by Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism:
Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that point to a covert preparatory operation to completely lock down America in the very near future.
Sources from multiple locations across the nation have independently confirmed that the US military are repositioning soldiers in conjunction with allied foreign troops in the initial stages of martial law.
The US military are secretly moving massive amounts of “equipment” across the country consistently for more than a year. In Phoenix, Arizona, tractor-trailers transporting tanks on public highways have been spotted. One witness stated that he saw these flatbeds multiple times in the month of June. Eye witness reports are coming primarily from the northern and southern Border States.
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that point to a covert preparatory operation to completely lock down America in the very near future.
Sources from multiple locations across the nation have independently confirmed that the US military are repositioning soldiers in conjunction with allied foreign troops in the initial stages of martial law.
The US military are secretly moving massive amounts of “equipment” across the country consistently for more than a year. In Phoenix, Arizona, tractor-trailers transporting tanks on public highways have been spotted. One witness stated that he saw these flatbeds multiple times in the month of June. Eye witness reports are coming primarily from the northern and southern Border States.
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
14 Questions People Ask About How To Prepare For The Collapse Of The Economy
How in the world is someone supposed to actually prepare for an
economic collapse? What should you do with your money? How can you
make sure that your family is going to be okay? How can you prepare if
your resources are extremely limited? These are the kinds of questions
people ask me all the time. Once people understand that the economy has been collapsing
and will continue to collapse, then the next step for most of them is
that they want to get prepared for the storm that is coming. So where
should someone get started? Well, the truth is that no two people are
facing the exact same set of circumstances, so preparation is going to
look different for each individual. But there are certain core
principles that we can all benefit from. For example, when a financial
storm is coming that is not the time to be blowing thousands of dollars
on vacations and new toys. You would be surprised at how many people
there are that claim that they have no extra money in their budgets and
yet somehow have plenty of money to run down to Wal-Mart and buy a big
stack of DVDs. When times are difficult, each hard-earned dollar
becomes much more precious, and we all need to start getting into the
habit of making the most out of our limited resources. The seemingly
endless prosperity that we have all been enjoying for decades is coming
to an end, and most of us have absolutely no experience on how to deal
with truly hard times. If you are under the age of 60, it might be a
really good idea to read a book or two on what conditions were like
during the Great Depression of the 1930s. There is a lot that we can
learn from our own history.Read More @ TheEconomicCollpaseBlog.com
Flowcharting The ECB's Known Unknown Next Steps
The
ECB's announcement that it stands ready to act, first despised then
embraced by the market, has left as many questions as it answers.
Barclays has prepared a simple flowchart of the known unknowns
from what has been discussed so far - starting from our premise that
things have to get a lot worse before they get better since any action
is contingent on countries (cough Spain cough) first losing face requesting help from the EFSF.
from KingWorldNews:
Today 40 year veteran, Robert Fitzwilson, wrote the following piece
exclusively for King World News. Fitzwilson, who is founder of The
Portola Group, put together a fascinating piece which takes covers
everything from Art Cashin, the 70s, and what the smart money is doing
right now. Below is Fitzwilson’s piece. “The great Art Cashin once said that he was counseled as a young man “not to plan for the end of the world as it is a one-off event”. As we try to divine our investment future, it is helpful to keep that sage advice in mind.
When I started my career in the early ‘70s, my singular goal was to graduate from a certain business school. It was the crowning achievement of my young life. Graduating in 1973, I took a job with an investment firm, eager to learn the business. Unfortunately, I parachuted right into one of the worst bear markets in history. It was so bad that we were forced to retreat to libraries to read books about how to invest.
The answer, though, was simple. Everything was going down. It did not matter what theory one employed. The Dow Jones had peaked in January of 1973 at 1067, and dropped like a stone to finally bottom out at 570 at the end of 1974. Needless to say, my eagerness and budding love of the business was greatly diminished.
Robert Fitzwilson continues @ KingWorldNews.com
A Month Later: 10 Year "WTF Auction" Snapback Is Fast And Furious
A month ago, the US issued $21 billion in 10 Year paper in what could only be dubbed as a "WTF Auction"
- one in which every record was broken as demand for paper could
seemingly not be satisfied. At 1 PM on July 11 the paper priced at
1.459%, a record-shattering 6 bps inside of the When Issued. What a
difference a month makes. Not a month later and the just completed
issuance of $24 billion in 10 Year paper could be classified as a
collapse in demand, as the auction priced at 1.68% or a whopping 2.5 bps
tail. Just as notably, after hitting an all time of 3.61 high last
month, the Bid to Cover imploded to 2.49: the lowest broad demand indication since August of 2009. The internals were just as loopy: Direct take down imploded from a record 45.4% of total to just 5.2%, the
lowest since November 2009, and with Indirects refusing to budge, the
Primary Dealers were forced to take down 54.2%, or the most since
October of 2011. And while the lack of interest was not surprising,
especially in the aftermath of the just released Elliott Management
letter (more on the later), the violent swings in demand for US paper at issue are
starting to make quite a few desk traders very concerned. Because all
it will take to crush the credibility of the bond market next is a few
more such wild swings, and Geithner and Bernanke better hope that
Knight can somehow be a DMM in TSY paper as well.
by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul, Beacon Equity Research:
“Four-year silver probe set to be dropped,” FT titles its piece Monday regarding the JP Morgan silver manipulation scandal.According to FT:
A four-year investigation into the possible manipulation of the the silver market looks increasingly likely to be dropped after US regulators failed to find enough evidence to support a legal case, according to three people familiar with the situation. . .
In 2010, Bart Chilton, a CFTC commissioner, said that he believed there had been “fraudulent efforts” to “deviously control” the silver price.
But after taking advice from two external consultancies, the first of which found irregularities on certain trading dates that it believed deserved more analysis, CFTC staff do not have sufficient evidence to bring a case, according to the people familiar with the situation.
Though Ted Butler, GATA and Andrew Maguire have provided the ‘watchdog’ agency with a drivers licenses of the suspects, a video tape of the incidents, the address of the assailants and the usual time they sit down for dinner, two mysterious “external consultants” believe that the “CFTC staff do not have sufficient evidence to bring a case.”
Read More @ BeaconEquity.com
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from Gold Core:
The silver market was affected by “devious efforts” to move the price
of the precious metal, according to Bart Chilton, a member of the U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as reported by Bloomberg. “I
continue to believe, consistent with my previous statements and
information from the public, that there have been devious efforts
related to moving the price of silver,” Chilton said by e-mail today in
response to questions from Bloomberg. “There have also been silver and
gold market anomalies outside of the silver investigate window that have
raised, and continue to raise, market concerns.” The enforcement
division of the Washington-based agency, the main U.S. overseer of
derivatives markets, began pursuing allegations of manipulation in the
silver market in September 2008. Investigators have analyzed more than
100,000 documents and interviewed dozens of witnesses, the CFTC said in a
November 2011 statement. Chilton said last month the investigation may be completed as early as September.
In a story published Sunday, the Financial Times stated, “A four-year investigation into the possible manipulation of the silver markets looks increasingly likely to be dropped after US regulators failed to find enough evidence to support a legal case.”
The FT based their story on three unidentified people “familiar with the situation.”
However, Steve Adamske, a CFTC spokesman, said on the silver investigation that “we will decline to comment because the commission has not decided a course of action on this matter.”
Read More @ GoldCore.com
The silver market was affected by “devious efforts” to move the price
of the precious metal, according to Bart Chilton, a member of the U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as reported by Bloomberg. “I
continue to believe, consistent with my previous statements and
information from the public, that there have been devious efforts
related to moving the price of silver,” Chilton said by e-mail today in
response to questions from Bloomberg. “There have also been silver and
gold market anomalies outside of the silver investigate window that have
raised, and continue to raise, market concerns.” The enforcement
division of the Washington-based agency, the main U.S. overseer of
derivatives markets, began pursuing allegations of manipulation in the
silver market in September 2008. Investigators have analyzed more than
100,000 documents and interviewed dozens of witnesses, the CFTC said in a
November 2011 statement. Chilton said last month the investigation may be completed as early as September.In a story published Sunday, the Financial Times stated, “A four-year investigation into the possible manipulation of the silver markets looks increasingly likely to be dropped after US regulators failed to find enough evidence to support a legal case.”
The FT based their story on three unidentified people “familiar with the situation.”
However, Steve Adamske, a CFTC spokesman, said on the silver investigation that “we will decline to comment because the commission has not decided a course of action on this matter.”
Read More @ GoldCore.com
from EFF, Activist Post
The US Senate is currently debating a dangerous bill that, if passed, would have broad consequences for press freedom and the public’s right to know. EFF asks senators to stand up for government transparency and the First Amendment and vote it down.
The bill’s provisions, buried in the annual Intelligence Authorization Act, are intended to stop leaks of classified information to reporters—a premise worrying in itself—but it is written so sloppily it will also severely impair government transparency and prevent the media from reporting on national security issues.
The problems with this bill are extensive and severe. As the New York Times pointed out in an unusually forceful editorial last Friday, it has been “drafted in secret without public hearings” and bars most government employees from giving press background briefings, even if the information is unclassified—vital for media organizations when reporting on complex issues. Another provision prohibits officials from writing op-eds or appearing on television, again, even if the information is unclassified—a clear prohibition on protected speech.
Read More @ Activist Post
The US Senate is currently debating a dangerous bill that, if passed, would have broad consequences for press freedom and the public’s right to know. EFF asks senators to stand up for government transparency and the First Amendment and vote it down.
The bill’s provisions, buried in the annual Intelligence Authorization Act, are intended to stop leaks of classified information to reporters—a premise worrying in itself—but it is written so sloppily it will also severely impair government transparency and prevent the media from reporting on national security issues.
The problems with this bill are extensive and severe. As the New York Times pointed out in an unusually forceful editorial last Friday, it has been “drafted in secret without public hearings” and bars most government employees from giving press background briefings, even if the information is unclassified—vital for media organizations when reporting on complex issues. Another provision prohibits officials from writing op-eds or appearing on television, again, even if the information is unclassified—a clear prohibition on protected speech.
Read More @ Activist Post
from Silver Vigilante:
The Bernank has called for a central economic organization in Europe – more powerful than the ECB – that would help ease crises on the continent.“If Europe had a single fiscal authority, that would put them in a much closer situation relative to the United States,” The Bernank said today. “That would probably address many of the concerns, many of the problems that they had.”
European leaders have heeded the recommendation of global plenipotentiaries and technocrats, promising to, by this summer, create such an organization. The creation of such an institution, provided there is no further major crisis, could take months or years.
The Bernank made the call during a townhall meeding to public educators in Washington. The Bernank signaled that “getting to that point is very difficult.”
Speaking during a townhall to public educators in Washington, The Bernank admitted “getting to that point is very difficult.”
“You have 17 different countries,” The Bernank counted correctly. “Each set of taxpayers want to make sure that their own country is being fairly treated.” That’s a lot of meddlesome outsiders.
Read More @ Silver Vigilante
by Mac Slavo, SHTFPlan:
There was once a group of men who established a fundamental law of the
land that allowed the people of their new found country to
peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of
grievances. These founding fathers of that Great nation even went so far
as to declare that the government itself could never make a law that
would threaten to supplant these protections, which were reserved
exclusively for the people. This concept of freedom of assembly and
protest was so critical to protecting and preserving the liberty of the
people that it was the very first law – the very first Amendment –
proposed by the newly elected representatives of These United States of America and came into effect on December 15, 1791.It’s frightening what just a couple of hundred years of politicking, self serving greed and expediency can do to a nation. Apparently, somewhere along the way, politicians and judges who hold their personal views in higher regard than those laws upon which this nation was founded, have taken it upon themselves to decide what’s best for the American people and that, perhaps, we have a little too much liberty:
A federal appeals court has upheld the creation of no demonstration zones, which prohibit free speech in certain public areas.Read More @ SHTFPlan.com
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals released a ruling yesterday upholding a lower court’s decision that also declared such zones as being permissible. The opinion was penned by Judge Dennis Jacobs on behalf of a three judge panel that included Judges Pierre Leval and Debra Ann Livingston, two of whom are Republican judges appointed by George H.W. Bush.
Lawyers and Banks Offer a Full Range of Elite Criminal Services
from TrendsJournal:
from TheAlexJonesChannel :
From time immemorial, royalty, priest classes and other
self-appointed elites have used numerous means dominate the population
and keep it weak and divided amongst itself. Alex Jones uses the games
of chess, risk and monopoly to explain the classic modes of control used
by rulers, representing classic warfare between two factions, world
warfare with a complex conflict, and, of course, economic warfare.Now those techniques have advanced with sophistication into an era of full spectrum dominance– where gaming the people means an attempt to control all facets of life. Nations, individuals, economies, cultures and environments are all pawns now at the hands of hardened, evil offshore globalists bent on manipulating our world in attempt to complete their break away civilization and destroying the remains, including the great masses of humanity. They have willingly distorted our information, food, water, political systems, financial interactions and beyond with precision. Only a public aware of the scope of their designs can begin to fight against it.
By Dan Denning, Daily Reckoning.com.au:
The stock market
continues to creep in its petty pace, from day to day (channelling
Macbeth). The Aussie is up 6% against the USD in the last two months.
Meanwhile, base metals prices are down 6%.
Something does not compute. That’s pretty much what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said yesterday. The RBA elected to leave the cash rate unchanged. But it pointed out that the Aussie dollar has remained high despite, ‘the observed decline in the terms of trade and the weaker global outlook.’
In other words, as a growth currency, the Aussie shouldn’t be strong. Global growth is off the boil. Key commodities like iron ore and coal are coming off all-time highs. Australia’s export income may stay high in nominal terms, but it will do so because of increased export volumes on lower prices. The days of fat margins on double digit price gains are probably over.
If the commodity boom isn’t driving the currency, then it must be the yield right? Well it could be the yield. But at 3.5%, even AAA rated government debt is somewhat less attractive than corporate debt. What is left to explain the influx of capital into the Aussie dollar?
Read More @ DailyReckoning.com.au
The stock market
continues to creep in its petty pace, from day to day (channelling
Macbeth). The Aussie is up 6% against the USD in the last two months.
Meanwhile, base metals prices are down 6%.Something does not compute. That’s pretty much what the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said yesterday. The RBA elected to leave the cash rate unchanged. But it pointed out that the Aussie dollar has remained high despite, ‘the observed decline in the terms of trade and the weaker global outlook.’
In other words, as a growth currency, the Aussie shouldn’t be strong. Global growth is off the boil. Key commodities like iron ore and coal are coming off all-time highs. Australia’s export income may stay high in nominal terms, but it will do so because of increased export volumes on lower prices. The days of fat margins on double digit price gains are probably over.
If the commodity boom isn’t driving the currency, then it must be the yield right? Well it could be the yield. But at 3.5%, even AAA rated government debt is somewhat less attractive than corporate debt. What is left to explain the influx of capital into the Aussie dollar?
Read More @ DailyReckoning.com.au
[Ed. Note:
Surprise! The RNC is a privately owned, criminal enterprise beholden to
the Banksters. So is the DNC. The people LITERALLY Have NO voice.]
from BenSwannRealityCheck:
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the Republican National Committee’s attempt to keep liberty delegates who support Ron Paul from being seated at the RNC unless they vote for Mitt Romney
from BenSwannRealityCheck:
Ben Swann Reality Check takes a look at the Republican National Committee’s attempt to keep liberty delegates who support Ron Paul from being seated at the RNC unless they vote for Mitt Romney
by Robert Rapier, Financial Sense:
In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were Why China is Dipping Their Feet in the Canadian Oil Sands, CNOOC’s Purchase of Nexen May Signal New Wave of Consolidation, and Subscriber Questions on Lanzatech and Butanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with regular readers of this column. Interested readers can find more information on the newsletter and subscribe at Energy Trends Insider.
Why China is Getting their Feet Wet in the Oil Sands
Over the past two decades, Chinese oil consumption has quadrupled to nearly 10 million barrels per day. For the past decade they have been on a growth trajectory which has shown signs of slowing, but could nevertheless see them overtake the U.S. as the world’s top oil consumer by the end of the decade. As I have written before, I believe China’s economy will be the single-biggest long-term driver of oil prices over at least the next 5-10 years.
Read More @ Financial Sense.com
In last week’s Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were Why China is Dipping Their Feet in the Canadian Oil Sands, CNOOC’s Purchase of Nexen May Signal New Wave of Consolidation, and Subscriber Questions on Lanzatech and Butanol. As we have done previously, we would like to share one of those stories with regular readers of this column. Interested readers can find more information on the newsletter and subscribe at Energy Trends Insider.
Why China is Getting their Feet Wet in the Oil Sands
Over the past two decades, Chinese oil consumption has quadrupled to nearly 10 million barrels per day. For the past decade they have been on a growth trajectory which has shown signs of slowing, but could nevertheless see them overtake the U.S. as the world’s top oil consumer by the end of the decade. As I have written before, I believe China’s economy will be the single-biggest long-term driver of oil prices over at least the next 5-10 years.
Read More @ Financial Sense.com
by Staff Report, The Daily Bell:
Global slump risk falls as world money rebounds … The first green shoots have begun to emerge in money supply data from across the world, raising hopes of a tentative global recovery by later this year … Data collected by Simon Ward at Henderson Global Investors show that a key gauge of global money – six-month real M1 – has picked up at last after a drastic slowdown over the early spring. The combined growth rate for the G7 economies and E7 emerging powers levelled out at 1.6pc in May and rebounded at 2.5pc in June, though China and India are still contracting. The M1 data measure cash and overnight deposits and are a leading indicator of industrial output six months ahead. They give some comfort that the latest growth scare will stop short of outright slump, the point where “feedback loops” set off a self-feeding downward slide. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: “Sun will come out tomorrow! …”
Free-Market Analysis: Having sung the praises of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for so long, we now seem destined to plumb aspects of his economic analysis that we find questionable. Or so we’ve been doing lately.
Evans-Pritchard’s best moments, in our view, came post-2008, when he came into his own almost alone among mainstream journos in predicting the bad things that have now happened to the euro and EU.
Read More @ TheDailyBell.com
Global slump risk falls as world money rebounds … The first green shoots have begun to emerge in money supply data from across the world, raising hopes of a tentative global recovery by later this year … Data collected by Simon Ward at Henderson Global Investors show that a key gauge of global money – six-month real M1 – has picked up at last after a drastic slowdown over the early spring. The combined growth rate for the G7 economies and E7 emerging powers levelled out at 1.6pc in May and rebounded at 2.5pc in June, though China and India are still contracting. The M1 data measure cash and overnight deposits and are a leading indicator of industrial output six months ahead. They give some comfort that the latest growth scare will stop short of outright slump, the point where “feedback loops” set off a self-feeding downward slide. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: “Sun will come out tomorrow! …”
Free-Market Analysis: Having sung the praises of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for so long, we now seem destined to plumb aspects of his economic analysis that we find questionable. Or so we’ve been doing lately.
Evans-Pritchard’s best moments, in our view, came post-2008, when he came into his own almost alone among mainstream journos in predicting the bad things that have now happened to the euro and EU.
Read More @ TheDailyBell.com
from Silver Doctors:
For the 3rd consecutive day this week, gold and silver have made vertical moves on the COMEX open after trading down overnight.
Silver broke through $28 to the downside overnight, and after a brief spike low to $27.80 silver again popped vertically on the COMEX open, and is back above the crucial $28 to $28.25.
If the algo pattern that has controlled silver all week holds, it appears silver has now been capped at $28.25 for the day, and will drift back towards $28 throughout the rest of the day.
Overall, not much has changed, and silver continues to build a broader and broader base from which to begin it’s next major bull market rally which in our opinion is likely to begin prior to the end of August.
Read More @ Silver Doctors
Anyone betting that the global financial system will continue to muddle along indefinitely deserves to reap the whirlwind that’s coming. As the rest of us well know, the international banking system is being kept afloat solely by political lies, stupidity, corruption, greed and, most of all, egregiously misplaced confidence. It would seem to be only a matter of time before the rotted timbers of this belief system give way. But what will be the catalyst? The possibility or even likelihood that the financial system will be toppled by some event no one was expecting was an implicit theme of Nassim Taleb’s widely read 2004 book, Fooled by Randomness. In the New York Times, Taleb asserted the following: What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
Read More @ RickAckerman.com
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For the 3rd consecutive day this week, gold and silver have made vertical moves on the COMEX open after trading down overnight.Silver broke through $28 to the downside overnight, and after a brief spike low to $27.80 silver again popped vertically on the COMEX open, and is back above the crucial $28 to $28.25.
If the algo pattern that has controlled silver all week holds, it appears silver has now been capped at $28.25 for the day, and will drift back towards $28 throughout the rest of the day.
Overall, not much has changed, and silver continues to build a broader and broader base from which to begin it’s next major bull market rally which in our opinion is likely to begin prior to the end of August.
Read More @ Silver Doctors
by Rick Ackerman, Rick Ackerman.com:
Anyone betting that the global financial system will continue to muddle along indefinitely deserves to reap the whirlwind that’s coming. As the rest of us well know, the international banking system is being kept afloat solely by political lies, stupidity, corruption, greed and, most of all, egregiously misplaced confidence. It would seem to be only a matter of time before the rotted timbers of this belief system give way. But what will be the catalyst? The possibility or even likelihood that the financial system will be toppled by some event no one was expecting was an implicit theme of Nassim Taleb’s widely read 2004 book, Fooled by Randomness. In the New York Times, Taleb asserted the following: What we call here a Black Swan (and capitalize it) is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable.
Read More @ RickAckerman.com
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