Do you really think they’re there to represent you? Or to gain wealth for themselves?

Mac Slavo
May 20th, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

 

They write the rules. One set for them. One set for us.

50 million of our fellow countrymen starve and depend on paltry government distributions to put food on the table every month. Millions have lost their homes and their jobs. And future generations are saddled with trillions of dollars in debt that can never be repaid.

All the while, those who are supposed to serve the people have [...]

South Africa Imports $1 Billion of Unwrought Gold to Meet Global Demand

by GoldCore

 

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,412.25, EUR 1,094.51 and GBP 926.67 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,436.50, EUR 1,103.47 and GBP 938.15 per ounce.

Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)

Gold dropped $6.00 or -0.42% yesterday to $1,425.40/oz and silver finished – 1.02%.

On Tuesday 14th May, workers at Lonmin PLC, the world’s No. 3 platinum producer in South Africa began a wildcat strike. This caused immediate disruption of all mine production [...]

Fed Financed Farmland Bubble = Rising Food Prices

Lets see how bright American fiscal policy is:
Payoff toxic mortgage loans at full price, then allow speculators/ultra rich to take highly leverage and force-up the farmland prices.
Result is citizens pay higher food prices. Go into stores and see how packages and jars of food keep getting smaller. For example yogurt is now sold in “spoonful” portions. Restaurants serve cheap carbohydrates because protein has become too expensive. Just try to by [...]

The global ‘happiness index’ that reveals our emotional state – and how Twitter reacted to the Boston bombings

50 million tweets from around the world are collected each day and analysed 
System looks for ‘happy’, ‘sad’ and ‘neutral’ word content
Researchers found the day of the Boston Marathon was the saddest day for five years

 

A financial-style ‘happiness index’ that measures the mood of the world has revealed the day of the Boston Bombings was the saddest online for five years.

The site shows a graph that rises and falls, in much [...]

GOV’T OUTRAGE: Immigration Bill Gives New Legals $3,000 Hiring Edge over Americans, Legalizes Relatives and Previously Deported… More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job And Now They Want To Legalize 50 Million Foreigners?

Under the immigration reform bill, some employers would have an incentive of up to $3,000 per year to hire a newly legalized immigrant over a U.S. citizen.

In avoiding one controversy — the cost of providing millions of newly legalized immigrants with ObamaCare subsidies — the Senate “Gang of Eight” may have risked walking into another.

http://news.investors.com/041713-652257-immigration-reform-meets-obamacare-employer-mandate.htm#ixzz2QrGFhTuQ

 

Immigration Bill ‘Worse Than We Thought,’ Legalizes Relatives and Previously Deported

 

CNS News quotes Rep. Lamar Smith from [...]

Obama seeks $17.7 billion for NASA to lasso asteroid, explore space

NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today (April 10) that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to kick-start an audacious new mission to capture a small asteroid and park it near the moon so astronauts can explore it by 2025.

The proposed NASA budget is part of President Barack Obama’s 2014 federal budget request and would restore the U.S. space agency’s funding back near its [...]

Fifty Million of YOUR tax dollars for TSA Costumes!

(CNSNews.com) - The impending sequester did not prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)  from acting in late February to seal a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents–uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-sealed-50-million-sequester-eve-deal-buy-new-uniforms

It’s All Good: “They Can’t Stop Lending Us More Money”

Mac Slavo
March 1st, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

Last month President Obama made it a point to outline the ever stronger state of our Union.

“Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before,” said Obama of a US economy that, according to the President’s numbers, has added six  million new jobs over the last decade.

But as budget woes hit cities and states across America, and [...]

LA SINKHOLE: 50 Million Cubic Ft. of Gas Rising to surface, covers 2 square mile area

50 Million Cubic Ft. of Gas Rising to surface, covers 2 square mile

State Officials Investigate Bubbling Lake Peigneur

The state is taking a closer look at what residents say are bubbles in Lake Peigneur in Iberia Parish.

The departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality took samples from Lake Peignuer today to find out what is causing the bubbles.

Last night, public officials, residents and other groups spoke out against AGL Resources, which [...]

WARNING: Even The Federal Reserve’s Own Governors Are Warning Its Policies Could Be Creating A Disaster, Banks And Investors Are Poised For Losses. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!

Fed Joining in Alarm Over Distortion It Enabled: Credit Markets

A Federal Reserve governor is joining those warning that junk-debt investors are poised for losses, while his institution’s policies spur them to keep buying the debt.

Yields on a record 38 percent of the $1.1 trillion of notes sold by the neediest U.S. borrowers were trading below the 10- year average rate for investment-grade debentures last month, Barclays Plc data show. Investors poured a [...]

Homeland Security: Disable UPnP as tens of millions at risk

Summary: The US government is warning to disable a common networking feature after bugs left tens of millions of hardware devices vulnerable to attacks by hackers and malware.

The US Department of Homeland Security is next in line to warn of a serious threat to networking devices, such as scanners, printers, computers, and routers.

It comes only a few hours after a white paper was released by security researchers at Rapid7, which [...]

At Least $4.5 Billion in NEW SPENDING for Gun Control

by Jim Swift, Weekly Standard:

Obama and Biden revealed their proposed reforms intended to reduce firearms related violence.

The proposal contains a mix of executive actions, regulations, and calls for Congress to act legislatively. The total package will cost at least $4.5 billion in new spending. Among the new spending the president proposed:

• $4 billion for the president’s proposal “to help keep 15,000 cops on the streets in cities and towns across the [...]

Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying scheme

They are convenient, relatively easy to use, and help millions of people around the world stay connected with family and friends, at least digitally. But social media portals like Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being exposed as what appear to be bait-and-switch spying networks funded, and potentially even run covertly, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government agencies. And this is all apparently being done for the purpose [...]

More Than 2000 Children Are Murdered In The United States Every Single Day. Mass Murderer Adam Lanza Is Yet Another Example Of How Society Is Collapsing Right In Front Of Our Eyes.

by Michael

Mass murderer Adam Lanza is yet another example of how society is collapsing right in front of our eyes.  When I was young, I never imagined that someone would come into my school and try to kill me.  But now any school that does not have armed security is being incredibly foolish.  The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday was the second worst school [...]

Recession probabilities

from MyBudget360.com:

For the 50 million Americans in poverty the probability of a recession is 100 percent. Growing economic divide for working class.

The probabilities of the US slipping into another official recession are growing.  Don’t tell this to the 50 million people that are reportedly at the poverty level according to a new US Census report.  This trend isn’t something new and it certainly is not going to be resolved overnight.  We [...]

‘People Are Going To Be Fighting In The Streets Over Gasoline, Food’

NEW YORK (AP) — A strengthening Hurricane Sandy churned north Monday, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools were closed across the region of 50 million people, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was deserted, and thousands fled inland to await the storm’s fury.

As the storm closed in on the mid-Atlantic coast, it washed away an old section of the world-famous Atlantic [...]

How To Prepare For A Hurricane? Some Lessons That Preppers Can Learn From Hurricane Sandy

by Michael

If you are just starting to prepare for Hurricane Sandy, the truth is that you are already too late.  Most of the essential supplies have already been stripped from store shelves.  If you don’t have an emergency generator, you might be without power for quite some time.  It is being estimated that up to 10 million people could lose power during this storm, and it is already being projected that [...]

Strange Domes to Line the Texas Coast in Preparation for Something to Come

HOUSTON — Disaster-proof domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers more than $50 a foot.

FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around Houston that, according to the manufacturer, (ABC Domes based out of Sealy – Division of Golden Sands General Contracting out of Miami) are “almost impenetrable”.

The company has been [...]

BREAKING: US court charges 11 Russians with conspiracy to export high-tech electronics

A US court has charged 11 people with participating in an alleged Russian network illegally exporting high-tech microelectronics and supplying them to Russian military and intel agencies. Defendants potentially face over 400 years in jail each.

The defendants were arrested Tuesday; Wednesday the government is to seek their removal to the Eastern District of New York.

The FBI says the network has been operating through a Texas-based company, which pretended to produce [...]

UBS Slashes iPhone Estimates For The December Quarter

UBS analyst Steve Milunovich is slashing his iPhone estimate for the holiday quarter to 38 million, down from 44 million, citing supply issues:

 

“Poor outlooks from Skyworks and Jabil along with our checks indicate that iPhone supply issues limit near-term shipments. In-cell display manufacturing yields ramping gradually likely is the culprit. This shortfall mostly appears to be a timing issue though we assume some lost sales in an effort to be conservative.”

(Skyworks and Jabil [...]

TRADER ALERT: Friday (September 21st) Happens To Be The Date For A Big Stock Sell-off

With tomorrow’s CDS roll (when indices change composition and on-the-run maturities are extended) and Friday’s major equity option expiration and S&P index reweightings, it would appear, as UBS’ Art Cashin notes, that the action of the last few days (and even last week) will be largely driven by the creation of complex strategies to “milk out every ounce of profit that might be available in such huge [technical] shifts.” Combine [...]

Ron Paul: Your No. 1 belief about America is probably wrong

From Ron Paul:

Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer-funded spectacles known as the national party conventions. It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax dollars was granted to each party for these lavish ordeals, an additional $50 million each was needed for security in anticipation of the inevitable protests at each event.

This amounts to a total of $136 million in taxpayer funds for strictly partisan [...]

More than 50 Million Americans Can’t Buy Food

Tami Luhby
money.cnn.com
September 6, 2012

More than 50 million Americans couldn’t afford to buy food at some point in 2011, according to federal data.

Children in some 3.9 million households suffered from food insecurity last year, with their families unable to provide them with adequate, nutritious food at times.

Nearly 17 million Americans suffered from “very low food security,” meaning they had to reduce the amount they ate, saying the food they bought did [...]

REPORT: More middle class families go hungry

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The anti-hungerorganization Philabundance has kicked off its annual Hunger Action Month food drive with some sobering new statistics.

The US Department Agriculture says 50 million people went hungry last year.

“It confirms what we’ve been seeing, that the situation is not getting any better yet — in fact, it’s slowly decaying,” says Philabundance president Bill Clark (below).

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/09/05/philadelphia-food-organization-says-hunger-is-hitting-more-middle-class-families/

Three Times As Many Americans Enter Poverty As Find Jobs

zerohedge.com
September 4, 2012

Following a brief period in which it seemed that US foodstamp recipients may have peaked, with those living in poverty maxing out at 46.514 million in December 2011, and then declining modestly for the next few months, June saw a new surge in those Americans living in poverty and thus eligible for foodstamps, with 173,600 new entrants into the system, bringing the total to a new all time [...]

Billionaire George Soros has quietly dumped all his big financial stocks and bought more gold. If there’s anyone with an inside track of where things are headed next, it’s Soros.

From SHTFplan:

In a harbinger of what may be coming our way in the Fall of 2012, billionaire financier George Soros has sold all of his equity positions in major financial stocks according to a 13-F report filed with the SEC for the quarter ending June 30, 2012.

Soros, who manages funds through various accounts in the U.S. and the Cayman Islands, has reportedly unloaded over one million shares of stock in [...]

OBAMA: To protect ethanol, raise meat prices

Campaigning in Missouri Valley, Iowa, yesterday, President Obama announced yet another government spending program — this time designed to inflate meat prices in Midwest swing states. “Today the Department of Agriculture announced that it will buy up to $100 million worth of pork products, $50 million worth of chicken, and $20 million worth of lamb and farm-raised catfish,” Obama explained to reporters in front of a drought-stricken cornfield.

“Prices are low, [...]

Mitt Romney’s Abortion Business Made Him $50M

Truth is stranger than fiction. You can’t make this stuff up because nobody would believe you. Mitt Romney’s business record is his chief qualification to be President, he says. Did you know that Mitt Romney’s business was the abortion business, from which he made $50 Million burning aborted fetuses through his company Stericycle?

When Mitt Romney was sworn in as Governor of Massachusetts on Jan. 2, 2003 he was Pro Choice. [...]

WSJ: Obama Administration to Announce Plans to Buy up to $170 Million of Pork, Chicken, Lamb, Catfish

From WSJ:

President Barack Obama will announce Monday that his administration plans to purchase as much as $170 million of pork, chicken, lamb and catfish in attempt to alleviate the burden put on U.S. farmers hurt by drought, a White House official said.

The products, which will be bought by the Department of Agriculture, are to be used in food-aid programs, the official said. The government purchases will include up to $100 [...]

You Can’t Leave Italy With Cash Nor Gold/Silver

ROME: Italian police Saturday announced a 78 percent jump in the amount of gold, silver and cash they have prevented from leaving the country illegally in the first seven months of 2012.

The “Yellow Flame” financial police seized 41 million euros’ ($50 million) worth compared with 23.2 million euros in the same period last year, they said in a statement.

In addition to large quantities of cash and treasury bills, they seized [...]

Panic, Drought, Massive Gains For The Grains

Jared Cummans: It is no secret that grain prices have been soaring as a number of savvy commodity investors have been cashing in on the latest trend to take the world of hard assets. Many are also aware that a nation-wide drought has been the culprit of said price rises. But while the drought has been widely covered, few realize just how severe it has been. For starters, the trailing 12 months [...]

Soros plot to stack the courts with liberal judges exposed

In the wake of two controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions — Obamacare and the Arizona immigration law — in which a so-called conservative Chief Justice joined left-wing Justices in his ruling, multi-billionaire and far-left icon George Soros is financing a almost $50 million campaign to reshape America’s state and federal courts, according to several legal and political science scholars.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com …

Lifeguard at NYC’s largest pool reveals daily battle against brawling teenagers ‘looking for a fight’

One lifeguard at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool is wishing he had self-defence training after his workplace has become a brawling hot-spot for violent teenagers. 

Lifeguards at New York City’s largest public pool, which re-opened last month after 28 years and a $50 million revamp, struggle to keep order over gangs of aggressive teenagers.

In an interview with the New York Post, one of the pool’s 30 lifeguards has admitted to running off ‘pure adrenaline’ when a gang [...]

Nabe cries: dirty Pool! Violence mars splashy B’klyn opening ($50 million renovated pool chaos)

In less than a week, the city’s $50 million “crown jewel’’ pool in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park has turned into a mini-war zone, where frightening melees have injured two cops and a lifeguard.

The Greenpoint pool reopened last week with a splashy ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Mayor Bloomberg speaking of its “illustrious past and bright future.’’ But yesterday, hundreds of frustrated people were forced to stand in lines that stretched around the block [...]

Christie using cuts to the poor as leverage for tax cuts for the rich

This is commentary from political blogger and cartoonist Rob Tornoe.

Confused about what’s going on in Trenton? Wondering why Christie is calling back the Legislature when everyone thought they’d be on vacation?

Unlike most things in New Jersey politics, this one is pretty straightforward.

Gov. Christie is hoarding money saved by cuts to programs aimed to help poor and working class families, and using it as a bargaining chip to ram through tax [...]