Friday, July 5, 2013

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Its a Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy

QUESTION: Today employment came with 195K.
1- If Europe is imploding, China slowing, Emerging markets slowing, is the US employment story sustainable?
2- After the governments bond collapse beyond 2015.75, could USA devalue the dollar and make a combination of bond default with a new currency?
3- Is physical gold in the allocated form in a Bank a safe way to keep it?
Thank you very much.
Conspiracy
ANSWER: The question ASSUMES that people on Capitol Hill even agree there is a problem. If you try to talk about stuff like that, they will NEVER listen and look for the tinfoil hat. These people are in “power” and the idea that they are the problem does not cross their mind. They do not even consider a default, devaluation, or a change in currency. You are assuming WAY TOO MUCH mental capacity.
These types of economic crisis unfold in slow-motion. It is not rapid in the least. Each event is like a domino. One must push the next down. We MUST see Europe and Japan fall first. That puts the pressure upon the dollar sending it higher, and that turns the US economy down as was the case between 1981 and 1985.
European structure could not have been worse. We needed a consolidated debt and that would have created the reserve currency if Eurobonds existed. Leaving each state with its own debt created a single currency without any reserve capability. It is market DEPTH the creates the reserve status. Yes China would like to create that status, but until we stop the borrowing, the US dollar remains the global reserve currency and that will never be displaced regardless of China simply allows its currency to float. It is more than that – it is DEPTH.
European structure is the worse of every possible world. They will try to roll out Eurobonds after the German election, but here too, they miss the point. For Brussels to simply borrow is not the solution. You cannot have a reserve currency with fragmented financial markets. China cannot reach the reserve status regardless how many deals they cit to allow currency trading. You need a sizable market and China is not there yet.
Only when the dollar soars to new highs, blows all the dollar loans out of the water, at last we will see the start of meaningful reform. Nobody will reform anything until there is no choice. US banks would turn over whatever gold they have of your in a heartbeat if the government said to do so. Therefore, US banks are not to be trusted from that perspective.

Gold & Euro – Here we Go Again.

Einstein-I cannot believe that God plays dice with the universe
One reader writes making a statement that clearly we are so influential and that is why only a fool does not read our work. Some people assume simply because I said Friday was a low in gold and we should get a 3 day reaction rally and it does, that this is all influence. This is simply a distraction. What if the markets are far more accurate and there is tremendous hidden order in the markets than people suspect? There is no random walk nonsense. Einstein said it best – “I cannot believe that God plays dice with the universe.” 
Tower of Babel Bruegel - Peter
Let us be honest. The whole idea behind the Tower of Babel was to disrupt the communications of people. When it comes to the nature of all things, there remains a wealth of difference so you will never achieve consensus. If I am right and there is tremendous order to this illusion of chaos, then politicians lose power to say vote for them and they will manipulate society to create the perfect world and economists lost the power of playing God and have to focus on studying HOW things function rather than trying to alter the nature of humanity.
GOLD
In gold today we have three Weekly Bearish Reversals 1233, 1197, and 1176. Take out all three and we should expect a drop to 1040 area. It would be fantastic to see a collapse to $950 by the first week of August. That would destroy gold in the eyes of most as even an asset class. That would then set the stage for a real bull market.
IBEUFOR-W 7-5-2013
The Euro peaked precisely with our forecast array on June 18th the week of the 17th. Everything is showing high volatility as we enter the ECM target week in August. The weekly Bearish Reversals on the cash for today at 12914, 12889, and 12841. The main level of support is 12137. Keep in mind that with the German banks in trouble, that will be the final straw for the collapse of the Euro. This will push the dollar higher and gold lower.
For those who are trying to get familiar with these arrays, there is a brief explanation – How to Use the Forecasting Arrays.

Male or Female Makes No Difference – They Are All After Your Money

Male or Female
When Diocletian (284-305AD) came to power after the Great Monetary Collapse of the 3rd Century, he sought to restore the economy even reintroducing silver coins. However, to accomplish that he imposed aggressive taxation and invented passports since you could not travel leaving your town unless you paid your taxes. This is exactly what is in Barbara Boxer’s Transportation Bill that if the IRS “thinks” you ow money, they will revoke your passport preventing any travel until they say you owe nothing. History repeats because the passions of humankind never change and government ALWAYS see the people as the problem, never that they themselves cannot manage anything.
NSA
In the United States Congress has been circling the wagons to protect the NSA acting as outright liars pretending this is all about terrorism. It isTAXES and hunting down every penny they can get. The USA has been sending letters to Canadians informing them that since they had one parent that was American, they owed taxes to the USA since they are property of the US government. To the USA, taxes are not your “fair share” of anything – it is what government considers its “fair share” or you total productive capacity.
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While Francois Hollande of France has been loud about the NSA spying on European politicians, it has come out that France also taps all phone calls and collects emails of its citizens not for terrorists, but for taxes. The same is going on the UK and just about everywhere in Europe.
Simpson Alan
This is the Sovereign Debt Crisis. Everything is imploding. We are losing absolutely all freedom because these people who CLAIM to represent us have become the greatest oppressors in history. I have stated many times, there will be NO such thing as HYPERINFLATION for that assumes government will try to be honorable and meet its promises. There is just NOexample from history that has EVER shown any government that tried to do so. They have always seen the people as the problem. They never see themselves as the source of any problem. Alan Simpson is a classic example. He had the audacity to call the seniors the greedy generation all because they dared to expect government to honor its promises.
Roman-Army
The trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities will be defaulted upon just as the City of Detroit defaulting upon its pensions. Rome had the same problem. As they attempted to inflate, confidence declined, and government hunted down capital. Everything fell apart right down to the courts. No government has ever survived s debt crisis of this nature. Rome collapsed on the same basis – unfunded pensions.
The fact are the facts. Only a fool will buy this nonsense that the NSA is all about terrorists. This is all about money. Congress cannot see what it is doing to destroy our society and they stack the courts with former prosecutors and have driven their conviction rate up to nearly 99%.
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Edward Gibbon, author of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote of the Roman Emperor Commodus a rather good explanation of the view of those in power toward the people or who some have called the “great unwashed.” He wrote that
distinction of every kind soon became criminal. The possession of wealth stimulated the diligence of the informers; rigid virtue implied a tacit censure of the irregularities of Commodus; important services implied a dangerous superiority of merit; and the friendship of the father always insured the aversion of the son. Suspicion was equivalent to proof; trial to condemnation. The execution of a considerable senator was attended with the death of all who might lament or revenge his fate; and when Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse
(Book 1, Chapter 4).
There is no pity or remorse in Washington. The vast majority see no problem and cannot imagine that there will ever come a day a reckoning. Since they see no problem other than we do not pay enough taxes, then there is not even a solution entertained.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

John Williams - We Are Beginning To Approach The End Game


With tremendous volatility continuing in global markets this summer, John Williams, of Shadowstats, released an incredibly important report which contained an ominous warning. 

Here is the ominous warning from John Williams of Shadowstats:  

Beginning to Approach the End Game.  “Nothing is normal: not the economy, not the financial system, not the financial markets and not the political system.  The financial system still remains in the throes and aftershocks of the 2008 panic and near-systemic collapse, and from the ongoing responses to same by the Federal Reserve and federal government.  Further panic is possible and hyperinflation remains inevitable. 

Typical of an approaching, major turning point in the domestic- and global-market perceptions, bouts of extreme volatility and instability have been seen with increasing frequency in the financial markets, including equities, currencies and the monetary precious metals (gold and silver).  Consensus market expectations on the economy and Federal Reserve policy also have been in increasing flux.  The FOMC and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have put forth a plan for reducing and eventually ending quantitative easing in the form of QE3.  The tapering or cessation of QE3 is contingent upon the U.S. economy performing in line with overly-optimistic economic projections provided by the Fed.  Initially, market reaction pummeled stocks, bonds and gold.

Underlying economic reality remains much weaker than Fed projections.  As actual economic conditions gain broader recognition, market sentiment should shift quickly towards no imminent end to QE3, and then to expansion of QE3.  The markets and the Fed are stuck with underlying economic reality, and, eventually, they will have to recognize same.  Business activity remains in continued and deepening trouble, and the Federal Reserve—despite currency-market platitudes to the contrary—is locked into quantitative easing by persistent problems now well beyond its control.  Specifically, banking-system solvency and liquidity remain the primary concerns for the Fed, driving the quantitative easing.  Economic issues are secondary concerns for the Fed; they are used as political cover for QE3.  That cover will continue for as long as the Fed needs it.

At the same time, rapidly deteriorating expectations for domestic political stability reflect widening government scandals, in addition to the dominant global-financial-market concern of there being no viable prospect of those controlling the U.S. government addressing the long-range sovereign-solvency issues of the United States government.  All these factors, in combination, show the end game to be nearing. 

The most visible and vulnerable financial element to suffer early in this crisis likely will be the U.S. dollar in the currency markets (all dollar references here are to the U.S. dollar, unless otherwise stated).  Heavy dollar selling should evolve into massive dumping of the dollar and dollar-denominated paper assets.  Dollar-based commodity prices, such as oil, should soar, accelerating the pace of domestic inflation.  In turn, that circumstance likely will trigger some removal of the U.S. dollar from its present global-reserve-currency status, which would further exacerbate the currency and inflation problems tied to the dollar.

This still-forming great financial tempest has cleared the horizon; its impact on the United States and those living in a dollar-based world will dominate and overtake the continuing economic and systemic-solvency crises of the last eight years.  The issues that never were resolved in the 2008 panic and its aftermath are about to be exacerbated.  Based on the precedents established in 2008, likely reactions from the government and the Fed would be to throw increasingly worthless money at the intensifying crises.  Attempts to save the system all have inflationary implications.  A domestic hyperinflationary environment should evolve from something akin to these crises before the end of next year (2014).”

July 4th - A Celebration Or A Memorial Service

Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Amid all the barbecues and fireworks today in the Land of the Free, it may be worth a short pause to remember the words of Thomas Jefferson some 237-years ago:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Powerful stuff.
In one of the most eloquent treatises in history, Jefferson lays out that human beings are born free. And that we create governments in order to stay free.
Further, whenever governments become destructive to this effort, human beings have a right to dissolve the government and create a new one.
Jefferson then lays out an entire laundry list of grievances against the British King that have compelled the colonists to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a new government. This “long train of abuses” includes:
  • He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
  • He has obstructed the Administration of Justice
  • He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny
  • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments
As the modern, dysfunctional version of the US government has become little better than the court of King George III, one might make the exact same arguments today.
  • They have employed a multitude of offices, from the National Security Agency to the US Postal Service, to illegally spy on their citizens.
  • They have used the power and intimidation of tax authorities to bully political opposition groups.
  • They have authorized the military detention and drone assassination of their own citizens.
  • They have indebted future generations who will not be born for decades, and squandered the nations wealth on fraud, waste, and foreign military folly.
  • They have destroyed the primary function of the free market by awarding supreme monetary authority to a tiny banking elite.
  • They have passed tomes of new laws and regulations which criminalize everything from collecting rainwater to childhood lemonade stands.
I’m sure you would have a several more to add to this list. And I’d be curious to hear from you about it.
By Jefferson’s own standard, it seems rather clear that the government – most governments – have become destructive against their higher purpose: to safeguard the people’s liberty.
Today shouldn’t be a celebration... it should be a memorial service. Or at least a time to reflect heavily – when will enough finally be enough? When will it be time to act?

Anti-spying activists plan rallies across US on July 4th holiday

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/anti-spying-activists-plan-rallies-across-us-on-july-4th-holiday/

The most prominent activist group formed in the wake of the National Security Agency (NSA) spying revelations, StopWatching.Us, has reached half a million supporters. On a call with reporters today, the group discussed its future plans, which include rallies in 90 cities around the country for the July 4th holiday.
While hundreds of thousands of Internet users around the world have signed the StopWatching.Us petition, the movement is still at an early stage in terms of actually getting laws changed. Josh Levy of Free Press said the group is arranging dozens of meetings with constituents concerned about spying and their lawmakers. The focus is on changing Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which is believed to be the legal justification for the dragnet government surveillance uncovered by recent NSA leaks.

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Gee Wiz! The Euro Crisis is not Over? Who would have guessed?

Euro Sinking
The Euro has plummeted dropping to 12900 zone. Our Daily Bearish on the spot lies at 12940. Portugal interest rates have jumped to 8% and will move higher.Austria has closed 25% of all the branches of their bank in crisis, and we are waiting for the first crack in German banks. The EU Commission is waiting for the German Elections and will thereafter begin to look at issuing Euro-Bills to cover debts for the Union. But this is likely to be too little too late. Portugal is at great risk of just being forced into outright default and may be unable to wait for the German elections.
There is really little hope of saving Europe until we get a real sea-change in thinking. As long as the politicians continue to think they are in charge, nothing is safe. The cost of living in Europe is so high compared to America all for taxes, there can never be any job recovery in Europe. The euro simply must just sink further down until the politicians wake up or are forced out of office. In 2014, there will be major elections in Europe and that will be a large impact upon the future.
Meanwhile, the policies are just braindead. This is all about retaining power and control – nothing more. The standard of living is drastically lower. A Starbucks Lattie at $7.12 in Zurich, Athens $5.84, Frankfurt $5.53, Paris $5.18, Madrid $4.65, New York City at $4.30 and and $3.55 in San Francisco. This illustrates the taxation and how the cost of living is impacted by that development. The cost of dinner in Europe is often double that in the USA. So what exactly where has life been made better with unemployment among the youth at near 60%?
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The Military coup in Egypt has people beginning to worry that the same will erupt in Turkey. We are seeing a backlash against religious governments.
July is shaping up as very interesting as we head into the turning point on the ECM of August 7th.

4TH OF JULY RULES IN 2013...HAVE 'FUN' CELEBRATING YOUR LIBERTY

OH, AND KEEP OFF THE GRASS TOO!

Jacob G. Hornberger: WHO WERE THE PATRIOTS AND TRAITORS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776?

http://fff.org/2013/07/04/who-were-the-patriots-and-traitors-on-the-fourth-of-july-1776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-were-the-patriots-and-traitors-on-the-fourth-of-july-1776

Contrary to popular belief, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, were not great Americans. They were instead great Englishmen. They were as much English citizens as you and I are American citizens. They were English citizens living abroad in lands under British jurisdiction, much like American citizens living in Puerto Rico.
Why is that important?
It is easy for a modern-day American to convince himself that those men in 1776 were taking a stand against the wrongful acts of some foreign regime. Not so. These were men who were taking a firm stand against the wrongdoing of their own government. That was a dangerous thing to do because their government—the British government–considered them to be terrorists and traitors. That’s the way most governments view citizens who take a stand against the wrongdoing of their own government.
I, on the other hand, consider those men to have been patriots, precisely because they had the courage to take a stand against their own government’s wrongdoing and especially since they knew that taking such a stand could lead to such punishments as torture, incarceration, or death at the hands of their own government.
Have you ever wondered on which side modern-day Americans would fall if they were somehow transported as British citizens back to the British colonies on July 4, 1776?
Would they side with those who standing with their own government, notwithstanding its wrongdoing?
Or would they side with the revolutionaries who were standing against the wrongdoing of their own government?

INDEPENDENCE DAY - THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS 237 YEARS OLD

The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America.John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when congress voted on independence.
Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document,[2] which congress would edit to produce the final version. The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The national birthday, the Independence Day is celebrated on July 4, although Adams wanted July 2.
After ratifying the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms. It was initially published as the printed Dunlap broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public. The most famous version of the Declaration, a signed copy that is popularly regarded as theDeclaration of Independence, is displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Although the wording of the Declaration was approved on July 4, the date of its signing was August 2.[3] The original July 4 United States Declaration of Independence manuscript was lost while all other copies have been derived from this original document.[4]
The sources and interpretation of the Declaration have been the subject of much scholarly inquiry. The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution. Having served its original purpose in announcing independence, references to the text of the Declaration were few for the next four score years. Abraham Lincoln made it the centerpiece of his rhetoric (as in theGettysburg Address of 1863), and his policies. Since then, it has become a major statement onhuman rights, particularly its second sentence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This has been called "one of the best-known sentences in the English language",[5] containing "the most potent and consequential words in American history."[6] The passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted byAbraham Lincoln, who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political philosophy, and argued that the Declaration is a statement of principles through which the United States Constitution should be interpreted.[7] It has inspired work for the rights of marginalized people throughout the world.[citation needed] It provided inspiration to numerous national declarations of independence throughout the world.

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The U.S. vs. Edward Snowden: Does the World Not Have the Courage or Decency to Protect Mr. Snowden?

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-07-03/us-vs-edward-snowden-does-world-not-have-courage-or-decency-protect-mr-snowde

Actions speak louder than words, and by his actions alone Edward Snowden has proved himself to be a real American Hero, a Patriot and somebody worthy of being called a Citizen of the World.  The sheer amount of personal risk he took was by no means trivial, and the reason he took it for makes it even more significant. I know some people are doubting his credentials and motives now, but it only exemplifies how cynical and cruel we - our current so-called “civilization” - has become. I’ve read hisposts on Arstechnica, and to me he just comes across a normal kid of our generation who’s sick and tired of the corrupt and decaying system – the only difference being that he had the courage to do something about it.  Moreover, the fact that he’s beinghounded by the western global leadership only further goes to prove that he’s done NOTHING wrong. He put his and his family’s life on the hook just so millions could benefit. He had the courage and conviction to stand up to the most powerful government and military force in the world on the grounds of principle alone. He EXACTLY represents what America was and is all about – an individual standing up against tyranny, an individual standing up for his beliefs - and he is doing EXACTLY what the Constitution of the United States demands of its Citizens. And instead of hailing him as a patriot for being a defender the Constitution, many in the public are calling him a traitor.

Ironically, the ONLY saving grace for the US in this whole fiasco is probably the fact that Edward Snowden is an American. If the founding fathers were alive today, no doubt it would pain them greatly to witness the transformation of the country they founded into all out tyrannical dictatorship. But seeing Americans like Ed Snowden exist, seeing the words they wrote hundreds of years ago continue to inspire and enlighten people in current generations , they would know they had done something right – that their efforts had not gone completely in vain. Edward, we salute you proudly brother, and wish that there are more like you in America and all other countries around the world who have the guts to stand up to increasingly fascist (but proclaiming themselves to be “democratic”) governments. Have no doubts, you have done the right thing, even though at great personal costs for which the people of this world shall forever be indebted. The world would be a much a better place if there were more like you.

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