Swedish tax authorities go after parents of ‘nameless children,’ Read the Bills Act and the Downsizer Dispatch, predictions of what the US will look like in 4 years, the UK nanny state warns citizens of dangerous forks and butter knives, NY arms 1,000 new recruits with machine guns, and a one world government.
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Part three in the on-going saga of posting a paper no one wants to read.
PART THREE: THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM – THE MAGICAL MONEY MAKING MACHINE
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by
those who are not behind the scenes.” – Benjamin Disraeli, English Statesman 1844.
In the preceding pages, a quick sojourn through time has shown the many seemingly innocuous and worthless items that have been used as money. We have also taken a brief jaunt alongside the continued attempts to build a centralized banking regime in America and the subsequent fall of each. In this section, that basic framework becomes the context with which the merits of the Federal Reserve System are called into question. The question was posed in the opening paragraphs of whether or not there should be an all-mighty arbiter that controls the creation and flow of money. That is precisely what the Federal Reserve is.
Llewellyn Rockwell, Dean of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has a less flattering view: “It’s no different from a burglar in your home wanting to steal your money – that’s what the Federal Reserve does. It depreciates your savings, it takes away your economic security and it ought to be treated as an institution that does that rather than something of alleged benefit.”
As you know if you’ve been reading this website for a while, the men and women calling themselves the “City of Keene” attacked me and my family because my tenants had a couch in their yard. I offered to move the couch if the complaining party (who was later revealed to be a city bureaucrat) would just come and talk to me like an adult, she refused, the government people continued to prosecute, and I continued to refuse to obey to see how far they would push it. It all culminated in their courtroom with me being thrown in jail on a sentence of 93 days – three days for the couch and 90 days on three charges of “contempt of court”. After a weekend in jail, I asked “Justice” Burke for mercy and was released with the stipulation that even though I had spent three days in jail I still somehow owe the $120 fine, or alternatively 10 hours of “community service”. Neither option was particularly attractive to me in that I’m certainly not interested in giving my money to the “STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE” and also do not have time for volunteering at the moment, so I made them a final offer. This was my opportunity to test how greedy the government people truly are. (Read on …)
Liberty activists called WKBK’s Talkback on Saturday and discussed education funding, power company monopoly, deregulation, and the real parasite.
The unfortunate fact is, the authoritarians are still the bulk of call load on this show. We could really use your help! Please join us in calling the program with a pro-liberty viewpoint. Get details and discuss on this Free Keene forum thread.
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Will Buchanan walked 3,100 miles from Oregon to New Hampshire as a part of the Walk For Liberty and the Free State Project. Free Minds TV was on the scene with the complete footage. Also George Bush gets the boot, China locking dissidents into psych wards, Marine military forces to run DUI checkpoints in the US, and the fed cuts the interest rate to anywhere between 0 and 0.25%.
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Who knows what might have happened if the shoe had found it’s mark?
Here is part Two of the my piece on banking, gold standard, and the Fed.
PART TWO: THE UNITED STATES, THE GOLD STANDARD AND CENTRAL BANKS – A BITTER MENAGE A TROIS
The first coins to be struck in the New World, the Spanish dollar, were pressed at a Spanish mint in Mexico City in 1536. (MBFR) These silver coins eventually found their way up to the English colonies on the eastern coast of the North American continent. The mercantilist policies of the British Crown deliberately tried to keep precious metals out of the colonies, fostering a dependence on Bank of England notes and the debt they inherently carried. In light of such policies, the Spanish dollar became the unofficial currency of colonial America. For smaller transactions, the Spanish dollar was often divided into eight pieces termed bits, hence the term “pieces of eight.”
The American governments first foray in to the realm of paper money came with the Revolutionary War and the need to fund it. Continental dollars, with no standard of value to back them, were printed out of thin air and at such a rapid rate that the currency quickly depreciated to no value. In 1781, at the height of the Revolution, Philadelphia merchant tycoon Robert Morris was given a charter by Congress to establish a privately run central bank. That institution, the Bank of North America, was granted the monopoly privilege to print and issue paper notes, and was the depository of all congressional funds (Rothbard, “The Case Against the Fed” p.70).
Will Buchanan walked 3,100 miles, from Oregon to New Hampshire for the pursuit of more freedom and less government as a part of the Free State Project. Tune into this week’s Free Minds TV for full coverage.
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A recent sentinel article outlines the basics of new proposed city ordinances to penalize property owners for such offenses such as “Letting an intoxicated person leave unaccompanied”, “Disorderly Conduct”, “Overcrowding” or more obscure offenses.
Landlords of numerous Keene properties say a proposed measure designed to curtail disorderly behavior in city neighborhoods would punish them unfairly rather than hold problematic tenants directly responsible.
Residents, meanwhile, say they want their neighborhoods cleaned up of drug and alcohol use, loud noise and cars parked on lawns, problems they say are getting worse.
City councilors, looking for the best solution, listened to both parties before deciding they needed to hear more.
The Keene City Council’s planning, licenses and development committee voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend Mayor Philip Dale Pregent call a public hearing so that city staff and councilors may continue to prepare and refine the ordinance before ultimately voting on it.
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