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Thursday, August 18, 2011

BITCOIN Your Way to Wealth and Power

Crummey Money

Article I Section 10 of the US Constitution provides that "No State shall make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts."

You might not have noticed, but state governments ignore that mandate because the US Congress declared the US Dollar in the form of Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) legal tender in spite of the fact that you cannot redeem them for gold or silver coin, and government does not any longer circulate gold or silver coins nor coins containing gold or silver, except numismatically. Why don't people use those numismatic gold and silver coins for commerce? See this blog entry. There I explain that the courts interpret any dollar as merely a dollar. That is, a silver eagle dollar equals a federal reserve note dollar officially, according to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruling in Crummy v Klein.

Why does this matter? Because incessant deficit spending by Congress and bloating the money supply by the Federal Reserve (which injected $16 trillion into the economy through loans to foreign and domestic banks since 2007) over the decades has diminished the value of FRNs to a fraction of the value of a Silver Eagle. Today a FRN dollar has a value only 1/42 of a Silver Eagle's value, if you can even find a Silver Eagle to buy. Six years ago the FRN had a value 1/5 of the Silver Eagle's value. That means the FRN dollar has suffered a 950% devaluation because of the Congressional spending and the Fed. Government and Bank-authored bailouts have destroyed our currency value, and that has destroyed equity in homes and the value of savings, leaving America and Americans broke and largely devoid of their "nest eggs."

You might recall that the US dollar (FRN) has no gold or silver backing. That means you cannot redeem it for gold or silver at a Federal Reserve Bank or the US Treasury. You can redeem it for "lawful money" in the form of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars. A penny weighs 2.5 grams, about 1/10 ounce, so an ounce of pennies will cost you ten cents, or you could get ten ounces for a dollar or 10 pounds for $16.00 (FRN). Scrap copper sells for $40 per ten pounds. So you can easily double your money by buying pennies and selling them to scrap copper buyers.

Except for one problem. The US Mint doesn't make pennies from copper any more. It makes them from copper-clad (2.5%) zinc, and scrap zinc goes for only $1 a pound. And it makes a nickel from 25% nickel and the rest copper. So 10 pounds of pennies only has a scrap value of $10.40, only 65% of the cost of the pennies. Nickel at $10 a pound puts the scrap value of US minted nickel coins at $85 for 10 pounds. Nickels weigh 5 grams, so 907 of them weigh 10 pounds and at a nickel each, cost $45. The $4 per pound gross profit will get eaten by transport and broker costs, so it makes little sense to buy them from the mint and sell them as scrap.

Thus, the US Mint continually adjusts the metal content of our coins to make them worth less than the scrap value of the metal they contain. And, we simply cannot beat inflation by saving US money, except by buying minted gold and silver.US coins. Unless we own shares in a mine, we're fucked financially. Thank you, Congress.

I see one bright spot only. You can use the disparity of the FRN dollar value to the Silver Eagle dollar value to your advantage in only one way that I know of. Do all of your selling transactions in US minted gold and silver coins and declare the face value of those coins on your income tax forms as taxable income. Do all of your buying transactions in FRNs, and use their face value on your income tax forms as tax deductions. Then go ahead and sign up for welfare and food stamps because you'll qualify.

For more on US money, watch this interview of Harvard-educated law scholar Dr. Edwin Vieira.

Debt and the Money Supply

The below chart shows the effect of inflating the money supply with deficit spending and low cost gifts or loans by the FED and Congress to bail out the financial industry and its insurers. As dollars diminish in value, each dollar injected into the economy through debt (spending above income) results in fewer jobs and less productivity than previously. This causes a decline in the GDP unless money issuers inject proportionately MORE money into the economy through debt. In other words, borrowed money produces ever fewer jobs than earned money does until money injection reaches the point of debt saturation. After that, every dollar injected into the economy causes INCREASED LOSS OF JOBS.

For more on this, see Professor Antal Fekete's article on the Marginal Productivity of Debt.

Foreclosure Defense Scam and Financial Crisis

You might know that I have focused on mortgage foreclosure defense studies for the past three years. As a consequence I have concluded that most defense attorneys in that industry cheat their clients and commit malpractice by dragging out the foreclosure when they should attack the appraisal fraud and other torts and contract breaches underlying the mortgage.

I also learned that the foreclosure pandemic arose as a consequence of decades of over-appraising as realtors, mortgage brokers, and sellers jacked realty prices ever higher, claiming "market" value determines prices. They refuse to acknowledge today that they engage in price gouging, even though foreclosure auctions bring 1/5 to 1/6 of the 2005 house price. Mortgage brokers refuse to admit that they routinely falsified family income, elevating it to make prospective unqualified home buyers seem financially worthy. As a consequence of these crimes,predatory lending collapsed the realty prices, destroyed homeowner equity, caused massive job loss broadly across America and throughout the Western world, and precipitated trillions of dollars in bailouts of insurance and banking corporations by Congress and the Federal Reserve.

Worst of all, government encouraged the misdeeds that caused the crisis. You might recall the efforts of Bill Clinton and George W Bush to ensure that everyone gets a house. If you don't, read the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's Report.

The Crucial Importance of Virtual Currency

So you see that the US Government caused and continues to cause the destruction of the value of money and real estate holdings. And that destruction of money forces state governments to violate the US Constitution's mandate to use gold and silver coin as legal tender for paying debts. Thus lawlessness seems to have become law.

Pundits claim that the productivity of the American People back the Federal Reserve Notes, the universal medium of exchange in the USA. Wikipedia's article, linked above, claims the assets of the Federal Reserve back it. In reality, since you cannot redeem it for minerals equal to it in value, only the world's faith in it gives it the value people perceive it as having. When the FED or government puts more into circulation, its value goes down. It has the nature of FIAT currency, established by decree of Congress and not by its intrinsic value. You might say it has no more value than the cost of paper, printing, and distribution.

So, naturally, people have lost faith in government as creator and manager of money. And people increasingly lose faith in the US Dollar because Congress and the Bureau of Public Debt have borrowed America into oblivion, inflating the money supply, and deflating the value of the dollar.. How could Monopoly (the game) money disappoint the people more than FRNs have?

Stop and think how the foregoing realities affect your life and prosperity, and your plans for future prosperity, college for the kids, and your retirement. If money becomes worth ever less, how do you benefit from saving it in a bank account? If your money diminishes in value the longer you save it in a bank or a rathole in your wall, how should you invest it so you can watch it grow from interest or usage earnings? If government agents or other thieves can rob your physical mineral wealth from a bank vault or safety deposit box, where can you hide it for safekeeping? How can you become the master instead of the slave, financially when you remain hog-tied to a failing currency and the impossibility of defending physical wealth?

Why shouldn't the people resort to creating and using their own currency that has nothing backing it but its own scarcity and buying power? And since government has not yet managed totally to invade cyberspace, why shouldn't the people develop and use a virtual currency in cyberspace? Why shouldn't people develop a way to prevent the IRS and other government agencies from knowing every financial transaction the people make, so as to tax the people into into the hell of poverty, dependency, economic micromanagement, and financial slavery to filthy rich banking families?

Good questions.

Answer: People have done precisely that, as I explain in the following paragraphs.

Three Items for Your Radar:

TOR – this universal anonymity service lets you browse without others capturing your IP address. Uber-einfach to install. Just download, unpack to USB or hard drive, run TOR, then browse with Firefox portable. Its portability lets you browse without detection or traces on any PC. GET IT AND USE IT from:

https://www.torproject.org

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SILK ROAD – a USE of TOR for drug trafficking. Yeah, I know, we don’t use drugs. But, forewarned = forearmed. Drug traffickers' safe and continued use of TOR proves that you Whistleblowers and political activists may safely use it. I know you don't want to buy illegal drugs. But maybe you want to see the proof with your own eyes, and not merely take my word for it. For curiosity's sake and academic reasons only, you may contact SILK ROAD through TOR at this web site, free from government's prying eyes (you must install and browse through TOR):

http://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.onion/
There you will encounter a somewhat new currency symbol: ฿. What does it mean? It means BITCOIN.

BITCOIN – a new virtual (digital) currency that operates without government control or issue authority (don’t worry, control will soon arrive).

With enough computer hardware and software you can create bitcoins, but normally you get them in trade, and you can actually buy drugs form them on the SILK ROAD above. I mention the drugs only as an example of use.
BITCOINS operate similarly to QQ Coins. Tencent released QQ chat software over a decade ago, and issued digital coins as awards for gamers. Soon people started selling items on line for QQ coins. Tencent actually minted the coins and did over $800 million in business with them, flouting Far East government efforts to crush the unauthorized virtual currency.
Now many people have begun to trade BITCOINS. Expanding their use might frustrate the IRS effort to steal Americans blind. So far, government has no clear and easy way to track BITCOIN transactions to people. So if you earn a million BITCOINS, how will the IRS know? Who says attorneys and prostitutes can’t contract with clients for BITCOINS?
Get your BITCOIN software: http://www.bitcoin.org/
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Bob Hurt's Highest Recommendation

RUN, don't walk, to get invested in and use BITCOINS for your commerce, and encourage others to do so too. Sure, bitcoins can fail to provide stable value, but for the immediate future they suffer from NO government intrusion, NO banking industry finagling, and NO issue authority mismanagement. Furthermore, if you buy and employ enough computing power, you can create your own BITCOINS. While that has an inflationary effect, it also faces a limit - the number of BITCOINS possibly in circulation. This guarantees increasing scarcity and therefore increasing demand as more people find out about and start using them.

Go back and review what has happened with QQ coins and you will see the power of virtual money not managed by government. Then realize that not even a corporation controls the issue of BITCOINS. It's value will remain driven by scarcity, increased demand, and freedom from governmental interference.

Also, for the time being, use of TOR and other anonymity tools (like PGP/GPG for email, encryption tools for your drives, tiny, easy-to-hide Micro SD memory chips embeddable in jewelry and common items like ball point pens) all make it easier for you to hide from government's prying eyes while you engage in commerce and hide your assets with relative secrecy and security.

Take note that every security tool stimulates greater efforts by hackers and government snoops to discover details of your secret, private world. So it will pay you to educate and arm yourself with knowledge and tools. Keep finding and using ever better ways to increase and retain your privacy, wealth, and power.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Studying Law OUTSIDE Law School

Gregory J. Hobbs, on Monday, August 15, 2011 10:55 PM, wrote me this question

I recently received an email from you and it contained a lot of courses offered by Richard Cornforth. Many of them sounded similar to the Jurisdictionary product.

Is there a distinction and if so which one should a novice purchase?

Greg

I answer as follows:

Juristictionary or Cornforth’s training materials?

You need both Jurisdictionary and Cornforth materials, plus more.

First, Richard Cornforth has no law degree and learned the hard way by litigating his own cases and helping others. He tells you about the dirty tricks of the legal industry. You might say he helps you learn the legal landscape and focus on navigating it successfully. He goes into some detail on specifics like debt collectors, etc. It provides sample documents.

Jurisdictionary teaches details of the litigation cycle and overviews the civil litigation process. Furthermore it deals with generalities, shows how to do pleadings, introduces causes of action, rules, evidence, objections, but does not go into detail. It provides sample documents.

You can get some free information from both, and I encourage you to take advantage of that first. Go to youtube and watch Richards lecture series on Secrets of the Legal Industry. Then look at the data he provided on void judgments at http://voidjudgements.net.

Jurisdictionary does not give such a comprehensive array of methods to hammer a judge to agree that his judgment is void and has no force or effect because he lacked jurisdiction to rule as he did, or he violated some serious rule.

Click my link below for jurisdictionary. The author, attorney Frederick Graves, gives me 10% for the referral, which I deserve for educating people. Richard gives me nothing, but I promote his stuff because it provides such excellent value.

Jurisdiction

One simple thing you ought to know about Jurisdiction – the power of a court to hear a case and render and enforce a judgment … You might have seen that the judges in the courtrooms of the USDC (United States District Court) building could hear a criminal case, a civil case, or a maritime case. You might have heard of courts of chancery or equity (fairness), and courts of law. All that can confuse you, so I tell you this to eliminate as much of that confusion as I can.

A court (mainly a judge hearing a dispute between two or more adversaries) operates in any one or more of those functions I mentioned, and gets its jurisdiction, from one thing: the complaints the adversaries bring before it in their pleadings. A pleading can complain of a shipwreck or abuse of a sailor, and it must invoke maritime rules or Admiralty jurisdiction. A pleading can complain of violation of a contract (the law of the case) or of some statute. If a civil statute, contract breach or tort, it becomes a civil LAW case. If the complaint complains of a crime, it becomes a criminal case. If it complains of some unfairness or imbalance that the law does not precisely address, and it asks for fairness, it becomes an equity civil case.

Thus, the complaint pleadings give the court its jurisdiction and determine the kind of rules (civil, maritime, criminal, bankruptcy, etc.) by which the judge and the adversaries and their counsel must operate. Throughout the USA, Supreme Courts have merged law and equity court functions together, so we no longer have separate courts of equity/chancery and other courts of law. A judge can take up either or matters based on the pleadings.

How did Courts get started?

1. The constitutions of the US and States create the branches of government and the Supreme Court to head the judicial branch to interpret law and tell what it means. The constitutions also created inferior courts and empowered the legislature and executive branch to create other inferior judicial courts and administrative courts.

2. The legislatures created the inferior judicial courts of the United States. See Title 28 US Code. You can see the court structures at http://www.uscourts.gov

3. The executive branch created administrative courts to resolve citizen administrative complaints against government and its employees. Congress establishes the executive branch agencies that assign administrative law judges (ALJ) to these courts. The laws provide that if the administrative court cannot resolve the problem or determines that the citizen has a legitimate judicial claim, the ALJ may issue an order permitting the citizen to sue the government and/or its employees.

Laws get created generally as follows:

1. Congress enacts laws with majority votes and signature of the President, and publishes slip laws.

2. The National Archives takes these laws along with the committee notes and compiles them into the Statutes at Large, not electronically available from the archives.

3. A statute might affect several areas of law. The Law Revision Counsel of Congress organizes the pieces of the statutes into categories and compiles them into 50 titles of United States Code

4. Congress may pass the title of the USC into positive law. Until that happens, USC becomes prima facie evidence of the law.

5. Lawyers in executive branch Agencies create regulations directing government employees in their enforcement of the laws. The Office of the Federal Register publishes these regulations in the Federal Register, giving the public notice and opportunity to comment and ask for improvements or clarification. Once finalized, they become part of the Code of Federal Regulations. Regulations specifically empowered by a statute have the force of law on the public. But most regulations regulate government employees.

6. The Supreme Court creates the rules of court like the Rules of Civil Procedure and Rules of Evidence, Congress approves them, and they become law. I consider these the second pinnacle of civilizational achievement by the people of our world, the modern family constituting the first pinnacle.

7. The judicial courts determine the meaning and application of the laws and regulations I mentioned above. A trial court (like the United States District Court) will rule, and if one of the parties disagrees, that party may appeal the ruling (such as to the US Circuit Court of Appeals). A party who loses there may appeal the circuit ruling to the US Supreme Court. Trial and Appeal courts generally must take the case if it meets certain conditions, but the Supreme Court may refuse to hear any case from the Appeal court. For some issues, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction and the lower courts don’t get involved. The US Supreme Court may hear appeals from the state Supreme Courts. The rulings these courts issue have the force and effect of law. So, if the law says A, and the court says that law means B, then that law means B. Thus, it becomes monumentally important that litigants do whatever lawfully which they must to convince the judge to issue a ruling favorable to their cause, for that ruling, even if diametrically opposed to statements in the law, becomes the law till overturned by a higher court or by the legislature itself.

8. Theoretical or ideal law does have merit for philosophical discussions and SOME arguments in court. But generally lawyers and others who have tried to convince judges of theoretical meanings FAILED to do so. If after seeing such failures, or realizing an argument seems unlikely of embrace by the mainstream legal community, a person who propounds them anyway becomes what I call a Patriot Myth Monger (PMM). I encourage you to stay well away from such fools, no matter how sincere they seem UNLESS you want to sit in the gallery and watch while the PMM tries to make his case to the judge. Most PMMs mean well but function like idiots who don’t realize that the law means ONLY what judges say it means. Thus, if the main stream legal community doesn’t embrace it, you will almost surely lose if you try to inveigle a judge into accepting it. If you try it, you put yourself and/or your case in harm’s way, and I recommend against it.

Resources

I suggest you do some studies on your own from available free (or mostly free) data:

1. Read and try to memorize the US and your state’s constitutions. – LOOK FOR the ANNOTATED constitutions. Why? Because those show what the SUPREME COURTs says the constitutions mean

a. http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/

b. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/browse.html

2. Memorize the Federal Rules of procedure well enough to cite every rule title and describe its meaning and use.

3. Memorize the Federal Rules of Evidence thoroughly and practice objecting when family or friends violate them.

4. Whenever you read a case law reference, Google it, and look for it in one of the below links, then READ THE WHOLE CASE. You must learn to do this because you cannot trust other people when they cite case law, for it often has nothing to do with the case at hand, and it often makes a completely different point from what your source intended

5. Get and use a good law dictionary. Realize that one ought to know the meanings of words in laws at the time a legislature or judge created the law. I bought Black’s 5^th edition (1979) 5 years ago for $10 at ebay.com. Get an electronic version. You can download the 2^nd edition and some other black’s books at

a. 2^nd at http://blackslawdictionaryonline.com/download/

b. 7^th at http://www.ebook3000.com/dictionary/Black-s-Law-Dictionary--Seventh-Edition-_45881.html

c. 9^th at http://ebookee.org/download/?file=Black%27s+Law+Dictionary%2C+Standard+Ninth+Edition ($5)

d. 1^st – 9^th torrent (you need a bit torrent client to get this gigabyte download)

e. Webster’s 1828 Dictionary - http://www.archive.org/details/americandictiona01websrich

6. Find your state’s Bar web site, Supreme Court web site, also http://www.uscourts.gov

7. Spend time each week reading an area of your state’s ANNOTATED statutes, even if you must go to a law library to do it.- Become familiar with areas of law that might affect you.

a. Civil Practice

b. Criminal practice

c. Clerk and Sheriff duties and powers

d. Torts

e. Real estate and mortgages

f. Family – see statutes on marriage, divorce, and children/families

g. Uniform Commercial Code

h. Consumer Credit

i. Contracts

j. Income tax

8. Google around for some good law school course outlines and read through them. These guide you to what law students learn. Example:

a. Con Law 2,