Alchemy And Uncertainty

Can you feel it?

Something in the air.  Or a quiver in the Quantum Field.  Or a disturbance in the Force.

Once in a while, we get that fluttery feeling in our gut, what you might call "butterflies," but no quite the same as say, stagefright.  This is more a feeling of foreboding.  It happened the day before 911, it happened in September of 2009, when we experienced our first earthquake, and it happened this morning.

I, like some other folks, believe that astrology has a basis in fact somewhere in its roots.  A while back, I posted some thoughts on a scientific paper that suggested much of the chaos in the world just now are due in part to the fact that we have discovered a bunch of exoplanets in a certain zodiac sign.  Everyone has experienced reading an astrological personality sketch that seems eerily accurate.  And a lot of folks have noticed that certain planetary alignments herald significant events.

Goro Adachi at Etemenanki is one of the people I have followed for decades now, and he has proved to be fairly accurate at pre-reading history.  His latest screed warns that August-September 2016 will be a wild ride, based in part on the alignment of Sun-Venus-Jupiter.

Courtney Brown and the Farsight Insitute's remote viewers have put out a video that indicates a severe event this month, with all the appearances of a large explosion.  We've got two older interviews with Courtney on RadioFarSide, should you want a bit more information about them and remote viewing.

I don't have anything so flashy or mystical as those good folks, but I do have a kind of "spidey-sense" if you will.  I have a particular feeling that puts me on alert, and I've grown to trust it over the centuries, since it has rarely steered me wrong.

I tend to break Life down to sets of variables, and then convert as many to rational numbers as I can and eliminate as much uncertainty as possible to control outcomes to the extent that they can be controlled.  Most of us do that, with varying degrees of detail and success.

Occasionally, though, the variables start to pile up and quickly become more than any individual can calculate.  There are massive political and geopolitical movements washing across history at this moment.  There are waves of events, visible and invisible.  Battles are being waged at every conceivable level.  History is being written as I clack away.

Mighty forces are coming into direct conflict.  Those who want humanity to go in one direction are about to butt heads with those who like the tried and true.

There are frontiers open to our collective species that have barely been dreamed of for ages.  We are on the cusp of events our current generations can only begin to imagine.  Technology has raced far beyond our growth and development as physical creatures.  We have opened doors behind which are questions even our brightest minds could not answer.  And we will be forced to answer then sooner or later.

Many of our best thinkers and researchers today have postulated that Humanity has fractured into two different civilizations (maybe more).  One civilizations has unlocked fantastic technical power, while the other has been purposefully kept ignorant.  The former has pushed the latter as far as it can, and now the latter is kicking back.

Our species is bifurcating.  We are splitting into the "knows" and "don't knows."  Money and things have become irrelevant at this point.  It is knowledge and information that bestows power - at least some power.

Those of us who still live in the "don't knows" category have power of our own.  We are happy, content to live peaceful lives, to experience the ebbs and flows of Nature.  The "knows," on the other hand, like to force Nature, challenge her, bend her to their will.  If we have learned anything from history, this is a bad idea and one doomed to failure.  Those of us in the Aristotelian school subscribe to the Golden Mean, the Golden Ratio, phi.

We have learned that all things circle back on themselves.  The Universe is cycles upon cycles within cycles.  Where one ends depends heavily on where one starts.  If force is the beginning, force will be the end, and it will multiply exponentially when it comes around.

On the other hand, if harmony is the beginning, then harmony will be the result and it will be blissful in its magnitude.

If we take the Buddhist view, there is no need to fight, since whatever the enemy throws at you will come back twice as hard.  While this is a wonderful way of looking at things, it works best when you believe in reincarnation.  I'm not there yet, though I am a firm adherent to the concept of eternal being.

I do believe in passive/resistive force, though.  I firmly believe in using force against itself.  In the martial arts, one can choose to attack or defend.  If one attacks, one loses the weapon of balance and connection to the Earth.  As a defender, one can absorb the force of attack and multiply it back to the opponent.

I love poker.  It is a fun and rollicking game, but it is blunt.  I prefer chess, where strategy and sacrifice can lead to victory.

I don't know why I have gone off on a Sun Tzu pipe dream, but it is related to the feeling I have.  It feels like the entire Universe has reached a nexus of some kind and our trusty maps will no longer function, as the landmarks are changing fast.  I feel it at the mental, physical and spiritual levels.  The Oroboros is shedding its skin and we must choose the new flesh or the dead sheath.

It is an alchemical working, begun long ago and coming to fruit before our eyes.  The problem with alchemy is that no matter how powerful the wizard is, there is always the Uncertainty Principle.

The Challenge has begun.

All You Need Is Cash

UPDATE: And so it begins...

There has been a lot of speculation and noise about the end of cash lately.  This is one of those staple conspiracies that has been around since at least the 70s, as far as I can remember.  However, now there seems to be a new push for it, as events seem to be heading is a rather alarming direction.

The old cashless conspiracy said that central banks want to rid the world of cash in order to track and trace every single transaction and ensure that every diddle of tribute is paid.  It would, they say, also eliminate criminal transactions, though no one ever talks about the subsequent rise of alternative currencies and/or barter that would then step in.

In any event, the EU and US are making rather serious rumblings about the end of cash, and nations like Denmark are moving rather swiftly in that direction.  Is this to end all privacy?  Or is there fear and loathing on the part of the "elites" that is bringing this issue to the forefront?

If you answered "fear and loathing," you not only made Hunter S Thompson happy, you hit the nail on the head.  The "elites" are freaking out, and ending cash is one of the last weapons they have to avert full and complete (and uncontrollable) economic meltdown.

One of great weaknesses of the "elite" is that they think they can control everything; all natural processes are fully within their control, as they have become so disconnected as to think of themselves as gods.  In their conceit, they set off down a course years ago to control the economies of the world to the point where everyone would be lulled to sleep because investments always made money, prices were always stable and everyone had their share of gee-gaws.  Yes, if every belly was full and no hand idle, they could siphon off our labor and build their dream homes in the stars.

One thing about pride...it always goeth before the fall.

One thing about Nature...She resists being controlled.

Things have gotten out of hand.  The "elite" have discovered that organic systems have all sorts of fail-safe buttons installed that keep them balanced to their own rules.  They cannot and will not be dictated to by anyone, no matter how much technology and money you throw at Her.

To the point: the global economy has begun to spiral far out of the "elite" control systems.  Economic systems are natural organizations and they will find their own balance.  For decades, indeed most of the last century,  a dedicated group of megalomaniacs thought they could control the world.  As with all natural systems, they can be held in check for a while, but the errors begin to build up until they are no longer controllable.  Furthermore, when the errors inevitably correct themselves, the result is far worse than if the system had been allowed to adjust itself all along.  At this point, the reset has been artificially delayed since at least the 70s.  The inflation that swept Reagan into office was supposed to run it's course, but artificial fixes were put in place.  Those fixes have been compounded for 50 years now, and the bill is coming due.

Over the past couple of decades, every trick in the economic handbook has been tried.  They confiscated trillions of dollars in taxpayer money.  They raised and lowered rates.  They adjusted policy and shifted blame, but the compounding errors in the system have built to the breaking point.  The only game the "elite" have left, besides outright confiscation of all private property (unpopular), is something called 'negative interest rates.'

Now, I don't know about you, but 'negative interest rates' sounds absurd.  I had to look it up to be sure it was a real thing.  Sure enough, this is one of those economic back-stops that is held in limbo as a theoretical means to halt deflationary spirals. They idea is that with negative rates, banks charge customers to save money, rather than pay interest.  This encourages spending, and of course banks are encouraged to be less restrictive with lending.  Just two insy-winsy little problems with this idea: customers pull their cash and stuff it in the mattress, and loose lending is what got us here in the first place.

Most importantly, when customers start seeing their savings being depleted, instead of running out and spending, most folks will withdraw the cash and horde it.  This compounds (again) the problem negative rates are supposed to fix.  Folks pull their money but don't spend it, and banks quickly nose-dive into insolvency.  The only way around this is to make sure folks don't have cash to pull out.  If all your money is electronic blips, then it is rather hard to store them under the mattress.  The end of cash ideally means that all money is visible to the "elite" and they can enforce their policies on us ruminant animals to force us to spend or save, whatever they need to save the world today.

The one thing none of the articles discuss concerning "negative interest rates" is that when folks lose faith in the system (e.g. - don't have cash to do as they please), then they create alternative "organic' systems to fix the problem.  We see this in the so-called 'black markets.'  Anytime something is made illegal, there is an immediate birth of an underground economy to supply not only the illegal items, but all the ancillary services that go into supplying it.

What it boils down to is this: economies have 'seasons' where things grow and die on a regular cycle.  When those cycles are interrupted, alternative channels open up, just like water running downhill.  And like the water, when it is dammed up, it will build pressure behind it until the blockage breaks and a massive wall of water continues it's trek to the lowest level.  The global economy has been dammed by central bank and "elite" meddling, and the resulting decades-long pressure has built to a devastating release.  Nothing can be done to hold back the result.

The current move to ban cash can thus be seen as a desperate attempt on the part of the "elites" to defy Nature.  Their control over society has been predicated on their delusional belief that they are gods and their technologies have given them the power to control that which cannot be controlled.

Those with 'eyes to see and ears to hear' should already be moving out of the way of the inevitable rush of Nature re-balancing itself, whatever that means to the individual.  Genies cannot be put back in the bottle, so what civilization has thus far achieved will survive in some form, but the overlords of society are about to be swept away by their own egos.  Unfortunately, everyone gets wet when the dam breaks, but those in the path of the resulting wave are sure to be killed by it.

On the dark side, rough times are coming.  On the bright side, the age-old "elites" are about to be destroyed by their own hands.  How we fill the resulting power vacuum will determine the centuries to come.

Slow Death Of Medievalism

To start off today, we should address the recent news that a school district in southern Sumatera (that's in Indonesia for the geographically impaired) has initiated virginity tests for female high school students.

According to the head of the school board at the center of this controversy, he was misquoted when referring to a single incident in which a high schooler was rounded up in a prostitution sting.  He supposedly told the parents that they should get a virginity test to dispel the rumors and accusations.  However, the Kompas news service quoted him as saying this would become a school policy and that a budget allocation had been put into the 2014 school district budget.  Keep in mind that Kompas is a generally reliable news source and part of the Gramedia group of media outlets here in Indonesia.

The school board head has vehemently denied the quote as being out of context.  The national education minister was quoted yesterday as saying 'this is a really bad idea'.  It's stirred up a bunch of debate and the plan, if it ever was a plan, is not likely to be enacted.  It is true that some groups here in Indonesia still hold rather medieval notions about things like virginity, but for the most part, the general populace is enlightened enough to see that this is a really stupid idea.
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Now on to other, and much more important, subjects.

It is becoming really obvious that the global populace is being manipulated.  Folks are separating into intractable ideological camps that are becoming increasingly bellicose.  Ancient hatreds and prejudices are being fanned into blazing flames.

There is hope, though.  It seems that a great number of people have seen through the recent reports of Syrian gas attacks.  Russia has unequvicably stated that it was the Syrian 'rebels' that committed the attack as a false flag.  One also senses a growing skepticism regarding anything the Israelis say, which is a healthy response, as that country has a long history of provoking hatreds in the region to keep folks busy attacking each other and not focusing on the rampant criminality of the Israeli regime.

Over in the US, 'someone' keeps trying to stir up racial hatreds.  It seems, though, that a lot of thinking people are seeing through that effort.  The fact that the mainstream media (MSM) is losing its stranglehold on the public agenda, as shown by the cratering audience numbers, is preventing them from beating the racial war drums too loudly.

In Egypt, the CIA-installed Muslim Brotherhood has been soundly cast out by yet another/the ongoing revolution.  Obviously, the Egyptians are not as bovine as the Western intelligence organizations believe.  Most folks haven't noticed, apparently, that the current Egyptian revolution doesn't have a name or a color.  That is a prime indicator that this one is NOT a Soros funded, CIA operated effort, but rather a grass-roots, genuine house-cleaning.

In the EU, efforts to collapse national governments have also failed.  Despite everything done to the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain), the Hidden Hand just can't seem to get a good shooting war started.  This shows a remarkable restraint on the part of the people in general, and their ability to see through the gross manipulation of their cultures and societies.

Globally, efforts by the Hidden Hand to drive a wedge between regions and hemispheres are backfiring.  Instead of creating strife and chaos, the effort has caused several nations to come closer together and to establish their own system, commonly referred to as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).  The BRICS are forming mutually supportive organizations, making deep inroads into Africa and South America through investment and trade, and even seeting up their own banking system.

The response of the Hidden Hand has been to try to collapse the Asian markets and currencies.  They are doing everything they can to introduce strife and chaos into the BRICS relationships and cause social unrest across the region.

The lack of 'appropriate' response to the Hidden Hand's manipulations has them terrified.  The Rothschild/Rockefeller banking clans (RRBC) are quickly finding themselves marginalized and unable to use the same old tricks that have made them fabulously rich over the past several centuries.  Furthermore, they are at odds among themselves over how to proceed.  Increasingly, they are also under attack by rising power blocs within their own sphere of influence.  The biggest threat is coming from the rise of their own Creature - the Intelligence Bloc (IB).

To see what's happening, we have to go back to the rise of the Rotschilds.  When Napoleon and Wellington met at Waterloo, the Rotschilds had been funding both sides, with the Continental Clan funding Napoleon and the UK clan funding Wellington.  No matter who won, the Rotschild family would come out on top.  As the cherry on top, the Rotschilds had a well-oiled communications network.  The UK clan was able to find out that Wellington won a full 24 hours before the rest of the country.  So they spread the rumor that Britain had lost.  The markets cratered.  The Rotschilds bought up everything at a discount.  When the real news came, their shares rocketed, they sold at a massive profit and have sat on the world's financial system ever since.

What has happened is that the RRBC's information network has learned all the tricks and is now going independent.  The IB has supercomputers that can front-run the RRBC's front-running computers.  The IB gets the news before the RRBC and can get in the trades before the banksters can position themselves.  In other words, Frankenstein has created a Creature, and now the Created is surpassing the Creator.

The RRBC is trying to kill off its creation using people like Assange and Snowden, but the Creature, having access to the Creator's email and phone calls, is able to head off the attacks before the RRBC can get the plans going.

The only weapon the RRBC has is financial control, but the IB has created its own financial system and using its supercomputers, has made itself fabulously wealthy and beyond the control of the banksters' ancient system.

As Richard Dolan, Joseph Farrell and others have carefully documented, a completely hidden system of finance was established after WW2, using Nazi and Japanese gold.  That system was set up by the RRBC to give them a huge pile of money and derivatives that didn't appear on any financial reports or bottom lines or budgets.  They established agencies like the CIA and NSA to administer the system and keep them at the center of the loop.  However, those agencies have gone rogue and taken away the very Iron Fist that the RRBC has used gain their dominant position.

As a consequence, the world is working backwards.  Everything the RRBC does to regain power is backfiring.  Their intricate networks of communications and finance have been usurped by their own Creatures.  Their usual tricks to create chaos and capitalize on it are failing and no one will react the way they are supposed to.

Since the RRBC are a bunch of inbred, silly old geezers who have used the same game for centuries, and surrounded themselves with yes-men and sycophants, they are unable to adjust and evolve.  They are too inbred and soft from years of privilege think creatively.  They have also surrounded themselves with people who have been carefully trained to see things only one way - their way.  So, when the game changed, they found themselves completely unable to react.  They cannot think creatively and their minions are incapable of acting independently.

We should not mistake the RRBC as being powerless, though.  They are not without weapons still, and like a dead bee, can still sting.  They have been too privileged for too long and they won't give up their vaunted positions without a Big Fight.  Furthermore, their Creatures are out of control and no one yet knows on whose side they will ultimately come down.  Will they run to the defense of their Creator?  Will they slide the knife in the back of the RRBC?  And with that kind of power, will they see themselves as still part of the rest of humanity, or will we be just annoyances keeping them from their destiny?

It is a very dangerous time.  On the one side is an intractable gang of thugs who have seen themselves as Rulers of Everything for a long time.  On the other side are a great number of unknown variables that are not only powerful enough to extract themselves from the control of the RRBC, but may also be powerful enough to achieve the final enslavement of humanity - a goal long sought by the banksters who now find themselves part of the enslaved.

There is nothing more dangerous than a cornered beast, and now there are a lot of cornered beasts in the world.  With every individual on Earth under attack from multiple angles, we can assume that some will start lashing out, as there is precious little space left to run away.  Not only will societies begin to erupt, but the very power structure itself is fighting for survival.

The future is always an unknown, but in normal times, it is at least predictable to a certain extent.  These, however, are not normal times.  The power structure which has run the world for centuries is dying.  The Creature it created to serve it is now out of hand, and is completely unknown in all of history.  The rules have changed forever and as individuals, we must rethink everything we have assumed to be true all our lives.

Now is the time for creative thinking.  It is the only way to survive what is coming.  All standard reactions are off the table.  Digging in and 'prepping' won't work.  It is imperative that we think 'outside the box', but to do that, we must remember that 'the box' is all of human history.  We can no longer trust any conventional answers, since there is already a counter-measure in place.

It's not that humanity has never faced this sort of crisis before, but we have never faced it on such a global scale, nor have we faced one that is unfolding with such blazing speed.  Expect the unexpected.

The Big Chill

It appears as if we are heading into a new ice age, and that would explain a lot of things.

If you go back and look up all the mastodon and mamoth discoveries, there are an inordinate number that still had their last meal in their stomachs.  In fact, the last meals included grasses and flowers that just don't seem to make sense if the animal froze to death in its tracks.  This little fact seems to imply that the drop in temperature was so sudden as to catch animal in mid-stride.

Logic dictates that if the last ice age began gradually over centuries, decades, or even years, the animals would have moved on to warmer climes and most would have died of old age, hunting or some other malady.  But to freeze in its tracks with a last meal of summer grass and flowers in its belly?

So, why bring this up?  You may have noticed a spate of articles lately about the lingering winter and heavy snowfalls.  You may have seen the headline, "Second Coldest Start to Spring in US History."  Christopher Tyreman (interview up on Radio Far Side) has been sending us updates on the heavy flooding in his part of Canada, and he reports the worst is yet to come when the doubly heavy snowfall this winter begins to melt.  Maybe the recent blast of May snow in the US is enough to boggle the mind.

Even the globalist warmers have had to admit that global temperatures have been steady or falling the past 20 years.

Suppose we are heading for a new ice age, one that has been predicted by some faction of some 'authority' group somewhere, but for internal use only.  Suppose this group(s) found data that proved conclusively we were heading for a Great Chill similar in scope to the last one.  Suppose they knew this ice age would come on suddenly, so fast in fact that creatures would be frozen in mid-stride with their last meals in their bellies.

What would you do, assuming you had the foreknowledge and the access to money/power that let you act pretty much however you wanted?

In case you went to a school controlled by 'them', let's review some facts.  Earth is currently in the Holocene interglacial period of the Quternary ice age.  Yup, that's right, we are at the very peak of the latest ice age right now.  Global warming would be a good sign, but that's not real likely just yet.  Maybe another million years or so.  Don't believe me?  Look it up.  Now that you know that, maybe you won't be so surprised if it doesn't stop snowing for the next 10,000 or so years.

Back to our suppositions.  Suppose 'recent' events like Kerakatau in the 1800s, Mt. St. Helens in the 1980s, Fairbanks, San Francisco, Banda Ache, and Fukushima in the 1900s and 2000s have shifted Earth's spin axis just enough (fractions of a degree) to change the cooling/warming pattern that has dominated our weather for the past 10,000 years and allowed humans to expand our civilization with the extra warm period in between deep freezes.

The problem with geologic time scales is you have to think really big.  We're not just talking about a Big Picture that encompasses the last 2,000 years of human history, but events and causes that span eons; patterns that are almost beyond comprehension in our limited life spans; hundreds of times longer than all of known human history.

Now, back to our self-appointed global elite.  They obviously keep the good science and data from us.  Information is power, and they are not known for sharing.  Suppose you had information pointing the likelihood of renewed glaciation and plunging temperatures.  Suppose you knew that these things happened nearly overnight in many cases - fast enough to freeze mammoths in their tracks with their last meals still in their bellies.

Let's put ourselves in the place of this 'elite', as distasteful as it is to pretend that we are greedy, gubbing slimeballs.  How would we react?

We would probably:

• be building massive underground survival complexes;
• setting up seed banks to preserve all the food crops domesticated in the last 12,000 years;
• trying to monopolize energy sources and looking for clean, long-term solutions;
• establishing alternative currencies;
• control land and resources between 23.5 degrees North and South;
• set up polar bases to study cold-weather survival and extremophiles.

This is just a short list, but each item alone can be interpreted as an effort to survive a ice age, let alone all of them together.  The longer the list gets, the more the finger points to one group or another having inside information about and the resources to prepare for the Big Chill.

Furthermore, if we were this global bunch of thugs and we didn't want the general populace to figure out the problem and start hording all 'our' resources, what could we do?

How about create a panic over global warming?  This would keep the public mind off of things like ice ages and actually make them feel relieved if temperatures started dropping.  Basic reverse psychology on a mass scale.  And why else pursue a massive course of disinformation about global warming in the face of facts?  Well, besides placing a tax on breathing.

It is a fact that we are in the middle of a great ice age.  It is a fact that all of human history (as generally known) has occurred during the past 12,000 years during a break in the ice and snow storms.  It is a fact that the Big Chill will resume with a vengance at some point.  It is a fact that there are mass die-offs during ice ages and life explosions during the warm ages.

Humanity, and all life on Earth, would only benefit from global warming, so there is no other reason imaginable to create fear of global warming except as a psychological weapon to manipulate the masses into fearing what is not going to happen, while ignoring what really is happening.

And as for Clif High's and Courtney Brown's predictions of a global coastal event in the near future?  What happens when you put ice in a glass full of water?  The liquid rises, que no?  So if large expanses of ocean were to freeze suddenly, what would happen to the oceans?  You got it...global coastal event.

While I'm not into fear-mongering and mass panic, I do firmly believe that people should at least react to real threats, not shadowy boogie men like al-Qaeda and Chechen rebels.

The threat that is facing off against long-term human survival is the end of the Holocene period of interglaciation and the resumption of the Big Chill.

Sure makes living in Indonesia attactive, don't it?

INTERVIEW: John Perkins on Radio Far Side

Is the empire fraying around the edges?  Is the China/US rivalry just a good cop/bad cop ruse for a higher power?  Is a global transformation in the process of happening?  All this and more on this edition of Radio Far Side. 


Guest Bio:
 John Perkins’s latest book, Hoodwinked, is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. The solutions are not “return to normal” ones. Instead, John challenges us to soar to new heights, away from predatory capitalism and into an era more transformative than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. Hoodwinked details specific steps each of us can take to create a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.  

John's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent nearly a year and a half on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in more than 30 languages and has sold over a million copies worldwide, is a startling exposé of international corruption. His The Secret History of the American Empire, also a New York Times bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world's first truly global empire.  

John is founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit, has lectured at universities on four continents, and is the author of  books on indigenous cultures and transformation, including Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, Psychonavigation, Spirit of the Shuar, and The Stress-Free Habit.  

John's courage in writing these books and speaking out against his former bosses exemplifies the courage shown by our Founding Fathers and Mothers when they stood up to the British Empire. Like them, John defied threats and bribes and took action. His courage serves as an example for all of us. As he proclaims at the end of Secret History, "Now is the time for us to change the world."
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Greg Palast on John Perkins
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