Power Grab

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

– Percy Shelley, Ozymandias

It didn’t take long for the most opportunistic, nefarious and corrupt actors in the U.S. to turn a pandemic crisis into another massive power grab attempt. We’ve seen it before; after 9/11 and also throughout the response to the financial crisis a decade ago. The irredeemable sociopaths who always make the big, important decisions used those crises to consolidate wealth and power. They’re going for it again.

There are many examples, but let me list a few:

– The EARN IT bill, by which senators are attempting to destroy widespread public use of encryption, i.e. private communications. (EFF)

– The White House and the CDC are asking Facebook, Google and other tech giants to give them greater access to Americans’ smartphone location data. (CNBC)

– The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies. (Politico)

– U.S. Senators are attempting to use the crisis as an opportunity to pull off a gigantic corporate coup. (Matt Stoller, BIG)

Then there’s the really big one, the Federal Reserve. An institution with more unaccountable power to shape and manipulate our world than any other, yet whose actions remain subject to virtually zero public debate.

While we’re at it…

I wrote about the scam that is the Federal Reserve last year in the post, Monetary Looting, and what they’re doing now makes those repo operations look like child’s play.

We often get distracted debating the implications of Fed actions, and in the process lose sight of the bigger picture. The real question we need to be asking is why do we allow a handful of unelected banker welfare agents the right to shape our entire world? It’s a crazy system, and until we start questioning the underlying premises of everything about our world, we’ll remain confused and subjugated.

That said, I remain more optimistic than ever that once we get through this crisis and a rough transition period, a far better era awaits on the other side. I say this because I believe this pandemic will shake enough people to such an extent they’ll emerge from it very different people with a more enlightened understanding of the world and their roles in it. An event like this can make people less conscious, or it can make them more conscious. I think humanity will expand its consciousness.

Of course, the future is not written in stone. Each and every one of us needs to grow up and step up if we’re going to build a better world. We each have our skillsets, so I ask everyone reading this to think about how they can repurpose their talents to the great work of ushering in a new era. I don’t do any of this to change the world. I can’t do that. I do this to inspire as many people as possible to change their own worlds. Then everything changes.

If I had to summarize where we’ve been and where I think we’re going, it would be with the following.

The world you lived in no longer exists, but the world to come has not yet been created. The worst people in society will attempt to create it in their image, but we can’t allow that. We must step up and create it ourselves. It’s entirely possible. Get to work.

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41 thoughts on “Power Grab”

  1. Well said, but at some point you just have to look around and say “It’s just not worth it anymore.” Look, I’m not the kind of person that has sat on their butt and expected things to be done for him. I was very active in the Libertarian Party for 13 years, and have the state award to prove it and this was before people like Bill Weld wormed his way into the VP nomination and destroyed any credibility on the issue of the support for the second amendment that we used to enjoy. Now the Libertarian Party is becoming a haven for washed up Republican and Democrats politicians undercutting any effort to shore up the fundamentals of principal that we USED to take for granted and I don’t see any hope that with so few of the “old guard” still around that this can be changed. Prior to the Corona Virus, I was on my way to retirement in a country in South America and would have already been down there if it hadn’t occurred. I’m too old and tired to fight what I consider a hopeless battle any more.

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    • I agree Rocketman. I spent 8 years fighting corruption here in AZ, twice going to the AZ Supreme Court, and twice they would not even hear the case despite my having the goods. It was incredible what I uncovered but nobody cared. And this year is the first year I have not paid LP dues for the reasons you cite.

    • While I am not an active member of the Libertarian Party, I do vote Libertarian and consider myself a ‘Moderate Libertarian’. Moderate meaning I do believe we need safety nets and compassion for all citizens.

      My take on Bill Weld was that he is articulate and very capable of debating ideas and policies. I did not know in 2016 that Weld ran the Criminal Division of the Justice Department beginning in 1986, and was in charge of overseeing federal prosecutions of the DEA until he resigned in 1988. While people may change, that is a blemish on his record that cannot be erased. Why the hell did Gary Johnson allow him to be on the ticket?

      Although I voted for Gary Johnson in 2012 and 2016, I was hoping that the Libertarian Party could have nominated another candidate last time. The debates were also a bit of a let down, as Libertarians need to be a bit more centered and pragmatic to gain the foothold needed to break the duopoly. I did not hear that from those contesting the debates.

      Michael makes a great point in the Fed being unelected bankers with the power to shape and manipulate our world.

      The McFadden Act of 1927 removed the 20 year charter on the Fed – which would have expired in 1933. And we are left with only Congress having power over the Fed. This has been written into the McFadden Act to be a status quo arrangement that will continue forever. Forever unless Congress acts, and that will not happen with a Red/Blue House and Senate.

      Long live freedom, liberty and the Bill of Rights!

  2. What I find most intresting , or should I say discouraging, is that they talk about “ liquidity injections “ ( fancy word for bailouts for the banks & 1% ers ) , yet as the markets free fall, not a word about cutting your losses & parking on the side .
    The most angry I have become most angry with in the face of this disaster is NOT ONE BLOODY WARNING TO THE ELDERLY TO GET OUT OF THE MARKETS !!!!!!! ???
    No, ..that would harm the bloody traders of greed & lust . From a personal perspective, I went to see my advisor at my bank ( a new guy again … 27 yrs old about ) & before any introductions were made he started on his schpeel .. blah blah blah the long term crap ! I’m pushing 60 & I said “ great speech put me in cash “ ! He fought me hard when I said finally to him “ these are my wishes … do it !
    His reply was “ then I guess your no longer my client , for I can’t do anything for you “ I said fine , like he’s trying to scare me or something.
    The elderly who’s life savings are being decimated, have no ombudsman to speak for them . I find this disturbing & disgusting.
    Sorry about the capitals , I’m just really pissed off at these clowns pretending to care , but overlooking the ones who need financial advice the most !

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  3. Hope springs eternal….that said most people I’m engaging with on this ‘planned-demic’ are cheering the efforts of the authorities. There is no awakening to what’s really going down only a general kind of awakening to a false reality that most are sold on. If you try to explain what is really going down most will look at you like you have a third eye in the middle of your forehead.

    Yes the world is about to change and likely more than after the 9/11/2001 event because this has been the first world wide event staged by the pyramid cap. The call for mandatory vaccinations, the overhaul of emergency legislation, growing censorship and the like gives us a very good idea of where we are going to be taken. When the cure is worse than the problem you know something is amiss! There is a fully functional parallel system waiting in the wings to be implemented at a time of choosing when the old capitalist system will be swapped out for a fully Technocratic one. What many are calling a commutarian system in a grave mistake. We can see this new economic system already functioning behind the present financial banking and equity investment systems with entire economies run by super computers with advanced AI and algorithms.

    What we fail to see is the almost total detached blindness of the majority as they fall prey to the extremely sophisticated manipulations of their controllers. So much so, because the controllers cannot impose their will but must have the majority of the people either call for the imposition or remain silent while a few form a consensus and implement the agenda policies.

    We also fail to see that no real reforms, such as the call for reforming the Federal Reserve and that system.or reforming the nature of our various political systems before we reform ourselves and become adults expressing righteous anger which then leads to real courage.
    Good luck everyone! This remembering that the ‘cap’ has said and written that it means to depopulate the planet of human life by 90%! This by what they have said and written, and the ‘cap’ always acts decisively and strategically in meaning what they have said and written They hate your guts and mine, and mean to do something about it. Make no mistake on that one while most truthers play ‘if only’ as meant to by the ‘cap’ while precious time slips away and traps are set and sprung just like this latest SARS CV 2 or CV 19 to the public.

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  4. Not just CEO’s, Nancy

    Look at how many lifer Kleptocrats in the House and the Senate bailed out in 2019.

    Of course they “knew something” was coming. They were all Senior level pols with the best inside connections.

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  5. It sure gets around, our Western hubris.
    We even thought the sonnet form was dead.
    Whatever needed to be said on this,
    Was said before in books we’ve never read.
    Yet were there much less excitement to miss
    On the air or screen, could we face the dread
    That rises up in the silent withdraw,
    And of our historical amnesia?
    When fear of anarchy becomes instead
    A mania for order that same hand
    Which writes the law, magnifies the cobra
    Of war and crime. It can only expand
    What can’t be controlled, and through denial
    Of the circle, makes a vicious cycle.

    -白森

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  6. Warren, I got that nice phrase from a farmer. Farmers talk to other farmers and to them it looks like the authorities plan on dishing out some real pain/hunger as leverage as many farmers can’t get the inputs they need (fertilizers, seed potatoes, tractor parts et cetera) to make this years crop growing a success.

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  7. I will ask you all this, will another vote solve our problems? Will positive thinking and loving affirmations solve our problems (certainly important) but?
    When tyranny and evil so clearly now rule us what then are our options? Billions now suffer at the hands of so few? What are our real options? I am scared and afraid but understand that the ultimate sacrifice is now being asked of us! This is I believe what it’s going to take. My sacrifice so my children may know again real freedom, this is what it’s going to take!
    “Mother should I trust the government?”
    Rebel Alliance, stand in defiance
    Wolverines- Mountain Division

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    • Wolverines-Mtn Div….is this a part of Brandon Smith’s Alt-Market ‘special club’? Remember that the pyramid cap operates in every nation on this planet as the controllers and not just in the USA. In France they found the cops were somewhat reluctant to do violence to the yellow vests protesters so the authorities imported thugs from eastern Europe and dressed them as police to then do the damage. Mercenaries brought into the USA would act in the same way.

      My take is that we as individuals must reform ourselves as well as take up the guantlet…’head in the clouds but feet firmly planted on the ground.’ I do not suggest using violence as a means to an end but at the same time I worry that violence might become the only way forward and so must accept that concept as something I may have to participate in at some level. Put another way I truly believe in the non aggression principal but it has a corollary. The necessity that it must be defended by any means that works.

      I’ve done a bit of politics. That game from what I saw can get so dirty you want to take a shower for four days. I did the executive in our union local. I have tried to walk the path of a true human being, though not always successfully… as several women will testify to….you are only allowed to like them individually and only one at a time the ‘rule’ says LOL.. I now try to follow and use an understanding of Natural Law as a guide to how I try to live my life in grace. The ‘cap’ also has a supreme understanding of the same but uses their knowledge of Natural Law in their own interests with the resulting manifestation of the world reality we see all around us.

    • Actually in August there was already a death in the US and between Oct and Dec, many cases in Italy, but it was a new phenomenon, so had no name at that stage.They are now exhuming bodies in Italy to prove it. George Webb on YT tells all the details with proof.
      It was planned very long ago!!! Event 201 was only a simulation, not in Nov but Oct 18.

  8. Definitely agree with MK’s sentiment that the past decade was basically garbage. We had a huge crisis in 2008 and decided to paper over our losses rather than dealing with any underlying problems, guaranteeing we would see the system blow up again. We’ve been in suspended animation since TARP and only now are we starting to move around again.

    This is why it’s odd people are still calling the pandemic a hoax. The looting was continuous for nearly 12 years, so why throw a wrench into the works like this? It’s one think to isolate people at home, it’s another to cancel sportsball on TV and give people nothing to do but sit around and ask uncomfortable questions. Nearly every political leader around the world has looked like a fool during this crisis.

    I don’t know where we go from here, but our society has already degraded significantly since 9/11 and TARP. Shaking this wholly corrupt system up is probably a good thing for almost everyone in the long run.

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  9. “until we start questioning the underlying premises of everything about our world, we’ll remain confused and subjugated” -M.K.

    Well, you could begin questioning by trying to grasp this following, or, failing that, just attempt grasping the magnitude of the problem at its’ root:

    A: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” -Alfred North Whitehead

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    B: ”The [Plato’s] doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment” -theoretical physicist Bernard d’Espagnat

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    C: “nouns or millennia destructive process ‘objectifying’ language, projecting individual identity onto pieces of one’s surroundings, or dis-integrating environment; a result of the isolated projection of self or (ego) individuation by Western humanity exclusive of integration to a sentient, aware surrounding, where all environment had been/should be, social” -Ronald Thomas West

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    • yes yes yes Ronald – love your work here. Allow me to address:

      A: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” -Alfred North Whitehead

      A-comment: Platonic axiomatic predication indeed.

      B: ”The [Plato’s] doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment” -theoretical physicist Bernard d’Espagnat

      B-comment: Indeed. So much so that I have placed a $1kUSD bounty on the head of the ‘miracle axiom’ which defines and subsequently incorporates the I/Self and not I/Not Self/Other (i.e. Noumena)…this primordial axiom and its subsequent ‘objective border’ or ‘object skin’ i have named “INDEPENDENCE” (all caps intended). I have also encapsulated this epistemological phenomena is the ascribed title “the mind/Mind Problem”.

      C: “nouns or millennia destructive process ‘objectifying’ language, projecting individual identity onto pieces of one’s surroundings, or dis-integrating environment; a result of the isolated projection of self or (ego) individuation by Western humanity exclusive of integration to a sentient, aware surrounding, where all environment had been/should be, social” -Ronald Thomas West

      C-comment: I have termed this ‘Noun Mitosis’ where the ‘objectifying’ agency is ego and (as mentioned above) the “i” in identity is and only is primordially/ instantiated by the erroneous/presumed/believed-in, solved, mind/Mind problem…A solved mind/Mind Problem consequently denominates all contemporary Knowledge as we ‘know’ it today (which i have termed Proknowlerate, which is a play on anthropocentric, proliferation and knowledge) where the solved mind/Mind Problem is the ‘Knowledge Radical’ and acts as the uncaused causer dispensator or what i have termed a Super Axiom!

      lets chat
      Ryan
      somanywhys.com

  10. Why do it “now”? Russia and China are nearly in a position to completely, if incrementally, dethrone the Bretton Woods and US$ Fed/Reserve currency system. End of the post-WW2 free-money gravy train for the US/NATO endless-war economy. The Rothschild/Bilderberg/Davos/MIC crowd see their nearly-completed agenda of total world control slipping from their grasp, and so are launching one “crisis” after another in hopes of derailing the roll-out of a more multipolar world. They are desperate as their proxy-wars/regime-change attempts in Syria, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea fail in the public eye. Can’t make 1984 (the novel) become PNAC reality if there is no ever-enemy/war. Enter an endless string of “plan-demics” and media-internet hysteria-driven “crises”.

    Both US War Parties and their corporate co-conspirators also see the writing on the wall, which is why many are jumping ship while confusion reigns. And their stock options are sold off at the top of the Market Casino. We are left with the likes of Trumpty Dumbdy and the seemingly endless cabal of warmonger-idiots like Biden, Clintons (from the backseat) Pompeo, Kushner and BoJo. Some leaders in the EU seem to be figuring out staying tightly hitched to the US is a losing proposition.

    Declaring war on pathogens (especially intentionally lab-created ones) is as stupid as the war on “drugs”… and the general Western public is is well aware of that fact. Hence the US-vassal state of Canada legalizing pot… it’s over. So another “war” on “something” must take its place for the US regime to continue to do the Rothschild’s/Bilderberg’s dirty work (see Smedley Butler).

    As soon as the real infection-rate vs deaths/disability numbers become known, the public will wonder what the fuss was about, and hopefully resist any “temporary” anti-pathogen/mandatory-vaccination Patriot Act-style legislation. If the general US public doesn’t figure it out, the militia/prepper crowd sure have, and will not tolerate a “medical” Patriot Act. This time the Bonus Army will show up armed and well-organized (the Dark Net is still operational) on the Mall, and dare the US military/police to attack them.

    One recent article I saw gave Russian COVID-19 numbers: 160,000+ tested, 360+ infected… that’s less than 0.25% infection rate. POTENTIALLY, the infected/death rates are so high in other countries because those countries had no means (or will, see the US and Britain) to test as high a % of the population as Russia…

    And BTW, comparisons to the 1918 Spanish Flu (which actually started in the US too) are useless… the world was a completely different place both financially/economically and “herd immunity”-wise.

    “may you live in interesting times.” Interesting indeed.

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  11. Mr. Krieger : NOTHING will ever change/improve. The State will NEVER give up any power and will continue pillaging us forever. FOREVER. No State actor, henchman, or private sector accomplice will ever be fined, penalized or imprisoned. Ole Blago MUST have angered someone. But no one else. SOrry. Bob H.

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  12. “The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.” (Benjamin Franklin)

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  13. Considering the fact that a truly functional marriage is an extremely rare occurrence among our species, what’s the chance that getting millions of people together is going to be anything more than a total sh*tshow?

    Human intelligence [or lack thereof] is the problem.

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  14. Your blog is counterproductive to the public safety of the people of the United States. You are fomenting public disorder and are, in fact, an insurrectionist.
    Clear your schedule, sir. We will see you shortly.

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    • I don’t see how MK putting together some main stream media articles, formulating a sound theory based on both past and current factual, logical information and experience is somehow fomenting public disorder or causing insurrectionist ideas. The past and current theft, fraud, waste, corruption and downright evil actions of many individuals in US government, intelligence, corporations and banking/financial institutions are the cause of fomenting disorder and possible insurrection. It’s not the facts and information that’s the problem here, it’s peoples ability to accept them that’s the problem! The rise of righteous anger and indignation with the current system is very real and MK isn’t it’s cause he’s one of our messengers of truth!

    • excellent comment BC!

      We all cannot deny the viral issue here and its bad effects on humanity . However, what is apparent and much more intriguing here is that the said virus has served as a cause, a catalyst in exposing humanities truer larger problem and that is rapid – yes rapid! – fascism (i.e. Infinite QE or more aptly termed Omnipotent money printing/control!)…

      Further, the truer bubble here, the ultimate problem, the cause of causes is beyond the aforementioned debt/finance tyranny, this in-fact proliferates as an effect of the true cause. The primordial true cause is ignorance in every sense of the word! People/citizens who indeed have the divine ability to know, to recognize, to acknowledge the seizure of their liberties simply choose not to, choose to pacify the glory of mind with the true weapon of mass destruction that is television!

      An essential requisite for democracy is a thinking citizen…an essential ingredient for despotism is a not-thinking citizen…

      Ryan
      somanywhys.com

    • “People/citizens who indeed have the divine ability to know, to recognize, to acknowledge the seizure of their liberties simply choose not to, choose to pacify the glory of mind with the true weapon of mass destruction that is television!

      Worse, not only do they choose not to acknowledge the seizure of their liberties and prefer television, many are begging for their chains and have unleashed their inner deputy sheriff.

      Heard a story just today about some friends who’d not seen each other enjoying a hug at the farmers’ market and being yelled at by others for not maintaining distance.

      Comment boards here are filled with deputies who know just how often I am supposed to wash my hands and for how long, etc.

      I am disgusted by such people and, if I wash my hands, it will be of them.

      Soon they will be clamoring for mandatory vax.

    • I was walking in the park on the weekend and noticed people doing yoga next to one another, yes that’s right they were breaking the social distancing rules. I immediately ran over and sprayed them all with 80% proof alcohol sanitiser, may their soles be cleansed of the unholy covid that seeks to infect us all. I told them to never come back and to go home and skype one another whilst watching netflix.

    • I also find it deeply troubling that not only are we dealing with an insidious top down disaster but as you both commented the fact that the people have been so well engineered to want, beg and plead for their own enslavement! Highly concerning.
      The comment about TV reminds me of Frank Zappas song the “slime” check it out if you don’t know it, it’s all about the rot blasted out of the boob tube.

    • Fully agree, maybe even a very specific global jubilee where no taxes or bills are paid to governments, banks or corporations who can clearly be defined as engaging against the people in acts of definitive usury, fraud, waste, corruption and crimes against humanity.
      I’ve been thinking of this for a long time and suggest something like on July 4 2021 , spreading the word for all to prepare to cease all work and payments on this date. That a well organized, ethical and well defined general strike and global jubilee take place. In the run up to this a leaderless but organized resistance to tyranny begins. A clearly defined list of CEO’s, bankers, politicians, war lords, gangsters who are in clear violation of above type premises, a people’s court of common law present evidence against these individuals whereby a bounty for capture is implemented and said individuals are brought to trial in common law and if found guilty are sentenced to appropriate penalties up to and including exile and or death, lesser criminals = lesser punishment. Other then outright rebellion and war what else will ever bring these criminals to heel!

  15. man, the more it goes, the more the conspiracies related to Event 201 and 2030 Agenda are starting to look as plain old business-as-usual.

    Prepare yourself and get liquid. Look up the Exter Pyramid.

    This is how I compound wealth (go to my profile to follow the link).

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  16. Oh wow. Didn’t know about NON-RECOURSE part, and Allowing of Bonuses for Banks! US MEdia is keeping us blinder than North Koreans!!

    Also, did you know mass market bank deposits and CDs are considered “unsecured creditors”, freely subject to bail-in above FDIC insurance limits, should a bank’s Derivative bets go wrong!

    well the Criminal Fed Reserve just allowed its cronies to save themselves from BANK CD failure:

    https://www.finregreform.com/single-post/2020/03/23/fed-further-expands-money-market-mutual-fund-liquidity-facility-to-include-municipal-variable-rate-demand-notes-and-bank-cds/

    Punishment for the sheeple, bailouts for the 1%

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