prior to the announcement of their intention to create a “Social Listening Platform” in order to monitor dissent.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs

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The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations" about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact. As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for Proposal" to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution". In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a problem. What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign. (Read More....)

Unelected, Unaccountable, Unrepentant: The Federal Reserve Is Using Your Money To Bail Out European Commercial Banks Once Again

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For a moment, imagine that there is a privately-owned organization in the United States that can create U.S. dollars out of thin air whenever it wants and can loan that money to whoever it wants to. Imagine that this organization is able to act with the full power of the U.S. government behind it, but that nobody in the organization is ever elected by the American people, and that for all practical purposes the organization is not accountable to the president or to Congress. Imagine that the organization is able to make trillions of dollars of secret loans to banks, to foreign governments and even to their close friends without ever having to face a comprehensive audit. Does that sound preposterous? Well, such an organization actually exists. It is called the Federal Reserve, and today we found out that once again the Fed is going to be taking huge piles of your money and loaning it to commercial banks in Europe. The Congress cannot overrule this decision. Neither can Barack Obama. Because it has so much power, many refer to the Federal Reserve as "the fourth branch of government", but unlike the other three branches of government, there are basically no significant "checks and balances" on the Federal Reserve. If you don't like the fact that the Federal Reserve is racing in to help big foreign banks survive the European debt crisis that is just too bad. The Federal Reserve pretty much gets to do whatever it wants to do, and the folks over at the Fed simply do not care whether you like that or not. (Read More....)

The Looting Of America: The Federal Reserve Made $16 Trillion In Secret Loans To Their Bankster Friends And The Media Is Ignoring The Eye-Popping Corruption That Has Been Uncovered

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A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it. It turns out that the Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their bankster friends during the financial crisis. You can read a copy of the GAO investigation for yourself right here. These loans only went to the "too big to fail" banks and to foreign financial institutions. Not a penny of these loans went to small banks or to ordinary Americans. Not only did the banksters get trillions in nearly interest-free loans, but the Fed actually paid them over 600 million dollars to help run the emergency lending program. The GAO investigation revealed some absolutely stunning conflicts of interest, and yet the mainstream media does not even seem interested. Solid evidence of the looting of America has been put right in front of us, and yet hardly anyone wants to talk about it. (Read More.....)