Re: Is a Madmax outcome coming before 2020? Thus do we need anonymity?
All great leaders must have an audience. How else are they supposed to feel important? 
We cannot all be leaders
Disagree. Maximizing entropy means we are all leaders in our local frame-of-reference. What you imply is we can't all be top-down leaders of others. Agreed and as we eliminate the requirements for such top-down organization, we will enable more people to be their own leader. Prosperity!
Armstrong provides his evidence for speculating that there is no global conspiracy.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/02/08/europe-is-a-basket-case-just-turnout-the-lights-now-save-energy/
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One of the primary reasons I disagree with conspiracies to rule the world as if someone was really in control, has been the fact that I have been Behind the Curtain since the 1980s. There is no all-powerful group who knows what the heck they are doing. Everything is purely ad hoc and it is far worse than anyone can even guess.
Before I respond, I want to collect below the links to all the posts I have made refuting Armstrong's position on this matter. Let's reread my prior explanations first as follows. I suggest you right-click each of these links and choose from the pop-up menu "Open link in new tab" on your browser.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4298688#msg4298688
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4318137#msg4318137
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4320656#msg4320656
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4336719#msg4336719
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4791573#msg4791573
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4810251#msg4810251
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365141.msg4943871#msg4943871
First of all, let me be clear that I hope there is no global conspiracy because I would rather be competing against idiots in ad hoc chance than against an very powerful astute elite. Secondly, I have stated that it doesn't affect my plans much either way.
Logic 101 says that if the very astute elite are very secretive and careful to pull strings in ways that the lower echelons of the bankers remain compartmentalized, then Armstrong would not have been able to see their actions while he was inside the curtain of the lower echelons. By lower echelons, I mean that the political, banking, and nation-state institutions are just DISPOSABLE pawns in the strategy of the hypothetical global elite.
Never did I write this global elite has to be in complete control. I hope Armstrong has read Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley.
Rather the global elite attempt to capitalize on opportunities that arise from the order amongst the chaos of the universe. They also know the world runs in cycles. They would not destroy Armstrong (and probably pulled the strings to get him out of prison), because they desire to have as much information as possible and his work is important. I also ponder if my work is important enough that any such elite might believe it is important to not destroy me.
I hope you can appreciate why I would never want to be provably the KEY developer of a such an anonymous coin. One doesn't need to break any law to be a target for assasination. The USA and Europe are not far behind in terms of having laws and executive orders to assassinate citizens without a trial if they are categorized as a "terrorist". I could see myself publicly contributing in a minor refinement bounty work role on such an altcoin, for as long as I am not the creator.
They understood a long time ago (see my link to the 1988 Economist article predicting a world currency by 2020), where the cycles were heading, to design the Euro to fail, to bring about the global crisis in order to require a solution of a single world currency SDR that the regional currencies will float against. Btw, the Asian Union is scheduled for full implementation by Dec 31, 2015. The 10 Kings (reqions) in the Bible is coming true. This is not complete control. They just understand how the power vacuum of democracy must move to higher economies-of-scale i.e. world governance and currency, while the chaos (entropy) will increase with greater freedom at the individual level i.e. end of nation-states, freedom to travel any where, internet empowering self-publishing and enterprise, etc as discussed in the last couple of pages upthread and the linked thread at the above quote of myself.
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I had conversations with the people Behind the Curtain and the German Central Bank use to provide us with details on the upcoming Euro because they could see it would fail.
I desperately tried to explain that you could not create a single currency to rival the dollar if major capital could not park in bonds of one major unified state. The planners assumed that leaving the debts spread-out among all states would work since they would be denominated in the new currency.
I desperately tried to explain that you could not create a single currency to rival the dollar if major capital could not park in bonds of one major unified state. The planners assumed that leaving the debts spread-out among all states would work since they would be denominated in the new currency.
The elite were very happy that you explained how it would fail, as this fit perfectly with their plans. And so they let made sure foolish lower level planners were there to disagree with you. Welcome to the term compartmentalization.
Armstrong doesn't see this because he is not invited to Bilderberg, CFR, Trilateral Commission, etc meetings. In these meetings, the globalists discuss these strategies. In fact, it has been documented that only the very upper echelon at these meetings get together to discuss the most secretive and sensitive components of the global strategy for domination.
These institutions to which Armstrong has been inside are just THROW AWAY pawns in the global strategy. Armstrong is not a member of the global elite and has no inside contact with them.
Armstrong is aware of some of the actions of a few of the elite such as trades of Warren Buffet or Soros, but he is not privy to the strategy meetings when such elite meet in private. Refer for example to a photo of Buffet meeting with a Rothschild and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently the Terminator has become very trusted, but I don't know to what level he is inside.
Can Armstrong with a straight face tell me that Warren Buffet is an idiot as he claims the NY Club bankers are? Buffet invests based on a mathematical calculation of value and he trusts the power vacuum to keep society moving towards greater top-down organization and not disintegrating into bottom-up chaos.
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The German high court did refrain from issuing a final ruling on the legality of the plan, that is now known as Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT). Instead, it referred the case to the European Court after providing a pre-judgment of the issue making it more difficult for the European Court to bless the politicians as would the US Supreme Court. However, in the middle of the next crisis, the ECB will still act and the European Court will bless the ECB seeing this as a no choice decision to save Europe. Nevertheless, the German high court has made it clear that it considers the OMT decision incompatible with primary law.
Why can't Armstrong see that this is just engineered theatrics to make it look like an opposition exists. In reality there is no opposition and the globalist plan is on track.
Of course the global elite made sure to install an honest court that has no power to stop what is coming. This makes it look like there is no complete control. It keeps the people appeased until the end, as they have hope for a honest outcome that won't come.
As much as I admire Eric S Raymond's prose and intellect, he rubs me the wrong way (as I do him also) because he as far as I can see he is an inconsistent hypocrite...
Some more evidence of his linguistic genius. I can't do that.
I can't post on his blog, so let me state my wild-ass theory here. Perhaps his mind has deduced the possible patterns of derivation of English and other derived languages such that he computed the only possible common phonetics of German by inverse derivation.