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Remember, Remember the Sixth of November

They've mastered it.  Slow hand clap.  Huzzah!

The US democratic fasco-communist system has finally mastered the US elections.  Before it used to at least hold out some sort of imagined hope of a change.  McCrazy versus the Obamanator?  The creator of the internet, Al Gore, versus the wretched filth offspring of the Bush Crime Family?  At least they had a perception of having a difference!

But, Obambney versus Robama?  Well done, political/elite class. Well done.

I've had a few people ask me to prognosticate who will win the US presidential election and what the investment implications will be.

Well, here goes.

It doesn't matter.  The only conceivable difference between the two is which country gets bombed next.  The people in Syria, Iran and a multitude of other African and Middle Eastern countries have a way bigger stake in this horse race than any of us do.

That aside, it really doesn't matter.  I am only even commenting on it now, fully, in the final week before the elections because of the general interest level.  The US, however, is done.  In a time when the main sources of hope for freedom are Russia (particularly Russia Today) and China, well... Let's just say no one was predicting that 30 years ago.  But just like we keep saying: the near future lies in Asia and Latin America.  You should already be moving your assets and your ass to those land masses.

In terms of assets, as we've been saying for years, you should be moving towards hard assets that Ben Bernanke cannot create out of thin air, nor destroy.  Democracy and fascism/socialism/communism has focused its eye like Sauron upon the US and people like the Obama phone lady are now the majority.  Or the woman who declared someone else's home in Detroit her own. She seems to believe she is somehow entitlted to take over people's homes.  Maybe she has some foreknowledge of Obama's next "home transfer" plan that he hopes will get him re-elected. 

I offer this as proof that it really doesn't matter.  People in the US have been voting for the lesser evil for decades now.

How's voting for evil working out?  What makes anyone think this time will be any different?  Einstein said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a form of insanity.

The great, great majority of people in the US today believe that the US was prosperous was because they were "special".  They believe that if things start to go bad you just have to print more Federal Reserve Notes.  And many of them believe that by bombing and killing people around the world they can salvage the American Dream.

Here's the good news.  This system is dead.  It was dead the moment the US went towards communist style centralized planning on December 23rd, 1913.  It had its final nail put in its coffin on August 15, 1971 when any last link to a hard asset was taken away from the dollar and by default from every currency.  And now after this, the most disasterous experiment in human history, the sytem is reaching its terminal stage.  In fact, judging by the stench coming off of it, you'd think the Western World was already a corpse...and might have been for a while. 

Who will fall first?  Europe?  Japan?  The US?  It really doesn't matter too much.  They are all going down.  And it will be beautiful, once it is over.  The biggest problem will be the transition.  It will be chaotic and devastating to many who are not prepared.  Those who read and subscribe to the TDV Weekly Dispatch will be in an enviable position.  Those who put some of their assets into things like gold and gold stocks, which we cover regularly at TDV Premium and TDV Golden Trader may be in a position for life-changing gains in wealth.

For those who cannot nor will not leave places like the US or the western world as a whole, we are working at TDV Homegrown to provide resources and info to survive what will be looked back upon as The Great Upheaval.

We'll be watching the US elections on the sixth of November like a sadist watches a car crash.  But does what happen that day really matter to us?  Absolutely not.

This game is over.  We've already placed our bets.  They are on getting your ass and assets outside of the Western World for the next few years.  Like in a zombie movie they will eat each other.  It's sad, but the die is cast.

Things change fast in the human experience.  Just ask anyone born in 1905 if they can even believe the changes they saw in their lifetimes.  The whole species went through all manner of wars and amazing technological innovations.  I would have had to send this dispatch by Morse Code in 1905, not through my 4G Korean made phone on my Japanese-made Sony Vaio while travelling from place to place in a matter of hours what used to take weeks, months or even years.  To paraphrase Neils Bohr, more technological advancement has happened in the last handful of decades than had literally happened in the last few millenia before the. 

The next step in our evolution is to move beyond collectivism and statism.  It's already happened.  Only those who still cling to those old systems haven't figured it out yet.  It's okay.  They'll be dead soon enough.  Since I'm quoting scientists today, consider what Max Planck said:

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

By being ahead of the crowd you can take advantage of the massive wealth gains that come regularly at paradigm changes.  

As I sit here on a balcony of a bar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, I guarantee you that not one person here has any interest in the outcome of the US election.  Life here is good... and life in many places that had not bought into the debt-based fasco-communist democratic nation state system is going on fabulously.  For those in the USSA, however, things are going in only one direction no matter who wins.  If you haven't yet started to prepare, what are you waiting for?

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Anarcho-Capitalist.  Libertarian.  Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks.  Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast.  Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.

Comments (14)

Anonymous's picture

The attached photos are great. Is there a link with versions of greater resolution?  

mava's picture

@MOT
Ditto on that. What is interesting is that the Republicans assume that just because I am not a communist, then I wouldn't mind them building a fascism in America. Somehow I have to be on the either side. There is no party that would represent those who just want to keep their own, and do not necessarily desire to aggress on anyone else.
As much backstubbing as we have gotten from Republicans, I'd ditto you and say that Romney can FORGET ABOUT IT.

MoT's picture

And yet, with all the "tools" at hand, the availability of information heretofor difficult to get to, you have so many knuckleheads who parrot the "voting" delusion.  In local, small, contests you have far more influence but in a nationwide pud-pulling exercise it's meaningless.  After all the back-stabbing that the GOP did to me over the decades they can quite frankly go to hell.  They're no different than the rat bastards on the opposite side of the corrupt aisle.  So stock up while you can, if you can't escape the American gulag, and get ready because your opponents certainly are.

mava's picture

pbeukelm,
Yes, good point on oscillators. But, I think it just proves your earlier point that most likely, the result of this collapse will be much stricter system of slavery, worldwide.
Due to oscillaror theory, because the majority of the people are too dim to even understand how they are actually being enslaved, the minority will be more in sync with the majority, not the other way around. If you have 99 oscillators oin a phase A, and one in a phase B, otherwize equal, then the oscillator in a phase B will shift it's phase 99% towards phase A, and those in a phase A will all shift their phase 1% towards phase B!
Meaning that if a given proportion today of the people who are aware to those who are not, is say, 1:1000000 (take people reading this site and all the others alike, and multiply that number by a million for a good measure), then yes, the humanity will improve it's understanding, may-be by one/1000000th. Whoa! I wouldn't bet that amount of improvement on that even getting the taxes slashed.
Also, consider that the evil people also use internet. Their cycles will be locked more precisely with each other too, allowing them to better cooperate / find solutions to enslaving humans more efficiently.
Also, unconsciously, there is a bad feeling. Too many dummies are predicting "universal awakening", "conscious future", "unification of souls". Usually this sort of one trick ponies are the best "sell" indicators. I am taking heed.
If you look back, then you would agree that every new technological paradigm shift has improved our material life, but it also has made our freedom ever more distant. I don't think the internet will offer anything different. The idea that it will work in our favor is just like the idea that you could plunder the rich, - it won't work. With the rich, it is because they have more time and money to figure out the solutions and to implement them, and I believe exactly the same will be in the case of the internet.
The internet is already changing our minds. Just recently, the internet had completed the dumbing down of our youth, beyond any limits previously though possible. Just look at how and what they write. (Again, only the majority matters). I think it is entirely possible to use the features of internet information exchange in a way that would deliver much more control to those in power, than was ever before possible.
As for your earlier post, yes, I agree. World wide collapse has the smallest chance to end on a positive note. This is due to a simple principle. Again, those who understand are small minority. When there is a collapse in one particular area, then there is a lot of consultancy available from elsewhere in the world. But take the collapse worldwide, and you will find that in any area, those who could have been instrumental in engineering a better future will find themselves to be in the position of teachers in Pol Pot Cambodia.
But, I am still positive on the future and quite optimistic, if for no other reason then simply because I don't think that the world this bad is worth loosing! It is nothing but a mess of bloodshed indifference and stupidity. If I was an Alien, I would definitely "rebooted" the project.

Nancy's picture

After reading the above posting three times, I have concluded that it has to be the most hopeless depressing collection of 'words' that I have treated myself to in a very long time... and like most 'treats' it is empty calories and toxic.
"I am optimistic because I don't think that the world this bad is worth losing".. (one 'o' in losing).. "It is nothing but a mess of bloodshed, indifference and stupidity"....
Good heavens~!         Why would anyone with these kinds of convictions even READ the Dollar Vigilante?  With all the creative thoughts to be found here, and the opportunities to MOVE to a better environment found in every issue of DV... why in heck is Mava even reading it?
Sorry to have to say this, but I intend to be a happy survivor... regardless of those persons of Mava's mind-set, who insinuate to others that there can be no worthwhile future.....
.......  if that is ALL they can believe in then for them that IS the future.. because what you see in your mind is what you build, be it a building or a bridge or a future.
There will be many who will not survive much less prosper, but then they will probably be in synch with Marva.    -  I will not be one of them.
The fact is that if any human visualizes only stupidity, dim-wittedness, and says that:  "Too many dummies are predicting "universal awakenig", "conscious future", "unification of souls",...... ........ then clearly those nay-sayers can NOT experience any "conscious future"... and are swept along the river of life by the current of those who have always striven to contol others. . :   All I can say to them, and to Mava is "Enjoy your ride"...

Anonymous's picture

Dear Jeff,
Have you heard what the Canadian Fascists (House of Commons) have done?  They have passed a law which would enable the *INJUSTICE* system to JAIL anyone who wears a mask during a protest/riot for up to 10 years.

Another Joe's picture

Heh, I wonder what they'll do to people who make statements anyonymously? 

Dana Nutter's picture

Most of what I have to say about voting has already been said by others so I posted it here.

http://dana.nutter.net/politics/voting/

Anonymous's picture

Thanks, I needed a break from the insanity.

pbeukelm's picture

Lots of physicists in today's article, the two great opponents Bohr and Einstein :-) Bohr would actually contest that doing the same thing would always lead to the same outcome, there is only a high propability it will.

I can't imagine we get liberty after the financial collapse, but there are more people very optimistic. We had many collapses in hyperinflation, the Roman empire, the Mongol empire, the Austro Hungarian empire, the Turkish empire. All their currencies went up in smoke. Why would this collapse be different from the Argentinian collapse? Isn't that expecting a different outcome with exactly the same starting situation? Some douchebags get replaced by new douchebags. Should we expect a different outcome, because we have more technology and scientists? The rulers can work science in their favor as well (global warming, drones, data mining, pharmaceuticals) I would expect some change in the minds of the slaves, but I am seeing very little of that.

JeffBerwick's picture

Anything can happen.  But, my hope for a better world is based mostly on the internet... and the fact that more people today inherently understand the capitalist system (because they are living it) than in all of human history.  

sales.brianmorgan's picture

A New Dimension of Reality, by Brian Morgan.

The Internet has given those "free enough to search & study" the ability to grow into a different dimension of reality.  

Not settling for "status quo" but understanding that knowledge is growing (via online sharing), and that "wealth" has empowered certain individuals (i.e. FutureMoneyTrends.com, DollarVigilante.com, Vision Victory on YouTube, Peter Schiff ...) to grow more and learn to instruct others about the "truths" that they have grown to understand. 

If a person or family is "trapped into a situation (a daily treadmill / yearly treadmill)" in which they cannot "spend time daily learning about the current dynamics of the local and world economy & governments" then they remain uneducated in this important time (the "realtime internet world of learning in 2012", now) of growth and "ongoing learning & education".  I have been lucky enough to learn from folks like: Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, Wayne Dyer, Robert Kiyoski, YouTube's Vision Victory, and many more to come online.

We live in a "Real Time learning world Online" right now (that can be the currency, the asset);  yet it is only "open" for those that afford the time & energy to make themselves available & open to learn & grow.

~I really appreciate these (wealthy) individuals sharing their truths & knowledge.

Thanks, Brian Morgan, Central Indiana USA.

Sales.BrianMorgan@Gmail.com

pbeukelm's picture

The internet is a game changer like print was, although that was also used to print money, das kapital and mein kampf. They are late in the game of shutting the internet down and they have to do it in a way to keep all the productivity benefits. 'The master Switch' by Tim Wu is a interesting book about how they got telephony, radio, film, tv, cable-tv succesfully under licensing/control and they all started out in a very free fashion.

I'v only got one positive scenario: You can mathematically prove that oscillators that have a slight coupling all eventually lock cycles (first witnessed by the dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens when he noticed 2 pendulum clocks always locked up). This proof was derived after seeing it occur in many places in nature. Fireflies lock their flashes, women lock their periods, the rotation of the moon is locked to that of the earth, so we always see the same side of the moon, metronomes on the same table get to the same period, runners lock their step and even people walking a bridge lock their step, sometimes causing danger to the bridge (like the millenium pedestrian/wobbly bridge, first bridge built by government over the Thames in 100 years)

Given that social media and internet increase the coupling between people, like the bridge couples their pace, it should become apparent to them that some individuals among them do not live by the same rules as the rest, They are out of step and will be drawn in sync. I think you can already see that from the way rulers dress compared to their subjects, relative to how they used to dress. The phenomena is nicely described by Strogatz in "Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Tzv9rzMiI&list=UUJ6d0pRhHWR8jBJljlFSNmw&index=9&feature=plcp

Anonymous's picture

Perhaps I should remind everyone about the Scofield Bible; another "printed" thing.
It's about as worthless as the US Dollar...
It's high time people get off their asses and start a grand push toward real democracy, not
just smoke and mirrors. 

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