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Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals’ Families

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While you might not see them on Forbes’ list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the richest people on the planet.

For example, Bloomberg alleges that the heirs of a prominent Nazi are billionaires who own half of BMW who are also closely connected with Daimler. Four of the heirs are worth $1.2 billion each, and much of their wealth allegedly came from slave labor at German concentration camps.

Barclays, Chase, and the Bush family also made money hand over fist financing Hitler.

The Vatican has built a secret property empire worth close to a billion U.S. dollars using money Italian dictator Mussolini gave the church for blessing fascism.

Modern tyrants have gotten wealthy from oppressing people as well.  For example, the family of U.S.-backed Egyptian dictator Mubarak holds $40-70 billion.  Russian leader Putin also has a current net worth of $40 billion.   (They pale in comparison to Libya’s Gaddafi, worth $200 billion.)

Indeed, given up to $32 trillion dollars are being hidden in offshore tax shelters, the amount of wealth accumulated through crime is nearly impossible to track.

What should have happened, of course, is that ill-gotten gains should have been clawed back from the criminals as soon as they were discovered, just as they should be clawed back from Wall Street fraudsters.

But that is not likely to happen, since many political and business leaders are unrepentant and unwilling to root out crime.

Indeed, when the elite profit from things such as laundering drug and terror money, funding both sides of wars and other unsavory acts, no one wants to stop the music.

Balzac may have been exaggerating when he said, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”  There are some wealthy people who earned their money by honestly delivering a better or cheaper product or service.

But not many

 

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Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:13 | 3202145 Orly
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What a troll.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 20:09 | 3200803 willwork4food
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A least a nice old man named Warren Buffet made his billions honestly.

Oh, wait...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:47 | 3200749 IamtheREALmario
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Yes, it is one odd world run by some very unlikable characters who are always giving themselves honors and privileges and monuments to their ego.

It makes me wonder sometimes why the rest of the billions of us are here at all. They might believe that we aer simply here to serve them, but that does not seem correct, either.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:35 | 3200721 swissaustrian
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Antony Sutton's trilogy on

Wall Street and the Rise of ...

1. ... Bolshevism

2. ... FDR

3. ... Hitler

is a must read.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:23 | 3200684 Chartist
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The whole system is binary, someone wins, someone loses.....Behind every great fortune is a great crime.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:09 | 3200625 GNWT
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party like it's 1999...

 

with the Silver Liberation Army...

at...

 

www.ZIRPinUSA.com

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:01 | 3200604 trichotil
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little joe was known as the rabbi back in his school days, go figure.

 

http://endwhiteguilt.blogspot.com/2010/01/adolf-hitler-founder-of-israel...

 

his bankster buddies that funded both sides of the war were no doubt fellow tribesmen as well.

 

http://rense.com/general77/meinl.htm

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 08:32 | 3201927 matrix2012
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Some further related links to add here:

Holocaust Controversies

Australia's Democracy put to the test

Read about Dr Fredrick Töben, the man who was imprisoned for Holocaust denial (re-branded as contempt of court).

Read his response: "Mandatory Holocaust Indoctrination for schools - Dr Töben responds"

I am quite amazed in the highly touted "free countries" there are certain highly taboo topics to be ever discussed :-)  with sure jail sentence

Background on Australia's Hate laws

"So, we have here a very small but powerful minority group (representing approximately 0.6% of the population of Australia), who are able to greatly influence the introduction of new Laws into this country, and then use these Laws to pursue their own agendas, namely the protection by Law of the Holocaust Religion/Dogma, and the protection/promotion of the racist, homicidal, Zionist 'State' of Israel."

Above just reminds me of the past article by TONY CARTALUCCI -- Land Destroyer: Globalists' Australian Nexus

(AustraliaMatters) I was sent a heads up article (thanks PB) about a dual citizenship (cough) and others that pull the puppet strings of  our so called Australian politicians.  Before I link to that brilliant article, I’d like to share a chilling quote that I believe fits that certain citizenship, down to the last character…

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

While being there, note the comments from "Verbewarp"

Then move on to Land Destroyer: Globalists' Australian Nexus

"A globalist rat's nest amidst the rise of Asia"


"...it contaminates an entire region's news, media, universities, literature, research, studies, and of course, through the papers and propaganda it produces with the clout it puts behind them, the region's politics and laws as well. The global corporatocracy is everywhere, affecting everything, perhaps so profoundly it escapes one's notice.

However, upon seeing this network exposed, the people involved, their history of promoting an unaccountable, self-serving agenda at everyone's expense but their own, we can begin rendering moot the false legitimacy they foist upon society with their fancy logos, lofty titles, disingenuous liberal-esque spin, their insufferable arrogance, and entire institutions co-opted or even contrived to serve their own ends..."

 

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:01 | 3200601 ramacers
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this is what the guillotine was made for.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 22:18 | 3201096 lakecity55
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....as Ozone's head rolled off the guillotine, the witnesses were shocked that machine oil, not blood, spurted out....and thus it was so with each criminal found guilty by the courts...banksters, politicians...all were....machines, synthetic men.

This was the start of the

Blade Runner.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:02 | 3201372 Freddie
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Huh?  Do you mean the Phillip Dick book that the movie was based on?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 07:43 | 3201876 lakecity55
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Yes. It was an attempt at weird humor.

I was thinking it would be funny if all the bad guys were caught, had trials, and were executed; then we find out they are machines. Of course, The People then have to figure out who made them.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:10 | 3202135 Orly
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The Dick story, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" wasn't about machines.  It was about religion.

:D

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:23 | 3200687 kchrisc
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Roger that. Roger that.

                                              hujel

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 18:46 | 3200557 Bazza McKenzie
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"criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the richest people on the planet".  Sure.  Yet no mention of Joseph Kennedy and the basis of the Kennedy's wealth?  No mention or Corzine and most of Wall Street.  What a peculiar article.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 22:26 | 3201123 Optimusprime
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I think the point of GW's article was to deflect attention away from the Rothschilds....

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 07:41 | 3201873 matrix2012
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Yup, GW completely  missed out those very very powerful families :)

 

 

- ROTHSCHILDS

- ROCKEFELLER

- MORGAN

- SASSOON

- SCHIFF

- ASTOR

- BUNDY

- COLLINS

- DUPONT

- FREEMAN

- KENNEDY

- OPPENHEIMER

- TAFT

- VAN DUYN

 

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 04:18 | 3205406 Clashfan
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+1 from me, but did you check all of the internal links? I think many of those families are imbedded here if one follows the imbedded links to fruition. And if they are not mentioned by names of families, the corporations or banks are mentioned.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 08:14 | 3201905 onthesquare
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MONSANTO

MELLON 

CARNAGIE

and you have not even gone to India or China.  The list is endless.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:15 | 3200938 Nikao7
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It was a very short and limited article.  Unless he were to name all of the appropiate names where should he stop?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:02 | 3200910 rwe2late
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 Peculiar?

No, except in the sense that it is a topic absent from the MSM.

GW did write "for example", and it is an extensive topic.

No mention of the Saudi family either.

And more others are "deserving" of mention for their infamies.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 18:44 | 3200554 Stuntgirl
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Actually, in an actuarial sense, Balzac was correct, no exceptions.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 20:57 | 3200890 Radical Marijuana
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Yeah, Stuntgirl, I agree all the way through ...

Human realities are ALWAYS organized lies, operating organized robberies. We have rationalized our ability to act as robbers in our environment. We have rationalized enslaving other animals, and plants, as well as, first and foremost, other human beings.

Private property does not exist outside of some system of public violence. By definition, human beings are entropic pumps that have to get energy to continue living, and to feed their children. That energy has primarily been from killing and eating other living organisms. Therefore, the great fortunes of herds of domesticated animals, or fields of domesticated plants, are achieved through similar sorts of means that we used to domesticate other human beings. We take for granted the ways that we enslave other living beings, because those appear to be relatively nothing compared to how we enslave ourselves.

Great fortunes are necessarily built on top of the established previous systems of organized lies and robberies, which enabled there to be systems where natural resources could be appropriated, and processed, and distributed to other human beings. Human beings basically live as robbers in their environment. Groups of human beings operate as gangs of robbers. Civilization is simply the development of that to astronomically amplified scales, involving billions of human beings, all acting as robbers together. The richest people necessarily operate within the basic systems which are ALL organized lies, operating organized robberies.

The BASIC organized lies are subtracting parts from the whole environment, and then using language to give those parts names, and organizing those into systems of understanding. Those systems of understanding are then correlated with using tools, in order to continue to take material and energy from the environment, which mostly means killing other living things, and eating them, which then was developed to mean controlling the lives of other living things, through the domestication of animals and plants, and first and foremost of those were the domestication of human beings themselves.

What nature does is evolve ecologies, which tend to balance out the rates of robberies. After all,  the subtraction is never absolute. We ARE our environment. We are toroidal vortices, which are infinite loops through the environment, of endless cycles of matter and/or energy. Therefore, the processes of robbery are never finished. If one sees that energy is spirit, then, since we are our environment, and energy is spirit, we then can say we are god. Basically, all of ancient mysticism gets recycled through post-modernizing science, and all of the various old-fashioned religions and ideologies were simply different ways of doing the same things. Every religion, with its morality, and every political economy, with its ideology, are different ways of operating organized systems of lies and robbery, which are different ways of cutting up the flow of infinite energy, or spirit without beginning or end, into pieces which we say have a beginning, middle and end, such as with our birth, life and death, or with the rise and fall of civilizations.

Great fortunes are relative concentrations of the organized systems of lies and robbery, through those who are identified with those great fortunes. There was no production that can explain that great fortune, outside of the infinitely greater natural abundance that was the source for that. Great fortunes are all based on the long history of the organized lies and robberies, which made civilizations. Anyone who operates within the established economic systems automatically is taking for granted the history of militarism which resolved conflicts.

For example, everyone in North America appropriates resources through the current systems, which came with the European invasions, that transplanted Neolithic civilization styles here. Those European invasions genocidally wiped out the people who had been living here for thousands of years previously. The survivors of those genocidal invasions were assimilated into the current Neolithic systems. The earlier inhabitants of North America never voluntarily agreed to have all of North America robbed from them! Therefore, almost everyone who lives in North America today benefits from the great crimes of the past.

That is pretty well universally true of everywhere else, throughout time. TO REPEAT: The fundamental processes are subtraction and robbery. Those were organized into systems of lies, operating systems of robbery. Any and all great fortunes are claims staked over wealth, backed up by violence. There is nothing outside of that. All of the domain of possible human production, and voluntary contracts, and free exchanges necessarily ALWAYS takes place within the larger context of natural production, and involuntary contracts, which were based on robbery, with killing the ultimate form of robbery. Those are the basic facts, the foundations to everything else. We should be building up on those foundations in ways that acknowledge and admit them. Instead, almost everything that established political economies stated presupposed the idealized roof, and then pretends to build down from that roof, without ever admitting the real foundations.

To make human ideas and activities consistent with sciences such as physics and biology is possible, but when one approaches human reality as energy systems, one then ALWAYS discovers that there are organized systems of lies, operating organized systems of robberies. The great fortunes were built by those who were best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. Assuming that there were some productive or creative people who made their own fortune ignores that always those people were born into an established system, which they took advantage of. Moreover, it usually is the case that the most creative breakthroughs in basic science, i.e., the breakthroughs to better systems of organized lies, were made by groups of people who were not the same as those who finally profited from those better lies enabling better systems of organized robberies.

This article by George Washington tends to presuppose false fundamental dichotomies between relatively good and evil people, and then continues to presuppose the impossible ideals based on those false fundamental dichotomies ought to be the ways that we resolve the conflicts between those different degrees of good and evil people.

That is increasingly nonsense, as progress in science, and the related technologies, in every other domain, transcends the previous false fundamental dichotomies, and establishes unitary mechanisms which better understand the universe. All our moralities, and ideologies, are grossly old-fashioned, and adamantly persistent in being attached to those obsolete ways of thinking!

I suggest that the ways we should approach understanding our situation should be as outlined above. Those who amassed great fortunes were always taking advantage of systems of lies and robbery. The problems are the trends towards those becoming runaway imbalances, where those who were better at deceits were better at staking claims, and backing those up with violence. Therefore, those now appear to possess great fortunes. For every one extremely wealthy individual in the world today, there are one million extremely poor people. That deviancy amplification has been due to the runaway triumph of systems of lies and robbery, ineffectively resisted, and therefore, not brought back into better balance.

To face the facts, money is backed by murder. The debt controls are based on the death controls. The organized systems of fraud and robbery that dominate the world today are runways because those are misunderstood through perceiving them in terms of false fundamental dichotomies, which then leads to proposing bullshit solutions based on impossible ideals, which always backfire in the real world.

Balzac was not wrong. He is always right. All good analysis always reveals systems of lies, operating systems of robbery. The only good solutions are evolving the human ecology to better balance those factors. The most intense problem is tangled up with the paradox of enforcement with respect to the rule of law. The only people who could enforce the rule of law are those who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, in order to defeat any other group who has a different idea regarding what the rule of law should be. Therefore, the idea of forming states in which there is a rule of law, limited by the consent of the governed, regularly breaks down as the best organized gangs of criminals over and over take control of the government.

The real world system today is a runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, building a fascist police state, in order that the powers of government can be used to defraud and rob more and more people, in order to transfer their wealth to a smaller and smaller minority. That is not effectively resisted because the opposition is almost all controlled to promote the same old-fashioned false fundamemtal dichotomies, and impossible ideals, which always tend to backfire and make the opposite things happen in the real world.

Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals' Families IS the real situation, because ALL MONEY is BLOOD MONEY. The descendants of known war criminals running around free with billion dollar fortunes is merely the tiniest tip of the iceberg!

What theoretically needs to happen is that we evolve a better human ecology, with a better murder system, so that can sustain a better money system. Nothing less than that is enough. In order to do that, we must perceive that human realities are ALWAYS organized lies, operating organized robberies. Those who did that in excessive ways are those who we may call "war criminals."  However, there is nobody alive today who is not living inside of systems which were made and maintained by countless generations of "war criminals." Furthermore, there are chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life which will constantly make more of those problems manifest in the future.

More importantly, that deeper understanding of human ecology is the central core to any breakthroughs towards deeper understanding of industrial ecologies, and natural ecologies. The grand paradox of our current times is that there have been a series of breakthroughs in the paradigms with respect to physics, and biology, and other sciences, however, political science continues to be totally hidebound within the biggest bullies' bullshit social stories.

On the one hand, we have weapons that are trillions of times more powerful, while, on the other hand, those powers are still being channelled through old-fashioned social pyramid systems, based on triumphant deceits. The contradictions between progress in every other science, while human sciences are deliberately suppressed with well-established bullshit, are being amplified to ASTRONOMICAL SIZES!

Warfare is the oldest and best developed human science. Success in warfare was based on deceits. That is the paradox that is at the root of the problem that those who are the descendents of those who were robbers in the past tend to still enjoy what was gained through that robbery. What made War King then made Fraud King. The whole world is now being dominated and controlled by the Fraud Kings who have made a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, enforced by governments, which enables the Fraud Kings and their court to systematically defraud everyone else. However, there are no genuine solutions to be found in continuing to approach these problems through false fundamental dichotomies.

Everyone alive today is living inside systems made during a long history of warfare. Everyone alive today has adapted to being some kind of war criminal, or the descendents of war criminals. Those who were the best at doing that, or whose ancestors were the best at doing that, are those who now are able to stake great claims to wealth, while those who were robbed, or whose ancestors were robbed, are those who now live in poverty.

However, keeping that system of force backed frauds going with weapons that are trillions of times more powerful has become extremely problematic and improbable! Instead, it is imperative that we go through paradigm shifts in our basic ideas about militarism, which can sustain monetary revolutions. That IS going to happen, anyway, one way or another, sooner or later, and MIGHT be better if we understood it better?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:58 | 3202097 Stuntgirl
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That's what I tell people when I'm drunk enough. But they don't like it.

 

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:16 | 3201666 Seer
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" The only people who could enforce the rule of law are those who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, in order to defeat any other group who has a different idea regarding what the rule of law should be. Therefore, the idea of forming states in which there is a rule of law, limited by the consent of the governed, regularly breaks down as the best organized gangs of criminals over and over take control of the government."

This is why I've repeatedly asked all the great libertarian minds out there how they can reconcile this with "property rights."  I REALLY, REALLY want for there to be a way, and this is why I truly ask, I think that it is VERY important to have a full-blown adult conversation about this.

ALL WARS ARE ABOUT RESOURCES.  ALWAYS keep this in mind, it explains a lot.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:04 | 3202112 Orly
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It is how man approaches Godliness, as best illustrated by Robert Frost in Mending Wall:

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 22:20 | 3201101 Optimusprime
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As usual, you paint with a broad brush.  Ever hear of Jainism?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:32 | 3201678 Seer
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Ha!  Living high!  What about Breatharianism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rybFmE2qtaw

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 22:55 | 3201198 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, I had heard of Jainism.

I read that they would even try to strain the insects out of the water they might drink, to avoid killing those insects.

I take the view that we should endeavour to kill the minimum necessary in order to stay alive. However, that precept is fraught with paradoxes. If one does not kill to survive, then one has killed one's self. As soon as one defines one as separate from one's environment, then the problems that generates are in principle impossible to solve. There are no ways out of that trap, other than the ancient mystical solutions. Warriors face those dilemmas to the greatest possible extent. The only ideal way appears to not play that game, by not separating one from one's environment. However, that state of enlightened high indifference is practically impossible to attain, nor maintain.

I regard "non-violence" as an impossible ideal, other than if we do not subtract any beings from the whole, and therefore, everything is done to itself ... but that view is obviously just transcendental poetry, with no practical use, other than as the consolations of philosophy.

Society without violence is like physics without force.

Thus, ideals of non-violence are absurdities, that backfire.

Inside the context of militarism, to not struggle to survive is to commit suicide. One then is actively engaged in attempting to kill others, in order that one will not be killed. That can become a very proactive strategy, and runaway with itself. The politics of that problem are extremely perplexing, especially since the vast majority of people appear to cope with those problems by not thinking about them! I believe that excessive violence backfires, and balanced violence is the ideal. However, non-violence is an absurd ideal, based on false fundamental dichotomies, and which goes to the wrong pole of that dichotomy to attempt to attain unity. The beginning is the relative subtraction, that separates the part from the whole. Thereafter, everything takes place across those relative, defined boundaries, and taking energy across those boundaries, like when we eat things to stay alive, is, by English definition, robbing them of their lives, in order to feed our lives, or our children's lives, and so on ...

Since weapons became trillions of times more powerful, the challenge for any dynamic equilibria of violent forces became trillions of times more dangerous, especially since the already established social pyramid systems were thereby amplified to be Huge Lies and Threats. Governments were ALREADY force backed fraud, which had ALREADY be taken over by the various previously best organized criminals gangs: banksters. The Fraud Kings evolved to control the world today. I believe they should be replaced by systems that do what they did better.

On a more individual level, one personal application is a minumum DNA diet, which is similar to being a vegetarian, etc.. I.e., if DNA is the essence of biological life, then killing the minimum life in order to stay alive is perhaps a moral approach. I can think of no better precept than to kill the minimum necessary to stay alive. However, that is extremely difficult to describe in any particular finite ways, since the original units of survival are dubious to begin with.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:54 | 3202084 Stuntgirl
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Exactly.

Whenever I express my world view, I get mocked on the premise that minimisation of violence is a violence to oneself.

BUT, knowing what you are does not mean you have to automatically attempt to transform into nothing. I am ok knowing what I am, violence and destruction included. Is it necessary to live in ignorance or misconception to "justify" one's life? Why even attempt to justify it?

One can choose to exist at any point of the broad spread of destruction available.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 07:32 | 3201864 matrix2012
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What a very long post, Radical Marijuana :) arguably one of the longest by member here. Thumbs up! +1

 

Frankly, it isn't easy to digest in whole, even for a frequent reader here... and at some points they sound like a Buddhist philosophy.

I vaguely recall someone here just mentioned recently that "mankind itself is the greatest ponzi system" :-)

Then it pops up the thought on the lecture of Prof. Albert A. Bartlett "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"

 

http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_tra...

or its corresponding lecture videos: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6A1FD147A45EF50D ------------- And here's an outstanding segment from above lecture: Bill Moyers interviewed Isaac Asimov. He asked Asimov, “What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human species if this population growth continues?” and Asimov says, “It’ll be completely destroyed. I like to use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then they both have freedom of the bathroom. You can go to the bathroom anytime you want, stay as long as you want, for whatever you need. And everyone believes in freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the constitution. But if you have twenty people in the apartment and two bathrooms, then no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there’s no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang on the door, ‘Aren't you through yet?’ and so on.” And Asimov concluded with one of the most profound observations I've seen in years. He said, “In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation. Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less one individual matters.”
-------   Then a recent essay by Gail Tverberg at Our Finite World http://ourfiniteworld.com/2013/01/06/2013-beginning-of-long-term-recessi... which in essence points out the resource limitation among other problems.

She outlines some characteristics of the four phases are as follows:

  1. Expansion phase (growth) – Increasing population, relatively low taxes, political stability, low grain prices, and high real (inflation-adjusted) wages.
  2. Stagflation phase (compression) – Slowing population growth, much heavier taxes needed to support a growing elite class, low but increasing political instability, rising grain prices, declining real wages for most workers, increasing indebtedness, and increasing urbanization.
  3. Crisis phase (state breakdown) – Population declining from the peak (typically by disease or by deaths from warfare), high income inequality, political instability increasing to a peak, high but very variable grain prices, high urbanization, tax system in a state of crisis, peasant uprisings.
  4. Depression/intercycle – Low population, attempts to restore state,  declining economic inequality, grain prices decreasing but variable.

 

The good thing is we're ALL MORTAL!! :)

"Heaven and earth are impartial. They allow all things to die." - Tao

 

 

 

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:45 | 3202273 spanish inquisition
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I feel totally set up by God, first it's be fruitful and multiply, Then boom! Good job on fruitfulness, OBTW you are a slave now.

"I was not sure how it would play out" said God "I was looking at a punchline that needed to play out over thousands of years. I really thought they would figure it out after big events like the Aztecs and Cortez to small shit like Jamestown. What I think is the most amazing is that as relatively smart they are about the world and studying human behavior, they know absolutley nothing about human behavior. I still chuckle over that..."

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:24 | 3201674 Seer
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And then when you take into consideration reproduction...  Unless it's some sort of Logans' Run pact it will follow the path of growth, which is always to an overshoot state.

The false dichotomy that we're painting is that we are always "the good guys," but the "good guys" reproduce and grow, which absolutely requires the "displacement" of others (who tend to be "the bad guys").  In order to continue on as "good guys" we must be bad guys- kill...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:19 | 3200946 Ratscam
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long post but definitely plus 1

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 07:49 | 3201886 lakecity55
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We should invent spaceships and go to other planets.

Then we can meet Mr  Spock.

"For your species to survive, Jim, you had to blast off for the planets."

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 18:32 | 3200505 otto skorzeny
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Let's not forget Chicago's Jewish Crown family that owns giant US/Israeli defense contractor General Dynamics and helped pluck a young community organizer named Barry Obammy from a Chicago bathouse frequented by the city's gay elite called "Man's Country" and propel him into the IL Senate Seat. The Crowns got their start early in the last century as lawyers to the Chicago Syndicate and took over a lot of the mob operations as the Italians and Irish they represented got sent to prison.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 20:59 | 3200773 kchrisc
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Good info here. I did not know this.

I looked into it and they have a finger, hand or boot in EVERYTHING. They are banksters AND defense contractors and fund BOTH sides of the "deception parties."

I'd say that they are "stateless" but we know what state's team they really play on.              hujel

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:59 | 3201033 otto skorzeny
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oy-the rot runs deep.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:43 | 3200740 IamtheREALmario
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Pritzgers

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 18:19 | 3200471 robobbob
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between the Red House report and project paperclip did the nazis and their international banker friends really lose WW2?

http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/articles/Intelligence_Report_EW-Pa_128.html

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 19:08 | 3200620 john39
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how can you possibly lose when you are lending fictional "money" to all sides...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 18:18 | 3200463 piceridu
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Talk about Blood Money... take 20 minutes and watch this...fuck Tony Stark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_3Qg-SADY

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 08:56 | 3201965 Eugend66
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Powerfull vid. Thank you for posting it!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:36 | 3201470 billsykes
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I would buy a drone with zero down and reasonable terms. subprime drones.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:10 | 3201657 Seer
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They're quite affordable now!

http://www.amazon.com/Maisto-Fresh-Metal-Tailwinds-Endurance/dp/B004JFMO...

Be sure to read the comments/reviews to learn just how great these are!

(hat-tip to another ZH poster who posted this not too long ago)

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:10 | 3201792 Jendrzejczyk
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The reviews are priceless!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:21 | 3202394 Orly
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I'm posting this up top.  Freak and hilarious!

Thanks, Seer.

:D

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:23 | 3201277 Buck Johnson
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A good vid is to go to CNBC and watch their special on dictators and their families hidden billions.  That was great also.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:03 | 3201649 Seer
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Did they also show how US policies help this (supporting oppressive* dictatorships)?

* Most of the time the word/term "dictator" is used when the US (media) is agitating against someone, a puppet gone bad.  When that puppet was a good puppet you'd never hear "dictator" (you hear "leader," "ruler" etc.).

Most people have no idea on how pervasive propaganda is...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 21:54 | 3201014 economics9698
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Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek:klept's, "thief" and - kratos, "power, rule", hence "rule by thieves") is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service. This type of government corruption is often achieved by the embezzlement of state funds.

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