Aside from violent politics and anti-Americanism, there are even larger forces at work, and psychologies behind or in front of them, that are shaping the World. Politics, which has caused these forces to build strength, can barely affect them, now. Every four years we become hotly exercised over “who will lead the free world,” but the crucial differences we perceive between candidates, are rarely so significant that they will materially impact the inexorable forces already underway. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Even James Carville had little understanding of what he had actually said in 1992. It is the economy… of the world.
Even the mighty United States is barely able, now, to chart its own course, economically.
It is an interesting game, for some, to dredge up what a nickel used to buy compared to today, or what used to be a “damn good weeks pay” for 60 hours of labor. We created the mis-named “Federal” Reserve System in 1913 to supposedly prevent the excesses and crashes of the banking system, and populated the member banks with the same thieves who had helped crash the economy more than once, but who also finally came up with the right price to purchase Congress’ acquiescence to the Federal Reserve act. Supposedly the penalties of interest costs would keep Congress from spending beyond its means.
That worked wonders.
The flaw was and is that there’s no profit to be made without a loan being lent. Lending to business isn’t profitable enough; big profit comes from lending to countries – especially this one. There simply needs to be enough crises to justify deficit spending. That works, too.
An ounce of gold sells lately for nearly $2,000. In 1932, before FDR stole Americans’ gold by law for $20.50 an ounce, it sold for 1/100th as much. In other words, in fewer than 90 years the purchasing power vis a’ vis gold declined by 99%. FDR adjusted that ratio by declaring that gold cost $35 an ounce now that the government owned it, and picked up a few billion dollars with which to “fix” the depressed economy. Controlling the price of commodities is a useful tool in controlling people. Many commodities define the whole economies of nations. Oil, for example, finances several, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Russia and many others. How belligerent they are towards their “enemies” is often tied to the market price of that single commodity.
Kings and Emperors are bought and sold on some continents for oil, gold or diamonds. The companies that own or control those commodities, or their banks, are international these days, and tied to any nation only for tax advantage rather than for any sense of tradition or patriotism. Indeed, the money system is virtually global, not national. That’s our money, as well. It’s the economy, stupid.
But the problems that will swamp virtually every nation are global and non-national. So-called “national” banks form a web of global management – financial management, financing governments. Our own “Federal” Reserve sits at that table, not at ours.
Global financiers are not like other people. Their outlook on life is divorced from money worries, mortgages, keeping tight schedules or shopping. Tailors or dressmakers come to them, employees / servants obtain food and prepare it and clean up after meals. “Average” people are nearly an alien species to them, useful only for work and taxes. Morally they are not bound by our concepts of right and wrong: actions are either profitable or not profitable, which is to say, good or bad, including wars… the sides don’t really matter.
For pastimes, nothing is out of reach… or bounds. Tales of extraordinary sexual pleasures and the worst imaginable, even orgiastic parties, gatherings, have surfaced. Who can stop them when they practically own everything? Politicians like to join them. There is an animal attraction to “forbidden” pleasures in a non-judgmental arena, one that only religious and honest people will resist or avoid. The “lords” of money have a lot more to say about how and how well the population of this planet will live than any elected official, much as we’d like to believe otherwise.
Of financial national powers, only the United States has the potential to constrain or reverse the utter control by shadowy international oligarchs. That brings us tremendous opposition from sometimes unexpected quarters. For oligarchs, socialism is an easier system of governance to deal with. Both abject fealty to money and socialism / communism are anti-religious, “satanic” forces. Western civilization became dominant thanks to Judeo-Christianity, no matter how many fools passionately deny it.
Our economics are based on money as a form of barter: value for value. This is ultimate fairness and helped form the fundaments of our legal contracts in all areas of interaction, not just financial. Honest, enforceable agreements – contracts – have been crucial for the growth of economies and for the creation of a middle class and upward mobility for those willing to work hard enough or intelligently enough. The United States was made strong by virtue of fundamental honesty in our economy and in our business AND social “contracts.” The Bible requires those ethics.
Yet we need look no further than our astronomical debt to see that our own nation is not nearly as “independent” as we’d like to think. Every dollar of debt is a measure of slavery; every dollar of tax is a loss of freedom.
The alert observer can see how most countries are in alignment financially. Those that are not are outliers and not likely to create substantial profits for bankers. The moment they are so likely, loans start flowing in for development of various kinds, never least of which is of natural resources. Lately the largest source of such loan-debt-control actions is China. Are they independently seeking hegemony, or acting in concert with the global banking oligarchy? We’ll never find out by asking them: they are communists and dis-information is an automatic defense of their utterly secular “infallibility.”
A small example of the control of governments and people by banks, can be seen here in Washington. When the Federal Reserve was created – by bankers – the legislation allowed it to “lend” money that did not exist, to the government. What a terrible tool to hand to bankers; what a far more terrible tool to hand to politicians. In a single Act politicians created both a choke-collar on the American people and a PRIVATE bank that owns the levers of economic power just relinquished by Congress through the same Act. When the Chairman of the “Fed” testifies to Congress, he or she doesn’t come to learn what financial policy should be, but to partially inform our elected representatives how things financial are going to be.
Covid-19 and recent actions of the “Fed” should make this clear to those with eyes to see. Following a questionable lockdown of most businesses the Congress was impelled to provide expanded “unemployment” funds and various bailouts, small and large, including forgivable loans to small businesses… TRILLIONS of dollars worth. Where did the Federal Reserve obtain that money, an American taxpaying citizen might ask? Where?
Thin air is where. Sitting behind desks the 17 governors of the Federal Reserve agreed to write the world’s largest fraudulent, un-backed check, drawn on an account with barely 5% of the funds on deposit for which the check is written. Well, that’s OK, it’s legal. Orwell was right: debt is prosperity. That same “Board of Governors” just voted to keep interest rates close to zero for at least another year. While we might celebrate this good news, it exposes its own threat to the nation: these same private bankers can later vote to raise interest rates, obligating the elected Federal government and its elected representatives, to pay those higher rates.
Wait just a minute, baab-a-loo, baab-a-loo, it says in the Constitution that only the Congress can initiate “bills” of “Appropriation” including, as stated in Section 9 of Article I, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account….” Yet here is the so-called Federal Reserve Bank able to impose financial obligation upon the country by agreement among 17 largely unknown private bankers, and not by the Congress.
If the “Treasury Notes” that the Federal Reserve “buys” with thin air are good instruments of obligation, why can’t the Congress simply authorize the printing of “money” without paying interest to anyone? It’s the same “full faith and credit of the United States.” What an awful position for an earlier Congress to put itself and the nation into. What a dramatic reform and sanitization of government for an imminent Congress to perform: nationalize the Federal Reserve, a creation of the Congress in the first place. It’s all a matter of the value of United States dollars – the U. S. should control it. Indeed, we should no longer be beholden to international financiers. The fact that Americans still have sufficient power to restore our true independence is why international socialism keeps attacking our system, processes and the Constitution, itself.
Can we see where this is happening? Well, the federal Reserve was created; the dollar was separated from gold or silver backing; the dollar was shifted from U. S. currency to Federal Reserve Notes; the act of voting has been made looser and looser, with barely managed voting lists despite Federal law to the contrary; vote harvesting has been allowed; vote-by-mail has been suddenly instituted due to questionable fears of Covid-19, promising severe electoral confusion on election night; our own census has been prevented from asking about citizenship status, confusing further the apportionment of representation in Congress; and, not to overlook, leftists, communists (BLM and others) are rioting, vandalizing and burning and promising more if their candidate doesn’t win or the wrong person is confirmed to the Supreme Court. The Left never rests.
This election year there is a knife-edge election. The virulent left has read some marijuana leaves and discerns that the time to strike is 2020. Thanks to President Obama the concept of compromise is gone from politics, and the freedom to actually display socialist beliefs is absolute. The left judges that there are enough ignorant, mis-educated young fools to swing the direction of history toward socialism and communism. Electing a virtually socialist government (anyone who is counting on Joe Biden to maintain a “centrist” direction is in immediate need of deep therapy) will effectively dissolve the United States as an independent, freedom-based, democratic republic. The consequences will touch every one of us.
The concept of value for value, mentioned earlier, is vital to our commerce and contracts and a constant restatement of honesty in our dealings with one another. But it also underlies our basic justice system, and requires that punishments should fit the crimes invoking them. In both commerce and individual transactions we have slipped far away from value for value. Our currency is backed only by our confidence and an international finance system that is willing to accept dollars in trade for commodities, a system under great international pressure for replacement. Trust in the fundamental honesty of the United States’ government is what supports dollars as measures of value for the rest of the World. That and the taxing power of Congress.
We are also slipping, precipitously, far down from the pinnacle of even-handed justice that guarantees our survival as a republic. Laws governing “hate crimes” for example, shift investigations and charges from wholly evidentiary to semi-subjective, politically correct charges. Laws that are passed under duress to satisfy threats of violence, to suggest a year 2020 example, also indicate how far we are willing to diverge from actual justice to “justice” as defined by seditious insurrectionists. What can the future of “blind” justice possibly be?
If we are prepared, because of an onslaught of Marxist-inspired lies about crime events, and in thrall of weak politicians who have come to believe in the foggy utopianism of socialism, to relinquish truth-based, evidence-based justice, and to relinquish complete control of our weakened finances, then we deserve to lose America. Loss of an independent United States will lead to the end of Western civilization and the demise of Judeo-Christian ethics-based culture.
Vote.
