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In reply to the discussion: Wars for the Oligarchs, Has the IMF Annexed Ukraine? [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)5. War is the Capitalist's Primary Business Model
- All other scams are a variation of this one. It was perfected by the moneychangers hundreds of years ago, and who are still running the same exact con.
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If armed force is a monopoly, it can not only be used to protect vested interestsit can also be made to turn a profit. Since Adams wrote the Law, manipulation of international conflict has become a fine art. This demands a thesis in itself, but Pounds references to the practice deserve a brief mention.
Canto 38, in particular, cites the manipulations of Metevsky (Sir Basil Zaharoffb ), Akers (Vickers), and Herr Krupp. All three were munitions manufacturers who were able to sell huge quantities of armaments to both sides in a conflict by encouraging them to surpass each other in destructive potentiala game which combined the most exciting features of a Dutch Auction and Russian Roulette. But wars not only boost sales, they can also prevent goods from becoming so abundant that they fall in price:
When there is danger of abundance of any, or almost all, commodities, then the usurocracy unleashes a war in order to diminish purchasing power.
What better way to neutralise abundance than to concentrate production in goods which are ceremonially destroyed, as in a primitive potlatch? Of coarse, now that total war has become an anachronism, the ceremony must take place within a limited area. Such practices are difficult to document, since all evidence is classified in the interests of national security.
Even the Pentagon Papers tell us more about the relatively public world of government than the private world of finance. But G. William Domhoff, in his important and meticulously documented book, Who Rules America?, offers powerful evidence that industry is the dominant partner in Americas military-industrial complex. And, according to George Thayer in The War Business,
The government officials who sell arms today have power that Zaharoff never dreamed of, they are protected to a degree that no private entrepreneur of old ever enjoyed, and they operate with less restraints upon them than even those few imposed on the master arms merchant himself two score years ago.
'The Economics of Human Energy' in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound, and Robert Theobald - by John Whiting, London University
Canto 38, in particular, cites the manipulations of Metevsky (Sir Basil Zaharoffb ), Akers (Vickers), and Herr Krupp. All three were munitions manufacturers who were able to sell huge quantities of armaments to both sides in a conflict by encouraging them to surpass each other in destructive potentiala game which combined the most exciting features of a Dutch Auction and Russian Roulette. But wars not only boost sales, they can also prevent goods from becoming so abundant that they fall in price:
When there is danger of abundance of any, or almost all, commodities, then the usurocracy unleashes a war in order to diminish purchasing power.
What better way to neutralise abundance than to concentrate production in goods which are ceremonially destroyed, as in a primitive potlatch? Of coarse, now that total war has become an anachronism, the ceremony must take place within a limited area. Such practices are difficult to document, since all evidence is classified in the interests of national security.
Even the Pentagon Papers tell us more about the relatively public world of government than the private world of finance. But G. William Domhoff, in his important and meticulously documented book, Who Rules America?, offers powerful evidence that industry is the dominant partner in Americas military-industrial complex. And, according to George Thayer in The War Business,
The government officials who sell arms today have power that Zaharoff never dreamed of, they are protected to a degree that no private entrepreneur of old ever enjoyed, and they operate with less restraints upon them than even those few imposed on the master arms merchant himself two score years ago.
'The Economics of Human Energy' in Brooks Adams, Ezra Pound, and Robert Theobald - by John Whiting, London University
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And don't forget "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", it's all the same, blood for profits to
mother earth
Feb 2015
#2
OMG. Conspiracy Theory/ reversal of reality by the Kremlin's latest shill, "Michael Hudson"
uhnope
Feb 2015
#3
Everyday we spend here, we are telling people exactly who we are. Why not take that opportunity to
mother earth
Feb 2015
#9
Where was I sarcastic? I thought I made myself crystal clear on all fronts. My progressive nature
mother earth
Mar 2015
#13
No need to define sarcasm, there is no sarcasm in reply #6, I stand by that.
mother earth
Mar 2015
#15
Uhnope, I replied about Nemstov on your OP posted here. As far as my lesson on
mother earth
Mar 2015
#17
TY for this reply. I honestly applaud your candor. This has become painfully obvious to me, and
mother earth
Mar 2015
#20
I'm hoping we can get back on topic on this OP, and maybe different economic theories can
mother earth
Mar 2015
#22
I think economists have a far greater grasp on what is playing out in the Ukraine, Greece, and
mother earth
Mar 2015
#24
No I don't think so. All the economists laid end to end would never reach a conclusion
uhnope
Mar 2015
#25
Here we go again, rinse, repeat. I totally disagree, I don't think you are actually listening to
mother earth
Mar 2015
#28
What part of ""Well, when Kiev went to war against Eastern Ukraine" is not BS to you?
uhnope
Mar 2015
#32
You have made your "points", but you are very transparent and it isn't me afraid of a boogieman
mother earth
Mar 2015
#33
DeSwiss is completely capable of answering your reply. Stop with disruption of
mother earth
Mar 2015
#35
lol. Calling BS is not "disruption." Neither is calling out anti-Semites like Pound
uhnope
Mar 2015
#36
There is no "thinly veiled attack" to help Putin, the attack on Ukraine is about empire & this
mother earth
Mar 2015
#26
You really need to take time to read. NO, not Naomi Wolff, Naomi Klein. You posted an OP
mother earth
Mar 2015
#29
I'm going to add a link that explains one of the biggest lessons from the last cold war,
mother earth
Feb 2015
#7
DeSwiss, I wish I could K & R every response you ever give on any of my OP's. You are always a
mother earth
Feb 2015
#10
I often wonder if people truly get what you bring to the table...here's some info on Jacque Fresco.
mother earth
Feb 2015
#11