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Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Maybe we should go at it through unconventional means.
I read the other day...if everyone bought silver, it would fail the banks.
Now that would be epic.
Executive Order 6102: "Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933"
Wickard v. Filburn
The government claimed that if Mr. Filburn grew wheat for his own use, he would not be buying it — and that affected interstate commerce....
The Court's opinion must be quoted to be believed:
[The wheat] supplies a need of the man who grew it which would otherwise be reflected by purchases in the open market. Home-grown wheat in this sense competes with wheat in commerce."
As Epstein commented, "Could anyone say with a straight face that the consumption of home-grown wheat is 'commerce among the several states?'"
www.fff.org...
How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People:
...Mounting evidence, however, makes clear that poor people were principal victims of the New Deal. The evidence has been developed by dozens of economists -- including two Nobel Prize winners -- at Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, the University of California (Berkeley) and University of Chicago, among other universities.
New Deal programs were financed by tripling federal taxes from $1.6 billion in 1933 to $5.3 billion in 1940....
"Very few of even the larger international NGOs are operationally democratic, in the sense that members elect officers or direct policy on particular issues," notes Peter Spiro. "Arguably it is more often money than membership that determines influence, and money more often represents the support of centralized elites, such as major foundations, than of the grass roots." The CGG has benefited substantially from the largesse of the MacArthur, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations. www.afn.org...
"...the J.P. Morgan [banking] interests.... and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the US.... They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. ...an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information...." Congressman Oscar Callaway statements included in the Congressional Record (vol. 54, February 9, 1917, p. 2947).
www.crossroad.to...
Time Warner
VIACOM
Vivendi Universal
Walt Disney
News Corp
Those 5 companies own 95% of all the media that we get every day. They own the major entertainment theme parks, entertainment movie studios, television and radio broadcast networks and programing, video news and sports entertainment.
Source: hubpages.com...
International Harmonization
www.cfsan.fda.gov...
The harmonization of laws, regulations and standards between and among trading partners requires intense, complex, time-consuming negotiations by CFSAN officials. Harmonization must simultaneously facilitate international trade and promote mutual understanding, while protecting national interests and establish a basis to resolve food issues on sound scientific evidence in an objective atmosphere. Failure to reach a consistent, harmonized set of laws, regulations and standards within the freetrade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreements can result in considerable economic repercussions.
Participation in Codex Alimentarius
Cosmetics International Activities
International Organizations and Standard-Setting Bodies...
Small firms:
• Represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
• Employ half of all private sector employees.
• Pay 44 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
• Generated 65 percent of net new jobs over the past 17 years.
• Create more than half of the nonfarm private GDP.
• Hire 43 percent of high tech workers (scientists, engineers, computer programmers, and others).
• Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
• Made up 97.5 percent of all identified exporters and produced 31 percent of export value in FY 2008.
• Produce 13 times more patents per employee than large patenting firms.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.sba.gov...
Mr. President, you have been so correct in resisting attempts to balance the budget by increasing taxes. The tax load on the average American family is already at counterproductive levels with the underground economy having now grown to an estimated $500 billion per year, costing about $100 billion in lost Federal tax revenues per year.
The size of the underground economy is understandable when one considers that median family income taxes have increased from $9 in 1948 to $2,218 in 1983, or by 246 times. This is runaway taxation at its worst.
Importantly, any meaningful increases in taxes from personal income would have to come from lower and middle income families, as 90 percent of all personal taxable income is generated below the taxable income level of $35,000.
Further, there isn't much more that can be extracted from high income brackets. If the Government took 100 percent of all taxable income beyond the $75,000 tax bracket not already taxed, it would get only $17 billion, and this confiscation, which would destroy productive enterprise, would only be sufficient to run the Government for seven days.
Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:
* One-third of all their taxes is consumed by waste and inefficiency in the Federal Government as we identified in our survey.
* Another one-third of all their taxes escapes collection from others as the underground economy blossoms in direct proportion to tax increases and places even more pressure on law abiding taxpayers, promoting still more underground economy-a vicious cycle that must be broken.
* With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.
What is the three second rule, you ask? Three seconds is the amount of time that you have to grab the attention of a...visitor...
So with that in mind you need to remember that a good banner campaign is one that stops someone in their tracks and causes their eyes to pull away from what they are doing and want to peer at your ad. Once you have accomplished that, you have just burned an impression in that users mind of your product, company logo, and/or message. The best ad designs will burn all three.
www.rcuniverse.com...
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
Originally posted by rusethorcain
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
I think we are in total agreement!
Well...except this...
I would not wish to live in a society that is autonomous.
au·ton·o·mous
self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
If you do not desire a self governing, independent society, what "type" society would you like to live in?
First off, that is completely impossible, far too many people are lazy and useless.
Secondly, Secret Societies, would never allow that to happen, ever, unless they were eliminated.
Thirdly, Utopia is nothing I seek out, it is an impossible dream, just that a dream.
I've grown accustomed to defending myself, protecting myself, and doing the right thing, alone.
We support those "legal killers" along with corporatism. You pay for it, you support them if you shop.
Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by rusethorcain
We support those "legal killers" along with corporatism. You pay for it, you support them if you shop.
Actually I shop farmers markets, direct from the farmer, and small business people. I try NOT to support Walmart or any of the rest. I pay more, eat better and sleep better at night.
I think a great portion of shoppers will go this route, though you are in the minority now. Of course there will always be a Walmart - it is too late to stop it. We will eventually break down into a dual society of superficial, ad driven, repeat consumers of mega markets and self sufficient folks who "grow their own" and get together to barter or trade commodities. That is if we do not destroy all the land, trees and soil it takes to grow.
Quote from : The Money Reform Party : United Kingdom
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Baum and Bryan wanted money to be based on silver, not gold, as silver was more readily available in the Mid-West, where it was mined. Such a money supply could not be manipulated by the banks. So the story of the Wizard of Oz starts with a cyclone in the form of imagined electoral success for Bryan...
Dorothy, a sort of proverbial ‘Everywoman’, lands on the Wicked Witch of the East (the East-coast bankers), killing her, so freeing the Munchkins, the down-trodden poor, but the Wicked Witch of the West (the West-coast bankers) remains loose.
To deal with her and to get back to Kansas (normality), the Good Witch of the North, representing the electorate of the North (this is less than 40 years after the civil war), tells Dorothy to seek out the Wizard of Oz (‘oz’ being short for ounce, the means of weighing both gold and silver). She also gives her a pair of silver slippers (as they were in the book - they became ruby ones in the film). Only these silver slippers will enable her to remain safe on the yellow-brick road, representing the bankers’ gold standard, as she heads towards the Emerald City, representing Washington DC.
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Quote from : Destron Fearing Website
Destron Fearing is a global leader in innovative animal identification.
With presence in over 40 countries worldwide we seek to provide real world ID solutions to match the ever increasing complexity and opportunities related to animal identification.
Since 1945 we have provided innovative products addressing the needs of livestock producers, companion animal owners, horse owners, wildlife managers and government agencies.
Destron Fearing provides a full complement of radio frequency identification products and software solutions to automate the collection of critical livestock production and carcass information.
Individual and herd information can then be easily transferred between all parties involved in the production and retail of meat products.
Information sharing allows the food industry to meet the discriminating demands of the market place.
Quote from : Wikipedia : Digital Angel : Subsidiaries
Digital Angel GPS and RFID products enable the rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of people.
Applications of their products include identification and monitoring of pets and fish with implantable RFID microchips, identification of livestock with ear tags, GPS based search and rescue beacons for aircraft, ships, boats, and individuals.
Animal Identification Segment
Daploma
Destron Fearing - Leading US manufacture since 1945.
Pioneered microchip technology for animals in 1980s.
Asset Identification Segment
Signature Industries LTD. - UK-based company since WWII, supplying electric safety products, and major supplier to the RAF.
SARBE - Encrypted GPS emergency beacons for military forces
McMurdo - Supplier of maritime emergency location beacons and navigational devices in Europe
Digital Angel owns a minority position (49%) in [www.verichipcorp.com VeriChip Corporation] (NASDAQ:CHIP).
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Quote from : Wikipedia : Verichip
VeriChip is the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved human-implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip.
It is marketed by VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, and it received United States FDA approval in 2004.
About twice the length of a dime, the device is typically implanted between the shoulder and elbow area of an individual’s right arm.
Once scanned at the proper frequency, the VeriChip responds with a unique 16 digit number which could be then linked with information about the user held on a database for identity verification, medical records access and other uses.
The insertion procedure is performed under local anesthetic in a physician's office.
As an implanted device used for identification by a third party, it has generated controversy and debate.
Destron Fearing, a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions, initially developed the technology for the VeriChip.
Quote from : We The People Will Not Be Chipped Website
1.The VeriChip can be hacked
2.Security researcher Jonathan Westhues has shown how easy it is to clone a VeriChip
3.VeriChip cloning demo online at cq.cx...
4.Eighteen employees in the Mexican Attorney General's office who use an implanted chip to enter a sensitive records room
5.Company's own literature indicates that chipped patients cannot undergo an MRI if they're unconscious.
6.Digital Angel Corporation (formerly Destron Fearing) has been involved in the development and manufacture of livestock identification products since 1948.
7.The company admits that critical medical information linked to the chip could be unavailable in a real emergency.
8.Chipped patients might also have to wear a Medic Alert bracelet as a back-up in case the VeriChip database containing their critical medical information is unavailable
9.Physicians are told the product might not function in places where there are ambient radio transmissions--like ambulances
10.Verichip Waiver "Patient...is fully aware of any risks, complications, risks of loss, damage of any nature, and injury that may be associated with this registration.
Patient waives all claims and releases any liability arising from this registration and acknowledges that no warranties of any kind have been made or will be made with respect to this registration.
ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, HOWEVER ARISING, WHETHER BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MECHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE EXCLUDED AND WAIVED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE TO PATIENT FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST INCOME OR SAVINGS) ARISING FROM ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SUCH DAMAGES ARE SOUGHT BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY."
Where Did All The Money Go?
Thank you.
I've only gotten started exposing this nonsense.
And I wrote a thread speaking on the Federal Reserve, a quasi-governmental organization, privately owned.
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve...
...Of mergers and acquisitions each costing $1 million or more, there were just 10 in 1970; in 1980, there were 94; in 1986, there were 346. A third of such deals in the 1980's were hostile. The 1980's also saw a wave of giant leveraged buyouts. Mergers, acquisitions and L.B.O.'s, which had accounted for less than 5 percent of the profits of Wall Street brokerage houses in 1978, ballooned into an estimated 50 percent of profits by 1988...
THROUGH ALL THIS, THE HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP between product and paper has been turned upside down. Investment bankers no longer think of themselves as working for the corporations with which they do business. These days, corporations seem to exist for the investment bankers.... In fact, investment banks are replacing the publicly held industrial corporations as the largest and most powerful economic institutions in America....
THERE ARE SIGNS THAT A VICIOUS spiral has begun, as each corporate player seeks to improve its standard of living at the expense of another's.
Corporate raiders transfer to themselves, and other shareholders, part of the income of employees by forcing the latter to agree to lower wages.
January 29, 1989 www.nytimes.com... New York Times
Originally posted by rusethorcain
You only think you are alone. You are breathing air someone else just choked up.
Let's see you defend yourself against a microbe.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Far too many people have not found their calling to be sure.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
I wouldn't say everyone is lazy and even lazy people could contribute but to even ask for anything of them smacks of communism so we are painted into a corner.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Lazy people?
Originally posted by rusethorcain
How about enterprising thieves making fortunes on useless ineffective products later discovered to be killers.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
You (we) respect those people though.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Bow down to the capitalist model.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Take pharmaceuticals.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Finally surpassing car accidents as the countries #1 killer.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Or Toyota and the lives lost to them.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
We support those "legal killers" along with corporatism.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
You pay for it, you support them if you shop.
Time I start creating some jobs, first for me, second for anyone interested, third for people I seek out.