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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Hearing for #DNI Director of National Intelligence
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
AUDIT THE FED H.R.24
H.R. 24, titled the “Federal Reserve Transparency Act,” is sponsored by U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and is cosponsored by 41 other representatives.
If enacted, H.R. 24 would require the U.S. Comptroller General to conduct a full audit of the entire Federal Reserve System.
In an interview with The New American, Congressmen Massie discussed the importance of H.R. 24, stating:
The Federal Reserve’s never undergone a full audit. Now you’ve got two groups of people who oppose my bill: those who say that it’s already audited, and so they don’t need an audit, and those who say if you audit it, then it will change the way that it behaves, that it needs to operate in secret and the markets can’t influence it and Congress can’t influence it, can’t be open to political pressure that an audit would expose.
Well, both of those arguments can’t be true… There’s a perfunctory audit that doesn’t really uncover the way they make decisions, and we need to know that. All the authority that’s vested in the Federal Reserve came from Congress … you can delegate authority, but you can’t delegate responsibility, and we’re still responsible for that, so we need to know what they’re doing.
Now there’s this other argument that they’re independent. Give me a break. They may be independent of Congress, but they’re not independent of the bankers in Wall Street. All of the heads of the Federal Reserve and the heads of … the regional Banks, they come from industry and they’re going to go back to industry. … [A]nd the [Treasury Department] and the Federal Reserve communicate every day… Don’t tell me the Federal Reserve is independent of the executive branch. They’re printing money and buying the debt off each other. … This is a gift to the executive branch. Basically, we’ve given up our power to the executive branch and to industry, to the bankers. We need to reassert [our power]. An audit would do that, and once you do the audit you may find that you need to end [the Fed].
H.R. 24 will effectively bring to light the Fed’s activities that very few people are aware of due to the unconstitutional entity’s secrecy.
Although the Federal Reserve must be totally abolished, the very least Congress should do is conduct an audit. A partial audit was conducted in 2010, finding that the Fed gave over $16 trillion in secret bank bailouts during the Great Recession.
The Federal Reserve’s creation in 1913 remains one of the most egregious violations of the U.S. Constitution. In addition to blatantly violating the Constitution by its very existence, the Fed has the ability to single-handedly manipulate the economy and devalue the U.S. dollar.
A sound monetary policy is necessary for a nation’s economy to be stable and enable material prosperity. Already, the Federal Reserve and the Deep State have caused far too much damage through their inflation of the U.S. dollar and issuance of fiat currency. It is imperative that Congress follow the Constitution and put an end to this.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
H.R. 899 TO ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Thursday, January 9, 2025
'THE TAKING OF CHRIST' by Michelangelo Merisi da #Caravaggio

'THE TAKING OF CHRIST' 1602 "Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
H.R.25 REPEAL THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX

3 January 2025 H.R. 25 was filed in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 9 initial Cosponsors and referred House Committee on Ways and Means . Folks, it's time, step up to the plate, contact your U.S. Representatives today and urge them to Co-sponsor H.R. 25 FAIRtax FAIRtax
Thursday, December 12, 2024
U.S. Launches Third Proxy War, This Time In Syria
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
H.R. 5349 "CRUCIAL COMMUNISM TEACHING ACT"

U.S. Rep. MarÃa Elvira Salazar The bill ensures that future generations learn about the horrors of Communism and what it brings to its victims: misery, oppression and exile.
The Committee granted, by a recorded vote of 9-2, a rule providing for consideration of H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act,
Monday, November 25, 2024
CODE PINK: CALL OFF WORLD WAR III
Tell the Biden administration to call off #NATO-backed strikes inside Russia, stop arming #Ukraine and support a ceasefire before a WORLD WAR breaks out between nuclear powers.
We understand the United States and United Kingdom are ready to announce that they will be lifting restrictions on Ukraine's use of NATO weapons, allowing them to be used to strike deep inside Russia, according to the Guardian and Politico. This news follows former State Department official VictoriaNuland’s admission the US torpedoed a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia a month after Russia invaded Ukraine.
We demand the Biden administration reverse course: call off NATO-backed strikes inside Russia, stop arming Ukraine and support a ceasefire before another world war breaks out.
The Guardian reports, “British government sources indicated that a decision had already been made to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow cruise missiles on targets inside Russia.” The missiles will be launched from Ukraine but targeted and guided by NATO technicians. In response, Putin says long-rangearms for Ukraine will mean “NATO countries are at war with Russia.”
We demand the Biden administration pursue a diplomatic resolution to the war in Ukraine, call off NATO-supplied missiles striking inside Russia and avert World War III between nuclear powers.
We want Vice President Kamala Harris to know that we do not support her bellicose pledges to continue the war in Ukraine, nor her warmongering words at the DNC when she promised to ensure America always has the “strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.” The world has suffered enough at the hands of US lies and violence.
In the words of Anatoly Antonov, the Russian Ambassador to the US, Washington "continues to test the limits of our tolerance for hostile steps" and is "paving the way to World War III.”
STOP. Seek a diplomatic resolution now–before it’s too late.
Sincerely,
Saturday, November 9, 2024
OPERATION AJAX - #IRAN
Thursday, November 7, 2024
POST ELECTION TRUTHS
Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)
By John W. Whitehead | Nov 5, 2024
“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.” — Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006)
After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won.
Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the reassurance ritual of voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, when it comes to most of the big issues that keep us in bondage to authoritarian overlords, not much will change.
Despite all of the work that has been done to persuade us to buy into the fantasy that things will change if we just elect the “right” political savior, the day after a new president is sworn in, it will be business as usual for the unelected bureaucracy that actually runs the government.
War will continue. Drone killings will continue. Surveillance will continue. Censorship of anyone who criticizes the government will continue. The government’s efforts to label dissidents as extremists and terrorists will continue. Police shootings will continue. SWAT team raids will continue. Highway robbery meted out by government officials will continue. Corrupt government will continue. Profit-driven prisons will continue. And the militarization of the police will continue.
These problems have persisted — and in many cases flourished — under both Republican and Democratic administrations in recent years.
The outcome of this year’s election changes none of that.
Indeed, take a look at the programs and policies that will not be affected by the 2024 presidential election, and you’ll get a clearer sense of the government’s priorities, which have little to do with representing the taxpayers and everything to do with amassing money, power and control.
The undermining of the Constitution will continue unabated. America’s so-called war on terror, which it has relentlessly pursued since 9/11, has chipped away at our freedoms, unraveled our Constitution and transformed our nation into a battlefield, thanks in large part to such subversive legislation as the USA Patriot Act and National Defense Authorization Act. These laws — which completely circumvent the rule of law and the constitutional rights of American citizens, re-orienting our legal landscape in such a way as to ensure that martial law, rather than the rule of law, our U.S. Constitution, becomes the map by which we navigate life in the United States — will continue to be enforced.
The government’s war on the American people will continue unabated. “We the people” are no longer shielded by the rule of law. While the First Amendment — which gives us a voice — is being muzzled, the Fourth Amendment — which protects us from being bullied, badgered, beaten, broken and spied on by government agents — is being disemboweled. Consequently, you no longer have to be poor, black or guilty to be treated like a criminal in America. All that is required is that you belong to the suspect class — that is, the citizenry — of the American police state. As a de facto member of this so-called criminal class, every U.S. citizen is now guilty until proven innocent. The oppression and injustice — be it in the form of shootings, surveillance, fines, asset forfeiture, prison terms, roadside searches, and so on — will come to all of us eventually unless we do something to stop it now.
The shadow government — a.k.a. the Deep State, a.k.a. the police state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state complex — will continue unabated. The corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials will continue to call the shots in Washington DC, no matter who sits in the White House or controls Congress. By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
The government’s manipulation of national crises in order to expand its powers will continue unabated. “We the people” have been subjected to an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny and power grabs in the so-called name of national security. Whatever the so-called threat to the nation, the government has a tendency to capitalize on the nation’s heightened emotions, confusion and fear as a means of extending the reach of the police state. Indeed, the government’s answer to every problem continues to be more government — at taxpayer expense — and less individual liberty.
Endless wars that enrich the military industrial complex will continue unabated. America’s expanding military empire is bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $93 million an hour (that adds up to $920 billion annually). Incredibly, although the U.S. constitutes only 5% of the world’s population, America boasts almost 40% of the world’s total military expenditure, spending more on the military than the next 9 biggest spending nations combined.
Government corruption will continue unabated. The government is not our friend. Nor does it work for “we the people.” Americans instinctively understand this. When asked to name the greatest problem facing the nation, Americans of all political stripes ranked the government as the number one concern. In fact, almost three-quarters of Americans surveyed believe the government is corrupt. Our so-called government representatives do not actually represent us, the citizenry. We are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests whose main interest is in perpetuating power and control.
Government tyranny under the reign of an Imperial President will continue unabated. The Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers. In recent years, however, American presidents have anointed themselves with the power to wage war, unilaterally kill Americans, torture prisoners, strip citizens of their rights, arrest and detain citizens indefinitely, carry out warrantless spying on Americans, and erect their own secretive, shadow government. The powers amassed by each past president and inherited by each successive president — powers which add up to a toolbox of terror for an imperial ruler — empower whoever occupies the Oval Office to act as a dictator, above the law and beyond any real accountability.
The grim reality we must come to terms with is the fact that the U.S. government has become a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, this state of affairs has become the status quo, no matter which party is in power.
Source: https://tinyurl.com/3x6bs93n
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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