"Throw in the "supreme" court, very powerful executive, AND the power to borrow money and one starts to recognize the hand of the Mercantilists in drafting that document. If not for the Bill of Rights - with its Grace of God Tenth Amendment - the US would have been TOTALLY locked down by now. SCREWED."

The US Constitution has numerous flaws responsible for a governed society such as that of the US. The entire idea of rulers and ruled - government - results in societies such as exist now and in the past with ruled individuals used as pawns directly and indirectly by the rulers, whether politicians or their moneyed friends.

A reasoned critique of the Preamble and Bill of Rights - Click to view link - with links to similar critiques of The Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation supplied within.

The cries for "Return" to this document as some great solution to all that ills the US are not quite as loud as they were 8 years ago when I wrote an article questioning such an idea -

Click to view link -

but they are still frequently heard and my article is still very relevant.

Reply from The Daily Bell

Thanks for the link.

Nor I.

As all Governments are corrupt (just a question of degree) I see no reason to support any of their spokepersons, regardless of their rhetoric. Because that's all it ever is! Hot air to appeal to people who happen to have the emotional bias that responds to that particular sales pitch.

Ron Paul has been in Congress on and off since the 1970s, and we have yet to see any iron in his words.


If you support any of them, you are only vaildating the principle of your being governed.

Perhaps you haven't had enough pain yet!

"That still leaves me wondering if the people who ban together and call for "better government" are aware of what they're doing."

Which, by the way, keeps me awake at night wondering what the hell I'm doing sending money to Dr. Paul. Something tells me the Bug wouldn't do it.

@ DB

"Why ask for MORE government involvement, even while complaining about government corruption?"

Very good point and one that illustrates the difficulties the growing community of enlightened people have cooperating with folks who know something is wrong but believe change can be affected within the existing political culture. I run across this pretty often; I'll be talking to someone who's absolutely outraged at the "Bankster bailouts" then demands better regulation to keep the criminals in line. They're thinking inside the structures they were brought up with and can't grasp the idea it was the regulatory democracy created by those very "banksters" that allowed them to pull off the largest broad daylight robbery in history.

That still leaves me wondering if the people who ban together and call for "better government" are aware of what they're doing. I tend to think they aren't, that they really believe that's the solution and they've thought of it all by themselves. They don't realize they're playing into the hands of the people who are trying to enslave them.

I take back what I wrote earlier about liking the new Feedback GUI. I wrote a good sized response to Bell's assertion about Mercantilism and it evaporated into the ozone of cyberspace. Oh well, time for bed.

Reply from The Daily Bell

Is up now.

@ Daily Bell:
All quasi-modern wars were likely caused by MONEY POWER manipulating people through MERCANTILISM (the state!). How can you not see this? it is as clear as the nose on your young face.

In this we are in complete agreement and this is one of the things about the Establishment that I learned from Daily Bell - Mercantilism. In the evolution of my monetary thinking I've come to "see the light" that brother Billy Joe Mauldin preached to me YEARS ago. He always wrote it as CONstitution, and when one studies the destruction of State Sovereignty (of the original 13 States) in the coup known as the CONstitutional Convention - the States STRIPPED of the MONEY POWER that they had and the Continental Congress did NOT have (absent a super majority of 9 of 13 states voting for it as they did with the Continentals) under the Articles of Confederation, you start to see why.

Throw in the "supreme" court, very powerful executive, AND the power to borrow money and one starts to recognize the hand of the Mercantilists in drafting that document. If not for the Bill of Rights - with its Grace of God Tenth Amendment - the US would have been TOTALLY locked down by now. SCREWED.

And when one researches the driving force behind the Mercantilist coup that IS the US CONstitution, the bastard Hamilton

Click to view link

rears his ugly head. I now firmly believe that Hamilton was a mole - an agent not of the crown, but of the Bank of England/City of London tribe. Remember, the BoE had a hundred year head start to establish PRIVATE banking and PRIVATE money.

The MONEY POWER was clearly the thing the mercantilists, led by Hamilton and privateer (glorified pirate) Robert Morris, were after. While they forbade the coveted 5 magic words, "to emit bills of credit" (i.e., print money) to the States, and didn't specifically grant them to the "federal" government, they didn't deny them to the national government either. So this was the loophole that the mercantilists (now the Establishment - the PE) have driven THREE privately owned central banks through. The "Federal" "Reserve" is just the most recent and long lived.

Anyway, name a war from Napoleon onward, and I can make a case that it was due to either the Establishment trying to capture or recapture the MONEY POWER or having captured it, to use it to run up the so called national debt. Profiteering by selling guns, uniforms, ammunition, MRE's and "smart" bombs - often to both sides in a conflict - is just so much gravy to these parasites. (US spending $50 million to kill each Taliban?

Click to view link )

Finally, to throw a little fly in the ointment of gold and silver backed currency, all the Continentals over a few dollars WERE backed by gold and silver Click to view link Kind of takes the wind out of the sails of that meme, doesn't it?

This was one of the ways that Hamilton and Morris and other Mercantilist front men BRIBED enough of the other delegates to the CONstitutional convention to adopt that diabolical document - they promised them that if they went along, all their "worthless" Continentals would be redeemed at full value. So a country founded on insider trading. Not a small, limited truly federal government, but a National government and not a National Socialist one - but a National Mercantilist / National Feudalist government masquerading as a Republic.

(Do you know that the term Republic doesn't appear in the CONstitution?) And we wonder how we got to the sorry state we're at today? Those of us crazy enough to care, anyway.

Reply from The Daily Bell

Thanks. Keep up your investigations. Many beliefs that people in the West grow up with have been debunked by information easily available on the Internet. If belief in the US Constitution as a vehicle of the utmost good is a meme rather than a reality, then sooner or later the Internet (in our view) will reveal it as such ...

With any luck the Inet can boost awareness up to one man in a hundred thousand. Never have some many learned so much from so few.

Reply from The Daily Bell

Particularly about NASA and its trips to the moon.

".....not one man in a million is able to diagnose"--John Maynard Keynes.

Being public or private is not the issue. It is the tools that "we the people" unwittingly allow the money changers to wield, thinking they are doing a valuable service.

"FACT: ANYONE with the power to print "unbacked money from nothing" (governments included) will get "rich" in the short term by printing for themselves,"

Ahem, isn't that fractional reserve? Think about it, fractional reserve practice is impossible with gold and silver. You can't summon it up.

Sorry to beat the dog, but damn; that is one mean ugly dog.

@ Daily Bell comment:

Jimi Bigbear, . . . YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND

HA HA HA! I must be to care about this, but you folks at the Bell are in the same nut house as me! I've been reading the 150 year official history of the Bank of England! It only got its start because the goldsmiths and money lenders got their guy, Dutch William (the king), into another war (part X of the same war) with France. WW1 started the next year after the Fed was foisted on us. Coincidence? Plenty of evidence that it wasn't. All the wars were caused by the MONEY POWER being in PRIVATE hands - NOT in PUBLIC hands.

Reply from The Daily Bell

All quasi-modern wars were likely caused by MONEY POWER manipulating people through MERCANTILISM (the state!). How can you not see this? it is as clear as the nose on your young face.

@ Daily Bell:
OK, obviously you haven't changed your mind about public money. Thank you for the links ...

Actually I have changed my mind - do change it continuously - but always in the direction of Plato (author of The Republic) and his student Aristotle - that

Nomisma (money) exists not by Nature, but by law (nomos).

The value of the money (even faux fiat FRN's) is in the stamp - not in the material it's stamped on. A 1 dollar FRN is printed on the same paper (cloth, actually) as a $100 FRN - but you'll get a lot more groceries with the Ben than with the George, right? And with 97% or more of all the money in the world today being BITS - the most abstract and highly evolved form of money in known history - is it not ridiculous to try to "back" those bits with gold or any other commodity? So long as soccer moms and car pool dads can stick their plastic in the gas pump and fuel up the minivan or Camry, THEY DON'T CARE!

I've been away from the Bell Fray for awhile, so don't know when you changed the Feedback gui, but I like it. And again, I think your analysis wrt to the guru's calls for "reform" are manipulations by the Establishment (PE). They may start as grass roots stirrings and legitimate gripes, but they are quickly infiltrated and steered in the direction THEY want them to go. Standard Modus Operandi of Establishment was edict of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin:

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it!

Reply from The Daily Bell

We may write on this issue again tomorrow, given the EU's announcement.

@ rossbcan
Precisely the reason that the MONEY POWER can't be taken back by the Rightful Sovereign - We the People - at the NATIONAL level. I agree it is too corrupt. But it IS being taken back at the State level - where it should.

You apparently believe the Establishment media's lies about Zimbabwe hyper-inflation. It's your choice of course, what you believe, but if you want to at least entertain an objective look at the situation, you might consider that the Zimbabwe hyperinflation was actually an IMF coup.

Click to view link

By clinging to the Establishment meme that governments can't be trusted with the MONEY POWER - you help keep that power in the hands of our oppressors. It comes down to this, as the money is created out of thin air either way: Do you want a sovereign government to create it out of thin air - free of debt and free of usury? Or do you want to continue to let Rothschild & Co. create it as unpayable DEBT with USURY attached? I'm with Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Click to view link

The battle is not "right" vs. "left" or any of those false divisions - it's Wall Street vs. Main Street. This is the most important battle of our day.

Reply from The Daily Bell

"By clinging to the Establishment meme that governments can't be trusted with the MONEY POWER"

Jimi Bigbear, you are a wonderfully intelligent person but YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND. In the 20th century alone governments slaughtered tens of millions via war, famine and totalitarianism. You must see what's going on in the US today. So ... you go ahead and trust government with Money Power. It seems that people never learn from history, not even when it is concurrent!

PS: We welcome your comments, though! We have tried to maintain a dialogue with Brownians even if we disagree with state solutions to market problems.

DB: "changed your mind about public money"

FACT: ANYONE with the power to print "unbacked money from nothing" (governments included) will get "rich" in the short term by printing for themselves, at the cost of currency debasement (inflation) and general collapse of any economy based on said fiat currency. Think governments have enough "integrity" to resist papering over their inherent absurdity? I say - NEVER, EVER. And, so did our far wiser ancestors, who instituted the gold standard, for this very reason.

I've got a zillion (1,000 Trillion) Dollars from the Central Bank of Zimbabwe to bet this position, evidence of those who bet the converse and LOST.

excellent analysis, Bell! The remedy is mahabasti - a great global enema to flush the parasites from our midst. States in the US taking back the MONEY POWER and simultaneously restoring a huge amount of State Rights and Sovereignty - in line with the Nullification Movement at

Click to view link and countries doing the same, will win the day.

To restore Invincibility to each nation - from all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC (THEY are both) - we need PUBLIC money and PUBLIC banking.

The Bell is mistaken in promulgating the Establishment meme that we have in the US a fiat currency. We do not. What we have are the PRIVATE bank notes of a PRIVATE central bank cartel - just as we (US) have had for MOST of our history. It all goes back to Adams' Lament:

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. - John Adams

Stephen Zarlenga penned the remedy for Adams' Lament in his address at the Bromsgrove Conference (Birmingham, UK) in October 2004, with the most clear and concise explanation of "coin, credit and circulation" I've read to date.

Click to view link

Stephen with his student-ally, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, wants to tackle the problem on the national level, and in her latest articles, Dr. Ellen Brown seems to be leaning in that direction as well, but she has also founded the Public Banking Institute

Click to view link

- which advocates the more plausible way to eat the federal elephant - one bite at a time. DC - the District of Corruption - Oz on the Potomac - is truly corrupt beyond comprehension. Congress can't even summon the collective testicular fortitude to even AUDIT the FED, much less reform it.

Taking back the MONEY POWER (as President Van Buren always wrote it) at the State level in the US, and national level in small European countries, Australia and New Zealand, by creating PUBLIC State banks like Bank of North Dakota, is the prescribed menu. (Yeah, I know, NZ has both the PUBLIC Kiwibank and ostensibly public central bank in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand - but read the fine print - the government still borrows its money from the ANZ (bank of Australia and New Zealand - when it shouldn't have to with a true PUBIC central bank.)

To her credit, Mother of Public Banking, Ellen Brown, warned US of coming IMF austerity in March of last year with this article on Alex Jones Prison Planet:


Click to view link

Something that has been overlooked by the Bell and other lovers of Liberty is the HUGE win that Sheriff Richard Mack (retired) of Arizona won for the US - the SUPREMACY of the States over the "federal" government.

The Daily Bell would do well to interview him, as his supreme court victory gives us a very powerful tool in wielding the 10th Amendment.

Click to view link

Public Banking, Public Money and Nullification will win the day and restore America to Greatness - without a lot of chaos, turmoil, violence and bloodshed. In that America can lead the world into a NEW new world order of affluence and peace.

Reply from The Daily Bell

OK, obviously you haven't changed your mind about public money. Thank you for the links ...

For what I have seen, even the most educated people demand more regulations to fix a perceived corrupt state. It might be a new meme when the IMF says that austerity (their weapon of choice) is the solution to government corruption.

However I have always seen political parties attack each other on the basis of the other's corruption. And they always promise if not more regulation, at least that they will be a better government. Which is never the case, of course.

Corruption, as anything else in politics, is another liquid good for exchanging favours, power, etc. By definition a government is corrupt, but if we excluded from the definition of corruption the defining traits of a state, and we counted all the rest (bribes, revolving doors, nepotisms, inequalities in law enforcement, and a long etc.), the real amount of corruption in every administration would probably be staggering beyond belief.

So the parties by mutual agreement cover up everything except a few unimportant issues now and then to feed the masses with some fodder and perpetuate the idea that the other party might be a better alternative ("I don't say this if you don't say that").

DB: "Government corruption at least gives people the opportunity to find loopholes in officialdom's most repressive and illogical dictates. It may allow business to reduce a tax bite; or enable a sole family provider to keep his or her head above water."

This applies to a specific type of corruption, namely the selective enforcement of laws in accordance of whatever amusing reason such enforcement is applied. Which requires a monstruously huge amount of laws, even better with incosistencies and contradictions among the several overlapping adminsitrations, so that if wholly applied then 99% of the population would go to jail and 99% of the businesses would have to close.

Although it can be perceived as a lesser evil by a strangled business, this is just a tool to justify the arbitrary use of power which permeates all levels of the administration (you must have all the employees happy).

Then there is that other corruption that instead of "helping" the citizen just dilapidates money, or sends it to the pockets of close relatives, which of course is not perceived as a return on the taxes one has (forcefully) payed.

Well, anyway I do not expect less from any government, it goes embedded. Now, to pretend to establish globalist solutions to corruption... this is laughable!

Reply from The Daily Bell

Now, to pretend to establish globalist solutions to corruption... this is laughable!

But this was the point of our meme analysis! The solution is to be BETTER government, presumably more of it (and more efficiently via austerity) and eventually if we are correct, the mainstream media will begin to argue for more EXPANSIVE, global government to solve the problems of transparency/corruption. Time will tell ...

"the solution to government ills is BETTER government, not less government."

Apparent grass roots government fans inevitably deduce that BETTER government means BIGGER government taking the form of MORE government regulators. What comes first, the PE promoting a meme or grass roots crazies dreaming it up? Must a worthy (from the PE's perspective) meme originate with the PE for the PE to exploit it?

Reply from The Daily Bell

Absolutely not. Most memes that the PE promotes seem to have roots in what is already perceived at some level throughout society. These dominant social themes often seem to be present in society in one form or another. The PE then, perhaps, magnifies them and reshapes them to its own ends.

"Why ask for MORE government involvement, even while complaining about government corruption?"

Just more "hair of the dog that bit you", as any addict will attest. Substance abusers are after "unearned feel good", states are after "unearned power and resources". The pursuit of either "corrupts, absolutely".

Reply from The Daily Bell

Well, it is certainly possible that it is all a coincidence, driven simply by personal or national agendas. One needs to watch closely to make up one's own mind ... But we think there is something to it, based on the introduction of WikiLeaks and "austerity." We'll continue to follow it ...

"We're not sure why the Anglo-America power elites are circulating this meme now, if they are"

If they are indeed. The Bell does regularly discuss the impact of Internet communications on the global Weltanschauung, what would increasing disaffection with the New World Order look like in your considered opinion?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

Reply from The Daily Bell

Yes, thanks, we tried to clarify your point with the following article update/addendum:

While some of this could be explained by plain anger with government inefficiency and greed, the authoritarian strands that emerge from protesters give us the idea that this may indeed be more than simple cause-and-effect. When protesting government corruption, why ask for more taxation, or at least more enforceable taxation. Why ask, as the Baba Ramdev does, for more government action while damning the government for manifold faults? it seems strangely inauthentic.

it reminds us of the World Bank/IMF construct where the World Bank encourages lending and the IMF then enters proclaiming that corruption much end and services must be cut while taxes are raised. In other words, the "corruption meme" seems to partake of the IMF conversation, which in our view is a phony one put in place by the powers-that-be to EXPAND government authority while squeezing the middle class.

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Why ask for MORE government involvement, even while complaining about government corruption? This is along the lines of Julian Assange WikiLeaks where the solution to government ills is BETTER government, not less government. It is the same as the austerity meme: Government is bad and doesn't work (doesn't collect taxes) so let's make government BETTER and more efficient.

"income tax is a necessary" because...

a - It allows false "divide and conquor" fairness arguments of redistribution from the productive to unproductive.

b - It consolidates social wealth in fewer (political) hands who are easily fooled / seduced / bribed / intimidated to go along with elite frauds. You are far less careful with "other people's money"