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Dear Bankers: Why We Must Choose Beauty & Life Over Greed, Misery & Destruction
Here’s a short video to express my utter sadness regarding the story that broke last week of a 77 year-old Greek man named Dimitris Christoulas that found himself in such dire economic straits that the only option he considered viable for himself and his family was the choice to end his life. In countries where bankers have implemented severe austerity measures like Greece, suicide rates have been on the rise. Furthermore, the case of Mr. Christoulas is not an isolated one, as intense economic woes triggered by Central Bankers’ “debt monetization to infinity” policies and global banking giants’ raping and pillaging of clients’ accounts have caused suicide rates to increase worldwide. It’s time we call upon all worker bees of global banks to abandon their massively corrupt and immoral Queen bees, and to take a stand for justice and peace in this world. Without the worker bees, our immoral fractional reserve banking system would collapse. Below is my plea for the worker bees of the global banking empire to consider how and why they should actively choose to build beauty and support life versus choosing to silently support the creation of misery, destruction and death. Because the global banking and monetary system has been built on more than a century of deceit, lies and theft, the awful truth and utter immorality of our "modern" monetary system still remains largely unknown to most people and I believe that the below is a message that still needs to be distributed to the majority of people worldwide.
I firmly believe that it is not just a choice but the moral imperative of those that work in the banking industry to abandon the industry completely until the banking industry can conduct itself in a manner that creates and produces life instead of destroying life and multiplying misery. Furthermore, if those with children and grandchildren that work in the banking industry cannot bring themselves to quit when considering only direct consequences to one's own life, then please consider quitting for not your sake, but for the sake of your children and grandchildren. Many of you already realize that the Member Banks that are participating in this massive currency devaluation war to the bottom are responsible for your university graduated children's decision to return back home and live with you. If you do not abandon this system now, you will effectively sentence your children and grandchildren to a future remaining life much worse than the one you have led thus far and to a life of economic slavery under the control of morally bankrupt men. One person can make a difference, for one person's courage to stand for truth, justice and moral consciousness can trigger a much larger domino effect that may usher in a complete overhaul of our current banking and monetary system. If you are in the banking industry, let that one person begin with you. And if you are not, then please forward this video to those of your friends that are in the industry and let us trigger that change together.
To further your understanding of banker lies and propaganda about the global monetary system, below I've included links to two more educational videos:
The World's Greatest Money Trick, Gold Myths Exposed, Part I
The World's Greatest Money Trick, Gold Myths Exposed, Part II
About the author: JS Kim is the Founder and Chief Investment Strategist of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent Precious Metals focused investment research and consulting firm devoted to preserving and growing clients' wealth.
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Dear J S Kim.
Please research Peter Joseph of The Zeitgeist Movement and Jacque Fresco of the Venuus Project.
In a nutshell they provide enough infomation showing that the monetary is the central cause of our problems and needs to be replaced with a resource based economy.
Dear Bankers,
What we need is for you to turn yourselves in so that you can begin treatment for your severe MENTAL ILLNESS, right away!
Lot of the responses here got very "Easter" in tone.
Fact is that the people are not going to take too much more greed, misery & destruction before they start taking it out on those that caused it.
Moral Imperative?
I'm with you 100%, but all the banksters will hear is "Mammon Imperative".
Here we go again with another round of bank bashing.
When are you guys going to get it that
--the government was the one that established incentives around housing that banks jumped on;
--Barney Frank is still in the same position he had prior to the crisis;
--no one twisted homebuyers' arms to buy the houses that are hung around our collective necks;
--those homeowners in many cases are now squatting, rent-free;
--most of the bankers that you lament about are decent, hard-working people;
--your sorry a** would be toast if you were to shut them down
What utter drivel.
Well, MacroAndCheese, your arugument is flawed from its very first point:
--the government was the one that established incentives around housing that banks jumped on;
You have not investigated deeply enough to realize that governments do not do anything without the banking elite's permission and full cooperation. The agenda begins and ends with this cabal and it is banker driven. However, I suspect you already know this and you're just a troll but I'll try and make my point anyway.
Yes, our sorry asses will be toast if we shut them down. But after we have prosecuted the pukes at the heart of the criminality - the Corzines of the world - we can cleanse the system and build something better in its place. Long and painful process but ending the debt slavery and busting up the oligarchy would be worth it in the long run.
Unfortunately, it will never happen. People are not awake - as you so beautifully illustrate with your comments - and they will continue to work for corrupt systems as long as they can convince themselves that they are decent folk and just really need to work for a living. It's the same self-convincing that we do when eating meat while getting all misty-eyed about a story of a kitten up a tree or a little lost puppy. It's called compartmentalization. What I do over here has absolutely nothing to do with what is going on over there.
I agree with the video but it would require that human beings begin acting in ways that are not true to their nature - so, no, it will never, ever happen.
I left the banking industry last fall. There is no worse place to work than for a bank when you realize the truth. I was a low level worker and noticed how my job was becoming more and more difficult to perform as the resources were sucked from bottom to top. New computer systems were introduced with very little training, causing immense stress for the end users (the underlings) who were basically made to fly by the seat of their pants learning while doing and correcting errors along the way. Exhausting. The bar to collect any kind of bonus - I'm talking chump change here - was raised every few months so the carrot was always just barely out of reach.
The final straw came when the best workers on the computer hotline serving us were let go. All the seasoned computer pros - gone. Then, they were hired back, at lower pay. I had gotten to know one of these frontline workers quite well from frequent calls for assistance in the vacuum of training and I saw how the experience played hell with his life. I left and I'm experimenting with ways to work for myself, for less money, but greater peace of mind. I may succeed or I may not but I will not return to banking.
The best we can do is to shun the system as much as possible and become independent and creative in the ways we make a living and how we live in this world. Compassion is a great place to start.
BTW Loose, you might like this, it reminded me of your comments:
http://blogs.nature.com/a_mad_hemorrhage/2012/04/02/ceos-and-the-candle-problem
Nope I'm not a troll, I'm a...yes...banker. Horns 'n all. I agree with you that banks s*ck as a place to work now. I hate it. But bank bashing is so pointless and stupid, it's a mob mentality that has an IQ of 27.
The mob gives the banks far too much credit. It's like saying government is evil, we should overthrow it and hang everyone from the president to the postal delivery guy.
Long after I leave banking--and I will, some day--I will have no resentment towards banks themselves.
Your entire career, you never produced a product or created something of value. You skimmed, later outright lstole from the labor and toil of others. You never earned a cent. Sucks to not be able to take pride in your accomplishements because you have none. That's why your job sucks, regardless of your pay.
100% bullshit.
Denial is a powerful perfume. All one has to do is look at fantasy accounting and that modern innovation of theft - leverage hide and seek.
I hear the short bus coming to pick you up.
The truth lies somewhere in between the positions proffered by Widowmaker and MacroandCheese.
Are the banksters culpable? Absolutely. But so are the masses who participated in the frenzy that drove all of this by fraudulently mistating their income on "liars' loans".
And the government is culpable, too, for looking the other way while Wall Street packaged these little beauties up and sold them.
And so are the ratings agencies who knew these MBS were utter shit.
And so are the institutional investors who snapped up subprime MBS without doing some due diligence on how, exactly, these were secured.
Human nature and our culture of greed are the foundational reasons for why we are here.
The sad part is that very few seem to be taking the lessons from 2008 to heart.
Bullets, beans and boots, bitchez.
I agree with you 100%. It doesn't seem so hard to understand that this is exactly what happened. But the banks make a convenient scapegoat, and the government has encouraged it. It gets them off the hook. It also gets the homebuyers off the hook, so they can justify squatting on the property they bought with no money down and teaser rates they probably had no chance of paying.
Let there be peace and unicorns and rainbows and butterflies and let good will reign among them. Bring equality happiness and justice to the realm..... Wait this article is a fairy tale. If man kind was capable of these things it be done by now.
The banksters a too busy with their micro trading to be interested in your pathetic moral appeal to an immoral world.
Morals have never ruled the world... It is power and money period. Though it should be the other way around ... Men are not capable of greatness when their core is evil. You preach as if it's the institution that is wrong... It's society and the individual.
That's why Jesus shed his blood for this ill-fated world:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2012/04/truth-about-jesus-christs-s...
Even so, God's judgment is coming:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2012/04/jonathan-cahn-harbinger.html
Whatever. I have basic faith in humanity due to personal experience. Christianity has no faith in humanity. Religion is a pessimistic excercise at it's core, invented to supress knowledge and enslave the masses. The "Age of Faith" is also known as "The Dark Ages".
Because money is now oppressive towards the common good I will be beating the fuck out of the following "old drum" so you stupid fucks "can see it coming."
"Kill a banker, save his family.
Kill his bank, save your community.
Kill his money, save him."
Take heed all you fraud-faggots, You're on the chopping block and the public is blood-thirsty. No amount of incorporated racketeering wrapped in collusion-Congress with makeshift accounting will save your pinstripe asses.
Couldn't happen to a better bunch of "God's fuckoffs."
Your solution is simplistic and sophomoric. Killing bankers will only solve 1/8th of the problem.
Save some bullets for the legislators and bureacrats who dismantled the Glass-Steagall Act and looked the other way while the madness ensued.
And some bullets for the consumers who lied to get loans to buy their McMansions.
And some for the ratings agency employees who gave these loans their "AAA" stamp of approval.
And some for the investors who perpetuated the fraud by continuing to snap up the securities.
Also better look to your neighbors who cashed equity out of their homes to buy their flat screens, boats and SUVs, too.
thank you js kim!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+5 Sir
The truth shall set you free:
http://annoyanidiot.blogspot.com/
Organisms gonna organism.
If you give a rabid dog a bone, the only way you are gonna get that sucker off is to shoot the motherfucker.
DItto with banks (with help from corporations) and their hold on precious commodities, cash, government, and wealth.
Time to rip the scab off.
Shizzmoney
If corporations are so bad, and government so bad, and banks are so bad, who do you trust to run things? A collective of similar minded individuals? Isn't that Socialism or Communism, which are also bad.
I see lot's of bitching about those in control and how they should be removed, but NOTHING on what will replace them.
The assumption seems to be that whatever vague entity arises from the power vacuum would be "better" than what we have now.
But Historically that doesn't hold true.
Maybe it's time people started considering the consequences and offering real solutions instead of just calling for the total removal of any structure which offers, no matter how it is perceived as limited, stability.
Shizz,
If I may be so bold as to propose a solution, here goes...
First, work to legislatively repeal the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment. This will enable us to de-centralize the creation of the monetary unit and restore our inalienable property rights.
Second, eliminate the ability of vested interests to encumber average citizens with the financial cost of their unwise activities and decisions. These people and entities simply should suffer the consequences of their actions - and definitely not be bailed out - EVER. The socialization of cost to taxpayers and privatization of profit needs to be prevented or eliminated.
Next, those of the populace who tend to favor 'collectivist" based ideological solutions should be permitted to freely associate and donate / contribute however much and whatever they would like to any socially oriented cause(s) - for example, welfare, medicare, medicaid, food for the poor et al.
Last, check out "Convoy of Hope". This organization is a privately organized entity which provides all kinds of social services for those in need through the voluntary efforts and energies of those freely giving their time and money to a very just cause.
We need to create a foundation upon which virtuous citizens can grow and thrive. For the past 40 - 60 years, our nation has been falling over a cliff of corruption.
What say you?
Easy as pie. Let me summarize it up in two words:
Accountability / culpability.
Hiding behind a "corporate veil" in order to assure complete and total lawlessness and lack of justice in the name of "free-market" (HA!) while devouring the public good is a dying model.
Widowmaker
Not the question I asked.
Reread my post and THINK about it.
If you choose to answer take your time and understand EXACTLY what I said.
If I understand your premise you are asking whether it is better to stay with the devil you do know rather than start over knowing the risks posed throughout history -- right?
If so, this is a classical paradigm, applicable everywhere; rephrased another way, does one build a new house or remodel the old? It depends on what is standing in the way.
The world as a collective has the tools to ensure sound money and exchange. It's the bastardization of these tools through collusion and government insulation of fraud (worldwide) from the people that has this ship so off course. One word to illustrate: TARP. TARP institutionalized fraud (again) across divisions of social class. This was by design.
My rebuttal remains the same. By transparency one can assure the culpability/accountability of the INDIVIDUALS behind the racketeering to make the system work. Serving justice to those INDIVIDUALS that work against the system works to the strength of everyone else as a collective. The individual has been systematically eliminated from within the incorporated model, which is Kim's premise. The point is people are capable of building their own house, they don't need some fucking corporation (fiscal or government) preventing them from doing it.
If change to resolve from within is realistically not possible, then it's time to burn it to the ground or abandon it.
The United States was founded on this exact principle. It takes guts to stare down the devil and brains to beat him.
The bad apples are easy to identify and throw out if one can see the barrel. Money and hubris are put in the way by individuals hiding behind corporations -- this includes liar loan recipients.
Get some guts and be vigilant. Encourage everyone you know to do the same as the alternatives (consolidated power of money) will produce outcomes that rhyme with history, guaranteed.
Widowmaker
"If I understand your premise you are asking whether it is better to stay with the devil you do know rather than start over knowing the risks posed throughout history -- right?"
Not quite but getting there.
I'm saying that what I see are demands to destroy the existing structure but no plans to establish anything to replace it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Without a guarantee of what comes next being better, and remember that any group will eventually grab as much power as possible to remain in control, we are actually safer with the devil we know. We understand how that demon thinks and acts, and the intelligent will be able to profit from that fact. Or at the very least limit the destructive impact.
Not a single person considers that shit could get worse by orders of magnitude.
Every post I read regarding the end of something is posted from the aspect of personal gratification, of greed and shortsightedness. Not one involves the betterment of all, just how the selfinterested can be yet more selfish.
And even those posts differ in vision.
So who's vision should one trust?
Why should anyone trust the vision of someone who only wishes to maintain their status or wealth in an everchanging world?
Again we are not talking the betterment of our neighbors or community, but only for their individual domain.
"My rebuttal remains the same. By transparency one can assure the culpability/accountability of the INDIVIDUALS behind the racketeering to make the system work. Serving justice to those INDIVIDUALS that work against the system works to the strength of everyone else as a collective."
And there is the rub, taking what we have today and making work as it was designed. The problem is over time all those designs become eroded and distorted, until we return where we started.
But at least it is a reasonable place to start.
" (consolidated power of money) will produce outcomes that rhyme with history, guaranteed."
Unless you mean MYSTERY, you won't get a rhyme.
Also you can't avoid consolidation of power or money.
I've said before we need an enlightened despot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_absolutism
Enlightened absolutism (also called by later historians benevolent despotism or enlightened despotism) is a form of absolute monarchy or despotism in which rulers were influenced by the Enlightenment. Enlightened monarchs embraced the principles of the Enlightenment, especially its emphasis upon rationality, and applied them to their territories. They tended to allow religious toleration, freedom of speech and the press, and the right to hold private property. Most fostered the arts, sciences, and education.
But Collectivist Anarchy sounds interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivist_anarchism
Collectivist anarchism (also known as anarcho-collectivism) is a revolutionary[1] doctrine that advocates the abolition of both the state and private ownership of the means of production. It instead envisions the means of production being owned collectively and controlled and managed by the producers themselves.
For the collectivization of the means of production, it was originally envisaged that workers will revolt and forcibly collectivize the means of production[1] Once collectivization takes place, money would be abolished to be replaced with labour notes and workers' salaries would be determined in democratic organizations based on job difficulty and the amount of time they contributed to production. These salaries would be used to purchase goods in a communal market.[2] This contrasts with anarcho-communism where wages would be abolished, and where individuals would take freely from a storehouse of goods "to each according to his need." Thus, Bakunin's "Collectivist Anarchism," notwithstanding the title, is seen as a blend of individualism and collectivism.[3]
(Oddly enough, if you read many of the posts bitching about government the solutions offered are very close to this type of Anarchy)
Thank you for thinking it out.
Great perspective.
I agree, nature abhors a vacuum. However, I do think that history illustrates potential (probability) but is no guarantee. Although a hail-mary, good can fill a vacuum and overflow the vessle, too.
To your point there is no finer way to define the power of money but through delegation to the people (Constitutional purist), not some spineless "no one could see it coming" [shit-sandwich] central bank insulated by goobermint corruption paying record bonuses for fraud and failure out of Tim's Treasure taken from tots.
This is easily accomplished through asset ownership and REAL accounting, not "trust us" racketeering, and leverage which is 100% fraud. Transparancy is the only tool one needs in this regard.
Prosecution ensures the system has strength and teeth to defend it. The Fed is all gums and toothless propaganda, and must go. People can determine the price of assets, not some misfits at the top of the earnings ponzi with unaccountable opaque leverage.
Do you think the day fraud-dollars collapse that people will somehow forget how to barter and trade?
The only reason you have fraud-confetti conjured from nothing by silver-spoon-fucks is to be taxed by collusion with government to pay for their ills.
Burn the banks to the ground, kill the fraud dollar and the system of racketeering for the rich, inflation for the poor.
All members of the government of the USA are sworn to protect the constitution. If they would, most of our problems would not be here. When the supreme court eliminated the requirement that all money be species, the die was caste. I hope that our electorate will wise up before things get too bad, but historically it seems we will first have to revolt.
All economies are becoming more local. I look around and see numerous people working towards real solutions, none of which involve federal intervention, so fuck off.
LawsofPhysics
So your claim is ONLY the Feds are bad and EVERY locality has good government which is accountable to the people?
Pretty simplistic isn't that.
You are the simpleton. Common sense tells you that a "representitive" that lives next door will be considerably more trustworthy as the decisions they make will come home to roost. In particular, the people won't have to go very far with the guilliotine.
LawsofPhysics
"Common sense tells you that a "representitive" that lives next door will be considerably more trustworthy as the decisions they make will come home to roost"
Really? You understand that all representatives live next to someone, and yet corruption still exists.
The flaw in your reasoning is the same flaw I saw on a recent CSI. The idea that the community could "shame" someone into acting appropriately.
That only works if the person shamed cares about the communities opinion.
I'm assuming you read the Fountainhead? Howard Roarke had a vision , he was confident of his design and was not influenced by the community.
Which is the other flaw in your statement, the community doesn't necessarily know better than the individual.
And naturally if the community really does act as a whole entity to shame someone. Really, when was the last time you saw a good shunning?
"In particular, the people won't have to go very far with the guilliotine."
Yes mob rule is always for the better.
I read a story about a black community which dragged a man from his car and beat him to death for running ove a child. Sadly it was the wrong man.
I'd say you are the simpleton. ANARCHY in its definitive, rather than connotative, sense seems to be a right and proper alternative to the path of slavery that we are on. Having fewer people "run things" sounds pretty good right now. Some things just don't need running -- like a kid's lemonade stand for instance.
Which is run by the kid, and enlists one or two of his/her friends.
What's your real solution Gully? "We'd all love to see the plan."
I don't. I'm also smart enough to realize you don't tear down a wall without maintaining some support for the roof.
I heard the problem with most criminals is they plan right up to the crime. They don't have anything for afterward.
When I see all these tear down the world posts. I know no one has considered what comes after.
Maybe I am smarter for thinking about what comes next.
And there's the tell! Claiming you're smarter, than what? Then whom? You can safely be ignored.
Jeez, "I'm smarter", jeez, unbelievable.
donsluck
Obvioulsy I'm smarter than you.
I'm also more honest.
I admit I don't have every answer, which makes me both more intelligent and honest than you.
Define "run" and "things" and maybe we can get to some answers.
Your catch-all terms are not conducive to finding solutions.
RockyRacoon
Thank you for catching that. Excellent point.
I guess we would define "run" as those who make the rules, and those who enforce the rules made.
We can expand that to those who apply influence on those who make the rules and those who enforce the rules.
Rules can be laws, but are much more complex than that. But as a generic term, to encompass all legal and technical structures which support governments/corporations/groups, it is good enough.
Honestly I don't have the language to define it better, and if someone does please share.
Is that a place to start in your opinion?
And anyway: ' Dear bankers'??? If they were reading this letter they would laugh in total derison at what they would term total wamsy pamsy weakling drivel. They couldnt give a crap less about some old fuck blowing his miserable head off. No, the only thing they even remotely respect is brute force and power. The word may be mightier than the sword at times. but at this point they are useless.
What a coincidence! ... that's exactly what Saddam, Gaddafi and Mubarak said, too! It didn't work out so well for them, but keep us posted on how you get on with your armed assault on the Capitol and Pentagon!
Fucking moron! 'We' outnumber 'them' by at least 20,000-to-1 but, as OWS has shown, there is no consensus on who 'they' are, how they should be attacked, what day the attack should be, who will be at the front and who at the rear, who will take over from them, what policies should be adopted après la guerre, ..........
The most effective action at this point, as unionised workers have often shown in the past, is to withdraw sanction, withdraw labour, withdraw finance and instigate a series of rolling strikes through every workplace until the public becomes aware of what is going on. And that's exactly what Kim Saang is asking of the bwanker drones.
5-stars from me to John for getting the ball rolling.
Really no reason to get personal about it.
It's all you deserved, Mr Basement-Dwelling Tough Guy, after directing "total wamsy pamsy weakling drivel" at JS Kim.
You can dish it, but can't take it.
damn straight Dog!
Kim's approach is way too direct n from all the right places for the blunt instruments with the puff n stuff attitude...I suspect it's got a lot to do with class...and not in the sense that marxists and their capitalist fellow travellers use the term!
John Kim...beauty and life...man, that sure rings truer than hope n change...preach it JSK... Yu got a witness!
http://youtu.be/byuw6yG_AT4. Earnshaw\Rucker/ RISE!
"He was always a little New Agey for me but was dead-on with that quote. I suggest you get some of his stuff if you can handle some exaggerated pop-Freudianism and anthropological speculation."
So we really are getting something for nothing.
Steve Vai - -Tender Surrender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yw74sDWPH7U
Give it up you bastards, the rope will find you if you don't call it off.
While I have sympathy for the old boy offing himself in protest, I can see little value in the act. Why not go after the fuckers that are causing your frustration and misery? Seems like a wasted bullet to me.