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The
last shall be first and the first shall be last
Jesus of Nazareth
Nobel Laureate Buckminster Fuller’s introduction to his Critical Path is titled, Twilight of the World’s Power
Structures. Published in 1981, Fuller’s book predicted the end of
the world’s power structures during a process where humanity would
undergo a crisis of unprecedented
proportions.
In 1991, the Soviet Union and communism collapsed and now with the
severe contraction in credit markets, capitalism is in similarly deep
trouble; and. Fuller’s 1981 prediction about the demise of the
world’s power structures certainly cannot be good news for those who
attended the 56th Bilderberg meeting
held June 5-8 in
Chantilly, VA.
The Bilderberger are believed by many to be
the world’s ruling elite, those who determine the world’s
direction—at least the western world’s, as attendees are
overwhelmingly from Europe and the US (Europe 2:1 US).
In truth, however, the majority of attendees at the Bilderberger meetings are not the ruling elites but their
minions—the well paid servants of money and power who toil 24/7 on
their behalf, the bankers and corporate CEOs who
shepherd the collective wealth of their masters, thereby gaining position and
power for themselves in the process.
This fact, however, should not take away from their considerable
influence in today’s world. That world, however, is today in a highly
precarious state; for, if Fuller’s prediction is true, the Bilderberger’s world is now about to collapse.
MARSHALL THURBER’S CHECKERBOARD GAME
Marshall Thurber who was a close friend of Buckminster Fuller recently
unveiled his new Checkerboard Game
at the Positive Deviant Network (the PDN www.posdev.net ). A gamesmeister whose Blocks
Game (which literally “melts” the right/left brain into a
unified state) is the foundation of his long-running Money & You seminar
(now taught internationally including China), Thurber’s new Checkerboard Game reveals the dynamics
behind the formation of financial and power elites.
The setting itself was rather extraordinary. The Positive Deviant
Network was in Dunkirk NY to view one of four prisons where PDN member Dr.
Cherie Clark (who received her PhD based on her study of Buckminster
Fuller’s principles of Synergistics) co-heads Shock
Incarceration http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/shockny.pdf , a course based on Buckminster Fuller’s principles, the 12 step
addiction program and superlearning techniques (80%
of Shock Incarceration graduates
starting with an average of 5th grade education receive their GEDs (high-school equivalency) in 6 months with 12 hours of classroom
time per week).
Where the average prison program lasts only 2-3 years, Shock Incarceration is now in its 21st
year after having successfully graduated 37,000 inmates, significantly
lowered New York
State’s
recidivism rates, saved the state of New York
over $1 billion dollars and transformed countless lives in the process (Dr.
Clark is also the president of Doing Life International, http://www.doinglife.com/company.html).
The connection between The
Checkerboard Game and Shock
Incarceration was obvious. The creation of financial elites such as the Bilderbergers creates a world where elites continue to coalesce financial and political power at the expense of
others. The rich get richer and the poor now go to prison. The Checkerboard Game and Shock Incarceration reflect that
simple but increasingly ubiquitous truth.
If you have the chance to play The
Checkerboard Game you should do so. And if you’re ever incarcerated
by the state of New York
and have a chance to take Shock
Incarceration (the US
is now the world’s #1 jailor so your odds are increasing) the same advice holds. Buckminster
Fuller’s influence in both is obvious.
THE BILDERBERGERS & THE PAPER BOYS
A fortune composed of paper is like a house built on
sand
At the very same time the Positive Deviant Network was meeting in
northern New York
in early June, the Bilderbergers were meeting in
northern Virginia; and,
while the PDN was looking at ways to alleviate the problems of the powerless,
the Bilderbergers were looking at ways to extend
the power of the already powerful.
In attendance at the Bilderberg meeting were
Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve
System, Henry Paulson, the US Secretary of the
Treasury, Timothy Geither, President and CEO of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central
Bank, and Robert Zoellick, President of the World
Bank.
It is no coincidence that so many high ranking “public
servants” were openly attending a private meeting of the western
world’s financial elites. Public servants in name only, public bankers
are the handmaidens of the private elites, and in so doing serve their own
interests as well.
It is also no coincidence that bankers play such a prominent role in
the affairs of the Bilderbergers, the western power
elite. Prior to the introduction of the bankers’ debt-based money in England
in 1694, the east and the west were “separate but equal”. The
bankers, however, were to significantly change that dynamic.
After central banking was introduced by the Bank of England, the
relationship between the east and west shifted dramatically. England
in its Faustian pact with the bankers was able to fund its navy and military
with debt-based money and in a version of national gang violence, sic imperialism, imposed its will on
much of the world.
The 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries
reflected this great shift in power. The 21st century, however,
will not. By the end of the 19th century, England’s
time as the preeminent world power had run its
course.
In 1870, England’s
balance of trade went negative and its Treasury had increasing difficulty in
paying the enormous bills of the British Navy and the bankers took careful
note of this turn of events.
So, in 1913, the European bankers extended their operations to the US via the creation of
the Federal Reserve System, the US
version of the Bank of England’s central bank. The Federal Reserve
System, a consortium of private European and American banks, would issue the
same debt-based money in America as had the Bank of England in Britain and
the bankers would continue their power and influence in America as they had
in England and Europe.
Now, however, in the 21st century, America’s run at
the table of fortune is coming to an end as did England’s
one century before. In 1970, America’s balance
of trade went negative (as did England’s in the
1870s) and again like England,
its military budget would consume more and more of its national wealth.
In 2008, the world of the Bilderbergers is
now suddenly and unexpectedly threatened. The western power base built on the
foundation of central banking has encountered an unexpected problem. The
debt-based western world of the Bildebergers has
now collided head-on with the savings-based world of the east.
CAPITALISM IS NOT COMMERCE
THE COIN OF THE REALM BECOMES THE CON OF THE REALM
Capitalism is the description of the wholesale introduction of credit
into the world of commerce. Prior to the introduction of the Bank of
England’s debt-based money, the words “banker” and
“capitalism” did not even exist. The previous description of
banking was “money-lending”, an avocation made possible by the
charging of interest on the lending of gold.
The utterly brilliant ascent of the money-lenders was made possible by
their pact with government, first with King William of England, wherein
private bankers would be allowed to issue public currency on which they could
charge interest just as they had previously with gold—and government
could then spend whatever it wished of the public’s money, usually on
war.
The advantages are obvious, at least to the bankers and governments. Over
time, however, the credit based “money” turns into debt on which
compounding interest is levied. In this system, time is the enemy as time
compounds debts as well as the amount of paper money causing a continual
debasing of previously issued currency.
THE MORE PAPER MONEY PRINTED
THE LESS
ITS VALUE
The ultimate seduction of credit lies in its ability to deceive the
debtor into believing that it is real money he or she has. It is not. Credit
and debt are two sides of the same coin, albeit a coin of highly dubious
origin.
The two-sided coin of credit and debt was substituted for gold and
silver in an arrangement that served bankers and government, not producers
and savers; and, much to the chagrin of the Bilderbergers
and their bankers, the rest of the world, sic
producers and savers, are now beginning to catch on to this increasingly
obvious truth.
The recent rapid rise in the price of oil is a reflection of the
intention of oil producers to no longer automatically trade their limited
supply of oil for an unlimited and continually devaluing supply of paper
money.
The current volatility in
the price of gold and silver is a reflection of the death throes of the Bilderberger’s regime of paper money. No paper
money system has ever lasted, all have ended in failure and disaster and this
present system will end the same way—no matter what efforts are exerted
on the behalf of paper money.
IT’S YOUR CHOICE
PAPER, GOLD, OR SILVER
It was the bankers of the west that invented this game of charades
where credit and debt masquerade as money. It is a charade that has lasted
three hundred years. All games end, however, and this game is ending now, gratis of the universe whose
intelligent hand Buckminster Fuller saw everywhere, even in our mistakes.
Bucky maintained that mistakes
are an integral part of learning (see Fuller’s Mistake Mystique, see http://www.flighttogenius.com/mm_ebook.pdf ), Fuller
maintained that the universe evolves by mistakes, learning ever more as it
does so—and that includes mankind—no matter how dissociated our
minds think we are from the originating phenomena of life.
In early June, as we in the Positive Deviant Network walked through
Lakeview Prison in Dunkirk,
NY, we saw a slogan prominently
painted on a wall. In that prison, especially, its truth was obvious:
LEARNING IS HAPPENING
And, so it is. It is a lesson the bankers and the Bilderbergers
will soon understand.
POWER IS NO MORE CONTROL THAN CREDIT IS MONEY
Darryl
Robert Schoon
www.survivethecrisis.com
www.drschoon.com
Note II: I
will be speaking at Professor Antal E. Fekete’s Session IV of Gold Standard University
Live (GSUL) July 3-6, 2008
in Szombathely, Hungary. If you are interested in
monetary matters and gold, the opportunity to hear Professor Fekete should not be missed. A perusal of Professor Fekete’s topics may convince you to attend (see http://www.professorfekete.com/gsul.asp ). Professor Fekete, in
my opinion, is a giant in a time of small men.
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