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Statement Following Court Ruling on Federal Reserve Secrecy
Statement Following Court Ruling on Federal Reserve Secrecy | Press Release
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement...after a federal appeals court in New York ruled that the Federal Reserve should reveal information about loans to private banks:
"Today's court decision is a major victory for the American taxpayers, and it is absolutely consistent with an amendment that I offered and Congress approved last year.
"We now have two courts, 59 senators and a large majority in Congress telling the Federal Reserve that the American people have a right to know which large financial institutions and corporations received more than $2 trillion in taxpayer loans, how much they received and what they are doing with the money.
"This money does not belong to the Federal Reserve. It belongs to the American people, and the American people have a right to know where more than $2 trillion of their money has gone."
Congress last year called on the Federal Reserve to identify banks and other financial institutions that received taxpayer-backed loans and other financial assistance. The provision in the budget resolution put Congress on record in favor of requiring the central bank to reveal the names of financial institutions that borrowed funds since the financial crisis began. Sanders sponsored the amendment on Fed transparency that was initially adopted by the Senate on April 2 by a vote of 59 to 39.
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the rich and powerfully influential bankster criminals who run the Federal Reserve as a major racket, and put it in the control of only the U.S. Congress. Many critics sanely argue that this should be done; because, Constitutionally, only the Congress is supposed to directly oversee U.S. monetary policies. As it has been since the Federal Reserve was put in the control of rich banksters from the private sector, it's always run in extremely racketeering ways. It's a major racket that few or no other rackets can match the extreme of.
Who was it who said that all he was interested in was control of the or a country's money and then he wouldn't care about the gov't; because with control over the monetary system, gov'ts are purchasable, that is, politicians are? I think it was a Rockefeller, but maybe he wasn't the sole imperialist, ... of evil mind who said these or very similar words, for I thought to have once read that a Rothschild had also said similar words. If it wasn't only Rockefeller, then Rothschild nevertheless followed the same ... theme or scheme.
If it wasn't obvious to everyone in the past that whoever controls the monetary system(s) controls the gov'ts, then it should be very obvious today.
Passing a bill to supposedly force proper auditing of the Federal Reserve; what, is this yet another dark joke? I believe Sen. Bernie Sanders is probably of good intention, but since when do we have cause to really believe that the Congress will ethically and carefully, deeply, accurately monitor and regulate private industry, Corporate America? And since when do we have cause to believe that the most powerful banksters of the USA aren't in control of the Federal Reserve, which was privatized by then awfully stupid and/or sick President Woodrow Wilson, that moron, or criminal, i.e., traitor?
We have no real cause to believe such ... surrealitic views are valid. We have only cause to believe that the Congress passing this bill will amount to only being another stage-show, [at best]. It could be officially passed, this bill, just to try to quiet the disquieted population down, so another game of deception. After all, the Congress certainly knows that it's treasonous, disregards the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, etcetera.
The bill won't amount to anything really good, just like the so-called health care reform bill recently passed by the same Congress amounts to good for some millions of people and a lot of bad for many more millions of the population.
Another analogy, though perhaps less evident than the very rotten health care reform bill, is what the topic of discussion in the following video is about. And I strongly recommend that people listen to the four-part video. It's a great interview and discussion.
"Kevin Booth Exposes CIA Controlled Drug Running Business in Latest Dvd on The Alex Jones Show", part 1 of 4 (9:19)
posted by TheAlexJonesChannel, March 16, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEvhhuptlY
The other three parts are roughly ten minutes each and I'll quote a little of the Wikipedia page on Kevin Booth for readers who don't know who he is.
Quote: "Kevin Booth is an American film and video director, producer, and musician. He is best known for his work with comedian Bill Hicks, who was the subject of his book Agent of Evolution, published by Harper Collins UK. Bill and Kevin knew each other since their time together at Stratford High School. Booth founded Sacred Cow Productions in 1986, and has since explored such controversial subjects as the Waco Siege and the New World Order. The company's most recent release is American Drug War: The Last White Hope, which explores the failings of America's War on Drugs".
Kevin Booth's documentary film, "American Drug War: ...", which I just learned of today and only read strong praises for, while the descriptions I read of the film tell me that it's very good is fully viewable online. According to IMDB, where I checked to see if the film was reviewed there, it was released in 2007.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/american-drug-war
That is an embedded Google video, the following one, if readers prefer to view it directly at Google. The above page provides a brief, but nevertheless good description of the film's content, and the official website for the film is www.americandrugwar.com .
He has a 2010-released film out now, "How Weed Won The West", and both films are talked about a little in the above Alex Jones show interview and discussion. There doesn't seem to yet be a website for only this film, but it's available on DVD at Infowars.com's store, and I believe at Kevin Booth's website, www.sacredcow.com.
I haven't viewed either of these films yet, but it's clera that everyone should be highly interested in those two documentary films that inform viewers, those who carefully [listen], too, about an extremely important aspect of reality in the USA, albeit the phony, criminal, ... U.S. drug war, drug war-racket, affects many other countries very, very badly too; with extreme violence in Mexico, also.
Kevin Booth was, according to the above interview or discussion on the Alex Jones show, to be presenting a screening of the second, newer of these two films in Vermont soon and was inviting everyone living in the state or happening to be there to attend. Surely no one would leave regretting that they attended, I believe.
Anyway, what that "stuff" is all about involves strong lobbying from the Big Pharma. industry, everyone can and should have already guessed, but also from the alcohol and cigarette manufacturer industries! This is clearly mentioned in the discussion between Alex Jones and Kevin Booth.
We also have the covert CIA drug-trafficking business, which the ops branch uses the profits or revenues from to avoid needing to answer to the U.S. Congress, which only holds the CIA ops accountable when the Congress authorizes funding. I've known, from people who have written and who are reliable for years that the CIA, as well as DEA, and sometimes, if not more than only occasionally, FBI are part of international drug trafficking, but only learned very recently of the reason or this reason that the CIA does this. It definitely makes sense that the evil CIA ops branch would want to avoid always relying on funding aproved by the Congress for then its members could demand the enforcement of accountability for how the funds were used. When operating in the extremely evil, dark ways that the CIA ops branch has long been doing, then of course they want to do things their own way and with as much secrecy as possible. I don't know if it's true, but once or twice read that they even sometimes keep the President ignorant of their ops.
They work for who? Corporate America, of course. Certainly not for the gov't of, by and for The People.
And they're who apparently most members of the Congress and Senate basically work for.
So this bill that'll supposedly help the Congress to correct the Federal Reserve, what are we supposed to really believe will come of this; any serious good, or just more stage show? The latter, or mostly that kind of result, anyway.
If Senator Sanders and the other people backing the bill for careful auditing of the Federal Reserve really believe the bill will provide seriously or strongly good results and that we should believe as they do, then they need to wake up to reality.
The Constitution is [official] U.S. law, remember? Bush dispensed of or with it back in early 2003, we learned through a questioning journalist, to whom Bush said that the Constitution is "just a piece of paper", and so it evidently is. After all, the Obama administration is not treating the Constitution any better than the Bush administration did; and neither have the Congress and Senate.
Obama said he'd support legalisation or decriminalisation of marijuana, wholly or for at least medical uses (Kevin Booth says which it is in the discussion with Alex Jones), but (and also according to Kevin Booth) Obama has done only the contrary. Fourteen states have (according to the same video discussion) legalised or decriminalised marijuana, and the state of California has been and is being strongly attacked by the CIA and DEA, under the Obama administration, which can't claim ignorance about this.
We're supposed to believe the Congress will defend the Constitution? Since when; except on "just a piece of paper" that happens to have this funny title, U.S. Constitution.
Mike Corbeil