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Gold Is Now Underwritten By China!

  • In times of severe instability, monetary crisis, financial stress, whether inflation or deflation, gold will do very very well. People who think that gold is an ancient relic and should be relegated to history are totally wrong! When the masses realize that fiat currencies are just pieces of paper and a confidence game foisted on them by profligate governments, they will rush to precious metals. That time is coming soon! Egon von Greyerz opines :
      
    There is really only one government in the world that understands the virtues of gold – China. Not only is the country buying all the gold that they can without pushing the price up but they are also encouraging the Chinese people via the media to buy gold and silver.
     
    Power corrupts
    Let us first look at the US and ex Fed Chairman Greenspan to demonstrate how sound individuals become totally corrupt and dishonest once they become politicians. (Yes, the chairman of the Fed is political position which permits no integrity). 
      
    In 1966 Greenspan wrote an essay – “Gold and Economic Freedom”- in which he spells out the importance of gold.   Here is a quote from the essay:
     
    “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”
     
    Then 21 years later Greenspan started his 19 year reign as chairman of the Fed. During that period he was instrumental in creating or exacerbating one financial crisis after the other. First the stock market and Nasdaq bubble, then the housing bubble, the credit bubble, the derivatives bubble and finally the banking and financial system bubble. Greenspan fuelled one bubble after the next by printing more money and lowering interest rates each time there was pressure in the economy.
     
    Every time there was a hearing in front of congressmen or senators Greenspan spoke his gobbledygook that no one understood. But they all  (except for Ron Paul) licked his boots and loved him since his money printing and unsound monetary policies created a false prosperity which all their voters believed was real.
     
    Now, 43 years after his essay praising the virtues of gold, Greenspan just said in a speech that “Gold is the ultimate currency”. But during his 19 years as chairman of the Fed he acted like printed paper was the ultimate currency. This is why you can never, ever trust a politician. Political power totally corrupts human beings and whatever integrity, honesty or soundness they had before totally disappears as soon as they take on the political mantle. Bernanke who was once an honest academic is continuing in exactly the same tracks and is doing all he can to make the financial crisis bigger by printing trillions of dollars.
     
    China understands gold
    China has recently announced that they have increased their gold reserves by 76% to 1054 tons. But that is just the beginning. China is likely to be a major buyer of gold for the foreseeable future. Chinese government officials who normally keep a low profile have recently become more vociferous about the total mismanagement of the US economy and the US dollar. China is now openly criticising US monetary policy. The former vice-chairman of the Standing Committee, Mr Cheng Siwei, that China is dismayed by the Fed’s credit easing (as reported by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph). Mr Cheng said: “If they keep printing money to buy bonds it will lead to inflation and after a year or two the dollar will fall hard”. He went on to say: ” We will diversify incremental reserves into Euros, Yen and other currencies. Gold is definitively an alternative but when we buy the price goes up. We have to do it carefully so as not to stimulate markets”.
     
    So China buys other currencies, they use their reserves to buy real assets, especially in the ground, in Africa, South America and other continents and they buy gold. The Chinese government understands what is happening in the world and they have a long term plan to apply their reserves to areas which have real value and which will benefit their economy for years to come. Of course, they have the advantage of not having to worry about short term pressures such as being re-elected.
     
    China is promoting gold and silver on state television. They are urging their people to buy gold and especially silver which they consider very cheap currently (we agree). They are also buying gold with their reserves and they are getting out of the dollar as quickly as they can. The message can’t be more clear. China with its $2 trillion of reserves and with a population of 1.3 billion are major buyers of gold and silver. The effect of this is that the gold price is underwritten for some time to come.
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    Asia versus the USA
    China is a major buyer of gold as we have just outlined. So is India where the tradition to buy gold makes the country the biggest jewellery buyer in the world by a big margin. In 2008 India bought circa 700 tons of gold or 25% of total supplies.
     
    China and India together have a population of almost 2.5 billion people who buy gold and put their savings in gold and jewellery. In addition the Chinese government is a major buyer of gold. Against that, there are 300 million Americans and most of them don’t understand gold or the value of it.  Add to that the US government which hasn’t got a clue about real money. Instead they believe that all their financial problems, all their deficits and all their bubbles can be solved by pressing a button and creating a few more $ trillions of paper that they call money.
     
    So who should we back, the 2.5 billion responsible and thrifty Chinese and Indians or the irresponsible US government? Not a very difficult choice!

     
    “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – ZERO”  - Voltaire 1729

Disclaimer – I am not a financial advisor. This is not an advice to buy, sell or hold any stocks or bonds or any precious metals.

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September 14, 2009 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Insiders Sell Like There’s No Tomorrow!

  • Is this 50+% stock market rally sustainable? Is it a real or manipulated rally? There are persistent rumors of banking collapse 2.0 and a new monetary (gold back?) system. Draw your own conclusions. CNNMoney.com reports :
     
    Can hundreds of stock-selling insiders be wrong? The stock market has mounted an historic rally since it hit a low in March. The S&P 500 is up 55%, as U.S. job losses have slowed and credit markets have stabilized. But against that improving backdrop, one indicator has turned distinctly bearish: Corporate officers and directors have been selling shares at a pace last seen just before the onset of the subprime malaise two years ago.
     
    While a wave of insider selling doesn’t necessarily foretell a stock market downturn, it suggests that those with the first read on business trends don’t believe current stock prices are justified by economic fundamentals. “It’s not a very complicated story,” said Charles Biderman, who runs market research firm Trim Tabs. “Insiders know better than you and me. If prices are too high, they sell.”
     
    Biderman, who says there were $31 worth of insider stock sales in August for every $1 of insider buys, isn’t the only one who has taken note. Ben Silverman, director of research at the InsiderScore.com web site that tracks trading action, said insiders are selling at their most aggressive clip since the summer of 2007.
     
    Silverman said the “orgy of selling” is noteworthy because corporate insiders were aggressive buyers of the market’s spring dip. The S&P 500 dropped as low as 666 in early March before the recent rally took it back above 1,000. “That was a great call,” Silverman said. “They were buying when prices were low, so it makes sense to look at what they’re doing now that prices are higher.”
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    Adding to the flurry of stock sales, companies are selling stock to the public at a brisk clip while buybacks have tailed off. All told, U.S. corporations have been net sellers of $105 billion of stock over the past four months, Biderman said.
     
    Insiders have managed to cash in on some of those offerings. Healthcare payment administrator Emdeon (
    EM), for instance, last month raised $155 million in an initial public offering. At the same time, selling shareholders led by private equity investor General Atlantic Partners raised $188 million. Though the wave of selling by insiders doesn’t necessarily predict a pullback in their stocks or the market as a whole, it’s hard to put a happy spin on the recent trends.
     
    “The disparity between buyers and sellers right now is vast,” said Silverman. “That’s the beauty of following insider trading — these guys are talking with their checkbooks.” 

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September 14, 2009 Posted by | Economics | , , , | Comments Off

9/11 and Hitler’s Reichstag Fire!

  • 27 February 1933, Hitler’s false flag Reichstag fire was used to override the German Constitution, blame the communists/terrorists and bring in fascism!
     
  • Doesn’t this sounds like what is happening to America since 9/11? None so blind as those who refuse to see. Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it! Keep in mind that the same Wall Street banksters, who financed Hitler, and their progeny are still in power. The Illuminati banksters!

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September 14, 2009 Posted by | GeoPolitics, History | , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Mandatory Vaccination and RFID Medical Bracelets!

  • Truth or lies? We will know soon!

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September 14, 2009 Posted by | EndTimes, Medicine & Health | , , , | Comments Off

Bee Gees: 9/11 is a Lie!

September 14, 2009 Posted by | GeoPolitics, History | , | 15 Comments

A Million March to US Capitol to Protest Against ‘Obama the Socialist’

Tens of thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against government spending!

Tens of thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against government spending!

  • Things are getting hotter in America! The country is not heading towards socialism but corporate fascism. Banksters are the real culprit behind this. Obama is merely a puppet of the banksters and the hidden Illuminati rulers. The Daily Mail UK reports :
      
    As many as one million people flooded into Washington for a massive rally organised by conservatives claiming that President Obama is driving America towards socialism. The size of the crowd – by far the biggest protest since the president took office in January – shocked the White House.
     
    Demonstrators massed outside Capitol Hill after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue waving placards and chanting ‘Enough, enough’. The focus of much of the anger was the president’s so-called ‘Obamacare’ plan to overhaul the U.S. health system. Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading ‘Go Green Recycle Congress’ and ‘I’m Not Your ATM’.’
     
    The protest on Saturday came as Mr Obama took his campaign for health reforms on the road, making his argument to a rally of 15,000 supporters in Minneapolis. Saying he was determined to push through a bill making health insurance more affordable, Mr Obama said: ‘I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it.
      
    ‘I will not waste time with those who think that it’s just good politics to kill healthcare.’ But in Washington, protester Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam veteran, said: ‘It’s going to cost too much money we don’t have.’ Another marcher shouted: ‘You want socialism? Go to Russia!’ 
     
    Terri Hall, 45, of Florida, said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending. ‘Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,’ she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was putting the country at risk.
     
    Anna Hayes, 58, a nurse from Fairfax County, stood on the Mall in 1981 for Reagan’s inauguration. ‘The same people were celebrating freedom,’ she said. ‘The president was fighting for the people then. I remember those years very well and fondly.’ Saying she was worried about ‘Obamacare,’Hayes explained: ‘This is the first rally I’ve been to that demonstrates against something, the first in my life. I just couldn’t stay home anymore.’
     
    Andrew Moylan, of the National Taxpayers Union, received a roar of approval after he told protesters: ‘Hell hath no fury like a taxpayer ignored.’  …. ’Republicans, Democrats and independents are stepping up and demanding we put our fiscal house in order,’ Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said.
     
    ‘I think the overriding message after years of borrowing, spending and bailouts is enough is enough.’ FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from across the country for what they billed as a ‘March on Washington.’
     
    Organisers said they had built on momentum from the April ‘tea party’ demonstrations held nationwide to protest at Mr Obama’s taxation policies, along with growing resentment over his economic stimulus packages and bank bailouts.

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September 14, 2009 Posted by | GeoPolitics, Social Trends | , , , , | 2 Comments

   

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