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Economy
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game
2024-01-08
[Brownstone Institute] One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity — barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition — of their material possessions and their ’immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The Great Taking (2023), and was written by David Webb, one of the most courageous and finance-savvy authors I have ever come across. He introduces the book on p. 1 in uncompromising terms:

What is this book about? It is about the taking of collateral, all of it, the end game of this globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle. This is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass. Included are all financial assets, all money on deposit at banks, all stocks and bonds, and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment, land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property. Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will be similarly taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses, which have been financed with debt. If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.

We are now living within a hybrid war conducted almost entirely by deception, and thus designed to achieve war aims with little energy input. It is a war of conquest directed not against other nation states but against all of humanity.


In the Prologue of the book Webb paints a richly textured, autobiographical picture of his provenance as finance guru, obviously with exceptional intelligence and, it turned out, courage. His knowledge of finance and economics has been the result of long years of work in the field, but he recalls the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, before the start of his professional career, when he was a child, and what he calls (witnessing) the subsequent "industrial collapse" of the US in Cleveland, where the family lived, culminating in "the complete destruction of everything we had known" (p. vii). Before he gets into the details of his life, he commences the Prologue with an indirect intimation of his reasons for writing the book (p. vi):

Posted by:Besoeker

#4  And then when it all collapses we go back to start with bartering.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-01-08 11:39  

#3  Seems capitalism is going to have to become militant to remain viable.

Sign me up...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-01-08 09:07  

#2  Well, you could dig for gold.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-01-08 09:00  

#1  Will we discover that local government property taxes and all mortgages have become federalized and are now the hook that will force a re-assessment of valuations and digitization of payments ?

Will I be both unable to pay the taxes or mortgage, and unable to sell the assets ?

Will the government assume ownership of everything ?

"You will own nothing and be happy."
~ Klaus Schwab


Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-08 01:40  

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