Inverted Pyramid

I recently saw a David Ike video and this image came up.  I duplicated it with some modifications. I’m currently getting responses for this image.  So far it has evoked controversy.

“Your upside down pyramid evokes pleased ammusement in me.”

“load of bollocks… over and out”

“Makes me think of my old company’s logo – ‘Fidelity Investments’ – which is supposed to be based on this actual Pyramid and Sun combo from the dollar bill. …I bet you weren’t expecting a comment like that.!?”

Hyperinflation: Buy Gold, Silver & Agriculture ETFs

Battle in Seattle

A must see video. Details the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

Gerald Celente The bailout bubble The Mother of all bubbles 27 May 09

A little blurb by Gerald Celente about the recent bailouts and the bailout bubble.

John Harris – It’s an illusion

Mr. Harris explains the contract our parents  make with government corporations by creating our birth certificate at birth.  The contract is a life long contract that we cannot break.  Our “PERSONS” have been donated to the governments for free and our parents knew nothing about it.  He also goes into detail about the use of CAPITALS IN DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO lower case.  Take it all with a pinch of salt.

dunnam branstreet – Checks corporations
http://www.dnb.com/us/

Bank of Canada – Private or Government Owned?

Greetings lucky patrons. In this large post I’m trying to figure out what’s going on in our banking industry. As a Canadian, i’m tired of hearing about the Federal Reserve so i’ve decided to look into our own centralized bank, the Bank of Canada.

Bank of Canada - “A special type of Crown corporation”

After the crash in the states in 1929 it was decided that Canada, like the United States, needed a centralized bank. So, small banks were taken off the market and a centralized bank came into play. “The Bank was founded in 1934 as a privately owned corporation. In 1938, it became a Crown corporation belonging to the federal government. Since that time, the Minister of Finance has held the entire share capital issued by the Bank. Ultimately, the Bank is owned by the people of Canada.”

The Bank is not a government department and conducts its activities with considerable independence compared with most other federal institutions. For example:

• The Governor and Senior Deputy Governor are appointed by the Bank’s Board of Directors (with the approval of Cabinet), not by the federal government. 2007 Salary Ranges:
  

  Governor	$365,200 to $429,600
  Senior Deputy Governor	$255,800 to $300,900

• The Deputy Minister of Finance sits on the Board of Directors but has no vote.
• The Bank submits its expenditures to its Board of Directors. Federal government departments submit theirs to the Treasury Board.
• Bank employees are regulated by the Bank itself, not by federal public service agencies.
• The Bank’s books are audited by external auditors appointed by Cabinet on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, not by the Auditor General of Canada.” <http://www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/about/are.html>

External auditors appointed to the cabinet by the Minister of Finance and this minister has the entire share capital? Umm, let’s look into the Ministry of Finance.

The Ministry of Finance

“The Minister of Finance (French: Ministre des Finances) is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible each year for presenting the federal government’s budget. It is one of the most important positions in the Cabinet, and the Finance Minister must deal with all the other departments and plays an important role in deciding the funding levels for each.”

The Crown you say? Minister to the Crown? What is this omnipotent mysterious Crown?

The Crown

“The Crown itself is a corporation sole that represents the legal embodiment of the Executive Government. The real crowns (such as Britain’s Crown Jewels and the Honours of Scotland) are the property of the Crown, not of the incumbent personally. ‘The Crown” is an abstract metonymic concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of the government.’

The Crown, as presented in the person of the Sovereign who holds the corporation sole, is the legal authority for the existence and operations of the government in each Commonwealth realm (including Australian states and Canadian provinces).

Most operations of the Crown are directed by Ministers of each of the democratically elected national parliaments (including Canadian provincial and Australian state parliaments).” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown>

So let me get this right. We the people democratically elect our Ministers who are in turn controlled by the Crown, a corporation sole? So we are theoretically electing messengers from the Crown? Lest i digress, let’s have a look at this corporation sole term.

The corporation sole

“In English Law, a corporation sole is a legal entity consisting of a single (’sole’) incorporated office, occupied by a single (’sole’) man or woman. This allows a corporation (usually a religious corporation) to pass vertically in time from one office holder to the next successor-in-office, giving the position legal continuity with each subsequent office holder having identical powers to his predecessor.” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_sole>

O.K. So the Crown is a corporation. So let’s look into another key word in this enigma, a Crown corporation.

A Crown Corporation

“In the Commonwealth realms, a Crown corporation is a state-controlled company or enterprise.” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporation>

But if the head of state is the monarchy, a Crown corporation is owned by the Crown. Huh?

“As such, the monarch is the owner of all state lands (called Crown land), buildings and equipment (called Crown held property),[43] state owned companies (called Crown Corporations), and the copyright for all government publications (called Crown copyright), as well as guardianship of foster children (called Crown wards), either as Queen in Right of Canada or of a relevant province,[44] in his or her position as sovereign, and not as an individual.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada

In other words, the monarchy is incumbent to the Crown. She is the head of the Crown but doesn’t own it. The Crown basically owns everything.

“Like any corporation, the Crown is an artificial person (in this case, coextensive with a natural person) which can own property and has certain rights as provided by law to business entities. In the case of Commonwealth realms, the rights and powers of the Crown vary from state to state, because each national or state Crown is a separate corporation sole.” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown>

Right, so we’re slowly beginning to understand that the Crown is a corporation. The head of the monarchy is the head of the Crown corporation but doesn’t own it. So who runs this privately owned corporation? After doing some more research i came across this:

The Lord Mayor

“On the day after being sworn in, the Lord Mayor participates in a procession from the City of London to the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of Westminster, where the Lord Mayor swears his allegiance to the Crown.”

O.K. So the Lord Mayor in the City of London, properly called the Corporation of London, is in charge of the Crown. Questions: Why would the Queen have the Lord Mayor take charge of her corporation? Why wouldn’t the Crown be controlled by Windsor Great Palace or somewhere like that? Why have it in the Corporation of London? If you remember your history, Royalty was overthrown by Oliver Cromwell in 1649.

English Civil War & The Restoration Period

“After the execution of the King [in 1649], a republic was declared, known as the Commonwealth of England.”

So what happened to the Crown during this time period? This is a hard fact to find but i would imagine it went to the republic under the control of parliment. Nevertheless, there was 11 years where the monarch didn’t rule the Crown. In 1660 King Charles II was reinstated as head of the Crown, but this is where history gets a bit fuzzy. From my recollection from my political science class, the monarch became a figure head only and lost almost all of it’s powers, including the ownership of the Crown.

“Charles agreed to give up feudal dues which had been revived by his father; in return, the English Parliament granted him an annual income of £1,200,000 generated largely from customs and excise dues with which to run the government.” <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England>

The Crown Estate

I found this website that details the Crown Estate in England. The caption at the top states, “Property and Portfolio Management, with over a 400 year old history.” This coincides with the restoration period.
<http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/home.htm>

Furthermore, “In the United Kingdom, the Crown Estate is a property portfolio associated with the monarchy, that belongs to the reigning monarch (at present Elizabeth II). Historically the possession of monarchs, it is now not the private property of the monarch and cannot be sold by them, nor do the revenues from it belong to them. It is managed by an independent organization and headed by the Crown Estate Commissioners.”
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate>

O.K. So we know our history but this is where the trail runs a bit misty. Let’s see if we can make sense of it by looking at the City of London Corporation.

The Corporation of London

“The City of London Corporation (formerly known as the Corporation of London)[1] is the municipal governing body of the City of London. It exercises control only over the City (the “Square Mile,” so called for its approximate area), and not over Greater London. “

To vote for an Alderman who votes for the Lord Mayor is no easy task. You have to be either:

• A resident
• A sole trader or a partner in an unlimited partnership or
• An appointee of a qualifying body.

And as noted above, this is just to vote for your alderman who votes for the Lord Mayor. “The sole qualification for the office is that Aldermen must be Freemen of the City.”

Freemen of the City

“In contemporary society, the award of Honorary Freedom of a City or Borough tends to be entirely ceremonial, given by the local government in many Towns and Cities on those who have served in some exceptional capacity, or upon any whom the City wishes to bestow an honour (See Local Government Act 1972) it requires a special meeting of the Council which passes the resolution by a two thirds majority.”

So you need to be voted in by the Corporation of London to become a Freemen of the City. Umm, that’s going to be a bit tough when you live in Canada or Japan for that matter.

Conclusion

The Lord Mayor of the Corporation of London governs the Crown Corporation. The Corporation of London is a unique entity with it’s own police, government, judicial system, taxes and so forth. Trying to dig up information about the Crown and the Corporation of London is hard because they are privately owned corporations and therefore they don’t have to disclose any pertinent information. How convenient. Furthermore, It’s like there is a media blanket over the whole thing. So i have had to resort to other media. I found this information from a conspiracy website. You decide.

“There are two Crowns operant in England, one being Queen Elizabeth II. Although extremely wealthy, the Queen functions largely in a ceremonial capacity and serves to deflect attention away from the other Crown, who issues her marching orders through their control of the English Parliament. This other Crown is comprised of a committee of 12 banks headed by the Bank of England (House of Rothschild). They rule the world from the 677-acre, independent sovereign state know as The City of London, or simply ‘The City.’” <http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Crown.htm>

In short, from the research I’ve conducted, I believe the Bank of Canada is not owned by Canadians, as stated on the Bank of Canada website, but owned by the Crown, a private corporation controlled and operated in a sovereign state separate from England called the Corporation of London. In either case, we as Canadians can’t vote for the person who controls our central bank thus making our banking system similar to the Federal Reserve – an unelected dictatorship.  They are in charge of how much interest we pay and how much money is in circulation.  This means they dictate our mortgage rate, credit cards, car payments, loans and so forth.  They are the hidden rulers of our country and 99.99% of Canadians don’t even know they exist.  I guess it helps when you own the publishing houses and all other forms of media.  As the Honorable Henry Kissinger said, ” who controls money can control the world.”

Canada is not unique.  There are 53 Commonwealth countries with 53 centralized banks just like the Bank of Canada.  This is just the tip of the melting ice burg.

For more information about the Corporation of London and the Crown click here:
Empire of the City: The Ring of Power. This informative documentary talks about 3 Empire cities:
1) The City of London Corporation
2) Washington D.C.
3) The Vatican

Ignorance is bliss but awareness is the key to understanding.

Disclaimer: I do not pretend to fully understand this system and cannot vouch for all the information being 100% accurate. If you find any contradictions or If you have any information regarding the Crown or the Corporation of London please leave a comment.

Great Quotes

“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.”

Thomas Jefferson 1802

“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”

Henry Kissinger

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Henry Ford

“During economic crisis, wealth is not destroyed, it is merely transfered.”

Larry Bates

Documentary: Zeitgeist – Addendum

Zeitgeist: Addendum

“Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.”

This controversial documentary is composed of two parts. The first part explores the basic money mechanics behind the Federal Reserves’ monetary system that most of the world’s monetary systems are based on. The second part suggests a Thomas Moore style of resource based economy Utopia that acts as a possible alternative to the monetary system called The Venus Project.

The Monetary System

Debt based fractional reserve banking is counterfeit fraud and, as noted in the film, causes unnecessary inflation. In addition, charging interest on money that has been literary created out of nothing is absolutely criminal. The banking world has a monopoly on money and it’s time it stopped. We have been fooled and manipulated by the banksters that have been robbing us blind for the last hundred years. The question is, how much more of it are we going to take?

In the past, we didn’t know how money was created. We took the money on good faith from the banks without question. We just thought that the banks were doing there best and were looking after out best interest. We now know how money is created. We now know that the banks are not working in out favor. Change has to happen.

The Venus Project

Great concept, crazy transition. How we are going to get out of a monetary system to this resource based economy utopia is not fully explained in the movie. This is what The Venus Project’s website suggests for transforming the world into a resource based economy:

PHASE ONE

The first phase of The Venus Project’s long-term plans is already underway. Jacque Fresco, futurist, inventor, industrial designer and founder of The Venus Project and his associate Roxanne Meadows have completed the construction of a 25-acre research center in Venus, Florida to help present the proposals of The Venus Project. Videos, pamphlets, and a recently published book, The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, and War, have been created to help raise awareness about this project and its many proposals.

PHASE TWO

Phase Two includes the production of a full-length feature film that will depict how a world embracing the proposals advanced by The Venus Project would work. This film would provide a positive vision of a peaceful society in which all human beings form a global family on planet Earth. A civilization in which all people are engaged in the pursuit of a better understanding of the world they share. This film has been designed to be an entertaining and educational experience for both adults and children.

PHASE THREE

To test its designs and proposals The Venus Project is working towards putting its ideals into practice by the construction of an experimental research city. Blueprints for most of the initial technologies and buildings have begun. Fund-raising efforts are currently under way to help support the construction of this first experimental city. This new experimental research city would be devoted to working towards the aims and goals of The Venus Project, which are:

1. Realizing the declaration of the world’s resources as being the common heritage of all Earth’s people.

2. Transcending the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people.

3. Outgrowing monetary-based, nationalistic economies with a resource-based world economy.

4. Assisting in stabilizing the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control.

5. Reclaiming and restoring the natural environment to the best of our ability.

6. Redesigning our cities, transportation systems, agricultural industries and industrial plants so that they are energy efficient, clean, and able to conveniently serve the needs of all people.

7. Sharing and applying new technologies for the benefit of all nations.

8. Developing and using clean, renewable energy sources.

9. Manufacturing the highest quality products for the benefit of the world’s people.

10. Requiring environmental impact studies prior to construction of any mega projects.

11. Encouraging the widest range of creativity and incentive toward constructive endeavor.

12. Outgrowing nationalism, bigotry and prejudice through education.

13. Outgrowing any type of elitism, technical or otherwise.

14. Arriving at methodologies by careful research, rather than random opinions.

15. Enhancing communication in schools so that our language is relevant to the physical conditions of the world.

16. Providing not only the necessities of life, but also offering challenges that stimulate the mind while emphasizing individuality rather than uniformity.

17. Finally, preparing people intellectually and emotionally for the changes and challenges that lie ahead.

PHASE FOUR

After the research experimental city is built, a theme park is also planned that will both entertain and inform visitors about the possibilities for humane and environmentally friendly life-styles planned by The The Venus Project. It will feature intelligent houses; high-efficiency, non polluting transportation systems; advanced computer technology; and a number of other innovations that can add value to the lives of all people – in a very short period of time.

No one can actually predict the future. We can only extrapolate on present information and trends. Population growth, technological change, worldwide environmental conditions, and available resources are the primary criteria for future projections.

There is no single philosophy or point of view whether religious, political, scientific, or ideological, that someone would not take issue with. We feel certain, however, that the only aspects of The Venus Project that may appear threatening are those which others project onto it.

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.

To watch Zeitgeist: Addendum go here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

I don’t necessarily agree with all the concepts of The Venus Project, mainly because i haven’t fully explored this concept, but it’s a start in the right direction. Time to start thinking outside of the box.

Overall Score: 8

Investment Banking & the CDO

Confused about the current banking affair? I know i am. I’m trying to get a better handle on what’s happening in the financial world and in my research i’ve come across the CDO.

CDO: Collateralized Debt Olbligation

In a nut shell, the financial world has created the CDO like a stock that is based on a mosaic of different types of debt and potential income. For more information go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation

Great quotes from wikipedia regarding the CDO:

“Apparently CDOs have been used as part of an accounting scheme which allows large financial institutions to move debt off their books by pooling their debt with other financial institutions and then bringing these debts back on to their books but now calling it an asset. This not only has allowed financial institutions to hide their losses, but has allowed them to inflate their earnings. This has the unfortunate effect of doubling potential losses book-wise.”

Didn’t Enron use this tactic?

From what i can tell, the CDO is one of the many contributing factors in this “banking crises.” My question is, how were the investment banks able to pull this off. It sounds like another form of counterfeiting and money laundering to me.

500 trillion dollars in CDOs & based on a 60 trillion dollar world GDP

This is where the fun begins. With debts being assets and turned into stock and sold on the open market the virtual money machine has overtaken the real money machine. This is why when the American administration gave the Federal Reserve 700 billion dollars many senators were saying it’s not enough to fill the gap. They still need trillions more to quench that CDO thirst. Inflation anyone?

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Sci/sci.research.careers/2008-01/msg00604.html

Pension Funds

One of the many reasons the government is bailing out investment banks is because pension funds bought up a lot of the CDOs. If the government doesn’t bail out the banks pensioners will lose their pensions. This is called leverage. In the poker world, it’s called an ace up your sleeve, or cheating depending if you get caught. In other words, bail them out or pensioners will wind up on the streets begging for spare change.

WTF?

This is an extremely complex machine and i don’t even pretend to understand it, but i’m trying. Please comment if you have any insight.

Global State

This is an old post from my other site but as we move towards a global state i thought it was a good idea to repost it.

Conspiracy Theories: Who doesn’t like a good one?

Why have one when you can have hundreds? Below is a list of conspiracy theories ranging from the bizarre to the insane. Evil international bankers? Monstrous monarchs, celestial celebrities and voodoo musicians? What next?

When will people realize that no one is out to get them except for the bad guys we’re told about on TV. Common! But if you’re bored and want to take the fight to the tree hugging hippies who want to destroy the freedom that should be denied to them, watch these ridiculous docs below.

Here is a great 5 minute short music video that summarizes the current banking world. Even if you don’t like the content, the beat is great.

Top Ten Documentaries:

1.) Empire of the City: The Ring of Power – 3 Empire cities: The City of London Corporation, Washington D.C. & The Vatican
2.) Zeitgeist – 3 Parts: Religion, 9/11 conspiracy, international bankers
3.) The Money Masters – History of international bankers
4.) Loose Change – 9/11 conspiracy
5.) The Great Global Warming Swindle – Global warming caused by solar activity
6.) JFK2 – CIA cover up
7.) Pilots For 9/11 Truth – Pilots follow the plane’s path from black box to discover the plane crashed 400 ft above Pentagon
8.) William Rodriguez: 9/11 Hero – Eyewitness accounts of explosions in the underground basement levels of the towers
9.) 9/11 Mysteries – An Inside Job
10.) The Nation’s Deathbed – 2007 SPP protest at Montebello, Quebec – violence started by provocateurs – ended with tear gas

Surplus:

11) Endgame – Alex Jones, Doom & Gloom I
12) Terror Storm – Alex Jones, Doom & Gloom II
13) Police State 2000 Martial Law – Alex Jones, Doom & Gloom III
14) Flat Empire – Can’t find the link to this doc
15) None Dare Call It Genocide – Dr Monteith suggests organized attack against the World