The Upcoming US Dollar Crash = Biggest Transfer of Wealth in History

The Upcoming US Dollar Crash = Biggest Transfer of Wealth in History

 

Yup, we all see it coming.  The Upcoming US Dollar Crash = Biggest Transfer of Wealth in History, guaranteed the Federal Reserve’s own “Helicopter Ben” as he continues his policy of printing money for his banker friends by the trillions of dollars per quarter, as if from a volcano, into a confetti parade of debt monetization.  Ouch, what a headache this party is going to give us when hyperinflation sets in. 

 

 

As in the last 100-years, even more in the near future as the great transfer of wealth continues.  In the big picture, this is all part of a 100-year trend isn’t it?  Since the creation of the Federal Reserve System, the dollar has already lost over 96% of its value.  Who continues to benefit from that?

 

If you put your ear to the sky and listen very carefully, you will hear a giant sucking sound.  That is the sound of wealth transferring away from 90% of us who earn and save in dollar denominated paper assets.  The big winners of this wealth vacuum are the 1% who facilitate newly printed money into depressed, crashed hard assets like forests, factories, real estate, etc…

 

Rough estimate on how this crash will  play out - The 1% win big / 90% lose big / 9% remaining stay about the same.  A glance at bonuses of bankers illustrates this fact quite clearly, and by the way, isn’t it their fault that we are in this mess?  But nevermind…

 

 “The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” – Taken from Matt Taibbi’s seismic Rolling Stone piece on Goldman Sachs.

 

 

…Even the mainstream news on Drudgereport.com right now admits that the worst is yet to come…

 

·       KRUGMAN: 'We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression'...

·       SCARY OBAMA: 'VERY DIFFICULT CHOICES AHEAD' ON DEFICITS...

·       Says he's serious...

·       Prepare for 'monster' money-printing by Fed...

 

Charts of the dollar clearly show what looks to be a peaking top, poised for another drop…

 

For example, dollar index last 2 years…

 

 

 

Dollar index last 40 years indicates growing weakness as a world currency compared to other currencies in the index basket. (The dollar index is of course a comparison of the dollar to other failing fiat currencies, all devaluing over time towards that magic number - “0”).

 

 

 

 

 

Dow expressed in terms of gold indicates that we are about half way through the downward correction, which is really just a natural process of cleansing of the historic never before seen levels of debt in public, private and corporate hands. 

 

We have much-much more to go before the historical bottom when the value of the Dow = Gold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before we are done with this crash, the DOW will equal Gold!

 

What?

 

I said, historically speaking, before we are done with this crash, the DOW will equal Gold!

 

 

Will the DOW and Gold  meet at 1000?

 

Will they meet at 20,000?

 

Depends upon how much printing the central bank does.  I would guess closer to the 20,000 number.  Imagine a 20,000 dollar gold coin and the DOW sitting at 20,000.  What would the price of milk be at that time, about 20 dollars?  It always happens like that and never does it not happen like that.  We have a 100% guarantee that fiat currency always goes to zero over time.  The only question is the time it takes to get from here to there.

 

Gold is good, but what about the poor man’s gold?  What about the big picture for silver?  Good questions.  Price of silver adjusted for inflation for many hundreds of years going back shows that a return towards the historical norm can expected.  Downward pressures on precious metals are backing off.

 

 

 

 

You can’t go wrong if you own real money, 6000 year storage of wealth in precious metals.

 

If you still feel uncertain about shifting paper denominated wealth into precious metals, consider this – In all of world history there have been 10,000 fiat currencies (not backed by any asset).  And of all of those, none have held value over time.  This is a zero to 10,000 gamble with losers holding paper and winners holding precious metals.

 

All of the arrows are pointing in the same direction à Physical Precious Metals are already showing themselves a winning choice, not yet half finished booming against most paper out there, according to core driving medium term and long term indicators.

 

The case couldn’t be clearer for what is destined to boom and what is doomed to bust.  Place your bets wisely.

 

Cheers,

Tate Ulsaker

 

 

‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet

'Kill Switch' To Shut Down The Internet - Like we didn't see this coming! The free internet is doing so much damage to the globalist agenda.  Their hand is being forced to regulate, tax, control, monitor and even "kill switch" our ablity to pass information around the world unregulated at light speed. Those in monopoly power of money creation don't want us to be aware of how things really work in the halls of power.  The ruling elite require dumbed down masses and willing debt slaves.  But even in Soviet Russia there were the arts.  A lot can be said with sarcasm that government censorship can't comprehend. -Tate Ulsaker

 

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New Bill Gives Obama 'Kill Switch' To Shut Down The Internet

Government would have "absolute power" to seize control of the world wide web under Lieberman legislation

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The federal government would have "absolute power" to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative "kill switch" to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.

Lieberman has been pushing for government regulation of the Internet for years under the guise of cybersecurity, but this new bill goes even further in handing emergency powers over to the feds which could be used to silence free speech under the pretext of a national emergency.

"The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects "shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined," reports ZDNet's Declan McCullagh.

The 197-page bill (PDF) is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.

Technology lobbying group TechAmerica warned that the legislation created "the potential for absolute power," while the Center for Democracy and Technology worried that the bill's emergency powers "include authority to shut down or limit internet traffic on private systems."

The bill has the vehement support of Senator Jay Rockefeller, who last year asked during a congressional hearing, "Would it had been better if we'd have never invented the Internet?" while fearmongering about cyber-terrorists preparing attacks.

The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the bill, primarily because it contains language that will give them immunity from civil lawsuits and also reimburse them for any costs incurred if the Internet is shut down for a period of time.

"If there's an "incident related to a cyber vulnerability" after the President has declared an emergency and the affected company has followed federal standards, plaintiffs' lawyers cannot collect damages for economic harm. And if the harm is caused by an emergency order from the Feds, not only does the possibility of damages virtually disappear, but the US Treasury will even pick up the private company's tab," writes McCullagh.

Tom Gann, McAfee's vice president for government relations, described the bill as a "very important piece of legislation".

As we have repeatedly warned for years, the federal government is desperate to seize control of the Internet because the establishment is petrified at the fact that alternative and independent media outlets are now eclipsing corporate media outlets in terms of audience share, trust, and influence.

We witnessed another example of this on Monday when establishment Congressman Bob Etheridge was publicly shamed after he was shown on video assaulting two college students who asked him a question. Two kids with a flip cam and a You Tube account could very well have changed the course of a state election, another startling reminder of the power of the Internet and independent media, and why the establishment is desperate to take that power away.

The government has been searching for any avenue possible through which to regulate free speech on the Internet and strangle alternative media outlets, with the FTC recently proposing a "Drudge Tax" that would force independent media organizations to pay fees that would be used to fund mainstream newspapers.

Similar legislation aimed at imposing Chinese-style censorship of the Internet and giving the state the power to shut down networks has already been passed globally, including in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.

We have extensively covered efforts to scrap the internet as we know it and move toward a greatly restricted "internet 2″ system. Handing government the power to control the Internet would only be the first step towards this system, whereby individual ID's and government permission would be required simply to operate a website.

The Lieberman bill needs to be met with fierce opposition at every level and from across the political spectrum. Regulation of the Internet would not only represent a massive assault on free speech, it would also create new roadblocks for e-commerce and as a consequence further devastate the economy.

 

WikiLeaks Founder Has ANOTHER Massacre Video

Question - Where is it is a crime to report a crime? 

 

Answer - In a criminal and collapsing empire.

Check this out - 

 

"American officials have acknowledged in the past that they are concerned about the release of the Garani video (massacre video) , fearing that it could undermine public support for the American military campaign in Afghanistan both in that country and in the United States. Pentagon officials were outraged by WikiLeaks' release of the Baghdad video this spring."

 

- HA!

Oh poor guys.  The war profits will surffer if peole see a video showing a bomb landing on 140 dirt poor innocent civilians.  Meanwhile, there are another 5-6 miillion innocents dead since Yugoslavia and "support the troops" policies continue to confound explanation because nobody has a clue what all these "pre-emptive wars" are all about other than conquest and no-bid contracts.

 

We need more whistleblowers and more Wikileaks.  Look at who is doing that, just young kids.  Isn't there an adult somewhere higher up in the system who will turn his or her back on the war profits crowd?

 

-Tate Ulsaker

 

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WikiLeaks Founder Has Massacre Video

by Philip Shenon Info

Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but he's readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan.

After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan last year that left as many as 140 civilians dead, most of them children and teenagers.

In an email obtained by The Daily Beast that was sent to WikiLeaks supporters in the United States Tuesday, Julian Assange, the website's Australian-born founder, also defends a 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist who is now under arrest in Kuwait on charges that he leaked classified Pentagon combat videos, as well as 260,000 State Department cables, to WikiLeaks.

"Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables, reporting on the actions of US Embassy's [sic] engaging in abusive actions all over the world," Assange said in an email. "We have denied the allegation, but the US government is acting as if the allegation is true."

American officials have said they are eager to determine the whereabouts of Assange, who canceled an appearance last Friday in Las Vegas, to discourage him from releasing any more classified information on his website, which is nominally based in Sweden and promotes itself as a global resource for whistleblowers. As recently as two weeks ago, Assange, who first gained global notoriety as a computer hacker, was in his native Australia.

In April, his website posted a copy of a classified Pentagon video of a 2007 American helicopter attack in Baghdad in which a dozen people were killed; that video is also believed to have been leaked by the Army intelligence analyst, Specialist Bradley Manning of Potomac, Maryland.

While denying again that WikiLeaks has the State Department cables, Assange acknowledges in the email today that he is in custody of the May 2009 video that shows the airstrike on the Afghan village of Garani, believed to be the most lethal combat strike in Afghanistan—in terms of civilian deaths—since the United States invaded the country in 2001. Assange writes that "we are still working on" preparations for release of the video of "the Garani massacre."

The State Department and Pentagon did not immediately comment on Assange's email message.

American officials have acknowledged in the past that they are concerned about the release of the Garani video, fearing that it could undermine public support for the American military campaign in Afghanistan both in that country and in the United States. Pentagon officials were outraged by WikiLeaks' release of the Baghdad video this spring.

State Department officials are especially alarmed by the potential that Assange might post the huge library of classified department memos that Manning is reported to have bragged of providing to WikiLeaks earlier this year. The department has confirmed that it is conducting a forensic examination of Manning's computer equipment for evidence of what he may have downloaded.

In the email, Assange does not confirm any relationship between the website and Manning, describing him as "one of our alleged sources."

But he suggests that Manning is being treated unfairly—"detained and shipped to a US military prison in Kuwait, where he is being held" without trial.

"Manning is alleged to have acted according to his conscience and leaked to us the Collateral Murder video and the video of a massacre that took place in Afghanistan last year at Garani," Assange continues.

"Mr. Manning allegedly also sent us 260,000 classified US Department cables, reporting on the actions of US Embassy's [sic] engaging in abusive actions all over the world. We have denied the allegation, but the US government is acting as if the allegation is true and we do have a lot of other material that exposes human rights abuses by the United States government." Assange does not reveal exactly what that other material might be.

American officials are treating Assange's claim that he does not have the State Department emails with skepticism, suggesting that he is playing word games—that while he may not have exactly 260,000 cables, he has a large number of them.

Assange seems to enjoying taunting the United States government and news organizations with information that is not always accurate. Last Friday, WikiLeaks—which tends to communicate with the outside world through Twitter messages–created a flurry when it disclosed via tweet that Assange was scheduled to appear that afternoon at a journalists' conference in Las Vegas. The Twitter notice failed to mention that Assange had canceled his appearance several days earlier because of unspecified security concerns.

The arrest of Manning became public last week after Wired magazine disclosed that Manning had been turned in to authorities by another former computer hacker, Adrian Lamo, who had been contacted by Manning for counsel. Much of the evidence against Manning is contained in an Internet chat log that Lamo has already turned over to authorities.

In an interview with The Daily Beast on Monday, Lamo said that he had been interviewed for nearly 12 hours this weekend by investigators from the Defense Department, the State Department, and the FBI, as formal criminal charges are being prepared for Manning. Lamo said he was motivated to turn in Manning out of fear that the classified information he had provided to WikiLeaks could put lives in danger—within the United States government and elsewhere.

Lamo said he is convinced that Manning did have access to highly classified State Department cables, and that Manning's boast of having stolen 260,000 cables sounds truthful.

In his email, Assange asks supporters for money, citing "an enforced lack of resources" for the website. "Please donate and tell the world you have done so," he writes. "Encourage all your friends to follow the example you set, after all, courage is contagious."

Philip Shenon, a former investigative reporter at The New York Times, is the author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation.

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• Philip Shenon: Leaker May Face Espionage Charges

• Philip Shenon: Pentagon Manhunt

• Philip Shenon: The State Department's Worst Nightmare

• Sam Bungey: The Man Behind WikiLeaks

Jim Rickards Discovers IMF Gold-Based Currency Document

The IMF is considering what to do after the US currency collapse.  Guess what they want?  Gold!

 

This should get very interesting for the gold bulls because all of their wildest dreams could happen overnight.

 

Will the globalist want a world currency based on gold and at the same time will they make gold illegal to hold?

 

And how about silver, the investment + industrial metal?

 

I would rather hold illegal gold and silver for the long term than hold whatever paper currency these guys invent. 

 

The IMF document is accessible on a link at the bottom of this blog.  It is highly readable and interesting.  No doubt, they are intersted in putting gold into the formula for the new currency post dollar collapse and I can just see them pushing this "new and improved post-collapse currency" non-solution over the airwaves.  It is going to be just another ponzi scheme for these guys to keep control into the next era where we again build up the post collapse world while the printers once again rake in profits on the backs of earners.  Nothing in this world will change so long as we don't have a sound money system.  And if these guys currently in control of things are presenting a new system then without a doubt, it will be rigged.

 

Cheers, Tate

 

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Jim Rickards - Discovers IMF Document

 

 

The IMF distributed a document late on a Friday when its representatives thought no one would catch it. Leave it to Jim Rickards of Omnis Inc. to track it down. The IMF document discusses the gold standard and gold's role as a monetary unit. Jim discussed the importance of this in our interview released yesterday and below is a link of the IMF document he located.

 

From the opening of the IMF Document:

"Under the Gold Standard, the major national currencies were freely convertible to gold at a fixed exchange rate, with adjustment largely undertaken through flexible prices, wages and income. This system survived up to the outbreak of the First World War, and while it was subsequently re-established in a modified form following a painful period of post-war disinflation, the economic and political strains of the Great Depression led to the system's ultimate collapse in the 1930s."

 

They left out the fact that the Federal Reserve was created one year prior to the outbreak of World War I and it helped to fuel the credit boom which caused so many dislocations and human suffering.

 

Putting that aside for a moment because that is a discussion for another day, the very fact that an IMF document  was discussing a history of gold in such detail as this one does surprised me. There is much more in the IMF piece, but let's move on to Jim Rickards thoughts from his interview:

 

"But the alternative is to find another engine, another liquidity pump if you will, and that's clearly what the G-20 leadership would like to do, and their sort of chosen candidate are the SDR's, and their chosen vehicle is the IMF. So basically the IMF putting out SDR's, will over time displace the Fed printing dollars as the engine of world trade, world liquidity and world growth."

 

"So, that can't happen overnight, that is a momentous shift. It's going to require a lot of consensus building among the G-20 members. So what they do is they put these papers out, get the dialogue going and get it on the agenda, talk about it, get people kind of used to it. The average citizen has kind of no idea, it's not that their dumb it's just that they're not necessarily informed or trained in this fairly technical area, and so it's the kind of thing the elites can pull off without a lot of accountability and they are definitely headed in that direction."

 

Jim's interview covers tremendous ground. It is linked below.

 

Eric King

KingWorldNews.com

 

To hear the recent in-depth interview with Jim Rickards on King World News CLICK HERE.

 

To read the IMF document CLICK HERE.

The Silver Story

Dear Everyone,

 

People are asking about the difference between Gold and Silver as an investment in this crash.

 

As most of you know, I have greatly favored silver over gold.  Gold is good but silver is a multiple of good additional than gold and the reason is related to what analysts call "The Silver Story".

 

When the Silver Story is known, it will go up. 

 

When silver goes up, the silver story will become known. 

 

It is just a matter of time.

 

The below items are what I consider to be direct and credible access to the silver story, which should be self explanatory as to why there are so many hard core silver fanatics out there.

 

My primary source is Ted Butler so if you find fault with his analysis I would be keen to know:

1. http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1161705933.php - Table in the middle of the story shows industrial drawdown of silver
2. http://www.silverinstitute.org/silver_uses.php - Shows 3 categories of silver market demand

3. The above, taken together, leads us to the conclusion - http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1160149628.php

"INDUSTRIAL USER PANIC

"The amount of silver used in each industrial application, while vital to the finished item, is a tiny percentage of the product's total cost. This means industrial users will not readily substitute other materials for silver in a price rise. If the price of silver jumps significantly, they will be more inclined to build inventories.

"When the inevitable silver shortage hits, it will be only a matter of time before industrial users try to protect themselves from delays and price increases. They will attempt to build inventories of silver. You don't risk the shutdown of an assembly line for want of a single, low-cost component.

"As industrial users try to immunize themselves from assembly line shutdowns, extraordinary demand will make the supply tighter.

"This is how panics occur. The price of palladium rose to over $1,100 an ounce because industrial users panicked and built inventories. Silver is used in many more applications than palladium. That increases the chance that silver users will panic and try to build inventories. If a panic does develop, there is only one known cure - it must burn itself out at extremely high prices."

4. In addition to the above trend, we also have a wholly separate bullish factor of the historic short position to consider, as follows:

In his most recent commentary, "The Smoking Gun, Part II", Butler lays out the obvious (and heinous) facts. The Comex criminals (composed of a gang of four banks), now control at least 72.5% of the Comex "short" position. To provide some context, this is more than five times as large a concentration, as when the Hunt Brothers were accused of "cornering the market" in silver – on the long side... the greatest "short-squeeze" in the history of markets (at least on a percentage basis

 

So the silver story basically is a "perfect storm" scenario of the following factors coming together:

• Massive industrial drawdown of supply
• Increasing and diverse demand increasing
• Easy to get silver already gotten with cheap energy
• People ready to shift because currency losing value
• Unprecedented concentrated short position speaks to a bullish rise when manipulation gives way to physical shortages
• Safety in a 6,000 year history of money
• Large market from buyers globally - Poor man's metal

Gold is also good, I don't think anyone denies that.

 

Cheers,

Tate

A Suggested Survival List

Dear Friends,

 

Someone gave this to me years ago and now the author recently updated it.

 

A popular subject increasingly around the world today.

 

I passed this around the office.  Tell you what, this trend is a big one around the world.  People are seriously waking up and it is about time.

 

Cheers,

Tate

 

 

 

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Posted on Jun 15, 2010

A Suggested Survival List

Categories: Archived Columns, Columns by Chuck Baldwin

This column was initially released last December. Without a doubt, this has been one of my most requested columns. So, in response to the large number of readers who have asked me to re-release this column, I do so today. And in doing so, I have added some new material to the original column.

One does not have to be a prophet to know that we are on the precipice of some potentially catastrophic–or at the very least, challenging–days. In fact, most of us are already in challenging days, and some are already enduring catastrophic events. That is, if one would call being out of work, losing one's home, facing life-threatening medical conditions without any prospect of medical insurance, several families being forced to live in one house due to homes being foreclosed, etc., catastrophic.

The potential for an escalation of cataclysmic events, however, is very real. Only a "blooming idiot" would call someone who attempts to prepare for "the day of adversity" a Chicken Little now. Anyone who does not see the storm clouds on the horizon isn't paying attention.

For example, can one imagine what would happen if terrorists nuked a major American city or cities? (Once again, I encourage readers to go get the videos of the CBS TV series "Jericho" to get an idea of how quickly life, and even civilization, could change.) Imagine if there was another 9/11-type event. What would happen if some form of Zimbabwe-style inflation hit the US? What would happen if anything disrupted the distribution of Welfare checks, or food to local grocers? Imagine a Hurricane Katrina-style natural disaster in your town. I think people everywhere are beginning to awaken to just how vulnerable we all really are.

As a result, people from virtually every walk of life have recently been asking my thoughts on how they should prepare. Therefore, I will attempt to share with my readers some of the counsel I have given these folks.

First, a disclaimer. I am not an economist; I am not a survival expert; I am not a firearms expert; I am not an attorney; I am not a physician. In fact, I am not an expert in anything! For several years, however, I have tried to learn from others. I am an avid reader. My work has allowed me to travel extensively. I have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of–and learning from–many of America's most learned, most trained, and most qualified "experts" in a variety of fields. What I write today, I have learned from others. I've formed my own opinions and priorities, of course, but everything I'm sharing has been said, or written about, before. But if I can share something in today's column that will help someone be better prepared for the days to come, then my goal will have been achieved.

Location:

First, analyze your living conditions. Where do you live? Do you live in an urban or rural environment? Is it a big city or small town? Do you live in an apartment or condominium? How close are your neighbors? Do you even know your neighbors? Would you trust them if the electricity was off and they were hungry? Could you grow your own food, if you had to? How easily could you secure your home? If you live in a cold weather environment, how long could you stay warm without electricity? These are the kinds of questions you need to ask yourself now.

Over the past several decades, masses of people have migrated into large metropolitan areas. More people live in urban areas than at any time in American history. While this may be well and good for times of prosperity, it is an absolute nightmare in any kind of disaster. Does anyone remember what New Orleans looked like after Hurricane Katrina came through? Can anyone recall what happened in downtown Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? Needless to say, any inner-city environment could become a powder keg almost instantaneously, given the right (or wrong) circumstances. And the bigger the city, the bigger the potential problems.

If you live in the inner city, I suggest you consider moving to a more rural location. Obviously, now is a very good time to buy property (especially rural property), but the downside is, selling property is not as favorable. If you can afford it, now is a great time to buy a "safe house" outside the city. If you are fortunate enough to have family or some true friends nearby, you might want to put your heads–and some resources–together in preparation for serious upheaval. Obviously, a team of prepared people is much better than being alone.

If you must stay in your urban location, have some commonsense plans in hand in the event of a major disaster. Get to know your neighbors: find out whom you can trust and whom you can't. Keep some extra gasoline on hand, in case you need to get in your car quickly and leave. Have several exit routes planned ahead of time, in case roads are blocked. Have a "bug-out" bag containing essential ingredients to live on for 3 or 4 days. If leaving is not an option, have a plan to secure your home as best you can. You'll need to think about things such as food, water, medicine, warmth, self-defense, etc. But at this point, to do nothing is absolute lunacy!

Provisions:

During a major disaster, food will quickly disappear. Living for over 3 decades on the Gulf Coast, I can tell you with absolute certainty that whenever disaster strikes (usually an approaching hurricane, for us), food and provisions at the store sell completely out in a matter of a few hours. People panic, and within hours, you cannot find food, bottled water, ice, generators, batteries, candles, etc. In a matter of hours, every gas station in the area will be completely out of gas. Not days. Hours!

Furthermore, almost all disasters include a complete loss of electricity. The water supply is compromised. Bottled water becomes more valuable than bank accounts. Dehydration becomes a very real and present danger. I remember witnessing a man offer an ice vendor $100 for an extra bag of ice during Hurricane Ivan. My wife and I went 2 weeks (14 days) without electricity in the aftermath of that hurricane. Believe me, I got a taste of just how precious bottled water, ice, batteries, generators, fuel, etc., can become.

I suggest you have a supply of food and water to last at least 2 weeks. A month would be even better. Personally, I can live a long time on tuna fish or peanut butter. You can purchase MREs from a variety of sources, as well as "camp-style" packaged food from stores such as Academy Sports & Outdoors. Of course, bottled water is available everywhere during normal times. Stock up! Plus, I suggest you have some water purification tablets or a Katadyn water filter on hand. And, if you are able, prepare to grow your own food. Canning food is another very helpful hedge against deprivation. If your parents were like mine, this was standard operating procedure.

Get a generator. Keep a supply of fuel on hand. Stay stocked up on batteries, candles, portable lights, first aid supplies, and personal hygiene items–especially toilet paper. Trust me, during times of intense and prolonged disaster, toilet paper could become more valuable than money. I also suggest you never run out of lighters or matches. You never know when you'll need to build a fire, and during a prolonged survival situation, fire could save your life. If you live in a cold weather climate, you probably already have some sort of wood stove or fireplace.

Obviously, you need to take stock of your clothing. Do you have clothes suitable for extended outdoor activity? What about boots? During a disaster, you would trade your best suit from Neiman Marcus for a good pair of boots. Do you have gloves? Insulated underwear? What about camouflage clothing? These could become essential outerwear in the right conditions. Plus, any "bug-out" bag will need to include spare clothing.

Communication and medical provisions are also a high priority in any kind of emergency. How will you communicate with your loved ones when the phones (including cell phones) go down? A preordained rally point (or safe house) might be something to think about. And what about medical supplies? Do you have enough to take care of routine (and not-so-routine) emergencies? What about your prescription drugs? How long could you function if you were cut off from your druggist for any length of time? Think about it now.

And one more suggestion, while we're on this subject: the best resources in the world are of little use if one is physically incapable of making good use of them. In other words, GET IN SHAPE. During any kind of emergency situation, physical exertion and stamina become immensely important.

Commodities:

I suggest you have at least some cash on hand. Just about any and all disasters will result in banks being closed for extended periods of time. That also means credit card purchases being suspended. You need to have enough cash to be able to purchase essential goods (if they are even available) for an undetermined amount of time.

Of course, some survival gurus insist that during any cataclysmic climate, precious metals will become the only reliable currency. But when most of us are trying to feed our families and pay our bills, it is difficult to get excited about buying gold and silver. Obviously, I would never recommend that anyone jeopardize the present on the altar of the future. My parents made it through the Great Depression with canned goods and garden vegetables; gold and silver were certainly not a priority with them. On the other hand, a little gold and silver could go a long way in a prolonged emergency–if you can afford it without jeopardizing present needs.

In fact, in a disaster, what is considered a valuable commodity can change rather quickly, as the barter system takes a life of its own. What is valuable is determined by what you need and how badly you need it. In a prolonged disaster, simple things such as toilet paper, canned goods, ammunition, and clothing could become extremely valuable; while cars, video games, televisions, etc., could be reduced to junk status. In antiquity, wars were fought over things such as salt.

Speaking of cars, remember that during a prolonged "national emergency" that might involve some sort of nuclear attack or widespread civil unrest, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) might be employed; in which case, most every late model vehicle would be completely inoperable. Accordingly, if one can keep an older, pre-computer-age vehicle in good working order, he or she might be driving the only non-government vehicle capable of going anywhere.

Self-Defense:

Needless to say, during any kind of disaster, your safety and protection will be completely up to you. If you really think that the police are going to be able to protect you during an upheaval, you are living in a dreamworld.

In both the New Orleans and Los Angeles disasters, police protection was non-existent. Lawless gangs quickly took control of the streets, and people were left to either defend themselves or swiftly become the helpless prey of violent marauders. In fact, in New Orleans, some of the policemen actually abandoned their oaths to uphold the law and joined with the criminals, turning their weapons upon the public.

Face it, folks: in any kind of disaster, you must be able to defend yourself, or you and your family will be meat for these animals of society that will quickly descend without mercy upon the unprepared, unsuspecting souls around them. This requires that you be armed! It also requires that you be skilled enough to be able to efficiently use your arms.

Therefore, I strongly suggest that you purchase firearms sufficient to keep you and your family safe, and also that you practice sufficiently to know how to use them.

Now, when it comes to a discussion of which firearms are preferable for self-defense, the suggestions are as varied as the people who proffer them. These are my suggestions:

I believe every man (along with his wife and children of adequate age) should be proficient with the following weapons: a handgun in .38 caliber or above, a .22 rifle, a center-fire hunting rifle, a semi-automatic battle rifle, and a shotgun.

My personal preference for a self-defense handgun is either a .45 ACP 1911 (either Colt or Kimber) or a .40 S&W. In the .40 caliber, my favorite is a Glock 23. In the 1911, I like the Commander size configuration. I also like the Glock 21, 30, and 36 in .45 caliber. My wife prefers to carry a Smith & Wesson .38 caliber revolver in the snub-nose, J-frame configuration. But this is primarily due to the reduced weight of these weapons for carry purposes. If needed, she could make a good accounting of herself with a Glock 19 in 9mm. If you are someone who has never owned and seldom fired a handgun, I recommend you buy a Glock. They are as simple as revolvers to operate, reliable, and almost indestructible. Plus, they provide increased magazine capacity, and are safe. They are also very easy to disassemble and clean. Of course, in dangerous game territory, you will need the power of a .45 Long Colt, .44 Magnum, or even a .454 Casull. These calibers are not for the limp-wristed, but when one is facing a brown bear or mountain lion, it is what one will need to survive. Plus, when your life is on the line, you'll never feel the recoil.

For a .22 rifle, I really like the Ruger 10/22. For a hunting rifle, my suggestion is either a .270 or .30-06 caliber bolt-action rifle. I prefer the Remington Model 700 BDL or Browning X-Bolt, but there are several fine weapons in this configuration and caliber by numerous manufacturers. In dangerous game territory, a Marlin .45-70 could be a lifesaver. For a battle rifle, I suggest an AR-15-style weapon (I prefer Bushmaster) in .223 caliber or a .308 Springfield M1A. For a shotgun, I suggest a 12-gauge pump. Here I prefer a Winchester Model 1300, which is not made anymore. So, you'll probably have to choose between Mossberg and Remington. For ladies, however, a 20-gauge shotgun is probably a better choice, and at "bad breath" range (where a shotgun shines, anyway), it is just as lethal.

Whatever you choose, practice with it to the point that you are able to use it proficiently. And be sure you stock up on ammunition. A gun without ammo is reduced to being either an expensive club or a cumbersome paperweight.

Go to your local independent sporting goods store (I don't recommend the large national chain stores to do your firearms shopping) and get to know your hometown firearms dealer. Most of these people are kind and helpful folks who will be more than happy to assist you in finding exactly what type of firearm is suitable for you and your family. If you live in the Pensacola, Florida, area, a visit with Rick Bankston at Buck and Bass on Pine Forest Road is highly recommended. He is a fine Christian gentleman and very knowledgeable in all things gun. His phone number is 850-944-5692. Give him a call.

Spiritual Power:

I firmly believe that man is created to have fellowship with his Creator-God. I really don't know how people can face the uncertain future that we currently face without the spiritual knowledge, wisdom, comfort, and power that is made available through Jesus Christ. I believe the maxim is true: "Wise men still seek Him." I strongly suggest that you seek to possess a personal relationship with God's only begotten Son. In truth, spiritual preparation is far and away the most important preparation of all. Accordingly, be sure to pack a copy of God's Word in your survival gear.

That we are facing challenging days is a certainty. Exactly what that means is yet to be determined. I trust that some of my suggestions will help you be better prepared for what lies before us. Plus, here is an excellent online Survival Blog chock-full of great suggestions and resources for all things survival. Check it out:

http://www.survivalblog.com/

I am sure that I have left out several items that others more qualified than me would include. I welcome their suggestions, as I am always desirous to learn from those who are wiser and more experienced. In the meantime, remember your Boy Scout motto: "Be Prepared."

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United States is beyond point of no return financially - John Embry

Several multiples higher for gold.

 

Silver would be potentially several plus.

 

Cheers,

Tate

 

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John Embry - Reasons To Own Gold

 

 

Tip of the hat to Jim Sinclair. John Embry's latest piece titled Reasons To Own Gold is nothing short of outstanding. From his piece, "The U.S. dollar is the world's reserve currency and thus anchors the world's monetary system. Unfortunately, by virtually any measurement we look at, the United States is beyond the point of no return with respect to its financial position."

 

 

John goes on to say, "Imbedded federal government debt of nearly $13 trillion, unfunded future liabilities in medicare, social security, etc. well in excess of $50 trillion and a current budget deficit of over 10% of GDP virtually ensures ongoing massive monetary debasement. When the near bankruptcy of the majority of the fifty states in the union is factored in, the situation looks ever more dire."

 

John goes on to warn about the possibility of hyperinflation, "To combat the massive deficits that inevitably resulted, widespread quantitative  easing was undertaken. That policy is here to stay and the fiscal deficits in many countries have now reached percentages of GDP that have almost always resulted in  eventual currency collapse."

 

He also warns about paper gold investments, "Investors should also have strong reservations about gold ETF's, gold pooled accounts and gold certificates where the gold is unallocated and thus not specifically accounted for."

 

Regarding central bank price suppression, "The western central banks, who have supplied massive quantities of gold to the market over the past fifteen years, both to meet burgeoning demand and to suppress the price, are running dangerously short."

 

Credit given to GATA, "The work of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), which has been remarkably accurate over the past ten years, is finally receiving belated acknowledgment following years of being studiously ignored. The extent of the suppression has been so great that it virtually guarantees a far greater upward explosion in the gold price than would otherwise have occurred."

 

John puts things in perspective, "All the gold mined since the beginning of time is worth less than $6 trillion currently and the total capitalization of all the world's gold stocks barely exceeds that of Walmart. This pales in comparison to the amount of paper money that could seek refuge in the world's eternal money...I expect gold to trade at several multiples of the current price before this bull market breathes its last breath."

 

To read the entire piece by John Embry CLICK HERE.

 

Eric King

KingWorldNews.com

 

BP, the ones responsible for the oil volcano are also self-appointed to clean up their mess.  In their role, they find it expedient to keep us in the dark about the volume of oil gushing out, and about the cloud of oil under the sea and about the contents of the toxic chemicals used to disperse (they say) the oil.

 

... but do we need to disperse the oil with chemicals that are many times more toxic than the oil itself?  Who does that serve by making oil disperse with toxins and sink below the surface of the ocean undetectable by satellite?

 

Too many things wrong with this picture and where is the leadership?  Should we hope for change and leave it at that?

 

Something tells me this won't end well.

 

Cheers, Tate

 

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Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret as feds colluded with Big Business Friday, June 11, 2010 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)

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Email this article to a friend Printable Version  FREE Email Newsletter Articles Related to This Article: • The inside scoop: Natural Health Products Expo West industry event • NaturalNews emerges as top truly independent natural health news site • NaturalNews readers making waves across the natural health, natural living markets (opinion) NaturalNews Store Specials: • Raw organic Vanilla powder at 40% off • Revolutionary new Hurom Slow Juicer at the lowest price on the 'net + FREE shipping! • Certified Organic Nutiva Hemp Seeds at a huge discount (+ FREE bottle of hemp oil) See more at the NN store... (NaturalNews) After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention: First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic, and second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry's "trade secrets" for so long by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now? As reported in the New York Times, Brian Turnbaugh, a policy analyst at OMB Watch said, "EPA had the authority to act all along; its decision to now disclose the ingredients demonstrates this. Yet it took a public outcry and weeks of complaints for the agency to act and place the public's interest ahead of corporate interests." On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic chemical that has long been linked to the health problems of cleanup crews who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill. A newer Corexit recipe dubbed the "9500 formula" contains dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, a detergent chemical that's also found in laxatives. What do you suppose happens to the marine ecosystem when fish and sea turtles ingest this chemical through their gills and skin? And just as importantly, what do you think happens to the human beings who are working around this chemical, breathing in its fumes and touching it with their skin? The answers are currently unknown, which is exactly why it is so inexcusable that Nalco and the oil industry giants would for so long refuse to disclose the chemical ingredients they're dumping into the Gulf of Mexico in huge quantities (over a million gallons dumped into the ocean to date). But it gets even more interesting when you look at just how widespread this "chemical secrecy" is across Big Business in the USA... and how the U.S. government more often than not conspires with industry to keep these chemicals a secret. It's time to end chemical trade secrets Armed with the accomplices in the FDA, EPA, FTC and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, powerful corporations have been keeping secrets from us all. It's not just the toxic chemicals in Corexit, either: Large manufacturers of consumers products -- such as Unilever, Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson -- routinely use toxic chemical ingredients in their products -- ingredients which are usually kept secret from the public. Similarly, virtually every perfume, cologne and fragrance product on the market is made with cancer-causing chemicals that their manufacturers refuse to disclose, claiming their formulas are "trade secrets." Throughout Big Business in America, the toxic chemicals used in everyday products such as household cleaners, cosmetics and yard care remain a dangerous secret, and the U.S. government actually colludes with industry to keep these chemical ingredients a secret by, for example, refusing to require full disclosure of ingredients for personal care products. The FDA offers us virtually no enforcement in this area, depending almost entirely on companies to declare their own chemicals are safe rather than requiring actual safety testing to be conducted. This is why the following statement is frightening yet true: What BP is doing to the Gulf of Mexico, companies like Proctor & Gamble are doing to the entire population. We are all being mass poisoned by the toxic chemicals in personal care products, foods, medicines, fragrance products and other concoctions created by powerful corporations that use toxic chemicals throughout their product lines... but who refuse to disclose those ingredients in the public. Thanks to the widespread use of secret chemicals in foods, medicines and personal care products, we are awash in synthetic toxic chemicals that have already reached the shores of public health. The rates of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infertility that we're seeing right now are a reflection of the devastating health cost associated with ongoing the ongoing chemical contamination of our population. Even public water fluoridation policies are a kind of "water contamination disaster" where chemicals from an undisclosed source are dumped into the water supply (on purpose, no less!). What's doubly disturbing about all this is that many of the chemicals used in foods, medicines, household cleaners and personal care products end up in the Gulf of Mexico as well because they get flushed down stream. So now the Gulf isn't just polluted with crude oil and dispersant chemicals; it's also heavily contaminated with all the chemical runoff from the products made by large corporations that refuse to disclose the actual chemical ingredients, claiming they're trade secrets. It's time to end the chemical secrecy As this Gulf of Mexico oil disaster clearly demonstrates, it's time to end the chemical secrecy maintained by Big Business. We must demand that all ingredients be fully disclosed for all products so that the curtain of chemical secrecy is lifted once a for all. Neither oil companies nor consumer product companies should be able to hide behind the excuse of "trade secrets" to avoid disclosing the actual chemicals contained in the products they sell. As consumers, we must demand chemical transparency from these companies or refuse to buy their products. Legislatively, we must demand new laws that require full disclosure on all consumer products so that ordinary people can see what's contained in the products they buy. In a world where one person's chemical runoff impacts every other person, there is no justification for chemical secrecy. We all have the right to know what we're putting on (or in) our bodies, and if companies refuse to be honest with us, we should boycott their products and publicly shame them for engaging in deceptive, secretive behavior. Because the truth is that consumer product companies don't dare want you to know what's actually found in their products. And that's because most of their products are made with poison. If the average perfume product listed its chemical ingredients on the label, for example, product sales would plummet as consumers realized just how many of those ingredients are linked to cancer and liver disorders. Big Business wants us all to remain ignorant... blinded to the truth of what poisons they're slathering on our skin or dripping down our throats. But it's time to halt this dark era of chemical secrets in our modern world. It's time to demand transparency, clean up our waterways and stop poisoning ourselves and our planet. Sources for this story include: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/0... Like this article? Receive more Health Ranger articles as they're published with a FREE subscription to the NaturalNews email newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe (free):   Your email privacy is 100% protected by NaturalNews. We do not sell, rent or share emails. Share25 Buzz up!vote now 0diggsdigg About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. He is the writer and singer of 'I Want My Bailout Money,' 'Don't Inject Me' and other popular hip-hop songs on socially-conscious topics. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. 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