Beyond The Precipice

If you count all the years that my dad brow-beat me with history, I've been studying the Problem for a long time. Decades, in fact.  I've entertained ideas and read tomes that have go far afield to try to make sense of the world we live in.  I've lived in monasteries (Catholic and Buddhist), spoken for hours with old folk, read mountains of books and websites, and I've come to one conclusion:

We've already jumped off the cliff and there's no way back.

The genie's out of the bottle, the cat's out of the bag, the bridges are burnt.  There's really no other sensible conclusion, as far as that goes.

So, here we are in free-fall, like the coyote in the Roadrunner series, watching the canyon floor rushing at us with a large boulder directly behind us.  The only possible question is, "What now?"

The one thread that runs throughout history, from the most ancient to the modern, is the problem of bansters.  Some joke that it is the second oldest profession, to which I add it is the only one without any redeeming qualities.  The most evil, destructive and predatory force known to Mankind is banking and the people behind them.  Every war, every destroyed society, every dark point in history can be laid directly at the feet of fractional reserve/interest-bearing financial systems.

To just take the last 250 years, and focus solely on the American continent, we can see the banksters behind every major downturn.  The colonists created real money based on the output of the state, so the Bank of England created egregious taxes and counterfeited the colonial scrip to undermine the economy of the time.  Andrew Jackson succeeded in vanquishing the Bank of the United States, and for that the banksters tried to kill him, and when that failed, began counterfeiting the dollar.  Benjamin Garfield, Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy all introduced real money to compete with the debt notes of the banksters.  All were brutally slaughtered.  Ron Paul proposes to do away with the Federal Reserve and return to real money.  Now they ignore him completely, but if he wins, they will kill him most assuredly.

Whenever a society becomes wealthy and successful, it is only because they have real money, completely free of debt and interest.  Every single one.  And every single one was undermined and destroyed by banksters.  Every single one.

The founders of the US tried to make it impossible for the banksters to take over, by stating plainly in the Constitution that only gold and silver were to be used as money, and only Congress had the power to regulate weights and measures.  In 1913, the Congress, in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, passed the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Act.  Both were illegal and both are still in effect.  Since that time, the American economy, which when based on real money, because one of the most powerful and wealthiest ever seen, has since crashed and burned.

The banksters funded and supported Hitler, who came to power and immediately started issuing real money.  The German economy, literally within a month, had completely reversed and went on to become very powerful.  So much so, that it took half the world's nations to defeat it.  And the reason the Allied forces were marshaled against Germany?  Had nothing to do with the holocaust or anything else.  It was only because the Germans had real money, and the banksters hate that.

Libya?  Real, debt-free money.  The United Kingdom at the height of its power?  Real, debt-free money.  Iceland.  Ireland.  Czarist Russia.  Rome.  Egypt.  Azatlan.  In every case, it was the introduction of fractional reserve banking and interest-accruing debt that destroyed them.

First, the banksters come in and start counterfeiting the money and debasing it.  Then, when the economy becomes unstable, they offer their solution, which is always debt-laden scrip and servitude.  Along come business cycles with booms and busts, recessions and depressions.  Slowly, by inflation (counterfeiting) the banksters amass the wealth of a nation, then by crashing the economy, they destroy what's left and loot the land.

Over and over and over and over and over...

And since no one reads or studies history, or when they do, it's highly controlled and perverted by corporate (bankster) interests, people are incapable of seeing this repeated pattern throughout history.  And so nations rise on the backs of real money, only to turn over their wealth to banksters who hollow out their country and throw the carcass on the pyre of history.

With that said, the only conclusion possible is that the world has leaped off the precipice and is falling rapidly into the void of debt-ridden destruction.

The most likely outcome is, judging by what the banksters have done on a nation-by-nation basis for centuries, they will now crash the global economy and start a war, the likes of which have never been seen before, at least since the era of myth and legend.  If we look at most modern warfare, the next war usually starts about where the last one left off.  Since WWII finished with atomic weapons, we can be fairly sure that's where we'll pick up.  We can also be reasonably sure that no matter how the sides line up, the banksters will be the ones behind all of it.  Their MO is to fund both sides and profit from the arms manufacturing and money-lending, so that they own both the victor and the vanquished after the smoke clears.

Is there a solution?  Of course, but it is highly unlikely, at least on a global scale.

The financial and banking systems are the bread and butter of the banksters.  That much I think we can all agree on.  They have, by sheer trickery and indoctrination, made us all believe there is no other way.  History tells us that societies that don't opt in are wildly successful, and the very few who managed to opt out (ancient Egypt) were wildly successful and prosperous.

As we survey history, we see that the primary means that the banksters use to get a foot in the door is currency.  No matter what specie has been used, they have always managed to counterfeit it, except for one.

Barter is the antidote to bankster poison.  They can not inflate, control or saddle it with debt.  I have something you want, you have something I want, we trade.  Very simple, clean transaction without any other entity in between.  But extremely inefficient, since it requires the mutual coincidence of need.  If no one wants what I have, I can't trade.  Thus, money or currency always arises as a way of storing and transporting and converting wealth.  However, once you have a currency, then the banksters have the foot in the door.

Bernard von NotHaus tried a unique approach.  He embedded his DNA into each of his Liberty Dollars.  Novel approach and it obviously worried the banksters, because they threw him in jail and confiscated his metals for daring to tread on their sacred ground.

The banksters themselves have gone to great lengths to prevent anyone else from counterfeiting their counterfeits.  The US dollar is notorious for the difficulty involved in creating exact replicas, but it is quite doable and happens all the time.  They've tried micro-engraving, special papers, special inks, watermarks, translucent windows, embedded threads, and now ever RFIDs, which also lets them see how much you have in your pocket from a distance.

Gold and silver coins were popular, but one common way to inflate those was to shave off the sides of the coins.  So, they put those little ridges all around them to prevent that.  So counterfeiters simply used base-metal slugs with gold and silver cladding around them.

Which all brings us back to barter.  I have a dozen eggs and you have a gallon of milk.  We both agree that it's a fair trade and everyone's happy.  Great as long as you want my eggs and I want your milk, but gets really complicated when you want to buy a car.  A whole infrastructure has to build up to trade large objects and even real estate to buy large ticket items.  Very inefficient.

How, exactly, can anyone get out from under the banksters?  I mean, when Kennedy issued the US notes (remember those with the little red seal and no words like Federal Reserve?), folks would take them down to the bank and deposit them, and the banks would send them to the Fed, who in turn destroyed them.

In that paragraph is part of the answer.  Banks.  Allowing the banks to be bought up by mega-corps, who in turn are in bed with the central banks, is one of the major channels by which the banksters feed on us.

I remember a number of years ago, all Texas banks had to be Texas corporations.  They were owned and controlled by Texans in Texas, and could not be branch operations.  There was a massive effort on the part of mega-banks, back in the 80s, who pushed as hard as they could and convinced the Texas people (or stole the votes...you pick) to allow branch banking.  Until that point, each banking location had to be separately chartered and could not be foreign-owned (outside of Texas).  After the banksters got ahold of it, Texas went from being the 11th largest economy on Earth, to somewhere in the middle, with the banksters dictating policy at the capitol.

Here's what I propose.  Strip all mega-banks of their charters and corporate protections.  Change the laws to read simply that no group of people can be seen as an 'person' under the law.  Take away their corporate veil and make each officer of each corporation legally and personally liable for the actions of the company, as a whole.

Next, all banks must be domiciled and chartered in the jurisdiction in which they operate.  No more foreign ownership, branch banking, etc.  As part of this reform, all banks must have a minimum of 85% of all deposits on hand at all times.  Furthermore, interest rates may not exceed 1% for any transaction, anywhere, at any time.  Any loan may be charged a flat fee, but no interest at all, and terms less than 6 months can not charge more than 2% of the total loan amount.

Finally, take away the banksters' monopoly on money.  A government sets a regulated value, say $1 equals 1 troy ounce of .9999 pure silver, or one gallon of crude oil, etc.  Heck, we could even set a global value for money, since no one will have a monopoly on it.  Once that's done, anyone can issue money.  You neighbor, certainly the government, Bernard von NotHaus...anyone, as long as it meets the minimum regulations and values set by common agreement.  You can have paper or coin or even digi-bux, as long as they are convertible into some standard measure.

Of course, this all assumes that anyone calling themselves a bankster at this point in time be thrown in jail for the rest of their natural born days for crimes against humanity.

Will it happen?  Who knows?  Certainly, enough people are starting to wake up to the fact that the root of all evil is a bankster.  But, most don't have a solid enough grasp on history and/or economics to understand why all this is necessary.  You can tell by looking at people's faces when they listen to Ron Paul.  They look like the RCA dog.

Perhaps it will take yet another global conflagration to convince people.

The one thing we have going for us is that there are obviously insiders who are waking up, as well.  They are seeing that the world has reached the limit of the current paradigm and can not grow any more.  The entire model of the banksters is a self-defeating on, albeit on a massive time scale, since it has taken millennia to reach this point.  But there is no one and nothing left to exploit.  They are down to Algore trying to charge us for air and creating artificial scarcity, which only works until someone figures out how to make their own.  The massive infrastructure to maintain a global police state is untenable.  The system is collapsing under its own weight.

The smart insiders are seeing that the paradigm must change, and this is causing an invisible war among the banksters.  They are factionalizing and losing control even of themselves.  The problem is we must figure out a solution before they implode, or we will face a Dark Ages that will make Europe's look like a momentary loss of senses.

One way or another, the system is collapsing.  The banksters are trying to control it, or at least appear to be in control, but the simple fact is that the collapse is based on Universal Law, and no one can stop it.  The best we can do is plan for it, like anyone living in a hurricane zone.  RADAR shows the storm coming.  Satellite is giving us great pictures of its progress.  The weather center is giving us all their statistical landing sites.

Are we going to sit on the sofa and hope for the best?  Or are we going to run down to the store for batteries and drinking water?

If ever there was a time for some quick research and action, this is it.

On Life Support

Most of the time, people feel guilty if they hope someone will die quickly, but when we see someone suffering horribly and there's nothing to be done about it, then our only wish is for release.

The global economy is our patient on life support. Right now, the body is lying there with tubes sticking out of every oriface. There are tubes pumping nutrients in and tubes sucking out waste. There are tubes pushing air in, and tubes delivering medications. There are myriad machines and monitors all around the bed, and the family has gathered on one side of the room to discuss what to do.

We see the body convulse with pain. We see the eyes flutter trying to tell us something. We hear the groans and gasps, as if the body is experiencing terror and severe pain.

It's time to pull the plug. It's time to remove all the tubes and wires, and let the body die a quick and merciful death. Keeping it alive for the sake of our unwillingness to let go is causing our dear one to die ever so slowly and miserably, and the level of care needed to maintain this horror show is outrageously expensive.

Let it die.

Another medical analogy is a patient with sever burns. The skin has literally turned to charcoal and must be debrided or massive infection will set in and the person will surely die. They are immersed in a chemical bath and stiff brushes are used to scrub away the dead skin, all the way down to muscle and sinew. The patient can't be allowed to pass out or they will slip into a coma. Stimulants are used to maintain consciousness. It is described as the most painful experience one can have outside of CIA black ops.

In the old days, economies just died when they had run their course. Nations died, people died and it was not a pretty sight. With modern technology, we can keep the lungs inflating and the heart beating, but at what price?

The organism has become so complex and entangled that it no longer threatens individuals or single nations. It now threatens the entire socio/political world, and a good chunk of the natural world, as well. But the fact remains: the old, dead flesh must be removed or growth will simply cease and the patient dies.

We have allowed, and we are all guilty of watching and not acting, a small group of astoundingly greedy people to rig our natural economy into a cyborg that makes the Few rich and powerful, and the rest of us its servants. Despite thousands of years of history to the contrary, we have allowed fiat currencies to become the norm, banks to become our leaders and our minds to cease imagining better ways to do things.

We allowed usury and corruption to infiltrate our public lives. We all looked the other way when it happened, because it appeared that we were along for the ride. The appearances were false. We were along for the ride alright, but we were the ones being ridden.

The time has come to let the patient die. If not, then we will all die with it. This grossly unfair and immoral system has left us all with a pile of cash and no wealth. Just spend a couple of minutes reading about the Weimar Republic in the years after WWI. Housewives burned money instead of wood in the kitchen, because it was cheaper. People carried bags and carts full of money to the store to buy just a loaf of bread. Restaurants didn't post prices because they would go up inth the time it took you to eat your meal. This nightmare is coming to a planet near you.

The result of crises like Weimar, or Zimbabwe, or many others, is dictatorship and slavery for the survivors. This is analogous to the burn patient in whose body infection and death have set in.

We, the people, whose natual bodies and vested self-interests do not match those in power, must take back what we gave away. We gave away our power because we were asleep, because we were tricked and because we were greedy and thought we would get a piece of the pie along with the bankers. The truth is ovviously far from that perception.

The question remains, how do we get out?

It's amazingly simple, but it will involve some fear of the unknown. We have been so conditioned to see the world from only one perspective that even when the view sours, we can't imagine looking from a different perspective.

You must sell all of your stocks and bonds, stop month payroll deductions for 401(k) and start buying hard assets, like heirloom seeds, gold and silver, and energy products. That last one is problematic, since most of us don't have a place to store oil and coal, but there are ways to go around it, such as solar and wind generators, etc.

I can hear you saying, "WHAT?! Are you NUTS?"

Well, yeah, but that's beside the point.

First of all, in 1999, I cashed out my 401(k), took the tax hit and bought gold. My money has made over 500% return. How's yours done? I have a large indoor garden under a skylight on the top floor of my house and several large barrels of water throughout the house. I could be completely locked in for more than a month without to much effort. The energy is a little more difficult. I have a generator and some gasoline stores, which will maintain communications for a time, depending on my usage. I don't own a single stock or bond of any kind.

Now here's the part where most people stop: cut up all your credit cards and burn them immediately. Even if you do nothing else, this one act will free you and put a knife deep in the heart of the Beast. The one thing the Beast most fears is that people stop borrowing from it and paying the ourrageous fees for the priviledge.

In my studies and thinking, I have come to the conclusion that the one point in history where things got off the tracks was in the 1920s, in America, with the creation of E-Z Credit and charge-a-plates. It's all been pretty much downhill from that moment, from what I can see. Usury is what feeds the Beast and makes us all servants to it. Hell, even the word 'mortgage' means 'death pledge,' in French.

We have all been hoodwinked and we need to extract ourselves. It has come to the point where we can't imagine another way of life, yet it does exist. I can personally attest to it. Yes, there is more perceived risk, but in the end, I control the risk, not some faceless bankers. My savings are not prone to some governmental or banking whim. I owe nothing to any institution (well, at least after May, but that's a minimal risk).

Try this experement: turn off the power mains to your house for one week. Not just an hour or a day, that's easy. I mean one week. It's easy here in Indonesia. Happens all the time. But, you folks in North America and Europe rarely experience such a thing.

Turn it off and then see what happens. How much of your food depends on electricity? How much time do you waste on things like TV? How much of your life depends on things like cell phones and lights? What sort of solutions and changes can you make to reduce your dependence?

Ask people in Brisbane, Sri Lanka and Brazil what they wish they had done while the sun shined.

Isn't your family's safety and well-being worth one week of effort?

Now, get on Yahoo or other financial site and compare the price of gold since 1999, to the absolute value of the stock market, where your retirement hopes have been languishing. If you had thought about it back then, would you still have stocks or would you convert it all to gold? Don't forget to figure in the inflation rate, because having a dollar then and one now are not the same.

Con artists will continue to play their games until they get caught at it. Once the mark sees through the grift, they walk away. The grifter hopefully goes to jail.

The only reason the scam keeps working is because we keep telling ourselves it's real and that we will get rich one day, or at least have enough to support us in our old age. But we need to face reality, it ain't gonna happen. Your only hedge against the inevitable is your own smarts and the support of friends and family working together.

That's it.

The end is truly nigh. The patient has been on lifesupport for decades, and it's time to let go and let it die. It's merciful not only to the patient, but to those who care for it.

Perhaps the easiest thing to do to get started in to unplug the One-Eyed Monster. The more time you waste passively 'watching,' the less time you are using for active verbs like: loving, creating, reading, working, thinking, and motivating.

The economy will collapse. That is inevitable, regardless of what all the powder-puffs and slimy bankers say. It is comeing, and soon. A leaking boat must sink unless something is done to fix the problem.

Fixing it is going to be painful. That, too, is inevitable. It will cause harm and people will suffer. There are no two ways around the problem. However, remember what you learned years ago. When you tear the bandage off, it hurts for a moment. When you peel it off, it prolongs and exacerbates the pain. It's a lesson to be applied now.

We can be pro-active and take the bull by the horns, or we can make like a bunch of Spaniards and run. Either way, it's going to hurt, but by meeting the problem head-on, we have more control over the variables.

This year looks to be a wild ride. It's only two weeks old and already the waves are growing bigger and angrier. We must either surf or drown, but for now, we have a choice. When the waters have you is not the time to look for a boat.

My uncle had an expression that always made a lot of sense to me: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

And now that I think about it, getting a horse wouldn't be a bad idea, either.

By the way, the real target in Arizona was the judge who had blocked an effort to nationalize 401(k)s and IRAs. All the other gore was to distract and cover up that one fact. THEY are attempting to take over all retirement accounts and pensions and replace the money (about $9 trillion) with government markers, much as they have done with Social Security.

Just another reason to cash out now and take the tax hit. Better that than lose the whole thing later.

The Truth Will Out-Some Banky Panky

You've been had by a banking cabal

The above linked article is from the Bloomberg News Service. It is not some wild-eyed, lone blogger in the wilderness. It is not some Mel Gibson-esque Conspiracy Theory. It is, in fact, Congressional testimony. Not that coming from Congress makes it any more true, God forbid, but it does give it an air of seriousness.

What we are told in the article is that AIG (American International Group, Inc), whose imminent failure over credit default swaps, was the impetus for the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banking system. It is revealed that AIG was in no way in danger of failing, but the collapse of the swaps would have given the Federal Reserve a black eye in the credibility department.

So, to clarify, a private corporation (The Fed), which owns our money (The Dollar) was about to have a serious crisis of CONfidence because of the imminent failure of another private corporation (AIG) to back its BullSh*t. They then engineered a tax-payer-funded bailout where the Fed bought up the swaps using our taxes to ensure that the truth would not come out, to whit: it's all a huge scam.

And people wonder why I left that God-forsaken country.

Cut to the audience (the American People) sitting hypnotized in front of their God Boxes (TVs) having intellectual pablum shoved into their fluoride-addled brains while gobbling McPlastic food. For some reason, they aren't lamp-posting the whole lot. Can't imagine why. They have been mass-media-ed into a devolutionary stupor, unable to provoke, much less feel a strong emotion, such as outrage. In fact, the image is not unlike those characters we make fun of who sit transfixed by the Benny Hinns of the mediasphere and blankly hand over money whenever it's requested.

"In God We Trust," and by the way Brother, could you bail out AIG while you're praying to the plasma-screen god so your humble masters...I mean servants bravely battle the forces of darkness who want to lower your standard of living.

Oops, that ol' standard of living just got shot in the back and the last man standing works for the Fed.

Yes, Brothers and Sisters, you have been horn-swaggled by a bunch of crooks who looked you square in the eyes and told you the "End Is Nigh," while taking every last penny from you and your progeny.

But, don't be upset. It's for your own good. Here, we'll give you free health care and a life-time supply of anti-psychotic drugs to make you feel better. Where have I read this before? Oh yeah, Aldus Huxley's Brave New World.

If you screw your eyes and furrow your brow just right, and stand over here on The Far Side, you can almost see the humor in it. From the Founding Fathers to George Orwell, from the Elders of Zion to conspiracy nuts, the whole danged thing has been telegraphed for at least two centuries. We have been so bamboozled that we are incapable of, 1) recognizing the situation, and 2) doing something about it. Granted, without training, you always experience a certain amount of shock when you come upon a traffic accident with mangled bodies, but it's time to snap out of it.

Is it too late? Well, do the math, shall we. Cabal=couple hundred thousand, people=7 billion. Nope, looks like a slam dunk to me. Just have to wake up long enough to get mad about something.

The information in the above Bloomberg article is Lassie, and we are Timmy. We are unconscious and Lassie is barking her fool head off to wake us up before the train squishes us like a bug. She pulling and tugging at our limp body, licking our face, doing anything to get us off the tracks. Good ol' Lassie. Wish she had someone to run to, to get help, but there are seven billion Timmys out here and not many Lassies around.

So, just to review, the Federal Reserve is a private corporation, and if you pull out your last dollar there and look at the top, it says Federal Reserve Note. That's right, you don't own that dollar. You are a slave to the company store and that company store is foreclosing on your future. Doncha think it's about time to fight back? Doncha think you and me should own our money, like it says in that nasty ol' Constitution?

The Far Side ain't so much a place as it is a state of mind. All it takes is just a cup of cosmic Java and a pastry or two and you can see it too. Like good ol' Rod Serling used to say,

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Far Side.

OK, so I changed it a little.

Hope to see you here soon.