10 Ways to Commit Nutritional Anarchy

Once upon a time, if we felt we needed to, we could go to the pharmacy or department store, select a bottle of vitamins, and feel pretty confident about the actual contents of the bottles.

Nowadays, real vitamins are so hard to track down that they might as well be on the endangered species list.  In fact, most of what is sold as “vitamins” in the United States actually contains toxic ingredients and nutritional content that isn’t readily bio-available.  And matters may soon get even worse, as the US government “harmonizes” with an overbearing set of rules called Codex Alimentarius.
Just going to the drug-store and buying one of the brightly colored bottles off the shelf may actually be worse for your health than being bereft of the nutrient.  Before spending your hard-earned money on candy flavored chewables or much-advertised over-the-counter vitamin imposters, do some research. Recently, Sayer Ji of Green Med Info wrote about the hazardous chemicals found in a popular brand of children’s vitamins:

Kids vitamins are supposed to be healthy, right? Well then, what’s going on with Flintstones Vitamins, which proudly claims to be “Pediatricians’ #1 Choice”?  Produced by the global pharmaceutical corporation Bayer, this wildly successful brand features a shocking list of unhealthy ingredients, including:

• Aspartame

• Cupric Oxide

• Coal tar artificial coloring agents (FD&C Blue #2, Red #40, Yellow #6)

• Zinc Oxide

• Sorbitol

• Ferrous Fumarate

• Hydrogenated Oil (Soybean)

• GMO Corn starch

On Bayer Health Science’s Flintstones product page designed for healthcare professionals they lead into the product description with the following tidbit of information:

82% of kids aren’t eating all of their veggies¹. Without enough vegetables, kids may not be getting all of the nutrients they need.

The implication? That Flintstones vitamins somehow fill this nutritional void. (Click HERE to learn more about this deceptive product.)

Unfortunately it gets even worse than the deception waged by Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma.  With the approach of a world governed by Codex Alimentarius, natural supplements will become regulated to the point that you will no longer be able to acquire a therapeutic amount  without taking nutritionally pillaged vitamins by the handful.
In the United States, the FDA is in charge of implementing the standards. Over the next two years, with the Food Safety Modernization Act, they will be doing just that.  According to a Natural News article by Dr. Gregory D’Amato, these irrevocable standards are on their way of being implemented to allow the US to “harmonize” with Codex.

* All nutrients (vitamins and minerals) are to be considered toxins/poisons and are to be removed from all food because Codex prohibits the use of nutrients to “prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease”

* All nutrients (e.g., CoQ10, Vitamins A, B, C, D, Zinc and Magnesium) that have any positive health impact on the body will be deemed illegal under Codex and are to be reduced to amounts negligible to humans’ health

Basically what it all boils down to is that we are on our own to provide nutrients. Soon legitimate vitamins will not be readily available – only the toxic Big Pharma options will be sold.  Because of this, it is imperative that we figure out how to provide these things for ourselves.
One article suggests that once Codex is fully implemented, most vitamins and nutritional supplements will require a prescription.

Drug companies can exploit this process by trying to patent common dietary ingredients as drugs before supplement companies have an opportunity to submit their NDI notifications. Once a drug company investigates an ingredient for drug purposes and publishes their findings, the ingredient can no longer be used in supplements.

This has happened before – it happened with the pyridoxamine form of vitamin B6 we mentioned above. In other words, what was once a supplement available to consumers at low cost will now be an expensive prescription-only drug, if it is available at all. (And it’s not only the drug that costs more: you’ll need to pay your doctor for an office visit just to get the prescription!)

The draft guidance also states that a synthetic copy of a supplement constituent, or an extract of an herb or other botanical, is not considered a dietary ingredient at all (much less an NDI). Isn’t this good – isn’t it better not to be an NDI? No. If the FDA says it is not an NDI, that means they are saying it can only be sold as a drug – period. This could knock out a number of important supplements currently sold.

The guidance discusses at length the evidence required for a notification (approval) – and the requirements are extensive, including a strong recommendation to include human studies. We sometimes forget that human studies, in addition to being very costly, do not always fit supplements. (source)

Here’s how to commit to nutritional anarchy.

The most important thing we can do for our health right now is to learn about nature’s vitamins in preparation for the day that choosing our own supplements is against the law. For example, did you know that a cup of rose hip tea contains staggeringly high amounts of Vitamin C?  Or that a cup of dandelion greens contains three times the RDA for Vitamin A?

Anarchy is defined as the non-recognition of authority. If nutrition becomes regulated by a bunch of bureaucrats who, at best, don’t really care about people, and at worst, hope to depopulate the globe, you must have the plans and weapons in place to live a life of nutritional anarchy.  Take these steps to prepare for the day when real vitamins might be completely inaccessible without a prescription.

1. Educate yourself on which foods provide the most nutritional bang for the buck
2. Plant nutrient dense flora in your garden
3. Learn to identify edible plants and locate wild sources of nutrients, like a field of dandelions (make sure they are not sprayed with pesticides)
4. Learn small space gardening methods to make the most of urban locations
5. Consider hydroponics and/or aquaponics
6. Purchase heirloom seeds to put aside for the future, when they may no longer be available
7. Learn how to properly save and store seeds from your own plants for future gardening endeavors
8. Learn how to harvest and preserve the bounty from your own property
9. Practice preparing delicious meals using the most nutritious  foods available
10. Experiment with multiple ways to use the in-season bounty from your garden to prevent boredom
    

These are the actions that will provide our independence from those who would have the audacity to regulate good nutrition.

When you stock your pantry with vitamin-laden goodies straight from nature, you don’t have to question whether  you are providing your family with what they need or just buying into the Big Pharma marketing scam. Big Pharma executives are rubbing their greedy hands together, just waiting for the day that we have been “food modernized” and can no longer purchase nutritional supplements without a visit to a physician, a trip to the pharmacy, and all of the costs (and risks) associated with those things.

In the case of Codex Alimentarius and the nutritional dictatorship the document portends, Mick Jagger had it right when he said:

Allegations of Overtime Abuse in DC Fire and EMS Department

DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

There are new allegations of overtime abuse in the D.C. Fire and EMS Department. It comes at a time when the city is strapped for cash.
One firefighter has earned more than $300,000 with the overtime he earned, more than three times his base salary.
Last year, 25 firefighters racked up more than a million dollars in overtime.
FOX 5 has found one person, a commanding officer, who has earned overtime nearly every pay period in the last two years. The firefighter has earned nearly $100,000 in overtime each year.
At times, Lt. Richard Lehan has racked up 90 hours of overtime when others complain they are getting very little. Documents show at least two other firefighters earned $100,000 in overtime last year.
These documents obtained by FOX 5 show that since 2008, Lehan stands out as one of the top overtime earners in the department.
According to payroll records, Lehan has worked nearly 2,500 hours in overtime since 2009. It shows month after month, Lehan is averaging 45 hours of overtime per pay period. Department policy dictates that there should be no more than 36 hours overtime per pay period.
D.C. Council Member Phil Mendelson wants accountability and says it is overtime abuse at its worst.
"I'm going take that information to the Chief Financial Officer and ask why those paychecks are being processed,” said Mendelson. “Some attention has to be given to the supervisors who permitted the work to take place and the supervisors who authorized the paycheck to be written. Frankly, if it's egregious enough, some heads have to roll.”
Lehan wouldn't comment on camera Monday about his overtime, but says he works the hours given to him to support his five children and has done nothing wrong.
Payroll records show he earned $153,000 in overtime over the last two years. If you add that to his $89,000 a year firefighter salary, his take-home pay for the last two years has been at least $331,000.
Mendelson says this has to stop.
"This overtime has been out of control. Management has not been managing the overtime issue, so the overtime has been millions of dollars over the budget. So we're doing it ourselves through the law. It's a crude way of doing it," said Mendelson.
Because the fire department policy wasn't working, the D.C. Council imposed a new law last year. It says no firefighter or officer can earn more than $20,000 in overtime.
However, documents show Lehan's overtime continues to exceed that amount even under the new law.
In October, November and December, Lehan has again met or exceeded the overtime limits, working 153 overtime hours in the last three months of 2010, earning him nearly $10,000.
On Monday night, the D.C Fire and EMS Department could not say which supervisor or assistant chief approved all the overtime or why it was approved, but issued a statement saying the department has made changes and now uses overtime management software called Telestaff.
"To reduce overtime, Telestaff assists the department to better plan, distribute and manage OT through improved work scheduling controls on a shift-by-shift basis," said D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer in a written statement.
The only problem according to sources is that the person in charge of the computerized Telestaff scheduling of overtime is Richard Lehan and his firefighter brother, Eddie Lehan.
A fire department spokesman says of late that Lehan appears to be within the guidelines set forth by the D.C. Council.

Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/17949698/allegations-of-overtime-abuse-in-dc-fire-and-ems-department#ixzz2aJz4UZZ4
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Jim Rickards: Most Likely Outcome Is Still A Monetary Collapse

In his latest interview Jim Rickards gives an update on his economic and monetary outlook and compares it with his view two years ago when he was writing his book. In particular, he talks about the scenario that is unfolding currently: a monetary collapse.
In general he recognizes that we are going through a major transition which started in 2007. We are on our way to a new economic and monetary situation. Major transitions are characterized by unstability, or a bubbly environment. That will continue till one of the following scenarios becomes reality:

1. Chaos, or monetary collapse.
2. A basket of currencies acting as a world reserve currency.
3. SDR (special drawing rights) issued by the IMF.
4. A form of a gold standard.

Mr. Rickards still expects a collapse of the dollar as the most likely outcome. That has not changed since he has written his book.

Long term outlook – Monetary collapse

Mr. Rickards sees that we are heading towards the first of the four scenarios. Although he does not pretend to know the future (which nobody does evidently) he comes to his conclusion by analyzing the evolution. Up until now, based on the decisions and behaviour of policy makers, he believes there is enough evidence to believe that all signs point to a monetary collapse.
Just to clarify things, he adds, “there is nobody who really wants a collapse. The reason why it could happen has more to do with a basket of factors, including [but not limited to] the inherent instability of the monetary system, the inability of policy makers to correctly analyze the situation, wishful thinking, denial, delay, bad monetary science, wrong assessment of risk, etc.”
Is it too late to change direction and avoid a collapse? Mr. Rickards believes it is not; we can still avoid it. The key point, however, is that policy makers are not showing signs of understanding the seriousness of the situation and their policy outcomes. They neither show signs of reversing course and solving the underlying structural issues. Going forward, those are the most important signs to force a reversal of the path we are on.
Mr. Rickards adds to it that chaos is not the end of the analysis. In other words, suppose the world will face a collapse it will undoubtedly result in rather draconian executive orders.  We might end up in a form of a gold standard based on a gold backed SDR. A gold standard or an SDR standard are the two most likely outcomes of a collapse; a combination of both is also a realistic possibility.

Gold – Short term outlook

The long term outlook for gold remains positive. Shorter term, however, increased volatility is likely. Both higher and lower prices are in the cards. It  all depends on policy makers, in particular the US Fed. Between August and September there are two FOMC meetings with a press conference: September and December. Suppose the Fed would “taper” their bond purchases they will not announce it in December because it will be right before the new Chairman will take over. September is the most likely month to announce it.
So the September FOMC meeting will be an important one. Basically there are two possible outcomes. Tightening monetary policy is the first one. Doing so in a weak economy will have deflationary consequences. It will lead to higher interest rates and lower precious metals prices. Accommodative monetary policy, by contrast, would be bullish for gold and will lead to higher prices going to the end of the year.

S&P Wants Government Documents About Investigations of other Credit Raters.

McGraw Hill Financial Inc. (MHFI)’s Standard & Poor’s, preparing its defense to the fraud lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department, will ask the government for information about investigations of other credit raters.


The Justice Department and S&P yesterday filed a joint report ahead of a hearing July 29 in federal court in Santa Ana, California. The report lays out the kind of evidence each side will seek from the other in preparation for a trial of the government’s claims that S&P lied to investors about its ratings being independent and free of conflicts of interest.


S&P wants the government to provide it with documents about its investigation of S&P and others, about the government’s decision to file the lawsuit, and information the government received about residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized-debt obligations in investigations of others, including other credit rating providers.


The parties “anticipate that S&P’s document discovery in these areas will generate objections from the government,” according to the filing.

Here’s what happens when a central bank goes bust

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black
Over the past several decades, people around the world have become so brainwashed that few people really give much thought anymore to the safety of their currency.
It’s not something people really understand… there’s apparently some Wizard of Oz type figure at the top of the hill pulling all the levers of the monetary system. And we just trust them to be good guys.  
This is partially true. Today’s financial system is dominated by central bankers who have been awarded nearly dictatorial control of global money supply.
In allowing them to set interest rates, they are able to control the ‘price’ of money, thus controlling the price of… everything.
This power rests primarily in the hands of four men who control roughly 75% of the entire world money supply:

• Zhou Xiaochuan, People’s Bank of China
• Mario Draghi, European Central Bank
• Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan
• Ben Bernanke, US Federal Reserve

Four guys. And they control the livelihoods of billions of people around the world.
So, how are they doing?
We could wax philosophically about the dangers of fiat currency. Or the dangers of the rapid expansion of their balance sheets. Or the profligacy of wanton debasement through quantitative easing.
But let’s just look at the numbers.
In theory, a central bank is like any other bank. It has income and expenses, assets and liabilities.
For a central bank, assets are typically securities or commodities which have value in the international marketplace, such as gold or US Treasuries.
Central bank liabilities are all the trillions of currency units floating around… dollars, euros, yen, etc.
The difference between assets and liabilities is the bank’s equity (or capital). And this is an important figure, because the higher the capital, the healthier the bank.
Lehman Brothers famously went under in 2008 because they had insufficient capital. They had assets of $691 billion, and equity of just $22 billion… about 3%.
This meant that if Lehman’s assets lost more than 3% of their value, the company wouldn’t have sufficient cushion, and they would go under.
This is exactly what happened. Their assets tanked and the company failed.
So let’s apply the same yardstick to central banks and see how ‘safe’ they really are:

• US Federal Reserve: $54 billion in capital on $3.57 trillion in assets, roughly 1.53%. This is actually less than the 1.875% capital they had in December. So the trend is getting worse.
• European Central Bank: 3.69%
• Bank of Japan: 1.92%
• Bank of England: 0.843%
• Bank of Canada: 0.532%

Each of these major central banks in ‘rich’ Western countries is essentially at, or below, the level of capital that Lehman Brothers had when they went under.
What does this mean?
Think about Lehman again. When Lehman’s equity was wiped out, it caused a huge crisis. The company’s liabilities instantly lost value, and almost everyone who was a counterparty to Lehman Brothers lost a lot of money because the company could no longer pay its debts.
Accordingly, if the US Federal Reserve’s assets unexpectedly lose more than 1.5% of their value, the Fed’s equity would be wiped out. This means that any counterparty holding the Fed’s liabilities (i.e. Federal reserve notes) would lose.
More specifically, that means everyone holding dollars.
Theoretically if a central bank becomes insolvent, it can be bailed out. It happened in Iceland a few years ago.
There’s just one problem with that thinking.
Iceland’s government wasn’t in debt at the time. So they were able to borrow money in order to bail out their central bank. Today the government is in debt over 100% of GDP, but the central bank is solvent.
But governments in the US, Europe, Japan, England, etc. are all too broke to bail out their central banks. These governments are already insolvent. So if the central bank becomes insolvent, there won’t be anyone to bail them out.
This is one of the strongest indicators of all that the financial system as we know it is finished. When central banks can no longer credibly issue liabilities, and their home government are too broke to bail them out, this paper currency standard can no longer function.
Such data really underscores the importance of owning real assets such as productive land and precious metals.
Given its nominal roller coaster ride lately, there has certainly been a lot of scrutiny and skepticism about gold.
But to paraphrase Tony Deden of Edelweiss Holdings, if you dispute the validity of gold as a hedge against declining fiat currency, that makes you, by default, a paper bug. Can you really afford to be confident in this system?

What Would You Do If A Bank Stole Everything You Owned?

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo
With millions of Americans across the country facing default and foreclosure banks are hiring outside firms to take possession of their homes. It is often the case that those living in homes that have been repossessed by their lender stay until the very last minute, or simply aren’t aware of their final eviction date. In such cases these firms simply enter the home, take all of the personal belongings of the tenants, and restrict access. Usually, the tenant has no recourse and may never have their personal items returned to them. It’s a common practice that happens every day in modern day America.  
Something else that has become commonplace amid the real estate crisis of the last several years are errors associated with foreclosure repossessions. Sometimes the bank is at fault, while other times the firms hired by them repossess the wrong house.

Katie Barnett of McArthur came home a few weeks ago to find everything in the house gone. She eventually discovered that First National bank mistakenly foreclosed the wrong house — but kept her stuff. Not only did they clear everything out like the Grinch, but they changed the locks. Their actual foreclosure target had been the house across the street.
This matters not to the bank president who responded to her $18,000 estimate for wrongfully stolen goods with a firm:

We’re not paying you retail here, that’s just the way it is.

But they make no attempt for remedy and the actual translation is: Oops, nothing we can do now. (Without the Oops)
Barnett says:

I did not tell them to come in my house and make me an offer. They took my stuff and I want it back.
Now, I’m just angry… It wouldn’t be a big deal if they would step up and say ‘I’m sorry, we will replace your stuff.’ Instead, I’m getting attitude from them. They’re sarcastic when they talk to me. They make it sound like I’m trying to rip the bank off. All I want is my stuff back.

Additionally, the police chief closed the case!
Katie remains without any of her things and no compensation for theft and damages.
Via: Activist Post
(emphasis added)

In any other situation this would be a crime punishable by prison time and the perpetrators would be charged with breaking and entering, burglary, and theft.
But, since it’s a bank, the police chief closed the case and chalked it off as an honest mistake.
An individual who was doing nothing wrong lost everything she owned. And what does the bank do? They laugh at her and make snarky comments, and they refuse to make her whole again.
What would you do if everything you owned was stolen and the criminals who committed the act were left free to prey on others?
Maybe you could hire an attorney with the money you probably don’t have.
Or, you could take matters into your own hands and visit the bank to forcibly take back the money owed to you, but you’d be facing 25 to life as a result.
Corporations, especially banks, continue to act with impunity, whether it be stealing billions of dollars from investors or breaking into their homes and looting everything in sight.
How long before Americans hit a breaking point?
How long before those who are being taken advantage of get mad as hell and decide they’re not going to take this any more?
The day of reckoning will come and when it does the bankers and brokers who have made a living off the backs of hard working Americans better hope they used some of their stolen loot to build underground bunkers, because the masses will be looking for payback, and they won’t be carrying picket signs.
They’ll be carrying pitchforks, nooses, and AR-15′s.

Gold And Silver – Newton’s Third Law Is About Ready To [Over]React. Be Prepared.

by Michael Noonan
Our clarion call is for the physical market to soon takeover the actual price for buying
and selling.  When, we do not know?  Timing is now less critical than actual possession,
from this point forward.
The probability of a new low, in futures, may be 50-50.  It was much higher, a month ago.
The odds of successfully picking a bottom are remote.  Not to pick on Richard Dennis, but
he is a poster boy for losing big time when he tried to pick a bottom in sugar, to the extent
of decimating one or a few of his funds.  How hard could it have been to lose so much
money buying sugar when it was under 5 cents, at the time?
The point is, never think you know more about the market than the market itself.  It is for
that reason we always say to follow the market’s lead.  Too many try to get ahead of it,
speculating that it will catch up to one’s brilliant “market timing.”  Margin departments
are usually the first ones to let the ego-driven speculators know that their [questionable]
prescience has gotten a little more expensive, in the process.
The odds of being able to buy physical gold and silver, at current levels, diminish with each
passing month.  In terms of pricing for buying physical precious metals, [PMs], we are
more than likely looking at the lows.  The timing for buying and holding as much gold and
silver as you can will not be much better than at current prices for a few generations.  If
anyone wants to pick a bottom in physical gold and silver, the odds are against them.
If silver were to go to $140 the ounce, will it matter if you paid $20 or $24?  Same for gold.
Here is how we see it.
If there is one law that is not on any known government’s books, but one which none of them can avoid, it is Newton’s Third Law of Motion:  To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.  All government, Keynesian, and central planner idiots abuse this law profusely, and at the expense of the masses, throughout history.  Every one and
awhile, it catches up to them, and we stand fortunate enough to be the beneficiaries for
decades suppressed prices.
Decades, we say, and not just since the 2011 highs.  The New World Order, [NWO] has
had marching orders for their central bankers to keep gold prices low, especially since
the United States was placed into their receivership hands  by Socialist Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, in 1933.  Price has been steadily rising, ever since, with a few upside bursts
that the NWO has tried to contain.  That is about to come to an end.
The fiat game has run its course.  [We covered the ruse of Federal Reserve Notes, [FRNS],
in last week’s commentary, [See When Precious Metals Bottom Is Irrelevant To Your
Financial Health, click on http://bit.ly/12Uz4Q6, if you missed it.]  We also said there is
no evidence of a change in trend.  That was last week.  This week is different.
JP Morgan has been the recognized culprit for suppressing the paper market by naked
shorting by the tens of thousands of contracts.  It does not matter if others were acting
in concert, the intervention was intentional:  Scare everyone out of the gold and silver
market.  It worked, in a small part, pretty much destroying the futures market, and it
failed on a grand scale by attracting world-wide pent-up demand for bargain prices!
The natural law of supply and demand has been unnaturally distorted, and the fiat
buzzards are about to have their paper asses handed back to them, with their heads
still up there.  The final push to keep PM prices artificially low has created such a tightly
coiled spring that once the pressure lets up, or is forced up, the reaction is going to push
gold and silver to levels unknown that will be equal and opposite to the misplaced energy
keeping them down.
Leave to central planners to convert the Law Of Supply and Demand to Unintended
Consequences, once Newton’s Third Law Of Motion takes its course.  The economy has
been eviscerated by central bank fiat debt, Wall Street greed, all enabled and protected by
the NWO’s corporate federal government.  In all likelihood, things will worsen during this
cleansing process, for those in power will hang on to the bitter end.
Let no one ever forget that the  Fed, a privately held corporation NOT under US control, [but in total control of the US], was modeled after the Weimar banking system.  The Weimar banking system was designed for one purpose and one purpose only, to enrich the bankers at the expense and destruction of the German economy.  Mission accomplished.
The Weimar banking system was imported to this country in 1913, when the Federal
Reserve Act, a mirror of the Weimar banking system, was passed. The privately owned
federal reserve was established for one purpose and one purpose only, to enrich its owners
at the expense of the US economy.    “Mission accomplished,” as Bush the inept Jr would say.

None of this matters, any more.  Either you see the handwriting on the wall or you do not.
Can there be yet one more push to the downside in PMs?  Yes.  Will there be?  The odds of
that suicidal banker event diminish with each passing day.  Do not play Russian roulette
with the timing of your purchases, anymore.  In fact, the Russians, [and the Chinese, and
the Indians, and the Turks, and the Arabs] have been the willing beneficiaries of this
blatantly stupid move by Western central bankers to scare people away from owning
precious metals.
As far as the futures and their artificial prices are concerned, the bear market is starting to
fray around the edges.  For the first time in months, we opted to go long gold in futures.  It
may be just a short-term trade, but the signal to buy was clear.  An update of the charts:
We have been aware of, but have not commented on the potential support from the level
indicated by points 1, 2, and 3.  Futures have not signaled a definitive bottom, but we are
of the solid belief that the physical market may soon become the more accurate pricing
mechanism.

There is one trading scheme that calls for a buy and hold whenever price rallies and closes
at the highest level in a four-week period.  That is a mechanical process, but one for which
we have some degree of respect within the context of developing market activity.
It is no accident that gold was able to rally as strongly as it did , and have that rally fall in
line with the 4 week higher close scheme.  It is something we will continue to watch.
We gave advance warning of the upside potential, given confirmation, in our commentary,
Purely A Mental Game Right Now.  Do Not Blink, click on http://bit.ly/14fT8R0, second chart, at the end of June.

Last week’s call for buyers absorbing the effort of sellers, just under 1300 was spot on.
Once price rallied above that area, it did so on strength not seen for some time in the gold
market.  We recommended buying, as stated in the chart comments.
It is possible that another level of absorption may be forming, in the second box.  Price
activity will confirm or negate that, possibly next week

The argument for silver is not as compelling, chartwise, as explained.

It looked like silver was signaling earlier than gold, in the past month, and note was made
of its high volume, strong close, at the end of June, similar to gold, http://bit.ly/14fT8R0,
fourth chart, making several observations about it.

Will gold pull silver up, or will silver act as a drag on the current rally in gold?  Each has to
be viewed separately for decision-making purposes.  Right now gold is favored, and it
would be a mistake to buy silver over gold in the hopes it will catch up.  Buy silver futures
when developing market activity signals a buy, as occurred in gold.
The window of opportunity to buy physical gold and silver continues to narrow.  Like the
housing market top was known to be coming, when it came, those who waited too long
regretted it.  When the bottom for the physical PMs is known as a certainty, those who
waited for a “better price” may also regret that decision.  It is all about choice.
We choose now for buying and holding physical gold and silver.  We are on the long side in
gold futures, but that can change on any given day.