Jul 18, 2009
Jul 16, 2009
Why the rich get richer
There are many and varied reasons why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Take a thousand dollars for example - in itself it's not a dynamic entity. But throw a bank into the mix and that thousand will start to grow, because it is most likely in an account that accrues interest. Now, if you are $1,000 in credit, the interest will be incurred by the bank and credited to you: you will be getting richer by doing nothing. However, if you are $1,000 in debt, the interest will be incurred by you and credited to the bank: you will be getting poorer without spending anything.
The same basic process applies to national debts and is at the very core of the Third World debt problem. The vicious cycle works very much in the way that LordLiverpool describes above; however, what he fails to take into account is the fact that this cycle was not kick-started by the evil, cynical, incompetent Third World governments (and don't get me wrong, some of them are all of the above and more to boot). It was put in place by the World Bank when it gave countries loans it knew they will not be able to service, at interest rates many times higher than those available to powerful economies, and with such conditions attached that no entity that was not desperate for cash would ever have agreed to. It basically played the loan shark: lend them more money than they can repay, then forcibly take them for all they've got. The World Bank is basically asset-stripping Africa right now, and the UN is helpfully providing the muscle in the form of "peace" keeping troops.
It doesn't stop there, though. What people rarely consider in these sorts of debates (and their siblings, debates about the evils or otherwise of capitalism and the free market) is that the processes operating on the rich and the poor are interconnected. In other words, he poor get poorer because the rich get richer. To put it even more bluntly, the rich get richer by taking money away from the poor.
Some examples are glaringly obvious: if you are a company owner, you are most likely richer than your employees. You have the power to cut their wages and benefits, but they have no direct influence on your bank balance. You can - and probably would as soon as look at them - make them poorer. If you are a head of state in a G8 country, you can levy protectionist tariffs on goods imported into your country, bankrupting Third World producers, and there's nothing they can do about it - they have no leverage over you, because you have money and money is power (literally in the case of countries with fat "defence" budgets).
But we rich people in the West rob the poor of this world, including the poor of our own countries, in a more subtle way. We do it by exercising our right to better choice and value in our role as consumers. When we shop around to get the best price, we force companies to lower their costs in order to absorb the cut in profit margins. The most popular way of doing it (more even than cutting on security procedures, despite what Fight Club may try and tell you) is to cut wages. Since most people employed in manufacturing are already poor, by getting good value for our trainers, cars, frozen burgers and CD players we the people who can afford those goods are making them poorer.
It gets worse. When we elect governments who promise us lower tax on fuel, we inadvertently make them drive a harder bargain with the producers of oil - many if not most of whom are considered less than fully industrialised economies - because nobody, not even the government, likes to take a cut in revenue. It's much easier to go to war with Iraq to force oil prices down without actually cutting taxes. When we refuse to spend the extra £0.20 on a bar of Fair Trade chocolate, we are both directly and indirectly shooting small farmers in the leg, and they are by far the world's poorest sector. When we come to expect, even demand, uniformly low prices in a restaurant, we get McDonalds.http://everything2.com/node/764676
THE SECRET COVENANT
"An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception. Those who will see it will be thought of as insane. We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us. We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.
"We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute. We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks.
"We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite. We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening. We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air. They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn. The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison. The poisons will be absorbed through their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems. From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information. The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear. We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far. We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones. Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons.
"They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect. When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them its for their help. We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things. When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future. When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine. We will render them docile and weak before us by our power. They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison.
"We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all. Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use fear as our weapon. We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides. We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan. They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil.
"Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way. We will make them kill each other when it suits us. We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion. We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how. We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves. We will foment animosity between them through our factions. When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best. We will make them rip each other’s hearts apart and kill their own children. We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend. The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other. They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit.
"We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us. We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths. We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished. We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds. We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this. The tools will be provided by their labor. We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.
"We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know! They must never know that color is an illusion, they must always think they are not equal. Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal. We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them. We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have. We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt.
"When they shall ban together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media. We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentiment in our favor. When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that. They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons.
Fleecing a Nation
According to an article on www.TakeBackWashington.com, based on February '09 market values, $1 trillion could be used to purchase Microsoft ($168B), Google ($107B), Coca-Cola ($100B), PepsiCo ($80B), Apple, Inc. ($83B) and Time Warner ($35B), and you would still have $243 billion left to buy up more businesses.
Where does all this money come from? On December 23, 1913 Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act which transferred the power to create money and regulate its value to a consortium of private bankers. The words "Federal Reserve" are deceptive, as the institution is not federal and there is no reserve. The Federal Reserve gave us worthless paper money, called "fiat currency," and gets to charge us interest on this money as we use it. The privatization of banking is going on worldwide, and these central (private) banks have been controlled by the same families for centuries. (Names? Rothschild, Lazard, Israel Moses Seif, Warburg, Lehman, Kuhn, Loeb, Goldman, Sachs, Chase, Rockefeller)
How is debt created? By our borrowing the worthless money and signing up to pay it back, plus egregious interest (usury). If it did not pass through our lives, it would not affect us. But its use as a global form of exchange has left us its victims, and it is the interest on the $$ that is slowly starving us. Banks get to write up our loans as "assets" and are allowed to lend out up to 10 times those "assets" to other people, charging more interest! This is called fractional reserve lending and is the process by which the wealth of common people is transferred to those who control the money. Remember the game Monopoly? This is like a monopoly game ... some players get to invent the money, the rest get to use it, and must continually put up their hard-earned hard assets in order to scrape for more wealth ... but with the playing field (markets) rigged to benefit those who print the money, most of the small fry end up losing ... everything.
The Federal Reserve has been diluting American dollars by releasing vast quantities of them, supposedly to "stimulate the economy." Yet we do not even know who is receiving these vast numbers of dollars, as the average Joe's checking account is leaner than eve
The planet Nibiru is a large planet which orbits the sun once every 3600 years. Our ancient civilization watched this planet pass over the skys, and wrote in the ancient texts to fear the coming of this planet. Was it inhabited we ask? Nobody knows all NASA has said
on this planet is that it is coming towards us and will arrive in 2012. They are very careful with what they tell the public on what is to come. They actually know more about what is going to happen then we realize.But it is scientific fact the Planet Nibiru is real and it's path to earth might cross so close that it may collide with us in the near future. I have embedded a small video clip of nibiru in this article and i hope you all enjoy learning about the universe and what may happen in our near future. But the real question is what was the ancients warning us about this planet for? Possible inhabitted by some unknown species? maybe and maybe not.
Maytbe it just passed so close they believed it was goin to collide then but it didn't., Its a good possibility that nibiru's close crossing with our planet may change our environment as we know it today. Do to it's gravitational pull on earth during the crossing.
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