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posted by plantigrade at 10:31 PM

It's Only A Paper Moon

I never feel a thing is real,
When I'm away from you,
Out of your embrace,
The world's a temporary parking place.

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm

You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it,

Say, it's only a paper moon,
Sailing over a cardboard sea,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.

Yes, it's only a canvas sky,
Hanging over a muslin tree,
But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.

(chorus)
Without your love,
It's a honky tonk parade,
Without your love,
It's a melody played,
At a penny arcade.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony,
As it can be,

But it wouldn't be make believe,
If you believed in me.

posted by plantigrade at 7:55 PM

http://sydneypeakoil.com/downloads/campbellpeakoil.html Colin Campbell
http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/roundtable/021806.html Richard Heinberg & James Kunstler
http://www.peakoilandhumanity.com Robert Bériault
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461 Albert Bartlett
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/BreakingNews.html Matt Savinar
http://www.cluborlov.com/ClubOrlov/ConfSlides/index.html Dimitri Orlov
http://www.sprott.com/peakoil.php Eric Sprott
http://www.energybulletin.net/index.php Energy Bulletin
http://www.peakoil.net ASPO
http://www.archive.org/details/Destinat1956 1956 cartoon

http://www.dieoff.com
http://www.countercurrents.org/po-church170706.htm
http://www.geocities.com/davidmdelaney/what-to-do-in-a-failing-civilization.html
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3PVYX9ODGPRXT/102-3009730-6951308?%5Fencoding=UTF8 an Overshoot & Collapse books list

http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html David Ulansey

posted by plantigrade at 7:24 PM

http://www.gata.org Gold Anti-Trust Action
http://www.sprott.com/metal.php John Embry
http://goldmoney.com/en/commentary.php James Turk
http://www.geocities.com/arthurcutten/jesse.html JesseL
http://www.fame.org/NotableQuotes.asp Foundation Advancement Monetary Education
http://www.freedom-force.org/videos/video.cfm?&player=2-1-05mandrake Edward Griffin
http://www.usagold.com/GoldTrail/archives/ANOTHER1.html Gold & Oil
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/16/quotes.htm
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

posted by plantigrade at 6:59 PM

Psilocybin "induced powerful, mind-altering experiences among a group of well-educated, middle-age men and women."
"It's remarkable that we have a class of compounds that has sat in the deep freeze for 40 years."

"A third of the participants said the experience with psilocybin was the single most significant experience of their lives, and an additional 38% rated it among their top five such experiences -- akin to, say, the birth of a first child or the death of a parent."

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/tb/3721

http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=pharmacratic-inquisition http://www.archive.org/download/pharmacratic-inquisition/Pharmacratic-Inquisition_wmv.wmv http://www.gnosticmedia.com/main http://www.gnosticmedia.com/main/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_AlbumManager_op=list&MMN_position=13:13 http://www.gnosticmedia.com/main/index.php?module=photoalbum&PHPWS_Album_op=view&PHPWS_Album_id=3 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892819278/sr=1-1/qid=1154369974/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3718008-4355268?ie=UTF8&s=books http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553371304/sr=1-3/qid=1154369974/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-3718008-4355268?ie=UTF8&s=books http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892819979/sr=1-4/qid=1154370067/ref=sr_1_4/002-3718008-4355268?ie=UTF8&s=books http://forums.lycaeum.org http://www.amazon.com/s/002-3718008-4355268?ie=UTF8&index=books&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank&field-author-exact=Timothy%20Freke
http://www.thegodmovie.com
https://www.timothyfreke.com
...

posted by plantigrade at 5:34 PM

Hyperinflation and Peak Energy preview

"Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank slashed three zeroes from its currency last Monday to help consumers battling with bundles of money on shopping trips which can cost billions and trillions of local dollars."
"At least 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty threshold often skipping meals and walking or cycling long distances to work as they battle to stretch income to the next pay-day."

"As hyper-inflation struck, millions became "millionaires" overnight carrying wads of notes to buy groceries."

http://servihoo.com/channels/kinews/v3news_details.php?id=135697&CategoryID=47

"Even those lucky enough to have jobs, in an economy with 70 percent unemployment, have trouble

getting to work because public transport has become so scarce. It is not uncommon, workers said, for their daily commute to take three or four hours each way, most of it spent waiting in line for transportation. Many have resorted to walking, rising hours before dawn and returning home well after sunset."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401156.html
"Zimbabwe has begun using ambulances pulled by cattle in rural areas because there is no fuel for motor vehicles."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1580389,00.html

Hyperinflation of 1,000% within two months http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4665854.stm
"It's a very strange environment. There are a lot of pay rises, but they are meaningless. They are always eroded the minute they give us the

pay rise. ... People are willing to lend money, but they are not willing to lend it for nothing. It's usually at a rate of 90 or 100%. Sometimes these are your relatives or people you work with, taking advantage of this. People are cannibalising each other."

Child carrying fiat in plastic bags
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=260308&apc_state=henh

http://www.usagold.com/GermanNightmare.html

Renewable Energy update: PTF (Paper-To-Fuel)

Those who do not learn from history ...

Homeless refugees from jobless

urban shantytowns (razed by the politicos), desperately dig for

gold in a formerly scenic valley ...
“Once you start this panning business, you can never go back. The urge to make one more last dig from where you hope to uncover all the wealth of the earth is what keeps you going.”
"The central bank even imported a processing plant from China with the hope that the illegal gold panners could take their mineral to the plant for processing before selling it to the government. However, the plant broke down after a few months"
"... success depends on luck. If you hit a rich vein, you can go retire to your home." Ah, the suburban dream, ah the lottery dream ...
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=275220&area=/insight/insight__africa
It's a story of cumulative collapse after a long decline, a preview of "the Long Emergency". Who thinks faraway Chinese (or Americans) will not burn up to the last ounce of coal and destroy what might be left of the planet's climate, when the alternative will be freezing death or starvation? The "Riminists" (of ASPO with the Rimini protocol of regular progressive reduction of energy

use) look like utopian diet doctors.

Speaking of witch ... Witchcraft legalized in Zimbabwe, after a 107-year ban.
http://www.sundayherald.com/56754

Gold may soon become the only legal tender in Zimbabwe.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=84&art_id=vn20040107020521346C950874&set_id=1
Not sure what good Gold is, when there is no more nature, no food to be bought ...

posted by plantigrade at 5:26 PM

A quintessential Value Investment of the 21st c.

http://www.investmentrarities.com/tb-archives.html Ted Butler
http://www.plata.com.m
http://www.silverseek.com
http://www.silveraxis.com
http://www.financialsense.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=silver
http://www.minersmanual.com/bulletinboard.php
http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/currency.html
http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/MH/Bimetalintro.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Monetary_Union
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html x/plata/plata/english.htm Hugo Salinas Price
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894204017/sr=8-2/qid=1145415031/ref=sr_1_2/002-2594839-6915220?redirect=true&%5Fencoding=UTF8 Geodestinies, Walter Youngquist
http://www.silverstockreport.com/reports/silverstockreport56.html Jason Hommel
http://www.silver-investor.com/archives/index.html
http://silverminers.com

posted by plantigrade at 5:13 PM

http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/20060726.html, bank-ruptcy not from rupture with the bank, but from breaking of the bank/bench, more a trader's desk, in ancient Rome. When incapable of paying his debts, a trader saw his desk physically broken or taken away, his business terminated, his properties auctioned off ... as well as himself and his dependant family.

"In pre-Revolutionary America, indentured servitude became an established legal remedy. There was a well-defined system of chasing down, apprehending and returning indentured servants who had "escaped" from their situation, which formed the model for later fugitive slave laws. One of the most famous indentured servants in American history was a young man named Benjamin Franklin, whose later views on avoiding and staying out of debt were very much formed and informed by his early indentured experiences."

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."

Fast forward, Indebted Servitude disappeared from the U.S. with the advent of the machine, which allowed the industrial North to vanquish the manual-labour-intensive South, and partially replace man with machine. And the machine option resulted from the industrial revolution, based on non-renewable hydrocarbon fuels.

In consideration of the 20th c. story of central banking, debt in the 3rd world, of the recent evolution of bankruptcy law in the indebted U.S., of eminent domain, and of security dispositions, is slavery due back with the decline of the oil/machine age?

posted by plantigrade at 5:07 PM

http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2006/07/brain_teaser.html

"The Micronesian island of Yap is famous for its stone currency, known as Fé: large donut-shaped, carved disks of (usually) calcite, up to 4 m (12 ft) in diameter. The islanders know who owns which piece, but do not necessarily move them when ownership changes; their size and weight (the largest ones require twenty adult men to carry) make them very difficult to steal. There are five major types: Mmbul, Gaw, Ray, Yar, and Reng."

Fé

Fiat

Paper

Manjusri

posted by plantigrade at 4:47 PM

posted by plantigrade at 4:42 PM

"The Federal Reserve was forged by Senators Sauron and Aldrich in 1913 to "bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."

Bill Walker on the evils of Credit and Central Banking: http://news.goldseek.com/LewRockwell/1152647714.php

"Inflations and deflations transfer ownership of real goods around, scrambling property rights (and always in favor of those who know monetary policy in advance).

Will Bernanke use the Fed to inflate or deflate? The only certainty is that he will do one or the other, damaging the information flow through the economy…"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553&q=%20mises

Genuine Fake CB ('Copter Ben) Press Release Generator and video clip.

M3 is back.

Den

Monday, August 07, 2006

Paper Moon

Piqued

A Golden Future ?

Mushroom Drug Studied Anew

Going the Zimbab'Way

Silver: Moon Shot

about Bankruptcy's history, and Indentured Servitude

Stone * Paper * Scissor *

RE-Animator

Nazgul Ben

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