Jack Heart’s Conversations from the porch, Tariffs – Episode 67

Excerpted From The Bormann Faction Part II by Jack Heart & Orage

Western history, the part that’s indisputable, begins when marauding Conquistadors aligned themselves with the papacy and overran what we now call the “New World,” slaughtering the native inhabitants by the millions. Tons of plundered gold and silver would flood Spain and within less than fifty years collapse its economy like a wet taco. Its people faced famine. You cannot eat gold and silver and when all is said and done their just another commodity, the more you have, the less their worth. Spain’s economy proved unable to sustain the infusion of all that gold and silver and “Spanish kings were continuously in debt and forced to declare bankruptcy in 1560, 1575, 1596, 1607, 1627, 1647 and 1653.” (47)

Europe learned a basic law of economics the hard way. A strong economy is insured when you maximize your exports while minimizing your imports. Adam Smith would later dub this practice mercantilism.

Sweden would be ruined in its war with Russia and using this system the French and British, along with the Dutch whose populace was vastly outnumbered by the other two competing nations and only won their independence from Spain in 1581 but compensated for these handicaps with “a strong work ethic, a restraint from conspicuous consumption, and a vigorous trade regiment,” would become the preeminent economic powers of Europe. The first one to set down the rules for the as of yet unnamed practice of mercantilism was Englishman Sir Thomas Mun, whose evaluation of the Dutch was just quoted.

Mun was the Director of the East India Company. He would promulgate the doctrines and practices that would give rise to the most powerful company the world had ever known. He wrote two books A Discourse of Trade from England Unto the East Indies in 1621 and England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade in 1628 where he chastised his countryman for not being as thrifty as the Dutch. Mun laid out a list of policies which he urged England to follow.

In his book, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade Mun urged the British to ban all imports that can be produced within England. To convince English people they wanted English luxury goods. Mun advised the monarchy to lower taxes and tariffs on businesses producing goods for export and charge more money on goods for which England had a monopoly on the production. Mun advised England to cultivate her unused real estate to avoid having to import goods and increase her own production, along with this he wanted all imports to be completed by British shipping.(3)

Mun would die in 1641and ten years later Thomas Hobbs would justify every atrocity that was ever committed in the name of British imperialism when he wrote the dehumanizing bible; Leviathan. In France Jean-Baptiste Colbert under the auspices of the Jesuits would rise to the pinnacle of power in the court of the Sun King Louis XIV. While Colbert’s benefactor Cardinal Mazarin “became the richest man in the world” and Louie amused himself fighting war upon war, otherwise immersing himself in the dark scandal that was “L’affaire des poisons,” (48) Colbert ran France.

As Louie’s Comptroller-General of Finances Colbert would work tirelessly for over twenty years to increase the states hold on the economy until finally expiring in 1683. Colbert’s basic premise was to maintain a ‘favorable balance of trade’ in which products were exported for gold and to guard against an ‘unfavorable balance of trade’ where gold would flow out by using the power of government to strictly regulate French trade.

Colbert tried to undermine the Dutch wherever possible and stressed higher quality for French products, levying fines on those that produced shoddy merchandise. He closely regulated the manufacture of every conceivable product and built a strong merchant fleet to carry those products to the rest of the world. To the dismay of independent entrepreneurs he encouraged trade coalitions and cartels, organized under his own central bureaucracy, to which he extended monopoly privileges.

Although Colbert built France into an economic powerhouse eventually his system, dubbed Colbertism by economists, would leave France stranded in the seventeenth century. France was unable to keep up with the nimbler freer enterprise systems of the English and Dutch and its people, now starving in the streets, would overthrow the monarchy in the late eighteenth century. Astoundingly enough around the same time the French were beheading King Louis XVI for it Alexander Hamilton with his Report on the Subject of Manufactures was making a case for Colbertism in the fledgling American republic.

France would reinstitute a form Colbertism after WW II called Dirigisme from the French word diriger, meaning to direct. For thirty years the French economy was the envy of the world but by 1975 France was once again lagging behind her competitors in technology. China currently practices a form of Dirigisme, as do Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

By the latter part of the seventeenth century England was being overwhelmed by the seemingly endless industriousness of the Dutch. This quickly led to a war in 1653 where the English won several major naval battles in their home waters but led to the larger Dutch fleet blockading the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. The stalemate, detrimental to both empires, was broken when England passed the Treaty of Westminster which would evolve intoa series of laws known as the Navigation Acts. The acts, regulating trade for England and her colonies, largely turned the precepts laid out by Sir Thomas Mun a quarter century earlier into law.

The British Empire prospered under the tighter regulations but by the eighteenth century the acts were being modified by subsequent amendments, changes, and additional enforcement mechanisms and staff with an eye towards generating colonial revenue. Although its estimated that at most the changes cost colonial traders about 4% four percent of the net is a lot of money. It would lead to the American Revolution and it would also become the economic foundation of the National Socialist one.

The Wealth of Nations would be published in 1776 the same year Americas founding fathers declared King George a tyrant and passed The Resolution for Independence in the Second Continental Congress giving birth to the United States. The author of The Wealth of Nations; Adam Smith, a prodigy at fourteen, was by then recognized as the smartest man in the British Empire, if not the world.

Smith, a man of such intense intellect that he once walked eighteen miles immersed in his thoughts only to be made aware of where he was by a towns church bell, figured out what every great mind before him had missed. A countries wealth was not in bullion, which is essentially just another bought and sold commodity, but in the labor that country can generate. Productivity is the true wealth of nations. Innovation and invention with the elbow grease to set them in motion were the true measure of a nation’s economic power.

Smith’s disciple David Ricardo would follow up Smiths revelation by coining the term rent-seeking to be used as a label for the economic parasites currently murdering the world.

Rent-seeking is when one seeks to increase their share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. American Robert J. Shiller, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for economics, gives the classic example of rent seeking as; a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his domain then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is no improvement to the river nor the boatmen’s journey. Nothing has been produced except ill begotten wealth for the lord. In an article titled The Best, Brightest, and Least Productive Shiller lamented that “7.4% of total compensation of employees in 2012 went to people working in the finance and insurance industries.”

In 1848 German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would publish Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (The Communist Manifesto) loosely based on Smith’s ideas and the whole world would be set ablaze with fires that still rage today. Marx and Engels reasoned, without considering the innovation and invention part of The Wealth of Nations seven hundred plus pages let alone Ricardo’s freeloader defining concept of rent-seeking, that all the upper classes were exploiting the workers and were useless baggage that were no longer needed, if they ever were. They called for the abolition of private property and the ruthless suppression of those that owned it which they labeled the bourgeoisie.

By the early twentieth century the communists had already burnt the existing social structure in Russia to the ground and were making it very clear Germany was next. Into the maelstrom stepped Germanys own economic genius Gottfried Feder. The German State on a national and socialist foundation is Feder’s unabridged manifesto. It was first published into the turmoil that was 1923 Germany.

It was in that same year Count Coudenhove-Kalergi would bare the venomous fangs of the German aristocracy with the publication of Pan Europa. Recruitment for the Pan-Europa movement from the ranks of wealthy German Industrialists like the ones that would become IG Farben in two years was begun immediately from the highest pedigrees of free masonry. The year would culminate with Adolf Hitler’s infamous BeerHall Putsch.

Feder reasoned that the entire international monetary system was a rent seeker that Germany could no longer afford. The whole world said Germany was broke but using the basic premise established by Smith that labor is wealth Feder pointed out that “Every nation is as rich as it is able to organize work.” (50) In fact Germany was filthy rich, regardless of whatever the self proclaimed financial centers of Wall Street, London, Paris, and their paid hyenas in the press had to say. Feder stated boldly that “the interest slavery of the nations means the rule of the bank and stock-exchange” and breaking that “interest slavery is by far the greatest task of National Socialism.”(51)

One of the examples Feder gives demonstrating the burden acquired by the state through the burrowing of money with interest is the construction of the German Railway System. Feder calculates the total cost of construction: “amounted to around 25 billion gold marks up to 1914. The interest payments for this amount, with an average interest of 31/2 – 4%, amounted to around 800-900 million gold marks.” This consumed almost in its entirety the net revenue of the railway which after deducting labor and material “amounted to around 800- 1100 million marks.” Feder laments: “the gigantic army of German railway workers up to the highest positions with a head count of 782,731 persons has received for its work only exactly as much income as the completely inactive hand of loan Capital has pocketed.” He sighs: “The entire amount for our entire army amounted in 1913 – thus in the last full year of peace, to 775,385,300 marks…” (52)

Citing the work of Oskar Pöbing a Bavarian mechanical engineer who worked in the Technical University in Munich and published two in-depth studies on the cost Feder points out that in the two decade development of the “enormous hydro-energy existing in the mountain rivers, in combination with the large mountain lakes” of Bavaria the interest on the loans increased the final production cost for a kilowatt hour to the Bavarian people 500%. Feder asks why if the Bavarian state is solvent enough to guarantee the loan and the interest to its creditors on the “800 million for the Walchensee hydro-energy and the Middle Isar” it “cannot use its financial sovereignty and finance these works through its own authority.” (53)

The state could have issued “this cash in a way vouchers on the basis of its credit. Why should anybody have less regard for the credit of the state than for the credit of any banks, especially when the state is producing useful works for the welfare of the community?” Feder pointed out that vouchers could be backed by electrical credits upon completion of the project. He scornfully writes: “indeed Bavarian engineers, Bavarian workers, Bavarian foremen and entrepreneurs; Bavarian factories supply most of the machines and equipment – and for that which is not produced in Bavaria itself Bavarian grain or cattle must be given, thus Bavarian work must once again be given in exchange” for a globalist loan that involved for the bank no more than the signing of a check. (54)

Feder howls: “Is this not madness? Is this not an economic crime? of the people who have done nothing but at one time set their pen in motion and written out a cheque or directed their banker to sign the Bavarian hydro-electric loan, these receive for that, year after year, interests paid by the Bavarian people.” (55)

The money the state earned through running its own infrastructure without cutting in foreign banks would be more than enough to finance a utopian society. Feder emphasizes that when he writes: “the main goal of the National Socialist state is: the state without taxes.” He concludes that: “One who raises himself above the degradations and surveys from an elevated standpoint the Connections described: interest Obligation of the state – tax – ‘Inflation, one who has recognised the interest Obligation of all nations of the Western cultural circle as the fact dominating everything, one who has recognised that we live in an age of a complete reversal of the healthy and reasonable conditions between work and wealth, one who can no longer avoid the pressing logic that especially the state, by virtue of its financial sovereignty, is not completely bound to the loan route but that it can creatively finance through its own right all large public state tasks, for him it is only the last Step into a financial political New World to demand a state in which the state financial administration does not consider it as its first task to extract as much tax as possible from the state citizens but, on the contrary, to remove every burdensome tax pressure and to fertilise the national economy.” (56)

Feder was everything Karl Marx wasn’t, a wizard with numbers and facts who clearly states before his proposal to invent a financial and political New World: “National Socialism fundamentally recognises private property and places it under government protection.” (57) As opposed to the ongoing Soviet practice of murdering Ukrainian farmers and stripping them of their land Feder promises German farmers: “National Socialism will support and promote agriculturists through all means as the foundation of a powerful nation and of the nourishment of the population.” (58)

But he does not mince words with Germany’s generationally wealthy landgraves or their Jewish bankers in Berlin whom he promises a particularly hard time under National Socialism, mentioning Rothschild by name. Wealth accrued through rent seeking which he defined as those who were getting wealthy yet not producing anything would be confiscated, stockbrokers and moneychangers beware. He also stipulates: “It will however be the task of the legislation to draw the limits with regard to the hoarding of immoderate wealth in the hands of individuals at the expense of the whole…” (59)

There was nothing to stop Feder’s plan for using Germany’s labor as money from financially burying the rest of the world. It was a lightning stroke of pure genius and indeed a decade later Hitler would use it to build the bankrupt Weimar Republic into the National Socialist economic powerhouse that was the envy of the world in five years. But not before as the price of assuming power in 1933 he replaced Gottfried Feder with Free Mason and professional weasel Hjalmar Schacht.

Schacht was a German whose hobby was studying Qabalistic Hebrew a dead giveaway that he was a gift from Count Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Masonic lodge, including the Rothschild’s and Warburg’s. Hitler shrewd as he was could not have not known this but by then IG Farben along with the Rothschild’s and Warburg’s were his sponsors. The battle lines had been drawn in 1923 and the seeds of treachery sewn a decade later in 1933. It was these events that set the world on a course for a hundred year odyssey that would end here and now balanced on the periphery of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum’s transhuman abyss.

The Bormann Faction, part I by Jack Heart & Orage – The Human: Jack Heart, Orage and Friends (jackheartblog.org)

The Borman Faction III, Rat der Götter by Jack Heart & Orage – The Human: Jack Heart, Orage and Friends (jackheartblog.org)

Citations

Cover – Thomas Mun https://tinyurl.com/23565kve

47 – Mun, Thomas, “Introduction to England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade, or The Ballance of Our Forraign Trade Is the Rule of Our Treasure.” England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade,1629. University of California Press. https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft287004zv&chunk.id=d0e3662&toc.depth=1&brand=ucpress

48 – Ibid.

49 – Heart, Jack and Orage . “Human Sacrifice among the Catholic Clergy II (the Khazar-Nazi Antichrist III) .” The Human: Jack, Orage & friends. Jack Heart writings. 9 Apr 2020. Web. https://jackheart2014.blogspot.com/2020/04/human-sacrifice-among-catholic-clergy.html

50 – Feder, Gottfried. Translated with a Preface by Alexander Jacob, The German State on a national and socialist foundation. A World View Foundations Project wvfoundations.org, 1923. p137. Web.Gottfried Feder The German State On A National And Socialist Foundation : Gottfried Feder : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

51 – Ibid, p109.

52 – Ibid, pp127-129.

53 – Ibid, pp130-136.

54 – Ibid.

55 – Ibid.

56 – Ibid, p148.

57 – Ibid, p72.

58 – Ibid, p74.

59 – Ibid, p72.

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