The Fable Of The German/Chinese Ants And The EU/US Grasshoppers
Elaine Meinel Supkis

There are two poles to the world banking systems: the EU/US/Japan pole and the China pole. The OPEC/energy export power pole lies between the two banking poles. The EU/US/Japan pole is mainly a high debt/low sovereign wealth system whereas the China pole is high sovereign wealth/low debt. The EU/US/Japan alliance has great interior rifts hidden within. Yesterday, I wrote about how sovereign wealth will redraw lines of future alliances. Time to elaborate about all of this.

Japan is a very high sovereign wealth but also extremely high sovereign debt nation. This makes the country quite schizophrenic, it belongs at both poles and the tension between the two is crippling the political system and as usual, when paralyzed, the Japanese will do what they did in the past until they can physically no longer do it anymore. They remain very attached to the US system which is the ultimate expression of this polar situation: the US is by far, the giant of red ink economics. We are a hyper-negative sovereign wealth nation, that is, in this sense, we are definitely the poorest nation on earth. We also have the biggest overall national debt.

The US has, by far, the most billionaires. These leeches all happily live here while contributing nearly nothing towards fixing the negative numbers which has turned our solvent, sovereign wealth nation into the poorest nation on earth (not by GDP or other factors but in terms of total red ink). We still have a big economy but it has been shrinking drastically in key industrial output sectors for the last 50 years. As our military power and spending has doubled and redoubled for 50 years, our economic base has shrunk and our tax revenues worsened.

CIA – The World Factbook

The US and UK are smaller than the EU economy, yet are expected to bail out the EU giant. This is impossible and true to reality, it is proving impossible in the real world. The GDP per capita for the US is $47k whereas Germany is only $36k, Japan is worse off at only $34k which is the same as the UK. The highest per capita GDP ratios are all either tiny kingdom tax/bank scheme havens or very tiny kingdom oil selling entities. Except for Norway which is a production/oil selling entity and is $56k per capita. It is also a socialist nation with high taxes so it has a lot of sovereign wealth. Norway is not part of the EU.

The focus of Europe is entirely on Germany since Norway isn't part of the EU and I suspect, the Germans are wondering if they shouldn't have imitated Norway at this point. The reason all of the EU is focused on Germany is simple: the entire banking/borrowing system there needs desperately to be capitalized since it will take on huge losses due to the no work/all play attitude of much of southern Europe is causing it to all go bankrupt.

As Italy's leader, the guy who owns most of the media there, sinks into sexual mire as a million sex scandals bloom while France's banking system reels from wild sex by former IMF bosses to wild trading by perpetually unsupervised younger employees, Germans work hard and are basically more or less sober. They saved while everyone ran riot. This brings to mind the very ancient story of the Grasshopper and the Ant.

Here is the original, Greek version that has the grasshopper dying in winter:

Call that the libertarian version of the story. It is heartless, I admit. As someone who works very hard, I feel for the ant's attitude but at the same time, ants don't let fellow ants die, even when killed, the ants get very agitated about this and cluster around the dead ants and like honey bees and wasps, tries to do something to save the entire colony, not run off to be individuals.

I call this the communist ant version of the story. That is, individual ants also die, like grasshoppers whereas collective ants can not only collect more food but can defend it, too, from interlopers and predators...though anteaters still dine on them, no?

Here is the depression era Disney version which has become the main version most people learn or remember:

Here is a modern example following the same Disney story line minus the Queen of England and making the ants a family, not a working collective colony hostile to aliens:

In both modern cases, the grasshopper, who in the original story and in nature, is not a colony insect but a total individualist who operates mainly in mobs that strip the land of all edible goods, moving like horse riding steppe raiders, is a happy-go-lucky musician. He entertains himself, and in hard times, begs for food and a home and repays the ants by amusing them.Throughout history, there have been classes of entertainers who often had to work very long hours in training and then in performing works that were needed by the community and it wasn't 'happy-go-lucky' at all, I was trained to play the cello, for example, and try doing scales (all the scales, major and minor!) every day for half a hour before practicing the music scores! This became second nature in the end but it was work, not play.The happy-go-lucky grasshopper musician is like much of popular music today: some study but not very much and graffiti art is the same, nothing like 150 years ago when artists had to study in order to become real 'artists'. The struggles to understand art and nature of the great artists of the past has become a search to be as child-like and artless as possible today. So study of previous art and learning how to create art is now viewed darkly as evil or stupid or a waste of time since all one has to do is feel something and then react, not plan.

The 'react, not plan' ideology has spread throughout all systems. When planning to create say, the Derivatives Beast, the creators took not one minute to wonder if this was either dangerous or stupid. All they thought was, 'Wow, we can make an infinite amount of free funny money this way and no one will understand how this trick works! Hope it doesn't collapse!'

From day one, I have been against this thing. Explanations as to why this thing would be very destructive in winter fell on deaf ears. Even as winter winds howl down on us all, as the world crashes into one banking disaster then another, the Derivatives Beast continues onwards, relentlessly because it continues to make the grasshoppers who run the Western banking systems very idiotically happy. Meanwhile, to pay for the messes created by ridiculously easy, cheap loans created via the Derivatives Beast scheme, the grasshoppers who run the banks are looting...the ants!.That is, the hard-working ants in China and Germany are being asked to bail out the grasshoppers who are deep in debt and who are irresponsible and reckless! The ants are not happy about this and eventually, must band together to teach the grasshopper bankers a lesson..Here is an amusing study designed to write magical scientific formulas to describe the top grasshoppers running international banking and finance, aside from China: The Network of Global Corporate Control

We present the first investigation of the architecture of the international ownership network, along with the computation of the control held by each global player. We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie struc- ture and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. This core can be seen as an economic "super-entity" that raises new important issues both for researchers and policy makers.

Yes, these grasshoppers are all united in that they want their ridiculous, stupid system to keep on going forever, if possible. They meet at secret Bilderberg meetings and discuss ways of getting the masses to fear global warming but not global banking, all so they can impose the Biggest Derivative Monster of All Time, the proposed 'Carbon Credit Derivatives Exchange'. This proved to be a failure when armies of angry ants protested and thanks to some volcanoes, much of the productive industrial parts of the planet were locked into icy, cold winters which grasshoppers, living mainly in warm places supposedly burning up due to global warming, actually adore.

Below is a series of graphs from this study showing how these owners of the banking systems intersect with each other:

Looks remarkably like diagrams of germs, no? The entire ball of yarn in the bottom illustration has basically unravelled and is lying all over the world, with Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers chewed apart by playful kittens while the Bank of America, Citigroup and UBS are being pulled free of this ball of yarn. The humans who created this ball of yarn go to the same meetings, hang out at the same resorts, buy the same mistresses, party with Berlusconi whose Sex Scandals Fuel Anger of Italian Women. No wonder the head of the IMF thought it was OK to have a hotel maid give him an illegal blow job! More scandals every day in Grasshopperland: Italy scandal: Did state planes fly prostitutes? But grasshoppers never feel the slightest guilt: Silvio Berlusconi refuses to quit in Italy sex scandal.

The Germans are supposed to bail this grasshopper out, of course. They are ants! Meanwhile, one of the irresponsible grasshoppers from the US hops over to the EU to advise them about which grasshoppers should die this winter (hint: working ants are supposed to lose their retirement funds and work longer or lose their jobs!): Europe must act over debt, says US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner – Telegraph

The United States is urging eurozone ministers to set aside more money to support indebted members. EU ministers promised several months ago to expand the €440 billion European Financial Stability Facility, a fund available to help eurozone members struggling to pay their debts. But the parliaments of several EU countries are still debating whether to approve the move. Many economists believe it is currently too small to rescue a major EU economy such as Spain or Italy.
Mr Geithner suggested to the meeting that the fund should be dramatically expanded by borrowing money from the European Central Bank.

Germany strongly rejected the plan, saying the best way to raise more money for the bail-out fund was a new tax on international financial transactions, something America refused to support.

German worker ants have a reputation of being irritable. I actually heard more than one former German Nazi, back in the sixties while I was in school in Germany, musing that Germany made two mistakes in before WWII: they took over Austria and then made an alliance with Italy. I could get the joke since the point was, these were two 'grasshopper' cultures unlike the grim German 'ants'. Another client of Nazi Germany was Spain. These places were viewed as hinderances, not allies, by the Germans I knew.

Attempts by ants to impose rules and regulations on the web, the yarn ball of interconnected influence of the elites falls on deaf ears since naturally, they all want this to continue. Here is today's example of the near total failure to reform banking since the crash of 2008: Volcker Rule May Extend to Overseas Banks

The Institute of International Bankers, which represents firms such as London-based HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) and Paris-based Societe Generale SA, is arguing that the Volcker rule shouldn't apply if trading takes place offshore and doesn't put U.S. investors or the financial system at risk.

Naturally, the grasshoppers messing around inside of Societe Generale don't want anyone stopping them. Occasionally, one or another will be arrested but so what? On with the wild games! We will get rich, damn the torpedoes! But there is the opposite polar thing going on, too: Europe Rules Out Stimulus, Shuns Geithner Plea which is really Germany, not 'Europe', nixing the idea of a stimulus.

Here is the NYT's take on all of this: Advice on Debt? Europe Suggests U.S. Can Keep It – NYTimes.com

"I found it peculiar that, even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the euro zone, that they tell us what we should do," Maria Fekter, the finance minister of Austria, said after the meeting Friday morning. "I had expected that, when he tells us how he sees the world, that he would listen to what we have to say."

...The Treasury department said in a statement Friday that "Secretary Geithner encouraged his European counterparts to act decisively and to speak with one voice." And a Treasury official said the department did not feel Mr. Geithner was rebuffed, because he did not have a specific agenda...Europe, analysts say, may never need outside support if its political leaders can find a way to use the wealth of nations like Germany to shore up more debt-troubled countries like Italy.

.There it is! Germany fixes everything because it is an ant society, not a bunch of ravening grasshoppers eating everything in sight and then dying of famine. The other major ant colony on earth is communist China and these ants have been issuing warnings for a while now: China to 'liquidate' US Treasuries, not dollars.

"The incremental parts of our of our foreign reserve holdings should be invested in physical assets," said Li Daokui at the World Economic Forum in the very rainy city of Dalian – former Port Arthur from Russian colonial days.

."We would like to buy stakes in Boeing, Intel, and Apple, and maybe we should invest in these types of companies in a proactive way."

."Once the US Treasury market stabilizes we can liquidate more of our holdings of Treasuries," he said.

China loves Apple computers. Apple computers please ant personalities: it works, it changes all the time so it gets more effective and faster and it is creative. The ants of China are already quietly selling off more and more of their huge holdings of grasshopper debt due to knowing for certain, the goofy grasshoppers will default one day. Hell, the top grasshoppers running the banking and government system actively boast about how they plan to do this and how funny it will be, destroying the sovereign wealth of China!

Talk about super-stupid! If the grasshoppers wish to cheat the ants, boasting about it while begging for alms is kind of bad planning but then, who says grasshoppers are good at sane planning? They aren't.

Meanwhile, the top owners of the ball of yarn that runs our insane banking system are getting worried, for example, in NYC, Bloomberg broke the law and ran for election even though the voters had demanded term limits. Now, he is openly scared of angry mobs of unemployed worker ants going on a grasshopper hunt: Jobs crisis may spark riots – New York City Mayor Bloomberg – Sep. 16, 2011

And during all of this, our government is focused like a laser on one thing only: Clinton sees progress against Palestinian UN bid . The Zionists ignore the collapse of the US into bankruptcy at their own peril. But planning ahead is impossible. Ignoring reality, they continue on their reckless path of self-aggrandizement and war and this will destroy not just them but anyone allied with them or working for them.

A ridiculous situation, if there ever was one. The EU is sinking rapidly so what did they do? Join the US in invading Libya so they could loot the oil there and the bankers stole all of Gaddafi's savings. Libya, one of the top 20 sovereign wealth nations on earth will join Iraq at the bottom of the list along with the US and UK, the invaders. Grasshoppers stripping everything and eating it, yes, that is the plan for Libya, too.

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