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2020-09-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Clem 2020-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 ...a charter at which they've failed miserably with covid:

Just following in the step of the Fed which was established to put an end to the 'crashes' of the 19th Century. That would have been two Depressions and a several Recessions ago.

Just another national agency unaccountable to the people, ruling by fiat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-05 07:38|| 2020-09-05 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 For sure. BTW, Federal Reserve and national income tax both created in 1913. Once Woddy Wilson got us into WWI and the Fed buying government debt (instead of corporate debt), that was the ball game.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-05 08:22|| 2020-09-05 08:22|| Front Page Top

/\ And it has never stopped! No Gold behind the paper. Now they want to do away with paper and replace it with electrons.

Your credit is good here at the company store, we'll just have it deducted from your pay.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-05 08:30|| 2020-09-05 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Besoeker if they ever get their goal of a cash free society it will all be their money.

Posted by Cesare 2020-09-05 10:21|| 2020-09-05 10:21|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ That's what I'm thinking as well Cesare. Beginning to look rather obvious.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-05 10:38|| 2020-09-05 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Totally logical next step for the smelly little totalitarians who imposed / still impose the lockdown.

This follows naturally from 5 months of suffocating small businesses (except when servicing Pelosi) and 3 months of handcuffing law enforcement (except when protecting Mayor BugEyes) so that the reactionary running dog petty bourgeoisie is brought to its knees.

Vitiate private contracts and transfer authority to the State apparat.

Next steps: Ban fracking and increase gas taxes to cut down on private mobility and commerce. Trace "contacts" and capture them in a national database run by the Democratic Party with help from their house oligarchs.

Soon: organize industry into Fascist style "corporate" sectors managed by the Party. Requisition grain and other essentials from our contemporary kulaks and wipe them out once and for all

Posted by Fester Panda8409 2020-09-05 10:55|| 2020-09-05 10:55|| Front Page Top

/\ Soon: organize industry into Fascist style "corporate" sectors managed by the Party.

You mean like the MIC, Walmart, Depot, Loews, Target, Best Buy and the other Chinese box stores as well ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-05 11:06|| 2020-09-05 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 ...really?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-05 11:43|| 2020-09-05 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 And, oh, no, FoMoCo and IBM...they had nothing to do with Nazi Germany. No, sir-ee.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-05 12:58|| 2020-09-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Wanna bet the decision came from the orange man?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-05 15:13|| 2020-09-05 15:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Zero interest rates work best when cash is illegal. You have to place your money in an institution and the institution will take a percentage out each month.

Posted by Airandee 2020-09-05 15:13|| 2020-09-05 15:13|| Front Page Top

#12 #6,7 The governance model of Rollerball...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-05 15:26|| 2020-09-05 15:26|| Front Page Top

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