David Galland: The Age of Entitlement

“If you accept as truth that we now live in an Age of Entitlement—an era whose hallmarks are widespread yet ultimately unaffordable and, therefore, undeliverable promises, benefits, services, etc.—then it behooves us to fill another gourd of maté and imagine where it all leads.  Before we engage in that exercise, however, it may be worthwhile to review a few supportive data sets, tidily organized into easily grasped charts.  As it’s all but impossible to dial back the bulk of the entitlements—or, given the demographics involved, do much to retard their speedy growth—we can reasonably expect the quantitative easing to accelerate over time.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/the-age-of-entitlement

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Bill Bonner: Bitcoin 2.0

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“What we’ve got is a monetary system that lacks the real old-time value of gold. And it lacks the real new-time value of simple, low-cost Internet-based information exchange.  We can receive an electronic copy of War and Peace online at virtually no transaction cost. But if we want to pay for it, we must pay fees to zombie banks and credit card companies (and inform the NSA of our reading habits).  Digital money is the biggest innovation in currency in 6,000 years. Modern technology opens this universe up to us – exposing thousands of monetary galaxies and currency solar systems. Surely, we will find at least one planet hospitable to human commerce.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/bitcoin-2-0/

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Bitcoin And The Two Things You Need To Know

“Years ago, information was controlled and distributed by single entities. This is why media conglomerates and newspaper companies were so powerful. When we talk about how the internet disrupted those companies, we are really saying that new protocols created the disruption. The protocols provided a way to send and receive instantaneous information without anyone’s permission. The protocol behind Bitcoin is providing the same type of disruption only instead of sending information without any third-party involvement, we are now able to send money without any third-party involvement. In essence, we are democratizing money and rewriting the rules for commerce.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danreich/2013/12/03/bitcoin-and-the-two-things-you-need-to-know/

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Behind the Bitcoin Surge: A Financial Futurist’s Perspective

“Bitcoin bridges two paradigms: the traditional financial paradigm, focused on clearly defined 1:1 financial transactions, and a new paradigm, in which non-financial data is layered on top of financial transactions. Bitcoin transactions include shared social values layered on top of the financial transaction mechanism. The social values encoded in the DNA of Bitcoin are DIY, peer-to-peer, distrust in government and central banking systems, technology elitism, and anonymity. Buying something with Bitcoin can be construed as an act of financial activism —not just a purchase.”

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/54c0070a03c2

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Learn Bobby Tay’s $2.7 Trillion Sigma Secret

“Sabana is a shari’ah-compliant REIT, meaning it adheres to Islamic financial principles. That’s appealing to a large swath of the Middle East that is eager to find a place outside the U.S. and Europe to put money to work. Singapore is a natural destination because of the safety of the banking system and the surety of the legal system.  In 2011, an estimated $2.7 trillion was looking for a shari’ah-compliant home, and with a shari’ah-compliant REIT kicking off a dividend of 10% at the time, well there was no question the Arabs would invest.  It was a Sigma event.”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/2013/11/27/learn-bobby-tays-2-7-trillion-sigma-secret-2/

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Questioning Bitcoin at $1000

“Anonymity. Decentralised. Government free?  With tremendous transaction cost advantage. Not a debt-based system.  Biggest risk? If there is a technical flaw that will get exposed when a billion people are using it. Competing crypto-currency backed by major international companies on the supply side. Or invention easy to access free energy.  In the end it is not about Bitcoin. This is about transactions taking place outside of the currently approved system. Bitcoin just happens to be the medium. You don’t have to like what these people holding Bitcoins do. But there is always a market for this.”

https://medium.com/mind-behavior-and-technology/be478d026f55

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How the Nazis Used Gun Control

“The U.S. media covered the above events. And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been.  As in Weimar Germany, some well-meaning people today advocate severe restrictions, including bans and registration, on gun ownership by law-abiding persons. Such proponents are in no sense ‘Nazis,’ any more than were the Weimar officials who promoted similar restrictions. And it would be a travesty to compare today’s situation to the horrors of Nazi Germany.  Still, as history teaches, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365103/how-nazis-used-gun-control-stephen-p-halbrook

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The Reason Police Brutality Is Rising

“The great fiction of government is imploding. What is left is the great reality; namely that all government intervention rests upon coercion..  Law enforcement will increase its use of direct force to compel obedience and to create a fear of authority to fill the vacuum where respect used to be. The rise in police brutality against average people is proportionate to the loss of trust with which those people now view all government intervention. It is a vicious circle, of course. The more brutality occurs, the less trust there is. And law enforcement’s willingness to taser children, shoot unarmed civilians and gang-bludgeon unresisting people is an ominous sign. It means they are no longer reluctant to be ‘seen.'”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34783/Wendy-McElroy-The-Reason-Police-Brutality-Is-Rising/

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Why Is Not-Pot Illegal Too?

“Hemp’s current economic value is difficult to determine because it has been linked with marijuana and considered illegal in many countries, including the US since 1937.  Australia, Canada, and many other countries have all legalized the growing of hemp in recent years. France has a long tradition of growing hemp for seed oil and China plans to substantially increase acreage and production of hemp, primarily for textile production.  If the silly and sordid prohibition against hemp is repealed we will get the final verdict from the marketplace.”

http://mises.org/daily/6600/Why-Is-NotPot-Illegal-Too

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On Escaping from Prison

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“Think about Gurdjieff’s observation as it applies to many modern-day imprisonments.  People are imprisoned by unhappy marriages, unfulfilling jobs, or cities they live in but intensely dislike.  Others are imprisoned by crusades, slogans, or dogmas.  And still others by guilt, hatred, or envy. Though few ever recognize it, the majority of people, certainly in the Western world, have the power to escape most of the conditions that imprison them, because most people’s imprisonments are usually caused by their belief systems or, quite often, nothing more than lethargy. Which is why a person’s freedom begins with his realization that he himself possesses the mental key to his prison door.”

http://robertringer.com/on-escaping-from-prison/

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