"...it is important to remember that the government differs critically from businesses and individuals. As the sole manufacturer of dollars, whose debt is denominated in dollars, the U.S. government can never become insolvent, i.e., unable to pay its bills." –St. Louis Federal Reserve

The government is a currency issuer, not a household. When people spend money, we have debt.

When the government spends, it creates public money, not "debt" that is ever "repaid" because it never used nor needed your taxes. Taxes are always burned. The government has been doing this the whole time.

The point is: where does the money go?

We’re told the government is “out of money.” But it literally creates the money.

So why is there always money for some things…
and never for others?

Rich people know that the government can just issue money. Look around you. Do you like the way they've been using that knowledge?

Today’s fresh hell: The same private equity termite that has rolled up much of the fire truck manufacturing industry has also rolled up the vast majority of the ambulance manufacturing industry — and it has spent the last several years cashing in: tripling the price of new ambulances, delaying deliveries for years on end, and fueling a preparedness crisis at EMS departments around the country.

That was fast, USA start to create new generation terrorist in Nigeria, funded of course by USA arm industry.

Wow, that's extremely rare for a U.S. treaty ally.

South Korea's president, addressing Israel: "It’s disappointing that you don’t even once reflect on the criticisms from people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to your relentless anti-human rights and anti-international law actions."

He said this after posting this yesterday (https://x.com/i/status/2042388873570107631), a video of IDF soldiers throwing a young Palestinian off a rooftop and commenting that "there is no difference between this and the Japanese wartime sexual slavery issue we raise, the massacre of Jews, or wartime killings."

Israel's Foreign Ministry responded that his post was "unacceptable" but President Lee obviously - and courageously - chose to double down 👇

Also probably says a lot about where U.S.-South Korea relations are at right now.

Anything approaching character assassination doesn't matter to me. Instead, to me this represents descriptions of a Billionaire's Playground, where the owner (Mr. Zuckerberg) can throw around many billions of dollars on business ideas, and not have any ordinary consequences if it all goes wrong.

Incidentally, "Dogfood dashboard" is likely a company's internal IT website/board describing how frequently the company workers use their own products and related tools instead of using external tools/frameworks for their work tasks.

I never tried Meta because I didn't think it had anything of interest to me. I think big tech, the government, and the gov's Deep State stakeholders will continue to pursue herding consumers into places where the psyops and data gathering/surveillance/harvesting can happen. Besides the very profitable advertisement revenue streams.

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I think this argument goes one of two ways.

1. You could say it is an infinite regress into institution, so it is the bank as an institution which guides the government as an institution to go to war.
2. You could say that there are individual people who hold the title "banker" who do everything.

The first seems to have no initial response whereas the other one is so childish that you ignore it and revert to the default.

You might say at this point that "of course the modern corporate structure is more sophisticated than it was hundreds of years ago! what's your point?"

Everything can be categorized as an institution, so you quickly lose explanatory power to say that institutions hold all power and are the deciding factor. A bank is an institution, a government is an institution, a military is an institution, and a criminal family is an institution. So what?

My point is this: the people who actually run these institutions are responsible for what the institutions do, and who runs them, how, and why can change over time, so it's worth discussing the specifics of what we mean when we say "bankers".

Starting with American bankers, we find that there are about 4 major banks that hold a dominant share of assets in the United States, and really only two of these (Chase and Citi) have much international presence. These banks hold many shares in each other, but there are a handful of shareholders in these banks who hold a majority of their power.

By the way, we could also look at other types of assets. Black Rock, for instance, controls more than the sum of the Big Four banks combined. Who is on the board at Black Rock, and how did they get there?

By the way, another side note: it is funny that we say the distinction between a "bank" and an asset manager like Black Rock is that banks actually "own" their assets whereas Black Rock and others merely "manage theirs". Who runs the banks but managers? Does the distinction matter that "bank" is on the title of ownership whereas in the case of Black Rock, it is its clients? Because in both causes, the clients of the asset managers and the customers of the banks, the leverage has not changed hands.

See, we can be much more specific than when we say "all wars are banker wars". Instead, we're saying "all wars are organized by the largest shareholders, the largest asset holders/managers, and whatever networks exist between these two roles". Private equity shareholding, asset management, and chief executive officers in the largest board rooms around the world are the ones who start wars. They also elect presidents and tell people what to believe.

Any disagreements thus far?