Sunday, March 22, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger,
NaturalNews Editor
http://www.counterthink.com/025688.html
(CounterThink) I recently moved to Ecuador. Not for a vacation.
Not for a month or two. I moved to Ecuador for good, as a permanent
resident. Upon hearing my plans for living in South America, many
people who knew me in the States asked things like, "Well what
about the stability of Ecuador as a nation?" To which I would
respond, "Oh, you mean the stability of banks that don't make loans
and don't invest in derivatives? You mean the stability of a nation
where the population still has the courage to march in the streets
and throw corrupt officials out of its capitol?"
These questions make Americans pause. Most tend to think of public
demonstrations as signs of a political instability. But in
fact, public demonstrations are a sign of a healthy Democratic
process. And Democracy is alive and well in Ecuador (with the
usual level of corruption you find in any democracy).
It is in America, where the sheeple have been terrorized into
staying inside the boundaries of their little "protest zones," that
you find a fragile, unstable nation.
Through complacency and fear-mongering, most Americans have become
cowards when it comes to political activism. They think emailing
their Senator a few times a year is all that's required to defend
freedom and preserve a nation. Marching in the streets is seen as
uncivilized... or even unpatriotic! The government agrees with
this, too, now labeling anyone who protests in public a "potential
terrorist" and targeting them for FBI investigations. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C29...)
In the mean time, while the sheeple of America are caught up in
their hypnotic dreams of world domination, white-collar hoodlums in
Washington D.C. and Wall Street are stealing
everything!
The oft-repeated creation of $1 trillion in new money out of thin
air by the Federal Reserve has made the U.S. dollar the laughing
stock of the world. The leaders of the G20 nations have already
decided to ditch the dollar and shift to other world reserve
currencies, and China is now blatantly and publicly asking the U.S.
put up some kind of collateral to back up future debt purchases, to
which the U.S. says "Don't worry about the debt. We're good for
it!"
And when $165 million in bonus money got paid to AIG employees, the
tyrants in Washington demonstrated the true reach of their
confiscatory punishment by enacting, within mere days, a 90% income
tax rate on those bonuses. Sure, I agree those AIG executives
deserve no bonus money, but the fact that the legislative branch of
the U.S. government can reach out and hammer a targeted group of
U.S. citizens with a retroactive 90% income tax rate should send
shivers through any American that earns any income at all.
It has all taken on the caricature of a political circus. The
perception around the world now is that America is not merely a
land of the incompetent and the bankrupt; it's also a land of
fiscal buffoons and political puppets who have no real ability to
save the crashing economy.
But the real story starts to unfold when you realize the Federal
Reserve is now hell bent on multiplying the U.S. money supply by a
whopping fifteen times in 2009! This excellent
article explains how this number is derived: http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/...
Now think about this: If the Federal Reserve increases the U.S.
money supply by a factor of fifteen, that means your
dollars will be worth only 1/15th the value they represent right
now. So a loaf of bread that costs a dollar right now
could cost $15 when all this extra money ripples through the
system. (Which will obviously take a couple of years, but 2009 will
be the beginning of it.)
This is called "hyperinflation." We're talking about a loss of over
93% of the purchasing power of the dollar. That, my friends, is
called a collapse of the currency.
And once it starts, the floodgates will be opened and the tsunami
of investors and nations offloading dollars will be catastrophic
and irreversible. By the time it's all done, the dollar might end
up losing 99.9% of its value, and you can use greenbacks to light a
fire or wipe your back side, as they will be useless for anything
else.
That's why I say America's days are numbered. The America as we
know it, at least. This repeated creation of trillions of dollars
in new money by the Federal Reserve is the last great
looting of the U.S. economy by the wealthy elite. The
Titanic is sinking, and high officials have monopolized the life
rafts, leaving everyone else to drown with the ship. And while
they're rowing away from the doomed vessel that's taking on water,
they shout back to the low-income workers clinging to the rails,
"Don't worry! The ship isn't really sinking. It's just
'correcting!'"
The truth is that America IS sinking -- and it's
not just the currency I'm talking about here: America's criminal
health care system has sickened the population and outlawed any
real healing practices, too. Meanwhile, the FDA and FTC have
attempted to destroy all knowledge of natural remedies that can
prevent and cure disease, further compromising the future of the
American People.
On the dollars-and-cents side, America's economy is a fictitious
mish-mash of corporations selling poisons to the people, and people
buying junk they don't need, and everybody paying through the nose
for disease care services that ultimately provide no net benefit to
the population.
America's infrastructure is crumbling, its industries are already
gutted, and its exports resemble third-world agricultural nations
more than first-world developed nations. Its political leadership
is, with very few exceptions, a band of diseased, ignorant
influence peddlers who sell out their constituents at every
opportunity.
Perhaps more importantly, America has abandoned the
principle of law. Laws no longer matter in America because
they are selectively enforced only against those who threaten
powerful institutions or corporations. America is no longer a
nation of freedom and justice for all. Rather, it is a nation of
greed and profit for the few, followed by
oppression and bankruptcy for everybody else.
Given these circumstances, it is not difficult to predict the
demise of America as we know it. The U.S. dollar will eventually
collapse or be abandoned. This could happen literally overnight, or
it could take years, but make no mistake: The American
people will not be forewarned of the collapse of the
dollar. It will be a sudden, surprise announcement, and
all the politicians and banking elitists who engineered the whole
thing will pronounce their "shock" that such a thing could happen!
"We could never have predicted this," they will insist, even while
the whole thing was actually engineered by the very same
people.
One day, Americans will wake up and discover that all banks are on
"bank holidays" (which means that someone in Washington is taking a
holiday with your money while YOU can't access it).
Within hours, the National Guard will roll into the cities of the
United States, and Americans will find themselves penniless
prisoners in their own country. Anyone who protests will be
arrested or shot. Law will be dispensed at the end of military
rifles, and the President will get on television and explain how
this is all being done for YOUR benefit! It's for your own safety
and protection, didn't you know?
From here, it's difficult to say exactly what will unfold. We could
see UN troops on U.S. soil, the IMF taking over the U.S. banking
system, and the forced transition to a global currency. Other
possibilities include the Balkanization of the formerly-united
States of America, with regional nation-states declaring their own
independence from Washington.
During this chaos, just-in-time delivery of food and
products will grind to a halt. Store shelves will be
emptied. A healthy economy of barter will immediately spring up to
fill the void. Those who have things to trade (toilet paper,
butter, salt, sugar, matches, gold, silver, food, fuel, etc.) will
eat. Those who don't will starve. Health will plummet and
infectious disease will become a very real threat in many cities.
The conventional medical system will, of course, be utterly useless
and will run out of medicine within days or weeks.
This economic transition chaos will be short-lived, however, and
from the ashes of economic turmoil will spring a new nation (or
nations) of People who have finally awakened from their
complacency. New governments will be forged, and the fields of
economic ruin will be ripe for the planting and sprouting of new
ideas from a new generation of visionary leaders.
In my related article called How to Create A Healthy, Wealthy,
Abundant Nation from the Ashes of America's Demise, I discuss
some advanced ideas of how new nation states might structure
themselves in a way that creates lasting health, wealth and
abundance for its citizens. Read that story on the other network I
write for. Just enter the title shown above in the search box of
the other website (NN).