Editorial
Stop Clinging to False Hope and Face Reality
All week long we have been witnessing a breakdown in global markets, or perhaps better stated – general public confidence. Gee, why would that be, we wonder? Why is it that the general public is not so easily convinced that all will be okay? Where is the usual confidence in their elected and non-elected leaders who've been given license to run the world, practically speaking?
Well, we don't want to be the ones who say, "We told you so," but we did. And besides our publishing efforts here at the Daily Bell we have been trying our best to help spread the word as it relates to the oncoming financial hurricane (Hurricane Reality) for more than ten years now. Has it helped? Absolutely, for some. But as Jim Rogers often says, "I keep on talking about the same issues but no one seems to listen." We can relate to that sentiment.
However, for the most part – despite the ridicule, both public and private – I feel that there has been ample opportunity for people to educate themselves and take personal responsibility rather than wait for their elected or non-elected leaders to solve the very problems they themselves have caused. For anyone to believe they truly care and desire to do anything other than tighten the grip of their rule is foolhardy at best.
Everyone is complicit to some degree, but perhaps it is the people themselves, those being ruled, who are most to blame for the circumstances in which we all now find ourselves to varying degrees. Surely the American majority's willingness to shun the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights has enabled the "power seekers" to regulate and dominate virtually every aspect of an individual's life. For without the consent of the larger body, the rulers would have no power with which to abuse.
But as it is today, the greater mass of voters is still busy watching "Dancing with the Stars" and "American Idol." The vast majority of youth care not of real issues; rather they are focused on increasing the number of new "friends" who sign on to their Facebook accounts, or are busy discussing what Lady Gaga ate for dinner or some similar nonsense. It is a shame that people have fallen out of touch with the act of thinking and being responsible for their own lives.
Along with the decline of thought, we also have the decline of respect and moral dignity. This is not uncommon as societies near the end of their "run" as empires. It appears the American experiment is surely nearing that point in history. In fact, a quick look around America today leaves one rather uninspired when it comes to the "mental tone" underlying people's actions.
Clearly the state derives increased power by maintaining a dumbed-down population (mindless subservient slaves) who are not supposed to be capable of critical thinking. For if individuals are taught how to think, which enables them to question, where does the line stop? To encourage questioning would be self-defeating for international money power, which dominates the world today. So public schools are factories of misinformation designed to create obedient little "repeaters" who blindly run around echoing whatever is the latest sound bite with which they have been mentally injected by the "official sources" who provide the stimulation. And sadly, it works.
Just think back to the last US presidential election and those hundreds of thousands of people gathered in "worship" of their newly found prophet – Barack Obama. Gustave Le Bon would not have been surprised. Here is a rather famous quote from the 19th Century author who had personally witnessed the "crowd mentality," as the French Revolution unfolded:
"Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them."
Yet another wise observation from Le Bon:
"The unreal has about as much influence on them (crowds) as the real."
And here is exactly what we find when facing the reality of the situation as it presently stands – the crowd is a dumbed-down majority who are entirely dislocated from reality. The majority has long ago given up on accepting personal responsibility for taking care of their own lives, let alone those of their immediate family members. And the more the majority turns to the State for solutions, the more they commit themselves to a life that was never free and truly never really lived at all.
The "rulers" have replaced any sense of traditional spirituality and family values with an international state religion called "democracy." And it is centralized democracy – or "regulatory democracy" as it should correctly be labeled, which is a failed concept – that further empowers the power elite, for it lives and breathes, in fact thrives, on the naivete of the masses. It is the dominant social theme of today's version of democracy that is perhaps the most widely accepted and destructive meme of all.
As H. L. Mencken once said, "Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
Here is another quote, this one from Joseph Sobran, that seems quite apropo: "Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves."
To think that a political philosophy (religion?) has become so adopted by the masses that they are willing to endorse the murder of millions of people around the world who stand in the way of international money power's desire to implement it in their countries is nothing short of awful. And it is ironic that the leading enforcer on the front line of this "spread" is the one country whose Founding Fathers stood tall against centralized rule and warned of the disastrous effects for societies that neglect the natural rights of the individual.
As the world turns, America's military-industrial complex is busily enforcing the globalist agenda by jamming democracy down the throats of anyone who stands in their way – with the barrel of a gun if necessary – despite the fact that the country is financially bust.
And of course, the United Nations, an elitist institution of the highest order, provides cover for the world's "bad boy enforcer" by passing resolution after resolution that create the necessary "impression" for the Western "voters" so as to garner their emotional support as the targeted nations' leaders are readied for dismissal. We see it everywhere – Tavistock Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and all the mainstream media outlets – they unanimously join together in chorus to sing the tunes that collectivize the blind support of the masses.
Murder is murder. It doesn't matter whether the person is white, back, yellow or red. We are all human beings with individual needs, hopes and desires. Any philosophy or belief system that enables people to commit atrocities based on the "ends justifies the means" principle is one that ultimately empowers a totalitarian regime in which all forms of freedom are repressed. And that is what the current Anglosphere "rulers" are working diligently to achieve.
However, the issue in focus as I began this editorial is where I will now return – the financial turmoil that has the world in a state of shock. Why is this happening? What is happening? Why now? What can the leaders do?
Simply put, there is a race going on, one that most people do not see and never will even know existed. They, the "mass of voters," will for the most part remain caught up in the illusion – the one that absolves them of personal responsibility and grants the State power over their lives, the belief that "others" really care. They will continue to turn for salvation to the very hands that have them enslaved. They are the fools who support centralized government power and regulatory democracy – and believe in their state-granted "rights."
But there is a growing legion of people who are becoming enlightened as to the way the "great game" is being played. They are waking up one by one to see that there is an international money elite who have been striving for global governance. And as they shake off their slumber they begin to see the very sophisticated edifices that have been constructed to create and maintain a grip over the minds of the masses so as to advance their efforts. It is the power of understanding – made possible by an as yet unregulated medium of mass communication, the Internet – that is threatening the elite's agenda.
And so, with the Internet Reformation working its societal shifting magic, the power elite are racing to bring together the remaining nations of the world under their "religion." Time is critical for them as the knowledge revolution – one we believe caught them by surprise – is working faster than most anticipated. Thus the never ending wars and threats of new ones that all seem to target nations that as of yet do not have in place Western puppets to go along with a global unification process.
Of course, it isn't sold this way to the general public – at least not via mainstream media sources, naturally. But take even a brief trip around the Internet and you will quickly find sites like ours where the blatant reality of the situation, at least as we see it, exists in black and white. And as more and more people are faced with this "reality" they are employing human action to try and get out of harm's way, at least financially if not physically, too.
Think about it for a minute. When the Gutenberg Press was invented back in the mid-15th Century, it took a couple hundred years before its societal shifting impact had really taken root. Today, unlike the printed book or pamphlet, bits and bytes travel in seconds throughout the world. And it is those tiny packets of unregulated information that are so devastating to the plans of international money power and which are moving this reformation along at lightning speed.
All of a sudden people are understanding the rot at the base of their monetary systems. They can see the game is rigged, and not on behalf of those who believe in democracy but those who are selling the dream. People can see that the newspapers and mainstream media broadcasts are pure propaganda that utilizes the Hegelian dialectic to create an illusion of democratic debate – when in fact all it is doing is constraining the discussion in order to arrive at pre-determined conclusions. People can now see the outright lies that spew forth from the mouths of the puppet leaders who pretend to run the State.
In essence, the Internet Reformation is destroying public confidence in the structural edifices that have been established by the elite. It is not just financial, but the whole apparatus that is losing "voters."
This is what is causing Hurricane Reality to build up even more momentum and destructive power as it spins above the Western world. That great invisible hand of nature holds the reins of its power to regulate change in the cruelest of ways when truth is stranger than fiction.
We see no way for confidence to be lifted or maintained in the current international system of regulatory democracy and global economic enslavement via central banking and fiat money. Nor do we think it should be. It is a poisonous global Ponzi scheme. Why would anyone want to save that – other than those most benefited by it?
However, until this great battle runs its course, there will undoubtedly be even greater turmoil around the world – both financially and militarily. Free-thinking individuals must decide for themselves how best to confront the decline of false hope and the rising barometer of reality. In the words of the late Harry Browne, people need to learn how to "Live Free in an Unfree World."
Perhaps one day in the not too distant future a new age will dawn – one in which, after experiencing much pain, we can grow forward a society that flourishes on the celebration of the individual rather than the State. Until then the masses of the world are sadly getting exactly what they deserve. Will their leaders someday face reality, too?
Editor's note: For those readers who are unfamiliar with Anthony Wile's High Alert: How the Internet and the global power elite are causing a financial hurricane – and how to profit from it, we have provided a free download of the book on the Daily Bell website - click here to download.
The book, initially written in 2004, has received a lot of positive feedback. In fact, Ron Paul commented back in 2006, "High Alert should be read by everyone who wishes to educate themselves about the dangers fiat money poses to American liberty and prosperity. I wish I could get every member of Congress to read this book."
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Posted by oldman67 on 10/07/11 11:48 AM
To see how bad it really is today visit www.The Economic Click to view link 100 reasons...
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Posted by factotum on 08/23/11 02:15 PM
I saw a some name calling. I did not see anything that was wrong, but I did not see any real identification of the problem or any real solutions.
For example --- the mass of people are poorly educated. But that is a symptom. Why are the masses poorly educated? State schools. Again that is just a symptom. And yet, almost everyone and his brother wants to go to college here, so our system can not be that bad. Seriously, how many tops HS students are fighting to get into the best universities in India or China? as opposed to that horror of state education UCLA?
I mention this because I think that I am addressing the real problem and some possible solutions. If you do a search on orwells boot the first article that comes up will be mine. In case I have slipped to #2, look for factotum or dnusbaum as an author
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/23/11 08:05 AM
Agreed.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 08/23/11 01:33 AM
Quite so, Dave Jr. I agree. And seeing the problem allows one to provide correctly focused solutions rather than wayward answers to non-existent difficulties/falsely spun scenarios.
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Posted by NAPpy on 08/22/11 08:40 PM
Dave Jr.,
Well said! Multiple people on this site have tried to call him out on his habit of labeling, collectivizing and grouping, but have made no progress against the ax this man is grinding. I think that after engagement fails, the next logical step is ignoring and ostracism.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/22/11 02:33 PM
I can see the problem. How can one entice the individual into a trap when the individual is asked to supply the bait? Why would anyone need to go after what they have just given of themselves? High technology is derived from the collaboration of innovative individuals. As soon as others use it to take over the source, it is killed and no longer of any use. It requires stealth and dececption, not unlike monetary policy.
It becomes a choice of living or sacrificing life for the ideal of a better living. Faux or non existant offers of the better, help make the choice easier.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 08/22/11 02:05 PM
Actually, Dave Jr, nowadays with higher end knowledge of admittedly obscure but nevertheless, quite freely available SMARTer Technology and/or AIMethodology, one can and does do whatever is needed, without any second and/or third party input, or output, being necessary. The distinct lack of the need for outside of the network assistance to enable that which is so easily virtually done just as if nothing is happening, or as if nothing has happened, is the remarkable stealth which renders HyperRadioProActive IT so daunting and haunting and valuable too, and the uses to which a stealthy exploitation of zeroday vulnerabilities in every SCADA Command and Control system, which you might like to consider are practically all systems of Command and Control for Power, are what would then make IT so dangerous in the wrong hands of those with hearts and minds on other than the highest of planes/earthly causes/rewarding endeavours.
Paradoxically, would they, the wrong handed and more sinister ones, be most probably the very best of flash cash payers for skilled players because they would have the most to lose with systems internal workings exposure ... .. of Core Drive Protocols/Dodgy Lode Fuel which catastrophically compromises smooth and reinforced securer running of operations. And that would make them a valuable trusted client. Which is a classic Quantum Enigma Dilemma if ever there was one and AI Catch 42 in Quantum Control Systems lore.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/22/11 11:41 AM
Your offices of cyberspace security employs the wannabe gang leaders. It is the status quo recyled and packaged in high tech wrapping paper.
If you can create an AI being that can replace me, then by all means, go ahead. But you cannot do it without my submission, now can you.
I am fine if I can stand over here, or anywhere you are not standing. But that is not good enough for you, is it. You are unable to let me be, you need me to buy your high technology in order to make it all work.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/22/11 11:13 AM
"Where do you get the idea that I am a collectivist?"
I could go back and fill a page with your quotes that proves it, But I don't have to because your next three sentances clearly shows it.
"It is quite clear that Americans are NOT willing to stand up for themselves. They have no self respect. They do not take responsibility."
You are willing to corral an entire nation into one and stamp it guilty as charged. You have no respect for the individual. You take the issues of freedom and liberty that we discuss on this website and use it as a charge against an entire group.
Collectivists use groups.
So I am an American, I stand up for myself, I have self respect, and I DO take responsibility for myself. So how do you square that with what you just said?
Your words are an unfounded attack on me, and I won't stand for it, and this Gringo sez you have not had nearly enough.
If you think I have a responsibility to you, then we have a real big problem.
Collectivists claim that that individuals have a responsibilty to society. No they don't. I will show a mutual respect for those who do the same. I will work with those whom cooperation is mutually beneficial. I do not owe you anything and will not work for you or ask for your help in liquidating me just because you say it would be best for the world in general. I can see through you. You want what is best for you, period.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 08/22/11 10:08 AM
"Clearly you have noticed that Uncle Sam's policies/business practices create catastrophic consequences at home." ... .. Posted by amanfromMars on 08/21/11 11:01 PM to the Daily Bell readership and Dave Jr
Although it can feel very Ron Paulish to have alternative alienating views, the mounting, emerging evidence points to them being perfectly correct rather than just nonsensical GBIrish, or are you to dismiss the following as being different from what you know of novel alien messages introducing you to Offices of CyberSpace Security and Advanced IntelAIgent Command and Control, which you should not confuse with those public funded wannabe gang leader clones siphoning off 100s and 1000s of millions of dollars and pounds in the likes of a Cabinet Office of Cyber Security or GCHQ Cyber Security Operations Centre, which are only designed to try and counter innovation in the novel virtual fields, to maintain the old status quo models and heads of administration with dodgy spinning abuse and have no facility for exercise of intelligence which doesn't agree with default, sub-prime low standard issue policies. And that countering innovation work is like trying to stop progress and time in space, and will be just as successful as a losing proposition.
[blockquote] Background: There is a strong and often repeated call for research to provide novel cyber security solutions. The rhetoric of this call is to elicit new solutions that are radically different from existing
solutions. Continuing research that achieves only incremental improvements is a losing proposition.
We are lagging behind and need technological leaps to get, and keep, ahead of adversaries who are themselves rapidly improving attack technology. To answer this call, we must examine the key assumptions that underlie current security architectures. Challenging those assumptions both opens up the possibilities for novel solutions and provides an even stronger basis for moving forward on those assumptions that are well-founded." [/blockquote]... .. Click to view link
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Posted by cat writer on 08/22/11 09:37 AM
Enough, gringo.
Where do you get the idea that I am a collectivist?
It is quite clear that Americans are NOT willing to stand up for themselves. They have no self respect. They do not take responsibility.
We can go on forever here discussing why, here on this site and elsewhere. Understanding why the America failed to fulfill its mission would be of service to those in the distant future who would want to try it one more time. However, in this time, these discussions are fruitless.
Americans do not take care of themselves. Allowing psychopaths and narcissists to take over their society is evidence of carelessness. They may obsess about material cleanliness and healthfulness but are delinquent about their own spiritual, intellectual, and emotional hygiene. And you, among other things, just sit and whine, figuring that it was the act of some God or act of Fortune that delivered these troubles. You take no responsibility.
Although there MAY be some libertarians who walk their talk, and others who are being driven by the "American God" off their path, I cannot accept your protest in any way. I cannot ever endorse any investment in any American enterprise whatsoever, unless it involves liquidation where the materiel in the United States is sold to stronger and more responsible hands and until your country gets the cleaning it so richly deserves.
I only desire that such purging involves only the people in the United States and that the rest of the world sits back to watch, or better yet, minds its own business.
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Posted by Agent Weebley on 08/22/11 09:27 AM
Hi Dave Jr.
You see what you want to see . . . that is the question.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 08/21/11 11:01 PM
"Truth doesn't spin." ... . Amen, IT tells it like it is and how IT is going to be the new leader.
"So what is the bigger picture, the youtube Hulu superbowl commercial? This is reality?" ... .. The bigger picture is multi-dimensional [Stephen Hawking apparently confines himself to or works in eleven, which quite obviously suggests that there are countless parallel worlds/existences in which to live and hang out with one's dreams or of one is so programmed, nightmares] and is in the simplest of terms which can be understood by all, is you are being programmed by media to accept a whole new field of virtual reality, which is being presented and built for the future in actuality, and that is the gospel truth. IT and media presents it to you as an entertainment program and imaginative project of fiction, but it is fact you can believe in, for the reality of it is that it being virtually created in physical form by the aforementioned means and AI Memes ... ... . Welcome to the World According to Phorm? ... .. Click to view link
"Since the 1950s, when more than 50 percent of the nation's work force became engaged in some type of "information-intensive," activity, the United States (and the world) have been in the midst of an unprecedented Technological Revolution, currently centered around Information, Biological, and Nanoscale technologies. These technologies are all pushing the frontiers of the miniscule in a synergistic "feeding frenzy" among each other, and are causing tremendous changes in all areas of human endeavor. ... . In today's environment, some 70 percent of all research is now
conducted within a "commercial" framework outside the United States and is thus readily available to likely adversaries. In terms of sheer size, several economies (Japan, China, and the European Union, for example) are approaching the magnitude of ours, and may even exceed it. Moreover, inexpensive, highly motivational, web-based distance learning on demand promises to greatly accelerate these trends." ... . Click to view link
Is the Daily Bell one of those inexpensive, highly motivational, web-based distance learning on demand trend accelerators used by IT Wizards and Internet Revolutionaries ... .. Latter Day Zeroday Saints and Sinners and Armchair Generals :-)?
"If China was really concerned about holding "worthless" paper, it would begin buying US goods, like Boeing aircraft instead of Airbus, or US grain and beef, there are plenty of things for sale in the US, but China refuses to trade. If they did, the US would have a lot more workers employed." ... .. Posted by Dave Jr on 08/21/11 10:53 AM
Methinks China has a first duty of care to provide its own nation with meaningful employment/rewarding activity/increased sustainable wealth which doesn't cause bubbles/boom and bust cycles. Clearly you have noticed that Uncle Sam's policies/business practices create catastrophic consequences at home.
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Posted by free on 08/21/11 10:59 PM
Does anyone make things more clear than this man, we are pawns unless we stop this mind control dumbing down of our children.
WAKE UP PEOPLE, YOUR BEING SCREWED AND YOUR WALKING RIGHT INTO IT.
Great work TW, I hope there are some out there listing to you.
We are.
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Posted by free on 08/21/11 10:52 PM
To think that a political philosophy (religion?) has become so adopted by the masses that they are willing to endorse the murder of millions of people around the world who stand in the way of international money power's desire to implement it in their countries is nothing short of awful. And it is ironic that the leading enforcer on the front line of this "spread" is the one country whose Founding Fathers stood tall against centralized rule and warned of the disastrous effects for societies that neglect the natural rights of the individual.
Its a travesty or worst.
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Very well said Mr. Perger.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/21/11 05:10 PM
""We can't rule ourselves." Believe that and you will have the second alternative soon."
Wadaminit! I was the one who said we are capable of ruling ourselves. Are you putting words in my mouth?
Cat Writer, I think you have a problem with the idea that there are still plenty of people in the US that are capable of taking care of themselves. I can see where that would be very upsetting to a collectivist.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/21/11 04:56 PM
Better sooner than later.
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Posted by Dave Jr on 08/21/11 04:46 PM
So what is the bigger picture, the youtube Hulu superbowl commercial? This is reality?
My post is from direct observation and original thought. If there is any other source saying what I have said, I would be very interested in learning of a reference to it so I can learn more.
Truth doesn't spin.
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Posted by Summer on 08/21/11 01:13 PM
" there is nothing we can do... it's all in "god's" hands".
I disagree with the sentiment of your 'acquaintances'. I am a Muslim. As far as I'm concerned there is a CHOICE of destinies/avenues one can take, depending on one's actions.
" I am now 98% convinced that the abrahamic religions are a man-made hijacking of natural spirituality designed to divide and conquer humanity."
I disagree with this sweeping statement. Read DB's glossary on religion Click to view link , it is excellent and explains how faiths have been hijacked by political motives for dominance:
'Religion has been observed with some negativity in the 20th and 21st century, mostly because of socialist and Marxist interpretations of religion. These interpret religious beliefs as a methodology of control that substitutes a bountiful afterlife for achievement and creature comforts during the person's lifetime.
Another criticism of religion is that it stirs negative passions and incites violence as believers will try to convert others to their faith by whatever means necessary. This latter point of view, especially, may be seen as something of a canard. Religion, when examined historically, does not seem to involve organized violence unless linked to a formal political structure.
... . It is only when the state itself becomes involved in a religious promotion that organized destruction - and even genocide - may result. It is not religion, even organized religion, which is the problem, but the coercive power of the state that utilizes faith-based organizations to realize non-spiritual, parochial goals.'
Religions should be judged by the actions and teachings of their founders NOT political or religious movements diverging from the original.
What is your definition of 'natural spirituality'? If there is such a thing as spirituality or the soul, how did it get there? It couldn't just evolve it has no basis for survival. IF it was created, wouldn't the Creator seek to guide His creation by exemplars? Akin to parent and child relationship. (Obviously only relevant if one 'believes')
As far as I am concerned many would acknowledge the existence of the pangs of consciousness/guilt etc. If Islam, Christianity and Judaism taught (originally) morality: truth, justice, charity, kindness etc were they not a force for 'good'? If everyone adhered to these principles now, we would not have mass enslavement and injustice overspread in the earth.
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Posted by cat writer on 08/21/11 12:53 PM
Totalitarian democracy--great term. This could also be termed mob or gang rule.
Elections are just a facade.
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