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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| SELCO: Here’s How Survival Is NOT Like the Movies |
| Many times I have mentioned the movie industry as one of the culprits for thousands of misconceptions in the survival world. Some of those misconceptions are really dangerous, and others are funny.
I am sure that when SHTF many people will simply die because what they saw in a movie.
For example, there are gonna be guys who will try to shelter themselves from flying bullets behind car open door, or folks who are gonna try to Sunday, February 17, 2019 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Pro America Rally Tonight - |
| “You demagogues are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troubled times that you line your pockets.”
Aristophanes, The Knights
"They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directSunday, March 18, 2018 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| The egregious errors of static statistics |
| The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, and also of the modern state itself, which is meant to be selfless in the interest of the common good. We can be certain that when a person moves from outside to inside the machinery of the state, he or she changes from representing the people to representing the state. Presumably therFriday, March 16, 2018 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
“Close the public schools forever”  |
| From everything I read you would think we were incapable of solving social problems.
In truth, we find matters only getting worse because the proposed solutions always involve the culprit, the state, taking more control over our lives.
The state is a box we desperately need to think outside of if we’re ever going to establish civil relations among people. We would do well to remember that the state is absolutely not in the business of making our lives better. It is an institution appendedWednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Inflation Is Not Under Control |
| Let’s continue on our topic of capital consumption. It’s an important area of study, as our system of central bank socialism imposes many incentives to consume and destroy capital. As capital is the leverage that increases the productivity of human effort, it is vital that we understand what’s happening. We do not work harder today, than they worked 200 years ago, or in the ancient world. Yet we produce so much more, that obesity is a disease more of the poor than the rich. Destruction of capitaMonday, March 5, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Village of Widows |
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Canada has become a leader in the movement against the
racism practiced against indigenous peoples that has so long been common
practice in much of the world. Is it possible that Ottawa will really follow
the lead of Alberta and other provinces by recognizing the rights given to aboriginal
people in the Constitution without hassle? Such an act would shift cases out of courts
into nation-on-nation negotiations.
It’s taken 36 years since
repatriation of our constitutFriday, February 16, 2018 |
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| George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
 Better than the alternative |
| As people age we sometimes hear them say it beats the alternative, which is usually left unsaid.It’s an old joke technology aims to eliminate by treating aging as a disease and curing it.
But there’s another sense in which the alternative is assumed to be far worse than the present condition. I’m referring to the type of government almost all people live under, which is the nation state. As bad as states might be — we’ve all been taught — it certainly beats the alternative, anarchy.
RWednesday, February 14, 2018 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| The Celebration of Chinese New Year |
| Chinese New Year is probably the most important date in the Chinese calendar, with the event being celebrated throughout China and in Chinese communities around the world. Gold plays an essential part of the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Also known as Lunar New Year, the date on which Chinese New Year falls each year is variable since it follows the Lunisolar calendar, hence the New Year festival is a movable event. However, Chinese New Year usually falls somewhere between 21 January and 21 FebSunday, February 11, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Blue Monday - |
| "It was a time of terrible suffering. The contradictions were so obvious that it didn’t take a very bright person to realize something was terribly wrong. And people blamed themselves, not the system. They felt they had been at fault. People who were independent, who thought they were masters and mistresses of their lives, were all of a sudden dependent on others. Relatives or relief. People of pride went into shock and sanitoriums. My mother was one.
What I learned during the Depression chaTuesday, February 6, 2018 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| The Path The US Is On Is Unsustainable, Which Will INEVITABLY Lead To Social Disorder |
| Anyone paying even a mediocre amount of attention to what’s going in the United States is aware that the country is on a path that is unsustainable. That unsustainability will inevitably lead to social disorder that could have the US looking a lot like Venezuela.
Joe Joseph from The Daily Sheeple says that this social disorder will be the result of widening wealth gaps because the status quo will continue. There will be no changes in the input or feedback loops of society.
Since the corportatSaturday, February 3, 2018 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
| Ominous Musings on America – 2018 |
| Decay and despotism invade our lives today like gangrene creeps up the limbs of a wounded soldier in the festering fields of war. Our Washington pols swagger through fulsome milieus of political putrescence and graft. Establishment pundits spew hysterical falsehoods on a daily basis. FOMC bureaucrats print fake money like mountebanks spin shell games to carnival dupes. Special counsel shysters conduct corrupted investigations to overturn the rightful will of the people. Political thuggery masqueTuesday, January 30, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| In the Garden of Beasts: First the Slaughter of the Innocents |
| "The perpetrators were scholars, doctors, nurses, justice officials, the police and the health and workers’ administration. The victims were poor, desperate, rebellious or in need of help. They came from psychiatric clinics and childrens' hospitals, from old age homes and welfare institutions, from military hospitals and internment camps. The number of victims is huge, the number of offenders who were sentenced, small."
Commemorative Tablet at Tiergartenstraße 4, Berlin
"The inability to iFriday, January 26, 2018 |
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 | Gary Tanashian - Biwii |
| A Few Words on the Gold Sector |
| As the long-term interest rate Amigo continues upward, the anti-USD ‘inflation trade’ continues onward and more and more gold bug writers emerge from the woodwork, it is time for a little antidote to the inevitable pitches and hype to come.Everything is playing to script and with this little pullback to a higher low in the miners being resolved in the favored direction, the writer bugs are going to further their bullish message and try to get more reader bugs to follow their guidance. But absoluWednesday, January 24, 2018 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
Never Underestimate the Replacement Power of Equities Within a (HYPER) Inflationary Spiral  |
| Before I launch into one of my classic, bitter, vitriolic diatribes against all forms of modern-day interventionalist-type, fraudulent excuses for what use to be "free markets," have a gander at the chart below. Pay particular attention to the smiles on all of those beaming faces. . .
Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, sidekick Hank Paulson, "Rescue Queen" Janet Yellen, and finally Donald "the Swamp Filler" Trump have all conspired and colluded to ensure that the world has perennially rising stockFriday, January 19, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stock Options Expiration Tomorrow - |
| I am guilty,
But not in the way that you think.
I should have recognized my duty earlier;
I should have more sharply called out evil, as evil;
I suppressed my judgement far too long.
I did warn,
But not nearly enough, and certainly not clearly enough;
And today I know the nature of my guilt, and my obligation.
Albrecht Haushofer, executed by the SS in Berlin, 23 April 1945
"The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well. Nothing from the risiFriday, January 19, 2018 |
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 | Przemyslaw Radomski CFA - SunshineProfits |
| Does CoT Show Battle over Gold |
| The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released the latest CoT report. What can we learn from it about the gold market?
Light and Darkness in the Gold Market
The epic battle between good and evil. The conflict between light and darkness. We and them. This is how some analysts portray the Commitments of Traders report. Commercials, i.e. bullion banks such as JP Morgan, are of course the bad guys.
But wait, what’s all this about? As we explained in our Dictionary, the Commitments of Traders Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Martin Luther King Day - |
| "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem. You who murder your prophets, and abuse those whom God has sent as messengers to you. How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings. But you would not let me.
As you have willed it, so your house is now yours to command— but it is made desolate.’”
Matthew 23:37-38
"It is a dark day in our nation when high-level authorities will seek to use every method to silence dissent. But something is happening, and peopSunday, January 14, 2018 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| Craig Hemke: Gold Has Been Alchemized |
| I love sitting down with Craig Hemke, TFMetals Report, not only does he share great information it is a lot of fun with some laughter thrown in to keep these all-too-serious conversations a little lighter. When you’re dealing with such subjects as our monetary past and what we see as our monetary future, humor is a necessary ingredient.
All the wizards and their magic potions in pots from medieval times couldn’t pull it off but the bankers did.40 years ago. They managed and turned ether, nothingWednesday, January 10, 2018 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| We Come In Peace - |
| "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Stocks drifted higher today, setting new records. Huzzah!
Gold and silver drifted largely sideways.
It was risk on, or at least timidly so, ahead of the start of the new earnings season which I believe begins this coming Friday.
The Trump Administration has a plan to give marching orders to US diplTuesday, January 9, 2018 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| “Fire and Fury” |
| It’s told that Richard Nixon, during the endgame weeks of Watergate, wandered the west wing hallways in the wee hours, fueled on scotch whiskey, conversing with portraits of notable Americans, including many of his predecessors. “Whaddaya say, Millard? Should I stay or should I go?” He was a trapped animal, after a long, grueling, hunt, and he knew the hounds were closing in. Perhaps he took some consolation in hearing that old Abe Lincoln was even more depressed in the final, victorious days ofFriday, January 5, 2018 |
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