A one-time limited GAO audit of the Federal Reserve that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has uncovered some eye-popping corruption at the Fed and the mainstream media is barely even covering it. It turns out that the Federal Reserve made $16.1 trillion in secret loans to their bankster friends during the financial crisis. You can read a copy of the GAO investigation for yourself right here. These loans only went to the "too big to fail" banks and to foreign financial institutions. Not a penny of these loans went to small banks or to ordinary Americans. Not only did the banksters get trillions in nearly interest-free loans, but the Fed actually paid them over 600 million dollars to help run the emergency lending program. The GAO investigation revealed some absolutely stunning conflicts of interest, and yet the mainstream media does not even seem interested. Solid evidence of the looting of America has been put right in front of us, and yet hardly anyone wants to talk about it.
Many Americans have a hard time grasping just how large 16.1 trillion dollars is. It is an amount of money that is almost inconceivable. It is more than the GDP of the United States for an entire year. It is more than the U.S. government has spent over the last four years combined.
The Federal Reserve was just creating gigantic piles of cash out of thin air and throwing them around with wild abandon.
One of the only members of Congress that has wanted to talk about the GAO audit has been U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. The following is a statement about this audit that was taken from his official website....
"As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world"
So precisely who got this money?
Well, a recent article on Raw Story named some of the big Wall Street banks that got some of this money....
Out of all borrowers, Citigroup received the most financial assistance from the Fed, at $2.5 trillion. Morgan Stanley came in second with $2.04 trillion, followed by Merill Lynch at $1.9 trillion and Bank of America at $1.3 trillion.
But it just wasn't U.S. banksters that were showered with nearly interest-free loans. It turns out that approximately $3.08 trillion went to foreign financial institutions all over Europe and Asia.
So who in the world gave the Federal Reserve permission to bail out financial institutions all over the world?
Nobody did.
But under our current system the Federal Reserve doesn't have to get permission. They literally get to do whatever they want.
On his website, Senator Sanders expressed his outrage over these foreign loans....
"No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president"
So should we expect Congress to approve legislation that would reduce the power of the Fed?
Of course not.
We all know that is not going to happen.
The Federal Reserve is run like a dictatorship. They get to do what they want and nobody can stop them.
Not only did the Fed dish out over $16 trillion in secret loans to their friends, but they also paid their bankster friends over 600 million dollars to help them do it.
According to the GAO, the Federal Reserve paid $659.4 million to the very financial institutions which caused the financial crisis to help the Fed manage all of these emergency loans.
Can anyone say "conflict of interest"?
Not only were the banksters raking in trillions in secret loans, they were also paid to help run the lending process.
Wow.
So why isn't the mainstream media talking about this?
That is a very good question.
But wait, there is more.
It turns out that many Fed officials had very large investments in the financial institutions that were receiving these secret loans.
So what was done about all of the conflict of interest issues that arose?
According to Senator Sanders, "the Fed provided conflict of interest waivers to employees and private contractors so they could keep investments in the same financial institutions and corporations that were given emergency loans."
Oh, everyone was given waivers.
Apparently corruption is okay if we just get everyone to sign a bunch of forms.
The following is one example of a conflict of interest that occurred during this lending program that Senator Sanders noted on his website....
For example, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase served on the New York Fed's board of directors at the same time that his bank received more than $390 billion in financial assistance from the Fed. Moreover, JP Morgan Chase served as one of the clearing banks for the Fed's emergency lending programs.
This is a classic case of the foxes watching the hen house.
It was the banksters that caused the financial crisis. They were the only ones that the Federal Reserve helped. In fact, the Federal Reserve ended up having the banksters basically run the entire emergency lending program as Senator Sanders noted on his site....
The Fed outsourced virtually all of the operations of their emergency lending programs to private contractors like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. The same firms also received trillions of dollars in Fed loans at near-zero interest rates.
If you were not outraged by that, then you need to read it again.
What the banksters have been getting away with is absolutely mind blowing.
So will changes be made to make sure that something like this never happens again in the future?
Well, the GAO has recommended that significant changes should be made.
But as mentioned above, the only one that gets to tell the Federal Reserve what to do is the Federal Reserve.
According to the Washington Post, the Federal Reserve is promising to "strongly consider" the recommendations of the GAO....
The Fed’s general counsel, Scott Alvarez, said in a letter responding to the GAO’s audit that officials will “strongly consider” the recommendations.
Most Americans do not realize that the Federal Reserve is not actually part of the federal government. It is a privately-owned central bank that is not accountable to anyone.
But most Americans still believe that the Fed is a government agency.
The truth is that the Federal Reserve is about as "federal" as Federal Express is.
In another article about the Federal Reserve, I noted that the Federal Reserve has even admitted that it is not an agency of the federal government in court....
In defending itself against a Bloomberg request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Reserve objected by declaring that it was "not an agency" of the U.S. government and therefore it was not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Basically, an unaccountable private monopoly creates our money, sets our interest rates, regulates our banking system and makes secret loans to whoever they want.
The Federal Reserve has more power over our economy than any other institution and nobody can overrule any decisions that they make.
Does that sound very "American" to you?
Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, it has been systematically destroying the wealth of America through constant and never ending inflation.
The U.S. dollar loses more value every single year.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, what you could buy for $1.00 in 1965 will cost you $7.17 today.
Sadly, the devaluation of our money is actually accelerating. That is one reason why we are seeing precious metals soar right now.
Not only that, but the Federal Reserve was also designed to be a perpetual government debt creation machine.
Do you know how money is created in this country?
Normally, more money is only created when more debt is created.
What this sets up is a never end spiral where the amount of money and the amount of debt are continually increasing.
Most Americans believe that we could solve the government debt problem if we could just control spending.
But that is not the case.
The Federal Reserve system was designed to get the U.S. government into constantly increasing amounts of debt and this is exactly what has happened....
The U.S. government will never fix the national debt problem as long as it participates in the Federal Reserve system.
Founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson tried to warn us about the danger of central banking.
Jefferson strongly believed that when the federal government borrows money in one generation that must be paid back by future generations it is equivalent to theft....
And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Not only that, Thomas Jefferson actually said that if he could add just one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution it would be a complete ban on all government debt....
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its Constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.
Of course we did not listen to Thomas Jefferson, did we?
Now we have gotten ourselves into one fine mess.
If the federal government shut down the Federal Reserve system, started issuing debt-free money and established a new system based on sound financial principles we might have a chance of turning this thing around.
But if we continue on the path that we are currently on, we are going to experience a financial disaster of unprecedented magnitude. We have piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and a day of reckoning is approaching.
Our founding fathers tried to warn us about this, but we thought that we were so much smarter than them.
Now we get to suffer the consequences of our foolishness.
The debt ceiling is irrelevant. It was too late when Ronald Reagan left office. Since Reagan, the USA Federal Government has been a member of the, “living dead.” There are no words in the English language to describe this level of sadness.
“In 2011 Dennis Blair, previous director of national intelligence, mentioned that 17 Americans have been killed on U.S. soil by terrorists in the 10 years since 9/11 — 14 of them in the Ft. Hood massacre. Meanwhile, auto accidents, murders and rapes combined have killed an estimated 1.5 million people in the past decade. “What is it that justifies this amount of money on this narrow problem?” WHAT ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE 1.5 MILLION? WHAT IS THE TSA DOING ABOUT THAT?
The only thing Bush proved by invading Iraq was that Sadam was a great leader. Just look at the place then, and compare it to now. Bush and his cronies will go the warmonger way of Hitler and his henchmen. Think of how great the USA and the world would be today if the US never had a military of any kind. All that money could have been used to build a Utopian society. Is the USA run by a secret satanic society? The level of stupidity of the USA leaders over the last nearly 100 years is so incomprehensible, I cannot think of any other explanation for the blatant and widespread insanity. Where does the USA go in the next 20 to 50 years? There is only one course, and it has been played out a thousand times in recorded history. The 50 states will divide up to become separate countries, or groups of states will join together where it is in their benefit. The federal government with their warmongering ways, and all their debt, will go the way of the Romans and their debt. Two long articles are posted on the site: facebook.com/garydonoliver
I commend Senator Saunders,but Ron Paul was saying this years ago!!! But if you look at WHEN the Fed took over AND HOW CONVENIENTLY 2 World Wars followed, WE’VE BEEN SCREWED. It’s just now more people are affected, If you haven’t realized by now that the Dems and Repubs are both owned by World Banking Elite (FED RESERVE) and inturn own ALL the mass media, WE HAVE BEEN LIVING IN A FASCIST STATE BEFORE WW2, it’s just that they didn’t need to include the world yet, Amerikkkans are getting what we deserve (well not all of us) but the NWO doesn’t care. They have new slaves now and don’t care if the USA! USA! screaming morons are with them, BUT GUESS WHAT, MOST AMERIKKKANS have been brainwashed so long THAT 80 to 90 PERCENT ( my guess) WILL GLADLY SUPPORT THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION AS LONG AS THAT STUPID FLAG IS IN THEIR EYES.
RON PAUL 2012 is our only hope. End the FED. Now.
So here is the plan. We, the People, print a note for two quadrillion dollars and make the FED and all banks take it as full payment of all global debt owed them. With this payment they will relinquish all claims, encumbrances, liens for all debts public and private on the entire planet. Call it a global “reset button”. They must place the note in a vault under the highest security and be able to produce it on demand. This note will pay off all home mortgages, car loans, business loans and the like and everyone will own all property in their name free and clear. Also all municipal loans, derivative contracts, pension funds and the like will be declared fully funded and solvent. All accounts will be declared paid in full and will be settled immediately. However, no one with a net worth greater than 10 million dollars will be able to buy anything with the proceeds in their settled accounts but must keep their “money” on account perpetually and the interest earned will be distributed to the citizens of the country in which the accounts reside. Think of it as fighting fiat with fiat or as a haircut for the uber rich.
Try getting your MP or MP candidate wannabe to pledge the below under a videocam (:
Questionairre/Pledge form with asset declarations
http://www.facebook.com/ph?oto.php?fbid=1914864390044?&set=o.318515515322&type=1?&theater
Otherwise run for election.
Is this true? There has been so little discussion around it in the mainstream. Surely you Americans would have picked up your pitchforks (and automatic weapons) and charged on Washington after reading this?
The numbers seem so big that it does not seem real. Surely your representatives would have used this information to beat up Obama even more, etc??
Take a look at what’s going on in Canada… a one-time-only, $250,000, tax-free, interest-free, non-repayable, personal line-of-credit, that automatically pays off all outstanding interest-bearing consumer and household debt. No more mortgage, loan or credit card payments… BUT no more consumer borrowing either. http://www.financialParty.ca
The American ‘Powers that be’ are in charge of this corruption forcing the U.S. to go into depression and become a Third World Country. They have and are constantly creating new laws that bypass the Constitution of the United States for a reason: Treason of the resources and safety of the United States – these are American haters running and ruining our country and much of it comes in the name of GREED. They are counting on One World Government to keep the people down at all corners. Down financially, job wise, safety-wise, etc., etc. to where the people are totally beholden to the One World Government they are trying to put us all into. Sound like the ‘Beast’ of the Bible has arrived with his minions of like-evil-minded servants of destruction, chaos, upheaval and manipulation. Our freedoms are being written out of the books each and every time a new ‘law’ is written into them. Who ever thought we would become so corrupted by a handful of Satan’s puppets? Those who know and understand the Book of Revelations will understand what is happening. Open your eyes and vote for honesty and integrity next time around. Vote Ron Paul! And learn how to protect your very soul from the Beast who now roams the world – and is most powerful against all good. Keep your head on and your heart and mind set toward destroying the evil that is happening in the only way we are allowed to: VOTE = but, you may say, the vote is a joke now as we have the all powerful ‘Chicago Machine’ running and sinking our wonderful sailing ship of freedom. Kick them all out! Vote for term limits and do not be deceived by anyone! We now must learn the hard way what freedom is all about – and we have lost it. It can be regained with the right people who see what the average person does not take the time to look at: Read Revelations and pray for understanding for the times we live in, or we will be destroyed from within, as is the plan.
Neocon gangster mafia. Time to disgorge the gangsters from their ill gotten gains.
Let’s see…what else is the MSM (Mainstream Media) ignoring? Hmmmm…
Organizer Labels Own Poll Irrelevant After Ron Paul Wins
(Results only count if establishment Republican is victorious)
by Paul Joseph Watson
http://www.infowars.com/organizer-labels-own-poll-irrelevant-after-ron-paul-wins/
I have heard a third hand rumor, more then once, that after President Kennedy had non-FED money printed [Red seal not green], that the FED redistributed the gold from Fort Knox to its member banks. [foreign & domestic] So by the time Reagan was president, he was unable to return the United States to a gold standard. Can anyone confirm this rumor? If true, it means the FED confiscated the gold taken by force from U.S. citizens during the 1930′s.
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Just remember this is another private invasion of a foreign corporation.
“The Federal Reserve isn’t Federal at All” Carl Klang
Where did the Fed get $16 trillion to loan when the 2006 ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS lists $880 billion in total assets of all 12 FR banks with $820 B being government securities and $783 B in total collateral ? Well, consider the FR bank as being similar to a commercial bank that wants to loan money to a contractor to build a house. The CB uses the fractional reserve program that allows it to give a check to the builder for money it does not have. It is a little known and seldom used practice that the FR banks can also enjoy. The FR banks can apparently create money out of thin air and hope it will be paid back. If it is not paid back, then . . . . .