I have noticed a pattern lately of gold’s price drifting lower after COMEX closes… then trend, or even surge, higher when it opens.

I could speculate what it means, but I have given that up.

She’s Back!

JAMES KUNSTLER

And so, from the dormant volcano that is American politics, out flies Hillary, like Rodan the Flying Reptile pretending to be Granny Goose. Now that she is officially flapping around the electorate, the excitable mainstream press reports the initial caw-caw-cawing of her campaign: it will be “based on diversity, discipline and humbleness.” These are endearing qualities in any giant flying reptile, and reassuring to voters who might otherwise fear something a bit darker on the wing.

The Elmer Fudd in the piece at the moment, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, did get off a clever first shot at the flying behemoth when he cracked that “the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families,” but it seems to have only provoked a deeper show of humility from the target. She’ll be starting a “listening campaign” to detect rustles of discontent as she banks over the cornfields of Iowa cawing platitudes across the sky, e.g. “Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times.”

Point of fact: no they haven’t. They are still strewn over the landscape with the economic equivalent of sucking chest wounds, but perhaps a few of them have noticed with vicarious satisfaction the astounding rise of the S & P stock index as they lie in a roadside ditch scanning the skies. It must give them some comfort as their lights go out. Just maybe, their children will also have the chance to become Goldman Sachs employees as history marches on. The flying reptile wants to be their champion! She wants to earn their votes — the old fashioned way, by purchasing as much TV air-time as possible to put across the illusion of sincerity. On such campaigns is the decline of empire propelled.

More to the point, what does the flight of Hillary say about party politics in this land? That a more corrupt and sclerotic dominion has hardly been glimpsed since the last Bourbons cavorted in the halls of Versailles? Hence, my view that America will witness a very peculiar spectacle leading up to and perhaps beyond the 2016 election: the disintegration of seeming normality against a background of mounting disorder and insurrection. Hillary will go on caw-cawing platitudes about togetherness, diversity, and recovery while the economy sinks to new extremes of unravelment, and the anger of a swindled people finally boils over.

Neither party shows even minimal competence for understanding the actual crises facing this land, and indeed the project of techno-industrial civilization itself. If the people don’t overthrow them, and grind their pretenses underfoot, then events surely will. In the trying months leading up to the presidential election of 2016, Americans will witness the death of their “energy independence” fantasy — actually a meme concocted by professional propagandists. The shale oil “miracle” will go up in a vapor of defaulting junk bonds. Violence will escalate through North Africa and the Middle East, threatening the world oil supply more generally. I would give a low-percentage chance of survival to King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and to the Saud part of Arabia more particularly as civil war among the rival clans breaks out there, with an overlay of Islamic State mischief seeding even greater chaos, and the very likely prospect of sabotage to the gigantic oil terminal at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf. In comparison, the fiasco of Benghazi will look like a mere Three Stooges episode.

If a third party were to arise in all this turmoil, it might not be savior brigade, either. In 1856 the Republicans welled up as the Whigs expired in sheer purposelessness and the Democrats romanced slavery. The nation had to endure the greatest convulsion in its lifetime to get to the other side of that. This time, I’m not at all sure we’ll get to the other side in one piece.

the ongoing drought was always too much temptation for the looney tune Greens and now reading this article, one can see that every solution has to be green, thus ensureing enormous expense and total failure……..California’s drought/economy is about to get totally screwed by Green only solutions.

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/397659871/will-turning-seawater-into-drinking-water-help-drought-hit-california?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=science

Ps apparently California always was desert, the last few hundred years are an abberation.

Missed yesterday. My bad.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article17814440.html

Excerpt:

“They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone,” Kennedy said. “This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.”

 
Kennedy has credited the film Trace Amounts with helping to persuade lawmakers to halt a vaccination measure in Oregon. Advocates offered free Trace Amounts tickets to every California lawmaker, visiting offices in the State Capitol on Monday to drop them off. Three rows cordoned off for lawmakers sat empty on Wednesday evening, though some staff members attended.

( Must be the empty chair syndrome.)

Maybe they should ask what happened to the victims in Africa who got the live monkey (virus ) in vaccines to study the effects, or the gays that were given this (virus) in the hep B trials that spread amongst the gay population then to others. Things like law suits in Philippines when they gave vaccines that made people sterile.
I’m not totally against vaccines just what the iniquitous can and do put in them.

my mother recently turned 96 and immediately got a letter informing her that she was to immediately receive the proceeds. I guess they are tired of paying the the 4.5% minimum interest.

there have to be a lot of corporate zombies that  will become very illiquid or investing in junk bonds for yield. A lot of people think their fiat is safe. If someone can take it with the stroke of a few keys, it’s never been more at risk. Think civil forfeiture on steroids.

rno

i did some checking, and it’s almost true.

The correct number on the Healthcare.gov site  is 1-800-318-2596, which would actually spell out “F1UCKYO.”

close enough for government work, imo.

Alex can be a 6 pack telling half truths, he’s on the dole somewhere. Don’t track him well as others but they got some of his media agendas pretty well figured out.

Revolve in a lawsuit to these companies who do this which is illegal as well as be charged and fined by private because states will obviously do nothing about it. ” We the people should.”

Forced to train their foreign replacements.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/04/12/us-workers-allegedly-fired-told-train-your-foreign-replacement

https://youtu.be/Y4jwRTM6Inc

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Looks dead.  Has for the last 30 years.  He is not dead.

“We Have Come To The End Of The Road” – Greece Prepares For Default, FT Reports

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-13/we-have-come-end-road-greece-prepares-default-ft-reports

You missed my allusion.

No I’m too far south. Never seen em live

interesting stuff

I am not surprised in the least.     the quote and post below are right on

“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” – The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.

Arizona Governor Ducey Vetoes Gold Bill

Submitted by Gold Standard Institute on 04/13/2015 03:35 -0400

This isn’t yet another in a long series of articles lamenting the Federal Reserve, power, politicians, corruption, and the hopelessness of fighting the status quo.

What’s the marginal utility of the N^th plus one article reiterating these points? Nearly zero. No, this article is about something else.

It’s about you.

What would you do, if you were governor, and a fringe issue turned into a bill came to your desk? To all appearances, there is little popular support. The benefits, if any, seem far removed from the practical business of governing. Few people even cared.

What’s that, you say? Gold isn’t like that? There are many people who want gold, the benefits are important, and what could be more practical than honest money? I can’t hear you. I CAN’T HEAR YOU!

Neither could Governor Ducey.

Do you value honest money? Do you understand how and why the regime of the paper dollar is hurting us? If you care, please consider calling your legislators in Arizona or wherever you are. Please consider donating to the Gold Standard Institute. We can do a lot with a little, but we can’t change the monetary system without your support.

As always, Thank You for your prognostications.  Things are certainly getting unsettled.

You are far enough north… surely you have seen the Northern Lights!?  The only thing better than this image would be a video, and that does not do justice to standing under the real thing.  I get chills down my spine just thinking about it.  Ghost Riders in the Sky…

Thought provoking stuff. It looks like the world is going to be a little short of tranquility.

USA…Natal Saturn occupies the 10^th house of government.  A Lunar Eclipse is a signal of endings…it is a waning cycle. Saturn deals with form and structure.  This eclipse warns of the necessity to restructure government because the cosmic bill collector has arrived for those resources we have consumed in growing.  The bill will be high because the country under this government has been extravagant and the bill must be paid down to the last penny.

UNITED KINGDOM…Natal Mercury occupies the 10^th house of government.  Mercury deals with the thinking process, the intellect and communications but goes much deeper with this eclipse connection to reveal ideas previously held sacred to be sheer stupidity.  The country is now challenged to begin thinking about things never really thought about or scrutinized before.

ISRAEL…Natal retrograde Neptune occupies the 12^th house of self-undoing.  The infamous “Israel Mistake” as coined by the Webbots is about to manifest, as a misused Neptune brings self-deceit.  In the alternative, Neptune energy used correctly can bring about an opportunity for greater spiritual understanding.

SYRIA…The ASCendant – or First House Cusp or Rising Sign – is the projected image through which this country expresses and activates their inner motivations and psychological needs into the immediate environment.  Libra is the sign of outward social aggressiveness.  The eclipse falling here is a caution of the need for recuperation;  a time to fall back and rest.

IRAN…Natal Pluto occupies the 3^rd house of neighboring countries.  Pluto is the planet of regeneration, of violence and global wars…it is the steam roller and wrecking ball of the Universe.  In the sign Libra, he will manifest aggressively towards his neighbors.  The eclipse falling here speaks to decay unless heeding the opportunity to transform the qualities of the 3^rd house to a higher plane of understanding and being.

The energizing of Pluto opposition natal Sun brings a time of power struggles and contests of will that may force defense measures.

NOTE:  The eclipse will be in effect for the next six months.

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Every time drought strikes California, the people of this state cannot help noticing the substantial reservoir of untapped water lapping at their shores — 187 quintillion gallons of it, more or less, shimmering so invitingly in the sun.

Now, for the first time, a major California metropolis is on the verge of turning the Pacific Ocean into an everyday source of drinking water. A $1 billion desalination plant to supply booming San Diego County is under construction here and due to open as early as November, providing a major test of whether California cities will be able to resort to the ocean to solve their water woes.

Across the Sun Belt, a technology once dismissed as too expensive and harmful to the environment is getting a second look. Texas, facing persistent dry conditions and a population influx, may build several ocean desalination plants. Florida has one operating already and may be forced to build others as a rising sea invades the state’s freshwater supplies.

In California, small ocean desalination plants are up and running in a handful of towns. Plans are far along for a large plant in Huntington Beach that would supply water to populous Orange County. A mothballed plant in Santa Barbara may soon be reactivated. And more than a dozen communities along the California coast are studying the issue.

more http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/science/drinking-seawater-looks-ever-more-palatable-to-californians.html?_r=0

Wall Street Reacts To China’s Shocking Trade Data

Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2015 07:55 -0400

Everyone was shocked by yesterday’s Chinese March trade update which showed that while imports slid largely as expected, it was the 15% drop in exports, the largest in over a year, that prompted many to wonder just how big the global trade slump really is, masked by what has now become pervasive, global QE. This was the worst performance, exports and imports combined, since late 2009.

more http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-13/wall-street-reacts-chinas-shocking-trade-datav

That’s a queer sight!