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[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

Awesome post Harold.

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On Jun 16, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Harold Waldock wrote:

> Given what I know, I would be remiss to fail to warn fellow  
> students of
> Permaculture on the coming difficulties of our money system  
> especially as so
> many of us are urban based.
>
> I feel that I would not do my duty to my friends, the members of  
> this list
> if I did not outline my fears for your livelihood.  Please respond  
> to this
> list. I may not be able to dialogue much as I have the pattern of  
> dropping a
> topic bombshell only to fail to respond to the discussion due to other
> pressing responsibilities.
>
> The Causes and The Situation
>
> Current financial system and its lies :
> http://www.silverstrategies.com/story.aspx?local=0&id=2018
>
> The Great Inflation should be read first at
> http://www.financialsense.com/perspectives.htm as it explains  
> carefully the
> problem of fiat currency.
>
> Money what it is and how it works  Jim Puplava of Financialsense.com
> http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/oldupdates/main.htm
> Triggers for Collapse: The Perfect Storm Series Jim Puplava of
> Financialsense.com http://www.financialsense.com/series2/ 
> perspectives2.htm
> What it looks like today to live in mid-late inflationary spiral with
> multiple bubble markets: The Day after Tomorrow
> http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/2005/0222.html Jim Puplava of
> Financialsense.com (easy to read and understand but not simplistic  
> by any
> measure)
>
> Another area is the Gold investors websites such as Chris Liard's
> www.prudentsquirrel.com where he talks about the effects of  
> deflation that
> happen after any crisis in Survival Crisis (Perhaps it is on  
> www.Kitco.com
> under his name).  Deflation means people can't work because people  
> don't
> spend because they can't make money doing either.  Lots of economic  
> and
> social situations that repeat though history mean that one has  
> mainly to
> look after one's own needs i.e. plant a garden, burn wood, etc  
> because you
> can't work for anything or you can't pay for what you want.  In the
> undeveloped countries trade, industry, commerce and even paid  
> labour systems
> barely work so why bother just go to your farm and look after your  
> family
> from there.
>
> Others have made the link between their current high standard of  
> living and
> the realistic consequences of the now highly likely monetary  
> collapse in the
> near future.  Bill Mollison was quite concerned. His writings  
> suggest he was
> aware that the financial system was not well founded since Nixon  
> closed the
> gold window (convertibility) in 1971.  It was a global concern from  
> 1978
> till about 1985 when the interest rates started to fall.  You don't  
> want to
> be in the the US of the Wiemar Republic (a word play on the USA)  
> when the
> dollars value crashes. Reserve currencies fall harder and more  
> suddenly than
> most.
>
> Causes of the monetary collapse:
>
> 1) A currency or medium of exchange not based of units of real  
> value. I.e.
> the US Dollar. "A monetary unit is worth the marginal cost of its
> production"
> The money in your wallet or purse or bank is not convertible to  
> gold or
> silver and is otherwise worthless. The accurate name for it is  
> "Worthless
> transaction tokens" You can fool some people all the time, you can  
> fool all
> people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all the  
> time. If
> you own dollars who is the fool?
>
> 2) High levels of irrational speculation across many important  
> market places
> i.e. the Land Price bubble we have now. It is coming apart in a  
> hurry these
> days in many parts.
> 3) High levels of debt across the personal, business and  
> government.  How
> many of us live on our Visa and Mastercards?
> 4) Major trading partners in a crisis - Politics happen
> 5) Energy costs higher and rising sharply - the well runs dry after  
> Peak Oil
> production.
> 6) A severe test of the market. An event, not easily predictable,  
> creating
> difficult to resolve effects that affects the markets in a  
> significant way.
> War, Derivatives Crisis, Oil embargo, regime change in a big oil  
> producing
> country, weather or earthquake or many other events.
>
>
> Sure signs of a  impending crisis are near or that you have a  
> crisis now:
>
> 1) A paper currency with no convertibility over 34 years given no  
> paper
> currency in all of history has lasted longer than 40.  I'm talking  
> about the
> US Dollar and all currencies now in existence: i.e. Euro, Swiss  
> Franc (hard
> currency they could make it convertible to gold but it is not  
> convertible),
> Canadian Dollar (40% income come from trade 80% of that from the US)
> 2) There is higher and higher inflation - even the Federal Reserve is
> voicing concern. A strongly rising Gold Price (recent correction  
> has not
> changed the risk much)
> 3) The government tells lies. - Consumer Price Inflation is CPI is  
> 6% below
> the old method of measuring it.
> 3) Government does increasingly wild and unreasonable including the
> confiscation of property, taking the life of innocent people (French
> Revolution).  In 1933 the New Deal of F.D. Roosevelt meant that all  
> gold was
> confiscated by the government and paper money was given to the people
> instead.  More recently Argentina closed the banks for months and  
> devalued
> by more than 50%.
> 4) There are Bank Failures because people try to get their money  
> out. We
> have had in Canada 2 failures of bank like institutions last year  
> Portus
> mutual fund and another one I forget the name of.  People rushed to  
> get
> their money out when the word got around but most people's money  
> was trapped
> and may be delivered cents on the dollar. When there are bank  
> failures it
> means the system is going down.  The Yen carry trade is unwinding -  
> meaning
> the end  of borrowing cheap Yen to buy US treasuries.  Maybe a  
> hedge fund
> and their bank will go down then it is dominos from there.
>
> Consequences for us and our families, friends and society.
>
> Shortage of real money acceptable for trade
> Economic collapse and unemployment
> Economic disruption to production and consumption - wrenching  
> changes force
> the economy to be dislocated and requiring time before production  
> can meet
> consumption requirements.  High unemployment for years.
> Shortage of key supplies that can be traded for by labour. Food and  
> heating
> not available at previous quantities or price.
> Social unrest, violent mobs and unstable and/or unreasonable and  
> unjust
> government (Bill Mollison notes that in the PDM)
>
> What we can do now to avoid the worst (please add to the list!)
>
> Study Permaculture, get manuals on practical things, DIY medical, food
> preparation and storage etc etc  Encyclopaedia of Country Living  
> etc etc.
> Sell all dollar assets: Bonds, GIC, Money Market, Treasuries, etc.  as
> inflation will eat it all up.
> Sell Shares., mutual funds as the stock market is still near a top  
> or can go
> down lots further (sell on a dead cat bounce that is common - but  
> be out by
> October.
> Buy Gold, Silver, but don't tell anybody hide it below where the metal
> detectors can find it. (do not keep it in the bank or in a place  
> quickly
> searched.  Now, June 16 is a very good time to buy Gold or if poor  
> Silver.
> You should have some around no matter what - it is a first aid kit for
> purchasing power.
> Buy Guns (Think about life in South Africa or Zimbabwe or US slums  
> - you
> need personal protection), If you are rural, hunting time honoured  
> way to
> get meat. (every time a mill closes in rural BC the wildlife #'s  
> take a
> steep drop in the area.)
> Sell urban homes (over priced) buy rural properties near your  
> friends that
> have income opportunities: good soil, good trees, good electrical  
> power
> production, near abundant natural resources you can eat or burn  
> (for heat)
> or trade.
> Study truth where you can find it and tell the truth to those who will
> listen because we can't look after ourselves by ourselves only - we  
> need
> each other.
> Organize to be of help to each other in times of need - make sure  
> you have
> lots of friends nearby.
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