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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

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To: regli who wrote (50384)5/2/2006 3:25:47 AM
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I remember that I described a number of scenarios where Jewish friends of mine fled oppression and at likely the worst possible dangers to their lives and possessions.

And then I ask several times here and in global thread where am I suppoed to FLEE too? Zimbabwe? Brazil? Eastern Russia - Elroy says the same thing - his ancestors fled to california - well guess what guys - I already am LIVING where everyone FLED too and where everyone else today will probably FLEE to again - so how is gold a good investment if its ultimate true value is that it lets me pay off a soldier to FLEE to a better place? Did it help those thousands of white farmers FLEE in zimbabwe? Where too? I am in sunny Fl - I believe very strongly if it goes to shit here so bad that I have to pay off a soldier with shiny metal - it will be much worse everywhere else, where am I supposed to FLEE to?

These friends felt that gold was the most important possession they had and that in many cases gold was the primary reason why they survived. I believe them!

Yet I post to ILD from a link he sent me when people were fleeing Chernobyl they ignored the banks and gold and jewelry stores and robbed the Motorcycle shop - what did those fools not understand that people in 1930 germany did?

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I just read about a palestinian woman that got killed by jewish soldiers

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Should she have held Gold? Why? Where is she gonna FLEE TOO? If she had paid off the israeli thugs with gold would she be alive now?

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It is silly to hope for that 1s and 0s provide better protection under extreme circumstances or for that matter even out of the ordinary situations.

It is - what is even more silly is thinking that the 1's or 0's or shiny gold metal is gonna change the motivation of the fox who guards the henhouse. CONTROL and POWER - that woman got killed by jews and I dont think it would have mattered wether she had a credit card or a gold coin - do you?

I base this opinion on first hand knowledge acquired while developing software for the banking and insurance industries.

Welcome to the club - I used to code for goldleaf technologies and still have many highschool friends there now that I talk too - goldleaf.com notice the hahira Ga location - what company did you work for? That was before I went on to IBM and bigger and better things - so what makes your experience so special? I imagine lots of us here on SI have worked with bank software. It is a big industry you know and there are lots of programmers on SI.

If the government wants to take the electronic money, there is nothing I know of that will prevent it.

How about Jim Rogers, Mish, and General Chen and thier machine gun nests? Short of that how do you beat this tank?
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You don't - so best not to let things get that bad to begin with.

It is trivially easy to remove without even troubling to stick a gun in your face and if no trace is desired by

If you are still current with the industry then you know the horrendous problem that is already there and has been for a VERY LONG time now with fraud, ID theft, laundering - etc etc - same as it ever was - the world goes on and people continue with their lives as best they can.

authorities, final and without recourse. Physical gold on the other hand is quite difficult to locate should one wish that nobody finds it.

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The government nationalizes the food, the medicine, the water - if you have all the gold in babylon and the soldier with the tank won't give you some bread crumbs for your gold - what have you achieved dear citizen?

However, I do try to protect my 1s and 0s funds by maintaining multiple accounts in different countries so that I can, hopefully at the first signs of trouble, move funds to less troublesome waters.

OK - FLEE - that is what elroys ancestors did - Jay Chen's granddaddy could have run away too - but Jay said no he decided to stay there and make things better and got put in jail with lice covered assassins. What a fool - why didn't he FLEE? He spoke english and couldn't even speak chinese - crazy eh?

For just such an occurrence maintaining an XETrade.com account is an excellent vehicle as it allows you to move funds and at the same time convert currencies at the lowest expense.

You and I must have very different experiences with the virtual 1's and 0's - you think you can run away - I don't think you can - haven't really been able to since the early 90's from my experience - this was policy that was made in the 80's and took a decade or 2 to implement but it is here NOW. If you think you can take money from virtual account A and move it somewhere in the world to virtual account B and it not be tracked - I dont think you have the security clearances to really understand and comprehend what is going on in the matrix NEO. The virtual world is the future Regli - it is growing everyday and taking over - in 1980 how much time did you spend on SI? Oh thats right - it wasn't here then. Look at the social change communities like myspace and youtube and SI are causing - this is only going to accelerate as time goes forward. Here I have a question for you - 10 years from now you have a choice - 1 gold coin for a month on the net to get any content your heart desires - or 1 gold coin for a live chicken - which are you going to trade the gold coin for? ;)

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Regli - you can run - but you can't hide.
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