British bankers as a monkey still on our back? Or worse?
The United States Remains a British Colony?
And Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr should have both gone down with Benedict Arnold?
And even George Washington was confused on this point!
Parts of this essay are very confused (see the section on our "National Debt" - not to mention Royal Opium fields), but the historical anecdotes, including comments by Bismarck, are fascinatingly revealing.
All military plans are meaningless (& any "local" plan whatsoever), without perception of FULL context?
I wonder if even Smedley Butler fully caught on. Certainly your average PhD hasn't (since I've talked to quite a few of my colleagues here, around the NIH, FDA, USDA etc). :(
So much sturm & drang, and all of it merely over misguided attempts by social parasites to keep aggregate populations constrained. This is so pathetic that it's painful to observe.
Bankers. Never have so few, slowed evolution by so much, for so long. Who's work are they doing?
And WHY?
"While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery." - Horace Greeley (1860s - note the timing)
I'm reminded once again of Plato's quote, from circa 380BC:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato(~350BC)
That's no way to drive our own social evolution, nor to co-chaperone evolution of anyone or anything else.
And those voices in your head, from the monkey on your back? Turns out they've been teaching "economics" ... all along!
Who knew that "balanced fiat" were code words for "gimme banana!" That would actually explain a lot.
Like Abe Lincoln (& Horace Greeley) advised, we should have none of this BS. We've got countless bigger & better options to explore, & more of them every single day. The era of the banker parasites has come to an end, though it may not occur by any path that current agitators could foresee.
Now that GoogleWallet is taking off even more (thanks to Apple! :) ). Maybe the entire merchant world will turn on banks, and break their monopoly.
This indirect route might change things faster than all the people trying to use sledgehammers on a mountain.
No wonder so many banks & billionaires are investing in Apple.
Apple vs Google may become a proxy fight between banksters/aristocracy and the rest of the F500+SMEs+consumers combined.
Here are some further hints that Apple (& their billionaire investors) could be buying into, counting on, or at least clueless about class warfare.
So much sturm & drang, and all of it merely over misguided attempts by social parasites to keep aggregate populations constrained. This is so pathetic that it's painful to observe.
Bankers. Never have so few, slowed evolution by so much, for so long. Who's work are they doing?
And WHY?
"While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery." - Horace Greeley (1860s - note the timing)
I'm reminded once again of Plato's quote, from circa 380BC:
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato(~350BC)
That's no way to drive our own social evolution, nor to co-chaperone evolution of anyone or anything else.
And those voices in your head, from the monkey on your back? Turns out they've been teaching "economics" ... all along!
Who knew that "balanced fiat" were code words for "gimme banana!" That would actually explain a lot.
Like Abe Lincoln (& Horace Greeley) advised, we should have none of this BS. We've got countless bigger & better options to explore, & more of them every single day. The era of the banker parasites has come to an end, though it may not occur by any path that current agitators could foresee.
Now that GoogleWallet is taking off even more (thanks to Apple! :) ). Maybe the entire merchant world will turn on banks, and break their monopoly.
This indirect route might change things faster than all the people trying to use sledgehammers on a mountain.
No wonder so many banks & billionaires are investing in Apple.
Apple vs Google may become a proxy fight between banksters/aristocracy and the rest of the F500+SMEs+consumers combined.
Here are some further hints that Apple (& their billionaire investors) could be buying into, counting on, or at least clueless about class warfare.
"Google Wallet never got off the ground because Android is for poor people who lack the discretionary income to justify stores buying the NFC readers. This is still true with Softcard, which won't get off the ground for the very same reason. Now, Samsung has its own wallet for its wealthy customers that it'll favor over Google Wallet, but it's a moot point as Samsung's wealthy Galaxy customers are switching to iPhones because it's increasing clear now that Apple is pulling away from Samsung on all fronts such as Apple Pay uses tokenization for greater security but Samsung's new wallet doesn't. Apple increasingly owns the top 20% consumer segment who have the greatest spending power and want the highest mobile wallet security, so both Google and Samsung are left with their less-securewallets for their shared low-income customer base."
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2944036-why-google-is-winning-the-wallet-wars?ifp=0&v=1424954700
Yes, this is a complete mess, and FUBAR. However if anyone has practice at succeeding with accelerating chaos, it's Americans. We can do this, if we try.
Oh, those clever British Bankster bastards. Only they could devise a scheme re-labeling capitulation to economic slavery as helping "Common Wealth."
The bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe?
So how far-fetched is this assessment?
ReplyDeleteBrad Lewis: "I'd say we did a lot our own way (though not the gold standard), but at times we forgot what we had discovered earlier about the need to set up our own system."
Yet there WERE transitions, which weren't adaptive.
FROM: the 1600s local colonial currencies, where private currency recipients PAID local gov councils for the privilege of acquiring currency credits (provincial letters of credit) ...
TO: the bank/state currencies, where the people paid interest to banker accountants to (supposedly, but not always, productively) create & accurately track currency levels ...
AND THEN ON TO: letting foreign banks & governments receive a good portion of the interest people pay bankers to organize their own currency.
A big reorganization is surely needed?
It's no longer the trivial interest on Treasury Securities that matters.
Rather, it's the ceded control of fiscal policy, which becomes too narrow, and dedicated to preserving adaptive rate of banks instead of the aggregate's adaptive rate.
That policy narrowness must be shed, since aggregate human creativity is bursting at the seems, DESPITE rather than with the help of aggregate fiscal policy.
All the historical statements in that article are fascinating and relevant, even though ongoing interpretation of the underlying causality is quite obviously routinely confused. By seeing, simultaneously, the performers and audience of the Kabuki play, one can finally discern what actually happened, as well as see how it was perceived or spun, and appreciate the difference.
That doesn't change the fact that times - and context - has changed, and that we're holding ourselves back to a tragic extent, by not adapting and exploring our emerging options as fast as we could.
"Before the civil war [of 1776] commenced, the United States of America were colonies, and we should not forget that such communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
ReplyDelete- Benjamin Disraeli
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli
Bismarck distrusted democracy and ruled through a strong, well-trained bureaucracy with power in the hands of a traditional Junker elite that comprised the landed nobility of the east.
ReplyDeleteSubstitute a few words to update, and this pretty well describes neoliberalism.