07-13-2024, 10:02 PM
Economies of the West Are Spiraling Abysmally
By Helena Glass
July 11, 2024
The US Dollar is the tenth strongest currency in the world … despite having the largest economy by GDP in the world. The top three currencies are Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. Eight African Colonies of France were required to trade in the French Franc creating an artificial strength in currency valuation. In 2021, the Euro was valued at 1.234, today the value has dropped to 1.083 a drop of 12.25%. Good for exports, bad for imports. When imports drop, cost of goods rises as demand is forcibly squeezed higher. Higher demand = inflation. In 2023, the EU’s international imports dropped from 40% to -20%…simultaneously exports dropped from 20% to zero. A double-Dip Inflation.
Nothing to do with employment – and everything to do with the antagonized ritual of ‘interest rate manipulations’. A communist tactic to destroy economies. If the EU goes full Communist in the fashion of Bolshevism, their next move would be to follow in the footsteps of Stalin and force a campaign of starvation. Exterminating livestock and crops. A famine to eradicate opposition.
When western agencies across the EU and US exterminate cows, chickens, and pigs – they do so under the same Bolshevik playbook. When they set fire to crops and industrial plants – they do so under the doctrine of Kabbalah superiority – those not born Jew and who later convert are still ‘gentiles’ and unworthy of the Chosen Protocol because they are not of the ‘seed’. ~ Rabbi Lieberman.
Alvin Goldstein is considered the man who normalized hard core porn. Israel wants to legalize pedophilia: The age of consent in Israel is 16 for all genders but can be as low as 14 provided both parties consent and have a 3-year age gap or less. In the US, Alan Dershowitz is vying to reduce the age of legal consent to 14 years old. Why? The most obvious answer would be that he has partaken of those age 14 and needs a law to justify and legalize his pedophilia before it becomes a criminal charge.
It has been researched that this slide into depravity has been linked to the Fall of Rome. Pompeii – in profusion. In psychology, victimhood is a cognitive distortion of the real world. But Zions use collective victimhood as a tool. Instead of working through it – they use it as a justification for committing evil actions. And within that victimhood they create a state of depravity. Of course, the fact that the Zionists refuse to acknowledge their mass genocide of over 60 million Russians during the reign of Jewish Bolsheviks, rather refutes the entire hypnosis.
While the parlay is that immorality, aka porn and pedophilia, are a lucrative business industry, and Israel is promoting itself as the global capital of this activity, Israel wants a bigger piece of this ‘lucrative pie’. Building a playground on the Gaza Strip, or in Ukraine, could enhance their monopoly over this ‘industry’. As we are continually reminded – follow the money.
Israel’s economy slumped nearly 20% by the end of 2023. Private consumption dropped 27%, fixed investments fell nearly 70%, – yet their stock market is relatively stable. How is that possible? Short answer – it isn’t. According to CNN, their market collapsed and is now higher than before the October 7th attack. Why? Buying on the lows? Or are they buying into Israel’s new land grabs?
Bill Ackman and his wife Neri Oxman have been buying up TASE – Tel Aviv’s stock market. He now owns 5% of the exchange. Bill Ackman is a hedge fund manager who is worth roughly $10 billion. He has a history of market manipulation in the US and an acrimonious relationship with Carl Icahn. He has worked diligently to fire and demonize anyone who is anti-war/pro-Palestine and been called out as the new McCarthy. Like most in the billionaire Club, Ackman donates to various philanthropies, including his own Foundation. He has endorsed Trump.
The Ackman investment would also indicate that the war against Palestine is coming to its grand finale – and warring against Lebanon or Iran is NOT likely. The war has already cost Israel in the neighborhood of $70 billion and rebuilding is going to cost roughly $500 billion. I imagine Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street will lead the rebuild project while our DoD siphons social security funds to Israel as well.
“Until all objectives have been achieved”, is Israel’s version of a peace deal. And the UN is silent.
NATO is meeting in New York and Zelenskyy is asking for submarines. Powell has declared inflation is flat, despite my food prices rising 20% this last month, and the job market is soft – as in people will start losing their homes to bankruptcy. Despite this flattened economy, Powell says he wants inflation at 2% before he’ll make any move, which is where it was during Trump’s term – coincidence? Manipulation?
The US economy is slowing rapidly and risks a recession again as corrupt monetary policy and false statistics present a better economy than reality. The trade deficit has increased reflecting less exports. Of course, given it is an election year we can expect some rather rattled version of our economy being promoted by in sync media puppetry. utilizing the stock market as emphasis to define Biden’s greatness.
But the stock market is a three tiered Ponzi scam within the vectors of BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, all holding the same stocks and trading within each other. The middle class peons who don’t have the resources to be a part of The Club, and clearly see the reality. But we no longer have any say in the matter. While a Biden/Cackle White House would truly push the US into a spiraling depression – a Trump presidency will likely see a Corporate Takeover… with Israel front and center.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_a...abysmally/
Preparing for Coming Shortages
By Doug Casey
July 11, 2024
International Man: Inflation has recently hit its highest levels since the 1970s as governments worldwide are debasing their fiat currencies at breakneck speed. The cost of living is soaring, and it’s likely to worsen.
In this environment, it is typical for opportunists in government to implement price controls as a misguided solution.
Do you think we’ll see them soon?
Doug Casey: Government never controls itself. It only attempts to control its subjects. I expect the rest of this decade will resemble the 1970s as far as retail price rises are concerned, but it will be much more serious. As a result, the chances of wage and price controls are high.
We need to only look at the actions of Richard Nixon, who often put himself forward as being pro-business and pro-capital. In 1971, he put on very strict wage and price controls. But wage and price controls didn’t begin and they certainly won’t end with Nixon. The idea that government should control its subjects is part of the national DNA. As the Baby Bush put it in 2008, “sometimes you have to abandon free-market principles to save the free-market system.” His statement reminds me of the famous quote from the Vietnam era: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
The government’s share of the economy is much larger now than it was in Nixon’s day. And the people in government are much more left-wing than they were during the Nixon regime 50 years ago. If the Democrats are reelected in November—which I expect, despite Trump’s current lead—you can expect them to further centralize power towards Washington.
Government, as an institution, is congenitally incapable of learning anything. The first example of wage and price controls was under the emperor Diocletian in late Third Century Rome, when he attempted to regulate the price of every good and service, from the largest to the smallest. It turned the Empire into a veritable police state.
I expect the US government to again use price controls in an attempt to disguise the effects of its accelerating debasement of the currency. Trillions of dollars of new debt are being monetized by the Fed every year; the result will be escalating prices. It’s perverse because, in a free market economy, prices would be dropping every year with the growth of capital and improvements in technology.
In any event, as things start falling apart and the standard of living starts dropping, people will cry out for government to “do something.” And it will. They think the government is a cornucopia when it’s actually a predator. War, a unique specialty of government, will be another major impetus for imposing wage and price controls.
We had wage and price controls during World War I and very serious wage and price controls during World War II. They were selectively reimposed for the Korean conflict and, of course, when Nixon was in office during the Vietnam War. With World War III brewing, wage and price controls will definitely be part of the agenda.
International Man: What are some recent historical examples of price controls?
Do you see any parallels with what is happening today?
Doug Casey: As governments found during the days of Diocletian, you can’t control absolutely everything—even when the economy is simple and primitive. But it’s impossible with millions of inputs and billions of transactions daily. Entirely apart from being both destructive and immoral.
Input costs inevitably rise, and retail prices have to reflect that. It becomes physically impossible to produce the goods when costs exceed the sales price. Producers fail if they try to both produce and obey the laws. You arrive at a situation where you can legally have all of “product X” that you want at Y price—except that none exists. During the Nixon controls, we had critical shortages of gasoline because the Arabs raised the price of their oil—due to a depreciating dollar—but US refiners couldn’t raise the price of gasoline.
The average guy won’t blame the government for shortages and a drop in his standard of living. If he’s paying more for beef, he’s going to blame the butcher. If he’s paying more for gasoline, he’s going to blame Exxon. He’s not going to blame the actual source of the problem, the government, because it isn’t selling products and claims they’re fighting inflation by penalizing the evil and greedy producers.
One of the additional dangers of wage and price controls is that more than ever, people will hate the producers who sell them goods. They will go to the government, asking for price controls, which they think is a solution. The result will be black markets, where producers avoid price controls by selling things illegally under the counter for economic prices.
I hasten to say there’s nothing wrong with black markets. Black markets are actually free markets. Black markets are both good and necessary to avoid the negative effects of government intervention. The result will be more discord and social unrest as people blame each other for higher prices, with some ratting out others to the authorities.
International Man: What are some other dangers of price controls?
Doug Casey: Foreign exchange controls, blocked currencies, and domestic wage and price controls are consequences of fiat money creation. After all, the dollar, like everything else, has a price.
Governments usually try to control the price of their fiat currency against other currencies. The result is always massive corruption as people attempt to avoid these controls to preserve their capital.
South Africa is a great example. White people who want to abandon that sinking ship find it very hard and expensive to get their money out of the country. If they can emigrate, it’s likely as paupers.
Capital controls in most countries are highly likely as major parts of the world try to get out of both their local fiat and the dollar in order to use alternatives. Those alternatives may even be Russian rubles or Chinese yuan, although I doubt it. I think most of the world will go to gold or Bitcoin in the face of US foreign exchange controls. The yuan, the ruble, the Euro, the Yen, and the Pound are, if anything, even less trustworthy, and they’re certainly less liquid than the dollar.
China has foreign exchange controls limiting the amount of money that citizens can take out of the country. Whenever and wherever that happens, however, citizens redouble their efforts to get money out of a country. The same is true in Argentina, where the government has attempted to control the diminishing value of the peso, not by slowing the printing press but by enforcing foreign exchange controls. Of course, they haven’t worked; they’ve just lowered the standard of living and made Argentine’s lives miserable for the last 70 years. But Argentina is changing under Milei…
International Man: If shortages are such an obvious outcome of price controls, why do governments keep implementing them as a solution?
What should really be done to address the root of the problem?
Doug Casey: It’s really not an intellectual problem, it’s a psychological problem. Governments sometimes put on these controls out of ignorance. They’re usually not well-educated in economics. And oftentimes they’re dogmatic socialists, Marxists, or Keynsians who’ve been taught 2+2=5.
But in most cases, it’s because they really want to control the population. The people in governments are usually much more interested in control and lining their own pockets than they are in general prosperity.
Capital controls make it much easier for insiders to become wealthy since they have access to buying whatever currency they need from the central bank at a fixed price as opposed to the actual market price.
These people—Keynsians and socialists– think the economy is like a factory where all they have to do is push a button or tighten a screw to make it hum along like it should. But it’s not like a factory or a machine. The economy is more like a rainforest, where if you wipe out some elements and control or poison some part of it, you can wind up killing the whole rainforest. Economies are naturally self-regulating systems. Government intervention never helps and can wind up destroying the whole ecosystem.
So, what should be done to eliminate the root of the problem?
Inflation is 100% caused by government, its central bank, and printing money. Inflation is the result of fiat currencies that are created out of nothing and backed by nothing. This is why I’ve been an anarcho-capitalist for most of my life. Government actually serves very little useful purpose. Since it’s, in effect, legalized coercion, it should only be used to protect you from coercion. It shouldn’t be used to interfere in commercial transactions between citizens.
International Man: What can the average person do to prepare and protect himself?
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Doug Casey: Own gold, which will profit from inflation, as people try to get out of the dollar and get into something that has a physical reality in and of itself. Bitcoin is another viable alternative.
As serious as the financial and economic risks the government is creating are, the political risks are much more serious. To minimize these political risks, get your capital out of the country. It will be easier for you to physically leave the country, should that prove necessary.
But if you’re going to stay in the US, you might adopt something my friend Jack Pugsley called The Alpha Strategy, a book he wrote back in the 1980s. It’s out of print, but I urge you to get a copy on Amazon. Essentially, it argues that the best way to beat inflation is to buy goods that you are going to need in quantity when you can get them on special with volume discounts. Then store them away. It’s more convenient because you’ll always have them at hand. Whereas when we get serious price controls you may not be able to get them at all.
Furthermore, as they go up in price, unlike investments, you won’t have to pay capital gains taxes on the increase. The book presents an integrated approach to saving with real goods as opposed to money or investments.
It’s among the most prudent and practical things you can do.
https://archive.org/download/the-alpha-s...RATEGY.pdf
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/doug...shortages/
The Potential Collapse of American Society and Civil War
By Madge Waggy
July 12, 2024
If there’s anything that certain, it’s that nothing is permanent. When we look back through history, we find that many great societies succumbed to societal collapse. Some have been conquered by outside forces, while others have decayed from within. In either case, the society or civilization has ceased to exist as it was once known. To think that the same can’t or won’t happen to us, is to deny one of the most important lessons of history.
The big question for you and I to consider, is whether it will be internal or external forces that ultimately bring about the demise of the United States of America. Currently there are no nation-states with a large enough or powerful enough a military to defeat us. Even if Russia and China were to join together to attack us, it is unlikely that they could mount a big enough amphibious force to guarantee success in invading our shores. The two nations together don’t have anywhere near the amphibious capability that was required to invade Europe on D-day, during World War II.
About the only way that a foreign nation could successfully attack the United States and defeat it would be via an attack by high-altitude EMP. That’s a very real possibility, which has been discussed elsewhere; so, I’m not going to bother spending time on it here.
But it may not be necessary for any foreign power to attack the United States, as we may very well tear ourselves apart, without their help. The political divide that is so prevalent in the US today is tearing this country apart, without any other help. The big question now, is whether it will continue or whether we will find some common ground again, where we can continue functioning as a nation.
We were treated to a sample of how this country could be torn apart a couple of years ago with all the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a fair number of which turned into riots. I have nothing against demonstrations and believe that our First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech includes the right to peacefully protest. But that’s not the same as having a riot, especially a riot that is identified by theft, destruction and arson.
Unfortunately, we have those in the political system who see it as their duty to use their position to encourage unstable people in their following to engage in these sorts of activities. Not only that, but they are protecting those followers from paying the price for their crimes, while at the same time calling the January 6th incursion in the Capital building an “insurrection,” even though it was unarmed and the only person who was killed was a veteran woman, shot by the police. Justice in this country, at least when it is connected to politics, has become a two-tiered system, with the enforcement of the law being based on one’s political affiliation.
With that being the case, there are more and more people saying that we are headed towards another civil war. Should that war break out, it will be much nastier than the previous one, simply because the battle lines won’t be as obvious. Rather than the north verses the south, it will be the political left verses the political right and while there is some territorial division between the two, it isn’t as clear as it was in the last Civil War.
That lack of clearcut battle lines is what’s going to cause the biggest problem with the next civil war. Battles will break out in random places, as the opposing sides bump up against each other. Little of it will be cohesive warfare, fought by organized troops. Rather, it will be more on the order of ongoing riots, like what we saw with Black Lives Matter.
Should such a war start, it will not only take many lives, but destroy American society as we know it today. Law and order would be largely out the window, not only from the fighting, but from bureaucrats who try and use their position to further the cause of their side. We can pretty much forget about being able to count on the government for anything.
When Might This Happen?
The truth of the matter is that we have no way of knowing when such a breakdown might happen. From what we’ve seen in the last several years, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political divide who are more than ready to turn to violence when things don’t go their party’s way. While almost all of the rioting that has happened can be attributed to one side of that divide, most of the guns belong to the other.
One likely scenario is for the riot side to start tearing things up, due to something happening in the country which they don’t believe in. Interestingly enough, they only seem to do that in cities which are controlled by politicians who are agreeable to their cause. You don’t find such riots happening in cities where law-and-order politicians are in control, because they know that the price of their rioting will be a trip to jail.
If you don’t believe me, just look at what happened in Washington, DC on January 6th and the Congressional hearings that followed. The DC city government is in the hands of Democrats, as was Congress at that time. So the same politicians who winked at the riots which sprung out of the Black Lives Matter protests, were quick to arrest those who unlawfully entered the capital, calling it an “insurrection,” and spreading stories about how dangerous it was for Congress, even though none of those who entered the capital were apparently armed.
If there’s anything in this country which could lead to mass rioting it would be former President Trump winning the 2024 general elections. There is so much hatred focused against Trump in our country today, that there’s a good chance of his winning being all that is needed to cause widespread rioting. Considering how the hate towards him continued through his presidency, I doubt that there’s much anyone can do to keep almost constant protests and rioting from happening during his second term in office.
What Should We Do?
I think it’s necessary to say that it’s not our job to keep the peace or defend our country from those who would destroy it. As tempting as it might be to get directly involved, doing so carries a lot of risk. Remember Kyle Rittenhouse? He eventually won in court, since he didn’t break any laws and only shot in what can very clearly be seen as self-defense. But it could very easily have gone the other way. The mainstream media attempted to try him in the court of public opinion and had declared him guilty even before the bodies could cool. That attempt has cost those news outlets plenty, settling with Kyle for their underhanded attempts at character assassination.
On the other hand, we all have a God-given right to defend home and family. So, regardless of where you live, you need to be ready to do just that. If you happen to live nearby potential targets areas for rioting, either due to the political leadership there or the potential targets for the rioters to go after, you want to be doubly sure that you’re ready to defend your home.
Even with being prepared, the best protection you can possibly have isn’t standing there with guns locked and cocked, it’s not letting the rioters know that you are there. If they don’t know you’re there, they’re much more likely to leave you alone.
That means being able to lock yourself in your home and not come out until the riots are over. More than that, you need to be able to make it look as if nobody is home. That requires things like blackout curtains over the windows and noise discipline to keep them from hearing your television and your kids. At the same time, you don’t want to leave anything outside where they can steal it. Even your cars should be in the garage or hidden away behind the fence, in your backyard.
It’s hard to say just how long you need to be prepared to stay hidden away like that; but figure on a couple of weeks. If there’s one thing that can be said for any mob, it’s that they lose interest just about as fast as they come together to destroy. It’s unlikely that any riot will last more than a couple of days; but as I said, be ready for a couple of weeks.
The other thing we have to realize is that it may take months for any sort of true stability to be reestablished. If the rioting starts because of Donald Trump being elected as president, then it might very well continue throughout his term in office. That will make for a very long four years for anyone living in cities controlled by his political opposition. It’s really hard to estimate just how big the price tag will be on the destruction that is wrought by those who are enraged by his success.
https://madgewaggy.blogspot.com/2024/07/...rican.html
The Safest Zones In The US. Do You Live Near One? We live in a MASSIVE nation full of all kinds of opportunity. There are areas that are incredibly dangerous, but the reality is we have a lot of wide open spaces that can be whatever you want them to be!
You might be looking at your nation a little differently lately.
There have always been dangerous neighborhoods and boroughs. Places like Compton, Kensington, and Camden might come to mind when you think of places that have a reputation for crime. Some of these areas have actually improved from when I was child. However, there are lots of places all around this nation that have been dangerous and many that are getting worse.
The move towards lawlessness in many of our biggest cities has been brought on by the current attitude towards police and police funding. As states bandy about the issues and people worry about things like natural disasters and economic decline, many have moved or considered moving.
What are the safest zones in the US?
Safest Cities
There are safe havens all around this nation. There are places that have historically had low crime and great community cohesion. The key in most of these cities and towns is ownership and loyalty. Most often transient places are dangerous, and people are more likely to commit crimes in these places.
Let’s look at some of the safest cities and towns in America:
Round Rock, Texas
With a population just over 100,000 this smaller town in Texas is a very appealing place for preppers to live. It is also a very safe place with a median income of $70,000.
The low poverty rate in Round Rock has much to do with the safety and security of this Texas town.
Round Rock has been dubbed a “super suburb” as a place just outside of Austin
Naperville, Illinois
The Safest Zones in the US
This Chicago suburb is a gem in an area that most people would not expect. The River Walk is an important part of Naperville, but it is hardly the only thing that this suburb offers. A population 144,000 people are a successful and well paid lot. The median household income is over $100,000.
The minimal crime rate, per 100,000 people, has much to do with the low poverty rate which is just over 4%. 77.6 violent crimes per 100,000 people is something to be proud of.
The safety of Naperville could also have to do with the tremendous outdoor opportunities. With over 130 parks and 2 public golf courses, there is nearly a park for every person!
Port St. Lucie, Florida
The Safest Zones in the US
If you are going to pick a new safe place to live, why not consider a place where the weather is wonderful! Along the southern coast of Florida Port St. Lucie is a beautiful tropical zone with $169,000 a year median income.
You will have to be prepared for hurricanes. An evacuation plan is needed as the southern coast of Florida is at risk during hurricane season, but we are preppers!
You will not have as much to worry about when it comes to violent crime as there are just 115 violent crimes per 100,000 people. You will love near breweries, botanical gardens, preserves and marinas. Great fishing on the coast, too!
Best Regions to Survive Disasters
Along with safe cities and towns America also features some great regions to setup a life that are far away from some of the biggest threats. Remember, people are only one threat. Mother nature can have a devastating affect on the North American continent and has done so in the past. From massive super volcanoes to devastating earthquakes.
What are the safest regions to survive massive cataclysmic disasters?
The Cascades
The Safest Zones in the US
Deep enough inland and high enough up to counter things like flooding and tropical cyclones that affect the West Coast. The cascades are loaded with resources for survival like water, food, and wood. They are a beautiful backdrop to deal with the post-apocalyptic world and far enough away from southern California to inherit any of that mess.
The northernmost portions of the Cascades are even located in the American Redoubt, which we will discuss later in this article.
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The Safest Zones in the US
Another range of mountains that offer similar benefits as the Cascades. This east coast mountain range covers several states, has plenty of food, water, shelter, and game animals. Covering the land by food would not be easy but the seclusion from the chaos would be well worth it.
Because of elevation and distance from the coast there are almost no threats of flood, tsunami, or hurricane in this region. There is little seismic activity in the area.
West of some particularly important and sizeable cities, the Blue Ridge mountains could become a safe haven for millions of people in the very worst case scenario. That is the only weakness of this location.
Appalachia
The Safest Zones in the US
Further west still, on the other side of the blue ridge mountains in the region of Appalachia which runs from New York to Mississippi. This is another great region to consider because of its sparse population compared to the coasts. Its quick access to the Blue Ridge Mountains and safety from most major disasters.
Prepper Strongholds
Are you looking for even more benefits? Maybe you want the people and the safe places. There is nothing wrong with that. Around the nation there are several places that have not only been deemed safe and pleasant but are also filled with preppers!
Yup! The self-reliant and independent have taken up refuge in a few spots across the nation. They are often looking for more friends like them to build their prepper community. These areas are not just filled with preppers but are in rural areas where other people are as self sufficient as the prepper community.
Redoubt
The Safest Zones in the US
In 2011 James Wesley Rawles proposed Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as the American Redoubt. The Redoubt also encompasses the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon. It is unclear how many people have moved to the American Redoubt with the intent of stockpiling, prepping, or homesteading for the long haul.
However, there is a small community of voices from Rawles, to John Jacob Schmitt, to the American Christian Network, that will align with much of what you believe. It has been estimated that thousands of people have moved to these areas as a safe haven from the growing turmoil of our world.
Because of its low population density and impressive access to resources, as well as low threat profile, as long as you can stay warm in the winter, the Redoubt has some tremendous benefits. You will also have plenty of wide open space so if you don’t align with everything Rawles proposed you can do your own thing and be just fine!
Ozarks
The Safest Zones in the US
The Ozarks are more of a plateau than a mountain range with some of its tallest peaks between 1-2000 feet tall. Because of its location in the nation and its elevation, it has a tremendous amount of benefits to the average prepper looking for a safe zone.
The Ozarks are not affected by things like floods because of the elevation, it has this elevation without snow because it is in the south. It does not face any kind of earthquake threat, hurricane, or forest fire. There is a long growing season that features lots of rain.
Pastor Joe Fox of Viking Preparedness has been expanding his Shofar mountain and influencing preppers for many years to make their way to the Ozarks. COOHMP or Come Out of Her, My People as taken from the book of Revelation. A growing prepper stronghold has taken root in the Ozarks making it a wonderful place to move and a very safe region.
Also, those who are not preppers in the Ozarks are looking to do their own things and basically be left alone. So, it is a sentiment we can all understand!
We live in a MASSIVE nation full of all kinds of opportunity. There are areas that are incredibly dangerous, but the reality is we have a lot of wide open spaces that can be whatever you want them to be!
Did you know there are even some places that will give you free land or pay you to live there! If you aren’t tethered to a location than you can take advantage of the areas, we mentioned. However, you should arrive there and become a part of the community. This is particularly important. You can never know the full potential of any area unless you integrate and become a member of the community.
Go forth and choose your destiny!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_a...-near-one/
Tens of trillions of fake currency units printed as living standards fall
Energy abuse
Japan, the EU and the US all have failing economies. And they are all failing at the same time for the same reason: consumers in these countries are reluctant to borrow. And without borrowing, they have no way of increasing consumption. Households are cutting back for three reasons.
First, they are getting older.
Two, their real incomes are stagnant or falling; and
Three, they already have too much debt.
This makes the downturn similar across these countries; they are all led by consumers trying to repair their balance sheets.
Most people in the western hemisphere and Japan are experiencing significant inflation in food and energy prices. Real, non-manipulated food inflation is in many cases between 10% and 20%. However, accurate figures are not published because the truth is hidden from the public.
The tens of trillions of printed dollars, euros and yen have for the most part not reached the real economy. They have been used to prop up the stock and property markets and bank balance sheets so that the money stays in the banks.
It is important to understand that asset markets such as equities, property and bonds are not measured in inflation figures. However, trillions of dollars/ euros/ and yen have been poured into these markets.
So to say that the newly printed money is to support the economy is a complete lie.
In reality, this money is only being used to bail out the banks and benefit the elite and the banksters. Most assets are being pushed into huge bubbles, but two categories of assets, gold and silver, are not in a bubble.
If all assets were included in the inflation figures, the reported inflation rates would be much more accurate and remarkable.
A small minority have benefited from this fudging of the numbers, creating bubbles in equities, property and bonds, but this is unsustainable because the real world economy has not benefited.
According to data that is more accurate and representative of today’s reality, there are more people unemployed than in work.
The average person’s standard of living has been falling for years. The average family can’t get their hands on $1,000. There was a recent survey that said if you had to get $1,000 in cash in 30 days, 40% of people couldn’t do it.
So things are pretty tight and when the economy goes off the cliff again, which frankly could happen soon, there’s going to be a lot of unemployed people with no money and a lot of debt. There is nothing the government can do at this point except print more money.
The mainstream media will not report much that is real or accurate, but the writing is on the wall. The truth is that inflation for food and services is already far, far higher than what has been reported for the last decade.
People know this from their own experience. They do not need a university professor to tell them.
Misuse of energy
What is meant by the misuse of energy? Well, in Atlantis, just like today, it’s done in many different ways, but mostly through advanced technology and the misuse of sexual energies.
There is nothing wrong with technology; if we are to remain an advanced society that wants some kind of assistance in meeting our basic needs at a comfortable level, then certain technology can be beneficial. Some people say that the washing machine is the greatest invention of mankind.
It certainly was a great invention. But there are other great inventions that mankind could benefit from; many of them were reinvented by Nikola Tesla, whose inventions were taken over and misused by the government.
However, some researchers have started to look into Tesla a bit more and have started to take away the “Godspeed” of this man by showing that Tesla to a greater or lesser extent reinvented what was already available in previous civilisations on the planet. However, time will tell to what extent this may have been the case.
When technology is used to control others, for warfare, espionage and mind control etc, or is only accessible to a few selected groups, it’s beginning to be misused. With the Sirians, this has a tendency and has happened many times. It’s up to us to see through this manipulation, otherwise we’ll end up in a much worse situation than the Atlanteans.
At least they were stopped by the Flood, otherwise we might not be here. It was ENLIL who manipulated events to cause the Flood, so when the Sirians have a finger in the pie, things really do get out of hand after a while. It always seems inevitable. This makes them untrustworthy, no matter what others say.
The technology of Atlantis was different from that of today, but there are similarities. The use of computers has already been mentioned. But they also had space technology, of course, and a wealth of knowledge about the stars and the Universe in general, and they flew to the Moon and Mars, and probably other planets within the Solar System. In many ways they were more advanced than we are today.
The Sirian Overlords and their minions fed on fear, as the Cabal does with us today, and in addition to setting up the Grid and the Trap System, they also used technology to control people’s minds and thoughts.
A relatively small population, less than a billion at the time, was much easier to control than today’s eight billion people. They taught humans about warfare and instigated wars to create mass events from which the Sirians could energetically feed.
Sometimes the wars were just for that purpose, sometimes they were over real estate or some petty conflict between Sirian authorities. This was nothing new; the Sirians, just like us humans today, couldn’t even live peacefully with each other, and conflicts and wars were very common.
As Zecharia Sitchin describes so well in his book ‘The Wars of Gods and Men’, they used human soldiers as cannon fodder for their silly wars, which could sometimes start because of jealousy between ‘gods’, or simply as a ‘show-off’; who was the most powerful and fearless?
The jealousy between the gods of Sirius is well documented, so there is no need to go into detail here. Crystals had a lot to do with it, because crystals, especially the ones they called Meš, pronounced ‘mesh’, contain memory and knowledge. They were also a means of communication between the gods, almost like today’s mobile phones, but they worked over longer distances.
Incidentally, today’s mobile phone technology is a watered-down version of Atlantean technology, but we see how quickly our mobile phones are becoming more advanced, as if someone is having epiphanies after epiphanies and inventing new technology on a weekly basis.
Of course, that’s not the case; mobile phone technology, as it will be used in the future, has been fully developed for a long time. In fact, it’s not a human invention, it’s been achieved through technology transfer programmes.
In Atlantean times, the gods fought over these devices to steal knowledge from each other and gain access to each other’s secrets. It was such a big deal that people were killed over them.
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/07/...ards-fall/
By Helena Glass
July 11, 2024
The US Dollar is the tenth strongest currency in the world … despite having the largest economy by GDP in the world. The top three currencies are Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. Eight African Colonies of France were required to trade in the French Franc creating an artificial strength in currency valuation. In 2021, the Euro was valued at 1.234, today the value has dropped to 1.083 a drop of 12.25%. Good for exports, bad for imports. When imports drop, cost of goods rises as demand is forcibly squeezed higher. Higher demand = inflation. In 2023, the EU’s international imports dropped from 40% to -20%…simultaneously exports dropped from 20% to zero. A double-Dip Inflation.
Nothing to do with employment – and everything to do with the antagonized ritual of ‘interest rate manipulations’. A communist tactic to destroy economies. If the EU goes full Communist in the fashion of Bolshevism, their next move would be to follow in the footsteps of Stalin and force a campaign of starvation. Exterminating livestock and crops. A famine to eradicate opposition.
When western agencies across the EU and US exterminate cows, chickens, and pigs – they do so under the same Bolshevik playbook. When they set fire to crops and industrial plants – they do so under the doctrine of Kabbalah superiority – those not born Jew and who later convert are still ‘gentiles’ and unworthy of the Chosen Protocol because they are not of the ‘seed’. ~ Rabbi Lieberman.
Alvin Goldstein is considered the man who normalized hard core porn. Israel wants to legalize pedophilia: The age of consent in Israel is 16 for all genders but can be as low as 14 provided both parties consent and have a 3-year age gap or less. In the US, Alan Dershowitz is vying to reduce the age of legal consent to 14 years old. Why? The most obvious answer would be that he has partaken of those age 14 and needs a law to justify and legalize his pedophilia before it becomes a criminal charge.
It has been researched that this slide into depravity has been linked to the Fall of Rome. Pompeii – in profusion. In psychology, victimhood is a cognitive distortion of the real world. But Zions use collective victimhood as a tool. Instead of working through it – they use it as a justification for committing evil actions. And within that victimhood they create a state of depravity. Of course, the fact that the Zionists refuse to acknowledge their mass genocide of over 60 million Russians during the reign of Jewish Bolsheviks, rather refutes the entire hypnosis.
While the parlay is that immorality, aka porn and pedophilia, are a lucrative business industry, and Israel is promoting itself as the global capital of this activity, Israel wants a bigger piece of this ‘lucrative pie’. Building a playground on the Gaza Strip, or in Ukraine, could enhance their monopoly over this ‘industry’. As we are continually reminded – follow the money.
Israel’s economy slumped nearly 20% by the end of 2023. Private consumption dropped 27%, fixed investments fell nearly 70%, – yet their stock market is relatively stable. How is that possible? Short answer – it isn’t. According to CNN, their market collapsed and is now higher than before the October 7th attack. Why? Buying on the lows? Or are they buying into Israel’s new land grabs?
Bill Ackman and his wife Neri Oxman have been buying up TASE – Tel Aviv’s stock market. He now owns 5% of the exchange. Bill Ackman is a hedge fund manager who is worth roughly $10 billion. He has a history of market manipulation in the US and an acrimonious relationship with Carl Icahn. He has worked diligently to fire and demonize anyone who is anti-war/pro-Palestine and been called out as the new McCarthy. Like most in the billionaire Club, Ackman donates to various philanthropies, including his own Foundation. He has endorsed Trump.
The Ackman investment would also indicate that the war against Palestine is coming to its grand finale – and warring against Lebanon or Iran is NOT likely. The war has already cost Israel in the neighborhood of $70 billion and rebuilding is going to cost roughly $500 billion. I imagine Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street will lead the rebuild project while our DoD siphons social security funds to Israel as well.
“Until all objectives have been achieved”, is Israel’s version of a peace deal. And the UN is silent.
NATO is meeting in New York and Zelenskyy is asking for submarines. Powell has declared inflation is flat, despite my food prices rising 20% this last month, and the job market is soft – as in people will start losing their homes to bankruptcy. Despite this flattened economy, Powell says he wants inflation at 2% before he’ll make any move, which is where it was during Trump’s term – coincidence? Manipulation?
The US economy is slowing rapidly and risks a recession again as corrupt monetary policy and false statistics present a better economy than reality. The trade deficit has increased reflecting less exports. Of course, given it is an election year we can expect some rather rattled version of our economy being promoted by in sync media puppetry. utilizing the stock market as emphasis to define Biden’s greatness.
But the stock market is a three tiered Ponzi scam within the vectors of BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, all holding the same stocks and trading within each other. The middle class peons who don’t have the resources to be a part of The Club, and clearly see the reality. But we no longer have any say in the matter. While a Biden/Cackle White House would truly push the US into a spiraling depression – a Trump presidency will likely see a Corporate Takeover… with Israel front and center.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_a...abysmally/
Preparing for Coming Shortages
By Doug Casey
July 11, 2024
International Man: Inflation has recently hit its highest levels since the 1970s as governments worldwide are debasing their fiat currencies at breakneck speed. The cost of living is soaring, and it’s likely to worsen.
In this environment, it is typical for opportunists in government to implement price controls as a misguided solution.
Do you think we’ll see them soon?
Doug Casey: Government never controls itself. It only attempts to control its subjects. I expect the rest of this decade will resemble the 1970s as far as retail price rises are concerned, but it will be much more serious. As a result, the chances of wage and price controls are high.
We need to only look at the actions of Richard Nixon, who often put himself forward as being pro-business and pro-capital. In 1971, he put on very strict wage and price controls. But wage and price controls didn’t begin and they certainly won’t end with Nixon. The idea that government should control its subjects is part of the national DNA. As the Baby Bush put it in 2008, “sometimes you have to abandon free-market principles to save the free-market system.” His statement reminds me of the famous quote from the Vietnam era: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
The government’s share of the economy is much larger now than it was in Nixon’s day. And the people in government are much more left-wing than they were during the Nixon regime 50 years ago. If the Democrats are reelected in November—which I expect, despite Trump’s current lead—you can expect them to further centralize power towards Washington.
Government, as an institution, is congenitally incapable of learning anything. The first example of wage and price controls was under the emperor Diocletian in late Third Century Rome, when he attempted to regulate the price of every good and service, from the largest to the smallest. It turned the Empire into a veritable police state.
I expect the US government to again use price controls in an attempt to disguise the effects of its accelerating debasement of the currency. Trillions of dollars of new debt are being monetized by the Fed every year; the result will be escalating prices. It’s perverse because, in a free market economy, prices would be dropping every year with the growth of capital and improvements in technology.
In any event, as things start falling apart and the standard of living starts dropping, people will cry out for government to “do something.” And it will. They think the government is a cornucopia when it’s actually a predator. War, a unique specialty of government, will be another major impetus for imposing wage and price controls.
We had wage and price controls during World War I and very serious wage and price controls during World War II. They were selectively reimposed for the Korean conflict and, of course, when Nixon was in office during the Vietnam War. With World War III brewing, wage and price controls will definitely be part of the agenda.
International Man: What are some recent historical examples of price controls?
Do you see any parallels with what is happening today?
Doug Casey: As governments found during the days of Diocletian, you can’t control absolutely everything—even when the economy is simple and primitive. But it’s impossible with millions of inputs and billions of transactions daily. Entirely apart from being both destructive and immoral.
Input costs inevitably rise, and retail prices have to reflect that. It becomes physically impossible to produce the goods when costs exceed the sales price. Producers fail if they try to both produce and obey the laws. You arrive at a situation where you can legally have all of “product X” that you want at Y price—except that none exists. During the Nixon controls, we had critical shortages of gasoline because the Arabs raised the price of their oil—due to a depreciating dollar—but US refiners couldn’t raise the price of gasoline.
The average guy won’t blame the government for shortages and a drop in his standard of living. If he’s paying more for beef, he’s going to blame the butcher. If he’s paying more for gasoline, he’s going to blame Exxon. He’s not going to blame the actual source of the problem, the government, because it isn’t selling products and claims they’re fighting inflation by penalizing the evil and greedy producers.
One of the additional dangers of wage and price controls is that more than ever, people will hate the producers who sell them goods. They will go to the government, asking for price controls, which they think is a solution. The result will be black markets, where producers avoid price controls by selling things illegally under the counter for economic prices.
I hasten to say there’s nothing wrong with black markets. Black markets are actually free markets. Black markets are both good and necessary to avoid the negative effects of government intervention. The result will be more discord and social unrest as people blame each other for higher prices, with some ratting out others to the authorities.
International Man: What are some other dangers of price controls?
Doug Casey: Foreign exchange controls, blocked currencies, and domestic wage and price controls are consequences of fiat money creation. After all, the dollar, like everything else, has a price.
Governments usually try to control the price of their fiat currency against other currencies. The result is always massive corruption as people attempt to avoid these controls to preserve their capital.
South Africa is a great example. White people who want to abandon that sinking ship find it very hard and expensive to get their money out of the country. If they can emigrate, it’s likely as paupers.
Capital controls in most countries are highly likely as major parts of the world try to get out of both their local fiat and the dollar in order to use alternatives. Those alternatives may even be Russian rubles or Chinese yuan, although I doubt it. I think most of the world will go to gold or Bitcoin in the face of US foreign exchange controls. The yuan, the ruble, the Euro, the Yen, and the Pound are, if anything, even less trustworthy, and they’re certainly less liquid than the dollar.
China has foreign exchange controls limiting the amount of money that citizens can take out of the country. Whenever and wherever that happens, however, citizens redouble their efforts to get money out of a country. The same is true in Argentina, where the government has attempted to control the diminishing value of the peso, not by slowing the printing press but by enforcing foreign exchange controls. Of course, they haven’t worked; they’ve just lowered the standard of living and made Argentine’s lives miserable for the last 70 years. But Argentina is changing under Milei…
International Man: If shortages are such an obvious outcome of price controls, why do governments keep implementing them as a solution?
What should really be done to address the root of the problem?
Doug Casey: It’s really not an intellectual problem, it’s a psychological problem. Governments sometimes put on these controls out of ignorance. They’re usually not well-educated in economics. And oftentimes they’re dogmatic socialists, Marxists, or Keynsians who’ve been taught 2+2=5.
But in most cases, it’s because they really want to control the population. The people in governments are usually much more interested in control and lining their own pockets than they are in general prosperity.
Capital controls make it much easier for insiders to become wealthy since they have access to buying whatever currency they need from the central bank at a fixed price as opposed to the actual market price.
These people—Keynsians and socialists– think the economy is like a factory where all they have to do is push a button or tighten a screw to make it hum along like it should. But it’s not like a factory or a machine. The economy is more like a rainforest, where if you wipe out some elements and control or poison some part of it, you can wind up killing the whole rainforest. Economies are naturally self-regulating systems. Government intervention never helps and can wind up destroying the whole ecosystem.
So, what should be done to eliminate the root of the problem?
Inflation is 100% caused by government, its central bank, and printing money. Inflation is the result of fiat currencies that are created out of nothing and backed by nothing. This is why I’ve been an anarcho-capitalist for most of my life. Government actually serves very little useful purpose. Since it’s, in effect, legalized coercion, it should only be used to protect you from coercion. It shouldn’t be used to interfere in commercial transactions between citizens.
International Man: What can the average person do to prepare and protect himself?
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Doug Casey: Own gold, which will profit from inflation, as people try to get out of the dollar and get into something that has a physical reality in and of itself. Bitcoin is another viable alternative.
As serious as the financial and economic risks the government is creating are, the political risks are much more serious. To minimize these political risks, get your capital out of the country. It will be easier for you to physically leave the country, should that prove necessary.
But if you’re going to stay in the US, you might adopt something my friend Jack Pugsley called The Alpha Strategy, a book he wrote back in the 1980s. It’s out of print, but I urge you to get a copy on Amazon. Essentially, it argues that the best way to beat inflation is to buy goods that you are going to need in quantity when you can get them on special with volume discounts. Then store them away. It’s more convenient because you’ll always have them at hand. Whereas when we get serious price controls you may not be able to get them at all.
Furthermore, as they go up in price, unlike investments, you won’t have to pay capital gains taxes on the increase. The book presents an integrated approach to saving with real goods as opposed to money or investments.
It’s among the most prudent and practical things you can do.
https://archive.org/download/the-alpha-s...RATEGY.pdf
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"These are the times that try men's souls," said Thomas Paine in Crisis, as he described the agony being
endured by Americans during the most turbulent years of the American Revolution. The lives you and I lead
today have little in common with those led by the colonists, yet Paine’s words still seem hauntingly
appropriate our lives. For all the affluence, comfort, and convenience you and I enjoy in the final decade of
twentieth-century America, we still live in uncertainty and wage a constant struggle for economic security.
Will you survive financially? Will you enjoy the same food, shelter, automobiles, vacations, and other
amenities of life that you have in past years? Or can your savings be wiped out in a blizzard of bad luck and
losing investments? Will you be able to send your children to college or meet a catastrophic medical
expense or be secure when you grow old?
From every newspaper, magazine and bookstand, from every newscaster and commentator, and from
every politician and philosopher come warnings of dire peril for your way of life. You are told that we are
running out of natural resources, that your environment is being destroyed, that you must learn to get along
with less and that you must sacrifice for the survival of the nation and the species. How can you be
confident your life savings are safe?
The anxiety gripping us is not unfounded. There really is a crisis in our society. In fact, the future is far
less safe than most people imagine. Even in his anxiety, the typical working person in America has a far
more optimistic view of the future than is warranted.
Individuals rarely invest significant amounts of time analyzing economics because they assume they are
too ignorant to understand it. Besides, we are constantly promised that tomorrow someone in power, some
brilliant leader, will stop inflation and recession. Tomorrow the government will bring us back to
prosperity. Our jobs will be secure. Our savings will be secure. Life will be secure.
The financial problems convulsing our economy are the consequence of a very sophisticated
confidence game. While there is little chance that the masses will discover the nature of the game and
change the rules, your personal future depends on whether you understand how you are being victimized in
time to take action to defend yourself. At this point in history, there is no evidence to support the idea that
even a small minority of people understand the source of their problems. If you understand them, you have a
chance to not only preserve your wealth but multiply it many-fold.
This book explains the monetary system and the tricks of the manipulators in terms you can
understand. It provides a totally new lens through which traditional investments can be viewed and
understood. Read the following chapters carefully and they can be your key to financial survival
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/doug...shortages/
The Potential Collapse of American Society and Civil War
By Madge Waggy
July 12, 2024
If there’s anything that certain, it’s that nothing is permanent. When we look back through history, we find that many great societies succumbed to societal collapse. Some have been conquered by outside forces, while others have decayed from within. In either case, the society or civilization has ceased to exist as it was once known. To think that the same can’t or won’t happen to us, is to deny one of the most important lessons of history.
The big question for you and I to consider, is whether it will be internal or external forces that ultimately bring about the demise of the United States of America. Currently there are no nation-states with a large enough or powerful enough a military to defeat us. Even if Russia and China were to join together to attack us, it is unlikely that they could mount a big enough amphibious force to guarantee success in invading our shores. The two nations together don’t have anywhere near the amphibious capability that was required to invade Europe on D-day, during World War II.
About the only way that a foreign nation could successfully attack the United States and defeat it would be via an attack by high-altitude EMP. That’s a very real possibility, which has been discussed elsewhere; so, I’m not going to bother spending time on it here.
But it may not be necessary for any foreign power to attack the United States, as we may very well tear ourselves apart, without their help. The political divide that is so prevalent in the US today is tearing this country apart, without any other help. The big question now, is whether it will continue or whether we will find some common ground again, where we can continue functioning as a nation.
We were treated to a sample of how this country could be torn apart a couple of years ago with all the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a fair number of which turned into riots. I have nothing against demonstrations and believe that our First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech includes the right to peacefully protest. But that’s not the same as having a riot, especially a riot that is identified by theft, destruction and arson.
Unfortunately, we have those in the political system who see it as their duty to use their position to encourage unstable people in their following to engage in these sorts of activities. Not only that, but they are protecting those followers from paying the price for their crimes, while at the same time calling the January 6th incursion in the Capital building an “insurrection,” even though it was unarmed and the only person who was killed was a veteran woman, shot by the police. Justice in this country, at least when it is connected to politics, has become a two-tiered system, with the enforcement of the law being based on one’s political affiliation.
With that being the case, there are more and more people saying that we are headed towards another civil war. Should that war break out, it will be much nastier than the previous one, simply because the battle lines won’t be as obvious. Rather than the north verses the south, it will be the political left verses the political right and while there is some territorial division between the two, it isn’t as clear as it was in the last Civil War.
That lack of clearcut battle lines is what’s going to cause the biggest problem with the next civil war. Battles will break out in random places, as the opposing sides bump up against each other. Little of it will be cohesive warfare, fought by organized troops. Rather, it will be more on the order of ongoing riots, like what we saw with Black Lives Matter.
Should such a war start, it will not only take many lives, but destroy American society as we know it today. Law and order would be largely out the window, not only from the fighting, but from bureaucrats who try and use their position to further the cause of their side. We can pretty much forget about being able to count on the government for anything.
When Might This Happen?
The truth of the matter is that we have no way of knowing when such a breakdown might happen. From what we’ve seen in the last several years, there are plenty of people on both sides of the political divide who are more than ready to turn to violence when things don’t go their party’s way. While almost all of the rioting that has happened can be attributed to one side of that divide, most of the guns belong to the other.
One likely scenario is for the riot side to start tearing things up, due to something happening in the country which they don’t believe in. Interestingly enough, they only seem to do that in cities which are controlled by politicians who are agreeable to their cause. You don’t find such riots happening in cities where law-and-order politicians are in control, because they know that the price of their rioting will be a trip to jail.
If you don’t believe me, just look at what happened in Washington, DC on January 6th and the Congressional hearings that followed. The DC city government is in the hands of Democrats, as was Congress at that time. So the same politicians who winked at the riots which sprung out of the Black Lives Matter protests, were quick to arrest those who unlawfully entered the capital, calling it an “insurrection,” and spreading stories about how dangerous it was for Congress, even though none of those who entered the capital were apparently armed.
If there’s anything in this country which could lead to mass rioting it would be former President Trump winning the 2024 general elections. There is so much hatred focused against Trump in our country today, that there’s a good chance of his winning being all that is needed to cause widespread rioting. Considering how the hate towards him continued through his presidency, I doubt that there’s much anyone can do to keep almost constant protests and rioting from happening during his second term in office.
What Should We Do?
I think it’s necessary to say that it’s not our job to keep the peace or defend our country from those who would destroy it. As tempting as it might be to get directly involved, doing so carries a lot of risk. Remember Kyle Rittenhouse? He eventually won in court, since he didn’t break any laws and only shot in what can very clearly be seen as self-defense. But it could very easily have gone the other way. The mainstream media attempted to try him in the court of public opinion and had declared him guilty even before the bodies could cool. That attempt has cost those news outlets plenty, settling with Kyle for their underhanded attempts at character assassination.
On the other hand, we all have a God-given right to defend home and family. So, regardless of where you live, you need to be ready to do just that. If you happen to live nearby potential targets areas for rioting, either due to the political leadership there or the potential targets for the rioters to go after, you want to be doubly sure that you’re ready to defend your home.
Even with being prepared, the best protection you can possibly have isn’t standing there with guns locked and cocked, it’s not letting the rioters know that you are there. If they don’t know you’re there, they’re much more likely to leave you alone.
That means being able to lock yourself in your home and not come out until the riots are over. More than that, you need to be able to make it look as if nobody is home. That requires things like blackout curtains over the windows and noise discipline to keep them from hearing your television and your kids. At the same time, you don’t want to leave anything outside where they can steal it. Even your cars should be in the garage or hidden away behind the fence, in your backyard.
It’s hard to say just how long you need to be prepared to stay hidden away like that; but figure on a couple of weeks. If there’s one thing that can be said for any mob, it’s that they lose interest just about as fast as they come together to destroy. It’s unlikely that any riot will last more than a couple of days; but as I said, be ready for a couple of weeks.
The other thing we have to realize is that it may take months for any sort of true stability to be reestablished. If the rioting starts because of Donald Trump being elected as president, then it might very well continue throughout his term in office. That will make for a very long four years for anyone living in cities controlled by his political opposition. It’s really hard to estimate just how big the price tag will be on the destruction that is wrought by those who are enraged by his success.
https://madgewaggy.blogspot.com/2024/07/...rican.html
The Safest Zones In The US. Do You Live Near One? We live in a MASSIVE nation full of all kinds of opportunity. There are areas that are incredibly dangerous, but the reality is we have a lot of wide open spaces that can be whatever you want them to be!
You might be looking at your nation a little differently lately.
There have always been dangerous neighborhoods and boroughs. Places like Compton, Kensington, and Camden might come to mind when you think of places that have a reputation for crime. Some of these areas have actually improved from when I was child. However, there are lots of places all around this nation that have been dangerous and many that are getting worse.
The move towards lawlessness in many of our biggest cities has been brought on by the current attitude towards police and police funding. As states bandy about the issues and people worry about things like natural disasters and economic decline, many have moved or considered moving.
What are the safest zones in the US?
Safest Cities
There are safe havens all around this nation. There are places that have historically had low crime and great community cohesion. The key in most of these cities and towns is ownership and loyalty. Most often transient places are dangerous, and people are more likely to commit crimes in these places.
Let’s look at some of the safest cities and towns in America:
Round Rock, Texas
With a population just over 100,000 this smaller town in Texas is a very appealing place for preppers to live. It is also a very safe place with a median income of $70,000.
The low poverty rate in Round Rock has much to do with the safety and security of this Texas town.
Round Rock has been dubbed a “super suburb” as a place just outside of Austin
Naperville, Illinois
The Safest Zones in the US
This Chicago suburb is a gem in an area that most people would not expect. The River Walk is an important part of Naperville, but it is hardly the only thing that this suburb offers. A population 144,000 people are a successful and well paid lot. The median household income is over $100,000.
The minimal crime rate, per 100,000 people, has much to do with the low poverty rate which is just over 4%. 77.6 violent crimes per 100,000 people is something to be proud of.
The safety of Naperville could also have to do with the tremendous outdoor opportunities. With over 130 parks and 2 public golf courses, there is nearly a park for every person!
Port St. Lucie, Florida
The Safest Zones in the US
If you are going to pick a new safe place to live, why not consider a place where the weather is wonderful! Along the southern coast of Florida Port St. Lucie is a beautiful tropical zone with $169,000 a year median income.
You will have to be prepared for hurricanes. An evacuation plan is needed as the southern coast of Florida is at risk during hurricane season, but we are preppers!
You will not have as much to worry about when it comes to violent crime as there are just 115 violent crimes per 100,000 people. You will love near breweries, botanical gardens, preserves and marinas. Great fishing on the coast, too!
Best Regions to Survive Disasters
Along with safe cities and towns America also features some great regions to setup a life that are far away from some of the biggest threats. Remember, people are only one threat. Mother nature can have a devastating affect on the North American continent and has done so in the past. From massive super volcanoes to devastating earthquakes.
What are the safest regions to survive massive cataclysmic disasters?
The Cascades
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Deep enough inland and high enough up to counter things like flooding and tropical cyclones that affect the West Coast. The cascades are loaded with resources for survival like water, food, and wood. They are a beautiful backdrop to deal with the post-apocalyptic world and far enough away from southern California to inherit any of that mess.
The northernmost portions of the Cascades are even located in the American Redoubt, which we will discuss later in this article.
The Blue Ridge Mountains
The Safest Zones in the US
Another range of mountains that offer similar benefits as the Cascades. This east coast mountain range covers several states, has plenty of food, water, shelter, and game animals. Covering the land by food would not be easy but the seclusion from the chaos would be well worth it.
Because of elevation and distance from the coast there are almost no threats of flood, tsunami, or hurricane in this region. There is little seismic activity in the area.
West of some particularly important and sizeable cities, the Blue Ridge mountains could become a safe haven for millions of people in the very worst case scenario. That is the only weakness of this location.
Appalachia
The Safest Zones in the US
Further west still, on the other side of the blue ridge mountains in the region of Appalachia which runs from New York to Mississippi. This is another great region to consider because of its sparse population compared to the coasts. Its quick access to the Blue Ridge Mountains and safety from most major disasters.
Prepper Strongholds
Are you looking for even more benefits? Maybe you want the people and the safe places. There is nothing wrong with that. Around the nation there are several places that have not only been deemed safe and pleasant but are also filled with preppers!
Yup! The self-reliant and independent have taken up refuge in a few spots across the nation. They are often looking for more friends like them to build their prepper community. These areas are not just filled with preppers but are in rural areas where other people are as self sufficient as the prepper community.
Redoubt
The Safest Zones in the US
In 2011 James Wesley Rawles proposed Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as the American Redoubt. The Redoubt also encompasses the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon. It is unclear how many people have moved to the American Redoubt with the intent of stockpiling, prepping, or homesteading for the long haul.
However, there is a small community of voices from Rawles, to John Jacob Schmitt, to the American Christian Network, that will align with much of what you believe. It has been estimated that thousands of people have moved to these areas as a safe haven from the growing turmoil of our world.
Because of its low population density and impressive access to resources, as well as low threat profile, as long as you can stay warm in the winter, the Redoubt has some tremendous benefits. You will also have plenty of wide open space so if you don’t align with everything Rawles proposed you can do your own thing and be just fine!
Ozarks
The Safest Zones in the US
The Ozarks are more of a plateau than a mountain range with some of its tallest peaks between 1-2000 feet tall. Because of its location in the nation and its elevation, it has a tremendous amount of benefits to the average prepper looking for a safe zone.
The Ozarks are not affected by things like floods because of the elevation, it has this elevation without snow because it is in the south. It does not face any kind of earthquake threat, hurricane, or forest fire. There is a long growing season that features lots of rain.
Pastor Joe Fox of Viking Preparedness has been expanding his Shofar mountain and influencing preppers for many years to make their way to the Ozarks. COOHMP or Come Out of Her, My People as taken from the book of Revelation. A growing prepper stronghold has taken root in the Ozarks making it a wonderful place to move and a very safe region.
Also, those who are not preppers in the Ozarks are looking to do their own things and basically be left alone. So, it is a sentiment we can all understand!
We live in a MASSIVE nation full of all kinds of opportunity. There are areas that are incredibly dangerous, but the reality is we have a lot of wide open spaces that can be whatever you want them to be!
Did you know there are even some places that will give you free land or pay you to live there! If you aren’t tethered to a location than you can take advantage of the areas, we mentioned. However, you should arrive there and become a part of the community. This is particularly important. You can never know the full potential of any area unless you integrate and become a member of the community.
Go forth and choose your destiny!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_a...-near-one/
Tens of trillions of fake currency units printed as living standards fall
Energy abuse
Japan, the EU and the US all have failing economies. And they are all failing at the same time for the same reason: consumers in these countries are reluctant to borrow. And without borrowing, they have no way of increasing consumption. Households are cutting back for three reasons.
First, they are getting older.
Two, their real incomes are stagnant or falling; and
Three, they already have too much debt.
This makes the downturn similar across these countries; they are all led by consumers trying to repair their balance sheets.
Most people in the western hemisphere and Japan are experiencing significant inflation in food and energy prices. Real, non-manipulated food inflation is in many cases between 10% and 20%. However, accurate figures are not published because the truth is hidden from the public.
The tens of trillions of printed dollars, euros and yen have for the most part not reached the real economy. They have been used to prop up the stock and property markets and bank balance sheets so that the money stays in the banks.
It is important to understand that asset markets such as equities, property and bonds are not measured in inflation figures. However, trillions of dollars/ euros/ and yen have been poured into these markets.
So to say that the newly printed money is to support the economy is a complete lie.
In reality, this money is only being used to bail out the banks and benefit the elite and the banksters. Most assets are being pushed into huge bubbles, but two categories of assets, gold and silver, are not in a bubble.
If all assets were included in the inflation figures, the reported inflation rates would be much more accurate and remarkable.
A small minority have benefited from this fudging of the numbers, creating bubbles in equities, property and bonds, but this is unsustainable because the real world economy has not benefited.
According to data that is more accurate and representative of today’s reality, there are more people unemployed than in work.
The average person’s standard of living has been falling for years. The average family can’t get their hands on $1,000. There was a recent survey that said if you had to get $1,000 in cash in 30 days, 40% of people couldn’t do it.
So things are pretty tight and when the economy goes off the cliff again, which frankly could happen soon, there’s going to be a lot of unemployed people with no money and a lot of debt. There is nothing the government can do at this point except print more money.
The mainstream media will not report much that is real or accurate, but the writing is on the wall. The truth is that inflation for food and services is already far, far higher than what has been reported for the last decade.
People know this from their own experience. They do not need a university professor to tell them.
Misuse of energy
What is meant by the misuse of energy? Well, in Atlantis, just like today, it’s done in many different ways, but mostly through advanced technology and the misuse of sexual energies.
There is nothing wrong with technology; if we are to remain an advanced society that wants some kind of assistance in meeting our basic needs at a comfortable level, then certain technology can be beneficial. Some people say that the washing machine is the greatest invention of mankind.
It certainly was a great invention. But there are other great inventions that mankind could benefit from; many of them were reinvented by Nikola Tesla, whose inventions were taken over and misused by the government.
However, some researchers have started to look into Tesla a bit more and have started to take away the “Godspeed” of this man by showing that Tesla to a greater or lesser extent reinvented what was already available in previous civilisations on the planet. However, time will tell to what extent this may have been the case.
When technology is used to control others, for warfare, espionage and mind control etc, or is only accessible to a few selected groups, it’s beginning to be misused. With the Sirians, this has a tendency and has happened many times. It’s up to us to see through this manipulation, otherwise we’ll end up in a much worse situation than the Atlanteans.
At least they were stopped by the Flood, otherwise we might not be here. It was ENLIL who manipulated events to cause the Flood, so when the Sirians have a finger in the pie, things really do get out of hand after a while. It always seems inevitable. This makes them untrustworthy, no matter what others say.
The technology of Atlantis was different from that of today, but there are similarities. The use of computers has already been mentioned. But they also had space technology, of course, and a wealth of knowledge about the stars and the Universe in general, and they flew to the Moon and Mars, and probably other planets within the Solar System. In many ways they were more advanced than we are today.
The Sirian Overlords and their minions fed on fear, as the Cabal does with us today, and in addition to setting up the Grid and the Trap System, they also used technology to control people’s minds and thoughts.
A relatively small population, less than a billion at the time, was much easier to control than today’s eight billion people. They taught humans about warfare and instigated wars to create mass events from which the Sirians could energetically feed.
Sometimes the wars were just for that purpose, sometimes they were over real estate or some petty conflict between Sirian authorities. This was nothing new; the Sirians, just like us humans today, couldn’t even live peacefully with each other, and conflicts and wars were very common.
As Zecharia Sitchin describes so well in his book ‘The Wars of Gods and Men’, they used human soldiers as cannon fodder for their silly wars, which could sometimes start because of jealousy between ‘gods’, or simply as a ‘show-off’; who was the most powerful and fearless?
The jealousy between the gods of Sirius is well documented, so there is no need to go into detail here. Crystals had a lot to do with it, because crystals, especially the ones they called Meš, pronounced ‘mesh’, contain memory and knowledge. They were also a means of communication between the gods, almost like today’s mobile phones, but they worked over longer distances.
Incidentally, today’s mobile phone technology is a watered-down version of Atlantean technology, but we see how quickly our mobile phones are becoming more advanced, as if someone is having epiphanies after epiphanies and inventing new technology on a weekly basis.
Of course, that’s not the case; mobile phone technology, as it will be used in the future, has been fully developed for a long time. In fact, it’s not a human invention, it’s been achieved through technology transfer programmes.
In Atlantean times, the gods fought over these devices to steal knowledge from each other and gain access to each other’s secrets. It was such a big deal that people were killed over them.
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2024/07/...ards-fall/