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Conspiracy vs Pure Austrian view of Financial Crisis

I have been having trouble reconciling two competing but seemingly valid viewpoints. I am sure there is a happy synthesis, but it is hard to discover alone.

#1-Austrian Economics

The fed lowered interest rates, government manipulation drove new money into housing and the rest is history. I believe this caused the crisis.

#2-Conspiracy theory

We more or less know that banks and the establishment have wanted a true global fiat currency and more importantly a global central bank. All of this is happening and would ONLY be happening at this speed given some sort of crisis. Given the textbook globalist nature of these interventions, its hard to deny any manipulative hand regarding the crisis. "They" have too much to gain by this crisis to not have a hand in it, and recent allegations as to JP Morgan's purposeful collapsing of some institutions gives credence to this.

Here is my line of reasoning.

We know that the 1% interest rates caused the cycle.

We also know that the powers that be need a collapse to carry out their vision.

However, I have no reason to believe that the powers that be believe that lowering interest rates to 1% causes business cycles. I know that about 99% of economists would likely not even admit to the possibility of lower interest rates accomplishing this problem prior to the current crisis. Even now, they ignore and downplay its significance. This leads me to believe that the powers that be wouldnt think to use interest rates to carry out their goals(at least not lowering them, maybe raising them). However, the perfection of this crash makes you wonder. Also, Alan Greenspan likely DID give at least some credence to the Austrian Business Cycle theory, and he was the establishment hack overseeing the interest rate drop. Also, Keynes was a total NWO establishment crony and he is largely responsible for the death of Austrian Cycle Theory in mainstream economics. Could it really be possible that the NWO could create a theory that fooled "all of the people all of the time"? I think fabricating popular economic theories is just about impossible to do. If it WAS done, then maybe the powers that be are all Austrians?!??!

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TOO MUCH OF A TYPE OF MONEY THAT CREATES SHORTAGE OF MONEY

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Virtually all money that has been created since the start of the debt based money system came with the obligation to pay back with interest. Therefore, as the economy grew and more money was created, the obligation to pay back got even bigger and the money shortage grew. Now we are at the point that this system no longer works. In other words, the money shortage cannot be solved by creating more money that comes with the obligation to pay back with interest. Therefore, I am convinced that this money shortage will not be solved and we will go though a major deflationary depression.

However, the problem is the shortage of money, but not shortages of commodities or manufactured goods. Aside from the money shortage, the economy is physically capable of producing what we need. Therefore, in a sense, this problem is not real.

The solution is to install a non-debt based money system.

People really need to read this and understand.
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Just my opinions.

Not all of the Fed's money

Not all of the Fed's money is created through debt.

Whenever the Fed buys anything on the "open market", it writes a check on itself to the seller, who then goes to a normal bank to cash/deposit it. That's newly created money without any debt behind it. When the Fed pays it's employees and buys whatever materials it needs for it's buildings, office supplies, and pays it's utilities, etc.

The Fed does create money without debt behind it.

Then when you consider that commercial banks have to pay for the same things the Fed does (employees, supplies, utilities, buildings, etc), it comes out of the interest that was earned by the bank, which then ends up right back in the economy to be traded again and again.

Crash Course

There's more to it than what you have listed, there is exponential growth in the population, money supply, debt, and then there is the theory of peak oil. I would highly recommend going to Chris Martenson's website and take the free "Crash Course". If you don't want to watch the whole thing at least watch, 3, 4, and 17a, b, c.
I have no connection to Chris but it really opened my eyes to what is really going on. Another thing to watch would be Alex Jones "Endgame", I know he's a conspiracy theorist but there are some things in it that fill in pieces of the puzzle. The Georgia Guidestones really makes me wonder whats going on.
Freedomforce International is another place to find information, this is G. Edward Griffins website who wrote The Creature from Jekyll Island.
I believe there is a group of people who want to cut the population of the world down to around 500 million people, (Tom Clancy wrote a novel about that called "Executive Orders") using starvation, biological weapons, and war. I'm wondering how they will decide who lives and who dies because it would be advantageous to keep intelligent and skilled people alive. Hope I'm wrong, but this is where I'm at right now.

world bankers are not austrians

simplest explanation....

the world bankers want central banks for means of control no matter what ends they are trying to achieve if any.

austrian economists are in favor of free banking and are completely opposed to central bank control and monopoly.

they are not and cannot be in cahoots.

world bankers may understand what the austrians are saying....if and when the austrian view becomes a significant threat then we will see how the forces match up and the tactics that each will take in doing battle.

but for now the austrians are the friend of the people hands down.
and the central bankers are committing fraud on a grand scale.

fyi, i did not write this comment...

i sent the link to some people.

all i can figure is that i was logged in and someone wrote a comment in my name - accidentally.

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I think the two factors at play

dovetail nicely. They are not mutually exclusive, by any means. Think about it. If Austrian economic theory is objectively valid, and you are a globalist power monger, what course would you take? You would assess the economy according to the most reliable predictors and sell a fiction to the people to enslave them, namely Keynesian theory. So you can then act to bring the economy and the prosperity of the nation under the control of the elite while pretending to act in the nation's best interest. Diabolically simple really.

Greenspan used to be an Austrian Economist

Ron Paul mentioned this in one of his interviews. He explained how Greenspan had written articles on the value of gold. Dr. Paul than asked him about these articles before a hearing with the Fed and Greenspan said he stood by them still. When asked about them during the hearing, he got quite frustrated. So while most economists in today's age are still following myths Greenspan knew exactly what he was doing. He knows even now as he claims that it was Laizess-fair capitalism, and ideas of Ayn Rand that encouraged this. Even though anyone who had read such things would know better. The fed is an intentional entity, and while they play ignorant, arrogant and corrupt are far closer to the truth.

Who do we blame.

Should we blame the banks or should we blame the depositors?
Those who deposit money in a bank expect to receive interest for their money. The goal is to save money and live off the interest.
When the government borrows money, it pays interest to those who put their money in treasury bonds and expect to get interest.
Instead of spending the money and generating the economy, individuals and nations buy treasury bonds expecting interest. They live off the interest or roll it over into more treasury bonds. In this way they enslave businesses and people, perhaps unknowingly, but the fact remains.
Eventually the only way to generate the economy is for businesses to borrow money, and of course this cost is pasted on to consumers, who are encouraged to borrow money to keep the system going.
One solution is for people to stop using credit. This would lead companies to fail to repay their debt and go bankrupt and this would make investors lose the ability of earn interest from their money. In this way they would have no other choice but to spend the money that they have on deposit on goods and services, putting the money into the system via trade instead of usury.
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they definitely know what they're doing

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How can you make this statement...

You said: "I have no reason to believe the powers that be believe that lowering interest rates to 1% causes business cycles."

They absolutely DO know that it causes cycles.

That's precisely WHY they do it, and have been since 1913 when the "Fed" was created.

This is the whole point of why advocates of Austrian economics say that ONLY FREE MARKETS should dictate interest rates.

Not some secret organization doing immoral price fixing.

Interest rates are merely the cost of borrowing money and like any other cost in a free society, they should not be artificially controlled.

I make the statement because

I make the statement because its true. I really don't have any remotely hard evidence that they believe in the ABCT. Do you have any idea how many people believed that Greenspan did a good job? It is possible that Greenspan does believe in the ABCT, however, which I alluded to.

I have to say, I generally prefer dailypaul over RPF because it seems like the more radical forum, but some of these rude comments are troublesome.

You answered your question with your own statement...

You said:

"Here is my line of reasoning. We know that the 1% interest rates caused the cycle. We also know that the powers that be need a collapse to carry out their vision."

So don't you think they are smart enough to use those two principles in unison to carry out their vision? I certainly think so. I never said these guys were dummies.

On the contrary, the system of confusion they have set up is quite ingenious. To the point where even many very smart economists can't figure out the "magic" they are pulling off.

Read the book: "The Creature From Jekyl Island" for full clarity.

I agree with you about the rude comments. They accomplish nothing. Usually they come out of frustration from someone not being able to adequately explain or back up their position.

Socialist Liberals do it all the time when you set them straight with facts.

They just start calling you bad names.

I'm not sure that intellect

I'm not sure that intellect is the defining factor of what economic philosophy you believe, thats the thing. In my experience, that has been dictated by who your teachers were, and it rarely changes. Considering how these elites all went to top schools taught by Keynesian's or neo-classicals, its hard to believe that they understand/believe in Austrian business cycle theory. It is possible, however. I wish there was more evidence.

You should Articulate Better

1) Conspiracy Theory
2) Coincidence Theory

Remember it only takes 3 people soliciting harmful outcomes to create A CONSPIRACY... ooooooo

I tend to believe that there exists more than three people at the top who are trying to take advantage of the many at the bottom.

Of course it could be that the Government that loves you just made another mistake... coincidentally of course....

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Say What? Number 2's a little vague.

What you describe wouldn't be inconsistent with Austrian theory in any event.

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Well, Austrian Theory shows

Well, Austrian Theory shows that it was 1% interest rates that caused this crisis. For #2 to fit with #1, the NWOites would have believe in Austrian Theory. So it is not necessarily contradictory, but does not seem plausible.

It Depends What You Mean By "Austrian Theory"

Certainly the Austrian school, perhaps to the exclusion of any other, has recognized that a ruling class of bankers stands to gain from manipulating the monetary apparatus. I don't see the contradiction, frankly.

I would suggest reading some Rothbard, particularly "A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II."

Rothbard and most Austrians do believe, along with Ayn Rand, that people act purposefully. The banking cartel didn't just stumble into their power. They intended to acquire it, and believe me they use it.

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I will take that book into

I will take that book into consideration. I have read a lot of Rothbard, and agree with a lot of what he says. However, I would be SHOCKED to find an Austrian Economist who believes that the powers that be themselves believe in the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle.

Having said that, it is quite possible that Alan Greenspan agrees with this theory, so its possible that these guys are closet Austrians and use Keynesianism as a smokescreen.

There has been central banks since...

The 1700's...

You mean to tell me, those in control, the JP morgans, Rothchild's, yada yada... never came to realise that if they printed money out of thin air, with massive injections of money backed by nothing into the economy......

IT WOULD BE ALL FINE AND DANDY? lol

And you propose that they, for several hundred years, crisis after manipulated crisis.. they don't know what they are doing?

If you CONTROL something, you'd think you'd know how to use it after a few hundred years.... No? lol

It's not exactly rocket science.... marx and keynes were founded / supported to lay down justifications for the use and existence of the Fed.

It is possible, and I never

It is possible, and I never denied it(I actually posited this very thing), but the denial of ABCT is so complete among academics that its hard to comprehend how it could be controlled. TPTB tend to recruit from top universities, places that are bastions of mainstream thought.

It IS fine and dandy..

..When the cycle favors them. They make massive, sinful amounts of money from inflating fiat currency. You do understand that...right?

I'm trying to see if we're on the same page. If fiat money starts crashing, it isn't an "engineered crisis" any more than a heroin addict dying is an "engineered overdose".

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To answer your question...

Yes, I do understand that...

So... ? lol

just came back from mises institute...

the weekend before last for the supporters summit.
it was so incredible to meet and listen to all the speakers.
the doc was there both days. he got an award.

www.mises.org has the audio up and is in the process of getting the
videos up.

click on media and scroll down to the "the gold standard revisited" and check it out...

ps if you listen or better yet watch the videos of the summit i think it will help you to understand.

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Me too!!!

Me too!!!

you went too..

that's cool. wish i had known.
there was another daily pauler there too.

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occam's razor

you might consider applying occam's razor to this. that should eliminate number 2. austrian economic theory has pretty accurately predicted most trends in the market.

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Correct; the economy is

Correct; the economy is collapsing due to simple cause and effect.

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Always suspicious

After two years of studying the damning evidence in regards to what actually happened on 9/11, no longer can anybody say with certainty that this financial crisis is purely an accident. The Austrian economists do unparalleled work in determining the cause and effect of the market, but they seem strangely blind or maybe willfully ignorant in regards to conspiracy. I think the recognition of the Austrians' own accuracy gives them the idea that they know precisely what's going on while the people in power are fools. This is a mistake.

Why would the government attack its own city? I don't know for sure, but I do know that those buildings were laced with explosives and cutter charges. I know that this 'new Pearl Harbor' helped carry out the agenda put forth in the PNAC documents. I know that a lot of military contractors benefited greatly and I know that we now occupy the middle east with permanent bases. Plenty of people benefited, the already-written Patriot Act was passed, the Bill of Rights has been completely undermined, and unprecedented power has been centralized in the executive.

Why would the government crash its own economy? I don't know for sure, but there are plenty of people getting obscenely wealthy from all these bailouts. America is being brought to its knees and calls for world government are being heard from the establishment. We, and Ron Paul included, already have known for decades that the ruling elite have long sought world government. This crisis, or coming crisis, will be accompanied with greater calls for world government, a new reserve currency and a loss of American sovereignty to unaccountable, transnational organizations. Are we to turn a blind eye to how this crisis benefits so many powerful people?

Anyone who thinks they know with absolute certainty that this crash is purely a mistake made by a bunch of powerful fools is demonstrating their own misunderstanding of the American government. Though, that's not to say that the crash cannot be a complete accident after all.

Well said, Lad!

Too many globalization actions in the form of US bank takeovers by UK, Spanish and two Japanese investment houses.

Too much we need a new world order to "avoid these economic crises."

Too much talking to France(?) about our economic problems.

Too much..."this is a global problem."

Now who is saying this?

The media...the core of credibility on this little planet...the media.

Sorry folks, but whatever the TV or the newspaper says is designed to get what "they" want...not what we need.

Conspiracy vs. Austrians vs. Objectivists

Richard Salsman has very interesting things to say about the Austrians (he disagrees completely with the Austrian view of the cause of the Great Depression). Available on CD is his presentation, "The Cause and Consequence of the Great Depression". Very interesting point of view. Recommended to add to knowledge/perspective on free market economics vs. statism.

Google "Gold and Economic Freedom"

They know what's going on.

The business cycle theory is not difficult to understand. Maybe all of the intricate details require uncommon intellect to fully grasp, but the overall workings are pretty much common sense. If we can understand it, the bankers understand it better than most of us. It's their business after all.

Whether the crisis was engineered or the onset was just ignored in an ill-advised attempt to keep the economy "healthy" is a valid question. If you think that Alan Greenspan does not understand how low interest rates can lead to a depression, google the article mentioned above. It's an excellent article that he wrote in the '60s and a fairly short read that Ron Paul refers to ocassionally.
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Agreed

This is why they over complicate problems in the MSM by overloading the viewer with too much terminology and dialogue. It's really just one little simple equation. Of course, a majority of americans wouldn't even understand that thanks to the state of our education and culture.

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—Tolstoy

Good Point

No doubt the bankers hide their system in plain view by making it all seem too complicated for a mere mortal to understand. Because of that, most people never bother to try. It's a simple yet ingenious psychological game that the elites understand very well.
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Food for Thought

The Fed Caused the Great Depression

Milton Friedman proved it and Bernanke confirmed it.

Do you believe they are doing the same thing once again?

BTW, I do not believe in Conspiracy Theories only Conspiracy Facts. ;)

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http://www.federalreserve... 20021108/default.htm

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke
At the Conference to Honor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
November 8, 2002

On Milton Friedman’s Ninetieth Birthday

“Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.”

They have this

planned to the last detail. Just my two cents, don't care what people call me as long as they call me to supper. LOL

Why not seek a potential motivation?

I don't like this deal because NOTHING in their world is too complicated to understand...least of all economics. The man who requires complexity is the man who hides from simplicity and I suggest...truth.

To the point.

October crash had nothing to do with anything Austrian or otherwise.

There is no GD conspiracy. It is the publicly stated goal of the CFR, the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission and the rest of the alphabet soup of NWO morons that they want one government. This is not UFO's this is powerful people who have all the money wanting something. Cheerist they discussed it in the fourth republican debate with Dr. Paul on national TV. The Texas legislature BLOCKED the NAU land taking process last year.

This is not a conspiracy...it is real and they think it is the best for humanity which is fine EXCEPT THEY FORGOT TO ASK HUMANITY if it was OK with them.

October crash was engineered and it doens't take that much research to confirm it.

Merrill
Countrywide
Bear Stearns
WaMu
Wachovia
Lehman Brothers
National City
US Trust
AIG
Bradford and Bingley (Who the hell are they?)
Sovereign

All went down because of some lousy mortgages.

What!?

They went illiquid and had to be bailed because of some lousy mortgages?

You have to be kidding me.

We are supposed to accept that 25% of Wall Street went bankrupt over the course of 120 days because of some bad mortgages?

Talk about "scale" issues huh?

A PERCENTAGE OF ONE SEGMENT OF THE US MORTGAGE MARKET HAD PROBLEMS.

A percentage of a percentage of a market absolutely vaporized, Bear, Merrill and Lehman. Do you have any concept of how large these banks are?

So I am supposed to accept the media "line" that 12% of the subprime mortgages which represent 9% of the overall mortgage market in the United States is going to wipe out three of the ten largest banking houses in 90 days? That is a fraction of a fraction. Merrill had some mortgage backed "paper" like the rest of them...

What?!

Their entire liquidity profile got vaporized by some lousy mortgage paper?

That entire list of gigantic institutions lost their effing minds all at once and destroyed themselves BUYING investment instruments that were backed with mortgages held by people who couldn't pay them back?

Is their anything to invest in this world besides crappy mortgages? Do you think Bear Stearns got up one morning a year ago and said "F all those stupid municipal bonds! We want bonds backed by the scariest possible IOU's on the market today! Screw balancing our portfolios! F the last 70 years of prudence! Let's just stop buying anything unless it is backed by a weak borrower! Yay! Load up! Single mother with zero down! Perfect! 3 to one salary to payment ratios! Buy them all and then package them and leverage them again!...Pass the Tequila! $54,000 a year salary? $395,000 mortgage? Two kids? Single parent? Lousy credit? Nothing down? LEHMAN BROTHERS WANTS YOU! But not only do they want you...they want all of you and they want all of you NOW!

The entire list of companies were a couple of mortgage bonds away from being sold to BOA, a Japanese bank, a Spanish bank, an English bank, Buffett and the fed. As of Jan 1st 2008 1/4 of the entire US banking system was a few ticks away from being sold for a nickel on the dollar to effing ANYONE who would step up?

I don't buy what the media says. I don't buy that George Bush needs to meet with the president of effing France to discuss some lousy mortgages and the Dow coughing up a fur ball. France?

You have got to be kidding me.

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Malinvestment

Malinvestment is always based on some deceit. It is usually the most basic deceit of created money.

The malinvestment bubble always pops suddenly and dramatically. People feel they have been deceived often not knowing how or by whom.

There is often a chain of deceits and widespread participation. The inflated assets get sold to the greater fool.

What we are seeing is classic and has been described by Austrian economists.

The Keynesians deny the existance of malinvestment as such, but they are smart enough to want to sell to the greater fool before the crash.

This malinvestment was going to be revealed one way or another.

Yes, there are probably some who find they will get some advantage by nudging the malinvestment out into the open after they have cashed the check given to them by the greater fool.

Meanwhile, new money creation proceeds at an accelerating pace. You can bet on massive new malinvestment which in turn will be revealed in a future crash.

At some point the crash will be the US Dollar and other fiat monies everywhere. What an irony it will be to watch a generation that thought debt and other problems were being put off for future generations to handle. But it all lands in one Presidential term (2009-2012). The long term all arrives now.

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Well done

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Excellent

Excellent

Evil or Stupid?

Great debate!
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Evil AND Stupid.

That's what I conjecture.

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I think the elites are incompetent idiots.

I reject the notion that this is an "engineered crisis" to set up a one world banking empire. The elites are not mental wizards who are scheming the demise of the planet while chuckling and rubbing their hands together in glee, saying "Everything is going exactly according to plan.. heh heh heh heh heh!"

They don't need to do anything like that to bring about the changes they want. They have control over the American people already. The people are docile. If they want to have an Amero state or a World Bank, all they need to do is create it, get their pet poodle MSM to sing its praises, and to hell with anyone who complains. Sort of the same way they engineered the modern police state.

The financial empire is collapsing because it's unsound. It's out of their control.

Most of the people who run the world do so based on power from inherited wealth. They didn't build their grandfather's financial empire.

They don't know anything more about business than the "Piano-Playing Chicken" at the State Fair. The chicken knows that if it bangs the piano keys with his beak, a handful of corn will slide down a little chute and he can eat it.

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Calling everyone dumb is just ridiculous

These people are experts and know everything down to the nucleus of every angle.

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If they were smart, they

If they were smart, they wouldn't be fascist-socialists in the first place.

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I'm not so shure.

Intelligence and wisdom are two different things. After all, we do have nuclear weapons, yes? Very, very intelligent weapons, but not exactly wise.

A fool and his money shall soon be parted.

Those who are in control are no fools, yet it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven.

'Poverty is your greatest asset.' -buddha
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I agree with some but

they lose control of absolutely NOTHING.

They control what we know.

If they 'say" markets are out of control then they are producing an illusion of "out of control" to get what they want....globalization.

Yes, they are stupid in some ways and smart in others.

I don't see it as an unstable system in that they can create what they want...boom or bust. This tells me they have control.

They would not put a fool in charge. They have some smart guys around.

Suggesting they are dumb rich kids whose fathers were smart sounds like something "they" would want us to believe. I have met my share of them and they are prudent and capable.

Calling them incompetent in one breath and affirming they basically have control over all of us just tells me that they do in fact have control.

I disagree with "dumb elites."

I completely agree that they will F it up and are in that process as we speak.

They will all face a judge and that day approaches.

It will be such a cool TV show to watch. I'm going to buy a DVR just to record the Hannity part of the trial...."Did you execute Mr. Murdoch's orders to trivialize Dr. Paul's view when interviewing him?"

That is gonna be some fun, brutha.

They do have control---over

They do have control---over the population. That doesn't make them smart.

Money controls everything, and people unknowingly worship those who have it and control it, especially in this country. That's why the elites are in charge; it's the only reason.

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The elite are not all idiots

Although some of their kids are due to centuries of inbreeding.

First, we must understand the TRUE nature of evil, not the way the MSM portays it (your description of chuckling and wringing hands reminds me of Dr. Evil). Evil people do not do this (well maybe some do behind closed doors), nor walk around with a sign on their foreheads saying "I'm evil".

And I don't think a plan this complete, perfect and pervasive could have even been thought up by a human mind. It could only come from Satan himself. I still believe that the collapses are deliberate and controlled.

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13 Bloodlines of The Illuminati
http://www.bibliotecapley...

The Biological Basis of Elitism and "The Divine Right" Rule
http://www.bibliotecapley...

Two-seed theory: The origins of the psychopathic elite
www.dailypaul.com/node/68...

Political Ponerology and Psychopaths
www.dailypaul.com/node/53...

The Secret Order of The Illuminati (good overview)
www.illuminati-news.com/m...

Secret Societies and the REAL driving force behind the New World Order
www.dailypaul.com/node/59...

Interesting NomDeGuerre ArmorOfChrist777

1. I agree with you (Saint LeoPetraea), the elite are not all idiots.

2. I would add the true 'enlightened' (whether by Jesus, Allah, Satan, Mary Poppins or the Black Pope) elite are wise enough to realise that it is the real wise wo/man whose ego does not stand in the way of enabling them to see their own idiocy.....

3. In a world desperately attached to the certainty of their infallible non-idiocy and sanity; there is huge freedom in non resistance to recognising and appreciating the relief from being profanically idiotically insane (out of our fucking minds!!)

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