Fight Feudalism
POWER
MONEY
Elbow note (That's something between a foot-note and a head-note, with little relevance to either.)
But on to Blog 49
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned.
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there be, go, mark him well...
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from which he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured and unsung!
(Thank you, Sir Walter Scott, 1805)
How do you feel about that two centuries-old sentiment about your country/nation/state/city? If it touches you, you might be interested to read Joyce Nelson's latest book,, Beyond Banksters. Resisting the New Feudalism. It is a small, 146-page book of well-researched content and - professors, please note - very readable style.
I will, however, give you two or three blogs-worth of comment on Nelson's revelations on the global feudalism project.
First, the objective: is to reduce the whole global population to two classes: Rulers (very few and very rich), and Peasants (multitudes, as long as they last, and poor). The Lords will own everything - total privatiztion - and employ only as many peasants as they need. (Cogs Blog comment: I take this view from the term "feudalism" in Nelson's title. You may review Blog 44, if you need to.) With technological changes, like robotics and the "universe of things", not many peasants will be needed.
Secondly, How is it to be done? Well, the "Banksters" will do it.
First, by taking from the national states their power to create money. That stage is close to completion. Most of the money with which the world's population now transacts their business is not government money, but money created by private banks, and created as debt.
The second operation is the crippling of the national states with perpetually unpayable debt. That is achieved by infiltrating national governments and buying, bullying or bamboozling them into turning their "democratic" election promises into neo-feudalist policies, such as selling off state assets cheap to happy investors and replacing public services with profitable private ones. I also predict a large upswing in interest rates, as in the late 1980's. (Review Blog 25 on Nation X)
Finally,the abolition of all public services which are not profit-making - such as free public schools, free healthcare, public pensions, railways and highways with too little traffic, public broadcasting. And social spending generally. Then abolishing the regulations that protect public assets, such as water, forests, mineral deposits, postal delivery to remote settlements, post office banks, and so on, and, finally, prohibiting any reversion of these to public ownership. (That's what these so-called "trade" treaties are really about. Nelson lays it all out in panoramic simplicity.)
She supports this overview with examples of government policies, names and dates of individuals involved in the transition, and by connecting the dots on lots of illustrative events, from aborting public interest lawsuits to shutting down the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. Ever wonder how that well informed, well-targeted movement disappeared so suddenly and completely? She names the banksters who managed the crackdown.
Enough. More details coming up in Blog 50
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