Hartmann: Conversations with Great Minds - Ellen Brown, Web of Debt (Part 1)

[gerryhiles1]

Interest charged by banks IS a form of taxation, levied by privately owned corporations, which can and do shift money around globally with no regard for local, nor national social criteria, e.g. the provision of essential services such as hospitals, schools, roads and fire departments.

It is ironic that governments misallocate tax revenues, by paying interest on loans from private banks to fund spending on essential services, whereas these would be self-funding with public banking.

[gerryhiles1]

@gerryhiles1 To add - because I ran out of word allowance - all I have done is try to augment what Ellen is saying. I have been involved for quite a while.

Please go to her site for more information, e.g. Google "Web of Debt", because I do not know how to post a direct link here.

[kingofthepaupers]

4:45 Then Lincoln printed his own money during the civil war.

Jct: Buchanan's previous administration was first to use US Treasury Greenback dollars! Buchanan doesn't get credited enough for Lincoln's Greenbacks.

12:00 She didn't support Kucinich's NEED Act to End the FED using US Treasury Greenbacks like Lincoln though she admitted it would have worked like in old colonial days. Talk about blowing a chance to focus attention on a workable solution on the national agenda!

[skullandbadbones]

Not a great speaker but Ellen Brown is a genius. Her ideas are Truly democratic and her knowledge of the Banking system is marvelous.

[troxel02]

Currency should complement society, not enslave it

[megagagnon1]

Hartmann shouild have a "Conversation with great minds" with Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin. Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin would do as well.

[MrGnarus]

@megagagnon1 You are right. All 4 would be a great meme.

[Cabronosidad]

@megagagnon1 Rush Limbaugh? LOL. It's called 'Conversations of Great Minds', not great mounds!

[skullandbadbones]

@megagagnon1 Rush Limbaugh is a loud mouthed A-Hole. Rush has been caught in so many scandals most of his guests are politically unknown or stupid. He doesn't belong anywhere near Polite society much less be called a great mind.

[megagagnon1]

@skullandbadbones Yes, you're correct, Rush Limbaugh would make a fine president.

[bpartoens]

Thanks for the post. Ms. Brown is an interesting person and I always enjoy listening to her.