Do you Understand the Charges?

Not guilty graffiti (Photo credit: duncan)

Many of us involved in the “legal reform” movement have understood for most of twenty years that when a judge asks a defendant if “Do you understand the charges against you,” something “funny” is happening.  We believe the judge isn’t merely asking if we comprehend the charges on an intellectual basis.

Instead, we suspect that, by using the word “understand” as a term of art, the judge is actually asking if we agree, consent, or even contract to be subject to the charges claimed by the plaintiff or prosecution.    The implication of this suspicion is that we must agree to “understand” the charges before the judge can proceed.  I.e., if we expressly refuse to “understand” the charges, the court might not be able to proceed against us.

However, even though we’ve “understood” that “somethin’ funny” is goin’ on whenever the court asks “Do you understand the charges?,” I, at least, have not precisly understood what the judge means when he asks that question.

Understand?

 

Constitutional Elections Summit

November 4: Barack Obama elected President (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On May 26th, A.D. 2012, Rudy and Erin Davis hosted a Constitutional Elections Summit at the Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church at Dallas, within The State of Texas.  I was one of the seven speakers.  Several of the speakers (Orly Taitz, Pastor David Manning, etc.) enjoy national recognition.

The Summit’s primary purpose was to explore the constitutionality of Barack Obama’s candidacy.

Although the subject matter might seem primarily “political,” the Summit was every bit as spiritual as an old-time, tent Revival.  The quality of the speakers and the variety of subject matter (“Man or Other Animals,” Imprecatory Prayer; “Birther” issues) made this “Summit” an event of truly national significance.  Unfortunately, only about 70 people attended the Summit.  We’d hoped for more.  But all the speeches were video’d and those videos are already up on the internet and beginning to attract attention.  I am hopeful that these videos (below) receive widespread attention.

 

“Watching the Watchers”

Internet Privacy (Photo credit: o5com)

Here’s a video that explores the internet data mining industry.  It explains  that much of your internet browsing can be tracked by scores or hundreds of anonymous internet entities which seek to create a “profile” of you by following and recording every site you visit.

The implication is that there is no privacy on the internet.

That’s no surprise, but seeing evidence of the lack of privacy is disturbing.

My guess is that there will be a privacy backlash in the next two years that’ll seek to cause laws to be passed to prevent private entities from following us on the internet.  Government agencies, of course, will probably still be allowed to (secretly) monitor us.   In fact, even if laws were passed to prevent government monitoring, I doubt that such monitoring could be truly stopped.

 

Running From Debt. Running to Gold. Running to Freedom.

Statue of a Greek runner by Sir William Blake Richmond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The European Union’s (EU’s) current financial problem was made public by the inability or refusal of the Greek people to repay the debts incurred by their government.  Greece owed a “mere” $500 billion—a big sum for Greece, but a triviality for the EU.  The entire $500 billion could’ve been forgiven and absorbed by the EU.  However, if the EU agreed to forgive Greece’s debt, they’d be forced to also forgive the debts of Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and perhaps France.  The result would be an EU where no one expected to pay their debts.

Therefore, Greece’s relatively small $500 billion debt had to be largely enforced—not merely to maintain the integrity of the EU—but to insure that all debtors understood and agreed that they must repay their debts.

The relatively small problem with Greece was magnified by the fact that all creditors—including the EU, itself—depend on their debtors’ willingness to repay their debts.   If Greece were allowed to repudiate all of its “sovereign” (governmental) debt, the EU might fragment and even the global economy might be collapsed.

The EU (and arguably, the New World Order) ultimately depend on the world’s willingness to not only repay their debts, but remain in the status of debtors.

 

No Good Song Goes Unpunished

A standard household claw hammer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Tennessee high school football coach wrote the following song.

Actually, the song’s not bad.  It’s at least amusing.  But it was not politically correct.

The coach was reportedly fired.

video

00:03:09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=EfH46DTAkxo

 

The Truth About War

Viet Nam War Memorial (Photo credit: j elden bailey)

When we think of war, we think of the unfortunates who died, or were maimed, injured, disfigured.  But as this video suggests, the people who survive a war, especially those who killed others, are also often wounded in ways that might not show, but can be even more permanent than than a lost leg.

This video captures a measure of truth that discredits the belief that there was ever a truly reasonable justification for Viet Nam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.  Who won those wars?  I guarantee that it’s not the soldiers who fought them.  Munitions manufacturers might’ve won.  Bankers might’ve won.  New World Order politicians might’ve won. But the people who did the actual fighting, killing and dying–on both sides–lost.

The truth about war found in the following video is not the only truth.  Some people may thrive in war.  But for most people, war is hardly heroic, usually horrific–and, at bottom, so damnably stupid that you have to wonder what th’ Hell compels us to go back and do it again, again, and again.

There is something about mankind that seems compelled to engage in war.

How th’ Hell can one generation after another be so stupid and self-destructive?  We go to war in hope of becoming a “man”.  But as often as not, we come home a cripple.   Why can’t the last generation of “warriors” warn the next generation about the absurdity of going to war in someone else’s country?  We keep clinging to the lie that war is somehow good or heroic when, in fact, as Marine General Smedley Butler once observed “War is a racket”.  At best.

When do we tell the kids that fight our wars that they’re not “fighting for our freedoms”–they’re just fighting for our bankers?

video   00:05:27

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZ0DxhuT5Y

 

Waiting for Another 1:1 Moment

1oz 1984 Krugerrand Transferred from en.wikipedia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This interview was shot 18 May 2012. Adam Fleming, Chairman of Wits Gold and Fleming Family & Partners, discusses the gold bull market with GoldMoney’s James Turk.

There’s a great deal to learned from this interview, but one of the most extraordinary insights involves the relationship between the price of gold and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).  According to Adam Fleming, during previous economic recessions and/or depressions over the past century, the price of gold and the DJIA came into a 1:1 relationship on several occasions.  For example, in the 1930s, the DJIA fell to 34 and the price of gold was $32.  When gold peaked at $800/ounce circa A.D. 1980, the the DJIA was also about 800.  At such times, one ounce of gold could buy one “share” of the DJIA.

 

Fukushima Could Be 85 Times Worse than Chernobyl

English: Internationally recognized symbol.  Image:Radioactive.svg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Sobering.  Worst case: global catastrophe.

It’s hard to listen to this video without thinking about End Times.

General Electric has built a number of nuclear power plants in the US that are reportedly identical to Fukushima Reactor #4.   If so, those US reactors may also store their radioactive waste on the roof of the reactors.  If the reactor building is destroyed, the nuclear waste might render hundreds, perhaps thousands, of square miles uninhabitable.

Nuclear power is a colossally stupid, short-sighted technology.  We get cheap energy for 20 to 50 years, then we have to figure out how to safely store the highly toxic, radioactive waste for thousands, perhaps even a million,  years. Given the storage problem, the nuclear power technology is insane.

video   00:05:31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=epixkCHOfR0

 

Wus Hap’nin’? II (Election Cycle Deflation?)

A graph showing the historical price of gold from 2000 through 12/19/2008. Note that gold peaked in early 2008, then fell dramatically until after the 2008 election. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the previous article (“Wus Hap’nin’?“) I pondered the mystery of why the price of gold is going down and the apparent value of the dollar is rising.  I am about 98% confident that the gold market is being manipulated by the “Powers-That-Be”; that the 19% price decline in gold over the past 8 months is orchestrated and intentional; but that no one has seemingly identified the reason why the price of gold has fallen so dramatically.

A falling price of gold signals deflation (increasing value) of the fiat dollar.  In theory, the last thing the government wants is for deflation to establish itself since deflation typically signals the onset of an economic depression.  If the price of gold is being intentionally shoved downward, it’s hard to understand why “they” would risk enough deflation to precipitate an economic depression–especially in an election year.  Surely, President Obama does not want to run for re-election as the man who started the Greater Depression, right?

But, today, it occurs to me that the price of gold may be being knocked down precisely because it is an election year.

 

Wuss Hap’nin’?

1854 Gold Dollar, Liberty Head, Obverse (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A man who listens to the Financial Survival radio show sent some questions.  His questions provide an almost exquisite example of the current mindset of many who’ve invested in gold, silver or mining stocks.  Faced with the current price decline from the $1,900 peak in September to $1,562 today (almost 18% fall), a lot of “gold bugs” are frightened and confused.

Our listener writes:

“We’re all getting cut to pieces here in the mining stocks down in excess of 20% from our buy in. Are we still holding here? Nowhere else really to go, so far losses have been in excess. Not complaining, just stating, feel lost and confused with gold right now. I know there’s no crystal ball or way to know certain the future, just opinions and estimates. What is happening?”

Like most “gold bugs,” the listener has been so “spoiled” by ten consecutive years of gold price increases that he’s shocked and dismayed by the 18% fall over the past eight months.

By itself, an 18% fall is troubling, but coupled with incomprehensibility, the same fall becomes frightening.  The price of gold is falling and no one seems to know why.