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Life Through the Lens of a Central Banker
By: Chris Tell at capitalistexploits.at
I am a central banker. Let me tell you my story. I look presentable, nice suits, am well spoken, I have impeccable credentials. I wear a vacuous stare, though I like to think of it as a stern expression. My most honest feature, other than low wattage IQ, is that I am a complete a-hole. Imagine Tucker Max meets Paul Krugman, a cocktail if ever there was one.
I am, unsurprisingly a self-serving, arrogant pr!#k. I am unencumbered by a working knowledge of arithmetic, all of which are prerequisites for the job I hold.
Work, if you could call my disguised witchcraft that, is ridiculously easy. It involves the creation of trillions of digital blips, humorously referred to as "money". I do this with vigour and sometimes, especially after a stiff scotch, with wild abandon, whoopee!
Just because I don't need to work, that doesn't mean that everyone else enjoys such a reprieve, in fact my activities actively ensure that all those around me have to work twice as hard. I told you I was an a-hole.
The process of my creating "money" out of thin air is a little complicated...to fool the hoi polloi of course. The process involves issuing debt and then buying it myself. Nifty little trick really, quite genius stuff and the vast majority of the populace don't seem to mind it one bit. In fact, the financial markets want more of it. Wonderful stuff!
In order to pull it off I enlist economists whom I ensure my mates at the Nobel committee award prizes to. These charlatans are trolled out to sing the praises of me and my fellow colleagues "work", and together with the Lame Street media they peddle the required message like a well-dressed crack dealer peddling his latest laboratory concocted death vice to impressionable school kids.
This is not enough...oh not nearly enough. My buddies, whom I'll likely join when I "retire" from my current position all work at a wonderful place called Goldman Sachs. This is where I will go on to do "God's work".
I realise that to complete the process of paying myself and my buddies on Wall Street with the proceeds of citizens hard work, I need more than simply smoke screens, academic "thought leaders", Lame Street media and congressional parasites, I need enforcement. This is just in case any of the plebes decide they've gotten wise to my gig.
This of course is where legislature comes in. In order to "enforce" one needs some jack-booted thugs. These are easily recruited from the sub-educated classes who rally to the cry, "I'm a patriot". Military minds, easily counted on. Getting them to do the dirty work is cheap and surprisingly easy.
The hoi polloi, for reasons that I cannot fathom, love to look toward a leader. Being the complete prat that I am, I together with my banker buddies have concocted something called democracy. On the outside it's designed to look like "the people" are choosing their favourite leader. It's an elegant solution and keeps me in full control at all times. I trot out a few podium doughnuts to appease the masses and voilà, they follow like rats to a flute.
The fact that I, and my buddies are actively turning what was the world's most favoured, and prosperous nation into a giant leper colony doesn't matter to me. Few see it, and those that do have likely already left for greener pastures.
Those who don't know what they're talking about rail against my work, calling it some "crazy experiment" which they profess would have ended long ago if it weren't for a strange anomaly. Every other developed nation on this planet is doing exactly the same thing as I am, causing a gigantic, artificial sea of liquidity.
These ignorant fools suggest that like all things artificial, someday our tinkering will backfire. What they fail to see is that we've created a cohesive solution to not only our problems, but those of all indebted western economies.
I can get away with this since my competition, namely the developed worlds other central bankers, are all doing the same thing.
Not all is well though. Apparently their exists growing discontent, mass unemployment, social exclusion, rising ethnic tensions due to inequality, deepening poverty and rising despair. I look around at my friends while sipping a ridiculously expensive whiskey and have to disagree. The stock market is up, the dollar is strong(ish), government issued bonds are the strongest they've ever been...things are just dandy.
If this world seems surreal it shouldn't. You have yourself a front row seat...we all do.
- Chris
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
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"Life through the lens of a Central Banker"
Looking up from the ground at his headless corpse as madam guillotine smiles.
Yes Minister
The Banker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUemV4brDU
After doing the dark lords work the central bankers would have converted the hoi polloi into the great unwashed.
Perhaps Zero Hedge should get active and form local chapters where we could meet and discuss these matters instead of hiding behind computers.
But there is the Kardashians on tonight to distract us.
Or at least some ZH hand sign to use in the internment camp.
Weird. I had precisely this inclination not a few minutes ago. Must involve booze though. I refuse to talk macro without booze.
My advice - We should all go to the nearest park (with benches), coffee shop, neighborhood bar, church, school - if internet goes down we should all decide which one to go to and tell our friends and family. Do this after a panicked grocery store run for water and a gallon of Vodka. P.S.: Don't talk to strangers. (or get on any trains = edited to add)
Hmm. Seems like a lot of people get it.
Why do we allow it?
Whatever you say, don't say nothing, when you talk about you know what.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vm51sR4tRY
Why do we allow it?
Because almost everyone is afraid to disobey.
And as long as everyone obeys, nothing changes.
This goes back to the meme George Washington touched on in his article last week. We all have to deal with this alone, every day. Figuring out how is the trick.
All the best.
MSM sets the tone for the country - This is our messenger - when the media tells us to panic, we panic. When media tells us all is well, we go on with our business.
MSM - everyone of them - should be sued for obstruction of justice, skewing relevant and necessary information, leading to the collapse of a modern society's living standards.
SUE THE BASTARDS.
"I am quiet. Very quiet. I say little (too avoid sounding stupid) while accumulating information (to be used against you in the future).
Seriously, have you ever talked to a a Banker or for that matter any WS scum. Its like talking into a vacuum cleaner, until they want you to buy something. F 'em.
I hope I live long enough to see all central bankers make a huge career change .....
To lamp post ornaments.
Repeat after me:
"They're" going to "their" house, because you are not "there".
Good summary!
Central bankers work like organized crime works. I think that Carroll Quigley's discussion of how the current system developed is one of the best available, paradoxically because he had more inside access, because he was basically sympathetic to that system. A good review of the details of that was provided in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWXFC2sWU8
G. Edward Griffin - The Capitalist Conspiracy
... I do NOT LIKE the title of that documentary ...
It is NOT "Capitalist," but rather what happens to
"capitalism" after fraud and murder take over that!
The international banksters of finance capital
operated through methods of organized crime,
to legalize the fraud of private banks making
"money" out of nothing as debts, which was
NOT "capitalism," or even any adjectives
that modified that word of "capitalism!"
It is a fascist plutocracy conspiracy, where the
primary source of the wealth of the plutocrats is
the ability to make money out of nothing as debts,
while the government forces everyone else to agree.
I disagreed with Griffin's typical reactionary revolution style of purported solutions at the end of that video, which illustrate the pretty well universal trends of doing good analysis throughout most of the examination, followed at the very end by bullshit "solutions" collapsing back to impossible ideals. I think that the point to fully understanding the central bankers, as the Fraud Kings that were able to privatize the powers of the War Kings that made sovereign states, is that IT IS ALWAYS ORGANIZED CRIME, AND THAT IT MUST NECESSARILY BE!
Governments are organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. The central bankers are currently the best organized gang of criminals, that were able to apply the methods of organized crime to covertly take over control of almost all the world's governments. Today, most countries have a privatized central bank, which are supervised through the King of Kings of Fraud, the Bank of International Settlements. The battle lines being drawn today are between countries which have de facto privatized central banks, versus those which still have relatively publicly owned central banks.
The problems are quite profound due to the paradoxical degree of privatization of the supposedly public powers of governments. The vast majority of people do not understand the central bank system, and moreover, do not want to understand. Furthermore, I have never found anyone who attempts to publicly explain how the money systems really work who does not conclude by collapsing back to impossible ideals, based on false fundamental dichotomies, at the end of their presentation.
The basic problem, as I perceive it, is that there has been presented a false fundamental dichotomy between organized crime, and government, when actually governments are always the biggest forms of organized crime, which are controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Therefore, "democracies" are always dismal failures because they are always presenting themselves through the performances of the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. IN FACT, citizens are members of an organized crime gang, which is their country. Since the vast majority of them do not understand that, and do not want to understand that, they allow the central bankers to operate through the privatization of public powers to rob, and to kill to back up that power to rob, as symbolically manifested through the private banks being able to make "money" out of nothing, as debts, while the government provides the enforcement power, through the taxation powers, and legal tender laws, to make that faith-based, fiat "money" made out of nothing, to dominate the whole society. As this article above has the central banker say "I need enforcement."
The few people who understand that system, and oppose it, almost always propose impossible ideals as the basis for their "solutions," which can never actually work, but rather, always make the opposite happen in the real world. That problem has no apparent good solutions within the foreseeable future. Indeed, Zero Hedge articles and comments are typical of that pattern which one will discover everywhere else one looks.
The resolution of these problems can not merely be recognizing that central bankers control the government through the application of the methods of organized crime, but that the "solutions" could be ending that by some impossible return to "honest money" or "sound money." The REAL problems are infinitely worse, since MONEY IS MEASUREMENT BACKED BY MURDER. The real debt controls are backed by the death controls, since the banksters have been effectively able to apply the methods of organized crime, in order to take control over the government, and thereby legalize their lies, which then results in those legalized lies being backed up with legalized violence. However, it collapses back to false fundamental dichotomies, and their related impossible ideals, to then suggest that the "solutions" are to stop that from happening.
The deeper levels of this situation is that human realities are always systems of organized lies, operating organized robberies. The deeper levels of the resolution of the problems caused by the covert control by the central banks is that there can never actually be any solutions which stop the lies, or stop the robbery. Rather, the only genuine solutions must be a sort of arms race, in the dynamic equilibria of the different systems of organized lies, operating organized robberies. At present, the established systems are publicly resisted by a controlled opposition, which continues to operate within the same frame of reference of the dominate lies, which take the form of false fundamental dichotomies and impossible ideals, which always fail to work, but rather continue to backfire badly.
Of course, those social problem repeat on all levels, such as that the international banksters were behind organizations such as the United Nations, which are based on false fundamental dichotomies, and impossible ideals, and which are staffed by professional liars and immaculate hypocrites. These problems systematically have created a Bizarro Mirror World, where everything is proportionately backwards and inverted. That problem runs throughout the most basic issues in the philosophy of science to the more superficial issues in politics.
The single simplest symbol and most extreme particular example of that pattern is that hemp is the single best plant on the planet for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine, and BECAUSE of that, the bankster controlled governments promoted the propaganda that "marijuana is almost as bad as murder." Everything follows that pattern, with the money system being the most important of those things in the current world systems.
In that context, the article above correctly describes the psychology of the central banker, and their effects upon the world. However, it does not penetrate more deeply into the issue that money is NECESSARILY measurement backed by murder. This kind of article correctly perceives how the central banks are nothing better than arrogant organized criminals, but it does not face the deeper fact that human beings always operate as robbers in their environment. Therefore, the best we could do is develop better dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies, operating organized robberies.
The deeper problem that Americans, and the rest of the world, faces is that the ruling classes have become too successful in brainwashing almost everyone else to believe in their bullshit social stories. That is why the 0.1% of the population are enabled to get so totally away with taking over the powers of governments, and using those powers to rob almost everyone else, more and more, faster and faster ... with currently no end in sight to how bad that is going to get.
The approach to genuine solutions should analyze the FACTS that the central bankers are the result of triumphant organized crime, being able to take control over government, and to thereby privatize the powers of "We the People" to be used against "Them." Unless enough of the People were to accept that their country (as well as any church or any corporation, etc.) were always some form of organized crime, then They are never going to be able to deal with these problems in a more scientific way.
However, instead, as the article says, the banksters were able to fund "economists whom I ensure my mates at the Nobel committee award prizes to. These charlatans are trolled out to sing the praises of me and my fellow colleagues' "work", and together with the Lame Street media they peddle the required message ..."
While that is so, the range of reactionary revolutionaries promote bogus alternatives based on notions of "sound money" or "honest money," which are based upon impossible ideals, which do not actually work against the successful organized crime of the banksters, and could never theoretically work, because they refuse to face the deeper reasons why money is measurement backed by murder, and therefore, that the real problems are way worse than any superficial notions about "monetary reform" ever get close too, no matter which kinds of "monetary reform" one looks at!
When it comes to the monetary system, which is crucial to the way that everything else in society is organized, we are still light years away from the kinds of scientific revolutions which would be theoretically necessary to make monetary system revolution possible. Relatively speaking, it was simple to change from thinking that the Earth was the center of the universe, to see that the Earth was more going around the Sun, than the Sun was going around the Earth, compared to the paradigm shifts required in our politics, in order to change the monetary systems, from the current triumphs of the organized crime of the banksters, to anything that was actually consistently better from a thoroughly scientific point of view of society.
The essential problem is the paradox that civilization ends up being controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, because civilization itself IS a form of organized crime. That paradox is compounded many times because those who are the best at doing that are also the best at lying about that, and they have almost totally succeeded in making their bullshit about themselves be the ways that almost everyone else also understands things. Thus, their "opposition" is almost totally controlled to continue to operate within the same frame of reference, and so, to continue to propose "solutions" which are necessarily impossible.
As the current state religion drives its debt slavery through to numbers which manifest debt insanity, more and more people are waking up to that fact, and thus forced to face the utter absurdity of us having such a faith-based monetary system. However, so far, almost nobody that I am aware of moves on beyond that stage, instead of collapsing back to the same old bullshit impossible ideals, when they get around to proposing their "solutions" to those problems.
>>Central bankers work like organized crime works.<<
Central bankers work is organized crime.
FTFY.
BTW, here's a link to Quigley's Tragedy and Hope Online. Chapter 19 is a blockbuster chapter and starting with that chapter will really pique your interest...
http://real-world-news.org/bk-quigley/07.html#19
"The outbreak of war in 1914 showed these financial capitalists at their worst, narrow in outlook, ignorant, and selfish, while proclaiming, as usual, their total devotion to the social good."
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"In addition to these pragmatic goals, the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
They literally tell the public their game plan, execute the game plan and the public is simply too ignorant to take them at their word. Some people are so dumb that they call their documented conspiracy "conspiracy theory."
I'm glad you mentioned Benjamin Strong; so I can remind everyone he was a stooge for Norman at the BOE; T he English who had their ass in a crack around 1926-29; played on the American FED. thru Strong to maintain inflationary policy in the US, until it was time for them to pull the rug out from under our feet by abandoning the Gold Standard. The English are always willing to fight to the last American. And they do it; and many other things, by CONSPIRACIES. Yes, that kind of conspiracy, where powerful agents of government and finance sit down in smoke filled rooms and plot out the hoped for dire consequences of their erstwhile "allies" and "friends". What abut Julius Caesur? Did he stab himself 29 times on the floor of the roman Senate; where it was illegal, in fact a religious violation, to bring with you any weapon; or was this the result of a conspiracy?
We should be aware to be concise in our language, lest the evil doers get cloaked.
The "British" didn't do anything. The criminal oligarchs that ran Britain did.
"America" doesn't go to war. The criminal oligarchs who run America as their little empire go to war.
Any real, coherent, and deep history of modern Europe, (eg.Roman-forwards), is almost exclusively an interlocking mesh of conspiracies. If you left out the conspiracies there wouldn't be much left to write about. Any time you find youself doubting this; think about JFK, for a moment. Or go look up what was really going on in the Wilson White House, when this liberal anti-war pacificst was suddenly converted to the idea of complete American Mobilization for a maximum effort, main battlefield, entrance into a European War that was demonstrably none of our business; and in which we had no national interest at all.
Stunningly awesome is all I can say. NICE JOB!
nice story, its worthy of the Rougon -Macquart by Zola or Balzacian tales.
Inspired by Balzac's Comédie Humaine, R-M is a family saga which decaps bourgeois man's veneer to reveal the animal in him. Civilization without veneer and we see what breed of animal we truly are; whence the jackal breed of banker.
A short story of how a country can default in a few days
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/a-short-story-of-how-country-...
“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a game called 'Countries'
http://www.mind-trek.com/treatise/ls-cona.htm
Well lets go after Twains gold then.
There won't be too many to round up as reported by Zero this morning. This guy showed up on CNBC's Fast Money. Melissa turned a pretty shade of pale white because he repeated that .02% of the Big Banks own 70% of all the Cash. He actually repeated this story:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-12/former-fed-quantitative-easer-confesses-aplogizes-i-can-only-say-im-sorry-america
A round-about way of sayin JPM and GS.
Central Bankster is make elaborate speech for assurance to sheeple, that is read like leaf of a tea, but what is transpire in close door is vast betrayal of citizenry and if citizenry is aware, maybe is get torch and forking pitch and string up Bankster. For example, when bankster is say worry about deflation, is not worry about deflation of wage, but is concern of deflation of asset price. When is say inflation, is not worry about devastation of purchase power of citizenry, but is worry about monetization of debt hold by citizenry. To know Central Bankster is to hate Central Bankster.
Like I have said previously.....You rock Boris:-)