A little candle is a blog dedicated to my views on faith and world events that are inescapibly tied together moving humanity toward a conclusion that most people are not aware of. It is my desire to help people see the world differently and how practical, essential and real Christianity is.
Here is a great short video that brings to light the vital flaws of our economy and consumerist ways. It is quite an eye opener to realize how greed, selfishness and vanity plug themselves into a system like this and pretty well make the whole thing tick.
This video got me thinking about something that I proposed in a post a long time ago. That thought was that money is really just a mechinism used to keep us busy. While we work hard and spend and play and watch TV and sports and movies and going out to eat and traveling and buying clothes we are not thinking about the world we live and how it got to be this way or how we can be more responsible or selfless with what we have. What are your thoughts about the video?
If you put a library beside an amusement park you’ll end up with a lot of dusty books.Me
Lindesy Willams is the author of a book title Energy Non-Crisis. In the speech made at a Q2 conference Lindsey speaks of the time he spent as a chaplain near the arctic working with nearly 25,000 men who where building the biggest pipeline project the world had ever seen at the time. He goes into great detail of insider knowledge of a wealth of oil that the U.S. is choosing to ignore and “classify” to instead persue oil from other countries. Why choose bondage over freedom? Lindsey explains…
This interview blew my mind. The one sentence synopsis of this interview would be… John Perkins tells the story of his life/job as an individual that would convince governments to take loans they couldn’t possibly repay so the debt could be used as leverage for other means at a later time. Is it true or untrue? My measuring stick for something like this is the very fact that nearly all governments world wide are in great debt to banks for dizzying amounts of money. Either way, this is a great listen.
You may be familiar with a service called Dollars 4 Gold or another service like it. The service they offer is rather simple. They will send you a kit in which you can mail them any unwanted gold jewellery and they will send you a cheque back as payment for the gold you sent them. Below is the commercial that is shown often where I live.
This ad drives me crazy. It starts out by preying on the cancerous consumerist mindset that is ruining our world. The premise of having some old junky jewellery lying around and then paying bills and getting shoes is absolutely terrible. I’ll elaborate as to why further on into the post. Then the rest of the commercial is full of classic over-salesmanship and lame testimonies by paid actors and actresses.
There are all the superficial reasons as to why I dislike the ad, now for the root of the matter. I have a feeling that this is a large scam being perpetrated on the public. Not in the fact that you may not get the “money” value of your gold but by the very fact that we are being enticed get rid of our gold at all.
If there is one thing you come to understand about money it has to be what its real value is. The real value of money is nothing. At the end of the day money is merely paper or a number in a computer. When you hand your gold over for money you are trading it wilfully for paper or digits. While that may all seem fine and well because your paper and digits can get you other things you want, like shoes, I don’t think it is going to be that way forever.
We have just been through a major economic earthquake where we have seen the value of currency get shaken very easily. Gold’s value however continued to climb through all of it. Please understand that gold and precious metal always holds its value. That’s why back in the day money’s value was determined and managed by gold reserves. But that’s a long time ago and things don’t work that way anymore.
My concern is founded by the fact that the people in charge of things are always a couple steps ahead so we need to look at what is happening now to try and make a good guess as to what is going to happen down the line. Let me explain where this line of thinking is coming from.
A number of months ago I watched a documentary on TV called “House of Cards”. The show focused on the very housing market bubble that caused the aforementioned economic earthquake. Before this turmoil started there we’re tons of advertisements on TV offering the services of refinancing mortgages to unlock equity that people had in their homes so they could expand their shoe collections, or whatever other useless consuming they wanted to do. The ads offered ideas like getting pools, cars or shopping sprees. The commercials were basically financial traps broadcast into our living rooms. After these ads ran for the better part of a year and millions of people had put themselves in a precarious financial situation the trap were sprung and many families homes we’re stolen via variable rate mortgages that saw the interest rates skyrocket.
To me that is a very deliberate ploy. Now I will concede that no one was forced to use this service but if you dig a hole and cover it with a blanket and put a toddler on one side and you stand on the other side waving a lollypop it doesn’t take much brain power to figure out what the result is going to be.
So let’s keep moving. My point is that there was a rash of commercials that offered something promising and attractive then shortly afterwards millions of people felt the pain of their decisions. So how does Dollars 4 Gold fit into this? Gold has worth, paper doesn’t. I have been reading that with all the fall out of the housing market governments were forced into more borrowing to get out of the mess. This in turn has created a new bubble, a bailout bubble. It is much bigger and much worse than the housing bubble was. How long is it before that one bursts and creates a bigger problem?
If the dollar went bunk and was no longer accepted anywhere gold and other precious metals could be used to trade for food and other necessities. Wouldn’t you wish then that you had kept your gold instead of getting some paper?
You also need to know a little history here to be wise and well prepared. After the original stock market crash and ensuing great depression in the 1920′s gold was seized from the public forcefully under the law. Before then there was a gold standard amd the US dollar used to say redeemable in gold on it. Afterwards the dollar was labelled as legal tender. Meaning it was recognized as tradable money good for buying things and paying taxes. As a side note there was a time in history where a kingdom used sticks, called tally sticks, with notches cut out of them to denote its value as their legal tender. Any person today would think thats crazy, but isn’t paper just as ridiculous?
People in high places that make the rules know where the value is and they want it for themselves so that we are left in a desperate spot. The whole thing is about leverage. They want your gold so you won’t have anything of value. The larger scope, which will be reserved for another post, is the motivation for a world government with world banks. Mark my words; this will be sold to us after the next crisis as the answer to the problem. A public that is poor and starving will be happy to accept whatever is offered that will get food on the table and a new currency in their pocket. At the end of the day the ploy is about leaving people desperate so they will accept whatever alternative is offered to them.
You need to protect yourself. Keep your gold. It may be the only thing that will get you through an economic disaster that sees the dollar worth its weight in paper. Lets also not forget that the Bible warns us that the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). In times like this and in the face of all this information, does that not ring loud and clear as truth?
Below is a preview of the documentary House of Cards. It was all I could find online. If you can find it on DVD or it gets reaired, watch it. Also check out the other posts in the money catagory on my site. Thanks for reading.
I have added a new link in the websites section on the left side. It goes to www.freedocumentaries.org. There is some amazing stuff in there. I have watched a number of them and highly recommend:
Please go there and take in some of them. Leave comments here to get some conversations going. There is a reason this stuff isn’t talked about in the mainstream media. The owners a rulers of this world do not want you thinking for yourself or knowing how things really work. Take sometime out from watching TV or even reading for that matter and check out some of these documentaries.
BUT… before you check any of these out or dismiss this post all together consider this. The word conspiracy evokes emotions of skepticism. There is a reason for that too. That is how thorough the media is. They make you doubt that anything other than what they tell you is true. It is my belief that only an insane person would support that kind of thinking. Of course we’re lied to. The “them” and the “they” will say and do anything to keep their hold on power and wealth. Its kind of funny thinking about in the light of a post I wrote a little while ago … maybe you should go back and read my post regarding not lying.
A friend forwarded this to me yesterday. In a nut shell it is a series of line graphs comparing the progress of the first great depression to our current economic situation which has been cleverly called the “Second Great Depression”. These graphs are not an inspiring sight. I went over them a few times and looked over the pages and couldn’t really find any sources for where the information comes from, which kind of bothers me. I get into this stuff pretty deep but I do try to level myself by finding corroborating evidence from somewhere else. The internet is ripe with mis information.
I wonder sometimes…
I am no economic scholar but a question comes to mind when I see this information. If there is a pattern to it, does that by any chance mean the cause or origin of the problem is the same? Alternatively it makes me wonder if the problem is similar wouldn’t the solution to the first problem also be the solution to the second problem? I will admit that is very presumptuous on my part.
I am a very skeptical person on banking and how money makes the world go round. One small and compelling illustration to this point would be the short video below. I have a lot to learn about the world of finance, but this gentleman uses a very simple demonstration. (Note his use of the word usury in the video, it was a term used in the Money as Debt video I posted earlier)