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Armed Environmental Police Shut Down Ice-Cream Stand

image source: lowellsun.com

You may have run across this news report already today while scouring the news, but in case you haven’t, hear is a re-hash. In Massachusetts, state environmental police shut down an ice-cream stand run by Mark Duffy for 26 years at a dairy farm in Carlisle, a small town about 20 miles northwest of Boston.

The armed environmental police told Duffy that he had not obtained proper permits for recent improvements he made to the stand, and were forced to shut it down. Not only did they shut it down, but they guarded the popular ice-cream stand and physically turned away all of the would-be patrons at the popular spot during sunny Mothers Day weekend. Apparently a posted notice was not enough… they had to put up an authoritative presence (show).

“I’m here and the purpose of having me here is to improve the facility and operate a commercial dairy farm,” said Duffy, 57, who lives on the farm with his wife. “I make improvements every single day and have for 26 years.”

“There are 13 high-school and college students who work at the stand who are now without jobs,” said Duffy.

Duffy offers guided barn tours at the farm from May to October. The building improvements in question were made to create an area to show an instructional video produced by the Massachusetts dairy industry, said Duffy.

Edward Lambert, commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, said the stand was closed after it was discovered construction had been done without local or state permits.

And therein lies the issue… With states, counties, and towns desperate for cash, they are looking for folks who have nailed a nail into a piece of wood to see if they had the proper permit (meaning they paid the ‘appropriate’ fee to those in charge). I predict much more of this type of thing in the future. In so many towns and counties you are not free to ‘improve’ on your property unless you pay. Although it’s been that way for some time (some areas much worse than others), and all in the name of safety… the fact is that the real reason is for the money. It’s always about the money.

Full story:

http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_20635020/ice-cream-spot-hits-rocky-road

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Your Paycheck In Gold Bullion

Few people understand the difference between ‘nominal’ and ‘real.’

Regarding the nominal value versus the real value of the  dollar…

Nominal: the ‘face’ value printed on a paper fiat note.
Real: what you can really buy with that note.

The buying power of fiat money (the dollar) has fallen by 96% under America’s greatest failure (the Fed) since the year it was established in 1913.

This equals the ‘invisible’ robbing of the Poor and Middle Class by the Fed. Let me give you an example of the difference between average wages in paper fiat over time, compared with equivalent ounces of Gold:

- Average wages in 1959 were $5,016 or 143 oz of Gold
- Average wages in 1977 were $15,000 or 120 oz of Gold
- Average wages in 1999 were $28,970 or 104 oz of Gold
- Average wages in 2008 were $41,335 or 53 oz of Gold
- Average wages in 2012 were $42,000 or 26 oz of Gold

This is not exactly rocket science, yet most folks consider that they are ‘doing better’ because their nominal wages have increased over time, when in fact it takes increasing nominal amounts of debauched fiat to buy the same ounce of Gold (in effect making Gold more valuable over time in terms of buying power, as the Dollar slides into Zimbabwe territory).

(some data above sourced from jsmineset.com)

(data above from various sources, subject to some variance)

The average of the price increase over the past 53 year period for the foods and goods listed above (except income and gold) is 1,004%

The average wage income has increased 737%

The dollar price of gold bullion has increased 4,471%

…and who says that gold is an old relic? Oh that’s right, the main stream media along with the Federal Reserve and their associated banksters.

This little non-scientific exercise just goes to show you a slice of the illusion of fiat paper money which is backed by nothing since we’ve been completely taken off any resemblance of a gold standard.

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Total Control In A Cashless Society

Image: Warner Bros. The Wizard Of Oz

The bankers ultimate dream is a cashless society. In one, they will have taken total control. When the time comes when transactions are not accepted with a cash medium, ‘they’ will then have obtained the ability to fully manipulate your behavior.

Think about it. While many of us enjoy the conveniences of debit cards, automatic payments, online banking, automatic deposit, etc., many of us also are encountering or transacting in ‘cash’, less and less.

A downside to a cashless society is the fact that EVERYTHING you buy will be logged, applied to algorithms, and stored in databases. Those who have access to the databases will be able to profile you. If the profiler is the government, or certain corporations in collaboration with the government, they could potentially create profiles and rules for you, your transactions, your habits and movements, and even impose limits or premiums for certain behavior. You could really go deep with conspiracy related potential abuses of such power, and thinking it through (the devious possibilities) is not beyond the realm of what could one day happen. When it comes to government, it’s always about the money and control.

You will never again be free should the bankster gangsters, in cahoots with the guberment, be able to track and monitor your every financial move in real time.

But guess what? They are experimenting with this right now, as I type this, with the U.S. military. According to TheIntelHub.com, who recently received a note from a deployed military member, the military has implemented the Eagle cash card, a misnomer since there’s NO CASH involved.

We are already using “Chips”, however, these chips are “Smart Cards” with chips on them. It is called the “Eagle Cash Card”. As with most technology that the government employs, they are trying it on the Department of Defense in areas not in plain site of regular civilians.

We basically use it as anyone would use a standard Credit Card, however, the funds come directly from our bank accounts. We can load funds on it and immediately use it at every vendor. We can also transfer funds among each other (From Soldier to Soldier).

This sounds similar to a debit card, which withdraws directly from your bank account. The difference though appears to be person-to-person transactions, and the apparent ability to transact ALL financials among the parties involved… for EVERYTHING.

This is just another part of the slippery slope into a 100% fascist society, controlled by a tiny group of elite psychopaths. “I have been using it for more than three years now at an undisclosed location in the Middle East.”

Source: The Banksters Ultimate Dream: A Cashless Society, Starting With the Military

Things aren’t out of control yet in this realm, but just remember that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When the system goes live, YOU will be your ‘ID’, and you will not be able to transact without joining the system. They will have achieved absolute power (over you). No doubt that if you do not join, you will be breaking the law.

As technology advances and these things become increasingly doable, and are accepted more widely, you can visualize what it could become. Some will argue how this will not be a problem and how it will be ordinary technological advancement in our modern society. Others though will recognize how this will lead to total control of a enslaved modern people who themselves will not be free (as our forefathers defined freedom). Instead they will be led (pulled) by the brass ring in their noses as they live within the confines of that ‘modern’ system. The powers-that-be will extract what they want, while the people will have no choice but to comply – or starve.

They will have to ‘ban’ backyard vegetable gardens first, but I’m waiting for that bit of legislation… they’ve already implemented some forms of this, but that’s another post for another day.

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Americas Worst Nightmare: Inflation And WW3

Prices: 10 years ago (2002)

oil ($22 / barrel)
gasoline ($1.45 / gallon)
bread  ($2.00 / loaf)
milk ($2.00 / gallon)
gold ($300 / ounce)

Prices: today (2012)

oil ($110 / barrel)
gasoline ($4.00 / gallon)
bread  ($3.75 / loaf)
milk ($3.75 / gallon)
gold ($1,700 / ounce)

Prices: percentage increase

oil (500%)
gasoline (276%)
bread  (188%)
milk (188%)
gold (567%)

Here’s the kicker… Median household income today is below 1999 levels!
Has your take home pay increased by similar percentages to keep up with ‘real’ inflation?

Inflation

Face it, inflation is going through the roof, no matter what Bernanke (The FED) tells you. Their inflation calculations are a bald-face lie with regards to what is real for normal Americans.
They calculate inflation without food and fuel, which is not put in to the core inflation index!

Nearly 50 million Americans require food stamps to put food on the table.

Bernanke (The FED) keeps interest rates near zero, keeping people from putting money in the bank for savings, because there is essentially no interest paid on savings. They want you to spend it all instead.

The whole system is breaking down. The gap between the rich and the poor in America is the widest of any industrialized nation.

China is divesting it’s US Treasuries securities.

The Scheme

The scheme they will come up with as a last resort to save the system, will be Americas worst nightmare: War with Iran – all tied in with Syria.

Stay abreast of the current events. Be aware of the media lies that spin the direction of our ‘think’. The war with Iran will be the beginning of WW3 and will be designed to take the people’s mind off of what is really happening with the economy, just like prior to WW2.

Don’t let the media do your thinking for you. Think for yourself, because in the end, that’s all it’s about. You, and what you think. Have courage, respect, and dignity.

Are you prepared?

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We Are All Just Boiled Frogs

We Americans have been subject to the boiling frog syndrome for decades. Did you know that you can boil a frog alive? If the frog is placed in cool water and the temperature of the water is raised sufficiently slow, the frog will not jump out and will be cooked to death. Most Americans are that frog.

The slow raising of the water’s temperature has been a creeping normalcy. What was normal to our parents and grandparents is by no means whatsoever, normal today. Although the frogs today go about their business as normal.

Many of the older and wiser bullfrogs have tried to warn the young frogs and toads, pointing out how the water around them is steaming. The frogs just croak how the water feels so good and how everything’s alright.

The frogs are almost boiled.

This metaphor is indicative of our current ‘system’, a system designed to flourish the more debt that is spread around. The belief is that the more debt there is, the higher the GDP or gross domestic product. GDP is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders. It includes all of private and public consumption, government outlays, investments and exports less imports that occur within a defined territory.

The problem now is, people seem to have forgotten about the exponential-curve function, and how it works. We’ve taken on so much debt, that it takes even that much more debt to keep the GDP on the up-and-up because of the ever increasing interest we must pay on the debt. This is why Bernanke and the rest of the FED is adamant about keeping interest rates low. The minute they start to raise, then the pot will boil over. The frogs will be dead.

The problem is, given the bailouts and money printing required to keep the system from crumbling, the FED is having one heck of a time keeping the finger in the dike. The fact is that QE, quantitative easing, will be required to infinity to keep it together, a purposed method of injecting liquidity into the system (fiat money), which in turn will devalue the currency (increase inflation), which turns up the heat in the pan of water that the frogs are frothing around in…

They (the FED) are between a rock and a hard place. The inevitable will become reality and the pan will boil over, unfortunately with lots of frogs inside.

Are you one of those frogs? Or do you see what is going on around you? The MSM, main stream media, has made it very difficult for you to see the steam rising from the pan. To see it, you must wipe the mist from your glasses and look carefully. You will see it if you try.

Jump out now, before it’s too late.

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