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Conley
10-01-2011, 01:16 PM
http://i.imgur.com/SYv4N.jpg

It seems pretty clear to me.

MMC
10-01-2011, 05:04 PM
http://i.imgur.com/Y4TrI.gif

Yep yep....! 8)

jgreer
10-01-2011, 05:55 PM
Nice picture. Even Clint would agree that something is out of whack.

waltky
04-09-2016, 01:41 AM
What's behind wealth disparity...
:cool2:
The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and Power
April 6, 2016 - Technologies such as the blockchain are enabling alternative ways of creating and distributing money outside central banks and states. If we don't change the way money is created and distributed, we will never change anything. This is the core message of my book A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All.



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State Dept. to Putin: US Was Not ‘In Any Way Involved’ in Panama Papers Leak
April 8, 2016 – The State Department on Thursday rejected allegations – by Russian President Vladimir Putin or anyone else – that the U.S. government had a hand in the leak of the so-called Panama Papers, millions of documents revealing the offshore holdings of politicians, businesspeople, and celebrities. “I would reject the premise or the assertion that we’re in any way involved in the actual leak of these documents,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner, referring to 11.5 million files from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which claims the files were hacked, rather than leaked by an insider.

Several of Putin’s associates have been named in reports on the leaked documents, and on Thursday, Putin suggested his opponents were trying to weaken Russia from within by “spreading distrust for the ruling authorities.” To back his insinuation that the U.S. was involved, Putin alluded to a tweet Wednesday from Wikileaks, which drew attention to the fact that one of the scores of media organizations involved in the Panama Papers investigation, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), gets funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and George Soros’ Open Society Institute. “We now know from WikiLeaks that officials and state agencies in the United States are behind all this,” Putin said during a media forum in St. Petersburg.

He made the comment as part of a lengthy response to a question about the Panama Papers, and specifically about his close friend, renowned cellist Sergei Roldugin, who is linked in the leaked documents to offshore activities worth some $2 billion. Putin suggested the leak was merely the latest attack by opponents, whom he painted as frustrated by the fact that Russia’s economy continues to grow, along with its military prowess – as evidenced in the recent Syrian mission. “They are used to holding a monopoly on the international stage and do not want have to make way for anyone else,” he said. “What worries our opponents the most is not even this [Russia’s economic and military gains], but the unity and cohesion of the Russian nation,” he said. “Attempts are made to weaken us from within, make us more acquiescent and make us toe their line. What is the easiest way of doing this? It is to spread distrust for the ruling authorities and the bodies of power within society and to set people against each other.”

Turning to the Panama Papers, Putin said those carrying out the “assignment” were faced by the fact that he was not himself implicated in the “offshore holding controversy,” and so had managed to find some of his friends, “and they fiddled around and knocked something together.” “There is this friend of the Russian president, and they say he has done something, probably something corruption-related. In fact, there is no corruption involved at all.” Putin went on to defend Roldugin, saying he was “proud to count him among my friends.” “He is a minority shareholder in one of our companies and makes some money out of it, but not billions of dollars of course. That is nonsense. The reality is nothing of the sort.”

At the State Department briefing, Toner was asked about Putin’s suggestion that the leak was part of a U.S. plot to undermine Russia. “I would reject the premise or the assertion that we’re in any way involved in the actual leak of these documents,” he said. “The assertion by him or by anyone that the U.S. government had anything to do with this is – you say it’s – that’s completely wrong?” a reporter asked. “That’s right,” Toner said.

MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/state-dept-putin-us-govt-was-not-any-way-involved-panama-papers-leak)
The Panama Papers offer damning proof of this: increasing concentrations of wealth and power that are free of any constraint (such as taxes) is not just the consequence of centralized money and state power--this inequality is the only possible output of centralized money and state power. Here is a graphic portrayal of just how concentrated global wealth really is: the top .7% (less than 1%) own 45% of all global wealth, and the top 8% own 85%.


http://www.oftwominds.com/photos2015/WealthPyramid1a.png

Here is a depiction of wealth in the U.S.:


http://www.oftwominds.com/photos2014/wealth-inequality3-14a.jpg

Here is my description of how centralized money and finance inevitably creates debt-serfdom as its only possible output:


http://www.oftwominds.com/photos2015/wealth-money-pyramid2.jpg

MORE (http://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr16/centralized-money4-16.html)

Captain Obvious
04-09-2016, 06:43 AM
I miss Conley

donttread
04-09-2016, 09:12 AM
http://i.imgur.com/SYv4N.jpg

It seems pretty clear to me.

Are there still people denying the upward transfer of wealth, aided and abetted by the control code forcing every man into the stock market?

Subdermal
04-09-2016, 11:46 AM
http://i.imgur.com/SYv4N.jpg

It seems pretty clear to me.

The problem isn't the reality. The problem is in properly recognizing the cause.

The causes - speaking on a high level - are Cronyism propagated by the obsessive desire to co-opt an overly large, powerful and corrupt Government...

...and a neoKeynesian monetary control system, which artificially inflated the value of the dollar by flooding the economy with them.

That makes the wealth gap simple math. In 1924, there was approximately 4.3 billion dollars in circulation, and there were a handful of millionaires, and - possibly - one or two low single-digit billionaires.

As of March 2015, there was nearly 5 trillion in circulation. Since it should be obvious that having money makes it far easier to make more, how difficult is it to imagine how and why the elite have exploded their wealth while operating under that paradigm?

donttread
04-09-2016, 01:57 PM
The problem isn't the reality. The problem is in properly recognizing the cause.

The causes - speaking on a high level - are Cronyism propagated by the obsessive desire to co-opt an overly large, powerful and corrupt Government...

...and a neoKeynesian monetary control system, which artificially inflated the value of the dollar by flooding the economy with them.

That makes the wealth gap simple math. In 1924, there was approximately 4.3 billion dollars in circulation, and there were a handful of millionaires, and - possibly - one or two low single-digit billionaires.

As of March 2015, there was nearly 5 trillion in circulation. Since it should be obvious that having money makes it far easier to make more, how difficult is it to imagine how and why the elite have exploded their wealth while operating under that paradigm?

The tax , I mean control code, is mostly responsible

Tahuyaman
04-09-2016, 03:49 PM
Eliminate the income tax and institute a national consumption tax and watch that gap shrink