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 Emergency schemes that have propped up spending are being withdrawn, gently or otherwise.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. No specific rules on banks’ capital reserves were announced at this summit. No caps on bank deposit leverage were agreed to. There was no debate on drafting a new Glass-Steagall act, the Depression-era firewall between retail and commercial banking. Until we get that, our large banks will remain replete with systemic risk. The lack of questioning of the status quo was spectacular.
What they did do was to protect the financial vested interests –above all–the big investment banks– from the damage caused by their deeply irresponsible use of derivatives and debt. “We will avoid any premature withdrawal of the stimulus,” said the G20 communiqué. Translation: The Anglo-Saxon world will continue to print money and borrow like crazy.
“We have brought the global economy back from the brink,” Obama declared at Pittsburgh. No, Mr. President, Incrementally, you’ve pushed it back to the edge.
The next 3-6 months are critical for Americans to understand what the hidden wealthy class
have in mind….

The Solari Report says, “For the insiders to both keep stolen resources and keep the slow burn going, they must engineer a fundamental change in our governance structure. This, indeed, is the real goal of proposed state and national legislation and international regulation promoting unprecedented central control of our economy and society. Health “reform” and food “safety” are not about helping people. “Cap and trade” is not about helping the environment. They are Trojan Horses designed to engineer support for greater central control from various constituents who cannot fathom the nature and goals of our leadership.
Real solutions will come from outside the machinery. Withdrawing from the machinery to preserve our health and assets is a first step. The more people who understand this, the easier it is for us to quietly organize and take effective action.”

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.
In the state and local area we have seen the “fixers” moving in. California has just passed a new budget that slashes $9 billion from their educational system and another billion from health care services for the poor.
We have had Obama and G8 agree to keep the dollar pumped up as the world’s reserve currency. The way to do that and not create a larger massive deficit is to pull the plug on the baby boom generation, all their liabilities and their social services commitments. The baby boomers are now a liability to the power structure.
The Half Past Human project has just published their latest prediction report based on a web bot software that harvests the entire internet conversation looking for trends and clues to the future. We will give a full report soon, presently, they see a number of issues coming up in the fall related to dollar failure and inflation, Israel perhaps attacking Iran and a massive rejection by the people of mandatory and semi mandatory swine flu vaccinations. This will culminate in 2010 with The Powers That Be beginning to self implode, their minions publically reporting on secret meetings, and the public waking up including visits to their gated mansions. The energy is up folks, let’s be good to each other…know your farmer, know your banker, make friends with your neighbors. Thomas Hupp for the Financial Permaculture Institute.

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.
A great Rolling Stone article outed Goldman Sachs as having their pigs at the trough of every money source available. They are giving out 4.7 billion dollars in bonuses this year. That averages out to $700,000 for every employee in the company. Bush’s Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, architect of the bailout was a former Goldman Sachs CEO. Robert Rubin, Clinton’s former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup which received $300 billion of the taxpayer bailout. John Thain, chief of Merrill Lynch and former Goldman banker received a multibillion dollar bailout from Paulson. Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director whom Paulson put in charge of AIG received billions. The heads of the Canadian and Italian national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the World Bank, the New York Stock Exchange and the last two heads of the Federal Reserve.
Meanwhile California continues to implode with $24 billion budget deficits. Right now they are writing IOUs, we are watching closely to see what happens in the next few weeks. What this says is we can afford to bail out the financial institutions that created the mortgage bubble with huge salaries and bonuses while we leave 100,000s of Californians homeless and without healthcare. This shift in resources is not based on any kind of financial or economic performance, but simply because they have the power to do it.
A heads up, the next bubble is in carbon credits, a booming trillion dollar market that barely even exists yet.
What to do?
Come Clean, take your money out of the big banks and find a small local bank to handle your money, get to know your banker.
Quit watching TV and devote your time to real interests.
Personal self sufficiency— get out of being dependent on strangers that are part of the centralized system.
Prepare a time budget.
Simplify, reduce debt and overhead.
Stockpile a year or 2 of non-perishables
Get radical about your health—keep toxins out of your system. Start with food and water…The food bill going through congress is horrible, there are major new regulations and expenses for small organic farmers which will raise the cost of food dramatically.
The good news, we don’t have an economic problem, we just need to localize our economies. Many very talented people are now joining the decentralization team; we are going to have to do this without leadership from above.

Thomas Hupp

There is a bright spot, have our congressman support the Ron Paul Federal Reserve bill requiring the transparency of their books so people can see where the money is going.
If you have been feeling the bailouts over the last 9 months seem shocking and unprecedented, you are right Tom O’Brien from tigernetworknews.com comments, ““What we have just witnessed in the banking sector is going to go down as one of the slickest moves in financial engineering, not only in our lifetime, but in history.
In Jan through March, what we had there was the destruction of the banking system. They all got caught with their own bad paper. We have had all the asset prices at the lowest levels in years, yet the banks couldn’t take advantage of it because they were broke. It took all of four months to regroup, put the fear of god into the citizens, put a bunch of money into lobbying congress, and presto, they have taxpayer money to start the game once again. “We have a banking structure that has money, won’t lend it and now is ready for a buying spree at lower levels. Privatize the profits; socialize the losses—now come in for the kill once again at lower prices to harvest undervalued assets.
The banks have recapitalized at the expense of all of us. It took the entire history of the nation from 1776 to 2008, to run up 12 Trillion dollars in debt. In the last year a new administration and congress and The Federal Reserve have given and lent out that amount of money in one year! An extraordinary feat of financial engineering!
We recommend, getting out of debt, diversifying your investments, get out of stocks, buying real assets like land and precious metals and develop your local food supply. The highest priority is take care of your heal by avoiding toxic substances entering your body. The basic message: we are on our own.
Thomas Hupp
Financial Permaculture Institute