On depressions and subversion of democracy By Nonny Moose
On depressions and subversion of democracy
By Nonny Moose
January 28, 2009
Well, folks it’s me again, your friend Nonny Moose. This time I’m scratching my head and wondering if we are in the middle of a world wide scam to make the rich richer, and the rest of us poorer.
I once had a friend who had a gold mine. Well, to be more precise, he had a company listed on the Vancouver stock exchange that was exploring a certain area in BC for gold deposits. In some way or another there was digging being done in this mountain wilderness, and this then translated into the real gold mine, which lay in manipulating the stock.
It was like “OK, guys, now everyone buy my stock”. With this activity on the part of a few buddies, and a like-minded stock broker (long since deceased), the stock was promoted widely, showed a great increase in value, and more people bought it. When the inner circle felt they’d made enough money, they sold their shares, and the value of the stock went down. Some time later they would repeat it. It was a really good, and seemingly tolerated money making scheme. Of course, the honest, uninitiated buyers were the losers.
I have noticed that on the major stock exchanges of late a similar seesaw rise and fall has been going on as well. It has been much more evident since the so called economic crash. You would have to have big time players to do it on such a grand scale, but there are the global super rich who could well swing this together. Lesser players will go for the ride, even our own small time PM stated recently that depressions were a great time to make money. Many, unaware of the game, will lose out.
So that makes me wonder if by any chance there might be a global conspiracy to get money off the world’s middle classes, into the greasy hands of the super rich. No way to prove it, but it is kind of suspicious. One interesting clue: The real economy may be collapsing, but the financial sector gets a 700 billion bailout, no strings attached. A wee little while later the US auto industry, that actually has a chance to lessen the depression’s impact through job creation, has to fight for a measly 30 some billion.
Furthermore, the financial institutions don’t seem to be lending more, so where did that money go, into more stock options, and play money for the CEO’s, and secret major shareholders?
Surprisingly no one is rioting in the streets of America. I used to think that Americans had a low tolerance for BS. It seems they’ve lost that good quality. Maybe they don’t know what’s going on. The cause is harder to identify than the symptoms, and the low educational level of most Americans doesn’t help them in doing this.
Subversion of social order is interesting. According to some documents known to the FBI since 1919, shadowy organizations have been around for a very long time with the intended goal of disrupting democracy. Democracy has its problems in that it depends on citizens’ active participation in the country’s affairs, while most citizens are lazy and more interested in personal matters. Still it’s humanity’s best hope.
Certainly, depressions also advance the wrecking crew’s goals, in that people worried about their survival are even less likely to pay attention to subversion than people who are well off and comfortable.
Are we sleepwalking to a new dictatorship?
Signs here and there are pointing in that direction. Some of the limitations on freedom seem to be slipping in under other pretexts. The most obvious is legislation slipped in after 911: emotionally named “The Patriot Act” in the USA. This legislation is anything but patriotic. Its cousins in Canada are more blandly named Act C35, and 36, names that tell the citizen nothing at all about its context. And even if one were to look in on it, the sections and subsections seem to discuss only changes and amendments of other acts with equally bland numerical names.
Do we know what turn Canadian laws have taken of late?
Other laws that are equally double edged are those that actually limit one of our most basic freedoms, the freedom of speech, guaranteed by both the Bill and the Charter of rights. Every Canadian should have these framed, and hung on the wall for easy reference. The legislation that is supposed to prevent the spreading of hate has been used of late to prevent freedom of expression. Remember the Quebec community which — fighting for its own cultural preservation — supposedly created outrage across the country by giving immigrants guidelines for living in their community?
I have always believed that democracy can only survive through a vigourous and unfettered exchange of ideas. That’s your guaranteed Freedom of Speech.
Folks, hate can spread even faster when freedom of speech is limited. Hate travels underground faster than a prairie grass fire! When you can’t publicly debate issues out in the open, all sorts of fake “facts” emerge on the QT and get passed off as “suppressed truth”. It’s happening now, and will continue until we have real freedom of speech.
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Nonny Moose can be contacted at: nonny33@gmail.com