TFMR Podcast #22 - John Butler, author of "The Golden Revolution"

Dent speaks well, his demographic analysis is sound, but he completely misses the boat regarding the feds ability and desire to fight deflation with an airforce of helicoptors.

Dow 36k?  God I hope he's right.  I can't imagine what a $36,000 Krugerrand would feel like.

How might we get a gold standard?  It is not going to come from any country encumbered by debts or entitlements (debts by another name).  Some other country, that likely begins with a C, is going to became the overnight reserve world currency when they create a strong, sound gold attached currency.  And all of those other countries, loaded with debts and entitlements are going to get inflated into chaos.....destroying the debts and entitlements.  I see no way out.  Look at how the Greeks are refusing the choice of wiping out all debts (including entitlements) and starting over with a sound currency.  People will not do the right thing because they view it as too punitive-even if it is the right thing.   So they choose to keep the fraud going....until the day it stops entirely.  You've got the bankers and the entitled all on the side of keeping the ponzi going....take the Tea Party folks who want fiscal responsibility, but "don't touch my medicare"..."I earned it".......eh, scuz me, no you didn't.  You don't get a hundred trillion dollar UNFUNDED liability because you funded it, i.e., earned it.  That happened because a long list of corrupt politicians stole it from future taxpayers and lavished it upon you.  Of course, you voted for them...Its a fraud and you are possessing stolen goods.....I better duck!

and that is my point.  America will not address the fraudulent debts and entitlements....ever.  It will be forced on us.

Remember, you don't get massive unfunded liabilities because you funded them in the first place....that is not savings, and surely is not earnings.  

Now vets, they earned it....they have funded with something far more dear than savings.  It is Memorial weekend....

PV=nRT

also, whats new? (nu)

c/L

chemistry and physics mock economics

http://www.survivalblogs.com/threads/atf-now-trying-to-outlaw-certain-sh...

I suggest that we not look to government to generate any type of currency that would be accepted by the masses should our current system collapse.  No one will want to trade goods or services for fiat, but barter and items of generally known and accepted value would be traded.  Thus, presumably, gold and silver, along with chickens and loaves of bread, would be traded among the people routinely.  At some point government would step in to try to intervene in order to collect taxes on the trades and might offer up some sort of trinkets or paper claiming to represent value, but it would be up to the people to accept or reject it.  Given what would logically lead up to a collapse of currency to begin with, government would probably have a difficult time trying to convince the people that they could be trusted no matter what they came up with.  There's no reason to think the government leopard is going to change his spots just because of a national calamity or two - those people never change.

like the MKA 1919.  Got mine already.  Great gun.  Eats everything I feed it within reason.  They don't like shotguns with mags.

Iran designs alternative system for SWIFT: CBI

Bahmani said on Saturday the new system,which has already been activated, would replace Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) 


 

http://presstv.com/detail/2012/05/26/243243/iran-designs-alternative-swift-cbi/

is 13 months old.  Ignore it.

Clinton ,Obama, and D seem to have the most connections by far; a few Bush, Reagan, especially if you go to the link and read those too.

Seems kind of weird somehow

I am a retired Army Colonel with 34 plus years of service. I was an infantry platoon leader and company commander in Vietnam for three tours. My son is a recently separated Captain with 5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He's smarter than I and fled the madness.

Every Memorial Day and Veteran's Day I get good and pissed off. I resent being cannon fodder for the hidden agenda of the government. My heart aches for what my beloved son experienced as he followed me into the family business. (My father, maternal grandfather, and maternal great-grandfather were all Army officers and I have an ancestor that fought in the first American Revolution, albeit for the losing side. He was buried along the trail and his grave is probably a Walmart parking lot.) 

My heart is broken at the senseless violence done by our out of control leaders. All of the wars that have transpired since 1945 have been illegal under the US Constitution. Yet, we the people let that slide time and again. I guess we deserve what's coming.

My son and I are off to build a fire on sacred ground, cook steaks from our own herd and drink a bottle of fine hand made bourbon. We'll tell war stories, laugh, yell and cry. A fuck of a family tradition, but it works for us.

It's time for a national draft with no exceptions. If you can't meet military standards then we'll find something you can do. I'm a fan of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corp. Many of the parks in the country were built by these fine citizens and still stand today. It's long past time for shared responsibility. We'd have far fewer wars of adventure if the President and Congressmen's kids were in the line of fire.

Evaporation requires concentration of all extra thermal energy in the system in one place/functional subpart of it increasing temperature in that part enough to evaporate the pieces/liquid that seems to be particularly de cooperating. That is called war in policy- take the heat out of other problems, focus it on war, plus evaporate/liquid(ate)  the annoying parts of system.

However, the vapor in this case will be oversaturated as there is no space in the system ( Earth- or is there) where is could expand and cool to equilibrium. Instead, it will condense into liquid on various frozen segments, adding heat to them and destabilizing them. Thus, one relatively small event of evaporating the unpleasant disturbance of unity  can start a chain of creating de cooperating pieces all over the system, nearby at first, leading to the need to evaporate more of them.

And so on, until thermal balance is achieved- a relatively chaotic heated state with a lot of structures gone which thermodynamically will match the deviation in heat caused by initial shock which initially led to extreme cooperation and freezing, thus letting out a lot of heat. This heat, once distributed in a destructive manner described above, partly unfrozen (structures liquidated-e,g states or functions) , partly evaporated ( productive assets including labor) , create a new equilibrium -quite chaotic with a lot of vapor but in thermal balance, and this vapor will be so distributed that it will start to condense over all system almost at once, starting at most suited freezing centers- new centers of power- creating new frozen structures and pathways leading back to increased degrees of cooperation- new world order ( not in conspiracy theories sense) - just a new way for the world to be able to operate again.

This processs has happened many times in the past, but as with the USA debt limit being a new parameter in current financial crisis, where debt limits have been reached, the intensity of vaporization increases with every time as human population still growing superexponentially in a precrash like manner reaches the closer and closer to the  limits of planet Earth and there is less and less of still empty space where the vapor can condensate  and cool off without disturbing some existing structures. Hence population growth is the single most disturbing , though natural, determinant of the scale, length and intensity of coming future calamities. The vessel is full, and we have not developed enough  leaks to other planets.

I wonder if these analogies make ANY sense, Just fun.

I spent 4.5 years enlisted and another 6 as an officer before I hung up my spurs in disillusionment.

That said, I was lucky enough when I was a Corporal to have a then Colonel as a mentor and father figure... he is still a father figure to this day.  He retired as a 4 star and you very likely served under his father in Vietnam... his father died as Chief of Staff of the Army.

I resigned my commission without talking to him and years later, when we talked about it, he said this: "I failed you.  I didn't teach you one very important thing... you [me] fell in love with something that couldn't love you back... the Army.  My father taught me to love the SOLDIER in the same way that Patton taught him."  He was right.  

That said, I agree with everything you said (and he would too) except for one thing.... I am not sure yet that I am in favor of a universal draft... we NEVER really had one, certainly not for your generation in Vietnam, but not even the "Greatest Generation" for WWII where 75% were draftees... sons of the "elite" were not serving then either other than for personal, potential, future gain (see the Kennedy's).  THEY will ALWAYS have an out... anything else is a pipedream in my opinion.

For CENTURIES... even MILLENIUMS, countries, empires, city states... have ALL draped their young men in their flags and banners in the name of "good" to do nothing more than further self-interests... sometime, the self-interests are "more good" than others, but it is ALWAYS been and ALWAYS will be in self-interest... we delude ourselves to think otherwise and I am unapologetically American to this day so to speak.

Enjoy your day... my wife and children are home in Pensacola while I too am in Afghanistan, but only until Wednesday. ;)

Hang in there... and here is the one other thing my mentor always said that always stuck with me that I truly understood...

"KEEP THE FAITH!"  Because THAT is what being in uniform is really about.

might become rarer than diamonds? :-)  Did you know it is just pressed cotton?  These are all 2011 vintage. Bakelite is vintage.  410 shotgun and two AK's in alternate calibers.  Love that bakelite. Now that's real plastic!

Who said, "The weapon of my enemy, when I need one, needs to be my friend."? I don't remember but I took it to heart.

Turd

Need more like these two ................Hung on every word

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