Before reading the article by Stephen Lendmen, please read the quote below from "The Prince of the Jews in Constantinople" to Chemor, the Chief Rabbi of Spain, regarding the Spanish Jews' being exiled from Spain for one unsavory reason or another.
This passage will explain the all out genocidal mindset America along with almost every other country on earth deals with today, but for this article, focus primarily the fiscal problems. In dark green I have added many quotes as well as my own $.02 worth of Snippits and Snappits.
In 1492, Chemor, the Chief Rabbi of Spain received the following advice from the Grand Sanhedrin (Elders of Zion) in Constantinople:
l. As for what you say that the king of Spain obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise.
2. As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your property: make your sons merchants that they may despoil, little by little, the Christians of theirs.
3. As for what you say about making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries that they may take away Christians' lives.
4. As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches.
5. As for the other vexations you complain of: arrange that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that they always mix in affairs of State, that by putting Christians under your yoke you may dominate the world and be avenged on them.
6. Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will reach the actuality of power."
Signed: Prince of the Jews of Constantinople." This quote from: Julio-Inigrez de Medrano ~ "La Silva Curiosa" 1608
The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered. " ~ Thomas JeffersonBy Stephen Lendman
February 19, 2010
Lenin said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery
The accompanying press release said:
Over the past decade, "$5 billion in political contributions bought Wall Street freedom from regulation, (and) restraint." From 1998 ~ 2008, "Wall Street investment firms, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance conglomerates (the FIRE sector)" spent over $1.7 billion in political contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists, in return for which:
~ could speculate on financial derivatives and an alphabet soup of securitized garbage, including asset-backed securities (ABSs), mortgage-backed securities (MBSs), collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collateralized bond obligations (CBOs), credit default swaps (CDSs), and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs) ~ combined, sliced, diced, packaged, repackaged, and sold in tranches to sophisticated and ordinary investors, many unwittingly through mutual funds, 401(k)s, pensions, and the like;
~ could merge commercial and investment banking and insurance operations;
~ bilk investors and the public through fraudulent schemes; and
~ get trillions of bailout dollars when the economy crashed.
For decades, Wall Street and successive governments colluded to defraud the public, using various schemes to transfer wealth from them to the privileged. Carter spearheaded deregulation. Nixon and Ford began by hiring Alfred Kahn to head the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).
The 1978 Airline Deregulation Act followed. It dissolved the CAB, removed industry restraints, eased consolidation, and subsequent bills deregulated trucking and railroads ~ the 1980 Motor Carrier Act and 1980 Staggers Rail Act, following the 1976 Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act.
Carter also phased out interest rate deposit ceilings, and gave the Fed more power through the 1980 Depository Institutions and Monetary Control Act, removing restraints and enabling subsequent administrations to go further.
Under Reagan, energy deregulation followed, notably oil and gas, then electric utilities under GHW Bush and Clinton, the result being high prices, brownouts, and Enron-like scandals.
In the 1980s, the 1982 Alternative Mortgage Transactions Parity Act led to exotic feature mortgages with adjustable rates or interest-only. They carry low "teaser" rates for several years, after which they're adjusted much higher, often making loans unaffordable, especially for low-income, high-risk borrowers using subprime and Alt-A loans.
Those of you who blame homeless people for their own problems of losing their homes, remember this last. They were set up and were running on optimism as I mentioned in my recent work on the betrayal of false optimism. For so many all it would take is one major illness or accident and they are on the streets for owing to the medical organizations. Or they lost their job because Wall Street sent their job to China or India to pay much lower salaries.
MIND CONTROL ~ OPTIMISM ~ INVISIBLE ENTRAPMENT
The 1982 Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulated thrifts and fueled fraud, so much that the Savings and Loan crisis followed, hundreds of banks failed, and taxpayers got stuck with most of the $160 billion cost. In 1987, the Government Accountability Office (GOA) declared the S & L deposit insurance fund insolvent because of mounting bank failures.
In 1988, global regulators imposed minimum bank capital requirements, known as the Basel Accord or Basel I, enforced in the G-10 countries.
In 1989, the Financial Institutions Reform and Recovery Act abolished the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and FSLIC, transferring them to the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and FDIC. It also created the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) to liquidate troubled assets, assume Federal Home Loan Bank Board insurance functions, and clean up a troubled system.
Clinton era telecommunications deregulation let media and telecommunication giants consolidate, gave new digital television broadcast spectrum space to current TV station owners, and let cable companies increase their local monopoly positions.
The 1998 Citicorp-Travelers merger followed, combining a commercial/investment bank with an insurance company ahead of the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act, also called the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) authorizing it.
However, they would trust and then, when the ax fell, be told "the information is out there. You do read don't you?" Between the facts I have just mentioned, and soccer with the kids on Saturday, and the fact they trust, they would never even conceived of such a thing. Such is the way with most Christians of which America is primarily composed. Their religion teaches trust while the religion of the vultures tells them to prey upon such weaknesses.
Some Background
Senator Carter Glass was its prime mover and got Senator Henry Steagall to go along by including his amendment to protect deposits.
Glass believed banks should stick to lending, not speculate, deal, or hold corporate securities. He blamed them for the 1929 crash, subsequent bank failures, and the Great Depression. The Bank Act of 1933 passed quickly to curb them.
No Longer since the Neoliberal 1990s
~ Insider trading;
~ Theft and conspiracy;
~ Misrepresentation;
~ Ponzi schemes;
~ False accounting;
~ Embezzling;
~ Diverting funds into obscenely high salaries and obscene bonuses;
~ Bilking investors, customers and homeowners;
~ Conflicts of interest;
~ Mesmerizing regulators;
~ Manipulating markets;
~ Tax frauds;
~ Making loans and then arranging that they fail;
~ Engineering phony financial products: (and)
~ Misleading the public."
Worst of all, they got away with it, still do, and got trillions of dollars in bailout money as a bonus, free money from the Fed plus interest on Fed held reserves.
On Hyde Island, when the Federal Reserve Act was hashed out in great secrecy by the enemies of America; the bankers' days were spent seeking a way that the bankers could make the greatest profit but never held responsible for the debts of those whom they had impoverished, leaving the latter victimized yet again with almost no real shot at freedom.
- Who created the Federal Reserve? Funny you ask, I just happen to have their names here.
In November OF 1910, a group of vultures met at the Jekyll Island Hunt Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia. What were they hunting? The biggest prize of all, the absolute and complete control of all the money in America which means control of all America and with it the power to enslave all the people.
Senator Nelson Aldrich (Nelson Rockefeller's maternal grandfather);
A. Piatt Andrew, Economist and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury;
Frank Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank of New York;
Henry P. Norton, President of Morgan's First National Bank of New York;
Paul Moritz Warburg, a German who was partner in the New York banking house of Kuhn, Loeb Co.;
Benjamin Strong, an aid to J. P. Morgan.
Bernard Baruch.
Rothschild Bank of London
The Absence of Regulatory Oversight
~ protected Wall Street, not investors;
~ neutered its enforcement staff's authority;
~ adopted voluntary regulation;
~ let investment banks hold less reserve capital;
~ freely use leverage;
~ incur much higher debt levels; and
~ pretty much do what they pleased,
only occasionally punishing an offender with a wrist-slap.
Wall gets a free ride.
Foxes guard the hen house.
Inmates run the asylum.
Regulators don't regulate.
Investigations aren't conducted.
Criminal fraud is ignored.
Nothing is done to curb it, and except for Madoff,
only small fries need worry.
Washington protects the big ones,
Obama assigning Mary Schapiro the task as his SEC chief.
Except for high profile cases too big to hide (like Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo and Texas financier Robert Allen Sanford), she's treaded lightly on the rich and powerful, is doing nothing to curb insider trading, front-running, market manipulation, and other abuses.
outside himself,
he becomes our willing servant.
~ The Hidden Tyranny: Interview with Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Regulators ignored predatory lending practices. They:
~ prevented victims from suing predatory loan issuing firms;
~ freed Fannie, Freddie and giant Wall Street players to operate recklessly;
~ let them hide toxic assets by off-balance sheet accounting;
Financial Accounting Standards Board rules allow it,
and the Security Industry and Financial Markets Association
and the American Securitization Forum have
lobbied furiously to keep them unchanged;
in other words, to deceive the public
by letting insolvent institutions look healthy;
(Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch)
to remove competition;
~ abandoned antitrust and other regulatory principles;
~ created too-big-to-fail institutions; and
When ordinary people speak out at the wrong time, warning others of what is being done, they are silenced by the thieves in many ways which range from being called "anti semitic" or a "conspiracy wing nut job" to being harassed and possibly more violent methods taken.
~ the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (ESSA) establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to trade bad assets for good ones;
~ the 2008 New York Fed administered Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to lend up to $1 trillion on a non-recourse basis to holders of certain AAA-rated asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by newly and recently originated consumer and small business loans;
The scheme includes abusive market manipulation,
pump and dump schemes,
naked short selling,
precious metals price suppression,
and active intervention in the markets by the government and central bank"
along with insiders trading on privileged information unavailable to the public.
It's part of a government ~ business partnership
for enormous profits through "legislation, contracts,
regulat(ory laxness), financing, (and) subsidies" ~
household wealth to powerful special interests.
~ $100 billion in the first six weeks of 2010, "a historic 16% annualized decline;"
~ since the crisis erupted in fall 2007, $740 billion, "a record 10% decline;" and
` "The fact that credit has dropped at a 16% annual rate since the turn of the year is testament to how the credit contraction is actually accelerating."
And it's broad-based:
~ consumer loans down at a 12% annual rate year to date;
~ real estate down 13.5% annualized;
~ commercial and industrial loans down at a 19.3% annual rate; and
~ short-term business credit down $14 billion year to date.
Britain faces a possible 2010 sovereign debt crisis,
spiking yields and raising borrowing costs,
according to Morgan Stanley.
Eastern European nations teeter on the brink of debt default.
So do Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Ireland.
As the conversation went on into the late hours, one could sense that perhaps America deserves the reign of terror being planned for her. The Jewish mind pits every ethnic group against the other. "The blood of the masses will flow as we wait for our day of world victory," Mr. Rosenthal said coldly.
as to what the future holds,"
forecasting rosy scenarios while Rome burns.
In fact, "the depression is ongoing even if the most recent recession has faded; and in our view, the next one is not too far away especially now that the stimulus is soon to subside." The contagion will be global, the fallout catastrophic because the worst is yet to come, what economist Michael Hudson foresaw in early 2009 saying:
It's coming according to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1881 - 1973) because:
protracted economic, political, social,
and institutional upheaval;
mass unemployment, poverty,
homelessness, and hunger;
and severe repression to curb public anger.
Blame it on decades of political influence
buying yielding unprecedented returns
for the privileged, but economic wreckage
and catastrophic life changes for the rest.
The price of excess is pain,
lots of it for the world's disadvantaged,
the ones who always pay
for rich peoples' sins.
Think about the people on Wall Street, and who surround the last few presidents, all of whom held dual passports between America and Israel. Now, do the math, folks. Do the math.
"What is the Jew's foundation in our world?
Material necessity, private advantage.
"What is the object of the Jew's worship in this world?
Usury. What is his world god? Money.
"The Jew has already emancipated himself in the Jewish way: the Jew who is, for example, merely tolerated in Vienna, determines with his money power the fate of the entire German Empire.
The Jew who is without rights in the smallest German state,
decides the fate of Europe.
The Jews have emancipated themselves to the extent that the Christians have become Jews ~ KARL MARX Founder of Communism
Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
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