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Love the image of the Buddha, we continue to bless those we wish to disappear, so blessed be Blythe and the many evil doers of the world who manifest suffering...

meanwhile chant, the trendline will hold, so stack 'em long term.

Reply to HL post: Board has approved a stock repurchase program. Hecla is authorized to repurchase up to 20 million shares of its outstanding common stock from time to time, with the purchases expected to occur over the next 24 months.

I thought that was a great interview as well albeit rather beak. Hold on to your hats!

That's right Bleak.  The single greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind.   I guess it depends on which side of the wealth transfer you'll be on.  

5:10 mark gets right to the heart of real (Constitutional) money and why they took us off of it. Gains in productivity accrue to the people via deflation. With fiat, gains in productivity accrue to the bankers.

We have technology and toys that make most feel our standard of living is better, but the reality is that it takes 2 incomes now for most people to live the equivalent lifestyle of a one income family in the 70's. Globalization, and other factors are obviously at play, but there's no way to conceive of what the average standard of living might be after generations of unprecedented productivity gains...if they had been accruing to the people under a real money system.

http://arum-geld-gold.blogspot.com/2012/05/natural-gas-stocks-shorts-are-leaving.html

My latest post

"I think you should talk this over in advance with your new contacts, but I believe its best now if you DON'T post anymore charts and recommendations here as your site is 100% being monitored since it is highly read and tptb need info on the common man's perspective.  I think (although I respect them) your efforts here are actually undermining the overall effort as an unintended consequence that we never thought would happen.  Perhaps for a period of time, you relinquish and keep open threads and just talk about the fundamental macro picture."

I agree with your underlying 'monitoring' premise more than you know. However, given that, your suggestion would

a) deprive Turdland and its denizens (both active and those still silent) of the beacon and foghorn that is the information and analysis Turd provides, while

b) STILL be giving those algos the 'juice' of common man's sentiment.

It would keep us in the dark (as to information the EE ALREADY HAS), deprive us of guidance, encouragement and support, lessen the level of dialogue and create a vacuum. Yet it would continue to allow THIS type of manipulation to take place, by continuing to feed them the responses of the unguided/undirected, even more 'stream of consciousness', 'free association' dialogue of people known to be interested (and invested) in PMs.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this premise would lead to a suggestion of shutting down the site altogether, to better protect us from the nefarious activities of TPTB.

My, wouldn't they like that.

I'm sure that's not what you meant, right?

"Its a sad, grim world we live in but the truth, will always set you free."

There are two ways to look at this:

(apologies in advance to German Turdites, I realize the image/phrase is misappropriated)

This is a very asymmetrical engagement, information-wise and in every other aspect. One of the very few benefits we have are our numbers, and the unfettered flow of information. Keeping said information throttled, contained, polluted and perverted is one of the key objectives of the parties we are talking about.

Yes, those with enough resources ARE mining our very thoughts and expressions for more power and more personal/class gain, be they .gov or private sector. However, keeping the barometer's needle from moving (or being able to measure every 0.000001 unit of its movement) is not going to stop the stormclouds and the hard rain that's coming.

Just thought I'd chip in on the storing rice thing (I have more experience on it than you can imagine..). In Japan they store rice in non airtight cedar wood boxes as cedar wood has antibacterial properties and is also very water absorbent so it keeps the humidity in check. We also put a couple of very hot dried chillies in with the rice as this keeps pests away. Not sure how this works exactly but we have some rice that's been sitting in boxes like this for a good 3-4 years and is still perfectly fine.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/the-reserve-vault-in-brisb...

I LOVE TO GO FISHING. NOTHING BETTER THAN KILLING SOME MEAT.

new report details the $15T story from a few weeks ago

http://tdarkcabal.blogspot.com/

"Yet their ability to keep Europe on course until its peoples have yielded up their sovereignty and agreed to submerge themselves in a single entity is now in question. From Paris to Athens, the radical left and the nationalist right are resurgent. Marxists and patriots dream different dreams than the disciples of Jean Monnet.

From inception, the European project was built on a Faustian bargain...If the nations of Europe would surrender their sovereignty, let their identities be diluted through immigration and open borders, and submerge themselves in a larger and more inclusive Europe, their peoples would be rewarded with an unparalleled prosperity.

Surrender your souls, and we will make you rich, secure and happy, said the eurocrats to the peoples of Europe...After two terrible wars, Europe’s peoples took the bribe.

...Now the bill has come due. The left is saying: We want our pensions restored, our public employees rehired. If our leaders need more money, take it from the rich, take it from the banks, take it from the big corporations.

The right is saying: We want our countries and culture back. We want our borders closed. We want no more immigration from the rest of Europe or the rest of the world.

Let France be France again. Let Greece be Greece again.

Tribalism, radicalism and socialism are the growth stocks of the new Europe."

http://takimag.com/article/is_this_the_end_of_one_europe_patrick_buchanan/print#ixzz1uKBnvTjH

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Well, TF and Pat B. both see Europe dissolving. Many are figuring they'll let countries go after they gain access to the gold (Greece gave it up, Italy would be forced to). I feel like I'm betting against men wiser than me, but I can't help but see it differently.

Sure, they'll take the gold...maybe to be used as money, or maybe just to try to lock out  an alternative system. Their real wealth is not the gold, IMO. I think they won't let countries out of the EU. I think that for these parasites, your need to drink is an asset, your need to eat, your medical care, your need to drive the roads and move freely. I think the claws will sink only deeper. Why just rob them once when you profit and feed off of every aspect of their existence? If they get their way, I think the people will wish they'd just taken the gold and run, leaving the people to be poor, but free.

Testimony cites savings from using steel
http://www.coinworld.com/articles/testimony-cites-savings-from-using-steel/

Crisp videography.

Interesting post Number 47! I think about this subject a lot myself and in all the research I've done, I've never came across the Zloty. I've often seen people recommend the Norwegian Krone, another commodity currency and some still recommend the Swissie even after the peg to the Euro. However, I think the problem with all of these currencies is that they are all pegged to the Euro, explicitly or not. If the Euro collapses, they will all surely go down with it (at least at first).

What does the Polish bank say about the Zloty? At one point I was all set to get some Norwegian Krone but I found a bunch of statements from their central bank condemning the strength of their currency. They were making Japanese/Swiss-like threats about intervening if need be. If the Polish bank isn't expressing any serious concerns about the Zloty's strength, it could be a good choice for those living in Europe.

Lately I've been leaning towards the Singapore dollar. I've been reading more and more about Singapore having a strong economy and banking system - some say it will eventually be the financial capital of the world. I think the Singapore dollar would take less of a hit from a Euro collapse than other European currencies.

Of course, if you're just accumulating fiat for a SHTF scenario then the main thing is for the currency to be recognizable and accepted in your community. I'm not sure how valuable the Singapore dollar would be in Europe for barter and trade.

I'd say the safest bet would be to collect a small basket of currencies in addition to your PMs and preps of course