QOTD: WTF HAPPENED IN 1971?

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Anonymous
Anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:07 am

https://wtf1971.com/

WTF Happened in 1971?

It’s what drove Ron Paul into politics.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:52 am

JAMES TRAFICANT JR. BANKRUPTCY SPEECH! MUST HEAR! EMERGENCY BANKING ACT IS WHY HE WAS SILENCED

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The Great Gold Robbery of 1933 by Tom Woods
https://mises.org/library/great-gold-robbery-1933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Banking_Act

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 7:34 pm

http://www.afn.org/~govern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html

In eighteen years that have passed since Senator Lodge wrote that letter of warning all of his predictions have come true. The Government is in the banking business as never before. Against its will it has been made the backer of horsethieves and card sharps, bootleggers, smugglers, speculators, and swindlers in all parts of the world. Through the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks the riffraff of every country is operating on the public credit of this United States Government. Meanwhile, and on account of it, we ourselves are in the midst of the greatest depression we have ever known. Thus the menace to our prosperity, so feared by Senator Lodge, has indeed struck home. From the Atlantic to the Pacific our country has been ravaged and laid waste by the evil practices of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks and the interests which control them. At no time in our history has the general welfare of the people of the United States been at a lower level or the mind of the people so filled with despair.
Recently in one of our States 60,000 dwelling houses and farms were brought under the hammer in a single day. According to the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin, who has lately testified before a committee of this House, 71,000 houses and farms in Oakland County, Michigan, have been sold and their erstwhile owners dispossessed. Similar occurrences have probably taken place in every county in the United States. The people who have thus been driven out are the wastage of the Federal Reserve act. They are the victims of the dishonest and unscrupulous Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve banks. Their children are the new slaves of the auction blocks in the revival here of the institution of human slavery.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 7, 2023 10:45 am

Video is disabled now, but Alex Jones fake trash still up.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:08 am

Nixon took the dollar off the Gold Standard, ushering in a full blown, straight up, FIAT CURRENCY.
Otherwise known as “The Nixon shock”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock#:~:text=Nixon%20directed%20Treasury%20Secretary%20Connally,exchange%20their%20dollars%20for%20gold.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:50 am

DeGaulle told Nixon that all trade would be settled in gold. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
  lamont cranston
June 6, 2023 6:11 pm

I’m not a big fan of deGaulle, but he warned the US before he started demanding gold. The US had promised at the end of WWII that it would not inflate the dollar when it became the reserve currency. The dollar would remain convertible to gold at a fixed rate, to insure no money supply inflation. Of course the US lied and every President, especially once Johnson and Nixon took power, ramped up spending and borrowing and printing. DeGaulle warned the US to stop inflating the currency or France would start demanding gold instead of just recycling the dollars. The US ignored him, so he did what he had warned about. And THAT is what led to the “temporary closing of the gold window”.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 11:50 am

I guess it was Nixon’s wars in Southeast Asia and Nixon’s Great Society programs that forced his closing of the gold window.

anonymous
anonymous
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 7:58 pm

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and 1965.

The commander of the Maddox task force, Captain John Herrick, reported that the ships were being attacked by North Vietnamese boats when in fact, there were no North Vietnamese boats in the area. While Herrick soon reported doubts regarding the task force’s initial perceptions of the attack, the Johnson administration (you know, LBJ, not Nixon) relied on the wrongly interpreted National Security Agency communications intercepts to conclude that the attack was real. Thus March 1965 Marines attacked Vietnam, the republic of in 1965.

Richard Nixon as the 37th president of the United States was held on Monday, January 20, 1969.
I remember, because I had been sent to the Principal’s office for the third time of that current year.

falconflight
falconflight
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 1:41 pm

Nixon codified what LBJ implemented years earlier.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/who-really-killed-the-gold-standard-12435

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  falconflight
June 6, 2023 6:37 pm

Wage and price controls along with abandoning the gold standard.
A recipe for disaster.
Thomas Sowell, “Basic Economics” explains simply how this is
the dumbest possible thing to do to “help” working people.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 10:14 am

Everybody believes we left the gold standard and went on the petrol standard in the early 1970’s. That’s absolutely bullshit. We went off the gold standard in the 1930’s when Great Britain left the gold standard after they established their monopoly on the petroleum trade in Iran and Russia. What happened in the 1970’s is we left the petrol standard for the opium standard. We weren’t messing around in countries involved in the opium trade for the past 20 years for no reason. We weren’t there for their oil. We have plenty of oil in the USA.

Afghanistan=opium, Turkey (borders Iraq) =opium, Manchuria (borders China and Korea)= opium, Iran=opium. That entire region in the world is the center of the opium trade route. It’s not a coincidence the drug culture exploded in the 1970’s and the CIA did multiple drug psy-ops (MKULTRA) in that era. The Vietnam War was to distract attention away from the CIA’s covert war in Laos and their establishment of the Golden Triangle in Thailand, Laos, and Burma.

anonymous
anonymous
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 10:24 am

You’re on drugs.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:35 am

Why is Gov. Gavin Newsom fighting so hard to keep Leslie Van Houten in prison when he’s released so many deranged people? Why is he blocking her parole when he’s let the Soros DA puppets have free reign to let criminals free? Why is he suddenly taking a moral stance on the rule of law in this particular case? Why is he constantly denying the parole of a geriatric woman who’s been in prison for over 50 years? Could it be… that Charles Manson was a CIA asset giving LSD to people for mind control purposes? Could it be Newsom doesn’t want her to talk?

https://apnews.com/article/charles-manson-leslie-van-houten-parole-california-governor-newsom-d44bba07c2714c6cc3ad0bf11330284f

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 10:54 am

You’re on HARD drugs.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 10:58 am

Langleyflak = over target, Miss Stephanie.

GrungeVet
GrungeVet
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 11:02 am

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43015073-chaos

https://dfreality.substack.com/p/black-ops-and-black-magick-part-ii

“During the time Manson was interned in Vacaville Prison, the CIA conducted MK ULTRA experiments on it’s inmates. Manson was serving time in Vacaville Prison for violently sodomizing a young boy. Yet despite this heinous crime, he was paroled in 1967 after spending nearly half his life institutionalized.

Manson’s parole officer? An alleged Berkeley doctoral student named Roger Smith (boy, it’s hard to think of a name more generic then that). What declassified MK ULTRA documents reveal is that all whilst moonlighting as a parole officer and going to post graduate school, Smith was conducting LSD experiments on behalf of the CIA. What an industrious fellow. Roger Smith – if that’s even his real name – was a government agent, likely in the direct employ and not just on the bankroll of the Agency. The non-descript name, diverse career fields, government contracts; the clues point to Agent Smith as Charles Manson’s handler.

What did The Regime see in this charismatic psychopath? A useful tool? A prospective initiate? Although Manson repeatedly broke the terms of his parole, he was never remanded into custody. Manson’s prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi compared Charles’ programming techniques to that of the US military’s. How did he so effectively manipulate these young women into becoming gruesome, remorseless murderers? Was Charles Manson merely mimicking the experiments he had undergone in prison? Manson repeatedly said in interviews after his conviction, “”I’m only what I’ve been trained to be”. The Manson family murders would usher in the end of the counter culture era; a blood soaked warning of the dangers of free drugs and free love. Were the Manson family murders an experiment gone horribly wrong, or perhaps gone horribly right?”

Manson was clearly a CIA asset.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 11:02 am

Adding to GrungeVet’s comment:

Another of the clinic’s researchers, Louis “Jolly” West, ran a clandestine study about LSD and drug use among hippies. A CIA psychologist with a background in deprogramming victims of brainwashing, West refitted a dilapidated Victorian home near the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic as a “fake hippie crash pad” — a ploy to study drug addiction and homelessness.

West worked for CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, head of the MK-Ultra program. Under Gottlieb’s watch, this sordid CIA operation administered LSD to unwitting subjects, attempted to synthesize the ultimate truth serum, and pursued quixotic research into creating the perfect assassin and implanting false memories.

https://coffeeordie.com/charles-manson-cia

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 11:11 am

CIA’s MK-Ultra
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/cia-project-mk-ultra/
MORE:
https://www.unz.com/?s=MK-ULTRA&Action=Search&authors=larry-romanoff&ptype=all&postid=487545

https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=MK-ULTRA

Tavistock Inst.:
https://www.unz.com/?s=tavistock&Action=Search&authors=larry-romanoff&ptype=all&postid=487545

The TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE: Social Engineering Humanity via Multi-decade Mind-Control Programming
Review: TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE – Social Engineering the Masses by Daniel Estulin — Deep State Playbook

The TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE: Social Engineering Humanity via Multi-decade Mind-Control Programming

Tavistock & trans psyop:
https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=tavistock%20trans&kind=video

Tavistock gender clinic ‘to be sued by 1,000 families’
https://www.sott.net/article/470895-Tavistock-gender-clinic-to-be-sued-by-1000-families

Britain’s first children’s gender identity clinic – run by Tavistock Institute and NHS – hired lawyers to ‘silence’ book critical of gender-bender agenda
https://www.sott.net/article/421996-Britains-first-childrens-gender-identity-clinic-run-by-Tavistock-Institute-and-NHS-hired-lawyers-to-silence-book-critical-of-gender-bender-agenda

Tavistock Institute:
https://yandex.com/search/?text=tavistock+institute+history&lr=0&search_source=yacom_desktop_common

PSBindy
PSBindy
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 12:57 pm

Stephanie, what in the hell did you do to the lower level anons to incur their wrath?

Good thing they’re dumb. A smarter antagonist might present an actual argument requiring more of a readers time to refute .

It’s not just the basement nonies either. Whose testes have you minced in the before time? I’ve only been reading here about three years.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  PSBindy
June 6, 2023 1:11 pm

Ahem.

Fragile Femme

PSBindy
PSBindy
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 1:48 pm

So you think ‘fragile femme’ is the reason for the lower level anons ire against SS? I guess that could at least be a partial explanation. Thx.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  PSBindy
June 6, 2023 2:23 pm

@PSBindy

It’s either Langley minions or a bitter ex. I can’t tell the difference anymore. Shrug.

anonymous
anonymous
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 8:21 pm

The only ex you know ends in lax.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  anonymous
June 7, 2023 7:31 am

So you are saying she is NOT full of shit?

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 6:31 pm

Glow on, Glowie.

realestatepup
realestatepup
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 1:08 pm

Miles Mathis has covered the Manson killings in depth.
Worth a read. Fake fake fake
http://www.mileswmathis.com
Just because you have been told something is true doesn’t mean it is.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 2:49 pm

yep the Tate “murders” were a CIA op, and Manson was a tool …http://mileswmathis.com/tate.pdf

Long Time Lurker
Long Time Lurker
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 11:23 am

No Steph, that’s when they first raised the debt ceiling, doh. lol

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Stephanie Shepard
June 6, 2023 7:52 pm

My buddy got to Vietnam in ’66, and they discovered that he was a really excellent shot at very long distances.

The men in black knocked on his CO’s door and told them they wanted my buddy … and then they took him into Laos and Cambodia to assassinate civil and military folks who didn’t want to go along with the heroin cartel the the CIA/mossad/Meyer Lansky crime organization set up there.

He assassinated a lot of those local ‘leaders’ … some from well over 1 mile away … it was his job and he helped establish a significant drug enterprise for some very nasty folks.

Capt.Quaalude
Capt.Quaalude
  Stephanie Shepard
June 7, 2023 6:01 am

And now they have Fent and other poison, so we are out of those areas in a hurry. Apparently the labs are in other places

Hans
Hans
June 6, 2023 11:17 am

1971 roughly corresponds with the introduction of affordable industrial computer automation.

In 1971 I worked as an intern at the Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceutical manufacturing site in NC. We connected old analytical laboratory instrumentation to an IBM Sysem7 via A/D converters for automated data collection. The chemical production equipment was connected to another (DEC?) minicomputer to automate closed-loop process control.

Our industry was not unique in timing or approach to cost management via automation.

Hans … in the NC woods

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 6, 2023 11:26 am

And the Doors album, “L.A. Woman” came out:

Foreshadowing/predictive-programming trans psyop?

WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE CANYON LAUREL CANYON, COVERT OPS & THE DARK HEART OF THE HIPPIE DREAM by (the probably-assassinated) DAVID McGOWAN
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/David%20McGowan,%20Nick%20Bryant%20-%20Weird%20Scenes%20Inside%20the%20Canyon%20-%20Laurel%20Canyon,%20Covert%20Ops%20&%20the%20Dark%20Heart%20of%20the%20Hippie%20Dream.pdf

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
  Anonymous
June 6, 2023 1:23 pm

Greatly appreciate the book suggestion, Anon.
Nothing I’d honestly rather do right now than slash and burn my way through a culture that too many boomers won’t abandon.

PSBindy
PSBindy
  Two if by sea.
June 6, 2023 1:52 pm

Us Boomers will be gone soonishly.

We’re grateful the subsequent gens brought society trannys and adrenochrome and… and…

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
June 6, 2023 12:25 pm

Well…Nixon went to China in Mar of 1972, cementing the wet dreams of the neocons.
After building their foundation after JFK, the neos wasted no time. I believe contractual labor negotiations were occurring throughout the Vietnam war with the entire region.
“Hans” comment above with automation rise is certainly a slice of the rancid pie.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
June 6, 2023 12:41 pm

Another graph that confuses me. Did compensation go up by 115% or 15% since 1972?

Chuck
Chuck
  Glock-N-Load
June 6, 2023 4:30 pm

neither. up 115% from 1948 (zero on the graph). up 26% from 1972.

Arthur
Arthur
June 6, 2023 1:03 pm

Many good comments here on gold, drugs, automation. Another piece of the puzzle: the labor force doubled due to what we used to call “womens lib,” driving real wages down.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
  Arthur
June 6, 2023 2:52 pm

Latch-key kids became commonplace as women abandoned the home…

realestatepup
realestatepup
  Arthur
June 8, 2023 8:00 pm

Funny that. I was just thinking about Fran Zappa’s comments about public schools and how they are nothing more than propaganda machines.
If mothers are single or married and have to work due to inflation, then the only alternative is ‘childcare’ in the form of public school
I personally was told by a few ‘moms’ that if the required THE SHOT for thir kids to return to school they would give it to them rather than have to stay home with the little beasties.
Tells you everything you need to know about these so-called parents.

The True Nolan
The True Nolan
June 6, 2023 6:17 pm

Ah, Nixon…The guy who closed the gold window. Who gave us the EPA. And OSHA. And the laughingly named “War On (non-governmental) Drugs”. And mostly shut down the space program. And opened China to American businesses. And opened American politicians to Chinese bribery.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  The True Nolan
June 6, 2023 7:57 pm

Don’t forget the part that DiFi played in all of this … getting china MFN status in ’91 and helping her husband to make enormous amounts of money right out of the gate and over the rest of his life.

Strangely, neither DiFi nor her (deceased) husband were ever investigated … 

The tribe protects its own … especially when benefiting from its members …

Phil
Phil
June 6, 2023 7:00 pm

Besides what’s already mentioned;
-1965 immigration reform brought many 3rd world immigrants in – lower pay.
-Women’s Lib pushed more women into the job market – supply & demand, y’know.
-Profits down because of environmental laws.
-Inflation went nuts; after Nixon’s wage & price controls, raises were tiny or nonexistent. Prices kept rising and there were shortages. Many wondered out loud if we would keep the show the road or wind up like Mad Max (which dates from this era).
I remember – I was there.

Anonymous
Anonymous
June 6, 2023 9:46 pm

Japan happened. Until then the US had a closed market more or less. US was able to charge whatever it wanted for its goods. Then Japan came along, and the US had to compete. Japan made higher quality products more cheaply. Productivity gains were used to offset the hit being taken because of competition, and wages couldn’t be raised less Japan take even more of the market because of its lower cost base. And, yes, also because of automation.