BTW... who cares what Goldman Sachs says. They are the biggest scumbags in the history of mankind.

"There's more than enough to have the whole world live in abundance." I hope you are right.

The massive agribusiness has been ruining soils. I heard Africa is the final frontier that big agribusiness corporations r going after. It takes only a decade or two to see dropping in cropping.

Many were awed by Corning's youtube advertisement video titled A Day Made of Glass. A friend told me that's exactly what he envisioned future. When everyone can clearly see something, prolly there's better chance that it would not happen... because not everyone can get it. New World is driven by resource constraint.

Credit requires collateral to borrow the money. If you are not qualified or collateral isn't good enough, no credit approval. Cash needs no such collateral and approval. You hold cash. You can buy anything you want. No holds barred. Fed manages a big balloon filled up w/ credit bubble. As credit market is collapsing, Fed is filling the balloon w/ freshly printed cash. Welcome to the new world full of paper cash. Everyone goes after what they wanna buy. Price hike has just begun. Gas, food, water, all imported goods. All going up "faster". Definitely feeling pain this year. More pain in the coming years.

We heard this many times: "This time is different". They were wrong. But I think this time is really different. Financial crisis, trade war, currency crisis, food crisis, etc. are all side effects of this new multi generational trend. Consolidation & Downsizing. I got into commodity trading at one point and read a bunch of articles and research papers about future commodity prediction. It's closely tied to global climate change. The consensus is that we have passed the point of no return. i.e. we cannot stop the global warming process that will impact the food crops drastically. Less food crop & more population toward 2050. The food price will go up so freaking high that most of us will go through severe diet. One scenario to resolve the issue is radical downsizing which implies WWIII.

For now I'm glad that I can buy what I want. e.g. GH2. My kids... may not be so lucky.

BTW why are we talking about this?

I think they can. IMO it's the IMF and central banks of the various regions that are truly evil. The debt THEY impose is not legit and not moral. Iceland sees the issue with at least partial clarity. Simply put it's a like a loan sharking scam only in this case for geopolitical control on huge scales. What needs to happen is to put these "powerful" men in prison or impose the death penalty. They are the main cause of all the wars in the past century or two including all of the ones Americans are so familiar with like WWI, WWII, VietNam, Korea, Gulf War one and two, the current conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and the soon to occur conflicts in Pakistan and Iran - regardless of the excuses that are engineered and handed to the people as a justification. They are also the central cause of the financial woes pretty much all around the world. And the two are directly related too. :)

If you're the type of person who believes what the governments of the world say or who think there actually is such a thing as a two-party system in the USA you're in deep into the mind control they've been playing on us - and it's more than one level deep. Perhaps to glimpse it from within that mindset from the inside out (if you're interested in awakening from the engineered dream at all I mean) a good place to start would be be with a few good books. I can recommend this author: http://www.johnperkins.org/ and to start with his "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man". He's still a level or two inside the engineered dream-state but it's a few steps up from the base levels most people are in. Another good step in awakening is to look at how the IMF or really any central banking system works. Recently in the past 10 or 15 years there has been a lot of effort spent on explaining the American PRIVATE "Federal" Reserve so that might be a good one to look at.

Another good way to break the chains of mental slavery we're programmed into is to blast yourself with the rhetoric of someone who is fully awake and has committed themselves to alerting others, and then every time you hear or read something that sounds too unreal to believe, go and research the names, documents, and events mentioned - deeply!. See where they're coming from and see how they see things. Two good names that come to mind here are Alex Jones and Alan Watt. Both have podcasts and keep up on current "issues". Here's Watt's page: http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/podsinfo.html and here's Jones's info: http://www.infowars.com/listen-on-the-internet/ You can listen selectively to Jones's here feed://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss where MP3 are individually listed. For some current and interesting info on the 9th killing of Osama Bin Laden I can highly recommend May 3rd ~ May 6th casts:

http://rss.infowars.com/20110503_Tue_Alex.mp3
http://rss.infowars.com/20110504_Wed_Alex.mp3
http://rss.infowars.com/20110505_Thu_Alex.mp3
http://rss.infowars.com/20110506_Fri_Alex.mp3

...which is why the individual power we have to share words and images by Internet, gives me hope. Maybe we will come to understand that deep down, we are all the same?

The age old giant, Gold, is waking up to warn us. Hopefully there's no major war broke out in my lifetime.

Currently the banks believe that Japan and the USA have a way of creating wealth that will allow them to repay the debt.