Money From Nothing, Rodent Shit For Free

 When I got off the plane and set foot on my home and native ground in Vancouver Airport in March I needed phone service. The first thing I did after doing all the requisite information volunteering so that hundreds of agencies (and untold numbers of advertisers) know exactly where I am and what I'm doing at all times, was find a phone kiosk so I could get phone service and share all that same information with anyone who the airport immigration agents forget about. Also, I needed to call some folks.

The first thing I said when I made the mistake of getting Bell service on my phone was tell them I don't want any one-year or two-year contract. I have posted many times here how past phone service, gym membership, and cable hookup long-term scams have led to my opinion that they all should be illegal. The answer I got was surprisingly encouraging. The kiosk worker told me they weren't allowed to do that any more. I now know that they still DO whether they're allowed to or not, but at least a step in the right direction. 

However, ... there is still one group of people in Canada who still use the long-term scam maybe more than ever at without a doubt the worst TIME ever to do it. Can you think of who these scamsters are? You guessed it didn't you? Landlords. Here are a couple of stats for you: 1 in 4 Canadians can't cover an unexpected bill of $500. That's Statcan. Angus Reid Institute's independent research found that 51% of Canadians couldn't cover a $1000 unexpected bill. I don't remember a time when things have been worse for the poor half of this country and wonder if there has been one. We'll get to the big reason for that later. For now I wanna talk about my landlord, or really my landlord's father. I left a message with my landlord John who I talked with and did all the apartment business with. I still have never met his father. I tried to call John to let him know I am moving to Calgary and to work out what will happen with the lease, rent, damage deposit, tenants, and all that fun stuff. He didn't answer but I left him a message. I guess the father heard about the message and called me to inform me that I had committed to a one-year lease. While it IS possible, knowing me and how I loathe such things, plus the fact that I don't remember talking or reading about any such long-term commitment, compounded by the fact that my situation was nothing if not unstable and I related that to John in no uncertain terms, I have my doubts. 

Nevertheless, let's say I DID sign a one-year lease. What within the bounds of common sense and reason, does that put me on the hook for? I have paid 4 1/2 months of my 1400-dollar a month rent. I have 7-8 months left on my lease. That's about $11,200. In a country where the bottom half doesn't have an extra grand in the bank, mattress or cookie jar, in an apartment and location that will only attract members of that half of Canada, am I REALLY expected to be responsible for payment of the remainder of the year of rent because of a lease agreement? Let's call it what it is and illustrate why the Canadian government has (half-heartedly) cracked down on these things: What essentially is a one-year lease agreement? What are you forcing your tenant to do? Or at least what are you hoping your tenant will assume is their responsibility here? Am I supposed to believe I'm on the hook for 11 grand? Because of a lease which is in its mind boggling no shit essence an agreement for the lowly tenant to be held responsible for THE FUTURE in an economic climate in Canada where it has been more unpredictable than ever. This is why these horseshit long-term agreements shouldn't even be legal. Obviously nobody can predict the future. Even month-to-month it's hard to know for me and a lot of people in this country, how much money we will have and if it will be enough for rent.

Let me give you MY situation. I was hired to be a mobile security guard where I work. I haven't yet worked a shift by myself in the mobile truck because I don't yet have my driver's license. I failed twice because of BC politics more than anything. The fact is, the mobile job is a rip off and I never wanted to do such a complicated, stressful job for 18 bucks an hour. So it was a blessing in disguise failing twice. Now that I have put in my notice and my last day will be Sept. 1, I will have worked 4 1/2 months without ever doing a shift at the position I was hired for. Hee hee! However, because I'm just being thrown into whatever spots they can find whatever shifts they can find, I have a highly irregular schedule! I can work one shift one week and 7 the next. I can work weeks where I have to switch back and forth from midnights to day shifts two or three times. I never have a week that doesn't require at least one sleep changeover. With my home situation where sleep is hard to get at the best of times, and a company perilously close to losing the contract at Teck where I work, it's an employment and living situation that is unsustainable. Certainly not for an entire year. The point here that I am forced to make only because of the asinine acceptance that has been entrenched into the Canadian culture of the suspension of reality in which businessmen and women regularly, voluntarily and KNOWINGLY engage, is that nobody could have foreseen this. So can anyone tell me why the flaming fuck we allow anyone to exploit and cash in on the (ever increasing) uncertainty of the future? Unbelievably, I am getting to a far more jaw-dropping example of this very suspension of reality we engage in to allow our owners to steal our money. And it's worldwide. Wait for it. It's a doosey. 

I was told when I was hired by Safety Net Security that I'd start at 18 bucks an hour but after training it would go up to 20 or so and there were contract negotiations underway that were going to include a more substantial raise for all employees. I remember saying to John the landlord on the phone before I took the apartment and before I had even met him, "I could end up going on strike before I even start work!" I expected some instability but NOTHING compared to what the Fates orchestrated. As of today there has been no raise. EVERYBODY is mad because they've had this rubber carrot waved in front of them for longer than the 4 1/2 months I've foolishly believed the people I work for. We've gone through iterations of the raise story that have included statements as vague as "It could be 2, 5, maybe even 10 dollars an hour," to "The raise will be applied retroactively to every hour you've worked for the company since the contract was being negotiated." But every check we open with the anticipation of a child at Christmas time still has an 18 in the hourly wage column. People are leaving. This week one guy worked his last shift and another just blew off three shifts at the last minute. He likely won't get fired because the company is losing employees faster than they can hire new ones. Their reaction to this mass exodus has been to punish the workers with more tedious and unnecessary duties rather than reward us with more money. Make the situation worse much?

To put the cherry on top, this week an ad was found for a job that pays 25 bucks an hour, that's 7 dollars an hour more. The job is much easier than main gate or mobile positions at the site where I work too. It also included some nice benefits. We don't get any where I am working. Guess what company posted the ad. You guessed right again, didn't you? Safety Net Security. The reaction to this news could be, "Well now they're SURE to give us the raise!" I think, however, the more likely reaction will be a song I was absent-mindedly whistling on one of my walks home. It has been hot here and the mobile or a guard going to work has driven me to Teck 2 or my 3 shifts this week. At 6 PM it was 41 and 38 degrees the last two days. But at 6 AM it's a nice high teen temperature in which to walk home. The middle shift, the day it was 41, I started out on my walk whistling mindlessly. I do that while I walk. It wasn't till I was well down the highway before I clued into what song I had been whistling. "Take This Job and Shove It." I had a good chuckle at that! The next day I tendered my resignation a little less lyrically but quite a bit more professionally.

I would be gobsmacked if this company retains the contract for the duration of what would have been my one-year lease period. So in reality, my leaving is saving the landlord from having an unemployed tenant whose job disappeared because of bad management. This unpredictability of the job market can understandably be a source of stress and lease breaking for landlords. I get it. They don't like people leaving early. But on the other hand, it has created a situation in which there are a LOT of people without apartments so there will be no problem at all finding replacements for lease breakers. I had two co-workers tell me they know lots of people who would be interested in my apartment while at work yesterday. The mobile driver who drove me offered to take the lease himself. But I got home and talked to Fred, my roommate, figuring he should get the first crack at assuming the lease and he jumped at the chance. He doesn't want to move. 

I gave him the offer the landlord's father was not happy with: One month's notice and you can take my payment for next month's rent out of my damage deposit. That way he doesn't have to give me back the whole thing. It gives him a full month to find a roommate and in this market even a guy with a noisy, unfixed, male cat can find a roommate. So Fred will talk to John and his father this week. It'll be like Fred becomes me and the new person becomes Fred. There will be nothing lost by anyone but me. I'll be paying half a month's rent for a month I won't likely be here. I'll probably move to Calgary in early Sept.

So what was all the fuss about? I hate to say it but this is what Canada has become. Everybody's first instinct seems to be "How can I get money here that I don't deserve? How can I screw my fellow man?" The old first instinct of, "How can I work this out reasonably and equitably?" seems to have been lost in the pandemic. Maybe before that. I dunno, I wasn't here.

Now the other thing. You've heard about the central bank system but have you ever looked into it? It's not something that we teach in schools or talk about at social functions much. What do average people really know about it? It's something that has come up more since the pandemic and I thought that since I have no studying to do this week (master's course 7 is in the books) I'd use the vast reserves of information on the internet for something more educational than what I more commonly use it for. 

A few more quick stats for ya: All the money in Canada that ever existed in any form, coin, bill, electronic account entries, all that money... the Bank of Canada created more than that in the last 3 years. 

I think I've posted this vid before but it bears a repost:

Watch it. Seriously, watch it! I command you! It explains an awful lot. Now I don't know who this guy is or if he knows what he's talking about but at the rate I've seen banking officials scrambling to assure the public that they don't just print money out of thin air, I'm convinced that they print money out of thin air. This guy says before 2020 there was 100 billion in Canada. In 2022 there was 500 bil. Today, who knows? He also explains how printing money will disrupt the many years of steady interest rates in Canada that have not had much effect on mortgage payments when they had to be refinanced every 5 years. NOW if the interest rates go up significantly, which printing money always leads to, people's mortgage payments could go from 1000 to 3000. Member that extra grand that half of Canada doesn't have just hanging around? How about an extra TWO grand every month? This will cause the titular housing market crash or the "bubble bursting" that has been expected for a while. 

But if you're like me you've thought more than a thousand times, "Who are these people with the power to just pull money out of their asses? Did we vote them into their positions? Can anyone out there name even one of them? How about for the major international central banks in Europe, Japan and the US? Can you name any of these people with BY FAR the most power in the entire world? Well, I have a photo of them all. Here it is:

They are the tailors selling us emperors invisible clothes. It's not often we get compared to emperors, but in this case it's because of our astounding capacities to accept pure bullshit! Wait a minute here, it's time for a trundle.

Why does the bull get blamed for its shit so often? We talk about bullshit like it's the most toxic substance on the planet. I mean I just did it myself. This whole concept is immeasurable degrees of latitude beyond the toxicity of bullshit! I used "horseshit" above but even it is not bad. Bull shit is good fertilizer. It helps humanity. Same with horseshit. I'm not going to vilify the ability of central banks to create money nearly enough by calling it bullshit. What animal has the most toxic shit? How bout batshit, as in batshit crazy? Apparently bat scat can cause a lung infection called histoplasmosis. It's pretty toxic. Raccoon shit can contain roundworm eggs and can lead to irreversible brain, heart and eye damage. Ewww! Hippo shit sprayed in the water kills lots of people and aquatic life every year. Ever see a hippo shit? It's really cool the way they fan it out with their tails. But what animal's feces would be more suitable to describe the central bankers' secret power that is so toxic to the world that they don't want us to know about it and lie constantly about it? You've probably guessed this one too haven't you? How about rodent shit? Now I will say that The Plague and the Bubonic Plague - a specific type of the plague, were more commonly caused by fleas carried by rats and most commonly fleas carried BY PEOPLE, there are some deadly diseases like Hantavirus, Salmonellosis, and Rat Bite Fever caused by rodents and their droppings. They say wheat can contain 9 rodent poop pellets per kilo before the FDA bans it. So let's go with that shall we? Okay trundle over.

The ability of central banks to create money from nothing is rodent shit! But what gets MY nutsack into a triple twist is when they try AND SUCCEED to convince us that the central banks do this to HELP HUMANITY! You may believe they lend money to small countries to encourage industry and improvement in those countries. Yeah. Talk to the citizens of those countries and it's more like giving them loans they can never possibly repay to entrap them into endless labor largely characterized by exporting vast amounts of the small country's assets, resources and money to the lending countries represented by the central bank. You might be thinking, "Aren't you talking about the IMF?" I am. They are a central bank. But before we get too deep into this, we should learn a little about the corruption and rodent shit from whence central banks arose.

Here's Joeri, a guy who did something similar to me and ended up with the same unsurprised disappointment as I did. Sweden started it, England corrupted it and the US perfected it. On Jekyll Island! I'm not making that up. There's a book I wanna read called "The Creature From Jeckyll Island" about the Fed. It's not as good as the book, but here's a GREAT but long vid to watch:

The name "Jekyll Island" makes me think of slightly more sinister people attending the meeting. Like: 

So maybe the bankers that rip us all off and I call "our owners" because that's what George Carlin called them, have names like Mr. Pink, Mr. Blonde or whatever.

And here's some origin history:

So let's get back to the creating money from nothing, what Griffin named the Mandrake Mechanism after the famous magician. How can you do it without being detected? The old "baffle them with rodent shit" ploy. Think up some fancy jargon that people will either think they are too dumb to understand and believe you when you use it, or they will understand that you are feeding them rodent shit at which point you simply tell them they're too unsophisticated to understand. There's a term you've probably heard called "quantitative easing." What exactly IS it? Well the official explanation is when a central bank purchases government bonds or other financial assets to stimulate economic activity. Two questions: 1. Where do they get the money to do this, and 2. who do they buy bonds and other assets from? Answers: 1. They just make it out of Shakespeare's "thin air" and 2. Pretty exclusively banks, governments, and large corporations. Us regular folk can't sell bonds on ourselves can we? It might look something like this and we'd probably be thrown in prison if we tried:

Yet, this is MORE legit than the central bank money because it was created from SOMETHING, not nothing. Are you getting what I mean by the suspension of reality I mentioned us all performing?

Now, maybe a better question, How do the banks, governments and corporations pay the loans back? Have you ever known ANY of these three entities to EVER pay ANYTHING back? Of course not! Oh they could. They absolutely could. But why when you can pass it on to dummies like us the general public? Hence the uproarious laughter in the central banker portrait above. 

Financial experts constantly talk about these things like they are acceptable inevitabilities. These three entities do them like knee-jerk reactions so they pretty much ARE. When they are struggling (and don't let that term mislead you. The financial big league members' ways are not our ways. What they call "struggling" is making a few billion less than they did the year before. "Hey central bank, we could use some "stimulation of economic activity" over here!") The central bank loans billions to banks, governments and corporations and like clockwork interest rates, taxes, and prices go up respectively. That way us dummies pay back their emergency loans from the central banks.

Ummmmmmmm.... has anybody noticed interest rates, taxes and prices going up?

Why, we might ask. Covid. Supply chain. Ukraine war. 

RODENT SHIT!!! It's just pure greed run amok in our culturally entrenched central bank systems. You guys should see what happens to countries that DON'T opt for the central banking system. But this post is already too long. Maybe I'll save that for another day.