Thursday, May 19, 2011

Preparing for Economic Turmoil...

... same laws... but still it happened... laws are written by men, not some greater power... existing laws are simply rewritten, or ignored altogether....
... you still have to survive.... every single person wishes they could go back in time...
...you can’t guess the future, all you can do is estimate what can happen and play the odds in your favor...
... our belief is that it cannot happen... really, it's just a wish that it doesn't...

After many years of apathy in Argentina, the insurrection exploded... spontaneous revolt of “faceless” people... all the way to the city’s vital centers.
What happened to Argentina? ... how was it possible that in so rich a country so many people were hungry? 
The country had been ransacked by a new form of aggression, committed in time of peace and in a democracy. A daily and silent violence caused greater social disruption, more emigration and death than the terrorism of the dictatorship and the Falklands War.

Ever since independence, 200 years ago, Argentina’s foreign debt has been a source of impoverishment and corruption, and the biggest scandals. Since the first loan negotiated in 1824 with the British Bank Baring Brothers, the debt was used to enrich Argentinean financiers, to control the finances and empty the country of its wealth.

This foreign debt always went hand in hand with big business, and with the complicity of nearly every government. The unending policy of indebtedness gave rise to generations of technocrats and bureaucrats, who favored banks and international corporations over their own country. Educated at Harvard, Chicago, Oxford, or other elite schools, their portraits hang in the official galleries of all government buildings.... 

... sound familiar?        ... but no way it can happen here... can it?



Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. The dollar was on par with the Argentine Peso... it was the Argentine equivalent of the roaring twenties...then chaos broke out as overnight the money left the country and the banks took the peoples money. The streets exploded and the government went through a succession of presidents in a few days. The film amazing as it shows just how easy it is for a country to go down the tubes by letting politicians worry about their interests more than those of the people. Many of Argentina's assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition.   If you want to help prevent the same thing from possibly happening here, and it is starting to happen, right now,... join the revolution at the Kick Them All Out Project.


(side note - check out precious metal prices - less than 1% of the population owns any... 
...what happens when the REAL crisis arrives)



Preparing for Economic Collapse | The Matrix Sentry