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Don:
I don’t understand how you made the leap from what I or other posters said to a universal conspiracy that is 500 plus years old.
I have said for years now that the Western nations have functioned on a central banking-warfare model for the last 500 years. That is the fundamental investment model that we have used. There is a difference between a business or investment model and an organized conspiracy. A model develops, evolves and is much more organic. Are there conspiracies? Yes, lots of them. Is there only one big one at the top and it has been in existence for 500 years? That, I don’t know.
The fundamental economics of the central banking – warfare model require force to make them go. Slavery — in all of it various forms — and the things that go with it are an integral part of the model, including torture.
Catherine
PS – If what you are raising relates to the extent of the use of sex slavery by the system, I would recommend you read John De Camp’s The Franklin Cover Up.
This is getting more weird than is imaginable for me. This is tantamount to a Universal conspiracy where the motives of our leaders and friends can no longer be trusted. Are we to believe that there is a core of evil that every president since Washington has been initiated into? Is it possible that this conspiracy is so well constructed and that the evil so great that no one but a few have ever seen the depth and breadth of its existence?
I am willing to acknowledge that good intent can be directed into evil channels the further away it is from the initiating source; but, I am not willing to believe that every national leader and 4 star general is in on the conspiracy.
Yes, crimes happen in the military and in prisons by people that are evil at heart but that does not mean that it is all directed by some super evil person in an Oval office. We need to be diligent and punish people who commit atrocities and heinous crimes but hopefully without destroying our libertarian form of government in the process.
I want the truth without the innuendo. Careful, your credibility is being overextended.
Don Lowrance
Diane:
Bravo!
There is a way to align our ethics with our money. We have not invented it yet, but we can and we will…
Catherine
Catherine, I agree with what you are saying and say many times in many ways….our “money system” is tied to values(the wrong ones) and if we want things to be different, we have to use different values. When I tried “socially conscious” investing, I discovered the disconnect between people wanting ethics and still wanting double digit earnings. I was disenchanted with what I was offered (which included Enron and Toys ‘R Us). I was turned off by the CEO letters that came from a solar company I invested in who was irritated by his employees wanting holidays off. Still putting the earnings pressure on these investments, is like saying “Lie to me. Give me something I can believe is better but still give me my money. I won’t check into it to deep to see if it’s really true.” I really wanted it to be different, and so I gave up on “socially conscious” investment or any hope that our investment system or banks can really be different. It puts those investment counselors in a “double bind” as well. I’m pursuing what you are. Learning to do more for myself and buy less.