How lucre transmuted into lies

Really ambitious theft by money creation had to be a monopoly.If it were not, everyone would be able to cheat everyone else in the same way. There were two ways of acquiring and strengthening that monopoly: guns and money. The capitalists made most money by selling their murder machinery to their government. That government sent the likes of N Ludd to the likes of Australia- in chains, whether they liked it or not. There, they were officially informed that it was their patriotic and religious duty to make the place fit for Christian civilization and white supremacy. Guns were put in their hands to shoot heathen, inferior black-, brown- and yellow- fellas with. The more they shot, the more of the land they cleared they would be able to keep for themselves. The rest accrued to the crown.

Going to the other side of the earth to kill the initially hospitable and friendly people there to steal their land is contrary to several biblical commandments. However people in power in Europe proved that this was impeccably Christian behaviour. The pope himself had decreed that heathens were not humans, and that their lands were 'terra nullis'- nobody there. As England acquired more external colonies, capitalists ac­quired more, markets, cheap labour and raw materials. At that time, Europeans were deliberately indoctrinated with feelings of religious and racist superiority.

The close collaboration between England's Government and its Bank worked well for a while. It created the British Empire. The cartel contributed more to the government if it made more. Tight symbiosis between the military industrial banking cartel and the government was profitable to both. The government gave its industrialists large contracts at taxpayers' expense, not only for weapons,. It subsidized exports, collected duties on imports, organized education and research to meet industrialists' needs. It also enacted legislation to protect cartel interests much more than those of workers or the natural environment. The smoke, grime, noise, and the industrialized destruction of the earth's living cover spread out from England over the rest of the world.

In countries, like India, where people were locked into their trades for caste or other reasons, hundreds of thousands of local hand-weavers and other craftsmen starved as imported machine-made textiles, or other wares, undercut the lowest prices they could offer. Money made in this way could be used to create new industries for products and services that did not exist before- for instance in telecommunications and transportation, and to extend monopolized-fragmented markets elsewhere. Everybody was rich but the poor - and they didn't matter anyway. Or, so thought England's rich and powerful. The 10-month 1926 General strike proved that her workers were fed up with almost two centuries of ruthless exploitation and seeing their sons off to die in foreign wars that enriched only capitalists. British ceased to be best. The Empire went into decline thereafter.

The 19^th century was, in many ways, also a time of great progress. 18^th century squalor and superstition were mopped up as sanitation and education improved. Women began to get voting rights as well as educations. It was a time of organisation, classification and codification. Streets were named, maps made, plants and animals studied and categorized. Science seemed to be a cornucopia of wonders- electric lighting and motors, the telegraph and telephone, new cures for old diseases- vaccination, disinfection- improved the quality and length of many people's lives. Populations increased rapidly.