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The Deep State & The War On Cash
Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),
An Attention-Grabbing Headline
“The first shot in the War on Cash?”
The headline caught our attention. We’d just finished researching and writing about the “Deep State” for the latest issue of our monthly publication, The Bill Bonner Letter.
This is something you’re likely to hear more about. The Deep State describes the way the U.S. government really works, rather than the way it’s supposed to work.
Over the years – hardly noticed by the press or the public – a group of insiders has taken control of Washington.
Originally the term “Deep State” was coined to describe various anti-democratic coalitions within the political system of Turkey (Turkish: derin devlet). In them meantime the term is widely used to describe all types of “state-within-the-state” type arrangements, the real power behind the throne, so to speak.
Some of them are familiar government hacks and politicians. Some, largely anonymous, are in the private sector. And some represent foreign governments, foreign businesses (notably banks), and foreign organizations.
These zombies and cronies – who number in the thousands – have much more power and authority than 100 million voters. Research shows that if they want legislation, they get it.
Voters, on the other hand, get what they want only rarely… and probably only because the insiders want the same thing. The insiders get the money, too. The tens of trillions of dollars diverted into boondoggle bailouts, QE, and ZIRP, for example – they had to go to someone.
And now the Deep State is setting itself up to get even more…
Now you know why it had such large eyes and such big teeth …
Two Kinds of “Cash”
Dr. Matthew Partridge in our London office reports for Money Week magazine that a small Swiss bank has become the first retail bank in the world to charge customers negative interest on their deposits.
A number of central banks – including the Swiss National Bank – have already taken benchmark interest rates below zero. But, beginning next year, Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS) will be the world’s first bank to pass those negative rates on to customers.
Alternative Bank Schweiz is a so-called “sustainable” bank that tries to save the planet by funding all sorts of “green” and “ethical” investments. The “ethical investment” fad is in our opinion largely based on exploiting people’s gullibility (the same principle is at work in expensive bottled water and many “bio food” items). This is not meant to cast aspersions on ABS specifically, since there exist of course also organizations and individuals in this field who are genuinely trying to do good. We are instinctively wary of do-gooders and world improvers though, as they usually either strive to enlist the coercive power of the State or thrive on exploiting the innate guilt of first world populations (guilt over having it better than others and allegedly destroying the planet in the process).
In a letter to its customers, ABS said it would charge account holders 0.125% a year to hold their “cash” deposits to protect its profit margins. And anyone with 100,000 Swiss francs ($97,316) or more on deposit will have to pay 0.75% a year. Let’s stop here for a moment and clarify…
There are “cash deposits” and there is “cash.” Cash deposits are an oxymoron. If you say you have cash in the bank, you are mistaken. The bank doesn’t really hold “your” cash. It owes you money. If it goes broke, you’ll stand in line with other creditors to get it (subject to whatever guarantees may be in place… and however well they may work).
Cash in hand is different. It is physical. Paper. You can do what you want with it. And you don’t pay a negative interest rate. Which is why the feds want to ban cash. They say it will make it easier for them to stimulate the economy.
As long as you can hold physical cash, you have an easy way to escape negative interest rates: You just take the money out of the bank and put it in your home safe. But if physical cash is illegal, you have no choice. You have to keep “your money” on deposit at the bank… and take whatever negative rate the bank imposes on you.
Sheer insanity: the Swiss National Bank has set three month LIBOR at an average of minus 75 basis points.
Total Control
Of course, the idea that taking away your money will stimulate economic growth is ridiculous. As former banker, hedge fund manager, and expert on the fiat money system Warren Mosler recently told Bonner & Partners Investor Network subscribers:
“First, central bankers have got the interest rate thing backward. They think lowering rates will somehow stimulate the economy.
But negative interest rates are just a tax. You start off with a certain amount of money – say, $100. If the rate is negative 1%, then you have $99 at the end of a year.
Isn’t there some theory that says when people’s money goes away, and they have less, they spend less?”
If negative rates don’t really encourage spending, why bother? This brings us to the real danger of banning cash… and perhaps the real reason the feds want to do it – more control.
Reports William N. Griggs at The Free Thought Project under the headline “Drone Pilots have Bank Accounts and Credit Cards Frozen by Feds for Exposing U.S. Murder”:
“For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for the indiscriminate murder that it is, four vets are under attack from the government they once served.
The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now, four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack.
‘My drone operators went public this week and now their credit cards and bank accounts are frozen,’ Radack lamented on her Twitter feed. This was done despite the fact that none of them has been charged with a criminal offense – but this is a trivial formality in the increasingly Sovietesque American National Security State.”
The four former drone pilots and whistle-blowers whose electronic financial life was simply erased as punishment for their audacity to inform the public about the murderous practices of the drone program. No court order or indictment was required – the State simply flipped a switch, depriving them of the means to defend themselves. Land of the Free, indeed.
If we are forced to keep our money in the bank... and cash is outlawed... the Deep State will have total economic control over us all.
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per my interactions at banks.. you have to submit ID to deposte even 1 penny into a US bank account at TBTF banks..
Leave the plantation
great piece...more from this dude please, TD.
okay, i took two full days off this week so i could write on one of them (the janus family got the other). i have to scoot off and collect some FRNs here shortly, but before i do -- and in contrast to my mostly serious and somber tone -- it is meet that i close this day's efforts with a bit of humor.
ever heard the one about the wolf that kept culling the sheep long after he was warned off? he was shot in the face by the shepherd. it was a bloody and horrific mess to begin with; but then the shepherd sought to punctuate the effort. he tracked down the wolf's wife and children, his brothers, mother, sisters and father -- all of them, shot square in face, their pelts striped and skinned...guts strewn about the forest. all those cute little wolf pups slaughtered under the noon-day sun along with all their kin.
now that's funny. best joke i've written in months.
ho-ho-ho,
janus
It's time for your medication. And, don't quit your day job.
The DEEP STATE and their favorite Presidential candidate> >> http://bit.ly/1Lf4bku
you put up with that shit - pathetic
Not trying to contradict, but isn't that how they get the right account to put your deposit in? I get it, though, I need just a bank card at one bank for a withdrawl, but at another, i need 3 pieces ID.
Slaves have no right to own money. Possession of cash and gold, will be equated to terrorism.
By the way, who is building FEMA camps in the US - Democrats or Republicans?
Which of these two branches of the decorative power in the US is behind the decision on the construction of FEMA camps?
Long Bank of Serta, Sealy & Posturepedic
Also, long PM and Crypto-Currencies -- as some form of currency (Cash, PM or Crypto) will have just the right situation for its usage.
I call is Finacial Resiliency: The fine and crafty art of currency independence in a Parallel Economy.
I'm holding off on cryptocurrencies for the time being. I am convinced that TPTB will not allow any of these to propagate if they are not compromised. I am guessing that any really valid cyrptocurrencies will appear after the chaos begins.
Just sayin'
Spoctor Din
That's fair, but may want to dabble in bitcoin to get accustomed to its correct use and basic principles. There is a learning curve to cryptocurrency use and better to be along it than ignorant.
Bitcoin is beta-technology that happens to be so functional it's in production use anyway. Doesn't mean it has all the bases covered. Pseudonymity is weak tea in the face of government scrutiny.
Bitcoin v2.0 or whatever cryptocurrency succeeds the current Bitcoin incarnation will likely be the category killer to jump into with both feet.
I agree completely. Any suggestions on a good primer?
Thanks,
Spoctor Din
The technology can be used to manage a local currency and setup any sort of system you could imagine. I just read "MÀstering Bit Coin" The mining part seems wastful to me but for a local system it could be managed.
To be honest, I use (buy & use) cryto for transactions only, not as a Store of Value. And only occasionaly. Not so much to evade TPTB (as my lifestyle is too vanilla), but to keep my privacy from other prying eyes.
I use a fundamental principle that my McGill-MBA, BFF Phil said: "If you live long enough, no matter what you do, if you have a nice pile of Change/Wealth, sooner or later the Gov, an Ex or some lawyer will come after you and your ass/assets" No truer words were ever spoken. That is why I like the FLEXIBILITY of being able to use whatever financial VEHICLE that suits the situation and timing, rather than any fundamental dogma on my part. It is purely for defensive/privacy use against slimebags and potential opportunists, or the occasional careerist Gov-asshole w/o soul or character. Cheers.
p.s. I still like the Habs. Eh. Sorry, Maple Laughs. BTW, I've had quite a bit of bubbly, as it's a good friend's B-Day. [hick]
That's interesting...though there's only one thing I remember from my Finance course in university back in the day:
"Near money is dear money."
Our professor used to say that all the time. It's amazing how it works almost any situation, regardless of time, people, type of money etc involved. In fact, I think that even if that is the only thing I remember from that course, that particular professor taught us VERY well.
Long scuba gear, for swimming on the bottom of the lake. And a metal detector you can use in the water.
My drone operators went public this week and now their credit cards and bank accounts are frozen
It's the land of the free - a fascist, police state masquerading as a democracy.
huh?
Are they allowed to speak publicly of their missions? Did they sign non-disclosure agreements?
Or are they pulling a Snowden but somehow believed they are immune to repercussions simply becasue there are 4 of them?
"Are they allowed to speak publicly of their missions? Did they sign non-disclosure agreements? "
Good point. Non-disclosure agreements are legally binding agreements.
You don't see the Bush, Clinton, Obama, and the members of Congress violating their non-disclosure agreements with the Khazarati banksters, corporate welfare whores and foreign governments they work for do you?
Didn't think so...
There is no legally bidning agreement that prevents one from reporting, or exposing, a crime. That is an idiotic idea.
In THIS day of age? That was suppressed post 911. Get over it.
Is a non-disclosure agreement binding for illegal acts - Don't think so!
There is no legally binding agreement that prevents one from reporting, or exposing, a crime. That is an idiotic idea.
If those 4 knew they were commiting crimes, why didn't they simply refuse to launch their missiles? Like you said, they are free to refuse an illegal order.
They have not been charged with a crime. Why should their accounts be frozen?
anopheles, you're a piece of shit.
they have a moral duty to let people know that the airforce is murdering innocent children, to hell with any NDAs.
if everyone were a worthless, cringing coward like yourself who used legal bullshit get in the way of doing the right thing, the totalitarian state would be complete.
i wouldn't exactly call them heroes because of what they did in the past, but at least they have come to terms with what they were doing and took a courageous stance, that is heroic.
Without traveling money, these drone pilots are sitting ducks for Obama's Skynet killers.
They have the backing of our public for the eternal fight for these freedoms...
At what point does our ignorant masses draw the line between fighting for freedom and war crimes?
@justobserving
The police are free to do pretty much whatever they damned well please...and,
they still protect and serve... ...the State.
Be patient, the time has not yet come,,,
Spoctor Din
We are being systematically attacked on many fronts. the plan is clearly laid out in the UN agenda 2030 document......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/road-to-ww3-time-to...
Noplebian, interesting link there. The solution to all of these goals is the same. Reduce the global population to 40% of it's current level. That is the ultimate goal of the Dark State...
Spoctor Din
Very concerning thought, but leave it to them and they'll achieve the ultimate control. The great thing though is that the American black markets will be expanded by leaps and bounds. Fuck this bullshit.
Exactly. Since the majority continues to believe in and rally behind government authority and power even as it is blatantly turned against them, those who understand what's going on will just increasingly escape to black markets as soviet citizens did.
Until one gets one's account frozen, or is asked where one's money came from that one is attempting to deposit into one's "savings" account, regardless that the teller may have known oneself for years, and one has banked at that particular bank for decades; few to no one is really going to pay attention to the signs all around them.
I did not have my account frozen, but I was asked that particular question, and since then, the flow has only been in one direction from that particular financial institution for one would be fucking nuts to stay there.
War on cash?
Considering the $500 Euro note has surpassed the $100 bill in the drug trade, I'd say Europe has a bigger stake in this.
The article citing Switzerland is either naive or intentionally misleading. Switzerland will not banish cash anytime soon and is in fact intentionally driving money out of banks and into paper cash (CHF 1000) so as to suppress the value of CHF by decreasing demand.
Could we get an Info Graphic of the Deep state as well... you know names, pictures, house addresses, Sexual preversions and Golf Club memberships.
hang on knock at the door.
Thank you for the report on the plight of the pilots. I have deep sympathy for them. But did they not have a plan for what might happen after they spoke out. If you speak out against IBM after quitting, they might hold up your pension check and healthcare benefits.
If you were a stellar football player and decided to quit football and become a Buck Sgt in the US Army; and thereafter start speaking out; you get carried home in a body bag from Afganistan.
Go into a grocery store, load it up with stufff from all over the store and then check out. won't take cash let the cart sit and walk out. After the store has restocked the carts for the 3rd time that day, I'll bet everyone of these stores will get the message as well as the shoppers.
One week ought to do the trick. Do it at many stores evry day. Resewrve the stink "bombs" for the banks. ALL banks. Lets see how long they want to play this little game. Milestones
Why is everyone on here so adamant that a ban on physical cash would be necessary? The value of physical USDs is just as imaginary as digital USDs. Fiat is fiat IMO. TPTB could just fail (on purpose ofc) to print sufficient quantities of paper dollars as hyperinflation of prices begins. The credit card issuers with their prepaid bullshit cards can then capitalize greatly on the ignorance and stupidity of the the masses. More convenient to carry an ObamaCash card than push around a wheelbarrow full of $100s they'll say. Lazy morons will eat that line up. It'll make helicopter money and government confiscation so much easier and more efficient. Most important of all is that it can plausibly be explained as just a natural consequence of the free market. It's what the market wants, it's what people want. How can any of you crazy right-wing domestic terrorizing libertarian zerohedge readers argue with that?
Lazy is a sin only for slaves.
Nobody is lazy, just unincentivized. If people were paid for effort, rather than having The Fed on the skim with money printing and the FedGov stealing from paychecks, they would expend effort to meet needs. Instead you have even minimum wage jobs paying high tax rates with few hours, thanks to government intervention. When all avenues of self sufficiency are cut off due to lack of jobs and opportunity, people take what they can get and stop fighting for position.
If it paid $100 per piece of trash to clean the streets, the streets would be pristine and the "lazy" people would be operating sole proprietorships to handle the clean up. People are rational, not lazy. They'll pursue their own self interest.
The war on cash is actually just a single front in the war on private property.
Which means we are ALL SLAVES. Not just the black people of yester-year. ALL OF US. Some of us might have a few more freedoms than others (a slightly longer chain), but thats about it. The smartest ones don't work, they collect from the government. Government can't tax your time if you don't work. Well, I guess they can, they can drone you.....
Gruezi. How's CH? ;-)
Greutzi, Schweiz still seems sane and fine compared to the neighbors, but it's unfortunately as outrageously expensive as ever.
"Originally the term “Deep State” was coined to describe various anti-democratic coalitions within the political system of Turkey"
Peter Dale Scott originated the term "Deep State" about the actual way the US US Government works more than thirty years ago. Get real.
I live in Germany, and it's patently obvious that your bank account here is not your own, it's the bank's. I've had my account frozen and large sums simply taken. If the government think you aren't paying your taxes properly, they quite simply take what they think you probably owe and it's up to you to prove that you don't.
Today I hold only monthly expenses in my bank account, and pay everything cash.
I can confirm this. I have a branch in Belgium and this has happened to us multiple times. It's particularly fun when you have a monthly payment agreement to cover the outrageously high taxes and then they just take the money whenever they want contrary to agreement terms without letting you know. Payroll the next day? Sucks for you.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/911-is-our-dreyfus-affair/
Not 'dreyfus affair', 9/11 does not have Zola or any of the other high-level political and cultural figures supporting Dreyfus and honesty, trying to reform the system from outside.
The Israeli-Neocon control of MSM and keeping 9/11 out of public debate must be near its limit, however.
Now I am tired of this topic, I have obsessed about it all day. My mind is not one-track enough to ever make a reputation for anything.
If we are all forced to keep our money in the bank... and cash is outlawed... the Deep State will have total economic control over us all.
Yeah, for about 15 minutes, or until small irate groups and individuals decide to do irrepreable damage to our antique electrical infrastructure bringing everyone down to zero. Make cash illegal, fuckers, I dare you.
If you don't hold the bling you don't own the bling.
Interesting that Turkey started
use of the "Deep State" term.
I am not sure that is correct, but nevertheless, Byzantine now has use in the English language to refer to or characterize a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation, e.g., a Byzantine power struggle.
I will play devil's advocate, with respect to the article above, as well as most of the comments and voting patterns upon those comments which are typical of the Zero Hedge reactionary revolutionaries, who tend to attempt rear guard actions, which necessarily fail. We continue to watch the retreat turn into a rout, due to the ways that there is almost nothing but controlled opposition groups opposing the Deep State Shadow Governments, which sort of controlled opposition is primarily controlled by wanting to continue to think using the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals.
Regarding any "cashless society,"
I REPEAT some previous comments:
I have always been, and still am, in favour of global government, and totally electronic money, that will no longer allow any anonymous money. In my view, money is necessarily measurement backed by murder. What we should do is develop better murder systems to back up better money systems, within which context I am in favour of the operational definition of higher consciousness as a greater use of information. HOWEVER, the double whammy paradoxes that we currently face are that our combined money/murder systems developed to become based upon the maximum possible frauds and deceits, while, nevertheless, there still must necessarily be some combined money/murder systems.
Those who tend to promote their kind of transcendental poetry, using magical words, such as "freedom" or "liberty," tend to never bother to reconcile those concepts with the principle of the conservation of energy. Although I believe that is theoretically possible, doing so takes series of intellectual scientific revolutions. Governments are necessarily the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals. Most of the various forms of reactionary revolutionaries, or controlled opposition groups, that express their opinions on Zero Hedge, tend to be like the article immediately above, which does not approve of the currently biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, i.e., the bankster controlled governments, having more abilities to exercise the power of information against the people who are ruled over, by those who rule over them.
Indeed, controlled opposition groups love their impossible ideals. Therefore, they never provide or promote better measurements backed up by better murder systems, but rather, tend to promote no measurements, backed by no murder systems. Such impossible ideals always backfire badly, and cause the opposite to happen in the real world, since after all, those groups are controlled opposition, that stays within the frame of reference originally promoted by the biggest bullies' bullshit, which has become the banksters' bullshit.
The REAL world has become globalized electronic monkey money frauds, backed by the threat of force form apes with atomic bombs. Those, in turn, depended upon the prodigious progress in physical sciences, such as quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity, which radically transformed the concepts of time and space, (and so too, entropy) which were previously based upon the common sense experiences of extremely large numbers manifesting through the chemical energy systems of paper frauds, backed by gunpowder weapons. Electronic money has become automated electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs. However, articles like the one above do not come remotely close to facing those facts, but rather tend to continue to indulge in various old-fashioned ideas ... MEANWHILE, I repeat, I am in favour of global government, and totally electronic money, that will no longer allow any anonymous money.
What I dream about, as the best case scenario, is that through which technologically advanced civilization has survived, by developing its philosophy of science, in conjunction with its political science, enough to have been able to change and adapt to developing technologies that become many orders of magnitude more powerful and capable than those which ever existed before in known human history or evolution. Those notions are what I wish for, as the best possible political science fiction future. Therefore, those are also what I promote, and have promoted for several decades. HOWEVER, more and more I no longer expect that to happen. Rather, more and more I tend to expect that technological civilization will miserably fail to develop its philosophy of science, including its political science, enough to survive the intense paradoxes that civilization actually was driven to develop to operate through the maximum possible deceits and frauds, and therefore, civilization has become runaway criminal insanities, which will result in committing collective suicide, in one way or another, sooner or later ...
My wishes and day dreams are for human beings to survive developing science and technologies which are many orders of magnitude more powerful and capable. HOWEVER, there are no good grounds to expect that to happen, given the degree to which civilization is now being controlled by the best professional hypocrites, because the majority of people have been brainwashed to want to believe in that kind of bullshit. Meanwhile, since is NOT possible to put the scientific and technologies genies back in their bottles, we are STUCK with the existence of things like electronics and atomic energy, which are currently being applied through the established social systems based upon enforcing frauds.
Our evolutionary history has included exponential progress in physical science, and therefore, we are going to be forced, one way or another, sooner or later, to change to adapt to having already done that, and therefore, have already got globalized electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs, as well as an abundance of other advancing science and technologies, everywhere one looks, EXCEPT NOT IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, because that would necessarily take developing better human murder systems, after the development of weapons of mass destruction, which is particularly imperative because the threat of those weapons are now what actually backs up the money systems, because the debt controls were always backed by the death controls.
Most notions regarding what "money" should be I regard as half-way correct. Money is primarily a matter of law, but the only connection between human laws and natural laws is the ability to back up lies with violence. That is WHY we are so seriously threatened by the astonishing successes in physical science. However, I REPEAT, at the same time, there is no way to make that knowledge disappear, other than through the almost total destruction of civilization, and/or the extinction of the human species as the consequence to FAILING to develop better political science, which can integrate and surpass the prodigious progress made in physical science.
I continue to maintain that there are NO ways to not have some death control systems, as the central controls to everything else. Those are already what has been driven by natural selection pressures to become the currently existing artificial selection systems, which became based upon the social successfulness of deceits and frauds, and hence, why civilization is now almost totally dominated by various professional hypocrites. Given those social facts, the most reasonable expectations are that such a technologically based civilization will destroy itself. Those are currently the most probable dystopian science fiction nightmares and horror stories which are actually manifesting more and more ... especially due to the basic ways that everything has been built on the basis of making "money" out of nothing as debts, to "pay" for strip-mining the planet's natural resources.
But nevertheless, given the ALREADY EXISTING science and technology, what I am proposing is what I like to think of as the hardest possible political science fiction, whereby the human artificial selection systems continue to learn from the natural selection systems, in ways whereby we go through some series future scientific and technological miracles, which are surpassed by even greater political miracles ... IF an advancing technological civilization survives, then there is going to be a global government. That will mean globalized death control systems, with global murder systems as their most extreme forms. I do NOT believe it would be possible to ever stop that, other than by such a globalizing technological civilization continuing to be so criminally insane that it commits collective suicide.
At the present time, I feel that the chances of systems of globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, committing collective suicide appears to be more than 99%, while the chances of human civilization going through enough technological and political miracles to survive appears to be less than 1%. After all, at the present time, the degree to which the combined money/murder systems are runaway forms of MADNESS is overwhelming to the ratios of more than 1 to 100, human sanity to human insanities, since indeed, there was nothing in previous human history or evolution that has prepared us for developing technologies like globalized electronic communications, along with weapons of mass destruction, etc. ... Rather, systems of paper frauds, backed by gunpowder weapons have rapidly become electronic frauds, backed by the threat of force from atomic bombs, while almost everyone continues to think in those same old-fashioned ways that developed when there were merely paper frauds, backed by gunpowder weapons.
One of my favourite quotes from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King: "Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation's laws. ... Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile." IN THE CASE OF THE USA, THAT DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AND ITS RULE OF LAW HAVE BEEN DEAD FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.
For all practical political purposes, due to the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS in Canada, and much more so in the USA, PROFESSIONAL HYPOCRITES TOTALLY DOMINATE POLITICS! Therefore, my current conclusions have become that civilization controlled by DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENT is based upon excessively successful applications of the methods of organized crime, which have become runaway criminal insanities. After facing those facts, that there already exist globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, which are enabling the strip-mining of the planet's natural resources, I find that almost everyone who publishes content on Zero Hedge ends up still promoting impossible ideals, which are merely more of the same sort of hypocrisy. In my opinion, virtually all of the content published on Zero Hedge tends to be only superficially correct, because it continues to take for granted the same dualities, false fundamental dichotomies, and impossible ideals, as were originally promoted by the biggest bullies, as their bullshit, where the current core of that is the banksters' bullshit, within which the banksters promote a "cashless society," for evil ulterior motives, while they tend to have no publicly significant opposition that is not controlled by thinking in the same ways.
As I say, what I try to do is better political science fiction, however, more and more I am forced to think that the terrible genres of that, which I dislike the most, namely the dystopian horror story futures, are by far the most probable, while anything better has the essential problem that it can not exist without better death control systems at the center of that sort of more successful adaptation to progress in physical science enabling technologies, which have done what they actually do for good reasons, namely that there must be some death control systems, while those which were most socially successful were, so far, those which were most deceitful and treacherous, which is how and why we ended up with a political economy based upon governments enforcing frauds by privately controlled banks, inside of social pyramid systems which are dominated by professional hypocrites, which was possible because the vast majority of people behaved like incompetent political idiots or Zombie Sheeple, which, in turn, enables the vicious spirals that the best professional hypocrites have the most successful political careers. As illustrated by the article above by the image of a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Beyond those Political Parables about Wolves and Sheeple, as I say, I would like to see a greater use of information, enabling higher consciousness. However, there is no way for that to actually work unless it includes the central features, which are necessarily the death control systems. There should be profound paradigm shifts in the ways that we perceive the death control systems, which then enable those systems to be operated in radically different ways. That is theoretically made imperative by the development of weapons of mass destruction. However, what has actually happened, so far, is that the existence of atomic bombs operates through the MAD Mutual Assured Destruction systems, to continue to back up increasingly electronic MAD Money As Debt systems.
The international banksters continue to be the biggest gangsters, who are able to control governments. Their DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENTS were also able to effective control most of the public "opposition," to the degree that there is no genuine opposition. Almost all of the content on Zero Hedge tragically illustrates that, since almost nothing proposes and promotes better death controls to back up better debt controls, but rather, usually promotes various old-fashioned impossible ideals, that can NEVER WORK. Meanwhile, as long as the vast majority of people continue to act like Zombie Sheeple, then the actual death control systems will be operated by the most psychotic psychopaths, whose social successfulness thereby enables them to be the best available professional hypocrites, who are able to continue to fool enough people, who want to believe in that kind of bullshit.
I REPEAT that I continue to be in favour of global government, which I regard as necessarily based upon better organized crime, which operates better death control systems. I wish and daydream that could be based upon a greater use of information, enabling higher consciousness. However, at the present time, there is almost nothing but a core of organized crime (bankster controlled governments), surrounded by various controlled opposition groups (pretty well every publicly significant religion and ideology.) In my view, that is a sterile dead-end, for a variety of related reasons. I am in favour of monetary revolution, which should be guided by intellectual scientific revolutions which apply to political science in general, and to the combined money/murder systems in particular. I do NOT think it is possible to stop the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut. Rather, it might only be possible to push it past where it otherwise would have stopped, which could also be expressed as retooling that fascist plutocracy.
The social pyramid systems are actually toroidal vortex systems. However, they mostly get away with deliberately ignoring and denying that. Most of my kind of political science fiction is based on perceiving what already exists in ways which are backwards to the ways that most people perceive those now. For instance, I REPEAT another classic example of relatively good, albeit superficial research, ending is superficial "solutions" which are bogus was this recent article republished on Zero Hedge:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/why-we’re-sliding-towards-world-war
Why We’re Sliding Towards World War
After lots of good analysis, it ends with another typically superficial statement of what the "solutions" should be: "But war is great for the bankers and the defense contractors. And – as discussed above – governments are desperate for war. So it’s up to us – the people – to stop wider war." THOSE ARE THE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF THE DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENTS, WHICH DOMINATE ALL NATO COUNTRIES TODAY. However, it is necessarily some sort of bogus "solution" to advocate for any less use of information with respect to operating the combined money/murder systems. Doing so was yet another good example of the standard patterns present on Zero Hedge, as well as pretty well everywhere else, which are some relatively good analysis of the problems, followed by bogus "solutions," because the original analysis continued to be too superficial. THE ONLY WAY TO "STOP WIDER WAR" WOULD BE TO IMPLEMENT BETTER DEATH CONTROL SYSTEMS. However, at the present time, that looks like it is extremely improbable, since there is practically nothing which is publicly significant other than professional hypocrites promoting impossible ideals. In my opinion, that includes every proposal that I am aware of regarding "monetary reforms."
The banksters' proposals for a "cashless society" are certainly intended to enable them to have more information, in order to have more power to control civilization. However, attempting to stop that from happening is an attempt to go backward, which is based upon old-fashioned religions and ideologies, which are what the controlled opposition groups tend to continue to rely upon, while that actually backfires badly in the real world, and causes the opposite to happen. Hence, the established and entrenched systems of debt slavery have already driven themselves to develop debt insanities, and it is within that context of runaway debt insanities that the banksters are desperate to consolidate their global hegemony and control over the monetary systems, which then effectively can control everybody and everything else, but only by becoming even worse forms of combined deceits and frauds, which means that civilization as a whole would have to become even more psychotic than it already is. THE RUNAWAY DEBT INSANITIES ARE HEADED TOWARDS PROVOKING DEATH INSANITIES.
My recommended alternatives are based upon the notions that the coming phases of death insanities might drive the development of different death control systems. If so, then the best we can hope for is that a technologically based civilization manages to change enough to adapt to survive its own paradoxical powers, turning into behaviors that have become runaway criminal insanities. At the present time, it is NOT at all clear how better death control systems are possible, given that human history has selected for the actually existing systems to be done most successfully through the maximum possible deceits and treacheries, and hence, the most psychotic psychopaths (as discussed above, the DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENTS, which are primarily the bankers and the defense contractors, & the governments that are desperate for war) are actually controlling what civilization is doing, while they are not opposed by any real opposition presenting better death control systems, but rather, they mostly control their opposition, so that ONLY the same old-fashioned impossible ideals, promoted by professional hypocrites, have any significant public presence.
While Zero Hedge is far superior to the more mainstream mass media, in my opinion there is nothing presented which is sufficiently realistic regarding the real problems, that fully face the facts regarding how and why governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized criminals, because the death controls are central to everything else, and must necessarily be. That is the context inside of which I have always been, and I still am, in favour of global government, and totally electronic money, that will no longer allow any anonymous money.
However, I do NOT believe we will make it there. Rather, I believe that the banksters, et alia, will destroy themselves, along with everyone else, because I believe that the most probable futures are for a criminally insane civilization to commit collective suicide, which is especially probable given the degree to which there are almost nothing but bogus "solutions" based on impossible ideals, that are promoted by controlled opposition groups, due to those sort of professional hypocrisies continuing to be the most socially successful strategies, DESPITE THE LONGER TERM CONSEQUENCES FROM DOING THAT GETTING WORSE AND WORSE!
The way that a genuine opposition should resist the current plans for any "cashless society" is to insist upon the view that MONEY IS MEASUREMENT BACKED BY MURDER, and thereby demand "monetary revolution." The days of paper frauds, backed by gunpowder weapons are GONE, and they are never coming back. Anyone still thinking about political problems in various old-fashioned ways, that do not come to terms with the REALITIES of globalized electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, is actually being psychotic, in the sense that they are out of touch with those REALITIES!
The article above ended with an excessively optimistic conclusion:
Actually, I REPEAT that the entire experiment with Neolithic Civilization has developed intensely paradoxical sets of consistent contradictions due to that civilization has become too excessively successful, and therefore, has become runaway criminal insanities. The problem with the DEEP STATE SHADOW GOVERNMENTS are that those are run by increasingly psychotic psychopaths. However, at the same time, they face no publicly significant opposition that they do not also control, particularly because of the degree to which all of the publicly significant opposition is controlled by the ways that they think, using the same old-fashioned dualities, of false fundamental dichotomies, and the related impossible ideals. HENCE, THE USELESS, WRONGHEADED, EFFORTS TO SLOW DOWN THE RUNAWAY FASCIST PLUTOCRACY, WHERE THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE "WEALTH" OF THOSE PLUTOCRATS IS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THE PUBLIC "MONEY" SUPPLIES OUT OF NOTHING AS DEBTS.
Within the kind of Wonderland Matrix Bizarro World that we are living inside, the bogus "solutions" promoted by various controlled opposition groups are just as absurdly backwards as what the banksters propose! Attempting to stop the development of any "cashless society" continues to be an impossible ideal, that will NOT WORK. Rather, we should go through series of intellectual scientific revolutions, that apply to political science in general, and especially to the combined money/murder systems, whereby the debt controls are backed up by the death controls.
Mobsters may be the new American hero.
I think everyone should be paid in cash. Every single person. No taxes taken out. Then, before you leave the bank you'd have to walk past a desk of a bankster and peel off some hard earned cash as the banking fee. Then you're on to the next desk where some fedgov shit bag has his hands out for the fed slave tax, then SS, then go on to the next desk where there is some State government leachfuck with his hand out... wanting State slave taxes and State sales taxes, "unemployment" taxes....bla, bla, bla.... then on to the next desk where there is some POS from local town with his hand out for property taxes...etc... and then finally on to the really hidden taxes... go to the next step where the "Deep State" Spooks have their hands out asking for money to spy on you.
Then, and only then might things change...
oh, I forgot one... one more desk... a tax for "bombing the fuck out of people for 20+ years 1/2 way across the world that you don't even know and have no beef with tax."
....oh... and how about a FREE-DUM tax too. Can't forget that.
That should cover it, for now. If it doesn't TPTB can always lay on a few more layers of BS.