Call me a cynic but no candidate elected to president, not even Ron Paul, could stem the meltdown that is destroying the world as we knew it.
America has now passed through the old and much misunderstood of ritual of the presidential election. Candidates offered themselves; the media did its best to ensure that the ones anointed by their employers received the nod from the two major parties; the voting machines where lined up; Rove decided that this time the spread was too great for even the last flurry of 'pulling even' announcements to work, even with the attractions of an attractive woman in the second slot, and the agony of the ritual drew record numbers to the polls.
Rituals build cultural cohesion, affirming beliefs be they ever so easily debunked. The world around us continues to melt; in California the governor quietly defunded programs that ensure the survival of the elderly and handicapped. California is bankrupted, asking for aid from a Federal government that is, itself so far underwater the printing presses should be using toilet paper as they clatter through the night.
Slightly more than one year ago, September of 2007, I wrote the following here in an article titled, "Blackstone, China, and the end of the world as we know it: Get Ready" The article began with, "America is now poised for an event that has happened elsewhere in the world but never, for living Americans, here on US soil. That event is a hyperinflation that will destroy our savings, milking Americans dry. Those who planned this event have been in charge of the monetary system, and in charge of every branch of government. While occupying those positions of trust they have profited mightily. Now, many of those who believed their were 'insiders' will face a reality that confronts them with the fact that they, too, have been had. Their employers have used them to immunize themselves as they prepared to move off shore, convert their stolen assets into Swiss Francs, hard money, and commodities, hunkering down to ride it out as they slurp champagne."
Anyone ready for a pheasant hunting party with some friendly bankers? The article also included the insights from a man who had experienced the hyperinflation that took place in Russia in the 80s. It was bad, worse than Americans can possibly understand. The Great Depression was nothing in comparison and that event, as noted both my myself and Mr. Stan Mikhalsky, could pale beside the full global meltdown that has only begun.
The article ended with advice that included the following:
"Pay off your mortgage if possible or find the means for at least lowering your exposure by moving to a fixed interest rate loan." Now I advise you to take steps to cancel your mortgage; nearly all mortgage documents contain fraudulent terms and can be canceled if you understand the law. Canceling your mortgage keeps money out of the hands of foreign banks and with Americans.
"Get ready to look for the investment opportunities that will soon be available to ordinary people for lower cost alternatives in energy, transportation, and other off-grid technologies." This is still true. Do it.
"Can you grow your own food? Look into starting a coop, bringing in locally grown farm food. Join with those around you; this will build a community of cooperation that will bring both security and provide the means for local control." The resources for doing this on smaller spaces are now greatly increased. Liquid Probiotics is one of several products that can remineralize your soil and so provide food for you and your family that will actually improve your health.
"Growing and eating locally will reduce your exposure to reliance on food that is shipped in from off shore, perhaps bringing in with it diseases or toxic substances, and also mean more security for you and those around you in a steady, clean, supply of food." Truer every day and you need to take action.
"Make sure you know what your children are learning. Schools now routinely turn out students who are functionally illiterate, suited only for the kinds of jobs they envision for our posterity. Dumbing down was part of their agenda." How many children today can build their own radios? Our children need to know practical physics. How many can pass the routines tests on the Constitution given to kids in the early part of the 20th Century?
"The best indicator for future success in life is how early you have your first job, not how many degrees you accumulate; education has become about symbols over substance. Tesla had no degrees and never attended college. This generation of children will be finding out what it means to work the hard way. Nothing about the policies that have extended childhood far into the twenties have been about protecting children; those policies are about control."
"At the same time you need to come together with others in your community to take back control. Use persuasion; true community is about including and caring for everyone voluntarily." Coming together in community is essential of those now in danger are to survive. America began as people governing themselves from their own communities. It worked because the principles are true. People are careful with their own hard earned cash. People will do the right thing when they control their own time and wealth and are free to choose.
"Look at your local police. You pay their salaries. If they are focused on a militarized agenda, converting you and other citizens into criminalized targets, ignoring your Constitutional rights under the coloration of 'gang control' you need to take action. The Constitution is for all of us." More obviously true every single day.
"We need to take back control of our courts. Understand the bait and switch that took place and study the common law that is America's real heritage for enacting justice and lowering the transaction costs of conflict and crime. A crime has not taken place if there is no victim." Study the Constitution and the Common Law and teach your children.
"The Sheriff in your County is the highest Constitutional law enforcement authority. If you can't trust him, remove him and elect someone who will be willing and able to tell the Feds to stay out. Expect them to move rapidly on their agenda to assert control over regional areas and state governments. Be ready to react accordingly." Now, you need to be ready.
"Lastly, start thinking about the many ways that same Corporate Elite has conned us, manipulated us continue their predatory behavior. Through the stock market, through the mortgage industry grab, through the continued rackets they run in every place they touch our lives.
Count up what they have cost you, when, where and who. Make a record. Gather together all of those accounts that show how they have stolen from you, done all within their power to suck you dry. .
There will be an accounting and you need to be ready."
Nothing that happens from DC can help you. Visit America Goes Home, consider your options, and get active. America can go home to all of the things that matter.
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: Master C
Date: 2008-11-08 22:48:03
Dear Melinda,
My, my, my... You sound so serious, yet your assertions are so boldly inept. "Cancel your mortgage." What on earth does THAT mean? Give up your home? "Grow your own food." Where do you come from, Nebraska? "How many children can build their own radios?" How does THAT show scholastic competence? "Look at your local police." You must live in one of those Sarah Palin towns of under 9,000 people. The local police in MY town number in the THOUSANDS. "We need to take back control of our courts." So are we going to begin adjudicating our own laws? Do we each have to become COURT watchers of all the thousands of crimes that occur as we are also "thinking about the many ways that same Corporate Elite has conned us, manipulated us (as they) continue their predatory behavior."
My, my, my.... You have certainly bit off a chunk of Americana that you don't like the taste of and spit it in the spittoon along with a swirling, sputtering, vomit of grotesque images that make it sound like the NAZIS have invaded! Is all you can see the GLOOM and DOOM and HYSTERIA of an America so dominated by some group of unspecific "others" who are incompetent, manipulative, surreptitious, and criminal that you even abominably mix your metaphors as you insist that we have a "Federal government that is, itself so far underwater the printing presses should be using toilet paper as they clatter through the night"?
You even insist that the impending future, not just for America but for the WORLD, will include a grueling, pummeling, devastating INFLATION that even exceeds the hyperinflation that took place in Russia in the 80's that was "bad, worse than Americans can possibly understand. The Great Depression was nothing in comparison and that event, as noted both my myself and Mr. Stan Mikhalsky, could pale beside the full global meltdown that has only begun."
As for myself, I can barely keep from LAUGHING at the pretentiousness of your bombastic assertions as they slither and slide through every element of American life with all the venom of a rattler. You've REALLY got an ITCH that needs SCRATCHING!
Everything is in shambles. Everything is poorly done, falsely made, fatuously taught, and undermined by a plethora of people "who planned this event (and) have been in charge of the monetary system, and in charge of every branch of government. While occupying those positions of trust they have profited mightily. Now, many of those who believed their (sp/there) were 'insiders' will face a reality that confronts them with the fact that they, too, have been had. Their employers have used them to immunize themselves as they prepared to move off shore, convert their stolen assets into Swiss Francs, hard money, and commodities, hunkering down to ride it out as they slurp champagne." Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm sorry to laugh, but that is the part that really staggers me. At least there IS a group who has benefited from all this! And, they're "slurping champaign... off shore" somewhere! Wow! What a party THAT must be! Do they also have YACHTS and as much COCAINE and GOLD as they want?
Not only THAT, but to think that poor RUSSIA suffered such a disastrous hyperinflation that was so BAD that Russia is BACK ALREADY! What would we ever do without the Melindas of the world telling us that "the SKY is falling, the SKY is falling!" And, to believe that you actually PREDICTED IT in September of 2007!
My, my, my.... Melinda. Keep up the good work! It won't be long before the WORLD collapses and we'll just be a spinning ball of BLUE in that great oblivion of BLACK that once was the UNIVERSE. I wonder if you'll be the only one to survive? Then you'll be glad that you can make your own RADIO! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Master C
Posted By: hikkaro
Date: 2008-11-09 07:09:12
Melinda usually only posts when she has something to sell or promote. Pass.
Posted By: themelinda
Date: 2008-11-09 08:07:10
"Master C?" Master of what? The knowledge of how to cancel your mortgage and other entirely legal tools are well known in the movement. The mortgage tools are now moving over into the main stream. Check how many attorneys are now offering to do this for clients - at a hefty charge.
I take no credit for it, just pass on the information so it can be used. I also get no commission, just the satisfaction of knowing that people will survive and the bankers will have to get honest jobs.
Your side is going down; it is going to lose big time because the people will prevail. Go back and thumb through the The Anti-Government Movement Guidebook. American taxpayers paid for that outrage against their rights, the same people who commissioned it are those who do not want Americans to climb out of the plantantion they have been busily building to control and contain us for these many years. The 'guidebook" It is stupid, inept simple minded, but so are their plans for world domination. We will be free. That you can take to the
The ways of freedom are many and varied, grasshopper. We are many, diverse, and determined. The paths to freedom are converging, they will become a clear highway that will change the world for all of us, even you.
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Posted By: Master C
Date: 2008-11-09 11:28:08
Dear Melinda,
My point wasn't that I don't know how to cancel my mortgage, my point was WHY would you do it? You'd have to GIVE UP your home unless you could buy it outright. And, if you could buy it outright, why would you want to have a mortgage anyway?
There have been threats that "my side" is GOING DOWN since the beginning of time. My side is the mainstream, that group of lemmings who ENJOY the comforts and advantages of civilization. I don't like living in the anger, contempt, and disdain of the fringes of society like you seem to advocate.
Waiting your turn to TAKE OVER may take a looooooong time. Even if you got the chance, I'm sure there are a lot of us who would throw you in a cage somewhere to keep you from hurting yourself.
Master C
Posted By: Master C
Date: 2008-11-09 12:58:50
Dear Melinda,
Actually, Master C is short for Masterful C. I just use the shortened version on this website. It represents my mastery of writing, thinking, art, culture, cuisine, romance, economics, and even the droll but ebullient pin-pricked bubble of bombast that so many on this website like to launch.
By the way, I looked at the links in your article and was appalled by the offbeat, out-of-step nature of your interests. You remind me more of an insurrectionist or an anarchist than someone interested in merely making some changes in society.
Master(ful) C
Posted By: chichemo
Date: 2008-11-09 13:23:36
Well gee, Melinda, I agree that it's best to try to be prepared for whatever situation may arise. But your position does appear to be a little extreme to me. You predict a massive economic meltdown, and you're certainly not the only passenger on that train of thought. But I notice that you have neglected to address a very real possibility in the event that your predictions should come to pass.
There are millions of American citizens who do nothing but sit on the porch of their section 8 dwellings and wait for the next months free food allotment and check from the government. How will all of these Democrats be affected by the scenario for which you recommend preparedness, and how will they react? If they behave at all as they did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, we are in for the biggest crime wave in the history of the world.
The listed "advice" you have offered is lacking any preparedness tips for the mobs of looting, raping, murdering Democrats that your apocalyptic predictions, if correct, will surely unleash. As such, I must view your article as incomplete.
Posted By: themelinda
Date: 2008-11-09 17:07:52
Dear "Masterful C"
You are still anonymous and your name, especially the (ful). makes me think you might be in to S and M.
You are asserting mobs of rioting people when there is no evidence such will take place. Dems are pretty happy now. You views are less interesting to me all the time, have to tell you.
Why don't you take up Bridge?
Posted By: Master C
Date: 2008-11-09 18:26:15
Dear M,
I can play Bridge, I'm not into S&M (at all), and I didn't think I had "asserted" anything. I was just responding to the wayward pull of your messages which seem to reach the extremes.
If you read some of my articles, you'll see that I'm a very normal Liberal guy who sees a LOT of good in the world, who isn't AFRAID of Socialism (in fact, we have so much of it already that anyone who thinks we're a Capitalist country is in denial or dreaming), and I love to pick on the crybabies who think the world is going to Hell in a handbasket (or whatever).
Prognostications not withstanding, we'll pull out of all these problems currently confronting us. It will just take some time and a lot of sacrifice. Bush made such a MESS of everything ~ deficits, wars, foreign alienation, internal surveillance, torture and prolonged detention of "terrorists", the financial crisis, distrust between parties ~ that only a SAINT can probably fix it all.
But, Obama aspires to that level. I'm eager to see what he can do. Especially between the races, the political parties, and other countries of the world. I want to see STEM CELL research rejuvenated, the Supreme Court balanced with some Liberals, I want to see Gays given at least EQUAL RIGHTS, I want to see a competent SECRETARY OF STATE who can do things internationally ~ even in Africa ~ I want to see the INCOME TAX schedule restored to some more normal status where the RICH are not given tax breaks (through deductions, exemptions, and accounting devices) and the middle class is given TAX DEDUCTIBILITY for college tuition, medical costs, housing costs, and JOBS are better protected from outsourcing and fake foreign reporting, the STOCK MARKET is better regulated to protect our investments with more disclosures and fewer "innovations" in investment options.
So, I have some things in mind. But, I'm not running AWAY from what we have, I'm looking for IMPROVEMENTS in it and a better life for those who want to participate (and cooperate) in the system we have.
That may leave a lot of Libertarians and nihilists (as you seem to be) out in the cold for a little longer. That is, at least until the BIG MELTDOWN comes! Ha! Ha! I guess you can keep hoping (or predicting) that the end is near. But, it isn't ~ really.
Master C