David Morgan: gold is not just a commodity. It is money.

Episode 132: Félix Moreno talks to David Morgan, publisher of The Morgan Report and the proprietor of silver-investor.com (www.silver-investor.com). They discuss the bond bubble and the coming collapse of fiat money, the difference between “paper gold” and physical precious metals, fractional reserve in gold markets, the price of gold and silver and why gold is not just another commodity, but rather a monetary metal. They also talk about central bank [...]

Facebook Shuts Down Gun Shop Owner’s Page

S.H. Blannelberry
Guns.com
April 23, 2013

Late last week, a Pennsylvania-based gun store had its Facebook page suddenly deactivated after administrators at the social media giant reportedly learned the shop’s proprietor was using the store’s Facebook presence as a way to raffle off semiautomatic firearms.

In talking with The Blaze.com, Erik Lowry, who owns Pittsburgh Tactical Firearms in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, explained the situation, although even he is a little unclear about why exactly his [...]

Teenager spotted walking 10 MILES in the snow to interview for $7-an-hour job is given work on the spot by restaurant owner – who doubled his pay

A teen’s luck appears to have changed after a chance encounter with an Indiana restaurant owner during a 10-mile trek through ice and snow for a minimum wage job interview.

It all started on Friday, when Art Bouvier, the proprietor of Papa Roux, a Cajun restaurant in Indianapolis, was laying rock salt outside the establishment after an ice storm earlier that morning.

He said he was approached by a teen who asked [...]

VA store closes for day to ‘mourn the loss of America’

Virginia’s 13 electoral votes went to President Obama for the second straight election, and the proprietor of a store in the south central city of Bedford is not hiding his dismay.

Lyons Jewelers hung up multiple signs on the windows of the shop indicating the shop would not be open for business Wednesday, including one saying the store was closed to “mourn the loss of the America that our forefathers endowed [...]

Man Tells Obama: Business ‘Terrible Since You Got Here’

An Ohio man at the market told President Obama that business has been “Terrible since you got here,” according to the White House pool report. Via the pool report:

Potus stopped to meet people waiting for him, where he did the requisite hand-shaking, high-fiving and the rare baby-holding before going on to chat with proprietors at Turczyk’s Meats and the adjoining Larry Vilstein’s, Christopher Bakery and Edward Badbuster & Son. He then [...]

CONCLUSION: The Oatmeal wins! FunnyJunk drops lawsuit.

The EFF reports that Charles Carreon has withdrawn his mad lawsuit against Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal.

Read more:

http://boingboing.net/2012/07/03/charles-carreon-drops-lawsuit.html

A campaign begun in response to an attorney’s demand for damages concluded early this morning with more than $220,000 raised for two charities.

The goal was to raise $20,000, but the “BearLove Good. Cancer Bad” charity drive launched by webcartoonist Matthew Inman — and hosted by the crowd-funding site Indiegogo — raised 11 [...]

The Impending Economic Collapse with Survivalist James Wesley Rawles

Infowars.com
June 17, 2012

Alex speaks to former U.S. Army intelligence officer, survivalist-author, and proprietor ofSurvivalBlog.com James Wesley, Rawles about the upcoming vote in Greece, the groundwork being laid for an intentional banking crisis in Europe, and the necessary awareness of and preparedness for an impending internet attack…but first, is there a blatant total acceleration of open world government being announced?

News of successful lab created meat cause alarm among African sumkina ranchers.

My thoughts; For a few decades now, African ranchers have been raising sumkinas which are a animal native only to Africa. These sumkinas are easy to raise, breed quickly and are generally tame even compared to beef cattle. The sumkina has been known to have a flavorful flesh and low fat content which makes it ideal for a substitute for many meats. Major sausage makers, those who make meals in [...]

Eric Janszen: We Are Witnessing The Death of the Dollar

by Chris Martenson

What do you get when the producer of the world’s reserve currency takes on too much debt? Nothing less than the end of the US Treasury-based monetary system.

So says Eric Jansen, economic and financial market analyst and proprietor of iTulip.com. In chronicling the decline of the global economy over the past decade, Eric has formulated a framework called the “Ka-POOM” theory, which endeavors to understand how the immense [...]

Joel Salatin: How to Prepare for A Future Increasingly Defined By Localized Food & Energy

by Chris Martenson

Joel Salatin, proprietor of Polyface Farms and highly-visble champion of sustainable farming, thinks modern humans have become so far removed from a natural connection to the food they eat, that we no longer have a true understanding of what “normal” food is.

The rise of Big Ag and factory farming over the past century has conditioned us to treat food mechanically (as something to [...]

Interview With Charles Hugh Smith: Why Local Enterprise Is The Solution

From Chris Martenson

Charles Hugh Smith: Why Local Enterprise Is The Solution

A growing number of individuals believe our economic and societal status quo is defined by unsustainable addiction to cheap oil and ever increasing debt. With that viewpoint, it’s hard not to see a hard takedown of our national standard of living in the future. Even harder to answer is: what do you do about it?

Charles Hugh Smith, proprietor of [...]

David Morgan on Silver Price Manipulation, Delivery Default & Supply Shortage Risks

by Chris Martenson

“I have little doubt that most of the silver that is on the SLV’s web site with a bar number is there somewhere. But what I am really concerned about is if it is hypothecated or not, meaning is there more than one owner on that same bar. And I can almost guarantee that there are multiple owners for almost every bar that they [...]

Does The US Government Want To Prevent You From Leaving?

From Simon Black of Sovereign Black

Does The US Government Want To Prevent You From Leaving?

Can you imagine being trapped inside your home country, unable to leave? It may be closer to a reality than you realize. I’ll tell you a quick story to explain.

This weekend I rented a car in Bulgaria with the aim of driving through Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and eventually into Greece. Now, I’m [...]

The intricacies of the financial crisis are not well understood.

The explanation below arrived in my inbox and certainly seemed to assist in debunking the myths of the crisis.

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers – most of whom are unemployed alcoholics – to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around [...]