"All of these stories collectively pointed to
the same thing: These banks, which already possess enormous power just
by virtue of their financial holdings – in the United States, the top
six banks, many of them the same names you see on the
Libor and ISDAfix panels, own assets equivalent to 60 percent of the
nation's GDP – are beginning to realize the awesome possibilities for
increased profit and political might that would come with colluding
instead of competing. Moreover, it's increasingly clear that both the
criminal justice system and the civil courts may be impotent to stop
them, even when they do get caught working together to game the system.
If true, that would leave us living in an era of undisguised,
real-world conspiracy, in which the prices of currencies, commodities
like gold and silver, even interest rates and the value of money itself,
can be and may already have been dictated from above. And those who are
doing it can get away with it. Forget the Illuminati – this is the real
thing, and it's no secret. You can stare right at it, anytime you
want."
An excerpt from Matt Taibbi's latest article in Rolling Stone. READ IT HERE.
"Bad
men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that
tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted
public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or
the blessings of liberty, can be preserved
to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,
temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to
fundamental principles." - Patrick Henry
"I
believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than
by violent and sudden usurpations. When the policies and practices of
the nation favor rights in exclusion of responsibility, and sanction
vice at the expense of virtue, calamity is imminent." - James Madison
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