Tuesday, December 3, 2019
2161: Schmanking = Crooked Banking from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
The banks are crooked. All of them.
They have no other choice. And THAT is the problem. We have, whether we
know it or not, created a criminal banking system and then stood back
and let it roll. What kind of results do we expect from that?
A train wreck is what I expect from
that, and "transitioning" out of this crooked system is made difficult
by the fact that both alternative models, the gold-backed system and the
quantum system, are
known to be crooked, too.
known to be crooked, too.
What bothers me is that the bankers
know this and I know this and you should know it if you don't --- but
nobody is talking about this fundamental fact.
The Federal Reserve system is a fantasy built on grossly criminal practices requiring impersonation, enslavement, and barratry.
The IMF system is built on a currency commodity rigging scheme -- the "Exchange Stabilization Fund".
The BRICs system is built on
manipulation of gold reserves and artificially restricting access to
gold --- commodity rigging, again.
The Quantum system is another
fantasy built on manipulation of old MS-DOs programming and manipulation
of digits, more rigging....
It's all about manipulation of
"perceived values" of symbols and artificially controlling access to
commodities. It's all crooked. And if you think about it more than five
minutes, it's also crazy.
It's idolatry. Just like people used
to carve statues and worship the "image of God" they had themselves
created, we create these "symbols of value" ---- coins, pieces of paper,
etc. --- and give them value based on our belief that they have value.
Years ago I waved a dollar bill at a friend who was staring at me like I was nuts.
I said to him, "Look at this! What
is it? It's a piece of paper! And it's not even a useful piece of paper.
It's printed all over, so not good to write on. It's too stiff and
hard-surfaced to use for toilet paper. What in the hell do you think
this is? What gives it any "value" if not your pig-headed belief that it
HAS value?"
Well?
And it is the same thing with a gold
coin. Sure, gold is a metal, so relatively speaking, more valuable than
paper. It's even a fairly rare metal with some special properties as
metal, which increases its value for some industrial applications. But,
when you get right down to it, what good is it to you? Can you eat it?
Wear it? Will it keep you warm or fuel your car?
And if you don't use gold or silver, what other commodities are you going to arbitrarily pick? Blueberry jam? Seltzer water?
You see, this whole system of
thinking and doing things is crazy, so instead of arguing over which
idiot-system we are going to use, let's stop being idiots.
There is only one (1) and exactly one (1) honest form of money possible.
And that is money based on the value of all traded commodities and all labor, worldwide.
A currency based on all traded
commodities and all labor immediately guts the motivation for rigging
commodities and buffers everyone against losses. It also puts a curb on
"futures trading" --- because every country is a producer of "currency
standard goods", and so, at least potentially, is every individual.
So, we could have honest money, free
trade, and global harmony for the cost of issuing a currency based on
the total value of traded goods and labor, worldwide. It could be issued
by one international Think Tank and all the various countries could
take turns sending their own oversight teams to make sure nobody was
fudging anything. That takes care of the fear that there would be one
bank controlled by one set of all powerful bureaucrats.
Along with this, strict and
permanent accords would have to be adopted guaranteeing every living man
and woman the absolute right to engage in trade and to use this global
currency without restriction or fear of losing access to it and the
transfer systems related to it.
Our money would stand for the labor,
both skilled and unskilled, of workers in China as well as Belize,
Germany, and all the other countries of the world. It would stand for
all the commodities traded on every stock exchange worldwide.
So a gain in the value of skilled
labor in Bangladesh would increase the value of the money worldwide, and
a new forest planted in Brazil would increase the value of the money
worldwide.
In this way, the monetary system
would encourage everyone to do better and to help each other. It would
also encourage every government on Earth to be diligent in guarding
against counterfeiting and hoarding and other evils, because they would
know that it was their money being victimized by these practices, along
with everyone else's.
Ah, but what about the Eternal
Problem? How to pay for the disabled, the sick, the elderly, the
infants--- all those who, for one reason or another, are not able to
pull their weight?
We simply value them more, and in our new banking system, we give them extra tokens.
Life itself is infinitely valuable, beyond price.
So we need to stop focusing on the
comparatively petty issue of how do we feed the poor and infirm--- and
start focusing on the much larger issue of properly valuing life and
thereby valuing our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, friends
and neighbors, the dogs at our feet and the trees lining our streets.
After all, everything that we trade
and everything that we earn from work and services, is all predicated on
being alive and having needs and desires as living people. Most of us
are both producers and consumers, but those who are only able to consume
are vitally important as well.
It is the consumers who give meaning and value to what the producers produce, whether it is goods or services.
Consumers are the ultimate source of "perceived value" in any such system.
Put another way, it's my hunger that makes your hot dog valuable in the first place.
If we remember these simple facts
when we create economic service systems--- and that is all that banking
and insurance and stock and bond markets are--- and properly value
consumers for what they contribute, then everything falls back into
balance. Both the yin and the yang have their due.
From that perspective, it then
becomes possible for people to see that all of this, whether honest or
crooked in its factual operation, is arbitrary.
It's a game. We are keeping tally
and nobody really knows why. That simple act of keeping track of what
goes into the system and what comes out of the system and into "your"
account and "my" account, is what creates the illusion of limitation,
separation, and value. Accounting makes rich men rich and poor men poor.
Accounting is the mechanism of enslavement, just as law is the instrument of condemnation.
So we need to ask ourselves --- what are we accounting for? Why?
Perhaps it might make sense if the
purpose of accounting was to make sure that everyone gets a fair share,
or to make sure that something pencils out in terms of effort going into
it versus benefit coming out of it, but instead, the main purpose of
accounting in the modern world is to keep track of digits and shunt them
here and there, to keep a tally of symbols---signifying what?
Non-existent piles of silver? Hours that nobody ever worked?
This might be harmless enough in a
theoretical world, but our actual experience tells us that it is
harmful, because people forget it is a game and charlatans make false
claims in commerce based on these tallymarks. They take actual homes and
farms and factories "in return for" --well, nothing at all.
Yes, I will give you credit for
reading this, because most people can't bear to think about these things
--- and I will note that there is no big difference between me "giving
you credit" for reading this and any bank giving you credit for filling
out a loan application, pledging your assets to them, so that they have
credit to loan you.
You finally see how stupid this is? How important it is to know what you are valuing? And how that value is accounted for?
Value, like beauty, is actually in
the eye of the beholder. It doesn't exist external to the relationship
between individual Producers and individual Consumers. So focus the
economic services industry on the relationship between Consumer and
Producer, and properly value the Consumers.
The simpler, more mindful, more
direct, and more honest we can make the interface between Consumers and
Producers on a worldwide basis, the better. Instead of quibbling about
what physical material we use to make tokens ---our little Tiki gods
made of gold, plastic, paper or what-have-you-- or what form the tokens
take, our attention should be on what we value and why we value it and
how we account for it.
The more abundant and the more
widely dispersed the tokens are, whatever we use as tokens, the better.
We don't need to be coy or chintzy about our reasons for distributing
tokens, either, so as to make them seem more valuable by being scarce.
We can freely give every man, woman, and child on this planet more than
enough tokens to live and live well, which should be the goal of any
sane economic system.
And then, we need to ask ourselves a
lot of disturbing questions like: do we really need ten Barbie dolls?
Do we need to eat meat every night of the week? What impacts do our
consumer choices have on the planet? The plants, the animals, and other
people? Do we need to make other choices and value other things? Or
value different things more?
Maybe love and health should hit the scales and weigh in as being "valuable"?
These are the worthy questions, and the answers we give can change the world.
It really doesn't matter whether we use gold, paper, plastic, or digits as a "medium of trade".
Whatever tokens we use to represent
value, they remain tokens, in the same way that a statue representing a
saint remains a statue.
So let's re-focus our thinking and
the worldwide debate about banks and "money" and currencies, and most of
all about "value" --- and let's squarely face such questions as, "Can
value be stored?"
I, for one, don't believe that value
can be stored in a gold coin like storing electrons in a car battery;
rather, I see that some delusions are more durable than others. People
more readily believe that gold has value, so according to their belief,
it does.
But that's like saying I believe in ghosts, so I am more scared when I hear something go bump in the night.
It's not a reflection of the value of gold. It's a reflection of people's long term belief in the value of gold.
Let's ask--- what is our standard for assigning "value" to a cord of wood, or an hour of time?
Let's ask why your hour as a brain surgeon is so much more valuable than my hour cleaning ten toilets?
Most of all, let's ask who all this really belongs to --- because to be honest, none of us created any of what we are trading.
Even our ability to walk around and
think and perform work is being constantly created for us by powers we
don't begin to comprehend.
So, in the final analysis, what are we doing, but indulging in an adult game of "Pretend"?
Let's look at what we are doing, why
we are doing it, and how we are doing it. And then answer the real
question that we are being asked by the entire Universe: what do you
want? Do you want things to be like this?
And if not, let's change it.
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