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The History and Organization of the Federal Reserve: The What and Why of the United States’ Most Powerful Banking Organization

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““Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”-James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States   Table of Contents I. IntroductionII. History and Creation of the Federal ReserveIII. Structure of the Federal Reserve System    A. The Fed’s Chain of CommandIV. Federal Open Market CommitteeV. Federal Reserve…

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Classification for Investors 101

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February 24, 2019   Table of Contents I. Introduction    A. Why Does Classification Matter to the Average Investor?    A.1. Private Entity Reporting Exemptions    A.2. Government Accounting Exemptions    A.3. Government Investment in Varied IndustriesII. How Does Classification Work? The Quick and Dirty Summary.    A. What Is Executive Order 13526?    B. Classification Authorities    C. Classification Standards, Categories, and Levels    C.1. Brief Summary of Derivative Classification    D….

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FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes

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  Table of Contents I. IntroductionII. History of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)III. FASAB and Standard 56A. What Does Standard 56 Do?B. Reporting Entities Within the Scope of Standard 56C. Changes to Disclosure Standards Under Standard 56D. Modifications to Avoid Disclosure of Classified InformationE. Reporting on Consolidation EntitiesF. Interpretations Modifying Reporting Standards in…

Legal Series – US Monetary and Fiscal Operations

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“If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor…

USA: Happy President’s Day

ByDarlene Heckman

President’s Day honors and celebrates the life and achievements of George Washington, the first President of the United States (1789-1797) and ‘The Father of his Country’. The day is, in practice…

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Food for the Soul: Global Trade Part V – Europe

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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout Even before Roman soldiers started building and then marching on the roads of the empire, expanding the imperial trade across all the outposts, there were well-worn trading paths that led to Rome. Etruscans, who preceded the Romans on the Italian peninsula, had been trading extensively with northern lands….

Happy Valentine’s Day!

ByDarlene Heckman

Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valent…

Food Emancipation Proclamation

ByEddie Bell

by Joel Salatin, originally FFF 1/26/23 The only thing worse than being in prison is being in prison and not knowing it. In other words, thinking prison is actually liberty. A close corollary is being enslaved but not knowing you’re a slave. America’s food system is currently enslaved by bureaucratic shackles that prohibit the free…

Finding Sources of Fresh Food

ByEddie Bell

By Pete Kennedy With the accelerating deterioration in quality and reliability of the conventional food supply, one of the best steps anyone can take for health and preparedness is to increase purchases of food produced by regenerative farmers and small-scale artisans. What follows is a summary of resources to help you find fresh food. Any…

Groundhog Day – February 2, 2023

ByDarlene Heckman

The American tradition of Groundhog Day sees the nation’s most well-known groundhog take a stance on the season ahead. If he sees his shadow, he predicts six more weeks of winter. If he doesn…

Pharma Food

ByEddie Bell

By Elze van Hamelen “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” ~ Henry Kissinger, 1973 I. Introduction A New Chapter in the Great Poisoning Something big is happening with food. The emergence of what I call “pharma food,” terminology…

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Food for the Soul: Oscar Contenders 2023 — Part 2

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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout A few weeks ago, we highlighted a few early and interesting contenders for the Best Picture crown at the upcoming Academy Awards. Here we present the remaining candidates following the announcement of the nominations on Jan. 24. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE This movie is an outlier in…

Local Food Legislation

ByEddie Bell

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. There are many ways state legislation can strengthen your local food system. Four primary areas to work in to pass bills are cottage foods, raw dairy products, poultry and eggs, and meat. Legislation deregulating locally produced food will keep more food dollars in your state and community, improve traceability for food…

Happy New Year 2023 Year of the Rabbit

ByDarlene Heckman

Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year cele…

Organizations with Legal Immunity

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Organization for American States (formerly the Pan American Union)Founded: 1890 (the charter was officially created on April 30, 1948)Headquarters: Washington D.C.IOIA Status: EO 9698 on […]

Where is my Period? | Trailer | Big Picture Films

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Where is My Period is a short documentary about the fertility impacts the Covid-19 vaccination is having on women around the world. The film focuses on women in France, one of which started a gr…

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Food for the Soul: Beautiful Banknotes

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Józef Mehoffer. Allegory of Saving (1933). Stained glass window, KOMK Bank, Kraków. Photo: Zygmunt Put/Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout “All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver…and indeed everybody takes them readily, for wheresoever a person may…

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Food for the Soul: Law, Justice, and Art

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Wu Youru. Regaining the Provincial Capital of Ruizhou (1886). Private collection. Photo: Wikimedia Commons By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout The conventional wisdom that “law” and “justice” are not the same thing can be illustrated by works of art from any historical period. The painting above represents a battle between the Chinese Imperial army…

James Roguski: I’m Asking for Help

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by: James Roguski

Please help me to contact all of the media sources listed below in order to encourage them to report on the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations and t…

Food for the Soul – Feast for the Eyes

ByEddie Bell

By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No one has ever rendered fruits more juicy or seafood more fresh than 17th-century painters in the Low Countries. Starting with late-Renaissance artists such as Pieter Aertsen and continuing for a century and half afterwards in the works of Dutch painters from Frans Snyders to Vermeer, this decorative tradition…

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Feast for the Eyes

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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout No one has ever rendered fruits more juicy or seafood more fresh than 17th-century painters in the Low Countries. Starting with late-Renaissance artists such as Pieter Aertsen and continuing for a century and half afterwards in the works of Dutch painters from Frans Snyders to Vermeer,  this decorative tradition…

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Food for the Soul Oscar Contenders: Awards Season 2022–2023

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By Nina Heyn – Your Culture Scout This year, there are hardly any choices of theatrical films to qualify for Best Picture nominations. Current leading contenders in this year’s Oscar race are All Quiet on the Western Front, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as well as Top Gun: Maverick. The last one, already predicted to win,…