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What is the definition of yellow in today's America?
This image is ALL wrong. Michelle wears the gloves.
Just keep paving the road with all of those paper gold bricks. We'll never run out of those.
If you tried to print dollar bills to cover the world's derivitives, I think you might run out of trees!
This political cartoon is a keeper. Put it in the valut for future generations to find. It explains our demise consisely.
Especially when history shows those yellow bricks to be tungsten.
"So, goodbye, Yellen brick road...
where the dogs of Wall Street howl."
"If you tried to print dollar bills to cover the world's derivitives, I think you might run out of trees!"
The way things of going, the might also run out of electrons if the choose an electronic payment system instead.
TRILLION DOLLAR COIN!
Da-da-dum.
That's a fine idea my friend. I'd like to offer you a tenure at Princeton.
It violates the basil agreement so won't fly overseas.
And we're running out of thyme.
You sir, are a sage.
You've got a cumin of your own, my friend.
If I possesed more acumen I'd have digested that one earlier - Bravo, Billy!
Speak for yourself, I got plenty of herbs.
Even Basel?
Dang, I could go for some good herb myself right about now.
that IS Michelle.......
Wavelength = 570 nm
Don't worry...they'll just try to keep paving it with the bones of you 'extremists'!
Can anyone believe that monkey is the president of the USA. I can't.
reelected like the chimp before him. the two worst presidents in history.and we got them back to back.
Bush was just an idiot. LBJ took the silver away. So let's say (worst to least worst) -
Obongo
LBJerk
Peanut
Baby Bush
Caligula
Tricky Dick
Spymaster
Marilyn's Boyfriend
Football Hero
Dutch
Marty McFly.
With what is about to happen with the global economy - especially here in the USSA - Muricans will be shitting bricks...Obozo needs another of his worthless Executive Orders demanding that people start adding YELLOW FOOD DYE to their diets...Problem solved using Murican ingenuity.
Teeth?
Obama on his knees. Spot on.
. . . on his knees beholden to the Fed; appropriate.
Road From Prosperity ...................its all down hill baby.............
It's not that Yellen prints yellow bricks, she just leases them to China at $42/oz.
$42 is to $1200 as $1200 . . . .
They ran out of yellow bricks in 1971, been papering their way to prosperity ever since.
Of course, The Wizard of OZ, is a elaborate monetary allegory in support of the gold standard. Oz stands for ounces and the yellow brick road literally referred to bricks of gold being the path to proserity.
And Dorothy's slippers were silver in the book too.
The Tin Man is labor, the Scarecrow is the farmers and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan (See: Crucified on a Cross of Gold) or so I've been told.
Notably, the Wizard can only fulfill his promises to the three with paper or trinkets: a testimonial, a diploma, a tin medal.
It was in support of bi-metal and against a pure gold standard, I believe.
Correct. It is believed that Frank Baum wrote 'The Wizard of Oz' in the 1890s, in support of remonetizing silver; in the book, Dorothy's shoes are siliver colored. MGM changed this to ruby red supposedly because red looked better than silver on the screen, but perhaps the filmaker was concerned that the audience would have caught on to the allegory back then during the 1930s depression. Baum meant to show that Dorothy's SILVER shoes which she always had access to would take her where she wanted to go; following the yellow brick road to the Emerald City (green, paper currency, or banknotes) where a charlatan hid behind a curtain and only appeard powerful, represents the private banker who issues credit, essentially your own labor back to you with interest. The wicked witch of the West and East wore GOLD hats; the Bank of America was the Wicked witch of the West and the Wall Street banks were that of the East,
The 'crime of 1873' occured when Grant signed Senators's Sherman's bill that allowed creditors to determine wheter to take gold or silver as payment for debts. Because farmers used silver coins the bankers saw a way of grabbing most of the farmland West of the Missisippi. Frank Baum was a reporter for a Chicago newpaper and a 'silverite', which was a political faction to remonetize silver; it was was composed mostly of midwest farmers and industrial workers which was headed by William Jennings (this famous orator said something like "you shall not crucify me upon this cross of gold" at a famous gathering; he was placed by Wilson as secretary of state to fooll the plebes while he planned to institute the criminal federal reserve. The deflation that occured as a result of demonetizing silver and by the banks creating a deflation in the US and Europe (by refusing to issue new loans or charging excessive interest) during that time led to the longest stretch of economic hardship that has occured even to this day. The top 0.001% began during this time and have ruled ever since; only for a short time when the US labor movement was powerful could the middle and lower classes progress.
General Sherman destroyed the South but Senator Sherman, his brother, destroyed the rest of the country. There was a single sentence (I think on page 35) of the coin act written by Sherman, where the creditor had the choice of taking silver or gold. It didn't say the creditor couldn't take silver, just that he didn't have to, but the bankers all agreed not to take silver and the famers and small industrialists went bankrupt; they were absorbed into large industrial concerns financied by the Rothschilds and their ilk and democracy was replaced by oligarchy.
There are many free pdf's from the late 1800s concerning the issue of remonetizing silver. Examples (my favorite is Coins financial school" by Harvey:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6iYMAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coins+financial+school&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBGoVChMI1MKXk6rNyAIVQhweCh1P3wm1#v=onepage&q=coins%20financial%20school&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=NDE5AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=coins+financial+school&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAWoVChMI1MKXk6rNyAIVQhweCh1P3wm1#v=onepage&q=coins%20financial%20school&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=mVTnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT134&dq=remonetizing+silver&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAmoVChMIpML_06jNyAIVQ5IeCh2phAY-#v=onepage&q=remonetizing%20silver&f=false
Another issue was the US government calling in all the interest free greenbacks so that they would no longer circulate; the idea that the US governemt could issue it's own debt free currency scared the london banks to such a degree that this was actually published in the London Times during the Civil war:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/LKO.php
“If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”
According to Bill Still, the amount of money per person that circulated was about 50 dollars in 1865 (silver, gold, greenbacks, bank notes) but the by 1895 it had been reduced to only 5 dollars per person in circulation. That was a time of tremendous deflation of prices and corresponding increase in the purchasing power of gold, thus explaining the rush for gold around the world during that time
Silver would be considered exogenous money, as it came out of the ground and outside of the debt banker money system. Monetizing silver effectively would act the same as treasury money, as it cycled in money supply to then pay off banker debts.
In effect banks could not easily debt spread if silver was monetized. Debt spreading to increase money supply, and then calling loans to depression is too much power for private corporations, and they then control society.
Greenbacks were also treasury money, exogenously created by Treasury. Their action and effect in money supply would be the same as silver. Only their drag on cost on society would be lower, as there would not be wasted effort digging in the ground for metal.
Money can be any physical material, but the main facotr is that its volume should be controlled by law, and it should flux in accordance with the needs of transaction, savings, and industry.
I believe the green glasses and green colors were alegory for treasury greenbacks, not banker money. I could be wrong - hard to get into Baum's head.
American Banker Assoication has documents from this time period, indicating that Rothschild bankers wanted to jump in and buy up distressed farm property for cheap.
The mechanism is first to create a bubble and people hypothecate their lands, then later call loans, disappear the money supply, and debtors then show up to swap their property to cancel debts.
The idea was to transfer southern property back to banker control, especially Rothschild control. They had lost out in Civil war and were unable to get their way (returning south to an European colony)- especially as Russia's Tsar had thwarted them.
+ 10 for omitting William Jennings Bryan's last name
+ 10 for forgetting that it was called the Cross of Gold speech, wherein Bryan said "You shalt not crucify mankind on a cross of gold."
Bryan's address helped catapult him to the DemocraticParty's presidential nomination; it is considered ***one of the greatest political speeches in American history.***
+ 10 for calling the Democratic Party"s Convention of 1896 "a famous gathering."
+ 10 for pretending you didn't know all that stuff.
http://www.authentichistory.com/1865-1897/4-1896election/19230703_Cross_...
Operation Blue Beam maaaaan. We can make that road roll over golden hills into the sunset.
Lots of countries still left to bomb. And then take theirs.
Seriously. I don't understand why they don't just raise the price to $50,000USD. Wouldn't a lot of problems be taken care of by this simple Reset ??????
They can't, too many little guys would get rich. No way.
Little guys like the women of India.
if knox still had 8,000 tons it would help. however
Nope, that won't do it, you see, this country doesn't have any gold, and we can't afford to pay foriegners more than the going rate or we would have to magicly come up with the difference in dollars that we don't have.
No the problems must be eliminated physcially and begun again, like a born christen, unfortunately you are not among those born agains, and as such won't have a chance to be another problem, that's when the cure gets it's chance at a fair shake, see things more clearly now?? You see, hope is doomed, and all those who contributed to it go with that doom. Won't be long now.
Nop, tHat would be a problem.
A massive one.
If gold would be at 50.000 a lot of countries would want to sell their gold for that price.
But that gold is gone so suddenly, it would be a problem.
And America would have to pay at face value and would be in hyperinflation in a second.
And also, there would be so many dollars sucked up into it that before that hyperinflation, like a tsunami, that would first be a 99% deflation bomb followed by the inflarion bomb.
No way the economy would survive that, let alone the country.
So if you're a American, you really don't want that, even if you own gold. You would need to leave the country and convert in a other currency asap and that won't work for you anymore once the price starts to move up.
If you own gold, and prices go up like that, you may never sell but wait untill everything is destroyed. Then you come out and with the currency most favorite and the money from you're gold you buy assets.
If you would sell at 50.000, the next day those 50k would be worthless.
And in other news:
China launches global yuan payment system
https://www.rt.com/business/318103-china-payment-system-yuan/
Maybe a golden rain will fall.
Here, yellow bricks are part of the fantasy story. They don't refer to gold as it should be.
People really don't understand why gold is important.
People don't understand why wars have been faught for it.
I know the answer! You need a crew back where you started building the road pulling up bricks. Ship them up to the front and re-lay them. That is where the cameras and no one who matters is back at the rear.
Hahaha. Excellent message. And indeed, that is precisely how the predators-that-be operate, literally, directly, indirectly and metaphorically.
Interesting history and symbolism of the yellow brick road (the original movie) We allways remember it as a childrens fairy tale but it was a much more! http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/follow-the-economic-yellow-brick-road/
We accuse Russia of being a corrupt oligarchy, but refuse to look in the mirror. We are world’s biggest oligarchy and they and the Fed bank, own the congress. The wealthy start wars for profits and then get mad when any other country dares to challenge our “exceptionalism”. I would vote for Putin before I would vote for Hillary or Jeb. At least he know what needs to be done, and does it. The Neocons are mad at him for the Crimea grab, but we can start coups all over the world to “spread democracy.” We invade and never leave. We have caused problems all over the world, far more than Russia has.
We need to leave the countries we have occupied since WWII, and let Russia and China deal with all the world’s problems. Let them die instead of us. Cut our government by 30% and cut all entitlements too. More debt will not make us prosperous, nor will more wars and occupations. Time for change we can believe in ! TRUMP!
Just use the gold plated tungsten ones. You know, the ones from Fort Knox.
They are lead - tungsten is very expensive, especially in large bricks.
i read somewhere that a midget tried to hump dorothy's leg.....?
Actually, they are out of yellow bricks in Comex and LMBA.
Why have a debt based system at all. It's an incredibly stupid system.
Bankers get to hypothecate new credit based on new debtors signature. That is a huge slight of hand MAGICK trick. It is a con game.
Then the banker gets to hold a debt instrument against society. He has inserted himself in the relations of humans as a parasite. He then makes money from money. Banks are the money factory, and the type of money they make does not comport the real needs of an economy. Banker can then on sell the instrument into markets, thus making debtor a price slave to be bought and sold.
Think carefully about this: Human's evolved to have bilateral relations with each other. We are individual actors who act with others in handshaking high trust agreements.
But, if a hidden hand, or agent is in between us, then we are diminished. This agent is a parasite, that makes us think it is necessary to function. It is not necessary, it is more like a tumor, that sucks up real economic activity through rents. Creating new keyboard credit is not worth the usury paid for it. A house mortgage (death) pays the banker usury up front on the note, and he then gets to hold it and spend as he sees fit. Only at end of loan does the principle start to decline. The usury on a long time line mortgage can double or triple the cost of original principle. It is a lie and myth that credit formation of this type has time value.
Time value on money was codified at school of Salamanca, populated by Jewish thinkers. As usual, members of the tribe promulgate lies - almost as if their brains are a lie manufacturing center. In those days, gold was money and represented wealth, so it could be argued that it had some time value, but it sure as hell should not claim double or tripple back in returns - that is usury. Where was the schools discussion on this mode ... nowhere. Let's keep monetary secrets as secrets for centuries, so the sheeple will not know they are being hosted.
What really should happen is that your neighbor should have savings in a bank. The bank should then intermediate these savings when he gives you a loan. In this way, your neighbor is creditor and you are debtor. Banker is only an agent who finds creditors and debtors and allows them to do business.
Bankers in a real money system DO NOT MANUFACTURE NEW CREDIT as money. They intermediate existing only existing money.
A money supply in a real money system is NOT A DEBT spreading money system. Debt instruments are still created, but there is money already available in supply to pay off debts. This money already in supply relates to industry and goods and services production, as it should.
Only a sovereign money system can allocate money and credit properly. Since the money supply is already filled, then people get to use it. Ironically, though the name is "sovereign' the money supply is mostly owned by citizens as a permanent inheritance.
Don't read into it, that it is some sort of fascist government control system. It is a freedom system that has a wealth money type that doesn't disappear.
Until the money system is changed, the shit show will continue. Man will not evolve, he will devolve.
www.sovereignmoney.eu
A "community organizer" as President.... Bahahahahahahahahahha....god people are S T U P I D.
Other Oz Books
Obviously he had a lot to say about things other than gold and silver. :o)
"We've run out of yellow bricks".
We can still pave with tungsten and lead bricks all the way towards the cliff.