Financial Permaculture Report Oct 2 2009
A Financial Permaculture workshop was held last week in Hohenwald, Tennessee. It was a scaled back version from last year due to time constraints and our attention being paid to the rapidly changing global and national financial crisis. We live in unprecedented times and our government, business leaders, and corporate media, the people we have been told we could count on, continue to lie, misrepresent and shy away from true reform.
It was concluded at our meeting that the 2 most important actions to take are to continue to educate people to the fact that we are all being “gamed” by the powers that be and take all steps necessary to “decentralize” our own lifestyles and financial investments. All investments we have based in dollars will continue to be worth less and less as inflation will take hold with a vengeance by 2011.
The Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke had the audacity to declare last week that the “recession” may be over. Here are the facts from the Ambrose-Pritchard report out of London. “Private credit is contracting on both sides of the Atlantic. Emergency schemes that have propped up spending are being withdrawn, gently or otherwise. Unemployment benefits have masked social hardship until now, but these are starting to expire with cliff-edge effects.
Car sales were up 28 % in August, but only by stealing from the future. The Center for Automotive Research says sales will fall by a million next year.
If you look at the sheer scale of global stimulus this year, what shocks is how little has been achieved. China’s exports were down 23 % in August, Japan’s were down 36%, industrial production has dropped by 23% in Japan, 18% in Italy, 17% in Germany, 13 % in France and Russia, and 11 percent in the US.
US bank loans have been falling at an annual pace of almost 14% since early summer. There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s.”
The Telegraph in London has a report on the G20 meeting.
The G20 nations representing 80% of the world’s economic activity met in Pittsburgh last week. President Obama declared, “The G20 has taken bold and concerted action to forge a new framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth. Tough new regulations have been agreed on to prevent another global financial crisis.” Obama’s oratory was typically impressive. He has a black preacher’s gift of expression and a Harvard lawyer’s education. The trouble is, it wasn’t true. Read more »
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Financial Permaculture Report 2nd week of July.
Global powers move in on global food and money supply
Things are moving very quickly. We saw concerted movement by the Vatican, the G8, the World Trade Organization and the United States Government all rapidly moving toward centralizing political control of the economy.
The Pope spoke out claiming the need for a new financial order and a new one world financial agency with the power to regulate global financial market. This is a huge cover for the world to move to a one world government. We had the G8 meet in Italy and they were presented with a new coin which a sample of a world financial currency. It is a gold coin called a Euro. G8 made a renewed commitment to support the US dollar as the reserve currency….a commitment to not devalue the dollar in relation to their own currencies…that is a renewed commitment to the slow burn.
The BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China, are talking about doing much more trade amongst themselves in their own currencies.
The G8 desperately wants to pass the next round of trade agreements, which have been scuttled by protests and developing countries not wanting to decimate their own local agriculture in relation to industrial agriculture. Their working paper about “aid” stated, “We want to provide aid in the form of seed, fertilizer and farm equipment.” With friends like these…….
We now have the Pope, G8 and Obama calling for a shift of major power to international organizations to take over control of the global financial systems. We are looking at a massive centralization of power.
All this points to the importance of the next round of trade agreements by the World Trade Organization. The big trade agreements have been held up by developing countries not wanting to decimate their own local agriculture in relation to industrial agriculture. The Powers that Be are intent on taking over the world’s food supply with Monsanto, genetically modified foods, and terminator seeds leading the way. A Vatican organization in June made a statement promoting genetically modified foods.
When you commit to corporate agriculture you reduce the number of people on the land. Those people end up in the city needing to be taken care of by the rest of the population. The social cost of all these people without jobs now in the city has to be added to the cost of food. Corporate agriculture, moving into indigenous farming areas and replacing sustainable systems with a controlled seed supply including terminator seeds,—will essentially revolutionize societies in a way that will be good for corporations and bad for the land and bad for the people. 2.1 billion people could be drawn into the cities. This mean-spirited, centralized agricultural model is the most aggressive reengineering of populations that we have ever contemplated. Read more »
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Financial Permaculture July 2nd quarter Wrap up
We continue with our bi-weekly reports. Much of the news is extremely hard to absorb, but we need to know what confronts us to make wise choices on keeping our ship afloat. TH
Surfing the Slow Burn
The Slow Burn is Catherine Fitt’s term for the Bankster’s and Powers that Be’s policies of continuing to suck the financial energy out of the middle class and enrich the centralized minority without collapsing the whole system.
The tapeworm continues to centralize control of the economy where the insiders use a variety of governmental and other systems to manipulate the outsiders, (us), at an accelerating pace. The people who have been seeing this manipulation coming and have been preparing by drastically lowering their expenses, diversifying their incomes, pulling out of the corporate, centralized job environment, are the ones who are doing well.
Wealthy Americans have been withdrawing their investments from US banks, Wall Street and mutual funds and are investing abroad. New rules have been drawn up requiring significant paperwork for investing off shore. They are trying to draw the money back in. The American wealthy are getting hit hard by the realization that wealth doesn’t necessarily qualify you as an insider in the New World Order. The effect of this is you will start to see many more people start to invest their assets in real commodities and precious metals. Read more »
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Financial Permaculture Report July 16 2009
Capsulation of last two weeks in money and markets……..
Bankruptcy filings are rising to 6,000/day.
Unemployment is now approaching 7,000,000. The General Motors bankruptcy is the largest in history. The huge amounts of money that left the country in the 1990’s is now coming back as part of the Asian car companies buying up American manufacturing at low, low prices.
Big news of the week, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke’s testimony before congress. “Now is the time to start working on reining in the government debt. We need to start preparing for the restoration of fiscal balance”—
Translation: Now that we have built up our the banks, we need the restoration of fiscal balance—he then proceeds to say the way this needs to be done is to pare back entitlement programs—What that means is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
What we are watching is a fundamental restructuring of the New Deal and the social safety net. With the lack of knowledge by the public of the engineering of the money system, and Osama’s’ high approval rating, the political and economic conditions are ripe to restructure the New Deal…i.e. erase the social safety net.
How they will do it. They will plead pressure from international financial institutions. We will see a slow and steady shift as they reengineer the social contract because of the demand of international lenders. “The IMF made me do it.” Read more »
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