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What you don't know can (and will) hurt you.

A brief essay on how you have been, and are being fleeced, fooled and f@#%!ed by highly paid men in suits, or Heidi goes to the Fed.

What you don’t know can hurt you.  

 As the world grows more complex, we grow ever more dependent on faith as opposed to knowledge.  We trust the plane we board will take off, fly, and land safely.  The average traveller doesn’t even have the vocabulary, much less, the knowledge to inquire about whether or not the plane is safe. When we consider things like our monetary system, all we know is we get paid in dollars, and we pay for goods and services in dollars.  It just works, so why question it?  

Look around you.  America is steadily becoming a third world country, with an elite corporate, military, political class, and a growing underclass and disappearing middle class.  Bless the heart of every single person who believes this happened because of deregulation, irresponsible lending and borrowing, or foreign terrorists intent on destroying us.  But these things only scratch the surface.  If we don’t look deeper, and peer into the darkness, we’ll never get out of this death spiral.  

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 A relevant story that sheds some light. 

 Did you ever see Heidi, with Shirley Temple?  It’s an old movie from 1937.  Heidi was left with her Grandfather when relatives grew weary of the spunky four year old orphan.  She softens his misanthropic heart, and they live peacefully in their humble Swiss mountain home.  Heidi is then kidnapped and sold by her cruel Aunt to become the companion of Klara who is wheel chair bound. Klara is the daughter of a wealthy, caring father, but has turned over the child care duties to Fraulein Rottenmeier.  Heidi makes the best of her situation and encourages Klara to attempt standing, then walking, all in secret.  When the big day comes for Klara to surprise her father with her miraculous recovery, Fraulein Rottenmeier freaks out, feigning “concern” for Klara’s safety.  The Fraulein then seeks to have Heidi sold off to gypsies.  Who would do such a thing?  A psychopath.  How did a psychopath come to be employed by a nice guy like Klara’s father?  He didn’t know the Fraulein was a psychopath, and he didn’t know his daughter could recover.

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 Fraulein Rottenmeiers among us.  

 They walk the halls of the International Monestary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, HSBC and other corporations.  They’re in governments all over the world, pretending to “take care” of us.  Most people, still crippled in their thinking, don’t know our monetary household is being managed by Fraulein Rottenmeiers.   

 Rottenmeier...hmmm, sounds like a derivative of the name Mayer Rothschild.

 “Let me issue and control a nations money, and I care not who writes the laws.”Mayer Rothschild, founder of the House of Rothschild.

 The power of complexity is the bankers favorite tool.

 “The few who could understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while, on the other hand, the great body of the people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.”  

Rothschild protege, John Sherman, in a letter he wrote in support of the proposed National Banking Act in 1863.

 Another friend of the Rothschild’s, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, forced the National Banking Act through Congress, creating a federally chartered central bank with the power to issue US Bank Notes.  

 President Lincoln warned us.

 “The money power preys upon the nation in time of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity.  It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.  I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country.  Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.”   President Abraham Lincoln

 Heidi is alive and well.

 Pretty, pretty interesting.  Lincoln foresaw this.  But don’t despair.  There are Heidi’s among us who want everyone to get out of their chairs and stand up.  There’s just a little work to do to heal our minds of the lies.  All you Democrats and Republicans....stop hurling insults at one another, and start using your innate critical thinking capacities.  If you use it, it will get stronger!  You’ll stand, and even walk again!

 The Federal Reserve is the hub of the wheel of a corrupt and complex system. 

 You may have heard of the Libor scandal, and how Barclays and other huge banks have been rigging interest rates.  This tells us the whole game is rigged, there is no real competition among these banks, and it’s the insiders against the outsiders, you and me, way more than 99% of the human race.  Yes, dear reader, the joke is on us.  The Federal Reserve, whose figurehead is Ben Bernanke, has absolute power over your money through the power of the printing press.  The Fed openly manipulates interest rates for a living, and we pay Bernanke a pretty penny out of the same American tax payer pockets which are losing out on any interest on their savings.   In a normal interest rate environment Americans would be earning a half a trillion a year on a simple savings account.  That’s a lot of interest we’re not able to earn, due to the Fed’s manipulation.  Hey, we all get that this policy is NOT stimulating the economy, despite the occasional crumbs of hope backed up by government-issued statistics you are fed by the corporate media. (If you want real statistics, go to shadowstats.com.  John Williams is brilliant and thorough.)  

 So, why don’t we make a fuss over Fed policy?  Because, we don’t have any real knowledge of the system.  As happens when our ignorance forces us to rely on faith, we assign more importance to the person doing the explaining, in this case Ben Bernanke, than we do to the explanations themselves.  How can we argue, when we don’t even know what he’s talking about?  Most people assume Bernanke’s just more intelligent than they are.  And he is, if you consider intelligence the ability to weave words into a confusing knot that leads unsuspecting listeners to assume a complex problem is being handled by someone imbued with honor, wisdom, and great knowledge of the subject at hand. 

 By acquiescing to our ignorance, we disempower ourselves.  Through our faith, we shift that power to The Feds, to Bernanke, to a corrupt government, and a bought and paid for corporate media. 

 This system, of course, includes Bernanke’s buddies at JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other criminal operations who get zero rate loans from the Fed to gamble in the markets, which, due to deregulation Bill Clinton signed into law, is not really a market at all, but a casino flooded with weird sounding “investment vehicles” like Credit Default Swaps and other Derivatives.  They brought us the dot.com bubble and bust, the housing bubble and bust, and they will eventually impoverish nearly every person and country on earth if we don’t wake up.  

 We’re played like suckers.

 The banking system, like a casino, is the “house” and it almost always win, making huge gains on free money from the Fed.  That is, until the music stops, and the whole thing collapses into the pile of rubbish it really is.  In the meantime, you make zilch on your savings. 

Try to understand, the Fed is scared to death of losing control to a deflationary death spiral where everyone sells due to loss of faith in the markets.  That is why they are so intent on keeping inflation around 4%, forcing you to move your money out of a savings account, not wanting your money to decrease in buying power by 4% or more a year.  However, history tells us this will end in hyper-inflation, and the complete devaluation of our currency, just like Weimar Germany which ushered in Hitler and saw a whole country place their heads squarely up their asses.

So where do you put it?  Not your head, your money.  Into the casino market, where you, dear reader, will get fleeced by the big banks who sell your Harvard educated investment adviser on their sick and twisted “investment vehicles” or “safe and secure” stocks and bonds. These Ivy league finance grads are not really educated, but unwittingly schooled to be servants of the banking cabal.  

 We’ve been divided and conquered.

 Take a look around you, dear reader.  You know something is wrong. The game is rigged.  Maybe you thought it was the dirty rotten “free market” that was ruining the country, or the dirty rotten Democrats you equate with fascist dictators, or the dirty rotten Republicans you equate with baby sacrificing corporatists. 

 Maybe you thought Obama would surely set things right.  Maybe you think he just needs another four years to fight off the evil Republicans.  Now I don’t mean to shock you, but it doesn’t really matter if Obama or Romney wins in November.  We’ll still be forced to hand money over to the IRS so our government can fund the war machine.  (If you haven’t figured out by now that we’re NOT spreading freedom and democracy but serving as the cabal’s military muscle to dominate the Middle East, then you’ve probably stopped reading by now anyway.)  

 All that matters is that the Federal Reserve and the corporations it feeds are holding all the cards.  No one gets elected to high office without the blessing of the banksters.  Haven’t you been wondering why Obama has been the greatest disappointment since fat free foods?  Where do you think all that campaign money comes from?  They own the government.  They own the markets.  They own you and your dear sweet children.  

It is not true that Bernanke or his bosses hiding in their shadowy mansions “didn’t see this coming.”  It is not true that there is a “recovery” anywhere in sight.  They know exactly what they’re doing, and they have since they pushed through the National Banking Act in 1863 and created the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913.  

 Stop thinking like a typical American  (30 years is nothing!)

 These are not rugged individual banking CEO’s with a thiry year career span. They are dynastic banking families that reach back generations, and the Federal Reserve was created to service them through employing a cadre of bankers, corporatists and politicians willing to sell their souls to the highest bidder. 

 This too shall pass.

This will not end as well as the movie Heidi did, at least not without a lot of chaos first.  (I won’t tell you the ending, in case you want to check it out.) 

 If you want to prepare for this rather nasty economic collapse, the information is out there.  Lots of people are waking up.  A little googling will go a long way. I also recommend the Oscar winning documentary, Inside Job, or its director, Charles Ferguson’s new book, Predator Nation.  G. Edward Griffin’s new book, The Creature From Jekyll Island is next on my reading list.  If you’re short on time, the following interview with Griffin could render you the most informed person on your block in a half hour’s time.  Then you can ignore that neighbor who keeps bragging about their Ivy League graduate who just nailed a coveted job at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan Chase.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cjx-xXwIkR8 

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