the Institute of Unlearning, editorial 8

Earlier this week, it was reported on National Public Radio that France had agreed to pledge the equivalent to fifteen billion US dollars to help the United States in its campaign to fight AIDS, especially in hardest hit Africa. While this sounds like a noble gesture that should be applauded, other reports of the week helped bring the elite's "game" into clearer focus.

The good news of France's generosity was contrasted to another report that the entire country is under a general strike. The French government claims that it does not have money to pay its workers' retirement funds and is demanding that workers work more for ultimately fewer benefits. The report indicated that general strikes are usually very effective for promoting worker's causes, but that this time it may not work, as the entire global economy is struggling to make ends meet. It seems that this is another case of "money doesn't grow on trees."

But apparently it does. Those of you who are waking up to the ways of the world know that money does indeed grow on trees. Paper, a by product of trees, is all that is needed for more money to be made. The Federal Reserve Bank in the United States, and other privately owned central banks around the world, reap enormous profits for their shareholders on this very principle. It costs just a few cents to print sheets of money, regardless of their denomination. Yet, as soon as they leave the printing press, the rich "loan" it to the governments, who pass it on to you, for exorbitant use fees.

The game is becoming so sophisticated, and trees so scarce, that there is tremendous pressure to move the world to a cashless society, where everyone's financial information can be tracked and manipulated via supercomputers, bank and credit cards, and ultimately, microchip technology. Along with this greater control of money will come greater control over our lives.

That being said, the real issue here is not how the Money Magicians ply their craft, but how the money is spent. To the average worker and those in poverty, 15 billion dollars is an unfathomable amount of money. For the workers of France, relief in the form of direct handouts of such an amount would relieve their economic plight immediately. There would even be plenty left over for fighting AIDS in Africa.

Similarly, President Bush promised US workers a “job stimulus” package of over 500 million dollars this year along with his tax cut for the wealthy. Apparently there is money to burn. The fact that the Department of Defense can’t account for several trillion dollars of its budget, and no one got fired because of that little “accounting error”, proves it. Why not just give each American citizen a million dollars? I can guarantee you that consumer spending would go through the roof and stimulate the economy like you’ve never seen before.

The answer reveals the true intent of the game to the student who is unlearning. Most of those generous amounts of money pledged by France and the United States, as well as similar programs in other countries, will never reach their intended targets. The money will be poured into research laboratories, public think tanks, pharmaceutical companies, as well as the usual amount that will be "lost" to some form of government bureaucratic corruption. In the end, the promised funds will be but a trickle by the time it reaches the man in the streets in desperate need of help, hence the term "trickle down economics".

The reason for not giving direct handouts is hidden behind pseudo-moralistic arguments that people need to "work" in order to appreciate what's given to them. Welfare or charity is taught to be frowned upon by any "decent" hard working individual. Yet the wealthy elite, who often espouse these doctrines, and spend fortunes to program you to believe them, continue to enjoy one government handout after another. In fact, if you are willing to do your homework, you will see that the entire power structure has always been built by such handouts.

The true reason money is not handed out directly to the common person, yet freely given to the exclusive money lords, is that of control, pure and simple. The true game for the elite is not how much money they can make, there's always enough for them to go around. The real game is what they can get away with while manipulating the population for their enjoyment. This is an inhuman game, most likely invented by the elite's inhuman masters.

Ask yourself why the "best and brightest" among us, those who have had no expense spared in their comfort and education, can not come to the practical solutions to humanity's problems that are easily figured out by the common person. The Institute of Unlearning is dedicated to promoting those answers in a world drowned out by the mind-controlling noise of the mass media. Keep tuning in to this site, and your inner voice, for more inspiration.