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Sprite doesn’t predict world’s end..just the end of paper currency which is not backed by precious metal…including the Euro. Perhaps the Yuan or a new One World Currency or even a basket of currencies will replace the dollar in the meantime. But the dollar is no longer to be the world’s currency. There is no debate as to what that means for anyone holding dollars.
It is highly unlikely, almost unimaginable now that the dollar can be saved from a crash and hyperinflation.Lotus,
Are you serious? Do you really believe that the fiat paper currencies in the world can continue? Every single paper currency that has been brought into play throughout history has failed. Every one of them. They are designed to fail..designed obsolescence is exactly how central banks extract the wealth from workers and power from kings and nations. It is the essential component of these grand ponzi schemes..and they always work..to your detriment.
What is amazing is that people forget the disasters and as soon as one currency fails, impoverishing a population, another is eventually brought back in by the banks and the game starts again.
[quote=”electeel”]Upon hearing about the S & P downgrades last On Tuesday, I bought $250,000 worth of Swiss Franks. By weeks end the move had already saved me almost $2000 in lost value. ugh.[/quote]
I see you are trying to keep one step ahead of the falling dominoes. It seems to me that all paper is going in the same direction compared to precious metals and other commodities.
I am curious as to why you don’t just skip ahead past the paper currencies and go right on into gold or silver. Unless you believe that the central bank ponzi scheme might continue for another decade or so. How many more delay tactics could they have up their sleeve?The Wal-Mart business model is no different than all the other large corporations. They intend to grow indefinitely and exponentially. What is absolutely astounding to me is that so many people do not see just how ridiculous and impossible that business plan is. Everything we know about the world says that nothing can grow forever. There is only so much in the way of resources. The earth is a limited pie and all things have cycles. The only thing that grows after a while in living things is a tumor. And then comes a collapse……
[quote=”GoingLikeSixty”][url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI-BIVWlc7A]The next step is removing the dollar as the world oil currency. [/url]
End of America…
It’s a long video, but try to watch it. It’s worth it.[/quote]I saw this one a few months ago. There are numerous articles by respected analysts who have come to the same conclusion presented in this video. And I know quite a few people who have come to realize what has been happening and what is likely to happen next. What astounds me is that there are still those who believe that nothing extraordinary is going on, that this is just another “business cycle”. These are people who will be victims of the normalcy bias, which I believe is mentioned in the video.
Normalcy bias
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The normalcy bias refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster…[quote=”Scott”]Wall Street shares slump as S&P downgrades US debt outlook
US budget deficit has moved from a surplus at the turn of the millennium to a deficit of 11% by 2009
[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/18/us-economy-credit-rating ][/quote]
A side note; A massive geopolitical realignment is now taking place with news today from the Saudis which will devastate the dollar. The Saudis have realized that they are being betrayed by the West and have decided to play hardball by limiting production of oil production and going to Russia seeking a cooperative agreement to perhaps replace the US. The next step is removing the dollar as the world oil currency. The step after that is a huge spike in petrol costs in North America…probably just before the dollar crashes anyway.
I hope all you kiddies have your food survival packages and home safes filled with gold or silver ingots and your weapons oiled and loaded….you won’t need any fuel to cook with because you’ll have a lot of worthless paper to burn.
[quote=”Doug Ward”][quote=”bogino”]I. myself, would rather pay a few extra $$ to someone working in a small family owned business in a more entrepreneurial setting that smiles while they’re helping their customer and has a positive attitude unlike most of the emotionless robots that simply are their to exist that we usually see in the Walmarts and other mega corporate entities we have to deal with here in the U.S.[/quote]
That’s you…..and me too but I know Ticos that will walk around town all day to save 200 colones on a 10,000 colon item.
Matter of fact damn near ALL of them will.
They’ll crawl to Walmart if they have to.
I’ve seen Ticos drive all the way to Canas to save $5 on a drill and spend $15 in gas doing it !“Our children walk to school with books instead of rifles” Arias.”But they never open the books” Me.
The only good news is Walmart will likely have more losses due to theft than profit on sales…LOL[/quote]If the Ticos thieve too much, they’re liable to cause the US marines to invade and “re-establish law and order.”:wink:
Just in case the primitive Mayan calendar means nothing and we find ourselves still doing business as usual, which is to say, becoming further enslaved and otherwise dominated by the wealthy few, I think it is a good idea to be aware of who the enemy is and what tools they are employing to their evil ends.
Since she offered no examples of what she disliked about German socialism, and made no reference to the fact that Costa Rica uses a socialist system, I assume she, like most people, may be confused about the issue and attach more relevance to this than it deserves as regards to life style.
She could have boiled it all down to “low taxes and somewhat lower cost of living means less infrastructure”. I think everybody understands that. What many people may not know is just how they might fare living in a place with less infrastructure. And she raises the important question which is why we decide to move to another country in the first place. Valid motive, I believe, in the end decides whether or not the move is successful and relatively long lasting.
The oil drilling industry is given plenty of scientific data which is useful for their business. If they were indeed interested in a charitable donation, why not just send money and food to starving people? I think it is terribly naive to believe corporations do anything which is not related to profit.
Consolidation of wealth is not a good thing in any way. Mammoth businesses become way too powerful and end up taking everything away from societies and focusing the wealth and power into a few hands.
This consolidation of wealth and power is the chief evil in the world today. And I don’t believe people have evolved or ever will evolve into creatures who thrive in mega sized communities. Our species developed in small cooperative groups, packs, if you will, where each member knew every other member.
What other mammal forms societies consisting of millions of members? How is it even possible to feel a part of a group when you do not and cannot know more than a fraction of a fraction of a percentage point of the other members?
Walmarts, Exon and the U.S. government are examples of insane and dysfunctional organizations. I conclude that a belief that things are going well for humanity has to the result of brainwashing.
I fear the Ticos are helpless against this corporate onslaught. To show people an amazing array of goods which they may not have seen before is to tempt them into the relentless consumer-debt cycle to which most of the West has succumbed.
And I fully understand the power and seductive nature of consumerism as I have been and continue to be a victim. But I can’t help feeling like I am watching a train wreck in slow motion as Costa Rica let’s this destructive system infect its culture more and more. Perhaps a world wide economic catastrophe may stop this but what a cost!That some good science and information resulted from such drilling projects is ancillary to the greater harm done to the environment by the avaricious pursuit of oil.
After all, the many wars we have let plague us over the centuries have also yielded some advances in medicine, food preservation and other matters. But those advances do not justify the wars that pulled them into light.
As a matter of course, I never ever trust corporations, banks or governments in anything they do or say precisely because I know what their objectives always, always are.
Corporations have only one mandate; profit. Governments have only one goal; consolidation of power. They have no other. To assume otherwise is not only naive, it is dangerous.
What is happening in the Middle East and North Africa is being orchestrated by the Globalists-banking cartel. It is not some revolutionary freedom fight. War, currency devaluation and destabilization all serve to concentrate more wealth and power into their hands. The prize in that region is Iran and they are now one step closer to achieving that jewel.
All of this will come to the West as well. Walmart in Costa Rica plants another international corporate flag on the map and is symptomatic of this spreading cancer. Forget about politicians and voting your way out of the closing trap. They are all paid servants. I wonder how much Costa Rican politicians have cost Walmart? I’ll bet it was a bargain.
