DISCLOSURE: 25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve - PLZ READ and SHARE!

DISCLOSURE: 25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve - PLZ READ and SHARE!
September 17, 2013
http://sitsshow.blogspot.com/2013/09/disclosure-25-fast-facts-about-federal.html


As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the benefit of the bankers.

The American people like to think that we have a "democratic system", but there is nothing "democratic" about the Federal Reserve. Unelected, unaccountable central planners from a private central bank run our financial system and manage our economy. There is a reason why financial markets respond with a yawn when Barack Obama says something about the economy, but they swing wildly whenever Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke opens his mouth.

The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy than anyone else does by a huge margin. The Fed is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and if the American people truly understood how it really works, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately. The following are 25 fast facts about the Federal Reserve that everyone should know...

#1 The greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history was when there was no central bank.

#2 The United States never had a persistent, ongoing problem with inflation until the Federal Reserve was created. In the century before the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation was about half a percent. In the century since the Federal Reserve was created, the average annual rate of inflation has been about 3.5 percent, and it would be even higher than that if the inflation numbers were not being so grossly manipulated.

#3 Even using the official numbers, the value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 95 percent since the Federal Reserve was created nearly 100 years ago.

#4 The secret November 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island, Georgia during which the plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched was attended by U.S. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department A.P. Andrews and a whole host of representatives from the upper crust of the Wall Street banking establishment.

#5 In 1913, Congress was promised that if the Federal Reserve Act was passed that it would eliminate the business cycle.

#6 The following comes directly from the Fed's official mission statement: "To provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. Over the years, its role in banking and the economy has expanded."

#7 It was not an accident that a permanent income tax was also introduced the same year when the Federal Reserve system was established. The whole idea was to transfer wealth from our pockets to the federal government and from the federal government to the bankers.

#8 Within 20 years of the creation of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy was plunged into the Great Depression.

#9 If you can believe it, there have been 10 different economic recessions since 1950. The Federal Reserve created the "dotcom bubble", the Federal Reserve created the "housing bubble" and now it has created the largest bond bubble in the history of the planet.

#10 According to an official government report, the Federal Reserve made 16.1 trillion dollars in secret loans to the big banks during the last financial crisis. The following is a list of loan recipients that was taken directly from page 131 of the report...

Citigroup - $2.513 trillion
Morgan Stanley - $2.041 trillion
Merrill Lynch - $1.949 trillion
Bank of America - $1.344 trillion
Barclays PLC - $868 billion
Bear Sterns - $853 billion
Goldman Sachs - $814 billion
Royal Bank of Scotland - $541 billion
JP Morgan Chase - $391 billion
Deutsche Bank - $354 billion
UBS - $287 billion
Credit Suisse - $262 billion
Lehman Brothers - $183 billion
Bank of Scotland - $181 billion
BNP Paribas - $175 billion
Wells Fargo - $159 billion
Dexia - $159 billion
Wachovia - $142 billion
Dresdner Bank - $135 billion
Societe Generale - $124 billion
"All Other Borrowers" - $2.639 trillion

#11 The Federal Reserve also paid those big banks $659.4 million in fees to help "administer" those secret loans.

#12 The Federal Reserve has created approximately 2.75 trillion dollars out of thin air and injected it into the financial system over the past five years. This has allowed the stock market to soar to unprecedented heights, but it has also caused our financial system to become extremely unstable.

#13 We were told that the purpose of quantitative easing is to help "stimulate the economy", but today the Federal Reserve is actually paying the big banks not to lend out 1.8 trillion dollars in "excess reserves" that they have parked at the Fed.

#14 Quantitative easing overwhelming benefits those that own stocks and other financial investments. In other words, quantitative easing overwhelmingly favors the very wealthy. Even Barack Obama has admitted that 95 percent of the income gains since he has been president have gone to the top one percent of income earners.

#15 The gap between the top one percent and the rest of the country is now the greatest that it has been since the 1920s.

#16 The Federal Reserve has argued vehemently in federal court that it is "not an agency" of the federal government and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

#17 The Federal Reserve openly admits that the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks are organized "much like private corporations".

#18 The regional Federal Reserve banks issue shares of stock to the "member banks" that own them.

#19 The Federal Reserve system greatly favors the biggest banks. Back in 1970, the five largest U.S. banks held 17 percent of all U.S. banking industry assets. Today, the five largest U.S. banks hold 52 percent of all U.S. banking industry assets.

#20 The Federal Reserve is supposed to "regulate" the big banks, but it has done nothing to stop a 441 trillion dollar interest rate derivatives bubble from inflating which could absolutely devastate our entire financial system.

#21 The Federal Reserve was designed to be a perpetual debt machine. The bankers that designed it intended to trap the U.S. government in a perpetual debt spiral from which it could never possibly escape. Since the Federal Reserve was established nearly 100 years ago, the U.S. national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger.

#22 The U.S. government will spend more than 400 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt this year.

#23 If the average rate of interest on U.S. government debt rises to just 6 percent (and it has been much higher than that in the past), we will be paying out more than a trillion dollars a year just in interest on the national debt.

#24 According to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to "coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". So exactly why is the Federal Reserve doing it?

#25 There are plenty of possible alternative financial systems, but at this point all 187 nations that belong to the IMF have a central bank. Are we supposed to believe that this is just some sort of a bizarre coincidence?

This article first appeared here at the the economic collapse blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

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http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/25-fast-facts-about-federal-reserve.html

Pope meets with the father of liberation theology; Vatican media praises the Peruvian priest

Dominican priest Gustavo Gutierrez suffered
years of criticism over the liberation theology

http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2013/09/popes-meets-with-father-of-liberation.html
This is a radical departure from the previous Popes!  I can hardly believe my eyes! -Bill

http://en.mercopress.com/2013/09/15/pope-s-meets-with-the-father-of-liberation-theology-vatican-media-praises-the-peruvian-priest

Sunday, September 15th 2013 - 20:16 UTC

Pope’s meets with the father of liberation theology; Vatican media praises the Peruvian priest

Pope Francis' September 11 meeting with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was an informal one, held in the in the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, and not listed on his official schedule., reports the Catholic News Service. However the news that Pope Francis had received the 85-year old Peruvian priest, who is widely considered the father of liberation theology, has excited interest far beyond the Vatican's walls.

The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
 the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller is a supporter
 of Gutierrez.

During the 1990s, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith conducted a lengthy critical review of Father Gutierrez's work, and required him to write and rewrite articles clarifying some of his theological and pastoral points.

But within a single week in early September 2013, the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, published an interview with Father Gutierrez, an article by the theologian himself, and two articles praising his work -- one of them by the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller.

Following years of Vatican criticism of liberation theology under John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, these events might seem to indicate a reversal of policy under Pope Francis. It would be more accurate to say they represent the fruit of a long and painful process, through which the church has clarified the nature of its commitment to the world's poor today.


Liberation theology emerged in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. It finds in Scripture the principles and inspiration for working to free people from unjust social patterns and structures. Its starting point often is the concrete situation of Latin America's predominantly poor people and how they understand the Scriptures as relating to them in their struggles for freedom from sin and from unjust social structures.

During the 1980s, the Vatican's doctrinal office under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, issued two major documents on liberation theology. The documents praised the movement's concern for the poor and for justice, but condemned a tendency to mix Marxist social analysis and concepts such as “class struggle” with religious commitments to end poverty and injustice.

The consequences of theologians adopting Marxist methods, Pope Benedict later told Brazilian bishops, included ”rebellion, division, dissent, offence (and) anarchy,“ which were still ”creating great suffering in your diocesan communities and a serious loss of vital energy.“

On another occasion, he told an interviewer that the ”politicization of the faith“ by some liberation theologians had contributed to the ”widespread exodus“ of Latin American Catholics to Pentecostal and other Protestant churches.

Many Jesuits embraced liberation theology as part of what a 1975 decree by the order called their ”commitment to promote justice and enter into solidarity with the voiceless and the powerless.“
Not surprisingly, any signs of sympathy with secular ideas of revolution drew concern from the Vatican. In 2007, the doctrinal congregation warned of ”erroneous or dangerous propositions“ in the work of Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino. The following year, Pope Benedict found it necessary to ask the Jesuits as an order to reaffirm their adherence to church teaching on a number of controversial questions, including ”some aspects of the theology of liberation.“

As superior of the Jesuits' Argentine province from 1973 to 1979, then-Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio discouraged politicization among his priests, especially during the military dictatorship that took power in Argentina in 1976. In the polarized atmosphere within the order, he was hardly counted as a friend of liberation theology.

But the future pope's pastoral work for and with the poor was constant, and would eventually find expression at the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, held in 2007 in Aparecida, Brazil.

The conference's concluding document, of which then-Cardinal Bergoglio was a principal author, did not use the term ”liberation theology,“ but its strong words about the ”building of a just and fraternal society“ that ensures ”health, food, education, housing and work for all” reflect the spirit of the movement in its orthodox version.

Pope Francis' election was thus a powerful affirmation of the belief that the pursuit of social justice is a necessary consequence of Christian faith. But less than nine months before the papal conclave, a less heralded appointment had already signalled that this belief, as formulated in liberation theology, enjoyed favour at the church's highest levels.


When Pope Benedict named Archbishop Muller to head the doctrinal office, in July 2012, he surely knew that the man he was making the highest custodian of church teaching after the pope himself was an admirer and co-author of none other than Father Gutierrez. (CNS).-

AK: Updated: Universal Value Exchange

Have been out of town for the last few days for a wedding and visiting my 11 day old niece :)....so copying this over from AK and RTS now. ~BK

Note: Added two missing images in the bottom of the post.  What can I say it was early in the morning... -Bill

Universal Value Exchange

Many people have asked about the documents that Heather spoke about two months ago, specifically the documents that will outline the current financial system and how it works vs the "New" financial system (ie: the Universal Value Exchange System) and I Value. Over the course of the past couple of months more and more information, intel, and absolute data has become available on this. Each step of the process of has become very clear- to the point of extreme clarity- and as each piece of the puzzle makes itself visible the documents are edited and changed to reflect that information.

Several months ago the following patent was made visible- and we're pretty sure it was back-dated to cover their asses. Since then a huge amount of data has been released. Here's the thing: Even with all the shenanigans that are constantly going on within the corporate governments, the world of finance, industries like big pharma and big oil, etc.... they HAVE to be transparent in some way, shape or form. They MUST make it known and available to the public to know what they are doing. Of course, they don't actually want you to KNOW what they are doing, so these pieces of information and data are hidden in ways that are not apparent, with no fanfare or sign posts to direct you to the information, and the information is many times hidden behind elusive language and wording that is not easily understood. So finding the information takes a lot of digging in places like the UCC, the Patent offices, various government agencies, etc.... Not easy to say the least. The other place that you can find them outing various information they need to make public is, believe it or not, Wikipedia! They do an amazing job of hiding in plain sight pieces of the information puzzle in such a way that the vast majority of the public wouldn't connect any dots at all.
.... unless you happen to know what dots to look for ;>)

Today I am posting the patent that has been put forward by VISA (yes, the credit card company) for the "Universal Value Exchange"..... sounds familiar, eh?

....... I do love it when they make it absolutely transparent and blatantly show what it is that they are planning. The "Universal Value Exchange"...... "Universal" is pretty damn straight up in your face and crystal clear. The words that I LOVE though are "VALUE" and "EXCHANGE"... 'cause you know.... we've been talking about exchanging Value all year!! I have to wonder if they've thought about just how much information they've released just with the name of their new system alone, eh?

>Below is the original patent filing. Under that is a blow up of the little tiny diagram they have in the document- and THIS is the most enlightening part of the whole document to me as I'm a very visually oriented person. So, start with looking through the patent for the Universal Value Exchange, then we'll take a good look at the diagram and I'll illuminate some very important points in the diagram. ....

Link to original patent: http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsfdocId=WO2012097108&recNum=85&maxRec=77092&office=&prevFilter=&sortOption=&queryString=solar&tab=PCT+Biblio

  Visa Patent Universal Value Exchange

The diagram above here is taken directly from the Patent filed with the WIPO HERE . For the sake of clarity and the fact that I'm a bit of a neat freak when it comes to stuff like this, I've cleaned up the diagram- edited my own nice neat headings etc.... as you can see that the original doesn't size up very well from the document.

The next diagram - and all the ones that follow in this article, were created by myself to give a visual image of my opinions of what these represent and what is currently happening.

This diagram above is my representation of the Current Financial System and is based on the diagram in the patent for the UVE. Take a close look between the two diagrams- of the Universal Value Exchange and of the Current Financial System. The first thing I want to point out- as it's the most major piece of the puzzle is that the UVE diagram has arrows from the man figure- one to the bank and one to the exchange (and we'll get into more details of exactly what this "exchange" is in a bit) and the word written below that arrow is "Optional". Therein lies one of the major differences between the current system- which you notice doesn't have anything "optional" anywhere- and the UVE system:

If you are awake and aware, and if you KNOW the system, and if you KNOW your rights, and if you KNOW what to say and do, and if you can make your way through the bureaucracy.... they HAVE to allow you the choice. To deal with the new system or not to deal with the new system.... that is the question.

The dotted line boxes around the Exchange and Bank squares are also an indication of change, because by using the dotted line, they are giving you a choice.

Looking and the diagram of the Current Financial System you can see that there are no options, no choices to be made..... you are dealing with a closed system. The pieces that are in grey are the parts that they don't tell you about, ie: that YOU are the Value, and that the controller of the Currently Financial System is STILL the Universal Value Exchange system!!!! They just dropped out the upper box into the lower box in the middle of the UVE so that you'd think that it's a "New" financial system!! Same girl, Different party dress, to quote Heather, lol.

Here is my "interpretation" of the patents UVE diagram.... with the missing component drawn in, in grey:

They don't tell you that YOU are the VALUE- which of course is the really big biggie- and they don't tell you about where your value is going, ie: who the real "controllers" are, and where exactly they are located!!!

I don't know about you, but I have a serious problem with both of these points.

Don't you find the word "Merchant" and interesting choice of words?

So if assigning your Value over to the banks and exchange traded funds (not that they actually tell you about them either) is an "Option", does that mean that you can deal directly with the Universal Value Exchange Controller?

How about those guys really running the show way up there..... can you deal directly with them?

Can we skip over all the middlemen and the brokers and the bankers and the "Controllers" and just deal directly with User 1 01b?

Hmmmmmm. Wait! That sounds familiar! Isn't that called.........

So for tonight, I will leave you with the homework of reading all this very interesting patent information on the "Universal Value Exchange", and I will ask you to think about these two questions, and come up with the answer that resonates with YOU.

Would you rather exchange your Value within THIS system:

.... Or would you rather exchange your value this way:

OH! And by the way, you might find this definition interesting in light of everything we've been discussing for the past 9 months:

mer·chant
ˈmərCHənt/
noun
noun: merchant; plural noun: merchants
1.
a person or company involved in wholesale trade, esp. one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.


...... VERY interesting word, don't you think?

Yahoo News from Jan 30, 2013: U.S. Backed Plan to Launch Chemical Weapon Attack on Syria & Blame it on Assad's Regime

Yahoo News from Jan 30, 2013: U.S. Backed Plan to Launch Chemical Weapon Attack on Syria & Blame it on Assad's Regime
September 15, 2013

Source


False Flag Bombshell on Syria Right in Front of Our Faces
On January 29, 2013, a Daily Mail article was published by Louise Boyle that reported: "Leaked emails have allegedly proved that the White House gave the green light to a chemical weapons attack in Syria that could be blamed on Assad's regime and in turn, spur international military action in the devastated country." You may want to read this quote once again. Yes, based on this, it looks like this whole entire Syria chemical weapons attack fiasco was a staged false flag operation with the approval of the Obama administration; and this was reported almost eight months ago.

This article was originally located here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270219/U-S-planned-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-Syria-blame-Assad.html. However, it has since been removed. You can still read it on archive.org by typing in the URL above or by clicking here. Also, Yahoo! News India reported this story on January 30, 2013. Their article is still up: http://in.news.yahoo.com/us-backed-plan-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-syria-045648224.html

 

The article was based on an email exchange between two senior officials from Britam Defence, a British-based defense contractor. These emails were intercepted and leaked by a Malasyan hacker who also claimed to have obtained "senior executives resumés and copies of passports via an unprotected company server".

It looks like the Daily Mail article was based on an article written on Infowars.com by Paul Joseph Watson. Here is the original link to the article: http://www.infowars.com/hack-reveals-washington-approved-plan-to-stage-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria/ The article has since been removed from Infowars.com; however, it can also be looked up by typing in this URL on archive.org or by clicking here.

 

 

The Infowars.com article does state that a Britam spokesman admitted that they were hacked; however, "denied that those emails were genuine".

Let me tell you this. Reading all of this information eight months later; seeing what has happened since; and connecting all the dots; it looks to me like this spokesperson was covering up a massive blunder. The US Government has a long history of setting up false flag attacks in order to instigate conflicts, sway public opinion, maintain a fear-based society, and of course conform to the "powers that were" control structure of the "elite" families.

 

Glenn Greenwald: on Keith Alexander’s NSA Star Trek “Information Dominance Center”

Glenn Greenwald: on Keith Alexander’s NSA Star Trek “Information Dominance Center”
September 15, 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith-alexander-star-trek

A lavish Star Trek room he had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing

It has been previously reported that the mentality of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is captured by his motto "Collect it All". It's a get-everything approach he pioneered first when aimed at an enemy population in the middle of a war zone in Iraq, one he has now imported onto US soil, aimed at the domestic population and everyone else.

But a perhaps even more disturbing and revealing vignette into the spy chief's mind comes from a new Foreign Policy article describing what the journal calls his "all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine". The article describes how even his NSA peers see him as a "cowboy" willing to play fast and loose with legal limits in order to construct a system of ubiquitous surveillance. But the personality driving all of this - not just Alexander's but much of Washington's - is perhaps best captured by this one passage, highlighted by PBS' News Hour in a post entitled: "NSA director modeled war room after Star Trek's Enterprise". The room was christened as part of the "Information Dominance Center":

"When he was running the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a 'whoosh' sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather 'captain's chair' in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, showed off his data tools on the big screen.

"'Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard,' says a retired officer in charge of VIP visits."

Numerous commentators remarked yesterday on the meaning of all that (note, too, how "Total Information Awareness" was a major scandal in the Bush years, but "Information Dominance Center" - along with things like "Boundless Informant" - are treated as benign or even noble programs in the age of Obama).

But now, on the website of DBI Architects, Inc. of Washington and Reston, Virginia, there are what purports to be photographs of the actual Star-Trek-like headquarters commissioned by Gen. Alexander that so impressed his Congressional overseers. It's a 10,740 square foot labyrinth in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The brochure touts how "the prominently positioned chair provides the commanding officer an uninterrupted field of vision to a 22'-0" wide projection screen":

 

The glossy display further describes how "this project involved the renovation of standard office space into a highly classified, ultramodern operations center." Its "primary function is to enable 24-hour worldwide visualization, planning, and execution of coordinated information operations for the US Army and other federal agencies." It gushes: "The futuristic, yet distinctly military, setting is further reinforced by the Commander's console, which gives the illusion that one has boarded
a star ship":

Other photographs of Gen. Alexander's personal Star Trek Captain fantasy come-to-life (courtesy of public funds) are here. Any casual review of human history proves how deeply irrational it is to believe that powerful factions can be trusted to exercise vast surveillance power with little accountability or transparency. But the more they proudly flaunt their warped imperial hubris, the more irrational it becomes.

 

Alas...THE Key To Freedom!

Alas...THE Key To Freedom!
September 11, 2013

What a perfect day to share this message.... ~BK

This is the message I received with this vid from my friend Terri:
Oh my God!!  The true power of forgiveness leading to healing with a very real story!!!
The heart moving story moves me to tears, happy tears of joy. Imagine this on a grand scale.... person to person to person!!!

 

The Intenders of the Highest Good -- The Vision Alignment Project -- A Vision for Humanity

The Intenders of the Highest Good -- The Vision Alignment Project
September 9, 2013
http://www.visionalignmentproject.com/

 Thanks to Randy for finding this awesome site and sending it over!  ~BK

How do you create a better world?
You ENVISION It!

THE VISION ALIGNMENT PROJECT

After 17 years of working with Intentions and Conscious Manifestation we have learned that one of the most powerful things we can do is to envision the end result from the beginning and align our visions with others. With this in mind, we've created The Vision Alignment Project.

The Vision Alignment Project is free. You will receive a short email every other day with a Vision or Intention that you can align with by hitting a "Yes! I align with this Vision." Button. We will keep track of the number of people who have aligned with our Visions and it is our intention that we reach our goal of 1,000,000 Alignments in the days ahead. We know that each time you align with a positive ideal, you are consciously contributing to the creation of it, and that each person aligning with these Visions moves us all one step closer to bringing them to life.

 

 

I signed up and this is the message that came through for today:

A Vision for Humanity

It is our Intention that we are seeing Humanity in its Highest Light. Accordingly, we intend and envision a world where our children, no matter where they live, are nurtured and cared for as if they were the most precious gems on the planet - for, indeed, they are;

where the elderly are treated with dignity and the honoring they deserve as their right of birth in this world;

where the sick are comforted and healed, the discouraged find new heart, the downtrodden find new strength, the lonely are befriended, and the lost find their way home;

where our leaders are true leaders, worthy of their position, where our teachers prepare others to respect all of life; and where our businesspeople, everywhere, have taken a stand, firm and strong, for the Highest Good;

where soldiers and fighters are a thing of the past because all of Humanity has finally, without any equivocation whatsoever, seen that fighting and violence have never given them the results they were looking for.

We see a world where all debt has been forgiven and we have started over with a new system of exchange that insures equality and a high standard of living for all people everywhere;

and where, as true stewards of the Earth, we have risen up and out of our old ways into the light of a new day where people - each and every one of us - is helping, honoring, loving, and caring, deeply, for everyone else.

That is our Intention, for the Highest Good of All!