A whistleblower appeared on a weekly radio show this week to let the American people know that the Fed has no conflict of interest policies in place. “These allegations deserve a full and thorough investigation, and American taxpayers deserve regulators who will fight each day on their behalf,” said Senator Sherrod Brown. What do you think? Will an investigation be held? If so, will anything come of it? Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/29/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-corruption-investigatio/ Don’t forget to share our page with your friends! |
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Watch as the former chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke outright refuses transparency within the Fed. The bill he speaks of in the video is H.R.1207 Federal Reserve Transparency Act, call (202) 224-3121 to speak to someone within the Capitol and learn more about the bill. Voltaire was a famous writer, philosopher, and historian who was born in France in 1694. Voltaire was actually born François-Marie Arouet but later picked up the name Voltaire, which is an anagram of the Latinized version of his surname “Arovet Li”. He is famous for his advocacy of separation of church and state, freedom of religion, and freedom of expression. His love of freedom of expression led him to write over 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets in his lifetime and landed him numerous imprisonments and exiles for speaking out against the government and church.
In 1726 Voltaire responded to an insult from a young French nobleman, who later had his servants beat the living shit out of Voltaire. This led to him trying to attain compensation for the beating and he was even willing to have a duel. The nobleman’s family got a letter de cachet from the king and Voltaire was sentenced to imprisonment in Bastille with no trial. This idea scared Voltaire and he suggested he be exiled to England. The king accepted this alternative punishment and after Voltaire reached England he immediately began his attempts to reform the French judicial system. Voltaire didn’t have much to do with economics but the man was truly the embodiment of the revolutionary mindset, and also of what an endless potential for attaining knowledge humans possess (I mean the guy wrote 20,000 letters, 2,000 books and pamphlets, spoke 5 languages, wrote 2 book long epic poems including the first ever to be written in French, and by the time of his death had published every form of media available at the time including plays) Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire “TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ~Howard Zinn |