Transhumanism: The Discussion On Future Wars And What They Will Look Like!

February 5th, 2014 // http://breakingdeception.com/transhumanism-will-future-wars-look-like/

Throughout the transhumanist movement there is a strong belief, that transhuman technology will eventually end all wars and poverty. On the other hand there is a very large military interest in transhuman technology, like DARPA. There is an old saying, that war stimulates progress, but like with every stimulant, one must care not to overdose.

Many transhumanists point out that all the wars and horrors of armed conflicts are caused by economic scarcity and “primate behaviour” or religions. Aside from the debate, whether atheists should leave the transhumanist movement, or should it be the other way around, removing the religious and new age based members from the movement, the sole topic of faith, religion and science are a regular flashpoint. Can’t prevent it? Join it.

Transhuman technologies, outlined in the NBIC report as well as in other major publications could help us enhance humans via augmented perception, direct braincomms¹ , increased durability, self-regeneration, built-in emergency life support, interchangeable bodies/avatars and “black boxes”² (containing personal backups) would both improve the human condition and life expectancy, as well as create better super-soldiers. How will the future war or wars be fought?

Quoting Albert Einstein, farther future wars would be fought with rocks. This would mean that there would be either a Mutually Assured Destruction, or on the other hand, like in several sci-fi and cyberpunk novels, it would involve the usage of mass drivers and launching asteroids towards the enemy. But this would probably a weapon of last resort. Most scenarios include using specialized armed forces – cyborg agents, robots and drones³ - terminating threats and securing the target area. Low costs and collateral damages at a high gain with extremely high precision. But what would the transhumans fight for?
Freedom? Probably, but what kind of freedom? To something or from something. A fight to liberate those who want take a step further, alter themselves, upload, clone or immortalize, could lead to an armed conflict, which can easily get out of hand.

Resources? That would be quite probable, for it is unlikely that there is going to be a post-scarcity economy in the nearest transhuman future. More resources (asteroids, helium 3, space-based solar power) gives one more means to intimidate, harass or influence other parties. There would be still rare resources and markets (transhumanism doesn’t rule out corporations, rather most works concerning AI personhood law are based on the concept of corporate personhood, or even expanding it).

Ideology? This is one of my personal favourites. It revolves around a concept, by which transhumans are enforcing their world view on everybody else. Settling two things straight, transhumanism is not a monolithic philosophy, it’s very diverse and has multiple approaches ( from left and right, as well as from the green, LGBT or white supremacist point of view), and like with every ideology, one can be forced to join it, or face the dire consequences.

As American science fiction fans would recall the Borgs assimilating every encountered specie into the collective (with their famous catchphrase “Resistance is futile”), Cybermen “upgrading” humans, hard science fiction literature shows us a more reasonable example. In the Revelation Spaceuniverse, created by Alistair Reynolds, featuring both the future of humanity and a number of posthuman factions, the one I would like to consider in this article would be the Conjoiners. Long story short, the more people were “conjoined” via their implants and collective consciousness, the more sophisticated were their inventions and achievements.

Hence the larger need to “expand the web of minds”, and those who refused were taken in by force, which of course had started a war against the Conjoined. If computational power is needed for solving large problems, like for example in bitcoin mining, could one force unemployed people to sell their “computing power” (via direct BCIs) in exchange for a percentage of the profit? Can we imagine detention camps, where those socially unfit, criminals and so on would be serving a life sentence, and be voluntarily, or not, used as living computational engines?

This is one of the main rupture points in transhumanist views, should we go collective, with p2p thought exchange, or be a “movement” of independent individuals. Same as with space colonies, either they’d be held on a tight economic leash, or left on their own, which could also have catastrophic outcomes. A tight leash will sooner or later become the main cause of abuse, political, social, economic, when on the other hand, without any authority watching over the colony, being able of rapid response in case of any hazardous event, its residents would be exposed to danger resulting in many casualties, if not the death of the entire colony. If one of the main purposes of transhumanism is creating a spacefaring humanity or posthumanity, we also need to take those things into consideration.

Though “space warfare” won’t be no Star Wars orBattlestar Galactica, more like Harrison’s “No War or battle’s sound”, accelerations and forces acting on the pilot during evasive manoeuvres would be fatal to that person, therefore “space combat pilots” should be altered or augmented to withstand those forces… or on the other hands we could use autonomic drones, or informorph controlled ships.

Or may it be the other way, rebelled masses of those who refuse to be part of this trans or posthuman society attack databanks containing uploaded personalities, ruin atmospheric controllers, sabotage power stations, upload viruses to damage the AIs. Transhumans would have two main options available, either let them be and destroy, for we are higher consciousness beings and need to understand their frustration, or they can fight back. As posthuman times require posthuman means, the law in this case would also have change, like abolishing the institution of “human rights”, and making another legal institution in its place, that would recognize great apes, cetaceans, sentient AIs, baseline humans, posthuman beings or “corporate entities”⁴ as persons or sophonts. Despite the introducing a rule that once an entity has gained personhood, it cannot be stripped of its rights, the right to live and the right to one’s mental integrity would be severely altered. That could be a cause of a major turmoil, or a civil war, unless proper preliminary actions would be taken. Either way damage will be done.

Entertainment? Remotely controlling a robotic body, or a Mech, derived of feeling pain would be seemed for many people as fun. But how come an armed conflict can be seen as entertaining? First thing we need to remember is the popularity of warfare related computer and console games, ASG and paintball manoeuvres. Killing artificial soldiers, shooting down digital planes differs from real life warfare. For now. No matter how sophisticated an artificial soldier would be, basically there is a phenomenon, where the human mind doesn’t recognize it as another human, rather as an object.

Singularity seen as the rise of the machines is a popular sci-fi apocalypse scenario, where synthetic being decide to “ultimately solve the case of humans” is not very likely, unless the humans will start to pose a major threat to the newly developing “beings”. That we cannot exclude.

The hybrids on rampage scenario, where transgenic chimeras either declare a war on humans or suddenly goes berserk, slaughtering humans in their vicinity is also very unlikely and mostly a poor plot device. The real threat would be a genetically modified virus, like human rabbis. That kind of pandemic would resemble some popular zombie flicks⁵, and would resolve in the use of extreme measures regarding quarantine, containment and eradication of the virulent agent, along with its hosts, unless it could be cured via some means.

Population and living space? We cannot rule out the probability that in order to restore the environment via advanced biotechnology, or making room for more advanced technological endeavours, the transhumanity would have to move the local population to another place. There are two problems here however. First of them is the growing human population, and forcing one population to migrate to another place, already inhabited by another population, making them cram like sardines will mostly be viewed as an atrocity and would spark a conflict. The other way around is for the transhumans to leave Earth, and inhabit space habitats and other worlds, thus reducing their need for living space, as well as specie based tensions that would be likely to occur.

But talking about stand out conflicts resembling a futuristic depiction of a conventional all out world war would not seem the case. Living in an information age, on the verge of redefining the World Wide Web⁶ or even splitting it into diverse alternatives, the vision of guerrilla warfare and covert ops actions is quite more plausible. Of course, arms dealers and producers would like to lose their profit, despite 3D printed DYI railguns⁷ are sure to be a large competition for them in some regions, and there will be minor conflicts, turmoil as well as proxy wars, but then again, if it would be a “conflict” between the baseline humanity and the transhumans, or will it be a clash of transhuman factions, he means would be more stealth and swift that cavalcades of brain-controlled, super heavy battle tanks. Those would involve hacking, sabotage, bombing, nanoviruses, implant hijacking, assassination⁸ and other method, that wouldn’t require sever firepower or extensive use of armour.

The last thing that needs to be considered, is that there is a possibility that higher consciousness beings, enhanced and augmented via technology or merged into group minds or possessing sub personas, lacking bodies or being able to use them interchangeable, biologically immortal would not seem the “rest” as equal, thus applying extreme measures in order to end a conflict. Would they even recognize it as a war… or as pest control?

Source – IEET

U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase

• hey man you gotta C the irony in this ?

Post Office joins other federal agencies stockpiling over two billion rounds of ammo
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
February 5, 2014
The U.S. Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small arms ammunition” in the near future.

The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list of non-military federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition.

On Jan. 31, the USPS Supplies and Services Purchasing Office posted a notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website asking contractors to register with USPS as potential ammunition suppliers for a variety of cartridges.
“The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition,” the notice reads, which also mentioned a deadline of Feb. 10.
The Post Office published the notice just two days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced his proposal to remove a federal gun ban that prevents lawful concealed carry holders from carrying handguns inside post offices across the country.
Ironically the Postal Service isn’t the first non-law enforcement agency seeking firearms and ammunition.
Since 2001, the U.S. Dept. of Education has been building a massive arsenal through purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Education Dept. has spent over $80,000 so far on Glock pistols and over $17,000 on Remington shotguns.
Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also purchased 72,000 rounds of .40 Smith & Wesson, following a 2012 purchase for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point by the National Weather Service.
NOAA spokesperson Scott Smullen responded to concerns over the weather service purchase by stating that it was meant for the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement for its bi-annual “target qualifications and training.”
That seems excessive considering that JHP ammunition is typically several times more expensive than practice rounds, which can usually be found in equivalent power loadings and thus offer similar recoil characteristics as duty rounds.
Including mass purchases by the Dept. of Homeland Security, non-military federal agencies combined have purchased an estimated amount of over two billion rounds of ammunition in the past two years.
Additionally, the U.S. Army bought almost 600,000 Soviet AK-47 magazines last fall, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or even NATO.
It would take a Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy, one of the largest cargo aircraft in the world, two trips to haul that many magazines.
A month prior, the army purchased nearly 3,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo, a huge amount but still only 1/6th of what the magazines purchased can hold in total.
The Feds have also spent millions on riot control measures in addition to the ammo acquisitions.
Earlier this month, Homeland Security spent over $58 million on hiring security details for just two Social Security offices in Maryland.
DHS also spent $80 million on armed guards to protect government buildings in New York and sought even more guards for federal facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While the government gears up for civil unrest and stockpiles ammo without limit, private gun owners on the other hand are finding ammunition shelves empty at gun stores across America, including shortages of once-common cartridges such as .22 Long Rifle.

This article was posted: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 1:36 pm

The Controversial Question of “Cloaking”

The Controversial Question of “Cloaking”

Is this evidence of  Bigfoot Cloaking?

This Post By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher. Dorraine is a Professional Writer, a nature and wildlife enthusiast who has written for many magazines. Get Dorraine's book The Book Of Blackthorne!

 

The Controversial Question of “Cloaking”

Does Bigfoot Have The Power To Disappear At Will?

By Dorraine Fisher

One of the most heated subjects of debate in the bigfoot world is about the possibility that the creatures elude us so well because they have some kind of “cloaking” ability that no other creature is known to possess. Some witnesses claim this ability is in fact real, while others scoff. But most, like me, just want a clear answer…and some visual proof wouldn’t hurt either.

The following video footage was submitted by bigfoot researcher Dave Moser and his research team at Carolina Bigfoot Field Research in North Carolina (CBFR).  And almost completely missed being discovered. The footage is extremely unusual and begs a lot of questions. And we don’t know what it is, but we’d like your opinions.       

CBFR UWHARRIE, NC FIGURE 1-19-2013

 

Dave Moser offered this statement of information about the footage, his and the team’s experiences when it was taken, other relevant information, as well as his own thoughts about what might cause some to believe cloaking is possible.

The Uwharrie, NC Thermal Figure – 1/19/2013  - Dave Moser
Weather Data:
OAT -22 F     Humidity -80%
Bar. Press - 30.45 Hg.
Moon Phase – First Quarter

The moving figure video footage was not discovered until Jan 24th; 5 days after the recording.  If it were not for the audio picking up the leaves rustling I may have never seen the figures movement.  During the first rewind I immediately noticed the movement of the figure and began an in depth analysis of getting the facts of the whole event documented.

Our group was on a planned walk down a hard packed dirt trail, south of our camp.  Many in the group have had BF experiences on this tail before which parallels a ridge to the west and east so you are walking in somewhat of a valley.  A team of 6 had left the campground around 2330 and may have gone close to a ¼ mile down the trail when I observed the 4 team members who were approximately 70-80 yards ahead of me had stopped and were looking to the west or right side of the trail. It’s customary for me to stop and observe the area with my Thermal camera from the rear of the group.  I prefer this position because I like to scan behind us to see if anything is following and it also gives me a wider angle of view of what the front team may be observing.  The 5th team member was approximately 8-10 feet ahead of me and had G3 night vision binoculars. I noticed that one of the front team members had stepped a few feet off the road in the woods.  He was also using a thermal imager but did not have any noticeable heat signatures that I know of.  After talking to him yesterday to find out the reason he had stopped he provided the following statement:
“I hear something moving to the left of trail. What at first was a deer making a distress call and then thumping noise like someone or thing was stomping its foot. I do not think it was a deer making the stomping noise. When I walked off the trail and staying by the tree, I felt like I was being watched. I had a sense that whatever it was it was now in front of me about 50 yards.”

 After a few minutes the group proceeded down the road and within a minute I was close to the spot that the group was observing but had no idea about what they may have heard or observed.  I do know if it was anything relevant they would have informed me via radio so I figured it was just a normal noise or sound one would hear in the woods at night. Walking with a somewhat bright monitor can be hazardous so as I walk at night I usually cover the screen against my stomach so it does not emit any light.  So walking the 40 or so yards or so to their position of possible disturbance I keep the mounted thermal on a monopod extended to about 4 feet. That way I can hoist it above my head level and rotate it in all directions, normally I try to keep it pointed behind me to possibly catch something following us. But as I walked this time I had the monopod extended relatively parallel to the ground so it was bouncing around quite a bit.  As I reached the spot the first group had stopped at I leveled the camera and took a quick scan of the area and did not notice anything abnormal and proceeded down the road as the group was still moving forward.

Nothing was observed or heard during the brief stop at 12:03am early Saturday morning but upon review my first indication to there being something there was the leaves shuffling.  I knew right away that no one was in the woods to the left or right of me so a rewind was required.  The rest of the midnight hike was uneventful except for the return trip to camp. One of my team members usually has an EMF detector on his persons and as we passed the spot where the figure was captured on the Thermal and about 50 yards north his EMP detector went ballistic, I mean a full pegged out hit that lasted for close to a minute beeping loudly. Although nothing was ever seen or discovered to cause the deflection it was a strange coincidence to say the least!
After having viewed the video for over a year I have come to several personnel conclusions as to what this video portrays and why this video is important to the Research community.

1)  I do not believe the Bigfoot in the video is Cloaking or Transparent or a Spirit.  After talking to an engineer at FLIR the conclusion is pretty simple and lined up pretty close to what I had originally thought as well as several friends who have also operated Thermal cameras for a few years. Basically Thermal cameras that record at a 30 Hz rate can have problems when the temperatures are low and the humidity is high, and the motion you are recording is FAST, such was the case the night the video was captured.  The Police and Military use 60 Hz but these cameras are expensive and can be hard to find for the average person. My XP100 Thermal camera records at 30 FPS (Frames per Second). The camera caused a reflection off the subject due to it most likely being wet and moving at a high speed.  So to recap this concept it basically shows that Thermal cameras can be limited in the accuracy of recordings at times due to environmental, atmospheric and the Thermals ability to interoperate data when these variables are near the threshold of operating limits.
2)  I have not been able to find any other videos that show how graceful and fast creatures can move.  This is very important as it explains a lot about why people believe Bigfoots can disappear, Cloak, jump in a portal or time warp etc. If anything can move that fast they can easily slip right by you the second you take your eye off them.  Who would have thought they can move 35-40 feet in a second.  If you really think about it the concept speaks volumes as to why they are never seem much who would think to look 30-40 feet left or right when you just saw him right there in front of you? 

Facts from the Post Investigation on Site:
Figures Distance to the camera from the first tree----------------- 103 Feet
Figures Distance to the camera from the second tree-------------- 71 Feet
Distance the Figure Travels – First tree to Second tree------------ 35 Feet
Figures Estimated Speed------------ 32 MPH
Figures Estimated Height----------- 7 – 7.5 Feet Tall

NOTES from other Researchers on the Video:

5-6.5ft tall.

bi pedal movement.

        gliding smooth movement.

        unable to tell about stride without given distances to be able to determine it. however at

        mark 1.09 and 1.10 seconds it takes a stride approx. 37% the distance between two

        given trees. This appears to be a full stride for the creature. it happens in 100th of a

        second as well.

        around the 0.16 sec mark under the steps there is a type of energy noticed as it hits the

        ground. It is not thermal but enough energy to distort the pixels on the camera. Very

        faint but there.

        long arms.

        broad shoulders.

        med sized head as compared to body.

        average size feet.

        lower spine curve (L-1 thru S-1) is over exaggerated which puts the chest is a puffed out

        or over exaggerated state.

        running diagonal towards the camera. left to right towards the frame which would put it

        behind the person or vehicle in under 4 seconds

        at the 1.24 sec mark it would appear to swing its left arm (from creature pov) towards

        the tree or reaches for it. Probably an anatomical movement of moving that fast.

        The knees sit lower on the legs than human indicating a different bone and muscle

        structure.

        The elbow joints would appear to be in the "correct" place.

        Given the position of the head and direction of travel at mark 1.09 sec I have to assume

        it could see the camera because it appears to look at it.

        based off of movement at mark 1.03 and 1.04 it would appear that both arms swing at

        once. you can see this due to the angle in which it is moving. This would indicate a

        different type of muscle and movement structure

        based off of one filter the creature is solid, made of matter so this rules out ghost/spirit

        would appear to be using some type of active camouflage not only visual but also

        thermal and IR.

        given the fast rate of movement the energy taken would indicate a different metabolic

        rate, O2 consumption rate etc. Or the second possibility is the p.h. balance of the

        creature due to anaerobic metabolism is extremely acidic.

 
[Source: carolinabigfootfieldresearch ]// http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2014/01/the-controversial-question-of-cloaking.html?m=1

Google Says “Nanobots In Our Bloodstream, Brains On The Cloud, And Immortality By The Year 2035″

these kooks never, fucking EVER  ...account for EVIL !   & when it (evil)  starts snap~in at "their" ass's  ...than it's  save me God  ! SAVE me !!  Lol     & "they" become a "believer"      real fuck~in fast huh ?      "they" can't fucking wait 2 get that hook (net/web/DNA/machine/demon )~up  their ass   ...Oops

February 5th, 2014 ,// http://breakingdeception.com/google-nanobots-bloodstream-brains-cloud-immortality-year-2035/

Imagine having millions of nanobots in your brain that constantly remind you to log into Google+. That seems to be the vision of Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil,who tells The Wall Street Journal that by the 2030s we’ll have “millions, billions of blood cell-sized computers in our bloodstream… keeping us healthy, augmenting our immune system, also going into the brain and putting our neocortex onto the cloud.”

And what will these nanobots do for us once they’re in our brain, you ask? Well according to Kurzweil they’ll help us think of wittier quips that we can use to impress people.
“In 2035, I see somebody approaching me and I want to impress them and I want to think of something clever… I’ll be able to access additional neocortex and think of something clever,” he explains.

Kurzweil, of course, has earned his fame by making bold predictions about technology’s future and he believes that humanity will use technology attain immortality sometime over the next 30 years. Of course, the 65-year-old Kurzweil is smart enough to know that there’s a chance his flesh body (or as he calls it, “Body 1.0″) could die before he gets to upload his brain into a computer and fly around the world as a swarm of nanobots.

To ensure that he lives long enough to see such technological marvels, Kurzweil has said that he takes “250 supplements (pills) a day” and receives “a half-dozen intravenous therapies each week (basically nutritional supplements delivered directly into my bloodstream, thereby bypassing my GI tract).”
The lesson here is that while the thought of hooking our brains up to the cloud sounds crazy right now, it’s not nearly as far-out as some of Kurzweil’s other predictions.
Source BGR

       

The Countdown to the Nationalization of Retirement Savings Has Begun

February 5th, 2014 – International Man

Simply put, the new myRA program put forward by Obama is at best a sucker’s deal… or worse, it’s a first step toward the nationalization of private retirement savings. (Note: If you haven’t yet heard of myRA, I’d strongly suggest you read this excellent overview by my colleague Dan Steinhart.)
Even before the new myRA program was announced, there had been whispers about the need for the US government to assume some risk for US retirement accounts. That’s code for forced conversion of private retirement assets into government bonds.
With foreigners not buying as many Treasuries and the Fed tapering, the US government has been searching for new buyers of its unwanted debt. And this is where the new myRA program comes in.
In short, it’s ostensibly a new way for people to save for retirement. Of course, you can only invest in government-approved investments—like Treasuries—which probably won’t even come close to keeping up with the real rate of inflation. It’s like Jim Grant says: “return-free risk.”

In reality, a myRA doesn’t really provide any significant new benefits over existing options. To me it just looks like a way for the US government to pass the hot potato on to unsuspecting Americans in exchange for their retirement savings.
The net effect is the funneling of more capital to Treasury securities and thus helping the US government finance itself.
You’d be much better off using a precious metals IRA to save for retirement than participating in the government’s latest Ponzi scheme.
There are other protective strategies as well, such as internationalizing your retirement savings into assets that are hard, if not impossible, to confiscate on a whim—like foreign real estate and physical gold held abroad. More on that below.

Retirement Savings Are Always Juicy Targets

As bad as it is to deceive naïve Americans into trading their hard-earned retirement savings for garbage (i.e., Treasury securities), the myRA program potentially represents something far worse… the first step toward the nationalization of existing private retirement accounts.
I believe myRA is a way to nudge the American people into gradually becoming more accustomed to government involvement in their private retirement savings.
It’s incorrect to assume nationalization couldn’t happen in the US or your home country. History shows us that it’s standard operating procedure for a government in dire financial straits.

In just the past six years, it’s happened in some form in Argentina, Poland, Portugal,Hungary, and numerous other countries.
To me it’s self-evident that most Western governments (including the US) have current debt loads and future spending commitments that all but guarantee that eventually—and likely someday soon—they will try to unscrupulously grab as much wealth as they can.
And retirement savings are a juicy target—low-hanging fruit for a desperate government.
Naturally, politicians will try to slickly sell the idea to the public as something “for their own good” or as “protection from market instability.” This is how similar programs were sold to skeptical publics in the past.
In reality, governments take these actions not to “reduce the risk” to your retirement savings or whatever propaganda they happen to come up with, but rather to obtain financing—by forcefully dumping their unwanted debt onto seniors and savers.
Below are several ways it has happened or could happen. Of course, there could always be some sort of new, creative proposal that was previously unthinkable. No matter the method, however, the end result is always the same—the siphoning off of purchasing power from your retirement savings.

New Contribution Mandate: The government could mandate, for example, that 50% of new contributions to private retirement accounts must consist of “safe,” government-approved investments, like Treasury securities.
Forced Conversions: This is where a government will forcibly convert existing assets held in retirement accounts into so-called “safer” assets, such as government bonds. For example, if the US government forcibly converted 20% of the estimated $20 trillion in retirement assets (401k plans, IRAs, defined benefit and contribution plans, etc.), it would net them $4 trillion. Not a bad score, considering the national debt is north of $17 trillion.
Special Taxes: The government could look into levying special taxes on distributions from retirement, especially those deemed to be “excessively large.”

In order to be more effective, forced conversations probably wouldn’t happen until after official capital controls have been instituted. Once in place, capital controls would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for you to avoid the wealth confiscation that is sure to follow… like a sheep that has just been penned in for a shearing.
Since FATCA and other regulatory burdens already amount to a soft form of capital controls, it’s absolutely essential that you start implementing protective measures now.
It’s like I have always said: internationalization is your ultimate insurance against the measures of a desperate government. In the case that the government makes a grab for retirement savings, it’s much better to be a year or two early rather than a minute too late.

Internationalize Your Retirement Savings

It’s much more difficult for the government to convert your retirement assets if they’re outside of its immediate reach. If you have a standard IRA from a large US financial institution, it would only take a decree from the US government and Poof!: your dividend-paying stocks and corporate bonds could instantly be transformed into government bonds.
Obviously, this is much harder for the government to do if your retirement assets are sufficiently internationalized.
For example, you can structure your IRA to invest in foreign real estate, open an offshore bank or brokerage account, own certain types of physical gold stored abroad, and invest in other foreign and nontraditional assets.
In my view, owning an apartment in Switzerland and some physical gold coins stored in asafe deposit box in Singapore beats the cookie-cutter mutual funds shoved down your throat by traditional IRA custodians any day.
If and when there’s some sort of decree to convert or otherwise confiscate the assets in your retirement account, your internationalized assets ensure that your savings won’t vanish at the stroke of a pen.
There are important details and a couple of restrictions that you’ll need to be aware of, but they amount to minor issues, especially when weighed against the risk of leaving your retirement savings within the immediate reach of a government desperate for cash.
After placing a juicy steak in front of a salivating German shepherd, it’s only a matter of time before he makes a grab for it. The US government with its $17 trillion debt load is the salivating German shepherd, and the $20 trillion in retirement savings is the juicy steak. //http://breakingdeception.com/countdown-nationalization-retirement-savings-begun/