Short gold contracts, long gold contracts, ETFs and gold stored off site have one thing in common: when it hits the fan, the paper representing “gold” will be worthless.
David DeGerolamo
Short gold contracts, long gold contracts, ETFs and gold stored off site have one thing in common: when it hits the fan, the paper representing “gold” will be worthless.
David DeGerolamo

50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam That Is About To Collapse – Photo by Ragesoss
The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die. In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations. The pharmaceutical corporations spend billions of dollars to convince all of us to become dependent on their legal drugs, the health insurance companies make billions of dollars by providing as little health care as possible, and they both spend millions of dollars to make sure that our politicians in Washington D.C. keep the gravy train rolling. Meanwhile, large numbers of doctors are going broke and patients are not getting the care that they need. At this point, our health care system is a complete and total disaster. Health care costs continue to go up rapidly, the level of care that we are receiving continues to go down, and every move that our politicians make just seems to make all of our health care problems even worse. In America today, a single trip to the emergency room can easily cost you $100,000, and if you happen to get cancer you could end up with medical bills in excess of a million dollars. Even if you do have health insurance, there are usually limits on your coverage, and the truth is that just a single major illness is often enough to push most American families into bankruptcy. At the same time, hospital administrators, pharmaceutical corporations and health insurance company executives are absolutely swimming in huge mountains of cash. Unfortunately, this gigantic money making scam has become so large that it threatens to collapse both the U.S. health care system and the entire U.S. economy.
The following are 50 signs that the U.S. health care system is a massive money making scam that is about to collapse… Continue reading
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Steven Starr – Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri/Senior Scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility – said:
The Japanese basically lied about what happened with the reactors for months. They said they were trying to prevent a meltdown, when in fact they knew within the first couple of days Reactors 1, 2, and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi had melted down, and they actually melted through the steel containment vessels.
So there was a worst case scenario that they were trying to hide, they even knew that at that time enormous amounts of radiation were released over Japan and some of it even went over Tokyo […]
The melted core cracked the containment vessel, there really is no containment. So as soon as they pump the water in it leaks out again.
As nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen pointed out last year:
Tokyo Electric ran a probe into the basement of Unit 1. This is not inside the containment, this is outside the containment. On the top of the water surface they found lethal radiation, 1000 rem an hour.
But then they put the probe down into the water and what’s even worse is the bottom, the sediment on the bottom, was thousand of times hotter than that. And what that indicates is that fuel, nuclear fuel, has left the containment, as particles, and settled out on the bottom outside the containment. So, I think that’s a pretty clear indication that the containment was breached. It just makes decommissioning these plants… it was going too be hard already, but this information makes it worse.

Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
The five- page document, which has the tacit support of Senate GOP leaders, represents a remarkable shift for the party. Having railed against Senate Democrats for not passing a budget, Republicans are now proposing that Congress surrender an important piece of its Constitutional “power of the purse” for the last seven months of this fiscal year.
I know where to start spending cuts: the salaries of all Congressmen.
David DeGerolamo
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h/t Ed
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Jamie Dimon is the current chairman, president and chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase bank. This bank was the recipient of the M.F. Global “redistribution” of segregated accounts and is responsible for the manipulation of the silver market.
David DeGerolamo

Is there an Obama Youth Army? Did H.R. 1388 start one? Or did FEMA Corps? or AmeriCorps? If it’s “volunteer” does that ease one’s fears that this government-funded-and-controlled Youth Army could be used against American citizens instead of for them?
Does this tie in with his call for government-funded 4 year old “education” that he recently mentioned in his State of the Union address?

Here are some of the felonies that the state of New York now considers less harmful to society than the simple possession of a standard-capacity pistol or rifle ammunition magazine, which is now a class D felony. These standard-capacity magazines have been legally owned by millions of law-abiding New Yorkers until 2013, and they are the exact same types of magazines still carried by every New York police officer.
If you are a New Yorker and you still own a standard-capacity ammunition magazine capable of carrying more than ten cartridges, your government now considers you more of a threat to society than felons guilty of: criminally negligent homicide, 3rd degree rape, criminal sexual acts, forcible sexual touching, persistent sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, luring a child, female genital mutilation, unlawful imprisonment, and 4th degree arson.
How about that?
Matt Bracken
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Mohamed Mohamud, 21, Somali-American guilty of bomb plot in Oregon / AP
American citizens are participating in terrorist activities as members of al Qaeda and are likely to continue to do so in the future, according to a new study by the Henry Jackson Society.
“Future attacks against the American homeland will be less organized, less complex—they’re just going to be more numerous, and more likely to be conducted by citizens and long-term residents of the United States,” former CIA and National Security Agency director Ret. Gen. Michael Hayden said during an event launching the study at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Tuesday.
The study, “Al-Qaeda in the United States,” examined “171 individuals who were convicted for al-Qaeda related offenses (AQROs) or committed suicide attacks between 1997 and 2011,” according to its summary.
Al Qaeda related offenses were broken into 10 categories, including “Material Support,” “Kill, Kidnap, Maim or Injure,” and “False Information.”
“The majority of the threat was from the U.S.,” said study author Robin Simcox. “Fifty-four percent were U.S. citizens.”
Thirty-six percent were born in the United States.

Hit! According to the satellite image, China has sunk your battleship. (Internet photo)
The People’s Liberation Army has successfully sunk a US aircraft carrier, according to a satellite photo provided by Google Earth, reports our sister paper Want Daily — though the strike was a war game, the carrier a mock-up platform and the “sinking” occurred on dry land in a remote part of western China.
A satellite image reveals two large craters on a 200-meter-long white platform in the Gobi desert used to simulate the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. The photo was first posted on SAORBATS, an internet forum based in Argentina. Military analysts believed the craters would have been created by China’s DF-21D anti-ship missile, dubbed the “carrier killer.”
I guess the analysis by Business Insider (see below) last year was incorrect. It is a good thing that most of our aircraft carriers are sitting in their home ports.

The aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) are in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. US Navy Photo
Something Is Very Wrong with this Picture.
David DeGerolamo

We’ve previously added to the hype surrounding China’s DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) – the “carrier-killer” missile that would be the world’s first and only ASBM system.
But as time wore on and little proof emerged to back up China’s bold claims we backed off and waited for some evidence.
Tuesday Gizmodo published an article by Andrew Tarantola titled “China’s DF-21D Missile Is a One-Shot Aircraft Carrier Killer” that says that the DF-21D has “a maximum estimated range of 2,700 to 3,000 km” and is “capable of sinking an aircraft carrier … with one shot.”
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United States intelligence agencies recently detected China’s military shifting road-mobile ballistic missiles closer to its southern coast near the disputed Senkaku Islands amid growing tensions between Beijing and Japan over the islands dispute.
U.S. defense officials said the movements are being watched closely as China’s military is also holding large-scale military exercises that some fear could be a trigger for a conflict with Japan that could involve U.S. forces.
The officials did not provide details of the missile movements that were tracked by U.S. aircraft, ship-based, and satellite surveillance systems in the region.
Disclosure of the missile movements comes as White House national security adviser Tom Donilon on Monday met in Seoul with China’s state councilor Liu Yandong. The two were in South Korea to attend the inauguration of South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
Tensions remain high between Japan and China over Tokyo’s nationalization last year of several uninhabited islands between Okinawa and Taiwan called the Senkakus. China claims the islands as its territory. At issue are large undersea oil and gas deposits sought by both energy-poor countries.

Iran’s heavy water plant at Arak
Chuck Hagel was swept into office Tuesday, Feb. 26 by a Senate majority as Barack Obama’s new defense secretary atop a cloud of disinformation which aimed to confirm that Iran’s nuclear program has gone too far to stop – like Iran’s grip on Syria and Lebanon. This message was accentuated by what the London Telegraph called Iran’s Plan B, signified by “…a cloud of steam that indicates heavy-water production for… a nuclear reactor that can produce plutonium, which could then be used to make a bomb.”
DEBKAfile: The “cloud of steam” is no proof of an active plant; it could be just a trial run, but the timing of the British paper’s publication on the day of Hagel’s Senate endorsement and the Six-Power meeting with Iran in Kazkahstan to discuss its nuclear program, underscored the view of British Prime Minister David Cameron. He has said in private conversations that US President Obama, French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are pursuing an unrealistic policy on Iran and should accept the reality that Iran has achieved a nuclear bomb capacity. Sanctions are therefore pointless and futile and should be lifted.
The point contributed by the Telegraph – for the benefit of the incoming US defense secretary – was that Iran has achieved a dual track to an atomic bomb, which only goes to strengthen Cameron’s argument.
The Obama administration is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could provide rebels there with equipment such as body armor and armored vehicles, and possibly military training, and could send humanitarian assistance directly to Syria’s opposition political coalition, according to U.S. and European officials.
The administration has not provided direct aid to the military or political side of the opposition throughout the two-year-old conflict, and U.S. officials remain opposed to providing weapons to the rebels.
Elements of the proposed policy, which officials cautioned have not yet been finalized, are being discussed by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in meetings this week and next with allies in Europe and the Middle East as part of a coordinated effort to end the bloody stalemate, which has claimed about 70,000 lives.
Those talks — along with a nearly two-hour meeting in Berlin on Tuesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and a Thursday conference with allies and leaders of the Syrian Opposition Coalition in Rome — are expected to weigh heavily on administration deliberations.
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From YouTube:
Logic does not work with gun control people because they live in a fantasy world. So I came up with a idiot test so they will understand where I come from.
More at Alt-Market…
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