Post by Watchman on Aug 9, 2007 11:22:01 GMT -5
Bruce Collins
The Allied Forces obtained a reproduction of the "Communist Rules for Revolution" in 1919. Looking back, it is apparent that the “powers that be” have been quite successful implementing the plan.
These were listed in an article titled “Still Believe the New World Order Is Just A Conspiracy Theory?” by Wes Penre. They included:
”A. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
B. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby:
1. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding them up to contempt, ridicule and disgrace.
4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
6. By specious argument, cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues - honesty, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
C. Cause the registration of ALL firearms on some pretext with a view to confiscate them and leave the population helpless.”
Looking at number five, destroying the credit of the United States, seems to be going according to plan.
In the early 70’s, President Nixon took us off of the gold standard and this ensured the eventual demise of the currency.
The simple definition of inflation is an increase in the price you pay or the decrease in the purchasing power of money. In the United States, inflation is measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics using the CPI or Consumer Price Index.
What causes inflation?
Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary says that inflation is "An increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices: it may be caused by an increase in the volume of paper money issued or of gold mined, or a relative increase in expenditures as when the supply of goods fails to meet the demand.”
So, by looking at the above definition, we can see that inflation is an action taken by government. In other words, a rise in prices can be tied to supply and demand, but it also can be tied to government proceedings. Often, the anger and frustration is directed toward the price because who is behind the cause is clouded.
Many great societies were crushed and collapsed due to inflation. Most societies collapse due to a combination of issues that seem to run along parallel lines. It is commonly agreed that the fall of the Roman empire was due to a decline in morals and values, public health issues, military expenses, political corruption, unemployment and, yes, inflation.
Beginning after the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the flow of gold began to decrease as Rome stopped conquering new lands. Yet, the Roman families needed to have an increasing supply of gold to buy more luxury items. As they used less and less gold in their coinage, the merchants raised their prices until, finally, Romans stopped using the coins and chose to barter instead. Trust in coinage ceased and taxes were paid in fruits and vegetables, salaries in food and clothing.
You could easily substitute the phrase ‘Roman Empire’ with the ‘United States of America’ today. Last figure I saw, we have army bases in over 160 countries. Certainly, this is an empire.
Nixon wasn’t the only one who wanted to take us off the gold standard. I ran across this interview with Paul Volcker, who later became our Fed Chairman.
Ironically, Volcker appears to have had some pull in this country with the demise of the gold standard. Consider this portion of an interview aired on PBS:
INTERVIEWER: Were you at Camp David the weekend when gold convertibility was suspended?
PAUL VOLCKER: Yes, I indeed was… the only practical move internationally was to suspend gold convertibility, which would lead to a depreciation of the dollar.
As a side note, Volcker is today a member of the Trilateral Commission (many people believe this group has a globalist view and fit in well with President Bush’s New World Order). He is also a member of the G30, a group of international financiers, of major private banks and central banks, and academics whose official goals are to “deepen understanding of economic and financial issues, and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sectors related to these issues.”
At least, that’s what they say they are doing.
The G30 was founded in 1978 by Geoffrey Bell at the prompting of the Rockefeller Foundation, which also provided initial funding for the group.
Volcker’s successor, Alan Greenspan, used to be a proponent of the gold standard. His words:
‘In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.’
‘This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.’
Yet, once Greenspan became the Fed Chairman, he called gold a “barbarous relic.” He also conveniently forgot that inflation is a secret tax that impoverishes the masses without their knowledge (unless they are informed).
I know there are a lot of skeptics, some of them related to me, who do not believe that the Federal Reserve has nefarious reasons for bankrupting the United States citizenry. However, let’s look at John Maynard Keynes, the man who was embraced by high profile economists in the United States.
An economist by the name of John Maynard Keynes wrote The General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money in 1936. His book was well received, to say the least, and, as stated previously, Keynesian economics reached mainstream acceptance among economists in the United States.
Keynes was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society, during his college years. Later, he was part of the Bloomsbury group, a collection of English artists and scholars, who regularly had relations with more than one partner and sometimes of the same sex.
“"By a continuous process of inflation, governments 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....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
Why would this process be important to a man like John Maynard Keynes?
“When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many pseudo-moral principles which have hagridden us for two hundred years....” John Maynard Keynes
It appears that this ill conceived economic principle which has been embraced by modern economists was for the purpose of bankrupting a moral society.
How would they accomplish this? By inflating the money supply! Keynes vehemently opposed the gold standard, opting for the questionable value of fiat currency.
There you have it. Is the Federal Reserve evil? Obviously, the answer is a resounding yes!
Ron Paul is correct. The IRS and the Federal Reserve need to be abolished.
Our future as a free society depends on it.