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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiMonday, November 23, 2020 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| Our Diseased Monetary Bloodstream |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Germany's gold repatriation leader elected chairman of Bundestag's budget committee |
| By Guy Chazan
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
An MP for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been elected chairman of the German Bundestag's powerful budget committee, in a significant coup for the populist party.
A fierce Eurosceptic who has criticised the eurozone bailouts and attacked Angela Merkel’s liberal refugee policy, Peter Boehringer once described Germany's Muslim population as "a great danger to our state."
Chairmanship of the budget committee, which has a Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Ominous Musings on America – 2018 |
| Decay and despotism invade our lives today like gangrene creeps up the limbs of a wounded soldier in the festering fields of war. Our Washington pols swagger through fulsome milieus of political putrescence and graft. Establishment pundits spew hysterical falsehoods on a daily basis. FOMC bureaucrats print fake money like mountebanks spin shell games to carnival dupes. Special counsel shysters conduct corrupted investigations to overturn the rightful will of the people. Political thuggery masqueTuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
 Some Reflexions on History and Economics  |
| Nicolas Oresme, a Catholic bishop (1320-1382), studied human behavior with regard to money, which in his time consisted of gold and silver coinage; he was perhaps the first to observe that humans attribute varying valuations to the money that comes into their hands. He stated that holders of gold and silver coins prefer to tender their most deteriorated coins in payments, and retain the most bright, shiny and perfect of their coins. Thus, he was the true originator of what has come to be known aMonday, January 22, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Iran's central bank admits intervening to rig gold price |
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Central Bank of Iran to Resume Gold Auctions
From the Financial Tribune, Tehran, Iran
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The Central Bank of Iran has sufficient reserves of gold bars and coins and will resume gold coin auctions until the market is fully saturated and prices become stable, the director of bank's office for Banknote Issuance announced.
"CBI is in charge of minting various kinds of gold coins in the country. Hence it is also responsible for meeting the market demand and controlling tFriday, January 5, 2018 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong  |
| Markets
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that.
Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackeMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| The Year in Trump |
| For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays
There he is, our president, both immovable object and irresistible force, unsmiling with slitty eyes beneath that car-hood of a hair-doo, lumbering from one presidential prerogative to the next through squalls of opprobrium, perplexing leaders from foreign lands, punking congressmen and senators, inducing swoons of un-safeness among the zhes, theys, and thems on campus, provoking the op-ed bards of The Times to mouth-foaming hysterics, tweeting anyFriday, December 29, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Spot Gold Halves Post-2014 Recovery vs. Euro Ahead of Fed, ECB, BoE Decisions as Middle East Tensions Worsen |
| SPOT GOLD prices failed to hold a 0.4% overnight rally from new 5-month lows in London on Tuesday, slipping back as world stock markets rose again ahead of tomorrow's key US Fed decision on Dollar interest rates amid worsening tensions in the Middle East.
Edging back towards $1241 per ounce today, the price of gold bullion for immediate delivery has now halved the 16% gains for 2017 reached at early September's 12-month peak.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
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 | Oilprice.com - oilprice.com |
| Meet The World’s Most Powerful Bitcoin Backers |
| Cryptocurrency may be one of the biggest threats to governments, security and the entire financial system that we’ve ever seen. It can help fund terrorism and its anonymity makes it almost impossible to track. Most importantly, it is poised to revolutionize global finance and banking.
But our new Enemy No. 1 can’t be fought; it can perhaps be controlled. Banks have figured that out and are bringing crypto currency into the fold.
The superpowers—U.S., China and Russia--will have to face the new rTuesday, November 28, 2017 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
Nietzsche, Trump, and the Political Left  |
| The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, warned us back in the 19th century with his famous theme, the “Transvaluation of Values.” An ominous world dictatorship was coming where good would become evil, and evil good. Freedom would be thought of as slavery, and slavery would become freedom.
He “boldly prophesied that power politics and vicious wars were in store for the future. What he sensed was an approaching period of nihilism, the seeds of which had already been sown.” [1]
Ironically, eveSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Latest Paper Gold Scheme That Is Destined to Fail - Rory Hall |
| It appears that Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has
taken a page from the Bank of India’s playbook to steal the gold from
it’s citizens. The Turkish Treasury has issued two bonds in an attempt
to dislodge 2,200 tons of gold from the hands of the Turkish people. Is
this another attempt to by an SCO, BRI member to acquire the gold
necessary to participate in these alliances spearheaded by China?
As Alasdair Macleod recently explained
this would be one of the stronger reasons behTuesday, September 26, 2017 |
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 | Rory Hall - Sprott Money |
| The Latest Paper Gold Scheme That Is Destined to Fail - Rory Hall |
| It appears that Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek has
taken a page from the Bank of India’s playbook to steal the gold from
it’s citizens. The Turkish Treasury has issued two bonds in an attempt
to dislodge 2,200 tons of gold from the hands of the Turkish people. Is
this another attempt to by an SCO, BRI member to acquire the gold
necessary to participate in these alliances spearheaded by China?
As Alasdair Macleod recently explained
this would be one of the stronger reasons behMonday, September 25, 2017 |
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 | JS Kim - Smart Knowledge U |
| Is There Any Validity to the Claim that Bitcoin Could be a Trojan Horse (v2.0) |
| by by JS Kim
This article is copyrighted, and subject to all international copyrighting laws. Republishing of this article is strictly prohibited unless expressed written consent has been given by SmartKnowledge Pte Ltd. First published on 15 August 2017 and updated on 14 September 2017.
Is There Any Validity to the Claim that Bitcoin Could Be a Trojan Horse, v2.0
I am presenting this article again here for the following reason. Though the original article remains intact, the additions to theFriday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold, Silver Consolidate On Last Weeks Gains, Palladium Surges 36 YTD To 16 Year High |
| – Gold and silver rise as stocks fall sharply after Barcelona attack
– Gold, silver 0.6% higher in week after last weeks 2%, 5% rise
– Palladium +36% ytd, breaks out & reaches 16 year high (chart)
– Gold to silver ratio falls to mid 75s after silver gains last week
– Perfect storm of financial and geopolitical tensions is driving safe haven demand and should see higher prices
– Weekly close over $1,300 could see gold quickly test $1,400
– Palladium at 16 year highs today; gold, silver in coming Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Australian City Council Halts Construction Of Synagogue Over Fears That ISIS Could Target It |
| People living in the West have given up a lot to satisfy their government’s concerns over terrorism. Here in the US for instance, our right to privacy in our homes, on our persons, and especially in our communications, has essentially died since 9/11. Everything we say on our phones or search on the internet is catalogued by the NSA without a warrant, we can’t fly on an airplane without being groped and prodded by TSA agents, it’s now fairly common to be forced through police checkpoints many miThursday, August 10, 2017 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Enter The NatGas Cartel |
| The King Dollar is mortally wounded. Many notice but the masses seem largely unaware. Since 1971, the Gold Standard has been removed from its anchor position. But since 1973, the Petro-Dollar has taken its place. It has called for crude oil sales led by the Saudis and OPEC to be transacted in USDollar terms, for oil surpluses to be stored in USTreasury Bonds, and for some kickbacks from the Saudis to the USMilitary complex for weapons purchases. Of course, the US is ready willing and able to creFriday, July 7, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| White House Claims Assad Preparing For Another Chemical Attack: “He And His Military Will Pay A Heavy Price” |
| Over the past few months, the US military has slowly fallen victim to mission creep in Syria. Earlier this month, the Air Force shot down a Syrian aircraft for the very first time, and in May our military bombed a Syrian Army convoy. Before that, President Trump ordered the bombing of a Syrian airfield after Assad was accused of dropping chemical weapons on civilians.
Forget for moment, about whether or not these actions were justified, because whatever the case may be, it’s obvious that we are Wednesday, June 28, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion 'Set to Recover' as Stocks Fall 3rd Day on Global Crude Oil Glut |
| GOLD BULLION halved a 1% rally from yesterday's new 5-week lows against the Dollar on Thursday, dipping back below $1250 per ounce as world stock markets fell for a third day, pulled down by oil and energy shares.
Crude oil traded near 12-month lows around $42 per barrel of US benchmark WTI.
Major government bond prices rose, pushing 10-year US Treasury yields down towards their lowest since DonThursday, June 22, 2017 |
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| Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
The Gnostic Plague  |
| Eric Voegelin published a book titled "The New Science of Politics", in 1952.
I present here some of the ideas of Voegelin, so far as I have understood them. (His is a difficult book to read). Unfortunately, Voegelin is no longer with us to correct errors in which I may have incurred. In what follows, I express what I have gathered from reading Voegelin.
The general belief which prevailed among the populations of Europe, after Constantine declared that Christianity was the official religion ofWednesday, June 14, 2017 |
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