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What Barney Frank Really Said About HR 1207

By tmartin • August 31, 2009
56 commentsHere’s an updated transcript of what Barney Frank really said about Ron Paul’s HR 1207 (also see Misinformation Alert: Barney Frank Never Said That HR 1207 Will Pass In October). Audience: Okay, hi, Mr. Frank, thank you for coming. I was just going to mention of something that I’ve noticed people and blogs talking about on the Internet, that these banks all across the country are overvaluing their assets, their mortgages that they hold on their books, and I’ve actually been to a few foreclosure auctions and I noticed banks are buying back houses for themselves in order to prevent themselves from having to mark down the value of these assets. And they’re basically lying to us about their solvency. And this is only possible by the Federal Reserve lending money to these institutions. And I just want to ask you, when will you put HR 1207, the bill to audit the Fed, up for a vote in the Committee. Thank you very much. Barney Frank: [...] while I really disagree that the Fed is the cause of this but yes, I have been pushing for more openness on the Fed, back when the Democrats were in power, and Henry Gonzalez, and we did get some of it. [...] I want to restrict powers of the Federal Reserve in a number of ways. First of all, they will be the major losers of power if we are successful, as I believe we will be, in setting up that financial product protection commission. The Federal Reserve is now charged with protecting consumers. They were supposed to do sub prime mortgage restricted. Congress in 1994 gave the Federal Reserve the power to adopt rules to ban bad sub prime mortgages. Alan Greenspan refused to do it. He said that was too much market intervention. They had the power to ban credit card abuses. They had the power to [...] overdrafts. They under Greenspan did nothing. Under Bernanke they started do things but only after Congress started. When I became Chairman of the Committee they began to act on these things. Sub prime mortgages, credit cards, overdraft, and in every case after we started the [...], so that’s one of the reasons why in the new consumer protection agency, we will take away from the Federal Reserve the power to do consumer protection. Secondly, they have had since 1932 a right, under Herbert Hoover and the Democratic Congress combined, the right, that they had to use it until recently, to intervene in the economy almost whenever they thought. Last September, the Federal Reserve came to us and said that they were going to advance $82 billion to AIG. I was kind of surprised and said, “You have 82 billion dollars, Mr. Bernanke?” He said, “I have 800 billion dollars.” Under section 13.3 of the Federal Reserve Act they can lend money to anybody they want. We are going to curtail that lending power. We are going to put some restraints on it. Finally we will subject them to a complete audit. I have been working with Ron Paul, who is the main sponsor of that bill. He agrees that we don’t want to have the audit appear as if it is influencing monetary policy because that would be inflationary. Ron and I agree on that. We also [...], one of the things the audit will show you is what the Federal Reserve buys itself. And that will be made public, but not instantly, because if that was made instantly you would have a lot of people trading off of that and it would have too much impact on the market. [...] agrees with that, so we’ll probably have that data released after a time period of several months, enough time so it wouldn’t be market sensitive. That will be part of the overall federal regulation that we are redacting. Audience: By the end of the year? Barney Frank: The House will pass it probably in October.

Economy Collapse

Economy Collapse

On Saturday's show with Ian Punnett, editor and publisher of International Forecaster, Bob Chapman, discussed the economic crisis, how brokerage firms such as Goldman Sachs played a part in fueling the collapse, and where he sees the economy heading into the future. He dismissed news that the economic crisis may be abating. Instead, Chapman said, we are merely seeing a "barrage of government propaganda, the payoffs that go on everyday, convincing people that everything is going to be okay."

He decried the use of derivatives by large firms like Goldman Sachs and alleged that their nefarious activity goes even further than that. According to Chapman, these companies pay a fee to have their automated trading computers positioned closest to the central computer of the New York Stock Exchange, which processes incoming and outgoing trades. "Because of its proximity, in nanoseconds," Chapman explained, the computers, and thus the firms, become "privy to orders before anybody else is and they are able to counteract what is going on with the orders, in order to make a larger profit.

Lunar & NASA Secrets

On Tuesday's show, C2C science adviser, Richard C. Hoagland discussed how a current NASA return to the Moon has already led to a major new confirmation of the "lunar dome model," and shared evidence for the existence of a "secret space program." As explored in his book Dark Mission, he contended that NASA is actually the originator of Apollo Moon landing hoax theories. They co-opted a fake conspiracy to supplant the real conspiracy-- that there are ancient artifacts on the moon, and that humans are the 'ETs' who have traveled to other planets in the past, he detailed. A clandestine group has secret technology such as anti-gravity and free energy, which has enabled setting up bases on the Moon, Hoagland continued. A recent infrared/thermal photograph of the Moon's South Pole taken by NASA's LACROSSE spacecraft was leaked, and he suggested that yellow perimeter lines in the image are evidence for huge domes on the lunar surface. Now that a number of nations are sending craft to the Moon, an upcoming crater impact mission being staged by NASA in October could be an attempt to vaporize artificial domes to cover-up evidence of secret space missions over the last 40 years, Hoagland hypothesized. For more, see Part I of Richards report, The Smoking Gun?

Conspiracies, Nazis, & UFOs:

On Wednesday's show, award-winning journalist Jim Marrs discussed the JFK assassination, UFOs, and the Nazi connection

Conspiracies, Nazis, & UFOs: On Wednesday's show, award-winning journalist Jim Marrs discussed the JFK assassination, UFOs, and the Nazi connection to secret technology & the power elite. There was a technology swap between Germany and the US after the war under such classified programs as Project Paperclip, and some of the knowledge may have been used in the American space program, he said. A covert space program probably exists that the public knows nothing about, he suggested. Marrs recalled details about a top American remote viewer who came into contact with his Soviet counterpart, and found out that the Russians had picked up or carried on a lot of the Nazi research into psychic abilities. There had been a unit in the German military called "Doctor Greenbaum" that was involved in remote viewing. It was part of a larger program called Majik-- which interestingly bears similarity to the spelling of "Majic," the abbreviation used for the UFO secrecy group Majestic 12 in the U.S., he noted. The Nazis made psychic contact with non-human intelligences, he added.

JFK may have been assassinated because he was planning to disclose information about UFOs, and MJ12 and the keepers of the secret considered this to be a threat to national security, he said. Marrs also spoke about " Secrets of Red Gate," his investigation into a small community in Montana that has had ongoing experiences with UFOs and ETs for decades. A remote viewing experiment indicated that children may have had encounters with "grey" type aliens in the Deer Lodge woods in 1952, he detailed.

Apollo & Space Missions

On the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, space historian Robert Zimmerman discussed the history and triumph of the Apollo space program & how the U.S. was able win the race to put a man on the moon. The Apollo program was an amazing achievement, as well as a difficult one that we have yet to repeat in the last 40 years, he said. The technology they used was very sophisticated considering the state of computers back then. For instance, inside the Apollo capsule they had less computing power than what's contained in a digital watch of today. The main calculations had to be relayed to them from Mission Control, he explained. Zimmerman believes that because the Apollo program was government sponsored it sent out the wrong lesson-- that such feats as the Moon landing can only be achieved through a government organization such as NASA. Now, other parts of the world are taking up the mantle for space exploration such as China, India, Japan, and Europe. India has found it easier to deal with the Russians and Chinese, rather than the US, in purchasing equipment for its space program, he noted. Russia's goal has always been to build an interplanetary spaceship that could travel to such destinations as Mars, and through its work the ISS, it has explored the medical effects on astronauts in space, at least somewhat more so than the US, Zimmerman commented. He suggested that real efforts will be made to return astronauts to the moon within the next decade, but they won't necessarily come from America.

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COMMENTS from GLENN BECK on 7/23/09

The Economy is Saved!

You heard President Obama say last night that he rescued the economy. Really, did he? Sure seems like there are still hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs each month, and things are not looking up. Glenn highlights the idiotic explanation from Obama's top economic adviser as to why the economy is magically better. And mysteriously, as Glenn recorded his latest video blog, falling objects in the Manhattan sky kept distracting him. Find out what they were. WATCH

Obama: It's not about me

Obama was asked if he'd like to live under the Healthcare plan that he is proposing. His answer was 'It's not about me' because he has a doctor following him at all times. Hey, it's great to be implementing massive socialist programs when you don't have to live by them! The sweet life of Barack Obama -- Glenn explains in today’s March to Socialism. ( Transcript, Insider Audio)

Wormwood ( Planet X)

Return of Planet X: On Monday's show, author and researcher Gilbert Eriksen outlined both science and biblical prophecy regarding the return of Planet X (Wormwood) which he believes will have dire consequences for the Earth. Rather than a planet, he suggested that Wormwood is actually a brown dwarf star, a huge iron oxide ball on an elliptical orbit in our solar system, which has 60 times the mass of Jupiter. It transits toward us on an 1,800 year cycle and is currently quite close, he claimed. [Photo] [Photo] Eriksen maintained that NASA is aware of Wormwood's presence through their satellite data, but is covering it up. The object can currently be seen by infrared telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, and is inside the orbital radius of Neptune (Right Ascension: 18 h), he said. Prophecy in the Book of Revelation, such as the "moon became like blood" and "the sky was split apart like a scroll" refer to events brought about by Wormwood's passage and could take place as early as this summer, he warned. Among the cataclysms we'll see are meteorites hitting Earth, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes with huge tectonic shifts, and powerful tsunamis, he detailed. Unfortunately, the following summer (2010) will be even worse, as the methane atmosphere of Wormwood causes fire to rain down from the sky, and 1/3 of the Earth will be incinerated, Eriksen continued. For more on his "Wormwood Science" see this excerpt from his book.

George Norry

Host: Coast to Coast

Why I became involved with exposing government cover-ups.

I grew up during the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination (hint). I remember that at 9 years old I was shocked at the fact that the president could be killed by anyone. To me he was an icon and no one would dare to even speak derogatory toward him. This started my curiosity with everything that really occurs in the government. Of course with that and the Vietnam War there was no shortage of controversy and claims of government cover-ups. This began the questions in my mind. Could this be true? Did it really happen that way? Surely our government, the epitome of world democratic standards, was not involved in such things. Well, as you may have already guessed, I was about to loose my idealistic and nigh-eve beliefs in the honesty and forthrightness of our government. I spent the next 45 years developing and searching for, not just the truth, but what led to our passive attitudes toward the overt practices and operations of the secret internal workings in our U. S. Government. I have corresponded with many throughout the years over cover ups and lack of the governments unwillingness to reveal the truth. This is what lead me here today and to the belief that our own passive part is what ultimately lead to our current situation. I hope that you will find some clarity in the reading of my new book "Apathy in America" Please read some of the posts form some of the leading investigators in the fight for government transparency. Then do your research, formulate your own opinion, based on real facts, and comment on my blog. I can assure you that I read everyone.

Counterterrorism

Counter Terrorist

Date:	07-04-09
Host:	Ian Punnett
Guests:	Fred Burton, Lynn Picknett

Ian spoke with counter terrorism agent Fred Burton, who provided behind-the-scenes details of his work tracking down the people responsible for terror attacks against the United States and its interests abroad. Burton said he began hunting terrorists in the mid-1980s, when he was assigned to the newly formed counter terrorism division of the Diplomatic Security Service. There were only three agents in the unit then. The fledgling group faced many challenges in the early days, Burton noted, including limited penetration and development of human assets within terrorist organizations. The Rewards for Justice program, which paid informants for securing intelligence information, was set up to help solve this problem, he said.

Burton discussed some of this division's success stories, including the capture of Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing. According to Burton, Yousef had been planning to blow up several aircraft as well as kill American and British diplomats before he was arrested in Pakistan. Burton cited the creation of the Counter Surveillance Program and the development of Ballistic Window Film (which prevents glass from flying in the event of bombing) as additional high spots in the counterterrorism unit's record. Burton expressed regret for his group's failure to capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man who planned the 9/11 attack. He also talked about the Oklahoma City bombing, and the likelihood of terrorists detonating a radiological 'dirty bomb' on U.S. soil.

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Government Cover-Up "The infrastructure needed to maintain and expand the level of secrecy which can deceive presidents and CIA Directors and senior congressional leaders and European Prime Ministers and the like is substantial - and illegal. Let me be clear, the entity which controls the UFO matter and its related technologies has more power than any single government in the world or any single identified world leader. The current state-of-the-art in secrecy is a hybrid, quasi-government, quasi privatized operation which is international - and functions outside of the purview of any single agency or any single government. ‘The Government' - as you and I and Thomas Jefferson may think of it - is really quite outside the loop. Rather, a select, tightly controlled and compartmentalized ‘black' or unacknowledged project controls these matters. Access is by inclusion alone and if you are not included, it does not matter if you are CIA Director, President, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations or UN Secretary General, you simply will not know about or have access to these projects." Dr. Steven M. Greer, Understanding UFO Secrecy

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Government UFO Documents

The Majestic Documents Majestic Documents.com is a groundbreaking look at the United States UFO program called Majestic and the top secret government documents that tell the story of presidential and military action, authorization, and cover-up regarding UFOs and their alien occupants. A remarkable work of investigative journalism, this website is the first to authenticate top secret UFO documents that tell a detailed story of the crashed discs, alien bodies, presidential briefings, and superb secrecy. Special attention is paid to the forensic authentication issues of content, provenance, type, style and chronology. The story the documents tell leaves the reader with little doubt that the cover-up is real, shocking, and at times unethical.

July 8, 2009

Lunar & NASA Secrets:

On Tuesday's show, C2C science adviser, Richard C. Hoagland discussed how a current NASA return to the Moon has already led to a major new confirmation of the "lunar dome model," and shared evidence for the existence of a "secret space program." As explored in his book Dark Mission, he contended that NASA is actually the originator of Apollo Moon landing hoax theories. They co-opted a fake conspiracy to supplant the real conspiracy-- that there are ancient artifacts on the moon, and that humans are the 'ETs' who have traveled to other planets in the past, he detailed.

A clandestine group has secret technology such as anti gravity and free energy, which has enabled setting up bases on the Moon, Hoagland continued. A recent infrared/thermal photograph of the Moon's South Pole taken by NASA's LCROSS spacecraft was leaked, and he suggested that yellow perimeter lines in the image are evidence for huge domes on the lunar surface.

Now that a number of nations are sending craft to the Moon, an upcoming crater impact mission being staged by NASA in October could be an attempt to vaporize artificial domes to cover-up evidence of secret space missions over the last 40 years, Hoagland hypothesized. For more, see Part I of Richard's report, The Smoking Gun?

SCRATCH BOT, a newly developed rescue robot with artificial whiskers, may one day be used to locate survivors of natural disasters or people trapped in buildings. Watch a short video as the rat-like robot feels its way around.

Today in Strangeness:

On July 8, 1947 the U.S. Army announced it had recovered a crashed flying disc near Roswell, New Mexico. Quickly afterward they retracted the story, and said it was actually a "weather balloon." On this day in 1951, the city of Paris celebrated its 2,000th birthday

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9-11 Truth

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Date:	06-09-09
Host:	George Norry, Coast to Coast
Guests:	Richard Gage, Martine Colette

A practicing architect for 20 years, Richard Gage is the founding member of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth. He discussed the destruction of the three World Trade Center high-rises on 9-11, and why nearly 700 architects and engineers have found evidence for explosive controlled demolition, and are calling for a new investigation. Lauded as an engineering feat when they were constructed, the WTC Towers, according to the official explanation, were said to collapse because of the fires burning on the upper floors. Yet, Gage pointed out that other high-rise buildings with hotter and longer fires never collapsed in this manner.

Further, in the case of fire, if a building was to collapse, it would fall over and not straight down, he said. This type of collapse indicated there was no resistance from the structures below, he added. The collapse of Building 7 was also a curiosity, as the fires seen in photos & videos were fairly small, Gage detailed. However, witnesses near Building 7 said they heard the sounds of explosions, lending credence to the idea that controlled demolitions took place.

Evidence for controlled demolition of the Towers comes from a study by Dr. Steven Jones of the pulverized dust that surrounded the area after the collapse. The material was found to have the chemical signature of thermite, created through nanotechnology, something that military departments have been experimenting with in laboratories. Gage speculated that this thermite might have been planted in the Tower's elevator columns during a lengthy modernization project that was begun 9 months prior to 9-11. Because of this and other evidence, he is calling for a new and independent investigation to uncover the full truth about the events surrounding 9-11. He recommended signing the AE911 Truth Petition and visiting the NYC Coalition for Accountability Now site.

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9/11 Cover-Up Connection: Black Boxes Found 15 Hours After Buffalo Crash

Yet FBI claimed that indestructible black boxes were never discovered following WTC attack

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, February 13, 2009

One of a plethora of cover-ups surrounding 9/11 is the FBI’s contention that the black boxes on board the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center were never found, a claim that has been further discredited following the news that the black box on board flight Q400 that crashed last night in New York was found within 15 hours.

The FBI told the 9/11 Commission that the black boxes from Flight 11 and Flight 175, despite being built to withstand direct full speed crashes and temperatures of 1800-degrees, were never discovered in the wreckage at ground zero. They also claimed that the voice recorder from Flight 77 and the flight data box from Flight 93 were damaged beyond recovery.

It is incredibly rare that black boxes remain undiscovered after a plane crash, and considering that the WTC site was meticulously cleaned up to the point where tiny bone fragments were recovered, it is inconceivable that the black boxes could have been completely lost, even if they were damaged beyond repair.

In 2004, New York firefighters Mike Bellone and Nicholas DeMasi went public to say they had found the black boxes at the World Trade Center, but were told to keep their mouths shut by FBI agents. Nicholas DeMasi said that he escorted federal agents on an all-terrain vehicle in October 2001 and helped them locate the devices, a story backed up by rescue volunteer Mike Bellone.

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As the Philadelphia Daily News reported at the time, “Their story raises the question of whether there was a some type of cover-up at Ground Zero.”

“At one point, I was asked to take Federal Agents around the site to search for the black boxes from the planes,” he wrote. “We were getting ready to go out. My ATV was parked at the top of the stairs at the Brooks Brothers entrance area. We loaded up about a million dollars worth of equipment and strapped it into the ATV,” said DeMasi.

“At one point, Bellone said he observed the team with a box that appeared charred but was redish-orange with two white stripes. Pictures of the flight recorders on the NTSB and other Web sites show devices that are orange, with two white stripes,” reported the newspaper.

“There was the one that I saw, and two others were recovered in different locations - but I wasn’t there for the other two,” Bellone said. He said the FBI agents left with the boxes.”

In addition, a source at the National Transportation Safety Board later told Counterpunch, “Off the record, we had the boxes….You’d have to get the official word from the FBI as to where they are, but we worked on them here.”

Suspicions surrounding the so-called failure to locate the black boxes at the World Trade Center can only be heightened by the news that the black box from last night’s tragic plane crash in Buffalo was discovered within a mere 15 hours.

Furthermore, both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder were in perfect condition, as you can see from the image below.

“The black box of a commercial airliner that nose-dived into a Buffalo house in New York has been retrieved, about 15 hours after the incident,” reports Press TV.

The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder “have been found and they are on their way back here,” said Ted Lopatkiewicz a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), AFP reported on Friday.

The motivation behind lying about the recovery of the black boxes on 9/11 is obvious - any aspect of the recordings of the onboard conversations between the pilots or the movements of their plane that didn’t coalesce with the official story would have destroyed the fairy tale that was being constructed around the attacks in the very minutes and hours after they started to unfold.

Questions about how a handful of men with box cutters could have overpowered burly ex-military pilots and scores of passengers with apparent ease would not have gone unanswered.

The circumstances surrounding the Buffalo crash and the Beijing skyscraper fire are two events that happened in the same week which offer stark contradictions and only place the credibility of the official 9/11 story further in doubt.

Intelligence & Terrorism:

On Sunday night, George Knapp was joined by investigative reporter Peter Lance for a discussion of how America's intelligence services have fumbled in the pursuit of terrorists. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office were more interested in bringing down the Mob than dealing with terrorism, he said, and because they didn't reform or refocus their methods, they took their eyes off al Qaeda at a crucial time, paving the way for 9-11 to happen.

Lance outlined various players (featured in his Triple Cross time-line) such as Ali Mohamed, a U.S. Army Sergeant at Fort Bragg who started a sleeper cell that later executed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.; FBI Special Agent Nancy Floyd who recruited Emad Salem to infiltrate the blind Sheikh's cell; and Gregory Scarpa Jr., a member of the Colombo crime family who shared a prison cell with Ramzi Yousef, who was involved in the 'Bojinka Plot', and in the downing of TWA Flight 800, according to Lance. He also talked about efforts by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to quash the paperback release of his book, Triple Cross

Publishing a new book called: Apathy in America

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