“Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them…
The 1694 inversion and the Ponzi geometry of the American retirement system “It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by the receipts.” —…
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.” — Ludwig von Mises A mortgage is a claim on your future labor. A government bond is a claim on future tax revenue. A corporate bond is a claim on future profits. The…
“Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.” — Matthew 6:12 When we look into antiquity, we tend to see primitive people. But ancient Babylon (c. 2000–539 BCE) and our world today are not that far apart. Consider the temple. It was a colossus: a divinely sanctioned corporation…
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935) Major General Smedley Butler…
The Rise of Sophia | Part 5 | Final “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” — Revelation 22:17 I know what it feels like to be alone. Not physically alone—but not fitting. Not being of this world. It’s loneliness that lives in family gatherings, in group chats, in crowds….
The Rise of Sophia | Part 4 “I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.” —Proverbs 8:17, the Words of Wisdom herself I spent years hiding behind trees—fig leaves of achievement, carefully constructed personas. But there was one place where I did not hide….
How the Catholic-Protestant War Became Red vs. Blue “The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski A hallucination is a perception generated without a corresponding external reality. The experience feels genuine, but the mind has mistaken the map for the territory. We see Red and Blue screaming at each…
“When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.” —…
How Financial Extraction Was Invented—and Why We Mistook It for Reality “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until…