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You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring
By:
Nick Barnett
When people talk about the "war machine," I sometimes wonder if they know exactly what it is. Many would say that the war machine is simply the United States' military and its far reaching tentacles that are the result of America's foreign policy... but it goes much deeper than that. You can't feed such a beast unless you have a herd of cows to slaughter. The fractional reserve banking system that is prevalent across the planet allows for governments to leverage minimal "money" to wage war and grow their police state on the back of the military industrial complex. Uncle Sam is basically the Federal Reserve, which is a banking cartel set up nearly 100 years ago. As many have said before, "The Federal Reserve is not federal and they have no reserves." While it isn't quite clear if they have any reserves or not, they are certainly able to create money by "printing" whatever they need to prop up the failing Keynesian system that has been shaping the West for decades. It was recently revealed that the Federal Reserve is the number one holder of American debt with nearly 7 trillion dollars in US bonds and other debt instruments. Where has this money gone? Some of it went to social engineering within the United States, but this debt certainly helped support the billions upon billions of Federal Reserve Notes spent on invading Iraq and enforcing social and economic engineering upon sovereign lands.
Many activists feel that an audit of the Federal Reserve would reveal to the public the amount of deception and propaganda that has been rammed down their throats through giant media conglomerates... ultimately ending the fed. Auditing the federal reserve with the intentions of exposing the lies is a noble way of spreading the word about fractional reserve banking, and it has had success over the last few years. More people are talking about the Federal Reserve now than ever before... and many of them actually understand how it works.
Activism supporting an audit of the Federal Reserve is commendable, but it is time to take a different approach. We do not need to wait for Washington DC to say it's ok to be free; we were born free, and it's about time to start acting that way. Movements to ignore the fed are springing up across the country with hot spots in Arizona, Texas and New Hampshire. What are you waiting for? Whenever you use US currency in a transaction, you are indirectly supporting the war machine made possible by the Federal Reserve. While it is not currently practical to expect all transactions to be made in sound money, such as silver, it is time to move as many of your transactions into such medium as possible. A major hurdle that has been in place for bartering and trading with silver has been calculating current value of the metal you hold in your hand. Silver is still tied to a market, so conversion to Federal Reserve Notes is all too easy, but not ideal. It is easy to hold an ounce of silver in your hand and equate that to being whatever the current spot price of silver is, and I don't expect that this will change in the immediate future... but it will change. The FRN will continue to lose value as inflation makes your paycheck worth less and less money each month. As more people begin to ignore the fed, a grassroots agorist option is presented. Ignore the fed. Stop the war machine. Trade in silver. In the meantime, we have developed a silver calculator that runs on the Android operating system. It is a great tool to have in your arsenal, and is still being improved with new features. Right now, the silver calculator (for more information, please see www.whatisthiscoinworth.info) is able to convert the spot price of silver into many denominations. It will tell you what a 90% silver quarter is "worth" and you can tally up a total for a transaction. As silver begins pull away from the dollar, market solutions will arise, and technology such as smartphone apps will be there to help. These changes are coming, I hope you are ready. The bad guys have a lot invested in keeping things the way they are. The status quo will not go without kicking and screaming, but the human yearning for freedom cannot be stopped. As The Flaming Lips once said, "You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring." Spring is here.
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