CNBC Poll: 69% of Americans Support the Gold Standard

Do I really think that any mainstream politician would ever actually move us toward the gold standard?  Not a chance.  It doesn’t matter.  As I mentioned the other day, the mere fact that Romney was forced to consider creating a commission to examine the return to gold tells us all we need to know.  The populace is becoming increasingly informed of the total scam that the current monetary system is and they are looking for answers.  My personal belief is that a gold standard isn’t ideal either.  I think we need to move away from centralized control of money completely.  There is absolutely no reason why a small group of men should have the monopoly power to create money and distribute it with the defense of an army. That is feudalism.  Monetary “evolution” in my mind is directly related to a movement toward human beings and businesses using whatever currency they want.  It can be gold, it can be silver, it can be bitcoins, or it can be something else.  That is not for me to decide.  It is for the market to choose.  That is freedom.

My guess is that when the current system dies, gold and silver will soar to unimaginable heights in government issued fiat currencies terms, and out of the ashes countless competing currencies will arise.  This will be a good thing.  Out of chaos let’s get our freedom back and never allow the criminal elite to use the chaos for dictatorship.  The choice is ours so we need to start working on these concepts now and moving more toward alternative currencies sooner rather than later.

That is why I think the CNBC poll is so important.  People know something is wrong.  This presents a great opportunity.

Read the Benzinga article on the poll here.

In Liberty,
Mike

28,000 “Cash For Gold” Outlets in Italy as Serfs are Forced to Sell

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the Portuguese citizenry was being forced to sell its gold in order to eat.  It seems that the Italians have now joined this illustrious club.  I mean what do you expect when you allow Goldman Sachs to impose technocrat dictator Mario “Three Card” Monti as your political leader?  Here are some excerpts from an article in The Globe and Mail:

Times are now so tough that Valerio Novelli, a ticket inspector on Rome’s buses, is planning to sell his old gold teeth.

“I can’t get to the end of the month without running up debts,” said Mr. Novelli, 56, who has to support an ex-wife and daughter. “I know I won’t get much, but I need the money.”

In a country suffering from economic crisis, buying gold off desperate people has become one of the few boom industries.

“Since I was a child I remember that gold was given as a gift on various occasions and people used to say: ‘Put it aside’,” said Ivana Ciabatti, who represents gold– and silversmiths at employers’ lobby Confindustria.

“We used to laugh at it, but they turned out to be right. Many families are surviving thanks to this gold.”

So people are barely surviving based on the gold passed down from generation to generation, yet the mainstream media here in the U.S. continues to mock gold constantly.  Got it.  How about this last line from the article:

The pawnbrokers, by contrast, can hardly keep up with business. They normally have the gold quickly melted down and sent abroad, making it one of Italy’s fastest growing exports. Official gold sales to Switzerland leaped 65 per cent last year to 120 tonnes, up from 73 tonnes in 2010 and 64 tonnes in 2009.

That’s not just gold being exported, that it wealth being exported.  China says thanks.  At least you protected your bankster class from taking a hit on their bond portfolios.

Meanwhile, this whole theme fits in perfectly with an article from The Telegraph yesterday with the fitting title “Unilever Sees ‘Return to Poverty’ in Europe.”  That article begins with:

Aug. 27 (Telegraph) — Unilever will adopt marketing strategies used in developing countries in order to drive future growth in Europe.

Then we find out that Unilever will market to Europeans like they do to Indonesians:

“In Indonesia, we sell individual packs of shampoo 2 to 3 cents and still make decent money,” said Mr Zijderveld. “We know how to do that, but in Europe we have forgotten in the years before the crisis.”

Once again, at least the banksters got bailed out at 100 cents on the dollar.  No wonder the elites laugh at the sheeple.

Read The Globe and Mail article here.

Read The Telegraph article here.

In Liberty,
Mike

NPR Reporter Quits to Focus on Actual Journalism

Great short story here from Politico about Andrea Seabrook and her decision to leave NPR after 14 years in order to actually do some real journalism.  Most recently, Andrea was covering Washington D.C. and as she puts it:

“I realized that there is a part of covering Congress, if you’re doing daily coverage, that is actually sort of colluding with the politicians themselves because so much of what I was doing was actually recording and playing what they say or repeating what they say,” Seabrook told POLITICO. “And I feel like the real story of Congress right now is very much removed from any of that, from the sort of theater of the policy debate in Congress, and it has become such a complete theater that none of it is real. … I feel like I am, as a reporter in the Capitol, lied to every day, all day. There is so little genuine discussion going on with the reporters. … To me, as a reporter, everything is spin.”

People are waking up.  There is no doubt about it.  The media world is changing fast.  We are rapidly approaching the tipping point where alternative media completely takes over from the mainstream dinosaur propaganda media that nobody uses any longer except out of sheer laziness or confounding ignorance.  This story is a great follow up to the NY Times article where they basically admit mainstream journalism has devolved into nothing more than censored propaganda.

I think there is no better way to end this post than one last quote from Andrea:

“There’s a lot of great work being done,” said Seabrook. “I think the problem is the Congress itself. And we’re all in the same positions, scrambling to figure out how the hell to cover these a*sholes.”Full article from Politico here.

In Liberty,
Mike

Back to 19th Century Living in NYC: Bloomberg Proposes “Tenement Sized” Apartments for $2K a Month

This story is a bit old so I apologize if you have already seen it.  I somehow missed this when it came out, but it came across my radar in the last couple of days and I think it is significant enough to highlight.  Back in February, 2011 I wrote a piece called “Serf Size Me” and in it I predicted:

Sizes are about to shrink dramatically and prices will go up at the same time.  Food quality will probably decrease as well, which is hard to imagine considering the crap that is sold as food every day.  In any event, I have a suggestion for McDonald’s.  They should just teach us Americans to accept our indentured servitude to the financial oligarchs and roll out a “Serf Size” menu.  People will get to the acceptance stage that much faster as they say, “serf size me!” and then walk away with three fries and a five ounce soda.

Well anyone with a pulse and a budget understands all too well how accurate this prediction has been.  What I find incredibly interesting is Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest proposal to construct “micro units,” which are basically tenement sized apartments between 275-300 square feet that will rent for $2,000 a month!  Think I am exaggerating about these being tenement sized?  Well just take these quotes from a CNN article on it:

The pilot units will be required to fill at least 75% of the building. They’ll have kitchens and bathrooms, but are far smaller than current city minimums of 450 square feet.

“New York City’s housing codes have not kept up with its changing population,” the mayor’s press release said.

What a joke.  How about this from a Huffington Post article on the topic:

A typical mid-19th century tenement apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side might have been larger than one of the micro-units, measuring 325 square feet, but would have typically housed families with multiple children. The micro-units are to be leased only to one- or two-person households.

I’m sorry, but poor immigrants didn’t want to shove their entire families into these tiny spaces back then, they did it out of necessity.  How long will it really be before single people can’t afford $2,000 a month for these rat holes and are forced to pile in more people?  Not long would be my guess.  The key point I am making here is that this is just further evidence of the tremendous standard of living collapse occurring in the United States today, which is being intentionally covered up by the political and financial oligarchy via manipulated statistics and sophisticated propaganda.  These apartments are merely evidence to me that this trend is only going to accelerate in the months and years ahead.  The Sequel to Gangs of New York will be filmed in 2015, staring Michael Bloomberg as Boss Tweed.

Meanwhile, still not a single bankster in jail and the big banks are bigger that before the crisis. Mission Accomplished!

Read the CNN article here.

Read the Huffington Post article here.

In Liberty,
Mike

The NSA is Completely and Totally Out of Control…Very Important Video

“They wanted to highly classify the extremely impeachable crimes they were committing.”
– William Binney (NSA Whistleblower; worked there 32 years before resigning in disgust)

What the NSA has become since 9/11 is a sprawling Big Brother spy network aimed directly at the American people.  In this powerful interview, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras talks with William Binney about the emerging police state in America.  Binney discusses how programs he had helped develop to gather intelligence on foreign enemies was suddenly, and to his shock, turned around on the American public without their knowledge or consent.  He resigned from the NSA due to the unconstitutionality and immorality of this turn of events.  Mr. William Binney is an American hero of the highest order.  He could have just resigned and kept quiet like so many cowards out there most certainly have done.  Please watch this video and pass it along to everyone you know.  The key thing here is that this is being done TO us, behind the scenes, with ZERO public debate.

Watch it here.

In Liberty,
Mike

Bitcoin: A Way to Fight Back Against the Financial Terrorists?

Although I have followed Bitcoin over the years a bit, I am admittedly pretty ignorant on the subject.  What really caught my eye in the last couple of days was an article in Forbes detailing the fact that when the big financial institutions initiated a blockade on Wikileaks, the whistleblowing organization was still able to accept donations via Bitcoin.

From Forbes:
It used to be that people had secrets and the government was transparent; now it’s the people that lack privacy and the government has secrets. Freedom of payments is an extension of financial privacy and digital cash-like transactions without financial intermediaries become a critical piece of that foundation. Money was never intended to act as a form of identity tracking or payments restriction and this is why the option for anonymous and untraceable transactions is so vital as society moves to a world of digital currency.

To those that don’t support freedom of payments, consider this financial blockade invoked in the name of political correctness before you dismiss the inherent value of a nonpolitical unit of account and of a decentralized medium of exchange. It should be offensive to most free-minded people that you are not the final arbiter of how and where you spend your money. Bitcoin restores the balance.

I don’t think Bitcoin is THE answer.  It could be part of a solution.  Gold could do it.  Silver could do it.  They key point; however, is that in a world in which payment is increasingly digital we need more options for a medium of exchange.  Governments themselves should arguably get out of the money businesses entirely and let people and business transact with each other however they deem appropriate.

One thing that each and every one of us needs to agree on is that the ability to buy and sell certainly shouldn’t be in the hands of these TBTF (too big to fail) financial terrorist institutions.  These institutions, which have raped and pillaged this country in the last several years, shouldn’t even exist let alone have this kind of power.  The mere existence of these institutions is an insult to every single American alive today and an embarrassment to the memory of our ancestors who aggressively guarded the liberty and freedom this current generation of leaders is so willing to give away.  As Neil Barofsky, the former Special Inspector General for TARP, so eloquently put it today:

As I saw first hand while providing oversight of the bank bailouts as the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and as I detail in my recently released book Bailout, this perception was embraced by both Bush and Obama Treasury officials, who repeatedly turned away my efforts to impose conditions, restrictions and transparency on the banks. They declared such measures unnecessary because the banks “would never risk their reputations” by putting profit over the public interest.

Two years after the passage of Dodd-Frank, and in the wake of the recent proliferation of scandals involving the largest banks, many are now embracing this cinematic truth, with even the banker’s Dr. Frankenstein himself, Sandy Weil (whose Citigroup was the founding model of the megabanks of today), picking up a pitchfork and joining the growing mob of academics, regulators, former bank executives, Occupiers and Tea Partiers in calling for the monster to be torn apart.

Read the Forbes article on Bitcoin here.

Read Barofsky’s piece on the bipartisan support for the financial terrorists here.

Australia’s New Law Destroys Internet Freedom

From today’s Sydney Morning Herald:

Laws passed today will allow authorities to collect and keep Australians’ internet records, including their web-browsing history, social media activity and emails.

”The European treaty doesn’t require ongoing collection and retention of communications, but the Australian bill does,” Senator Ludlam said.

Nice work guys.

Full article here.

Attention U.S. Military: You are Being Demonized. This is an Extremely Important Article

It’s now becoming overt.  The meme emanating rapidly from the mainstream media is that the U.S. military is a threat to the nation!  It sounds very 1984 and backwards, but what isn’t these days.  What really captured my attention is a very clever and dangerous article published by Reuters titled “U.S. Army battling racists within its own ranks.”  It sounds benign enough at first and as you continue to read it all seems pretty reasonable.  Who wants crazy racists running around the armed forces?  Nobody. That said, there is a tone throughout that clearly attempts to make the sheeple public suspicious about returning veterans, which is bothersome in its own right considering these young men and women are being sacrificed daily by the elite power structure that would never dip their dainty little toes anywhere near any action.

Still, the article didn’t really get me concerned until the section where they discuss a presentation that the U.S. Army itself is apparently showing to its own troops.  Reuters watched this presentation and they write:

“The standard hateful message has not been replaced, just packaged differently with issues like freedom of speech, anti-gun control themes, tax reform and oppression,” the presentation says, noting that recruitment may be difficult to detect, occurring quietly “in bars and break areas” on bases.

Wow.  Do you folks see what this is saying?  They aren’t talking about racism anymore.  They are essentially saying that people that defend freedom of speech and the right to bear arms are the new “white supremacists!”  They really expect people to be stupid enough to fall for this.  This is incredible.  A U.S. Army presentation is apparently saying that military members who believe in the Bill of Rights are the enemy, despite the fact that they have sworn an oath to protect that very document.

Finally, towards the end of the article it is written:

Academics who study white supremacists say proponents of the “infiltration strategy” of joining the U.S. military have adapted, telling skinheads to deceive military recruiters by letting their hair grow, avoiding or covering tattoos, and suppressing their racist views.

This is very important.  The implication is that all these crazy racists are now pretending not to be and so the way to discover them is if they support The Constitution and The Bill of Rights!  Look, your own government is telling you loud and clear.  If you believe in Freedom you are the enemy.  Pass this along to everyone please, particularly active duty military and veterans.

Full Reuters article here.

In Truth and Liberty,
Mike

 

Meet Gary Johnson: The Libertarian for President Polling at 7% in Colorado

I haven’t endorsed anyone for President yet, but the guy that catches my eye more than any other at the moment is Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.  While people will say a vote for Gary Johnson is a “wasted vote” or a “vote for Obama,” neither of these claims are accurate.  First of all, a “wasted vote” is to play the system’s rigged game and vote for the “lesser of two evils” between two awful candidates that fundamentally disagree with me on every single issue of importance.  To the second point, there is a lot of evidence that suggests Johnson pulls from both parties, and in fact mostly from Independent voters (who probably wouldn’t vote anyway), with him pulling more away from Obama in my home state of Colorado where he is polling at 7% as of late!

I don’t like labels and I prefer not to attach myself to any.  While I agree more with the Libertarian platform than the other options, no political philosophy is perfect.  The point is that the Democrats and Republicans are two big party elite shams that pit the populace purposely against one another on emotional social issues so as to never debate what really matters.  Gary Johnson is virulently opposed to Gestapo type legislation like the NDAA, which Obama is fighting aggressively in court to keep, he is against the Federal Reserve system, in favor or real capitalism where there are no massive bank bailouts or institutionalized socialism for the rich and austerity for the middle class.  He is the only commonsense guy running for President that sees the nation’s future in a similar vein to so many of my generation and younger if we would just wake up.

Gary Johnson has recently polled around 5% nationally.  While this is impressive for a guy with zero media coverage, he needs 15% to get in the debates.  If nothing else, it would be amazing to see him up there with the other two puppets.  If we spread his message perhaps he can get there.

Below is a interview my friend Dan Ameduri recorded with Mr. Johnson at the Freedom Fest in Vegas.  His candor is refreshing and without a doubt you will know where this man stands on the issues.  Please take the time.  Our nation’s future is at stake.

In Liberty,
Mike

August 2012 Interview with Financial Survival Network: The Job of the Media is DISCLOSURE

A thoughtful discussion with patriot and proprietor of Financial Survival Network, Kerry Lutz, where we discuss the NDAA, Trapwire, the election sham, economic depression and how we can turn things around.  Enjoy!

Take a listen here.