On today's show, we have a special guest on the show, Alex Blumberg. Alex is a long time member of the Texas City Council and a regular contributor to the Texas Chronicle. He has been with us for over 20 years and has been a consistent opponent of big government and big banks. He is also a frequent guest on Fox News and other conservative media outlets.
00:01:32.000They want you in substandard compact cities.
00:01:34.000In fact, we're going to talk about the city and the county in a second after these calls.
00:01:37.000And I'm sure you read it because you read most of the major papers.
00:01:41.000Here, the Osprecher-Statesman had Kirk Watson, our mayor of the city, openly saying he wants compact cities just like the eastern U.S. or Europe.
00:02:49.000Mike, if you just wiggle the wires behind some of the equipment.
00:02:52.000Again, this is not staged BS. This is not pre-taped teleprompter reading.
00:02:56.000This is people in here trying to do a public service.
00:02:58.000And this is something that's really incredible.
00:03:00.000The city of Boston, we are very, very fortunate.
00:03:02.000we have one of the best public access systems in the whole country and for that we're very very fortunate absolutely very very few cities have this talk are yeah alex george thanks for having me on uh...
00:03:16.000i have my question about the federal reserve and i understand it uh...
00:03:19.000fairly really good at this point but i have the question of without go ahead with we can't really hear you but keep talking about what we're in the other room go ahead question is for george is uh...
00:03:31.000If Congress prints the money, then how would that be any better?
00:03:34.000Because all the people right now that own the Federal Reserve, because it is private, I mean, I can own part of the Federal Reserve if I want, if I've got money, right?
00:03:42.000Okay, I can't hear everything, but the one thing I did hear is, if Congress prints the money, how would that make that better?
00:03:56.000I wrote up in the first article of the Constitution, in Article 1, Section 8, and Article 1, Section 10, that we would have a publicly owned, decentralized bank with a hard currency.
00:04:10.000And the fact is, is that if we have a decentralized bank that has a hard currency, we can issue currency with no debt.
00:04:22.000This has been done four times in the history of this country.
00:04:25.000From 1782 through 1792, we created no debt.
00:04:31.000And then when Jackson came in in 1832 for seven years, we had constitutional money.
00:04:39.000And he took us out of debt because they paid off the bills without creating Federal Reserve Board notes.
00:04:46.000In other words, we paid using a hard currency.
00:04:49.000In 1861, Abraham Lincoln went to Lincoln Greenbacks.
00:04:54.000He issued $430 million of Lincoln Greenbacks during the Civil War.
00:05:01.000England was trying to lend us money at 19%, and Lincoln knew that we would go bankrupt if we ever took this loan.
00:05:10.000But his Secretary of State and his Secretary of Treasury said, read the Constitution, and we paid our Union soldiers and vendors.
00:05:19.000Using Lincoln greenbacks backed by gold.
00:05:22.000We almost got out of debt during that period of time, and after he was killed, after Lincoln was assassinated, his granddaughter wrote a book called This One Mad Act, in which she said John Wilkes Booth, even though he was a Confederate sympathizer, was actually hired by the Bank of England to assassinate Lincoln because they didn't want interest-free banking to spread to Europe.
00:05:46.000With both McKinley and Garfield, they both issued statements opposed to debt created in non-constitutional money.
00:05:54.000Both were murdered within three weeks.
00:05:56.000Lewis McFadden, a Democrat from Pennsylvania between 1926 to 1936, made dozens and dozens of impassioned and very articulate speeches about having Well, look, it's very historical.
00:06:45.000Because between 1796 and 1913, when the population of the United States increased many, many-fold, and the industrial might of this country increased even greater...
00:06:54.000The total inflation between that period of time was only 21.5%.
00:06:58.000Between 1913 to today, with the Federal Reserve Board, we have had 1,450% inflation, and it's going to get a heck of a lot worse.
00:07:07.000Well, look, I'm going to explain the caller's question.
00:07:09.000Now, most of you have gone to the government training centers, as did I, okay?
00:07:13.000And there's a lot of stuff that's a lot flashier and will tantalize your brain a little bit better.
00:07:18.000But this is what it comes down to, okay?
00:07:24.000To the point soon that the government will be able to take 90% of what you make of your labor.
00:07:29.000But there'll be so many trappings of success, trappings of power, decent vehicles, nice clothes, decent housing.
00:07:36.000Okay, but the problem is that cycle goes down because there's no incentive for the establishment once they have you fully dumbed under their control to take good care of you.
00:07:45.000And besides, it squelches, it squashes the human spirit.
00:07:50.000Don't you want some control over your own destiny?
00:07:52.000That's why America's had more patents, more innovations than any other nation in the world, because we had some modicum of freedom.
00:08:42.000Realize that you have a capacity to be a creative entity here on this planet, and you don't have to only react to everything you see and hear.
00:09:02.000About five or six months ago, I don't know if it was on your program, there was a great three or four hour video on the Money Changers and the IMF. Yeah, that's Capital Crimes.
00:09:54.000The average stock today, after the drop, is still at a price-earnings ratio of 22 to 1. The average high-tech stocks that we're talking about are 60 to 1. That means that you would have to have 60 years of profits and earnings just to pay for your stock.
00:10:36.000What is happening right now is an international set of events.
00:10:40.000By escalating the money supply, especially from Japan, to increase what's called M3, that money is coming here, pumping up our stock market.
00:10:49.000The people of the United States, the middle income, are putting their money into it, and then they're going to be fleeced.
00:10:54.000They're going to constrict the money supply.
00:12:06.000I was taught the whole stuff about how if you had deficit spending, it was good for the economy.
00:12:12.000When I was taught about fractional reserve banking, I became almost physically and emotionally sick for days because it burst the whole dream, the whole bubble.
00:12:22.000Folks, what we're saying, again, we're saying don't necessarily believe us, but go and do your own.
00:12:26.000Listen to what we're saying and do your research.
00:12:56.000In 1933, your illustrious big government president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after they'd brought you to your knees from 39 to 33 for four years, came in and said the solution is to take the gold up from people.
00:13:08.000They took the gold up, gave us paper back that they printed.
00:13:50.000Warren Buffett bought half of the 1998 market of silver.
00:13:55.000And he's the second, supposedly second-wrenching market.
00:13:58.000And today, both the gold and silver markets went down tremendously.
00:14:01.000In the last couple days, gold has gone from 285 down to 276. And the reason is because the Russians, who have the largest stockpile of gold in the world, they are totally broke.
00:14:14.000They are wiped out, and they're trying to get cash.
00:18:08.000Most of our pharmaceutical companies that were privately owned or owned by U.S. stockholders are being purchased by Britain and Germany.
00:18:14.000Britain and Germany, not Japan, are buying everything.
00:18:18.000Well, in answer to your question, Michael Dell clearly is very wealthy, but just like Alex said, he's small potatoes in comparison to big guys.
00:18:27.000Folks, even if he's worth a billion, two, three, four, five billion dollars, he's small potatoes.
00:18:32.000Now, if you work for Dell, I think it's a great idea that the employees have stock.
00:18:36.000I think that participation in the company is a great thing.
00:19:15.000Yes, I just wanted to know what your suggestion would be on having a 401k.
00:19:21.000Well, I say get out of it first of all.
00:19:25.000First of all, the mutual funds, the 401Ks, the IRAs, in the history of the United States is that traditionally Americans have put about 27 to 30 percent of their disposable resources into paper, either stocks and bonds.
00:19:39.000Today in the United States, in the last five years, that number has gone up from about 35 percent to 72 percent.
00:19:46.000In cycles, and the fact is that we're putting twice as much of our money, relatively, into these stocks and bonds.
00:19:53.000And folks, the market not only is inflated, but if you put your money into mutual funds or IRAs or 401ks, they have a nasty little mechanism.
00:20:04.000A derivative is a new funding mechanism in which you have...
00:20:19.000And instead of being leveraged at 2 to 1, the average derivative is leveraged at 35 to 1. So if it goes up, you're making a heck of a lot of money.
00:20:27.000But because it's a zero-sum game, it has to come back to zero.
00:20:31.000When the money supply stops, It will go down at 35 to 1. And if you have a mutual fund in every major mutual fund company that I'm aware of, get out of it.
00:20:42.000And not only will it take your equity of the derivatives, it will swallow up your whole mutual fund.
00:20:49.000Folks, when the derivatives hit, such as what happened in Orange County last year or in Singapore with a 28-year-old investor for Barclays Bank, he lost $8 billion in two days.
00:21:00.000Folks, the derivative market, when it starts going, it will fall so fast, so hard, and any of you that have your mutual funds, have any of those, you're gone.
00:21:09.000Ma'am, does that answer your question?
00:24:39.000If you doubt that, the Sony Handycam just got recalled because a little cheap camera can see through your clothes if you use the night vision attribute during the day.
00:24:48.000They can see right through your walls and see heat sources.
00:25:22.000Where's the FCC checking these suckers out?
00:25:25.000The police cars are putting them on top of their police cars.
00:25:28.000I mean, this is a big, serious problem.
00:25:31.000Elshire lied about ASAP. Elshire, I asked him point blank three weeks ago if the county budget was $13 million over because I had the numbers.
00:25:38.000He said, no longer, we've cut the budget.
00:26:17.000You know, I can go out and yell for the cowboys all day long, and I'm a good American, but I get pissed about women and old people losing their damn houses?
00:26:25.000Judge Elshower, how do you sleep at night?
00:26:27.000Let's talk about lies real fast, and then we'll get to the budget.
00:26:30.000Let's talk about Nelda Wells Spears, Travis County tax assessor and tax collector.
00:27:57.000This budget is balanced after implementing approximately $6.8 million in budget cuts and eliminating 51 staff positions.
00:28:07.000A few non-property tax sources of revenue from fees were increased, but the county is very limited by the state law and its ability to increase such revenues.
00:28:16.000Folks, this is garbage, it's incorrect, and it's lies.
00:28:20.000All you have to do is go back and look, which most people don't.
00:28:24.000The budget for this year, FY97-98, was $301 million.
00:28:30.000For the coming year, they are proposing an increase to $439 million.
00:28:36.000And how much was it 12 years ago before Elshar got in?
00:28:39.000No, the year Elshar, his first budget was $79 million.
00:28:45.000In 12 years, the total spending of the budget has gone up 281% or 23% a year.
00:28:53.000If you take population and inflation and put them together, the budget has gone up three times faster than those rates.
00:29:18.000That is the draft FY1999 Travis County budget adopted by the Travis County Commissions Court on August 20th, 1998. Hot off the press is about 10 days old.
00:29:28.000Now, you probably think this is all for you.
00:29:32.000Let's take the city budget, which is over a billion now, correct?
00:29:34.000Oh, the city budget is about $1.3 billion.
00:29:37.000Okay, let's talk about what the city did.
00:29:40.000Now, the county's not even as bad as the city.
00:29:42.000Well, actually, the county's worse, relatively.
00:29:45.000Well, four sides, but, I mean, I'm talking about...
00:30:11.000And then the Chronicle, who's a decent paper, I mean, but they're sitting there acting like he's this guy that always stands up for the people in here.
00:30:17.000He's a tough guy, but he does it his way.
00:32:10.000I mean, you used to be a city council member.
00:32:11.000And folks, the fact is that AISD, the city and the county, especially AISD and the county, have increased their tax levies for the last 15 years at rates so far in excess of what we are getting.
00:33:02.000Well, and the thing I want to stress is, It's not just Bill.
00:33:06.000It's all the other county commissioners, it's all the other AISD board members, and it's all the other city council members who don't have the gumption or the strength or the knowledge to try and live within their financial means.
00:34:22.000They sit there, and now the state education code that Steve Lane went and got says a truancy is six to ten absences, but they're giving them out.
00:34:30.000They're just doing whatever the hell they want.
00:34:31.000Folks, a third grader who misses school for whatever reason, and they send an armed constable to your house?
00:36:58.000Sir, she has been having private meetings with EMS people.
00:37:03.000Trying to convince them on what a great idea it is.
00:37:06.000She's been taking, like, the supervisors.
00:37:08.000Well, she's going to be taking over for Elshire because she's shown the rodent-like behavior that they love so much.
00:37:15.000Well, what's interesting is I've known Karen for a long time, too.
00:37:18.000And five years ago, I used to be with a group called Tax Freeze 92, and Karen came out in 93, and she said that if she was elected county commissioner, she wouldn't vote for any tax increases.
00:37:32.000County tax increases have gone up far faster than the rate of inflation, and now she's voting for the largest tax increase in the history of Central Texas.
00:37:39.000Yeah, she's on a power trip, ladies and gentlemen.
00:39:06.000But, you know, I learned a lot of things about that ordeal since I had to go through it.
00:39:12.000And what it boils down to, it used to be a defense against arrest, but now it's a defense against prosecution, which means that on the discretion of the police officer, No matter what condition the handgun is in, he can arrest you for it right there on the spot.
00:39:26.000Of course you have a deadly firearm, but we're going to release all the criminals we can.
00:39:31.000We're going to hire quite a few of them.
00:40:56.000It's called Confirm, Banks and Fed in Bed with Drugs.
00:41:00.000In America's War on Drugs, Uncle Sam's left hand is unaware what his right hand is doing.
00:41:04.000The global narcotics trade, having grossed a record $400 billion last year, owes its prosperity not to face the smugglers or street...
00:41:16.000Hey, hey, this month, I couldn't believe it, the cover of the Esquire, it's a big feature story in the August issue of Esquire, or maybe it's September, I've got it out in the car.
00:41:30.000In fact, during the break, I'll go grab it.
00:42:24.000Now, we're fixing to go to this first story, but I want to tell you, every Thursday at 5.30 on Channel 10, you can watch the Freedom Report, but this is just this month.
00:42:34.000Next month, we're going to have all new show time, so stay tuned for the Freedom Report, exposing corruption, and all the rest of the stuff.
00:44:08.000Comedy piece, but it's, again, not comedy, of President Yeltsin and General Drago discussing how they wish that they were more like America, a more high-tech police state.
00:47:20.000All right, now we're fixing to play a quick excerpt from the Sammy and Bob show.
00:47:26.000Sammy Allred and Bob Cole of KVET Radio, who have made fun of people that have called in in the past and talked about issues of freedom and liberty.
00:47:34.000But now they're starting to copy the act?
00:48:47.000And then when he went to treatment, there were not only doctors and nurses, but there were airline pilots also who were, you know, flying our planes and stuff.
00:53:01.000I ask the commissioner's court that you only have three and a half to four minutes to speak.
00:53:06.000That doesn't seem to me to be enough time to get your pointer from.
00:53:10.000No, if you're succinct and pointed and there's enough people coming down, and again, that's tomorrow at 9 o'clock at the Stokes Building, 314th West 11th.
00:53:21.000So you have to have a certain amount of people to get a certain amount of time?
00:53:24.000No, no, I'm just saying it's good to have a lot of people down there bitching.
00:53:27.000It takes up a lot of their time, and they think about it.
00:55:28.000I know it's the system, but when I went back to college in the early 70s, one of my professors, in an hour-and-a-half class, his entire class was nothing more than reading a list of companies owned and controlled by the Rockefellers.
00:55:47.000They broke Standard Oil up into eight companies.
00:55:49.000They still all controlled all of them.
00:55:51.000But he talked for, he listed an hour and a half, and he was still talking and listing company names when he walked out of the classroom.
00:56:03.000David Rockefeller is the chairman of the CFR. He is the founder of the Trilateral Commission, and he has been a major member of the Bilderbergers.
00:56:14.000These are the three most important political organizations in the world, and David Rockefeller and his family is head of the North American part of the Illuminati.
00:56:22.000Well, my point was, if people could, if they put it in perspective, if people could realize that to speak for an hour and a half and do nothing but read companies and controlling...
00:56:44.000Now, there's a list of some of the shows that are like-minded programs in a lot of respects here on AXIS TV. And it's just all different individual producers.
00:56:54.000And they come up and put out a lot of good information.
00:57:00.000Here, let me give you a quote from David Rockefeller not too long ago.
00:57:04.000Quote, it would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright light of publicity during those years.
00:57:13.000But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government.
00:57:18.000David Rockefeller is head of the power elite here in North America.
00:57:23.000Let's take just a few more calls, and then we'll go ahead and wind up with closing statements.
00:57:32.000- Thanks, this is George Humphrey. - I'm sorry, hey, I just went to Municipal Airport and saw 14 Apache helicopters and five Black Hawk helicopters.
00:57:44.000- Yeah, there's a lot of maneuvers going on.
00:57:46.000A lot of that's out in the open military.
00:57:48.000Then there's CIA, then there's Delta, then there's Special Marine Task Force.
00:58:45.000The Fourth Amendment of the United States, one of the major foundational points of the foundation of the United States is posse comatose, in which our founding fathers said that federal forces...
00:58:54.000We should not get involved with local law enforcement.
00:59:10.000It's unbelievable that the United States government this year has a $78 billion, not million, billion dollar black budget in which our money goes into the FEMA... The CIA and the NSA in which not only we can't find out where that money goes, but our representatives can't find it.
00:59:44.000Six and a half months ago, William Cohen announced on national television the creation of ten secret regional teams.
00:59:50.000He announces that it's secret, it's here, but he didn't announce the details.
00:59:53.000Just in the paper several weeks ago, I read it here on the air, the statesman, 50 new National Guard teams.
00:59:59.000Then they've created, the CIA has its own teams, and I've shown it here, the statesman admitting it's CIA black helicopter bases, and they made it like a big joke and had the townsfolk up in North Carolina, yeah, North Carolina, saying how much they loved it.
01:00:12.000In fact, we can queue that up, Mike, if you have the LA Philippus Delta Force tape, it's at the first.
01:00:17.000If we have time to get that on in the last few minutes, I'd love to get that up.
01:00:29.000And lo and behold, two days after the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton, through his lackey, Charles Schumer, out of New York, introduced the anti-terrorist bill.
01:00:39.000In the anti-terrorist bill, they can tap your telephone without a warrant.
01:00:43.000They can use the CIA, the FBI. And the Delta Force to come in and arrest people and get involved in local law enforcement and override a constitutional...
01:00:52.000Delta tried to come to San Antonio and tried to bribe people.
01:00:56.000And there's Henry B. Gonzalez talking about the concentration camps.
01:01:17.000I was calling to see if you can run that list again of those shows that you just ran because I want to record it so I can make notes of the shows.
01:01:27.000Mike's trying to get us a Delta Force deal right now, but there's some concentration camp facilities, according to Congressman.
01:02:19.000I think that's something people should think about.
01:02:22.000I hope some people call and check on theirs and find out what's going on with that.
01:02:27.000Rusty Fields, I'll tell you what, this is a guy that I've known for a while, and not too long ago he left his job so that he could work to let people know that the Constitutional Republic of the United States is under attack and that the police state is taking over.
01:02:45.000He's a great guy, and he is dedicating his life for this right now.
01:02:48.000And folks, all of this, you can have all the information in the world, but if you don't get inspired and if you don't get involved, if you don't get educated, if you don't tell other people, The momentum is going to continue.
01:02:58.000And Rusty will be back Monday night hosting this show from 7 to 8, 30 p.m.
01:03:06.000That is Rusty Fields, an excellent guy.
01:03:08.000In fact, we're talking about starting some steering committees and trying to get people together and figure out real political action, not grandstanding, which most of us are guilty of.
01:03:18.000And also, there's a new South Austin station.