This article manages to come over as a rather believable narrative of the private banking systems as the primary source of monetary slavery. But is it?
Are there any more reputable sources either confirming or disproving these claims?
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Are there any more reputable sources either confirming or disproving these claims?
Since 1837, former slave owners in the British colonies were "compensated with the amount of approximately £20 million for the freeing of slaves. Based on a government census of 1 August 1834, more than 40,000 awards to slave owners were issued. Since some of the payments were converted into 3.5% government annuities, they lasted until 2015."[1]
Likewise, "The Haitian independence debt (French: Dette d'Indépendance Haïtienne) involves an 1825 agreement between Haiti and France that included France demanding an indemnity of 150 million francs in five annual payments of 30 million to be paid by Haiti in claims over property, including Haitian slaves, that was lost through the Haitian Revolution in return for diplomatic recognition. Haiti was forced to take a loan for the first 30 million,[a] and in 1838 France agreed to reduce the remaining debt to 60 million to be paid over 30 years, with the final payment paid in 1883.[1][2][b] However, according to a 2022 The New York Times analysis, because of other loans taken to pay off this loan, the final payment to debtors was actually made in 1947. They approximated that 112 million francs was actually paid in indemnity, which is equivalent to $560 million in 2022 after adjusting for inflation."[2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
Only problem is that the current reality of authoritarian capitalism in the US isn't helping democracy at all.
https://archive.org/details/firstcontact00conn
The documentary movie related to that book:
By putting the music in their larger historic context the author manages to convincingly decostruct the illusionary borders between eastern and western culture.
»The body appears in your mind, your mind is the content of your consciousness; you are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing you in any way. Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it.« —Nisargadatta Maharaj
We are usually submerged and self-identify with what is known experience and therefore rarely ever question it. When the lived context of the cognitive environment we take for granted profoundly changes in unexpected and not yet experienced ways the absence of being submerged into the known emerges. And then the so called witness state of perception is suddenly obvious.
I have felt this many times after extended travels and stays in other cultural spheres where other languages (which I manage fine) are spoken.
»As with the European witch hunts, in both the Illuminati panic and its later echoes,the real threat came from the counterconspiracy rather than from any conspiracy itself. Imagining themselves at risk of dark powers, Federalist preachers and the press organised in opposition to those powers. The immediate result was a threat not just to those it targeted but to free speech. While this threat passed, the moment left scars that have not faded as readily. As one of the earliest incidents in America’s long history of political invocations of the demonic, the Illuminati scare warns that the danger of demonology is not the demon, but the demonologist who imagines demons to be fought.«
https://www.andrewerickson.com/2026/01/honored-to-be-quoted-...
https://commstrader.com/news/thousands-of-chinese-fishing-ve...
https://min.news/en/military/5d824b7037942f3c9757f2079697308...
»[...] We are living in an age of advancing technology, run by boastful elites who keep telling us how much progress is happening everywhere. But my personal experience is the exact opposite—those technocrats ruin everything they touch.«