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Gold, Liberty, and the War on Cash
Written
by Jeff Nielson (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)
 
The War
on Cash is not merely continuing, it is intensifying. It began in the
West, with relatively minor infringements on our right to use the
currency of our own nation. The War has now shifted to India, been
radically ratcheted up, and inflicted upon a population of 1.2 billion
people, where 68% of transactions were conducted with cash.
Regular readers have been warned in the past about the
insidious corruption of the Modi regime, when it attempted to literally steal
the gold of its own people with its “gold
deposit scheme” (scam). Out of the blue, this oppressive regime announced
a ban on 500- and 1,000-rupee notes – which represented 86% of all
currency. Now it is going even farther.
No matter how badly India’s “experiment” fails, it will
be labeled a success by the Western propaganda machine, and (of course) the
Modi regime itself. And then it will be copied by our own corrupt regimes.
For any readers, who do not comprehend the severity of this threat,
understand the context.
Our interest rates have been fraudulently manipulated to
near-zero (or lower) in perpetuity. Meanwhile, inflation rages, while our
puppet governments pretend it is near-zero. What this means is that all of our
paper savings is perpetually blood-sucked by the full rate of that inflation.
But even this isn’t enough.
“Negative”
interest rates have now started appearing in the Western world, and those
regimes which have not yet embarked upon this outrage are threatening to do
so. There is no such thing as a negative interest rate. An interest
rate, by definition, is a positive number. It is the price we pay for the use
of capital.
The use of capital is a valuable thing. A price of
less-than-zero for the use of capital is not a transaction. It is a crime.
Negative interest rates are a prima facie act of theft. Now combine
negative interest rates and a War on Cash. We’re forced to deposit all of our
(paper) wealth into banks, and then these “banks” (i.e. institutions of
crime) steal that wealth, bit by bit, via “negative” interest rates.
Forcibly stealing our wealth, in a systemic and
systematic manner is more than a mere crime. It is an assault on our economic
liberty, to the most extreme degree. To put this Crime of the Century into
context, recall a quotation from 1948.
Is there a connection between Human Freedom and a
Gold Redeemable Money? At first glance it would seem that money belongs to
the world of economics and human freedom to the political sphere.
But when you recall that one of the first moves by Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler was to
outlaw individual ownership of gold, you begin to sense that there may be
some connection between money, redeemable in gold, and the rare prize known
as human liberty
. [emphasis
mine]
The year 1948 not only predates the War on Cash, it
predates the War on Good Money (i.e. gold-redeemable money), when a corrupt
U.S. regime of a previous generation assassinated the last vestige of our
gold standard.
Who wrote those words, nearly 70 years ago? None other
than Rep.
Howard Buffett, father of Warren Buffett. The irony here will not be lost
on astute readers. Howard Buffett was an advocate for gold and good money.
Warren
Buffett is a pusher of paper, and a lover of the banks who create it.
With our paper markets having been manipulated to bubble
levels, Warren Buffett is sitting on (at
last report) $85 BILLION vampire dollars – just waiting
to capitalize on the misery of others, when the bubbles are burst by his
friends, the bankers.
Put your paper wealth into markets, and it will be
quickly reduced to a small fraction of its former size. Put that paper wealth
into our bubble
real estate markets, and that wealth will be quickly reduced to a small
fraction of its former size. Put that paper wealth into the bank, and it will
be devoured by both “inflation” (i.e. banker money-printing) and “negative”
interest rates.
With all avenues for our paper wealth leading to disaster
and ruin, what are we to do for salvation? Why did Howard Buffett assert a
connection between liberty and a gold redeemable money?
In a free country the monetary unit rests upon a fixed foundation of gold or gold
and silver independent of the ruling politicians. Our dollar was that kind of
money before 1933. Under that system paper currency is redeemable for a
certain weight of gold, at the free option and choice of the holder of the
paper money.
That redemption right gives money a large degree of
stability. The owner of such gold
redeemable currency has economic independence. He can move around either within or without his country because
his money holdings have accepted value anywhere.
[emphasis mine]
In the mind of Howard Buffett, it was not the gold
standard which provided and defined our economic liberty, it was the gold
behind it. But Howard Buffett had still more to say:
The subject of a Hitler or a Stalin is a serf by the
mere fact that his money can be called in and depreciated at the whim of his
rulers.
As our governments begin “calling in” and depreciating
our so-called money, the logic here is pretty simple. According to no less
than Warren Buffett’s father, the Honorable Howard Buffett, we are currently
ruled by a collection of Hitlers and Stalins, and we are being reduced to
mere serfs.
Regular readers will see nothing particularly shocking in such an equation.
How do we resist the economic fascism being imposed by
these 21st century Hitlers?
Gold
– and silver. Real money, honest money, economic liberty from
this fascism. Indeed, the good money of which Howard Buffet wrote 69 years
ago still exists, in the form of our legal tender gold and silver coins.
Could our governments simply “call in” our gold and
silver money in the same manner that these fascists plan on calling in our
paper currencies? In a word, no. What is the threat behind the bans on cash
being imposed (now) around the world?
Deposit your paper currency into the bank [thief] of your choice, or it will be declared worthless.
The holders of gold and silver legal tender currency
would simply laugh at such a threat. Fiat currency, as its name implies,
relies upon government fiat for its value. Remove the fiat, and it is just
paper – worthless. Gold and silver are above any petty decrees from these
tin-pot dictators.
Gold and silver do not derive their value because our
(corrupt) governments think they have value. Gold and silver get their value
from the fact that we think they have value, and have thought
this way for more than 4,000 years.
Our governments lie to us, and their Masters the bankers
steal from us. They steal on behalf of their Masters, the oligarchs.
One of the leaders of this banking Crime
Syndicate confessed to his crime, before he became one of the leaders of
this banking Crime Syndicate.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way
to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
- Alan
Greenspan , 1966
Understand that at the time that Greenspan uttered his
warning/confession that it was illegal for Americans to possess gold. Had
this banking criminal chose to utter the same warning today, he would have
had to amend it.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is only one way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation: gold and silver.
The Rule of Law is dead. Our Constitutions lie in
tatters, metaphorically shredded by our corrupt governments. In such a world,
there is only one path to liberty.
The Hitlers and Stalins come and they go, fortunately.
Gold and silver – and the economic
liberty they represent – endures.
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Gold, Liberty, and the War on Cash
Written
by Jeff Nielson (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)
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