|
The ‘bailout’ burden will be borne by the US Taxpayers,
British Taxpayers and others throughout the world whose wealth
is tied to some element of the US Economy. Every dollar without
backing printed by The Federal Reserve leaves at full value. By
the time it reaches the economy, its value is diminished. What
is commonly called inflation, is simply a fancy word for
hidden tax and it is caused by central banking and on occasion
scarcity, which is temporary. Inflation is not the result of
time or a ‘natural’ occurrence, as we are led to believe. It is
wholly manufactured. The fact is the value of goods has not
changed in thousands of years. An ounce of gold today will buy
the same thing as an ounce of gold two-thousand years ago.
The real story
surrounding the ‘bailouts’ is the overt yet surreptitious
transfer of wealth from the richest population of the world into
the hands of a select, unknown and very wealthy few for a
fraction of its value.
Wealth is transferred via
the equivalence of a parlor trick before our eyes. The Federal
Government of the US has not stepped in to ‘rescue’ Freddie Mac,
Fannie Mae or AIG. What is occurring is the transfer of
tangible assets, 50% of the mortgages in the US and 80%
ownership of the world’s largest insurer into the hands of an
estimated three hundred people through contract manipulation.
Conspiracy theory? No. Those benefiting would like
you to think so because labeling anyone as such discredits them.
But this isn't secret. The same tactic has been used since
1913 to acquire control--power that is, over the key
institutions influencing public opinion, action and behavior.
Bailouts are planned and part of the natural Central Banking
Cycle. As is inflation. When money is created from
nothing, as the Fed does, it dilutes the value of dollars in
circulation. The only value the US dollar has, (or any currency
created under a central bank with minimal reserves) is what you
and I believe it has. Lose that belief and it becomes
worthless. Nothing backs it up. It's that simple.
The Top Ten
The cover-up of the
financial crisis is not part of this year's list, though number
five is tied to it and several others feed into it. The
full ramifications are only becoming known today, but it will
likely find a spot near the top on next year's list.
Each story below
stands on its own merit and once known forces people to consider
facts hereto not in evidence. This is information that changes
minds and information that must be known for the sake of all
people on this planet.
Presenting Project
Censor's list: Most
Censored News Stories of May 2007 - April 2008.
First two paragraphs of the top ten
are included. Links to 11-25 are
here
Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result
of the 2003 invasion, according to a study conducted by the
prestigious British polling group, Opinion Research Business
(ORB). These numbers suggest that the invasion and occupation of
Iraq rivals the mass killings of the last century—the human toll
exceeds the 800,000 to 900,000 believed killed in the Rwandan
genocide in 1994, and is approaching the number (1.7 million)
who died in Cambodia’s infamous “Killing Fields” during the
Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.
ORB’s research covered fifteen of Iraq’s eighteen provinces.
Those not covered include two of Iraq’s more volatile regions—Kerbala
and Anbar—and the northern province of Arbil, where local
authorities refused them a permit to work. In face-to-face
interviews with 2,414 adults, the poll found that more than one
in five respondents had had at least one death in their
household as a result of the conflict, as opposed to natural
cause.
More
TOP
Leaders of Canada, the US, and Mexico have been meeting to
secretly expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
with “deep integration” of a more militarized tri-national
Homeland Security force. Taking shape under the radar of the
respective governments and without public knowledge or
consideration, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)—headquartered
in Washington—aims to integrate the three nations into a single
political, economic, and security bloc.
The SPP was launched at a meeting of Presidents George W.
Bush and Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin, in Waco,
Texas, on March 31, 2005. The official US web page describes the
SPP as “. . . a White House-led initiative among the United
States and Canada and Mexico to increase security and to enhance
prosperity . . .” The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a
signed agreement. All these would require public debate and
participation of Congress.
More
TOP
More than 23,000 representatives of private industry are
working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) to collect and provide information on fellow
Americans. In return, members of this rapidly growing group,
called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats
before the public, and at times before elected officials. “There
is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate Total
Information Awareness program (TIPS), turning private-sector
corporations—some of which may be in a position to observe the
activities of millions of individual customers—into surrogate
eyes and ears for the FBI,” according to an ACLU report titled
“The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American
Government Is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the
Construction of a Surveillance Society.”
InfraGard, with members from 350 companies of the Fortune
500, started in Cleveland back in 1996, when the private sector
there cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber threats.
“Then the FBI cloned it,” says Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the
board of directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance,
and the prime mover behind the growth of InfraGard over the last
several years.
More
TOP
A resurgence of US-backed militarism threatens peace and
democracy in Latin America. By 2005, US military aid to Latin
America had increased by thirty-four times the amount spent in
2000. In a marked shift in US military strategy, secretive
training of Latin American military and police personnel that
used to just take place at the notorious School of the Americas,
in Fort Benning, Georgia—including torture and execution
techniques—is now decentralized. The 2008 US federal budget
includes $16.5 million to fund an International Law Enforcement
Academy (ILEA) in El Salvador, with satellite operations in
Peru. With provision of immunity from charges of crimes against
humanity, each academy will train an average of 1,500 police
officers, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement
officials throughout Latin America per year in “counterterrorism
techniques.”
The academy in El Salvador is part of a network of ILEAs
created in 1995 under President Bill Clinton, who touted the
training facilities as a series of US schools “throughout the
world to combat international drug trafficking, criminality, and
terrorism through strengthened international cooperation.” There
are ILEAs in Budapest, Hungary; Bangkok, Thailand; Gaborone,
Botswana; and Roswell, New Mexico.
More TOP
President Bush has signed two executive orders that would
allow the US Treasury Department to seize the property of any
person perceived to, directly or indirectly, pose a threat to US
operations in the Middle East.
The first of these executive orders, titled “Blocking
Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts
in Iraq,” signed by Bush on July 17, 2007, authorizes the
Secretary of Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Defense, to confiscate the assets of
US citizens and organizations who “directly or indirectly” pose
a risk to US operations in Iraq. Bush’s order states:
I have issued an Executive Order blocking property of
persons determined 1) to have committed, or pose a significant
risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the
purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of
Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to
promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq .
. . or 2) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or
goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of
violence or any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to this order . . .
More
TOP
Continue to Page 2
Footnotes
1) The US Constitution states only Congress has the power to
create money. The Federal Reserve Act was passed, largely in
secret by financial interests on December 22, 1913 after the
opposing members of government had left for the Christmas
holiday. It is unconstitutional and therefore against the law
of the land in the
United States.
The companion bill, The Federal Income Tax is on the books as
the sixteenth amendment. The problem is, not one of the
forty-eight states at the time ever ratified it so it is
enforced without warrant. If you’d like more information on
this, speak with Joe
Bannister, the former IRS agent who has been educating
Americans about this since the mid-1990’s.
2) Several people
can provide information on this as well as compelling
interviews: Edward
Griffin author of ‘Creature from Jekyll Island’;
Andre Michael Eggelletion, author of ‘Thieves in the
Temple’,
Eustace Mullins, the first to expose the Fed beginning in
the 1950’s and
William Greider author of ‘Who Will Tell the People’ and
‘Secrets of the Temple’.
Methodology:
Between 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project Censored
each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned
citizens around the world. With the help of more than 200 Sonoma
State University faculty, students, and community members,
Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage,
content, reliability of sources and national significance. The
university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project
Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of
importance.
Definition of Censored: Modern
Censorship as the subtle yet constant and sophisticated
manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets. On a daily
basis, censorship refers to the intentional non-inclusion of a
news story – or piece of a news story – based on anything other
than a desire to tell the truth. Such manipulation can take the
form of political pressure (from government officials and
powerful individuals), economic pressure (from advertisers and
underwriters), and legal pressure (the threat of lawsuits from
deep-pocket individuals, corporations, and institutions).
|
