By Anna Von Reitz
Here,
to give you an example, is one of the arguments I have been subjected
to this week: it is immoral to use crude oil as an asset-backing for a
currency (USD) because crude oil is very useful and is needed to make
many commodity items that people need, above and beyond its use as a
lubricant and fuel and source of electricity.
I
tend to agree. It is immoral to use food as the asset backing a
currency for the same reason. People actually need oil and actually need
food, so no such commodity should be used as "money". This is precisely
what argues in favor of using relatively useless substances like gold
and silver as assets backing currencies: they aren't really needed for
any other reason or purpose and nobody (in theory) has to starve or
freeze for lack of direct possession of a lump of gold or silver.
On
the other hand, the use of these otherwise comparatively useless metals
as money results in a totally lunatic situation of a different sort---
we are treated to the spectacle of people valuing things that are
essentially value-less in the first place, which is why everyone is
arguing in favor of using gold and silver as a "moral alternative" to
using crude oil or coconuts.
Well,
if uselessness is our primary consideration in developing a moral
alternative to oil assets backing our currency, why use gold or silver,
either?
Why
not condone what the bankers have already done, and just arbitrarily
assign "value" to numbers in a ledger? What's more useless and harmless
than that?
And
if our entire world economy is essentially nothing but a matter of
giving each other credit and passing numbers back and forth---which is
what it all cranks down to in the end---- why not admit that we have a
bookkeeping problem and deal with that?
Think
of it as a simple math problem, in fact, the simplest kind of math
problem: an equation. (In this case, thanks to embezzlement and
counterfeiting and dishonest bookkeeping, it is an equation that has
gotten wildly out of balance.)
A + a = C + c
"A"
stands for "Actual Money" -- meaning things like Silver Certificates
that are used to represent actual commodities, or Birth Certificates
that are used to represent the value of labor.
"a" stands for "Actual Assets" -- meaning actual commodities: wood, paper, pork bellies, soybeans, corn, etc., etc.,
"C" stands for "Credit" -- meaning things like bank loans and Credit Cards.
"c"
stands for "collateral" --- meaning things that are locked down as
collateral backing "Credit" and held as "securities" guaranteeing that
Credit will get paid back.
In
their lust for growth and greed, the bankers and corporate governments
have allowed "C" -- credit extended -- to vastly outgrow the value of
the Actual Assets and Actual Money, which in the end have to
counter-balance and equal out the whole equation.
This
whole movement to arbitrarily define the value of gold at $10,000 an
ounce is an attempt to balance the equation by greatly increasing the
value of "a" and "A", which can then counter-balance the weight of
Credit extended.
This
is all the predictable result of a fatal flaw in the monetary model of
John Maynard Keynes, which was adopted at Bretton Woods. Those who put
it in place knew that it would inevitably result in this situation, but
they also knew the consequences would hit long after they were dead---
so they flat out didn't care about the Fatal Flaw, which was simply
this--- it required endless expansion of the economy to work, and the
only thing driving this expansion was population growth which also
inevitably meant increased demand upon resources, which then also was
supposed to drive the value of those resources up according to supply
and demand.
But
the alternative to this rosy, ever-growing, ever-expanding model is the
reality we now face. With the foxes left guarding the hen house and
"endless credit" to be plundered and a real world in which economies
expand and contract like breathing organisms, increasing populations and
increasing demand on resources can also result in "implosion"--- a
stalled world economy, too many people left unemployed and therefore
unable to pay for what they need, much less able to pay more for what
they need.
We
are at a crossroads where greed meets necessity, and some of the best
minds on the planet are left spinning in mid-air, contemplating the
absolutely insurmountable pile of debt which has been accrued and dumped
on present and future generations.
The
present bankruptcy of all the world's corporations, including the
Territorial and Municipal governments worldwide, is not a bankruptcy in
the same sense that we think of normal bankruptcy and it isn't taking
place in a bankruptcy court per se. It is taking place via international
treaty. This is the same bit of collusion that took place among the G-5
nations in May of 1930 at the Geneva Conventions.
The
government corporations simply agree to go bankrupt en masse via
treaty, discharging their debts against the living people and natural
resources of the planet and unleashing ruthless "US Trustees" appointed
by the Secondary Creditors (international banks) to do the collecting of
all this odious debt from people who have no idea that their land,
their businesses, their names, their labor, and all else that they
naturally possess has be been "pledged" as surety for this debt without
their knowledge or consent.
This
is why your objections and claims need to be addressed to the General
Secretary of the United Nations, the Pope, the President of the UNITED
STATES, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister May, the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, the SEC, the FBI, and others who are directly responsible for
this Mess. As always, keep your mailing receipts and your green Return
Receipt Requested cards as proof that you objected and claimed your
exemption from any such presumption of surety-ship.
Otherwise,
you wake up one morning as home owners in Ohio and Pennsylvania and
Arkansas did this past summer with a "tax bill" and an unsigned Demand
Letter addressed to FIRST MIDDLE LAST, claiming that out of the blue, an
insurmountably huge bill is owed and due at the end of the month, and
if you don't pay, your home will be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder.
At
a less obvious level, this is also what is behind all the mortgage
foreclosures. There isn't a living American who owes a single mortgage
in this entire country, apart from private deals and trades between
people who are almost universally presumed to be tenants instead of
landlords. This legal presumption arises because you are a victim of
identity theft and have been misidentified in the public record as a
"U.S. Citizen". U.S. Citizens can't own land in the states. They can
only "reside" as tenants here on a temporary basis.
It
comes as a great surprise to many average Americans to learn that they
have been "voluntarily donating" forty or more percent of their gross
earnings to a foreign, for-profit corporation, and that they have been
paying off mortgages owed by the foreign Territorial States of States
franchises which have been surreptitiously operating on our soil--- such
as the State of Ohio, or State of Oregon, and that when they are done
paying off those mortgages, their land and homes and businesses will
still belong to the State of Ohio or State of Minnesota, etc., and not
to them.
And
all of this --- absolutely all of it --- has been done to obtain
"unlimited credit" using the assets of others as collateral under color
of law and conditions of deceit. So it is all bogus and always has been,
but the debt can't just be written off, because that leaves all the
pension funds and innocent investors hanging.
What to do?
Obviously,
crafting an answer that is fair to all parties has been beyond the
ability of those who have been tasked to find a solution. Tinkering with
the assigned value of currency commodities isn't going to do it,
changing the "standard commodity" to gold instead of oil isn't going to
do it, and trying to continue kicking the can down the road and raising
the debt ceiling and voting ourselves more endless credit on the backs
of the unborn isn't going to do it, either.
The
gross imbalance of credit versus actual assets has to be incrementally
unwound just as it was accrued, one by one, and step by step.
We
know how to slice through this Gordian Knot and answer the Fatal Flaw
in the Keynesian model. The question is--- will anyone listen?
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