The rulers have to maintain some degree of credibility and so they use platforms like Substack.
Substack is like a "democracy wall" except that its more like a "democracy house of mirrors" with many inexplicable limitations. Search functions, for example, are hopeless in SS. No doubt readers comments are vacuumed up into AI LLMs to perfect the tyranny.
They are playing with fire, though. If a really capable social media platform were permitted, one that permitted transparency and organization, it could bring them down quickly. They try to fool people into believing that's what Substack and others like it are, but they're far from it, deliberately.
Quote: "The rulers have to maintain some degree of credibility and so they use platforms like Substack."
Exactly, sneak peak into last section:
"The marginal non-zombified minority in the Empire, those who can pierce the image to see reality, are naturally frustrated. However, there is nothing much to be done, except letting off some steam, within limits of course, with friends on some marginal media platforms."
Quote: " If a really capable social media platform were permitted, one that permitted transparency and organization"
This will be discussed in later sections; monopoly of all main media platforms is critical for effective mass psychology manipulation.
I just looked up the definition of "shadow banning". How do you know you have been shadow banned? How common is it in Substack? What makes Substack any different than any of these other manipulated social medias? If you use You Tube for political news and analysis, given the algorithm, how do you find out what other people are seeing? Commenting on what I read is really the only way I have of fighting back. Who decides who is shadow banned and how do they figure out who is being sincere and who is a troll? I've lived in an authoritarian regime before and the only way to deal with it was in one-on-one conversations with people you trust. Mail was opened (not that we have a functional postal service anymore and people don't write letters either so actual history will be lost and has been since the 80's) and phones were regularly bugged (not that I gave a damn). The Iranian Revolution happened through cassettes of Khomeini (and maybe others?) being played in the mosques (since it was against the law for three or more people to congregate otherwise) and a series of whistle from rooftops. I can't see that happening here. People might go to church but the left-leaning churches avoid politics like the plague because they can lose their tax-free status and the right-leaning churches just preach conservative crapola and interestingly do not worry about preaching politics and losing their tax-free status. Maybe leftists should start going to church and recording those political statements and reporting them to the IRS. If the feds stop funding education, does that mean kids don't have to go to school anymore? Reagan destroyed the school system.
Heather Cox Richardson says between Reagan and Biden $50 trillion were transferred from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. The population has increased 68% and the size of the federal workforce has shrunk. Twice as much money is spent on outside contractors as is spent on federal employees, and most of the contractors are in the DOD.
One of Elon Musk's companies, called "The Boring Company" is developing "tunneling" to make a high-speed train (600 miles an hour) underground. Their test site is under Hawthorne, CA which (no duh, Sherlock) is in an earthquake zone and not far from the beach, either. I'm sure that company is living on sizable government grants.
Can they control ham radios?
Perhaps going completely analog is the only solution.
Such an important article, Fadi. And thank you for alerting me to ICE-9, the content has been enlightening. And you highlight such critical excerpts.
My daughter just asked me if Cuba had a sovereign money system, and here you are answering.
I didn't know about the tarring and feathering of German-Americans. That would have been my grandparents' era, German on both sides. Horrific.
The point of Trump, imo, was to induce Trump Derangement Syndrome. To be on either side of the hot button culture war issues is to fall for the psyops. As you note, it distracts us from the economics and military. I'll look forward to the rest of this series.
Yeah I was shocked about the hysteria that Bernays was able to whip up in a short period just using newspapers.
"To be on either side of the hot button culture war issues is to fall for the psyops" 100%
The good thing however, is some of the evildoings (which we were aware about) are being exposed for all to see. I think this is good, as it weakens the "System".
I agree. The exposure, now that things have come so much more into the open, is creating a crack in the facade. And you continue to widen that! Letting in so much more light.
That's what I have been doing for the past 4 months... to get over a series of shocks... at least got more clarity on behavior of "masses", tomorrow's part 2, has a bit of sarcasm in it :-)
Politics in the US is like a pendulum. It will go back left--probably a lot further left next time. I'm not referring to LGBTQ+. I'm talking socialist/Marxist.
I would say blatant totalitarianism as opposed to the discrete totalitarianism that has existed for decades at least. In one of the following sections, I provide an example from the 1980s
In some of my episodes, I talk about socialism vs. capitalism as need vs. greed based systems--both wrong and interdependent on each other. The alternative is a money system based on reciprocity, and that swinging pendulum is designed to keep us from recognizing that. IMO.
"The alternative is a money system based on reciprocity"
Definitely better than what we have, question is ability to implement
"socialism vs. capitalism"
It has been suggested that they have common roots?
Ideals of both are "good" reality though.... in both power and wealth reside with a few.... the "advantage" of capitalism is that there is no "lower limit" to poverty, or depriving large swaths from basics such as education and healthcare....
Yes, I've read some of that research on their common roots and tend to agree. As you point out, they both centralize power and wealth in the hands of a few. I'd say that capitalism is a little more transparent. It doesn't pretend it's for the common good.
I was just thinking that the set-up for the Great Reset is the same as for the commonwealth caret. While they make an ordinary life more and more intolerable, in preparation for their push into dependence on a one world gov't, the same conditions could backfire. They could lead to taking back our labor from serving the bankers.
And yes on brainstorming! I've been reading chapters of my book into the stack and am up to Ch. 5. AND my friend from the stack, Mark Alexander, has now set up the book for e-readers that work on multiple platforms. He's also designing an app that will simulate the caret system, or function IRL. So progress is being made!
I think this year would be a reasonable expectation. It's what he did for a job before he retired, so we've been mapping it out but I don't know exactly what is involved. I also need to set up my websites, one of which will have a neighborhood map so that we can design the kind of community layout we'd want. One of my readers, Isaac Middle, has a PhD in Urban Planning. So I have to take advantage of that!
Socialism is not based on need. Its basis is the recognition that the common good, the commonweal, affects everyone, winners and losers alike, and that it therefore is necessary for the survival of all.
The billionaires best worry, the worse things get in this country. They already have their own phalanx of bodyguards and lack true freedom of movement. One of my high school classmates, a Pahlavi, can't go anywhere at all without three burly bodyguards. And she can't sleep in the same bed for more than three nights in a row.
According to Edward Dowd, we're either in a recession right now or heading into one. Many economists are warning that most will lose "everything" due to the debt they are carrying. The Capitalist system is based on debt/credit. Our GDP is mostly interest payments--interest paid on only theoretical, not real, loans. It's a ridiculous system.
Significantly, Warren Buffet has his assets mostly in "cash" right now. He's sold his shares of Bank of America and CitiBank. He does not trust the stock market.
Socialism was castigated in the U.S. because the capitalists realized their candidates could not win without removing socialism from what was acceptable in the political realm. The only reason the US has any kind of wealth at all is it is in a perpetual state of war. For many, many reasons this is not sustainable.
When "Capitalism" or "Socialism" are used, reference is not to theoretical abstractions, but to how they were implemented in countries that labeled themselves are "capitalist" or "socialist". Neither was a utopia, both had advantages and disadvantages. In my personal opinion, "socialist" countries did provide better social justice than "capitalist" countries. Employment, education, healthcare were guaranteed, so were annual vacations across the board, from the janitor to the general manager of a large factory. Skilled kids, be it in sports, music, ballet, etc. were provided with opportunities to develop these skills regardless of family status. Naturally the party elites were living like royalty.
Quote: "The Capitalist system is based on debt/credit."
I believe you are referencing the monetary system, not the governance system. Any economic system in which usury exists, will invariably lead to concentration of wealth and widespread poverty. That's why in Mesopotamian civilizations debt Jubilees were implemented periodically. Michael Hudson explains this in depth. This is also why both Christianity and Islam prohibited usury. In my personal opinion, usury/interest is the greatest of socioeconomic ills.
Quote: "According to Edward Dowd, we're either in a recession right now or heading into one."
The US has been in a recession since 2007. This will be addressed in Part 8.
Quote: "Many economists are warning that most will lose "everything" due to the debt they are carrying."
I agree with them. You may wish to read David Rogers Webb "The Great Taking". Can watch videos on youtube there are many, here is one:
For you reference may apply to countries who call themselves socialist or capitalist. I do not agree. The US calls itself democratic and a free market country. It is neither.
I'm familiar with David Rogers Webb. Thanks. I have downloaded his work.
I do not understand how the Great Reset will take over property owned by people who are not in debt (except at the barrel of a gun). I'm sure they will try and possibly succeed. My survival plan is death. Frankly, I look forward to no longer sharing this planet with all these morons. Thank god I wasn't born yesterday. I pity, and worry about, the young.
Not sure what you mean by a capitalist or socialist "governance system". Perhaps you can clarify that.
FYI, I did not grow up in a capitalist country. I grew up in a police state that the CIA controlled. It was called a constitutional monarchy but that was a total joke. More like a military base, a totalitarian state with a very large domestic security force and huge US military presence, with a figurehead puppet/bobble-head.
Quote: "The US calls itself democratic and a free market country"
The US is a democratic country. This is a long story, that I have explained in my book. Briefly, Money Powers invented "Democracy" to sideline monarchies and the Catholic church which placed limits on usury. Note that democracy evolved hand in hand with privately owned central banks. Going back 11 millennia democracies have the most inequitable wealth distribution.
The Karl Marx quote, 'From each according to ability; to each according to need’ doesn't refer to a need-based system? From what you state as socialism, "the common good affects everyone ... and is necessary for the survival of all," who decides who gets what? The producer, under your definition of socialism, doesn't own the product of their own labor. They are required--by someone--to sacrifice it for the common good, however those someones define it.
Within my system of the commonwealth caret, the community--measured as thousands of people, not hundreds of millions--is the default owner of properties when they change hands, and can exclusively issue the credit for mortgages. They can distribute the collective mortgage payments in advance as targeted dividends to all commoners. So each household owns its own labor, to use in any way that has value to their neighbors, and each has a share in the products of everyone else's labor. It creates reciprocity.
Fadi, I've been thinking recently that the word 'usury' has been redefined to trick us. I don't think interest is the problem, it's to whom the interest goes. The relationship of the word to 'usurped' is too compelling. The bankers have usurped ownership of the houses, and the right to issue credit against them. If the commonwealth issued that credit with interest, it would all recirculate and keep labor serving the interests of the community--as they define it. And as nosey parker says, protecting the commonweal. So my current word for the PTB is the Usurpers, going back 5000 yrs.
Quote: "If the commonwealth issued that credit with interest, it would all recirculate and keep labor serving the interests of the community--as they define it"
This would be similar to Chinese system. The major commercial banks are government owned, so the interest goes back to the government, which is why:
1. Government can afford to build the best infrastructure in the world
2. One of the lowest corporate and personal income taxes
But when interest is collected by private entities, this I am adamantly against. Only work produces value. Actually I was brought up inline with Tawneys quote above, and I run my business accordingly.
Oh I forgot to link this reference Julius sent me to (of course) making the same point about Usurping being the real problem, not interest: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/opposing-the-money-lenders-the-struggle. The book he's reviewing goes through many sovereign money systems in history, notably Feder's with the National Socialists. It doesn't mention China, although it should. It also doesn't go into Ben Franklin's system, that mine is based on. But it's a great foundation in looking at sovereign money.
When we buy something from China, the dollars go into their Treasury and they issue renminbi, I assume, to the seller. So they get to stockpile dollars, use them to buy US Treasury debt, essentially for free.
The export products don't add to their quality of life because there's no trade from us (US) in return. If their labor made things for each other, that would be more beneficial. But the labor of 1B+ people is adding to the Treasury instead of to trade. What does that Treasury debt buy?
I know that Santa Cruz and all of California is building 15 story buildings in 15 min cities. No one here wants to live in a cubicle. Have California and Hawaii been traded for US debt? Is that one reason for the fires in Lahaina, Paradise, LA, here? Just wondering.
I do police transcription which allows you to go outside your home (or even live there without guns, guard dogs, tall walls, etc. ) It allows businesses to operate. It allows you to drive a car on the road. It allows product to be delivered to stores. It allows you to visit friends and family, to go to school, or a job, whatever. And on and on and on. Yes. Without good going to everyone, you cannot survive. No person is an island. Try it sometime and see how long you survive. No legal work can succeed without the documents I create. Life would be pretty godawful if we all had to live alone, paranoid as hell, and only the fruit of our own labor being available to us. That's medieval.
Usury is interest. Westerners really hate that idea. But that is what it is. Immoral in Islam. Don't think Jesus thought much of the money lenders either.
In Europe, usury was the greatest crime until the "Renaissance".
Quoting R.H. Tawney from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism a Historical Study:
There is a moral authority to which considerations of economic expediency must be subordinated. There is no place in medieval theory for economic activity which is not related to a moral end.
It is right for a man to seek such wealth as is necessary for a livelihood in his station. To seek more is not enterprise, but avarice, and avarice is a deadly sin
payment may properly be demanded by the craftsmen who make the goods, or by the merchants who transport them, for both labor in their vocation and serve the common need. The unpardonable sin is that of the speculator or the middleman, who snatches private gain by the exploitation of public necessities.
usury in particular, as an offence against morality specifically [is] forbidden by both the church and public policy.
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In our company we conducted our business pretty much accordance to the above
I think you misunderstand my system, nosey parker. It's based on community, trade and reciprocity--not living alone and paranoid, exactly the opposite of that.
And I certainly know that usury has been defined as loans with interest. But I think that's a red herring. I think the original word had to be related to usurped--4 out of 5 letters the same. If, in the Great Reset model, the PTB simply abolish loans and charge us all rent on the properties only they can buy, does that solve the problem? I don't think so.
And 'Jesus' took a whip to the 'money changers' not lenders. This story was written after 70 CE when the zealots had taken over the temple of Jerusalem, which had been used to collect taxes for the Roman Empire in the coin of Caesar. The zealots said this was the first step to slavery, Jesus said 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's'--which meant their labor, resources and lives under that imperial system.
During the three years that the zealots kicked out the Romans, did they institute a different coinage as a money system for trade? It seems likely. They'd still want commerce to go on, as you say, no one is an island. So they may have changed it to a sovereign money system for Judea. 'Jesus' represents Titus according to Joe Atwill's research. Titus, son of Caesar (called God at the time) put Jerusalem under siege and, when he finally got in (through a betrayal?) slaughtered until the streets ran red with blood. That's 'Jesus' and his whip, driving out the anti-imperialist money system.
All well said! It's good to remind those who know and awaken those still asleep. Bravo Fadi for this brilliant summary of world affairs. I believe the leftist version of the global cabal is losing grip. The manipulation of people's perception is becoming more and more difficult with leftist ideology. The magic seems to be disappearing by the day. Hence, the leftist narrative is quietly being replaced by the rightist version strongly embodied by Donald Trump and his cohort. You see, the cabal is very good at reading signs and at anticipating in order to get ahead of the game, as always. There is hope that it's going to be more and more difficult to keep the mass on a spell like they're used to do with their very powerful machinery of propaganda and intimidation tactic. However, when the soft power no longer works they might revert to violence!
Agree with you fully. The one concern is that they are radicalizing 2 opposing sections, to prepare the ground for internal strife instead of a united opposition to the cabal.
There is no left. If there were, Trump would be in prison and not in the White House. And Musk would emigrate to a country where he would not be taxed. Did you know his grandfather was a Canadian Nazi? Does anyone know more details about this grandfather?
One is Ton Da Vinci a multi-skilled creature, excellent biker, master in martial arts, has a lingerie factory, nearly self sufficient in food from his own small land near his house, doesn't use chemical fertilizer or pesticides. Makes his own pesticides from herb extracts. One of his dogs got pancreas cancer, Ton treated him and the dog lived for 6 more years. He's a vegetarian.
The second is Wissam the Alchemist. Unlike Ton he is 1 track minded.. on medicinal herbs... in his treatments, he focuses a lot on diet... no dairy products, very little meat... makes his own toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, and shaves with olive oil lol never eats from restaurants or supermarket foods...
Hello, Fadi. This is a great article and discussion. I have had it bookmarked since you posted it and have finally gotten around to reading it. I look forward to catching up on the series.
The topic of brainwashing and mass psychology is indeed vast and I am happy to share parts of this journey of discovery with you. I am nowhere near as far as you along this journey, but there was a reason that my first two substacks were on ‘Falsehood in War Time’ and the ‘Tavistock Institute’.
“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.
Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda.
… the injection of the poison of hatred into men's minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
__________
By the way, I listen at speed 2x (x4 is a bit of an exaggeration – Tereza’s Mandela recollection?). Puzzles – 8,000 and one at 13,200 but latent and unfinished.
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P.S. I have subscribed to Joshua Stylman and will follow ICE-9 more attentively, thanks.
I don't recommend any Islamic bank. From my limited knowledge Islamic banks deal with interest, but they just give it another name, profit sharing or something like that.
My advice, physical gold or silver OUTSIDE banking system.
Excellent!
"Control the script and you control the minds"
Yes so true.
The rulers have to maintain some degree of credibility and so they use platforms like Substack.
Substack is like a "democracy wall" except that its more like a "democracy house of mirrors" with many inexplicable limitations. Search functions, for example, are hopeless in SS. No doubt readers comments are vacuumed up into AI LLMs to perfect the tyranny.
They are playing with fire, though. If a really capable social media platform were permitted, one that permitted transparency and organization, it could bring them down quickly. They try to fool people into believing that's what Substack and others like it are, but they're far from it, deliberately.
Quote: "The rulers have to maintain some degree of credibility and so they use platforms like Substack."
Exactly, sneak peak into last section:
"The marginal non-zombified minority in the Empire, those who can pierce the image to see reality, are naturally frustrated. However, there is nothing much to be done, except letting off some steam, within limits of course, with friends on some marginal media platforms."
Quote: " If a really capable social media platform were permitted, one that permitted transparency and organization"
This will be discussed in later sections; monopoly of all main media platforms is critical for effective mass psychology manipulation.
I just looked up the definition of "shadow banning". How do you know you have been shadow banned? How common is it in Substack? What makes Substack any different than any of these other manipulated social medias? If you use You Tube for political news and analysis, given the algorithm, how do you find out what other people are seeing? Commenting on what I read is really the only way I have of fighting back. Who decides who is shadow banned and how do they figure out who is being sincere and who is a troll? I've lived in an authoritarian regime before and the only way to deal with it was in one-on-one conversations with people you trust. Mail was opened (not that we have a functional postal service anymore and people don't write letters either so actual history will be lost and has been since the 80's) and phones were regularly bugged (not that I gave a damn). The Iranian Revolution happened through cassettes of Khomeini (and maybe others?) being played in the mosques (since it was against the law for three or more people to congregate otherwise) and a series of whistle from rooftops. I can't see that happening here. People might go to church but the left-leaning churches avoid politics like the plague because they can lose their tax-free status and the right-leaning churches just preach conservative crapola and interestingly do not worry about preaching politics and losing their tax-free status. Maybe leftists should start going to church and recording those political statements and reporting them to the IRS. If the feds stop funding education, does that mean kids don't have to go to school anymore? Reagan destroyed the school system.
Heather Cox Richardson says between Reagan and Biden $50 trillion were transferred from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. The population has increased 68% and the size of the federal workforce has shrunk. Twice as much money is spent on outside contractors as is spent on federal employees, and most of the contractors are in the DOD.
One of Elon Musk's companies, called "The Boring Company" is developing "tunneling" to make a high-speed train (600 miles an hour) underground. Their test site is under Hawthorne, CA which (no duh, Sherlock) is in an earthquake zone and not far from the beach, either. I'm sure that company is living on sizable government grants.
Can they control ham radios?
Perhaps going completely analog is the only solution.
Incredible analysis!!!
Such an important article, Fadi. And thank you for alerting me to ICE-9, the content has been enlightening. And you highlight such critical excerpts.
My daughter just asked me if Cuba had a sovereign money system, and here you are answering.
I didn't know about the tarring and feathering of German-Americans. That would have been my grandparents' era, German on both sides. Horrific.
The point of Trump, imo, was to induce Trump Derangement Syndrome. To be on either side of the hot button culture war issues is to fall for the psyops. As you note, it distracts us from the economics and military. I'll look forward to the rest of this series.
Thank you, Tereza.
Yeah I was shocked about the hysteria that Bernays was able to whip up in a short period just using newspapers.
"To be on either side of the hot button culture war issues is to fall for the psyops" 100%
The good thing however, is some of the evildoings (which we were aware about) are being exposed for all to see. I think this is good, as it weakens the "System".
I agree. The exposure, now that things have come so much more into the open, is creating a crack in the facade. And you continue to widen that! Letting in so much more light.
That's what I have been doing for the past 4 months... to get over a series of shocks... at least got more clarity on behavior of "masses", tomorrow's part 2, has a bit of sarcasm in it :-)
Politics in the US is like a pendulum. It will go back left--probably a lot further left next time. I'm not referring to LGBTQ+. I'm talking socialist/Marxist.
I would say blatant totalitarianism as opposed to the discrete totalitarianism that has existed for decades at least. In one of the following sections, I provide an example from the 1980s
In some of my episodes, I talk about socialism vs. capitalism as need vs. greed based systems--both wrong and interdependent on each other. The alternative is a money system based on reciprocity, and that swinging pendulum is designed to keep us from recognizing that. IMO.
"The alternative is a money system based on reciprocity"
Definitely better than what we have, question is ability to implement
"socialism vs. capitalism"
It has been suggested that they have common roots?
Ideals of both are "good" reality though.... in both power and wealth reside with a few.... the "advantage" of capitalism is that there is no "lower limit" to poverty, or depriving large swaths from basics such as education and healthcare....
a lot of brainstorming necessary
Yes, I've read some of that research on their common roots and tend to agree. As you point out, they both centralize power and wealth in the hands of a few. I'd say that capitalism is a little more transparent. It doesn't pretend it's for the common good.
I was just thinking that the set-up for the Great Reset is the same as for the commonwealth caret. While they make an ordinary life more and more intolerable, in preparation for their push into dependence on a one world gov't, the same conditions could backfire. They could lead to taking back our labor from serving the bankers.
And yes on brainstorming! I've been reading chapters of my book into the stack and am up to Ch. 5. AND my friend from the stack, Mark Alexander, has now set up the book for e-readers that work on multiple platforms. He's also designing an app that will simulate the caret system, or function IRL. So progress is being made!
"designing an app that will simulate the caret system, or function IRL. So progress is being made!"
That's great... any idea when Mark will have simulator ready?
Truth be told, I haven't figured it out completely, so the simulator would be helpful
I think this year would be a reasonable expectation. It's what he did for a job before he retired, so we've been mapping it out but I don't know exactly what is involved. I also need to set up my websites, one of which will have a neighborhood map so that we can design the kind of community layout we'd want. One of my readers, Isaac Middle, has a PhD in Urban Planning. So I have to take advantage of that!
Socialism is not based on need. Its basis is the recognition that the common good, the commonweal, affects everyone, winners and losers alike, and that it therefore is necessary for the survival of all.
The billionaires best worry, the worse things get in this country. They already have their own phalanx of bodyguards and lack true freedom of movement. One of my high school classmates, a Pahlavi, can't go anywhere at all without three burly bodyguards. And she can't sleep in the same bed for more than three nights in a row.
According to Edward Dowd, we're either in a recession right now or heading into one. Many economists are warning that most will lose "everything" due to the debt they are carrying. The Capitalist system is based on debt/credit. Our GDP is mostly interest payments--interest paid on only theoretical, not real, loans. It's a ridiculous system.
Significantly, Warren Buffet has his assets mostly in "cash" right now. He's sold his shares of Bank of America and CitiBank. He does not trust the stock market.
Socialism was castigated in the U.S. because the capitalists realized their candidates could not win without removing socialism from what was acceptable in the political realm. The only reason the US has any kind of wealth at all is it is in a perpetual state of war. For many, many reasons this is not sustainable.
When "Capitalism" or "Socialism" are used, reference is not to theoretical abstractions, but to how they were implemented in countries that labeled themselves are "capitalist" or "socialist". Neither was a utopia, both had advantages and disadvantages. In my personal opinion, "socialist" countries did provide better social justice than "capitalist" countries. Employment, education, healthcare were guaranteed, so were annual vacations across the board, from the janitor to the general manager of a large factory. Skilled kids, be it in sports, music, ballet, etc. were provided with opportunities to develop these skills regardless of family status. Naturally the party elites were living like royalty.
Quote: "The Capitalist system is based on debt/credit."
I believe you are referencing the monetary system, not the governance system. Any economic system in which usury exists, will invariably lead to concentration of wealth and widespread poverty. That's why in Mesopotamian civilizations debt Jubilees were implemented periodically. Michael Hudson explains this in depth. This is also why both Christianity and Islam prohibited usury. In my personal opinion, usury/interest is the greatest of socioeconomic ills.
Quote: "According to Edward Dowd, we're either in a recession right now or heading into one."
The US has been in a recession since 2007. This will be addressed in Part 8.
Quote: "Many economists are warning that most will lose "everything" due to the debt they are carrying."
I agree with them. You may wish to read David Rogers Webb "The Great Taking". Can watch videos on youtube there are many, here is one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2-3pUfp89g
or download it for free: https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download
I have also addressed this issue in a 3 part essay:
The Great Dessert: The Geopolitical - Financial Endgame
https://fadilama.substack.com/p/the-great-dessert-the-geopolitical
For you reference may apply to countries who call themselves socialist or capitalist. I do not agree. The US calls itself democratic and a free market country. It is neither.
I'm familiar with David Rogers Webb. Thanks. I have downloaded his work.
I do not understand how the Great Reset will take over property owned by people who are not in debt (except at the barrel of a gun). I'm sure they will try and possibly succeed. My survival plan is death. Frankly, I look forward to no longer sharing this planet with all these morons. Thank god I wasn't born yesterday. I pity, and worry about, the young.
Not sure what you mean by a capitalist or socialist "governance system". Perhaps you can clarify that.
FYI, I did not grow up in a capitalist country. I grew up in a police state that the CIA controlled. It was called a constitutional monarchy but that was a total joke. More like a military base, a totalitarian state with a very large domestic security force and huge US military presence, with a figurehead puppet/bobble-head.
Quote: "The US calls itself democratic and a free market country"
The US is a democratic country. This is a long story, that I have explained in my book. Briefly, Money Powers invented "Democracy" to sideline monarchies and the Catholic church which placed limits on usury. Note that democracy evolved hand in hand with privately owned central banks. Going back 11 millennia democracies have the most inequitable wealth distribution.
Check the figure in this article:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/aracheology-wealth-inequality-180968072/
Quote: "Not sure what you mean by a capitalist or socialist "governance system"
I meant countries that label themselves as socialists (Eastern European countries during the Cold War, Cuba, China, etc.)
Capitalist, like the US, Europe, Japan, etc.
Quote: " I grew up in a police state that the CIA controlled"
That's the worst.
Quote: "It was called a constitutional monarchy"
Neutered King :-)
The Karl Marx quote, 'From each according to ability; to each according to need’ doesn't refer to a need-based system? From what you state as socialism, "the common good affects everyone ... and is necessary for the survival of all," who decides who gets what? The producer, under your definition of socialism, doesn't own the product of their own labor. They are required--by someone--to sacrifice it for the common good, however those someones define it.
Within my system of the commonwealth caret, the community--measured as thousands of people, not hundreds of millions--is the default owner of properties when they change hands, and can exclusively issue the credit for mortgages. They can distribute the collective mortgage payments in advance as targeted dividends to all commoners. So each household owns its own labor, to use in any way that has value to their neighbors, and each has a share in the products of everyone else's labor. It creates reciprocity.
Fadi, I've been thinking recently that the word 'usury' has been redefined to trick us. I don't think interest is the problem, it's to whom the interest goes. The relationship of the word to 'usurped' is too compelling. The bankers have usurped ownership of the houses, and the right to issue credit against them. If the commonwealth issued that credit with interest, it would all recirculate and keep labor serving the interests of the community--as they define it. And as nosey parker says, protecting the commonweal. So my current word for the PTB is the Usurpers, going back 5000 yrs.
Interesting Usury from usurp... makes sense
Quote: "If the commonwealth issued that credit with interest, it would all recirculate and keep labor serving the interests of the community--as they define it"
This would be similar to Chinese system. The major commercial banks are government owned, so the interest goes back to the government, which is why:
1. Government can afford to build the best infrastructure in the world
2. One of the lowest corporate and personal income taxes
But when interest is collected by private entities, this I am adamantly against. Only work produces value. Actually I was brought up inline with Tawneys quote above, and I run my business accordingly.
Oh I forgot to link this reference Julius sent me to (of course) making the same point about Usurping being the real problem, not interest: https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/opposing-the-money-lenders-the-struggle. The book he's reviewing goes through many sovereign money systems in history, notably Feder's with the National Socialists. It doesn't mention China, although it should. It also doesn't go into Ben Franklin's system, that mine is based on. But it's a great foundation in looking at sovereign money.
I bring up some of my reservations about China in Jeff Brown's interview of me: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/interview-with-jeff-j-brown.
When we buy something from China, the dollars go into their Treasury and they issue renminbi, I assume, to the seller. So they get to stockpile dollars, use them to buy US Treasury debt, essentially for free.
The export products don't add to their quality of life because there's no trade from us (US) in return. If their labor made things for each other, that would be more beneficial. But the labor of 1B+ people is adding to the Treasury instead of to trade. What does that Treasury debt buy?
I know that Santa Cruz and all of California is building 15 story buildings in 15 min cities. No one here wants to live in a cubicle. Have California and Hawaii been traded for US debt? Is that one reason for the fires in Lahaina, Paradise, LA, here? Just wondering.
I do police transcription which allows you to go outside your home (or even live there without guns, guard dogs, tall walls, etc. ) It allows businesses to operate. It allows you to drive a car on the road. It allows product to be delivered to stores. It allows you to visit friends and family, to go to school, or a job, whatever. And on and on and on. Yes. Without good going to everyone, you cannot survive. No person is an island. Try it sometime and see how long you survive. No legal work can succeed without the documents I create. Life would be pretty godawful if we all had to live alone, paranoid as hell, and only the fruit of our own labor being available to us. That's medieval.
Usury is interest. Westerners really hate that idea. But that is what it is. Immoral in Islam. Don't think Jesus thought much of the money lenders either.
In Europe, usury was the greatest crime until the "Renaissance".
Quoting R.H. Tawney from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism a Historical Study:
There is a moral authority to which considerations of economic expediency must be subordinated. There is no place in medieval theory for economic activity which is not related to a moral end.
It is right for a man to seek such wealth as is necessary for a livelihood in his station. To seek more is not enterprise, but avarice, and avarice is a deadly sin
payment may properly be demanded by the craftsmen who make the goods, or by the merchants who transport them, for both labor in their vocation and serve the common need. The unpardonable sin is that of the speculator or the middleman, who snatches private gain by the exploitation of public necessities.
usury in particular, as an offence against morality specifically [is] forbidden by both the church and public policy.
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In our company we conducted our business pretty much accordance to the above
I think you misunderstand my system, nosey parker. It's based on community, trade and reciprocity--not living alone and paranoid, exactly the opposite of that.
And I certainly know that usury has been defined as loans with interest. But I think that's a red herring. I think the original word had to be related to usurped--4 out of 5 letters the same. If, in the Great Reset model, the PTB simply abolish loans and charge us all rent on the properties only they can buy, does that solve the problem? I don't think so.
And 'Jesus' took a whip to the 'money changers' not lenders. This story was written after 70 CE when the zealots had taken over the temple of Jerusalem, which had been used to collect taxes for the Roman Empire in the coin of Caesar. The zealots said this was the first step to slavery, Jesus said 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's'--which meant their labor, resources and lives under that imperial system.
During the three years that the zealots kicked out the Romans, did they institute a different coinage as a money system for trade? It seems likely. They'd still want commerce to go on, as you say, no one is an island. So they may have changed it to a sovereign money system for Judea. 'Jesus' represents Titus according to Joe Atwill's research. Titus, son of Caesar (called God at the time) put Jerusalem under siege and, when he finally got in (through a betrayal?) slaughtered until the streets ran red with blood. That's 'Jesus' and his whip, driving out the anti-imperialist money system.
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Thanks for the wide view
All well said! It's good to remind those who know and awaken those still asleep. Bravo Fadi for this brilliant summary of world affairs. I believe the leftist version of the global cabal is losing grip. The manipulation of people's perception is becoming more and more difficult with leftist ideology. The magic seems to be disappearing by the day. Hence, the leftist narrative is quietly being replaced by the rightist version strongly embodied by Donald Trump and his cohort. You see, the cabal is very good at reading signs and at anticipating in order to get ahead of the game, as always. There is hope that it's going to be more and more difficult to keep the mass on a spell like they're used to do with their very powerful machinery of propaganda and intimidation tactic. However, when the soft power no longer works they might revert to violence!
Agree with you fully. The one concern is that they are radicalizing 2 opposing sections, to prepare the ground for internal strife instead of a united opposition to the cabal.
There is no left. If there were, Trump would be in prison and not in the White House. And Musk would emigrate to a country where he would not be taxed. Did you know his grandfather was a Canadian Nazi? Does anyone know more details about this grandfather?
+ from Healing to Medicine to Bio-Tech
actually... I am lucky to have 2 friends who are deep into medicinal herbs... never use pharma except 2 Panadols after a lousy wine :-)
Try Vitamin B-5. Pantothenic acid.
Love to know about the herbalists.
One is Ton Da Vinci a multi-skilled creature, excellent biker, master in martial arts, has a lingerie factory, nearly self sufficient in food from his own small land near his house, doesn't use chemical fertilizer or pesticides. Makes his own pesticides from herb extracts. One of his dogs got pancreas cancer, Ton treated him and the dog lived for 6 more years. He's a vegetarian.
The second is Wissam the Alchemist. Unlike Ton he is 1 track minded.. on medicinal herbs... in his treatments, he focuses a lot on diet... no dairy products, very little meat... makes his own toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, and shaves with olive oil lol never eats from restaurants or supermarket foods...
Thank you very much
Comments to categorize and nothing ever changes and gets worse. Why comment it’s like pissing in the wind.
True but it does help let off some steam, which ain't such a bad thing :-)
Hello, Fadi. This is a great article and discussion. I have had it bookmarked since you posted it and have finally gotten around to reading it. I look forward to catching up on the series.
The topic of brainwashing and mass psychology is indeed vast and I am happy to share parts of this journey of discovery with you. I am nowhere near as far as you along this journey, but there was a reason that my first two substacks were on ‘Falsehood in War Time’ and the ‘Tavistock Institute’.
• Falsehood in War-Time – Arthur Ponsonby
https://juliusskoolafish.substack.com/p/falsehood-in-war-time-by-arthur-ponsonby
• The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations – John D Coleman
https://juliusskoolafish.substack.com/p/the-tavistock-institute-of-human
Ponsonby:
“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.
Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda.
… the injection of the poison of hatred into men's minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
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By the way, I listen at speed 2x (x4 is a bit of an exaggeration – Tereza’s Mandela recollection?). Puzzles – 8,000 and one at 13,200 but latent and unfinished.
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P.S. I have subscribed to Joshua Stylman and will follow ICE-9 more attentively, thanks.
Can you recommend an Islamic bank in the U.S. for basic banking (no investments)? I am sick of usury and capitalist greed.
I don't recommend any Islamic bank. From my limited knowledge Islamic banks deal with interest, but they just give it another name, profit sharing or something like that.
My advice, physical gold or silver OUTSIDE banking system.
Like the stock market, gold and silver are for lemmings. Bitcoin, etc. Whoever has the most will screw everyone else. But thanks.
Gold is a good indicator of how much value the dollar as lost due to national debt.