(Originally published in 2013.)
1913 was a very bad year indeed. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
“There is a lot of ruin in a nation,” wrote Adam Smith. His point was that it takes a long time for nations to fall, even when they’re dead on their feet. And he was certainly right.
America took its fatal blow in 1913, one hundred years ago; it just hasn’t hit the ground yet. This is a slow process, but it’s actually fast compared to the Romans. It took them several centuries to collapse.
The confusing thing about our current situation is that America – and by that I mean the noble America that so many of us grew up believing was real – has long been poisoned. Its liver, kidneys, and spleen have stopped functioning. but it still stands on its feet and presents itself as immortal.
And I’m not without sympathy for those who want to believe. They find themselves in a world where politics is almighty, and where their comfort, prosperity, and perhaps their survival all hang in a delicate balance. They don’t want to upset anything, and questioning the bosses is a good way to get hurt.
But just because someone wants to believe doesn’t make it so. We are not children and we are not powerless. We producers should never be intimidated by those who live at our expense. So let’s start looking at the facts.
The Creature From Jekyll Island. (h/t-G.E. Griffin)
Created at an island off of Georgia during Christmas time by Bolshevik banksters.
It is a private bankster cartel and not affiliated federal.
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.
Woodrow Wilson
When, during my later career at IBM, I was offered a chance to go into finance, I became introduced to the basic principles of bookkeeping.
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During this period, I could not help but think of the Federal Reserve Bank. Specifically, that in the same year that the central bank of “potentially unlimited politically-motivated credit” was established, the first permanent income tax on a person’s labor and property was legislated!
Is that a “coincidence?” I mean, could not both pieces of legislation – when taken together, be defined as potentially unlimited politically-motivated debits to potentially “offset” potentially unlimited politically-motivated credits?
When I found out that both were the product of Rhode Island Senator, Nelson Aldrich it all seemed to “balance.”
The more one learns about history, the more one comes to realize that a certain Austrian painter was right.
Rev. Irvin Baxter seven years ago. I’ve found no one, NO ONE, who states this better. He passed away on 3 Nov. 2020 which methinks is prophetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSPFI526h4&t=719s