The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order [Hardcover]

Vickers assembled an impressive collection of reasons to believe a worse financial storm is coming. Most of the book is devoted to listing, explaining and charting how our collective debt cannot be repaid. I was already convinced of this. It can't be repaid in current dollar terms - this is widely accepted as irrefutable. But financial analysts already published nearly the equivalent in volume to half the tax code on the subject. Most of the book was redundant to me but the argument was presented masterfully.

The unique and interesting part is where Vickers finally describes a two week period where a new world order is born, and the dollar system dies. Triggering this is essentially the Chinese decision to stop buying Treasuries. That's really the day the dollar dies, according to Vickers, a scion of the Rockefeller family. This is where Vickers shines and makes his mark in contemporary Declinist literature.

While tempted to tell the sequence of events following the Chinese decision, I should not. That would spoil the plot. But I will suggest that since the drama is based on informed speculation, it would make a great movie. Movies about natural disasters are plentiful. Subgenres include epidemics, space disasters and transportation disasters. A financial disaster movie where people panic to the extent Vickers describes might be a Hollywood hit. Just thinking about it scares me. I don't feel prepared for anything that terrible.

The book's weakness is where it addresses survival. Advice about surviving the predicted bad times was dealt with in only an introductory way. As expected, we should have gold, a sound idea but not new and lacking specific advice with regard to purchasing, safeguarding and trading. As expected, the immediate post-crash environment is described as one of empty grocery stores and useless ATM machines. I personally need a lot more detail in practical terms on the subject of surviving such a financial disaster.

Most of the book, a recounting of the ways the debt cannot be repaid, could have been reduced to a 10-page appendix. Those for whom the looming debt problem is news will get more value. We all benefit from learning the potential sequence of major financial and political events following China's action.

This book has nothing to do with the title of the book. 98% of the book is a treatise by the author on his political opinions and thoughts on everything from the enviornment to drugs were taking. It's a rambling bunch of nonsense that Nancy Pelosi would endorse. Don't waste your money on this book when there are a lot of other books available that actually give you some meat. To describe this tome as a survival guide is a joke.

Bought the book believing that it would be about "The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order". The book only breifly touches on this topic. The rest of the book is Buddhism 101 and a tear down of all the percieved social, environmental, political ills according to a Buddhist viewpoint.

Followers of eastern religions (i.e. Buddhism, Hindu, Zen, and New Aage) will most likely enjoy the book. Others will most likely be put off by the book. The book is entirely based upon Buddhism and the belief that we must all reach an enlightened state of "oneness", especially with nature to get ready for the acceptance of a New World Order as perceived and embraced by the author.

Some quotes from the book (not all inclusive):

On Oneness
"The moment you change your mind or your behavior, you might become that hundredth monkey that tips the scales on this planet by adding your mental energy to some master mind we all share. "

"I believe our ultimate task is to learn to unify in Oneness and to embrace the humanity in all of us rather than perpetrating our separateness."

"In this day and age, I would expand those rights beyond just human beings to all living beings; to the dolphins and turtles, to the whales and eagles. That is the huge leap we must make in order to live in harmony with and on our planet." (What about plants, insects, rocks, plankton, etc.) (See below)

"We are in the process of evolving as a species; a major part of that evolution requires that we live more harmoniously with our environment. We need to start recognizing the interconnectedness of all living things. We need to start living with our resources rather than off our resources."

"We are part of the food chain and just because we have convinced ourselves that we are on the top of that food chain, it does not in fact make us better than the plankton that breeds in the coldest depths of the ocean."

"Part of the New World Order, the shift to a sustainable world, lies in people making a shift of consciousness, a shift that acknowledges and embraces the oneness and interconnectedness of all things."

On The New World Order Mantra - The author is in lockstep with the idea of a New World Order by "Shaping the New World Government Order"

"In the New World Order, the Central Government (CG) would need to have the power to regulate the size and growth rate of the governments of individual countries."

"Smart leaders .. will take decisive action and join together to hammer out a constitution for a Central Government that can oversee the interests of this planet and the all life on it." (Who will elect the smart leaders, we can't do that today, ahha the "Self Elected")

On Nationalism

"Once we stop wasting the energy and resources used to maintain individual nationalism, once we get the self-righteous, posturing political leaders out of the way, a New World Order can get down to the business of increasing global efficiency and economic and environmental sustainability."

"An effective New World Order would not be about homogenizing cultures; it would be about embracing our commonality while honoring our differences. " (So is adultery going to be punished by death?)

"We can maintain our individual distinctions and still focus on our similarities. Then we can truly start to live on this planet in harmony and embody John Lennon's dream for people to live as one." (Thought I was watching the Miss Universe pageant.)

"I am saying that arbitrary national borders may no longer be as pertinent." (Muslim extremist would welcome easy access to conquer the world.)

"I think instead we might see nations represented more as states of a global government. These states or regions might be defined by some logical geographic boundary or the kinds of cultural distinctions I've already mentioned" (US has many diverse cultures, divide up US?)

"..and now we see many Africans living in chaos and squalor, victims of violence and drug addiction: behaviors imported from our Western culture." (Africa is being bombarded mercilessly by Islamic fundamentalist (eastern culture), and the world watches and does nothing?)

"I believe we will see at least one individual come forward to lead this group. I think we will see a charismatic, singular global figure who will lead the world. That person needs to be willing to stand up and step forward. That person lives today." (Anti-Christ - you got this one right.)

On Other Items

".. And if we are miracles, then we can make miracles, including turning our planet into a heaven. It is not for us to seek heaven in some abstract place. We need to create heaven here, now, on earth. And we have the power to create those miracles if we use love as our guide."

"The truth about religion is that much of religion is based on myth. It's one culture's fantasy versus another culture's fantasy. Every religion believes that they have a monopoly on the truth. Some religions are scarier than others and some are more hypocritical than others, but they all have absolute faith that they have the right to perpetuate their own beliefs." (Wouldn't be called a religion then would it?)

"If being religious means that we blindly follow our leaders, then it is not good for us. If our religion does not promote compassion, it if does not include all life in that compassion, then our religion should be discarded. We should embrace a religion that sanctifies not just human life, but all life as being sacred." (Really?)

"I'm not pushing any particular religion, ..." (Buddhism?)

"The CG should be tolerant toward religious organizations and beliefs and not interfere with spiritual practices unless they exhibit violence or intolerance or interfere with the rights of other living beings." (Intolerance? Who defines? Some believe that if you allow tolerance you are comdeming that person to hell for it.)

"I see religious and spiritual organizations playing a role in the actual transformation or in the governance of the planet. I see recognition of a level of consciousness that gives more credibility to the global whole than to individual self-interest. This would be more of a personal transformation as one recognizes the infinite power of love that is within us for each other."

"With a truly open heart, the possibility exists for heaven to exist on earth. . . ."

"Frankly, I believe that many of the people in government are religiously zealous, who believe the economic and environmental apocalypse we are seeing now is the herald for the coming of The Rapture. It's as if they don't care if the whole world goes to hell, because they won't be here. They'll rise into "perfected bodies" in a Celestial Paradise." (Should offend quite a few people)

Many contradictions and strecthing of the truch about the facts

Where Are the Bees? (No determiniation as to the cause yet, researchers are still trying to figure out
see [...])

"Then we string our houses and stores together with concrete roads that block rain from seeping into the ground, lowering our water tables, and affecting people and animals everywhere." (Water tables are lowered mainly by the pumping of the ground water for irrigation and drinking water, not by minimally impervious cover, quality water will always remain a concern for a growing population.)

"As if this wasn't enough, in 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, championed by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, which exempted a particularly destructive drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing from numerous long-held environmental regulations such as the Safe Drinking Water Act." (Hydraulic fracturing was used in oil and gas wells back as far as 1947. see [...], Dick Cheney was born in 1941.)

"This process involves pumping a cocktail of over 600 toxic chemicals and dozens of known carcinogens along with salt and sand into drilling holes. The mixture causes the shale to fracture and release natural gas. The big problem with this is that that chemical cocktail is ending up in the regional aquifers." (The fracturing fluid consists of approximateley 15-20 different chemicals (toxic?) of which freshwater comprises 99.5% see [...])

Suprised that he didn't inlcude information about Global Warming (oops, I mean Climate Change.)

If you take a quick look at the Table of Contents you will quickly see that the contents do not match the title of the book. After all the hype over this book and after reading this book I was sadly dissapointed. Most of the page filling material is just plain dang common sense. Didn't need a book about that. I got information for investments for Damon Vickers & Company. Don't know how that will help with the New World Order?

When I buy a book from a guy who says that he is a financial expert, I expect the majority of the book to be about the subject of finances and economics. I would like to see a book that stays focused on surviving the comming economic meltdown and the information to stay above water afterwards. We know it is ahead of us, not far down the line.

I am quite suprised that this book is suppported by Glenn Beck. I was under the impression that Glenn was not a huge fan of what most of this book proposes and fully supports for the future.

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