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Large BP Tar Balls Spotted on Florida Beach
Monday, June 28th, 2010Is Tar & Feathers Punishment of Congress Considered Terrorism?
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Colonial American Justice
Once upon a time, in this great American land of freedom and morality, if an elected politician or appointed office blatantly misrepresented his constituents, he would be publicly tarred and feathered. It’s a shame this public display of disgrace and truth is no longer practiced.
But I’m sure that the public tar & feathering of a thief or liar would now be considered ‘domestic terrorism’.
Let’s bring back tar & feather public justice for those who fail to represent the people who elected them to office… and for any politician who is immoral and a liar. What better way could there possibly be to cull the Congress of its miscreants?
The Collapse on Our Doorstep
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Here are 21 reasons – a blackjack winning hand – evidencing why we are not in an economic depression nor a recession any longer.
We have now entered a financial collapse brought about by derivative gambling debt… and it’s sitting right in plain sight on our doorstep.
Federal Budget Deficit. The Federal debt limit was just raised almost 100% to $14.3 trillion. It was nearly half that amount ($7.8 trillion) in 2005. The U.S. debt at 84% of the Gross Domestic Product is about to pass the 90% trigger point.
U.S. Foreign Trade Deficit. The total continues climbing as $400 billion is added each year. Foreigners now own $2.5 trillion of the U.S.
Plummeting U.S. World Trade Dollar. The dollar has already fallen and is continuing on a steady downhill slide. The main index measuring dollar strength as a foreign reserve and trade currency has gone from 120 at the Clinton-to-Bush handoff to below 80 today.
Credit Ratings Down, Rates Up. Economists at S&P, Fitch and Moody’s were (and still are) guilty co-conspirators with the Banksters by misleading – and flat-out lying – to investors before the onset of the meltdown that still conti9nues. What’s coming next? Rising debt, lowered credit ratings, and soaring interest rates… not to mention hyper-inflation a la Argentinian style.
Global Real Estate Disaster. The new Dubai Tower, the world’s tallest building, is empty. The U.S. commercial real estate bubble is now $1.7 trillion, a “ticking time bomb” that already accounts for 25% of bank balance sheets.
Oil and the Population Explosion. The United Nations estimates the world population exploding 50% – from 6 billion to 9 billion – by 2050. That’s three billion more humans not just demanding more automobiles, but exhausting more resources to feed their version of the Detroit gas-guzzler… not to mention food needed to feed their own hungry mouths.
Social Security Collapse. There are only two choices: Cut benefits or raise taxes. Politicians hate both, so they’ll do nothing. Delays worsen solutions. Without action, by 2035 Social Security and Medicare benefits will eat up the entire federal budget other than defense.
Medicare Collapse. This failing social welfare program is going broke faster than Social Security. In five years, cost estimates are expected to be over $60 trillion (more than double the 2009 expenditures).
Health-care Insurance Scam. The payment burden is shifting to employee paycheck deductions faster than a speeding bullet. The realistic costs of health care are rising much faster than inflation.
State and Local Government Deficits. With estimated deficits of $110 billion in 2010 (in reality, double this figure due to “creative accounting” techniques used by most government corporations), $178 billion in 2011 (again, a realistic and practical amount is double the “official” estimate), plus more than $450 billion of currently under-funded / un-funded state and municipal employee pension funds. Just wait until April when we get a more accurate peak at the pension fund collapses.
Under-funded Corporate Pensions. Corporate pension funds have quickly become technically bankrupt. They had a $60 billion surplus in 2007. In just two short years, that surplus became a $409 billion deficit in 2009. 92% of corporate pension plans are now underfunded.
Consumer Debt. U.S. Citizens are still living beyond their means. Even with a downturn, consumer debt rose from about $2.3 to $2.5 trillion. Fat Cat Bankers love it — yes love making matters worse by gouging cardholders and mortgagees, blocking help in foreclosures and bankruptcies.
Personal Savings. Before the 2008 meltdown, the savings rate dropped from about 10% (in the early 1980′s) to below zero. Now, the personal savings rate is steadily increasing. This is slowing any hopes of a retail sales recovery. In contrast, Federal and State governments have become non-savers and are spending what they don’t have.
Military Defense Deficits. The “official” costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are $200+ billion annually. In all reality, the figure is closer to $3 trillion when taking into consideration the massive long-term costs for veteran medical care, equipment renewal, and recruitment.
Homeland Insecurity Fiasco. An outrageous cost for alleged “security programs” against purported “terrorists” at airports, seaports, borders, chemical plants, refineries, etc.
Fed/Treasury Bailout Lies. Tax credits, loans, cash and the purchase of toxic assets (OTC derivatives) from Wall Street banksters and their corrupt banks. The cost (so far) to the U.S. Taxpayer is estimated at $23.7 trillion.
Washington Bankster Power. Through lobbyists and former employees working inside the DC corporation, Paulson, Goldman, Geithner, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citibank, ad nauseaum, now have absolute power over DC corporate-government spending. This is called corporate-socialism. Let’s not forget the U.S. Supreme Court giving them the OK to fund their political puppets without monetary restriction.
The Derivatives A-bomb. Wall Street wants no regulation of this $670 trillion, high-risk, Over-the-counter (unregulated), out-of-control gambling casino operation. Unregulated OTC derivatives destroyed global economies in 2008-09 and will collapse them by 2012.
Dysfunctional Two-Party Politics. This is the greatest confidence game ever created. Daily, both Republicans and Democrats outwardly demonstrate absolutely no desire to cooperate with each other for the benefit of those who voted them into office. Their only goal is to keep making Americans believe that they’re really not sleeping with each other.
WTSHTF “Tea Party” Escalations. These days, nobody trusts anyone who has any authority… and for good reason. For Wall Street and DC (two birds from the same nest), doing what’s right and moral for the American people is just empty political rhetoric. The sleeping sheeple have noticed are are beginning to wipe their eyes, which is why the peaceful tea parties may end up yielding to angry crowds who have no more patience.
Food Shortage Reality. Has anyone bothered to look at the actual food production figures? Are the silos full, half full, or nearly empty? Extreme weather has wiped out crops in all 50 States to the point that silos are half full for winter and spring food needs. There will be more demand than supply simply because crop production was less than what’s needed to break even.
The New Gold Rush: Certified Coins
Monday, November 16th, 2009There’s a silent rush by government central banks and gold bullion banks to secure all the certified gold coins they can at prices higher than current published rates. This especially applies to uncirculated gold coins of any year or face denomination certified as mint state 63 and below. There are a few reasons for this:
- 1. Certified and numismatic gold coins contain the actual physical gold content they say they do. They have been weighed and tested by the certification companies and are guaranteed by them to be authentic.
- 2. A fast growing amount of gold-plated alloy coin forgeries are being circulated. As most gold buyers don’t bother to weigh or test their purchases, these fake gold coins are quickly becoming rampant within the physical bullion coin market. Pawn shops, flea markets, and internet auction sites are the greatest purveyors of fiat gold coins.
- 3. Gold bullion bars held by governments, investments groups, banks, and gold warehouses have already been found to be forgeries. Tungsten and other metals are being discovered inside gold bars that have been carefully manufactured with alloys to match the same weight and density of an authentic gold bar. They have 24k (.999 pure) gold-plating on the outside, but contain no gold on the inside. They are such good forgeries that the most common way now being used to test gold bars is to drill into them for core samples.
- 4. Using private gold dealers to remain anonymous, governments are buying gold jewelry at premium prices. The reputable assayers in every country are backlogged and their smelters are working 24/7.
Whether or not gold is considered by anyone to be money, gold is undoubtedly the ultimate store of value. As a keeper of value, gold has always done well when governmental monetary policies or fiscal banking has failed. When a financial system is stable and the public confidence in government is high, gold value may lessen. That’s how history has recorded the value of gold without exception.
Bad politics and foolish governmental fiscal policies automatically cause gold to be perceived as a safe and high value. That’s why the FRN$ is loosing it’s perceived value while the actual value of gold is rising steadily.
Since many numismatic gold coins are now selling at top prices rather than at a 15-35% typical industry discount, then the value of gold bullion has risen beyond the current NYMEX or COMEX paper gold manipulated price charts.
After speaking with trusted coin dealers and private collectors I’ve known for many years, I’ve come to realize that the actual private market value placed on one certified ounce of gold is currently FRN$ 2,500. A month ago, it was FRN$2,000.
The value demanded by sellers of certified gold is rising each day, and at this rate of value increase I believe we will see an ounce of certified gold bringing FRN$ 3,000 by January 2010. These are not paper gold ETF prices. These are prices for certified physical gold.
Now it’s much easier for the public to understand why newspapers, magazines, and television are rampant with ads wanting to buy your gold jewelry.
UPDATE: November 19, 2009
http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/en/alloy11.htm
The Wizard of Oz Has Been Revealed
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Yes, the great and powerful Wizard of Oz has been found after a 109 year hiatus in hiding. But let’s back up and take a short trip down memory lane to find out what caused him to remain incognito right under our noses for all those years.
If you remember the original story, it’s all about a sweet and innocent girl named Dorothy who fell into disaster as the result of a destructive whirlwind. In order to find her way back home, she was told to follow the yellow brick road where the great wizard of The Land of Oz was isolated inside his palatial city, the Emerald City. After an opium drug-induced sleep during her journey, Dorothy eventually awoke and soon after was face to face with who she was told was the great Wizard of Oz, a supernatural perceived being of immense stature and authority who could give you whatever you needed.
But then Dorthy’s Cairn Terrier dog, Toto, surprisingly revealed that the man behind the curtain – who was controlling the illusional smoke and mirror images of his falsified persona – was nothing but a grand fraud and proficient manipulator. Once his true identity was known, he quickly escaped in a hot air balloon to some unknown land.
Where did the great and powerful Wizard of Oz eventually land when his hot air ran out? To answer that, it’s necessary to understand the definitions and symbolisms behind L. Frank Baum’s book, The Wizard of Oz.
The word Oz is a standardized abbreviation for the word “ounce” or “ounces”. It’s a unit of weight defined in the U.S. Customary System, “an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains (28.35 grams)”. It applies to both gold and silver weight standards.
The yellow brick road symbolizes the international monetary standard based on a “brick of gold weighing one kilogram (kilo)”, or 1,000 grams of gold. The Wizard of Oz even saw fit to create a path of gold bricks winding through the Land of Oz that led directly to his palace.
The dog’s name, Toto, comes from the Latin toto “all”, meaning “entirety, wholeness, completeness”. Common sense dictates that Toto represented all the people, the American masses. When Toto started barking at the curtain that was shielding the Wizard, he was told to be quiet so as not to offend the Wizard. Frustrated at the others for not listening to his vocal warnings, Toto pulled the curtain open to reveal the real wizard.
The name Dorothy comes from the Greek word doron meaning “gift” + the feminine of theos meaning “god”, or simply “gift of god”.
At the time the book was published in 1900, ounces of gold and silver were the standard monetary system of exchange and value throughout all of the American States at a set ratio. U.S. Treasury minted gold coins – known as $20 Gold Liberty Double Eagle coins – contained an oz. of gold combined with other metals to give them a harder strength and to reduce wear. They were accepted, traded and exchanged as a one ounce gold coin. The same weight standard applied to the $1 Silver Eagle coin containing one oz of silver.
The wizard of Oz was the symbolic front man for the gold & silver monetary banking system that he represented. He did not personally own the gold or silver. He was a mere puppet on a string paraded around before the public eye to keep the identity of his puppet master bankers well hidden. His domain was the Emerald City, the only place within the Land of Oz (where everything was gold colored) that was green, even though the yellow brick road led directly there… and that was no mistake.
The Emerald City was symbolic of the Greenback. The Wizard of Oz used his illusional banking powers to exchange ounces of gold and silver into paper greenbacks. But when his smoke and mirror facade was openly seen by the people (in toto), he was stopped and quickly left in a balloon full of (his own) hot air.
Where did the Wizard of Oz end up? Sixteen years later, he landed his balloon in Washington City and became known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Washington City then became the new Emerald City.
Because of the whirlwind political disaster at the time, the silver slippers that once belonged to the Wicked Witch of the East (China was a silver monetary system) were now being worn by Dorothy. The Wicked Witch of the West (the European and US bankers) tried to take them away from Dorothy, but when Dorothy threw a bucket of water on the Western witch, she melted and disappeared. Water is a purifier and cleanser. That’s why the Western banking witch melted as there was no purity within her. After all, exchanging gold and silver for paper is a fraud and there is no purity in deceit.
Thirty-three years after leaving the Emerald City and setting up shop in Washington City, the Wizard of Oz puppet masters realized they no longer needed smoke and mirror illusions to exchange gold and silver money for worthless green paper. All they had to do was to force the U.S. Treasury and it’s government into bankruptcy. Once it was declared that all the gold and silver money had to be collected and exchanged for Emerald City green paper, they could control and keep all the gold and silver for themselves.
For the following seventy-six years, the Wizard of Oz has enjoyed manipulating his illusional game of green Federal Reserve Note paper while those who control his puppet strings sit on untold fortunes of gold and silver.
Every con artist and illusionist knows his scheme can’t go on forever, so after seizing all the gold and silver money they could for all those many years, they are now about to eliminate their greenback paper FRN$, close down the Emerald City complex, fire the wizard, and emerge with their hoards of gold and silver to open up shop under a new name with a new wizard.
Dorothy, Auntie Em, Henry, and all the others have been enslaved to the desires and whims of Emerald City for five generations. They have lost their Kansas farm along with their gold and silver. Where the countryside was yellow with wheat and corn, it is now green with foreclosures and failures.
A weak tornado is beginning to whirl, but it may never grow into a powerful storm. It just may die out without having any impact.
Meanwhile, the American yellow brick road has been paved over with black asphalt.
The Wizard is filling his balloon with an abundance of hot air in view of everyone and quickly preparing his midnight escape.
The banker puppeteers are hiding in their golden vaults waiting to occupy their new city…only this time, it will be a yellow river and not a yellow brick road leading to the new emerald city, the Golden City of China.
The little people have been sold out, robbed, raped, and pillaged. The Land of Oz has already been foreclosed on. The new owners are waiting in the wings. Dorothy’s great great great granddaughter can only find a job as a factory worker in Beijing.
Toto, where are you?
We need you to pull open that curtain once again to expose the illusions all the Sheeple have been convinced were real.
Can we catch the wizard before he escapes this time?
Wait…. What’s that?
Is that a Cairn terrier I hear barking in the distance?
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