Never fight a land war in Asia...

If he prepares to defend the back, the front will be weak.
If he prepares to defend the left, the right will be weak.
If he prepares to defend the right, the left will be weak.
If he prepares to defend everywhere, everywhere will be weak..

                                                                                                         -Sun Tzu - The Art of War


Have you ever heard the saying..."Your writing a check your body can't cash?"

I think all of us at one time or another have done things and said things that all come back to bite us in the end.  However some of us never learn from those mistakes.

Take the President for example;

These past weeks have been a terrible for him. 

I'm really not feeling bad for him at all though.  His socialist bully like behaviors have earned him this trouble!

So unless you have lived under a rock the President is facing down some very big scandals;

1.  The narrative on Benghazi is blowing up, and now people are calling the "second coming of Watergate" and are now comparing Obama to Nixon... not even close... Nixon didn't kill anyone.

2.  The IRS is caught with their hand in the proverbial cookie jar with using their power to harass conservative groups.  The President used the IRS to threaten and bully anyone who stands up for Liberty and Freedom.

3.  The DHS / CIA  and every other three lettered acronym department that supposedly protects our nation is caught up in the problem of the Saudi National who quite possibly related to the Boston bombing and was certified as a really bad guy was quick ushered out the country faster than you can say boo.

4.  We are now being drug into a "War by proxy" against the Russians in Syria.  Russia is selling Syria Arms and we are going to Sell the Rebels weapons... they will fight it out and thus we will fight each other.

5.  The President's Common Core (the Federal education standards) is being challenged in many states.

6.  The DOJ has been bugging the AP's phone lines in violation of the 4th Amendment and 1st Amendment.

7.  Finally we hit our debt limit on Sunday 5/19/2013 and the Treasury department now says they will have to take "extra ordinary measures" to ensure we can still pay our bills.

To you and I ... number 7 should bring the most concern.

I want to say again that this short list continues to prove that they, the Government is a big, amorphous blob of absolute in-efficiency and stupidity that is capable of thoughtless tyranny and will stop at nothing to absorb power. 

However, I have to equate it to the quote from the great war strategist above Sun Tzu... the President and Government are having to defend themselves on multiple fronts... this leaves them weak and un-prepared for the next attack.

But what are they un-prepared against?

The very serious coming Economic Problems. 

If you have been watching the World for the past 6 months and have seen what has happened in Greece and Cyprus you should understand that the money problems that they are having are going to happen to us us... but on a magnitude never seen before in human history.

Let's break this down.

So as you are aware, France, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and a host of other small E.U countries are now completely upside down in the ability to fund the operations of their Government, their "entitlement" programs and the salaries of their workers.

We are seeing many, many horror stories coming from Greece about how their citizens are starving because all they have is rations of Pasta and Ketchup. 

What breaks my heart the most about what I am hearing is that kids are suffering.    Poor defenceless kids, all because their parents trusted their Government would provide for them in their time of needs.  Guess what? They didn't!  Grecian children are starving and begging their classmates for food!

Cyprians lost 60% of their wealth in their accounts!  Spain has record unemployment for their younger population, and now has slipped back into recession because they have spent their way into oblivion.

So as we reach the debt limit on Sunday of 16.8 trillion dollars (16,800,000,000,000) and growing the Treasury department said they are going to have to take "extra ordinary measures" to ensure that we can continue to pay our obligations. 

So what could that potentially look like?  My best estimate is that the cuts will have to come from the entitlement programs like Social Security, SSI and Food Stamps.  You see because the FED is who we owe a majority of our money too will be paid... the FED doesn't care if you starve... the FED doesn't care if you have a place to live... the FED doesn't care if you have a job.

The Government of the United States has used it's credit card to the max, and now... we are going to have to see the Treasury make moves and cut spending.  Remember what I said in my post "The House of Cards of Cards is Starting to Fall"?  I told you that when the money for Social Security and SSI starts to cease it will be bad... people are going to be pissed and they are not going to react well. Hungry people are dangerious and violent. This has been proved time and time again.  Just look at these menial interruptions we have seen in the past to get an example of what it will look like;

 When Hurricane Sandy hit the New England area, people stole and tried to hurt one another for food; The residents of Queens New York had to arm them selves with Baseball bats, bow sand arrows and guns just to protect them from looters.

Then when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans people fought with Police and rioted to get the supplies they wanted... .

This is historical... every time we see a disaster take place... Government collapse, monetary collapse or war that breaks a country down, the more feral people become to get what they need.

We want our most basic human needs meet... we don't want our kids to starve, cry and know that there is nothing we can do about it! It happened in Leningrad, it happened in the Balkans.

The threat is very real.

All this data we have examined today circles back around and points to one thing in particular the Government is fighting wars on all sorts of fronts.  They are fighting an information war, a physical war and very, very soon an serious economic war.  

I assure you,  "The Event" will come.

I believe that it will be the economic component that will set it all off.  It will be the total collapse of the paper currency system.  

  

I'm telling you the "precursors" are here... have you seen them?  Have you felt the pain in your pocket book as the price of beef increases and the items you consume every day go up in price?  Have you felt the pain at the Gas pump? 

Have you  felt the pain of having to say no to buying things you need every day? 

Wait ... maybe you haven't yet... maybe you haven't decided that what I have been saying is truth!  Maybe you still want that to make sure your family has that big vacation home, maybe your still spending money like it is going out of style.. that new designer handbag, those $300 shoes, that new 56 inch flat screen, HD 3D TV with the motion activated whatever... 

Believe it or not... people are still thinking that way... 

You couldn't possibly have a pulse and not understand that what we are seeing happening to our nation is very, very bad.  

It is finally time for you to fully accept what we are beginning to see.  This is not the America you grew up in, this is not the America that we envisioned for our kids.  This is not the America our founders wanted you and I to inherit!

It is time for a change...! It is time for you to make a change!   I know this idea of holding our elected peoples feet to the fire seems impossible, but I assure you it isn't. Remember, they work for you! You are their boss, and should you not get the results you want, you fire them!

Recall them! Run against them and speak the truth!  Start a grass roots effort!

But here is my main concern... we may not get that option... we not get the ability to hold them accountable the way we would want to ... time may be up soon... without money... the economy doesn't flow and doesn't provide the food your kids need, the money you need to pay your power bill, and doesn't offer you a job that you can use to pay your mortgage...

You have to prepare.  You have to begin taking responsibility to make sure that your family is looked after when "The Event" takes place.  You have to make sure your kids have food to eat, a warm place to sleep, and clothes that will protect their little bodies.

What is coming is bigger than you or I... its time to stop thinking about yourself...

Until next time.

The Village of Potemkin

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Potemkin Village is not a plot of the next M. Night Shyamalan film or a new video game by Nintendo where you try and catch cute characters to battle each other. 

It isn't even a remote village somewhere that Rick Steve's can get you to in Eastern Europe. 

Potemkin Village doesn't exist.

It actually is the best analogy for our economy I have seen yet!

Confused? Let me explain...

Have you ever seen the old Spaghetti Westerns?  Did you ever notice that most of the buildings look the same from movie to movie? Well, that is because most of the time when a movie producer would want to build a set and didn't have it in the budget for a whole new set design they would order up a "Potemkin Village" from the local prop house.

The term "Potemkin Village" is named after Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski who was the lover of Catherine II during the 1700's.  Aleksandrovich was known to create fake villages along the path of Catherine as she passed from one side of Russia to the other to impress her during her tour of the country in 1787.  This impressed Catherine very much and kept him in her good graces as well as her bed.

How would he feel now if he knew his namesake would best describe lies?

Dictionary.com defines a "Potemkin Village" as; "a pretentiously showy or imposing facade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition."

Guess what?

We as the American People are falling victim to these "Potemkin Villages" each and every day.  Just take the most recent jobs report for example; What we see according to the Government is that 165,000.00 jobs were added in March of this year. 

Here are the "highpoints" of the press release;

The

unemployment rate since January. The number of unemployed persons, at 11.7 million, was also little changed over themonth; however, unemployment has decreased by 673,000 since January. (See table A-1.)



.....

Total

non-farm payroll employment increased by 165,000.  Professional and business services
added 73,000 jobs in April and has added 587,000 jobs over the past year. In April, employment rose in temporary help services (+31,000), professional and technicalservices (+23,000), and management of companies (+7,000).

Within leisure and hospitality, employment in

food services and drinking places rose by 38,000 over the month. Job growth in the food services industry averaged 25,000 per month over the prior 12 months.

Retail trade

employment increased by 29,000 in April. The industry added an average of 21,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. In April, job growth occurred in general merchandise stores (+15,000) and in health and personal care stores (+5,000).

Health care added 19,000 jobs in April. Within the industry, employment rose in ambulatory health care services (+14,000). Over the prior 12 months, job growth in health care averaged 24,000 per month.

In April, employment also continued its upward trend in social assistance (+7,000).

Employment changed little over the month in construction, with small offsetting movements in the

residential and nonresidential components. Construction gained an average of 27,000 jobs per month over the prior 6 months. Manufacturing employment was unchanged in April.

See that last part, "Manufacturing employment was unchanged in April". 

That's bad.

That's bad because we aren't increasing what we are making. We aren't adding any more value to our country.  Our GDP to debt ratio is 105% and growing rapidly.  We are not adding any assets to our balance sheet!

Sure, professional jobs went up, so more admins and computer guys got jobs.  Maybe a few more managers got hired, but for the most part, the solid middle class production job was not created.

When you have a country that is filled with very high end jobs and extremely low paying jobs like service jobs, you will never have a middle class that will grow and create a tax base you can earn from.  People who work in manufacturing have disposable income!

They have money to be spent on TVs, Cars, and other larger ticket items that we can make domestically, but the jobs that create those things are not being created at all!

Wait staff and line cooks at restaurants do not have disposable income. 

Walmart Greeters do not have disposable income. 

Office Admins do not have disposable income.

Bar Tenders do not have disposable income.

Without disposable income... money does not flow through an economy.

So... A question for you, with all that data you just read, did you spot the "Potemkin Village" in the jobs report?

It was the unemployment rate! 

You see, the unemployment rate is one of the biggest lies in America.  It isn't 7.5 percent, or 8.5% or even 10% .  The "Potemkin rate" of 7.5% is just laughable. 

I will prove it to you;

According to Bureau of Labor and Statistics, 9.5 million people have left workforce under the Obama administration. The link I provided gives you access to the BLS records and you can customize the reporting as you like... I used the option of "out of workforce" and the Obama administration time frame to generate my results.

Now... it is a matter of simple math; Divide 9.5 Million by the population of the United States and you get 28.2 percent.

Yes... 28.2% of working age adults are out of the work force. Now you can't look at that number and tell me that we are in a recovery.  More people are out of work now than ever before! This is just one of the Governments "Potemkin Villages" they are using to tell us that "all is well... don't worry, trust us, you'll be OK!"

It is a mathematical certainty that we are loosing close to 600,000.00 per month that are hidden from view. 

Karl Denninger over at Market-Ticker.org did some math proving that not only are we not creating jobs, but the loss of "work hours" also has a hidden impact on actual job creating as well! Here is what Karl said today;

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.2 hour in April to 34.4 hours. Within manufacturing, the workweek decreased by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, and overtime declined by 0.1 hour to 3.3 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 33.7 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)

This is a problem.  If we look at the "employed" figure of 143,724,000 people a drop of 0.2 hours is a full-time-equivalent decrease of 1/2%.  Applied to the employed population this amounts to an imputed economic decrease of 718,620 jobs!

People, you need to wake up! 

It isn't getting better out there! 

Sure there may still be some pockets of the country that are doing "ok"... but when you look at numbers like this; it doesn't bode well for us.  We know that the "QE" process is just getting worse and money is being printed at a rate of 85 billion dollars a month, and frankly it won't work in the long run. 

Inflation will come, the economic system is setup to fail, and we are watching it slowing starting to unravel like a poorly made scarf.   Ben Bernake doesn't know the stitches to fix it.  He just keeps adding to the bottom as the top unravels. He has proven himself to be incompetent time and time again with what he says.  He doesn't get it.  He doesn't have to.  They want the economy imploded.  They want people to crawl on their knees and beg the Government to bail them and their children out just as they bailed out the "to big to fail" banks in 2009.

THEY WILL NOT BAIL YOU OUT.  THEY WILL NOT SAVE YOU.

If I were you, I would watch the video that I have embedded here.  It's good and its three very smart men telling you that the laws of economics have been ignored!

If you haven't chosen to truly open your eyes about the danger that our monetary system is into ... now is the time... do your research and then get your family ready!

You need to continue to prepare yourself accordingly... "The Event" is coming at us faster than we know.

Until next time...

Choosing to Ignore the Truth...

"We should be very afraid... The recovery has been fueled by an egregious flood of phony money from the Federal Reserve and the bubble will burst leading to an era of zero sum austerity and virulent political conflict.”

 

- David Stockman, Former Budget Director under President Ronald Regan

 

Life is truly about choices. 

Good ones or bad ones... it is the choices you make right now that will make or break your future.

Recently, I have been into a 10 book series called "299 Days" by an author named Glen Tate, it is a really well done albeit a bit bid idealistic about how much money the main character spends for his readiness supplies.

I feel that Mr. Tate has a excellent grip on the economy and must have an insiders perspective on the money being spent by the State of Washington and the US because as the story progresses along... he hits the nail on the head.

I think the biggest impact I felt from the book so far has been the reaction from the main characters wife.

She refuses to see the truth of what is happening in the economy, and during several discussions between the main character and her she tells him to shut up and stop talking about what is going on...

I'm not going to spoil it for you but later on in the book this choice to ignore what is going on plays a huge role and impacts the story line.  She wants to choose to live with her blinders on to how the world around her is crumbling and changing forever. 

It's the choice to not to listen to the truth that will adversely affect your family. Its the choice to not look around and see the signs that the economy is getting ready to take a massive nose dive that will cause you great heartache should you choose not to do something about it.

Every day I choose to get up, put my feet on the cold wood floor and look for other ways to bring you the reader the news that will help you and your family survive "The Event".  

Remember, "The Event" is man made... it is our choices that will drive us to fail economically, politically or environmentally.  

The problem with choices is that sometimes people never seem to learn from them at all... take this little nugget for example, "Wells Fargo Gives 15,000.00 in down payment assistance" 

Now, I understand why Wells would want to offer a down payment to an "economically depressed" area ... but they are just making the same choices... They are borrowing money from the Fed at interest... and giving it away... to people who more than likely will default on the mortgage that goes along with the free money...

Did we learn absolutely nothing during 2008 ... this move killed WaMu!  This move about killed Fanny and Freddy!

Nothing changes... the poor choices repeat themselves... an no one learns..

Here is a more modern poor choice that has recently happened, "The Irish Savers Have Just Been "Cyprus'd".  While I have not always been an avid reader of Zerohedge.com, but I found this article to be especially interesting because the main stream media in America will not be carrying this story. 

I would imagine if they showed how Irish bond holders had their money completely taken away from them after having their savings traded for bonds... people here would probably freak out and begin to pull their money from their banks on the basis that yes... someday what has happened to Cyprus and Ireland and soon to be Spain and Greece will happen to us! You cannot spend, and spend and spend and expect to never have to pay the piper!

I know the thing that I keep coming back to time and time again today is the choices that we in America are making that really aren't improving our economy, but it is the most likely scenario out of the that I have outlined in very first post!

Our leadership is also guilty of doing the same thing; just look at the implications of Obama Care... this article posted by CNNMoney.com today was supposed paint Obama care in a light that shows that it is OK, and subsidies are available for people! 

Again the Government is going to spend their way into a corner, then tell people that they have to pick up the bill, then find out that the citizens can't pay the bill and then offer to pay for the bill themselves with money borrowed from the FED that was freshly printed!  Then if you don't buy their special insurance... you will be penalized..and the money will be moved back to the FED.

THIS  CYCLE CANNOT CONTINUE! WE HAVE TO STOP SPENDING NOW... THE CHOICES OUR LEADERSHIP IS MAKING OUR MONEY IS ABSURD AND INCREDIBLY DAMAGING!

I have said before that the cuts we need to make to medicare, social security and all entitlement programs have to be immediate and permanent.  There cannot be any debate about "when" it needs to take place, it has to happen now... better yet... yesterday.

My readers... time is of the essence now... remember where our debt is?  How it grows by $50,000 per second.  Did they really belive that a spending to sequestor ratio of 2.387% was going to make a difference in a $16.8 trillion dollar deficiet?

I know you are currently distracted with what happened last week... but like I said... they are using that do change your focus on living in fear, and being reliant on them for your well-being.

Continue to research for yourself ... read what I post... heck, share it if you think that it is relevant.  But I want you to decide for yourself and wake up to the fact that "The Event" approaches each day one step at a time.

You can prepare for what is to come... you can make the choice to make sure your heart is right with God, your family is well fed and your focus is on the Constitution.

Until next time...

While you look at the left hand ... the right hand slapped you.

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."

David Rockefeller

Distraction is the ultimate manipulation tool. 

And crisis is the perfect distraction.

We use it with our kids, we use it with our spouses, we use it with our friends.  We manipulate to get
what we want... we manipulate for money, power, sex or to just get our way... it is part of our Sin nature.

You may not like it ... but it's true.

We have seen distraction used this week.  A horrible, horrible distraction.

My heart and my prayers go out to the families who lost loves ones and limbs in this terrible tragedy in Boston and Texas.

Senseless death and violence never solve anything and yet... this seems to be escalating.

What I have seen this week is that some very, very important things happened financially and technologically that now everyone isn't paying attention too; 

We were too distracted by what happened in Boston and Texas... and you have to ask your self why all this happened this week?

First off gold took a massive nose dive... 

But ... it wasn't actually the gold that took the nose dive. 

It was the paper associate with the Gold Stocks that was sold. I've been looking into the research on why and what happened and here is what I have been able to uncover, according to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts;

"The Federal Reserve began its April Fool’s assault on gold by sending the word to brokerage houses, which quickly went out to clients, that hedge funds and other large investors were going to unload their gold positions and that clients should get out of the precious metal market prior to these sales. As this inside information was the government’s own strategy, individuals cannot be prosecuted for acting on it. By this operation, the Federal Reserve, a totally corrupt entity, was able to combine individual flight with institutional flight. Bullion prices took a big hit, and bullishness departed from the gold and silver markets. The flow of dollars into bullion, which threatened to become a torrent, was stopped."

I agree with Dr. Roberts diagnosis of what has happened.   The Fed had to collapse the paper... but I think there is something more to this than just the "inside" information.  Think about it for a moment, why would the Fed want to collapse the Gold Market? 

Because ... its a competing currency that is actually worth something!  The World values Gold and it's buying power. 

Why just recently even our neighbor Australia has decided to begin to trade in their own currency with China who has a semi Gold backed currency... this is a huge move that shows the world is beginning to truly loose confidence in the dollar.

The world knows that soon the dollar won't be worth anything.  But more than that... the movement to buy physical Gold and Silver Sales are way up.

In an article this week on Investmentwatchblog.com, CNT one of the larger suppliers of silver reported that they were completely out of physical silver for sale... even the Northwest Mint is running low on bullion supplies... smart people are buying metals, not just for the "investment" of it all, but to make sure they have more than just matches, food and bullets to trade with.

This is a massive shift away from people believing that paper will be here forever. 

It wont... and someday it will rival the value of toilet paper.

If you have never hear of Mohamed El-Erian, the co-chief investment officer of Pimco, you probably should start paying closer attention to the markets.  Like Jim Rogers ... this El-Erian knows quite a bit about the markets.  In an interview with MoneyNews.com he advised that the sell off in "gold" paper is "signaling concerns about global growth".

Yes - I believe that he is partially right... they just don't want to accept that the FED crashed Gold on purpose from becoming a alternative currency that could really protect and hedge peoples retirements.  Just look... even states are beginning to take a good hard look at reverting back to a constitutionally correct gold and silver currency... and they should!  

Guess what also happened this week...?  CISPA passed!

RT.com is reporting that CISPA passed this week with a vote of 288 - 127.  Once again the Government took Rahm Emanuel's advice to "Never let a serious crisis go to waste" to get what they wanted passed.

The surveillance state just became drastically bigger.  

This is what CISPA does; 

CISPA requires the Director of National Intelligence to establish procedures to allow intelligence community elements to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector entities and encourage the sharing of such intelligence.  

Your Internet provider will now have to report where you go, your employer will have to report your Internet traffic... your Bank can now give warrant less information about your finances because its all online!  

The government can "ask" for it at will... no more warrant ... no more 4th amendment.  It's gone... and it will never return.  

Why did we miss all of this?... Because they used distraction!... I won't go into what I feel about these about Boston and Texas because I don't feel the time is right ... and it would insensitive.

But you have to ask, why did these terrible things happen this week and what are they distracting us from?

The truth.

They distracted us from the truth again about the true direction the economy is headed to.

They distracted us from the truth about how they want the power to check up on us and profile us at the drop of hat.

Mis-direction and distraction is a great way to try and get peoples focus away from the collapse of the currency and the fact that they just lost their 4th amendment rights. 

Folks ... if your not paying attention to what the right hand is doing... you're going to get slapped every single time!  You have to ask yourself each time some terrible happens in America... what is the Government and the President doing that we are not seeing...  it may seem heartless... but look, I've proved it above!

They used Texas and Boston to get their way... again...

You have to wake up... you have to pay attention so close that it makes your eyes bleed... if you don't... The Event will slap you so hard you will never be able to survive!

Until next time...

One Step Closer...

"Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft."

Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Have you ever heard of SB 3341?  Probably not.

Have you ever heard of the "Precious Metals Registration Act"? Again... Probably not...

Do you know why you haven't heard of this... because the progressive state of Illinois doesn't want you to.  They don't want you to know that it is an act that will; 

"Create the Precious Metal Purchasing Act. That makes a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller.

It provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment. It requires the purchaser to keep a record of the sale for one year or, if the purchase amount is over $500, for 5 years.  It provides that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a petty offense and subject to a fine not exceeding $500. It also provides that the Attorney General may inspect records, investigate an alleged violation, and take action to collect civil penalties.  It also authorizes inspection of records by local police departments and requires reports to law enforcement on a daily basis.  The only exempt persons are those licensed under the Pawnbroker Regulation Act."

Now... what do you think of that...?  That to me sounds like history repeating itself all over again... but this time the powers the be in Illinois are getting ahead of the coming economic collapse... but once this passes it will be a model for each progressive state in America. I've written about this before!

I think I find this so highly ironic as this month is the anniversary of Roosevelt's signing of executive order # 6102 that "Forbid the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates..." but worse yet it also required that most people turn their gold into the Federal Reserve bank for a terrible rate....

So ... when the Fiat currency fell... they confiscated real wealth and "re-distributed" it out to the world.  

This to me is a major problem that is getting ready to happen all over again. The dollar is getting ready to crash again.. our enemies are going to make sure it will happen. 

The BRICS are trading amongst themselves in their own currencies... and long time allies of the US are siding with China to not use the dollar as their reserve trade currency.

I truly believe that we are going to see collapse of the dollar within the next three years if we continue to allow a private bank to print 85 billion dollars a month to buy mortgage backed securities and continue to give us a currency backed by nothing.

It doesn't really matter what is going on in North Korea... if the money stops flowing... "The Event" that comes as a result of a collapsed economy will be 100 times worse than any saber rattling by a crazy little dictator.

Sure... the thoughts of an "Super EMP" have crossed my mind over the week... but the odds of that are pretty low... our destruction by our own fart-backed currency are more real and are getting us step by step closer to hyper-inflation, and a systematic world wide economic collapse that we will never recover from.  But even then... if the "EMP" hits... guess what?  Gold, silver and barter will be what people fall back on for currency!

I don't normally give you directions in my articles on what to do... but this time I am telling you I feel very lead to advise you this way... If you can buy your Gold or Silver now... do it... you probably wont loose... if nothing happens... great... you have real wealth that can turn it something better latter as it appreciates just has it always historically... But if SHTF... guess what you have something to barter / trade with.  You have a historical currency that people give value... because our "money" we have right now will only be able to be used for toilet paper and tinder for our wood stoves or camp fires. 

You don't have much time left... the experts like Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff and Mark Faber are telling you the same thing!  If you haven't put the rubber to the road and begun preparing your family for what is to come... what are you waiting for? 

I've posted this video from YouTube and I want you to watch it with the volume down (it plays some speed metal track in the back ground and is massively annoying) But the content of the video is simple but true!  Gold and Silver are better hedges against wealth than stocks and bonds!

I leave you with this; Being prepared is biblical!  God is OK with you being ready to make sure your family is OK, and please don't counter me with Matthew 6:25-27, God used those animals as examples of creatures who cant provide for themselves! Flowers can't provide for themselves, field mice barley eek out a living.  

Jesus goes on in Luke 22:36 to tell his disciples; "But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one."

You tell me... I think Christ realized what was coming at his people and wanted them to be prepared...

How about these?

1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV)

“If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

Proverbs 6:6 –11 (NLT)

“6:6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! 6:7 Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, 6:8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. 6:9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? 6:10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—6:11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.”

Wake Up! 

Get your family ready to be able to feed, cloth and defend themselves!  Don't let the "robbers" take your ability to provide for your family away!

Remember ... "The Event" is on its way... we made it... but it is your job to over come it!

Until next time...

Hard Conversations....

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups..."

- George Carlin

Watching the coming car wreck of the The Event can sometimes be funny... yes... that's right funny.

I know that the thought of having something major economic, environmental or political happen can bring fear to the heart of even the most brave of person, but there are moments of true levity in all of this if you look for them.

Take this bit for instance.  I ran across this video today and it absolutely helped me to put things into perspective.

I find it highly ironic because by trade I am a banker.. yup an "evil" banker.  So I can highly relate to the personal banker ... but on the other end of the spectrum... I loath this banker for what he does in the end.

We should all loath that banker... because it is bankers that in the end have caused us be in the financial position that we are in this country.

"Why do you stay in the career?" .... because it keeps me on the inside...! I can see and hear things that I can use to protect people.  I have seen "The Event" coming for sometime time... I want to make sure as many people are saved as possible!

So... back to the comedy....Yes... I know that the video is an analogy for where we are at in this county... but you really don't know how close to the truth this video comes.  People come an ask for money they don't need all the time... but this isn't about the people who come see the bankers... its about the bankers who loan the money to the Government and how the Government is too stupid for its own good.

Stupidity is funny.

Take this headline for example... "Congress tries to beat new shutdown deadline" the gist of the article talks about how the Democrats are going to pass a bill through their controlled Senate and do their best to have a "Stop Gap" measure to prevent the Government from shutting down...

One tiny little problem... the "Stop Gap" bill is more like another blank check, their are spending provisions for  $154 million in Pentagon alternative energy research funding, $120 million for infrastructure improvements in Guam, and $65 million for Pacific coast salmon restoration... So.. is this really the way to way to "stop the bleeding" by spending more.  If your cut... you sew the cut shut and put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding... not let it flow freely.  The veins of this nation are open and blood are flowing freely... it is only a matter of time before the life is drained and it is dead!

I find it hysterical that they can't get anything done...

They don't get it!  Neither side wants a resolution... because of their need for greed and power they will continue to prevent the other side from trying something that probably wont work... yet they won't work together to prevent the inevitable...

The very real possibility of an economic collapse of the American currency. 

These continuing resolutions are a terrible way to try and solve the problem... it drives us further into debt all while allowing more political posturing and putting off the hard conversation that they need to have with each other and the American people.

We need to face our debt and the fact that we have no more money to pay our bills.

You see, people only seem to like confrontation when it has nothing to do with their business.  We as Americans will stick out noses into other countries business, we will meddle with their Governments, Medical Care, Human Rights violations, and Military affairs... but we fail every time in facing out own problems.

We need to cut the budget... deep bloody cuts that will remove huge amounts of debt in the future! 

We don't have time any more to discuss what to do!

We have to act now... your Senators and Congress people need to act now!  If they don't the consequences will be absolutely dire! 

Just look what is happening in Cyprus! 


The ECB is going to attempt to steal the money right out of the peoples bank accounts... and that is only 10,000,000,000 (billion) dollars!  They are proposed 60% of the euros in their account!

This is a dangerous precedent to set... if this goes forward... the worldwide Central banks will have Cart Blanche to just levy a "tax" against any debtor nation... I knew it would come to this point.  It had to ... things have broken down so quickly and so fast in Europe ... they don't have a way out... this "tax" won't fix the problem.  The people are down right pissed that their government would do this to them...As they should be ... but shame on them!

The Cyprins never spoke up!  They kept allowing socialism to prevail instead of allowing logic, reason and good financial sense to fight back and keep their country from becoming a place where their monies would be stolen from them in the name of saving the Government.

Imagine if you will that happening here!  What if tomorrow the President decided to take a massive bailout from the Federal Reserve to keep the country running... oh wait... we do that every year to the tune of 1,000,000,000,000.00 every year... but what if "We the People" had to begin to pickup the tab.   

What if the President came on TV and said that tomorrow all Americans would have to pay a "tax" in the form of a levy to payback the Federal Reserve.  Do you know what this country would do to itself?

It would tear itself apart ... ATM's would be empty in hours.  The Government would declare a bank Holiday just like they are doing in Cyprus because Americans would descend on their banks and empty them in hours... ATM's would be remotely shut down because of a lack of funds and debit cards could quite possibly be shut down.

But it wouldn't stop there... money would cease to flow in the system... companies couldn't pay their workers because they couldn't access their money...

There would be riots... there would be civil unrest... and DHS is getting ready for it.... because they know what is coming.

Grocery stores couldn't pay their bills because they couldn't access their money, food wouldn't make it to shelves...a general break down in services would take place.. garbage service wouldn't take place because there wouldn't be fuel for trucks.. utility services would begin to stop as power companies couldn't pay their bills to their suppliers...

It would be bad... but the truth is... we aren't far off of that!  If we can't fix out debt we will end up just like Greece and Cyprus with Italy, Spain and France to soon follow!

Folks... the economy is in shambles ... and no one is willing to fix it... the blame game must stop if we even have a fighting chance!

Make sure your family is ready!

Until next time....