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US uses ISIS card after Iraq nation building suffered Shiite majority, the Baghdad Parliament becoming unmanageable therefore required the Langley second card of hired hidden mercenaries to capture oil fields and to steal central bank funds while maintaining a high pitched fear level (beheadings on television fully orchestrated, the proof being zero blood spurts from the neck area in doctored films)
US pretends to push Ruble currency down and USDollar up, when the USD is dying a horrible death from lost control, fractured platforms, and knee-jerk reactions toward safe haven, as the Petro-Dollar has been quietly dismantled without fanfare
US tells of Russians selling Gold reserves to manage Ruble pain, while the Kremlin acquires Gold from energy trade payments and spends its toxic USTreasury Bonds held in reserves (the exact opposite)
US debt rating agencies cut Russian debt to junk, while the USGovt suspended the debt limit and runs up debt past the $18 trillion mark, never to be repaid, and while the USGovt debt is supported by QE bond monetization and confiscation of Japanese Govt pension funds (prompting attention on which nation is busted broke and barren, namely the accuser)
US talks of BRICS as crippled nations destined to falter, when they are strong, with ample resources, not much debt, ample cheap labor, improved education, and utterly huge reserves (like over 65% of global reserve wealth)
WANKA, Good Mooorning, re 9:28
Regarding a 3.5% mortgage? It sure does sound cheap, but if the property value drops by 5%, the low rate ends up to be a real 8.5%. In other words, the property has to go up by 3.5% a year.
But then again it does not matter if someone needs a house loan and its like a car loan. You pay the interest and accept the falling value of the car.
If houses revert back to a consumer product, that would be another reversal of the past, when houses (instead of gold) used as savings accounts.
Bad timing?
Japan to widen hunt for methane hydrate
TOKYO — Japan will step up its search for methane hydrate in fiscal 2015, expanding both seabed and drilling surveys toward a goal of commercializing the energy source as early as 2023.
Seabed exploration will be carried out in two more areas near Hokkaido, raising the total to eight. And samples will be drilled for in more than 10 locations within the Sea of Japan, including areas off the country’s central and western regions.
The government included methane hydrate development in an economic stimulus package approved by the cabinet Dec. 27. It will select specific areas for extraction and plans to allocate just under 2 billion yen ($16.4 million) to the effort in the fiscal 2014 supplementary budget.
Methane hydrate, often called flammable ice, can be found both near the surface of the ocean floor and buried deeper down. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry successfully extracted the latter type in the Pacific Ocean off Aichi Prefecture in March 2013, but many limiting factors remain in terms of technology and cost.
The ministry has announced that it successfully obtained samples Dec. 25 from three locations near the surface of the Sea of Japan’s floor. This type of methane hydrate is expected to be cheaper to extract than that deeper down
http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Japan-to-widen-hunt-for-methane-hydrate
@Buygold re your…Ten Year yielding 1.968%
It sure is interesting looking at all the distortions TPTB have created to keep the GAME going. The Dopey/Dollar has been going straight up while interest rates are falling, as bonds keep rising.
Gold doing good with a higher dollar is also strange. One of the TWO are lying. Or reality is taking hold gradually. One ounce of Gold SHOULD have a lot more purchasing power than $1200 chump change dollars.
Maybe that second “eye wall” or meltdown II is getting close and it hits the economy. I always felt the actions TPTB took to halt the 2008 meltdown were a temporary fix. They never addressed the actual problems.
USD Straight Up:
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=CURRENCIES&p=w1
Bonds, straight up is DOWN for rates:
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=BONDS&p=w1
macroman3
Happy New Year! It’s nice to be missed. I am here nearly every day.
Praying for change, praying that it is not too painful, and praying that I survive it unscathed. Wondering if I will live to see a new dawn, or if the sun will set for many years.
This is my “go to” website, “numero uno”, “top of the list”. Actually, it is the only website I visit regularly, except for email and to see if I have anything left in Scottrade. Most important news is presented here — financial, political, health, etc. Then I sometimes visit the sites that I learn about here.
Sorry to bore you — but you asked me to sound off. 🙂
Good morning Oasis
International Tower Hill Mines Announces Progress on Livengood Gold Project Optimization and Establishes Work Plans for 2015
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/international-tower-hill-mines-announces-130000850.html
Nevada Sunrise Announces 2015 Exploration Program at Kinsley Mountain, Nevada
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nevada-sunrise-announces-2015-exploration-130200915.html
Ten Year yielding 1.968%
Not exactly signifying a strong economy.
Gundlach says 1.31% to be tested. I believe him.
macroman3
re Joe Cocker
can highly recomend both the last CD Fire it Up and the DVD of Fire it Up Live, filmed in Cologne in Apr 2013….DVD is superb.
Macro
What do you mean shell shocked from the drive lol did you take the coast or 5 through it? Oregon reminds me of a time lapse compared to Calif some good some bad. Lots of green but lots of rain and winters are strange. Been there when it snowed hailed and rained all in the same day and was snowed in for three days in Astoria. After living or visiting in Wisconsin I thought I saw it all but never got snowed in before and power out due to felled trees in a blizzard. That was in late 60s. In 90s saw houses people just left maybe from property taxes or jobs don’t know in Bend. Good place to pick up supplies no tax or wasn’t then just property I think. PM supplies I mean.
Maya, gata a feeling yer baiting me again. Went for Tuesday Afternoon for the rally tomorrow but ended up with “Waiting for Godot” for BG
That cattle catcher has ment written all over it…
Did someone say Insomnia?
DJmm is giving me flashbacks of late night radio… 1972- NYC- “Allison Steele, The Night Bird” on WNEW-FM. I was in the Army in NJ, listening…
DJ Request line: Moody Blues…. something from “Days of Future Past”.
And while we’re reminiscing, a tip of the hat to Ment’s old Dumpster… The Dumpster Train… “The Galloping Goose”
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=505705
Let’s (not) forget, TCG, mountaingold, moosehama, bla bla bla
Should I miss some more?
New year, time for a sound off, we folks need to be in the loop to find the other side…
Let’s hear y’all…Alex, Aspengold, aufever, (the witch), Dusty, Floater, Golden Maples, greensea, warren, all them downunder folks: Ozi, ferret, Lifeboat, GT1.
Margaret can’t keep y’all from swirling the drain the wrong way.
Even larryc needs to put in an Aye aye if he finds Farmboy.
I was in Bend OR last week and was so shellshocked from the drive I forgot to look for Bill Arris aka goldballoon in the phone book. My Bad.
Now Gundlach seems to be acquiring some medicinal herbs that are higher than Aspen (where is that dude from Aspen?)
The scenery is good tho…
Dang it all, DJmm was looking for a theme tonight and up popped a Maddog with a winedoc malaise…insomnia
Ode to Joe Cocker RIP….Dec 22, first news I got on holiday. Wished I’d seen him in Kelowna, top 3 shoulda coulda woulda…
Is the challenge to Boehner for Speaker, why they have let the SM go ?????
Louie Gohmert Reveals ‘Real Intimidation’ Happening in Speaker Battle
News
Email from tea party. If your representatives are republican you might want to call that number.
hen, if your Representative is a Republican, please call the Capitol switchboard at 1 (855) 398-4323, and urge your representative to vote against John Boehner!
We, the American people, sent a resounding message to Washington last November. We made it crystal clear that we are sick and tired of “politics as usual.”
We want real, lasting change!
Unfortunately, John Boehner did not get that message. He’s planning to continue his shameful legacy of compromise and surrender on everything from Obamacare to executive amnesty.
It’s time for “We the People” to show him the door. And now we have the chance to do just that.
Please, give whatever you can right now to help us keep the pressure on.
This is the same Speaker Boehner who said just a year ago that the Tea Party has “lost all credibility.” He thinks we are nothing but a group of cranks and radicals.
Every time he has the chance to stand up for conservative principles, he folds like a cheap suit, claiming that doing so is “good politics.”
He did it on defunding Obamacare. He did it on spending. He did it on executive amnesty. The list goes on and on.
He has lost touch with the American people, plain and simple. It’s time for him to go.
Please chip in whatever you can right now.
As we told you yesterday, Congressmen Louie Gohmert and Ted Yoho have both courageously decided to challenge John Boehner for the Speaker’s gavel.
It is absolutely imperative that Tea Party activists across America rally to support these men – and we need your help to ensure that they do!
Tea Party Patriots is driving hundreds of calls to Capitol Hill every day. Our activists are demanding that their Representatives refuse to vote for John Boehner and his big government agenda.
Commish
That goes on a lot through the country because of built in biases or even ignorance of things. They used to think Autism was something mom did, or even some learning issues like dyslexia wasn’t a physical thing or didn’t see how medical issues ” something medicine did ” caused it like high forceps during birth, oxygen deprivation or medicines doctors may have given them. Then we have vaccines and that denial. There has been a lot of detriment to children and families in general because of ” their own (courts) misinformation history will call superstitions.
With more people landing here we will see more of it because other countries may have their own beliefs or superstitions. There is a case nurses are aware of where a three year old Hmong girl was taken from her home because the parents believed her seizures were caused by someone slamming the door too loud and to do with spirits. The child died in foster care from a seizure.
Then there is a fine line between it all where you know a child could be saved and if you don’t act the child will die. If a adult chooses alternative anything including religious or spiritual beliefs that’s one thing but with children the state can play parents many times resulting in a disaster. Again there’s a fine line.
Richard640 @ 18:13
Kunstler is well worth reading. I don’t believe anyone has all the answers … except maybe THE BIG GUY. 😉
I pay no attention to Kunstlers predictions-what I enjoy is his commentary on the social scene in america as in=
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