Historical evidence for our economic collapse

*This is the final article at this point as part of the historical references regarding our pending global collapse as mentioned in the previous article*

I have spent many years researching online about this subject. I grew up with a single mother and was an army brat. Since I was a kid patriotism was taught and the Constitution preached. I come before you in the same way Thomas Payne came before the Colonists of the Revolution with "Common Sense." It is time to become informed with the issues of our day and how we got here so that we can preserve a more peaceful tomorrow. Through this writing I hope to show you our history of where we've been, where our roots grow, and what may become if fail to get informed.


Currency

Before we can even start to take a look at the big picture we must first come to understand certain key elements that have become perverted over time. First we must look at what currency is and learn the difference between currency and real wealth.


When I try to teach people about currency I like to tell the story of the Tally-Stick system set up by King Henry VIII, which is still used in our modern banking system, to show currency as a tool. When King Henry was trying to get away from the silent power of the banks he was forced to create the Tally-Stick system. Because wood was a valuable commodity he cut down a branch, cut notches representing monetary value, and cut it in half with one going to the individual and the other to the Treasury for record keeping. He was able to demand taxes to be paid in the new system. This is what helped propel England from Island to Empire. Currency was meant to be the next step above barter as a tool and socially accepted exchange medium, not to be sought after or accumulated.

Now that we know what currency is, let's take a look at what real wealth is. In the 1300's there was a group commonly known as the "Black Nobility" for their hatred of the Church and sidestepping of Church Usury Laws by charging huge fee's. What they accumulated as part of their fee's would be considered real wealth because they couldn't charge interest on the loans they gave out. The fee's would be commodities such as crops, land, resources, and even labor. The difference between currency and real wealth other than the obvious ones is that currencies come and go, real wealth is the same every day of the week.

American threat to established power

Although we're told that America won Independence from England, that's not entirely true if you read the Treaty of Paris 1783. The agreement between the Americans and English was that Americans would no longer be recognized as subjects of the Crown and that they would recognize the United States of America as a global trading partner. What we gave in return was the ability for those British subjects who lost property, the land was to be returned to them. In essence we never really owned a lot of land or our land after the Revolution. Until after the war of 1812 English soldiers were still stationed within the United States.

All wars in America and throughout the world for the last 700-1000 years were started on by the money interest through manipulation. The War of 1812 is thought to have been caused because Thomas Jefferson didn't renew the charter of the private First Bank of the United States. When Andrew Jackson declared international bankers to be a "den of vipers" while on his quest to get rid of the second First Bank of the United States, this is what led to the events surrounding the starting of the Civil War. Even President Lincoln was assassinated because John Wilkes Booth along with 3 others were tried and convicted of conspiracy to murder on behalf of international bankers. The third and final attempt by the money interest to gain control of our money supply was under Woodrow Wilson who would later regret his role calling America "the worst ruled nation in history", but this wasn't officially finalized until under the FDR administration during the Great Depression.

Because of disinformation we as the general public were foolishly deceived by the cause of the depression. The very agency that made the case to Congress that they were better suited to prevent something like this again were also the one's who created it by changing the reserve rate for bank from 10% to 20% ultimately causing the money supply to go from $2200 per person to $16.50 per person. May I remind you this is a private bank with unknown international investors!

America is and has been a threat to the monetary interest since our inception because of two reasons, our ability to coin our own money and our civil liberties. We've been able to watch them try and fail to take control of our money supply twice because we were informed, but they won the third and final try through deception. As far as civil liberties go a great example is our modern world. Have you ever noticed that the countries with little to no civil liberties are not only the poorest, but most exploited too? Civil liberties cost money and prevent those who wish to rob countries of their wealth for themselves from having unimpeded access. A banker will tell you that Nationalism is the last dying hope of a nation, but I will tell you that Nationalism is the first wise decision for a country if you understand what Nationalism is.

Collapse of 1345



In 1342 a Venetian bank ran by what was called the "Black Nobility" (enemies of the church and tried to sidestep church usury laws) had over extended itself on some bad loans. They loaned only to Monarchs and Aristocrats, so they started calling in loans to make up for lost reserves. In 1345 the king of England defaulted on his loans and caused the bank to collapse. This along with the Plague and 100 years war played a big part in a 120 year span where the earth's population was reduced by 25%. Some historians believe that the Plague's high death tolls and 100 years war were a direct result of the collapse of 1345.

Our banks, like the Venetians, overextended themselves by making some shady housing loans tied to derivatives. The housing bubble alone couldn't collapse the U.S. economy because this happens every 20-30 years, the derivatives (investment bets for/against person defaulting on loan) was our nail in the coffin. The most common report that I've been able to check is that there is $65 Trillion of wealth in the globe and the money owed for derivatives is $ 4,000 Trillion or $4 Quadrillion. As long as we can all agree to collect only interest payments and we don't have a double dip recession we'll be fine. If we can't hold off payment in full then London and New York are going to have to fold leaving those holding U.S. dollars with toilet paper.

1st Continentals

Our Revolution was caused by a rebellion against the money interest. It all started with the 1st Continentals, because there was not enough Gold in circulation to facilitate commerce the Colonial governments decided to print what would become Colonials. The Colonies thrived under the Continentals until the Crown Bank of England and petitioned the King to fix the Colonial issue. The King made Colonials illegal and forced the colonies to use only Gold. This led to high unemployment and a depression. Two years later the King decided to issue the Stamp Act Tax which would then be the final straw for starting the Revolutionary War.

14th Amendment/Expatriation Act

Did you know that through a couple of publicly uninformed decisions we're all 2nd class citizens? Even Sen. Santorum (R) has managed to sidestep the real problem at hand.

Article 1 of the Constitution classifies you as a "Common Law" citizen or "Citizen of your State then a citizen of the United States." Up until the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1867 we only had State Citizens and United States citizens. Because some of the States refused to recognize blacks as Citizens, the 14th Amendment was passed to give them some sort of citizenship. Because of the way the Amendment was written it made the blacks second class citizens by making Amendments 1-8 privileges and only giving you those that were part of due process.

This wasn't as big a deal as it is today because it was only a select few who were 14th Amendment citizens until the "Joint Venture of 1935". In 1935 Congress passed H.J.R. 192 asking citizens of the United States to turn in their Gold (Only 14th Amendment citizens and those who participated in international or interstate commerce, military, and government employee's were United States citizens). Once more than 51% of the people turned in their Gold the U.S. government devalued Gold from $20.67 to $35 allowing the government to make a profit. In this case the lack of understanding towards how our laws and country were being run at the time put us into a binding contract that even the Constitution can't supersede.

Immediately after H.J.R. 192 was passed and the people turned in their Gold, the next phase was set up. To be able to completely allow for centralized power by the government was the "Intergovernmental dependence Act" enacted by the States from 1935-38. This would eventually erode the State borders into one centralized government. After the Book of the States 1935-38 Congress amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 in 1940 to classify all persons as carriers of commerce. This would later lead to the IRS 10 years later officially making all citizens within these several states 14th Amendment citizens.

One good piece of news is that for every law there has to be a remedy which is why right before the 14th Amendment was passed the Expatriation Act was passed to allow a way out if you so choose. (I may expand on this in the future, Lee Brobst will be your best resource until then).

Woodrow Wilson and Edward Bernays

There are only 2 reasons to talk about Woodrow Wilson, his connection to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and his propaganda or communications officer Edward Bernays. In order to really understand the significance of Bernays we must understand that Bernays' uncle was Sigmund Freud who was the father of modern day Psychology. Bernays started out as an advertising consultant. His most significant work can be linked to our consumer based society, women smoking, and changing Americans breakfast from coffee and toast to bacon and eggs along with other societal changes.

Because we've built our consumerist society we need to understand how it results in our foreign policy. The author of "Confessions of an economic hit man" gives us a glimpse of what really goes on. Our population is anywhere between 3-5% of the worlds population, but we consume more than 40% of the worlds resources. This is not a sustainable model for any country including ours. If China were to do this it would consume everything with nothing left over for the rest of the world.

The author of "Confessions" explains to us that the way our foreign policy works is through economics first, assassination second, then war is the final option. When I read in the news and I see all these wars we're in, I know that our foreign policy is failing miserably. We invaded Iraq not for Oil, but because Iraq wanted to start selling Oil in Euros which would destabilize the U.S. economically. We've been paying attention to Libya, but is it Democracy that we want to install or was it because they were about to start coining the "Gold Denar" which would cause oil to be bought and sold in Gold the U.S. doesn't even have (read the article about DSK in the EU times with an interview of Putin).

Greek Bond Bubble

In the last year or so Greece has been having a financial crisis, but what's most important is how their bond market collapsed causing their economic problems. It wasn't the private sector who collapsed, it was a malicious attack on the Greek government itself. In an interview done by RT (Russian Television) with a Greek businessman he explained that it wasn't the governments fault. The Greek said through his research of the bond market collapse that he saw short selling of bonds (This means that people are selling counterfeit bonds as real bonds causing interest rates to skyrocket due to lower demands for government bonds). The Greek also wanted to point out that this was done by a group of international investors that are nameless.
 
Since I've had the privilege to get some insider information on what was really going on, I've become worried that the same thing could happen to America. In December 2010 every news organization along with members of Congress such as Ron Paul stated that the U.S. bond bubble had officially burst. Unless those international investors that attacked the Greek bond market were U.S. America could have the same thing happen to us.

The Working Group

Although we have the threat of our bond market being sabotaged by outside investors, what's even more alarming and also the reason for us going head long into self destruction is a government agency called "the working group". In 1997 the Washington Post did two articles on the 1987 "Black Monday" crash in February and October of 1997.  The author of the articles wasn't sure if this agency was created under the FDR or Reagan administrations, but he did a good job explaining what the group was for.

Because we are the economic center of the world for the last 90 years we have a responsibility to the rest of the world. In the event that our financial markets lock up, we have to sacrifice ourselves in order to save the rest of the world. "The Working Group" consists of the heads of Treasury, SEC, and Federal Reserve. These heads are responsible for making sure that there is enough money in circulation in order to keep the global financial markets from locking up too. This was meant to be a short term one or two day fix, not a two or three year fix like what has been done with QE1 and QE2. Unfortunately this policy has allowed the U.S. to over saturate the currency market which will eventually be the demise of the United States (compare to the Wiemar Republic).

Conclusion

Now that we've gotten a brief overview of the historical events that have led us to this place in history, what is the next step? I hope your first step be to look up and verify the information I have placed here today because my goal was to inspire you to look a little deeper. Once this is done and you feel confident that you have a full understanding of what's going on there are other things that can be done to prepare yourself and family for this inevitable event.

1. Grow organic food: Portland is doing a great job in this area because there are a lot of the old WWII Liberty gardens being restored around the city. When growing your food, realize that you may not be able to go to the store the next year to get seeds, so heirloom seeds are the best to use because they're not genetically modified.

2. Collect metal: Gold and Silver are nice, but they're not the only metal that has a value. Silver happens to be a more industrial metal and could possibly be more valuable than Gold here in a few more years. Copper, Nickel, and other industrial medals are great for barter and trade. Some have speculated that after our financial collapse comes to full realization that it will take merely one ounce of Silver to feed a family of 4 for a month.

3. Restoring soil: Oil based chemicals has done a lot of damage to our soil. There are a few simple ways to restore your soil, one being to urinate on the ground or in your garden.

4. Preparing other means of living: Being indoors may, after a while, prove to be a health risk. I would suggest having camping gear ready and/or figuring out another way to dispose of bodily waste. If you do plan on moving out doors making sure safety is taken care of is your first priority because by then martial law has ensued.

5. Have a plan for martial law: Although this country was set up for peaceful revolutions, I doubt anyone will follow that after seeing what's going on in Europe. Martial law is no joke, be cooperative when you have to be because family safety is number one. Also, make sure to keep your neighbors from doing anything too stupid to warrant the military from locking down your side of town. One more thing to note is that if you're preparing to leave the major city during martial law, others may have beaten you to the punch and you may be putting your family in more danger this way.