June 2009

Second-Largest U. S. Bank Downgraded & In Trouble
You heard it here first, 18 months ago, when I warned about this bank and told you why I closed all my accounts with them. Standard & Poor’s has downgraded them and 17 other banks. But the big surprise was the “D+” independant bank rating, down from a “C” just a year ago. 18 Banks Inch Closer to the Precipice

During Times of World Crisis How Can I Stay Positive?
Sure things are bad. Sure they’re about to get much worse. Yes, as Swami says, the middle class will be destroyed and there will be international warfare. “The world will give you less and less to be grateful for.” But what can YOU do NOW, for yourself and for others? “During Times of Crisis, How Can I Help?” 

Izzy’s Silver Shortage: Are We in Stage Two?
In 2006 Izzy Friedman predicted we’d see 3 stages in the epic silver shortage. We’ve gone through Stage One (March 2008-May 2009) where we saw the silver price premium explode while silver delivery delays stretched into months. What’s on tap for the upcoming Stage Two? The 3 Stages of the Coming Silver Shortage

Will Increased Delivery Demand Bust the Gold Warehouses?
Jim Sinclair: “I have been speaking with many people this evening who have taken gold delivery. What I am hearing is not impressive. When examined closely it is a paper system that may have fallen badly behind as gold moved ahead since 2001. There is a possibility the system is antiquated and more FUBAR than anyone, even the warehouses themselves, realize.” COMEX Warehouses in Trouble?

Will the Manipulation of Gold & Silver Prices Ever End?
Gold and silver price suppression has been going on for years now, as documented by GATA and Ted Butler. Who’s behind it? Evidence points to JPMorgan Chase using massive (and illegal) short-selling on COMEX, at the bidding of the president’s Plunge Protection Team. Now, Jim Sinclair answers the question on everyone’s mind: Will the COMEX Manipulation Ever End?

October 2009 Shaping Up Worse Than October 2008?
The Web Bot guys have been re-tooling their predictive software. Now it’s forecasting  “the bombing of Iran by Israel in late October, about which time, the U.S. government will be contemplating use of its ‘continuity of government’ plans due to social unrest brought about by (what else?) economic collapse.  And that in turn sets a 4-week temporal ‘timer’ that brings us to the part where South Korea receives a nuke or two from the North.  And then things get bad.”
Tired of getting a good night’s sleep? Read Web Bot Forecast for Fall 2009.

What? You’re Still in the Stock Market?
Maybe you’re not bothered by the largest amount of insider selling since the DOW’s all-time high in 2007. Maybe the recent, massive, engineered bear-market rally has you seeing “green shoots” as well. Maybe you’re just lookin’ for Ten Reasons to Buy Stocks Now [humor]. A perceptive reader, Mike, is puzzled by all this talk about busting COMEX. Why hasn’t it happened yet? Does the fact that it hasn’t happened yet mean it’s likely it’ll never happen? Are we silver bugs simply doomed to suffer? Reader Asks, “What’s So Hard About Busting COMEX?”.

What Will Foment the Coming Riots?
California, the world’s 7th largest economy, could be the first car in the jerking roller-coaster ride to the bottom of our financial and societal meltdown. Their “Governator” warned, “Califonians have until June 15 to make draconian cuts or face insolvency by the end of July.” But could these budget cuts have unintended consequences? Governator Squeezes Trigger for Crime-n-Riots

What the Next 36 Months May Look Like
In the interest of providing you with an alternate vision—something outside the mainstream—a guy over at SeekingAlpha has penned a worse-case-scenario for the next three years. Some of this is hard to stomach but could he be right about America By 2012: 10 Dire Predictions?

FEMA’s Martial Law Preparations
County officials south of Chicago reveal FEMA’s attempts to coordinate emergency vaccination of populations, structural hardening of police and fire stations, planning for mass grave locations, and anticipation of ammunition shortages. Indiana officials are worried FEMA’s Planning for Martial Law.

“11:11” Time For Lunch Or Something Deeper?
Is there a special significance to the occurrences of 11:11 found in just getting through the day? What about “Lightworkers”? More than just installing fiberoptic cables for faster Internet? Here’s my take on the 11:11 Phenomenon & Lightworkers.

Planet X. 2012.
OK, you asked me what I know about 2012 and “Planet X.” I spill the beans AND hit you up with how a dead star 45,000 light years away may have killed 240,000 people here on little ol’ Earth a few years back. Planet X and 2012.

Read about the only indicator I’ve found that has correctly predicted the timing and magnitude of the 1929 crash in Market Predictions for 2009-2010.

– Checking Off My “To Do” List
– WSJ Talks Amero
– Stats Say Yes, It’s a *Depression* 
– Warnings & Advice from a Saint, Part 1 
– 2009: Worst Still Ahead 
– Best Way 2 Control the Masses
– Uncle Sam’s Gold Grab   
– Something of Historic Proportions Is Happening 
– Shadow Powers Plan for 2011 
– Sober Prediction for Nov. 2009 
– Market Prediction for 2009-2010 
 
– >> How to Rate Your Bank’s Safety <<
– History of the Meltdown… (on-going)

Britain’s Got Talent 2009

Viewing sequence:

Auditions 3: Hollie Steel

Semi-Final 1 Recap

Semi-Final 5: part 1
Semi-Final 5: part 2
The Final: Hollie Steel
The Final: Susan Boyle

The Final Recap
And the winner is…