It’s been an interesting few years, hasn’t it? Brexit never seems to quite happen; our borders are never quite closed and so on and so forth. I think the reality is that we’re just looking at a pantomime – a pantomime that has been carefully created to distract us from reality. Certainly, most of our politicians would do well in Hollywood.
We like to cling to hope, many of us would like to believe that Donald Trump or Nigel Farage are our champions and will save us; I’m sorry to say that I just don’t think this is the case.
Trying to unveil the truth is difficult, I don’t think that I need to say much about the farce that is the mainstream media. Sometimes if I want to find out what is happening in Britain or Europe, I get more information from the Brazilian press. The alternative media, while useful, is full of disinformation and the real nuggets need careful digging out.
I just watched a video by Gregory Mannarino because it was about a subject that I’d written about myself. I hadn’t watched any of Mannarino’s videos for quite some time, but upon chancing on this one I realised that unfortunately, it was about right; it fits in with my own view of things, and it’s quite disturbing.
“Post Fed. SPECIAL REPORT: The CRIME OF THE CENTURY.” By Gregory Mannarino
Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, trillions in various currencies, particularly US dollars, have been created. Over ten years later – in spite of the propaganda – the world’s economies are sluggish and unable to sustain more normal interest rates.
The world as a whole is awash with some two hundred and fifty trillion dollars in debt, a Ponzi scheme in other words and like all Ponzi schemes, one day it’ll come crashing down. We’ve all grown up believing that we lived in a world of free markets, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that we do not. This Ponzi scheme will come crashing down when certain people decide it will, most likely when we’ve all been bled dry.
In a world awash with debt, we pay direct interest on personal debt and interest on government debt through taxation, one way or another we the people always pay. The bankers though, the ones bailed out were soon back to paying themselves massive bonuses. In other words, the 2008 Financial Crisis was a massive wealth transfer from we the people to the banking and business elite.
It appears though that 2008 was just a warm-up, a test run and we’re heading into something much worse, it’ll leave us without a pot to p*ss in.
What I’m talking about is the bit of Mannarino’s video that talks about stock buybacks, I’ve written about this before, but the situation is worse than I realised. Donald Trump has been calling for and encouraging the repatriation of money back into the United States by businesses and corporations, supposedly to create jobs for Americans; it appears the real reason is more sinister.
What business and corporations have really been using this money for is to buy back their own stocks, another reason, apart from the trillions in printed money that is propping up the stock markets that have long been completely divorced from fundamentals. CEOs, fund managers, other executives and particularly non-executive directors can sell their own shares into artificially inflated markets, raking in millions and billions.
It appears then that Donald Trump, rather than being a champion of the people is really just a part of the pantomime, we the people have been had again: but what of his friend Nigel Farage?
I well remember the night of the 2016 Brexit referendum when leave unexpectedly won, the camera caught Nigel Farage and I was surprised that instead of looking ecstatic, he looked shocked and worried. Perhaps after making a political career out of Brexit, it wasn’t in Nigel’s best interests to win the referendum or maybe as some here have suggested he was just controlled opposition.
Politics it seems to me is all about maintaining the norm, not rocking the boat, after all, Socialists, for instance, have promised people the Earth for many decades but the poor still remain poor, to alleviate their poverty would be to undermine their electorate. This is a political paradox that I’ve written about before, and it seems to me that when we vote, great care is taken to make sure that we’re presented with no real choice for the better, we’re left with trying to choose the least worst option.
That least worst option now is still UKIP (I think), I wouldn’t trust The Brexit party as far as I could throw them and as for the LibLabCon; don’t make me laugh. I even suspect that The Brexit Party has suddenly materialised to try and give our political system some credibility with the voting public and will ultimately fail to deliver any improvement to our lives.
It’s important to remember that in our fight for survival, we have no champions fighting our cause, they’re all part of a pantomime of distraction, the actors of which at some point will slink off to their places in the sun. These actors will keep their heads down while they party and swig Champagne until it’s time to emerge once again, rinse and repeat. Of course, nobody ever goes to prison for these crimes against us.
I suppose I’ve written this article as a warning, we the people need to face reality, we can only help ourselves, if we can’t the future is very bleak. None of this is surprising when you consider that in our globalist world, whether it be the EU, UN, Euro, multiculturalism or any other of the grand globalist ideas, none of these ideas work in a practical sense, they were all designed with rather suspect motives in mind.
Facing reality is important; if we can do this, we may still leave ourselves with a pot to p*ss in.
I agree with your analysis of the fraud and sham of politics. Sometimes it seems that there are big boards around us with the synthetic world and artificial reality drawn out across them. Rather like the sets on a stage play or film set. Then they don’t meet up and you see a little bit of reality through the gap. The Truman Show comes to mind.
Then in another perspective I think of playing monopoly as a boy. When we were winning it didn’t take long for us clever little s**ts to work out that our fun and superiority could be extended if we lent our fellow players money to carry on playing. Even letting them keep Old Kent Road so they felt as though they had a chance. This is what banking is all about, debt. Without debt they have no control.
So what is the answer? With respect easy money is just well easy money, more g & ts and a smart suit to feel good in. The real world is ownership of your life.
My solution which I hope will come sooner than later is Localism. Build up local currency (eg Totnes pound), local businesses, local energy supplies, local production. Trade with other local groups, grow as much as you can yourself for food. My brain is not big enough to figure it all out but with AI and Robotics the concept, an old on I hasten to add, is now becoming possible.
Once you have established some working system for your community you start to have some protection against the ‘big fraud’. Then when you feel you can swim and there are other like groups we all dump the currency and tell the bankers to go whistle. I know, but as I said I haven’t the wherewithal to put the pieces together. That to me is where we will end up. How long it will take and the pain it will take are closely related. If it is left too long we will be looking at a 1984 scenario. If it is done too quickly we will be looking at a lot of death and a 1984 scenario.
I like the article, more please.
Kim – You’re right there, what people have to realise is that the only product of central banks is debt and nothing else but debt. Just as any business needs to sell its product to survive, the banks need to sell debt and it is all they have to sell.
We pay interest via taxes on government debt, interest on corporate debt via the products we buy and interest directly on personal debt, one way or another we the people always pay. So when debt is used to prop up stock markets and zombie banks for others to make billions or even trillions, we pay.
First, I got it wrong, senility setting in and my memory failed me, the ballot said Make Brexit Happen not Leave means leave. Second, this was a slogan only. What confused me is I was’nt expecting to see anything on ballot slip except name of party, but this time they put in this slogan which i now find theyre allowed to do.
I’ve only recently discovered Independence Daily, but I very much appreciate its ability to surprise me with articles on topics I would not expect to see covered. You are absolutely correct in your conclusion that the international markets are now completely rigged, meaning that they could be destabilised at any point for purely political purposes, for example to discredit a particular policy or person.
It is crucial that people understand the degree to which central banks and governments are attempting to disguise the underlying malaise in the global economy, through enormous quantitative easing programmes and manipulating key metrics such as inflation and employment rates, and GDP figures. Readers might be interested to visit shadowstats.com for more information about how this is possible. There are also some excellent bloggers, such as Wolf Richter (Wolfstreet) and Chris Hamilton (Econimica), who are far more reliable guides to what is really going on in the global economy than the likes of the FT or the Economist.
If you are interested in the World debt Problem I suggest you look at STRATEGIAN
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZY-A9DGiR10ZlUMTLjDBQ
Suthringa – yes I do look at Strategian quite often, his analysis is very good, it’s a pity the real truth is never discussed in the mainstream media.
Sorry flyer, I tried your video, but I just couldn`t hear it properly – too low in sound level for my deaf ears.
However I think I got the gist of what you were going on about, the only problem is your conclusion.
“We all have to face reality”.
Yes I`m all for that! unfortunately I`m not awfully sure what that is, never mind how to go about getting it or putting this new cure all nostrum into operation.
But I do think we can make a start and that`s by getting our Democracy back from the EU, but I don`t envisage that bastard version included in the present WA where we will be under direct rule forever from Brussels under an unelected joint council.
You are probably right about UKIP being “untainted” whereas Nigel has form, but unfortunately UKIP have allowed themselves through internal dispute and hostile MSM (and probably lack of cash) to be pushed out of the game.
So we have to use the devil we know and help him to ensure AGAIN that we get to first base and that is a NO DEAL Brexit under WTO rules and then live politically off his spadework as he will have done off ours. We must ensure his party win the EU elections resoundingly.
(always keeping Farage as my friend OGGA abjures in the front rank of the firing line in battle, where we can see him)
Not sure what you mean but if the box said “UKIP leave means leave “ that’s OK . Many minor group and independent group candidates don’t seem to realize you can have 6 words so provided the nomination form shows it you can put your punchy electoral message for free on the local election ballot paper. UKIP never bothered to make use of that facility and worse in a London fiasco one year left out UKIP in favor of fresh fruit party or something. Anyway I got 17% that way as a paper candidate independent one year with a 6 word manifesto on the ballot paper without even getting out of bed.
See my comment below, query now sorted.OK now
Thanks for the tip. My 100 candidate’s words for local paper spelt out what impact EU taxes, EU army and the UN Global Compact for Migration will have on local resources, but local paper didn’t like that and didn’t print it. Bit difficult getting it into 6 words though!
In a Capitalist world “democratic” politics can never be anything but a pantomime.
Capitalism relies on government control of the poor by the middle class for the rich.
True socialism relies on government control of the rich by the middle class for the poor.
So good government depends on a stable and secure middle class that values true human rights, an adequate welfare system for the poor, State ownership and control of essential assets and services for the common good, and the use of taxes to keep the rich in their place …………
That is why the rich who are now in complete control have created a disenchanted and degenerate middle class enslaved to debt, drudgery, and debauchery.
I love your definition Edward .
You mention “true Socialism”, unfortunately that`s never what you get, as far as I can see all you ever end up with is some form of totalitarianism, whether it is Socialist, Communist, Fascist, Capitalist or even Caliphatist, they are all a system of power control ie getting a good grip of all the population`s (apart from the elite) goolies and bleeding `em dry.
Socialism with its nationalization and state ownership policy is just a means of the Unions taking control of the country again, never mind under Corbyn with distinct communist overtones.
Spot on, Roger! Let’s do away with parties and labels and simply seek Independent locals willing to represent the people of the constituency rather than ‘the Party’.
When I voted yesterday at the locals, I noticed that Leave Means Leave (Tory controlled, Farage’s lot) was piggybacked onto, lumped in the same box, as UKIP. Whether pragmatically good or bad (it probably bumped up my share of the vote), its a bit irregular isnt it? Especially since I was the UKIP candidate (paper only), and this was the first I heard about it ! So unknown to me, I was representing not only UKIP but also Farages lot whom I don’t trust !
Forget this comment, all has now been explained to me.
Not to me it hasn’t. Where?
Reply to T G Spokes: First, I got it wrong, senility setting in and my memory failed me, the ballot said Make Brexit Happen not Leave means leave. Second, this was a slogan only. What confused me is I was’nt expecting to see anything on ballot slip except name of party, but this time they put in this slogan which i now find theyre allowed to do.