End Times

A video that must be studied.  HERE   Paul is the only advocate of Austrian economics I know of and spent 12 terms in Congress attempting to thwart fiat currency, to no avail.  He gives us a final piece of advice, here.

The End Times will begin with a currency collapse that is now in the near term. The Federal Reserve has done its best to protect the banks and the Federal Government, neither of which is its directive. It no longer has any tools to shore up our debt. The American Poinzi scheme has run out of victims and we are standing around with our pants around our shoes. You know what happens when everyone wants out of a pyramid scam at the same time.

China, though it has been hoarding gold and other metals, may collapse first as it has also lived on paper money. Europe is weaker than we are, so money is coming here for protection!  The one positive factor is we can produce energy cheaply, now, but the government seeks to stop it. An indicator that our leaders desire collapse.

Somewhere in the near future is a tipping point. Is it our stupid notion to start a war in Europe? Is it our helping Sunni murderers? Will Russia, China, and India formally reject the USD?  Or,  will the subversives in America finally set off rioting so their well honed plans for occupation begin? Once there is a general feeling that investors need to get our of the dollar, we will quickly collapse and the city's will become war zones.

So, do something.  Get out of cash.

One Target of the Failed State: Gold

President Roosevelt, 1933:

''By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(B) of The Act of Oct. 6, 1917, as amended by section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, in which Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I as President, do declare that the national emergency still exists; That the continued private hoarding of gold and silver by subjects of the United States poses a grave threat to the peace, equal justice, and well-being of the United States; and that appropriate measures must be taken immediately to protect the interests of our people. ''Therefore, pursuant to the above authority, I hereby proclaim that such gold and silver holdings are prohibited,.....

“If it gets bad enough, they’ll declare a national economic emergency. 

They’ll take over the banks, all business and industry. They may even try to confiscate our gold. I served on the Gold Commission for eight or nine months while I was in Congress along with fifteen other members. 

I brought up the subject of confiscation. The power to confiscate gold is still on the books as the law of the land. I urged the full Commission to recommend Congress repeal the power to confiscate gold in an economic emergency. We pushed it to a vote and I was the only one that voted to recommend to Congress that we never again contemplate taking the gold of the American people. The fifteen other mem- bers voted it down. 

The power is still there on the books, and they can do it any time they wish.’’

–Ron Paul, discussing gold confiscation-

 Background on Gold and Confiscation (its a sales pitch)

This current gang running our turf would decide, as did Roosevelt, that owning gold is a grave threat to peace and "equal justice"....   Equal justice, sound familiar?

Caveat: 3-14-2012

NOVACANE OR CHEMOTHERAPY

An Argument for the Ron Paul counterrevolution

A long essay: take the time to read it when you are able.

So much for my goal of short pieces, but this is important

An excerpt from They Though They Were Free, The Germans From 1933 to 1945, Milton Meyer:  

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it... 

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

"Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better....

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Principiis obsta — Resist the beginnings 

Finem respice — Consider the end. 

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I titled this entry with reference to Ron Paul and what I call the counterrevolution, as we have already lost the nation to a long-term subversive revolution.  


I am not a Paulist with respect to the election game. There is a marginal chance he will be the GOP candidate, thought the year is shaping up in an interesting way, and Paul knows that. The cry of "electability" is inane; it is a cry against theory in favor of mob rule. It is a dismissal of republic in favor of democracy - the end of our nation.  


It is better the power structures realize they better adapt to the people rather than assuming the people will choose sides in the election game. They realize this by losing their own voters. Only then, do the "leaders" deign to pay attention to the masses.


Paul would be amazed if he actually won - he is leading a philosophical movement. It is important we all understand why he is doing that.


I am a Paulist with respect to the strategic push in the campaign: a cry that we had better return to the Constitution and the decentralized government. The cry is finally being understood - no one knows if it is in time. Any GOP candidate who merely cuts the government around its edges is a useful idiot who will carry us all down. 


Analogies hardly work anymore. Let us try this: your entire house is on fire, your garage is on fire and there are explosive chemicals in there. You have a choice: vote for a neighbor who insists the right thing to do is cancel you insurance or a neighbor who thinks you should move your car. Voting to move the car is a fool's vote, a Hobson's choice that is silly.


The distress over Paul's "foreign policy" is a symptom of how we have been trained to react with fear - the ultimate tool of control.  Paul says the Congress must declare war and the President act upon that direction. This is our law, but to say that is somehow "kooky." There is no legal argument offered, just a reaction found in fear - kill the enemy before they kill us, whoever you say they are.  We ignore the fact that we cannot afford anything, let along wars all over the world, because we convinced we are in a survival scenario.


Paul is perfectly happy with signing alliances with foreign friends, the correct tradition, but we are trained that the President can do what he wants. Both parties claim the authority given to the president to act under the War Powers Act is unconstitutional - both parties use it. The process of law must precede the obtaining of a desired result. Merely justifying means to reach an end is tyranny.


Of note, Paul has said the current leader of the Mosad and his predecessor do not think Israel under an existential threat.  On the other hand, our media makes a clear understanding impossible. At the same time, we are told that we need to arm (or something) to defend an Israel by having them take our money to buy our arms, as we tell them, and leftists leaders in government dislike them as the evil doers of the world.  

The Story of Your Enslavement

As a people, we are being used by the Muslims, leftists, and oligarchs. Recall a blog entry of two or three years ago where I noted the jailed "Jackal" wrote in an article the left must align itself with the Muslim terrorists for the time being. Do you see the ongoing game?


Our enemies use our presence in their lands and our blundering actions as a way to increase their power, which, in turn, result in our being told we need to ratchet up our foreign interference, without that ever being identified.  It is a vague notion of hyper-vigilance. This point-counterpoint is the history of man and, I suppose, America was not vigilant in keeping our nation a republic, so we have entered the flow of warlord history. We have a minor chance of waking up.


We are serfs being told the Muslims threaten us, so we go off on righteous crusades. This, in turn, results, as in the past, in active animosity layered on cultural and religious jingoism. The traditional war of the crusades turned into centuries of anger because of the leaders of the crusades had little to do with God.  God was for the serf to believe in as they died on the battlefields. 


Follow the spiral of reactions: the "end" is a police state and never-ending war.  We went through this with the false crusade against Russia. My proof of this is Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon. 


I just removed a section concerning Russia and the United States and the use of escalating fear on both sides to control people, history, business. Too long. As President Nixon pointed Russia's underlying goal for hundreds of hears was to create a buffer zone around itself. It did and we reacted by placing armored divisions in Europe. The Russian leaders were not communists, they were oligarchs protecting power by manipulating people's fear.


The U.S. is controlled by the "military industrial complex" as described by President Eisenhower. It is also under the control of oligarchs using leftists. (A democratic socialist Congressman recently said Obama was not a socialist, he was a neo-liberal oligarch, which is new term to me, but I understand it.) The complex fanned the fear as well. The two sides played a game of ping pong - serving fear to one another.  Of course, both sides actually took forceful and deadly actions, but those were tactics in a bigger game. 


Russia agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba, if we removed them from its border in Turkey. That was the desired result. They won and we fell into a self-congratulating prattle about staring them down. Few even know we pulled our missiles which were on the doorstep of Russia.  We assumed we were so cowboy that Russia backed down. I should mention the oligarchy relies on the media.


The use of fear continues. The Arabs use it as a cultural gesture, such as Iraq making believe they had weapons of mass destruction. This is a stupid gambit where the enemy is vastly larger and well-trained in reacting to fear.  Iraq did use gas, of course. You can't discount dictators - a major problem. 


You will notice, these days, we take seemingly insane actions against foreign nations and "terrorists" which now means anyone the government decides it does not like.  We have recently put a few troops in Australia now to defend.....?????


The founders completely understood how oligarchs take control: fear, monetary policy, and centralization. We have lost the simple understanding of the Constitution an how it protected us from all assaults. We accept imperial actions of a government that is aloof. A government that is intent on dumbing down the people and ignoring the Constitution.


I will curtail this thread, here, and merely plead that you listen to Paul and understand what he is saying. It is profound, logically consistent, and is likely our last hope. As for the election - focus on state and school board elections. This is where the counterrevolution must take place. If you motivate people to take back their school boards in an election, the other races will take care of themselves.


Over dramatic? Reread the excerpt about Nazi Germany. 

Encore

I see I have some more bogs in the queue so I will publish them. If you want to see them, you should know where to go.  I wanted to send this one out to follow up on recent information.


I recently was caught by an interview with Robert Prechter (The Elliot Wave Theorist - works on a macro scale of stock trends) who forecast a DOW under a 1000 and a general depression. I paid attention because Prechter has been pretty damn good based on his technical analysis. One of his major indicators got him motivated, as well as his new book on surviving the coming crash.  Let me bring you with me on a look at the death cross, an negative technical indicator of historical analysis.  It seems to say something, but not always.


A few economic considerations:

1. The stock market has begun a "death cross."  First, what is it:


Ropert Prechter: 

...Known as the “death cross,” investors look for a very important technical indicator to point the future for the markets.  The “death cross” is actually made up of the 50 and 200 day moving average.  When the 200 day moving average crosses above the 50 day moving average, as it soon will, the market is said to go bearish.  When the 200 day moving average is below the 50 day moving average, the market will soon rise.... 

All that means is the long term thinking is not a good place to be because the short term trades are down and have "crossed" the trend lines. This makes some innate sense. See below a useful chart.  The NYSE chart shows a very certain death cross has been executed. 

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3. Huge indicator - start to panic  Also, worries about many other factors. The cross goes to timing. 

Mr. Prechter foresees a major collapse. The market is aimed at 1,000 on the DOW, and, for fun, he includes depression and deflation. Of course, we have the old problem of what is meant by deflation.  I think, these days, the term is used to mean lowering of prices, not the original reduction of money in the circulation. In any event, for a dizzying collection of the things to come, from Prechter in 2003 see this page. I am happy to report, he sees the closing of the UN, the IMF, Fed, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. 

However, he did see Mr. Bush losing big time in the 2004 election. He predictions may have been early as the government twisted things so we can avoid the consequences of our actions, which makes the consequences greater, of course.  I don't know why Prechter wants to venture away from his Elliot Waves.  It can only hurt him. 

Anyway, Prechter has to be watched. The NYT's criticism of him was that since 1978 he lost money one year, but his denial of the was never proved!  This is not much of a criticism. 

An interview on money going to bond funds shows he thinks bonds are the biggest bubbel in history. Says good cash in good bank is defensible; he is a fan of gold and silver. He has a book out on surviving the crash (which means he would promote the possibility of one). There is a free excerpt (warning) on what can happen to pension funds. This should be read

4.  More temperate:  studies show a drop in the market many times after a death cross or "dark" cross. There have been quite a few crosses in history, the key, to me is to see if the cross remains. 


Mark Hulbert 

MARK HULBERT

July 9, 2010, 12:01 a.m. EDT · Recommend (6) · Post:  

The kiss of the death cross

Commentary: Death cross over last two decades has not been that bad an omen

...Is the death cross indeed the kiss of death for the stock market? 

You be the judge.

I fed into my PC's statistical package the Dow's daily values back to the late 1800s, when it was created. It turns out that, over the intervening 114 years, there have been 85 death crosses -- an average of one every 16 months or so.

I then measured the Dow's average gain following these death crosses over the subsequent month, quarter, six months, and year. The data appear in the table below.

Dow's average gain over subsequent...	Following a "death cross"	114-year average
Month	-0.6%	+0.5%
Quarter	0%	+1.6%
Six Months	+1.8%	+3.2%
Year	+2.4%	+6.4%

The market does tend to turn in below-average performances following death crosses; indeed, the differences in the table are significant at the 95% level that statisticians often use to determine if a pattern is genuine...

Blake LeBaron, a finance professor... says that what's happened since 1990 raises the distinct possibility that something has permanently changed in the financial markets that largely eliminated moving averages' potential as a market timing indicator...

... Prof. LeBaron speculates that moving averages might have been sabotaged by too many investors trying to follow them....

Mark Hulbert is the founder of Hulbert Financial Digest in Annandale, Va. He has been tracking the advice of more than 160 financial newsletters since 1980.

There is the possibility that the death cross is still an indicator though it is has been stepped on so much as it may not be used cleanly.


5.  Curiously, I did not stumble upon graphs of the death crosses since the 1920s.  The talk is that there is one before every major collapse. Assuming this is true, keep in mind it is not always true that a cross is followed by a collapse.  Logic is involved, here, so many people don't follow.  


In summary, holy crap, maybe!


If you a defective light fixture that sometimes works that does not mean it is not defective and will always work.  Every so often, it will flatten you or burn down your house. 


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Let me submit some video for you to consider.  Here are views from people in the trenches:


JIM ROGERS interview


PETER SCHIFF and RON PAUL interviews  -  (Notice, no teleprompter) This is like movie trailer with dramatic music and all. You don't want to see the movie.


DAVID WALKER on 60 Minutes.  Walker is head of GAO. We are toast.  By 2040 we will pay interest and some benefits.  Medicare problem is 5 times greater than Social Security. (Now, we have Obamacare). Send this to everyone on your email list. 


See you, probably sooner than later.  The Obama AG's office has issued a directive that voting fraud  cases should not be pursued this year, so vote early and often. The criminals will. 

Dr. Ron Paul on Flu

With any luck there is a short video above.

The Swine Flu killed .04% of those infected in Mexico, the hotbed of the almost pandemic, it was just recently voted by someone not to be a pandemic. No one died in the U.S., much to the consternation of the drug companies.

When do we come to understand we are being used?