Insider
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Future Betrayal
- Call To Action: The Positive Steps For Fighting Back
- Becoming the change agent these times need
If you have not yet read Part 1: Betrayed! available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
The Positive Responses – A Call To Action
It’s time folks. This whole enchilada is about to run off the rails. You know it, I know it, and especially “they” know it. The only people who don’t know this are so distracted by life’s insignificant details, and so hopelessly incurious, that they won’t have any clue until their own lives fall apart.
These people will experience the future as if they were blindfolded participants at a free-for-all boxing match. In other words
Until and unless we admit we have a problem, there will be no hope of repair or recovery. It doesn’t matter what the problem is – alcoholism, addiction, infidelity, lying, cheating, stealing – recovery begins by admitting that a problem exists.
Which means we need to talk about betrayal and the many ways we are being betrayed, and are even betraying ourselves. It won’t be an easy conversation to hold, but it’s entirely necessary.
The alternative is the equivalent of an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting that has decided to eliminate 11 of the steps and just go with one step; “Hey, in this meeting we just pretend nothing’s wrong and we keep on drinking.” Sadly, this exact one-step program is oversubscribed in many communities.
Until and unless that happens, you, we, all of us need to be prepared for more, not less, violence. We should expect more business-as-usual decisions not fewer. We should anticipate more distressed people doing increasingly desperate things, such as checking out via drug use and other addictive behaviors.
You may have overlooked or ignored betrayals – small or large – in your personal life that will now exert themselves to the front of your mind. You may lash out at your betrayers, be they at work, These will take over and shape your destiny, so our advice is that you should get out in front of them.
You will need additional tools to clear these out, manage them, and work with whatever other emotional stressors in your life so you can continue to move forward, grow, develop and have a happy and full life.
If you are ready to learn how to improve and strengthen your emotional capital then…
Fighting Back: A Call To Action
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Future Betrayal
- Call To Action: The Positive Steps For Fighting Back
- Becoming the change agent these times need
If you have not yet read Part 1: Betrayed! available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
The Positive Responses – A Call To Action
It’s time folks. This whole enchilada is about to run off the rails. You know it, I know it, and especially “they” know it. The only people who don’t know this are so distracted by life’s insignificant details, and so hopelessly incurious, that they won’t have any clue until their own lives fall apart.
These people will experience the future as if they were blindfolded participants at a free-for-all boxing match. In other words
Until and unless we admit we have a problem, there will be no hope of repair or recovery. It doesn’t matter what the problem is – alcoholism, addiction, infidelity, lying, cheating, stealing – recovery begins by admitting that a problem exists.
Which means we need to talk about betrayal and the many ways we are being betrayed, and are even betraying ourselves. It won’t be an easy conversation to hold, but it’s entirely necessary.
The alternative is the equivalent of an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting that has decided to eliminate 11 of the steps and just go with one step; “Hey, in this meeting we just pretend nothing’s wrong and we keep on drinking.” Sadly, this exact one-step program is oversubscribed in many communities.
Until and unless that happens, you, we, all of us need to be prepared for more, not less, violence. We should expect more business-as-usual decisions not fewer. We should anticipate more distressed people doing increasingly desperate things, such as checking out via drug use and other addictive behaviors.
You may have overlooked or ignored betrayals – small or large – in your personal life that will now exert themselves to the front of your mind. You may lash out at your betrayers, be they at work, These will take over and shape your destiny, so our advice is that you should get out in front of them.
You will need additional tools to clear these out, manage them, and work with whatever other emotional stressors in your life so you can continue to move forward, grow, develop and have a happy and full life.
If you are ready to learn how to improve and strengthen your emotional capital then…
by
charleshughsmith
Executive Summary
- The source of leverage being used to manipulate us
- The powers that be have a much weaker hand than we realize
- The increase use of force to control the system will ultimately undermine it
- What options are available to those who want to free themselves from this supression?
If you have not yet read Part 1: Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In Part 1 we surveyed the dynamics driving ever-expanding state control, the state’s priorities in crisis management (secure the state’s authority and the wealth/power of elites) and the authorities’ current preference for indirect control of the market.
Leverage and the Market as a Signifier
Markets are no longer markets—they are simulacra of markets, displaying the superficial appearance but not the dynamics and uncertainties of real markets, which have an unnerving tendency to veer away from the state-approved scripts of permanent, stable expansion.
Why have central banks and states (which includes blocs of nations such as the Eurozone with a centralized governing elite) chosen to cloak their control of markets?
The answer is has two parts: 1) central banks/states must leverage their intervention due to the monumental scale of global markets; owning assets worth hundreds of trillions of dollars is at best awkward in the current arrangement and at worst politically impossible.
While financial leverage is a relatively straightforward tool, 2) the real leverage is exerting psychological control over the market by transforming market price action into a signifier (i.e. signaling mechanism) that persuades participants to…
How To Defend Against An Unfair Re-Set Of The System
PREVIEW by charleshughsmithExecutive Summary
- The source of leverage being used to manipulate us
- The powers that be have a much weaker hand than we realize
- The increase use of force to control the system will ultimately undermine it
- What options are available to those who want to free themselves from this supression?
If you have not yet read Part 1: Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
In Part 1 we surveyed the dynamics driving ever-expanding state control, the state’s priorities in crisis management (secure the state’s authority and the wealth/power of elites) and the authorities’ current preference for indirect control of the market.
Leverage and the Market as a Signifier
Markets are no longer markets—they are simulacra of markets, displaying the superficial appearance but not the dynamics and uncertainties of real markets, which have an unnerving tendency to veer away from the state-approved scripts of permanent, stable expansion.
Why have central banks and states (which includes blocs of nations such as the Eurozone with a centralized governing elite) chosen to cloak their control of markets?
The answer is has two parts: 1) central banks/states must leverage their intervention due to the monumental scale of global markets; owning assets worth hundreds of trillions of dollars is at best awkward in the current arrangement and at worst politically impossible.
While financial leverage is a relatively straightforward tool, 2) the real leverage is exerting psychological control over the market by transforming market price action into a signifier (i.e. signaling mechanism) that persuades participants to…
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- Why doing nothing is no longer an option
- Our recommended steps to take for
- Finances
- Home
- Personal Safety
- Health
- Plus: lots of links to related resources
If you have not yet read Part 1: You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What To Do
Broken models and bad ideas eventually catch up with you. That day is coming. As to when, I clearly don’t know.
If there’s an outbreak of war with North Korea than that could easily precipitate the breakdown, especially if the conflict spreads across superpowers. That could happen at any time, so the lessons from the hurricanes is this; get ready now.
Barring some sort of kinetic follies, the farthest I can see things carrying on as they have is until 2019 or 2020 when the profound lack of investment in oil will show up as an oil supply shortfall that will result in much higher oil prices. Those higher prices will run smack into ~$250 trillion of global debt and ~4x that amount of un(der)funded liabilities. I covered that thesis in this report, which is worth a re-read (or a first read in case you haven’t already).
The global equity markets are floating along on a sea of liquidity which has allowed them to seriously depart from the underlying fundamentals and from any sense of risk. When neither fundamentals nor risk apply, you have a bubble on your hands.
Bubbles are always in search of a pin. None of us can predict what that pin might be, but it’s out there.
When the next downturn finally comes, it will be with the force of a hundred corrections denied. We’ll be falling from a much higher level of insanity and self-delusion. Once again we’ll discover that prosperity cannot be printed out of thin air. History doesn’t repeat, they say, but when it comes to bubbles it certainly does. They are always the same; they arise from too-easy credit.
Here’s what I think everybody should do, regardless of circumstances…
Crisis Preparation: What To Do
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- Why doing nothing is no longer an option
- Our recommended steps to take for
- Finances
- Home
- Personal Safety
- Health
- Plus: lots of links to related resources
If you have not yet read Part 1: You’re Likely A Lot Less Prepared For Crisis Than You Realize available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
What To Do
Broken models and bad ideas eventually catch up with you. That day is coming. As to when, I clearly don’t know.
If there’s an outbreak of war with North Korea than that could easily precipitate the breakdown, especially if the conflict spreads across superpowers. That could happen at any time, so the lessons from the hurricanes is this; get ready now.
Barring some sort of kinetic follies, the farthest I can see things carrying on as they have is until 2019 or 2020 when the profound lack of investment in oil will show up as an oil supply shortfall that will result in much higher oil prices. Those higher prices will run smack into ~$250 trillion of global debt and ~4x that amount of un(der)funded liabilities. I covered that thesis in this report, which is worth a re-read (or a first read in case you haven’t already).
The global equity markets are floating along on a sea of liquidity which has allowed them to seriously depart from the underlying fundamentals and from any sense of risk. When neither fundamentals nor risk apply, you have a bubble on your hands.
Bubbles are always in search of a pin. None of us can predict what that pin might be, but it’s out there.
When the next downturn finally comes, it will be with the force of a hundred corrections denied. We’ll be falling from a much higher level of insanity and self-delusion. Once again we’ll discover that prosperity cannot be printed out of thin air. History doesn’t repeat, they say, but when it comes to bubbles it certainly does. They are always the same; they arise from too-easy credit.
Here’s what I think everybody should do, regardless of circumstances…
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