“For those who fell in love with the truth and resisted the darkness. Awakening is truly a gift. Once awake, we learn that we have always had the answers right in front of us. We’ve always had more than we know, but we had to regain our sight first before things started falling into place, before things started to make a little more sense.” — Ryan Zehm
by Simon Black April 24, 2013 George Town, Penang, Malaysia
When
you’ve got a guy like Senator John McCain who says “The battlefield is
the United States of America,” it tells you that almost nothing is safe
in the Land of the Free.
Whatever remains of civil liberties is going to feel the full brunt of the state’s boot heel. They’re
already regulating some of the most fundamental aspects of life, from
how we are allowed to educate our children to what we can / cannot put
in our bodies to the very nature of money.
People are forced to
hold their savings in insolvent banks backed by insolvent insurance
funds backed by insolvent governments. And those insolvent governments
have demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to directly confiscate
accounts.
Retirement funds have proven to be an easy, tempting
target. A number of countries including Argentina, Ireland, and Hungary
have appropriated private pensions. Even the US government temporarily
dipped into federal employee pensions.
Western governments are
making every possible effort to take over the Internet. Despite every
previous attempt (SOPA, PIPA, etc.) failing due to public outcry, they
keep trying and trying (ACTA, CISPA, etc.).
They’re raising
taxes, creating new ones (including Maryland’s new ‘rain tax’), imposing
capital controls, racking up debt, and rapidly devaluing their
currencies.
It all reeks of desperation, and...
It’s all so obvious. At least, for anyone paying attention.
Unfortunately
it’s easy to lose sight of the truth. After all, how can there be any
economic problems when the stock market is at an ‘all-time high’ and
Nobel Prize winning pseudo-scientists tell us that debt levels don’t
matter?
Truth is, these enormous challenges shouldn’t be ignored.
The entire global financial system is sitting on a bed of dynamite.
Central bankers are dousing the pile with gasoline while politicians are
standing around smoking.
The potential for epic disaster cannot be understated.
This
is not to say that the world is coming to an end. Far from it. History
is quite generous with past examples of once-great civilizations that
collapsed under the weight of their own hubristic debt.
Things didn’t end. They changed. Simple. And that’s what’s happening now in a textbook fashion.
Governments
in trouble almost ALWAYS resort to the same destructive tactics.
When
things are clearly on the decline, rather than INCREASING freedom and
opportunity, they try to control EVERYTHING.
We’re already seeing the early stages of this with competitive devaluation, basic capital controls, and bank withdrawal limits.
These
will soon give way to wider capital controls, increased border
controls, wage and price controls, asset confiscation, and more.
It
only delays the inevitable. The more they control, the more rapid the
deterioration becomes. Again, this isn’t some sensationalist prediction;
it is the very common historical trend.
The other thing that
history shows us, however, is that there are always a handful of people
who see the writing on the wall and take action. And that action has
almost universally involved looking abroad and diversifying
internationally.
This is a time-tested strategy that was once
available only to the wealthy landed class. But with modern air
transport, digital communication, and global competition, solutions are
now available to just about anyone.
I’ll be honest with you –
moving one’s assets, business, and even family overseas isn’t easy.
These are complicated topics with numerous tax, financial, and
professional implications. So go carefully and rationally.
But
when structured properly, history shows that a well-informed offshore
strategy can have a generational impact should chaos ensue.
And, should nothing ever go wrong in the world, you won’t be worse off for it.
THE U.S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS TOLD BANKS—IN WRITING—IT MAY INSPECT PRIVATE BANK ACCOUNTS AND SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES WITHOUT WARRANT AND SEIZE ANY GOLD,
SILVER, GUNS, DOCUMENTS OR ANYTHING OF VALUE.
NOTE: I personally confirmed this on April 3, 2013 with my cousin, who works in the financial sector in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and with a friend, who has two family members that are bank managers in Florida. — Tim Pope
According
to in-house memos now circulating, the DHS has issued orders to banks
across America which announce to them that "under the Patriot Act" the
DHS has the absolute right to seize, without any warrant whatsoever, any
and all customer bank accounts, to make "periodic and unannounced"
visits to any bank to open and inspect the contents of "selected safe
deposit boxes."
Further, the DHS "shall, at the discretion of the
agent supervising the search, remove, photograph or seize as evidence"
any of the following items "bar gold, gold coins, firearms of any kind
unless manufactured prior to 1878, documents such as passports or
foreign bank account records, pornography or any material that, in the
opinion of the agent, shall be deemed of to be of a contraband nature."
DHS
memos also state that banks are informed that any bank employee, on any
level, that releases "improper" "classified DHS Security information"
to any member of the public, to include the customers whose boxes have
been clandestinely opened and inspected and "any other party, to include
members of the media" and further "that the posting of any such
information on the internet will be grounds for the immediate
termination of the said employee or employees and their prosecution
under the Patriot Act." Safety deposit box holders and depositors are
not given advanced notice when failed banks shut their doors.
If
people have their emergency money in a safe deposit box or an account in
a bank that closes, they will not be allowed into the bank to get it
out. They can knock on the door and beg to get in but the sheriff’s
department or whoever is handling the closure will simply say “no”
because they are just following orders.
Deposit box and account
holders are not warned of the hazards of banking when they sign up. It
is not until they need to get their cash or valuables out in a hurry
that they find themselves in trouble.
Rules governing access to
safe deposit boxes and money held in accounts are written into the
charter of each bank. The charter is the statement of policy under which
the bank is allowed by the government to do business. These rules are
subject to change at any time by faceless bureaucrats who are answerable
to no one. They can be changed without notice, without the agreement of
the people, and against their will. People can complain but no one will
care because this is small potatoes compared to the complaints that
will be voiced when the executive order that governs national
emergencies is enforced.
That order allows the suspension of habeas corpus and all rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights.
A
look at the fine print of the contract signed when a safety deposit box
is opened reveals that in essence the signer has given to the bank
whatever property he has put into that deposit box. When times are good
people will be allowed open access to their safe deposit box and the
property that is in it. This also applies to their bank accounts.
But
when times get really bad, many may find that the funds they have
placed on deposit and the property they thought was secured in the safe
deposit box now belong to the bank, not to them. Although this was
probably not explained to them when they signed their signature card,
this is what they were agreeing to.
During the Great Depression
in the early 1930’s people thought that many banks were going to fail.
They were afraid they would lose their money so they went in mass to
take it out, in what is known as a run on the banks. The government
closed the banks to protect them from angry depositors who wanted their
money back. Throughout history, governments have acted to protect the
interests of banks and the wealthy people who own them, not the
interests of depositors or box holders.
In a time of emergency,
people will have no recourse if access to their safe deposit box and
bank accounts is denied. If they are keeping money in a bank that would
be needed in an emergency or in a time when credit is no longer free
flowing, they may not be able to get it out of the bank. The emergency
may occur at night or on a weekend or holiday when the bank is closed.
The
solution is to take emergency cash or valuables out of the safe deposit
box or bank account and secure them somewhere else, like in a home
safe. An even better idea may be to close the safe deposit box account
completely, letting someone else entertain the illusion of safety.
Americans have learned a few things since the Great Depression. They now have the FDIC to liquidate any failed banks.
The
FDIC promises to set up a series of dates and times when safe deposit
box renters can access their boxes by appointment to remove their
property and surrender their keys. The FDIC also promises to mail bank
customers an announcement of the dates for such events and include a
question and answer page that addresses safe deposit box access.
The
people have the FDIC to give them back the money they had on deposit
that they were unable to get out of any failed bank that carries FDIC
insurance. Sheila Bair, head of the FDIC, promises that depositor`s
money will be available in 24 hours or less. But people should remember
that the FDIC is just another bureaucracy, and it`s probably best not to
rely on a bureaucracy in an emergency.
Remember that safe deposit boxes aren't even insured, should the bank fail.
DON'T PUT ANYTHING VALUABLE AND/OR NON-REPLACEABLE IN ANY BANK OR STORAGE FACILITY.
Jim Rogers, investor, author, billionaire and Chairman of Rogers
Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc., is the latest in a long line of
top economists and financial experts who are going public, telling
Americans to get their money out of the system now, because it is going
to be stolen.
"Get your money out of the Banks, they are going to loot it." — Jim Rogers
"If
politicians say don't worry, then understand you have to worry and they
will loot your bank account. Run for the hills and hurry to get your
money out." The IMF and the EU are actively stealing the
privately-accrued wealth of the citizens. Jim Rogers says don't trust
any politician. If you do, you will go bankrupt quickly. Amazingly, he
CNBC reporter agreed with him.
The
Cypriot citizens woke up last week to find their private savings
accounts raided of between 10%-80%, outside of law, depending on how
much money they had deposited.
What happens in Cyprus won't stay
in Cyprus. Because the global banking system is all connected. For
instance, the U.S. Federal Reserve system was founded in 1913 by the
same people who founded the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the
European Union (EU).
The bank heads who engineered this financial
crisis are now taking their mask off. They are committing open
thievery, holding citizens (depositors) accountable for insurmountable
debts they did not accrue, and Cyprus will be the model for the rest of
the Eurozone, Japan, and the United states.
Incidentally, U.S.
banking industry failures have driven the FDIC to insolvency again. It
happened in 2009 when they were short by over $100 billion to insure
bank deposits, and it's happening again this year in 2013.
Ann
Barnhardt’s August 2012 interview with SilverDoctors serves as a
startling wake-up call for any still participating in the fraud known as
the US markets, stating that "What we’re seeing is the complete
disintegration of the financial system before our very eyes. It’s
Soviet." Barnhardt tells readers, "You have got to get your money out of
the financial system. Not just the futures markets, but the entire
thing. Stocks, 401k, IRA. GET YOUR MONEY OUT OR ELSE IT IS ALL GOING TO
BE STOLEN FROM YOU! IT’S ALL A PONZI."
"What part of GET THE HELL OUT are you not understanding?" — Ann Barnhardt
Confiscating
the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off,
desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to
salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012,
shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they
originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland,
and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of
depositor funds.
Those of you who are still stuck in your sophomoric normalcy bias and cognitive dissonance; those who still don't think this will happen in America, remember PFGBest and MFGlobal.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows. — 1 Timothy 6:10
Ye shall know them by their fruits. — Matthew 7:16
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