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The Daily Bell -- Greece: Dump the EU Now For An Economic Recovery! by Ron Holland
'The ultimate solution for all government debt is always pay off, repudiate or hyperinflation hence the impasse in EU Land. No nation has ever paid off their national debt, the citizens generally benefit from repudiation over hyperinflation but central banks always use inflation as the solution. Due to rather recent German history the German people will never allow any government to sanction high rates of inflation. The EU was a vehicle designed to control all of Europe but the German people will not stand for the massive money creation and ultimate inflation necessary to preserve the failed European Union and inflate away the massive sovereign debts of nations in the EU. The German people will surely demand withdrawal from the Euro and a return to the currency credibility of a restored D-Mark (Deutsche Mark) backed in some way by gold. The alternative is to risk a return to the 1930's and the Germans have not forgotten that mistake. I would suggest that at the next federal election in Germany in the fall of 2013 Chancellor Merkel will likely be repudiated at the polls because of the EU problems. She and her party alliance will be forced from power as her dream for a German-led Europe through the European Union crumbles like so many grandiose plans of earlier empires. Remember, 70 years earlier in 1933 another chancellor was swept into power because of government debts, hyperinflation and outside meddling. It did not end well for Germany.'
history  empire  europe  germany  collapse 
10 days ago by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- People's Budget
'The 1909 People's Budget was a product of then British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's Liberal government, introducing many unprecedented taxes on the wealthy and radical social welfare programmes to Britain's political life. It was championed by Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George and his strong ally Winston Churchill, who was then President of the Board of Trade; the duo was called the "Terrible Twins" by contemporaries. Churchill's biographer, William Manchester, called the People's Budget "a revolutionary concept" because it was the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. -- More controversially, the Budget also included a proposal for the introduction of a land tax based on the ideas of the American tax reformer Henry George. This would have had a major effect on large landowners, and the Conservative-Unionist opposition, which consisted mostly of large landowners, had a large majority in the Lords.'
uk  history  georgism  geoism 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
The Great Crash of 2008 by Mason Gaffney
'Like all cartels, the unconscious combination of land speculators creates a "price umbrella" under which new resources enter the market. Students of cartels recognize a "price-umbrella syndrome". Cartels create an artificial scarcity of a resource or product and an artificially high "price umbrella" to shelter new competitors who come from outside the cartel. Previously marginal or untapped resources enter the market, often irreversibly. In urban growth, the cycle periodically thus creates an artificial surplus of half-developed land (graded, perhaps, roaded, platted, but lacking buildings). Other new land is even less than half-developed: accessed by new freeways, state highways, or county roads, but not even subdivided. At the same time, the lavish use of durable capital to bring settlers to all this marginal land creates a shortage of liquid capital, a shortage of loanable and investible funds, a rise of interest rates and a tightening of credit. The writer has analyzed elsewhere this lavish, irreversible misallocation of capital (Gaffney, 1976). Austrian cycle theorists have dwelt on this tilting of what they call "the structure of production", with too much capital getting sunk irrecoverably in what they call "higher order" goods. Well and good, they are onto something big and vital. Unfortunately, though, they find its cause solely in "forced saving" from bank expansion, with no reference at all to its "geo-economic" roots, and the role of inflated land collateral enabling bank expansion. Worst of all, they see no remedy except forcing down wage rates. -- Skeptics will wonder how we can take more taxes from rents when they are falling. Here is the key: the effect of untaxing trade, capital formation, enterprise, labor, and production is to raise and sustain land and resource rents as a tax base. This does not work through raising asking and holdout prices, but rather by raising bid prices, activating the market.'
history  economics  land  rentseeking  landcycle  businesscycle  MasonGaffney  geoism 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- History Channel: Cities of the Underworld (Playlist)
'In every major metropolis, skyscrapers loom above, taxis and vendors clamor at street level, and subways rumble below. But deeper beneath the hectic surface lie other, silent worlds, each with its own mysterious and fascinating history. Cities of the Underworld peels away the layers of time-often literally hundreds of feet thick-to expose the incredible pasts lurking beneath some of the most populous cities on earth. Throughout the world, cities such as Paris, New York, Rome and Shanghai all harbor long-submerged networks that once served crucial functions, from eerie catacombs to clandestine hideouts and ancient aqueducts to underground societies.'
documentaries  history  civilization 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Corbett Report: Afghanistan: Ten Years of War
'On October 7, 2001, NATO began its invasion of Afghanistan. Ten years later, as the country descends into even greater chaos, the illegal occupation of Afghanistan continues...' -- http://www.corbettreport.com/afghanistan-ten-years-of-war/
history  afghanistan  terrorism!  war  perpetualwar  oligarchicalcollectivism 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
Market-Ticker -- Germany To Leave The Euro?
'Germany is rumored to have ordered printing plates to resume printing Marks, and is intending to walk. ...playing the bailout game is a tax exactly identical to the impact of that stronger currency, and the bailout game costs you the decision-making power you retain when you are the one in control of your own destiny. The German people are tired of the crap and with good reason. There is a political limit to how far you can go with these acts before the people act in whatever manner is necessary to put a stop to it, and the Germans have a long and painful history of what popular tolerance of political stupidity leads to. Whether Germany actually goes ahead and does it likely depends on whether there is a further contagion - and I think there will be. ...I have a nasty suspicion that Europe will ultimately "resolve" this problem the way Europe has in the past - via the business end of a bunch of hot lead-chuckers.'
greatestdepression  history  germany  europe  debt  KarlDenninger 
september 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- World War I reparations
'The economic problems that the payments brought, and German resentment at their imposition are usually cited as one of the more significant factors that led to the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. -- #Current status: After Germany’s defeat in World War II, payment of the reparations was not resumed. There was, however, outstanding German debt that the Weimar Republic had used to pay the reparations. An international conference decided (Agreement on German External Debts, 1953) that Germany would pay some parts of the remaining debt only after the country was reunified, at that time an event thought very unlikely to happen. West Germany paid off the remainder by 1980. According to the agreement, the debt would be serviced for 20 years, leading to the last payments being due on 3 October 2010, the 20th anniversary of German reunification. About 10% of this debt, about 20 million euro, has not been claimed yet.' -- Debt repayment is a sin!
history  germany  europe  debt 
september 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: Cash Sweet Poison: 'Greece victim of Europe cheap money'
'Dr Markus Kerber, says that German taxpayers are fed up with being Europe's cash cow.' -- "There's a growing split between the German public and the political elite. Never ever before the split has been greater than today. The political elite is still united to support the Chancellor's policy of continuous bailout and the German public is more united than ever to oppose it. And sooner or later the European project is going to lose the popular support it has always had in Germany until now. So, we are really at a crossroad."'
history  germany  europe  debt 
september 2011 by adamcrowe
The Onion -- Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
'According to the historians, by looking at things that have already happened, Americans can learn a lot about which actions made things better versus which actions made things worse, and can then plan their own actions accordingly. While the new strategy, known as "Look Back Before You Act," has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won't be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything.'
TheOnion  america  idiocracy  history  myopia  memoryhole  satire 
september 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Edwin Vieira, Jr. on the Power Elite, the Police State and Opposing the Authoritarian Trend
'Edwin Vieira, Jr: To call these actions "conspiracy" may or may not be correct, depending on whether the ends envisioned or the means employed are illegal or immoral. But to deny that they are concerted actions of particular people, intentionally directed to some specific goals believed by those people to be beneficial to themselves, and that they are usually more successful, because they are concerted, than similar actions by isolated individuals, is ridiculous. Sometimes these groups attain so much economic, political, or military power or influence that, for a time, they "direct" (or seem to "direct") a society's course, or important aspects of it. ... But we must remember that competition always develops among existing groups, causes some old groups to disappear, and stimulates the formation of new groups. So we might say that there is "sporadic direction", or "intermittent direction", and certainly "competition in direction", but not "permanent direction" by any one group.'
history  panarchy  oligarchy  oligopoly  conspiracy  from delicious
july 2011 by adamcrowe
Bible Believers -- Modern 'Commercial Law' is based on Ancient Babylonian Codes by Charles Bruce Stewart
'...Babylon's Religious Priesthood is commonly recognizable as the source of all of the modern so called "Laws of Commerce". These "Laws of Commerce" are shown to be a specific body of Codes which authorize the Administration of the Compelling Force of the State in the En-Force-ment of Contracts, mostly for Payments of Debts. The ancient Babylonian Priests were involved because Contracts were deemed to be a form of "Oath" entered into by the contracting parties; and the approval of their Gods were invoked so as to more effectively legitimize/bamboozle the entire process in the minds and the consciences of the contracting parties and all public witnesses. Under the ancient Babylonian Religious Codes, "Slavery" is clearly facilitated. People were not recognized as People but were items in Commerce. The text-book says that "The slave is not regarded or spoken of as a man, but as a thing, and is reckoned in the same way as cattle."' -- Nothing personal, Jack. It's just good business.
history  law  legalese  commerce  ucc  persons  slavery  statism  oligarchicalcollectivism  mysterybabylon  from delicious
july 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Afghan War Down, Freedom Up?
'Western history is mostly a fairy tale. The wars, the economic expansions and contractions, "representative government"—all these are a kind of phantasmagoria, spun for the delectation of those who squat around magic boxes willingly imbibing such electronic fairy tales. The reality is much as it has been for the past 300 years (at least). A ruthless band of plutocrats—elite banking families with a base in the City of London—have been engaged in a remarkable mission to take over the globe. They have used war (mostly war), regulatory terrorism and central banking/monetary devastation to advance their cause. They have not hesitated in our view to plunge this miserable planet and its hapless citizens, especially in the West, into repeated recessions and depressions to consolidate power and advance centralization. They have built up a skeleton of world governance authorities—the UN, NATO, BIS, World Bank, IMF and global courts (ICC); they are still at it; they do not easily retreat...'
history  oligarchicalcollectivism  mysterybabylon  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- CorbettReport: The Last Word on Snake Oil
'The image of the traveling snake oil salesman of 19th century America is by now a familiar trope. It is the image of the heartless huckster who preys upon the trust of the general public to swindle them out of their hard-earned savings. With a bottle of useless tonic and the help of a plant in the audience, the snake oil salesman made a living out of lies and deceit. In these respects, William Levingston was your average snake oil salesman...' -- "Competition is a sin!"
america  history  oil  mercantilism  grifting  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Adam Curtis Blog -- THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER
'Elections were due in Syria in 1947, and the Americans decided to give "a discreet nudge here and there". This involved warning landowners, employers, ward bosses and police chiefs not to intimidate the voters. The American oil companies were paid to put up big posters telling the Syrians to "vote for the candidate of your choice" (apparently this baffled all the Syrians because the posters didn't mention any candidates by name). Hundreds of taxis were hired to take voters to the polls free of charge. And the Americans brought in automatic, tamper-proof voting machines. It didn't go as expected. The landowners and other elites ignored all the warnings and intimidated everyone. There were massive gun fights and scores of people were killed. The taxi-drivers bonded together and sold themselves to different candidates - promising to make their passengers vote the "right" way.' And worst of all, most of the pro-American candidates defected to other foreign powers.'
history  syria  democracy  bribery  statism  government  delusion  AdamCurtis  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Global Wars to Restore U.S. Masculinity - The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
'Nor are wars begun mainly in periods of economic distress as is often claimed. Goldstein’s study of economic cycles and war found a strong and consistent correlation between the severity of war and economic upswings. Although developed democracies do not go to war with each other, they nevertheless go to war against non-democratic nations do even more often than other nations, since they must act out the emotional distance between their Progressive and Reactionary classes... -- Depressions therefore are periodically experienced when nations feel they are too successful, growing too fast, and then engage in hyper-risky behavior, like the unregulated borrowing that the world engaged in during the past two decades. Like gambling addicts, they were not being “greedy” but were self-destructive, causing grandiose internal sacrifices costing many billions of dollars each time they occur, even though each time the risks taken are excused as “This time is different.”'
psychohistory  psychology  history  bubble  growthanxiety  sacrifice  war  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Global Wars to Restore U.S. Masculinity - The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
'Most books and articles ... begin with the belief that wars are for utilitarian purposes, “to get something.” They may admit that wars are “anything but rational,” but explain the causes of wars by saying they occur “when hardliners dominate their leadership”—never asking why only periodically do these hardliners come to power, promising that they “will not discuss individual factors of human nature” and consider the minds of nations starting wars as “black boxes.” But no modern war has been shown to have been started because of greed, and none have in fact been profitable for nations starting them if the full cost of maintaining the military and of loss of productive life are considered. Even maintaining the British Empire was actually an economic loss. Wars are pathological moral crusades against “evil,” revenge group-fantasies, designed to “get respect” for oneself and make up for the disrespect and abuse of their early years.'
psychohistory  psychology  history  childhood  abuse  humiliation  revenge  pathocracy  war  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
'...energy and ideas could be used to shrink autonomously-owned individual time and grow a space of corporate-owned time, to be divided between production and consumption. Two phrases were invented to name the phenomenon: productivity meant shrinking autonomously-owned time. Increased standard of living through time-saving devices became code for the fact that the “freed up” time through “labor saving” devices was actually the de facto property of corporations. It was a Faustian bargain. Many people misunderstood the fundamental nature of Schumpeterian growth as being fueled by ideas rather than time. Ideas fueled by energy can free up time which can then partly be used to create more ideas to free up more time. It is a positive feedback cycle, but with a limit. The fundamental scarce resource is time. The point isn’t that we are running out of attention. We are running out of high-energy-concentration pockets of easily mined fuel. Each new pocket of attention is harder to find...'
history  economics  time  attention  internet  themediumisthemessage  disintermediation  retribalization  panarchy  from delicious
june 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Queen Worried About Empire's Meltdown
'In 1971, the Anglosphere elites created the world's first fully fiat reserve currency – the US dollar – by instructing their Saudi surrogates to accept payment for oil only in dollars. Since this meant that every other country in the world had to hold dollars to purchase oil, the US could print as much money as it needed to fund whatever global adventures it wished to undertake. It used much of its windfall to further build out the military. Eventually, this money-printing capacity helped undermine – or at least provide the justification for the collapse of – the Soviet Union. Everything was going well for the elites in the late 20th century. Russia was westernizing, Israel's power was advancing and world government was gradually moving forward as well with the expansion of the West's various globalist instrumentalities. Even the dollar was holding steady. But then came the Internet. People know too much, or at least are beginning to learn. And they are angry.'
oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  incrementalism  globalgovernment  collapse  internet  cognitivesurplus  renaissance  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Social Alter by Lloyd deMause
'...people first become hypervigilant and paranoid as catacholamine imbalances and serotonin depletion lead them to expect attack, then engage in sacrificial restaging rituals that are usually both sadistic – inflicting the trauma upon others – and masochistic – destroying your own wealth and even sacrificing your own lives. The result is a feeling of relief that we have survived the apocalypse in our heads plus a feeling of triumph produced by the manic opioid surge. Thus our early traumas become wired into separate emotional memory module and become projected onto the historical stage in such a manner that they appear to be happening to the group rather than being internal, creating group-fantasies so intense and compelling that they take on a life of their own, a life that is imagined as happening in a dissociated sphere called "society." These group-fantasies are dissociated and seem to have a life of their own, a life we term "social" or "political" or "religious."'
psychohistory  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  dissociation  repetitioncompulsion  reenactment  projection  ideology  politics  religion  groups  trance  fantasy  society  history  *  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The History of Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
'...the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children. Most historical families once practiced infanticide, erotic beating and incest. Most states sacrificed and mutilated their children to relieve the guilt of adults. Even today, we continue to arrange the daily killing, maiming, molestation and starvation of children through our social, military and economic activities. I would like to summarize here some of the evidence I have found as to why child abuse has been humanity's most powerful and most successful ritual, why it has been the cause of war and social violence, and why the eradication of child abuse and neglect is the most important social task we face today. -- The main psychological mechanism that operates in all child abuse involves using children as what I have termed poison containers – receptacles into which adults project disowned parts of their psyches, so they can control these feelings in another body without danger to themselves.'
psychohistory  psychology  history  childhood  abuse  parenting  poisoncontainer  projection  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Turning Points of Empire's End? by Anthony Wile
'The City of London has a big problem. Once you have fallen back on the immoveable rigor of brute force you have to make sure that people understand that you will not back down. Not now. Not ever. If people cannot be frightened into supporting one-world-government (the point of it all) by fear-based memes, then they must be panicked into supporting it via military power. They must be made to feel that they have no other choice. But what if the biggest war – the most important war of the past 100 years – is also the war that you are evidently and obviously LOSING? What then? Well, if you are the top honcho of the Pentagon or Hillary Clinton, you will do ANYTHING to make sure your pending defeat does not become common knowledge and tabloid fodder. No, you cannot admit it! No how, no way! It will lead to a chain reaction, or so you fear. If people begin to understand that the entire Western world HAS LOST ITS MOST IMPORTANT WAR TO A BUNCH OF GOAT-HERDERS AND POPPY GROWERS ... what then?'
history  forcedmemes  terrorism!  war  perpetualwar  globalgovernment  globalcurrency  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  incrementalism  statism  puppetry  america  empire  dollar  collapse  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Turning Points of Empire's End? by Anthony Wile
'Bin Laden's supposed death is tied into the unfortunate reality that the US (and NATO) is losing the Afghan war. The Afghan war is a critical power elite meme. The US needs Pakistan to attack the Pashtun/Taliban. If they do not, the war is likely lost. Enter bin Laden and his "death." Whatever else it may be, it was likely supposed to shove Pakistan into an aggressive posture against the Pashtun/Taliban. With bin Laden's "death" there were few rhetorical alternatives. Either Pakistan's leaders had been terribly incompetent in letting the terror master live in Pakistan for years or the military had been horribly incompetent – or perhaps both. Either way, the Pakistanis had much to apologize for. And the biggest way for Pakistan to atone was to attack, the Taliban. For a while, it must have seemed like a stroke of genius. And yet ... something went horribly WRONG. The result in this increasingly bipolar world was only to push the Pakistanis into the waiting embrace of China.'
history  forcedmemes  terrorism!  empire  america  china  pakistan  afghanistan  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- G8 Clarifies Response to Phony Arab Spring
'Dominant Social Theme: Supporting the glorious Arab Spring is important. -- There are five countries that we count as successfully destabilized by the West (America in particular). They are Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt and the Ivory Coast. The money shows where the West wants to go. ...there is a sudden scramble to bankroll efforts to steer these destabilized countries in the "right" direction. This is the stated goal then – regulatory democracies not Islamic republics. It is a predictable dominant social theme. Destabilizations have taken place and the citizenry has been freed! We do not put it past Western elites to be playing an even more subtle game. It is possible that Saudi Arabia is supposed to be destabilized to usher in a non-dollar, global currency. It is possible that the creation of a string of Islamic republics is still the ultimate goal (the better to support the "war on terror"). It is even possible that general chaos and regional war is the preferable outcome.'
history  forcedmemes  "revolution"  puppetry  democracy  spectacle  terrorism!  dollar  collapse  problemreactionsolution  war  perpetualwar  globalcurrency  oligarchicalcollectivism  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
Fixing Capitalism by Fred E. Foldvary
'... Marx and his followers then came along and mucked up the language and thinking. Marx wanted to distinguish the workers from all those who owned assets, and so he lumped land into capital. From then on, most economists followed Marx in focusing only on labor and capital, and the physiocratic and classical emphasis on land was set aside. The neoclassical economic thought that followed the classical was encouraged to forget land, since this benefited the landed interests who financed them, and it also made the mathematical models easier if there are two rather than three factors. From now on, the system would be called "capitalism." But is capital a problem? Capital provides investment, and investment and better technology is what has raised living standards world-wide. "Capitalism" makes entrepreneurs and owners of capital the villains, whereas Ricardo's law of rent shows that much of the gain from trade and technology go to the owners of land as rent...'
economics  "capitalism"  geoism  land  rent  physiocracy  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Expanding World War III
'...a hyper-regional war aimed primarily at Pakistan and Iran could entail a draft and, of course, a steady demand for new fiat money from the Federal Reserve to fund the whole charade. Troublesome young people in Europe and the US will be taken off the street and retrained by competent sergeants. All this is going through the perfervid brains of Pentagon planners even as we write. War seen this way is a fungible, powerful tool. Mostly it is generated to create social cohesion in our view and just as importantly to distract people from focusing on the source of their frustration and anger, which is more often than not their own ruling elite. Is a super-regional war – a kind of World War III – something the elites are currently working to induce? It would change everything. We recall after World War II that the Anglosphere elites were able to create a new economic system featuring a reserve dollar and global financial infrastructure. Is it a solution destined to reoccur?'
oligarchy  puppetry  war  afghanistan  pakistan  iran  iraq  greatestdepression  globalcurrency  globalgovernment  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Ministry of Truth
'Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.'
history  retcon  recdep  minitrue  1984  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- US, Losing the War, Seeks Further Talks With Taliban?
'...having failed to take control of Afghanistan, the elites are faced with yet another dilemma in that the failure will breed further resistance, and this in turn will further destabilize their internationalist plans. It is ironic that two of the world's oldest tribes, the Punjabis and the Pashtuns – traditional rivals – have apparently faced down the depredations of an equally merciless tribal community with equally ancient roots based in the City of London. Like Titans of ancient days, these ancient tribal elements have hurled thunderbolts at each other from half a world away with the planet itself as the prize. Even more astonishingly, this analysis continues to be ignored by the mainstream press, and even the alternative 'Net media. The most significant war of our time – and perhaps any time – may pass into the realm of history without a historical narrative appropriate to its importance. Is it ever thus?'
history  afghanistan  pakistan  war  oligarchy  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RT: Gaddafi gold-for-oil, dollar-doom plans behind Libya 'mission'?
'"If Gaddafi had an intent to try to re-price his oil or whatever else the country was selling on the global market and accept something else as a currency or maybe launch a gold dinar currency, any move such as that would certainly not be welcomed by the power elite today, who are responsible for controlling the world's central banks," says Anthony Wile, founder and Chief Editor of the Daily Bell. "So yes, that would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal and the need for other reasons to be brought forward from moving him from power." And it has happened before. In 2000, Saddam Hussein announced Iraqi oil would be traded in euros, not dollars. Some say sanctions and an invasion followed because the Americans were desperate to prevent OPEC from transferring oil trading in all its member countries to the euro. A gold dinar would have had serious consequences for the world financial system...'
gold  dollar  war  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  "humanitarianism"  forcedmemes  centralbanking  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RT: The Daily Bell: Saving the world economy from Gaddafi [Gold Dinar]
'"If Gaddafi had an intent to try to re-price his oil or whatever else the country was selling on the global market and accept something else as a currency or maybe launch a gold dinar currency, any move such as that would certainly not be welcomed by the power elite today, who are responsible for controlling the world's central banks," says Anthony Wile, founder and Chief Editor of the Daily Bell. "So yes, that would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal and the need for other reasons to be brought forward from moving him from power." And it has happened before.'
gold  dollar  war  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  "humanitarianism"  forcedmemes  centralbanking  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RT: The Daily Bell: Saving the world economy from Gaddafi [Gold Dinar]
'"If Gaddafi had an intent to try to re-price his oil or whatever else the country was selling on the global market and accept something else as a currency or maybe launch a gold dinar currency, any move such as that would certainly not be welcomed by the power elite today, who are responsible for controlling the world's central banks," says Anthony Wile, founder and Chief Editor of the Daily Bell. "So yes, that would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal and the need for other reasons to be brought forward from moving him from power." And it has happened before. In 2000, Saddam Hussein announced Iraqi oil would be traded in euros, not dollars. Some say sanctions and an invasion followed because the Americans were desperate to prevent OPEC from transferring oil trading in all its member countries to the euro. A gold dinar would have had serious consequences for the world financial system...'
gold  dollar  war  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  "humanitarianism"  forcedmemes  centralbanking  history  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- The Return of the Barbarian
'...settled civilization is a fundamentally Gollumizing force. It makes you comfortable, stupid and addicted to the security and accumulated fruits of your labor. ...a settled civilization grows old, stupid and tired, and a vigorous barbarian culture swoops in and takes over from the top, and gradually gets civilized and stupid in turn, until it too is ripe for destruction by pastoral nomads on its periphery. ...intelligence in design is fundamentally a predatory quality put in by barbarian-Masters. Refinement in design is a non-predatory quality put in by civilized-Slaves. We miss this dynamic because of a curious phenomenon: history is only written by the winners if the winners can actually write. At their apogee, when civilizations have the most surplus wealth, they indulge in the most refined forms of writing: writing histories with autocentric conceit, they focus on the visibly-refined glories of their own age, rather than the higher-barbarian sensibilities at the foundations.'
history  civilization  entropy  retribalization  literaryculturevsoralculture  invention  innovation  *  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
Vimeo: Empires decline – revisited (Visualization)
'The decline of the largest maritime empires of the 19 and 20th centuries. (British, Spanish, Portuguese, French)'
history  colonialism  visualization  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Will a Saudi Collapse Translate Into Soaring Gold and a Falling Dollar? by Ron Holland
'Today in the Middle East, either by stupidity or design, the Federal Reserve's perpetuation of the dollar and treasury debt Ponzi schemes is now dependent on the survival of a few dictatorial regimes staying in power in the Persian Gulf while surrounded by spreading freedom revolutions [initially foreign intelligence-engineered for regime change]. This is the most dangerous region in the world and the focal point for conflict between Iran and America, the freedom revolution and authoritarian regimes, Sunni and Shiite, Israel and the Arab world, vast oil resources and the oil needs of the West and China, and where the decision will be made to price oil in depreciating dollars or in other currency alternatives. Of all the conflicts and threats in the region, the question as to whether oil continues to be priced in dollars and the dollar remains the world's reserve currency for now and the risk of a US dollar and debt collapse are the greatest threats facing America and the West.'
history  economics  dollar  petrodollar  oil  empire  puppetry  "revolution"  blowback  collapse  war  perpetualwar  oligarchicalcollectivism  globalgovernment  1984  *  from delicious
april 2011 by adamcrowe
IMDb -- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Memorable quotes
'The Oracle: We can never see past the choices we don't understand.'
emotionalintelligence  psychotherapy  therapy  history  wisdom  quotes  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Color Revolutions: The Fourth Way by Anthony Wile
'The result of these "revolutions" will be inevitably some other governmental organization. The choices are said to be: democracy, authoritarian (military) rule or some sort of Islamic republic. The last option has to do with the evolution of Islamic republics within the Middle East. This ... I believe will eventually become a reality. It will happen because this is the outcome that Western money power actually seeks. The Anglo-American power elite needs an enemy if it is to continue its "war on terror." Just as it did during the Great Depression, Western money power badly needs a war. The central banking economy, having ruined the wealth of the West, is not going to recover any time soon and is, in fact, unraveling faster than ever. The hope of the elite is that confrontation with the Middle East and parts of Africa will refocus the Western citizens' attention on an outside threat and paint the inevitable collapse of Western monetary systems in a different historical light.'
forcedmemes  "revolution"  democracy  puppetry  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  dialectics  problemreactionsolution  terrorism!  war  empire  statism  history  perpetualwar  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
American Thinker -- The Story of the Egyptian Revolution
'Contrary to Al Jazeera's propaganda, the Egyptian masses are not demonstrating anymore. They are protecting their homes and families. The demonstration last night had 5,000 political activists participating and not 150,000 as Al Jazeera insists. At this moment, no one outside of those political activists cares less now if the President will resign or not. They have more important concerns now; security and food. The next task will be to deal with the political activists and the Muslim Brotherhood which now dominates the scene. It is anyone's guess how that will be done, but in a couple of days the Egyptians will probably be begging the army to shoot them. Egyptians today feel pride in themselves. They have protected their neighborhoods and done what the army has failed to do. This empowerment will not be crushed easily. Until someone actually starts addressing the real issues and stop the chatterbox of clichés on democracy, things will not get better at all. It will only get worse.'
history  "revolution"  egypt  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- 'Dreamtime' Rolls Along
'Dominant Social Theme: Find a job, invest, save and then retire. -- The unraveling of American prosperity has to be regarded as the single most significant event that most American citizens young or old will face in their lifetime. In Europe, the comfortable myths about socialism have given way to the harsh realities of modern austerity. Meanwhile, the American Dream is unraveling "across the pond." The idea that municipalities would be able to continue to provide an endless array of upscale social and professional services – education, housing, civil services – is being exposed as a chimera. The whole issue of money creation was off-limits in the 20th century (how long ago that seems) and the result was a mythos that people grew up believing regarding their "prosperity" because they had no way of determining the truth. The Internet has provided an unexpected education. Elite media continue to play the beguiling tunes of 20th century Dreamtime, but for many the music has stopped.'
history  forcedmemes  centralbanking  bubble  hologram  truebelieversyndrome  statism  goverment  delusion  collapse  apocalypse  internet  cognitivesurplus  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Gold and Honey by Dr. Antal Fekete
'...the gold standard is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for achieving lower unemployment. A necessary and sufficient condition would assume that ... Real Bills doctrine is also rehabilitated along with the gold... The bill market is the clearing house, without which the gold standard cannot survive. The explanation why it collapsed in the years 1931-35 is that, when the victorious Entente powers decided to restore the gold standard after World War I, they also decided not to restore real bill financing of world trade or world-wide real bill circulation. Thus the gold standard which Britain reestablished in 1925 lacked a vital organ: a clearing house. The Entente wanted bilateral (to the exclusion of multilateral) trade for fear of German supremacy in exports. This decision was a great setback for world trade. In effect, it meant a return to barter. The consequence was: beggaring-thy-neighbor, trade war, the destruction of the wage fund, and massive unemployment world-wide.'
history  economics  gold  realbills  AntalFekete 
january 2011 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Gold and Honey by Dr. Antal Fekete
'...the gold standard is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for achieving lower unemployment. A necessary and sufficient condition would assume that ... Real Bills doctrine is also rehabilitated along with the gold... The bill market is the clearing house, without which the gold standard cannot survive. The explanation why it collapsed in the years 1931-35 is that, when the victorious Entente powers decided to restore the gold standard after World War I, they also decided not to restore real bill financing of world trade or world-wide real bill circulation. Thus the gold standard which Britain reestablished in 1925 lacked a vital organ: a clearing house. The Entente wanted bilateral (to the exclusion of multilateral) trade for fear of German supremacy in exports. This decision was a great setback for world trade. In effect, it meant a return to barter. The consequence was: beggaring-thy-neighbor, trade war, the destruction of the wage fund, and massive unemployment world-wide.'
history  economics  gold  realbills  AntalFekete  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of Childrearing - The Emotional Life of Nations
'...parents are the child's most lethal enemy, because inside the parents' psyches lie a powerful, dangerous alter that is their own parent's death wishes toward the child. "To appease the mother she must destroy the child, but the child is a love object too. To preserve the child she must renounce mother... She is trapped in a desperate conflict: kill mother and preserve the baby or kill the baby and preserve the mother." Mothers in the past routinely chose killing the baby, by the billions, driven to it by her devil alter (her own destructive mother image in her head). Women since the beginning of time have felt that their children "really" belonged to God-a symbol of the grandmother, and that "the child was a gift that God had every right to reclaim." When killing her child, therefore, the mother was simply acting as her own mother's avenger. What helped the dissociation was such beliefs as denying that the babies were human ... during most of history...'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  individuation  selfattack  projection  sacrifice  infanticide  dissociation  unperson  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of Childrearing - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The act of having a child is, "the most forbidden act of self-realization, the ultimate and least pardonable offense," and brings with it inevitable fears of maternal retribution for one's success and individuation. Mothers in antiquity hallucinated female demons were actually grandmother alters in the mothers' heads, so jealous of their having babies that they sucked out their blood and otherwise murdered them. All early societies invented sacrificial rituals wherein babies were tortured and killed to honor maternal goddesses ... vowing that, "although Mommy wants to kill me for having sex and making a baby, if I kill the baby instead [usually the first-born was sacrificed], I can then go on having sex and other babies with less fear of retribution." Child sacrifice was the foundation of all great religions, depicted in myths as absolutely necessary to save the world from "chaos," that is, from terrible inner annihilation anxiety as punishment for success.'
mysterybabylon  goddess  pathocracy  psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  individuation  selfattack  projection  infanticide  sacrifice  violence  dissociation  religion  culture  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of Childrearing - The Emotional Life of Nations
'...mothers earlier in history mainly saw their children as their own screaming, needy, dominating mothers-forming a "hypersymbiotic relationship" wherein the child is expected to make up for all the love missing in the mother's own life, cure her post-partum depression and restore her vitality. The need to shut up the mother's angry voice in babies lead to their being tied up, neglected and beaten. It is only when one realizes their own severe neglect and abuse and the extent to which their babies are poison containers for their feelings that one can begin to understand why mothers in the past routinely killed, neglected and abused their children. What is miraculous – and what is the source of most social progress – is that mothers throughout history have slowly and successfully struggled with their fear and hatred with so little help from others and have managed to evolve the loving, empathic childrearing one can find in many families around the world today.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  narcissism  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of Childrearing - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The problem with having only women raising children is that parenting is an emotionally demanding task, requiring considerable maturity, and throughout history girls have grown up universally despised. When a girl was born, said the Hebrews, "the walls wept." Japanese lullabies sang, "If it's a girl, stamp on her." In medieval Muslim cultures "a grave used to be prepared ... if the new-born was a female she was immediately thrown by her mother into the grave. Girls from birth have everywhere been considered full of dangerous pollution-the projected hatred of adults – and were therefore more often killed, exposed, abandoned, malnourished, raped and neglected than boys. To expect horribly abused girls to magically become mature, loving caretakers when as teenagers they go to live as virtual slaves in a strange family simply goes against the conclusions of every clinical study showing the disastrous effects of trauma upon the ability to mother.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of Childrearing - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The historical family, it turns out, cannot remotely be termed a "patriarchy" until modern times. It is in fact a gynarchy, composed of the grandmother, mother, aunts, unmarried daughters, female servants, midwives, neighbors called "gossips" who acted as substitute mothers, plus the children. Fathers in traditional families may sometimes eat and sleep within the gynarchy, but they do not determine its emotional atmosphere, nor do they in any way attempt to raise the children. To avoid experiencing their own domination and abuse during childhood by females, men throughout history have instead set up androcentric political and religious spheres for male-only group-fantasy activities... "The family in Egypt...was matriarchal...The most important person in the family was not the father, but the mother. The Egyptian wife was called the 'Ruler of the House'...there is no corresponding term for the husband."'
mysterbabylon  goddess  psychohistory  history  psychology  matriarchy  gynarchy  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Kowloon Walled City (Subtitled German documentary, 1989) 1/4
history  china  anthropology  architecture  kowloon  phyles  documentaries  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Adam Curtis Blog -- WICKED LEAKS
'[Tyler Kent] was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution. He was convinced that Germany should be allowed to destroy both Communist Russia and the Jews. And America should not get in the way of that being allowed to happen. Looking back, most people now feel that Daniel Ellsberg was right in 1971 because the Vietnam War had become a horrible disaster that needed exposing. Today, we are not sure of Bradley Manning’s motives (and it hasn't been proven that he is the source of the leak), but again there is a general feeling that it was good thing because the cables have exposed an empty nihilism at the heart of America’s foreign policy. But the perspective the Tyler Kent story brings is the realisation that diplomatic leaks are not automatically a good thing. It just depends on who is using them. And why.'
america  history  leaky  documentaries  AdamCurtis  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Most of the time, parents simply reinflict upon their children what had been done to them in their own childhood. The production of developmental variations can occur only in the silent, mostly unrecorded decisions by parents to go beyond the traumas they themselves endured. It happens each time a mother decides not to use her child as an erotic object, not to hit it when it cries. It happens each time a mother encourages her child's explorations and independence, each time she overcomes her own despair and neediness and gives her child a bit more of the love and empathy she herself didn't get. These private moments are rarely recorded for historians, and social scientists have completely overlooked their role in the production of cultural variation, yet they are nonetheless the ultimate sources of the evolution of the psyche and culture. Childhood must therefore always first evolve before major social, cultural and economic innovation can occur.'
*  psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  trauma  narcissism  evolutionarypsychology  therapy  empathy  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The evolution of childhood mainly consists of parents slowly giving up killing, abandoning, mutilating, battering, terrorizing, sexually abusing and using their children for their own emotional needs and instead creating loving conditions for growth of the self. The psychogenic theory defines progress in evolution as increases in self awareness, freedom, human potential, empathy, love, trust, self control and a preponderance of conscious decisions rather than as an increase in technological, economic or political complexity. This means that some cultures on low technological levels could actually be further evolved in human terms than others that are more complex technologically and politically. The amount of time and resources any society devotes to its children's needs is far more likely to be an accurate index of its level of civilization than any of the anthropological indices of complexity or energy utilization. -- ...every expression of love toward children heals society...'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  evolutionarypsychology  civilization  empathy  love  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'In China before the tenth century A.D. men began to footbind little girls... This vicious anti-daughter emotional atmosphere extreme even for a time that was generally cruel and unfeeling towards daughters was obviously not conducive to mothers producing innovations in childrearing when the little girls grew up. Therefore China which was culturally ahead of the West in many ways at the time of the introduction of footbinding, became culturally and politically "frozen" until the twentieth century, when footbinding was stopped and boy-girl sex ratios in many areas dropped from 200/100 to near equality. The result was that whereas for much of its history China punished all novelty, during the twentieth century rapid cultural, political and economic evolution could resume. Japan, which shared much of Chinese culture but did not adopt footbinding of daughters, avoided the psychogenic arrest of China and could share in the scientific and industrial revolution as it occurred in the West.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  abuse  china  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'#6. the main locus of epigenetic variations is the slow evolution of the individual conscious self that looks forward to its future and creates its own extended present, a self that evolves mainly through the growth of love in the parent-child relationship; #7. the rate of innovation in cultural evolution is determined by the conditions for parental love and therefore increase in individual self-assertion in each society, all cultural evolutions being preceded by a childrearing evolution; and #8. the locus of psychogenic evolution has historically been affected far more by maternal than paternal influence – indeed, entirely maternal in the crucial first nine months of life – rather than males and females each contributing half of the genetic information as occurs in neo-Darwinian evolution. -- ...it it has mainly been the mothers who have produced epigenetic novelty; so to discover the laws of cultural evolution one must "follow the mothers" through history.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  evolutionarypsychology  individuation  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'#2. vehicles of transmission include neuronal groups in the brains of individual parents and children, not solely genes in the sexual organs of parents; #3. the selection of variations is accomplished through changes in a very narrow part of the human environment—the family, the main organizer of emotional symbols, particularly the mother—rather than simply through changes in the ecology; #4. preservation of emergent variations in some individuals is often prevented from being swamped by the less developed childrearing practices of the rest of the culture via the psychogenic pump effects of migration; #5. limitations to emergent variations (psychogenic devolution) occurs either because of conditions adverse to childrearing such as wars, plagues or droughts—or because sudden increased social freedom for adults creates excessive growth panic, anxieties which are turned against children as poison containers, thereby producing devolution in childrearing in a portion of a given society...'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  evolutionarypsychology  growthanxiety  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The psychogenic theory of evolution is based not upon Spencer and Darwin's "survival of the fittest" products of the most ruthless parents but upon the "survival of the most innovative and cooperative" products of the most loving parents. The processes of historical evolution, based upon the very slow growth of love and cooperation, are therefore the exact opposite from those of neo-Darwinian natural selection, based overwhelmingly upon conflict and competition. They include: #1. The production of variations through psychogenesis is by creating through more love different early epigenetic environments – more advanced fetal and early childhood developmental paths – not through random genetic mutations and recombinations i.e., through variations in the structures of neuronal groups achieved during post-genetic development after inception, not through mutations in DNA prior to inception...'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  evolutionarypsychology  cooperation  voluntaryism  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'The central hypothesis of the psychogenic theory of historical evolution is that epigenetic neuronal variations originating in changing interpersonal relationships with caretakers rather than only through genetic variations originating through natural selections are the primary source of the evolution of the psyche and society. "The more evolved the species is the greater the role of epigenetic mechanisms in the structure of the nervous system." The fundamental evolutionary direction in Homo sapiens is towards better interpersonal relationships, not just the satisfaction of biological instincts. While adaptation to the natural environment is the key to genetic evolution, relationship to the human environment is the key to psychological evolution, to the evolution of "human nature." Psychogenesis is also the key to cultural evolution, since the range of evolution of childrearing in every society puts inevitable limits upon what it can accomplish politically, economically and socially.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  evolutionarypsychology  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Childhood and Cultural Evolution - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Environments are also opportunities, not just straightjackets. ..."men reach out to embrace and create their ecosystems, rather than the reverse proposition." It is when early childrearing experiences are impaired that children are forced to reduce their behavioral flexibility and are therefore as adults unable to improve their environments and experience cultural stagnation. The secret as to why England and not France or Germany spawned the Industrial Revolution first goes back to England's advanced childrearing in its smaller medieval households, not to any ecological advantage. English political freedom, religious tolerance, industry and innovation were all psychoclass achievements, dependent upon childrearing evolution. The most important unsolved question in cultural evolution is therefore to explain the rate of innovation and adoption of new techniques of exploiting what resources exist – factors that depend crucially upon the local rate of evolution of childrearing.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  parenting  childhood  evolutionarypsychology  civilization  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
Farmann Magazine -- Transcript of interview with Julian Assange (April 26. 2010)
JA: 'If you control the present, you control history and then you control all the decisions that are made based on history. What I said before is that political parties, philosophies, all limited by what is our intellectual heritage. What is the historical record. If you control the historical record, you are in control, you control what decisions can be made. If you do not know about something, you can not make an accurate decision. So that is extremely worrying, that in fact the Internet is the easiest thing in the world to control. -- ...people have been censored, and they do not reveal that they are censored. The reason that they do not reveal that they are censored is because it reveals to the readership that it has been been betrayed. So the censorship is being self censored. -- We are going to get harmonization. Question is; is it going to be the walls of China, is it going to be the Swedish press freedom act? Is it going to be an Internet full of black lists?'
internet  leaky  information  realityprogramming  retcon  memoryhole  minitrue  1984  censorship  history  journalism  wikileaks  JulianAssange  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Manic Phase: Ego Disintegration and Paranoia - The Emotional Life of Nations
'Nations engage in manic economic and political projects to get a "dopamine rush" that counters the depression and guilt about their success. Political paranoia and slow ego disintegration are seen in conspiratorial group-fantasies, fears of femininity [countered by persecution of homosexuals], imaginary humiliations by other nations [countered by a search for external enemies as grandiosity fails and Poison Alerts and sacrificial group-fantasies proliferate] [and Purity Crusades multiply as anti-modern and anti-child (Bad Boy) movements]. These are countered in the economic sphere by manic overinvestment, risky ventures, excess money supply growth, soaring debt and stock market speculations, and in the political sphere by jingoistic nationalism, expansionist ventures, military buildups and belligerent, insulting foreign affair behavior. As in drug addiction, each dopamine rush leaves a dopamine hangover that requires an even larger manic activity to overcome the resulting depression.'
mysterybabylon  oligarchy  centralbanking  puppetry  magick  mercantilism  parasitism  predation  psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  businesscycle  credit  inflation  bubble  malinvestment  crackupboom  sacrifice  scapegoating  hate  austerity  politicide  democide  war  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Depressed Phase: The Dragon Mother and the Phallic Leader - The Emotional Life of Nations
'That depressions are self-inflicted wounds and not just the results of "mysteriously wrongheaded monetary policies" is still not admitted by most economists. The task of controlling growth panic by depressions is given to central banks, which first flood the nation with low interest liquidity to encourage overinvestment, excess borrowing, inflation and stock market bubbles, and then, when the expansion becomes too sinful for the national psyche, reverse the monetary expansion by increasing interest rates and reducing liquidity ("Taking away the punch bowl when the party gets going.") Depressions come because really people become depressed, reducing their spending and investment, and feel hopeless. ...nations enter into depressions because they feel persecuted for their prosperity and individuation by what Jungians have termed the "Dragon Mother" – the needy, "devouring mother of infancy who cannot let her children go because she needs them for her own psychic survival."
mysterybabylon  oligarchy  centralbanking  puppetry  magick  pathocracy  psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  credit  inflation  bubble  malinvestment  crackupboom  sacrifice  austerity  recession  greatestdepression  economics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'(3) Internal Sacrifice Solution: If the leader cannot find an external enemy with whom to engage in a sacrificial war, he often turns to an internal sacrifice, either a violent revolution or an economic downturn. As Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon said in 1929 as the Federal Reserve pushed the world into the Great Depression, "It will purge the rottenness out of the system." Business cycles are driven by the manic and depressive cycles of group-fantasy, as manic defenses against growth panic are followed by depressive collapses into emotional despair and inaction. Depressions and recessions are thus not due to "the Invisible Hand" of economics but are motivated sacrifices that often kill more people than wars do, halting dangerous prosperity and social progress that seem to be getting "out of control." Periodic economic downturns are the antidotes administered by sacrificial priests for the disease of "greed." ..."greedy" childhood selves felt to be responsible for the trauma...'
mysterybabylon  oligarchy  centralbanking  puppetry  magick  pathocracy  psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  sacrifice  austerity  politicide  debt  intergenerationalwarfare  greatestdepression  economics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'(2) Martial Solution: If an external enemy can be found who will co-operate by humiliating the nation as they felt humiliated by their parents during childhood, this enemy can now be seen as the source of all their fears, and military action can be taken by the now-heroic leader in order to clear out the pollution and produce a rebirth of national strength and purpose. Wars are often preceded by apocalyptic growth panic movements, "Great Awakenings" and other end-of-the-world group-fantasies. The leader is split into two parts, and the "poison" part is projected into the "enemy" leader, who agrees to engage in a mutual humiliation ritual and then fight the cosmic battle between good and evil and "flush out" the nation's fears. The nation feels often enormous relief by the designation of the enemy, rather than being fearful of war's destructiveness. The finding of an external enemy as a poison container produces a burst of dopamine-filled euphoria.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  growthanxiety  sacrifice  democide  war  politics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Psychogenic Theory of History - The Emotional Life of Nations
'(1) Regicidal Solution: If the leader fails to find an appropriate enemy, he himself can be designated as the enemy of the nation, and a ritual slaying is enacted, either by actual regicide or by throwing him out of office. Should he be reelected at the end of his first term, a symbolic death and rebirth ritual is enacted, and the leader has more time to find a solution to the growth panic.'
psychohistory  history  psychology  childhood  abuse  trauma  sacrifice  regicide  politics  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Europe Falls Toward Enlightenment?
'A vicious crisis has driven Western citizens to their electronic boxes as they search desperately for a way to understand what has happened to their once-predictable worlds. It has happened before. History is not written by Great Men, by wars or even natural disasters. History is the outcome of a struggle between power elites who create "history" and the great masses of people who only occasionally understand that they are being manipulated to the benefit of a determined few. Technology plays a big role in this struggle, for it is through new communication technologies that masses are occasionally awakened from their slumber – dreamtimes – to confront the reality of their manipulations and the danger of their aggregate plight. The elite of the day fights back with wars, pestilence, famine, whatever tools are available. History is made and then rewritten and rewritten ... until the masses, confused, settle back into sluggish, stultified quiescence. But...'
metanarratives  history  oligarchy  forcedmemes  cognitivesurplus  internet  media  themediumisthemessage  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Origins of War in Child Abuse - The Author Interview
"Motherland" -- Growth Anxiety: Inter-generational warfare, perpetrated by elder generation upon the younger generation. Elders send youngers off to fight foreigner "enemies" whom the elders have displaced their anger at youngers onto. Elders need to attack and punish the youngers for their enjoyment of freedoms that cause the elders anxiety about new possibilities to separate from mother they feel they can't anger for risk of the losing all hope of their love. Unprocessed abandoment trauma. Reactionary against progress. Fear of freedom. Fear of challenging mommy's narcissistic needs. Religious/Statist savior fantasies. "God" wears a dress. -- Parents believe child is going to fill emptiness within them. Doesn't happen: Parent false-self narcissism vs Child true-self narcissism. Child experienced as "selfish", "defiant". Parental rage, abuse, abandonment. "Mommy doesn't love me; I'm bad. I upset Mommy. Mommy, please love me!" Love not possible. Hope springs eternal. The cycle repeats.
psychohistory  psychology  parenting  narcissism  childhood  abuse  falseself  projection  war  growthanxiety  intergenerationalwarfare  StefanMolyneux  history  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of the Psyche and Society - The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause
'By the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the new mode of intrusive childrearing had catapulted Western Europe far beyond the earlier psychoclasses of the rest of the world, giving their minority of depressives a new sense of self worth and the ideal of cumulative, necessary progress which led to the modern world we know today. The growth of knowledge, the invention of printing, the new questioning of authority, the exploration of new lands and ideas, all were evidence that "European people had altered in some fundamental way"—a change in their psyches, not in their environment. For the first time in history, Mommy/God "was relegated to a vague and impenetrable heaven, somewhere up in the skies. Man and man alone was the standard by which all things were measure." Science began its spectacular leap into the unknown. Political systems without divine sanctions and economics that were based on real trust became the goals of society. Joy in life need not be something sinful...'
psychohistory  history  civilization  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
The Evolution of the Psyche and Society - The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause
'Economic life, too, only evolved as childrearing and the psyche evolved. Tribal societies both in the past and in the present could not trust, because parents were untrustworthy, so they could not allow much wealth or surplus out of which they could create economic progress. Ownership was felt to be dangerous selfishness, envy ran rampant and ambition was feared... Those who acquired too much were expected to either engage in gift-exchange and other redistributive rituals or else to periodically destroy their surplus in cleansing sacrificial ceremonies. "Money is condensed wealth; condensed wealth is condensed guilt…money is filthy because it remains guilt." What held back economic development for so many millennia was that early civilizations were so abusively brought up that they spent most of their energies chasing "ghosts from the nursery"—religious, political and economic domination group-fantasies—rather than joining in together to solve the real tasks of life.'
*  psychohistory  history  economics  growthanxiety  civilization  psychology  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Byzantium: The Lost Empire 1/20
John Romer: "Rome didn't fall, it just got poor. Constantine had moved the capital from the great old cities in the West, to the East. And with him moved the government, the generals, the army, the artists and the architects... everybody who made the empire moved with him. So in 475 AD, the last Roman Emperor of the West, sent The Crown back here to Constantinople, to new Rome. The story about the fall of the Roman Empire – that's the Western Empire – was really invented in the renaissance by the Popes, who really wanted to get [across] the idea of a pagan empire falling and a christian empire of the West rising. But the real truth is that old Rome, ancient Rome, had been modeled on the great cities of the East, of Antioch and Alexandria. Rome didn't fall at all. It simply went back home again."
history  civilization  byzantium  empire  TheCrown  documentaries  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
ASCII by Jason Scott -- Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent
'What we were facing was the wholesale destruction of the still-rare combination of words digital heritage, the erasing and silencing of hundreds of thousands of voices, voices that representing the dawn of what one might call “regular people” joining the World Wide Web. A unique moment in human history, preserved for many years and spontaneously combusting due to a few marks in a ledger, the decision of who-knows for who-knows-what. ...you see, websites and hosting services should not be “fads” any more than forests and cities should be fads – they represent countless hours of writing, of editing, of thinking, of creating. They represent their time, and they represent the thoughts and dreams of people now much older, or gone completely. There’s history here. Real, honest, true history. So Archive Team did what it could... on this one-year anniversary, Archive Team announces that we are going to torrent it. YES THAT IS RIGHT, WE ARE RELEASING GEOCITIES ON A TORRENT.'
internet  web  history  archives  geocities  memoryhole  saved  eschatology  resurrection  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
What You Didn't Know About Taxes & The 'Crown' by Mark Owen
'The Inner Temple holds the legal system franchise by license that bleeds Canada and Great Britain white, while the Middle Temple has license to steal from America. To have the Declaration of Independence recognized internationally, Middle Templar King George III agreed in the Treaty of Paris of 1783 to establish the legal Crown entity of the incorporated United States, referred to internally as the Crown Temple States (Colonies). States spelled with a capital letter 'S,' denotes a legal entity of the Crown. At least five Templar Bar Attorneys under solemn oath to the Crown, signed the American Declaration of Independence. This means that both parties were agents of the Crown. There is no lawful effect when a party signs as both the first and second parties. The Declaration was simply an internal memo circulating among private members of the Crown. Colonials rebelled at the usurious Crown taxes, and thus the Declaration of Independence was created to pacify the populace.'
history  TheCrown  america  constitution  legalese  fraud  oligarchicalcollectivism  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: [Psychohistory] Interview: Lloyd deMause
'Lloyd deMause is the Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, founder of the International Psychohistorical Association, and author of seven books on psychohistory, four of which can be freely downloaded at http://www.psychohistory.com' -- Mentions voice therapy (restating your thoughts about yourself in the second person) to unmask the false self / 'alter'.
childhood  abuse  psychology  psychohistory  history  pathocracy  falseself  therapy  LloyddeMause  StefanMolyneux 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
The Institute for Psychohistory
'Psychohistory, the science of historical motivations, combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present.'
childhood  abuse  psychohistory  psychology  history  anthropology 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio: Psychohistory: The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd deMause
'"War is the mother of all things." – Heraclitus -- MP3 readings of 'The Origins of War in Child Abuse' and "If I Blow Myself Up and Become a Martyr, I'll Finally Be Loved" -- SM: 'Reading psychohistory can be harrowing, depressing and emotionally difficult to process. The case seems clear that children are the most abused, neglected, assaulted, raped and murdered 'minority' in history - and also that the progress of our species seems to be synonymous with progress in parenting. I strongly urge you to have a listen to these articles, and also to visit the psychohistory website to learn more about this radical and powerful approach to understanding history, and the current world.' -- The Institute for Psychohistory: http://psychohistory.com
childhood  abuse  violence  war  history  psychohistory  matriarchy  goddess  mysterybabylon  pathocracy  LloyddeMause  StefanMolyneux  psychology  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- Psychohistory
'Psychohistory is the controversial study of the psychological motivations of historical events. It combines the insights of psychotherapy with the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present. Its subject matter is childhood and the family (especially child abuse), and psychological studies of anthropology and ethnology. Psychohistorians suggest that social behavior such as crime and war may be a self-destructive re-enactment of earlier abuse and neglect; that unconscious flashbacks to early fears and destructive parenting could dominate individual and social behavior. According to psychohistory theory, each of the six psychoclasses co-exists in the modern world today, and, regardless of the changes in the environment, it is only when changes in childhood occur that societies begin to progress.' [See chart]
psychology  psychohistory  history  anthropology  childhood  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Alex Jones: Who Really Runs the New World Order Exposed: Part 2 of "Is Glenn Beck for Real?"
'Despite what figures like Beck have portrayed, this global system is not run by Marxist ideologues or Communist revolutionaries; those groups and others are controlled by a psychopathic, offshore, corporate elite cabal who have sophisticated control over most of the world's resources, peoples and territories. Alex Jones extends his remarks on Glenn Beck, the co-opting of the Tea Party movement and who really runs the New World Order in a follow-up video address to "Is Glenn Beck for Real?"'
america  history  AlexJones  GlennBeck 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Alex Jones: Is Glenn Beck for Real?
'Glenn Beck, as a national media figure, has never been consistent. While he has been seen on TV supporting big government bailouts, new taxes and unlimited war under the dubious banner of "conservative," Beck has also made a name as a Libertarian of sorts, and now as a tax-revolting Patriot leader within the Tea Party. But what Glenn Beck has never done, until now, is come so close to telling the truth. The People would pay attention to Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Lindsay Lohan and American Idol, not find out the aims of the Council on Foreign Relations, a publicly-obscure but deeply-influential elitist think tank. Though many of Beck's infamous Fox News programs have revolved around convoluted diagrams and misinformed flow-charts linking entities like the White House and the SDS with Van Jones, 9/11 and Nazism (and so on...), he has now reached the point of concise and important historical examples demonstrating the elite controlled agenda. So is Glenn Beck for real?'
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september 2010 by adamcrowe
A Japanese Soldier Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After the Japanese Surrendered, Because He Didn’t Know
"We really lost the war! How could they have been so sloppy? Suddenly everything went black. A storm raged inside me. I felt like a fool for having been so tense and cautious on the way here. Worse than that, what had I been doing for all these years? Gradually the storm subsided, and for the first time I really understood: my thirty years as a guerrilla fighter for the Japanese army were abruptly finished. This was the end. I pulled back the bolt on my rifle and unloaded the bullets. . . . I eased off the pack that I always carried with me and laid the gun on top of it. Would I really have no more use for this rifle that I had polished and cared for like a baby all these years? Or Kozuka’s rifle, which I had hidden in a crevice in the rocks? Had the war really ended thirty years ago? If it had, what had Shimada and Kozuka died for? If what was happening was true, wouldn’t it have been better if I had died with them?"
history  japan  hubris  stoicism  denial  sunkcosts  life  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Adam Curtis Blog -- MADISON AVENUE
Norman B. Norman: "The philosophy of our agency is... empathy." -- 'The widespread fascination with the Mad Men series is far more than just simple nostalgia. It is about how we feel about ourselves and our society today. As we watch the group of characters from 50 years ago, we get reassurance because we know that they are on the edge of a vast change that will transform their world and lead them out of their stifling technocratic order and back into the giant onrush of history. The question is whether we might be at a similar point, waiting for something to happen. But we have no idea what it is going to be.'
documentaries  history  advertising  planning  madmen  consumerism  nostalgia  theadvertisedlife  AdamCurtis  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- James Burke: Connections² E03": Something for Nothing & Echoes of the Past
'How do shuttle landings start with the vacuum which was forbidden by the Church? Burke takes us on an adventure with barometers, weather forecasting, muddy and blacktop roads, rain runoff, sewage, a cholera epidemic, hygiene, plumbing, ceramics, vacuum pumps, compressed air drills, tunnels in the Alps, train air brakes, Tesla hydroelectric power, electric motor, Galvani’s muscle-electricity connection, Volta’s battery, and gyroscopes.'
documentaries  history  technology  vacuum  sewage  lavatory  ceramics  compressedair  brakes  hydroelectric  electricity  NikolaTesla  motor  gyroscope 
august 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Rome, Moscow and Washington
'The pathologies of late empires...' -- "There's a reason that you have to invent the government to make all this stuff work – you have to invent the government to make all this stuff work because people wouldn't buy it without the government! You have to invent God if you're a priest to tell people what to do because nobody's going to obey you, you're just some guy. You have to invent governments to justify theft because so very few people want to steal directly. The important question to ask is, what's going to happen when this ponzi scheme called government stops 'working'?" [Are people going to be able to admit that] what has failed is coercion, is government, is using violence to achieve your ends? The price we pay for fantasy is destruction. And we will continue to pay that price until we understand the mechanics of what governments do, which is rape and pillage the average person for the profit of the elite."
history  civilization  economics  government  statism  2+2=5  coercion  violence  predation  empire  metastasis  ponzi  collapse  StefanMolyneux  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- The Bombing of Iran
'Increasingly, we believe the high-water mark of the Anglo-American axis came in 2007. History will record, as with Rome, that this first decade of the 2000s marked a gradually shifting away from one of the bloodiest annals of human history. The Anglo-American axis in the 20th century helped sponsor two world wars, while its banking elite (initially anyway) supported three of the most bloodthirsty regimes this poor globe has ever seen: The Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany and Mao's China. Of course this is not the way well-intentioned Europeans – or Americans or Britains – see the 20th century, nonetheless it is unfortunately true in our view – and can be borne out with a brief Internet search of reputable documents. In the name of global governance, the Anglo-American power elite has wreaked much havoc on the world and continues to wreak it today. Violence is the melancholy currency of Western powers-that-be.'
history  oligarchy  empire  statism  violence  pathocracy  war  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
The Center of the Universe -- What is Money? (From The Banking Law Journal, May 1913. By A. Mitchell Innes.)
Challenging the accepted history/theory that fixed weights were the standard of value for money metals and arguing instead coins were simply credit money tokens. -- 'The value of a credit depends not on the existence of any gold or silver or other property behind it, but solely on the “solvency” of the debtor, and that depends solely on whether, when the debt becomes due, he in his turn has sufficient credits on others to set off against his debts. If the debtor neither possesses nor can acquire credits which can be offset against his debts, then the possession of those debts is of no value to the creditors who own them. It is by selling, I repeat, and by selling alone—whether it be by the sale of property or the sale of the use of our talents or of our land—that we acquire the credits by which we liberate ourselves from debt, and it is by his selling power that a prudent banker estimates his client’s value as a debtor.' -- Also mention of tally sticks, aes rude and tablets.
*  criticism  history  economics  money  numismatics  trust  credit  debt  commerce  law  tallysticks  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics by Murray N. Rothbard
'In brief, praxeology consists of the logical implications of the universal formal fact that people act, that they employ means to try to attain chosen ends. Technology deals with the contentual problem of how to achieve ends by adoption of means. Psychology deals with the question of why people adopt various ends and how they go about adopting them. Ethics deals with the question of what ends, or values, people should adopt. And history deals with ends adopted in the past, what means were used to try to achieve them – and what the consequences of these actions were. -- Praxeology, as well as the sound aspects of the other social sciences, rests on methodological individualism, on the fact that only individuals feel, value, think, and act. Economic theory is not based on the absurd assumption that each individual arrives at his values and choices in a vacuum, sealed off from human influence. Obviously, individuals are continually learning from and influencing each other.'
humanaction  praxeology  philosophy  technology  psychology  history  economics  econometrics  fallacy  narrativefallacy  concepts  collectivism  individualism  #socialization  #complexity  #diversity  hackersvsvectoralists  austrianschool  MurrayRothbard  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
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