It seems that many people are blissfully unaware of the cycle of civilizations as laid out in Plato’s Republic. The theory (according to Plato) is that society goes through 4 repeating stages.
- Timocracy-a society ruled by “honorable” people
- Oligarchy- Since honor tends to be equated with wealth, wealthy people tend to gain power
- Democracy-Rule by the masses to deal with the excesses by the oligarchs
- Tyranny-Rule by a “democratic demagogue” who takes absolute power and is corrupted thereby
I realize that Plato is long dead and buried. But if you take a look around you can see that many governments are defrauding the governed on a staggering scale. What is more surprising is that the vast majority of people feel that they can do nothing about it (I don’t really blame people on this one). Dr. Henry Makow recently had a series of articles that purported to be by someone who is part of the behind the scenes puppeteers. In response to those articles someone wrote an article about the fraud that is the sovereign governments of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Which seems to indicate that we are nearing the end of the third stage of government on a GLOBAL scale.
I believe that the British Monarchy did a great bit of political slight of hand by “granting” the countries of the British Commonwealth their independence, thereby getting 54 votes in the U.N. In other words, the difference between what people believe is going on, and what is going on behind the scenes is amazing.
Members of the commonwealth will argue about minor things, but they form a collective, which, when tempered with the elevation of the EU to a de facto state at the UN, serves only to marginalize the other European powers. Of course the people of England, Scotland and Wales will get a bum rush, but heck the Windsors who rule the Commonwealth, were prior to 1917 the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (makes you wonder what the point of World War I was then, doesn’t it?). The arguments that they lost power with the Lisbon Treaty (the de facto constitution for the European Union) are a little overrated in my opinion.
More to the point though, we need to look at history to see the trends that go through time, and while Plato might well be correct in his summary of the rise and fall of civilizations, there are more recent observations about what is going on. To quote from two time Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler:
And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers.
It is true today, that the biggest fraud that is perpetrated today is that the banks should be forever bailed out from their “losses”. Now banks have a great system, they create money out of thin air, and then cry when they don’t get back more money than they created. It’s a great system….for the banks. While the rest of the world is struggling, the banks are still getting bailed out, the Special Inspector General for the TARP program estimates that the United States is on the hook for at about 23 TRILLION dollars via the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about the bonuses that the banks are giving out.
As Attorney Ellen Brown (author of Web of Debt) writes:
A true sovereign need not indebt itself to private banks but can simply issue the money it needs. That is what the American colonists did, in the innovative paper money system that allowed them to flourish for a century before King George forbade them to issue their own scrip, prompting the American Revolution. It is also what Abraham Lincoln did, foiling the Wall Street bankers who would have trapped the North in debt slavery through the exigencies of war. And it is what China itself did successfully for decades, before it succumbed to globalization.
Strangely the United States Export-Import Bank is a national bank of the United States, and can, like any other bank (including the Bank of North Dakota, the only state owned bank in the United States, in the only state not to be drowning in debt) create it’s own money through the loan process (by fractional reserve if nothing else). However the Export-Import Bank is only there to assist:
exporters by guaranteeing term financing to creditworthy international buyers, both private and public sector, for purchases of U.S. goods and services.
So in other words, it’s just an insurance company at the present time,and even though it can create loans itself, it is limited to only helping international (e.g. non United States based) entities, or at least that is how it is currently applied.
So, we are left to stand around while the banks (actually the true owners of the banks) are given the real wealth of the planet, and we, and our children, are condemned to servitude to pay off debts that CANNOT be ever paid off. Because the banks created the money by a bookkeeping entry and then wants that money back plus interest! Until people realize that the game is rigged to transfer real wealth into a the hands of a relatively small group of people and demand that the banks are no longer run for private gain at vast public expense, the situation will continue to worsen.
Sadly, the most likely scenario is that the history that Plato discussed in his Republic will instead become the reality of tomorrow.
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