The End of
Sovereignty – Restoring the Ancien Régime
Just as the financial collapse was carefully managed, so was
the post-collapse scenario, with its suicidal bailout programs. National
budgets were already stretched; they certainly did not have reserves available
to salvage the insolvent banks. Thus the bailout commitments amounted to
nothing more than the taking on of astronomical new debts by governments. In
order to service the bailout commitments, the money would need to be borrowed
from the same financial system that was being bailed out!
It’s not that the banks were too big to fail, rather the
banksters were too powerful to fail: they made politicians an offer they
couldn’t refuse. In the USA, Congress was told that without bailouts there
would be martial law the next morning. In Ireland, the Ministers were told
there would be financial chaos and rioting in the streets. In fact, as Iceland
demonstrated, the sensible way to deal with the insolvent banks was with an
orderly process of receivership.
The effect of the coerced bailouts was to transfer
insolvency from the banks to the national treasuries. Banking debts were
transformed into sovereign debts and budget deficits. Now, quite predictably,
it is the nations that are seeking bailouts, and those bailouts come with
conditions attached. Instead of the banks going into receivership, the nations
are going into receivership.
In his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John
Perkins explains how the third world has been coerced over the past several
decades – through pressure and trickery of various kinds – into perpetual debt
bondage. By design, the debts can never be repaid. Instead, the debts must be
periodically refinanced, and each round of refinancing buries the nation deeper
in debt – and compels the nation to submit to even more drastic IMF diktats.
With the orchestrated financial collapse, and the ‘too big to fail’ scam, the
banksters have now crossed the Rubicon: the hit-man agenda is now operating
here in the first world.
In the EU, the first round of nations to go down will be the
so-called PIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain. The fiction, that the
PIGS can deal with the bailouts, is based on the assumption that the era of
limitless growth will resume. As the banksters themselves know full well, that
just isn’t going to happen. Eventually the PIGS will be forced to default, and
then the rest of the EU will go down as well, all part of a
controlled-demolition project.
When a nation succumbs to debt bondage, it ceases to be a
sovereign nation, governed by some kind of internal political process. Instead
it comes under the control of IMF diktats. As we have seen in the third world,
and is happening now in Europe, these diktats are all about austerity and
privatisation. Government functions are eliminated or privatised, and national
assets are sold off. Little by little – again a controlled demolition – the
nation state is dismantled. In the end, the primary functions left to
government are police suppression of its own population, and the collection of
taxes to be handed over to the banksters.
In fact, the dismantling of the nation state began long
before the financial collapse of 2008. In the USA and Britain, it began in
1980, with Reagan and Thatcher. In Europe, it began in 1988, with the
Maastricht Treaty. Globalisation accelerated the dismantling process, with the
exporting of jobs and industry, privatisation programs, ‘free trade’
agreements, and the establishment of the regulation-busting World Trade
Organisation (WTO). Events since 2008 have enabled the rapid acceleration of a
process that was already well underway.
With the collapse, the bailouts, and the total failure to
pursue any kind of effective recovery program, the signals are very clear: the
system will be allowed to collapse totally, thus clearing the ground for a
pre-architected ‘solution’. As the nation state is being dismantled, a new
regime of global governance is being established to replace it. As we can see
with the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and the other pieces of the embryonic world
government, the new global system will make no pretensions about popular
representation or democratic process. Rule will be by means of autocratic
global bureaucracies, which will take their orders, directly or indirectly,
from the bankster clique.
In his book, The Globalization of Poverty, Michel
Chossudovsky explains how globalisation, and the actions of the IMF, created
massive poverty throughout the third world over the past several decades. As we
can see, with the dramatic emphasis on austerity following the collapse and
bailouts, this poverty-creation project has now crossed the Rubicon. In this
new world system there will be no prosperous middle class. Indeed, the new
regime will very much resemble the old days of royalty and serfdom (the ancien
régime). The banksters are the new royal family, with the whole world as their
dominion. The technocrats who run the global bureaucracies, and the mandarins
who pose as politicians in the residual nations, are the privileged upper class.
The rest of us, the overwhelming majority, will find ourselves in the role of
impoverished serfs – if we are lucky enough to be one of the survivors of the
collapse process.
Today Americans
would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow
they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an
outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our
very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world
leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the
unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly
relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their
world government. – Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992
Bilderbergers meeting
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