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[traderabc] 16/2/2011 09:57

[OTE96] On the Edge with Catherine Austin Fitts
February 12th, 2011 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: Max interviews Catherine Austin Fitts. They talk revolution, Ben Bernanke and the US dollar being a unit of war.

[coincall] 12/2/2011 02:50

Peak phosphorus by 2033


Link to 'A rock and a hard place: Peak phosphorus and the threat to our food security'

[coincall] 12/2/2011 02:24

Cold snap hits Mexico maize crop
Maize tortillas are Mexico's traditional staple food A spell of unusually cold weather in northern Mexico has severely damaged the maize crop in the state of Sinaloa.

Officials estimate the losses could amount to four million tonnes of corn - 16% of Mexico's annual harvest.

[lifechanger] 10/2/2011 21:29

looking at the price action on Cotton, Rogers must be making a fortune

[049balt] 10/2/2011 19:24

A bit off topic but worth a read!


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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
hot off the presses...
The Washington Post
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
(keep reading)

Oops! Never mind. This report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post - 88 years ago. Back then, when no one had heard of global warming or climate change, when governments weren't giving funding to scientists to invent scary stories so higher taxes could be imposed, it was just called a cycle..

[traderabc] 10/2/2011 16:26

[KR120] Keiser Report – Eco-Eco Disasters!

[traderabc] 10/2/2011 13:19

Food Crisis 2011? 14 Disturbing Facts That Make You Wonder If The Coming Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun



The American Dream
Feb 10, 2011

Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don't have enough to eat, they tend to become very desperate, and unfortunately it looks like the global food situation is not going to improve much any time soon.

[traderabc] 09/2/2011 09:50

Politics of Hate


By David Galland, The Casey Report


In describing the current situation in these United States, and in many of the world's other superpowers, we here at Casey Research have often used the word "intractable"... as in, "impossible to resolve."


While that may not be technically accurate – because there is no problem related to economics that can't be solved if one is willing to swallow sufficiently strong medicine – it is a correct assessment, given the overwhelming role that politics now play in the economy.


In a recent edition of The Casey Report, I observed that the largest and most persistent bubble of all over the last half-century has been the bubble in government – making the ones witnessed in dot-com stocks and housing mere blips by comparison.


The following chart is particularly illustrative of that contention.

[traderabc] 09/2/2011 09:46

WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices

US diplomat convinced by Saudi expert that reserves of world's biggest oil exporter have been overstated by nearly 40%

[traderabc] 08/2/2011 17:10

Ratigan And Fleckenstein Explain The Fed's Role In Recent Food Price Ignited Revolutions

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/07/2011 17:19 -0500

[traderabc] 08/2/2011 16:52

Keiser Report: Fiat Food (E119)

[traderabc] 07/2/2011 16:19

What do the Chinese know that we don't?

Richard Russell snippet
Dow Theory Letters
Feb 7, 2011

February 4, 2011 -- What do the Chinese know that we don't? According to my favorite newspaper, the Financial Times, the Chinese people are buying gold like there's no tomorrow. According to the Times, "Precious metals traders in London and Hong Kong said on Wednesday they were stunned by the strength of Chinese buying in the last month. The demand is unbelievable. The size of the orders is enormous. . . . . Official data shows China importing 209 tonnes of gold during the first ten months of last year: vs. 333 tonnes for India the entire year. . . . Traders say China will overtake India as the largest consumer of gold this year."

[traderabc] 06/2/2011 18:19

Nice to see that some countries are doing just fine.


4 February 2011 Last updated at 00:12



President Jose Mujica is struggling to find ways to ensure companies have enough workers

Labour shortages threaten Uruguay's prosperity
By Veronica Psetizki
BBC News, Montevideo, Uruguay

Erwin Kaufmann is in a tight spot.

The company he leads has just announced a $1.9bn (£1.18bn) investment in Uruguay, said to be the largest yet in this small South American country of 3.4 million people.

Now he needs to find the thousands of workers to build a pulp mill for him.

[traderabc] 06/2/2011 11:04

[OTE95] On the Edge with Chris Cook – 4 February 2011
February 5th, 2011 by stacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: We talk to energy consultant, Chris Cook, about the role of funds in Brent in setting (or manipulating) the price of oil. It takes only $30 billion to rig the oil market and, if it weren't for this manipulation, the price of crude would be between $50 and $60 per barrel.

[traderabc] 04/2/2011 22:55

February 3, 2011
I Don`t Own Many Equities. I Expect More Social Unrest.
"I don't own very many equities. I don't know what's going to happen but I expect more currencies turmoil, more social unrest, more governments collapsing so I invest more in currencies and commodities than stock." - in CNBC




February 2, 2011
Gold Should Have A Rest But It's Far From Being A Bubble Yet
"Jim Rogers speaking to investors in Amsterdam this morning, said that gold is still far from being a bubble and investors should sell bonds and buy precious metals. The chairman of Rogers Holdings, who predicted the start of the global commodities rally in 1999, said that "gold should have a rest but it's far from being a bubble yet."

"Gold will have reached an unbelievable price before it starts falling," Rogers said, who owns gold but prefers silver due to it remaining cheap relative to gold and cheap on a historical basis.

Rogers recently said "silver is going up, but silver is 40 percent below its all time nominal high. Yes, commodities have been going up recently, but they are still extremely depressed on a historic basis."


The Chinese Save And Invest, The US Borrows And Consumes
"The Chinese have been saving and investing over 35 percent of their income and the United States has been saving and investing two percent of our income. We've been borrowing and consuming. They've been saving and investing." - in AllVoices.com

[traderabc] 03/2/2011 16:11

Corn, Soybeans Advance to 30-Month Highs on Argentine Strike

Corn and soybeans rose to 30-month highs in Chicago as a strike by port workers in Argentina disrupted crop shipments. Rice climbed to the highest price in 13 months.

Argentine port workers, who have been on strike since last week, are blocking between 20 and 30 soybean- and grain-hauling ships from the country's main terminals, Alberto Jacobson, head of the San Lorenzo Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday.

[traderabc] 03/2/2011 15:57

Even Donald Trump Is Warning That An Economic Collapse Is Coming

In a shocking new interview, Donald Trump has gone farther than he ever has before in discussing a potential economic collapse in America. Using phrases such as "you're going to pay $25 for a loaf of bread pretty soon" and "we could end up being another Egypt", Trump explained to Newsmax that he is incredibly concerned about the direction our economy is headed. Whatever you may think of Donald Trump on a personal level, it is undeniable that he has been extremely successful in business. As one of the most prominent businessmen in America, he is absolutely horrified about what is happening to this nation. In fact, he is so disturbed about the direction that this country is heading that he is seriously considering running for president in 2012. But whether he decides to run in 2012 or not, what Trump is now saying about the U.S. economy should be a huge wake up call for all of us

[traderabc] 03/2/2011 15:49

Keiser Report: Silver Stick for JP Vampire (E118)

[traderabc] 03/2/2011 12:50

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Jim Rogers: Belgium has a very serious problem

[traderabc] 01/2/2011 16:11

[KR117] Keiser Report – Dope Economy! Fecal Finance!
February 1st, 2011 by stacyherbert
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We interview Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage.

[traderabc] 01/2/2011 11:38

Humour.

LOGORAMA SUBTITULADO ESPAÑOL

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[traderabc] 01/2/2011 11:34

10 Things We Can Learn From Egypt About Preparing for Economic and Societal Collapse

Posted By Mac Slavo On January 31, 2011 @ 3:12 pm In Emergency Preparedness



As riots spread across the world, having started first in Europe and now engulfing the Middle East, most people in the U.S. outright reject the possibility that the same could happen right here at home. But the fact of the matter is that we remain in economic crisis and there is a real possibility of a total collapse of the system [1] we have come to know.

If the system does happen to collapse, be it because of a hyperinflationary currency meltdown [2], political uprising or anything in between, here are ten things you can expect to happen, just as they are happening in the Middle East today:




Live stream from Tahrir Square

[traderabc] 01/2/2011 10:28

Rice Closes Limit Up

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/31/2011 16:15 -0500