Sometimes I can sit here in my sanctuary and the illusory world is far away. I drink my coffee, read, do the cross word puzzle, discuss and argue issues with Jamie, do my chores, go to town and live and breathe in my version of paradise. The only thing that might bother me is my own mind. That is another subject and is, of course, everything. Our thoughts are the author of our complete experience, but I didn't intend to get that deeply into the subject in today's blog. I don't have a destination in mind, I will just meander a bit.
There is definitely a new loving world emerging. Yesterday, as I was driving to Ogilvie to get the paper, I was listening to The Splendid Table on NPR. I tuned in at the middle of a conversation. The person being interviewed was representing a group called the CONFLICT KITCHEN. It is a take out style restaurant that serves foods, from countries, that the United States is in conflict with. For instance, they will serve food from a Iran for a month and supply historical, cultural and culinary information about the country. They have interviews set up with SKYPE, of Iranian citizens, talking about their country. They often express contrary views as exist in real life. The packages, the food is wrapped in, has information about the countries. They have covered Afghanistan, Iran, Venezuela and they are planning on covering North Korea. Check out the information on the web.
Everyday, I have been experiencing something new in relationship to the emerging world. There are movements, growing all over, that have to do with bringing understanding and love to our diverse peoples. The Conflict Kitchen is just one example of a phenomena that is becoming more and more common. People are awakening and they want to heal the wounds, that have been created, by the machinations of the old and dying world. In the process, they are learning how to grow their own food and how to live on the Earth giving the deep respect to our Mother Earth and our Brothers and Sisters that they deserve. All our Brothers and Sisters, everywhere.
Meanwhile, news of the dying world is dreadful. Oh, they would love to get us into a war. They have the fantasy that it would save them. If they could crank up the war machine, they might be able to make enough fake money to keep them going for awhile. They can't. If you are following the financial news, you probably know that some entity dumped 500 tons of gold. It would have to be a huge bank or government. How could anybody else have that much gold? If they wanted to convert their gold holdings to something more liquid, they would do so in smaller amounts to prevent collapsing the market. It is clear they meant to collapse the gold market. Gold has dropped well over a hundred dollars an ounce since Friday and is continuing downward. Most of the commentators, I have read, say that the seller and buyer were the same entity. They took a huge risk in devaluing their own holdings of gold. Are they planning on making it up on the upswing? Who is gaining by this maneuver? It temporarily makes the dollar look better by increasing its value against gold, which increases the value of institutions that hold dollars. Federal Reserve? There are rumors they are near bankruptcy.
The downside of this maneuver is that the Russians and Chinese can buy gold at discount prices. They have been buying gold on the open market in recent months and it is rumored that they plan on issuing a gold backed currency. That would be the beginning of the end for the dollar as the World Reserve Currency. If the Chinese use their dollar holdings to buy gold it will further devalue the dollar, thus creating the opposite effect that the gold dumpers intended. If that was their intention. I certainly don't know, but it looks like something big is happening.
Sometimes I would like to be rich or at least have a little left over at the end of the month. We live very comfortably; but month by month, our outflow, pretty much, equals our income. I am not a prophet and I am not qualified to give financial advice. But if I had extra money I would pay off all my bills and put my money into solid things of value. We will see what happens in the next couple months. I don't think things are going to remain the same.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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