Fuck that I'm in Canada.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.The three wise men - Alex Jones, David Icke, and Jeff Rense - will lead us out of the darkness and expose the conspiracy!
And then Jesus will come back.
Would you kindly click my dragons?Seriously, don't worry. Only the States ar under any threat of oligrachy, and Russia is one anyways.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.I can't tell if this is a cheap parody, or a serious realisation on the part of the OP.
Requiem ~ September 2010 - October 2011 [Banned 4 Life]All banks are tyranny.
"Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder." -Nick BostromYeah, I think we're all pretty much used to it by now. Yes, banks own the world. Money always translates to power. Whaddaya gonna do ahbowdit?
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.I don't know about the ECB but countries by themselves should have a central bank. It's not perfect tyranny. You vote for the politicians that are in charge of the institution in the first place.
On that note, the USA should get itself a central bank. The Federal Reserve does not count.
Coming from the UK, which has the Bank of England, I am not sure I understand the concern.
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.@Yej: I think that he's imposing the American concept of "bank" on everything. From what I understand, banking in Europe is different.
Over here, all banks are private with the motivation of gambling your money to make profit. This leads to all sorts of fucked-up shit that pretty much wouldn't fly over there.
I'd probably flee the country if one of the major banks over here became state-sanctioned without changing their business policies.
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"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -Drunkscriblerian
It was only a few years back that organizations like the World Bank, the IMG, and Goldman Sachs were tools of the first world.
Now, to prevent taking a loss, the high rollers are leaning on Ireland, Greece, Iceland et. al. to socialize (really, oligrachize) their debts. Or, essentially, give the European Central Bank (ECB) control over the legislative decisions of every country unfortunate enough to be in the EU. In the ex-Soviet countries, the banks are trotting out a test run of the "flat tax", forcing those societies into the most extreme cases of wealth diffusion since — well, the middle ages.
I hardly have to go into how this applies to the US. Goldman Sachs is basically a fourth branch of the government.
To a man, this has the potential to be the most flawless tyranny ever conceived. We are dependent on the central banking system to be fed and clothed. Most of us don't understand macroeconomics, much less agree on how it operates. In a sense, this replaces the old cloak of mystery which surrounds monarchy. These banks are amorphous ''and tightly interlinked. How do you hope to speak out against such unaccountable, absolute power?
I'm a skeptical squirrel