I met Reggie at the Chevron station down the street. I was pumping gas and Reggie was begging. Reggie looked to be in his late 50s, a gray haired black man, and he had one of those plastic tubey things in his nose and hooked behind his ears - the kind that hook up to an oxygen machine. For some reason I didn’t notice it at first.
In recent days we have challenged the devils in the Deutschbank in Dusseldorf, and the ING and UBS in Amsterdam, and HSBC in Liverpool - laying our hands on the cash machines and calling our demons. What are these exorcisms? Why these muscular hexing prayers at the ATM? Of course the big banks have their famous bad practices - redlining, foreclosures, demolitions of communities.
We are in a worldwide economic crisis AGAIN, and “MONEY” is at it’s very center AGAIN. And we have let it happen AGAIN. It is a crisis of money management, and the result of permitting ruthless private international financiers to gain and keep control over “OUR” money AGAIN. Yes, money is a sovereign right that arises from the sovereign right of an individual to enter into contracts.
There once was a planet called Earth,
Which no one was sure was whose turf,
Man thought it his home,
Felt free to roam,
Much to Masonic Masters' mirth.
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The trouble with Earth - it's called cash,
When printed it spreads like a rash,
Once backed by gold,
Now worthlessly sold,
Its currency in downwardly dash.
What most don't know about modern banking is, to take part you must first be a criminal. This is a conversation between David, an ambassador, and Tim, an Expert Forensic Accountant and Financial Systems Mathematician in the Canadian Courts and before the Canadian Parliament, House of Commons.
Professor Niall Ferguson, "We may think power resides with presidents and prime ministers in palaces and parliament. Not so, in today's world real power lies in the hands of an elite group of unassuming men in anonymous open planned offices. The men who control the world's bond market."
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
