Monday, August 16, 2010

Still Bill

Great news for people who enjoy watching videos that explain Fiat Currency and Fractional Reserve Banking for the umpteenth time

Not one, but two new video presentations of monetary truthiness are now available on-line

The Secret Oz



(Keepvid is your friend)

Not so much a sequel as a reworking of Bill Still’s Conspiraloon classic, The Money Masters.

Bill has stopped fiddling endlessly with his biro whilst explaining how we’re all being shafted by the Hidden Overlords of Finance Capital but the shonky camera work and Stillted delivery style we’ve all grown to know and love remain

Bill does a nice job of explaining why reverting to a Gold Standard would be playing into the hands of the Shadowy Overlords (They control its supply) but doesn’t half talk some bollocks when romanticising periods of history when people weren’t subjects of the bankers

I also particularly enjoyed the part where Bill makes reference to the eradication of mutual, non-profit savings institutions across the Western World in the 80s and 90s (which helped pave the way for the current upsurge in global financial larceny) as if it were something that ‘just happened’, like rain


The Money Fix



(I haven’t found out how to view this off-line, short of forking out some hard-earned Fiat to buy a copy, which is a pain)

Featuring the usual run through of the principles of Fractional Reserve Banking and the increasingly mandatory praise for the creation of local currencies.

This film does include a nice touch of drawing parallels between the exchange of goods and services between people and natural ecosystems of mutually supporting organisms. As such, the result is just a teensy wee bit Marxist in its analysis of why our current financial system is fucked


Marx, as I keep reading on the Internet, was a paid tool of the Zionist Bankers. I am also frequently being informed by the same sources that the current financial crisis and associated bail-outs (thefts) are nothing less than part of a Communist plot to finally secure world domination once and for all

I have one or two problems with this particular world view

There are many competing definitions of what constitutes ‘true’ Communism, or Free Market Capitalism, and the ones that seem to have been adopted by right wing loons go something like...

  • Free Market Capitalism = A system under which I personally make money
  • Communism = A system under which I personally lose money

Personally speaking, I think this is misguided, ever so self-centred, and plain wrong.

Just because the same kleptocratic system which bought the acquiescence of the Middle Classes with a little bit of illusory wealth creation and 3rd world rape is now evaporating that ‘wealth’ that does not mean that this kleptocracy was somehow magically and seamlessly transformed into a Communist system

If it’s Communism today then it was Communism back when Reagan and Thatcher were doing their thing and beyond. The fact that the previously unreamed are now being reamed does not mean that the system has changed, just its victims.

As for the Marx thing, all I can say is that the more I learn about Marx the more I find myself agreeing with his analyses. The people who make connections between Marx and the Banksters generally leave their criticisms at the fact that, yes, there were connections but they don’t actually tackle the meat of what Marx had to say

That’s not good enough

This may come as news to people who push the ‘Marx was a tool of the Banksters’ meme but every idea that looks like it is going somewhere is, with varying degrees of success, co-opted and turned into a tool of the plutocrats

and that most certainly includes Free Market Capitalism

as well as Communism

and Environmentalism

and Secularism

and Theism

and pretty much any kind of ism that looks like it’s going to make its mark on the world

The give-away moment normally comes when non-compliance with a particular ‘ism’ results in state-sanctioned theft and violence against the individual. It's about then that you can be pretty sure a bunch of fuckers has hijacked a decent or interesting idea with a view to robbing you at gunpoint

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15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great documentary.Bill Still seems to have it nailed,,,he convinced me for one.

Anonymous said...

The end section was particularly interesting,,the part about Iceland and the solutions to the problem.

Anonymous said...

Bill Still has an interesting website.

Welcome to the Secret of Oz

Anonymous said...

but doesn’t half talk some bollocks when romanticising periods of history when people weren’t subjects of the bankers

Could you explain this criticism further Stef? Oh, and this one:

eradication of mutual, non-profit savings institutions across the Western World in the 80s and 90s (which helped pave the way for the current upsurge in global financial larceny) as if it were something that ‘just happened’, like rain

Stef said...

Bill describes England between the 13th and 16th centuries as becoming the most free, one of the most wealthy and one of the most powerful countries in Europe, with an empire that stretched the globe

That is, as I said, frankly bollocks

England was a relatively minor European power until the 17th/ 18th centuries (when the bankers returned) and I doubt very much if anyone who lived through the peasants' revolt, the wars of the roses, the reformation, the famines during Elizabeth's reign, and the civil war and its aftermath would believe that removing the bankers in itself guarantees rosy times for all

Anonymous said...

In that case I agree. While we're on bankers, I notice Lloyds TSB are offering 4% on one of their savings accounts...

Stef said...

"Could you explain this criticism further Stef? Oh, and this one:"

just that

the eradication of mutual financial institutions is a key pre-requirement for private banking hegemony

mutuals were targeted and erased in Sweden before its financial crisis, ditto for Iceland and ditto for the UK and lots of other places

Bill's very good at explaining the mechanism of the fractional banking scam but fucking hopeless at naming names and outlning the scale of the scheme

I suspect he's one of those conspiraloons who's trying to make his message more palatable to the masses by trying to present a global conspiracy without labouring the conspiracy part

Stef said...

...and whilst I most definitely am not one of those racially-obsessed conspiraloons I find it interesting that Bill overlooks the interesting coincidence that England was largely usury free for the same period of time that it was largely free of one particular ethnic group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion

like I said, England endured plenty of shit without the help of the money-lenders, which helps proves the lie that they are responsible for *all* of the world's ills, but there clearly are some relevant issues that Bill chooses to exclude from his flicks

Stef said...

The root source of many of these monetary truth videos is the work of Eustace Mullins...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_Mullins

...less Eustace's racial musings

Anon said...

He said he excluded names (on his own forum) because:

Yes, the anti-semitism point came up. Also, he believes that simply imprisoning the current crop of criminals would do nothing - a fresh wave of individuals would take their place.

As I understand it, the more recent works were a refinement of Mullins' message.

The Underdoug said...

(I haven’t found out how to view this off-line, short of forking out some hard-earned Fiat to buy a copy, which is a pain)...

Try the downloadhelper add-on in Firefox - worked for me.

Ed-209 said...

Courtesy of Zero Hedge...

The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse

stef said...

@underdoug

cheersta

Charlton Peston said...

meanwhile, over in Ireland...

paul said...

As for the Marx thing, all I can say is that the more I learn about Marx the more I find myself agreeing with his analyses.

Marxism is a way of looking at things, and a fucking good one.

I've always thought his political vision has great similarity to libertarian eschatology. It really should be an inspiration to them.

Class warfare remains the master conspiracy.