The concurrent arising of the Yellow Vests (gilets jaunes) movement in France and the appropriation of the Green New Deal by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez provide an excellent opportunity to examine the tenets of these plans, as well as to examine the difference between real and fake ("useful opposition") progressives.
While the Yellow Vests protest was initially engendered by an increase in the tax on petro, it quickly evolved into a strike over the financial caste system in France, the rest of Europe (here, here, here, and here), and Asia. Despite the movement's wise decision to forgo any leadership (which makes it more difficult for the cartel to hijack), a general consensus soon developed regarding demands (our emphasis in bold).
Economy/Work• A constitutional cap on taxes - at 25%
• Increase of 40% in the basic pension and social welfare
• Increase hiring in public sector to re-establish public services
• Massive construction projects to house 5 million homeless, and severe penalties for mayors/prefectures that leave people on the streets
• Break up the 'too-big-to-fail' banks, re-separate regular banking from investment banking
• Cancel debts accrued through usurious rates of interest
Politics• Constitutional amendments to protect the people's interests, including binding referenda
• The barring of lobby groups and vested interests from political decision-making
• Frexit: Leave the EU to regain our economic, monetary and political sovereignty (In other words, respect the 2005 referendum result, when France voted against the EU Constitution Treaty, which was then renamed the Lisbon Treaty, and the French people ignored)
• Clampdown on tax evasion by the ultra-rich
• The immediate cessation of privatization, and the re-nationalization of public goods like motorways, airports, rail, etc.
• Remove all ideology from the ministry of education, ending all destructive education techniques
• Quadruple the budget for law and order and put time-limits on judicial procedures. Make access to the justice system available for all
• Break up media monopolies and end their interference in politics. Make media accessible to citizens and guarantee a plurality of opinions. End editorial propaganda
• Guarantee citizens' liberty by including in the constitution a complete prohibition on state interference in their decisions concerning education, health and family matters
Health/Environment• No more 'planned obsolescence' - Mandate guarantee from producers that their products will last 10 years, and that spare parts will be available during that period
• Ban plastic bottles and other polluting packaging
• Weaken the influence of big pharma on health in general and hospitals in particular
• Ban on GMO crops, carcinogenic pesticides, endocrine disruptors and monocrops
• Reindustrialize France (thereby reducing imports and thus pollution)
Foreign Affairs• End France's participation in foreign wars of aggression, and exit from NATO
• Cease pillaging and interfering - politically and militarily - in 'Francafrique', which keeps Africa poor. Immediately repatriate all French soldiers. Establish relations with African states on an equal peer-to-peer basis
• Prevent migratory flows that cannot be accommodated or integrated, given the profound civilizational crisis we are experiencing
• Scrupulously respect international law and the treaties we have signed
As we have discussed previously, there are a minimum of four fundamental requirements for a democratic republic: a public banking network, verifiable voting, decentralized media, and ideological-free education.
As we see in the Yellow Vests' list, they fail to understand (or at least explicitly capture) that to fund their demands the central bank of France must be repatriated from a handful of financiers (who control the EU Central Bank)—whose modus operandi is to rule through debt enslavement—to the people of France. Without a public central bank, the power structure does not change and the objectives of the cartel (power, profit, propaganda, and population reduction) will remain unchanged and at odds with all the demands. A public central bank of France would require Frexit, which is listed elsewhere in their demands. The point here is that breaking up the big banks accomplishes nothing—just as when the trust busters pretended to break up Standard Oil, and the Rockefeller trusts ended up with control over all the pieces—and that the fundamental cornerstone of the sovereignty that the Yellow Vests demand requires a publicly owned central bank.
We also see that the Yellow Vests are assuming that the results of French elections actually represent the way people voted, but as we have documented, any elections within the financiers' domain which use electronic voting and/or counting machines (or lack qualified supervision over paper ballots) are hacked.
On the other hand, the Green Party is a little further along when it comes to basics, although they backpedaled during the last election cycle (at least according to Jill Stein's description of the Green New Deal, which ignores the game-changing potential effects of a publicly owned central bank, and posits that its proposed programs would be paid for by diminished military spending, a carbon tax, and lower medical costs); thus, they don't understand the implications of some of their demands, which adds confusion to their platform. Here is the 2016 version of the Green New Deal (accompanied by our comments in parentheses and italics):
THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GREEN NEW DEALI - THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS
Our country cannot truly move forward until the roots of inequality are pulled up, and the seeds of a new, healthier economy are planted. Thus, the Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that ensures all citizens:
1. The right to employment through a Full Employment Program that will create 25 million jobs by implementing a nationally funded, but locally controlled direct employment initiative replacing unemployment offices with local employment offices offering public sector jobs which are "stored" in job banks in order to take up any slack in private sector employment. (The development of machines, computers, robots, and artificial intelligence provides the opportunity for automating repetitive and menial tasks, thus fulfilling a longtime dream of humanity—less menial and repetitive work and more time for personal development. In the context of a publicly owned central bank, universal basic income, universal healthcare, and universal education would be easily affordable, because profiteering on war, healthcare, education, and virtually everything else, would be eliminated, and the cost of interest embedded in goods and services [30 to 40 percent] would be eliminated as well, freeing up an equal amount of productive capacity to be applied to our other priorities.)
Local communities will use a process of broad stakeholder input and democratic decision making to fairly implement these programs.
Pay-to-play prohibitions will ensure that campaign contributions or lobbying favors do not impact decision-making. We will end unemployment in America once and for all by guaranteeing a job at a living wage for every American willing and able to work.
2. Worker's rights including the right to a living wage, to a safe workplace, to fair trade, and to organize a union at work without fear of firing or reprisal.
3. The right to quality health care which will be achieved through a single-payer Medicare-for-All program. (Yes, for the reasons we explain under #1.)
4. The right to a tuition-free, quality, federally funded, local controlled public education system from pre-school through college. We will also forgive student loan debt from the current era of unaffordable college education. (Yes, for the reasons we explain under #1.)
5. The right to decent affordable housing, including an immediate halt to all foreclosures and evictions. We will:
- create a federal bank with local branches to take over homes with distressed mortgages and either restructure the mortgages to affordable levels, or if the occupants cannot afford a mortgage, rent homes to the occupants;
- expand rental and home ownership assistance;
- create ample public housing; and,
- offer capital grants to non-profit developers of affordable housing until all people can obtain decent housing at no more than 25% of their income.
- (A major element in the manufactured crash of 2008 was the bundling of sub-prime mortgages into securities. In the process of doing this, millions of mortgages were entered into a database (MERS) where the chain of title was broken; thus, all these mortgages are invalid and the titles legally belong to the homeowners, not the banks. The implementation of this legal chain of ownership will effectively bankrupt the so-called "too big to fail" (TBTF) banks, which will not be bailed out. They will be absorbed into the public banking system.)
6. The right to accessible and affordable utilities – heat, electricity, phone, internet, and public transportation – through democratically run, publicly owned utilities that operate at cost, not for profit. (Agreed. The energy sector—like healthcare and education—should be publicly owned.)
7. The right to fair taxation that's distributed in proportion to ability to pay. In addition, corporate tax subsidies will be made transparent by detailing them in public budgets where they can be scrutinized, not hidden as tax breaks. (Given a publicly owned central bank, the need for taxation will be greatly reduced, and depend upon inflationary and deflationary pressures on the currency.)
II - A GREEN TRANSITION
The second priority of the Green New Deal is a Green Transition Program that will convert the old, gray economy into a new, sustainable economy that is environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible. We will:
1. Invest in green business by providing grants and low-interest loans to grow green businesses and cooperatives, with an emphasis on small, locally-based companies that keep the wealth created by local labor circulating in the community rather than being drained off to enrich absentee investors.
2. Prioritize green research by redirecting research funds from fossil fuels and other dead-end industries toward research in wind, solar and geothermal. We will invest in research in sustainable, nontoxic materials, closed-loop cycles that eliminate waste and pollution, as well as organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.
3. Provide green jobs by enacting the Full Employment Program which will directly provide 16 million jobs in sustainable energy and energy efficiency retrofitting, mass transit and "complete streets" that promote safe bike and pedestrian traffic, regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing.
III - REAL FINANCIAL REFORM
The takeover of our economy by big banks and well-connected financiers has destabilized both our democracy and our economy. It's time to take Wall Street out of the driver's seat and to free the truly productive segments of working America to make this economy work for all of us. Real Financial Reform will:
1. Relieve the debt overhang holding back the economy by reducing homeowner and student debt burdens. (Yes. See I. 5. above.)
2. Democratize monetary policy to bring about public control of the money supply and credit creation. This means we'll nationalize the private-bank-dominated Federal Reserve System and place it under a Monetary Authority within the Treasury Department. (Note that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the U.S.A. says only Congress has the power of money creation. This is why all funding bills come from the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has oversight of taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other programs. The Executive Branch (of which the Treasury Department is part) proposes a budget, and may sign or veto the money creation and revenue bills as approved by the Congress, hopefully based on an evaluation of the money supply and any inflationary or deflationary pressures on the currency.)
3. Break up the oversized banks that are "too big to fail." (As we saw with the trust busters and Standard Oil, breaking up capitalist monopolies is an illusion, as the Rockefeller trusts ended up controlling the various pieces. As we noted in I. 5. above, the "too big to fail" banks will be absorbed by the public banking network. Further, as we have noted here, the crimes of the banks have, effectively, never been punished, and the results of doing so would result in the same public receivership of their assets that will be precipitated in a different way, as we detailed in our response to I.5.)
4. End taxpayer-funded bailouts for banks, insurers, and other financial companies. We'll use the FDIC resolution process for failed banks to reopen them as public banks where possible after failed loans and underlying assets are auctioned off. (FDIC is not a federal program—"federal" being appropriated the same as in the "Federal" Reserve—so, the process for reopening failed banks as assets of the public banking network will be handled by the network itself, which will be self-insured, just like the Bank of North Dakota [currently the nation's only publicly owned bank]. In fact, unlike the Bank of North Dakota, the publicly owned central bank can create the funds to pay for the transition without incurring any debt. Of course, certain assets of the TBTF banks can be sold as well.)
5. Regulate all financial derivatives and require them to be traded on open exchanges. (Given a public banking network, there will be no need for the fraudulent, rigged Wall Street casino system.)
6. Restore the Glass-Steagall separation of depository commercial banks from speculative investment banks. (See I. 5. and III. 5. above.)
7. Establish a 90% tax on bonuses for bailed out bankers. (See III. 5. above)
8. Support the formation of federal, state, and municipal public-owned banks that function as non-profit utilities. Under the Green New Deal we will start building a financial system that is open, honest, stable, and serves the real economy rather than the phony economy of high finance. (We describe how the transition of the banking system and currency would be implemented here.)
IV - A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY
We won't get these vital reforms without a fourth and final set of reforms to give us a real, functioning democracy. Just as we are replacing the old economy with a new one, we need a new politics to restore the promise of American democracy.
The New Green Deal will:
1. Revoke corporate personhood by amending our Constitution to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. Those rights belong to living, breathing human beings - not to business entities controlled by the wealthy.
2. Protect our right to vote by supporting Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s proposed "Right to Vote Amendment," to clarify to the Supreme Court that yes, we do have a constitutional right to vote.
3. Enact the Voter Bill of Rights that will:
- guarantee us a voter-marked paper ballot for all voting;
- require that all votes are counted before election results are released;
- replace partisan oversight of elections with non-partisan election commissions;
- celebrate our democratic aspirations by making Election Day a national holiday;
- bring simplified, safe same-day voter registration to the nation so that no qualified voter is barred from the polls;
- do away with so-called "winner take all" elections in which the "winner" does not have the support of most of the voters, and replace that system with instant runoff voting and proportional representation, systems most advanced countries now use to good effect;
-replace big money control of election campaigns with full public financing and free and equal access to the airwaves;
- guarantee equal access to the ballot and to the debates to all qualified candidates;
- abolish the Electoral College and implement direct election of the President;
- restore the vote to ex-offenders who've paid their debt to society; and,
- enact Statehood for the District of Columbia so that those Americans have representation in Congress and full rights to self rule like the rest of us. (This can only happen in the context of a publicly owned central bank. The financiers, who control the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel, as well as the government of the U.S. (and others), would never let this happen, because it would institute state control over their so-called "federal" district, which is privately owned, just like the City of London and the Vatican.)
4. Protect local democracy and democratic rights by commissioning a thorough review of federal preemption law and its impact on the practice of local democracy in the United States. This review will put at its center the "democracy question" – that is, what level of government is most open to democratic participation and most suited to protecting democratic rights.
5. Create a Corporation for Economic Democracy, a new federal corporation (like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) to provide publicity, training, education, and direct financing for cooperative development and for democratic reforms to make government agencies, private associations, and business enterprises more participatory. (This is a poor model to use for such a noble purpose. The CPB [along with PBS and NPR] was hijacked by corporate interests in the late '90's. In the context of a public banking network, verifiable voting, and decentralized media, this issue could take care of itself. Plenty of good ideas have already been put forth, such as worker cooperatives; for example, here.)
6. Strengthen media democracy by expanding federal support for locally-owned broadcast media and local print media. (At a minimum, the limitations of ownership of mass and social media will revert to the standards set forth in the Communications Act of 1934, modified in consideration of the Internet, which shall be operated as a public utility.)
7. Protect our personal liberty and freedoms by: repealing the Patriot Act and those parts of the National Defense Authorization Act that violate our civil liberties; prohibiting the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI from conspiring with local police forces to suppress our freedoms of assembly and of speech; and, ending the war on immigrants – including the cruel, so-called "secure communities" program. (The Patriot Act is unconstitutional and is only operational because the cartel controls the judiciary. It also should be noted that much of the legislation passed since 1819 is in violation of the original 13th Amendment, which prohibits citizens from accepting title of nobility (i.e., Esquire, which implies witting or unwitting allegiance to the cartel's international BAR association, located in the private, independent financial district in the City of London.)
8. Rein in the military-industrial complex by reducing military spending by 50% and closing U.S. military bases around the world; restoring the National Guard as the centerpiece of our system of national defense; and, creating a new round of nuclear disarmament initiatives. (The National Guard has become an extension of the U.S. military, and needs to be reverted to its original intension of protecting citizens against a standing army that may be used to suppress dissent by the executive branch. This is the actual meaning of "a well-regulated militia," based on the experience of the colonists being forced to pay British taxes and house British soldiers. Much of the current federal powers have no constitutional basis, since these powers were never expressed, and were illegally seized under the interstate commerce clause, not to mention passed by a Congress rife with representatives who, according to the original 13th Amendment, were not and are not citizens, based on having accepted titles of nobility [Esquire, etc.].)
The key plank in the Green Party's Green New Deal aims to "nationalize the private bank-dominated Federal Reserve Banks and place them under a Monetary Authority within the Treasury Department." (We argue [in III.2. above] that according to the Constitution, the monetary authority is Congress.) As we noted with the Yellow Vests omission of this demand, the fulfillment of this one objective is what makes the fulfillment of every other demand possible, and in many cases unnecessary (that is, the conditions that engender certain problems would dematerialize with public control over money creation).
For example, as we explain in the 4th step of our latest book, 7 Steps to Global Economic and Spiritual Transformation, simplified here, the replacement of the privately controlled banking system, which is the source of the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel's power, would necessarily change the political, economic, and social structure of the entire planet. We must also point out that the plan for converting the present privately controlled system to one based on public control over money creation, has already been outlined here.
Neither the Yellow Vests movement, which presently is not demanding a public central bank, and the Green Party, which is demanding a public central bank, understand the implications of what such a change would engender. Since control over the Fed is the cornerstone of the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel's power, then virtually all the wars that the cartel has created, using false-flag events and false claims, would end. This would immediately put an end to profiteering on war, healthcare, education, and almost all sectors of the economy. It would also extricate centuries of embedded interest from goods and services, which presently represent 30 to 40% of all costs, and an equal percentage of waste of our productive capacity. The entire spectrum of the Wall Street and City of London casinos would no longer be necessary, since credit would be readily available from the public banking network at no interest.
A color rendering of France's gift, the Statue of Liberty,
"Liberty Enlightening the World" (La Liberté éclairant le monde)—
designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel—
as it looked when the colossus was dedicated.
As more and more people have come to realize the importance of ending private control over money creation—as well as all the advantages of public banking, not to mention the growing awareness of the "legal" propaganda generated by the corporate mass media, the hacking of elections by those who manufacture and program the electronic voting machines (i.e., the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel, not the Russians), the eugenics philosophy of the corporate healthcare system, and the dumbing down of the educational system (and here)—the cartel has become quite alarmed. Clearly, the actual votes (which went unreported) for the Green Party in 2016 created quite a stir in the upper levels of the global corporate crime syndicate, because they felt it necessary to do more than just suppress the recounts legally demanded by Jill Stein's campaign.
In response, the cartel has (among other tactics) undertaken a massive propaganda campaign to mislead progressives by having them buy into solutions that will not change the power structure. A recent documentary (Four Horsemen) featuring Noam Chomsky, John Perkins, and Joseph Stiglitz is a perfect example of this PSYOPS via "limited hangout," as we explicate here.
Another example is the fake progressivism represented by blue party candidates such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The sole mission of fake progressives is to keep real progressives from voting for actual progressive third-party candidates. Talk is cheap, and that is as far as any "progressive" ideas get in the Congress, which is owned and operated by the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel. Ocasio-Cortez lifted the Green New Deal whole cloth from Jill Stein, and she has given no credit to those from whom she stole it. She called John McCain a war hero. There is no one who was in the streets in the late ‘60’s protesting the war in Vietnam that would call anyone who dropped napalm, agent orange, and bombs on the Vietnamese a war hero. McCain was a war criminal.
Additionally, Ocasio-Cortez supports Pelosi, who oversees the blue party Congresspersons’ voting assignments, which allows some brand maintenance while ensuring that the cartel’s objectives are met. The Green New Deal will never happen in the U.S. Congress as it is currently constituted, because if it were enacted, it would put the cartel out of business, as we explain above. Point in case: "Democrats Just Blocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Push For A Green New Deal Committee." Can you say, "Bait and switch"?
For real progressives, it's time to don the yellow vests and put forth a reconstituted list of demands, beginning with public control over money creation. The Empire's force shield is beginning to crack.
Copyright 2018
Robert Bows
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