silver versus dollars

Working at a remote office this week...

Lakeland, FL: This office is a fabrication plant that makes all kinds of cool stuff. Right now they are working on some gigantic reverse osmosis systems that can pump over a million gallons of purified water per day!

It is fun seeing the different remote offices and what they do even though the actual network migrations (the reason for my trips) can be a bit a stressful. The fact that the temperature here is 79 degrees with low humidity, sunny with a nice breeze doesn't hurt either.

Year end ponderings on world events from a tin-foil hat wearing percussionist

Been a while since I posted anything but it has been a busy year (some family sickness and 'work' has been more on the crazy/busy side for a few months.) Anyway... 2011 was an interesting year for me from the standpoint of political awareness and how I feel about many things I would have once dismissed as consipracy theories.

Some conclusions I have come to in a nutshell based on a LOT of Internet research and simple open-minded observations of current events and history:

1. The U.S. dollar is doomed and doomed most likely in the very near term (months? perhaps years, but not many.) The base money supply has been increased by a deviously large percentage via the Federal Reserve's secret loans to banks around the world. in 2008 we were only told about 1.5 trillion. Recenty Ron Paul's partial audit revealed that 16 trillion had been loaned out (money created out of thin air as debt) which to my mind means that in truth there has likely been MUCH MUCH more money created in the last few years. When money is created like this it doesn't immediately create price inflation because it will take a few years for the money to begin to circulate into the real economy... but it is sort of like a human getting blasted with radation. It won't likely kill you right off the bat but it does permanent damage that can't be undone and your life is going to be greatly shortened. The dollar has been HUGELY devalued by this and it is inevitable that the economy will see it shortly. The only way to protect yourself from this doom is to move any available paper assets (savings accounts, IRAs, bonds, 401Ks, etc.) to land/property and/or commodities like precious metals. I think precious metals (particulatly silver) is THE best form of protection against the inevitable inflation (and outright bank theft). The recent MF Global collapse has already revealed how easy it is to lose money you thought was safe. So you can actually just have your money stolen from you through a bank collapse OR you can lose the value of it through inflation (or more likely hyper inflation).

2. There is going to be a gigantic wealth transfer when the banking system collapses and basically it is going to move from those with paper assets to those with hard money assets (i.e. silver). For the last 40+ years the price of gold and silver has been repressed by the system because if you can't control the price of precious metals you can't control fiat currencies and the inflation/deflation cycle. The result is that silver (vastly moreso than gold even) is undervalued (meaning: CHEAP AS HECK!). If the commodity prices were allowed to freely move within a free market system, we would probably see the price of silver shoot from $28/ounce to $1000/ounce or $5000/ounce or $10,000/ounce (I could keep going but it makes my head spin). Mike Maloney does an excellent job of laying out this point: http://goldsilver.com/video/debt-collapse-20-000-gold-mike-maloney/

3. Ron Paul has a very good chance despite what the main stream media says of becoming the next President... as long as he can avoid being assassinated! That might sounds nutty but I want you to read the following short article... over the life of our country there has been a documented struggle between certain men (who believe like the Founding Fathers that a central bank was terrible for our Republic) and the European banking systsem that WANTED a central bank to exist in the United States. http://thetruthnews.info/bankers_and_presidents.html

-- Draw your own conclusions. According to a book called 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin, a book about the (now public) secret meeting of bankers prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, documents how it was these very banks that purchased the 50 largest newspapers in the United States with the alleged idea to use the media to 'warm' the American public to the idea of a central bank. Well those same companies for the most part have not changed ownership over the years... they have just expanded to more modern forms of media like television and radio. The mainstream media outlets are beyond any doubt working to keep Ron Paul out of the Presidency as can be seen by anyone even half paying attention . They support each GOP candidate that surges whilst always belittleing Dr. Paul and his 'chances' at election. This says something profound to me... there is something about Dr. Paul they do not like (and by they I insinuate the owners of these media outlets and by deduction... the banking system). I believe there is more than enough evidence to connect the dots here that a Ron Paul Presidency would be against the interests of the banking system and yet NONE of the other GOP candidates pose a similar threat.

4. 2012 is bound to be a rough year for the middle class and the poor of this country as well as for those same groups around the world. If a major economic disaster occurs in Europe, then it will most assuredly reach our shores in a matter of weeks considering how interconnected the world's leading economies are. Our own credit crisis of 2008 had world-wide effects and if the Euro falls then it will I believe lead to the dollar following, much the same as man with a canonball chained to his ankle when someone drops it into the sea (I guess the man was on a pirate ship :-P .) Worst case scenarios (but nothing inconceivable) are of course bank holidays but even closer to home would be supply shortages... food for example. It is extremely conceivable especially if the dollar were to go into outright hyper-inflation that the country's infrastucture could experience some big hiccups and things like food deliveries to grocery stores could see delays of days or weeks. In such cases since the average American only has about 2-3 days of food in the house there would be food riots and potentially violent crime even in suburbs as people attempt to feed their families. Gasoline could also experience these types of delivery delays. Our country even though it is in debt up to its eyeballs has been living as if it were wealthy (although I don't consider borrowed money as wealth) and so there ARE abundant reserves here of all sorts but as I said, there could be 'periods' of days or weeks when things are scarce enough to cause people to panic. The solution? Well for the short term it would be wise to stock up a bit more (or a lot more) and consider a means to defend your home if the neighborhood gets dicey. In the long term the only real solution is for the monetary system to collapse and a new system replace it.

5. So what would or should replace the current fiat system?? Well it has already been broadcast by the Eurozone that a new world currency is ready for deployment. The question is, who will be running our country when the offer is made??? Ron Paul would reject it and the U.S. would go onto a Gold Standard (if he were in office that is). I would venture a guess that ANY other GOP candidate (or Obama if he gets reelected) will gladly toss away American sovereignty and most Americans in order to get back to prosperity will do ANYTHING necessary including embracing a new currency controlled by a government other than our own (most likely a world government in some form or other). In that case we would trade one failed fiat system for another doomed to experience the same fate and insodoing would also further subvert ourselves to the rule of a world-governing body.

6. The average American is asleep watching football and reality TV so most of what I just said will sound like the blathering of some fatigues-wearing militia member (nothing wrong with that by the way) with a penchant for tinfoil headgear. These are the conclusions I have come to based on the information I have seen. Many have come to different conclusions, some more main stream, some far more extreme. I just recommend that people open their eyes and come to their own conclusions but most importantly that you ACT on those conclusions and don't ignore facts merely because the outcome of those 'facts' might be negative and difficult to contemplate. I'm not really frightened of 2012... much less so in fact since I feel at least somewhat prepared for it but I do feel a good deal of foreboding, not even as much for my family as my friends and extended family who probably DO think I am either nuts myself or terribly naive and perhaps foolish. Unfortunately time is going to tell... and soon I think.

**If you want to hear from someone who has a facinating theory of what is happening in banking with the dollar and gold and silver and where things are headed... check out http://www.roadtoroota.com/. His name is Bix Weir and of everyone I've been following, I hope he has it right... his theory actually has a happy ending even though the middle of the story is going to get rough.

Some specific links to articles and interviews from Bix:

- http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/190.cfm (The actual road to roota theory)

- http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/789.cfm (Recent interview with SGTbull -- another blogger and silver bug. Note, BIX predicts Sarah Palin will be chosen to run with Ron Paul and lo and behold just yesterday at the Iowa Caucus she all but endorsed him... I am curious what happens in the coming weeks with that.)

- http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/94.cfm (talks of where the silver price should be and why)

There is a TON of good info on the free section of his website (He does even more for members but I am not interested in paying $150/year and the free stuff is great). That's all folks.

Fall gardening 2011

Well so far so good. This is my first attempt at growing cool weather crops... in cool weather. Planted everything the third weekend in August and everything seems to be coming up pretty strong. Since I had good luck over the Summer with sugar snap peas and since my family uniformly LOVES to eat them, I dedicated the two small beds entirely to peas. The larger bed I split three ways into carrots, lettuce and spinach (all considered cool weather crops).

Thank you neighbor's pine tree for the free mulch.

I used a legume innoculant on the snap peas which is supposed to produce a steady stream of nitrogen throughout the growth cycle... seems to be doing its job!

A young carrot top... before his career tanked!


A baby lettuce... the lettuce and spinach both have been somewhat frustrating in that even though I planted the seeds all at the same time, the sprouts just came up haphazardly over the course of a few weeks, so I have plants in varying stages of development.

Spinach... my favorite salad.

One of the larger lettuce plants (still only half grown)

The big uprights are from my tomatoes... just never took them down.

The sugar snap pea vines are looking very good and I hope we have a bumper crop (the peas freeze well so we'll get stocked up for the winter).

A sea of carrots! I made sure to use phosphorus this time and NO extra nitrogen... last year my carrots were giant bushes of green with pathetic little orange lumps the size of grapes under the surface.

I will report again when I have something to harvest.