End the Fed

“Americans are concerned about our financial picture…Most don’t know what’s causing it, but they correctly sense that something in our economic system is rotten. Neither political party will speak to them frankly and honestly. Instead, the people are told by the talking heads on television that their rulers know just what is wrong and will promptly put things right. Once again, Americans are deprived of a full and fruitful debate on a subject of the utmost importance. The entire range of debate is limited to minor tinkering: should the Fed make this trivial adjustment or this one? Read the major newspapers and watch the cable news channels: you will not see any fundamental questions raised.” - Ron Paul from his book The Revolution, A Manifesto.

The fundamental question is this, Why do we need a Federal Reserve Bank? The obvious answer is that we do not need the Fed, but more importantly, if we do not end this current monetary system, slavery is what we will have. The Fed is a private corporate bank which creates debt for the government and makes slaves of the American people. The topic is much to great for a blog post so I recommend educating yourself. To get you started there are a few incredible must see videos listed at the end of this post. Warning: If you watch any of these videos you will never be the same again.

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I sincerely believe … that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies…”

On November 22, 2008, the organization End the Fed, will rally at every Federal Reserve Bank and office in the country in the hope to eventually abolish the fed. The following is copied from their website: “Activists will demand an end to private banker control over the nation’s money supply and the return to a hard, commodity backed monetary system. Their slogan is simple and direct: ‘End the Fed! Sound Money for America!’

End the Fed! activists believe that the Federal Reserve Bank, through its inflation of the money supply and the distortion of free markets resulting from its intervention, is responsible for the current financial and economic crisis. They also hold that the current round of “bailouts” and federal government nationalization of large segments of the financial sector further inflates the US dollar and disrupts the proper functioning of the markets and will ultimately serve to plunge the nation into an even more severe crisis, quite possibly even into a serious depression. End the Fed! supports the passage of Representative Ron Paul’s legislation which would repeal the Federal Reserve Act, H.R. 2755.”

The group Campaign for Liberty will demonstrate in front of Nashville’s Federal Reserve Bank. They meet at The Anchor at 10 AM and then travel to the Fed Building at 301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd., Nashville, Tennessee 37203-4407. Join them!

The End Begins November 22nd

America: From Freedom to Fascism - Aaron Russo

Zeitgeist - The Movie- Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)

ENDGAME - Alex Jones

Zeitgeist - The Movie

Zeitgeist  - Addendum

Support these filmmakers and causes by purchasing their films and spreading the word! If their voices are silenced, who will speak? And with such impact?

Barack Obama - Meet the new Boss - Same as the old Boss

Barack Obama is bringing much change to the White House - changing it back to the way it was when Bill Clinton was President. If Obama was serious about a real change then he would not be surrounding himself with former Clinton staff members and appointing them as his advisers. A great report by Paul Craig Roberts titled, Conned Again lists several Obama advisers and their political history. History tells us that political corruption, aggressive wars and economic hell are some of the “changes” that will continue in this country and around the world with a Republican or a Democrat President.

Countless artists have attempted to canonize Barack Obama in support of his presidential campaign, but none more successfully as Shepard Fairey and Ron English. Fairey’s incredible poster of Obama is, to be sure, a thing of beauty. While Ron English’s Obama Lincoln is also a beautifully powerful image to say the very least of these two works of art. Hopefully, Fairey and English have not been fooled by the very establishment they are supposed to be against, but more likely, they like most Americans hope this time there will be a true change.

Regardless, Kurt Nimmo’s article Progressives need to dump Obama and the Corporatist Democrat Party puts it like this, “They invariably buy into all the manufactured hype around elections. They are hard pressed to realize the obvious fact — elections are dog and pony shows designed to trick the public into thinking they are participating in the so-called democratic process when in fact they are simply signing off on corporate and banker vetted candidates, who are little more than PR front men and script readers.  Obama is no different than Bush, except he is more intelligent and more palatable to the masses. Democrats have the same agenda as the Republicans, albeit with differences on a few social issues, which are played up in the corporate media. But when it comes to financial and foreign policy — and the two are intertwined — there is no difference. It happens every election cycle.”

So for any truth seeker, I have created this poster in an attempt not to glorify or scorn Obama, but to reveal that which only truth reveals. How’s this for a CHANGE!

We Won’t get Fooled Again!

The poster is a tribute to Pete Townshend and his understanding of the power of music and how it can be the vibration to start a revolution. The lyrics of, Won’t Get Fooled Again, reflect the cycle of man who support revolutions for change only to realize that nothing has changed.

Sooner than later, the people of this country will recognize that they have been fooled again, but will it be too late? What price shall we pay this time? Which of our liberties will be seized upon in the name of protecting us from phantom terrorists. What fear and terror will our own government unleash on the public so that we will wholeheartedly submit to their will. Should our blind faith lead us down a road where even the facade of change is obsolete?

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
No, no!

I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do ya?

There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

-by Pete Townshend, The Who

Matters of Substance

Helvetica is the obvious choice for this poster’s typography! If you have not seen it yet, please watch Helvetica: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit. Helvetica is an independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.

The poster lists no matters of substance discussed by the major media and politicians because there are no matters of importance discussed by them. Sure, fundamental questions are raised on occasion, but no real or honest solutions are ever met due to the fact that questions of substance are not allowed to be asked. The media even go so far as to proclaim some of these debates, negotiations or bills as a victory for the American citizen, but nothing is accomplished that has any long lasting or far reaching effect for the Average American.

Not true you say? If problems are solved due to government involvement, then answer just one of the following questions. Why is it that we always have higher taxes? Why is the gap between the rich and poor widening. Why does the national debt continue to rise? Why do we still start trillion dollar wars? Why does our government send the military to bomb and kill innocent men, women, children and babies? Why is the average American struggling under the yoke of a carefree Uncle and a deceptive banking system? Why do the politicians disregard the people they are suppose to represent? If greed and power were American family values then perhaps our politicians would embody us as a people. One cannot represent whom one does not understand. And one will represent but himself if one cares but for himself.

Oh, Forgive me. I have forgotten that there has been an election! This time it is different, you say, because THIS multi-millionaire, lifetime politician really understands the American people.

Artrageous Nashville

What: Artrageous Popsicles and Grenades - Art Truth and Politics Show featuring 18 New Posters by Jorge Arrieta

When: Artrageous: 11.8.08 Nashville’s largest indoor charity event

Where: The Arts Company: Avant Garage

Founded in 1987 as a benefit for Nashville CARES, Artrageous® has raised more than $2 million for the support of AIDS education and services in Middle Tennessee. A group of Nashville’s most prominent gallery owners began the event as a response to the AIDS epidemic and its devastating impact on the arts community.

I will suspend 18 new political posters from the ceiling of the Avant Garage of the Arts Company for this one night special event only! These are all very limited edition signed and numbered prints. Some of the posters to be on display can be viewed by clicking on the Propaganda link at the top of the page. I have even set up a FREE download of smaller versions of all of the posters on popsicles and grenades!

There is a drawing for a free poster of your choice, but only at the Artrageous event. Get your Artrageous tickets and help support a worthy cause while having a wonderful time with unique art.

Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?

Wow! How important is the 2004 testimony video with Clinton Curtis about election hacking! Obviously, not important enough to politicians, who have done nothing to correct the problems with these voting machines. Today, on election day, will the facade of democracy continue to fool Americans into believing that everyone in America has a voice? One thing is certain, people are turning out in record numbers indicating that the media has once again waged a successful campaign to control your mind.

There is a great poster titled “Neither One” (of these men will bring real ‘change’) on pjchiel’s flicker page. Read the comments and scroll down to see some important links to articles that discuss the political fundamentals of these two men (especially Obama) on sites like this one by Carl Finamore and Mark T. Harris titled, “What Will an Obama Presidency Bring?”

Vote for the lesser of two evils if you want to confirm your support for evil and submit to the will of the Republicans and Democrats. Let us not forget how we arrived here on this ship of political turmoil - by voting for more of the same. We all want to believe in great change or peace and hope for a better world, but when one deafly follows political rhetoric that is all one gets - more talk and more war and more taxes and more government and less freedom. This poster symbolizes the hypnotic affect that results from the constant media coverage of the Republicans and Democrats where emotion and fear reign over logic and reason.

So every year people go to the voting booth and blindly vote for someone just because they are a Democrat or a Republican. Most people actual believe that there is a difference between the two Republicrat system. These politicians are ALL extremely wealthy and have strong ties to the largest corporations who actually control American policy. Perhaps, there was a time when these parties had important distinctions and unique differences, but those days are fading along with our civil liberties.

So I ask you, will you choose reason and wisdom or selfish emotion and fear? Either way, will your vote even count?