Gold, Western Lies, and China

The old adage, “Possession is nine-tenths of the law” has never been truer than it is today. Another way to say the same thing is, “If it is not in your hand in tangible form, you don’t own it, and it is not yours.” If there is one thing that I argue with people more than anything else it is about it is this simple age old principle of possession is nine-tenths of the law. Most people just don’t get it. Why? Those who have been thoroughly brainwashed by the media in this country are the ones who don’t understand this principle, and never will. They have been morphed into mental amoebas. They have a kind of permanent brain impairment, so they don’t even possess a three-year-old’s basic logic of, “I have a lollipop in my hand and it’s mine.”

To illustrate this principle as we look at gold and silver ownership, let’s look at how governments, cultures, and people in eastern and western countries view this concept. For example, in the beginning of 2002, the banks in Japan were having serious solvency problems. For years, Japanese banks had loaned money at zero percent interest, and after the 1990’s economic debacle in Japan, their banks were experiencing massive loan defaults. As a consequence, Japanese banks lowered their unlimited guarantee on deposits to $75,000 per account (in yen equivalent, of course).

That sparked a major panic among the common people in Japan. Most eastern people are very frugal, hard-core savers. When the Japanese saw the mushroom cloud smoke the deposit guarantee, they, almost in mass, drew their life savings out of the banks and bought physical gold, took possession of it, and brought it home. That started a global run up on the price of gold. In January, 2002, for example, gold was perched at $275 per ounce. By January, 2003, it had climbed to $375 per ounce, a 36% increase in spot gold in one year, mostly because the Japanese were buying gold. The Japanese know that gold is real money, and when a crisis came they fled into gold as a safe haven.

As a contrast, let’s look at the western mentality and how it deliberately influences its people away from the physical possession of metals. When the United States banks were blindsided by the sub-prime mortgage meltdown starting in September, 2007, people started panicking. In response to the panic, and to prevent a massive exodus from the banks, the FDIC, instead of being honest and lowering their guarantee rates as the Japanese banks had done, they did a psychology move and raised the guarantee limits on bank deposits from $100,000 per account to $250,000 per account. That big lie instantly sedated the masses, now assured that Uncle had come to their rescue. As we all know, the FDIC is a complete charade. They are not Federal and they have no reserves. Fact is, they have less than one cent on the dollar on deposit for withdrawals. It’s a joke. If the $100,000 guarantee were a big lie, then what about the $250,000?

The issue here boils down to a question of honesty. Just how honest are our leaders and what is their intent for us? Let’s take a brief look. For example, we see “green shoots” emerging, even as actual unemployment approaches 20% and is rising. We are preparing to “share in the upcoming prosperity” as 35 million Americans are on food stamps, and the number grows every month. We see “too big to fail” banks, given trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to clear off their toxic balance sheets, and Wall Street is bragging that it will dish out 74 billon dollars in bonuses this year to its “best people.” We see bankruptcies and foreclosures reaching all time records as Obama takes off to Martha’s Vineyard on a vacation with his family and his golf bag.

We see politicians calling health care protesters “unpatriotic Americans” at town hall meeting across the country. We find out that insiders at big brokerage firms and big banks are practicing high frequency transactions and flash trades and making billions while the masses are thrown the husks when the market opens. We see how the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) since 2006, looked the other way when multiple whistles were blown on Bernie Madoff.

We see how the Federal Reserve System through the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has managed to funnel every electronic investment in the country into a huge money pool while twice removing the person’s name who owns it. We find out that the SEC is the appointed watch dog for the DTCC, and the SEC is a subsidiary of the DTCC, an underling, and the Fed owns both of them.

We understand from the media now that we are “officially” coming out of the recession, while the Grim Reaper continues to harvest hundreds of thousands of jobs every month. It is a good thing for us Americans that we can use those glorious platitudes to pay our utility bills and mortgage payments every month, and when our children are hungry all we need to do is show them a color picture of a succulent, juicy, cheeseburger and their hunger is magically satisfied - - that’s the way it works here in America.

Looking at gold again as we did with the Japanese, how does the western culture, specifically the United States, view gold and gold ownership? Either the media completely ignores gold, or they go out of their way to bad-mouthed it. They say, “What do you want gold for? It is a barbaric relic. It’s a thing of the past. It will never be any good again. Gold doesn’t pay interest or dividends. It is just like throwing your money down a rat hole.” And the diatribe goes on.

So, while the global elite are brainwashing the public through the media to stay away from gold and the physical possession of gold, they are buying tons of it themselves and storing it in the basement of the New York Fed. Their intent is two-fold. First they want to keep the public trapped electronically in financial markets so they can slowly bleed them of their wealth. And when the time comes for them to shut the system down they will grab the money and give it to their cronies. If you remember correctly, “redistribution of wealth” was one of Obama’s campaign promises. Second, the powers-that-be don’t want the public to have physical gold and silver in their possession. Why? Because when the stock market crashes and the dollar fails, the public will be sitting empty handed with no real money, and the masses will be much easier to control then.

Now say, for instance, that someone decides to buy physical gold and silver to preserve their wealth. Then the government controlled media through gold companies is Jonnie-on-the-spot with another golden piece of advice. They will try to persuade you to roll over your regular IRA into a gold and silver IRAs, stored, or course, in government financial institutions. And, if you don’t know, you cannot physically go to that storage facility and view your gold and silver. In fact, there is no way to even know if it is there. And when the government confiscates gold again, the only consolation you will have is that no one is going to put a gun to your head and take your gold because it is not in your hand to take. All they need to do is go to the storage facility and take it. It’s much easier and less hassle for them that way. If they are not successful in putting you into a gold and silver IRA, then their next best seduction is to recommend that you store your gold and silver off-shore or overseas, like in a Swiss bank or in the Perth Mint in Australia.

These Alice-in-Wonderland-Cloud-Nine, ideas are pure idiocy, unless, of course, you are one of the global elite with a Swiss villa, or you own a million dollar condo in Australia, or you own a 20,000 square foot mansion on top of a mountain on some off-shore island paradise. Then you can go there and be with your money. But if you are the typical Larry-Lunch-Bucket-American-Public as we all are, these lofty illusions and delusions are pure lunacy. It is just another ploy to dissuade you from taking the common sense, logical approach to owning gold and silver by taking physical possession of it.

Furthermore, when our government shuts down the banks and Wall Street in the near future, what are your chances of getting any of your electronic money out from behind their financial doors? The answer is - - zero. When they shut the financial doors here and the international financial doors over there, what are your chances of getting any of your electronic money out from behind international financial doors? You guessed it - - minus zero. As a practical case in point, let’s look at the banks for a moment. How safe are the banks in this country? Take the 1929, stock market crash as an example of how innocent Americans were devastated by the banks closing. The banks in the United States in 1929 had 21 cents on the dollar on deposit for withdrawals, and yet only a few percent of the people got even pennies on the dollar from their bank when the run on the banks hit. Today, the banks have less than two cents on the dollar on deposit for withdrawals, so what are your chances of getting any of your money when they shut their doors?

The sad state of affairs is that the American public has been so totally brainwashed and dumbed down that the vast majority are not capable of thinking for themselves. Most people in this country are being led like sheep to the slaughter, duped into trusting known thieves with their life’s savings. Let’s illustrate the point with a practical example. If you have purchased six months of survival food for you and your family, would you consider storing it 1,000 miles away, or 2,000 miles away, or 3,000 miles away? Why not? It’s crazy, you say. Or would you take someone’s advice who told you that the very, very, wisest thing you could ever do would be to store your families’ survival food in Switzerland or France or Australia? On its face, the idea is patently absurd. But that’s exactly the brilliant financial advice the sheeple in this country are blindly following. When the time comes, and the powers-that-be decide to pull the plug, you’re destined to be the first dead cockroach down the drain.

The purpose and intent of our government for the masses is obvious. They don’t want you to be independent of their system. They want to keep complete control of you and everything you have. They want to keep you as a mindless slave to their electronic money system, believing the big lie that you really own something behind their financial doors. And they certainly don’t want you to exit their glue trap and actually have some real money, gold and silver in your possession. Sad, but true, but that’s why the powers-that-be in our country bad-mouth gold and gold possession, and that’s how much they care about us.

In contrast, let’s look at how the eastern cultures view gold, taking possession of gold, and how they guide their people in these matters. As we looked briefly before at the Japanese and what they did by buying gold when their banks sounded the SOS, now we will look at what China is currently doing. In a September 3, 2009, Market Watch article, the headline read, “Hong Kong Recalls Gold Reserves, Touts High-Security Vault.” The article pointed out that China was “pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city’s airport.”

This new depository at the airport would serve as a “storage facility for local and overseas government institutions.” The purpose of getting China’s gold reserves out of London is, as the article pointed out, “Central banks are increasingly aware of the importance of having gold reserves at a time of financial crisis and have it easily available at their own disposal.” In simple terms, China sees the world imploding and is getting its gold in its own hands before the guillotine blade drops. The government obviously believes in the age-old principle that possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Some more amazing developments concerning China were posted in the September 3, 2009, Thunder Road Report article entitled, “China Pushes Silver and Gold Investment to the Masses.” The article states that China through China’s Central Television is promoting the sale of gold and silver bars to the general public, that those metals are “the right investment for individual investors and could be a good way to cash in.” The term “cash in” means getting out of electronic money in financial institutions and converting it to real money, gold and silver, and taking physical possession of it.

The article continues, “The Chinese are being converted from being the lowest per capita gold consumers in the world to a nation of small precious metals investors. Now, by next year, Chinese consumption of gold is likely to exceed that of India, which has been for years the world’s biggest gold market.” The article went on to state that if the 1.3 billion strong, Chinese people continue to buy gold and silver the way they have been since this national program started, it could dramatically raise the international price of gold and silver upward in the very near future.

The drastic contrast between the attitude and the actions of the eastern cultures and their governments like Japan and China and the attitude and actions of the west and our government, namely the United States, is shocking. Americans are being hoodwinked by hoodlums and hooligans in Washington and Wall Street into believing bigger and bigger lies, all to their own hurt. On the other hand, the Chinese are being persuaded and guided by their government into buying gold and silver and taking physical possession of it. They are getting ready for what is coming. Are you?

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