By Matthew Ehret for The Saker Blog
It is more than a little depressing to consider the impending systemic meltdown that immanently presses upon our current world. Since the 1971 floating of the U.S. dollar, a once proud and productive western industrial economic system has been increasingly asset stripped by bank deregulation, outsourcing, cheap labor and monetarism into a cult of post industrialism which has wrecked moral and economic havoc upon the world.
If America and the western order is to somehow find its moral fitness to survive and if a world war is to be avoided in the coming near-term future, then certain fundamental banking reforms will be needed. Among the most important of these reforms will be a breaking up of banking activities into two categories under a renewal of the Glass-Steagall bank reform which was repealed by Bill Clinton in 1999. These two categories would include: 1) speculative trash and illegitimate usury which must be “deleted” under a debt jubilee and 2) legitimate savings and other useful commercial banking activities tied to “real” values without which society couldn’t sustain itself.
Many readers might immediately scoff at my words, and assert that such a reform were impossible at this late stage of rot and corruption in western society but I would retort with the question: If this were so impossible, then how was it done already at a similar time of crisis only 87 years ago under similar circumstances of economic breakdown, fascism and world war? How have other national resistance movements blocked this sort of misanthropic agenda from succeeding in the past?
In this case, I speak of course of the forgotten Pecora Commission and an often-forgotten war on Wall Street which changed the course of human history.
What was the Pecora Commission?
Many are aware of the economic meltdown of October 24, 1929 that ushered in four years of depression onto America (and much of the western world). However not many people are aware of the intense fight that was launched by patriots in both parties against the Wall Street/deep state parasite of that age which prevented both a fascist coup against the newly elected Franklin Roosevelt while also crippling Wall Street’s command of American life. In spite of whitewashing revisionist history books that contaminated the past 70 years, America’s recovery from the depression never occurred without a life or death struggle and this struggle was made possible, in large measure by the courageous work of an Italian lawyer from New York. This man’s name was Ferdinand Pecora.
By 1932, when Senators Peter Norbeck (R-SD) and George Norris (R-NB) spearheaded the establishment of the U.S. Committee on Banking and Currency, the American economy was on life support and the people were so desperate that a fascist dictatorship in America would have been welcomed with open arms if only bread could be put on the table. Unemployment had reached 25%, while over 40% of banks had gone bankrupt and 25% of the population had lost their savings. Thousands of tent cities called ‘Hoovervilles’ were spread across the USA and over 50% of America’s industrial capacity had shut down. Thousands of farms had been foreclosed and the engines of American industry had grinded to a screeching halt.
Across the ocean, the fascist regimes of Germany, Italy and Spain were growing more powerful by the day fed by injections of hundreds of millions of dollars of capital by London and Wall Street bankers. Notable among these pro-fascist financiers was none other than Bush family patriarch Prescott, who provided millions in loans to Hitler’s bankrupt Nazi party in 1932 (and continued doing business with the party through 1942- having only stopped after being found guilty for “trading with the enemy”).
The Committee on Banking and Currency was a relatively impotent body when it began in 1932, but when Senator Norbeck called in Ferdinand Pecora to lead it in April 1932, everything began to change. A first generation Italian-American, Pecora was forced to quit high school after his father was injured in order to support his family. Years later, the young man found work as a clerk in a law firm, and managed to work his way through law school, passing the bar in 1911. His unimpeachable reputation earned him the animosity of powerful NY financiers who ensured that his successes in prosecuting brokers never resulted in attaining Attorney General, where he made a name for himself shutting down over 100 illegal brokerage houses that speculated on fraudulent securities during the depression.
Within days of accepting the Washington job as Chief Council of Norbeck’s committee (for the meager salary of $250/month), Pecora was granted broad subpoena powers to audit banks and drag the most powerful men in America to testify in the committee’s hearings.
In his first two weeks, Pecora made headlines by auditing the books of major Wall Street banks and pulled in pro-fascist National City President Charles Mitchell (then preparing to advise Benito Mussolini) to testify. Within days, Mitchell’s team of expensive defense attorneys could do nothing but watch in despair as the powerful financier admitted to short selling his own bank’s stocks during the depression, scamming depositors with purchases of Cuban junk debt and avoiding taxes for years. Mitchell was forced to resign in shame followed days later by NY Stock Exchange Chair Dick Whitney- who left the court in handcuffs.
This crackdown on Wall Street’s abuses were highly publicized and put the spotlight on the criminal schemes used to gamble with savings and commercial bank deposits on securities and futures markets which led to the orchestrated collapse of the bubble economy in 1929 (ironically much of the bubble built up during the “easy-money days” of the “roaring 20s” was centered in the housing market). Pecora’s crackdown also set the tone for the incoming Roosevelt administration.
Unlike the previous 1911 Pujo Commission, which also exposed Wall Street’s abuses of power, the Pecora Commission was supported by a President who actually cared about the Constitution and amplified Pecora’s powers even further. When FDR was told that supporting Pecora’s exposures of financial crimes would hurt the economy, the President famously responded with “they should have thought of that when they did the things that are being exposed now.” FDR followed up that warning by encouraging the attorney to take on John Pierpont Morgan Jr.
Rather than controlling an American institution as many believed 70 years ago and today, J.P. Morgan Jr. was actually running an operation that had earlier been created in the mid-19th century as part of a British infiltration of America. As historian John Hoefle pointed out in a 2009 EIR study:
“The House of Morgan was, in truth, a British operation from its inception. It began life as George Peabody & Co., a bank founded in London in 1851 by American George Peabody. A few years later, another American, Junius S. Morgan, joined the firm, and upon Peabody’s death the firm became J.S. Morgan & Co. Junius Morgan brought in his son, J. Pierpont Morgan, to head the New York office of J.S. Morgan, and the New York office became J.P. Morgan & Co. From its original role in helping the British gain control of American railroads, the Morgan bank became a leading force in the oligarchy’s war against the American System, using the deep pockets of its imperial masters to become a powerhouse in not only finance but steel, automobiles, railroads, electricity generation, and other industries.”
By 1933, the House of Morgan grew into a multi-headed hydra controlling utilities, holding companies, banks and countless other subsidiaries.
Senator George Norris showcasing a chart of Wall Street power
When J.P. Morgan jr. was called to testify, the banker carried a midget on his lap in mockery of the “circus of the commission”. As the questions began however, the arrogant banker was caught off guard by Pecora’s proof of Morgan’s secret “preferred clients lists” of politicians whom the banker owned and who received stock offerings at discount rates. Named among the thousands of traitors on this list, Pecora revealed former president Calvin Coolidge, Coolidge’s Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon (a Schacht-Hitler supporter from the start), financier Bernard Baruch, Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts and Democratic Party controller John Jacob Raskob. Raskob was not only a major speculator but was also the leader of the American Liberty League which tried repeatedly to overthrow FDR between 1933-1939 and worked to ally America with axis powers from 1939-1941.
Morgan’s god-like ego was brought down to the level of mortals when the flustered banker was only able to answer “I can’t remember” repeatedly when asked if he had paid taxes over the past 5 years. As it turned out, by the end of the trial, it was revealed that NONE of the subsidiaries of the House of Morgan paid any taxes during the entire period of the depression, and were caught gambling with depositors assets from commercial accounts. These revelations didn’t sit well with a population dying of starvation across the streets of America.
Similar displays of corruption were made of the heads of Kohn Loeb, Chase Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman and others.
Faced with these revelations, The Nation magazine famously reported “If you steel $25, you’re a thief. If you steal $250 000, you’re an embezzler. If you steal $2.5 million, you’re a financier.”
Pecora’s ally Sen. Burton Wheeler said “the best way to restore confidence in our banks is to take these crooked presidents out of the banks and treat them the same as we treated Al Capone.”
FDR Drains the Swamp
With the light cast firmly upon the dark shadows where vile creatures like J.P. Morgan and other financial gremlins reside, the population was finally able to start making sense of what injustices befell them during the years of post-1929 despair. While not every banker went to prison as Wheeler or Pecora would have liked, examples were made of dozens who did and many more whose careers were shamefully ended. Most importantly however, this exposure gave Franklin Roosevelt the support needed to drain the swamp and impose sweeping reforms upon the banks.
In the first hundred days, FDR was able to:
1) Impose Glass-Steagall banking separation (forcing Wall Street banks to break up their functions and preventing speculators from gambling with productive assets)
2) Create the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) that protected citizens’ savings from future crises
3) Create the Securities Exchange Commission to provide oversight to Wall Street’s activities and on whose body Pecora was appointed commissioner in 1934.
4) Unleash broad credit through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) which acted as a national bank bypassing the private Federal Reserve, channeling $33 billion to the real economy by 1945 (more than all private commercial banks combined)
5) Impose protective tariffs on agriculture, metals and industrial goods to stop dumping of cheap products in America and rebuild America’s physical economy
6) Create vast public works, like the Tennessee Valley Authority, Grand Coulee dams, Hoover dams, St Laurence development and countless other projects, hospitals, schools, bridges, roads and rail under the New Deal that acted in many ways then as China’s Belt and Road Initiative has in our modern age. Unfortunately, Roosevelt died before this new form of political economy could be internationalized abroad in the post-war years as an anti-colonial program.
A beautiful outline of FDR’s struggle is showcased in the 2008 film ‘1932: Speak not of Parties but of Universal Principles’.
Subverting a Fascist Coup Then and Now
Ferdinand Pecora’s Commission shaped the dynamics of America so intensely by its simple power of speaking the truth, that efforts to run a fascist coup against FDR using a general named Smedley Butler also came undone before it could succeed. Butler played along with Wall Street’s plans for some months before deciding to publicly blow the whistle in congress. Butler exposed the intension to use him as a “puppet dictator” leading thousands of American legionnaires in a storming of the White House displacing FDR.
It is often forgotten today, but in the early days of the 1920s-1930s, the Legion was modeled on Mussolini’s fascist squadristi and even its leader Alvin Owsley made explicit in 1921 saying:
“If need be the American Legion is ready to protect the institutions of this country and its ideals, in the same way as the Fascists have treated the destructive forces threatening Italy. Don’t forget that the Fascists are for today’s Italy what the American Legion is for the United States.”
Butler’s startling revelations amplified FDR’s popular support and inoculated much of the population from the fake news pouring out of Wall Street propaganda agencies spread across the media.
In 1939, Pecora wrote a book called ‘Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of our Modern Money Changers’ where the attorney prophetically said:
“Under the surface of the governmental regulation of the securities market, the same forces that produced the riotous speculative excesses of the ‘wild bull market’ of 1929 still give evidence of their existence and influence. Though repressed for the present, it cannot be doubted that, given a suitable opportunity, they would spring back to their pernicious activity.”
Pecora went onto deliver one more warning which current generations should take seriously “Had there been full disclosure of what has been done in furtherance of these schemes, they could not long have survived the fierce light of publicity and criticism. Legal chicanery and pitch darkness were the bankers’ stoutest allies.”
Today’s oncoming economic meltdown can only be prevented if the lessons of 1933 are taken seriously and patriots who actually care about their nations and people stop legitimizing the casino economy of fictitious capital, derivatives, debt slavery and anti-humanism that has become so commonplace across the governing strata of the technocratic and banking elite today trying to control the world. This elite, just like the financiers of the 1920s, doesn’t care ultimately for money as an end but sees it merely as a means for imposing fascist forms of governance onto the world population. In the same way that FDR’s Wall Street/London enemies sought a world government under Nazi enforcers then, today’s heirs to that anti-human legacy are driven by a religious-like commitment to “manage” a new collapse of world civilization under a Green New Deal and World Government.
So why accept that dystopic future when a brighter one is offered us by the Multipolar alliance today led by Russia and China?
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation and can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
‘Today’s oncoming economic meltdown can only be prevented if the lessons of 1933 are taken seriously’
Unfortunately, the lessons of 1933 were well learned – by the financial elites. As Naomi Klein discusses in her wonderful book, The Shock Doctrine, the elites have vowed to never again allow the likes of FDR to strip them of their wealth and power. Thus we have, since Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics in the 1950s, the never ending propaganda about the ‘free market’, and since the 1980s the undermining of democracy in the U.S. and Europe.
Nothing short of either the financial collapse of the US and Europe, or war between the West and the Multi-Polar World Order, will end the reign of the ‘Globalist’ financial elites.
What is unsustainable will end. The ambitions of the globalist imperialist-colonialist robocop is marching into its abyss. It’s probably coming much sooner than most think.
I fear it will end in direct war with Russia/China to some level.
The elites in the West have lost their humanity – their power drive to have it all has overrun their critical thinking ability. They have no heart – they are vicious and cruel, without any honor. They are in the last stage of outright threatening and stealing. How can war be avoided?
dh-mti
Well spoken. The financial elites did indeed learn the lessons of 1933. As the old saying goes, “money talks”. This means you control everything through the control of money. The bankers placed the US under their total control in 1913, withe the introduction of the US Federal Reserve, a private central bank impersonating a Federal institution (many people in the US still believe that the Fed is Government controlled). The Bank exists contrary to the stipulations of the US Constitution, which states that private individuals and organizations cannot print and control the currency of the sovereign United States. The only politician who dared go against the Federal Reserve was JFK, and we all know what happened to him.
With the industrialized US under their total control, the bankers turned to the only other industrialized continent in the world, and that was Europe. They finance two world wars, the chief target being Russia. Their plans fail in 1945, as their stooge and proxy fighter Adolf Hitler did not succeed in defeating and breaking up Russia.
The bankers therefore embark on a new venture. In 1946 the Council on Foreign Relations decides to create a “United Europe”, ie. the European Union. A step by step approach is applied, as after Hitlers New World Order, Europe was in no mood for another “association”. The bankers therefore use war hero General George Marshall to introduce “The European Recovery Program”, which quickly becomes known as “The Marshall Plan”. A total of 17 billion dollars of bribery money is offered to Europe as a loan on condition Europe creates an 18 member “Organization for European Economic Cooperation”, which ostensibly was a supervising body whose aim was to ensure that the money was not misappropriated, but which in reality was as administrative body for the future European Union. Only 15 % of the 17 billion dollars was payed back to the US, which generously “forgets” the rest.
In 1957 the Organization creates the Common Market, which leads to the creation of the European Union in 1993 and the mess in which Europe has found its self today. The “open borders” policy was introduced to subvert the sovereign status of European states through mass immigration, leading to political, economic and financial tensions and ethnic divisions, thus creating trouble for sovereign states and giving Brussels the status of an imperial overlord. As for economic benefits, its debatable how much Europe benefited. Back in the 1970’s economists were not sure which country would become the dominant economic force in Europe, France or West Germany. Look at France today.
What is the EU today ? It is a private empire of private bankers (which of course has it’s own Central Bank, a copy of the US Fed.), a political prison for sovereign European states. In fact it’s more than that. It is also the civilian component of NATO, created in 1949. Contrary to popular perception, NATO was not created as a reaction to the Warsaw Pact, which was only created in 1955. Today the bankers use both NATO and the EU for their eastward expansion. East European states are incorporated into the EU. In 2014 both NATO and the EU instigate that coup d’etat against Yanukovich in Ukraine. People forget what happened. The EU offered Yanukovich associate membership for Ukraine. Yanukovich accepts. When he flies over to sign the deal, the EU includes a provision that Ukraine must also join NATO. Yanukovich refuses. He gets a coup d’etat, which turns Ukraine into a feudal entity run by oligarchs and Western corporations and backed by neo-Nazi paramilitary organizations, which have the role of modern retainers.
And what do we have now ? Back in 2014 some 2/3 of Europeans were against the EU, whose days are certainly numbered. The EU is now resembling the US. Both are printing money backed by nothing, and both are experiencing political, economic, social and ethnic tensions. On the other hand, Russia and China have established an economic partnership, and both are on the rise. Both are also preparing to introduce gold backed currency. According to one analyst, both have more than 30.000 tonnes of gold each. All this was certainly not planned by the bankers, who were expecting different results. And what happens when bankers find themselves in trouble ? They take you to war, hoping to introduce war economies and a wider conflict. However, analysts have for years warned that this old trick cannot be replicated, not only due to massive debts and money printing, but also due to the weaknesses in US manufacturing abilities. Has this message penetrated the heads of bankers ? It has. However, even so, they will fight almost to the end to preserve their imperial status. We shall see how far they will go. If things start to collapse, they will know where to go. For years they have been buying real estate outside the US, with New Zealand and Tasmania being the two top favorites. A repetition of history. In 476, before ancient Rome fell, the first to flee was the Roman elite. How naughty of them.
Finally, history will have to write the final word on FDR. People should bear in mind that he was a 33 degree freemason, just like Truman who succeeded him. What did he do to prevent bankers from financing Hitler ? Nothing. What did he do to prevent industrialists from investing in Germany, like Henry Ford, who built trucks for the German military ? Nothing. However, he enters World War Two in December of 1941, more than two years after it started. Why ? Because Stalin brings more than a million troops from Manchuria to Moscow, it becoming apparent that Hitler would be defeated. In 1812 Napoleon enters Moscow. In 1814 the Russian Tzar enters Paris. This of course had to be prevented from occurring again, not to mention that Hitler, a banker stooge, had to be saved, with his “suicide” in 1945 being more than suspicious.
I think the proposition that human imagination is one of the most powerful forces, if not the most powerful force, on planet earth can be proven by very easy arguments. I’m typing on one right now and you are able to read what I’ve typed through/on another. So for the next few minutes let’s employ what may very well be the most powerful force on the planet.
Imagine first that every human being outside of US borders suddenly ceases to exist and that the “nation” called the USA expands to encompass the entire surface of planet earth.
Imagine that the present whatever-you-want-to-call-it system in the US in which the vast majority of wealth and LARGE-SCALE capital equipment is owned by a microscopic percentage of human beings for their own astronomical profit REMAINS THE SAME.
Imagine that both “labor” (the working class) and “management” (the ruling class, or Elite) can “organize”, as they supposedly can in our present “democracy”. But now, because nobody is alive outside of the former US borders, the owners of large-scale capital equipment no longer have the option to move their capital equipment to other former nations on the planet where there used to be desperately poor people who were “willing” to work for food, water and a place to sleep on the factory floor.
Imagine that US environmental, labor, etc. regulations now apply everywhere on planet earth (again, because the US is in this thought experiment the only nation on planet earth).
Just exactly HOW are the roughly 334 million “Americans” going to “go it alone” when America’s presently-designed economy needs a great number of “immigrants” (of a certain “economic type”) each and every year from now to eternity?
Just exactly WHO is going to buy all of the “excess” natural resources, oil, farm products, manufactured goods, etc. that a small percentage of working Americans can very efficiently produce, but can no longer “export”? NOBODY.
To have available the relatively small amount of warm-weather items that America now imports, Americans will have to venture forth to those places, AS AMERICANS, and produce and send those products “back home”. Naturally, those American workers working on other parts of the globe outside of FORMER US borders will be paid a wage that also applies to the rest of the American “labor market” and, again, the American regulatory framework will also apply to those workers and facilities and places of production, as well as those workers being able enjoy America’s social benefits.
ALL of the work that is presently being done in America by “temporary foreign workers” and other temporary workers who harvest crops, put roofs on houses, cook food in restaurants, take care of the elderly in nursing homes, etc. will have to be done by Americans who will be paid by other Americans.
Automobiles, trucks, TVs, toilet tissue, etc. will now have to be produced by Americans, for Americans. In other words, absolutely any thing and any service that Americans need/desire will have to be produced by Americans and, again, Americans consuming them will have to pay these other Americans to do that — enough payment so that these hard-working Americans will make enough “profit” to “save” enough money to be able to “retire” when they inevitably become physically decrepit.
Here’s the most important question of all. WHO is going to play the role of “enemy” that is necessary to maintain the need, the justification, for the present economically-necessary military industrial complex? Answer: NOBODY. How are the tens of millions of people either directly or indirectly employed in that MIC and all of the government “security apparatus” going to be “employed” after the disappearance of those “threats to national security”? (How are these newly-unemployed going to behave, what are they going to do, in order to literally survive, especially those living in the large cities?)
How much is the above arrangement (again, an arrangement in which only Americans inhabit the planet, and in which the vast majority of wealth and large-scale capital equipment is owned by a truly microscopic percentage of the population of America for their own astronomical profit) going to “cost” average Americans? Will/would average Americans be able to “afford” that system, that arrangement?
NO, they would not!
When I recently asked my brother in law why the American government finds it necessary to import vehicles, TVs, etc. from other countries, his reply was that “if they were produced by Americans in America, they would be too expensive”. (This coming from a man who hired a temporary foreign worker to give additional care to his elderly mother who was ALREADY living in a nursing home).
So now to my point. Just as it is for the vast majority Americans now living in our present multi-national globalized world, Americans living in an America-only world could NOT “afford” what they need and what they want under the present economic arrangement in which the vast majority of wealth and large-scale capital equipment is owned/controlled by a microscopic percentage (and getting smaller by the day) of the population for their own astronomical profit.
THIS is why under the present economic system desperate slave labor is needed to provide what Americans need.
THIS is why when the US Elite “conquers” other nations’ military forces, it does not make those “nations” new States of the USA; and instead installs in those places puppet governments made up of, essentially, US State Department employees who bleed their citizenry and their land-mass dry of anything valuable, to be used by the US Elite as a means of obtaining ever more “profit”.
THIS is why Americans can not afford to have enough children to maintain the present population and, therefore, immigrants of a certain economic status have to be imported from other nations (usually the ones being bled dry by US corporations) into America each and every year from now to eternity.
THIS is why “trade agreements” such as NAFTA between international corporations are needed to exploit the most desperate people on the planet for the greater benefit of a much smaller percentage of the population.
Again, what Americans desperately need TODAY is an economic system in which ALL Americans, not just a microscopic percentage, own/control LARGE-SCALE capital equipment COLLECTIVELY, and collectively provide the LABOR (by “divvying up” the necessary labor among ALL citizens) to operate that large-scale capital equipment.
By providing THEIR labor to run THEIR capital equipment, farm THEIR land, take care of THEIR sick and elderly, etc., ALL Americans will have EARNED the right to consume all of the goods and services produced by THIER large-scale capital equipment and THEIR labor. In other words, ALL Americans will get to “profit” from THEIR large-scale capital equipment and THEIR labor, not just a microscopic (and getting smaller by the day) percentage of the American population for their own astronomical profit.
Thanx for the great explanation of what the American people need … now can you explain HOW they are to overthrow this ALL POWERFUL elite & setup THEIR own system instead? ;-)
The steps are simple to understand because the constitution spells them out. Carrying them out would be very difficult.
First, millions of Americans would have to resist the 24/7 propaganda machine paid for by the Oligarchic Transnational Elite Collective (OTEC) and march into voting booths every two or four years and vote for candidates running for public office who say essentially what I’ve said above about the fatally flawed present system (which, btw, MUST inevitably lead to either WWIII or environmental catastrophe) and why it must be changed even though these voters absolutely believe that they are wasting their votes.
Unfortunately, getting these candidates elected would only be the first step toward accomplishing meaningful systemic change.
Second, because private ownership of LARGE-SCALE capital equipment and the “freedom” for owners to do with it what they please are allowed by the present constitution, there would have to be enough of these like-minded candidates elected to the federal and state legislative branches to amend the US constitution in a way that would allow or mandate the above suggested “system” to come into being. The constitution would have to be amended because without those amendments the Supreme Court would declare any attempts to institute such systemic change through, say, new laws, to be unconstitutional, which they would in fact be. So, again, the constitution must be amended.
AFAIK, this is the one and only legal way to bring such a system into being. Again, IMO, the toughest part of all will be somehow getting masses of people to understand that if they want such a new system, they must vote for candidates who explicitly promise to bring it into being, even though they absolutely believe that they are wasting their votes. (The election results will necessarily be a total surprise to the electorate, the newly-elected candidates and, most of all, to the OTEC who will fully expect yet another crop of R and D slaves to be elected.)
One thing is certain. If you want four more years of what you’ve been witnessing for at least the past 30 years, only ever-increasingly worse, again, inevitably leading to nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, just vote for more Rs and Ds in November; makes no difference which.
(The OTEC don’t care about war or environmental catastrophe. They’d rather be dead than have to live in any system that would require them to get their hands dirty helping to produce something in a factory or harvest food from a field. Let’s give them the opportunity to commit suicide rather than willingly allow them take us all down in their fatally-flawed system that we’ve voted for time and time again.)
Maiden, I know 4 different ways it was done in the last century:
1. In WW1 Germany sent Lenin in a sealed train to Russia, to take over a bloody Revolution that installed Communism and crushed Anglo Capitalist backed Wehrmacht.
2. In WW2 England threw up an effective Labour Party Leader, Clement Attlee, who improved the health of the nation during wartime and brought Socialism to England in peacetime.
3. Also in WW2 and afterwards, the Chinese Communist party under Mao triumphed over the Capitalist armies and set the Chinese people on their road to prosperity. Mao was the first to call the U$A “a paper tiger”.
4. For 30-40 years after WW2, examples 1-3 above scared the Anglo Zio Capitalist masters of the EU$A into allowing a modicum of social security to keep the sheeple quiet.
One seems to need a party organization, a good Leader, and possibly a War to stir the sheeple into doing more than quietly hold their noses down close to the grass.
@ Ishkabibble
I worked for a number of years in a care home for the elderly {Canada}. It was a large facility with an assisted living area and a 10 bed hospice next to the 50 bed care center. It was a private facility but very few people could really afford to live there. The owners were always trying to find those who could actually pay for all of the services they were receiving otherwise they had to depend on government assistance. When I learned the actual costs of living there amounted to some 5000 a month it blew my mind? Even at that price however, it was mindboggling just how much went into warehousing the elderly and the enormous costs involved. Wow, without the modern age and all the conveniences and technology where would all of these people be actually was a question that often crossed my mind and to read this and you brings it all back?
Milan,
I live in a small village where old men and women go out to the fields and orchards and work pretty much until they drop dead in their 80s.
They don’t get senile, they don’t need care facilities, because they live right.
If you live under the terrible conditions of modern cities, you will end up in a care facility.
P. S. People here take care of their family if it comes to that. They don’t dump them in a home. Family ties are still very strong, another thing modern western culture has undermined.
Jamshyd, off topic perhaps but I’m with you 100% on this one. After a family fight which almost went to court, I managed to convince my 50-60 year old children that their 80-90 year old parents are not yet due for shipping into a “care home”. I believe you are a Persian; my ancestors lived in Greece, where people lived long lives even 2,000 years ago, a frugal life sustained by physical activity until advanced age.
Dr.NG Maroudas,
I don’t think it’s off topic. The wall street cabal created the modern world we live in, and the problems of old age are clearly a result of living in their hideous world.
Whenever I go to Tehran, I notice all the senile old men with canes and walkers being led around the neighborhood by their children, taking a little walk around the park. The utmost physical activity they are capable of.
And then out here, all the grandpas getting up at the crack of dawn and heading out to the orchards to work all day, looking down on the young folk and having a go at them for getting up late and being lazy.
These young folk are going to end up being led around for a walk with a cane by their children.
I wrote an article on Covid 19 in East Asia regarding the reason why the demise of the elders was insignicant in particular areas. I wrote ‘Stable nations have the nucleus of a strong family, a spritual moral order and an economic system based on fairness. Presently the US has none of these. Where did it all go wrong? What is needed is not a UBI it is a UMI also known as a ‘universal maximum income’. I did a short video to emphasise the problem: https://youtu.be/5S7SBduZlIc or http://www.cowdisley.com/videos/covid19.mp4
Better than being put away “in a care home” while their children get on with their own lives. On second thoughts I agree with you it’s very much on topic, given the “social distancing” ethos of Con-19, and blaming it on China — one of the civilizations that respects family ties the most.
“Better than being put away “in a care home” while their children get on with their own lives.”
But not nearly as good as going out to the fields and doing physical labor in your old age, is it?
Strange isn’t it? They have entire populations working their youth away, with the explicit promise of a ‘retirement’, ie. not having to work in our old age. Having to do physical labor in old age is the enemy. Heh
People break themselves with work stress, and by the time they are sixty, they have become absolutely decrepit. What good is “retirement” and a bank account full of money if I’m senile and decrepit?
Let’s call a spade a spade. We are not workers. We are slaves, brainwashed slaves.
Can you believe, in Australia they call their retirement fund “superannuation”. As in, funding for robot slaves that have become superannuated, obsolete, broken down.
@ Jamshyd
Thank you and yes I understand this completely. I can go on and on but it would be off topic. Suffice to say what we do to keep people alive is astounding really? That and given how work and money is so vital here in Canada I know personal stories of like for example a mother who never sees her son except maybe once a year if he can afford to travel due to him having to work in a province on the other side of Canada.
Why didn’t her son take her with him? When I was growing up I had two living grandmothers. Every time we moved, both grandmothers moved too. They never lived with us, but they lived in their own places nearby. My dad helped them as needed, but only as needed. Both were largely self sufficient, right up to their last days. That was how life, and family, worked back then.
@ Bill, Life still works that way today……………….just less people want to make ‘personal’ sacrifices. Just today, the new cook at work told me how, and he’s new here(Canada), took his mom from a $3000 per month care facillity and brought her home. But he’s not Canadian and many natural born Canadians will sacrifice nothing if it gets in the way of their morning latte……………..pampered princesses!
Cheers, M
This elite, just like the financiers of the 1920s, doesn’t care ultimately for money as an end but sees it merely as a means for imposing fascist forms of governance onto the world population. In the same way that FDR’s Wall Street/London enemies sought a world government under Nazi enforcers then, today’s heirs to that anti-human legacy are driven by a religious-like commitment to “manage” a new collapse of world civilization under a Green New Deal and World Government.
Practice makes perfect. It’s going to be a lot harder to stop today’s elite. Their technological advantages have all multiplied exponentially in the interim and wealth – hence power – consolidation and inequality has never been greater. But I know, I know… if we just elect Trump or Biden in November everything will be hunky-dory once more. Yeah right!
“It’s going to be a lot harder to stop today’s elite.”
I disagree.
The biggest problem to over come is not them. It is the “glass half empty” corruption that is pessimism.
Consider that technological advantages such as this imperfect hackable internet in which people around the world are comparing notes on……right here….and many, many other places….in terms how to solve the latest iteration of this problem of oligarchy and their egos run amuck…..did not exist before………leading into WWI……into WWII……into Vietnam etc.
Plenty of things about “progress” are double edged swords…..some of which work for their purposes of greater control…but a great many of which DO NOT.
I’d say the glass is now about 60% full……for the first time in the history of the world.
And that makes it a fantastic time to be alive!
Unless one’s will ….and spirit ………….is depleted and defeated by “their” poisonous mind control…and cultural pessimism.
Have to say, Bro, I totally agree with you. Bet you never thought I’d say that, did you? The internet has opened up vast new information avenues that will make it very hard for tyrants and banksters to keep the lid on their shenanigans. It’s all out in the open for all to see. The MSM is no longer the sole source for information and it’s showing itself to be the pathetic Deep State-controlled propaganda arm that it is. And, we know where they live!
There will be no more believing in “official narratives” of horrible events like 9/11, the Israeli attack on Beirut, or the phony pretexts for all these f-ing wars. The truth will be there for everyone with half a brain to see. There will be no more driving us like herd animals off a cliff, glued to that idiot box, TV. It does indeed make it a fantastic time to be alive.
>“It’s going to be a lot harder to stop today’s elite.”
I disagree.
Given your usual comments, I fully expect that you would disagree. It is the basis of your disagreement, the propaganda you disseminate in almost every comment which really annoys me. Not only does it seem infantile but you come across to me as a rather arrogant person. I’m sorry I have to say that. So, according to you, what is the greatest obstacle to problem-solving? Where is the real corruption, according to you?
>The biggest problem to over come is not them. It is the “glass half empty” corruption that is pessimism.
>Unless one’s will ….and spirit ………….is depleted and defeated by “their” poisonous mind control…and cultural pessimism.
In your own words, the biggest problem, the real ‘corruption’ and ‘poison’ is that people are pessimistic! With such thinking condemning those who live in a world whose glass is not 60% full, how is one likely to try to help? After all, in your mind, their misfortune is their own fault because they don’t live in a world of puppy dog tales and fairy dust. World War 1, 2, Vietnam, all the previous wars and wars since have not occurred because of pessimism. Millions died horrible deaths but not because they are pessimistic. You take the crimes and criminal intent of big money controllers and greedy politicians, twist it, and say the corruption is on those who are pessimistic? Do you ever listen to Gerald Celente? He has a big button he presses occasionally throughout his monologues which gives a message. Get the point?
As for the internet, while it has it’s uses, it is also the greatest vehicle for spreading propaganda the world has ever known. Not only is there vast censorship but I have no doubt, infiltration into many platforms which present themselves as ‘alternate’ ‘truth movement’ etc. It has become very difficult to decipher what is the truth from propaganda. Maybe that was the point when it was created.
So, let me ask you: Are you one of what appears to be a majority who is walking around in public wearing a mask? Because of the ‘killer virus”? I’m curious.
Thanks Craig, you said it better than I could have. Mindless optimism in the face of monstrous evil is not optimistic at all, it’s delusional. You can’t fix any problem without first recognizing it and the gravity of the situation fully. The situation facing the west in general and the US in particular has been generations in the making and much ballyhooed quick fixes will be reserved for the feeble-minded and the impotent (such as Twitter subscribers). Serious people will be bracing themselves for the hard times ahead and hardening their resolve, as they realize that, just as in all wars, many of them will not live to see it through to its end and its eventual outcome is by no means guaranteed.
Craig, if it wasn’t for the internet we wouldn’t have known that 9/11 was a false-flag attack on the USA designed to drive us into all of these f-ing wars in the Middle East. We would have just accepted the “official” narrative of that awful event that was put out by the MSM within hours of the attack, the one that falsely claimed that it was done by 19 Arabs armed with boxcutters led by Osama bin Laden who was supposedly holed up in a cave in Afghanistan? We wouldn’t have known that the USA Patriot Act had been drawn up months before the attack, as was the planned invasion of Afghanistan. The internet is our best hope for cutting through the lies and propaganda put out not only by the MSM but by gate-keeper alternative news sites.
Tommy, the real hope is hackers and whistle blowers, public dumps of info onto the net………………that takes really special talent (the talent; not getting caught), and/or really big cajones. And there’s always a price, see: Assange or that guy (Rich?) who Assange may have got his info from, died in an accident, perhaps even Akansideded……………you are right though, they can’t really do a global control thing without the net…..and that may be our salvation.
Cheers, M
I’ve heard the internet described as the new “Gutenberg press.” It has certainly thrown a monkey wrench into all “official” narratives and other phony pretexts for war. It used to be so easy to pull the wool over our eyes…
I wouldn’t be so certain of that. Anybody with any fundamental knowledge of physics could see something fishy on 911, enough that one newscaster innocently said, “Looks just like a controlled demolition.” With the JFK assassination, there were similar suspicious features that had just as many people talking about a conspiracy, prompting the CIA to equate “conspiracy theorists” with the delusional. Nothing much has changed in that regard, just that back then you had to pay a few bucks to buy the books that gave you the other side of the story. Probably a similar percentage of people just wanted to believe the CIA and get on with their lives. A big difference is now it is a cinch for the government to find out who believes what and treat each accordingly. If there is to be a resolution of the current crisis in favor of the people, it will be done at a distance from the Panopticon.
I agree. The US public would not be half as divided if it were not for all the echo chambers that the Internet enables, where participants who have a different view are discouraged or banned. I see families at restaurants where every member is engrossed in a smart phone. They never talk to each other. The divisions grow deeper. For example, the Op-Ed News site used to be pretty good for tolerating a wide range of opinions, but recently they get into arguments in which the left typically accuses the right of being brainwashed, and the right knows they are no longer welcome, and go off to sites where they can talk about how brainwashed the left is. When we are basing our views on premises that are completely different but we take as fact, with no way for most people to determine what is true and what is disinformation, it just looks like the other side is brainwashed.
There are all sorts of precedents for societal collapse, involving resource depletion, overextension abroad to obtain other resources, the military hogging the resources and suppressing the peasants at home, abandonment of the cities in the face of social unrest, incursions from abroad targeting elite assets, and so on until nothing is left of the former empire, but I don’t think there is any precedent for this bizarre sort of collapse, except maybe Odysseus’s lotus eaters, or the opium wars in China. We need someone strong to drag us away from our “smart” gadgets and even this PC I’m sitting at. Why isn’t Putin doing this? He has some awareness of this problem. Really, all around the globe, we are so ****ing divorced from reality, that the banking cabal could walk right up and steal our food from right under noses as we thumb away at our thingies and we would wave them away.
Further to my responses to both Craig and Tony, anti-cellphone campaigner Arthur Firstenberg reached out earlier today to the thousand or so followers of his who have signed the pledge not to own a cellphone. He had the following to say:
I write to you at this time because it appears to me that if this world has any chance of surviving, we who do not own cell phones are the only ones who can lead the way. I say this for a number of reasons.
FIRST, people who use cell phones have brain damage.[1],[2],[3] Their capacity for reasoned thinking is impaired.
SECOND, people who use cell phones are subject to diseases that appear to attack them for no reason: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, strokes, seizures, etc., not to mention insomnia, headaches, dizziness, nausea, joint pains, “brain fog,” memory loss, skin rashes, and internal bleeding. They blame bacteria and viruses and view the natural world as an enemy instead of a friend. This is the root cause of the coronavirus madness.
THIRD, cell phones are the most invasive, destructive technology ever invented. Other technologies pollute inadvertently. Pesticides are intended to kill pests; the fact that they escape into the general environment is unintentional. Nuclear waste is not intended to go everywhere. Plastics are not intended to end up in the ocean. But with cell phones, the pollutant — radiation — is the product. Cell phones cannot work unless every square inch of the environment is irradiated. Once this becomes acceptable, nature is no longer of value.
FOURTH, for the first time in history, every human being is a source of radiation. Human beings are no longer part of nature, they are its assailant. Only those who do not own cell phones are even capable of living within nature.
FIFTH, virtual reality replaces actual reality. Nature becomes valueless and no longer matters.
SIXTH, cell phones allow people to get anything they want from wherever they are at the push of a button. This gives people the illusion that they are all-powerful and that the individual is all-important and not dependent on anyone or anything. Community, both within nature and within society, disappears.
SEVENTH, user names, passwords, virus and malware protection, and instantaneous connection to billions of people, including millions of criminals and thieves, makes everyone paranoid, fosters conspiracy theories, and destroys community.
The Echo Earth website is here: https://www.echoearth.org/. It is spare, because Mr. Firstenberg does not spend much time on the computer. I disagree with his second point in that people without cellphones are also subject to the disorders he mentions, but possibly less so, because it is very hard to escape from the radiation they employ.
Here are the references to point #1:
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[1] Horvath J et al. 2020. Structural and Functional Correlates of Smartphone Addiction. Addictive Behaviors 105:106334 (The more hours per day spent by young adults on their smartphones, the less gray matter they have in their brain, and the less brain activity is detected).
[2] Salford L et al. 2003. Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones. Environmental Health Perspectives 111(7):881-3 (A single two-hour exposure to a cell phone at very low power destroys up to two percent of a rat’s brain cells).
[3] Nittby H et al 2008. Cognitive Impairment in Rats after Long-Term Exposure to GSM-900 Mobile Phone Radiation. Bioelectromagnetics 29:219-32 (A two-hour exposure to a cell phone, once a week for a year, at very low power, causes cognitive impairment in rats).
Thanks to Ehret for naming the real culprits. We know who the enemy is. We are thus better dressed than fooling around like cows with a ring in our noses.
And the Military Industrial Complex and the trillions of $ missing? This just showed up in my inbox and it is a real doozy? Even mentions Hillary lying outright about the Russiagate fiasco. All LIES!!!
the video of the Clintons well see for yourself!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/cia-confirms-russiagate-made-up-by-hillary/
The Donald just proclaimed that he has authorized the un-redacted release of all Emails concerning Russiagate.
‘No redactions!’ Trump says he ordered TOTAL declassification of ALL Russiagate and Clinton email probe documents.
“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any and all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax,” the president said in a tweet on Tuesday night.
From RT
Trump has been all talk and no action on Hillary’s crimes, ditto Barr and that other guy who supposedly are about to blow the lid off Russiagate. This for almost four years. It’s all kayfabe, folks.
Proof-reading:
-wreaked for wrecked
-ground for grinded
Proof-readings: Too many to even note, here. Nonetheless, this article, as well as several of the author’s other recent articles, has got a lot of things right.
American banks pumped money into Germany in 1922 so that they could pay the draconian reparations to the US and UK governments that were imposed upon them at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Unfortunately this led to the hyper inflation of the Papiermark that devastated the German economy causing massive unemployment.
This led to the rise of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, who in 1932
introduced a debt free currency, that was created by government edict and paid directly to the workforce for productive work actually done or materials supplied. This policy reinvigorated the German economy and created near full employment to produce autobahns and manufacture Volkswagens.
This of course alarmed the private bankers, who create money as interest bearing debt that they then lend to governments. This is the real reason why the British government declared war on Germany in 1939.
Oh do stop spouting nonsense.
Hitler was walking into other countries uninvited long before the UK declared war on Hitler. He walked into Austria, Sudetenland and was demanding more and more. Chamberlain tried appeasing him and got precisely nowhere. So he said: ‘walk into Poland and we declare war.’ What did Hitler do? He walked into Poland.
Now go back to school to learn some history, rather than making up ridiculous conspiracy theories about banks.
Maybe the bankers were worried, but the UK politicians were worried about Hitler invading the UK as they knew full well that he could walk into France and nothing would happen. So they laid down a marker just in time. Even then they only survived being invaded by a whisker…..
@Rhys Jaggar: “Chamberlain tried appeasing him [Hitler]”.
That’s the gentlemanly English way of putting it. Took me decades to outgrow that:
“The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion” by Alvin Finkel and Clement Leibovitz.
Hitler was groomed by England and France to be an Anglo Zionazi Capitalist attack dog against Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular.
Rhys Jagger,
Can you please refer me to a book on WW2 that tells the true tale?
Everything I’ve read sounds very fabricated. I cannot bring myself to trust any of it.
I mean here we are in the 21st century, witness to the evil and malice of the USA, UK and the Zionist cabal. And yet we are somehow expected to believe that 90 years ago, Germany, Japan, and Italy, three of the most educated and progressive nations on earth at the time, went on some kind of irrational genocidal hate rampage against innocent Jews, and the USA and UK, the angels, came to the rescue and saved the poor helpless Jews and defeated the demons.
No. Germany, Japan and Italy realized what the Zionist bankers were up to, like Iran today, attempted to overthrow them, but were defeated. As a result, Japan was nuked, and every female over the age of 9 was raped in Germany.
The USA, UK, and the Zionists are evil today. They were evil back then too.
And what’s with all these millions of German Jews in the USA today, you know the ones, the Goldmans and Silvermans and Zuckerbergs? I thought they were all massacred by Hitler. How did they come to control all the US banks and media and whatnot?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
How do you go from the ghettos of Germany to dominating the USA in 80-90 years? You don’t. You owned the place from the beginning.
Every history of WW2 is BS.
I am reading Harold Ickes of the new deal He was instrumental in implementing the New Deal
Why bother preventing an economic meltdown and the demise of the West’s world order? I’m sure something more positive will rise to take its place.
I’m more worried about choking on gas fumes in twenty years.
You know something given the roaring 20’s and if a quote by the Central Banker Paul Warburg shouldn’t be revisited:
“The world lives in a fools paradise based upon fictitious wealth, rash promises and mad illusions. We must beware of booms based upon false prosperity which has its roots in inflated credits and prices.”
Paul Warburg after seeing the insanity of the roaring 20’s had a heart and mind full of contempt for the political class and their complete ineptitude. After reading that biography on him by Chernow it often leaves me wondering what that man actually knew?
And here we are folks yet again on the verge of another age of “false prosperity based upon inflated credits and prices.”
I must say to the Jews they are the smart ones, they being of course the people of the book understand the moral dilemma or moral hazard as the experts refer to it. Even more so than Christianity where in fact it actually belongs correct? I even remember seeing a video on the life Pierpont and took great interest in a piece of it wherein he during the latter part of his life in some dilemma spent time alone in an Episcopalian church? There are so many unanswered questions really and the Jews being the smart ones ultimately always stumble at the cross of Christ.
Beyond any of this is it not odd that Pecora was probably Catholic and FDR was a Freemason? Strange bedfellows all of this is, very strange indeed.
What greed lies in the heart of man?
Before WW2 the US and UK foreign policy was to have Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR to destroy each other in warfare, and during Chamberlain’s visit to Berteschgaden on September 22nd 1938, he proposed to Hitler that Germany give up its debt free currency and allow private banks to control the German economy, otherwise there would be war. Hitler refused to succumb to debt slavery, but was also pursuing a policy of taking back the lands populated by ethnic Germans that were confiscated from Germany at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
The British government subsequently declared war on Germany on 3rd September 1939.
Hitler the invaded the Netherlands and Belgium on 10th May 1940, Norway on April 9th 1940, and France in May 1940.
Chamberlain saved Hitler from the german generals who were going to get rid of his regime if only Britain denied Hitler to grab Czechoslovakia.
Britain had already shown the USSR that they wouldnt form an alliance with them but hoped to isolate them to fight the western forces alone.
When the M R pact resulted the perspectives were such that a lasting pact could have ensued unless Britain changed sides which they did by declaring war.
Otherwise Hitler might have settled for what he had already obtained.
This declaration of war opened an opportunity for the alliance the USSR had originally sought but now without accomplishing the original aim of avoiding the war.
Britain successfully manipulated all parties in this manner.
Hitlers dealings with the british through Rudolf Hess and other intermediaries are still held secret and the british have a motive to coverup their secret understanding with the nazis, so we can only speculate about the precise nature of it.
But one possible interpretation is that Hitler may have believed that he would have obtained peace on the western front if he shared the eastern conquests with Britain.
And he may also have been made to believed that the USSR would later attack.
The british had a strong motive for encouraging such ideas.
But whatever their dealings contained will probably remain a secret.
Much later Britain deliberately sacrifised the canadians at the Dieppe raid to maintain the pressure on the eastern front.
Maipulating nations back and forth like that may have some logical resemblance with manipulating commodity prices up and down and profitting from trade in synchronism.
Speculation, futures in commodities and all that jazz.
The common denominator is that it is a parasitic mode of operation.
How many little british working ants at the City of London do that for a living? One hundred thousand? or more?
I assume they are also providing professional and legitimate services but…
How many little intel agents support them in that process?
How many of their compatriots on corporate boards support it?
They are a team for sure.
Carroll Quigley said ‘they are like they want us to believe that the communists are’, referring to the elite angloamerican establishment
Just an afterthought, which might turn our minds away from the toxic mix of self-interest and “true believer” mindlessness of current American politics, “To become independent again, rather than swelter under continued neo-colonialism, defy WEF and IMF advice and work steadily with perseverance towards political and financial autonomy…”
“De-dollarize and de-globalize and turn to local production for local consumption with local sovereign money and local public banking, directed by a sovereign local central bank that works for the socioeconomic wellbeing of her country’s people, not for the faraway shareholders of a Wall Street or internationally affiliated banks.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/imf-wef-great-lockdown-great-transformation/5721090
“Unlike the previous 1911 Pujo Commission, which also exposed Wall Street’s abuses of power, the Pecora Commission was supported by a President who actually cared about the Constitution”
. . . which is why nothing like the Pecora Commission ain’t gonna happen under either Trump or Biden/Harris.
Please forgive the double negative. Should’ve proofread . . .
Oligarchical principle? Yeah, maybe they are jealous of the Nizam who wasn’t satisfied with 10% but wanted it all and who was the Nizam? Read this as a primer!!!
file:///C:/Users/slavko/Documents/nizam_20201007_0001.pdf
Interesting is the fact that in the 2008/9 GFC the stockmarket plunged, some banks folded and the rich lost some wealth, for a while. The real economy suffered as well, and never truly recovered. This time, the stockmarket has soared and the rich have got richer, while the rest of the economy tanks….lessons learned! Shows you where the priority is!
pretty good article -too much to dream for in our corrupt society today – but somehow the world will get out of this. Maybe not all the world, but part of every place will fight back. Every place but the government that is.
I don’t know about China and Russia – I don’t know why everyone always thinks China and Russia will save the day with big government – they both have more surveillance than we do. At least in China I’m sure vaccine is mandatory. Russia too maybe ? That’s not the way of the future. No way.
those places are far away and who knows ? But here in the west – Canada for me personally and western Canada at that…luckily we have an NDP government in this province so its not happening here like it is in Quebec…
The only thing that is interesting to me in all this smoke is Bitcoin. It might carry this over into a new world order that isn’t fascism and big government
Its very anarchist. The people running bitcoin have been watching fascism since it began.
The dollar is already ruined. Governments are going digital. But they won’t control Bitcoin.
If you steal $25 worth of merchandise from Target you are a looter who should be hung. If you steal $2.5 trillion you are creating a V-shaped recovery like Fink, Powell, Mnuchin, & Co.
[I-have-a-dream] I’d love to see somebody break into Stuart Blarney’s basement, and break a Wall Street Sociopath’s propagandist kneecaps while on the air and a jury give the Reich, dishonourable judge whose oath was probably his quadrillionth lie and has nothing but contempt for his own court on the case a unanimous not-guilty verdict along with middle fingers followed by a busting out of the jurors from hypocritical “contempt of court” charges by a real constitutional militia and not a subversive fascist one that makes the card-carrying members of the Repugnant Party look good in comparison. [/I-have-a-dream]
Of course if that happens, it’ll be in my mind while I am in a REM state, unfortunately.
The Green movement died in the early 1970s, so I do not see a serious plan (or even “serious” plan) with the *possible* exception of the very marginalized Green Party.
If we were going to get any kind of “Green New Deal” from the fake socialist but actual corporatists it probably would have been a Greenwashed Fake Deal where they screw it up (probably on purpose). It would have already happened by now.
Instead, they doubled down on their White Phosphorous Old Deal which they screwed up (probably on purpose as well).
However, it is easy to calculate limits to growth. Assuming 65 kg/person and a universe of a mass of 1.5 × 10^53 kg and a 2% growth rate from an original Adan and Eve, it takes around 5,939 years for the mass of humans to equal the mass of the universe.
Anyone who does not see that a real Green New Deal is needed and is not forthcoming isn’t in touch with reality.