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“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.” ~ Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty

By Catherine Austin Fitts

This week Harry Blazer joins me for our second discussion of the “deep state.” If you have not listened to Part I, you can access it here.

The leadership of the deep state is in transition. Since November 1963, America has been ruled by the people who gathered to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy Assassination was a coup d’état. The people who engineered it created a powerful bond that lasted for decades. As they pass now from the world stage, it is helpful to understand how the coup leaders in the deep state built the national security state and its global presence.

Who killed Kennedy? Why? What compelling evidence documents how the assassination was a conspiracy? How can we be confident that we know who was involved? How did the conspirators cover up those responsible and lay the blame on a “lone patsy”? What are the best sources of information available to us? Why have the Kennedy and King families asked for the investigations of the two Kennedy and King assassinations to be reopened, along with an investigation of the assassination of Malcolm X?

Understanding the history of the Kennedy Assassination and the subsequent cover-up is an excellent way to understand the recent history and evolution of the “deep state.”

In Let’s Go to the Movies! I recommend the nine segments of the A&E (History Channel) series The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

  • “The Coup D’Etat” (25 October 1988 [UK]) (27 September 1991 [U.S.])
  • “The Forces Of Darkness” (25 October 1988 [UK]) (4 October 1991 [U.S.])
  • “The Cover-Up” (11 October 1991 [U.S.])
  • “The Patsy” (18 October 1991 [U.S.])
  • “The Witnesses” (25 October 1991 [U.S.])
  • “The Truth Shall Set You Free” (18 November 1995 [U.S.])
  • “The Smoking Guns” (17 November 2003 [U.S.])
  • “The Love Affair” (17 November 2003 [U.S.])
  • “The Guilty Men” (17 November 2003 [U.S.])

E-mail or post your questions for Ask Catherine at the Money & Markets commentary here.

Talk to you Thursday!

Related Solari Reports

The Deep State & the Reengineering of America, Part I with Harry Blazer

The Devil’s Chessboard with David Talbot

The Presidency & Assassination of John F. Kennedy with Peter Janney

Special Solari Report: FASAB 56: Understanding New Government Accounting Loopholes

Book Review: Mary’s Mosaic

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  1. We just passed up the 60th Anniversary of what Don McLean immortalized as “The Day The Music Died.” Before Long, it will be the anniversary of The Day America Died. It had been sick for awhile, but many ministered to bring it back to health, however futilely. Though we were only children at the time, it was readily recognized as a sea change, even to our unspoiled worldviews. I ended up slipping in David McGowan’s “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon” and am now about halfway through “Mary’s Mosaic.” The weird scenes, it seems to me were to take our emerging consciousnesses in a completely different, carnival-like direction–perfect for a generation coming of age.

    Weirdness was the watchword of the day. I could look at myself as a dupe for being seduced, but instead I look at myself then as a kid. I read the entire Warren Commission Report while in high school and remember being ridiculed by college students when I explained the theory presented. We look with the same sort of ridicule upon the apparent prescience of a New Zealand newspaper’s announcement of Oswald’s culpability, but right here in good ole USA, we had the official report completed and published in just over eleven months, and the memorable funeral pageant was completely and magnificently staged just three days after the assassination. Anyone who has to do a funeral for mere plebeians like ourselves knows that is ‘way too little time. The investigation of Trump by Mueller has dragged on for a couple years, now, with nothing of substance forthcoming, but the investigation of what can be recognized as The Crime of The Century was delivered with a bow on it in 11 months. Incredible.

    We are today exhorted “If you see something, say something,” but the ghetto ethic “Snitches get stitches” seems better advice for regular people. The many who have stepped forward with j’ accuse in many deep state operations find themselves positioned as the enemy. Although smaller in scope than how we presently apprehend the vastness of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, the works of Bouvier relative John H. Davis “Mafia Kingfish” and “The Kennedy Contract” are creditable and fact-filled analyses that cover much that more high-level analyses do not, particularly in terms of the little people surrounding the event, whether wittingly or un-.

    I would say Trump is the more a modern American Hero for taking the office, knowing well if not completely the risks of doing it. I can only marvel at the ignorance of people who willfully avert their gaze from the facts and continue to credit the media as reliable. If in 1898 Hearst was able to bring about the first imperial adventure in The Spanish-American War, how much more can be done today with only this one instrument?

    1. John, a tidbit about the musicians living in Laurel Cyn. None of the guys received a draft notice.

      1. Robert, that is interesting. There is an obvious connection to Hollywood that McGowan points out, and this is important, since the seduction of the iconic music from the canyon was so thorough. In its ideal, Hollywood is less about telling a story or entertaining than it is about manipulating attitudes and breaking down inherent barriers to what are often repugnant taboos. The movies and the music have done a thorough job of loosening morality. This wrested power from the Church, whose grasp of it was already slipping away due to its own compromised state. Since much of what had been legitimized about nation-states bore the imprint of the Church, patriotism, often thought incorrectly to be secular, fell shortly afterwards. Today, there is no danger to speak of designs for one world, but few apprehend the leveling process it entails as personally damaging. Instead they are seduced by the misrepresentation of tyranny as peace and justice for all.

          1. I suppose we can liken il papa’s offer as being similar to what Hyman Roth offered Michael Corleone: The scene is a rooftop in Havana, where a waiter is seen carving up a sheet-cake with a decoration representing the map of Cuba. Roth in an aside to the waiter asks for a smaller piece, while offering to generously divide up the actual place with his gangster rival. A pig in a poke is what was being sold. Get out with something instead of nothing–the ultimate value of the enterprise.

          2. Well, as our friend Dr. Farrell might put it, there is a lot to unpack in that. We can all agree that high-sounding words of peace and brotherhood remind us of what we should aspire to. On the other hand, there is much that is left unsaid, particularly all the misdeeds in the name of and with the assent of organized religion throughout the centuries. Additionally it remains unclear how the wielding of wealth and power, while explicitly identified as a source of evil, might be less so in the hands of earthly religious vicars. Last, the speculative merger of Islam and Christendom, improbable though it might sound, could be expected to have similar prospects to the merger of the great Pennsylvania Railroad with The New York Central Railroad, infamously memorialized in The Wreck of The Penn-Central https://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Penn-Central-Joseph-Daughen/dp/1893122085 .

            It seems the cultural disparity and mutual disdain of the mergees were so intense that doom awaited the train before it left the station. (Not incidentally, The NYC was characterized by Catholic employees and the PRR by WASPs.)

          3. I am curious as to what the Pope’s goal is. My leading hypothesis is that the NSA-CIA infastructure has truly dealt a crippling blow with tech and the pedo scandals – leaving the Jesuits behind in the race to control the cybersecurity space. That however is way to simple. Hard to believe the Jesuits would lose that one. Hence, an alliance with the fastest growing world religion now that the war on terrorism has stalled is a pathway through.

      1. It was the one the government sold, and my father bought it. Probably 1,200 pages or more. I’m sure it’s not the whole thing, but what they sold. Hard bound, navy blue cover, and if I recall correctly, the presidential seal on its cover in gold.

  2. We just passed up the 60th Anniversary of what Don McLean immortalized as “The Day The Music Died.” Before Long, it will be the anniversary of The Day America Died. It had been sick for awhile, but many ministered to bring it back to health, however futilely. Though we were only children at the time, it was readily recognized as a sea change, even to our unspoiled worldviews. I ended up slipping in David McGowan’s “Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon” and am now about halfway through “Mary’s Mosaic.” The weird scenes, it seems to me were to take our emerging consciousnesses in a completely different, carnival-like direction–perfect for a generation coming of age.

    Weirdness was the watchword of the day. I could look at myself as a dupe for being seduced, but instead I look at myself then as a kid. I read the entire Warren Commission Report while in high school and remember being ridiculed by college students when I explained the theory presented. We look with the same sort of ridicule upon the apparent prescience of a New Zealand newspaper’s announcement of Oswald’s culpability, but right here in good ole USA, we had the official report completed and published in just over eleven months, and the memorable funeral pageant was completely and magnificently staged just three days after the assassination. Anyone who has to do a funeral for mere plebeians like ourselves knows that is ‘way too little time. The investigation of Trump by Mueller has dragged on for a couple years, now, with nothing of substance forthcoming, but the investigation of what can be recognized as The Crime of The Century was delivered with a bow on it in 11 months. Incredible.

    We are today exhorted “If you see something, say something,” but the ghetto ethic “Snitches get stitches” seems better advice for regular people. The many who have stepped forward with j’ accuse in many deep state operations find themselves positioned as the enemy. Although smaller in scope than how we presently apprehend the vastness of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, the works of Bouvier relative John H. Davis “Mafia Kingfish” and “The Kennedy Contract” are creditable and fact-filled analyses that cover much that more high-level analyses do not, particularly in terms of the little people surrounding the event, whether wittingly or un-.

    I would say Trump is the more a modern American Hero for taking the office, knowing well if not completely the risks of doing it. I can only marvel at the ignorance of people who willfully avert their gaze from the facts and continue to credit the media as reliable. If in 1898 Hearst was able to bring about the first imperial adventure in The Spanish-American War, how much more can be done today with only this one instrument?

    1. John, a tidbit about the musicians living in Laurel Cyn. None of the guys received a draft notice.

      1. Robert, that is interesting. There is an obvious connection to Hollywood that McGowan points out, and this is important, since the seduction of the iconic music from the canyon was so thorough. In its ideal, Hollywood is less about telling a story or entertaining than it is about manipulating attitudes and breaking down inherent barriers to what are often repugnant taboos. The movies and the music have done a thorough job of loosening morality. This wrested power from the Church, whose grasp of it was already slipping away due to its own compromised state. Since much of what had been legitimized about nation-states bore the imprint of the Church, patriotism, often thought incorrectly to be secular, fell shortly afterwards. Today, there is no danger to speak of designs for one world, but few apprehend the leveling process it entails as personally damaging. Instead they are seduced by the misrepresentation of tyranny as peace and justice for all.

          1. I suppose we can liken il papa’s offer as being similar to what Hyman Roth offered Michael Corleone: The scene is a rooftop in Havana, where a waiter is seen carving up a sheet-cake with a decoration representing the map of Cuba. Roth in an aside to the waiter asks for a smaller piece, while offering to generously divide up the actual place with his gangster rival. A pig in a poke is what was being sold. Get out with something instead of nothing–the ultimate value of the enterprise.

          2. Well, as our friend Dr. Farrell might put it, there is a lot to unpack in that. We can all agree that high-sounding words of peace and brotherhood remind us of what we should aspire to. On the other hand, there is much that is left unsaid, particularly all the misdeeds in the name of and with the assent of organized religion throughout the centuries. Additionally it remains unclear how the wielding of wealth and power, while explicitly identified as a source of evil, might be less so in the hands of earthly religious vicars. Last, the speculative merger of Islam and Christendom, improbable though it might sound, could be expected to have similar prospects to the merger of the great Pennsylvania Railroad with The New York Central Railroad, infamously memorialized in The Wreck of The Penn-Central https://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Penn-Central-Joseph-Daughen/dp/1893122085 .

            It seems the cultural disparity and mutual disdain of the mergees were so intense that doom awaited the train before it left the station. (Not incidentally, The NYC was characterized by Catholic employees and the PRR by WASPs.)

          3. I am curious as to what the Pope’s goal is. My leading hypothesis is that the NSA-CIA infastructure has truly dealt a crippling blow with tech and the pedo scandals – leaving the Jesuits behind in the race to control the cybersecurity space. That however is way to simple. Hard to believe the Jesuits would lose that one. Hence, an alliance with the fastest growing world religion now that the war on terrorism has stalled is a pathway through.

      1. It was the one the government sold, and my father bought it. Probably 1,200 pages or more. I’m sure it’s not the whole thing, but what they sold. Hard bound, navy blue cover, and if I recall correctly, the presidential seal on its cover in gold.

  5. Excellent discussion. I guess I was a little ahead of my time on the “Blue Chix Op”. I did my due diligence and cancelled the subscription. Do miss Dolan and a few others but this is how we have to roll. Corrected my path. FYI, so did Wilcox. He was blackmailed to do a series on Lucifer that was total propaganda for the deep state. When his contract was up he left. Who knows about those Blue Chix. If people can believe 9/11 was a Terrorist attack with rogue airplanes than anything goes.

    Isn’t Trump talking about ending the Fed? That always seemed like a hopeful sign to me.

    I love my subscription! I love your reviews! I love your prayers. This 2-part program was worth the price of the subscription 10 x’s over. Thank you for this quality offering. I believe you are part of the “for such a time as this” Tribe. (Book of Esther). Blessings!

  6. Excellent discussion. I guess I was a little ahead of my time on the “Blue Chix Op”. I did my due diligence and cancelled the subscription. Do miss Dolan and a few others but this is how we have to roll. Corrected my path. FYI, so did Wilcox. He was blackmailed to do a series on Lucifer that was total propaganda for the deep state. When his contract was up he left. Who knows about those Blue Chix. If people can believe 9/11 was a Terrorist attack with rogue airplanes than anything goes.

    Isn’t Trump talking about ending the Fed? That always seemed like a hopeful sign to me.

    I love my subscription! I love your reviews! I love your prayers. This 2-part program was worth the price of the subscription 10 x’s over. Thank you for this quality offering. I believe you are part of the “for such a time as this” Tribe. (Book of Esther). Blessings!

  7. Well it is another rainy day in Western TN.

    Lots of Information from Harry & Catherine to chew on. Lets start with two statements. Catherine : Ritual killing. Harry: A blood bond gathering in Dealey Plaza.

    There are so many theories why JFK needed to be replaced, Vietnam, Castro, Mafia, warmer Soviet relations & UFO’s. But was it about the President or was there a higher intelligent force in play? JFK himself revealed his “physical” assassins in the Secret Society speech on April 27, 1961. What intrigues me is who the “powers” the Deep State that mobilizes many different government departments on the federal, state & city of Dallas to act as a one unit. What is the glue that allowed such a heinous act?

    There are many ways to kill a President, will a heart attack, aggressive cancer or an accident. So why the need for a public execution at high noon in Dallas? Was it about replacing JFK or to set forth in motion an occult energy created by a ritual killing? IMHO the JFK event could not have happened with precision planning unless it had non human intelligent help. Sounds crazy? Well, Winston Churchill spoke about them in WW2 as the Cabal, Herman Oberth (Ex Nazi NASA)said he had help from other worlds, Von Braun said unknown powers guided him, Edgar Cayce communicated with the source, Tesla at 3PM took a nap to take their advice and Madame Blavatsky had a spirit guide. Some people call it channeling, some communicate via blood rituals and some believe the non human intelligence reside in the second heaven.

    The gathering in Dallas included Edward Lansdale (Anderson Trust), Rip Robertson, Grayson Lynch and maybe Bush Sr. Was the gathering to see their handiwork on display or were they there to worship their god that they have bowed to? Did the JFK event have magic & sorcery, was that the glue?

    The gathering converged on 11/22 (11X2) on the 33 degree latitude (Mt. Hermon) at the 14 sectioned obelisk (Osiris) next to the 7 story cube shape (Saturn) book depository building. The definition of ritual is a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

    It has come out that JFK & Khrushchev were holding secret talks using Pope John 23 as the go between. The talks were to improve relations between America & Soviet Union. However that stopped when John 23 died on June 3, 1963 (interesting timing).Pope Paul6 replaced John on June 21, 1963.

    According to Father Martin’s book “Sunswept House” on June 29, 1963 a ritual ceremony took place in the Vatican and at a site in Charleston S.C. at the 33 degree latitude. It is rumored it was a blood ritual.

    On Nov. 22, 1963 the public slaying of JFK takes place in Dallas at the 33 degree latitude.

    On December 4, 1963 the Second Period of Vatican 2 ends with “Sacrosanctum Concilium” that states the Church to reach out to the entire world into the household of the Church.

    Is there a connection? I have no idea. I’m just an old guy who rambles and ask questions.

    Will the JFK event ever be solved? Nope, it is not design to. If
    solved there is peace and the book closes. Remember Bush Sr
    was the CIA director for awhile and I’m sure he did some
    housekeeping.

    I’ll continue with another post covering three people who have been overlooked with the JFK event that supports the magic & sorcery theory.

    1. Peter Levanda talks about this and the occult magic that was used to JFK. You are right was it so necessary to have such a public display to kill the president, no. It’s purpose in doing so was to cause trauma in the psyche of the masses.

      1. Thank you Najat. I’ll see if I can locate Mr. Levanda’s discussion. I was told years ago by a female celebrity JFK had very deep occult friends, one was also a friend of old man Kennedy.

    2. Will the JFK ever be solved? Of course – it has been solved. We know who did it, we know why they did it and we know what they got from it.

      Can we inject more mystery? Endlessly…Can we go around about some details. Sure. However, everything important is known.

      Why did David Rockefeller and his group believe it was essential to maintain secrecy? That is still a subject of conjecture. Who is really at the top of the food chain and why our culture is so committed to war.

      1. I guess it depends on what size the Matryoskha doll is on solving the event. If you are saying dozens of America’s prominent and elite industrialist, oil people and bankers conspired together to kill JFK to protect or and reinvest their fortunes & businesses then it has been solved. IMO the oil men were highly motivated as JFK was going to end the reduction of the oil depletion allowance.

        However there is a bigger Matryoskha doll that would address the desire to do a public execution of the President, one that took lots of coordination & involving hundreds of individuals. With the health of the President and that Dr. “Feel Good” was paying him visits to inject “uppers” getting rid of JFK could have been handled with very few fingerprints and still accomplished the same end result. So the question I have is why the act had to be some aggressive and until that is answered it is not solved.

        Will that ever be found out? Well most people have died so there isn’t going to be any confessions by the “elites” although many workers have given confessions. Plus Bush Sr during his brief stay as CIA director “lost” over 200 top secret documents. How many were related to the JFK event?

        It always comes back to the “glue”. What and how was this massive organization able to function. Until a look at who was on Dallas Council on World Affairs, who had an office at the Republic National Bank Building, Names of Trustees on the Modern Art Museum in NYC (dark elites love modern art), relationships of the players, business & personal, who attended Bohemia Grove in July 1963,and what societies people belong have taken an oath. Just a quick search on the Knights of Malta membership reveals the names of David & Nelson Rockefeller, James J. Angelton, Prescott Bush, William Buckley Jr., Allen Dulles, J. Peter Grace, Edgar Hoover, Henry Luce and Clay Shaw. If that ever happens the crack in everything would be wider to let the sunlight in to understand the need for a public execution.

        It is not our culture committed to war, it is why humans are so committed to war. The last 3400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 years. Just in the 20th century over 100 million people were killed in wars, and does not include man made famines. Why all the bloodshed? Maybe, just maybe the bloodshed is needed as an energy to keep the “elites” in control.

        Just think Catherine, if everyone living simply adopt the most important advice you have ever given. Get Clean, think clean, eat clean, and keep clean the world would transform. Even the birds would sing a higher note.

        I do have hope that the JFK Jr. plane “accident” would be looked into.

        Another rainy day in Western TN

        1. Kennedy was not killed because he was cutting into people’s profits. He was killed because he was changing the model and the people who had him killed thought that was a losing idea. The model is the central banking – warfare model – and it involved a whole new layer of Post James Forestal National Security State secrecy. The mystery here is what is behind that secrecy.

          The glue is that the existing model has been growing and functioning for at least 500 years – so it is very old and very deep and when threatened runs very deep. It is not just everyone at the Bohemian Grove and the Rockefeller family interests and their networks into London and a few other places. It is also a morphogenic field and culture. This series of syndicates were cooperating and collaborating on an ongoing basis to run the narcotics and covert operations and cash flows in every one of 3100 counties already. These are the networks that run American and have always run America.

          Kennedy was a ritual slaying just like the statue of Jesus drips with blood in the front of many churches so that the kids look up they see “this is what happens to you if you mess with the Priests money”

          It worked. The four assassinations during that period flipped an entire generation out of believing in a human future – instead they embraced hyper-materialism, shopping and filled up their pension funds.

          I appreciate that interdimensional forces are always at work in anything going on = on this planet. But for the most part I find interdimensional and occult forces are used to cover up or justify good old fashioned debates about power, money, resource and risk management.

          Given “how the money works” the Rockefeller interests and the Harvard Corporation had the juice – particularly when combined with the Grove – to pull this off – no problem. They would have cast a very wide net to execute. Everyone was in on the deal so those in the deal would not have risk and because everyone could make money being in on the deal.

          It worked. It was like a highly successful Safari and winning the lottery together.

          1. That is a darn good answer, but I am still standing on first base on why it was decided to execute a very complicated exercise relying on many people to perform and then become mutes until they die. It could have been handled in a much “softer way” and still get the results you covered. Unless it was a demonstration of strutting their stuff on what they are capable of doing. That is quit a dice roll, or am I just being ignorant? One person that didn’t get any attention was George de Mohrenschildt who at the direction of the CIA was Lee Harvey’s handler in Dallas and introduced him to the White Russian community and when he left Dallas to live on Papa Docs compound in Haiti in the Spring 1963 the job was given to Ruth & Michael Paine who got the book depository job for Lee Harvey. After many years of keeping quiet he began talking to the press that wealthy Texas oilmen, FBI & CIA agents were behind the JFK assassination . Next thing he knows he is at Parkland Hospital get shock treatments. Then while living in Florida gets news the House Committee of Assassinations want him to appear. Shortly later George commits suicide using a shotgun to the head.

            Yes, many, many people have died connected to the JFK event and you have to have very reliable “conscious dead” soldiers to do this dirty work and no one talks.
            I’m back at the glue again, sounds like a type of evil brotherhood on all levels that can endure for many years.

            Power, money, resource & risk management were on the agenda, however when I see what has happened since 1963, the divorce rate, the out of wedlock births, availability of pornography, the corruption of churches the JFK was also a trauma event to the public.

          2. Money and the energetic fields in and around it move at lightening speed all over the world. It does not take angels and lucifer to organize what markets can do wide, deep and quickly.

      2. As I finish up Mary’s Mosaic, the truth of what you just said is evident. There might be some more details, the motives might be further elaborated and the question of who rules remains open. But once you understand that the narrative was immediately straitened to a single shooter, complete with all the evidence-tampering, there is little latitude for denying a high-government conspiracy in Kennedy’s liquidation. The famed Zapruder film was altered, then published as a fraud. This resulted in years of fruitless, misdirected analysis. The relative ease of maintaining the cover-up has emboldened further nefarious deep state actions, but the worst may yet be ahead.

        1. The worst so far is upon us. The fact that we don’t realize that is a testimony of how much we have forgotten. I remember a world where a 100% Popsicle Index was possible. Now a live in a world where the majority of people have forgotten or don’t even know that such a thing is possible. They can not conceptualize or imagine what that feels like.

          1. It’s funny you mentioned the Popsicle Index today, as I was just thinking about it in the context of our shared youths under the Peace of West Philly-yo. There were indeed places that sold Popsicles on the corners, and we would conduct ourselves to them unsupervised at preschool ages, purchase the novelty and walk back a few hundred yards with no care for crime. What I have since come to understand was the role that organized crime played–yes, indeed–in ensuring that safety. Virtually every small business and route driver paid some tribute to the mob and it stayed quite orderly, away from the fringes of territories. Every cigarette, soda and candy machine (remember them–they were everywhere), every newsstand, pizza or sandwich shop, every paper route, barber and hair salon, every milk run, food distributor, grocery, etc.–anyone with a fleet was beholden to the mob or the teamsters (my grandfather was one), who were in thick with the mob. Gambling, like football “cards” went around on the routes and everyone played them, including me as a teenager.

            Still, it was ORGANIZED crime, and civilians were largely left alone. The ‘outfit’ got rich and powerful, and soon their power was sought out under contract by the operators in government. This is why it’s hard to see in the case of Kennedy where the mob leaves off and the deep state starts up. I thought James Neff does a terrific job of laying out the power of these big unions in his signature work, Mobbed Up, the story of Jackie Presser, who succeeded the infamous Jimmy Hoffa as national boss of the Teamsters. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mobbed-up-james-neff/1121250400?type=eBook I suppose the mob back in those days was doing exactly what you advocate: making an economy at a local level by getting everyone involved. No doubt it is human nature to organize things, and success in that leads to competition, with competition leading to strife. The music industry was very mob influenced, as well. And so it goes…

          3. Credit digital technology. The NSA could squeeze out the confessions booth and the store front churches. The NSA and CIA combined could squeeze out the mob and the lower levels of the secret societies – the local boys. And then – with pension money pouring into the public markets – they could all make a fortune centralizing capital control and squeezing out the mob entirely. That is what Godfather III shows so well With that, we lost the people who were in touch with the street action and productivity. I a sense, Trump represents part of that old mob money (casinos) who understood that a health middle class was good for business. The SF tech model of liquidating them and letting the streets go to pot was bad for business. Productivity backlash.

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