from Dont-Tread-On.Me :
I just got word that apparently one of the contributors on this site has been arrested/detained over Facebook posts. The Police, FBI and Secret Service swarmed in and took Brandon Raub to John Randolph Mental Hospital. This patriotic Marine had posted 5 posts on the Dont-Tread-On.Me blog linked below. Just glancing over them they seem to be of the religious and patriotic fight for truth and justice. He used the blog to have people join his FaceBook group and even did and promoted a Richmond Liberty March.
I looked through my email to see if there was any emails between the two of us and I did not find any, although I am sure there was as I would not have given him access to post on the blog if I did not.
There are a couple of lessons I want everyone to know form what little information we have from this incident.
1. Delete Facebook. I did a video for The Greatest Truth Never Told series called Delete Facebook giving a non conspiracy reason why people should quit FaceBook as it is destroying our lives. Now you should all see the conspiracy reason why you should Delete Facebook. This incident proves that it is just a huge monitoring tool for the Elite to track and build a profile of you. You give willingly the details of your political leaning, friends, interests. The hidden influence of the CIA through In-Q-Tel is becoming more and more visible.
2. This is designed to create a chilling effect to people speaking out and more importantly to keep the sheeplez from looking for the Truth. I stated in the 3 Coming False Flags that the Elite would eventually criminalize or restrict our freedom of speech of the Freedom Movement. The Elite know the economic collapse is going to bring about the Anger Phase of the Awakening. They are actively preparing for riots and civil war. The thing that I find amazing is that these .gov people don’t ask why they are preparing for Civil War? What could make people so mad to want to go to war? Well since the Elite know the collapse of the dollar is coming they are conditioning their minions for that collapse. What these people should realize is that their paychecks are going to bounce and their entire life’ savings are going to be robbed …
Read More @ Dont-Tread-On.Me
I just got word that apparently one of the contributors on this site has been arrested/detained over Facebook posts. The Police, FBI and Secret Service swarmed in and took Brandon Raub to John Randolph Mental Hospital. This patriotic Marine had posted 5 posts on the Dont-Tread-On.Me blog linked below. Just glancing over them they seem to be of the religious and patriotic fight for truth and justice. He used the blog to have people join his FaceBook group and even did and promoted a Richmond Liberty March.
I looked through my email to see if there was any emails between the two of us and I did not find any, although I am sure there was as I would not have given him access to post on the blog if I did not.
There are a couple of lessons I want everyone to know form what little information we have from this incident.
1. Delete Facebook. I did a video for The Greatest Truth Never Told series called Delete Facebook giving a non conspiracy reason why people should quit FaceBook as it is destroying our lives. Now you should all see the conspiracy reason why you should Delete Facebook. This incident proves that it is just a huge monitoring tool for the Elite to track and build a profile of you. You give willingly the details of your political leaning, friends, interests. The hidden influence of the CIA through In-Q-Tel is becoming more and more visible.
2. This is designed to create a chilling effect to people speaking out and more importantly to keep the sheeplez from looking for the Truth. I stated in the 3 Coming False Flags that the Elite would eventually criminalize or restrict our freedom of speech of the Freedom Movement. The Elite know the economic collapse is going to bring about the Anger Phase of the Awakening. They are actively preparing for riots and civil war. The thing that I find amazing is that these .gov people don’t ask why they are preparing for Civil War? What could make people so mad to want to go to war? Well since the Elite know the collapse of the dollar is coming they are conditioning their minions for that collapse. What these people should realize is that their paychecks are going to bounce and their entire life’ savings are going to be robbed …
Read More @ Dont-Tread-On.Me
by Susanne Posel, Occupy Corporatism:
After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested
manufacturers provide and more than 63,000,000 rounds of .40 S&W
jacketed hollow point bullets (JHP), the latest agency of the federal
government who is requesting questionable materials is the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who published a solicitation
for 16,000 rounds of .40 S&W JHP. These bullets are slated for
delivery in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Another order of 6,000 rounds of S&W JHP is expected to arrive at a weather station in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The bid requires acknowledgment by August 21, 2012.
The Social Security Office has also made a solicitation for 174,000 rounds of .357 hollow point bullets. These are the most lethal bullets available and would ensure the most damage to a human body.
Although hollow point bullets have been outlawed since 1899, the DHS does not seem to be deterred. By August 20th, the DHS has requested 357 mag rounds that are able to pierce through walls.
A past solicitation includes government contracts for every type of weapon of all calibers and by the thousands. From training rounds to armory meant to devastate the human body, the DHS is preparing to win an anticipated civil disturbance.
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
The U.S. Army is planning to develop new protective headgear for
soldiers that will shield them from ballistic munitions, small arms
ammunition and blunt trauma as part of missions that will include
“homeland security operations.”
A solicitation on behalf of the Army Contracting Command asks for potential vendors to present proposals for the development and production of new headgear as part of the Soldier Protection System (SPS).
After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested
manufacturers provide and more than 63,000,000 rounds of .40 S&W
jacketed hollow point bullets (JHP), the latest agency of the federal
government who is requesting questionable materials is the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who published a solicitation
for 16,000 rounds of .40 S&W JHP. These bullets are slated for
delivery in Ellsworth, Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.Another order of 6,000 rounds of S&W JHP is expected to arrive at a weather station in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The bid requires acknowledgment by August 21, 2012.
The Social Security Office has also made a solicitation for 174,000 rounds of .357 hollow point bullets. These are the most lethal bullets available and would ensure the most damage to a human body.
Although hollow point bullets have been outlawed since 1899, the DHS does not seem to be deterred. By August 20th, the DHS has requested 357 mag rounds that are able to pierce through walls.
A past solicitation includes government contracts for every type of weapon of all calibers and by the thousands. From training rounds to armory meant to devastate the human body, the DHS is preparing to win an anticipated civil disturbance.
Read More @ OccupyCorporatism.com
U.S. Troops To Get New Headgear For “Homeland Security Operations”
Army to develop new helmets to protect against “small arms ammunition”
by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars:
The U.S. Army is planning to develop new protective headgear for
soldiers that will shield them from ballistic munitions, small arms
ammunition and blunt trauma as part of missions that will include
“homeland security operations.”A solicitation on behalf of the Army Contracting Command asks for potential vendors to present proposals for the development and production of new headgear as part of the Soldier Protection System (SPS).
“This head protection ensemble is planned to replace the
current helmet system. The SPS will provide the Soldier multiple levels
of ballistic protection that can be tailored to select mission profiles
and protection against specific threats from conventional fragmenting
munitions, small arms ammunition, and blunt impact. Soldiers equipped
with the SPS will be able to accomplish a broad range of missions. The
SPS will protect Soldiers involved in major combat operations, stability
operations, homeland security operations, joint operating concepts, and
the joint force functional concept,” states the solicitation.
Developers are asked to present white papers featuring details of the helmet systems by no later than September 4. The
fact that U.S. troops are getting new headgear to protect them from
gunfire during “homeland security operations” will once again stoke
fears that the government is preparing for violent civil unrest on U.S.
soil.
Read More @ InfoWars.com
from Silver Vigilante:
LOS
ANGELES - Bankers are beginning to get beat down in the United States!
But no, it is not due to a grassroots uprising. Instead, it is due to
the immense police state that the United States is becoming. Americans
don’t know who to fear most: bankers or cops. Brian Mulligan, the
senior executive who specializes in film and television deals for the
Federal Reserve insured, Too Big Too Fail Deutsche Bank, claims that
on the night May 15, he was kidnapped and held in a motel before beaten
as he tried to escape. Mr. Mulligan believes that the police officers
were going Ultra-Banana Republic style, looking to steal the $5,000 he
was holding.
It’s not everyday somebody who is schmoozing with welfare-made millionaires in banking and entertainment gets a potent dose of state-force. Los Angeles has been turned into a fortress over the last thirty years as the War on Drugs was rolled out like a bulldozer on US streets. LA is a fortress, as public space has been militarized and the police department has been outfitted as if it might have to one day deal with a real-life Terminator or Blade Runner.
The LAPD spokesman claims that officers responded to citizen complaints about Mulligan’s erratic behavior, where after they, out of the passionate benevolence of boots-and-triggers, drove the banker to a hotel and not a hospital after Mulligan is said to have said he was tired. If Mulligan claimed fatigue, why not take him to his home or to the hospital? Why to “a” hotel? LAPD claims they only subdued and arrested Mulligan after he attacked officers. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office says it has yet to decide whether to file charges against Mulligan.
Read More @ Silver Vigilante
…is just one Billionaire to place an order on the COMEX for Silver and POOF…it’s all over!
Seriously, this is true, just a single $1 Billion order would
basically wipe out ALL deliverable Silver held at the COMEX. Not only
that, I suspect that if a huge order came through (which is discouraged
by position limits on the long side), much of the supposed “deliverable”
Silver would change categories or even evaporate prior to being
delivered. Think about how small $1 Billion is. It is equal to roughly
a mere 8 hours time of which our government borrows 24/7. It is like
going to bed and getting a good 8 hours of sleep…wake up and we borrowed
another $1 Billion. Only in this case, once this market gets broken
and trust me, $1 Billion will do it, we will go to sleep, wake up, and
no Silver will be available.
Years ago, Warren “Gold ain’t money, it’s barbaric” Buffett held 129 million ounces of Silver (equal to nearly $4 Billion at today’s price). It was speculated at the time when he sold it that he had his arm twisted to do so, maybe, maybe not. I bring this up because there are now no hordes of this size available, ANYWHERE and the “threshold” to breaking this market goes down every single day. Have you ever wondered what will happen if (when) this market does get broken? You might at first think “who cares?” but that would be shortsighted. I say shortsighted because any action in Silver will surely spill over into the Gold arena and Gold exploding higher is definitely not a “confidence” builder, on the contrary, fear is THE greatest financial emotion of them all.
Read more @ MilesFranklin.com
LOS
ANGELES - Bankers are beginning to get beat down in the United States!
But no, it is not due to a grassroots uprising. Instead, it is due to
the immense police state that the United States is becoming. Americans
don’t know who to fear most: bankers or cops. Brian Mulligan, the
senior executive who specializes in film and television deals for the
Federal Reserve insured, Too Big Too Fail Deutsche Bank, claims that
on the night May 15, he was kidnapped and held in a motel before beaten
as he tried to escape. Mr. Mulligan believes that the police officers
were going Ultra-Banana Republic style, looking to steal the $5,000 he
was holding.It’s not everyday somebody who is schmoozing with welfare-made millionaires in banking and entertainment gets a potent dose of state-force. Los Angeles has been turned into a fortress over the last thirty years as the War on Drugs was rolled out like a bulldozer on US streets. LA is a fortress, as public space has been militarized and the police department has been outfitted as if it might have to one day deal with a real-life Terminator or Blade Runner.
The LAPD spokesman claims that officers responded to citizen complaints about Mulligan’s erratic behavior, where after they, out of the passionate benevolence of boots-and-triggers, drove the banker to a hotel and not a hospital after Mulligan is said to have said he was tired. If Mulligan claimed fatigue, why not take him to his home or to the hospital? Why to “a” hotel? LAPD claims they only subdued and arrested Mulligan after he attacked officers. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office says it has yet to decide whether to file charges against Mulligan.
Read More @ Silver Vigilante
from Mark J. Fitzgibbons, The Washington Examiner:
While the Obama administration is busy eviscerating private property
rights at the federal level, Republican-controlled Fauquier County, Va.,
has decided to follow suit in its own way. Fauquier’s Board of
Supervisors recently passed a winery ordinance that tramples private
property rights and some fundamental civil liberties.
Most of the wineries are mom and pop operations. Some, though, have been more creative in marketing, employing more people, and generating revenue. The county thinks such success must be punished.
The winery ordinance is Obama-esque, passed under the pretext that it protects the health, safety and welfare of the public. It forces wineries to close at 6 p.m. and prohibits sale of food — something that goes quite safely with a taste of wine — unless the wineries obtain special permits from the zoning administrator. The ordinance lists prohibited winery activities such as hot air balloon rides, farmers’ markets, and mini-golf, which assuredly threaten the health, safety and welfare of the public, right?
Read More @ WashingtonExaminer.com
While the Obama administration is busy eviscerating private property
rights at the federal level, Republican-controlled Fauquier County, Va.,
has decided to follow suit in its own way. Fauquier’s Board of
Supervisors recently passed a winery ordinance that tramples private
property rights and some fundamental civil liberties.Most of the wineries are mom and pop operations. Some, though, have been more creative in marketing, employing more people, and generating revenue. The county thinks such success must be punished.
The winery ordinance is Obama-esque, passed under the pretext that it protects the health, safety and welfare of the public. It forces wineries to close at 6 p.m. and prohibits sale of food — something that goes quite safely with a taste of wine — unless the wineries obtain special permits from the zoning administrator. The ordinance lists prohibited winery activities such as hot air balloon rides, farmers’ markets, and mini-golf, which assuredly threaten the health, safety and welfare of the public, right?
Read More @ WashingtonExaminer.com
from KingWorldNews:
With the recent surge in gold, silver, and the mining shares, today
King World News interviewed 25 year veteran Caesar Bryan over at Gabelli
& Company, which has over $31 billion under management. Here is
what Ceasar had to say regarding a continued loss of confidence in the
financial system: “Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of the US
coming off the gold standard, thus severing the ties of the US dollar to
gold. We get caught up in the day to day ebbs and flows of financial
markets, but sometimes you need to take a step back and realize we are
41 years into a monetary experiment without precedent.”
“What has happened slowly, over that 41 year period, is we have built up a massive debt to the point where confidence in monetary authorities has been eroded. Central banks and investors around the world are now coming back to gold. So we need to remember that this is a secular move back into gold.
This gold bull market is going to last a while, and we are in the early innings….
Caesar Bryan continues @ KingWorldNews.com
With the recent surge in gold, silver, and the mining shares, today
King World News interviewed 25 year veteran Caesar Bryan over at Gabelli
& Company, which has over $31 billion under management. Here is
what Ceasar had to say regarding a continued loss of confidence in the
financial system: “Yesterday marked the 41st anniversary of the US
coming off the gold standard, thus severing the ties of the US dollar to
gold. We get caught up in the day to day ebbs and flows of financial
markets, but sometimes you need to take a step back and realize we are
41 years into a monetary experiment without precedent.”“What has happened slowly, over that 41 year period, is we have built up a massive debt to the point where confidence in monetary authorities has been eroded. Central banks and investors around the world are now coming back to gold. So we need to remember that this is a secular move back into gold.
This gold bull market is going to last a while, and we are in the early innings….
Caesar Bryan continues @ KingWorldNews.com
by Bill Holter, MilesFranklin.com:
…is just one Billionaire to place an order on the COMEX for Silver and POOF…it’s all over!
Seriously, this is true, just a single $1 Billion order would
basically wipe out ALL deliverable Silver held at the COMEX. Not only
that, I suspect that if a huge order came through (which is discouraged
by position limits on the long side), much of the supposed “deliverable”
Silver would change categories or even evaporate prior to being
delivered. Think about how small $1 Billion is. It is equal to roughly
a mere 8 hours time of which our government borrows 24/7. It is like
going to bed and getting a good 8 hours of sleep…wake up and we borrowed
another $1 Billion. Only in this case, once this market gets broken
and trust me, $1 Billion will do it, we will go to sleep, wake up, and
no Silver will be available.Years ago, Warren “Gold ain’t money, it’s barbaric” Buffett held 129 million ounces of Silver (equal to nearly $4 Billion at today’s price). It was speculated at the time when he sold it that he had his arm twisted to do so, maybe, maybe not. I bring this up because there are now no hordes of this size available, ANYWHERE and the “threshold” to breaking this market goes down every single day. Have you ever wondered what will happen if (when) this market does get broken? You might at first think “who cares?” but that would be shortsighted. I say shortsighted because any action in Silver will surely spill over into the Gold arena and Gold exploding higher is definitely not a “confidence” builder, on the contrary, fear is THE greatest financial emotion of them all.
Read more @ MilesFranklin.com
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from Zero Hedge:
In a gold-based monetary system, every asset is ultimately backed by
gold. This does not mean that every debtor (including banks) keeps the
full amount of its liability in gold coin just lying around. Why would
one bother to borrow if one did not need the money? It means that every
asset generates a gold income and every asset could be liquidated for
gold, if necessary. If a debtor declares bankruptcy, the creditor may
take losses. But he can rely on the gold income stream for each asset or
if need be he can sell the asset for gold. In a gold-based monetary
system, money is gold and gold is money. Money cannot disappear; it does
not go “poof”. Bad credit can be defaulted and must be written off. But
money merely changes hands.
Read More @ Zero Hedge
In a gold-based monetary system, every asset is ultimately backed by
gold. This does not mean that every debtor (including banks) keeps the
full amount of its liability in gold coin just lying around. Why would
one bother to borrow if one did not need the money? It means that every
asset generates a gold income and every asset could be liquidated for
gold, if necessary. If a debtor declares bankruptcy, the creditor may
take losses. But he can rely on the gold income stream for each asset or
if need be he can sell the asset for gold. In a gold-based monetary
system, money is gold and gold is money. Money cannot disappear; it does
not go “poof”. Bad credit can be defaulted and must be written off. But
money merely changes hands.Read More @ Zero Hedge
The Election Is Irrelevant
Admin at Jim Rogers Blog - 26 minutes ago
As far as I’m concerned, the election is irrelevant. One happens to be from
Boston and one from Chicago, and whoever wins, their friends are going to
do well, but other than that America is not going to do well. There’s very
little difference in any of these guys. None of them understands the
problem. These are the guys that got us into trouble. You expect them to
get us out? - *in The FT*
*Jim Rogers is an author, financial commentator and successful
international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The New
York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journ... more »
Chinese Stocks Not Confirming US Stock Market Rally
Eric De Groot at Eric De Groot - 1 hour ago
Charles Dow was one of the first market technicians to recognize the
importance of intermarket analysis to confirm or deny the direction of
money flow. For instance, Dow recognized that breakout (or breakdowns) of
the Industrials confirmed by a similar move in the Transports had the
tendency to be more sustainable and robust. Unconfirmed moves or the
failure of the two markets to trade in gear...
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A Final Word On Those "Robust" July Retail Sales
The retail sales figures from that perspective show a couple of very clear points: 1. Last year's Christmas season was not only weak and disappointing, it may have marked the inflection point in consumer spending (at least as far as retail sales measure); 2. The July "improvement" is far less impressive. June 2012 had an extra holiday shopping weekend, but registered only a 3.3% improvement over June 2011. Without an extra holiday weekend, July 2012 saw almost identical year-over-year growth; 3.4%. No matter what or how weekends were arranged within the calendar context, non-adjusted growth was not really all that inspiring in either month. If this inflection in consumption is indeed valid, it makes sense that the early part of 2012 would then experience economic “volatility” – revenue pressures at firms cause them to cut back on capex or re-investment in real projects, including a decrease in the pace of hiring new workers. Manufacturing falls off (seen in the ISM and regional Fed surveys) as reduced demand from businesses works its way back into this vicious cycle of employment malaise where job growth is consistently and vitally below population growth or labor force expansion. As government transfers drop off, the segment of the economy under the gun of stagnation rises in proportion and the bifurcated economy becomes more so – except that as the troubled half grows it inevitably pulls down the half doing relatively well. What looks like a muddle of weak growth is really the rot of monetary intrusions eating at what should be a free market-driven reset to the previous dislocation of failures from past monetary episodes. And it is all in the name of some ephemeral “wealth”.
Face-Off: FaceBerg Groupon'd At Half-Off IPO Price
"And
yay verily it was written that as the moon passes thrice through the
sky after providing your funds to the IPO-of-the-decade, thou shalt see
said funds smite in two..." Faceberg just touched $19, that is a 50% haircut on its IPO launch price from exactly 3 months ago
- but as CNBC's Simon Hobbs seems convinced...what about the
short-interest? Ask JCP or GRPN! Well, easy come, easy go. Just ask
Mark, who has lost half his net worth in 3 months. Do we feel bad for
him and his $9.6 billion? No. But we will check back in another 3 months
just in case.What Recovery? Petroleum Deliveries Lowest Since September 2008; Weakest July Demand Since 1995
While the Achilles heel to the endless "economic data" BS coming out of China may be its electric production and demand,
both of which show a vastly different picture than what the Beijing
politburo's very wide brush strokes paint, the US itself is not immune
from indicators that confirm that anything the BEA dishes out should be
taken with a grain of salt. One data set that we showed recently that
paints a drastically different (read slowing) picture of the US economy
which we noted recently is railcar loading of waste and scrap for
the simple reason that "The more we demand, the more waste is
generated by that production." Of course, the propaganda manipulation
machinery only focuses on the "entrance" of production, and completely
ignore the "exit." But an even far more important metric of the general
health of the US economy may be none other than broad energy demand,
in the form of petroleum deliveries and gasoline demand. If this is
indeed the relevant metric to observe, then things are about to get
far, far worse. As Dow Jones notes: "U.S. petroleum deliveries, a
measure of demand, fell by 2.7% in July from a year earlier to the lowest level in any month since September 2008, the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, said Friday." It gets worse: "Demand
in the world's biggest oil consumer, at 18.062 million barrels a day,
was the weakest for the month of July since 1995, the API said.
Year-to-date demand is down 2.3% from the same period in 2011."Apple Hits New Record North Of $600 Billion In Market Cap
Update: in
the 20 or so minutes since uploading this article, AAPL added another
OpenTable in market cap. It has in the course of a day added the same
market cap as Linked In and just shy of Sony.Moments ago Apple, long since the largest company in the world by market cap, just crossed $600 billion in capitalization, needless to say a record high, after adding the equivalent of 2.4 RIMMs in market cap in a few short hours. As of this moment, the company that makes a phone, a tablet, various computers (all of which now have an upgrade lifecycle inside of 1 year and ever shorter), has a product "ecosystem", retail stores and may be launching a cable box, is larger than the entire semiconductor sector, larger than the entire retail index, and at this rate of parabolic blow off top growth, will be larger than both combined in about 5-6 months. We can only hope that the company will soon use its $110+ billion cash hoard to launch a captive bank to finance the purchase of its products because unless consumers' disposable incomes are growing at the same rate (with penetration already quite high), and assuming of course it is still cool to have an AAPL product in a few years (just as it was the peak of coolness to have a Palm Tungsten a decade ago... or a RIM phone 5 years ago), the company that is now owned by about 250 hedge funds will certainly have growing pains in the future.
Will The Fall Of Europe's Discontent Follow The Glorious Summer Made By This Head Of The ECB
Measuring
the 'contentedness' during this summer of total comfort is tricky.
With equities at the year's highs in nominal prices in the US and
breaking multi-month highs in Europe, how do we 'know' the relative
richness or cheapness (or hope or despair) that is priced into stocks
and what the 'fall' ahead looks like. We may have found a way. Europe's
economic and implicitly market performance is very much based on the
explicit belief that the EMU remains in tact and that Draghi's recent
'promise' will enable sovereigns to go about their economic business
(austerity and growth) without the hindrance of those nasty speculating
long-only fixed income managers repricing cost-of-funds and eating into
the nation's growth. In the US, it's all about multiples - P/E
expansion (in the face of lower 'E') has maintained the hope; and so it
is in Europe. The following chart shows the extremely high correlation between European equity P/E (hope multiples) and European Sovereign risk. At the end of LTRO2, European stocks were exuberant only to fade away; currently, European stock multiples are once again back to those exuberant 'hope' heights. Trade accordingly.BTFD...Keep Stacking...
by Dan Norcini:
I find this very interesting as it is occuring against the backdrop of rising Treasury yields and a rising equity market. Clearly, for whatever the reason, something seems to be occurring on this inflation front that is moving below the radar screen of many investors. Could silver be sniffing out the first whiff of an inflation play?
Read More @ TraderDanNorcini.Blogspot.com
from Anthony Gucciardi, Activist Post
Monsanto is doing its absolute best to ensure that you do not know what you are putting into your mouth, now confirmed to have donated $4.2 million in an attempt to fight the California GMO labeling initiative that could very well put them out of business.You see, if people actually knew that they were consuming genetically modified ingredients, they would stop buying the engineered products on a massive scale.
Monsanto simply cannot have that, which is why it is doing its best to squash any possibility of a successful labeling initiative (along with a conglomerate of corporate entities).
It is already well known that the general public is highly supportive of GMO labeling in general, with many polls finding that around 93% of the population is supportive of knowing what is in their food. Monsanto obviously does not care much about the general public, however, as exemplified by the company’s utter lack of concern over public health and baseline human rights. And if over 90% of support is not enough, then there is the Just Label it Campaign. While the actual end result of the mission is debatable, the massive support is not.
Read More @ Activist Post
by Michael Allan McCrae, Mining.com:
Central banks demand for gold in the second quarter reached 157.2 tonnes, a record high and more than double last year’s Q2, according to the World Gold Council, which released its gold survey on Thursday.
Stand-outs—countries that had a yen for yellow metal—were the National Bank of Kazakhstan, and the central banks of the Philippines, Russia and Ukraine.
Read More @ Mining.com
Central banks demand for gold in the second quarter reached 157.2 tonnes, a record high and more than double last year’s Q2, according to the World Gold Council, which released its gold survey on Thursday.
Stand-outs—countries that had a yen for yellow metal—were the National Bank of Kazakhstan, and the central banks of the Philippines, Russia and Ukraine.
Read More @ Mining.com
from gpc1981, Gains Pains & Capital:
The US is clearly heading into another recession in the context of a larger depression. And it’s doing this while in the worst economic shape in its post-WWII history.
We’ve never once entered a recession when the average duration of unemployment is at an all time high, industrial production has failed to break above its previous peak, and food stamp usage is at a record high. We’ve never done this.
We’re doing it now.
And this is happening at a time when the Federal Reserve is out of ammo. I realize that 99% of so called “analysts” claim that the Fed and the rest of the world’s Central Banks will unveil some sort of stimulus to save us… but these folks are either talking their books or have no clue about how the financial system works.
Read More @ GainsPainsCapital.com
The US is clearly heading into another recession in the context of a larger depression. And it’s doing this while in the worst economic shape in its post-WWII history.We’ve never once entered a recession when the average duration of unemployment is at an all time high, industrial production has failed to break above its previous peak, and food stamp usage is at a record high. We’ve never done this.
We’re doing it now.
And this is happening at a time when the Federal Reserve is out of ammo. I realize that 99% of so called “analysts” claim that the Fed and the rest of the world’s Central Banks will unveil some sort of stimulus to save us… but these folks are either talking their books or have no clue about how the financial system works.
Read More @ GainsPainsCapital.com
from CapitalAccount:
Welcome to Capital Account. The Federal Reserve hawks are speaking out against the central bank taking more action, according to the Wall Street Journal. Why is so much attention given to the whims of central banks around the world? Is it because perception of central bank power is what matters most to markets? We talk to Peter Baxter, author of KondratieffWinter.com, if power of perception is enough to keep the economy going…and what happens if it runs out.
And even though it is the peak of summer, today we talk about winter, a Kondratieff Winter to be exact. Kondratieff Winters historically feature high volatility, slow to negative growth, de-levering (by consumers, corporations, and governments,) hoarding of cash by banks, asset deflation, and economic depressions due to bursting of unsustainable credit bubbles. Does this sound familiar? Peter Baxter, President of Baxter Capital Advisors, will explain why he thinks we are in a Kondratieff Winter and where the economy is headed based on this theory.
Kondratieff Wave theory details how global and regional capitalist economies experience a recurring cycle pattern of boom and bust of around 60 years that coincides with a peak in credit. We talk to Peter Baxter about the components of each of the four cycle seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall), and how each season exhibits the same unique characteristics. Once credit has peaked in the cycle, it must be choked off so that the excesses from the previous cycle can be removed. We will talk about how he foresees the Winter cycle playing out, as well as why the mainstream media has largely ignored Kondratieff Wave theory.
Plus, the end of a moratorium on the sale of Facebook shares went into effect today, sending the price down to new lows. Despite disasters like this, the broader trend shows stocks rising and treasury yields declining. These are contradicting signals, and Peter Baxter will tell us what he thinks the bond market knows that equities don’t.
Welcome to Capital Account. The Federal Reserve hawks are speaking out against the central bank taking more action, according to the Wall Street Journal. Why is so much attention given to the whims of central banks around the world? Is it because perception of central bank power is what matters most to markets? We talk to Peter Baxter, author of KondratieffWinter.com, if power of perception is enough to keep the economy going…and what happens if it runs out.
And even though it is the peak of summer, today we talk about winter, a Kondratieff Winter to be exact. Kondratieff Winters historically feature high volatility, slow to negative growth, de-levering (by consumers, corporations, and governments,) hoarding of cash by banks, asset deflation, and economic depressions due to bursting of unsustainable credit bubbles. Does this sound familiar? Peter Baxter, President of Baxter Capital Advisors, will explain why he thinks we are in a Kondratieff Winter and where the economy is headed based on this theory.
Kondratieff Wave theory details how global and regional capitalist economies experience a recurring cycle pattern of boom and bust of around 60 years that coincides with a peak in credit. We talk to Peter Baxter about the components of each of the four cycle seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall), and how each season exhibits the same unique characteristics. Once credit has peaked in the cycle, it must be choked off so that the excesses from the previous cycle can be removed. We will talk about how he foresees the Winter cycle playing out, as well as why the mainstream media has largely ignored Kondratieff Wave theory.
Plus, the end of a moratorium on the sale of Facebook shares went into effect today, sending the price down to new lows. Despite disasters like this, the broader trend shows stocks rising and treasury yields declining. These are contradicting signals, and Peter Baxter will tell us what he thinks the bond market knows that equities don’t.
from Gold Money:
Gold and silver have crept quietly higher over the course of the last week, with growing signs of a shift in investor sentiment
away from perceived safe havens towards growth or “risk” assets. The
yield on the 10-Year US Treasury Note has been a notable indicator of
this, moving from around 1.4% in late July all the way to 1.8% today.
This is still below the yields seen in March, but the rapidity of the
rise (coupled with the US dollar’s continuing struggle to gain momentum)
suggests that markets could be in for a bullish spell.
Inflation expectations are also rising, which should tempt speculators back into the commodities sector. This should have a notably bullish impact on silver; it won’t take much in the way of speculative interest in the white metal to send it soaring higher again, as discussed by James Turk in his latest King World News interview. $50/oz by Christmas? Perhaps.
Read More @ GoldMoney.com
Gold and silver have crept quietly higher over the course of the last week, with growing signs of a shift in investor sentiment
away from perceived safe havens towards growth or “risk” assets. The
yield on the 10-Year US Treasury Note has been a notable indicator of
this, moving from around 1.4% in late July all the way to 1.8% today.
This is still below the yields seen in March, but the rapidity of the
rise (coupled with the US dollar’s continuing struggle to gain momentum)
suggests that markets could be in for a bullish spell.Inflation expectations are also rising, which should tempt speculators back into the commodities sector. This should have a notably bullish impact on silver; it won’t take much in the way of speculative interest in the white metal to send it soaring higher again, as discussed by James Turk in his latest King World News interview. $50/oz by Christmas? Perhaps.
Read More @ GoldMoney.com
from Alexander Higgins, Activist Post
If you have been watching the financial headlines, the media is quoting more and more analysts and economists saying the ejection of Greece from the Euro-zone won’t be that big of a deal.
This of course comes after years of claims that such an event would not only be the beginning of the end for the single Euro currency, but would trigger a cataclysmic financial Armageddon as the fallout from Greece alone would amount to nearly 10 trillion in lost GDP upon the core and the peripheries. Now we are being prepared for the event; and since it isn’t such a big deal, we can only assume those reports were nothing more than lies to push harsh austerity measures on the masses in order to fund banskter bailouts with insanely high interest rates.
Read More @ Activist Post
from USAWatchdog:
An Israeli defense minister says that an attack on Iran would last just 30 days. Chaos is spreading to Lebanon as the civil war there spins out of control. Looks like Jon Corzine is off the hook for criminal charges in the MF Global debacle where $1.6 billion in missing funds “vaporized.” Mitt Romney says he paid a 13% tax rate for the past decade, but is this just an issue to distract the voters? Join Greg Hunter from USAWatchdog.com as he gives his analysis and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.
from silverguru:
An Israeli defense minister says that an attack on Iran would last just 30 days. Chaos is spreading to Lebanon as the civil war there spins out of control. Looks like Jon Corzine is off the hook for criminal charges in the MF Global debacle where $1.6 billion in missing funds “vaporized.” Mitt Romney says he paid a 13% tax rate for the past decade, but is this just an issue to distract the voters? Join Greg Hunter from USAWatchdog.com as he gives his analysis and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.
from silverguru:
from KingWorldNews:
Today Tom Fitzpatrick told King World News, “We see no reason why this gold trend cannot perform as well as the last bull market in gold between 1970 and 1980.” Fitzpatrick also stated that a replication of that move, “… will take gold to $6,300.”
Here is what top Citi analyst Fitzpatrick had to say, along with some powerful charts: “The longer gold consolidates, the more we believe it sets up the platform, like 2006/2007, for the move higher. Certainly if we start to get a move up through $1,640 to $1,650, it looks to us like the upside move is finally starting, particularly if we can push through that $1,790 level.
When the move kicks in, we think it will be a very quick move to the topside….”
Fitzpatrick continues @ KingWorldNews.com
Spot market prices for buying gold hovered just above $1600 per ounce
Thursday morning in London, well within their trading range of recent
weeks, having risen back above that level amid ongoing speculation over
quantitative easing.
“Gold remains trapped in a range where it has been for two-and-a-half months,” says a note from bullion bank Scotia Mocatta.
Data published by the World Gold Council Thursday show that global gold demand between April and June was down on the same period last year, although central banks were buying gold in record quantities.
Silver prices meantime hovered just below $28 per ounce Thursday morning, also in line with recent trading. Stocks and commodities were also flat and US Treasury bonds fell.
A day earlier, gold prices climbed back above $1600 per ounce Wednesday, after news that US consumer inflation fell by more than expected last month. “This was enough to stimulate the QE3 rumor, yet again,” says a note from Swiss precious metals group MKS, referring to a potential third round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.
Read More @ BullionStreet.com
Today Tom Fitzpatrick told King World News, “We see no reason why this gold trend cannot perform as well as the last bull market in gold between 1970 and 1980.” Fitzpatrick also stated that a replication of that move, “… will take gold to $6,300.”
Here is what top Citi analyst Fitzpatrick had to say, along with some powerful charts: “The longer gold consolidates, the more we believe it sets up the platform, like 2006/2007, for the move higher. Certainly if we start to get a move up through $1,640 to $1,650, it looks to us like the upside move is finally starting, particularly if we can push through that $1,790 level.
When the move kicks in, we think it will be a very quick move to the topside….”
Fitzpatrick continues @ KingWorldNews.com
by Ben Traynor, Bullion Street:
Spot market prices for buying gold hovered just above $1600 per ounce
Thursday morning in London, well within their trading range of recent
weeks, having risen back above that level amid ongoing speculation over
quantitative easing.“Gold remains trapped in a range where it has been for two-and-a-half months,” says a note from bullion bank Scotia Mocatta.
Data published by the World Gold Council Thursday show that global gold demand between April and June was down on the same period last year, although central banks were buying gold in record quantities.
Silver prices meantime hovered just below $28 per ounce Thursday morning, also in line with recent trading. Stocks and commodities were also flat and US Treasury bonds fell.
A day earlier, gold prices climbed back above $1600 per ounce Wednesday, after news that US consumer inflation fell by more than expected last month. “This was enough to stimulate the QE3 rumor, yet again,” says a note from Swiss precious metals group MKS, referring to a potential third round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.
Read More @ BullionStreet.com
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