Congratulations! You’ve spent the last 14 years or so since the Global Financial Crisis getting up to speed on all the financial lingo, and now you can finally wrap your mind around the reality inversion bubble and explain the intricacies of the ratings game and bore people at cocktail parties with a detailed account of how HFTs are ruining the markets.
Good work!
. . . But guess what? That’s all outdated!
As I pointed out last week, we are entering into a Brave New Neofeudal Net Zero Economy, and all the verities of the old economic order are being thrown out the window. Make no mistake: they don’t call it a “New World Order” for nothing and they aren’t kidding around when they call for a “Great Reset.”
Yes, the world is changing fast in this decade of transformation, and now there’s a bewildering new array of acronyms and asset classes to learn about. So buckle up and get ready for a crash course in the new (slave) economy.
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by James Corbett Congratulations! You’ve spent the last 14 years or so since the Global Financial Crisis getting up to speed on all the financial lingo, and now you can finally wrap your mind around the reality inversion bubble and explain the intricacies of the ratings game and bore people at cocktail parties with a detailed account of how HFTs are ruining the markets. Good work! . . . But guess what? That’s all outdated! As I pointed out last week, we are entering into a Brave New Neofeudal Net Zero Economy, and all the verities of the old economic order are being thrown out the window. Make no mistake: they don’t call it a “New World Order” for nothing and they aren’t kidding around when they call for a “Great Reset.” Yes, the world is changing fast in this decade of transformation, and now there’s a bewildering new array of acronyms and asset classes to learn about. So buckle up and get ready for a crash course in the new (slave) economy. Bioeconomy The European Commission defines the “bioeconomy” as “the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy.” In effect, the “bioeconomy” builds on the “sustainable development” fraud to propose an idea that will sound good to most people at first glance: using biotechnology in the production of goods, services and renewable energy. Who wouldn’t want to find ways to convert biomass into environmentally friendly products and renewable energy, after all? But as Corbett Report regulars will already know, “biotechnology” is merely a codeword for genetic modification and other lab-based manipulations of the natural world. These technologies are controlled by oligarch-owned multinational corporations, financed by oligarch-run tax-exempt foundations and promoted by oligarch-controlled governments, and they are increasingly being used to convert the natural world into patentable and saleable commodities for the benefit of those self-same oligarchs (see “NAC” below for more on that). For a case in point ripped from this week’s headlines, see the recent PR Newswire press release on how mRNA Victoria, “the agency of the Australian State of Victoria Government charged with building the State’s mRNA manufacturing and research capability,” is teaming up with Ginkgo Bioworks, “the leading horizontal platform for cell programming,” to work on “vaccine development, biosecurity initiatives, and the application to Ginkgo’s platform in the pharmaceutical and biotech, food and agriculture, and mining and bioremediation/recycling sectors in Australia.” Then read Derrick Broze’s important report on Ginkgo explaining that company’s ties to the biosecurity and transhumanist agendas. Finally, if you really want to see where this biotech-driven “bioeconomy” revolution is taking us, check out the nightmarish vision of the future presented by Policy Horizons Canada that I featured in my report on The Great Convergence. Bugbot surveillance drones? Microbe transplants that automatically adjust your insulin levels and other biological processes? Examining your children’s teeth for epigenetic markers of disease in order to qualify for a health rebate? Yay! What could go wrong? CBDC I know you’re already familiar with the concept of Central Bank Digital Currency, as it’s something I’ve covered in these pages as well as in interviews and podcasts over the past year. But for those of you who need a refresher, CBDCs are a proposed new monetary instrument that central banks all around the world are currently “exploring” (and, by “exploring,” they mean “looking for the best way to introduce this new form of monetary slavery to a docile public”). If you thought Federal Reserve Notes were bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. These new digital currencies will be issued directly by each nation’s central bank, cutting out the commercial bankster middlemen . . . and thereby allowing their central bankster overlords unprecedented levels of control over every single transaction taking place in the economy in real time (as even the portly head of the Bank for International Settlements gleefully admits). The CBDCs are an essential linchpin in the coming neofeudal technocratic slave state, so it is well worth your time to bring yourself up to speed on what these instruments are and why you should not take the central bank-issued wallet when it is offered to you. NAC Just before the bankster oligarchs met at the Conference of the Parties in Glasgow this month to announce GFANZ, their latest attempt to implement the neofeudal Net Zero swindle, they were gathered at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to announce a highly related swindle: NACs. “NAC” stands for Natural Asset Companies, a new asset class which, the NYSE press release helpfully informs us, “enable[s] natural asset owners to convert nature’s value into financial capital, providing additional resources necessary to power a sustainable future.” Still confused? Well, Fortune breaks it down this way:
Once again, this might sound great if you believe that the banksters are all jumping on board this $130 trillion carbon swindle out of the goodness of their hearts and a concern for Mother Earth. (Incidentally, if you have swallowed that bunk hook, line and sinker then please get in touch; I have a bridge to sell you.) For those who are more interested in reality, however, you are highly encouraged to read Whitney Webb’s recent article on this topic to understand how the NAC swindle relates to the larger Net Zero swindle. In short, NACs were spearheaded by Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG), whose founding investors, we learn, include the Inter-American Development Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation. As you might imagine, the purpose of this new asset class is not to preserve the environment but, as even the NYSE press release brazenly admits, “enable investors to access nature’s store of wealth.” Ka-ching! In fact—as BlackRock’s former chief investment officer for sustainable investing, Tariq Fancy, reveals in a blockbuster new three-part whistleblowing essay—even the expert-trusting, consensus-pushing, manmade global warming Kool Aid-drinking crowd know that the “sustainable investing” scam is just that: a scam. It’s a field populated by charlatans, hucksters and predators, and the only “green” involved in this swindle is the money flowing into the accounts of the portfolio managers. As you might imagine, I’ll have a lot more to say on this in the near future, but in the meantime, read Webb’s article. NFT NFT supposedly stands for “non-fungible token,” but—as an increasing number of people who can see through the BS of the banksters are correctly noting—it also stands for “no f**king thing.” In a nutshell, an NFT is a cryptographically secured token that is linked to ownership of an item, either digital or physical. As each NFT is unique, it thus provides a digital certification of ownership that cannot be duplicated. So what can it be used for? Well, as James Evan Pilato noted earlier this year, it’s being used to sell special digital downloads of new albums by the likes of Kings of Leon. And now people are paying $69 million for an NFT certifying ownership of a JPG file that someone has generously categorized as “a work of art.” Why? Why not! Who cares! There’s money to be made! (Or is that digital tokens of money? . . .) Now to some extent this is a continuation of the money-laundering operation that has defined the “art” space for decades now, but there is something deeper going on here, too. The idea of paying tens of millions of dollars for “ownership” of a digital file so perfectly encapsulates the meme economy we are being steeped in that the suckers can’t help but hop on the bandwagon. And as they say, there’s a sucker born every minute. Much more ominously, however, the combination of smart contracts and NFTs that can be used to cryptographically and immutably transfer digital assets between individuals is the exact same combination of technologies that will eventually be used to link all of us into the Internet of Things. The NFT’s nifty ability to tie your digital identity to a product will, if things continue, also be used to tie your digital identity into your central bank-issued CBDC account and into all of your purchases, granting or denying each and every transaction you make based on your social credit score or any other arbitrary criteria determined by the operators of the smart contract system. In the meantime, though, don’t forget to buy your absurdly expensive CryptoKitties and tell yourself that This Is Fine! UBI Universal Basic Income (UBI) rests on the belief that every citizen should receive a regular stipend from the government just for existing. Why? Think of it as a “territorial dividend.” Or think of it as a “social dividend.” Or think of it as an insurance policy against the robot takeover. Whatever. Why think about it at all? Just shut up and take the money! But, as you’ll know from my editorial on Universal Basic Enslavement, There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch—and the promised UBI utopia of the future is no exception to that rule. No, UBI is a gateway to the technocratic enslavement grid. I mean, do you think teams of government deliverymen are going to be dropping cash off at your door every month? Or even mailing checks? Pfff. We all saw how the COVID stimulus checks worked out. Get with the times, man! When the UBI comes, you better believe it’ll come in the form of CBDC that will be airdropped into your central bank-issued digital wallet every month. And of course they can’t just give UBI to *every* citizen willy-nilly. No, of course not! There will have to be certain strings attached to these payments. Exactly as the participants in the World Economic Forum roundtable on the topic suggest, inclusion in the program will have to be tied to “civic responsibilities” like national service and mandatory vaccination and compulsory voting. Yes, the economy of the future is increasingly looking like one where things will be easy for you . . . as long as you do exactly what the technocrats tell you do, exactly when they tell you to do it. And UBI is a huge step along the path toward bringing that vision about. Worldcoin Imagine if all you had to do to make free money was stare into a weird orb for a few seconds. Would you do it? Of course you would! It’s free money. Now stop imagining and get in line, because that’s exactly the idea behind the incredibly creepy Worldcoin ploy that we covered on last week’s edition of New World Next Week! That’s right, Sam Altman—the former head of tech startup incubator Y Combinator—thinks that people will be happy to give up their retina scan in return for his new cryptocurrency, and apparently his crypto investing pals agree. After an initial funding round of $25 million, Worldcoin is now valued at $1 billion and is expecting to have collected a billion eyeballs for its database by the year 2023. The objective here—according to the Bloomberg article that introduced the project to the world—is “to use cryptocurrency to spread money around equitably,” a concept “inspired by the trendy economic theory known as universal basic income.” The creepy retina scan aspect is apparently intended to make it easier to enroll people in the scam . . . errr, I mean the “project” . . . because, as the project head points out, “so many people around the world don’t have access to financial systems yet.” As incredibly unnerving as the Worldcoin plan is, who could blame the poorest people in the world for giving up their biometric details in exchange for the chance to help feed their family for another month? This type of scheme would be seen as technological colonialism of the most horrible kind if it weren’t for the fact that Altman swears no personal information is collected during the signup process and those retina scans aren’t retained in any database. They’re simply stored as unique hashes which can then be matched against future eyeball scan hashes and that’s a TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING! Pinky swear. Stop This Ride, I Want to Get Off! If the new economic order that’s coming into view seems like a nightmarish hybrid of meme-level nonsense and Orwellian tyranny, then I’m happy to report that your BS detectors are functioning correctly. It seems that every economic idea and financial concept that is being thrust down our throat these days is an attempt to replace the real world of actual productive activity and physical products with a manipulated, synthetic equivalent. And, worse yet, those synthetic equivalents are not only bereft of any actual value (physical, mental or spiritual) but they are also tied into the surveillance dragnet that is increasingly observing and cataloguing everything we do. So the answer is simple, right? Just reject all this nonsense and go about our business in the actual, physical world, right? Well, if that is your plan then you should be warned that it won’t be quite that simple. The banksters are going to do everything in their power to make sure that their phony baloney digital meme economy is the default for all of our daily transactions. And as you know by now, CBDCs and NFTs and UBI and all of these ideas are merely the thin edge of the wedge for a system of total control, where social credit systems will be used to prevent resisters from transacting in the neofeudal economy. If the banksters have their way, in the very near future there will be no real-world economy left for us to transact in. But here is the good news: There are things we can do to wean ourselves off of the controlled financial system and begin to create an alternative economy. As Corbett Report long-timers will know, undermining the banksters’ agenda by supplanting their control of the monetary supply has been one of the core issues that I have returned to time and time again over the years. I created the definitive documentary on the Federal Reserve system in the United States, Century of Enslavement: The History of the Federal Reserve. I’ve explored the relationship between the monetary system and our financial enslavement, articulated the need for ending the Federal Reserve (and every other private central banking cartel), and discussed practical ideas for doing so (more than once) I’ve discussed the banking cartel and its machinations with The Creature from Jekyll Island author G. Edward Griffin on one, two, three, four separate occasions. I’ve interviewed Web of Debt author Ellen Brown not once, not twice, not three times, but four times. I’ve talked to Bill Still, host of The Money Masters documentary (once, twice, three times), and Patrick Carmack, its producer. I’ve talked about Carroll Quigley and his revelations about the Bank for International Settlements in podcast and video form and dissected his Tragedy & Hope tome in a conversation with Joe Plummer, author of Tragedy & Hope 101. I’ve discussed ideas for monetary reform (such as self-issued credit), talked to not one but two different community currency organizers, and even done an entire lecture exploring “Survival Currencies,” i.e., options for transacting outside of the banksters’ controlled monetary system. And once we have an alternative monetary system in place, we can expand on that by creating communities of like-minded people and building out the agorist economy we want to bring into existence. In short, this is not a new topic for Corbett Report regulars. But still, it needs to be stated as clearly as possible: Our reliance on the “money” issued by the central banksters is our downfall. They can and will create whatever structures they want on top of their monetary system, and, sooner or later, they will get their wish. With the combination of CBDCs, NACs, UBI, social credit systems, carbon ration cards and vaccine passports, we are sleepwalking into a nightmare of total monetary control, in which the ability to buy and sell will be flipped on or off at the whims of the banksters. We have two choices: develop an alternative monetary system or live under a system of total economic enslavement. The choice is ours to make . . . for now. |
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I don’t know why but when I hear NFTs, I think about that old scam about naming a star after someone..
You get a certificate and everything!
Personally, I’d say the moment when we hand something over, like dollars to a cashier or a baton to the next marathon runner, or a flower to a darling,, its the literal physical passing from hand to hand that comes with a flash of trust, that we agree,, for me, the agreement is the money.
we are trust.
Which is not to say that one can survive just running around and agreeing; Its a wild jungle-scape on this hurling mango of a spaceship; good manners/respect can get one past the bulk of the dangers, and fair exchange is a way to build trust & promote that perspective.
once again, digital exchange gives the agreement moment to Hal and other strangers who think they own Hal. Just more deadening dullard digital dungery
I completely agree! Developing an alternative monetary system is more important than ever! It is basically race against the time!
Joseph
You can not create a ‘trustless’ system of money (like paper cash or bitcoin or whatever which do not require the parties to know each other) unless you have state levels of coercive power…the Amish could have zero cash and still do business with each other a ton.
People need to think much smaller scale about community Projects- but as long as the broken fiat system looks like it’s h
Gonna keep supplying calories and dopamine most people will take the fake over the real
Yes, and it is starting to become visible, at least in Europe, by every passing day. Governments learned the strategy from the Bilderberg group how to advance slowly only taking tiny steps hoping that people will not notice to force them into rules they would not agree to otherwise. The coercion, blackmail, and enforcement will just escalate further. By now it slowly becomes evident that most of the European countries are planning 100% mandatory vaccination regularly every Nth months and probably those who will not take it will be left behind on the side of the road…
This green investment hype what else is it than a modern type sale of indulgences?
As the human being does not change, history repeats, repeats, repeats.
As long as the majority of the people is happy enough with the system they have. As long as the authorities pay, lead, entertain, clothe, feed, heat the house and give fancy promises for the future, change ain’t gonna happen. As long as the people fear to lose all these conveniences when the system dies, change ain’t gonna happen. As long as science and technology seems to ease the daily human suffering to some degree, the people will adore – even sanctify it.
One can see this beautifully at work when playing modern age online (pay to win-)games. These systems are like a microcosm of the modern day real world – sometimes even pioneers and role models for it. The game companies are ‘psyoping’ and ‘gaming’ their playerbase to no end, seduce, entice, even deceive it so they pay and play. But t h e p l a y e r s h a v e f u n. This is what they want even knowing that they are addicted to the game.
For the majority of the people, the system is still doing its job and having generally low standards, one is not compelled to object. Someone who only pretends to be asleep cannot wake up.
Systemic violence…
It is not that easy for the system. It has to rely mainly on soft-power.
It cannot go all-out evil. It has to keep up appearances.
This is why to make the system show its true and inherently violent face is such an effective way of calling it out. If, and only if, it can be done peacefully.
KipSystemic violence is very easy for the system… it will always be cheaper and safer for an established ruling class to use soft power.
You see the massive violence when
A)The system is doing a change of bosses
B)The system is breaking down and losing control.
The west, and North America particularly are having Both things happen at once….You think the BLM riots were not 109% under the control of the ruling class? Expect way more street violence in the coming years…and now they are washing out people who won’t vax from the gov people with guns?
Lasthumanist
If the FED was forced to transact in money backed by gold, silver, wheat, coal, or anything real they could not magic money out of nothing…or at least not as much as now.
Government can ruin the money just as well as bankers can- human greed and love of free gifts does that every time and every place
The devil always wants to counterfeit and copy… it’s no wonder that people obsessed with kabbalah and hacking Gods rules like it’s a computer game have managed to blow the financial bubble up so big that even they are scared to see it pop
I agree with most of this FC. When you say ” Even if you were to gather some micro-community like this, your “alternative system” is only as strong as the arms you can wield to defend it from state enforcers. So it would require a massive arsenal of weaponry which would far exceed the humble and hardscrabble promise of self-imposed peasantry in the “agorist” micro-community.” I think you might be underestimating peoples self defense capabilities a little.
The weaponry the military has certainly out guns civilians and they have nukes and drones and all that stuff. But do you really see a military style assault against citizens in the US? There are states who are rebelling against the mandates. There are members of the military against this. I don’t see the military doing this in the US. It’s not easy enough. They would take casualties in a ground assault. What I see unfolding is a civil conflict between states and counties.
A highly skilled military officer with advanced training could gain the upper hand. They want to manage the perception of this operation. An all out massacre would be bad pr.
I can back your evaluation up.
In my eyes, he is an obvious fearmongerer and most likely paid to deliver his spin.
Just go see what he writes as a response to someone attacking his beloved child at the bottom of the comments section of
“Getting Off the Electrical Grid – #SolutionsWatch”
Don’t leave out Wounded Knee.
“Last Humanist”:
“I am ever grateful for the milk and wish the cows well. ”
“..Why do you even go on living and bother the rest of us with your boundless negativity?”
“SOMETHING DOESN’T QUITE ADD UP ABOUT YOU, DOES IT?”
Indeed.
I would say that if you build up something that serves well a group of people and then if the authority comes to take it away and to destroy it, that is no longer called a civilized society, not even close to anything called a functioning governmental structure. That is rather more close to the utter tyrannical dictatorship, which has no right for existence.
If it is what will hinder you from building something better, then it is already lost, lost inside the head. No wonder that somebody lately in US said (I can not recall at this moment who that was) that the wars of the future will be fought inside the minds.
If anybody can come and take things away just because, then that would be like something the movie Mad Max depicted. The complete lawless anarchy. And yet, it exists in today’s world. Hopefully things like it will be visible for everybody, soon!
Though there are things worth fighting for! Once Ella Baker said: “Give light and people will find the way.”
Joseph,
I think it is better to try and put effort in to find alternatives and fight, rather than give up and wallow in fear and anger. A quote by Theodore Roosevelt comes to mind:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
I also agree with you Joseph, most of the battle in the US is for the mind. It is much easier to convince people that they will fail and to give up so that they don’t resist. This is straight out of the art of war.
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Interesting article on NFTs – note I do not endorse this article nor , in particular, the author , but it is thought provoking.
“Perhaps this is the key to understanding our time. Those who have been trained to be analytical tend to look backward to find data, proven beliefs, and traditions. The capacity to comprehend the future, though, lies in imaginal acts.”
https://drpippa.substack.com/p/apesht?r=1cbjb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=
From the World Economic Forum…
Climate change: This is the impact of extreme weather events on the economy
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/extreme-weather-events-show-that-climate-change-comes-at-a-cost/
Via Nov 22nd WEF Twitter
Disruption can spread rapidly throughout the system.
(90 second video)
https://twitter.com/Geopolitics_Emp/status/1463198380348293130
(H/t ClintTorrez)
Can you read this predigested propaganda and not pre-barf your Thanksgiving dinner??
The Great Reboot
U.S. families plan big holiday celebrations with COVID-19 shots in arms
By Barbara Goldberg
Even so, the return to pre-pandemic traditions is proving complicated for some whose loved ones are choosing not to get vaccinated or do not consider COVID-19 to be a serious health threat.
Connie Perkins, her husband and their three children are skipping their usual Thanksgiving meal with relatives and taking a week-long road trip to campgrounds far from their home in Galveston County, Texas, to avoid any confrontation over vaccination status.
Everyone on her husband’s side of the family is vaccinated against COVID-19, Perkins said, but none of her five-member family is because they do not believe the shots are safe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the vaccines are safe and continue to get intensive monitoring.
“We’re not going to present the opportunity for that to even come up and make anyone uncomfortable,” Perkins said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-families-plan-big-holiday-celebrations-with-covid-19-shots-arms-2021-11-22/
A phrase I learned from my sons just keeps coming to mind.
Circle Jerk.
The Great Game moves to the Pacific.
Potential colour revolution taking place in the Solomon Islands
Background
‘ The Pacific nation’s decision to sever ties with Taiwan reverberated around the world and has had far-reaching consequences inside the country’
https://archive.vn/2B4ut
Latest
“Australia deploys forces to Solomon Islands as protesters burn Chinatown, Parliament”
https://archive.vn/bPMjZ
– Money REFERENCE –
I want to point out that this article “Your Guide to the New Economy” is an excellent bookmark reference tool.
It contains a vast amount of links, especially to Corbett’s previous works on money and the economy.
For the same reasons, I find the following article to be a great
– Climate Change REFERENCE –
“Welcome to the New Economy”
https://www.corbettreport.com/welcome-to-the-new-economy/
I am currently working with a global community of like-minded people to fine-tune a cryptocurrency which has been created with the purpose of serving as a stable means of exchange (as opposed to a speculative token which people would rather hodl) maintaining it’s purchasing power over time.
The first 4 and a half years have passed and it is slowly maturing.
Right now there is a development phase of allowing local tokens to be used for specific Bioregions and it feels like a very good approach.
The name of the project is SEEDS (all capital letters) and the cryptocurrency it uses (which is the global coin, the local tokens are not yet available) is called “Seeds”
Jefferey Jaxen
…and James Corbett’s Documentary
Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
https://www.corbettreport.com/federalreserve/
During the course of putting together some online dissemination pieces, I re-watched
“Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve”.
(For those who haven’t read this article, Corbett links it and his many other works surrounding the topic of money.)
At 1:23:22, the screen credits for the transcripts come up. Broc West is mentioned. Jeffrey Jaxen is also mentioned.
???
I’m wondering if this is a mis-spelling of Jefferey Jaxen.
Many of us recognize Jefferey Jaxen from The Highwire.
To establish a truly workable monetary system the logic of money itself must make sense so that the new system does not suffer from the same mistakes made in the past. From the article James states: “It seems that every economic idea and financial concept that is being thrust down our throat these days is an attempt to replace the real world of actual productive activity and physical products with a manipulated, synthetic equivalent. And, worse yet, those synthetic equivalents are not only bereft of any actual value (physical, mental or spiritual)…”
Here is the mistake that we are making – financial and/or monetary units cannot be “equivalents” of the real world activities and products. The monetary units cannot be part of the real world activities and products as though they were commodities equal to other commodities with their own ‘value.’ These units are abstract representations of (if they are to function properly as money in the bookkeeping function they are to perform) the real world activities and products. And as representations of the real world activity and stuff the monetary units cannot BE the real world activity and stuff! So, they cannot actually BE equivalents, synthetic or otherwise, because they are abstract representations of the real, and therefore must necessarily be bereft of ‘actual value.’ Because the value is in the real world activities and stuff. We have to acquire language to accurately reflect that we know what the function of an abstract representational system is and does so that if we choose to use a system of abstract representation of our activity and stuff we do not fall into the illiteracy of thinking that the numbers on our ledger sheets are real things unto themselves.
Here is the suggested way of getting there from the Money Systems Transparency Alliance:
https://www.moneytransparency.com/msta-resolutions
Here is an analysis of how a logical structured system would operate:
https://mrcenter.info/Doc/ConferencePapers/2020/MRC%202020%20A%20systems%20approach%20to%20money_4122020%20rev2_17.01.2021.pdf
Here is the thing, why is it that we must go along with this very archaic and authoritarian notion that the economic unit of acCount must pre-exist and be created separate and apart from any economic activity that it will be used to represent in the abstract? This is a residual thought process and resulting political structure that still mimics the very imperialist system that the colonists were attempting to get free from. They falsely understood the problem to be the moral integrity of the authoritarians running the show. But then they too were authoritarians who held slaves and did not see all people in their social order as equal. So, perhaps had they focused on the structural implications of using an authoritarian system, which cannot help but subjugate the activity of the populace to the whim of the “monetizing authority”, they might have found true liberation for themselves and their enterprise. They unfortunately chose to play a power game with England and then got stuck in that focus of whose ‘authoritarian control’ could create the units of acCount instead of declaring their own free enterprise as the source of, the place of origination of, their own units of acCount. They then enshrined this fatal mistake and focus into the Constitution, and we have been engaged in the good authoritarian/bad authoritarian waste of energy battling over who has control of an illiterate understanding of money itself since that time!
One must first question which comes first within a free society – the freely initiated economic activity of the populace or the units used to record that activity? It is critical to understand freedom and sovereignty, and just basic logic, that ‘free enterprise’ cannot be subjugated to the pre-existence or pre-creation of the units that will record the activity and “value” of that enterprise. The problem we have in America is that having been told by Ben Franklin that we are free because we create our own money “in proportion to the needs of trade and industry” we have not challenged the order in which this whole process occurs. If the enterprise of the populace is dependent on the omniscience of the monetary issuer, or that monetary issuer will only “monetize” certain activity, then the enterprise of the populace Is Not Free. Franklin and the rest of the Founders were, perhaps, not aware of the conundrum they were repeating by holding on to the imperialist notion of precreation of the monetary unit. Holding on to that simple notion subjugates the enterprise to the unit creation process as opposed to having the enterprise activity itself be the thing that calls the monetary units into being.
The distinction is important to any populace that wants genuine sovereignty.
Thursday Dec 2nd – Bloomberg
Enron’s Cast of Characters: Where They Are 20 Years After the Fall
Two decades later, the company’s name is still invoked in shorthand by policymakers and average Americans alike when talking about corporate greed and fraud.
https://archive.md/c2XHv
Wed December 1, 2021 – Zero Hedge
By Bloomberg Markets Live commentators Ye Xie and Amy Li
This $1.6 Trillion Market Could Cease To Exist Soon
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/16-trillion-market-could-cease-exist-soon
By now, it’s clear that Beijing is greatly discouraging, if not completely forbidding, listings of Chinese tech companies in the U.S. What’s unclear is what Beijing will do with existing Chinese ADRs, an overwhelming majority of which used variable-interest entities to circumvent Chinese laws to get listed.
Even if Beijing doesn’t demand the likes of Alibaba and Baidu dismantle their VIEs immediately, the authorities have signaled that Hong Kong, instead of New York, is now the preferred capital market for China Inc. Over time, the $1.6 trillion ADR market may become a footnote in history books.
Bloomberg reported that China plans to ban companies from listing overseas through VIEs. But companies using such structures would still be allowed to pursue IPOs in Hong Kong, subject to regulatory approval. The China Securities Regulatory Commission quickly denied the report, without giving details.
The controversial VIE structure, designed to bypass Chinese restrictions on foreign investment in sensitive sectors including the internet industry, has been used by most Chinese ADRs for decades. It allows a Chinese firm to transfer profits to an offshore entity, whose shares foreign investors can own. There’s always been an argument over why the best companies should be allowed to skirt Chinese laws and enrich foreigners, while depriving local investors opportunities to benefit from the crown jewels of the economy. As Paul Gillis, professor at Peking University, put it bluntly: “The VIE has always made a mockery of rule of law in China.”….
Variable Interest Entity (VIE)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/variable-interest-entity.asp
American Depositary Receipt (ADR)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adr.asp
Friday Dec 3rd
Didi Shares Jump After Company Unveils US Delisting, Plans For Hong Kong Debut
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/didi-shares-jump-us-delisting-plans-hong-kong-debut
Didi Global Inc. shares trading in New York jumped as much as 14% premarket after it said it would begin to delist from U.S. stock exchanges and list in Hong Kong.
According to a company press release, the ride-hailing giant’s board of directors “has authorized and supports the Company to undertake the necessary procedures and file the relevant application(s) for the delisting of the Company’s ADSs from the New York Stock Exchange, while ensuring that ADSs will be convertible into freely tradable shares of the Company on another internationally recognized stock exchange at the election of ADS holders.”
“The Board has also authorized the Company to pursue a listing of its Class A ordinary shares on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange,” the press release continued.
The move comes after the Cyberspace Administration of China requested Didi’s top executives to develop a plan to delist from U.S. stock exchanges last week due to concerns about leakage of sensitive information.
A delisting from the NYSE could spell trouble for U.S.-listed Chinese firms as Sino-U.S. tensions heat up. What may follow could be a series of US-to-China transfers.
Indeed, as noted recently, two decades of Chinese firms listing on U.S. exchanges could be coming to a close, as Beijing seeks to crack down on variable interest entities (VIE), a loophole used by tech companies to raise billions of dollars in capital from overseas investors….