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Forum Post: "Radix Omnium Malorum Est Cupiditas" = Love Of Money Is The Root Of EVIL !

Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 2, 2011, 11:27 a.m. EST by shadz66 (19985)
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The way 'Democratic Governments' have been co-opted, infiltrated & usurped by 'The Banksters' is The Tragedy of our Times & the levels of Larcenous Criminality prevalent in the 'High-Finance and Low Morals but NO Ethics' world of Wall $t. (& the <1%) are simply beyond the appreciation, belief & credulity of the average ethically balanced person (99%). In the U$A in particular, The co-option of The Demoblicans & Republocrats has led to a demoCRAZY deMOCKERYcy.

What has been going on these last 30-40 years throughout 'Investment & Merchant Banking' is so outside the realms of rhyme or reason, that the word 'Greed' can NOT possibly do it any justice. The layer-cake of avarice, corruption & kleptomaniacal theft is so breathtaking as to lead one to think that there must be some virulent viral vector to the extreme group-psychopathology that seems to pervade The Banksters, worldwide. That lunatic misanthrope Ayn Rand has so much to answer for & though the bitch lies a-mouldering in her grave but I still curse her through space & time !!

Somewhat hopefully, the resultant reaction, realisation & resistance to 'Banksterism' is now at a grass-roots level worldwide and the 'meme' is spreading exponentially as all things 'Occupy' so clearly shows.

Some useful links to compliment 'OWS' :

a) http://occupystream.com/ b) http://occupylondon.org.uk/ c) http://www.occupytogether.org/ d) http://www.occupytogether.org/actions/ e) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Furthermore, 'The Credit Rating Agencies' have proved to be a bunch of MOODY FITCHers whose STANDARDs are POOR ! Are these the same mendacious arsewipes (& private commercial businesses - to boot !) who just three short years ago facilitated the Larcenous Transfer of "money" (what ever THAT is, these days!) FROM "the Public & their allegedly democratic governments" TO Private Banksters ?!!

The self-evidently 'Poor Standards' of the CRA's were responsible for "AAA+ rating" : 'DOG-SH!T Derivatives' such as 'Mortgage Backed (in)Securities' ; 'Collateralised Debt Obligations' ; 'Credit Default Swaps' & other such 'Innovative Financial Products' - all of which turned out to be just new words & ways to sell debt (& boy, whAt a CONcept thAt is !!).

A relatively tiny but unconscionably greedy & power-hungry few have us entrapped in their Mesmeric Mythical-Money Matrix, as all righteously earned & received Profits, Salaries & Wages (ie Earned Incomes) are stringently & exorbitantly taxed, whereas Monies & Capital Gains in the form of Interest, Dividends, Rent, Debentures, Accruals, Commissions (ie Wealth & "Rentier" Returns) are taxed far less onerously & are much more easily "avoided or evaded".

The Privatising of Profit, Gain & Opportunity and the Simultaneous Socialisation & Nationalisation of Loss, Cost & Risk ; The Duplicity of Double-Entry Book-Keeping ; The Tyranny of Accountants & The Despotism of Private Bankers - should be beyond the endurance & tolerance of most fair minded & right thinking people.

WE THE 99%, MUST DEMAND A 'PERP-WALK', PROSECUTION & EXEMPLARY PUNISHMENT OF THE BA$TARD BANK$TER$ - without which there can be NO Justice & therefore NO Peace.

BANKS GOT BAILED-OUT, THE 99% GOT SOLD OUT ! EMPIRE & WARFARE ABROAD ; AUSTERITY & 'UNFAIR' AT HOME !! 'CARROT' FOR 1%, 'STICK' FOR THE 99% !!!

THIS SH!T CAN NOT GO ON !! iVIVA LOS INDIGNADOS!

radix omnium malorum est cupiditas ...

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[-] 2 points by amanoftheland (452) from Boston, MA 12 years ago

Wow, a difficult read, but i think I got most of it. and I can say I think it was right on target.

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

Consider, "Money, The Market & Modern Capitalism" are increasingly antithetical to Human Progress, Environmental Sustainability & Basic Ethics.

"Socialism" is yet another word that the Corporate MSM Mind-Management, Propaganda & Programming and State Education Systems have led people to regard as an evil pejorative. Don't confuse it with "State Capitalism" or "Totalitarian Stalinism"!

commune bonum est summum bonum ...

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

For further evidence that GREED is NOT good ...

a) "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers Not Too Different from Tony Soprano", by Bill Moyers : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29611.htm ,

b) "Thirty Of America's Most Profitable Companies Paid 'Less Than Zero' In Income Taxes In Last 3 Years", by Jillian Berman : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29596.htm &

c) "Bailed-out banks paid no income tax in some years, according to study ; Banks that received TARP money managed to avoid income tax", by John Dunbar : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29630.htm et al ...

veritas vos liberabit ...

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

The Truth, Poignancy & Power of the 'STOP The 1% ; WE are The 99%' theme, meme & slogan is the most excellent call to action, I've ever come across.

Millions of the 99%, right across THIS GOOD EARTH just do NOT buy into "The KAPUTalist CONstruct" any more - just as predicted by Karl Marx ( http://www.marxists.org/ ).

THEORY + PRAXIS = REVOLUJAH !!!

dum spiro, spero ...

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

Sometime ago 'Bill Duke' from Florida & a regular poster on ICH ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ ) wrote a 'cris de coeur' which moved me to such an extent that I repeat it here verbatim due to it's relevance to all things 'Occupy' :

1)"None of us will ever make a damn bit of difference in this struggle UNTIL we are able to put our egos aside and unite for a common cause.....the common cause being the survival of this earth, a better quality of life and survival of the species.

2)"If we look for perfection in the methods, nothing will happen. If we look for the ideal time and situation, nothing will happen. If we think we can affect revolution without consequence, nothing will happen. If we look for the best opportunity, we will miss 'NOW'.

3)"When we put ourselves, our egos, on the sidelines and unite in peace and intention, we can strangle the machine. We do not need more ideas or 'the right time' ;

"WE NEED ... CONVICTION, COURAGE and PERSISTENCE."

per ardua ad astra ...

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

Though we can't really be under the illusion that the OWS protest is going to change anything overnight (tho' dum spiro, spero !) ; The Most Important & Lasting Functions may well be to raise the levels of : Awareness ; Political Consciousness ; Solidarity and Organisational Ability. This will enable a leaderless cadre of the more able & dedicated to emerge and take the struggle forward because the building of a Mass Movement for Peace, Justice & Sanity is what we all need and ... it needs all of us !!

Though "Spectacle & Propaganda" both have their part to play, some theory { http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/ , http://www.marxists.org/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha } won't go amiss either.

respice, adspice, prospice ...

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

Recently the British conservative commentator Charles Moore said : "The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few.".

Charles Moore is Margaret Thatcher's biographer & the ex-editor of the right-wing, pro-business UK snoozepaper, "The Daily 'Torygraph' & hardly a revolutionary communist, yet even he understands that there is no pretence of TRICKLE-DOWN CAPITALISM any more, as we all are now living in times of Beggar-thy-Neighbour ; Devil-take-the-Hindmost ; Rapacious & Predatory, HOOVER-UP CAPITALISM (Kaputalism?).

fiat justitia ruat caelum ...

[-] 1 points by TIOUAISE (2526) 12 years ago

Brilliantly written!

Although I could have done without the ad-feminam attack against Ayn Rand - I don't like her either, but don't feel the need to call her a "bitch" - I do like your vivid writing style, for example "the 'High-Finance but Low Morals' world of Wall $t.", but could have done without the "bastard bankers"...

You have it in you to become a talented writer.

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 12 years ago

PS : The Trading of 'Derivatives' ie 'Mortgage Backed Securities' ; 'Credit Default Swaps' ; 'Collateralised Debt Obligations' & other such 'Innovative Financial Products' (?!!) ... is a Gigantic 'Pyramid / Ponzi Scheme' - "DERIVED" from Compounded & Interest Generating Usurious Debt & it is ...

UTTERLY UNSUSTAINABLE, UNDEMOCRATIC & UNJUST !!

Q.E.D. ...