THANKS LAU. EXCELLENT. 1913 WAS THE YEAR OF MY FATHER'S BIRTH. MAY GOD REST HIS ETERNAL SOUL. HE WAS ONE OF THE REMARKABLE MEN OF MY LIFE.
OTHER THOUGHTS TRIGGERED BY 1913 VIA THE ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY OF MEMORY:
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN'S , THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND. THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, WHICH GRIFFIN SAID, IS NEITHER FEDERAL, NOR IS IT RESEREVE. . IT WAS SPAWNED IN 1910 AT A VERY SECRET MEETING ATTENDED BY A CARTEL OF RICH BANKERS---SO SECRET THAT THEY HAD ARRIVED VIA THEIR PRIVATE PULLMAN CARS WITH NAMEPLATES CHANGED TO FICTITIOUS NAMES TO CONCEAL THEIR IDENTITY. THE CARTEL THUS SPAWBED THE IDEA, AND THEN HAD THE LEGIS LATION DRAFTED. NEXT THEIR MINIONS RAMMED IT THROUGH CONGRESS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913. TAKE A LOOK AT A MAP AND GUESS WHO SHOWED UP IN CONGRESS TO VOTE THAT DAY---FOUR YEARS BEFORE ORVILLE AND WILBUR GOT THEIR PLANE(A MOTORIZED BICYCLE) OFF THE GROUND AT KITTY HAWK.
THEN THE BANKER'S MINION'S RUSHED THE BILL UP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR WOODY'S SIGNATURE. WILSON LATER LAMENTED THAT ONE OF HIS MOST PAINUL MEMORIES WAS THAT HE HAD ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CONNED BY THE BANKERS INTO SIGNING THAT LEGISLATION.
FOR ME, THE MOST PROFOUND AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THESIS OF GRIFFIN'S ENTIRE BOOK IS CONTAINED IN THIS ONE SENTENCE: (PARAPHRASING, BUT ALMOST A DIRECT QUOTE: "THE WORLD IS, AND HAS BEEN SINCE BIBLICAL TIMES, RUN BY THE TEN TO FIFTEEN RICHEST FAMILIES IN THE WORLD." CURIOUSLY, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OR READ THIS QUOTATION. LET'S CHANGE THAT.
The transfer of wealth from the many to the few
It would be interesting to see the comparable rise in wages.
FORGIVE CAPS--ALMOST BLIND
THANKS LAU. EXCELLENT. 1913 WAS THE YEAR OF MY FATHER'S BIRTH. MAY GOD REST HIS ETERNAL SOUL. HE WAS ONE OF THE REMARKABLE MEN OF MY LIFE.
OTHER THOUGHTS TRIGGERED BY 1913 VIA THE ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY OF MEMORY:
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN'S , THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND. THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK, WHICH GRIFFIN SAID, IS NEITHER FEDERAL, NOR IS IT RESEREVE. . IT WAS SPAWNED IN 1910 AT A VERY SECRET MEETING ATTENDED BY A CARTEL OF RICH BANKERS---SO SECRET THAT THEY HAD ARRIVED VIA THEIR PRIVATE PULLMAN CARS WITH NAMEPLATES CHANGED TO FICTITIOUS NAMES TO CONCEAL THEIR IDENTITY. THE CARTEL THUS SPAWBED THE IDEA, AND THEN HAD THE LEGIS LATION DRAFTED. NEXT THEIR MINIONS RAMMED IT THROUGH CONGRESS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913. TAKE A LOOK AT A MAP AND GUESS WHO SHOWED UP IN CONGRESS TO VOTE THAT DAY---FOUR YEARS BEFORE ORVILLE AND WILBUR GOT THEIR PLANE(A MOTORIZED BICYCLE) OFF THE GROUND AT KITTY HAWK.
THEN THE BANKER'S MINION'S RUSHED THE BILL UP PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR WOODY'S SIGNATURE. WILSON LATER LAMENTED THAT ONE OF HIS MOST PAINUL MEMORIES WAS THAT HE HAD ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE CONNED BY THE BANKERS INTO SIGNING THAT LEGISLATION.
FOR ME, THE MOST PROFOUND AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THESIS OF GRIFFIN'S ENTIRE BOOK IS CONTAINED IN THIS ONE SENTENCE: (PARAPHRASING, BUT ALMOST A DIRECT QUOTE: "THE WORLD IS, AND HAS BEEN SINCE BIBLICAL TIMES, RUN BY THE TEN TO FIFTEEN RICHEST FAMILIES IN THE WORLD." CURIOUSLY, I HAVE NEVER HEARD OR READ THIS QUOTATION. LET'S CHANGE THAT.
SINCERELY,
LIAM OF LIAM'S LADDER
What happens when it gets to $0.00? Oh, I know my elected representative will borrow it anyway.
Might as well... (from a politician's perspective)