Anger With Direction

Earlier today I set out to write about the fiction that is currency and the economies that we as people all imagine to be true and while doing so I became so frustrated and angered that I had to stop writing. I don’t believe my anger or frustration to be unjustified and I also don’t think I am alone in my emotions. However I do feel that I am writing from an interesting position in that I am one of the lucky individuals indebted to no one. Aside from my responsibility to my roommates for rent and utilities, I am free to do as I please with whatever money I have. But even then, I do not actually have any money, as a United States dollar bill represents nothing but the face value plus interest that the United States owes to the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank that loans money to our country. The bills in your purse or wallet are nothing but notes of debt that must be paid back to those private bankers, again with interest.  That is an important fact that I felt should be addressed before I continue, but it is just a portion of what is outraging me.  Now if the United States paid back every dollar borrowed from the Federal Reserve, we as a country would still owe interest on that money. Now how can we pay that interest if we haven’t any money to pay with? It’s simple; we can’t, at least not in the traditional sense of paying debts with currency. For the sake of brevity I’ll suggest a book for anyone interested in learning more about the tactics of trapping nations in debt. It is called Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Now this book is about how the United States has been able to spread its empire across the globe but it has become apparent to me that the same playbook could be used on our own nation from the world’s banking elite. If visuals are more your thing you can find some videos on the subject matter here.

But I digress. After Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve act in 1913 he was quoted saying,

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

You see, it is these private banks that we along with England, the Eurosystem, Australia, China, and Russia, to name a few, are indebted to. And since our world’s current culture revolves around money, these bankers are the ones pulling the strings, whether you realize it or not. Recent world events should make it easier to see this, but still many people are unaware. So as an example I’d like to turn to the case of HSBC, the world’s third largest bank. They were recently caught laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and allowing and aiding in hundreds of millions of dollars in transfers from countries like Iran which are currently under international sanctions. Now this company only faced a small fine of $2 billion (in 2011 the company made $16.8 billion in net profits). And you would be right to expect some federal prosecution against those responsible, if we truly lived in a just society, but as it turns out, the Obama administration sought no such action. As a matter of fact they said the offenders CAN NOT be prosecuted, because any shake up in leadership at such a large bank might harm the global economy and that is something we simply can not afford. That is to say, the people running this bank, regardless of their illegal & immoral actions, are simply too important to face any criminal charges, even though they are directly supporting terrorism. Terrorism, Doug? Really? Yes, really. Between 2006 and 2010 more than 34,000 people had been killed in Mexico as a direct result of the drug war. HSBC is complicit in every single one of those deaths and yet they are just simply too important to our fragile economy, and our economy is just simply more important than any human life. After all, if we valued innocent lives the same way we value resources and assets there would be federal prisons loaded with CEO’s and top government officials instead of impoverished minorities caught up in the struggles of everyday life. Personally I’d like to see all those rotten “elite” motherfuckers hanging from every tree branch in Washington D.C. but I’m not holding my breath.