Will you help me get this out? Please distribute the link to this video to your friends. This is a very well-produced and powerful video from Journeyman.tv that addresses the very important issue of genetically modified seeds from Monsanto.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E42ndfjnP1g
Here are links to other Monsanto and GMO blog posts: http://tradewithdave.com/?s=monsanto
Here’s a link to the 2 minute trailer for the 1 hour video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAuOo5qFUXo&NR=1
He’s seeing the same thing I’m seeing and it certainly made an impression on me.
Here’s a link to an analysis by ZeroHedge.com of a KingWorldNews.com interview with the well-known Jim Rickards. I have to say that although I follow Mr. Rickard’s comments closely, I do believe that a second agenda appears to be emerging. I have said in previous blog posts that Mr. Rickard’s company, Omnis Inc. exhibits traits of the Central Intelligence Agency http://www.omnisinc.com/. There’s nothing particularly unusual about that. What does strike me as unusual however is Mr. Rickard’s call to exit the equity markets due to the reasons explained in the interview. It smells fishy to me.
Just how dangerous is he?
Here’s the take at TradeWithDave. There’s a plan that is well underway to introduce Special Drawing Rights as what we describe as a new B2B (business-to-business) currency that will replace the U.S. Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. It’s not like it is something that you will actually see as it will be in the background, but “in the background” is where the largest transactions occur. You can’t work this out with the Chinese unless you can drive up the price of gold to the $5,000 range per se. You can’t deliver on that unless you are able to come up with a combination of fear of the depreciation of the U.S. dollar and fear of rapidly rising gold due to a shortage in supply and increasing demand.
The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take it’s measure… it’s just all out war.
It doesn’t really take that many fearful individual investors exiting the stock market and buying gold to pull this off. Just taking it’s natural course gold would reach the $5,000 price over ten to twenty years simply based on the annual 6% dividend which the Federal Reserve pays to its owners. That central banking system creates a naturally depreciating currency anyway, just not quick enough to satisfy the needs of the Chinese to stay in the game. Therefore, the process needs to be temporarily accelerated – enter the disinformation agents.
You can’t stop what’s coming.
The powers that be don’t need everyone to exit the market, just enough to accelerate the depreciation of the dollar and the price of equities and drive up precious metals to achieve the needed parity with the Chinese. They need just enough fearful sheep to run off the cliff to reach equilibrium. T-bills create a slight kink in the plan, but I’ll expand on that in a later post. Short positions in precious metals held by the bullion banks is another issue, however volatility along the way provides for a solution to that problem.
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To make all this work, we actually need to shrink the economy somewhat so that the corporations which do remain are able to be highly profitable within their new leaner figures. Remember it may be the size of a corporation’s market cap that creates jobs and growth, but that has little to do with earnings per share and the value of the company’s stock. That leaves only one more issue – jobs and the election. Keep in mind that this plan satisfies the small but wealthy segment of the population which owns the equities and knows better than to let go of the means of production. Just look at today’s announcement on tax breaks on new plants and equipment. But what about the votes?
Got a loose cannon here.
There’s another plan coming out later on today that is designed to get the votes. More housing and bailout programs for the lower income and struggling slightly below middle class segment. Between the wealthy sponsoring the election and the not-so-wealthy actually pulling the levers in the voting booth, the problem is solved with one exception. What about the middle class? There’s actually no plan for the middle class except to simply shrink it into oblivion. As far as which party controls congress. Whether it’s democrats or republicans the plan goes forward just the same.
Call it.
Here’s a link to the ZeroHedge review: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/jim-rickards-tells-his-clients-get-out-stocks-and-discusses-feds-final-golden-bullet
Here’s a link to the original interview on King World News. The site is a little slow and to listen to the interview you click on the MP3 link on the left side of the page:
Part 1 Sept. 4 Link: http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/9/4_Jim_Rickards.html
Part 2 Sept. 6 Link: http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/9/7_Jim_Rickards__Part_II.html
Here are links to previous blog posts on why the United States is No Country For Young Men:
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=1539
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=1461
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=1208
Although we’re not in the business of providing financial advice here at TradeWithDave.com, here’s our personal whistleblowing to jump back in the equity pool over the past couple of weeks:
http://tradewithdave.com/?p=1917
So is Joaquin Phoenix.
If you don’t understand what’s happening here with this I’m Still Here movie, here’s the way I see it. Everything has changed with the internet and its impact on media, distribution and the like. Everyone from Apple to Rupert Murdoch are trying to figure it out. Whether your Facebook, Google or The White House, the “strategery” could best be described as “herding cats.”
The point is that media and business worlds have been turned upside down. This is all about business and how the cart has gotten in front of the horse called Hollywood. It’s not just Hollywood though. It’s Washington, D.C., it’s Wall Street and unlike Thomas L. Friedman’s The World Is Flat or Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point, Joaquin has simply made the point that what was once UP (from the perspective of media, marketing and communications) has now actually turned upside down and vice versa. Remember this… eventually we’re all “mountaintop waterdrops.”
Speaking today in Milwaukee the president unveiled his plan to request another $50 billion in infrastructure (roads, rails and runways) to be built in the States. Due to the reduced impact on job creation of these type of projects (when compared with traditional building construction), the plan has some folks confused as to exactly why this is the plan.
Here at TradeWithDave.com, we’re fairly certain as to why exactly it is infrastructure that’s getting all the attention. We view it as the ultimate workaround of the Tenth Ammendment in the Bill of Rights. You see, as a constitutional scholar, President Obama knows full well to avoid at all cost any head-on attack on the Tenth Ammendment. It’s the one thing that could collapse the union most quickly and easily. If you don’t believe me, then you haven’t spent enough time in Texas or Alaska.
On the other hand, through the creation of entities such as the Council of Governors and focusing on infrastructure projects which can be built and then sold-off by the states to private corporations (consider the lease of Chicago’s Skyway to MacQuarie Infrastructure and Cintra Concesiones de Transporte or similar plans discussed for the New Jersey Turnpike) it creates a very effective financial bear hug for addressing the disasterous state budget crises. Ask folks in the public relations and advertising business, how much exposure do announcements receive when they are made on Labor Day.
Here’s a link to our previous post on the subject: http://tradewithdave.com/?p=1797
http://insidegoogle.com/category/press-releases/
This group dedicated to privacy protection has launched a campaign calling for congress to establish a “Do Not Track Me Google” list. This would be similar to the “Do Not Call Me Telemarketer” list that was developed by the Federal Trade Commission in response to the explosion of telemarketing calls interrupting dinner… back when families still ate dinner together.
Here’s a link to a background release on the Google privacy project: http://insidegoogle.com/2010/05/consumer-watchdog-launches-inside-google-website-to-focus-light-on-internet-giant/
Here’s a link to more background on Jamie Court, the man behind the movement. You may find a line on his resume reminiscent of President Obama – as Jamie is also a “community organizer.”: http://www.fairness.com/resources/relation?relation_id=13001
Here’s a link to a document detailing the Rose Foundation 2008 Grants, including $100,000 to Consumer Watchdog: http://www.rosefdn.org/downloads/grantslistaug08.pdf
Here at TradeWithDave.com we decided that “Do Not Track Me” was not a sufficiently passionate plea and therefore we’re introducing the “Don’t Track Me Bro!” version of the slogan inspired by this amazing video from a John Kerry town hall meeting at the University of Florida where Andrew Meyer experienced exactly what an invasion of privacy feels like. Today we embark on a search for a rap artist who can create a mix for our new version of the slogan. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s
This company came up with interesting concept of filing legal actions against any blogger who links to their websites. Here’s a link to the story from Wired: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/
I was president of a direct marketing company about ten years ago. There was a company engaged in a similar scheme that had tormented the industry for years with these type of lawsuits. I was talking about the situation at an industry conference when everyone started saying what a hassle it was but that there was nothing that could be done about it.
It took some time and patience and carefully constructing a plan, but I eventually took down their entire enterprise. United States Postal Inspectors eventually got them, raided their offices and arrested the perpetrators.
Arkansas
And don’t link to any of the other media outlets that are associated with Stephens Media. Here’s a list of their websites in the upper right hand corner of this page: http://www.stephensmedia.com/
If you are interested in letting the CEO of Stephens Media know how you feel about sites that link to his sites (while providing full attribution for any excerpts from stories), you may want to send him an email. He has every right to protect the copyright of the assets. In my opinion, this isn’t the way to do it. This idea ranks right up there with Rupert Murdoch’s pay walls. All Sherman is going to do is loose web traffic. His name is Sherman R. Frederick. His email is sfrederick@reviewjournal.com.
Update: September 6, 2010 – looks like these guys may have met their match in choosing to sue Internet Brands: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/05/defendant-accuses-righthaven-misusing-legal-system/
Update – September 8, 2010 – victims of these frivolous lawsuits have organized a website: http://righthavenvictims.blogspot.com/2010/09/righthavens-steve-gibson-public-forum.html
Earnings per share are still a significant driver of the price of a share of stock. This economy gives CEO’s the cover that they need to continue to make the drastic changes in their staffing costs that will translate to a continued rise in earnings. In this recent study from the folks at the Institute for Policy Studies (the think tank founded by Marcus Raskin) their attempt to paint a dire financial picture is in reality a near guarantee the stock market will rise. It’s also a guarantee that unemployment will also continue to rise right alongside the pay rates of the top CEO’s.
There is a very important distinction between the two houses of congress and the vote on allowing subpoena power in the case of the BP Horizon spill sheds light on that all important difference – POWER.
Here’s a YouTube.com video of the floor proceeding. The House of Representatives votes 421 FOR and only 1 OPPOSED and yet the Senate Republican Conference objects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORbqq_FHoM&feature=player_embedded#!
Why would they object? A picture’s worth a thousand words.
Here’s a link to the General’s affidavit in the court martial trial of Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin. Item # 9 may be of interest:
Here’s a bio on the General from Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/thomas-mcinerney/
Here’s a link to previous blog posts on the Lakin story: http://tradewithdave.com/?p=929