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Has The Lifeboat Been Sabotaged?

I’ve been watching the recent downward spiral within both the crypto space and many major markets and pondering whether it’s indicative of something larger on the horizon. I very much believe that we are heading towards the next financial crisis and that the elites of this world want their (pre-planned) answer to this crisis to be the only lifeboat on offer. When will this financial breakdown occur? In all honesty, I don't know, indeed it's both very difficult to gauge and equally important to remember that the path towards this collapse is paved with the reputations of individuals with a far greater monetary/financial pedigree than I. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQvKXFWityir2GTtyqtJncv6dVRitj9yjdH7a3aeAYTGW/image.png)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-txknK2rNxD8%2FW5ElifD85VI%2FAAAAAAAAAZg%2FqorLCYVyqxAOD7eHjKkTOhBwOoQDaJlMQCLcBGAs%2Fs1600%2Fasselborn_UTZ_Historischer%252BHafen.jpg&sp=a04d42104fc13e2ca6480670b516e46c)

Bitcoin

Firstly I never proclaim to be an expert in subjects that I’m not entirely proficient within, hence I am no expert within the crypto space and as such I am framing this post as an unqualified opinion and in no way a statement of fact. From a purely observational standpoint, (if it wasn't already) I believe that bitcoin’s integrity has been compromised and that its flotation within the futures markets enabled the powers that (shouldn’t) be to obtain an ever more powerful hand within the market space. Once this foothold was attained it has enabled the manipulators to drive down the price and accumulate an ever greater stake and thus ability to manipulate said price. Although there are names that will be attached to this crypto coup, I personally believe they will simply be the front men for the hidden hand. One coin to rule them all One coin to find them One coin to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Once you are able to manipulate the price of bitcoin, you then have the potential to increasingly control the sentiment and indeed price within a large percentage of the crypto space. That doesn’t mean bitcoin is dead (who would want to kill their golden goose) but it does mean that each price fluctuation enables an ever more powerful grip upon the market space. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ1tufq8NSxBS74p6SAo7kemjVwDrP5gArNY9k1p4XNmj/image.png) In many ways bitcoin has been instrumental in sowing the subconscious seeds of the manipulators long planned digital currency. Equally, this is a a world of duality and so it has also helped ferment a mindset that wishes to detach itself from the machinations of the corporatocracy and banking industry, as such we could envisage this as a race to the finish line. To me this speaks volumes as to the importance of detaching coins such as steem from the movement of bitcoin, and that to survive in a true decentralised form we now need to stand on our own feet! How this is achieved? I don’t profess to know, but I have faith that it is a feat that can be accomplished. Now is not the time to argue over matters that when this system falls will be the furthest thoughts from your mind, now is the time to build a lifeboat that will keep us dry during the encroaching financial storm. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZb3GPYKA6L8MJzKvavATiwz1TaNtY476MYphF9m877ZZ/image.png)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.squarespace.com%2Fstatic%2F55c8073fe4b02a74ffe18e48%2Ft%2F55d2b869e4b00f7dd3ab6602%2F1439873129440%2Freflection_by_yuumei-d8sqdu2.jpg%3Fformat%3Doriginal&sp=77b6331310ed94281d035ae34dc15c79)

Debt Debt Everywhere Until There Is No Food To Eat

So let’s take a look at the economy; the official narrative displays that the (although I believe it to be far higher) current US debt sits at around 21 [trillion]( https://financialtribune.com/articles/world-economy/92242/us-national-debt-at-21-trillion) dollars, within the next decade U.S interest repayments are expected to balloon to nearly one [trillion]( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-government-debt-interest.html) dollars per year. Servicing this debt is leading the US towards a position where it pays more in interest than it does towards military expenditure, Medicade etc etc. Equally, over the course of 2019 the US deficit is also due to rise to one [trillion]( https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-12/us-budget-deficit-hits-600-billion-6-months-spending-interest-explodes) dollars per year. All of this prompts me to question, are we currently in the eye of the storm? Conversely we have trade wars, rising interest rates, [40%](https://www.investopedia.com/news/worst-yet-come-stocks-morgan-stanley/) of the stocks within the SNP 500 are down by at least 20%, throughout the world real estate prices are [falling]( https://www.realestate.com.au/news/prices-in-property-hot-spots-around-the-world-set-to-decline/), the rising US dollar and interest rate hikes are causing problems for [emerging]( https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/04/soaring-us-dollar-threatens-trouble-for-emerging-markets) markets. [Corporate]( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/business/riskier-to-own-high-quality-corporate-bonds.html) and [government]( https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-government-bonds-fall-on-concerns-of-falling-demand-from-abroad-1532361918) bonds are falling. Tech stocks are [declining]( https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/tech-stocks-have-their-worst-day-since-august-2011.html) (from their peak) with facebook falling [36%](https://www.thestreet.com/technology/facebook-stock-slides-another-3-percent-in-wake-of-new-york-times-story-14784665) and apple down [26%](https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-stock-falls-iphone-curse/). The Dow has plunged in value over the last few weeks with Oct 2018 proving to be one of the most volatile months in the [118 year history]( https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/stocks-have-most-volatile-october-on-record) of the US stock index. Over the last few years global inflation levels have been steadily increasing. And according to data supplied by the [IMF the annual global percentage change for 2018 stands at 3.8%.]( https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PCPIPCH@WEO/WEOWORLD/VEN) In short, it’s completely unsustainable and if I know it they know it! ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmXVoJiAWMBFzzJN92X651DUambNUhViiievtmRMFGWjaP/image.png)[Source](https://www.imageconscious.com/wp-content/uploads/product_images/G544D.jpg)

Precious Metals

Firstly, there is a direct correlation between the rising price of gold and an underperforming stock market. Over the last few weeks we have observed the price of gold slowly gain some ground against the dollar. Equally, here in the UK [gold’s]( https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/gold-price/gold-price-2018/) gains have almost precisely mimicked the 7% drop in the [FTSE]( https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/indices/summary/summary-indices-chart.html?index=UKX). Within this age of finance, technocracy and corporatocracy it’s fairly easy to see that the bloodlines elites of this system are fuelled by an insatiable lust for power and money. Although they have infected our world with their greed, hatred, spite and venom, in the arena of finance they are certainly not stupid. By their deeds you shall know both them and their plan to store their wealth and retain the upper hand throughout the approaching financial turmoil. All of the old money (the bloodline inherited wealth) is heavily invested in gold, land and works of art and antiquity. Indeed for decades they have been accumulating a vast array of tangible assets through a fractional reserve banking system that has enabled them to purchase said assets with other people’s debt, a debt they also receive interest on ... clever eh? Gold is being repatriated to [countries]( https://www.ft.com/content/4edf00ee-a43c-11e7-8d56-98a09be71849) of [origin]( https://www.kitco.com/news/2018-04-20/Is-Gold-Repatriation-A-Trend-Now-Turkey-Wants-Its-Gold-Back-From-The-U-S.html) and countries such as [China]( https://moneyweek.com/461513/money-morning-china-gold-pile/) & [Russia]( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-21/russia-s-central-bank-gold-hoard-is-now-bigger-than-china-s) are hastily accumulating vast precious metal stockpiles. Of course there is an array of reasons behind these purchases but again, at its most simplistic level “by their deeds you shall know them.” In terms of sliver; Banking institutions such as [J.P Morgan]( https://www.caseyresearch.com/casey-daily-dispatch/why-this-too-big-to-fail-bank-is-stockpiling-silver/) are amassing huge silver portfolio’s. Silver is probably the most undervalued and yet essential assets on the market; it is also sitting at an historically low ratio of 85 ounces to one ounce of gold, which is [60% higher]( https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205481-gold-silver-ratio-spikes-highest-level-27-years) than the twenty year average. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZ4FThuXgt6i9iYdPDYCSR9eFyTK5JTAHjNTeLvKzAKXR/image.png)[Source](http://www.cristianblanxer.com/uploads/6/1/4/9/6149905/the-storm_orig.png)

Interest Rates

Investors have begun to highlight concerns over the raising of US interest rates and equally how this will play out within [bond yields.]( https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/101515/effect-fed-fund-rate-hikes-your-bond-portfolio.asp) The global marketplace has certainly been rattled over the aforementioned inflationary impact of these rises. Indeed, if we use the month of October as an example when investors began to sell, [Asian stocks]( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45819250) were exposed as particularly vulnerable. In relation to the pace of recent interest rate rises President Trump has labelled the FED as “crazy”. Equally, I feel it important to note that throughout the tenure of President Obama the same FED committed to keeping rates at an historic low. So let’s disappear down the conspiracy rabbit hole, are they crazy or is there a wider/deeper narrative afoot? Firstly anyone that has read any of my work will know that I am not a proponent of the left/right mind control paradigm and to all intents and purposes I believe both narratives are owned, hence I have no specific axes to grind here. That said, by utilising a propagandic left/right, good cop/bad cop (bait and switch routine) are those that operate in the shadows attempting to attach both “truth” and all societal ills (including a financial collapse) onto the right/alt-right and then ride in as a left wing pseudo saviour? Let’s take a look at that idea. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaWrEuNDShNbzBefbRASAa5Pk4TLrxzHcAigCmvjWssqQ/image.png)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Flifeboat.com%2Fblog.images%2F3000-engineers-might-get-fired-at-wipro-after-artificial-intelligence-learns-to-do-their-work.jpg&sp=aa44d51a0bc4049cf9b87954c5ec44f8)

The Death Of Crapitalism

In truth we don’t really live within a capitalist society, what we have is crony capitalism (I have labelled this as crapitalism). Crapitalism is a system where every market and every tax law is rigged to benefit the chosen few. Due to the fact that the Bank of England/FED etc etc are private enterprises there is also a debt leveraged against every pound/dollar that is in circulation, thus meaning that there is never enough money to pay off the debt. Within Crapitalism, the associated evolution in fractional reserve banking has enabled the uber crapitalist to buy up our world (and all tangible assets) with money that has never existed, money that is not worth the paper it's not printed on. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZBeS7yX2jZjzLx4CiRyHgd241cxNVePeaAuyP6n3FkNx/image.png)[Source](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/abf1e7_2ac1a8a380f84bacba015c63f92e73da~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_832,h_1250,al_c,q_90/file.jpg) Crapitalism was designed to last just long enough for the chosen to build their machine, a machine of which we are all components and a machine that has bulldozed its way across our entire world. A machine that has attached the guilt for the ecological destruction it has brought and the wars it has fermented onto the shoulders of the populace, using the foundation of this guilt to increasingly lower the standard of living. The machine uses humanity as the fuel in its engine of control; ensuring that whether white or black, religious or atheist, rich or poor we are all prisoners of a system that demands subservience and increasing dominion over every facet of our lives. We are all victims of the great game of divide and conquer, it’s just that (as countries and individuals) we have been handed different roles. Within the minds of the manipulator, we are pieces on a chessboard, some of us are pawns, some are knights whilst others live like kings; but outside of a human life it’s all transient, whilst their lust for power is unsatiable. Society is not an organic construct, it's direction is planned decades in advance. Do you understand that to the socital engineer, the populace are considered akin to lab rats that are to be trained to follow the will and direction of the manipulators? ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmZF83REUdjbLENjjgsgPTbgGdY89iWFCoDpKbECtis9D5/image.png) So when this system fails (and it’s designed to) remember that the worldwide (blockchain based) digital socialism they will offer in its place is born of the same system and mindset that created the crapitalist model. Sure (much like crapitalism) the first generation of digital socialism will get many sweeteners plus the propagandists will play to kindness and compassion and portray that this new model will free the world from generations of debt slavery, starvation etc etc. What they will fail to mention, is that we already produce enough food to more than feed the entire world but through greed and bad management over half of it is left to rot, [per year this equates to 2 billion tons of uneaten food.](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste) At this moment in time; the mere notion of a cashless society is often enough to raise both incredulity and laughter, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that [Sweden]( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41095004) and several other countries are already heading in this direction. We have the Swedish central bank testing a [digital](https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/tal/engelska/ingves/2018/the-e-krona-and-the-payments-of-the-future.pdf) e-krona, and within the last few weeks we have the [IMF's Christine Legarde making a case for digital currency.](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency) Equally, during a financial crisis who isn’t going to want free digital money to buy food and heat their house? ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPMqSfXk8ixHWc24u8x5BcrTJzgMuQTMzdcLKFT6xn8iW/image.png)[Source](https://i.imgur.com/10Dq6jT.jpg)

Conclusion

In the long term, the new model will not be about lifting us all up to a decent standard of living, it will be about bringing us all down to a level that is just above the breadline, but not enough that we will have a coherent voice or the power of free determinism. It will be a technocratic feudal society (us and them) a system where they own everything and we own nothing, but by the time it gets to this point the collective will have been so propagandised and divided that they will be cheering it on! Their anger will be directed amongst each other and towards the nouveau riche, but will remain averted from the true the architects of their financial demise. We can see the seeds of this division being sown through search engines and social media where complex algorithms are hastily dividing people into electronic thought ghettos. These algorithmic ghettos cushion reality and pamper to the beliefs of the user. They pamper the belief systems and perceptions to such a degree that once outside these electronic padded walls many people are beginning to lack the mental capacity to civilly debate. Equally lacking the ability to empathise and listen to contradictory views. ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmb3JWsKEy7NJeHuSxGXeGjMm9DJmvbjHFFbudr6JQBdJd/image.png) Within this process, people will increasingly come to personally identify themselves as a multitude of externally created identities & labels and thus these labels (which will be relatively trivial within and blind them to, matters of worldwide consequence) will become the most important issues for the people that choose to wear them. It's very important that we point out the failings of our current system, but we need to be equally aware of the (pre-planned) white knight that is going to ride in as our saviour. It will arrive as our friend and as the answer to our problems, but by the time we realise it is our enemy, we may have been rendered powerless to halt its march. Keep in mind, that although I believe a blockchain based digital pseudo social model to be the intended outcome, nothing is set in stone! The power still (very much) resides in all of our hands, and as such how we rise to the impending financial storm will dictate the direction of our species. Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Until next time I will leave you to decide who has the perceptualflaws. https://media.giphy.com/media/K0YMQdN1LxpW8/giphy.gif ![Minnow5.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQbGqMqhL71K8VuYEX6Yfd6CfEAek2GS2NUkV4zUyBy1j/Minnow5.gif) Written by perceptualflaws Gifs courtesy of giphy.com Banner Gifs courtesy of @justcallmemyth ![Minnow3.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUg4FYAeFzhNuU22gmq1MFRvpkwCFDoLJrWuZy7DH9Z17/Minnow3.gif)