Tags: Global criminality, a corrupt financial institution harnessed to move money for drug runners, arms merchants, terrorists, spies, warmongers and war profiteers.

 

The Great Dictator- Globe Scene A classic scene of cinema, Chaplin's dance with the globe.

I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons
Force Majeure tells us what Aristotle knew: unpredictable events happen, random “acts of God” for which no one is responsible. But how we respond to them is not random, and responsibility for that lies squarely on our own shoulders.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/14/force-majeure-films-philosophy-memento-ida-its-a-wonderful-life

How the Federal Reserve Works

 

• How the Federal Reserve works. Part One done in 1996 by the Ludwig Von Mises Institute.
• How the Federal Reserve works Part Two How the Feds created the Central Bank. 1834 gold became the standard worth of paper money. "Green Backs" were not redeemed by gold, but people were forced to accept this paper as if it had any gold value.
• How the Federal Reserve works. Part Three 12 regional Banks
• How the Federal Reserve works. Part Four 1932
• How the Federal Reserve works. Part Five

HOW THE FEDERAL RESERVE
REALLY WORKS

 

 

 

Congress asks the Inspector General of the Federal Reserve where the 1 trillion on the Federal Reserve Balance sheet.
​Answer: they don't know - they don't want to know about the 9 trillion dollars in off balance transactions in the federal reserve banks! They are responsible to know - and they don't know.

 

Alan Grayson (High Quality Version): Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve?

 

 

FINANCIAL ELITES DO NOT GO TO JAIL
CRONY CAPITALISM 

​Professor William Black - We've Decriminalized Fraud.
"A SURE THING" = ACCOUNTING FRAUD - THEY WALK AWAY RICH

Banksters - William Black tells the real truth​ Describes fraud and lyers loans in the economic crisis.

Professor William Black is a former bank regulator and professor of law and economics.

He is also an outspoken critic of Wall Street bankers, and he says, "Outright fraud caused the great recession and they are able to do it now with impunity." Not a single financial elite that caused the crisis has gone to jail. Because laws are not enforced and crooked bankers are allow to do whatever they wish, Black says "Each crisis is getting bigger by an order of magnitude." Meaning the next financial meltdown is assured to be much greater that the last.  

 "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One" ~ Bill Black

 

And how they get away with it?

The irony is the very men who were in charge of audits and governance stopped all the regulations so they could commit fraud!

All of those checks and balances report to the CEO, so if the CEO goes bad, all of the checks and balances are easily overcome. And the art form is not simply to defeat those internal controls, but to suborn them, to turn them into your greatest allies. And the bonus programs are exactly how you do that. The Bush Administration essentially got rid of regulation, so if nobody was looking, you were able to do this with impunity and that's exactly what happened. Where would you look? You'd look at the specialty lenders. The lenders that did almost all of their work in the sub-prime and what's called Alt-A, liars' loans. IndyMac specialized in making liars' loans. In 2006 alone, it sold $80 billion dollars of liars' loans to other companies. $80 billion. Now a triple-A rating is supposed to mean there is zero credit risk. So you take something that not only has significant, it has crushing risk. That's why it's toxic. And you create this fiction that it has zero risk. That itself, of course, is a fraudulent exercise. And again, there was nobody looking, during the Bush years. So finally, only a year ago, we started to have a Congressional investigation of some of these rating agencies, and it's scandalous what came out. What we know now is that the rating agencies never looked at a single loan file. When they finally did look, after the markets had completely collapsed, they found, and I'm quoting Fitch, the smallest of the rating agencies, "the results were disconcerting, in that there was the appearance of fraud in nearly every file we examined." the investment banker that — we call it pooling — puts together these bad mortgages, these liars' loans, and creates the toxic waste of these derivatives. All of them do that. And then they sell it to the world and the world just thinks because it has a triple-A rating it must actually be safe. Well, instead, there are 60 and 80 percent losses on these things, because of course they, in reality, are toxic waste. Our financial system became a Ponzi scheme. 
The FBI publicly warned, in September 2004 that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud, that if it was allowed to continue it would produce a crisis at least as large as the Savings and Loan debacle. And that they were going to make sure that they didn't let that happen. So what goes wrong? After 9/11, the attacks, the Justice Department transfers 500 white-collar specialists in the FBI to national terrorism. Well, we can all understand that. But then, the Bush administration refused to replace the missing 500 agents. So even today, again, as you say, this crisis is 1000 times worse, perhaps, certainly 100 times worse, than the Savings and Loan crisis. There are one-fifth as many FBI agents as worked the Savings and Loan crisis.

Office of Thrift Supervision

McCoy and Black tell the story of federal regulators getting together in June 2003 to announce their campaign for easing regulation. James Gilleran, who was then the head of the OTS, was ready.  "They're all grinning broadly and poised over a stack of federal regulations to demonstrate their intention to cut through the federal regulations," Black says.  "The other federal regulators showed up with garden shears," McCoy says. "Gilleran showed up with a chainsaw."​

Scott Polakoff, interim director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, sat hunched over. He looked over his glasses and addressed the committee chair. "Senator, may I make a comment?" he began. "It's time for the OTS to raise their hand and say they have some responsibility and accountability here. We were deemed an acceptable regulator for both U.S. and domestic and international operations."  It wasn't a huge apology, but Polakoff was clearly saying, "Blame us."  The OTS regulates thrifts, and holding companies like AIG that own thrifts, which is another name for savings and loans. The lawmakers were surprised.  "I was struck by your acknowledgment that you were the regulator that we've been looking for," said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL). "I think we had assumed there wasn't one."  "Yes, sir," Polakoff told him. "I'm the one."

 

FEDERAL RESERVE

 

Not with a Bang but a Whimper – the SEC Enforcement Team’s Propaganda Campaign 
No Officers Sued!! The SEC data demonstrate its epic failure in preventing the current crisis (the SEC was useless) and deterring future crises (the SEC leaves the fraudulent wealthy officers immensely wealthy).

BANKSTERS William Black exposes how Lehman Bros. orchestrated the sub-prime mortgage scam with help from the Federal Reserve.

Timeline: Sub-prime losses

The Fed is a central bank. Central banks for centuries have gotten rid of the heads of financial institutions. The Bank of England does it with a luncheon. The board of directors are invited. They don’t say “no.” They are sat down.  The head of the Bank of England says “we have lost confidence in the head of your enterprise. We believe Mr. Jones would be an effective replacement. And by 4 o’clock that day, Mr. Jones is running the place. And he has a mandate to clean up all the problems.  Instead, every day that Lehman remained under its leadership, the exposure of the American people to loss grew by hundreds of millions of dollars on average. Auroroa was pumping out up to 30 billion dollars a month in liars’ loans. Losses on those are running roughly 50% to 85 cents on the dollar. It is critical not to do business as usual, to change.  We’ve also heard from Secretary Geithner and Chairman Bernanke — we couldn’t deal with these lenders because we had no authority over them.

The Fed had unique authority since 1994 under HOEPA to regulate all mortgage lenders. It finally used it in 2008.  They could’ve stopped Aurora. They could’ve stopped the subprime unit of Lehman that was really a liar’s loan place as well as time went by.

That the SEC has failed not only to bring any action against the executives of Lehman Bros. in the wake of the 2008 meltdown but also against senior executives of any major bank for activities that seem patently fraudulent tells us our regulatory system is broken and we are at risk of another financial crisis.

 

Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) exposes the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street. The Fed handed out trillions of dollars to banks and charged only 0.01% interest.

Senator Bernie Sanders on CNBC discussing rising student loan interest rates

The Fed Today - Movie from the Federal Reserve

Where the Bankers Bank
"We all know what this is ... it's money. And people like you use money every day ... We all know how to spend money. That's easy. But do you know where it comes from? Or for that matter, what happens to it after you spend it?"
These questions and more are answered in WHERE THE BANKERS BANK. Created by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the video takes you on a guided tour of one of the 12 District banks that make up the Federal Reserve System, our nation's central bank. WHERE THE BANKERS BANK was created to accompany THE MONEY TREE, an instruction unit produced by the St. Louis Federal Reserve and the MIssouri Council on Economic Education at the Universities of Missouri-St. Louis and Columbia. THE MONEY TREE is an educator's guide to teaching money and banking concepts to fourth-through-eight-graders.

The Fed: Our Nation's Central Bank
Examines the roles of the Fed in setting and implementing monetary policy, promoting safety and soundness in financial systems, and helping individuals and businesses make and receive payments safely and quickly.
Produced by the Federal Reserve System, 1990.

The Fed Challenge - High School
Produced in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis by the The Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis, Inc. (CSD).

MOVIES SHOW HOW THEY SQUANDER THE PUBLICS TRUST

 

K12 Financial Literacy Propaganda provided by banks and the feds will never help Americans defeat corrupt politicians and the Banksters.

Jamie Johnson The 1%

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

 

Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream 2012

Documentarian Alex Gibney focuses on the gap between rich and poor by examining New York's Park Avenue, home to America's highest concentration of billionaires. Meanwhile, down the street, South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the U.S.
740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.
9/18/14 Park Avenue Gap Between Manhattan’s Rich and Poor Is Greatest in U.S., Census Finds
East Coast politicians talking about inequality might want to look in their own backyard. The top 5 percent of households in Manhattan earn 88 times what the poorest 20 percent make, according to new Census data. The income for the top percent rose 9 percent from 2012 to 2013 (the final year of the Bloomberg administration) to $864,394. Overall in New York City, household income went up in every borough except Staten Island. Overall in the U.S., while the poverty rate declined from 15.0 percent to 14.5 percent, the number of people living in poverty (45.3 million) did not change.
 

We're Not Broke

This stunning documentary reveals the story of how corporations have been able to shelter over a trillion dollars from the U.S. government, and how citizens across the country take their frustration to the streets -- and vow to make them pay.

 

The American Ruling Class​
This inventive, mildly fictionalized documentary follows noted editor Lewis Lapham as he introduces two Ivy League graduates to America's elite in an effort to examine the role of class and moneyed privilege in American democracy.​

 

Inside Job 
is a 2010 feature-length documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007-2010. There have been plenty of books, articles, and movies about the 2007-08 financial meltdown and what led up to it, but if you're looking for a first-rate all-in-one overview, it doesn't get much better than Charles Ferguson's Inside Job.

MADOFF VS.
MARKOPOLOS

 

Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Scheme.
Office of Investigations. Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover. Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme. - Public Version -. August 31, 2009.

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Markopolos: I gift wrapped and delivered the largest Ponzi scheme in history to the SEC.

This morning, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises is holding a hearing to assess the alleged $50 billion investment fraud engineered by Mr. Bernard L. Madoff. This is the second in a series of hearings that will help to guide the work of the Financial Services Committee and the Capital Markets Subcommittee in the 111th Congress in undertaking the most substantial rewrite of the laws governing the U.S. financial markets since the Great Depression. Markopolos Madoff Complaint Dec 19, 2008 – The World's Largest Hedge Fund is a Fraud The report that Markopolos sent to the SEC in 2005 making a strong case that Madoff's fund could ...

Harry Markopolos, an independent financial fraud investigator for institutional investors and others seeking forensic accounting expertise, as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Fraud Examiner, testifies.

Networks

Council on Foreign Relations

 

The Richest 1% American Families were opium smugglers.

The Opium Origins of Skull & Bones

Yale / Skull and Bones / CIA continue smuggling cocaine The CIA broke the law.

60 Minutes Warning The U.S. Government is the Biggest Criminal

Expose Bad Banks - Congressman Ron Paul's Floor Speech on Audit the Fed July 24, 2012

 

Secret Government

 

 

1947 National Security Act invented gave us the CIA to gather foreign intel.

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis year 1987 1 hour 20 min, by Bill Moyers

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive ... all » Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing.

• 1987 The Secret Government 1
• 1987 The Secret Government 2
• 1987 The Secret Government 3
• 1987 The Secret Government 4
• 1987 The Secret Government 5
• 1987 The Secret Government 6
• 1987 The Secret Government 7
• 1987 The Secret Government 8
• 1987 The Secret Government 9 where the audio is enabled.

 

Eisenhower - Bilderberg Group

In this video are the following topics explained: The Council on Foreign Relations The Bilderberg Group Trilateral Commission New World Order North American Union Military Industrial Complex Federal Reserve fraud Globalism War with Iran U.S. Economic Depression Martial Law Fascism Big Brother Society Police State Cashless Society Scientific Dictatorships

EISENHOWER

 

 

Immediately following the warnings about the military industrial complex is the following, usually ignored, warning:

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society. The entire speech

Few are aware that Eisenhower warned about *two* groups -- the MIC and the STE.

John Foster Dulles was then Secretary of State in the Eisenhower administration, and his brother Allen was Director of the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency. But prior to the creation of the CIA in 1947, intelligence operations were conducted through other means; mostly, from what we can gather considering the secrecy involved, through Wall Street bankers on missions abroad to discuss potential loans with foreign governments. What we are seeing in the background of John Kerry’s family is indicative of such a secret operation in the 1930’s. Such intelligence operations were financed by private investment companies set up under government sponsorship by Wall Street bankers and attorneys, who were simultaneously representing some of the wealthiest members of the American and British business community with huge investments outside their own countries.

Iran Contra Coverup:

1 of 8 - Modern Day Pirates for use of National Governments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35KcYgMPiIM

DREAM YOUR PATH

 

George Carlin on why "It's important not to give a shit" 

The Best of George Carlin: Exposing our government and fall of humanity one joke at a time

MY NAME IS MATT FOLEY. I AM A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER. I LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER