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      <title>More on Ben and the Fed</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/5832-more-on-ben-and-the-fed</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;You gotta just love Bernanke. I know a lot of people don't like Ben but I do. He's more honest and upfront about the absurdity of what the Federal Reserve is doing than any of his predecessors. Laugh if you want, but when he says the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression and talks about dropping money out of a helicopter, he's not joking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a previous post I gave an explanation of how fractional reserve banking operates. And if you think that was the devil's spawn Ben is talking about doing away with that reserve. See the link below:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;http://mikepiro.com/blog/ben-bernanke-planning-to-do-away-with-fractional-reserve-banking-trillions-will-become-quadrillions/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was also some questionability about how the media here in the US may be under more restriction about what they report here than, say in Canada or elsewhere. Below is a link that actually is on the topic of how the Rothschilds control the gold market. Not a big surprise there if you know they own more than 50% of the wealth in the world and control all of the central banks but this also talks about how they have controlling interest in the Associated Press which is where all the national newpapers get their news:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoWFhfoAvkmc&amp;amp;h=12212b52c6b3bfe2d3d6fad504f92743"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFhfoAvk&lt;/span&gt;mc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Banking! &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Apologies to the New Comers &amp; Old Friends</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/5603-apologies-to-the-new-comers-old-friends</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi All, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I haven't been on in a while. I've been very busy working on my own marketing ie, websites and doing a lot of learning about creative financing (both mine and the Fed's lol!) which is very important in today's market. I do want to apologize for not answering e-mails and to those who sent colleague requests some time ago to which I have just responded. I use to get e-mail notifications from here but I haven't in sometime up until today when I got a colleague request. I logged on to see numerous colleague requests and messages. I wanted you to know I was not ignoring you and anytime I can be of help, let me know. I will make it a habit to check back in once a week in the future. I hope everyone is doing well. And to the new colleagues, I would like to say, Welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karen &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>How the Federal Reserve Works</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/4191-how-the-federal-reserve-works</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I thought in light of my evil portrayal of the Fed and its creators in my last blog that&amp;nbsp;it might be interesting to look at how they have managed to royally screw us as well as how we could fix this mess if we had someone in office with enough sense to do it&amp;nbsp;rather than&amp;nbsp;giving the Fed more control. So for those who have been too afraid to actually open your eyes to look at what those criminals are doing with the money, the Fed operates on a system referred to as frational reserve banking. This essentially means that banks only need to hold about 10% of the money they loan out. For example, the Fed buys US Bonds and pays the seller with electronic credits. These credits aren't based on anything. The Fed just creates them. The banks then use those credits to loan out up to 10 times that amount. What's worse, since the government has unconstitutionally given control of our currency to a private bank, when the government issues money borrowed from the Fed, they are charged interest on money that the Fed created. That interest, not including principle,&amp;nbsp;is paid with our personal income tax dollars. But each time the government borrows money from the Fed, the interest to pay the loan is never made at the time the loan is made because the new loan is used to pay the interest of the previous loan. This cycle continues indefinitely, creating an even larger national debt and the nation is forever in debt to the Fed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More enlightening stuff about the Federal Reserve can be found here: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Secrets_of_the_Federal_Reserve/secrets_of_the_federal_reserve_TC.htm"&gt;http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Secrets_of_the_Federal_Reserve/secrets_of_the_federal_reserve_TC.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ran across a video the other day that offers a solution for paying off the national debt and abolishing the Fed. I thought it was so spectacular in its simplicity that I wanted to share it with as many people as I could to show that it is possible to correct this situation. The process he describes in this video operates on the same principle as a company who issues its stock and then buys it back up. Only, of course, with the government, we're talking about bonds, rather than stock. The video is here:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNumEm2NzQA"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNumEm2NzQA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>So What Really is Happening to Our Economy?</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/3891-so-what-really-is-happening-to-our-economy-</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I know a lot of my colleagues here have very similar political views that I have and some of us even met and became colleagues because of my rants on the political forum. You may have noticed I've stopped posting on here. There are several reasons. One is that the one's who see what's happening don't need to be told and the one's who are defending or ignoring it are a hopeless case. I've gone back to forums and blogs where people listen and ask questions, want to learn as well as teach me things I don't know, rather than act like a belligerent ass that attacks anything that goes against their beliefs. At this point, I'd like to add, though I've proclaimed not to believe in religion, I do believe in God and I do believe Christ is our Savior. And I suppose if I was an atheist and believed the rest of my eternity would be spent covered in dirt being decomposed by maggots I would not see anything positive and would feel the necessity to try to tear down anything good and righteous as well. Though this may seem irrelevant to the title of this blog, it does tie into it if you bear with&amp;nbsp; me. The second reason is I don't believe in censorship and I've noticed the last couple of posts I made were completely deleted. Nothing deragatory only facts. The last where I was asked how my investing style had changed because of the economy in which I replied that I had sold off everything and now only worked short term transactions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the above statement is because what is happening to our country and&amp;nbsp;our economy is no accident. Some of you, I'm sure, already know this. Just like most of you know the Federal Reserve is who is running this country. The Federal Reserve is also not part of our govenment in the manner that you might expect but rather they choose the candidates that we are allowed to elect. Which essentially means that we don't really have a vote. This is one of the reasons I have said time and time again there is no difference between a Democrat and Republican. In the end, they are all controlled by the Fed, ie. the Rothschilds. I heard one other person on here go on a rant about the Federal Reserve and that they were the one's controlling the entire system. Being on a public forum I didn't wish to go into the details of how the Rothschilds control our media, the world banks, the UN and how the party system, the anti-defamation league and the NAACP were all established by them to divide and conquer our country. How every war since the 1800s were instigated and funded by them and how their goal is to establish one world government, ie. the New World Order. Or how they manufactured communism, which isn't even a real ideaology, by the way, to destroy Christanity. Why would they want to destroy Christanity? Because they were persecuted, tortured and murdered by Roman Catholics. You can read an entire history of all the Rothschilds have done to gain contol of our society, how they manufactured the WWI, WWII, the Vietnam and Korean Wars as well as how they have set the stage for WWIII, here: &lt;a href="http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Part_1.htm"&gt;http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Part_1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should you prefer a condensed version, there's a YouTube Video with&amp;nbsp;a brief overview here: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eofFBiupYwo"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eofFBiupYwo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kennedy was the last President we had that tried to get us out from under the Federal Reserve. He knew the truth and implored our help. How quickly we forget. You can listen to his speech here: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FbIFlRqXA"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FbIFlRqXA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And if you have any doubts about the intentions of the NWO, they've written it for you in stone&amp;nbsp;and you can see it here: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncfrQgyk9k"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncfrQgyk9k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>What Does Politics Have to do with Real Estate?</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/2492-what-does-politics-have-to-do-with-real-estate-</link>
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      <description>People's lives are so busy today that they often don't take the time to consider the impact that decisions made by politicians have on their future and their children's future. Some say they're not interested in politics and others may simply feel that all that is happening within the political arena doesn't concern them&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and is best left to the politicians. Our government is continuously introducing bills and passing laws that affect each and every one of us, if not directly, at least indirectly. Real estate and transactions involving it are one realm in which government regulation significantly affects us all.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The cost of home ownership is influenced substantially by regulatory agencies. Ordinances and&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;laws passed determine the cost of insurance, taxes, repairs, etc. Interest rates set by the federal reserve may determine mortgage payments.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well I don't own a home, I rent you say. But do you think you're landlord will accept paying more property taxes or insurance without passing at least a portion onto you in higher rent? And what about all of the businesses you make purchases from? They either own or rent the property that houses that business. The cost is reflected in the price you pay for goods and services.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;If you're an investor, you're not only subject to all of the above but may be affected by a multitude of laws and regulations concerning auctions, brokering and even mortgages depending upon the type of business you operate. For example, if Senate Bill HR 1728 passes,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;not only will the investor's creative financing options be diminished but it also legislates how and when a property owner may sell their own property. Regardless of whether you feel the direct impact of government regulation on current issues or not, at some point, they will extend into some area that breeches your right control your life or property. How long before you will take a stand?&lt;/p&gt;  </description>
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      <title>My Name Ain't Trump</title>
      <link>http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/364/blog_posts/1775-my-name-ain-t-trump</link>
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      <description>I&amp;rsquo;m new to this game of buying and selling&lt;br /&gt;But fast large sums of cash just puts me in heaven&lt;br /&gt;Being a newbie I just ain&amp;rsquo;t got no clout&lt;br /&gt;So now I&amp;rsquo;m learning what it&amp;rsquo;s all about&lt;br /&gt;My name ain&amp;rsquo;t Trump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m looking at houses in Tierre Verde&lt;br /&gt;Spied just the garage for my little Birdie&lt;br /&gt;I pull in the drive and the neighbor comes over&lt;br /&gt;And chases me away with his big dog Rover&lt;br /&gt;My name ain&amp;rsquo;t Trump&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Country club dining just sets the right mood&lt;br /&gt;Clients respond better after good food&lt;br /&gt;After dinner, desert and imported wine&lt;br /&gt;The waiter proclaims, &amp;ldquo;Miss your card&amp;rsquo;s been declined&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;My name ain&amp;rsquo;t Trump&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearwater Beach I fancy a lot&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful hotel I happen to spot&lt;br /&gt;I call up my lender, my stomach in knots&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;You&amp;rsquo;re over extended, now you want what?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;My name ain&amp;rsquo;t Trump</description>
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