What Happens When Anonymous Gets a Bank?

[Lauren Johnson]

Will it be easier to launder drug money? My guess is that it will be a lot easier. A cinch, in fact. Hookers already carry wi-fi card machines for instant digital payment, and it's billed on your credit/debit card as some sort of 'service" or similar, that won't alert your wife/partner to your perfidy.

Services provided: Catering, wholesale, erection and demolition services.

Sounds like to me this is a no-brainer. First, I always thought a cashless society was a ridiculous idea since it would shut down the drug trade with all the advantages that it holds. But when it actually makes the transaction and the laundering practically instantaneous ... shit. Second, not only does it make the drug trade much easier, it can also shut down the underground economy and expose it to taxation. Talk about economic domination of billions of people, all in the name convenience.

FWIW, Friedrich Engels wrote an essay on the book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, and focuses on the 13th chapter, and its famous critique of economic domination of an empire that the author calls the beast that arises from the sea. For Engels, Revelation was a clear statement of the evils of imperial Rome at the time it was written -- not about some time in the future.

The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

I write only to remind us that economic domination is an old story; the Apocalypse of John being a book belonging to a literature of resistance.