USD days numbered?

Message from moi:

Incompetence and corruption will bring a society down. "Character doesn't matter"? That's what they said in 1992 when Clinton was elected. In my opinion, that was the date when the US resumed its current nosedive ( begun in 1968), but it didn't exactly look that way at the time.

Why? In 1992, the US enjoyed military supremacy, which was given up---- for what?

  The ability to shoot down ICBMs is probably what did the USSR in. That's what Reagan's "Star Wars" program achieved. Once that was given up, the rest is now following inexorably.

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Home > By "Punishing" France, The US Just Accelerated The Demise Of The Dollar

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By "Punishing" France, The US Just Accelerated The Demise Of The Dollar

By Tyler Durden

Created 07/05/2014 - 09:04

Not even we anticipated this particular "unintended consequence" as a result of the US multi-billion dollar fine on BNP (which France took very much to heart):

• NOYER: BNP CASE WILL ENCOURAGE 'DIVERSIFICATION' FROM DOLLAR

And, the biggest irony of all is that in "punishing" France for dealing with Russia, that core country of the Eurasian alliance of Russia and China, the US just accelerated the graviation of France (and all of Europe) precisely toward Eurasia, and away from the greenback.

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Plans are coming together nicely

In theory that is.

This is with respect to the going off the grid project.  For the last couple days, I've been researching two issues that are going to have to be resolved

• Sewage
• Electricity

I think I have viable solutions for both, but that is in theory.

What are the solutions?

I'd provide links, but I'm too lazy to do that.  I've bookmarked what I need to bookmark.  Suffice it here to say that I would use a typical, in existence solutions for these two issues.  None of these problems have to be solved by me and me alone.  Okay?  The solutions already exist because people are facing these issues already.  No need to invent something new or make something new.

The last one was water, but it looks like a more stubborn problem that I thought.  But there's a solution for that too.  Just collect the rainwater.  Over as many square feet as I've got, there'll be plenty of water.

This post will go into the series.

Update:

Link for electricity here.    Link for Sewage?  Can't find it.  Rats.  Here it is.

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If you want a challenge, try uncluttering your mind

Something about that last Whittle offering leaves me unsatisfied.  What is it?

Awhile back, there was this post about the difference between wealth and money.  We are so money-obsessed in this culture.  But are we really as wealthy as our money suggests?  If money was an honest store of value, the answer is yes.  However, if money is not an honest store of value, then the answer must be no.  It is not reassuring to contemplate that we are much more likely to be better described as the latter than the former.

So, what's the difference between wealth and money?  I've tried to answer that before.  I'll try it again.  Who is more wealthy?  The man who can feed and shelter himself, or the man who sits on top of a tall stack of money?  If the money becomes worthless, the stack isn't useful for anything but to keep warm when you burn it.  Thus, the answer is the latter---the man on the stack of money--- as long as the money has an honest value.  Therein lies the answer to the question of who is wealthy and who is not.  The answer is this:  who has a skill has wealth in spite of a lack of money.  In contrast, the man without skill has no wealth in spite of his money.  The latter is totally dependent upon those with skill to keep him alive.  Therefore, despite his money, he is destitute.  His money cannot save him.  He must have wealth in order to do that.  Money and wealth are not synonymous unless the money has an honest value.

Wrap your minds around that one and you will have the key to a lot of answers.  The failure to do so will keep you stumbling in the dark.

Afterburner w/Bill Whittle-- Apogee: America Needs Another Great Challenge

Whittle says what I've been saying.  We reached an "apogee" in our culture in the 1968 ish time frame.  Whittle's idea is to challenge ourselves to go higher and further.

Once again, nothing wrong with this.  But who will do it?  Government?  Not a chance.  No, the ones who will go will not be government sponsored, but will have to be privately sponsored.  Otherwise, it will never be done.

Secondly, if it is privately sponsored, it cannot be purely scientific.  It MUST be commercial, because there's no way that even the richest individual can afford to take on such a project without having some means to defray the cost, or even to turn a profit.

We are looking at things the exact wrong way.  A challenge won't change that.  A poll pointed out by PJ Media cites that the younger generation prefers socialism.  Socialism is not going to take us anywhere but to the bottom of the heap.

The problem is the government and those who are running it.  Dammit.  Where there's no vision, the people perish.  Yep.

Perry calls up Guard

http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Perry-expected-to-call-up-National-Guard-to-Rio-5634620.php

Gotta look tough doncha know.

Watching videos over the weekend

Two of them actually.  They were biblical stories.

First of them was Samson and Delilah.  Why?  Well, Samson had a secret to his strength.  A woman found a way to get him to reveal the secret so as to destroy him.  A moral in there somewhere?  Sure.  ( I leave that as an exercise. yuk, yuk )

Second of these was found from the links from watching the first.  It was David v. Goliath.  What brought this post into being was this one and something I just realized.  The government is Goliath.  Somehow, a David is going to have to slingshot this frickin' huge mother in order to cut it down to manageable size.

Glenn Reynolds likes to talk about an Army of Davids.  Nope.  You don't get Armies of Davids.  David was unique.  An Army is a bunch of cookie cutter look a likes.

Okay, now I'm done for the morning.