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American Empire on Fire! - Weekly Wrap - June 13, 2014
Submitted by tedbits on 06/13/2014 10:45 -0400
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TedBits Weekly Wrap - June 13, 2014
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This week’s news certainly WASN’T BORING. Big events and small add up to unfolding CHAOS around the WORLD.
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Burn bitch burn! lol.
As usual, I thought that was a relatively good article, which understated the situation:
"In closing, the world is morally and fiscally BANKRUPT. A man made disaster. Nothing will stop the unfolding calamity."
The ruling classes are more aware of the problems of exponential growth based on strip-mining the Earth's natural resources than are those they rule over. Since the vast majority of the people being ruled over have been deliberately reduced to being incompetent political idiots by those who rule over them, there appear no other politically possible "solutions" to the problems than the only ones which have actually been prepared, which are to mass murder the majority of world's population.
It would take a series of technological and political miracles to prevent the exponential growth overshooting from resulting into a collapse into chaos that kills off the majority of the world's human population. Indeed, if the worst of the possible ranges of predictions end up being correct, then the consequences will be even worse than most of the ruling classes themselves could survive either.
This kind of article is still looking at the relatively short-term to medium term nature of the problems, and possible responses to those. Good enough as that goes. However, the bigger problems in the longer term make pretty well all of those attitudes appear like just more evil deliberate ignorance. It is NOT possible to exaggerate the degree to which civilization has been controlled by lies, backed by violence, which technologies have amplified trillions of times.
There is nothing within the established frames of reference that can cope with the basic social facts that civilization is almost totally dominated by systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, which have become stark raving MAD! The fundamental mechanisms of enforced frauds continue to control civilization, in ways which always result in that behaving in more criminally insane ways.
The industrial revolution has taken the potential of science and channeled that through applications of technology to enable lies and violence to be magnified by many orders of magnitude. Since the short-term successes of backing up lies with violence constantly worked, and continues to work now, and for each individual increment in the foreseeable future, civilization will continue to automatically become more criminally insane, as it becomes even more controlled by lies backed by violence.
There is nothing which can practically prevent the runaway systems from continuing to develop their enforced frauds, whereby "money" is made out of nothing to "pay" for strip-mining the planet. Actually, those fraudulent financial accounting systems are NOT "paying" for anything, but are only the runaway triumph of backing up lies with violence, controlling civilization to behave in ways which automatically become more insane every day!
Furthermore, there are no good reasons to doubt that that series of short-term expediences of controlling civilization through enforced frauds will not continue to get worse, faster, since there continues to be nothing which can actually stop systems of lies backed up with violence from prevailing. The longer term consequences will continue to be deliberately ignored, discounted and disregarded, due to the endless series of emergencies caused the the accumulating consequences of actually controlling the world with lies backed by violence.
The future of the human species is primarily going to be the result of science and technology pumping up the established systems of enforced frauds to even more astronomical sizes, so that they will be thereby set up to collapse into chaos even more spectacularly. All around the world we are starting to see the signs that the strip-mining of the planet's natural resources are reaching the real limits of diminishing returns. Since all of that economic activity was done through fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems, there was never anything remotely close to a realistic accounting.
It is also way too late to try to go back to any accounting systems that were slightly less dishonest, because they were backed by commodities which could not be created out of nothing, like the fiat money-as-debt was. Although I agree that "the American Empire is on fire," the overall situation is way worse than merely that, because it is practically impossible to imagine how any other system could be built that did not continue to be based on lies, backed by violence, as human nature continues to flow along its own paths of least moralities.
It would take a prodigious series of technological and political miracles, in which the political miracles were even more important than the technological miracles, for civilization to overcome being controlled by huge lies, which have driven it to behave in criminally insane ways towards its own longer term future. While I sympathize with those who continue to do their best within the currently established systems to attempt to find personal short-term and medium term solutions to these runaway problems caused by living inside of a civilization so totally dominated by enforced frauds that it has become quite criminally insane, there is nothing really there which is sufficient.
The ruling classes are the most criminally insane of all, and the only plans which they have actually prepared for those real problems are for more genocidal wars, along with imposing democidal martial law. Given that those ruling classes have already mostly succeeding in turning the majority of the human population into Zombie Sheeple, who do not want to understand their real problems, there are no other practically possible and predictable resolutions to the problems of exponential growth overshooting in catastrophic ways than for the majority of the human population to be murdered in one way or another, as those essential problems will automatically get worse faster in the foreseeable future.
Even IF there were some series of more basic science breakthroughs, and corresponding technological achievements, without matching political miracles regarding the basic understanding of human civilizations as energy systems inside of the natural world, then any other technological miracles would still only end up making things get still worse. The basic political miracles would require enough people understanding how and why they ended up living in a civilization that was controlled by governments becoming the biggest forms of organized crime, dominated by the best organized gangs of criminals, and responding to that in more scientific ways, based upon intellectual scientific revolutoins throughout the whole of that set of interrelated perceptions of those those problems, guiding radically different behaviours based on those radically different perceptions.
The basic problems which the human species faces are that technologies have become trillions of times more powerful, while that has been channeled through social pyramid systems which were based on backing up lies with violence, during which recent times the Anglo-American (Zionist) Empire became the greatest single manifestation of those legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, dominating a globalized civilization able to operate electronic frauds, backed by the force of atomic bombs. Everything that civilization is doing is based on the series of short-term successes of enforced frauds. Everyone who is living inside of that system tends to take that for granted, and therefore, to seek personal success within those established systems. However, as a whole, those systems have become criminally insane, but since they dominate the civilization, everyone who seeks for personal solutions to those problems ends up still having to operate inside of that overall criminally insane frame of reference.
Interesting Point Question on Article
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/13/us-defense-department-st...
If Defense is preparing for mass unrest why?
- Economic Decapitalization
- Stagnant Capital
- Looting of US Corporations & Jobs by Private Executives
- Looming Inflation, Food Shortages, Water Shortages, Electricity shortages, Infrastructure Breakdowns, Credit Shortages
- Influence of Money on Military & Government become Feloniously Obvious
- Felonious Conflicts of Interest in Congress
- Fixed Markets, Fixed Prices in What is supposed to be a "Free Market System in a Limited Democracy where we don't vote or control Federal Budget Increases, Vote for War, have any Referendums, Have Legitimate Presidential Debates, have former military Leaders that will stop Congressional Looting, have either Public or Private leaders Take Responsibility for things
- The Fact that we have some kind of Cartel running our Federal government which is also federalizing the states through federal funding, influence, and legislation
- The fact that we have so many taxes we can't really add up all the places where our purchases are inflated due to taxes
- The fact that wealthy people seem to be able to hide money to reduce their taxes, or corporations can increase expenses to reduce profits to avoid taxes while enjoying the perks and outrageous compensation while cutting payroll of Main Street
- Unemployment payments of $73 billion seem to be Supplemented by additional $26 Billion
- SNAP Payments are now $83 Billion and combined with WIC looks like $109 Billion
- federal Training & Employment Services = $3.48 Billion
- Payment earned income credit tax 2013 = $57.5 Billion
- Payment Child Tax Credit 2013 = $21.6 Billion
- Total Medicare & Medicaid 2013 = $1.113 Trillion
- More Foreign Investment North of $3 Trillion, where Domestic Investment is less
- Corporate Tax Rate 2013 = 14.4%
What is there a problem somewhere??
Mark Grant saying that lower interest rates are what is needed to get the economy on track (see CNN video above) is simply crazy!
Just look at Japan with the lowest interest rates on the planet... How's that working for them!
If you want to write a legitimate article do not quote Dennis Gartman.
The contention made at the beginning of the article
that the foreign and financial (petrodollar) problems result from a lack of commitment to militarism is false.
Any implication that those problems would go away or be improved with a greater commitment to militarism is also false.
Instead, foreign turmoil and financial malaise are both attributable to excess militarism
and resources ill-used in the service and reward of corporations and oligarchs who benefit from
warfare, corruption, and exploitation.
I disagree on that. Here is why. Our past militarism enforced an tenuous but fairly manageable peace throughout the middle east. We are withdrawing. Things are coming apart without the American glue.
I'm not saying we should go in, just that what we are seeing is the result of militarism and then the retreat from it. From the point of view of TPTB, militarism might be the best option. Of course that is one thing of which we are all afraid.
What is militarism but organized crime on a large scale?
What is successful warfare but backing up deceptions with destruction? Therefore, the basic nature of civilization was that the whole process was built on the foundation of militarism, which is the ideology of the murder system.
The core characteristic of all our problems are apes with atomic bombs. The War Kings segued into the Fraud Kings. The real world is controlled by the enforced frauds, operated by the people who were the best at being dishonest and backing that up with violence. While that may have been survivable for apes tearing up the jungle, beating up other apes with clubs, after the technological advances of the industrial revolution, the technologies available to apes to go ape-shit have been magnified trillions of times.
The whole world is facing the deeper dilemmas due to the success of controlling civilization with enforced frauds, or the runaway successes of militarism backing up the monetary systems, which are all based on the ability to enforce frauds.
The only genuine better solutions require a series of political miracles, whereby enough people go through enough profound paradigm shifts in their perceptions of politics, which can be applied to the combined money/murder systems, so that radically different death controls can back up radically different debt controls. That is, the better resolutions to our problems require better militarism more than anything else.
We should develop better ideologies to operate our murder systems, which are more consistent with the existence of weapons of mass destruction, which better murder system ideologies were consistent with the sciences that make those weapons systems possible. Of course, none of those series of political miracles appears to be remotely possible at the present time. However, I could continue to assert that the only better resolutions to our problems require better militarism, as the ideas which operate better murder systems.
Yes. He lauds the benefits of the "hands-off" approach of Germany towards its businesses but expects the US military to be "hands-on" in its trashing of countries throughout the world.
The world needs laissez-faire, not continued aggression.