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> From: dasg...@aol.com > Date: July 7, 2010 7:18:24 PM PDT > To: ramille...@aol.com > Cc: ema...@aol.com, j...@aol.com, jim6...@cwnet.com > Subject: The "Great Reckoning" (Fall of Capitalism) Is Upon Us -- Cyclic and > Predictable > > CONSIDER HISTORY -- The transitional period between Medieval (an "imperial" > feudal system based on hereditary land ownership, with new land acquired only > by war) and "Modern" (a more meritocratic "national" system of wage-slavery > rooted in the need for "factories" dependent on inter-national finance and > trade) was marked by the Renaissance and the Reformation -- during which the > existing Powers That Be (imperial, ecclesiastical [Catholic], and royal) > gradually LOST their power to a new, mostly-hereditary "corporate" elite: > bankers, explorers/ traders (e.g., East India Company), and investors in new > technologies that have, progressively, ever since Sir Francis Bacon and the > Royal Society, step by step "industrialized" the masses, in "modern > civilization." > > Taking the "long" view of History, which does seem to proceed through stages > sometimes called "ages," theorists of "cyclic history" from Plato to Hegel, > Marx and Spengler have tried to isolate the dynamics --the "causes" or > "signifiers"-- of Change ... as have some astrologers, who note that > historical "phase-shifts" occurred at 500-year, 180-year, and 45-year > intervals, in synchrony with Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus cycles and aspects > between those outer planets. And because knowledge is power, any financial > elite privy to an empirically-tested science of "timing" has an unfair > advantage. (The ancestors of our "Babylonian" bankers were Babylonian > astrologers.) > > > > "WEALTH TRANSFER" IS A CYCLIC "RECKONING" > > by Tom Dennen > > http://beforeitsnews.com/news/95/282/Market_Crash_..._Depression_..._Revolution_..._Blood_on_the_Streets_-_This_is_the_sixth_time_since_the_South_Sea_Bubble_burst_in_1720_that_huge_amounts_of_wealth_have_been_transferred_from_those_who_create_it_to_the_already_wealthy..html > > The Great Reckoning, by James Dale > Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg, documents a 9-year gap between commodity peaks > and market crashes over the last 300 years. > > Add 41 years (the average number of years between the 9-year peak-and-crash > cycles) and you have a boom-bust cycle twice every hundred years or once > every other generation, meaning every second generation of Western working > and middle-class citizens has, for the last 300 years, been good and truly > and thoroughly plucked. > > Today's 'Great Recession;' is just another plucking that started with the > subprime foreclosures, the first modern major transfer of wealth through the > confiscation of 'cheap' properties. The more 'expensive' properties, > shopping malls and office blocks will be taken in the next bubble, the > Commercial Real Estate (CRE) bubble. > > Follow the trend: > > First Plucking: Commodity prices peaked in London in 1711. The ‘South Sea > Bubble’ burst exactly nine years later in 1720. A Depression followed. > Second Plucking: Producer prices peaked in London in 1763. The London stock > market crashed again in 1772 (nine years later). A Depression followed. > Third: Commodity prices peaked in London in 1816.The London stock market > crashed in 1825 (nine years later). Another Depression followed. > Fourth: Wholesale prices peaked in New York in 1864. Worldwide assets crash > began in May 1873 (nine years later). Yet again, Depression followed. > Fifth: Then followed our beloved Great Depression in the 30s, about which > much has been said, from which, little learned. > Commodity prices peaked some fifty years later – the sixth time, this time, > in Tokyo, 1980. > > The Tokyo stock market crashed in 1989 (again, nine years later). The > depression following that crash is now upon us and will seriously dig in by > 2020, which is the reason for all those dire predictions: Gerald Celente > knows, Nouriel Roubini knows. The trend is three hundred years old. > > Look around you and do the math: I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I consider > it FACT that once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, and three times is > a Declaration of War. > > Four times is the realization that the Declaration fell on the deaf ears of > sleeping fools, five times is simple daylight rape and plunder of the same > fools – the sixth time, this time, what I call Grand Theft, Planet ©, is > perhaps and hopefully, the lesson finally learned, and do we now wake up? > > All we have to do is throw them out of the Temple. For the last time. Forever. > > ** (Compiled from ‘The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming > Depression James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg - 1994 - Business & > Economics - 608 pages.) > > James Dale Davidson is an American investment newsletter writer and author of > The Sovereign Individual, The Great Reckoning, and Blood in the Streets, all > three co-authored with William Rees-Mogg. He also wrote The Plague of the > Black Debt - How to Survive the Coming Depression. He is also the founder and > former head of the National Taxpayers Union. He has helped fund the Arkansas > Project against President Bill Clinton and is an investor in NewsMax.com. > > Rees-Mogg began his career in journalism at The Financial Times in 1952, > before moving to The Sunday Times in 1960, become its Deputy Editor. Here he > wrote an article which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as > Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965. He was Conservative > candidate for the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street in a by-election on > 27 September 1956, losing to the Labour candidate Norman Pentland by 21,287 > votes. Rees-Mogg was editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981, and still writes > comment for that paper. > > > > http://www.cambridgeforecast.org/lance_feiner/ > > In "The Great Reckoning," 1992, J. D. Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg construct > the following scenario: > > "As unlikely as it may seem, a supercomputer could be possible in a form so > tiny that it would fit comfortably in a single human cell. Such molecular > computers would make possible the construction of numerically controlled > assemblers for manipulating matter at the atomic level -- which is known as > nanotechnology. ..... Human control over nature at the molecular level > implies a new, post-industrial strength MAGIC. Scientists who study > nanotechnology believe that within decades self-replicating molecular > 'machines' will be able to construct practically any product the heart > desires - almost without assistance from human labor. Inanimate objects -- > from an automobile to a baked Alaska -- could be programmed for assembly in > much the same way that living organisms are programmed by genetic coding, > built cell by cell, or molecule by molecule, from a soup of raw ingredients. > Think what that might mean. .. Those who design nanotechnology will be able > to totally control, even physically alter, other human beings. Invisible > machines, programmed through Artificial Intelligence, could literally force > anyone to behave in any way the programmer wished. It would no longer be > necessary to put a gun to someone's head to force obedience." > > The authors use this [advance in technology] to forecast "a new feudalism". > > Their analysis goes like this: In the same way that stirrups and mounted > armor allowed landed barons and their knights to "privatize" royal political > power, so too, according to "The Great Reckoning," will nanotechnology allow > its owners to privatize [national] political power. >
