Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Is the New World Order "Jewish"?

By Henry Makow Ph.D. February 12, 2005

Let's begin by defining the "New World Order."
The mainspring of the New World Order is the desire on the part of the
world's central bankers to translate their vast economic power into
permanent global institutions of political and social control.
Their power is based on their monopoly over credit. They use the
government's credit to print money, and require the taxpayer to fork
over billions in interest to them.
Central banks like the Federal Reserve pretend to be government
institutions. They are not. They are privately owned by perhaps 300
families. It is significant that the majority of these families are
Jewish, how significant I am not yet sure. If they were Lutherans or
Zulus, certainly our objections would be the same.
I am a non-observant Jew who believes this situation is lethal for
humanity and Jews alike. We have already seen the tragic consequences
of it in World War II.
The American inventor Thomas Edison described this colossal scam, which
the New World Order is designed to perpetuate, as follows:
"It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue
currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the
other helps the people."
Central banks also control the supply of credit to businesses and
individuals. Robert Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve
Bank in Atlanta describes this untenable situation.
"This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the
commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money,
we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a
permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture,
the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but
there it is... It is so important that our present civilization may
collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied
very soon." "
When the Federal Reserve was inaugurated in 1913, a London banker
acknowledged that it is a scam.
"The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its
profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no
opposition from that class... The great body of the people, mentally
incapable of comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and
perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (contrary)
to their interests."
CONSEQUENCES
Obviously printing money should be in the public sphere as prescribed
by the U.S. Constitution. This anomalous situation is the source of
humanity's woes. It pits the people who control the economy against
society as a whole. It is in their interest to destabilize society,
foster immorality, internal division (like gay marriage) and war in
order to increase debt and distract and control the masses.
The bankers are responsible for social engineering programs such as the
(homo) sexual revolution, feminism and multiculturalism, which
undermine family and social cohesion. This fundamental antagonism also
supports a vast criminal underworld actually run by the elites.
The bankers are responsible for the assassinations of presidents like
Lincoln and JFK, and for the attack on the World Trade Center. They own
or control the mass media, which legitimizes G.W. Bush, the war in Iraq
and the impending attack on Iran. War provides an excuse to introduce
the draft and a repressive police state.
Success today is based on a person's willingness to become an
accomplice, witting or unwitting, to the banker fraud. Even rich
entrepreneurs are dependent on credit and are unwilling to support
genuine change.
As a result of the bankers' scam, Western society and culture are based
on a fraud. We do not have genuine democracy or equal access to the
mass media or open and truthful education. Western society is a fraud,
run by cowards who know they're frauds.
ARE "THE JEWS" RESPONSIBLE?
The New World Order is a hydra-headed monster. The bankers work through
many fronts such as Communism, socialism, liberalism, feminism,
Zionism, neo conservatism and Freemasonry. Unknown to most members,
these "progressive" movements are all secretly devoted to "world
revolution" which is a euphemism for banker hegemony. (See my
"Rothschild Conducts Red Symphony")
The bankers control the world's major corporations, media, intelligence
agencies, think tanks, foundations and universities. They are
responsible for suppressing the truth. Jews figure prominently in all
of this, a cause of anti Semitism. Of course many other people are
pursuing "success" as well.
The bankers also work through countries. They are largely responsible
for British and American imperialism, whose aim is to monopolize the
world's wealth. In his book "The Jews" (1922) British social critic
Hilaire Belloc writes that the British Empire represented a partnership
between Jewish finance and the British aristocracy.
"After Waterloo [1815] London became the money market and the clearing
house of the world. The interests of the Jew as a financial dealer and
the interests of this great commercial polity approximated more and
more. One may say that by the last third of the nineteenth century,
they had become virtually identical."
The confluence of Jewish and British interest extended to marriage.
"Marriages began to take place, wholesale, between what had once been
the aristocratic territorial families of this country and the Jewish
commercial fortunes. After two generations of this, with the opening of
the twentieth century, those of the great territorial English families
in which there was no Jewish blood was the exception.
In nearly all of them was the strain more or less marked, in some of
them so strong that though the name was still an English name and the
traditions those of a purely English lineage of the long past, the
physique and character had become wholly Jewish..."
If the marriage of Al Gore's daughter with Jacob Schiff's grandson is
any indication, this mingling of Jewish and Gentile elites extends to
America as well. John Forbes Kerry is another example.
Belloc continues to say that the British and Jewish goal of world
domination was synonymous and used Freemasonry as an instrument.
"Specifically Jewish institutions, such as Freemasonry (which the Jews
had inaugurated as a sort of bridge between themselves and their hosts
in the seventeenth century) were particularly strong in Britain, and
there arose a political tradition, active, and ultimately to prove of
great importance, whereby the British state was tacitly accepted by
foreign governments as the official protector of the Jews in other
countries.
It was Britain which was expected to intervene [wherever Jewish
persecution took place and] to support the Jewish financial energies
throughout the world, and to receive in return the benefit of that
connection."
If Belloc is right, you could say the New World Order is an extension
of the British Empire, in which elite British, American and Jewish
interests are indistinguishable. See also my "The Jewish Conspiracy is
British Imperialism."
CONCLUSION: WHAT IS JEWISH?
The majority of Jews would want no part of the New World Order a.k.a.
"globalization" if they understood its undemocratic character and how
they are being used.
The true Jewish spirit holds that truth and morality are absolute and
cannot be trimmed to fit one's perceived self interest. G.J. Nueberger
expresses this spirit in his essay "The Great Gulf Between Zionism and
Judaism."
"The Jewish people are chosen not for domination over others, not for
conquest or warfare, but to serve G-d and thus to serve mankind...Thus
physical violence is not a tradition or a value of the Jews. The task
for which the Jewish people were chosen is not to set an example of
military superiority or technical achievements, but to seek perfection
in moral behaviour and spiritual purity.
Of all the crimes of political Zionism, the worst and most basic, and
which explains all its other misdeeds, is that from its beginning
Zionism has sought to separate the Jewish people from their G-d, to
render the divine covenant null and void, and to substitute a "modern"
statehood and fraudulent sovereignty for the lofty ideals of the Jewish
people."
The bankers obviously aren't concerned about true Judaism or racial
purity and were quite willing to sacrifice millions of Jews to achieve
their design by backing Hitler. They are sacrificing thousands more
Jewish, American and Muslim lives in the Middle East in their Orwellian
"perpetual war for perpetual peace."
Does the New World Order serve a "Jewish" agenda or a banker elite
agenda?
I would venture that it serves the latter, and the Jewish people are an
instrument of this agenda like so many other people.
By giving private individuals the ability to create money out of
nothing, we have created a monster which threatens to devour the planet
and with it the human race.
The Federal Reserve isPRIVATELY OWNED by Thomas D. Schauf


"There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period
of its historycherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge." Alfred North Whitehead
Dear American:
Pursuant to your request, I will attempt to clear up questions you have
about the Federal Reserve Bank (FED). I spent much time researching the
FED and these are the shocking and revealing conclusions.
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK IS A PRIVATE COMPANY.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states that Congress shall
have the power to coin (create) money and regulate the value thereof.
Today however, the FED, which is a privately owned company, controls
and profits by printing money through the Treasury, and regulating its
value.
The FED began with approximately 300 people or banks that became owners
(stockholders purchasing stock at $100 per share - the stock is not
publicly traded) in the Federal Reserve Banking System. They make up an
international banking cartel of wealth beyond comparison (Reference 1,
14). The FED banking system collects billions of dollars (Reference 8,
17) in interest annually and distributes the profits to its
shareholders. The Congress illegally gave the FED the right to print
money (through the Treasury) at no interest to the FED. The FED creates
money from nothing, and loans it back to us through banks, and charges
interest on our currency. The FED also buys Government debt with money
printed on a printing press and charges U.S. taxpayers interest. Many
Congressmen and Presidents say this is fraud (Reference 1,2,3,5,17).
Who actually owns the Federal Reserve Central Banks? The ownership of
the 12 Central banks, a very well kept secret, has been revealed:
Rothschild Bank of London Warburg Bank of Hamburg Rothschild Bank of Berlin Lehman Brothers of New York Lazard Brothers of Paris Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy Goldman, Sachs of New York Warburg Bank of Amsterdam Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (Reference 14, P. 13, Reference 12, P. 152)
These bankers are connected to London Banking Houses which ultimately
control the FED. When England lost the Revolutionary War with America
(our forefathers were fighting their own government), they planned to
control us by controlling our banking system, the printing of our
money, and our debt (Reference 4, 22).
The individuals listed below owned banks which in turn owned shares in
the FED. The banks listed below have significant control over the New
York FED District, which controls the other 11 FED Districts. These
banks also are partly foreign owned and control the New York FED
District Bank. (Reference 22)
First National Bank of New York James Stillman National City Bank, New York Mary W. Harnman National Bank of Commerce, New York A.D. Jiullard Hanover National Bank, New York Jacob Schiff Chase National Bank, New York Thomas F. Ryan Paul Warburg William Rockefeller Levi P. Morton M.T. Pyne George F. Baker Percy Pyne Mrs. G.F. St. George J.W. Sterling Katherine St. George H.P. Davidson J.P. Morgan (Equitable Life/Mutual Life) Edith Brevour T. Baker
(Reference 4 for above, Reference 22 has details, P. 92, 93, 96, 179)
How did it happen? After previous attempts to push the Federal Reserve
Act through Congress, a group of bankers funded and staffed Woodrow
Wilson's campaign for President. He had committed to sign this act. In
1913, a Senator, Nelson Aldrich, maternal grandfather to the
Rockefellers, pushed the Federal Reserve Act through Congress just
before Christmas when much of Congress was on vacation (Reference 3, 4,
5). When elected, Wilson passed the FED. Later, Wilson remorsefully
replied (referring to the FED), "I have unwittingly ruined my country"
(Reference 17, P. 31).
Now the banks financially back sympathetic candidates. Not
surprisingly, most of these candidates are elected (Reference 1, P.
208-210, Reference 12, P. 235, Reference 14, P. 36). The bankers employ
members of the Congress on weekends (nickname T&T club -out
Thursday...-in Tuesday) with lucrative salaries (Reference 1, P. 209).
Additionally, the FED started buying up the media in the 1930's and now
owns or significantly influences most of it Reference 3, 10, 11, P.
145).
Presidents Lincoln, Jackson, and Kennedy tried to stop this family of
bankers by printing U.S. dollars without charging the taxpayers
interest (Reference 4). Today, if the government runs a deficit, the
FED prints dollars through the U.S. Treasury, buys the debt, and the
dollars are circulated into the economy. In 1992, taxpayers paid the
FED banking system $286 billion in interest on debt the FED purchased
by printing money virtually cost free (Reference 12, P. 265). Forty
percent of our personal federal income taxes goes to pay this interest.
The FED's books are not open to the public. Congress has yet to audit
it.
Congressman Wright Patman was Chairman of the House of Representatives
Committee on Banking and Currency for 40 years. For 20 of those years,
he introduced legislation to repeal the Federal Reserve Banking Act of
1913.
Congressman Henry Gonzales, Chairman of a banking committee, introduces
legislation to repeal the Federal Reserve Banking Act of 1913 nearly
every year. It's always defeated, the media remains silent, and the
public never learns the truth. The same bankers who own the FED control
the media and give huge political contributions to sympathetic members
of Congress (Reference 12, P. 155-163, Reference 22, P. 158, 159, 166).
THE FED FEARS THE POPULATION WILL BECOME AWARE OF THIS FRAUD AND DEMAND CHANGE
We, the People, are at fault for being passive and allowing this to
continue.
Rep. Louis T. McFadden (R. Pa.) rose from office boy to become cashier
and then President of the First National Bank in Canton Ohio. For 12
years he served as Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency,
making him one of the foremost financial authorities in America. He
fought continuously for fiscal integrity and a return to constitutional
government (Reference 1). The following are portions of Rep. McFadden's
speech, quoted from the Congressional Record, pages 12595-12603:
"THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD, A GOVERNMENT BOARD, HAS CHEATED THE
GOVERNMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OUT
OF ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT.
The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and
the Federal Reserve banks acting together have cost this country ENOUGH
MONEY TO PAY THE NATIONAL DEBT SEVERAL TIMES OVER."
About the Federal Reserve banks, Rep. McFadden said, "They are private
credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for
the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and
domestic speculators and swindlers; the rich and predatory money
lenders. This is an era of economic misery and for the reasons that
caused that misery, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve
banks are fully liable."
On the subject of media control he state, "Half a million dollars was
spent on one part of the propaganda organized by those same European
bankers for the purpose of misleading public opinion in regard to it."
Rep. McFadden continued, "Every effort has been made by the Federal
Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve
Board has USURPED THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IT CONTROLS
EVERYTHING HERE AND IT CONTROLS ALL OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. IT MAKES AND
BREAKS GOVERNMENTS AT WILL.
No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant
credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the
Federal Reserve banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country of
more than enough money to pay the national debt. What the Government
has permitted the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the people should
now be restored to the people."
"Our people's money to the extent of $1,200,000,000 has within the last
few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal Reserve Notes and to
pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and
the Federal Reserve banks. The greater part of our monetary stock has
been shipped to foreigners. Why should we promise to pay the debts of
foreigners to foreigners? Why should American Farmers and wage earners
add millions of foreigners to the number of their dependents? Why
should the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks be
permitted to finance our competitors in all parts of the world?" Rep.
McFadden asked.
"The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed and the Federal Reserve
banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated
immediately.
FAITHLESS GOVERNMENT OFFICERS WHO HAVE VIOLATED THEIR OATHS SHOULD BE
IMPEACHED AND BROUGHT TO TRIAL", Rep. McFadden concluded (Reference 1,
contains an entire chapter on Rep. McFadden's speech).
If the media is unbiased, independent and completely thorough, why
haven't they discussed the FED? Currently, half the states have at
least a grass roots movement in action to abolish the FED, but there's
no press coverage. In July, 1968, the House Banking Subcommittee
reported that Rockefeller, through Chase Manhattan Bank, controlled
5.9% of the stock in CBS. Furthermore, the bank had gained interlocking
directorates with ABC.
In 1974, Congress issued a report stating that the Chase Manhattan
Bank's stake in CBS rose to 14.1% and NBC to 4.5% (through RCA, the
parent company of NBC). The same report said that the Chase Manhattan
Bank held stock in 28 broadcasting firms. After this report, the Chase
Manhattan Bank obtained 6.7% of ABC, and today the percentage could be
much greater. It only requires 5% ownership to significantly influence
the media (Reference 14, P. 56-57). This is only one of 300 wealthy
shareholders of the FED. It is believed other FED owners have similar
holdings in the media. To control the media, FED bankers call in their
loans if the media disagrees with them (Reference 25, P. 134-137).
Rockefeller also controls the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the
sole purpose of which is to aid in stimulating greater interest in
foreign affairs and in a one world government. Nearly every major
newscaster belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations. The Council on
Foreign Relations controls many major newspapers and magazines.
Additionally, major corporations owned by FED shareholders are the
source of huge advertising revenues which surely would influence the
media (Reference 14, P. 56-59). It can be no wonder why groups such as
FED-UP(tm) receive minimal, if any, press attention.
How do taxpayers stop financing those whose purpose it is to destroy
us? First, expose their activity, then demand change.
THE SOLUTION:
Currently all we do is exchange FED money (interest attached) for real
U.S. money (interest-free) dollar for dollar as Kennedy tried to do. We
should not be required to pay interest on our own currency. According
to Benjamin Franklin, this was one of the primary reasons we fought the
Revolutionary War. Today we are still fighting the same family of
bankers (Reference 4, Reference 1, P. 211, 212).
The U.S. Government can buy back the FED at any time for $450 million
(per Congressional record). The U.S. Treasury could then collect all
the profit on our money instead of the 300 original shareholders of the
FED. The $4 trillion of U.S. debt could be exchanged dollar for dollar
with U.S. non- interest bearing currency when the debt becomes due.
There would be no inflation because there would be no additional
currency in circulation. Personal income tax could be cut if we bought
back the FED and therefore, the economy would expand. According to the
Constitution, Congress is to control the creation of money, keeping the
amount of inflation or deflation in check. If Congress isn't doing
their job, they should be voted out of office. Unfortunately, voters
can't vote the FED or its Chairman out of office.
If the government has a deficit, we could handle it as Lincoln and
Kennedy did. Print money and circulate it into the economy, but this
time interest-free. Today the FED, through foreign banks, owns much of
our debt and therefore controls us. The FED will cease to exist as
taxpayers become informed and tell other taxpayers. The news media and
Congress will have no choice but to meet the demands of grass roots
America. (Reference 1, P. 17, 22)
AMERICA DECEIVED
By law (check the Congressional record), we can buy back the FED for
the original investment of the FED's 300 shareholders, which is $450
million (Reference 1, P. 227, Reference 17, P. 36). If each taxpayer
paid $25, we could buy back the FED and all the profit would flow into
the U.S. Treasury. In other words, by Congress allowing the
constitutionally illegal FED to continue, much of your taxes go to the
shareholders of the FED and their bankers. Note: The people who enacted
the FED started the IRS, within months of the FED's inception. The FED
buys U.S. debt with money they printed from nothing, then charges the
U.S. taxpayers interest. The government had to create income tax to pay
the interest expense to the FED's shareholders, but the income tax was
never legally passed (Reference 20 shows details, state-by-state why it
was not legally passed). The FED is illegal, per Article 1, Section 8
of the United States Constitution. Not one state legally ratified the
16th Amendment making income tax legal.
Currently, fewer and fewer Americans are being convicted for refusal to
pay income taxes. In IRS jury trials, the jury, by law, must decide if
the law is just. If taxpayers do not believe the law is just, the jury
may declare the accused innocent. Judges are legally bound to inform
juries of their right to determine the fairness of a law. Judges often
do not disclose this information so they can control the court outcome.
Luckily, more and more citizens are becoming informed. If one juror
feels the law is unfair, they can find the defendant innocent
(Reference 19). In Utah, the IRS quit prosecuting taxpayers because
jurors verdict is not guilty. Please tell your friends and sit in the
next jury.
If we eliminate the FED and uphold the Constitution, we could balance
the budget and cut personal income tax to almost nothing. In
Congressional hearings on September 30, 1941, FED Chairman Eccles
admitted that the FED creates new money from thin air (printing press),
and loans it back to us at interest (Reference 17, P. 93). On June 6,
1960, FED President Mr. Allen admitted essentially the same thing
(Reference 22, P. 164). If you or I did this we would go to jail.
It is time to abolish the FED! Tell your friends the truth and win
America back. We don't even need to buy back the FED. We only need to
print money the way the Constitution requires, not the new proposed
international money. We want to keep our sovereignty and print real
U.S. money.
Why has Congress allowed the FED to continue? If a Congressperson tries
to abolish the FED, the banks fund the Congressperson's opponent in the
next election (Reference 17, P. 35). The new Congressperson will
obviously support the FED. When Congresspeople retire, political
campaign funds are not taxed. Get elected and be a millionaire if you
vote right. By the way, the profit of the FED is not taxed either
(Reference 1, 9). Once America understands, and takes action,
Congresspeople will then gladly abolish the FED. In 1992, Illinois
Congressman Crane introduced a bill, co-sponsored by 40 other
Congressman, to audit the FED. This is a step in the right direction.
America is a great nation. As "We the People" become informed, the
media and Congress will be forced to buy back the FED, balance the
budget, significantly cut taxes, and stop allowing bribes to determine
voting strategies. I have already heard from politicians who claim they
will change their platform to include abolishing the FED if enough
people become informed.
IT IS UP TO YOU TO INFORM THE PEOPLE.
The FED hopes you will be passive and not act on this information. We
believe in grass roots America - we are waking up America. Ultimately,
the battle plan is to inform all Americans and demand change in the
media and Congress. True Americans should run for office and throw out
the politicians who allow this fraud to continue. Congress may refuse
to deal with this issue. That's why each person needs to go to their
local county/state government with the proper paperwork and ask them to
abolish the FED. With the proper documents, they are legally obligated
to do it.
WE NEED LEADERS TO BEGIN THIS ACTION. WILL YOU HELP?
Consider this fact. Most of the given sources in this booklet show how
the blood line of family bankers who own the FED funded both sides of
all major wars. They created fake colonial money to destroy the
Americans during the Revolutionary War and tried to finance both sides
in the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln refused and the South
accepted. Many publications show that these bankers financed World War
I, World War II, and the Russian Revolutionary War, which helped
Napoleon, Lenin, and Hitler come to power. They financed both sides
from money created from nothing and profited greatly. These same
bankers created a number of American depressions to change the U.S.
legislation and seize our wealth. Read the sources for details. This is
why our forefathers wrote in the Constitution that only Congress can
issue money - not private banks (Reference 18).
More wars create more debt which means more profit to the bankers
(Reference 1, 21). These bankers planned three world wars so people
would welcome United Nations intervention to govern the world in peace,
not war. (Reference 22 gives specific details on World War I and World
War II, showing exactly how the bankers were responsible for the
beginning and continuation of these wars for their profit).
The banks have publicly announced they will force us to a cashless
society by 1997. Furthermore, they plan to create a one world
government through the United Nations headed by the FED, Trilaterals,
and the Council on Foreign Relations (Reference 3). By the definition
of treason, they have committed treason! This means you lose your
rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Does this sound far
fetched? Twenty-four U.S. Senators (two of them presidential
candidates, Harkin & Tsongas) and 80 Representatives have signed a
"Declaration of Interdependence." This Declaration, designed to make a
one world government, is treason to the oath of office they took. The
media remained silent. The FED announced publicly that their first
objective was to get nationalism out of the American people's heads
because patriotism to a country would not be of value in the future.
The media makes us think the U.N. has all the answers, and to "think
globally." Congress passed a law stopping certain individuals from
being tried for this treason (Reference 6, Reference 1, P. 191-198).
Why pass this law if no treason was committed? State Department
document 7277 calls for the disarming of America, thus turning our
sovereignty over to a one-world government. Again, the media is pushing
to eliminate guns. Our forefathers believed that the right to bear arms
would prevent a takeover of our government. History shows that before
any government took over, they disarmed the citizens. Hitler did it,
and before our Revolutionary War, King George told us to disarm - good
thing we didn't!
Under the Federal Reserve Bank Act, the bankers control our economy.
The FED controls interest rates and the amount of money in the economy.
These factors determine either economic prosperity or the lack thereof.
Bankers are now pushing for a one world government and a cashless
society. Why cashless? No cash means no money for drugs, no theft, and
the ability to collect taxes on the underground economy. Anyone who
wouldn't support a cashless society must be a drug dealer, thief, or
tax evader, right? What a cashless society really means is the banks
can now control you. Today you fear the IRS. In a cashless society, if
you disagree with the bankers' political goals, you'll find your money
gone via computer error. (For additional information on a cashless
society, read Reference 13, P. 174; Reference 3; Reference 14, P. 9-12;
Reference 15, P. 136; Reference 25, P. 216).
If you could accurately predict future interest rates, inflation and
deflation, you would know when to buy or sell stocks and make a bundle
of money. The FED has secret meetings (per Congressional Record) to
determine future interest rates and the amount of money to be printed.
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) by law, stops insiders from
profiting by privileged information. Congressional records prove that
FED bankers routinely hold secret meetings to profit by manipulating
the stock market via interest rates and the amount of money they
create. FED bankers also profit greatly from economic disasters like
the Depression (Reference 22, P. 56). The bankers create inflation,
sell their stocks before the market crashes, then buy up stocks at
cheaper prices. Bankers admitted this to Congress. This violates the
law, yet Congress does not act because these bankers are large
political contributors (Reference 17, P. 96-98; Reference 1, P. 162-
163; Reference 22, P. 114-170 & P. 136). Thomas Jefferson predicted
this scenario if we ever allowed a private bank, like the FED, to
create our currency (Reference 1, P. 247).
FED Chairman Burns states "Killing can be made simply by knowing the
next few months newspapers ahead of time." Congressman Patman said "The
FED officials own more than 100 million dollars (of stocks) while
making decisions influencing these stock prices..." (Reference 24, P.
123). History proves that banks profit from bankrupting a nation
(Reference 22, P. 56).
Congress consistently defeats balanced budget amendments. In the past
30 years, Congress has raised our taxes 56 times and balanced the
budget only once. We need the sound banking system our forefathers
wanted us to have. History proves that banking systems like the FED
don't work. Major world powers have been destroyed over similar banking
systems (Reference 1). If we don't change this system NOW, in five
years the only thing our taxes will pay is the interest on the national
debt.
Section 7 of the Federal Reserve Act, passed December 23, 1913, states
that much of the profit of the FED should flow into the U.S. Treasury.
In 1959, new legislation allowed the FED to transfer bonds to
commercial banks at no cost to the bank. Now the FED receives less
interest income and less profit for the U.S. Treasury because the money
is diverted to other banks through an accounting entry (Reference 17,
P. 115-130). Congress and the IRS do not have access to the financial
records of the FED. Every year Congress introduces legislation to audit
the FED, and every year it is defeated. The FED banking system could
easily be netting 100s of billions in profit each year. Through
"creative accounting" profit can easily be reclassified as expense
(Reference 14, P. 20, Reference 17, P. 239). Within the first few
years, the shareholders of the FED received their initial investment
back with no risk. All the income is tax-free, except for property tax,
according to the Federal Reserve Act. When are the profits of the FED
going to start flowing into the Treasury so that average Americans are
no longer burdened with excessive, unnecessary taxes? Clearly, Congress
cannot or will not control the FED. IT IS TIME TO ABOLISH IT!
3 WAYS TO ABOLISH THE FED AND ISSUE MONEY PER THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8:
* Buy back the FED and have the U.S. Government collect all profits.
* Abolish the FED by printing real U.S. dollars as President Kennedy
attempted (Executive Order 11.110, 1963) (Reference 4).
* Request your county/state to use their Constitutional powers to
abolish the FED. This is the BEST SOLUTION. Nearly half the states are
attempting or considering this action (Reference 5). Congress has had
80 years to follow the Constitution, and has refused to abolish the
illegal FED. The state/county effort is working faster than any other
method. We need your support to start a local chapter of FED-UP(tm)
Inc. and petition your county.
THE WRONG SOLUTION THAT HAS FAILED FOR 80 YEARS:
Congress and the media may want to require the FED to return the
required profits into the U.S. Treasury (per the Federal Reserve Act,
1913). The problem is that with "creative accounting" techniques,
profit can be easily masked as expense. The FED has expensed items
illegally to lower profit (Reference 17).
"We the People" have pushed the following states to pass or introduce
legislation calling for an end to the FED: Arizona, Washington,
Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Indiana, and Texas. We still need your
signatures on petitions, even if you live in these states. Many other
states are considering such action due to your petitions. These states
and a few honest Congresspeople are powerless until all Americans
become informed and demand change. Please pass out the petition. Once
we demand change, the media will have to report the whole truth and not
just push their own agenda. FED-UP(tm) challenges the media to expose
the facts on prime time talk shows or news programs.
By abolishing the FED, we would not pay interest on Federal Reserve
Notes. Until it is abolished, the FED has a monopoly on profit on our
currency and whether our money supply will be increased or decreased,
inflation or depression. The banks are capable of controlling business
by controlling who can or cannot obtain a loan.
WE'VE DONE OUR PART - NOW IT IS UP TO YOU TO SPREAD THE WORD. Please
take the brochure (Cutting taxes $6,000 per family per year) to VFW,
Moose/Elk Lodges, Bars, Union Halls, Churches, and Association groups.
Make copies of the "single-page" brochure for everyone at work and ask
your friends to do the same. Ask small business owners in your
community to tell other business owners and spread the brochure and
petition through the local Chamber of Commerce. CPAs should be
interested in saving their clients taxes. Ask your CPA to mail the
brochure and petition out to his/her clients. Upon receiving this
petition, many presidents of large corporations made this brochure and
petition available to all employees. Once people are informed, we can
force a change. People will have more money to spend, the economy will
be strong, and we can keep our Constitutional rights, liberties, and
freedoms.
Contact your library for the names and addresses of your local and
federal Congresspeople. MAIL THEM AN ENVELOPE WITHOUT YOUR NAME AND
ADDRESS ATTACHED. In the envelope, say "FED-UP(tm) Inc. Abolish the
FED." Also enclose one teabag (Boston Tea Party). Ask your friends to
do the same (give them the addresses). Politicians are aware of the
"Teabag Protest." If you don't mail it in, they're going to believe
that we're not organized or we just don't care. IF YOU DON'T DO IT NO
ONE ELSE WILL!
Many Congresspeople want to make this change, but can't without the
support of the people.
WHY OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT THE FED
"Allow me to control the issue and the nation's money and I care not
who makes its laws!" The above quote has long been attributed to the
18th century banker Amshell Rothschild (his blood line controls the
FED). For if one unscrupulous group is allowed to print a nation's
money - it can eventually use that money to gain control of the press
AND the politicians - and thus gain control of making the nation's laws
- and finally - control of the nation itself. (Reference 4)
If you will take the time to read the reference material listed which
has been researched by Professors of Universities, Congresspeople, etc,
you will turn up information that might frighten you. For instance, in
1921 the stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an organization
called the "Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR). Harpers magazine
called this the most powerful organization in the United States. Ninety
percent of the people in the State Department and key positions in the
Executive Branch are members of the CFR. The CFR publishes a magazine
called "Foreign Affairs." Read it if you want to know what is going to
happen in coming years. The CFR is in favor of a New World Order
(Reference 3).
Congressman Patman re-quoted Thomas Jefferson showing that our founding
fathers knew this banking principle very well. "I believe that banking
institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing
armies...." "Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has
set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money)," he said,
"should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it
properly belongs." The American Revolution was a struggle to wrest
control of wealth from the Bank of England and to restore the centers
of power to the People where it "properly belongs." The Constitution is
specific about the authority of the People, through their elected
officials, to control the money, and thus, the affairs of their
government. (Reference 5, P. 32).
Ben Franklin said in his autobiography that the inability of the
colonists to get the power to issue their own money permanently out of
the hands of George III and the international bankers was [one of] the
PRIME reason[s] for the Revolutionary War. (Quoted in Reference 4)
Thomas Jefferson stated, "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 will wake
up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." (Reference 1, P.
247)
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh of Minnesota said: "This [Federal
Reserve] Act establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the
President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government of the
Monetary Power will be legalized... the worst legislative crime of the
ages, perpetuated by this banking and currency bill." (Reference 5, P.
33)
Robert H. Hemphill (Credit Manager, Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta):
"We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to
borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the
banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we
starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one
gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our
hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It [the
banking problem] is the most important subject intelligent persons can
investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present
civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the
defects are remedied very soon." (Reference 1, P. 247)
Napoleon, a sympathizer for the international bankers, turned against
them in the last years of his rule. He said: "When a government is
dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the
government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above
the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without
patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." (Reference
4)
Congresspeople have referred to Federal Reserve Notes as "FIAT" (no-
backing) money. (Reference 1, P. 128, 169)
In 1879 the Supreme Court declared that the U.S. Government can legally
issue United States Notes, debt and interest-free, just as Lincoln and
Kennedy attempted. (Reference 1, P. 233)
A bank that attempted to repossess property on the basis of default
faced Judge Mahoney in a jury trial. Jerome Daly was found innocent.
The bank could not foreclose on the property because it created the
loan money from thin air, as many banks do. Use this as a precedent the
next time any bank tries to foreclose on your house. (Reference 17, P.
82, 83 for court records)
The FED violates Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. (Reference
17, P. 96-98)
California 9th Circuit Court declared FED banks are private, not
government. (Reference 17, P. 273)
Mr. Marriner Eccles, who was Chairman of the board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System longer than any other man, testified before the
Joint Economic Committee in August 1962. When Chairman Rep. Wright
Patman asked whether it was not a fact that the Federal Reserve System
has more power than either the Congress or the President, Eccles
replied: "In the field of money and credit, yes." (Reference 1, P. 206)
Dr. Hans F. Sennholz, Chairman of the Department of Economics at Grove
City (PA) College stated: "The Federal Reserve System facilitates the
government's own inflationary financing in "periods of emergency." It
makes easy the inflationary financing of budget deficits and the
inflationary refunding of government loans. It stabilizes the
government bond market through inflationary methods and manipulates
this market to the advantage of the government. It does all this by
wrecking the purchasing power of the dollar; by subtly stealing from
the people of this country what it thus provides for the government,
through a process exactly on par with the coin clipping of ancient
kings but much less visible." (Reference 1, P. 250, 251)
Source: Banking Act of 1935, Hearings before a Subcommittee of the
Banking and Currency Committee, U.S. Senate, 74th Congress, 1st
Session, on S.1715, May 1935, pp 871-2. "The Federal Reserve System is
in the wrong hands. No Constitutional republic can function when the
government's money powers are in the hands of the financial oligarchy
such as New York financiers.
A Republican Senator, who preferred to remain unnamed, stated:
"Congress is too much motivated by fears and anxieties concerning
pressure groups and the "non election." (Reference 1, P. 210)
By controlling Congress, the FED has been able to control the
nominating conventions of both political parties. In this way, it has
been able to hand-pick the presidential nominees so that no matter
which party wins, their nominee for President is under definite
obligations to the FED... (Reference 1, P. 210; Reference 22)
In 1975, the Rockefeller Foundation Report discussed the
"Interdependence" of the countries of the world on each other. It
stated we are one world and America shall become a nation-state under
one government. They also say we must reach a zero state population
growth. The Rockefeller Foundation stated that they have in excess of
747 million dollars to achieve this with. (Reference 3)
Congressman John R. Rarick states that the Council on Foreign Relations
CFR) is dedicated to a one world government. The media remains
conspicuously quiet. The CFR wants to convert the U.S. from a
sovereign, constitutional republic into a servile member state of a one
world dictatorship. On February 17, 1950, CFR member James Warburg
(banker, and architect of the Federal Reserve System) stated before a
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "We shall have one world government
whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent." Again, the media
remained silent. In the April 1974 issue of the CFR journal, "Foreign
Affairs", page 558, Richard Gardener states that the new world order
"will be built... but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding
it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old fashioned
frontal assault." Congressman McDonald, Heinz and Tower stated that
this is a conspiracy. Again, the media remained silent. (Reference 14,
P. 17, 18, 32, 33).
THE CFR WANTS TO ABOLISH THE CONSTITUTION. (Reference 14) WE MUST STOP THEM!!
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams wrote: "All the
perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from
defects in the Constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or
virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin,
credit, and circulation".
British bankers have stated "Those that create and issue money and
credit direct the policies of government and hold in their hands the
destiny of the people". (Reference 1, P. 200-214)
Adams, Jefferson, and Lincoln believed that banker capitalism was more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. In a republic, banks
would lend money but could not create or manufacture it. (Reference 1,
P. 215)
Later, Jefferson used stronger language and denounced the institution
as "one of the most deadly hostilities against the principles and form
of our Constitution." Some have said that Jefferson did not favor a
strong central bank. What he did not favor was the delivery of our
monetary system into private hands to be run for private profit.
(Reference 1, P. 230)
President James A. Garfield said: "Whoever controls the money in any
country is absolute master of industry [legislation] and commerce".
(Reference 1, P. 247, Reference 4)
Without the Federal Reserve System, there can be no continuing march
towards socialism, and with it there can be no free economy. (Reference
1, P. 251)
By controlling our own money, Thomas Jefferson expected that the
government would incur no debt, as had occurred in the European system.
(Reference 1, P. 243) European banks are like the FED.
The FED system is the death of our Constitution. (Reference 1, P. 250)
THE PLAN TO REDUCE PERSONAL INCOME TAX BY 75% AND BALANCE THE BUDGET BY
ABOLISHING THE FED CAN BE PROVEN BY AMERICAN HISTORY.

THE FACTS:
* England lost the Revolutionary War.
* England nearly destroyed the Colonies by creating fake Colonial money
and hyper-inflation.
* Rothschilds who control the Bank of England (Like our FED) said that
by controlling the issue of money (printing it) you can control the
government.
* The authors of the Constitution understood private banks" control
over governments. The Constitution gives only Congress the right to
print money.
* From the beginning of the United States to present there have been
two ways to issue new currency:
The first way is to have the government print the money, debt and
interest- free, and circulate it through the economy for use as a
medium of exchange. There is no tax levied to pay interest on the
currency in circulation because it is debt and interest-free. This is
the system Lincoln used with his "greenbacks", a system Kennedy
desired, and Jefferson demanded.
The second method is: The Citizens allow the bank to print $500 billion
in currency (cash). The bank pays for printing costs, ink, and paper.
The Citizens do not charge the bank any interest for use of the $500
billion in printed currency. The bank uses the $500 billion cash to buy
a $500 billion government bond which pays the bankers interest. The
bank keeps some of the bonds and sells, for a fee (10%), some of the
bonds to the public. The bank can buy back the bonds from the public
simply by printing more money. The bankers can create inflation and
depressions by manipulating the amount of currency in circulation. The
FED operates exactly like this today. It also prints money (through the
U.S. Treasury) and uses this printed money to buy loans from other
banks. This money has created our inflation. We give the bank cash
interest-free, then they charge us interest on our own currency.
Take a look at our history in view of the two banking systems:
BEN FRANKLIN - THE TWO BANKING SYSTEMS
From the autobiography of Ben Franklin as reported by Gertrude Coogan
in Money Creators:
...the inability of the colonists to get the power to issue their own
money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international
bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War. (Reference 4).
Ben Franklin answering a question about the booming economy of the
young colonies: "That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own
money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportions
to the demands of trade and industry." (Colonial Scrip had no debt or
interest attached.) (Reference 4)
BANK OF AMERICA
International bankers saw that interest-free scrip would keep America
free of their influence, so by 1781 banker-backed Alexander Hamilton
succeeded in starting the Bank of America. After a few years of "bank
money", the prosperity of "Colonial Scrip" was gone. Benjamin Franklin
said, "Conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity had ended
and a depression set in to such an extent that the streets of the
Colonies were filled with the unemployed!" Bank money was like our FED
money. It had debt and interest attached. By 1790 Hamilton and his
bankers had created a privately owned central bank and converted the
public debt (interest-free) into interest bearing bonds, payable to the
bankers. When Hamilton's bank charter expired in 1811, the
international bankers started the war of 1812. By 1816, another
privately-owned U.S. bank was started with $35 million in assets - only
$7 million of that was owned by the government. This bank lasted for 20
years. U.S. history shows that currency with debt and interest attached
created a depression. (Reference 4)
ANDREW JACKSON - A GREAT PRESIDENT!
When the 1816 charter expired in 1836, Andrew Jackson vetoed its
renewal. It was then that he made two famous statements: "The Bank is
trying to kill me - but I will kill it!" Later he said "If the American
people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking
system - there would be a revolution before morning..." (Reference 4)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN - ANOTHER GREAT PRESIDENT!
President Lincoln needed money to finance the Civil War, and the
international bankers offered him loans at 24-36% interest. Lincoln
balked at their demands because he didn't want to plunge the nation
into such a huge debt. Lincoln approached Congress about passing a law
to authorize the printing of U.S. Treasury Notes. Lincoln said "We gave
the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever had - their
own paper money to pay their debts..." Lincoln printed over 400 million
"Greenbacks" (debt and interest-free) and paid the soldiers, U.S.
government employees, and bought war supplies. The international
bankers didn't like it and wanted Lincoln to borrow the money from them
so that the American people would owe tremendous interest on the loan.
Lincoln's solution made this seem ridiculous. (Reference 1, P. 46, 47;
Reference 4)
Shortly after Lincoln's death, the government revoked the Greenback law
which ended Lincoln's debt-free, interest-free money. A new national
banking act was enacted and all money became interest bearing again.
(Reference 4)
The late Thomas A Edison explained the matter of issuing currency this
way: "If our nation can issue a dollar bond (interest bearing) it can
issue a dollar bill (interest-free). The element that makes the bond
good makes a bill good also. The difference between the bond and the
bill is that the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of
the bond and an additional 20 percent, whereas the currency pays nobody
but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to
say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million
in currency. Both are promises to pay: But one promise fattens the
usurers (interest collectors) and the other helps the people."
(Reference 1, P. 46)
The FED is owned largely by foreign banks that control our economy and
Congress through the power of money and the media which they bought
with profits generated with profits generated by artificial debt.
If we can convert U.S. dollars that are debt and interest-free to
interest bearing currency, we can change it back just as easily. Both
the media and the banking system will probably claim that such a change
will cause hyper- inflation. The answer however, can be found in
history. Lincoln printed debt and interest-free Greenbacks (cash) to
finance an entire war. With added production you can add currency
without having hyper-inflation. Lincoln proved it. John F. Kennedy - a
President with vision! On June 4, 1964, President Kennedy issued
Executive Order 11110. This Executive Order called for the issuance of
new currency - the United States Note. At the time, $4,292,893 of this
currency was put into circulation. This new currency was to be
distributed through the U.S. Treasury and not the Federal Reserve
System. Furthermore, it was to be issued debt and interest-free. Upon
Kennedy's assassination, this currency was withdrawn from circulation,
never to be issued again. The media remained silent on how Kennedy
would have eliminated the debt and interest payments, and therefore
eliminated the FED. Interest-free United States Notes do not result in
hyper-inflation. By issuing United States Notes, interest-free, we have
less interest expense, and less taxes. With less taxes people spend
more and buy more. This result is added production, and therefore, you
can add dollars without inflation. Either Rockefeller and his people
will spend your tax money into the economy or you get to spend your own
money by paying less taxes. The bankers want you to think you'll have
mass inflation by changing the system. This is only true if you add
dollars to the economy without added production. For example, look what
happened in post World War I Germany. They merely printed money without
increasing production. The result was hyper-inflation. Another example:
In the entire economy, if you have only 10 loaves of bread and only
$10, each loaf would sell for $1. If you print an extra $10, now you
have $20 and the 10 loaves which would sell for $2 each. This is only
true if we don't have added production. By cutting taxes, people will
spend more and buy more bread. If we print more money and bake more
bread, we have $50 and 50 loaves, so each loaf still sells for $1. As
long as you monitor production with increased cash, inflation will not
occur. Under the FED system, the price of bread has dramatically
increased since 1913. If we cut taxes and YOU spend your money instead
of the BANKERS spending it, you will have more bread, cars, and wealth
than the bankers. SOMEONE will spend your money - it might as well be
YOU!
A FED-like banking system has destroyed other governments. In five
years the only thing taxes will pay is the interest on the debt.
Clearly, the FED must be abolished before we're demolished! Already
laws are set up to have a dictatorship when we have the economic crisis
(Federal Emergency Management Act, or FEMA).
Under the FED system, when a new dollar is issued, we pay taxes to pay
for the dollar as the principal (debt) plus interest on the dollar. We
pay for each new dollar twice, and who gets most of the money? The
bankers, who control this money. Taxpayers should only pay taxes for
the paper, ink, and printing costs of new money. Why should we give
bankers the right to print money on a printing press, charge them no
interest on this money, and then let them exchange their "free" money
for a government bond that pays them interest??
England never gave up on owning the United States. They are still
silently fighting the same Revolutionary War. The Bank of England,
through the Rothschilds, owns and controls the FED (Reference 22). We
have been robbed of our wealth, and in five years we will be bankrupt
if there is no change. The FED bankers will LEGALLY OWN OUR NATION; OUR
HOUSES, OUR CARS, OUR BUSINESSES, just as Thomas Jefferson predicted.
SPECIFIC PLAN: HOW TO GET OUT OF DEBT
U.S. history proves that issuing debt and interest-free currency allows
our economy to prosper, as long as Congress controls the amount of
money created. You can add printed dollars into the economy as you add
production, and there will be no inflation. With today's sophisticated
computers, we can easily monitor the printing of money and inflation.
Congress needs to buy back the FED and/or abolish it. Any government
debt they own would be automatically eliminated. All remaining debt
could be paid as needed with the same type of currency Kennedy issued
(debt and interest-free United States Notes). United States Notes are
backed by the full faith of the best government in the world - The
United States of America. This is no different than the backing of
today's Federal Reserve Notes. U.S. citizens collect only a small
fraction of the interest income on Federal Bonds and Bills. Foreigners
benefit from this interest, but we pay the tax so that they collect
interest on our currency. This makes sense to bankers and
Congresspeople who receive money from bankers and foreign lobbyists.
As we pay less interest, government spending will decrease and so will
taxes. Less taxes mean that people buy more goods and services and our
economy expands. An expanded economy means more jobs and higher profits
for businesses. More profit means increased state/federal business
taxes. Businesses continue to pay taxes while personal taxes decrease.
People will have more money to spend, will buy more, and therefore pay
increased state sales tax. This allows the states to balance their
budgets without raising real estate taxes. As history proves, we will
prosper.
For 80 years the FED has destroyed our economy. It will take years to
undo this damage. Just as Congress appoints a Postal Service, we will
have Congress appoint an agency to monitor inflation as we exchange our
retiring government debt for debt and interest-free United States Notes
(cash). We need to break up all Central Banks created by the FED and
return to the Constitution of the United States. We have to return the
power of the citizens' money back to the people.
THERE ARE SEVERAL SIMPLE WAYS TO ABOLISH THE FED:
* Inform all Americans of this report and collect signatures on the
petition.
* Demand that Congress and the media support "We the People's" rights
to uphold the Constitution and abolish the illegal FED.
* Write to your local newspaper, show them this report and ask them to
keep freedom of the press alive, support the Constitution and abolish
the FED. Freedom of the press should not be limited to those who own
it.
* Write to CNN and other media. Tell them you want to see FED-UP(tm) on
their programs.
* Ask your State/County Representatives to use their Constitutional
powers to enforce your rights under the Constitution to have the FED
abolished. Write to Reference 5 for detailed paperwork to be given to
your local government.
* Call in on TV and radio talk shows and discuss why the FED should be
abolished.
* Support businesses who distribute the petition and display the sign
"FED-UP". If they don't, please ask them to.
* Ask candidates if they plan to introduce legislation to abolish the
FED and uphold the Constitution which they are obligated to defend.
Make candidates take a stand! Have the politician sign a contract with
"We the People" enacting legislation to abolish the FED by a certain
date or the politician must resign from office. The Democratic Congress
and President promised the people "no FED" before the election.
Thirteen months later, they passed the FED.
* Display your bumper sticker to show support and inform people.
* If 5,000 people distribute 2-3 brochures daily, we can inform half a
million Americans monthly. Roughly 10% of these half a million people
will make copies and inform others. Our goal is to inform 70 million
adult Americans. Public opinion will soon be on our side. Once 10% of
the population know, the other 90% will follow.
* Pray and ask God to return us to "One nation under God."
It is our recommendation that you research the references listed,
support all organizations that re trying to stop this fraud, and help
us in our goal to get every American to sign this petition.
REFERENCES:
(1) "The Federal Reserve Bank", by H.S. Kenan, published by The
Noontide Press (2) National Committee to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act, P.O. Box 156,
Westmont, IL 60559 (3) "The New World Order,Saving America", P.O. Box 1205, Middleburg, FL
32050-1205 (4) "Bulletin", February 1989 & November 1991 issues, P.O. Box 986, Ft. Collins, CO 80522 (Newsletter; $3 each) (5) "The Most Secret Science", Betsy Ross Press, P.O. Box 986, Ft. Collins, CO 80522 (Book) States attempt to abolish the FED. $12.00 (6) "Insider Report", P.O. Box 84903, Phoenix, AZ 85071 (7) "Phoenix Journal Express", P.O. Box 986, Tehachap, CA 93581 (8) $16 trillion in government and private debt, much of which the FED printed and collected interest on (Reference 3) (9) Northpoint Tactical Team, P.O. Box 129, Topton, NC 28781 (10) Christian Defense League, Box 449, Arabi, LA 70023 (11) "Bulletin", June 1992 issue, P.O. Box 986, Ft. Collins, CO 80522 (Newsletter; $3 each) (12) "Savings and Loan Unethical Bailout" by Rev. Casimir F. Gierut (13) "Dark Secrets of the New Age" by Texe Marrs (14) "En Route to Global Occupation" by Gary H. Kah (15) "One World" by John Amkerberg & John Weldon (16) "The Spotlight", Liberty Lobby, 300 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 (Newspaper) (17) "Repeal the Federal Reserve Banks" by Rev. Casimir Frank Gierut (18) The Constitution of the United States (19) "Walls in Our Minds" by M.J. Red Beckman, Common Sense Press, P.O. Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103. A must read book - $2.50 (20) "The Law That Never Was" Volume I, Bill Benson & M.J. Red Beckman, P.O. Box 1544, Billings, MT 59103 or write to Bill Benson, P.O. Box 550, South Holland, IL 60473. Proof that the 16th Amendment (income tax) was never properly ratified. (21) "New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies" by William T. Still (22) "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Mullins (23) "The Social Security & Pension Conspiracy" by Metz (24) "The History of the Federal Reserve. How to Replace It or How to Reform It" by Metz - for references 23 & 24 write to Howard Metz, P.O. Box 341, Malverne, LI 11565 (25) "The New World Order" by Pat Robertson. On page 131 he states that we must abolish the FED. (26) "Operation Vampire Killer 2000", highly recommended book. $6.00
($8.00 for 2) from ACLA, P.O. Box 8712, Phoenix, AZ 85066 This is a
must read book with quotes from well known people. This book proves
conspiracy. Your local police needs to read this book so they will
protect you - not become United Nations Agents against you. This book
will stop the New World Order plan to take over the U.S.A.
"America Betrayed", Center For Action, 652 N. Glenview, Nesa, AZ 85213
For references 1, 12, and 17, contact The National Committee to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act (Reference 2)
MEDIA BLACKS OUT THE FACTS
Here's one terrific example. John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff
for the New York Times, was one of New York's best loved newspapermen.
Called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession", John was asked in
1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club, and in so doing,
made a monumentally important and revealing statement. He is quoted as
follows:
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in
America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is
not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did,
you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid
weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected
with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar
things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest
opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I
allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before
twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the
journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to
vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his
race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is
this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of
rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the
strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are
all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
RICHARD M. COHAN, Senior Producer of CBS political news said: "We are
going to impose OUR AGENDA on the coverage by dealing with issues and
subjects that WE choose to deal with."
RICHARD SALANT, former President of CBS News stated: "Our job is to
give people not what they want, but what WE decide they ought to have."
And what is "their" agenda? What do they believe we, the American
people, - THE COMMON HERD, "...ought to have?" Here is the answer:
NORMAN THOMAS - For many years the U.S. Socialist Presidential
candidate proclaimed: "The American people will never knowingly adopt
Socialism. But under the name of "liberalism" they will adopt every
fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a
Socialist nation, without knowing what happened."
HERMAN DISMORE, foreign editor of the New York Times from 1950 to 1960:
"The New York Times is deliberately pitched to the liberal (socialist)
point of view."
WALTER CRONKITE: "News reporters are certainly liberal (socialists) and
left of center."
BARBARA WALTERS: "The news media in general are liberals (socialists)."
Reference for everything above - Operation Vampire Killer, P.O. Box
8712, Phoenix, AZ 85066
The world, finally including even the balky American public, is "being
rapidly educated into overcoming limited patriotism" and accepting
"United Nations solutions to common global problems," said Henry
Kissinger.
Bilderberg participants expressed satisfaction with progress toward
world government on two fronts:
* Establishing a UN tax to not only finance new global programs, but to
condition "citizens of the world" to paying tribute.
* Conditioning the public -- again, especially "those stubborn
Americans" -- to accept the idea of a UN army that could, by force,
impose its will on the internal affairs of any nation.
"Today, Americans would be outraged if UN forces entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful," Kissinger said (of the 1992 Los Angeles riot).
Kissinger reported on a shocking speech made by UN Secretary General
Butrous Ghali to the American Association of Newspaper Publishers at UN
headquarters in New York in early May. The publishers' newspapers
covered up the story.
The UN Security Council must have a permanent force that can be
deployed anywhere in the world, instantly, to "protect the peace" and
"ensure human rights" the secretary-general told the newspaper
publishers.
UN TO INVADE U.S.
This force must be allowed to intervene "at the local and community
levels," the UN leader told the American publishers.
What is "especially gratifying," Kissinger said, "is that the
publishers showed no reservations about the prospects of UN forces
landing in the United States and imposing the UN's will."
Reference - The Spotlight, June 8, 1992, page 10. Liberty Lobby, 300
Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003 (Newspaper)
SUMMARY OF QUICK FACTS
* Various dates and proofs that the Bankers created panic to push
Congress to pass laws favoring bankers... Reference 22
* President Wilson received $85,000 bribe from bankers... Reference 22,
pages 25-26
* How England, through the Bankers, controls our Congress... Reference
22, pages 47-48
* Rockefeller is connected to President Carter... Reference 22, page
171; Reference 25, page 103
* How George Bush is directly connected to the FED bank... Reference
22, page 49
* President Hoover and President Roosevelt were international
Bankers... Reference 22, pages 69-71 and pages 157-159
* President Nixon was hired by Rockefeller's law firm to become
President... Reference 25, pages 100-101
* FED owner's manual to destroy and control U.S. citizens... Reference
22, pages 55-56
* Proof Bankers claim they control the government... Reference 22, page
59
* Proof the FED knowingly created the Great Depression for their
gain... Reference 22, pages 137-170
* FED bankers are directly linked to the New World Order and the United
Nations. New World Order was discussed by George Bush, Rockefeller,
Adolph Hitler, and Jimmy Carter... Reference 25, pages 5-7
* The Great Seal on back of the FED $1 bill, below pyramid, the NOVUS
ORDO SECLORUM means "New World of the Ages" or --->> New World Order...
Reference 25, page 35
* How the Banker's tax-exempt organizations fund activities to destroy
America's freedom by attacking our Constitution and way of life...
Reference 25, pages 138-159; Reference 14 (throughout whole book)
* Senator Barry Goldwater warned of economic powers capable of
bypassing or controlling the political powers. Bank induced depression
is possible in the future to force political change... Reference 25,
131
* Rockefeller's money was used to seize control of America's teaching
and training of students by rewriting history and textbooks.
Rockefeller has also funded the National Education Association (NEA)...
Reference 14, page 61
* Gary Kah, high-ranking government liaison having first-hand knowledge
of the New World Order exposes the truth. Read his book and En Route To
Global Occupation... Reference 14
QUICK FACTS FROM TOM SCHAUF:
First, we must uphold the Constitution. Please call the Hotline (217-
854-7504) weekly for new information. When a state considers a
Constitutional Convention, concerned Americans call the Hotline and it
gives us the names and telephone numbers of the legislators involved.
It tells us exactly what to say, and to whom. The Hotline helps us to
fight and win!
Secondly, we must change the opinions of the masses with information.
The brochure has been a big help, and once 10% of the population agrees
to abolish the FED, the rest will follow.
It is obvious the media (radio and newspapers) have lied about the FED
and the efforts of FED-UP(tm) to educate people with the truth. This
will not stop us - we will persist! Decide for yourself if you want to
win America back. If 10,000 patriotic Americans each distribute 1,000
brochures, 10 million Americans will become informed. It would be
almost impossible to stop people from talking about abolishing the FED
if that many Americans were informed. Another way you can participate
is to put a bumper sticker on your car. Over 1,000 people every month
will see that bumper sticker about abolishing the FED.
If you think our goal is impossible, remember this; only 3% of
Americans supported the Revolutionary War, and we won that war. We can
win this war too, but only with your help.
IN CLOSING
For the secret owners of the FED to control the volume of money and
become our absolute masters, they had to get the Gold away from our
grandparents. This was accomplished in 1933 with the threats of fines
and imprisonments by their President Franklin D. Roosevelt with aide
Harry Hopkins, who said... "Elect, elect, elect, tax, tax, tax, spend,
spend, spend, for the people are too damned stupid to understand". By
the way, Roosevelt was an international Banker. See Fool's Gold is
Green by Winston Smith.
THE FED IS SLOWLY DESTROYING AMERICA
Our government never had a chance...with political corruption ravaging
its Constitution. The *real facts* don't lie...and neither do
government documents...Congressional Record, Congressman Wright Patman,
A Primer On Money prepared by the Sub-committee on Domestic Finance,
House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency - 88th
Congress, 2nd session, August 4th, 1964 and December 23, 1913, page
1464 & 1478.
Congressional Record, Congressman Louis McFadden, June 10, 1932, House
of Representatives, pages 12604-12605
Congressional Record, 98th Congress, 1st session, February 3, 1983,
Congressman Ron Paul
Congressional Record, Committee on Banking and Currency, House of
Representatives, 77th Congress, 1st session, Tuesday, September 30,
1941, pages 1342-1345
THERE ARE MANY MORE CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONIALS
IS THERE BIAS IN THE MEDIA REGARDING THE FED?
DURING THE TV PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, CLINTON WAS ASKED SHOULD THERE BE
RESTRICTIONS ON THE FED? THE NEXT DAY, MAJOR NEWSPAPERS SAID THEY
COVERED THE WHOLE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TEXT, BUT MANY NEWSPAPERS
ELIMINATED THIS ONE QUESTION. CHECK YOUR LIBRARY!
The Revolutionary War was fought and the Constitution was written to
prevent other nations and private banks from issuing (printing) money
and controlling our currency.
In 1913, members of Congress committed treason and violated their oath
of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and
domestic by voting in the Federal Reserve Bank.
For the New World Order to create a one world government, they must
control a central bank, eliminate the Constitution, end Christian
values, disarm America, and control the media. The Council on Foreign
Relations has openly said they will take us over in favor of a one
world government. The American people must be warned or we may lose our
freedom forever. If we do not demand our rights and uphold the
Constitution, the CFR and bankers will continue their march toward
socialism. If we allow them to continue, they will abolish our rights
and put an end to our present government. I urge all Americans to
distribute the "main" FED-UP brochure ("saving $6000 in taxes per year,
per person & balancing the budget) and collect signatures on the
petition (see order form in the main brochure). Then all informed
Americans can take action and hold their politicians accountable. The
bankers control the media, but can not stop patriotic Americans from
using copy machines to distribute information and inform America. Once
informed, people will demand an explanation why Congress allowed this
fraud as the media appeared to be independent and investigative, but
remained silent on this important issue.
The ones who scream the loudest to keep the Federal Reserve Bank
probably profit the most.
[About the Author:]
Thomas D. Schauf, CPA, is a national speaker to Certified Public
Accountants and business leaders. Mr. Schauf's expertise includes
banking, the economy, business appraisals, mergers, and acquisitions.
We are looking for leaders in all states to help us abolish the FED.
Please write and let us know you're willing to help. The future of
America depends on you.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTINUE THE CAUSE ARE APPRECIATED
PLEASE HELP DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION AND COLLECT SIGNATURES ON PETITIONS
Mr. Schauf and other speakers are available to speak at seminars, group
meetings, on radio, and on television. FED-UP(tm) * P.O. Box 834 * Streamwood, IL 60103-0834
(C) 1992 Thomas D. Schauf
PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY WITH NO CHANGES

Acknowledgements:
Our country likes to thank our forefathers for the Constitution.
I wish to thank Mr. Lou Gamboa for his research of the Constitution and
our banking system. Lou Gamboa is a national speaker on the subject,
and has spoken on numerous radio programs in an effort to educate the
public.
I also want to thank Bob Corcoran for his research and encouragement.
I applaud the thousands of patriotic Americans who are spreading the
word so we can live in economic prosperity and uphold our
Constitutional rights.
ARTICLE 1, SECTION 8 OF THE CONSTITUTION STATES THAT CONGRESS SHALL
HAVE THE POWER TO COIN (CREATE) MONEY AND REGULATE THE VALUE THEREOF.
IN 1935 THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT CONGRESS CANNOT CONSTITUTIONALLY
DELEGATE ITS POWER TO ANOTHER GROUP. (Reference 22, P. 168)
Rothschild, a London Banker, wrote a letter saying "It (Central Bank )
gives the National Bank almost complete control of national finance.
The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its
profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no
opposition from that class... The great body of the people, mentally
incapable of comprehending, will bear its burden without complaint, and
perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical (contrary)
to their interests." [The bankers created the legislation for the FED]
In 1913, before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Mr.
Alexander stated: "But the whole scheme of a Federal Reserve Bank with
its commercial-paper basis is an impractical, cumbersome machinery, is
simply a cover, to find a way to secure the privilege of issuing money
and to evade payment of as much tax upon circulation as possible, and
then control the issue and maintain, instead of reduce, interest rates.
It is a system that, if inaugurated, will prove to the advantage of the
few and the detriment of the people of the United States. It will mean
continued shortage of actual money and further extension of credits;
for when there is a lack of real money people have to borrow credit to
their cost."

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Can the U.S. Return to a Gold Standard?

By Alan GreenspanThe Wall Street JournalSeptember 1, 1981
The growing disillusionment with politically controlled monetary policies has produced an increasing number of advocates for a return to the gold standard -- including at times President Reagan.
In years past the desire to return to a monetary system based on gold was perceived as nostalgia for an era when times were simpler, problems less complex, and the world not threatened with nuclear annihilation. But after a decade of destabilizing inflation and economic stagnation, the restoration of a gold standard has become an issue that is clearly rising on the economic policy agenda. A commission to study the issue, with strong support from President Reagan, is in place.
The increasingly numerous proponents of a gold standard persuasively argue that large budget deficits and large federal borrowing requirements would be difficult to finance under such a standard. Heavy claims against paper dollars cause few technical problems, for the Treasury can legally borrow as many dollars as Congress authorizes.
But with unlimited dollar conversion into gold, the ability to issue dollar claims would be severely limited. Obviously, if you cannot finance federal deficits, you cannot create them. Either taxes would then have to be raised or expenditures lowered. The restrictions of gold convertibility would therefore profoundly alter the politics of fiscal policy that have prevailed for half a century.
Disturbed by Alternatives
Even some of those who conclude a return to gold is infeasible remain deeply disturbed by the current alternatives. For example, William Fellner of the American Enterprise Institute in a forthcoming publication remarks: "I find it difficult not to be greatly impressed by the very large damage done to the economies of the industrialized world ... by the monetary management that has followed the era of (gold) convertibility. ... It has placed the Western economies in acute danger."
Yet even those of us who are attracted to the prospect of gold convertibility are confronted with a seemingly impossible obstacle: the latest claims to gold represented by the huge world overhang of flat currency, mainly dollars. The immediate problem of restoring a gold standard is fixing a gold price that is consistent with market forces. Obviously if the offering price by the Treasury is too low, or subsequently proves to be too low, heavy demand at the offering price could quickly deplete the total U.S. government stock of gold as well as any gold borrowed to thwart the assault. At that point, with no additional gold available, the United States would be off the gold standard and likely to remain off for decades.
Alternatively, if the bid price is initially set too high, or subsequently becomes too high, the Treasury would be inundated with gold offerings. The payments for the gold drawn on the Treasury's account at the Federal Reserve would add substantially to commercial bank reserves and probably act, at least temporarily, to expand the money supply with all the inflationary implications thereof.
Monetary offsets to neutralize or "earmark" gold are, of course, possible in the short run. But as the West German monetary authorities soon learned from their past endeavors to support the dollar, there are limits to monetary countermeasures.
The only seeming solution is for the United States to create a fiscal and monetary environment which in effect makes the dollar as good as gold -- that is, stabilizes the general price level and by inference the dollar price of gold bullion itself. Then a modest reserve of bullion could reduce the remaining narrow gold price fluctuations effectively to zero, allowing any changes in gold supply and demand to be absorbed in fluctuations in the Treasury's inventory.
What the above suggests is that a necessary condition of returning to a gold standard is the financial environment which the gold standard itself is presumed to create. But if we restore financial stability, what purpose is then served by a return to a gold standard?
Certainly a gold-based monetary system will not necessarily prevent fiscal imprudence, as 20th-century history clearly demonstrates. Nonetheless, once achieved, the discipline of the gold standard would surely reinforce anti-inflation policies and make it far more difficult to resume financial profligacy. The redemption of dollars for gold in response to excess federal government-induced credit creation would be a strong political signal. Even after inflation is brought under control, the extraordinary current political sensitivity to inflation will surely remain.
Concrete actions to install a gold standard are premature. Nonetheless, there are certain preparatory policy actions that could test the eventual feasibility of returning to a gold standard and that would have positive short term anti-inflation benefits and little cost if they fail.
The major roadblock to restoring the gold standard is the problem of re-entry. With the vast quantity of dollars worldwide laying claim to the U.S. Treasury's 264 million ounces of gold, an overnight transition to gold convertibility would create a major discontinuity for the U.S. financial system. But there is no need for the whole block of current dollar obligations to become an immediate claim.
Convertibility can be instituted gradually by, in effect, creating a dual currency with a limited issue of dollars convertible into gold. Initially they could be deferred claims to gold -- for example, five-year Treasury notes with interest and principal payable in grams or ounces of gold.
With the passage of time and several issues of these notes we would soon have a series of "near-monies" in terms of gold and, eventually, demand claims on gold. The degree of success in restoring long-term fiscal confidence will show up clearly in the yield spreads between gold and fiat dollar obligations of the same maturities. Full convertibility would require that the yield spreads for all maturities virtually disappear. If they do not, convertibility will be very difficult, probably impossible to implement.
A second advantage of gold notes is that they are likely to reduce current budget deficits. Treasury gold notes in today's markets could be sold at interest rates approximating 2 percent or less. In fact from today's markets one can construct the equivalent of a22-month Treasury gold note yielding 1 percent by arbitraging regular Treasury note yields for June 1983 maturities (17 percent) and the forward delivery premiums of gold (16 percent annual rate) inferred from June 1983 futures contracts. Presumably five-year note issues would reflect a similar relationship.
A Risk of Exchange Loss
The exchange risk of the Treasury gold notes, of course, is the same as that associated with our foreign currency Treasury note series. The U.S. Treasury has over the years sold significant quantities of both German mark and Swiss franc-denominated issues, and both made and lost money in terms of dollars as exchange rates have fluctuated. And indeed there is a risk of exchange loss with gold notes.
However, unless the price of gold doubles over a five-year period (16 percent, compounded annually), interest payments on gold notes In terms of dollars will be less than conventional financing requires. The run-up to $875 per ounce in early 1980 was surely an aberration, reflecting special circumstances in the Middle East which are unlikely to be repeated in the near future. Hence, anything close to a doubling of gold prices in the next five years appears improbable. On the other hand, if gold prices remain stable or rise moderately, the savings could be large: Each $10 billion in equivalent gold notes outstanding would, under stable gold prices, save $1.5 billion per year in interest outlays.
A possible further side benefit of the existence of gold notes is that they could set a standard in terms of prices and interest rates that could put additional political pressure on the administration and Congress to move expeditiously toward non-inflationary policies. Gold notes could be a case of reversing Gresham's Law. Good money would drive out bad.
Those who advocate a return to a gold standard should be aware that returning our monetary system to gold convertibility is no mere technical, financial restructuring. It is a basic change in our economic processes. However, considering where the policies of the last 50 years eventually led us, perhaps there are lessons to be learned from our more distant gold-standard past.
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Mr. Greenspan, of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1974-77.

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Iran: A Bridge Too Far?

by Mark Gaffney - Information Clearing House October 26, 2004
Last July, they dubbed it operation Summer Pulse: a simultaneous mustering of US Naval forces, world wide, that was unprecedented. According to the Navy, it was the first exercise of its new Fleet Response Plan (FRP), the purpose of which was to enable the Navy to respond quickly to an international crisis. The Navy wanted to show its increased force readiness, that is, its capacity to rapidly move combat power to any global hot spot. Never in the history of the US Navy had so many carrier battle groups been involved in a single operation. Even the US fleet massed in the Gulf and eastern Mediterranean during operation Desert Storm in 1991, and in the recent invasion of Iraq, never exceeded six battle groups. But last July and August there were seven of them on the move, each battle group consisting of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with its full complement of 7-8 supporting ships, and 70 or more assorted aircraft. Most of the activity, according to various reports, was in the Pacific, where the fleet participated in joint exercises with the Taiwanese navy.
But why so much naval power underway at the same time? What potential world crisis could possibly require more battle groups than were deployed during the recent invasion of Iraq? In past years, when the US has seen fit to “show the flag” or flex its naval muscle, one or two carrier groups have sufficed. Why this global show of power?
The news headlines about the joint-maneuvers in the South China Sea read: “Saber Rattling Unnerves China”, and: “Huge Show of Force Worries Chinese.” But the reality was quite different, and, as we shall see, has grave ramifications for the continuing US military presence in the Persian Gulf; because operation Summer Pulse reflected a high-level Pentagon decision that an unprecedented show of strength was needed to counter what is viewed as a growing threat –– in the particular case of China, because of Peking’s newest Sovremenny-class destroyers recently acquired from Russia.
“Nonsense!” you are probably thinking. That’s impossible. How could a few picayune destroyers threaten the US Pacific fleet?”
Here is where the story thickens: Summer Pulse amounted to a tacit acknowledgement, obvious to anyone paying attention, that the United States has been eclipsed in an important area of military technology, and that this qualitative edge is now being wielded by others, including the Chinese; because those otherwise very ordinary destroyers were, in fact, launching platforms for Russian-made 3M-82 Moskit anti-ship cruise missiles (NATO designation: SS-N-22 Sunburn), a weapon for which the US Navy currently has no defense. Here I am not suggesting that the US status of lone world Superpower has been surpassed. I am simply saying that a new global balance of power is emerging, in which other individual states may, on occasion, achieve “an asymmetric advantage” over the US. And this, in my view, explains the immense scale of Summer Pulse. The US show last summer of overwhelming strength was calculated to send a message.
The Sunburn Missile
I was shocked when I learned the facts about these Russian-made cruise missiles. The problem is that so many of us suffer from two common misperceptions. The first follows from our assumption that Russia is militarily weak, as a result of the breakup of the old Soviet system. Actually, this is accurate, but it does not reflect the complexities. Although the Russian navy continues to rust in port, and the Russian army is in disarray, in certain key areas Russian technology is actually superior to our own. And nowhere is this truer than in the vital area of anti-ship cruise missile technology, where the Russians hold at least a ten-year lead over the US. The second misperception has to do with our complacency in general about missiles-as-weapons –– probably attributable to the pathetic performance of Saddam Hussein’s Scuds during the first Gulf war: a dangerous illusion that I will now attempt to rectify.
Many years ago, Soviet planners gave up trying to match the US Navy ship for ship, gun for gun, and dollar for dollar. The Soviets simply could not compete with the high levels of US spending required to build up and maintain a huge naval armada. They shrewdly adopted an alternative approach based on strategic defense. They searched for weaknesses, and sought relatively inexpensive ways to exploit those weaknesses. The Soviets succeeded: by developing several supersonic anti-ship missiles, one of which, the SS-N-22 Sunburn, has been called “the most lethal missile in the world today.”
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the old military establishment fell upon hard times. But in the late1990s Moscow awakened to the under-utilized potential of its missile technology to generate desperately needed foreign exchange. A decision was made to resuscitate selected programs, and, very soon, Russian missile technology became a hot export commodity. Today, Russian missiles are a growth industry generating much-needed cash for Russia, with many billions in combined sales to India, China, Viet Nam, Cuba, and also Iran. In the near future this dissemination of advanced technology is likely to present serious challenges to the US. Some have even warned that the US Navy’s largest ships, the massive carriers, have now become floating death traps, and should for this reason be mothballed.
The Sunburn missile has never seen use in combat, to my knowledge, which probably explains why its fearsome capabilities are not more widely recognized. Other cruise missiles have been used, of course, on several occasions, and with devastating results. During the Falklands War, French-made Exocet missiles, fired from Argentine fighters, sunk the HMS Sheffield and another ship. And, in 1987, during the Iran-Iraq war, the USS Stark was nearly cut in half by a pair of Exocets while on patrol in the Persian Gulf. On that occasion US Aegis radar picked up the incoming Iraqi fighter (a French-made Mirage), and tracked its approach to within 50 miles. The radar also “saw” the Iraqi plane turn about and return to its base. But radar never detected the pilot launch his weapons. The sea-skimming Exocets came smoking in under radar and were only sighted by human eyes moments before they ripped into the Stark, crippling the ship and killing 37 US sailors.
The 1987 surprise attack on the Stark exemplifies the dangers posed by anti-ship cruise missiles. And the dangers are much more serious in the case of the Sunburn, whose specs leave the sub-sonic Exocet in the dust. Not only is the Sunburn much larger and faster, it has far greater range and a superior guidance system. Those who have witnessed its performance trials invariably come away stunned. According to one report, when the Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani visited Moscow in October 2001 he requested a test firing of the Sunburn, which the Russians were only too happy to arrange. So impressed was Ali Shamkhani that he placed an order for an undisclosed number of the missiles.
The Sunburn can deliver a 200-kiloton nuclear payload, or: a 750-pound conventional warhead, within a range of 100 miles, more than twice the range of the Exocet. The Sunburn combines a Mach 2.1 speed (two times the speed of sound) with a flight pattern that hugs the deck and includes “violent end maneuvers” to elude enemy defenses. The missile was specifically designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defense system. Should a US Navy Phalanx point defense somehow manage to detect an incoming Sunburn missile, the system has only seconds to calculate a fire solution –– not enough time to take out the intruding missile. The US Phalanx defense employs a six-barreled gun that fires 3,000 depleted-uranium rounds a minute, but the gun must have precise coordinates to destroy an intruder “just in time.”
The Sunburn’s combined supersonic speed and payload size produce tremendous kinetic energy on impact, with devastating consequences for ship and crew. A single one of these missiles can sink a large warship, yet costs considerably less than a fighter jet. Although the Navy has been phasing out the older Phalanx defense system, its replacement, known as the Rolling Action Missile (RAM) has never been tested against the weapon it seems destined to one day face in combat.
Implications For US Forces in the Gulf
The US Navy’s only plausible defense against a robust weapon like the Sunburn missile is to detect the enemy’s approach well ahead of time, whether destroyers, subs, or fighter-bombers, and defeat them before they can get in range and launch their deadly cargo. For this purpose US AWACs radar planes assigned to each naval battle group are kept aloft on a rotating schedule. The planes “see” everything within two hundred miles of the fleet, and are complemented with intelligence from orbiting satellites.
But US naval commanders operating in the Persian Gulf face serious challenges that are unique to the littoral, i.e., coastal, environment. A glance at a map shows why: The Gulf is nothing but a large lake, with one narrow outlet, and most of its northern shore, i.e., Iran, consists of mountainous terrain that affords a commanding tactical advantage over ships operating in Gulf waters. The rugged northern shore makes for easy concealment of coastal defenses, such as mobile missile launchers, and also makes their detection problematic. Although it was not widely reported, the US actually lost the battle of the Scuds in the first Gulf War –– termed “the great Scud hunt” –– and for similar reasons. Saddam Hussein’s mobile Scud launchers proved so difficult to detect and destroy –– over and over again the Iraqis fooled allied reconnaissance with decoys –– that during the course of Desert Storm the US was unable to confirm even a single kill. This proved such an embarrassment to the Pentagon, afterwards, that the unpleasant stats were buried in official reports. But the blunt fact is that the US failed to stop the Scud attacks. The launches continued until the last few days of the conflict. Luckily, the Scud’s inaccuracy made it an almost useless weapon. At one point General Norman Schwarzkopf quipped dismissively to the press that his soldiers had a greater chance of being struck by lightning in Georgia than by a Scud in Kuwait.
But that was then, and it would be a grave error to allow the Scud’s ineffectiveness to blur the facts concerning this other missile. The Sunburn’s amazing accuracy was demonstrated not long ago in a live test staged at sea by the Chinese –– and observed by US spy planes. Not only did the Sunburn missile destroy the dummy target ship, it scored a perfect bull’s eye, hitting the crosshairs of a large “X” mounted on the ship’s bridge. The only word that does it justice, awesome, has become a clich้, hackneyed from hyperbolic excess.
The US Navy has never faced anything in combat as formidable as the Sunburn missile. But this will surely change if the US and Israel decide to wage a so-called preventive war against Iran to destroy its nuclear infrastructure. Storm clouds have been darkening over the Gulf for many months. In recent years Israel upgraded its air force with a new fleet of long-range F-15 fighter-bombers, and even more recently took delivery of 5,000 bunker-buster bombs from the US –– weapons that many observers think are intended for use against Iran.
The arming for war has been matched by threats. Israeli officials have declared repeatedly that they will not allow the Mullahs to develop nuclear power, not even reactors to generate electricity for peaceful use. Their threats are particularly worrisome, because Israel has a long history of pre-emptive war. (See my 1989 book Dimona: the Third Temple? and also my 2003 article Will Iran Be Next? posted at < http://www.InformationClearingHouse.info/article3288.htm >)
Never mind that such a determination is not Israel’s to make, and belongs instead to the international community, as codified in the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). With regard to Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) recent report (September 2004) is well worth a look, as it repudiates facile claims by the US and Israel that Iran is building bombs. While the report is highly critical of Tehran for its ambiguities and its grudging release of documents, it affirms that IAEA inspectors have been admitted to every nuclear site in the country to which they have sought access, without exception. Last year Iran signed the strengthened IAEA inspection protocol, which until then had been voluntary. And the IAEA has found no hard evidence, to date, either that bombs exist or that Iran has made a decision to build them. (The latest IAEA report can be downloaded at: www.GlobalSecurity.org)
In a talk on October 3, 2004, IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei made the clearest statement yet: "Iran has no nuclear weapons program", he said, and then repeated himself for emphasis: “Iran has no nuclear weapons program, but I personally don’t rush to conclusions before all the realities are clarified. So far I see nothing that could be called an imminent danger. I have seen no nuclear weapons program in Iran. What I have seen is that Iran is trying to gain access to nuclear enrichment technology, and so far there is no danger from Iran. Therefore, we should make use of political and diplomatic means before thinking of resorting to other alternatives.”
( http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5051 )
No one disputes that Tehran is pursuing a dangerous path, but with 200 or more Israeli nukes targeted upon them the Iranians’ insistence on keeping their options open is understandable. Clearly, the nuclear nonproliferation regime today hangs by the slenderest of threads. The world has arrived at a fateful crossroads.
A Fearful Symmetry?
If a showdown over Iran develops in the coming months, the man who could hold the outcome in his hands will be thrust upon the world stage. That man, like him or hate him, is Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has been castigated severely in recent months for gathering too much political power to himself. But according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was interviewed on US television recently by David Brokaw, Putin has not imposed a tyranny upon Russia –– yet. Gorbachev thinks the jury is still out on Putin.
Perhaps, with this in mind, we should be asking whether Vladimir Putin is a serious student of history. If he is, then he surely recognizes that the deepening crisis in the Persian Gulf presents not only manifold dangers, but also opportunities. Be assured that the Russian leader has not forgotten the humiliating defeat Ronald Reagan inflicted upon the old Soviet state. (Have we Americans forgotten?) By the mid-1980s the Soviets were in Kabul, and had all but defeated the Mujahedeen. The Soviet Union appeared secure in its military occupation of Afghanistan. But then, in 1986, the first US Stinger missiles reached the hands of the Afghani resistance; and, quite suddenly, Soviet helicopter gunships and MiGs began dropping out of the skies like flaming stones. The tide swiftly turned, and by 1989 it was all over but the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth in the Kremlin. Defeated, the Soviets slunk back across the frontier. The whole world cheered the American Stingers, which had carried the day.
This very night, as he sips his cognac, what is Vladimir Putin thinking? Is he perhaps thinking about the perverse symmetries of history? If so, he may also be wondering (and discussing with his closest aides) how a truly great nation like the United States could be so blind and so stupid as to allow another state, i.e., Israel, to control its foreign policy, especially in a region as vital (and volatile) as the Mid-East. One can almost hear the Russians’ animated conversation:
“The Americans! What is the matter with them?” “They simply cannot help themselves.” “What idiots!” “A nation as foolish as this deserves to be taught a lesson…” “Yes! For their own good.” “It must be a painful lesson, one they will never forget…” “Are we agreed, then, comrades?” “Let us teach our American friends a lesson about the limits of military power!”
Does anyone really believe that Vladimir Putin will hesitate to seize a most rare opportunity to change the course of history and, in the bargain, take his sweet revenge? Surely Putin understands the terrible dimensions of the trap into which the US has blundered, thanks to the Israelis and their neo-con supporters in Washington who lobbied so vociferously for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, against all friendly and expert advice, and who even now beat the drums of war against Iran. Would Putin be wrong to conclude that the US will never leave the region unless it is first defeated militarily? Should we blame him for deciding that Iran is “one bridge too far”?
If the US and Israel overreach, and the Iranians close the net with Russian anti-ship missiles, it will be a fearful symmetry, indeed…
Springing the Trap
At the battle of Cannae in 216 BC the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal, tempted a much larger Roman army into a fateful advance, and then enveloped and annihilated it with a smaller force. Out of a Roman army of 70,000 men, no more than a few thousand escaped. It was said that after many hours of dispatching the Romans Hannibal’s soldiers grew so tired that the fight went out of them. In their weariness they granted the last broken and bedraggled Romans their lives…
Let us pray that the US sailors who are unlucky enough to be on duty in the Persian Gulf when the shooting starts can escape the fate of the Roman army at Cannae. The odds will be heavily against them, however, because they will face the same type of danger, tantamount to envelopment. The US ships in the Gulf will already have come within range of the Sunburn missiles and the even more-advanced SS-NX-26 Yakhonts missiles, also Russian-made (speed: Mach 2.9; range: 180 miles) deployed by the Iranians along the Gulf’s northern shore. Every US ship will be exposed and vulnerable. When the Iranians spring the trap, the entire lake will become a killing field.
Anti-ship cruise missiles are not new, as I’ve mentioned. Nor have they yet determined the outcome in a conflict. But this is probably only because these horrible weapons have never been deployed in sufficient numbers. At the time of the Falklands war the Argentine air force possessed only five Exocets, yet managed to sink two ships. With enough of them, the Argentineans might have sunk the entire British fleet, and won the war. Although we’ve never seen a massed attack of cruise missiles, this is exactly what the US Navy could face in the next war in the Gulf. Try and imagine it if you can: barrage after barrage of Exocet-class missiles, which the Iranians are known to possess in the hundreds, as well as the unstoppable Sunburn and Yakhonts missiles. The questions that our purblind government leaders should be asking themselves, today, if they value what historians will one day write about them, are two: how many of the Russian anti-ship missiles has Putin already supplied to Iran? And: How many more are currently in the pipeline? In 2001 Jane’s Defense Weekly reported that Iran was attempting to acquire anti-ship missiles from Russia. Ominously, the same report also mentioned that the more advanced Yakhonts missile was “optimized for attacks against carrier task forces.” Apparently its guidance system is “able to distinguish an aircraft carrier from its escorts.” The numbers were not disclosed…
The US Navy will come under fire even if the US does not participate in the first so-called surgical raids on Iran’s nuclear sites, that is, even if Israel goes it alone. Israel’s brand-new fleet of 25 F-15s (paid for by American taxpayers) has sufficient range to target Iran, but the Israelis cannot mount an attack without crossing US-occupied Iraqi air space. It will hardly matter if Washington gives the green light, or is dragged into the conflict by a recalcitrant Israel. Either way, the result will be the same. The Iranians will interpret US acquiescence as complicity, and, in any event, they will understand that the real fight is with the Americans. The Iranians will be entirely within their rights to counter-attack in self-defense. Most of the world will see it this way, and will support them, not America. The US and Israel will be viewed as the aggressors, even as the unfortunate US sailors in harm’s way become cannon fodder. In the Gulf’s shallow and confined waters evasive maneuvers will be difficult, at best, and escape impossible. Even if US planes control of the skies over the battlefield, the sailors caught in the net below will be hard-pressed to survive. The Gulf will run red with American blood…
From here, it only gets worse. Armed with their Russian-supplied cruise missiles, the Iranians will close the lake’s only outlet, the strategic Strait of Hormuz, cutting off the trapped and dying Americans from help and rescue. The US fleet massing in the Indian Ocean will stand by helplessly, unable to enter the Gulf to assist the survivors or bring logistical support to the other US forces on duty in Iraq. Couple this with a major new ground offensive by the Iraqi insurgents, and, quite suddenly, the tables could turn against the Americans in Baghdad. As supplies and ammunition begin to run out, the status of US forces in the region will become precarious. The occupiers will become the besieged…
With enough anti-ship missiles, the Iranians can halt tanker traffic through Hormuz for weeks, even months. With the flow of oil from the Gulf curtailed, the price of a barrel of crude will skyrocket on the world market. Within days the global economy will begin to grind to a halt. Tempers at an emergency round-the-clock session of the UN Security Council will flare and likely explode into shouting and recriminations as French, German, Chinese and even British ambassadors angrily accuse the US of allowing Israel to threaten world order. But, as always, because of the US veto the world body will be powerless to act...
America will stand alone, completely isolated. Yet, despite the increasingly hostile international mood, elements of the US media will spin the crisis very differently here at home, in a way that is sympathetic to Israel. Members of Congress will rise to speak in the House and Senate, and rally to Israel’s defense, while blaming the victim of the attack, Iran. Fundamentalist Christian talk show hosts will proclaim the historic fulfillment of biblical prophecy in our time, and will call upon the Jews of Israel to accept Jesus into their hearts; meanwhile, urging the president to nuke the evil empire of Islam. From across America will be heard histrionic cries for fresh reinforcements, even a military draft. Patriots will demand victory at any cost. Pundits will scream for an escalation of the conflict.
A war that ostensibly began as an attempt to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons will teeter on the brink of their use…
Conclusion
Friends, we must work together to prevent such a catastrophe. We must stop the next Middle East war before it starts. The US government must turn over to the United Nations the primary responsibility for resolving the deepening crisis in Iraq, and, immediately thereafter, withdraw US forces from the country. We must also prevail upon the Israelis to sign the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and open all of their nuclear sites to IAEA inspectors. Only then can serious talks begin with Iran and other states to establish a nuclear weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the Mid East –– so essential to the region’s long-term peace and security.
Mark Gaffney’s first book, Dimona the Third Temple? (1989), was a pioneering study of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Mark’s articles about the Mid-East and proliferation issues have appeared in the Middle East Policy Journal, Washington Report On Middle East Affairs, the Earth Island Journal, The Oregonian, the Daily Californian, and have been posted on numerous web sites, especially Counterpunch.org. Mark’s 2003 paper Will Iran Be Next? can be viewed at < www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran.htm> Mark’s newest book, Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes, was released by Inner Traditions Press in May 2003. Email For more information go to www.GnosticSecrets.com
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Also see: A Weapons Analysis of the Iran-Russia-US strategic triangle http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=2439
Russia ready to Vaporize Jewish State www.joevialls.co.uk/myahudi/sunburn.html
Russia Ready to Vaporize Jewish State Part 2 http://www.joevialls.co.uk/myahudi/sunburn2.html