October 2010 meeting

Sunday, October 31, two o'clock

Place

The Panera's on Tiedeman, in Brooklyn (details and a map, below), in their enclosed meeting room (which I reserved -- one of their concerns is the busy Sunday crowd, which might require the extra space; I told the manager that the "overflow" crowd could join us in the room).

This month's topic

We're going "off the books" this month, with a talk and discussion led by Jeff Kanter on the federal reserve, money, and banks -- how they work, their histories, and what's been happening lately. In the last several months, I forwarded links to several services Jeff provides -- self-banking, alternate currencies, and debt reduction. Below, a few links from Jeff to videos and books, and if I get any related readings, I'll pass those along.

For this month

First, a video of a talk by Mike Maloney to a Russian Bankers' symposium on how the banking system works; here's Amazon's listings of Maloney's books.

Next, a lecture by G. Edward Griffin, "The Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank - How usury destroyed America," maybe based on his book The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve.

At the last meeting, Jeff told us about the movie "America: Freedom to Fascism," by the late filmmaker and libertarian activist Aaron Russo -- Russo's Wikipedia page says he was also a 9/11 truth activist. You can see the whole movie on YouTube. The start of the movie (about the 16th Amendment and the federal income tax) reminded me of a 1954 book I recently listed -- The Income Tax: The Root of All Evil, by Frank Chodorov (who was an early associate of William F. Buckley, Jr.).

Jeff also forwarded a link to TrueWorldHistory.info, "a repository of outstanding documentaries about money"; at the bottom of the page, there are links to an "Expanded Video List" and "Recommended Books."

All of this reminds me of a book whose title I think I forwarded before, but... -- it's 13 Bankers: Wall Street Takeover, Next Financial Meltdown (by Simon Johnson & James Kwak); Harvey says a reviewer referred to 13 Bankers as being more detailed and comprehensive than Scheer's book.

Finally, the web-site of a magazine I saw in North Carolina, Republic Magazine, highlights the book Dishonest Money, by Joseph Plummer -- about the banking system and federal reserve.