Of magicians...con games....illusions, good as gold...
the money masters...and pissing on your leg...
Highly recommended video link included, that will change
the way you think about money...
fourthbase wrote:
...and so on. Forget any occult significance for a moment...it's like the pyramid scheme has been openly, flamboyantly declared. Considering how poisonous any public association with pyramid schemes should be to financial institutions supposedly dependent on our trust...WTF.
bks wrote:
My concern is that there IS NO BEGINNING TO THIS CRIME, because even at the 'beginning' it was linked to 'regular business practices' in the aftermath of Glass-Steagall being repealed.
vigilant writes:
"Flamboyantly declared"...now thats a phrase...And oh yeah...there is a beginning, but where would you like to start? At the beginning of the scam, the middle, or the end, or try to peg this particular phase, because this scam has been going on so long, it might be difficult to peg exactly.....
In all trades and crafts, we have the mediocre, and the true masters of their crafts. We have surgeons that can't handle much more than removing topical growths, and surgeons that can perform brain operations that defy the imagination of the average person. Often the masters have family histories of of excellence in their crafts, and the torch is handed down through the generations, and sometimes a new master springs into being of his own volition.
Magicians have the mediocre and the masters too. All con-men are magicians, but not all magicians are con-men. The most skillful, and most successful con-men, often come from families that have a long history of skillfull cons in the family tree. It takes an almost complete lack of empathy for the human race to be a master con-man, and that behavior is typically learned, and not inherent from birth, in most people anyway.
The goal of a con is to separate a person from something of value, so that he may have the value for himself, while taking very little or no personal risk in the process. The most essential ingredient in a con-scheme is "illusion". The con-man must create an illusion, sufficient to warp the perception of the "mark" (conned person), so that the mark will separate himself from the valuable property in some manner.
Magic is illusion, and illusion is magic. The most successful magicians in the history of the world, are also usually the most
flamboyant, and sheer
"audacity" is one of the main ingredients in their magic act.
Audacity definiton: bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints
Flamboyant definition: marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior
Most people will not engage in flamboyant audacities when considering a con-scheme because a persons natural inclination is to do dirty deeds in the dark, and in secret, for fear of being discovered as a participant in the con-scheme. This being the case, their natural inclination is "not" to view things in the wide open, in plain sight, as being a con-scheme. Human nature is to look for that which is hidden when looking for con-schemes, not realizing that things are often best hidden in plain sight.
The true master con-men, that operate successfully on enormous scales in society, will do just the opposite. Con-schemes
hidden in plain sight blend in with the landscape, and by their association with things that can stand the test of "the light of day", they are perceived as legitimate. Some of the wealthiest, and most well known families in the world, are masters of illusion, affiliated with legitimate enterprises, or seemingly legitimate enterprises. Buried within these enterprises are kernels of the con, that go unnoticed by their affiliation with legitimate enterprise and activity.
These people are often audacious and flamboyant to the extreme. They will bestow upon themselves grand titles, sometimes declare almost superhuman abilities, and lay claim to entitlements and rights that are so preposterous, that the average person would not consider doing the same. At the same time, the average person will believe these claims, and treat these magicians as they portray themselves to be.
Average people will sometimes willingly give these people their possessions, or allow themselves to be bilked out of their valuables due to the fact that they honestly believe these magicians somehow deserve it, or have right to it. They will allow themselves to be bilked out of their valuables by these people, because they are in awe of these magicians, and will simply defer to them. These people are sometimes literally worshipped too.
Why? Because the magician had the sheer unadulterated audacity to lay claim to something, or some spectacular ability, while creating an illusion that backs up his claims. Some of the most successful magicians in the history of the world have been Royal Families, Kings, Popes, Presidents, Ministers, Evangelists, Politicians, Military Generals, Dictators, Famous Billionaires, Pirates, Corporate Tycoons, and oh "yes" Bankers..etc...
Simply because they "dared", and had the sheer audacity, to walk out into the sunlight, lay claim, and were able to create an illusion sufficient to fool the masses into believing it, some con-men have almost made themselves seem immortal to the common people...
This mortage melt down is a banking con-scheme. An illusion was created. Illusions that hurt other people, and separate them from their valuables are also known as fraud, unless they are perpetrated by someone powerful enough to rename the illusion something similar to "oops, it just happened somehow"....Mortages were carved into smaller chunks, bestowed with value that they did not possess, and sold to investors as something of value. They took "junk" rated loans, turned them into something they could sell, changed the rating to AAA valued financial vehicles, while knowing the whole time it was still just damn "junk".
Why was it junk in the first place? I'm so glad you asked....Due to the known financial strength of the borrower, or lack of financial strength in this case, it was known that large numbers of loans would default when the bankers jacked up the interest rates on the loans, which they absolutely intended to do when they made the loan. The fact that many mortages would collapse wasn't a "maybe" it was a certainty. Bankers know exactly how much money you have, your ability to pay, your outstanding debt, and your income. They can calculate your breaking point almost down to the dollar because they have all the numbers they need to do just exactly that. Since adding certain numbers, in certain sequences, always adds up the same, this was no surprise. The numbers in the math didn't suddenly learn some new tricks and pull a fast one on the bankers and catch them unaware. 2 + 2 = 4 when they made the loans, and 2 + 2 "still" = 4 when they jacked up the interest rates beyond a KNOWN ability to pay.
So when did all this start? Well...how far back do you wanna go?
This all started small and in the dark, many ages ago. Bestowing false value on a valueless object is the art and the deal of the banking business. It began when the gold brokers and dealers were able to talk people into storing their gold with the gold dealers. The gold dealers convinced them that someone might steal their gold, that it was too heavy to carry, and it would be safer and more convenient to to let the gold broker keep it for them for a small fee. The gold dealers then issued the "depositors" a receipt for their gold. Then "a" receipt became as "good as gold" because it was proof that you had the ability to pay. It became customary to divide "a" receipt into multiple smaller receipts, and these receipts could be signed over to other people as payment for goods and services.
Paper money was born, and thus gave the banking/lending (usury) business a whole new scope of possibilities. The gold dealer also had his own private stock of gold that he owned. Why not lend it out, for a fee? There was only so much gold to lend though, as the gold dealer only owned so much, so the fees that could be collected were limited to the stock of gold that the gold dealer himself owned.
Then the gold dealers had a eureka moment, and noticed that "all" the depositors never came demanding all their gold at once, and a nice stock of gold was usually on hand. So...in secret, the gold dealers started lending out depositors gold, and collecting fees on other peoples gold, without their knowledge. Now the fees were much larger, but still this wasn't enough. So the gold dealers decided to lend out "more" gold than he himself and his depositors both owned collectively. After all, nobody would ever know right? He kept enough gold on hand to pay depositors that trickled in demanding their gold, physiclly loaned out gold, and issued far more receipts to "borrowers" than he had gold in stock.
What a con, and what a racket huh? You loan out paper receipts, that claim there is gold to back them, you charge people fees for using this worthless paper, and you have nothing of your own at risk in the process. Its all done in secret, and nobody is the wiser. The sky is now the limit, and you can generate as many receipts as you like, charge fees for them all, become so wealthy and powerful it boggles the imagination, and you are doing practically nothing for your money, and have an incredibly small risk in ratio to what you gain.
Fractional reserve banking is born. "Fractional reserve banking" are the words, the "name" given to the now legal practice of loaning out far more than you have on deposit in the bank. It is the name given to a practice, that was once illegal, for a very good reason. The reason it was illegal is because it is a scam, that is dangerous for borrowers, when lenders become so greedy and predatory, that the whole scheme collapses, and the borrowers lose all their money, while the banker walks free with his unimaginable profits, that he made for doing??? What exactly? Think about it...
Fractional reserve banking is a legitimate sounding name, given to a most dirty and crooked business, so that people will not notice that right under their noses, in plain sight, they are being conned by the masters of the con game. So how did it become legal, if it is so bad? Some con-games are so successful that they make the con-men wealthy and powerful beyond belief. These con-men attain such power that they are able to influence the laws of society in practically any manner they see fit if it serves their interests.
When a con-game has been in existence long enough, and hidden in plain sight, the young will grow up to view it as a legitimate and normal practice. It will no longer be seen as a con. Why? Simple...someone "told" them it was just "business as usual" and that is exactly what it became to them as they grew up around it. Why is a chair a "chair"? Because someone "told" you it was a chair. Why do we walk on floors instead of ceilings? Because someone "named" the surface under our feet a "floor", and they "named" the roof above our head a "ceiling". It is only a word, and nothing more.
It could easily have been the reverse. Society could have named the surface under your feet a ceiling, and the roof above your head a floor. Had you grown up "walking" on a surface "named" a "ceiling", it would seem as natural as pissing on a rock on the river bank in the sunshine. You would not know the difference, because it would not make any difference. A bed could just as easily have been a wooden place to rest your ass, and a chair could have been the soft place where you lay down at night to sleep.
So the next time you feel all wet, and you assume its raining, take a look around, someone might just be pissing on your leg while they tell you its raining...hey...someone could have easily changed the names and definitions around ya know...hoping you wouldn't notice....
If you want to see
one of the best video documentaries I have ever seen about what money really is, produced in simple easy to understand language, I highly suggest watching
"The Money Masters". It is very long, very rich in detail and simple explanation. It covers this con-game from the beginning in its most primitive stages, to modern day times...You will come away with a new perspective, I promise ya...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3209015812
The whole world is a stage...will somebody turn the lights on please?....I have to go bang my head against the wall for a while and assimilate....
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