I think we've seen this happen already Vam. In the UK personal wealth rose from £500 billion to £2,700 billion in the twenty years from 1979 but our society went backwards and only the very rich got richer. The trend has continued ever since with wages pegged back and various economic bubbles in property and financial services leading to increasing state and private debt. It's clear Enron-style false accounting has been rife and that anything other than what I'd term 'primitive banking' has been a scam based on a very old insurance swindle (basically take the premiums with no intent to pay up) and Ponzi schemes. The real problem is that the conditions of employment that were hard earned here did not go global - naked oligarchy did instead on the basis of rigged markets - a very old story linked to organised crime. We have riots across English cities at the moment, though these are more to do with disaffected criminal youth than political protest. I've long thought, as you may remember, that serious war is coming. I believe financial interests were behind the world wars and continue to provoke volatility in various ways now. I doubt any of us live in democracies in which citizens can direct anything - we are simply told we can't afford policies of reasonable equality and sensible creation rather than inane consuming. I often wondered, while teaching, why most people find education so difficult. Part of the problem is almost non-existent memory and an inability to think in world-views - people reduce all evidence to one - and that one is created in nonsense conflated with tradition. I was brought up to believe the road to serfdom was that of the Sino-Soviet 'experiments' - but however ghastly they were the real problem was everywhere to do with centralising accumulation that relies on speculation in a very crude form to succeed through exploitation and violence. Prestigious US university alumni funds invest, through a British hedge-fund, in land grabs in Africa that evict (or kill) the tenant farmers. The banksters created a vast gambling den, elite access only, in which the rich could bet and never lose, the bookmakers get very rich and which was presented as 'all above board' - it was, in fact a massive market-rigging, insider-trading den of vice and we are all paying off its debts as though they are ours. What sickens me is we have the technology to do so much better and have collapsed backwards into bad old ways. My own country (Scotland) is showing signs of 'going Scandinavian' and I welcome that. Sadly, I live in England, and the only people in protest here about our nongovernment are criminals!
On Aug 10, 7:48 am, allan deheretic <[email protected]> wrote: > When you are influenced by a pack of lies and deceit. the question is not > about making a free choice .. It is about making a responsible choice. For > many people that is sad because they are so influenced by propaganda they > have lost the ability to think clearly. Their on going education in life is > one of being "dumbed down"! > Allan > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > The voters still have free will do they not? Things are 'balanced' by the > > bank rolls of the super rich on the left don't you think? Like Soros and > > Arab princes that have a vested interest in seeing America fail > > economically. These are the folks that have bankrolled Obama and he's > > delivering. > > > dj > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Vam <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> The Walsh Commission, set up in 1912, had warned that, “the power of > >> wealth could overwhelm democratic culture and politics.” > > >> Has its warning come true for the US, considering how the Koch > >> brothers have bank rolled sustained opposition to Barack Obama and his > >> proposed policies ? http://bit.ly/q8kZYK > > >> There's a lot more to read here : Bilderberg @http://bit.ly/oLuxq4 > > -- > ( > ) > I_D Allan > > If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken > Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
