Why do I always write about something Armstrong will write about a couple of days before he does.

Remember I mentioned Texas is like its own country and the Texans are very proud and also that the USA will likely break up into factions:

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/37467

Stop reading Fekete. I debated him in email 6 or 7 years ago and blew apart all of this logic. I've debated in private many of the significant personalities on the net who are accessible, including Armstrong and Noam Chomsky.

None of these other chumps on the internet are any where near the league of Armstrong in their intellectual and extensive historical data understanding.

Gold backwardation is complete nonsense. I will dig up Armstrong's explanation for you.Here they are:

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/9858
http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/15131
http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/18165

OROBTC, you are not focusing on the extenuating effects of stomping on the free market. It has nothing to do with whether higher or lower interest rates are preferable. It has everything to do with hijacking what would have been the optimum annealing (fitness) of the free market and then the after effects of "feeding drugs to toddlers" (as a dysphemism or cacophemism example of what happens when you distort what would have been natural). Time (entropy) is irreversible, i.e. people can't get back their innocence and recover the time they lost investing the wrong education which was stimulated by an extension of the Industrial Age past its useful life. Thus effects of Coasian barriers can be visualized as wind turbulence coming off a airfoil (wing) or the build up of effects of a water damn the turbulence of the damn failing (e.g. to an accumulation of silt or failure of the surrounding ecosystem, etc). So the after effects of QE will be increased turbulence.

See the free market is smarter (about fitness) than any one top-down decider, because it has more degrees-of-freedom (i.e. more opportunities to relieve pressure points and find synergies).

OROBTC my man. Look into who are the major owners of Monsanto stock are (Goldman et al own and/or were venture funders of a chunk of all, e.g. Facebook, Google, etc). There is a web of mutual ownership between these fascists (untangling the web may not be easy but rest assured the large corporations are in essence owned by a few families in terms of class A stock and board control, etc. The greater fools come in on the stock market which is often class B stock or only a small percent of the float and overpay for nothing and then loose their shirts over and over).

Hey don't dig too much as Gary Webb and Michael Ruppert did.

No. It caused misallocation and extension of corruption. That can lead to much worse outcomes than simply having productivity expand greater than the money supply. When you fuck up society and cause people to waste the precious years of their life and end up at a dead end. Then some example of outcomes that are likely are totalitarianism, war, and potential collapse of society into chaos.

OROBTC, just take as one prime example how Goldman Sachs has been to a great extent running Europe. They installed all their key people in positions of power and even did the financial wizardry to hide Greece's deficits for years. Even the head of the Central Bank of India is a former IMF/Goldman.

Next example look at Monsanto and Codex Alimentarius.

Doesn't take too many examples to get a clear picture of the large corporations in control of the world.

It was a transfer effect, wherein the concomitant ZIRP sent capital fleeing to find yield in emerging markets. And the prevention of Western defaults providing the confidence to do so.

The velocity of money rose in emerging markets because that is where the $9 trillion QE ended up. And interest rates dropped a lot over here significantly due to all that money swashing around (and the concomitant perceived reduction in risk as economies improved, which is congruent with Armstrong's point that interest rates are lowest where capital concentrates not only due to balance of supply and demand because also because of economies-of-scale in confidence).

But that has nothing to do with the long-term homeostasis of inexorably lower interest rates, as smooth points out.

Russia is doing as it was told to do. TPTB understand the greatest threat from crypto (which they created) would be if it formed a true side economy. And the greatest risk of that they see is Silk Road and other illicit markets. Russians are big traders in illicit markets and thus BTC won't be legal in Russia until BTC has reached the point where all block chain transactions are regulated.

TPTB created BTC because they wanted to drive leverage against existing financial systems towards a public register of all transactions and to prevent resistance to the wave of digital currency, which they want because of it is part of the way to track everything in the Technocracy of the new world order wherein everyone is a slave to the corporations that own the world:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-companies-that-control-everything/

And potentially end up having to give the EU $100,000 in fines because your house violated global warming or some other regulation. Or who knows what. I think touching anything in dysfunctional Europe is a liability of unknown extent. Europe is not going to bottom and come back. It is on its death march for next decades. Every thing productive will run away from Europe for decades. Everything that stays will die. It will be waves of awakening to this fact, that will drive more and more stampede out of Europe and cause that which remains to grow more and more dysfunctional and totalitarian.

Note there may exceptions within Europe. A blanket statement is never going to be correct.


That is not true. Ever heard of the Dust Bowl? At the end stage of Rome, the population abandoned their land and walked away. We have another Little Ice Age starting.

Also Europe is in such a quagmire with social obligations and no means to pay for it, of course it must go where the remaining wealth is to extract it. Land owners who can't move their asset.


Let's hope the EU doesn't declare hunting in that soon-to-be bioreserve a regulated activity. Don't you see they are taking over your country. The large capitalists want to make sure you can't eat unless you eat their factory produced GMO food. They will regulate you into no other options. You'll see this more clearly as everything turns down more in Europe.

My thesis is much more bearish on Europe than the USA, because Europe has no capability to resist. The USA will end up breaking up into different factions because some Americans are armed and can resist. Europeans can do nothing but bend over and take it deep.

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Armstrong is not predicting that nonsense about end of world due to Shemitah. He has noted some similarity in the debt forgiveness cycle and the business cycle. That is all.

You forgot that Germans never let anyone disturb their orderly orderness and they persist to the million eugenics end because they never admit they are wrong. They still don't admit they were wrong for taking your gold (Greece).

No way. The Germans will grind Europe into the dirt again. Humans don't change. The future rhymes with the past.

Besides there are very powerful vested interests that want to bring the world to its knees in order to bring about the new world order of centralized control. Destruction of the nation-states as a concept is crucial to this plan.

A potential strong lead on where you M.S. came from. More on this soon in the Economic Totalitarianism thread where I was discussing health since the Corporate State is waging war on our health.

My experience is fasting has been a fool's diversion. I've made a major breakthrough discovery!

Imagine what you've been doing to your digestive tract feeding it poisons and starving it of a healthy mucus lining. Toxins thus end up in your bloodsteam instead of contained in your digestive tract and thus our (yours and mine and every other person suffering chronic autoimmunity illness) immune system kills the cells that have taken up those toxins. It ain't rocket science.

(Dude a proper breakfast is a free range egg yolk, some raw wild tuna, some fermented drink with good bacteria, white rice, and some sweet potato. Coffee and nuts for the most important meal of the day     No wonder you are sick! Abusing nuts (and coffee beans!) as a staple food as if we have the same digestive enzymes as squirrels, instead partaking nuts as at most a weekly snack food. But I did the same sort of stupid shit because of having the same type of job as you and we are both suffering the similar illness because of it)

I believe he wrote around 0.8 dollars per Euro is the target.

I don't remember what he wrote about the Yen, but if Japan is determined to print away, it could go deviate from the more moderate Euro outlook.

Crypto hasn't bottomed yet because are headed into a contagion to kick off the Sovereign Big Bang and crypto is not liquid. The only reason to buy crypto is to speculate. Long speculation hides when contagion strikes and short speculators pile on. Ditto gold.

Gold and BTC will find a bottom when the smart shorts start covering. Armstrong has projected this as Spring 2016 for gold and thus I expect roughly the same for crypto.

You want to be in USD right now (you could flirt with the bond bubble but I wouldn't as it is crowded trade and you are a late comer!), preparing to the buy the US stock markets once Armstrong has called the bottom. You will cycle out of these back into crypto in 2016.

macsga, here the point I was making up thread about what is chaotic in the micro is not chaotic from the perpective of the macro. The strange attractor occurs due to resonance at a relative perspective formed in foundational (e.g. historic as one form of) data (you have no perspective without foundational data, i.e. your priority senses as a human). Whereas from the perspective of the Milky Way galaxy, the events on earth that are predictable on our lifetime scales would appear to be noise and chaotic in terms of formations of solar systems and galaxies...

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/37498

Armstrong has confirmed the NY Club does manipulate over the short-term moves such as creating bull traps (he even had extensive audio tapes documenting their manipulations and the SEC wrote him an official letter confirming these confiscated tapes were destroyed at the Twin Towers on 9/11). But he doesn't think they can create a persistently bearish market, meaning he doesn't think gold price is suppressed because of manipulation. There is a distinction between short-term trading manipulation and manipulation of the long-term free market price. The NY Club does do the former, they can't do the latter. Please make sure all understand the distinction.


Hey major news right on time for 2015.75!

1) Boehner Resigns!

2) Yellen almost passes out during speech.

3) Tea Party will stage a US govt shut down over conservative religious values and the tapping into the general angst about the runaway corruption of govt.

4) The recent political shakeup in Australia.

5) Central bank of Germany tells the EU not to release the results of bank stress tests because ostensibly Douchebag Bank is about to go belly up.

6) Migrant crisis.

7) EU environmentalism big business is revealed to be another corrupt lie (Volkswagen, BMW, etc). Add that to the lie of global warming, peak oil, etc..

Fascinating, clarifying chart from (or derived from) the Oxford study I had often cited up thread (which predicted 47% technological unemployment by 2020 - 2030[1]):

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Technological_Tipping_Points_report_2015.pdf#page=22




Thus we can see that Computers & Engineering are mostly immune to the coming technological unemployment. Although Healthcare, Legal, Education, Community Service, and Finance are mostly immune, they will be downsized with the peak in socialism and government upon us. At least those areas will have a future in Asia to some extent.

The general categories most susceptible to replacement by computerization and automation are:

Transport
Production (i.e. factories)
Office and Admin
Sales
Service
And some management (who managed the above)

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http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf#page=44 Quote According to our estimates around 47 percent of total US employment is in the high risk category. We refer to these as jobs at risk – i.e. jobs we expect could be automated relatively soon, perhaps over the next decade or two.

klee I will just tell you that since 2012, I get immediately ill after eating nuts. Before that I loved nuts (I practically lived off peanut butter and whole wheat bread in my 20s which yet another risk factor with me developing gut dysbiosys), but after making myself ill numerous times, I finally had to admit they are poison.

For a healthy person, a few nuts per week will surely be healthier because they are a rich source of minerals. But we can also get those minerals from other foods, for example the selenium from Brazil nuts I can instead get from tuna.

But for a person who has already chronic gut issues, nuts have too high levels of anti-nutrients.

I trust common sense which tells me that nature made seeds with natural pesticides because the seed is the most important production of a plant, its offspring. The way a mother will protect her child at any cost (even her own life). Grains are also the seeds of the plant. Only rice has all its minerals, proteins, and natural pesticides in a removable outer husk. All the other nuts, grains, and legumes have the proteins, minerals, and natural pesticides integrated with the starch (and oils). Coconut may be an exception. And apparently also olives.

I don't trust any study claiming anything in terms of diet, because there is no way they can adjust the study to reflect the fact that most people today are inherently starving because of the Western diet (no grass fed animals!). People are obese because they are starving, because their microflora can no longer digest food well to provide the nutrients they need, and because the food they are consuming is toxic (e.g. non-grass fed meats very high in omega-6).

So for me it is mostly all noise. I do pay attention to the discussion of chemical/biological mechanisms at gutcritters.com because it provides some imperfect insight into how the various variables impact digestion.

What I am doing now is trying as much as possible to emulate the way someone would lived in the Amazon jungle would eat. And remember they fermented the cassava before they ate it. Even the native tribes which subsisted mostly on maize (not the same as today's corn) mashed, washed, and fermented it in order to make it more healthy. I think every native culture was getting massive amount of probiotics in their diet daily. Even your wheat eating European ancestors were mashing, washing, and fermenting the grains. And I assume they were fermenting their dairy products as well. Not to claim that Europeans were that healthy in the Middle Ages, because I am not knowledgeable about that (wasn't there wide spread malnutrition and disease with much lower average age of death).

One big factor is refrigeration and microwave ovens. Never ever should you use a microwave oven because it effective kills the enzymes and denatures the proteins, etc.. It kills what was food and turns the food into anti-nutrients.

Also the refrigeration enables us to eat stale, dead food. The native tribe would instead eat fresh or fermented food.

Maybe if we stopped teaching our females that they should be striving to be men, or parading them around as Frankenstein trophies of independence, they could get back to preparing foods in the traditional ways and we men could get back to being busy engineering and analytical work that men typically do better than females. Or maybe we could make robots to do our traditional food preparation, and then I am not quite sure what the women would do best, I guess only bear and nurture (even home school?) the children (and that is perhaps the most important role in society).

Indeed too much of anything is going to cause problems in the gut and then eventually autoimmunity.

But there are certain foods which are poisons and to be avoided.

And we need fermented foods to promote healthy gut microflora.

https://www.google.com/search?q=native+tribes+have+1000s+more+gut+bacteria

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/04/21/400393756/how-modern-life-depletes-our-gut-microbes


Notice how in that article the scientists have entirely failed to consider that the meat these hunter tribes eat is all wild! And they likely barbecue it, thus they get many of their microbes directly from the nearly raw meat they eat.

klee I wager a bet your M.S. is caused by insufficient variety of gut microflora.

Maybe because you never sent me any clearly articulated information. And now you try to claim what ever you want to.

Afair, none of your sources for example succinctly mentioned the critical importance of soluble fiber.

And you always emphasized keeping my body in ketogenesis and thus that means consuming no glucose, which thus means consuming no carbs. If you meant something else, then you should write it. Don't link me all to 1000 pages of research and expect me to extract it from there.

And WTF is up with the lunatic comments. I have been quiet lately only posting a few posts per day and only in 3 threads, while trying to work and work on my health. Am I a lunatic because I can't afford to go get exhaustive diagnostic tests in a Western quality medical system. Am I a lunatic because I write against socialism and I would refuse to avail of State funded medical care. Am I a lunatic because think Greece is doing it to itself because the Greeks are socialists (while you'd rather blame Obama and Armstrong for Greece's problems). Am I a lunatic because I said I am working on Ion. Am I a lunatic because I continue to suffer from ill health and often write about my experiments and research with it. Precisely why am I a lunatic? Because I tried in the past to develop an altcoin and didn't release one? But I never took any investment from investors in 2014. I explained what I was working on, what code I wrote. And that was all factual. For example, the Blake2 code I wrote in Javascript in 2014 was recently ported to Scala and I even sent a copy to smooth in a private message. Yeah work proceeds slowly when someone is sick and in bed every day.

You come in here and try to write some hallucination about Armstrong colluding with the Fed. I state that is really unlikely. So then you go ballastic on me. What ever.

And one of the themes of Paleo is that hunter-gathers didn't cultivate grains. And thus all carbos would be in the forms of say nuts and fruits. But again nuts and fructose are poisons in abundance. So where we are going to get our carbs. Never once did you emphasize to me white rice and sweet potato.


Hope you are not conflating calories and carbohydrates.

Others recognizing the Second Computer Revolution I had identified and the Knowledge Age I had identified.

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Technological_Tipping_Points_report_2015.pdf

Perhaps because I recently repeated over and over that only coconut and olive oil have the medium-chain acids which go directly to the liver and form ketones. And the coconut contains acids which are therapeutic to healthy gut.

Indeed you turned me on to the concepts of Paleo, ketonic, and fasting in 2014 when I didn't know what was causing my CFS and was suspecting only the HPV infection. But the problem was your information wasn't specific enough about which foods. I ended up making a lot of mistakes from your information. For example, at one point I was eating a smorgasbord of veggies, including nightshades! Also at one point eating only carrots. And then later eating only meat, and not realizing that omega-6 is a toxin. And the impact of grass fed or not. Also when I was eating leafy greens I was choosing petchay which is a farmed product (thus pesticides) and now I am eating only wild greens that aren't farmed.

Many other details that really were not well illuminated until I read for example gutcritters.com and that site is not primarily sourcing from only your Gods.

Come on man come off your throne and back to down to earth with the rest of us mortals.


Also none of your sources made me aware that we need carbohydrates (soluble fiber) to keep the gut moving along to maintain gut health. And that white rice is much better than anything with any other grain. And that sweet potato (and even potato if not green) is also good but is much higher in insoluble fiber. And not eating the skin of the potato nor frying the potato in any oil other than coconut or olive.

We need a balance of these foods. The foods we don't need are the ones which are poison, such as most grains (other than rice), meats which are not grass fed, fish that is not wild, nuts, legumes, juices, other than occasional fruit, anything with corn syrup or fructose or just say any thing that comes from a factory or a farm and not wild! And then avoiding wild foods that nature protected with a natural coating which is a pesticide.

Also I don't think fasting is really good for someone with gut dysbiosis. Fasting is a reset and it can allow the bad bacteria to take over. It is better to eating regularly and promoting the health of the mucus and good bacteria in the gut. I think you put too much emphasis on ketones which is only one aspect of holistic health. Rather I think the key insight is to understand the body is more microflora than it is cells! And we don't eat food, we manufacture food in the gut. The mitochondria doesn't consume protein, rather it consumes from processes that consume amino acids which are derived from the protein in foods we eat. Our digestion is who we are. Proteins and sugars that aren't digested and with a leaky gut can go directly into the blood stream causing autoimmunity.

I did so many 8 - 24 hour fastings in 2014 as a natural feature of living alone, not cooking and being often too busy on the computer to drive 30 minutes to go find cooked food. Then my glucose would spike once I would eat, and my autoimmunity would always go crazy after eating. Rather now I am trying to keep my glucose level and supplement with ketones to reduce the level of glucose I am producing. Thus not eating too much rice and often eating instead sweet potato or just vegetables or coconut, then sometimes wild caught fresh tuna fish. And now my autoimmunity seems to spike less. I am getting some severe, sustained Herxheimer effects now though and I am not sure if that is holistic autoimmunity or if this is a hurdle on the way to improvement (die off of bad bacteria). My condition is so variable (changes often every 15 minutes) that I grow weary trying to track a diary of effects. I can just say that my gut effects such as gas and differing pains and sensations (even in different regions as food tracks through) are much more pronounced and varied now recently with all the changes to diet. I guess the challenge since the 10 day fast in late August has been how to get enough energy into my body without also exacerbating the autoimmunity, with the concomitant issue that my gut dysbiosys is probably not converting my food to useful energy at high efficiency so then I need to overcome food which isn't digested with enzymes and instead leaks undigested into my bloodstream causing autoimmunity. I've been ramping up differing foods and observing the effects of each. This is all very complex and far too many variables to make a scientific analysis. It is more of a gut feel (the pun is applicable). It is very difficult to discern what is working and what is not because I think I am simultaneously getting negative effects from positive actions in the form of a Herxheimer reaction, but again this is not certain either. My thesis right now is that eat regularly and eat correctly and let the body reattain homeostasis. The body was not designed to eat only once a day or fast often. The body was also not designed to eat most of the crap we eat in the modern world. So that doesn't mean eat nuts and only egg yokes. Or any other silly extreme. Rather eat wild meats (especially fish) and eat soluble and insoluble fiber that grows in the wild but make sure nature's pesticides have been removed (which is nearly impossible for grains other than rice and for most nuts and legumes).

Also in 2014 I was using various supplements to mask over the underlying problems such as EGCG for mental clarity, CoQ10 for instant energy, and high dose vitamin D3 for regulating the autoimmunity. But these were hiding what was really going on. Now I am not using any of that, so I can listen to what is really going in my body.

Also we need fermented foods to maintain our gut microflora.

And probably we can benefit from drinking raw milk from a grass fed animal because of the natural enzymes, but I have yet to test this theory.