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		<title>George Soros Moves to Institute a New Global Currency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlen Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The INET Bretton Woods summit, summoned by George Soros and those who alternatively hide behind, or gather around him, has now happened.
But before trying to analyze whatever we may discover of what occurred there, it is critical to discern how it fits an overall picture.  For context, one must also see what the IMF and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://ineteconomics.org">INET</a> Bretton Woods summit, summoned by George Soros and those who alternatively hide behind, or gather around him, has now happened.</p>
<p>But before trying to analyze whatever we may discover of what occurred there, it is critical to discern how it fits an overall picture.  For context, one must also see what the IMF and World Bank &#8220;communitarian&#8221; elitists are up to.</p>
<p>We find that before the Bretton Woods affair, focusing upon &#8220;new solutions,&#8221; there was a similar IMF meeting, called &#8220;<a href="http://www.imf.org/external/ns/search.aspx?NewQuery=New+Ideas+for+a+New+World&amp;filter_val=Y&amp;col=SITENG&amp;collection=SITENG&amp;lan=eng&amp;f=">New Ideas for a New World</a>.&#8221;  It was centered upon &#8220;<a href="http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res/index.htm">Post-Crisis Policy Making</a>&#8221; and occurred March 7-14.  That gave some of them a lot of time to communicate and plan in quiet (the traditional word for that is <em>conspire</em>) when they were not attending official sessions, or making videos.</p>
<p>Then, we see that Soros&#8217; April 8-11 conference ended just as the IMF and World Bank took up their <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/spring/2011/index.htm" target="_blank">April 11-17 Spring Meetings</a>, just a limo ride away.  &#8220;Blossom of Spring, won&#8217;t you bloom and grow?&#8221;  Let us see what is budding in this intensive series of conferences, by the first one&#8217;s own promotional vid.</p>
<p>Here is a collection of pitches for &#8220;New Ideas for a New World.&#8221;  Hey, they left out the last word, &#8220;Order.&#8221;  Could it be that some of them know their version of order requires fomenting massive disorder first, the crises not to be wasted?  They also left out the word &#8220;Brave,&#8221; before &#8220;New World.&#8221;  Maybe that is because some of them like Huxley, have qualms.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsst1U8jidA</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This video puts their dexterous foot forward about that March 2011 conference, while their sinister footfalls go on.  So who are these <em>dudes,</em> getting together and yukking it up (well, three out of four globalist manipulators seem to approve) and just how <em>spooky</em> are they?  What are the messages of the Big Money priests, to the unwashed, <em>PITI-ful</em> masses of <em>principal, interest, taxes, and insurance</em> payers?</p>
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<dd>&#8230;as the IMF site appeared Sunday, April 3rd, 2011, (probably April 1st, too)&#8230;</dd>
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<p>Front and center, left to right:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Joseph Stiglitz</strong>, Professor at Columbia University and infamous as one of George Soros&#8217; most closely allied corrupto-economists.  In the video, he says he&#8217;s excited about our monetary crisis.  So glad he enjoys his work.</li>
<li>Interactive media time &#8212; if you recognize the second hilarious taker, feel free to comment, below.</li>
<li><strong>Otmar Issing</strong>, President of the Center for Financial Studies is the man of unhilarious countenance.  Party poopingly, he does not like banking instability, calls for higher quality regulation, and has the audacity to propose that some banks reign in their excess liquidity.  What a bring down.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2007/new0928a.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Dominque Strauss-Kahn</strong></a> is the IMF chairman.  Were he to speak on a promo video, perhaps it would detract from the mystique of power.</li>
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<p>Further bits from the video:</p>
<ul>
<li>At the outset, <strong>Michael Spence</strong>, Professor at Stanford University, downplays concerns about inflation.  No big deal.  He imagines we&#8217;ll kind of muddle through, though we may have crises &#8220;in Europe or America or both.&#8221;  He also  closes the show by warning that the unemployment crisis will remain.  Why stress that?  Doesn&#8217;t even a velvety soft revolution requires the discontent?</li>
<li><strong>Robet Solow</strong>, Professor Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wants the monetary crisis to bleed into fiscal policy (something for which central banks are so centrally known, profiteering from economy destroying debt and taxation bubbles they &#8220;nudge&#8221; along to foment, from the 17oo&#8217;s onward).  Wide-eyed, though, he gives us the news that debt build-up &#8220;will have to be settled in the longer run.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Graciela Kaminsky</strong>, Professor at George Washington University, placates us that the fiscal policy of the 2008 meltdown worked &#8212; don&#8217;t worry about such things as expanding the debt bubbles, worldwide.</li>
<li><strong>Jo-Marie Griesgraber</strong>, Executive Director of New Rules for Global Finance (wonder who donates to that?) admonishes financial services firms against being interested in&#8230; business profit.  The opposite pole for her is to be &#8220;interested in human beings.&#8221;  Yeah.  Thus, one may suppose human beings are naturally meant to be unprofitable, according to Ms. Griesgraber.  She regurgitates an absurd (read: unnatural, evil) Hegelian antithesis of Marxism: that job creation is a matter to be separated from profit or profit seeking.  She also puts in a word &#8220;for the impact on the environment &#8212; or anything else.&#8221;</li>
<li><strong>Vittorio Corbo</strong>, Former Central Bank Governor of Chile, calls for an artificial concoction of &#8220;incentives&#8221; to make banks &#8220;prudent,&#8221; centrally and globally, one may suspect.  He also provides diversity.</li>
<li><strong>Suman Bery</strong>, Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, seems to wonder whether &#8220;the behemoths of the global financial system&#8221; may be &#8220;supervised&#8221; due to their <em>political</em> as well as financial power.  In these words, we see the antipathy of global financiers to banking and economics being governed by free nations.  The goal may also be inferred, of making central banking a bigger yet behemoth, ungoverned by nations, but instead governing all of them.  He assures us though, that &#8220;&#8230;nobody quite knows what the fixes are.&#8221;  Whew, and here we thought people seeking Uber-Behemoth Power were confident of their schemes.</li>
<li>And see <strong>Damon Silvers</strong>, everyone.  He is with the American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO).  Funny that he should be there, pulling for the same things as the rest.  Aren&#8217;t union activists the ones who fight against capitalists? &#8212; who barge into banks and disrupt them?  Mr. Silvers (no puns offered about his name) teaches fellow attendees and onlookers that &#8220;balanced growth, worldwide,&#8221; must involve &#8220;constraining the appetites and the political power of the rich.&#8221;  If such power is not globally overlorded, &#8220;we are absolutely certain: a. not to have balanced growth and, b. to continue high unemployment as we&#8217;ve had it and, c. to repeat our cycles of financial bubbles and busts,&#8221; so help him, Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, Andy Stern, and Richard Trumka.</li>
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<p><strong>What are the takeaways?</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Global, uber-governance by central bankers, squeezing, leeching, and shrinking free enterprise, while using excuses such as egalitarianism and of course, &#8220;the impact on the environment &#8212; or anything else,&#8221; and while establishing a world full of deprivation and discontent, to set against successful employers and their free nations, all for the aforementioned global governance<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Pardon the redunancy, but it does begin and end with the same goal of global governance, a worldwide empire of authoritarianism and enslavement.  Funny how America is always having to deal with such things.</p>
<p>And sometimes, what the power-elites do not say is what is most important to pick up.  Never once is the word &#8220;insolvency&#8221; used, though it is the most critical problem brought on by all the back-and-forth buying and selling of debt, one centrally banked and planned layer piled upon another.  You can watch more of their programming <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.aspx?vid=826163551001" target="_blank">at the IMF site</a> and see if they ever use the word.</p>
<div id="attachment_255192" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/04/Sachs-Jeffrey-Brazil-2005-wikipedia.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-255192 " title="Sachs-Jeffrey-Brazil-2005-wikipedia" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/04/Sachs-Jeffrey-Brazil-2005-wikipedia.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="310" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jeffrey Sachs</p></div>
<p>So, just how snugly does Soros&#8217; conference fit in this sandwich and what are the tactical solutions they all so <em>collectively </em>seek?  One set of hints has been provided by Soros&#8217; right hand man, Jeffrey Sachs.  As <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=283297" target="_blank">reported by Aaron Klein</a>, Jeff is seeking a brave, immediate future including global taxation, currency transfer tax, tax on the rental value of land and natural resources, royalties on worldwide &#8220;fossil energy projection,&#8221; fees for the commercial use of oceans, for air flight, of course for putting carbon in the air, and even fees for the use of &#8220;the electromagnetic spectrum.&#8221;  Oh, and he also envisions chronic economic stagnation, unemployment and labor revolt.  The <em>proletariat </em>have to do their part.</p>
<p>This forecast (and the coming burst of that hush-hushed insolvency bubble and ensuing hyperinflation and possibly, famine) is underscored by Soros&#8217; <a href="http://gulagbound.com/14976/soros-buying-heavily-into-american-grain-elevators" target="_blank">own recent moves</a> to commandeer as many American grain elevators as feasible.  Not to worry though, the Marxtream media tell us he is one of our greatest philanthropists, along with so many of the IMF and World Bank lords, to be sure.  And here we thought Demon-I-mean-Damien-er, Damon Silvers doesn&#8217;t trust rich people.</p>
<p>That should be enough context before delving further into the Bretton Woods and IMF April conferences.  One hopes it indicates the strategy engaged by the wealthiest one percent, of one percent, of one percent, this Spring of 2011.</p>
<p>By the way, is anyone in Congress speaking up about all this?</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlen Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist “thought leaders,” in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference?

Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence and incomes down, while confiscating much of our personal finances and giving them to other nations [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist “thought leaders,” in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference?</p>
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<p>Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence and incomes down, while confiscating much of our personal finances and giving them to other nations (and yes, the age-old financier network behind them) in the name of “communitarianism?”</p>
<p>Would you find their goal is to replace the bad influences of the IMF and the World Bank, with a much worse, more powerfully controlling, post-American global apparatus?</p>
<p>What would you think, if that meeting were being held this April 8th through 11th?</p>
<p>I got an email, last week; it was Tuesday the 22nd.  It was from George Soros.  To hear as straight from the dragon’s mouth as feasible, I had subscribed.  In this emailed article, he lamented the inequities of wealth among the nation-states of Europe, under the strains of their continuing insolvency crisis.  He warned of the dangers of national interest.  Rather, he proposed, not surprisingly, a further blowing of the global insolvency bubble, so the more indebted European nations may get along owing, while their lending nations get along being owed &#8212; all the while, blending and worsening the  financial and monetary crises and spreading this yeasty recipe further throughout the world, especially to America.</p>
<p>That was quite provocative.</p>
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<p>Please be patient to let this article be a rather personal narrative and a kind of portal, and follow its links. Then, follow the links within the those articles. Perhaps, even one more layer. That will limit the redundancy involved and inform you as well as a book might, but in much less time.  To begin, here are my observations upon receiving his email, &#8220;<a href="http://gulagbound.com/14029/oh-my-george-soros-on-europe-worsening-banking-crisis-the-most-evil-plan-yet" target="_blank">Oh. My. George. Soros on Europe’s Worsening Banking Crisis &amp; the Most Evil Plan Yet</a>.”  Go ahead. <em> Big Government</em> will generously wait.</p>
<p>“’Most evil plan yet,’ was that an overstatement?” I wondered.  No, knowing what one may see about Soros, it was not hyperbole and the statement was well with my soul.  The next day, confirmation came from Dan Gainor of Business &amp; Media Institute and Media Research Center, by his &#8220;<a href="http://gulagbound.com/14171/unreported-soros-event-aims-to-remake-entire-global-economy" target="_blank">Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy</a>,” first published <a href="http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Unreported_Soros_Event_Aims_to_Remake_Entire_Global_Economy.html" target="_blank">in Business &amp; Media Institute</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/23/media-ignoring-plans-george-soros-remake-entire-global-economy/" target="_blank">at Fox News</a>.</p>
<p>If you read nothing else stemming from this introduction, do peruse that.  There, Gainor puts this iniquitous plan into context and elucidates.  Nope, not going to excerpt, nor even quote. Just read it if you have not by now, please.</p>
<p>It was my privilege to interview Dan last Monday night, for about a half-hour.  That discussion may be <a href="http://gulagbound.com/14470/gulag-night-dan-gainor-on-soros-immediate-plan-for-the-violence-of-globalized-banking" target="_blank">found here</a>.</p>
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<p>Again, no reiterations offered, except that I will repeat that the documentation shows we were raped by European banks, in their own, deep insolvency trouble in 2008, using us at exactly the time it hurt us the most &#8212; during the Mortgage Meltdown’s peak, right before the general election.  You know how that went.  (It was also swept along as in the sport of curling, by peculiarly timed internal operations, including those of Soros comrades, Herb and Marion Sandler, and Senator Charles Schumer&#8217;s tongue.  One must not distract further, by going on about the Community Reinvestment Act(s), Franklin Raines and Fannie Mae, the Pelosi Congress and their shoot-to-miss regulations, Goldman Sachs and friends, etc.)</p>
<p>That being our reminder of how they operate, what may we expect from our nation’s finances being thoroughly and systematically controlled by a megacartel of despotic foreign interests?</p>
<p><strong>For further reading</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Just presented by colleague, Kelleigh Nelson:<br />
&#8220;<a href="http://euobserver.com/9/32089" target="_blank">Klaus Warns Euro Pact will Lead to Full Political Union</a>,&#8221; in euobserver.com, 3/29/2011</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">See the observations of compatriot blogger, Maggie Thornton and the related articles she links at the bottom of her piece:<br />
&#8220;<a href="http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/03/george-soros-bretton-woods-ii-conf-changing-finance-world-wide-new-world-order-gods-gonna-cut-you-down-video/" target="_blank">George Soros Bretton Woods II Conf: Changing Finance World-Wide &#8212; New World Order: God’s Gonna Cut You Down…</a>”</p>
<p><strong>And three caveats about this subject matter</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1. Yes, this is anti-American and grossly evil.  It is warfare against our People.  America has been given us at great sacred cost, to preserve and pass along our freedom to our progeny.  Just as our Constitution rests squarely upon our Declaration of <em>Independence,</em> our freedom rests upon our personal, intra-national, and national <em>sovereignties.</em> There is no exception to this rule, whether it is assailed by any seemingly altruistic ideas and ideals of global governance, or of global finance.  And even the most generous offerings of internationalism require its antecedent, nationalism.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">2. One must neither be taken with, nor be deterred by any coincidences of ethnic heritage, when studying banking, globalism, and collectivism.  While antisemites will at times present lies and distortions as facts, facts by their nature, can not be prejudiced nor bigoted.  Each individual is a free and ontologically equal, moral (and immoral) agent, all are sinners, all are offered redemption.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">3. Come, let us be conspiracy investigators, regardless of the connotations and prior concoctions.  I suggest you start, or start afresh, with <a href="http://gulagbound.com/1624/meet-your-mentor-mr-norman-dodd" target="_blank">the startling and paradigm shifting research</a> led by a gentleman named Norman Dodd, an energetic but humble young banker from the prior century, who eventually found himself going to Washington and working for Congress.  (Much of the records of the Reece Committee have been destroyed, hidden, or buried, but they are still preserved.)  If you saw <a href="http://gulagbound.com/1624/meet-your-mentor-mr-norman-dodd" target="_blank">Glenn Beck’s TV program last Friday</a> the 25th, about the Federal Reserve, you will recognize Mr. Dodd’s interviewer.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">One reason there are so many wild claims in this subject matter is that not enough people of discipline and sound epistemology engage in it.  But remember your Alinsky and do not be intimidated by ridicule.  There is a vast, worldwide conspiracy shown a few inches from your nose right now and many near the core of it meet next week in New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Live free or die.</p>
<p>Follow those links.</p>
<p>And follow the money.</p>
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		<title>Reinflating the Housing Bubble: Making the Same Mistake Again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Gasparino does a very nice job exposing Freddie Mac,  Fannie Mae, and their advocates for the destructive forces that they are. Everyone, even Obama for a while, recognizes that at the heart of the financial markets meltdown was the collapse in the US housing market, which itself was a bubble enabled in various ways [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Charles Gasparino does <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/29/exclusive-excerpt-fannie-and-freddies-starring-role-in-the-housing-debacle-inflate-housing-bubble/">a very nice job</a> exposing Freddie Mac,  Fannie Mae, and their advocates for the destructive forces that they are. Everyone, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/world/americas/14iht-14obama-text.16925320.html?pagewanted=all">even Obama for a while</a>, recognizes that at the heart of the financial markets meltdown was the collapse in the US housing market, which itself was a bubble enabled in various ways by government programs explicitly designed to increase the percentage of people owning homes.</p>
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<p>Whether through the Community Reinvestment Act or through a relentless Federal Reserve bank policy of next-to-zero percent interest rates or guarantees of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (and major incentives to them to buy any mortgage on secondary markets no matter how dubiously documented or financed), it&#8217;s clear that pro-home-ownership policies massively increased housing prices and risky loans.</p>
<p>Yet what blows my mind, is that currently the government is again pumping billions of dollars into various programs to increase home ownership rates and to stabilize or increase home values throughout the country.</p>
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<p>Nevermind that it will be easier now that the government effectively owns Freddie and Fannie. On top of that, almost every single week Obama announces a new program that just promote the idea that everyone is entitled to a house they really can&#8217;t afford.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125409967771945213.html?mod=loomia&amp;loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r1:c0.112442:b27984412">this piece</a> in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> at the end of September:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Obama administration is close to committing as much as $35 billion to help beleaguered state and local housing agencies continue to provide mortgages to low- and moderate-income families, according to administration officials.</p>
<p>The move would further cement the government&#8217;s role in propping up the housing market even as some lawmakers push to curb spending at a time of rising debt.</p>
<p>The effort, which could be announced as early as this week, is aimed at relieving pressure on government-operated housing finance agencies, which have been struggling to find funding amid the downturn. These agencies, or HFAs, are a small part of the housing market but are critical to many first-time and low-income home buyers, who can get lower-rate mortgages through an HFA than they could through a private-sector lender.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Why can&#8217;t people in government understand that the alternative to being a home owner isn&#8217;t to live in the street? Renting is okay, you know.</p>
<p>Finally, for more great work on the causes of the financial meltdown see Mercatus Center&#8217;s Arnold Kling&#8217;s piece <a href="http://www.mercatus.org/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=28118">here</a> and Todd Zywiki&#8217;s one <a href="http://www.mercatus.org/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=28154">here</a>.</p>
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