This article is loaded with very important
information about the international banking system, the gold market and China’s
current activities. The insights about how the international monetary system
operates are very revealing. Jim Rickards is one of the most sought after
monetary experts in the world and I have been following his work for a long
time. Pay close attention to what Rickards says -- http://bonnerandpartners.com/weekend-edition-why-most-gold-bugs-are-dead-wrong/
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Can the Political-Financial Power Complex be Redeemed?
Back
in the eighteenth century, Voltaire wrote that, “With Great Power, there must
also come Great Responsibility.” Stan Lee echoed the sentiment in his first
Spiderman comic book in 1962. Recent financial leaders have shown no such
affinity toward responsibility. Instead, the Big Six bank leaders exercise a
historically dangerous power while enjoying Washington’s full ideological and
financial support with no strings attached. Lax regulators, politicians eager
for lucrative private sector jobs after public service and we taxpayers,
subsidize them. Their firms’ fraudulent practices transcend borders. During the
past three decades, America’s most elite bankers have worked strategically to
bend the banking system, the laws, and the federal government to support their
supremacy. Read the complete article at -- http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2015/04/08/can-the-political-financial-power-complex-be-redeemed/
Thursday, April 2, 2015
What is Power?
Power
is ability to move someone or something from one place to another, to do something
or not do something.
● Power consists of persuasion or force.
● Persuasion is when the cause of
movement or action comes from within a person or thing.
● Force is when the cause of movement or
actions from outside a person or thing.
● The promise of a reward or threat of harm
is a form of persuasion.
● Physically pushing someone or
something from one place to another is a form of force.
● Laws are a form of persuasion.
● A prison is a form of force.
● Money is the greatest instrument of persuasion.
● Money only exists by persuasion.
● The larger the number of people that
act together, the greater the power.
Become
aware of the power matrix in which you and the rest of us live. Many uses of
power are done in the open, but many others are being done in stealth through mass communication systems and social media without our being aware of them.
Cogitate
on this for a while!
The
Country Cogitator
Friday, February 6, 2015
Does Your Pharmacy Have the Same Problem as Cleburne’s Walgreen Pharmacy?
As
I rounded the corner to head down the aisle to the pharmacy, I saw the dreaded
sight – a line that extended across the
aisle I was on and across part of the next aisle. So, I changed my course
and moved over to that aisle so I could intercept the line and find my place at
the end. Once in line I realized it would probably not be as bad as I first
though because there were only four people in front of me – for some reason they decided to keep a safe
distance of about 4 ft. between them.
You
know how it is when you submit to “the line.” Our senses start taking in
everything in our surrounding – probably inherited
this from our ancestors who wanted to make sure there were no mountain lines or
rattlesnakes close by where they were waiting in line for a drink of water.
This makes us really good at spotting potential threats – and I did. Over to
the left there were four people sitting in chairs waiting on prescriptions and
outside the drive thru window there were two cars. We were all looking toward
one spot – and that spot was occupied by
one young woman. There were ten of us all looking at her!
I
quickly noticed that she was looking somewhere too – back in the pharmacy where
there were three or four other Walgreen employees staying business and making
sure they made no eye contact with us.
After
about 25 or more minutes standing in line, I made it to her – provided the
usual stuff – name, address, DOB. She
went over and picked up a bag and handed it to me and told me to put my info in
the system. When she told me the price I asked her if that was correct, it was
only about half what it was supposed to be – and then it happened. She looked
in the bag and there was only one bottle. Then she went back to the computer
and clicked and said – they only filled one prescription. With a strained
forced smile she said – “Would you like
wait for us to fill it – in about another 30 minutes?”
That’s
when I decided this Walgreen pharmacy has a problem. A problem is an existing
situation that fails to meet values and expectations.” So I analyzed the
situation and came up with the following options for what the problem is:
(1) Customers are less important than
other things.
(2) Employees that interact with
customers are too expensive to hire.
(3) Too many customers show at once.
(4) Too many customers show up at the
wrong time.
After
cogitating on this highly important situation I reached this conclusion – This Walgreen Pharmacy must have too many
customers!
What
do you think? Got any suggestions?
The
Country Cogitator
PS I feel a little better now.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Secret Meeting, Too Big to Fail & Too Powerful to Prosecute
What
would you think if a CNN Breaking News announcement interrupted the regular
program and a reporter appeared announcing that the US Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, a US Senator, and five high level officers of the largest banks
in America had been discovered secretly meeting to create a system in which
private banks would take control of the entire monetary system of the USA?
In
November 1910, CNN did not exist, but the meeting described above took place.
The men traveled by private train to a private resort owned by J. P. Morgan at Jekyll Island off the Georgia coast.
Those present were:[i]
(1) Frank Vanderlip, President of Rockefeller’s
National City Bank of New York.
(2) Henry P. Davidson, senior partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.
(3) Charles D. Norton, President of Morgan-controlled First National Bank of
New York.
(4) Benjamin Strong, Vice President of Morgan-controlled Bankers Trust.
(5) Paul Warburg, a German immigrant and
senior partner of Kuhn Loeb & Co.
(6) A. Platt Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
(7) Senator Nelson Aldrich, chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, and father-in-law
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Warburg’s
plan proposed the creation of the Federal
Reserve Association, an association with twelve member banks whose stock would be owned by private stockholders.
The Federal Reserve Association would control the nation’s money and credit; it
would be a bank of issue, meaning the private
bankers would be able to create currency or money at will, and it would finance
the Government by securing credit in times of war. Senator Aldrich later
admitted the agenda in a magazine article:
Before passage
of this Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York.
Now we are able to dominate bank reserves of the entire country.[ii]
Contrary to what many Americans
believe -- the Federal Reserve System is
not a government agency. It is a private corporation completely owned by
commercial banks. What do you believe is their top priority – making the most money or increasing the quality
of life for the most Americans?
The one thing I can’t figure out is why so many Americans
have bought into the mantra – “the less
government regulation the better off America will be.” Who do you think
benefits the most from less regulation? Could it be –
Banks that are too big to fail!
&
Bankers that are too powerful to prosecute!
Or,
as US Attorney General Eric Holder said:
"I am concerned that the size of
some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for
us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute,
if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the
national economy, perhaps even the world economy."[iii]
Now
that’s the ideal situation for an elite few – but I don’t think it is what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they
created our great nation. Tocqueville predicted that if American citizens failed to voluntarily associate together to achieve great
things by participating in the governing process, the following will happen:
(1) Wealthy and powerful men would come to
control the governing process and use it to increase their power and wealth.
(2) Individuals will become powerless because
they dependent on wealthy and powerful individuals.
(3) Freedom and liberty will be in great
jeopardy and the existence of the nation will be endangered.
Cogitate on that
awhile!
The
Country Cogitator
Banking 101
Introduction
How
important is money to most people? It is clearly a basic requirement for life
and most people spend the majority of their lives working to acquire it. So,
what do you know about money itself? Do you know the answers to these
questions?
(1) What
is money?
(2) Where
does it come from?
(3) Who
makes it?
Wouldn’t
you think that people who spend so much time and effort trying to acquire money
would make it their business to know as much as possible about money? How many
courses about money did you take in high school and college? Doesn’t that seem
strange?
The
reason the masses aren’t taught about money and the banking system is probably
because those who control the banking and monetary systems do not want them to
know what they have done in the past and what they are doing now. We are about
to change things and let the genie out of the box.
What is money?
The
answer we are going to give for this question is for what money was before the
1970s. There have been significant changes since then.
(1) commodity money – A commodity is something
useful or valued.[i]
It is something that can be traded for something else. In the history of
mankind, a wide range of commodities have served as money: salt,
hides, cattle, slaves, tobacco, sugar, metals, silver, and gold, to name a few.
At any moment in time, there are likely to be several commodities that strive
for the position of being the universal standard for pricing (dollars, ounces
of gold, number of cows, etc.).[ii]
(2) fiat money -- Fiat money replaces
commodity money with valueless and
inconvertible symbols issued by the state. It ultimately rests on social
trust in the ability of the state to enforce payments in this form of money; it
competes with commodity money and restricts the presence of the latter in the
sphere of exchange; it also provides a standard unit of account for prices.
Fiat money can take several forms varying from cheap metallic coin, to crude
paper monies with forced circulation, to sophisticated legal tender issued by
central banks and backed by state debt.[iii]
(3) credit money -- Credit money is
a privately issued form of money that results from credit relations among
agents of circulation. It is inherently a promise to pay in the future, a
liability of the issuer. Credit money is normally created as financial
institutions issue liabilities to finance the loans they make. By the same
token, credit money returns to its issuer as loans mature (liabilities drain
away). Final settlement requires either cancellation against another promise to
pay, or the intervention of commodity or fiat money. [iv]
So,
money can be a commodity, something that is valueless issued by the state, or a
promise to pay something in the future. This is probably not the definition you
had in mind a few seconds ago. The
acceptance of fiat or credit money ultimately rests on social trust in the ability of the state to enforce payments
in that form of money.[v]
If a society does not have that trust, it will turn to commodity money instead.
The bottom line is that the whole USA monetary systems ultimately exists because of one thing -- TRUST! The government's -- and the 1%'s -- greatest fear is that people will stop trusting the system.
Cogitate on that for awhile!
The Country Cogitator
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