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[rothschild]

But to just respond with "Oh its been happening for 100 years" and "People's moral compasses haven't changed" isn't offering anything to some of these specific incidences. None of us can obviously know people's true motivations or true intentions unless they tell us and aren't lying.

When he responds like that, as he is wont to do, I feel like he is saying it isn't worthy of discussion because it's been happening for 100 years. I'm old, but I'm not that old, and this shit still has the power to piss me the hell off and I want to get it off my chest.

I'm asking why is it now getting sustained media attention, when for decades it's been ignored by the commercial press. What changed? Did corporate society have a spiritual awakening? Is that probable, given that greed is the primary characteristic of such people?

I think systemic abuse is 100% worthy of serious discussion, which for me means focusing on causes and conditions rather than symptoms, because treating symptons doesn't cure a disease. So I look at these sorts of problems from the perspective of socio-economics, rather than criminal justice, and see a problem that goes far beyond police abuse and gun violence.

In our society we're conditioned to equate health with an absence of symptoms. When a symptom pops up we take a pill to make it go away, which works -- seemingly -- until the underlying condition becomes chronic and we're forced to seek medical treatment that generally consists of suppressing the bodies ability to produce symptoms, removal of "bad" organs or tissue, etc. All of which is antithetical to good health. It's a model based on symptom management, followed by disease management that measures success by short-term survival.

Criminal justice is identical in many respects. Another model that measures success with the abatement of symptoms, invariably leading to chronic dysfunctionality in cities, communities, families, etc., and costs that increase exponentially to the point of bankruptcy. IMO, public health and criminal justice are both oxymorons, because neither system is designed to produce outcomes consistent with health or justice.

Mirah asked who I meant by the "powers-that-be". My answer is this: finance is where wealth and power are the most concentrated. There is very little that happens in this world without financing, so we have a tiny group of people making far-reaching decisions re economic development, policy development, resource allocation, etc.

Have you ever wondered how megacorporations came to be? Contrary to popular mythology, it's the result of corporate consolidation facilitated by debt financing, which in turn was facilitated by a centralized, fractional reserve banking system that has contol of the expansion and contraction of money -- of which currency is but one type.

https://www.investopedia.com/insights/what-is-money/

Don't take my word for it...


“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

-- Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States


“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with a flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.”

-- Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England.





This is in reply to both Mirah and Duchess.