Another factor is BRICS. (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Spain)

I think you mean South Africa (instead of Spain)    :)
 
BTW: I hope I'm truly way, way, way, off base in my thoughts and predictions......and all this will just be a little bump in the road to better things...

Unfortunately, I think you're right on, GuitarHacker,dude;    I just don't believe your gun is going to be much help    :)

What is more scary than anything is that we're in such a society as to get overloaded with information and garbage, to the point that no one knows if anything is right or wrong.

I think about this a lot. Everybody seems to have an agenda, which is usually figuring out how to get their hand into your pocket. You can't trust the news media. You certainly can't trust the internet. You never could trust the government. And the truly scary thing is that even if somebody wants to report the unbiased truth they can't, because any references they might consult would be suspect.
 
We live in a world where political correctness demands that every point of view be given equal weight. Where "experts" is always in quotes, as if such a thing as expertise didn't really exist. Where science is viewed with distrust but pseudo-science is swallowed without question. The Discovery and History channels have been taken over by made-up B.S. "documentaries" about ghosts, Bigfoot and mermaids. 30% of Americans can't identify the Pacific Ocean on a globe, but they can easily identify alien buildings in Mars photos.
 
For myself, I am a committed skeptic. Which is to say that I presume by default that anything I read, anything the TV tells me, and most important, everything I already believe is probably wrong, either in whole or in part. To quote Harry Truman - himself a master of disingenuous propaganda - "show me".

bitflipper And the truly scary thing is that even if somebody wants to report the unbiased truth they can't, because any references they might consult would be suspect.
 
We live in a world where political correctness demands that every point of view be given equal weight. Where "experts" is always in quotes, as if such a thing as expertise didn't really exist.

Interesting to me that these two thoughts follow one right after the other. 

Since the fed can buy or short any dollar, gold, S&P futures it wants with monopoly money, it has a lot of power to move markets where it wants them thus controlling the world.
 
Hope is not a very good strategy for anything but, In the back of my head I keep hearing Dick Cheney's comment that "the American way of life is non-negotiable".
 
But, If China and Russia decide that enough is enough, well, that might be a different story.
 
We are all in this together whether we like it or not, and we will all be under one global rule eventually. So, you might as well realize that these are the good old days.

Nope, not scared.
If I were to be scared about things that may or may not happen, which is not something I do, I guess
it would be getting eaten by a big monster or maybe a big snake...and then fear would probably be replaced
with the will to survive.
I almost got sprayed with hippo **** at the San Diego zoo...I remember that being kind of scary. That would have a long ride back to the room.
 So I guess if their fortune telling charts had pictures of...nope...don't think that would scare me either.
I sure don't like the idea of being way out in the ocean floating around waiting for help...that's kind of scary too.
Well that's all I think of right now that kind of scares me...but it's only my first cup of morning coffee. Maybe I'll think of something really scary later on.
 
 
 

Don't worry, be happy.
 
Regards,

Yes... probably South Africa....  The point being that there are countries actively working to de-throne the US dollar as the world reserve currency. That is not good for us in any way shape or form, but as has been said by some wise sage..... the only thing that doesn't change is change.
 
 
Absolutely,  there is ALWAYS an agenda to everything our governments do.  What something looks like on the surface is never the whole story. It's like an onion. Get past the surface and there are more layers, peel away one and there's another deeper layer. The deeper you go the more you want to cry.  The most recent release of the Taliban hostage is a prime example. Every day it seems something new and more disturbing comes out......
 
Read the history of some of the things our govt did to the people, our people, our citizens..... ask the Japanese people who were American citizens before WW2.... ask the native Americans about Wounded Knee..... ask the farmers in 1791 making liquor, about the Whiskey rebellion with the  army to put the rebellion (not paying liquor tax)  being led by none other than (sitting president at the time) George Washington....
 
The Federal reserve and our monetary police are no different.
 
I'm sure everything will be ok and we can trust them this time..... right?