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    So the "real superpower", the Babylonian/Phoenician/Venetian/Anglo-American/Khazarian Mafia, uses black magic, blackmail, Satanic ritual, fraud, lies, and poisons of the mind, body, spirit, and earth:
    1. to control the superpower's "leaders" and
    2. to convince the people (aka debt slaves) to follow these "leaders".
    The above linked article about the Khazarian Mafia is well worth a read.

    It is a just published, detailed history of the Khazarian Mafia through the ages, of their present operations, and of their ongoing take down. It closely matches my, less detailed, understanding.
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    Default Re: The Money Masters; Crises of war, plague and hunger; Total central real-time control of all money.

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    ... the behemoth behind Earth's controlling hand:

    BlackRock Aladdin: This Robot Already Owns Everything

    8 hours ago

    This very entertainingly-edited video by Roger James Hamilton explains how a powerful AI called Aladdin built by BlackRock’s Larry Fink is a big reason why you will own nothing – because it will own everything.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    What if I told you there is a robot that controls more wealth than any country on Earth? A robot so powerful, that in the last 10 years, it has quietly created the biggest company in the world. This is the story of a robot called Aladdin.

    It’s Wall Street’s best kept secret and is gobbling up every asset class across every industry. Aladdin now controls $21 trillion of our global economy.

    To put that in perspective, that’s more than the $20 trillion GDP of the US or the $15 trillion GDP of the entire European Union.

    The New Statesman wrote the total physical cash of all seven billion people and every company bank vault wallet and piggy bank in the world is around $5 trillion. Aladdin has grown into a system responsible for more than four times the value of all the money in the world.

    This one robot directs the actions of the US Federal Reserve, almost every major bank and investment fund on Wall Street and over 17,000 traders.

    It controls half of all ETFs, 17% of the bond market, 10% of the global stock market and carries out a quarter of a million trades every day and billions of forecasts every week, year after year.

    It hoovers up trillions of data points on every market, every company, every asset – and now, even each of us; what we buy, sell and say, so that it knows what to buy and what to sell far better than any human being.

    Every major bank, company and investment fund has come to rely on Aladdin and it’s all powerful AI and algorithms to beat the market. And if they didn’t, they’ve collapsed and failed in Aladdin’s wake. And you know what the craziest part of this story is? This robot is just getting started.

    So where did Aladdin come from and how did it get so powerful?

    Aladdin is the brainchild of Larry Fink, the founder of BlackRock and his total dominance has made his company the biggest shadow bank in the world and the most powerful company on Earth.

    The story you’re about to hear is equally unbelievable and terrifying. In fact, you would think it was science fiction if it wasn’t very real and happening today.

    This story starts in the 1980s, when Larry Fink was making millions pioneering mortgage-backed securities at Wall Street bank, First Boston.

    That’s right. The same mortgage-backed securities that caused the 2008 Global Financial Crisis 20 years later. But back in the ’80s, he was in an epic Wall Street rivalry with Louis Ranieri at Salomon Brothers, made famous as the big swinging dick in Michael Lewis’ book, ‘Liars Poker’.

    Back then, Larry was making millions for the bank and was on track to be First Boston CEO and then in 1986 an error in the back office computer models led to Larry making the wrong trades and he lost the company a hundred million dollars.

    The result was Larry leaving the bank as a failure with the stupid computer to blame.

    With that experience, Larry had just one ambition: to build a super smart robot that could pick out risk and opportunity in the market and do it better than any computer or human could do.

    In 1988, he launched a new startup, BlackRock with a tiny coding team to give birth to this robot, its name, Aladdin, which stands for Asset, Liability and Debt Derivative Investment Network.

    In its first 10 years, Aladdin was fed information about every asset price movement and risk variable in the global bond market, Larry’s specialty and in 1999, when Aladdin turned 11, Aladdin was getting so intelligent at picking losers and winners that Larry began selling access to his data to other Wall Street firms.

    That same year, he took BlackRock public on the New York Stock Exchange. Straight after the IPO, the dot-com bus burst, pushing a wall of money from the stock market to bonds, which Aladdin had become the undisputed world champion in.

    Within years, BlackRock had become a trillion-dollar company and as money started shifting back to shares, what did Larry do? He bought the asset management arm of Merrill Lynch, which was focused to shares.

    So the gift for Aladdin’s 18th birthday: all the data points for the entire stock market and suddenly, Aladdin had a new playground analyzing every stock trade and risk factor for every company on the stock market.

    As a result, today BlackRock, together with his two closest rivals, Vanguard and State Street, both of which also rely on Aladdin’s mountain of knowledge have become the biggest shareholders of over 40% of all public listed companies in America.

    2008: the Global Financial Crisis hits and before Aladdin turns 21 years old, is called on by every Wall Street bank and Timothy Geithner, the head of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, as soon as Lehman Brothers collapsed and the Wall Street meltdown began the US Government came calling to save the next collapsing bank, Bear Stearns.

    It was Aladdin who decided which assets to keep and wish to leave in the $30 billion rescue package and few people know it was a robot that saved America from disaster.

    With that first success, the Fed, US Government and now, even European and Japanese central banks began relying on Aladdin to make the calls on where the $2.5 trillion of new money they printed should go, the majority of it bonds and funding to prop up the mortgage companies and banks.

    But wait – aren’t these exactly the assets that Aladdin and BlackRock already were invested in? Exactly. But growing protests of conflict of interest were drowned out by the noise of the printing presses printing more money as the assets controlled by Aladdin rapidly grew to $11 trillion by 2013.

    In the last decade, Aladdin has gone from the leader to the dominator of all financial markets. With Blackrock’s Barclays acquisition, it got eye shares, Barclays Exchange Traded Funds units or ETFs and with that, Aladdin moved from dominator of bonds and equities to dominator of ETFs, just as all the biggest investors shifted from mutual funds to ETFs and that’s when, in 2017, everything changed.

    On Aladdin’s 29th birthday, Larry launched a top secret project at BlackRock, code named “Monarch”, which led to the firing of his fund managers and replacing their funds with Aladdin’s funds, the robot was now eliminating humans from the equation, altogether and as a result, today over 70% of all trades on US stock markets are decided by robots, with Aladdin leading the way.

    These trades are completed from beginning to end without a human involved in High Frequency Trading far faster than a human can execute.

    Now, if this was just a story about a robot taking over the job of Wall Street traders, you might not be so concerned, unless you’re one of those traders but in the last three years, as Aladdin hit $20 trillion in assets, incredibly, it has begun to consume and control at an even faster rate; first, in 2020, as Aladdin turned 32 years old, the US Government and Federal Reserve again came calling, as the pandemic hit.

    Aladdin was, again the one to guide the nation in what was now $4 trillion of newly-printed money. Where did the money go this time? Inexplicably, for the first time, the Fed began buying ETFs in 2020.

    While that’s a little strange and again the cries of “Conflict-of-interest!” were drowned out by the money-printing. And then, Aladdin revealed its end game.

    Recently, BlackRock acquired EFRONT, which collects data on the things that you and I own, including private equity and real estate and since then, Aladdin has consumed EFRONT’s data on the entire global real estate market – and yep, you guess what happened next.

    Over the last two years, BlackRock and other funds using Aladdin’s data have begun buying up single-family homes, where they can afford to output the rest of us, as they have unlimited financing at hyper low interest rates.

    The result is home prices rising by 20% over the last two years and pushing now even big players like Zillow out of the market.

    And here, we see Aladdin’s end game: to be the one hyper-intelligent AI robot that not just controls Wall Street assets but all assets public and private.

    Now, I’m not into conspiracy theories but even a skeptic with eyes wide open can see the signs. We’re already at a point where no one can compete without Aladdin, as CEOs and asset managers, like Anthony Malloy are now saying, “Aladdin is like oxygen. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to function.”

    And what about government regulation? Well, Joe Biden has appointed BlackRock executive, Brian Dees as head of the National Economic Council, which basically means the oversight of Aladdin and BlackRock is now the responsibility of – BlackRock.

    And Biden has also appointed BlackRock Chief of Staff, Adewale Adeyemo to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, which means BlackRock is now the Treasury, as well as the Treasury advisor.

    And this story is far from over. The genie is out of the bottle and Aladdin has already reached a tipping point where one robot controls more wealth than any person or country.

    But as Aladdin’s AI capabilities continue to grow and with its rate of control rising by another trillion to two trillion dollars in new assets every year, it looks inevitable that Wall Street’s secret weapon could end up owning everything and we end up owning nothing.

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    This Robot Already Owns Everything (And it's just getting started) : Blackrock Aladdin 07:54

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    Blackrock has a secret weapon that has made it the most powerful company in the world: Aladdin. If you're ever wondered how Artificial Intelligence could impact our lives, here's the answer. Aladdin is the brainchild of Larry Fink, and it already controls more assets than the GDP than the US. It's growing by $1 trillion to $2 trillion new assets in its control each year.

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    The Banksters have deep control leverage over the economy.
    • If they lend out money easily, at low interest rates, more and more is borrowed from their banks.
    • If they cut off the easy debt-money tap, then real estate collapses, businesses fail, people get laid off, retirement plans fail, ...
    • When that happens, the Banksters get to collect the collateral from their now bankrupt clients.
    [*]This cycle repeats over and over in history. The Banksters get richer and richer, and gain more and more control over the people and their businesses and governments.


    But since the news and social media depend on advertisement money from these other businesses, the dominant news and social media end up being the ones that say what they're told to say, and suppress what they're told to suppress, or else they too fail.

    Debt, with it's future fixed payment demands, it's enforcement by Bankster controlled legislatures, governors, regulators, judges and prosecutors, and with its required collateral to be confiscated when payments aren't made ... that debt becomes the One Ring to Rule Them All.
    I have a new analogy that might explain the Babylonian debt-money system.

    If you're old enough, recall back when you played the board game Monopoly as a child.

    The most experienced player, often a parent, would be the banker.

    The banker got to manage a big stash of not yet played "monopoly money" bills, in addition to their own stash. The banker had to manage that big stash of not yet played bills openly ... handing them out according to the rules that applied to all, herself included.

    Imagine instead that the banker got to keep that not yet played stash secret, got to use it as if it were her own, and got to make unlimited additions to that stash by doing the following:
    1. Tear a piece of paper in half.
    2. On one half, write "Bond 1.1 times x dollars after N turns."
    3. On the other half, write "IOU 1.2 times x dollars."
    4. Hand out x newly created Monopoly dollars and the IOU paper to one player who needs x dollars right away
    5. That player agrees to pay back 1.2 times x, or else have one of their properties confiscated by the banker.
    6. Sell that Bond paper to a player who wants to earn extra income on their current holdings.
    7. The banker agrees to buy that Bond paper back for 1.1 times x, after the specified N turns.

    The above creation of debt and money, as an initially balanced, net zero, pair of entries on the bankers balance sheet is the key sleight of hand to Babylonian Money Magic.

    The banker would end up owning the half the board early on thanks to their exclusive license to "print money", and once the players got accustomed to having to borrow early on to get more properties before the other players did, the banker could force the bigger borrowers into "bankruptcy", unable to make payments on their UOMe notes because they were collecting less rent on their existing properties once the other players were cut off from borrowing more to remain in the game. At that point, the banker confiscates the existing properties of these other bigger and earlier borrowing players, and OWNS the ENTIRE Board.

    As my favorite New York Stock Exchange day trader, Gregory Mannarino, says, it is the goal of the Federal Reserve to become the "Buyer and Lender of Last Resort". The Fed intends to "Own it all."

    This is why we are now seeing a slow motion economic, financial and monetary collapse. The Fed is restricting lending, intending to collapse cash flows, inflation adjusted income, and profit margins of borrowers large and small, public and private, corporate and individual, foreign and domestic. The Fed's #1 task at present is not to "fight inflation." Rather it is to lower the value of both:
    • money (US Dollars, hence all other currencies entangled with Dollars), and
    • debt (US Treasuries, hence all other debt entangled with Treasuries.
    The Fed (Federal Reserve, the Bankster institution that stole the power to control and issue money in the U.S., back in 1913) seeks to keep these two declining values balanced, so that neither hyperinflation (collapse of the dollar) nor default (collapse of Treasuries) weakens its hand.

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    Notice how uneven the two "pieces of paper" are in the above Monopoly example. The Monopoly money banker gets more, sooner, along with some confiscated properties to boot, and pays out less later.

    The same imbalance applies to real world central debt-money banks:
    • The banker gets (a) more money (b) sooner than they pay back, with (c) an option to confiscate a property, if the borrower can't make payments.
    • Meanwhile, the banker commits to paying out less money, later, when money is less precious in the game, with no penalty other than resetting the monetary system (not confiscating their real wealth and property) if they don't pay.
    • Further, notice that the banker can force some larger, more indebted, players to forfeit properties, by cutting back sharply on such debt issuance, later in the game, forcing more marginal players to be unable to pay rent when they land on some other player's property.

    Being a banker - nice job if you can get it. You get to create fiat (legally mandated) money, and the debt that backs it, out of thin air, and then earn more interest, sooner, than you pay back out, later, on that money, and what's more, to confiscate real property from other players who can't make payments, due perhaps to depressions (of the money supply you control) later in the game.

    As Nathan Mayer Rothschild famously noted:

    Quote Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
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    Default Re: The Money Masters; Crises of war, plague and hunger; Total central real-time control of all money.

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    Considerations on the Collapse of the US Dollar

    After reading Will Zoll's most excellent history of Western banking, up through Part V so far, I would like to consider how the collapse of the current world monetary system, based on the US Dollar as the "world's reserve currency", will proceed, from the perspective of Americans (such as myself.)

    Since many (of the likely few) readers of this article would be better advised to read Will Zoll's articles instead, here are links thereto, up to Part V so far.

    From 1871 to the Great Depression of the 1930's:

    The "1871" in the primary title of these articles refers to the year 1871, when the "1871 Treaty of Washington" established a corporation in Washington, DC, subject to the Law of the Crown, and responsible for the debt incurred by the various states, primarily funding the recent Civil War, which War the City of London bankers had made great effort to provoke, in anticipation of just such a result.

    As is well understood by such bankers, so long as they control the courts, the law, the police and the military, then the "borrower is servant to the lender" (Proverbs 22:7, New Testament.)

    My present considerations, here below, follow my reading just now of Will Zoll's Part V, as linked above.

    Part V covers the inflation in the U.S. of the Roaring Twenties, followed by the Great Depression and FDR's (Roosevelt's) confiscation of gold immediately after he took office in 1933.

    Back then, the world was mostly on a gold standard - various currencies were typically worth what whatever gold they could be exchanged for.

    The Roaring Twenties, in the U.S., were a period of excess money printing and stock market bubbles. This collapsed, most famously in the stock market crash of Black Monday, October 28, 1929.

    That was followed by a period of deflationary depression. Jobs, money, and the basic essentials of life (food, shelter, ...) were in short, sometimes desperately short, supply. My own parents, who were young adults at that time, would forever after save every scrap of paper or other odd item, just in case it might be useful. They could pinch a penny until it squealed.

    When FDR came into office, in March 1933, he got a law passed making it illegal for Americans to hold or use gold, and requiring them to turn in whatever gold they held for the (then long standing) price of $20.67/ounce.

    Some gold was hidden, some left for overseas locations, and some was turned in. But in any case, the US Dollar was no longer gold backed.

    Once this was done, FDR then repriced gold to $35/ounce.

    So -- how does this translate to the present?

    In short, I think we Americans are once again leaving an inflationary bubble, marked by over valued stocks, bonds, real estate (residential and commercial), pension plans, insurance plans, and government social service promises. Much of what many middle class Americans might consider to be their net worth will be found to be illusionary.

    I anticipate a collapse of all the above items, all of which have been over inflated by excessive debt-money creation.

    Key concept:
    • The Federal Reserve (Fed) doesn't "print" money into existence.
    • Rather the Fed drives its banks to "lend" money into existence.
    We don't really have a fractional reserve system, in which bankers can lend say $10 for every $1 in deposit in their bank, but rather it is a "double entry accounting" system, in which bankers create _two_ counter balancing accounting entries for each debt:
    1. a credit for some money available immediately, and
    2. a debt for some more money to be repayed later.
    Since the accounting value for the present value of these two entries exactly balances, a banker need have no money reserves (except so far as whatever Fed Reserve rules are applied to and enforced on that bank at that time) whatsoever. If the Fed's rules of the day happen to allow it, a banker at a small bank can show up in his cheap suit with a ball point pen, and issue multiple loans for billions of dollars each. At that end of his busy day, neither he nor his bank would be any much wealthier or poorer.

    As a result of a cascading series of debt issuance bubbles over the last 40 odd years, signficantly driven by the nominal rise in the value of U.S. Treasury debt over the same period, we are now in the end stages of a period of excess growth of "promises of future value", be that stocks, bonds, real estate (residential and commercial), pension plans, insurance plans, or government social service promises.

    What has been promised as a "pay now, benefit later" opportunity, is turning into a "paid then, get screwed now" result.

    But ...

    We (most of the world) are no longer on a gold standard, such as we were back then. So the U.S. Dollar reset that must happen now will not take the form of gold confiscation and subsequent repricing.

    Rather we (most of the world) have been on a US Dollar as the world's Reserve Currency standard.

    Actually, that's a bit of a misstatement.

    We have been on a US Treasury Debt (T-Bills, Notes and Bonds) as the world's primary reserve asset standard. Major corporations and nations hold US Treasury debt as their primary asset, borrow and lend in US Treasury backed Dollars, and settle trade imbalances using US Treasury debt.

    Recognizing that misstatement is key to our understanding how this time will unfold differently.

    Back in 1933, FDR could not continue to issue honest value in gold bullion for such US Dollars as were in circulation, because the nation was essentially broke. Rather than declare bankruptcy and liquidate assets, as an ordinary bankrupt business must do, FDR did what nations who make their own money usually do - write down their promises to pay other nations and corporations to whatever they can actually afford, and find excuses to print, lend, grant and/or spend new money domestically, in order to keep the domestic economy from collapsing (which is usually bad for re-election chances) and to keep the people from revolting (which can be bad for the life expectancy of politicians.)

    The same will happen now ... mutatis mutandis.

    My Primary Forecast:

    After a period of deflationary depression, which we are already (somewhat covertly so far) over a year into, I expect the U.S. Government to:
    1. Impose a hair cut to US debt held by corporations and nations.
    2. Find all manner of excuses to circulate dollars domestically.
    This started last year with the Fed tightening up lending, both by raising rates and forcing banks to lend less. This will collapse the real estate markets and send some businesses into bankruptcy, as would be lenders are denied loans or unable to afford them.

    Recall that lending is how money is generated in our current monetary system ... money is not so much "printed", as it is lent into existence.

    Except for a few centenarians who were young adults in the 1930's, we have all grown so used to this debt money system and its seemingly never ending growth of money that most of us will have a difficult time adjusting to a shrinking money supply and the collapse of much of their store of "wealth" ... stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, professional practices, retirement plans, insurance plans, ...

    The young adults of today may end up annoying their grandchildren with their obsessive hoarding and penny pinching, a half century from now.

    Note a key difference between then (1930's) and now (2020's):

    FDR confiscated domestic gold and then repriced it, so as to lower the "real" value of the dollar from 1/20.65 of an ounce of gold to 1/35.00 of an ounce of gold, forcing a "hair cut" on foreign and large corporate holders of Dollars.

    Now it's not gold but rather U.S. Treasury debt.

    So I expect that holders of Treasury debt will get a haircut (as Jim Willie, the Golden Jackass, figures some major nations are already getting) on the Treasury debt they hold. That is, if you show up at the US Treasury with a billion dollars worth of Treasury debt, you won't get a billion dollars, but perhaps only 800 million or some such.

    This hair cut is exactly what is also reflected in the sharp rise in short term interest rates since early 2022.

    The connection between bond values and Fed interest rates confuses many.

    I prefer to think of the connection between these rates and bond values this way:

    When the Fed raises the rate payed by newly issued bonds, that lowers the value of bonds previously issued that pay a lower rate.

    Hence, the Fed's interest rate increases since early 2022 have already been forcing a hair cut on bonds already held by corporations and nations.

    Who wants an older bond that pays say 1%, when new bonds pay 5%?

    However I expect that hair cut to get more severe (or already be more severe, if Jim Willie is right.)

    Where will this put us:

    Some corporations, large and small, will go bankrupt, unable to adapt to the change from the rising debt-money abundance of the last 40 years, to the more rapid decline in debt-money at present. Bankrupt corporations lay off workers. Struggling corporations get stingier with hiring and paying.

    The sense of accumulated wealth of many Americans (and other nationalities, for various related reasons) will decline or collapse, as prices rise and income and assets decline or collapse.

    Then a new President, in the model of FDR, will announce a more official haircut for those holding Treasury debt, and will find ways to fund all manner of spending, payments and benefits domestically, in order to keep the American economy from collapsing, and to keep hungry and homeless Americans from rioting in the streets and hanging politicians from tall trees with short ropes.

    This will result in the price of imported goods rising, while the availability of such goods decreases, as other nations don't want our Treasury debt. Domestically, new or quickly adapting businesses will start to expand to earn some of the flood of new domestic money coming from the Federal government.

    We Americans will reverse the trend of the previous several decades, bringing back home businesses and industries that we had shipped overseas.

    My hope:

    This time, rather than such a collapse opening the door for yet greater involvement of and control by the debt-money issuing bankers,

    instead we should throw debt-money monetary systems under the bus and drive over them repeatedly, crushing and removing them, and the power of the Babylonian Banksters behind them, to dust, for a thousand years.
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    Default Re: The Money Masters; Crises of war, plague and hunger; Total central real-time control of all money.

    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
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    Considerations on the Collapse of the US Dollar
    ……..

    My hope:
    [IMG]Hear hear, Moo! Under that bus and be done with them![/IMG]
    This time, rather than such a collapse opening the door for yet greater involvement of and control by the debt-money issuing bankers,

    instead we should throw debt-money monetary systems under the bus and drive over them repeatedly, crushing and removing them, and the power of the Babylonian Banksters behind them, to dust, for a thousand years.
    Hear hear, Moo! Under that bus and be done with them!
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    Here is perhaps the best analysis I've heard of where our money systems have been, where they are now, and where they are going.

    I've long enjoyed Lyn Alden's comments on the financial markets of our time ... she's one smart cookie ... but now it is apparent that she has been applying her genius to money on a longer term, multi-century, multi-cultural, multi-paradigm (barter, gold, central banks, crypto, ...) basis.

    This manifests in her new book that came out in August:

    Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better

    This also manifests in this interview from yesterday, in which Lyn Alden presents her insights:


    Lyn posits two fundamentals in this interview that underlay long term monetary system changes:
    [1] Energy technology (advancing to petro over the last century).

    [2] Monetary transaction technology (advancing to telegraph and now internet that permit transactions far faster and more complex than is practical with direct physical transfer of, say, gold coins).
    I would add two more fundamentals that will underlay upcoming changes:
    [3] Increasing computational capacity (currently labeled "AI") which is revolutionizing the efficiency of such physical processes as manufacturing and transportation.

    [4] The solar micro-nova, pole shift, cataclysm (cf Ben Davidson of SuspiciousObservers) that may climax in the coming decade or three.
    My current long term strategy is to leverage [1] - [3] to gain the capacity and resources to improve the chances of myself and my descendants surviving and continuing past [4].

    Overlaying and deeply entangled with the above is the ongoing war between humanity and the name changers (aka Babylonian Banksters, aka a thousand other names.) Lyn focuses little on that (her head is only so big, after all 😊 ... or if her head is that much larger, she knows her listener's ears aren't.)
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    This manifests in [Lyn Alden's] new book that came out in August:

    Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
    The top review on Amazon for Lyn's "Broken Money" book provides some high praise and a good description:
    Magnificent book. She builds her ideas in a rational and easy to follow manner which eludes most financial writers. Much easier to digest than many books on the same subjects.

    For investors she clarifies why you buy different assets at different times in an economic cycle, and when it is good to be leveraged & bad to be leveraged.

    I did not find any great revelations, but the book reinforced all of my current beliefs. She correctly concludes democracies with politicians making costly promises to the public to get elected always ends with too much sovereign debt. I read this 50 years ago in Plato's Republic, and have lived to see it come true in almost all of our western democracies.

    IMHO she understates the 3rd party risk with cryptocurrencies, but she has never recommended crypto for anything other than another asset in a well rounded basket of assets. People who complain that she is too heavily in favor of crypto investments simply haven't read what she writes.

    I would have liked more discussion on where we are today & where we are going rather than a chapter on human rights. USA has a huge debt and with higher rates the interest on the debt is hitting $1T which is totally unsustainable. There's no doubt inflation & financial repression are the only solutions (which will make the rich richer & the poor poorer). The "How We Can Make It Better" part of the book was the weakest, but that is only because IMHO 2024 will see the world in chaos with a GFC #2 much worse than the first, and the changes she wants to make won't be possible.

    To start off as a financial writer with a first book of this quality is phenomenal. Many congratulations to Lyn Alden. Every investor should buy this book & fully understand the central lessons which are thoroughly explained.
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    I'm not sure if this presentation has been posted yet (I think it's just 3 days old), and for the Avalon members the presentation doesn't really offer anything new, but it seems to me to be a good presentation to share with people who maybe understand just a fragment of the agenda and haven't put the pieces together.

    Crypto Casey:
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    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    ... a good presentation ...
    That's well done - tightly scripted, excellent overview of the history and present perils of debt money, focused on the history of money in the United States.

    As the top Youtube comment says in reply:

    Quote Best history lesson I've ever had!! Seriously! Thanks as always Casey.
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    Though Casey (in the above "Financial System Scam video") is limited in her grasp of the deep infestation of the evil bastards in the law, medicine, science, government, education, news and entertainment media, et al, and of the potential evils of collateral, even more than of interest.

    We have sometimes loaned each other money in my family, over the years.

    But never would we have considered that the lender might be able to repossess the borrowers car, home and income, with the full force of the state's legal and armed force, if repayment did not happen on schedule, nor would all the police, prosecutors, courts, and militaries back such a collection of collateral,

    Nations have been destroyed or enslaved over such details. See for example the 1871 incorporation of D.C. as a result of Civil War debt, or Germany's hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic in the early 1920's, or most "third world nations losing control of their natural resources under IMF terms.

    Families have lost farms they've held for perhaps a century, over such.

    The savings of my Baby Boomer generation are being plowed under a mountain of US Treasury debt, over such.

    Globalist enforced (as in the Uniform Commercial Code) of confiscatory collateral terms is a bigger problem than interest on those loans.

    As happens every 80 years or so, we are now entering another massive collapse of compounded debt, with the grave risk that the evil bastards will once again sweep up and gain control of yet more of the assets of the collapsed families, communities, businesses, corporations and of local, state and national governments.
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    Mel K, in this interview with Man in America, in particular from the 17:46 to the 26:51 marks, provides a fine overview of what I've been addressing above.

    We're in a fundamental contest between:
    • The globalists, who would have humans place their ultimate trust in human recognized institutions and leaders (which the globalists can more or less covertly control) to manage our public affairs, and
    • Those supporting "freedom", who would have have humans free to seek their ultimate guidance from a higher spiritual power (commonly known as "God").
    The globalists (the one's I sometimes call the "evil bastards") attack the free human spirit on both fronts, both co-opting and extending the power of the earthly institutions (governments, corporations, banks, NGO's, universities, et al), and corrupting and enslaving the individual human spirit.


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    So long as a private corporation masquerades as national bank issuing a nation's banknotes and bills of credit (aka bonds, notes, gilts, securitized debt, derivatives, ...), that nation remains under the boot of the Satanists.

    We will know if we might have really won this multi-thousand year war against the Satanists if such "central banks", in their current or any equivalent form, are dismantled and destroyed.

    This is not the first time that good people have come together to oppose the Satanists. For example, back in the early 1500's, the 1509 League of Cambrai was formed by France, England, Spain, Milan, Florence, and Pope Pius II. Under such prominent leadership as Cosimo de Medici, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Nicollo Machiavelli, the League gained major victories on many fronts, military, political and economic.

    The League realized that for the renaissance process to survive, a source of evil that plagued mankind for centuries, then centered in Venice, had to be destroyed.

    But the League ultimately failed, as first a subsequent Pope of the time, Pope Julius II, was bribed, and then the League was dismantled and destroyed, while the Venetians moved their center of operations from Venice to England and the Netherlands, while creating a new system of private central banking innovated by Venice’s Banco della Piazza di Rialto of 1587, in which private corporations become the "central banks" of nations, issuing that nation's banknotes and bills of credit.

    Circling back to the beginning of this essay: only when such central banks, in any form, whether national or supra-national, are dismantled and destroyed, will we humans perhaps have victory in this multi-millenial conquest with the Satanists. That final defeat of such central banks will not be sufficient for victory, but it is necessary.

    See further Matthew Ehret's:

    The Strategic Importance of the 1509 League of Cambrai for Today's World
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    Circling back to the beginning of this essay: only when such central banks, in any form, whether national or supra-national, are dismantled and destroyed, will we humans perhaps have victory in this multi-millenial conquest with the Satanists. That final defeat of such central banks will not be sufficient for victory, but it is necessary.
    I left unwritten some important thoughts that are behind my above post.

    Let me write those important thoughts here:

    I will be stunned and amazed if central banks, which have obtained a monopoly on creating "money" by issuing sovereign debt, are dismantled and destroyed.

    That would require a mind blogging array of deeply invasive and disruptive changes in more ways that I can enumerate with reasonable effort. Our laws, money, businesses, politics, health, science, education, news, finances, taxes, economics, on personal, community, state, national, corporate and other levels, are all deeply entangled with debt-money, whereby bankers lend our money into existence, in exchange for claims on our assets and incomes.

    A substantial part of me remains quite pessimistic that such a transformation of our civilization is possible.

    Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild,
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    Quote Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
    ...the Venetians moved their center of operations from Venice to England and the Netherlands, while creating a new system of private central banking innovated by Venice’s Banco della Piazza di Rialto of 1587, in which private corporations become the "central banks" of nations, issuing that nation's banknotes and bills of credit.


    Close...first Antwerp and Brussels, then Amsterdam, then London.

    What is meant is the Venetian Fondi, more like today's "Foundations" than a central bank. Each person had his Pillar of Wealth passed down through generations.

    The Venetian Bank was not private:

    ...the Bank of Venice, was a public bank created by the Republic of Venice.


    and was perhaps capable of Fractional Reserve Lending, i. e. holding deposits and doing paper transactions.

    So, no, I don't think that would qualify as "corporations".

    If one says "private lenders to governments", or "private investors in central banks", that may be closer to the sense meant here. This particular bank was destroyed (liquidated) along with the Republic of Venice--implying they no longer cared about/needed that country, which was significant to the "old world order" around the Mediterranean Sea, whereas England would be the new choice if you thought the money might be in internationalism.


    The League of Cambrai and *several* other episodes are very informative to the background here.

    At first it was really impressive--around the 800s, as loser to the Lombards, a group ran and hid in a mosquito-infested swamp that no one wanted. Then, voila! the Venetians, foes of the Pope and enemies of the French on a permanent basis.

    The 1500s is a long time for a city-state to still be influential to the destinies of nations, and the things they have done are absolutely staggering. This includes a few "bankers' tricks", but I am not sure there was The Bank until the Bank of England, 1694.

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    But, if we disallow the printing of more money, disallow fractional reserve banking, disallow the practice of debt-creating money and other BS banking "products" like derivatives, disallow any sort of futures trading on Wall Street that would cause dollar value fluctuation, why would that not work?

    The Wall Street issue before the Federal Reserve was called "moving the crops", and this is basically the same everywhere for all time.

    There may be a couple minor harvests, but the main one predictably is in autumn.

    A farmer hires temporary or immigrant labor, and needs cash to pay them, well in advance of what he may be able to realize in the market. And then that one is a gamble. There is need of financing, but, often it does not work, at least according to the Street.

    What they found in the ancient world was that a Debt Jubilee was necessary. Using powers of two, it was found that you might get by for 32 years, but you practically must give it in 64 or your government will collapse. That is how they did it until the Roman Empire stopped it and made us "forget" by around the 600s. The Romans ended the old, humane practices, and the Venetians were heavy in developing "something else".


    These were ways you could previously pay taxes:


    Corvee' labor

    Hashish


    This was a form of cash:


    Silk


    and the moral values were, instead of accumulating endless "Fondi", a successful person was supposed to re-invest in local infrastructure and well-being.

    I am not sure I have suggestions about the "best form" of cash, but, I would suggest the ancient world was a prosperous trading network for 5,000 years, to which we only have a Roman lapse of memory.

    If there was manipulation/hoarding going on, it was probably more with grain.

    Should power lie with:


    a) priests

    b) "financiers"

    c) the government


    It's the government's job to protect us from the foregoing, so, it is their job to figure out how to do their job. Ours does not work.

    Our original cash being redeemable for gold or silver, then there was a new kind of Note:


    Quote 1914: $1 Federal Reserve Bank Note

    At the time this was issued, a "note" was well understood to be a promise of payment. Accordingly, this is prominently labelled as a "Federal Reserve Bank Note".

    And what is this Note redeemable in? Here's what it says: "Secured By United States Certificates Of Indebtedness Or One-Year Gold Notes, Deposited With The Treasurer Of The United States Of America". The Note was directly redeemable in Treasury debt, but it was not directly redeemable in Gold.

    They are legal tender for debts, but what about a spontaneous purchase?

    According to the Federal Reserve:


    Quote There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

    It just means you cannot legally refuse it when offered to cover an obligation.

    Try paying a mortgage in cash! Or any bill or bank or credit card. See where that gets you.

    If you are just selling something, you are perfectly free, for example, to demand Silver Dollars, and refuse FRNs.

    Does a mortgage give me cash or something? No, it doesn't give me anything, is just double entry bookkeeping (Venetian).

    Unless replacing the Fed, we are just using something with no legal standing for purchases, which cannot be redeemed for gold or silver.

    The Constitution says that a State may not make anything other than gold or silver a legal tender of debts--but this does not apply to the Federal Government. So there is a jurisdiction and states' rights issue here. It gives Congress the authority to coin and regulate the value of money, so, the President cannot do it, but this does not forbid a private bank from doing it.

    The answer so far looks like "we have no idea", while some places like Russia seem quite capable, and we may have to look outside of our Anglophile mess for inspiration.

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    It's not the lending of money for interest (usury) that destroys (subverts to the control of some evil bastards) human civilizations.

    My personal lending to a relative, friend or neighbor, whether or not it involves interest, might be fine, or might harm the relationship we have. But either way, the community is not significantly harmed.

    The problem is lending via a third party, such as a bank, under the terms, themselves enforced by third parties.

    Once that happens, the third party/parties have an essential interest in both the assets of the lender and the borrower. The borrower must pay back or lose their collateral. The lender relies on those third parties to secure the future value of their lent money.

    The bank or other such party that sets up such loans gets to create two assets out of thin air, both the money lent to the borrower, and the debt contract/mortgage/... "debt paper" that promises future payback with interest earned.

    Once such "debt paper" (e.g. US Treasuries) becomes the primary monetary asset, then the banksers can cause the fortunes of people, corporations and governments to rise and fall, eventually enslaving all to debt, both the indebted poor, and the wealthy investor in debt paper, whether invested in stocks, bonds, real estate and other debt financed assets or invested in insurance and retirement plans funded by such debt paper.

    It's no accident that BOTH the original debt-money system and the original legal system started at the same time - in Babylon.

    That Babylonian system was called the the Hammurabi code of laws, which was a collection of 282 rules, establishing standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice. It was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C.

    Thus was the birth of our legal systems, our debt-money systems, and our debt-enslavement.

    The primary business of our governments is creating, transacting, regulating, and enforcing debt, whether in a local county court or on the battlefields of great wars.
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    Does a mortgage give me cash or something? No, it doesn't give me anything, is just double entry bookkeeping (Venetian).
    Well said. Double entry bookkeeping provided the "modern day" (since the late 1400's) procedure for creating and tracking debt. A banker lends money by making two equal and opposite entries in a ledger, debiting the money lent and crediting the equal and opposite value of the "debt paper", the loan contract.
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    Bitcoin is a reliable digital double entry bookkeeping system that works over the Internet ... just another double entry bookkeeping system, for a new venue.

    Whether or not Bitcoin ends up being a tool primarily benefiting humanity, or further enslaving humanity, depends on whether humanity, or our overlords, gain the upper hand in using and enforcing Bitcoin denominated transactions.

    Just as the Hammurabi code of laws began focused more on commercial trade than on debt-money systems, so it seems Bitcoin is beginning. Given the extent to which the debt-money masters have gained control of our civilization over the last 3800 years, I am not optimistic that Bitcoin will become the key to ending our debt-enslavement.

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    I've long imagined, without carefully checking the text, that the US Constitution, which makes nothing "but gold and silver Coin" legal tender, was an effort to step outside the then British controlled debt-money system.

    Admittedly any such effort has now been abandoned with the "Crime of 1873" (which no longer included silver in the coinage minted by the US Mint), the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, and FDR's 1933 "Executive Order 6102" (which confiscated gold held by US citizens).

    However I just now read the actual text of the US Constitution regarding gold and silver:
    From Article 1, Section 10, of the US Constitution:
    Quote No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts
    Dang - even then - the focus was on debt.
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