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Martin Armstrong teases "How America Will Collapse in the Blink of an Eye"
America's phavorite political prisoner is back again, From the Hole. Teasing but a glimpse into his
upcoming book, Martin Armstrong presents three handwritten pages so
torrid that they burn America in effigy. We're talking premo 'Philos
Gone Wild' material here.
Between telling the US to Guy Fawkes itself 8.6 different ways,
Armstrong presents an adamantium-proof case for the end of Pax Americana
and the ascension of China. In the interim, trading thumbs up are
given to ~ China, Australia, gold, the Continuous Commodity Index (CCI,
$CIY), gold stocks & mining in $AUD compared to $US, "a sort of
collective unconscious", the Ten Commandments, and exactly one member of
Congress.
On China's ascension and Yuan appreciation:
" What took 140 years for the emerging market in America to displace
Europe, China will do in 26 years [~] 1989 - 2015, will displace
American Economic power. The Yuan is undervalued since paper currency
is merely a share in the nation just as in a corporation. As the $ rose
in 1929 - 1932, the Yuan will rise during any economic decline.
Investing in China packs capital gains + eventually currency
appreciation. [T]he Yuan would rise during sovereign defaults as [a]
currency hedge. Welcome to the Decline & Fall of America where
stocks, interest rates & gold can rise together. "
Sovereign debt:
" Don't forget, the next meltdown is DEBT, which runs at least 10:1.
So it will be sovereign debt that will be the next financial meltdown. "
Aussie Dollar, ASX, China again and gold:
" Australia looks poised to benefit from the shift in power from US
to China. As China rises, Australia is closer to the flame & it has
natural resources & gold. Gold stocks & mining look good in A$
compared to US$. "
America:
" I loved my country. But has it has abandoned
everything. "
" We must realize that the majority in power know not what they are
doing. Nor do they have any intent of acting before a crisis to prevent
it. That is the nature of the beast. I will soon be finished with a
book I have been writing from the hole as I am forced to sleep on the
floor - "How America will Collapse in the Blink of an Eye", which is
illustrating not merely the collapse of Rome, but how you woke up one
day and China as well as Russia collapsed overnight. I am showing the
mechanism & how to survive it. "
" the letter I received from one of the good guys on Capital hill
said it as it is. 'Realistically the chances of you getting a broader
audience for your views here in congress PRIOR to the next severe
economic dislocation are very slim.'"
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Long-winded anti-USA pro-China rant from a fraudster who tries to win sympathy by labeling himself a "political prisoner"?
Ummm ... no thank you.
This is pure crap.
There's a difference between hating Americans and hating their corrupt gov't, as I learned from some lovely French girls, sharing a bottle of wine in a park in Caen.
There is the concept of due process that seems to have escaped you. Marty has not experienced it in his own country.
Your post is pure bloated ignorance.
I've been reading the Martin Armstrong stuff for a while and have tried to hold my judgement, but I'm reaching the same conclusion. It just doesn't pass the smell test. Though a very intelligent guy, an expert at marketing and managing his brand, it doesn't add up. You need only watch the discovery channel to see what conditions in "the hole" are like.
Though an interesting read, I read Armstrong with a very skeptical eye.
how so? Because you do not like the author? Knowledge comes from seeking not from a degree.
I can honestly say I doubt I would be able to muster, and then exercise, 10% of the courage and perseverance Martin Armstrong demonstrates on a daily basis.
I salute you Martin, I salute you. May we all hope to display similar qualities when under stress.
CD, Armstrong is concerned they are going to move him with no notice even with two Habeas Corpus' in place.
http://www.scribd.com/kzuur58
Now is the time for ZH readers to help him by getting his plight out in the media & taking action in writing Congress. Enough endless posts about how bad things are; we need to take action towards a positive goal; freeing him from prison.
Thanks to Chopshop for posting this article & bringing Armstrong to the attention of ZH readers.
Write to Federal prosecutors too, noted in previous Armstrong one page memo when he was sent to the hole another time a few months back. I emailed and called their offices in NYC.
Thanks Swamp; I'm going to try & arrange a meeting with my Congresswoman to get an investigation regarding Armstrong's excessively long detention & treatment while in prison. Any ideas you have are welcome. I'm trying to get my head around the legal issues. I worked for Customs attorneys at one time which was all civil matters. Perhaps what most readers here don't appreciate is what happened to Armstrong can happen to us all someday.
I was really upset when his opposition pulled a trick and tossed him in the hole last time and took all his life work from him. It broke the man's spirit. He lives for his life's work. It's a quintessential example of , aghhhhhh, what is that book? Logotherapy is the therapy that has arisen from it, the book, name escapes me now, written by a prisoner who was in a concentration camp and his observations about who survived and why.
Nobody doing dirty deeds like to be startled by unexpected exposure, be under the spot light. The exposure and pressure from same can be uncomfortable and intimidating.
Man's search for meaning is the book, Victor Frankl
swamp, this is why so many have written him in prison; to keep his spirits up & to show their concern. I believe he'll comeback someday as so many other political prisoners before. The cycle of corruption in the US will turn someday. To waste this man's talents is incomprehensible to me. His work & achievements speaks for itself; the beauty of his genius is that all can understand what he's trying to show us.
swamp i think your remark is so optimist i am somewhat surprised. i have been the biggest gullible naive dumb down blond until about 6 months ago. thinking remedies such as you suggest would make a difference. i don't think anyone in any government position gives a holy heck for any political prisoner in america. gretchen morgenson did a piece on him in '08? can't find it. i send her these articles, don't know if she is still interested, but think her format NYT's would be the best exposure than D.C. or fed prosecutors. maybe i should reassess my cynicism in anything government.
cant think of a good dumb blond joke lol
I have about 26 years of legal business background, and am an expert in criminal law, okay? (In addition to an incompleted MBA.)
I'll take my 26 years of law to your 6 month awakening to reality.
Negative, swamp, I am definitely down with velobabe.
With forty years of volunteer political activism, including several job offers for the West Wing after one presidential campaign (only a volunteer am I), and amateur forensic economist, I can staunchly state for the record that elected and appointed officials are majority-bought and paid for, period!
In light of that I recommend "Democracy, The God That Failed" by Murray's student, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
You're down with the misunderstanding, I understand.
swamp i definitely respect your expertise. sorry didn't mean to offend. just had been aware of this article now i see it is 2007. nothing seems to have evolved in justice for him.
In Fraud Case, 7 Years in Jail for Contempt
By Gretchen Morgenson
The New York Times
Friday, February 16, 2007
On Jan. 14, 2000, Martin A. Armstrong, a globe-trotting investment manager, was told to produce $15 million in gold and antiquities, as well as documents, in response to a civil suit by the government accusing him of securities fraud involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
from the same article.
... "a globe trotting investment manager ..." like he's some idyllic idle class pansy ass.
Did she happen to mention his esteemed position at the economics department at Princeton University? Or the multi million (20+ million) dollar study model programs he undertook at that prestigious institution?
In 1975 I read two books that awakened me to reality and they still apply: Who Rules America and The Power Elite.
yeah i probably should read those books. problem is, i personally know a few, that have global blood on their hands.
Anything by Murray Rothbard would help too, and you can find them all for free download at mises.org
For the sheeple it will change in the blink of an eye, but for most of us ZHers and truth addicts it has been a long and tedious process. I'm trying to tell friends and family for months now. They don't seem to care or they get depressed about understanding/listening to the logic and news.
Check out this new video
Eyes Wide Open
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThN6iqr4SM&feature=player_embedded
Maybe the sheeple will come around with some music video.
I hear you, I have been preaching to my friends who have much to lose.
They listen respectfully,but they are so SOLD on the idea of the WAY IT WAS, they refuse to prepare for anything except the norm.
They,still are tone deaf, and do not want to believe anything I tell them, and do not even TRY to prepare for any unknown.
Like the Watchmen on the Wall, I have done all I can, but it's still very sad, when I know what's going to happen to their lifes work, property,and financial well being.
What's the worst part, is these are people we love, and care about.
When the inevitable meltdown hits,it's like the Storm Cellar of old, sorry.......I just have enough room/supplies for my OWN,as the door closes, as it must.
Am in full agreement with youse guys.....people simply don't understand what a number of us have been fighting over the preceding thirty to forty years: the dismantling and cannibalization of the American economy, done to other economies, and now its America's turn (or they've run out of dupes, etc.).
With the top five banks making up 63% of the GDP (which means when one counts in all the rest of the financial services sector, that's well over 83%), there is nooooooo economy.
It has all been designed to devolve to leverage upon leverage upon leverage, to yield speculation upon speculation upon speculation.
Things are really baaaaad, and there are still witless fools who prattle on about contacting your congress critter.
My only solution: recommend the following books and papers which create an informational synergy of our economic times.
ECONned --- by Yves Smith (pay close attention to pp. 201, 209, 244-245, and 252)
It Takes a Pillage --- by Nomi Prins
The Buyout of America --- by Josh Kosman
And these papers by Dr. Goldberg (especially, The Fatal Flaw in the Financing of Private Road Infrastructure in Australia)
http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/web/staff/homepages/johngoldberg.html
DisZap:
"When the inevitable meltdown hits,it's like the Storm Cellar of old, sorry.......I just have enough room/supplies for my OWN,as the door closes, as it must."
I used to think like you, but my mom made me see different. We would be too selfish to act like that. For one reason or another we have/we received the mind to think outside the box/bubble (call it God, call it destiny, call it whatever you want). When the time comes (I hope it doesn't), we will be compelled to share and ease the misery.
nice vid
thanks
Hmm, no ground breaking stuff here. Every man and his dog is lamenting on the fall of the U.S., sovereign implosion etc.
The real tease will be the bursting of China's economic miracle and the resulting hit on Australia which is overly reliant on consumers and China. Australia is benefiting from a China stockpile of commodities but this will end and China will have to slowdown- that's if he's right about sovereign debt and the U.S.? Why? Because the construction binge in China is building for capacity that would no longer exist and China, although placed well to continue growing will have to take a big hit to its property, excessive lending, exports etc. Simple stuff really but the China-lovers can't link the two.
Many seem to desire a U.S. collapse but it would only lead to a Chinese empire. A much more scary concept imo.
I work in the oil industry and we do a fair bit of business with/against the Chinese, as far as I can tell the hunger for oil over there is only a little bit stockpiling and mostly the real deal: actual consumption. Can't speak for other commodities, but since they're all so tied together in many ways I'd expect this would also hold true (or at least mostly true).
Vis-a-vis a Chinese empire...if there ever is one, I don't necessarily see it as worse than an American one, because it won't be the same type of empire (read: globally militant, expansionist, prozelytizing) as the American one. The Chinese, despite their size, have never been more than regional hegemons, and while the past is no guarantee of future behavior, foreign policy leaders in PRC at present go to great lengths to be unmeddling in others' affairs.
What was that Condi Rice quote from a few years back? Something like "the world should welcome American rule because American values are global values"? It's pretty hard to top that kind of arrogance, and the arrogance is all the more dangerous when the people who speak it and believe it run a giant military machine and carve apart entire countries at their whim.
Good comment
+10 (or whatever goes for a good score)
Amstrong fails to understand the physical world such as you point out (and live in)- oil!
Australia is just another island nation like Japan and Britain that is doomed due to a lack of real resources (like energy). When China pops Australia will fall off a cliff. There are very few countries that have sufficient resources to maintain themselves for a period of time: Russia, US (if it would stop chewing itself up!) and Canada.
Is that so?
Australia is well known as a "commodity country" due to its rich resources. Its currency trades closely to the commodity indices.
Australia's problem is that it has become China's coal mine. The country has little military capability, and is largely unpopulated. One day China will annex Australia, but they will likely take Taiwan first.
What a stupid thing to say. Australia is crawling with resources...especially energy. It has huge coal and nat gas deposits. It does have a potable water problem which may be their biggest concern.
True, but our water problems have more to do with a lack of investment, bad water management and the massive skilled migrant imigration over the last decade that has seen our city's explode...
This lack of foresight is a thing of the past... Just as one example, in the western Victoria farming region, all the open irrigation channels have been replaced by underground pipes... This has increased our water supply by 80%!!! simply by limiting evaporation and water seepage, incredible really... It is amazing what can be accomplished when the politicians are forced to invest our tax dollars in productive capital instead of overseas tax payer funded trips to New York strip clubs...
ROTFL...Australia has NOTHING of the kind!
When you say "huge," dude...we need like 10 more SAUDI ARABIAS for China to be like the USA. Like 100 MILLION barrels PER DAY.
Australia's energy reserves are insignificant. We need light sweet 100:1 EROI black gold for China to be the 21st Century America.
KSA has huge energy reserves. Canada's are huge but of astoundingly LOWER EROI. Countries like Iraq have huge energy reserves. Australia does NOT.
so THAT'S why we didn't invade Canada. I thought it was the weather
Canada is already the 51st State! Mexico will be the 52nd, that's if Texas does not secede first......
We invaded Canada (quite a few years back) and the whupped the crap out of us...
I thought it was because Canadian Bacon (the movie) came out. I watch that movie and think "Hell this is plausible"
I thought creative fictions start the wars not prevent them?
While I agree with much of your assessment, I will have to say there is a startling difference between Chinese construction boom and that of Dubai for instance. Entire investment money comes form within in Chinese case. They have no foreign nation to answer to when the bubble burst. Besides, Chinese authority rather see bubble here than Yuan chasing goods.
While I agree with much of your assessment, I will have to say there is a startling difference between Chinese construction boom and that of Dubai for instance. Entire investment money comes form within in Chinese case. They have no foreign nation to answer to when the bubble burst. Besides, Chinese authority rather see bubble here than Yuan chasing goods.
+1
appreciating the +1, i don't think 'everyman and his dog' even know what sovereign means.
ZH and it's peers are a incredibly *small* (relatively speaking) club of fortunate and aware folks.
don't for a second believe that most people have any idea (or interest) in the perspectives cited by Mr. Armstrong.
the somber, almost resigned tone makes sense when you you realize as the writer, you're the first one on your boat to realize you're really going down.
Land of the Free and the Brave
yup, this article seems relevant to the discussion
Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/07/assassinations
Holy crap! Obama authorized the assassination of the Jewel-of-the-Nile, aka El Jewelhara.
I want to cry.