Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

February 28, 2014

Quick and Visual Demonstration Of the Successful Destruction of America

The article these excerpts are taken from is here.  If one does not panic after quickly reviewing this, he or she had better do some homework in economics, and not government economics.

You should understand why Bitcoin is permitted to exist, why the federal government is eyeing retirement funds, and why we have concentration camps scattered around the nation on railroad lines.






Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott, founder of Sprott Asset Management, says:
“The only US seller that would be capable of supplying such an astonishing amount is the US Government, with a reported gold holding of 8,133 tonnes.”

Bill Gross, founder of Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund, calls this scandal “the Fort Knox Fairy Tale”, referring to the Army base where the gold is supposedly being held.
Here’s what he said recently:
“$54 trillion of credit in the U.S. financial system based upon trusting a central bank with nothing in the vault to back it up. Amazing!”


At one point, in the 1950s, the U.S. had 20,500 tons. At that time, this represented HALF of all gold ever mined. It was the largest accumulation of wealth the world had ever seen.

This shocking concentration of wealth was a hallmark of the all-powerful and wealthy America other nations envied. But in the last four decades our government squandered all that wealth.

Even the Treasury Department has just published a new report admitting that this kind of loss of confidence would have disastrous consequences for our nation. Here’s what the report said:
[It] has the potential to be catastrophic: credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world, and there might be a financial crisis and recession that could echo the events of 2008 or worse.”

That explains why the Fed doesn’t want anyone to know our gold is gone.
But they won’t be able to hide this from the public for much longer.

The German Central bank, in fact, keeps 1,536 tons of its gold in storage at the Federal Reserve’s vaults in Manhattan, 80 feet below sea level.
Earlier this year, German auditors demanded to inspect their country’s gold, just to make sure it was still there.

But guess what? The Fed prohibited the Germans from inspecting their own gold!

Of course, that raised a lot of eyebrows in Germany, with one leading member of the parliament, Heinz-Peter Haustein, declaring:
“All the gold has to be shipped back.”

Meanwhile, Carl-Ludwig Thiele, a board member of the German central bank demanded “more transparency on the issue.” He never got that transparency.
[Gene" Fed wants seven years to repatriate the gold!] 

If our country was in great financial shape, having no gold reserves wouldn’t be a problem.

But we all know that’s not the case today.

Back in 1980, the U.S. national debt was less than $1 trillion. Today, it’s more than $17 trillion, which is the greatest debt in the history of the world.

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That is enough for anyone awake to see what to do.





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February 27, 2014

Assuming "Climate Change," So What?

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Eventually, I want to commercialize this blog, so it will I will have to stop sticking in other sources and appear balanced, in the various meanings of the word.  What Mr. Moore, below, says is what I have been unbalanced about, here, for years, but most people judge the message by who the messenger. So, few listen to me; perhaps, a comfy friend may work.  The point of this blog is to NOT do that, but what the hell.

Mr. Moore, below, bailed out of Greenpeace in 1986 as the leftist took over, as they do all institutions they infect; normal people do not anticipate subversion. I saw what upset him reading cases in law school a decade before. Greenpeace just causes trouble, then whines it needs money from logic starved people. Good model.

In the 1960s the left demanded "academic freedom" staring in the, then, superb California state schools. Academia liked the sound of that, ignorant of what it was letting in. Today, Harvard is discussing banning free speech.  You see, it gets in the way of academic freedom, which means Marxism and its various lures.

Gore started his prattle in the late 1980s. So much so, he actively went after his former professor (of a survey course that changed history) who disagreed with Gore on environmentalism. Fascism is the merciless joining of personal greed, lust for power, with government.

The environmental movement was addressed by the KGB generations before that (maybe, what is a generation, anyway?) A former Bulgarian operative is quoted saying KGB thought its finest moment was when it froze nuclear research and use in the U.S. Thus, making it burn carbon, which is the enemy of the environmental pretense of the left and driving up its price, so Russian could make a few trillion. Not to mind, we had plenty of good movies to watch.

History predicts that when people realize they have been played as stupid dupes, there is a violent reaction.  Hope so.

I added the picture of Mr. Moore and bold quote. The old editor in me made me do it.

Oh, note the article assumes "climate change" in is headline. This is victory for PR spin to defeat logic. The concept has been planted in our heads as a starting point, which means the endpoint is meaningless, though very expensive.  Most people are polite and listen or discuss rather than say, "that's stupid." Political correctness destroy logic. The control of assumptions is the leftist mantra. They understand how to control people.

On today's news, I hear testimony that "carbon pollution" is the reason climate change is causing a drought in Southern California, not northern mind you, just southern.  I am glad my respiration may turn L.A. into the hick town it was.  The leftists just say stupid things and the leftist media repeats the stupidity, unexamined as "news," so it becomes an assumption and we talk about rather than waving off gibberish. Anyone who addresses the assumption is a denier. Thus, all assumptions must be accepted, I suppose. American "news" is all the theater of the the assumption.

If one thinks carbon pollution is so bad, he could bury himself and sequester all that pollution. That is true social justice. QED.





Greenpeace co-founder says ‘no scientific proof’ humans cause climate change


A co-founder of Greenpeace told a Senate panel on Tuesday that there is no scientific evidence to back claims that humans are the “dominant cause” of climate change.
Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist who was a member of Greenpeacefrom 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like Greenpeace use faulty computer models and scare tactics in further promoting a political agenda.


“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” Mr. Moore said. “Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.
“After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective,” 
“It is important to recognize, in the face of dire predictions about a [two degrees Celsius] rise in global average temperature, that humans are a tropical species,” he continued. “We evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing, and housing.
“The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming,” he said.
Mr. Moore left Greenpeace in 1986, accusing the organization of political activism.
“After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective,” he said. “Climate change was not an issue when I abandoned Greenpeace, but it certainly is now.”
A United Nations report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September indicated that global surface temperatures had not increased for the past 15 years.

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February 21, 2014

Industrial-Military-Statist Oligarchy Kills

The news, these days, seems to be helping out with the purpose of this blog.  The major propaganda media will not report on scandal until after a Republican is elected president; however, there are many sources reporting, now, and the Internet is one of only a few weapons of defending liberty, so until big sister figures out how the IRS can shut down free speech, the pressure to end the archaic notion of big government will grow.

The sort of lying demonstrated below should anger every citizen. People are being killed and we are paying billions to assist.



Cover-up? Army historian says report on deadly Afghan battle was altered to absolve faulty gun

Survivors of bloody battle report M4 jams

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    A former Army historian who chronicled the infamous Battle of Wanat inAfghanistan, where nine U.S. soldiers died after their M4 carbines jammed, tells The Washington Times that his official account was altered by higher-ups to absolve the weapons and senior officers.


    M4 critics have long pointed to the Afghanistan battle on July 13, 2008, as evidence that the rifle’s design was flawed. They cite reports from soldiers on the ground that their guns overheated and jammed that day.
    But the gun’s supporters have pointed to a single sentence in the officialWanat history issued in 2010 by the Army’s Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. It blamed the gun’s sustained rapid fire that day, not its design, for the malfunctions.
    “This, not weapons maintenance deficiencies or inherent weaknesses in weapons design, was the reason a number of weapons jammed during the battle,” the sentence read.
    Higher-ups inside Army command edited that sentence into the history, the report’s author says.
    “That was not my conclusion,” said Douglas R. Cubbison, a former Army artillery officer and principal Wanat history author. “That was the Combat Studies Institute management that was driven from the chief of staff’s office to modify findings of that report to basically CYA [cover your ass] for the Army. You know how that works...

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    So, the soldiers died because they shot at the enemy who was trying to kill them. Certainly, soldiers should be charged with crimes relating to the abuse of their sensitive equipment. You can be sure Mexican drug soldiers do not abuse the weapon Holder gave them.

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    February 19, 2014

    Watch Me

    I received the following email from my friend in Canada, English by birth. The rest of the world has shifted from amusement at American stupidity into fear of the future as, in the end, freedom relied upon us. Not so, anymore.
    WATCH THIS AND CONSIDER PASSING IT ON TO EVERYONE ON
    YOUR LIST

    This is appalling!

    No intelligent American citizen, Left or Right would condone
    the actual process that will be exposed in this video. It's
    almost unbelievable. Please watch at least the first 45
    seconds... your eyes will be opened. Every American needs to
    see this video. 


    http://www.youtube.com/embed/svGDZOW-brA?rel=0

    I am at a loss when I talk to seemingly intelligent people who do not apprehend their own lives. I understand why aware Jews left Germany in the 1930s. At some point, you have to withdraw and get out of the way as the death grip is applied. First afflicted are those who objected. Today, those categorized as "constitutionalists" are designated "domestic terrorists" by the FBI.

    We have no law. The Constitution is only used to inflict central control and positions of the wealthy, the exact opposite of its purpose.  A Cuomo aid was revealed as having committed ongoing gun felonies, by being an idiot, so he recently received a "waiver."  Can I get a robbery waiver?  Marijuana is being permitted by NY, other states, and the Emperor Obama, but it is a controlled substance - a felony to have, grow, or sell.  Such examples of government by whim are the SMALL stuff, but it is this flood of stuff that grows into a flood. If you are an idiot connected to a tyrant, you are free of law, but obliged to obey the king.

    Send this blog or the letter to friends. Networks are the only way to overcome the control of public information. The open Internet, as you know, is monitored and is under constant assault by Congress and the Emperor.  Several email companies went out of business and deleted all archives as they expected the FBI to demand their clients' information.  Freedom of thought and communication is in the past tense.

    My regular advice: vote in the primary against all incumbents regardless of party, buy silver and land (preferably outside the US), and, of course, stock up on peanut butter.  It is time to stock the redoubt.

    Will the republic be restored. Rarely happens once the strictures of law are gone and people dumbed down. Resistance to oligarchy and collectivism require both an honest law and responsible people.





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    February 18, 2014

    Out The Back Jack


    Some people prefer to listen to Buffet than me, so read on. He is very good at promoting what to do after he has done it and will benefit by it. Still, good advice. Again, my suggestion is:  peanut butter and silver coins.
    The article, below, is simple to the extreme and designed to sell something, but it remains a good reference for many to consider. What I have been warning against for years is now part of marketing assumptions. The great new thing mentioned, but not by name, are bitcoins. 
    What is striking is the U.S. Government is NOT going after alternative currencies, as they did a few years ago. This means it is  deemed in the best interest of the oligarchy to have a way out of dollars and for those in the know to survive the coming problems. Just five years ago, the FBI was rounding up anyone who attempted to start an alternate currency, one directly backed by gold. Now, the Treasury Department calls them bad names.  
    Curious.
    Now, what is the take away, here?

    "Run From Paper Money," Buffett Warns

    By MONEY MORNING STAFF REPORTS
    As the Fed continues pumping $85 billion a month into the U.S economy, further ravaging the dollar’s value, Warren Buffet issued a harsh warning to investors:  “Run from paper money.”
    The world’s most famous investor delivered his blunt advice in a riveting interview on CNBC, saying investors should fear the dollar because it will be “worth less and less over time."
    Paper money has a lousy future,” Buffett said, adding that Americans should run from it as fast as they can.
    As it turns out, thousands of Main Street Americans are already dumping their dollars – and turning to a radical new form of money.
    In fact, as the U.S. dollar reaches a startling two-year low – its weakest since November 2011 – and with consumer confidence dropping like a rock – this new form of money is becoming a powerful force on currency exchanges around the world.  
    [This is marketing crap so people can pretend they are in the inside of "bitcoins." Bitcoins, as you will read, below, is very popular.  It may be too popular as it growing as a hedge against a falling dollar.  Good argments can be made that is it in a bubble, now, as one coins costs a multiple of the cost of "mining" it. Economics always wins these battles, but economics also includes the devaluation of the dollar. It is a speculative exhange from USD.]
    Often referred to as Edison-Ford Dollars, this new radical currency bears a striking resemblance to a type of money first created by American icons, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford at the turn of the 20th century.  (HOMEWORK)
    But the U.S. Department of Justice calls it (bitcoins) a “renegade currency,” because while it protects Americans from a decaying dollar, it also threatens Central Banks like the Fed which control fiat currencies around the world.
    Ordinary Americans love this currency, yet politicians are terrified of it,” said Michael A. Robinson, a Pulitzer-Prize nominated investigative reporter and former Board Member of a major Silicon Valley Venture Capital Fund who spent the last two years analyzing this “renegade currency.”
    Governments fear this money could hasten the end to paper money– and start a powerful revolution,” said Robinson.
    Some analysts believe the revolution has already begun. 36 cities across 20 states already allow citizens to pay for everything from water bills to parking tickets with it.
    And according to the latest figures, nearly 700,000 American businesses are now turning to it, including Wal-Mart, CVS, Lowes and Nike.
    International acceptance is surging too, and economists predict this “renegade currency” could usher in a new international monetary system.
    This growing revolt is causing people to abandon not just the dollar but the EURO, the Pound, the Yen…you name it,” said Robinson.
    It’s a stateless currency,” Robinson adds. “There’s no central bank, no central computer, no center to attack.”
    What we’re witnessing,” Robinson said, “is a global rebellion against the Fed, against all Central Banks. A harsh dose of medicine to many, overblown power structures.”
    Unfortunately, Robinson says the mainstream media is still keeping the American people in the dark about how this currency works. 
    Robinson spent two years analyzing every facet of this currency. He interviewed dozens of CEOs, investment funds and other major players involved with this new currency. He talked extensively to his network of contacts in Silicon Valley to get a read on where this currency is heading.
    He’s now made all that research available to average Americans. And what he reveals may shock people. It completely redefines the way we think about money.
    His research also serves as a wake-up call regarding the systematic problems facing our government controlled money supply– and how they this “renegade currency” could actually free citizens from being subjected to the whims of central banks around the world.

“Something like this has never happened before in history,” Robinson said. “Since 2009 we’ve had ungodly amounts of money printing, quantitative easing, and zero percent interest rates as far as the eyes can see.”
    Remarkably, this new currency makes all those problems unnecessary and even obsolete.”


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