The Argentine economic crisis reflects very closely what is happening here in the United States of America which means we can use it’s lessons to predict what may happen here in the USA.

It was a financial situation that affected Argentina’s economy during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Macroeconomically speaking, the critical period started with the decrease of real GDP in 1999 and ended in 2002 with the return to GDP growth, but the origins of the collapse of Argentina’s economy, and their effects on the population, can be found in action before.

Argentina quickly lost the confidence of investors and the flight of money away from the country increased. In 2001, people fearing the worst began withdrawing large sums of money from their bank accounts, turning pesos into dollars and sending them abroad, causing a run on the banks. The government then enacted a set of measures (informally known as the corralito) that effectively froze all bank accounts for twelve months, allowing for only minor sums of cash to be withdrawn.

Because of this allowance limit and the serious problems it caused in certain cases, many Argentines became enraged and took to the streets of important cities, especially Buenos Aires. They engaged in a form of popular protest that became known as cacerolazo (banging pots and pans). These protests occurred especially in 2001 and 2002. At first the cacerolazos were simply noisy demonstrations, but soon they included property destruction, often directed at banks, foreign privatized companies, and especially big American and European companies. Many businesses installed metal barriers because windows and glass facades were being broken, and even fires being ignited at their doors. Billboards of such companies as Coca Cola and others were brought down by the masses of demonstrators.

Confrontations between the police and citizens became a common sight, and fires were also set on Buenos Aires avenues. Fernando de la Rúa declared a state of emergency but this only worsened the situation, precipitating the violent protests of 20 and 21 December 2001 in Plaza de Mayo, where demonstrators clashed with the police, ended with several dead, and precipitated the fall of the government. De la Rúa eventually fled the Casa Rosada in a helicopter on 21 December.

Amid rioting, President Fernando de la Rua resigns, December 21, 2001.

Since De la Rúa’s vice president, Carlos Álvarez, had resigned in October 2000, a political crisis ensued. Following presidential succession procedures established in the Constitution, the president of the Senate Ramón Puerta took office and the Legislative Assembly (a body formed by merging both chambers of the Congress) was convened. By law, the candidates were the members of the Senate plus the Governors of the Provinces; they finally appointed Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, then governor of San Luis. During the last week of 2001, the interim government led by Rodríguez Saá, facing the impossibility of meeting debt payments, defaulted on the larger part of the public debt, totalling no less than $132 billion.

Politically, the most heated debate involved the time for the following elections—the spectrum ranged from March 2002 to October 2003 (the original date for the ending of De la Rúa’s office).

Rodríguez Saá’s economy team came up with a project designed to preserve the convertibility regime, dubbed the “Third Currency” Plan. It consisted of creating a new, non-convertible currency called Argentino coexisting with convertible pesos and U.S. dollars. It would only circulate as cash (checks, promissory notes or other instruments could be nominated in pesos or dollars but not in Argentinos) and would be partially guaranteed with federally-managed land—such features were expected to counterbalance inflationary tendencies.

Argentinos having legal currency status would be used to redeem all complementary currency already in circulation—the acceptance of which as a means of payment was quite uneven. It was hoped that preservation of convertibility would restore public confidence, while the non-convertible nature of this currency would allow for a measure of fiscal flexibility (unthinkable with pesos) that could ameliorate the crippling recession of economy. Critics called this plan merely a “controlled devaluation”; its advocates countered that since controlling a devaluation is perhaps its thorniest issue, this criticism was a praise in disguise. The “Third Currency” plan had enthusiastic supporters among mainstream economists (the most notorious being perhaps Martín Redrado, current president of the central bank) citing sound technical arguments. However, it could never be implemented because the Rodríguez Saá government lacked the political support required.

Rodríguez Saá, utterly incapable of dealing with the crisis and unsupported by his own party, resigned before the end of the year. The Legislative Assembly convened again, appointing Peronist Eduardo Duhalde—then a Senator for the Buenos Aires province—to take his place.

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Who are the ‘investors’…?

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http://www.dnb.com/us/

These entities are very elusive and are invariably ‘trading’ under some other name. Try (company ‘trading as’) in your searches.

https://smallbusiness.dnb.com/webapp/…
https://smallbusiness.dnb.com/webapp/…

TheAntiTerrorist on Corporate Revenue Collection

TheAntiTerrorist & Velluminous Press would like to take this opportunity to point out that in theselitigious times it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that we—as a community of kindred souls—oncevalued common sense. So cast back in your memory to that long-forgotten concept and embrace thefact that the TheAntiTerrorist & Velluminous Press stand above all for freedom and personalresponsibility. Simply stated, how you apply this information in your own life has nothing to do withus. These transcripts are for education and entertainment purposes only.TheAntiTerrorist on Corporate Revenue CollectionBroadcast on 13 October 2008Hello friends, I am TheAntiTerrorist. Thank you once again for all your messages of support,your emails and your questions. I have been learning and implementing and preparing myfamily for what is to come. As you can see we’ve been talking about this for a year now andit’s coming into play; the food crisis, the theatre that is the financial crisis, I hope you haveall been storing dried food and studying feverishly.This particular broadcast will leave you in no doubt as to who is running the show here. Orat least who’s benefitting from running the show.Now if all you good police officers who have been contacting me over the last year are stillin any doubt whether you have been reduced to mere revenue collection agents for privatecorporations, this episode will clear that up for you, too.[begin email excerpt graphics]I get a lot of emails from disillusioned police officers. They’re beginning to see through theveil. As you can see here there are certain quotes from emails I have received from certainofficers, and if you are the officers themselves watching this video, you will recognise yourown writings. Of course, I’ve not included your names, but I show these emails to prove toothers that there are good cops out there—there are good police officers out there who arecompletely and utterly disillusioned about the job, and how the job has changed. I want tomake it clear I am not anti-police—we need the police because unfortunately there arepeople out there who do not have the rest of society’s best interests at heart. There areburglars out there, there are thieves and rapists and they need to be dealt with. We need menand women out there selflessly protecting the public.You may well be out there dealing with us in the real world, dealing with the bad guys,trying to make a difference, but the bottom line is, you are there to generate revenue for afull-profit organisation[end email excerpt graphics][Begin Dun & Bradstreet graphics]So how can I confidently assert that police officers are employees of private corporationsdoing business on the international markets? Well, to find that information I would go tosomewhere like Dun & Bradstreet.Dun & Bradstreet touts itself as“The worlds leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enablingcompanies to decide with confidence for 167 years. Dun & Bradstreet’s global commercialdatabase contains more than 130 million business records, providing our customers withquality business information. This quality information is the foundation of our globalsolutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions…”Allo, allo, allo, what’s going on ‘ere then? City of London Police, trading as City of LondonPolice. What is the overall condition of this business? Well above average.There will be a report like this for every police force in the western world, and you’ll find iton Dun & Bradstreet if you look hard enough. In some cases it will cost you an arm and a legto get these reports but they’re well worth having. And in some cases there will beinformation missing with regards to profits, or directors, but here you can see the directors/proprietors of City of London Police are Bernard Hartie (sp?) and William Taylor. They’reexecutives. Of a company. Making money. Doing business on the international markets.And if any of you were in any doubt as to The Bank of England’s status, you can see she’strading as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. When did this business start? 1694.And here is a favourite of mine—Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs—trading on Dun &Bradstreet as a full-profit organisation. Now you can see there’s lots of information missingthere but they’re definitely registered and commercial piracy is alive and well.Oh and here’s Experian, another favourite of mine. Both Experian and Equifax, gatheringdata and selling it to banks for profit. What authority do these companies have to take thatinformation from you when they have a county court judgement against them?What about our local councils, surely they’re government owned, they can’t be privatebusinesses? Well at least we know the courts couldn’t possibly be private businesses andmaking money on the international mar—oh… well, that can’t be good…. Nelson CountyCourt? Operating as a full-profit business on the international markets?Oh, and here’s one of the daddies of them all, The Ministry of Justice, trading as AsylumImmigration Tribunal, Magistrates Courts, the Public Trustee Office—and here’s what’s veryinteresting—are there any significant legal proceedings events against this business? Acounty court judgement was registered against this business on the 8th of May 2008.Now I ask you, as a man on the land would you do business with a corporation that has ablack mark against its name like that? It just goes to show you that the story about the judgesand courts being immune is absolute nonsense. Total hooey.These are private entities and they are just as susceptible to a commercial lien as any othercorporation would be. We’re talking about profit here. There’s money involved, which makesit a whole new ballgame. Changes the motivation for giving out tickets. Changes themotivation for making arrests. And it changes the rules entirely, which is why I am revealingthis information to the people who wish to find it.Whenever there are criminal charges, criminal charges always come by statute. Every timethe legislature passes a criminal ordinance or statute, the purpose of passing it is to raiserevenue for the government. Now the revenue that they’re raising is not the fines that thecourts will collect, no. The fines and the courts are sort of like taxes. Taxes don’t run thegovernment and the government doesn’t run off the fines, either.Who do the taxes and the fines go to? The investors. So who the hell are the investors?Whoever it was that bid and paid the government for the right to collect and use all the finesand taxes, based on the violation of the statute.Well then how does the government operate? They pass a statute that says you should notspeed, and then, when they pass that statute they’ve got a bunch of number crunchers in thebackground saying, “Well if we put the speed limit at 30 in the towns, and say, 60 in thecountry and 70 on the motorways, how many miscreants do you think we might have everyyear, and how much money or revenue is that going to generate? Well, we think it mightgenerate about 3 billion a year or 5 billion a year…” or whatever it is.And so they pass this statute and the government says, “Okay, we’ve got this statute, howmany of you guys would like to give us a quotation, what would you purchase the incomestream of this statute for? How much would you pay us to collect the revenue from thesestatutes and hand that money over to you as a return on your investment?”These banks bid up and and they say, ‘Well, we’ll give you 5 or 6 billion,’ and they pay thegovernment up front , that’s what runs the government.So let me make that perfectly clear. What is collected from the court fines is the revenuewhich pays back the interest on the principle to the private banking investors whobankrolled the government up front.And which entity is creating the statutes? Oh, look, The House of Commons trading as TheMembers of Parliament on Dun & Bradstreet. Starting to see the big picture now, are we?So as soon as you violate a statute and a traffic ticket goes out, the traffic ticket is theequivalent of a criminal complaint, which is a negotiable instrument, or a money order.When a ticket is written and ends up with a clerk of the court, the clerk bundles these up andthey get shipped around, appraised, money is put into the accounts of the local courts—wherever it may be—and securities go out in the background and somebody has purchasedthe right to the revenue stream.“Yeah, that’s all very well,” I hear you say, “but what does it actually mean?”Well, it means they’re all private corporate entities. All of them. The courts, the police, theHouses of Parliament, the councils, all of it, all corporations. And corporations haveshareholders who expect a dividend. They are the motivation for the creation of statutes thatgenerate fines as revenue. It also means that where statutory legislation is concerned, ifyou’re standing in front of a judge or a police officer, you’re dealing with an employee of aprivate corporation. You wouldn’t let a McDonald’s employee search you bag, would you?[Pinhead]“You are nicked, my son, you are going down. Now, would you like fries with that?”[Fathead]“You are under arrest, buddy.”There’s no difference whatsoever. The only authority they have is what you grant them,voluntarily or out of pure ignorance. It’s your call.Yes, you could say they are just doing business, but it is personal.[disclaimer: Not to be taken as legal advice &c.]Everything I’ve told you is provable and you can look it up for yourself. I certainly would.Don’t take my word for it; after all, I’m a guy sitting here in my study wearing a blackbalaclava and sunglasses after sundown.

Thanks for listening.
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From the creators of the classic, BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters (2003), Flex Your Rights releases its new achievement, 10 Rules for Dealing with Police.

The 40-minute docudrama is the most sophisticated and entertaining film of its kind. Narrated by the legendary trial lawyer William “Billy” Murphy, Jr. (from HBO’s The Wire), 10 Rules depicts innocent people dealing with heavy-handed policing tactics used every day in the United States.

Through extensive collaboration with victims of police abuse, legal experts and law enforcement professionals, we’ve developed a powerful multi-language (English, Spanish & Arabic) resource that provides proven survival strategies for dealing with racial profiling and police abuse.

Do you know what your rights are if you’re stopped by police? Most people don’t, and the consequences can be severe. From simple misunderstandings to illegal searches and excessive force, a bad police encounter can happen to anyone. But after watching 10 Rules for Dealing with Police, you’ll be more confident and better prepared to handle every kind of police situation.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the Solar System, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space.

Subsequently, the title of the photograph was used by Sagan as the primary title of his 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.

“The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point of light, a lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the other points of light Voyager would see: nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed, such a picture might be worth having.

It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast, encompassing cosmos—but no one had ever seen it as such. Here was our first chance, and perhaps also our last for decades to come.

So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid down on top of the planets in a background smattering of more distant stars. Because of the reflection of sunlight off the spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in a beam of light, as if there were some special significance to this small world; but it’s just an accident of geometry and optics. There is no sign of humans in this picture: not our reworking of the Earth’s surface; not our machines; not ourselves. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalisms is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential: a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.

Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you’ve ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings; thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines; every hunter and forager; every hero and coward; every creator and destroyer of civilizations; every king and peasant, every young couple in love; every mother and father; hopeful child; inventor and explorer; every teacher of morals; every corrupt politician; every supreme leader; every superstar; every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings; how eager they are to kill one another; how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity—in all this vastness—there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we’ve ever known.

The pale blue dot.”

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial is an award-winning NOVA documentary on the case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which concentrated on the question of whether or not intelligent design could be viewed as science and taught in school science class. It first aired on PBS in November 2007 and features interviews with the judge, witnesses, and lawyers as well as re-enacted scenes using the official transcript of the trial.

In April 2008 the documentary won a Peabody Award. It won the 2008 Science Journalism Award presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to honor excellence in science reporting.

The documentary was praised by Nature, and described as accurate by the National Center for Science Education. Variety magazine also gave the documentary a positive review, and said it was one of the year’s most important television projects, that “should be shown not just in every U.S. high school but in houses of worship as well.”

In contrast, creationist and intelligent design supporters have criticized the documentary. The Discovery Institute produced a website critical of the broadcast,^[8][9] while Answers in Genesis stated the evidence for evolution presented by scientists in Judgment Day was fallacious. The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) also claimed the film was not balanced.

WKNO-TV, the local PBS affiliate in Memphis, initially decided not to air the documentary because of the “controversial nature” of the subject, but later reversed its decision.

Milton Friedman provides a direct and to-the-point defense of capitalism and free trade. He explains how governmental regulations, no matter how well-intended, are inevitably infiltrated by business interests which use governmental power to stifle competition. He also explains the economics of why drug prohibition doesn’t work to control drugs.
This is an old video but it is amazing how these values hold true today and are now more visible then ever

Robert Henry from The Survival Report does a great series of videos that will show you how to pack and store your food for long term periods. I have included the video where he shows how to seal the mylar bags that you will need to pack your food in and also he goes through some results of his packed away foods from the mid 90s.

These videos give you all the information you need to know if you want to start storing food.

Here are links to where you can get Mylar bags, i find that you can get these cheap on ebay.

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Here you can find oxygen absorbers. I suggest getting 2 oxygen absorbers per bag so that you can make sure you get all of tyhe oxygen out of the bag.

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For buckets…. ebay ends up being too expensive due to shipping cost, if you dont have a donut shop where you can pick up some of these buckets for cheap just head over to your local Home Depot or Lowes hardware and buy some buckets from there. Beware that the lids for those buckets are very thin and are prone to cracking if you put a lot of wait on it.

Episode 14 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage: “Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan”

Some versions of the series including the first North American home video release included a specially made 14th episode, which consisted of an hour-long interview between Sagan and Ted Turner,[8] in which the two discussed the series and new discoveries in the years since its first broadcast. This unique episode was not included in the DVD release.

Carl Sagan gave his last interview with Charlie rose on May 27th 1996. He discussed pseudo-science, religion, unfounded claims, his personal love affair with science and his struggle with myelodysplasia as well as other elements of his last book: The Demon-Haunted World.

The Demon-Haunted World changed my life in ways more profound than I thought possible. That book, and the name of Carl Sagan, should be known to every high school graduate.

“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.”

National Inflation Association. (NIA) believes Meltup is the most important economic documentary ever produced in world history. The Second American Revolution has begun! Please share this documentary with all of your friends and family members immediately!

This is a sequel to NIA’s critically acclaimed “Hyperinflation Nation” and its latest documentary “The Dollar Bubble,” which has been viewed over 687,000 times since November 23rd.

The U.S. economy is currently experiencing a “Meltup” and NIA believes this “Meltup” is a prelude to a currency collapse and hyperinflation. Our economy needs to experience a “Meltdown” so that the free market can rebalance it, but by trying to prevent a much needed recession, the Federal Reserve has made a massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar inevitable.

U.S. citizens have not yet felt the pain of the government bailouts, which have deceptively transferred the wealth of the middle class to bankers on Wall Street under the ruse of “too big to fail.” Institutions on Wall Street needed to fail in order to have a truly healthy economy. By bailing them out and rapidly expanding the size of government, we have sowed the seeds of a U.S. dollar hyperinflationary death spiral and the end of entitlement programs Americans have become dependent on to live and survive.

The National Inflation Association is an organization that is dedicated to preparing Americans for hyperinflation. The NIA offers free membership at http://www.inflation.us and provides its members with articles about the economy and inflation, news stories, important charts not shown by the mainstream media; YouTube videos featuring Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and others; and profiles of gold, silver, and agriculture companies that we believe could prosper in an inflationary environment.