What we are watching price out through the political process is life vs. death. More specifically, the financial value of the life and death of various groups and ages of people vs. the life and death of large banks and corporations.
In a market economy, if a person’s skills become outdated, the theory is that they will be encouraged by their need to generate income to learn new skills or change.
If a large bank or corporation can no longer generate revenues to cover its operations, likewise the theory says that it will change. Management will invent new products and services, cut expenses, renegotiate with creditors through bankruptcy or shut down.
However, in a bubble, the people and the corporations and banks all avoid change by going to the government and coming up with thousands of ways to keep their operations afloat using government funds so they do not have to change– government programs, subsidies, contracts, credit, guarantees, regulations and so forth. This is why I start my case study on how the system really works with that old New Jersey street saying – “Make a law, make a business.”
Changing the laws, however, does not change the real world where fundamental productivity continues to count. So over the last twelve months, after many bubbles, there was not enough for everyone. So we made a decision to shift most, if not all, of our remaining resources to the large banks and corporations.
What this means is that if people do not need the products and services of the banks and corporations, rather than let them die, we are going to use government and central banks to simply take money from people to keep a bank or corporation alive without customers or markets.
So the institutions created to serve markets are deemed to have lives of their own that justify subsidizing them even if the markets are gone. Government can guarantee markets even when customers have no money to buy goods and services and taxpayers can not afford to pay taxes.
Big banks and corporations are guaranteed life. In addition, there is no prison or death penalty for big banks and corporations as a result of their bad behavior, including when it causes the death of people. So their life is infinite.
To pay for this we must take resources from people — with taxes, with fees, with inflation, with lower benefits and with legal and economic warfare. If they do not go along, we can send them to prison or inflict the death penalty.
Hence, an overview of a series of policies is emerging from Wall Street and Washington which is crystal clear.
People will die so that corporations and banks without retail markets, customers or purpose can live richly, although not anywhere near as richly as the invisible forces that hide behind them.
See the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist, entited “The Denial of Death”. There is a foundation that bears his name created to “illuminate how the unconscious denial of mortality profoundly influences human behavior, giving rise to acts of hate and violence as well as noble, altruistic striving”.
Dave:
I have had numerous experiences where I was absolutely convinced that I was going to be dead in anywhere from 1 second to 24 hours. I have had one experience during the physical harassment when my heart stopped and then about 5-10 seconds later started again miraculously. I also had an experience where I was very sick and there was a miraculous intervention. If I understand the description of an NDE, I am not sure any of them fit. Nothing where I left my body or this dimension.
I think the thing that gives me perspective is that I have always been a fundamentally happy person. Using a Christian’s language, I have always felt close to God ever since I can remember and long before I heard, understood or used the word God.
I tried mightily to work within the human systems around me. It never occurred to me that I had a choice to do otherwise. I was never a whistleblower. I was the target of a whistleblower. I was thrown out of the system.
Finding myself thrown out of the system, I tried to figure a way through the situation. What I learned was that essentially, all beliefs, knowledge and action can either bring you closer to God, or separate you from God.
The governance system on our planet is separate from God, and getting more so. Working within it can diminish the harm that it will do although many that try to work within it end up giving it more power because they don’t have a good map of the system. It is a defensive game.
We also need an offensive game, one that will withdraw power from it. Such strategies must bring us closer to God and be based in divine principles, such as free will.
A new way of governance should be based on transparency and love rather than force. That means the consensus process to develop a new vision is a slow, emergent one. As one person, what I can try to do is conduct myself in alignment with ways that work and try to be useful to those around me.
One of the greatest obstacles to building consensus is the presence of a critical mass of people who understand the true nature and intention of the systems and therefore have the knowledge and maps they have to act in accordance with their values and interests.
We did a survey the other day in my Solari Circle. The question is, if total wealth on planet earth was fully optimized and we were as wealthy as we could possibly be and that was 100%, where are we now? I said less than 1%.
We don’t have an economic problem. We have a political problem. That is why transparency and a higher learning metabolism about what is really going on is so valuable.
Catherine
At the same time, I have no children and my parents are dead. I believe that many people feel very strong obligations to dependent parents and children. It is this sense of duty which causes them to avoid confronting the system.
People still had children & elderly parents in the 1700’s. They were not afraid to act. The participants in the American Revolution had children & elderly parents. They were not afraid to act. In the 1700’s people were not afraid to act if they had children. They did not let an obligation to children stop them.
I devoured Croft’s book in one sitting and though her view of the U. S. Government being in control of the weather is absolute and utter nonsense {she should read the bible more closely} her ideas about the banking system is quite astounding and though I am as well skeptical guess what? The words CANADIAN BANK NOTE appears on my birth certificate and in very, very small letters. I needed a magnifying glass to see it and it just blows my mind!!!! Now of course everything today is about interest there is no question about that and the creation of the credit card is one of the most evil of all inventions. It has handed over to the authorities just huge amount of control and wealth and ultimately will lead to the formation of the greatest of all welfare states. Please more comments on this.
Jerry
Here are excerpts from Croft’s article, much of which I’m skeptical.
…the credit card banks think I owe them $40,000. I know that I don’t really owe them, I just don’t know how to prove it.” Lo and behold, she said, “You just send the letters.” … She then produced a series of letters, the drift of which was to request the bank to provide me with three things:
1. validation of the debt (the actual accounting);
2. verification of their claim against me (a sworn affidavit or even just a signed invoice); and,
3. a copy of the contract binding both parties.
– I was to write that I would be happy to pay any financial obligation I might lawfully owe as soon as I received these three documents.
– The banks can’t validate the debt because they never sustained a loss; they can’t verify any claim against me because I am not the NAME they are billing – more on this later. They can’t produce a copy of the contract because one doesn’t exist. What exists is an unenforceable unilateral contract. What the banks refer to as ‘your contract with us’ is not a valid bilateral agreement since the four requirements of a lawful, binding contract were not met on the credit card ‘application’, namely:
1. Full Disclosure (we are not told that we are creating the credit with our signature);
2. Equal Consideration (they bring nothing to the table, hence they have nothing to lose);
3. Lawful Terms and Conditions (they are based upon fraud); and
4. Signatures of the Parties/ Meeting of the Minds (corporations can’t sign because they have no right, or mind, to contract as they are legal fictions). Credit cards are win/ win for the banks and lose/ lose for everyone else – it is the slickest con game on the planet.
1865 – 13th Amendment – people could volunteer into slavery by accepting federal benefits.
1868 – The 14th Amendment created a new class of citizen, the ‘person’ subject to the Federal Gov’t.
1871 – the Federal Gov’t formed itself into a corporation – USA. I don’t know CANADA’s date of
incorporation.
1913 – the Federal Reserve Central Banks were created.
1933 President Roosevelt put into effect the ‘Trading with the Enemies Act’. This applied only to Federal Citizens.
1933 – President Roosevelt took the gold away from the people, who were not lawfully required to relinquish it, and who then had no money with which to pay their debts.
March 9, 1933 – ownership (legal title) of all property is in the State; individual ‘ownership’ is only equitable (user) title. Use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.
1933 – President Roosevelt passed HJR 192 June 5, 1933 – since the government had taken the gold, and the people had no money, the government would pay the ‘debts’ for the people, thereby giving them unlimited credit. Whoever has the gold pays the bills. This legislation states that one cannot demand from you a certain form of currency, since any form and all forms of currency are your credit. If they do, they are in breach of Public Policy, PL 73-10. Not only does this insurance policy protect the legislators from conviction for fraud and treason but also it protects the people from damages cause by the Feds.
1938 – Erie Railroad vs. Tompkins made contracts the rule in the courts. No other law prior to 1938 can be cited in cases.
1946 – government and court system was lost through the Administrative Procedures Act.
1965 – silver was removed as a means for paying debt, the Uniform Commercial Code became the
supreme law of the land concerning the Banking System, the courts were pulled together in Admiralty/Administrative and Civil (contract /commercial /corporate) Law, thereby removing the ‘innocent’ plea, thereby reversing ‘innocent until proven guilty’ to ‘guilty until proven innocent’. Securities replaced substance as collateral for debts; debt instruments with collateral, and accommodation parties could be used instead of money. The courts could uphold the security instruments which depended upon commercial fictions as a basis for compelling payment or performance.
1966 – The Federal Tax Lien Act: The entire taxing and monetary systems are hereby placed under the U.C.C. (Uniform Commercial Code)
Hey Catherine, I find you to be one of my favorite Coast to Coast guests. Iknow my response to this blog is a bit literal, but you have the demeanor of someone who has NDE’d. It is something about your easy laugh combined with your courage to do what you do. I apologize if this is too personal for this forum. I have been curious about this for a couple years, wanting to ask you. I haven’t had the experience myself. I have had some pretty amazing experiences that help me appreciate those who have been to the other side. The World is a better place because you are in it, Dave Wilkinson