statism watch

Who’s in charge, the Federal Reserve or the President? Think about it, and then consider the following quote: “Give me control of a nation’s money, and I care not who makes the laws.” – Mayer Amschel Rothschild

This is a consolidation of economic power. The opposition to Mr. Geithner’s plan, and his own supposed ambiguity on moral hazard) seems a tissue of pretence and wildly disingenuous when you consider the source of the funding for the recent electoral victory: Wall Street.

Flashback to some previous remarks of Mr. Geithner’s: Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda

Stephen Labaton, Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times
February 9, 2009

WASHINGTON— The Obama administration’s new plan to bail out the nation’s banks was fashioned after a spirited internal debate that pitted the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, against some of the president’s top political hands.

In the end, Mr. Geithner largely prevailed in opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions that were sought by presidential aides, including David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, according to administration and Congressional officials.

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Will these inter-agency links be severed after the Olympics have concluded to preserve jurisdictional boundaries, or will the military continue to operate as police on domestic soil… and will the police continue to become militarized?

CBC News
February 9, 2009

Helicopters, hovercraft, and other military vehicles will be hard at work across the Lower Mainland and around other Olympic venues this week as the police, the Armed Forces and other agencies start their Olympic security exercises on Monday.

The training, known as Exercise Silver, is the second phase of the training exercises.

The public will have no advance warning of exactly when or where the exercises will staged, but RCMP Const. Bert Paquet is promising they will have few effects.

“There will be little to no disruption to people of the city’s everyday life,” said Paquet.

Much of Exercise Silver is focused on information-sharing across government and non-governmental agencies and will be out of the public eye. Some exercises will be conducted in full view of the public.

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CBC News
February 9, 2009

A witness to Robert Dziekanski’s fatal run-in with four Mounties at Vancouver airport never saw a stapler in the Polish immigrant’s hand in the moments before he was jolted by a Taser, an inquiry heard Monday.

Testifying at the inquiry into Dziekanski’s death, Alison Kula said she had an unobstructed view of what was going on in the early morning of Oct. 14, 2007, when he was shocked by a Taser and then turned lifeless on the floor.

Kula, a customer service agent with Horizon Air, said Monday that Dziekanski threw his hands in the air after four RCMP officers stunned him with a Taser the first time. He then fell screaming to the floor after being jolted a second time, the inquiry heard.

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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
February 9, 2009

Giant flames engulf every floor of 44-story building and it remains standing, yet limited fires across just 8 floors of WTC 7 brought down that building within 7 seconds on 9/11. How can NIST’s “new phenomenon” explain this one?

A fierce fire consumed all 44 floors of a skyscraper in Beijing today, shooting 30 foot flames into the air, but unlike the similarly-sized 47-story WTC 7, which suffered limited fires across just eight floors, the building in China did not collapse.

“The fire was burning from the ground floor to the top floor of the large building, the flames reflecting in the glass facade of the main CCTV tower next to the hotel and cultural center,” reports the New York Times.

“The 241-room Mandarin Oriental hotel in the building was due to open this year. Flames were spotted around 7:45 p.m. and within 20 minutes the fire had spread throughout the building, dominating that part of the city.”

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