https://tan2tents.podbean.com/e/the-debt-factory/
Factories produce cars. Farms produce food. Fishermen harvest fish. Artists produce beauty; at least the good ones do.
And what does war produce? Destruction? Waste? Sure, but what else does war produce? Surely there must be a product which someone desires. This is true for all the other businesses you can name. What is the desired product of war? War produces debt. Loads and piles and heaps of debt. Countries at war soon exhaust any resources they have available on their own and must resort to borrowing the funds needed to continue the festivities. All justified of course usually on the ruse of some imagined existential threat to the country.
The banking families of this world are happy to help themselves the participants and issue the cash needed by virtue of the fact they can print all the money needed with a left-click and it costs them nothing to do so, with the benefit to themselves of having a new asset in the form of yet another overly-indebted nation. The end result is control of the nations assets. “you vil own nutting, and be wary happy” ring a bell?
And if they are able to persuade other nations to join in the fun, then they can enslave indebt those nations as well! Owning a public media company or 2 could help with that come to think of it as it is at least somewhat necessary to build a mindset in the general population that it is crucial to overthrow the dictator of the week. It’s crucial, CRUCIAL I TELL YOU!!!
And if they happen to own an arms manufacturing interest or two, then the funds they created can be coaxed right back into their own banking interests creating a happy circle of prosperity for some!
It’s pretty straight forward when you consider how it works isn’t it?
But this isn’t 1846 and by now one would think the general population, though mal-educated though most of us are, and only mildly interested in such pleasantries as irrefutable facts, would have ciphered what is going on, especially considering the program involves many of them dying on some muddied and bloodied lentil field somewhere. But clearly, even with the internet, and many more individuals spelling it out for them, most people still believe we must defend ourselves from a bunch of overweight farmers and plumbers on the other side of the world, oh and also we simply have to overthrow some newly declared “dictator”, as if we ourselves aren’t living under dictatorial regimes, you know, to save our democrazy or some crap like that.
Follow the money is already becoming just another tiresome cliche but the principle holds. To determine the reason for some insane thing that is happening, often following the money is going to give up the reason. And with wars going on generally until one side or the other’s financial resources and borrowing power are exhausted, well, could that be some kind of a clue? The result of war is inevitably indebtedness, and the primary beneficiaries of indebted countries and individuals are clearly the banking interests funding these wars.
The money they print has been sold to us all as a tremendous convenience. Remember the convenience! as you lie dying in some battlefield with a couple of your limbs gone awol.
Perhaps the convenience-juice of what they call money, is not worth the squeeze and we would all be a lot better off clumsily bartering favors back and forth.
An even simpler solution would involve refusing to watch the propaganda, or listening to those trying to drag us into useless and destructive conflicts of their choosing.
Another aspect of this waging war thing is our own financial participation in it! Are you subscribed to cable? You are financially supporting the propaganda-spigots. Are you investing in so-called defense industries? You are financially supporting the use of the military equipment they produce? Are you invested in big pharma? Well…. it’s not for me to judge. There are ways around these problems. It’s not too difficult to ditch cable and go with an alternative. Other promising industries exist which don’t have the destruction of human life as their core business model. As for pharma; why would anyone invest in an industry which is financially dependent upon your yes your sickness?
Now to circle back to the theme, there are slow and tedious means of indebting people, and there are quicker ways. One slow way is to remind individuals that the sofa they have been longing to buy for so very long can be theirs today! Or perhaps a quicker way might be to persuade them to buy a car they can’t possibly afford.
Moving on from individual servitude, (because obviously the borrower is servant to the borrowee) , it might be advantageous to indebt whole communities, by persuading them they need a new well, or a dam or some other improvement to their infrastructure, and this method will increase the production of the banks funding the operation exponentially, in addition to ultimately raising the taxes of the members of the community, and most of that process can be done with the consent of very few members of the town.
Carrying this principle of enslaving whole groups at a time, what if a country the size of canada could be hooked up to an international banking family’s cash teat? This might involve some fancier dealing than the small time stuff, but at the same time, with more at stake, more effort becomes worthwhile. Could some dirt be found or created on the prime minister? His cabinet members? This would ensure cooperation and make the process of providing loans to the country just that much easier.
But all of that likely becomes quite boring after awhile and if you wanted to speed things up a bit, what would create a larger appetite for cash than being attacked by a foreign power?
Now none of this discussion is to say that any of these things are in fact happening or that the largest and most wealthy banking families of the world have anything to do with the bouquet of military conflicts currently blooming all over the world, but at the same time you have to wonder if money might have something to do with what is going on these days.
It’s often been said that religion is the reason for all the conflicts, but you don’t see the winners of wars arguing about which church belongs to which general when the war is over. Mostly it seems that the primary goal is to own a bit more land or have control of some or other scarce resource, and as something else is needed on which to pin the blame, religion fills that spot, more often than not. But how to explain all the peaceful regions with multiple religions?
Anyway, i know i am rambling a bit, but hopefully some of these thoughts resonate and we can all work just a bit harder to slow the blood-letting.
Skulltripper 