Bizarre? Now this is Bizarre!

78  2010-02-26 by ThePhaedrus

From this week's exchange between Ron Paul and Ben Bernanke:

Ron Paul: ...a lot of cash was passed through - and a lot of people suppose it was passed through the Federal Reserve - when there was a provisional government [in Iraq] after the 2003 invasion. That money was not appropriated by the Congress as required by law...

Ben Bernanke: Congressman, these specific allegations you've made are absolutely bizarre, and I have no knowledge of anything remotely like what you just described.

Let's ask Henry Waxman (July 2009)

Henry Waxman: In a 13 month period from May 2003 to June 2004, the Federal Reserve sent nearly $12 billion in cash, mainly in $100 bills from the United States to Iraq. To do that, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York had to pack 281 million individual bills ... onto wooden pallets to be shipped to Iraq. The cash weighed more than 363 tons and was loaded onto C-130 cargo planes to be flown into Baghdad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kskdHCOiI

Bizarre? Yes, I think something very bizarre is going on.

17 comments

50  [deleted] 2010-02-26

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4  blacksunalchemy 2010-02-26

It's almost like...they all have something to hide. Or that they are afraid of something if they speak out. This perhaps?

http://www.mackwhite.com/northwoods.html

3  DogBotherer 2010-02-26

Not so much bizarre as depressing. It just shows how the global elite not only think they are above the law, but in many cases actually appear to be so.

11  screwupal 2010-02-26

There's a documentary called IRAQ'S MISSING BILLIONS that investigates what happened to the money. As far as I recall, outside business interests extorted most of the funds (supposedly belonging to Iraqis) through fraudulent contracts and whatnot. Even US soldiers had a hand skimming through the pallets, and no one cared.

9  johnanderson23 2010-02-26

haha..... the rabbit hole is so deep and just crazy!

5  bsr816 2010-02-26

you didnt hear about that right after it happened?i mean right after the money was distributed,the news was all over the place.

8  [deleted] 2010-02-26

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4  bsr816 2010-02-26

dont get pissed im just trying to accelerate the paradigm by provoking learning.in other words,you should have got pissed when it happened not this much later when they can say "oh that happened YEARS ago.". think about it.

7  bittermanscolon 2010-02-26

Its not about that. Not everyone has seen this and EVERYONE needs to hear it. Its part of the puzzle, and when the dollar eventually crashes, you'll know why you're now asking for food stamps.

Tell me you know the bubble will never burst. Tell me you can print money forever and nothing happens.

This is not for you bsr816, you're just there at the right time. Its for other people who don't understand when they're being hosed.

Be informed.

4  nonamecynic 2010-02-26

brs816, just a very gentle reminder: most redditors are in the late teens-mid twenties age range. They were just kids when this occurred. So it's quite possible that many redditors are just hearing about it for the first time.

Sometimes it's easy to forget how young redditors are. It saddens me that, for many of them, the last atrocious decade is the one they're old enough to remember.

1  hosndosn 2010-02-26

Uhm... that was 2009?

4  bittermanscolon 2010-02-26

Follow the money. Its the only thing that will track back to those who want control.

3  scientologist2 2010-02-26

Someone should send a few thousand letters by conventional mail referring mr bernanke to the correct sources. It should be enough that it makes the news.

3  mvlazysusan 2010-02-26

In addition, it may be recalled that one or more plane loads of money that were sent to the Middle East ostensibly to dollarise the Iraqi economy in 2003 never arrived – the reason being that it was in fact parked with the Central Bank of Jordan under the name of Malik. A total of 55 pallets of these notes, sourced by the US Treasury, is believed to have been flown back in to Fort Hood. http://en.netlog.com/groups/the_regulators_/forum/messageid=227580 End the FED

2  accidentshappen 2010-02-26

Lets not forget former US ambassador of Iraq set to head up the rebuilding efforts, L. Paul Bremer III out of the picture.

Quoted from that article:

This week, we were treated to the spectacle of the former U.S. civilian overlord of Iraq, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, squirming in the hot seat as he attempted with little success to explain what he did with 363 TONS of newly printed, shrink-wrapped $100 bills he had flown to Baghdad.

That's $12 billion in cold, hard American cash, and no one, especially Bremer, seems to know where it went.

He's the former coordinator for counter-terrorism for the US government, and a former assistant to Henry Kissinger himself.

Here he is in a video interview just hours after the 9/11 attacks. At the time he was working at Marsh USA, who's offices happened to be almost exactly the set of floors hit in WTC1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pW6WZhZrQ

Full transcript of the video is here.

"It is a day that will change our lives. It's a day that the war that the terrorists declared on the United States, and after all they did declare a way on us, has been brought home to the United States in a much more dramatic way than we've seen before. So it will change our lives."

1  zombiecyborghitler 2010-02-26

I heard about it when it happened. Seriously though no-one gave a fuck then or now.It actually IS move along nothing to see.

11  bittermanscolon 2010-02-26

APATHY, you're its bitch.

Next you'll be saying "They're fucking me up the ass now!, never mind move along, nothing to see here." right?

When the US dollar collapses, you'll be shocked as well? When its worth nothing, you'll be all like......"nothing to see here".

You don't even know when you're being fucked.

2  zombiecyborghitler 2010-02-26

To the contrary.I realized it long before this ever happened.I was already taking steps to get out of harms way. Having done that ,my vantage point allows me to maintain relative calm.I know that calm is sometimes misread as apathy. When the US dollar collapses, Catch up to the game bro! Thats already long ago happened. You cant Fight this.Its SLAVERY. Plain and simple. Choices are limited. Abscond ,resist ,rebel.

5  kcjameson 2010-02-26

i think no one gives a fuck is because they don't know they should. When this stuff is brought up I hardly hear anyone saying "this person(s) broke such and such law and it is so and so department's job to bring charges and they aren't doing their job because of such and such." Since we're talking about the Fed no one seems to know how or if we can punish anybody. they are the untouchable authority of the country, if not world it seems.