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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Clinton Corruption Continues



 Yet another scandalous fact about Hillary, this time it's her Hillary for America campaign. Yes, the Esteemed Readers know how much pure evil this woman brings to the table.



"Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors


Wells Fargo fraud department inundated with calls from low-income Clinton supporters reporting repeated unauthorized charges




Hillary for America processed a total of $94 in unauthorized charges to Carol Mahre’s US Bank account. This follows a pattern in which unwitting donors are charged multiple times, but always for a total of less than $100, which is a key trigger point for banks’ internal action systems. Photo: Courtesy Carol Mahre

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is stealing from her poorest supporters by purposefully and repeatedly overcharging them after they make what’s supposed to be a one-time small donation through her official campaign website, multiple sources tell the Observer.

The overcharges are occurring so often that the fraud department at one of the nation’s biggest banks receives up to 100 phone calls a day from Clinton’s small donors asking for refunds for unauthorized charges to their bankcards made by Clinton’s campaign. One elderly Clinton donor, who has been a victim of this fraud scheme, has filed a complaint with her state’s attorney general and a representative from the office told her that they had forwarded her case to the Federal Election Commission.

“We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary’s low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,” a source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of job security, from the Wells Fargo fraud department told the Observer. The source claims that the Clinton campaign has been pulling this stunt since Spring of this year. The Hillary for America campaign will overcharge small donors by repeatedly charging small amounts such as $20 to the bankcards of donors who made a one-time donation. However, the Clinton campaign strategically doesn’t overcharge these donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate the fraud.

“We don’t investigate fraudulent charges unless they are over $100,” the fraud specialist explained. “The Clinton campaign knows this, that’s why we don’t see any charges over the $100 amount, they’ll stop the charges just below $100. We’ll see her campaign overcharge donors by $20, $40 or $60 but never more than $100.” The source, who has worked for Wells Fargo for over 10 years, said that the total amount they refund customers on a daily basis who have been overcharged by Clinton’s campaign “varies” but the bank usually issues refunds that total between $700 and $1,200 per day.

The fraud specialist said that Clinton donors who call in will attempt to resolve the issue with the campaign first but they never get anywhere. “They will call the Clinton campaign to get their refund and the issue never gets resolved. So they call us and we just issue the refund. The Clinton campaign knows these charges are small potatoes and that we’ll just refund the money back.”

The source said that pornography companies often deploy a similar arrangement pull. “We see this same scheme with a lot of seedy porn companies,” the source said. The source also notes that the dozens of phone calls his department receives daily are from people who notice the fraudulent charges on their statements. “The people who call us are just the ones who catch the fraudulent charges. I can’t imagine how many more people are getting overcharged by Hillary’s campaign and they have no idea.”

The source said he’s apolitical but noted that the bank’s fraud department is yet to receive one call from a Donald Trump supporter claiming to have been overcharged by Trump’s campaign. “I’m only talking to you because what Hillary’s doing is so messed up, she’s stealing from her poorest supporters.”

Carol Mahre has been charged multiple times after signing up for a one-time donation. Her son, Roger Mahre, is an attorney who filed a complaint with Minnesota’s attorney general. Photo: Courtesy Carol Mahre


Wells Fargo recently came under fire after news broke that various regulators fined the big bank $185 million for opening 2 million phony customer accounts without their customers’ permission. This massive scandal resulted in the firing of 5,300 Wells Fargo employees.

Carol Mahre, an 81-year-old grandmother of seven from Minnesota, is one of the victims of Clinton’s campaign donor fraud scandal. In March, Mahre said she made a one-time $25 donation via Clinton’s official campaign website. However, when she received her U.S. Bank card statement, she noticed multiple $25 charges were made. Mahre, who said in an interview she only contributed $25 because she’s “not rich” and that’s all she could afford, contacted her son, Roger Mahre, to help her dispute the unauthorized charges.

Roger, who is an attorney, told the Observer that he called the Clinton campaign dozens of times in April and early May in an attempt to resolve the issue. “It took me at least 40 to 50 phone calls to the campaign office before I finally got ahold of someone,” Roger said. “After I got a campaign worker on the phone, she said they would stop making the charges.”

Incredibly, the very next day, Carol’s card was charged yet again and the campaign had never reversed the initial fraudulent charges. “I was told they would stop charging my mother’s card but they never stopped.” He added that he knows his mother did not sign up for recurring payments. “She’s very good with the internet so I know she only made a one-time payment.” Roger also pointed out that even if his mother mistakenly signed up for recurring monthly payments then she should’ve been charged for the same amount of money each month, not multiple charges for varying amounts on the same day or in the same month. Furthermore, Roger said that after the campaign was made aware of this situation, the charges should’ve stopped but they never did.

The Clinton campaign overcharged Carol $25 three times and then overcharged her one time for $19, a grand total of $94 in fraudulent charges. The campaign’s overcharges to Carol were just a few dollars short of $100. This is in line with what the Wells Fargo bank source revealed to the Observer.

Since the campaign failed to amend the problem for Carol, Roger contacted her bank, U.S. Bank. However, he ran into problems when he asked U.S. Bank to refund his mother’s money. Roger told the Observer that the bank would not reverse the charges and that a bank spokesperson told him that they had no control over companies that make unauthorized charges. At that point, Roger decided to contact his local news and filed a fraud complaint with Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson’s office on behalf of his mother. After local TV news Kare 11 ran a story, someone from U.S. Bank contacted Roger the next day and said that they had reversed and stopped the charges to his mother’s card.

A representative from Minnesota’s Democratic attorney general’s office told Roger that this problem wasn’t in their jurisdiction and that they had forwarded the case to the FEC. However, FEC spokesperson Julia Queen told the Observer they have no record of the case. “We don’t have it,” Queen said. The Observer contacted Swanson’s office and did not hear back.

Roger did eventually get a letter from a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign. In the letter, the lawyer wrote that his mother would be removed from their donor list; however, the campaign did not take any responsibility for the fraudulent charges.

“They basically said that they weren’t accepting responsibility for this but they’d remove my mom from the donor list,” he said. Roger is less than happy with the way the Clinton campaign has handled this nightmare for him and his mother. “This is a load of crap!” Mahre said. “The self-righteousness of politicians drives me insane. If you and I did this, we’d be thrown in jail. This is theft, fraud or wire fraud—it’s a federal crime!”

Since Carol’s story became public, Roger said he’s heard from other people who have been ripped off by the Clinton campaign. “I’ve heard this is happening to other small donors,” Roger said. “People will donate $25, but then when they receive their credit card statement, they are charged $25 multiple times.”

The incident hasn’t just left a bad taste in Roger’s mouth. Carol decided she’s not going to vote for Hillary even though she’s voted for the Democratic presidential nominee every election since President Dwight Eisenhower won reelection in 1956. “My mother is a lifelong Democrat and she’s voted every election in her life for a Democrat but she’s not going to vote for Hillary,” Roger said.

The New York Times reported in 2007 that Clinton’s first presidential campaign had to refund and subtract hundreds of thousands of dollars from its first-quarter total often because donors’ credit cards were charged twice. Additionally, it was reported that Clinton had to refund a stunning $2.8 million in donations, three times more than the $900K President Barack Obama’s campaign refunded.

Another bank source told the Observer that Clinton’s motivation in purposefully overcharging donors is not only to rake in more money for her campaign but also to inflate her small donor numbers reported to the FEC. “This gives a false impression about how much money Clinton has raised,” the source said. “The money that the bank has refunded would not be reflected in the FEC filings till after the election. This gives off the illusion to the public that her support and the amount she’s raised is much greater than what it is in reality.”

A Clinton campaign worker named Kathy Callahan, who worked on Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008, claimed in a blog post that Clinton fraudulently overcharged her by several thousand dollars. She wrote that she voluntarily left the campaign’s finance committee after she discovered $3,000 in unauthorized charges made by Clinton’s campaign to her Visa card. Callahan said the unauthorized charges caused $400 in overdraft and bank charges and put Callahan over the legal donor limit. Callahan said that after a month of “begging and pleading,” she wasn’t able to get her money back until she threatened to go to authorities. However, when she was finally refunded her money the Clinton campaign refused to compensate her for the $400 in overdraft and bank charges.

Callahan also wrote that Matt McQueeney, who worked in the compliance and accounting department at Clinton’s campaign headquarters at the time, told her, “What happened to you with credit card errors is happening to others.” McQueeney reportedly parted ways with the Clinton campaign shortly after this incident occurred. Backing up what McQueeney claimed, there were several incidents similar to Callahan’s reported in 2008. Callahan and McQueeney could not be reached for comment.

In 2001, the Clintons were accused of attempting to steal items donated to the White House during Bill’s presidency as he exited office. There was $190,000 worth of gifts in question that the Clintons shipped to their then new estate in Chappaqua, New York. Multiple donors said that they had understood that the items they had donated during Clinton’s presidency were to stay in the White House as part of the 1993 White House redecoration project. Initially, the Clintons claimed that the items in question were given to them prior to President Clinton taking office; however, government records proved otherwise. Facing strong criticism, the Clintons decided to return several items including $28,500 in furnishings and they paid $86,000 for other gifts.

Murmurs of theft are nothing new to the Clintons. In 2001, the Clintons were accused of attempting to steal items donated to the White House during Bill’s presidency as he exited office, including $190,000 worth of gifts in question that the Clintons shipped to their new estate in Chappaqua, New York. But Bill begs to differ.


He recently compared himself to Robin Hood and said that through their foundation he asks people with money to give to people who don’t have money. In reality, the Clintons steal from people who have little money and they’re robbing some of Hillary’s most impoverished supporters—including a poor elderly grandma—to fund her campaign."

Disclosure: Donald Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, the publisher of Observer Media.

Source:  http://observer.com/2016/09/exclusive-hillary-clinton-campaign-systematically-overcharging-poorest-donors/

Thursday, August 11, 2016

FINALLY! First Senior Bankers on the Planet Responsible for 2008 Collapse Jailed


Source

The Esteemed Readers may find this article of interest, regarding the global implications of these types of banking frauds and how they may effect banking institution frauds in the United States.

It should seem obvious to the Esteemed Readers, who is in control of the government, giving the unwillingness to prosecute, and why so many banks donated millions to the Clinton Foundation.


"Source - The Free Thought Project

by Matt Agorist

In April, Wells Fargo & Co admitted to defrauding the United States government for nearly an entire decade, which subsequently led to the housing market collapse — and the United States punished no one.

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N), Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), have all previously made the same admission and settled similar federal lawsuits — again, with no one being held criminally responsible.


Related Financial System Detonating? Deutsche Bank Is Collapsing

Related Deutsche Bank Settles Lawsuit For Price Rigging, Turns “State’s Evidence” On Other Banks

While low-level bankers have been thrown in jail as apparent scapegoats in places like Iceland, not a single high-level CEO or officer has faced punitive criminal action—until now.

On Friday, three senior Irish bankers were jailed for up to three-and-a-half years for their conspiracy to defraud investors, subsequently causing the economic collapse of 2008.

According to a report in Reuters, the trio will be among the first senior bankers globally to be jailed for their role in the collapse of a bank during the crisis.

Watching these criminal bankers use the governments of the world to fleece the taxpayers in a series of bailouts and scams to defraud the people has been infuriating.

As Reuters reports,
The lack of convictions until now has angered Irish taxpayers, who had to stump up 64 billion euros – almost 40 percent of annual economic output – after a property collapse forced the biggest state bank rescue in the euro zone.

The crash thrust Ireland into a three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 and the finance ministry said last month that it could take another 15 years to recover the funds pumped into the banks still operating.

Former Irish Life and Permanent Chief Executive Denis Casey was sentenced to two years and nine months following the 74-day criminal trial, Ireland’s longest ever.

Willie McAteer, former finance director at the failed Anglo Irish Bank, and John Bowe, its ex-head of capital markets, were given sentences of 42 months and 24 months respectively.
Unlike the bankers who remain protected in America’s legal system, the Irish have decided to lay down the law.

“By means that could be termed dishonest, deceitful and corrupt they manufactured 7.2 billion euros in deposits by obvious sham transactions,” Judge Martin Nolan told the court, describing the conspiracy as a “very serious crime”.



“The public is entitled to rely on the probity of blue chip firms. If we can’t rely on the probity of these banks we lose all hope or trust in institutions,” said Nolan.

In the United States, the people have been forced to file their own legal action against the criminal bankers as the government does absolutely nothing to stop their crimes.

Despite the bankers’ best attempts at foiling the private actions against them, the people have pushed through.

A newly revived antitrust lawsuit, according to the appeals court, could be devastating to these 16 banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Related Banker Arrest | HSBC Global Head Of FX Cash Trading Arrested At JFK Airport

“Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor‐denominated derivative swap would, if appellants’ allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world’s most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated,” the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.

Until the people wake up to the atrocities being carried out against them by criminal bankers who control the government, this fleecing of the citizenry will continue. To all those who bank with any of these huge banks — pull your money out today, move it to a local bank, or find another alternative.

Failing to do so only sustains their criminal behavior. Please share this story with your friends and family as it will most assuredly be a mere blip on their televisions and deliberately easy to miss.

About The Author

Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Without Consent of the Governed

The People created a Constitution which in turn created a system of governance, which through the duties and responsibilities mandated by the Constitution is to serve the needs of the union of Free and Sovereign States not the incorporated states.  It is We the People who govern, and the corporate government that has replaced the system of governance has no constitutional authority.

The purpose of a system of governance under the Constitution is to defend the Sovereign States against foreign aggressors and guarantee the freedoms under the Bill of Rights, including life, liberty, and the ability to own property. It was never the purpose of the system of governance to control the People and the way they live.

We live in a state of confusion today, with regard to the function and purpose of those in Washington D.C., not because we have an uncontrollable government, but because we have a nation of People who are ignorant of the true purpose of a system of governance but are aware of a controlling corporate government, and would rather give up their freedoms to a corporate government willing to extend privileges to them for a price, than to take responsibility for themselves.



The education of children is the responsibility of their parents. If it was the mandate of constitutional governance to provide education it would have been included in the Constitution. Educational requirements are different from community to community. A one size fits all system of educational standards cannot benefit the student or the community within which he resides.

If there is to be made any investment in education, it must be from family participation and the private sector. The corporations with needs for skilled engineers must invest in the schools who provide them with the best candidates, and provide funding for those that merit a higher education . This benefits all parties concerned. Corporate Government subsidies on the other hand drive up the cost of education and it's mandates and standards deprive students of the truth and the very diversity the corporate government claims is a goal.



Health is a personal responsibility and health care is also your responsibility. The cost of health care is high because of how the system is designed. The deliberate interference of the AMA, FDA, CDC, DHHS, etc. and the exclusion or regulation of alternative medicine (suppression of natural medicine and other forms of treatment) benefits only the insurance and pharmaceutical corporations to the detriment of patients and providers alike.

We are a nation of immigrants and we adopted and created a system of common law, laws that were not created to make criminals, but to protect the States and their People. With nearly one million immigrants coming to the United States of America annually, immigration seems to work rather well for those who follow the law. Reforming immigration laws is analogous with reforming rape laws to accommodate the criminals instead of providing justice and restitution for the victims.

The current state of the union is in crisis. We have a corporate government that has taken control of nearly every aspect of an individual's life. We have a monetary system that is debt-based and enslaves everyone to the banks through the corporate state, both locally and nationally.

We have a Congress that is nothing more than a corporate board of directors who have very little say when it comes to the Chairman of the Board's tyrannical and treasonous actions. Instead of arrest or impeachment, they cower under the umbrella of a law suit, a frivolous waste of time and taxpayer resources.

If We the People want action, then it must be We the People who take that action, just as our patriotic founders did in defiance of George II and the banker controlled British Parliament.

Monday, June 9, 2014

IRS Money Laundering: Part II



In the post IRS Money Laundering? You Bet! author Kevin E. Lake recounted his personal experience with having his veterans benefits garnished after the funds were deposited into his bank accounts. Just that fact that the IRS can do this is a threat to everyone who disagrees with the government, is enough to enrage any good American. The fact that they do this to veterans is appalling and sets a dangerous precedence. The ability of the government to use the IRS to stifle dissent can only result in the suppression of liberty.

Mr. Lake was kind enough to allow me to post his follow up article, which I present to the Esteemed Readers of Fix America, in its entirety.


How Disabled Veterans Can Prevent The I.R.S. From Garnishing Their VA Disability Payments


Jun 8, 2014

"More than a year ago, I wrote an article about a nightmare I was having with the IRS that was only beginning for me at the time. I'd checked my bank account, to verify my monthly VA disability payment (I'm a 60% disabled veteran of the Iraq War) only to find that my entire payment, and the rest of the money in my account, had been swept out by the bank and sent to the I.R.S.

I contacted the I.R.S. to inquire as to why this happened and I was told something about owing them one hundred thousand gazillion trillion dollars in back taxes. I almost laughed at whatever the real number they told me I owed was, because it was close to one hundred thousand gazillion trillion dollars and then I asked what I needed to do. In essence, I had to redo several years worth of returns, and at the end of the day, I owed them nothing. I found that they actually owed me several thousand dollars from 2008, but since more than two years had passed since then, they did not have to, and as you can imagine, they did not pay it.

This incident happened just before news broke of the I.R.S. targeting Tea Party officials and candidates and others deemed to be "conservative" and though I claim no political affiliation, at the time, I was writing for several key Tea Party and Libertarian media outlets, and I have every reason to believe that I was targeted because of this. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because through my nightmare, I came across several findings that I can now share with my fellow disabled veterans that will allow each of them to protect themselves from garnishing of any type as far as any current and future VA disability payments go.

Fact number one; according to IRS code USC, Title 38, 5301, VA disability is 100% exempt. This means it cannot be garnished for any reason, to include taxes owed, child support, personal debt or liens of any kind. Most people know this, but what I found out during my nightmare, is how the I.R.S. in particular gets around this, their own law.

The I.R.S. waits until the veteran's disability payment is made into a bank account, where it is co-mingled with the veteran's other money and then they take it out by way of lien. The burden of proof that the money that they actually took was from the VA then lies on the veteran. This process, as I found, can take up to three weeks, and most people either don't want to deal with what's involved or they become overwhelmed and give up.

Fact number two; there is a way to avoid allowing the I.R.S. to in essence launder your VA disability money through your bank, and it's quite simple, though it will require a couple of phone calls and a little bit of paperwork. What the veteran can do is simply open up another bank account at a different financial institution into which his or her VA disability money, exclusively, is deposited. Ideally, the veteran should make sure it is a non-interest bearing account so that the institution never sends a 1099 to the I.R.S. The I.R.S. will likely never even know the account exists, and if they do, and should they garnish future disability payments, it is because they apparently sought out the veteran's VA disability deposit information, and oh what a hay day any attorney or journalist worth their weight in sand could have with that!

One financial institution that is ideal for this situation is a company called U.S. Direct Express. They issue prepaid credit cards, through Master Card, to recipients of VA disability and S.S.I. disability, and the amount of the credit limit is the amount available in your account. Basically, it is like having a debit card at your bank. Once your disability payments are deposited into your account, you can withdraw the amount available in cash at any ATM machine that accepts Master Card, or you can make purchases up to the amount of the available balance anywhere that Master Card is accepted. One major advantage to using U.S. Direct Express is that there is no daily cash withdrawal limits on the card, so you can withdraw your entire disability check the day it is available if you need the money.

This is not tax evasion or even tax aversion, the first of which is illegal and the second of which is perfectly legal, rather, a smart way in which to protect yourself from the long reaching arms of the I.R.S. if you are a disabled veteran. Yes, they already have laws in place, as I've stated above, to protect us from them, but as we are finding more and more, the laws put in place by Government seem to apply only to the general population, not those working within Government themselves. Somewhere along the line, those within Government seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around, and too many people lack the fortitude to stand up for themselves and remind our elected officials of this. This is merely one way in which the men and women, who at one time were sent into hell by their Government to do things most people have not done and could never do, can stand up for and protect themselves once they get home."

Thank you Mr. Lake, I trust that by posting your experiences on Fix America, others will benefit from them.

I encourage the Esteemed Readers of Fix America to share this article and their own experiences with IRS and the Veterans Administration.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A Voice From The Past: General Smedley Butler Speaks Outstandingly



By 1933 corporate America was firmly established in the UNITED STATES of America, corporate ideology had already begun to supplant the ideals of free market commerce and trade (capitalism). This should be keep in mind as you read General Butler's comments regarding corporate racketeering.
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." 




Semper Fidelis




Saturday, December 1, 2012

Our Enemy Is The State: Part III


In his farewell address, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the Military Industrial Complex but most Americans had no real idea of what he was warning about. The term was not ubiquitous to most Americans and it was only those who were knowledgeable in the affairs of state who really understood his warning.

Most Americans were just happy to be working and paying their bills, still capable of saving for an annual vacation with their families. Jobs were plentiful, men did most of the labor while women were satisfied being wives and mothers. Some women did work, but like my own mother, stopped working when raising children was more important than having money to buy luxury. That was only for the wealthy or those who wanted to have the luxuries of the wealthy, and they usually bought those things with readily available credit offered by merchants or the banks.

Even a good education was available to the “middle class” in the best colleges and universities at the time. I myself was offered and promised scholarships to some of those great institutions of higher learning. I even attended some lectures when I was bored with my high school classes just to see what it was that was so special about attending college. Mainly due to how much it was drummed into my young mind that a college degree was a sure ticket to prosperity and a position of distinction in life.

But the usurpation occurred slowly. It reached quite a high as President Eisenhower left office and I was made shockingly aware of the impact when I read a document called the Report from Iron Mountain.

I highly recommend reading None Dare Call It Conspiracy and The Underground History of American Education. I consider these required reading for everyone who wants to know how we got to this place and how we can be a part of the restoration of a sovereign republic.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

A New Declaration

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."


Passed by the new Congress on July 4, 1776 by the Representatives of the Thirteen (former) British Colonies, the Declaration of Independence served as notice to a tyrannical King and an oppressiveness against the rights of free and sovereign individuals as prescribed in the second paragraph of that document:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Rights and duties and not obligations and permissions. When one is free and sovereign, there is only voluntary allegiance and not forced submission. We have come a long way from that premise in the past 236 years. 

From before the ink had dried on the Treaty of Paris, conspiracy and plots had already been formed to remove the liberties fought for and return the lands to the Crown. When the Constitution was presented to the representatives of the original thirteen States, it was not to be ratified until a number of rights were included explicitly, as notice to this newly formed national government that the States and its sovereign People retained the liberty they fought and shed blood to obtain.


In many ways, the war for liberty never ended. It was the bankers and not the Crown who really wanted control, and the Crown was merely a puppet front to conceal the true identity of those who sought control. It remains the same threat today as it did then.

We now face a divided America, not unlike the division that produced the Civil War, where many American lives were lost because of the influence of the banking cartel. History has been obscured by these same criminals, hiding the facts from the masses. It was always the "Money Masters" who influence wars and who profited regardless of who were the victors.

With the beginning of a second term for a President who, has proven to be a most formidable foe to the rule of (Constitutional) law, the free and sovereign individuals remain divided as to what course they will pursue to effectively restore this once great nation to its former heights of liberty and prosperity.

While there are many issues facing the States and the People, none is more relevant than restoration of constitutional law. The corporate laws that have replaced or suppressed the Constitution must be abolished along with the central banking cartel we know as the Federal Reserve System and its criminal strong-arm collection bureau called the Internal Revenue Service.



We witnessed in this past election how the "powers-that-be" will stop at nothing to insure their own complete takeover of the government and the People.What to do, what to do?

Will we remain slaves or will we fight back for our liberties? Will it be a peaceful revolt or a bloody one?

We won't have long to wait to find out!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Give Me Liberty!



I have written many posts about many topics over several years now. I now feel that it is time that I write about the ignorance of the general population in America. As I listen to and read the pettiness of party politics, it is more evident that this nation is failing.

I can blame many things on the nation’s decline. Education has been and will continue to be one of the major reasons it is failing. Not that funding is inadequate, but rather curriculum and teachers are failing to provide the education that is necessary to a free and prosperous nation.

We as People have failed to protect ourselves. We have allowed bureaucrats and corporatists to take our nation away from us. We have been enslaved by the very institutions that swore to protect us. Every discipline of our society has been infiltrated and corrupted by the elite. We have become enslaved and many don’t even realize it.

In my recent post Lawyers, Guns, And Money I did valiantly attempt to instill the outrage of what our so-called leaders are doing to take away our freedom. Since 2008 I have written and warned readers of the dangers we face, not from foreign terrorists, but from the very people we elect to represent our best interests.

In the post titles Real Money I explained what real money is and how the Federal Reserve Act created fiat currency that is debt and not real. I offered you the opportunity to educate yourselves and pointed you to the Money Masters website and the teachings of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman  I have also written extensively about presidential candidate and Congressman, Dr. Ron Paul and why he would make the best President of  the United States. The posts, What Would Really Happen If Ron Paul Were Elected President? and Ron Paul’s Plan to Reduce The Cost of Government explains why we need a President who understands that government does not create jobs but does prevent economic growth by its interference in the markets.

We need a President who holds the Constitution as the law of the land and does not compromise his oath of office to appease the international community. We need a Congress that takes responsibility for the constitutionally mandated duties it is charged with by We the People, and does not delegate those responsibilities to private banks and institutions who were not authorized by the people to do so.

But most of all we require an American People with courage to stand up for their God-given rights and not allow any government to take them away.  The most important of which are those included in the Constitution as the first ten amendments, also known as the Bill of Rights.


Most will point to the Patriot Act as the beginning of the loss of liberty, but it goes back in history much further. We can go back to the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, but I go even further back to the hiding of the Title of Nobility Amendment and the War of 1812. It really begins with the founding of this nation as a sovereign country, which was never fully accepted by the British Crown.

There is no doubt that our founders were rebels and in the eyes of the Crown, insurrectionists. By today's standards they may even be labeled as "terrorists" and were hunted down as those terrorists of today. Were they wrong in what that did? Shall we today, follow what our government dictates or stand up for our national sovereignty and our rights as free and sovereign individuals?

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Money Meltdown: Bailing out the Banks Part III

QE3. No, it's not the launch of a new luxury liner, It's the third round of quantitative easing, another term the Federal Reserve Board uses to fleece the people and make the banks more profitable. Didn't work with the housing crisis, didn't work ten and won't work now. Like dominoes they will all fall down with one final push.

No sense in saying, 'I told you so' because that offers no satisfaction to me at all. Saving the economy and the sovereignty of the United States is the only satisfaction I seek.



Real Money is gold! Need Proof? Read the article that came out today,  Deutsche Bank: GOLD IS MONEY and see for yourself. I have been writing about this for years, and so has Ron Paul. That is why he was prevented from securing the Republican nomination for President, and why the GOP fixed the delegations to make third-rate Mitt their choice. They knew Ron Paul would win in a landslide against Obama, and would expose the fraud of the Diebold electronic voting machines. I wrote about this also in the post, The Big Fix, and many thought I was sniffing too much varnish. But this post is about money, so go back and read the others through the links I have provided.

This is about how the banks are buying up gold in record quantities in anticipation of the meltdown of the US dollar. This about how you can be a voice of reason in a chorus of fantasy. The Fed prevents you from making profit on money investments by zeroing out interest rates, but the banks still profit by purchasing secure U.S. Treasury Notes which have guaranteed profits at maturity. Just another way of fleecing the American Taxpayer.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Happy Birthday U. S. Constitution: Rest in Peace!


 As I sat down to write another post for the blog, it occurred to me that what really is troubling is the fact that most Americans relish the division in political party rhetoric. The travesty is that most are totally unaware of the divide and conquer plan that the global elitists have created and are about to see the fruits of their evil labors come to be realized.

Since the very founding of America, the bankers of Europe have tried to take this nation down. To control it completely it was necessary to first control the monetary system. What was once the People’s Money soon became the banker’s money.  Twice they failed but the third time was the charm.

With the creation of the Federal Reserve System, they finally rested complete control from Congress, who was mandated by the Constitution to be accountable and responsible for the monetary system. Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 5 of the Constitution states, “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;” and that should never have been abridged through an Act of Congress. It was a blatant violation of the aforementioned Article, Section, and Paragraph of the Constitution.

Einstein once stated that, “The epitome of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” It has never been more obvious than it is today in the face of the Federal Reserve’s QE3 or Quantative Easing round three. The results of the last two attempts only caused more recession and devaluation of the dollar. Why would this time be any different?



In addition to the monetary crisis we now face, we are also being threatened by Islamic extremists who are being coddled by the usurper-in-chief now occupying the White House. Well, he occupies it when he is not campaigning for re-election, playing golf, or apologizing to our enemies.

I don’t think there are many sane people in America who will want four more years of abomination in an Obama Nation, however they are backing a third place loser to unseat an incumbent President. It has never happened before in history and it cannot in all probability happen now.

I wrote in a previous post about how Obama’s backers were doing all they could to keep Ron Paul off of the ballot. (See: Obama Issues "Kill Order" Regarding Ron Paul and Russia Prepares for Nuclear World War III) Even as early as 2010 they realized that Dr. Paul was the most serious threat to another term. Based on the way the Republican Party played into their scheme, the plan worked! And yet they were not satisfied, knowing that the independent voter would not back Mitt Romney nor Obama, so they got Gary Johnson, whose early exit from the GOP nominees to run instead of Ron Paul as the Libertarian Party choice.

The privately-owned major media pounds the two parties’ candidates daily into the minds of the American People, so that they have come to believe the lies as the gospel. When demonstrating this to them, I too am ostracized and ridiculed as a ‘Paul-Bot’ or ‘Paulite’ much the same as Dr. Paul himself was treated by that same media and his own Republican Party. Yet only Dr. Paul has demonstrated his honor and integrity in all of his years in Congress by always voting against bills that violated constitutional law.


Further, of all of the candidates past and present, only Ron Paul put forth a plan to reduce government spending, reduce the size of government, eliminate foreign aid, and build the nation’s defense while reducing the military presence in foreign lands. (See: Ron Paul’s Plan to Reduce the Cost of Government)

I was disappointed in how Dr. Paul was treated in 2008 by the GOP through all of the debates, and really thought that America would see through the farce and demand that he get equal time in 2012.  Why did they allow the persecution of this honorable statesman to continue?

Perhaps it is embarrassment to admit that they have been fooled for so long. It is hard for many to admit they have been duped. Soon they will realize that they have been had but it will be too late.


Friday, May 18, 2012

A Beacon of Light: Take Back America


Perhaps in some way it is self-fulfilling prophecy, the ultimate confrontation of good and evil, playing out on the stage of life each day and yet most Americans are totally unaware of it. All they see are many seemingly unrelated issues, reported more in passing, media dishes out more non-news than real news. There has to be a point where an individual is confronted with the truth and a choice must be made whether to accept it or deny it. For me that time came a long time ago, and it amazes me how very few people have chosen to see the truth.



If you believe what the privately-owned major media reports, you would think that a Romney vs. Obama election is a done deal. Just the past few days even had a rumor making its way around the Internet that Ron Paul folded up his tent and was going to endorse Romney. None of it is true of course, but most Americans swallowed it as if it were.

When I first came across it, I reported it on this blog that the media was ordered silenced on Ron Paul. See Obama Issues ‘Kill Order’ Regarding Ron Paul and Russia Prepares for Nuclear World War III .  The media has hyped Mitt Romney as the greatest thing since sliced bread and the public swallowed it whole. This is the same corporate raider who finished 3rd in the 2008 GOP race which makes him a 4th ranked candidate to the eventual occupier of the Oval Office.

The privately-owned major media would have you believe, Obama and the Democratic-socialists (who have taken over the left side of the party) are worried about Romney’s campaign, the truth is that it would not matter at all to us. Only how quickly we are taken over completely by the corporatism statists.

The fact that Congress did not immediately have Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrested and charged with treason when he told them he gets his marching orders from NATO and the U.N. says volumes about who is really running this country. It certainly is not We the People through our elected representation that much is clear.  Who is actually in charge remains to be determined although it is strongly suggestive that it isn’t  an American.


The so-called Harvard professor occupying the White House admonished the Supreme Court for hearing the case on his namesake health care plan, denouncing their mandated power to judicial review of a law passed in Congress by majority.  For Obama, the fact that he was able to get laws passed is enough of a testimony to his megalomaniacal-narcissistic character to convince me that he is not going to leave office quietly as most defeated Presidents do.

And then recently, I ran across an article sent in an email to me that depicts an even more diabolical and sinister plot to destroy the economy of the United States, in a blog by one Jim Campbell, at his Dancing Czars blog. Now I don’t necessarily think that Obama himself is the mastermind of all this, just the willing pawn who loves the attention and the power he is holding while acting as President.

So knowing that Willard Romney, a third-rate GOP nominee in 2008, is now the party darling, tells us the compromising that the Republican Party itself made.  Add to the sellout compromises made by a GOP majority in the House, and it shows that Congress has not changed all that much with the so-called ‘Tea Party victories’ in 2010. Continued votes for unconstitutional acts only serves to show us how endemic the corruption really is.

While Ron Paul may lead the nation, and be nominated in Tampa, as can be accomplished, we require a Congress that will have the courage to uphold the Constitution with regard to Dr. Paul’s policies when he becomes President. It must also reflect on who we elect at the local and regional levels as well, because we want people in office who represent us and not banks and corporations. We want people who uphold their oaths and defend the Constitution always and not only when it is politically expedient to do so.

We want to take back America from the usurpers, Soros or the Banksters or the Globalists, and restore liberty. We will then have demonstrated to the world that it is the People of the United States of America whose love of freedom will remain, for all humanity to see, like the Statue in the harbor, in the darkness of tyranny a beacon of light.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Alternative Isn't Ominous


I never really gave a thought about the term birth control until quite recently. But while listening to some of the discussion and debates on the issue that has become the recent diversion from what is really wrong, it occurred to me that "birth control" sounds ominous. When I hear the term mentioned it brings up horrible images of government control over who may have children.

The issue is really not about contraception, or abortion, or religious freedom. It is only about the individual's right to exercise the right of choice. This right is guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution and no government has any right to claim authority in the matter. This current person occupying the Presidency has done more to erode liberties than any other since Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he gave us all up to the Federal Reserve and the international banks behind it.

The Truth behind popular American History is easily uncovered. A fair researcher with the tools available to him at any public library and that has read this, will easily find all the true data required to form their own opinions about what is really going on and what is really at stake. I think most Americans do not realize that they are an election away from losing most of their liberties and rights. After all, they already lost their homes, savings, and the earnings of their grandchildren to the same people that want freedoms and rights for themselves and no one else.

Is there nothing that can be done? Will America cease to be a free and sovereign nation? Will it become just another part of another banker-backed corporate State like the ones in the European Union? The Bilderberg Group has stated our country will be a part of the North American Union and the new currency has already been printed and is called the Amero. Nothing really will change except there will be no more Constitution, in its place will be a set of rules and permissions that will define what a citizen is and what he can do. You will no longer be a free individual. You will be a number, like the ones on any of the cards you carry in your wallet, or the one they use to tax you and follow all of your banking transactions. But under the new system, you do not earn a wage or salary with a chance of making more by working harder or longer hours. You will be given what "they" feel is enough to live on and no more.

Perhaps, you will get a day off when you turn in one of your fellow workers for talking about something that the government doesn't like or has made a crime. Won't that be fun?

This upcoming election is your opportunity to make the choice to elect Dr. Ron Paul as your 45th President of the United States of America and after his election all that has happened in the past will be a bad dream. Dr. Paul has plans that have been presented to the public. Of course, you will have to also elect a House and Senate that will uphold their oaths of office to defend the U.S. Constitution, and will work with Dr. Paul to repair the damage that already has happened. Then it will up us in the future, to elect a President and Congress that will keep our country and its' citizens safe and insure our freedom!

The alternative isn't ominous, it's the end of liberty and freedom.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Fixes for the economy: Common Sense

"The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place." -Edwin Feulner



Wise words indeed, and words that we have not lived by in the United States of America. Instead, we the people that compose the many States of the union, have abdicated our own personal responsibilities of vigilance for liberty and injustice. We allowed laws to be written by those we elected, and they in turn have thinly sliced away at privacy and personal liberties ever since.

There was a nasty trick played upon the citizens of this nation by allowing them to directly elect Congress and a Presidential "ticket" which included of course the Vice President. That way, we could not choose one from different political parties. Back then there were many political parties, and they all offered candidates for office. Same as today but still, with much more liberty than what is possible under the election rules currently.

But that is only a compounding of the "original sin" if you will, and that was the very real and historical conspiracy that became the Federal Reserve System. Finally, America's enemy's had a way to wrest control of the nation while the people would not even be aware of it. And most of Congress and the President may not really know what is the real power behind them. Oh I am sure that Mr. Obama thinks he is the seat of power, but although Congress has abdicated many responsibilities to the Executive and Judicial branches, it is that very act that is unconstitutional in breadth and depth.

The Federal Reserve System must be abolished in order to restore real fiscal responsibility to the government. And with it, its collection agency also must be eliminated, that which we fondly call the Internal Revenue Service. Now isn't that a grand play on words? And it does appear that both the Fed and the IRS are tied to the United States Department of the Treasury, but that is all smoke and mirrors. The Fed is totally independent of the government. There are appointees to the Board, but the President and Congress are told by the Fed what is going to happen, and not the other way around as it should be.

But I am not going to explain that all again here; you can watch The Money Masters or Russo's America: Freedom to Facsism if you need to educate yourself about how fiat money is the root cause of debt in government.