The Corruption of Banking is Going Mainstream

The Corruption of Banking is Going Mainstream

RAGS make paper
PAPER makes money
MONEY makes banks
BANKS make loans
LOANS make beggars
BEGGARS make RAGS

— anonymous 18th-century English poet

(Note: rags, not wood, in the 18th century were the primary constituent in paper.)

I was first introduced, in horror, to the atrocities of banking by a documentary called “The Money Masters”.

The documentary was quite long and for many would be quite boring but it was the most informative 3 hours I’ve spent.

I followed up by reading a book by G. Edward Griffin titled “The Creature From Jekyll Island”.

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The evils of banking are rife throughout history with the most modern incarnation having its origins in 1600’s England.  There are many attempts to obfuscate this evil from the general public, but the information is out there to those who seek it.  Indeed, the information was available to Henry Ford who commented:

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Literary allusions to banking corruption and practices are found in literature as well.  For example, in the Wizard of Oz, Oz is a direct reference to an ounce (oz) and there is no doubt that the yellow brick road is a reference to gold.  For more, see “The Secret of Oz”.

Also, Annie makes mention of the corruption and Daddy Warbucks was a direct allusion to Paul Warburg, a noted banker of the day.

Now, when I have these conversations with family and friends, I am often dismissed as a crackpot conspiracy theorist, despite the overwhelming evidence I present.  Now mainstream media is coming out with open discussions of the corruption.

Ron Paul is open and unending in his calls for an audit and dismantling of the Fed:

Recently, former Cabinet Minister (Canada), The Hon. Paul Hellyer has released a book on the topic “The Money Mafia” which is an expose on the topic.

To add to the changing winds of exposition, Pope Francis has called Capitalism “a new tyranny”.  Francis continues, as part of an 84 page apostolic exhortation:

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.
In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

(Full text:  http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html#I.%E2%80%82Some_challenges_of_today%E2%80%99s_world)

The Pope is the religious figurehead of some 1.2 billion Catholics world wide.  As more mainstream media revelations are made, the question becomes, how much longer before we all perk up our ears and start to listen — then, dare I say, act?

 

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