Run Faster Than The Slowest Camper
The bear is out of the woods and the bull is running for cover. Forget about out running the bear, that is never going to happen. I will tell you why in a second.
All you really need to do is run faster than the slowest camper.
96 years ago, December 23, Woodrow Wilson used four gold pens to sign the Federal Reserve Act into law. This act is arguably the most destructive and harmful law enacted by a United States President up to that time.
The Federal Reserve Act allowed the inflationary bubbles that created the snowball of debt that currently engulfs us today. Nothing is at all mysterious about inflation;
inflation is government intervention pure and simple.
This proves the lie of the myth that regulators actually regulate rather than serve the interests of corporate beneficiaries. Debasing money is an old trick of governments going back at least as far as Biblical times.
15And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.
21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Genesis 47
What happened in Egypt is that the grain harvest was deposited into the secure government storage facility. The government then issued script (money) against the grain reserves.
When the government wanted to spend more than they could back up with grain reserves, they just went ahead and printed up more script anyway betting on ever increasing harvests to make the script good. Of course, with crop failures not only was the inflated script no good, in that it never had backing, but the original script could not be redeemed for grain either because there was none.
Fiscal policy cannot stimulate the economy.
The government has no money of its own.
It has only the power to tax and spend the money of others.
Financial collapse and food collapse have proven to be the consistent downfall of empires throughout human history. I write about the food collapse a little bit further down but first I want to touch upon the evidence of the advanced fear the government exhibits toward the governed.
Of course, since war has been declared upon United States citizens with the War On Drugs that allows the United States government to set new international records in the both the percentage of the population and total numbers of citizens that have been sent to prison by their own government.
The few shreds of the Bill of Rights remaining after the War On Drugs have now been completely obliterated by the subsequent War On Terrorism. The government appears so on edge that any excuse seems provocation enough to justify A Visit And Subpoena From Homeland Security.
The U.S. government fears and wages war upon the U.S. governed for reasons similar to why the Israeli government fears and wages war upon the Palestinians. Neither government would expect anyone to sit still for the wholesale fraud and abuse they dish out for very long.
They wish to avoid judgment and the consequences of their actions, also spelled out in the Bible.
1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten.
3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
5Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
James 5
When the wealthy cheat farmers out of what the farmer is due the financial system tanks regardless of the unjust wars the wealthy wage.
This truth from Biblical times held up as a key point concerning the Fall of the Roman Empire and still holds true today. Truth seems to endure even if empires do not.
Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’:
the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
Despite appearances, we are not merely revisiting old mistakes. Our very way of life has been transformed into dependency upon an unsustainable system now running out of resources.
Die-off is a bottom-up phenomena affecting the lowest rungs of the human socioeconomic ladder first. This is already happening at a scale that is increasingly impossible to ignore.
Spiritual Leaders, scientists, climatologists, anthropologists and leading researchers unsuccessfully try to convince humanity that our self-destructive path is the true root cause of the collapse.
Prepare now.
Prepare now by becoming productive in your own name. Prepare now by connecting with people who appreciate your products.
Those who cannot connect with a personal fan base will be without the opportunity to sell their products directly. Lacking that opportunity, the only recourse will be self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
A lonely path at best.
No More Pretending
Delusional hope produces nothing of value. Throughout my life I have sought to see things as they are. The past few months have provided me the opportunity to ponder current events against the tapestry of history.
“We have destroyed the Holocene biosphere, and it can never be rebuilt. We have inadvertently terraformed Earth into a different planet. This act cannot be undone; it is thermodynamically irreversible.” Desdemona
I leave it to climate change deniers to explain the recent wholesale collapse of fisheries with the increase in both reef and oceanic dead zones, the desertification of the world’s most productive land and the rapid transition from forest to desert by mega-fires.
The once frozen “methane bomb” has already gone off. The Arctic permafrost is already melting.
Large areas of Earth are becoming uninhabitable to mammals and their food plants. Most charismatic megafauna, such as elephants, rhinos and whales, will become extinct in a few decades. It is entirely likely that humans will follow them into oblivion.
For sure, this will be a bumpy road to total collapse and a few will manage to arrive in luxury SUVs. The rest of us, the vast majority, will see family and friends fall as we circle the drain together.
There are still resources that could be directed towards easing the necessary scaling back of empire and civilization as we know it. Scaling back in and of itself would help a great deal, perhaps forestalling human extinction as we adapt to an Earth that every day becomes more like Mars.
While President Obama takes on the ‘fat cat’ bankers the underlying collapse of the United State financial industry has yet to be addressed. The root problem is an excessive level of debt in the system at all levels, a level of debt that exceeds capacity to pay.
The problem in a nutshell – the banks are still hiding losses – big losses. Very little of the debt securitized by the housing bubble has been written off or yet foreclosed upon.
Loans are not being made to small business people because they have no collateral to pledge. Being asked to pledge personal assets as collateral for a small business loan is standard operating procedure.
With most homes underwater, most small businesspeople have no assets to pledge as collateral. Debt problems go beyond the largest banks.
China bought zero U.S. Treasury debt in October. Now foreigners have become net sellers of U.S. Treasury debt instruments.
The problems began when raw materials producers stopped receiving parity pricing and needed to borrow in able to start a new round of production. A principle method of under-paying, paying less than parity, appears in the form of paying in debased money.
Meanwhile, here we are, nearly a year under a new administration. For feds, more get 6-figure salaries, in an attempt to keep up with debasement of U.S. money.
Seduced And Abandoned
Both Democrats and Republicans demonstrate a history of saying whatever seems required to become elected, seduce the electorate, and upon election conveniently explaining away or otherwise abandoning their earlier promises.
Everyone seems to condemn this behavior between individuals. The victims often appear unable to disengage on their own initiative. If fortunate, their family and/or friends provide counseling and intervention to help end these cycles of abuse.
Yet society as a whole suffers serial victimizations by these two mainstream political parties. Ever since the Reagan Administration identified government as the problem the resulting orgy of deregulation and bureaucratic bloating continues unabated from one election to the next.
Some wish to call them incompetent idiots. Others wish to call them lying frauds. I suggest we make peace and call them incompetent lying idiot frauds.
The system they destroy also provides all the wealth and power expended in the destruction. Literally self-destruction. It seems an entire spectrum of pathologies plague our financialized government.
Narcissism
Borderline Personality Disorder
Characteropathy
Sociopathy
Psychopathy
Witness the unnecessary pain, suffering and death. Unnecessary because it results from a financial services industry that compounds debt exponentially inevitably demands more wealth than the total sum of raw materials entering the economy.
Unnecessary because the government fails to enforce the Prompt Corrective Action Law and administers regulation in the interest of the financial services industry contrary to the interests of citizens.
This occurs simultaneously with a prison industry growing faster than it can expand, militarization of local police forces, the historic first ever active deployment of U.S. Armed Forces within the United States of America, de facto nullification of the Bill of Rights and an overall heightening of domestic security.
I hope you are debt free and likewise free from any form of wage slavery. At least that can give you a running start.
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