Who’s the Boss?

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The current American election campaign will determine who’ll sit in the White House in Washington DC for the next four years. However, whoever’s elected, they’ll run the White House, but they’ll definitely not rule the country. A number of recently-released reports highlighted long-suspected, but not confirmed, old truths. Who leaked them to the media, no one knows. However, the first-ever official audit of the US Federal Reserve System (which functions as a central bank in the USA) singled out the fact that the Fed allocated incredibly huge amounts of money for American businesses during and after the 2008 crisis.

According to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), “Wall Street made the largest coup in world history at the expense of American taxpayers. An independent audit conducted at my request revealed that the Federal Reserve earmarked a startling 16 trillion USD (498 trillion Roubles. 12.35 trillion Euros. 10 trillion UK Pounds) at zero interest for major financial institutions, large corporations, and wealthy individuals without the approval of Congress and president, as required by law”. If it weren’t for Senator Sanders’ credibility, and the fact that it came from data in an independent audit, this information could easily pass for a tall tale designed to create a sensation. However, Washington officials and the Fed’s leadership made no rebuttals concerning the reports; the American news media, usually so thirsty for sensation, have kept a stony silence on this as well. This shows all concerned who’re the bosses of the so-called “free” American media. After all, silence is consent.

However, it’s a mistake to think that the Federal Reserve, which performs central bank functions in the USA and has the right to print dollars, is subject to the government. The US Federal Reserve is a privately-run corporation, which assumed central bank functions in 1913 because of collusion between top politicians and bankers. Even though the Constitution doesn’t mention it, it’s been virtually uncontrollable; it’s practically independent from the government and President, the Federal Reserve has steered American economic policy since 1913. There can be no doubt as to whose interests the US Federal Reserve is trying to protect. A recent audit revealed that the recipients of the billions issued by the Fed since 2008 include Wall Street’s principal banks, including such “poor” institutions as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch.

At present, these banks are injecting huge funds into the election campaign of billionaire Mitt Romney, who declared Russia “Enemy Number One” and promised generous funding for military programmes. The Democratic candidate’s campaign isn’t experiencing any shortages of funds either. According to reports, the current election campaign is costing Obama about one billion dollars (31.1 billion Roubles. 775 million Euros. 625 million UK Pounds). Of course, these billions for the election race aren’t coming out of the blue. Regardless of who wins the election, the winner may think that they’re master in the White House, but they’ll be sadly mistaken.

9 October 2012

Valentin Zorin

Voice of Russia World Service

http://rus.ruvr.ru/2012_10_09/Kto-hozjain/

A Multimedia Presentation. VOR Presents… Occupy Wall Street!

Here are the REAL Patriots… they’re fighting Corporate Greed just as they fought the Fascists. Hmm… the Fascists believed in a Corporate State… so, does Wall Street and the Tea Party. They fought for the New Deal… that made America GREAT. DO you want the greedy legacy of Slobbering Ronnie or do you the fairness of FDR’s New Deal? Do think well before answering…

BMD

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Let the great values and aspirations of labour, justice, equality, brotherhood, and truth, things that are bedrock to the timeless Christian faith and the communist ideal alike, triumph in our lives.

Gennady Zyuganov

Head of the Communist faction in the RF Gosduma

Chairman of the KPRF Central Committee

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An economic system built only on the striving for profit, on indifference to the fate of people, on disregard for moral norms, is deprived of stability, and it can collapse at any moment, burying the fate of people under its rubble.

His Holiness Kirill Gundyaev

Patriarch of Moscow and all the Russias

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The NYPD arrested more than 700 people for blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge during a protest against “financial terrorism in the USA”. In the protestors’ opinion, influential US financial institutions brought on the current American economic crisis. Previously, reports said that police arrested abut 400 people.

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According to available information, the police started to arrest people after the protesters began to block traffic on the bridge on the Manhattan side.

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Demonstrators blocking traffic in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.

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Earlier, protesters established a tent camp in the Financial District, which has been in existence for about two weeks. “Occupy Wall Street” activists are dissatisfied with the growing social inequality in society and with the high unemployment rate.

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The NYPD brought those arrested to court, where they were charged, and the judge released most of them on their own recognisance. The police used three buses to shuttle all of their detainees.

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In addition, a demonstration occurred in Boston, in front of the offices of Bank of America; police arrested 24 of the protestors. According to organisers, around 3,000 people took part in the event. The above image is from New York, the demonstrators are marching to NYPD Headquarters.

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2 October 2011

Voice of Russia World Service

http://rus.ruvr.ru/photoalbum/58045059/index.html

Editor’s Note:

Let’s keep this simple. Profits have rebounded. Corporations are making more money. Employment is DOWN. Real wages and benefits are DOWN. The Republican Party screams that it’s going to destroy the social safety net for the benefit of the Five Percenters (the most prosperous Americans). Profits are UP and wages are DOWN. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT PICTURE?

Trust me… this is MILD. People are frustrated… people are angry… people see the self-satisfied affluent effluent and it disgusts them. We don’t want McJobs so that deceitful and dishonest vipers like Dropout Scott Walker, Paul Ryan, Rush Limbaugh, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann can live high off the hog in McMansions (there IS a “class war”… and THEY started it). Here’s the most noisome part of it all… the Religious Right drools a slack-jawed grin of approval at all this, and says that it’s all “God’s Plan” (I kid you not… I wish that I were). I can see why people choose unbelief. If that’s what comes parading forth as “Christianity”, God Himself wouldn’t blame someone for concluding that religion’s a racket dreamt up by the rapacious to fleece the credulous.

It’s time to end the wars. It’s time to stop the shredding of the social safety net. It’s time to institute “wealth taxes”, just as they have in the EU (trust me… the rich won’t be in the poorhouse). It’s time to end the Reaganite voodoo “Trickle Upon” economics. There were PLENTY of affluent people in 1980… there’ll be plenty of affluent people after we do away with “deregulation”. Don’t cry for them… after all, they don’t give a shit for YOU… look at what they’re doing now. Why, the “before” Scrooge would consider them greedy and grasping… and that’s no lie. It’s time to vote next year… don’t forget… YOU CAN DO IT. Ye cannot serve both God and Mammon… indeed. Do remember WHO said that…

People… or… the Almighty Dollar… THAT’S your choice.

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Special note to Russian Orthodox people… His Holiness supports the aims of the Occupy Wall Street activists… just as he supports the end of the Cuban blockade, Palestinian statehood, generous state aid to families, universal-access single-payer healthcare, an end to American aggression around the world, and a fairer economic system. Paffhausen, Potapov, Jillions, Lyonyo, Dreher, Whiteford, and Mattingly (and the OCA fanatics and konvertsy in general) all support the swinish Wall Street thugocracy, and they link arms with the Religious Right, in defiance of our REAL leaders.

You can stand up with His Holiness and raise up the banner for his Pro-Life Pro-People Pro-Fairness Agenda… or, you can cosy up to Paffhausen et al and collaborate with the Wall Street Big Bucks Screw the People Agenda. You can’t have both… choose well.

BMD