The Empire of Big Money 

By CrisHam, 1 August, 2023

 

A. The Incursion of Money Rule into Modern Civilization

1. England (later in the amplified identity of Great Britain and the United Kingdom) represents the traditional headquarters of the empire of big money, also known as high finance or deep state. Its entry into history can be dated to December 31, 1600, when the IEC - the British East India Company - received the trade monopoly from Queen Elizabeth I, including territorial sovereignty over the Indian subcontinent. The fact that this was the last day of the 16th century says something about the long-term designed political claims of the privileged.

2. Indeed, it was the beginning of a new era - that of ruthless money domination. This brought about the destruction of legal structures in India, e.g. by declaring zamindars (tax collectors) to be the new landowners. India was subjugated and plundered with a private army (stronger than the British state forces).

3. The trade monopoly (i.e. keeping competitors away) made it possible to buy there at rock-bottom prices and to sell the goods in Europe and America at exorbitant prices - prices that fair market-economy competition would have normalizeded to the advantage of producers and consumers.

4. The unfair extra profits brought unprecedented wealth to a small, unscrupulous group of people, which in turn enabled growing political influence. A system emerged of more privileges for more money and more money by increasing privileges.

5. Soon the ultra-rich players were no longer in competition with other, non-privileged entrepreneurs, but with large trading nations such as Spain and France.

6. This colonial system exists in a hidden but highly efficient form to this day. Instead of the royally privileged monopolies, as in the case of the EIC, there are now oligopolies that have received their privileges from naïve Western politicians and are constantly being further developed.

 

      B. The Distortion of the Fair Market Economy

7. As before, exclusive domination of the market with maximum prices on the customer side and minimum prices on the producer side is guaranteed, with all smaller competitors being subjected to a severe disadvantage in the taxation system and by bureaucratic obstacles in the form of regulations, requirements and applications which larger companies can more easily overcome.

8. From the beginning, the system has been based on collaboration with the state, whereby the market economy is manipulated to its advantage. Today, armies of lobbyists ensure that new corporate and investor-friendly laws are constantly being introduced, which is scientifically provable.

9. Great Britain has been the ideal location for the moneyed aristocracy to assert themselves in the competition with the great nations mentioned in No. 5 for the resources of the earth over four centuries. The insularity with far-reaching shelter against invasion made it easy to convince the locals of a policy that kept the European continental powers divided and weak, with none capable of invading Britain. This policy had been brilliantly recognized by Chinese statesman Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925): “The key policy of England is to attack the strongest enemy with the help of the weaker countries… When an enemy has been shorn of his power, he is turned into a friend, and the friend who has become strong, into an enemy".

10. Just a few decades after the founding of the USA, they became the second headquarters of the moneyed aristocrats, with finance as a second economic mainstay alongside trade. In addition to revenue, the control over the monetary system also brought aditional political power.

11. Additional means of power were and are far-reaching control of the communication systems and tens of thousands of tax-exempt NGOs classified as "charitable". Since these are dependent on donations, political control falls to the financially strongest sponsors.

12. The control over the multinational corporations set up in oligopolies, including the pharmaceutical, food, retail, weapons and mineral oil industries, not only works through large blocks of shares but also through influence on personnel policy, for example through lodges or camaraderie of the large (primarily British) private schools and universities. (One can assume that personnel policies are generally based on the personality profiles spied out by the NSA). – It is increasingly about (hidden) control over the flow of money and less about (conspicuous) formal ownership. The official flow of money from these corporations to NGOs is growing rapidly, while the illegal money is valued even higher.

13. The ultra-wealthy dynasties have extensive experience in the management of the military and intelligence services since the more than 250 years of operation of the IEC (till 1858) according to point 2. Entirely in the tradition of the power politics of feudal nobles, people were used and worn out as tools against other humans.

14. Due to its lack of sustainability, this system designed to maximize profits at the expense of others would not have been able to continue for long after the founding of the United States (1776). Because the US constitution formed a strong bulwark against undemocratic claims to power by granting freedom and fair opportunities as well as through its clear separation of powers.

15. But to the greatest detriment of mankind, those ultra-rich circles with no solidarity have succeeded in developing the USA into their second headquarters alongside Great Britain just a few decades after their foundation.

16. The lack of empathy on the part of the unofficially powerful not only shaped business life, but also the behavior of the military - and this at latest since the Spanish-American War of 1898-1899 in the Philippines. The "liberation" of the islands, which had been fraudulently managed in advance, did not result in the democratic self-determination expected by the residents, but in years of brutal repression with horrendous numbers of victims.

 

C. Opinion Manipulation 

17. During this military operation, censorship of information from war zones has become an established standard strategy. It is organized by the military itself (today mainly by the secret services) and leaves its own citizens in the dark about the true situation.

18. With the creation of special propaganda agencies, namely the Creel Committee (1917-1919) in World War I and the Office of War Information in WW II, the practice of censorship was institutionalized. The tasks consisted of misinformation, propagation of militarism and emotional polarization between the opponents at war.

19. Today, the USA maintain more than 20 secret services, of which the CIA, in particular, beyond gathering information, increasingly covers propaganda functions, above all to gain the acceptance by the citizens for American military actions that are actually unacceptable.

20. Political scientists identify this as an information war waged by the secret services, the military and the mainstream media, a war which is not directed against external enemies, but against the interests of their own Western citizens and in favor of the money oligarchy.

21. After eight years in office, American President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a warning of historic dimensions in his farewell speech in 1961. The warning concerned the MIC, the Military Industrial Complex, made up of leaders in the military, secret service, defense industry and politics. In this consortium he saw a growing danger for the free-democratic society.     

 

D. A Financial System in Need of Reform

22. The right to mint, i.e. the right to issue new money, originally belonged to the governance, for example, the king. It now lies nominally with the national central banks, but in fact with the private banking system. 

23. When issuing credit, commercial banks create money through an accounting process, money that did not exist before; i.e. they “lend” money that they do not have. This system has to be corrected urgently, because it leaves the democratic states and ordinary people with growing debt and a few ultra-rich persons with the control of an increasing proportion of the planet´s money flow and wealth.

24.Until the Greek sovereign debt crisis in 2010, state bankruptcy, i.e. the inability to pay off the owners of government bonds when they fell due, was regulated by debt cuts, whereby e.g. instead of 100%, only 60% were repaid. Since hedge funds of some ultra-rich have been successfully speculating against the states and having their cheaply bought bonds paid out at 100% by unprincipled courts, some debt-ridden states have been deliberately ruined (Greece, Argentina), while others have been made debt-free for a new start by the IMF.

 

E. Reappraisal of Colonialism

25. The development aid that was set in motion after the Second World War at the instigation of the money oligarchs flushed large amounts of money into the coffers of international corporations and made poor people dependent on them.

26. According to points 3 and 7, the small agricultural producers in particular are kept in poverty with dumping prices paid by the buyers of the big trading companies.

27. As well, farmers who want to produce for the local market cannot earn a fair wage either, because food aid floods countries with free or extra cheap wheat, corn, rice, etc. 

28. Due to the neglect of the principle helping people to help themselves, development aid has not led to independent and progressive ways of life, but to a unprecedently growing number of dependent people.

29. Under the direction of this "development" aid Africa's population hasgrown from $230 million to 1.44 billion, with a present rate of over 100,000 per day.

30. The means of power according to point 11 allow propaganda according to Chapter C. A desired effect is the generation of feelings of guilt. In this context, the narrative is cultivated in particular that the inhabitants of civilized countries have an inherited debt towards the inhabitants of backward countries and must now pay them.

31. By having had to pay extortionate prices during the colonial epoch, the citizens of civilized countries were as well victims of the privileged commercial concerns, as were the peasants and artisans in the colonies.

32. The actual historical guilt falls overwhelmingly on the operators of the commercial groups in collaboration with the ruling nobility at the time - and their current ideological successors. This guilt applies to the backward countries, among other things, for the disenfranchisement according to point 2 and for everything that can be identified as the result of an unsustainable "development" policy. (The same applies to artificially fueled terrorism.)

33. The guilt of the moneyed aristocracy towards the developed nations affects all points of this scripture and many more, because the economy and politics manipulated by it have deprived people of opportunities for their development, robbed them of their freedoms, lured them into militaristic detours, buried their dignity under false feelings of guilt, ruined their health and self-sustaining reproduction by inferior food and drugs with unacceptable side effects, and sacrificed their future opportunities to an ideologically colored, weak education system.

 

 

E. Restoration and Positive Development of the Republic USA

 

34. In many respects, the undesirable developments shown have led away from the free republic in accordance with the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution: 

35. The originally free and fair market economy has been distorted into an oligopolistic predatory capitalism in an unofficial collaboration between the monetary aristocracy and politicians, which is causing increasing difficulties for the self-employed, small businesses and start-ups. 

36. A fundamental error is vested in the sociologically false legal view that companies can become owners of other companies without absorbing them. As running a company involves many other members of society in work processes, being an entrepreneur always involves social responsibility. A company as a non-person cannot develop this social responsibility when running another company 

37. The visible results are, among others, short-term employment contracts, exploitation tendencies in temporary employment and rigid hierarchies hostile to motivation. 

38. From this and from the recognizable destructive effectiveness of the oligopolies, the requirement arises that corporations and smaller companies are again exposed to the same competitive conditions of a market freed from special advantages. 

39. As a result, oligopolists have to be forced to sell some of their subsidiaries, until they have shrunk back into their core business. In this they are required to offer their products at moderate, competitive prices and no longer cheat their suppliers, but to pay them fairly, too.

40. The "successful" undermining of Western democracies by uncontrolled monetary power has made it clear that democracy is not to be understood as a rigid set of rules, but rather as a living idea that must be constantly improved to defend it against undemocratic claims to power. The current solidification in outdated procedures, including voting, counting votes and nominating candidates, is a symptom of the worryingly advanced influence of uncontrolled forces.