The Crash Course

[apogee_man]

Clytle374 posted a link in the GM thread to Chris Martenson's site.

EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!!!!

Firstly, thanks Clytle374 for the link!

Martenson's research and analysis is thorough, accurate and to the point.  Regardless of which side of the fence one sits on, I believe there is much to be taken away from this material.

I would HIGHLY recommend taking the time to watch the Crash Course. 

Yes, it will take several hours.  However I believe once you start watching, you won't be able to stop.  I know I wasn't able to.

I believe you will be glad you did.

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse

Regards,

Steve

[Wizard]

Too bad, no closed captioned. 

Cheers, Wizard

[apogee_man]

Wiz,

From the faq section of his page:

http://www.chrismartenson.com/faq/i-am-hearing-impaired-and-would-know-if-transcripts-crash-course-are-available

It appears that just the Intro page is missing the text.

The other tidbit that I'd recommend is running the video also.  It is loaded with graphs and charts that correspond to the text.

Regards,

Steve

[clytle374]

http://www.chrismartenson.com/make-your-own-crash-course-dvds this is the page if you want to use bittorrent to get the whole DVD .iso image file. If you have broadband I recommended it. 

I am impressed that he went to the trouble to make this and encourages people to freely share it with others.

I checked the torrent and it looks to be 'healthy'

@Wizard:  I checked the DVD and sorry it isn't captioned.

[apogee_man]

Agreed,

Very impressive!

Thanks again for posting the link to it.

Regards,

Steve

[SHIPCHIEF]

clytle374;
Thanks so much for posting that link.
It was quite a slog sitting thru it all. I couldn't quit until I had seen the whole thing.
So many irritating little nagging thoughts got answered. The CPI index changes, GDP factoring, and leaving the gold standard were explained better than anyone had before (for me).
So much of this info is absorbed intuitively, after you get a 'half century old' you can see some of it. So along comes this Martinson guy and ties it all together in a way that shows the relation of all the parts/problems in a 'crash course'.
Must have been great to be one of the Federal Reserve Banks  legal authority to print money and loan it out with interest.
Well, it might not hold together much longer, if History is any indicator.

[Wizard]

Checked the links and thank you!!

Now I can read the transcripts and watch videos.

Grabbing the iso so I can give it to my pals to watch.

Cheers, Wizard

[Tom]

Excellent presentation and perspective of our situation!

Thanks for posting!

[Oiler]

Is it really that bad?

I'm glad i am where i am. We have been paying back our debts for the last 15 years.

[Stan]

The only people that can possibly hope to gain anything now by being in debt are huge multinational corporations who hope to get billions of dollars from government.
Stan

[Doug]

So now that my paranoid level has once again switch from Beige alert to Amber where is Chapter 20......

[clytle374]

So now that my paranoid level has once again switch from Beige alert to Amber where is Chapter 20......

Chapter 20 changes and is on the website. 

Is it really that bad?

I'm glad i am where i am. We have been paying back our debts for the last 15 years.

What does your immigration policy look like there?   And is it bad?  I think the governor spit the key out, and the guys watching it keep shoving the fuel rack the wrong way.

[Stan]

So how does one get hold of this dvd when your download speed is running at a blazing 120mb/s?
Stan

[clytle374]

So how does one get hold of this dvd when your download speed is running at a blazing 120mb/s?
Stan

Unless you meant 120kbs/s you are doing much better than me, took me over 2 days on a satellite connection.  bittorent is known for starting out slow and speeding up, it is a complicated and interesting algorithm of how it shares that data.  If a bunch of people here just started downloading it, it will slow down for a while until everyone involved gets different pieces, then speed up as they all share those pieces. 

[Stan]

Sorry, my mistake, I did mean 120 kb/s.  I'm at the end of a run of cable and the noise on the line is so bad they have to throttle back the speed to keep from getting unacceptable error rates.  They keep promising me an upgrade but their promises are just about as good as a polititions promises.
Stan