#0: The Entire Economic System Is One Big Illusion: Charles Hugh Smith

The Entire Economic System Is One Big Illusion: Charles Hugh Smith 

We did feature one of his papers here.
 
Sometimes (it is rare) one stumbles upon one of these conversations on YouTube or elsewhere and one realizes that someone has come to the same conclusions as you have. This is the case with Charles Hugh Smith in his conversation with Dave at X22 Spotlight. Smith said that he looked at cryptocurrencies as the answer. Well, he was close, and if I had further private conversations, we could probably come to some startling agreements. And no, except for something I posted here a few years back, all I heard from him was this conversation, though I have heard of him before. I haven't yet poured through his blog yet to see what's there. All I did was sample his bio and a few remarks he'd made concerning recent events and the state of the system, THEIR system. I'm sure he's busy, but this is a request that he contact me any way he can as soon as he possibly can.

#0: Bitcoin CIA Connection

This video is still up from 2013. At this point the little experiment known as bitcoin is going to be absorbed by the central bankers. But as we've said all along, bitcoin is nothing more than an artificial commodity pretending to be money. It doesn't fit our definition and is open to speculation. At the very end of this video, the narrator mentions zero sum (a game theory term) in an accounting connection. It doesn't make the connection legitimate. Just because some college professor with more prestige than his brains would warrant decides to use a fraudulent analogy from a questionable source attempting to seem “up to date” does not make it either useful or correct. Game theory is part of deliberate public opinion manipulation technologies by those who view humanity as “the masses” and support the ideology that would like more of us dead so that THEIR view of themselves and the world could continue as “sustainable,” etc. They only care about their own power and keeping it. If bitcoin helps THEM to do that, so much the better. 

This article came out in 2014 (on a dubious -looks good but that's all it is website) that attempts to claim that of course no one but good honest people intended bitcoin to represent an improvement over the present monetary system. I'm yelling bullshit at the top of my lungs. That goes for any and ALL so called electronic crypto-currencies being promoted these days; they are all the same, they are all commodities, their “backing” is as big a confidence SCAM as anything tried on the public so far. These people have no idea what money is and must be in order to function down the line a few hundred years. People these days assume everything is going to get more technical and more technical, etc. when as a matter of fact the diminishing returns to scale law and all its analogies are still part of nature and tend to check the hubris of the more arrogant to prove their claims false. We continue to imagine a life with an internet when that is placing far too much confidence on just another complicated system that must be preserved or else.  

Here is another video from 2013 describing the problems with bitcoin.

There is much more. What we have said since the beginning when we began looking at this and other attempts to solve the age old problems with money, is that bitcoin and all the others were nothing but one commodity pricing another commodity and that is NO improvement. 

Riegel's (and Kitson's) solution was better, a money that is issued by us, that does not need to be paid back, that bears no interest, that lets everyone have a fresh start, that is PRIVATE, that uses a single ledger (an important detail that will certainly get more attention) and is designed from the start not to have some of the drawbacks of other alternatives to the present “public” money. 

In the meantime, those with more cash than they know what to do with are suffering from something called an ism, an itch, an irritation; specifically they have more money than they would like to see doing nothing so they want to use a little capitalism (making money on money without work) to get even more of it. Let me ask you something. Why do you want or need more? I'll give you a few answers: 1) because taxation is theft (as some say) and one has to run ahead of the wolves or they will eat away at your wealth (note the understanding discrepancy we've noted often that wealth must be more than mere stuff) and 2) because you need a certain amount of cash to keep the business machine that generated the income running. Now, that business represents real wealth since it is cranking in an income (minus expenses is profit). The profit is what one lives on so it is necessary to be able to make the reward of business not only to keep that business going but to live from the operation; to make the whole business worth while. 

Finally and again, people are looking for ready made off the shelf solutions because by and large the present chaos of things 1) continually distracts from what's really important and 2) people who are working are kept so busy that they have little time to even consider anything else and they can't imagine that something so relatively simple a concept as money (it has been made more complicated entirely due to the people running it for their own purposes -to stay in control) could and should be in their control. It is a matter of universal conditioning. It is necessary to break that conditioning, to admit that you know little or nothing, to question everything, etc. just as I had to do, in order to see anything else. This solution is NOT ready made. It is more like a do it yourself kit and assembly IS required. But more than any tokens, accounting systems, computer hardware, etc. this solution takes real people doing real work for each other in order to have their own solution. We'll have more to say about creative uses for the proposed Valuns and how to build an economy from the ground up, grass roots, person to person, eye to eye contact, etc. and what recent insights have come from some recent discussions. 

And here's a brief video -turn the sound off it's obnoxious- and just read what it says.  I defy anyone to prove the allegations wrong.  In fact no one can prove anything about bitcoin one way or another because it is THEIR system not yours or mine.  That's elementary and without that basic understanding, knowing the difference between what's really yours and what isn't, there's ... little maturity worth considering.   

#0: Central Bankers Transition Into The Next Currency Is Almost Complete

Central Bankers Transition Into The Next Currency Is Almost Complete

#0: David Icke - Enemy at the Gates

 David Icke - Enemy at the Gates

 

Slightly before 1 hr 21 min into this podcast on all recordings I checked, Icke discusses questions for economists and his questions are interrupted by audio noise..

#0: David Icke SPECIAL LECTURE 2016 Awareness

David Icke SPECIAL LECTURE 2016 Awareness

#0: Road to Roota - Planned Financial Collapse to Likely Occur This Fall

Road to Roota - Planned Financial Collapse to Likely Occur This Fall

Bix Weir is interviewed by Jeff Berwick of The Dollar Vigilante. This is posted here as current news. They are competent to get the news, they know lots of the underlying details that most of the public does not know, but these people are clueless when it comes to solutions. They fail to see and understand what is obvious and right in front of everyone and is absolutely essential not to miss; NONE of the existing money out there is OURS since we did not issue it, (and please don't fall for the crap that some “trusted organization” does it for us, so we still issue it. That's like consenting to things we never consented to, etc. it's bullshit!). Using THEIR money is not according to any existing contract except those used to FORCE people into doing what they would otherwise never agree to do. We accept that ALL government is essentially “brain washing” and used to FORCE an “enlightened” social order onto people which is NOT natural and NOT freely chosen by any of the people as everyman (or everywoman).

Notice they discuss bitcoin (known now to be a “project” by perhaps the CIA with the blessing of the central bankers, who intend on taking it over) exactly as if it were a “buy and hold” securities asset. All bitcoin (and all the rest) are nothing but artificial commodities and ALL COMMODITIES ARE SUITABLE VEHICLES FOR ORGANIZED SPECULATION. I put the ORGANIZED in there as what we do when we go somewhere is make our own speculations on the relative value of this or that compared with the money we have allocated to spend. But that doesn't mean we want what we measure with to also be subject to speculation, that's ridiculous, but that's what we have.

A scarce commodity is not what money is or even should be and of course it isn't OURS since we did not and will not ever issue any of it. Weir and Berwick discuss precious metals somewhat but only tangentially grasp that there are points easily reached where pieces of these metals literally will not be traded away, so they aren't money at all, they're scarce resources used as tokens of exchange by FORCE of merchants and governments, NOT as the LYING “Austrians” continually claim, as if chosen by nature for the purpose.

Listen to these guys float all these “solutions” which are also beside the point. Bitcoin for instance is exactly like any other commodity posing as money, and exactly as silver or gold. Listen to this guy rap about paper money backed by commodities. They haven't a clue. Listen people. I'm not joking, this right here is the only workable solution. We can base a monetary unit on THEIR money until THEIR money is no more. We do NOT even or ever need concern ourselves with how much of OUR money is issued or destroyed.

Notice that Bix Weir eventually gets around to discussing capitalism, and he makes a statement I've heard from more socialists about socialism, “the world has not yet experienced true capitalism.” Yes it has Bix and you don't see it either. Capitalism is an ism with capital as socialism is an ism with society, irritants, itches, pseudo causes invented by others (the same people essentially) to function as a power dialectic (evil twin sisters) to enrich themselves. Capitalism is making money on money without work called “investments” by those that practice it. Lured by having purchasing power without effort, whole gifted societies were driven away from productive and satisfying real needs with real work, all of which could be for the most part “sustainable” (cough, vomit) solutions. Savings and wealth building are essential (you can't build wealth without savings and wealth does not exist without producing income). Capitalism since it is built on usury, eventually devours its own, as it has been doing all along and is doing right now even as it implodes. Anyone who fails to see this reality is tactically blind and cannot help anyone else forward. Tactical blindness exists in many areas as people fail to see the obvious; you cannot use solutions that are incorrect, based on fraud, or very simply weren't and aren't even yours to begin with.

Free enterprise is the goal, not capitalism. The two are not the same. One is nature itself and the other is impeded nature. If you don't get it, just admit your brainwashing and begin to learn other ways of seeing things. This blog and the resources linked to it can certainly help.

Bix talks about allocating money to people, but Bix, NOBODY has the authority and cannot be trusted to disperse some “state” money with “fairness” and you can't decide that by democratic vote either. It has to be by free enterprise and that means people getting together and OWNING something that will ensure that OUR FIAT is known, understood and respected.

Let the truth bombs fall too. Before you can wake up you have to admit that you were asleep. You have to admit that for the most part your schools and societies helped continue your slumber. It is the time of revealing, of uncovering what was hidden, of the truth to come out, of exposing the evil, the corrupt and the enemies of humanity for all to see. Then, let nature take its course. Bix and Jeff certainly discuss this too. Meanwhile, it's time for more of us to take our own courses.

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#0: The Central Banks Agenda For The World Is Much Darker & Devious

The Central Banks Agenda For The World Is Much Darker & Devious: Louis Cammarosano

We're listening to these men discuss these matters as though we are outsiders. We accept something that they do not; we understand that ALL of THEIR money is THEIR money and that they are buying equities completely underscores our contention that “public” corporations are THEIR creatures too. Dave has identified the cancer, the increasing debt to revenue ratio. So who owns everything? If few own then economies, societies, civilizations die. We are already on the slippery slope back to times when life for the vast majority was “nasty, brutish and short.” Meanwhile those with plenty of THEIR money are buying equities and doing what we've already identified as entirely due to people having the worng perspective on wealth. Where's the income? It's going into economic black holes. We said that capitalism and socialism were the evil twin sisters. Capitalism is making money on money without work. Socialism is required else there is social revolution. Finally Louis describes the probable future and it's already fake right now and getting more fake. The media, the governments and the central banks are ALL discredited as unreliable and NOT authoritative. THEY do NOT work for US. We have been fooled by THEM since forever. 

Notice the physical metals as actual trade being talked about and the pleas to buy mining stock, etc. Notice that none of the wealth is tied to income. Notice that all they have working for them is inflation. And we see where that ends as in Venezuela. Whether it rains money or there's a drought, it's still all THEIR money. Listen to what Louis says about the distinction between markets and economies. Listen to Dave mention that all further government spending is accomplishing nothing. Expect negative growth as long as there is this much debt and you never allow real natural market forces to operate, such that most of these companies would be broke and broken down into smaller sized units that would be far more profitable. There's a lot of fairly good info here about the present system for all to see.

Dave asks whether there is in fact no hope? Listen to Louis's reply. He's describing what's happening. They do adapt but because THEIR system is designed to perform the way it does, it eventually breaks.