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Subtle-Monopolization is a Remnant of Feudal Property Rights
Never did a Nation Develop under Adam Smith
The Legal Structure assuring the Imperial Centers access to the World’s Resources
The World Bank says it is moving toward these Suggestions

Section A: Part I: External Trade: Security for Powerful Nations Entails Insecurity for Weak Nations

1. The Secret of Free Enterprise Capital Accumulation

Wealth Accumulation Expands or Contracts Exponentially with the Differential in Pay
Equal Pay for Equal Work is the Answer to World Poverty
Underpay through unequal Currency Values
Purchasing Power Parity, a Strategy of Deception
Periphery of Empire Finances the Imperial Centers
Trumpeting Partial Rights as Full Rights
Former Colonies do not have Economic Freedom
Summary

2. The Violent Accumulation of Capital is Rooted in History

The Evolution of City-States and Plunder-by-Trade
Evolving from Imperial Cities to Nascent Imperial Nations
The Advantage of Cheap Water Transportation
The British Empire and Control of Trade

3. The Unwitting Hand Their Wealth to the Cunning

America’s Freedom is based on Economic Freedom
Friedrich List Wrote His Classic observing America’s Industrialization
America Allies with the Old Imperial Nations
Successful Protection of the “Free” World Validates Friedrich List
Secondary Industrial Powers are at Greatest Risk
The Dilemma of the Old Imperial-Centers-of-Capital

4. The Historical Struggle for Dominance in World Trade

India: Her Vast Wealth siphoned to Britain
Controlling China was a much more Difficult Problem

5. World Wars, Trade Wars: Battles over Who Decides the Rules of Unequal Trade

Germany and World War II
Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and World War II
America Protects the Imperial Centers

6. Suppressing Freedom of Thought in a Democracy

The CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer Inoculated the World against Philosophies of Full and Equal Rights
Controlling Nations on the Periphery of Empire
The Cold War required a Master Plan
Impositions of Beliefs through Corporate-Funded Think-Tanks
The Residual Effects of McCarthyism
The News Media Trapped Themselves
Destabilizing Internal Political Groups
Writing History to Protect Wealth and Power
The Untold Secrets of “National Security” and the “National Interest”
Professors and Intellectuals are Conscientious and Sincere
Providing a Beacon for Intellectuals throughout the World
Who are the Powerful?
Who are the Violent and Powerful?
Damage Control

7. The World Breaking Free Frightened the Security Councils of Every Western Nation

A Crisis of Overproduction had to be averted
National Security Council Directive 68
The Korean War, a Strategy-of-Tension Building a “Framework of Orientation”
Fabricating Incidents to Start Wars
Peace in Korea could not be permitted
The First Efforts to Contain the Soviet Federation
World War II’s Huge Costs for the Soviet Federation
Fictional Missile Gaps were Strategies-of-Tension Building a “Framework of Orientation”
The Massive Resources of the Soviet Federation and the More Massive and Cheaper Resources of the West
Errors in Soviet Planning
Containing the Soviet Federation through forcing it to Waste its Industrial Production
Destabilizing Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
Now it was Yugoslavia’s Turn to be Destabilized
Now it was Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Turn.
Then it was Kosovo’s Turn
Making a deal with the Corrupt of Russia
The First Destabilization of Afghanistan was aimed at the Soviet Federation
The Decision to restructure to a Market Economy was made by Soviet Intellectuals
Could the Soviet Union have avoided the Cold War?
Imperial Democracies, Representative Democracies, Participatory Democracies
Propaganda Building a “Framework of Orientation” was the Essence of the Cold War
Conceptually Reversing the Process
Keeping the World in Chains

8. Suppressing the World’s Break for Economic Freedom

America as an Empire predates the Cold War
Iran Breaks Free
Containing Iraq
Economic Freedom for Indonesia was a Big Threat
Nigeria tried but did not break Free
Vietnam Gained Political but not Economic Freedom
Guatemala Broke Free Briefly
Chile Broke Free Very Briefly
El Salvador did not gain even its Political Freedom
Nicaragua never attained Economic Freedom
Southern Africa’s Frontline States
The Libyan Threat
Cuba: almost Free and may yet Succeed
Orchestration of Death Squads and Writing History
Future Leaders of Nations Picked and Trained
Erasing the Records is Writing History to Maintain a “Framework of Orientation”
The Battle for Trade Supremacy Continues

9. “Frameworks of Orientation”: Creating Enemies for the Masses

The Inquisitions of the Middle Ages
The Spanish Inquisition
The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Templars
Winding Down the Inquisitions of the Middle Ages
The Inquisitorial Suppression of the Illuminati
Czarist Secret Police Demonize the Jews
The World starts Breaking Free from Imperial Centers

Part II. External Trade: Capital Destroying Capital

10. The Enforcers of Unequal Trades

The Greatest Peacetime Transfer of Wealth in History
The purpose of IMF/World Bank Loans to the Periphery of Empire
Friedrich List Supports for the Developed World, Adam Smith Structural Adjustments for the Developing World
The Privatization of the Commons of other Societies

11. Emerging Corporate Imperialism

The Legal Structure for Corporate Imperialism
Thinking in terms of Units of Production

12. Impoverishing Labor and eventually Capital

Meltdown on the Periphery of Empire as the Center Holds
Bond and Currency Markets lowering Living standards for the Politically Weak
Corporate Welfare

13. Unequal Trades in Agriculture

Hunger is determined by Who Controls the Land
The Market Economy Guides the World’s Production to Imperial-Centers-of-Capital
Stevia: Sweeter Than Sugar
Beef: “A Protein Factory in Reverse”
Conceptually Reversing the Process of Free Food
The Periphery of Empire is a Huge Plantation Providing Food and Resources to the Imperial Center

14. Developing World Loans, Capital Flight, Debt Traps, and Unjust Debt

Controlling Puppets of the Imperial Centers
Economic Warfare and Financial Warfare
The World’s Poor are subsidizing the Rich
Building the Infrastructure to transfer Natural Wealth to the Imperial Centers
Debt Traps: Loaning Excess Accumulations of Capital back to the Producers of that Wealth
Peonage has only changed its Name
Lending responsibly, a Well-Recognized Tenet of Law
Canceling Unjustly Incurred Debts

15. The Economic Multiplier, Accumulating Capital through Capitalizing Values of Externally Produced Wealth

Friedrich List’s Fundamental Thesis
Gaining Wealth through the Vertical Building of Industrial Capital and the Horizontal Flow of Money
Accumulation of Capital through Creation of Scarcity
Residual-Feudal Exclusive Property Titles: A monopoly on what nature produced
Capitalizing Values through Underpaying the Weak on the Periphery of Empire
Accumulating Capital through Capitalized Values of Internally Produced Wealth

16. Japan’s Post-World War II Defensive, Mercantilist, Economic Warfare Plan

The American/Japanese Debt/Equity Embrace
Care for Another’s Economy Is Only Between Allies
Much Japanese Industry Is Being Forced Offshore
It Is Far From Free Trade Wherever One Looks

17. Southeast Asian Development: An Accident of History

Will Developing Nations Oppose, or Ally With, the Imperial-Centers?

18. Capital Destroying Capital

Failure to Expand Buying Power to keep Factories running is Economic Insanity
Industries can be built quickly but Markets only Slowly
Expanding Buying Power in Step with Increased Industrial Capacity
The Monopoly Hold on Technology and Markets Is Weakening
Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism will lower Prices and raise Living Standards

19. A New Hope for the World

Four Powerful Economic Weapons available for Developing World use
Developing World Regional Trading Blocs to Attain Equal Negotiating Power

20. The Earth’s Capacity to Sustain Developed Economies

Primary Concerns of World Industrialization
Civilizations Collapse when Soil Fertility Collapses
Restoring the World’s Soils and Ecosphere

21. The Political Structure of Sustainable World Development

Adequate Resources and Markets for Efficient Economies
A Political Framework for Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism
Human Rights and Equality of Rights
Security through Equality and Interdependence
Integrating Diverse Nationalities, Races, and Cultures

22. Equal Free Trade as Opposed to Unequal Free Trade

Regional and Local Self-sufficiency
Developing Regions should be trading with Each Other
Regional Trading Currencies
The Imperial Centers Understand Well the Importance of Equally-Paid Labor
Invisible Borders between the Imperial Center and the Periphery of Empire Disappear
Returning Title to Natural Wealth to its Rightful Owners
Tariffs to Equalize Equally-Productive but Unequally-Paid Labor
Pricing Commodities relative to the Cost of Mining and Harvesting the World’s Poorer Soils
Equalizing Managed-Trade
Conserving Hydrocarbon Fuels
Build them Industries Instead of giving them money

23. A Grand Strategy for World Peace and Prosperity

Compounding Sustainable Industrial Development
The World can be developed to a Sustainable Level and Poverty eliminated in Forty-Five Years
Society is a Social Machine producing its Needs
Once Industrialized, Industrial Production can be cut back
The Tragedy of the Commons

Section B: Internal Trade: Economic Rights for all People

24. Adjusting Residual-Feudal Exclusive Property Rights, as per Henry George, Produces a Modern Land Commons

Land is Social Wealth
Pride in Ownership must be maintained
The Feudal Origins of Land Titles
Private Ownership of Social Wealth moves to America
Saleable Land Titles permitted the Mobilization of Capital
Profound Thinkers Who Believed in Society Collecting the Landrent
Commercial Land
Farm Land
Home Sites
If Society Collected the Landrent, all other Taxes could be eliminated
An Opportunity to Restructure With Society Collecting the Landrent
Instant Restructuring to Social Collection of Landrent through Bonds

25. Restructuring Residual-Feudal Exclusive Patent Laws Produces a Modern Technology Commons

Labor should employ Capital
Efficient Socially-Owned Capital
Efficient Privately-Owned Capital
Fictitious Capital
Invention, a Social Process
Capitalizing Actual and Fictitious Values
Royalties originated from Royalty conferring Monopoly Trading Rights
The Foundation of Law is Military Power
A Nation’s Wealth is Measured by, and Siphoned to Titleholders through, Capitalized Values
The Financial Structure to Harvest the Profits of Subtly-Monopolized Patents
Market Bubbles and Crashes
Options, Futures, and other Derivatives are Gambling Chips in a Worldwide Casino
Bringing the World’s Markets under Control
Restructuring Patent Laws
Full Rights to use any Technology is more efficient and Pays Inventors Better
Competitive Monopolies, Developmentally Mature Technology, and Standardization

26. A Modern Money Commons

From Barter to Commodity Money
From Commodity Money to Coins of Precious Metal
From Gold, to Gold-Backed Paper Money, to Paper Money
From Paper Money, to Checkbook Money, to Money as a Blip on a Computer Screen
Credit or Trust Money
The Different Meanings of Money
Money is a Contract against another Person’s Labor
Money Productively Contracting Labor
Money Unproductively Contracting Labor
There must be Money before Wealth
Learning the Secret of Bank-Created Money
Primary-Created Money and Circulation-Created Money
The Fed’s Open Market Operations hide the Simplicity of Money Creation
A Money Commons structured to protect the Rights of All
Inflation, Deflation, and Constant Value: Creating Honest Money
Accumulation of Capital through Democratic-Cooperative-(Superefficient)-Capitalism
Negative Interest
The Simplicity of Paying Taxes through Taxing the Circulation of Money
Money: A Measure of Productive Labor Value