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Physics of Change will feature information in specific sections each month.
The information is intended to inform the readers of this newsletter.
However, it is not advice!! Any decisions made based
on this information are to be done
in a self-responsible manner.
Mulai de Guise Publishing, LLC cannot be
held responsible for any individual actions based on the information it presents.
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~~~January 2008 Edition ~~~
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way
of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war,
it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of US 1953-1961 > From a speech
before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
Section 1 - Q & A
Hi Greg, here's a question about gold. If gold is recalled I think the government will have to put some heavy penalties on the refusal to comply, making it illegal to own most kinds of gold. So if we do not relinquish our gold under these circumstances I think we will not be able to use it as to do so would be illegal. How can we buy our sovereignty with illegal tender?
When gold was recalled the last time, you faced prison if you held onto your gold and tried to sell it during the one year period. As you probably know, the government paid $8 an ounce for all gold that was valued at $4 an ounce and you had one year to comply. At the end of that year, gold was instantly re-valued at $32 an ounce. This reevaluation allowed the US to pay off some of its debt. Those who kept their gold and did not try to spend it during that year could NOW trade or sell it at the new-valued, 8 times higher level.
Another option as we will have time to know about such a possible recall is to trade your silver and gold coins for numismatic coins - these were not re-called along with dental and antique gold. There will be some guidelines and information on how to protect your coins and that would become available. However, trading your gold for numismatic coins or trading your gold for silver is another option that could be exercised ahead of such an anticipated recall.
It is very UNLIKELY that gold will be recalled, but we (students) have the perseverance to withstand such an action and a strategy will come forth if we need one.
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Hi Greg,
Happy New Year! Hope your holidays were delightful. Ian and I got really sick on the 18th of December, and stayed sick until a day or so ago. I couldn't eat, because of the sinus stuff, so got really weak. I ended up having continuous panic attacks in the night, early morning, and throughout the morning. I couldn't sleep for days. I am wondering if the neighborhood walk, perhaps a specific one, could help me get over these panic attacks and also the fear? I feel as though my whole constitution is weak, and it is hard to keep food and water in!! I am not used to being like this. I always feel in control of my life. I trust you, and figured you could help me.
I appreciate you so much!
Blessings,
Angela
Angela-
I had the same symptoms about twenty years ago. After 23 days of being in bed, panic attacks with cold sweats at night and without having eaten, I took a long walk and made a deal with God - that if I would live through the days of my panic, that I would dedicate my life (fully) in creating a better relationship with God. The healing started that very day and it took over a year to fully recover - but that was over twenty years ago.
I would suggest that you use the fear as an indicator that you need to change some things in your life. If you re-dedicate yourself to those changes, the panic will subside - its job complete.
Here is how I start one of my neighborhood walks: I am a warrior of change….A conqueror of my own limitations….fearless in my mind….fearless in my being….I have always been fearless!!!
I have being saying that every day for over a year.
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Hello. I want to thank you for your wonderful book and your kindnesses in reaching out to all of us to try and help us through these precarious times.
I have just gone through your archives and would like to ask for more clarity on a question posted and answered in your November 2007 newsletter. The questioner asks what about those of us who can not afford to purchase gold or silver---what is to become of us and what are we to do? I have a family of five children and we have always lived week to week. I attended and loved my experience at Ramtha's school two years ago and had hoped to return but found out I was pregnant. With four other children in the house at the time and a husband out of work, it just was not possible to attend again. Now I work on my neighborhood walk as often as I can with a new baby in the house, and I feel saddened and honestly, scared for my family when I read the latest turn of world events and the economic outlook. I have been buying extra cans of food when I can but things are downright tighter than tight financially. We have a mortgage, a lot of debt---credit card, medical and misc. debt--. I know I am not alone in this. What advice do you have to offer to people and families like ours?
I have tried to email you in the past for help but have not located any response. I know you receive a lot of questions and maybe I am simply missing the responses I need. I am asking if you could please respond personally to this via the newsletter or email. it means a lot to me and my family and I thank you for your time and consideration.
Spirit of Hawk-
My greatest advice to you is that you must find a way to STOP the continual "chatter" that you are listening to that continues to reinforce your current reality. Your greatest reward will be your ability to re-think yourself out of your current situation into a new and expanded reality. What I am suggesting is not easy - but it will deliver you from a normal human being, one who reacts to their environment, to one who can create any reality. In the beginning this re-thinking will be tested by your very own rational. It may not look like things are changing, but they are - change is inevitable to those who relentlessly pursue an outcome.
#1 - You must continue your neighborhood walk - EVERYDAY - put your baby in a sling and do your walk more times a day that you can possibly fathom. You are in a difficult situation - and you must re-write the script of your own story. When you do anything outside the confines of your own comfort - PROVIDENCE INTERVENES!!!
#2 - Please make a card (fieldwork size) or Treasure Map (a much larger card) with the images and text that describes what you want to create. I have done this many times with miraculous results. Many years ago, I made a Treasure Map to illustrate my dream trip to Egypt. I put it in a place that I could view everyday. It showed the Giza Pyramids and a picture of the Sphinx with me standing on the paw - and I put some words of encouragement - similar to: MY WONDERFUL TRIP TO EGYPT. It took about 6 months to create this manifestation through a set of unusual circumstances (they are always unusual when you let God create the details), and most interestingly was a photo I received several months after returning from the trip - sent to me by someone I met in Egypt showing me standing on the paw of the Sphinx - exactly as I had placed myself on my Treasure Map six months earlier. I have made treasure maps and cards to be used for fieldwork for cars, vacations, increases in salary, and for - EVERYTHING I HAVE THOUGHT I NEEDED EXTRA HELP WITH.
# 3 - You must change your thinking everyday!! You must PAY ATTENTION to your thoughts. Every time you catch yourself seeing your environment as a limitation, you have to re-write it at that moment. You will be amazed at how your limited thinking is exactly the way your life is organized. It is a plastic reality - able to be remolded according to new information (new thoughts).
#4 - Do what you CAN to the greatest of your current ability to become sovereign. If this ONLY means that you stockpile one extra can of food each month to be put in a bag or box marked - THE FUTURE, then that is where you start. This conscious effort can change everything in your life. It is a new attitude and will have vast implications on the opportunities that present themselves to you. When I needed to put together my biggest effort to become sovereign, the project I had to do was WAY beyond the resources I had available. I MADE A CARD that said: Project Completion!! It had a being on it with its hands raised in gratitude looking at a rainbow in the sky. I focused on that card EVERYDAY for 60 days. I stopped at 60 days, because in that time span, I had created the time, the money, and the expertise-assistance that I needed to start and finish the project.
At the end of the project - eighteen months later - when the landscape was finished and the tractor was turned off for the last time, I turned around and saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky which duplicated EXACTLY what I had put and focused on my card eighteen months earlier - Project Completion!!
#5 - Persistence is the law!! If you stay with your focus, the intent will manifest - it must - that is the law!! Nothing is more powerful than mind - and a determined mind is invincible!!
This is my advice. I have done what I am telling you to do. It will be a battle - I already know that - you are changing a neuronet and that is always a fight. I have nothing more I can say as you are now the one who must either engage this or not.
If you do engage this potential and you are successful, you will have learned the GREATEST knowledge there is and you will now be able to confidently pass this along to your family. That is how big this is!!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.....thanks to your encouragement and response, I WILL do this and all that is necessary to create this change for me and my family, and many, many blessings to you, your family and all who touch your life. Elizabeth
Already, in just the first trading day of the year, crude oil broke through the $100-a-barrel mark for the first time ever! Meanwhile, gold rose above $860 an ounce to an all time new high!!
Here is why these are just the beginning of a wild year:
Force #1: Geopolitical turmoil - As the assassination of Benazir Bhutto demonstrated, Pakistan is going to be a big problem for the world in 2008. So are Iraq and Iran. Russia, too, will flex its muscles more. And I'm sure Venezuela will pull some tricks, even though Hugo Chavez's "president-for-life" bid recently failed.
Add in our own U.S. elections - close races no doubt - into the mix, and you have a recipe for one of the more volatile political backdrops the markets have seen in years.
Force #2: Real estate woes - The subprime mortgage crisis is far from over. And falling real estate prices will continue.
This will continue to put strain on the world's financial systems. And it will force central bankers to continue throwing money at the problem. This devalues the US dollar and increases the value of gold.
Force #3: Soaring inflation - I believe 2008 will be the year that inflation finally rears its head in the official numbers in a majority of sectors.
Meanwhile, the dollar will continue to lose value, causing consumers to lose purchasing power month after month.
I think 2008 is going to be a disaster for most investors.
Do you think most analysts recognize that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is in a steep bear market and has lost nearly 70% of its value since 2000?
But that's precisely what's happened. If you measure the value of the Dow against the prices of tangible assets, it has lost 70% of its purchasing power in the past seven years.
In plain dollar terms, that means $10,000 invested in the Dow in 2000 would purchase only on average about $3,000 worth of today's goods and services.
This is extremely important for you to understand. It would be prudent to purchase long term goods while the dollar still has some purchasing power. This is a good time to buy tangible assets - all commodities are rising in price at a unprecedented rate!! Crude oil took out $100/barrel. Corn made an eleven year high. Rice made an all time high, soybeans hit a 34 year high… etc, etc, etc
I Continue to Recommend Natural Resource
Investments for the Year Ahead!
I think there's plenty of upside in natural resources investments.
Reason: When demand for commodities rises, so do prices.
Now factor in the other forces of - geopolitical turmoil, subprime woes, and rising inflation. Each and every one of those forces makes investors nervous, and send them running for protection, for real wealth and tangible assets.
They, too, point to huge profit opportunities in the natural resource markets - in select natural resource stocks and in tangible assets that flourish as the dollar continues to be devalued and as a new consumer class emerges in Asia!
So, if you think gold and oil are high now, just wait and see what the New Year brings!
Gold as an important investment in 2008!!
If you read my recent December newsletter, you know why I like silver as an investment and the reasons it is headed to new highs. Here are my reasons for investing in gold.
Gold logged big gains in 2007 - up about 30% for the year. I believe it should do even better in 2008.
In fact, gold's big breakout could come sooner rather than later. I wouldn't be surprised to see gold crack the $1,100 barrier in 2008, and probably go higher than that. Here is why ...
Force #1: Tightening Supply-Demand Outlook For Gold. Gold comes from a bunch of sources. Mines are one. There's also central bank selling and sales of gold scrap. Another source is hedging, or forward selling of gold production by miners - that's different from regular production in that it locks in future sales of mine production at a set price and helps price stability.
Taken together, these make up the total supply of gold. And despite soaring prices, the total supply of gold is barely keeping up with demand
The numbers for 2007 are a projection using the first three quarters of data collected by the World Gold Council. Exploding consumer populations in emerging markets like China and India are pushing demand for gold higher and higher.
But there is also the relatively new force of investment demand ...
Force #2: New Demand From Gold Investment Vehicles. Worldwide demand for gold as an investment rose to a stunning 618% from the year-earlier period!
Exchange-traded funds that hold physical gold - GLD and IAU in the U.S., GOLD in Australia, GLD in Johannesburg, GBS in France and Britain - held approximately 741 metric tonnes of gold at the end of November - up from just 39.4 tonnes in 2003.
The huge rush of gold buying by the ETFs is helping drive the market - the easier it is for investors to buy gold, the more they buy, and the higher the price goes.
But the big buying by gold ETFs in the industrialized world is just the beginning. The real opportunity is going to come when precious metal ETFs and mutual funds open up in China and India.
Traditionally, gold buyers in those countries accumulated gold in jewelry form. But there's evidence that is already changing. India already has precious metal ETFs and China shouldn't be far behind.
That means two countries with a combined population of over 2.4 BILLION people will suddenly be able to buy gold with ease!
And both China and India have middle classes that number more than 300 million people. Clearly, the effect of gold fever on prices could be enormous.
You can see that a large gap is starting to develop between supply and demand, and if it weren't for central bank selling and de-hedging by gold producers, it would be even worse.
When you look at mine supply alone, global gold production fell to a 10-year low in 2006, according to Gold Fields Mineral Service (GFMS).
In fact, there are some indications that supply could come under real pressure in the months ahead ...
Force #3: Global Mine Output Is Falling. Global gold production was down a full 3.1% in 2006 and was nearly flat in 2007.
Barrick Gold CEO Gregory Wilkins recently told the press:
"There's not much gold out there."
In fact, Barrick expects gold production will fall 10-15% below market expectations over the next three to five years!
This is three reasons why gold will go much higher in 2008 - and adding in the next leg down in the U.S. dollar, petrodollars pouring into gold, geopolitical risk, or other forces that could send the metal spiking even higher.
Inflation Is Beginning To Skyrocket!
So what does that mean for the markets? Longer-term, natural resource prices are set to soar in the years ahead.
Gold: Essentially, this precious metal is preparing for its next leg up, but with some wild swings. Headed ultimately for well over $2,000 an ounce, gold is likely to fluctuate for the next few months, between $750 on the low side, and $870 at the upper end of the range. If it goes below $800, this would be an excellent time to buy.
Oil: The bull market in oil and energy prices is NOT over by a long shot. I fully expect to see oil trade well over $100 a barrel, possibly as high as $200. Gas prices could hit $6 a gallon in 2008. That would make gas at the US pumps equal to that in Australia and Europe.
Silver: Silver will continue to lag behind gold for the simple reason that it is not a monetary metal. However, it will climb sharply when Asia begins to accommodate its middle class of 3 billion new consumers.
Agriculture: Food prices are soaring out of control. According to the Economist's food price index, prices have already hit 162-year highs!
And they have a lot more to go on the upside. The world faces a massive food crisis stemming from the same fundamentals driving other natural resources higher: Huge demand coupled with supply constraints and disruptions, not to mention global warming.
Soft commodities: Cocoa, sugar and coffee are just starting their bull markets. Cocoa is up 9% in the past month, sugar 11.8%, coffee 7%. All three could easily triple and quadruple in price over the next few years. Do you have a surplus of these commodities while the US dollar still has some value?
Three Billion People Are
Starting to Eat Meat!
Not only are emerging markets' populations exploding, but their food habits are also quickly changing. According to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, by 2020 demand for meat, poultry, and dairy products in 12 Asian countries - representing more than HALF the world's population - will soar as much as 55%! Beef consumption will increase by 50% ... pork 30% ... chicken 40% ... and dairy 55%.
BANKS IN TROUBLE
I would suggest changing banks if you have assets in any of the following - just five banks hold 98.5% of all the interest-rate and credit derivatives. This is the worst concentration of risk of all time:
JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wachovia, and HSBC.
Privacy rights in Canada eroding, report warns
JILL LAWLESS
The Associated Press
December 31, 2007 at 10:23 AM EST
Individual privacy is best protected in Canada but is under threat in the United States and the European Union as governments introduce surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and border control, an international rights group said in a report.
Canada, Greece and Romania had the best privacy records of 47 countries surveyed by the London-based watchdog Privacy International. Malaysia, Russia and China were ranked worst.
Both Britain and the United States fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies."
"The general trend is that privacy is being extinguished in country after country," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International. "Even those countries where we expected ongoing strong privacy protection, like Germany and Canada, are sinking into the mire.
THINGS I NEVER KNEW A CELL PHONE COULD DO.
Submitted by Jim Marino
San Diego County
# 1
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your
mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112
and the mobile will search any existing network to
establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly
this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
# 2
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come
in handy someday. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your
car door and have the person at your home press the unlock
button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end.
Your car will unlock. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away.
# 3
Hidden Battery Power
If your cell battery is very low. To activate, press
the keys *3370#. Your cell will restart with this reserve
and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.
This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell
next time.
# 4
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the
following digits on your phone:
* # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number
is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it
somewhere safe. Should your phone get stolen, you can
phone your service provider and give them this code.
They will then be able to block your handset so even
if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
# 5
Cell phone companies are charging $1.00 to $1.75 or
more for 411 information calls. When you need to use the 411 information option,
simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or (800) 373-3411 without
incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell
phone.
I stayed in India for 5 weeks in 1997. When I exchanged US dollars for rupees, I got a 4" stack of Indian rupee bills in exchange for several hundred US dollars - The following article demonstrates how much value the US dollar has declined in one decade.
Taj Mahal Won't Accept Bush Dollars as India Laments Lost Value
By James G. Neuger and Simon Kennedy
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Taj Mahal, one of the world's architectural masterpieces, welcomes about 2.5 million visitors each year -- provided they don't try to buy tickets with dollars. India's most popular shrine announced in November that it would stop accepting the U.S. currency and take only rupees, hurling yet another insult at the once mighty greenback.
TESTIMONIALS and COMMENTS
Greg, you are a wonderful god. My wife and I had some issues tonight and I left the house. I came to my office where I started to read your newsletter which is always fabulous. I am going to do my walk now and then I will go home and hug my wife.
See you again soon.
Kennedy Court
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