Sunday, October 30, 2011

Paul Craig Roberts: Americans: Awash In Spin

A country’s consumers cannot forever draw down savings or go deeper into debt. For an economy to recover, there must be growth in consumer income. That growth is nowhere to be seen in the US. A large percentage of the goods and services sold to Americans by American corporations are now produced abroad by foreign labor. Thus, Americans no longer received incomes from the production of the goods and services that they consume. The American consumer market is on its way out.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29548.htm

CLYMER'S NEW KITTEN 'CHLOE'

Friday, October 28, 2011

A Survival Q & A: Living Through SHTF In the Middle of A War Zone

GREAT ADVICE FROM SOMEONE WHO HAD TO SURVIVE THE WAR
IN BOSNIA/SERBIA.

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE STORY.

THIS LINK IS TO A COMPILATION OF ALL THE Q AND A (s) FROM THE
ORIGINAL BLOG AT SURVIVALISTBOARDS  http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=189395

YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR THIS TYPE OF SITUATION
IN THE NEAR FUTURE, SO START NOW AND ACCUMULATE THE ITEMS MENTIONED

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-survival-q-a-living-through-shtf-in-the-middle-of-a-war-zone_10252011

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Zuckerberg Is Selling Private Facebook Information To Highest Bidders

DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS

It turns out, the machinery for exploiting your own information,
EVEN THAT SHARED ONLY WITH A FEW FRIENDS,
has been perfected so that TOTAL STRANGERS seeking to control you,
will have access to ALL your information which many people think
is only for their own friends and family
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/zuckerberg-is-selling-private-facebook-information-to-highest-bidders/

Logging out of Facebook is not enough

http://nikcub.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough

Monday, October 24, 2011

Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue

What occupiers from all walks of life are discovering, at least every time they contemplate taking a leak, is that to be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born “illegals,” facing prohibitions on the most basic activities of survival. They are not supposed to soil public space with their urine, their feces, or their exhausted bodies. Nor are they supposed to spoil the landscape with their unusual wardrobe choices or body odors. They are, in fact, supposed to die, and preferably to do so without leaving a corpse for the dwindling public sector to transport, process, and burn.
Homelessness is not a side issue unconnected to plutocracy and greed. It’s where we’re all eventually headed -- the 99%, or at least the 70%, of us, every debt-loaded college grad, out-of-work school teacher, and impoverished senior -- unless this revolution succeeds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29501.htm

EU BANK FAILURES WILL CRASH WALL STREET...AGAIN

Worst-case scenario’s closing fast: Occupy Wall Street growing. But no political power or allies yet. Feared yes, attacked by GOP proxy tea party. Soon the Occupation will explode into a new American Revolution.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/eu-bank-failures-will-crash-wall-street-again-2011-10-18

Paul Craig Roberts: Totally Corrupt America

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29500.htm

Gitlow v. New York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitlow_v._New_York

The Supreme Court previously held, in Barron v. Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243 (1833), that the Constitution's Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government, and that, consequently, the federal courts could not stop the enforcement of state laws that restricted the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Gitlow v. New York's partial reversal of that precedent began a trend toward nearly complete reversal; the Supreme Court now holds that almost every provision of the Bill of Rights applies to both the federal government and the states.

The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society

an absolute "right to be free of disruption" from First Amendment activity does not exist in a free republic. But the right to engage in peaceable disruption does exist.

...activism and petitioning government for redress of grievances is not a choice if you live in America. If you are American, it is an obligation. The Founders did not give this task to us as an option, but rather demanded it as an obligation: we are compelled by their social contract in the Constitution to protest and engage in free assembly when government has stopped listening to us. That is why the First Amendment comes first: everything else flows from it and is built upon it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29490.htm

Occupy Wall Street: Naomi Wolf calls attention to the disturbing involvement of Homeland Security in her arrest

http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/occupy-wall-street-naomi-wolf-calls-attention-to-the-disturbing-involvement-of-homeland-security-in-her-arrest

Friday, October 21, 2011

Paul Craig Roberts: The End Of History

Except for Washington’s favored mega-rich, the one percent that has captured all of the income gains of recent years, the rest of America has been assigned to the trash can. Nothing whatsoever has been done for them since the financial crisis hit in December 2007. Bush and Obama, Republican and Democrat, have focused on saving the 1 percent while giving the finger to the 99 percent.

If the protests last, especially if they grow and don’t decline, the authorities will infiltrate the protestors with police provocateurs who will fire on the police. This will be the excuse to shoot down the protestors and to arrest the survivors as “terrorists” or “domestic extremists” and to send them to the $385 million dollar camps built under US government contract by Cheney’s Halliburton.

The Amerikan Police State will have taken its next step into the Amerikan Concentration Camp State.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29468.htm

VIDEO LINK...CREDIT TO CLYMER

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Who Are The One Percent in America?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29432.htm

THE 'REAL' RULERS OF THE PLANET HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE FOR A VERY LONG TIME

Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England stated in 1844: “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

Winston Churchill stated to the London press in 1922: “From the days of Sparticus Wieshophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenberg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”

President Woodrow Wilson, “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter: “The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.”

John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, 1918-1925: “The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter dated November 21, 1933: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

Robert Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General: “All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a New World Order.”

Monday, October 17, 2011

A Movement Too Big to Fail By Chris Hedges

What kind of nation is it that spends far more to kill enemy combatants and Afghan and Iraqi civilians than it does to help its own citizens who live below the poverty line? What kind of nation is it that permits corporations to hold sick children hostage while their parents frantically bankrupt themselves to save their sons and daughters? What kind of nation is it that tosses its mentally ill onto urban heating grates? What kind of nation is it that abandons its unemployed while it loots its treasury on behalf of speculators? What kind of nation is it that ignores due process to torture and assassinate its own citizens? What kind of nation is it that refuses to halt the destruction of the ecosystem by the fossil fuel industry, dooming our children and our children’s children?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29431.htm
October 18, 2011

A Letter from Goldman Sachs

Concerning Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)– The following is a letter released today by Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of banking giant Goldman Sachs:

Dear Investor:

Up until now, Goldman Sachs has been silent on the subject of the protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street. That does not mean, however, that it has not been very much on our minds. As thousands have gathered in Lower Manhattan, passionately expressing their deep discontent with the status quo, we have taken note of these protests. And we have asked ourselves this question:

How can we make money off them?

The answer is the newly launched Goldman Sachs Global Rage Fund, whose investment objective is to monetize the Occupy Wall Street protests as they spread around the world. At Goldman, we recognize that the capitalist system as we know it is circling the drain – but there’s plenty of money to be made on the way down.

The Rage Fund will seek out opportunities to invest in products that are poised to benefit from the spreading protests, from police batons and barricades to stun guns and forehead bandages. Furthermore, as clashes between police and protesters turn ever more violent, we are making significant bets on companies that manufacture replacements for broken windows and overturned cars, as well as the raw materials necessary for the construction and incineration of effigies.

It would be tempting, at a time like this, to say “Let them eat cake.” But at Goldman, we are actively seeking to corner the market in cake futures. We project that through our aggressive market manipulation, the price of a piece of cake will quadruple by the end of 2011.

Please contact your Goldman representative for a full prospectus. As the world descends into a Darwinian free-for-all, the Goldman Sachs Rage Fund is a great way to tell the protesters, “Occupy this.” We haven’t felt so good about something we’ve sold since our souls.

Sincerely,

Lloyd Blankfein

Chairman, Goldman Sachs

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST ARTICLES

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  • Saturday, October 15, 2011

    A Brief Message for Humanity: We Want to be Free!

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29417.htm

    Everywhere, at all times and in all places, there are those among us, not separate, but indeed, very much human, who have lost their way, thrown their heart to the wind, love only themselves and their bank accounts, who seek to dominate, obfuscate, eradicate, the earth they plunder, and push the rest of us under, control, corrupt, and devastate. Their cause is profit and power, their means are deception and dehumanization, and yet their greatest weakness is their own deprivation, their disassociation, endless demoralization and reckless devastation. All they touch and control, has no warmth of heart, no hope of happiness, no joy of love like that which may be found in the smallest country, in the poorest village, with the poorest family, with the saddest story and the hardest life.

    Friday, October 14, 2011

    10 CONDITIONS WHICH CAUSE REVOLUTIONS

    FROM: Crane Brinton’s 1938 classic “Anatomy of a Revolution”

    10 CONDITIONS WHICH CAUSE REVOLUTIONS:

    1. People from all social classes are discontented.
    2. People feel restless and held down by unacceptable conditions and dead end restrictions in society, the economy, religion, or the government.
    3. People are hopeful about the future, but are forced to accept less than they had hoped for.
    4. Growing bitterness among social classes.
    5. The social classes closest to one another are the most hostile.
    6. The scholars and thinkers give up on the way society operates, and start to talk openly about breakdown.
    7. The government does not respond to the needs of its society.
    8. The leaders of the government and the ruling class begin to divide and doubt themselves. Some join with the opposition groups.
    9. The government is unable to get enough support from any group to save itself.
    10. Government cannot organize its finances correctly and is either going bankrupt or trying to tax heavily and unjustly.

    Glenn Greenwald: The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot

    GT sez:

    THE INSANITY OF EACH SUCCESSIVE GUV'MINT CLAIM OF TERRORISM PUSHES ANY CREDIBILITY.
    BUT MOST TRAGIC IS THE FACT THAT NO ONE IN THE WORLD IS ABLE YET TO CREATE ENOUGH OPPOSITIONAL MOMENTUM TO BRING DOWN THE ENTIRE CORRUPT GUV'MINT OF THIEVES AND WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE THEY DESTROY US ALL.

    http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/12/the_very_scary_iranian_terror_plot/singleton/

    Sunday, October 9, 2011

    US protests spread to 1,000 cities

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/203434.html

    European Union prepares for Greek state bankruptcy

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/gree-o08.shtml

    Greece’s billion-euro rescue packages serve to gain time. They have not benefited the Greek state, and certainly not the Greek population, but went directly into the coffers of the creditor banks, which received their loans repaid in full with all interest due. The European Central Bank also bought large quantities of Greek government bonds on the open market, thus relieving the risks banks faced from their additional papers.

    The purpose of the austerity measures was not so much to restructure the budget, but to ruin the working class. Under the dictates of the so-called troika—the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund—the Greek government has cut pensions and incomes, destroyed tens of thousands of public sector jobs and driven the self-employed into bankruptcy by raising taxes, while the rich elite have hoarded their wealth in foreign bank accounts.

    JULIAN ASSANGE AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE

    Saturday, October 8, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29332.htm

    We have picked a fight with the most powerful economic and political forces on the planet. That’s frightening. And as this movement grows from strength to strength, it will get more frightening
    October 8, 2011

    Potential Race Between Black Guy and Mormon Poses Dilemma for Bigots

    Doomsday Scenario, Haters Say

    MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – A looming presidential race between a black guy and a Mormon is creating a major quandary for America’s bigots, a new poll reveals.

    According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, a broad majority of likely bigot voters “strongly agreed” with the statement, “If it winds up being between a black guy and a Mormon I don’t know what I’ll do because I don’t know which I hate more.”

    Tea Party activist Eldin Brazelton of Oak Park, Illinois, expressed a frustration typical of the bigots surveyed: “We’ve spent the last three years stirring up anger towards a black guy, and that’s all going to go to waste if we just up and nominate a Mormon.”

    According to Mr. Brazleton, a presidential choice between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney would be no choice at all: “For the life of me I don’t know why we can’t just have a regular President.”

    Mr. Brazleton, who considers himself a sexist as well as a bigot, said that the doomsday scenario unfolding for 2012 offered one small silver lining: “At least we know it’s not going to be a woman this time.”

    Elsewhere, in response to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan, banking giant Goldman Sachs announced today that it was investing in pepper-spray futures.

    How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576602524023932438.html#printMode

    CREDIT TO GOLDMELTER FOR THE LINK

    Friday, October 7, 2011

    GARY NORTH: God, Gold, Groceries, and Guns


    Friday, October 7, 2011 8:04 AM

       Issue 1107 October 7, 2011

    GOD, GOLD, GROCERIES, AND GUNS

    I wrote an article with this title on June 6, 1980 in my
    newsletter, “Remnant Review.” It is time for a follow-up.

    The four G's seemed prudent in 1980. In early 1980, the
    American economy was suffering from the worst peacetime price
    inflation in its history. That was about to reverse due to the
    Federal Reserve's decision under Paul Volcker the previous
    August
    to reduce the rate of growth in money and let interest
    rates soar. This would lead to a recession.

    By the end of summer in 1980, the United States was in a
    recession. The Carter Administration was running a deficit in
    fiscal 1980 of a then-shocking $74 billion.
    (http://1.bit.ly/Deficit1980) Prices were then 40% of what
    they are today. A deficit that large would be the equivalent
    of $203 billion today. A $203 billion deficit would be hailed
    today as a political triumph by the Tea Party and cursed as a
    job-destroying catastrophe by Paul Krugman.

    Had you known generally what was coming in 1980, you
    would have put all of your money into 30-year T-bonds. You
    would have sold them in mid-August 1982 and bought a no-load
    mutual fund in the S&P 500. You would have sold that in March
    2000
    and put all of your money in silver. That was because
    silver had collapsed from $50 to under $5. Or you just bought
    Wal-Mart shares in 1980 and nothing thereafter. (I moved to
    Texas in 1980 and recall seeing a Wal-Mart store in some small
    town. I did not follow through. Too bad.)

    We are still around three decades later. The Soviet Union
    isn't. Red China is now the fastest growing large nation in
    history, due to the decision of Deng Xiaoping in 1978 to free
    up agriculture. Cuba and North Korea are that last nations
    committed officially to communist economics. They are
    universally acknowledged failures.

    Today, the world is safer in terms of nuclear war. It is
    far less safe in terms of the stability of financial
    institutions. It is also becoming clear that governments can
    default on their obligations. We watch the crisis building in
    Europe because of the inevitable default of the Greek
    government on its bonds. The European stock markets rally when
    Merkel makes some vague statement about German's commitment to
    something, but not much. The lemmings see what is coming, but
    they cannot bring themselves to get out of stocks and stay
    out. They buy for a day or two. I call these Merkel's gurgles.
    They mean little. Investors believe that something will save
    Greece and the big banks that stupidly believed the previous
    Greek government and bought Greek IOUs. They believe that the
    governments of northern Europe can save the big banks of
    northern Europe. They believe in deliverance by northern
    government debt – to save the banks from southern government
    debt.

    Why should you care about the four G's? Why should you
    imagine that things will not repeat? The financial system
    held up after 1980. Why won't it hold up today? Why won't
    things be business as usual?

    One good reason is that it is clearly not government as
    usual. The size of the deficit, the gridlock in Congress, the
    desperation of the unemployed, the ineffectiveness of the
    Federal Reserve, the inability of the economists to offer a
    solution, the unwillingness of small businesses to borrow, and
    $1.7 trillion in excess reserves in the banks all point to a
    continuing crisis that is not going away. The government is
    helpless. The Keynesian solutions are not working.

    This clearly cannot go on indefinitely. The federal
    government is absorbing too much of America's capital. Its
    deficits show no sign of ending. A recession will increase
    these deficits.

    When a nation's leaders are visibly helpless, a few
    people start looking for ways of protecting themselves. The
    vast majority have few capital reserves. They live from
    paycheck to paycheck. The very rich have their vacation
    retreats. They think they are in good shape. The middle class
    has little wiggle room.

    Along come critics of the system who tell people that
    they had better wiggle. This message is not well received.

    Many are called, but most are frozen.


    GOD

    In 1980, I wanted to recommend a good book on God. I
    could not find one that I thought spoke to the issues of the
    day. As I say, “You can't beat something with nothing.” So, I
    decided to write one. I sat down in early July and started
    writing. I had no outline. I had an IBM Selectric III
    typewriter. Over the next 12 days, I wrote a book,
    “Unconditional Surrender.” In 1988, I added one chapter. In
    2010, I added another. It's still in print.
    (http://bit.ly/gnuncon)

    My position is clear: if you think you're 100% dependent
    on your own wisdom and efforts, you are asking for trouble.
    You have a heavy load. I know that atheists can sober up, but
    Alcoholics Anonymous begins with an open statement of
    dependence on God. I think that's a good place to begin.

    This world is governed by ethical cause and effect. When
    people vote for a living, they create an economy that is
    dependent on more theft. Theft-based economies are Ponzi
    schemes. It's not just Social Security that is a Ponzi scheme.
    So is Medicare. So is the FDIC. All governments over-promise.
    They ask us to become dependent on government promises. The
    governments issue more promises than taxes and borrowing can
    fund. Then they inflate.

    Government will prove to be the god that fails. That will
    be a good lesson in theology for hundreds of millions of
    voters. “Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote” will
    prove to have been a destructive principle, although widely
    believed.


    GOLD

    Gold is the asset that has the longest track record in
    history. Financial records survive even when written
    literature perishes. For as long as we have financial records,
    there are entries about gold. Gold has been the commodity of
    account in trading societies throughout history.

    It is the essence of the arrogance of modern economic
    theory that economists have dismissed gold as a barbarous
    relic, a thing of the past. It is a thing of the past, a thing
    of the present, and a thing of the future. Why? Because gold
    is one way that rich people can vote against policies of their
    governments. Rich people can buy gold and store it in
    Switzerland. They can get out of Dodge, wherever Dodge may be.
    They can get on a plane and buy their way into anywhere.

    The common man could do the same, but he won't – not
    until it's too late. He has heard of gold – mostly negative –
    and he has stayed on the sidelines, waiting. The common man
    can no longer afford to buy a dozen one-ounce gold coins. In
    2001, yes, but not now. He missed the boat.

    There is no commodity, no strategy, no place of safety in
    a world dominated by governments who preach the gospel of
    salvation through legislation. There is no hiding place today
    in a world that really does believe in safety through voting.
    But for those who look for a tried-and-true port in the storm,
    gold is better than any other commonly marketable asset.

    It has been the focus of a move from $257 to $1600, 2001
    to today. This, despite the nay-saying of the talking heads,
    the tenured economists, and the financial press. The run up
    has come from outsiders With the banks in panic mode, building
    excess reserves, prices have not risen much, despite the
    enormous increase in the monetary base since 2008.

    Gold is a crisis hedge. It is a buy-and-hold investment.
    The American public buys gold only when spooked. Then their
    fear subsides. That is why it went to $1900 and then fell
    back. The late-comers think there is something magical about
    gold. There isn't. Gold is an asset that rich people buy when
    they get frightened. But then there is a positive press
    release from Merkel, or some vague statement from Bernanke,
    and demand falls. Prices fall.

    The reality is clear: at some point, the vast increase in
    the monetary base will be monetized. The FED will inflate more
    in order to make a market for Treasury debt. Then gold will
    again be the focus of panic buying.

    We are seeing the decline of faith in the state, but
    nothing has replaced it in the thinking of the elite. They do
    not know where to turn. This decline of faith will create a
    decline in the demand for digital money. We do not know when.
    Prices are not rising much. The economy remains stagnant. But
    the central bank cannot keep recession away by adopting stable
    money. Volcker's FED did, but that produced two recessions and
    also Reagan's $200 billion deficits. The thought of what the
    next recession will do to the Federal deficit is frightening
    today. But it will come. We will have to deal with it. One way
    for people with extra money will be gold.

    But gold buyers must think through why they are buying
    gold. They must decide which form is best for their purposes.
    Here are traditional reasons:

    1. To transfer to children at their death. (Buy small gold
    bullion coins.)
    2. To invest in an SEC-regulated portfolio. (Buy Central Gold
    Trust.)
    3. To sell for digital money. (Buy one-ounce bullion coins.)
    4. To barter in a crisis. (Buy small bullion coins.)
    5. To hold outside the country. (Buy GoldMoney or Bullion
    Vault.)
    6. To sell to capitalize a business (Buy one-ounce bullion
    coins.)
    7. To sell to pay off a mortgage (Buy one-ounce bullion
    coins.)

    The third use – barter with gold coins – is a long-shot.
    If it comes to that, you will not get a good return, compared
    to having the things you are trading to obtain. Think about
    such conditions. You are so desperate that you are willing to
    surrender gold coins. That indicates a desperate situation.
    The seller knows you are desperate. He will drive a hard
    bargain.

    I tell people to begin accumulating those things that
    would be so desirable in a crisis that they would be willing
    to pay for in gold. In most cases, these are common things in
    normal times. You can buy them at Wal-Mart or even Dollar
    General. You can buy them in bulk at Sam's Club or Costco. Why
    not buy them now? Why not buy them on sale in normal times?

    If your goal is to barter, then buy now. Barter is
    inefficient. It takes place when the division of labor has
    contracted. If we get to hyperinflation, which I doubt, we
    will be far better off with consumer goods in reserve. We can
    quietly consume our hoard, never calling attention to
    ourselves.

    When you go looking for goods that can be bought by gold
    coins but not paper money, you expose yourself. You must
    locate a reliable seller of desperately needed goods. You will
    not find this person on Craigslist. Would you respond
    favorably to an ad that announces this? “I can get you
    whatever you need for gold coins. Contact me today.” I think I
    would skip that offer.

    Barter is a limited market. That means that transaction
    costs are high. That means losses when compared to
    transactions in normal times. Barter may pay better than not
    bartering, but not bartering is better if you possess the
    consumer goods that people are willing to pay gold to buy.

    What do you want to do with the gold. This scenario
    should determine how much gold you should own and in what
    form.


    GROCERIES

    I use this in the broadest sense: immediate consumer
    goods. These are goods that you must have. To get them, you
    must pay.

    Think of bottles of water two hours before a scheduled
    hurricane strikes. The bottles will not be on supermarket
    shelves. It will be illegal for retailers to hike the prices
    of these goods. It's first come-first served. Getting in line
    early pays. Waiting doesn't.

    Most people wait.

    Get in line early.

    The economic conditions that would make food scarce are
    either local (hurricane) or catastrophic (national). There are
    scenarios in which catastrophe is possible. Most involve
    plague. The recent movie “Contagion,” presents such a
    scenario. It is possible; it is not likely.

    A complete failure of the banking system is another. This
    would be a black swan event. If the banks go down and stay
    down for two months, Western civilization collapses. The death
    toll would be enormous. Most people could not survive in such
    a scenario. I do not think it pays to prepare for such an
    event. The likelihood is too low, and so is your ability to
    survive for years on end under such conditions.

    The great advantage of storing up basic consumer goods is
    that you can rotate them. You buy on sale. You use these goods
    to replace what you are consuming. You therefore lower your
    cost of living by means of bulk buying. This is good
    economics. The fact that it serves as a cushion for a time of
    disruptions is gravy.

    Here is what could happen. You could lose your job. If
    you are in that form of crises, you want a cushion. You will
    be using money to make payments on your home. Maybe not even
    that. Maybe you pay the water bill and electricity. You dip
    into bank reserves. You watch every expense. That is when you
    start consuming your reserves. This is not eating your seed
    corn. This is living on reserves that you built up for a time
    of crisis.

    I have a theory about the collapse. Cities will keep
    public utilities operating. They do not dare let water and
    power go down for more than a week. The threat of panic is too
    great. Even in Baghdad, there are rolling blackouts, not
    constant blackouts. The city fathers know what would happen if
    there were no public utilities for a month. People would start
    moving out. The tax base would collapse.

    The people who have built their careers on getting
    elected know what has to be delivered by the state. They will
    allocate their money the way that anyone else that is buying
    something allocates his money. They are buying votes. You can
    be sure that they will not turn off the flow of funds to any
    sector of the economy that services the needs of every voter
    in the city.

    A garden is a way to store up food. It is expensive. Your
    time is valuable. But it has its own rewards. The food is
    better in all respects. It is there in an emergency. A garden
    does not identify anyone as a crackpot survivalist. It is a
    point of contact with neighbors. It is something that you can
    recommend to a neighbor as a way to reduce the vulnerability
    of the neighborhood in a crisis.

    I recommend non-hybrid seeds. You can re-plant the seeds
    produced by these plants. They build up immunities to local
    plant diseases over several seasons.


    GUNS

    Guns are controversial. I don't think you need an
    arsenal. You need a few simple weapons and the training to
    master them. This poem gets the point across.

    A .45 for the bedroom,
    A shotgun over the door,
    A 30.06 for distance,
    You don't need any more.

    I would add a snub-nosed .357 for a lady's purse. Two
    shots will normally settle the issue. Either the assailant
    runs or else he cannot run.

    You do not have to be an expert marksman. If you can hit
    a man-size target at 20 feet, you will do just fine.

    The idea that guns are required for defense against gangs
    is naïve. A gang that comes into your neighborhood to pillage
    is going to be better armed than the police. They will be
    carrying automatic weapons. You will not win a shootout with a
    determined gang. The best you can hope for is that the members
    decide that there are lower-risk victims nearby. A shotgun is
    your best means of persuasion. There is nothing like the sound
    of a shotgun being racked to persuade someone that he has
    other urgent business elsewhere.

    You do not want to go outside your home to confront an
    armed gang. The guns must be defensive. You want the invader
    to take the risk of coming through your door. He should bear
    the risk.

    I think you should take a firearms course from local
    authorities. Get certified. If there is a concealed carry
    permit in your state, apply for it.

    The United States has a long tradition of gun ownership.
    I hope this will continue. Support for an organization such as
    Gun Owners of America makes sense.

    It's not that you need guns to keep law enforcement
    officers away. That is suicidal. Guns are necessary to send a
    message to the kinds of college-educated voters who favor
    using the state to compel people to submit the their social
    reform programs. It makes those people very nervous that there
    are millions of gun owners out there. This is altogether
    positive.

    I think of the scene in “The Day the Earth Stood Still,”
    when the world comes to a halt. The professor, who knows why
    it has come to a halt, asks his secretary if this makes her
    nervous. She says that it does. “That's good,” he replies.

    If the state can take away our guns it is because we have
    moved past the point of no return politically. Owning a gun
    testifies to yourself that you have still not crossed the
    line. In this sense, gun ownership is part of positive self-
    reinforcement.


    CONCLUSION

    The four G's are important for reducing our concern
    against unforeseen negative events. Instead of worrying about
    them, we take concrete steps to deal with them. Most of them
    will not occur. But if they do occur, we will be in a position
    to deal with them in the short term.

    Any series of events that cannot be dealt with with a
    two-month supply of food, water, and basic necessities will be
    so overwhelming as to make extreme preparations problematical.
    Most people cannot afford extreme preparations. They will not
    take even minimal preparations.

    If you are diligent about spending money and time wisely
    in order to reduce your vulnerability to the unexpected, that
    is sufficient. You cannot afford to deal with every
    contingency. But you should deal with those that could disrupt
    your life if you had made none.

    If you want to plan for a crisis, plan for unemployment
    for six months. That is scary enough.




       

    Wednesday, October 5, 2011

    Paul B. Farrell: A new Lost Decade is leading to revolution

    The people have lost faith in voting. Not just lost faith in the markets and economy. The public no longer has faith in democracy. They know voting is irrelevant, nothing ever changes. They now know their world is being manipulated by a powerful cabal of wealthy special interests, corporate bosses, bankers, lobbyists and self-serving politicians.
    Voters know they’re being played for suckers. The game is rigged. And they’ve also figured out that change will come only after a revolution, one they’re triggering.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-lost-decade-is-leading-to-revolution-2011-10-04

    Obama impeachment a possibility, says Ron Paul

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65035.html

    GT sez:  DON'T BE SURPRISED IF RON PAUL IS 'ASSASSINATED' AND HAVE IT MADE TO LOOK LIKE A HEART ATTACK OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT WOULD COMMONLY HAPPEN TO AN OLDER MAN IN HIS SEVENTIES.

    SUPERMAX CONFINEMENT IN U.S. PRISONS

    23 PAGE PDF  http://www2.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072165-TheBrutalityofSupermaxConfinement.pdf

    China Warns Russia Of Coming American “Great Event”


    the Central Intelligence Agencies (CIA) Haqqani terror network in Pakistan has launched an unprecedented bio-attack using the dengue fever virus the Americans plan to “modify” and then reintroduce into their own population.



    Monday, October 3, 2011

    Obama: A Disaster for Civil Liberties

    He may prove the most disastrous president in our history in terms of civil liberties.
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29269.htm

    PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: The Day America Died

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29285.htm

    Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama

    There is something very wrong with this picture

    Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very “solutions” that are part of the financial elite’s agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government.

    http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-call-totalitarian-government-re-election-of-obama/

    WATCH THE SECOND VIDEO OF ALEX DESCRIBING THE SCENE

    Poverty in America: Special report

    http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/15-09-2011/119059-america_poverty-0/

    it is important to keep in mind that the government definition of poverty rises based on the rate of inflation. If inflation was still calculated the way that it was 30 or 40 years ago, the poverty line would be much, much higher and millions more Americans would be considered to be living in poverty.

    Sunday, October 2, 2011

    Millions of people to become expendable next year

    http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/29-09-2011/119184-unemployment-0/

    Since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2008, developing and developed countries lost 20 million jobs. By the end of next year additional 20 million jobs could be lost. According to some experts, the number of unemployed worldwide has reached 200 million.

    What’s behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests?

    http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/28/protests_21/singleton/

    Anyone who looks at mostly young citizens marching in the street protesting the corruption of Wall Street and the harm it spawns, and decides that what is warranted is mockery and scorn rather than support, is either not seeing things clearly or is motivated by objectives other than the ones being presented.

    MARTIN ARMSTRONG: HIS LATEST ARTICLE

    http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Occupy%20Wall%20Street%2010-01-2011.pdf

    CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

    MARTIN ARMSTRONG AUDIO INTERVIEW

    http://talkdigitalnetwork.com/2011/10/week-money-35/

    CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

    30 PAGE ARTICLE THAT IS A MUST READ

    http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/09_Global/090805.Matrix-US%20.Constitution.pdf

    JUST READ THIS ARTICLE COMPLETELY AND DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

    IT'S BETTER TO BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITIES THAN TO NOT BE.

    THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BEFORE 2009, AND SOME OF THE PREDICTIONS HAVE NOT COME TRUE ON SCHEDULE...BUT COULD EASILY STILL COME TRUE.

    THE MASS GENOCIDE COULD EASILY HAPPEN BY STARVATION AND DISEASES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE COLLAPSE OF THE WORLD'S ECONOMIES WHICH IS SURE TO HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH

    Rebellion Has Arrived in America

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mike-kireger-rebellion-has-arrived-america

    The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

    - Harry Browne

    Saturday, October 1, 2011

    CREDIT TO GOLDMELTER FOR THIS ONE

    Five surgeons are discussing who were the best patients to operate on.
    The first surgeon says, 'I like to see Accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.'
    The second responds, 'Yeah, but you should try Electricians! Everything inside them is colour-coded.'
    The third surgeon says, 'No, I really think Librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order.'
    The fourth surgeon chimes in, 'You know I like Construction Workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would.'
    But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed, 'You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine, and there are only two moving parts - the mouth and the arsehole - and they are interchangeable'
    September 30, 2011

    Banks Raise Fees on Same People Who Bailed Out Their Asses

    Introduce New ‘Thank You’ Fee on Debit Cards

    NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – The largest banks in the US made history today by hiking fees on the same people who bailed out their asses three years ago.

    “We would not exist today without the generosity of the American taxpayers,” said CEO Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, which received billions of dollars of Federal bailout money. “And we want to thank them by assessing a special monthly ‘thank you’ fee on all of our debit cards.”

    Becoming emotional, Mr. Moynihan added, “We think of the taxpayers every time we vacation on our yachts or visit our third homes, and we want them to think of us every time they try to spend $20 on groceries.”

    Mr. Moynihan said that even after paying the new $5 monthly fee, "American taxpayers should still have enough money left over to let them eat cake."

    In other news, CNN announced today that it plans to start covering the mass protests on Wall Street in lower Manhattan “as soon as the Michael Jackson trial is over.”

    And Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry today blasted President Obama’s decision to kill a terrorist in Yemen: “There are plenty of perfectly good people to execute right here in America.”