Thursday, April 21, 2011

Can a U.S. Investor hold his gold securely?

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldForecaster/1303347600.php

CREDIT TO GOLDMELTER FOR THE ARTICLE LINK

THE ONLY PLACE TO HOLD YOUR GOLD AND SILVER
IS IN YOUR OWN PHYSICAL POSSESSION.

ANY OTHER METHOD OF STORAGE IS SUSCEPTIBLE
TO GUV'MINT CONFISCATION.

BANK 'SAFE' DEPOSIT BOXES ARE NOT SAFE.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEXAS HEDGE FUND THAT
DECIDED TO TAKE PHYSICAL POSSESSION OF THAT MASSIVE
AMOUNT OF GOLD. BUT HAVING STORED IT ALL IN NEW YORK
MAY TURN OUT TO BE A MAJOR MISTAKE.

TO HAVE THAT MUCH GOLD MEANS THEY HAD ENOUGH
MONEY TO BUILD THEIR OWN STORAGE FACILITY CLOSE
TO THEIR OWN PHYSICAL LOCATION FOR STORAGE AND
BETTER PHYSICAL ACCESS TO THEIR GOLD.

SOME SHOULD BE STORED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
AS 'INSURANCE' THAT THEIR PRECIOUS METAL 'INSURANCE'
WILL NOT ALL BE CONFISCATED AT SOME POINT AS MARTIAL
LAW IS DECLARED BY WHATEVER GUV'MINT IS STILL IN POWER
AND HAS THE MILITARY MIGHT TO CONFICATE WHATEVER IT
WANTS TO TAKE FROM THE POPULATION WITHIN ITS BORDERS.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Kraft Kills UK Cadbury Easter Bunny

http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/kraft-kills-uk-cadbury-easter-bunny/

The Easter Bunny, like Santa Claus, has long ago been usurped by capitalists. He has many humans who toil for him at various factories and businesses in order to get people to buy many things that ultimately are not so very good for our children and ourselves. Namely, we are tempted to eat and consume things that are overwhelming our social and physical systems.

Meanwhile, the rat race amongst capitalists has heated up due to nearly bottomless amounts of easy available ZIRP credit so they are buying out each other and then servicing the debts by firing the workers and offshoring jobs to cheap labor pools nearly all of which are in former communist countries like China or in today’s case, Poland.

Shock employment figures: Fewer than 46% of Americans have jobs

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/14/shock-employment-figures-fewer-than-half-of-americans-have-jobs/

The percentage of Americans who have jobs has fallen to the lowest point in three decades and now hovers just above 45 percent of the total population, according to an analysis of labor data published by USA Today

Monday, April 18, 2011

Gold surges after S&P lowers U.S. outlook

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-surges-after-sp-lowers-us-outlook-2011-04-18?link=MW_home_latest_news

GOLD SPIKES TO $1497 THEN PULLS BACK TO $1484 SPOT.
THIS WILL BECOME NORMAL TRADING AS THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES.
JUST BUY YOUR CASH GOLD AND SILVER AND HANG ON.
TRADING THESE MARKETS WITHOUT LOADS OF EXPERIENCE AND NERVES
OF STEEL IS GUARANTEED TO WIPE YOU OUT.

NOT ONE OF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BEAT THIS MARKET TRADING
ON MARGIN.

START BUYING SOME TENTH OUNCE GOLD COINS FOR TRADING FOR
LOWER PRICED SUPPLIES WHEN THE ECONOMY GOES TO THE BARTER STAGE
SILVER DIMES ARE GOOD FOR THAT TOO.

GT

Food, gas prices boost CPI

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-consumer-prices-climb-05-in-march-2011-04-15-848510

Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Budget Deal Turns Out To Be A Gigantic Fraud

Originally the deal between The White House and Congressional Republicans was touted for delivering $38 billion in cost savings.

Then, yesterday's analysis showed that the savings were probably just half that, since a lot of the savings came from not spending money that was never going to be spent.

Turns out, the spending cuts are even more minimal than that.

According to the CBO, via National Journal, the total savings come to a whopping...
$352 million. With an M:

A comparison prepared by the CBO shows that the omnibus spending bill, advertised as containing some $38.5 billion in cuts, will only reduce federal outlays by $352 million below 2010 spending rates. The nonpartisan budget agency also projects that total outlays are actually some $3.3 billion more than in 2010, if emergency spending is included in the total.

The astonishing result, according to CBO, is the result of several factors: increases in spending, especially at the Defense Department; decisions to draw over half of the savings from recissions; and cuts to reserve funds and and money for mandatory-spending programs that might never have been spent.

So yeah, total joke. This certainly doesn't make it any easier for Tea Partiers to vote for the deal, or for Boehner to come up with another compromise when debt ceiling time comes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/cbo-on-the-budget-deal-2011-4

Friday, April 15, 2011

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: QUOTE

Gold is
NOT the Panacea to correct all wrongs.

That is simply political reform and nothing short-thereof.

Gold is independent, not the hedge against inflation, but the hedge against government itself.

We must never lose sight of this important role.

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: TWO ARTICLES

ARTICLE ONE:  Hello World (04/06/11)
http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/armstrongeconomics-hello-world-04-06-2011.pdf

ARTICLE TWO: Nothing is Certain Except… Other Side of Inflation (04/11/11)
http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/armstrongeconomics-other-side-of-inflation-041111.pdf

FOR ALL MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S ARTICLES:

ARMSTRONG ECONOMICS WEBSITE:
http://armstrongeconomics.com/writings/

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINKS

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

WOULD YOU ALLOW THE POLICE TO TREAT A FELLOW CITIZEN THIS WAY IN YOUR PRESENCE?



Pittsburgh Police Brutally Assault "Unruly" Fan at PNC Park, Using Tasers, Nightsticks By Michael Hurley

The video, captured by blogger Erik, shows a man leaving section 235 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. The fan was swearing and refused to leave the park, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and eventually had to be escorted out by police.

That's when the video -- and the drama -- begins.

The fan, named Scott James Ashley, went to high-five another fan but was blocked by a PNC Park security guard (the security asshole that actually precipitated the physical assault). Ashley shoved the guard, which prompted police to take out their Tasers (Oh, really? That's what it takes to get lasered today in Amerika? Fending off someone else's aggression upon you?) . The Taser shock had no effect on Ashley, prompting an officer to hit him in the shoulder (NO, the fucking cop hit him in the neck THEN hit him in the head above his ear!) with a nightstick. Still, there was no reaction from Ashley, who appeared to tell the officer, "Don't hit me."

The officer administered another blast from the Taser and three more nightstick blows to the shoulder, lower back and legs of Ashley. Still, the fan appeared to be relatively unfazed.

"During the incident, Detective [Francis] Rende wrote in his complaint, both officers feared for their safety," (The usual bullshit disclaimer used by all police now to limit liability!  Their behavior causes them to be 'unsafe' due to the public's rage at their unnecessary brutality.) the Post-Gazette reported.

Though Ashley never posed any physical threat to the police, two officers then relentlessly struck him with their nightsticks until finally subduing and handcuffing him.


Click on this link to read some of the comments under the article.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27874.htm

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Pilgrims Society

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_pilgrimsociety01.htm

As you’ll find out by looking at the membership list, the Pilgrims Society has clearly fused together the business centers of New York and London, together with a large portion of the political centers of both nations. Ninety percent of the American members are top-level bankers and businessmen from New York city.


The club is secret.

THE SILVER STEALERS

http://silverstealers.net/tss.html

A VERY LONG READ, BUT GOOD HISTORY.

SKIM THE WHOLE THING FIRST TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IT'S ABOUT,
THEN START READING AND LEARNING.

CREDIT TO GOLDMELTER FOR THE LINK

Friday, April 8, 2011

Budget deal reached, government shutdown averted

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42467884/ns/politics-capitol_hill/?GT1=43001

Congressional sources told National Journal that the outline of the spending deal includes up to $39 billion in cuts from the 2010 budget, $514 billion for the defense budget covering the remainder of this fiscal year, a GOP agreement to abandon policy riders dealing with Planned Parenthood and the Environmental Protection Agency, and an agreement to pass legislation Friday night to keep the government running while the deal is written in bill form.

GT sez:

THIS WHOLE BUDGET STANDOFF WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A POLITICAL PENIS MEASURING CONTEST, AND BOTH PARTIES CAME UP SHORT.

STATE'S SHAMEFUL TRADE OFF: PUTTING PRISONS OVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7161/states_shameful_trade-off_putting_prisons_over_public_schools/

What happens in a government shutdown

Say good-bye to the Smithsonian. Forget about getting help with a federal home loan. And cancel that family vacation to Yellowstone or any other national park.

Those are just some of a long list of federally funded activities or institutions that would be disrupted in the event of a government shutdown.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-happens-in-a-government-shutdown-2011-04-07

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% BY JOSEPH STIGLITZ

http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105

Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.

The Peasants Need Pitchforks By Robert Scheer

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27838.htm

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_peasants_need_pitchforks_20110405/

The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy.

That is the harsh reality obscured by the media’s focus on celebrity gossip, sports rivalries and lotteries, situations in which the average person can pretend that he or she is plugged into the winning side.

Even though most Americans accept that the political game is rigged, we have long assumed that the choices we make in the economic sphere as to career and home are matters that respond to our wisdom and will.  But the banking tsunami that wiped out so many jobs and so much homeownership has demonstrated that most Americans have no real control over any of that, and while they suffer, the corporate rich reward themselves in direct proportion to the amount of suffering they have caused. 

“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles,” Stiglitz  (http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105) concludes, “but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

JIM SINCLAIR: IT'S ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUT

Posted: Apr 05 2011     By: Jim Sinclair      Post Edited: April 5, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Filed under: General Editorial
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My Dear Friends,
I am writing to you from the Irving Farm Coffee and Internet cafe in Millerton NY. Our internet carrier went down today and is showing no promise of revival in the near future. I have a great coffee and a raisin bran muffin by my side so overall I have no grounds to complain.
Gold linked to the dollar today certainly has taken down $1444 for the count on three taps. That lights up Angel $1521 as the next to be captured.

Expect the Round Number Effect at $1500 for gold, but less severe than the battle at $1400. Angel $1650 is quickly coming into focus.

If we have learned one thing, it is not to get short term focused on this market. Stay focused on what is important and not the noise.

Think for a moment if Armstrong and Alf are right on gold. That would mean the following prices are coming:
$1650
$3000
$5000
$12,500

Those prices are possible because the balance sheets of the entire western world financial entities are based on false assumptions yielding valuation that pass auditing (FASB) but will never come to fruition. It is the mark to maturity method that not only used the BIS but other institutions that give comfort to the masses that are not looking at self protection here and now.
The financial system of the entire western world is FUBAR and there is no intention anywhere of fixing the problems at the level of its cause, OTC derivatives. The EU outlawed naked credit default swaps which is a clear comment on their ability to work if put under pressure. This is regardless of whether they were margin or naked in my opinion.

To say this is it is to be very late to the game.

Realize that the system has already failed.

Realize that there is no champion in a power position with the will to fix it.

Realize that even if there was a true fixer there are absolutely no tools to apply that would not in a short time cause more severe pressure than before applied
.
Realize then that there is no PRACTICAL means to get the western world financial economy back on its feet

Realize that since the entire western world financial entities are based in sand there can be no sustainable economic recovery anywhere in that group.

Realize that a third war of any degree is madness.

Realize that our actions in the Middle East will cause increased hatred of the West.

Realize that the problems in the Middle East are not pro West or pro democracy
.
Realize that gold is going to some degree make my long term price objective, given you ten years ago, look so low it will be silly.

Hold on to your insurance because you need it now. Pity the anti gold hedge funds short gold and gold shares based on, in my opinion, egomania, for they are very short lived now
.
It is not a question of if we will prevail. We have already prevailed. Now our holdings are on the march to discount the hyper-inflation that is already written for history books to come.

Respect the fact that the same forces driving gold have historically driven equity market in past similar historical situations.

Respectfully yours,
Jim

This Is What Resistance Looks Like By Chris Hedges

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27824.htm

There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left.

The 10 major banks, which control 60 percent of the economy, determine how our legislative bills are written, how our courts rule, how we frame our public debates on the airwaves, who is elected to office and how we are governed. The phrase consent of the governed has been turned by our two major political parties into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. And the faster these banks and huge corporations are broken up and regulated the sooner we will become free.

Paul B. Farrell: 11 reasons bankrupt Reaganomics ideas are leading to collapse

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-rich-ceos-are-killing-your-retirement-2011-04-05?link=home_carousel

Warning: Soon our Super-Rich Vampires will sink the economy deeper than 2008. Worse, they even believe we’ll bail them out again. We blinked in 2008, so they’ll try sucking out more bail-out blood next time.

The First Great War of the 21st Century By Gerald Celente

A NEW SURVIVAL BLOG TO PERUSE: The Coming Depression

http://thecomingdepression.blogspot.com/

Best Practices For Long Term Food Storage

http://readynutrition.com/resources/best-practices-for-long-term-food-storage_03042011/