The ECM Turning Point 2015.75 – The Start of a Trend is Now

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I was in Barcelona and was asked by many did I think the pro-independence parties in Spain’s Catalonia region would actually win. I told them it was inevitable for this is the global trend in motion. The vote for Catalonia is in – the separatists have won an absolute majority in regional elections. It looks as though the separatist alliance and a smaller party won 72 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament. They have declared that this will now allow them to declare independence from Spain unilaterally within 18 months.

The Spanish central government in Madrid has pledged to block any unilateral independence moves in court. Why? Politicians are no different than kings, dictators, or emperors. This is not about what the people want, it is all about maintaining power.

This vote is just the BEGINNING of the separatist movement around the world. Centralized government is dying. Society has always swung back and forth between centralized government and regional government. Once a centralized government grabs power, it will always expand until it consumes all power.

This is why I say that TAXES ARE NO LONGER NECESSARY. Money is no longer a commodity and the value of any currency depends entirely upon faith. Even gold has no value unless you believe someone else will accept it from you at some mutual agreed value. This is also why money cannot be a store of value for it requires ending the business cycle and life itself.

Why do we pay federal taxes? What is it really providing for the people? Taxes are necessary locally where governments cannot create money. Yet where government creates the money no longer tied to anything tangible but really the collective capacity of the nation (GDP), then there is also no need to tax nor is there a need to borrow constantly with no intention of paying anything back.

Now we have interest rates at near zero and governments need rates at virtually zero or the cost of government will explode. So it is them against the people always. Retired cannot live off of their savings and pensions are going broke all because government is the biggest debtor and it stupidly assumes it can raise or lower interest rates to steer the economy when they themselves are the biggest debtor upon which their own tools have no influence on fiscal responsibility. We live is a world that has totally gone mad and nobody will sit down and just look at how this structure is functioning.

The separatist movement is the breaking up of federal governments and the return of power back to regional governments. This is being fueled by taxes and the diminishing trend in employment and lowering of the living standards.
The Catalonia vote comes right on target with the Economic Confidence Model. This turning point is PROFOUND, for it is not the crash in stock markets, commodities, or the private sector. This is the BEGINNING of the trend which will see the fall of governments and the rise in demands for political change EVERYWHERE.

November 28th, 2018 will be the major target moving forward for political chaos. On the last two important wave formations, 1998.55 and 2007.15, this Pi turning point produced to the day the 911 attack and the day Greece asked for IMF help starting the sovereign debt crisis. So 2015.75 is the BEGINNING, and not the end of a new trend that will be very profound for our political future.