Jan 26

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1/26/2012 12:05 PM 

Exam time, Vashon: Who or what is in charge of happenings? Like, the war in Afghanistan. The Pentagon needs that gas pipeline, no question, but what keeps the public on board something so unpopular? Uh oh, wrong question, we were not asked; Congress is doing this war. So, isn’t Congress risking mass recall? Phssst! No risk whatsoever: the war profiteers are elbowing each other to keep the Congress’ war chests well supplied with cash. Here’s an easier one, what caused the epidemic of foreclosures? Bad borrowers? Nope, the mortgage bankers and their service shops developed a system in which the home buyers are tricked and then second investors were tricked into buying the resulting bad debt: a cash machine. Next, a perennial favorite, why did congress agree to Medicare Advantage, aka the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 & the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 which let the industry fox into the vast Medicare henhouse? Phssst! The healthcare industry had adipose cash, plenty to buy Congress’ attention. At recess, now, the question would better have been phrased: who and what.

Back to the exam question, who and what are in charge, but now we are faced with the drab possibility that the who are the usual suspects, Ike’s complex. Bewildered, we  wonder if that gelatinous mass has a central nervous system with a brain stem. So here are some takes on that:

 (http://www.themoneymasters.com/the-money-masters/famous-quotations)

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild. 

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson…" -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

“The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.” Thomas Jefferson

“Despite (these) warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. . . . ”

Bingo, Ike’s complex has a central nervous system in which the brain stem is the Federal Reserve.  Who and what is in charge? Answer, The Federal Reserve.

Exam time, Vashon, how might we free ourselves from the Fed? The answer is not found in ideological movements, you list, the answer is Occupy Vashon with a dual currency.