News on Precious Metals

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• Why The Government Hates Gold. Posted 12/30/2015. Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. – Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
• (YouTube) Why the majority is always wrong | Paul Rulkens | TEDxMaastricht. Posted 10/21/2014. Thinking hard vs. automatic pilot (mental myopia).
• (YouTube) All Wars Are Bankers' Wars. Posted 3/31/2014.
• Exclusive: "And It's Gone... It's All Gone" - The One Gold Scandal That Goes To The Very Top. Posted 12/24/2015. Long before Turkey was flagrantly arming and funding the CIA-created "terrorist organization" known as ISIS, there was another, far more elaborate way in which Turkey was flaunting international sanctions against an ostracized state - in this case Iran - which involved an epic gold smuggling triangle of Hollywood-thriller proportions, all made possible thanks to the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai.
• In your face "Black Swan"!. Posted 12/19/2015. The meeting between Mr. Lavrov, Mr. Putin and John Kerry far overrides anything the Fed could have done or said in my opinion. The foreign policy about face where Mr. Assad no longer “needs to go” and Turkey being ordered to withdraw troops from northern Iraq was astonishing!
• THE SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTING – What Really Happened Behind The Scenes? Posted 12/13/2015. After a week of whitewashed reports, a media scripted ransacking of the alleged ‘shooters’ home (tampering with a potential crime scene) and eyewitness accounts that contradict the official narrative, we also learn that in the very room where 14 people were reportedly killed (along with 21 injured) during a deadly shooting attack at the Inland Regional Center, there was an “active-shooter” training drill involving some of the victims almost a year before the attack.
• ‘Active Shooter’ and ‘Terror’ Drills: The Truth WILL Shock You. Posted 12/19/2015. The following video presentation by Hoaxbusters Call lays out the scale and scope the ‘active shooter’ paradox and the shows exactly how many of the ‘mass shooting’ and ‘terrorist’ events are staged for the media, and used to political ends. Evidence presented in this video from the Boston Bombing is particularly revealing.
• Something Broke in the U.S. Silver Market. Posted 12/18/2015. Very good article on silver imports for industrial use. The oddity is that some unknown entity is acquiring large quantities of silver off the radar.
• As Events Spiral Out of Control It’s Time to Take a Closer Look at Agenda 2030. Posted 12/16/2015. 17 goals and targets that will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet. For example, Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. Translation: Continually engineer boom/bust and other financial crisis; centralize all ‘private banks’ – IMF, World Bank, Fed/BOE etc to control all finances via a digital one world currency; a cashless society administered via personal implanted RFID chips; continue to encourage and Increase dependence on personal debt by continually raising inflation/prices above earnings; make interest rates negative and then ‘charge’ for keeping balances in the black; make it impossible to function in society without chip i.e. no access to work, food, healthcare, buying and selling, transport etc
• U.S. Silver Production Plunges. Posted 12/17/2015. U.S. silver production for September fell a staggering 20% compared to the same month last year. Falling silver production is also taking place in several of the top producers in the world: Canada = -23% (Jan-Oct), Australia = -41% (Jan-Aug). According to the data from the 2015 World Silver Survey, 55% of all silver produced in 2014 came as a by-product of zinc, lead and copper production.
• (YouTube) San Bernardino Victims Daughter Exposes Her Mother To Be A FAKE. Posted 12/5/2015. "If I do go..." and "when I am taken to a place..." No tears, no crying... one day after her mother has been massacred!
• The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold. Posted 12/8/2015. Why own gold? (1) To protect against monetary recklessness. (2) As insurance against the possibility of a major calamity in the banking/financial system. (3) For the embedded "option value" that will pay out handsomely if gold is re-monetized.
• Watch a Retired Lt. Colonel Call President Obama a "Total Pussy" on Live TV. Posted 12/8/2015.
• (YouTube) 5 Habits of Exceptionally Charismatic People. Posted 6/27/2014. (1) Embrace their imperfections, (2) Don't be a conversational narcissist (ask interesting questions), (3) gush don't gossip, (4) showing your hands, (5) deep gazing (briefly).
• The Speech That Got JFK Killed and Sealed America’s Fate. Posted 11/22/2015.
• (YouTube) 3 Stories That Show the War of Terror Is A Fraud. Posted 11/22/2015. From the Corbettreport. "Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I." from The New York Times, April, 2012.
• How Washington And Its Allies Spawned The Islamic State. Posted 11/21/2015. The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS.
• German Interior Minister Says Suicide Bomber's Syrian Passport "May Have Been Planted". Posted 11/18/2015. Syrian passport found next to a suicide bomber in the Paris terror attacks may have been planted. There are indications that this was a planted lead...
• (YouTube) Rollercoaster Crash: Top 4 Reasons For Deflation - Hidden Secrets Of Money 6 (Mike Maloney). Posted 11/17/2015.
• Stephen Hawking: There is no God and the theory of evolution better explains the origin of life. Posted 11/12/2015. Good arguments to "prove" Creation over Evolution.
• "Horrible Headline" Go Parabolic, "Economic Mother Nature" Nears All-Out Victory. Posted 11/11/2015. The CRB commodity index’s “dead cat bounce” from the 40-year low of 185 it briefly touched in late August is on the verge of being taken out.
• "US Debt Is 3 Times More Than You Think" Warns Former Chief US Accountant. Posted 11/8/2015. The former U.S. comptroller general says the real U.S. debt is closer to about $65 trillion than the oft-cited figure of $18 trillion, thanks to unfunded liabilities which simply cannot be ignored. What needs to be added to the $18 trillion are the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has.
  
  Related to the above article, Kotlikoff says true US debt is $210 trillion or over $1,720,000 per taxpayer Kotlikoff goes on to illustrate that the fiscal gap is increasing at an alarming rate and that delay makes our problem much worse. In 2003, just a little more than a decade ago, the fiscal gap was $60 trillion. But by last year it had catapulted to $210 trillion.
  
  
• Critical Factor: The Real Reason Behind Precious Metal Manipulation. Posted 11/5/2015. It's a question of paper versus physical assets. The article's argument is essentially that: The massive siphoning of investors funds into financial assets over the past 40+ years severely depressed the demand for physical gold and silver. Paper (or financial) assets are future IOU's based on the burning of energy, but with declining energy production including the falling EROI the value most paper assets will be destroyed.
• NSA Partner in Crime? Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Auto-Spying Can’t Be Disabled. Posted 11/4/2015.
• (YouTube) TDV Interview Series: Bo Polny - Shemitah Financial Crisis to Occur In November! Posted 11/3/2015.
• JFK Murder: Fifty Years Later and the Cover Up Continues. Posted Nov, 2013.
• (YouTube) The speech that got JFK killed. Posted 9/5/2008. Ten days following the Bay of Pigs, JFK gave his famous “secret society” speech. He is the first, and the only President to ever identify the globalists as the enemy of America and humanity as a whole.
• (YouTube) Welcome to Sweden. Posted 10/26/2015. What is life like in Sweden? "The politicians are participating in a chicken race of “goodness” where everybody tries to one-up each other in caring for the citizens of OTHER countries while Swedish retirees, school children, handicapped and other vulnerable categories of people are thorougly ignored."
• Report: This Major Internet Company Has Stockpiled Three Months of Food and $10 Million In Gold For Their Employees: “We Don’t Trust Wall Street”. Posted 10/25/2015.
• Presenting America's New Debt Ceiling: $19,600,000,000,000. Posted 10/22/2015.
• Saudi Arabia Will Be Broke In 5 Years, IMF Predicts. Posted 10/21/2015. In short, Riyadh will burn through its (reserves) cushion in less than 5 years under current conditions.
• 2015 Record Silver Investment Ratio: 1% = 30%. Posted 10/21/2015. Less than 1% of worldwide investors in 2015 are buying 30% (est. 260 Moz) of the silver available for the year. If another 1% of the world's investors wake up to the value in silver, the silver market would be overwhelmed with demand.
• (TED.com) Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here's how. June, 2015.
• Brain may flush out toxins during sleep. Posted 10/17/2013. Their results, published in Science, show that during sleep a plumbing system called the glymphatic system may open, letting fluid flow rapidly through the brain. “We need sleep. It cleans up the brain,” said Dr. Nedergaard.
• (YouTube) SHEMITAH EXPOSED III: The Super Shemitah and Fall Crisis Period Begins. Posted 10/13/2015.
• Number One with a Bullet. Posted 1/23/2015. The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world. Progressives will tell you that this is what makes America the Murder Capitol of Planet Earth. But we're not. Watch this video and see where we are ranked. You’ll be amazed.
• Gun Control: Fashionable Prohibition for Modern Lawmakers. Posted 10/9/2015. Alcohol-related deaths are nearly three times that of gun-related. Also, one-third of gun deaths are alcohol-related. Why not ban alcohol?
• A Liquidity Crisis Hit The Banking System In September. Posted 10/6/2015.
• Oops -- The Climate Scammers Lose. Posted 10/6/2015.
• State Makes It Legal to Shoot Cops in Self-Defense If They Violate Your Rights. Posted 9/28/2015.
• How Inflation Could Be Caused in 15 Minutes. Posted 10/1/2015. By James Rickards. By the FED declaring gold to be worth $5,000 per oz.
• Donald Trump’s tax plan is supported by 7 decades of hard data. Posted 9/30/2015. He aims to cut taxes for all individuals who earn less than $25,000 dollars, and reduce the top marginal rate to 25% for those earning more than $150,000. The corporate tax rate would also be cut to 15%, down from a marginal rate as high as 38%.
• (YouTube) 9/11 Bombshell: Methodical Deception -- Rebekah Roth. Posted 9/10/2015. Cannot make cellphone calls above 1,800 ft in an airplane in 2001. One of the callers, Barbara Olsen, has an intriguing, coincidental background. Her book is: Methodical Deception.
• Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell. May, 2009. Huxley (Author of "Brave New World) vs. George Orwell (Author of "1984"). Excellent comparison of essentially Pleasure and triviality versus Pain and Censorship.
• The Zipf Mystery. Posted 9/15/2015. Explains Zipf's Law, the 80/20 rule, etc.
• Update 9/14/15: Federal Reserve "We won't give you your gold back!", a sign of financial crisis. Posted 9/14/2015.
• Fed Audit Shocker: They Come from Planet Klepto. Posted 9/14/2015. Fantastic video description of the FED's asset purchases dilemma.
• Investors Are Losing Faith in the Fed. Posted 9/13/2015. Both U.S. stocks and bonds are being sold, which is different from 2008.
• Europe's Biggest Bank Dares To Ask: Is The Fed Preparing For A "Controlled Demolition" Of The Market. Posted 9/6/2015. Deutsche Bank saying, in not so many words, what Ray Dalio hinted at, namely that the Fed's tightening would be the mechanistic precursor to a market crash and thus, QE4.
• From This Point Forward, Christians Are Going To Be Banned From Holding Many Jobs In America. Posted 9/6/2015.
• Putin To CIS Countries: Get Rid Of The Dollar. Posted 9/2/2015. See Putin says dump dollar
• (YouTube) Craig Hemke-We Have the Illusion of Markets. Posted 8/30/2015. Great interview with Turd Ferguson from former Wayne Webber.
• The End Of "The Permanent Lie" Looms Large. Posetd 8/30/2015. Governments are unwilling to tell the truth about the magnitude of the economic problems, the lack of solutions and cost of possible corrective actions to the electorate. Politicians have taken regard of historian Simon Schama’s comment that no one ever won an election by telling voters it had come to the end of its “providential allotment of inexhaustible plenty”. ... Ordinary people are complicit; refusing to acknowledge that maybe you cannot have it all.
• Manipulation = Fragility. Posted 8/30/2015. There are a number of moving parts to this dynamic of steadily increasing fragility. One is that any system quickly habituates to the manipulation, that is, the system soon adds the manipulation to its essential inputs.
• Massive Starvation During The Last Great Depression (see around the middle of the article). Posted 8/30/2015. According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940.
• Cutting Through The HFT Lies: What Really Happened During The Flash Crash Of August 24, 2015. Posted 8/25/2015.
• Is The Correction Over? Posted 8/25/2015. Great charts of previous (recent) crashes of 1987, 1998, etc. There is a difference: In all cases above, valuations were in expansion mode as shown in the 5-year CAPE ratio above. The difference this time is that valuations are contracting which is more historically coincident with the onset of much deeper reversions.
• Bill Fleckenstein – WARNING: The Crash-Prone Markets Are Headed Considerably Lower. Posted 8/24/2015.
• Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels? Posted 8/23/2015. Lake Mead water levels have not been reported since July 9th - six weeks??!!
• Plunge Protection Teams of the World, Unite! Posted 8/21/2015. After half a decade of ceaseless saves, we all know the mechanics of Plunge Protection. This article articulates the steps.
• Trump Turning Point. POsted 8/19/2015.
• The Mystery Of September 23: Why Does 9/23 Keep Popping Up All Over the Place? Posted 8/16/2015. Includes three videos.
• The U.S. Empire Investment Strategy: Export All Of It's Gold... The Barbarous Relic. Posted 8/17/2015.
• Donald Trump Rips NAFTA, Calls for America First Foreign Policy in Meet the Press Interview (Video). Posted 8/16/2015.
• Wholesale Silver Shortage…CONFIRMED. Posted 8/14/2015. With SDBullion’s contacts with the nation’s leading precious metals mints, wholesalers, authorized purchasers, and distributors, the latest evidence indicates that the wholesale silver shortage is WORSENING.
• (YouTube) Marc Faber On Yuan Devaluation, Fed Rate, Indian Economy & More. Posted 8/12/2015.
• 150 Days: Treasury Says Debt Has Been Frozen at $18,112,975,000,000. Posted 8/12/2015.
• The Long-Range Social Security/Medicare Deficit: $72 Trillion and Counting. Posted 8/11/2015. Pay-as-you-go means every dollar collected in payroll taxes is spent. It is spent the very day, the very hour, the very minute that it comes in the door. Nothing is saved. Nothing is invested. The payroll taxes contributed by today’s workers pay the benefits of today’s retirees. When today’s workers retire, their benefits will have to be paid by future taxpayers.
• Retail Gold & Silver Demand Surged 135% since June, 365% More First-Timers. Posted 8/5/2015.
• The Answer to the Biggest Riddle in the Markets Right Now. Posted 8/3/2015. Homeownership is at a 48-year low. But homebuilders, drywall makers, and cabinet makers are all at multiyear highs. How can this be? Who owns all the new homes that these companies are helping build? The answer: investors.
• Crashing: Apple, Twitter, Oil, Commodities, Greek Stocks, Chinese Stocks. Posted 8/3/2015. Apple (down 11% from peak), Twitter (down 58%), Greek (stock market bloodbath), Puerto Rico (non-payment today - a default), China (Shanghai Composite Index down 13.4%), Oil (down 21% in July), Commodities (e.g. Copper, Tin, and Nickel).
• Jimmy Carter Rages At What The U.S. Has Become: "Just An Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery". Posted 8/3/2015.
• Plundering America: The Cuban Criminal Pipeline. Posted 7/22/2015.
• Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders. Posted 7/22/2015.
• Police Brutality Exposed Through "Lens of Video"; Cincinnati Prosecutor "When I indict a murderer, I don't pull punches" Posted 8/1/2015.
• Pentagon Rejects Armed Civilians “Protecting” Military Recruitment Centers. Posted 7/28/2015. On Wednesday, media outlets reported that armed citizens descended on military recruiting centers in several cities in order to protect them from armed assailants.
• Majority Of Americans Now See Guns As The Solution To Mass Shootings. Posted 7/27/2015. According to a 2014 Pew Research Poll there has been a 9% rise in the number of Americans who think gun ownership could "protect people from becoming victims of crime."
• Greek Capital Controls To Remain For Months As Germany Pushes For Bail-In Of Large Greek Depositors. Posetd 7/26/2015.
• (YouTube) Another "Conspiracy" Confirmed: Your car can be hacked. Posetd 7/26/2015. In today’s Thought For The Day James discusses the confirmation of yet another “conspiracy theory,” namely that cars can be remotely hacked and controlled.
• (YouTube) Greece End Game & China dumps half trillion in treasuries. Posted 7/22/2015. China dumped $520 billion in the last 5 quarters (1.25 years). Reference: China's Record Dumping Of US Treasuries Leaves Goldman Speechless. The PBOC is selling USTs en masse to back-fill the hole of capital fleeing the country.
• Gerald Celente – The Panic That’s Happening Right Now Is Much Bigger Than Just The Gold Market. Posted 7/22/2015. So it’s bigger than gold, Eric. Canada is in a recession, Australia is also heading into recession and Latin American currencies of commodity producing nations are getting crushed. By every measure, these are the conditions that we would expect to see before a massive global meltdown. The panic is on. Remember, the IMF has just downgraded global growth to the lowest level since 2009, the depth of the Great Recession. ... Remember, some two-thirds of America’s GDP is consumer-based.
• Gold And Silver Shortages Become Acute – GLD Is Being Looted Again. Posetd 7/20/2015. As for GLD, a startling 11.63 tonnes was removed on Friday, taking the total reported tonnage down to 696 tonnes. It’s the lowest since September 19, 2008, when the price of gold closed on the Comex at $860. I have written about this in the past and will do so more going forward, but it is likely that GLD does not even have 696 tonnes of gold sitting in its vaults that is unencumbered by hypothecation or lease agreements. Or is just outright not there.
• The "Smartest Money" Used Last Week's Surge To Dump Even More Stock. Posted 7/21/2015. Institutional clients and hedge fund clients were both net sellers for the second consecutive week last week.
• The Collapse Of The U.S. Retirement Market & Epic Rise In The Price Of Gold. Posted 7/21/2015. According to the ICI – Investment Company Institute, the total U.S. Retirement Market (2014) is valued at $24.5 trillion compared to $991 billion in 1980. So in 35 years, the U.S. Retirement Market increased a whopping 2372%. ... The U.S. Empire is on its last legs. At some point, we will not be able to trade worthless Fiat Dollars for our oil imports. Falling domestic oil production, on top of falling oil imports will wreak havoc on the U.S. Economy and most paper and physical assets. Thus, the collapse of the U.S. Retirement Market will cause an epic surge in the price of gold.
• 7-15-15 Ted Wilson Statement to Clarify the Vote Regarding Women's Ordination Accommodation.
• San Antonio: the Adventist Hermeneutic Confirmed. Posted 7/14/2015. Regarding Women's Ordination: Inescapably then, the vote was a referendum on the hermeneutical methods weighed during the TOSC process. After the vote, he wrote on July 10 that at San Antonio, “the gap between textual and narrative approaches to biblical interpretation was not bridged among us” (“Dear Colleagues, Women in Ministry” letter). According to Kamal, the world church heard the case for the modification in hermeneutics. They rejected it. The TOSC position 1 was that the Bible opposes the ordination of women to the pastoral ministry. It was the only negative position. TOSC positions 2 and 3 both favored the ordination of women and thus the vote permitting each division executive committee to decide independently of the others to make provision for the ordination of women. At the center of the question of women’s ordination is the issue of systems of biblical interpretation. So what happened on July 8? San Antonio can only be seen as an affirmation of the hermeneutics of TOSC position 1.
• ObamaCare Implant: ObamaCare Microchip RFID Myth.
• China's Gold Reserves Jump 57% in First Official Update Since 2009. Posted 7/17/2015. Third, and perhaps most important, is the reasoning behind the increase. While in April it was expected that China will be focused on SDR acceptance of the Yuan, that was subsequently refuted when it became clear that the IMF has no intention of making such a decision any time soon. So why make the disclosure?
• GOLD’S CORRELATION COEFFICIENT % TO US NATIONAL DEBT, SILVER, REAL US MONEY SUPPLY, AND MORE. Posted 7/17/2015.
• The Real Reason for the Sudden Iran Nuclear Deal. Posted 7/14/2015. Money.
• Paul Craig Roberts – We Are Now Witnessing The Elites’ Terrifying Endgame. Posted 7/15/2015. Greeks driven out of their country by the collapsed economy, demise of the social welfare system, and extraordinary rate of unemployment will take their poverty to other EU countries. Members of the EU are not bound by national boundaries and can freely emigrate. Closing down the support system in Greece will drive Greeks into the support systems of other EU countries, which will be closed down in turn by the One Percent’s privatizations. The 21st century Enclosures have begun.
• Is the Dollar Signaling Another 2008-Type Autumn is Coming? Posted 7/13/2015. Greece must fork over €50 billion in assets in exchange for the deal. By assets, I mean “airports, infrastructure, and most certainly banks.” This represents an incredible 27% of Greek GDP. Greece, in essence, is handing over a quarter of its economy to Germany control. So much for any notion of borders, independence, or even sovereignty. Greece is now, for all extensive purposes, something of a German colony.
• sahra-wagenknecht.de. In the year 2010 Greece was bankrupt. It was clear already then that it would not be able to repay its debt. Yet despite that, Madam Chancellor, in 2010 you set the course for Germany and the other Euro countries to accept the liability for the Greek debt. By so doing you protected banks and hedge funds from losses in the billions. For the European tax payer who was never asked, however, this decision was a fatal error. Together with other parliamentarians of the Left I pointed this out to you in the Bundestag. You would not listen to it.
• (YouTube) Jonathan Cahn 2015, The Final Shemitah and Signs In The Heavens. Posted 6/8/2015. The 28-year Shemitah cycle.
  • 1917 America's rise to power begins — World War I.
  • 1945 America's rise to power complete — End of World War II. Beginning of Bretton Woods (new world monetary/banking system). America is at the pinnacle of military power. Vision of the World Trade Center Towers is planned. The U.S. is the moral leader of the world.
  • 1973 Bretton Woods system collapses. The gold standard is abandoned. Petro-dollar takes hold. America loses Vietnam War. World Trade Center Towers were completed. The U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion.
  • 2001 The Towers fall. Stock Market crashes
  • 2008 Stock Market crash
  • 2015 on September 13 solar eclipse. Feast of Trumpets.
• (YouTube) Jonathan Cahn shemitah 2015, JUBILEE !! ULTIMATE SHEMITAH !! Posted 5/18/2015.
• China’s Stock-Bubble Burst. Posted 7/10/2015. Great article with two powerful charts.
• China Stocks and the New York Stock Exchange Shutdown: The Untold Story. Posted 7/9/2015. Unknown to most Americans, some of those shuttered stocks on the New York Stock Exchange were Chinese stocks and among the largest capitalized companies in the world. More than 100 Chinese companies trade on U.S. stock exchanges as American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and almost 200 Chinese company ADRs trade over-the-counter in the U.S. (Individual shares are referred to as ADS, American Depository Shares.) Last year, Thomson Reuters estimated the market value of Chinese companies listed on just the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market at more than $1.4 trillion.
• (YouTube) Member Update 7/8/15 No Sale. Posted 7/8/2015. References: The "Historic NYSE Halt" Post-Mortem: The Shock And Awe When It All Went Down; US Mint SOLD OUT of Silver Eagles, Announces Will Not Take Orders Until AUGUST!
  US Mint SOLD OUT of Silver Eagles http://www.silverdoctors.com/us-mint-...
• China’s Stock Market Crash Rattles Confidence Across The Globe As NYSE Trading Halted!. Posted 7/8/2015.
• Microsoft Fires 7,800: Second Biggest Mass Layoff In Its History. Posted 7/8/2015.
• Obamacare Begins A Death Spiral – The Numbers Will Make You Sick. Posted 7/8/2015. Health insurance companies have submitted their Obamacare rate proposals for 2016, and many requests are for increases in the double digits. These are “individual” plans offered to those who do not get their insurance through their employer (known as “group” plans).
• A Lesson From the Greek Crisis: Safe Deposit Boxes Are Not Safe. Posted 7/8/2015. Last week the Greek government imposed capital controls to prevent cash from escaping from the Greek banking system, which is on the brink of collapse. These repressive financial measures, ... include the closing of banks, limiting cash withdrawals from ATMs to 60 euros ($67) per day, and the banning of all money transfers via credit and debit cards to accounts held in foreign countries. .... Worse yet, the reeling Greek public suffered another shock yesterday when Deputy Finance Minister Nadia Valavani revealed to Greek television that the government and banks had already agreed that people would also not be allowed to withdraw cash from safe deposit boxes for as long as the controls were in place.
• Has The Global Run On Silver Begun? Shortages On The Horizon? Posted 7/6/2015. (1) U.S. silver imports are 33% higher than the first quarter of 2014. (2) India imported a massive 3,000 mt in the first four months of the year. (In 2014, India imported a total of 7,000 mt.) (3) Tightness in the physical silver market. (4) A surge in Silver (and Gold) Eagle buying. (5) Mine supply falling and government silver sales...Zilch.
• Federal Judge of 17 Years Repents – Compares Damage Done by “War on Drugs” to Destruction of World War II. Posetd 7/2/2015.
• "It Could Never Happen Here" - America Is Not Greece. Posetd 7/2/2015.
• (YouTube) GREEK DEBT CRISIS IS HERE - Mike Maloney's Daily News Brief. Posetd 6/30/2015.
• Why The Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Is Such A Huge Threat To The U.S. Financial System. Posted 7/2/2015.
• Skype Alternatives, Part 2: Edward Snowden’s Recommendations. Posted 6/28/2015.
• Ignoring Tsipras Plea For Calm, Greeks Storm ATMs, Stores, Gas Stations. Posted 6/28/2015. Has pictures and video.
• Greek Capital Controls Begin: Greek Banks, Stock Market Will Not Open On Monday. Posted 6/28/2015.
• (YouTube) Member Update 6/28/15 Remain Calm. Posted 6/28/2015. From BrotherJohnF. The U.S. debt has been frozen since about March, 2015. See TreasuryDirect.
• Here Comes "Prexit": Puerto Rico In "Death Spiral", Debts Are "Not Payable", Governor Refuses To "Kick The Can". Posted 6/28/2015.
• Political Cartoon: John Darkow, Love Wins. Posted 6/27/2015.
• Beginning of the Ending Sequence. Posted 6/27/2015. By Bill Holter from MineSet. Two days later, some sort of plan will need to be concocted to classify their bankruptcy as not a "DEFAULT", otherwise a $3 trillion fuse to a $1.4 quadrillion bomb will be lit! These and more will be very important "mid-term exams", any failure will bleed over into derivatives and become "final and terminal exams" with zero chance of a passing grade!
• Don't Push A Bad Position. Posted 6/26/2015. IMPORTANT NOTES on current SILVER trading at COMEX. The open interest finally exceeded 200,000 contracts (1 billion ounces). I believe the only other time this much open interest existed was back in 1980 or ’81.
• (YouTube) Frank Abagnale - FedTalks 2013. Posted 6/20/2013. A real man...loves his wife and is faithful to his wife...
• (YouTube) 9/11 smoking gun: FBI confirm two critical phone calls from hijacked planes could not have come from the planes. (Source: David Ray Griffin). Posted 12/18/2009. Original under the title: David Ray Griffin on the 9/11 Cell Phone Calls: Exclusive CBC Interview.
• Supreme Court Upholds Same Sex Marriage. Posted 6/27/2015. Interesting perspective of Martin Armstrong believing the Court made the right decision. These are the “legal” rights that are attached to a civil marriage, which requires a license because it is a tax. Once the state requires a marriage license, even to get married in the Eyes of God in a church, it ceases to be a religious right and enters the realm of civil rights that require a license. The religious people who are against Gay Marriage are barking up the wrong tree. Why does the government have the right to charge a tax to get married? ... So if you do not pay the fee today, you have NO RIGHT to be married anywhere including a church or in the Eyes of God unless the government is paid. In this context, this is what a right to marry is all about and you should not confuse this with religion to begin with. This is a right for the government to simply charge a licence fee – not religion.
• (YouTube) We Are In A Money Bubble Which Will Lead To A Fiat Money Collapse. Posted 6/25/2015. James Turk is the guest speaker. Excellent interview.
• (YouTube) Real Value of Silver - How to prevent your wealth transfer in a collapse. Published 6/11/2014.
• (YouTube) How To Make a Drug Dealer Quit - Ownage Pranks. Posted 3/15/2015.
• What's the Real Unemployment Rate in the U.S.? Posted 6/16/2015. The *real* unemployment rate is around 40%. It includes all full-employment workers making over $15,000 (full-time minimum wage earners and higher). If you include those making less than $15K then the unemployment rate drops to 25%. This is a far cry from the official 5.6% unemployment rate.
• Comex Paper Silver: New Record Naked Short Interest. Posted 6/15/2015. 2014 total GLOBAL mine supply 877.5 million ozs. So Comex OI is now 110% of annual mine supply. The open interest in Comex silver futures hit an new all-time high as of the close of Thursday’s trading at 191,663 contracts. This is 958 million ounces of paper silver – about 19% greater than the world’s annual production of silver.
• Silver Price Suppression Intensifies As India Imports A Record Amount. Posted 6/15/2015. If Indian silver demand remains strong for the rest of the year, total imports may reach 9,000 mt (300 Moz) in 2015. Total global silver mine supply was 877 Moz in 2014. Thus, Indian silver imports in 2015 could consume a third of world mine supply compared to 25% the previous year. Beijing, China will be using 3,162 metric tonnes of silver per year just for its solar energy installation plan. In other words, India and China combined, would be soaking up 50% of the world’s annual silver production in 2015. And China’s number only includes its silver usage for solar energy. That does not take into account China’s demand for other industrial uses plus investment demand.
• A Derivatives Bomb Exploded Within The Last Two Weeks. Posted 6/9/2015.
• Gold Prices Can Go One Of Two Ways – Either Way, You Can Profit. Posted 6/4/2015.
• (YouTube) Charts The Government Doesn’t Want You To See: Schiff & Maloney Reveal The Truth. Posted 6/2/2015. Duration 41:39. Excellent discussion and list of charts..
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929. Posted 5/27/2015. The Dow sank a total 48% from September to November 1929 and kicked off the 10-year-long Great Depression. It lost another 86% from April 1930 to July 1932 in the crash’s aftermath.
• Fairytales from the Federal Reserve: 15 Reasons Fed Policies Belong in Fantasyland. Posted 5/12/2015. They really don't know what they are doing. Fifteen policy changes in five years.
• Caught In The Act: Government Hackers. Posted 5/14/2015.
• 40 Volcanoes Are Erupting Right Now, And 34 Of Them Are Along The Ring Of Fire. Posted 5/14/2015.
• (YouTube) Ray Dalio: "If You Don't Own Gold, You Either Don't Know History Or Economics". Posted 5/14/2015.
• (YouTube) Episode 305 - The Secret Life of Timothy McVeigh. Posted 5/11/2015.
• (YouTube) James Rickards - The Death of Money - 04-30-15. Posted 5/7/2015. The second half of the presentation (the Q&A) is the best part. Mr. Rickards believes that SDRs will ultimately rule the currencies of the world. That China will be included in October, 2015. That the world banking systems are *not* prepared for a monetary crisis many times greater than the one in 2008. That the crisis could occur at any time. That one should prepare for either deflation or inflation. This cycle between inflation and deflation has occurred in history (he mentioned 1920-21, a two-year period as an example). In preparing for the coming crisis, he recommends a "barbell" strategy: On inflation he recommends holding precious metals (and valuable art), on the deflation side he recommends holding 10-year bonds, and in the middle he recommends holding cash. He is also a big proponent of holding raw land (provided it is in a good location for future development). A monetary crisis could last several months. As an example, the New York Stock Exchange was closed for nearly 4 months starting on July 31, 1914. It was a result of the outbreak of World War I in Europe (see This Day in History and August 1914: When Global Stock Markets Closed).
• Collapsing Buildings. Posted 5/2/2015. 911research.wtc7.net
• (YouTube) U.S. Becoming Laughing Stock of the World. Posted 4/22/2015. Great discussion about the Indian culture.
• (YouTube) REVEALED! 5X BIGGER Than Jade Helm 15!!! Posted 3/30/2015.
• Secretary Of State For Hire: Hillary Clinton Made Millions From Foreign Donors In Exchange For "Favors" Posted 4/20/2015. The former president [Clinton] was paid $104.9 million for delivering 542 speeches around the world between January 2001 and January 2013
• When Only The Cops Have Guns, It's Called a Police State. Posted 4/20/2015.
• OKC - A Conspiracy Theory. Posted 4/19/2015.
• American Justice – FBI Lab Overstated Forensic Hair Matches in 95% of Cases, Including 32 Death Sentences. Posted 4/19/2015.
• Battle of the Smartphones Ends in Bloodshed. Posted 4/19/2015.
• Another Reason To Move Away From California: ‘Conditions Are Like A Third-World Country’. Posted 4/19/2015.
• Your taxes have nothing to do with the government's need for money. Posted 4/15/2015. Elaborating, Ruml wrote: "Federal taxes can be made to serve four principal purposes of a social and economic character. These purposes are:.... Though it is implicit in his analysis, Ruml might have specified one other purpose of taxation: To determine the allocation of power among the government, social classes, and individuals.
• $5,000 Silver? Posted 4/16/2015.
• (YouTube) Bob Graham FBI covering up Saudi gov't connection to 9/11 - Latest WORLD News April,14/2015.
• The New York Post Reports – FBI is Covering Up Saudi Links to 9/11 Attack. Posted 4/13/2015. Graham has been working with a 14-member group in Congress to urge President Obama to declassify 28 pages of the final report of his inquiry which were originally redacted, wholesale, by President George W. Bush. “The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier,” he said, adding, “I am speaking of the kingdom,” or government, of Saudi Arabia, not just wealthy individual Saudi donors. Sources who have read the censored Saudi section say it cites CIA and FBI case files that directly implicate officials of the Saudi Embassy in Washington and its consulate in Los Angeles in the attacks — which, if true, would make 9/11 not just an act of terrorism, but an act of war by a foreign government.
• (YouTube) Money expert, Merrill Jenkins Sr. (M.R.) - T.V. debate. Posted 12/13/2013. Excellent debate in 1978..
• One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes - Part 4. Posted 4/10/2015. Yes, that’s right, China’s inclusion in the SDR will HELP the process of marginalization of the dollar and aid in the ascendance of the SDR as a world reserve mechanism. And as China becomes a currency powerhouse in its role as the No. 1 economy in the world, the only way central banks around the planet can benefit or “invest” in the Yuan will be by stockpiling SDRs! Demand for SDRs will be cleverly boosted by natural demand for the Yuan. This is how a global currency structure begins. The only true beneficiaries of this cycle will be the IMF and those elites who desperately want a totally centralized global economic system.
• (YouTube) Peak Prosperity News Update. Posted 4/10/2015. Violent police talk.
• (YouTube) PROOF: The World Is ACTIVELY PREPARING To DITCH THE DOLLAR -- Bill Holter. Posted 4/8/2015.
• (YouTube) David Morgan - Silver Is Historically Undervalued. Posetd 4/8/2015.
• (YouTube) Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? Posted 4/10/2013. What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose.
• (YouTube) RSA Animate - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty. Posted 9/14/2012.
• (YouTube) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO). Posted 4/5/2015. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.
• License to Kill. Posted 3/31/2015. As empires collapse, they turn inward, and subject their own populations to the same ill treatment to which they subjected others....But that is only the beginning: the precedent has already been set for deploying US troops on US soil. As law and order break down in more and more places, we will see more and more US troops on the streets of cities in the US, spreading death and destruction just like they did in Iraq or in Afghanistan. The last license to kill to be revoked will be the license to kill ourselves.
• Bad News For Precious Metals. Posted 4/2/2015. Good summary of current state of world financial affairs.
• USRTK CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF MONSANTO COVER UP, HARASSMENT OF USDA SCIENTISTS. Posetd 4/1/2015.
• What Are Your Odds of Surviving in a FEMA Camp? Posted 4/1/2015.
• It's The End Of March And 99.85% Of California Is Abnormally Dry Already. Posted 3/26/2015. See also,. NASA Scientist Warns "California Has One Year Of Water Left" (Posted 3/13/2015). Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing.
• Dropping the F-Bomb At A Sunday Afternoon Social?. Posted 3/26/2015. Until I saw this, I did not know that Qatar, Jordan, Oman, our old Gulf War friends Kuwait AND the biggie, Saudi Arabia have all applied for membership. Our allies in Europe was bad enough and certainly a slap on Uncle Sam’s kisser, but Saudi Arabia? This is like dropping an F-bomb at a Sunday afternoon social!
• The Corbett Report. Posted 3/26/2015. The Revolution Will Not Be YouTubed. Alternative media YouTube sites are being slowly defunded.
• Currency War III: How Will It Play Out? Posted 3/23/2015. We should expect a collapse in the near future,” he warned. But that doesn’t mean the end of the world. “The international monetary system has collapsed three times in the last 100 years” and required a restructuring of the system. We should expect another collapse, he said, and identified four potential outcomes:
  
  
  1. a system of multiple reserve currencies
     
  2. adoption of some form of gold standard
     
  3. a system of “Special Drawing Rights (SDR)” issued by the International Monetary Fund
  4. societal collapse
     

Of these, Rickards thinks the SDR strategy will likely come into play in the next financial crisis, which he expects will dwarf the financial crisis of 2008.

• Peter Schiff won't back down: 'The dollar is going to crash, buy gold'. Posted 3/20/2015. "When people realize we can never raise rates and it's permanent QE, that the Fed can't shrink its balance sheet and has no ability to control inflation - they'll be no place to hide," he says. "The real move of the dollar is going to be a crash."
• (YouTube) You Are Being Programmed to Accept the Global ID Control Grid. Posted 3/24/2015.
• (YouTube) The Day The Internet Died. Posted 3/24/2014. Mike Maloney.
• California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans. Posted 3/15/2015.
• (YouTube) The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU. Posted 3/14/2013. 10,000 hours for expert-level performance (professional athletes, etc., to get to the top). To be reasonably good at something? Answer: 20 hours. Four simple steps to rapid skill acquisition: (1) Deconstruct the skill (break it down into small steps/skills), (2) Learn enough to self-correct, (3) Remove practice barriers (e.g. television, etc.), (4) Practice for at least 20 hours.
• (YouTube) Body language, the power is in the palm of your hands | Allan Pease | TEDxMacquarieUniversity. Posted 11/17/2013. Palm up, palm down, finger pointing.
• (YouTube) How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibu. Posted 2/1/2013. (1) Who you are?, (2) What do you love to do? (What do you feel qualified to teach someone else about), (3) Who you do it for? (4) What do those people want or need? (Those who have to to you for what they want or need.) (5) How do they change or transform as a result? -- Happy people make other people happy, and make them feel well taken care of and secure. If we make other people happy, life teaches us that we will be well taken care of too. Question: So what do you do? Example: I give kids great dreams (by writing bedtime story books). That is, sharing your life purpose.
• (YouTube) Programming your mind for success | Carrie Green | TEDxManchester. Posted 6/20/2014.
• (YouTube) The Law of 33% | Tai Lopez | TEDxUBIWiltz. Posted 1/15/2015. "Everyone wants the good life but..." The Dutch saying, "We are too soon old, too late smart." Spend time with 1/3 below you (you mentor), 1/3 at your level, and 1/3 with your mentors (10x what you are striving for).
• (YouTube) Who's blowtorching American jobs? Posted 2/25/2015. Labor participation rate, etc.
• "The Smart Money Is Selling, Not Buying" Goldman Warns With Valuations In The "99th Percentile" Posted 2/21/2015.
• The Case Against Imminent Economic Collapse: “They Can Keep Bailing Things Out for Several More Years Without Fear of Collapse” Posted 2/16/2015.
• (YouTube) 01-20-2015 - FINANCIAL REPRESSION AUTHORITY - w/ Lacy Hunt.
• DANGER AHEAD FOR U.S. & WEST: Shown In These Gold Charts. Posted 2/17/2015. The current global gold market structure reveals a severe out-of-balance situation. While the West, especially the U.S., continues to dominate the global financial system with the finest printing press on the planet, the East (BRICS) now control the lion’s share of the physical gold market. The adjusted BRICS vs WEST gold demand in 2014 is 2,887 mt to 545 mt of gold, respectively. Thus, the BRICS nations are importing 84% of the total amount of available gold.
• (YouTube) Silver & Gold Dealers To Be Shut Down? Update On Operation Chokepoint - Mike Maloney. Posted 2/17/2015. The first video: (YouTube) America is Choking: Operation Chokepoint - Mike Maloney.
• Trapped In A Narrative Of Lies. Posted 2/15/2015. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) released photographs Thursday of what he says is confirmed Russian military action against Ukraine. He gave them “exclusively” to the Washington Free Beacon. Except there’s just one problem — some of the photographs given to WFB from the 80-year-old senator date back to 2008 from the AP and aren’t exclusive at all.
• Fourth Turning - The Shadow of Crisis Has Not Passed - Part Four. Posted 2/12/2015. In Part One of this article I explained the model of generational theory as conveyed by Strauss and Howe in The Fourth Turning. In Part Two I provided an overwhelming avalanche of evidence this Crisis has only yet begun, with debt, civic decay and global disorder propelling the world towards the next more violent phase of this Crisis. In Part Three I addressed how the most likely clash on the horizon is between the government and the people. War on multiple fronts will thrust the world through the great gate of history towards an uncertain future.
• Meanwhile, Inside The White House.
• Florida Drivers Discover New Trick For Getting Through DUI Checkpoints. Posted 2/12/2015.
• The Problem Of Debt As We Reach Oil Limits. Posted 2/11/2015. Includes the benefits and problems with debt. Excellent article. What is wrong with debt?
  1. As mentioned at the beginning of the post, debt works very badly if the economy is contracting.
  2. Interest payments on debt tend to transfer wealth from the poorer members of society to the richer members of society.
  3. All too often, the payment stream upon which debt depends proves unsustainable.
  4. Governments tend to put programs into place that are more expensive than they really can afford, for the long term.
  5. There is no real tie between amounts of debt issued and what will actually be produced in the future.
  6. Derivatives and other financial products expose the financial system to significant risks.
  7. Governments tend to be badly affected by a shrinking economy, so may be of little assistance when we need them most.
  8. More debt is needed to hide the lack of economic growth in an ailing world economy. This debt becomes increasingly difficult to obtain, as wages stagnate because of diminishing returns.
  9. Differing policies with respect to interest rates and quantitative easing seem to have the possibility of tearing the world financial system apart.
  10. The economy begins to act very strangely when too much of current income is locked up in debt and debt-like instruments.
  
  
• Pravda: Putin Threatens to Release Satellite Evidence of 9/11. Posted 2/11/2015.
• How Russia Plans To Retaliate For The Saudi-Driven Collapse In Oil. Posted 2/10/2015.
• 'Secret' Gold Repatriation: the Banksters' Newest Bullion Scam. Posted 2/2/2015.
• (YouTube) Keiser Report: Hidden Truth About Greece (E714). Posted 2/3/2015. Second half talks about how brokers "churn" the investor's investment from 5 to 10% in order to get commission.
• (YouTube) CDC Whistleblower Revealed. Posted 8/22/2014. Senior government scientist breaks 13 years of silence on cdc’s vaccine-autism fraud. African American boys willfully exposed to high risk of autism from MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine; twice as vulnerable.
• Gallup CEO Calls 5.6% Unemployment Rate "The Big Lie": What's a Realistic Unemployment Rate? Posted 2/3/2015.
• (YouTube) Biderman on CNBC: Why Stocks and Bonds Likely to Keep Rising Despite No-Growth Economy. Posted 2/3/2015.
• "Hottest Year On Record?" Think Again! Meet 'Seasonally-Adjusted' Seasons. Posetd 2/1/2015. To fill in the huge gaps, those compiling the records have resorted to computerised “infilling” or “homogenising”, whereby the higher temperatures recorded by the remaining stations are projected out to vast surrounding areas (Giss allows single stations to give a reading covering 1.6 million square miles). This alone contributed to the sharp temperature rise shown in the years after 1990. But still more worrying has been the evidence that even this data has then been subjected to continual “adjustments”, invariably in only one direction. Earlier temperatures are adjusted downwards, more recent temperatures upwards, thus giving the impression that they have risen much more sharply than was shown by the original data.
• Is The Gold Price About To Repeat One Of Its Greatest Upside Moves In History. Posted 1/26/2015. Interview with James Turk. 1970s Gold Rise And Parallels To The Present. The first peak occurred in 1974 at $200, after which there was a 2-1/2 year correction that brought gold all the way back to $100 and its green uptrend line. Then from August 1976 gold began its remarkable multi-year rise. Note how gold never really looked back. It kept climbing without any major correction.
• Jim Cramer On The Only Conference Call Worth Listening To. Posted 1/27/2015. "The only conference call you will ever need," according to Jim Cramer, is Caterpillar, it "is my gospel, my go-to call on which many of my decisions are based... I trust Caterpillar's long-term vision... it is a superb evaluator of what's happening in each of the countries it sells in and gives you the most thorough description of each economy." As Cramer concludes, "Caterpillar's the primer, the source for your global outlook..." What is CATERPILLAR's outlook for 2015? "2015 shaping up to be tougher year than expected. Sees substantial reductions in producer CAPEX. Sees Forex to be false headwind. Sees drilling, and well servicing to be hurt especially in 2H.
• (YouTube) U.S. Shale Oil to Crash American Economy - Oil Wars Vol. 2 - #OilWars @FutureMoneyTrends. Psted 1/26/2015. Expecting massive defaults in junk bonds, since 18% are made up from the oil industry. Junk bond defaults will have a cascading effect on the stock market.
• (YouTube) Christian Comedy - Clip of a Tim Hawkins, Steve Harvey and More. Posted 1/24/2014.
• New Psychiatric Diagnosis Targets “Internet Conspiracy Theorists”. Posted 1/2015.
• Education Moment: The Man with 26 Million Students. Posted 1/24/2015. Also see CodeCademy.
• How the CIA made Google - part 1.
• Roundups and FEMA Camp Incarcerations Await Millions of Americans. Posted 1/2015.
• (YouTube) Canada's Currency War. Posted 1/21/2015. RT's interview with Jim Rickards.
• (YouTube) Martin Luther King speech, Holt Street Baptist Church (text + audio). Posted 2/3/2012.
• Is This The Real Reason The SNB Cut The Swiss Franc’s Euro Peg? Posted 1/22/2015. China, Switzerland to announce offshore yuan trading center in Zurich. “A memorandum of understanding will be signed between the central banks of the two countries during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Switzerland. It is an important step in the internationalization of the RMB, especially in Europe,” a government official was quoted by Chinese news agency Xinhua.
• Complexity Theory Warning: Fed Policies Set to Detonate the Entire Financial System. By Jim Rickards. Posted 1/20/2015.
• The Fix is In: Why Gold Price Manipulation is Now a Global Effort. By Jim Rickards. 1/16/2015. So the price is being suppressed until China gets the gold that they need. Once China gets the right amount of gold, then you can take the cap off. If it doesn’t matter where gold is because all the countries will be in the same boat. But, right now, they’re not, so Chinese has this catch-up.
• BLINKING RED LIGHT: Big Trouble Ahead For Bakken Oil Production. Posted 1/19/2015.
• Europe In Danger Of Mega-Bank Runs That Jeopardize The World. Posetd 1/18/2015.
• I have a Theory On The Swiss Franc. Posted 1/17/2015. Basically, the Swiss were short gold and covered on the announcement. If any country knows about the flow of gold it is Switzerland. They are the refining hub. Did the SNB look at the data and realize that the physical offtake was reaching levels where it could no longer be ignored?
• An Historically Momentous Day. Posted 1/14/2015. (1) Collapse of copper (low of $2.57/lb) and zinc ($0.92/lb). (2) Explosion in mortgage applications--i.e. more consumer debt or refinancing to pay down other debt. (3) Retail Armageddon--i.e. retail sales continue to decline. (4) Credit yields (10-year and 30-year) in freefall. (5) Euro and Swiss Franc drop while gold in those respective currencies is rising. (6) Bitcoin continues to crash. (7) Greek snap election may be decidedly "pro-default" or "anti-Euro".
• The Deep State Strategy: Burn Everyone Else's Oil First, Leave Ours in the Ground. Posted 1/12/2015.
• Devastating Worldwide Derivatives Implosion Imminent. Posted 1/9/2015. When you borrow in US Dollars, you are effectively SHORTING the US Dollar. Which means that when the US Dollar rallies, your returns implode regardless of where you invested the borrowed money (another currency, stocks, oil, infrastructure projects, derivatives). Take a look at commodities. Globally, there are over $22 TRILLION worth of derivatives trades involving commodities. ALL of these were at risk of blowing up if the US Dollar rallied. This move in the US Dollar imploded those derivatives trades. If you want an explanation for why commodities are crashing (aside from the fact the global economy is slowing) this is it.
• Ponzi Finance and $50 Oil. Psted 1/8/2015. By Jim Rickards.
• RECORD GLOBAL OIL DEMAND: Even As The Price Of Oil Declined. Posted 1/8/2015.
• No Proof JPMorgan Not the Big Buyer of Silver Eagles. Posted 1/6/3015. Rebuttal to the rebuttal. Ted Butler seems to have a plausible theory that most of the buying of Silver Eagles has come from JPMorgan.
• Germany, Gold & 'Diplomacy', by Ned Naylor-Leyland. Posted 1/2/2015.
• (YouTube) Charlie Brooker's Wipe 2014 - Adam Curtis. Posted 12/31/2014.
• Welcome to the Machine. Posted 1/2/2015. You are the customer for Google, Facebook, etc. They sell "you" to their customers.
• ‘You’re Either a Cop or Little People’: The American Police State in 2014. Posted 12/31/2014. For those of us who have managed to survive 2014 with our lives intact and our freedoms hanging by a thread, it has been a year of crackdowns, clampdowns, shutdowns, showdowns, shootdowns, standdowns, knockdowns, putdowns, breakdowns, lockdowns, takedowns, slowdowns, meltdowns, and never-ending letdowns. We’ve been held up, stripped down, faked out, photographed, frisked, fracked, hacked, tracked, cracked, intercepted, accessed, spied on, zapped, mapped, searched, shot at, tasered, tortured, tackled, trussed up, tricked, lied to, labeled, libeled, leered at, shoved aside, saddled with debt not of our own making, sold a bill of goods about national security, tuned out by those representing us, tossed aside, and taken to the cleaners.
• The Century Of The Self: Controlling The 'Dangerous Crowd' In An Age Of Mass Democracy. Posted 01/01/2015.

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