... if, and when, a run on physical cash begins, there will be roughly $1 dollar in physical to satisfy $10 dollars in savers' claims, a ratio which drops to 20 cents of 'deliverable' cash if the $100 bill is taken out of circulation.
Voluntary Enslavement
In recent years, I’ve been predicting that the governments, particularly those of the EU and US, will seek to eliminate paper currency. The objective will be to make monetary transactions between private parties as difficult as they can, by requiring that all transactions take place through financial institutions.
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At some point, governments and banks will seek to eliminate paper currency, completing the encirclement of private party monetary transfer.
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I believe the attack against Bitcoin will begin at this point – banks and/or governments would make Bitcoin unacceptable for transfer into some other form of money.
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And that’s the point of this article – the recognition of methods governments utilise to push through policies that, when examined, are clearly not in the interests of freedom.
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None of us can fully escape the more predatory tendencies of governments. We can, however, question their every move and adjust our lives so that the State’s impact on us is minimised.
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Climatologist Breaks the Silence on Global Warming Groupthink
Dr. Judith Curry is Professor and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Following is her verbal remarks as delivered to last week's US Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on "Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate Over the Magnitude of the Human Impact on Earth’s Climate."
When Did People Stop Believing in Freedom?
Almost every college student we asked today said that it is fine to give up their privacy to the government if it will keep them safe, especially from terrorists.
Climate Change is Unfalsifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience
Karl Popper famously said, “A theory that explains everything explains nothing.” So what do you make of the theory that catastrophic manmade CO2-driven “climate change” can account for harsher winters and lighter winters, more snow and less snow, droughts and floods, more hurricanes and less hurricanes, more rain and less rain, more malaria and less malaria, saltier seas and less salty seas, Antarctica ice melting and Antarctic ice gaining and dozens of other contradictions? Popper gave a name to “theories” like this: pseudoscience.
Obama's National Address on Keeping America Safe *Edited for Accuracy
On December 6th, Obama addressed the nation on the San Bernardino shooting and ISIS. This is a condensed version, edited for accuracy. (But seriously, he did call on Congress to officially declare war in Syria and he also asked them to ban anyone on the no-fly list from buying a gun... what better way to strip people's 2nd Amendment rights away without any due process considering how big of a fail that list is. Last I heard, there was even an 18-month-old baby on there...)
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Another middle eastern country to join the list of invasive technological powers of the modern era, a region where many governments had limited technological powers has taken a step toward the oppressive digital age.
Nothing to Fear But the Fearful Themselves
When I first learned of the recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. “No,” I thought, “This is all happening too fast.”
I was terrified. I was not terrorized, mind you. What happened in Paris was tragic, of course. But I was not so ignorant and innumerate as to think the kind of violence it represented was a statistically significant direct threat to myself and my loved ones. I was fully cognizant that, even with the recent uptick in terror attacks, the probability of my family ever being caught up in one was vanishingly minuscule. I am more likely to be felled by a deer or a bolt of lightning than by a jihadist’s Kalashnikov.
What terrified me was the response of all the people who are incapable of such a proportional perspective: those who saw the news from France and panicked, thinking “I’m next!” As distant as it was, the Paris attacks unleashed in America a surge of fear and of calls for greater police powers, as well as an attendant wave of anti-Muslim hate and war lust.
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Take the $100,000 Global Warming Believer Challenge!
SHOW NOTES AND CONTEST DETAILS: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=17101 Do you believe in the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming hypothesis? Want to help the IPCC with an embarrassing little statistical problem in their latest report? Want to win $100,000? Today James introduces you to Douglas J. Keenan's $100,000 contest to identify trend-driven time series. Details are in the show notes. Good luck!
John Kerry Admits They're Making "Order Out of Chaos" for "World Order"
John Kerry just told everyone exactly what the true goals are in the Middle East. They are creating chaos to bring order to it, their order, a "world order". It doesn't get any more blatant than this.
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government
America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation. He or she will also inherit a shadow government—a permanent, corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country. As John W. Whitehead warns in this week's vodcast, all it will take is another terrorist attack or a natural disaster for such a regime to emerge from the shadows.
UK Announces 178 Billion Military Spending While Dragging Britain into Bloody War
(ANTIMEDIA: by Michaela Whitton)
United Kingdom — David Cameron has announced government plans to spend £178 billion on military equipment over the next decade “to defeat the terrorist threat”—while simultaneously attempting to get MPs to agree to a potentially disastrous bombing campaign in Syria. You couldn’t make this up.
After the new priorities for military spending were revealed, Britain’s largest defence companies leapt to the top of the FTSE 100 Index. Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems topped the blue-chip index as the plans to boost the Armed Forces were revealed in The Telegraph.
Cashing in on the recent outpourings of revulsion at the Paris attacks that brought self-appointed caliphate, Daesh (ISIS) to Europe’s doorstep—British politicians have been mercilessly banging the drums of war for intervention in Syria.
The previous call for U.K. military response in Syria, rejected in August 2013, was against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Now the target is Daesh.
Same war, different excuse.
At least 250,000 people have been killed in the ongoing Syrian conflict. Over half of the country’s pre-war population are either internally displaced or have fled abroad. The U.S. has been bombing Syria for over a year. Since September, France has been alongside them. Other members of last year’s coalition, including Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, have effectively withdrawn from the bombing.
Since Russia’s involvement at the end of September, monitoring groups have reported that their airstrikes have killed over 400 civilians.
Polls conducted in the U.K.’s predominantly right-wing media show the softening up of the British population for war has worked and public support for U.K. airstrikes is overwhelming. In contrast, an independent poll by Survation revealed that 56% of the British public believe that military strikes against Syria by governments around the world have made the U.K. less safe.
The Guardian reported that political opinion has shifted in favour of British involvement and that unanimous support for a U.N security council resolution calling on member states to take all necessary means to eradicate ISIS has changed the mood among MPs.
Campaign group Stop the War has launched a campaign to encourage supporters to lobby their MPs to demand they stand against further military escalation in Syria and prevent another disastrous intervention by using a simple e-tool.
“We must build the same level of opposition now, as Cameron tries yet again to get MPs to agree to a U.K. bombing campaign in Syria, the result of which will only be more chaos, more refugees and increased bitterness against the west,” the group said.
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Source: theantimedia.org
Post-Paris American Police State Once Again In Vogue: “We Can Crush ISIS Enclave Of Terror”
It seems that the only response to terrorism is more surveillance, security, police presence and, of course, war.
None of it will stop potential attacks from happening, but it will firmly entrench the authority of police and other officials to suspect anyone and sidestep the law when a threat is felt.
Source: shtfplan.com
The One Thing You Need to Know About ISIS
Paris Attacks: Another False Flag? Sifting through the Evidence
What do the globalists do when they want to create, reignite and keep their war on terror fought indefinitely? They simply carry out a series of false flag attacks using Muslim terrorist stooges as their hired guns to do their damage. That’s what 9/11 was all about in the US, 7/7 in UK, the 3/11 train attack in Spain, the Hebdo Paris attack last January, and now this latest Paris encore reenactment part two.
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Source: globalresearch.ca
You’re a Criminal in a Mass Surveillance World – How to Not Get Caught
It turns out we’re all criminals in a mass surveillance world. The only question is whether we’ll get caught.
The law as a whole is an ever-expanding collection of rules that politicians (“lawmakers”) decree and occasionally repeal. Laws are as moral as the politicians who make them.
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ISIS Is Being Aimed At The West By Globalists - Here’s What We Can Do About It
Over the past year and a half, I have been writing on the engineered nature of ISIS, delving deeply into its history and its backing by Western intelligence agencies in articles such as “Is Martial Law Justified If ISIS Attacks?” as well as “What Will You Do When Tyranny And Terrorism Work Hand In Hand?” and “The Time Is Ripe For A False Flag Attack On American Soil.”
Specifically, I compared the ISIS phenomenon to another establishment-backed terrorist program that began at the onset of the Cold War in Europe and was publicly exposed in the 1990s. That program was called Operation Gladio.
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Source: alt-market.com