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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Interesting Precious Metals Stories in the News Jan 20

Jan 20 A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste Bob Moriarty 321gold
Jan 20 Gold's New Friend: The Swiss Franc Stewart Thomson 321gold
Jan 20 Dollar's Major Breakout and Gold's Simultaneous Rally Przemyslaw Radomski 321gold
Jan 20 Gold Market Update CliveMaund
Jan 20 Gold Tips its Cap to the SNB for Tossing Out its Cap to the €uro Demeadville
Jan 20 Arian Resources [web] Jim Belushi Talks About Albania & Arian ARC
Jan 20 TrueGold [web] Provides corporate and operational update TGM
Jan 20 Which state has half of its eligible adults not working? MB360
Jan 20 Big hedge fund goes bust, $830 million loss on Swiss franc trade USAgold
Jan 20 A Historical Look At Israeli False Flag Operations ATT
Jan 20 Top 10 Better Ways to Cook an Egg LH

Monday, January 19, 2015

Interesting Precious Metals Stories in the News Jan 19

Jan 19 This past week in gold Jack Chan 321gold
Jan 19 Swiss National Bank Intrigue Mario Innecco 321gold
Jan 19 The Doughty Swiss NYSun    must read
Jan 19 Fallout From the Swiss is a Dress Rehearsal for the Dollar AE
Jan 19 Inglorious writedowns: Gold sector's bad bets wiping out lifetime earnings — and investor confidence FP
Jan 19 SKI #148 Yes, Exact Gold Stock Low Jeff Kern 321gold
Jan 19 QE and the ECB: "Authorize" is a Slippery Word HussmanFunds
Jan 19 The US Retail Industry is Collapsing: Here's Why You're in Trouble TOP
Jan 19 The Uses of Charlie Hebdo Antiwar
Jan 19 132-year-old Winchester rifle found propped against desert tree in Nevada CNN

Sunday, January 18, 2015

No Inflation… Unless You Eat Food, Use Water, Live In a House Or Apartment, Heat Your Home, Get Sick, Travel, Pay Car Insurance, Go To School, Mail Letters Or Do Your Taxes

Yes, The Fed and other government agencies know that most of us went to public schools and that our math skills aren't so hot... So bad in fact that you cannot tell when there is inflation and that the cost of everything is climbing fast...

No Inflation… Unless You Eat Food, Use Water, Live In a House Or Apartment, Heat Your Home, Get Sick, Travel, Pay Car Insurance, Go To School, Mail Letters Or Do Your Taxes

FBI Spoil Their Own Capitol Terror Plot to Sow Fear: “There Was Never A Danger to the Public”

Yes, While we have the Speaker of the house out telling us that without all the government spying they could not have caught this Ohio man who was threatening the capitol we find out now that the entire thing was a setup. Government provocateurs feeding thsi guy info, and God forbid weapons and explosives... What would have happened if the FBI hadn't shutdown their own operation???? Well it has happened before folks. If you do you homework there is evidence this is what happened in Oklahoma City at the bombing there, and at previous attempts at the World Trade Center prior to 9/11. One doesn't have to dig very far to see what happened. So do your homework.

FBI Spoil Their Own Capitol Terror Plot to Sow Fear: “There Was Never A Danger to the Public”

Documentary: Happy People - Review and link

We watched a good documentary about a Russian village in Siberia. They are pretty much cut off from the world and have to be self reliant for most things. They still have a supply line in the summer via the river when steam boats can travel the river. Otherwise things are flown in by helicopter. I think this is a good example of the kind of living a lot of people will be doing around the globe as the global economy in it's current form takes it's last breaths.

I enjoyed watching the hunters in this documentary as they show some of the traps they make, the talk of the importance of hunting dogs, and you see heavy reliance on tools and skills in their trade. I have seen similar documentaries in Alaska and other severe northern climates like this and I find it quite interesting the methods, foods, and fuels they use to survive and even be happy. I am sharing the link here and hope you enjoy it. I thought it was quite good and makes me extremely happy to know that I don't have mosquitoes anything like these folks have! And to know that our off grid homestead will be located in a place that we will possibly have options to trade with other people and communities.

The things that stood out to me in this documentary was the reliance still on fossil fuels. As we continue to watch the STHF access to fuels could be quite questionable. You see the people in the village using coal and gasoline. You see the hunters relying on gas for snow mobiles and it made me wonder how they did it before machines like this. They also had chainsaws which the noted was one of the rare modern tools they have. But you see some wonderful craftsmanship with axes and other wood working tools.

One more point is that this community largely still functions like a cold war era Soviet Union under communism. The state still pays the people employed in jobs there. There are some drawing a pension there. They still have grains and fuels and supplies brought into them. However it appears the hunters are freelance. They were granted a large chuck of land by the government to hunt, fish, trap. Then the hunters choose to live this lifestyle. It is a good documentary and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Lots of thoughts and inspiration from watching these folks.

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