Perhaps one of the most startling revelations of the incipient [electrical] power age was made by H.L. Gantt and his school of industrial engineers during The Great War and shortly thereafter. The Great War marked a turning point in the technological process, and did more to encourage automatic production than any other factor.
Time meant victory or defeat.
Labor shortages, due to conscription of manpower for the military establishment, enormously speeded up labor-saving devices. Factories revised their management methods and extended their capacities. Farms were mechanized. Automatic factories appeared in this period; the management engineer became a public figure. It was an era of industrial stocktaking and rapid technical advance, under the twin spurs of patriotism and abnormal profits.
As labor declines in importance, equipment grows. Idleness in whole or part becomes fantastically expensive. The function of the structure is such that it cannot operate efficiently except at a full load.
Finally, it is clear that the Economy of Abundance, based as it is on power technology, specifically electrical power, will function only on one condition -- that its industrial units be operated at capacity or thereabouts; that they be given enough to do. Failing this condition, the superb plants, the beautiful technical balance, become so much loss and waste ....
-- from "The Machine And Power Ages" in The Economy Of Abundance by Stuart Chase, published by Macmillan Company, 1934. The assessments of H.L. Gantt and his engineers were first published as Organizing for Work, by Harcourt, Brace in 1919.
FROM RAGS TO RICHES IN THE ERA OF RAG-TIME
The Economy Of Abundance was first published in March of 1934 and this extraordinary little book by Stuart Chase went through two editions in its first month. Among the many and varied insights given in this work, Chase says "electric power demands decentralization". It is useful to remember that Stuart Chase assembled the research and did the writing on The Economy Of Abundance in 1932 and '33, when the Depression in the United States was at its deepest point.
Chase carefully lays out an analysis which shows that the beginnings of the foundation for this economic abundance were laid down in about 1870 to 1880, with culminating effects following The Great War, and becoming most lucid, and more and more visible as the years 1919 through 1928 demonstrated.
1927 and '28 were very good years for most people in many ways, at least in the United States and Canada. The new radio networks were spurring a rapid growth in radio clubs and thus in the sales or bartering of radio equipment. Despite the social turmoil of the criminal economy of Prohibition, and the rise of the gangland combinations, people were optimistic and working.
All of this changed as the banking crisis of 1928 developed into the Crash of 1929.
"Between the Crash and 1932, the cruelest year of the Depression, the economy's downward spiral was accelerated by measures which, according to all accepted canons, ought to have brought recovery, and which in practice did the opposite. To protect investments," wrote William Manchester in The Glory And The Dream ( 1973 ), "prices had to be maintained. Sales ebbed, so costs were cut by laying off men. The unemployed could not buy the goods of other industries. Therefore sales dropped further, leading to more layoffs and a general shrinkage of purchasing power, until farmers were pauperized by the poverty of industrial workers, who in turn were pauperized by the poverty of farmers." Manchester notes that the "last extended economic crisis had been in 1893; since then America had become so industrialized that a massive return to the farm was impossible."
Stuart Chase also addresses that particular issue in The Economy Of Abundance. All of the right technological advances were coming to fruition in the years following The Great War. The use of fuel oil for heating homes, replacing coal, came with developments in 1923. Inter-city bus lines made travel easier beginning in 1924. Commercial passenger service on airplanes came into being in 1925. By 1926 the electric refrigerator, developed for naval vessels and improved during The Great War, was rolled out for private sales and public use. All of these things led to a growth in suburban living, as did easily obtained credit for buying land.
Not for buying cars or electric appliances, because that was disdained by the major banks, but land and houses on land -- with mortgages -- could be financed. And brokers were happily lending money to people who wanted to speculate in the stocks and bonds of the day. This kind of business was known as "buying on margin" and it could generate profits rather quickly, or disastrous losses as well. Thus in the era of Rag-Time music and The Flapper and 'the Flivver,' commercial credit was tied directly to land ownership and denied to the new industries which offered movable things for sale -- radio sets, refrigerators, air conditioning units, automobiles of all kinds -- anything portable except stocks and bonds.
Even as this entire system of inter-locking and inter-augmenting industrial progress was working, developing new machines and making new products, the elite controllers of the banking system were assuming full control of all financial channels in the United States of America. The creation of the Federal Reserve Banking system in 1913 was augmented by the Foreign Federal Reserve Act of December 24, 1919. Thus, by the time the scientific and technical workers of the U.S.A. were putting their systems into full production, the Illuminati-dominated banking system was constricting and tightening its control.
The major corresponding banks and financial houses refused to finance automobiles and other movable equipment, but they had a great lust for writing mortgages. They had a greater lust for getting money into the world's leading technical country, too. American investments in Germany increased dramatically during the 1920s, even though that society was wracked with political turmoil. There are sound reasons, based on technologies relating to electric power, for this flood of investment.
THE NEW ELECTRICAL COLOSSUS
Much of the modern historical writing about Germany in the 1920s centers on the political turmoil there, the street battles between communists and ultra-nationalists, and the rise from obscurity of the German Workers' Party. Those were visible events and well-documented by photographs, court records, newspaper accounts and personal diaries.
But it was the mostly invisible developments of this time which show -- to those who will look for them -- the incredible power of finance and the financing of electrical power. Most of the U.S. Citizens travelling to Europe in the '20s preferred the cultural life of Paris, or the temperate climate of southern France.. However, since investment follows innovation in technology, businessmen from the former enemy of greater Germany became an investment brigade, invading with dollars and gold bonds.
Business interests wanted to buy into German technical advances, and the Germans did not want to have their former British enemies as partners. Capitalism in Germany was still very much the domain of the aristocracy with regard to LAND and resources and 'the newly rich' with regard to inventions. The aristocracy was usually willing to back the ultra-nationalists in politics, while the capital managing class was more than willing to back right-socialists like the German Workers' Party.
When confronted with a choice between rightist National Socialism and blood-red Bolshevik socialism, many leaders in German business shifted right. This was not done to please U.S. investors, it was a matter of immediate and long term survival.
It must be noted, in passing, that American money going into Germany was not being used for re-building, as Germany had suffered relatively little physical damage during the Great War, excepting some aerial raids on the dirigible sheds and Zeppelin bases. Germany was broken by the casualties of that war and by the hunger that fighting a war behind a blockade caused.
By and large, the physical plant and factories of Germany were intact, and more importantly, its electrical generation capacity was growing. This is what accounts for U.S. interest in Germany in the '20s, as noted in the following quote:
"Every significant change made in the evolution of the power industry", writes Robert A. Brady, "tends to compel fitting, cutting and shaping of plans to fit in with such basic patterns". Brady's analysis is fairly simple.
Linking industries to a main power grid operated at a "national" level produces tremendous benefits for all industry, provided all the plants and factories are drawing power, on a fairly constant basis. Power gets cheaper. Brady, again --
"The logic of technical and economic forces compels ever larger units, more comprehensive geographic systems, more closely woven and meticulously detailed webs. With every shift in these directions, industrial interdependence becomes greater, the necessity for co-operation more insistent, the number and importance of interested groups ... and the nature of the decisions of the policy-forming control more socially significant.
"In no other industry are the interdependencies among scientific, technical, political and social forces so coercive and binding; in no other sector is the antithesis between planning and competitive capitalism so clear-cut and decisive." Brady's work was entitled The Rationalization Movement in German Industry, and appeared in 1933, courtesy of the University of California press.
If the brilliant success of German industry was a direct result of financial capitalism, with money flowing into an essentially 'nationalized' structure, one based on having a power grid and standardization, the complete opposite of that success would easily be found in the housing industry of the United States.
Here, then as now, nothing is really standard and everything is completely local. And that's not by accident but by design.
We speculated on the future of housing in Chapter III. The pre-fabricated house, made in the factory and bolted together on location in a few hours' time, is undoubtedly coming. Fabrication will enormously promote mobility in shelter: use-value, as Buckminster Fuller points out, will take precedence over land value:
"The idea of boundaries, of a walled city fixed to an unchanging locale, is an anachronism in an industrial society possessing an elastic system of transportation and communication .... No longer is humanity space-confined."
Fifteen years ago [1919], a good automobile cost $ 5000. Today you can buy a better car for $ 500. Why ? Because traditions were scrapped and science given a freer hand.
-- from "Pattern And Curve," in The Economy Of Abundance
"THE INDUSTRY THAT INDUSTRY MISSED"
Stuart Chase was quoting from an article that Fortune published in 1932, by R. Buckminster Fuller, one entitled "The Industry That Industry Missed". One of the most important concepts ever introduced by Fuller -- the Dymaxion House -- was part of the subject of that article.
For most of his working life, and especially as an academic and lecturer, Fuller promoted Dymaxion concepts for housing, aircraft, motor cars and so on. It is, in essence, the concept of using the best materials and the most forward-leaning engineering methods to create value in anything constructed or manufactured.
Buckminster Fuller pioneered an aerodynamic and fuel-efficient automobile prototype in the mid-1930s, but an unfortunate accident killed his designs and the Dymaxion car was never built. Fuller said that ultra-tall buildings, or skyscrapers, were inherently inefficient for most purposes.
In the depths of the Depression, men, women and children slept outside in freezing conditions in cities like New York and Cleveland, while modern office towers with modern conveniences stood vacant. Fuller wrote and said, in the '30s and '50s and '70s, that factory assembly of housing units was both affordable and efficient. The costs would be lowered, the units could be shipped by rail or air-delivered almost anywhere, and manufacturing quality triple-checked before delivery !! No more ill-fitting cabinets or unfinished ventilation !!
Why then, if the idea of building houses in factories where the quality of materials, assembly and finish could be as strictly controlled as airplane manufacture was controlled, why then was any industrial application of this Dymaxion house never adopted ?
Why are well-meaning people who are discussing the rebuilding of hurricane-ravaged communities in Louisana, Texas and Mississippi, still planning to build "on site" with the methods of the 1890s ?? Why are they planning to build the same kinds of houses and business structures that were blown to pieced or swamped by the winds and storm surge of Katrina ?
Why hasn't the housing "industry", which is supposed to produce "units of shelter," become industrialized the way so many other industries have, thus profiting from making mass-produced ( and useful ) items ??
The answer lies with the Illuminati-controlled banking crisis of 1932-1934 and the need for British Zionism to keep the people of the United States "locked down" as indentured servants of their feudal operating unit, The Federal Reserve System.
BRITISH ZIONISM AND THE ILLUMINATI PLAN FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF HATE AND ENVY
Stuart Chase does not argue for some new form of socialism, in The Economy Of Abundance, but he certainly castigates the contemporary form of capitalism for its many failures in the Depression era. He shows how these failures are inherent to the attempt to manage "power age" industrial production and distribution with hundred-year old "machine age" techniques.
"Fifteen years ago, a good suburban house cost $ 10,000. It costs almost that much today", wrote Chase in 1934. "There is no reason why that which has befallen motor cars may not happen to houses. The scientists are ready, though the bankers, tangled in mortgages and real estate values, are diffident.
"To all appearances, they are frightened to death."
Chase had almost all of the elements for a correct analysis of the power-play instigated by the Illuminati-controlled British financial center known as The City Of London, but there were things he could not know at that time. British Zionism is a philosophy that has been many centuries in the making. It is not a school of philosophy that seeks to enrich all of humanity or to enable higher standards of living for all. It is about having power, exerting control, and setting the stage for the creation of a new feudalism. This is what can be told now, seventy-two years after the banking panic of February and March 1933, and after the Gold Reserve Act of 1934.
That legislation, taking away the gold standard from the States united in direct violation of the Constitution for the United States of America, was the premier element of this Illuminati plan. The people could not be impoverished by the operations of the Federal Reserve System alone, unless their ownership of gold ( and then silver ), was suppressed or denied by banking itself.
Therefore it is correct and proper to name The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 and other initiatives jammed through a supine Congress by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as being a counter-revolution. When the Federal Reserve System was created to manage all of the fiscal affairs of the country as a Central Bank, it was limited in its usage of Federal Reserve Notes. When they gained more power by acquiring the control over foreign banking conducted inside of the United States, they acquired all the levers necessary to manipulate credit within the States united and with foreign markets having interests here.
When Roosevelt and his co-conspirators at the Federal Reserve began issuing Federal Reserve Notes as "debt instruments" and began calling these Notes "legal tender," the counter-revolution was completed. The republican character of the States united was poisoned and the economy of the country was wrecked by the credit manipulations of the Federal Reserve, in the years 1928 through 1934. Local banks died. Corresponding banks tottered on the edge of complete and utter ruin in The Cruelest Year.
The currency of these States united was privatized by the actions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his co-conspirators in this counter-revolution. The country at large and its people were made into the enemy of the "federal government" and what followed was a seventy-two year economic war against the people.
It goes on and on, and the so-called separation of powers between Congress and the executive branch has all but disappeared. The Congress and the President now serve only the interests of the beneficiaries of Roosevelt's counter-revolution, those being the giant corporations which have status as "persons" in the federal courts and which depend on the highly stratified banking system for almost all of their transactions, interim financing and insurance coverages.
The European feudal chiselers had controlled world-productivity by controlling the specie medium essential to trade until the 1914 saturation point of world-encompassing export outlets occurred. This signaled the European feudal chiselers inception of the [Great] War.”
So said R. Buckminster Fuller in his first book, Nine Chains To The Moon, published in 1938 and republished by Southern Illinois University Press in 1968.
THE FEUDAL CHISELERS ARE THE BRITISH ZIONISTS AND THE ILLUMINATI
Fuller named the great European royal families and their bankers “feudal racketeers”. In his view, the Great War was not about the clash of dynastic ambitions, but rather about the clash of financial interests and world trade. In short, The War For Greater Serbia, Part One was the first truly world-around trade war. In reality it is a war which has never ended, one which has simply morphed and shed its prior forms and exterior skins, for new 'feathers' as the principal predatory bird of the new century.
The people of the United States -- and in particular those Citizens and residents living in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, have been dealt a series of hard blows from the hurricanes called Katrina and Rita. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced because so much of the housing and business structures of their towns or their cities has been wrecked. The administration proposed to spend something like $ 200 billion for a "rebuilding effort." It will take years to accomplish.
What is most tragic is the malicious contempt of the Illuminati for the people of these States united, a people they draw upon for tax revenues and interest charges on banking credit cards and on consumer loans and on the never-ever discharged MORTGAGES on private homes and land.
The counter-revolution of Franklin Roosevelt and the British-run swindle called The Great Depression continues to enrich these Titans of the international banking system. There can be little doubt that the genius of Buckminster Fuller or the critical analysis of a Stuart Chase are detested by the British Zionists and their Illuminati sponsors.
The bankers do not want the people of the devastated towns and cities of the Gulf Coast to have better homes, built more scientifically, with better materials and safer forms of construction. The banking 'fraternity' cannot abide the concept that people might take their insurance monies or their federal subsidies and build housing which will protect them from the next major hurricane. They cannot abide the idea that these new homes will use less energy and they cannot allow these new homes to have co-generation capabilities !!
They absolutely cannot allow a great leap forward from the technologies of the 1890s to the concept of industrially-engineered and air-deliverable housing units, or pre-fabricated geodesic domes sold as kits or as on-site construction. They cannot surrender any part of the tyrannical control they exert over housing via mortgages and interest rate manipulations.
To give up control of any one aspect of "the great rebuilding" will be for them to write the Death Warrant for their entire system of Notes, personal debt that never ends, and a final finish to their long-established system of indentured servitude. Do not expect to see this kind of analysis in the mainstream media, either. For these "news organizations" are dominated and controlled by the factors of British Zionism, who front for the Illuminati, and who cannot abide having our people obtain economic freedom by actually owning their own new, scientifically improved, and technically advanced houses.
Should the people of the Gulf Coast region get that control, as they rebuild, should they realize that they can have hurricane-proof homes that co-generate electricity, that are spacious and modern and wholly livable .... Someone will begin to ask the most difficult of questions:
These technologies have been available for fifty, sixty, even seventy years. Why have we been denied them in the past ?
And why did so very many people have to die, miserably, suffocated or drowned in obsolete and rotten old-world houses, when Dymaxion-quality homes and business structures could have been in use for the last three generations ??
Inevitably they will awake to that answer: many people died in these worn-out old structures because the Illuminati and their British swindlers wanted them to die, because these savage creatures feed off of fear and negativity. It isn't just the money they've pilfered over the last seventy-two years, it isn't just their sense of power and control.
The Satanic elements of the Illuminati and their British factors in The City Of London actually relish and enjoy watching other people die in pain, in fear, in mortal dread.
There's an answer that won't be discussed by the Boot-Lickers at Fox News or by the neo-conservative talking heads who masquerade as true American conservatives. And that raises a lot of other questions ... for another time.
Below -- the Seal of The Black Hand of Serbia. This is the Illuminati-inspired secret society which trained and supported the assassins who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, in 1914, and which started The War For Greater Serbia.
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