US MARKETS

          So far this week we saw Wachovia get socked for an $8.86 billion loss with a layoff announcement of 10,750 employees, while Washington Mutual got hammered for a $3.3 billion loss and increased its beleaguered loan-loss reserves by $3.74 billion to $8.46 billion as it announced expense cuts and asset sales.  This is nothing.  This is just the beginning.  This is just window dressing to protect incumbents.  Together with the science fiction and fantasy we got last week from the banking sector, these latest financial statements from the banking sector should receive a Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Gene Roddenberry could not have dreamt up financial statements that were more phantasmagoric.

          All these bank losses, as terrible as they are even in their understated amounts, are pathological accounting lies aimed at keeping the sheople from going ballistic on the incumbent scum-bags in Congress so that these corrupt reprobates and sociopaths can continue in office and maintain their rape, pillage and slaughter of the sheople of the US unabated on behalf of their evil, malevolent and rapacious Illuminist masters.

          The stock markets, the bond markets, the derivative markets and the entire financial system would collapse if people knew the real truth about the balance sheets, income statements and debt-to-equity ratios of virtually all the major commercial and investment banking fraudsters of Wall Street.  So the devastating truth will be withheld most likely until the final quarter which ends in December, because a good portion of the earnings results for the third quarter are going to be announced prior to the US general elections which would normally be held in early November, barring some false-flag attack.  Until then, the huge whitewash reservoir behind the "creative accounting" dam will be sucked dry.  We're not sure if there is enough whitewash left on the planet to cover up the losses for Q3, however.

          Wait until the Pick-and-Pay loans all run their course.  Ugly does not even begin to describe what is going to happen to many large banks when this jumbo variety of toxic waste comes home to roost on their financial statements.  We doubt that the FDIC has enough funds to cover even the first ten to twenty banks that fail out the many hundreds that are expected, especially if a large bank like Wachovia goes under in the early going.  Already, IndyMac has wiped out 10% of the FDIC's reserves. Depending on how the IndyMac liquidation goes, that percentage could go higher. And remember, IndyMac was not even on the FDIC's watch list.  If that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

          What will happen if the FDIC runs out of money?  Will they get a big government bailout like the rest of the fraudsters?  Of course not.  That would benefit the banks' customers instead of the banks themselves.  We certainly could not have that now, could we?  Will the FDIC bailout money come from the source it is supposed to come from, meaning from the fraudsters themselves, most of which are now insolvent and bankrupt?  It's a stupid question, of course, but we had to ask it for rhetorical purposes.

          What is the real reason behind all these gargantuan bailouts for the fraudster banks and GSE's?  We'll tell you what this about.  This is about saving the dollar from sudden collapse, stopping the many trillions of dollars held by foreigners from returning to our shores and creating hyperinflation reminiscent of the Weimar Republic, and simultaneously violating all sense of moral hazard by saving the fraudsters at our expense while keeping their cost of funds low in light of the fact that the fractional reserve banking multiplier has collapsed due to the rampant fraud, lack of regulation and lack of transparency that has frozen credit markets.  That is what this is really all about.  The ultimate goal is to consolidate more power into the hands of a few by moving the US inexorably closer to a corporatist, fascist state, but the devastation they intended to wreak on everyone else is now coming back on them and they are trying to save the system, and themselves in the process, so that there is something left to consolidate when the dust settles.  We believe that the Illuminati have destroyed themselves, and their "Chaos" henchmen, in the process of destroying us, and that their bid for a corporatist, fascist state will ultimately fail.  Only their gold and silver failsafe hoards will rescue the head Illuminists from financial ruin and even bankruptcy. They really blew it this time.  Their diabolical plans have been pushed back by half a century.

          The Fed, the cartel and their Illuminist masters are trying to have their cake and eat it too.  Of course, this is pure foolishness and it will not work, but they are going to try it anyway.  They want to keep interest rates low for the fraudsters so they can make money on spreads from investments with higher yields in a futile attempt to save their balance sheets, but low rates are what drive inflation, speculation, improper allocations of capital and over-leveraged investments while simultaneously pushing money out of dollar-denominated bonds and treasuries into real assets such as commodities and real estate due to artificially low, even negative, rates of return in light of increasing risk and inflation.  So they are saving the banks and destroying the economy, and the destruction of the economy will ultimately in turn destroy the banks anyway, and in more spectacular fashion to boot.  The delay game they are playing only delays the inevitable, which is their complete and utter destruction.

          The elitists want the bailouts to come at our expense because there is no other source remaining except from the big Illuminist players themselves, such as the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds and the Black Nobility of Europe, from their individually-owned and/or controlled assets, especially considering that their henchmen have mostly gone bust.  Even the Fed looks like it may go under because the economy will collapse before they can create and monetize enough treasuries to absorb all the toxic waste collateral by exchanging it for treasury and agency paper.  The only remaining alternative is the saving of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, the elitists' collective, comprehensive, corporate failure and the purging of the system.  Of course, since the elitists and their transnational conglomerates are the ones who stand to get purged, that is not an acceptable alternative to them.  However, for us peons, it is the only sensible, though painful, alternative.  We doubt that the dollar can still be saved as the world's reserve currency, but it's still worth a try since success could make recovery much faster and easier.  We either take the path to purge the system, or we ourselves will be purged by the Illuminati, albeit not to the extent that they had hoped due to their inept bungling of just about everything.  NO MORE BAILOUTS USING TAXPAYER FUNDS!!!

          We told you the key to analysis is the bond market, and the government bailouts are all aimed at saving all segments of the bond market, which includes treasuries, because it is the source of elitist power.  Only the suppression of gold and silver has an equal priority at this point, but that priority will eventually be abandoned in favor of delaying the destruction of the bond markets when it is no longer feasible to save the bond market while simultaneously suppressing precious metals.

          The elitists want to save the bond market because that is where all the excess dollars are parked overseas, and the return of these parked dollars to our shores could put us in the Mugabe Million Percent Club when it comes to hyperstagflation.  They want you to bail out Fannie and Freddie GSE bonds worth many hundreds of billions of dollars that have been acquired by Japan, China, Russia, the Middle East (through British banks as proxies), the European Union nations and India with the same money these greedy nations have stolen or extorted from you using manipulated, artificially low domestic currencies to boost exports, uncompetitive, artificially high cartel oil prices to make ludicrous profits, as well as monies ransacked from us through use of globalization, free trade, off-shoring, outsourcing and both legal and illegal immigration, which incidentally have been used by the elitists to gut our economy, especially our manufacturing sector, in order to weaken us into accepting a one world government.  These nations have therefore acted as willing henchman for the Illuminati to bring America to its knees.

          And the same holds true for the Fed's forced, taxpayer-sponsored, $500 billion per month provision of money and credit through various facilities to bail out banks and their holdings of other non-GSE real estate bonds and derivatives, as well as other types of asset-backed bonds and derivatives and municipal bonds, which foreigners also own in the hundreds of billions.  These bonds and derivatives were acquired by these same foreign nations using the same funds obtained by the same nefarious methods of beggaring the US public as were used to acquire the GSE bonds, all so that the elitists could control us, and so that the Black Nobility of Europe could turn us into their feudal serfs once again.  If the fraudsters fail, that means liquidation, and liquidation means forced sales, which would lead to abysmal prices for these bonds and derivatives.  

          And then there is the counter-party risk and liability on credit default swaps and interest rate swaps, which will soon become a quadrillion dollar market, that would be in jeopardy if the Fed did not bail out the Wall Street bankster fraudsters, who are counter-parties on these swaps.  The other end of these swaps, to the tune of trillions of dollars in notional principal, are also owned by these same foreign nations who collectively turned the US into the greatest debtor nation of all time when only a few decades ago it was the greatest creditor nation of all time.

          The crux of the matter is that the Illuminists know that if they cannot convince the US public to bail out these various bonds and derivatives and their various owners and counter-parties, the system will collapse and all those trillions in treasuries hanging around in the forex reserves of these nations will come back to roost with a vengeance as foreigners stampede to unload their treasuries and their remaining toxic waste in exchange for commodities and other tangible assets before they become worthless and/or to force the Illuminists to lobby for a public bailout of the tanking asset-backed bonds and derivatives under threat of a treasury boycott or hyperinflation-inducing treasury flood back to the US.  That is their greatest fear, because such an event would destroy them and their precious system, especially the bond market, which is the main source of their power, a fact which we cannot overemphasize.  They are trying to manage the dollar down gradually by use of a beggar-thy-neighbor policy, and the failure to win these public bailouts would collapse the system and take them all down with it before they have a chance to bail out of stocks, bonds and other paper assets through the dark pools of liquidity known as Project Turquoise and Baikal and into commodities and other tangible assets.

          You must not allow them to dupe you into bailouts at taxpayer expense.  Let them bail themselves out, if that is what they want to do, since the need for a bailout was caused by them exclusively, through their own deceit and fraud.  They made their beds, and now they can lay in them!  Let the system fail and they will be destroyed with it.  Then we will be rid of them once and for all as we remove all the corrupt, incumbent, scum-bags from Congress, except for Ron Paul!!!  IT'S TIME TO START OVER AGAIN!!!  It is a painful, but absolutely necessary, process.  We won't have to push them out with rifles and swords this time.  Their own evil and greed have destroyed them.  LET'S TAKE BACK THE SYSTEM AND RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION!!!  Otherwise, what will our children and grandchildren be left with?

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GOLD, SILVER, PALTINUM, PALLADIUM AND DIAMONDS

Last August signified the beginning of a new era in gold prices. It was lifted off to new highs by the credit crisis and now the recognition of the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their in process nationalization. These bailouts in banking and other sectors will continue to force gold higher as the dollar continues its downward journey. The market for Treasuries to fund this debt bailout will not be forthcoming and that means flow from the Fed via monetization.

There is massive pressure on world markets as the world economy slows and inflation rises everywhere. As these trouble abound the credit crisis continues with no end in sight. Gold is still only $948.00, yet based on official inflation since 1980 gold should be selling for close to $3,000 on ounce. The nominal fall rally in gold we believe has already begun. From a technical point of view look at the reverse head and shoulders on the gold charts. We are looking at a break over $2,000 in the rally that is currently underway. Obviously someone has finally noticed that June official inflation was 5%, whereas real inflation is now 13-1/4%. For three years gold production has fallen as jewelry and investment demand have boomed.

The dollar continues to falter against almost all currencies. It has fallen versus the Mexican peso more than 10% over the past few months. There is a noticeable shift out of real estate, bonds, stocks, even Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and now bank accounts. Investors generally are fleeing to gold, silver and commodities. Who can blame them when over 50 countries have double-digit inflation? Currencies might rise and fall against one another, but they are all falling in varying degrees against gold and silver. Taking the above collectively we see in progress one of the biggest rallies in gold and silver already in progress. Remember, you can’t win unless you are in the game.

We just received a letter from a subscriber who lives in the Netherlands who said, ”For your information it is getting more difficult now to get gold in the Netherlands, so you were right about that. Silver is not a problem as yet.”

The cause of the demand for gold is that the problems with the Fortis Bank, taking over ABN-Amro Bank shows that Dutch banks are also involved in the banking crisis and will be hit. The Dutch think that it is impossible that a major Dutch bank could go bankrupt.  Like, as an example, the ROBO Bank that has an AAA rating.

As you can see the reason to buy gold and silver is universal.

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