About The CHI Worldwide Center

Purpose
CHI Worldwide Center (CWC) will host people of all ages, providing tours, seminars, workshops, and outreach to promote and teach comprehensive integrative sustainability through the practice of permaculture farming and ranching, healthy living, weight-release, performance enhancement, recycling, zero waste architecture, and clean technologies. And lastly, CWC will provide retreats, homes, and rental properties for those who want the breathtaking peacefulness and life changing reinvigoration that truly harmonious living gives you, plus with the inherent security of our comprehensive sustainable philosophy and designs, you will be able to lay rest any fears and anxieties that the world of economic and environmental instability creates; knowing that in the midst of any instability, you have a safe, secure, and comfortable, but more to the point, sustainable place where you will prosper and enjoy life.

CWC Location
CWC will be located in Park County, Colorado. Within a few hours driving distance to Denver, Colorado Springs, and world-famous ski resort Breckrenridge. CWC is not only ideal for people wanting to commune more closely with nature, but also those who want to still be in somewhat close proximity to urban offerings. The high altitude of 8000+ feet makes CWCs location ideal for beatific mountain views, as well as solar and green energies; this region of Park County boasts over 300 days of sun annually.

CWC Facility
The CWC Retreat Center will be built and run using green, sustainable and environmentally sound principles, with a neutral carbon footprint and off-the-grid practices. CWC will be built using a combination of earth-sheltered, paramagnetic geodesic dome technology and sacred geometry, as these are the best-known ways of maintaining harmony with the environment. Sacred geometry and paramagnetic structures promote growth in seedlings, while the same exact seedlings die in conventional architecture and building materials. Additionally, earth-sheltered and geodesic dome buildings provides relief from exorbitant heating and cooling, as well as a decreased carbon footprint from energy expenditures, but utilizes sun and reflective technology for lighting. Earth-sheltered and dome buildings are also naturally resistant to human and natural disasters, as well as being naturally fire-, flood-, and pest-proof, so there is no need for the use of toxic chemicals. CWC plans to be a resource and example of sustainable building and living, and will host individuals studying green, environmental and eco-technology, lifestyle design, and zero point energy as well as those seeking to release weight, and achieve optimum health while simultaneously reconnecting and respecting the environment, the community, and themselves.

CWC Mission Statement
CWC's mission is to create, maintain, make profitable a space that disseminates tools, knowledge, and experiences that promote, support, and maintain individual, and community health and harmony with no other purpose than the integration of comprehensive sustainability through hands-on trainings, seminars, education, and products with the understanding that true comprehensive sustainability cannot be attained unless the individual is sustainable, internally and externally, and the participation of that individual in their culture and community is also sustainable, while at all times maintaining planetary and ecological sustainably through every aspect.

Comprehensive Sustainability & Their Technologies Employed At CWC

• Aquaponics
• Solar
• Wind
• DIY Tractors, Machinery, & Equipment
• Aviation
• Waste Recycling for Natural Gas
• Steam energy
• Extended Battery Technology
• Permacuture Farming & Livestock
• Water recycling: Grey, black water, and condensation collection
• Vortex Water Purification
• HHO & Electric Vehicle Technology
• Sacred Geometry Construction
• Geodesic, Paramagnetic Basalt-based Domes
• Sustainable Gardening and Personal Green Houses
• DIY Beauty and Household Products

CWC’s View of Integrative Sustainability
The design and use of human, technological, and natural resources, while ensuring humankind’s use of earth’s resources do not lead to diminished health or quality of life for this or future generations, diminished natural resources or adverse impact on economic opportunities, social conditions, human health and environment.

CWC’s Areas of Expertise

• Creating Integrative Sustainability
• Healthy Lifestyle Design
• Organic Eating & Cooking
• Urban Organic Gardening
• Aquaponics
• Urban Composting
• Aviation
• Renewable & Sustainable Energy
• Nutrition & Fitness
• Weight Loss
• Yoga & Pilates
• Martial Arts
• Body Work
• Documentary Film-making
• Motivational Speaking
• Hypnotherapy
• Flotation Meditation & Visualization
• Optimum Performance Enhancement
• Composting

CWC Community,
Education, Outreach&Accessibility

CWC will be home to and host people of all ages, providing tours, seminars, workshops, and outreach to promote and teach integrative sustainability, healthy living, and performance enhancement. Though CWC will host all ages, the focus will be on educating children in integrative sustainable living, so as to create in the upcoming generation a respect, love, and deep appreciation for nature, sustainable lifestyles, personal and environmental health.


CHI Community
Modeled with the philosophy that each individual's greatest contribution to their community is to be fully expressed as their individual selves, and that we are here to help and look out for one another, the CHI Community will be a growing populace of people wanting to emulate a more egalitarian and indigenous style of living in groups, while employing many modern technologies for effectiveness and convenience. The permanent, seasonal resident or weekend visitor of CHI will find all of their needs taken care of - meals, health care, utilities, entertainment, business, activities and transportation, CHI will be a truly all-inclusive, state-of-the-art, sustainable, and self-sufficient community. The current state of the world's relatively new practice of having and consuming more than you need is unsustainable and the notion that attaining one thing will make you happy, therefore two things will make you twice as happy is erroneous and ultimately self-destructive. The style of living where the health and well-being of your entire tribe is of the utmost importance was tried and tested for hundreds of thousands of years by indigenous populations all over the globe; CWC will be bringing this age-old wisdom of tribal living to the modern age. Think of an all-inclusive high-end resort that is actually ecological, sustainable and organic in all of its practices.

Sustainable Engineering Lab & Machine Shop
In alignment with CWC's mission statement, our state-of-the-art Lab will be home to many great inventors and technologies that work in harmony with the planet, and will aim to solve many of the detrimental issues related to energy and the by-products of modern society and its energy addiction and consumption. This is where the sustainable energies and technologies employed at CWC will be developed and improved with the purpose of creating cleaner, more self-contained communities worldwide. Additionally, the CWC Lab and Machine Shop will be equipped to repair and build anything the CWC may require - creating true comprehensive sustainability.

Urban Sustainability
Tours of eco-friendly, sustainable center, zero-waste building, earth-sheltered technology, as well as teaching how solar, wind, and hydro energies work, and create economic and employment opportunities inherent in sustainable building, living and community.

Sustainable Living Day Trip
Day-long tour and seminar to introduce and familiarize people with sustainable principles and techniques, created especially to demystify and integrate the ability to live in harmony with oneself and nature without sacrificing modern conveniences or cultural acceptability and adoption.

Organic Weight & Lifestyle Management
Ongoing and intensive workshops teaching healthy living principles including yoga, pilates, interval training, organic and sustainable gardening, eating and cooking. The intention is to learn in a beautiful, natural, mountain environment and gain an appreciation for being healthy in nature, therefore reinforcing the desire and connection for sustainable, healthful living.

Urban Fit
Ongoing and intensive workshops teaching how to live a more sustainable lifestyle in modern and urban society by teaching urban gardening, urban sustainability and meditative practices that will create and promote earth-friendly harmonious living. http://www.unreasonablehappinessonline.com

Mountain Fit
How to identify, survive and thrive in a wilderness environment utilizing CWC’s 40-acres as well as nearby reserves, state and national parks to promote a greater connection, understanding, and ease with nature.

Wilderness Survival
How to identify, survive and thrive in a wilderness environment utilizing CWC’s 40-acres as well as nearby reserves, state and national parks to promote a greater connection, understanding, and ease with nature.


Isolation Flotation Tank Meditation & Visualization
Everyone can benefit from the deep meditation achieved through sensory deprivation. CWC will greatly benefit olympic athletes and high-performance individuals interested in performance enhancement inherent in utilizing cutting-edge sensory deprivation, hypnosis, visualization and auditory training to achieve personal, athletic business goals, and increased performance.

Transformational Fighting Arts (TFA)
Ongoing and intensive martial arts classes, taught in a beautiful, natural setting to create connection with the environment and yourself. TFA draws from 30 ancient, classical and modern systems including Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do (Bruce Lee), Ba Kua, Aikido, Kali, and Ju Jitsu. Sifu Marcus, the head instructor, has over 20 years of experience, and though most of these systems don’t have belts or ranking, he would have the equivalent of a 9th degree black belt. http://www.transformationalfightingartsonline.com

Vision Quest
One to two-week intensive rehabilitation workshops that integrate all CWC has to offer, including meditation, visualization, hypnotherapy, flotation, yoga, martial arts, body-work, wilderness survival, organic eating and cooking, discovering your purpose within a sustainable ecology, spiritual and physical performance enhancement, training in sustainable lifestyle, and integrating spiritual and sustainability principles into everyday, modern living. http://www.masterytrainingsystems.com/

Sustainable Media Center
A fully functional production studio, media center, and editing facility able to broadcast and produce the highest quality documentaries, films, interviews, and web content. The CWC Media Center will be run with the philosophy that interconnectedness and communication are paramount, specifically during unforeseen environmental and world events. What sets our media center apart and makes it sustainable is that we will take precautions, and have protections and back-ups in place so that we may still operate and broadcast regardless of the aforementioned events.

Bionomic Airfield & Helipad
Nestled on CWC's scenic valley with easy and convenient access to Colorado Springs and Denver airports. With future plans to fly and maintain bio-diesel aircraft, and many other types of cutting-edge planes that utilize alternative fuel.

“It’s not about knowing it; it’s about living it.”
-Marcus Lovemore

Chi Worldwide Center
info@chiworldwide.org
http://www.chiworldwide.org
(310) 526-8606
Marcus Lovemore, Co-Founder
Katie Strand, Co-Founder

The Team

Sifu Marcus Lovemore - Director & Founder

Sifu Marcus Lovemore began his meditative practice at the age of seven and started studying Martial Arts at the age of nine. He began seriously training in martial arts and human performance at the age of nineteen in 1990. In 1995, Marcus was made a Sifu in Jeet Kune Do under Chris Kent. Early on in his martial arts, meditative and human performance studies, he understood his role as a teacher and devoured science and technology to find safe ways to maximize human performance. One of the most efficient and effective ways he discovered was through nutrition. Since then, he has trained everyone from couch potatoes and business professionals to weekend warriors and professional athletes with spectacular results that transcended their personal goals.

In 1998, he was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure, a “terminal” and “incurable” kidney condition, and according to Western Medicine one that would destroy his athletic lifestyle and would likely result in his early death after enduring seven to ten painful years of dialysis. Fortunately, Sifu Marcus instead used this opportunity to extensively learn about western and alternative medicine. With new found insights, he performed medical “miracles,” saving himself from many near-death experiences using the most unconventional techniques.

Sifu Marcus has expertise and specialized training in the following: external & internal martial arts, nutrition, organic raw & cooked culinary therapy, Weston Price diet, the primal diet, physiotherapy, elite physical training, biochemistry, kinesiology, psychology, meditation, herbology, naturopathy, osteopathy, Maori body-work, acupressure, assisted yoga, energy work, Qi Gong, physics, chemistry, biology, anatomy, relationship coaching, conflict resolution, graphic arts & illustration, NASM certified personal training, and tantra.

Sifu Marcus’s expert knowledge and experience in nutrition, healing and energy management has helped thousands of people excel far beyond their cognitive, emotional, physical, and life challenges. Sifu Marcus is an optimum human-performance expert who is the director of Mastery Training Systems, which he founded fifteen years ago.

Sifu Marcus Lovemore’s vast expertise and experience make him an ideal partner to collaborate with Katie Strand’s specialized talents to create a truly cutting-edge, sustainable wellness center like CWC. Both Sifu Marcus and Ms. Strand strive to create world peace. While this seems to be a lofty cliché and unattainable goal, we believe that change happens one person, one client, and one miracle at a time. This is what CWC is all about creating a peaceful and healthy world in each client and every moment.

Katie Strand - President & Co-Founder

Katie Strand has practiced, studied and taught personal, spiritual and psychological growth techniques, garnering a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology and certifications in Hypnotherapy, Yoga, Pilates and personal training. Ms. Strand is also an Emmy-nominated documentary film producer, worked on the Emmy-winning Nanking, and has worked with Emmy and Academy award-winning filmmakers in her tenure as a film and television producer, manager, and camera operator.

Ms. Strand’s studies at the University of Santa Monica in Spiritual Psychology were precipitated by over ten years of personal study in psycho-spiritual development and techniques. Her studies included many various trainings and workshops, for example: More To Life and the Clearing Process, Warrior I & II Intensive Residential workshops, and extensive Yoga training. Ms. Strand has taken these core-training experiences and developed her own counseling and therapeutic techniques like Theta Gestalt. In Theta Gestalt, Ms. Strand coaches people into a theta state, a brain-wave state that connects people to a universal consciousness or God, and has them communicate directly with their higher consciousness for clarity, direction and healing.

Ms. Strand emphasizes the mind-body-spirit connection for herself and all of her clients and students. The philosophy of training for growth with mind-body-spirit simultaneously is that all aspects of the individual are connected, as all things are connected, and one area cannot grow and thrive without acknowledging and developing that integral connection. This is where Ms. Strand’s gifts lie, in making that connection and illustrating it to help others to expedite their ultimate healing and growth.

Ms. Strand will combine her vast experience in film producing and managing, physical fitness, spiritual and psychological growth to oversee and guide the staff and clients of CWC to create a fluid and effective environment for the individual and community to flourish. 

Ms. Strand’s combined experience in producing, managing, physical fitness, spiritual and psychological growth make her uniquely qualified to oversee and lead a wellness center like CWC. Ms. Strand’s expertise, combined with the vast experience and knowledge of co-founder Sifu Marcus Lovemore create the ideal leadership team and healing synergy for a cutting-edge, comprehensively sustainable wellness center that will bring clients to their highest healing potential.

Stefani Paulus - Director of Business Development & Sustainable Marketing Investment Strategies

Stefani is a highly seasoned, result driven self-employed professional with extensive experience in implementing marketing strategies for automotive motor sports, major professional racecar teams, as a media facilitator and as a detailed research author. Confident and experienced in a leadership role, office administration, correspondence and maintaining relationships with clientele while remaining ethical, professional, punctual and displaying a professional manner.

Hands on experience in many aspects of a construction projects including Commercial & Residential Developments for active planned communities in Mexico and the Southwest part of USA, Aviation-Free Base Operation for build out of buildings, hangers, fuel depots, runway construction. Experience and use of earthquake expansion materials. Additional Commercial Construction and build out of performance racecar shop structures and interior equipment. Comprehensive knowledge of business operations including: training new employees, managing subcontractor relationships, the coordination of building department inspections and meeting project deadlines.

Exceptional performance and knowledgeable in cost and manufacturing a performance vehicle (race car), inclusive of components, chassis, engines, fabrication, interior electronics, safety devices, roll cages, standardized tool kits, and custom tools needed.

Developed a strong reputation for the ability to communicate with clients and the public throughout the entire marketing and construction process. These responsibilities included: meeting clients in a consulting/design capacity, defining scopes of work, estimating job costs, contract administration, permit documentation, project walk through, close-out and warranty work completion.

Jennifer Zunden - Funding Acquisition, Promotion, Event Organizing, Video & Graphic Arts

Jen Zunden is a creative human with a passion for bringing together inventors, products, and services with the appropriate investors. Main areas of interest are voluntarily funded groups including intentional off-grid communities, clean technology, and alternative media. She has experience in many fields including clean building, wildlife tracking, precision optics, event and media production. A former Green Team member at NASA (2007-2009), she woke up to the less-than-honest tactics they were employing, and turned down a lucrative job there. Above all she values the truth and won't trade her integrity for any amount of money. She has a deep love for the humanity, and is assisting our evolution through media, events, promotion, and investment.

Mike Waters - Sustainable Technology Strategist

Michael Waters is an advanced technology adviser, researcher, inventor and sustainable recovery strategist. He has previously owned businesses in, designed and built: multi-axis robotics, adaptive manufacturing systems, experimental aircraft, custom homes, portable housing systems. Michael's automated disaster recovery and library preservation systems are used worldwide at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Russian academy of sciences, instrumental in recovery of the worst library fire disaster of the last century.

In the last ten years Michael has researched cutting edge science and technologies that redefine current understandings in mainstream physics. He has established a large collaborative network of researchers and breakthroughs that profoundly affect fields of energy, mining, health, food, water, transportation, housing, sustainable economics and environmental recovery. The purpose of this research has been to discover causes of and solutions for the increasing number of global crises we now face.

A primary focus has been energy R&D, working with a diverse group of breakthroughs that combined, uncover new understandings in physics. These discoveries also explain why current global business and environmental models are fundamentally unsustainable. Michael is currently on the board of a number of organizations involved in advanced energy, mining, agriculture and finance and directly involved in developing several paradigm shifting energy breakthroughs. Michael's inventions span diverse fields including energy, robotics, fluidics, conservation, aviation and housing.

Green Society  

Their efforts will result in building temporary and/or permanent Intentional Communities, that are owned and managed by the Green Society Ministries.  These Eco Villages will showcase permaculture design, renewable energy technologies and green building techniques that facilitate an educational experience for all visitors on a tangible "how to" for sustainability.

Village designs will incorporate modular geodesic and/or monolithic dome structures, green-built infrastructures, organic mineral and element rich farming, "aquaponic" farming technologies, algae oxygen generators, structured water purification systems and self-sufficient centralized systems for energy production; as well as, water and waste management.

These villages will be fully sustainable, green built, intentional communities serving as eco-resorts  and living models for thrivability.

   

The Downside of The Electric Car

Anyone who is a student of environmental issues knows that fossil-fueled vehicles are a major contributor to our present predicament, and are unsustainable both from an emissions standpoint, and because the worldwide resource pool used to power them is in decline. The answer is often touted to be electric cars. But how “green” are electric cars? If a recent study is to be believed, not as green as you might think.
There are two basic lines of thought about the negative impact electric vehicles have. The first is that all the mining, refining, manufacturing and disposal associated with the required batteries comes with significant environmental costs, with special worries associated with the necessary lithium. The bigger issue argues that charging an electric car from a dirty, inefficient grid doesn’t reduce emissions, but rather simply shifts them to a new outlet, the power plant. That’s the “long-tailpipe” argument, and there are claims that under certain scenarios driving an electric car can be more environmentally detrimental than driving a fossil-fuel car.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100936/Study-shows-impact-electric-cars-worse-petrol-powered-vehicles.html

The Dark Side Of Solar Panels

The Los Angeles Times reports that we may be trading one evil for another with all of the potential waste generated from the life-cycle of a solar panel. While maybe not as harmful as mountaintop removal from coal or emissions emitted from the millions of cars on the road, the generation of electricity from solar does have its own dark side.Huge amounts of fossil fuels are used in the manufacture of the cells and, just like many other electronics, the waste metals not used in production also present their own disposal problems, mercury and chromium being two of the top problem-makers. We've also reported before that the installation of solar panels also includes toxic materials like the PVC and glues used in the conduit.

How Do We Know There is a Problem?

By looking at Asia, one of the leaders in solar applications, we see an area that is starting to have disposal problems from the use of all of the toxins during manufacture. In addition, the electronics industry generated 2.6 million tons of waste in 2005, most of which was ditched in landfills or incinerators, or shipped to developing nations for disposal. Meaning that either way it leached into groundwater, harmed the air or directly harmed people during the dismantling.

Insanity of the United Nations' Agenda 21

Our Domes

Sustainable Domes do not rot, rust, mold or burn.  They are naturally highly resistant to natural disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes.  They are manufactured in a controlled factory environment making them more cost effective than pre-cast concrete and site built homes.  Eco Built Homes offer 100% non-toxic, “breathable” materials that provide good thermal insulation and indoor air quality.

Eco Built Systems materials are fabricated from abundant resources found in nature and require far less processing and long-term maintenance than traditional building materials.  We strive to protect the families that live in them while preserving the planet we live on. 

 Sustainable Domes are designed to obtain the same benefits as Modular Housing through eliminating the headaches and potential pitfalls of the site built process.  Our products are less or comparable in cost to Manufactured Homes and far more superior allowing you and your family the opportunity to live in an environment that supports your health and well-being.

48 Foot Sustainable Dome 
 

1. Water Vortexer
2. Double Green House
3. Aquaponics System
4. Waste Water Reclaimation
5. Grey Water Reclaimation
6. Colonics Toilet
7. Zeolite Shower Filter
8. Solar Power
9. Wind Power
10. Plasma Enhanced Electrical Generator
11. Grounding Bed
12. Hanging Bed
13. Solar Heated Water Tank
14. Water Vortexer
15. High Tech Living Kitchen
16. Yoga Swing
17. Far-Inrared Sauna
18. Super Adobe Foundation with Radiant Heat

Food Crisis - NY Times

This is an alarming excerpt from the New York Times about the current and upcoming food crisis.

Food Crisis
NY Times

Food prices are soaring to record levels, threatening many developing countries with mass hunger and political instability. Finance ministers of the Group of 20 leading economies discussed the problem at a meeting in Paris last week, but for all of their expressed concern, most are already breaking their promises to help.

After the last sharp price spike in 2008, the G-20 promised to invest $22 billion over three years to help vulnerable countries boost food production. To date, the World Bank fund that is supposed to administer this money has received less than $400 million.

Food prices are now higher than their 2008 peak, driven by rising demand in developing countries and volatile weather, including drought in Russia and Ukraine and a dry spell in North China that threatens the crop of the world’s largest wheat producer. The World Bank says the spike has pushed 44 million people into extreme poverty just since June.

In 2008, 30 countries had food riots. That has not happened, at least not yet. Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has benefited from improved agricultural productivity. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warns that Mozambique, Uganda, Mali, Niger and Somalia are extremely vulnerable to instability because of rising prices, along with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Asia, and Haiti, Guatemala, Bolivia and Honduras in Latin America.

Misguided government policies could make matters worse. Some countries are stockpiling food. When India did that last year, food ended up rotting in storages. Others are imposing agricultural export bans, which discourages investment in production. The world’s wealthier nations must press them to rethink these polices and back that up with real help.

The Obama administration has proposed worthy initiatives, but even when Democrats controlled Congress it had a hard time getting the money. The administration has committed $570 million toward its pledge of $3.5 billion between 2010 and 2012. A World Bank fund that got $66 million from the United States will only administer part of the global aid effort.

It is now asking for $408 million for the fund — part of a $1.64 billion request for its Feed the Future initiative, which aims to bolster poor countries’ food production capabilities. Congressional Republicans are determined to hack as much as they can out of foreign aid. The continuing resolution passed by the House cuts $800 million out of the food aid budget — bringing it down to about $1 billion, roughly where it was in 2001.

The White House needs to push back hard. This isn’t a question of charity. It is an issue of life or death for millions of people. And the hard truth is that if the United States doesn’t keep its word, no one else will.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: March 30, 2011

An editorial on Feb. 25 about rising food prices misstated the amount of American aid to help poor countries boost food production. It has committed $570 million toward its pledge of $3.5 billion in new aid between 2010 and 2012. A World Bank fund that got $66 million from the United States will only administer part of the global aid effort.

"This is end of world type Stuff" - An Interveiw with David Amenduri

This is an interview with Daniel Ameduri (Future Money Trends) by John Williams (Shadow Stats). Economist John Williams lays out a grim picture of how we got here and the impact we’ll soon experience in every facet of our lives.

This is an interview that shouldn’t be missed. it is very I opening.

One of the leading experts on statistical analysis and economic theory in our country is giving us an outline of what’s coming. Listen well

[excerpts follow - see video above for full interview]

Williams: We’re in a no win situation. This is end of the world type stuff.I hate to say that.

Go back to September of 2008. The system was on the brink of collapse. That was in the end of the world as we know it – the financial world. They pulled out every stop-gap measure that they could. They graded whatever they had to do to keep the system afloat. That’s the type of environment we’re dealing with.

We’ve been living through some replays of that, nothing quite as serious. The end of the line fundamentals are not getting better. You’re in a situation now where the rest of the world increasingly has lost its confidence in the US dollar.

Ameduri: When you’re looking at this hyperinflation, when you’re preparing, how long are you actually expecting the chaos part to last?

Williams: I can’t tell you how long it’s going to last. I can tell you it’s likely going to be very disruptive to our lifestyles because we don’t have any backup systems to the dollar.

Ameduri: Are utility workers going to show up for work when if we’re in hyperinflation? Their checks are going to be worthless…

Williams: It depends how creative people get. You also have a chance of seeing disruption to supplies to grocery stores. And if food’s not on the shelves, it’s one of the fastest ways of turing to civil unrest.

What I would look to do is have a backup supply of at least several months of the basic commodities you need to live with – canned food, toilet paper, as well as barter items…

You want to be able to be prepared as you might be for a natural disaster…I think people should have supplies not only for natural disasters, but man-made disasters. And just to keep rotating your stock.

In this type of environment where nobody can get a safe return on their money within the United States that beats the official rate of inflation, buying canned foods and such is actually a better investment than a Treasury bill.

Ameduri: What’s the breaking point where we actually see that loss of faith in the currency?

Williams: Well, I think we’ve already passed it. We’re not seeing heavy dollar selling right now, but if you look at the global market response to what was being done in Washington, that was a loss of confidence…. They’re not going to let a systemic collapse happen so long as they can get away with what they’re doing and the markets allow them to do it.

Moving further down the road to the hyperinflation, it buys them time. That’s all it does. They don’t have a solution.

…Eventually you’ll see a collapse here of the dollar where the dollar becomes worthless. For people living in a dollar denominated world that means that the purchasing power of their primary currency is going to disappear. They need to protect themselves or to protect the purchasing power of their assets.

The proximal trigger for the big problem we have ahead, I believe, will be a massive sell off of the dollar. I can’t tell you exactly when it’s going to happen. It can be triggered by any number of things from a resolution of the Euro crisis to the next round of Fed easing whatever that will be.

We’re moving in a direction that clearly indicates you don’t want to be in the US dollar.

Solar Flare Effects on the Grid

Newly discovered evidence by NASA predicts that a super solar storm coming in mid-May 2012, which occurred on Earth in 1805, could occur again and knock out all electricity on the planet, taking us back 100 years.

Prior to 2006, researchers at NASA and other similar think-tanks discovered strong evidence that a solar storm is coming–and this week the most intense solar maximum in fifty years has been detected. The facts are starting to grow.

The prediction has been issued by a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Dikpati’s prediction is unprecedented.

According to Dikpati “The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one,” she says. If correct, the next solar maximum forecast for 2012 would be a global catastrophe–second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958 and 1805."

However, in 1958 and 1805 humans didn’t rely as much on technology as we do now. The entire economy and communications network of the world is dependent on these technologies–in a nutshell a solar flair would cripple us.

To seed where we are now, go to The Daily Solar Flare Daily Update window to the left. Also go the the Home page to find out how to prosper during the solar maximum this year.

NASA''s Concerns over the Solar Minimums

This is an excerpt from NASA's site: NASA Science News: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum/

Deep Solar Minimum

April 1, 2009: The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.

2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.

Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

"This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Above: The sunspot cycle from 1995 to the present. The jagged curve traces actual sunspot counts. Smooth curves are fits to the data and one forecaster's predictions of future activity. Credit: David Hathaway, NASA/MSFC. [more]

Quiet suns come along every 11 years or so. It's a natural part of the sunspot cycle, discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Schwabe in the mid-1800s. Sunspots are planet-sized islands of magnetism on the surface of the sun; they are sources of solar flares, coronal mass ejections and intense UV radiation. Plotting sunspot counts, Schwabe saw that peaks of solar activity were always followed by valleys of relative calm—a clockwork pattern that has held true for more than 200 years: plot.

The current solar minimum is part of that pattern. In fact, it's right on time. "We're due for a bit of quiet—and here it is," says Pesnell.

But is it supposed to be this quiet? In 2008, the sun set the following records:

A 50-year low in solar wind pressure: Measurements by the Ulysses spacecraft reveal a 20% drop in solar wind pressure since the mid-1990s—the lowest point since such measurements began in the 1960s. The solar wind helps keep galactic cosmic rays out of the inner solar system. With the solar wind flagging, more cosmic rays are permitted to enter, resulting in increased health hazards for astronauts. Weaker solar wind also means fewer geomagnetic storms and auroras on Earth.

A 12-year low in solar "irradiance": Careful measurements by several NASA spacecraft show that the sun's brightness has dropped by 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at extreme UV wavelengths since the solar minimum of 1996. The changes so far are not enough to reverse the course of global warming, but there are some other significant side-effects: Earth's upper atmosphere is heated less by the sun and it is therefore less "puffed up." Satellites in low Earth orbit experience less atmospheric drag, extending their operational lifetimes. Unfortunately, space junk also remains longer in Earth orbit, increasing hazards to spacecraft and satellites.

Above: Space-age measurements of the total solar irradiance (brightness summed across all wavelengths). This plot, which comes from researcher C. Fröhlich, was shown by Dean Pesnell at the Fall 2008 AGU meeting during a lecture entitled "What is Solar Minimum and Why Should We Care?"

A 55-year low in solar radio emissions: After World War II, astronomers began keeping records of the sun's brightness at radio wavelengths. Records of 10.7 cm flux extend back all the way to the early 1950s. Radio telescopes are now recording the dimmest "radio sun" since 1955: plot. Some researchers believe that the lessening of radio emissions is an indication of weakness in the sun's global magnetic field. No one is certain, however, because the source of these long-monitored radio emissions is not fully understood.

All these lows have sparked a debate about whether the ongoing minimum is "weird", "extreme" or just an overdue "market correction" following a string of unusually intense solar maxima.

"Since the Space Age began in the 1950s, solar activity has been generally high," notes Hathaway. "Five of the ten most intense solar cycles on record have occurred in the last 50 years. We're just not used to this kind of deep calm."

Deep calm was fairly common a hundred years ago. The solar minima of 1901 and 1913, for instance, were even longer than the one we're experiencing now. To match those minima in terms of depth and longevity, the current minimum will have to last at least another year.

In a way, the calm is exciting, says Pesnell. "For the first time in history, we're getting to see what a deep solar minimum is really like." A fleet of spacecraft including the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), the twin STEREO probes, the five THEMIS probes, Hinode, ACE, Wind, TRACE, AIM, TIMED, Geotail and others are studying the sun and its effects on Earth 24/7 using technology that didn't exist 100 years ago. Their measurements of solar wind, cosmic rays, irradiance and magnetic fields show that solar minimum is much more interesting and profound than anyone expected.

To seed where we are now, go to The Daily Solar Flare Daily Update window to the left. Also go the the Home page to find out how to prosper during the solar maximum this year.

This next excerpt is again from the NASA site about what you just read has to do with the level solar flares yet to come.

Solar Maximum
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Solar Maximum

The solar storm works in approximately an 11 year cycle. There is solar minimum (the least amount of solar storm) and solar maximum (the greatest amount). The last solar maximum was in 2001 and the last solar minimums was in 2006. The next solar max is predicted for 2012.

An article was published on NASA’s website in 2006 (during the last solar minimum) titled Solar Storm Warning . This article by Science@NASA’s Dr. Tony Philips explains that the 2012 solar max will be the greatest since 1958 (when the Northern Lights were visible in Mexico).

“The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one.” Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

The solar maximum image credit is to Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab, Yohkoh SXT and Kitt Peak National Solar Observatory.