tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65022042826626257682024-03-08T00:48:30.012-08:00Silver CavemanReconnecting With Your Inner Caveman In Health And MoneyMickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329007395112110455noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502204282662625768.post-48359431978217597202014-08-11T01:28:00.001-07:002014-08-11T01:28:50.412-07:00Police State: Australian Government To Force Telcos To Store Metadata Of All Activity For Two Years<span style="color: black;"><strong>In an unbelievable display of
arrogance and self-importance, the Australian government recently
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>announced the most sweeping changes to their national security
legislation since 9/11.</strong></span><br />
The new laws will give the Australian government more powers to monitor all types of communication, both phone and internet.<br />
What’s more, <strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">telecom companies will be required to store searchable metadata of all activity for two years</span>, enabling the authorities to access details of every phone call made and every website visited.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Powers for “extended detention” and ‘preventative detention’, (pre-crime) have also been extended.</strong></span><br />
I’m sure it makes you feel better knowing that you could be preventively
detained without actually committing any crime—you know, just in case…<br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>It will also become a crime now to
travel to a country where terrorists are ‘conducting hostile
activities’ unless you have a ‘legitimate excuse’.</strong></span>
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Just how these travel bans will be decided upon is unclear. Is Ukraine off limits? Spain? Northern Ireland? Thailand? Russia?<br />
All of this is supposedly necessary because, according to the
government, there are 125 Australian citizens currently part of
terrorist groups overseas.<br />
Even if correct, 125 people represent 0.0005% of the population of
Australia. So for 125 people, the other 24+ million must be subjected to
a Big Brother police state.<br />
It all makes even less sense when your read the official
justifications for it. Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that:<br />
“We are under a lot of budget pressure at the moment, but the
community won’t thank us if we skimp unreasonably on national security.”<br />
Ironically, he admits they don’t have the money for it. But they’re
going to come up with an ADDITIONAL $630 million (a significant amount
of money in Australia) to boost domestic spying and police state
programs… all for 125 people.<br />
But the prize for the dumbest comment you’ll hear this week goes to another pearl of wisdom from the Australian Prime Minister:<br />
“The terrorist threat in this country has not changed, nevertheless it’s as high as it’s ever been.”<br />
Now, as a native English speaker, I’m not entirely sure what he’s trying to tell me.<br />
The government didn’t spend this money last year, and nothing happened.<br />
But now since, according to the PM, nothing has changed, suddenly the
government has to spend an additional $630 million to terrorize and spy
on citizens.<br />
What a brilliant piece of logic wrapped up in political Newspeak.<br />
Basically they’re telling everyone that they should just be afraid…
and that the government must spy on citizens in order to protect them.<br />
This is how it always happens… and we can watch yet another country slide rapidly into a police state.Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329007395112110455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502204282662625768.post-9984668842933645572014-08-07T18:06:00.000-07:002014-08-07T18:12:01.477-07:00The Golden Age... Of Silver<span style="color: black;"><b>In a throwback to another era,
this excellent BBC documentary reveals The Golden Age of silver- a time
when nearly everyone in the world (not just silver stackers) had an insatiable lust for
the white metal. </b></span><br />
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What Is The Paleo Diet? </h2>
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<section class="summary">The <b>Paleo diet</b> is the
healthiest way you can eat because it is the ONLY nutritional approach
that works with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong and
energetic! Research in biology, biochemistry, Ophthalmology, Dermatology
and many other disciplines indicate it is our modern diet, full of
refined foods, trans fats and sugar, that is at the root of degenerative
diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson’s,
Alzheimer’s, depression and infertility. – <a href="https://plus.google.com/112794029947896175510/?rel=author">Robb Wolf</a></section><section class="summary"> </section>
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Building A Healthy Paleo Diet</h2>
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Lean proteins</h3>
Lean proteins support strong muscles, healthy bones and optimal
immune function. Protein also makes you feel satisfied between meals.<br />
<h3>
Fruits and Vegetables</h3>
Fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals
and phytonutrients that have been shown to decrease the likelihood of
developing a number of degenerative diseases including cancer, diabetes
and neurological decline.<br />
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Healthy fats from nuts, seeds, avocados, olive oil, fish oil and grass-fed meat</h3>
<a href="http://robbwolf.com/what-is-the-paleo-diet/science-research/" title="Scientific research">Scientific research</a>
and epidemiological studies show that diets rich in Monounsaturated and
Omega-3 fats dramatically reduce the instances of obesity, cancer,
diabetes, heart disease and cognitive decline.<br />
Saturated fat has been demonized by our health authorities and media.
What is the basis for this position on Saturated fat? Are current
recommendations for VERY low saturated fat intake justified? How much
saturated fat (and what types), if any should one eat? Without a
historical and scientific perspective these questions can be nearly
impossible to answer. In this paper Prof. Cordain looks at the amounts
and types of saturated fats found in the ancestral diet: <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/paleodietevo2/research/Saturated+Fat+Consumption+in+Ancestral+Human+Diets+The+Paleo+Diet.pdf"><b>Saturated fat consumption in ancestral human diets: implications for contemporary intakes.</b></a><br />
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One of the greatest deviations away from our ancestral diet is the
amounts and types of fat found in modern grain feed animals vs. the
amounts and types of fats found in grass fed or wild meat, fowl and
fish. What we observe is wild meat is remarkably lean, and has
relatively low amounts of saturated fats, while supplying significant
amounts of beneficial omega-3 fats such as <a href="http://thepaleodiet.com/fats-and-fatty-acids/"><b>EPA and DHA</b></a><b>.</b>
In this paper Prof. Cordain and his team analyze the complete fatty
acid profile from several species of wild deer and elk. The take home
message is that free range meat is far healthier than conventional meat:
<a href="http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v56/n3/full/1601307a.html"><b>Fatty acid analysis of wild ruminant tissues: Evolutionary implications for reducing diet-related chronic disease.</b></a><br />
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Health Benefits of a Paleo Diet</h2>
For most people the fact the <i>Paleo diet</i> delivers the best
results is all they need. Improved blood lipids, weight loss, and
reduced pain from autoimmunity is proof enough. Many people however are
not satisfied with blindly following any recommendations, be they
nutrition or exercise related. Some folks like to know WHY they are
doing something. Fortunately, the Paleo diet has stood not only the test
of time, but also the rigors of scientific scrutiny.<br />
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With a very simple shift we not only remove the foods that are at
odds with our health (grains, legumes, and dairy) but we also increase
our intake of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Here is a great
paper from Professor Loren Cordain exploring how to build a modern Paleo
diet: <b><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/paleodietevo2/research/The+Nutritional+Characteristics+of+a+Contemporary+Diet+Based+Upon+Paleolithic+Food+Groups+The+Paleo+Diet.pdf">The nutritional characteristics of a contemporary diet based upon Paleolithic food groups</a>.</b> This paper also offers significant insight as to the amounts and ratios of protein, carbohydrate and fat in the ancestral diet.<br />
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Come on! Our Ancestors lived short, brutal lives! This Paleo Diet is all bunk, right?</h2>
The Paleo concept is new for most people and this newness can spark
many questions. We like people to not only read about and educate
themselves on this topic but also to “get in and do it.” Experience is
perhaps the best teacher and often cuts through any confusion
surrounding this way of eating. Now, all that considered, there are
still some common counter arguments to the Paleo diet that happen with
sufficient frequency that a whole paper was written on it. Enjoy: <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/paleodietevo2/research/Evolutionary+Health+Promotion+Consideration+of+Common+Counter+Argument+The+Paleo+Diet.pdf"><b>Evolutionary Health Promotion. A consideration of common counter-arguments.</b></a><br />
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Does it work for diabetes?</h2>
A great question to ask is “<i>Does the Paleo diet work?</i>” Here
we have a head to head comparison between the Paleo diet and
Mediterranean diet in insulin resistant Type 2 Diabetics. The results?
The Paleo diet group REVERSED the signs and symptoms of insulin
resistant, Type 2 diabetes. The Mediterranean diet showed little if any
improvements. It is worth noting that the Mediterranean diet is
generally held up by our government as “the diet to emulate” despite
better alternatives. You can find an abstract and the complete <a href="http://www.staffanlindeberg.com/DiabetesStudy.html"><b>paper here.</b></a><br />
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Cardio Vascular Disease</h2>
According to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/HeartDisease/"><b>CDC</b></a>,
cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United
States. Interestingly however, our Paleolithic ancestors and
contemporarily studied hunter-gatherers showed virtually no heart attack
or stroke while eating ancestral diets. The references below will
explore these facts to better help you understand the heart-healthy
benefits of a Paleo diet.<br />
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Autoimmunity</h2>
Autoimmunity is a process in which our bodies own immune system
attacks “us.” Normally the immune system protects us from bacterial,
viral, and parasitic infections. The immune system identifies a foreign
invader, attacks it, and ideally clears the infection. A good analogy
for autoimmunity is the case of tissue rejection after organ donation.
If someone requires a new heart, lung kidney or liver due to disease or
injury, a donor organ may be an option. The first step in this process
is trying to find a tissue “match”. All of us have molecules in our
tissues that our immune system uses to recognize self from non-self. If a
donated organ is not close enough to the recipient in tissue type the
immune system will attack and destroy the organ. In autoimmunity, a
similar process occurs in that an individuals own tissue is confused as
something foreign and the immune system attacks this “mislabeled”
tissue. Common forms of autoimmunity include Multiple Sclerosis,
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, and Vitiligo to name only a tiny fraction
of autoimmune diseases. Elements of autoimmunity are likely at play in
conditions as seemingly unrelated as Schizophrenia, infertility, and
various forms of cancer.<br />
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Interestingly, all of these seemingly unrelated diseases share a
common cause: damage to the intestinal lining which allows large,
undigested food particles to make their way into the body. This is
called “leaky gut and the autoimmune response”. <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59iwc_the-paleo-diet-and-multiple-scleros_lifestyle">Here is a 7-part video series</a> by Prof. Loren Cordain describing the etiology of Multiple Sclerosis. And please watch this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc" target="_blank">TED talk by Dr. Terry Wahls, MD</a> as she describes how she reversed her Multiple Sclerosis with a paleo diet.Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329007395112110455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502204282662625768.post-67993169915447262772014-08-06T06:35:00.000-07:002014-08-07T18:11:07.143-07:00Fractional Reserve Banking Is Not Capitalism<br />
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Today, capitalism is blamed for our current disastrous economic and
financial situation and a history of <br />
incessant booms and busts. Support
for capitalism
is eroding worldwide. In a recent <a href="http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2012_economics/BBC12_Economics.pdf">global poll</a>,
25
percent (up 2 percent from 2009) of respondents viewed free enterprise
as “fatally flawed and needs to be replaced.” The number of Spaniards
who hold this
view increased from 29 percent in 2009 to 42 percent, the highest
amongst those polled. In Indonesia, the percentage went from 17 percent
to 32 percent.
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Most, if not all, booms and busts originate with excess credit creation
from the financial sector. These respondents, incorrectly, assume that
this
financial system structured on fractional reserve banking is an integral
part of capitalism. It isn’t. It is fraud and a violation of property
rights, and
should be treated as such.<br />
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In the past, we had deposit banks and loan banks. If you put your money
in a deposit bank, the money was there to pay your rent and food
expenses. It was
safe. Loan banking was risky. You provided money to a loan bank knowing
funds would be tied up for a period of time and that you were taking a
risk of
never seeing this money again. For this, you received interest to
compensate for the risk taken and the value of time preference. Back
then, bankers who
took a deposit and turned it into a loan took the risk of shortly
hanging from the town’s large oak tree.
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During the early part of the nineteenth century, the deposit function
and loan function were merged into a new entity called a commercial
bank. Of course,
very quickly these new commercial banks realized they could dip into
deposits, essentially committing fraud, as a source of funding for
loans. Governments
soon realized that such fraudulent activity was a great way to finance
government expenditures, and passed laws making this fraud legal. A key
interpretation of law in the United Kingdom, <i>Foley v. Hill</i>, <a href="http://www.cobdencentre.org/2010/09/the-legal-relationship-between-the-banker-and-his-customer/">set precedence</a> in the financial world for
banking laws to follow:<br />
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<i>Foley v. Hill and Others,</i>
1848:<br />
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Money, when paid into a bank, ceases altogether to be the money of the
principal; it is then the money of the banker, who is bound to an
equivalent by
paying a similar sum to that deposited with him when he is asked for it.
... The money placed in the custody of a banker is, to all intents and
purposes,
the money of the banker, to do with it as he pleases; he is guilty of no
breach of trust in employing it; he is not answerable to the principal
if he puts
it into jeopardy, if he engages in a hazardous speculation; he is not
bound to keep it or deal with it as the property of his principal; but
he is, of
course, answerable for the amount, because he has contracted, having
received that money, to repay to the principal, when demanded, a sum
equivalent to
that paid into his hands.<a class="noteref" href="http://mises.org/daily/6834/Confusing-Capitalism-with-Fractional-Reserve-Banking#note1" name="ref1">[1]</a>
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In other words, when you put your money in a bank it is no longer your
money. The bank can do anything it wants with it. It can go to the
casino and play
roulette. It is not fraud legally, and the only requirement for the bank
is to run a Ponzi scheme, giving you the money deposited by someone
else if they
lost your money and you happen to come back asking for your money. This
legalization of fraud is essentially one of the main reasons no one went
to jail
after the debacle of 2008.<br />
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The primary cause of the financial panics during the nineteenth century
was this fraudulent nature of fractional reserve banking. It allowed
banks to
create excessive credit growth which led to boom and bust cycles. If
credit, instead, grew as fast as slow moving savings, booms and bust
cycles would be a
thing of the past.
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Critics of the gold standard, (namely, Krugman, et al.), usually point
to these cycles as proof that it failed as a monetary system. They are
confusing
causation with association. The gold standard did not cause these
financial panics. The real cause was fractional reserve banking that was
grafted onto the
gold standard. The gold standard, on the contrary, actually greatly
limited the severity of these crises, by limiting the size of the money
multiplier.
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This is why in the early days of banking in the US, some wildcat bankers
would establish themselves in the most inaccessible locations. This was
to ensure
that few would actually come and convert claims for gold into actual
gold since banks had created claims that far exceeded the actual gold in
their vaults.
And, if by chance a depositor tried to convert his claims into gold,
they would be treated as thieves, as though they were stealing the
bank’s property by
asking for their gold back.
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The Federal Reserve System was created following the panics of 1903 and
1907 to counterbalance the negative impact of fractional reserve
banking. One
hundred years after its creation, the Fed can only be given a failing
grade. Money is no longer a store of value, and the world has
experienced two of its
worst financial crises. Instead of a counterbalance, the central bank
has fed and expanded the size of the beast. This was to be expected.
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That global poll on capitalism also found that almost half (48 percent)
of respondents felt that the problems of capitalism could be resolved
with added
regulations and reform. Janet Yellen also holds this view, and that
regulation, not interest rates, should be the main tool to avoid another
costly boom
and bust in global finance.<br />
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This is extremely naïve. We already have
more compliance officers in banks than loan officers. Recent banking
legislation,
Dodd-Frank, and the Vickers and Liikanen reports will probably make the
situation even worse. Banks will always be able to use new technologies
and new
financial instruments to stay one step ahead of the regulators. We
continue to put bandages on a system that is rotten to the core. Banking
in its current
form is not capitalism. It is fraud and crony capitalism, kept afloat by
ever-more desperate government interventions. It should be dismantled.
Under a
system of 100 percent reserves, loan banks (100 percent equity-financed
investment trusts) would be like any other business and would not need
any more
regulation than that of the makers of potato chips.
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Ron Paul is a guy who talks
about things others don’t talk about; who doesn’t back down; who doesn’t
suck up to establishment players; and, to top it off, is almost always
right.</b></span><br />
The memo has apparently gone out: <b><span style="color: red;">Don’t mention this guy or his ideas or policy prescriptions.</span></b><br />
If someone with real and great influence did offer a public “mea culpa”
about Ron Paul and begin to preach from his campaign playbook, Paul’s
ideas would suddenly move from the “cult” fringe into the mainstream.
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This would qualify as as a terribly “dangerous” development to TPTB
and the cronies who game the status quo system, but potentially
life-saving (or nation saving) stuff to the rest of us.</div>
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<b>However, <span style="color: red;">Paul’s issues WILL be reconsidered one day soon</span>. </b></div>
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I predict that one day the nation’s voters WILL clamor for a politician with Ron Paul’s views to become president.</div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">This will most likely occur <i>after</i> the
economic system has crashed, after hyper-inflation has ravaged families
and businesses, after the paper fiat dollar is rejected</span></b>. And, oh yeah, after gold and silver have probably become too expensive for almost anyone to buy.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>This “revolution” in outlook will
occur when the majority of Americans (and even economists and
politicians) come to realize that the things Ron Paul said we’re going
to cause a crisis of historic proportions actually did.</b></span></div>
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To the Rush Limbaugh’s, Mark Levin’s and Sean Hannity’s of the
world, Ron Paul was an insane “isolationist” “kook” who might as well
have been pulling for the “enemy” when he, almost alone, argued
passionately against America’s involvement in the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.</div>
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Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin were of course arguing passionately <i>for</i> these wars.</div>
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You might have noticed that America’s effort to transform these
nations into future democratic Americas doesn’t get discussed much
anymore.</div>
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The talk show hosts – like their listeners – now know that the whole effort was a tragic folly.</div>
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While it might have taken a couple decades for history to make a
definitive judgment on America’s war in Vietnam, such a judgment hasn’t
taken nearly as long with our military involvements in Iraq and
Afghanistan.</div>
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In just a few years, public opinion (and history’s “verdict”) has changed 180 degrees.</div>
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The attitude on these shows seems to now be, “let’s don’t talk about that.” Literally.</div>
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In a sane world, the person who was most conspicuously right on
such a hotly-debated and massively important policy question might get a
little credit.</div>
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Credit for being right. For being right early and first. Credit
for sticking to his principles and views when no one else (at least no
other Republican) was saying what he was saying.</div>
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If he was right on this topic, maybe he is also right about all
these other topics he keeps bringing up. Or so – in a sane world – the
thinking might go.</div>
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In such a world maybe more people might say, “Hey, let’s take a second look at this guy.”</div>
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Such a “reassessment” of Paul has of course not taken place.
Instead the labels “isolationist” and “kook” still seem to apply to him –
even though the position that earned him these labels turned out to be
100 percent correct, and prescient.</div>
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<b>Madness</b></div>
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Apparently in politics and in the world of ideas, you can be right
and it doesn’t matter. And if you are a talk radio host, you can
apparently be completely wrong … and it doesn’t matter. This is
madness, but the truth. In our “1984” world in 2014, the “truth” or
being right doesn’t matter.</div>
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Rush Limbaugh (or Fox News or the writers of National Review)
simply does not want to advertise the fact that he was wrong on such a
huge issue, nor the fact a candidate he dismissed, ridiculed or
ostracized was right. It’s simply embarrassing to him and to them.</div>
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The above wouldn’t be important if Paul’s only issue of note was
his warnings about America’s counter-productive involvement in foreign
wars.</div>
<div>
But as readers of this site no doubt know, Paul’s “other issues” might be just as important to the future of this nation.</div>
<div>
But these issues receive hardly any mainstream media attention.</div>
<div>
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Charles
Krauthammer, etc. clearly aren’t big enough people to admit they were
wrong on the biggest foreign policy issue of recent decades.</div>
<div>
Nor do they seemingly possess the magnanimity or character to take a
serious look at the economic issues Paul convincingly argues are so
vital to our future.</div>
<div>
Ironically enough, Paul in effect is being punished for being proven right.</div>
<div>
For conservative “opinion makers” protecting one’s ego (by not
acknowledging one was wrong) trumps any desire to discuss issues that
really matter – all because the person most associated with these issues
is the same person you’ve either ridiculed or ignored, or both.</div>
<div>
This is a long way of saying that an unspoken conspiracy probably
exist in Talk Radio and conservative media to marginalize Ron Paul and
the ideas he embodies.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>The memo has gone out …</b></div>
<div>
Here is a guy who talks about things others don’t talk about; who
doesn’t back down; who doesn’t suck up to establishment players; and,
to top it off, is almost always right.</div>
<div>
The memo has apparently gone out: Don’t mention this guy or his ideas or policy prescriptions.</div>
<div>
1) You’ll make yourself look silly if you do, and</div>
<div>
2) He’s talking about things that really would change the Status
Quo and could lead to the “powers that be” becoming the “powers that
were.”</div>
<div>
If someone with real and great influence did offer a public “mea
culpa” about Ron Paul and begin to preach from his campaign playbook,
Paul’s ideas would suddenly move from the “cult” fringe into the
mainstream.</div>
<div>
This would qualify as as a terribly “dangerous” development to TPTB
and the cronies who game the status quo system. But potentially
life-saving (or nation saving) stuff to the rest of us.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>No Churchill treatment … yet</b></div>
<div>
History has shown that prominent figures who were proven right
about something or someone can re-emerge as a potential national
“savior.”</div>
<div>
I’m thinking here about Winston Churchill, whose voice at one time
was the earliest and loudest in issuing warnings about Adolf Hitler and
the rise of Naziism.</div>
<div>
Churchill, alas, had been pushed to the policy sidelines after his
own involvement with a disastrous World War I military action (the
Gallipoli Campaign).</div>
<div>
When Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our times” agreement with
Hitler turned out to be a joke and Hitler’s army invaded Poland, who did
the people of England look to lead the country in its war against
Germany?</div>
<div>
Winston Churchill, the man they quickly recognized had been right in his assessments and warnings.</div>
<div>
As mentioned, no such belated and rapid reassessment has occurred
with Ron Paul, the man who most loudly warned against on-going, national
building wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</div>
<div>
This is the same man who just as loudly and consistently issues
warnings about the poisonous effects of The Fed and endless fiat
“stimulus.”</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>Paul’s issues WILL be reconsidered one day </b></div>
<div>
I predict that one day the nation’s voters WILL clamor for a politician with Ron Paul’s views to become president.</div>
<div>
This will most likely occur <i>after</i> the economic system has
crashed, after hyper-inflation has ravaged families and businesses,
after the paper fiat dollar is rejected. And, oh yeah, after gold and
silver have probably become too expensive for almost anyone to buy.</div>
<div>
This “revolution” in outlook will occur when the majority of
Americans (and even economists and politicians) come to realize that the
things Ron Paul said we’re going to cause a crisis of historic
proportions actually did.</div>
<div>
When these voters ask themselves who can “fix” the problem, they
darn sure aren’t going to draft the same people whose policies and
corruption caused the disaster in the first place. Or one would hope and
think.</div>
<div>
This is when the ideas of Ron Paul might actually make it onto the
radio and TV airwaves, this time earning respectful and serious
treatment.</div>
<div>
But for many of us – given the hardships we will be forced to
endure, likely including new and more serious wars – this
metamorphosis in thinking will be too late.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>If not conservative talk radio, then who?</b></div>
<div>
Some of us would like to avoid economic and social Armageddon. We thus offer a humble request. Can’t we change course <i>right now</i>, when such a course change might save billions of people from enduring unimaginable misery?</div>
<div>
As mentioned, <i>The New York Times</i> or Reuters certainly aren’t going to start emphasizing policy ideas that could make a difference.</div>
<div>
The ruminations of silver and gold stackers on precious metal sites
aren’t going to be enough to recruit new adherents of any sizeable
scale.</div>
<div>
Which leaves the conservative media as our best hope.</div>
<div>
Right now, these possible “allies” are blocking these potentially
society-altering messages just like the mainstream liberal media are. In
fact, the conservative media and MSM might as well be allies in
preserving the Status Quo.</div>
<div>
Likely or not, this has to change if voters are going to use the ballot box to clean house and start afresh.</div>
<div>
Rush Limbaugh (and others) could change things and maybe save a
nation if they admitted they had been wrong to ostracize and ridicule
the views of people like Ron Paul. And then began to champion these very
views.</div>
<div>
Ironically enough, Rush Limbaugh routinely pokes fun of “low
information voters,” by which he means the folks who elected Barack
Obama and will probably elect Hillary Clinton.</div>
<div>
But has it ever occurred to him (or his throng of listeners) that
they too might be “low information” voters? Do these listeners get
exposed to any of the topics I’ve outlined in these essays?</div>
<div>
They don’t. At least not on a consistent basis. Or if these policy
issues and economic topics are mentioned it’s only to disparage and
dismiss them.</div>
<div>
I’ll say it one last time. This has to change.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<b>A prayer for America</b></div>
<div>
I know <i>I </i>can’t change the public dialogue that frames what
issues are important and what issues are not. I’m overjoyed if my
articles reach a few thousand people, people who probably already think
like me.</div>
<div>
Someone like Rush Limbaugh, who reaches millions of listeners every day, might make a difference though.</div>
<div>
So when I say my prayers at night, I’m going to pray that Rush Limbaugh sees the light and changes his tune.</div>
<div>
Or if he doesn’t someone else who might become the next Rush Limbaugh does.</div>
<div>
(Mark Steyn, my favorite Rush “substitute,” is one such candidate.
Steyn has actually written a piece or two which hints that he is not
firmly in the anti-Ron Paul camp.)</div>
<div>
Anyway, if there’s another way “our” ideas could – almost over
night – go “mainstream” I’m not aware of it. Right now, this is our best
and perhaps only hope … thus my overly long essay … and my short
prayer.</div>
<div>
The Powers that Be who profit from and ruthlessly defend the Status Quo pray this doesn’t happen.</div>
<div>
Which is perhaps the best reason why such <i>real change </i>- novel ideas that might actually penetrate into the minds of large numbers of voters – should and needs to occur.</div>
<div>
That is, if the “ballot box” is to play any role in saving a once great nation.</div>
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Original post thanks to <a href="http://silverdoctors.com/">Silverdoctors.com</a> </div>
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Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329007395112110455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502204282662625768.post-43206722895602424152014-08-05T17:34:00.002-07:002014-08-07T18:10:14.446-07:00Silver Smashed Below US$20!<span style="color: black;"><b>After consolidating and holding
support throughout the overnight Asian and London sessions, gold &
silver have once again been treated to a waterfall decline on today’s
COMEX open, <span style="color: red;">with silver breaking below substantial support at $20</span>, and gold plunging towards $1280.</b></span><b>
</b><b><span style="color: red;">*Update</span>: While
gold has bounced off support at $1280, recovering all of it’s losses at
one point, silver has not been allowed to recover from the COMEX open
smash, and is again plunging into the access market close with a last of
$19.70!</b><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>After initially popping back
above $20, silver futures were relentlessly dumped throughout the
duration of the day, with a last of $19.70 going into the access market
close:</b></span><br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://www.kitco.com/images/live/silver.gif" height="253" width="400" /><br />
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Gold was smashed along with towards $1280 on the open, but spiked to
recover all of its early losses, and is now consolidating around $1288:</b></span><br />
<img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://www.kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif?0.39585178694687784" height="253" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>If silver fails to recover and
close above the $20 level today, a re-test of the $18.50-$19
bottom/support becomes likely, co-incidentally setting up to coincide
with the end of the London silver fix on August 14th.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Get ready to back up the truck!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Original post thanks to <a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/silver-smashed-below-20/#more-45705" target="_blank">Silverdoctors.com</a><b> </b></span>Mickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01329007395112110455noreply@blogger.com0