Libertas Continued

100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility By  Ellen Brown/Web of Debt Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on pinterest_share December 23rd, 2013, marks the 100 th  anniversary of the Federal Reserve, warranting a review of its performance.  Has it achieved the purposes for which it was designed? The answer depends on whose purposes we are talking about.  For the banks, the Fed has served quite well.  For the laboring masses whose populist movement prompted it, not much has changed in a century. Thwarting Populist Demands The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913 in response to a wave of bank crises, which had hit on average every six years over a period of 80 years. The resulting economic depressions triggered a populist movement for monetary reform in the 1890s.  Mary Ellen Lease, an early populist leader, said in  a fiery speech  that could have been written today: Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a governmen

Film gets Oscar nod, book on year's top 10 lists, a journalist is freed. UK theatrical release poster from  Britdoc Films , designed by James Franklin at  Assemble . WHAT A YEAR Yes, you read that  new poster  right, the spy master himself,  John le Carré , calls the film "gripping, compelling and totally convincing." Thank you, sir. A year that began with the film's  Sundance premiere in January  has continued at a rapid pace. In the spring, Jeremy took to the road for two months, talking in small towns and on big media about the investigation documented in  his book .   Summer saw the movie on more than 200 screens in North America, with Jeremy and Rick criss-crossing the country for  audience discussions .   The film has since opened in many countries and Jeremy's book is now available in English worldwide and in translation in  Spanish  and German , with other languages coming soon.   Mass electronic su