lewrockwell--2020-06-17--The Future of Money and Work

The Future of Money and Work

Is America in 2020 eerily similar to Germany of the 1920s ?
Is it appropriate to call the analogy Weimar America ?
With trillions of dollars printed in just days , 40+ million Americans out of work , and left and right-wing militias running amok fanning the flames of what were originally peaceful protests .
Also , the battle for historical narratives coalesces with a new and most intense wave of attacks on statues of historical figures .
The only thing missing is a Reichstag fire .
However , we ’ ve already witnessed the burning of Minneapolis .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news ?
Isn ’ t our world made up of complementary opposing forces ?
The sun always rising and setting without fail , ups followed by downs , and threats turned into opportunities ?
Various sects of Eastern philosophies ( including some martial art schools ) teach that a harmful force coming your way can be channeled to your advantage .
The same can be said for social , political , and economic threats .
We briefly outline these below .
We are Many , We are On ... John Zogby Best Price @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As in our previous edition of the Main St. – K St. IntelligenSEER powered by Zogby Strategies and EMI Research Solutions , we reference our recent nationwide online poll of 1,001 likely American voters ( +/- 3.2 percentage points ) .
While the data is entirely from Americans , much of what is playing out is on a global scale .
Those from all over the globe can benefit from our second edition of the Main St. – K St. InteligenSEER .
These are , but not limited to : • Politically , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where a small percentage of those on the left and right with extreme ideologies are fanning flames that could continue to spiral out of control .
We see this in the rise of groups like Antifa and Redneck Revolt , as well as on the opposing side – far-right fringe • Economically , there is an increasing gulf for those who work and those who don ’ t , as well as between members of the elite and the non-elite ( sometimes referred to as the 1 % and 99 % , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 9 % ) .
• Generationally , there is the most obvious divide between Baby Boomers and Millennials ( or those in their 60 ’ s and 70 ’ s and those in the mid- ’ 20s and ’ 30s ) .
Baby boomers are either retired , contemplating the idea if they have the wealth , looking for supplemental income , or desiring to mentor a generation facing an entirely different crisis than what Boomers faced in the ’ 60s , ’ 70s and after ‘ 08 .
Many millennials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starting families and have to plan and navigate through what increasingly looks to be epic times .
Others are primarily focused and struggling with how to ground themselves financially and attain stability .
A clash between generations could now be at Again , does all of this have to be bad news ?
The key is not to be a deer caught in headlights .
A look at the data and trends with clear cut analysis and forecasts always helps to shine a light on what is to come .
Whether in good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work are necessities that allow everyone to enjoy what matters in life – family , hobbies .
We will focus on the future of money and work according to what we asked the public and what they told us .
The Future of Money According to the Data • With more nations ushering in the cashless society , national paper currencies are increasingly called into question .
Not only has this been a hot button issue for leaders of central banks and ministers/secretaries of finance and treasuries the world over , but now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is behind the burgeoning policy in light of the belief that cash is ridden with microbes .
Our poll revealed that , overall , 45 % of Americans agree that paper currency…will become obsolete .
On the other hand , 40 % disagree .
Looking at age , those ages 18-29 and 30-44 have majorities that agree paper currency will no longer be in circulation .
Not surprisingly , among those ages 65+ , 63 % disagree as they know a life of mostly cash and have been the most frequent users of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that cash poses a threat because it carries microbes like COVID-19 , we followed up with the question , which form of currency should replace paper ?
A plurality of 42 % prefers a Nationally digitized currency .
Next , 8 % want blockchain technology such as Bitcoin in wide use .
Another 7 % prefer gold and silver bullion coins .
Another 3 % want another form , and finally , 40 % still are not sure .
• Forecast – The WHO now states they did not claim cash carried COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ widely popular argument among elite – banning cash will help eradicate criminals like drug and human traffickers and The fallacy with this argument is that the same logic was asserted to implement prohibition and the war on drugs .
Neither succeeded .
Criminals will always find a way to conduct their business .
The quest to ban cash will have disastrous effects for the working poor and working-class who rely on under the table wages ( i.e.
, antique dealers , waiters , bartenders , anyone who earns tips , and more ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ main reason for the cashless society remains that governments all over the globe are strap for cash and need to attain a new source of revenue .
Once cash is banned , and a new digitized system is put in place , more and more countries will be able to impose negative interest rates .
This means instead of the bank paying you to hold money in an account ; the bank will charge you to hold money in an account .
The logic here is to disincentivize savings and encourage spending as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scenario as witnessed in China , is the rollout of a social credit system in which citizens are punished and rewarded .
Is US Debt Unsustainable and What Will Become of the Average Standard of Living ?
• Overall , 61 % of the likely voters agree that the US national debt is unsustainable and that the average living standard will be drastically reduced in the years to come .
All ideologies from Progressives to those Very Conservative have majorities that agree with the above statement ranging from high-50 ’ s to mid-60 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side , 20 % • Forecast – In modern history , regimes often have a lifespan of approximately 70 years , give or take a decade – Soviet Russia , Modern Unified Germany , Jeffersonian Democracy .
Add to that list Postwar America .
What can no doubt characterize the overriding philosophy of the world since 1945 that dominated Postwar America and the world is Keynesian economics ( and all of its subcategories ) .
At the core , the philosophy has favored lowering interest rates to stimulate the Eventually , the fate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ low-interest-rate policies as a panacea is ultimately currency destruction .
While proponents of Modern Monetary Theory contend that deficits do not matter and that the Fed can print away deficits and the national debt , millennia of organized society show time and again that currency debasement ultimately leads to a currency crisis .
Consider also that every past world reserve currency has ultimately lost its status , according to JP Morgan ’ s Marko Kolanovic .
This includes former empires like the Portuguese , Spanish , Dutch , French , and English .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
• The Future of Work According to the Data— As service and manufacturing jobs become increasingly dominated by AI/Robotics – what will become of Gen Z , Millennials , and Gen X ?
• We asked the public how likely they thought their current job or previous job will be replaced by AI or robotics .
Overall , 9 % say very likely , 22 % say somewhat likely , and 54 % say not likely at all .
When combining very and somewhat ( 31 % ) , and applying that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re talking millions of workers fear job loss due to the inevitable introduction of AI/Robotics .
• Updated Forecast – In our previous IntelligenSEER , we asked the public whether they thought AI and Robotics powered by 5G was a leap forward for human civilization or a threat to humanity .
A little over one-third ( 34 % ) say a leap forward vs. 41 % that tells us a threat to humanity .
Numbers this divided over such an intense issue point to a chasm in the future world where one side @ @ @ @ @ @ @ merge with today ’ s cutting edge technology as discussed in the linked video created by the World Economic Forum .
There will be those that reject the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution and in greater numbers , pursue artisanship , craftsmanship , technical trades , and regenerative Is there a possibility of a convergence between the two ?
As of now , it appears that the intensity within each side is too high .
• Future Coveted Assets – What assets are on the minds of Americans ?
Regarding this question , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Will You Be Richer or ... • We asked which of the following assets would you like to own most at present and into the future ?
Overall , 28 % favored land/real estate , as well as another 28 % opting for cash .
Interestingly , 16 % report gold and silver coins , just 7 % choose stocks , 5 % say cryptocurrencies like bitcoin , 2 % go with bonds , leaving 13 % not sure .
The key here is that 72 % of the public wants to hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ estate/gold and silver coins ) .
This reflects a deep psychological shift away from financial instruments ultimately in the hands of Wall St. , and a preference for direct ownership of assets , some of which historically hold considerable value .
In the case of land , one can use it as a haven in a variety of ways .
• Forecast – This is not a temporary shift in psychology .
While 40+ million Americans are out of work and the stock market swings violently up and down , more Americans will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there are no risk-free assets , Americans want the closest thing to it .
Our previous edition on June 1st went into detail on these two very crucial trends .
Here are the updates .
• As outlined by Sagaar Enjeti of the Hill Rising , correspondents for network news receive daily memos outlining the recommended talking points of the day .
Those who do not toe the line do not rise up the ladder .
Often , Television reports are heavy on the visual and sound effects yet lacks substance for in-depth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A report will often only represent one side of the opinion and be presented more in the style of activism and less like In other words , viewers and listeners are getting opinions force-fed to them .
The podcast medium , however , often allows for the potential to go in-depth to the point where the host and guest ’ s entire world view is exposed , questioned , dissected , and presented honestly and not edited down to sound bites that misrepresent .
Generally speaking , baby boomers have mostly known @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come from mainstream media .
In contrast , Millennials grew up in the wild west of the internet and are generally more comfortable exploring what is typically considered taboo on network TV .
• Forecast – While Baby Boomers today still hold much of the world ’ s influential positions , eventually , they will witness the inevitable transition to a world increasingly run by Millennials .
The oldest Millennials are approaching age 40 and positions of leadership are just around the Today ’ s world of leadership built by Boomers will continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mounting problems will require an abandonment of the status quo .
Millennials will have to fixate less on bankrupt ideologies and rediscover what works – an emphasis on age-old virtues like character , merit , and wisdom .
Yesterday ’ s virtues extolled by higher education and the mainstream media have become today ’ s vices .
More specifically , the constant hyper-focus on race and gender will only continue to balkanize society .
If one is to truly value diversity , it needs to go beyond physical features and focus more on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have .
And most importantly , let the debates roll .
• Martial law update — There is little reason to believe the amount of rage that spilled over the last couple of weeks will burn itself out in a matter of a few weeks .
As outlined in the introduction , there are real stark parallels between Weimar Germany and what is going on in the United States While we aren ’ t experiencing hyperinflation , the US economy is approaching Great Depression levels .
In all actuality , a case can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Great Depression .
Consider that today more are out of work , few have any savings , and more are in debt than any time in the history of the world when factoring in mortgages , automobile loans , higher education loans , and credit card debt ) .
Food insecurity and job insecurity are problems that won ’ t be fixed in the long- run by more stimulus .
On the political front , far-left and far-right fringe groups are lurking in the shadows .
• Forecast — In typical Hegelian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the dialect at play is problem , reaction , solution .
The problem equals the protests that turned violent because of agitators .
The reaction will be the response from the extreme right .
As these two eventually duke it out on the streets in various cities – as we have already witnessed in the last few years – the situation is likely to spiral out of control .
The result is likely to be the U.S. military patrolling the streets of major cities .
The one good case for why U.S @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen is that we have witnessed the Pentagon ’ s refusal to follow Trump ’ s call to send the military into Washington D.C .
However , will that hold up as the summer intensifies , the economy continues to decline , all as we get closer to the November election ?
A brief note on the riots and the increasing lawlessness : Two basic views explain the recent wave of riots all across the nation ( and world ) .
One sees an organic movement built on rage over decades of police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racism towards minorities .
Another points to outside agitators using coordinated violence .
Regardless of which side you agree with , either way , the endgame is dangerous .
Consequently , Americans in droves are fleeing big cities as they see the writing on the wall .
Major metro areas no longer provide the life they once did as violence , homelessness , and disorder are on the rise .
We already asked if America in 2020 is eerily similar to Weimar Germany in the 1920s ?
Historical analogies are never perfect , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make sense of what is happening .
This state of crisis can be best understood by the economy facing destruction and thus tearing apart the social fabric .
On June 11th , there was a 7 % drop in the Dow Jones .
Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin is calling for another trillion-dollar stimulus package .
Currently , racism takes center stage in the mainstream media as the single most important issue of the day .
In reality , an economy spiraling out of control , largely due to decades of reckless inflationary policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behind what is ripping apart the social fabric and adding to the building pressure .
Eventually , havoc wreaks on the public , and opportunists emerge from the fringes of society seeking violence to capitalize on their agenda .
This was Weimar Germany throughout the 1920s , and it looks to be Weimar America in the 2020s .

Introduction
Is America in 2020 eerily similar to Germany of the 1920s? Is it appropriate to call the analogy Weimar America? With trillions of dollars printed in just days, 40+ million Americans out of work, and left and right-wing militias running amok fanning the flames of what were originally peaceful protests. Also, the battle for historical narratives coalesces with a new and most intense wave of attacks on statues of historical figures. The only thing missing is a Reichstag fire. However, we’ve already witnessed the burning of Minneapolis.
But does this all have to be bad news? Isn’t our world made up of complementary opposing forces? The sun always rising and setting without fail, ups followed by downs, and threats turned into opportunities? Various sects of Eastern philosophies (including some martial art schools) teach that a harmful force coming your way can be channeled to your advantage. The same can be said for social, political, and economic threats. We briefly outline these below.
We are Many, We are On... John Zogby Best Price: $6.99 Buy New $20.96 (as of 05:28 UTC - Details) As in our previous edition of the Main St. – K St. IntelligenSEER powered by Zogby Strategies and EMI Research Solutions, we reference our recent nationwide online poll of 1,001 likely American voters (+/- 3.2 percentage points). While the data is entirely from Americans, much of what is playing out is on a global scale. Those from all over the globe can benefit from our second edition of the Main St. – K St. InteligenSEER.
America’s Many Divides
These are, but not limited to:
Politically, the nation has entered a volatile period where a small percentage of those on the left and right with extreme ideologies are fanning flames that could continue to spiral out of control. We see this in the rise of groups like Antifa and Redneck Revolt, as well as on the opposing side – far-right fringe
We see this in the rise of groups like Antifa and Redneck Revolt, as well as on the opposing side – far-right fringe Economically, there is an increasing gulf for those who work and those who don’t, as well as between members of the elite and the non-elite (sometimes referred to as the 1% and 99%, but in all actuality the .01% and the 9% ).
). Generationally, there is the most obvious divide between Baby Boomers and Millennials (or those in their 60’s and 70’s and those in the mid-’20s and ’30s). Baby boomers are either retired, contemplating the idea if they have the wealth, looking for supplemental income, or desiring to mentor a generation facing an entirely different crisis than what Boomers faced in the ’60s, ’70s and after ‘08. Many millennials, on the other hand, are just starting families and have to plan and navigate through what increasingly looks to be epic times. Others are primarily focused and struggling with how to ground themselves financially and attain stability. A clash between generations could now be at
Again, does all of this have to be bad news? The key is not to be a deer caught in headlights. A look at the data and trends with clear cut analysis and forecasts always helps to shine a light on what is to come.
On the Data Front
Whether in good times or bad times, money and work are necessities that allow everyone to enjoy what matters in life – family, hobbies. We will focus on the future of money and work according to what we asked the public and what they told us.
The Future of Money According to the Data
With more nations ushering in the cashless society, national paper currencies are increasingly called into question. Not only has this been a hot button issue for leaders of central banks and ministers/secretaries of finance and treasuries the world over, but now a good deal of the American public is behind the burgeoning policy in light of the belief that cash is ridden with microbes. Our poll revealed that, overall, 45% of Americans agree that paper currency…will become obsolete. On the other hand, 40% disagree. Looking at age, those ages 18-29 and 30-44 have majorities that agree paper currency will no longer be in circulation. Not surprisingly, among those ages 65+, 63% disagree as they know a life of mostly cash and have been the most frequent users of it.
45% of Americans agree that paper currency…will become obsolete. On the other hand, 40% disagree. Looking at age, those ages 18-29 and 30-44 have majorities that agree paper currency will no longer be in circulation. Not surprisingly, among those ages 65+, 63% disagree as they know a life of mostly cash and have been the most frequent users of it. Among those who agree that cash poses a threat because it carries microbes like COVID-19, we followed up with the question, which form of currency should replace paper? A plurality of 42% prefers a Nationally digitized currency. Next, 8% want blockchain technology such as Bitcoin in wide use. Another 7% prefer gold and silver bullion coins. Another 3% want another form, and finally, 40% still are not sure. Money and Work Unchained Charles Hugh Smith Best Price: $11.00 Buy New $1.99 (as of 10:55 UTC - Details )
Forecast – The WHO now states they did not claim cash carried COVID-19. Still, there is the other widely popular argument among elite – banning cash will help eradicate criminals like drug and human traffickers and The fallacy with this argument is that the same logic was asserted to implement prohibition and the war on drugs. Neither succeeded. Criminals will always find a way to conduct their business. The quest to ban cash will have disastrous effects for the working poor and working-class who rely on under the table wages (i.e., antique dealers, waiters, bartenders, anyone who earns tips, and more). Cutting to the point, the main reason for the cashless society remains that governments all over the globe are strap for cash and need to attain a new source of revenue. Once cash is banned, and a new digitized system is put in place, more and more countries will be able to impose negative interest rates. This means instead of the bank paying you to hold money in an account; the bank will charge you to hold money in an account. The logic here is to disincentivize savings and encourage spending as a form of stimulus. The worst-case scenario as witnessed in China, is the rollout of a social credit system in which citizens are punished and rewarded.
Is US Debt Unsustainable and What Will Become of the Average Standard of Living?
Overall, 61% of the likely voters agree that the US national debt is unsustainable and that the average living standard will be drastically reduced in the years to come. All ideologies from Progressives to those Very Conservative have majorities that agree with the above statement ranging from high-50’s to mid-60’s percentage-wise. On the flip side, 20% Forecast – In modern history, regimes often have a lifespan of approximately 70 years, give or take a decade – Soviet Russia, Modern Unified Germany, Jeffersonian Democracy. Add to that list Postwar America. What can no doubt characterize the overriding philosophy of the world since 1945 that dominated Postwar America and the world is Keynesian economics (and all of its subcategories). At the core, the philosophy has favored lowering interest rates to stimulate the Eventually, the fate of every nation that uses inflation and low-interest-rate policies as a panacea is ultimately currency destruction. While proponents of Modern Monetary Theory contend that deficits do not matter and that the Fed can print away deficits and the national debt, millennia of organized society show time and again that currency debasement ultimately leads to a currency crisis. Consider also that every past world reserve currency has ultimately lost its status, according to JP Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic. This includes former empires like the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and English. Why should the U.S. be any different?
The Future of Work According to the Data — As service and manufacturing jobs become increasingly dominated by AI/Robotics – what will become of Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X? We asked the public how likely they thought their current job or previous job will be replaced by AI or robotics. Overall, 9% say very likely, 22% say somewhat likely, and 54% say not likely at all. When combining very and somewhat (31%), and applying that to the actual population, we’re talking millions of workers fear job loss due to the inevitable introduction of AI/Robotics. Updated Forecast – In our previous IntelligenSEER, we asked the public whether they thought AI and Robotics powered by 5G was a leap forward for human civilization or a threat to humanity. A little over one-third (34%) say a leap forward vs. 41% that tells us a threat to humanity. Numbers this divided over such an intense issue point to a chasm in the future world where one side of humans will engage and or possibly merge with today’s cutting edge technology , as discussed in the linked video created by the World Economic Forum. There will be those that reject the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution and in greater numbers, pursue artisanship, craftsmanship, technical trades, and regenerative Is there a possibility of a convergence between the two? As of now, it appears that the intensity within each side is too high.
— As service and manufacturing jobs become increasingly dominated by AI/Robotics – what will become of Gen Z, Millennials, and Gen X?
Future Coveted Assets – What assets are on the minds of Americans? Regarding this question, is there any wisdom from the crowd? Will You Be Richer or ... Smith, Charles Hugh Best Price: $10.99 Buy New $11.55 (as of 05:55 UTC - Details ) We asked which of the following assets would you like to own most at present and into the future? Overall, 28% favored land/real estate, as well as another 28% opting for cash. Interestingly, 16% report gold and silver coins, just 7% choose stocks, 5% say cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, 2% go with bonds, leaving 13% not sure. The key here is that 72% of the public wants to hold onto hard assets (cash, land/real estate/gold and silver coins). This reflects a deep psychological shift away from financial instruments ultimately in the hands of Wall St., and a preference for direct ownership of assets, some of which historically hold considerable value. In the case of land, one can use it as a haven in a variety of ways. Forecast – This is not a temporary shift in psychology. While 40+ million Americans are out of work and the stock market swings violently up and down, more Americans will continue to seek stability in their While there are no risk-free assets, Americans want the closest thing to it.
What assets are on the minds of Americans? Regarding this question, is there any wisdom from the crowd?
Trend Update
Our previous edition on June 1st went into detail on these two very crucial trends. Here are the updates.
Journalism update . Top-down/non-transparent/two-dimensional Mainstream media the bottom-up/transparent/multidimensional podcast revolution.
. Top-down/non-transparent/two-dimensional Mainstream media the bottom-up/transparent/multidimensional podcast revolution. As outlined by Sagaar Enjeti of the Hill Rising, correspondents for network news receive daily memos outlining the recommended talking points of the day. Those who do not toe the line do not rise up the ladder. Often, Television reports are heavy on the visual and sound effects yet lacks substance for in-depth narrative and rarely accurately portray alternative viewpoints. A report will often only represent one side of the opinion and be presented more in the style of activism and less like In other words, viewers and listeners are getting opinions force-fed to them. The podcast medium, however, often allows for the potential to go in-depth to the point where the host and guest’s entire world view is exposed, questioned, dissected, and presented honestly and not edited down to sound bites that misrepresent. Generally speaking, baby boomers have mostly known the top-down, highly controlled narratives that come from mainstream media. In contrast, Millennials grew up in the wild west of the internet and are generally more comfortable exploring what is typically considered taboo on network TV.
Forecast – While Baby Boomers today still hold much of the world’s influential positions, eventually, they will witness the inevitable transition to a world increasingly run by Millennials. The oldest Millennials are approaching age 40 and positions of leadership are just around the Today’s world of leadership built by Boomers will continue to erode at increasing speed and the mounting problems will require an abandonment of the status quo. Millennials will have to fixate less on bankrupt ideologies and rediscover what works – an emphasis on age-old virtues like character, merit, and wisdom. Yesterday’s virtues extolled by higher education and the mainstream media have become today’s vices. More specifically, the constant hyper-focus on race and gender will only continue to balkanize society. If one is to truly value diversity, it needs to go beyond physical features and focus more on heart and soul – which all humans have. And most importantly, let the debates roll.
While Baby Boomers today still hold much of the world’s influential positions, eventually, they will witness the inevitable transition to a world increasingly run by Millennials. The oldest Millennials are approaching age 40 and positions of leadership are just around the Today’s world of leadership built by Boomers will continue to erode at increasing speed and the mounting problems will require an abandonment of the status quo. Millennials will have to fixate less on bankrupt ideologies and rediscover what works – an emphasis on age-old virtues like character, merit, and wisdom. Yesterday’s virtues extolled by higher education and the mainstream media have become today’s vices. More specifically, the constant hyper-focus on race and gender will only continue to balkanize society. If one is to truly value diversity, it needs to go beyond physical features and focus more on heart and soul – which all humans have. And most importantly, let the debates roll. Martial law update — There is little reason to believe the amount of rage that spilled over the last couple of weeks will burn itself out in a matter of a few weeks. As outlined in the introduction, there are real stark parallels between Weimar Germany and what is going on in the United States While we aren’t experiencing hyperinflation, the US economy is approaching Great Depression levels. In all actuality, a case can be made we’re already beyond the Great Depression. Consider that today more are out of work, few have any savings, and more are in debt than any time in the history of the world when factoring in mortgages, automobile loans, higher education loans, and credit card debt). Food insecurity and job insecurity are problems that won’t be fixed in the long- run by more stimulus. On the political front, far-left and far-right fringe groups are lurking in the shadows.
— There is little reason to believe the amount of rage that spilled over the last couple of weeks will burn itself out in a matter of a few weeks. As outlined in the introduction, there are real stark parallels between Weimar Germany and what is going on in the United States While we aren’t experiencing hyperinflation, the US economy is approaching Great Depression levels. In all actuality, a case can be made we’re already beyond the Great Depression. Consider that today more are out of work, few have any savings, and more are in debt than any time in the history of the world when factoring in mortgages, automobile loans, higher education loans, and credit card debt). Food insecurity and job insecurity are problems that won’t be fixed in the long- run by more stimulus. On the political front, far-left and far-right fringe groups are lurking in the shadows. Forecast — In typical Hegelian fashion (the German philosopher Hegel), the dialect at play is problem, reaction, solution. The problem equals the protests that turned violent because of agitators. The reaction will be the response from the extreme right. As these two eventually duke it out on the streets in various cities – as we have already witnessed in the last few years – the situation is likely to spiral out of control. The result is likely to be the U.S. military patrolling the streets of major cities. The one good case for why U.S Military patrolling the streets won’t happen is that we have witnessed the Pentagon’s refusal to follow Trump’s call to send the military into Washington D.C. However, will that hold up as the summer intensifies, the economy continues to decline, all as we get closer to the November election? Pathfinding our Destin... Smith, Charles Hugh Best Price: $9.95 Buy New $12.00 (as of 03:30 UTC - Details )
A brief note on the riots and the increasing lawlessness:
Two basic views explain the recent wave of riots all across the nation (and world). One sees an organic movement built on rage over decades of police abuse, systemic corruption, and institutional racism towards minorities. Another points to outside agitators using coordinated violence. Regardless of which side you agree with, either way, the endgame is dangerous. Consequently, Americans in droves are fleeing big cities as they see the writing on the wall. Major metro areas no longer provide the life they once did as violence, homelessness, and disorder are on the rise.
In the Final Analysis
We already asked if America in 2020 is eerily similar to Weimar Germany in the 1920s? Historical analogies are never perfect, but they give us some grounding to make sense of what is happening. This state of crisis can be best understood by the economy facing destruction and thus tearing apart the social fabric. On June 11th, there was a 7% drop in the Dow Jones. Secretary of Treasury Mnuchin is calling for another trillion-dollar stimulus package. Currently, racism takes center stage in the mainstream media as the single most important issue of the day. In reality, an economy spiraling out of control, largely due to decades of reckless inflationary policy, is the unseen but omnipresent force behind what is ripping apart the social fabric and adding to the building pressure. Eventually, havoc wreaks on the public, and opportunists emerge from the fringes of society seeking violence to capitalize on their agenda. This was Weimar Germany throughout the 1920s, and it looks to be Weimar America in the 2020s.


lewrockwell--2020-06-17--Cancel the White Men—And What’s Left?

Cancel the White Men—And What’s Left?

“ Can we all just get along ?
” That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway .
King ’ s plea came after the 1992 LA riots , the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops .
In the aftermath of today ’ s protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis , we hear similar calls .
President Donald @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ unify the nation.
” But how ?
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Best Price : $ 2.03 Buy New $ 8.50 Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart by pulling down statues of the famous men of American history whom they most detest .
A second war on the Confederacy is underway , to disgrace and dishonor all who fought for Southern independence in the war of 1861-65 .
A second Reconstruction is being readied @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the battle flag of the Confederate army , though seen as a banner of heroism and honor to millions , is henceforth to be treated like the Nazi swastika .
It has been already been banned at Nascar races , where it has been widely popular .
Liberals will fight for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their hatred of it but can not tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the Confederacy to show their love of it .
A second front in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals , such as Forts Benning and Bragg .
Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision .
Third is the drive led by Nancy Pelosi and her allies to remove statues in the Capitol of any of those men of “ violent bigotry ” who were connected to the Confederacy .
Anley USA Pleated Fan ... Buy New $ 9.95 First among them is General Robert E. Lee .
Gen. David Petraeus has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is guilty .
Though “ West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate , a road , an entire housing area , and a barracks , ” writes Petraeus , “ Lee… committed treason.
” The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant , as official truth — that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain .
It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy .
To have that sole acceptable view @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors .
They have , however , a problem : Where do the elites stop when the radicals demand more ?
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What Washington fought for , independence , was what Lee fought for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s election .
He did not seek to overthrow the government Lincoln headed .
He resigned from the U.S. army to go home and defend the people among whom he had been raised from an invasion to force-march them back into a Union the state ’ s chosen rulers had voted to leave .
Not only does our national capital , Washington , bear the name of a lifelong slave owner , so does the capital of Missouri , Jefferson City .
So does the capital of Mississippi , Jackson .
So does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The capital of Ohio is Columbus .
The capital of South Carolina is Columbia .
Both are named for now-vilified Christopher Columbus whose statue still stands outside D.C. ’ s Union Station .
None of these men appears , from how they lived their lives , to have shared modernity ’ s belief in democracy , diversity or social equality .
Yet , it was they who cobbled together the United States of America .
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Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase , doubling the size of the U.S. Andrew Jackson added Florida .
James K. Polk added the Southwest and California .
Slave owner Sam Houston won Texas ’ War of independence and brought his Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845 .
Two of the three greatest Senate statesmen of the 19th century , Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun of South Carolina , were slave owners .
Both have statues in the Capitol .
Do they go , too ?
The newest bridge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dam in the TVA , is named for Woodrow Wilson , who resegregated the government .
These were among the decisive figures of American history .
If all are dishonored , with their statues pulled down and their names taken off cities , counties , towns , rivers , canals , bridges , buildings , highways , roads , streets and dams , then what is left ?
Detest all those white men if you will , but they were the ones who created the nation we inherited .
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“Can we all just get along?”
That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway.
King’s plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops.
In the aftermath of today’s protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we hear similar calls. President Donald Trump must “reach out” and “unify the nation.”
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Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart by pulling down statues of the famous men of American history whom they most detest.
A second war on the Confederacy is underway, to disgrace and dishonor all who fought for Southern independence in the war of 1861-65. A second Reconstruction is being readied.
The St. Andrew’s Cross, the battle flag of the Confederate army, though seen as a banner of heroism and honor to millions, is henceforth to be treated like the Nazi swastika. It has been already been banned at Nascar races, where it has been widely popular.
Liberals will fight for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their hatred of it but cannot tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the Confederacy to show their love of it.
A second front in the campaign to cancel history is the renaming of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning and Bragg. Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision.
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First among them is General Robert E. Lee.
Gen. David Petraeus has put succinctly the crime of which Lee is guilty. Though “West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks,” writes Petraeus, “Lee… committed treason.”
The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant, as official truth — that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain. It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy.
To have that sole acceptable view predominate, our elites believe they must remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors.
They have, however, a problem: Where do the elites stop when the radicals demand more?
Trump 2020 Coffee Cups... Best Price: $32.74 Buy New $37.98 (as of 05:29 UTC - Details) If support of slavery disqualifies one from the company of decent men, does it disqualify George Washington, who owned slaves his entire life? What Washington fought for, independence, was what Lee fought for.
Lee did not challenge Lincoln’s election. He did not seek to overthrow the government Lincoln headed. He resigned from the U.S. army to go home and defend the people among whom he had been raised from an invasion to force-march them back into a Union the state’s chosen rulers had voted to leave.
Not only does our national capital, Washington, bear the name of a lifelong slave owner, so does the capital of Missouri, Jefferson City. So does the capital of Mississippi, Jackson. So does the capital of Wisconsin, Madison. The capital of Ohio is Columbus. The capital of South Carolina is Columbia. Both are named for now-vilified Christopher Columbus whose statue still stands outside D.C.’s Union Station.
None of these men appears, from how they lived their lives, to have shared modernity’s belief in democracy, diversity or social equality. Yet, it was they who cobbled together the United States of America.
Keep America Great Tru... Buy New $13.99 (as of 05:29 UTC - Details) Washington led us to independence and ownership of all the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the U.S. Andrew Jackson added Florida. James K. Polk added the Southwest and California. Slave owner Sam Houston won Texas’ War of independence and brought his Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.
Two of the three greatest Senate statesmen of the 19th century, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun of South Carolina, were slave owners. Both have statues in the Capitol. Do they go, too?
The newest bridge over the Potomac, like the premier dam in the TVA, is named for Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the government.
These were among the decisive figures of American history. If all are dishonored, with their statues pulled down and their names taken off cities, counties, towns, rivers, canals, bridges, buildings, highways, roads, streets and dams, then what is left?
Detest all those white men if you will, but they were the ones who created the nation we inherited.
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The First Freedom

Here is a pop quiz on the Constitution .
What is the first freedom protected by the Bill of Rights ?
If you guessed speech or press , then you are close .
The first protected freedom is religion .
The two religion clauses in the First Amendment keep the government out of our pockets for religious purposes and out of our churches for all purposes .
That was , at least , the intent of the framers .
The tyrannical behavior of many state governors , who have issued executive orders purporting to regulate private behavior on private property @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worship — and in the process have enforced these orders as if they were laws , has ignored this .
In America , governors do not write laws ; only legislatures do .
There are no pandemic or public health or emergency exceptions in the Constitution .
Here in New Jersey , Catholics were permitted — permitted — to attend public Masses last Sunday for the first time in 88 days .
CONSTITUTION IN EXILE , ... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price : $ 0.10 Buy New $ 3.93 This has deeply troubled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-adherents , who understand the concepts that only legislatures write laws and that no legislature can write a law telling a religious institution when and how to permit worship .
So , who closed all the houses of worship ?
Why did Catholic bishops dispense with a nearly 1,600-year-old rule — which survived all sorts of wars and pestilence — requiring attendance at Sunday Mass ?
What became of the wall of separation ?
Here is the backstory .
When first-year law students are asked the meaning of the Establishment Clause and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they often argue that these clauses mandate a wall of separation between church and state .
Some students even offer to find the “ wall of separation ” language in the Constitution .
They are still looking for it .
While it is accurate to use the wall of separation phrase , it is nowhere in the Constitution or in any federal statute .
It was first publicly used in an 1802 letter from President Thomas Jefferson to a congregation of Baptists in Danbury , Connecticut .
The congregation had written to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ landowners to pay for the state-supported Congregationalist Church .
They told him that the state regarded their religious freedom as a privilege to be doled out , rather than as an inalienable right as the congregation believed it to be and as he had characterized it and other rights in the Declaration of Independence .
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In his famous letter , he opined that the First Amendment erected “ a wall of separation between church and state.
” To Jefferson , the word “ state ” in that context meant all governments .
Though the imposition of state taxes to support churches ended during the 19th century , it wasn ’ t until 1947 that the Supreme Court ruled with clarity that the First Amendment — the language in which only restrains Congress — applies to the states as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the 14th Amendment prohibits all states from abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States .
The phrase “ privileges or immunities ” connotes attributes of national citizenship — first among which are a prohibition on government establishing a religion or interfering with its free exercise .
Stated differently , the right to worship or not , and the right not to be charged for someone else ’ s worship , are personal human rights — as Jefferson called them , inalienable rights .
Now , back to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ permitted crowds at Walmart and arrested folks for attending funerals .
They permitted thousands of demonstrators in public streets and arrested not one of them for marching without masks or not socially distancing .
My friend Professor John Rao of St. John ’ s University wrote : “ Our troubled world continues along its current revolutionary path with no clear idea as of yet just how far the diabolical disorientation that has been unleashed may go .
One thing and one thing alone seems definite to me in the midst of the general @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exceptions , the leadership of our beloved Church , legitimate though that leadership is , has proven itself to be utterly subservient ” to the state .
Separation of Church & ... David Barton Best Price : $ 1.20 Buy New $ 3.99 It was not the governors who shut the churches ; it was — with some courageous exceptions — the gutless American Catholic bishops who did so .
Never before in the history of America has the Church become an arm of the state .
The governors told the bishops to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Their predecessors were martyrs .
They are cowards .
That is not rendering to Caesar what is Caesar ’ s .
That is rendering to Caesar what is God ’ s .
Faithful Catholics believe that we consume the Bread of Life at Mass .
The bishops have no more moral right to deny us that salvific sacrament than do the governors .
Faithful Catholics also believe that Holy Mother Church is the route to eternal salvation and the Bread of Life is the food for that route .
What mother would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hands of state-subservient bishops .
When the Supreme Court explained the two religion clauses , it ruled that they prohibit both conspicuous governmental aid to religion and all government interference with it , and all excessive entanglement between church and state .
In another time and place , how different this might have been .
One hundred years ago , the Church was outlawed in Mexico and militias hunted down priests .
Saying a public Mass then was the functional equivalent of a capital offense .
Yet , there were more Masses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mexico in those years than in America in the last 88 days .
The wall of separation insulates our religious beliefs and practices from governmental tyranny .
But without episcopal fidelity and courage , the wall crumbles .
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Here is a pop quiz on the Constitution. What is the first freedom protected by the Bill of Rights? If you guessed speech or press, then you are close. The first protected freedom is religion. The two religion clauses in the First Amendment keep the government out of our pockets for religious purposes and out of our churches for all purposes. That was, at least, the intent of the framers.
The tyrannical behavior of many state governors, who have issued executive orders purporting to regulate private behavior on private property — even religious behavior in houses of worship — and in the process have enforced these orders as if they were laws, has ignored this. In America, governors do not write laws; only legislatures do. There are no pandemic or public health or emergency exceptions in the Constitution.
Here in New Jersey, Catholics were permitted — permitted — to attend public Masses last Sunday for the first time in 88 days. CONSTITUTION IN EXILE,... Andrew P. Napolitano Best Price: $0.10 Buy New $3.93 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
This has deeply troubled many of the faithful, and many non-adherents, who understand the concepts that only legislatures write laws and that no legislature can write a law telling a religious institution when and how to permit worship.
So, who closed all the houses of worship? Why did Catholic bishops dispense with a nearly 1,600-year-old rule — which survived all sorts of wars and pestilence — requiring attendance at Sunday Mass? What became of the wall of separation?
Here is the backstory.
When first-year law students are asked the meaning of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause in the First Amendment, they often argue that these clauses mandate a wall of separation between church and state. Some students even offer to find the “wall of separation” language in the Constitution. They are still looking for it.
While it is accurate to use the wall of separation phrase, it is nowhere in the Constitution or in any federal statute. It was first publicly used in an 1802 letter from President Thomas Jefferson to a congregation of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut. The congregation had written to Jefferson complaining that Connecticut was taxing all landowners to pay for the state-supported Congregationalist Church.
They told him that the state regarded their religious freedom as a privilege to be doled out, rather than as an inalienable right as the congregation believed it to be and as he had characterized it and other rights in the Declaration of Independence. Separate for a Reason:... Ruth, Janet Best Price: $23.55 Buy New $10.24 (as of 03:55 UTC - Details)
Jefferson understood the values underlying the religion clauses of the First Amendment to mean that while only Congress was prohibited from establishing a church or interfering with worship, the states should not do so either. In his famous letter, he opined that the First Amendment erected “a wall of separation between church and state.” To Jefferson, the word “state” in that context meant all governments.
Though the imposition of state taxes to support churches ended during the 19th century, it wasn’t until 1947 that the Supreme Court ruled with clarity that the First Amendment — the language in which only restrains Congress — applies to the states as well.
We know that it does because the 14th Amendment prohibits all states from abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. The phrase “privileges or immunities” connotes attributes of national citizenship — first among which are a prohibition on government establishing a religion or interfering with its free exercise.
Stated differently, the right to worship or not, and the right not to be charged for someone else’s worship, are personal human rights — as Jefferson called them, inalienable rights.
Now, back to the governors and the bishops.
The governors permitted crowds at Walmart and arrested folks for attending funerals. They permitted thousands of demonstrators in public streets and arrested not one of them for marching without masks or not socially distancing.
My friend Professor John Rao of St. John’s University wrote: “Our troubled world continues along its current revolutionary path with no clear idea as of yet just how far the diabolical disorientation that has been unleashed may go. One thing and one thing alone seems definite to me in the midst of the general uncertainty. With a few very notable exceptions, the leadership of our beloved Church, legitimate though that leadership is, has proven itself to be utterly subservient” to the state. Separation of Church &... David Barton Best Price: $1.20 Buy New $3.99 (as of 03:55 UTC - Details)
It was not the governors who shut the churches; it was — with some courageous exceptions — the gutless American Catholic bishops who did so. Never before in the history of America has the Church become an arm of the state. The governors told the bishops to close their churches, and they complied. Their predecessors were martyrs. They are cowards.
That is not rendering to Caesar what is Caesar’s. That is rendering to Caesar what is God’s.
Faithful Catholics believe that we consume the Bread of Life at Mass. The bishops have no more moral right to deny us that salvific sacrament than do the governors. Faithful Catholics also believe that Holy Mother Church is the route to eternal salvation and the Bread of Life is the food for that route. What mother would deny her children food? One in the hands of state-subservient bishops.
When the Supreme Court explained the two religion clauses, it ruled that they prohibit both conspicuous governmental aid to religion and all government interference with it, and all excessive entanglement between church and state.
In another time and place, how different this might have been. One hundred years ago, the Church was outlawed in Mexico and militias hunted down priests. Saying a public Mass then was the functional equivalent of a capital offense. Yet, there were more Masses celebrated for the faithful per day in Mexico in those years than in America in the last 88 days.
The wall of separation insulates our religious beliefs and practices from governmental tyranny. But without episcopal fidelity and courage, the wall crumbles.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-06-18--America’s Own Color Revolution

America’s Own Color Revolution

Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation , “ democracy ” NGOs and other groups since the 1980 ’ s .
They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s .
From there the techniques were refined and used , along with heavy bribes , to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union .
For anyone who has studied those models closely , it is clear that the protests against police violence led by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage .
Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President , but in the process , the very structures of the US Constitutional order .
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man , George Floyd , and look at what has taken place across the nation since then , it is clear that certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the horrific event for their own agenda .
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained violent actors .
Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent protests—Black Lives Matter and Antifa ( USA ) .
Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed uniformly in black and masked ( not for coronavirus to be sure ) , vandalizing police cars , burning police stations , smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats .
Use of Twitter and other social media to coordinate “ hit-and-run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evident .
Manifest Destiny : Demo ... F. William Engdahl Best Price : $ 18.99 Buy New $ 19.95 What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968 .
I lived through those events in 1968 and what is unfolding today is far different .
It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that toppled Milosevic in 2000 .
In the year 2000 the US State Department , aided by its National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a group of Belgrade university students led by a student group that was called Otpor !
( Resistance ! )
.
The NED and its various offshoots was created in the 1980 ’ s by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO .
In fact , they get their money from Congress and from USAID .
In the Serb Otpor !
destabilization of 2000 , the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in Belgrade selected and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , led by Srđa Popović , using the handbook , From Dictatorship to Democracy , translated to Serbian , of the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution .
In a post mortem on the Serb events , the Washington Post wrote , “ US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in virtually every facet of the anti-drive , running tracking polls , training thousands of opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count .
US taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint used by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walls across Serbia.
” Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid of ‘ intelligence helmet ’ video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their environment .
Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell phones , would then overwhelm police .
The US government spent some $ 41 million on the operation .
Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that mocked the authority of the ruling police , showing them to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protesters .
Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the scenes .
The Color Revolution Otpor !
model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange Revolution with logo and color theme scarves , and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution .
Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring .
In all cases the NED was involved with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations .
After defeating Milosevic , Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of for-profit business consultancy for revolution , and was personally present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also Soros money was reported .
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The impact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were it not for a network of local and state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters , even to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the heart of downtown to occupation by protesters .
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken over by what one could call radical left candidates .
Often they win with active backing of organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D-NY ) , Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America .
Clearly without sympathetic Democrat local officials in key cities , the street protests of organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact .
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has been pouring millions into BLM .
The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa “ cells ” join up with BLM chapters .
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the # BlackLivesMatter hashtag to protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager , Trayvon Martin by a white Hispanic block watchman , George Zimmermann .
Alicia Garza , Patrisse Cullors , and Opal Tometi were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road Socialist Organization , one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Movement that dissolved in the 1980s .
On June 12 , 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states , “ The time is now to join a revolutionary organization !
Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization…If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks , the odds are good that you ’ ve been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer , and the kind of change this country needs .
Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation , inequality and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration has made the pandemic worse .
The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s .
Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off .
And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for.
” Seeds of Destruction : ... William F. Engdahl Best Price : $ 13.26 Buy New $ 19.95 In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now being used to call for a revolution against capitalism .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM .
What is interesting about the self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization ( FRSO ) is not so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of well-endowed tax-exempt foundations .
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance , Board member of School of Unity and Liberation ( SOUL ) , of People Organized to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance .
The Right to the City Alliance got $ 6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ( $ 1.9 million ) , from both of George Soros ’ s major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations , and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $ 1.3 million .
Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $ 250,000 , and curiously , Ben & Jerry ’ s Foundation ( ice cream ) for $ 30,000 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Executive Director of the FRSO front , POWER , where Obama former “ green jobs czar ” Van Jones , a self-described “ communist ” and “ rowdy black nationalist , ” now with CNN , was on the board .
Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City Alliance , a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification .
That front since 2009 received $ 1.3 million from the Ford Foundation , as well as $ 600,000 from the Soros foundations and again , Ben & Jerry ’ s ( $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SOUL , which claimed to have trained 712 “ organizers ” in 2014 , when she co-founded Black Lives Matter , got $ 210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $ 255,000 from the Heinz Foundation ( ketchup and John Kerry family ) among others .
With the Forward Together of FRSO , Garza sat on the board of a “ multi-racial organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and policy to catalyze social change.
” It officially got $ 4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of $ 2.9 million from Ford Foundation ( $ 655,000 ) and other major foundations .
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO .
Tometi headed the FRSO ’ s Black Alliance for Just Immigration .
Curiously with a “ staff ” of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $ 75,000 and Soros foundations for $ 100,000 , and , again , Ben & Jerry ’ s ( $ 10,000 ) .
Tometi got $ 60,000 in 2014 to direct the group @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now openly calling for a revolution against capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm , The Advancement Project , which describes itself as “ a next generation , multi-racial civil rights organization.
” Its board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights .
The FRSO Advancement Project in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford ( $ 8.5 million ) , Kellogg ( $ 3 million ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( $ 2.5 million ) , Rockefeller Foundation ( $ 2.5 million ) , and Soros foundations ( $ 8.6 million ) .
The Lost Hegemon : Whom ... F. William Engdahl Best Price : $ 13.92 Buy New $ 20.71 By 2016 , the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump , Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network .
That year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund ( BLMF ) , “ a six-year pooled donor campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Movement for Black Lives coalition ” in which BLM was a central part .
By then Soros foundations had already given some $ 33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement .
This was serious foundation money .
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the Ford Foundation , the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations .
They described their role : “ The BLMF provides grants , movement building resources , and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ queer , feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization , policing and race in America.
” The Movement for Black Lives Coalition ( M4BL ) which includes Black Lives Matter , already in 2016 called for “ defunding police departments , race-based reparations , voting rights for illegal immigrants , fossil-fuel divestment , an end to private education and charter schools , a universal basic income , and free college for blacks.
” Notably , when we click on the website of M4BL , under their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will go to something called ActBlue Charities .
ActBlue facilitates donations to “ democrats and progressives.
” As of May 21 , ActBlue had given $ 119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden .
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests .
Now major corporations such as Apple , Disney , Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue under the name of Black Lives Matter , funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a Democrat President Biden .
Perhaps this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been so confident of support from black voters .
What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America .
The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller , Ford , Kellogg , Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances @ @ @ @ @ @

Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, “democracy” NGOs and other groups since the 1980’s. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.
If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, and look at what has taken place across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
The protests since May 25 have often begun peacefully only to be taken over by well-trained violent actors. Two organizations have appeared regularly in connection with the violent protests—Black Lives Matter and Antifa (USA). Videos show well-equipped protesters dressed uniformly in black and masked (not for coronavirus to be sure), vandalizing police cars, burning police stations, smashing store windows with pipes or baseball bats. Use of Twitter and other social media to coordinate “hit-and-run” swarming strikes of protest mobs is evident. Manifest Destiny: Demo... F. William Engdahl Best Price: $18.99 Buy New $19.95 (as of 09:45 UTC - Details)
What has unfolded since the Minneapolis trigger event has been compared to the wave of primarily black ghetto protest riots in 1968. I lived through those events in 1968 and what is unfolding today is far different. It is better likened to the Yugoslav color revolution that toppled Milosevic in 2000.
Gene Sharp: Template for Regime Overthrow
In the year 2000 the US State Department, aided by its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and select CIA operatives, began secretly training a group of Belgrade university students led by a student group that was called Otpor! (Resistance!). The NED and its various offshoots was created in the 1980’s by CIA head Bill Casey as a covert CIA tool to overthrow specific regimes around the world under the cover of a human rights NGO. In fact, they get their money from Congress and from USAID.
In the Serb Otpor! destabilization of 2000, the NED and US Ambassador Richard Miles in Belgrade selected and trained a group of several dozen students, led by Srđa Popović, using the handbook, From Dictatorship to Democracy, translated to Serbian, of the late Gene Sharp and his Albert Einstein Institution. In a post mortem on the Serb events, the Washington Post wrote, “US-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in virtually every facet of the anti-drive, running tracking polls, training thousands of opposition activists and helping to organize a vitally important parallel vote count. US taxpayers paid for 5,000 cans of spray paint used by student activists to scrawl anti-Milošević graffiti on walls across Serbia.”
Trained squads of activists were deployed in protests to take over city blocks with the aid of ‘intelligence helmet’ video screens that give them an instantaneous overview of their environment. Bands of youth converging on targeted intersections in constant dialogue on cell phones, would then overwhelm police. The US government spent some $41 million on the operation. Student groups were secretly trained in the Sharp handbook techniques of staging protests that mocked the authority of the ruling police, showing them to be clumsy and impotent against the youthful protesters. Professionals from the CIA and US State Department guided them behind the scenes.
The Color Revolution Otpor! model was refined and deployed in 2004 as the Ukraine Orange Revolution with logo and color theme scarves, and in 2003 in Georgia as the Rose Revolution. Later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the template to launch the Arab Spring. In all cases the NED was involved with other NGOs including the Soros Foundations.
After defeating Milosevic, Popovic went on to establish a global color revolution training center, CANVAS, a kind of for-profit business consultancy for revolution, and was personally present in New York working reportedly with Antifa during the Occupy Wall Street where also Soros money was reported. Full Spectrum Dominanc... Engdahl, F. William Best Price: $8.50 Buy New $17.21 (as of 10:50 UTC - Details)
Antifa and BLM
The protests, riots, violent and non-violent actions sweeping across the United States since May 25, including an assault on the gates of the White House, begin to make sense when we understand the CIA’s Color Revolution playbook.
The impact of the protests would not be possible were it not for a network of local and state political officials inside the Democratic Party lending support to the protesters, even to the point the Democrat Mayor of Seattle ordered police to abandon several blocks in the heart of downtown to occupation by protesters.
In recent years major portions of the Democratic Party across the US have been quietly taken over by what one could call radical left candidates. Often they win with active backing of organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America or Freedom Road Socialist Organizations. In the US House of Representatives the vocal quarter of new representatives around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib and Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar are all members or close to Democratic Socialists of America. Clearly without sympathetic Democrat local officials in key cities, the street protests of organizations such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa would not have such a dramatic impact.
To get a better grasp how serious the present protest movement is we should look at who has been pouring millions into BLM. The Antifa is more difficult owing to its explicit anonymous organization form. However, their online Handbook openly recommends that local Antifa “cells” join up with BLM chapters.
FRSO: Follow the Money
BLM began in 2013 when three activist friends created the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to protest the allegations of shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin by a white Hispanic block watchman, George Zimmermann. Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi were all were connected with and financed by front groups tied to something called Freedom Road Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical left organizations in the United States formed out of something called New Communist Movement that dissolved in the 1980s.
On June 12, 2020 the Freedom Road Socialist Organization webpage states, “The time is now to join a revolutionary organization! Join Freedom Road Socialist Organization…If you have been out in the streets this past few weeks, the odds are good that you’ve been thinking about the difference between the kind of change this system has to offer, and the kind of change this country needs. Capitalism is a failed system that thrives on exploitation, inequality and oppression. The reactionary and racist Trump administration has made the pandemic worse. The unfolding economic crisis we are experiencing is the worst since the 1930s. Monopoly capitalism is a dying system and we need to help finish it off. And that is exactly what Freedom Road Socialist Organization is working for.” Seeds of Destruction: ... William F. Engdahl Best Price: $13.26 Buy New $19.95 (as of 11:10 UTC - Details)
In short the protests over the alleged police killing of a black man in Minnesota are now being used to call for a revolution against capitalism. FRSO is an umbrella for dozens of amorphous groups including Black Lives Matter or BLM. What is interesting about the self-described Marxist-Leninist roots of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is not so much their left politics as much as their very establishment funding by a group of well-endowed tax-exempt foundations.
Alicia Garza of BLM is also a board member or executive of five different Freedom Road front groups including 2011 Board chair of Right to the City Alliance, Board member of School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Forward Together and Special Projects director of National Domestic Workers Alliance.
The Right to the City Alliance got $6.5 million between 2011 and 2014 from a number of very established tax-exempt foundations including the Ford Foundation ($1.9 million), from both of George Soros’s major tax-exempts–Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation to Promote Open Society for $1.3 million. Also the cornflake-tied Kellogg Foundation $250,000, and curiously, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation (ice cream) for $30,000.
Garza also got major foundation money as Executive Director of the FRSO front, POWER, where Obama former “green jobs czar” Van Jones, a self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist,” now with CNN, was on the board. Alicia Garza also chaired the Right to the City Alliance, a network of activist groups opposing urban gentrification. That front since 2009 received $1.3 million from the Ford Foundation, as well as $600,000 from the Soros foundations and again, Ben & Jerry’s ($50,000). And Garza’s SOUL, which claimed to have trained 712 “organizers” in 2014, when she co-founded Black Lives Matter, got $210,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation and another $255,000 from the Heinz Foundation (ketchup and John Kerry family) among others. With the Forward Together of FRSO, Garza sat on the board of a “multi-racial organization that works with community leaders and organizations to transform culture and policy to catalyze social change.” It officially got $4 million in 2014 revenues and from 2012 and 2014, the organization received a total of $2.9 million from Ford Foundation ($655,000) and other major foundations.
Nigeria-born BLM co-founder Opal Tometi likewise comes from the network of FRSO. Tometi headed the FRSO’s Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Curiously with a “staff” of two it got money from major foundations including the Kellogg Foundation for $75,000 and Soros foundations for $100,000, and, again, Ben & Jerry’s ($10,000). Tometi got $60,000 in 2014 to direct the group.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization that is now openly calling for a revolution against capitalism in the wake of the Floyd George killing has another arm, The Advancement Project, which describes itself as “a next generation, multi-racial civil rights organization.” Its board includes a former Obama US Department of Education Director of Community Outreach and a former Bill Clinton Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. The FRSO Advancement Project in 2013 got millions from major US tax-exempt foundations including Ford ($8.5 million), Kellogg ($3 million), Hewlett Foundation of HP defense industry founder ($2.5 million), Rockefeller Foundation ($2.5 million), and Soros foundations ($8.6 million). The Lost Hegemon: Whom... F. William Engdahl Best Price: $13.92 Buy New $20.71 (as of 08:30 UTC - Details)
Major Money and ActBlue
By 2016, the presidential election year where Hillary Clinton was challenging Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter had established itself as a well-organized network. That year the Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), “a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition” in which BLM was a central part. By then Soros foundations had already given some $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement. This was serious foundation money.
The BLMF identified itself as being created by top foundations including in addition to the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation and the Soros Open Society Foundations. They described their role: “The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America.”
The Movement for Black Lives Coalition (M4BL) which includes Black Lives Matter, already in 2016 called for “defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a universal basic income, and free college for blacks.”
Notably, when we click on the website of M4BL, under their donate button we learn that the donations will go to something called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue facilitates donations to “democrats and progressives.” As of May 21, ActBlue had given $119 million to the campaign of Joe Biden.
That was before the May 25 BLM worldwide protests. Now major corporations such as Apple, Disney, Nike and hundreds others may be pouring untold and unaccounted millions into ActBlue under the name of Black Lives Matter, funds that in fact can go to fund the election of a Democrat President Biden. Perhaps this is the real reason the Biden campaign has been so confident of support from black voters. What is clear from only this account of the crucial role of big money foundations behind protest groups such as Black lives Matter is that there is a far more complex agenda driving the protests now destabilizing cities across America. The role of tax-exempt foundations tied to the fortunes of the greatest industrial and financial companies such as Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Hewlett and Soros says that there is a far deeper and far more sinister agenda to current disturbances than spontaneous outrage would suggest.
Reprinted with permission from Global Research.