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Jul 14, 2022·edited Jul 14, 2022Liked by PROTECT & SURVIVE
You have many good things to say and respect for trying to do something positive. I must say that some of that spirit is lost in the energy you spend attacking some arbitrary system you call "capitalism". Whose capitalism are you referring to because Milton Friedman's capitalism isn't anything like Paul Krugman's neoliberal "capitalism". And if we are being intellectually honest, a central bank is anticapitalist in the more classical sense. Zombie banks and corporations fail in capitalism. Too big to fail most certainly isn't a Mises philosophy. You are conflating " capitalism " with what should just be called plain old criminal behavior. To be fair to Marx, we are also nowhere close to his philosophy either considering the workers don't own ANY means of production. Too bad both sides strawman each other.
Jan 15, 2023·edited Jan 15, 2023Liked by PROTECT & SURVIVE
If anything, lockdowns actually made inflation worse in the long run by messing up supply chains around the world, reducing supply of goods and services. Combine that with the unprecedented levels of helicopter money that increased demand for goods and services once the economy reopened, and well, you get the picture.
Lockdowns without helicopter money would have caused a Greater Depression, and those behind it would have been sent to the guillotine. Helicopter money provided just enough "bread and virtual circuses" to prevent that from happening.
Helicopter money without lockdowns would have been inflationary a bit sooner at the gargantuan levels that at it was either way, but lockdowns both increased the need for even more helicopter money, and made inflation even worse in the long run.
The economy is NOT like a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. At least the physical economy is not.
Just circling around back here and I haven't read it all, but I will. My sense is we share some sentiment. Click on the links by name if you care to put that sense of mine to the test and meanwhile I will read the rest of this and provide more specific feedback if I get the urge to communicate on the web.
Local Commerce is where it is at!
I got work to do and so really my time for chatting on the web is diminishing - I hope!
With the extent of centralisation and monopoly now in the economy and available through the Internet "The Alphabet Borg" Panoptican Jailer Bot , (PJB) I propose a primary system adopted informally through distributed end to end encrypted elector networks. Federating Constituencies for cooperative ventures within a Wiki structure for discussion and holding Voter primaries for selection of political representation.
Hi Peter - I liked the notes about the banking bailout.
I think that the Covid-terrorism had several agendas but I think the number one agenda was the banking bailout by stealth.
I have good reason to think this.
The entire pandemic preparedness planning industry is based on a gigantic lie that pandemics are a threat. That's bullshit. Since the invention of antibiotics in 1927 we can cure 95% of all critical pneumonia cases for people who go down will flu, bad colds, or influenza and get pneumonia.
And in 2008 Dr. Anthony Fauci coauthored a paper on the Spanish Flu cadavers and concluded that '97% died of bacterial pneumonia and not the virus.' The virus didn't do it and they recommended we stock up on antibiotics for future pandemics.
The word "pandemic" has double meanings - and apart from referring to the pandemic of a growing human population that the psychopaths want to depopulate I think for the elites who planned Covid they also use it to mean 'financial contagion' that leads to financial meltdowns.
And there's proof.
Read this January 2007 paper by the US Government planning for pandemics.
This paper has all the policies that Xi Jinping used and spread worldwide via the W.H.O.
Look at the section on the Banking and Finance Sector committee - the report tells us they had their "pandemic" plan in place in January 2006 - so the LEADING PLANNERS for the Covid-lockdowns and fascist policies were the bankers.
You have many good things to say and respect for trying to do something positive. I must say that some of that spirit is lost in the energy you spend attacking some arbitrary system you call "capitalism". Whose capitalism are you referring to because Milton Friedman's capitalism isn't anything like Paul Krugman's neoliberal "capitalism". And if we are being intellectually honest, a central bank is anticapitalist in the more classical sense. Zombie banks and corporations fail in capitalism. Too big to fail most certainly isn't a Mises philosophy. You are conflating " capitalism " with what should just be called plain old criminal behavior. To be fair to Marx, we are also nowhere close to his philosophy either considering the workers don't own ANY means of production. Too bad both sides strawman each other.
Indeed, this is neoliberalism on crack.
If anything, lockdowns actually made inflation worse in the long run by messing up supply chains around the world, reducing supply of goods and services. Combine that with the unprecedented levels of helicopter money that increased demand for goods and services once the economy reopened, and well, you get the picture.
Lockdowns without helicopter money would have caused a Greater Depression, and those behind it would have been sent to the guillotine. Helicopter money provided just enough "bread and virtual circuses" to prevent that from happening.
Helicopter money without lockdowns would have been inflationary a bit sooner at the gargantuan levels that at it was either way, but lockdowns both increased the need for even more helicopter money, and made inflation even worse in the long run.
The economy is NOT like a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. At least the physical economy is not.
Just circling around back here and I haven't read it all, but I will. My sense is we share some sentiment. Click on the links by name if you care to put that sense of mine to the test and meanwhile I will read the rest of this and provide more specific feedback if I get the urge to communicate on the web.
Local Commerce is where it is at!
I got work to do and so really my time for chatting on the web is diminishing - I hope!
Peace,
BK
Hi Peter,
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With the extent of centralisation and monopoly now in the economy and available through the Internet "The Alphabet Borg" Panoptican Jailer Bot , (PJB) I propose a primary system adopted informally through distributed end to end encrypted elector networks. Federating Constituencies for cooperative ventures within a Wiki structure for discussion and holding Voter primaries for selection of political representation.
Best
R
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Hi Peter - I liked the notes about the banking bailout.
I think that the Covid-terrorism had several agendas but I think the number one agenda was the banking bailout by stealth.
I have good reason to think this.
The entire pandemic preparedness planning industry is based on a gigantic lie that pandemics are a threat. That's bullshit. Since the invention of antibiotics in 1927 we can cure 95% of all critical pneumonia cases for people who go down will flu, bad colds, or influenza and get pneumonia.
And in 2008 Dr. Anthony Fauci coauthored a paper on the Spanish Flu cadavers and concluded that '97% died of bacterial pneumonia and not the virus.' The virus didn't do it and they recommended we stock up on antibiotics for future pandemics.
The word "pandemic" has double meanings - and apart from referring to the pandemic of a growing human population that the psychopaths want to depopulate I think for the elites who planned Covid they also use it to mean 'financial contagion' that leads to financial meltdowns.
And there's proof.
Read this January 2007 paper by the US Government planning for pandemics.
This paper has all the policies that Xi Jinping used and spread worldwide via the W.H.O.
Look at the section on the Banking and Finance Sector committee - the report tells us they had their "pandemic" plan in place in January 2006 - so the LEADING PLANNERS for the Covid-lockdowns and fascist policies were the bankers.
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/niac-pandemic-outbreak-final-report-01-17-07-508.pdf
Ivan
Dear New(er) World Order:
I'll be happier if I own a shovel, broadfork, the garden area, seeds, and my little old truck to haul compost.
Thank You!
:-)
Good stuff!