Tag Archives: Hidden History

Presidents Bragging about Home Ownership

“Government’s housing bias created a permissive climate for lax lending. Both the Clinton and present Bush administrations bragged about boosting homeownership. Regulators who resisted the agenda risked being ’roundly criticized.'” (Read more from washingtonpost.com)

SEE ALSO:

–Video of President Bush boasting about home ownership
–How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable

The Prophet, Ron Paul: “Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse.”

Benazier Bhutto: Osama Bin Laden is Dead

At about 6:10, during this inverview the former Pakistani Prime Minister says “Omar Sheik, the man who murderred Osama Bin Laden . . .”

One frequent theme on some of the more paranoid blogs I read is that Osama is a creation, or at least an agent of the United States whose purpose is to perpetuate and expand our wars. Some of the comments posted to this video speculate that she simply misspoke, others elaborate upon the conspiracy theory.

Sadly, Bhutto’s interviewer didn’t ask for a clarification.

UPDATE:

Great rebuttal by YouTube’s representative press:

Lakota Sioux Withdraw from All Treaties,
Declare Nation

Lakota Storyteller
–Lakota Group Pushes for New Nation
–Lakota Secede from U.S. and All Treaties
–Lakota Feedom website: “We are the freedom loving Lakota from the Sioux Indian reservations of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana who have suffered from cultural and physical genocide in the colonial apartheid system we have been forced to live under. We are in Washington DC to withdraw from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law.”

I’m very interested to see how this plays out. Allow me this comparison: imagine a foreign, unfriendly nation supplying the Lakota with money, guns, and training. This, I’m sorry to say, is what we’ve done, and continue to do.

William Faulkner: “The past is never over.”

The CIA and the JFK Assassination

This is why I don’t balk when Ron Paul discusses reigning in the CIA.

From an open letter by Oliver Stone (director of JFK), Norman Mailer, and others.

“It is disappointing to learn that the Central Intelligence Agency filed motions in federal court in May 2005 to block disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy forty-one years ago. The spirit of the law is clear. The JFK Records Act of 1992, approved unanimously by Congress, mandated that all assassination-related records be reviewed and disclosed ‘immediately.’ When Morley filed his lawsuit in December 2003, thirteen published JFK authors supported his request for the records in an open letter to The New York Review of Books (www.nybooks.com/articles/16865). Eighteen months later, the CIA is still stonewalling. The agency now acknowledges that it possesses an undisclosed number of documents…which it will not release in any form. Thus records related to Kennedy’s assassination are still being hidden for reasons of ‘national security.'”

America’s Forgotten War Against the Central Banks

This fascinating piece discusses the tension between our government and Central Banks in every chapter of our history. Worth studying.

“By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” (John Maynard Keynes)

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies … If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [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, 1743-1826)

“Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence… would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy.” (President Andrew Jackson – July 10, 1832)

“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce…and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” (President James A. Garfield, 1881, two weeks before his assassination)

On June 4, 1963, John F. Kennedy signed a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, a mere four months before his assassination on November 22, 1963. This decree returned to the U.S. Federal government the Constitutional right to create and “to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury.”

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CIA editing Wikipedia

In many ways, the innocuous changes described here are not news. Since tuning in to indy press (InformationClearinghouse, RawStory, PrisonPlanet, HuffingtonPost, WhatReallyHappened), I’ve taken federal tentacles in the media as a given, and have considered the freedom of the internet the current battleground. Nevertheless, here is the CIA with their pants down. Perhaps this is just carelessness, or a rogue employee. It’s a no-brainer for them to simply use non-CIA computers for the real dirty work.

Letter to the Editor — History Lessons

A letter to the editor about the looming controversy with Iran, printed in The Daily Iowan in April 2006. The editor was responsible for inserting all those awful commas.

History Lessons

A recent DI article (“Iraq in class,” March 22) discussed how various UI instructors are employing the war in Iraq as a teaching tool. This has a variety of benefits, including immediate relevance, but there is an even more relevant issue: the looming possibility of war with Iran.

While important decisions remain about our involvement in Iraq, the war itself is a done deal. The issue of Iran is more relevant, because the decision to wage war has not yet been made – at least that’s what I keep telling myself. It is a live issue, and, yet, few people and few, if any, instructors are engaging it.

Am I the only one wondering why the possibility of an even broader war in the Middle East hasn’t received more attention? Read More