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Introduction by Peter Brave-Heart (22/02/13)

I was reading the following article this week on Joseph Candel’s

Endtime site:- www.endtimeinfo.com

The following article is by itself very good, but what really got my

attention was when I followed the LINKS to other articles

mentioning the RETURN of ****“DEBTOR PRISONS”,

(included below.)

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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy

It’s time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors

are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it’s all an

elaborate illusion.

Out of one side of the establishment’s mouth we hear excitement

about “green shoots”, and out of the other side comes breathless

warnings of fiscal cliffs and the urgent need for unlimited bailouts by

the Fed.

We hear the people begging for jobs and the politicians promising

them, but politicians can’t create jobs. We see people camped out to

buy stuff on Black Friday indicating the consumer economy is

seemingly thriving, only to find out everything was bought on

credit.

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The corporate media does their best to distract us from seeing

anything real. We see the media glorify Kim Kardashian who got rich

by being famous, and became famous merely by being rich. She got

front page coverage on Huffington Post this week because her cat

died. Enough said.

Meanwhile the financial media makes the economy seem complicated

and they ban anyone who speaks truthfully about the economy from

their airwaves.

Is it any wonder why people are angry and confused about the

economy?

Well, hopefully these signs that we live in a false economy will help

clear up some of that confusion.

1. Fake Jobs: It’s not just that the “official” unemployment numbers

are a fraud, the actual jobs are fake as well. Ask yourself how many

professions actually produce something of value? 80% of jobs could

disappear tomorrow and it wouldn’t affect basic human survival or

happiness in the least. Yes, in our society we need money to survive –

and jobs equal money – but that doesn’t mean a “job” has any actual

benefit to society. More on this in the next point…

2. Problems Create Jobs, Not Solutions: We can’t fix real problems,

because it would destroy more fake jobs. We can’t end the wars and

bring all of the personnel home when the jobless rate is already

suffering. We can’t end the War on Drugs because where would the

DEA agents, prison guards, the court system, parole officers, and the

rest of their support staff work. We can’t simplify the tax code

because the bookkeepers, CPAs, accounting professors, and tax

attorneys would be unemployed. We cannot reduce the bureaucracy

of government or streamline healthcare because paper pushers have

few other notable skills. We can’t stop spying on Americans because

it now employs millions of people. We can’t restrict the Wall Street

casino, or hardly anyone will be left with a job. Finally, what will

happen to university jobs when people either realize their product is

not worth the cost or they discover they can get the same education

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online for nearly free? In other words, we need these manufactured

problems to create phony employment.

3. Money Has No Value: Money is the biggest illusion of all. Our

money is loaned into existence with arbitrary interest rates by a

private monopoly. It is an IOU. It only has value because a law says it

has value, and that value fluctuates based on how much supply is in

the economy which, again, is controlled by a for-profit monopoly. Its

actual value is zero since it is just a piece of paper with fancy ink on

it. The only things with real value to humans are skills (labor), tools

and materials, food and water, and energy.

4. The Fed Now Buys 90% of the Nation’s Debt: Speaking of

money, the Federal Reserve loans money to the US government who

issues bonds to cover their spending. Those bonds are sold on the

open market through auctions to investors who believe in the ability

of the United States to make good on those bonds. Apparently, the US

has no more investors because the Fed is now buying 90% of new

Treasury bonds. This is called monetizing debt, or, essentially,

monetizing money. That’s what a Ponzi scheme does. This acts to

keep interest rates artificially low because they’d have to raise them to

attract outside “investors”. In layman terms, our whole monetary

system is a paper tiger, a house of cards, or whatever metaphor you

want to use for fake.

5. What is the Value of Anything? The price discovery mechanism,

or the process to determine the value of an asset in the marketplace,

has become so convoluted that determining the genuine value of

anything has become nearly impossible. Between government

subsidizes for things like food, fuel, education, housing, insurance and

even cars; taxes, regulations and laws; the manipulation of the value

of money and interest rates; Wall Street gambling on commodities;

what is the real value of something? For example, why does an ounce

of marijuana (a weed that can grow anywhere) cost up to $500? Is

that the real value based on labor and materials, and supply and

demand? Of course not. Its value is inflated mainly due to laws and

regulations.

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6. Failure is Rewarded: You know we live in a false economy when

failure is rewarded and success is penalized. Citizens everywhere are

being told they need to tighten their belts, work harder so we can

bailout the failed government, banks, insurance companies and even

car companies. And when we work harder and achieve some success,

they tax it heavily to indefinitely pay for these fraudulent institutions.

Yet this infinite money creation and taxation is light years from

solving the root cause of the problem. The reality is that the banks’

solutions are the problem, enriching the investor class at the expense

of the middle class. Global bankers are playing with taxpayer money

– and the money of many future generations – in a global casino

royale that is destined to fail so they can take the people’s assets.

They are all-in; but their money is fake, and our assets put at risk are

real.

7. Corporate entities have the same rights as humans, but not the

same punishments: When the Supreme Court ruled that corporations

have free-speech rights of people, it was one of the final nails in the

coffin of the republic. Monied interests can now openly finance

elections and buy the legislation they need to operate with impunity.

Corporations may be comprised of humans, but they are not subjected

to the same standard of humanity. It was profoundly argued in the

article What if BP Were a Human Being? that judged by common

standards of morality, decency, and previously agreed-upon

definitions of criminality, BP would be judged a psychopathic killer

… and immortal. Ditto for the rest leading the predatory corporate

pack; the most obvious being defense contractors. And since these

corporations are now joined at the hip with government itself, what

does that make government? By changing definitions, they are

attempting to change reality. But that still doesn’t make it the truth.

8. People buy things they don’t need with money they don’t

have: In a type of trickle-down debt whirlpool, the government’s

rampant spending without sufficient assets to back it up is mirrored in

the behavior of the American consumer. Despite inflation, rising

unemployment, and a continued collapse in real estate, it hasn’t

stopped credit spending. The Associated Press just reported that for

the month of October:

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Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and

borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove

U.S. consumer debt to an all-time high.

The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumers increased their

borrowing by $14.2 billion in October from September. Total

borrowing rose to a record $2.75 trillion.

Borrowing in the category that covers autos and student loans

increased by $10.8 billion. Borrowing on credit cards rose by $3.4

billion, only the second monthly increase in the past five months.

Most troubling is the type of borrowing highlighted. The worst

possible borrowing would be these negative-return investments such

as student loans, credit cards, and cars. It is magical thinking taken to

the highest degree.

9. Entrepreneurs are punished: It has become nearly impossible to

make a simple living on your. America has become a land filled with

bureaucratic red tape that actively thwarts small business creation and

criminalizes independence. There is perhaps no better example of this

than the attacks waged against the ultimate entrepreneurial endeavor

of self-reliance: the family farm. Through collectivist models such as

Agenda 21, long-running family farms are being shut down and

supplanted with “protected zones.” In the most recent case, a family

oyster farm was shut down based on provably false scientific data that

aimed to demonstrate negative environmental and economic impacts.

It was completely fake, ending an 80-year local business that

generated 50,000 tourists per year and employed 30 full-time local

residents. In many of these cases the federally stolen property winds

up in the hands of developers who have no interest in a true local

economy. It is an inherent part of any false economy to create

dependence where none should exist at all. A five-minute video that

can be seen here sums up the American economy of illusions and the

death of the American Dream.

10. Engineered Slavery: Do you think slavery died in the 1800s?

Think again. Economic hitmen (lenders) have successfully enslaved-

by-debt everything from nations, entire industries, state and local

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governments and nearly every person on the planet. And they bought

your servitude with money they never had, they simply created it out

of thin air. Even if an individual doesn’t have any bank financing or

credit cards, they still pay the private Federal Reserve through

inflation and income taxes. As author of Confessions of an Economic

Hit Man, John Perkins, would say: the time has come for the banks to

collect their “pound of flesh” from average citizens by way of higher

taxes, less social services, and taking your pensions — “austerity.”

For an enlightening explanation of how economic hitmen work their

dark magic please watch this video. If you’re still confused, see

these 10 signs you might be a slave. Another, more obvious, form of

engineered slavery is ****prison labor. Laws and regulations are

specifically created to add to the prison population which enriches the

corporations that own them, while local communities actually become

poorer and more dangerous

As George Carlin said, “It’s called the American Dream, because you

have to be asleep to believe it.” It would be bad enough if it were

contained to only one country, but we are now experiencing a global

collective dreaming that fantasizes about a government figuring

things out just in the nick of time. However, in the real world, the

collapse has begun in earnest. Until we are committed to counter the

10 points above, we will remain in the grip of an hallucination.

However, there are encouraging signs through protests worldwide,

alternative currency movements, and myriad creative solutions in the

most affected countries like Iceland, Greece, and Spain that people

are beginning to shake off their sleep, look in the mirror and realize

that the dream economy they have been sold was designed to make

them seek solutions in entirely the wrong direction.

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Follow-up Links on DEBTOR PRISONS

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World's Prison Capital is Also #1 in For-Profit Prisons

Joe Wright

Activist Post

The world's prison capital is not the United States, per capita,

although it leads the world for its overall prison population. One state

far outdoes America itself and incarcerates nearly double the national

average.

First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's

incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran's, seven times China's and 10

times Germany's. The U.S. prison business has become the essence of

predatory corporatism: it privatizes profits and socializes losses. This

combination has led to a situation where correctional facilities have

very little incentive to correct the behavior of those who reside within

their walls, but every incentive to ensure that new bodies arrive as fast

as possible, and keep them in a state of indentured servitude.

Naturally, this is exactly what is happening in Louisiana, as the vast

majority of inmates are not housed in state-run prisons, but in those

owned by private corporations. The social fallout has been profound.

Corrections Corporation of America has led the charge toward

creating a sound business model for those who would profit from

crime and punishment since it won the first private prison contract

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from Tennessee in 1984. CCA has expanded nicely, recently

submitting letters to 48 states with an offer to buy their prisons: "In

exchange ... for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance

that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full." (Source)

America already holds 25% of the world's prison population, with the

number of these prisoners held in private prisons rising dramatically

over the past 10 years from 2,000 housed in 5 private prisons, to more

than 60,000 housed in 100. It is a number expected to rise to 360,000

prisoners over the next decade. Moreover, as the economy declines,

there has even been a revival in debtors prisons,

Our Future In Chains: The Debtors Prison System Returns

Michael Edwards

Activist Post

The recent story of breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay being thrown

in prison for a $280 medical bill that was sent in error has thankfully

gone viral. It has brought much-needed attention to the insanity of

reinstating the concept of debtors prisons.

Debtors prisons have a sordid history that was thought to be best left

behind in Medieval Europe and in Charles Dickens' fictionalized

accounts of the 19th-century hellholes of Victorian England.

America was not to be outdone, however, debtors prisons were

widespread in the United States as well, and stories of the conditions

in New York's debtors prisons could make one question if repayment

of debts was really the purpose; violent criminals were much better

clothed and fed. In fact, history shows that terror and slavery have

always had a close relationship with debt, and it follows a path from

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the Romans right through to 17th-century England, and into America

from English common law. However, America chose to abolish her

debtors prisons a full 36 years before England; first in New York in

1831, and by 1833 the rest of the America had followed.(1)

Now, debtors prisons seem to be making a comeback in America.

An article in the Star Tribune in Minnesota titled, "In jail for being in

debt," exposes the growing number of citizens going to jail at the

behest of banks and a welcoming judicial system. They write:

It's not a crime to owe money, and debtors' prisons were abolished in

the United States in the 19th century. But people are routinely being

thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. In Minnesota, which has some

of the most creditor-friendly laws in the country, the use of arrest

warrants against debtors has jumped 60 percent over the past four

years, with 845 cases in 2009, a Star Tribune analysis of state court

data has found.

In our modern era of debt servitude, a PR Push has been designed to

reintroduce a serious discussion of debtors' prisons as a sound

solution. What goes beyond alarming is that the full-fledged return of

debtors prisons might be seen as both appropriately terrifying, as

well as a profitable investment opportunity and politically sound

decision to be made by state governments struggling with their own

looming bankruptcies, and a Federal government struggling

politically with the concept of a jobless recovery that is not

materializing.

A de facto debtors prison has already been largely accepted in the

case of "deadbeat" parents when a failure to pay child support puts

them in civil contempt of court. It is this civil contempt charge that is

now beginning to take on an expanded definition to include those who

owe for much smaller infractions. When a court order to pay a debt is

issued and ignored, it then qualifies as a civil contempt of court. At

that point, the judge becomes a literal dictator with the ability to

imprison a person indefinitely for the violation. The Constitution

explicitly prohibits incarceration for failure to pay debts, but it is

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the violation of a court order that gives judges free rein to impose

draconian punishments. In this way, an end-run around the

Constitution can become frighteningly commonplace.(2)

America already has a record-high ratio of people in prison, with no

signs of the trend reversing as private corporations like Wackenhut

Corporation, referred to as a "Free Market in Human Misery," have

long been enlisted to turn government directives into shareholder

profit. One might even deign to call it blatant fascism in its purest

form, as government legislation leads offenders directly into private

company coffers. The prison-industrial complex has already

capitalized on government actions like The War on Drugs. A prime

example is how The California Correctional Peace Officers

Association helped fuel the prison-building boom as a cozy

relationship was established on Capitol Hill through influence

peddling.(3)

Profiting from the suffering of the poor while bailouts and bonuses

await the over-leveraged banksters, car companies, and state

governments, sets up a prison-industrial complex with a class

warfare component that is the domestic mirror of the military-

industrial complex sent abroad. This domestic prison system

seems to be the only industry left to build upon, and it is here that

things become truly frightening. For the federally-owned prison

system complex, Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR), more

incarceration means a growing supply of cheap labor and a

skewing of unemployment numbers, as these inmates are often doing

jobs they couldn't even find if they were job hunting on the outside.

But it is the private prison system, with its web fully woven

throughout the U.S. government, that stands to profit the most from

the return of debtors' admission.(4)

The largest private prison conglomerate in the U.S. is Corrections

Corporation of America (CCA), which controls more than 47% of all

private prison and jail beds nationwide and is able to produce a 13-

15% return annually on new real estate investments. Wackenhut

(now subsumed into G4S, the largest security company in the world)

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was of course started by an FBI agent, George Wackenhut, who is

famous for developing millions of dossiers on America's "potential

subversives" in the sixties, and was exposed as being an integral

player within the shadow CIA.(5)

These major security conglomerates are at the top of a growing

pyramid of for-profit, international detention center operators that has

Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs simply fawning over the solid,

long-term investment potential. Similar to war, when there is a profit

to be made off of incarceration, only more incarceration can be

expected to follow. The U.S. government certainly seems to be

working hard to ensure that the numbers of poor continue to

increase, as they are well aware that that programs designed to help

the downtrodden are an abject failure every time.

The massive government debts that must be repaid directly into the

hands of the Federal Reserve-led banking cabal must lead us to an

inescapable conclusion: More money is to be made from slavery in

the United States, than from freedom.

Other Articles Cited 1. Jill Lepore, "I.O.U. - How We Used to Treat Our Debtors," The

New Yorker (April 13, 2009): 35.

2. Wendy McElroy,

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2229

3. Seth Sandronsky,

http://www.counterpunch.org/sandronsky05032005.html

4. Christian Parenti, http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=852

5. John Connolly, "Inside the Shadow CIA," SPY Magazine

(September, 1992): Volume 6.

Child Debt prisons were formally abolished in the early 1800s.

Perhaps more troubling is the heightened criminalization of children

for behavior which previously was considered merely a nuisance, not

something worthy of handcuffs and the big house.

A human product clearly has been created and fostered by a

system which values the worth of potential inmates as greater than

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their worth as free human beings. This has led to a captive

population that can be put to work creating goods for a multitude of

industries for as little as 25 cents per hour, effectively creating a

growing resurgence in open slavery; all while a misinformed

majority believe that more people under lock and key translates to

safer neighborhoods, towns and cities.

The above trends all have converged in Louisiana, and yet have

dispelled the myth that more prisoners leads to more safety for the

wider society at large. In a comprehensive article for the Times-

Picayune of New Orleans, Cindy Chang writes:

In the past two decades, Louisiana's prison population has doubled,

costing taxpayers billions while New Orleans continues to lead the

nation in homicides.

This is the exact type of incongruent outcome that has been noted

across the board even economically, where the supposed cost-saving

measures of a streamlined private enterprise should theoretically

trump bloated state government bureaucracy. However, this is only to

assume that we are looking at a real free-market system. What we see

instead is collusion between state governments that respond to the

lobbying efforts of a prison industry dominated by select mega

corporations.

The states write the legislation that paves the way for more criminals

to be guaranteed lengthier stays within prison walls where corporate

profits can be reaped for shareholders. It is the worst of both worlds.

And for those who care about the treatment and rehabilitation of

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the inmates who are set for release back into society, the belief that

private industry can do a better job is a belief that also falls flat.

Despite state-run prisons being generally short-staffed, overcrowded,

and underfunded, Louisiana's per-day value on its human commodity

within the private prison model is $24.39 - far lower than its state-run

counterpart. A focus on maximizing profits has led to a bare-bones,

near concentration-camp existence where cost cutting is paramount.

This has tremendous social implications, as private prison inmates are

mostly serving non-life terms for mostly non-violent offenses,

whereas state prison inmates are the most violent, often serving life

terms:

In a cruel irony, those who could benefit most are unable to better

themselves, while men who will die in prison proudly show off

fistfuls of educational certificates.

(...)

Their facilities are cramped and airless compared with the spacious

grounds of state prisons, where inmates walk along outdoor

breezeways and stay busy with jobs or classes.

In addition to the above, the history that Chang documents of how

Louisiana became the world's prison capital through the expansion of

the for-profit prison network perfectly illustrates the corporatist

mindset:

In the early 1990s, when the incarceration rate was half what it is

now, Louisiana was at a crossroads. Under a federal court order to

reduce overcrowding, the state had two choices: Lock up fewer

people or build more prisons.

It achieved the latter, not with new state prisons -- there was no

money for that -- but by encouraging sheriffs to foot the construction

bills in return for future profits. The financial incentives were so

sweet, and the corrections jobs so sought after, that new prisons

sprouted up all over rural Louisiana.

The national prison population was expanding at a rapid clip.

Louisiana's grew even faster. There was no need to rein in the growth

by keeping sentencing laws in line with those of other states or by

putting minor offenders in alternative programs. The new sheriffs'

beds were ready and waiting. Overcrowding became a thing of the

past, even as the inmate population multiplied rapidly.

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As we see the nation's prison populations swell, and observe the

concurrent swelling of corporate prison bottom lines, we must look at

the ramifications to judge if this is a model worth supporting.

With the highest percentage of its citizens locked up in a for-profit

system, Louisiana should be a safe, economically prosperous state if

this model is effective in aggressively removing all of the bad

elements that threaten society. What we see, however, is the exact

opposite: Louisiana is one of the most poverty stricken, uneducated,

and dangerous states in the union. The next generation is effectively

punished as well by having one or both parents locked away, while

the funding needed to potentially break the cycle is diverted toward

building more lockups:

Louisiana spends about $663 million a year to feed, house, secure and

provide medical care to 40,000 inmates. Nearly a third of that money

-- $182 million -- goes to for-profit prisons, whether run by sheriffs or

private companies.

'Clearly, the more that Louisiana invests in large-scale incarceration,

the less money is available for everything from preschools to

community policing that could help to reduce the prison population,'

said Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, a

national criminal justice reform group.

A nation that still purports to be the Land of the Free simply cannot

continue to say that slogan with a straight face when it has literally

invested in slavery. A predatory system -- even if some believe it only

preys on other predators -- can only lead to a ruined social landscape

like that of Louisiana; a state which should be more properly viewed

as a canary in the coal mine for what lies in wait for the rest of

America should it fully embrace the monetary value of a prison

society.

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Conclusion by Peter Brave-Heart:-If anyone has any doubts

about the possibility of all that is mentioned above about

DEBTOR PRISONS, and you have not already seen the real

TRUTH of 9/11, then please see the following testimony by over

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1000 experts, the ones who build the skyscrapers etc. I think that

you will conclude that any organization that is so evil as to cause

9/11 to happen to their own citizens is literally capable of doing

anything bad!

(ATTACK ON THE WORLD Trade Centre 9/11

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/911-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out/

The Plans of the ELITE could be, to not only bankrupt the world,

causing millions to be in broke financially in a moment; but as in the

above story of the woman not paying her $280 medical bill being

threatened with jail, even worse causing millions to become literal

FINANCIAL SLAVES OF THE COMING World Government LIVING IN

EITHER Debtor Prisons or one of the many FEMA Concentration

Camps they have been building in the USA. There are millions of

young people who are greatly in debt around the world, in order to

study at university. This could make them a TARGET FOR THE ELITE’S

PLANS TO ENSLAVE THE FREE, especially in AMERICA.

As the Bible says “Owe No Man ANYTHING..” Also “The Borrower is

the SLAVE of the lender..

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