How to sum up how bad the Federal Reserve is in less than 10 mins?

[Reason]

I have less than 10 mins to present any video or combination of videos to a large class of college age students on the federal reserve.

Personally, (like many on these boards) I have spent large amounts of time reading and watching detailed documentaries and articles discussing this but I need something for less than 10 mins that would do a good job of spurring the students to go home and start some further investigation.

Suggestions?

[Mosheh Thezion]

ok.. here ya go..

the Federal reserve act of 1913, is bad in itself, but.. not so bad, if we are using real money.

but.. the thing is, in 1933, the Federal government, which is not the same as the Federal reserve, gave the Federal reserve its balls, by declaring a state of emergency...

it was called the new deal of 1933...

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States.


now.. the Federal reserve is a private corporation, which is owned by world wide investors, those nasty international bankers everyone talks about..

and as of 1933... they became the sole providers of money in our nation... which.. was debt currency... not real money.

it then... with the unlimited war powers of the now un-constitutional federal government, was able to force everyone into paying taxes, to pay the debt of this new debt currency..

which... can never be paid off... and as such, makes all of us tax payers, debter slaves.

debter slavery is simple... a person is enslaved via a contract agreement, to work to pay off a debt.. and must work so many years to do so... he is free to move around, and may have many civil liberties... but he is not free.. no..
he must go to work, regularly.. to pay off the debt.

n the case of our nation and people, the debt... is for life.. and can never be paid off...

we must all work... all our lives to pay the investors of the Federal reserve, via the IRS... so that they can forever profit from our labors...

debt salvery is alive and well.

and we... are all screwed.

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for some more details.. i give you..

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The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303


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Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’

Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be "money" in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or "currency." Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not "money." A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not "money?’ The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money, -gold and silver coin.

It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any "money." Most Americans have not been paid any "money" for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are "bankrupt," along with the rest of the country?

Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.

Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) - a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

There is a fundamental difference between "paying" and "discharging" a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of "good & valuable consideration." Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.

Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.

The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a "Canon Law Trust" as their model, adding stock and naming it a "Joint Stock Trust." The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal "person" to duplicate a "Joint Stock Trust" in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]

The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.

Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.

Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913)

"Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.

In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.

This has been going on for over eighty years without the "informed knowledge" of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.

Why don’t more people own their properties outright?

Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?

We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.

America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country."



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Image: United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
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[Anti Federalist]

I have less than 10 mins to present any video or combination of videos to a large class of college age students on the federal reserve.

Personally, (like many on these boards) I have spent large amounts of time reading and watching detailed documentaries and articles discussing this but I need something for less than 10 mins that would do a good job of spurring the students to go home and start some further investigation.

Suggestions?

I can do it in less than 30 seconds.

The FED was created, supposedly, to stop the fluctuations in the business cycle and to stabilize the currency.

Less than 20 years after the FED's creation the country entered the worst economic downturn ever, and it dragged the rest of the world with it, only ending after a war that killed millions of people.

A dollar today has, in real purchasing power, a value of 2 cents compared to a dollar of 1913.

Fed Reserve and central banking = FAIL

[Reason]

/bump for some compelling short videos!

[Andrew-Austin]

Summarize the Austrian theory of the boom/bust cycle for starters. All the info you need to do this is on mises.org, articles and books. If you know how to torrent search, you can find some books on the Fed and great depression via torrent.

[fr33domfightr]

Ten minutes is too short a time to explain this properly. Try to get more time.

I would start by mentioning the several lines about money in the U.S. Constitution. And clearly, without ambiguity, explain that the paper bills in their pocket (IS NOT REAL MONEY)!!! Show them the words, "Federal Reserve Note."

If you can compile a series of videos that would be OK. Include G. Edward Griffin and Ron Paul.

It just hit me!! This is too important an opportunity to let slip by.

You should come up with a full length DVD that you can hand out to every student in class, so they could watch it at home. Create it from the best videos you can find online. Also hand out to each student a list of important videos for them to watch on this topic.

With these things, I have no doubt, you will get some of them to understand what's going on.


FF