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Crony America and The Bill of Rights (with artwork by WilliamBanzai7)

Crony America and The Bill of Rights
Written by Cognitive Dissonance
Artwork by WilliamBanzai7
(Please note that WilliamBanzai7 will post a separate article containing all the artwork created for this article, including many pieces not used here. Additionally, WB7 contributed creatively and editorially to this article and his collaboration was instrumental and much appreciated. Thank you WB7.)
I could make a coherent and convincing argument that the “Great American Experiment” was precisely that, an experiment to test a new business model on a nationwide basis. The plan was designed to create an entirely new economic and social control system and it was implemented with the full backing and active participation of key American and European financial elite. This experimental social order was constructed to achieve higher levels of business exploitation and productivity that revolved around using the definitive natural resource (the common slave, indentured servant and agricultural working class man) in new and creative ways.
The creation of an independent America Incorporated was at its fundamental core a collective high risk business decision. And the founding documents acted as Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws, basically the working business plan, to generate more profits through business friendly nation building. The primary goal was to promote increased productivity and thus profitability by eliminating the non productive middle man, in this case the King of England, leaving the business partners, officers and principals as the primary beneficiaries. The results were successful beyond imagination and over the following two hundred plus years this basic business plan propelled Crony America to the lofty world leadership position from which it now plummets to its inevitable demise.
We must always remember that as far back as we wish to look into recorded history, political and social order has always been constructed and organized to enrich and empower the elite to the detriment of everyone else. For decades leading up to the creation of Crony America, the world’s elites were slowly convinced (some might say forced by centuries of peasant uprisings to believe) that by sharing some of the bounty with those who were actually producing and productive (aka the peasants) a positive feedback loop could be created that would drive profits through the roof. This is turn would propel the business partners, the nation and by extension the individual workers to unmatched levels of personal, social and national prosperity, well beyond that achieved by any other social control system ever created.
This new business model, called The United States of America on the planning documents, was a revolutionary change from tried and true profitable business practices. While profit was still the ultimate goal, the process used was now radically different. Even though technology was slowly ramping up profits, slave labor and indentured servants were profitable principally because of lower operating costs that sprang from the lack of paid wages and the scarcity of replacement labor, particularly in the south. But these lower labor costs were largely offset by the expense of their keep, thus the enslaved and repressed man was becoming more productive on the whole because of the improved machines, not because of the man himself. An uninspired and oppressed man is not a very efficient human being.
The revolutionary idea was that America Inc. promised to change fundamental business practices forever. Now businessmen could control the overall labor force well beyond the farm or factory borders while spreading the development costs over the entire nation. By handing a small portion of profits back to the worker and the business friendly government, those taxes and wages could be leveraged far beyond anything the businessmen could individually manage. The state and the worker would be responsible for many of the expenses the businessmen previously paid out of their own pockets.
But among the richest and most powerful, the senior partners of Crony America if you will, it was always understood that sharing the wealth with the lower class was simply a means to an end and would cease when it was no longer profitable to do so. Only those in deep denial cannot see that we have reached that point today. The American Constitution and the attached Bill of Rights were an integral part of the experiment and both should be seen for what they are; as business planning documents and contracts rather than the basis for a romantic love story about personal freedom and national identity.
Unfortunately, shaking off this self indulgent myth can be extremely difficult after a life time of drinking the patriotic propaganda that’s served up daily. Buried deep within this profitable mythology is the fundamental business plan; the desire by the business owners to create a self motivated but pliable work force that cared for itself. The promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was, and still is, a powerful narcotic even when measured by today’s high standard of wage slave management techniques. When Crony America is viewed as a working plantation and “we the people” as willing wage slaves, America Inc’s founding documents take on a dramatically different perspective.
Essentially these business contracts were used to rally a disparate and ideologically divided nation, convincing many to put some skin in the game with the promise of a fair return on the back side if successful. Obviously the most important buy-in was required of the established elites and this explains why the wealthy led the business “revolution”. But equally important was the promise that there would be enforced laws and regulations to protect the weak from the more powerful, in theory creating a more even playing field.
With this guarantee stated in writing, even the poorest of the free men were enticed to buy into the game and put their backs to the wheel. Though in practice they had little choice in the matter and like today just went with the flow. In a brilliant example of early public relations management, the myth of wise and sage state leaders gathered in Philadelphia effectively humanized extremely rich and powerful business men. After the fighting started, they were further rebranded as righteous (profit) patriots and freedom fighters.
This concept bears repeating. Today’s for-profit Crony America had its start as a revolutionary business decision by a group of wealthy and disgruntled elite who objected to paying more and more of their profits to an absentee landlord and his band of merry legislators. As much as we love to tell each other glorious stories of imperial tyranny and grass roots rebellion, America Incorporated was the result of a hostile takeover, emphasis on hostile.
Thus the myth of a free and open society was proclaimed to have been embraced by all for the common good and the obvious contradictions of slavery, indentured servants, landless free men and women without voting rights etc. were pushed aside in the rush to profit from the national business experiment. In this way the King of England, which was seen as the domineering middle man in the business of colonial exploitation for profit, was forcibly expelled and cut out of the deal.
Over the next 200 years of slave labor and ugly lynching’s, civil and foreign war, genocide of indigenous populations, child labor, manifest destiny and westward expansion, wave after wave of immigration, social and political exploitation and repression, conditions slowly grew better for all classes of Americans, though most certainly not fairly or evenly. Still, despite these glaring disparities, the working classes were sustained and even emboldened to continue to toil away by the very real possibility of improved living conditions not only for their children but for themselves.
This was the genesis for the worker self motivation that was the initial source of the increased productivity required for Crony America to succeed and then thrive. Luckily for the business partners, increased prosperity on an individual basis is always a relative condition. As long as the myth can be sustained by some meager positive real world experience, even the most oppressed are willing to tolerate more than they should in exchange for a chance to improve their lot in life. This was the American dream that was born of the revolutionary American business experiment and this too has ended, though several hundred million wage slaves have yet to accept this fact.

With this essay’s premise now established, that Crony America’s founding documents are simply business tools and worker contracts we are born into, just as children of slaves are born into slavery, what follows is a closer look at one of these contracts, in this case the Bill of Rights. Essentially I look closer at one segment of the broader argument I made in a prior article (An American Coup D’état – First World Nation Style) that the Constitution and by extension the Bill of Rights were effectively subverted and overthrown by a business (aka political) Coup D’état on 09/11/2001 using the Continuity of Government mechanism long in the planning stage. Since this appears to be the case, it stands to reason the contracts are either null and void or radically changed.
I began considering how much of the Bill of Rights would still apply if I was correct about their initial intent and current violation. With the initial draft of my thoughts complete, I sent them to a friend and asked for some feedback. Among several constructive and well received suggestions was the thought that I might consider toning it down it bit so as not to upset the more sensitive and opinionated readers. After taking a few steps back and sleeping on it to gain a wider perspective I did as advised in a few select areas, though by no means completely.
However, I wasn’t so sure that the advice was entirely warranted. Was the heart of my essay, a revision of the original Bill of Rights, really over the top and totally unrealistic? Was the language I used truly inflammatory and thus useless from a message delivery point of view? Or was my perspective clouded by my limited life experience? These were all valid questions and ones that could be tested. After all, one can’t truly say they enjoy certain “rights” until they actually try to exercise them. Until then it’s all just philosophical musings.
After several hours on two different search engines plugging in words and phrases, I was astounded to find repeated and systemic examples of “rights” being abused or denied. And not just among the so called Guantanamo and Bagram AFB “terrorists” (sadly this was entirely expected) but in stories of abuse heaped upon upper, middle and lower class Jane’s and Joe’s. Every month in Crony America there are hundreds of incidences of warrantless home invasions and unauthorized wiretappings, planted evidence, framed defendants, prosecutorial misconduct, midnight abductions and months, even yearlong, detentions without access to consul or court. And this doesn’t include corporate espionage and other “for fun and profit” skullduggery.
I found numerous examples of repeated prosecutions for the same crime with slight changes to skirt the letter and spirit of the law. There were dozens of articles about judge and jury tampering, intimidation, payoffs and blatant miscarriages of justice. Even the government admits to the escalation of human rights violations as laid out in the Bill of Rights, though it’s often buried in official facts, figures and tables. And I had barely scratched the surface, never moving past page one of each search and without ever touching the Ponzi crimes. We seem to have become deaf, dumb or numb because these “business practices” have become normal and fade into the background noise, something to skip over on our way to the NFL.
The troubling conclusion I came to from my short investigation was that rather than being over the top and hysterical, my “Crony America and The Bill of Rights” thought exercise might actually not go far enough to reflect reality. Just because your home hasn’t been invaded or you haven’t yet been pulled over at gun point or you have not been subjected to abusive IRS audits doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. As I said earlier, you really don’t have any “rights” unless you can exercise them when you need them and based upon what I found, there are plenty of people out there that are being denied.
As this country spirals further down into the black abyss of economic collapse, our social contracts and the implicit understandings that support them will only grow weaker and more fragile. This means that you are just as susceptible to Bill of Rights violations at some point in your future as the present day victims are now. So do me a favor and push through my snarky tone and provocative language and see this essay for what it really is, closer to the truth than you care or dare think.
I present each “Right” as it was originally written followed by my revision and comments. Obviously no political or governmental body would write “Crony America - The Bill of Rights” to begin with since the objective is always to perpetuate the myth of fairness and even handedness. So hold your complaints that this thought exercise is a non starter. Forget that this document would never exist; it’s the understanding that these violations actually occur in today’s world that matters and the sole reason for the creation of this article.

[It’s the author’s premise that The Bill of Rights was a business tool that has slowly been degraded and undermined over decades until it was finally revoked and revised, along with the Constitution, on 09/11/2001 via the implementation of the Continuity of Government Coup D’état aka business martial law.
Each Revoked “Right” below is followed by the Enacted version and then the author’s italicized commentary. I strongly advise you to read the original “Right” as well as the revision to get a feel for where we are now. It ain’t pretty.]
The First 10 Amendments to the
Constitution as Ratified by the States, becoming effective on December 15, 1791
Preamble
Congress of The United Business States…begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. Revoked and revised on Tuesday, the Eleventh of September, Two Thousand and One in the City of New York and ratified by a compliant Congress on Friday, the Fourteenth of September, Two Thousand and One in the District of Columbia.
Original Revoked: THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution.
Revision Enacted: THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the now suspended Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added and which have now been suspended, revoked or amended. And as extending the ground of public confidence in The Business State (BS), will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution and owners if the public would accept that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are now privileges to be doled out when, and only when, it benefits The Business State.
Original Revoked: RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
Revision Enacted: RESOLVED by the compliant and puppet Senate and House of Representatives of The United Business States, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring under threat of publically declared martial law, on Friday 09/14/2001 that the following revised, suspended or revoked Articles be imposed upon the Legislatures, peasants, wage slaves and indentured servants of the several captured and corrupt States, as Amendments to the secretly suspended but still publicly supported Constitution to promote the public charade of a Constitutional form of The Business State, all or any of which revised, suspended or revoked Articles, having been unilaterally enacted by Imperial Army decree by the Shadow Central Banking Government, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said secretly suspended Constitution; viz.:
Original Revoked: ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
Revision Enacted: Revised, suspended, or revoked Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the secretly suspended Constitution of The United Business State, imposed by a compliant and puppet Congress on Friday 09/14/2001 and imposed upon the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the now suspended Constitution.

Amendment I - Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Revision Enacted: Congress cannot and will not make any laws without the consent of The United Business State (BS). Crony America has established the (inter)national religion of Crony Globalism and expressly prohibits the free exercise of any other economic system or belief under penalty of economic death or military invasion. America Inc. has abridged freedom of speech, the press and the right of the people to peaceably assemble unless permitted by The United Business State amended By-Laws. Consumers may petition the Government for redress of grievances only when permission is granted.
[We peons are welcome and even encouraged to worship whatever God we choose and pursue any beliefs of freedom we may wish as long as our beliefs don’t interfere with the Crony Globalism - National (Security) Business State – Central Banking Cabal ménage à trois. It is hereby declared that the one and only official Crony Globalism State religion is Keynesian (perversion 6.4) which was initially adopted on 12-23-1913 and fully implemented on 09/11/2001.
There is only one God and that almighty God is John Maynard Keynes, who luckily passed away (ascended if you listen to the Business Priests) long before he could see the abomination his teachings and beliefs had become in the hands of the business masters of the universe. By popular consent of the ruling class and financial elite, all peasants must bow to the all powerful and mighty economic Business God, whose words and meaning are interpreted by whatever compliant economic wizard or warlock is currently running the public face of the Ponzi.
It’s in everyone’s best interest to continue to believe that Crony America is a nation of free people who regularly speak out and are actively involved in the workings of their government. After all, we’re all encouraged to become Profit Patriots and join in the scrum. And the Ponzi will continue to promote this fantasy in the interest of maintaining ever higher wage slave productivity. This includes keeping the basic trappings of a bought and paid for representative republic, an increasingly Ponzi dependent judicial and administrative system and a fawning corporate press whose sole job is to lull the population into thinking the press is still independent, informative and vigilant.
But there should be no mistake or misperception. The Homeland is currently controlled and administered by a small group of bankers, the super rich and various corporate entities. The Business State (BS) business men are firming in control. And while they wish to maintain the illusion of normalcy for profit sake, any serious transgression will be dealt with swiftly and brutally. You’re being continuously watched and monitored. Don’t mistake a lack of intervention on the part of The Homeland regarding your seditious behavior as tact acceptance of it. When you’ve become a sufficiently large enough nuisance to The Business State to warrant attention, you’ll be swiftly dealt with. BS Bank on it.]

Amendment II – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law. Original Revoked: A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. Revision Enacted: An unregulated Financial-Military-Industrial-Energy-Drug Complex being necessary to the continued profitability of Crony Globalism and The Business State, there is no right of the people to keep and bear Arms except when conscripted into Crony America’s Imperial Armed Forces either by hook, crook or economic necessity. America Inc. at any time has the right and might to remove any weapons privately held without prior notice and with extreme prejudice. [There’s room for only one armed bully on the block and that bully is the almighty corporate “business person” masquerading as The Business State, also known as “the mother lode” among co-conspirators. Crony America prefers to leave the passive consumer armed to further the illusion of freedom when in reality the only freedom remaining is the right to choose the color and model of the hamster wheel one labors on as long as he can make the payments. When the Imperial Wars require more storm troopers (aka uniformed economic hit men/enforcers) than are currently available through a so-called voluntary economic conscription model to support business expansion plans, America Inc. can and will impose a capricious and punitive military draft, aka forced conscription……..at gun point if necessary. There will be no deferments allowed except to those who are able to purchase “indulgences” or who are highly connected either politically or economically or who show promise as tools of the State. The Imperial Wars are the life blood of Crony Globalism, America Inc. and its controlling network of international central banks aka The Central Bankstas. One must always keep in mind that the Imperial Wars are the primary backing, the big stick if you will, of The Business State’s infinitely inflatable fiat “reserve” currency and nothing will stand in the way of Crony Globalism. The force is with them.]

Amendment III – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Revision Enacted: All United Business State Soldiers shall, in time of peace or war, be quartered in any house The Homeland chooses, repossessed or not, with or without the consent of the owner, in a manner to be prescribed by law, edict or whim.
[This of course assumes that the consumer (all citizens died decades ago in a mental Coup D’état) has sufficient means or value to be of interest to The Business State. If this is the case, The Homeland has no need to occupy or quarter troops in your 30 year old run down trailer or leased walk in closet.
However, if you own any housing “assets” (or more likely you owe more money than the housing “asset” is worth) Crony America and Banksta Kapitalism has the procedures needed to (re)posses your home in order to house all current and future Soldiers of the Imperial Army as well as any and all indentured servants and wage slaves as they work off their never ending debt (of gratitude) to the BS. This economic confiscation is subject to change at the whim of The Banking Kings and all other (self) appointed agents of the Mighty Ponzi God.]

Amendment IV – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Revision Enacted: Deleted with no replacement offered.
[Deleted in its entirety and replaced with The Business State’s prerogative to do as it pleases when it pleases in the manner it pleases. The owners of Crony America have decided it’s time to proceed with the liquidation sale before bankruptcy is declared and a new business model is implemented by decree. Since you paid for all your “assets” with Federal Reserve Notes, you have no clear title. The Federal Reserve in effect has a lien on your assets, leaving them subject to foreclosure at any time. Furthermore, the Imperial Business State determines what the law is and when it is enforced. All your personal security and privacy rights privileges are belong to us.]
Amendment V – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Revision Enacted: Deleted with no replacement offered.
[This Article was completely discarded as unnecessary because there are two sets of laws and regulations in Crony America, a fact that has always been true and is finally openly admitted. “Common Peasant Law” aka Commercial Law is what The Business State (BS) arbitrarily and capaciously enforces to maintain productivity and punish transgressors. The real purpose of these prosecutions is to distract and encumber the powerless while terrorizing the general population into submission. Occasionally Crony America will allow a wage slave to escape bondage to inspire the teaming masses left behind to double their efforts. It’s all about business productivity and profits.
Since the nation and consumer now labor under De facto business martial law, any former “rights” against double jeopardy, the talking of life, liberty or property without due process and so on may or may not be enforced at the sole discretion of the America Inc. At the time of business martial law enactment, these consumer “privileges” were essentially left intact to promote social calm and profits. The Business State will revoke these “privileges” at a time and place of its choosing. All consumers are considered enemies of Crony America and live and work at the pleasure of The Business State owners.
A second more exclusive and loosely defined set of laws is occasionally, or more accurately rarely, used to prosecute those who control wealth and power or who are particularly useful to The Homeland as political, corporate or social tools. In most cases, these laws are used as political or social weapons to extort wealth and power from other corporate persons or to subvert and/or undermine other political or social entities. In all cases, the requirements of the owners of Crony America out weight any perceived need for social justice. Any prosecutions of the rich and powerful are secondary to the wishes of the owners. Meaning prosecutions will rarely occur because the rich and powerful are the owners of America Inc.]

Amendment VI – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
Revision Enacted: In all criminal and civil (aka terrorist) prosecutions that The Homeland chooses to pursue, the guilty shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial after a minimum of 8 to 10 years of solitary confinement and 186 water boarding sessions at Guantanamo or Bagram AFB, followed by a swift and merciful economic execution by Crony America agents.
The guilty will be charged with the crimes The Business State says were committed and the guilty will be informed of the nature of the charges within 5 minutes of entering the kangaroo court room. The guilty will never be confronted with the witnesses against him, will have essentially zero chance of obtaining witnesses in his favor and has the right to the Assistance of Counsel consisting of bought and paid for junior high school chemistry teachers.
[And this is assuming that the BS prosecutor is feeling generous, magnanimous and got laid last night. Crony America is omnipotent and will presume all enemies (aka consumers) to be guilty until The Homeland decides if it’s in the interest of The Business State to presume innocence. The guilty have no right to anything other than viewing the most recent episode of “Dancing with the Businessmen” before economic death is imposed. If The Homeland has presumed guilt, the only reason the BS might proceed with an open and fair trial is for the emotional comfort and plausible deniability of the various BS prosecutors, judges and court jesters.]

Amendment VII – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Revision Enacted: In suits at common peasant law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common peasant law.
[There was no need to modify this beyond the insertion of the word “peasant”. In fact, the entire BS judicial system is all a carefully crafted and maintained business charade. The very fact that the legal and judicial system still functions to some extent at the local and state level simply reinforces the false belief in the average peasant that there’s something called BS “justice” and that it can be found in America Inc.
This self delusion is necessary if The Business State is to maintain relatively inexpensive control over the passive and conditioned workers, most of who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. After hundreds of years of refining mind control techniques, and with the help of modern electronic methods, the BS ruling elite has proven that the average mentally castrated peasant will continue to work even when repressed and humiliated as long as the illusion of self control is maintained, however improbable that might actually be.
As well, if given the opportunity to believe they are free and unencumbered, said wage slaves will not only remain silent but will fight to suppress vocal dissident slaves in order to remain sedated and sated within Crony America. So shut up and learn to love your enslavement or we’ll take away your gruel. Actually we already did. Next on the list are the pot you piss in and the house that contains it.]
Amendment VIII – Revoked and revised on 09-11-2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Revision Enacted: Excessive bail shall always be required, excessive fines will be imposed and the use of cruel and unusual punishment techniques is encouraged of the BS jailors and torturers. The Homeland can and will declare you a domestic terrorist for any reason what-so-ever.
[Can you say Bagram AFB and Guantanamo? Keep your cute little hamster nose clean and The National Security State might not deem you a domestic terrorist and haul your ass off to any number of undocumented and unacknowledged hell holes where the art of modern torture is refined. At any time using any evidence The Homeland claims to have but doesn’t need to show you or any court in the world, they can whisk you away to some remote part of the world (usually stuffed in the airplane cargo hold between bundles of Afghan heroin) only to throw your weeping leaking ass into some 4’ by 6’ plywood box to shake and bake.
After our profitable and patriotic Security State (SS) business interrogation professionals grow tired of stomping your ass in between water boarding sessions, if you don’t “accidently” die, they might actually return you to your friends and family along with a substantial bill for services rendered during your business rehabilitation and reprogramming. Of course, the bill will be disguised as a BS IRS audit or a civil lawsuit based upon trumped up charges you’ll go bankrupt defending. So shut the hell up, keep your mind blank, your nose clean and follow the hamster in front of you.]

Amendment IX – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Revision Enacted: The enumeration in the suspended Constitution, of certain revoked rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage other revoked rights no longer retained by the peasants unless and until The Business State says otherwise in whole or in part.
[Crony America strongly advises all wage slaves and indentured servants to sit back and enjoy the BS ride. As long as you don’t fight it, you’ll be allowed to believe whatever it is you wish to believe. The few remaining critical thinking individuals will soon be permanently removed, stifled or terrorized into submission. There’s nothing wrong with your fantasy world that horse blinders and a 50’ LCD set with 5.1 surround sound can’t fix. Now shut up and watch “Mindless Consumerism 101” or you’re next on the water board. And did I forget to mention the mandatory consumption? We need to pump up the BS numbers for next quarter.]

Amendment X – Revoked and revised on 09/11/2001 per implementation of Continuity of Government aka business martial law.
Original Revoked: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Revision Enacted: The powers not delegated to The United Business State by the suspended Constitution have now been seized by the implementation of Continuity of Government on 09/11/2001. No individual state may prohibit any law, edict or action by America Inc. under penalty of suspension of all state aid or outright invasion and confiscation of all state property. All inalienable rights are reserved to The Homeland and only those The Business State wishes to convey will be apportioned to the peasants based upon financial wealth and political influence.
[In so many ways, what’s happening today isn’t so much a change of conditions as it is a revealing of business and governmental practices corrupted by decades of fiat fractional reserve banking and Imperial adventurism. As The Business State’s fiat Ponzi begins to fly apart from centrifugal forces causes by the unsustainable economic, social and political spin, the only way to kick the can down the road is to feed humans into the maw to replace the rapidly depleting mass being flung from the edges at warp speed.
It really comes down to a simple fact of life. As long as “we the people” continue to demand “Someone should do something about this” rather than “I must do something about this” nothing will be done about this. Crony America has been wildly successful at simultaneously promoting two contrary notions in the mind of the average wage slave. That he or she will survive and even thrive during the coming implosion and that someone else will step up and save the day. This planted Cognitive Dissonance serves its intended purpose, to freeze the population in its tracks while it waits for the savior that never comes.
Mucho props to the business controllers for the greatest population pacification program ever successfully implemented in recorded history. Are you sufficiently pissed yet? If not, what exactly is it going to take? And how long can you remain in denial?]

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I must commend you on your diligence in seeking the truth, however I take umbrage at your assertion that our founding fathers were involved in some sort of conspiracy. All of which smacks of higher education ignorance. You lay claim to reading letters that present evidence of a “business” based construct called the Constitution. What do you think the free market is? The Constitution was written by and for future generations of business owners, entrepreneurs if you will. Free men don’t work for wages and we don’t work for the privilege of paying a king or government that supplants our desires as free men. The expectation to work for wages is a fairly new ideal, imposed by people who wish to control our behavior and permanently create a welfare state that is easily manipulated by the so called “elite ruling class”. Thus, they can do what they want without impunity.
What’s troubling is your continued reference of an “alternative history”. With all of your superior intellectual capacity, you fail to ask the most important questions. Why and who “directed” you to this conclusion? For what reason? Was the author of this alternative history correcting the facts for posterity sake or is there an objective? Are they or were they involved in organizations that had or have an objective? What were or are the objectives?
It can all be summed up by another question. If not free market capitalism in a democratic republic then what?
At some point in time you may wake from a dead sleep and realize who is actually sipping on Kool-Aid out of a tippy cup…
I do agree upon the final assessment (even if not stated), we are being ruled upon by an Oligarchy. One created by the apathy and ignorance of the people. Our founding fathers warned us about the evils of centralized banking, we paid no heed and the yoke of servitude is upon us all.
The founding fathers were men of wealth. They were all too familiar with banking, securities, insurance, and the law in England. They wanted to keep the profit of their own endeavors in the new world.
The US government under the Articles of Confederation was bankrupt. The founders arranged for the reorganization of the country's debts under the Constitution.
From Black's Law dictionary, the word Constitutio means:
In the Civil law. An imperial ordinance, decree, or constitution distinguised from Lex, Senatus-Consultum and other kinds of law and having its effects from the sole will of the emperor.[...] An establishment or settlement. Used of controversies settled by the parties without a trial. A sum paid according to agreement.
They took a loan from Europe. After the reorganization of the Articles of Confederation, the securities that the founding fathers had acquired through speculation were worth a lot of money. The whole emphasis on Freedom for the average citizen was propaganda, a cover for businessmen and the power brokers of the age.
Coming to a realistic view of history does not alter the concept of a democratic Republic and its protection of individual inalienable rights in a society. Alas, those concepts are now rarely understood by the majority.
Most Constitutions in the world-- Russian and those in Latin America that I have examined are ideological Constitutions that in no way protect the rights of the individual. Even the human rights charter at the UN is ideological in nature.
Now that we examined briefly the first bankruptcy, how about a few words on the second one.
The terms of the US bankruptcy in 1933 were not disclosed to the people again. Yet the countries in the Western world met for 5 years just proceeding 1933 to hammer out the details.
The PTB didn't bother to mention that all the debt-notes introduced into the economy were worthless, nothing more than paper. And that every "person" had the power to create debt-notes themselves by writing on paper. UCC Article 3-104, 3-201, 3-301 and those following sections describe the process. The knowledge is in full sight.
The problem we have today with the mortgage loans is not so much fractional reserve banking, but rather that the promissory note as defined under the Uniform Commercial Code is the actual "money" used to discharge the loan. At the close of escrow, the loan was paid off. But by deception, the bankers took money from the people "who were trying to pay back a loan", stripping them of wealth because the people were unfamiliar with the real debt-based monetary system.
There is a thin veneer of stability in all societies. Right under that veneer is greed, deception, and control of the classes. I am more and more convinced we live in feudalistic system that has just now more fully revealed itself.
The debt-based monetary system was designed to strip the wealth of the people and the Uniform Commercial Code supports that operation. All of it is cleverly disguised as a mechanism of "voluntary" consent.
And what about the third bankruptcy of the US? They are busy in the G20 meetings right now setting up a new world government and designing the monetary system. They will likely keep it secret too. I have no doubt that the UCC will need to evolve in order to keep up with the new system of control. And that is where all people should turn their attention in the next decade. If every family comprehended the Uniform Commercial Code, all debts would be discharged with paper and no personal bankruptcies would be needed.
There is no money, and there is no debt. There are only debt-notes and the discharge of debt.
The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 says nothing related to the British concerning any implied "middleman" activities, and nothing about our paying taxes to them, as a condition of peace between the nations. It fully recognizes the existence of the United States of America by words, as "free sovereign and independent states".
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/documentdetail.aspx?document=24
The Constitution was later drafted in 1787 and put into effect on March 4, 1789.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
So a hypothesis that the Constitution was constucted with the idea of eliminating the "non productive middle man, in this case the King of England" sets up a bogus strawman that did not exist at the time of the writing of this document.
While you may have meant that the quote above related to ideas created well before the Revolution was concluded, I don't see where you explain how the Constitution written later results from the idea of a business exploitation of the masses.
Supposedly the colonists got fed up with their wealth being taxed and sent overseas with nothing much to show for it. The people wanted to end this financial slavery, and the new Constitution did not specify that taxes would be imposed by the new federal government. Ending these taxes is a far simpler motivation for action than one where there is conspiracy of group think by several to many businessmen to become the new boss to replace the old one.
Your words appear to suggest that the American Constitution was formed for the rich to surreptitiously exploit the resources and work force that were available.
As I read the words of Gouverneur Morris, who drafted much of the text of the Constitution, he does not give me the impression that the exploitation of people is foremost as his goal.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/gouverneur+morris
http://www.quotesup.com/ShowAuthor.aspx?Author=10199
http://www.mrsoshouse.com/puzpro/gouvmorrislavery.html
From what I read, Gouverneur Morris was a rich man, but his words are not that of someone with all the evilness implied by your ideas.
The framers of the Constitution appear to have higher ideals than your ideas suggest. I don't disagree that the intent of the Constitution has been subjugated to the wills of those out to exploit the masses. I just don't think that was the original intent.
Those are quotes. Spend a few weeks and read the original writings of Washington, Jefferson etc.
For those that talk of revolution: As long as the majority of Americans are "captured" by the system, revolution is impossible (though that doesn't mean change is impossible). Rock the boat and you become the enemy of everyone who depends on the system. If you seriously talk of, or act on, the idea of revolution you will be silenced and your neighbors not only won't help, they will cheer as the authorities burn your house down with you and your family in it. One less "anti-American terrorist subversive cell" that could threaten the public good. The creation of massive dependence on the government is the most effective way to get people to give up their freedoms and TPTB have done a masterful job.
It's one thing to tell yourself there is nothing you can do about the situation, that you are powerless. But when you tell everyone else they are powerless, your are fomenting yours and their own enslavement and are no better than those who you lament as fomenting revolution.
Interesting how the "sleeping giant" in the red (sic) earth on the left (sic) panel of the BofA-fresco resembles Leo Trotzki...
I think you read too much conspiracy into the motives for the Constitution and Bill of Rights, CD!
From your previous contributions, I think we are generally on the same page regarding the makeup, nature and methods of the oligarchy, but I disagree on this matter of the motives for the Constitution. I believe [for whatever that's worth!] that it was totally against the wishes of the European oligarchs of the time and that they have been subverting its intent and application ever since.
As with any "committee", the Founding Fathers comprised a mixed bag of idealistic leaders, each attempting to sway the outcome to their own interest and those of each of their constituencies. This is best observed by a dissenting view of the time -- commenting from personal knowledge of the players rather than through the lens of available written history:
In my view, the European oligarchs have been jealous of the freedoms afforded the American people by the Constitution from the beginning and have been actively subverting it ever since ... with an end objective of destroying the wayward child, but -- after initial failures to bring it immediately to heel -- not without first using the abilities of the child to their advantage in their overall objective of regaining the global dominion that was lost to the rise of independent thought and ideologies of the Renaissance.
Just my 2 pesos. I could say a lot more on my evidence for this view, but will keep this to a single screen view. Keep up the good work!
Your view certainly has merit. I've just learned that when it comes to big time power, nothing is what it seems or appears and there are always hidden hands many layers deep. That doesn't mean I always assume a conspiracy. It does mean I never accept the surface explanation. I think we could combine both our ideas and be happy.
BTW I didn't flesh out my idea in the interest of keeping the piece as short as possible. With WB7's art and the revised bill of rights, it was going to be long....as usual. Without the art, it would have been shorter than my usual but no where as good. :>)
This looks pretty impressive so far; however, your article is so long that I will have to respond to sections as I read them because I work all day, and thus comments will be done by the time I finish the whole article and formulate any comprehensive response. Perhaps future articles that are not time critical, such as this one, could be posted around 5PM EST for those of us who work all day. Thanks.
So America was a high risk experiment to make TPTB even richer by giving people even more freedom and more opportunity to enrich themselves? Isn't that kind of like saying that the Internet (which makes ZeroHedge possible BTW) is a high risk experiment to make TPTB even richer by giving people even more freedom and more opportunity to express and enrich themselves? Does that really make sense? I will reserve judgement for now.
My personal experience has been that the wealthier the individual - the more risk averse they are. I guess you must be talking about a whole nuther level of wealthy people. Seriously. Are you? Do you honestly believe that the signers "in Philadelphia" were the TPTB. You seem to forget that Thomas Paine, whose writing was absolutely critical in starting the American Revolution, was very poor. You seem to forget that America's founding fathers resisted a national bank run by the Rothschilds.
You seem to forget that America was first governed by the Articles of Confederation - perhaps as close to anarchist principles as we will ever have. You claim that the Constitution was designed to be broadly interpreted - 99% FALSE. You claim that the Constitution tries to protect us through regulation - 99% FALSE. http://www.endofinnocence.com/2010/03/us-constitution.html
You make a claim very much like the one by Lysander Spooner over 100 years about how the Constitution either authorized the situation we have today or else failed to prevent it, which is a tautology that is 100% true by definition, but which is nothing new.
You point out the early flaws in the Constitution and in America policy which have all long since been remedied. Heck! America is the least racist country in the world!
http://www.endofinnocence.com/2010/06/america-is-least-racist-country-in...
I will continue reading because I think you must have some solid points and I just haven't reached them yet.
Nope, no solid points at all. Don't even bother finishing the article because it's just a waste of your time.
Now you tell me... I've wasted an entire evening. <g> The "committee's" work is much appreciated. Thank you and everybody (sans trolls) who contribute to this site. Someday I may try... but the single malt is gone and the store is close for the night.
I have previously responded to a CD article by admitting that I cling to my "I'm powerless to do anything" belief because it absolves me of any guilt for not doing anything. I'm still there, but have realized, through articles such as this, that since the "debt slave" mechanism is one of the primary control systems in place I can at least try to get out of debt and remove that one control mechanism, without sticking my neck out, so to speak. Thanks, CD.
Speaking as one who took a long time to recognize my inner power, that I disarm myself by surrendering my power on a daily basis, I count your statement as a huge win for you.
I promise you that it gets easier from here now that you are beginning to blaze your own trail. The key is to continue forward. At times it will be very frightening because we have all been trained to stay within the boundaries. Those scary times, when overcome, are also the most enlightening once transgressed.
I am always late to the Party!
Anyhow, one of my favorite additions to ZH lately has been the interface button allowing me to post to Facebook, Linkedin etc. I have made a few comments that TD should add the feature and he has done it quite well. There should be a call on this site for users to post and share articles within the sphere of influence. To lead a silent protest it only need be known you recognize the issues. Others will recognize this and by sharing the truth, enlightenment can spread.
Ever notice that the initials of Face Book are the same as Fast Buck? ;-)
WB7, I could care less if they are; If I fear, I loose. Connections are what make us who we are, through the web or not (I have no FB friends I have never met IRL). Remember, Fear is the mind Killer.
Also, Check out GW's TSA post, Someone brought up naked holocaust victims and had an Idea for a nice Photoshop job which i cant figure out who to post. Anyhelp getting it up would be appreciated
Well worth the time CD. Amendment VII revision third paragraph down starting with "This self delusion", is so true. Another portion of your essay that stuck out for me was Amendment VIII revision, well the hole section. I'm sorry to inform you that you should plan on an annual audit from this point forward. Our nation clearly have been captured by the financial elite and the nation was set-up by business for business but with a stable currency. 1913 started the change to the financial system we have today. I need to read back through your essay again and all the posts (you've been busy today) but right now I'm not convinced the business model in 2010 is the same one envisioned from 1776. I don't think London gave up after 1812.
I love Zero Hedge. (figure of speach)
:>)
I have been audited nearly every year for the past 13. Strange how that started when I became a vocal local activist.
Thanks. Good blend of scholarship,satire and visuals. A small thread- Wal Sobchak's boot on the face and Pseudo A's who is the MAN? - maybe Emmanuel Goldstein
Make a book you two!
:>)
Since WB7 is in Hong Kong and I'm on the East Coast of America Inc., where should we meet to bind the books?
Hong Kong???? Visiting or residing?
Who will host the Lost Lake Willoughby Stories Club?
WB7 lives in HK and based upon his last e-mail to me is power napping as I type.
"WB7 lives in HK and based upon his last e-mail to me is power napping as I type."
Based upon my fond wish that I was power napping as I read your typed reply to what WB7 emailed while living in HK...
Inane Never Sleeps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's OK you know. You can contribute to the conversation. People will listen to you. You don't need to be passive/aggressive. :>)
Passive/aggressive? But I was learning Tourettes as a second language...
BTW, speaking of languages... I find it interesting that universally, before or after people use foul language, they will say: "Pardon my french..."
When did that start? Who started it? And why?
Of course, MFer's from NY make no excuse whatsoever...
While WB7's artwork is top caliber as usual, CD's atricle can be stated much more simply as the inevitable collapse of morality eventually undermining every historical attempt to have a moral government, with the concomitant slide from liberty back to slavery.
The BOR wasn't trashed on 9/11, it was slowly trashed over decades of time leading up to 9/11 by a long string of false flag events of increasing severity inversely proportional to the gradual collapse of morals in government.
Perhaps the biggest slides down the moral ramp after the civil war were the creation of the Fed, elimination of the gold standard, and dramatic escalation of drug use beginning in the late 60s. Let's remember that many of those 60s spaced out drug heads now occupy the highest offices in government.
The Roman Empire was a similar attempt at moral government. Over time government morality dropped as successive generations of government leaders ignored more of the founding principles, eventually resulting in it's decay collapse and overthrow by outside forces.
And America is collapsing much faster than the Roman Empire did.
You must have missed this just above the Preamble.
[It’s the author’s premise that The Bill of Rights was a business tool that has slowly been degraded and undermined over decades until it was finally revoked and revised, along with the Constitution, on 09/11/2001 via the implementation of the Continuity of Government Coup D’état aka business martial law.
Your premise is completely erroneous. Study the writings of the founders. You will find no business interests in them. Their efforts were solely to establish a moral government in America with the singular role of protecting the rights of the people, the stuff liberty is made of.
Thank God I'm completely erroneous. Saves me from trying to make corrections. Why bother?
Read the other comments I left. I already cover this. They did talk about business, though they often used cover words like "commerce" or "viability" or "sustainability". As all powerful men know, what they write will be studied for a long time. The "founders" were well aware they were speaking to future generations in their correspondence and thus they rarely talked directly on many subjects.
Maybe you should get away from the offical texts regarding their papers and try some alternative readings. And put the Kool-Aid down while you're at it. :>)
I agree, corrections wouldn't help, the entire article is bullshit.
WB7, we've got another troll. And this one knows everything.
He's going to have a real tough time at the re-programing camps.
You put up a long irrelevant rant built around a completely false premise, then label anyone who disagrees with your ridiculous irrelevant (false) rant as a troll.
You sir are the real troll here.
Any one who uses the term "completely erroneous" to describe anything has no interest in exchanging ideas. Just in showing off his big-in-his-mind dick.
That makes you a troll. I've read enough of your comments here on ZH since you showed up to know what's going on here.
Goodbye and good luck.
A very interesting read, thank you both for putting this together. The thought which gives me pause in all this, however, is to what extent does this transformation require a conspiracy (however visible and public such as PNAC), vs. how much it is a gradual series of opportunistic actions taken independently, but guided by a similar underlying belief built around a collection of sociopathic ideas (Rand for instance) or other excuses for autodestructive, parasitic behavior?
What you have here suggests a grand design, which would require at the minimum sometype of coordination of actions among elites who do not necessarily agree on anything (think of how few periods Europe has been at peace in the last 1,000 years: 1870-1914 and 1945 to now). While I think your description of the present is excellent, it is the longer term implications of a centuries old cabal that is harder to reconcile.
Nevertheless, excellent piece.
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I have to tell you, the idea of a Profit Conspiracy of Founding Fathers is an idea that never occurred to me.
But I am willing to consider it as an idea. Every time I have looked at the history of our democracy I have never been fully satisfied with the character and motivations of the "Founding Fathers" and the probable reason is they have been over idealized.
There was very serious intellect involved and personal wealth. This should not be underestimated.
Bottom line, they were not utopians, they worried about putting bread on their table just like everyone else and there is a ton of baggage that goes with that.
In any event, I don't worry too much what they thought. If someone discovered Thomas Jefferson really thought we should all tattoo a swastika on our foreheads, would we do it?
It's the fuckers that are in there now that are worrying me!
Wow, that hurt CD=( , I've always thought the founding of the country was allowed to happen by the elite of this world but, I think if their is anything that going to rally this country the constitution is "it" and your paper is a good analysis of what the it has been degraded too but, I think the constitution isn't the problem I think it's the enforcement of the laws...
I respect your writing CD and always look forward to your posts but that one was painful...but in a good way though..I'm more of a constitutionalist myself.....It's articles like this that scare the shit out of me...because if what you propose is correct.....what is to be unleashed on the world via constitution next?
The constitution is not the problem nor the solution. We the people are the solution.
We are falling into a self imposed trap if we believe the only way out of the hole is to dig another hole. If we use the same methods that enslave us in a misguided attempt to free us, we have lost before we even start. We must free the minds, not redirect them to another form of enslavement.
An addict is an addict regardless of whether it's alcohol, cocaine, heroin, sex, power, freedom, strong leadership (idol) worship, whatever. The problem looks insurmountable because you're still thinking from inside the problem. Thus the only methods you see capable of "fixing" the problem are those offered by the problem. When inside the Matrix, there is no way out because the Matrix will never offer any tools other than those used to keep you within the Matrix.
Time to free the mind and leave the box. There are a thousand solutions available once you finally stop trying the only solution offered by the enslaved mind. It's devastatingly simple and thus immensely complex because we never seriously consider using any tools other than the familiar. That is the leg trap that never lets go.
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And you thought groping by TSA was bad, wait until you're sent to a concentration camp!! God Bless America!!!
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the america i knew is gone---i dont even want to leave the house anymore--people dont even talk to each other anymore------only to get what they need and? then run back home-----its sickening-----really
WB7 and I plan on finally meeting in Guantanamo. We already have a secret handshake so we'll be able to recognize each other.
Now, was that the left thumb over the right or.........:>)
Was in Guantanamo Bay in 1976.
Observed a 'fence line shooting'...
Wrote home about it...
Made to sit on that wall. Didn't want to be on that wall. Didn't think I was needed on that wall. I fell off that wall and could not be put back together again. Got idea for Grand Slam Breakfast...
Are you the same one posting Ug advertisements?
The section dealing with the Bill of Rights and how it has been subverted is right on, but what the hell is up with the first section? USA Inc., the great oppressor, whose wealth in only based on exploitation? I guess Charles Beard and Howard Zinn can't get you for plagiarism since they're dead, but its a rehash of their anti-American garbage. Suppose the Founders did just see this as a business venture in which they would enrich themselves through others' labor. During most of our history we Americans have enjoyed higher living standards (and greater personal freedom) than anyone and the vast majority of our wealth (until recent decades) came from our own efforts, not slavery or other coercive measures (slaves aren't very producitve, BTW.) A good deal of those who have become rich in this country were men like Carnegie, Eidson, Ford, etc. who created much more wealth than they consumed - should I be mad about that? I would be mad if I believed in Karl Marx's theory of surplus value (that all profit is theft because value comes only from labor.) I was really surprised to see so many positive comments.
Read it again. You might find that we have more in common than your first read indicates. Only this time take off your "American" glasses and read it for what it is, a story that could also have been written about Germany or Russia or England or China etc.
America, like all "developed" nations, is (not was) a business experiment. One of many that were/are/have been conducted over the past 5000 years.
"We must always remember that as far back as we wish to look into recorded history, political and social order has always been constructed and organized to enrich and empower the elite to the detriment of everyone else."
Leaving aside whether the USA is merely a business experiment (I certainly don't agree to such a pragmatic/materialist interpretation), this excerpt is the nub of the matter for me: that ours is a venal system that serves elites at others' expense. Taking the case of the entrepreneurs I mentioned (Ford, Carnegie, Edison), at what point did they become elite? They and many others worked their way up, there wasn't a seat with their name on it waiting for them. Suppose we say for every Edison there are two or three or more Morgans and Rockefellers whose wealth is not earned from innovation but from control: does the USA then compare favorably or not to other societies; there has to be a sense of perspective to see why America had stood above the others.
Wow--and again, wow. This deserves to go viral, and has the combination of humor, insight, continuity of insight, and overall coherence to make it a classic. Great work, both of you.