"If you are unaware of the global control of banking and politics then you are woefully unaware of what is going on in the world."

Tony, you've got it backwards.  You of all people.  You have an on-line business and unless you are demanding a cash remittance via snail mail you are in concert with the "global control" that you think exists.  If you and everyone else thinks as you do - you could close down your on-line business, open a store front and demand payment in person in cash only.  That's the way much of the world operated 150 years ago (along with barter), and you can still do it today.  Until you totally avoid banking of any kind, you're simply not practicing what you say you believe.

I could give you an extensive history of banking or even just a smattering but you simply wouldn't understand it.  In the past 150 years in particular the world has shrunk.  It has become a global emporium and to participate in the emporium requires international banking - far from perfect as I've said before and I think that Bernanke of the Federal Reserve is woefully unqualified for his position.  He isn't being controlled by "global bankers" - he's just plain stupid.  Sorry Mr. George W. Bush, but that permeated your administration from the top.  

You can provide all the links you wish but it doesn't change the fact that we are now more than ever a global community that requires cooperation in order to exist.  If you see that cooperation as a conspiracy, then there are conspiracies on every street corner, in every neighborhood, and in every family.

Below are some notes from the current G20 meeting which is trying to resolve the world economic ills and the Greek problem in particular.  Tell me - who is in the center controlling all of these conflicting statements?  The farther we travel in time on this planet, the more that cooperation amongst nations and peoples will be required, and the more that happens the more some folks will go nuts.

You have your focus externally.  Real freedom begins within.  I have personally known several, from survivors of the Bataan Death March to one who was pulled from a stack of dead bodies in a Nazi concentration camp, all of whom had more freedom during the most severe portion of their torture and incarceration than do the NWO freaks in their own warm, safe, homes of today.  You're still paranoid and living in fear.

Who is orchestrating the following meeting?  Why are the statements conflicting if there is someone controlling them?   Do you suppose that Angela Merkel is acting cantankerous because George W. Bush isn't giving her a back rub?  Or do you deny the fact that she has a voice of her own?  Gimme answers Tony.  

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100424-701068.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLE...

APRIL 24, 2010, 4:46 P.M. ET

LIVE: News And Notes From G-20, IMF And World Bank Meetings In Washington

World financial leaders are gathered in Washington for three days of meetings on the global economy. Among the issues greeting them: the Greek debt crisis, unwinding the stimulus measures put in place during the financial crisis and whether to tax banks for funds to protect against future crises.

On Saturday, Greek financial officials were slated to hold bilateral talks with the U.S., Brazil and Russia and meet with IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The International Monetary Fund's International Monetary and Financial Committee also meets to provide direction to the IMF's policies, including possible expansion of its mandate and giving developing countries more power within the institution. Saturday's events follow a G-20 meeting of finance ministers, where leaders failed to reach any specific agreements but said world economies were recovering better than previously anticipated.

(16:45 EDT) Germany's hard line in the Greek debt crisis is beginning to look distinctly unfashionable. While everyone else from Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling is insisting on a quick agreement on the conditions of the aid package and a speedy disbursement, Angela Merkel is holding out for more evidence of "credible austerity" before she writes Greece a check. The degree of her isolation became clear when the fiscally righteous Dutch argued that "too much time is being spent in the process." The reason for German intransigence is clear: Merkel knows that any aid check will outrage domestic voters, and there's barely a week to go before elections in Germany's biggest state, North Rhine-Westphalia. (Geoffrey Smith)

(15:30 EDT) Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti is a sly politician. His latest trick over Italy's public debt may be believed by the public back at home, but international markets are unlikely to buy it. Tremonti attempted to downplay Italy's huge debt load, which compared to the size of its economy was higher than Greece's in 2009, by going on Italian-controlled TV and waving a table he said was from the IMF that "showed Italy alongside Germany on public debt." But official European numbers show that the debt of Germany, known for its fiscal rectitude, stood at 73.2% of GDP in 2009. Italy's debt was 115.8% of GDP last year, slightly higher than Greece's 115.1% of GDP. So what was the table about? Tremonti's spokesman brought a copy and, yes, it does show Italy next to Germany and Canada. But it's only a complex estimate of budget cuts that would be required to cut the debt to 60% of GDP in 2030--and no source is mentioned. (Luca Di Leo)

(15:26 EDT) Questions about the Greece crisis dominated a closing press conference of the IMF's monetary and financial committee, but answers didn't. IMF head Strauss-Kahn was ready for the onslaught with a concise--and polite--no comment. "All the results of the negotiations the IMF has with the Greeks will be available at the end of the negotiations," Strauss-Kahn said, shutting down the first Greek question with political precision. This answer or one like it applied each time as reporters probed for details on the Greek aid package, such as whether the beleaguered euro-zone country needs more aid than the EUR45 billion package being discussed. (Mark H. Anderson and Tom Barkley)

(15:11 EDT) Argentina continues to maintain its black sheep reputation in the international community. After Finance Minister Amado Boudou nixed the prospects of reaching an agreement with the IMF to restart economic surveillance consultations earlier this week, fund officials made it clear the country's refusal to share economic information is a hindrance to both its own economic progress and to others in an increasingly economically interdependent world. That Argentina is in the G-20 and thus by definition a "systemically important" country makes this all the more important, said Nicolas Eyzaguirre, the fund's director for the western hemisphere. "Not having full information about one country that is systemically important impairs the ability of other ones to design their policies in the best possible way," Eyzaguirre said. (Michael Casey)

(13:27 EDT) Could Greece get some help from cash-rich China? People's Bank of China's deputy governor Yi Gang didn't give a straight answer when asked by reporters earlier Saturday morning. Instead, Yi said China was a stable force in financial markets and that he is confident the EU and the euro zone would address the Greece problems. Still, China has more than $2 trillion foreign reserves, the world's largest, and could play a secondary stabilizing role if the bailout package gave China confidence to buy some Greek bonds. (Min Zeng)

(13:16 EDT) Oil cartel OPEC took advantage of the IMF meeting to push its argument that speculation--and not simple supply and demand fundamentals--is largely to blame for crude price volatility. It said regulatory reform--one of the issues that world finance ministers are focusing on here--would be a key factor to avoid future price spikes and encourage market stability. It also signaled that despite prices that are threatening to push to $90 a barrel, it's taking a wait-and-see attitude to adding oil to the market. Although there are positive indications of a global recovery, there are mixed economic signals from the biggest consumer of oil, OECD states, and building petroleum inventories, said OPEC's head of petroleum studies Mohammad Alipour-Jeddi. (Ian Talley)

(13:16 EDT) Mario Draghi seems prescient Friday by suggesting the G-20 consider any bank tax proposals against a holistic approach to financial reform, which the Financial Stability Board chairman said would help "counter financial industry claims that the reforms could derail the economic and financial recovery." Sure enough, the G-20 received a letter Saturday from the Institute of International Finance--made up of world's largest financial institutions--complaining about the "extra potential burden" from bank taxes on top of possible tougher capital and liquidity requirements. IIF Managing Director Charles Dallara echoed Draghi's warning, saying the IMF's proposal for a flat tax on liabilities could actually discourage low-risk business and work against efforts to reduce systemic risk. (Tom Barkley)

(11:34 EDT) World financial leaders are engaged in a not-so-artful dance with China as they try to pressure Beijing into revaluing its currency, the yuan, without offending it. To save face, it seems, the undervalued yuan got no formal reference in the official G-20 communique Friday. That didn't stop U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner from saying afterwards that he expects China to reform its currency regime "because it is in their interest." Nor did it stop EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn from stating Saturday that "Chinese authorities are encouraged to implement soon a more flexible exchange rate regime." For his part, Brazilian finance minister Guido Mantega said the yuan-dollar peg "hurts other countries," but he said the real problem is the weak dollar. Mantega also threw out a curve ball: He and his Chinese counterpart, Xie Xuren, are discussing some sort of "differentiated exchange rate regime" so that bilateral trade can be conducted in "local currencies" to "avoid fluctuations" caused by the dollar's movements. Huh? (Michael Casey)

(10:29 EDT) Where's Papa? Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou reportedly arrived in Washington in the dark of night Saturday wearing a tracksuit and checked into a luxury hotel near the White House. But the Greek financial delegation later sneaked past teams of journalists unnoticed and, presumably, found its way into the secure perimeter where world financial leaders were huddled for a day of meetings. Papaconstantinou on Saturday is expected to meet privately with the IMF's Strauss-Kahn, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Brazilian and Russian financial leaders. (Mark H. Anderson and Luca Di Leo