“You must not take the Controller away. We will all die! The Controller is young and powerful. Perfect!” – Star Trek, TOS
Song lyric idea: “The Beautiful Sheeple, The Beautiful Sheeple . . .”
Currency started out innocently enough. If I wanted to sell my wheat and then buy some beer, well, I could trade my wheat to the brewer. But what if the brewer had all the wheat he needed, but needed, oh, hops? My wheat would do him no good. There is evidence of a guy making beer in the Bible, after all there’s a book in the New Testament named Hebrews.
I could try to trade my wheat to the guy who grew hops, but if he didn’t need any wheat, what was I to do?
The problem that currency solved was a simple one – how do I trade with someone who doesn’t need what I have? How can accountants get into amusement parks? How can ATF® agents do, well, anything since absolutely no one has any use for them?
The solution was some sort of medium of exchange. In one sense, it’s magic. As long as everyone believes, it works. When used judiciously (i.e., backed by gold on demand) it transforms into something that is hard to manipulate – what we’d call money.
How do you greet a German wheat farmer? “Gluten tag.”
When backed by nothing, (like now) it’s simply cash or currency.
The history of the last fifty years (and the last twenty, especially) has been the history of printing currency out of nothing and then giving it to a few small groups, and then they use the cash to buy up everything.
Once a group owns everything, there’s no reason for them to worry about profit: they already own all the things worth owning. That’s BlackRock©. The Aptly Named® Larry Fink runs it, and it’s no longer about profits, it’s about control based on his ideology.
What does Fink expect you to do when it’s cold? Huddle around a candle. What about when it’s freezing? Maybe then Larry will let you light the candle.
People (last I checked) still drive cars driven by sweet, sweet internal combustion engines. Those internal combustion engines (for the most part) require sweet, sweet crude oil to be turned into gasoline and diesel. Yeah, ethanol exists and so does biodiesel, but those can’t pull the load, and ethanol actively takes food out of the supply chain.
What if, however, the United Nations leaned on banks to get them to stop the supply of oil by choking off the supply of cash to oil producing nations?
If it wasn’t clear before, it should be clear now: it’s not about humanity or human rights – it’s about control.
Is the reason Saudi Arabia has so much money all the oil cash, or that they won’t let their women spend it?
Please don’t believe me, believe them when they say it. Here is the head of the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) saying that “central banks will have absolute control over all money (sic)”. This is in how each dollar (or whatever unit) is used, what people are allowed to buy, and what people are prohibited to buy.
Why do Central Bankers drive Ferraris®? Because you’re okay with a Fiat©.
One thing I know that they’d love to do is to make money evaporate to force people to spend rather than save. This can be done with electronic currency, and I expect they will do it to make sure that people can’t save and are forced to work every day of their lives.
Even more than now.
- 35% of Americans think they’ll max out at least one credit card this year.
- 38% are using their cards for expenses that they never used a card for.
- 62% are considering a “side-gig”, even if they already have a job.
-Fintech Times, July 25, 2023 (LINK)
Things are looking down for many Americans. When it comes to the point of using credit cards for financing life, it’s getting rough – I know, I was in that trap when I was in my 20s. I’ve seen it here in Modern Mayberry where the labor market is now getting tighter, and more people are looking for work. Employers can now be a bit choosier, which will put downward pressure on wages. The reason for this is simple: people aren’t going to McDonald’s®, they’re eating at home for half (or less) the price.
Another sign of control: in a recent month, 1.2 million “native or heritage”, (i.e., Americans actually born as Americans from American parents in America) lost their jobs. They were replaced by 600,000 immigrants. Low-cost labor is still being imported, and putting even more wage pressure on the middle and lower classes. The Biden administration even ordered that some of the gates in “The Wall” be welded open, which defeats the whole “wall” idea.
Looks like that Bill Gates was in charge of the wall, too. Look at all the Windows®.
To paraphrase William Jennings Bryant (among others), it is difficult to get a person to voice dissent when their next meal requires them to agree. That, then, is the nature of control of economic systems as demonstrated by BlackRock®, the BIS©, and the World Economic Forum™ – the desire is to make it so that the average person cannot resist without being kicked outside of the system that provides food, shelter, and the occasional luxury.
I’m sure it would be easy to start your own Central Bank . . . oh, maybe not.
Even that deal is in danger: the desire to dramatically change the way that people work and live is on the table for these groups. Who, exactly, do you think wants you to live in a pod and eat the bugs, and not own anything? Owning everything that matters isn’t enough – they want to own everything, and make your ability to have anything depending on you giving them all of yourself.
Even your thoughts.
And to think, all we really wanted was a beer. I guess it was pretty expensive.
2% of American population doesn’t have the votes to control anything. The middle class is in charge, not this guy.
All political systems are democracies, because all rulers depend on nearly universal voluntary obedience to pay taxes and obey orders.
The problem is not the charismatic leaders directing people to run off a cliff; the problem is all the middle class lemmings who voluntarily follow them.
The sheep always follow a shepherd. Often to be fleeced, occasionally to be mutton.
Oh for goodness sake. Not the “2% of the votes” nonsense again. This stuff doesn’t get “voted in”. A farmer with 50 cattle would have just about “2% of the votes” if each mammal got a vote. But the farmer decides what happens to the cattle. (The example of cattle may not be random.)
I can’t tell if this is some high-IQ but spergy capital-L Libertarian screed or the usual gaslighting. What’s next, crying out “but Larry Fink isn’t observant, so he doesn’t count as one of Them”?
Humans farm cows because cows don’t have opposable thumbs or enough brains to invent metalworking and firearms. Mike_C, what exactly is the human equivalent of that unbridgeable difference of capabilities? Do you wear a tee-shirt that says “I’m White and I always fall for ((their Lies))”?
Central banking gets voted in when 300 million Americans individually decide within their minds to obey this man behind a podium instead of ignore him. For this conversation we can substitute Fink with Adolph Hitler if that removes a distracting factor of ethnicity for you. Hitler stands on a table in a bar and holds forth a rant. So what? He’s a guy ranting in a bar. Nothing about some nut talking in a bar is forcing me to obey him. Who precisely is forcing me at gunpoint to obey Hitler? Who exactly is holding those guns? How exactly do those people come to decide to hold those guns for those purposes?
George Washington crushed honest commodity money (alcohol) to protect central banker fiat monopoly debt money in the Whiskey Rebellion. This had nothing to do with some ethnicity/religion that was relatively rare among the American founding fathers. Oh nos! The evil people can’t be Washington and the founding lawyers, they come from my geographic region of the Earth and have a physical resemblance to me, implying some shared genetic heritage! Let’s blame those non-assimilating immigrant pushy successful outsiders instead, who believe their race is the best, the Han Chinese! Wait a minute, that’s not how the rant goes…
To make it worse, the voters that decide each election are the voters that care the least. Oh, and the Democrats that manipulate the election.
The issue with the Liz Churchill meme is that Larry Fink is not White, he is Jewish, and sees White people as a threat.
Some White people like some Jewish people are a threat
Bwahahaha! “But sumdood did it too, so it’s okay!”
Not all Pit Bulls go berserk and kill. And a few other dogs occasionally do, as well. But enough Pit Bulls do that they stand out from the crowd as being notoriously dangerous. And have for, well, as long as there have been Pit Bulls.
Well, he doesn’t appear to like them. And, like I said, he’s aptly named.
Nothing happens until the tree gets fed.
This reminds me of T-shirts sold by a fellow who goes by the name of ‘David The Good’ – who publishes books and has a YouTube channel and a website called ‘The Survival Gardener’. He seems a little ‘crunchy’ on first glance, but he’s just incredibly laid back. Has lived in a number of climates and in each, he endeavors to find how to grow crops sufficient to survive, and even thrive on – by experimentation and relatively ‘unconventional’ methods – that generally work. And he’s not afraid to share his failures (aka – learning experiences) as well. Among his several published works are: ‘Grow or Die’ – a work on how and what to grow to avoid starvation, regardless of where you live, and another favorite: ‘Compost Everything’. Which brings us back to my favorite t-shirt in his collection:
It says: “Compost Your Enemies”.
We may well be past the point of being able to just water the tree of Liberty to keep it alive, and might well have to start doing some serious composting. Just my $.02 (not adjusted for inflation), and YMMV.
Coming sooner than most might expect . . .
I’d click ‘Like’, not because I like that things are likely to become ‘spicy’ sooner than most might expect, but because I agree just the same. Consider this comment an ‘Agree’. Unfortunately. 😒
Understood, and agreed.
“Biden”, er, Jake Sullivan weaponized the dollar last year by confiscating Russian national bank assets – pieces of paper denominated in dollars.
Yesterday the Saudis and the Russians weaponized oil by simultaneously announcing oil production cuts.
May the best weapon win.
Coupla ‘notable noses’ in those first few memes. Seems that one can’t talk about financial manipulation and global control without noticing tiny hats on the major players.
Yes, I went there.
Looked at the BlackRock BOD, pretty interesting bunch, but no particular trend. Fink is awful, though.
CEO of Saudi Aramco named to board of Blackrock.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-aramco-chief-named-blackrock-investment-firm-board
I don’t know if that will keep the money spigot on to all oil producers or just Aramco.
It makes sense for Aramco if others can’t produce, but they can and then get high prices. Right now, hearing rumors the Saudi weight is against Biden, so they’d love the misery of high gas prices to get him booted.
The sheep image instantly called up “Mammals,” by Bloodhound Gang, on my brain’s playlist.
Ahhh, the BHG. That’s one fierce beer coaster.
>>And to think, all we really wanted was a beer. I guess it was pretty expensive.
“You wake up in the morning,
Get something for the pot.
Wonder why the sun makes the rocks feel hot.
Draw on the walls,
Eat,
Get laid,
Back in the good old days.
Then some damn fool invents the wheel,
Listen to the whitewalls squeal.
You spend all day looking for a parking spot,
Nothing for the heart,
Nothing for the pot.”
~ Radio KAOS (1987) “Me or Him”
Hadn’t heard that one. Has a Ted K. Talk feel.
Larry (((Fink)))
Every. Single. Time.
As I’ve said, aptly named.
First, it was the new ice age. No, acid rain. Then, global warming. Now, climate change.
Wash, rinse & repeat, over and over and over…..
Don’t forget the wash, boost, reboost cycle of the ‘rona.
This is brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you! More to come. Monday will rhyme a bit.
If we had many more but smaller corporations, as well as small family owned stores, service companies and manufacturers the power of political correctness would be weakened. If your boss is a jerk you just go to a new job. This situation developed because people would be concerned about the power of large corporations, so they would demand that the government Do Something. The rules and regulations thereby induced would make life much harder for small companies than for large, who would just filled up a room with lawyers and accountants. (Don’t throw me into that briar patch!) This consolidated power in both corporations and government. We need rules that give the economic advantage to smaller companies, and tend to cause a large company to fission into smaller ones. It also needs to be easy to start a new company; you want to make it easy for a group of bright, young executives and engineers to leave their parent company and start their own, infuriating their old bosses. (I used to tell people that as long as the corporations support the Republicans the Democrats will do their bidding.)
Large corporations are strongly encouraged to by the Left and the State – for just that reason: control.
No doubt.