{"id":343082,"date":"2018-01-10T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smile-the-future-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:36:09","slug":"smile-the-future-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/smile-the-future-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile, the Future Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m sure there will be some shocking events in 2018, but I have no idea what they will be.\u00a0\u00a0There are too many wildcards in the mix, with one big one taking center stage: States.<\/p>\n

The civilized world, such as it was, took a nosedive after the\u00a0Sarajevo assassinations in 1914<\/a>\u00a0ignited the political tinderbox in Europe. \u00a0 To pay for the massive slaughter that followed, states\u00a0abandoned gold and turned to inflationary finance and borrowing<\/a>, in addition to heavy taxation. Very importantly, as\u00a0Rothbard notes<\/a>, World War I also served as the excuse for<\/p>\n

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a \u201cwar collectivism,\u201d a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interests through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state-corporate capitalism for the remainder of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the big shots running things, the war required issuing outrageous lies, suppressing dissent, and everything else except actual combat.\u00a0 The nightmare of\u00a0trench fighting<\/a>\u00a0they forced upon American men.\u00a0 \u201cYou die over there while we get richer over here,\u201d Wilson and his gang were in effect saying to the conscripts, while peddling\u00a0\u201cLiberty\u201d Bonds<\/a>. \u00a0 Yet, as humanitarian episodes throughout the war made eminently clear, especially the\u00a0Christmas Truce\u00a0<\/a>of 1914, the soldiers were mostly eager to fraternize not kill one another.\u00a0 Ironically, they might\u2019ve written war\u2019s last chapter had they refused orders to continue the killing, thereby fulfilling the\u00a0prophecy of H. G. Wells<\/a>\u00a0that it would be \u201cthe war that will end war.\u201d<\/p>\n


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But when peace stands in the way of big profits, the banker\/state…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019m sure there will be some shocking events in 2018, but I have no idea what they will be.\u00a0\u00a0There are too many wildcards in the mix, with one big one taking center stage: States. The civilized world, such as it was, took a nosedive after the\u00a0Sarajevo assassinations in 1914\u00a0ignited the political tinderbox in Europe. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}