(01-03-2023, 09:27 AM)BIAD Wrote: Cracks in the Looking-Glass.
Quote:COVID-19: A Global Financial OperationOff-Guardian:
'The COVID phenomenon cannot be understood without understanding the un-televised 2019-2020 unprecedented financial collapse threatening the entire global financial system. The Covid-19 Pandemic story makes little sense when viewed through the lens of health, safety and science. Viewed through the lens of money, power, control, and wealth transfer, however, then all of it makes perfect sense.
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All too true, and we as a species, rich and poor, are complicit in the scam, as most of us sought to enrich ourselves off that system and "get something for nothing".
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Even the little people scrambled to get their piece of the pie that was being created out of thin air via shenannigans of the uber elites in the financial markets. "Money" was being snatched out of thin air, manufactured by scams upon scams, and everyone saw the "money", but few realized that "money" and "value" are not at all the same thing.
By de-coupling actual, intrinsic "value" from a thing - and that value differs from person to person: (what I place value in may not be the same thing you place value in at all) they created not just fiat "money", but fiat "value" as well - an attempted averaged quantification of the value of a thing in order to prop up the fake money they were printing up out of thin air.
The masses bought into that ponzi scam, and started trying to amass what they had been told was "value" of their own... never realizing that they were just growing fruit that someone else was going to claim and take from them.
Consider a house, and realize that a house is not a home. How many of us peons started grabbing up lands and houses based upon a lie that they would "increase in value"? No, they will not. The intrinsic "value" of a house is what YOU place on it, not what a market says it is. It's either a "home" or just a house. If it's a home, then the value, for you, is inestimable. If it's just a house, what I kept hearing referred to as "an investment", then it has no value at all... because YOU do not place value upon it.
Buying a house as an "investment" was one of the most successful scams in history perpetrated upon us. It was the direct cause of the housing market collapse in 2008, which is ongoing today. What they did was to trick the Little People - us - to "invest" in a property without placing value on it. And they KNEW, right from the start, that they would eventually crash the market and repo those properties, transferring all of those "investments", all of that money spent and value squandered, by the Little People into their own pockets, whole hog.
That is just one example, but you can follow the same principle throughout every single "financial market" and "financial instrument" on the planet. Just try - you'll see for yourself.
This realization is what has convinced me that barter is the only viable financial system we have. In barter, you place a value on something you have or have produced. the other guy has something he has, or has produced, that you want and he has also placed a value on that thing. You barter between the two of you, without financial markets or banking systems or fiat currency to intervene as a middle man that will always take his cut. Once you reach an agreement on the value being exchanged, a bargain, the deal is done without anyone else being able to intervene to try to bleed off some of the value you have created into THEIR pocket.
Any other system, any other system at all, has YOU working to enrich someone else, allowing them to think they are making something from nothing, but in reality bleeding off YOUR value into THEIR bank account.
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