{"id":50864,"date":"2020-02-01T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50864"},"modified":"2020-02-01T07:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T12:38:14","slug":"doug-casey-on-what-the-international-ruling-class-have-planned-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50864","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/doug-casey-on-what-the-international-ruling-class-have-planned-for-you\/\">Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/davos-image.jpg\" alt=\"International Ruling class\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>International Man<\/strong>: No matter the problem, the prescription of the Davos crowd is always more welfare, more warfare, more money printing, more taxes, and of course, more centralization of power into global institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s your take?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Doug Casey<\/strong>: The people who attend Davos are all welfare statists. They\u2019re not necessarily socialists, insofar as they don\u2019t want to see government nationalize industries. Most understand how totally dysfunctional that is and that they don\u2019t really benefit from it. Strict socialism, defined as State ownership of the means of production, is off the table. They prefer economic fascism, where a powerful State can funnel wealth to the corporations the elite own or control. They\u2019re happy to throw some table scraps to the unwashed masses, of course. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is the best way to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, they\u2019re not socialists. They\u2019re welfare statists. Completely opportunistic and absolutely unprincipled. Despicable people, actually. Few are entrepreneurial, independent thinkers or free-market oriented. Those types would be disruptive at Davos, and if they\u2019re ever invited, it would be only once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other than celebrities, court intellectuals, and publicity-oriented multibillionaires, the attendees are almost all bureaucrats and politicians who thrive on stolen money. But it\u2019s no longer easily visible briefcases full of cash. That\u2019s quaint in today\u2019s world. They steal indirectly, by making sure they benefit from state regulations, state favors, and the inflation of the currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bribes are in the form of tax-deducible donations to charitable foundations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). That\u2019s not only much safer, but the money is vastly bigger, and the way it\u2019s rigged adds to their prestige. Both making and taking a bribe disguises the miscreants as philanthropists and do-gooders when they use an NGO as a funnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Casey on What the International Ruling Class Have Planned for You International Man: No matter the problem, the prescription of the Davos crowd is always more welfare, more warfare, more money printing, more taxes, and of course, more centralization of power into global institutions. What\u2019s your take? Doug Casey: The people who attend Davos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[193,6227,1491,6228,17970,3899,889],"class_list":["post-50864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-davos","tag-doug-casey","tag-fascism","tag-international-man","tag-modern-monetary-theory","tag-ruling-class","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50865,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50864\/revisions\/50865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}