Saturday, October 11, 2014

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

Ebola in Spain & Perhaps Greece/Macedonia

People look from the window of a quarantined hotel in Skopje
Macedonia is now checking for Ebola after Briton dies. They have quarantined the entire hotel sealing it off. They are now sure but are checking for the Ebola virus in a British man who died within hours of being admitted to hospital in the capital Skopje on Thursday.The man had arrived from Britain on Oct. 2 and had been rushed to hospital at 3 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) on Thursday, where he died several hours later. The man had been suffering from fever, vomiting and internal bleeding.
However, in Spain it is official, one of the clinical assistants who took care of one of two Spanish Ebola patients is also now infected. The Spanish government decided to repatriate those two patients assuring everything was under control because they were following the World Health Organization protocols. As a reader from Spain reports:
“It is on the front page of every newspaper.”
 

Li Opening Shanghai Gold Exchange

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Premier Li Keqiang visited a branch of Bank of China in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone on Sept 18, ahead of the opening of the international board of the Shanghai Gold Exchange later in the day. Li said the move is a sign that China will continue to open up its finance sector, and he urged Shanghai authorities to continue their efforts to realize the city’s potential in the finance industry – and also to enable the public to reap the benefits.
What the gold promoters fail to understand is that gold is merely being used as a mechanism to float the currency. This is a way that one can trade the currency via merely playing Shanghai against New York and London. This will have no impact on eliminating paper gold or some other nonsense. It is a step in the capitalization of China in preparation for it to become the next financial capital of the world economy.

What Happens When Government Collapses?

QUESTION: 
Mr. Armstrong,
Thank you for freely educating all who choose to listen to facts and not opinion.  You have greatly helped me grow as a person since I stumbled upon your writings 5 years ago.
I am nothing special, just your average American.  I grind through life as a teacher, small business owner, husband and father in Pennsylvania.  The future outlook of our world heavily weighs on my mind as I think about my young children and the hundreds of students I teach.  My question for you is…what is the average American person to do?
If you were to have limited in funds and resources, what steps would you take to ensure a better (or at least more secure) life for your family?
Sincerely,
JR
ANSWER: Come December, I will be able to explain a bit more clearly. It will become more obvious by then why I have held back a touch more in this area. I am finishing the SOLUTION and intend to put this out in a book format so many people can afford it. I too have family and this is why I even do what I do, Yes, I could just retire and ignore the world. But what would my family face?
I understand that we are at a crossroads. The tree has been cut. Which way will it fall – authoritarian or democracy? We can make a difference. Step one is understanding what is the problem. At least then we can address a solution with some reasonable game plan.
mad-max
We have a great convergence coming. It is nothing to be afraid of and it is nothing we can ignore. Yes a Mad Max event is possible. The average person depends upon government tremendously – even those not on welfare. There are pensions and Social Security that people really believe they are “entitled” to and thus these benefits will exist. What happens when they realize they do not?
Socialism has even changed the historic bounds of family. You had 4 to 6 kids for that was your retirement. The kids knew they had the responsibility of taking care of their parents. Today – that’s government’s job. Everything has been changed to depend upon government that never tells the truth and they will defend to the very last drop of your blood.
Marriage-Medeval
Marriages were ARRANGED! The age difference was typically 25% during the 19th century. To sell movies, Hollywood turned lust into love at first sight. They painted the image of happily-ever-after. I spoke with film makers and they all said people did not want to leave a movie feeling depressed. They glorified marriage and set unrealistic standards. Consequently, the age difference collapsed and the divorce rate rose to 60%+ because of unrealistic expectations.
Pensions began as the marriage contract. The man had to first establish himself and then propose. The Dowry was all about ensuring the wife would be secure – the pension. It was not about “love at first sight” yet according to things like Match.COM, 70% of people dating expect love-at-first-sight. So many people have the wrong expectation of marriage and are thus doomed from the start.
Even the Black family was stronger than the white family before welfare. When you paid women not to be married and to have children, you change the family structure. Socialism has significantly altered the behavior of every race all based upon expectations of government.
MA-FeedingBird
Free food changes behavior be it people or animals. Being compassionate is to be human. To give a man a free fish and you feed him for a day. Tech him how to fish and your feed him for a lifetime. Government adopted the first strategy to create dependency upon the political system.
They tell you do not feed the bears in Yellowstone National Park because they then look for free food and no longer hunt. Humans are no different. What happens when government collapses and people are totally unprepared because they never thought government collapses?

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