{"id":6981,"date":"2015-03-30T18:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2015-03-30T18:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:55:43","slug":"the-deep-state-is-now-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6981","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cDeep State\u201d Is Now in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to The \u201cDeep State\u201d Is Now in Charge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=36645\" rel=\"bookmark\">The \u201cDeep State\u201d Is Now in Charge<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>The Most Important Change<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>But when he is disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Plato on tyrants,\u00a0The Republic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-spx-slot=\"1\">This is the last in our series on how America\u2019s money, economy and government have changed since the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement and the end of gold-backed money.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we keep the focus on government\u2026 and what it has become. The period is hardly coincidental: On August 15, 1971, President Nixon hammered the last nail in the coffin of honest money.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the only reason for the profound changes that followed. There was also the opening up of Communist China to capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Internet, to name just a few. But the new credit-based money system was the least obvious change\u2026 and probably the most important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Caution: \u201cDeep State\u201d at Work<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The credit-based dollar brought about a new economy. It changed the way people thought and the way their government operated. Now, deep pools of money determine which candidates are presented to voters.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a new branch of government: the \u201cDeep State.\u201d It is not mentioned in the Constitution. And it operates above and beyond the visible process of democratic government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cDeep State\u201d Is Now in Charge The Most Important Change But when he is disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. \u2013 Plato on tyrants,\u00a0The Republic [&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":[6],"tags":[936,130,199,528,4219,742],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bretton-woods","tag-china","tag-deep-state","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-richard-nixon","tag-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","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=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}