What the rest of the USA may be going through from 2017 - 2024. This is how it changes. And nobody anticipates it. ... That is what we are seeing in Europe. There is a 50% tax, then another 30% tax on what is left, then a 25% tax when you spend you money. United States is a few years behind Europe. New Jersey is already putting exit taxes on people who own real estate and who sell and try to get their assets out. Detroit was the first city to go bankrupt under its pension debts. This is when the productive rich start abandoning property and fleeing to freedom as the rule of law collapses.  |
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... From one of your Armstrong links above specifically http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/05/31/understanding-cycles-the-two-extremes-why-we-must-crash-burn/This fall, we will see more chaos in weather. We are headed into a period of wild weather that will be marked by extreme swings....
Our correlation models indicate that whenever we get a cold spring then we move to a violent storm like hurricanes in the fall. It is like a pendulum. The more you swing to the extreme on one side the more you will move to the extreme in the opposite side. Markets function in the same identical manner. So how did that prediction turn out? http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/12/27/2013-shatters-the-record-for-fewest-tornadoes-15-lower-than-previous-record/Least extreme U.S. weather year ever?’ 2013 shatters the record for fewest U.S. tornadoes — 15% lower than previous record — 2013 also had the fewest U.S. forest fires since 1984 The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was the first since 1994 with no major hurricanes,and the first since 1968 with no storms of at least Category 2 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. Bottom line is that some Armstrong predictions have been wrong. :  | <--- see how drought intensifies starting from fall 2013 |
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/major-storm-pounds-drought-ridden-west-coast/Major storm pounds drought-ridden West Coast
December 2, 2014, 6:29 PM|California's biggest rain storm of the year is flooding streets, knocking out power and forcing evacuations. Ben Tracy reports on the damage done and what lies ahead. http://armstrongeconomics.com/2015/03/01/ocean-turned-into-giant-slurpee/ | Ocean turned into Giant Slurpee
Jonathan Nimerfroh’s amazing photograph of what is being called the “Slurpee Wave” was shot at Nantucket and it has gone viral. So much for Global Warming. I doubt any of us has ever seen the ocean turned into a giant slurpee. That tends to reflect what people are saying – this has been the coldest winter in some 30 years. |
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To Dwolla Legal Department:
I never performed any financial transaction nor held any monetary balance whatsoever with your company. Thus you have no need to retain my private data. And no, I am not rested assured in your capacity to protect my private data for numerous reasons which I need not detail now. Please kindly comply with my demand to delete my private data from your systems. You have not approved my account, therefor you do not need to retain my private data.
Am I going to have to hire an attorney or can we settle this matter now?
Do not bullshit me. My father is the former XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and an expert in contract law. There is no law that requires you to retain my private data when you have performed no applicable financial transaction with me. Your TOS does not supersede fundamental requirements in contract law for fairness and mutual incentive to make a contract valid and enforceable.
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I admit my Ebola could kill half the world and increase the price of Bitcoin theory did not come to fruition. Ah Well, better luck next outbreak I guess.
Armstrong had clearly stated it would die down, then the pandemic would rise again in 2017. I am thinking it will be an H?N? influenza strain. |
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Cross-posting... (will try to make it my last in this thread for another long hiatus because actions need to follow words) P.S. In many countries only the actual owner of a property can even get a utility bill. So this essentially creates a landowner/serf system
Good point. We are sliding into a hierarchical top-down hell. |
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P.S. In many countries only the actual owner of a property can even get a utility bill. So this essentially creates a landowner/serf system
Good point. We are sliding into a hierarchical top-down hell. |
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I attempted to deactivate my Dwolla account at the url you provided. Three attempts always generated the same error as follows. Something's wrong...
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. This is the same error message I experienced in other cases when navigating your system. Thus I must request you manually deactivate my account. And moreover, I request you to erase my account record from your system entirely, not just deactivate it. Given the number technical errors I have observed in your system, I do not trust your computer systems with any of my private information, not even my name, email address, and password. Sincerely, iamback |
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Thank you Alan for your reply. I intend no personal animosity to you nor any one at your company.
Yes I will disable my account now.
I hereby demand your company please kindly destroy all copies of my identification documents and also all copies of the login credentials for my online banking. Please make sure that information can not retained by any person who has access. Frankly speaking, as far as I could see on your website you do not detail your security policies and procedures.
This has been an important learning experience for me about the dystopian value of working with companies that require an invasion of my privacy and security.
Sincerely,
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Summary of my prior post: The developing world shares one major economic dilemma with the Western world—the fat cats at the top are running the show. Thus any activity that increases individual economic freedom is nefarious from their (the politically correct, mainstream, "legal"[1]) perspective. (note I edited my prior post)  |
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it needs to have a popular use case that can't be done with the fiat banking and financial system.
My favorite use case is international sales. There is no existing fast, cheap, secure method of selling goods to international customers. Agreed[1] but afaics that is not virally popular. And it doesn't drive adoption of anonymity, which we also need if we are to escape the deflationary abyss of the Western world expropriating all capital to the deathstar socialism. Note I do not agree that a huge market for Bitcoin is the unbanked in the sense that they can get a bank account now if they need one. However that could be a huge untapped market if there were "instant-signup" nefarious activities where the currently unbanked could earn a lot of money without needing to hassle with the paperwork for obtaining a bank account. The point being that the only way someone in the third world needs a bank account is if they have gone through the rigmarole of obtaining a middle class job in the first place (i.e. it is a long process of adhering to paperwork and complying with the rigmarole of university, etc). In other words, the globalist elite have their strategy well mapped out. The developing world populations believe in playing by the rules (nation building, go to university, go work for a corporation, be a good slave). They are observing that is the way to advance. We would have to offer them an alternative that is more attractive, e.g. more expedient. The Westerners are deluded either on collectivism (feminism, socialism, political correctness, idealistic collectivistic slavery such a net neutrality, etc) or deluded to the far right (each man for himself, hard money, hard discipline, let the fuckers eat cake). We need a leader to show us the path to a more expedient rational synergy for society that can pull us away from our extreme delusions. ... Most of the world does not have access to bank accounts and Bitcoin wont work for them. It has too many problems and is too complex.
I am so tired of hearing this nonsense. I have refuted it many times. I live in the 3rd world. The people who need to have a bank account, get one. The rest have no need for a bank account and that is why they don't have one. My neighbors work online for USA companies via odesk.com and they have bank accounts. The poor, uneducated I encounter do not have any use for a bank account. I helped a lady who works 12 hours a day, 6 days per week in a factory to open a bank account with MasterCard debit ATM card, but she has never used for it. She is paid in cash and spends it locally for daily needs. Imagining market demand that doesn't exist won't help you. If we cut through all the bullshit and nonsense, we can distill down to an actual viable marketing plan that doesn't revolve around implementing everything including the kitchen sink before release.
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This is the Council on Foreign Relations publication. It generally predicts five to twenty years out institutional changes and what is on the horizon before it happens. The topics addressed are issues of concern to the CFR and not necessarily reflect official position or consensus among the elite, but . http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143162/paul-vigna-and-michael-j-casey/bitcoin-for-the-unbankedThere is a clear split. The central banks dont like Bitcoin, the tax authorities are neutral because it is so heavily centralized on Coinbase and Bitpay that it can be taxed automatically. The income is "matchable" if it goes through bitpay/coinbase. The upper tiers support Bitcoin and vaguely hope it may be able to reign in the FED or generally believe it will promote justice in the world. They see banks seizing houses they dont own and selling them without even pretense. They understand the FED and financial sector group is too powerful to be restrained by law... There is a sincere intention that technologies like Bitcoin may get the poor or anyone with a cell phone onto the global financial system. There is a split between the interests... Bitcoin is really a war of the 1% against the 0.00001%.I wrote my response to your post before you wrote your post: Also don't assume TPTB are against Bitcoin. I think they love it. The overriding globalists want to destroy the existing monetary system and replace it with a global control. A global non-anonymous ledger is a coup for them.
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And what is wrong with my type of people?
Warlordism sucks. That is where you are headed with the attitude that every man can be his own island. I actually believe in society even though I have a strong isolationist (or independence) leaning. I believe in trade and interaction, while respecting independence and individual property. Edit: rural cooperatives might work (e.g. the Amish if the rest of society respects their right to do that and the cooperatives don't fracture due to competition, game theory, and disagreement over culture, influence, etc.) but it is more likely they will overrun (significantly disrupted) by those who are more ruthlessly violent. Don't forget that society is a power vacuum, and Max Weber's defintion of the State applies. Problem is that such small scale, low efficiency paradigms can't compete. Water flows downhill not uphill; society yearns for prosperity not going back to the 1700s. |
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My new math:
Bullets + Bread + Bullion + Shelter + Crypto + (Cooperatives * Trust) = Security
You do not comprehend what you asking for. You are exactly the people I don't want to be any where near when the USA heads into the abyss after 2016. This is why the USA will go into extreme chaos. There is an extreme right and an extreme left, and insufficient rationality in between. Big smash up F.U.B.A.R. coming. P.S. I don't dislike you as a person. We have agreed on some other points. I am talking about my survival only, not my personal feelings about you as a person. |
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We will never stop the mass delusions of crowds, whether it be rampant speculation in Florida real estate in the 1920s, ETFs in the 2000s, the South Sea Tulip bubble, etc.. Thus consternation over what is natural in human nature is pointless. The more salient point I am making is that in order for decentralized banking and finance to gain critical mass, then it needs to have a popular use case that can't be done with the fiat banking and financial system. I assert that use case is "nefarious activities"[1]. The positive feedback loop is that those who earn a profit in nefarious activities, thus also have a need for anonymity. The mainstream has no need for decentralized crypto-currency nor anonymity, other than the speculative value. The mainstream is sliding into a deflationary abyss, but they don't know or don't care. We have to create the release valve new economy critical mass, else we get dragged down with the mainstream into F.U.B.A.R.. | [1] | Which the anarcho-libertarian views as righteous freedom and maximally economic, i.e. not nefarious; rather it is statism that is nefarious. Nefarious for the Libertarian is Max Weber's definition of the state using force to violate property rights. |
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but may require shooting intruders/raiders if things get ugly.
Necessary already in Argentina, Ukraine, much of the Middle East, etc. Ferfal explains elsewhere in his blog that if you shoot the intruder then you go to jail and/or your guns are confiscated. If Homeland security doesn't declare martial law and take your weapons. And our European readers (other than Finland) are usually not allowed to own guns. The problem with the hunkering down is it causes the velocity of money to collapse and society goes F.U.B.A.R.. It would be much preferable for us to find a way to route around the contagion of the deflationary abyss. If there can be a fledgling rise in the number of people who earn an independent income on the internet (which is right on time with the shift from the Industrial to the Knowledge age), there can be counterbalance to deathstar of the existing banking, finance, and industrial age top-down system. So where should we begin to create this? My idea is Silk Road and other nefarious activities. Note the semantic duality. What is nefarious to the deathstar is righteous, anarcho-libertarian, and freedom for the future. And where is most of the demand for Crypto? Silk Road! Gambling! Hiding wealth! Etc.. Nefarious activities and speculation.
The people with the money, want something that is stable for settlement and which has low volatility.
This is not a currency market because the money just sits there, rather it is a store-of-value market. There are several problems with targeting this market which also plague Bitcoin and every altcoin. Actually that market will not invest for safety and stability because cryptocurrency will not be reliably safe and stable for decade or more. That won't help us in the near-term to produce an altcoin. Instead you'll end up only with the speculative investors, which is all that cryptocurrencies are except for Bitcoin. Bitcoin has actually become an alternative means to pay for things when the ignominy of credit cards is not acceptable. In short, the entire market for cryptocurrency is: 1. Speculation 2. Nefarious activity You either accept this market reality or fail. |
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I don't have specific advise Also, AnonyMint would never mistake "advise" for "advice". I actually corrected that typo before seeing your post. I am undergoing a treatment regimen which down regulates the ATP energy production of the cells, and it appears to be causing me to slur my words and neurological impacts. I awaken tired to start each day. Then I have to take EGCG to gain enough energy to function. Also that was after midnight for me, after an entire day of work and I willl be age 50 in June. Also on standardized tests I only scored in the 85 - 90% percentile on the output of language (spelling, composition, grammar). My entire life I have noticed I type words that I did not think yet that have some phonetic proximity and sometimes I did read from the end to the start of sentences and paragraphs (some form of mild austism?). I did score near the 100th percentile in reading comprehension, reading speed, math, and abstraction (mathematical visualization). It appears that my brain wants to process all the information simultaneously and does not want to serialize the information, i.e. the output of each word one-by-one instead of all the words simultaneously. In my current physical condition and age, I particularly loath to read long text that is not informationally and purposefully dense. |
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The wounded Godzilla is much more dangerous (threat from government) than the rest of the world[1]. No doubt taxes will be higher. But you also have the very real risk of a meltdown of law and order and thus Roth terms will not be honored everything will be taken from you. I truly believe we are heading off the rails entirely (2018ish). Is this not enough hard evidence for you of what we are up against (make sure you note the image of the SEC letter admitting what was destroyed in the WTC twin towers on 9/11).  | CIA whistleblower, Jeffrey Sterling, now faces up to 100 years in prison and a fine of $2.25 million for blowing the whistle on the CIA planting false evidence of nuclear weapons in Iran. This demonstrates how corrupt the government is. They will start wars for personal gain and lie to the people each and every time. Obama promised he would be honorable and “protect” whistleblowers from prosecution and punishment, Just another crock of bullshit. He is due in court April 24th. |
Well it is very interesting how the FORECASTER will be shown all around the world. It has appeared to sold-out audiences from Netherlands to Croatia. BUT this United States the land of the free where those in NYC and Washington intimidate others FREELY to get their way to destroy out future. Even distributors from Canada are on board but not a single distributor in the USA will show the film so far. Just astonishing the censorship.
You can see the full schedule as it appears at The Forecaster-Movie.COM. I met with someone from Hollywood. I was told that there is a sort of “self-censorship” in the industry that they are afraid to get behind something the bankers and government do not want the American people to know, read, or see. Even though the film got a good review from Hollywood*, you can count on not a single New York Newspaper will ever say it is worthwhile. The mainstream media is run by the bankers for what major press will ever expose them beyond what is already out there.
The American press in NYC will most DEFINITIVELY tell people NOT to go see the film. For the film to even enter the OSCAR awards consideration, it must be shown 10 times in NYC and 10 times in LA. If not, it will never be eligible for the competition. NO OTHER CITY COUNTS. Obviously, refusing to show the film in NYC will prevent it from ever being considered for any award. It is a shame for all the people behind the film (since it is a documentary I am not eligible for any award at all. It is all about the makers not the participants).
Why should we expect anything different when not ONE New York Newspaper would ever report that Federal Judges change the words spoken in court even with a published appellate decision admitting the practice is “unique” to New York City. I even wrote a letter to the SEC and said let’s just get this over with since you people make up transcripts anyhow, just go ahead and claim I said whatever it is you want. Nothing is real in NYC – it’s all a sham. The total lack of integrity in the mainstream press dominated by NYC threatens the nation as a whole for with all the finger-pointing at Putin, can the USA really pretend to be that different? They say Putin killed his opposition. Well, we also imprison or kill ours and scheme to silence them at every possible moment.
So far, Americans will NOT be allowed to see the film. Just unbelievable! So who do we thank? GS or the Government or is it both in union? [1] (that is not to say other places in the world won't become more dangerous due to non-government threats, e.g. ISIS in the Middle East or rise in violence and muggings in the third world as the global economy implodes) |
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