Watch this documentary – Genetic Roulette. Monsanto and their friends in government should be held accountable for crimes against humanity.
Sick? Stop Eating GMO Food. I am.
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QE3 – Bernanke Throws Gasoline on the Fire!
So here we are, QE3. Many of us watching this slow motion train wreck have been wondering when this big milestone would be reached.
“To support a stronger economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40bn per month.” - Fed launches QE3: the full statement – Telegraph.
I’m a bit surprised that the freshly printed money is being used to buy mortgage-backed securities. Tossing more money at these derivatives just seems like throwing gasoline on a fire to me – a very bad sign me thinks.
By the way, I really love this photo of Bernanke! It really shows his mad-scientist side well.
Nancy Grace Indirectly Says ‘Buy Silver’…If You Listen Between The Rants
More clear indications are surfacing that we should all think hard about buying physical silver. Mainstream media commentator Nancy Grace misses the point in this rant and instead takes the opportunity to mock silver. Huh!?
Her bio on wikipedia says she’s a legal commentator, so I’m not sure why she’s chosen to comment on the investment choices of this criminal instead of his crime.
The big take-away is that when we see certain ideas get stomped on by anyone in public you know we must be getting close to the truth. No conspiracies here, just observing human nature and noodling over the reasons anyone would react so strongly to a footnote of this news story.
I think Chris Duane’s suggestion is correct. Everyone, especially the rich, have a lot to loose if the current dominant paradigm fails. These people are masters of the world as it works today and will have the hardest time imagining (and probably adapting to) anything different.
So when evidence surfaces that some people have clearly made choices that conflict with their own world view, they go on the attack. It’s just amazing that she chose to attack the idea of payment in physical silver instead of the crime itself.
via Nancy Grace says Silver Owners Crazy, Lonely, Rich, White Guys – YouTube.
Do What You Love
This is good advice for teaching us to support our children’s strengths but also our own strengths. When we do what we love and we do our best we succeed and thrive without the need for competition or taking anything from others. It’s kind of like how it works in nature, everything doing what it was meant to do and doing it perfectly.
Ecuador Grants Asylum to Julian Assange
This is excellent news for those who want truth to surface. I hope Assange does more shows for RT.com from his soon to be new home in Ecuador.
“Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Seeking asylum, Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the police scuffled with and arrested some of his supporters on Thursday.”
via Ecuador to Let Julian Assange Stay in Its Embassy – NYTimes.com.
All Choked Up
No really… the smoke here in Northern California is really getting tough to deal with. I ran a quick errand at lunchtime and was surprised to see so many people outside on foot – yikes – people stay indoors!
Checking the map and news websites I can see fires all around us. Up north there are wildfires, down in south Sacramento they had a multi-building fire, and of course there’s got to be some smoke from the Chevron oil refinery fire in the SF East Bay.
Really wishing I lived on the Mendocino Coast today. I know they get fires there too but I imagine those off-shore winds would be blowing the smoke away quicker than we’ll get relief here in the Sacramento area.
Curiosity Has Landed – Congrats JPL & NASA!
Congrats to the folks at JPL & NASA! It goes without saying, we’re all looking forward to seeing all the new photos/data coming in from Mars.
“Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). See and hear the team inside JPL mission control along with a visualization of the spacecraft’s entry, descent and landing.”
Curious Silver Market News Could Hint at More Overshoot
More curious news from ZeroHedge.
“In what may be the most amusing news of the day, according to the FT the CFTC will shortly drop its 4 year old investigation into silver manipulation, “after US regulators failed to find enough evidence to support a legal case, according to three people familiar with the situation.” …continues
And if you’ve not been following the story, the CFTC has been investigating possible silver market manipulation for four years – and has now concluded that all is ok – so they say.
Alternative media sources have been reporting that the paper silver market (silver you don’t hold physically yourself) is something like 100 times larger than the actual physical silver available and that certain entities are collaborating to rig the paper silver market to keep the market price of all silver artificially low.
That’s a hefty acquisition and the conspiracy theories that attempt to explain why it could be true are even wilder – but it still gives me a moment of pause.
Why? Because we already know that our culture is conditioned to do anything to extend the current paradigm – especially the leaders of our culture. In other words current policies all point to increasing overshoot.
Evidence? We see this evidence in the debt they borrow, to the environmental damage they allow, to the wars they wage. Manipulating markets seems well within the kinds of actions we know these leaders are capable of doing. In their defense, I suspect they see their role as essential in protecting America from collapse. So without needing to prove anything we can see the trend – so we can assume these kind of things are within the realm of possibility.
What am I doing about it?
- Listening & watching for signs of the system breaking down.
- Continue to build more resilience into our life.
- Vote for politicians that embrace the shift to a new more sustainable paradigm.
Running for Cover – Swiss 2 Year
You can always count on ZeroHedge for another perspective. I watch alternative media sources like ZeroHedge for those often missed economic indicators.
“On the surface all is well, stocks are soaring, the EURUSD is up solidly, and euphoria is back, or that is at least what is being telegraphed. So why is the single biggest unmanipulated flight to safety flag (defined by us) currently available – the Swiss 2 Year – screaming to run for cover?”
Good question. Continue reading What Do Swiss Bonds Know That Nobody Else Does? | ZeroHedge.
From Lloyd’s Blog: Getting Out of the Stock Market
Alternative housing guru and publisher Lloyd Kahn posted this on this blog. Food for thought.
“A friend of mine from college told me recently that he sold all his stocks, has the money in cash, and is thinking of getting FDIC-backed Ally Bank CDs.
I cut out these headlines from today’s New York Times business pages.” - Lloyd’s Blog: Getting Out of the Stock Market.
It does make one wonder – how the heck is this mess is going to turn out. I suspect we’ll have to wait until after the (s)election side show is over before anything is really allowed to correct itself.