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Loading ...“deflation will force the pm price down until the currency defaults.”
Seems to me the Boot on the Neck Boys have been playing a part …
Good to see you posting … I’d expected you to be crouched around the wood stove listening to the blizzard outside … wondering when to make the dash for the outhouse … đ
deflation will force the pm price down until the currency defaults. It will be just like the Swiss franc debacle except the federal reserve is just a bunch of thieves waiting for the chance to make the maximum before the announcement. They know the pickings will be slim after the collapse.
the slime balls are getting ready for the collapse by setting up enough patsies to totally defer the blame elsewhere. A devaluation of 50% would send gold o 1800 overnight and a panic to get more from anywhere.
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So bad you have to avoid my question?? I thought it would be interesting to see it charted, say monthly, starting with the new Oasis, and then compared with the gold price. Oh well….Peace brother!! Â Â Silverngold
It’s the waxing and waning. No worries, when gold is up so will the posts and hits be here. Relax
It is now more like a small intermittent spring that has nearly dried up. Does admin (or whoever) keep a count on the Oasis hits? If so it would be interesting to see how many people are reading the Oasis now as compared with last month, last year etc. We know how many are (no longer) posting. Â Â Â Â Silverngold
Ha, the only change of an economic development model that I see is the FAILURE of the past 100 year old NON capitalist system we have now that is falling apart.
re this part:
âThis is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,â she said.”
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That statement would be VERY accurate in 1913 when they created the Fed Res. I’m very surprised that ANYONE these days thinks we have a capitalist system anymore. After 1913 everything is pretty much artificial. Or like a game.
The only capitalism I know of was the 100 plus year era before 1913. 1800 to 1913 there was zero inflation and plenty of growth and growing prosperity. After 1913 it was one problem after the next. WWI, causing inflation for the roaring ’20s, market crash of ’29, 10 year depression, with deflation, Gold ownership banned, and 70% dollar devaluation in 1934.
Then came WWII, Korea, Vietnam, no more silver coinage in ’64, wage and price controls in the later ’60s and early ’70s, oil going from $2 to $42, rates going 6% to 21% on and on it just never ends. Until recently. The past is ending, because it was phony.
I wouldn’t want your job. To me the justification is in the message. Silverngold
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres speaks during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2014. AP View Enlarged Image
Economic Systems:Â The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
Figueres is perhaps the perfect person for the job of transforming “the economic development model” because she’s really never seen it work. “If you look at Ms. Figueres’ Wikipedia page,” notes Cato economist Dan Mitchell: Making the world look at their right hand while they choke developed economies with their left.
I am glad to hear you are following VT. I know it is long, but the interview I posted really is worth a listen. It contains more disclosure than just about anything I have studied in the past year. It might help to connect a few dots, and in most cases Preston and Mike were quite brave to come out and state clearly information which they were willing to only hint about in the past. That YouTube is getting more and more hits each day, which is encouraging.
Thought we were dealing with a double standard for a minute there. Â :o)
Silverngold
Getting tired of listening to my echo in these empty halls…………..LOL!!! Â Silverngold
The harder I work, the luckier I get……and…..
Anything works if you do, but nothing works if you don’t.
Silverngold
If I have learned something from Socrates is that you cannot teach people anything; you can only make them think. You can only draw out of them the wisdom which is latent within them. And by doing so, you help open their eyes, making them realize that they were born with wings and that they can fly, as high as they want to flyâŠÂ
Anyway, I gathered what I thought to be some of Socrates best quotes and compiled them into 18 life changing lessons that you might want to learn. Here they are:
âI am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.â ~ Socrates
âTo know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.â ~ Socrates
âI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.â ~ Socrates
âTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.â ~ Socrates
âThe shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.â ~ Socrates
âLet him that would move the world first move himself.â ~ Socrates
âRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.â ~ Socrates
âI do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.â ~ Socrates
âHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.â ~ Socrates
âContentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.â ~ Socrates
âWorthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.â ~ Socrates
âThe unexamined life is not worth living.â ~ Socrates
âThe really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.â ~ Socrates
âIf you donât get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you donât want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you canât hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.â ~ Socrates
âBeware the barrenness of a busy life.â ~ Socrates
âI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.â ~ Socrates
âTo find yourself, think for yourself.â ~ Socrates
âBe slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.â â Socrates
âFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.â ~ Socrates
âOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.â ~ Socrates
âThe end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.â ~ Socrates
âAll menâs souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.â ~ Socrates
âWonder is the beginning of wisdom.â ~Â Socrates
âThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. â ~ Socrates
âNo man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.â ~ Socrates
âIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.â ~ Socrates
âIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.â ~ Socrates
The human brain is truly a marvel. It communicates at incredible speeds, constantly makes connections, develops into your 40âs, processes and stores massive amounts of information, and so much more. The following 5 things you must know about your mind may amaze you even further.
he brain reacts to whatever you think about in the same exact way it would as if that thing was actually happening. This is how the placebo effect works. If the brain believes that you are taking a pharmaceutical drug (when itâs actually a sugar pill) the body actually reacts as if the sugar pill was a real drug. We also see this in the nocebo effect. The nocebo effect is the placebo effect in reverse. Instead of the brain curing illness it actually creates it because of a belief. Thatâs how a hypochondriac can watch the evening news, hear about a new illness and actually start to feel the symptoms of that illness by believing that he actually has it.
If you donât believe that the brain does not know the difference between something real and something you merely think about, just sit back and think about something bad happening to someone you love. Even if the person that you love is two feet in front of you and completely safe you will start to feel anxiety in the pit of your stomach. This happens when a part of your brain called the hypothalamus triggers a release of a chemical called cortisol from your adrenal glands.
The good news is that when you think positive thoughts, the brain reacts as if that thought is reality and triggers the release of all the âfeel-goodâ hormones and chemicals that would be released if that thing were actually taking place. A positive or affirmative thought has been shown to be much more powerful than a negative thought.
Whatever you think about most is increasingly brought into your experience. For instance, if you buy a new car you will start to see that particular car everywhere. Why didnât you notice that car before you bought yours? You didnât notice it because you didnât own one yourself. When you bought your car you started to think about it more frequently. When you think about something a lot you start to see all the opportunities that reinforce your specific thought pattern.
Why is this important to understand?
Itâs important because if you find yourself always attracting the wrong person or stressful situation, you need to reprogram your thoughts. Whatever you think about on a regular basis is training you to pick up on situations that match that vibration. Positive people attract positive people and situations, while negative people attract negative people and situations. This is not a coincidence. Your thoughts are controlling this pattern. Before wishing for someone else to change try changing yourself first and watch the magic unfold.
On average, the human brain has about 60,000 thoughts a day. Not only are many of these thoughts the same thoughts we had yesterday, there can also be many negative thoughts dwelling on something âbadâ in the past or fearing something that could potentially happen in the future.  And since the brain does not know the difference between something real and something you think about, if you think something âbadâ, the negative thoughts can subconsciously corrupt your life. Negative thoughts not only create stress and anxiety, but can train your brain to be in a constant state of distress, and even decrease the effectiveness of your immune system.
Train your brain to think more positive thoughts. When you re-wire your brain and help the subconscious mind think positively, youâll begin to reap one benefit after another, and ultimately see a more positive experience in your life.
You can literally begin to turn off the thousands and thousands of automatic negative thoughts that run through your mind every day. When turning off these negative thoughts, you can boost the immune system, attract better health, and even attract more positive people and situations into life. But it all starts with thoughts.
Thoughts create exactly what we attract.
One of the most important things you can ever do for your health and well being is meditation. Meditation does not have to be mysterious. Meditation simply means that you stop thinking and are present. As stated above we have on average 60 000 thoughts every single day â but there is a time when these thoughts should not be running. The mind should be used as a tool; we should think when we need to, and when itâs productive â then simply be present when we need to not think. Because stress and anxiety is based in our thoughts about things and situations (not things or situations themselves) stress and anxiety will wither away. You can easily learn how to meditate by reading articles, or watching guided videos online.
When you focus your thoughts on what you desire, the process of building new neural connections begins. This process is known as Neuroplasticity. For instance, if you have the subconscious belief that, âI cannot lose weightâ and you start to think over and over and over again, âI am in great shapeâ you will start to build a new neural connection in the brain. When this happens your eyes start to notice opportunities that if acted upon will bring that new belief into reality.
You have the complete ability to transform your life by the thoughts you hold in your mind. You have the ability to attract absolutely anything we desire. You have the ability to actually change your brain in a very real, physical way. It all starts with your thoughts. Your thoughts create.
most of what I post is FWIW, food for thought, and exposing others thoughts….like yours. :^)
TV’s too … and helicopters! đ
“The Islamic State is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washingtonâs Persian Gulf allies. ”
This piece is ludicrous. CIA etc may have been involved in the formation of ISIS in the beginning but to say they’re working for us now is just stupid IMO.
Why didn’t we bomb that particular convoy in June? Well were we bombing anything in June? When did the bombing start? Syria and Iraq are big places and we aren’t omniscient or omnipotent.
So the writer bases his whole “ISIS is working for CIA” theme based on the fact that some convoys did not get bombed and that we should be bombing them more? PLEASE
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper, P.C., M.P.
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Dear Prime Minister:
Many Americans love Canada and the specific benefits that have come to our country from our northern neighborâs many achievements (seeCanada Firsts by Nader, Conacher and Milleron). Unfortunately, your latest proposed legislationâthe new anti-terrorism actâis being described by leading Canadian civil liberties scholars as hazardous to Canadian democracy.
A central criticism was ably summarized in a February 2015 Globe and Mail editorial titled âParliament Must Reject Harperâs Secret Policeman Bill,â to wit:
âPrime Minister Stephen Harper never tires of telling Canadians that we are at war with the Islamic State. Under the cloud of fear produced by his repeated hyperbole about the scope and nature of the threat, he now wants to turn our domestic spy agency into something that looks disturbingly like a secret police force.
Canadians should not be willing to accept such an obvious threat to their basic liberties. Our existing laws and our society are strong enough to stand up to the threat of terrorism without compromising our values.â
Particularly noticeable in your announcement were your exaggerated expressions that exceed the paranoia of Washingtonâs chief attack dog, former vice-president Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney periodically surfaces to update his pathological war mongering oblivious to factsâpast and presentâincluding his criminal war of aggression which devastated Iraqâa country that never threatened the U.S.
You are quoted as saying that âjihadi terrorism is one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever facedâ as a predicate for your gross over-reaction that âviolent jihadism seeks to destroyâ Canadian ârights.â Really? Pray tell, which rights rooted in Canadian law are âjihadisâ fighting in the Middle East to obliterate? You talk like George W. Bush.
How does âjihadismâ match up with the lives of tens of millions of innocent civilians, destroyed since 1900 by state terrorismâwest and east, north and southâor the continuing efforts seeking to seize or occupy territory?
Reading your apoplectic oratory reminds one of the prior history of your country as one of the worldâs peacekeepers from the inspiration of Lester Pearson to the United Nations. That noble pursuit has been replaced by deploying Canadian soldiers in the belligerent service of the American Empire and its boomeranging wars, invasions and attacks that violate our Constitution, statutes and international treaties to which both our countries are signatories.
What has all this post-9/11 loss of American life plus injuries and sickness, in addition to trillions of American tax dollars, accomplished? Has it led to the stability of those nations invaded or attacked by the U.S. and its reluctant western âallies?â Just the opposite, the colossal blowback evidenced by the metastasis of al-Qaedaâs offshoots and similar new groups like the self-styled Islamic state are now proliferating in and threatening over a dozen countries.
Have you digested what is happening in Iraq and why Prime Minister Jean ChrĂ©tien said no to Washington? Or now chaotic Libya, which like Iraq never had any presence of Al-Qaeda before the U.S.âs destabilizing military attacks? (See the New York Timesâ editorial on February 15, 2015 titled âWhat Libyaâs Unraveling Meansâ.)
Perhaps you will find a former veteran CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, Robert L. Grenier more credible. Writing in his just released book: 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary (Simon & Schuster), he sums up U.S. government policy this way: âOur current abandonment of Afghanistan is the product of aâŠcolossal overreach, from 2005 onwards.â He writes, âin the process we overwhelmed a primitive country, with a largely illiterate population, a tiny agrarian economy, a tribal social structure and nascent national institutions. We triggered massive corruption through our profligacy; convinced a substantial number of Afghans that we were, in fact, occupiers and facilitated the resurgence of the Talibanâ (Alissa J. Rubin, Robert L. Grenierâs â88 Days to Kandahar,âNew York Times, February 15, 2015).
You may recall George W. Bushâs White House counterterrorism czar, Richard Clarke, who wrote in his 2004 book, Against All Enemies: Inside Americaâs War on TerrorâWhat Really Happened, âIt was as if Osama bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting, âInvade Iraq, you must invade Iraq.ââ
Mr. Bush committed sociocide against that countryâs twenty-seven million people. Over 1 million innocent Iraqi civilians lost their lives, in addition to millions sick and injured. Refugees have reached five million and growing. He destroyed critical public services and sparked sectarian massacresâmassive war crimes, which in turn produce ever-expanding blowbacks.
Canadians might be most concerned about your increased dictatorial policies and practices, as well as this billâs provision for secret law and courts in the name of fighting terrorismâtoo vaguely defined. Study what comparable practices have done to the United States â a course that you seem to be mimicking, including the militarization of police forces (see The Walrus, December 2014).
If passed, this act. piled on already stringent legal authority, will expand your national security bureaucracies and their jurisdictional disputes, further encourage dragnet snooping and roundups, fuel fear and suspicion among law-abiding Canadians, stifle free speech and civic action and drain billions of dollars from being used for the necessities of Canadian society. This is not hypothetical. Along with an already frayed social safety net, once the envy of the world, you almost got away with a $30 billion dollar purchase of unneeded costly F-35s (including maintenance) to bail out the failing budget-busting F-35 project in Washington.
You may think that Canadians will fall prey to a politics of fear before an election. But you may be misreading the extent to which Canadians will allow the attachment of their Maple Leaf to the aggressive talons of a hijacked American Eagle.
Canada could be a model for independence against the backdrop of bankrupt American military adventures steeped in big business profitsâŠa model that might help both nations restore their better angels.
Sincerely,
Ralph Nader
EXACTLY!!!
We don’t have enemies, we create them!
Do most people not understand how hard it is to get countries to go to war?
You have a problem with computers spying on you?
Not very American of you, just sayin’ đ
Since August 2014, the US Air Force with the support of a coalition of 19 countries has relentlessly waged an intensified air campaign against Syria and Iraq allegedly targeting the Islamic State brigades. Â
According to Defense News, over 16,000 airstrikes were carried out from August 2014 to mid January 2015.  Sixty percent of the air strikes were conducted by the US Air Force using advanced jet fighter and bombing capabilities  (Aaron Mehta, âA-10 Performing 11 Percent of Anti-ISIS Sortiesâ. Defense News, January 19, 2015.)
The airstrikes have been casually described by the media as part of  a âsoftâ counter-terrorism operation, rather than an act of all out war directed against Syria and Iraq. Â
Aerial view of jet aircraft
F-16 Fighting Falcon (right)
This large scale air campaign which has resulted in countless civilian casualties has been routinely misreported by the mainstream media. According to  Max Boot, senior fellow in national security at the Council on Foreign Relations. âObamaâs strategy in Syria and Iraq is not working⊠[ because] the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS has been remarkably restrainedâ.  (Newsweek, February 17, 2015, emphasis added).
Americans are led to believe that the Islamic State constitutes a formidable force confronting the US military and threatening Western Civilization. The thrust of media reporting is that the US Air Force has failed and that âObama should get his act togetherâ in effectively confronting this  âOutside Enemyâ of America.
According to CFR Max Boot, military escalation is the answer: what is required is for the president âto dispatch more aircraft, military advisers, and special operations forces, while loosening the restrictions under which they operate.â (Ibid)
What kind of aircraft are involved in the air campaign? The F-16 Fighting Falcon,(above right),  The F-15E Strike Eagle (image below) , The A-10 Warthog, not to mention Lockheed Martinâs F-22 Raptor stealth tactical fighter aircraft.
Question for Our Readers
Why has the US Air Force not been able to wipe out the Islamic State which at the outset was largely equipped with conventional small arms not to mention state of the art Toyota pickup trucks?
From the very outset, this air campaign has NOT been directed against ISIS. Â The evidence confirms that the Islamic State is not the target. Quite the opposite.
The air raids are intended to destroy the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria.
The USAF-15E Strike Eagle
We call on our readers to carefully reflect on the following image, which describes the Islamic State convoy of pickup trucks entering Iraq and crossing a 200 km span of open desert which separates the two countries.
This convoy entered Iraq in June 2014.
What would have been required from a military standpoint to wipe out an ISIS convoy with no effective anti-aircraft capabilities?
Without an understanding of military issues, common sense prevails.
If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have âcarpetâ bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.Â
The answer is pretty obvious, yet not a single mainstream media has acknowledged it.
The  Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory (see map right). With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, F16) it would have been  âfrom a military standpointâ  âa piece of cakeâ, a rapid and expedient surgical operation, which would have decimated the Islamic State convoys in a matter of hours.
Instead what we have witnessed is an ongoing drawn out six months of relentless  air raids and bombings, and the terrorist enemy is apparently still intact.
(In comparison, the NATO bombing raids of Yugoslavia in 1999 lasted about three months (March 24-June 10, 1999).
And we are led to believe that the Islamic State cannot be defeated by a powerful US led military coalition of 19 countries.
The air campaign was not intended to decimate the Islamic State.
The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One âState Sponsor of Terrorismâ.  Â
The Islamic State is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washingtonâs Persian Gulf allies.Â
 