Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Quote De Jour
"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the
most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no
longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by
conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and
duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson [U.S.
President during World War I]
Monday, April 27, 2015
Translation Guide to What the Government Says : What They Really Mean
What the Government Says What They Really Mean
Gun Arsenal Gun Collection
Undocumented Immigrant Illegal Alien
Heavily Armed Well-Protected
Investment for the Future Taxes
Your ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes Theft
“Common-Sense” Gun Control Gun Confiscation
Non-viable Tissue Mass Unborn Baby
Affordable Care Act Obamacare
Obamacare Socialism
Equal Access to Opportunity Socialism
Social Progress Socialism
Progressive, Change More Government
“The Science Has Spoken” We Funded Scientists to Come to a Predetermined Result
Irresponsible Parents Homeschoolers
Anti-Vaxxers Parents Who Think For Themselves
High Capacity Magazine Standard Capacity Magazine
Religious Fundamentalist God-Fearing Individual
The Rich Employers
The Gun Lobby Second Amendment Advocates
Assault Weapon Semi-Automatic Rifle
Sunday, April 26, 2015
The Death of Cash: Negative interest rates on bank accounts!
JPMorgan Chase recently sent a letter to some of its large depositors telling them it didn’t want their stinking money anymore. Well, not in those words. The bank coined a euphemism: Beginning on May 1, it said, it will charge certain customers a “balance sheet utilization fee” of 1 percent a year on deposits in excess of the money they need for their operations. That amounts to a negative interest rate on deposits. The targeted customers—mostly other financial institutions—are already snatching their money out of the bank.
Which is exactly what Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon wants. The goal is to shed $100 billion in deposits, and he’s about 20 percent of the way there so far.
Pause for a second and marvel at how strange this is. Banks have always paid interest to depositors. We’ve entered a new era of surplus in which banks—some, anyway—are deigning to accept money only if customers are willing to pay for the privilege. Nick Bunker, a policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, was so dazzled by interest rates’ falling into negative territory that he headlined his analysis after a Doors song, Break on Through (to the Other Side).
In recent months, negative rates have become widespread in Europe’s financial capitals. The European Central Bank, struggling to ignite growth, has a deposit rate of –0.2 percent. The Swiss National Bank, which worries that a rise of the Swiss franc will hurt trade, has a deposit rate of –0.75 percent. On April 21 the cost for banks to borrow from each other in euros (the euro interbank offered rate, or Euribor) tipped negative for the first time. And as of April 17, bonds comprising 31 percent of the value of the Bloomberg Eurozone Sovereign Bond Index—€1.8 trillion ($1.93 trillion) worth—were trading with negative yields. (Although dollar interest rates are higher, JPMorgan Chase’s balance sheet utilization fee fits the pattern: In today’s low-rate world, the only way it can shed deposits in response to new regulations is to go all the way to less than zero.)
It’s not unusual for interest rates to be negative in the sense of being lower than the rate of inflation. If the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates below inflation to stimulate growth, it becomes cheaper to borrow and buy something now than to wait to make the purchase. If you wait, inflation could make prices go up by more than what you owe on the loan. You can also think of it as inflation reducing the effective amount you owe.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Quote De Jour
"It is not the function of our government to keep the
citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to
keep the government from falling into error" -- United States Supreme
Court decision in American Communications Association v. Douds
Monday, April 20, 2015
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Quote De Jour
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board
to conceal its power. But the truth is, the Federal Reserve Board has
usurped the government of the United States. It controls everything
here; and it controls our foreign relations. It makes or breaks
governments at will. No man, and no body of men, is more entrenched in
power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal
Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. These evildoers have robbed
this country of more than enough money to pay the national debt. ...
Faithless government officers who have violated their oaths of office
should be impeached and brought to trial." - Congressman Louis T.
McFadden before the House of Representatives, in the midst of the Great
Depression, 1932.
” Organic farms represent a bio-security threat to the United States?" What kind of insanity is this?
Being the US government means being on permanent wartime status.
Wherever it is possible to fantasize enemies, enemies are there. They must be conquered. They must be stopped.
It’s a vast cover story that, among other benefits, provides enormous profits to the military industrial complex.
Here’s an addition to the cover story: to accomplish this war on everything that moves, advanced technology must be deployed—and those who resist the omnipresence and domination of the technology are considered potential terrorists.
Even a small organic American farmer on an acre of land can qualify
as a threat, because he appears to oppose the technology of genetic
engineering, as it applies to food crops.
As bizarre as this might seem, it is an aspect of the corporate/government war on healthy organic food.
As my readers know, I have been piecing together the levels of corruption that are permeating the Monsanto vs. Maui lawsuit. (See also my #GMOwar archive.)
As I assemble the elements, it’s becoming clear that Monsanto is a key figure in “national security” concerns—protecting Monsanto at any cost equals protecting national security.
That’s why the people of Maui—who voted to ban Monsanto’s local GMO/pesticide experiments, pending a deep and independent investigation of everything Monsanto is doing in Maui County—have been encountering legal land-mines at every step.
The entire military-intelligence-agricultural complex has been arrayed against the people of Maui.
I’ll now quote a very important article Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote on September 17, 2012, “Organic Foods are safer and healthier than conventional…true or false?”
“…the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken the position that organic farming, such as free-ranging chickens and cows and non-GM seeds that you can’t ‘control’ are potential biosecurity threats. USDA has even begun putting, in writing, directives on how they want organic farming ‘contained’ – which resembles turning organic farms into nothing more than factory farms.”
Organic farms represent a bio-security threat to the United States? What kind of insanity is this?
Dr, Mercola continues:
“The ultimate goal for global biosecurity is to have seeds and plants that theoretically can’t be attacked because they’ve been bio-engineered to resist pathogens that would be used to destroy crops. This is discussed in a 2002 biosecurity whitepaper by the American Phytopathological Society [“Biosecurity Issues Affecting Agricultural Crops & Communities: Genomics, Biotechnology, & Infrastructure”]:
“‘Investments in basic research are needed to open new directions for applied research, including greater use of plant biotechnology and plant and microbial genomics for detection, forensics, prevention, or recovery from a bioterrrorist attack on a U.S. crop or food produced from crops.’”
In other words, according to the new catechism (cover story), any food plant that can’t withstand a bio-attack from an enemy is a potential weapon that can be used against America—and Monsanto is at the forefront, along with other biotech giants, in engineering food crops that will, in fact, repel bio-attacks launched with plant pathogens, fungi, viruses, etc.
“Monsanto will ensure the protection of America.”
This incredible fantasy takes on new Trojan-Horse meaning with the recent announcement, by the World Health Organization, that Monsanto’s number-one herbicide, Roundup, is a probable cause of cancer.
Protect Americans by killing them?
Of course, diminishing the perception of safety and value of organic food crops, in any way possible, expands Monsanto’s bottom line: money. Profit.
Profit, domination of the food supply, and bio-security are now joined at the hip. Add to that the obsession to make anything natural into something synthetic, and you’re looking directly at Monsanto.
Using the premise of “bio-attacks from anywhere and everywhere,” Monsanto and the federal government are collaborating to make GMO food the universal food, the food that protects America from bioterrorism.
Monsanto. The Pentagon. The war machine. Lunatic brothers in consciousness.
“That organic food (and unmodified food)) you thought was so good for you? It isn’t. It’s vulnerable food. It can be attacked from anywhere on the planet by our enemies. They can deploy microorganisms to attack this food and destroy it and force us to starve. But not to worry. We’ll genetically engineer all food so it’s protected from these attacks. We have advanced technology. We’re deploying it. Just get out of the way and let us do our jobs. All will be well. We’ll control the food supply, lock it down, and make it safe. This is a national security issue. It supersedes all laws. Stand down. Back away. Homeland Security is here.”
By Jon Rappoport
Wherever it is possible to fantasize enemies, enemies are there. They must be conquered. They must be stopped.
It’s a vast cover story that, among other benefits, provides enormous profits to the military industrial complex.
Here’s an addition to the cover story: to accomplish this war on everything that moves, advanced technology must be deployed—and those who resist the omnipresence and domination of the technology are considered potential terrorists.
As bizarre as this might seem, it is an aspect of the corporate/government war on healthy organic food.
As my readers know, I have been piecing together the levels of corruption that are permeating the Monsanto vs. Maui lawsuit. (See also my #GMOwar archive.)
As I assemble the elements, it’s becoming clear that Monsanto is a key figure in “national security” concerns—protecting Monsanto at any cost equals protecting national security.
That’s why the people of Maui—who voted to ban Monsanto’s local GMO/pesticide experiments, pending a deep and independent investigation of everything Monsanto is doing in Maui County—have been encountering legal land-mines at every step.
The entire military-intelligence-agricultural complex has been arrayed against the people of Maui.
I’ll now quote a very important article Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote on September 17, 2012, “Organic Foods are safer and healthier than conventional…true or false?”
“…the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken the position that organic farming, such as free-ranging chickens and cows and non-GM seeds that you can’t ‘control’ are potential biosecurity threats. USDA has even begun putting, in writing, directives on how they want organic farming ‘contained’ – which resembles turning organic farms into nothing more than factory farms.”
Organic farms represent a bio-security threat to the United States? What kind of insanity is this?
Dr, Mercola continues:
“The ultimate goal for global biosecurity is to have seeds and plants that theoretically can’t be attacked because they’ve been bio-engineered to resist pathogens that would be used to destroy crops. This is discussed in a 2002 biosecurity whitepaper by the American Phytopathological Society [“Biosecurity Issues Affecting Agricultural Crops & Communities: Genomics, Biotechnology, & Infrastructure”]:
“‘Investments in basic research are needed to open new directions for applied research, including greater use of plant biotechnology and plant and microbial genomics for detection, forensics, prevention, or recovery from a bioterrrorist attack on a U.S. crop or food produced from crops.’”
In other words, according to the new catechism (cover story), any food plant that can’t withstand a bio-attack from an enemy is a potential weapon that can be used against America—and Monsanto is at the forefront, along with other biotech giants, in engineering food crops that will, in fact, repel bio-attacks launched with plant pathogens, fungi, viruses, etc.
“Monsanto will ensure the protection of America.”
This incredible fantasy takes on new Trojan-Horse meaning with the recent announcement, by the World Health Organization, that Monsanto’s number-one herbicide, Roundup, is a probable cause of cancer.
Protect Americans by killing them?
Of course, diminishing the perception of safety and value of organic food crops, in any way possible, expands Monsanto’s bottom line: money. Profit.
Profit, domination of the food supply, and bio-security are now joined at the hip. Add to that the obsession to make anything natural into something synthetic, and you’re looking directly at Monsanto.
Using the premise of “bio-attacks from anywhere and everywhere,” Monsanto and the federal government are collaborating to make GMO food the universal food, the food that protects America from bioterrorism.
Monsanto. The Pentagon. The war machine. Lunatic brothers in consciousness.
“That organic food (and unmodified food)) you thought was so good for you? It isn’t. It’s vulnerable food. It can be attacked from anywhere on the planet by our enemies. They can deploy microorganisms to attack this food and destroy it and force us to starve. But not to worry. We’ll genetically engineer all food so it’s protected from these attacks. We have advanced technology. We’re deploying it. Just get out of the way and let us do our jobs. All will be well. We’ll control the food supply, lock it down, and make it safe. This is a national security issue. It supersedes all laws. Stand down. Back away. Homeland Security is here.”
By Jon Rappoport
Monday, April 13, 2015
Quote De Jour
The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution.” - Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Government-run animal control now kidnapping and murdering family pets in America if owners don't pay ransom demands
(NaturalNews) As yet another sign of the emerging police state brutality
taking place across America, government-run animal control "mafias"
(i.e. your local animal control department) are now murdering family
pets if those families don't pay the ransom demands.
In essence, animal control departments are now running kidnap and ransom operations, holding family pets ransom for fines and fees that, if not paid, result in those family pets being murdered.
Don't believe me? To my great surprise, this story comes from none other than CNN Money, which published this detailed report that outlines the animal murder operations taking place across America.
"In a number of cities across the country, animal control agencies are aggressively going after pet owners with big fines for small violations. Some hold people's pets until they settle their bills, even if it means they end up killed," report CNN Money authors Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken. "Others leave the dogs alone but issue arrest warrants for owners who can't pay up."
This is REAL journalism, folks. And it's happening at CNN!
When owners of seized or lost dogs can't afford to get their pets back, they relinquish their rights to the animal, which can result in a pet being euthanized. Meanwhile, a CNN Money analysis of active warrants from a sampling of 15 cities and counties across the country found thousands of outstanding warrants for small pet-related offenses.
Outraged pet owners and animal rights attorneys say these harsh tactics are all about generating money and unfairly impact low-income Americans.
This dog, named Chunk, was murdered by the government in 2013.
(Photo credit CNN Money)
They fined her $500, and when she could only come up with half the cash, they murdered one of the two dogs.
"[A]nimal control killed Silver before she could scrape together enough cash to get the dog out, says Vasquez, who speaks only Spanish," reports CNN.
It also turns out that the animal control mafia targets low-income neighborhoods where people often simply can't afford the steep fines.
This woman had to pay $250 a week to hold her dog in a private facility while she awaits a jury trial after government thugs kidnapped it:
(photo credit CNN Money)
"One pet owner was hit with this hefty fine [of $1,219] for failing to sterilize, vaccinate, microchip and license three dogs," reports CNN Money.
Unbelievably, the animal control mafia has even been caught going door to door, issuing huge fines and citations without ever seeing the dogs in question! As CNN also reports:
Last year, Riverside County inspectors incited controversy for going door-to-door and giving out citations of up to $400 per dog in Indio's low-income and mainly Hispanic neighborhoods. In some cases, they cited people for failing to have their pets licensed, sterilized, vaccinated and microchipped without even seeing the animals.
..."They are threatening people. They are intimidating people," said Kim Maguire-Hardee, a local activist who runs a low-cost spay and neuter clinic.
Colorado resident Caitlin McAdam's dogs, Jake and Lucy, were seized from her home two months ago after they were accused of killing a neighbor's cat.
Even though no evidence was provided that linked her dogs to the incident, McAdam was told that they could be killed if she didn't pay $1,200 in upfront impound fees within 10 days.
In other words, the animal control mafia can literally kidnap your pets from your own private property, then hold them ransom while threatening to murder them if you don't pay up.
In another case described by CNN Money, an 82-year-old woman was thrown in jail for two days after her dogs had gotten loose and disturbed some neighbors. She was threatened by the animal control mafia with a $7,000 fine and a year in jail. "A pro bono attorney helped her negotiate the $7,000 bill to around $500, which she paid with the help of her church and lawyer," reports CNN Money.
The government in America today -- both at the local and federal level -- has become a shakedown mafia run by psychopaths, and because the government alone has the authority to kill your pets or imprison you, the public is totally at the mercy of this authoritarian (yet totally insane) system.
We're also seeing runaway medical brutality reflected in many state-level vaccine mandate laws that will force pregnant women, children and even senior citizens to be vaccinated against their will, essentially at gunpoint. Vaccines are still formulated today with toxic substances such as mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, MSG and antibiotics -- all openly admitted by the CDC.
So what it's all come down to now is that every level of government operates as a criminal mafia to achieve its desired aims: controlling your pets, controlling your children, injecting you with medical interventions that profit Big Pharma, or just brazenly stealing your cash during a "routine" Highway Patrol stop. This is America six years into the Obama administration and 14 years after Bush oversaw the passage of the Patriot Act police state infrastructure.
No wonder Rand Paul is about to take the 2016 Presidential campaign by storm by promoting the fundamental principles of freedom, liberty, private property and freedom from government invasions of our homes, bodies and businesses.
No wonder websites like www.TheDailySheeple.com www.SteveQuayle.com www.TheLibertyMill.com and www.SGTreport.com are exploding in popularity. People are tired of living in a brutal police state where their children and family pets are simply not safe from government criminals!
Meanwhile, totally clueless and brainwashed masses continue to see any factual report on government brutality as being "anti-government." Is it still anti-government to not want that government to kidnap and murder your family pet?
At what point will the sleepy-headed masses wake up and smell the tyranny? Or will they quietly and pathetically submit to the government murder of their own pets because it's the "obedient" thing to do?
Sources for this article include:
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/pet-fine...
In essence, animal control departments are now running kidnap and ransom operations, holding family pets ransom for fines and fees that, if not paid, result in those family pets being murdered.
Don't believe me? To my great surprise, this story comes from none other than CNN Money, which published this detailed report that outlines the animal murder operations taking place across America.
"In a number of cities across the country, animal control agencies are aggressively going after pet owners with big fines for small violations. Some hold people's pets until they settle their bills, even if it means they end up killed," report CNN Money authors Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken. "Others leave the dogs alone but issue arrest warrants for owners who can't pay up."
This is REAL journalism, folks. And it's happening at CNN!
Government-run family pet kidnap-and-murder operation
CNN Money goes on to report:When owners of seized or lost dogs can't afford to get their pets back, they relinquish their rights to the animal, which can result in a pet being euthanized. Meanwhile, a CNN Money analysis of active warrants from a sampling of 15 cities and counties across the country found thousands of outstanding warrants for small pet-related offenses.
Outraged pet owners and animal rights attorneys say these harsh tactics are all about generating money and unfairly impact low-income Americans.
This dog, named Chunk, was murdered by the government in 2013.
(Photo credit CNN Money)
Family dog kidnapped from a woman's yard and held for ransom, then murdered by government thugs
As CNN Money reports, a California resident named Elizabeth Vasquez says two dogs were kidnapped from her back yard by animal control "officers."They fined her $500, and when she could only come up with half the cash, they murdered one of the two dogs.
"[A]nimal control killed Silver before she could scrape together enough cash to get the dog out, says Vasquez, who speaks only Spanish," reports CNN.
It also turns out that the animal control mafia targets low-income neighborhoods where people often simply can't afford the steep fines.
This woman had to pay $250 a week to hold her dog in a private facility while she awaits a jury trial after government thugs kidnapped it:
(photo credit CNN Money)
Sterilize, microchip and vaccinate your dogs or we will murder them
What most Americans don't fully realize is that the animal control mafia not only has the authority to kidnap your dogs and hold them for ransom; they can also demand that you sterilize, microchip and vaccinate your dogs -- or they will kill them!"One pet owner was hit with this hefty fine [of $1,219] for failing to sterilize, vaccinate, microchip and license three dogs," reports CNN Money.
Unbelievably, the animal control mafia has even been caught going door to door, issuing huge fines and citations without ever seeing the dogs in question! As CNN also reports:
Last year, Riverside County inspectors incited controversy for going door-to-door and giving out citations of up to $400 per dog in Indio's low-income and mainly Hispanic neighborhoods. In some cases, they cited people for failing to have their pets licensed, sterilized, vaccinated and microchipped without even seeing the animals.
..."They are threatening people. They are intimidating people," said Kim Maguire-Hardee, a local activist who runs a low-cost spay and neuter clinic.
Pay us $1,200 or we'll murder your cat that we just kidnapped from your private property
In this outstanding example of real investigative journalism, CNN Money provides even more examples of government-run pet kidnapping, ransom and murder operations:Colorado resident Caitlin McAdam's dogs, Jake and Lucy, were seized from her home two months ago after they were accused of killing a neighbor's cat.
Even though no evidence was provided that linked her dogs to the incident, McAdam was told that they could be killed if she didn't pay $1,200 in upfront impound fees within 10 days.
In other words, the animal control mafia can literally kidnap your pets from your own private property, then hold them ransom while threatening to murder them if you don't pay up.
In another case described by CNN Money, an 82-year-old woman was thrown in jail for two days after her dogs had gotten loose and disturbed some neighbors. She was threatened by the animal control mafia with a $7,000 fine and a year in jail. "A pro bono attorney helped her negotiate the $7,000 bill to around $500, which she paid with the help of her church and lawyer," reports CNN Money.
The psychopathic government now sees the public as the enemy to be exploited for profit
What we're seeing here is yet another example of a rogue, psychopathic government targeting the public with mafia-style tactics. This kidnap-ransom-murder operation happening with family pets is also reflected in the civil asset forfeiture operations where cops pull over innocent families and steal their cash, claiming, "If you are carrying cash, it must have been acquired through drug-related activity."The government in America today -- both at the local and federal level -- has become a shakedown mafia run by psychopaths, and because the government alone has the authority to kill your pets or imprison you, the public is totally at the mercy of this authoritarian (yet totally insane) system.
We're also seeing runaway medical brutality reflected in many state-level vaccine mandate laws that will force pregnant women, children and even senior citizens to be vaccinated against their will, essentially at gunpoint. Vaccines are still formulated today with toxic substances such as mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, MSG and antibiotics -- all openly admitted by the CDC.
So what it's all come down to now is that every level of government operates as a criminal mafia to achieve its desired aims: controlling your pets, controlling your children, injecting you with medical interventions that profit Big Pharma, or just brazenly stealing your cash during a "routine" Highway Patrol stop. This is America six years into the Obama administration and 14 years after Bush oversaw the passage of the Patriot Act police state infrastructure.
People demand liberty and freedom
No wonder more and more people are getting turned on to activists like Adam Kokesh, author of the book "FREEDOM!" Download the book PDF or MP3 audio files here.No wonder Rand Paul is about to take the 2016 Presidential campaign by storm by promoting the fundamental principles of freedom, liberty, private property and freedom from government invasions of our homes, bodies and businesses.
No wonder websites like www.TheDailySheeple.com www.SteveQuayle.com www.TheLibertyMill.com and www.SGTreport.com are exploding in popularity. People are tired of living in a brutal police state where their children and family pets are simply not safe from government criminals!
Meanwhile, totally clueless and brainwashed masses continue to see any factual report on government brutality as being "anti-government." Is it still anti-government to not want that government to kidnap and murder your family pet?
At what point will the sleepy-headed masses wake up and smell the tyranny? Or will they quietly and pathetically submit to the government murder of their own pets because it's the "obedient" thing to do?
Sources for this article include:
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/pet-fine...
Quote De Jour
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves.
They include all men capable of bearing arms. To preserve liberty is
essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be
taught alike how to use them.” – Thomas Jefferson
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
If Anyone Doubts That We Are in a Stock Market Bubble, Show Them This Article
The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall. By any
objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble
territory.
Anyone should be able to see this – all you have to do is look at the
charts. Sadly, most of us never seem to learn from history. Most of
us want to believe that somehow “things are different this time”. Well,
about the only thing that is different this time is that our economy is in far worse shapethan
it was just prior to the last major financial crisis. That means that
we are more vulnerable and will almost certainly endure even more damage
this time around. It would be one thing if stocks were soaring because
the U.S. economy as a whole was doing extremely well. But we all know
that isn’t true. Instead, what we have been experiencing is clearly
artificial market behavior that has nothing to do with economic
reality. In other words, we are dealing with an irrational financial
bubble, and all irrational financial bubbles eventually burst. And as I
wrote about yesterday,
the way that stocks have moved so far this year is eerily reminiscent
of the way that stocks moved in early 2008. The warning signs are there
– if you are willing to look at them.
The first chart that I want to share with you today comes from Doug Short. It is a chart that shows that the ratio of corporate equities (stocks) to GDP is the second highest that it has been since 1950. The only other time it has been higher was just before the dotcom bubble burst…
Does that look like a bubble to you?
It sure looks like a bubble to me.
In order for the corporate equities to GDP ratio to get back to the mean (average) level, stock prices would have to fall nearly 50 percent.
If that happens, people will be calling it a crash, but in truth it would just be a return to normalcy.
This next chart comes from Phoenix Capital Research. The CAPE ratio (cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio) is considered to be an extremely accurate measureof the true value of stocks…
The funny thing is that stocks have continued to rise even as corporate revenues have begun to fall.
According to Wolf Richter, in the first quarter of 2015 corporate revenues are projected to decline at the fastest pace that we have seen since the depths of the last recession…
And this kind of irrational euphoria is not just happening in the United States.
For example, Chinese stocks are up nearly 80 percent over the past nine months.
Meanwhile, the overall Chinese economy is growing at the slowest pace that we have seen in about 20 years.
Right now, we are in the calm before the storm. We are right at the door of the next great financial crisis, and most of the people that work in the industry know this.
And once in a while they let the cat out of the bag.
For example, consider what Hans-Jörg Vetter, the CEO of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Germany, had to say during one recent press conference…
Another great stock market crash is coming.
It is just a matter of time.
Further Reading
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
The Beginning Of The End (by Michael Snyder)
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
Delivered by The Daily Sheeple
The first chart that I want to share with you today comes from Doug Short. It is a chart that shows that the ratio of corporate equities (stocks) to GDP is the second highest that it has been since 1950. The only other time it has been higher was just before the dotcom bubble burst…
Does that look like a bubble to you?
It sure looks like a bubble to me.
In order for the corporate equities to GDP ratio to get back to the mean (average) level, stock prices would have to fall nearly 50 percent.
If that happens, people will be calling it a crash, but in truth it would just be a return to normalcy.
This next chart comes from Phoenix Capital Research. The CAPE ratio (cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio) is considered to be an extremely accurate measureof the true value of stocks…
As I’ve noted before, the single best predictor of stock market performance is the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio orCAPE ratio.When the CAPE ratio is too high, that means that stocks are overpriced and are not a good value. And right now the CAPE ratio is the 3rd highest that it has been since 1890. That only times it has been higher than this were in 1929 (we all remember what happened then) and just before the dotcom bubble burst…
Corporate earnings are heavily influenced by the business cycle. Typically the US experiences a boom and bust once every ten years or so. As such, companies will naturally have higher P/E’s at some points and lower P/E’s at other. This is based solely on the business cycle and nothing else.
CAPE adjusts for this by measuring the price of stocks against the average of ten years’ worth of earnings, adjusted for inflation. By doing this, it presents you with a clearer, more objective picture of a company’s ability to produce cash in any economic environment.
Based on a study completed Vanguard, CAPE was the single best metric for measuring future stock returns.
The funny thing is that stocks have continued to rise even as corporate revenues have begun to fall.
According to Wolf Richter, in the first quarter of 2015 corporate revenues are projected to decline at the fastest pace that we have seen since the depths of the last recession…
Week after week, corporations and analysts have been whittling down their estimates. By now, revenues of the S&P 500 companies are expected to decline 2.8% in Q1 from a year ago – the worst year-over-year decline since Q3 of crisis year 2009.This next chart I want to share with you shows how the Nasdaq has performed over the past decade. Looking at this chart alone, you would think that the U.S. economy must have been absolutely roaring since the end of the last recession. But what is really going on is rampant speculation. Some of the tech companies that make up the Nasdaq are not making any profits at all and yet they are supposedly worth billions of dollars. If you cannot see a bubble in this chart, you need to get your vision checked…
And this kind of irrational euphoria is not just happening in the United States.
For example, Chinese stocks are up nearly 80 percent over the past nine months.
Meanwhile, the overall Chinese economy is growing at the slowest pace that we have seen in about 20 years.
Right now, we are in the calm before the storm. We are right at the door of the next great financial crisis, and most of the people that work in the industry know this.
And once in a while they let the cat out of the bag.
For example, consider what Hans-Jörg Vetter, the CEO of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg in Germany, had to say during one recent press conference…
“Risk is no longer priced in,” he said. And these investors aren’t paid for the risks they’re taking. This applies to all asset classes, he said. The stock and the bond markets, he said, are now both seeing “the mother of all bubbles.”What Vetter is telling us is what I have been warning about for a long time.
This can’t go on forever. Or for very long. But he couldn’t see the future either and pin down a date, which is what everyone wants to know so that they can all get out in time. “I cannot tell you when it will rumble,” he said, “but eventually it will rumble again.”
By “again” he meant the sort of thing that had taken the bank down last time, the Financial Crisis. It had been triggered by horrendous risk-taking, where risks hadn’t been priced into all kinds of securities. When those securities – mortgage-backed securities, for example, that were hiding the inherent risks under a triple-A rating – blew up, banks toppled.
Another great stock market crash is coming.
It is just a matter of time.
Further Reading
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
The Beginning Of The End (by Michael Snyder)
The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Gov. Brown orders California to become a water police state as region begins reverting to uninhabitable desert
(NaturalNews) For the first time in history, the California government
has declared mandatory water restrictions designed to save the state
from a water collapse. (But it still won't work, see below...)An order went out yesterday from Governor Brown's office, requiring water agencies to "...implement new pricing models that discourage excessive water use," reports the LA Times. In other words, your water consumption costs are about to get even higher if you live in California.
The directive aims to reduce water consumption by 25% across the state -- an aggressive restriction that clearly qualifies as an emergency reduction goal.
Also included in the directive is:
• A ban on non-drip irrigation systems for all new homes.
• A requirement for golf courses and cemeteries to "reduce water consumption." (And yet, the very idea of green golf courses in the middle of a California desert is insane to begin with...)
• Force farmers to report more details on their water usage so that the state government can figure out where all the water is going (and where to restrict it even further).
• Outlawing the watering of grass on public street medians.
• Discussions are also under way to throw "water wasters" in jail for up to 30 days, according to another LA Times article. The most likely source of intel for incarcerating water wasters will be neighborhood snitches who monitor water usage of nearby homes and call the authorities if they see too much water being used.
Will California soon fill its prisons with "water criminals?" If a cop drives by a yard where two people are standing around, and one of them is smoking a joint while the other is watering his yard, guess which one will be arrested?
Most Californians remain in a state of total delusion and denial over the water collapse they are facing
Much of Southern California is a desert. It just doesn't have enough water to support the California lifestyle that has become far too familiar among those who live in the region -- people who almost universally have no real clue how to survive or thrive in a desert even though they quite literally live in one.So how do they survive? They live in artificial constructs called "cities" which depend entirely on external inputs in the form of water, food and electricity. Run out of any of those three, and cities like Los Angeles become nearly uninhabitable by all but the most hardened desert survivalists.
But the reality that they live in an artificial construct which will inevitably revert to a desert has never really occurred to most Californians. That's why so many remain in a state of shock and denial over the water crisis they are now facing. The scientific data on rainfall and snowpack, however, tell a very different story.
"The water outlook in drought-racked California just got a lot worse: Snowpack levels across the entire Sierra Nevada are now the lowest in recorded history -- just 6 percent of the long-term average," reports NPR.
"[T]here will be virtually no runoff this spring or summer when the rain stops and temperatures rise," says California state officials via the LA Times. Department of Water Resources spokesperson Doug Carlson characterized the situation as "dismal."
That's why California is headed for an outright water collapse. Via the LA Times:
"It does leave questions about where the water will come from," Carlson said. "Will there be enough of it? It will probably have to come from groundwater again ... and that brings in a whole other set of problems and complications since the groundwater seems to be over-tapped...
Groundwater is not a plan... it's a delusion
Groundwater? This is California's solution? There's a two-year wait for drilling a new well, and the cost is half a million dollars, reports NPR, which adds:Groundwater reserves are getting lower and lower as farmers and towns drill deeper and deeper, sucking out more water than there is coming in. It's gotten so bad in the San Joaquin Valley that the ground is actually sinking. Last summer it sank a half-inch each month.
Groundwater is, of course, fossil water that takes hundreds (or thousands) of years to be replenished. Using it up over the span of just a few decades leads to the certainty of a water collapse. Unfortunately, California's agricultural activities -- which produce one-third of America's fresh produce -- are now based predominantly on groundwater for irrigation.
Scientists who raise the alarm are attacked by a delusional society living in a dreamy water fairy tale
A NASA scientist named Jay Famiglietti recently warned that California's water reservoirs have just one year remaining before a catastrophic collapse. In his own words, as published in the LA Times:...the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought... [groundwater] pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable ... Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
Famiglietti was, of course, heavily attacked for stating this, because the one thing that most Californians absolutely don't want to hear about right now is THE TRUTH. And as we've all learned from watching the mainstream media's deceptions over the years, it's far easier for people to believe a lie than to believe the truth.
California's "water fairy tale" has about the same factual reality as Disneyland's Small World ride. Sure, if you believe California's water will never run out, then you also believe those animatronic pirates are real people who just happen to love sitting around all day watching tourists float by on little boats.
So the lie continues. California will be just fine, we're told. Water will be magically wrung from stones. Or maybe somebody will invent cheap fusion energy devices that can turn seawater into fresh water for pennies a gallon. Or heck, maybe Obama himself will simply issue an executive order demanding that rain fall from the sky according to the dictates of the Commander in Chief.
We can all engage in wishful thinking all day long, but at the end of the day:
• Most of Southern California is still a desert.
• Green golf courses should not exist in a desert.
• California's water consumption is no more sustainable than California's pie-in-the-sky state-run pension plans which are also headed for financial collapse.
• The California water-consumption lifestyle is ridiculously unsustainable. Nobody really cares, though, until they turn on the tap and nothing comes out.
• The Southern half of the state can really only support about 10% of its current human population in a sustainable way. That means 90% have to go somewhere else.
• Within just a few years, we will begin to see a mass migration out of California which will be described in the media as a "wave of climate change refugees." But the climate didn't cause this -- human lack of foresight did.
• The water supply will eventually collapse because no one has any real interest in sacrificing their quality of life right now in order to protect a resource for future generations.
In other words, today's California voters are generationally selfish because they've collectively decided to use up all the water TODAY, leaving no water for future generations TOMORROW. Gee, does that sound familiar, anyone? (National debt, soil erosion, fossil fuels, deforestation...)
And the reason we know Californians are totally asleep at the wheel on all this is because we haven't yet seen a home sales selling spree panic. It's coming, though. One day when the water is mostly gone, there will be so many homes for sale on the market that entire neighborhoods will be abandoned, and people will just walk away from what were once million-dollar mansions.
Mark my words. That day is coming, and when it arrives, you can bet the cognitively-challenged mainstream media will run a headline that reads, "WATER COLLAPSE: NO ONE SAW THIS COMING!"
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
20 Questions - Can YOU Answer Any Of Them?
1. If the point of water fluoridation is not mass medication of the population, and really to help people’s teeth, why is fluoride added to baby nursery water when young babies have no teeth?
2. Why is fluoride, which is really a combination of hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride, pure and healthy enough to put in municipal water, yet is an unpurified industrial byproduct considered a toxic hazard by the EPA and used in rat poison, pesticides and Big Pharma antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Paxil?
3. If vaccines are safe, why do they contain known carcinogens such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and MSG, and why do they contain so many toxic and dangerous adjuvants, such as acetone (solvent used in fingernail polish remover), ammonium sulfate, glycerol, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), polysorbate 80, tri(n)butylphosphate (a neurotoxin) and squalene?
4. If vaccines are great medicine, why do they contain human diploid cells, i.e. aborted fetal tissue?
5. Speaking of cannibalism and the forced ingestion of aborted fetal tissue, why do huge corporations like Pepsi use aborted fetal tissue in testing (and possibly making) their sugary drinks?
6. If vaccines are so effective, why did the scientific journal The Lancet publish a study that found that flu vaccines were only 1.5% effective, i.e. they only worked on 1.5 people out of 100?
7. If vaccines are so safe and effective, why does the Government grant legal immunity to Big Pharma companies that produce vaccines, so there is no way you can properly sue them for damages when vaccines produce horrific side effects?
8. If GMOs are “substantially equivalent” to non-GM food, why do they cause organ disruption and organ failure as found by 19 studies?
9. If glyphosate (the main ingredient of Monsanto’s RoundUp) is perfectly safe for humans, why did the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) of the WHO (World Health Organization) recently categorize it as a class 2a carcinogen, i.e. a probable carcinogen?
10. If the ultimate purpose of GMOs is not to genetically modify humanity itself, why do GMOs lead to horizontal gene transfer, where the modified genes in GM food jump to bacteria in the human gut and change their DNA structure?
11. If our “leaders” really care for us and represent us, why do some of them (e.g. John Kerry, George Bush Sr. and Jr.) belong to Secret Societies like the Skull ‘n’ Bones, and why do they practice mock ritual sacrifice to demonic owl gods at Bohemian Grove?
12. If UFOs and ETs don’t exist, then why have the British, French and other Governments released their UFO files showing thousands of photographs and other documents proving their existence?
13. If cancer were really a terminal disease, why have so many people completely cured themselves using natural methods such as Vitamin B17 (laetrile), DCA, the Gerson Therapy, the Budwig Diet and others?
14. If the point of all the draconian laws passed since 9/11, including the Patriot Act and other means of mass surveillance, is to keep you safe from terrorism, why are almost all of the FBI’s “successes” in capturing “terrorists” the result of sting operations the FBI engineered itself?
15. If so many of your rights and freedom are being taken away under the guise of saving you from terrorism, why are you 58 times more likely in the US to die from a policeman shooting you than a terrorist?
16. If the mass surveillance grid being set up is really to keep you secure, then why has the NSA failed to foil a single terrorist plot, despite having access to every electronic transaction (call, text, email, etc.) made by every American?
17. If false flag events like 9/11, 7/7, Sandy Hook and the Boston marathon bombing were really carried out by bogeymen like “Islamic terrorists” and “lone nutter” shooters, why do they all share the common thread of occurring alongside a government-executed drill – at the exact same time, at the exact same place, for the exact same purpose?
18. If the world really were undergoing manmade global warming, why did so many scientists fudge, conceal and distort the data as exposed in the ClimateGate emails?
19. If you are crazy to question your reality and not believe everything the Government tells you, then why did scientific studies like this one reveal that those who actively question their reality (dubbed conspiracy theorists) are less hostile and more fact-based than conventional believers?
20. If all the main things that happen in the world are really by chance (coincidence theory) as opposed to being planned (conspiracy theory), then how can we explain the existence of many New World Order accounts and documents (click here for the 3 most chilling) which have laid out the plan for world domination, in astonishingly accurate detail, 30 to 50 to 100 years ago?
Question your reality. It’s the solution to the global conspiracy. If enough of us keep doing it, we will grow in awareness in unstoppable numbers, and the conspiracy will collapse like the house of cards that it truly is.
2. Why is fluoride, which is really a combination of hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride, pure and healthy enough to put in municipal water, yet is an unpurified industrial byproduct considered a toxic hazard by the EPA and used in rat poison, pesticides and Big Pharma antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Paxil?
3. If vaccines are safe, why do they contain known carcinogens such as mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and MSG, and why do they contain so many toxic and dangerous adjuvants, such as acetone (solvent used in fingernail polish remover), ammonium sulfate, glycerol, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), polysorbate 80, tri(n)butylphosphate (a neurotoxin) and squalene?
4. If vaccines are great medicine, why do they contain human diploid cells, i.e. aborted fetal tissue?
5. Speaking of cannibalism and the forced ingestion of aborted fetal tissue, why do huge corporations like Pepsi use aborted fetal tissue in testing (and possibly making) their sugary drinks?
6. If vaccines are so effective, why did the scientific journal The Lancet publish a study that found that flu vaccines were only 1.5% effective, i.e. they only worked on 1.5 people out of 100?
7. If vaccines are so safe and effective, why does the Government grant legal immunity to Big Pharma companies that produce vaccines, so there is no way you can properly sue them for damages when vaccines produce horrific side effects?
8. If GMOs are “substantially equivalent” to non-GM food, why do they cause organ disruption and organ failure as found by 19 studies?
9. If glyphosate (the main ingredient of Monsanto’s RoundUp) is perfectly safe for humans, why did the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) of the WHO (World Health Organization) recently categorize it as a class 2a carcinogen, i.e. a probable carcinogen?
10. If the ultimate purpose of GMOs is not to genetically modify humanity itself, why do GMOs lead to horizontal gene transfer, where the modified genes in GM food jump to bacteria in the human gut and change their DNA structure?
11. If our “leaders” really care for us and represent us, why do some of them (e.g. John Kerry, George Bush Sr. and Jr.) belong to Secret Societies like the Skull ‘n’ Bones, and why do they practice mock ritual sacrifice to demonic owl gods at Bohemian Grove?
12. If UFOs and ETs don’t exist, then why have the British, French and other Governments released their UFO files showing thousands of photographs and other documents proving their existence?
13. If cancer were really a terminal disease, why have so many people completely cured themselves using natural methods such as Vitamin B17 (laetrile), DCA, the Gerson Therapy, the Budwig Diet and others?
14. If the point of all the draconian laws passed since 9/11, including the Patriot Act and other means of mass surveillance, is to keep you safe from terrorism, why are almost all of the FBI’s “successes” in capturing “terrorists” the result of sting operations the FBI engineered itself?
15. If so many of your rights and freedom are being taken away under the guise of saving you from terrorism, why are you 58 times more likely in the US to die from a policeman shooting you than a terrorist?
16. If the mass surveillance grid being set up is really to keep you secure, then why has the NSA failed to foil a single terrorist plot, despite having access to every electronic transaction (call, text, email, etc.) made by every American?
17. If false flag events like 9/11, 7/7, Sandy Hook and the Boston marathon bombing were really carried out by bogeymen like “Islamic terrorists” and “lone nutter” shooters, why do they all share the common thread of occurring alongside a government-executed drill – at the exact same time, at the exact same place, for the exact same purpose?
18. If the world really were undergoing manmade global warming, why did so many scientists fudge, conceal and distort the data as exposed in the ClimateGate emails?
19. If you are crazy to question your reality and not believe everything the Government tells you, then why did scientific studies like this one reveal that those who actively question their reality (dubbed conspiracy theorists) are less hostile and more fact-based than conventional believers?
20. If all the main things that happen in the world are really by chance (coincidence theory) as opposed to being planned (conspiracy theory), then how can we explain the existence of many New World Order accounts and documents (click here for the 3 most chilling) which have laid out the plan for world domination, in astonishingly accurate detail, 30 to 50 to 100 years ago?
Question your reality. It’s the solution to the global conspiracy. If enough of us keep doing it, we will grow in awareness in unstoppable numbers, and the conspiracy will collapse like the house of cards that it truly is.
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