Yeah I know, like, duhhh, but even I have been genuinely gobsmacked to realise over the last three or four years how the world is run by private banks, for private banks. Governments are largely immaterial.
It's almost as if they're so fucking blatant you can't quite believe it, and yet it's true.
Suggested material on this would be:
Inside Job -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/Capitalism, A Love Story -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/Money As Debt -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFb26u9g8Money As Debt 2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doYllBk5NoFor reading material, something like The Guardian, and surprisingly, even The Telegraph over the last few years have offered up a wealth of information.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/pers ... -debt.htmlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... double-dipIt was this headline that caught my eye this morning -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... ment-loans - and over the centuries this has been a common refrain, banks lend armies/countries money to go to war, and whoever wins the war, the banks are owed their millions/billions, so the banks don't really care. (And indeed, a country/government is established already massively in debt and answerable to the banks.)
Or how about Greece having to
sell the fucking Acropolis to banks to be able to borrow money to pay its wages and maintain its infrastructure?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... l-off.htmlUltimately my question is, how can every country in the world, every allegedly sovereign nation, and by extension, every worker, every taxpayer, the world over - end up in debt to private banks that don't even have to take the hit when it all goes tits up anyway?
The answer, unfortunately, is that government and democracy are, to a great extent, a sham - and that banks own our countries, our governments, and as such, in some regard, they own us.
One core point to understand here is that governments don't create money, the UK government doesn't create sterling, the US Government doesn't create the dollar, the vast majority of 'money' the world over is simply created as debt by private banks, and immediately lent to individuals/businesses/governments.
Money as we know it only exists, and is only created, in the form of debt, owed to banks, at interest. (The US Federal Reserve, for example, is a private bank.)
Not that there's anything we can do about it of course, so it's probably best to just play computer games and not get overly stressed.
'
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.'
Mayer Amschel Rothschild.