THE ELUSIVE PEACE TREATY
THE ELUSIVE PEACE TREATY
The sigil that keeps the specter of war at bay… for a while.
THE ELUSIVE PEACE TREATY
The sigil that keeps the specter of war at bay… for a while.
I have been looking at peace treaties lately. Have you ever examined one?
They are not what you think.
There are cease-fires and there are treaties.
There is a difference.
A commander can yell, “Cease fire!” and the shooting stops.
No ink necessary.
But the fighting can resume again on command at any time.
But a peace treaty is different.
A peace treaty not only includes a cease fire but also conditions of surrender and settlement.
The settlement part is very interesting in that it delineates mostly financial settlements. It might say something like, “Because you bombed London then you now owe us $43 million in gold bars which will be paid in installments on this particular schedule to this particular bank account in the Bank of London.”
Many of these treaties read like mortgages or breach of financial contract settlements with interest and punitive payments. Some argue that the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany was caused by the overbearing reparation payments from WW1.
The Germans couldn't keep up with the payments so they just went postal one day and sent the loan shark off to the ovens. Then when the cop showed up they had no choice but to let him have it with both barrels.
This is why corporations need courts – so they can continue even when their country changes owners or goes into bankruptcy.
The old tenants are evicted from the apartment and the new tenants move in but the electric company remains the same. The only difference is that the electric bill is charged to the new occupant.
This is why peace treaties are signed in secret in the middle of the night in a train car in the middle of the woods. If the people knew, they would push the car and all the occupants off a cliff.
The hidden empires continue while the bankers of prey feed on the carcass of the visible nation. When the USA defaults on its obligations your social security fund may be wiped away but your company pension fund will still exist. It can convert its assets to Euros or Yen while the USA Empire is stuck with its own currency. Interesting, huh?
This is why nations are scrambling to join the BRICS currency system. They smell the death of the dollar and want to pull their pensions out of a fiat money more doomed than Bitcoin.
Your Toyota 401k is more secure than your SSI benefits because the corporation is immortal. Even in bankruptcy it is immortal.
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