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aziba89   aziba89 Mutebi Papa Bwakya's TIGblog
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Make A Difference
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What have you done today that can be considered positive; no matter how small, that has made a difference and helped change the world for the better?
Any positive development, no matter how small, makes a difference.
Feel free to post your views and contributions; they may just motivate and influence someone else to do the same.

September 16, 2010 | 10:15 AM Comments  0 comments

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Are you ready for the Coming Great Depression? The U.S. is BANKRUPT
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Dear Fellow Concerned American:

We face a financial implosion of the American Dream on a scale that truly dwarfs the gas shock and out-of-control inflation of the ‘70s...

...the Savings and Loan failures of the ‘80s and ‘90s...

...or any other financial crisis our nation has faced since the Great Depression itself!

You know big trouble is brewing when top federal Comptroller General (David Walker) recently quit in frustration because as our government's top accountant had warned in vain – the nation's finances are going over a cliff and no one is acting to stop it...

...or a recent finding by the Congressional Budget Office that the federal insolvency crisis is so deep every U.S. household would have to cough up half-a-million dollars each just to save the federal government from bankruptcy! (And, as I show you shortly, the financial debt leverage of U.S. consumers themselves is even more scary.)

Now the word "Depression" is a strong term. But the "D-word" is exactly what's being bandied about by a surprising number of experts. Read on, because I name names!


Look Who Also Sees a
"Perfect Economic Storm" Building

A significant number of former high-level U.S. officials share my alarm that a "perfect storm" of financial woes are finally starting to catch up with the U.S. economy.

Unfortunately, because so many of these former insiders are no longer in a position of authority, the mainstream financial media rarely quote their blunt statements about dark storm clouds building over our economy.

For example, Former Treasury official (and now columnist) Paul Craig Roberts, recently said "Financially the U.S. is not an independent country... the U.S. is bankrupt."

Very recently, former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Paul Volcker stunned conferees of the prestigious New York Economic Club with this comment about the emerging dollar and bankruptcy crisis, "You don't have to predict it. We're in it."

High-profile international capital giants such as Barclays Capital are now advising their elite clientele to "batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm." Departing from its typically diplomatic tone, Barclays Capital added that the U.S. Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of its bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero."

My name is Lee Bellinger, publisher of the monthly financial, health, and taxation intelligence advisory Independent Living. In my two decades of publishing discreet information about government threats to your liberty, health, and prosperity, never have we produced as important a document as my best-selling new mega-manual, The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Invest Wisely, Live Comfortably, and Retire Worry-Free During the Coming Inflationary Depression.

We Have Been Warned
And Most People Still Aren't Listening

I really do believe future historians will read about such warning signs and shake their head that so few Americans listened and acted to protect themselves. (As I show you how to do later in this letter.)

I am writing you today because there is no precedent for the deep magnitude of the financial mess the government has landed us in. None. Zero.

Unless of course you count the Great Depression which started in 1929. (As one of my old Hillsdale College professors once noted, on average there's a depression about every 75 years – because that's about how long it takes for the afflicted generation and its children to forget the catastrophic mega-mistakes of politicians and central bankers.)


America's Reckless Spending and Consumption
Are Finally Catching Up With Us

Emergency election-year cash injections by the Federal Reserve Board to prop up failing banks is among the many quick fixes being used to stabilize markets right now. Congress is using its own gimmicks to placate voters more directly, which includes sending out millions of election year "stimulus" checks.

Unfortunately, desperation tactics like handing out "free" money to banks and consumers only deepens the ultimate problem. Worse, these inflationary cash-creation fixes are less and less effective with each use – much like a drug addict who demands larger and larger doses for shorter-lasting highs.

None of the frightening financial shenanigans roiling U.S. markets today would have been a surprise to America's Framers like Thomas Jefferson. His timeless wisdom warned against the ruinous money creation that has led us to the brink:

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered."


The Government's Bag of Emergency Tricks
is Almost Empty

Quite simply, I am giving you valuable advance warning that the government's bag of emergency financing tricks is running out. What's remarkable is absolutely no one disputes this, not the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Comptroller General or wily, ahead-of-the-herd billionaire investors like Warren Buffett. It just doesn't make the news; that's all.

Wall Street and the Feds have very few rabbits left to pull out of their hat. The main thing holding the system together is the residual confidence created by the accomplishments of past generations' savings, self-reliant nature, and can-do productive mindset.

In short, all that stands between us and a depression-level economic collapse is a "triggering event" (OPEC or China bailing out of the weakening dollar, an energy shock, or another major unexpected bank failure are among many other possibilities).

Worse, a massive and sudden run on the dollar looms as a distinct danger. That's because major holders of U.S. dollars – including OPEC nations, India, and China – are actively considering dumping the dollar. If that happens, the decade long slump of the greenback could turn into a panicked avalanche overnight – as capital is transferred out of the U.S. and dollar-denominated assets at the speed of light.


Millions of People Are Going to Get
Caught Flat-Footed and Clueless

What matters is this: America's coming collision with reality has been a long time in coming, yet is going to catch millions of middle class people hopelessly unprepared and frankly desperate. At least during the Great Depression and inflationary 1970s, people had substantial personal savings to fall back on.

But thrift and personal savings have been in the tank for two decades. In only 10 years, private credit card debt has doubled. And housing mortgage line-of-credit ATMs are being shut off by scared lenders as housing values continue to sink.

The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies notes that a record number of Americans have resorted to debit card raids of their already shrinking 401(k)s and IRAs to pay rising grocery and fuel bills. So it goes without saying this last round of consumption borrowing won't last much longer.

U.S. consumers and federal, state, and local governments are tapped out, it is as simple as that.


There's Danger in Numbers, Not Safety in Numbers

Some of what is happening is beginning to dawn on the masses as more people sense that all is not well. A national housing bust with no bottom in sight. A sick financial sector now nearly totally dependent on injections of inflationary Monopoly money from the Federal Reserve Board. And now, a Congress borrowing more money for helicopter drops of fiscal stimulus in an effort to inflate its way out of financial Armageddon.

I started work on The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide well over a year ago because I saw these storm clouds gathering and I didn't want a single Independent Living reader to be among the casualties when the you-know-what hits the fan. You absolutely don't have to take the fall if you make basic financial and personal preparations now. That's why it is so important you read through this briefing and act on the information I provide.

It's vital you begin making steps to prepare yourself now, while there is still time.

What has not yet sunk in with the general public is millions of bedrock American companies are facing an end to the cheap oil and easy credit on which our entire economy was built and is still based.


My Earlier Warnings Have Come True
and Continue to Unfold

Many Independent Living subscribers have been kind enough to thank me for warning them in advance and suggesting strategies to protect themselves from the continuing dollar collapse. Others have sent heart-warming notes of appreciation because they positioned themselves to profit from rising fuel prices that totally caught Wall Street off guard.

For example, back in April 2007 when financial "experts" on popular investment TV shows were urging people to sink their money into "Goldilocks" banking stocks, Independent Living readers were encouraged to get out. Even as key financial sector ETFs tanked by more than 40% so far, readers who heeded my warning avoided a major reduction in their net worth!

In November 2007 Independent Living defied so-called conventional wisdom to warn of a major Chinese stock market downward correction –- which turned into a whopping 40% rout.

It's great a handful of people are taking precautions. But it is more than a little disturbing that all of the negative developments documented in this letter have occurred even though political leftists aren't even completely running the show – yet.


The Worst is Yet to Come

What's truly sad about our current situation is this: Responsible people, just like you and me --- who live within their means and put money away in the most "conservative" savings instruments are headed off a cliff as the dollar continues to wither away. (Again, ignore any talk of a meaningful election year "rally" of the dollar – it is all smoke and mirrors.)

Almost as troubling as the financial crisis facing this country is official Washington's knee-jerk reaction to the unfolding mess it has spawned. The political establishment's "blame-investors-first" mindset for the ongoing melt-down of the dollar, looming capital controls, and the beginning of the end for the nation's deadly debt pyramid, is downright ominous.

Recently, for example, Senator Joe Lieberman (a close ally of John McCain and widely considered to be a "moderate") publicly advocated a plan to punish Americans who are attempting to flee the dollar by investing in commodities (wow, what subversives!). In June, beleaguered Republicans barely beat back a new law essentially making it a crime to shift investments out of the collapsing dollar (as so much of America's smart money has already done).

Believe-you-me, Lieberman is not the only one in Congress spewing discredited and failed economic dogma. Left-wing financier and billionaire speculator George Soros recently appeared before an enthusiastic Congressional panel and advocated the same nutty destructive "solutions" being advanced by the new emerging "powers that be" (Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama).


Congressional Calls for Nationalizing
Oil Production Are Already Here

Oil company executives are being hauled up before hostile congressional committees almost weekly, the July 2008 issue of Forbes magazine noted. Sentiment in Congress is building for large-scale hearings to place blame for skyrocketing food and energy prices on the few private citizens who have been smart enough to invest heavily in energy and other commodities.

Some Congressional Democrats are even calling for a direct government take-over of oil production as a way to lower gas prices at the pump –- an unthinkable option until very recently.

Barack Obama and many top Democrats are already pushing capital controls to prevent people from evacuating their assets out of dangerous investments (hence all the attacks against "speculators" you are now hearing –- it's all part of Washington's emerging war against small investors who are smart enough to get their life-savings out of harm's way).

The upshot of all this is that business-bashing by Congress is coming back into style in a big way. Lots of innocent people are going to take the fall, and I do not want you or me to be among them. That's why I am writing you today.


Survival Rule #1: Don't Go Down With The Ship!
You Do Not Need to be Punished
for the General Public's Stupidity

You and I do not have to be among the millions who have put their faith blindly in the stock market and U.S. economy. Those unfortunates are in for a rude, life-changing awakening.

I foresee armies of elderly janitors and maids among "retirees" who worked hard and saved all their life – their only mistake being they staked their future on lying politicians, stayed in a dollar collapsing under the weight of national bankruptcy, and blindly trusted the integrity of their mainstream investments.

It sickens me to watch the lying political scum in Washington continuing to get away with shearing an all-too-obedient and accepting public like sheep.

I have resolved not to become a sucker or victim in the emerging financial chaos. I am planning to be one step ahead of the general public. And at least three long steps ahead of the rip-off artists in the political class who always manage to find ways to fleece the public during a crisis. (I hope you'll be with me.)


You Don't Have To Be A Victim.
You Can Be A Winner in the Coming Chaos

In fact, despite my gloomy tone, rest assured you can make a fortune in a major recession or depression with just a bit of planning and foresight. Which is among the many, many reasons you quite simply cannot afford to be without the information in this carefully-researched, totally comprehensive National Bankruptcy Survival Guide.

Now part of me feels sorry for the unprepared – because they are the first in line to get clobbered. Another part of me is angry at the U.S. electorate for being so led-by-the-nose gullible. How many lies and deceptions do the politicians have to tell before people catch on? The political class has caused these problems by their actions (and inaction) and has led this country and its middle class to utter ruination and destitution. Now they tell unbelievably naïve voters they are going to "step in" and "fix" things. How can anyone still believe them?

Trusting big government clowns to do the right thing isn't just stupid. It's suicidal. The sick notion that "government cares" and will step in to protect our interests is dangerous nonsense that millions of gullible people have fallen into. Didn't anyone learn from the Hurricane Katrina debacle just how dangerous government incompetence can be when you rely on bureaucrats to help you in a crisis?

Smart people know we are all on our own and have good reason to fear the government's reaction to the financial crisis it has spawned. Personally I would rather take my chances being an ant at an Aardvark convention than trust my future to the liars, thieves, and freedom stealers in Washington.


This Exclusive Manual is For A Select Group
of Forward-Thinking Individualists Who Don't Want To Be Victimized By the Public's Gullibility

Granted, showing contempt for the voting public is "bad form" in America – but that's just where I come down. It is a time to make preparations, not get caught up in political correctness and all the "we-are-all-in-this-together" crapola that Barack Obama and the Washington establishment are serving up to stubbornly gullible voters.

Which is why I should warn you The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide isn't for everyone. If you think Uncle Sam is on your side I strongly recommend against getting this manual. I designed it for serious people – individualists who can look past the headlines and are willing to face hard realities. Self-reliant individuals who still value independence and appreciate the importance of obtaining an inexpensive, prudent, doable insurance policy to guide them through the difficult times ahead.

The way I see it is you and I absolutely do not have to suffer for the foolishness of the American electorate who trust political pit-vipers to safeguard their interests. We are way past the point where trying to spread the word to voters about the evil designs of big-government liberalism can head off the coming crisis. I created The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide, in part, because there is no Ronald Reagan on the horizon – we are so completely on our own!


Why This Manual Is Not For Everyone

The bottom line: My new National Bankruptcy Survival Guide is decidedly NOT for people who have their head in the sand when it comes to the ill winds blowing in America's direction. So you will not find it anywhere else. Not in bookstores or newspapers. And certainly not from financial advisors and brokers who shill for Wall Street. I assiduously obey the law, but I still prefer a low profile in my personal financial planning and assume you do too.

To develop this must-read work, we began by systematically researching what far-sighted individuals did to survive and prosper during the depression-ridden 1930s and inflationary 1970s.

So instead of wasting time you really don't have for thousands of hours of highly-specialized financial research, you can get ALL of the best options at your fingertips right now. And at a very affordable cost!

This manual goes far beyond complaining. It shows you how to prosper even as millions of Americans are devastated by the collapse of the U.S. dollar, the coming ugly inflation and the government's draconian countermeasures to "manage" the chaos. The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide is designed to help you without having to make radical changes to the way you live or invest. Quite simply it is the best insurance policy money can buy.

You need a comprehensive plan to not get crushed like a bug when federal officials start making reactionary, destructive emergency policies out of desperation. Not a bunch of theories, or ineffective carping, but practical steps you can take right now so you will not be left holding the bag like millions of gullible Americans will be.

I guarantee even if you are already making emergency preparations, there will be a great deal of useful information for you in my National Bankruptcy Survival Guide. To give you an idea of just how important the information in this great manual is, consider these highlights:

Details of Barack Obama's shocking plans to punish investors who are fleeing from the dollar and the stock market.
The untold story behind the government's desperate efforts to suppress gold prices and everything you need to know about a murky agency behind it: The Exchange Stabilization Fund.
If Democrats sweep Congress and the White House as expected, here is a list of terrible freedom-crushing bills they will introduce for enactment right away.
Investment successes from the 1930s and 1970s -- Great material!
10 popular but deadly investments during the inflationary 1970s – also MUST-READ!
Why food co-ops are going to become a very popular money-saving option. Here's how to get in on the ground floor.
Everything you need to know on how to save BIG money on food purchases.

This is Information You Won't Find Anywhere Else!

A listing of capital controls likely to be slapped on holders of precious metals.
Bow-Wow Alert! The chances are very good your broker has loaded you up with these popular mutual funds packed with U.S. companies founded (and still dangerously dependent) on cheap gasoline, no-questions-asked credit, and Baby Boomer consumerism. This section ALONE is worth far in excess of the price of the manual I want to send you.
This hidden trend shows the sad fall of American financial might – we now graduate 10 lawyers for every engineer.
The all-powerful secret political group and their blueprint for gas rationing. This elite cabal of Washington insiders almost always gets its way – this is one of the most astonishing parts of my new manual.
Yes, you can smile every time fuel prices go up. You can do this on a small or large scale and make money even as the public wrings its collective hands at the gas pumps.
Food prices are just beginning to skyrocket. Let me show you how to cash in on this unfortunate trend. It's easy, safe, and profitable.
Four categories of investment to run away from and four you should embrace immediately.
In the past two years I have warned people away from major bank failures by naming names – this section of my manual shows you how U.S. banks must now resort to sneaky accounting practices just to create the appearance of being solvent when in fact they are not. This is absolutely must reading.
This is exactly the kind of information you are going to need, and very soon!


A Must-Read Blueprint Created for
My Own Personal Emergency Planning

Each and every American family should have access to a copy of my National Bankruptcy Survival Guide. There is absolutely nothing on the market like it. It's a totally must-read document that I developed for my own personal planning to protect me, my family, my business, and my cherished subscribers.

The National Bankruptcy Survival Guide is your first line of defense against the coming financial meltdown and the Washington establishment's harsh political witch hunt against productive people. It contains information on how to live and prosper in this inflationary environment where the value of your money is going right down the drain – just to save the government from its massive insolvency crisis.

Even better, you can follow the blueprint it provides without radically changing your life. Its contents are not theoretical, but rooted in practical – but simple – action.





September 19, 2008 | 3:26 AM Comments  2 comments

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abbyorisha   abbyorisha Abigail Ngulube's TIGblog
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ENTREPRENEURS - It Is Not Easy To Be An Entrepreneur
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To get some idea of what it is like to be an entrepreneur, let's try to place ourselves in the shoes of one. Our definition of an entrepreneur says he or she does any or all of three things:
(1) searches out and takes advantage of new business opprtunities,
(2) develops new products, or
(3) develops new ways of doing things.

With respect to the first task - searching out and taking advantage of new business opportunities - let's first ask ourselves how we would go about searching out new business opportunities. There is no book in the library which will give you a personalized answer. There is no book on your New Business Opportunities with a specific blue print for you. And even if there were, by the time the book was published and found its way into the library, the business opportunities listed in it would no longer be new. most people, when confronted with the task of finding a new business opportunitty, end up scratching their heads. The fact is, most people are not entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are a tiny minority of the population.

Think about the second task - developing new products. What new product can we think of developing? We are accustomed to thinking in terms of products that already exist.

Think about the third task - developing new ways of doing things. First, ask yourself, What "things" would we want to do differently? This, in itself, is a hard question to answer. The next question is, How would we do these things differently?

The discussion so far should give you some idea of the types of obstacles, problems, and questions the entrepreneur has to overcome, solve, and answer. Now, let's consider another issue. If an entrepreneur comes up with an idea for a new product, develops and produces it, and then offers it for sale, how are we made better off?

Think of entrepreneurs who have done this in the past and how you wee helped . For example, think again about Steven Jobs, one of the developers of the personal computer. Was your life affected in a good or a bad way as a result of his entrepreneurship? Most of us would say that we were affected positively by the introduction of the personal computer. What about the entrepreneur who first developed the compact disc.

Finally, an entrepreneur has an ethical responsibility to people to put forth a safe product or servise.

Your Friend Abigail abbyorisha


September 10, 2008 | 3:36 AM Comments  0 comments

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Zambian Links
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March 5, 2008 | 10:20 AM Comments  0 comments



Matongo   Matongo Matongo Maumbi's TIGblog
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Music, Culture and Youth
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Zambian Music is said to be on the boom. What does this mean to an ordninary Zambian whose primary business is to listen and watch the music?

Where have we lost our culture? Has the dynamism in culture been for the better or for the worse? Where are we from and where are going to? Whose responsibility is it to restore culture?

Are youths ready to be the leaders of tomorrow? Who or what causes unemployment? Should youths remain dormant when they are not employed? What are the alternatives?

August 24, 2005 | 5:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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chrismudenda   chrismudenda Chris Mudenda's TIGblog
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Brutal Facts of Life (BFOL)
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You should have been there with me as well. I was with a friend, a ‘TIGer’ as well, on the bus back home from town. It was peak hour and traffic was crowded in the Great East Road, the shortest route to home in marshlands. I normally drop off as the other passengers proceed to their respective destination.
This day was different from the others as brutal facts of life once again made me realise how hard work is important in life. Only behind me sat this guy who, with the freedom of speech and expression in Zambia over rod the prevailing silence in the bus and took the attention of everyone on this bus. It was common sense for everyone to notice that this guy was actually drunk, may be not too drunk as he was yelling, talking and singing loudly aboard. We normally submit fares about USD 00.30 on average and at the most per person. Trouble started when this drunk claimed to have lost a five thousand Kwacha note(worth almost a US Dollar) right in the bus. He could not hesitate in accusing those sited close to him as immediate pilfers. He yelled out in demand for the lost cash and automatically scared the weak ones near him. He plucked his pockets in anguish removing all days’ remaining little earnings. After pulling out all sorts of gadgets from his belongings he finally came across his “lost” cash. You should have seen his face transform from this enraged savage to one resemble a winning lottery punter, for he was now certain that his supper was going to real thing. Less than a dollar claimed lost in the bus was a reason for this hive of activity!!! My other TIG colleague, upon dropping g off the bus, lamented the brutal facts of life that even led a brother beat to death his fellow brother over a peace of meat. BFOL why some husbands are beginning to count the number of chicken pieces in pots in the kitchen. BFOL why people resort to eating roots and wild fruits to live on. These are but in the chain of brutal facts of life. You may be having an opportunity in life right now and you may not seem to realise just how valuable it may be until certain brutal facts of life catch up with you. You can evade some extreme ends in life by working harder for now and by the way hard work is only possible with a bit of some sacrifice. The drunken brother above was ready to tear up people in the bus for a dollar, his final days’ savior to his hunger state. Take time to review and even cost what is round you at least once a week, as this would help you get restored on your focus. Just don’t take anything for granted in life lest you get visited by brutal facts of life.

January 13, 2003 | 11:20 AM Comments  0 comments

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sepiso   sepiso Shalala Oliver Sepiso's TIGblog
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Youth Employment Summit Network in Zambia
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We have a very successful YES meeting in Zambia today. Happy to be part of the whole process once more.


July 19, 2002 | 10:53 AM Comments  0 comments

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