Showing posts with label Wilderness Survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wilderness Survival. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Athenian Real Estate Panic and Bank Crisis

How Trading Bankers Always Collapse - A Guide To The Future? It is no accident that the fall of Greece, Europe and America has its roots in ancient Athenian sneaky tricks and slight of economic hand between 'wealthy friends' .. This is a PDF file from Martin Armstrong AthenianCrisis found on the website of JSMineSet.com .. the Gold website that (as Gene Roddenberry said) dares to go where no man has gone before °>)

Martin Armstrong politely calls this a "banking crisis" .. are we headed into another banking crisis? But EarthChanges11 asks: Is BANKING the correct word for this crisis? Armstrong goes on to say that, corruption between the governments and the bankers is nothing new ..

During the 4th Century BC, money that was donated to the Gods became the 'temple treasure'. Typically, the government would borrow from this hoard of cash. In Athens, there was one of the early banking crisis events in what we would call the Secretary of the Treasury so to speak and his banking friends .. The Temple kept its donations in the Opisthodomos.

The Temple was not earning interest on its hoard of cash. The treasurer agreed to lend the money to personal banking friends who would then pay the treasurer interest that he could then personally put in his pocket. When the banking crisis hit and there was a liquidity problem, the banks could not repay the loans to the Temple.

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) tells us that banking transactions were completely confidential in Athens. He tells us that the rich could "conceal [their] wealth... in order that [t]he[y] might obtain secret returns through the bank .. [go read the PDF]

Aristotle in his "Politics" argued against the idea of supply and demand insofar as he saw the problem from the demand side disconnected from supply. Aristotle thus saw that the problem that demand would rise and fall and sometimes exceed the supply without just cause.

You really have to make an effort to read this report and understand what is it showing you, because as long as you are ignorant of the forces blindsiding you into the illusion of elite banking welfare for the rich .. you, your children and your grandchildren will be slaves to that illusion.

The basics of real 'economics' are land, water, shelter, food and resources. Watch any of the Survival Videos by Ray Mears .. begin with his Sweden Survival video series: Ray Mears in Sweden part 1/7 which are fun to watch .. or go search his other wilderness extreme-survival locations.

I have studied univeristy economics, but I cannot separate economy from local resources due to ancestral awareness and I cannot separate economics from basic survival .. my early Pictish / Celtic Scottish ancestors lived for thousands of years in a direct living relationship with land, water, resources and food.

My basic tutorial is: Place a paper currency on the table in front of you and place beside it blades of grass, vegetables, rice, lentils, seafood, fish, meat or herbs .. even the simplest herbs have more nutritional value than the printed piece of paper currency.

History of Banking - How To Build A Fire - Ray Mears Fire - Fire In The Desert - Fire Log - Buttress Tree Fire - From Fungus To Fire - Venison & Seafood

Friday, September 17, 2010

Wilderness Survival - Ray Mears

One of the things everyone should learn is how to light a wilderness fire and how to build an emergency wilderness shelter. In a real emergency, where there is no immediate sign of rescue, the difference between giving up and intelligent survival is the ability to create resources out of whatever is around you.

If you stop to think about the basics of your in-house resources .. they are WATER, shelter, heat (energy) and food. Water is pumped through pipes to your home, where if you are fortunate all you have to do is turn on the tap and clean fresh potable water flows out.

Shelter: bricks, stone, concrete or wood forms the walls of your home - sheltering you from the elements of heat, cold, wind, rain and snow .. but what would you do if that were not the case?

As a young child I had vivid dreams of 'the future' .. of towns and cities without power, floods destroying homes, earthquakes destroying homes, tidal waves, winds so strong they blew down houses .. and whether you want to believe it or not .. the ability to organize basic tools becomes the essential need of 'survival'.

I feel that people like Ray Mears are here to teach people - and connect people - with basic skills every human being should know .. no matter how technologically advanced they think they are.

I am vegetarian - I do not eat fish, meat nor seafood .. I was like this from early childhood .. it is just one of those things. However, I feel people should know how to survive in an emergency situation no matter what the circumstance.

Just stop to consider the fragile line your daily life requires for you to exist. You rely on electricity to heat or cool your home. You rely on water being pumped through pipes to your home (electricity). You rely on food provisions being delivered to your local store or supermarket. You rely on petrol to fill the gas tank of you vehicle.

No one teaches you how to build a basic wilderness shelter. No one teaches you how to build or light a fire in the wilderness. How many people know how to find food? How many people know how to survive an emergency without destroying the environment?

In a highly advanced society this kind of knowledge is also an essential part of the education of the people living in society. It is wrong to rely on a system so totally that should the system break down the majority of people die .. from lack of clean water, lack of food, lack of shelter and lack of fire!

I was taught the basics of living in the wilderness .. how to respect the environment .. where to build and where not to build a fire. How to build a fire. How to fish. I did not like to fish, but that is how I personally feel. Few people know how to skin and gut a rabbit. Most meat eaters do not know or cannot prepare food from an animal they have killed themselves. For example, do not eat the spinal intestine of a cooked lobster .. it may kill you '-)

In my own experience, eleven years of conventional schooling left me with next to no practical knowledge that can be applied to the real world. I was taught practical skills from unconventional sources or I learned and taught myself.

As we live in an increasingly volatile world, where nature can unleash catastrophic deluge, mudslides, volcanic eruptions, blackouts, earthquakes, hurricanes or flooding .. it makes sense that humans learn the basics of elementary survival.

Ray Mears In Sweden: Part 1

I like ray Mears, because he also teaches people to respect the Earth.