Synchronicity and Resettlement

Fans of C.J. Jung take note: I just had downloads of Miracle on 34th Street (Special Edition),Robocop 2
and Last Man Standing
entering simultaneously, while 134 others remained idle. Is that trippy, or what?



Space does not permit a detailed explanation of the synchronicity at work here regarding the titles and themes of these very different films; suffice it to say that those readers with cultural depth and highly evolved psycho-linguistic intuitions will understand almost at once the implications of this apparent "coincidence." The three titles have been placed in random order in homage to chaos theory, but it should be readily apparent that even a reshuffle of the order inevitably leads to the same general conclusion about the direction in which humanity is headed: South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life
to use a phrase coined by the always-sensitive seer Charles Bukowski.

Well, that aside, I find that I am getting more inquiries about what it might really imply to emigrate To the Catacombs here in Traslasierra, inquiries sufficient to have led me to decide to offer a full-fledged resettlement service should demand warrant it. There are a number of organizations out there that have been doing this sort of thing for a long time, but it is my understanding that they overcharge, that they are touts for properties in which their principals have invested at a much lower cost, that the people involved neither speak the language well nor even live all-year-round in the places they promote. If you believe it could be in your interest to consider emigration to the Southern Cone countries, and particularly to this area, contact me and we'll see what we can work out. I am not running a resettlement business, a real estate business, a newsletter business... This is a community-building effort with flexible financial norms. Think of it as a refugee relocation project. Think of just who the refugees might be.

Then act!

Stop the Madness!

No, this is not a weight loss infomercial: it is a last-gasp attempt to arouse a comatose consumer society to save themselves from soon-to-be-inevitable indentured servitude to a banking cartel that is quickly seizing not only the reins of power but the food supply of the blindered brutes who plod along the corridors of power. If the madness is not stopped by concerted citizen action, the only remaining alternative to 1984-style social control mechanisms will be reminiscent of the opening sentence of Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, the most widely printed book originally published in English: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Here is a quote attributed to Robert Hemphill, the Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Georgia: "If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation.This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the
commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation,cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not,we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can
investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon [emphasis added]."

It is almost certainly too late to do any further investigation and reflection: the bankers have for all practical purposes taken nearly complete control of the governments of the Western nations, and there is precious little you will be able to do about it, save take to the streets (or perhaps the hills) when the screws are tightened further. There is an old saying that goes: "Discretion is the better part of valor," and it likely applies here. Head for the hills. Make your way To the Catacombs, if not here in the Southern Cone, then wherever you can create your own.

Understand this: creating a viable Catacombs is a group effort that requires a minimum of four adults and preferably more, living and working in a less structured property and wealth distribution arrangement than that of the prevailing paradigm in the West.

The madness to be stopped is no longer societal; that is now outside the control of even large and organized groups. No, the madness to be stopped is one's own participation in a system doomed to failure. Stop! Stop supporting the system by playing a part in it. Convert intrinsically worthless paper assets into tangible goods and land. Cash out the retirement plan while you still can, even with the tax penalty. If you can, form or join a network of like-minded families who are actively doing something other than talking!

The bankers have taken over the management of the United States and nearly all the West: period. That is a fact, and denying that fact is dangerous to your future. Unless and until a mass movement to destroy the Fed and the extant financial system is initiated by way of a general strike to STOP THE MADNESS, the controls over the citizenry will increase apace, and the window of opportunity for escape will have closed. All productive assets will have been bought up for pennies on the dollar by the financial oligarchy; distribution of essentials will be controlled by the financial oligarchy; any form of protest against the financial oligarchy, their puppet governments and their social engineering agenda will be met with increasingly severe repression and daily life will assume a degree of regimentation designed to induce maximum passivity.

Fight or flight: there are no other options, save for submission and servitude.

How far are you willing to go now to avoid a more difficult situation later? How much discomfort are you willing to endure now to avoid servitude later?

Western societies are collapsing: even a Fed office is admitting it! For a number of years now, various commentators have compared societal collapse stages with the five stages of coming to terms with grief. One of these, Dimitri Orlov, summed this up well in an essay entitled "The Five Stages of Collapse."

"Stage 1: Financial collapse. Faith in "business as usual" is lost. The future is no longer assumed resemble the past in any way that allows risk to be assessed and financial assets to be guaranteed. Financial institutions become insolvent; savings are wiped out, and access to capital is lost.

Stage 2: Commercial collapse. Faith that "the market shall provide" is lost. Money is devalued and/or becomes scarce, commodities are hoarded, import and retail chains break down, and widespread shortages of survival necessities become the norm.

Stage 3: Political collapse. Faith that "the government will take care of you" is lost. As official attempts to mitigate widespread loss of access to commercial sources of survival necessities fail to make a difference, the political establishment loses legitimacy and relevance.

Stage 4: Social collapse. Faith that "your people will take care of you" is lost, as local social institutions, be they charities or other groups that rush in to fill the power vacuum run out of resources or fail through internal conflict.

Stage 5: Cultural collapse. Faith in the goodness of humanity is lost. People lose their capacity for "kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity" (Turnbull, The Mountain People). Families disband and compete as individuals for scarce resources. The new motto becomes "May you die today so that I die tomorrow" (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago). There may even be some cannibalism."

It seems safe to say that the West is internalizing Stage One and the prudent can see Stage Two looming up upon the horizon like a dreadnought taking aim with the twenty inchers.

Paradigm Change, anyone?

Black Swans Coming Home to Roost

The increase in the number of financial web site board postings calling for revolution, insurrection, rebellion and overthrow of the financial system has become alarming. More alarming still are the actions of governments and their financial overlords, who seem intent on a full court press to achieve totalitarian powers.

The combination of these situations, the general instability reigning in societies today, the increasing economic desperation... all these seem to point to the appearance of not one black swan event but a skein of them.

Some swans, and their close cousins the geese, are migratory, and the mythical black swan Not the actual Australian one) is not only migratory but capable of being in two or more places at once! And it would not be surprising to see then soon come home to roost.

Migration might be an option that requires serious consideration by those who do not wish to be trapped when the world financial pyramid that closely resembles a house of cards comes tumbling down, as it is increasingly likely to do before this year is out, save for some interventions that will increase economic distress and social control.