The Creature from Jekyll Island

Reading this in The Creature from Jekyll Island, which I'm using as background research for the upcoming novel (esp regarding The Leviathan.)

"The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System was drafter at a secret meeting held in November of 1910 at the private resort of J.P. Morgan on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. Those who attended represented the great financial institions of Wall Street and indirectly, Europe as well. The reason for secrecy was simple. Had it been known that rival factions of the banking community had joined together, the public would have been alerted to the possibility that the bankers were plotting an agreement in restraint of trade-- which, of course, is exactly what they were doing. What emerged was a cartel agreement with five objectives: stop the growing competition from the nations newest banks; obtain a franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose of lending; get control of the reserves of all banks so that the more reckless ones would not be exposed to currency drains and bank runs; and convince Congress that the purpose was to protect the public. It was realized that the bankers would have to become partners with the politicans and that the structure of the cartel would have to be a central bank. The record shows that the Fed has failed to achieve its stated objectives. That is because those were never its true goals. As a banking cartle, and in terms of the five objectives stated above, it has been an unqualified success."

Upcoming Events.

I'll be appearing (on bass) with Elektroworx to open up for Front242 at the Trocedaro in Philadelphia on November 22nd.

I'll be posting some pics from the Generation Hex event at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors shortly. The event was definitely a success. All going well I'll be editing and producing audio from the event to be released as a CD... stay tuned.