Dominant Objects of Value: Only Food, Tools and Resourcefulness Will Matter In a Mad Max Scenario

Mac Slavo
May 8th, 2013
SHTFplan.com

 

When we talk about Mad Max scenarios, we are talking about events where the world as we know it no longer exists. No banks, no credit cards, no grocery stores, no gas stations, and a landscape devoid of law & order.

It’s an outlier to be sure, but one that has been experienced by millions of people throughout history.

Worst case scenarios do happen. And when they do, the [...]

BREAKING: South Carolina House Passes Obamacare Nullification

The house of Representatives passed a bill not only making obamacare null and void, but also making it illegal to try an enforce it. This makes me proud to be from South Carolina.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/2/south-carolina-house-passes-bill-making-obamacare-/

“The state’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to “prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article.””

Nikki Haley, the Governor of [...]

Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A “Lehman Brothers Moment” For All Of Europe?

By Michael

Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started.  Right now, the two largest banks in Cyprus are dangerously close to a meltdown.  If they fail, depositors could end up losing virtually all of their money.  You see, the banking system of Cyprus absolutely dwarfs the GDP of that small island nation.  Cyprus is known [...]

12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Next Wave Of The Economic Collapse Is Almost Here – Time Is Running Out, And I Hope That You Are Getting Ready.

by Michael

Are we running out of time?  For the last several years, we have been living in a false bubble of hope that has been fueled by massive amounts of debt and bailout money.  This illusion of economic stability has convinced most people that the great economic crisis of 2008 was just an “aberration” and that now things are back to normal.  Unfortunately, that is not the case at all.  The [...]

We Are Doomed: 20 Signs That The U.S. Economy Is Heading For Big Trouble In The Months Ahead

by Michael

Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn?  Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United States is really slowing down right now.  Freight volumes and freight expenditures are way down, consumer confidence has declined sharply, major retail chains all over America are closing hundreds of stores, and the “sequester” threatens to give the American people their first significant opportunity to [...]

Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold Because They Plan To Kill The Petrodollar?

By Michael

Will oil soon be traded in a currency that is thousands of years old?  What would a “gold for oil” system mean for the petrodollar and the U.S. economy?  Are Russia and China hoarding massive amounts of gold because they plan to kill the petrodollar?  Since the 1970s, the U.S. dollar has been the currency that the international community has used to trade oil around the globe.  This has [...]

Battle Is About To Break: Americans Helpless in Face of ‘Financial Pearl Harbor’ While Phony Inflation Numbers Mask Recession. David Stockman: You’re Now In the ‘Bernanke Bear Trap’!!!

Time To Choose…”This battle is about to break.”

Whether you’re aware of it or not, a great battle is being waged around us. It is a war of two opposing narratives: the future of our economy and our standard of living. The dominant story, championed by flotillas of press releases and parading talking heads, tells an inspiring tale of recovery and return to growth. The other side, less visible but with a full [...]

WATCH – Special Forces, Intel Chief: ‘Everything Done In Every Marxist Insurgency Are Being Done In America Today’

A Summary of the U.S. Senate’s Draconian Gun Control Proposals

http://www.blacklistednews.com/A_Summary_of_the_U.S._Senate’s_Draconian_Gun_Control_Proposals/

Georgia police acquired $200 million worth of military-grade vehicles and weapons through DoD

http://www.blacklistednews.com/_Georgia_police_acquired_$200_million_worth_of_military-grade_vehicles_and_weapons_through_DoD/24004/0/38/38/Y/M.html

WHY IS GOVERNMENT STOCKPILING GUNS, AMMO?

Is the U.S. government getting ready for a war we don’t know about?

And, if that’s why Washington is stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition (hollow points, by the way), why is Homeland Security doing the buying instead of the Defense Department?

Here’s what presidential candidate Barack [...]

The same bank that laundered money through the drug cartels is now buying massive amounts of silver bullion.

HSBC
They did what they had to survive the last time the economy collapsed by laundering money for the drug cartels.

Are they doing what they have to survive again?

“Silver Bars Being Secured By HSBC – Buy $876 Million Worth From Poland”
http://www.silverdoctors.com/silver-bars-being-secured-by-hsbc-buy-876-million-worth-from-poland/

“Asset Manager Tom Cloud: Silver Shortage Real, Countries & Banks Are Coming to Us to Buy Gold & Silver”
“I am now seeing countries buying gold that are talking to me. . [...]

HARVEY ORGAN: CFTC CAN’T RELEASE FINDINGS OF SILVER PROBE- END GAME IS BEING PLAYED OUT, LBMA & COMEX NEAR DEFAULT!

from silverdoctors:

The Doc sat down with Harvey Organ again for the 3rd and final interview regarding the recent massive cartel intervention in the gold and silver markets post the QE4 announcement, the fiscal cliff, the CFTC’s silver probe, and the unprecedented 20 million oz of silver still standing for December delivery.

Harvey stated that the CFTC’s silver probe has concluded, but they can’t release the findings because it would collapse the entire financial [...]

HARVEY ORGAN: CHINA IS THE SHORT BEHIND GOLD & SILVER MANIPULATION

from silverdoctors:

The Doc sat down with Harvey Organ again for the 2nd of several interviews regarding the recent massive cartel intervention in the gold and silver markets post the QE4 announcement, the fiscal cliff, the CFTC’s silver probe, and the unprecedented 20 million oz of silver still standing for December delivery.

Harvey stated that recent evidence seems to validate his long held suspicions that China is behind the big gold & silver shorts, [...]

Follow The Money While The Monetary Skies Already Red: Investors Buying 50 Times More Physical Silver Than Gold, Massive Amounts Of Physical Gold And Silver Have Been Flowing To Asia, And A Failure Is Likely And Imminent On Comex And In The Silver Market Due To Shortage

ERIC SPROTT: WHY ARE INVESTORS BUYING 50 TIMES MORE PHYSICAL SILVER THAN GOLD?

By Eric Sprott

Why are (Smart) Investors Buying 50 Times More Physical Silver than Gold?

As long-time students of precious metals investing, there are certain things we understand. One is that, historically, the availability ratio of silver to gold has had a direct influence on the price of the metals. The current availability ratio of physical silver to gold for investment purposes [...]

Obama & Holder BUSTED: Mexicans admit FAST & FURIOUS was to import drugs into the U.S.

Like we didn’t already know that Eric Holder was TOTALLY corrupt. Now the Mexicans are coming out and ADMITTING they were GIVEN guns by the Border Patrol because the U.S. Government was working with the Sinaloa Cartel to take out the rival Zeta’s and secure the Drug Trafficking trade for themselves and the U.S. Government…

What else is new…one year the C.I.A. gets busted importing 20 TONS of Cocaine and no-one [...]

Both parties are the same

“-Both parties fully support the Federal Reserve.

-Both parties supported the nomination of Ben Bernanke to a second term as the head of the Federal Reserve.

-Both parties endlessly push the job-killing “free trade” agenda of the global elite.

-Both parties see nothing wrong with running absolutely enormous trade deficits with the rest of the world.

-Both parties supported TARP.

-Both parties supported the “economic stimulus” packages.

-Both parties supported the auto industry bailouts.

-Both parties have [...]

Faal: US Superstorm could trigger Earthquakes

… in 2009 the New York Times in their article titled “How Storms Can Trigger Earthquakes” supported the research of Eastern scientists, and as we can…

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1620.htm

charts/links/videos not included, contains links, some links indicated, paragraph in blue – my emphasis

October 27, 2012

Horrific Superstorm Targets US After Gulf Stream Collapse

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An ominous report prepared by the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia (HCR) on the “Frankenstorm” [...]

1B FB users upload 300M photos, click 2.7B ‘like’ buttons & share 2.5B items a day. Where’s it all stored? Here:

Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Ever wonder how the biggest names in consumer technology–Apple, Facebook, Google and Disney–serve up massive amounts of data? Bloomberg’s Jon Erlichman investigates. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bank of England is leveraged 100 times. The Fed is leveraged 55 times. The ECB is leveraged 40 times.

“So the US is running major deficits and money printing today. Will they announce official QE at Jackson Hole or not? It’s totally irrelevant. It’s going to make no difference whatsoever. The world economy will need massive amounts of money to survive. Whatever these guys say or decide in the next few weeks won’t make any difference. It (money printing) is going to come anyway.
“Now, the EFSF is running out [...]

Debt bubble amnesia – 40 percent increase of Americans with accounts in collection in the last decade. System still heavily reliant on extreme consumption.

The debt hangover is still giving the nation a deep headache.  For example, in 2003 10 percent of Americans had an account in collections.  Today, it is more than 14 percent.  The addiction to debt is both troubling but what is more surprising is how little was learned from the financial crisis.  The stock market is pretending as if the European debt crisis was solved, that emerging markets had no growth [...]

Fed Bankrupting Consumers While Enriching Wall Street as a Matter of Policy?

Majority of Wall Street dealers still expect Fed QE3 … Despite improved hiring last month, most Wall Street economists still expect the Federal Reserve to do more to stimulate growth this year, with the majority looking for action as soon as September. The median of forecasts from a Reuters poll of 17 primary dealers – the large financial institutions that do business directly with the Fed – showed a 63 percent chance thecentral bank will [...]

High-ranking Mexican Drug Cartel Member Makes Explosive Allegation: ‘fast And Furious’ is Not What You Think it is

A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is.

It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.

The explosive allegations are being made by Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, [...]

DHS and US Military Make Final Preparations Before Announcing Martial Law?

Susanne Posel
Infowars.com
August 8, 2012

Informants and military personnel are coming forth anonymously to confirm that martial law “is right around the corner.” However, right now we are under a silent martial law and citizens are reporting strange and unexplainable activity from the US armed forces and multiple federal agencies that point to a covert preparatory operation to completely lock down America in the very near future.

Sources from multiple locations across the [...]

Irwin Kellner: Fed policy: Is it time for a change? Since low interest rates don’t seem to have saved the U.S. economy, Irwin Kellner asks: How about higher rates?

By Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch

Since low interest rates haven’t worked, how about higher rates?

Now don’t get me wrong. I am not talking about tight money.

I don’t want the Federal Reserve to start shrinking the money supply. That would repeat the mistakes made by the central bank in the 1930s, which led to deflation and a severe contraction in economic activity.

What I am talking about is different — [...]

You Can Forget The ESM And The EFSF: Spain And Italy Are Toast Unless Germany Allows The ECB To Print Trillions Of Euros

by Michael

The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.  Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members such as Spain and Italy or not?  Nothing short of this is going to solve the [...]

‘Minority Report’ software hits the real world

AFP - The software behind the film “Minority Report” — where Tom Cruise speeds through video on a large screen using only hand gestures — is making its way into the real world.

The interface developed by scientist John Underkoffler has been commercialized by the Los Angeles firm Oblong Industries as a way to sift through massive amounts of video and other data.

And yes, the software can be used by law enforcement [...]

The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Global Food Crisis Looms

by Michael

Are you ready for the next major global food crisis?  The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday.  So did the price of soybeans.  The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the past five weeks.  On Thursday, corn for September delivery reached $8.166 per bushel, and [...]

NSA whistleblowers admit the gov’t listens to every call you make an saves a copy

In a motion filed today, the three former intelligence analysts confirm that the NSA has, or is in the process of obtaining, the capability to seize and store most electronic communications passing through its U.S. intercept centers, such as the “secret room” at the AT&T facility in San Francisco first disclosed by retired AT&T technician Mark Klein in early 2006.

“For years, government lawyers have been arguing that our case is [...]

19 Warnings About A Coming Global Financial Catastrophe

by Michael

Global leaders have tried just about everything that they can think of, but the coming global financial catastrophe continues to march steadily toward us.  We have seen “stimulus packages”, quantitative easing, bond buying, interest rate cuts, emergency economic summits, bailout packages for banks, bailout packages for entire nations, “Operation Twist”, unprecedented government intervention in business and massive amounts of new government debt and yet nothing seems to revive the [...]

Shock Report: You’ll Never Believe How Much Cash Big Labor Pumps Into Politics

We all know that organized labor spends massive amounts of cash on politics. That’s not news. What we didn’t know, however, is that the amount actually spent by unions is almost four times greater than previously reported, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, meaning big labor spends more on politics and lobbying than any other group.

The Journal’s Tom McGinty and Brody Mullins took it upon themselves figure out big labor‘s political spending by [...]

Are You A Slave Of The System?

by Michael

 

If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like?  Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided.  Most Americans believe that they live in “the land of the free” and that they are not enslaved to anyone.  But is that really the case? Slavery does not always have [...]

Byron Wien: I Spoke To The Smartest Man In Europe, And What He Had To Say Was Terrifying

Blackstone’s Byron Wien is up with a new blog post, wherein he relays a conversation he had with someone he only refers to as The Smartest Man In Europe.

 

Wien doesn’t say who The Smartest Man In Europe is, but describes him as basically an incredibly brilliant, wordly, rich businessman.

Many of you remember The Smartest Man from earlier essays; I have been writing about him annually for more than a decade.  He has [...]

Casey speaks out: Anthony admits she is ‘ashamed’ of who she was, tells of her love for The Hunger Games… and insists she is NOT 500lbs

Tells CNN’s Piers Morgan: ‘Obviously, I didn’t kill my daughter…She was my greatest accomplishment. I didn’t kill my girl.’
‘I’m not making gazillions dollars…I was stupid kid. I am 26 now. I have gone through hell.’
‘The public perception of me is bad, absolutely horrible.’
Spends her days watching vintage comedies, cooking, cleaning and reading ‘The Hunger Games’.

Casey Anthony has broken her almost year-long silence to conduct the first interview since her acquittal [...]

That’s Not Sand, It’s a Beach of Dead Fish

Tons of dead sardines just washed ashore on a Japanese beach, creating a bloody, hellish landscape. Sadly it’s not unusual.

PHOTOS: Sea Monsters Real and Imagined

Starting June 3, massive amounts of dead sardines began clogging a fishing port called Ohara, located near Isumi City on the western side of Japan. A blogger named Kay for the Asian news site RocketNews24.com reported on Tuesdaythat the port was closed due to the emergency. Locals [...]

Jim Cramer Is Predicting Bank Runs In Spain And Italy And Financial Anarchy Throughout Europe

by Michael

 

 

During an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday, Jim Cramer of CNBC boldly predicted that “financial anarchy” is coming to Europe and that there will be “bank runs” in Spain and Italy in the next few weeks.  This is very strong language for the most famous personality on the most watched financial news channel in the United States to be using.  In fact, if Cramer is not careful, [...]

There Is a War Going on Because Fiat Money Is Dying – John Embry

kingworldnews

 

With global stock markets plunging, along with gold and silver, today King World News interviewed John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist of the $10 billion strong Sprott Asset Management.  Embry told KWN “There is a war going on right now” because “the pure fiat currency system is on its last legs.”  Embry also said “Europe is in desperate shape” and the implications are “horrific” if the US dollar loses its reserve [...]

Turn in Your Bin Ladens: What If Using Cash Becomes a Crime?

Infowars
April 28, 2012

Will the simple act of using cash to pay for things become a crime? Will it be labeled as suspected terrorist activity? Will cash be banned? We are being phased into a total cashless grid where payments and authorizations must be electronic; and the system has long been conditioning us to accept it and ditch ‘black market’ paper notes.

Let’s flashback to some rather open admissions in the media, [...]