My education (M.S. in Engineering) has taught me how to analyze and solve problems, and has instilled in me the way that I see the world – to ask “how does it work?” and in many cases “how is it supposed to work?” often leading to “how can we fix it?” Hence this blog.
Today’s society is broken.
And I am naturally and spontaneously engaged in thinking about society, and culture, in terms of “how is it supposed to work?” and “what’s the best way to fix it?”
The result of such observing and questioning is coming to realize that some (many?) things in this world aren’t what most people think they are. Such an understanding generally comes with some maturity when we can finally wrap our heads around how things are supposed to work, and then to see through the façade to realize that they don’t work that way at all.
This first time I realized that things were not what they seemed to be (my red-pill moment) was many years ago. I was 33 years old at the time, and while browsing in a book store I found and purchased “The Paper Aristocracy.” It was a book that explained in detail how the money system actually functions, making it very clear that money is not created by the federal government, but by privately owned banks, and that those banks had the prerogative to create money out of thin air, with a simple ledger entry. Moreover, they even create the money of the US Government – the money we use every day – and then loan it to the government at interest! American currency states very plainly “Federal Reserve Note.” When you get a loan you sign a note. This note is a debt of the Federal Government to the Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Bank is our central bank. But it’s not any more Federal than Federal Express. Amazingly, like all of the other central banks around the world, it is owned by private individuals who receive debt service on the “money” they loan to their governments. In the United States alone this amounts to some $3-400 BILLION dollars a year! What could you do with an extra $300 billion? Anything you want. And that is exactly what they are doing - manipulating this world and everyone in it. Knowing that is there any wonder why this world is as messed up as it is?
Wouldn’t it be nice to just make a ledger entry in your account every time you wanted some money? Sorry Charlie. You are the one exploited by this system. Others are doing the exploiting. Those others are the ones we refer to when we say “the powers-that-be” or “the establishment," or often simply "they." "They’ve" set up a system that works for them at everyone else’s expense. They have unlimited money and they use it to control this world and everyone in it. The world works the way it does because that’s the way they want it. The status quo doesn’t happen by accident. They work hard at keeping everything on track, or shall we say, maintaining the status quo. That's actually the function of the "Intelligence Agencies." And anyone that brings a serious challenge to the status quo, well you will read about these "Enemies of the State" in the news, or obituaries. Think Julian Assange. Think Edward Snowden. Think Seth Rich. Or any other whistle-blower that is pulling back the curtain on these wizards.
They apply their loan-sharking scheme every time someone buys a house. They don’t actually loan the money for the house. The merely make a ledger entry, and Walla! And the magic is that by the time you pay off that loan you have paid them about THREE TIMES what they “loaned” you, despite the fact that they never really loaned you anything at all. The affair becomes even more sinister if you realize that it’s your signature that gives the loan document any value. The bank can take the loan agreement that you signed, and sell it on the commercial paper market for real money, right now, because it’s backed by your promise to pay. The same thing with your credit cards. And your car loan, and any other loan you may get.
That book was a tremendous a wake-up call for me! I learned that the system doesn’t exist to serve us – it’s designed to exploit us! And it happens on every scale – from individual personal transactions to loans made to governments. For example, all of the central banks of the world are owned by the same private cartel, except a few countries, and wouldn’t you know it, but those same countries are the ones that President George W. Bush called the “axis of evil” – Cuba, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, (and more recently, Russia) whose evil dictators should be overthrown. And sure enough, one of the first things that happened after Libya was destroyed was the establishment of a central bank owned and controlled by the same gang of thieves. Another very important thing to know here is that the governments, and particularly the US government, is working this scam in cahoots with the bankers. They’re all in on it together.
We might be a bit relieved if we knew that our exploitation was only taking place in our economic affairs, but sorry to say that it pervades every aspect of modern society. Can you say “Health Care”? Can you say “Covid”? We are exploited at every turn. And in their opinion our only purpose for being alive is to be exploited by them. And if they no longer need us for that purpose? Perhaps you can see where I’m going with this.
Most people’s casual reading does not generally include economics books. But the subject of economics and how it actually works in today’s world is an extremely important education because nobody can live without money. Don’t try to get a factual education in economics at a university, you will only get confused and coopted. Instead, for a good start in your personal economics library get and read these books: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky, Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, and for the real skullduggery that explains how this system has been set up, go for The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, or Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustice Mullins.
All of these authors speak about their books on YouTube, so you can watch instead of read if you prefer. And while you’re on YouTube a must see video for understanding how the world is controlled with money, is The Money Masters by Bill Still. This 3-hour video is worth every minute of your time, you will learn the real history of war, and how the Money Masters are perfectly happy to kill millions and destroy entire nations in order to have the prerogative to exploit resources, markets and people.
Rest assured, there is another way to live.