The Great Taking

international | economics and finance | opinion/analysis Wednesday December 13, 2023 00:51 by Zahir Ebrahim

And Breaking the Silos

Do you care about what's not in your pocket anymore, real money, real assets? What's actually jingling in your pockets and purses giving you the illusion of loose change is the insufferable debt. From personal debt to national debt is one big elite scam. Americans labor under the delusion more than Europeans and other nations from South America to Asia, that they are free. Yeah, free to be in perpetual debt slavery and happy or at least nonchalant about it. Have you ever stopped to ponder how the world's riches and man's sweat of the brow both have both fallen into a very very few wealthy hands who create greater and greater combines for themselves owning up virtually everything of value, while the people have shrunk and shrunk and now on the verge of becoming perpetual renters owning nothing as the World Economic Forum pitches in its The Great Reset Agenda 2030? If you have not much thought about this or realize that you feel its pain but don't comprehend it, you need to understand the first-cause role of central banks in The Great Taking...

Letter to Editor : The Great Taking

Zahir Ebrahim
Sunday, December 10, 2023 | Updated December 12, 2023 3:40 pm

Dear Reader:

Might interest you if you care about what's not in your pocket anymore, real money, real assets. What's actually jingling in your pockets and purses giving you the illusion of loose change is the insufferable debt (especially when it is called). From personal debt to national debt is one big elite scam - but Americans, for whom my college Professor used to say for as long as I can remember: 'the most important thing for Americans is what's happening down the street' (Noam Chomsky), labor under the delusion more than Europeans and other nations from South America to Asia, that they are free. Yeah, free to be in perpetual debt slavery and happy or at least nonchalant about it. Have you ever stopped to ponder how the world's riches and man's labors both have fallen into a very very few wealthy hands who create greater and greater combines for themselves owning up virtually everything of value, while the people have shrunk and shrunk and now on the verge of becoming perpetual renters owning nothing as the World Economic Forum pitches in its The Great Reset Agenda 2030? If not, you need to understand the first-cause role of central banks in The Great Taking... what I refer to as the oligarchic primacy for world government.

Documentary:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-great-taking-2023-full-film/

https://rumble.com/c/c-5345620
Book:
https://thegreattaking.com

Stuff I had figured out as well when I started looking at financial terrorism after 9/11 and during the financial collapse of 2008. I experienced the same frustrations as well as epiphany that this author, David Rogers Webb, describes when I tried explaining / challenging all the monetary reformers and economists on what had become obvious to me. This book is worth reading judging from the 14 minutes of documentary I watched, went to the author's website and found and downloaded the free PDF of the book. The same things he experienced in his journey so did I. Like him, I was never motivated by money, was always motivated by understanding and once I had it moved on; always paid attention to anomalies and chased what did not fit the standard understanding or model or narrative in search of understanding it; never needed nor felt interested in doing the same thing / job / project twice, all my professional projects as engineer were one of type which is very unusual in Silicon Valley where even very bright and most successful professional engineers do the same type of thing over and over again; and when I looked into the anomaly of finance after 9/11 and started studying the domain (which was new to me since I had never sought money in my career), leading up to the 2008 Derivatives bubble collapse, I had figured it out in realtime!

That, it was manufactured by the collusion of Central Bank and lawmakers (who worked for them) just as they had done the Great Depression... and how the housing bubble was calculatingly manufactured with low interest rates and liberal money supply and weak oversight on easy loans, to calculatingly cause the eventual bust with high interest rates and constricting the money supply causing foreclosures under strict oversight and thus banks acquiring up all real financial assets pennies to a dollar and themselves bailed out with public monies by governments as "too big to fail"; the great taking!! But if you added up all the actual loan defaults by actual borrowers, it was a minuscule number... big yes, but not big enough a bubble to cause the financial crash of 2008; which is where the Derivatives scam came in to create the astronomical bubble "too big to fail".

It did not happen overnight, but in baby-steps. The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, 'part of the Banking Act of 1933, which was a landmark banking legislation that separated Wall Street from Main Street by offering protection to people who entrust their savings to commercial banks,' in 1999 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, was a key enabler of this 2008 bubble crash. The analysis of the role of the Federal Reserve System, America's Central Bank, in creating the Great Depression that had won Milton Friedman the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, and is documented in his classic 1963 text book: A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, which is required reading in most decent business schools in America and everyone in finance who has an MBA from any IVY League Business School must have actually read it, was repeated almost in exactness to precipitate the 2008 crash.

Dr. Ben Bernanke, my co alum of MIT, then Fed chair, having admitted to Milton Friedman's technical analysis of the Great Depression:

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“The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the two wars, which includes the severe [monetary] contractions of 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38. No other 20-year period in American history contains as many as three such severe contractions”

“This evidence persuades me that at least a third of the price rise during and just after World War 1 is attributable to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System ... and the severity of each of the major contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 – is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities...”

“Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes – excusable or not – can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic -- this is the key political argument against an independent central bank...”

“To paraphrase Clemenceau money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers.”,

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uttered the belated mea culpa in 2002, ex post facto, more than half century after the money trust had bought up, pennies to the dollar, the thousands of collapsed businesses and banks, “we won'ti do it again”:

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As a personal aside, I note that I first read A Monetary History of the United States (Friedman and Schwartz, 1963) early in my graduate school years at M.I.T. I was hooked, and I have been a student of monetary economics and economic history ever since.

As everyone here knows, in their Monetary History Friedman and Schwartz made the case that the economic collapse of 1929-33 was the product of the nation's monetary mechanism gone wrong. Contradicting the received wisdom at the time that they wrote, which held that money was a passive player in the events of the 1930s, Friedman and Schwartz argued that "the contraction is in fact a tragic testimonial to the importance of monetary forces [p. 300; all page references refer to Friedman and Schwartz, 1963]. ...

Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.

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And Bernanke did precisely that leading up to and in the aftermath of the 2008 crash: contracted the money supply!

With WEF's The Great Reset Agenda in the offing, the common man is now perched at the brink of existentialism in 2023 moving rapidly forward toward 2030. Surely at least some must realize that everything is interrelated, interlinked, causally orchestrated, and presented as mere happenstance. From climate terrorism to pandemic terrorism to financial terrorism to war on terrorism to Nature's terrorism etc., are all Hegelian Dialectic at play. But even learned well-intentioned Americans are easily misled by these crises because they try to understand it only from their silos. Or perhaps just too timid to go there --- for it is neither rocket science, nor classified state secret. It is a matter of perspective.

For some reason, today's truth-seeking truth-speaking intellectual class (or whatever remains of it) don't seem to have any understanding of the oligarchic primacy for world order. Nor do they understand the depth of the "evil" of the predatory forces at play across the board (if predators in the Darwinian world can be called evil which is why I put it in quotes; amoral is perhaps better description). All for the want of acute perspective on the nature of primacy and political pathocracy. It would be instructive to read The Report from Iron Mountain, 1967, Dial Press - even if a work of fiction or hoax as Wikipedia pitches it as the 'fact checker' of anonymous authority for mainstream public - for its prescient insights into the role of fear and threats and crises for mass behavior control. (See my examination of this 1962-63 study documented in The Report from Iron Mountain and relating it to contemporary crises in the 21st century in Primer on Global Warming: https://tinyurl.com/Global-Warming-PSYOPS ) Studies like these lend perspective into the elite predatory mind which is often missing in well-intentioned moralists seeking change... many of whom are the "suddenly woke up type". It is natural to end up in incestuously self-reinforcing silos not much differently than the mainstream crowd of simpletons and the credulous from whom they have become detached. Often times they have just changed silos. Before they were victims of Manufacturing Consent of mainstream pied pipers. Now many become victims of Manufacturing Dissent of dissentstream pied pipers. Outcome: neither are nowhere near the whole truth of any matter.

We must all break our silos and see all crises and happenstances in the world as part of a greater whole. When we do that we glean a perspective wherein the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts! Absent that, we miss the whole picture.

My essays deconstructing the crash and the monetary reform scam itself from 2008-2010 can be found by searching in the following table of contents of my now de-platformed website for keywords like monetary and conspiracy---like in the documentary above, the only fellow in the poor neighborhood where the author went to inform the public after he had given up on the rich, understood the scam and told the author "good luck"! The same thing I have been telling monetary reformer simpletons with degrees in high finance! They have either not read Sun Tzu or not understood the pithy wisdom oft quoted from him by all and sundry, including yours truly:

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." --- Sun Tzu, Art of War

https://web.archive.org/web/20191227162405/http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/p/table-of-contents.html

I had also compiled a compendium of my essays and letters in all these interrelated and interlinked topics from high finance and economics to war on terror and propaganda systems warfare on the public mind in a book: The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Oligarchic Primacy for World Government. Here is link to its free 2015 9th Edition PDF (for a while I released a new edition every time I had sufficiently new understanding to add.. until I gave up on its futility of informing the people and their co-opted legislators - either too well fed or too hungry to care, or too Poor to understand ); see chapters in the Section on Financial Terrorism:

https://tinyurl.com/Modernity9ed

Zahir Ebrahim
Common man living in the United States of America

Report From Iron Mountain 1967 Dial Press 0.7 Mb