Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran; Up to 100,000 Troops Ready By March
by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan.com:
While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the middle east, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, and within easy striking distance of Iran.
In addition to some 50,000 U.S. troops currently in the region waiting for orders (apparently they won’t be home by this past Christmas as was originally promised), Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama is deploying an additional 50,000 soldiers to be ready for ‘any contingency’ by March:
While President Obama’s supporters hailed his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as the end of the war in the middle east, behind the scenes the Pentagon has been quietly massing troops and armaments on two islands located just south of the Strait of Hormuz, and within easy striking distance of Iran.
In addition to some 50,000 U.S. troops currently in the region waiting for orders (apparently they won’t be home by this past Christmas as was originally promised), Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama is deploying an additional 50,000 soldiers to be ready for ‘any contingency’ by March:
President Barack Obama
is reported exclusively by DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military and Washington
sources to have secretly ordered US air, naval and marine forces to
build up heavy concentrations on two strategic islands – Socotra,
which is part of a Yemeni archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and the
Omani island of Masirah at the southern exit of the Strait of Hormuz.
Read More @ SHTFPlan.comBiderman’s Daily Edge 1/30/2012: Keep Buying Gold, US Stocks in Bear Market Priced in Gold
David Morgan SILVER Update!
MFGlobal and our vaporizing 1.2 billion dollars/Greece and Portugal/Gold and silver raid prior to first day notice
Harvey Organ at Harvey Organ's - The Daily Gold and Silver Report - 15 minutes ago
Good
evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
I guess our boys decided that a raid on silver and gold was necessary
prior to first day notice. The object of the exercise was to dampen the
spirits of the long holders into taking cash and depositing it into the
brokerage account in order to take delivery of gold and silver. Gold
closed down by 3.00 dollars to $1729.80 whereas silver fell by 25 cents
to
Who Benefits With Inflation?
Admin at Marc Faber Blog - 3 hours ago
Inflation benefits people with a lot of assets. - *in the Edmonton Journal*
*Related, SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), IShares Silver ETF (SLV), SPDR S&P 500
Index ETF (SPY)*
*Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions
of the stock market and futures markets around the world.*
Banking/Government Racketeering
Dave in Denver at The Golden Truth - 4 hours ago
*I hope Romney gets the Republican nomination because it will create
priceless entertainment watching the Democrats shred Romney's track record
and background. If Gingrich gets the nod, he'll try to make policies and
issues as the front and center topics of debate and slur and that would be
intolerably boring...*
Many of you by now have read excerpts from the Wall Journal article on MF
Global and the disappearing $1.2 billion in customer funds. Here's a link
to the partial article from the NY Post, which is the longest freebie
posting: LINK
It really blows my mind that there's... more »
Goldman Sachs Cooked Greece Books
by Dr. Ron Paul, Paul.House.gov:
The
Federal Reserve’s interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last
week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below
1%, and plan to keep it low until the end of 2014. That’s a year and
half longer than they planned when they met just last month. Chairman
Bernanke says they are keeping interest rates so low for so long because
the economic outlook warrants it.
The fallacies in their reasoning would be amusing if they weren’t so dangerous. The Fed wants to keep the price of money at essentially zero – in other words “free” – to boost the economy. But the boost they are attempting won’t get here for another three years. That’s not a recovery. And we’ve already tried this tactic. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place: with interest rates artificially low for a very long time. Free money doesn’t stimulate growth, as Japan’s two lost decades clearly show. Artificially low interest rates only serve to punish saving, distort market signals, and cause further malinvestment. They also do nothing to address the only real solution to our economic woes: liquidation of the bad debt that hangs around the neck of the world’s economy, preventing recovery. Artificially low interest rates merely ensure that we remain a debt-financed consumer economy guaranteed to end up with a weaker economy and higher prices.
Read More @ Paul.House.gov
The
Federal Reserve’s interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last
week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below
1%, and plan to keep it low until the end of 2014. That’s a year and
half longer than they planned when they met just last month. Chairman
Bernanke says they are keeping interest rates so low for so long because
the economic outlook warrants it.The fallacies in their reasoning would be amusing if they weren’t so dangerous. The Fed wants to keep the price of money at essentially zero – in other words “free” – to boost the economy. But the boost they are attempting won’t get here for another three years. That’s not a recovery. And we’ve already tried this tactic. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place: with interest rates artificially low for a very long time. Free money doesn’t stimulate growth, as Japan’s two lost decades clearly show. Artificially low interest rates only serve to punish saving, distort market signals, and cause further malinvestment. They also do nothing to address the only real solution to our economic woes: liquidation of the bad debt that hangs around the neck of the world’s economy, preventing recovery. Artificially low interest rates merely ensure that we remain a debt-financed consumer economy guaranteed to end up with a weaker economy and higher prices.
Read More @ Paul.House.gov
Ron Paul Backer: “You Would Never Hear of a ‘Former’ Ron Paul Supporter”
Florida Veteran Supports Ron Paul
from Pimco.com:
[...] For decades, financial firms, captains of industry and investors who have bet against central bank actions have mostly lost. Hence the credo: Don’t Fight the Fed.
Once again, this fight-the-tide “trade” is the topic of debate: Should you bet that the Fed’s colossal effort to reflate asset prices will end in colossal failure? What about the tidal wave of central bank activity abroad? Will it, against historical precedent, end in failure, too?
Confronted by more than 40 acts of interest rate and policy easing in six months’ time by the world’s central banks, investors in late 2011 and early 2012 have decided not to fight, bidding up risk assets and providing a reprieve from months of drubbing. Never mind that investors’ long-time friend – the central banker – is acting in response to very troubling developments, not the least of which is the speeding up of debt deleveraging in Europe and slowing in the global economy. Heck, there’s nothing that the central banker’s printing press can’t cure!
If only it were that simple. Deleveraging is a process, not an event. It takes time and all the central banker can do is help it along. Politics and public resistance to fiscal austerity complicate and slow the process, leaving the central banker to do the heavy lifting.
Read More @ Pimco.com
[...] For decades, financial firms, captains of industry and investors who have bet against central bank actions have mostly lost. Hence the credo: Don’t Fight the Fed.
Once again, this fight-the-tide “trade” is the topic of debate: Should you bet that the Fed’s colossal effort to reflate asset prices will end in colossal failure? What about the tidal wave of central bank activity abroad? Will it, against historical precedent, end in failure, too?
Confronted by more than 40 acts of interest rate and policy easing in six months’ time by the world’s central banks, investors in late 2011 and early 2012 have decided not to fight, bidding up risk assets and providing a reprieve from months of drubbing. Never mind that investors’ long-time friend – the central banker – is acting in response to very troubling developments, not the least of which is the speeding up of debt deleveraging in Europe and slowing in the global economy. Heck, there’s nothing that the central banker’s printing press can’t cure!
If only it were that simple. Deleveraging is a process, not an event. It takes time and all the central banker can do is help it along. Politics and public resistance to fiscal austerity complicate and slow the process, leaving the central banker to do the heavy lifting.
Read More @ Pimco.com
by Graham Summers, GainsPainsCapital.com:
[...] The coming years will be marked by a seismic change in the economic landscape in the US. Firstly and most importantly, we are going to see economic growth slow down dramatically. Jeremy Grantham, an asset manager I respect, believes we’ll see global growth at 2% over the next seven years. Personally I believe it could be even lower than that.
The reasons for this slow down are myriad but the most important are:
1) Age demographics: a growing percentage of the population will be retiring while fewer younger people are entering the workforce.
2) Excessive debt overhang.
3) A return to more frugal “common sense” spending patterns in the developed world.
4) Political and Geopolitical uncertainty.
Read More @ GainsPainsCapital.com
[...] The coming years will be marked by a seismic change in the economic landscape in the US. Firstly and most importantly, we are going to see economic growth slow down dramatically. Jeremy Grantham, an asset manager I respect, believes we’ll see global growth at 2% over the next seven years. Personally I believe it could be even lower than that.
The reasons for this slow down are myriad but the most important are:
1) Age demographics: a growing percentage of the population will be retiring while fewer younger people are entering the workforce.
2) Excessive debt overhang.
3) A return to more frugal “common sense” spending patterns in the developed world.
4) Political and Geopolitical uncertainty.
Read More @ GainsPainsCapital.com
from King World News:
Today
James Turk told King World News that gold is very close to beginning a
move that will take the ‘Metal of King’ smashing through the $2,000
level. Turk was even more outspoken on where silver is headed and
included a chart. Turk, who was interviewed out of Spain, had this to
say about where gold and silver are headed in coming weeks: “The
logical question here, Eric, is after the big week we had last week,
will silver drop back to give buyers one more chance to buy the dip? A
dip is logical given silver’s 6.5% gain last week. On the other hand,
as we noted in the last blog we did, sometimes the dips can be very
shallow.”
James Turk continues: Read More @ KingWorldNews.com
Today
James Turk told King World News that gold is very close to beginning a
move that will take the ‘Metal of King’ smashing through the $2,000
level. Turk was even more outspoken on where silver is headed and
included a chart. Turk, who was interviewed out of Spain, had this to
say about where gold and silver are headed in coming weeks: “The
logical question here, Eric, is after the big week we had last week,
will silver drop back to give buyers one more chance to buy the dip? A
dip is logical given silver’s 6.5% gain last week. On the other hand,
as we noted in the last blog we did, sometimes the dips can be very
shallow.”James Turk continues: Read More @ KingWorldNews.com
by Andrew Hoffman, MilesFranklin.com:
No matter how hard TPTB attempt to “LOCKDOWN” the market, they cannot forestall reality. Perhaps the Dow and Treasury markets can be “turned off” as barometers of economic activity for some time, as well as the PAPER gold and silver markets. However, inexorably strong demand for PHYSICAL Precious Metals – particularly in the tiny silver market – remains their Achilles Heel, and ultimately will represent the straw that breaks the Cartel’s back.
No matter how many Futures contracts the PPT buys to support the Dow – such as the seven “anti-attacks” we saw Friday, culminating in a blatantly obvious “HAIL MARY” attempt at day’s end – the U.S. economy will NEVER improve before it CRASHES, taking the dollar and ALL the world’s fiat currencies with it.
Read More @ MilesFranklin.com
No matter how hard TPTB attempt to “LOCKDOWN” the market, they cannot forestall reality. Perhaps the Dow and Treasury markets can be “turned off” as barometers of economic activity for some time, as well as the PAPER gold and silver markets. However, inexorably strong demand for PHYSICAL Precious Metals – particularly in the tiny silver market – remains their Achilles Heel, and ultimately will represent the straw that breaks the Cartel’s back.
No matter how many Futures contracts the PPT buys to support the Dow – such as the seven “anti-attacks” we saw Friday, culminating in a blatantly obvious “HAIL MARY” attempt at day’s end – the U.S. economy will NEVER improve before it CRASHES, taking the dollar and ALL the world’s fiat currencies with it.
Read More @ MilesFranklin.com
from StormCloudsGathering:
In this interview Stewart Rhodes of the OathKeepers and I talk about how one person standing up in their unit against an unlawful / unconstitutional order can shift the entire group. This is a principle which has been proven and repeated in the Asch conformity experiments has very serious implications for the events headed our way. Stewart goes into a number of historical examples illustrating how this principle has been played out already.
In this interview Stewart Rhodes of the OathKeepers and I talk about how one person standing up in their unit against an unlawful / unconstitutional order can shift the entire group. This is a principle which has been proven and repeated in the Asch conformity experiments has very serious implications for the events headed our way. Stewart goes into a number of historical examples illustrating how this principle has been played out already.
from King World News:
Today
Egon von Greyerz told King World News that central bank balance sheets
are expanding at a dangerous rate and this is a recipe for an explosion
in gold and silver prices. Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing
partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland. Here is what
von Greyerz had to say about central bank activity and how it will
impact gold and silver prices: “I’ve been looking at the explosion of
the balance sheets of the central banks and it’s just astonishing to see
how much money they are printing and how their balance sheets are
expanding. We have the absolute perfect recipe for hyperinflation and
thus a massive increase in the price of gold and silver.”
Egon von Greyerz continues: Read More @ KingWorldNews.com
Today
Egon von Greyerz told King World News that central bank balance sheets
are expanding at a dangerous rate and this is a recipe for an explosion
in gold and silver prices. Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing
partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland. Here is what
von Greyerz had to say about central bank activity and how it will
impact gold and silver prices: “I’ve been looking at the explosion of
the balance sheets of the central banks and it’s just astonishing to see
how much money they are printing and how their balance sheets are
expanding. We have the absolute perfect recipe for hyperinflation and
thus a massive increase in the price of gold and silver.”Egon von Greyerz continues: Read More @ KingWorldNews.com
by David Schectman, MilesFranklin.com:
On
Friday morning I had a long conversation with my friend, Jim Cook. I
went to work for Jim in 1983 at Investment Rarities and we quickly
developed a friendship apart from work. Jim is a well-learned man, a
true Libertarian and a student of Ludwig von Mises. During our
conversation, for the first time ever, he told me that he was afraid
things had gone beyond the point where they could be fixed, beyond the
point of no return. I have maintained for the last year that the
problems could no longer be fixed, that it was a mathematical certainty
that were on the path toward the destruction of the dollar and the most
likely course of events would be a hyper-inflationary Great Depression.
Bill Holter has recently voiced the same view in these pages as well.
Jim proceeded to read a few pages from von Mises seminal work, Human
Action, where he discussed monetary economics and inflation. If I
didn’t know in advance, who Jim was quoting, I could easily believe the
author was writing a critique of our economy and the inflationary
consequences of what the central bankers are doing now, in 2012. Von
Mises was a visionary and the father of Austrian Economics.
Read More @ MilesFranklin.com
On
Friday morning I had a long conversation with my friend, Jim Cook. I
went to work for Jim in 1983 at Investment Rarities and we quickly
developed a friendship apart from work. Jim is a well-learned man, a
true Libertarian and a student of Ludwig von Mises. During our
conversation, for the first time ever, he told me that he was afraid
things had gone beyond the point where they could be fixed, beyond the
point of no return. I have maintained for the last year that the
problems could no longer be fixed, that it was a mathematical certainty
that were on the path toward the destruction of the dollar and the most
likely course of events would be a hyper-inflationary Great Depression.
Bill Holter has recently voiced the same view in these pages as well.
Jim proceeded to read a few pages from von Mises seminal work, Human
Action, where he discussed monetary economics and inflation. If I
didn’t know in advance, who Jim was quoting, I could easily believe the
author was writing a critique of our economy and the inflationary
consequences of what the central bankers are doing now, in 2012. Von
Mises was a visionary and the father of Austrian Economics.Read More @ MilesFranklin.com
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