Federal Reserve About To Do “Tremendous Amount of Damage” To U.S. Dollar

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    This article was written by Michael Snyder and originally published at his Economic Collapse Blog.

    Editor’s Comment: On the one hand, the dollar under quantitative easing has watered down the purchasing power of the currency by giving the banks unlimited credit, and easy credit to many other countries, states, businesses and individuals. But now, in a perfect storm, a simple rate hike by the Federal Reserve will now create a reaping moment, when the bill will come due, and so much will come undone.

    It is not so much the appropriateness of one maneuver or the other by a central bank, but the raw power granted to one unaccountable institution that can single-handedly create the rise and fall of nearly the entire economy. A carefully controlled currency, tied to real value is the only sensible thing to do. Instead, the Federal Reserve has been given the power to control – through boom and bust – the lives of everyone involved in the illusion and usury of the dollar.

    The U.S. Dollar Has Already Caused A Global Recession And Now The Fed Is Going To Make It Worse

    by Michael Snyder

    The 7th largest economy on the entire planet, Brazil, has been gripped by a horrifying recession, as has much of the rest of South America.  But it isn’t just South America that is experiencing a very serious economic downturn.  We have just learned that Japan (the third largest economy in the world) has lapsed into recession.  So has Canada.  So has Russia.  The dominoes are starting to fall, and it looks like the global economic crisis that has already started is going to accelerate as we head into the end of the year.  At this point, global trade is already down about 8.4 percent for the year, and last week the Baltic Dry Shipping Index plummeted to a brand new all-time record low.  Unfortunately for all of us, the Federal Reserve is about to do something that will make this global economic slowdown even worse.

    Throughout 2015, the U.S. dollar has been getting stronger.  That sounds like good news, but the truth is that it is not.  When the last financial crisis ended, emerging markets went on a debt binge unlike anything we have ever seen before.  But much of that debt was denominated in U.S. dollars, and now this is creating a massive problem.  As the U.S. dollar has risen, the prices that many of these emerging markets are getting for the commodities that they export have been declining.  Meanwhile, it is taking much more of their own local currencies to pay back and service all of the debts that they have accumulated.  Similar conditions contributed to the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the Asian currency crisis of the 1990s and the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

    Many Americans may be wondering when “the next economic crisis” will arrive, but nobody in Brazil is asking that question.  Thanks to the rising U.S. dollar, Brazil has already plunged into a very deep recession

    As Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff combats a slumping economy and corruption accusations, the country’s inflation surged above 10 percent while unemployment jumped to 7.9 percent, according to the latest official data. The dour state of affairs has Barclays forecasting a 4 percent economic contraction this year, followed by 3.3 percent shrinkage next year, the investment bank said in a research note last week.

    The political and economic turmoil has recently driven the real, Brazil’s currency, to multiyear lows, a factor helping to stoke price pressures.

    And as I mentioned above, Brazil is far from alone.  This is something that is happening all over the planet, and the process appears to be accelerating.  One of the places where this often first shows up is in the trade numbers.  The following comes from an article that was just posted by Zero Hedge

    This market is looking like a disaster and the rates are a reflection of that,” warns one of the world’s largest shipbrokers, but while The Baltic Dry Freight Index gets all the headlines – having collapsed to all-time record lows this week – it is the spefics below that headline that are truly terrifying. At a time of typical seasonal strength for freight and thus global trade around the world, Reuters reports that spot rates for transporting containers from Asia to Northern Europe have crashed a stunning 70% in the last 3 weeks alone. This almost unprecedented divergence from seasonality has only occurred at this scale once before… 2008! “It is looking scary for the market and it doesn’t look like there is going to be any life in the market in the near term.”

    Many “experts” seem mystified by all of this, but the explanation is very simple.

    For years, global economic growth was fueled by cheap U.S. dollars.  But since the end of QE, the U.S. dollar has been surging, and according to Bloomberg it just hit a 12 year high…

    The dollar traded near a seven-month high against the euro before the release of minutes of the Federal Reserve’s October meeting, when policy makers signaled the potential for an interest-rate increase this year.

    A trade-weighted gauge of the greenback is at the highest in 12 years as Fed Chair Janet Yellen and other policy makers have made numerous pronouncements in the past month that it may be appropriate to boost rates from near zero at its Dec. 15-16 gathering. The probability the central bank will act next month has risen to 66 percent from 50 percent odds at the end of October.

    But even though the wonks at the Federal Reserve supposedly know the damage that a strong dollar is already doing to the global economy, they seem poised to make things even worse by raising interest rates in December

    Most Federal Reserve policymakers agreed last month that the economy “could well” be strong enough in December to withstand the Fed’s first Interest rate hike in nearly a decade, according to minutes of its meeting Oct. 27-28.

    The officials said global troubles had eased and a delay could increase market uncertainty and undermine confidence in the economy.

    The meeting summary provides the clearest evidence yet that a majority of Fed policymakers are leaning toward raising the central bank’s benchmark rate next month, assuming the economy continues to progress.

    Considering the tremendous amount of damage that has already been done to the global economy, this is one of the stupidest things that they could possibly do.

    But it looks like they are going to do it anyway.

    It has been said that those that refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

    And right now so many of the exact same patterns that we saw just before the great financial crisis of 2008 are playing out once again right in front of our eyes.

    A lot of people out there seem to assume that once we got past the September/October time frame that we were officially out of “the danger zone”.

    But that is not true at all.

    The truth is that we have already entered a new global economic downturn that is rapidly accelerating, and the financial shaking that we witnessed in August was just a foreshock of what is coming next.

    Let us hope that common sense prevails and the Fed chooses not to raise interest rates at their next meeting.

    Because if they do, it will just make the global crisis that is now emerging much, much worse.


    beginning-of-the-end-snyderMichael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years.

    Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and The American Dream

    If you want to know what things in America are going to look like in a few years read his new book The Beginning of the End.

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      1. Going to do damage? The Frigged it up back in 2007 and 2008. And now it is nothing but T.P. What fitting picture!

        Just wait its Christmas time with Black Friday only in a couple days.

        Did they save some money on their Guberment free bee cards?

        Sgt.

        • Sarg, we never get told the truth anyway…

          Thanks, Mac…

          • eppe… correct, that’s because psychopaths are pathological liars (a big part of the disorder) and are known to lie when it’s unnecessary and there’s no need to lie.

          • I meant to express how lucky we are to have a place to vent….

            Be well all…

            • Love Michael Snyder, but he really should stick to law. He doesn’t understand what is really happening economically. I have explained many times that the DOLLAR is the weapon of choice.

              The FED is at WAR with the BRIC’s for challenging FED hegemony.

              All of them are suffering. Some more than others based upon the mismanagement of their own economies and currencies. China in particular. Don’t listen to what the PTB say, watch what they do, and understand the ramifications of their actions: especially the FED.

              I told this community in September that the FED would raise rates if they wanted to put more pressure on the BRIC’s, and that would occur after the end of the fiscal year Sept 30th. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you if the FED bumps rates now.

              The end of the business cycle has already occurred. The markets will catch up sooner, rather than later. A 25 bp rate hike has NO meaningful financial impact upon the economy; only a psychological one, that will TEMPER US markets.

              The US Dollar has not caused the “Global Recession”. The FED has actually been BEHIND the curve rather than leading it as is normally the case. Recessions happen cyclically and can be charted for several hundred years in the United States. It happens this way:

              People and businesses take on too much debt to acquire assets and expand their businesses. (“Greed is Good”) Eventually people & businesses can only service so much debt, and begin to cut back their borrowing and purchases. This action by the masses has a depressive effect upon demand, as we have seen. Sales decline. Inventories back up. Jobs are lost to layoffs. Those who are laid off, stop buying unessential goods & services, and the downward spiral begins.

              The FED attempts to manipulate demand by raising or lowering rates. Eventually the economy overheats or crashes from either too high of interest rates, or lack of demand.

              The current business cycle has been exacerbated by the offshoring of American jobs to China, and the failure of the CCP to move to a totally capitalistic market system. Actions by China to overtake the USA (with the CCP in control) has led to its economic demise and I would be very surprised if things in China didn’t get many magnitudes worse than it is now.

              Its a long way to July first and WRC status for the Yuan which would help to stabilize the Chinese economy, but ALOT can happen between now and then. 🙂

              • “Recessions happen cyclically and can be charted for several hundred years in the United States”. UH DK, I don’t think the U.S. has been in existence for “several hundred years”. Just sayin’, not tryin to pick mind you but I catch your meaning.

                • PO’d unfortunately several means more than 2 but less than many. So several hundred would work here. It does not actually mean 7 i lost a bet on this one a while back lol. and Hundreds all you need is 101 to be able to say it. ( another bet i lost )

                • Recessions in the United States can be charted for MORE than two hundred years, as the USA has been in existence for 239 years. As a colony of Great Britain, recessions can be charted back much, much farther in the mother country; or on a global basis.

                  The point is that recessions are the consequence at the end of the business cycle and this is proven by history. Many in Alt Media would have you believe that this one is the last one: TEOTWAWKI.

                  You guys are getting desperate for criticism. 🙂

                  • hogwash! when interest rates go to around 4%, our debt will no longer be serviceable by our income (a product of GDP). when in the history of the U.S. have you seen interest rates below 1/2% for several years? it’s simple enough to a third grader…we have to much debt…that’s what the dollar is…it’s an instrument of DEBT..the FED is broke, the feral gubmint is broke(and BROKEN)!, the states are pretty much ALL broke, cities are broke…the PEOPLE are broke(and BROKEN)….unfunded liabilities by companies/gubmints(state/city/county/feds) to the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars…and that’s just the tip of the iceberg…no, michael snyder DOES know what he’s writing about, and you poor simps that think everything will “work out” are about to get a wakeup slap in the face…no, actually, it will be more like gettin’ left in a ditch…naked and BLEEDING!…it’s gonna be EPIC, and it’s gonna be SOON. so take advantage of the fact that we been wrong for all these years…consider it a GIFT. because when we/he is finally proven RIGHT, it WILL be the end, at least for a helluva bunch of years, unless we get a whole lot of people waking up and righting this ship….remember, the american people will ALWAYS do the right thing, but only after exhausting ALL OTHER POSSIBILITIES. a can only can be kicked down the road so many times, until it becomes so crushed, it’s no longer a CAN….and BTW, have y’all noticed that we got a disrespectful bunch of TWITS that we’ve raised up the last couple generations? what do you think will happen to U.S. when all these gimmee gimmees can’t get their mood altering drugs anymore?…it’s gonna be the great american FREAKOUT!….and i haven’t even touched the SURFACE of what’s wrong with america….business cycle INDEED!…PFFT!

            • Collateral damage in the United States as a result of China’s Yuan becoming the next reserve currency (official announcement to be made by the International Monetary Fund next 11/30/2015):
              – Senior citizens
              – Retirees
              – The disabled

              This important segment of the US population (around 38%) live on fixed incomes.

              Americans chronically addicted to government benefits who were not included in the group mentioned above (around 27% of the entire populace), specifically those enrolled in subsidized housing, general assistance, food stamps and SSI, will gradually see those entitlements being diminished until they are completely eradicated

              The progressive loss of purchasing power using US Dollars is going to hurt badly everyone in this country, is unavoidable and will be labeled as the event that caused the SHTF.

              This blog seems to deliberately ignoring the tectonic shift that will take place in the financial world in less than 7 days.

              • O&L: I am not at all certain that the Yuan will actually become a WRC next summer. The announcement due from the IMF will be “subject to”. Subject to what? Subject to the Rules; meaning the Yuan must be subject to market forces which the CCP cannot control.

                China has given lip service to these conditions and made some strides to these conditions, but whether they will follow through, or CAN under current financial conditions remain to be seen.

                If current conditions in Chinese markets are any indication as to how the CCP will react to a free market in its currency; it will never happen. I do not believe they will ever play by the Rules and allow the West (market forces) to control their currency.

                If the CCP releases the Yuan to market forces, a TSUNAMI of capital in China will flee the country. This year to date has seen more than $500 Billion dollar equivalent (BDE) exit the country. That is peanuts compared to the amount of currency that will find the exits: especially in such turbulent times.

                Make no mistake the WEST: The IMF under US voting control, WANTS China to align its currency and economy more fully with the Rothschild banking cartel. That’s why a Senior Rothschild family member has been living in China for decades. Imagine, eight more fiat pairs to trade and an insatiable market for gold. The possibilities of making more “money” hand over fist, over foot, are endless !!!

                Here is a link to a Bloomberg article which puts the transition into perspective:

                “http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-22/china-is-real-roadblock-to-the-yuan-s-emergence?cmpid=yhoo.headline

                What ultimately happens as a consequence to this CHANGE, is anyone’s guess, since this sort of thing has never happened in this way before, but you can be assured that the FED, the IMF, and the BIS have modeled the potential consequences ad infinitum on super computers with sensitivity analysis and goal seeking software to identify the optimal process.

                The Gangster Banksters are NOT going to shoot themselves in the foot. They are very smart and have virtually infinite financial resources at their disposal: the US Dollar. 🙁

            • If you have travel plans, please be aware.

              State department issues worldwide travel alert “due to increased terrorist threats”

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              • KYM, thanks for being a positive note here always.
                We need more like you.
                Miss many…

                Bless all here…

                • Watch a Mark Dice video to see how bad we need total house cleaning.

                • FED…meet Hobson….now then….make your choice….the WORST thing they could have done was to lower interest rates,…but even WORSE, now they are going to RAISE them….so what’s it going to be, america(ns)? the start of the greatest depression in 2008, or complete COLLAPSE in 2015(POSSIBLY 2016)…the check is on the table, with the waitress nervously tapping her foot…hobson’s choice, INDEED…i would say this corner they’ve painted themselves into is the very DEFINITION of a hobson’s choice! hope y’all been preppin’ like a muhfugguh, ’cause yuh had over TEN YEARS of straight-up serious warnings! eppe, we could use some of your BEST material right about now…nawww, never mind, aint NUTHIN’ gonna make THIS headache go away.

        • My shopping days are done till after Christmas.

          • That is when you find the best deals…

            Looking into getting a single pump .22 air rifle, quite a few brand names out there.

            Any opinoins???

            • Naw dont need to worry about getting a deal. Just dont feel comfortable about the days ahead. I dont have an opinion on a .22 air rifle. I live where shooting is not a problem.

            • eppe, I like my Beeman .22 break barrel..pretty accurate, needs (according to Beeman) about 500 rounds thru it to get full accuracy. (about $150 back in ’08) I’ll look for the model # if this post actually makes it.
              Do not buy their interchangeable barrel rifle. Accuracy sucks.
              You can spend some serious change for a top line rifle with pinpoint accuracy, just depends on your purpose.
              Check to see if the you-tube video is still up from a few yrs. ago, called “rat sniper”. Foreign, maybe German rifle, guy just puts one rat after another to “sleep” with head shots in a wood pile.

              • looks like RS 2 .22. Model #’s have probably changed, though.

            • Stick with Dasey or Crossman, check out EBAY?

              • Daisy and Crosman, beginner’s airguns. cheap and made for kids to learn on.

            • I have a crossman .177 single shot break barrel. Pretty cool for a pellet rifle. Don’t care for the .22 air rifle.

            • eppe, I’ve got a Gamo single pump in a .177 that I swear by. I’m sure they make a .22. You can get the “platinum” pellets that shoot supersonic. Sounds and acts much like a .22 cal rim-fire rifle.

              • User, thanks…
                I saw Ruger and Remington models, which I am a fan of.
                Thanks all for the info.

                Yall behave..

            • I have a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston .22 caliber I swear by. Took a couple hundred rounds to get really good accuracy, now head shots on squirrels are routine.

              • I have a RWS 6G. Recoiless air pistol. 700 fps? Small light compact. Expensive. You get what you pay for. Sometimes?

                • Lone wolverine,
                  My grandpa used to make guns that shot out potatoes. Not aware of anybody getting hit with a potato projectile but I bet it would hurt-lol.

            • check like sportsman’s guide and maybe gander mt. and read the reviews on each air rifle. Ruger .22 doesn’t rate that good.

            • Beeman, Gamo, Benjamin, all good. No daisy or crossman, those are junk. Wood stocks look nice, but synthetics last. Go to your local sporting goods store (if you have one) and handle a few. You can feel quality in your hands and it will feel like a real gun, not a bb gun. It should be a break-barrel, not 10-pump like a crossman or daisy. PBA ammo will shoot a few hundred fps faster. It should come with a decent scope as well, adjustable & quality with caps front and rear. Hope this helps!!

          • I am spending as much on christmas as I did last year and the year before and the year before…. Absolutely 0. Not one fooking cent. I do not lend my approval or go along with bullshit customs just because everyone else in the flock do. Every so called holiday I know of is complete lies and BS. By going along with them shows that you don’t question shit and approve of lies. Fook xmas, fook 4th of july, fook easter, fook halloween, fook presidents day, fook them all!

            Now get out there and shop until you drop because some make believe fat fooker in a red suit told you too 🙂

            • Genius.

              Holidays have no meaning to me anymore.

              • sling, that’s not a bad thing. If people want to celebrate something make it something personal not what the masses say you should. Make a family holiday or a remembrance day of someone lost or anything you can think of. You will enjoy homemade holidays a lot more than some bullshit mainstream circus act. Heck why don’t we have a SHTFPlan day! Celebrate the gift Mac has given us! Send him a jar of shine or something lol. These things actually are true and have meaning. I will get the ball rolling…..

                I DECLARE APRIL 15th SHTFPlan day! Screw the irs IT WILL BE MACS DAY. Anyone with me?

                • So we’ll pay our so called taxes to MAC? What about if we are getting refund, is Mac gonna pay us?

                  • Stolz, he is paying you by running this forum of which you are speaking. No gift required just a couple days of thanks. I’m quite sure an offering of just saying THANK YOU will be adequate. Show some appreciation man.

                • How about 10-8 when the site started???

                  Just a thought…

                  • Ya that would be good but 4-15 is an easier date to remember since it is a standout date for a lot of people. Turn a day of dread into a celebration. Eppe if you can remind us of the date I am for it. It is a good idea!

                    • Lol one thing is that I want to celebrate sooner too 🙂

                    • Aaah heck let’s make it a biyearly thing 🙂

                  • How bout 2 dates???
                    10-8 & 4-15 ????

                    Ever had sweet feed shine cotton candy???

                    • Ha ha, you were thinkin the same thing. I have tried sweet feed but how does cotton candy come in?

                    • Just a flavor additive, have no idea, but was addictive…

                    • Something I tried that was very good too was root beer. Just add root beer flavoring and a little sweetner YUMMMM 😛

                    • Back to bizinezz, so thats 2 votes for a biannual shtfplan day. 10-8 and 4-15. Anyone else?

                    • G, u gotta try ‘ not your father’s root beer…

                    • i’m down for both dates!

                    • bcod, we have 3! Ok then the three of us will celebrate on the dates agreed. See this is fun and meaningful and celebrates a great cause 🙂

            • Genius:

              I could never be a Jehova’s Witness because they
              don’t celebrate Christmas or birthdays.

              Sometimes we just have to agree to disagree.

              I believe that Culture is a human right. My culture
              may be different than yours. I respect your right to
              abstain from the celebration, but I will fight for my
              right to celebrate any holiday I choose to celebrate
              in any way I want that doesn’t cause harm (real harm)
              to others.
              I resent that the Nativity Scene was removed while
              across the street an enormous symbol of another
              religion was/is erected. That is racism or religionism.

              America was founded by devout Christians as a
              sanctuary for all religions. It doesn’t matter that Xmas
              coincides with the pagan holiday of solstice and the
              Life of Christ is also a mythological constellation tale.
              It doesn’t matter that Saint Nicholus bears little
              resemblance to Santa Claus. It is not your problem.

              Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, freedom to
              bear arms, freedom of religion; and the pursuit of happiness.

              Thanks for the video. Freedom to mock and be offensive is
              an important freedom of speech. I laughed my ass off.

              • Ha ha good! Absolutely agree, everyone is free to express whatever they believe as long as it doesn’t harm others. Christianity has a lot of good morals and no country can be free without morals. You have a good understanding of what freedom really is and I like that. I am not trying to bash christians in general just the hypocrites and the commercialism and bullshit that christmas has become. Everyone has the right to celebrate whatever they want I just point out things that a lot of people never think of. I personally cannot stand hive mind mentality and collectivism. I like being an individual with my own beliefs and subjected to change when an unrefutable truth is presented to me. I do believe in a creator/creators and a universal intelligence. My law is natural law and not written by man. It is born in all of us imo and has consequences for going against that law. We probably have a lot more in common than you think. Keep up the good posts my friend 🙂

                • Damn, G we think alike…

                  In alot of ways…

                  • Yes we do eppe! And it’s a beautiful thing 🙂

                    • Funny how we talk of things that make us common…

                      Thanks, Mac, again…

                    • Our country is being ripped apart . If we think that all cultures can co exist . We are ignoring history. We think we are different now . But look at our situation .we are playing with fire. Why do we need borders if we are all the same.? We are digging a hole that our grand children will have to get out of. The greatest generation gave birth to the worse generation. Third world people create third world countries . Theve been educated by rats. It’s really not their falt . But we can’t save everyone. It would be nice if we could. If you think we can they can move in with you. Stand up and volunteer. If not you are a hipocrate . The only true crime.

                    • lone, you know things seemed to work a lot better when cultures were seperated. Countries had their own thing and traded goods and kept to themselves. The psycopathic bankers could not have that and needed chaos to create a controlling order. The bankers have planted and created chaos (wars) to benefit their rise to power. All the shit you see is a gigantic orchestra being conducted by the men behind the curtain. NONE of this is by accident! It is a carefully and very intelligently designed agenda to bring total control to a handful of men. Humanity HAS overpopulated and is no longer needed to keep the ship afloat. The masses WILL die either by resource depletion or war. They just want to maintain control of it all. In my opinion this has happened before in the distant past and they have the knowledge of it.

        • Speaking of black Friday, I haven’t seen shit for deals. Usually I get some pretty good stuff.

          Last year I got two 50″ flat screens for $200 each at Walmart. I haven’t seen anything like that this year.

          • A person could just cry reading a comment like this…

            • Agreed.

        • Go back multiple decades….the damage has already been built in.

        • What a mess. This can’t be just a matter of incompetence. How could every so called “expert” in the world have made these mistakes? But then again, perhaps it is incompetence. This is what happens when you load up the central banks of the world with Keynesian School Marms (that shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids) and Goldman Investment Bankers (only interested in how much GS can profit), and this is what you get. A total cluster-F*&k! What really gets me is that these fools don’t see it as their fault. Through incompetence and greed, these fools have brought the world to the brink. I think it’s too late for a course change. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead…right over Niagra Falls. Just picture Kansas’ Left Overture album cover.

      2. I will be surprised if the holiday shopping season is anything like it was last year. Could be lots of retail closings come 2016.

        • Heh.
          I’ve been laid off twice so far during this president.
          Went from 120K plus to shit.
          Ain’t going to be a pretty Christmas for the kids this year, but hell, I remember shitty Christmases during the Carter years. Salvation Army J.I. Joe’s missing arms and legs along with Lincoln Logs that had been chewed upon rendering them completely round. Guess I’ll just spend more time with them running my normal trap line.

          • RW,
            When we lived upstate NY we had some Christmas’s that were really lean so we used to take the kids ice fishing on the St. Lawrence and took the camp stove and made breakfast on the ice and when we did the trapline I always packed special treats for their lunch and thermoses of cocoa and coffee. Spending extra time with your kids will someday mean more to them then the forgotten toys they didn’t get for Christmas.

            Love to trap, you know it is a all but forgotten way of life these days, to much work and time involved.

            Have a good season.

            • For the most part my kids love to trap. I also enjoy teaching them how to do it. It’s not something that 3 girls can do in today’s world. You’re right, it’s quickly becoming a lost art.

        • Everyone, it’s going to be interesting to see how the shopping season goes this time around. Let’s see if Black Friday will have the same size crowds of dickheads this time.

          • Im thinkin bout takin the little guy to Walmart, sit far enough out in the parking lot and watch the carnage. It’s free entertainment and a good lesson for my son in that this is the life that awaits you if all you do is play video games and wait for the next pair of Jordan’s to come out.

          • I will be home sippin shine watching it on youtube shakin my head lol.

            • Same here. Maybe some apple pie shine or some lemon drop.

              • Ooooh ya, apple pie! MMMMMMy favorite 😛 Some peppermint with cocoa is good too! Haven’t tried lemon but it sounds good. Lemonade shine hmmmm I’m on it!

                • Boy sounds good. Many years ago knew a feller that got Peach Shine. Man was that smooth. Id be a fan of the Lemon Drop shine for sure.

                  • Years ago, had a .5 gal with prunes that bloated to plums in that fine shine.

                    3 shots and 2 plums, slept so good, did not hunt that morning…

                    Yall behave and be well…

          • Local Paper, Quote of the day. “Black Friday: Because only in America, do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.” Trekker Out.

      3. burn it down, or kick the can down the road to the inevitable, what a choice. I say that much like gangrene, you have to cut a limb or two to prevent the infection from killing the entire body.

        Burn baby burn.

      4. Folks, the “overture” has been playing for a while. TPTB have been conducting it at a “slow dance.” Kindly take your seats for the “main event.” It will be a symphony of Biblical proportions.

        As the “music” (arson and looting) from the streets rises in crescendo, you will faintly hear the chorus of us preppers bleating: “Told ‘ya so…told ‘ya so…told ‘ya so.”

        but nobody will be listening….

        • Not trying to be a D!ck, just curious, do you have any kind of financial back ground that would lend you credibility that it is indeed going to be as bad as you say it is? Is this the fall of Western Civilazation or just a unpleasant experience like 2008 was? It is hard to know what is really coming because of the sheer amount of opinions out there you know. I want to know if I’m finally going to be able to use my body armor and AR15 coupled 30 round mags;)

          • Green Tip 4 U

            The percentage is more in favor that you will use your body armor, AR15 and 30 rounds mags then our society living peacefully together in the near future.

      5. 1999 – Bill Clinton repealing the Glass-Steagall Act. Allowed Banking practices to do unimaginable, unlawful business with no oversight or control.

        Dems & Reps both equally at fault for gutting the Middle Class, and dismantling the Manufacturing Base and turning the country into a Service Jobs only force didn’t help matters much either.

        “Let us hope that common sense prevails and the Fed chooses not to raise interest rates at their next meeting.”

        I say bullshit … raise it, and let the ponzi scheme expose itself for what it is. This “kicking the can” down the road routine has gone on for too long now.

        If we had anything resembling an “honest, moral banking system”, we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.

        Anyhoo – I don’t foresee them raising rates. They’ll keep it floating awhile longer until something “catastrophic” happens to cover the bankrupt country that they themselves have created.

        • The banking system, like the government, is a total fraud. They print, in unaudited amounts, “money” with no specie backing. Insiders get the “money,” then they “buy” hard assets with the funny money. Many of the buyers are chinees, or other commies.

          Total fraud. It’s comin’ down.

          f ’em

        • The Federal Reserve have been politicized. Janet Yellen is a Progressive Democrat. And she does what she is told to do by President Obama.

          What that means is:

          Rates will not have any significant rise until about August or September of 2016. This way when a Republican President takes over the US economy will be totally destroyed and it will be the “new” president’s fault.

            • LOL,

              Just had a flashback of a guy who wrote

              MERRY SHIT CHRISTMAS on his cell window with some soap, he was ordered to remove it several times but refused.

              Later that day a crew of guards kicked the crap outa him and hauled him off.

              He got what he wished for, one shitty Christmas.

        • FTW. Is right . We will all be smelling the coffee soon.

          • Lone wolverine,
            You’re a mind reader. I was just thinking the other day about those that want to welcome the hoards in. Well they should take in whole families into their own homes. They need to put their money where their mouth is.

      6. The Fed won’t raise rates…they can’t. There trapped, and they know it. We’re going to enter a scenario of negative interest rates. We’re already there, as the REAL (not the illusionary rate of 2.3%) inflation rate is higher than the fed fund “prime” interest rate. But it will get worse, and the day will come soon that you’ll get 0% on your savings account. You may even pay them on your deposits…..!!!

      7. Big old sign up ahead” BRIDGE OUT “, but these dumb SOB’S just keep shoveling on more coal. Faster and faster we must go cause if we go fast enough we’ll jump over the gorge and land safely on the other side. Get the HELL off this train now while you still can. Get to where you need to be now and just tell everyone else to KISS YOUR ASS. I’m at my last stand now; ready to live and die a free man.

      8. We all know who the midget chair of the Satanic Reserve System is but why the vice chair of this ….oo owned system used to be the chair of the Israel Reserve Bank? What country in the world assign such job to Stany Fisher?

        Wait, the dual citizens are the masters of the US of A.

      9. A long long fall.

      10. At The Last Straw

        Woooooooooooooooo.

        Woooooooooooooooooooo.

        Wooooooooooooo, Wooooooooooooooo.

        Wide Open Throttle.

        • SS–

          You mean like this:…..? (crank up the volume, folks)!!!
          …and sans the space to enjoy:

          ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBP15lRprPs

          • Hunter

            Blackfoot. Train. “Long Live Rock and Roll”.

      11. The Federal Reserve has backed themselves into a corner. At this point in the fiat scam, they are desperate to raise the rates ONLY so they can then lower them to ‘stimulate the economy’. Nixon’s 1971 deal with the Saudi’s kept the Bretton-Woods agreement in place, but it’s finally in the last stages. The bottom line is they are going to keep lying and scamming to keep this sham going until it’s finally and utterly destroyed. The reason why it’s still going is due to the size of the US economy, and up until now, there has been no one to challenge us economically or militarily. Also, don’t miss the fact that all western central banks are doing the same thing as the Federal Reserve. Their actions are also extending this mess. What is changing this time is that there are other world powers (China, Russia etc.) that are creating a multi-polar global power system. The US is destined to sink from the world stage and become a weak 2nd or 3rd rate power. These things take time to unravel, and dying systems tend to have an unpredictable amount of remaining time before they finally die.

      12. I’d rather like to see a depression as opposed to an inflation of our economy. I believe our stock market is very over valued and the bond market under valued.
        As for the rest of the world I could care less that the Democrats, Communists and Socialists have ruined their economies, by allowing politics to set prices and nationalization policies. Venezuela with the world’s largest oil reserves should be a very rich country, but it is spiraling down into chaos. Democracy doesn’t work very well when you have, ignorant, poor people( Gimme Dats) running the show. That is why America was set up as a republic( which I fear we have lost).
        Keep on prepping,

        • poor people( Gimme Dats) running the show? Since when?

        • The problem with a depression again is the Free Sh*t Army will grow in record numbers. And the dems and socialist idiots no longer have any self respect to take care of themselves.
          Just wait till there is “free Obama WIFI” for every home. You know its coming..

          A painful reminder of what it means to survive vs just live is what is needed. A hard winter will cull the flock.

      13. What the fed does won’t amount to a hill of beans on a Del Monte contract farm. As far as American Labor goes the hand writing was on the wall and if they had worked for a competitive international wage the jobs would still be here. Yes, they would have had to work for less, but prices would have went down also. What good did pricing themselves out of a job do? The middle class destroyed itself through debt enslavement. The blame game doesn’t work now and it won’t help us when we are being hunted down for the FEMA camps either. thanks for your time.

      14. Islamic State: ‘The Threat to the United States’

        “over 250 people from the United States have attempted to join ISIS, according to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee. Also, some 82 individuals in the United States have been interdicted by federal agents as part of ISIS plots, according to a database compiled by Threat Knowledge Group.”

        “The report notes that “ISIS is a fully-fledged insurgency” and has been able to achieve far more than Al Qaeda has in its past. In such a short amount of time, ISIS has been able to recruit a force of tens-of-thousands of jihadis while also controlling territory, a feat that Al Qaeda has never accomplished by itself.”

        “TKG warns that the United States must steel itself for the “difficult times ahead” and be ready to counter the threats posed by ISIS inside of the United States.”

        In summary, TKG recommends that American officials should:
        1. “Stop downplaying the seriousness of the threat.”
        2.“ Recognize that ISIS is targeting youth, and do more to protect youth from radicalization.”
        3. “Target the ideologues.”
        4. “Better utilize open-source intelligence.”
        5. “Screen refugees.”

        Breitbart dot com

        • Islamic State: ‘The Threat to the United States’

          I believe that Heading is written completely wrong, and misleading. By now, the American people for the most part should know who the threat/enemy is.

          That Heading should be written as this:

          Washington D.C.: ‘The Threat to the United States’

          Any attack from an outside “foreign entity” had some dire help from the “inside entity” for any attack that may take place on US soil.

          ISIS is a “MADE IN USA”/Ally Creation
          [you should know this by now, the hell with Breitbart]

          People in general are worried about ISIS(product), when they should be concerned about it’s Creators(government).

          The “Product” will disperse & disband, if the “Creator(s)” are neutralized.

          • It should say “THE FED RESERVE IS THE BIGGEST ENEMY TO THE U.S.”

            Government is just middle management buttlickers doing what they are told. As far as isis goes the cia created it not the government. They are 2 seperate entities. The govt. is just instructed to protect them.

            You will never kill the tree until you kill the root, the fed reserve.

            • Correct you are Genius – but … when I say Government … it includes all branches and it’s affiliates, inside and outside sources too.

              If the people would wise up and ban together to do something about “government” … then dealing with the Bankers inside or outside will be dealt with and kick them to the curb and have banking reformed and regulated.

                • Genius, Is the above face the same one who was walking hand in hand (just like lovers in San Francisco) with Bushy when he visited America? These our our best friends?

                  USA USA USA

                  • Yepper!

            • …and thats why your alias is “Genius”!!!

              Actually the fed is simply behind the curtain with the IMF. But, your assessment of the USA, Inc being middle management is quite appropriate.

              Once you study the genealogy and follow a little bit of the money you find that things fall into place nicely.

              Did anyone ever figure out what the riots in Behnghazi were all about? My theory is that they figured out that the americans, through the American Embassy in Libya, were arming and training terrorists. They try to make us believe that every citizen of the middle east is a terrorist, but, this is not true.

              Our government has produced the most efficient mind-fuck machine possible as they practice with it every minute using it on the American people. Somebody said it pretty plainly: The REAL terrorists (or at least a portion of them) are in Washington DC.

              • NetRanger, Amen.

              • Net, OMG when you look into genealogy is right! There is a rabbithole with no end. Bloodlines are interconnected within the rulers like DAMN! It’s more than I can absorb, all the lineage throughout history. From the ancient kings to the current leaders, it is a web from HELL!

              • i heard years ago that we supplied stinger missiles to the????? i don’t know, somebody over there. and they started ending up in the wrong hands, so “ambassador” stevens was sent to try to get them back….problem was,…they didn’t wanna give ’em up!

      15. The big reason that raising the interest rates will wreck everything is because the banks have been taking all this free money from the Fed with no interest and putting it in the stock market not loaning it out they are backing these loans with collateral being repo homes that have sat for years and gone to shit but they inflate the value over what they loaned on it that is why they did stress tests on banks but even that was just passification for public when fed interest rates rise game over they will have to pull out of stock market I used to do good flipping houses nothing for past 5 years banks are just sitting on them while they rott

        • Godsoldier, I had a cousin who used to be realtor but got out of it back in 2008 just before the bailouts to wall st. She saw ahead of time what was coming and threw in the towel. Now she’s doing something else and making more money than she did as realtor.

        • Holy lack of punctuation batman.

      16. Absolutely best place for money is ammo guns that is one thing that will feed and protect and provide think about basics what was the main thing mountain men coveted and needed a rifle

        • Yep the mtn. men coveted their rifles until they were arrested for poaching and hunting without a license and tresspassing, and having an unregistered firearm and having a rifle with too big a magazine and using the wrong kind of boolits and hunting out of season and shooting after sundown and not having proper ID and having an unlawful campfire and possession of eagle feathers and having a knife with too long a blade and eating spotted owls and overstaying at a campsite and taking govt. water from the stream and encroaching on fed protected land and etc.

          • Genius

            And don’t forget, Exposing themselves to the Wildlife.
            Can’t be pooping and peeing in the woods.

      17. Making other countries just more pissed by abuse of the dollar.

      18. and the dollar index is at an 10 year high…so when is the question?

      19. Of course !
        It’s all going as planned

        • Yep. The title is incorrect. Should be:

          Federal Reserve About To Have A Tremendouse Amount Of Success

          The appearance of incompetence is nothing more than a ruse. While government and non-government incompetence is pretty common, competence like every other aspect of every situation, is metered, amplified or diminished as needed, to fulfill an agenda that we are never privy to without close examination.

          I’m just laughing at Fox News. I guess polls are out that are citical of Obama’s response to ISIS. Its laughable! Obama doesn’t care about ISIS, he just wants to get Assad. That is his target. He cares about something but its not America and its not about destroying CIASIS. There is a hidden agenda. …and it is *NOT* in America’s interest, just the opposite.

          So, keep your ammo close, your rifle closer and your sidearm even closer.

          One thing I’ve learned about the followers of islam: kaffirs (unbelievers) should not be able to own property or have wealth. This is why the president is attempting to destroy America. The great kaffir nation doesn’t have a right to have what we have worked for and he is attempting to fulfill that belief. He protects islamics and he hurts kaffirs. This is the way of the faithful islamic. Why else would he forbid the armed forces to speak the word “Christmas”?

          • Most of what you say is true based on historical facts and data.
            Obama is still alive because we don’t want a black JFK.
            Moslem’s are fire at will in my ROE. Kill every one you can if you can get away with it. They will kill you if you run and hide. The world will be better without the 1.5 Billion of them. I sound a little radical, but would you invite Ebola into your home?
            That is something that kills without thought, as it is it’s nature.
            Moslems Kill, rape, en-slave, and rob, if you are different.
            Moslems have Allah’s ( a false god’s) permission to do it.
            I compare them to the Maya and Aztec’s. I’d join with Russians and wipe out the entire culture if Islam.

          • Net Ranger

            He still has many who believe in him and his policies. Obama will inflict as much injury as possible on this nation before he leaves office. That is, if he leaves office.

      20. OBAMA = NERO
        THE FIDDLE = THE FED
        ROME = THE US
        THE FIRE = MUSLIM TERRORISTS

      21. If they are worried about a Quarter of a Percent Rise in the Interest Rate.

        Then every other calculations are LIES.
        Call it inflation or unemployment or the housing market, Consumer Price Index. You name it.

        Raise the rate a full percentage point and do a good stress test.

        Ladies and Gentlemen take my advise.
        Drop your drawers and slide on the ice.

        That is what these BOZO’S have been telling us.

        The Jig is up and they have to do something cause they just can’t do nothing. They’re screwed.

        And the Yuan waits in the wing.

      22. We the GOD loving patriotic freedom cherishing ones will be the fly in the pudding no plan goes as planned faith hope and love the greatest is love

        • So your saying I should just love these bastards out of my life?

          • Genius

            There is NO WAY we can convince people what has to be done. Too Much OPPOSITION.

            I hope that Mosque gets to put in speakers and have their call to prayer.

            As Obama said, “The most beautiful sound in the world”.

            • Sad but true 🙁

      23. You’ve got to see this video: ” With Open Gates”, youtube.com.
        The truth about what’s happening in Europe right now, due to the unchecked immigration going on.
        If that doesn’t open your eyes to what’s coming here next, nothing will!

      24. We need spread Islamophobia I’m all for making these people feel unwelcome in America. Make it so hard to exist here. We are individuals and we don’t have to be politically correct. We should do what’s best for us. Obummer isn’t gonna do the right thing so we need to act against his agenda. This is what I do everyday.

      25. I think the FED passes on raising rates in December, even though this is the best time for them to do so. (Fake #’s across the board and sheeple focused on spending for Christmas). However, if they do raise rates it signals a white flag surrender moment and the correction begins. Let’s face it, if this game wasn’t so rigged we would have 3% Prime, 3.75% 10 yr Treasury, and 6.75% 30 Fixed fnma and inflation would be nominal 9 or 10 %.. Personally I hope I get one more month to convert my last 401k into gold/silver before the markets go south. Please hury up and send my check so I can convert it to a real asset. Lol

      26. It seems that everyone knows WHO is the problem.

        But no one knows HOW to deal with the problem.

        Maybe some know, but so far all I know is that; TRUTH
        is the first casualty of WAR, and the first step toward
        PEACE.

        • One idea is to get everyone to STOP using fed notes as money. That would destroy them post haste! But that will never happen.

      27. You are saying the Federal Reserve is about to do “Tremendous Amount of Damage” to our U.S. Dollar?

        Say what?

        Um, when did they ever NOT damage the dollar?

        Let’s have a little history lesson here, shall we?

        Kennedy issues Silver Certificates (remember when they were in circulation?)

        Kennedy is then shot and killed.

        Then, Silver no longer backed the dollar. Copper gets inserted into our coinage, because of the devaluation of the dollar, and Silver Certificates are withdrawn.

        Next, Johnson sends FIFTY-EIGHT THOUSAND AMERICANS to their DEATHS in Vietnam. (Kennedy had issued an Executive Order commanding the withdrawal of all Americans FROM Vietnam, and then he was killed.)

        Then, Nixon takes us off the Gold Standard. Last I checked what one single dollar purchased in 1962 is what about seventeen can purchase today.

        And you know the rest, as evidenced in the suffering of Americans since November 22, 1963, which continues to this day as the people behind the scenes get richer by selling weapons to BOTH sides of global conflicts.

        So WHERE have all those flowers gone?

        They’ve gone to the lovers and family members of young American men and women we seduce into soldiers who fight wars that lead to graveyards that lead to flowers decorating their graves, and for what? All so a few people could get rich off of their “sacrifice”.

        Last I checked, Veterans are STILL treated like dirt! And why?

        God sees when you pick your apples, and God also sees when you pick the pockets of hard-working American taxpayers who are forced to fund dictatorships, tyranny, wars founded upon lies about weapons that never existed, terrorists like ISIS, and I could go on and on.

        So the NEXT time I want to hear about nine PRIVATELY owned banks WE call the “FEDERAL” Reserve, I expect ALL the aforementioned truths to be stated alongside that 52-year old Assassination when a few people organized a hit on a President who dared to defy the warmongers, the drug pushers, and the destructively led intelligent factions of our government.

        Follow the money, my friends, and you will see it all is the consequence of that perenially tragic November day in Dallas, one referred to by John McCain in a debate as “the tragedy of the intervention in Dallas.” Yes, they sure intervened to take out the President so he would not take them either to the curb or the jails in which they belonged!

        When Nikita Kruschev found out the President was killed, he angrily told his intelligence forces, “FIND OUT WHO KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY!”

        When they later brought him the answer– that he was killed by forces within his own government– he was as sickened and outraged as the rest of us.

        Truth never damages a cause that is just, stated Gandhi, so kindly remember all these facts the next time you read or hear about the so-called federal reserve, lest you be led to a festering sewer that will make you want to take a long shower.

        – the Lone Ranger

        • lone, don’t forget the executive order Kennedy made phasing out the fed reserve. The #1 reason in my opinion. As far as I know that order has never been rescinded. But the real damage was done by Wilson in 1912 with the fed reserve act. Lincoln too was probably the biggest piece of shit this country has ever known. I guess people have always been stupid 🙁

      28. Snyder again???? Didn’t he say we were fucked in September? One trick pony who has been wrong many and right few times.

      29. PUTIN QUOTE it is up to God weather or not he forgives them and up to me to send them to God end quote. He was talking about the terrorist that blew up the russian plane. As far as faith hope and love and love being the greatest any one can die for love and alot have be it for 1 person or a whole country but can you kill 1,000 or 10,000 for that same love thats what you need to ask yourself when the time comes

      30. This WILL happen and the date will be on September 23, 2015 (market crash, asteroid crash, et al).

      31. Love is a wonderful thing but one must use discernment. Going around loving everyone will make you a martyr and a doormat. Faith is good and most people are good but to not discern who is good and worthy of love is a huge mistake. There are a lot of psycopaths in the world and no amount of love is going to help them. They will use your blind empathy against you every chance they get. Like casting pearls before swine. Freely loving people will only end up destroying you. Use love with wisdom and caution and do not let yourself be carried away by it.

        • Wise words indeed.

        • I had to learn that lesson the hard way…EXPERIENCE. But then I found a Chinese fortune recently: “Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment”. Unfortunately most of us have to hurt first before we wake up.

        • Nice.

          In my case I could substitute the word “trust” in place of “love” and get much the same meaning out of your post.

      32. Genius:

        You are a philosopher. I see wall hangings with
        Flowery sayings about love. I think what you
        Said there is worthy of wall space.

      33. Not buying and goods this year for Christmas. , taking my family to a cabin I rented in Canadian Rockies for two weeks. No Tv, cell service, gonna learn how to ski, go dog sledding one day, ice fishing.. I could always use more preps but don’t believe I will have a chance to do anything like this with family for much longer. Gonna enjoy my life while there is still time.

      34. FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU LOVE AND KILL DESTROY WHAT YOU HATE after all it is gods way

        • Godsoldier –

          I think you just summarized how ISIS/Al-Qaeda feel.

          “By inflaming and justifying the worst of human instincts as the will of God, theistic religions have resulted in countless millions of people being tortured and murdered.”

          Joseph Daleiden

        • Bigblue:

          That is the Old Testament / Talmud God

          The God of the New Testament has mellowed out

          Of course even God can put up with only so much

          ……………………..B U L L S H I T………………………….

          • Sorry Bigblue, I meant to address Godsoldier

      35. The whole monetary system of today is an illusion created to enslave the people to a world of labor to benefit others and not themselves. All .gov trough feeders are parasites on the producer’s labor.

        Income taxes are the handcuffs they place on you to make sure you do not escape. They must be paid in the scrip of the empire.

        Then they “legalize” numerous agencies from the alphabet ones to the local police to coerce your cooperation at the point of a gun.

        If you do not participate at the level they wish you to, they will eventually send the enforcers to imprison or kill you.

        Try to resist their “rules”. A cage or death will be your reward.

        No, enforcers are not your friend. They are the enemy of free men. They abide by the edicts handed down for their pieces of silver. They laugh at such whimsies as life, liberty or anyone’s happiness except their own.

      36. Russian war plane shot down by turkey.
        heads up..

      37. Please, please, please raise the rates way up fascist shit stain criminal psychopaths at the Federal Fascist Reserve, so the evil vile shithole of the world can collapse sooner, and we can begin rounding up and arresting all the psychopathic criminal scum in the two criminal political party gangs of Republican and Democrat evil filthy vile disgusting gutter swine trash, and their Corporatist fascist puppetmaster criminal monsters.

      38. Weaker dollar? I don’t think so? my dollars will buy more gallons of gas than they would in many years. and everything is tied to the cost of oil & fuel. and the dollar compared to the pound the pound is only 75 cents. And Like Ive been trying to explain to everyone. The actual physical cash paper money doesn’t exist. As long as the mint doesn’t print anything larger than the 100 dollar bill. No one has or are going to have wheel barrows full of paper money. The Mint has been printing 24×7 for decades. However paper money wears out. and truckloads of worn soiled bills are burned every day. the mint prints mostly one dollar and twenty dollar bills. And no paper money is currently printed larger than the one Hundred dollar bill. Unless they start printing money in larger denominations the common folks will never be awash in paper cash. those big money transfers are just digital numbers and signatures not even the banks have a big supply of the actual physical cash dollars.

      39. About to? I think they already have, haven’t they? Printing trillions of dollars out of thin air can’t be good.

      40. Turkey shoots down Russian Military aircraft.

      41. The dollar is at a 10 year high, so mess with it. IMF is all wrong trying to decrease the valve of the dollar this is America an we must watch out for our currency.

        AS for the FED to increase the interest rate in December 2015,it’s not all bad maybe the banks will start paying a decent interest rate on savings.

        AS for ISIS if all the countries in the world would unit in a fight against them the fighting would end in a few months. With all the military knowledge and equipment we have I cant believe the fighting has last this last.

        God Bless America. In God We Trust.

      42. What the hell is going on with TURKEY

        They are buying ISIS oil and letting ISIS cross back and forth across the border, using Turkey as a base of OPERATIONS.

        Article at The American Dream Site.

        • Sling, does make one wonder?

          I have always thought WW3 will be started over something stupid like this.

          May cooler minds prevail…

          • Since we are at the end of this thread, may I input this thought?

            What if all humanity on this 3rd rock from our star could all get along for the common good of all???

            What could be accomplished when we were not fighting each other?

            I know I am just dreaming, too many things going on to change for the better…

            Maybe everything has to bottom out, before we can rebuild back to a normal again.

            If that ever happens.

            Be good, cuz karma is a bitch sometimes…

      43. this is the story i posted (warned) about ..

        wonder if all hell is going to break out on this and when

        ht tp://news.yahoo.com/video-chicago-police-shooting-released-wednesday-community-leaders-021529196.html

        time will tell..video will be out tomorrow

      44. eppe and Robin Sage

        You can bet Obama will have a word or two on both subjects.

        I don’t feel safe.

      45. I see Michael Snyder still writing the same crap. Didn’t he say the end was like two months ago, or 5 years ago?

      46. These documents are NOT secret! They ARE a matter of Public Record.
        HERE ARE TRUTHFUL FACTS MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW, …. BUT SHOULD…
        1. The IRS is Not a US government agency. It is an agency of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) (Diversified Metal Products v I.R.S et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391)
        2. The IMF (International Monetary Fund) is an agency of the U.N. (Black’s Law Dictionary 6th Ed. page 816)
        3. The United States has NOT had a Treasury since 1921 (41 Stat. Ch 214 page 654)
        4. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF (International Monetary Fund) (Presidential Documents Volume 24-No. 4 page 113, 22 U.S.C. 285-2887)
        5. The United States does not have any employees because there is no longer a United States! No more reorganizations. After over 200 years of bankruptcy it is finally over. (Executive Order 12803)
        6. The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the U.S. government, even though the “U.S. Government” held stock in the agencies. (U.S. v Strang, 254 US491 Lewis v. US, 680 F.2nd, 1239)
        7. Social Security Numbers are issued by the U.N. through the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The application for a Social Security Number is the SS5 Form. The Department of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5 forms and not the Social Security Administration. The new SS5 forms do not state who publishes them while the old form states they are “Department of the Treasury”. (20 CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) Chap. 111 Subpart B. 422.103 (b))
        8. There are NO Judicial Courts in America and have not been since 1789. Judges do not enforce Statutes and Codes. Executive Administrators enforce Statutes and Codes. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428, 1 Stat 138-178)
        9. There have NOT been any judges in America since 1789. There have just been administrators. (FRC v. GE 281 US 464 Keller v. PE 261 US 428 1 Stat. 138-178)
        10. According to GATT (The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) you MUST have a Social Security number. (House Report (103-826)
        11. New York City is defined in Federal Regulations as the United Nations. Rudolph Guiliani stated on C-Span that “New York City is the capital of the World.” For once, he told the truth. (20 CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) Chap. 111, subpart B 44.103 (b) (2) (2) )
        12. Social Security is not insurance or a contract, nor is there a Trust Fund. (Helvering v. Davis 301 US 619 Steward Co. v. Davis 301 US 548)
        13. Your Social Security check comes directly from the IMF (International Monetary Fund), which is an agency of the United Nations. (It says “U.S. Department of Treasury” at the top left corner, which again is part of the U.N. as pointed out above)
        14.You own NO property!!! Slaves can’t own property. Read carefully the Deed to the property you think is yours. You are listed as a TENANT. (Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session)
        15. The most powerful court in America is NOT the United States Supreme court, but rather the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. (42 PA. C.S.A. 502)
        16. The King of England financially backed both sides of the American Revolutionary War.. (Treaty of Versailles-July 16, 1782 Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80)
        17. You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it! The U.S. Constitution applies to the CORPORATION OF THE UNITED STATES, a privately owned and operated corporation (headquartered out of Washington, DC) much like IBM (International Business Machines, Microsoft, et al) and NOT to the people of the sovereign Republic of the united States of America. (Padelford Fay & Co. v The Mayor and Alderman of the City of Savannah 14 Georgia 438, 520)
        18. America is a British Colony. The United States is a corporation, not a land mass and it existed before the Revolutionary War and the British Troops did not leave until 1796 (Republica v. Sweers 1 Dallas 43, Treaty of Commerce 8 Stat 116, Treaty of Peace 8 Stat 80, IRS Publication 6209, Articles of Association October 20, 1774)
        19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVsMUpPgdT0
        20. Britain is owned by the Vatican. (Treaty of 1213)
        21. The Pope can abolish any law in the United States (Elements of Ecclesiastical Law Vol. 1, 53-54)
        22. A 1040 Form is for tribute paid to Britain (IRS Publication 6209)
        23. The Pope claims to own the entire planet through the laws of conquest and discovery. (Papal Bulls of 1495 & 1493)
        24. The Pope has ordered the genocide and enslavement of millions of people.(Papal Bulls of 1455 & 1493)
        25. The Pope’s laws are obligatory on everyone. (Bened. XIV., De Syn. Dioec, lib, ix, c. vii, n. 4. Prati, 1844 Syllabus Prop 28, 29, 44)
        26. We are slaves and own absolutely nothing, NOT even what we think are our children. (Tillman vs. Roberts 108 So. 62, Van Koten vs. Van Koten 154 N.E. 146, Senate Document 438 73rd Congress 1st Session, Wynehammer v. People 13 N.Y. REP 378, 481)
        27. Military dictator George Washington divided up the States (Estates) in to Districts (Messages and papers of the Presidents Volume 1 page 99 1828 Dictionary of Estate)
        28. “The People” does NOT include you and me. (Barron vs. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore 32 U.S. 243)
        29. It is NOT the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect THE CORPORATION and arrest code breakers. (SAPP vs. Tallahassee, 348 So. 2nd. 363, REiff vs. City of Phila. 477 F. 1262, Lynch vs. NC Dept. of Justice 376 S.E. 2nd. 247)
        30. Every thing in the “United States” is up for sale: bridges, roads, water, schools, hospitals, prisons, airports, etc, etc… Did anybody take time to check who bought Klamath Lake?? (Executive Order 12803)
        31. “We are human capital” (Executive Order 13037) The world cabal makes money off of the use of your signatures on mortgages, car loans, credit cards, your social security number, etc.
        32. The U.N. – United Nations – has financed the operations of the United States government (the corporation of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) for over 50 years (U.S. Department of Treasury is part of the U.N. see above) and now owns every man, woman and child in America.
        The U.N. also holds all of the land of America in Fee Simple.

      47. MGTOW.COM

        Leftwing feminism is the real freedom killer.

        commies…all of them.

      48. Trusting that the FED is helping the USA, is like believing that they didn’t have anything to do with the assassination of the Kennedys.

        • yes, and colonel sanders will take good care of the henhouse, if left in charge.

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