the collapse of the world economy (magnum opus)...
By 1voxpopuli on Aug 9, 2009 | In u.s. economy, world economy, stock market, hyperinflation, budget deficit, federal reserve, magnum opus
"I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."
--"civil disobedience" by henry david thoreau
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45455/
i'm basically an anarcho-syndicalist...i believe the world would be better off without money or barter and without any form of government...and i would think that it would be hard for anyone to argue that we're better off the way things are now...
people make machines that can dance and pick crops and vacuum and play violin and even make more of themselves...there already exist alternative energies that won't harm the earth...
instead of putting time and energy into those things, however, governments focus on war and power...and money...people suffer, as a result...
dark forecasts...
when i started blogging on the economy instead of showcasing my artwork on morphinedreams.com, it was because, like most americans and people around the world, i was scared of what was happening in the fall of last year...
as it happened, i had already been doing some online research into (then) one-time-goldman-sachs-ceo-turned-u.s.-treasury-secretary hank paulson, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, the federal reserve system, and other parts of our current economic landscape, and posting on another site, when wall street tanked, on monday, october 6, 2008, losing 369.88 points on the session...
that evening, someone on that site asked what people thought would happen on tuesday...i made a prediction both for the following day and for balance of the week...i posted my first entry on this site on the 8th, since i had missed my first prognostication by less than 9 points, predicting a 500 point drop while most people were writing about a bull rally...
as it turned out, i missed my forecast for the week by less than 49...on the same post from that monday night (which was posted here on wednesday), i had predicted a friday close of 8500...the dow closed the week at 8451.19...
that amounted to a loss of 1,874.19 points (which was over 18% of its value), for the week...from monday's close until friday's, the four day period for which i predicted, the dow dropped 1504.31 points...a loss of more than 15% of the market's value...i had correctly foreseen and foretold one of the worst weeks in wall street history...
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=28&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=29&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=INDEXDJX%3A.DJI&histperiod=daily&start=210&num=30
over the course of time, i researched things more and shared some links to news that was either unreported or under-reported upon by the major american media outlets...
i also prognosticated again, and i want to know why they call the people in this field, "experts"...i've out-predicted them on the market and on unemployment...economic experts, as well as both the fed and the white house...i predicted double-digit unemployment by the halfway point of this year (if not sooner), a full six months in advance...it subsequently rose from 7.2% to 9.4% within the first five months after my projection for the job market...
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=41&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LNS14000000
i have painted some pretty dark pictures with my forecasts...yet, i have nearly hit the bull's eye with my predictions, while the experts and leaders aren't even close...
ironically, even if the federal reserve and white house did see it, they had to lie, and must continue to do so, in order to instill into consumers, "faith" in the economy...their job is to sell the illusion so that you play the game with them...slave for them...
i am no expert on such things by any means, so, i explained things from my novice layman's understanding of them, and as i learned, i shared...i'm certain there are technical errors in my explanations of things financial...but it's the underlying principals that i am interested in, anyway...the forest, not the trees...
i now understand all that i need to understand about this system...enough to know that it will collapse, promised "recovery" or not...at some point, promises become insufficient to prop up an economy that runs solely on "faith"...
can i get an "amen"...?
there is no money...
wall street has seen a bull rally here of late...but, where is that money coming from...?
the same place the 401(k) retirement funds went to, late last year...
thin air...
the stock market didn't hit bottom until two-and-a-half years after the crash of 1929...and not until after making an apparent "recovery"...it bottomed out at a 90% loss of value from 3 years prior...
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=35&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
there exists less than $1 trillion in federal reserve fiat (i.e., valueless, backed by faith in it, and nothing else) currency, and most of that is outside of our borders...as of june 2008, there was no more (and likely much less) than $414.5 billion (out of a total of $829 billion) worth of federal reserve currency in this entire country, according to the federal reserve bank of new york...
wall street plays a game of hot potato called "greater fool" and the banking industry plays its own game of "fractional reserve banking"...the entire system is fraudulent...
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed01.html
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greaterfooltheory.asp
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=30&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=71&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=56&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
as they play this game, people's lives are ruined...entire families are ruined...there are several tragic deaths and situations that i have linked to in past posts...
(side note: i apologize if links don't work or are redirected in this post, or in others...i check them all prior to posting...usually, a little time on google will direct you to a link with the same info...)
the following link is to a blog with a video that was initially broadcast on c-span...rep. paul kanjorski (d-pa) details the events that occurred prior to the wall street crash...
there was an electronic bank run...$550 billion was withdrawn from money market accounts one thursday around the middle of september, last year, in "a matter of an hour or two"...rep. kanjorski stated that these were "the facts"...after evidently being alerted by the federal reserve, the treasury department closed down the operation and guaranteed $250,000/per account, so as to avoid further panic, (after pumping $105 billion into the system), because by 2 p.m., "five-and-a-half trillion dollars would have been drawn out of the money market system of the united states"...since there isn't even close to that much currency, it's no surprise that rep. kanjorski then added, "[It] would've collapsed the entire economy of the united states, and within 24 hours, the world economy would've collapsed...it would've been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it."
he goes on to say that, as a result of this, paulson told congress to give them (the treasury department and federal reserve) "latitude and large authority to do many things as we decide necessary, and give us $700 billion to do that..." (emphases mine)
that withdrawal and subsequent demand for $700 billion occurred roughly 3 months after the new york federal reserve bank posted that m zero (i.e., tangible currency) figure of $829 billion...most of which wasn't even in this country, according to them...
$550 billion was withdrawn "within an hour or two", which is more than the total of all of the federal reserve currency that was in the united states at the time...
so, where did the federal reserve and the treasury department, with the blessing of congress, get $700 billion from...?
it's all a game...and the entire game system nearly came to an end in september of last year...
would you have been prepared...?
(start at 2:08)
http://morphinedreams.com/blog5.php/2008/10/19/survival-guide-1
security and liberty...
i also ran across this article, which details how the united states government was considering a cyber offensive against saddam hussein in 2003, which would have amounted to freezing billions of dollars...they realized then, that the world's economic system will either become crippled or else collapse like the house of cards that it is, should they ever pursue that end...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/us/politics/02cyber.html?_r=1&ref=politics
north korean forces recently launched a cyber attack against south korea and the u.s., including the department of defense and the national security agency...
the obama administration's response to threatening situations (such as this) is the same as (not a "change" from) the previous administration...their solution...restrict liberty...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31338666/ns/politics-the_new_york_times
when the government is that defenseless...when the economy is that vulnerable...what good is restricting freedom...?
look no further than the bush administration's "national security letters" for the answer to that question...
"none"...
how can we be secure when anyone could use a fraudulent national security letter for whatever means they wished, without ever being caught...?
would you know if it was fake or real if you received one...?
you couldn't check the facts, because if you did, and it was a real one, you would soon be serving a long prison sentence, just for mentioning it to anyone...so, how exactly did opening that window of opportunity for chaos make us more secure...?
http://morphinedreams.com/blog7.php/2009/05/09/this-is-our-national-security
and even though we don't like to think about it, there's always the possibility of nuclear war and/or attacks...north korea, iran, and who knows who else...does restricting personal freedom prevent that...?
one way or another, the world economy is going to fall...even if the cyber economy stays free from attacks and bank runs for a while, with so little currency, the only way to pay the loans off if they are called in is to monetize the debt...leading to hyperinflation...how is regulating wall street, or spying on emails to stifle possible domestic cyber attacks, or any other restriction that congress and the administration waste everyone's time on, going to help if china suddenly calls it in...?
the best case scenario for the rest of the nation in that instance, is if china takes it out solely on paulson, geithner and bernanke...but it's more likely that the chinese wouldn't waste their time hunting them down or care if the rest of us died along with them, should their economy collapse because of the game those men have been playing...
(insert sound of nuclear explosion, here...)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29675114
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31995295/ns/business-world_business
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=34&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=36&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=37&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
define "military intelligence"...
it seems that the military has been talking to the same advisors that told the government that national security letters would be a good idea...
there are experiments being conducted by the american military that involve nikola tesla's work...it's called "high frequency active auroral research program" (aka, haarp...i guess that's easier to say than hfaarp)...but, the motive may not be for the creation of free energy (in fact, i seriously doubt that's even a consideration)...tesla invented a "death ray", too...
if they don't know what they are doing, there's a possibility they could, according to tesla, crack the planet in two...judge for yourself...watch this video entitled, "holes in heaven", and see if the scientists working on the project make it sound like they even have a clue what they're doing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-VMfzO94M0
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_wendwar.html
the military is also making advances in robotics...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5349770802105160028
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126922.200-the-new-world-of-robot-warcraft.html
as a result, soldiers are even becoming emotionally attached to these machines...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868033/
and, foolishly, our military is creating autonomous, armored, robotic assassins...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30810070
you know, just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should...how can any military personnel or law enforcement officer feel secure in his/her position regarding autonomous killing machines...?
what happens when these machines go beyond the government's programmed protocol...?
military and law enforcement have weapons...will these robots read their actions as self-defense...?
or murderous aggression...?
which is more likely when these armored killers have just broken protocol...?
how many civilian law enforcement and military personnel will be sacrificed exterminating that little oversight...?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32147267/ns/technology_and_science-the_new_york_times
(note to conspiracy theorists: i wouldn't worry about everyone having a "mark of the beast" chip implanted by some united, global consortium...that would be incredibly more difficult than what the world's leaders, both nationally and internationally, are trying to juggle now, and so far, they haven't proven that they can defend against anything...when they cease being lucky, the vulnerability and frailty of everything they have built will be obvious to all...if anyone is still alive, that is...)
define "recovery"...
the term they are using to sell the economy, is "recovery"...
what exactly does "recovery" mean...?
because, even if this promised "recovery" of theirs takes hold, they will balloon the stock market on wall street and another bubble will burst, ruining more people's lives...ruining more entire families...this dog and pony show can't continue indefinitely...
eventually, we are going to reach the event horizon...if we haven't already...
there are estimates out stating that half of the homeowners in this country will be underwater regarding their mortgages within roughly 18 months...
does that sound like a "recovery" to you...?
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE5745JP20090805
people are realizing that, even if the economy recovers, it will take years to recoup all of the jobs lost due to this recession...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32314827/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy
so, in a little more than one year, the overwhelming majority of americans will be either underwater in their mortgage, already foreclosed upon, renting, or homeless, dealing with high unemployment, while paying for congressional pork and bankers...
and consumer confidence will be high because...?
if they are able to blow up their balloon again on wall street, it won't last long...
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=40&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://morphinedreams.com/blog2.php?p=38&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
so, does "recovery" simply mean that the rich can stop being scared of the poor, again...?
when else have wall street executives ever been advised not to flaunt their wealth...?
"This is a sensitive time for us, and [goldman sachs ceo lloyd blankfein] wants to make sure that we're not being seen living high on the hog," is a quote given in this article, attributed to a "Goldman executive"...
religion's role...
part of the problem, one that empowers and drives fiat economies, as well as part of the solution, as i see it, is religion, and in america, that predominantly means christianity...(by extension, this relates to all religions, however)...
people are taught to have "faith"...this sheepish mentality has made it incredibly simple to sell the idea of an economy that has nothing tangible behind it...just have "faith", just follow, don't question, and all will go smoothly...as far as you know...because no one knows otherwise unless and until someone questions the system, checks the facts, and sees past the smoke and mirrors...
jesus said that "you cannot serve two masters"...you can't serve god and money, therefore you can't put faith in the economy and be a part of it if you wish to have faith in jesus and be a part of his kingdom...he did not offer any other options there...christians should dogmatically be against having faith in any earthly economy...
http://bible.cc/matthew/6-24.htm
his follower paul is quoted as saying that "the love of money is the root of all evil"...or in some translations, "the desire"...
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/6-10.htm
some examples of how true this statement really is can be found on this link...e.g., "Women trafficked to the United States have been forced to have sex with 400-500 men to pay off $40,000 in debt for their passage."
http://www.catwinternational.org/factbook/usa1.php
as well as in this article on "sex slavery"...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28161210/
or, you can get a freshly-harvested black-market replacement for a faulty organ right here in the united states...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32132371/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts
thanks to money...which, by the way, happens to be the only reason these people indulge in such behavior...
certainly then, there isn't any economy in jesus' kingdom of heaven...so, if doing things on earth as they are done in heaven is part of the most important prayer to a christian, then none of this should violate a christian's conscience...
if/when the day comes that the current economy collapses overnight, as it nearly did in september of last year, and jesus isn't there, riding a white horse in the sky, neither form of faith will have proven fruitful...and the abrupt awakening into that reality would likely be pretty brutal for such ones...
better to be momentarily enraged because of someone waking you up before the alarm goes off, than to find out "why" the hard way...
(side note: i occasionally use scriptures because people are familiar with the phrases and for the wisdom contained within...i do not agree with the notion that religion is a positive for mankind...individual spirituality is another matter...)
god's role...
another quick point which bears examination here...nowhere in the u.s. constitution is there any mention of god (unless you count the phrase "in the year of our lord", which is the same as writing "a.d.")...
http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html#god
freedom of religion is guaranteed by the bill of rights...
therefore, the united states of america is not a christian nation, as this would violate the first amendment of the constitution..."god" or "creator" can mean different things to different people, and our constitution guarantees you that you have the right to understand those religious terms howsoever you individually choose...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amendmenti
"When the Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence and later, the Congress formed under the Articles of Confederation drafted the Constitution of the United States of America, no mention was made of Jesus Christ. Rather, the only references to deity in the Declaration of Independence were to 'God'; none are in the Constitution."
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/amr/amerc.htm
the declaration of independence makes a significant point regarding our "creator"...but, it has nothing to do with being forced to believe a certain way...to the contrary, because there is something larger than us all, it states that we have "certain unalienable rights" that cannot be taken away, and which government must secure for the people...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..."
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm
humanity's role...
humanity's history is simply governments and/or religions fighting over land...if you don't have land, you have no nation, only ethnic ties to others without a homeland...land ownership is control and power...the result is the reality we live in today...
humans on this planet are living here like fleas on a dog...if allowed to run amok, fleas will sicken, and eventually kill, the larger being that is the host...
what an idiotic thing it would be for the fleas to kill one another in an effort to become the conquerors of the entire dog...
and then it dies...
what we need to do is to evolve into the kind of society that is part of the earth, rather than being detrimental to it...
do what makes you happy...it's a guaranteed, "unalienable" right, after all...in so doing, many are already paving the way for the rest of humanity, and bringing benefit to it...
e.g., "the venus project" of jacque fresco...
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
there are many ideas that show promise along with the technology to implement them successfully, as long as there is money for them (which obviously isn't ever going to happen, unless the idea can be used as a weapon of war or means of control by the government), or else the better option, no economy whatsoever to impede their realization...here are a handful i've run across...
hydrokinetic turbines...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4213223.html
http://uekus.com/Who_we_are.html
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/10/oxford-engineers-transverse-horizontal-axis-water-turbine/
wind turbines...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=31344424�
geothermal heat pumps...
converting the energy expended by people working out on machinery at the gym into electricity...
"Green Revolution estimate that a group of around 20 bikes used throughout a year has the potential to create 3,600 kilowatt hours of electricity. That, they say, equates to lighting 72 homes for a month."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/07/green.revolution/index.html
solar powered cities are already on their way...
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5386XG20090409
we have solar powered automobiles...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/30089720/for/cnbc/
solar powered autonomous underwater vehicles...
http://www.ausi.org/research/sauv/
a motorcycle powered by magnetism...
and electric vehicles are becoming more and more advanced...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27360847
there are also a number of pioneers working on nikola tesla's free energy...this has unlimited potential...
the following is a link to a youtube video about a home generator using free (zero-point) energy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M
without government pushing war and the economic sector always limiting what can be accomplished for the sake of their profit margins, there are untold benefits for society...
we wouldn't need to work...studies have shown work can be bad for us, anyway...
seriously...
http://americadiversity.net/?p=125
robots are being created to conduct autonomous search-and-rescue and/or disaster relief missions, minimizing the loss of and/or injury to human life, as well as taking on tasks are too labor-intensive, or simply impossible, for humans...
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,1000000183,39169297,00.htm
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-10/robo-hop
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1085
robotics experts at mit and cornell have already created machines that can replicate themselves...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0928_050928_robotcopies.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/selfrep.ws.html
many of us are familiar with honda's "asimo"...
there are robots built to pick fruit...replacing human labor...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker
robots that assist surgeons...
http://www.ohiohealth.com/heartcenter_body.cfm?id=1807
a robotic fish, engineered to detect pollution...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiAxFRMDkY
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52J1RY20090320
they can entertain us, as the robots in these links...one on flute, one on violin...
http://newslite.tv/2008/11/06/robot-plays-the-flute-better-t.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7130000/newsid_7131800/7131872.stm
or on the baseball diamond...
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9847168/Japan-creates-baseball-playing-robots
or be our ballroom dance partner...using technology that can be used to assist the elderly and handicapped...
while one is entertaining, another can be shoveling our walk...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/snow-eating-robot/230604505
and another, cleaning our house...
still another, teaching our children...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30501433/vp/30686701#30686701
theoretically, there isn't anything that robots won't be able to do for us, someday, if we ever get the chance to live without an economy and government that are good for nothing more than impeding progress...
science is on the verge of amazing results in medicine, as well...e.g., a cure for type 1 diabetes, by altering pancreatic cells...how many people could benefit from this...?
without the restrictions of a government-funded health care system and an economic system, medicine could quickly make advances that will make today's treatments look barbaric...
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-diabetes8-2009aug08,0,7120515.story
the possiblities are infinite...
magnum opus...
i see the ultimate goal as living as an autonomous society, walking without holding onto mother government's apron string...
given that having no economic system would take away most abuses of power, thereby altering the dynamics of our federal, state, and local governments, simply eliminating economy would take us in the right direction...
we, the people, are the government in this country, according to the declaration of independence and the constitution...we simply need to alter it in this way, so it is able to meet its intended purpose, which is guaranteeing our individual liberties...
without economy, government would become less and less necessary, so as to simply cease being, over time, as thoreau pointed out...
the supreme solution...
we have a constitutionally bound federal supreme court in this land...yet, traditionally, people write to their congressmen/women, or to the white house, with grievances and ideas...we haven't been barking up the wrong tree...just at the wrong branches...
we, the people, simply need to make the supreme court get their heads in the game...they have stood idly by, hearing cases that will be rendered meaningless if the other branches of our federal government, the military, and the banking system continue to do whatever the hell they want...
if individuals, or even an entire branch or two, of our current federal government and/or any office or organization affiliated with the federal government, could be found guilty of violations within the constitution, coupled with strict enforcement of rulings that defend our guaranteed rights, and without further altering the constitution to do so, we would no longer have to worry about power abuses...
don't mess with the constitution right now...who cares if a line falls one centimeter to the left or right...enforce it as it is...no more of this straining the gnat and swallowing the camel, because that camel is going to do a lot of internal damage...and soon...
tell me, why does capitol hill waste time arguing about a $1 trillion health care package for america...there isn't $1 trillion in our entire economy...
that's fraud...they can't sell it to us, because there isn't enough money for all of us to pay for it, even if every single federal reserve note was currently within our nation...
politicians promised it to us, and they were elected, in part, because of that platform...this should mean that they give it to us when elected, because they cannot make us slave for it...it's unconstitutional...
so what can we do about governmental fraud, especially when used to ensure the "involuntary servitude" of the people of this nation, as politicians are currently trying to do with health care reform...?
get the supreme court to act...
"slavery" and "involuntary servitude" have already been abolished in this country, thanks to the 13th amendment...we need it enforced...
once the supreme court gets properly involved in protecting our liberties, goodbye federal reserve...and goodbye economy...constitutionally guaranteed freedom from slavery is already written...so, let it be done...
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiii.html
parallax...
this eliminates any need for violence...just a need to get the supreme court's attention...
recently, something similar occurred in thailand...except that they used "militant actions" to get their high court's attention on the matter...oddly, in the following article, the thai protesters who were in opposition to the federal government in thailand are not called "terrorists", although they took over two national airports via "militant actions"...the map in the article, which includes sites that were bombed, also points to the airport, where an "anti-government protester [was] killed"...this person was not considered a terrorist even though being part of a militia group that bombed the "government house" and "don muang airport"...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28007819
so, why the double-standard...?
who really are our enemies...?
we're told by the federal government who our enemies are and who are allies are, through the major media outlets...isn't that the reason those people in the article on thailand were not referred to as terrorists staging a coup...?
throw your fear of terrorists away...change the way our government is run, as we, the people of this nation, should, and we will no longer have those enemies that the current version of our federal government has or any previous version of our federal government has had...
evidently, terrorism is a point of view...
notice...
understand this...
i am not suggesting in any way, shape or form, that bombings or "militant actions" should happen here...
let me repeat...
i...do...not...support...anything...like...that...
period...
action...
there are other ways to get the court's attention...creative ways...and we don't need to reinvent the wheel or become engulfed in a firestorm of violence to do so...
truckers have organized slowdowns to bring attention to gasoline prices...unions routinely go on strike to get their demands met...et cetera...
we, as a society, can get the supreme court's attention through something like that, and emerge without an economy, and with a new ideology, backed by the supreme court as well as the constitution that makes us a nation of people...people are indeed the government, and under these circumstances we can make the government work for us, as it should...and no longer work for the government as slaves, as we have...
eliminating economy, as it is a means of slavery, which was abolished in this country long ago, will solve multitudes of problems, so we, the people, can get on to solving the rest of these problems before we end up with autonomous robotic assassins running around creating havoc, or some other nightmare...either greed, lust for power, or pure stupidity could instantly end everything, as we know it...without even a goodnight kiss, first...
we can do a much better job, without even trying, if we just let it happen...life would be dramatically better for humans, as well as for the entire planet...
the coming collapse of the world economy...
there's some irony in all of this for me...it was the near collapse of the world economy late last year that led me to these discoveries...
it's inevitable that the world economy is going to fall, if humanity survives that long...whether through a cyber offensive, probably launched by a government or an anti-government cell, a run on the banks (cyber and/or physical, thanks to the pyramid scheme known as "fractional reserve banking"), by other world governments calling in loans in order to stay afloat, leading to hyperinflation, war or both, or through some other means...
or we could bring it down constitutionally, exposing it as a means of "slavery" and "involuntary servitude", in a well-planned and well-prepared-for, peaceful, non-violent, non-militant, non-chaotic manner, with a smooth transition from economic slavery to freedom, and begin minimizing our dependence on government so we can individually pursue happiness (which is one of the reasons why this country was declared independent in the first place), and do so without a military coup, or without even changing the figureheads who are in the administration and upon capitol hill...without an economy, we, the people, become the puppeteers...
as it should be...
we, the people, are the government...as elected officials, they were given office to be our representatives...and once they could no longer be bought, we would soon see that we don't even need them...
we have the internet...
real change...
not everyone does, i realize...not even close...but there are enough people in areas that have internet access to begin networking, as we, otherwise, proceed with day-to-day life as usual...
without economy, the major problem is creating efficient distribution systems...how do we get it here or there, not whether we can afford it...
we could create more efficient means of production, including more and more machines doing repetitive tasks, and make goods and services available for any who want or need...
by the way, we would have a lot of empty foreclosures for those in need...and if that wasn't enough, by the time we had gotten that far, building homes for everyone wouldn't be a burden...we already do things like this today in volunteer efforts...
then, we could turn our attention toward figuring out how to safely disarm the world's nuclear arsenal and programs like haarp or the military program for development of autonomous armored-tank assassins...beat those swords into plowshares...
there will always be a bridge from here to there, as long as we don't panic...society is already in habitual patterns...daily routines, weekly schedules, monthly deadlines and annual observances...
although this would be a volunteer system (no money, no barter), life wouldn't have to be much different, at first...e.g., there would always be restaurants...some people just love to cook...by that reasoning, we can see that there would always be physicians, food cultivators, carpenters, and so on...
the current world system operates because of our labor (not money)...since the system is already operational, although dysfunctional, initially, all we would need to do would be to continue to do the things we are already accustomed to doing on a schedule...
it would become pretty obvious right off the bat that there is a lot of time wasted on things that are only driven by money...so, many people would almost immediately be able to turn their attention to other things...
people would be able, finally, to turn their attention to what they love, and have a lot more time on their hands with which to do so...a lot of families who want to be closer, and a lot of families that need to be, would benefit...
so would society...instead of jobs, a lot of people would go on to focus on hobbies...there are people today who build sophisticated robots for various purposes in their own basements...how many ways is society being hindered because there will always be someone who didn't get a college degree that could build magnetically-powered cars in his garage as a hobby, but can't afford a garage or doesn't have the money for the materials because he can only find a dead-end job as an assistant in a small accounting firm...
plus, if we needed some laborers, the bankers would suddenly be looking for something to occupy their time...i would imagine they could be persuaded to dig a ditch or run the deep fryer at a restaurant, for the benefit of society, if necessary...
additionally, not having an economy would have an immediate effect on crime...money is used as power...so, where would cartels get their power...?
why burglarize and steal...we wouldn't have to pay for anything, so you could just go to the store and get what you want...people wouldn't be so greedy, because having "stuff" would no longer be a sign of anything other than being a collector...no economic barriers or barometers of status...no serfs, no lords...
as it currently stands, the treasury department has already stated that there is nothing wrong with such actions, so long as it does not violate state law...just scribble on a piece of paper "$5" and the clerk can tear you off three pieces of cardboard that have "one penny" written on them...it's the same as using federal reserve notes or barter or a check or credit card or bus token or coupon or iou...it wouldn't take long until everyone is comfortable picking up the groceries without such nonsense...
"There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise."
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml
understand that i'm not talking about life without problems...
i'm not talking about a system without glitches...
and, i'm not talking about a world where everyone acts the same, or has the same values or opinions...so, if someone wants to waste their entire life just drinking or taking drugs, that's honestly their choice...the reasons behind some addictive behaviors would begin to disappear along with the economy...nevertheless, the right to decide which road represents the pursuit of happiness is an individual one...
in spite of some lingering problems, however, things would not be nearly as bad with a volunteer system, as they are now with (and to some extent, because of) the current economic system...
the nation, and indeed the world, could run more efficiently, and with a whole lot less labor, simply because we wouldn't have an economy wasting our time and impeding our progress...people would evolve from the comfort of routine to moving onto an area of their lives that they enjoy, for their primary focus...
we have the means...
we can network together...we can take care of ourselves...everything's already in place...initially, just continue to live life as it has been programmed into us...in the words of douglas adams, "don't panic"...
there is just one unconstitutional obstacle to remove...
and in conclusion...
i have shared this for anyone who wishes to see...
either this will create its own energy and come to life of its own accord...
or it won't...in which case, we're one electronic meltdown away from chaos...
either way, i seriously doubt i'll ever be blogging on here again...but, if i do, it will be in another section...this home page will remain as it is now...
http://morphinedreams.com/blog5.php/2008/10/19/survival-guide-1
final thoughts...
i'm not anti-america...i'm anti-government...
i'm not anti-federal reserve...i'm anti-economy...
i'm not anti-christian...i'm anti-religion...
we don't need a "revolution"...
we need an "evolution"...
"I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
