Dr. Mercola's
Comments:The
derivatives market is worth more than $516 trillion,
roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's
output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb."
Unsurprisingly, this news comes to us from Britain;
the U.S. media is not going to mention it.
The complex and opaque derivatives markets -- land
of hedge funds and complex financial instruments --
has been dubbed the world's biggest black hole.
It operates outside of the grasp of governments, tax
inspectors and regulators, in a parallel, shadow
world to the rest of the banking system. They are
private contracts between two companies or
institutions, which can't be controlled or properly
assessed. In themselves derivative contracts are not
dangerous, but they can have an enormous domino
effect on the rest of the financial world.
Most markets have something backing them up. But
derivatives don't have anything, because they are
not real money, but paper money. It is also
impossible to establish their worth; the $516
trillion number is actually only a notional one, and
some estimates say there is a mind-boggling
$1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) held globally
in derivatives.
Anything that carries a price can spawn a
derivatives market. They are financial contracts
sold to pass on risk to others. At the core of this
market is the credit derivative swap, effectively an
insurance policy against the default in the interest
payment on a corporate bond -- although you don’t
even need to own the bond itself. It’s like buying
an insurance policy on someone else's house and
pocketing the full value if it burns down.
Many experts that I personally respect, and that
have studied this issue for decades, believe that
the U.S. financial crisis is an intentionally
designed scenario of a
Problem-Reaction-Solution:
1. Create a problem covertly and blame someone
or something else for what you have secretly
done.
2. Tell the people through an unquestioning
mainstream media the version of the problem you
want the masses to believe.
3. Then openly offer, through changes in
society, the 'solution' to the problem you have
yourself created. This 'solution' is always the
installation of more centralized control.
Take these simple coordinates and apply them to
the events of the last few days and weeks and
everything morphs into focus.
The banking 'crash' has been coldly designed to
create the 'problem' that can lead to the 'solution'
-- a massive centralization of power in the
'private' and 'government' banking systems, both of
which are owned and controlled by the same network
of families.
The 'World Central Bank' plays a major role in this
area and wants to impose and control the entire
global financial system. As a result of the economic
turmoil, we are now seeing this being proposed to
'solve the problem' of the banking chaos and to
'make sure it never happens again.'
It is very clear that the intention here is to keep
people hopeless and pessimistic. These individuals
realize that choice is a very powerful element of
capitalism, but choice depends on the freedom to
choose.
They understand that when you are shackled with debt
you don’t have the freedom to choose. People in debt
become hopeless, and hopeless people don’t vote.
There are two ways people are controlled. First of
all frighten people, and then demoralize them.
Poor, demoralized and frightened people think that
the safest thing to do is take orders and hope for
the best.
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder
to govern. There is an element of many in control in
the government that does not want people to be
educated, healthy and confident because they would
be out of control.
Stay Positive
As I said in
my commentary on this last month, the REAL
danger here, and believe you me it is a danger, is
to become afraid. Once you step into the powerful
emotion of fear and you put your intention on what
you don't want the consequence is you activate
powerful natural forces that tend to provide you
with whatever thoughts you are attaching strong
emotions to. This is clearly something you want to
avoid doing, so stop being afraid of the economy.
It is important for you and your family to
CANCEL any
negative thoughts about this. I simply yell
"Cancel!" and imagine a large red diagonal line
going through any image I don't want. The more you
and others do that, the more likely we will all reap
the benefits of this positive focus and intention.
Hang in there and
CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT, and the
real key is to attach as much emotion to what you
want.