This gold backed stuff is laughable. Let me know when the Russians or Chinese have control of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and then we can talk about who dictates currency terms and internationa…

“Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs…

“It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.”
– John Updike

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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

– H. G. Wells (1920)

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
– Nikola Tesla

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“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

– George Washington

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“It’s a little late in the game to worry about anticorruption measures because what in the world is the alternative going to be? If you find people who aren’t corrupt it is largely because they haven’…

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

– Richard Buckminster Fuller

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My wonderful friend Nina takes pictures of beautiful birds as she travels. This one has a quote from St. Francis that I love:

“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”

~ St Fr…

“Be watchful — the grace of God appears suddenly.
It comes without warning to an open heart.”

– Rumi

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bambooz…

I doubt that the world will come to an end since it has survived far greater and unspeakable calamities. Yet, it is no consolation that what may indeed be coming to an end is the way of living and t…

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of o…

“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”

~ Vince Lombardi

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“What day is it,?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.”

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.
 Just get people to stop reading them.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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“The government is run by special interests clawing away at a shrinking pie and things are becoming quite vicious.”

~ Ron Paul

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

~ Upton Sinclair

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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
~ Michelangelo

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Paradise is here, it’s time to stop your crying.
The future is this moment and not some place out there.
~ Tina Turner, Paradise is Here

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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was
in me an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

~ Henry David Thoreau,
American author and poet

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The most important aspect of investing seems the one principle almost nobody knows, including investment “professionals” and financial planners. It’s simple:

ALWAYS ALIGN YOUR INVESTMENTS WITH THE …

Governments gambled on a return to growth solving all the problems. That bet has failed.

~ Satyajit Das

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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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There’s no need to worry, the times dictate a plan

Mother Earth’s given birth to a brand new man

Sister I know you’re misunderstood

But hold on to your man ’cause the future looks good

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“Nothing astonishes men so much as much as common sense and plain dealing” 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The Natural Law will prevail regardless of man-made laws, tribunals, and governments.”

— Traditional Circle of Elders, NAVAJO-HOPI Joint Use Area

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“The Lord’s prayer contains 70 words, the Ten Commandments 297, the American Declaration of Independence 1,300 and the Common Market Directive on the export of duck eggs 26,911.”

~ Michael Nield fro…

“He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love will not have anything to give others. He wi…

“Real change comes not when you change the President, real change comes when we change how we do things.”

–  Catherine Austin Fitts, from

“Whatever makes us passive is toxic, and whatever makes us active is tonic”

~ Caroline W. Casey

Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)

“Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.”

— Jesus as translated by Aramaic scholar Ne…

Say what you will about Americans, and one can say many things, this is a country of deeply democratic sensibilities. The idea that we are, or are supposed to be, a democratic society is at the very c…

“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimi…

“We all know what has to be done; what we don’t know is how to get re-elected once we done it.”

Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, commenting on the sovereign debt situation.
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When your country has a body of laws that could fill an entire football stadium, you can always find half a dozen things to indict somebody on.

~ Simon Black

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

~ Julie Metz

The problem goes far beyond gold price suppression. Indeed, since central bank intervention in the currency, bond, equities, and commodity markets has exploded over the last few years, we don’t really…

People who complain about progressives are like the man from Virginia who went to college on the GI Bill and bought his first house with a VA loan. When a hurricane struck he got federal disaster aid….

“Don’t asked yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Then do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”

~ Rev. Howard Thurman

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“We have lost control….These big global companies, in relation to specific activities, are more powerful than the governments they’re dealing with.

~ Richard Harding, former chief prison inspector …

If we are to move toward sustainable development, the industrialized countries will have to accept special responsibility–not only because of their past ecological sins, but also because of their …

We’ve got too many people in this country employed trying to prevent other people from being bad and not enough people employed helping other people to be good.

~ Sam Smith

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“Just can’t live that negative way…make way for the positive day!”

~ Bob Marley

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“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts…

There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. The contingency we have not considered seriously looks strange; what looks strange is thought improbable; what is i…

” I’m assuming there will be no apocalypse. And that’s almost always, if not quite always, a good assumption.”

~ Jack Bogle

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One of the problems with living around powerful myths is that you can start to feel personally responsible when they don’t work out. If you don’t lose weight, have better sex, kick your phobia, ear…

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of…

“… the whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and the lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the long…

“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
~ Hunter Thompson

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We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

~ Carlos Castaneda

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“It’s not a debt crisis…it’s a plan.”

~ Catherine Austin Fitts

“Sometimes I sense what seems to be the shifting of some tectonic plate beneath our own feet and a slight shiver runs down my back that I have to willfully shake off.   When I am in the slough of …

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
~ Aeschylus

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Which leads into the ‘thought’ I’d like to share. That is, to keep in mind that we are in EndGame, and that the ShockDoctrine is in effect. That is to say, the Gloves Are Off. That which you believe…

If you violated the conformity of the ancient church you might have found yourself branded a heretic or an apostate. Today, if you violate the rules of the secular culture you may find yourself bran…

Remember Rhett Butler’s famous line in Gone With the Wind, when Scarlet asks him how he has managed to do so well during the Civil War. He says,

“Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in th…

“The imagination of the individual has no limits. It has no borders.”

~Jon Rappoport

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“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early success of science, but in a rather grisly morning after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has do…

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu

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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure …

“I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.”
~Ted Williams

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“The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses.”
~ Utah Phillips

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“Chance favors the prepared”

~  From a Steven Seagal movie

“A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.“

– Italian saying

So long as it is digital and centrally controlled, Mr. Global could not care less whether the new currency system is called dollar, peso, franc, gold, silver or wampum beads.

~ Catherine Austin Fitts

When desire, imagination and freedom meet, the ignited spark is unstoppable.

~Jon Rappoport

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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

~ Arnold H. Glasow

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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
~ Ayn Rand

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The President has 14 ways to fix [the economy] and none of them involve giving another trillion dollars to investment banks.

~ Phil from Phil’s Stock World

Innovation without conscious moral intention is amoral.
~ Rafe Furst

“You should be scared. I am scared. You can’t not be scared. You can’t look at what happened in the run-up to 2008 and see how it is not going to repeat itself, given what we have done.”

~ Neil Bar…

“Bankers sometimes look on politicians as people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, order more tunnel.”

~ Sir John Quinton, former chairman of Barclay’s Bank

Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards.

~Soren Kierkegaard

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“The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing over of all power to a small caste seem the natural unavoidable condition of survival.”

~ George Orwell

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“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”

– Muhammad Ali, speaking to a group of school children

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“The contemplation of things as they are without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.”

— Francis Bacon

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When you estimate the cost of trying to control everyone and everything, you realize that an out of control world could be pretty economic.

~ Catherine Austin Fitts

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

– William Butler Yeats

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“Focusing the mind’s eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling impending perils.”
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“Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be a hero.”

~ African proverb

“Making Money is Art and Working is Art.
And Good Business is the Best Art”
~ Andy Warhol

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

–  Thomas Jefferson

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed… A few people cried… Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhag…

Now that there are no jobs, we all have to do real work.

~ Serbian Carpenter on the economic collapse in Serbia

“Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.”

– U.S. Secretary of Defe…

“It is the long-term investor, he who most promotes the public interest, who will in practice come in for the most criticism… For it is in the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric,…

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“The Wind of Heaven is that which blows through a horse’s ears.”

~Bedouin proverb

“Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. Do not try to sell and buy back (core positions) on reactions in a bull market.”

~ Jesse Livermore

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now … Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as medicine, the potato as an …

“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”

~ Louis Armstrong

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

~ George Orwell

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