War By Other Means

John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges.

War By Other Means

John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). 

This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global banking institutions. 

Instead of bombs, it has been discovered that debt is a far more powerful weapon to control and maintain the power of global economic interests. 

It turns out that the "structural-adjustment" policies of neo-liberal economics are even more deadly than nerve gas and many other weapons of war. 

This documentary backs up many of the claims made by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Wars Based On Lies

A short video editorial discussing America's war in the middle east. Featuring clips from the documentary "Why We Fight", along with footage of speeches made by Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek

Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before.

Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. Not stupid, just a little quick to pull out my wallet. As a small example, I’m buying expensive coffees again, even though they aren’t nearly as good as New Zealand’s exceptional flat whites, and I don’t get to savor the experience of drinking them on a sunny café patio. When I was away these purchases were less off-handed, and I enjoyed them more.

I’m not talking about big, extravagant purchases. I’m talking about small-scale, casual, promiscuous spending on stuff that doesn’t really add a whole lot to my life. And I won’t actually get paid for another two weeks.

In hindsight I think I’ve always done this when I’ve been well-employed — spending happily during the “flush times.” Having spent nine months living a no-income backpacking lifestyle, I can’t help but be a little more aware of this phenomenon as it happens.

I suppose I do it because I feel I’ve regained a certain stature, now that I am again an amply-paid professional, which seems to entitle me to a certain level of wastefulness. There is a curious feeling of power you get when you drop a couple of twenties without a trace of critical thinking. It feels good to exercise that power of the dollar when you know it will “grow back” pretty quickly anyway.

What I’m doing isn’t unusual at all. Everyone else seems to do this. In fact, I think I’ve only returned to the normal consumer mentality after having spent some time away from it.

One of the most surprising discoveries I made during my trip was that I spent much less per month traveling foreign counties (including countries more expensive than Canada) than I did as a regular working joe back home. I had much more free time, I was visiting some of the most beautiful places in the world, I was meeting new people left and right, I was calm and peaceful and otherwise having an unforgettable time, and somehow it cost me much less than my humble 9-5 lifestyle here in one of Canada’s least expensive cities.

It seems I got much more for my dollar when I was traveling. Why?

A Culture Of Unnecessaries

Here in the West, a lifestyle of unnecessary spending has been deliberately cultivated and nurtured in the public by big business. Companies in all kinds of industries have a huge stake in the public’s penchant to be careless with their money. They will seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential spending whenever they can.

In the documentary The Corporation, a marketing psychologist discussed one of the methods she used to increase sales. Her staff carried out a study on what effect the nagging of children had on their parents’ likelihood of buying a toy for them. They found out that 20% to 40% of the purchases of their toys would not have occurred if the child didn’t nag its parents. One in four visits to theme parks would not have taken place. They used these studies to market their products directly to children, encouraging them to nag their parents to buy.

This marketing campaign alone represents many millions of dollars that were spent because of demand that was completely manufactured.

“You can manipulate consumers into wanting, and therefore buying, your products. It’s a game.” ~ Lucy Hughes, co-creator of “The Nag Factor”

This is only one small example of something that has been going on for a very long time. Big companies didn’t make their millions by earnestly promoting the virtues of their products, they made it by creating a culture of hundreds of millions of people that buy way more than they need and try to chase away dissatisfaction with money.

We buy stuff to cheer ourselves up, to keep up with the Joneses, to fulfill our childhood vision of what our adulthood would be like, to broadcast our status to the world, and for a lot of other psychological reasons that have very little to do with how useful the product really is. How much stuff is in your basement or garage that you haven’t used in the past year?

The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek

The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so scarce.

I’ve only been back at work for a few days, but already I’m noticing that the more wholesome activities are quickly dropping out of my life: walking, exercising, reading, meditating, and extra writing.

The one conspicuous similarity between these activities is that they cost little or no money, but they take time.

Suddenly I have a lot more money and a lot less time, which means I have a lot more in common with the typical working North American than I did a few months ago. While I was abroad I wouldn’t have thought twice about spending the day wandering through a national park or reading my book on the beach for a few hours. Now that kind of stuff feels like it’s out of the question. Doing either one would take most of one of my precious weekend days!

The last thing I want to do when I get home from work is exercise. It’s also the last thing I want to do after dinner or before bed or as soon as I wake, and that’s really all the time I have on a weekday.

This seems like a problem with a simple answer: work less so I’d have more free time. I’ve already proven to myself that I can live a fulfilling lifestyle with less than I make right now. Unfortunately, this is close to impossible in my industry, and most others. You work 40-plus hours or you work zero. My clients and contractors are all firmly entrenched in the standard-workday culture, so it isn’t practical to ask them not to ask anything of me after 1pm, even if I could convince my employer not to.

The eight-hour workday developed during the industrial revolution in Britain in the 19th century, as a respite for factory workers who were being exploited with 14- or 16-hour workdays.

As technologies and methods advanced, workers in all industries became able to produce much more value in a shorter amount of time. You’d think this would lead to shorter workdays.

But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

Western economies, particularly that of the United States, have been built in a very calculated manner on gratification, addiction, and unnecessary spending. We spend to cheer ourselves up, to reward ourselves, to celebrate, to fix problems, to elevate our status, and to alleviate boredom.

Can you imagine what would happen if all of America stopped buying so much unnecessary fluff that doesn’t add a lot of lasting value to our lives?

The economy would collapse and never recover.

All of America’s well-publicized problems, including obesity, depression, pollution and corruption are what it costs to create and sustain a trillion-dollar economy. For the economy to be “healthy”, America has to remain unhealthy. Healthy, happy people don’t feel like they need much they don’t already have, and that means they don’t buy a lot of junk, don’t need to be entertained as much, and they don’t end up watching a lot of commercials.

The culture of the eight-hour workday is big business’ most powerful tool for keeping people in this same dissatisfied state where the answer to every problem is to buy something.

You may have heard of Parkinson’s Law. It is often used in reference to time usage: the more time you’ve been given to do something, the more time it will take you to do it. It’s amazing how much you can get done in twenty minutes if twenty minutes is all you have. But if you have all afternoon, it would probably take way longer.

Most of us treat our money this way. The more we make, the more we spend. It’s not that we suddenly need to buy more just because we make more, only that we can, so we do. In fact, it’s quite difficult for us to avoid increasing our standard of living (or at least our rate of spending) every time we get a raise.

I don’t think it’s necessary to shun the whole ugly system and go live in the woods, pretending to be a deaf-mute, as Holden Caulfield often fantasized. But we could certainly do well to understand what big commerce really wants us to be. They’ve been working for decades to create millions of ideal consumers, and they have succeeded. Unless you’re a real anomaly, your lifestyle has already been designed.

The perfect customer is dissatisfied but hopeful, uninterested in serious personal development, highly habituated to the television, working full-time, earning a fair amount, indulging during their free time, and somehow just getting by.

Is this you?

Two weeks ago I would have said hell no, that’s not me, but if all my weeks were like this one has been, that might be wishful thinking.

By David Cain

The International Banking Cartel

Courtesy Of: PressTV

A look at the International Banking Cartel led by the Bank for International Settlement (in Basel, Switzerland) known as the bank of central banks (58 central banks) and The US Federal reserve System. 

Also a look at banking tycoons: from the Rothschild family in Europe to JP Morgan and others in the US. How banks not only control governments but also appoint politicians through huge campaign donations. 

Governments at the service of the major banks, the best example: the Obama administration and the history's biggest bail out of the same institutions that caused the Great Recession.

How Grossly Unfair The U.S. Tax System Has Become

By Mark Gongloff

Apple CEO Tim Cook waved a magic wand in front of America on Tuesday, vanishing our outrage over how shamelessly companies avoid paying taxes, leaving the rest of us to foot the bill. As a public service to you, here is a chart that should enrage you about corporate tax rates all over again! (Story continues below chart of RAGE.)

Notice the beige stripe that is shrinking steadily? That stripe is the percentage corporate taxes contribute to total federal revenue. And notice the olive-green stripe that has swollen to be larger than the beige stripe used to be? That is the contribution of payroll taxes to federal revenue.

What this shows is how dramatically corporate tax contributions have shrunk in the past several decades, and how our personal taxes have risen to fill the gap. Payroll taxes now make up 35 percent of all federal government tax receipts, up from 11 percent in 1950. Corporate income taxes, meanwhile, now make up less than 10 percent of federal revenue, down from about 26 percent in 1950.

To 'splain those numbers a little more clearly: We who are on the payrolls of companies now bear way more of a tax burden than those companies bore decades ago. Those companies, meanwhile, bear less of a burden than we ever did.

And this doesn't include individual income tax, which accounts for about 46 percent of total federal tax receipts, roughly the same as 60 years ago.

Update: This chart of course does not reflect the fact that employers typically cover half of the payroll taxes collected by the government. Assuming companies pay half of the payroll taxes in this chart, the total tax burden for individual Americans is reduced to about 63 percent of total federal revenue, instead of 81 percent, as I estimated in an earlier version of this story. But that is up from about 45 percent in 1950.

And the total corporate contribution to federal revenue, including employers' share of payroll taxes, has dwindled from 32 percent in 1950 to about 17 percent today. Employer contributions to payroll taxes make the unfairness of the tax code slightly less unfair, but the trend is still clear and dramatic: Corporations are paying a lot less than they used to.

This chart was produced for aSeptember 2012 report (download-y PDF file) about corporate tax avoidance by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Walter Hickey of Business Insider helpfully republished the chart on Tuesday, in honor of Cook's testimony before the same subcommittee. Update: The Senate lifted the chart directly from an earlier Tax Policy Center report about the sources of government revenue.

Cook was there to techsplain how Apple holding $102 billion of cash offshore isn't really tax avoidance so much as good old fashioned ingenuity. Also, have you forgotten the shiny objects Apple makes (including the dreamy MacBook Air on which this here story was typed)? By the end of the hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had demanded that Congress apologize to Apple for the inconvenience, and Sen. John McCain (R-My Lawn) was reduced to gently jibing Cook about how often he has to update his apps.

And Rand Paul is kind of right, you guys, as is Tim Cook: We should not be so mad at Apple for doing what the law allows. We should be mad that the law allows Apple and other companies to keep billions of dollars of cash offshore and out of the government coffers, where it could be helping the unemployed and our crumbling infrastructure and such. Another thing we can get mad about is how the "corporate tax reform" that Cook and other corporate leaders are always banging on about will actually serve tomake it so companies pay even less in taxes than they do now.

Capitalism Has Failed The World

Courtesy Of Al-Jazeera

It seems that mistakes made in Wall Street and the City of London are paid for by people around the world, but can we govern greed within the realm of capitalism or is it all just money down the drain? Is austerity really needed? Can we trust the banks?

Lord Turner said: “I’m not an egalitarian, I’m not a socialist, but I am worried about the sheer extent of the inequality that’s now growing. I think finance is part of that story.”

Lord Turner was at the helm of the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the wake of the financial meltdown and is now trying to find ground-breaking solutions to global problems at the Institute of New Economic Thinking. Hasan challenges a man at the heart of rethinking the global economic system about his past experience, his present thoughts, and our future.

“I am concerned that we have not been radical enough in our reform,” concluded Lord Turner.

But he also sounded a note of hope based on some of the new ideas and policies coming out from previously orthodox bastions of economic thinking.

Joining our discussion are: Jon Moulton, a venture capitalist and the founder of the private equity firm Better Capital. He has nurtured a reputation for forthrightness even to point of challenging his private equity peers for abusing tax regimes. He is also one of the few men in the City of London who warned about the impending crash before it happened; Professor Costas Lapavitsas, who teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and is the author of several notable books on the crash and its consequences including Crisis in the Eurozone and Financialisation in Crisis; and Ann Pettifor, the director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics),

and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She was one of the first to warn about the debt crisis in her bookThe Coming First World Debt Crisis, and is also well-known for her leadership of the successful worldwide campaign to cancel developing world debt - Jubilee 2000.

How Money Drives The ‘Cycle Of Tyranny’

In Order For The “Cycle Of Tyranny” To Exist, There Are 4 Key Institutions That Must Be Totally Co-Opted

By Jason Charles

This process can be termed the “Cycle of Tyranny” and is basically the method large institutions such as government, corporations, and banks participate in as a on going feed back loop that is totally driven by money and power.

This cycle is designed to centralize power, rob people of their liberties, wealth and ultimately dignity due to the very dehumanizing and egregious actions of the men who sell themselves to this system. In fact, this whole system thrives on the dehumanizing process and erosion of individual rights enshrined in the Constitution.

To achieve this effect in a society large amounts of money are infused at every layer of the targeted and co-opted institution to assure that typically good moral people are bribed and in continual defense of the corrupted institution. With out the money factor the internationalist system simply would not work because the incentive component with in the cycle would be removed. The ablity for banks to create money out of thin air is the driving force behind the “Cycle of Tyranny”. 

The Banks

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”  - Thomas Jefferson

The banking families of Europe have utilized a debt based system to centralize a vast empire of wealth and power over the course of hundreds of years. By lending governments and institutions money, it creates a state of perpetual dependence, the fear of losing the money source is how banks control and socially engineer these institutions to pliable agencies of the internationalists worldview. Money truly corrupts the hearts of man, as long as the money is flowing men will turn a blind eye to atrocities of all types. It is through the corrupting influence money has had on mankind we begin to see how money and it’s love is truly the engine in the “Cycle of Tyranny”.

Today’s America serves as a perfect model as to how the old banking families have been able to leverage their large financial capabilities into a free country in order to corrupt and take over all of the major institutions with in a society. America was founded on the Principles of Liberty which detested banking institutions to the point of war with England and the British monarchy.

The process begins with the establishment of a central bank, in America’s case the Federal Reserve in the year 1913. It is no coincidence that the American Industrial Revolution coincided with the founding of the Federal Reserve. What we termed the “Robber Barons” during the early 20th century like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, J.P. Morgan were really no more than agents of the Federal Reserve and the European financial elite. These agents were lent massive sums of money through the banking apparatuses backed by the newly formed Federal Reserve. They then took over their respective sectors of society. For example, Rockefeller took the Pharmacological/Medical/Education and also Oil sector, while Carnegie took over the Steel and Railroads, J.P. Morgan served as a financial agent etc. etc.

All of these men became exceedingly wealthy because they were financed agents who built the mega corporations of today. It is these corporations that had an unfair advantage because they were specially trained, and groomed by the international elite for the sole purpose of building up all of America, with the long term plan of turning it back over to the globalists at a later date.

The bankers utilize the “Boom and Bust Cycle” of the economy to first “Boom”, or build up large corporations through influxes of capital that then creates large, businesses, property, inventions, and institutions. The bankers can then “Bust” the economy by drying up the lending credit suddenly to these reliant businesses and institutions. This sudden collapse in capital is called a “Depression” it is an orchestrated event planned by the central bank to purposely collapse companies into bankruptcy. Once bankrupt the bank can then buy up the company assets pennies on the dollar funneling these new assets to the share holders of the banks.

This “Boom and Bust” cycle is the verbatim tactic that our founding fathers warned us time and time again having seen this happen in European nations. They hated the bankers and fought tooth and nail to keep a central bank out of our country knowing their money is the moral ruin to everything America stood for.

One hundred years later we have forgot history and the bankers have utilized this system to create, crash then buy up resources and the wealth of nation in every country on the planet. This financial boom and bust is the mechanism of control they have used to enslave countries world wide in debt and are now bringing about their international global system called the New World Order. A banking order controlled by organizations such as the IMF, UN, and World Bank.

The Corporations

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” -Thomas Jefferson
 

The companies that have been built up by the lending power of the central banks are controlled and sustained through bank capital and the drive of the share holders whose only motive is profit. This creates an amoral environment where everybody from the CEO down to the mail-room clerk are chasing dollar signs at every turn. Their only concern is how they can make more profit.

They do this by a variety of ways, they will cheapen the quality of their product, they will identify populations with low standards of living and human rights to exploit for little to no wages, they will also lobby government to create laws and regulations that favor them and harm their competition.

Through this process, of receiving unfair financial lending advantage, reducing ethics with in the institution, and creating fascist partnerships with government, corporations that place money first almost always inevitable become so corrupt that they begin to create even more and more devious ways to assure the take over and monopolization of their host countries competition. They soon grow so large they begin to covet the resources and wealth of neighboring nations, which put’s them in a new strata of power called the multinational corporation.

It is much harder to employee these tactics on an international scale because without the protection of the target countries government, the unethical and dirty dealings almost always lead to war.

The people will never go to war for a corporation. The vast majority of people wish to live in peace and harmony with their neighbors, but corporations have insatiable need for control, power and money and have to find more and more dubious ways to push their corporation into other countries to keep the feeding cycle going.

This is where companies can then hire think tanks to devise devious, far reaching plans that allow them eventual access to the resources of other countries as well as their own when they come up against obstacles towards their agenda.

Think Tanks

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams
 

Think tanks are made up of individuals who have been long time agents of the system. They are usually made up of very smart people who have bounced back and forth between corporate and government structures gaining reputation, influence and command over the intricacies of corporate, banking and government institutions.

Whether it be military, intelligence, financial, social, political or international needs a corporation can hire a wide variety of think tanks to create plans that utilize the various sectors of societal institutions to further the agenda of their client. Both governments and corporations hire these companies for large sums of money for the sole purpose of creating facilitating plans to push their agenda forward.

Now that America is a fascist state, it is very, very difficult to determine where the corporate objectives end and the governmental objectives begin, often times they are one in the same. The think tanks are able to utilize assets of both institutions by pulling together military, intelligence and corporate teams to formulate plans to access resources and strategic objects that are beneficial for the corporation, the government and also the banks.

This partnership is very dangerous for the general public and society at large and is often wrought with corruption and shadowy dealings that must be hidden through the cloud of top secrecy and clandestine operations. Tactics of extortion, racketeering, money laundering, assassination and other criminal activity are almost always considered in the think tank atmosphere. There are expensive ways and moral ways to gain access to resources or their are covert ways often touted as much cheaper but are ethically bankrupt and criminal to gain the desired access.

The more covert means always need cooperation and cover by the government through national security and official channels. The think tank will then utilize their influence and lobby and produce policy that impacts political parties towards their “prescribed” resolutions.

Often times it is the government or corporation that comes to the think tank saying we want to invade here or secure our corporation here, the think tank provides both the plan to create a facilitating event which is carried out covertly through sabotage campaigns, or false flag attacks, or stage bombings and then when the crisis reaches a climax it will lend it’s credibility and solution towards dealing with the crisis they created. This is called “Problem, Reaction, Solution”. They simply create the problem, the reaction is the politicians and public demand action and then they turn around and offer the solution of sending in their corporations or military towards resolution. A resolution that just so happens to give them full access strategically, militarily, and politically to a targeted nation.

A successful mission will given them the desired result every-time, enriching multinational corporations, banks and governments alike as they split up the loot and resources of taking over countries and conquering. A program as old as time itself.

Government comes into play to provide PR and official cover for these programs. Obviously war and invading nations is nasty business and the government has to be on board, that is why you always see politicians defaulting to the think tanks who write the policies as specialists and advisers on such things.

Government

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington

The government is an institution charged with securing the liberties and security of their population. That is the sole reason for them to exist and is always formed through a unified agreement of the people towards this end.

The Declaration of the United States is a beautiful word picture of why governments are formed, who forms and empowers them which is the people, and when it is appropriate to disband them in favor of a new government body. The only proper way and time to disband a government is when it becomes so corrupt that it encroaches on the liberties, wealth and prosperity of the people. At that point the people have every right to nullify and succeed from corrupt government. Seeing it was them who formed the state they too can end the state.

Self-defense is a natural right of man, government is instituted to aid this natural right, but sometimes governments become so out of touch with the original charter they begin to infringe on the rights of the people to point of distress and ruin with in society. When this happens it no longer serves the interest of the people and must be opposed and resisted by force if necessary, why, because again self-defense of life and  the liberties of the people is a universal law that trumps all institutional agendas including government.

The people, if they through apathy allow government to get out of control, have a natural right to defend themselves against their own government that seeks their ruin. Nothing is more destructive than wicked government. Government, once taken over by politicians, corporate agents and banking controllers, history shows will act in the most dehumanizing, repulsive and tyrannical way possible. Instead of fulfilling their oath to the Constitution, they side with agents of the fascist system as it is taken over lock stock and barrel by the banking elite.

Why the government is such a powerful vehicle towards tyranny and oppression is because it has the power to tax the people to pay it’s debt to the banks i.e. IRS, it also is in control of standing armies which can be easily directed through manufactured crisis events either in the homeland or abroad wreaking havoc on society, and it also provides political and official cover for corporate and globalist agendas, agendas that are a determent to the people.

Tyrannical government has murdered, enslaved, imprisoned and bankrupted countless millions over the eons of human history. To allow it to get out of control is to invite destruction and destitution on a society.

Solutions

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams

The solution to these things is morality. Our founders were quite clear that without an ethical, knowledgeable moral, and well informed population these institutions would most certainly gain control.

If you as a philosophical libertarian equate freedom and liberty with living excessive lifestyles you are totally off base. These things have nothing to do with liberty, the moral resolve of our founders who many of them lost it all in the revolution is about understanding. They understood that defending life is paramount to anything we can do on this planet. Those who refuse to defend life, seeing that it is scared and worthy of protection have no concept of what it means to walk in the principles our forefathers bequeathed us. It is they who have sold themselves to these systems and jeopardize everything our country is founded on.

We have identified the “Cycle of Tyranny” it is driven by money, but equally so it is driven by those who have lost sight of the sacred principles enshrined in our Constitution, these men and women who put money and power over the moral, foundational Principles of Liberty are our enemies and must be treated and prosecuted as such.

World Bank Corruption Deceit and Greed

Note: This video was not part of the below article.

By James Turnage

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to John Taylor in 1816:  “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

The World Bank was constructed to lend money to the developing countries of the world.  It was designed to help put an end to world poverty.  A whistleblower by the name of Karen Hudes, former Chief Council for the World Bank for 12 years, claims the organization is filled with corruption, deceit, and greed.

Ms. Hudes says that the World Bank, in collusion with major banking institutions all over the world, is funneling the money to unscrupulous individuals, as well as to the executives of the bank itself.   The bulk of funds never reaches the people for which it is intended.

Ms. Hudes, a lawyer herself, witnessed securities fraud.  Full disclosure of 180 billion dollars-worth of bonds was never made to investors.  It was her job to ensure financial statements for investors were accurate.  She followed the corporate ladder, and reported her findings to the audit committee.  When she received no response, she took her information to the U.S. Treasury Department.  Once again, she was ignored.  When she went to the United States Congress, Senator Richard Luger, Republican from Indiana, sent three letters to the World Bank, asking them not to fire her.  The promptly fired her.

She says that it became obvious to her that Congress had no knowledge of the World Bank’s operations.  Three additional Congressmen asked the General Accounting Office, the GAO, to investigate.

Ms. Hudes claimed the money was ‘going everywhere,’ because when anyone reported the misappropriation of funds, they were fired.  She cited one instance when 900 million dollars was supposed to go to the poor in the Philippines, and instead it was diverted to a man by the name of “Lucio Tonn,” who was behind on his loan payments.  The Philippine National Bank, which never received the money, eventually went bankrupt, and a 500 million dollar bailout ensued.

She says she was attempting to unveil a massive cover-up, that went all the way to Congress, and included 188 ministers of finance around the world.  She claims the result of all the corruption will be a currency war.

Ms. Hudes says there are several World Bank whistleblowers, including the United Kingdom, Mexico, India, and Ethiopia, and that they are all reporting the same information.  The institution is corrupt from top to bottom.

She was asked by Abby Martin of ‘RT’ if she had gone to the financial publications.  Ms. Hudes said she had, but she discovered they were owned by one major conglomerate, which includes nearly all the financial institutions in the world.  She stated that the aim of the Banking community is to control the people of the world and their finances.

She told of the ‘Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich, Switzerland, where three mathematicians looked at corporate data from 43,000 trans-national companies.  Through complicated maneuvers, they increased their financial power 10 fold, and own 40 percent of the assets of all companies traded on the financial markets of the world, and 60 percent of the earnings yearly.  In many countries, the money being printed has no value.

Ms. Martin said these institutions are obviously laundering money, and hiding much of it in ‘offshore’ accounts.  There is no oversight for most of the institutions, including the World Bank, and that they control geopolitics by controlling many of the world’s governments.

Ms. Hudes said that during the 2012 presidential election, she went to CBS news with information regarding Robert Zellig.  Zellig was the man who would have headed Mitt Romney’s transition team.  He was allegedly part of the Bank’s corrupted management.  CBS declined, saying that “the American people don’t need to know.”  She said that in this way, they were also controlling voters.

When Ms. Martin asked her for names, Hudes said that they were the owners of institutions such as ‘Goldman-Sachs,’ and the ‘Bank of America.’  She further stated that they were all one enormous financial entity, dominating the economic future of the world.

Ms. Martin asked why she hasn’t been singled out, as were Edward Snowden or Bradley Manning.  Ms. Hudes said it may be because all the whistleblowers are working together.  She is surprised that Snowden has received so much attention, because the media is controlled by the government.  The mainstream media is not trusted by the American people, which was shown in a survey.  70 percent of the country said they did not believe what was reported in the news.

The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with three other institutions, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The World Bank and the IMF are both based in Washington DC, and work closely with each other.

Traditionally, the World Bank has been headed by a citizen of the United States, while the IMF has been led by a European citizen.

The World Bank has two primary divisions.  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has 188 member countries, while the International Development Association (IDA) has 172 members.  Each member state of IBRD should be also a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and only members of IBRD are allowed to join other institutions within the Bank (such as IDA).

The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with.   Sovereign immunity waives a holder from all legal liability for their actions. It is proposed that this immunity from responsibility is a “shield which The World Bank wants to resort to, for escaping accountability and security by the people.”  As the United States has veto power, it can prevent the World Bank from taking action against its interests.

With no accountability, it’s easy for the World Bank to be filled with corruption, deceit, and greed.

$100 Billion Gift To Israel — $83 Billion Cut To American Families

By Mohamed Khodr

“The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.”

–Yuri Slezkine, in his book “The Jewish Century”, Prof. of History U.C. Berkeley,

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible….The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.’

—President Woodrow Wilson

U.S. Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) second highest ranking member in the House of Representatives, Minority Whip, while visiting Israel along with 26 other Democratic Representatives as part of AIPAC’s “educational” tour to Israel program went out of his way to comfort the Jewish State that despite America’s current economic crisis, aid to Israel will continue as usual.

He said such the American economic crisis “will not have any adverse effect on America’s determination to meet its promise to Israel.”  (Jerusalem Post, August 11, 2011)

That Israel’s interests are the “Litmus Test” for U.S. domestic and foreign policy was made abundantly clear by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, in remarks he made to the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) on September 6, 2011

“There are two implications that flow from the President (Obama) identifying this
core interest (absolute commitment to Israel) that I would like to discuss.

The first is this—- the test— of every policy the Administration (Obama’s) develops in the Middle East is whether it is consistent with the goal of ensuring Israel’s future as a secure, Jewish, democratic state.  That is a commitment that
runs as a common thread through our entire government, even while
approaching the U.S.-Israel relationship and regional challenges from a
variety of perspectives.”

“The test of our policy – that it advances Israel’s status as a secure,
Jewish, democratic state – also explains our commitment to vigorously battle
against those who would attempt to isolate or delegitimize Israel in the
international community”.

This is an outrageous and incredible admission by an Obama official that America’s foreign policy is dictated by Israel.  Yet this control of U.S. foreign policy especially in the Midle East goes back to Harry Truman’s administration.

In fact John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Eisenhower Administration put it bluntly:  “We cannot have all our policies made in Jerusalem.”

In every government throughout history there have always been clashes among persons, parties, and groups for power and influence in their native countries and empires; but never in history has there been a small group of wealthy and powerful oligarchs and special interests that wield enormous power not for the interest and welfare of their native land but for the interest and welfare of a foreign nation.   In the U.S. it’s the Jewish Cabal that runs America’s foreign policy in the Middle East.

No greater example of such special interest power was more evident than in the Jewish Neocons push for the illegal and devastating war upon Iraq.   Following Israel’s Mossad motto of “By way of deception” you shall make war they brought an imbecilic fool as President then went ahead and filled every foreign and defense policy position in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon with Jewish Neocons who fabricated the lies and fear mongering upon a hapless uninformed populace to push for war, although both in the U.S. and Britain intelligence agencies informed both war criminals, Bush and Blair, that Iraq had no WMD’s.

But in the West Facts don’t dissuade the thirst for oil and blood.

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Bush administration, whom Time magazine called “The Architect” of the Iraq war said this in an interview with Vanity Fair on May 9, 2003:

“The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason”

Only in America and only a Jew can have the chutzpah to make such an incredulous statement in the face of the total annihilation of an innocent nation and at enormous cost in American lives and treasure;

Why should he or any other Jewish American care; it’s not like Jews are prominent in the U.S. military.

Jewish Neocons like Paul Wolfowitz know that their job is to push America to fight Israel’s War for only Gentiles will Die. Only 4,515 Jews serve in the U.S.Military comprisong only 0.3%

According to the Wall Street Journal (November 9, 2009, only 4,515 Jews serve in the 1,359,948 strong U.S. military, i.e. 0.3%.  These Jewish Neocons push for wars but it’s Gentiles who die for them and Israel.

Wolfowitz’s barbaric statement is the worst display of pure human evil in mankind’s entire history.  Not even Hitler issued such a justification for his barbarism.

America paid, died, and massacred for Israel, yet the entire world, especially the Muslim world, is silent with no clamor to charge Bush, Blair, Cheney Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the Jewish Neocons with war crimes.   They are responsible for a genuine holocaust against the Iraqi people but they will never face a criminal court.    Accountability is saved only for the poor, weak, and dark race.

When governments lie people die.

Read the incredible Lies and Quotes from Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Jewish Neocons about Iraq and the need for War.

Every mass murderer in modern history has used the media to rally the cause and stir blind hysteria amongst his people, from Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, Franco, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Castro, and Netanyahu.

PLEASE WATCH the next two very worthy and important Videos that deal with how a powerful “democratic” government can use its political, economic, military power, but most of all the power of a “Jewish” owned and controlled media in beating the propaganda drum for war on a daily basis until the lie became the truth and Americans again and again as they have done throughout their wars are easily manipulated and lulled to except a lie as truth.   Even today many Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was linked to Al Qaeda and 9/11.

This is a vital Video entitled “The War Party” made by the BBC on Jewish Neocons and their Lead up to the Iraqi War.

The courageous MSNBC host Rachel Maddow aired a documentary tiled; “Hubris: Selling the Iraq War” that reexamines the lies and events that led up to the Iraq War.

Future students, if allowed, will study the case of the Iraq War and hopefully imbibe the wisdom of how a few men and women with wealth and power can manipulate nations into wars of mass destruction either to serve their interests or as is the case with the “Jewish Lobby” use American power to do the bidding and killing for a foreign nation:  Israel.

To understand how such a small but powerful lobby can dominate, influence, dictate, and intimidate the most powerful President and Congress in the entire world, one only needs to know that in a capitalistic society where political campaigns depend on contributions no lobby is wealthier, more connected to vital institutions such as Wall Street, banking and Financial services, the media which possesses the power to make or break careers, Hollywood wealth, than the Jewish Lobby, primarily AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Action Committee.

NOTICE the word Public in AIPAC’s name rather than the standard Political; a deliberate deception  to avoid registering as a foreign agent serving Israel as required by Federal Law.   The cowardly government will not even apparoach the issue.

Israel and AIPAC are drowning America in a cesspool of corruption,illegal and immoral wars, resulting in America losing whatever dignity, honor, and credibility it still had.  Israel is the greatest threat to America’s national security, peace and economic prosperity.

There would be no Israel without U.S. recognition, political, economic, and political support in 1948. In return Israel has been an albatross around America’s neck drowning it in endless wars that have cost the American people the lives of their children and Trillions in treasure.

Please Watch this Dutch Video: “The Israel Lobby” and its impact on U.S. Foreign Policy.  The Video is Subtitled but all the interviewed persons are Americans.  Would an American TV or Cable Channel dare do such a Video?  No, not when you find out who the bosses are.

To assess any Government’s Priorities look at the Budget.

Every President since Harry Truman has tried to mildly inform Israel of American  displeasure with its policies of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity toward the Palestinians.   All have “threatened” to withhold foreign aid only to cave in quickly when met with “Jewish” backlash, especially in the Jewish owned and dominated media.

Presidents Bush and Obama are no exception.  Both faced two wars, both faced huge budget deficits and an ever increasing national debt, but both, as usual chose to enrich Israel with money taken out of domestic programs that serve America’s families and children.Under President George W. Bush:

In August 2007 Bush signed a Defense Aid Package with Israel worth $30 Billion over ten years.   Contrary to U.S. law which states that aid funds must be spent in the purchase of American products, Israel as always got an exemption to spend 26% of the funds in Israel, not in the U.S.thus depriving U.S. Companies of $7.8 Billionwhich could have created jobs and more tax revenue for the federal government.

Only Israel among all nations that receive U.S. aid has this privilege of receiving its total package in one lump sum.

BUT, where does Bush get the $30 Billion for Israel during times of economic crisis and huge deficits?  From SCHIP; the Children’s Health Program for America’s needy children.

Less than 2 months later Bush vetoed the same amount, $30 Billion, approved by Congress to fund the SCHIP, the Children’s Health Program.  Why?  It’s too expensive and will increase the budget deficit.     (“Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Bill”, New York Times, October 3, 2007)

Thus American children be damned.  Bush cared more for Israel’s murderous military than feeding impoverished American children and offering them health care..

President George W. Bush’s Priorities:

• Iraq and Afghanistan Wars:   $4 – $6 Trillion

 “The largest portion of that bill is yet to be paid. The legacy of decisions taken during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will dominate future federal budgets for decades to come.”   (Most of this funding was borrowed adding to the debt)

–Harvard Kennedy School Study, March 2013

• ush Tax Cuts:  >$2 Trillion  (Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation)
  

• Bush FY 2006 Proposed a $2.5 Trillion Cut in about 150 Domestic Programs  (Washington Post, February 7, 2005)

 Bush:  Bankrupts America but Enriches Israel.

Whenever the U.S. Government has a choice to spend monies for American families or give it to Israel, it invariably chooses Israel knowing well that if they don’t there will be hell to pay and an end to their career. Thus both Bush and Obama cut vital and necessary domestic food, health, housing, and education programs to send the money to Israel because of “Jewish Power” in the U.S.A.

Under President Barack Obama: 

The President of “Hope and Change”, the man who promised to fight “special interests’, has turned out to be a huge disappointment and hypocrite, not only breaking all of his promises but adopting Bush’s domestic and foreign “war on terror”, unleashing Drone Massacres, curtailing civil liberties, and implementing the largest most intrusive surveillance in American history of all communications monitored by the NSA.

Not to be outdone Obama proposed an even greater defense aid package to Israel than Bush:   $40 Billion after Bush’s $30 Billion expires thereby continuing this package till 2027 thus locking his successors to the commitment.

Plus, Obama plans to increase the annual aid package from $3.1 Billion to $4 Billion annually beginning 2017; the year after he leaves office, again locking his successor to such a commitment.   (Defense News March 24, 2013)

In addition to Bush and Obama’s $70 Billion , Israel continues to receive its usual aid of between $4 – $5 Billion annually since 2007, plus the U.S. totally funds Israel’s Iron Dome Anti-Missile Defense system which cost the U.S. tax payer an additional $1.5 Billion.

Such enormous aid packages to a foreign nation at a time Obama and Congress cut $83 Billion from health care, education, food stamps, meals on wheels for the elderly, housing subsidies, heating assistance program for the elderly, and so many other life saving programs for American families who are struggling with home foreclosures, high unemployment, debts and bills, and much more.

The $100 Billion Israel receives can more than pay for the budget sequester cuts to domestic program of $83 Billion.  But Israel says; “Let Them Eat Cake”.

It’s like taking government subsidies for infant formula and giving it to Bill Gates.

With Priority Funding going to Israel, the U.S. Government can’t help is own people.

• 46.2 Million Americans below Poverty Level:  15% of U.S. Population
• More than 1, in 5 American children live in Poverty: 16.4 Million
• 16.7 Million American children are Food Insecure
• 50 Million Americans Without Health Insurance:  (17,1% :In 2000 13.1%)
• 1.5 Million Americans are Homeless
• 76,329 Homeless Veterans in January 2010.
• U.S. students ranked 25th out of 34 nations in Math and Science (2009)

Given the cowardice to speak against Israel in this country and our doormat subservient government to the “Jewish Lobby”, it takes a Britisher, Tom Dalyell, a man intimately familiar with the history of colonialism and enslavement, to speak the truth n 2003:

“A Jewish cabal have taken over the government in the United States and formed an unholy alliance with fundamentalist Christians … There is far too much Jewish influence in the United States.”

Yes, America, you have surrendered your democracy and liberty to the Government and special interests, but none more powerful and dominant than AIPAC, a true foreign agent that spies on the U.S. and funnels your tax dollars to a foreign nation, Israel, whose interests have damaged America’s own national interests around the world, none more so than in the 57 Muslim nations with a population of 1.7 Billion people.