Monday, June 23, 2014

MiLords Might Have A Plan


I have flirted with the idea that MiLords are stupid, that they have lost control of the game and are fighting a rear guard action while they consolidate enormous amounts of wealth and plan their getaway.  Today I would like to explore the notion of what it might mean to assume that they do hear the waterfall ahead and do have plans for them, and for us, and for the world.  What then might those plans look like?

   1.       Keep China and Russia in check for a little while longer.  Make it extremely painful for them to collapse the dollar.  Keep feeding them cheap silver and cheap gold by continuing to manipulate the futures markets.  Threaten, cajole, lie… do whatever it takes to keep them from pulling the plug.  The die is cast.  The end of dollar supremacy is at hand.  But delay is important to MiLords.

   2.       Structure the collapse to be as orderly as possible (lean toward Jubilee and away from Armageddon).  Restructure retirement funds to be entirely supported by “New Treasuries” (let’s call them Patriot Bonds) defined as domestic debt, not for resale in the international market (it is better to forbid their sale than it is to demonstrate that they are unsalable).  Convert all domestic investor held treasuries to Patriot Bonds, effectively devaluing them.  Allow the market to re-price existing international Treasuries to a value that can be serviced (let’s call it 25 cents on the dollar).  Legislate that municipalities and other government bodies can convert their debt into Patriot Bonds.  It is mathematically impossible for the accumulated debt to be serviced without such a reset.  It will happen.  It must happen.

   3.       Continue to protect banks at all cost even at the expense of the American people.  Package “bail-ins” to be patriotic necessities (a bail-in is a form of legislated thievery that shifts the cost of a bail-out to depositors).

   4.       Keep a lid on the American political process.  Continue to buy votes and tout patriotic themes that lull the population into thinking they are being loyal Americans to docilely accept the rape of the middle class.

   5.       Maintain law and order.  Strike that.  Maintain order.  The laws to do so are already in place.  Bullets have been bought up, prison camps built, military contingency plans filed for suppressing dissent, etc.

   6.       Vilify hoarders.  Brand people who buy gold and silver as traitors.  Not allowing all gold and silver to flow to China has hastened the day when the dollar falls.  Bankers who sold, hypothecated, re-hypothecated or leased all the gold in Fort Knox a hundred times over are heroes.  It is to their credit that we have enjoyed 50 years of unparalleled prosperity.  What they did was technically illegal but they acted at the behest of all our wonderful Presidents who know best.

   7.       Ration food as necessary.  Brand people who garden and sell produce as greedy selfish profiteers who do not know the meaning of sharing.
 
   8.       Raise the minimum wage in order to allow for necessary cuts in social programs like food Stamps.

   9.       Promote “Made in America” campaigns and make a big fuss about revitalizing the manufacturing sector that was sacrificed for short term profits.

   10.   Impose travel restrictions to keep spending abroad down.  Strike that.  The dollar will be worth almost nothing abroad.  Only the uber rich will consider international travel.

It is still possible that MiLords will lose control of the process.  They may have to retreat to their well appointed bunkers.  China might not cooperate.  Russia may get restless.  India may get hungry.  

More importantly America could wake up and stop believing the lies.  Truth about the difference between real money and debt based fiat paper could emerge.  The realization that we are not a country of law, but an Oligarchy under the control of MiLords could dawn.  Complacency could be replaced by alarm and indignation.  The radical right and the radical left could merge under the banner of true freedom (not the kind we fight and die for so that Haliburton can make big profits).

To that end I invite you to consider thinking of yourself as a human participant in AGREE.  Above Ground Resistance, Enlightenment and Empowerment.  No membership.  No dues.  No website.  No movement.  No secrecy.  No manifesto.  Think of it as oxygen that fuels a burning desire for freedom.  Think of it as a way of moving forward.   Identify with other individual molecules of oxygen by simply saying:

I AGREE.

Friday, May 30, 2014

Why I Pray That I Am Dead Wrong

I firmly believe that the Ponzi Scheme known as the Federal Reserve system is close to being exposed for what it is.  If true, this will bring down a system that has served MiLords* very well for just over a century, and the resulting chaos will impact the world economy in profoundly negative ways.  I want to go on record again that I hope I am wrong and more explicitly state why I hope I am wrong.

  1. I am drawing Social Security payments.  During a time of hyper-inflation these payments cannot possibly keep pace.  Printing more and more money will not solve a problem that money printing caused.  Even if the government had the will and means to adjust payments on the fly, economies that experience hyper-inflation do so daily and my check is monthly.
 
  2.   My network (family and extended family) is made up of what could be called the shrinking middle class.  That is to say that there is wealth in real estate, business investments, stock port folios and the like.  In a collapsed economy these props will diminish in value, perhaps by as much as 90%.  In a collapsed economy my long distance family network will be replaced by local farmers, friends who can make things, neighbors who can fix things, etc.  My garden is producing more each year but I am not self sufficient.  My safety net will pretty much evaporate.

  3. I enjoy the peace.  The stupid wars we wage, executed by the Deep State on behalf of MiLords, (Haliburton, Cargill, Goldman Sachs and the like) are far away now.  Violence fueled by food shortages, currency debasement, fear of the future, medicine shortages, etc. will be dangerously close and will upset my life.  I don’t want it to be that way.  I don’t want to be right.

  4. My opportunity to travel to places I love like Kenya, Botswana and Bangladesh will be curtailed.  Even if flights are available tickets will need to be paid for in some way.  Gold?  Silver coin?  And then money for buying food and lodging will be needed on the other end.  Carrying silver coin will not be safe.  And using up silver coin for pleasure travel will likely seem frivolous in light of the need to buy food for my family and friends.

  5. And last but not least I am afraid that the next system will not be transformative.  As I look around at the apathy that prevails, I am not optimistic about people rising up and saying, “Never Again!”  It is likely that a very large portion of the population will simply accept the new lies.  “It is because of gold hoarders that the currency failed.”  “We need to crack down on socialists who are trying to steal your wealth and give it to lazy tax dodgers.” “Privacy is not a priority when there are economic terrorists in our midst.”  “Fort Knox is empty because of patriots who used the gold to preserve our currency (banks?)and our standard of living.”  Are you ready for the really big lie?  “Those bankers who used our gold to preserve our way of life are heroes, not criminals guilty of treason.  They did not sell us down the river to China.  They fought a valiant rear guard action against insurmountable odds.”

This is a list of 5 reason why I hope I am wrong.  Change number 5 from expediency to revolution, from chaos to Jubilee, from a pathetic and apathetic response to one of affirmation of our humanity... then I would gladly suffer the costs of 1 through 4. If I thought that we would rise up and demand justice that repudiates the obscene wealth of MiLords and holds accountable the minions of the Deep State for their treachery, I would tighten my belt, share my garden and smile with deepest gratitude to be a part of something honorable. Allow the Deep State to redefine their control on their terms?  Never.

I have written before that I do not espouse a violent revolution.  But without a peaceful transformation from the Deep State orchestrated by MiLords to a reinstatement of a more humanizing Social Contract , I see no way to avoid bloodshed short of abject subjugation.

We can submit or we can resist.  But we cannot resist effectively without knowing.  Our ignorance of the “what is,” our present sorry condition, will be our undoing.

* MiLords are defined and mentioned in several Blog entries including MiLords Are Not United and Are MiLords Stupid? among others.