IMF as the Global Federal Reserve: G20's Agenda Behind the Agenda

[FrankRep]

A main component of the G20 Summit in Toronto was the continuing push to promote the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the new Financial Stability Board (FSB)as the global regulators and the global Federal Reserve in the new economic order. by William F. Jasper

IMF as the Global Federal Reserve: G20's Agenda Behind the Agenda


William F. Jasper | The New American
Wednesday, 30 June 2010


The recently concluded economic summit (June 26-27) of leaders of the G8 and G20 nations in Toronto was, according to most media coverage, an untidy row among those calling for continued government "stimulus" (Team Obama) and the rest of the major economies (led by Germany, the U.K., and China) calling for fiscal restraint and serious cuts in deficit spending. However, the much-ballyhooed disagreements over fiscal policy obscured the much more important result of the Toronto summit: the ongoing G8/G20 push to transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System, with financial regulatory powers to create money "out of thin air," as the Fed does, without having to request replenishments from IMF member nations.

In their "Declaration" issued at the conference conclusion, the G20 summiteers proclaimed their commitment to cut government deficits in half by 2013 and stabilize or reduce the ratio of public debt to gross national product by 2016. The document is larded with statements that have little meaning, such as: "Monetary policy will continue to be appropriate to achieve price stability and thereby contribute to the recovery." Of course, "appropriate" monetary policy is a matter of great dispute — among economists, legislators, and policy makers.

In recognition of the lack of unanimity among the G20 members, the Declaration notes that "these measures will need to be implemented at the national level and will need to be tailored to individual country circumstances." Except for countries of the European Union, that is, which have already given up their economic sovereignty. For EU countries the "consultative mutual assessment" process will be conducted at the "European level."

Stimulus or Austerity

The struggle in Toronto was between camps that economist Peter Schiff playfully dubbed the "Stimulators" and the "Austereians." Mr. Schiff, the president of Euro Pacific Capital, has famously called the market's major moves and repeatedly exposed the fallacies underlying the monetary and fiscal policies that brought on current economic crisis. (See "Peter Schiff Was (and Is) Correct on Economy" and "The Best Introduction to Economics in Print.")

Schiff, who recently qualified for the August 10 Connecticut Republican Senate primary, wrote on June 29 regarding the Stimulators and the Austereians:

Both warn that a worldwide depression will ensue if governments now make the wrong choices: the Stimulators say the danger lies in spending too little and the Austereians from spending too much. Each side also has their own economic champion: the Stimulators follow the banner of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, while the Austereians are forming up behind the recently reformed former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.​

Fellow free-market economist Bill Bonner of The Daily Reckoning makes a similar analysis on the Christian Science Monitor blog referring to the Toronto fiscal spat as a showdown "between the people without a hope and the people without a clue."

Of course, many of the folks now running as "Austereians" — Greenspan most especially — are far, far from being believable in their new role as fiscal conservatives. Greenspan, it should be remembered, bears large responsibility for the Fed policies that created our financial debacle. He continually dissembled and deceived in testimony before Congress concerning actions and policies that were affecting the economic lifeblood of the entire planet — and then later gloated over getting away with his "Greenspeak" deception, proudly referring to his criminal conduct as "purposeful obfuscation" and "destructive syntax." (See "Taking Delight in Deception.")

The fact that so many brilliant (or supposedly brilliant) economists routinely come to so many contradictory (and oftentimes completely opposite) conclusions about the proper fiscal and monetary solutions to any given situation should provide strong support for the free-market position that central banks and central governments should have less, not more, power over our money, our economic activity, and our financial institutions. Even if one assumes the best of intentions (a dangerous assumption) on the part of the "brilliant" ones entrusted with near life-and-death power over our economy, it is obvious that mistaken policies can have enormous, catastrophic consequences — as the unfolding events of the past couple years have amply demonstrated.

The "systemic risk" that is now invoked as an argument for still more government intervention in and management of the economy is itself the product of past government mal-intervention in affairs that should have been left to the market place. No individual, nor any group of individuals, can be so wise and omniscient as to foresee, comprehend, and manage the innumerable transactions, conditions, situations and imponderables that must take place in the complex operations of even a small community, let alone those of a major national economy.

However, man's mental incapacity for so enormous a task is as nothing compared to his moral incapacity to handle the deity-like powers conferred on the Fed to "manage" the economy. Lord Acton's famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was a made-to-order description of the process that has brought about the absolute corruption of our financial system.

The solution, now, say those who have brought us to our current desolation, is to concentrate the power even further and to amplify the systemic risk by granting untold new authority to unaccountable global "experts" at the IMF.

"Supersizing" the IMF, Destroying the Dollar

As we have been warning in The New American for the past couple of years, the global elites driving the G8/G20 agenda have been aiming at creation of a "new economic order," and transforming the IMF into a global equivalent of the Federal Reserve as a central component of that new order. Supplanting and replacing the dollar with an interim "basket" of currencies and, ultimately, a global currency, is another component. (See Global Fusion: The G20, IMF, and World Government, "Supersizing" the IMF, and G-20 Advances New World Order, Media Admit.)

As we noted here leading up to the April 2009 G20 summit in London, the one-world "global governance" choir members "are all pushing the same ideas, to wit:

1) The IMF should be given huge new infusions of capital through member country "subscriptions."
2) The IMF should be encouraged to issue debt bonds to finance global loans.
3) The IMF should be "legitimized" by giving China and other emerging nations weighted votes in IMF policies.
4) The IMF should be given vast new global financial regulatory powers.​

This same agenda continues in the G20's above-mentioned Declaration, notwithstanding its (temporary) curtsey to national interests. The document states that "our reform agenda rests on four pillars." "The first pillar," it notes, "is a strong regulatory framework."

Foremost of the new institutions created to carry out this alleged "reform," the Declaration tells us, is the Financial Stability Board (FSB), an institution probably not even 1 in 10,000 Americans has ever heard of before now. (You might ask your Congressman if he has heard of this new global regulatory body). Only a matter of months ago this facility was known as the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). "Forum," of course, connotes a much less threatening gathering associated with debate and discussion, while "Board" connotes a body empowered to make executive and/or managerial decisions. By what authority was this new institution created and this new global power conferred? Who comprises the membership of this august body, and who regulates these regulators?

The FSB's web site merely informs us: "The FSB is chaired by Mario Draghi, Governor of the Bank of Italy. Its Secretariat is located in Basel, Switzerland, and hosted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)." So our assurance of global financial well-being is safely in the hands of Italy's equivalent of Ben Bernanke and a group of secretive banking gnomes in Basel! That should certainly be comforting, especially since the faceless, unaccountable BIS elite, are most likely the original inspiration for the now common term "bankster."

The unelected, untouchable, unaccountable banking oligarchy of the BIS/FSB and the IMF figure large in the "new economic order." The FSB informs us in its "mandate" that it will "collaborate with the IMF" and "implement international financial standards (including the 12 key International Standards and Codes)." The first four of those twelve global "Codes," created by the IMF, are:

• Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies
• Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency
• Special Data Dissemination Standard
• General Data Dissemination System​

Where is Congress in all of this? Where is there any authority in the U.S. Constitution for Congress or the Executive Branch to empower international bodies to usurp our national and state sovereignty in these matters?

The G20 documents are replete with genuflections to "transparency," as are the conferences, speeches, and documents of the IMF and the Federal Reserve. However, the Federal Reserve has repeatedly refused to divulge information to Congress and the American people concerning where, and to whom, and under what conditions the Fed has dispersed hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts. Likewise, the Fed has appealed and re-appealed court decisions ordering it to turn over bailout documents to a coalition of news groups suing under the Freedom Of Information Act. Can we reasonably expect that international central bankers sitting beyond the subpoena power of our legislators and prosecutors and beyond the jurisdiction of our courts to be even more forthright, open, and solicitous of the public's right to know?

The new G20 Declaration states: "We have strengthened our commitment to the IMF/World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)." It continues:

The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have been a central part of the global response to the financial and economic crisis, mobilizing critical financing, including $750 billion by the IMF and $235 billion by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This has underscored the value of these institutions as platforms for our global cooperation....

We commit to strengthening the legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness of the IFIs to make them even stronger partners for us in the future.​

That's nearly a trillion dollars. Granted, over the past 24 months that once awesome trillion sum has lost a bit of its shock and awe, but that's still not a pittance to be sneezed at. Naturally there is no cause to question the methods, motives, and objectives by which and for which these vast sums were "mobilized" by the all-wise, pure, and selfless international servants of the highly "valued" IFIs and MDBs. Right?

The Declaration further states: "We commit to strengthening the legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness of the IFIs to make them even stronger partners for us in the future."

But that's not all; the G20 is just getting started. Despite all its talk about national fiscal restraint, the G20 plan is very expansive regarding global spending/lending through the IFIs/MDBs. In a self-congratulatory back-pat, the Declaration boasts that "we have fulfilled our Pittsburgh Summit commitment on the MDBs. This includes $350 billion in capital increases for the MDBs, allowing them to nearly double their lending."

Moreover, it says: "We will fulfill our commitment to ensure an ambitious replenishment for the concessional lending facilities of the MDBs, especially the International Development Association and the African Development Fund."

November Summit in Seoul

The G20 Declaration calls for "an acceleration of the substantial work still needed for the IMF to complete the quota reform by the Seoul Summit and in parallel deliver on other governance reforms," which in globalist parlance means packing in a whole lot more power and money transfer capabilities by the time the G20 gathers again in November in Seoul, South Korea.


The following articles provide some of The New American's extensive coverage of the G20/IMF agenda that can be accessed online:

Global Fusion: The G20, IMF, and World Government

"Conspiracy Theorists" Not So Crazy After All

Globalization Driven by New, Apocalyptic Horsemen

Globalization Talk at Davos

The G20 Push to "Supersize" the IMF

World Economic Forum Pushes Global Controls

Agenda Behind Brown's "Global New Deal"

Is Obama's Bank Tax a Prelude to a Global Tax?

IMF Seeks New Mandate, Global Currency

Obama's IMF Sneak Attack

Time to Audit the Fed

World Leaders Attack U.S. Dollar

UN Attacks Capitalism, Dollar



SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...f-as-global-fed-g20s-agenda-behind-the-agenda

 

[FrankRep]

Will The USD Be Replaced By The SDR Or The CNY As The Next Reserve Currency?

Zero Hedge | May 27, 2010

SOURCE:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/will-usd-be-replaced-sdr-or-cny-next-reserve-currency
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Flashback:

Confirmed: International Monetary Fund (IMF) set to be the World's Federal Reserve!
The G20 Push to "Supersize" the IMF

William F. Jasper | The New American
06 March 2009


SOURCE:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=182725



Flashback 2:

UN: International Monetary Fund presses for authority to become the Federal Reserve of the world. The plan is to tie all the world's fiat currencies together so that, when one country gets deeper in debt than the others, the IMF can rush money from frugal countries to the reckless ones. Yes, that will do it! Yahoo News 2010 Feb 26 (Cached)​

- G. Edward Griffin


IMF wants new power to supervise global financial system

AFP / Yahoo News
Feb 26, 2010


SOURCE:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100226/bs_afp/financeeconomyimfsupervise

 

[FrankRep]

No one has any comments?

 

[Travlyr]

IMF as the Global Federal Reserve: G20's Agenda Behind the Agenda
William F. Jasper | The New American
Wednesday, 30 June 2010

The currency savior is here.

I found this article to be almost main stream media style... like "The New American" is owned by central bankers pushing their agenda onto the unsuspecting public.

Where is Congress in all of this?

Why are you asking this question? Mr. Jasper, "Where is Congress in all of this?" Are you not allowed to write the truth? Everybody that's anybody knows that the U.S. Congress is the American government arm of the IMF! The people have been conned, but they are not stupid.

Where is there any authority in the U.S. Constitution for Congress or the Executive Branch to empower international bodies to usurp our national and state sovereignty in these matters?

Yet, another silly question... they have no authority, but that's irrelevant... as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild pointed out nearly 200 years ago...

"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply."

In the face of overwhelming evidence, Mr. Jasper, do you not believe them? They control the money supply and consequently the global empire. They control nearly all the world's governments, educational systems and main stream media!

Can we reasonably expect that international central bankers sitting beyond the subpoena power of our legislators and prosecutors and beyond the jurisdiction of our courts to be even more forthright, open, and solicitous of the public's right to know?

???? Their goal is to destroy national sovereignty. One would think that "The New American" would have the readership to organize a serious challenge to the globalists agenda rather than just pump their mantra at readers.

Is Obama's Bank Tax a Prelude to a Global Tax?

Obama's IMF Sneak Attack

SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index...f-as-global-fed-g20s-agenda-behind-the-agenda

Obama this... Obama that... like his administration is somehow working on a different agenda than what? Bush? It is well known that the left/right paradigm is not valid, yet "The New American" continues to obfuscate the truth. Why?
The NWO agenda... Agenda 21 is not Obama's agenda... it is the globalists agenda! Wilson, Hoover, Roosevelt, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush/Cheney, et. al. worked with the central bankers on it... Obama is working on it. There is nothing new here.

 

[FrankRep]

I found this article to be almost main stream media style... like "The New American" is owned by central bankers pushing their agenda onto the unsuspecting public.

I found your comment idiotic and unfounded. Would you please expand on what the hell you're talking about.

Where is Congress in all of this?

Why are you asking this question? Mr. Jasper, "Where is Congress in all of this?" Are you not allowed to write the truth? Everybody that's anybody knows that the U.S. Congress is the American government arm of the IMF! The people have been conned, but they are not stupid.

It's a rhetorical question obviously. "U.S. Congress is the American government arm of the IMF!" That's statement is mostly false, unless you can prove it otherwise. This article is saying the IMF is being setup to be the Global Federal Reserve, after the US Federal Reserve fails.

I bet most people, even Ron Paul people, don't know the IMF will become the Global Federal Reserve.

Where is there any authority in the U.S. Constitution for Congress or the Executive Branch to empower international bodies to usurp our national and state sovereignty in these matters?

Yet, another silly question... they have no authority, but that's irrelevant... as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild pointed out nearly 200 years ago...

"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply."

In the face of overwhelming evidence, Mr. Jasper, do you not believe them? They control the money supply and consequently the global empire. They control nearly all the world's governments, educational systems and main stream media!

Another rhetorical question for the less informed. Get off your high horse. We know all about the Rothschild family and their role in taking over the British economy and helping to creating the Federal Reserve.

Can we reasonably expect that international central bankers sitting beyond the subpoena power of our legislators and prosecutors and beyond the jurisdiction of our courts to be even more forthright, open, and solicitous of the public's right to know?

???? Their goal is to destroy national sovereignty. One would think that "The New American" would have the readership to organize a serious challenge to the globalists agenda rather than just pump their mantra at readers.

DUDE! Obviously it's to destroy national sovereignty. What's your damage Travlyr?

Obama this... Obama that... like his administration is somehow working on a different agenda than what? Bush? It is well known that the left/right paradigm is not valid, yet "The New American" continues to obfuscate the truth. Why?

The NWO agenda... Agenda 21 is not Obama's agenda... it is the globalists agenda! Wilson, Hoover, Roosevelt, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush/Cheney, et. al. worked with the central bankers on it... Obama is working on it. There is nothing new here.

The New American is NOT pushing the left/right paradigm and we know both parties are controlled by the elites.

Ever read Carroll Quigley's book: "Tragedy and Hope"? The book was written in the 60s and fully explains how both parties are controlled and both shifting to bigger government.

Ever read it? What you're saying is common knowledge to us, the John Birch Society was saying this before you were born.

 

[pmbug]

It's all so depressing. I've been watching this agenda unfold since 2008, but after almost 2 years of calling attention to the issue, I'm just tired.

The New American articles are doing a good job following the issue. I just wish it were accessible to the American Idol demographic and real political pressure could be generated over it. 9 out of 10 who actually read these articles likely just shrug their shoulders. Fooking Americans don't even have the mojo to hold our Fed accountable (R.I.P. Audit the Fed).

Meh. I'm just a bit deflated at the moment (pun half-heartedly intended).

 

[Travlyr]

First off I would like to say that it was not my intention to upset anyone here in this forum. I also do not question the integrity of my fellow freedom lovers, activists and RP forum posters. It's just that things are not always as they seem, and I simply seek the truth of higher understanding through sharing information and learning from others. Perhaps it is inappropriate of me to take this opportunity, but this is important information.

I found this article to be almost main stream media style... like "The New American" is owned by central bankers pushing their agenda onto the unsuspecting public.

I found your comment idiotic and unfounded. Would you please expand on what the hell you're talking about.

Eustace Mullins pointed out that the John Birch Society was originally formed by the power elite. The original purpose, it seems, was to obfuscate the truth to make it difficult to keep our liberties. JBS has had 50+ years to expose and organize the liberty movement to stop the empire building, yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade... perpetual expansion.

http://www.rense.com/general39/EUSTACE.htm

On the John Birch Society...

JBS was setup by Nelson Rockefeller. I knew two people at the original meeting. They needed a right-wing, anti-communist organization. NR decided that Robert Welch was the man to run JBS, so he arranged for the sale of Welch's Candy Co. (where Robert Welch had been working for his brother John) to Nabisco (which was a Rockefeller controlled company) at a highly inflated price and Welch was given an income to run the John Birch Society.

Revilo Oliver was a good friend of mine and he was one of the founders of the JBS. He and I were sitting in his living room once and he told me that he knew Nelson Rockefeller ran the Birch Society because he had a revolving fund at Chase Manhattan Bank, and whenever Welch needed a quarter million dollars to meet the payroll, he'd go to CMB and withdraw the money.

Oliver told you that?

Himself. One of the founders, can't ask for better authority than that.

This divisional technique is not a new trick for the power elite used the exact same strategy to implement the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Eustace Mullins in his book "The Secret of the Federal Reserve" writes:

"To further confuse the American people and blind them to the real purpose of the proposed Federal Reserve Act, the architects of the Aldrich Plan, powerful Nelson Aldrich, although no longer a senator, and Frank Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, set up a hue and cry against the bill. They gave interviews whenever they could find an audience denouncing the proposed Federal Reserve Act as inimical to banking and to good government. The bugaboo of inflation was raised because of the Act’s provisions for printing Federal Reserve notes. The Nation, on October 23, 1913, pointed out, “Mr. Aldrich himself raised a hue and cry over the issue of government “fiat money”, that is, money issued without gold or bullion back of it, although a bill to do precisely that had been passed in 1908 with his own name as author, and he knew besides, that the ‘government’ had nothing to do with it, that the Federal Reserve Board would have full charge of the issuing of such moneys.”

Frank Vanderlip’s claims were so bizarre that Senator Robert L. Owen, chairman of the newly formed Senate Banking and Currency Committee, which had been formed on March 18,1913, accused him of openly carrying on a campaign of misrepresentation about the bill. The interests of the public, so Carter Glass claimed in a speech on September 10, 1913 to Congress, would be protected by an advisory council of bankers. “There can be nothing sinister about its transactions. Meeting with it at least four times a year will be a bankers’ advisory council representing every regional reserve district in the system. How could we have exercised greater caution in safeguarding the public interests?”

Distort, divide and conquer.

Why are you asking this question? Mr. Jasper, "Where is Congress in all of this?" Are you not allowed to write the truth? Everybody that's anybody knows that the U.S. Congress is the American government arm of the IMF! The people have been conned, but they are not stupid.

It's a rhetorical question obviously.

It is a rhetorical question buried in a mass of information while it could have and should have been a statement of how and why Congress is missing in all of this. A call for truth is warranted here. If "The New American" is in fact seeking to help us win our liberties ASAP, then I would expect a strong denouncement of the IMF SDR along with a call to action. He does have the bully pulpit.

"U.S. Congress is the American government arm of the IMF!" That's statement is mostly false, unless you can prove it otherwise.

I base this on the fact that every congressman who voted against the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was ousted from office in 1914. While I have no proof that the IMF controls Congress, congressional votes indicate backing for central banks trumps the rights of the people. And it appears that the Federal Reserve is subordinate to the IMF guiding the U.S. Congressional votes conveniently & exclusive for the globalist agenda.

More from the article:

Where is there any authority in the U.S. Constitution for Congress or the Executive Branch to empower international bodies to usurp our national and state sovereignty in these matters?

Yet, another silly question... they have no authority, but that's irrelevant... as Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild pointed out nearly 200 years ago...
In the face of overwhelming evidence, Mr. Jasper, do you not believe them? They control the money supply and consequently the global empire. They control nearly all the world's governments, educational systems and main stream media!

Another rhetorical question for the less informed. Get off your high horse. We know all about the Rothschild family and their role in taking over the British economy and helping to creating the Federal Reserve.

Right, another rhetorical question, but again why not repetitiously expose the elite for who they are and what they are doing? Dancing around the issues only perpetuates the problems. You and I may know about the Rothschilds, but a lot of people still believe it is a conspiracy theory rather than fact. Tell people the truth. It would do the liberty movement well if major media would continually expose the central bankers for the criminals that they are.

What's your damage Travlyr?

My damage is having lived a lifetime under the control of sinister elite that have deprived me of my liberties, my prosperity and my property while I have been powerless to stop them.

Obama this... Obama that... like his administration is somehow working on a different agenda than what? Bush? It is well known that the left/right paradigm is not valid, yet "The New American" continues to obfuscate the truth. Why?
The NWO agenda... Agenda 21 is not Obama's agenda... it is the globalists agenda! Wilson, Hoover, Roosevelt, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush/Cheney, et. al. worked with the central bankers on it... Obama is working on it. There is nothing new here.

The New American is NOT pushing the left/right paradigm and we know both parties are controlled by the elites.

Blaming Obama is pushing the left/right paradigm. Again, people need repetition to understand truths.

Ever read Carroll Quigley's book: "Tragedy and Hope"? The book was written in the 60s and fully explains how both parties are controlled and both shifting to bigger government.

Ever read it? What you're saying is common knowledge to us, the John Birch Society was saying this before you were born.

Sadly I have not yet read "Tragedy and Hope." So much to read... so little time.

Don't get me wrong. This is not to say that the John Birch Society has not been a strong voice of information for the liberty movement... they have. But their track record of keeping us free or winning our liberties back... is questionable. If anyone can provide some evidence that the John Birch Society has been successful in winning our liberties back or reducing the size of government, or has a current plan to strip power from the oligarchy... please provide that information.

 

[FrankRep]

Eustace Mullins pointed out that the John Birch Society was originally formed by the power elite. The original purpose, it seems, was to obfuscate the truth to make it difficult to keep our liberties. JBS has had 50+ years to expose and organize the liberty movement to stop the empire building, yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade... perpetual expansion.

Eustace Mullins received his information from the Revilo Oliver, a Racist White Nationalist.


Nelson Rockefeller's Nabisco Company bought James O. Welch's Candy Company. James O. Welch is Robert Welch's brother.
The Welch brothers didn't share the same political views.


Saying that Nelson Rockefeller funded or setup the John Birch Society is a complete lie.

Here's the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Welch,_Jr.

Robert Welch decided to manufacture candy as a way to earn a living, describing it as "the one field in which it seemed least impossible to get started without either capital or experience." He founded the Oxford Candy Company in Brooklyn, New York, which was a one-man operation until he hired his brother James to assist him. James Welch left to start his own candy company in 1925.
...

The Oxford Candy Company went out of business during the Great Depression, but his brother's company, the James O. Welch Company, survived, and Robert was hired by his brother. The company began making caramel lollipops, renamed Sugar Daddies, and Welch developed other well known candies such as Sugar Babies, Junior Mints, and Pom Poms. Welch retired a wealthy man in 1956.​

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/01/us/james-o-welch-dies-at-79-founder-of-candy-company.html

In 1963 the National Biscuit Company, now Nabisco Brands Inc., bought Mr. Welch's company. Mr. Welch was a director of Nabisco from 1963 until his retirement in 1978. His son, James O. Welch Jr., of Short Hills, N.J., is president of Nabisco.​

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Do you seriously think Revilo Oliver, a Racist White Nationalist, is credible? The JBS kicked him out for being a racist. Revilo Oliver is a big reason why the JBS got smeared as racist.

Revilo Oliver called the JBS "the Birch hoax" because he thought the JBS was secretly run by Jews. That's why he was attacking the JBS.


Eustace Mullins is openly anti-Jewish and the JBS disowned him because of his views.

In the 1960s, Oliver supposedly broke with conventional American conservatism and, having become convinced that Welch had either cozened him from the start or sold out later, he even severed his connections with what he called "the Birch hoax." He thus came to openly embrace an essentially far-right worldview, and eventually to assist William Luther Pierce in forming the National Alliance, a White Nationalist organization, a significant portion of whose supporters and members would re-form under the name National Vanguard.​

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revilo_P._Oliver

 

[FrankRep]

I would expect a strong denouncement of the IMF SDR along with a call to action. He does have the bully pulpit.

The John Birch Society / The New American is completely anti-Federal Reserve, anti-United Nations, anti-Council on Foreign Relations, and anti-IMF. The John Birch Society has repeatedly denounced all these organizations.

Ron Paul is a big fan of the John Birch Society. That should tell you something!

Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of John Birch Society.

Viddler.com - Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of JBS - Uploaded by jbirch


So is Chuck Baldwin!

Viddler.com - Chuck Baldwin Speech at JBS 50th Anniversary Celebration - Uploaded by jbirch


Also, G. Edward Griffin is a Member of the John Birch Society! The author of the "Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve."

 

[Travlyr]

Great... this is good information...

What is JBS's plan of action to keep us from surrendering to the tyranny of the NWO Agenda 21 and the globalist's SDR's?

 

[FrankRep]

What is JBS's plan of action to keep us from surrendering to the tyranny of the NWO Agenda 21 and the globalist's SDR's?

We're following the lead of Ron Paul and helping to support him.


The big projects we're focused on right now:

1.) 10 Amendment / Nullification Movement to reclaim states rights and Nullify the Healthcare Mandate and promote the Firearms Freedom Act.

2.) Audit and Abolish the Federal Reserve, Restore Real Money

3.) Repeal / Nullify Cap-and-Trade

4.) Get out of the United Nations

5.) Educate the people of the United States about the Constitution and how the Government, including Both Parties, are destroying our Liberties through increased regulations and Big Government.

 

[FrankRep]

JBS has had 50+ years to expose and organize the liberty movement to stop the empire building, yet day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade... perpetual expansion.

In the Mid 1960s, William Buckley Jr and his Republican Neocons Declared War on the John Birch Society and had the JBS successfully kicked out of the Republican Party and out of mainstream politics. The JBS was wrongly labeled as Kooky, Racist, anti-Jewish, Right-wing Extremist, Backward-non Progressive, etc... [ NOTE: The Neocons did the same thing to Ron Paul. Remember? ] Whenever the Media mentioned the John Birch Society, it's usually Negative.

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Despite that, Read this:


The Effectiveness of The John Birch Society


Arthur R. Thompson, JBS CEO | JBS Bulletin
April 2010


After the initial paragraphs that follow, we present a partial listing of campaigns and events that demonstrate the effectiveness of The John Birch Society. Some of these victories resulted from the singular efforts of our organization. Others were achieved in cooperation with friendly groups and associations. In a few of these cases, the JBS started the campaigns and others climbed aboard the bandwagon. And, it has not been unusual that the work of the JBS organization/members was downplayed or completely ignored while others received the credit.

While this may appear to be umbrage, one has to remember how the Society is organized, the services we provide, coupled with the outreach capabilities of our membership with staff coordination on a national scale which is not duplicated by any other organization.

We have a “Comparison of Organizational Services and Programs” chart that tells an important story. It is available as a PDF download ( http://files.meetup.com/684064/JBSComparisonChart 2010.pdf ) that anyone can obtain to get a very good picture of how The John Birch Society far outpaces all other groups in the services and tools we provide. The chart clearly demonstrates to people you are trying to convince to join our organization just what our capabilities are. This chart is intended to show our capabilities, not to downplay the worth of any other organization. Its single page, however, demonstrates that we possess an array of capabilities that others simply do not have in total.

No better example of the success of our work on a national scale (with others participating) exists in the campaign to stop the North American Union (NAU). While other groups combated the threat posed by efforts to create the NAU with pronouncements, articles, and meetings, these activities generally amounted to preaching to the choir. Only the JBS spent the time, energy, and money to carry the message with our outreach capabilities to literally millions of opinion molders all across America.

During the several months of that particular campaign, we undertook massive literature distribution, DVD production and distribution, Internet postings to millions, appearances by speakers at Society-arranged events and other programs, radio and television interviews, and the placing of the special issue of The New American in the hands of all state legislators and members of the U.S. Congress. Then, the follow-up campaign with elected officials added weight to that impressive distribution. Further, we can only guess at the effect created by all of our chapters who worked quietly on their own during this campaign.

The result is that the drive to merge our nation with Canada and Mexico in a planned North American Union has been slowed considerably.


There are three basic reasons why the many victories our Society has achieved have not been credited to us.


1. Some battles have been completely off the radar screen of conservatives let alone the average American. These campaigns have been waged without anyone noticing either the danger or the fight. An example would be the UN’s Earth Charter (below).

2. The John Birch Society has always concentrated more on our mission and has hardly ever focused on taking credit for our victories, either nationally or locally. In addition, we have traditionally done a poor job of branding the Society and for 45 years, allowed others to do so. Therefore, many Americans have been unaware that we even exist let alone that we should be recognized for the efforts we have expended. One example is that while others hold dinners and rallies to talk to one another and gain publicity in the process, our members carry out their efforts in group and individual outreach sessions conducted in homes, businesses, and meeting rooms in order to educate and activate others. JBS has always been busy building awareness among the ill-informed and not focusing on those who are already in the fight. These activities do not generate publicity. The philosophy of the Society has always been to put our efforts and our resources into the fight, not toot our own horn.

3. The Insider-controlled media has always pointed to other organizations as the leaders of the conservative/constitutional movement. This has consistently kept people from involvement in the JBS because they weren’t aware of our existence. Part of this process has been to make others look responsible for campaigns and victories simply because they have shared head-table status with Republican leaders, even Council on Foreign Relations members, at public events.

As all of us generally do our JBS work without fanfare, even our members don’t appreciate the scope of the influence and the effectiveness of the overall JBS campaigns. Members see only their individual efforts. Because these individual or chapter efforts have not always been at a level even they would have preferred, they assume this to be the case all across the country.

Also, members have not been able to see from their local vantage point the national results that have come about through the efforts of thousands of virtually anonymous volunteers working in concerted effort on the same issue at the same time all across the country. Not being able to see the accumulated effect of these efforts, large and small, has even led some members to believe the media when told that others have achieved the goal. The media subtly gives the impression that Americans should actually join these other outfits!


However, all of the following accomplishments, and many more, amount to a story in themselves. Each not only shows that a goal was achieved; each helps to demonstrate that activity is what gets the job done, not just awareness of a problem. Since our purpose here is only to outline our results, the various means taken to achieve each goal must be left to another time.


The Committee Against Summit Entanglements.

Through this ad hoc committee in the early days of the Society, the JBS delayed the providing of dignity to the USSR during the Eisenhower administration, something Richard Nixon accomplished for Communist China in the 1970s. Eisenhower cancelled his scheduled trip to Russia as a result of our work. This program was one of the main reasons that communists and Insiders launched their smear attack on the JBS.

Support Your Local Police.

This effort prevented the nationalization of local police departments and various other forms of federal government regulation of our local police. It led to the federal agency known as the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) being abolished. Support Your Local “Whatever” then became a widely used slogan adopted by others because of the acceptance of our “Support Your Local Police” slogan. Our committees also led to the defeat of communist-inspired police review boards which were designed to hamper local police departments by destroying morale and impeding their work in countering crime and terrorism.

“Innocents Defiled.”

The JBS produced one of the first, if not the first, visual aids targeting the crime of abortion. This filmstrip was widely shown and aided in the launching of the pro-life movement.

MOTOREDE.

Our Movement to Restore Decency, MOTOREDE, was launched to stem the decline of moral standards in our country and to expose the involvement of communists promoting the turn away from traditional values. MOTOREDE was especially effective in alerting many to the danger of drug use and the harm being done to young people through inserting sex education instruction in the schools. The deterioration of community morality always leads to tyranny and this is the reason communists (some of whom were part of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, SIECUS) promote liberal attitudes toward morality. Our efforts stimulated the movement that became known as the Christian Right, which was started locally by many of our members. Some JBS members became prominent leaders and organizers in this work.

Black American Speakers.

Several courageous black American JBS members helped bring an end to the violence and strife of the 1960s and 1970s. The work of such heroic individuals as Julia Brown, Lola Belle Holmes, Freeman Yearling and others, plus the writing of George Schuyler, brought a truly American message to large audiences especially in the South. Numerous demonstrations and their planned riots were canceled when the truth about the communist influence behind these operations was provided to Americans of all races.

Racially-inspired Programs Exposed.

The Society thwarted communist plans to radicalize selected groups such as the American Indian Movement and the Chicano Movements led by Cesar Chavez and Reies Tijerina.

Stop Aiding Communists.

During the Vietnam War, members gathered millions of signatures on a petition to Congress calling for an end to all aid and trade with communist nations who were supplying the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.

Equal Rights Amendment Killed.

The truly dangerous Equal Rights Amendment was stopped cold after the JBS got involved in what was originally thought to be such a bizarre proposal that it wouldn’t attract any attention. Speakers, reprints, and visits with state legislators in key states pointed out that it had next to nothing to do with the rights of women and plenty to do with building federal power over every American. Our effort turned the tide away from passage.

Constitutional Convention Blocked.

Continual calls for a Con-Con were met with reprints, videos, speakers, and personal visits to state legislators. Not only were calls blocked in some states, already passed calls for a Con-Con were wiped away in over a dozen other states when the dangers inherent in a Con-Con were made clear.

Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM).

For thirty years our TRIM committees throughout the nation exposed the actual voting records of members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Many elected officials found themselves run out of office as a result of the distribution of millions of these “report cards.” The effort proved that an informed electorate will make better choices on Election Day. We are now undertaking a transition from the production of printed TRIM report cards to online report cards for congressmen that can be accessed through the “Legislative Action” section of our website at JBS.org.

Profiles of Leftist Senators.

As a result of widespread distribution of articles showing their record in office published by JBS publications, liberal U.S. Senators in Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Idaho, North Carolina, and other states were defeated at the polls. Once again, the decision by local citizens to inform the electorate made the difference.

Targeting Small States and Areas.

Experiments in Idaho and other areas have shown that, with sufficient staff coverage to build a sizable JBS organization, change in the voting patterns of the citizens can be achieved. These efforts lead to the eventual election of more constitutionally-minded people at all levels.

Immigration Problem.

Our 1988 video entitled “Out of Control” was the first to awaken citizens to the enormous illegal immigration problem before most Americans knew that there even was a problem.

Combating Terrorism.

With JBS member and U.S. Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald leading the way, such videos as “No Place to Hide” were produced. This particular program was the first to show the communist creation and nurturing of all terrorist groups around the world. It also showed that no terrorist organization operates without state sponsorship.

Muslim Terrorism Exposed.

Our more recent exposure of so-called Muslim terrorism again shows not only state-sponsorship, but also that the Russian government and its FSB has trained and armed Muslim surrogates.

Exposing Conspiracy.

JBS has always exposed the fact that a conspiracy to enslave mankind is at the root of most of our nation’s and the world’s problems. The first major thrust in this campaign was the distribution of over six million copies of the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy authored by JBS writer Gary Allen. Continued success in this regard, based on studies issued by the University of Virginia and others, indicates that nearly half of America’s citizens believe that our nation faces a conspiracy. The campaign has been so successful, that in order to sabotage the effort, we are witnessing absurd “conspiracy theories” being injected into the thinking of Americans to discredit the idea of conspiracy itself.

The Y2K Scare.

Through a timely article in The New American magazine, JBS members calmed fears about a Y2K computerized meltdown on New Years Day 2000. Many who criticized us for saying that there would be no major problem then now criticize us for not promoting other bizarre initiatives designed to marginalize conservatives. Indeed, many of our successes have been in stopping the spread of false rumors designed to discredit the entire conservative movement. Who can forget the completely fraudulent threat of black helicopters?

The UN’s Earth Charter.

Singlehandedly, JBS members stopped plans to inject the pagan Earth Charter into communities and schools. Radical one-worlders actually had a program underway aimed to make environmentalism a religion that worshipped Mother Earth. It was stopped with a single article in The New American and timely distribution of its reprints.

Get US out! of the United Nations.

Our decades-old campaign to have the U.S. withdraw from the UN has helped a majority of Americans to be opposed to continued U.S. membership in the world body. Millions of pieces of literature, videos, DVDs, and speakers, radio/TV interviews, billboards, etc., led to this development. Prior to the Obama phenomenon, congressional support for withdrawal had steadily been increasing.

Impeachment of President Clinton.

Many Americans wanted Clinton impeached, but it wasn’t until the JBS gave the initiative real organization that the goal became a reality. Such luminaries as the Washington Post grudgingly recognized the work of the JBS in this campaign. Because we organized the effort under what were called ACTION Committees, few realized that we were the driving force. When Hillary Clinton talked about “the vast right wing conspiracy,” she was certainly pointing to The John Birch Society for she knew who mounted such a successful effort. She did not want to identify us by name since doing so would have given us credit.

Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Singlehandedly, our Society stopped the implementation of the so-called Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). President George W. Bush had stated numerous times that he intended to push the measure through Congress starting in January 2005. The U.S. was to be one of 34 nations in the Western Hemisphere tied into an arrangement similar to the European Union. And the United Nations was to be the ultimate beneficiary. But, because of JBS efforts, President Bush never even delivered his subversive plan to Congress. The program continues under a different name without U.S. involvement in Latin America under communist leadership.

North American Union.

JBS helped form a coalition to oppose the North American Union (NAU) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership that was created to bring the NAU about by 2010. The NAU would have abolished the borders separating our nation from Canada and Mexico, integrated banking, environmental, trade, and healthcare regulations, built a common “defense,” spurred immigration into the U.S., and much more. These plans have been set back drastically.

DVD Circulation.

Hundreds of thousands of our DVDs are now in circulation. “Overview of America” has been viewed through a variety of means by millions of Americans. The innovation of the Internet has widened the viewership of our videos.

Internet Reach.

Our Internet exposure is now at or near the level of key organizations and publications of the Insiders — and it is growing. We measure this by the number of unique visitors to our sites, not page views by repeat visitors. We continue to double our reach online each year and we have plans to continue carrying this growth forward. Furthermore, tens of thousands of Americans use the “Legislative Action” section of our JBS.org website to send email and otherwise contact their elected officials in support of, or in opposition to, legislation at both the federal and state level.

Stressing Constitution, not Conservatism.

JBS insisted that the standard for Americans was the U.S. Constitution which is defined, not a shifting “conservatism” that wasn’t defined. With William F. Buckley leading conservatives to accept leftist, internationalist and un-American views and policies, championing the U.S. Constitution became ever more important. If the Constitution were fully enforced, the federal government would be 20 percent its size and 20 percent its cost.

Overall Influence.

* Though not measurable, our overall influence is considerable. Anyone who counts the number of mentions of our Society in both the print and electronic media through interviews and appearances of our members on radio and TV, and who then considers our growing membership among state legislators, our thousands of members working within their own spheres of influence, and literally millions of contacts through our literature, DVDs and internet sites each year, knows that The John Birch Society has influence — and knows it is growing.

* Our members’ involvement in other organizations has influenced tens of millions. We can think of five members alone where this statement is true.

* The current level of concern over, and love of, the Constitution is due in large part to our membership’s influence over the past 50 years.

* Perhaps the most important element in the continuing growth in JBS influence has been the distribution of hundreds of millions of pieces of literature, reprints, books, videos, DVDs and other media over 50 years. There is little question that without this information and education, the American people — indeed the entire planet — would now be living in tyranny.​

Keep in mind that all we do in print, video, and online supports an agenda implemented by members in a coordinated fashion through local chapters all over America. No other organization on our side of the battle can make this statement. This concerted action enhances the effect of our work by ten- to one hundred-fold.

Recent attacks to malign or marginalize the JBS, such as the effort undertaken by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, are indications of our success and that we are on the right track. We come under attack because of our successes, not our failures, and by how much we influence the American people.

The John Birch Society is unique. Enemies don’t know exactly how to blunt our effectiveness. All JBS members should keep in mind what Founder Robert Welch stated at the close of his marathon message when the Society was launched, “All we must build and use, to win, is sufficient understanding.” Nothing has changed about this strategy. What has definitely changed is the way the American people are receiving our message with gratitude and a willingness to help.


SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/component/conten...0-the-effectiveness-of-the-john-birch-society

 

[Travlyr]

Well I certainly do owe the John Birch Society a debt of gratitude for their accomplishments of the past. Thanks for posting them. I hope the future is even more fruitful by accomplishing an end to the fiat money system and the global elite central planner's control over our lives.

 

[FrankRep]

Well I certainly do owe the John Birch Society a debt of gratitude for their accomplishments of the past. Thanks for posting them. I hope the future is even more fruitful by accomplishing an end to the fiat money system and the global elite central planner's control over our lives.

The key is working together and not attacking each other with false accusations.