EYE-BALLING THE FIFTH CENTURY

Thoreau's home on Walden Pond. Today, add a few electronic devices and perhaps a cosy chair and a person would a more peaceful existence Or so says author Fred Reed. Having lived completely off the grid in rural Prince Edward Island for some time, I agree with about everything he says.

By Fred Reed
July 22, 2011

"Information Clearing House"

When a country works reasonably well ~ when the schools teach algebra and not governmentally mandated Appropriate Values, when the police are scarce and courteous, when government is remote and minds its business and works more for the benefit of the country than for looters and special interests, then pledging to it a degree of allegiance isn't foolish. Decades back America was such a country, imperfect as all countries are, but good enough to cherish.

As decline begins, and government becomes oppressive, self-righteous, and ruthless yet incompetent, as official spying flourishes, as corruption sets in hard, and institutions rot, it is time to disengage.

Loyalty to a country is a choice, not an obligation.

In other times people have loved family, friends,

common decency, tribe, regiment, or church

instead of country.

In an age of national collapse, this is wise.

A fruitful field of disengagement might be called domestic expatriation ~ the recognition that living in a country makes you a resident, not a subscriber. It is one thing to be loyal to a government that is loyal to you, another thing entirely to continue that loyalty when the Brown Shirts march and the government rejects everything that you believe in. While the phrase has become unbearably pretentious, it is possible to regard oneself as a citizen of the world rather than of the Reich.

Home schooling is an admirable form of disengagement for those who cannot physically expatriate.

The primary schools once taught enough of reading and arithmetic, and little enough of medioccritizing propaganda, as to render them other than pernicious. Today, no. Here it is worth reflecting, contrary to governmental insistence, that schools are needless, at least for bright children.

An intelligent child quickly reads several years ahead of his grade level, at which point school becomes only an obstacle. He will be savagely bored, regard his teachers as imbeciles, and learn nothing that justifies his being there but much that justifies being somewhere else.

In the deepening twilight, home-schooling becomes almost a responsibility, a parallel to medieval monks copying Greek manuscripts.

Disengagement from the system of universities, or as I should say, “universities,” is also advisable. 

This is true, first, because if you seek cultivation, to gain a grasp of such matters as history, literature, the arts and the sciences, you can do it better on your own.

Professors serve little purpose other than to ensure that the student does his homework. If the student wants to study, he can do it by himself, and if he doesn't want to study, he has no business in a university.

Second, universities these days, with exceptions I hope, are citadels of intellectual darkness.

They teach little, and chiefly serve to force the young to borrow backbreaking sums from colluding banks. The wasted time and phenomenal cost cannot be justified unless they provide some remarkable recompense, and they do not.

Universities largely prepare the student for a life of office work in some dismal institution, trapping him in the retirement system and making him a prisoner of the state. In a nation subsiding into the third world, institutions cannot be counted on.

It makes more sense to become, say, a commercial diver, or a master auto mechanic.

The training costs less than piratical fifth-rate USOs (university-shaped objects). Both are interesting, challenging, and well-remunerated, which cannot be said of law for most who do not go into Wall Street. Crucially important, cars can be found everywhere, and such as oil companies the world over need divers. You are not tied to the United States, where the death rattle begins to be heard over the thump of the storm troopers' boots.

Disengagement from the consumerist zeitgeist is essential.

Yes, I know. Distaste for a life dedicated to buying the unnecessary can seem a pose: “I, I, am of such lofty character that I do not dirty my philosophical hands with mere...things.”

No. It is not a pose. In a time of economic retrogression, rejection of consumerism is utterly practical. And almost treasonous.

One might ask oneself,

“What do I really need, and what things really matter to me?

How much money do I really need, and how much am I willing to pay to get it?”

Remember, you pay more for money than for anything else.

I once lived briefly in an old one-bedroom trailer set in a patch of pine woods near Farmville, Virginia. A brick barbecue came with it, and a large floppy pooch, apparently a mixture of Irish setter and whatever was around. The place was blessedly quiet. Birds and bugs aren't noise. When it rained I delighted in being almost in the storm, but dry. I think the whole shebang cost the owner five thousand dollars, including a well and septic system.

If you are thinking, “Why...no...I couldn't possibly live that way,” you are probably right. But if I were doing it now, I would have staggering amounts of pirated music on today's monstrous memory sticks, a set of very decent speakers for a few hundred doomed green ones, a Kindle or the free computer version for reading books from Amazon if I had the money or Project Gutenberg if I didn't, and a fairly large flat screen for watching movies donated by uTorrent. Net cost: Under a grand.

Circumstances differ, yes. But you get the idea: Comfort, quiet, music, books, barbecue, undefined dog, storms, friends, for practically nothing. Mutatis mutandis, the principle applies almost everywhere.

It also fits well with Fred's Bifurcate Law of Economic Independence:

If you can't pay for it, don't buy it;

and if you don't need it, don't buy it.

Therein lie the seeds of the utter destruction of America,

 but I'm not Wall Street's mother.

To labor the point a tad, where I live, near Guadalajara in Mexico, at least two friends are living quite comfortably on a thousand a month, to include beer, internet, and in one case substances crucial to the bloated salaries of DEA. Each has a tired truck, but no granite counter-tops or riding mower.

Another step toward independence is to disengage to the extent possible from the maintenance cycle.

You are much better off in bad times if you can do the kind of plumbing, wiring, and auto maintenance that used to be commonly understood.

This is easy to say, I know. Yet, if done, it gets you farther off the grid.

Again, circumstances differ and details vary. The principle remains:

Disengage,

cut your expenses,

seek the interstices,

and don't believe in anything 

unless you are sure it was your idea to believe in it.

What is coming looks to be ugly. If so, it will be every man for himself, his family, his friends, and what principles he believes. The government doesn’t give a wan, etiolated damn about you.

Fred, a keyboard mercenary with a disorganized past, has worked on staff for Army Times, The Washingtonian, Soldier of Fortune, Federal Computer Week, and The Washington Times. More

HUCKLEBERRY FINN REVISITED: “ALL RIGHT, THEN, I’LL GO TO HELL.”

WHAT AMERICANS MUST UTTER 

TO RECLAIM THE HUMAN

Jim, the runaway slave, and Huck Finn

take a rest from their journey alongside the Mighty Mississippi

DISSIDENT VOICE

By Kathleen Wallace Peine 

May 12th, 2011

The quote is from a book I’m sure you were forced to read if you are older than 30. This was of course before the outrage over language that knocked it off the shelves in recent years.

I’m speaking, of course, of the first truly American classic, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s deceptively simple, meandering voyage through race and social custom in pre-Civil War America.

An old love was rekindled for me recently when I sadly picked up a copy of Huck Finn at the local library “buck a bag” sale. Classics a plenty were left on the tables, and this lonely copy of an old favorite was passed over by other patrons as they grabbed up the more lurid tell-all biographies. 

Ed: Political correctness, literary Fascism, call it what you will, has been used to take yet another historical masterpiece, part of Americana, and remove it from the American consciousness, thereby stealing from us all the pleasure of reading it and deciding for ourselves. 

To add insult to injury, the book was stamped with a garish red “DISCARDED”. It looked to be a donation from the local Middle School and the book, otherwise in perfect condition, was obviously being purged from the shelves.

It grieved me in a manner really only suitable to feel for other humans, not books so of course I had to grab up the book and save it from the indignity. As I drove home with several bags of books, I realized that I must read my old love again to fully rectify the situation.

The most searing moment of the book comes when Huck Finn discards the note he penned to turn in Jim, his runaway slave companion. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” is the statement the boy makes as he realizes he does not have it in him to go along with the “morals” he has been taught since birth, that of the slave as being property.

He grasps that he is going against the teachings of the church, the teachings of his elders, basically going against the full of society that he has been immersed in. The statement is heartfelt, as Huck sees his betrayal to hold serious consequences. He believes he will indeed go to hell, but has the overwhelming organic notion that adhering to the social norms of the day was simply not possible for him any longer.

The depth of this selfless act is most likely lost on the myriad of kids who were “forced” to read this book. The twisted irony of this moment is the fact that losing oneself to a personal upwelling of good is indeed the correct choice; in this case, ignoring the voice of society connected him to the potential and the sublime.

The soul of America is complicated and nuanced. Our patriotism is always tempered by a foundation of dread ~ that of land theft, aggression and bondage. Even the most willfully blind in this nation know this fact in their core. Perhaps this nagging wound, knowing that there is an unholy footing is what has led to something of an over compensation in the American psyche. The concept of American Exceptionalism. 

These ideas come from a delusional culture that willfully looks away from truths. The well-adjusted can be aware of personal weaknesses; it’s the maladjusted that create myths and dogma.

In much the same manner as Huck Finn, scores of individuals in America feel ill at ease with everyday imperatives.

For some it’s the Imperialism, even if they don’t know what to call it. For even more it’s the degrading, soul eroding workplace. 

We are to derive all measure of worth as a person by the presence of a job, and a well paying one at that.

Most do not have a “good job” and even those who do, often have some measure of discord inside them due to the requirements lurking to keep said well paying job. 

Generally it involves hardening oneself off from the plights of others, and making excuses to condone any corruption inherent. 

If the strife in the mind becomes too unbearable, then suggestions are generally made to medicate oneself. This is sometimes enough to quiet the demons, but they are still there, to be sure.

Every civilization has made war on certain aspects of what it means to be human. During Huck Finn’s time, the very concept of being human was argued in percentages ~ 3/5 a person, not at all? It’s ludicrous and sick to think our lawmakers ever spoke of this, but they did, and it wasn’t that long ago by any measure besides the paltry human lifespan.

The assault of our age is that of being considered a consumer, not a citizen. It was foisted upon us insidiously until we all started using the same verbiage. Our society said it was natural; that it was expected to be a “consumer” not a human or citizen.

A consumer uses resources, period. 

A consumer is a measure to be managed and quantified. 

A consumer hasn’t the right to ask for dignity or happiness. 

It’s just a measure of flesh to use and produce and to be discarded when unable to perform these functions.

We are seeing the expected and continued degradation of what it means to be human. 

Consumers need producers, and neither need to be particularly human. 

The demand of more productivity, the enhancement of the human as simply as cog in the machine that produces wealth for the few-that is what it is truly about. 

This doesn’t sit well in our souls simply because it is wrong.

No amount of propaganda will rid us of the feeling completely, and that is why there is great interest in medicating the humanity out of us.

The harmony will never be there under this system.

Change always seems impossible, at least change that benefits the many instead of the few. But there are instances of change that we can look back upon. Slavery was considered to be natural and expected, but through an incomprehensible number of disobedient acts, the collective delusion was lifted.

Individuals found a moral compass removed from the shroud of society.

Our current assault on humanity is not as dramatic as a human in shackles. But make no mistake, to maintain the consumer death spiral ~ misery and even slave like conditions ~ still exist.

War is now an integral part of the system.

The level of suffering is growing worldwide to simply advance the cause that the human is nothing but a mindless consuming machine, there to facilitate even more consumption by the top few.

The beauty of an “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” moment is that it takes no sophistication, no advanced degree. Just an individual presented with a small moment that they can control. These moments are hard to predict, but when they occur they can bring back humanity.

The owner of these moments will probably have hell to pay in the short run. These incidents may be born of individuals who will not beat protestors, maybe employers who refuse to implement soul degrading practices.

The possibilities are endless,

as are the choices that we can make.

And when we hear of such stories

we need to share them far and wide.

“All right, then, I’ll go to hell”.

Say it … because it truly is the path to redemption.

Kathleen Wallace Peine welcomes reader response. She can be reached at: kathypeine@gmail.com. Read other articles by Kathleen.

SHOP TILL YOU DROP WILL NOT BRING THE ECONOMY BACK

MALL FEVER: 

WILL CHRISTMAS SHOPPING 

REVIVE THE ECONOMY THIS YEAR 

AS IT HASN’T IN YEARS PAST?

 

By Danny Schechter

THE NEWS DISSECTOR
November 21, 2010

Funny how, back in 1929, we had a black Thursday and then a Black Friday as the market crashed, plunging the country into a depression. Now we have every retailer, in every mall in America, on their knees praying for a prosperous but redefined “Black Friday,” better known as the day after Thanksgiving, the start of the Christmas shopping season, the day they hope the tide will turn.
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If you’ve read this argument before, it’s because I have been making it since 2007, year in and year out. That’s on account of a structural reality: our economy is driven more by consumption than production, and most consuming takes place during the holidays. 
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So once again we are being asked to join a global ritual even when we are broke. 
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Get in gear people, and get your wallets back to the mall: do your duty for Santa and Wall Street. It will be difficult for the economic recovery to make much headway without a pick-up in consumer spending as it accounts for two-thirds of the economy.
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Here’s the scenario as this Thanksgiving rolls around. Once again the economy is in deep doo-doo with unemployment high, millions on food stamps, and millions more facing foreclosures. The big banks seem to have “recovered;” most Americans haven’t.
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Nevertheless, Christmas is for the shopping, a time to feign merriment through gift gifting, to spend what you don’t have. And the process will be “stimulated” and we will be guilted and mesmerized in our own homes by a non-stop electronic sellathon as TV advertising goes into hyperspeed.
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Local TV channels will soon start hyping the “action” at the local malls announcing plans to “go live” without mentioning that they are doing it to attract more advertising, or as part of deals they already have with sponsors to add news time to ad time.
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If the past is any guide, we will be told how packed the mall parking lots are ~ and they will, thanks to the hype, probably be packed. Part of the reason is the deep discounting and special sales ~ what are called “loss leaders” to get customers into the store even if you have to bribe them to come. All night sales are the latest marketing shtick.
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What happened last year was that most consumers only bought the sales items and left most of the other goods untouched. No wonder, a number of malls are now in foreclosure.
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At the same time, all we hear publicly from business is optimism, including the use of the term “surge” that has been used so deceptively in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Example, this news boilerplate: “Some e-retailers expect a strong surge in Thanksgiving weekend sales”
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Remember who owns these credit card companies! Zionist bankers and  Wall thieves promoted Christmas, the highest Christian celebration, into a spendathon that enslaves Christians; meanwhile, they, the bankers reap the profits whilst deriding the commercialism of the season. Go figger!

“Having already unleashed a flurry of deals, discounts and other incentives, web retailers are looking for strong sales the day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days of the year. And unlike last year, when the tough economy reined in spending, many retailers believe this Friday after Thanksgiving, often referred to as Black Friday, will deliver significantly higher web sales.”
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Higher, that is, until the credit card bills come and the returns start when folks realize they can’t afford what they bought. Almost every year, before Christmas, the credit card companies report “historic” sales and later revise their assessments as “disappointing” or didn’t “didn’t live up to expectations.”
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But consumption requires people with money to spend or with credit cards that are not tapped out. This is no longer a sure thing especially as unemployment benefits run out and discretionary income freezes.

Quiet as its kept, banks are in many cases as stressed out as their customers. And at long last, some are being probed for criminal conduct. Reuters reports: “The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) is conducting about 50 criminal investigations at U.S. banks that have failed since the start of the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal said.

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The FDIC, which is responsible for dealing with bank failures, is probing former executives, directors and employees at failed U.S. banks and is taking efforts to punish alleged recklessness, fraud and other criminal behavior, the Journal said.”
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. Paul Farrell offers 15 reasons on Marketwatch about how the people behind the economic collapse continue to get away with it.
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Here are 5 of them.

1. Gross denial of any moral damage caused by their rampant greed

2. Narcissistic egomaniacs with secret ‘God complexes’
Today, all of Wall Street is dual diagnosed: They’re morally blind money addicts who believe they’re “God’s chosen.” AA would say: They haven’t “bottomed,” won’t recover from their disease till a disaster hits, with another market meltdown and the “Great Depression 2.” Then maybe they’ll “quit playing God.”

3. Paranoid obsessives about secrecy, guilt and non-disclosure

4. Power-hungry need to control government using Trojan Horses 

5. Borderline personalities who regularly ignore conflicts of interest

 Could cutting your card make one "anti semitic"?

He goes on with an indictment that clearly suggests nothing has really changed when it comes to the folks who are making money and sucking in bonuses when others aren’t. 
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(This is the reason I an others have launched a “Jailout campaign” with a national petition calling for more prosecutions and incarcerations of wrong doers. See newsdissector.com/blog.)
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So we go back to square one: A distorted and troubled economy. A population addicted to buying things. A manipulated media. And, many signs of deeper trouble ahead, as wars are escalated and extended while the Congress is paralyzed along parochial and partisan lines. 
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The resurgent Republicans will not be ringing jingle bells but playing Scrooge. Many consumers will not be able to shop until they drop this year because they have already dropped to new lows.

Unfortunately, a feast followed by days at the mall will not change any of this, and remember, if you will, the price our first Americans paid so that we could stuff ourselves on the road to national obesity.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs for Mediachannel.org. His new book (and film) on the Crime Of Our Time treats the ongoing financial crisis as a crime story. (Plunderthecrimeofourtime.com) Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org

JOHN FITZGERALD "JACK" KENNEDY (MAY 29, 1917 ~ NOVEMBER 22, 1963)

I won't get maudlin about the assassination of JFK. We all know he was just a man in a powerful position and as full of flaws as the next. Some of his decisions effect us to this very day for both bad and good, especially his military choices.

However, in his position, Kennedy was ready to challenge the status quo, improve our world to the best of his abilities, something no president since has dared to even consider. Ever since the Bush cabal seized America through the coup headlined by the assassination of JFK, things have seemed to be spiraling out of control. The fact is, the reverse is truth. This spinning out is a planned operation. You did not really think George Bush was really the simpleton he played, did you? Elections were rigged because he HAD to gain power to move this plot along. There are no accidents.

We are now at endgame. The following article holds much information already familiar to many of us, however, there are a few snippits and a few concepts that fresh and new. These reasons are important enough to post this article, even if it is a few months late!

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control.

And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know." ~ JFK

Deceived World
By Elizabeth Mandrell
July 12, 2010

On the anniversary of JFK's birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech "that got John F. Kennedy Killed" was making its way around the Internet [1]:

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence ~ on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, and no secret is revealed." [1]

It was hard to miss the veiled reference to The Illuminati (House of Rothschild), Bilderbergers, CFR and the other secret societies that rule the world from behind the scenes.

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen" ~ JFK

[Excerpt from "Bones" in the Money Pit about The Powers That Be (TPTB)]

George H. Bush (left of clock) with the Skull and Crossbones group at Yale University, New Haven, CT circa 1947

Our consumer society didn't just happen; it was planned. Not in 1910, or 1954, but in the year 1832, the year William Huntington Russell and fellow classmate Alphonso Taft founded the Skull and Bones society at Yale University, a branch of the Bavarian Illuminati.

Members, known as "Bonesmen," include Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and Morgan all connected to the House of Rothschild's global financial empire. They are founders of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, France, and Germany or, for that matter, any central bank anywhere in the world. In theory, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, one of the most important domestic acts in the nation's history, took the power to create money from the people and gave it to the Bonesmen for profit.

THE STORY OF STUFF ~ an excellent primer



Russ Baker's new book, "Family of Secrets: the Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, And What Their Influence Means for America," is about George H. W. Bush's secret intelligence work with the CIA many years before he became the Agency's director. Bush Sr. had played a powerful but hidden role in determining the direction of the U.S. government.

It's common knowledge that the Bushes sit at the intersection of America's business and intelligence communities, but it not so common knowledge that the Bush Family, Bush Sr., Jr. and grandfather Prescott Bush, were all Bonesmen. Prescott Bush's initiation in 1918 is said to have included robbing the grave of the Native American warrior, Geronimo. Prescott Bush helped Henry Ford, Averell Harriman and others finance Adolph Hitler.

Geronimo's descendant, Harlyn, said he had written to George W. Bush to ask that his great-grandfather's remains be returned to his Apache homeland for burial, but never got a reply.

Russ Baker suggests the strong possibility that Bush Sr. was connected to the assassination of President Kennedy because "Lyndon Johnson would be more obedient to Texas oil men. [2]

A more plausible connection is Abraham Lincoln was killed for the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and Kennedy for Executive Order 11110 (the CIA has been exonerated [3]).

Lincoln's "greenbacks" would have prevented the Federal Reserve from creating $500 trillion of money out of thin air, money that Warren Buffett and Market watch say financed our global consumer society.

And, JFK's "United States notes" backed by silver, which were withdrawn the day he was shot, would have put the Federal Reserve out of business and returned to the Treasury Department the Constitutional power to create and issue a debt-free currency.

Anyone who spoke against the "Creature from Jekyll Island" (Federal Reserve banking cartel exposed by G. Edward Griffin) was silenced. Presidents Garfield and McKinley, outspoken champions of "sound" money and a central bank, were silenced permanently.

John Sherman, a Rothschild protégé in a letter sent to New York bankers on June 25, 1863 in support of the then proposed National Banking Act, wrote:

"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages...will bear its burden without complaint, and perhaps without suspecting that the system is inimical to their best interests."

Directly and indirectly, the Bonesmen orchestrated the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970's and the dot-com and the housing market bubbles.

One of the more absurd notions that has found its way into the history books and the writings of economic experts is that somehow these men were made wealthier from the Monopoly money they printed, the same money that enabled consumers to buy houses, second houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs, i.e., the cheap "stuff" we use on a daily basis.

Let's not forget the fact that in 1910 these men already controlled one-sixth of the world's wealth. And that was real wealth ~ gold, silver and raw materials ~ not the fiat currency we call money. Don't forget the world they owned and controlled in 1910 had a mostly balanced ecology.

The Skull and Bones society and the Federal Reserve were critical to the growth of our industrial and consumer society, and responsible for much of the financial and environmental damage done to the planet.


We perceive our Country as a constitutional republic, a government representative of the people and accountable to them; but it now seems that premise is nothing more than an illusionary, sentimental belief. [End of excerpt]

Few would deny JFK was talking about TPTB when he used the words, "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy."

Who first coined the non-conspiracy acronym TPTB?

Answer: G. William Domhoff, who goes by "Bill," who is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his B.A. at Duke University, his M.A. at Kent State University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965.

Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? (1967); The Higher Circles (1970); Who Rules America Now? (1983); and the non-"conspiracy" critique and theory of the U.S. power structure, The Powers That Be (TPTB) in 1979.

Consider another assassination conspiracy theory.

What if, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, his investigation uncovered the "secret" that TPTB are in a metaphysical struggle with Mother-Earth (Gaea) and the environmental damage and pollution was the goal and not the unintended consequences of the Industrial Revolution and our consumer society?

And it is conceivable when in 1961 JFK spoke about a:

"System which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, and no secret is revealed."

He was referring to a system that wasn't about money. Instead he understood that the resources of the planet were about to be consumed as in "used up" because he understood the metaphysical struggle.

Then when he realized we were about to be "conned," into shopping for stuff to trash the planet, he signed Executive Order 11110 as a first step to put us on the road to sustainability.

An earlier part of the speech edited out of the video, "that got John F. Kennedy Killed" and evoked laughter from the audience and could have a double meaning:

"If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him (Karl Marx) more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different."

What would a different history look like?

The United States, in its first decades, was a land of small farms and nearby towns with few cities of any consequence. The young nation seemed far more interested in becoming a successful experiment in democracy, rather than an economic power. The Bank of the Fed is Closed"Forever

"Bones in the Money Pit" ends with a reference to the country, the despot and ideology that some claim is the reason he was assassinated, Cuba, Castro and Communism. [4]

Elizabeth Mandrell

Footnotes:

[1] A full transcription of the speech that President John F. Kennedy gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961 and an analysis of the edited version on the net that contains the secret society portion can be found at: http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/jfk_speech_transcript.htm

[2] "Give Us the ANWAR and Keep Shopping" ~ They Found They Can't Have Both

[3] Mortal Enemies? Did President Kennedy Plan on Splintering the CIA? By Craig Frizzell and Magen Knuth has put Don and Oliver Stone's conspiracy to bed.

"Days after the Bay of Pigs failure, Robert Kennedy began to emerge as the President's principal advisor. Robert quickly turned to the CIA to devise a plan to overthrow the Castro regime. A little over 6 months after the Bay of Pigs, the President approved Operation Mongoose. According to CIA notes, Robert Kennedy told the planners of the operation, "the Cuban problem today carried top priority in U.S. Govt. No time, money, effort-or manpower to be spared."

[4] Cuba's sustainable agriculture has been lauded

by the United Nations

as a model for other countries

(Global Exchange 2003), that because the goal of TPTB was not to accumulate the money they created out of "thin air," but, according to a massive United Nations report by the GEO4, put all of humanity at serious risk due to "the dangers of climate change, water scarcity, dwindling fish stocks and the pressures on the land and the extinction of species."

MIND CONTROL ~ OPTIMISM ~ INVISIBLE ENTRAPMENT
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/01/thats-oprah-essive-book-review-i-have.html

MIND CONTROL, SLAVERY AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/06/mind-control-slavery-and-new-world.html

TACTICS OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING ~ HUMANITY UNDER ATTACK
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/06/mind-control-slavery-and-new-world.html

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THE CENTURY OF THE SELF