Annie Leonard has put together a fabulous piece that helps us see how the world works. This is really well done and concisely captures a lot of what I’ve seen in the documentaries I’ve been watching. I think the only thing not covered is the banking system and fiat currency (the use of debt to enslave people and nations). After all, this consumerism would not be possible without fractional reserve banking, massive leverage and immense amounts of credit.

She also does not touch the role of corporate owned media though she hits TV & commercials. She mentions the military industrial complex but only briefly.

In regards to why we got here, she sites this amazingly insightful quote:

Shortly after the World War 2, these guys were figuring out how to ramp up the [U.S.] economy. Retailing analyst Victor Lebow articulated the solution that has become the norm for the whole system. He said:

“Our enormously productive economy . . . demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption . . . we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”

Sadly, this man is describing the lust for growth and short sightedness that comes with the financial warfare model and Keynesian economics (which needs continuous expansion of credit and consumption to keep the system from collapse).   The root of the problem goes further back to 1913 with the establishment of the Federal Reserve, our European inspired privately owned central bank (as Federal as Federal Express).  We gave a small group of people the right to print our money and now we are experiencing the result.  The world is paying the cost.

The spirit behind Keynesian economics can be found in the life philosophy of the man behind it, John Maynard Keynes. I highly recommend reading the following article. It will put everything into its proper light.

In The Long Run we are (not) all dead
The anti-Christian economics of John Maynard Keynes

And the idea that this could happen is not new.  In fact, it was anticipated by our founding fathers if we were to allow the establishment of a central bank.

President Thomas Jefferson:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

We are watching this come true on a global scale.  This is the financial warfare model at work.  How do we stop this?  Good question.  I believe it starts by seeing the problem and then following it through to its source.  The problem cannot be solved unless we find and deal with the root.  We get to the root by looking for who benefits.

This will lead us to the spiritual darkness that  lies within the hearts of those we allow to print world currencies and issue our credit and the government officials and major stakeholders of large corporations that benefit from this system.  This crisis will only be resolved if a) we continue to the point that we destroy ourselves or b) God intervenes or c) people wake up, organize and repent.  Doing so would include rooting out the people, institutions, legislation, economic assumptions and worldviews that have led us down this path.

As Catherine Austin Fitts quotes frequently on her Solari Report, “If we can face it, God can fix it.”  Amen.