Dunno, I thought that was interesting as well.  This is what I've found so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M70FWrfa3S8

Short funny tidbit, only a minute or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5FXmAfxkg&t=26m22s

Gee, I wonder who could have added that...

You know, when I first came across this idea of buying up city blocks in Detroit to turn into a Libertarian city, the idea was more along the lines of buying cheap houses and taking them away from the morons who ran Detroit into the ground in the first place.  Not giving them more money.

I'd been aware of them for a while, and always thought it was a good idea very poorly executed.

There are supposedly two different versions floating around, one with a bit more political fluff than the other.  It is likely that one is a product of a third party seeking to manipulate the situation for political purposes, as we have seen before in instances like the Romney tax return extortion.

As long as the fiat economy is mostly functional, Bitcoins are likely in very strong hands.  We'll see how many are selling in a few months, though.

Then why not the US?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/02/06/paul-krugman-says-it-again-japans-stagnation-is-a-myth/


And why is this?  What does Japan have that the US (no longer) has?  A closed system.  Strict immigration controls.  Trade protectionism.

It turns out that responsible monetary policy actually leads to economic improvement under those conditions.  Who knew.


Yet more empirical evidence that Keynesianism only makes sense under the un-physical fantasy-land assumption of infinite growth.

It's not about getting whatever you need.  That's just the sales pitch.  It's about getting rid of cash and replacing it with digital "credits" which are, of course, doled out by the banks.

http://betterthancash.org/about/our-members/

It occurs to me that if you accept a couple of, admittedly non-intuitive, premises, a few interesting connections emerge.  This is mostly speculation, but hear me out.  The premises are:

1) Large-scale weather modification technology exists.

2) The Communist movement is the creation of, or has been co-opted by, large banks, in order to promote collectivism and centralization within the current economic model.

So, let's assume weather modification is real.  If so, then where did it come from?  Nikola Tesla was the father of AC electricity, and performed the very first experiments involving radio power transmission.  Let's say that, during the course of his experiments with wireless power, Tesla discovered that it was possible to manipulate the weather.  His experiments were famously shut down by his financier, JP Morgan.  The given reason is that, obviously, Morgan was opposed to "free" energy being distributed to the masses, without metering.



But, what if that wasn't the real reason?  What if JP Morgan just wanted to keep this weather modification technology a secret?  What would you do, as a banker, if you could control the weather?

Manipulate commodity prices, duh.  And what is JP Morgan Chase, today?  Nothing less than the largest commodity trader on the planet.  Interesting connection #1.

But, what else?  What happens when you manipulate the price of food commodities?  How else can you profit from the side effects?  Well, obviously what happens is that people starve.  Governments step in to re-distribute food.

It just so happens that JP Morgan also has the exclusive contract to manage the food stamp system, EBT cards, for the US government.  Interesting connection #2.

So, that leads us to our second premise.  If you are a bank, manipulating the weather to profit from commodity trading, and people are starving because of this, you want to make sure those people have a voice, to demand that their government do something about it!  You want to make sure that governments create and fully-fund the food stamp programs, that you can then manage and manipulate for profit.

Perhaps you might go so far as to help form a little group of Communist agitators, and make sure to give them an ironic name.



Like, the Weathermen.

And, what else happens when weather manipulation leads to crop failures?  How will people respond?  Mass migration.

http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/02/01/death-of-america-leaked-us-army-document-outlines-plan-for-re-education-camps-in-america/

Invest in detention camps!  Perhaps take the opportunity to re-educate those who aren't quite as enthusiastic about the new banker-led collectivization scheme.  Your Communist agitators can be in charge of that.  Maybe go ahead and eliminate some of these "national security threats" who insist on having things like rights and private property as well, in the process.

FBI infiltrator discusses the plans of the Weathermen.

But first you've got to get your man in the White House.  He has to be willing to go along with the programme.  And, of course, he also has to be bought and paid-for by you, the big banks.  He has to be willing to disarm Americans, to tax them, to force them to go along with the collectivization scheme, and to give the proceeds over to the banks.

Do we know of anyone who might fit the bill?  Anyone with connections to the Weather Underground, bought and paid for by the big banks, and willing to kill Americans?  Perhaps...



Just, whatever you do, don't fuck it up

http://www.infowars.com/captain-kirks-predecessor-star-trek-was-rand-corporation-predictive-programming/





So, what predictions from Star Trek do you think have already become reality?  I have a few ideas...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Amanda_Rogers

I hadn't actually even seen this before now, but this guy seems to have come to the same conclusions around the same time as I originally made this post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZC51TDYKsU

Award-winning meteorologist Scott Stevens spent a decade studying weather modification, and says in this interview that hurricane Sandy is being manipulated to create as much rainfall as possible (this was before it even made landfall).  He even decided to relocate to a small, self-sustained community in the mountains of Colorado as a result of his research.

 

I said it won't be reached.  It could be reached tomorrow.  The important thing is that it can't be reached 30 years from now.

Yes, I understood your point.  Did you understand mine?  The "intrinsic anti-value" that you point out is a direct consequence of Bitcoin's current inflationary state, and will cease to exist once that inflation ceases.  At that point, the energy used will be limited by Bitcoin's utility as a means of value transfer.  Regardless, the theoretical maximum energy use is actually only 50% of the total economy, not 100%.  Furthermore, this is a feature of all inflationary currencies, not just Bitcoin.  The difference is that, with Bitcoin, it will eventually end.

You could, if the total number of Bitcoins were unlimited and if the block reward didn't decrease over time.  But, since it does decrease, we will never reach that point.

cf. fiat currencies

Literally every part of this plan is idiotic and unworkable.  Buying a 982 acre island for $1 billion.  Putting 35,000 people on it.  But mostly, the idea that anyone would pay $300,000 to live in Detroit.

This is very shortsighted thinking.  Central banks print at a rate of 2-3% per year.  After a hundred years, they can break anything.  They can break the entire economy.

You won't even notice until it's too late.


No, if you care for Bitcoin, you should learn to play the long game as well as they do.