Posted on 02/02/2018 5:31:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
That those in power always want to retain power seems self evident to me, but in 1776, our nation represented an experiment to break the power of the aristocracy.
We continued along this path until the economic aristocrats in this nation decided to protect their interests by preventing the South from trading directly with Europe and thereby bypassing the cut they normally took from such trade.
In the last few years I have come to realize that the civil war was initiated because an independent South represented a threat to the financial interests of the Wealthy power brokers of New England. So long as all the Southern trade with Europe was controlled by influential New Yorkers, all was fine, but when they decided to cut out these influential New Yorkers, that is when a war was needed to stop them.
I didn't know any of this for most of my life, and I have only come to realize it after looking at the economic numbers in the lead up to the civil war.
My first thought is always theological...since, like CS Lewis, I think only humans were created in God’s image, and fallen, what alien would want to come where Satan lives and will someday rule for a short time?
I loved Lewis’ space trilogy.
"The phenomenon is real," said Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon official
Sounds pretty farfetched. But if any of this is legitimate, I wouldn't count on the DOLTS that work in our government to accomplish anything.
This stuff is not that difficult to figure out if you ignore everything you were taught and think for yourselves.
Imagine, presto, new technology X appears in your front lawn—estimated future value, 100 trillion dollars.
Being the patriotic citizen that you are you provide it to the government for their use for the nation and its people.
What happens next?
Think about it.
Hint: There is no real “government”, there are only gangs of criminals who will obtain this technology and use it or not use it as they choose. They may use corporate or government “cover” but at the end of the day they are just gangs of criminals.
If you object you and your family die quickly.
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