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The Re-Enserfment Of Western Peoples
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
The re-enserfment of Western peoples is taking place on several levels.
One about which I have been writing for more than a decade comes from the offshoring of jobs. Americans, for example, have a shrinking participation in the production of the goods and services that are marketed to them.
On another level we are experiencing the financialization of the Western economy about which Michael Hudson is the leading expert (Killing The Host). Financialization is the process of removing any public presence in the economy and converting the economic surplus into interest payments to the financial sector.
These two developments deprive people of economic prospects.
A third development deprives them of political rights. The Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Partnerships eliminate political sovereignty and turn governance over to global corporations.
These so called “trade partnerships” have nothing to do with trade. These agreements negotiated in secrecy grant immunity to corporations from the laws of the countries in which they do business. This is achieved by declaring any interference by existing and prospective laws and regulations on corporate profits as restraints on trade for which corporations can sue and fine “sovereign” governments. For example, the ban in France and other counries on GMO products would be negated by the Trans-Atlantic Partnership. Democracy is simply replaced by corporate rule.
I have been meaning to write about this at length. However, others, such as Chris Hedges, are doing a good job of explaining the power grab that eliminates representative government.
There is more than enough evidence from past trade agreements to indicate where the TPP -- often called "NAFTA on steroids" -- will lead. It is part of the inexorable march by corporations to wrest from us the ability to use government to defend the public and to build social and political organizations that promote the common good.
Our corporate masters seek to turn the natural world and human beings into malleable commodities that will be used and exploited until exhaustion or collapse. Trade agreements are the tools being used to achieve this subjugation. The only response left is open, sustained and defiant popular revolt.
The corporations are buying power cheaply. They bought the entire US House of Representatives for just under $200 million. This is what the corporations paid Congress to go along with “Fast Track,” which permits the corporations’ agent, the US Trade Representative, to negotiate in secret without congressional input or oversight.
Corporations are taking control of what policies are approved or blocked in the U.S.
We cannot sit around while corporations decide what is "good" for America or not! This is a democracy, not a plutocracy! Contact your representatives and let them know that you do not want them to vote in favor of TPA!
In other words, a US corporate agent deals with corporate agents in the countries that will comprise the “partnership,” and this handful of well-bribed people draw up an agreement that supplants law with the interests of corporations. No one negotiating the partnership represents the peoples’ or public’s interests. The governments of the partnership countries get to vote the deal up or down, and they will be well paid to vote for the agreement.
Once these partnerships are in effect, government itself is privatized. There is no longer any point in legislatures, presidents, prime ministers, judges. Corporate tribunals decide law and court rulings.
It is likely that these “partnerships” will have unintended consequences. For example, Russia and China are not part of the arrangements, and neither are Iran, Brazil, India, and South Africa, although seperately the Indian government appears to have been purchased by American agribusiness and is in the process of destroying its self-sufficient food production system. These countries will be the repositories for national sovereignty and public control while freedom and democracy are extinguished in the West and the West’s Asian vassals.
Violent revolution throughout the West and the complete elimination of the One Percent is another possible outcome. Once, for example, the French people discover that they have lost all control over their diet to Monsanto and American agribusiness, the members of the French government that delivered France into dietary bondage to toxic foods are likely to be killed in the streets.
Events of this sort are possible throughout the West as peoples discover that they have lost all control over every aspect of their lives and that their only choice is revolution or death.
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<<< Charlie don't surf.
Fiat makes it all possible.
Actual productive work is debased while banksters pulling fiat out of their ass have become the dominant force in government, markets, politics, commodity prices and private industry.
Privatize regulation via consumers unions.
We'll all soon become Palestineans.
We cannot sit around while corporations decide what is "good" for America or not! This is a democracy, not a plutocracy!
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!
Someone hasn't been paying attention.
Exactly, what we need is Faaarrreee! government mandated health insurance from corporations for everyone! And Gaaarrreeennn taxpayer subsidization to corporations for our energy too! Corporations should marry with government in one grand alliance for the common good of all!!!
Everything will be Faaarrreee!
(If I need a sarc tag for that I'm resigning my ZH membership.)
+1000 for gaarreeen emphasis !
Gaarreeen shoots aren't free!
Fiat makes it all possible.
No, it is usury on fiat credit as money.
Not all fiat money has to be usurious, nor does fiat have to be credit. Law based fiat that is coded properly is the highest form of money.
By coding, that means that it is law based and said law can then control for proper volume and channeling.
Just saying the word "fiat" as an epithet blocks peoples minds from seeing reality.
My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.wallstreet34.com
Revolution or Death! Now we're talking....
You have to unplug to consider this and so few have unplugged. America is filled to the gills with phone addicted medicated zombies. Just watch the lethargic reaction on the road to a green light. Everyone is fucking stoned, man.
medicated zombies full of fear- there will be no revolution
I gave you a thumbs up because it sounds impressive, but I really wonder if we've already passed the point of no return? Seems like most Americans would rather die than lift a finger to revolt. It's....too....much.....work.
There are guys like Team Depends around. God bless them. But, yeah this ship has sailed. I wish guys like him luck but now is the time to start planning ahead for the next chapter in the saga.
Sailed and sank.
Next chapter is nuclear war.
Sounds like a real page-turner! Don't spoil the ending for me!
exactly what I was thinking. I wonder if they even know what that word means
Kill them. Kill them all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMuCRx7qhA
"converting the economic surplus into interest payments to the financial sector."
Clearly what the Fed is doing.
Forget religion and government the greatest control of humanity is debt. Once you become a slave to the system your constantly controlled and subdued by your fear of losing you car your house your marriage etc. Now be a good boy and get back to work got to make those interest payments you would want to loss everything would you?
Kudos to PCR for calling it like it is. The thing about oligarchs is that they will kill the golden goose. They already have more money than they or their progeny can spend in countless generations. But that's not enough. I just read on Drudge that the navy did another "fuck you Russia" missile test. What really chilled me was the final sentence of the article, quoting defense secretary Ashton Carter: "We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot, war with Russia,” he said to the forum. “We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake; the United States will defend our interests, our allies, the principled international order, and the positive future it affords us all.” Ah yes, the principled international order. Why don't you just come out and say NWO?
https://youtu.be/3O1cfAZ8-_A
"the principled international order" Double Think!
Oh, by the way, when does the latest "Newspeak" dictionary come out, with all 250 words in it?
Used to work on Wall Street - in operations. Walked away decades back. A good friend in securities law - national rep - is dumbfounded.at what's happened. He can't believe NOBODY went to jail overall that has happened. He hates his life but is trapped. 'All I do is make rich people richer - they can't spend it as fast as they make it.' This is not what he got into law for. He says that things haven't changed at all since 2007 - that things are going to blow up again - even worse.
The people I worked for were scheming conniving sociopaths. They cared nothing about anything but getting more money and power. The level of incompetence was astounding - you'd be horrified if you knew how screwed up Wall Street operations were. These people are PROUD of how much they can screw others - customers or colleagues.
in my experience it's like that in most firms and probably government (not just in finance). There is a good book about why that could be by an English prof from UCLA - called American Mania - when more is not enough:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Mania-When-More-Enough/dp/039332849X/ref=...
The Russians can, and probably will, ignore this much as we ignore NK's impotent tantrums.
By ignoring it, they maintain the high ground with their growing list of allies while allowing the US to sow global distrust and to further poison our own dwindling alliances.
The bankers and corporations that run the US cannot gain from nuclear war, so there will be no nuclear war.
I swear it get's easier everyday as we approach the end of our grand experiment...
"Yet there is a darkness spreading over part of our society. And >>>we<<< don’t really understand why." - Paul Krugman
>public control
>China
Pick one.
Those other countries are not exactly shining examples of freedom. Sovereignty, yes.
False dichotomy.
TPP = NWO
They're just gettin' warmed up, folks. This is in its ascendancy, not it's decline. Don't hold your breath for the revolution. They sheep have been well trained.
The western middle class that arose during the 20th centruy was the ANOMALY, not the norm. Cheap energy, booming innovations, the ability of large portions of the population to make their own decisions (and the financial resources to carry them out). Yeah, the elites damned near lost control of things. A mistake they will never make again. EVER.
Small number of rich, large number of poor and just enough middle class to service the rich. As it has been in most societies throughout most of human history. 21st centruy will be one giant reversion to that norm.
Dead on. I would add that the American revolution was also a point in history where the oligarchs (at the time, they were openly called Royalty and did not need to be called oligarchs) lost control for a while. Like the devil, the smartest thing they ever did was to convince the world they don't exist. So instead we have endless debate about which political team will "fix" things, and among slightly more enlightened people a debate over which economic system would be best to "fix" the current problems.
So long as the oligarchs are allowed to exist and amass great wealth (and therefore power), the rest of us will not be free.
Paul Craig Roberts is a real patriot. He is 100% correct in saying that western people are now serfs. Sickening.
When I hear Americans engage in discussions of important topics of the day, I know the end stage of America is at hand. The complete destruction of the "critical mind" is complete in America. There is nobody left to revolt, the serfs are too busy on their I-Phones.
Blow up an Apple server farm and watch the sparks fly.
I expected some kind of revolt or a protest when I lived in DC and Snowden revealed the secret spying documents.
Instead I saw fear wherever I looked - nobody said anything - when I rreminded them their country was turning into a Stasi state they just said they were scared and changed the subject.
that was when I realised what kind of pussies i was surrounded with
He's right, except for wiping out the 1% (~3 M).
Why not double-down?
@No Debt and LTER,
I love ya' both, but I think you're both wrong.
The oligarchs you speak of are dead wo/men walking, and they know it. It may not be apparent to you, but there is very little wealth left to extract from us commoners. It being that the oligarchs themselves have no idea how to feed themselves absent the labors of the serfs they loathe, and further that they seek to eliminate independent thought, they have pretty nearly killed their only source of sustenance.
It's going exponential now. May you live in interesting times.
I wish that I did not have to agree with you, NoDebt. However, there are no good grounds to dispute the social facts that the "sheep have been well trained."
Although I continue to do everything I can to attempt to resist that, what I can actually do amounts to practically nothing. The basic social facts are that more than 99% of the general public are always acting like incompetent political idiots, while the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites win the elections ... After enough people discover that they have elected professional hypocrites, they then tend to still elect the next crop of fresh political hypocrites to replace the old ones.
You wrote the truth there. The advice is to make oneself needed and not to rely on anyone. Could be as easy as being the best fucking salesman for your company or the best doctor in your town.
Oh yeah, avoid fucking losers whether they are strangers, family or friends. Let them be somebody elses baggage.
I read the richest man in Babylon. It has good advice about taking care of losers. Particularly those you care about. Find a way to help them without taking on thier problems. Dont lend money, cosign for loans, refer for a job if they suck, etc.
A loser is a loser. It took me awhile to accept that. If the loser changes it usually is a result of their own actions.
An emphasis on relationships, even if they are disadvantageous, is common in collectivist cultures like Japan or Serbia, Italy etc.
The CHILDREN of the middle class caused the Elite no end of trouble from 1966-1976; And that demographic was huge;
THEY want to destroy the middle class for this reason alone.
Unions created the middle class in America and set the standard for the world. Unions were created via The Strike. The elite created a People Bubble, rewarding out of wed birth and making having a child a career for directionless young girls.
Violent revolution throughout the West and the complete elimination of the One Percent is another possible outcome.
Cognitive Dissonance is a Washington insider rousing the rabble. I don't get it. Then, at his website, there's that picture behind his head of Jefferson with the masonic hidden hand. Seems like that might be the key to understanding PCR. They always drop hints. That way they can always say they warned you. What is it he is not saying that's also true?
I doubt, therefore I don't exist.
Yes. Everything that PCR says is right on...except when he talks about the BRICS not being a part of it. It's what he *doesn't* say - e.g. the BRICS are part of the scam - that scares me shitless.
BRICS are part of the scam - that scares me shitless.
If one takes a step back that is the only reasonable conclusion.
At the time of Jefferson, Cabala had not fully infiltrated Masonic lodges. By the time of French revolution - yes.
The lodges were still in transition during this period. It was a period of ferment. Some of the lodges had transitioned, some not.
Look at it this way, Jefferson and his ideas are against hidden pyramids of power. He was for small local communities being enfranchised and having their own local government.
Freemasonry was well established at the time of Jefferson. In fact there is even a famous painting of George Washington wearing the apron. Ben Franklin was also a freemason. It is not certain that Jefferson was one, but in any case he was close. He wrote a tract in which he claimed to be adopting Christian ethics without all the mysticism and miracles or theology of the Christian religion, something very close to Masonic beliefs. The result is not far from the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity of the masons, or the Noahide laws for that matter. Can you explain PCR's portrait of Jefferson with the hidden hand? Surely Jefferson understood the gesture to be Masonic. Even the current Pope displays the hidden hand and the freemasons were delighted when he ousted, er, replaced Benedict XVI.
edit I can't find anything on PCR as a freemason himself using Google. However, I can't find anything where he addresses masonry as an issue, either.
The land of the free is a fascist, police state masquerading as a democracy. And the press, completely owned by the CIA, does a fine job of covering that up. If you don't know you are a serf, you have the makings of a very good serf. Not only is the government your master, the food and the water that you consume are toxic:
Who rules America?
The secret collaboration of the military, the intelligence and national security agencies, and gigantic corporations in the systematic and illegal surveillance of the American people reveals the true wielders of power in the United States. Telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, and Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter, provide the military and the FBI and CIA with access to data on hundreds of millions of people that these state agencies have no legal right to possess.
Congress and both of the major political parties serve as rubber stamps for the confluence of the military, the intelligence apparatus and Wall Street that really runs the country. The so-called “Fourth Estate”—the mass media—functions shamelessly as an arm of this ruling troika.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/10/pers-j10.html
Snowden's documents revealed that the NSA spies on everyone:
The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”
The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html
GMO foods are toxic as is fluoride
Study Shows Dramatic Correlation Between GMOs And 22 Diseases
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/study-shows-dramatic-correlation...
50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION
http://fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director
Great post, but I don't totally agree it's a multi-headed snake. If we could eliminate the funding head (the central banks and those who own them), the MIC, CIA and current political teams as they exist would shrivel up like the witch in Wizard of Oz because they would need to actually garner direct support from the People to continue their existence. But it's all academic. There is zero chance that Western populations will rise up and take back what the oligarchs stole from them. They will continue to blame everyone else the fourth estate or some political science book or fiction novel tells them to blame.
or more likely they will interpret it as god's will.
I remember talking to my realtor in California (on the way to see a house for sale) about Snowdon, spying etc. She agreed it was terrible but she said since she was christian, she believed god would take care of everything.
The Concept that everyone in power, wealth or influence is being spied on by a global criminal cabal, was the core concept in the latest Bond film: SPECTER.
If donald trump makes me secretary of the treasury I don't have to pay off my tax bills. The right honorable senators are cool with that.
Also know every programming language that Turbo Tax ® could every dream of writing in.
PCR, I disagree even if only about the level and direction.
In my opinion -and if I don't mix up details-, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 that put derivatives before other claims such as bond holders (even retroactively I believe which would make it illegal in my opinion) was the first outrageous act (known to me) that completely undermined or even turned on its head the existing rule of law.
It went all downhill from there.
TPP/TAP are only the latest incarnations in the continuing push to remove the last shards of accountability from the ruling elite.
It means that the ONLY way out is what he now seems to be via an American or French style revolution. Hmmm...
Why is PCR allowed to live? Are the CIA thugs just laughing at his rants because they own all the media now, here and in europe?
Perhaps they know PCR has only a few ZH cranks like me taking him seriously!
In the grand scheme of things ZH has zero appeal. What the fuck do they care? Law of large numbers dictate that a small part of the population will be hip to the con. Every tried explaining the con to at a dinner party or any other forum. Exactly.
Yeah, your answer is better than mine below. He exists on the margins. They don't care.
They do not even have to rub our noses in it. They can just watch us running around and barking with their shit on our faces. I am sure they get a chuckle out of all our bravado.
That's a good question. I sometimes think he has recently ratcheted up his rhetoric precisely to make it that much more obvious if he's knocked off as a means of self-preservation. Some of his recent articles have pulled no punches.
...and ZH posted these articles on the main page.
Why? Because he peddles nothing but frothing outrage devoid of any concrete solutions.
Are the CIA thugs laughing? No, just quietly taking notes of the incredibly stupid and incriminating statements posted by various ZHers busily twisting their own ropes. Much better to have all the kooks in one easy-to-monitor place than scattered about everywhere. Think of ZH as the domestic equivalent of ISIS. Get everyone together in one place where they can be properly guided until the time comes to dispose of them.
Re: Think of ZH as the domestic equivalent of ISIS.
Only an idiot does not know that ISIS was founded and funded by America:
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
USA, Turkey and Israel Act As Air Force for ISIS
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/usa-turkey-and-israel-act-as-air-...
The US arming of ISIS
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/03/pers-j03.html
Poll shows 81 percent of Syrians believe US created ISIS
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/18/isis-s18.html
Personally, me being the idiot you speak of, I know no such thing.
My SUSPICION is that ISIS was a native insurgency that was later subverted by the West (not just the US) and turned to its own purposes-- ones that the rank-and-file members of the group would be shocked to discover.
But that does not decrease my admiration for the move in any way. It's simply brilliant. Rather than putting boots on the ground, we control the leadership cadre of the organization and turn it away from trying to kill us and instead trying to kill someone that the West (particularly gas-hungry Europe and cash-strapped Arabians) wants out of the way.
Now, as an additional bonus, the Western globalists get to suck Russian regulars into the cauldron, where they have to duke it out with a legion composed of cheap, disposable native levies and koo-koo western volunteers that the nation-states want dead but can't admit that they want them dead. War doesn't get any cheaper than this. Ever.
Evil? Sure. Cynical? Sure. But, from a cold-blooded military perspective, devastatingly effective. Sun Tzu, strategic poseur and peddler of simplistic platitudes that he is/was, would be speechless with admiration.
Yes but it remains a dangerous game. It would not be the first time in history that a group of 'useful idiots' became uncontrollable and that the beast came back to bite opening up a new Pandora box.
For sure some ZH are on file and for sure there are trolls here stirring up the water to see who will surface.
Yes, I have often thought that ZH could well be used as a collecting vessel for those with unwelcome ideas. Mine is this: I did not vote for this type of 'leadership', a leadership that has led us by the nose.
We are to vote, but what our representatives legislate does not matter, because the corporations can easily overturn any decision. I used to be a conformist and always thought that 'the system' is generally well-meaning. And then I grew up. Some people speak of a revolution, but that will be a long time off. The system has shortchanged many in recent years, but not enough yet. Since the system is designed to shortchange many more, the point will come when some (so far unknown) reaction will occur. This can only be averted by WWIII, and they're working on it.
Tarabel - You missed the point of the article. Everyone is on the list buddy. The people I see getting offed openly declare they are at war with the government. Stupid. This is an empire. The solution is get out of the way of elephants dancing when your an ant.
I like this place because at times there are solutions to avoid getting robbed. And note what TPP does. Some lawyers for big corporations sue. I have a little fund to either sue or if I am sued. That is how you fight back, no need to get yourself killed in a bigger evolution process of a pyramid design.
The empire is hungry for your taxes and all americans are now extremists. Therefore it is not a literal shot to the head to be concerned about but how to avoid draconian taxation and cost pushing from everyone else dealing with it.
There is a time to speak freely and a time to hush up, especially during major military conflict.
And not everybody in intelligence tows the line in current strategy. When your competitors for energy know what it is and can now counter it, it is not brilliant to keep doing it but assanine. Misdirection is not so easy in the Internet age. Even cabbies know what is going on and wonder why continue proxy strategy. These people love America and want there families over here.
There some influental people that read this site and more that which influence them. I have found I can help a little with information and at the local level physically. That is enough as far as I am concerned. It is organized labor that tends to make things change. A group of truckers could park there trucks in Washington and shut the entire city down. That is the kind of action I expect to see at some point in the next several years. Oh yeah that and some nukes raininh down on population centers. That is what PCR seems to be worried about the most and he should be.
i dunno- i still think you are more suited to baking cookies and making cottage cheese bunnies right out of Family Circle for the dinner table-and using Lemon pledge all over the house.
Dreadnaught - You 'dunno' is correct and better
Jack Burton, I agreed with the other answers already posted to your question. As George Carlin said: "It is a big club and you and I are not in it." Collectively, the international banksters are a group of trillionaire mass murderers. There is nobody else in their league, since there is nobody else that can ALREADY create trillions of dollars out of nothing.
In my view, the most important point made in the article was:
The fundamental mechanisms driving these vicious spirals are POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS. So what IF some fringe individuals learn more about the bankster controlled governments? Those individuals can NOT enter into any meaningful competition with the established systems, unless they have billions of their own money to blow to participate in the political processes ... (IF they have billions of their own money to play with, then there are no solid grounds upon which to base any expectations that they will promote any real, radical, revolutionary changes.)
The most important aspect of the development of paper frauds backed by gunpowder weapons, becoming electronic frauds backed by atomic weapons, is that NOBODY CONTROLS THOSE ANYMORE! Sure, the international banksters made and maintained the established, entrenched systems. However, they do NOT fully understand what they have created. There are NO groups of human beings that fully understand systems of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs becoming trillions of times BIGGER than anything that ever existed before in human history.
The entrenched, established systems can not be overthrown by anybody situated inside of those systems. However, those systems themselves can still suffer from the paradoxes of final failure from too much success. Civilization was already necessarily controlled by applications of the principles and methods of organized crime. However, progress in physical science has transformed the excessive successfulness of the established systems of governments ENFORCING FRAUDS by privately controlled banks into runaway criminal insanities.
There are no genuine opposition groups within the established systems that can compete with the trillionaire mass murderers, who are the pyramidion people, the best organized gangsters, the banksters, who effectively control the biggest form of organized crime, the governments, within the social pyramid systems, which have been growing at an exponential rate for thousands of years. HOWEVER, those ruling classes are suffering from Mad Sheeple Disease too. The ruling classes have become psychotic psychopaths. Of course, one could rightly assert that they were probably always more or less psychopaths, however, there were not so extremely psychotic until relatively recently.
The relationships between natural selection and artificial selection are quite hyper-complicated. However, an over-simplified view is that the established systems' own MADNESS is what will drive their self-destruction, at which point there will arise some opportunities for real, radical revolutions, not because the revolutionaries themselves were in any sufficient ways able to make that happen, but rather, that the degree to which the ruling classes became psychotic caused enough of their own self-destruction to open up niches for revolutionary events to emerge. Furthermore, I believe that the only ways that such revolutions could succeed, rather than be merely rebellions that were crushed, is IF enough of the ruling classes become desperate enough to join those revolutions. Until that happened to some significant degree, then the controlled opposition groups will still tend to be useless and accomplish nothing significant.
In my own little life, I continue to prove how that manifests every day, as I have for the past few decades. My current efforts are through Canadian Electoral District Associations in order to try to take advantage of the Canadian Political Contribution Tax Credit. The history of doing that demonstrated the degree to which the long game of politics is ridiculously rigged. The people who won the previous season can unilaterally change the rules, and appoint and pay the referees for the next season, and they have been doing that over and over again, for a long time, so that the political games are ridiculously rigged. One is forced to play in a game where the dominate team can both usually cheat to win, and/or change the rules of that game in order to keep on winning.
"Truth" makes no difference to systems based on backing up lies with violence. The established systems only care about "the truth" to the degree that would enable them to become better at ENFORCING FRAUDS. However, their own excessive successfulness is their own worst enemy, because they automatically become more and more psychotic, in the sense of less and less connected to relatively objective realities. The Re-Enserfment of Western Peoples is primarily being driven by the ways that governments ENFORCE FRAUDS by privately controlled banks. That fraud is symbolic robbery. Within that context, the vast majority of people are Zombie Sheeple being fleeced to exhaustion, while they are being set up to be slaughtered. Their Re-Enserfement is due to the excessive successfulness of the application of the methods of organized crime through the political processes, along with the related ways that most people have been deliberately dumbed-down, and conditioned to not want to understand what is really happening to them, which process of Re-Enserfement is also greatly aided and abetted by the ways that the ruling classes have also been able to control the opposition, so that there is practically no genuine opposition which is publicly significant.
The trends towards NeoFeudalism depend upon social pyramid systems being able to continue to back up legalized lies with legalized violence. Within that context, those systems do NOT have to care much about relatively tiny minorities that come to better understand those political processes. That is especially the case because the banksters and their buddies can relatively easily use their power to dominate the funding of the political processes, enough to make sure that the only publicly significant opposition is also controlled, (especially since most mainstream morons and reactionary revolutionaries will not be willing and able to see that they are controlled opposition.)
To the degree that there still is some of the values of the freedom of expression that some of our ancestors fought to establish, the established systems to NOT have to care, as long as they can continue to drown out any expressions of more "radical truths," especially since such "truths" continue to make no practical difference to systems based upon backing up lies with violence. Ironically, one of the "radical truths" is that "the truth" does not make any difference to systems based upon backing up lies with violence, since the only things that those systems actually care about is being able to continue to back up bigger lies with more violence.
HOWEVER, CLEARLY THE VICIOUS SPIRALS OF POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS ARE SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL, SINCE BEING ABLE TO ENFORCE FRAUDS NEVER STOPS THOSE FRAUDS FROM STILL BEING FALSE, BUT RATHER, ONLY RESULTS IN SOCIETY AS A WHOLE BECOMING MORE PSYCHOTIC, WITH THE RULING CLASSES BECOMING WORSE AND WORSE PSYCHOTIC PSYCHOPATHS.
My basic opinion is that the only thing we can really do is wait and watch, as the established systems become worse manifestations of runaway criminal insanities. Meanwhile, pointing that out is not going to make any difference to that, which is why people are allowed to do so, in ways which are not going to make any difference. Indeed, freedom of speech could be summarized as the freedom to say anything that will not make any material difference.
Anyway, Jack Burton, I believe that you already answered your own question correctly. But nevertheless, I continue to think that globalized systems of electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force from apes with atomic bombs, are NOT sufficiently comprehended by those monkeys and apes, to the degree that they actually could continue to be controlling what is happening. Rather, my view is that the ruling classes have become increasingly psychotic psychopaths, while those they rule over share in that MADNESS, since civilization as a whole has become runaway criminal insanities, due to its paradoxically becoming based upon the excessive successfulness of organized crime.
That is the context in which I continue to promote the notions that "we" need series of intellectual scientific revolutions. However, I do NOT see much of that presented in the articles republished on Zero Hedge, while none whatsoever in the more mainstream mass media. Rather, the problem with presenting the political processes as some return to the past, taking the form of Re-Enserfment within NeoFeudalism, is that does NOT account for the technologies doing that becoming trillions of times more powerful and capable than in those previous periods of human history.
Theoretically speaking, coming to terms with globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, OUGHT to be based upon understanding the profound paradigm shifts in the physical sciences that enabled those technologies to work. Theoretically speaking, that way of thinking, that enabled the development of ideas like quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity, ought then be the ways of thinking that are applied to political science. However, instead, the Grand Canyon Chasms between electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, being thought about in terms of comparisons to the Roman Empire, or the Middle Ages, tend to be far more common.
At the present time, Paul Craig Roberts is "allowed to live" because he is no threat to the established systems. Moreover, nobody else is either. Rather, the only significant threat to the established systems are themselves, due to their own increasingly psychotic paradoxes of becoming excessively successful in controlling civilization by backing up lies with violence, which sort of social success never stops those lies from still being false, despite those systems of ENFORCING FRAUDS continuing to control people's lives.
Anyone who still thinks that the world of electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs can be directly compared to the world of paper frauds backed by gunpowder weapons, is NOT fully facing the facts, regarding the degree to which the established systems based upon being able to back up lies with violence have become runaway criminal insanities. The paradoxes of civilization based upon backing up lies with violence have been amplified to astronomical sizes by progress in physical science, while political science has, so far, done nothing to deal with that, since political science tends to continue to be so totally dominated by professional hypocrites, in the same ways as all other sociopolitical institutions are.
Of course, the FIRST GENERATION that grew up with electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, is STILL ALIVE TODAY, and most just cruising on autopilot, due to the inertia of social habits, no matter how morbid those social habits have become. Generally speaking, we are NOT actually headed towards Re-Enserfment within some NeoFeudalism, because the Middle Ages did NOT have globalized electronic frauds backed by atomic bombs.
Since the vast majority of people continue to think in terms of false fundamental dichotomies, and therefore, promote "solutions" based upon impossible ideals, that kind of controlled opposition is not presenting any significant threat to the established systems. The ONLY significant threat to the established systems is their own increasingly psychotic failures to change to adapt to what they have already done, which is develop their systems of electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs. In those regards, the controlled opposition groups are just as much a part of the problem as the established systems are!
Paul Craig Roberts concludes with the presentation of the false fundamental dichotomy:
Actually, the only choices are with respect to different death control systems, with the human murder systems as the most extreme form of those. Any real, radical, revolution is necessarily a change in the death control systems. The main point of any intellectual scientific revolutions would be to profoundly change the paradigms through which we perceived the death control systems, in order to be able to operate radically different death control systems.
The current systems of debt slavery are generating numbers which have become debt insanities, which are going to provoke death insanities. For the vast majority of the Zombie Sheeple, it indeed looks like they will be mass murder, because the most probable "solutions" to the problems will be those devised by the psychotic psychopathic ruling classes. However, to promote the false fundamental dichotomy of "revolution or death" is bogus. That is a dead-end sterile approach.
In my view, that is why Paul Craig Roberts is no significant threat to the established systems, because he is a form of controlled opposition, because he continues to think using false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals. Real, radical revolution would change the ways that money is measurement backed by murder. Such revolution would change the death controls that back up the debt controls. That is NOT a black versus white problem, but rather, a technicolour problem!
Rad - I always appreciate the deeper understanding and thought process involved in your posts. I agree that PCR presents a false dichotomy. The ral revolution that would work if catches on and gains critical mass would be for those of us aware of the con to stop using their fiat and stop funding their wars on humanity (taxes). TPP is another tax that we don't have to pay. I am free to trade with my neighbor and avoid TPP sanctioned goods.
Perhaps they know PCR is a doddering old fool who is totally clueless. He was a useful idiot when he worked for the PTB and he still is. "This is a democracy, not a plutocracy." What kind of nonsense is that? We have a system of corporate control of government, commonly known as fascism.
Awaiting the Great Reset. No hope, no trust left.
Say good night, Irene - but keep a candle in the window.
PCR is right on as usual. Like "Free" Trade wasn’t a giant enough sucking sound, now we are going to suck the nuts off the world too with TPP! Lets spread our misery to all! They are going to love us! WOO WHOO! Is this really America? Home of the BRAVE??? Bunch of pussy politicians and bankers going to whip your ass with cash! Sorry excuses if the people let this happen I have to pick a new country because you stupid fuckers deserve it! Stand up for yourselves for Christ sakes, dont let a bunch of pin striped pussies whip your ass? This is a real American calling any American out there? Are there any real Americans out there? CAN YOU HEAR ME? ARE YOU OUT THERE? NO RESPONSE? I cant believe that one American would allow TPP to pass, its so UN-AMERICAN in its nature. Countries will blame us for the deeds of the greedy dickheads that we arent paying attention to.
Serfs had rights and redress in court. The American Landless Peasant does not.
Things are worse than the even the doomsayers describe.
It is quite conceivable that the modern age – which began with such an unprecedented and promising outburst of energy – may end in the deadliest, most sterile passivity history has ever known.
from The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert Lane
I bet a campaign to end tyranny in the US would gain some traction.
I stopped reading after "contact your representatives."
I stopped reading after "offshoring of jobs." This guy doesn't even understand the benefits of specialization of labor and trade.
Pent.....up......rage.
Anyone else ready to "purge" it?
Obama's change.
Serf's up, brahs!
We'll all be living in "serf city" before we know it. It's the attack of the Killer Algorithms which none of us have the code and models to battle against.
You mentioned Monsanto, well the United Healthcare CEO sits on the board of Cargill, Monsanto's evil twin brother, one example.
To all pessimists present. Change is afoot. Be patient. Some of these ops have been in progress since Dec. 1981. Yes, it does take that long for measurable results. But results are coming into view ..
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/07/has-the-pentagon-gone-rogue/
https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp (Read Me First)
"Violent revolution throughout the West and the complete elimination of the One Percent is another possible outcome."
Only if the zombies jabbing their dead "smart" phones catch a whiff of zero 1% fresh meat in the neighborhood. Wouldn't hold my breath in the meantime.
Far, far too late for any changes. People have sold their rights and souls for bigger screen tv's and mobile phones. I hope they find it to be worthwhile.
It's not over until the US citizens have been disarmed. Pulling grown men off their land to free it up to nature is going to take more than a court order. Largest army on earth is on US soil. And they all know each other from gun shows. Get back under the bed.
The right wing hero, Adam Smith, recognised the dignity of labour and the idleness of the rich.
Most classical economists differentiated between earned and unearned wealth.
Adam Smith:
“The Labour and time of the poor is in civilised countries sacrificed to the maintaining of the rich in ease and luxury. The Landlord is maintained in idleness and luxury by the labour of his tenants. The moneyed man is supported by his extractions from the industrious merchant and the needy who are obliged to support him in ease by a return for the use of his money. But every savage has the full fruits of his own labours; there are no landlords, no usurers and no tax gatherers.”
Bankers and landlords are parasites that should be taxed for Government spending, earned wealth should be kept. Bankers create the money out of nothing in the first place, there is not going to be a lot of earned wealth there with 80% of it going into real estate, asset price inflation.
Income tax only started one hundred years ago on a permanent basis, before that the parasites were taxed.
In fact, all rentier activity is detrimental to the productive parts of the economy, siphoning off prospective purchasing power to those that like to sit on their behinds.
If we were still able to recognise the difference between earned and unearned wealth we might realise that encouraging rising prices of stuff that exists already is not very productive, e.g. housing booms.
Same houses, higher prices, higher mortgages and rents, less purchasing power.
As the rentier economy booms, rents and interest repayments on debt escalate and purchasing power goes down leading to the current debt, deflation.
We need to re-learn the distinction between earned wealth and unearned wealth.
The productive side of the economy and the unproductive, rentier side.
This is what the uni.bummer meant in his monte cristo which was riddled with craziness and also truths.
It's the technology. RM put it well although I think most on here suffer from doomish bents because that's kind of how you have to be wired to see this stuff and exit the matrix in the first place.
Humans haven't changed in thousands of years but our toys have. That's the key the ability to exert control over other people is what is exponentially increasing.
The psycho's as usual were WAY ahead of everyone because the toys just kept comming and kept comming it's like candy land for the worst of humanity.
Think about it, unlimited printed money meets technology to the point you can now move the entire worldwide human herd in any direction you want and if they won't go you can clean up the pockets of resistence as they are taking a crap in the morning because you know when they crap etc etc etc.
People buy eggs from tortured chickens, eat meat that has been tortured and poisened, they want control over food, money, air, they want it ALL.
History shows that type of behavior as RM said is it's own downfall as it becomes reckless and arrogant.
This is what the uni.bummer meant in his monte cristo which was riddled with craziness and also truths.
It's the technology. RM put it well although I think most on here suffer from doomish bents because that's kind of how you have to be wired to see this stuff and exit the matrix in the first place.
Humans haven't changed in thousands of years but our toys have. That's the key the ability to exert control over other people is what is exponentially increasing.
The psycho's as usual were WAY ahead of everyone because the toys just kept comming and kept comming it's like candy land for the worst of humanity.
Think about it, unlimited printed money meets technology to the point you can now move the entire worldwide human herd in any direction you want and if they won't go you can clean up the pockets of resistence as they are taking a crap in the morning because you know when they crap etc etc etc.
People buy eggs from tortured chickens, eat meat that has been tortured and poisened, they want control over food, money, air, they want it ALL.
History shows that type of behavior as RM said is it's own downfall as it becomes reckless and arrogant.
PCR is loaded with cash.....why doesn't he put out a hit or two on the tyrants? All talk no action, just like all Americans.
What is it about you that you would expect so much from a man already delivering a vital message, as vital as "The British are Coming" while undoubtedly sitting in your underwear eating a bowl of cereal? The apparatus built up around us is a vice grip. The sentiments such as yours, "oh just give up, it's too late." Trump and Sanders' crowds say otherwise. Change is just an election away. TPP is the real problem at this juncture. War may be required to break that contract, and the military is a beaten horse run by loose cannons going into Over Draft.