“Our unfortunate financial plight is not the result of untoward events nor or the conditions related to our natural resources . . . With plenteous crops, with abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture, with unusual invitation to safe investment and with satisfactory assurance to business enterprise—suddenly financial distrust and fear have sprung up on every side. [There was a “panic” that was not caused by some “natural” event like drought.  The panic occurred “suddenly” due to man-made causes.]  Numerous moneyed institutions have suspended business because abundant assets were not immediately available to meet the demands of frightened depositors. [There were bank runs that forced banks to close.] Surviving corporations and individuals are content to keep in hand the money they are usually anxious to loan [Credit dried up.], and those engaged in legitimate business are surprised to find that the securities they offer for loans though heretofore satisfactory, are no longer accepted. Values supposed to be fixed are fast becoming conjectural, and loss and failure have invaded every branch of business.”

“I believe these things are principally chargeable to Congressional legislation touching the purchase and coinage of silver by the General Government.”

“Undoubtedly the monthly purchases by the Government of four million and five hundred thousand ounces of silver, enforced under that statute, were regarded by those interested in silver production as a certain guaranty of its increases in price. The result, however, has been entirely different, for immediately following a spasmodic and slight rise, the price of silver began to fall after the passage of the act and has since reached the lowest point ever known.”

“This law [Sherman Silver Purchase Act] provides that in payment for the four million and five hundred thousand ounces of silver bullion which the Secretary of Treasury is commanded to purchase monthly, there shall be issued Treasury [paper] notes redeemable on demand in gold or silver coin . . . .

“It is, however, declared in the act to be ‘the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on the parity with each other upon the present legal ratio [16:1] or such ratio as may be provided by law.’  This declaration so controls the action of the Secretary of the Treasury as to prevent his exercising the discretion nominally vested in him, if by such action the parity between gold and silver may be disturbed. Manifestly a refusal by the Secretary notes in gold, if demanded, would necessarily result in their discredit and depreciation as obligations payable only in silver, and would destroy the parity between the two metals by establishing a discrimination in favor of gold.”

“ We have thus made the depletion of our gold easy, have tempted other and more appreciative nations to add it to their stock.”

“. . . large amounts of gold . . . have been recently drawn from our Treasury and exported to increase the financial strength of foreign nations.”

“. . . [I]t is apparent that the operation of the silver purchase law now in force, leads in the direction of the entire substitution of silver for the gold in the Government Treasury, and that this must be followed by the payment of all Government obligations in depreciated silver.”

“ At this stage gold and silver must part company and Government must fail in its established policy to maintain the two metals on parity with each other. Given over to the exclusive use of a currency greatly depreciated according to the standard of the Commercial world, we could no longer claim a place among nations of the first class, nor could our Government claim a performance of its obligations . . . to provide for the use of the people the best and safest money.

“The knowledge . . . that our Government cannot make its fiat equivalent to intrinsic value, nor keep inferior money on a parity with superior money by its own independent efforts, has resulted in such a lack of confidence in the stability of currency values that capital refuses its aid to new enterprises while millions are actually withdrawn from the channels of trade and commerce to become idle and unproductive in the hands of timid owners.”

“But when our avowed endeavor is to maintain such parity in regard to an amount of silver increasing at the rate of fifty millions of dollars yearly, with no fixed termination to such increase, it can hardly be said that a problem is presented whose solution is free from doubt.”

“The people of the United States are entitled to a sound and stable currency and to money recognized as such on every exchange and in every market of the world. Their Government has no right to injure them by financial experiments opposed to the policy and practice of other civilized states . . . .

“This matter . . . vitally concerns every business and calling and enters every household in the land. . . . when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuation of values; but the wage-earner—the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction is practically defenseless. . . .

“[Congressman Henry Clay] . . . said; ‘The very man of all others who has the deepest interest in a sound currency and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in money matters, is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil.’  [Such legislation] especially injures those of our countrymen who labor . . . .

“. . . I earnestly recommend the prompt repeal of the provisions of the [Sherman Silver Purchasing] act . . . and that other legislative action may put beyond all doubt or mistake the intention and the ability of the Government to fulfill its pecuniary obligations in money universally recognized by all civilized countries."

Science Sells
by Herbalist Wendy Wilson

In this information age we are bombarded daily with what we are told are genuine scientific facts. Think about the image that has formed in your mind regarding science and those employed in scientific fields. Images of men and women with undisputed authority, wearing white coats, testing the limits of creation and seem to be above reproach. The entire field of science is surrounded in an appearance of justified understanding. The term understanding is rooted in righteous judgment. So, what are we to do when the pillars upholding the halls of science start to crack? Influential industries and global politics have their foundations planted firmly in science.   The modern world has become an addict to the drug called "science." Why does this field carry such unprecedented authority that people rarely question it and for the most part trust it without proof of trustworthiness? It is a field that can command outrageous fees without a guarantee. The other profession that has a similar setup is the legal system. If modern society uses science to define the world and guide their conscious, what will happen to humanity should science fail?


SLAVE TO MEDICINE

A few folks are discovering that they don't own their medications; their medications own them. Thanks to the science they believed in they have their disease managed. Their disease is maintained, monitored, controlled with drug therapy. Their drugs are their lifeline and without them they perish.  Nearly half of Americans are taking 1-2 prescription drugs. In 2008 the CDC published some key findings showing the increasing dependency on drugs over a period of ten years:

"There is a tremendous amount to be gained by getting away with fraud in medical studies. The reason is simple. A single paper in Lancet [medical journal] and you get your chair and you get your money. It's your passport to success."
—Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet (emphasis added)

"You are a gatekeeper. Your job, on the first day of every year, is to unlock the gate and leave it open, so that people can pass through. But you know that, when you open the gate, 100,000 people who pass through will die in the following year. Yet, every January 1st, you keep opening the gate. That's what the FDA is – a gatekeeper. But of course, the people at the FDA are just like us. They wouldn't do THAT, they wouldn't do THAT, they wouldn't do that. But they did. They do. They continue to do it."
—John Rappoport