'THIS' IS HAPPENING NOW

On our Gitagrad blog we just finished a piece where we look into the future to see what might be coming. Of course this is typically done around the beginning of the year, but now that the year is almost half finished maybe we need a course correction. Some, but not much. The prediction is great—for the spiritually inclined—but woeful for those whose entire connection with this reality is the sense gratification that can be garnered. It looks like the party is coming to an end. And just as winter follows summer, dukha (misery) follows sukha (happiness). The duality of modern life cannot be separated. Everyone thinks they can get the happiness and avoid the distress, but that is impossible. That’s like having a coin with one side. Happiness and distress are the two sides of the materialistic coin and one cannot be had without the other. This is why the sages admonish those who chase after material happiness. Actual happiness is spiritual happiness. It comes from within. And one can have that without any distress at all. One simply needs to know how to contact it, which is the function of spiritual sadhana (practice) and cultivation of spiritual knowledge.

Forwarded to me from a friend, the email below (Meltdown Can't Be Stopped!) gives some insight into the conversation going on at some levels of society and what they expect, and it gives some of the whys and wherefores that I generally don’t get into. It seems that everyone is going berserk trying to find a safe haven where the value of their money will be preserved. This is all rather strange since money is only paper and has no intrinsic value. It’s rather curious to watch those who have played that game so long and benefited from it as they try to keep the game going. Look at how they are taking shelter of paper money! Panicking to keep the money that has become the source of sustenance for them from being realized for what it is—worthless paper! IT’S ALL A GAME FOLKS! IT’S NO DIFFERENT THAN MONOPOLY. And at the end of the day all the houses, hotels and tokens slide of the board and back into the box and the game is over. And that is exactly what is going on in this game of life just now. The bank wins and the people lose because they have played the bankers game. Maya always wins and the foolish always lose. If you want a different result you must play a different game with different rules. It's that simple!

Their predictions are not too different from that of a derivatives trader I spoke with while in Vijayawada, India last winter who was encouraging me to short the euro. He stated that the fundamentals are all there for the euro to take a big hit, but his timing was off—he expected it to come in April/May. The people below see it in the fall, which is more likely since all of the economic debacles seem to happen in the fall for some strange reason (if it were actually the markets and not manipulation shouldn’t we expect to see something in other parts of the year?). Other sources say that the coming European debacle will spill to the States and crash the dollar as well.

What do I think? Well, such a debacle must come sooner or later, because the entire economic system (the entire culture actually) has descended into the tamo-guna—the mode of ignorance—and since destruction is characteristic of tamo-guna we should not be surprised. We cannot engage in tamo-guna in all areas of life and not expect the result of tamo-guna! If we really want a different reality we need to engage in different behavior. That’s not rocket science, but you might think it is the way people behave. Such a result was also predicted more than 50 years ago by my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who wrote that “this civilization will not last much more than fifty years!” Hey! Time’s up!

What do “they” who deliberately led us into this expect to get out of all the mayhem? It’s right there in their motto right on the Great Seal of the United States—ordo ab chao—“order out of chaos.” Since “they” (the people who run this world) are demonic they only know how to do things with destruction. Destruction and killing is a way of life for them. They destroy the established order that they don’t like and want to change, to usher in their new world order. They do this because they cannot sell the entire package politically. I give the details of the process in the fourth and fifth chapters of my book “Spiritual Economics.” Get it from my website.

Actually the whole show is political theater (with lots of audience participation!) that is leading us inexorably towards a New World Order, which translated means a one world government run by an oligarchy for the purpose of total control. This is the attempt of some foolish people to try to become God, just like Hiranyakasipu, and the result is always the same: it is all taken away with inevitable death.

Best bet is to take your money out of all markets, and even use your paper money to purchase something of real value, such as land and cows. You can get an acre of land and a little cottage in Ukraine for as little as $5,000 if you hurry, or a nicer house in other places in E. Europe for $25-30,000. Or build yourself a small cottage wherever you are, stock some grains, milk your cow and ride out the “RESET BUTTON” in relative peace while you chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra. Or join the harinam sankirtan revolution and help save the world by creating a new spiritual world order J

Panic! Acceleration of Financial 

Meltdown Can't Be Stopped / 

From International Banker Friend

May 31, 2012

Steve,

The Iron boot has been firmly planted to the pedal of this runaway tractor trailer that is heading off the cliff. All of the Euro banks including my former associates at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are all prepped and ready for the Euro collapse. What we in the inside are calling "Spanish Flue" is now running hot with temperatures that are setting ten year yields sky high. What many do not realize is that Bankia's demise has started a breach in all the firewalls and safety measures that are in place in the Eurozone. This had an immediate effect on the Italian markets as you can now see the pandemonium that is there.

We keep hearing reports of massive bank runs that are occurring across many of the PIIGS but is not just limited to them. As I stated many times the UK and France are the most vulnerable to the Eurozone collapse, many of their populace are cashing out of their equities though there is a massive media blackout about this. European contacts report that there is a flight to German bonds, UK and a mass migration to the US dollar. But these currency life preserver jumps will not help as the contagion in all FIAT markets are affected. It is a game of hot potato that the investors are playing, jumping from one asset to the next and again before the one that they just jumped to burns. A juggling act with fire that cannot be quenched. Gold jumped over $40, it is telling us something.

Many banks in the Eurozone are stuffed with US Bonds/TBills as a hedge, this will not work for them for the following reasons:

1- The American TBTFs (Too Big to Fails) are filled to the brim with T-Bills, so are many banks in the Eurozone, the backroom deal was take the bills, bolster your balance sheets, dont sell them and We (Federal Reserve) will help you out. Why do you think the details of a Fed bailout of Eurobanks were never fully divulged? It is because they are being propped up by any means possible including American Treasuries that can not be dumped.

2- They cannot dump them, the main reason is that the Fed is THE # 1 buyer of American Debt. Yes that is correct #1 not #2 we have surpassed the Chinese, since the ChiComs did not show for many of the last bond auctions and are stealth dumping US Debt Obligations. This has caused the balancing act to begin...Fed is Printing, at the same time buying what it prints, thus the banks can't lend causing a solvency crisis the likes of which we have not seen and killing all credit markets like a ELE (Extinction Level Event) This will create a hyper Velocity Parabolic crash.

There is no stopping this...We are still on track as I have been predicting for a while now for a fall/winter collapse of the Eurozone and naked exposure of all derivative markets the world over. Europeans will go through a major reset, after time they will recover as Europeans do not carry the type of personal debt that Americans do. It is for America that I worry. Look for these signs next:

1- JPM will be bailed out again but it will not stop the coming market crash. More details will emerge about their derivative swap failure $150 billion and counting.

2-BOA (BAC Bank of America) will fold and be absorbed into JPM as a way to prop up the bleeding Giant. JPM will get the best picking of this deal just like they got with Bear Stearns.

3- Massive layoffs at Citigroup and Wells Fargo

4- Goldman Sachs finally pays the piper, look for massive cuts there as well as BIG Losses

5- Bond market bust which leads to freeze of all bond sales

6- Derivative bust the next one will be BOA followed by Citigroup

7- All CDS shorts and swaps will freeze.

8- Total Meltdown

Those who are ready begin to implement GOOD (Get Out Of Dodge) Plan. Keep what you need in paper and what you can afford to lose in banks in order to pay day to day expenses/bills. The rest of your investments/retirements should NOW be pulled from the market and moved to safe haven assets like Precious metals, farmland, fire arms and food. Prepare to ride out what we are calling the coming RESET BUTTON.

Godspeed,

Slaves or Freemen – Which are We?

The beautiful story of the Personality of Godhead, also called the Srimad Bhagavatam tells us (1.17.34):

“In all sacrificial ceremonies, although sometimes a demigod is worshiped, the Supreme Lord Personality of Godhead is worshiped because He is the Supersoul of everyone, and exists both inside and outside like the air. Thus it is He only who awards all welfare to the worshiper.”

And His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the author, comments:

“It is sometimes seen that demigods like Indra and Chandra are worshiped and offered sacrificial awards, yet the rewards of all such sacrifices are awarded to the worshiper by the Supreme Lord, and it is the Lord only who can offer all welfare to the worshiper. The demigods, although worshiped, cannot do anything without the sanction of the Lord because the Lord is the Supersoul of everyone, both moving and nonmoving.

In Bhagavad-gita (9.23) the Lord Himself confirms this:

‘Whatever a man may sacrifice to other gods, O Arjuna, is really meant for Me alone, but it is offered without true understanding.’

“The fact is that the Supreme Lord is one without a second. There is no God other than the Lord Himself. Thus the Supreme Lord is eternally transcendental to the material creation. But there are many who worship the demigods like the sun, the moon and Indra, who are only material representatives of the Supreme Lord. These demigods are indirect, qualitative representations of the Supreme Lord. A learned scholar or devotee, however, knows who is who. Therefore he directly worships the Supreme Lord and is not diverted by the material, qualitative representations.”

I have been speaking on this verse recently explaining that although all worship is actually meant for the Supreme Lord, in this age worship has been diverted to other, lesser “gods.” The gods I refer to here are not actually gods, although they fancy themselves as such. They would like to be the Supreme Lord and may even think themselves supreme. To that end they have created a system whereby everyone gives them service and energy, which is in effect, worship.

How do they do this? Through the money system.

They print and control the money, and through that system, by owning the corporations, they have become the de facto owners of this world. When people work they create a profit for the owners of the corporation. When people buy products they create profits for the owners of capital. Thus in effect, everyone who has a job and uses that job to get money with which to buy products is giving their service and energy to the owners of the corporations, to the little “gods” of this world.

Rather than worshiping and depending on the Supreme Lord, we are now, subtly and even overtly, worshipping and depending on these little gods who control the money. Indeed, by controlling the money and requiring everyone to get money simply to survive they have in fact made slaves of all the people of the world.

In my lecture, that you can download from here if you want to listen to it, I state that the better way to live would be to live directly on the land, use agriculture as the economic system for one’s maintenance, and depending on the Supreme Lord for rain, worship him by one’s labor and consciousness. Indeed, that in and of itself be a revolution of consciousness.

Others have recognized that the people of this world are enslaved. Here is a very intriguing video that explains quite succinctly how we are indeed all enslaved. It is meant to help us see what we cannot see due to our cultural conditioning. Wake up. Wake up and give your service and energy to the real God by living freely on the land and following His system of economic development—agriculture!

Owners, Slaves, Freedom and the MMM-2011 Revolution

The other day I told you about Sergey Mavrodi and his money pyramid. Here is more about the man and the revolution he is creating. He's straightforward, clever, bold—and successful—35,000,000 people from all over Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Thailand have joined him and have given him their money. And the occupy movement in America is having trouble getting people to withdraw their money from the banks. Here's the way to get that done—give it Mavrodi! This rather unassuming, simple-looking fellow who is not given to ostentation and flashing the cash is creating a genuine revolution.

His first pyramid began in 1994 in Russia attracting some 20 million participants. If you want to view the history in a somewhat entertaining video (albeit with third-class English dubbing) click here. MMM-94 was destroyed by the government and Mavrodi was imprisoned for 7 years. This effort, called MMM-2011, is a giant success and more people trust him than trust the government and banks put together.

His writing is amusing, even funny, as he exposes the system for what it actually is. What’s his goal? In his own words: "I want to destroy the world financial system. I consider it unfair. I want to arrange a financial apocalypse, and I will make it." Will he make it? Let's see if the government doesn't destroy him again. After all, his is challenging their entire system. Not just the Russian system—but the global system. He is getting the people's money and making the banker's Ponzi efforts more difficult. This is earning him powerful enemies. Of course those same enemies have destroyed entire countries in their efforts to control everything, so will they be intimidated by one man? Perhaps not, but he has 35 MILLION behind him.  Here's the news you likely have not seen in the States, or anywhere else in the Western world, but he certainly is making the news in Russia.

Below are some of the highlights of his website, and if you want to read the whole thing, and maybe even participate go here. Am I seducing you into a scam? Well, the entire economic system of the world is a scam. Which one do you prefer? One that benefits the 85% or one that benefits the 0.5%? Or you don't care as long as it benefits you? My preference, as I have clearly stated on this blog is a gift economy, an economy that will make everyone happy, not just 1% or 15% or even 50% (of the world's population), but 100% (including the cows). Who wants to help set up that scheme? But if you seriously want to join, write to me and I will set you up with a "10-man", the contact person who you need to join.

Here is MMM-2011:

A bit of a foreword 

Primarily, just for the record, mankind does still live under a slave-owning system. Basically, nothing has really changed during all those thousand years gone by, except that the bonds we are tied down with nowadays are, mainly, economic ones. That's about all the difference there is. As for the rest, everything is completely the same. There are slaves and there are owners. Owners are those people who print money. Surprised? :-)) 
 

The next thing. What is actually money? It's nothing! A nihil. A phantasm, blank spot! It is just funny money, papers made of colored paper with various fancy watermarks, emblems and pictures (usually they are portraits of famous people, it looks more trustworthy this way. :-)) It is absolutely not covered in any way and it is uncontrollably printed by the Owners as they think fit.

The Owners give away this funny money to the slaves as a kind of compensation, at the same time, adopting a serious expression, preaching to these slaves that the money must be earned in a decent way; meanwhile, the slaves obediently drink it in. Brainwashed since their childhood by the well-selected notebooks, books, movies, mass media; and by this while gigantic, smoothly-running ruthless machine of a government, the slaves can't even think about anything else. They believe that this is the way the world runs, and they can't realize that there is any other way. But there actually is.

What is a financial pyramid? Why are these pyramids comminuted everywhere, in all the states worldwide, even in the most loyal, free and democratic countries in the world? Why do governments battle against them so violently, obstinately and consistently? Gambling or drugs, for example, are legal in certain countries; meanwhile the financial pyramids are considered illegal everywhere, across the board. Why is it like that? Sometimes it even looks quite sacral and mysterious. Didn't you ever have a thought like this?

Well, why is it this way? Maybe it is because some people would get hurt? Applesauce! Who does actually care about people? This all-devouring and spawning bioplasm, this multi-billion human crowd. These speechless, downtrodden and lamblike slaves! Who does really care whether anyone gets hurt or not?

But why are they actually supposed to get hurt in the first place? It's just another myth, one of those 'you should earn money in a decent way' things. They say that some contributors must get hurt, meanwhile the pyramid itself must come crashing down! (But when is it supposed to happen? When it conquers the world?

...

ALL THE FINANCIAL PYRAMIDS MAKE MONEY! Yes, it's the naked truth! They make MONEY! Out of nothing, from dust! The same way the Owners make money, out of nothing, from dust, using the pyramids! The dollar is a kind of financial pyramid, and it's not an odd coincidence at all! There aren't any other money making mechanisms, at all! There are only financial pyramids. Can't you believe it? Then try naming at least one world currency that is not a pyramid. Try naming just one! Euro? Pound? Yuan? Well? Swiss franc, maybe? Anything else? Recently the Russian government has been quite tough on the dollar, but they are being silent about one thing; the ruble is actually the same kind of pyramid. Not a better choice. (Moreover, it's even worse! Much worse. It's a pyramid within a pyramid, because the ruble is based on the dollar. :-)) [actually the Russians have been selling their dollars and buying gold. The question is if they have enough to support their currency when the dollar collapses.]

True, pyramids make money. But it's what only the Owners may do. This is their inherent and exclusive right, their inviolable monopoly. Their right to make money actually makes them what they are, the Owners. But be aware that here the money is made by the Slaves!

Consequently it all collapses. The sticky cobweb of lies and hypocrisy which has been carefully, cherishingly and diligently enveloping each person since the moment they were born and till the moment they die becomes torn. The veil falls and the fog clears away. Suddenly a person finds that the door of their financial cage is wide-open and they're free! At first they're just very surprised at this and they can't believe what they see; how can it be possible that they get money for no reason whatsoever, and they do not have to stay locked in that cage anymore? It's not possible in the very first place! They were told all their lives that it's not possible, and that they have to sweat and get their jobs done (for whom? :-))? This is right and this is rightful! You have to do this very thing to get something in return. (although you may easily be let down :-)) And then it turns out that you don't have to do anything, that it's not necessary at all! How's that? Then they start thinking. 

Well, if money is not a measure of labor, quite the other way, one can give it away for nothing and throw it about, meanwhile the world feels literally nothing about it! What is it then, if not a measure of labor? Maybe it's just a kind of paper, just funny money? Then a person looks around and suddenly sees people who continue working, in the same dull and toneless way, with their heads cast down, sitting in the adjacent cages, trying to earn this paper, this funny money. Only yesterday those people were their friends, close people; but today there is a huge gap between them. Those people are still slaves, but this person isn't a slave anymore. This person has managed to taste a forbidden fruit called freedom. They know how it is to feel human, and they will never forget this.

In other words, pyramids enable people to be people. They make them free and give them freedom. That's why everybody is so scared of financial pyramids and hates them. The Owners, that is.



AND NOW, WELCOME TO THE PYRAMID!

 

WARNING!!!
BE CAREFUL!

This is a financial pyramid!
This is a financial pyramid!
This is a financial pyramid!

(What is not a pyramid? Show me. Maybe only our Russian government. Which is more like a 3D cube! :-))

By taking part you take great risks and you may lose all your money any moment. Don't forget that!

(But by not taking part you're not taking any risks and you can't lose anything.)  Because you don't have anything! :-))

There are no investments! No entrepreneurship! No securities trading, no business ties with professional traders, no bonds or stocks to buy! (Do you really need them? :-))

Pyramid! Pyramid! Pyramid!

Those who participate first get their money only thanks to people who take part after them!  And there are no other sources of income, there just aren't! And there can't be in the first place. For all eternity. Amen. Did you get that? :-))

I can't give you any guarantees, I can't promise you anything. Neither publicly, nor secretly.

(As distinguishable, for example, from banks, which give these guarantees, and they do that quite eagerly. They eagerly say that they never go bankrupt. :-)) Guarantees are, by the way, something really damned. Do you remember Jesus Christ? Just say a simple, 'Yes, I will,' or 'No, I won't.' Anything beyond this is from the evil one. Mathew, 5:37)
I don't create any misconception, I don't say that you'll get rich in no time (quite the other way, you can lose everything to the devil! :-)).

There are no rules. The only rule is that there are no rules at all! Even if you're to follow all the instructions, you can easily lose. And there is a possibility that you won't be paid your prize. For no obvious reason at all.
Also, you should note that I'm a person who has an outstanding conviction and a wicked fate. A person who has been lying to everybody all his life.

As Simon Shuster of the Times believes, I'm "a person having a hypnotic dread of a night TV anchorman", while the Russian Duma's speaker, Gryzlov, believes that I just "enchant everybody". So, be on the lookout and don't yield to them (my charms, and even better, besprinkle your monitor with a splash of holy water after reading this. :-))

During my childhood I had 12 cerebral concussions, and it may be the case that I'm not mentally too fit (meanwhile it wasn't really a problem when they put me in prison :-)). LDPR party chief and vice-chairman of Duma of the Russian Federation, Zhirinovsky V. V., believe that I'm to be considered a sane man. Well, it'd be decent to say that he has some grounds to think that way. Anyway, I'm myself not really sure yet whether I'm sane or not (if I would have been a mentally fit person, would have I done all of this? :-)).

According to what the absolute majority of top financial workers, economists, investment professionals and so on say, profitability so high is just not possible in the very first place, and that any kind of similar activity can be regarded as a fraudulent activity and blatant speculation.
Which you don't need to take part in, no way, in no event!!!

(Meanwhile I'm supposed to be crucified in public, on Red Square, as soon as possible. Or maybe even buried, it'll be much better. Make a public auto-da-fe, so all crooks and thieves will realize what's what; today's, yesterday's, and future crooks and thieves, so they'll understand what's the most important and who's the most important! :-))

I can't really explain to you how this scheme works, I don't know myself. I just have no idea, although during the times of the old MMM it worked well, the same as it worked fine with SG (even if it was growing 5 times faster there).

(At the rate of 100% a month. Prices on stocks were doubling each month.)

How did it all manage to grow that big? I don't know, I just can't understand this (and I'm really surprised myself! :-)). I'm like an illiterate Aladdin who found a genie lamp, rubbed it a bit, Djinn appeared, made all his wishes come true and hid back in the lamp. But where does this Djinn come from and how does it all work (and, well, how does this Djinn find enough room in the lamp, goddamn him?), Aladdin doesn't know (and does he really need to know? :-)).

Why am I telling you all of this? For no reason at all! I just want to. I got an idea and want people to hear it. To show them how smart I am. "Well, he's a sane man, what can you do about that?" But you, all of you, sensible crowd, you just can't get tied up with this! Don't let them get you tied up with this stuff! Am I right? Won't you? Am I? :-))
In the first place, I'm lying. Do you know this paradox? If I'm not lying, then I'm telling the truth. But when I'm telling the truth, it means I'm lying. This definition is at the same time both false and true. A famous paradox of a liar.

Cutting it short. I'm encouraging you, convincing all of you, persuading you and begging you:


DO NOT TAKE PART IN THIS DAMNED MMM-2011!
TO HELL WITH IT!
LIVE YOUR LONG HAPPY LIFE MAKING YOUR MONTHLY WAGE! :-))
I DO REPEAT, SPEAKING ENGLISH STRAIGHT INTO YOUR EAR:
DO NOT TAKE PART! DO NOT TAKE PART! DO NOT TAKE PART!
DO NOT! DO NOT!! DO NOT!!!
RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN, CLOSE THIS WEB-SITE AND DO NOT RETURN!!!
DO YOU GET THIS?
But if you also feel like a madman, like I do myself, and if after listening to all of those persuasions and convictions you are determined to take part in MMM-2011 (I just can't believe that there are people like this! :-)), press
HERE P.S. Well, one more thing! There is no law against financial pyramids. Moreover, there is nothing similar in the legislature to 'a financial pyramid'. It is unlawful to lie to people and talk about some kind of extra-profitable investments and so on, but actually there are no investments at all. It's all really fair and transparent. You have already been notified that there are no investments here at all and people earn their money from those who have already joined before them. That's why MMM-2011 is absolutely legal. P.P.S. One thing more. Pyramids are all around us (didn't you know that? :-)). Banks, insurance companies (that's a true pyramid, in its primeval sense), pension funds, and even the dollar! Everything and everywhere! But only MMM says that in public, not secretly. All the rest are liars. Liars who have no shame, who do not even tell people anything. So it's up to you to decide.

Pyramid Schemes Big and Small

Recently some of my Russian friends introduced me to a new money-making scheme going on in Russia, but participated in by people all over the world. It is actually a financial pyramid scheme that is returning, according to the latest reports some 30% per month! Quite a good return, wouldn’t you say? Of course the whole scheme has nothing to support it except future players. The thing that is interesting is that the organizer, one very clever man by the name of Sergey Mavrodi, quite correctly points out that the entire global financial system is organized the same way—every currency in the world is also a Ponzi scheme—every one!

I can explain that quite easily.

It is almost common knowledge by now that money is loaned into existence. That is to say, when somebody takes a “loan” the bank does not give them something that they have, which is the normal meaning of the word loan. No. The money that is given to the borrower is created from the borrowers own signature on the note. It is the borrower who creates the money with his signature, but the bank doesn’t tell him that. Instead, the agreement states that the borrower will repay to the bank the principal and interest.

The bank doesn’t give the borrower anything. It merely credits his account with “money” that he is free to draw on when making purchases. The money was created by the loan, that is, it was loaned into existence. If you watched the video “Zeitgeist” that I posted on this blog several days ago, or if you have watched some of the videos under the heading “Your Economic Tutorial” on my website, you should understand this. If you don’t understand this, then take the time to get an education on this most important of subjects that affects everything that you do.

Key Factor

It is important to note that the amount of money returned in interest payments is not created at any point in time. That money must come from money that is already in circulation. It must be pulled out of the economy, reducing the amount of money in circulation.

The result of this is that if future loans are not made, and if money continues to be withdrawn from circulation as interest payments, before long there is not enough money in circulation to meet the demands of normal commerce. This is called a recession.

If the situation continues then the circumstances become extreme and this is called a depression.

Both the recession and depression are deliberately created by policies of the banks (as in not making loans), and both of them are “cured” by the policies of the banks, as in making more loans.

The banks therefore, and not the government determine the health of the economy. They regularly create “the business cycle” so to steal, or harvest wealth from the public. When over the last few years millions of people lost their houses, who got them? The banks. But note that the banks didn’t give anything of value for the houses to begin with! They gave account digits—mere numbers on a ledger. And this whole scam works because everyone has been trained to accept it as “commerce.”

Back to the point I was making about Ponzi schemes. Because money is continually withdrawn from circulation, the entire financial system depends on new people coming and taking loans. This is the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

Take a moment to let this sink in...the entire world financial system is a Ponzi scheme...based on nothing...

The question naturally arises, “well why do the banks (bankers actually, or even more accurately the stockholders of the banks) get to keep the interest??? Good question. Great question! Because they set up the scam in the first place and have convinced everyone to participate. And through this system they are sucking the wealth of the entire world. It is these people (actually it’s too generous an expression to call them people, bloodsuckers would be more appropriate) who make up the one-half of one percent that the 99% are complaining about.

Sidebar – It's Actually The "85%" Occupy Movement

And while were on that subject, the Occupy Movement has it quite wrong. They think that they are the 99%. But that is quite inaccurate. The people of that Movement are actually the 90% or even 85%. It is the upper 9-14% (from 85-99%) who run the show for the 1% and who also are rewarded handsomely for their trouble (statistics later). Without those 9-14% the whole thing couldn’t function. But they have sold themselves to do the bidding of the 1%. “The People” who are out in the cold are the 85%. More on that later.

Real and False Economic Development

The fact is that the only real honest-to-goodness economic system is agriculture. It is based on life, depends on spirit, not on dead matter. You plant one seed and a living spiritual being takes birth in that body and by his agency you get back 50 or 100 or 1000 seeds—a 5000% or 10,000% or 100,000% return respectively in about 3 months time (that even better than Mavrodi gives!). All economic development depends on living beings. It is they that turn the material energy that nature gives into something of value, whether that be by growing their own bodies (plants) or mining minerals from the earth, or manufacturing something in a factory. Living beings create value. Dead material energy does nothing and has no value without the living element.

The modern economic system, based on materialistic values for materialistic ends, is a system of falsity. It uses paper currency that has no value but gives the illusion of value, and in the same illusory way it multiplies itself, stealthily taking from others. It has all of the earmarks of the Kali yuga: dishonesty, lying, cheating, theft, illusion and results in suffering and hardship for the vast majority of people—the 85%.

If we want to solve the economic problems once and for all we need to stop using the false economic methods and begin to use the real ones. Plant seeds. After all, that’s what we need money for in this modern world—to eat, and to get clothing, both of which come out of Mother Earth as a gift. If we simply receive them as gifts meant for our sustenance rather than something to exploit for other purposes we miss the spirit of the entire creation and must suffer accordingly. Isn’t that what is going on today? The people of the world have been misled down a path of greed, hoping to exploit a cheating system for their own gain, and instead are becoming consumed by it. Poetic justice. 

If we actually want to solve the economic problems we have to give up our own base qualities, because as long as we cling to them other people smarter than us will use our own bad qualities against us.

Capitalism, Communism and Cowism -
A New Economics

by Dr. Sahadeva Dasa

He's done it again -- written a great, short but comprehensive and compelling book about the failure of major global economics and the hope of natural economics, or Cowism. Sahadeva, who is also president of the ISKCON Secunderbad temple, has 5 other books about cows and cowism that we reported several years ago, and all of his books are available online for a free read at Scribd.com:

• Capitalism Communism and Cowism - A New Economics for the 21st Century

• Cows Are Cool - Love 'Em!

• Cow and Humanity - Made for Each Other

•  To Kill Cow Means to End Human Civilization

• Lets Be Friends - A Curious, Calm Cow

• Noble Cow - Munching Grass, Looking Curious And Just Hanging Around

  In addition to these he has written a book on the failure of the oil civilization for which he was awarded an honorary Ph.D.:

   

  Oil-Final Countdown to a Global Crisis & Its Solutions - Part1(The Problem)

   

  Last month an Indian national conference on ”Cow Based Agriculture, Health and Environment” was organized by the Gujarat Government. A first of its kind, it was held at Anand University and was attended by senior ministers, government officials, top scientists, religious leaders, university vice-chancellors, environmentalists, doctors, and cow protection activists (report here).
  
  
  In the inaugural address, Dr Vallabh Bhai Katiria, a senior politician and chairman of Goseva Ayog, read out Srila Prabhupada’s statement from Srimad Bhagavatam 3.2.29 :
  
  
  “Human society needs only sufficient grain and sufficient cows to solve its economic problems. All other things but these two are artificial necessities created by man to kill his valuable life at the human level and waste his time in things which are not needed.”
  
  
  Then he went on to read the complete preface of the book “Capitalism Communism And Cowism – A New Economics For The 21st Century” and reaffirmed the Gujarat Government’s commitment to the vision specified therein.

  The fact is that this planet didn't evolve by chance as so many atheistic people would have us believe, but was created with intention and purpose by the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna. And it comes with an instruction manual called The Vedas. Every species of life in this world has its own economy that serves their purposes without stress or struggle--except man. Misled by materialistic leaders whose conceptions of life hinge on how much they think they can own, the world is headed toward an abyss, and the edge is fast approaching. All of this stress, suffering and trouble needn't be, and if we could hear the cosmic alarm clock ringing we would wake up and smell the reality. The simple life and agriculture, such as we write about on our Gitagrad blog, has been the natural economic system from day one. We are admonished by the Sri Isopanisad that there is no alternative to this way for man--no successful alternative that is, and we are now being shown how true that is.

   

  Cowism and Spiritual Economics are the way of the future, simply because the ways of the past, based on the modes of passion and ignorance, rajas and tamo-guna, naturally lead to destruction. 

   

  Please read Sahadeva's books, and if you haven't yet, read our own Spiritual Economics.

Even a Child Can Understand the Ruse

In the video below 12 year-old Victoria Grant explains why there is a debt crisis and how it can be solved. No, she is not reading from a tele-prompter (like most politicians do). The money system is not difficult to understand—even a child can understand it—and it is painfully obvious to anybody who takes the trouble to educate themselves about this important matter, that the people are enslaved to the banking interests. So what shall we do? Knowingly continue to live as slaves? Or shall we find a new way of living that allows us maximum freedom? 

The problem, that is not stated here, is not the banking system in and of itself (it didn't create itself), but the people behind the banking system—the bankers, and the politicians who have aided and abetted this theft, for a hundred years. 

What is going to be done with them? They are the problem and they are not just going to say "aw, shucks, I'm sorry" and promise to be nice. They are demonic and will find a way to exploit any monetary system that is created. If you need an education on this fact learn the diabolical history of money from Bill Still here.

The best solution to our economic problems (all of them) is the gift economy. Try to manipulate and exploit that! Of course we wouldn't be able to exploit such a system either, and many, many people, not just the bankers, are all too happy to do that. Well, we get what we deserve—it's called karma. As we give it will be given unto us. Our choice.

"Zeitgeist - Moving Forward 2011"

Promotes the Gift Economy

Peter Joseph is the writer, director, producer, cinematographer, composer, editor and narrator of the Zeitgeist films. Quite a guy that Peter Joseph. A real one-man show. His video is an amazing piece of work and have been viewed by more than 16 million people so far, all around the world. His first Zeitgeist, released in 2007, was viewed online by more than 100 million in the first year. He followed up with "Zeitgeist: Addendum" in 2008 that had 50 million views in the first year. Both films brought Joseph awards. 

His next step was to create the Zeitgeist Movement, now a half-million strong, that works to begin a transition of culture into a new sustainable economic paradigm and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is, in part, a media expression of the same focus. “The Zeitgeist Movement” is an extension of “The Venus Project”- an organization established by industrial designer - Jacque Fresco - who and which are also featured in the film.

In his videos he explains what's going on in the world in such a way that anyone can see it and understand it. He explains the reality of money and the economy in a way that should leave the uninitiated dumbfounded and perhaps even angry. And I love that he brings the viewer to the conclusion that a gift economy is far better than a money economy. He doesn't leave it at that however, about half way through he begins to explain his solution to the problem. That is where we begin to disagree. Apparently following Jacque Fresco he believes that science can solve all the problems--and they present some interesting ideas of how science could solve these problems even today...only if...and that is the part that needs some help. 

If you haven't seen the video here it is, 108 minutes of it. See what you think of it. I will discuss my caveats in a future post.

AMERICA: Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary Measures Towards
Sociopolitical-environmental Collapse

by Prof. Peter Phillips

re-posted from globalresearch.ca

“Don't waste any more time or energy on the presidential election than it takes to get to your polling station and pull a lever for a third-party candidate-—just enough to register your obstruction and defiance—and then get back out onto the street. That is where the question of real power is being decided.” Chris Hedges, May 2012

Runway capitalism is moving unrelentingly towards sociopolitical-environmental collapse—cheered on by a two-headed single party machine known as US Congress. Activists, who see the coming disasters as catastrophic, are seeking revolutionary change through non-cooperation, and occupy disruptions. Yet, many are the still delusional hopefuls desperately fumbling with traditional responses; including "Kum ba yah" marches, and the futile support for progressive left-leaning candidates seeking positions of influence inside the Washington beltway.

Do we understand that habeas corpus is no longer a legal protection in the US or that the US president can torture and kill American citizens, let along anyone in the world? How can we ignore the inconvenient truths of warrentless wire taps and electronic monitoring for everyone? Why do we tolerate that US-NATO forces killing people in over one hundred countries in the world using special service operatives, private assassins and drones—a million civilians deaths in Iraq alone? How can we be so blind as not to see our corporate media is a propaganda fog machine for the one percent?  These questions, reflecting the reality of America today, are so far from the values of our traditions that accepting any aspect of authority from Washington DC is a sacrilege to our honor. We are in desperate times.

In Congress, wealth begets membership, and wealth is the reward for correct action. The members in the House and Senate have a collective net worth of $2.04 billion, up from $1.65 billion, in 2008.  While at the same time, Americans' household net worth has continued to declined and the number of people living in poverty has risen for the fifth year in a row.

The American Congress is in reality an artificial organization serving as cheerleader to the transnational corporate class of the world. Congress offers its members little more than a transitional path into the good life of corporate affluence as long as the members remain loyal to party discipline. Our legitimate electoral process has been completely usurped by the Supreme Court ruling that a corporation’s free speech rights allow unlimited campaign spending, and congressional lobbying knows no bounds. Any candidate willing to serve in the Democrat or Republican parties in the US congress today, even as a gadfly of resistance, is stepping beyond the pale of constitutional government.

Even if a Progressive Democrat of America—Moves On into the congressional circle, the magnitude of compromise demanded makes effective action impossible other than occasional symbolic votes of resistance. Those stepping out of party lines will invariably result in orchestrated opposition during the next selection cycle—Just ask Cynthia McKinney.

Reform is not an option. The only action possible is a complete and total return to the social justice values of our US Constitution and the Bill of rights. We cannot allow extrajudicial killings, privacy invasions into our homes, and police state interceptions in the commons. We cannot allow global capitalism to continue to kill and impoverish billions of people and destroy the planet

Protecting and even rewriting our Constitution and our Bill of Rights will require revolutionary acts. We must retool our elections and eliminate/ignore the dark clouds of corporate media. A mass movement at this level requires grass roots action by a core of at least ten percent of our population. Getting one out of ten people actively involved is not at all impossible; this is where our traditional values meet human rights. We are a people of hope that only need to overcome our fears and find the voice of our values by using radical democracy for human betterment for all.

The right to vote is a long held value. We are often asked, “Why waste your vote on an independent third party candidate, they will never has a chance to win.” Can voting for a candidate who reflects your own political values and beliefs be a wasted vote? It seems that voting for your true beliefs is a self-actualizing act, and compromising one’s values to pick the lesser of two evils is self-alienating. Therefore, we urge all to continue to vote, but find candidates outside of the two party oligopoly. Maybe someday, self-actualized voting will be fashionable.  

Peter Phillips is a professor of political sociology and social movements at Sonoma State University. He is the president of Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored, and co-host with Mickey Huff of the weekly Project Censored Show on KPFA.

Stopping the Activities of Kali

Maharaja Pariksit, who could fight one thousand enemies single-handedly, thus pacified the personality of religion and the earth. Then he took up his sharp sword to kill the personality of Kali, who is the cause of all ir-religion. (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.28)

PURPORT by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

"As described above, the personality of Kali is he who deliberately commits all kinds of sinful acts which are forbidden in the revealed scriptures. This age of Kali will certainly be full of all activities of Kali, but this does not mean that the leaders of society, the executive heads, the learned and intelligent men, or above all the devotees of the Lord should sit down tightly and become callous to the reactions of the age of Kali. In the rainy season certainly there will be profuse rainfalls, but that does not mean that men should not take means to protect themselves from the rains. It is the duty of the executive heads of state and others to take all necessary actions against the activities of Kali or the persons influenced by the age of Kali; and Maharaja Pariksit is the ideal executive head of the state, for at once he was ready to kill the personality of Kali with his sharp sword. The administrators should not simply pass resolutions for anti-corruptional steps, but they must be ready with sharp swords to kill the persons creating corruptions from the angle of vision of the recognized shastras. The administrators cannot prevent corrupt activities by allowing wine shops. They must at once close all shops of intoxicating drugs and wine and force punishment even by death for those who indulge in habits of intoxication of all description. That is the way of stopping the activities of Kali, as exhibited herein by Maharaja Pariksit, the maha-ratha." (here for the rest of the story)

Sometimes I am asked why I write about such mundane topics as economics and do not focus exclusively on the topics of the Lord. In this commentary Srila Prabhupada clearly states: “above all the devotees of the Lord should not sit down tightly and become callous to the reactions of the age of Kali"—and those reactions are becoming severe.

Indeed, instead of keeping our collective heads in the clouds, callous to the reactions of this age, the devotees need to take action. The only solution to the problems of this age are the principles of religion and those principles are only explained sufficiently in the works of His Divine Grace. Someone is needed to explain how the Bhagavat philosophy applies to, and can solve today’s problems, and that is what I am attempting to do here.

There is no material solution to the problems that are manifesting in today’s world. They are the work of Kali, and he has the upper hand right now. It is a fact that unless the devotees of the Lord begin to take action to rally against the actions of Kali the situation will be lost. The global rulers have everything in their grip and they intend to squeeze it for all that its worth. And people are being squeezed. Who is going to help them? Who can help them except the Bhagavat and the persons Bhagavat? Spiritual Economics explains what is going on and what to do about it. We need you to play your part. Get in the game. 

The reality check, the activities of Kali, is in the next (above) post. And there you will see that the good professor wants to use whatever measures are present in his worldview. The problem is that the Western worldview is too limited to clearly understand the problem, to say nothing then of the solution. There is no understanding of the vices of Kali in the Western worldview. There is no understanding of the divine and demonic natures. There is no understanding of the Yuga dharma, the power of the maha-mantra, etc., etc. 

Only the devotees of the Lord have the knowledge and understanding to foil the demon Kali. Maharaja Pariksit did once at the beginning of the age. He needs to be dealt with again. Tell me please, what you are going to do to stop Kali?

Tales Too Terrible to Tell, But They Must Be Heard

In my book “Spiritual Economics” I write about economics under the influence of the material energies: goodness, passion and ignorance. These words should not be confused with the English equivalents, but they are the closest translation from sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. Tamo-guna, the mode of ignorance, brings the influence of any bad quality that we can think of (which is the influence of tamo-guna): greed, envy, cheating, stealing, duplicity, graft, violence, destruction and so on.

One of the examples that I use to demonstrate the influence of tamo-guna in economic activity is slavery. In that section I presented a number of examples of modern slavery. That’s a shocking pair of words for most people to hear. We somehow think that slavery is a thing of the past dark ages before people became ‘civilized,’ (whatever that is). But the fact is that more people are enslaved today than at any other time in the past—more than 24 million according to some estimates. Slavery for anything and everything that a human can be used for, but they fall mainly into two categories: sex and labor. What gives some people the the idea that they can own and control others? Tamo-guna. And it's influence is increasing day-by-day.

Today I was writing about slavery again, this time for the new book I am working on—Change the Karma! In preparing I again viewed websites that I looked at about 5 years ago doing the initial research. And not surprisingly I came across a good deal of new information that didn’t exist five years ago, such as the fact that slavery of all kinds is increasing, not decreasing. The government agencies are passing laws to punish the evil-doers but that is simply dealing with the symptom and not the disease. To be honest I am starting to get annoyed at this. The SYMPTOM is not THE PROBLEM! C’mon people! The fact that some people are enslaving others is not the source of the problem! It is a spiritual problem and is due to the influence of evil or tamo-guna in this world. I’ll explain it all in Change the Karma! so be sure to stay-tuned and get that book for all the answers.

Any day that one has to hear about how terribly others are treated is a difficult one. These are such sad stories, but they need to be told so that everyone can wake up and realize what is going on in this world—even if its not going on in your world. That is good because that means that you have the ability to change the world, which is something that these slaves cannot do. To change the world we must eliminate / reduce the evil, or eliminate / reduce the tamo-guna. The best and easiest way to do that is to chant the names of God. Any bona fide name of God will do. The Hindus have one thousand, and so do the Muslims. The Jews have almost a hundred as well. But the best is called the Maha-mantra. Maha means great, so the maha-mantra means the great mantra, the best, the most powerful. The maha-mantra is the Hare Krishna mantra—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. If you want to see and hear some great chanting go here, or here, and there is plenty more where that came from. By giving some time to this, even ten minutes a day, you will benefit and the entire planet will as well.

To encourage you by helping you realize what this world is becoming, and what, if we do not take measures to change, will soon be coming to a neighborhood near you, I would like you to watch this TED talk given by Lisa Kristine. She is an anthropologist who has made it her purpose to tell people about modern slavery. I am sure you will be impressed. I was...even after I was reading about slavery a good part of the day. If it touches you then please do something to Change the Karma! – chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra—all day, every day. Don't stop. You will become happy and help to make this world a happier place.

(p.s.: I got he link for Lisa's TED talk from www.freetheslaves.net. It's a good place to start if you want to know more about modern slavery.)

Things Seem to Work the Same Everywhere These Days:

Received from my Russian friends (obviously). Everybody has their price it seems, but one wonders what kind of world we will have if everybody is paid to overlook things that should not be overlooked.