Already by the 1870s
Pettigrew was calling America what it had become: a plutocratic empire. But America's corporatized owners and
rulers have successfully convinced the American people that they still live in
the early 18th century free market republic of rugged individuals envisioned
by Thomas Jefferson. America's
wealth and people were simply the first victims of plutocratic surreptitious conquest
by the new Wall St money powers, descended from the old Frankfurt and City of
London money powers who own and operate Europe. Bankers, not governments, create and allocate the nations'
money. And money buys the world.
Or did you think the US$ and
the euro money supplies are issued by elected governments and controlled
"democratically" to serve the interests of the people? "Austerity" represses national economies
and drives down tax revenues so the people and the governments are deprived of
income to pay their private debts and bond debts. The people and nations default, and the bankers foreclose
and sell the collateral assets to vulture capital at bankruptcy sale
prices. The Fed and ECB create
trillions of new dollars and euro to revivify their insolvent banking systems
so the banks can lend money to the vultures. Do you still believe these quasi-governmental financial
institutions are trying to serve the interests of the nations?
You turned your head and
blamed "banana republics" when ownership of the cumulative wealth built up by
centuries of effort by nations of "Third World" people was being "privatized"
and transferred into the hands of a few plutocrats, American heroes, titans of
capitalism. Who will you blame now
that the same parties are doing the same thing to you, in your so-called
"democratic developed nations"?
Bankers and their corporatist
allies, not democratic governments, rule the "Western World". If you are smart and lucky and ambitious
and amoral enough you can get rich by serving the interests of Money. This is called "meritocracy". "Anyone" can get rich in America and
join the plutocratic elite.
"Anyone" can become President, servant in chief of Money. Doesn't that prove that we are free men
and women?
*BIS is Bank for
International Settlements, the central bankers' central bank located on its own
plot of "sovereign" territory within the city of Basel, Switzerland.
This article began as a
comment supporting Stephen Lendman's April 6 OEN article, "Permanent War:
Longstanding US Policy".
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