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Every American breaks at least a dozen laws between rising from bed and sitting at the breakfast table. From what I understand, it is designed to be this way. It is all about control. And since this is happening at a quicker pace now and people STILL do not see it, I don’t believe it will be stopped. It is a lost cause.
So the diseased, dysfunctional north american culture of monetized unbridled consumption has infected tiny little Costa Rica. Big surprise. And this disease has no cure. It runs its course by destroying the host. Neither haves nor have-nots get any peace because things are set up so that there is always scarcity resulting in disparity. And the more disparity, the more violence and negativity.
I am ashamed of having more than others and equally ashamed that some others have more than I do. Inequality is a bitch. It divides us putting one against the other. My solution is to live as simply as I can tolerate in a place where there is some semblance of economic equality. The Costa Rican country side seems to be a place where I can find this. So far, most of the people in the two tiny farm communities around my CR property seem t be on a fairly equal economic footing. This certainly cannot be said about Miami.
I am not a veteran visitor to Costa Rica. I only began visiting 5 years ago and make the trip 3 times a year for short periods to the area where my property is located. But change has been happening everywhere since the beginning of recorded history. It happens many times more rapidly today than in our grandparents’ and parents’ times, so our exposure to change and the resulting experience is intensified. But so what? Where can you go to avoid this? What can you do to stop it?
Technology has made sure that the world is now one big nervous system. Larger, more powerful cultures and economic systems gobble up or infect smaller ones. It happens in varying degrees everywhere as the planet loses diversity . Look at the shrinking indigenous cultures of the Amazon and the Australian Outback as dominant cultures absorb or destroy them. Read how the planet is experiencing another mass extinction as three species disappear every hour while our species continues to grow in numbers. And we are going to complain about the Ticos becoming as acquisitive as we are as if this is only happening in Costa Rica?
These threads are always filled with anecdotal stories comparing life in present day Costa Rica with a golden past. I don’t give a damn what things were like in the past and nostalgia makes for inaccurate memories anyway. That is absolutely useless information. The consensus is always the same; “things in Costa Rica have changed for the worse.” Wow, what a surprise! Is there any place on earth right now where the consensus says that things have improved?
I don’t think anyone needs to be reminded that things have gotten worse compared to the past in Costa Rica or anywhere else for that matter. It would be more useful to compare present day life in Costa Rica with current living conditions in any other country. Our species has been soiling its collective nest since day one and the population is increasing exponentially. It has boiled down to a choice of various flavors of environmental and cultural degradation. I am 61 years old and have seen remarkably drastic negative changes in the States. Costa Rica is still a heaven compared to this circus.
Countries are not the measuring standard. Money has no geography. The banks are international and so called “money laundering” is just another tool the globalists banksters have at their disposal to impose world wide financial terrorism. The end game is total control of the world population and the destruction of nations. They will be finished when they can treat 95% of the planet as animals and slaves.
Let’s take a poll to find out how many brainwashed idiots there are out there. How many people believe that ANYTHING the US government says or prints is for our benefit?
I have put all those who believe that the US government is a well meaning institution in the same category as those who believe that saying a few Latin words over a dry, round cracker will turn that cracker into the body of Jesus Christ. And as far as I can tell, those gullible, naive people are legion and our fates are in their hands….which explains a lot.
Death is not important. Living is. What happens to my carcass is of no concern to me. I would prefer it to be useful in someway which is not macabre, such as plant food, but not as a medical tool. Either way, it will be no concern of mine since I won’t be around.
I don’t understand why people are so concerned with such matters. It makes sense to presume ownership (exclusive rights of use)of your body when you are alive. But after you have died, it is silly to presume ownership or even possession of what was your corpse. All things in the world, everything, is just being used for a period of time. Some of it is exclusive use for life, some of it is partial and temporary. The disposition of the corpse is a matter for he living. The living cultural customs of Costa Rica, or any other place, are what matters and what should be respected.
Funny how we maintain the illusion of ownership of things, including our bodies, even after death. Possession is 9 tenths of the law, they say but there is a subtle and single difference between ownership and possession…. which death seems to clarify pretty well.
From what I gather, since embalming is not common, nor is cremation, I understand that burial usually takes place within 24 hours. And unless you die in a hospital, an autopsy is mandatory.
“The watchers are being watched by someone else”. If that doesn’t give you the creeps, nothing will.
I have resisted accepting certain ideas of conspiracy theorists for a long time. They just seemed to be disgruntled, paranoid libertarian extremists with far fetched theories. They hoarded gold and food, practiced tax evasion and ranted against gun control, expecting a holocaust from an evil government. They saw black helicopters and evidence of shadow governments where no one else did. Like most, I didn’t take them seriously.
But after seeing and experiencing the recent horrific actions of these bankster maniacs, I began to research on my own. Like Neo, I took the red pill and dived down the rabbit hole. What a journey, what a revelation! There really IS an international banking cartel which runs shadow governments and which has devastated and is devastating entire national economies. They have been doing this for centuries. The IRS is just another enforcement branch for the IMF. Our taxes are confiscated from us and go right into their coffers. And they are up to no good.
I read what I just wrote and I see that those words could have been written by one of the weirdo conspiracy theorists I used to laugh at. But I also remind myself that EVERY bit of news and analysis we read, no matter the source, is a theory from one side of an issue or the other. Which theories do you accept as probable and which do you reject as lies? Who is naive enough to believe a single word any politician or corporate apologist has to say?
[quote=”Bill55″]Relax. Once the USA goes broke they just start over. Besides the Donald says he’ll fix these little issues if you guys vote for him.[/quote]
I hope you’re right. But think of the complications of starting over. There are two ways of starting over. One way is to scrap the current monetary system completely. That is not going happen.
The other way of starting over literally means debt cancellation across the board. This is called bankruptcy. Nobody owes a penny..all mortgages are cancelled, all credit card debt, car loans…everything is cancelled…including your bank account until the new replacement currency or the new valuation of the dollar is implemented. There would be measurable unfairness across the board…those who saved and never borrowed would be impoverished. Those who hold commodities (homes, cars, etc) via loans would be enriched.
But this was done before about 80 years ago. Since then we have technically been in bankruptcy as a nation. This is why our legal tender currency is made up of debit notes (dollars) and not real money such as gold or silver backed money. In bankruptcy, all debts are settled with notes and not with real money. Can you declare bankruptcy while you are still in bankruptcy?
It appears the prison bars extend far beyond the national borders. Paying for professional accountants who may or may not understand well enough how to comply with the myriad of tax laws is also no guarantee of avoiding serious problems. In the end, it doesn’t matter how much or how little effort one makes to comply, if THEY decide to persecute you, they will find a way.
The IRS has a 98% win ratio in court because they maintain a body of professional “jurors” who find in favor of the government nearly all the time regardless of the merits of the defendants. They also have an unlimited legal budget at their disposal. The best one can hope for is to remain under the radar. I am just guessing here, but ANY wealth kept overseas may be a red flag for these people. It makes me wonder if full compliance, if that is even possible, just makes it easier for persecution.
[quote=”sueandchris”][quote=”*Lotus”]I know that they (paper notes) will continue until they fail. I also know that every now and again we get obliterated by meteorites or ice ages. What’s a human being to do? Live, in my humble opinion.
My question is what will the reaction to 6-8% treasuries be? What chance does the Euro have at becoming the worlds reserve currency? Will we be buying our gallo pinto with gold ingots?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote
When interest rates begin to rise (and they will), gold will get taken out, stocks will fall, the US dollar will strengthen. That’s about all I will commit to at the moment, predicting the end of the world? I’ll leave that to Sprite and the Mayans:)
Well spoken, Lotus.
Lotus, what would make interest rates rise? Treasury Bonds are being shorted and dumped. Japan will need to dump its dollars to finance rebuilding the post tsunami economy. China has been buying massive amounts of gold and the Saudis have already decided to drop the dollar as an oil currency and has been in talks with China, Russia and even Pakistan for new treaties. And trillions of new dollars have been pulled of thin air by the FED to keep the ponzi scheme going a bit longer. You must be able to see where this is going.
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I get 100% of my in home entertainment on line with my computer. This is becoming the preferred way. I just read a report which shows a drop in the number of homes with TV’s in them. This is the first time this has happened since TV’s were invented. Progress. Not only can I watch what I want WHEN I want, but I now avoid the brainwashing drivel from corporate media and have discovered a world of alternative news sources.
