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This was sent to me by email today:

Occasionally Texe Marrs delivers a real gem — particularly when he distances his message from evangelism. The first 20 minutes of the following, along with much of the remainder, give a decent overview of oil politics (after airing out some Christian dirty laundry). — B

The Money Masters

This is a 3 1/2 hour documentary and history of the corruption behind the control of the world’s cash.

A year ago I was speaking with a friend who railed against “the neocons”. I said, “Who are they? The neocons have names,” and I said I wanted names of all these individuals who are neocons–because systems, no matter how corrupt, are run by individuals. So when I look at systems of any sort, I pay heed to names. I generally find individuals are recycled in a cross-section of systems. I also find a lot of system-related individuals tend to run in packs.
For some of you earlier today I sent an article about Investments sought of US-based Mexicans by Mexico and I mentioned paying attention to the names of the people listed for Canada and the US. I also noted those from Britain and some other English names chairing other country offices. I decided to do a little snooping to see where it would lead me. I found the following website:
There I found one of the names of chairs and representatives I recognized from the list, Jan E. Boyer, the US Board of Governor. So I followed the links.
“In 2005, Jan E. Boyer was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the US Senate as United States Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank.” (from sourcewatch link above.)
Jan E Boyer of IADB used to work for Salomon Smith Barney, apparently associated with Don Rumsfeld for he was “currently chairman of the Salomon Smith Barney International Advisory Board” in 2000. Yes, Don Rumsfeld, the guy who signed a letter from PNAC to Bill Clinton in 1998 demanding to go to war with Iraq and take out Saddam Hussein; the one where many of the signers held dual citizenship with Israel; the one where just about all of the signers made it into George Bush’s White House. Definitely click on Rummy’s name to see the rest of the corrupt connections he has.
Salomon Smith and Barney have a history of financial corruption–cheating customers. And getting away with it. Perhaps I could stay up all night looking at the rest of the names and who else they are connected to.
A section of that article is posted at the end of this email.
Jan Boyer also used to work for Lehman Brothers–another international banking machine. The original Lehman brothers were Jewish immigrants from Germany to Alabama in the 1840’s. They have a “long-term presence” in Israel, and have offices there. (Their interesting history here: http://www.lehman.com/who/history/index.htm). They worked with Kuhn and Loeb, who underwrote the railroads of the post-Civil War railroads–and the railroads have a history of corruption–to wit they usurped the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution and gained judicially granted, but illegal, corporate rights as “persons” under that amendment.
Do you see a glimpse of the web that has long been woven? Corruption seems to travel in packs across generations.
Oh, there’s so much more–and we’re only looking at the first person I happened to research!
Here is a long and fascinating (and acerbic) history that includes how entwined the Lehman Brothers are with the Rothschilds and others: http://www.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_december05_ninebillionounces.htm
I concern myself with the Rothschilds, for those who don’t know, because they had a habit (probably still do but they are quite secret) of funding both sides of the same wars, then calling bankrupt countries to pay the piper by taking over control of the cash of the countries fighting. The Rothschilds are the descendants of Mayer Amshel Bauer of the 1700’s, a money changer, who changed his last name to reflect the red shield outside his business–red shield translated in German is Rothschild. He had five sons, and the one that went to London cheated and tricked so many people–even princes and Napoleon– throughout Europe–and got away with it forever. The reason he got away with it? People simply did not understand the depth of his family’s corruption. The Rothschilds are another Jewish family, by the way. So were Kuhn and Loeb of the railroad underwriters I mentioned earlier.
Pay attention to names.
We Americans are so trusting–like the Europeans, we do not understand the depths of corruption.
International banking, transnational corporations seem to be a country all their own–they travel in large packs and are recycled across beams of power. They are also in positions of government–quite frequently.Ok I hear your question–what does this have to do with Mexico and the article I sent earlier? I keep finding article after article that there seems to be a move to fracture the American people, our citizenship, through mass immigration. Immigrants are willing to do jobs that paid American workers $20 an hour back in the early 1980’s for less than $10 an hour today. You can’t feed a family on that–even if you have two full-time workers in the household. Flooding America with immigrants is pulling our overall wages down. You see all those articles that say, oh the unemployment rate is down this month? Those are not middle class jobs that opened up. That’s Walmart. Or worse. The middle class jobs are disappearing.

Drugs. Illegal drugs. 75% of the illegal drugs in America are transported across the Mexican border. HUNDREDS OF BILLONS more of US dollars are siphoned off our economy through drugs. I had a friend say to me once that the easiest country to conquer would be one where all its citizens are addicted to dope. Do it through street drugs, and even with Oxycontin prescriptions. At least 75% of law students abuse drugs so that they can get through school LAW students. As in presenting cases before a judge, becoming judges, running for office.

When I read the article on how the Inter-American Development Bank is assisting Mexicans with loans as part of a larger system that encourages Mexicans based in the US to send money out of the US, I am reminded of the story my sister told me of how standing in line at the small town West By God Virginia grocery store where mostly hick Appalachian people live, she witnessed an obviously illegal immigrant poor Mexican migrant worker Wester Union $1000 (yes–one THOUSAND dollars) to Mexico. This is happening EVERYWHERE.

Remember the depression that began in 1929? We are told it was because of the ‘29 stock market crash. This is BS: the depression began because the Federal Reserve pulled 1/3rd of the cash out of circulation–and there literally wasn’t enough money to go around. During the American Revolution we almost lost against the British because there literally wasn’t enough money to go around among the populace, and to pay the soldiers. Siphoning money off economies do serious harm to people–even if it’s the immigrants doing it.

We’re back to the 1700’s again. Alexander Hamilton believed the US should have a national bank that was privately owned–not owned by the people. He trusted private bank ownership over the masses. I have found more than a few sources where Hamilton had a political romance across the seas to the Rothschilds. I have to not hate Hamilton too much, for I don’t think he truly understood the seriousness of his folly. Jefferson understood it, though.

And why immigrants? A fractured society is the easiest to control. With so many immigrants who are most definitely not assimilating, a violent society, one perhaps that falls into civil war, is one from where a lot of money can be made for those bankers who keep their heads.

I have to share with you a comment from a friend’s email about the article about banking for Mexico:

Their birth rate in Mexico and the the birth rate of their immigrants in the U.S.
will more than negate all of those jobs created in Mexico.
The dollar will collapse and wipe out those remittances because after tax
inflation adjusted wages will be cut in half. They will attempt to make up for it
through a huge crime wave as will many other unemployed. But most of the
crime will be committed by professional criminals and by street gangs. Of
course millions of criminals from overseas will join them in the sacking and
looting of the land of the formerly free.

And when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank make loans to third world and destroyed countries for development, much of that money goes into the pockets of the corrupt, and the populace are stuck with the bill–with interest–and they can never pay on the principle. So the banks own the countries. Think of loans from the Inter-American Development Bank in the same light, for they do business with the devil as well. Folks like Jan E. Boyer know.

All this over just one person’s name. Pay attention to names.

And now the article I found on Boyer’s former employer.

Salomon Smith Barney
(Now renamed Citigroup Global Markets)
(before the 1998 merger)

This page documents the scandals and frauds in which the various arms of Sandy Weill’s companies were involved prior to the 1998 merger to form Citigroup.
…….
Bond Rigging scandal - Wall Street 1991
There was a large Wall Street scandal involving collusion and price fixing at government bond auctions over a 10 year period. Salomon brothers, then an independent group were the ring leaders and were lucky to survive. They admitted the conduct and fired senior staff blaming them. Other groups including Citicorp were then investigated.


The letter (to about 40 firms) seeks information dating back a year - well before the first violation admitted by Salomon - and appears to be an attempt to substantiate allegations that leading Wall Street firms have been fixing prices in the $2,300bn ( pounds 1,400bn) Treasury market for more than a decade.
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Salomon said that nine lawsuits for unspecified damages had been filed against the firm by investors alleging misdeeds by its bond trading unit,
SEC widens investigation into bid-rigging in Treasuries market The Independent (London) August 21, 1991


Salomon Brothers revealed ”trading irregularities” in its bidding at US Treasury auctions that have since turned out to be the biggest bid-rigging scandal Wall Street has known.
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No one in the US bond market really believes the dubious bidding methods were limited to Salomon; ”coups”, as the practice is known, have routinely and publicly been attributed to other primary dealers, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and First Boston, for the better part of a decade.
View From Manhattan: More scandal is on the cards The Independent (London) September 7, 1991

On an internet forum there is a discussion being kicked around on gun control and the VTech tragedy has been revisited, especially in light of several motions recently to limit access to firearms.  Things were a little dicey over this very provocative subject.

I wrote a couple pieces to the forum.  These are only my opinion, but I wanted to share my thoughts on gun control and mental illness.   I work with chronically mentally ill people of all stripes, substance abusers of every life imaginable, and plenty of criminals from petty crimes to crimes of violence, including murder.  I also grew up with guns, and I know how to use them.  I’m hoping to offer a different perspective on this very important issue.  So here goes:

First post

The problem with certain kinds of crazy people eventually accessing guns and blowing people away stems from the mental health system. In the state of Virginia it is very hard to get people help, believe it or not. It’s not the same everywhere, but in far too many places it is–the mental health system is resistant to helping people unless they are showing clear intentions of committing suicide, homicide, or are seriously neglecting their own care (like they haven’t bathed for weeks or eaten in days due to their mental symptoms).

It is against the law to push someone into getting help against their will unless these three things can be observable by the assessing professional.

Why is this such a problem now–like at no other time?? We have DEINSTITUTIONALIZED mental illness. Remember how it used to be that people severely mentally ill would live in mental hospitals for years at a time? It was thought to be cost effective to get them out of the hospitals an into residential housing. This was fine, up to a point. What happened is that a lot of people fell through the cracks and loopholes, because emphasis is placed upon the individual adult’s choice (liberties) to not receive care–unless they become a danger to self or others. So a handful go out and shoot up the town because they aren’t getting any care, and appear somewhat well enough to not warrant a temporary detention order (hospitalization against their will for 72 hours).

Cho was never hospitalized against his will. According to the present law, anyone who has been “TDO’d” may never own a firearm.  It’s a felony.  Cho didn’t have that problem. But he was weird and scary enough to make people feel uncomfortable, and even feel threatened, but he didn’t make direct threats, so he slipped through the cracks.

There was an 18 year old man with schizophrenia who killed two cops in Fairfax VA almost 2 years ago, and he suicided by cop (they shot him). His family and other community mental health professionals tried to get him hospitalized over a period of several weeks. They knew he was in trouble. But his father made the mistake of having guns accessible to him (the man must not be very smart). He had the guns locked in a gun closet, but the son had access to the keys. And that was that.

The problem with saying crazy people can’t have guns is that you take them away from military veterans who have PTSD or any other mental illness–and that is actually happening (I posted a thread on it today).

What must change is the accessibility of mental health services to mentally ill people, and to keep it confidential from even the government. We must allow reinstitutionalization. I know many of those people did very well once they got into the community, but since they closed the long-term hospitals down, new people showing up with mental illness are not getting the help they need. So far most of the shocking acts of violence are coming from people who were diagnosed long after the early 90’s when they started closing long-term hospital care.

Even survivors of victims are reluctant to blame human beings, and that is understandable, so they want to hurt an inanimate object. We understand they are simply not thinking–and they can’t. It is incumbent upon the rest of us to tow the line of reason and make sure the public is educated.

So educate yourself on how the mental health systems are handled in your area–why are some people able to get help, and not others? How does a person slip through the cracks and why? It is preventative care to pay heed to this.

Second post:
VC said:  Excellent post VG. That same 18 year old man went to the same high school as Cho.

Secondly, how can we reach out to the family of victims, and explain to them in a rational way that what they are proposing is going to create all students as sitting ducks?

Third post:

VC,
I think you have exactly the right approach to this and I am hoping people hear what you just said.  These are grieving families who want do something to relieve their grief, but the only thing that will help such tragic loss is time, and even that is only a partial relief.  Being very busy is another thing that can help–so channeling their anger against an inanimate object like weapons seems like a safe way to get out some rage.

We can’t blame grieving families for feeling this way and it’s necessary for the rest of us to rise up to mature levels, stop putting them down, and figure out a way that we can, as you say, REACH OUT to the families of the victims.  Alienation is absolutely the wrong thing to do, and will only cause them to dig in deeper and hurt them further.  I can see it happening, and if we want to change that future, we must understand how to change our approach and attitude now.

Sane, law abiding people who own guns are the only people who can protect and prevent the loss of their own lives and their loved ones in a confrontation with another weapon.  It is the fact at VTech that not even ONE of the loved ones could legally carry a weapon to protect themselves.  People have a hard time seeing this, and I think people are afraid to ponder how vulnerable we all really are, and are afraid to take upon themselves the responsibility of ensuring our own safety.   Getting rid of guns won’t get rid of thugs; it won’t get rid of the 4% of the US population that have anti-social personality disorder; it won’t change the fact that sometimes someone with a severe mental illness slips through the cracks.  These people are here to stay; they will be here in the future, for they have been with us since the times only discovered by archaeological digs.  In fact, more people in modern times are killed than ever before.  If we can get a cop to a bad scene fast enough, lives are saved. But sometimes cops can’t get there fast enough, and they are human too, for sometimes they get killed.

I had a friend who is a sheriff tell me he is trained to be one of several sharp shooters on his force.  I don’t know if he’s ever killed anyone and didn’t ask.  He told me of a story where the force had to respond to a call where there was a violent and drunk man out threatening with his gun, and the force had several with their scopes right on him. One of the other officers shot and killed the man.  If you heard the details of the story you would agree they had no other choice.

The world is unfortunately this way, and it’s absurd to create more sitting ducks, and more victims.

I think what the families want is to at least prevent more people from being victims.  And they want to get out some of their anger.  We need to change the way we talk about this so that they can hear our view.  We need to change our language.  We need to speak on their terms.

For example, they want to prevent others from being victims, and they want to vent some anger.  We need to agree with them.  Tis completely sensible.  I would listen to their thoughts on this, and eventually put forth that some day in the future there will be other people who face either a thug or a person who is completely out of their minds and in possession of a weapon.  We know for a fact that criminals will obtain guns and whatever else they want with little thought to the law.  They will always exist.  So how do we at least reduce the numbers of victims?  There aren’t enough cops, and we know that cops are not bound by law to respond to a call.  If they are busy with other emergencies and there are more calls, they make their best judgment–and sometimes people still get killed.

So what is left?

What is left is that we the people must recognize that we have an innate, inborn, natural right to defend our own lives.  The problem with this, is that even though it is our right just because we are born, many state governments refuse to guarantee that right to save our own lives by making it illegal to carry guns in certain places, and the only ones who obey the law in those places are the law abiding citizens.  Law abiding citizens are not criminals.

And the vast majority of people with mental illness are not killers or would be killers either.  Yet sometimes someone slips through the mental health system.  The fact that Americans must face is there is no such thing as perfection:  There is no such thing as a sure thing.

So we have criminals with guns and profoundly mentally ill people with guns.   There will not be a time when these people don’t exist.  What this means is that the rest of us are the ones who must make the adjustment, because we are the sane, law abiding ones who would like to be as safe as we can, without living out our lives in fear.  This means we must take some responsibility for our own safety.  For many of us, that means wearing firearms, and knowing full well how to use them, and how to be safe with them.

This means changing laws so that law abiding people are allowed to conceal or open carry weapons where it is now illegal for law abiding people to carry.  I am a sitting duck at my office–and lots of criminals come through there.  Just like VTech, I could be killed, too, in spite of the fact that I know how to use a firearm.  It won’t help me if I have a weapon not within my reach if a criminal or profoundly crazy person comes through with an automatic weapon.

The law against wearing firearms on college campus caused law abiding people to die.  If families want to vent anger against an inanimate object, this is the one: change the laws to reflect our God-given, natural born right to preserve our own lives.

It would have taken only ONE bullet to put Cho down.  ONE.  But there wasn’t any because all the victims were honest.  They died and got wounded because they were HONEST.

What must change is that law abiding, honest people need to get even more honest with themselves and understand the police can’t always be there.  We have to be responsible for ourselves, and we have to lift prohibitions on the right of choice to be responsible for ourselves.  Anti-gun laws are prohibition laws against the right to save one’s own life.

Every one of those VTech victims were born with the right to save their own lives and state, local, and even federal laws prohibited this natural born right.  The families of the victims have the right to express their anger–towards the short-sighted lawmakers who are not hearing us.

The rest of us must allow ourselves to imagine what the survivors and victims’ families must be going through.  How would we feel in their shoes, and how can that be reconciled with the vision of people becoming more responsible for their own safety?  These two concepts need not be in aversion.  In a modern world where we have created a society where most people can live in trust with one another, so different from the history of mankind when thugs really did pirate the roads, woods, and seas, we are distressed at the realization that horrific things actually do occur in reputably safe places.  It means we must reconcile ourselves with the fact that safety is an illusion.  We must confront that each day we live is a risk.  To be dependent upon our own decision making ability, I think, is often our greatest fear.  It means owning our own lives.

This is the bottom line:  The government cannot be allowed to own us.  We must own ourselves.

There is a word press weblog euphemistically titled “resistracism”. I say euphemistically because it is not a blog about resisting racism, but spreading it. The writer features many articles that put down white people, and some of the comments posted by others, and published by this blogger, include statements of hatred towards white people, such as:

JCR Says:
May 15, 2007 at 10:12 am All us n***** need to stick together and give it to the man!

The following is the opening lines from one of resistance’s posts: http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/look-out/#more-814

You know that white bashing
Is what I like to do
And if you do not watch out
I will white-bash you.

In another, resistance says the media silences voices on racism and collectively blames it on white people:

Because clearly there is an agenda that supports privilege.

We’ve seen it before when the voices of people of color are suppressed. When the majority opinion is brayed forcefully in the media, and the dissenting voice is written off as radical. Or angry. Or bitter. Just those people playing the race card again.

Originally I stumbled across this website to here: http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/the-helplessness-of-white-people/#comment-2374

If you want to help spread racism and hatred against whites, this is the right site for you. I you are trying to understand racism as a whole, it’s still a good place to start. The article is a constant suspicion of white people no matter what they do–damned if they do; damned if they don’t. Whites are hated no matter what they do.

Here is a short excerpt of the article, and I recommend clicking on the URL for the whole thing, because it gets worse all the way to the end:

The helplessness of white people
Posted by resistance under privilege

Recently I attended a workshop about race and racism primarily attended by white people. And I was really struck by the expressions of helplessness with regard to dealing with racism: “We can’t do it by ourselves,” “We need people of color to help us,” “How can we make friends with people of color who can help us?” “We have no way of understanding race and racism.”

It was stunning to hear a bunch of well-educated people make so many statements about their inability to deal with the subject on their own. And it occurred to me that racism is still portrayed as the problem of people of color, to be solved by people of color. If white people are to work on anti-racism, we must carry them on our backs. Then we are expected to be grateful that they did any work at all. Yet this replicates long-held patterns of privileged behavior and denies primary responsibility.

This is often a problem with white parents with children of color who look to communities of color. Hey, if you weren’t involved in my community before, why do you think I should suddenly throw the door open wide and embrace you? The idea that you are welcome everywhere is one steeped in privilege….

I objected to resistance’s portrayal of white people and her or his attitude, pointing out the racism behind his or her article. I responded in the commentary, which was to be moderated:

Here, I’ll deal with racism if that’s what you want:

You have a mighty intense chip on your shoulder.

My criticism of White people in general is that they are entirely too trusting and take on far too much self blame for the behaviors and complaints of other races.

Did you know, sweety, that White people were also enslaved in America and still are around the world? Blacks were not the only slaves on this planet. Over a million Whites were enslaved by the Arabs, and White women are still kidnapped from Russia and Eastern Europe for sexual slavery, and most are taken into the Middle East–they are big business in Israel.

ALL of the Irish were enslaved–meaning that the 44 million Irish Americans are descendants of slaves. All of them. That is more descendants of White slavery than there are Black people living in America. Irish people who protested their enslavement were criminalized and sailed off to penal colonies in Australia and South Africa, never to see their families again. During the Potato Famine, one-third of the Irish were genocided by systematic starvation, and another one-third fled into exile. The Irish today are the remaining children of the survivors.

Thousands of other White people from throughout Europe were also slaves in America. Rape of slaves by White masters? Will you tell me how so many Black people in America also happen to have Irish genes???

White privilege?? You obviously have never been to Appalachia! White privilege is a bold-faced lie. The mostly White Appalachians have a much higher rate of poverty and unemployment than the rest of the country. They don’t know what privilege looks like up close. I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains, lived in poverty since babyhood, my father died before I was two, and I helped my mother grow vegetables for food that she canned in effort to make ends meet. She hand made over half of my clothes growing. Two years went by when she didn’t have enough money to buy me clothes.

White Privilege?? Who invented that terms? I recall seeing last April of 2007 where at the University of Colorado they had a weekend conference on White Privilege. Over half of about 15 sponsoring organizations were Jewish organization.

White Privilege? 59% of Bill Clinton’s administration and appointees were Jewish, even though their population is only 2.9%.

White Privilege? 25% of the student seats at Harvard University and 35% of the same at the Universtiy of Michighan are held by Jewish students even though their population is only 2.9%

White Privilege?? According to the website of the United States Department of Justice in the year 2005, in statistics of interracial rapes, over 37,000 White women were raped by Black men–this does not include gang rapes. The statistics of the reverse, of White men raping Black women?

ZERO.

Not one White man.

Line up many people of different races, all of equal knowledge and experience, for a job. White people, especially White men, are half as likely to get the job as Black people. Blacks are 12% of the US; Whites are 60%. You would think 60% of those who got the job would be White, and 12% would be Black if things were truly equal. Half as often as Black people means a Black person of equal skill by population ratio are 12 times as likely to get that job.

Every time Black people have any conflicts with people who are White the first theing they yell is RACISM. But when Channon Christiansen and Christopher Newsome, a White couple at a college in Tennessee were carjacked, raped, tortured, butchered, and murdered by five Black people last January people everywhere denied it was racism.

Gang violence against Whites is epidemic. In September 2007 three young Black men killed 12 year old Emily Elizabeth Haddock when she was home sick in Moore County North Carolina. Sounds privileged to me. Where were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for her? Jackson admits to spitting in food about to be served to White people when he used to work in a South Carolina restaurant! I do believe that is called HATE and RACISM.

The Duke lacrosse team were certainly privileged–to have their names ruined by a lying Black prostitute and her White guilt carrying prosecuting attorney.

Stop pretending that all White people are slave masters. None of us are, and most Whites were not then. Many slave masters were Jewish, and many were Native American. Most of the people who captured Africans to be sold into slavery were other Africans–and they continue to be today. Most of the distribution was done by Jews. It was most certainly wrong that any White person ever bought slaves, but all races including your own did this to your ancestors. And you and I are no longer slaves today.

If I can pull myself up by the bootstraps out of poverty and not whine about what I don’t have or people didn’t give me, then I refuse to listen to anyone else whine either. Grow up and take some responsibility for YOURSELF.

Those people in your workshop were trying to be helpful. They carry “White guilt” for something they didn’t do. They want to be helpful because they are gullible and trusting. You don’t appreciate any of it because you are quite entitled.

AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T HAVE CHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDERS. And no White person put that chip on your shoulder–you did.

My comment was moderated–it was not published. It is an underwhelming and completely expected act of hypocrisy, given resistance’s complaint of the media’s banning of opinions that don’t uphold “white privilege”, and “the dissenting voice is written off as radical”. When you do the same thing to others what you complain is done to you, I don’t think you have a leg to stand on.

If one demands to be heard, they must begin with hearing. If one demands that racism stop, then they must stop being racist themselves.