The Economy: Weaponized
Currency as Warfare
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Is our financial system a weapon of mass financial conquest and enslavement?
Surely not.
Actually, it is.
How was this accomplished? The following clip provides a brief explanation.
Here’s how it works.
First: the bankers deprive a population of the knowledge and capacity to maintain a complex monetary system—one where banks, accounting, transfers, clearing, bonds, hypothecation, and surety are required. Older, more primitive monetary systems, like barter and trade, or gold and silver coins, are less complex, and as a result, the power of a monetary system to increase productivity across the economic landscape is reduced.
Second: the bankers—through local front organizations and industry leaders—push “modernization” onto the local population, offering the latest gadgets, technology, methods, and access to “first world” products and services. (Think: neo-world fair tactics). The price to be paid for this “gift” of benevolence on the part of the globalist leaders is exorbitant loans due to the International Monetary Fund. The loans are structured to be nearly impossible to pay back. As collateral, the bankers demand land and resource rights, as well as other promises of austerity, wherein the people and their resources are made to pay back the loans that inevitably default.
Third: once the default occurs, the austerity measures come in, designed to parasitically drain a nation of its resources while making it impossible for independent businesses to thrive. The country is then reoriented toward exporting, paying much more for imports than exports. A trade deficit later acts as leverage to increase profits for the merchants facilitating these transactions along with improved negotiation positions for the importing nation buying the products of the recently modernized country.
Fourth: restructuring cripples the production of local business to produce goods and services, as more and more of the now-oppressed nations’ resources and labor is devoted to industries that produce the most profits to pay back the IMF loans. Rainforests are burned down. Cartel-like entities and businesses spring up, which are often secretly partnered with globalists, further breaking down the middle-class-owned businesses in the austerity-oppressed nation.
Fifth: eventually, whatever self-sufficiency existed along with law and order (and the prosperity it produces), is stripped away. What’s left is a nation of increasing poverty, crime, and lawlessness. Blackmarket businesses continue to expand, filling in the spaces left from legitimate businesses. Human trafficking, theft, piracy, and other insidious enterprises become commonplace. Alongside the economic destruction, quality declines sharply, reducing profitability.
Sixth: the nation is now ripe for removing or changing any and all regulations that limit unfair labor practices or resource cultivation. Children work in sweatshops. Political dissidents are rounded up to work in labor camps. Slavery by another name. International businesses come in to access cheap labor, paying almost nothing to the people in return. Corrupt local politicians and industry leaders sell out their countrymen and the nation’s resources, effectively becoming the house slaves of that nation, getting rich by working for their oppressors.
Seventh: totalitarianism sets in, usually socialism or communism as a governmental system of choice for a totally conquered people. Propaganda continues to degrade whatever good and true values and ideals exist within the increasingly-demoralized population. Eventually, most people forget what life was like before everything changed. Eventually, the sons and daughters of the now conquered people so totally accept their station in life that they act as cogs in the machine to continue the globalist conquest.
The timeline just outlined tells the story of dozens of nations over the decades since this neo-globalist method was developed in the late 19th century.
John Perkins, the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, confirms this is the way conquest or colonialism happens today:
Weaponization of the Economy
Our ability to print money—a God-given right—was unceremoniously handed to international bankers in 1913.
In the bankers’ infinite wisdom, they decided to charge the people of the world exorbitant interest for the privilege of using their paper notes (US dollars) and clearing houses (banks).
Alongside this development, the bankers took advantage of hundreds of years of careful societal conditioning, wherein the people’s knowledge and wisdom about a sound money system was stripped away.
Why bother?
Because in order to create a world where all people and nations are on the “slave plantation” created by the international bankers, the bankers needed to kill any and all competition.
Here’s an analogy:
If you want to create a business where everyone buys your tomatoes, then part of this total domination of the tomato market requires all other tomato producers to close their businesses.
One way to accomplish this is to buy out the existing tomato farmers. In this instance, the bankers have, throughout history bought out competing banks (See: The Pujo Committee 1912–1913).
Another way is to destroy the reputation of the competition through various schemes, such as spreading rumors, leaving pests in the competition’s tomato field, or using agents and operatives to fake illnesses that are later blamed on the other growers’ tomatoes. This is Corporate Espionage that extends beyond just stealing trade secrets.
On this point, the bankers have long partnered with the media and cultural influencers to aggrandize their methods and brands while they decry the competition and their methods. They partner with the mob and mafia to contract out the sabotage aspects of their operations. The relentless assault against citizen-led currency systems, like Bitcoin, is an example of this tactic.
Lastly—and this one might be the most insidious—gain control over the children of tomato farmers, encouraging them to abandon their cultural roots and wisdom. Use propaganda to compel the children to abandon the desire for the knowledge of how to grow tomatoes at all. This way, the people have no choice but to use your newly taken-over tomato businesses and industries.
The aforementioned method takes much longer and a lot more resources, but it guarantees the future is dominated by your tomato monopoly. Here, the bankers have spent hundreds of years maintaining their trade secrets of money printing, accounting, hypothecation, surety, trust, securities, markets, and the public perception and comprehension of all things banking, money, and finance.
Today, we live in a world where almost everyone totally and completely depends on the banker’s financial systems to manage their lives and businesses—which is precisely where they want us.
If any of this is true, which I argue it is, then restoring the people’s knowledge and wisdom of money is probably the best way to pull the rug out from under the parasitic bankers and their globalist cohorts.
Currency and Representations of Value; Money
Let’s cover some key facts about money.
Money is defined as something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: such as coins, paper money, digital or paper records, securities, bonds, or checks.
A stack of $100 bills is money, right?
Let’s think about this a bit more than we normally would.
Here’s a question.
What gives money its value?
Is it a special paper? Is it the engraved images of former Presidents? Is it the registration number on the front? What about the numerical value—$100—marked on the front and back of the bill?
All of these things help us identify the thing we call money, but they don’t give the money its value.
Why not?
Let’s go back in time some 2,000 years.
It was the peak of the Roman Empire. You can use Roman coins to buy almost anything you want—just like we can today with our modern money. Roman money has a numerical value on it. It has an image of the Emperor engraved on the front. Flashing forward to today, if you were running a coffee shop and I wanted to pay for my coffee with a sack of Roman coins, would you accept it?
Probably not.
But why?
It has all the same features as today’s money, for the most part. It’s because the thing that gives money its value is not material, it’s non-material. It sounds esoteric, but this is how it works, and the bankers know it.
Money’s value comes from our willing choice to use it as a medium of exchange. Currency is created by the people when they use it.
Outside of use, money is just paper, digits in a computer, or a lump of metal. It might have value for other reasons in human spheres of activity, but it isn't money.
When do words gain a precise meaning? It’s when we use them. The word “good” has no meaning unless I use it in a specific way. Similarly, money’s value comes from its use within a contextualized situation—when we use it specifically.
I know this can be confusing. We’re so conditioned to see paper money or bank numbers as money that we don’t know how to think about it any other way. But we can get a sense of how it works by thinking about different types of currencies used in different countries.
For instance, my $1,000 of US currency can be used in the US because, as a people, through our use in stores, as business owners, and through Congress, we “agreed” as WE THE PEOPLE to use USD to make purchases and pay debts. (Technically, we acquiesced to the USD as our currency via the Federal Reserve Act, in and through our legislators who made a decision for us. Our failure to reject their decision and reverse it is called tacit agreement, implied agreement, also known as acquiescence.)
In England, they agree through the same means to use the English Pound Sterling currency. I can’t go to England and use $100 USD to pay my restaurant bill. English businesses agreed (again, more acquiesced) to use the British Pound only.
This means it’s actually our agreement to use a form of money that makes it not only useful, but that gives that money any value at all.
Grass Roots Money Printing
Historically, we tend to like using things that have intrinsic value for our money.
For instance, if we use cigarettes as money, which happens in prisons or war camps, then the cigarette not only has a monetary value—you can use it to buy things like coffee in the black market of the prison—it also has a practical value—you can smoke the cigarette.
The very fact a prisoner can imbue a cigarette with monetary value is a huge point that we should underscore.
Tokenization is the act of “replacing sensitive data with unique identification symbols that retain all the essential information about the data without compromising its security.” While this is an information technology application of the concept, it is fundamentally related to a much grander and more fundamental human trait: symbolic representation.
Money is, in all respects and forms, merely a token—a symbol.
Humans are symbol machines.
Nearly everything we think, feel, and experience is a representation of something else. We’ll save the deep philosophic discussion about this for a later time. Just know that the fact we can create symbols to represent things—and all people do this, regardless of their position in life—means we can also create money.
Money is just a symbol that represents monetary value. And monetary value is itself a symbol for objects, things, events, or labor that is valuable to a person or group. By these definitions, when a coach smacks his football player in the butt after a job well done, that act represents a token of his recognition that the play was valuable to the team—to their mutual goals as a team, using the butt smack to communicate this to his player. The benefit extends to the rest of the team, which is looking for similar recognition from a qualified expert—the coach—that their contribution to the group effort is valuable. The same is true for a husband, who kisses his wife on the cheek warmly after enjoying the meal she prepared for them.
While these gestures can’t be directly converted into things the player or the wife can use to buy items in Walmart, they do act as a form of compensation for services rendered, ensuring each is motivated to serve again in the future.
Really pause to consider the simplicity and ease at which we can create symbols—tokens—that we can use to exchange with each other as money. The fact the bankers have managed to convince us we have no power to manage our own money systems given how easy it is to make them, is a testament to their skill as mass mind controllers.
But, as I am about to detail, even the most disempowered among us can reclaim the power of money creation to improve their lives.
A prisoner or convicted criminal has been stripped of all their rights when they are imprisoned. They can only do what the prison system allows them to do, which is a key aspect of what we call slavery.
The fact that we confuse punishment for a crime with abject slavery is yet another testament to the skill of mind controllers. The best forms of justice deal with the social demand for recompense (punishment, not state-enforced vengeance) while maintaining the dignity of the prisoner so they can be truly reformed and can take their place as trustworthy and dependable members of society. Despite this fact, our penal system today produces more criminals than it reforms—which is the whole point, most likely.
Forcing people to live in cages under horrific conditions for years so their labor can be stolen from them and calling this justice is hardly productive and smacks in the face of some of the noblest concepts of redemption. While we might debate how we deal with the horrible things people do in this world (criminal acts), and whether we should use the justice system to wreak vengeance upon criminals, we know enough to say it doesn’t do much to make fewer criminals and probably makes things a lot worse. We’ll discuss this more in the future because it is critical to understanding how to keep a civilization truly free and productive.
The main point is that we use the justice system to maintain a system of abject slavery.
Per the 13th amendment:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What this is saying is that the government can, and will, deprive convicted criminals of all their rights, to the extent that they can be considered a slave and they can be made to engage in involuntary servitude. Prisoners are forced to work and they are forced to do whatever they are told or suffer horribly.
While well-intentioned legal scholars and debunkers assert that this is the wrong way to read the amendment, it nevertheless holds true in the real world. I contend these debunking efforts are in error.
When a criminal is convicted, they are deprived of all choice in their lives, with a few meager exceptions, and prisoners are often encouraged to work, for pennies. While some might argue this isn’t slavery because inmates enjoy a modicum of choice and earn a few dollars for their day’s labor, the inmates have almost no ability to govern or direct their lives—which is one of the best tests of true and real freedom.
An inmate, despite the fact they supposedly have no rights, can actually create money in prison in the form of a cigarette. Actually, an inmate can use anything he wants.
A prisoner, who, let’s say, recently received a box of candies, can ask other inmates to trade their goods or services for his candies. The candy-holding prisoner might want a bodyguard, and a large, fit inmate might want candy. When inmate A asks inmate B to bodyguard him, accepting candy as payment, at that moment, candy has just become money.
No permission from the prison was needed. No act of Congress was required. No bankers needed to be contacted. No Federal Reserve meetings needed to take place.
Prison yard monetary systems are everywhere. Almost every prison has one or multiple operating at once, despite the best efforts of the warden to stop them. The inmates often form a strict policy around the money system, making sure that whatever monetary units are used are fair and sustainable for the whole prison. Of course, it isn’t a perfect system. It’s run by criminals, and they do engage in manipulations.
Nevertheless, if criminals in prison—who are within some of the most oppressive and resource-deprived situations—can manage to form enough collective coherence to maintain a grassroots monetary system, surely WE THE PEOPLE in the outside world can do the same.
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Before Babylonian money magic can take over, all popular knowledge of sound money must be suppressed. 500 years ago, English speaking people knew that usury was a sin and wealth was a sign of this sin. The people who believed this were called dissidents against the moneyed Anglicans, who all owned stock in the Dutch India Company and the Hudson Bay Company. This was the root of the corporate era of evil that now dominates our realm. This anti-usury attitude had to be eliminated so that slavery could take hold. The stock corporation has about a 500 year history. It has been a history of forgetting the ethics of freedom. This is why the Puritans and the Quakers came to the USA in the first place. They were being hunted out by the bankers and their Anglican church. Their way of maintaining independence was cottage industry, where they produced dyed wool cloth that could bring a pretty penny in the marketplace. This is how they funded their independent families and maintained their freedom and ethics. We can do the same thing.
It was called 'Babylonian money-magick' back in the day (before the time of Christ), and it was what gave the Khazarians their power. It has worked for thousands of years, but it must be enforced by the power of law. End those laws and independent and free monetary arrangements will arise spontaneously.
Leave the laws in place, and [they] will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who develops an alternative system to the point of challenging them. First the laws must be changed. Then We the People can get to work.