Behind the Curtain - Peeling the Onion

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.

– Benjamin Franklin

Hopefully by the time you get through all this material you'll not only have a good understanding of economics, money, and how the world works....but also what the solution to the problems is....

The American Dream
Inside Job
Massachusetts Miracle
....of course Scott Brown has let us down....just like all the rest!

Money as Debt
The Money Master

...now for some lessons on economics, power, and politics via Damon Vrabel...
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 1 - Revisiting American History - Financial Empire

....so here is what the training course for the controllers might look like....
ILLUMICORP - Part 1,  Part 2

 ....back to the story.....

Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 2 - Revisiting Economics 101 - Debt
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 3 - Revisiting Civics 101 - Ownership
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 1 of 4) - The Culture of Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 2 of 4) - The Culture of Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 3 of 4) - The Culture of Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 4 (part 4 of 4) - The Culture of Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 5 (part 1 of 2) - The Emerging Global Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 5 (part 2 of 2) - The Emerging Global Empire
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 1 of 3) - Brightening the Future
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 2 of 3) - Brightening the Future
Renaissance 2.0: Lesson 6 (part 3 of 3) - Brightening the Future

Here's a short wrap-up summary.... Rules for Peasants
And the long version.... The Secret of Oz

....with that foundation in place let's explore a little further shall we...starting with Britain for an example... Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story ....wish they had pointed out a few things like - 1) I always hear this talk about the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc....having to pay off this debt - Isn't that slavery? Who's going to hold a gun to their heads and enforce payment? 2) Who do we owe the money to? Debt is essentially a contract for future labor....what real collateral was put forth for the labor? In other words did a real exchange of goods for labor or assets for labor occur? If not isn't this a complete fraud? If its a fraud are we really in debt? Do we have an obligation to pay the "debt"? In order for a contract to be valid doesn't there have to be due consideration for both parties to the contract?

Now we know that bankers create the money out of nothing in return for a contract on the benefit of our future labor (money + interest) and that if for some reason (like the money for interest never being created thus guaranteeing someone somewhere will go bankrupt....or must take out more debt) our labor won't cover the debt...then the bank gets the asset. So with this inherent design of our monetary system (also global as demonstrated by the video above) which I might call a pit.....don't we have to take on greater and greater levels of debt in order for everyone to pay back the debt? doesn't that cause inflation and devalue our labor whilst the cost of obtaining assets rises? .....don't we reach a point where we can barely cover the debt service payments with our labor (debt saturation)? at which point the system by design is guaranteed to go into a deflationary spiral? doesn't this deflationary spiral effectively transfer all assets to the creator of the debt - the banks? don't people wake up at this point and realize they've become slaves as the result of a fraudulent system? ...is it physically possible to pay off this debt?

Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes the laws.

– Baron Mayer Amschel Rothschild

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied 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.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

– Thomas Jefferson

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

– Remarks at dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere on 4/29/62 by JFK

Let's look at a more simple breakdown by Damon...

Debunking Money - Myth and Machiavelli
Debunking Money - Orwell's Animal Farm
Debunking Money - Financial Power and End the Fed
Debunking Money - Part 4
Debunking Money - Part 5
...well that should be a pretty good financial background to assimilate the rest!

Here are a couple of my thoughts on on the banking dilemma and our personal leverage points (fwiw) -

(1) Move bank accounts to banks that aren't involved in everything from money laundering for the Mexican drug cartels (Wachovia/WellsFargo) to extensive derivative exposure (Five Banks) to mortgage fraud (MERS) - i.e smaller local banks and credit unions. Personally I have completely closed out my business and personal accounts with Wells Fargo and shifted to multiple credit unions. Basically vote with your dollars or shut up about it.

(2) At some point in the not so distant future (???) we will need to withdraw our deposits while they are still accessible. If we look at Argentina as an example, you see the sort of controls that are rapidly implemented to limit one's access to cash via withdrawal limits that can easily be imposed. Hence my diversification to possibly circumvent this to some extent (may not be much of a strategy).

(3) Also plan that at some point (not so distant future) that credit may be completely shut off. Personally I have utilized plastic much of the time and pay the bill at the end of the month to get points, dollars back, etc. While useful this always puts me one month behind - I'm always paying last month's bill with this month's income. If you shift to cash you'll always have cash on hand (besides what should be tucked away for rainy days)....as well as up to date on your expenses.

Psychology...
Fake Terror And The War For Your Mind
Psywar
Mind Control
War Made Easy
War on Terror

...its a media joke...

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

– Alexander Hamilton - The Federalist Papers, No. 25 & No. 26

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation.

– Professor Johann Adam Weishaupt, Proofs of a Conspiracy, p. 112

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

– Edmund Burke

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.

– Patrick Henry

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

...and for a more in-depth look into that 5 minute powerhouse above...
ZERO: An Investigation Into 9/11
Trail of Terror
Missing Links
False Flag
Fabled Enemies
From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
Attack on America
9/11: In Plane Sight
The 9/11 Chronicles: Part One, Truth Rising
The Painful Truth and lies behind 9/11
The Painful Truth About 9/11 - Unanswered Questions Part 1 & Part 2

Bush Caught Lying About September 11th
9/11: BUSH STUMBLES OVER HIS 9/11 LIES AT A PRESS CONFERENCE
Obama Warns Not To Challenge Official 9/11 Story

America: Freedom to Fascism
Reflections And Warnings - An Interview With Aaron Russo

Core Of Corruption Volume 1: In The Shadows
Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined
The War Against the Third World
History of Bioterrorism
Secrets of the CIA

...moving on to alternate funding sources for black ops to further elite goals....Secret Heartbeat of America
The Bleepin Truth: Interview with Ted Gunderson
America Divided: Interview with Gene "Chip" Tatum (Chip's body washed up off coast Panama in 2007)
Another Ted Gunderson video with Chip Tatum and wife
Ted Gunderson testimony
Ted Gunderson & the CIA
brotherhood of darkness
Alice Bailey the founder of Lucifer Trust
Lucis Trust One World Religion - Part 1, Part 2

....meanwhile the money runs out for the home front due to devastating policies and departure from fundamental natural law.... Detroit in RUINS

....here's a little more background which also dovetails in with my last post on foundations...Norman Dodd On Tax Exempt Foundations

The Council On Foreign Relations and One World Government

Bill Clinton: His Life
The Mena Connection

Practically Family: Clinton And Bush
Bush Family Fortunes

Obama
Alan Keyes: The Truth About Obama
Dr. Orly Taitz and Major Cook

Conspiracy of Silence - the background of The Franklin Cover-up by Senator John DeCamp

...the whole point of oppressive government - the control or use of force to decide who gets what. That's why the government is so heavily invested in every major industry in the world....and have created legal control points to dictate where money flows (FDA, USDA, Fanny, Freddie, etc etc etc). Whoever controls the government....controls the flow of money via legal (and illegal) schemes....and can profit accordingly (and escape justice). Another reason the only legal insider trading is via our "representatives" in Congress. Why else would a person spend millions for a $75k per year job??? The reality is....because they can make millions trading with the insider knowledge they will obtain concerning where the money will flow...as well as making some of those decisions directly.

Congress – the only legal insider traders.....source 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

After viewing the shocking 60-Minute expose about the former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, it’s quite clear that the entire system runs on bribery, in one form or another. It is fatally flawed, and cannot be fixed through reform efforts, because those creating the reforms are the very people affected by them...Source

Murder, Spies, and Voting Lies
The Clint Curtis Story
Under Oath
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA ...as you can see from the previous links and info......the industry has consolidated much further since this article was written. ES&S purchased Diebold (renamed Premier Election Solutions prior to the sale to ES&S to keep attention down - like Blackwater renaming itself Xe Services Inc.)...then when protests go nuts....this little privately held Canadian company moves to the US and somehow purchases #2 market leader Diebold from ES&S and then just a month later the #3 market leader Sequoia. Isn't that just amazing that this tiny little company (roughly 8 years old) is able to gobble up #2 & #3 market leaders in the industry? Companies exponentially larger????

Now 95% of the market resides with 2 companies. ES&S and DVS.....the only two votes that matter!!!

You know, comrades, that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.

- Joseph Stalin, "Memoirs of the former secretary of Stalin" by Boris Bazhanov
TerrorStorm
American Dictators
America Destroyed By Design
Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA
Endgame
Fall of the Republic
The Obama Deception
...as a side note I take Alex Jones with large grain of salt. He's reputed to be the CIA gatekeeper to the alternative media world. Best case scenario he's a gold plugging stooge for Midas Resources' advertising arm called Genesis Communications Network - i.e. Ted Anderson (big pusher behind C4L)

Angels and Demons ...some background on the Masons for whatever its worth (maybe not much)...

The Protocols of Zion ...another iffy one for whatever its worth....although they nailed it pretty tight over a century ago when it was written...

JKF II
Dark Legacy highlights
...one of the best books on the JFK assassination in my opinion is "Kill Zone" by Marine Corps sniper Craig Roberts (see the first post on this blog - Reading List - for a link to the free PDF copy of the book)...

The Monsanto angle

....and on and on we go with lies and murder....all to get power and gain....

War is a Racket by Major General Smedley Butler USMC
Major General Smedley Butler & The Fascist Takeover Of The USA - A Warning From History
The Whitehouse Coup - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3  ....Google "The Business Plot Smedley Butler Prescott Bush" for more info...

Operation Paperclip
 
Speech by General Andrey Vlasov
Operation Keelhaul a Disgraceful Chapter in American History....Google "Operation Keelhaul" for more info...

Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul

Brezinski admits CFR, Trilateral Groups Write Policy, Manipulate Affairs, Policy & Legislation
Know Thy Enemy - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mikhail Gorbachev Tells The CFR That The World Has Turned Toward a New World Order
Dan Quayle on Iraq and The New World Order
The Aristocracy and the New World Order
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the New World Order ...of course Eisenhower was deeply involved in the creation of the New World Order - see "The Politician" by Robert Welch

Cass Sunstein Predicts Repealing Right To Bear Arms
Camp FEMA: American Lockdown

And so tyranny naturally rises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty.… The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.… This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector… At first, at the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets — he to be called a tyrant, who is making promises in public and also in private liberating debtors, and distributing land to the people and his followers, and wanting to be so kind and good to everyone … then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.… Has he not also another object, which is that they may be impoverished by the payment of taxes and thus compelled to devote themselves to their daily wants and therefore less likely to conspire against him?… Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery.

–  Plato, The Republic, VIII

The appalling thing in the French Revolution is not the tumult but the design. Through all the fire and smoke we perceive the evidence of calculating organization. The managers remain studiously concealed and masked; but there is no doubt about their presence from the first.

–  Lord Acton, Lectures on the French Revolution, p. 97

...an excellent description on Republic vs. Oligarchy....for insights into government (the political unification of people) and what makes or breaks government..as well as the stages of transition.

Tribute to the hard chargin' Devildogs...
The Warrior Song - Hard Corps
Marine Corps - Blood and Guts

...the response of some blue blooded Americans....
Give me liberty or give me DEATH!
 In defense of freedom
July4patriot @ the Broken Arrow Oklahoma tea party - Part 1, Part 2

USMC Tribute-Once a Marine, Always a Marine
MARINE TRIBUTE: SEMPER FI

An outstanding salute to Major General Smedley Butler for having the cajoles and guts to stand up for truth and what is right...as well as to all the other fellow brothers (SEPIUS EXERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATERS INFINITAS) who recognize the situation for what it is.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

–  Henry David Thoreau

....at the end of the day....the only solution....the only REAL solution...
 One Way Out: An Invitation to America

...without moral self constraint to principles and law....we are in need of harsher taskmasters....thus the solution is called repentance and a return to principle and law - i.e. self imposed obedience.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters

– Benjamin Franklin, Speech at the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 17, 1787

We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

–  John Adams

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

– Samuel Adams

True religion offers to government its surest support . . . It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

– George Washington

Christianity is part of the common-law.

– James Wilson, George Washington’s appointment to the Supreme Court

We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind to self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

– James Madison, from America's God and Country by William Federer

If you really want to change things, you first need to come to terms with just how corrupt and evil the current system is.

An incomplete understanding of the situation will lead to half baked solutions that accomplish nothing.

– Waiting for the Storm