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  1. We get blindsided sometimes by all the garbage that the mainstream media puts out, I admit I do! Then reality revisits and puts things back in perspective. The problems we are seeing with the auto industry most of us who know how the money system works knew it was coming we knew it would affect everything and everyone around the world, we just got blindsided by the media hype. G. Edward Griffin explained in his book "The Creature From Jeckyl Island" and his audio found here http://www.fortruth.org/edward-griffin-jekyll.CDQuality.MP3 Please remember this audio was made in 1994 that's fifteen years ago. He tells us in his book and audio that any monetary system that is debt based is doomed to fail. We don't have any "Real" money. In order for our fiat money ("legal tender") to come into existence (I know that's a bit of an oxymoron) we have to "borrow it into existence". These notes and the electronic currency are just debt and no matter how much we trade them around the bottom line is you cannot pay a debt with a debt. I cannot pay my I.O.U. by writing another I.O.U. for the same amount, you cannot use your visa to pay off your Mastercard. If all debts were set off tomorrow there would be no so called money in circulation. Everything we are seeing now in the economies of the world was destined to happen people like G. Edward Griffin, Thomas Jefferson etc. have been warning us for two centuries J.F. Kennedy died because he knew and was attempting to do partial remedy. Too bad the internet didn't exist back them. Also that isn't to say that the situation isn't being manipulated, it is and the Federal Reserve and it's directors shareholders are the ones doing the manipulating. London and New York is where the power behind the government lies. This is the second video http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=...mp;jumival=3636 in regards to the auto industry but if you listen closely to what Richard Wolff says it just highlights the fact that our money system must change. We have to get rid of fractional reserve banking, we have to have some tangible asset backing the currency, we have to limit the power of the corporations, we have to stop corporate lobbying, we have to get control of our politicians, and above all we need to teach our children, our schools schools need to be teaching this stuff. The following is a forward that I sent to my email group 26th. June 2004 this is a MUST read in order to fully understand what changes we are facing and why things are the way they are. An excellent article that everyone should read and understand in order to return our so called democratic systems to a "true" democratic system. If you understand the problem then you can implement the necessary changes. Published on Thursday, December 19, 2002 by CommonDreams.org Americans Revolt in Pennsylvania - New Battle Lines Are Drawn by Thom Hartmann The good citizens of Pennsylvania have done it again. Back in 1776, they hosted at Liberty Hall in Philadelphia a gathering of people radicalized by the predations of the East India Company. The world's first multinational corporation then held a virtual stranglehold on commerce and politics in North America, and brazenly used British troops as its enforcers. On the first week of December, 1600, when she created the East India Company, Queen Elizabeth I became the first CEO monarch, and by 1776 King George II was following in her footsteps with his sizeable holdings in and open advocacy of corporate rule. The American colonists were offended by the idea they should be vassals of a corporation and a kingdom that supported and profited from it. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, which explicitly stated that humans were born into this world endowed by their Creator with certain rights, that governments were created by humans to insure only humans held those rights, and "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it…" Stating flatly that "it is their right, it is their duty," to alter their government and thus claim their unique human rights, 56 men defied the East India Company and the government whose army supported it by placing their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, saying, "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." Thus began America's first experiment with democracy. The first week of December of that same year, Thomas Paine wrote in a pamphlet he published a few weeks later that, "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered… What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." Exactly 226 years later, another small group in Pennsylvania also met in early December to sign a document that claimed the same right - their duty - to alter their government in a way that would restore the democracy the original Founders were willing to fight and die for. The democratically elected municipal officials of Porter Township put their signatures to an ordinance passed unanimously on December 9, 2002. It reads, in part: "A corporation is a legal fiction created by the express permission of the people…; "Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution by the Supreme Court justices to include corporations in the term 'persons' has long wrought havoc with our democratic processes by endowing corporations with constitutional privileges intended solely to protect the citizens of the United States or natural persons within its borders; "This judicial bestowal of civil and political rights upon corporations interferers with the administration of laws within Porter Township and usurps basic human and constitutional rights exercised by the people of Porter Township; … "Buttressed by these constitutional rights, corporate wealth allows corporations to enjoy constitutional privileges to an extent beyond the reach of most ci tizens; "Democracy means government by the people. Only citizens of Porter Township should be able to participate in the democratic process in Porter Township and enjoy a republican form of government therein;…" And then, with an audacity and willingness to take on overwhelming multinational corporate power similar to that displayed by the Founders, the elders of Porter Township said that "Corporations shall not be considered to be 'persons' protected by the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the Second Class Township of Porter, Clarion County, Pennsylvania." It became the law of that land five days later. In 1773, the East India Company had claimed the "right" to participate in the political processes of England and, with wealth and power greater than the average citizen, got passed for themselves a huge tax reduction on tea and an overall tax rebate so large they could undersell and wipe out their small Colonial competitors. The response of the entrepreneurial colonists to the Tea Act of 1773 was the Boston Tea Party revolt against that transnational corporation, setting the stage for the Declaration of Independence and the beginnings of what Lincoln called "government of the people, by the people, for the people." Similarly, in 2000, one of the largest sludge hauling corporations in the United States sued Porter Township, claiming that as a "person" the corporation had rights equal to the citizens of the township, and therefore they couldn't "discriminate" against the corporation under the due process and equal protection clauses of t he 14th Amendment, which was passed after the Civil War to free the slaves. Porter Township, supported by a coalition including the Pennsylvania Farmers Union, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, The Sierra Club, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers of America, Common Cause, the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD), the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), and other pro-democracy groups, fought back. They bluntly asserted that - as it was from the founding of this nation until the bizarre Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Supreme Court case in 1886 - only humans are entitled to human rights in their community. In the law they passed on December 9, 2002, they explicitly said, "The judicial designation of corporations as 'persons' grants corporations the power to sue municipal governments for adopting laws that violate the purported constitutional rights of corporations. For example, in September 2000, Synagro Inc. filed a federal lawsuit against Rush Township (Centre County) Supervisors, forcing the Township to spend tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to defend its health-related sewage sludge testing ordinance against claims that the ordinance violated the corporation's constitutional rights." The implications of this are staggering. For example: Before 1886, it was a felony in most states for corporations to give money to politicians or otherwise try (through lobbying or advertising) to influence elections. Such activity was called "bribery and influencing," and the reason it was banned was simple: corporations can't vote, so what are they doing in politics? Their concern is making money, and they don't need clean air to breathe or fresh water to drink; leave them to making money and leave the administration of the commons to We, The People. Before 1886, it was a crime in most states for corporations to own others of their own kind. The need to keep corporations from becoming so large that they could usurp democracy was so clear to the Founders that Jefferson and Madison proposed an 11th Amendment to the Constitution that would have banned "monopolies in commerce," restricting each company to performing a single purpose, making it responsible to its local community, and barring it from owning other corporations. The amendment didn't pass because everybody at the time knew that the states already had such laws in place. Before 1886, only humans had full First Amendment rights of free speech, including the right to influence legislation and the right to lie when not under oath. Now corporations have claimed that they have the free speech right to influence public opinion and legislation through deceit, and a case based on a multinational corporation asserting this right is poised to go before the Supreme Court as you read these words. That corporation reserves the right to fire and even prosecute human employees who lie to it, however. Before 1886, only humans had Fourth Amendment rights of privacy. Since then, however, corporations have claimed that EPA and OSHA surprise inspections are violations of their human right of privacy, while at the same time asserting their right to perform surprise inspections of their own employees' bodily fluids, phone conversations, and keystrokes. Before 1886, only humans had Fifth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and the right to refuse to speak if they'd committed a crime. Since 1886, corporations have asserted these human rights for themselves: the results range from today's corporate scandals to 60 years of silence about the deadliness of tobacco and asbestos. Before 1886, and following the Civil War, only humans had Fourteenth Amendment rights to protection from discrimination. Since then, corporations have claimed this human right and used it to stop local communities from passing laws to protect their small, local businesses and keep out predatory retailers or large corporations convicted of crimes elsewhere. Porter Township has fired the first shot in the New American Revolution with this first binding law denying corporate personhood. It's a revolution that will be fought not with guns but in the courts, in the voting booths, and on the battlefield of public opinion. (Far from harming corporations, returning human rights solely to humans will lead to an entrepreneurial boom in America - only a small handful of very large corporations abuse these rights to deceive people, hide crimes, or make politicians violate the will of their own voters. The millions of ethical corporations will thus be freed from the tyranny of the few while democratic government will be returned to its citizens.) As Thomas Paine - another Pennsylvania resident - wrote on that 1776 December night and published 2 days before Christmas, "Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and repulse it." Thom Hartmann is the author of "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporation Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," a book containing a version of the above ordinance customized for each of the 50 states. www.unequalprotection.com. He holds the copyright to this article, but grants permission for reprint in print, web, and email media as long as this credit is attached My Comments: The Dutch East India Company, The British East India Company, The Hudson Bay Company and many other corporations illegally occupied, raped, enslaved, and pillaged countless countries with the help of the military of their respective countries. We still witness the repercussions of these actions. Nothing much has changed since those days we still see corporations (aided by their bought and paid for government's) using deceit, and manipulation to gain (illegal) access to valuable resources in other countries. For example Vietnam, Haiti, India, Pakistan, Africa Iraq etc etc. The M.O. doesn't change just the names: Haliburton Oil ( proposed pipeline from Caspian sea [largest oil deposits on the planet] through Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan). U.S. Military to Take Over Halliburton Oil Role by Sue Pleming, Reuters http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2379 The Carlyle Group (Sometimes referred to as the Ex-presidents club) "And as the Carlyle investors watched the World Trade towers go down, the group's prospects went up." http://www.hereinreality.com/carlyle.html Standard Oil now Exxon C.I.A.'s secret history about the Iranian coup of 1953. http://www.counterpunch.org/faruqui05282003.html United fruit company now Chiquita The United Fruit Company, the CIA & the Dullas Brothers. http://www.mayaparadise.com/ufc1e.htm Bechtel “BOLIVIA’S WAR OVER WATER” http://www.democracyctr.org/bechtel/ The World Bank http://www.democracyctr.org/bechtel/world_bank.html IBM Provided Hollerith punch card technology to assist Nazis in processing huge volumes of prisoners http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/ Just a few of the many. The motive doesn't change: -Gold -Oil The pipeline of greed http://www.rememberjohn.com/dawn.html -Drugs (CIA & Drugs Rep. McKinney of Georgia Blasts "Drug War" Lawsuit in Open Letter to Rob't Strauss. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/index.html -Cheap (slave labour) The US in Haiti: Why? http://dominionpaper.ca/weblog/2004/02/the..._haiti_why.html -and all other natural and valuable resources including water. -Regional control (The Ongoing Geopolitical Game in the Caucasus and the Caspian Basin: Bush administration. Most have connections to OIL companies most still get some form of income from oil companies - George W Bush and Salem Bin Laden (yes Osama Bin Laden's brother) were co-founders of) Arbusto Energy oil company Texas - Donald Evans Donald was the CEO of Tom Brown Inc. -- a natural gas company with fields in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming -- for more than a decade. - Dick Cheney was, until last year, the CEO of Halliburton, the world’s largest oil field services company. Halliburton, through its European subsidiaries, sold spare parts to Iraq’s oil industry, despite U.N. sanctions. - Condoleeza Rice Was on the board of directors of Chevron she has a130,000-ton oil tanker named after her. To see how many more of the current Bush administration have oil, banking and corporate ties go to http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/cabinet.asp As much as we Canadians like to think we are immune from various issues on the basis that "yes but that's in the U.S." Let's face it we are not immune.
  2. This recession is a deliberate and calculated action, as it was back in the last depression. It is a transfer of wealth.
  3. First let me say that you were irresponsible driving at that speed. If you were actually doing that speed, since you didn't make note of the speed you only have the "officers" word. However, you should understand that you did not break any law. Now I guess I have to wait for the deluge.
  4. Is this forum having technical issues? I just tried posting on business and economy and got a message saying I don't have permission. It wasn't a locked topic. Also I wanted to insert a signature and got the same message in "my controls".
  5. Hi My first post and BC Refederation Party is my choice! L
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