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It's One Indivisible System: Empire, The State, Financialization, & Crony Capitalism
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
The great irony is what's unsustainable melts into thin air no matter how many people want it to keep going.
Disagreement is part of discourse, and pursuing differing views of the best way forward is the heart of democracy. Disagreement is abundant, democracy is scarce, despite claims to the contrary.
If you think you can surgically extract Empire from the American System, force the State to serve the working/middle classes, end the stripmining of financialization, limit crony capitalism/regulatory capture and get Big Money out of politics--go ahead and do so. I'm not standing in your way--go for it.
But while you pursue your good governance, populist, Left/ Right /Socialist/ Libertarian, etc. reforms, please understand the system is indivisible: the Deep State, the Imperial Project (hegemony and power projection), the State, finance in all its tenacled control mechanisms (greetings, debt-serfs and student-loan-serfs), crony capitalism /regulatory capture, money buying political influence, media propaganda passing as "news", and the evisceration of democracy (something untoward could happen if the serfs could overthrow the Power Elite at the ballot box--can't let that happen)--it's all one system.
Should any one organ be ripped from the body, the entire body dies. The entire system defends each subsystem as integral as a matter of survival. As a result, the naive notion that big money can be excised with only positive consequences is false: restoring democracy places the entire system at risk of implosion.
No more bread and circuses, no more Social Security checks, no more state employee pensions--it all melts into air if any subsystem stops doing its job.
The system is interdependent. Each subsystem needs the others to function. I drew up a chart of the major components (but by no means all) of the system:

The system is a machine in which each gear serves the whole. So go ahead and try to "reform" the system by extracting whatever gear you don't approve of: the Deep State components, the Security State organs, the Federal Reserve, cartels/monopolies enforced by the State, the suppression of democracy, crony capitalism, whatever.
The machine will resist your "reform" to the death because should you succeed, the machine will implode. Take out the financialization gear and the financial system collapses.
So go ahead and reform to your heart's content. Go ahead and believe the system is reformable, if it makes you feel better. Vote for Bernie or The Donald or whomever. Go ahead and disagree with me. Prove me wrong. Prove the State really, really, really wants to serve the working/middle class rather than the Empire that it is. Pursue your Left/ Right/ Socialist/ Libertarian fantasies of righting the Imperial Project by ripping the gears out of the very center of the machine.
It doesn't work that way. We can't remove the gears we find distasteful. Either the machine grinds on and we get our share of the swag--bread and circuses, corporate welfare, State jobs and pensions, Medicaid and Medicare, and all the rest of the immense swag of hegemony and the Imperial Project--or the system implodes and all the swag melts into air.
The great irony is what's unsustainable melts into thin air no matter how many people want it to keep going.
But go ahead and disagree. It's your right, by golly. Go ahead and try to "reform" the system and see how far you get.
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What % is Jewish?
OY VEY!!! THE GOYIM KNOW!!!
I'm not sure about any of that, but what I DO see are a lot of "bubbles" on that chart.
I am trying to figure out what the hell that chart means??????
I think it's called mind map. Seems to match with the US deep state.
Shut it down!
Hehe:
https://coubsecure-a.akamaihd.net/get/b3/p/coub/simple/cw_gif_big/d02b17...
% JEWISH? Who cares?
Storm the Bastille is the only blueprint left methinks. I do not advocate violence or subversive tactics in my heart and conscience. But I have those 2 aspects to my life (heart and consciousness). I fear the machine depicted above is running blindly on greed, blind and utter greed (which has no religion and no soul) Sad really.
But at what point do conscious people who seek to understand give up on tolerant discourse and passive protest? Voting does not work.
Storm the friggin Bastille. The only language that will be understood in the end I think.
Perhaps people who think a tiny largely ethnocentric, largely loyal to a foreign state, should not have virtual control of the foreign policy, or media, or banking?
Take a stroll through Arlington National Cemetery sometime.
compare the Stars of David relative to Crosses, then consider the amount of Jews you see as pundits on tv and read in the paper urging war on Iran, etc.
The idea it doesnt matter is quit frankly idiotic.
Jews Boast of Owning Hollywood—But Slam Gentiles Who Say the Same
http://newobserveronline.com/jews-boast-of-owning-hollywood-but-slam-gen...
I do wonder about the people who auto-junk such questions.
do they really think a tiny minority having wildly disproportionate power over other minorities, and the majority is not only fine - but can't even be discussed?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, it is going to be discussed, and better to have it done out in the open, honestly and fairly, than continue to let it bubble underground with folks who don't actually care about what is *true.*
Immediately after that came Robspierre, and the Vendee Genocide....then Napleon. That that will work well.
it doesnt have to be either voting or storming. I see everywhere grassrootmovements emerging, parrallel systems organizing themselves, sharing, caring, doing business like it should be done: fair and leaving a world intact for the ones to come.
dont give up. look for good circles where to put your energy in.
these are the systems that will survive, when everything comes down.
good luck;)
The land of the free is a fascist, police state run by a troika of the MIC, Wall Street and spooks. This Deep State runs everything despite who is nominally in power, your figurehead politicians.
The media exist only as whores of the Deep State
Yeah, let's just ignore the constant drone of the foreigners here telling us what to do and blame it on our own people.
I like how no one replies, but I still have downvotes.
You obviously have been mislead with your blind faith. Troubled times ahead sonny.
I'll just leave this here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqa7Ml_us00
"the MIC, Wall Street and spooks"
Let's not forget the education-industrial complex and the healthcare-industrial complex. They're all doing their best to make sure that middle class life is precarious and expensive.
Except they don't actually function.
That's the problem.
Instead they serve the interests of a tiny minority within a minority by extracting wealth and power from the rest...
Which can only function until the cost of extraction exceeds the benefit... at which point it collapses anyway.
No, this system will never reform. It will collapse sooner. Or it will collapse later.
In either case it will collapse, and the system that replaces it will not resemble it.
We get to choose which candidate replacements we will or will not support.
"It's One Indivisible System: Empire, The State, Financialization, & Crony Capitalism"
& you're not in it!
Death to the New World Order.
It's not a question of whether it dies; it's a question of who and how many survive its death.
If you want to be among them, and if you haven't already, start here: http://readynutrition.com/resources/52-weeks-to-preparedness-an-introduc...
So bend over and die for the NWO?
"Go ahead and try to "reform" the system and see how far you get"
He is correct, "reform" won't happen.
At least not to the extent a constitutional conservitive small government person/myself would want. It's far too big!
So it will destroy istself and implode at some point in time. The sooner the better in my mind, but I doubt I will live to see it.
Too may freeloaders feeding on the system.
It takes time to kill it off altogether!
System may destroy itself..but it will take far longer than you expect as people cling to what they know and resist change (which never comes). The only way to get real change is by force. No one gives up power.
"System may destroy itself..but it will take far longer than you expect as people cling to what they know and resist change (which never comes). The only way to get real change is by force. No one gives up power."
The five R's apply...Recognition, Revulsion Revoulution Restoration Renewal
Unfortunately most have not even approached R number one, including here at ZH comments.... it's all comedy and/or entertainment to 90% of commenters. Ha,Ha Ha, Ha, Har Har....is their response to all the odious TPTB machinations and destruction of liberty at home and the taking of millions of lives overseas. That is what is cataloged here every day.
The ignorant and the sociopaths within the US population constitute the foundation of the evil current "order".
It takes No Time, and yes you prolly won't survive it, just sayin.
CHS must have started drinking early this morning...sounds like one of my old drunken rants.
(Where is my soapbox...)
I think you will soon find that the days of empire are over.
Tear down the entire system and rebuild.
Because........the Queen is dead, and long live the queen(s), your wish shall arrive.
I fought the law and the law won. Hope and Change Grasshoppers!
I couldn't agree with this more, we need complete change. Do away with it all. In order for things to work the ego has to be totally removed from the equation. No money, currency, or methods to gain power over another in a public arena. Sure, compared to BC times we have iphones, cars and cushy houses, but other than physical items we have not evolved at all. We still use the same social scaffolding of antiquity and wonder why we have problems.
So brak the machine! Break them all world wide, it really can't get much worse for a lot of people out there.
5 billion extra people on Planet Earth might disagree.
Dead is a lot worse, yet everyone deserves a second chance.
A beast with 7 heads, 10 horns and hundreds of warts on the horns.
Yeah, and it's pretty difficult to imagine that it all started with one limp dick!!
That 20+ bubbles could be collapsed into less than 10, really.
It is really corrupt the way tax payer funded agencies divert money to political parties and candidates.
That should be banned right off.
I didn't see the Clinton "Charity"
How about we get rid of democracy and start a Republic?
How about we succeed and simply wait for the puppet master.
The stall boys and girls. The one thing they really cant fake is our labor.
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It's all connected! Still waiting for the global economic collapse in the middle of september 2015.
I guess we wait it out then.
Prepare and stay grounded.
We should still at least be thinking what could be next even if it's wholesale change.
In that spirit, I wrote your colleague Charles Eisenstein, and presented my georgist perspective.
Our difference of opinion was mainly on interest rates as he conceded my georgist rentier solution.
I think they should be 0, with no usury. He thinks Gesell's negative interest rate is the answer.
My problem with his view is anything other than 0 becomes political, who decides?
The Neg Fed? Banks? (With Usury!) Sounds familiar, huh??? No way. This is survival.
I would like to see a quasi citizen - gov monetary board comprised of people from different walks of life serving 1 year terms. $1 per year plus all expenses paid and transparent to all would be the model. (CONFIDENCE, TRUST)
Lot's of folks could do that.
I could see negative interest as an emergency measure but the ever increasing velocity of money could make us waste resources, alot. Another economist I like points to "The Guernsey Experiment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRouPMT8xow&html5=1 http://tobybirch.com/
Yet this fellow has ideas as well.
https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/the-difference-between-d...
We get to the bottom of the international situation. Is there a real struggle between Russian and the US Empires? Or is it a war of both States against the Peoples?
https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/two-interviews-and-a-rec...
https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/
Brilliant deduction Charles! Probably one of the most sensible briefs I've seen in awhile. As C.A. Fitts observed with conservatives/libertarians and pm horders, few, if any of them would push the "red" destruction button.
It's just not a profitable angle for anyone. The "corrupt" we'll always have with us. But the system, must, go, on. blink blink
Just like Morpheus said in "The Matrix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1SGf6cHmw&html5=1
The woman in the red dress, ;-( look again
One or more acts of God will reform this system. Historically that works for 20 to 100 years and then it needs reform again.
Thanks for pointing out another way to picture The Great Red Dragon. The following quote is from Chapter Two
The East India Company, as such, did not engage in these manufactures. All the stockholders would not wish to invest in them: so large a corporation would be unwieldy; and the immensity of the monopoly might excite alarm and provoke opposition. It would be much better to operate through smaller corporations. A few capitalists might hold the stock of a great number of them without exciting jealousy; and their management would be quiet and easy. The different corporations were like the regiments of an army: it was easy to form them into brigades, and divisions, and army corps, so as to give them the compact solidity of a grand military organization. It had the flexibility of individual enterprise, and the solidity of a despotism. The Money Kings adopted the policy of single corporate companies for each special enterprise.
This was in 1889, and the banks just keep getting bigger. Barclays was founded in 1690. They're the force behind BlackRock and others.
No need to storm anything, it is collapsing entirely on its own.
We could storm things if you think it is a good tradeoff, but I stopped believing in analysis.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/important-things-are-not-f...
Yes, they will go on stealing the longer the system lasts, the more they steal. But killing might make that worse.
Wait til it crashes, then we take everything back, they will have no law enforcement on their side. That is easy and the net connects everything, we will have NSA's files afterwards.
The hard of whatever that shows up to be a system is made sure by the joke I tell you what to do.
No system there is thinkable without such a command switch.
Consequently the palaver circles around this question, who is allowed on handling it.
The competition about is that big as there is people who likely would see themselves fit for the job.
"It's all an accumulation of the joke to have your neighbor at that gunpoint he wants you to have before."
How to change that behavior.
It's true nature is usually filed under the caption greed and executed by money rates which replace the ole cudgel.
The problem stays. What you can do against the bigger one, at all if function like a system.
On the money layer, there is a solution: do not patronize people what to pay and what not.
Turn evictions and foreclosures to a thing of the past.
Go ahead and agree. It's your right, etc. Go ahead an try to reform that part of the system and see how far you can get.