Battlefield Earth

CaptainHook

No, this has nothing to do with the sci-fi movie. It has everything to do with real life however; life closer to home, because we are living in an increasingly hostile environment characterized by both increasingly difficult and dangerous times. The wars – wars on multiple levels – are coming closer and closer to home every day. And slowly but surely – one by one – increasing numbers of people are beginning to see it because it’s starting to materially affect their lives. They are coming to the realization that even though they may just be simple folks (from wherever), they are at war with extremists all over the world, including those (especially those) at home. And no amount of distraction will change such an enlightening once realized, not what Miley Cyrus is wearing out on her date tonight, not what Kim Kardashian is talking to herself about – nothing.

No, once you have had one of your limbs blown off simply because you were standing at the finish line of marathon you start to ask some hard questions, where the pabulum the establishment’s mainstream media feeds us simply no longer cuts it for many, not those directly affected, or friends and relatives. Of course for most it’s equally difficult to accept the extreme views of conspiracy theorists; however again, when these things come closer to home, like having the entire city of Boston locked down in martial law like conditions so that literally thousands of jackbooted Nazi like hooligans could hunt down a 19-year old kid seems a bit extreme to some, especially since this whole incident could have been manufactured. This is what it was like in Nazi-Germany as a terrified populous allowed their liberties to be stolen by Hitler’s hooligans.

So American’s should be increasingly worried that such incidents, manufactured or not, are getting more frequent and closer to home, because if the way Boston was handled is the blueprint for the introduction of a more permanent state of martial law to go along with our apparent state(s) of perpetual financial repression and bureaucracy emboldening, the evidence is clear – we are all in a great deal of trouble. Just wait for the banks and financial institutions to start failing to see your life savings confiscated by a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats to keep their pensions coming in. Then, like depicted in Animal Farm, it will be too late, because the pigs will unleash their dogs on you if trouble erupts. That’s what the ‘big show’ in Boston was all about; showing you who is boss. So again, one does wonder how a couple of deeply misguided boys were able to both concoct and execute such an elaborate plan with all those special opps types present supposedly watching for just that kind of thing. It makes you wonder.

And it makes you wonder if all the new concern over the ‘sleeper cell’ they were apparently attached to is more of a make work project for the pig’s dogs (think Animal Farm), or an actual threat to America’s safety. (i.e. if the FBI knew about the boys and sleeper cell already, like 911, why didn’t they do something about the situation previously?) But again, these are hard questions only a trained dog could answer correctly in all likelihood, especially if asking the wrong people. Because again, they intend to make an example of the captured boy, where he will likely be put to death. That’s a blood thirsty lot no matter how justified they consider themselves, especially considering the US record abroad, which is horrendously worse. They give medals to the perpetrators of those crimes against humanity using weapons of mass destruction. This thing’s got a bad taste to it no matter what really happened – it feels more like conditioning for martial law than anything else. 

But this was not the only ‘blueprint like’ embroil we have been treated to recently. Don’t forget about Cyrus, where it’s already been confirmed by official sources that deposit confiscation is to be expected in the US (and throughout the West) as well, with Cyprus being the blueprint then. So it should not have been a surprise (but apparently it was) that with the intervention in precious metals last week, pushing gold and silver prices down drastically, to the point of producer breakeven, that this was met with unparalleled accumulation. 

What’s more, it would not be a stretch to say that in fact there is a defacto run on gold occurring right now because of increased confiscation risks all over the world, where COMEX inventories, for example, have seen the largest outflow in history because owners are worried about getting their metal back. This is especially true at present with all the rumors circulating that default is looming at the world’s largest depositories.
 

So why is all this happening? Why were precious metals taken down so aggressively this past week? Answer: In one word, the answer is confidence – confidence in the dollar($) and status quo fiat currency economy(s), with none more important than the bond market(s). Interest rates must be kept down if the illusion is to be maintained – kept down in the US, Japan (with all the money printing going on), and even Canada, where a housing bubble modeled after that in the US is now coming unglued. Higher interest rates would put the final nails in the coffin at an accelerating rate; which again, is why we are seeing increasingly desperate measures on the part of the powers that be. Of course in the inflation perception department, if the signal thrown off last week with the Dow / TSX Ratio breaking out is correct (see Figure 5), the bureaucracy’s price managers should have little to worry about for now (until next year when the deleveraging cycle bottoms), which will become painfully evident to them at some point in the not too distant future. (i.e. think deflation scare.)

In fact, it could be argued that central planners are pursuing dangerous policy direction right now (which is a ruse that those with vested interests will attempt to trade as reality), and that if they don’t get a grip on what macro-conditions really are soon (meaning shut-up and start printing money with abandon), like in the late 20’s, an irreversible deflationary episode could be triggered. And it’s possible this risk is the reason Bernanke is leaving his post at the end of this present term; and, also could be why he is attempting to distance himself from this same post ahead of time. He now likely sees that expanding public balance sheets and artificially inflating asset bubbles is not necessarily a panacea for economic recovery. One cannot argue with the data in this respect, where key indicators (Europe too) and data points continue to show a rapidly decelerating machine. And while it’s true the bureaucracy’s fiat currency economy(s) may be improving from various perspectives, one must remember the sustainability of such trends is highly suspect and fragile.

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