War Among The Clouds

First, the Russians are invited by Syria to clean up the US mess.  Then the Panama Papers.  Then Deutsche Bank admits manipulating gold markets and threatens to spill the beans on its partners in crime.  Then a call to release classified 9/11 documents and the Saudis threaten to crash the US economy and expose even more conspirators in 9/11, even as the royals are going bust themselves.  Voterless elections in the US to ensure the Unchosen don't get too near the reins of power.  Meantime, the Russians are ramping up sub deployments, China sends fighter planes to it spiffy new islands, and the US prepares to dump a load of waterbots in the South China Sea.  Now, Brazil has impeached its president in what appears to be yet another attempt at "nation building" on the part of the bankster class.

By the way, ever wonder why so many folks are getting upset that CHINA is laying claim to a chunk of the South CHINA Sea?  It's got their name on it.

And let's not forget Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was framed for wanting to forgive third-world debt; Iceland, who jailed a bunch of bankers and then let them out again; the long list of mysterious banker deaths; and France, who has now indicted a Rothschild.

Does anyone else get the feeling that there is a war going on in the lofty regions of the global elite structure?

The thing is that most of what affects the vast majority of humans takes place far above in the cloudy realms of Mount Olympus.  Since the moment we mere humans submitted ourselves to "leaders" and "government," we have allowed ourselves to be impoverished, sent to our deaths, manipulated and lied to, and generally kept in the dark and fed shit.

Honestly, can you name anything a government has EVER done that benefited anyone but the highest shadows behind the public face of power?  I guarantee that anything you can list involved robbing one group at gunpoint to pay another, because governments can do nothing without taxes, and taxes are collected by the threat of grievous bodily harm and confiscation of property.

Higher still, though, are the folks who transcend governmental power.  They hold no allegiance to a nation.  They are subject to no laws.  They manipulate world affairs like a massive chess game.  And they keep their minions in check with a complex system of protection and threats.

When you really start looking at it, we are living in that Orwellian world where friends and enemies are interchangeable and based on some well-hidden agenda, of which we mere mortals are not allowed to be informed.  Today, we are at war with Eurasia and East Asia is our friend.  Tomorrow, we love Eurasia and are at war with East Asia.  That's the way it's always been and will always be.  Shut up and believe what you are told.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to figure out who to trust, and perhaps that is the point to all of this.  Humans being skittery and weak on the whole crave "authority" and control, so we feel that some part of our lives can be predictable and "safe."  It's as if we have been programmed, not just at the mental level, but at the cellular and even DNA level.  One begins to suspect that humanity was manufactured to be subordinate and deferential.  As Agent Kay so profoundly put it in Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

Every center of power, no matter how benign and enlightened it creators are, always devolves into tyranny.  Power and wealth (hardly separable) always corrupt.  There is no denying it and no excusing it.  We are born to serve someone and we do not seem to be complete without that force in our lives, since we keep inflicting it on ourselves.

In the end, when you take all of human history into a single tapestry, you can begin to discern some force guiding the strands, dictating the colors, manipulating the warp and woof.  Only it knows the final picture it wants and only it can load the shuttle.  The vast majority of humans dismiss its existence as "conspiracy theory" and the musings of disturbed minds, because the ramifications are too disturbing and too huge to contemplate.  We prefer to live with the comforting illusion that we control our destinies and, for the most part, have a say in our leadership.

If one thing positive can be said for Donald Trump, it is that he has touched the live wire of control.  He has exposed some aspects of the "Hidden Hand."  Because of him, "they" have shown us a few cards, but because of the massive campaign to silence Trump, most of us look past these remarkable achievements.

The take-away here is that there is a "they."  It does and has always existed throughout our history.  It is there in the shadows for those who overcome the programming enough to perceive it, though few seem ever to grasp the true nature of it.

To pull one more bit of wisdom from Men in Black, the character Zed sums up the situation brilliantly and succinctly with, "You'll dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MiB special services. You'll conform to the identity we give you, eat where we tell you, live where we tell you. From now on you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You'll not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone you encounter. You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black."

Oh sure, like all good comedy, it sugar-coats the truth to make it easier to swallow, but it is nonetheless still there.

"They" live, and "they" are pulling the strings of our lives.  All you need is a little perspective.

Calling Pete Townshend

You can tell the really good music by the way it stays relevant across time.  More on that shortly.

Interesting bit of information: according to multiple sources, including Wikipedia, one of the primary ingredients of sarin is sodium fluoride, which if you live in countries where they routinely poison the population with fluoridated water, then you drink this crud daily.

It certainly helps to illuminate why the Touch Someone's Ass (TSA) brigade are so antsy about letting folks on planes with water.  Certainly, mixing up explosives in the head makes little or no sense, but apparently, mixing up a batch of sarin would require very little effort with a little American tap water.

Another bit of information: most Americans would happily send Congress to Syria just about now.

Which leads us to a little Far Side speculation on this fair Saturday morning.

Does it appear to you, as it does to us, that the antics of the Hidden Hand are becoming less effective?  If you squint just the right way, it seems they are losing their grip on the mass psyche.  The Boston Marathon bombing didn't seem to have the desired effect.  And now, the Syria sarin doesn't seem to be working as well as they had hoped.

It took a couple of weeks, but in the aftermath of the Boston bombing, folks kind of came out of a stupor and said, "Wait a minute!  Two and two aren't adding up here."

In the wake of the Syria sarin attack, it was almost immediate.  Folks just didn't buy it.  The BBC ran a photo of alleged victims and immediately someone saw that it was actually a photo of US victims in Iraq a decade before.  The Hidden Hand claimed it was the rebels and folks said, "Hey, aren't those rebels al Qaeda and didn't we just spend a decade and thousands of our youth fighting those bastards?"  Doctors Without Borders, who treated the victims, questioned the whole sarin thing.  And even Rush Limbaught, for gods' sakes, questioned the Party Line.

It would seem that a very healthy amount of skepticism is creeping into the public mind.  So much so, that Bammy had to tuck tail and run to Congress for permission - something that would have been inconceivable just a couple of years ago.

To his credit, Bammy does seem to be a little trigger-shy, but we can dismiss his Nobel-laureate peace-making and put it down to political expediency.  He probably sees the same thing we are.

It's taken the better part of two decades for people to wake up from the 9/11 spell we've been under, but it does seem that we are shaking it off and starting to realize what happened to us.  And none too soon.

For those of us who are duck-and-cover alumni, it seems completely incongruous that we should be cheering the Russian president, but there it is.  Putin, to his great credit, it not allowing the West to get away with its usual tricks, and the world is siding with him.  China, not surprisingly, sided with him, and that put a lot of financial pressure on the US.  Seems the Chinese hold a lot of US paper, and if the US doesn't behave itself, the Chinese can crash what's left of the US economy overnight.  That's a big brake on US belligerence.

The mass awakening may not (yet) be enough to actually change things, but it is quickly becoming enough to temper the head-long rush to war we've witnessed over the past 20 years.  We've gone from Bush II running around in trench-coat flashing world leaders with his "evidence" behind closed doors to the world sitting back and saying it's not enough for a few "leaders" to see - we all want to get a look at the "flash".

And no, we won't be fooled again (thanks Pete T.).

So where to from here?

Two possible outcomes are likely at this point.  The good one is that the Hidden Hand will see its power wane and slowly fade to insignificance.  The bad one is that something bigger than 9/11 is in the offing to put us further under the spell of fear.

It could be that the tide has turned.  As any practitioner of magic knows, once the audience sees through one of your tricks, it is nearly impossible to get it to suspend disbelief again.  The spell must be maintained in order to keep the rubes believing in your powers.  Once you lose that, then the audience is looking much harder for the 'trick', and they are far less willing to believe you have special abilities and moral superiority (magic requires an audience to grant moral superiority to a magician).

We may be at that point now with the Hidden Hand.  If the world continues to wake up to the illusion they have foisted on us for the past two decades, then eventually they will be required to slink back into the shadows of has-been status and the world will be a better place.

On the other hand, if a magician starts to lose his audience, then he must trot out a trick of such magnitude and power as to completely entrance the masses once again.  And here lies the danger.  The Hidden Hand is not likely to surrender its status of world ruler easily.  Now that the curtain is slipping, it is in a position of having to wave the magic wand and create an illusion of such magnitude that we will all be entranced once again.

It took a 'trick' the size and scope of 9/11 to put us all under their spell in the first place, so it will take a 'trick' that is orders of magnitude grander to put us all under once again.  In other words, we won't go down for a couple of skyscrapers again.  This time, it will take an entire city.  That will require a nuke (at least one), and it will require a boogieman that can credibly pull it off.

Lo and Behold! We have just such a boogieman.  Iran.  The Hidden Hand has spent 40 years building up Iran as its Ace-in-the-Hole.  Ever since the Iran hostage crisis (I was 40 miles from the border with Iran when that happened), that country has been carefully built up to be exactly the kind of thing they would need to pull of a major 'trick' of the kind needed just now.  The Muslim world has been carefully vilified in the Western mind.  Iran's so-called nuke program has been carefully positioned as a threat.  And Iran has been painted as a threat to Israel, which the Hidden Hand has implanted in the Western mind as an important emotional trigger.

So, now we need a Big Trick to put everyone under the spell.  The last biggie has worn off and the magicians are losing credibility.  It is time to pull out the Ace-in-the-Hole.

Likely scenario: in retaliation for Western support of the false flag attack in Syria, Iran pops off a nuke in Jerusalem.  The attack on such a city has very deep psychological triggers in billions of people across the globe.  Everyone will see this as fulfillment of prophesy and a direct attack against some god or another.  This will immediately polarize the world into Christian and Muslim, with both sides arming themselves to the teeth.  The deep emotional value of the target will prevent anyone from questioning, and if they do, they will be shouted down, even attacked for not lining up on the 'right' side of the issue.  No one will question whether the attack was really perpetrated by Iran.  It will be obvious, from years of implantation, that they did it.  Even the pope will not be able to call for peace at a time like that.

Do you remember what you felt in the immediate aftermath of 9/11?  Remember that burning need to retaliate?  Remember that overwhelming patriotism?  Remember how anyone who questioned the Party Line was shouted down and made to look like a fool?

Now imagine that feeling multiplied thousands of times over and spread throughout the world.  No one will be unaffected.  Jerusalem is a hot button for more than half the world's population.  It is so deeply rooted in the identity and thinking of so many people that they can not extract it from reality.  Even world religious leaders will be bound to call for blood or lose all credibility.  The mental wound would be of such a proportion that it would take a century or more to heal, and that means perpetual war.

Yup, the Hidden Hand's wet dream of perpetual war would become a reality.  Billions of people acting on pure fear and emotion without a single rational thought for generations.  It would be 30 or 40 years before anyone could even formulate a doubt, much less express it.  it would be another 50 years before enough people had doubts that it would affect the course of history.  In the meantime, the Hidden Hand would have established a grip on the world that will take centuries to undo, and by that time, they would own and control pretty much everything.  Unwinding the tentacles would be centuries again.  Hell, just unwinding A. G. Farben took the better part of a century, and that was one company in one country.  Imagine what it would take to unwind an octopus that sat in the heart of nearly every country on Earth and was every company on Earth, for all intents and purposes.

If I were a Hidden Hander, I would be preparing for this ultimate scenario.  But since I am a regular kind of guy, I am instead looking for signs that just such a thing is in the offing.  Certainly, all the pieces are in place for this End Game.  It would eradicate any last vestiges of opposition and rational thought.  It would solidify the mental and physical lock on the world that this group has been after for...well, centuries.

The only thing remaining is to set up the proper situation that would make it completely credible for Iran to nuke Jerusalem.  Everyone must be looking in the right direction for the 'trick' to work.  All magic tricks require absolute control over what the audience sees.

We know that the Hidden Hand has no problem sacrificing even its own in order to complete its tricks.  We know that they are willing to use spectacular death counts to ensure their tricks capture the imaginations of large numbers of people.  And we know that they are ruthlessly and myopically focused on world domination.  So it makes perfect sense that they would be thinking along these lines, even if the details of the actual event are slightly different.

They need an emotional hot button.  They need a Big Boogieman.  They need shock and fear to pull it off.  All the elements are here.

Here on the Far Side, we're ready for it.  Wherever the magician tells us to look, we will be looking the other way.  Our anthem remains:

There's nothing in the street

Looks any different to me

And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye

And the parting on the left

Is now the parting on the right

And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution

Take a bow for the new revolution

Smile and grin at the change all around me

Pick up my guitar and play

Just like yesterday

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

Don't get fooled again

No, no!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

Achy Breaky Psyche

Generally, I have no interest in pop culture orgies, such as the recent MTV Video Music Awards.  They are pointless exercises in frustration that so much money and time is wasted on so little talent.  But something caught my attention this year.  The media has been fixated on some yutz called Miley Cyrus.  When the media do this kind of focus, there is usually an important message behind the event that the Hidden Hand wants us to be sure and note.

At first, it just pissed me off that the media was devoting so much space to this Miley Cyrus character, when the nation should be in sober reflection on the fact that it is about to sacrificially slaughter a whole bunch more brown people.  Normally, I would write this kind of thing off as simple distraction, but there were just too many weird symbols around this particular character.  So I bit the bullet and dialed up some clips of her performance, as well as tried to get a handle on just who this character was.

Turns out Miley Cyrus is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus.  For those who don't follow the country music scene, Billy Ray is a good ol' Kentucky boy who hit it big time with a song called "Achy Breaky Heart," which I happen to despise.  But that's beside the point.

Now, anyone who knows the entertainment business knows that to become as big as Billy Ray and his daughter, you sell your soul - pretty much literally.  I refer folks my age to Bob Dylan's comments in an interview.

It seems that the price for Billy Ray's fame was his offspring.  Miley rose to fame as a character called Hanna Montana, which was a Disney mind-control product in the past decade.  From what I gather, a normal, red-blooded American girl had a secret identity as a rock star in that particular pile of rubbish.

Despite being just another pile of Disney crap, the Hanna Montana phenomenon hooked millions of teen girls, which Disney excels at doing (see the whole princess line-up).  As per formula, Disney's signature products hook young girls with the vaguely wholesome fantasy of exceptionalism and the 'prince to the rescue' garbage (the prince being of darkness, of course).

True to Disney format, Miley Cyrus was built up as an 'Everygirl' who, in spite of being exceptional (a singer in this case), still has no identity without a prince to rescue her.  Throughout the Hanna Montana series, there is a running theme that she cannot be complete without a prince to rescue her.  This formula is like mainlining for a junkie when it comes to teen girls.

In the American hero-worship and celebrity cult context, all those teen girls invested their egos in Hanna's quest, just as males are driven to invest their self-worth in sports heros.  In both cases, once the heroes reach a certain status, they are completely debased.  Their moral fiber is totally unwound and all the folks who have tied their egos to the personality see that being wholesome and upright is pointless and they should just give in to debauchery, just like their heroes.

The process is also a means to destroy innocence and create cognitive dissonance in the audience, which then makes them suseptible to whatever message you want to implant.  In Miley's case, the performances established a Master/slave relationship with the 'prince' character.  It is intended that the Miley audience is meant to serve the desires of whomever the Hidden Hand wants.

The girls who are ego-attached to Miley were also meant to see the teddy-bear t-shirt with the classic "one eye closed" - the All-Seeing Eye.  This sensitizes the girls in the audience to 'follow the bear', which is an identity code for pedophiles.  The All-Seeing Eye, of course, is the command and control structure that feeds this sickness.

So, what folks witnessed was the classic cognitive dissonance effect, where innocent Miley was shockingly debased before our very eyes.  This opened a hole in the psyches of millions of young girls into which the message was placed to follow people displaying the 'one-eyed bear,' and to submit completely to these 'princes' when they come along.

Following this ritual in plain sight, the media was enlisted to keep the process going to ensure complete implantation.  By distilling the performance to its most bebased moments and repeating it over and over in multiple outlets, it ensured that the mental disconnect was complete and that the desired message was thoroughly cemented in.

It's the same process that was used on a global scale on 9/11.  First, the audience is shocked by incomprehensible images.  The images are repeated constantly to ensure the deepest possible damage.  Then, the audience is primed to receive whatever message you throw at them.  In the case of 9/11, the message was 'perpetual war' and 'follow the leader'.  In the case of Miley, it was 'submit' and 'being good is pointless'.

These types of things are done all the time - murderous footballers, steroid-enhanced baseballers, transgender military whistleblowers.  There's a hero for everyone.  No matter what your particular belief system is, you are fed a hero, the hero is debased before your eyes, and you surrender to hopelessness and subservience.

Any time you feel shock or dismay at something you see in the media, immediately turn off everything and get as far away from any media as you can.  These things are deliberate attempts to implant messages in your subconscious, and unless you are adept at recognizing it and fighting the process, your best option is to shut down the data stream.

Most people have no idea how powerful the media are and how they are manipulated every moment of every day for their entire lives.  The media have become such an integral part of our lives, yet there is no systematic education on how they operate, and more importantly, how they can be abused.

A great number of people experience withdrawl when they shut off the media streams.  It's an addiction, just like any drug you care to list.  Somewhere in all the data streams to your mind, a hero is being built that will later be debased to allow the Hidden Hand to jack into your sub-conscious.  To see the process in action, keep an eye on Edward Snowden.  He is likely being set up as a hero for the anti-surveillance crowd, and when he's taken down, it will allow the implantation of pro-government snooping messages.

Whatever you do, stop investing time in the hero-worship and celebrity cult.  In every case, it is nothing more than a way to drill a hole into your psyche and allow access to your deepest levels.  Learning how these things are done gives you some protection, but you have to be on constant guard if you are a big TeeVee viewer.  You best bet is just stay away from it all as much as possible, especially when there are 'shocking' events.  Those are the most dangerous.

Poor Billy Ray.  A terrible price for his "Achy Breaky Heart".

Beyond The Precipice

If you count all the years that my dad brow-beat me with history, I've been studying the Problem for a long time. Decades, in fact.  I've entertained ideas and read tomes that have go far afield to try to make sense of the world we live in.  I've lived in monasteries (Catholic and Buddhist), spoken for hours with old folk, read mountains of books and websites, and I've come to one conclusion:

We've already jumped off the cliff and there's no way back.

The genie's out of the bottle, the cat's out of the bag, the bridges are burnt.  There's really no other sensible conclusion, as far as that goes.

So, here we are in free-fall, like the coyote in the Roadrunner series, watching the canyon floor rushing at us with a large boulder directly behind us.  The only possible question is, "What now?"

The one thread that runs throughout history, from the most ancient to the modern, is the problem of bansters.  Some joke that it is the second oldest profession, to which I add it is the only one without any redeeming qualities.  The most evil, destructive and predatory force known to Mankind is banking and the people behind them.  Every war, every destroyed society, every dark point in history can be laid directly at the feet of fractional reserve/interest-bearing financial systems.

To just take the last 250 years, and focus solely on the American continent, we can see the banksters behind every major downturn.  The colonists created real money based on the output of the state, so the Bank of England created egregious taxes and counterfeited the colonial scrip to undermine the economy of the time.  Andrew Jackson succeeded in vanquishing the Bank of the United States, and for that the banksters tried to kill him, and when that failed, began counterfeiting the dollar.  Benjamin Garfield, Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy all introduced real money to compete with the debt notes of the banksters.  All were brutally slaughtered.  Ron Paul proposes to do away with the Federal Reserve and return to real money.  Now they ignore him completely, but if he wins, they will kill him most assuredly.

Whenever a society becomes wealthy and successful, it is only because they have real money, completely free of debt and interest.  Every single one.  And every single one was undermined and destroyed by banksters.  Every single one.

The founders of the US tried to make it impossible for the banksters to take over, by stating plainly in the Constitution that only gold and silver were to be used as money, and only Congress had the power to regulate weights and measures.  In 1913, the Congress, in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, passed the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Act.  Both were illegal and both are still in effect.  Since that time, the American economy, which when based on real money, because one of the most powerful and wealthiest ever seen, has since crashed and burned.

The banksters funded and supported Hitler, who came to power and immediately started issuing real money.  The German economy, literally within a month, had completely reversed and went on to become very powerful.  So much so, that it took half the world's nations to defeat it.  And the reason the Allied forces were marshaled against Germany?  Had nothing to do with the holocaust or anything else.  It was only because the Germans had real money, and the banksters hate that.

Libya?  Real, debt-free money.  The United Kingdom at the height of its power?  Real, debt-free money.  Iceland.  Ireland.  Czarist Russia.  Rome.  Egypt.  Azatlan.  In every case, it was the introduction of fractional reserve banking and interest-accruing debt that destroyed them.

First, the banksters come in and start counterfeiting the money and debasing it.  Then, when the economy becomes unstable, they offer their solution, which is always debt-laden scrip and servitude.  Along come business cycles with booms and busts, recessions and depressions.  Slowly, by inflation (counterfeiting) the banksters amass the wealth of a nation, then by crashing the economy, they destroy what's left and loot the land.

Over and over and over and over and over...

And since no one reads or studies history, or when they do, it's highly controlled and perverted by corporate (bankster) interests, people are incapable of seeing this repeated pattern throughout history.  And so nations rise on the backs of real money, only to turn over their wealth to banksters who hollow out their country and throw the carcass on the pyre of history.

With that said, the only conclusion possible is that the world has leaped off the precipice and is falling rapidly into the void of debt-ridden destruction.

The most likely outcome is, judging by what the banksters have done on a nation-by-nation basis for centuries, they will now crash the global economy and start a war, the likes of which have never been seen before, at least since the era of myth and legend.  If we look at most modern warfare, the next war usually starts about where the last one left off.  Since WWII finished with atomic weapons, we can be fairly sure that's where we'll pick up.  We can also be reasonably sure that no matter how the sides line up, the banksters will be the ones behind all of it.  Their MO is to fund both sides and profit from the arms manufacturing and money-lending, so that they own both the victor and the vanquished after the smoke clears.

Is there a solution?  Of course, but it is highly unlikely, at least on a global scale.

The financial and banking systems are the bread and butter of the banksters.  That much I think we can all agree on.  They have, by sheer trickery and indoctrination, made us all believe there is no other way.  History tells us that societies that don't opt in are wildly successful, and the very few who managed to opt out (ancient Egypt) were wildly successful and prosperous.

As we survey history, we see that the primary means that the banksters use to get a foot in the door is currency.  No matter what specie has been used, they have always managed to counterfeit it, except for one.

Barter is the antidote to bankster poison.  They can not inflate, control or saddle it with debt.  I have something you want, you have something I want, we trade.  Very simple, clean transaction without any other entity in between.  But extremely inefficient, since it requires the mutual coincidence of need.  If no one wants what I have, I can't trade.  Thus, money or currency always arises as a way of storing and transporting and converting wealth.  However, once you have a currency, then the banksters have the foot in the door.

Bernard von NotHaus tried a unique approach.  He embedded his DNA into each of his Liberty Dollars.  Novel approach and it obviously worried the banksters, because they threw him in jail and confiscated his metals for daring to tread on their sacred ground.

The banksters themselves have gone to great lengths to prevent anyone else from counterfeiting their counterfeits.  The US dollar is notorious for the difficulty involved in creating exact replicas, but it is quite doable and happens all the time.  They've tried micro-engraving, special papers, special inks, watermarks, translucent windows, embedded threads, and now ever RFIDs, which also lets them see how much you have in your pocket from a distance.

Gold and silver coins were popular, but one common way to inflate those was to shave off the sides of the coins.  So, they put those little ridges all around them to prevent that.  So counterfeiters simply used base-metal slugs with gold and silver cladding around them.

Which all brings us back to barter.  I have a dozen eggs and you have a gallon of milk.  We both agree that it's a fair trade and everyone's happy.  Great as long as you want my eggs and I want your milk, but gets really complicated when you want to buy a car.  A whole infrastructure has to build up to trade large objects and even real estate to buy large ticket items.  Very inefficient.

How, exactly, can anyone get out from under the banksters?  I mean, when Kennedy issued the US notes (remember those with the little red seal and no words like Federal Reserve?), folks would take them down to the bank and deposit them, and the banks would send them to the Fed, who in turn destroyed them.

In that paragraph is part of the answer.  Banks.  Allowing the banks to be bought up by mega-corps, who in turn are in bed with the central banks, is one of the major channels by which the banksters feed on us.

I remember a number of years ago, all Texas banks had to be Texas corporations.  They were owned and controlled by Texans in Texas, and could not be branch operations.  There was a massive effort on the part of mega-banks, back in the 80s, who pushed as hard as they could and convinced the Texas people (or stole the votes...you pick) to allow branch banking.  Until that point, each banking location had to be separately chartered and could not be foreign-owned (outside of Texas).  After the banksters got ahold of it, Texas went from being the 11th largest economy on Earth, to somewhere in the middle, with the banksters dictating policy at the capitol.

Here's what I propose.  Strip all mega-banks of their charters and corporate protections.  Change the laws to read simply that no group of people can be seen as an 'person' under the law.  Take away their corporate veil and make each officer of each corporation legally and personally liable for the actions of the company, as a whole.

Next, all banks must be domiciled and chartered in the jurisdiction in which they operate.  No more foreign ownership, branch banking, etc.  As part of this reform, all banks must have a minimum of 85% of all deposits on hand at all times.  Furthermore, interest rates may not exceed 1% for any transaction, anywhere, at any time.  Any loan may be charged a flat fee, but no interest at all, and terms less than 6 months can not charge more than 2% of the total loan amount.

Finally, take away the banksters' monopoly on money.  A government sets a regulated value, say $1 equals 1 troy ounce of .9999 pure silver, or one gallon of crude oil, etc.  Heck, we could even set a global value for money, since no one will have a monopoly on it.  Once that's done, anyone can issue money.  You neighbor, certainly the government, Bernard von NotHaus...anyone, as long as it meets the minimum regulations and values set by common agreement.  You can have paper or coin or even digi-bux, as long as they are convertible into some standard measure.

Of course, this all assumes that anyone calling themselves a bankster at this point in time be thrown in jail for the rest of their natural born days for crimes against humanity.

Will it happen?  Who knows?  Certainly, enough people are starting to wake up to the fact that the root of all evil is a bankster.  But, most don't have a solid enough grasp on history and/or economics to understand why all this is necessary.  You can tell by looking at people's faces when they listen to Ron Paul.  They look like the RCA dog.

Perhaps it will take yet another global conflagration to convince people.

The one thing we have going for us is that there are obviously insiders who are waking up, as well.  They are seeing that the world has reached the limit of the current paradigm and can not grow any more.  The entire model of the banksters is a self-defeating on, albeit on a massive time scale, since it has taken millennia to reach this point.  But there is no one and nothing left to exploit.  They are down to Algore trying to charge us for air and creating artificial scarcity, which only works until someone figures out how to make their own.  The massive infrastructure to maintain a global police state is untenable.  The system is collapsing under its own weight.

The smart insiders are seeing that the paradigm must change, and this is causing an invisible war among the banksters.  They are factionalizing and losing control even of themselves.  The problem is we must figure out a solution before they implode, or we will face a Dark Ages that will make Europe's look like a momentary loss of senses.

One way or another, the system is collapsing.  The banksters are trying to control it, or at least appear to be in control, but the simple fact is that the collapse is based on Universal Law, and no one can stop it.  The best we can do is plan for it, like anyone living in a hurricane zone.  RADAR shows the storm coming.  Satellite is giving us great pictures of its progress.  The weather center is giving us all their statistical landing sites.

Are we going to sit on the sofa and hope for the best?  Or are we going to run down to the store for batteries and drinking water?

If ever there was a time for some quick research and action, this is it.