Day 20 (20 day story) “Follow The Money”
Audit The Federal Reserve
2012 – The Federal Reserve launched an aggressive program to BUY $40 BILLION of Mortgage-Backed-Securities MONTHLY until the job market improved. Where is the Federal Reserve getting $40 BILLION a month?
“Follow The Money”
Decisions that have been made under the name of American Democracy have done more to bankrupt the US economy than consolidate its influence around the world.
Under the name of “American Democracy” multi-national corporations, backed by foreign investors, are systematically taking over and merging with US companies.
Follow the Money: The big players are wealth management conglomerations.
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. is one example of the influence wealth management conglomerations have.
_ AUTO INDUSTRY: Parts and Distribution
_ BUILDING INDUSTRY: Wholesale and Distribution
_ CONSUMER RETAIL: Shopping Centers
_ ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES: Hydraulic Fracturing & Drilling
_ FINANCIAL SERVICES: Global Billing & Payments / Debt Collection
_ GOVERNMENT SERVICES: Weapons – Private Military Security, Service Contracts for U.S. Military, DHS, NASA. Facility Management / Base Operations / Technical Services/ Contingency and Logistics Support Services
_ GROCERY STORES: Food Chains & Food Distribution Centers
_ HEALTH CARE: Networks & Systems. U.S. Contract to Administer Smallpox & Anthrax Vaccines
_ INTERNATIONAL BANKING: Banks – Financial Institutions
_ PHARMACEUTICALS: Anti-Depressants, Antibiotics
_ PROPERTY: Acquisition, Development, Management & Redistribution
_ REINSURANCE / LIFE INSURANCE: Reinsurance / Life Insurance
_ TRAVEL AND LEISURE: Film Production – Resort Hotel Chains
_ TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY: Space Imaging – IT Infrastructure Solutions
_ TRANSPORTATION: Public Transportation – Buses
_ WEAPONS PRODUCTION: DHS, Military and Private
“Mood Of The Nation”
QUESTION: “Are there private governments within our financial and corporate environments that are manipulating our behaviors and responses? Are their actions “Cause and Effect” for personal gain or the benefit of the people they make decisions for?
Mainstream Media and International PR firms have used key words and images to adjust our emotional and behavior patterns. We have become information processors used to look the other way when mayhem corrupts our cultural and social senses of what is right verses what is wrong. We have spent a lot of time reacting while our world is being redefined on profit value.
“Where do we go from here?”
A VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE
We need an online voting system for the people.
We need to identify what’s working and collectively shift what’s not.
“Solutions”
Game on!
Burning Man 2013 Center Camp
F.Y.I. There was a Year 2013 Panel.
“Taking It To The Streets”
Asking the question “What do we have in common?’
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Day 17 (20 day story) year 2012 Part 5.
Year – 2012 “We The People Need Change”
About this time I started “Looking for a Hero!
2012 Anonymous – Time Magazine
In 2012 ”Time magazine called Anonymous one of the “100 most influential people in the world.”
What was going on with Anonymous? Who is this masked man who was popping up everywhere?
Anonymous is distinguished in public by wearing a stylized Guy Fawkes Mask and was changing the nature of protesting. Anonymous represents NON-censorship. He operates on ideas rather than directives.
I like this guy. He’s always smiling!
What was going on with Anonymous?
He was popping up everywhere!
Spain – France
Germany – Sweden – Ukraine – United Kingdom
Tunisia – Jordan – Egypt
Israel – Turkey
Canada – Australia – Brazil – Bahrain
Thailand – Indonesia – South Korea – Malaysia
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Day 15 (20 day story) year 2012 Part 3.
2012 DIVIDED
Mainstream news media constantly reminds us that we are divided. This keeps us confused, debating or just ignoring the issues because we are numbed down.
Our president tells us that the government can’t balance the budget and we’re left hanging on a fiscal cliff. News media is telling us that unless congress passes bills quickly the government will shut down.
06/11/2012 – Federal Reserve releases a triennial study that said, “The average American family’s net worth dropped almost 40% between 2007 and 2010”.
The stunning average drop indicates that the recession wiped away 18 years of savings and investment by families.
2012 NATIONAL DEBT
U.S. National Debt Clock – http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Outstanding National Debt as of June 18, 2016 at 2:05 P.M. PST is: $19,281,376,278,669.
The estimated population of the United States is 322,890,591. Each U.S. citizen’s share of this debt is $59,551.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.37 billion per day since September 30, 2012.
2012 NATIONAL DEBT
It’s true! The public national debt is growing.
What is our country spending so much money on!
2012 CREDIT CARD WARS
Oct 12, 2012 – Vice Presidential Debate
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledges two Credit Card Wars!
Which two? War on Terror, War on Afghanistan or War on Iraq?
The U.S. Military is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world.
2000 – 2012 NATIONAL DEBT
During the first 13 years of our new millennium our Public National Debt has tripled.
2012 MILITARY BUDGET 59%
2012 – 59% of the Governments Budget is spent on the Military.
Who’s getting these Government Military Contracts and what are they buying?
2012 – 2016 INTEREST ON PUBLIC DEBT
The Interest DEBT our government pays includes seven (7) categories.
- Interest on Treasury Debt Securities (gross)
- Interest Paid to Trust Fund Receipt Accounts – Shadow Account
- Interest Paid to Expenditure Accounts – Shadow Account
- Interest Paid to Federal Fund Receipt Accounts – Shadow Account
- Payment to the Resolution Funding Corporation
- Interest Paid to Credit Financing Accounts
- Refunding Internal Revenue Collections – Interest
Source: usfederalbudget.us/
DEBT PROJECTIONS
What do we have in common?
Our present system is not sustainable.
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“Taking it to the streets” VIDEO 1 minute 50 seconds: Youtube / Primitive but real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAn-jx2WJ4w
“American History 2000 – 2012” VIDEO 7 minutes: http://vimeo.com/50031301
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Day 1 (20 day story) American History 2000 – 2012
DAY 1. (20 day story)
This historical visual art collection will debut in Cleveland, OH July 16th and 17th, will be publicly displayed July 18 -21 during the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC) and July 25-28 in Philadelphia, PA during the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC). It is meant to remind us of the events we lived with during the beginning of this 21st Century, including the role of our public figures and the influence of mainstream media and less known institutions.
Resisting the trends to divide us, this shared historical review is asking Americans to explore specific questions. “What do we have in common?” and “What Unites US?”
“American History 2000–2012” is a collection of 13 collages one per year starting with 2000 and ending with 2012. These collages show images and words that were presented to the American people through newspapers, magazines, Internet, television, billboards and tabloids. We saw these images whether we wanted to or not.
There is a fourteenth panel called the “Grid” which shows statistical information of what happened to the American people during the beginning of our 21st Century.
This historical art collection is a tool to understand our current 21st Century. It reminds us how public opinion was influenced. It tells our story of what we witnessed and how we were collectively entrained.
I have a story tell. In preparation for these exhibits I need to express what “American History represents. I will post once a day for the next 20 days at:
AmericanHistory2000-2012.com. Click updates and news
My goal is to help viewers identify the forces that try to divide us, ask, “What do we have in common and start responding “This Unites Us”.
You can follow the story and journey at: AmericanHistory2000-2012.com – updates and news
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TWITTER @GayeLub
Personal Note: What “American Visual History 2000–2012” has taught me is how our collective behavior has been entrained by mainstream media, focusing on what divides us. I am convinced that we can consciously break the media spell by focusing on what we Americans have in common.
Please share this story and ask yourself “What do we have in common?”
Sincerely, Gaye Lub
Background Information: In 1998, Citibank, the Largest Bank in the United States, illegally merged with Travelers Group Insurance to become Citigroup. This created a huge conglomerate that was specifically prohibited by law. Citigroup got away with it by receiving a temporary waiver from the Federal Reserve and by having Congress pass in 1999 the “Citigroup Relief Act” which changed the rules by allowing commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies to consolidate and becoming “Too Big to Fail”.
Signed: President Bill Clinton
The Year 2000 – “Y2k”
DOWNLOAD ART 2000 “Y2k
Open Source/Copy Left: Actual size: 44” X 62”
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09/2000: “Project for the New American Century” (PNAC), launched a 90 page report titled: “REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES – Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century”, which soon became a script for exploitation and expansion of military power throughout the world.
Researching PNAC I found key members were a web of politicians, authors, journalists, publishers and the news media. There was also an alarming interconnection between core members and other Think Tanks with similar agendas, who’s funding also came from family foundations that profited from conflict and war.
2000 Election
11/07/2000 – Presidential Election Day is undefined, it revolves around the votes of one State: Florida. Florida’s governor, Jeb Bush, is the brother of one of the candidates bringing conflict of interest issues.
11/25/2000 – Five Members of the U.S. Supreme Court stunned the Nation when they held that Florida Law allowed NO time to count the remaining 175,000 votes.
12/09/2000 – U.S. Supreme Court orders to halt to manual recount of presidential votes in Florida. As a result, George Bush wins the 2000 Presidential Election by 537 Votes.
To implement PNAC’s plan “Rebuilding Americas Defenses”, Bush had to win the 2000 election. Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC’s founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the George W. Bush administration.
The “GRID” shows relations that were not easily recognized when I started documenting our XXI Century. It also shows statistical data regarding “What Happened To US”. Printed full scale this image is: 92″ wide X 44″ tall.
DOWNLOAD ART The “Grid
Open Source/Copy Left: Actual size: 92” X 44”
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