Military Muppet: TV Character Urges Israelis to Prepare for Strike on Iran!

A photo shows the cover of a new, emergency pamphlet being distributed nationwide by Israeli Army’s Home Front Command August 27, 2012 (Reuters/Israeli Defence Force)

• It appears the Satanic World War 3 is definitely on! Sep-Oct 2012?? Are you prepared or will you be caught off guard like the sheeple? Let’s hope the Illuminists mess up big time and fail in their attempts to start this war. After October, it appears the next schedule is April 2013. These Illuminists may think they are gods but they are not. They are really the seed of the serpent, the descendents of the fallen angels and women of Genesis 6.
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• Albert Pike’s Satanic World War 3 Plan 
  “The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion… more!
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• Military Muppet: TV character urges Israelis to prepare for strike on Iran! 
  by http://rt.com/ 
  A new emergency pamphlet in Israel instructs residents to prepare for the worst if Tel Aviv conducts a military strike on Iran. But the face on the brochure isn’t the country’s President or Prime Minister – it’s a Muppet.
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  The cover of the 15-page leaflet pictures a smiling Moishe Oofnik, the Israeli Muppet version of Oscar the Grouch. He’s the resident pessimist on Rechov Sumsum, Israel’s co-production of the long-running American children’s program ‘Sesame Street.’
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  Muppets on the popular show are known for teaching children numbers and the alphabet, but Moishe Oofnik has taken on a different job with this pamphlet – instructing Israelis how to react if their nation’s government launches a war against Iran.
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  The booklet, issued by the Israeli military, says that once air raid sirens sound, residents of the Jewish state would have between 30 seconds and three minutes to find cover before rockets hit their area. The brochure, which is being distributed across the country, also teaches Israelis how to prepare a safe room or shelter for emergency situations.
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  The furry Muppet puts a happy face on the warnings, though the issue is anything but lighthearted: Israeli ministers have estimated that up to 500 civilians could die in the conflict that would follow a strike on Iran.
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  The pamphlet comes in the wake of recent remarks by Israeli officials suggesting that Tel Aviv may soon launch a unilateral attack on Tehran’s nuclear program. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly favor a strike on Iran. Public statements and anonymous quotes to Israeli media in the past week have raised speculation that Israel may soon attack Iran.
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  The bellicose rhetoric comes over Israeli and Western allegations that Iran’s nuclear program is a cover for the development of atomic weapons, while Tehran claims the facilities are for civilian purposes.
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  Less than two weeks ago, Netanyahu announced that negotiations with Iran had “failed,” and claimed that Israel will attack Iran in the near future, with or without US consent.
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  The Israeli Defense Minister also supports military action against Iran: “Barak is advocating for action and the defense establishment is investing billions to prepare for an Israeli military operation,” an Israeli official told Ynet News.
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  But the ambition to set back Iran’s nuclear program could come at a high cost to Israel’s citizens, causing many Israelis to protest a potential attack. The country’s president also recently spoke out against a unilateral strike against Iran.
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  “It’s clear to us that we can’t do it alone. We can only delay [Iran's progress]. Thus it’s clear to us that we need to go together with America,” Shimon Peres told Israel’s Channel Two television.
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  Iran has promised to retaliate against in Israeli attack in what could lead to a wider regional war among several different forces. Tel Aviv fears that Tehran could induce its Hezbollah guerrilla allies in Lebanon and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip to launch rocket strikes against Israel if Iran were attacked.
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  As the Israeli government prepares for the worst, it is urging residents to have a “family talk” about preparing for a national emergency. But it’s not just pamphlets that indicate that an attack may be imminent – Israel increased the distribution of gas masks and other protective gear to the public several weeks ago.
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  “There are always innovations the public needs to know about, it doesn’t mean anything is going to happen today, tomorrow or the next day,” an Israeli military source told Reuters.

Source: http://whatreallyhappened.com/

“Iran doesn’t frighten me and I don’t think it should frighten the American people. They don’t have a bomb. They haven’t made a decision to build one. They don’t have the means to deliver one. And the Israelis have 300 atomic bombs! I mean who presents the existential threat to whom?” - Pat Buchanan (7:58 onwards)

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Dave Chrisite & Kesha Rogers: The Dangers of Thermonuclear World War Under Obama! Get Obama Out Now To Rebuild The Nation!

• Dave Christie, member of the national slate of LPAC endorsed candidates, reiterates the necessity of removing Obama now in order to prevent thermonuclear war and rebuild the nation.
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• Kesha Rogers, LaRouchePAC endorsed candidate and Democratic Party Nominee for TX-22, issues a call to arms for American citizens to dig deep and find the courage necessary to remove President Obama from office now before he has time to start thermonuclear war.

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Alfred Adask: The U.S. is Being Destroyed Right Before Our Very Eyes!

Stolen Sovereignty: IMF’s Grand Greek Heist !

Obama Puts Off Iran Invasion Until November?!

Into The Meat Grinder: A “Market Meltdown The Likes of Which We’ve Never Seen Is Upon Us”!

• Into the Meat Grinder: A “Market Meltdown the Likes of Which We’ve Never Seen Is Upon Us”! 
  by Mac Slavo, http://www.shtfplan.com/ 
  America is about to be put through the meat grinder and despite what President Obama or Governor Mitt Romney say they will do to fix the fundamental issues facing our country, the end result is inevitable. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats can change what’s coming, because the fact is, they are equally responsible for where we are today.
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  As Charlie McGrath of Wide Awake News notes, it’s no longer just bloggers  and alternative media in the fringe corners of the internet warning about the coming collapse of life in America as we have come to know it. The crisis of reality is being forecast by some of the most elite institutions and insiders in the world, and we’d better be paying attention.
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  I want to give you a few predictions and then tell I’ll you who they’re from. It might surprise you.
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  Prediction number 1: We’re heading headlong into a financial meat grinder.
  Prediction number 2: We’re about to plunge off a financial cliff.
  Prediction number 3: Major market meltdown the likes of which we’ve never seen is upon on us.
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  This wasn’t from some alternative media site or somebody that’s peddling gloom and doom. The first one is from JP Morgan, the second from Ben Bernanke, and the third was from Steven Rattner, former Obama Treasury adviser.
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  The IMF and the US Congressional budget office are both warning about the largest tax increase and the largest spending cut in history hitting this country. They’re doing this for a reason. It isn’t because it’s not going to happen. It is because it’s going to happen.
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  When it all comes crashing down, when it all comes falling apart, when the sovereign debt landmine explodes around this planet we will be sitting here in a deflationary spiral, the likes of which we have never seen. They will be sitting there ready to swoop in and grab up everything at bargain basement, bottom of the dollar prices. It will be the Tulip bubble all over again. You will be sitting there holding nothing and then blaming your neighbor for being here.
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  These same criminal elite that promised to end wars, that promised to audit the Federal Reserve, that promised to get our financial house in order, are continuing to expand the power, the role and the control of government.
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  At this point it is our position that there is nothing – absolutely nothing – that will be done to change the course on which we’ve embarked over the last several decades. The consequences of years of spending, borrowing and centralization of control cannot be reversed. The system as it exists today, where we enjoy relative wealth, stability and peace, will inevitably experience a complete reset.
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  The elite know this is coming, as evidenced by their recent actions and the whispers on Wall Street and throughout the upper echelons of finance and government.

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Israeli Lies Unchecked, Palestinian Perspectives Censored on BBC!

• Israeli lies unchecked, Palestinian perspectives censored on BBC! 
  by Amena Saleem, http://www.globalresearch.ca/ 
  Israeli oppression of Palestinians not suitable for broadcast by BBC. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler)
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  One of the most obvious examples of bias by the BBC is the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s habit of inviting Israeli politicians or the Israeli government spokesperson, Mark Regev, onto its programs to speak without challenge. Meanwhile, Palestinians and those who would convey a Palestinian perspective are not given the same opportunity. Film director Ken Loach recently learned that for the BBC, Palestine remains a taboo.
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  On 23 July, Loach was at the Royal Albert Hall in London to listen to a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The orchestra consists of Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians, and is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, who formed the orchestra in 1999 with the late Palestinian academic and activist Edward Said.
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  So when Loach was asked during the intermission for an interview by BBC Proms, which was recording the concert for later broadcast, he considered it reasonable to air his thoughts on the nature of the orchestra as well as the music.
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  Loach said that he spoke to the BBC journalist for five minutes, during which time he said: “Seeing Israelis and Arabs, including Palestinians, sitting side by side on the stage makes us confront the issue of the continuing oppression of the Palestinian people, and I shall be thinking of them when I hear the music tonight.”
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  These were typically compassionate words from a director whose films, including Land and Freedom about the revolutionaries who fought in the Spanish Civil War, often reflect his keen sense of justice.
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  However, for the BBC, which in the last six months has alternately denied the existence of Palestine and then the fact of Israel’s occupation, the mere mention of the fact of the Palestinian people’s oppression was too controversial to broadcast.
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  BBC admits to censorship
  Loach received a phone call from the program producers informing him that his interview would be cut “due to the music over-running.” He sent an email to the BBC, which has been seen by this writer, stating:
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  “Thank you for letting me know about the broadcast and the need to shorten the interview. Of course I understand about length. But I would ask you to include my brief remarks about the orchestra and the Palestinians. As an opponent of oppression and tyranny I think Ludwig [van Beethoven] would have approved. It was one of the reasons I agreed to take part. I’m happy if you need to reduce my thoughts on the music itself.”
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  His email was ignored and the interview was broadcast three days later on BBC Proms with his observation about the oppression of the Palestinian people removed. The rest of the interview remained intact.
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  Loach said: “I called the producer, Oliver MacFarlane, who admitted they had deliberately cut the line about Palestine. He said if they’d included it they would have had to have a balancing interview. I wasn’t pleased and I responded robustly.”
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  When asked to respond to this, a BBC spokesperson stated: “As part of the BBC’s comprehensive music television coverage of The Proms, esteemed filmmaker Ken Loach was invited to comment on his personal passion for Beethoven, given the time slot available and the fact that this was a music television programme, the most editorially relevant sections of Mr. Loach’s interview were used in the final edit.”
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  Israeli spokespersons unchallenged
  But if it was the case that the BBC did feel the need to “balance” Loach’s simple words about the ongoing oppression of the Palestinians, it has absolutely no qualms about airing, totally unopposed, the wild, often lurid, mostly fact-free statements made by Israeli ministers and spokespeople.
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  Take, for example, James Naughtie’s interview with Danny Ayalon on Radio 4’s Today program on 16 January 2012. The interview was conducted the day after the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called on Israel to end its occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories and to end its violence against civilians.
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  This strong UN criticism of Israel was completely ignored by Naughtie, who focused on Iran with the unquestioned premise of the interview being that Iran is, without a doubt, developing nuclear weapons and consequently poses a grave threat to Israel.
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  Ayalon had been on air for less than a second when he said: “What we see here is a drive, a relentless push by Iran to illegally acquire and develop nuclear weapons and for them it’s not just a means, it’s a way to reach hegemony to continue with their very dangerous and radical approach.”
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  He went on to say: “Today Iran is the international hub of terror in the world.”
  This was clearly Israeli propaganda; Ayalon used the BBC to loudly bang the drums of war against Iran. Yet Naughtie neither challenged his unfounded opinions, which were presented as facts, nor brought in someone to present an alternative viewpoint.
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  Ayalon’s wild accusations, so much more controversial than Loach’s mild remarks, were certainly not cut for lack of a “balancing interview.” Nor was Ayalon questioned about Israel’s widely suspected nuclear arsenal or about Israel’s staunch refusal to allow international weapons inspections.
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Exposed: IDF Abuses Kids, Uses Children as Human Shield !

• “Mr. Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish industrialist born in New York, wrote in the Economic Council Letter published there of October 15 1947: “These Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor a historic connection with Palestine. Their ancestors were not inhabitants of the Promised Land. They are the direct descendants of the people of the Khazar Kingdom. The Khazars were a non-Semitic, Turko-Mongolian tribe.” Mr. Freedman was challenged, unwisely, by a Zionist objector; he invited his challenger to go with him to the Jewish room of the New York Public Library. There they could together examine the Jewish Encyclopedia volume I pp. 1-12, and the published works of Graetz, Dubnow, Friedlander, Raisin and many other noted Jewish historians, which, as well as other non-Jewish authorities, “establish the fact beyond all possible doubt”.’
  ~ Somewhere South of Suez (1950) pp349-350.”

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing by Zionist ’666′ Israel !!!

Revelation 2:9 – …. and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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It’s Not Just The U.S.: Food Inflation will Affect Entire Globe in 2013!

• It’s not just the U.S. – Food inflation will affect entire globe in 2013! 
  by J. D. Heyes, http://www.naturalnews.com/
  Grocery prices in the United States have risen steadily for months now, but  because of the drought here at home and other global market forces, food costs  are set to skyrocket around the world as well, say experts.
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  In addition  to parched farmland throughout much of the U.S. and near the Black Sea, weak  monsoons in India and ongoing hunger across wide swaths of Africa will all  combine to drive food prices higher next year.
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  “We have had quite a few  climate events this year that will lead to very poor harvests, notably in the  United States with corn or in Russia with soja,” Philippe Pinta of the French  Farmer’s Federation warned recently.
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  If conditions persist beyond  this year, analysts note, it could be a repeat of 2007-2008, when food prices  soared more than six percent to a 25-year high, according to industry analysts  and reports at the time.
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  A year later, the UN said, prices had peaked to  30-year highs and in December 2010 the food price index rose above its 2008 peak  before dropping to an 11-month low in October 2011.
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  Memphis,  Tennessee-based Informa said a study based on 20 years’ worth of food price data  blamed soaring non-farm costs such as “record oil prices and soaring consumer  demand from the world economy, notably the emerging middle class in Asia,” were  largely at fault, Reuters reported.
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  We’ve seen this  before
  Today, a similar combination of things, combined with a  weather element, is once more affecting world food prices. While  oil has retreated in recent days, prices remain high despite lower demand,  especially from the U.S., the world’s largest oil consumer. That has translated  into higher costs for fuel that farmers must pay to harvest and transport their  crops.
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  A drought continues to grip much of the Midwestern United States,  where corn production has fallen to its lowest level in six years, according to  the Department of Agriculture, where diminished corn and soybean  production will likely contribute to higher costs.
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  In India, meanwhile,  monsoon rains fell more than 15 percent below normal by mid-August, meaning  Asian rice prices are likely  to increase by as much as 10 percent in the coming months.
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  Drought  conditions have also hit parts of Africa’s Sahel region, causing food shortages.  In fact, the relief agency World Vision Australia said 18 million people  need food assistance in  Niger, Mali, Chad, Mauritania and Senegal.
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  If conditions don’t change, it  “could affect the crop prospects and may have an impact on prices of essential  commodities,” Kuruppasserry Varkey Thomas, India’s agriculture minister, told  the Bangkok Times.
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Jack Mintz: U.S. Worse Than Europe!

• Jack Mintz: U.S. worse than Europe! 
  by Jack M. Mintz, http://opinion.financialpost.com/
  EU is dealing with its fiscal crisis, but U.S. seems paralyzed 
  At a European conference on the sovereign-debt crises that I ­attended this week, my overwhelming conclusion, after listening to many experts, is that the U.S. is in far more trouble than Europe.
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  This was brought home by calculations presented by Larry Kotlikoff of Boston University at a lecture held at the International Institute of Public Finance, the biggest gathering of public-finance experts in the world. Greece may be bankrupt, but the U.S. looks like a giant Ponzi scheme.
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  Kotlikoff’s calculations show that U.S. unfunded liabilities total US$222-trillion, the highest of all major OECD countries (12% of the time value of U.S. GDP) once accounting for monetary public debt, Social Security deficits and public-health-care unfunded liabilities. One can quibble with some of the calculations, but no one can doubt that the U.S. is in serious fiscal trouble, more so than any other developed economy.
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  The U.S. reflects the most extreme case of intergenerational inequality. Generation after generation has participated in a Ponzi game, leaving younger taxpayers to pick up the tab for money effectively borrowed by older generations to spend on unfunded benefits. Kotlikoff labelled such practices as “child fiscal abuse,” a rather strong term but not far from the truth.
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  Euroland is in a fiscal crisis too, but it is trying harder to deal with its debt problem. As another speaker pointed out, market interest and credit default rates suggest more than a 50% probability that one or two countries will leave the euro within the next three years. An unmanaged exit from the euro, especially by a large country such as Spain, could result in a global credit crunch, since sovereign debt held by banks would be sharply marked down in value.
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  Yet, the answer to the fiscal dilemma is not another fiscal stimulus that adds to a mountain of public debt, as pushed by some economists like Paul Krugman. Instead, debt-ridden economies must embrace structural reforms to the public sector that will lead to better economic growth without pushing economies into a recession.
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  The Europeans are slowly addressing their problems by undertaking significant and painful reforms, including cuts to pension benefits, better tax structures, labour-market policies and significant cuts to public-sector costs. Ireland has been the best example of structural reform that is having some positive impact, despite its record deficits. Italy has been cutting spending and deficits and now runs a significant primary surplus, unlike the United States.
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Rick Rule: The Frightening Global Ponzi Scheme Continues!

• Rick Rule – The Frightening Global Ponzi Scheme Continues! 
  by www.kingworldnews.com
  Today Rick Rule told King World News the frightening global Ponzi scheme continues.  Rule also stated that he thinks, “… it’s very, very scary.”  Rule, who is now part of Sprott Asset Management, also believes the current action in gold, “… will lead to a much stronger gold market.”
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  Rule also warned about the ongoing bank run in Europe:  “… about 5% of the retail deposits in Spanish banks have been pulled out of the banks in the last two weeks.”  But first, here is what Rule had to say regarding the gold market:  “I’ve looked at a lot of speculation concerning the reason for the increase in the gold price in the last two or three weeks.  There are a lot of factors involved.  Obviously there is some fear involved, and what I think is really healthy, in terms of the price increase, is that it doesn’t seem to have come about from an increase in institutional demand, that is from hot money.”
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  “It doesn’t seem to be a momentum or greed trade, but rather a fear trade.  These are concerns about international bank solvency or concerns about what might happen at Jackson Hole, or what might happen with quantitative easing.  I think it’s constructive that the gold price is moving on fundamental news, rather than the way it moved in 2010, which was a response to institutional momentum buying. This will lead to a much stronger gold market….
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Spain’s Economic Collapse Results In Whopping 5% Deposit Outflow In July!

Spain’s monthly deposit outflows, which in July hit the highest amount ever, and where the YTD deposit outflow is now the highest on record. …nobody in Spain got the June 29 Euro summit memo that “Europe is fixed”…

• Spain’s Economic Collapse Results In Whopping 5% Deposit Outflow In July! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  Yesterday, Spain was kind enough to advise those who track its economy, that things in 2010 and 2011 were in fact worse than had been reported, following an adjustment to both 2010 and 2011 GDP “historical” data. Today, we learn that Q2 data (also pending further downward adjustments), contracted by 0.4% sequentially in Q2, in line with expectations, but somehow, and we have to figure out the math on this, the drop on a Year over Year basis was far worse than expected, printing at -1.3% on expectations of just a -1.0% decline.
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  However, while its economic collapse is well known by all, the surprise came in the deposits department which imploded by a whopping 5% in July, plunging to 1.509 trillion euros at end-July from 1.583 trillion in the previous month. Keep in mind this is after the June 29 European summit which supposedly fixed everything. Turns out it didn’t, and the people are no longer stupid enough to believe anything Europe’s pathological liar politicians spew.The good news: Greek deposits saw a dead cat bounce after collapsing by ridiculous amounts in the past several years: at this point anyone who puts their money in Greek banks must surely realize that the probability of getting even one cent back is equal odds with going to Vegas and at least having a good time while watching one’s money burn.
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  Reuters first has some data on Spain’s relentless depression:
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  Spain’s economy shrank further in the second quarter of the year and a slump in domestic spending accelerated, signalling a protracted recession as the country presses on with efforts to slash its public deficit.
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  Gross domestic product fell by 0.4 percent in the second quarter of the year, according to final data that confirmed a preliminary reading. But on an annual basis it dropped by 1.3 percent, worse than initial estimates of 1.0 percent.
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Eric Sprott Cautions Investors To Fear The Financial System!

Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules!

• Eric Sprott Cautions Investors to Fear the Financial System! 
  by JT Long of The Gold Report, http://www.streetwisereports.com/ 
  The dire economic situation that persists globally despite the best efforts of central planners to make things seem normal leads Sprott Inc.’s legendary Chairman Eric Sprott to broadcast a loud message of caution: “Fear the financial system.” In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Sprott says it’s time for people to take matters into their own hands and that means pushing further and further into precious metals equities as well as physical gold and silver. With 80% of his own portfolio in that arena, he certainly puts his money where his mouth is.
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  The Gold Report: You’ve stated before that the price of gold should be above $3,200/ounce (oz) and the price of silver above $200/oz but market manipulation keeps both metals artificially low. Who is manipulating it?
  Eric Sprott: I suspect the G6 central banks have a hand in subverting the gold price because as the canary in the coal mine, high gold prices might tip everyone off to the severity of the ongoing financial crisis. I don’t think anyone can doubt that we’re in the middle of a financial crisis, primarily in the banking system, when month after month one program after another is rolled out to save somebody, whether it’s Long-Term Refinancing Operations (LTROs), quantitative easings (QEs), bank bailouts in Spain or rollovers of debt in Greece.
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  TGR: Are you saying that the gold price manipulation is a new phenomenon?
  ES: In the 1960s, the London Gold Pool was trying to suppress the price of gold but lost that battle, and the price rocketed up. My own analysis of the physical supply and demand for gold suggests a dramatic increase in demand over the last 12 years—a 2,500 ton net change at a minimum. This is in the 4,000 ton/year gold market, which hasn’t increased in the past 12 years. The supply has basically been static. Yet we have exchange traded funds and central banks buying. You have to ask yourself where all the gold’s coming from with all these new sources of demand, because mine supply over that period is negligible.
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  I can only conclude that acting in concert, the G6 central banks are supplying that gold from their reserves by leasing the central bank gold into the gold market. Of course, they pretend they still own it, because the item on their balance sheet is now called “gold and gold receivables.” The receivable is what they’ve loaned to a bullion bank, but it’s actually been sold into the market and consumed and won’t be coming back again. To buy it back physically would drive the price absolutely crazy.
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  That’s why I think the price of gold should be considerably higher than it is, and why I believe, much as anyone in the Gold Anti-Trust Action (GATA) organization, that there’s been continual pressure from the central banks in cooperation with bullion banks to keep the price down.
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  TGR: Does the fact that the silver market is so much smaller than the gold market make it easier to manipulate?
  ES: I think it’s more easily manipulated; it doesn’t take as many dollars in the paper silver market because it doesn’t trade as many dollars as the gold market would. For example, when silver hit $49.50/oz in the Q2/11, on some days silver traded a billion ounces of paper a day where the mine supply on a yearly basis is 900 million ounces (Moz) and probably the amount available for investment is about 200 Moz.
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Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Worse?!

Whispers on Wall Street: Major Financial House Is Going To Implode… Could It Be Morgan Stanley?

Global implosion is coming!

• Whispers on Wall Street: Major Financial House Is Going to Implode… Could It Be Morgan Stanley? 
  by Mac Slavo, http://www.shtfplan.com/ 
  Before the collapse of mega behemoth Bear Stearns there were rumors that a major Wall Street firm had bitten off more than it could chew. Mainstream media, for the most part, completely ignored the rumors, with some financial experts like CNBC’s premier Wall Street insider Jim Cramer literally screaming at viewers on the March 11, 2008 airing of Mad Money in which he vehemently denied any problems saying that the company was “fine.”
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  Just a few days later Bear Stearns collapsed into heap of rubble and was offered up for sale at just $2 a share to JP Morgan Chase. This incident is widely believed to have been the catalyst that kicked off what we now refer to as the sub prime mortgage collapse.
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  In the last few months we’ve started receiving signals similar to what contrarian observers were seeing prior to the Bear Stearns collapse.
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  Big money flows out of financial stocks by key financiers like George Soros and John Paulson were reported just last week and tens of billions of dollars have been withdrawn from the European banking system since Spring. The government for its part, has taken steps to lock down the banking system so that not only can customers no longer withdraw funds from money market accounts in the middle of a panic, but a recent federal court case set a new precedent that has essentially given the go ahead for banks and investment firms to use segregated customer deposit accounts to engage in highly risky trading strategies without the threat of ever being prosecuted.
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  Now, a report from analysis firm Beacon Equity Research suggests that there is an unusually high amount of chatter on Wall Street surrounding the possibility of another major financial collapse in the making. When the Department of Homeland Security or other intelligence services hear chatter they often raise the terror alert level, deploy federal SWAT teams and go on complete lock-down.
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  Thus, we should consider this latest piece of intel from those with their fingers on the pulse of Wall Street as a potential game changer:
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  We can make predictions or forecasts based on rumors and news, and often times we’ll be berated for acting to protect ourselves based on this information. Often, even rumors and chatter have been responsible for driving a particular stock or market up or down, so the very news itself, whether true or not, may set the ball in motion.
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  But, the fact of the matter is that neither the SEC nor Ben Bernanke nor Tim Geithner nor the White House nor mainstream financial pundits nor Wall Street insiders will ever tell us ahead of time that billions of dollars of our wealth is about to be wiped out. We will only find out after the fact.
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