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Guest Post: What To Do When You've Hit Your Breaking Point
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
At some point or another, anyone who is even remotely paying attention to reality will likely reach two critical moments of awakening in their lives.
The first is what I call the “Aha! moment”. This is the point at which people realize that there is something terribly, terribly wrong with the system… and that almost everything they’ve been brought up to believe about their government and society is total BS.
The ‘Aha! moment’ is usually brought about by something you learn or read… for example, finding out that your national government is deeply, hopelessly in debt. Or that it is mathematically impossible for you to receive the pension benefits you’ve been promised. Or that your currency is being printed into degeneracy by a single individual.
My own ‘Aha! moment’ came in early 2003. I was an intelligence officer sitting on the Iraqi border waiting for George W. Bush to order coalition forces north. But first he had to convince the rest of the world of his righteousness.
At the time, officials from the Bush administration were pushing hard to make their case for war. But the information they were presenting just didn’t add up. My colleagues and I used to look at each other and ask, “seriously, what WMDs are these people talking about?”
We already knew about chemical munitions. Duh. It was the Americans that had equipped Saddam with those to begin with. But nukes? Total pipe dream. I knew it was BS. And watching the President go on television saying, ‘we know he has nukes’ destroyed everything I had ever believed about government. That was my ‘Aha! moment’.
Typically when people hit their Aha! moments, the next days and weeks are filled with more learning, more reading. Like tugging at a string on a tattered garment, it just keeps unraveling.
The more you read, the more it arouses your curiosity, and the more you read… often jumping to other topics. Freedom. Privacy. Central Banking. Debt. Capital controls. etc.
You soon become so well-informed that you start feeling isolated, surrounded by other people who are still asleep. When you talk to your friends and family, most of them don’t want to hear about your ideas. They think you’re nuts. They haven’t had their ‘Aha! moment’ yet.
Eventually, you learn to keep it all inside. But then, at some point down the road, the second critical moment occurs– the Breaking Point.
The Breaking Point is event driven rather than knowledge driven. It could be from watching your wife or kids get radiated or sexually assaulted by government agents at the airport. Or writing a huge tax check to your government. Or having your bank account frozen by your tax authorities. Or… seeing a man you despise win a national election.
A Breaking Point constitutes the spark which propels people to finally take necessary action… to make them realize “I have to do something.”
My own philosophy is that international diversification should be a major part of any individual solution. When your own country and government are in terminal decline, it makes all the sense in the world to diversify abroad. This is something that the ultra-wealthy have been doing for centuries… but in the digital age, the same opportunities are available to everyone.
For example, why hold your savings in a bankrupt financial institution in your home country when you can open a foreign account in a safe, well capitalized bank overseas? If you have a business, why not use foreign structures to maximize your asset protection and legal tax savings?
Why risk confiscation of gold and silver in your home country when you can store precious metals safely and securely overseas? If you’re concerned about the direction of your home country and currency, why not diversify abroad with high quality real estate?
Overseas email accounts. Second passports. International medical insurance. Foreign trusts. Tax advantageous foreign life insurance policies. Foreign bank and brokerage accounts. International investment, business, employment, and lifestyle opportunities.
It’s a big world out there. And while some countries are in serious decline, others are trending higher by the day. Almost every aspect of our lives can now be diversified abroad, and these countries are literally competing for your business.
It’s the way things should be… and the right way to structure a rational solution based on factual analysis.
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My aha moment was Christmas Eve 1913
Seriously, it was when watching McCain pathetic performance against Obama..... It just clicked for me...... The red and blue teams are the same
Talk about a phyops piece! Let me get this straight, An AHA moment could be someone you don't like getting elected? Well, that would send you down the road and next thing you know, WTC 7 won't go away! Wait that's right, I find out that I can't trust my Gov. so what do I do? I trust someone else's Gov. Brilliant!
My aha moment came when I knew that trusting any Gov or financial intuition was the actual definition of insanity, that choice is the illusion of choice, just another system of control as most anyone round these parts can tell you. Nice try.
Yep. Just curious which financial institution/govt he put his metals with? LMFAO
OK, I looked at this guys blog, all I can say is don't bother looking at it. He actually is trying to sell horse shit and probibly does some co biz on the side.
imho, this person hasn't had a true 'aha! moment" yet. a private citizen thinking he can out do his masters simply by jumping over the fence of his pen... into the pen next to it! think things are different in "other countries"? when US prints, so do all other countries. money has no boarders or nationality. global financial elites are the ones who nurtured and drove globalization and internationalization remember? the best a common man can hope for is to slow them down, to delay an eventual complete world domination by these power elites which is inevitable. alternative currencies(e.g. bitcoin), bartering homemade goods, etc..
When people hit they're breaking point, it is usually out of losing something. The bigger the loss, the worse the break from they're moorings. They stop caring. They lose respect. They lose fear of consequences. They lash out at the perceived thing or person{s} that have caused the anguish. Allot of folks are already there, more will follow. They will stop "playing by the rules", as they discover that by doing so, is a sucker's bet, and they lose. This is the dawning of the inevitable chaos that will one day engulf our land. The powers that be expect it, and have prepared accordingly. That is why they have constructed the police state, and "laws" that allow them unprecedented powers. Loss of jobs, homes, savings, future. One day, the welfare checks will not be enough, and that is when things will get very interesting.
One day the welfare payments will stop . . . . .
And we'll all find out that those who live "at the bottom of the pile" have a surprisingly effective (albeit brutal) suite of "coping strategies", usually (but not entirely) following the line of "I've got the bigger / better weapon - give me what I want or else"
On reflection, no difference there with the Corporate / Governmental strategy really - "we have the power (police, militia) to enforce our will - give us what we want (taxes, fees, rates) or else (fines, imprisonment, social ostracism, "selective targeting" since you're now classed as the worst kind of Criminal - one who "steals" from the State (simply by resisting their forcible extortion practices))
Same old, same old. At least you would be truly face to face with your robber, whereas the Government system prefers to hide behind layers of uninterested and unaccountable bureaucracy
The welfare rats are not the bottom of the pile .... they're quasi government employees .... the bottom are the working poor !
"The powers that be expect it, and have prepared accordingly. That is why they have constructed the police state, and "laws" that allow them unprecedented powers."
Not exactly the most useful strategy against a population that has lost its fear of consequences....
There is no breaking point. These cr**py get gold, buy food articles have been on the go too long. Change the record. If anything's been proved in the last 5 years, it's that people will suck up anything. Maybe a little rally or demo here and there but there will be no mass awakening.
His "aha ?" moment was a Democrat talking point about WMD in Iraq ?
I've run into these welfare matrons in banks .... they deposit checks for $3,000 .... oh how the dole has changed .... rent payments, utilities, heating, dental, medical, food stamps, educational grants, training, SBA loans, farm reparations, class action payouts, etc. are paid directly and separately .... these are state secrets .... FOIA my ass .... show me a comprehensive layout of the entire welfare package .... it's as big as a small phone book ! LOL BTW: They don't pay taxes even though many, many cross the filing threshold ? The working poor have to file and their pay checks suffer with holding !
does this guy ever have anything to say besides spreading your resources across multiple countries?
Well, that IS his business. The Black posts are mostly adfotainments for his services.
Can't fault a guy for trying to make a buck, can ya?
CHEAP SHOES HERE!
There's no such thing as storing metals safely overseas. If you don't hold it, you don't have it.