Fourth Largest Gun Maker In US Is Out Of Guns

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/23/2012 17:33 -0400

In a somewhat sad and shocking slap of reality to the face of our ‘recovery’ and ‘freedom-based-debt-holdings’, today’s press-release-of-the-day (since we still haven’t heard from BATS) goes to Sturm, Ruger (the 4th largest gun-maker in the US) who after receiving orders for over one million units in Q1 has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new orders.

Forget PCLN, CRM, NFLX, here’s where the real action is!

RGR is up a whopping 571% from Nov 07 while the S&P 500 is down 3%…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Silver Update 3/24/12 – Tungsten Bars

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The Petro Dollar Discussion

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IMMIGRATION RECORDS MISSING FOR WEEK OF OBAMA’S BIRTH

WND
Thursday March 22, 2012
Jerome R. Corsi

After months of searching, investigators commissioned by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio to examine Barack Obama’s eligibility for office found Immigration and Naturalization Service travel records for foreign flights into Hawaii in 1961, only to discover that records for the week of Obama’s birth were missing.

Investigators were searching to determine if Barack Obama might have been born in a foreign country and returned to Honolulu in or around August 1961 with his mother, Ann Dunham.

Arpaio’s team looked at databases in the National Archives and Records Administration with microfilm of INS passenger records for foreign flights arriving in Honolulu and New York City.

If Obama was not born in Hawaii, as he and the Hawaii Department of Health have been insisting, there should be INS passenger cards that the new mother filled out for herself and her infant son upon arrival in Honolulu from a Pacific Rim city or arrival in New York City from across the Atlantic.

Arpaio launched the investigation after being presented with a petition signed by 250 members of the Surprise Tea Party in Surprise, Ariz. He authorized a volunteer Cold Case Posse of former law enforcement officers and detectives in October 2011 to examine the authenticity of Obama’s long-form birth certificate and to determine Obama’s eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.

Before he was first elected Maricopa County sheriff in 1993, Arpaio spent 25 years with the Drug Enforcement Administration, including service as DEA regional director in Mexico City and special agent in charge in Phoenix. He is running for re-election to his sixth term as Maricopa County sheriff.

As WND reported, Arpaio’s team found probable cause that the document presented one year ago as Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery. WND reported yesterday that Arpaio asked Selective Service Director Lawrence Romo in a letter to produce original documentation of Obama’s Selective Service registration, noting his team’s finding that there is probable cause that it, too, was forged.
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MSM – We’re All Domestic Terrorists Now?

RT

The administration has approved new counterterrorism guidelines for how long the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, can hold data about you. Despite the fact that there’s no relation to any terrorist activity or investigation the government decided that they want to keep all the data they have about you anyway. Sadly, FOX News was the only cable network that even touched the story today! Every cable news channel out there found a lot of time today to discuss the coroner’s report from Whitney Houston’s death.

Silver Update 3/23/12 – Unsustainable Debt

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Titanic Myths and the End of Consumer Capitalism

The Intel Hub
By M.N. Gordon
March 20, 2012

Next month marks the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s star-crossed demise into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean.  To commemorate the occasion, the April edition of National Geographic features a cover story on the grand ocean liner and its untimely end.

Here at the Economic Prism we’re always on the lookout for allegories that can help explain the world we live in…particularly, the post-2008 dollar standard era of U.S. consumer capitalism.  Clearly, the sinking of the Titanic is a rich source of metaphors.  Consider the following offered by National Geographic…

“Something else, beyond human lives, went down with the Titanic: An illusion of orderliness, a faith in technological progress, a yearning for the future that, as Europe drifted toward full-scale war, was soon replaced by fears and dreads all too familiar to our modern world.

‘“The Titanic disaster was the bursting of a bubble,”’ said Titanic film writer, director, and producer, James Cameron.  ‘“There was such a sense of bounty in the first decade of the 20th century.  Elevators!  Automobiles!  Airplanes!  Wireless radio!  Everything seemed so wondrous, on an endless upward spiral.  Then it all came crashing down.”’

Surely, for the thinking man, the Titanic provides ample instruction.  More on this in just a moment.  But first, a review of the present…

Oil Price Yo-Yo

Over the weekend we paid $4.37 per gallon for low octane gas.  Does that seem a tad steep to you?  It does to us…and a whole lot of others…

According to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index released last Friday, confidence among U.S. consumers declined in March for the first time in seven months.  The sharp rise in gas prices appears to be the main cause for the sudden change of heart.  Following publication of the sentiment data stocks went limp.  In fact, for the first time in seven days the DOW didn’t go up, it went down.

No doubt, gas prices are painful.  The AAA Fuel Gauge Report notes that they’ve jumped a whopping 18 percent since December…bringing the national average for a gallon of regular to $3.83.  But that’s nothing…  In California gas is now $4.35 a gallon.  In Alaska it’s $4.24.  And in Hawaii it’s $4.48.

Also last Friday, the Labor Department reported the consumer price index – the main inflation gauge – rose 0.4 percent.  This marks the largest increase in consumer prices in 10 months and clocks inflation at 4.8 percent on an annualized basis.  The main culprit for the jump in prices, of course, is gas, which accounted for more than 80 percent of the rise.  Unfortunately, rising gas prices are a nasty occurrence…

Everyone loves it when the index funds in their 401K go up.  Similarly, everyone loves it when their house’s value goes up.  But no one loves it when gas prices go up.

Rising gas prices act as a secondary tax on the economy.  The higher prices withdraw money from other consumer goods and services.  When gas prices inflate enough, they ultimately crash the economy…driving down demand and resetting gas prices lower.

If you remember, in July 2008, just before the global financial system imploded, oil prices hit a record peak of $145 per barrel.  By the end of the year oil prices collapsed to just $30 per barrel.  Now, like a yo-yo, oil has run back up to $107 per barrel.

Titanic Myths and the End of Consumer Capitalism

Obviously, the boom and bust cycle of oil prices is remarkably destructive to the economy.  Yet it is perpetuated by the Fed’s efforts to preserve the myth of U.S. consumer capitalism…that economic growth supported by endless debt growth can both increase forever.  Here’s what we mean…

The U.S. Government, like most governments, has been running budget deficits practically nonstop for nearly 50 years.  In fact, they’ve been spending more than they tax for so long they’ve managed to run the national debt up to over $15.5 trillion.  Throw unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Prescription Drugs, and Medicare into the mix and the debt balloons up over $118 trillion.

Since the early 1980s U.S. consumers took the exemplar of their government – and the seemingly endless supply of cheap credit from the Federal Reserve – and racked up debts all over town.  Economists cheered the consumer’s abundant contribution to GDP growth.  Yet no one paused to consider the consumers were spending themselves broke…

Why save money when you can spend it?  Why squirrel away some nuts for a rainy day when the sun always shines?  Why accumulate wealth when you can spend your way to riches?  Why just have your cake when you can both have it and eat it too?

“Myths and legends die hard in America,” observed Hunter S. Thompson.

Alas, whether we like it or not, all good things must come to an end.  Following the financial crisis of 2008, government debt skyrocketed in earnest while the economy sagged.  This parting of ways between debt and economic growth cannot be overcome.  In other words, a trend that could not last forever has come to an end.

Like the Titanic after it struck the iceberg, the dollar standard era of U.S. consumer capitalism is doomed.  The myth that an economy can borrow and spend its way to prosperity is resisting its hard death.  But sooner or later the stern will snap and the whole giant edifice will tumble and corkscrew down until it collides with the seafloor.

[MN Gordon (send him email) is the editor of the Economic Prism.  Visit Economic Prism.  The Economic Prism is published by Direct Expressions LLC.  Subscribe Today to the Economic Prism E-Newsletter at http://www.economicprismletter.com]

Source: TheIntelHub.com

Generation Jobless: Spain’s disenchanted youth

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It seems the Eurozone crisis is set to affect the lives of young people in Spain for years to come, with most struggling to find jobs, and worries over how their country’s new government will deal with up-coming protests. RT’s Sarah Firth went to meet the students planning to make their voices heard.

America’s Fatal Flaw: We Are Too Nice! with Jeff Lewis

Infowars.com
March 24, 2012

Alex talks with Jeff Lewis, the quadruple TSA amputee who was singled out for abuse by the TSA at Phoenix’s notorious Sky Harbor International airport. Mr. Lewis was interviewed by Infowars.com journalist and editor Patrick Henningsen last week.

Keiser Report: Selective Amnesia for Brokers & Murderers [E266]

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In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Irish stoicism and social ostracism, boycotts and ponzis and the banking practices of Chuckie. In the second half of the show Max talks to independent journalist, Lars Schall, about his recently published investigation into insider trading around the 9-11 terrorist attack as well as his pursuit of Germany’s elusive gold reserves.