Guest commentary by Lou M.

"How's the market?"

This is the best synopsis of what has been going on and what it will mean for our future that I have yet seen. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18119.htm 

  Forward this to your stockbroker and ask him why you shouldn't put all your assets into gold, silver, gold futures, mining stocks, and oil stocks and futures.  If you are in the stock market these investments are your only chance to weather the coming storm.  If your fund manager says you are sufficiently diversified to protect your assets in a market downturn then its a 99.99% certitude that he or she is lying through their teeth while working feverishly behind the scenes to protect the really big fish in his/her accounts.  The above investments will at minimum retain their value if not double, triple or quadruple your return (some analysts I've read believe silver could increase 10 fold or more) in the crucial 18 months that follow.  If you are not in the market collect what petty cash you have and take it down to a gold and bullion dealer and get your hands on some junk silver (this will buy groceries when worthless paper money no longer does).

  I may swing a hammer for a (increasingly modest, I might add) living, but I have friends and business contacts who know a lot more now than I ever will.  They have been telling me, with ever increasing insistence and in ever increasing numbers, that the sky is falling.  Like a roller coaster at the apex of a very steep climb, the market has lost all momentum and as the descent begins some folks on the ride have noticed that the tracks appear to be oiled, there are lead weights at all the passengers feet and the bottom is not visible from the present height.  If you have not read and/or opened the links I have been sending you then now would be a good time.  I am not sending you this so that later I may enjoy the hollow privilege of saying "I told you so"!  In a crisis of this magnitude the best way I can protect myself is to create a greater awareness among my peers.  If my peers insist on ignoring what I have to say they choose to damn themselves, and by extension, others.  If you know how to read, and are intelligent enough to see through the thick mist that is the mainstream media's version of events, then you now have no excuse. 

  The system of checks and balances established long ago by our founding fathers have been fully circumvented by the creators of this debacle.   Ignoring this information creates a general public unawareness that the oligarchy's plans are built upon.  It also cripples the last safeguard in a system of governance built on the dreams of a handful of forward thinking colonists who gambled that tyranny could be exposed, confronted and vanquished.  My time and resources are limited.  By putting this information out to those I care about (in the hopes it is comprehended and passed on) I have done all my circumstance allows.  This is not a call to arms, but rather an alarm clock going off.  If you keep hitting that snooze button you may awake from your tranquil dreams to find a world very different from the one you thought you occupied when you put your head down the night before...

Hey People,

 How would you like to know more about global finance, inflation, the history of money, what's behind milk at $4.00 per gallon and why the stock market is at record highs while everyone in my business is working much less than they were a year ago, if they are working at all?  How would you like to know more about banking than 99.99% of those employed by actual lending institutions?  All of you that I am sending this to are old enough to know that knowledge is power.

  This 40+ minute animated video makes simple some very complex truths regarding money.  In short it is some powerful knowledge and unless you have a tremendous disregard for you and your family's future, or you simply have an island paradise far off in the Pacific that you can jet off to anytime things get a little nasty here in the real world, I suggest strongly you take the time to absorb this fascinating, informative and incredibly important video.  The freedoms and democratic institutions our founding fathers established for us almost a quarter of a millennium ago are, like the glaciers, melting away at an exponentially increasing rate.  You don't have to be a constitutional scholar to see this around you. 

  Only a highly informed citizenry, with a distinct vision of what this country was, what it is and how the two came to be so different so quickly can possibly hope to reverse this trend.  Dismiss this information at your own peril.  Collectively your inability to absorb new ideas will damn your country, city, neighborhood and family.  Your ability to inform yourselfs and take collective action is the counterweight to tyranny the framers of the constitution (the most unique political document since the time of the Greeks) specifically designed for your benefit.  If you forsake your constitutional duties you forsake the privileges it was designed to impart to you as well. 

  Watch it once and you will be amazed.  Watch it a second or third time to truly absorb what it means for all of us.  I have viewed this presentation twice and will do my best to find time to watch it again soon because there are so many amazing facets to this story that I really want to soak it in enough to speak intelligently on many of the diverse topics it touches upon.  This video is selling you nothing and its producers are strictly accredited academics (economists) with a real concern about what is coming for all of us.  If you watch it once you will want to pass is on.  I implore you to do so.  Knowingly repeating myself, I say again: knowledge is power and if you want to have a chance against those more powerful than yourself you need to be informed!  The choice is yours.  If you have children who have yet to find there place in this world it is your solemn responsibility as a human being to inform them so that someday they can be informed by you.  You brought them in to this crazy world its your duty to pass on to them all you can so that they can cope with a future that looking to my eyes to be dimmer everyday!

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&q=money+as+dept

Updated 20070911:

Ever feel like you're one of those people that lived next to Mt. St. Helens before it blew?  Every week that passes and the mountain gets bigger and bigger.....
  Just remember that what is coming, all of it, is by design and intended for the sole benefit of the designers.  Don't know when, don't know how, but I know it will be bad like never before and I have a much better idea of why than I am supposed to.  That means I'm more prepared but also more ill at ease.  Allow me to share my discomfort.....
  Gold has held three straight days above $700.00 an ounce and the dollar has been under the highly critical 80 point benchmark for almost two.  The Chinese have begun quietly unloading U.S. treasuries.  The government's own highly massaged employment numbers were abysmal last Friday.  In a very full nutshell this means that the central banks can't afford to keep opening up the discount window to prop up stocks.   They are also running out of bullion to dump as well.  Printing more worthless money didn't work in Wiemar Germany, it didn't work in Argentina and it sure as hell won't work here. 
  The gig is up, and the cards that make up the houses of world finance, geopolitics, and the biggest military misadventure since operation Barbarossa (Hitler's invasion of The Soviet Union) are all about to make a race for the table!  There could be hyperinflation, stagflation or deflation, but rest assured the prosperity we have enjoyed using our great grandchildren's as yet unissued credit cards is about to vanish from all but our collective memories.  The consequences of the coming economic collapse may not only be exacerbated by, but pail in significance to, the possibility of a preemptive strike against Iran.  As things break down here watch for private police forces to fill the void left by an army and national guard that has been stretched to the point of incapacitation.  Our armed services will be marooned thousands of miles and several weeks away as the very fabric of our once mighty nation is laid tattered and threadbare.  The prescribed remedy for the engineered chaos will be marshal law.  Many police forces here in Florida have begun turning away applicants with I.Q.s in the triple digits.  This comes from the old guard cops who are getting out or being forced out.  Could brown shirts be just in time for X-mas as the new fashion in law enforcement?
  Think I'm nuts?  Many of you knew me well enough to have held that opinion long before I began sharing these insights with you.  Regardless, I ask only that in six months time you go back to what I've sent you today, and in previous e-mails to reexamine the conclusions and the logic used to reach them.  Repeat this process in 12 months and if the internet is still up and running try 18 months and again in two years............  When crazy starts to look crazy like a fox.  And I'm not talking about a fox news bulletin.   That's another kind of crazy all together!!!!  Please  click below.....

 http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2007.09.01_arch.html#1189274699602

Thought I had included this with the last rant.  My apologies.....  I'd say enjoy, but.........http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2396.shtml