The amazing disappearance of GOLD from the American psyche

Article by ‘Schiff Sovereign’.

November 22, 2013
Dallas, Texas

In George Orwell’s seminal work 1984, there’s a really great scene early in the book between Winston (the main character) and Syme, a low-level functionary at the Ministry of Truth.

Syme is working on the 11th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, and he explains to Winston how the Ministry of Truth is actually removing words from the English vocabulary.

In Newspeak, words like -freedom- have been struck from the dictionary altogether, to the point that the mere concept of liberty would be incommunicable in the future.

I thought about this scene recently as I was testing out Google’s new Ngram Viewer tool.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Google has digitized over a million books that were printed as far back as 1500, and they’ve made the contents searchable within their own database.

The Ngram Viewer allows you to search for particular keywords. And you can see over time how prevalent the search terms were for particular years.

Out of curiosity, I searched for the term “gold” in English language books starting in 1776.

As one would expect back in the 18th and 19th centuries when gold was actually considered money, the instances of the word ‘gold’ favored prevalently in English language books at the time.

The trend continued into the early part of the 20th century.

But then something interesting happened in the mid-1930s. The use of the word ‘gold’ in English language books reached its peak… and began a steep, multi-decade decline.

Further investigation shows that the peak actually occurred in 1933. And as any student of gold in modern history knows, 1933 was the same year that the President of the United States (FDR) criminalized the private ownership of gold.

It remained this way for four decades. And by the time Gerald Ford repealed the prohibition on gold ownership, the concept of gold being money had been permanently struck from the American psyche, just as the Orwellian Newspeak dictionary had done.

By the mid-1970s (and through today), people have become readily accepting of the idea that money was nothing more than pieces of paper conjured at will by central bankers.

The good news is that, according to Google’s data, there seems to be slight uptick in the number of instances of the word ‘gold’ in English language books over the last 10-years or so.

No doubt, this probably has a lot to do with gold’s seemingly interminable rise relative to paper currency.

One can hope that the trend will hold… that more people will wake up to the reality that the central-bank controlled fiat currency system is a total fraud.

Passive Ponzi—How Your Retirement Became the Collateral

Another good article by Wendy Williamson.

Excerpts:

The 1694 inversion and the Ponzi geometry of the American retirement system

In 1694, a king with bad credit accidentally built the modern financial world.

The Bank of England took a king’s debt and turned it into a permanent, tradable financial asset. The debt did not have to be repaid in the ordinary sense. It could be held, traded, and used as collateral. The king’s obligation became a public asset.

That was the inversion on which the entire financial system was built. Debt was no longer merely a burden to be repaid and extinguished. It became a foundation for wealth. It could be held indefinitely, generate income indefinitely, and support further lending. A liability that once had to be settled could now serve as the basis for expanding financial claims.

The chain of belief that held it together ran from the banknote to the government’s promise, from Parliament’s taxing power to the English economy, and ultimately to the willingness of the English people to work, pay, and trust the government with the power it claimed.

Every link was real. But the chain as a whole depended on something that could not be audited in advance. It could only be trusted.

The Successful Revolutionary “Long-March” Through Our Institutions

Article by Boyd Cathey.

Excerpt:

Yet, Soros fits Disraeli’s description of 180 years ago; if there ever was confirmation, he exemplifies it and exemplifies dozens of other like-minded figures in the world today.  He epitomizes that occult face of the “blood dimmed tide” of Revolution against God and man that poet William Butler Yeats warned of in 1919—at the very same moment in time when Antonio Gramsci was authoring his theories that would prove so fatal to the West.

He who would know the truth, must then act upon it. Over the past century or so the actual character, the real face of the Revolution, has been revealed as perhaps never before. Although lacking many of the resources and weaponry of our Enemies, those of us resolved not only to defend what is left of our culture and our Western Christian civilization, and, if possible, to begin a restoration, must be as bold and as cunning as Nathan Bedford Forrest, as wise and as prudential as Marse Robert Lee, and as patient and as calculating as our Enemies who understood that to conquer the seemingly unconquerable, it would take time, and above all, persistence, intelligence and constancy. And, for us, at the foundation of it all, Faith.

Is the AI Doomer Wave a Genuine Alarm, or a Scheme for Control?

Article by Paul Dragu.

Conclusion:

What may be true is that AI is the most transformative technology since the Industrial Revolution. And like every tool, it can be wielded for good or bad. It can benefit the common man as much as those with bigger — and more malevolent — ambitions. But not if it’s centralized. At that point, it becomes a weapon for those who control it and another means of disadvantage for those on the other end.

Laws for safety’s sake are not always a bad thing. But we must be careful not to allow regulation that disadvantages regular people while further empowering the state and oligarch class. Neither has a good track record of looking out for our interests.

The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System

Long article, but very good. By Wendy Williamson.

Quotes: 

“And the language of finance still carries the vocabulary of salvation. Credit comes from credere, “to believe” or “to trust.” Redemption comes from redimere, “to buy back.” Mortgage is Old French mort gage—literally “dead pledge.” Interest comes from interesse, “to be between.” The language of finance is haunted by the language of salvation. Deeper than economics, it penetrates the soul.”

[BTW, there is a strong linguistic relationship in German between ‘guilt’ (‘Schuld’) and ‘debt’ (‘Schulden’).]

“The choice is not between having money and not having money. It is between serving the living God of relationship and serving the invisible god of the ledger. It does not demand worship through rituals or temples. It demands our attention—through organization, accumulation, and ceaseless activity. It keeps us busy, distracted, and fragmented, making it harder to see the whole. Mammon is not merely the god of debt—it is also the god of war. The same system that turns debt into wealth turns death into profit. Human suffering fuels the machine.”

Lockdowns: Point Was to Delay Natural Immunity, Not To Protect the Vulnerable

Article by John Leake.

Excerpt:

If you study the criminal mind for as long as I have (since 2003) you become adept at recognizing when individuals and groups are committing acts of fraud. And no one is more given to committing spectacular acts of fraud than virtue-signaling people who feign concern for the welfare of humanity.