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1. 

   Super Elite says:

   Dear Serf,

   What are you going to do about it?

   I thought so.

   McScrew You

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   30th January 2013 at 5:16 pm

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   SSS says:

   “According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite have up to $32 TRILLION dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.”
   —-from the article

   WTF does “up to” mean? Could be $100 billion, $20 trillion, whatever. Why does the article just admit that it’s a fucking wild-ass guess.

   Too much fuzzy, unsubstantiated and uncorroborated math in the article, much less the fact that the article doesn’t seem to be short on naming the banks and companies, but doesn’t come up with one single name in the list of “global elite.” Not one.

   My reaction to the article? Piffle.

   Hot debate. What do you think? 7  8

   30th January 2013 at 5:36 pm

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   llpoh says:

   I must second SSS’s piffle. Who the fuck is “Michael”? I always want to check the source of stuff like this, and Michael just doesn’t cut it.

   Sorry, AWD. I do appreciate all of your efforts. Just think this one was a swing and a miss.

   Hot debate. What do you think? 4  6

   30th January 2013 at 6:10 pm

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   AWD says:

   the article doesn’t seem to be short on naming the banks and companies, but doesn’t come up with one single name in the list of “global elite.” Not one. My reaction to the article? Piffle.

   Piffle indeed. Here’s a little starter list for the uniformed:

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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   30th January 2013 at 6:38 pm

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   AWD says:

   Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals’ Families
   Submitted by George Washington

   While you might not see them on Forbes’ list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the richest people on the planet.

   For example, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ heirs are billionaires who own half of BMW. They are also closely connected with Daimler. Four of Goebbels’ step-grandchildren are worth $1.2 billion each, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. Much of their wealth came from slave labor at German concentration camps.

   The Goebbels family weren’t the only ones to get rich from Nazi efforts. Barclays, Chase, and the Bush family made money hand over fist financing the Adolph and the gang.

   The Vatican has built a secret property empire worth close to a billion U.S. dollars using money Italian dictator Mussolini gave the church for blessing fascism.

   Modern tyrants have gotten wealthy from oppressing people as well. For example, the family of U.S.-backed Egyptian dictator Mubarak holds $40-70 billion. Russian leader Putin also has a current net worth of $40 billion. (They pale in comparison to Libya’s Gaddafi, worth $200 billion.)

   Indeed, given up to $32 trillion dollars are being hidden in offshore tax shelters, the amount of wealth accumulated through crime is nearly impossible to track.

   What should have happened, of course, is that ill-gotten gains should have been clawed back from the criminals as soon as they were discovered, just as they should be clawed back from Wall Street fraudsters.

   But that is not likely to happen, since many political and business leaders are unrepentant and unwilling to root out crime.

   Indeed, when the elite profit from things such as laundering drug and terror money, funding both sides of wars and other unsavory acts, no one wants to stop the music.

   Balzac may have been exaggerating when he said, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” There are some wealthy people who earned their money by honestly delivering a better or cheaper product or service.

   But not many …

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   30th January 2013 at 6:45 pm

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   llpoh says:

   I didn’t make the list? Damn.

   

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   30th January 2013 at 6:50 pm

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   AWD says:

   

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   30th January 2013 at 7:02 pm

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   AWD says:

   

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   30th January 2013 at 7:04 pm

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   sangell says:

   There’s a deputy assistant undersecretary at HHS that decides how to spend more money than Lloyd Blankfein. An Administrative law judge who can require the citizens of this country fork over $10 or $20 billion per year on their electricity bills because he believes Antarctica might melt. The very rich, I mean Alice Walton, Bill Gates or Larry Ellison rich, don’t particularly bother me. Most of their money is in shares of their companies so they have an incentive to want the economy to do well.

   If my neighbor can make twice as much money as he did last year should I be jealous or should I be happy? I think a little of both is the normal human reaction but economically I should be overjoyed. Maybe he will remodel his house and by doing so make mine more valuable too. In an instance like this I am stealing value from him not the other way around. If he buys a boat or a second home he might offer the use of them to me ( if I hold my tongue and do not accuse him of being a greedy SOB). When BBQ’s out back I might get a steak instead of a hot dog. What’s not to like.

   OTOH if my neighbor decides working is a drag and goes on disability instead then I’m in trouble. He won’t be able to afford to fix up his house or yard and may just let it go to hell. Instead of a nice new car in the driveway there will be a junker or two. If I BBQ in the back yard he will manage to find a way to invite himself over.

   All in all give me the neighbor who’s making money. I’ll get over my jealousy and lot easier than I will get over my anger at the parasite on SSI.

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   30th January 2013 at 7:23 pm

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    Olga says:

    False dichotomy: i.e., “Making money” versus “parasite”.

    How about invested in the playing field being level to see what happens?

    This means people come to the field as they are – skills and shortcomings “In Toto” – and the game continues with the rules applied equally and consistently, regardless of influence.

    The parasitic end of the human spectrum may not move much but perhaps the risk behind the obscene capital accumulation within a finite world, [which has like a washing machine – upset the earth’s equilibrium to the point of massive instability] and the certainty that we are destined to send the entire planet off balance, is enough to reign in the parasites that run in the “better circles”.

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    30th January 2013 at 8:29 pm

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    ecliptix543 says:

    So we nuke Basel and the Caymans. Problem solved. All these alleged offshore trillions of dollars are almost entirely digital, so vaporise the servers and all the backups.

    Another way to deal with these fuckers would be to contaminate a few of the larger remaining in-ground oil reserves with Cesium. Leak the story that all the crude oil from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Iraq/Iran, etc is potentially radioactive. That’ll stop EVERYTHING in less than ten minutes.

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    30th January 2013 at 8:56 pm

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    T4C says:

    AWD, I just finished reading GW’s post on ZH. Looking through the comments one really made me kinda stop in my tracks.

    “Stuntgirl

    Actually, in an actuarial sense, Balzac was correct, no exceptions.

    Radical Marijuana
    
    Yeah, Stuntgirl, I agree all the way through …
    Human realities are ALWAYS organized lies, operating organized robberies. We have rationalized our ability to act as robbers in our environment. We have rationalized enslaving other animals, and plants, as well as, first and foremost, other human beings.

    Private property does not exist outside of some system of public violence. By definition, human beings are entropic pumps that have to get energy to continue living, and to feed their children. That energy has primarily been from killing and eating other living organisms. Therefore, the great fortunes of herds of domesticated animals, or fields of domesticated plants, are achieved through similar sorts of means that we used to domesticate other human beings. We take for granted the ways that we enslave other living beings, because those appear to be relatively nothing compared to how we enslave ourselves.

    Great fortunes are necessarily built on top of the established previous systems of organized lies and robberies, which enabled there to be systems where natural resources could be appropriated, and processed, and distributed to other human beings. Human beings basically live as robbers in their environment. Groups of human beings operate as gangs of robbers. Civilization is simply the development of that to astronomically amplified scales, involving billions of human beings, all acting as robbers together. The richest people necessarily operate within the basic systems which are ALL organized lies, operating organized robberies.

    The BASIC organized lies are subtracting parts from the whole environment, and then using language to give those parts names, and organizing those into systems of understanding. Those systems of understanding are then correlated with using tools, in order to continue to take material and energy from the environment, which mostly means killing other living things, and eating them, which then was developed to mean controlling the lives of other living things, through the domestication of animals and plants, and first and foremost of those were the domestication of human beings themselves.
    What nature does is evolve ecologies, which tend to balance out the rates of robberies. After all,  the subtraction is never absolute. We ARE our environment. We are toroidal vortices, which are infinite loops through the environment, of endless cycles of matter and/or energy. Therefore, the processes of robbery are never finished. If one sees that energy is spirit, then, since we are our environment, and energy is spirit, we then can say we are god. Basically, all of ancient mysticism gets recycled through post-modernizing science, and all of the various old-fashioned religions and ideologies were simply different ways of doing the same things. Every religion, with its morality, and every political economy, with its ideology, are different ways of operating organized systems of lies and robbery, which are different ways of cutting up the flow of infinite energy, or spirit without beginning or end, into pieces which we say have a beginning, middle and end, such as with our birth, life and death, or with the rise and fall of civilizations.

    Great fortunes are relative concentrations of the organized systems of lies and robbery, through those who are identified with those great fortunes. There was no production that can explain that great fortune, outside of the infinitely greater natural abundance that was the source for that. Great fortunes are all based on the long history of the organized lies and robberies, which made civilizations. Anyone who operates within the established economic systems automatically is taking for granted the history of militarism which resolved conflicts.

    For example, everyone in North America appropriates resources through the current systems, which came with the European invasions, that transplanted Neolithic civilization styles here. Those European invasions genocidally wiped out the people who had been living here for thousands of years previously. The survivors of those genocidal invasions were assimilated into the current Neolithic systems. The earlier inhabitants of North America never voluntarily agreed to have all of North America robbed from them! Therefore, almost everyone who lives in North America today benefits from the great crimes of the past.

    That is pretty well universally true of everywhere else, throughout time. TO REPEAT: The fundamental processes are subtraction and robbery. Those were organized into systems of lies, operating systems of robbery. Any and all great fortunes are claims staked over wealth, backed up by violence. There is nothing outside of that. All of the domain of possible human production, and voluntary contracts, and free exchanges necessarily ALWAYS takes place within the larger context of natural production, and involuntary contracts, which were based on robbery, with killing the ultimate form of robbery. Those are the basic facts, the foundations to everything else. We should be building up on those foundations in ways that acknowledge and admit them. Instead, almost everything that established political economies stated presupposed the idealized roof, and then pretends to build down from that roof, without ever admitting the real foundations.

    To make human ideas and activities consistent with sciences such as physics and biology is possible, but when one approaches human reality as energy systems, one then ALWAYS discovers that there are organized systems of lies, operating organized systems of robberies. The great fortunes were built by those who were best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. Assuming that there were some productive or creative people who made their own fortune ignores that always those people were born into an established system, which they took advantage of. Moreover, it usually is the case that the most creative breakthroughs in basic science, i.e., the breakthroughs to better systems of organized lies, were made by groups of people who were not the same as those who finally profited from those better lies enabling better systems of organized robberies.
    This article by George Washington tends to presuppose false fundamental dichotomies between relatively good and evil people, and then continues to presuppose the impossible ideals based on those false fundamental dichotomies ought to be the ways that we resolve the conflicts between those different degrees of good and evil people.

    That is increasingly nonsense, as progress in science, and the related technologies, in every other domain, transcends the previous false fundamental dichotomies, and establishes unitary mechanisms which better understand the universe. All our moralities, and ideologies, are grossly old-fashioned, and adamantly persistent in being attached to those obsolete ways of thinking!

    I suggest that the ways we should approach understanding our situation should be as outlined above. Those who amassed great fortunes were always taking advantage of systems of lies and robbery. The problems are the trends towards those becoming runaway imbalances, where those who were better at deceits were better at staking claims, and backing those up with violence. Therefore, those now appear to possess great fortunes. For every one extremely wealthy individual in the world today, there are one million extremely poor people. That deviancy amplification has been due to the runaway triumph of systems of lies and robbery, ineffectively resisted, and therefore, not brought back into better balance.
    To face the facts, money is backed by murder. The debt controls are based on the death controls. The organized systems of fraud and robbery that dominate the world today are runways because those are misunderstood through perceiving them in terms of false fundamental dichotomies, which then leads to proposing bullshit solutions based on impossible ideals, which always backfire in the real world.

    Balzac was not wrong. He is always right. All good analysis always reveals systems of lies, operating systems of robbery. The only good solutions are evolving the human ecology to better balance those factors. The most intense problem is tangled up with the paradox of enforcement with respect to the rule of law. The only people who could enforce the rule of law are those who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence, in order to defeat any other group who has a different idea regarding what the rule of law should be. Therefore, the idea of forming states in which there is a rule of law, limited by the consent of the governed, regularly breaks down as the best organized gangs of criminals over and over take control of the government.
    The real world system today is a runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, building a fascist police state, in order that the powers of government can be used to defraud and rob more and more people, in order to transfer their wealth to a smaller and smaller minority. That is not effectively resisted because the opposition is almost all controlled to promote the same old-fashioned false fundamemtal dichotomies, and impossible ideals, which always tend to backfire and make the opposite things happen in the real world.

    Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals’ Families IS the real situation, because ALL MONEY is BLOOD MONEY. The descendants of known war criminals running around free with billion dollar fortunes is merely the tiniest tip of the iceberg!
    What theoretically needs to happen is that we evolve a better human ecology, with a better murder system, so that can sustain a better money system. Nothing less than that is enough. In order to do that, we must perceive that human realities are ALWAYS organized lies, operating organized robberies. Those who did that in excessive ways are those who we may call “war criminals.”  However, there is nobody alive today who is not living inside of systems which were made and maintained by countless generations of “war criminals.” Furthermore, there are chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life which will constantly make more of those problems manifest in the future.

    More importantly, that deeper understanding of human ecology is the central core to any breakthroughs towards deeper understanding of industrial ecologies, and natural ecologies. The grand paradox of our current times is that there have been a series of breakthroughs in the paradigms with respect to physics, and biology, and other sciences, however, political science continues to be totally hidebound within the biggest bullies’ bullshit social stories.

    On the one hand, we have weapons that are trillions of times more powerful, while, on the other hand, those powers are still being channelled through old-fashioned social pyramid systems, based on triumphant deceits. The contradictions between progress in every other science, while human sciences are deliberately suppressed with well-established bullshit, are being amplified to ASTRONOMICAL SIZES!

    Warfare is the oldest and best developed human science. Success in warfare was based on deceits. That is the paradox that is at the root of the problem that those who are the descendents of those who were robbers in the past tend to still enjoy what was gained through that robbery. What made War King then made Fraud King. The whole world is now being dominated and controlled by the Fraud Kings who have made a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system, enforced by governments, which enables the Fraud Kings and their court to systematically defraud everyone else. However, there are no genuine solutions to be found in continuing to approach these problems through false fundamental dichotomies.
    Everyone alive today is living inside systems made during a long history of warfare. Everyone alive today has adapted to being some kind of war criminal, or the descendents of war criminals. Those who were the best at doing that, or whose ancestors were the best at doing that, are those who now are able to stake great claims to wealth, while those who were robbed, or whose ancestors were robbed, are those who now live in poverty.

    However, keeping that system of force backed frauds going with weapons that are trillions of times more powerful has become extremely problematic and improbable! Instead, it is imperative that we go through paradigm shifts in our basic ideas about militarism, which can sustain monetary revolutions. That IS going to happen, anyway, one way or another, sooner or later, and MIGHT be better if we understood it better?”

    Thoughts on this…..anyone? I don’t have any yet as I’m still mulling it over. All I know is it resonated with me.

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    30th January 2013 at 8:57 pm

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    sangell says:

    @Olga

    Yeah a level playing field would be nice and I’m not enamored of people making money by rigging the system or by adding useless financial complexity but that requires government. Government is the big enemy in every case because free and open markets are inherently fair if the government is.

    To paraphrase Lincoln, no ones smarter than everyone all of the time! It probably would be well nigh impossible to amass 1000 times your money trading in any free market. That is if you have a million in capital you will never reach a billion because you will fuck up and be long when you should have been short or bet the wrong way on an interest rate or currency move somewhere along the way and get kicked back towards your initial stake. The fact that people do manage to make such outsized gains is, to me, prima facie evidence that governments or players with the ability to manipulate government are rigging the system.

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    30th January 2013 at 9:25 pm

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    sangell says:

    Let me add the caveat to the above by noting there is ‘blind luck’. People do win the lottery but were we to find someone who managed to bet right 25 times in a row we might find a guy who says he used a monkey to pick his positions as often as some smooth talking octogenarian attributing his success to some easily followed investment principles.

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    30th January 2013 at 9:30 pm

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    SSS says:

    AWD

    You, and several other commenters thus far, hypothesize that the accumulation of wealth is a dirty business fueled by war and other means of ill-gotten gains. You cite the Goebbels family and include the billionaire Koch Brothers among the so-called Global Elite. I’m throwing the bullshit flag on your inclusion of the Koch Brothers, who have consistently defended economic freedom through a variety of ways. If push comes to shove, I firmly believe the Koch Brothers will take the side of frredom and not the side of national or global statists. And they will bring a bundle of cash to the table on the side of freedom.

    So let’s take a look at another multi-billion dollar empire that will most definitely NOT be on the side of fascist corporatism and the Global Elite. And I’m talking about the secretive Mars family. Go grab a Snickers candy bar and read the following from Forrest Mars Jr, one of three heirs to this multi-billion enterprise.

    “The fifth principle (in managing the Mars Corporation), and probably the one closest to the brothers’ hearts, is Freedom: ‘We need freedom to shape our future; we need profit to remain free.’ What this really means, however, is privacy – in every facet of the business. The brothers believe that the best way to determine the company’s future is to remain private, and privately held. Being out of the Wall Street spotlight means Mars doesn’t need to be concerned with achieving consistent financial returns. ‘There are no stockholders that have to be answered to, and if John and Forrest want to make investments at the expense of short-term profit, they can and they do,’ says Al Aragona, the recently retired president of Uncle Ben’s. But the privacy issue extends beyond business decisions to the company’s public relations – or lack of them. If Mars doesn’t have to communicate with the world, it won’t.

    ‘THE ABILITY to be secretive,’ according to Forrest Jr, ‘is one of the finest benefits of having a private company.’ Lecturing to business students at Duke University, North Carolina, he said: ‘Privacy at times today seems a relic of the non-media past, but it is a legal right – morally and ethically proper and even desirable – and a key to healthy, normal living.’

    Hot debate. What do you think? 4  8

    30th January 2013 at 9:48 pm

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    Novista says:

    Damn, AWD

    I see no uniformed people here. And your mug shots prove what? I stopped reading the post when I saw HuffPost … poster children for the politics of envy.

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    30th January 2013 at 12:45 am

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    majormocambo says:

    What, you guys finally figured out AWD doesn’t stand for All Wheel Drive.

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    30th January 2013 at 2:07 am

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    Reverse Engineer says:

    If you want some names, here is a good chart to start with

    

    Larger size for readability of all the NAMES found here:

    http://www.reformy.cz/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bilderbergx.jpg

    RE
    http://doomsteaddiner.org

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    30th January 2013 at 2:14 am

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    Reverse Engineer says:

    Try another one.
    

    RE

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    30th January 2013 at 2:17 am

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    X2SDT says:

    @T4C – radical marijuana gets a thumbs up from me. some of the language/concepts are a little extreme (“enslaving plants”) but they serve to emphasise the basic idea that all communities, countries and their institutions are generally, ultimately, based on violence – domination of the weakest by the strongest; survival of the fittest if you will but where the “fittest” are what we would now identify as the psycopaths/ sociopaths amongst us, those who want more and feel entitled to it and don’t mind how they get it.

    today, they use the established institutions (the banks, the churches, the political system, the markets) to accumulate wealth and power and manipulate other institutions (police, legal, military) to protect and expand their wealth and power.

    unfortunately, I think this is what history teaches us: that no matter what system or ideology you try to put in place (communism, capitalism, laissez-faire, etc.), there will always be sociopaths who will manipulate and corrupt that system for their own ends until they have enslaved the masses in one way or another.

    this is my first substantive comment on this site and I await my newbie ass-kicking.

    all the best.

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    30th January 2013 at 7:29 am

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    Bostonbob says:

    Interesting character Senator Nelson Aldrich one of the political olicharchists who helped mould the legislation that gave us our income tax and the Federal Reserve. I have been to his house in Rhode Island, our company did some land development on an adjacent property. It is a magnificent mansion on Narragensett Bay in Warwick, RI. The story I was told was he built there because “they” would not let him build in Newport since he was a Catholic. Ironically his heirs who inherited the estate and refusing to pay the inheritance tax he gave it to the Catholic Church. Aldrich sold his soul to J. P. Morgan when he sold an interest in a railway company to a company owned by said Mr. Morgan. His repayment back to Morgan and his cronies came back in the useful leverage of being head of the Senate Finance Committee, and using this power to carve out the legislaton that ultimately became the Federal Reserve. Morgan and Aldrich were both members of the Jekyll Island Club of Georgia, yes that club. His daughter married John D. Rockefeller Jr. spawning Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, and his son would later be the CEO of Chase National Bank. Nice cozy little club if you can get membership. Unfortunately it is only for the rich, politcally connected olicharchs.
    Thank you,
    Bob.

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    30th January 2013 at 9:22 am

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    Eddie says:

    Up until about ten thousand years ago, our Euuropean ancestors were hunter-gatherers, we had small tribes of less than 150 people. This number is key, because that’s about how many people on person can actually know and keep track of. There were leaders and followers, but the culture of “every man for himself” was unkown. We lived in cohesive units and responsibilities and food were shared. The use of money and the need for money was very limited.

    Agriculture changed everything in very radical ways, especially socially. Suddenly there could be treasure in the form of surplus food that could be stored. Suddenly it became advantageous to own things, like land ..and even people. Women and children suffered a drop in status that has never truly been recovered.

    To that was added the multiplier of cheap fossil fuels in the form of coal, and more lately, oil.

    Too much treasure lead to accumulation of money that became intergenerational. Kings and priests were at the top of the food chain, and they accumulated and spent vast fortunes that were created on the backs of the work of ‘common” people.

    Banks were invented to take care of the wealth of kings. Kings typically wasted money until it was all gone, and then borrowed money ( this is where the bond market started) to make war on other kings. Where we are now is not that different than that. Our system was designed to prevent some of the problems kings created, but it hasn’t really worked, because the principles our country adopted in the 1780′s have been eroded and circumvented, and we now just have royalty by a different name.

    It can be argued that those two things, agriculture and fossil fuels, have allowed the human population to turn into an extractive, unsustainable culture that must now inevitably fail as resources decline. We now have far more people alive than the planet could ever support, and our overgrowth has stripped most of the non-renewable resources from the world.

    To me, it is important to acknowledge that it doesn’t have to be the way it is. And that if we are to continue to exist as a species, that we have to (a) learn to carefully regulate population and (b) return to a locally governed culture that would allow people to actually be emotionally invested in the people (other than themselves) that they support.

    How we get there, if we do at all, probably involves catastrophic failure f the existing system, and massive die-offs. That’s the saddest thing. But we could, still, at this point, make some kind of stand if the existing structure would fail under the weight of its own crumling castle walls. Embrace the doom, as Hope says.

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    30th January 2013 at 9:31 am

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    AWD says:

    I don’t condemn the Koch brothers, or all billionaires for that matter. I admire Bill Gates and what he’s done with healthcare in Africa.

    As always, it’s not having money that’s the problem, it’s what you do with it.

    Goldman Sachs manipulates the commodity market for profit, driving up food prices and millions starve. George Soros supports liberal progressives that are undermining the constitution and bill of rights. Jamie Dimon and JPM are raping Afghanistan of gold and minerals (with the help of the pentagon) and prolonging the war. The big banks launder drug money.

    Rupert Murdoch and the other billionaires that control the media have taken journalism, once a respected profession, and turned it into agenda propaganda. The people with money have turned the population into debt serfs. The sheeple love their slavery, they can’t get enough. It’s brilliant, but it’s also evil.

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    30th January 2013 at 11:53 am

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    AWD says:

    The Linchpin Lie: How Global Collapse Will Be Sold To The Masses

    In our modern world there exist certain institutions of power. Not government committees, alphabet agencies, corporate lobbies, or even standard military organizations; no, these are the mere “middle-men” of power. The errand boys. The well paid hitmen of the global mafia. They are not the strategists or the decision makers.

    Instead, I speak of institutions which introduce the newest paradigms. Who write the propaganda. Who issue the orders from on high. I speak of the hubs of elitism which have initiated nearly every policy mechanism of our government for the past several decades. I am talking about the Council On Foreign Relations, the Tavistock Institute, the Heritage Foundation (a socialist organization posing as conservative), the Bilderberg Group, as well as the corporate foils that they use to enact globalization, such as Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Carlyle Group, etc.

    Many of these organizations and corporations operate a revolving door within the U.S. government. Monsanto has champions, like Donald Rumsfeld who was on the board of directors of its Searle Pharmaceuticals branch, who later went on to help the company force numerous dangerous products including Aspartame through the FDA. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have a veritable merry-go-round of corrupt banking agents which are appointed to important White House and Treasury positions on a regular basis REGARDLESS of which party happens to be in office. Most prominent politicians are all members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization which has openly admitted on multiple occasions that their goal is the destruction of U.S. sovereignty and the formation of a “one world government” or “supranational union” (their words, not mine).

    However, one organization seems to rear its ugly head at the forefront of the most sweeping mass propaganda operations of our time, and has been linked to the creation of the most atrocious military methodologies, including the use of false flag events. I am of course referring to the Rand Corporation, a California based “think tank” whose influence reaches into nearly every sphere of our society, from politics, to war, to entertainment.

    The Rand Corporation deals in what I would call “absolute gray”. The goal of the group from its very inception was to promote a social atmosphere of moral ambiguity in the name of personal and national priority. They did this first through the creation of “Rational Choice Theory”; a theory which prescribes that when making any choice, an individual (or government) must act as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at an action that maximizes personal advantage. Basically, the ends justify the means, and moral conscience is not a factor to be taken seriously if one wishes to be successful.

    Hilariously, rational choice theory has been attacked in the past by pro-socialist (collectivist) critics as “extreme individualism”; a philosophy which gives us license to be as “self serving” as possible while feeling patriotic at the same time. In reality, the socialists should have been applauding Rand Corporation all along.

    What Rand had done through its propaganda war against the American people was to infuse the exact culture of selfishness needed to push the U.S. towards the socialist ideal. At the onset of any communist or national socialist society (sorry socialists, but they do indeed come from the same collectivist mindset), the masses are first convinced to hand over ultimate power to the establishment in order to safeguard THEMSELVES, not others. That is to say, the common collectivist man chooses to hand over his freedoms and participate in totalitarianism not because he wants what is best for the world, but because he wants what is best for himself, and he believes servitude to the system will get him what he wants with as little private sacrifice as possible (you know, except for his soul…).

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    30th January 2013 at 7:00 pm

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    IraK, who knows that the Chosen People should rule the ignorant masses, says:

    People are better off if they’re led by their superiors. Those with more money, education, and experience should lead while those with less interest in the society, and those who have less training and fewer resources, should follow their superiors.

    Policy should be set by the elites. In the United States the elites are those who come from the groups destined to lead by religion, education, and their contacts. Other Americans should ape and blindly support those Americans who are their betters.

    Wealth should accrue to the elites. They’re better able to bear the burden and responsibility that wealth brings. Lesser groups, able to manage with less wealth, power, and responsibility, should be satisfied with their share.

    America was founded as a nation of equality of opportunity and outcome. That means that we all need to recognize our role and position in the State. The best need to be given the equal opportunity to rule; the most need to be given the equal opportunity to serve; and the vast need to be given the least opportunity to live.

    Hopefully all Americans will recognize the American Dream and how it can be fufilled.

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