-Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United State of America, in his veto to renew the national bank (ferderal reserve)'s charter.
Here is the complete message
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Andrew Jackson's Veto
"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing."
The Never Ending Financial Crisis
The Federal Reseve was sold to the American public as a way to prevent further financial crisis, after the 1907 panic.In light of recent events this statement alone should be proof we were conned, and that the conspiracy against the American people is real.
Back then, the Money Trust had manipulated market derivatives and the banks lost big and turned illiquid, which created a confidence crisis, and a series of "runs" on the banks. Sounds familliar? That's because in 2000, a law allowed all kinds of market derivaties, which were outlaw after 1907, to be traded again. Look at that! 100 years later and the resaons for the crisis are still the same!
How could no one predict that reintroducing these instruments could be very dangerous to the banking industry? The banks, and hedge funds, and mutual funds hire the brightest of the bright, send them to work as lobbyiest, so that they can write legislations which favors their industry (If you don't beleive me ask your representative what a credit swap is), and they come up with something that destroys everything in it's path...on accident?!
I will not believe that for one secound, and the media can blame the poor for taking on mortages they could not afford, or the Democrats for Freddie and Fannie, there is only one place to lay the blame and that's on the Banks themselves.
What could the banks have to win by destroying themselves? It left the door wide open for the Federal Reserve to swoop in and take whatever power they deemed necessary to solve the problem. That included printing over a Billion dollars on which they will collect interests.
So, why are things not going back to normal? Why is the real estate, and stock market still going down? Why are half a million job being lost in the banking and auto sector? Isn't the Fed powerfull enough to stop this? And if not, why do we need the Fed at all?
We are permenatly attached by the invisible shackles of money, to labor. Such is our fate, if you're not part of the top 1% of the world population who never had to work for a living. Imagine how those people must look down on us who have to go to work every day. When they, on the other hand, choose to go to work. Now, that's freedom.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Modern Man's Point of View
I have had a few friends come down from France to visit me here in Naples, Florida. I must say, most young people (below 40 years old) are much more open minded to conflicting and controversial ideas than I thought they would be. Now, my parents have had friends visit (50+ years old) and their narrow point of view have shocked me. More recently I have heard them complain about the lack of coverage of other countries during the Beijing Olympic games by NBC (GE), and they blamed it on American Imperialism.
I'm not denying that American Imperialism exists, I just wished people, especially French people would realize why it exists: the American way of life was hijacked by a few international bankers and are transforming it into old Europe. And it is because Europeans let themselves being duped into believing they live in a free country when they are more middle age peasants (50% income tax) than hopefully Americans ever will be. If Europeans ever had a clue, and would have stopped the international bankers, and issued their own money instead of borrowing from them, there would not be a modern American Imperialism.
The modern man takes a look over the fence at his neighbour's house and sees the paint peeling off the wall, the grass dying in the corners of the lawn, the gutters hanging. He then turns around looks at his house which is in the EXACT same state, and thinks it's perfect.
I'm not denying that American Imperialism exists, I just wished people, especially French people would realize why it exists: the American way of life was hijacked by a few international bankers and are transforming it into old Europe. And it is because Europeans let themselves being duped into believing they live in a free country when they are more middle age peasants (50% income tax) than hopefully Americans ever will be. If Europeans ever had a clue, and would have stopped the international bankers, and issued their own money instead of borrowing from them, there would not be a modern American Imperialism.
The modern man takes a look over the fence at his neighbour's house and sees the paint peeling off the wall, the grass dying in the corners of the lawn, the gutters hanging. He then turns around looks at his house which is in the EXACT same state, and thinks it's perfect.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Should YOU Care About Naked Shorts?
There has been a lot of talks about speculators shorting stocks and creating havoc among financial stocks. But shorting a stock is absolutely legal and essential to keeping markets priced at real value (stops stocks prices from running incredibly high before crashing, like the China market did this year). So, what are those naked shorts they are talking about and why are they being demonized?
Well, naked shorts have been illegal since the 1934 Securities Act, and the SEC is supposed to be monitoring Broker/Dealers to make sure that they play by the rules. So, how are Fannie May and Freddie Mac's stocks being obliterated by naked shorts? Thanks to the SEC of course. Instead of borrowing stocks before shorting them, Broker/Dealers (the JP Morgan, Lehman, and Goldman Sachs of the world) have run into an usual amount of "Failure to Deliver" stocks. These are basically IOUs issued by BDs when a party involved in a stock transaction is unable to physically deliver the paper stocks. Or, about 99% of stocks are electric, therefore physical delivery is pretty much a thing of the past, no one owns paper stock anymore, except maybe your great-grandmother, because she inherited them from her grandmother.
So now you have a hedge fund who decides they want to reduce to rumble a bank stock because thats their proprietary trading strategy. What do they need to do in order to manipulate the stock price? Simply issues a whole bunch of IOUs, then sell them to individuals (you and me), occasionally spread a rumor about the bank (like say Bear Stearn or Indymac) and then sit back, watch the stock crash, and have a few laughs while toasting champagne (the supply overwhelms the demand and prices go down hard).
I'm sure you understand the impact on the thousands of lives who loose their job, and the loss of future job creation.
This is why the SEC is pretending to make all naked shorts illegal even though they already are. The SEC is NOT doing it's job. Why? Surely because the extra cost from such methods are spread out to many customers and the profits are focused to a few organized entities with which they can corrupt SEC officials some more.
So why should you care? Well the practice of issuing IOUs is not a new one, and is not limited to the financials. In fact some estimates (official and real) puts the amount of "Failure to Deliver" or "Fake stock" to be anywhere from 1.5% (highly unlikely) to up to 50% (a little more accurate) of daily traded stock volume.
So you have a 50/50 percent chance that when you buy a stock, you are actually buying some hedge fund's IOU of a stock. What's the big deal? Well, if that hedge fund fails you are left with an IOU from someone who isn't around anymore and how are you going be compensated? You're not going to take stock from someone else who owns it. And you're not going to get your money back from the hedge fund (that money is already spent Ferraris, Porsches, or mansions).
It seems the general population is bound to surrenders their savings to wall street firms, and Wall Street is not sharing the profits.
This Washington Post article says it all if you know a little about securities regulations and how to read between the lines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102455.html
Well, naked shorts have been illegal since the 1934 Securities Act, and the SEC is supposed to be monitoring Broker/Dealers to make sure that they play by the rules. So, how are Fannie May and Freddie Mac's stocks being obliterated by naked shorts? Thanks to the SEC of course. Instead of borrowing stocks before shorting them, Broker/Dealers (the JP Morgan, Lehman, and Goldman Sachs of the world) have run into an usual amount of "Failure to Deliver" stocks. These are basically IOUs issued by BDs when a party involved in a stock transaction is unable to physically deliver the paper stocks. Or, about 99% of stocks are electric, therefore physical delivery is pretty much a thing of the past, no one owns paper stock anymore, except maybe your great-grandmother, because she inherited them from her grandmother.
So now you have a hedge fund who decides they want to reduce to rumble a bank stock because thats their proprietary trading strategy. What do they need to do in order to manipulate the stock price? Simply issues a whole bunch of IOUs, then sell them to individuals (you and me), occasionally spread a rumor about the bank (like say Bear Stearn or Indymac) and then sit back, watch the stock crash, and have a few laughs while toasting champagne (the supply overwhelms the demand and prices go down hard).
I'm sure you understand the impact on the thousands of lives who loose their job, and the loss of future job creation.
This is why the SEC is pretending to make all naked shorts illegal even though they already are. The SEC is NOT doing it's job. Why? Surely because the extra cost from such methods are spread out to many customers and the profits are focused to a few organized entities with which they can corrupt SEC officials some more.
So why should you care? Well the practice of issuing IOUs is not a new one, and is not limited to the financials. In fact some estimates (official and real) puts the amount of "Failure to Deliver" or "Fake stock" to be anywhere from 1.5% (highly unlikely) to up to 50% (a little more accurate) of daily traded stock volume.
So you have a 50/50 percent chance that when you buy a stock, you are actually buying some hedge fund's IOU of a stock. What's the big deal? Well, if that hedge fund fails you are left with an IOU from someone who isn't around anymore and how are you going be compensated? You're not going to take stock from someone else who owns it. And you're not going to get your money back from the hedge fund (that money is already spent Ferraris, Porsches, or mansions).
It seems the general population is bound to surrenders their savings to wall street firms, and Wall Street is not sharing the profits.
This Washington Post article says it all if you know a little about securities regulations and how to read between the lines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072102455.html
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Energy Crisis-Common Sense Anyone?
To drill or not to drill? That is not the right question! When is anyone going to understand that a finite energy resource can not be the energy of the future?
I personally could care less if Big Oil starts drilling in the only natural wildlife habitat left on the planet, I just know it won't solve our problems in the long term.
So why not just stop wasting capital and liquidity (a rare commodity) on a technology which is on the brink of extinction. Why not just invest in a long term solution to our energy problem? Why not take the budget for the Iraq War, invest it into new energy tech, pull out of Iraq (we won't need the oil anymore anyway), and watch what happens? Why not become the leader in the energy of the future? Isn't that something the leader of the "Free World" should be up to?
This is the answer you don't want to hear: There are trillions of Dollars (or Euros) of oil left in the earth, and since that is worth more than any amount of lives to a few people who control the energy market, we're not getting any new and revolutionary energy technology until we extract every single drop of oil out of the earth. And our future, the future of our children, has absolutely no impact on those few people's judgment, or maybe just the opposite. What would they want to do with us once all of our capital is exhausted and the burden of our debt insurmountable due to astronomical food and energy cost?
If we all start thinking outside the TV, pick up a book, read some Greek philosophical ideas about knowledge, maybe the cave and shadow allegory, all of us would see the true light, and not a man made light. Then maybe, we'd discuss some realistic solutions to all of our problems.
I personally could care less if Big Oil starts drilling in the only natural wildlife habitat left on the planet, I just know it won't solve our problems in the long term.
So why not just stop wasting capital and liquidity (a rare commodity) on a technology which is on the brink of extinction. Why not just invest in a long term solution to our energy problem? Why not take the budget for the Iraq War, invest it into new energy tech, pull out of Iraq (we won't need the oil anymore anyway), and watch what happens? Why not become the leader in the energy of the future? Isn't that something the leader of the "Free World" should be up to?
This is the answer you don't want to hear: There are trillions of Dollars (or Euros) of oil left in the earth, and since that is worth more than any amount of lives to a few people who control the energy market, we're not getting any new and revolutionary energy technology until we extract every single drop of oil out of the earth. And our future, the future of our children, has absolutely no impact on those few people's judgment, or maybe just the opposite. What would they want to do with us once all of our capital is exhausted and the burden of our debt insurmountable due to astronomical food and energy cost?
If we all start thinking outside the TV, pick up a book, read some Greek philosophical ideas about knowledge, maybe the cave and shadow allegory, all of us would see the true light, and not a man made light. Then maybe, we'd discuss some realistic solutions to all of our problems.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Wealth Confiscation Through Inflation
I am sure most of us have heard this phrase, and marveled at it's meaning, then felt depressed , and eventually went on with your life trying not to think about it. I found a fantastic website last night which goes over, in much better detail than I could ever provide, the whole story of the Federal Reserve, before and after, indicating who were the major players, why and how the Federal Reserve Act (originally the Aldrich Act) came to be. Click here to read the full story.
Once you get to the bottom of it you will realize that wealth confiscation is on going in this country in the most stealthy way. The Dollar bill has lost 95% of it's value since the creation of the FED and it keeps going lower faster. There is only one possible outcome for a FIAT money system in the long run, and that is total devaluation(1 Dollar bill= 0 anything).
How do you protect yourself from it? There isn't much you can do. Conventional wisdom would tell you to buy gold and silver bullions, the problem with that is that the central banks of Europe are selling gold certificates to each other to keep the price of gold down artificially (inflation adjusted gold should be about $2,500 an once right now). Silver might be a better option as the supply of silver is vast and difficult to corner or manipulate. The best solution I can think of, in this day and age, would be to buy oil, but you might want to wait for a large pullback or correction. While prices can easily be manipulated, the finite reserve and the exponentially growing demand from China and India is guaranteeing prices to keep going up over the next 30 years, and 30 years is about the time it would take to find an alternative energy source IF we start investing heavily in those technologies now.
Once you get to the bottom of it you will realize that wealth confiscation is on going in this country in the most stealthy way. The Dollar bill has lost 95% of it's value since the creation of the FED and it keeps going lower faster. There is only one possible outcome for a FIAT money system in the long run, and that is total devaluation(1 Dollar bill= 0 anything).
How do you protect yourself from it? There isn't much you can do. Conventional wisdom would tell you to buy gold and silver bullions, the problem with that is that the central banks of Europe are selling gold certificates to each other to keep the price of gold down artificially (inflation adjusted gold should be about $2,500 an once right now). Silver might be a better option as the supply of silver is vast and difficult to corner or manipulate. The best solution I can think of, in this day and age, would be to buy oil, but you might want to wait for a large pullback or correction. While prices can easily be manipulated, the finite reserve and the exponentially growing demand from China and India is guaranteeing prices to keep going up over the next 30 years, and 30 years is about the time it would take to find an alternative energy source IF we start investing heavily in those technologies now.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
A lot has been said about the man, he is the most influential financial prodigy in history, having pioneer the bases for modern international investment tools, and strategies. One thing is true about how he and his family came to supernatural wealth, and it happened with the resolving of the Battle of Waterloo. A British author was sued for printing this story and won. This story, has far as I can tell, is true:
the Rothschild brothers had created the best information network in Europe, having bases in every major economic powerhouse of the time, they were able to trade information in order to make more intelligent (profitable) investment. One of his agents was at the battle of Waterloo, and at the end of an long battle, which started with a premature defeat of the British, reinforcement finally arrived and Wellington's troop finally beat Napoleon. Nathan's agent jumped on a small boat and made the short trip across the English Channel and made his way to London where he told Nathan of the news. Here some version of the stories varies, I picked this version: Nathan went the House of Commons to announce the news, the politicians didn't believe him. After all, the first news were about defeat, not victory, and what do they know about battle logistics. So Nathan went to the London Stock Exchange where he stood at "his" pillar and started giving his agents orders. They began selling. The rumor spread that Wellington was defeated and Nathan new about it. Prices started to plummet, the panic spread, and soon the prices were near zero. At that time Nathan slightly changed some of his signals, and his agents bought everything they could get their hands on. Couple days later the official news of Wellington's victory came through, and prices soared past where they were when Nathan began selling, making him the most successful trader ever to have lived and projected the Rothschild's wealth and influence to new heights.
At that time they were no laws to prevent market manipulations, every thing he did was perfectly legal. His attitude doesn't strike me as evil, merely ambitious and extraordinarily resourceful.
So I guess the question is: What happened?
"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply."
-Nathan Mayer Rothschild
the Rothschild brothers had created the best information network in Europe, having bases in every major economic powerhouse of the time, they were able to trade information in order to make more intelligent (profitable) investment. One of his agents was at the battle of Waterloo, and at the end of an long battle, which started with a premature defeat of the British, reinforcement finally arrived and Wellington's troop finally beat Napoleon. Nathan's agent jumped on a small boat and made the short trip across the English Channel and made his way to London where he told Nathan of the news. Here some version of the stories varies, I picked this version: Nathan went the House of Commons to announce the news, the politicians didn't believe him. After all, the first news were about defeat, not victory, and what do they know about battle logistics. So Nathan went to the London Stock Exchange where he stood at "his" pillar and started giving his agents orders. They began selling. The rumor spread that Wellington was defeated and Nathan new about it. Prices started to plummet, the panic spread, and soon the prices were near zero. At that time Nathan slightly changed some of his signals, and his agents bought everything they could get their hands on. Couple days later the official news of Wellington's victory came through, and prices soared past where they were when Nathan began selling, making him the most successful trader ever to have lived and projected the Rothschild's wealth and influence to new heights.
At that time they were no laws to prevent market manipulations, every thing he did was perfectly legal. His attitude doesn't strike me as evil, merely ambitious and extraordinarily resourceful.
So I guess the question is: What happened?
"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply."
-Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Life's Origins
This morning I woke up thinking about what a friend of mine said about following the Bible teachings to the letter. I came up with an explanation for all the destruction, suffering, and enslavement inflicted by men upon other man: it came from the Bible.
The biggest ego booster for men has to be the book of Genesis. It tells us God created the Universe and Earth for men, who he created to it's own image, and then created animals and women for men's entertainment. How self-centered and selfish of an explanation is this? Certainly not what my God would do. My God is self less, loves all living creature equally, and has no image.
If God did create man to it's own image wouldn't that make him Chinese or African? If God did create the Universe and Earth for us, why aren't we at the very center of it.
This, of course, was written by men, and for a single purpose: to give us a false pretense to dominate everything around us.
If the Universe was created for white occidental men by God, why would he put anything else in there, knowing we would try to kill it.
The biggest ego booster for men has to be the book of Genesis. It tells us God created the Universe and Earth for men, who he created to it's own image, and then created animals and women for men's entertainment. How self-centered and selfish of an explanation is this? Certainly not what my God would do. My God is self less, loves all living creature equally, and has no image.
If God did create man to it's own image wouldn't that make him Chinese or African? If God did create the Universe and Earth for us, why aren't we at the very center of it.
This, of course, was written by men, and for a single purpose: to give us a false pretense to dominate everything around us.
If the Universe was created for white occidental men by God, why would he put anything else in there, knowing we would try to kill it.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Barack Who?
It has come to my attention that Obama is getting a preferable treatment in the news media today. Which is odd to me, I really thought Clinton, who's blood is almost "pure", would be the next president. Like Robert Kennedy said before he was assassinated, the next president will be a democrat, and winning the democratic ticket is winning the presidential.
So, how did the media help Obama win? In a totally shady manner of course:
Some idiot on Fox said something about him being a Muslim because he went to a Muslim school. This was the first false accusation, it gave the opportunity to Obama to defend himself (After all until a week ago he was part of a Christan faith church), and in turn it, made it look like, to the unsuspecting public, that he is a good guy, human like the rest of us. Someone (FOX) wrongly accused him (something all of us can relate to), he was able to easily rebut the accusations with pilling evidence (How did FOX miss that evidence?) and gained sympathy from millions of American and was projected to the head of the polls due to the publicity from the affair.
So how are they helping him now? In the most ridiculous fashion, but I'm not surprised: FOX, again, called his wife "Obama's baby mama", an expression normally reserved for unwed mothers of black complexion, probably to gain support from all single mothers.
Remember: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength, and deceit is everywhere.
So, how did the media help Obama win? In a totally shady manner of course:
Some idiot on Fox said something about him being a Muslim because he went to a Muslim school. This was the first false accusation, it gave the opportunity to Obama to defend himself (After all until a week ago he was part of a Christan faith church), and in turn it, made it look like, to the unsuspecting public, that he is a good guy, human like the rest of us. Someone (FOX) wrongly accused him (something all of us can relate to), he was able to easily rebut the accusations with pilling evidence (How did FOX miss that evidence?) and gained sympathy from millions of American and was projected to the head of the polls due to the publicity from the affair.
So how are they helping him now? In the most ridiculous fashion, but I'm not surprised: FOX, again, called his wife "Obama's baby mama", an expression normally reserved for unwed mothers of black complexion, probably to gain support from all single mothers.
Remember: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength, and deceit is everywhere.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Anti-Christ
- "For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- - David Rockefeller, "Memoirs" autobiography (2002, Random House publishers), page 405
- "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
- It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
- -- David Rockefeller
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Past Notables
"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the REVOLUTION."
-Benjamin Franklin
founding father of the United States of America
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies... if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency... the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprave the people of their prosperity until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826
"I am the most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit.
We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
-Woodrow Wilson
1919
These few quotes, taken out of context and therefore rendered less memorable, will be the core of numerous post on this blog. The history of the American central bank, and the men who brought us the Fed, is long, complex and confusing, but worth a good look if we want to understand the geopolitic and economic dynamism of today. It gives us a scale to compare what is happening in other occidental countries.
A Little More about Orwell
I think it to be fascinating that Blair had such insight to write a book like 1984. He must have been such a visionary, or did he just look around and find his inspiration already in 1944 or before.
Such vision pushed me to believe there was more there then first meets the eye, and I did a little research (mostly Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
And so I learned he was born in colonized India and his father worked at the Opium department of the Civil Service, an old branch of the East India Trading Company. What was civil about selling opium to the Chinese even though the Chinese Gov. was strongly opposed to it, I'm not sure (this is where the similarities with the book starts: In the book the minister of Love takes care of War, in real life the Civil Service is poisoning an entire country with drugs). His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), had a French father who was involved in speculative ventures in Burma where she grew up, his great-grandfather Charles Blair had been a wealthy plantation owner in Jamaica and his grandfather a clergyman.
So, to recap his father was involved in the opium trade, he was an Imperial Police man (in charge of 200,000 troops in India) and a noble.
Does this puts him in a situation where he could have heard plans for India and it's population that could have inspired his writing? After all some companies are known today, for hiring millitas to "protect their financial interests" and others hold monopolies on basic industries like utilities, waste management, and water distribution, of entire and sometimes multiple countries. The only difference between this and colonization is the flag on top of City Hall. Unfortunately he is not around to answer that question, as he died in 1950 of tuberculosis, he was only 46 years old.
Nonetheless, his writing are more relevant today than ever, so are some other notables in the past, with much less leftist views.
Such vision pushed me to believe there was more there then first meets the eye, and I did a little research (mostly Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
And so I learned he was born in colonized India and his father worked at the Opium department of the Civil Service, an old branch of the East India Trading Company. What was civil about selling opium to the Chinese even though the Chinese Gov. was strongly opposed to it, I'm not sure (this is where the similarities with the book starts: In the book the minister of Love takes care of War, in real life the Civil Service is poisoning an entire country with drugs). His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), had a French father who was involved in speculative ventures in Burma where she grew up, his great-grandfather Charles Blair had been a wealthy plantation owner in Jamaica and his grandfather a clergyman.
So, to recap his father was involved in the opium trade, he was an Imperial Police man (in charge of 200,000 troops in India) and a noble.
Does this puts him in a situation where he could have heard plans for India and it's population that could have inspired his writing? After all some companies are known today, for hiring millitas to "protect their financial interests" and others hold monopolies on basic industries like utilities, waste management, and water distribution, of entire and sometimes multiple countries. The only difference between this and colonization is the flag on top of City Hall. Unfortunately he is not around to answer that question, as he died in 1950 of tuberculosis, he was only 46 years old.
Nonetheless, his writing are more relevant today than ever, so are some other notables in the past, with much less leftist views.
1984? How About 2008?
Welcome everyone, to the blog were I will talk about everything that my parents and some people in the government wouldn't want to hear.
Starting with H.R 1955 or the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This act is what inspired this blog, maybe my exile, maybe my imprisonment.
The "Terrorism" the talk about in this act now includes making arguments in writing to change people's mind as defined in the definition of "Force" employed by the act.
So now, just like in George Orwell's 1984 who's real name is Eric Arthur Blair, like the ex-British Prime Minister, thinking against big brother is a crime, your brain no longer belongs to you.
Starting with H.R 1955 or the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This act is what inspired this blog, maybe my exile, maybe my imprisonment.
The "Terrorism" the talk about in this act now includes making arguments in writing to change people's mind as defined in the definition of "Force" employed by the act.
So now, just like in George Orwell's 1984 who's real name is Eric Arthur Blair, like the ex-British Prime Minister, thinking against big brother is a crime, your brain no longer belongs to you.
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