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Gold is the immutable standard of value. Everything I watch is now sinking in relation to gold. And I'm talking about stocks, the Dow, the S&P, almost all the world's currencies, all the world's stock averages, most commodities, bonds, real estate, land, you name it. My old friend, James Dines calls it the "great stealth bear market," and he's been very right.I could include relative strength charts of gold against all of the above items, but what's the use -- you get the idea. Against the standard, gold, the world is deflating, and no amount of paper-creation has been able...

Check out this dishonest, whitewashing article from Reuters that just appeared by journalist "Gerard Wynn": http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSGEE5AP1Y5 "In one e-mail, confirmed by the university as genuine, a scientist jokingly referred to ways of ensuring papers which doubted established climate science did not appear in the AR4." Jokingly? Let's see: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," wrote Jones. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" I'm writing to complain at the following link. I hope some others who read this will consider...

Kentucky Dem Congressman John Yarmuth was just interviewed on Fox. He surprised me by confirming that, under Obamacare, all health care will be rationed based upon the government's double secret Quality Life Years scale. When the reporter asked him to repeat that, he continued with, "If you want any procedure not approved by Obama's Health Care Panel of experts (hip replacement, cancer screening, etc.), "you will have to pay for that yourself." Pretty clear.

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: They are Criminals Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly versionSend to friendSend to friend VISCOUNT MONCKTON ON CLIMATEGATE: THEY ARE CRIMINALS [The following statement by Lord Christopher Monckton appeared yesterday on the website, ClimateDepot, run by Mark Moranao, former aide to U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.). Lord Monckton's anti-fascist credentials are well-established, his grandfather having served as the lead solicitor in the 1936 removal of Hitler-admirer King Edward VIII.] by Christopher Monckton November 23, 2009 This is what they did—-these climate "scientists" on whose unsupported word the world's classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December...

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president. President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term...

Recovery.gov won't correct job numbers on $18 MILLION website WH Advisor: People care about creating jobs, not counting them

Many more small banks in several states are being closed than is being reported. The media is NOT reporting on the small banks being closed due to insolvency, only the big ones. Can't get the e-mail information since the bank which is reporting this information to its employees has closed the system and the e-mails can NOT be forwarded or printed.

I was struck with Bernanke’s comment last week at the Economics Club regarding bubbles. He said: ”It is not obvious to me that there are any misalignments in the US financial system”. This comment has already gotten the attention of the media. Two years from now the blogs will be quoting it along with other notable words from the Chairman. Remember the following? Mr. Bernanke regrets having said this. “We (the Fed) do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.” When Mr. Bernanke made those comments back in...

<p>No link for this as I just heard this being reported on FOX News. It appears that some liberal lawmakers, Charlie Rangel, David Obey and a couple of others may be proposing a "War Tax" on the wealthiest of Americans to pay for any upcoming troop surge in Afghanistan.</p>

To the sounds of a crowd chanting her name, Sarah Palin this afternoon greeted her political fans at the Books-A-Million store in Colonial Brookwood Village Mall at Homewood and autographed copies of her new book: "Going Rogue." The former Alaska governor and former GOP vice-presidential candidate drew a crowd that packed the mall two hours before she began signing books about 4:30 p.m. Palin was accompanied by several family members including her father Chuck Heath. A crowd Sunday estimated at one point to be about 1,800 by Homewood police, lined up at the bookstore to qualify for the 1,000 wristbands...

Dear Friends, The Congress is continuing its work to try to get healthcare reform legislation, and I believe the prospects are reasonably good that we will produce a bill. I hope that the bill will have the public option - and a robust public option. We will have a cloture vote tonight and I believe that we should be able to get 60 Senators at least to agree to start the debate. Click below to hear my take on healthcare reform: http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorArlenSpecter#p/u/0/_cjXqFbdAeg It would be my hope that my colleagues would not draw lines in the sand or stay in...

Seeing as they each impact key pillars of what today passes for liberalism, there seems to be more than a few connections between the recent ACORN stings by Giles, O’Keefe and Breitbart, and the recent hacking of the emails of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, or “Global WarmingGate”, as Charlie Martin dubs it elsewhere at Pajamas. Not the least is that they each sent the legacy media into full gatekeeper mode, hoping to prevent exciting, important news of current events from ever reaching their readers.

http://freebornjohn.blogspot.com/2009/03/kafka-at-albany.html Last June I reported on the allegations of academic fraud levelled by a British mathematician, Doug Keenan, against Professor Wei-Chyung Wang of New York State University at Albany. Dr Keenan alleged that in work that has come to be widely cited in climate studies, work that included the collation of data from temperature measuring stations in China, Professor Wang made statements that "cannot be true and could not be in error by accident. The statements are fabricated." In August 2007, Dr Keenan submitted a report (pdf) of his allegations to the Vice President for Research at Wang's university and...

“Delta Smelt, What’s that (Dead) Flower You Have On…” By justinwashingtontheblogger “Could it be a Faded Rose from Days Gone By?” Lyrics (Polluted) by Justin Washington and Tribute to Tanya Tucker As the plaintiff song wafts in the air, so goes California’s golden dream — because of a small, silver fish resembling a minow with small, beady eyes (somewhat similiar in appearance to US Senate Leader Harry Reid). The EPA, as the teeth behind the Endangered Species Act, has turned off the water spigot to the agricultural Central Valley of California which has been likened to the “bread basket of...

Subject: Vietnam Facts vs Fiction FYI, We do not live in Viet Nam, Viet Nam lives in us. Vietnam Facts vs Fiction. I found this article very interesting. The most notable fact is that 2.7 million Americans actually served in the Vietnam Theater of war. In the last census nearly 14 million Americans claimed they served in Vietnam . Four out of five are lying. I wonder why. Vietnam Facts vs Fiction For over 30 years I..like many Vietnam veterans..seldom spoke of Vietnam , except with other veterans, when training soldiers, and in public speeches. These past five years I...

Heard on CNN: Hasan conversant and aware of his charges, coherent. Paralysed from waist down. Targeted only soldiers, passed over civilians. Shot one soldier 3 times until he fell, then shot him 3 more times. Soldier survived.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta arrived in Pakistan Friday to discuss the issue of the location of the leadership of the Taliban with security officials. Panetta was to meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and top military and intelligence officials, Pakistan's The National newspaper reported. He is expected to discuss issues related to the leadership of the Taliban believed to be hiding in the tribal border regions along the Afghan border. Pakistani officials denied claims the leadership is in the area, the report said.

Lynne Stewart was sent to prison today. People throughout the United States and around the world recognize this as a great miscarriage of justice. Her indictment was an outrage. So too was her conviction. The fact that this seventy year old veteran civil rights attorney has been sent to prison is a crime itself. She is serving a 28 month sentence although the Court of Appeals has remanded her case back to the original trial court with the hope that her sentence will be lengthened. The Bush Justice Department had sought a 30 year sentence. “Lynne Stewart should be set...

Creationists are ‘liars' (?): Geologist Donald Prothero doesn’t like the fact that we don’t agree with his ideas on evolution. I love the attitude some evolutionists have toward professional, scientific debate. Because creationist scientists do not agree with their biased, subjective and unsubstantiated ideas they spit the dummy and call us liars. The latest tirade from geologist Donald Prothero is in an opinion piece in NewScientist entitled ‘Evolution: What missing link?’1 I like that title. His article was picked up by the Telegraph newspaper in the UK which reported, ‘Creationists “peddle lies about the fossil record”.’2 Lies? Are creationists really...

Glum trader who missed most of the upside is now convinced the market will only go down for the rest of the year. The Dow is down over a hundred points today and it's making professional traders nervous. We spoke to a friend this morning at a large prop trading desk inside an investment bank and we’ve never heard him so bleak. He says that all the equity traders on his desk think the market will do nothing but go down for the rest of the year. “We’re all waiting for the market to crack. And it looks today like...