Here is how they describe what they do: Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else.

They have a number of clips on Youtube.  Check out http://www.theyesmen.org.

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Umberto Calvini: [In explaining the "true" nature of banking in the world] “The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn’t to control the conflict, it’s to control the debt that the conflict produces. You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. You find this upsetting, yes? But this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt.”

The other important concept that is discovered is just how hard it is to bring an entity like this to justice.  The reason given is that these banks provide the dirty money services required by governments, intelligence agencies, corporations, organized crime and wealthy individuals.  “Everyone is involved, everyone.”

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned “central” bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.

The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clinton’s mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank….sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”

Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today ($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers.

This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers “who are able to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will.”

I highly recommend reading through the quotes at the bottom of this post as well and looking over the Money Masters Website.

Segments:

• The Problem
• The Money Changers
• Roman Empire
• The Goldsmiths of Medieval England
• Tally Sticks
• The Bank of England
• The Rise of the Rothschilds
• The American Revolution
• The Bank of North America
• The Constitutional Convention
• First Bank of the U.S.
• Napoleon’s Rise to Power
• Death of the First Bank of the U.S. / War of 1812
• Waterloo
• Second Bank of the U.S.
• Andrew Jackson
• Abe Lincoln and the Civil War
• The Return of the Gold Standard
• Free Silver
• J.P. Morgan / 1907 Crash
• Jekyll Island
• Fed Act of 1913
• J.P. Morgan / WWI
• Roaring 20s / Great Depression
• FDR / WWII / Fort Knox
• World Central Bank
• Conclusions

Presidents

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. – Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” – Thomas Jefferson

… The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating. -Thomas Jefferson

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. -James Madison

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. -Andrew Jackson

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. -Abraham Lincoln

Issue of currency should be lodged with the government and be protected from domination by Wall Street. We are opposed to…provisions [which] would place our currency and credit system in private hands. – Theodore Roosevelt

Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson

Years later, reflecting on the major banks’ control in Washington, President Franklin Roosevelt paid this indirect praise to his distant predecessor President Andrew Jackson, who had “killed” the 2nd Bank of the US (an earlier type of the Federal Reserve System). After Jackson’s administration the bankers’ influence was gradually restored and increased, culminating in the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Roosevelt knew this history.

The real truth of the matter is,as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson… -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)

Politicians

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.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, 1815

“The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.” Otto von Bismark (1815-1898), German Chancellor, after the Lincoln assassination

“Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.” Karl Marx writing in the Communist Manifesto (1848).

“That this House considers that the continued issue of all the means of exchange – be they coin, bank-notes or credit, largely passed on by cheques – by private firms as an interest-bearing debt against the public should cease forthwith; that the Sovereign power and duty of issuing money in all forms should be returned to the Crown, then to be put into circulation free of all debt and interest obligations…” Captain Henry Kerby MP, in an Early Day Motion tabled in 1964.

“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. ” Ralph M Hawtry, former Secretary to the Treasury.

“… our whole monetary system is dishonest, as it is debt-based… We did not vote for it. It grew upon us gradually but markedly since 1971 when the commodity-based system was abandoned.” The Earl of Caithness, in a speech to the House of Lords, 1997.

Bankers

“The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England in 1694, then a privately owned bank

“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.

“I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people.” Reginald McKenna, as Chairman of the Midland Bank, addressing stockholders in 1924.

“The banks do create money. They have been doing it for a long time, but they didn’t realise it, and they did not admit it. Very few did. You will find it in all sorts of documents, financial textbooks, etc. But in the intervening years, and we must be perfectly frank about these things, there has been a development of thought, until today I doubt very much whether you would get many prominent bankers to attempt to deny that banks create it.” H W White, Chairman of the Associated Banks of New Zealand, to the New Zealand Monetary Commission, 1955.

Others

“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.” Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer.

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is, perhaps, the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banks can in fact inflate, mint and un-mint the modern ledger-entry currency.” Major L L B Angus.

“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.” John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ), former professor of economics at Harvard, writing in ‘Money: Whence it came, where it went’ (1975).

The part that struck out to me the most is changes happening in our universe.  He couldn’t give much detail but what he was describing matches some information I heard just this weekend regarding the earth moving through a very strong electro-magentic field over the course of the next 10 to 20 years that would cause all sorts of problems much like those described by John.  A number of other points are very consistent with predictions on peak oil, climate change, geo-politics, Islam, terrorism, world government, earthquakes, food shortages, war, volcanoes, large storms, etc.

This is not meant to generate fear, however.  God is in control and wishes to use this period to bring the US and His church into alignment with Him.  The end of Part I and Part II focus on our response and God’s purposes in a time such as this.

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Some of my notes:

• He discusses a war agenda and military doctrine which involves oil pipelines and oil reserve control but is about much more than these things.
• The New American Century is a blueprint for world domination and lays out a game plan for conquest using the War on Terror as an excuse to move into the middle East.
• Al Qaeda is a creation of and continues to be a US intelligence asset
• There are four opposing factions including the US/British, Euro zone, Russia and China.  A silent war is currently raging between these groups around the defense industry/arms, oil and currency.
  
• Nuclear war is now part of the strategy in US preemptive warfare.
• Globalization of poverty is the result, not due to scarcity but due to the destructive expansion of the empire via privatization and deregulation.
• Financial crises is a result of the shift of resources to the military complex away from the real productive economy.  The agenda is to privatize all public assets and activities into centrally controlled corporations.  Unlike WWII, the war economy will not create jobs and bring economic well being to US citizens.  The opposite is happening.
  
• We see a slide into Fascism.  Outside of the US it looks like military and economic conquest.  Inside the country it looks like a police state via the militarization of the police force.
• 9/11 serves to justify the war on terror (war of conquest).  But this is a false cover and much like Pearl Harbor, could have been avoided and was used as an excuse to move forward with war plans.
• Dealing with the criminalization of the state.  Politicians on both sides are highly compromised and complicit in keeping the system running.  High level politicians are puppets.
  
• American citizens are uneducated and unaware of truth.  Media has failed to inform people for many reasons.  Government propaganda machine overwhelms truth that does make it out.
• Must question the legitimacy of what is behind all these plans.  Must identify the corporate interests involved including central banks, Wall St., defense industry, pharmaceutical industry, big oil, big agriculture, etc.  Must then get behind who runs these highly centralized businesses and sets their agendas.
• Watch out for dissent movements that serve to demobilize and distract the truth movement.  Manufacturing dissent is used to redirect dissent in ways that actually support the system as a whole.
• Truth is the enemy of this system.  Truth will destroy it.  Truth can be spread person to person in a grass roots movement.

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Lecture: The Global Financial Crises — The Great Depression of the 21st Century with Michel Chossudovsky Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown.

• The speculative onslaught
• Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”
• Bankruptcy of the real economy
• Impacts on employment, wages and social services
• Towards a spiralling public debt
• The economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war
• The centralization of corporate power
• The concentration of wealth
• The globalization of poverty
  

This guy has some really deep things to say about how we do things in America.  I highly recommend reflecting on what he has to say.  It is mind blowing stuff and he really gets at a lot of root problems with our fundamental systems.

• Watch Part 1
• Watch Part 2

Speaking at Loyola College, David shares his views on the end of the American Empire in three video segments. He says we’re headed for separate Americas of “haves and have-nots.” Simon faults “unencumbered Capitalism” for making our country care less about the most vulnerable of our citizens. Unless we change, he predicts “we are doomed.”

With a background in investment finance and as Assistant Secretary of Housing in the 90s, Catherine Austine Fitts knows what she is talking about.

Catherine speaking about the role of Barter in the new economy to the IRTA 08 Barter convention.  She talks through money laundering, mortgage fraud, the dependancy of our economy on dirty money, global taxation via US Treasuries, centralization and the financial warfare model, privatization of public resources around the world and many other vital topics.  She suggests a fantastic opportunity to invest in self sufficiency within local communities.  She also suggests precious medals and local banking.

This lecture, titled Safely Navigate the Falling US Dollar – Powerful Strategies for the Ethical Investor in Uncertain Economic Times was presented by Catherine Austin Fitts in Mill Valley, CA, December 15, 2004 to an overflow audience.

Building Wealth and Safety—the Solari Way

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Here Catherine outlines how to “come clean” from a destructive economic system and introduces the Solari Investor Circle, a local investment club for you and the people you trust, to help you start your own wealth-building conspiracy that is entirely under your control—right in your community.

Use this lecture to help build a lifeboat in times of economic volatility, and to help you launch a wealth revolution in your home and neighborhood. Use this lecture to build a lifeboat in times of economic volatility and to help you launch a wealth revolution in your home and neighborhood!

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The whole Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer thing shows a piece of this apparatus.  In a pump and dump scheme, early buyers get in low, move the market higher and then need idiots to buy what they are selling.  Or in a dump, insiders need the public to sell what they have at really low prices so they can cover their short positions.  The financial media plays an important role in this game by herding people into unwise financial behavior on the way up and on the way down.  Whether in the pump or dump phase of this game, people are manipulated into the losing side of the trade.

This is the game.  Now you know how it is played and you can begin to be more discerning about how you invest your hard earned savings.