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The 9 Step Process Bankers Use to Force Global Slavery Upon Humanity

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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Below is the nine step process bankers have used to enslave us all with nary a peep of resistance until recent times. Hopefully recognition of this process can help us to free ourselves from the grip of bankers that wish to financially destroy us all.

 

(1) Teach lies as truth like “markets are free” and “we need to spread democracy to the rest of the world.” Plant agent provocateurs in all movements of resistance like OWS to discredit these movements whenever possible.

Bankers teach lies like “free markets exist” throughout all business curricula taught in the institutional academic system. When Central Banks set artificial interest rates, this means the free market is not setting interest rates. Bankers are rigging stock markets, real estate markets, currency markets, and commodity markets all for their benefit only and to the detriment of all other humans on our planet. Furthermore, if you study democratic principles and whether governments that claim to be democracies actually abide by these principles, you will discover that most every “democratic” government operates on a fascist platform and not a democratic one. Stating that a free market co-exists in a country in which a Central Bank retains the monopolistic power to set interest rates is as impossible a relationship as the physics maxim that states two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

Furthermore, bankers use the lies they teach in school to further other lies like the existence of Capitalism. Without free markets, Capitalism cannot exist. If free markets do not exist anywhere in the world because Central Banks, and not the free market, set interest rates, then by logic, Capitalism cannot exist. Yet, I’ve met brainwashed subjects at Occupy Wall Street protests in Hong Kong that argued that the basis of people’s economic suffering today is Capitalism and that Communism is the answer to the world’s economic problems. This false belief also allows wretched misanthropes like former Fed Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to deflect blame away from himself and write stupid articles full of lies like ”Don’t Blame Capitalism For All This Income Inequality”, an article in which he argues that capitalism and free markets should not be blamed for today’s global economic inequities between the bankers and the “have nots”. This typical reverse psychology ploy is one that banksters are notoriously fond of. By stating that you shouldn’t blame “capitalism and free markets” for global economic failures, Greenspan knows that since people don’t trust him, that they will fall into his trap and believe the opposite of what he says – that capitalism and free markets are responsible for the creation of massive global income inequities today even though neither “capitalism” in its purest sense nor “free markets” exist anywhere in the world. These clever psychological ploys also allow Greenspan to write the lie-filled article, “Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble”, and still have a large percentage of the masses gobble up and digest this disinformation without question like it was their daily breakfast cereal.

 

(2) Commandeer and effectively take over all control of global governments, mass media, state police, and federal military elements to suppress truth from reaching the masses.

Simon Johnson wrote about how bankers have taken over governments in his excellent article "The Quiet Coup".  These two excellent articles, here and here, explain how banks directed state police and government surveillance agencies to crush all dissent and opposition to their criminal activities. The fact that state police and government agencies bowed down to the bankers like subservient servants proves that these countries in which such incidences are taking place have long been far more fascist than democratic. Mussolini or Pinochet could not have asked for better cooperation and greater obedience from state police and government surveillance agencies than the bankers received.

 

 

(3) Take over the education system, design it to dumb down instead of enlighten the masses, and export this model to the rest of the world.

Western bankers have funded and exported to the rest of the world an institutional academic system that serves as a behavior modifaction camp responsible for dumbing down young adults and turning them into obedient, non-thinking worker bees. This is how you create a New World Order in which just a few thousand bankers can capably control 7 billion people and keep them in line and obedient at all times. See here for more information.

Bankers and industrialists like the Rockefellers and the Carnegies financed the development of our global education system during the American Industrial Revolution, and thus were able to promote the lies they wanted the masses to embrace such as the myth that America experienced a “revolution” in 1776 and that US President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in 1863. The bankers were always happy to give the colonialists the illusion of gained “freedom” as an outcome of the “revolutionary” war in exchange for maintaining their control over the newly formed republic’s monetary supply. Thus, the Rothschild banking family quickly established the Bank of the United States (which has since become the US Federal Reserve today) through their colonialist agents in the United States in 1791. When this bank’s charter expired in 1811, Nathan Rothschild of the Bank of England and the Rothschild banking clan declared a grave warning: “Either the application for the renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.” When US Congress chose not to renew the bank's charter, Nathan Rothschild responded, “Teach these impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to Colonial status.”

Even though African Americans were given their physical freedom in 1863, they were never granted their financial freedom by the bankers. How does Lincoln end slavery in America with his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation when just 50 years later, the bankers financially enslaved everyone with the founding of the US Federal Reserve. To declare that Abraham Lincoln ended “slavery” in America in 1863 is as big a myth as the lie that Columbus “discovered” a land called America. How does one “discover” a land that had already been inhabited for hundreds of years by millions of Indians? Furthermore, Columbus wasn’t even the first European to arrive in America as Vikings had beat him to this feat by hundreds of years. A.M. Reeves, N.L. Beamish and R.B. Anderson’s The Norse Discovery of America documented in great detail the epic and ferocious battles between the Vikings and the Native inhabitants of Vinland (the Viking word for America) as far back as the 10th century, about 500 years before Columbus stumbled upon America. So how did Lincoln end slavery and how did Columbus discover America? The answer to both questions is that they did not. The end of physical enslavement was merely transformed into a new kind of slavery - financial and mental enslavement. After the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, JP Morgan, etc. were able to form the US Federal Reserve in 1913, bankers extended their financial slavery empire over not only blacks, but also over whites, over Asians, and over Latinos, extending their empire of slavery all over the world. Thus slavery was never eradicated in 1863.

 

(4) Teach young adults that a tax on tea and a tax on stamps caused the American colonialists to hate the British monarchy and triggered a successful revolt in 1776, when it was the debt enslavement component of the monetary system and the bankers’ system of theft through numerous taxes that truly caused the revolt.

Benjamin Franklin desired that the colonies issue their own debt-free, interest-free money called Colonial Scrip. As I’ve explained in (3), the Colonialists lost this battle and thus, there was never a successful “revolution” against the bankers in 1776 though bankers have ensured, through control of our education system, that they teach the lie in all American schools today that America gained its independence on July 4, 1776. Just to make sure all Americans believe this, we celebrate this faux Independence Day every year as a national holiday. If Americans learned that the people truly lost the Revolutionary War in 1776, this might incite another revolution today. This is why the bankers teach the lie of the people winning the Revolutionary War in all American schools.

 

(5) Learn from the mistakes of Kings by hiding the robberies of citizens’ money and disguising this robbery as a silent tax called “inflation”. Transform the violent method of tax collection that lead to the beheading of past members of nobility during Medieval times into a passive method of automatic deductions from paychecks.

Bankers studied previous Kings’ taxation system such as Great Britain’s King George’s system and his use of armed soldiers to collect these taxes. In 1765, King George sent 40,000 armed troops to assure collection of taxes from his subjects and he forced the colonists to also provide living quarters and food to his troops or risk being shot and killed. Bankers studied this method and learned that this type of violent armed method of collecting taxes would always lead to violent insurrection and revolt. Thus bankers learned how to steal our money today in a passive manner that is not nearly as offensive as the method employed by previous Kings throughout history.

Today, all of us still provide the money for the living quarters of bankers and provide all the money to feed the bankers but we do not realize it. The bankers have employed the exact same system of robbery that King George instituted against the American colonialists that infuriated them, but were clever enough to change the method by which they execute their brazen theft and extortion. Today bankers extort money from all of us through automatic deductions from each pay check so that there is no need to send armed soldiers to collect taxes from those that might resist this scam. Furthermore, they deliberately devalue money and rob every single human on the planet through the implementation of a “silent tax” called inflation.

 

(6) Engage in huge disinformation and propaganda campaigns to convince citizens in every country that income tax is not flat out robbery and not equivalent to King George’s act of sending 40,000 soldiers to force colonists to turn their hard-earned money over to him.

Bankers have successfully sold this lie by misinforming us and telling us that we receive benefits from our income tax payments and that it would be “unpatriotic” to even think for a second to not pay our income taxes to the bankers. In fact, the reality unearthed by the Grace Commission report in January, 1984, under US President Ronald Reagan is this: "100% of what is collected [in income taxes] is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government." What are transfer payments? Payments for programs like welfare but also payments for programs like the massive 2008 $850 billion banker bailout program. Who receives interest payments on the Federal Debt? 100% of interest payments on the Federal Debt are directly funneled into the private banking accounts of the private banking families that own the Federal Reserve. So who is receiving nearly 100% of all income tax payments of all citizens in every country in the world? The answer is that nearly 100% of our income tax payments are transferred to just a few powerful private banking families. In fact, the Grace Commission report even hinted that the government performed studies to determine the outer limits of income taxation that they could get away with before it would trigger a revolt among the taxed citizenry.

 

(7) Sell concepts like “nationalism”, and incite religious-based and race-based hate to divide and conquer people from uniting against a segment of society (bankers) that commits a long list of atrocities that would have landed anyone else in jail centuries ago.

Bankers have been able to convince many blacks to blindly and stupidly support President Obama just because he is black and to falsely call anyone that also doesn’t support Obama a “racist”. Bankers have been able to convince many Jews to blindly and stupidly support Zionist agendas and cowardly and falsely accuse those that don’t support Zionist agendas of being an anti-semite. Bankers have been able to convince many people to blindly and stupidly support false wars and government agendas and label anyone that does not also support these items as “unpatriotic”, “un-American” or “un-whatever-country-you-are-from.”

Yes, bankers are behind all these hate-filled campaigns because they know that they can successfully divide and conquer the masses and if they do so, that a divided opposition will never be able to defeat them. They have also used their puppet Presidents and Prime Ministers to often perform favors for police and the military, such as increasing their pay and benefits, to falsely gain the loyalty and protection of those elements of society that should be most opposed to them. Bankers have taken their cue from big druglords and underworld crime bosses that have used these same tactics to gain the protection and loyalty of their communities. In Philadelphia, mobster Joey Merlino used to give away turkeys to housing project residents every Thanksgiving and throw Christmas parties for the homeless to gain the loyalty of people in his community despite his murderous ways. In the more expansive criminal drug underworld, ex-cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was, and still is, considered a hero among many of the poor in Colombia for all the jobs he provided for them, not to mention all of his charity. In Mexico, the most violent druglord today, “El Chapo” Guzman, is often also viewed as a modern-day “Robin Hood” and a hero by the poor in Mexico and is afforded loyalty and protection among many of the poor for his many acts of benevolence for the poor.

However, it is a huge mistake of morality to overlook the massive crimes of our political and financial leaders for their “fake” charity work as it is a huge mistake of the poor to adore violent murderous druglords just because they make their lives better while they destroy the lives of millions. This very selfish attitude of “I don’t care what my leader does as long as he helps me out” even if he’s destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands, or millions of other people, is the very tactic that bankers choose to employ to effectively divide and conquer people. Instead of being loyal to someone just because of his skin color, religion, nationality or race, we all need to abandon our pre-disposed affinities for people that look like us or share our belief systems, and instead, start looking at these situations strictly on the basis of morality. We need to ask ourselves not the questions of mindless robots but rather tough questions such as,”Is what my President or Prime Minister doing moral?” If so, then support him. If not, then do everything you can to get him out of office no matter your race. Ask, “Is what my government doing moral?” If so, then support it. If not, then stop the stupid and divisive ad-hominem attacks against dissenters by wrongly labeling them as “unpatriotic” no matter your nationality. Ask, “Is Israel acting morally?” If so, support this nation-state. If not, then stop supporting it immediately no matter your religion.

It really is that simple. For people that are open minded enough to learn the truth about the ulterior motives of why the same bankers (Rothschilds) that were integral in founding the US Federal Reserve also were very integral in founding, and funding, the creation of Israel, as well as the Bank of Israel, watch Chapter 26 at 1:10:28 at Chapter 29 at 1:19:27 of this video. Though there are many things in this video I don’t agree with, I believe that these two chapters provide a legitimate explanation of how bankers have used the religion dissension surrounding Israel as part of their divide and conquer campaign against the entire world. These two segments are very careful to make the distinction between humanitarian, compassionate, authentic Jews and their misanthropic, inauthentic Zionist counterparts. In fact, I believe that the distinction between truly religious Jews and their radical Zionist counterparts is very similar to the distinction between radical Muslims and religious, moral Muslims and radical Christians and religious, moral Christians.

There are those that continually smear all Jews for many of the world's financial problems and not only do I believe this tactic to be wrong but I also believe that anyone that uses this tactic falls right into the banker trap of their divide and conquer strategies. The banker-funded Zionists are the small faction of Jews and non-Jews (US Vice President Joe Biden is a self-proclaimed Zionist) that need to be investigated for creating global financial problems. Though this point is likely to generate the most hateful comments and unjustified criticism of any of the nine points of this article, consider this point. If you agree with the other eight points of this article, would it be worth the risk to discuss something entirely false as true, and that could potentially discredit the rest of this entire article? The answer, of course, is no. I only included this point after much careful research convinced me that the facts surrounding this point were well documented and because I believed that this point is crucial enough to include in the 9 main points of this article for anyone desiring to understand the truth about how bankers divide us and keep us from unifying against them. Consequently, please have an open enough mind to consider the possibility of the truth of this point as well and research the facts before you close your mind to a view that may differ from the one you currently hold.

 

(8) Falsely teach people that paper fiat currency and paper derivative products offered by bogus gold and silver derivative markets of the LBMA and COMEX are better stores of value and purchasing power than physical gold and physical silver, even though the below chart displays the incredible progression in the prices of gold and silver every year in USD since 2001.

Gold

2001 $271.10

2002 $278.35

2003 $343.80

2004 $426.25

2005 $427.75

2006 $530.00

2007 $639.75

2008 $846.75

2009 $874.50

2010 $1121.50

2011 $1388.50

2012 $1598.00

2013 $1693.75

 

Silver

2001 $4.59

2002 $4.59

2003 $4.67

2004 $5.97

2005 $6.39

2006 $9.04

2007 $13.01

2008 $14.93

2009 $11.08

2010 $17.17

2011 $30.67

2012 $28.78

2013 $30.87

 

The London price-fix of gold has risen for 13 straight years and silver has risen 11 out of the last 13 years. Thus, it is completely bizarre that the vast majority of the investing public are still scared off by declarations of banking shills and commercial banking investment advisers that tout global paper stocks such as Chipotle Grill, Facebook, and Bank of America as better investments than physical gold & silver, which they describe as “risky”. Volatile, yes. Risky, no.

Because of (1) through (8), most citizens, especially those that live in the West and have been subjected to generations of banker propaganda, have no understanding of the fact that downside volatility in gold and silver is introduced artificially through computer HFT (High Frequency Trading) algorithms and bear no reflection upon the reality of physical gold and physical silver supply-demand determinants. Because nearly 100% of the things bankers teach us in school and through the media about the global monetary system and financial markets is a lie, I see, time and time again, masses of people befuddled by gold and silver price movements to the downside that have no fundamental basis of explanation and that can only be explained by banker manipulative games. This occurs among those of us that have no understanding of points (1) through (7) of this article. Thus, to this date, shockingly most people have not taken advantage of the crystal clear gold and silver trend shown in the above timeline and have no idea that converting their fiat paper currencies or fiat GLD & SLV ETFs into real assets like physical gold and silver can serve as a very effective weapon to fight back against banker criminality. Though it makes no sense to put faith in a piece of paper that has almost no intrinsic value and is truly a barbarous relic and to forgo ownership of real hard assets like physical gold and physical gold, the majority of masses, due to internalization of steps (1) through (7), continue to ignore reality and logic. However, read this excerpt from the book The Golden Gift, to understand how converting paper fiat currency into real assets like physical gold and physical silver can help re-establish our economic freedoms and help cut our bondages of financial slavery imposed upon us by the bankers.

 

(9) Teach people that the law is the final word so that they believe that anything legal is moral and anything illegal is immoral. The bankers have flipped the paradigm of morality on its head by convincing people that anything legal is moral and anything illegal is immoral when in fact, many things they have legislated as illegal is still moral and many things they have legislated as legal is highly immoral.

If truly moral people ran the world, probably 50% of the things legislated as legal would become illegal and 50% of the things legislated as illegal would become legal overnight. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime 2012 World Drug Report, heroin, cocaine, and all other "illegal" drugs killed about 200,000 people last year. On the contrary, an estimated 100,000 to 450,000 deaths occur from "legal" prescription drugs every year in the United States alone, and in 2009, "legal" prescription drugs were responsible for 4.5 million hospital visits. However, due to a lack of focus by law enforcement agencies on "legal" drugs, accurate statistics of deaths from legal pills varies widely, and if I had to guess, I would say that the Big Pharma lobbyists do everything in their power to suppress the true number of deaths every year that occur globally due to their "legal" drugs. Thus, the War on Drugs is more about the parties that profit from it than about a sincere desire to abolish the murder and crime associated with it. There really should be a War on All Wars instead. Because of the creation of unthinking sheep that our education system produces, far too many people today react instinctively by thinking that anything illegal is wrong and that anything legal is right, thus diminishing their ability to recognize that our modern banking system amounts to a legalized institution of financial slavery.

 

As always, never believe anything printed or stated on TV “news” channels (especially CNN – just google “Amber Lyon” to understand why) unless you independently verify it yourself, including everything in this article. Unfortunately there are more lies than truth circulating among all mass media distribution channels today so nothing should be accepted at face value. You must verify everything yourself until you are satisfied that you have arrived at the truth. Uncover the truth, and when you do, do everything you can to spread the uncovered truth to the four corners of the earth. This is how we will regain our freedoms.

 

About the author: JS Kim is the founder and Managing Director of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent investment research & consulting firm that focuses on gold & silver as a means of resisting the tyranny of the global banking cartel and of restoring sound money that would lay the foundation for the reintroduction of sustainable, organic economic growth to the world. Follow him on twitter @smartknowledgeu, get his free newsletter available here, and read a free excerpt of his book The Golden Gift here.

 

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Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:58 | 3132516 Angelic Upstart
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One of the best articles I've seen on Zero Hedge. Well done.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:36 | 3132462 dirtyfiles
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no Disneyland hah

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:55 | 3133401 CrockettAlmanac.com
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God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
And there's no such thing as Doctor Seuss
Or Disneyland, and Mother Goose, no nursery rhyme

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:16 | 3132401 DavosSherman
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One of the finest reads I've ever had the pleasure of!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:14 | 3132397 Sean7k
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You may be preaching to the choir, but it is a well presented sermon. As for reaching the unenlightened? When has enlightenment been clamored for? It is a process of discovery. 

The Elites have spent centuries and trillions to produce the results they wanted. They have research institutes and unlimited capital. What do we have? Blogs?

The value in your post for the person that awakes, lies in the opportunity to re-examine their life and goals and then change course. You have done this person a great service. 

An avalanche starts with the rolling of a single stone. Great rivers begin as springs and small creeks. A journey starts with a single step. May liberty, one day, become the force it has the potential to realize.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:06 | 3132382 Overdrawn
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I would like this in a picture/infographic to post on Facebook for the masses.  Your right, far too many words for most people to be bothered reading.  Maybe if it had some pictures of naked ladies or football players alongside each point, but other than that we need informational pictures to spread the word.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 08:29 | 3132327 apberusdisvet
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The true decline in American education can be partially traced to the emergence of union (and Federal) control in the 70's, as well as the decline of the family unit. Until that point, all students took civics, understood the Constitution,  making the Honor Roll was a worthwhile achievement, and American students  ranked globally in the top 5 for math and science.

My, how far we've fallen.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 08:19 | 3132306 CaptainAmerica
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Time for the choir to hit the streets and spread the word.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:31 | 3132441 CH1
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Time for the choir to hit the streets and spread the word.

Yes... This is not for other people to do, this is for US to do.

If we do not ACT, we make ourselves neuters.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 08:15 | 3132301 Hobbleknee
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Great article, Mr Kim.  You've added some new points that take this argument to the next level.  As the first commenter pointed out, you're preaching to the choir, but I think you did add some new incite that has been missed by many of us in the choir.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:04 | 3132543 mvsjcl
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Insight to incite. I like it.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:51 | 3132978 jonan
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we all have the insight, to incite a rebellion...

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:47 | 3133372 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Just do it off-site. I'm trying to nap here.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 08:07 | 3132290 Element
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A little more detail on the background timeline:

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"The Synagogue of Satan" - the criminal Zionist history between 740 AD to 2006 AD

This Audio/book will get you up to speed with the age old bloody history of the International Criminal Network.

http://iamthewitness.com/books/Andrew.Carrington.Hitchcock/Synagogue.of....

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:33 | 3132447 CH1
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Derailing the conversation any way you can, I see.

Your masters must be proud.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:24 | 3132541 Element
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"Derailing" huh? You don't even know what your talking about, do you? It's 100% on-topic and entirely supportive of, and consistent with the very same criminal-bankers discussed in the post, right up to the present era. But how would you even know? You clearly don't know as you haven't had time to listen to the 10 to 15 hours of detailed audio within that link. You just jumped to an incorrect conclusion either through ignorance or with fore-thought.

"Masters"? huh? Well, I must admit that is what the topic presupposes to be the general problem we all face ... slave. You may have a "master" but I don't, and never will. Is it so difficult to conceive a private individual speaks freely, openly and honestly about chronological facts of hystery?

Looks to me like you are the only one trying to 'derail' anything there. ;-)

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:46 | 3133367 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Looks to me like you are the only one trying to 'derail' anything there. ;-)

 

I'm with CH1 on this. That makes it a conspiracy. You ought to enjoy that.

 

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 00:04 | 3134894 Element
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All it indicates is you don't have any idea what you're yapping about.

You're of course free to be an ignorant and oblivious fool.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 07:51 | 3132274 cossack55
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Sadly, article is preaching to the quoir.  90% of the sheeple would never even consider reading it.  You might be able to pay some of them to read it, but I imagine the comprehension level would be quite low.  It is becoming more and more apparent that a complete and total collapse allowing for the Darwinization of the masses is the only way out.  Que sera sera.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:06 | 3132380 jballz
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agitprop.

 

whatever.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 08:46 | 3132350 smartknowledgeu
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The trillion dollar question, then, is how do I reach those that aren't already awake? I would welcome any ideas. Thanks!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:20 | 3133240 sgt_doom
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Lots of luck, many of us have been trying similarly over the past many decades, and no doubt Eugene Debs, while he was sitting in jail, was pondering the same thought and inquiry!

You....we....are competing against an absolutely consolidated propaganda network, which indoctrinates with endless entertainment, adverts, movies, stories and storylines, to get across the fantasy notions which others now live and die by.

"Freedom isn't free" states the t-shirt of the morons and brain-dead zombies, who believe that by debt peonage, and paying fealty to Wall Street and the banksters, they are "paying for their freedom" on installments.

When I was much, much younger, Americans knew who owned things, knew who owned companies.

Today you have Simon Johnson claiming that the Rockefellers, who were worth $30 billion in 1960, "officially" gave away all their money!!!?!*#(@(#*#(

Since you quoted that former IMF stooge (and he mixes the truth with fantastical fiction; one week proclaiming naked swaps evil, the next week supporting them???), it is crucial to note that no financial evidence exists which supports the fantasy that Standard Oil was ever broken up (today it's called ExxonMobil), or that AT&T was in actuality broken up (today they have reconstituted themselves), yet there exists plenty of evidence that each time Rockefeller supposedly "sold off" an oil subsidiary, he simply created another holding company, then shifted the majority stock ownership to it, and eventually shifted the ownership of said holding company to a foundation or trust, etc.

But today, the zombies and f**kwits repeat the Business Roundtable mantra or talking point:  "we all own the corporations through our 401(k)s and pension funds and shareholdings, ad nauseum..."

There existed shareholders back when the Rockefeller family, Morgan family, Mellon family, du Pont family, et al., officially owned their companies, now they apparently were all abducted by aliens and ownership has "officially" ceased to exist!!!!

Truly, the masses are slowly waking up, but it's too little, too late, and still they sleepwalk......

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:02 | 3133170 Freddie
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+1

Good article.

Shut off the TV and Hollywood sheeple.  They want to disarm you.  If you watch TV or Hollywood's crap or pay for sat or cable TV or any of their other business like Disney, Universal, cruise ships and their other crap then You Support It.    F Hollywood and F TV - ALL of it.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:42 | 3133344 CrockettAlmanac.com
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I watched My Three Sons and Green Acres on the youtube last night. Fred MacMurray was a class act.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:10 | 3133460 Sophist Economicus
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And let's not forget Uncle Charlie (William Demrast and William Frawley)....

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:13 | 3133473 CrockettAlmanac.com
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In the episode I watched last night:

 

Uncle Charlie: This TV show is meant for dumb people.

Ernie: Then why do you watch it?

Uncle Charlie: I like it.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:25 | 3132587 falak pema
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you forget one basic principle of reality :

People need to suffer to understand right from wrong; the lessons of the classroom being destroyed by the conduct of the powerful in an age of decadence that teach new generations the wrong lessons of life. 

Our local heroes magnified by TV and Hollywood, the Rambo/Terminator breed,  are the delusional who support the bad empire and the ambitious, the violent and the unprincipled. That universally spread imposture is more character deforming for the young by its manifest counter-exemplarity than the lessons of theory expounded by fuddy-duddy professors, monkey wankers, perceived as losers in the race to instant media glory. 

We are what we do, as we sow so shall we reap; and the only game in Gotham town is being Top of the stinking heap.

So words, words, words and good sentiment, exploited now like Machiavellian ploy by the "happy few", are nothing but smoke and mirrors.

And people like others here who now spout against the enfeebled teaching class made to look like the '"blind and the dickless", are spreading the populist disease of disinformation.

Don't blame the people for being blind, when you are responsible for blinding them in the  first place!

It adds despicable insult to injury.

And here at ZH the posters play this game like lame ducks who can't tell shit from shinehole!  

PS : I do not aim this message at you but at the libertarian posters here on ZH who sacrilise so called individual freedom. Please do not take this personally. Your post is very commendable. 

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:25 | 3132872 Sean7k
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You forget the most important part of an argument: make a valid assumption.

I do not need to suffer to understand right from wrong. I think I understand that murder and rape are wrong without any experience whatsoever. I might gain an additional appreciation for the horror, but understanding? No.

You might want to address your comment to whom it is pointed. If not the author, why post to his comment? If to libertarians, then make your argument there. 

 

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:40 | 3133335 CrockettAlmanac.com
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The part of V for Vendetta that turned me off was the part where V tortures that broad in order to enlighten her. That's some sick crap.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:50 | 3132739 duo
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The local news leads every half hour with a story about a HS student who died of the flu.  Actually, he didn't, he went to the hospital and got MRSA and the drugs they gave him killed him. They no longer name the hospital that he went to, but they will tell you that flu shots are running out and you have to get one or you will die!

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:44 | 3132487 CH1
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And a quote from the great Albert Schweitzer on the same subject:

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it, a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. It is only an ethical movement which can rescue us from the slough of barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals. 

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:37 | 3133320 CrockettAlmanac.com
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Nice.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 09:46 | 3132480 CH1
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how do I reach those that aren't already awake? I would welcome any ideas.

Pleased to contribute:

1. Talk to cab drivers, people on the train, waitresses, everyone you see. But remember, you are not trying to convert them to a cause - you  are trying to plant seeds in them.

2. Drop out of the big game and stop supporting it in every way possible. Be different. Let people see that you are different. Let them ask why.

3. Improve yourself. Be a better human being. Free from the system means free to develop as you are, not as the system wants you to be.

4. Stop acknowledging the validity of things like state schooling, 'democracy' and so on. Be polite and thoughtful, but stop going with the flow.

In short, do it as your default, all the time.

It's the one on one interactions that really change the world. There is no great master plan that will fix things. If they are fixed, it will be because of millions of personal interactions.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:06 | 3133184 SilverRhino
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Doing 1,3 & 4 here.   Still havent dropped out but the idea of being a gas station attendent in the wilderness gets more appealing every goddamned day.   

Urban people are STUPID for the most part.  (excepting the Aware) 

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:13 | 3133471 CH1
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Rock on, my friend. :)

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:26 | 3132876 Salon
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A casual dropped comment is all. Dont try to convert. If you argue it makes people want to argue.

I like to ask people why we think green pieces of paper have value. I leave it at that, unless they are intrigued and ask questions.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:56 | 3132991 hankwil74
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Honestly, why does a shiny yellow metal have value?  For the same reason, no?  People agree that it should have value, so it does.  

Only food, water, shelter, medicine, etc. have real value, as one cannot live without them.  

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:01 | 3133333 OneTinSoldier66
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To me, one of the reasons that Gold and Silver have value, is that they are much more difficult to come up with than pieces of paper. People risk their lives to mine Gold and Silver. These days, bankers often forgo the pieces of paper and instead type keystrokes in on a keyboard in order create digital money out of thin air. Bank accounts are now digits on a computer system and The Federal Reserve can give his bankers more money by just adding some zeros onto their account balances with a computer keyboard(Quantitative Easing(QE)).

 

To get Gold and Silver you have to do some exploration, gather data, hire geologists, examine and analyze the data, buy land, buy numerous pieces of expensive equipment, expend a lot of effort, energy, and capital expenditure, etc., etc... Does that answer your question?

 

If not, I came come up with more. Like how money is supposed to be more than just a medium of exchange. It's also supposed to be something you can trust in as a store of value. That is one of a number of different properties that I believe that money should have, that I could discuss regarding the question of "what is money?"

 

Why did the Government take us off the Gold Standard? So they could monetize debt into the money itself. You can't do that with Gold and Silver because Gold and Silver do not represent debt in any way and are akin to being the opposite of debt, they extinguish debt. Gold and Silver represent wealth. Paper is only the ghost of money. Gold and Silver are the real money. Don't you believe that money should represent wealth, rather than debt? Perhaps you do not understand this. If not, I urge you to take the time to learn and understand what what is meant by, "monetize the debt".

 

Again, the Government put us onto a fiat paper money scheme so they could monetize debt directly into the money itself... manipulate the money for their ends in order to get re-elected. Which is pretty much most all of them care about(being in power), and nothing else. Politicians are like most other people, they are looking out for their own best interest. If you really think they are looking out for or care about your best interest, then I feel some pity for you.

 

If debt is wealth then I guess we're about the richest nation on earth. But what if debt is not wealth?

 

My own personal quote:

 

When they took us off the Gold Standard they took away our money... in order to make it theirs.

 

 

Through legal tender laws the Government coerces/forces you into using their pieces of paper because they are unable to provide the services as good as the free market can, but they don't want to lose power.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:36 | 3133311 V in PA
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You can't create / print 'shiny yellow metal'. That's why. It's called a commodity. paper has value, just not as much as your masters say it has.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:57 | 3133412 NotApplicable
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It's interesting how people can fail to value the inviolate trust that is scarcity, but rather, accept promises on paper which are limitless.

It's as simple as understanding the damage a counterfeiter does to the economy. Yet hardly anyone ever thinks of equating the two, thanks to trust in "experts."

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:35 | 3133308 CrockettAlmanac.com
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One can't live without food, water, medicine and shelter. But one can't obtain a quality supply of those things without an economy based on division of labor. Such an economy needs a medium of savings and exchange. People have used metals in that role for thousands of years while those who depend on pieces of paper as a medium of exchange and store of value ultimately see that system blow up in their faces. If you believe that you need goods more advanced than those available to a hunter-gatherer economy then you need sound money, too. If you believe that you need to save what you earn today for rainy days and old age you'll need sound money for that as well.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 10:56 | 3132771 hankwil74
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State schooling is bad? You going to teach my kids advanced physics class? How about their differential equations class?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:08 | 3133448 CH1
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You going to teach my kids advanced physics class?

If you pay me I might.

They might also want to watch some of the courses at Khan Academy.

Wed, 01/09/2013 - 01:13 | 3135295 Element
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Derailing the conversation any way you can, huh?

See how that works?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:32 | 3133292 V in PA
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I have always told my children to learn what public school has to teach you, but to always remember that you are being train to be a robot. Learn the ABC's and 123's, but question the Social sciences and teacher discussions. Never be a good robot, but be a good student.

And never believe that public education is good, because if it was, the wealthy would send their children there and save themselves tens of thousands of dollars every year.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 13:49 | 3133378 hankwil74
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You're assuming the rich are rational when in reality they send their kids to private schools so they can bring it up at parties.

90% of Fortune 500 CEO's went to public schools, AND 90% send their own children to private school.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:02 | 3133432 Sean7k
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Source please. Those stats stink to high heaven.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:38 | 3132923 goldfish1
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you pay for that if you want your kid to learn it.

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 11:41 | 3132934 hankwil74
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Why would I pay when I can send them to public school where they will receive excellent instruction? I'm already paying property taxes, why wouldn't I use the services?

Tue, 01/08/2013 - 14:40 | 3133560 koncaswatch
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Like taking vitamins; you might want to supplement your children's state education with meaningful and useful knowledge. I had to, at my expense, never expecting the tax base (tax payer) to be responsible for me or mine.

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