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September 25 2011
Global Dashboard -- What is resilience? [Three-dimensional (3D) wellbeing]
'...wellbeing is a dynamic process with #material (what people have), #relational (what people are able to do) and #subjective (how people feel) dimensions. These dimensions are interlinked, co-evolving and fluid. The review is largely an individual/household level analysis but potentially could be applied to community/country-level resilience too. #Material dimension: ...households suffer asset loss; people’s health deteriorates; families go hungry. And attempts to minimise vulnerability in the present can have material consequences in the longer term... #Relational dimension: Social networks are important in enabling migration towards areas of relative safety and opportunity, even when restrictive policies are in place to limit movement. #Subjective dimension: The way in which an individual feels vulnerable is ultimately shaped by the culture and environment in which they grew up, by their position in society, by gender, and by a whole other range of contextually specific factors.'September 20 2011
The Big Squeeze: Part 3: The Quiet Rebellion: Civil Disobedience, Local Markets, and Debt Erasure
'We are coming to the big face-off between top-down control by those who would be gods over us and impose value on us, and bottom up creativity which recognizes that any “god” (energy, good, intelligence) comes up through us and is connected between us. It is this “within” and “between” well-negotiated and exchanged that produces real value. We need to transfer that growth and “frontier” mentality to non-scarce, non-material assets like learning, intellect, culture, music, community, family, creativity, human connection and interest. This is now happening. This movement will be driven by the younger, Generation X and millennial generations. Baby boomers may follow, but probably only after initially resisting, and trying to make the system work long enough so they can cash in their corporate 401(k)s and extract their welfare state entitlements. ...but eventually they will have to capitulate, find a renewed purpose, dust off their 60’s idealism, and reapply themselves.'September 18 2011
Paymaster Germany and the Endgame by Gary North
'Every time Merkel meets with Sarkozy in one of their "no, no, yes, yes" liaisons, European stock markets rise. There is some vague language about another round of bailouts. Investors rush in to buy, buy, buy. The fund managers are not rewarded to produce long-term capital gains. So, they cannot resist buying whenever Merkel and Sarkozy emerge from their tryst to tell the world that they are willing to let Germany bail out the Greek bond market one more time. This is great political theater. The funds' memos to major banks regarding the funds' refusal to roll over their short-term loans can go out at any time. No one wants to be the first fund to trigger a banking panic. But no one wants to be left holding the bag. This is why predictions regarding the day of reckoning are highly speculative. The major decisions will not be made by banks. They will be made by fund managers with large deposits at banks. The bankers are just sitting there, hoping for the best.'August 23 2011
Alt-Market/Safe Haven States Project -- The Strategic Advantages Of Community Building
'During an economic collapse, EVERYONE becomes a target. A target of poverty, a target of homelessness and starvation, a target of crime, a target of mass hysteria. If you have no solid community structure to brace against the fiscal avalanche, then your problems are much larger and more immediate than any alphabet agency goon squad or military outfit crossing the Rubicon. You, my friend, have no support. You are relying on “luck”. This is pure stupidity. Eventually, we will have to leave our comfort zones and do something with what we have learned. That means setting aside our jobs (which likely won’t exist in a couple years), our hobbies (which we likely won’t care about in couple of years), our habits and addictions (which we likely won’t be able to afford in a couple of years), our financial designs (which will be laughable in a couple of years), and ignore the skepticism of our families (who will be thanking us in a couple of years). It means getting our priorities straight.'August 21 2011
YouTube -- Mike Maloney: Debt Collapse - $20,000 Gold (FULL PRESENTATION)
'Mike Maloney is the author of the world's best selling book on precious metals investing. Since 2003 he has been advocating gold and silver as the ultimate means of protecting wealth from the games played by our governments and banking sector. In this 90 minute presentation he lays down his 'most likely' scenario for the global economy over the next decade... short term deflation, followed by big or even hyperinflation. Here you will learn the true definitions of inflation/deflation, the difference between currency and money, price vs value, 'Wealth Cycles', gold and silver accounting for the expansion of fiat currency, gold and silver supply and demand, the differences between the today's bull market and that of the 1970s, The Debt Collapse, and more.' -- "Voodoo, hocus-pocus scheme."
'Mike Maloney is the author of the world's best selling book on precious metals investing. Since 2003 he has been advocating gold and silver as the ultimate means of protecting wealth from the games played by our governments and banking sector. In this 90 minute presentation he lays down his 'most likely' scenario for the global economy over the next decade... short term deflation, followed by big or even hyperinflation. Here you will learn the true definitions of inflation/deflation, the difference between currency and money, price vs value, 'Wealth Cycles', gold and silver accounting for the expansion of fiat currency, gold and silver supply and demand, the differences between the today's bull market and that of the 1970s, The Debt Collapse, and more.' -- "Voodoo, hocus-pocus scheme."
August 10 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: The Real Source of the British Riots
'The statistics, sociology, police brutality, massive food price increases and economic catastrophes behind the recent and continuing riots in Britain.' -- "A culture that is undermined and dissolved slowly through government regulations, through the tax incentives to bear children and live apart – results in young men and young women growing up without father figures, often in households where they have never seen anyone work." -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.
'The statistics, sociology, police brutality, massive food price increases and economic catastrophes behind the recent and continuing riots in Britain.' -- "A culture that is undermined and dissolved slowly through government regulations, through the tax incentives to bear children and live apart – results in young men and young women growing up without father figures, often in households where they have never seen anyone work." -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.
BBC -- If... The Generations Fall Out - Final Script (March 2004)
'COMMENTARY: In Europe and America a new type of conflict has been simmering for years. In Britain, in 2024 it is about to reach flash point. This conflict is different from anything that has gone before. Members of the same family will find themselves on opposite sides. PROF LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF (Author “The Coming Generation Storm”): It’s not a matter of if there’s going to be a generational fall out, it’s a matter of when and exactly how nasty it’s going to be. COMMENTARY: In twenty years time, it is the old who are in charge. The ageing population is bringing Britain to the brink of financial collapse. Which the young generation are about to ignite. CHET TREMMEL (Foundation for the Rts of Future Generations): We are not going to keep quiet when a band of pampered pensioners steal the future from us. COMMENTARY: The young of 2024 are becoming angry. They’re calling it generational fraud. Some have decided it can’t go on. YOUTH DEMO: We pay, they play, we pay they play…'August 09 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: The British Riots
'The economic, political and social realities behind the rebellion of youth which cannot be resisted.' -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.
'The economic, political and social realities behind the rebellion of youth which cannot be resisted.' -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.
JoNova -- The money – you earn it, they print it. Welcome to the world of Corruption.
'The people are catching on. Thus we arrive at the strangest of moments when the world is figuring out that the forecasts of fire, flood and plague were faked, just as they realize the reassurances about the money were faked too. Disaster is coming, but not because of carbon. We’ve been worried about the wrong tipping point. Is it a coincidence? A random convergence of delusions? Not so. It takes one falsity to feed the other. We need a special kind of wealth to worry about bad weather 100 years from now. No one was watching the dollars hard enough... Corruption reigned across the high end of town. Politicians lied, scientists lost data, bankers mispriced risk and sold it to suckers but were bailed out, and public servants served government instead of the public. Science journals forgot what science was, professors broke laws of reason, and virtually everyone in the old media let them get away with it. Indeed the old-media was busy hacking phones for entertainment.'August 04 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Short, Unhappy Lives of Fiat Currencies
'The average life expectancy for a fiat currency is 27 years, with the shortest life span being one month. Founded in 1694, the British pound Sterling is the oldest fiat currency in existence. At a ripe old age of 317 years it must be considered a highly successful fiat currency. However, success is relative. The British pound was defined as 12 ounces of silver, so it's worth less than 1/200 or 0.5% of its original value. In other words, the most successful long standing currency in existence has lost 99.5% of its value. Given the undeniable track record of currencies, it is clear that on a long enough timeline the survival rate of all fiat currencies drops to zero.' -- 'As you scroll through the currencies below, you’ll see some long-ago casualties. What’s shocking, though, is how many have occurred in our lifetime. You might count how many currencies have failed since you’ve been born.' -- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/average-life-expectancy-for-fiat.html
'The average life expectancy for a fiat currency is 27 years, with the shortest life span being one month. Founded in 1694, the British pound Sterling is the oldest fiat currency in existence. At a ripe old age of 317 years it must be considered a highly successful fiat currency. However, success is relative. The British pound was defined as 12 ounces of silver, so it's worth less than 1/200 or 0.5% of its original value. In other words, the most successful long standing currency in existence has lost 99.5% of its value. Given the undeniable track record of currencies, it is clear that on a long enough timeline the survival rate of all fiat currencies drops to zero.' -- 'As you scroll through the currencies below, you’ll see some long-ago casualties. What’s shocking, though, is how many have occurred in our lifetime. You might count how many currencies have failed since you’ve been born.' -- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/average-life-expectancy-for-fiat.html
August 01 2011
July 26 2011
The Daily Bell -- GAO: Fed Issued $US16 Trillion During 2008 Crisis!
'Two things have happened: First, people have been made aware as never before of the essential unfairness (not a strong enough word) of the system; second, the massiveness of the bailout (handout) shows clearly that the system itself is finished. The last time something of this magnitude occurred was during the Great Depression and it took a World War to reconfigure and reassert elite control. Absent another world war (which is impossible because of nuclear devices) nothing is going to bring it back. The price distortions are so great, thanks to the directed money printing, that it cannot unwind. In fact, around the world, central banks are busily printing money for the very elite power nexuses (banks and financial institutions) that need to fail. Those in charge of the money printing will not let them fail. This means the unemployment and misery will continue to grow. The whole system is insane. It is beyond salvage.'June 22 2011
The Automatic Earth -- June 22 2011: A low thunder rolling 'cross the plains
'Derivatives are the $800 trillion or more gorilla in today's financial room. The problem lies in the bets, the wagers, in the shape of default swaps, to the tune of trillions of dollars, that are out there, and that risk being triggered by a default being declared a "credit event"... It's starting to look like that "CDS to hide debt" idea might be backfiring. ...all the Merkels and Obamas and Papandreous and Geithners on this planet will try with all their might to prevent that from happening. And they have virtually limitless access to your money, and that of your children, to do just that. They have exactly zero chance of succeeding, but that won't keep them from trying: their jobs, their social status, perhaps even their very lives depend on it. There's a low thunder rolling across the plains, and it's coming this way. There's nowhere to hide; we’ll have to live through it. It's called debt deflation. Derivative debt deflation. Financial crisis? You ain't seen nothing yet.'June 21 2011
The Daily Bell -- A Planned Depression?
'If the mainstream media news actually reflected the reality of world events, every news broadcast would start with an update on BIS policies and then discuss the economic moves of some of the larger central banks. ...the power elite that has quietly seeded – that's right, "planted" – these central banks around the world in the past century know quite well what they are capable of and how they operate. Every few years, central banks cause economic collapses by printing too much money. The Anglosphere elites further consolidate their power and wealth each time one of these collapses occurs under the guise of "Democracy." We are aware that Money Power is established via chaos and draws its order from a planned response to social unrest. From chaos, therefore, springs forth a "New World Order." Is this really what the elites have in mind in the short term? We entitled this article "A Planned Depression." But we will end it with an alternative title: "A Planned Revolt?"'June 17 2011
The Daily Bell -- Sino-Forest Is Leading Indicator of China Disaster?
'The Chinese people are still in the phase, thanks to Western monetary stimulation, where they believe that everything that has happened to them is due to their industriousness and native intelligence. ...after the Chinese economy crashes as it must inevitably (unless they manage to pull off the proverbial soft-landing). What will be revealed by the wreckage is the full panoply of central banking deceit. The scales will fall from the eyes. The stock market will be revealed as manipulated; the companies as inept monopolies; the ChiComs themselves as the hands-on managers of their wrecked enterprises. In the near-term, the great cities and skyscrapers will go unfilled; the 10-lane highways shall remain untraveled. A billion people, newly wealthy will find that their condos are not sellable, that food is not available at almost any price and that their jobs were merely the extended froth of the most powerful central-banking bubble that the world has ever known.'June 12 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: Bildeberger, the New World Order, and the State of the Planet
'Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviewed by Jake Kettle on the prospects and possibilities of one world government, the Arab spring in the Middle East, the death of Europe and the end of the US dollar as a global reserve currency.' -- "Wrenching changes are coming."
'Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interviewed by Jake Kettle on the prospects and possibilities of one world government, the Arab spring in the Middle East, the death of Europe and the end of the US dollar as a global reserve currency.' -- "Wrenching changes are coming."
June 10 2011
The Daily Bell -- Does the Elite Need a False Flag?
'The Western mainstream media is filled with memes about civil society generally, and a major one of course is the relative superiority of the Western model of finance and literacy. But in Europe and America this can be seen nowadays as a questionable in our view, where up to 50 percent of certain portions of the population are out of work and dependent on shrinking government subsidies. The Western model is NOT in fact capitalist; it is statist – a statist model that is actually failing. The capitalist society is in fact something of a false front for the elite's accumulation of power. This is why we have called what the Anglo-American elite accomplished in the 20th century a Dreamtime. As Anglosphere elites see the credibility of their economic and cultural tools being questioned, they have returned, as before, to war. This is a repetitive phenomenon. Whenever the elites' program is challenged, the larger society suddenly begins to suffer from chaos and militarism.'The Daily Bell -- If Yemen Falls, so Does the Dollar Reserve?
'The Arab Awakening is truly a regional if not global phenomenon. Of course, we have our own name for it: The Internet Reformation. The world will never be the same. The world's economy, when you come down to it, is a product of American military force. Use the dollar to buy oil or else ... But if the US and Saudi Arabia cannot control the spiraling disaster in Yemen, the next stop on the revolutionary train is Bahrain. And after that ... Saudi Arabia. And THIS time, events may not be easily salvageable. The Internet has educated the Arab world about its history. ...the elites chose to propagate a central banking economy in order to chase after world government, and now they are in danger of an eroding dollar reserve, which could eventually result in the creation of an entirely new (and uncontrollable) currency. Anyway, if Saudi Arabia falls, the dominoes may simply keep tumbling. Who pays any attention to funny little countries like Yemen anyway?'May 30 2011
The Daily Bell -- Queen Worried About Empire's Meltdown
'In 1971, the Anglosphere elites created the world's first fully fiat reserve currency – the US dollar – by instructing their Saudi surrogates to accept payment for oil only in dollars. Since this meant that every other country in the world had to hold dollars to purchase oil, the US could print as much money as it needed to fund whatever global adventures it wished to undertake. It used much of its windfall to further build out the military. Eventually, this money-printing capacity helped undermine – or at least provide the justification for the collapse of – the Soviet Union. Everything was going well for the elites in the late 20th century. Russia was westernizing, Israel's power was advancing and world government was gradually moving forward as well with the expansion of the West's various globalist instrumentalities. Even the dollar was holding steady. But then came the Internet. People know too much, or at least are beginning to learn. And they are angry.'May 28 2011
The Daily Bell -- Turning Points of Empire's End? by Anthony Wile
'The City of London has a big problem. Once you have fallen back on the immoveable rigor of brute force you have to make sure that people understand that you will not back down. Not now. Not ever. If people cannot be frightened into supporting one-world-government (the point of it all) by fear-based memes, then they must be panicked into supporting it via military power. They must be made to feel that they have no other choice. But what if the biggest war – the most important war of the past 100 years – is also the war that you are evidently and obviously LOSING? What then? Well, if you are the top honcho of the Pentagon or Hillary Clinton, you will do ANYTHING to make sure your pending defeat does not become common knowledge and tabloid fodder. No, you cannot admit it! No how, no way! It will lead to a chain reaction, or so you fear. If people begin to understand that the entire Western world HAS LOST ITS MOST IMPORTANT WAR TO A BUNCH OF GOAT-HERDERS AND POPPY GROWERS ... what then?'
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