09-01-2009, 03:11 PM
Quote:This quiet agglomeration of military power has not “just growed,” like Topsy, through inadvertence. It shows sustained intention, even if no one has made a public case for it.
In other words the financial meltdown was foreseen:
Quote:Let us now consider the financial crisis and the panic bailout. No one should think that the crisis was unforeseen. Back in February Eliot Spitzer, in one of his last acts as governor of New York, warned about the impending crisis created by predatory lending, and reveled that the Bush Administration was blocking state efforts to deal with it.
I will go even further. I think it may very well have been pre-planned over a decade ago. It was plundering on the biggest ever scale.
Quote:2) Thanks to the determined international marketing of overvalued derivatives based on predatory lending, the resulting financial crisis has been internationalized, with economies elsewhere suffering even greater shocks than the United States. This has relatively improved America’s capacity to finance a major war effort overseas (which has always had a major impact on the U.S. balance of payments).
In other words the plundering was an international tax levied on the rich nations of the world to finance war - an enormously profitable activity and one from which the elites power fundamentally derives.
Is it possible that overseas war will grow so relentlessly that conscription will be required and that the US of troops for domestic unrest forms part of this contingency?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14