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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in
America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not
from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the
nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams (1735-1826), American President
America’s founding fathers would not be
surprised at the dire state of the nation they created in1776. America was
then an experiment. No similar form of government had ever been attempted;
and even at its birth the founding fathers had doubts as to whether the
American experiment would succeed.
Remember,
democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams (1735-1826), American President
The once great nation of America is now a goat rodeo
where the electorate is both confused and ignorant yet stubbornly believes
itself otherwise. Adroitly ruled by corporate and banking elites whose deadly
threat remains unrecognized, America today is bereft of leadership and
options, a shadow of the nation intended by its founders.
The warnings of those who created America have long
been forgotten. John Adams’ words regarding the
dangers of not understanding the nature
of coin, credit and circulation was clear warning to those who
would later place the nation’s currency in the hands of private bankers.
The central role played by central banking in
America’s problems is not understood by most Americans. However, the
founding fathers clearly understood the dangers posed by the issuance of
debt-based money from central banks. On my program, Dollars and Sense, .I explain the system of central banking
adamantly opposed by our nation’s founders, see http://www.youtube.com/user/SchoonWorks#p/a/u/0/vjViF97hHSM
Of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson especially
recognized the dangers that central banking posed to the American experiment:
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 [gold and
silver coins]. 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.
Yet, on December 23, 1913, private bankers gained
their long-awaited advantage over America when business and corporate
interests successfully created the Federal Reserve Bank, a central bank which
the founding fathers had fought the Revolutionary War to prevent.
After 1913, a consortium of private banks which
would henceforth issue America’s currency in the form of debt, i.e.
Federal Reserve notes, in opposition to the wishes of those who founded
America.
The Fed’ substitution of its paper notes for
gold and silver has now caused the nation irreparable harm. Since 1913, the
banker’s debt-based currency has resulted in the transfer of most of
America’s wealth to the moneyed elites, leaving the rest of America
impoverished and in debt. Today, the very top 1 % of America receives 25 % of
its income and controls 40 % of its wealth.
The bankers’ parasitic plunder of America is
almost complete as America’s politicians have sold-out the country,
members of both parties are now indentured to the special interests who
openly buy their votes behind closed doors.
..deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing
something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in
our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given
our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get
ourselves elected.
Senator John C. Danforth
(MO-R), April 22, 1992
The bankers’ triumph, however, is not complete
and were it not for their insatiable greed, the bankers would already own
America. But in 2008, the banker’s greed, overstepping all bounds,
almost destroyed the global economy and significantly damaged the
world’s banking system; and while this is bad for the Fed, it’s
good for America.
Only the complete collapse of the Federal Reserve
System and central banking can now free America from eternal
debt enslavement; and while it’s been a long time since 1776, there are
more ways than one to overthrow the few who tyrannically rule the many by
credit and debt.
CENTRAL BANKING’S CONUNDRUM
The foundation of central banking was the
convertibility of its debt-based paper money to gold or silver. This
convertibility provided the confidence to exchange valuable goods and
services for the bankers’ paper banknotes.
The ability to convert paper banknotes for gold and
silver provided the requisite confidence for the bankers system to function.
As long as the delicate balance between credit and debt could be maintained,
this system, known as capitalism, provided England with an insurmountable
advantage over the rest of the world.
England alone was able to send its army and navy to
war on credit. Its navy essentially became a fleet of state-sponsored
pirates, allowing England to invade other countries with impunity, plunder their
wealth and become the largest empire in the world since Rome.
The British empire, however, reached its apogee in
the mid-19th century and when its empire began contracting, the
bankers needed another country to serve their now insatiable ambitions and
need for profits. America was their country of choice.
In 1913, the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in
America afforded international bankers the very same opportunities
conditional upon America fulfilling two essential prerequisites: (1) maintain
the convertibility of paper money to gold or silver, and (2) maintain the
critical balance between credit and debt. America failed to do either.
America maintained the convertibility of paper money
until 1971 when the US had overspent its gold reserves after WWII and could
no longer convert US dollars to gold; and, as a result, the balance between
credit and debt after 1971 also became heavily imbalanced in favor of debt
when the US discovered it could easily trade its paper dollars for the
world’s wealth without a concomitant transfer of gold.
America took England’s golden goose, spent the
gold and now the days of central banking are
numbered; and whether you know it or not, this crisis presents America with a
priceless opportunity to free itself from the unconstitutional abrogation of
the right to live, work and prosper free of the parasitic bankers who profit
from the indebting of others.
THE SURGING PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER AND THE COMING
COLLAPSE OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE
When the US could no longer convert its US dollar to
gold in 1971 as required under the Bretton-Woods
agreement, paper currencies everywhere became only government promises to
pay. For the first time in history, all money became fiat.
Central banks rightfully became concerned that the
value of their currencies, when no longer convertible to gold or silver,
would loose value; and, indeed, that is what began
to happen.
Governments everywhere began printing more and more
money as gold no longer had to be exchanged for excess currencies held by
other countries; and, of all the countries that abused the new found ability
to do so, the US was the greatest transgressor.
This is why the US soon had the largest trade
imbalance in the world. The US took advantage of the reserve currency status
of the US dollar to begin buying more oil from the Middle East and more goods
from Asia.
First Taiwan in the 1970s, then Japan in the 1980s,
then China in the 1990s and 2000s found themselves with increasingly
excessive amounts of US paper money. Lacking the need to exchange gold for
its dollars, after 1971 the US went on a worldwide spending spree with its
increasingly worthless US dollars; and, today, the rising price of gold and
silver reflects the world’s growing unease with still growing US
deficits in both its domestic budget and foreign trade.
Of the 21 trading days in April, the price of gold
reached record highs on 15 of those days. The ascent of silver was even
greater. Today’s acceleration of silver and gold is an indication that
Fed’s attempts to continue central banking’s
300 year hegemony are failing.
The below graph compares the price of gold to the
NASDAQ and US housing bubbles; and while gold is not a bubble, to the
unknowing it can appear to be so. That is because gold is moving inversely to
another bubble, the now-deflating bubble of paper money, the largest bubble
in history.
In April, hedge funds bet billions that the US
dollar would fall and they won the bet. The price of gold is currently
tracking both the demise of the US dollar and the collapse of confidence in
the Fed’s global ponzi-scheme.
Instead of being afraid of the future, Americans
should be rejoicing.
FRAUD AT THE FED
Is the Fed engaged in fraud?
Does a bear sh*t in the
woods?
Do hemorrhoids hurt?
Eric deCarbonnel has
posted a remarkable video on fraud at the Fed: In FRAUD: Federal Reserve Is Selling Put Options On Treasury Bonds To Drive Down Yields,
Mr. de Carbonnel provides a clear-cut narrative as
he connects the dots on a Fed scheme to distort interest rates, thereby
misleading buyers regarding the risks associated with US Treasuries.
Mr. de Carbonnel’s
twelve minute video goes by with remarkable speed, leaving the viewer both
enlightened and repulsed, somewhat akin to watching Hannibal Lecture’s
handiwork being explained in detail.
We are indebted to Mr. de Carbonnel
for his revelation of what would be in a just world, the smoking gun. But
this is not a just world. This is America where power determines what’s
right and wrong, where the scales of justice are weighted in favor of those
who rule and where the cries of the less fortunate are dismissed as
undeserved.
Nonetheless, Mr. de Carbonnel’s
indictment will give the viewer a clearer understanding of the smoke and
mirrors deployed by the Federal Reserve. His video can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnZnkaq8Nf8&feature=player_embedded#at=31
That the Fed would engage in fraud to perpetrate the
ponzi-scheme of which the Fed is the principal is
not to be unexpected. The Fed is engaged in a fight to the finish, although
the Fed does not yet know the end is far closer than believed.
What economists perceive as a series of unexpected
exogenous shocks are instead the signs of systemic instability caused by the
collapse of their debt-based paradigm. Bankers will be surprised when their
control over the world’s wealth and resources ends along with the paper
money that made it possible.
The bankers’ self-centered concern about the
future is justified as the Fed is vulnerable as never before—and while
this may be bad for the Fed, it will be good for the rest of us, especially
America..
Question: What will bankers do?
Answer: They will have to find gainful employment in
a world where parasites no longer rule.
AMERICA
THE FROG
The frog is
frozen still
In water now so
hot
The
water’s almost boiling
But the frog
knows it not
Quickly it must
jump
To avoid a
boiling death
The Fates
themselves are watching
With collective
bated breath
Will America
survive?
Or will it now
succumb
Its heritage
abandoned
Its future now
undone
By its own hand
it’s threatened
Itself its
great threat
The frog
continues sitting still
In denial
ignorant yet
The
water’s getting hotter
The heat’s
turned up to high
And it’s
an even money bet
That the frog
is gonna die
Buy gold, buy silver, have faith.
Darryl Robert Schoon
www.survivethecrisis.com
www.drschoon.com
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