Topic: the cause of the general unrest and protests around the world

[piersdad]

"This act (the Federal Reserve Act) establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth... When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust Investigation, will be legalized... The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation..."

— Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., December 1913


one of the American young protesters had this to say
 :

You can't even call it money anymore. Gold is money. Silver is money. Green Dollars are not money. They're using inflation as a hidden tax to f*ck the people.

We need to bring production back to America. End the Federal Reserve. End the fractional banking system. When you invest $100 in a bank, they multiply that by nine and send it out nine different ways. They just don't make money on the initial investment, they make it nine times the initial investment. That's fake money that they printed out of thin air. Fiat money. It's a fiat currency. (Someone shouts 'ones and zeros'.)

1913 this country died – when we adopted the central bank and we got rid of sound money. We used to be able to walk into a bank and redeem our dollars with gold. Can we do that anymore? No.

What's the price of gold now? Almost $2,000. It's gone up $600 an ounce this year. And it's going to keep rising as long as we have bailouts, as long as we have quantitative easing, as long as our government keeps spending our money.

Every time they spend money... that's your money. They bail out Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. When I f*ck up who bails me out? No one. $700 billion in '08... and they want more now?

Get corporations out of our politics. We need to get lobbyists, Goldman Sachs, George Soros, Merrill Lynch, everyone, out of our politics. Why should they be allowed to throw millions at politicians so they do what they want? They're supposed to be our voice, not theirs. States' rights. When you minimize government it is easier to control by the people.

I know more than a few of you have to feel the same way.

The Players Made the Game

I also came across an eye-opening post from The Dollar Vigilante. It was an open letter to the Occupy Wall Street movement. In it, the author claims:

Here is the reality. All of the problems you see are real. But you’ve been misdirected as to their cause – on purpose. Wall Street is, for the most part, corrupt and incredibly damaging to society as a whole. But, they are a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE of the problem.

If you want to protest the real devils who have caused every major problem in the world, from wars to poverty to oppression, then you shouldn’t be in New York. You should be in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) in front of the White House, Congress and the Federal Reserve building. That is the source of all of our problems today.

Sadly, because of all the propaganda and brainwashing you are actually asking for more government involvement in the economy as a solution to the problem CAUSED by the massive amount of government involvement in the economy. You have to realize one thing. There is a war on for your mind. At the moment, the side of reality, truth, honesty and self-responsibility is losing. The side of propaganda, corruption, theft (taxes), violence (laws against victimless crimes, wars and cages/jails or death if you do not submit to theft) and outright evil has been winning.

We’ve been told government is good and here to protect us when the only times most of us have been accosted, tased, put in cages (jail) or beaten has been at the hand of a “police officer”.

when a CEO automates and/or makes 5% of his company redundant he removes 5% of his customers  when this is done world wide
eventually there will only be CEO's to consume his own product

From Gary Allen's famed 1971 classic None Dare Call It Conspiracy:-- my favorite book

The public is led to believe that our government borrows from "the people" through savings bonds. Actually, however, only a small percentage of the national debt is held by individuals in this form. Most government bonds, except those held by the government itself through its trust funds, are held by vast banking firms known as international banks. For centuries there has been big money to be made by international bankers in the financing of governments and kings.

The process through which one collects a debt from a government or a monarch is not a subject taught in the business schools of our universities, and most of us - having never been in the business of lending money to kings - have not given the problem much thought. But there is a king-financing business, and to those who can ensure collection it is lucrative indeed.

Whenever a business firm borrows big money its creditor obtains a voice in management to protect his investment. Like a business, no government can borrow big money unless willing to surrender to the creditor some measure of sovereignty as collateral. Certainly, international bankers who have loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to governments around the world command considerable influence in the policies of such governments.

Since the keystone of the international banking empires has been government bonds, it has been in the interest of these international bankers to encourage government debt. The higher The debt the more the interest. Nothing drives government deeply into debt like a war; and it has not been an uncommon practice among international bankers to finance both sides of the bloodiest military conflicts.

But while wars and revolutions have been useful to international bankers in gaining or increasing control over governments, the key to such control has always been control of money. You can control a government if you have it in your debt; a creditor is in a position to demand the privileges of monopoly from the sovereign. Money-seeking governments have granted monopolies in state banking, natural resources, oil concessions and transportation. However, the monopoly which the international financiers most covet is control over a nation's money.

Eventually these international bankers actually owned as private corporations the central banks of the various European nations. The Bank of England, Bank of France and Bank of Germany were not owned by their respective governments, as almost everyone imagines, but were privately owned monopolies granted by the heads of state, usually in return for loans. Under this system, observed Reginald McKenna, President of the Midlands Bank of England, in 1939: "Those that create and issue the money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in their hands the destiny of the people." Once the government is in debt to the bankers it is at their mercy.