A peek inside the SA Reserve Bank

[wynn]

There is a movement in the US to punish the offending banks by moving all accounts out of the major national banks to community banks this is estimated to cost the major banks such as Bank of America billions of dollars.

[irneb]

... So there is no conspiracy, if seven billion people say screw the bank, the bank will be screwed. ...

Good point ... to a point
If you look at how it works, you notice that the "majority" never "make the rules", they simply allow a small minority to rule over them. I don't know what to call it, laziness, apathy, stupidity, fear, aversion to change, "loyalty", ignorance ... there's just too many possibilities. It's probably a combination of all those.

Look through history, no government actually consisted of the majority - not even the ancient Athenians, who had their forum consisting of the landowners only (no slaves and no serfs, none of those making up the great majority of the Athens population at the time). Even if it was started "by the people, for the people" it ended up with a ruling class who were "right even if they're wrong", which is the case now in America (and IMO every other country as well). And then even to show it more clearly, the majority never started a revolution. There was always some group (usually rather small, but never even approaching some majority number) who swept up the masses to topple the existing regime - note this small group then ended up becoming the new regime. They may even have had all the best intentions when they started the revolution, but if they didn't become the thing they designed the destruction of, they became even worse.

Until the sheep mentality of the masses (i.e. the axiom of a mob is only as smart as its most stupid member) can be overcome, a "majority rule" is simply impossible. It only needs some sweet talking politician figurehead to change their perception of the truth - as an example. There are several other ways such overruling class can keep "letting you have their way", if all else fails then "martial law" - which usually then precedes a revolution.

Strange though how the people who are deemed to be the behind-the-scenes government never seem to change. Even after revolutions they still remain. That's the essence of why they "let" a figurehead government do their job for them. Give the people a target for when they get fed up with the situation. Then send in a new batch of figureheads to start sweeping the people into a revolution before they do so for themselves. Then let them destroy that old target to vent their anger, and you get a result of newly docile and malleable mobs - easy to govern again. Even more so since your new figurehead appears to be the hero who defeated the "demon".

In the days of the European colonies, there was a concept of the "Great Game" (probably still is). This was indicated as the separate countries trying to out do each other by owning the most and most prosperous colonies. You could see it as an early form of the cold war. Or rather, that's what the masses were intended to believe. If not for the foundations built by the colonization then this current move towards globalization would have been a near impossibility.

This is exactly why you should fight government's intention to silence the media. You have a right to be informed! This is the only way that we can fight corruption.

Yes, but what if the media is already a tool of the government. Or rather the government behind the false façade called the government? If the media are truly separate from any such entities I'd say Yay! They should be free to print / say / show anything they can to indicate wrongful doings by the "government". Unfortunately most (if not all) media are also owned by someone (or even such government directly or indirectly), to say that such media do not have any agenda of their own is ignorant.

I'm always a bit concerned when a government vilifies any other entity. Especially if such government is having trouble at the time. It's a way of putting someone forward as "being a antagonist of the regime" - by the regime. But how would anyone else know if that entity is only a lackey of the very same regime they purport to expose? Do you really think the powers behind the "powers that appear to be" are stupid enough not to have thought of such?

[tec0]

From "Hands Held High" by Linkin Park

Like this war's really just a different brand of war
Like it doesn't cater the rich and abandon poor

Like they understand you in the back of the jet
When you can't put gas in your tank

These f*cker$ are laughing their way to the bank and cashing the cheque
Asking you to have compassion and have some respect

On the back, he hand-wrote a quote inside
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die

Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay

And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
both scared and angry like "what did he say?"

Regardless of what the people said the process is started and forcing the new road toll system on to South Africans is in process. One don't think they considered the working class. Yes taxis are free to roam the roads... That said the petrol being transported will still pay. So eventually one will feel it as food becomes more expensive and the list will go on.

That said people will call themselves into action as their families suffer and as seen in townships a movement will go forth and those responsible will find themselves outnumbered in the end they always do. Make no mistake, as shown on the news in this song, it is in music it is held by the internet culture to put forth the truth and give people the desire to be free.

[Justloadit]

While you still have something to lose, you will continue to press on trying to make ends meet, then that one day, whatever you had is lost, is the day of reckoning. In my book that day is not far off, I can feel the tension around the city

[tec0]

Pick your date, pick your century there is always a war there is always some kind of revolt or confusion and a benefactor at work. Dominance is and will always be part of life "until we can do away with a few useless systems that is..."

The process will repeat itself until it change. There is no conspiracy here, corruption yes there is corruption. Yes things will change in order to sustain life and that is fact. Self preservation demands it.

[AndyD]

The process will repeat itself until it change. There is no conspiracy here, corruption yes there is corruption.

Corruption is just a form of greed and greed is just one facet of human nature. Human nature doesn't change.

Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

Dr. Cornelius (1968 A.D.)