MY 2015 WORRY LIST

Instead of making predictions for the New Year I will simply create a list of things I am concerned with for the coming year.  In this world controlled by large conglomerates that have huge caches of money , that are pursing goals we often know little about and in some cases never find out about till it's too late to stop them.  It is impossible to make predictions that will come to pass

THE ECONOMY:
 The stock market at all time highs being the most published of economic indicators that we are led to believe is do to actual market activities is actually being driven by trick vehicles used to outright manipulate the markets in a direction to bring in corporate cash . Stock buybacks, derivatives, fast track trading , insider trading make it an impossibility to predict how the markets will act in 2015.
The market is quite simply a house of cards , and it will fall , but when , who knows.

For 30+ years a coordinated attack on the American working man has been underway and it is well on the way to accomplish their end game.  6000 factories and their blue collar jobs have disappeared from the work place to be replaced by minimum wage service jobs , which provide just the minimums of life.  30% of 18 to 34 year olds are living with their parents out of necessity. If your 50 and over your chances of getting a new job are slim. If you are successful in finding one you will be making less than 20K per year.  Unemployment rate actually is around the 23% mark and has been there for 3 years with not a lot of hope for the future .

Pensions that were once a major part of our working life have been disappearing .  Killed off by mergers, bankruptcies, legislation and other means to simply take away the benefits that have been earned through our service to our employers.  Nobody is safe from this movement.  Even the largest pension funds are under attack, California government workers, teachers .  Of course if your pension gets fried you have little choice on how to accumulate enough money to retire on.

To sum it up , we have an economy  being run by and for the 1% instead of serving all  the  people.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
The SHIFT TO ASIA being touted by the Obama administration has turned into a not very well concealed attempt to take Russia out of the world picture and China with it.  The badly concealed attempt to get Russia to cross the line on Ukraine not only has failed but as sent Russia out into the world making big deal after , big deal to counter sanctions placed on them by US.  Confused, I don't blame you. Damn near the same day of removing sanctions on Cuba because they haven't worked in 50 years we turn around and put sanctions on Russia. The Obama brain trust did not look very closely at Russian options to counter the sanctions, relying on the threat of nuclear war as the big hammer to pull Russia into line.  With most of the EU is desperate economic straights , taken their by out crooked banks are in little mood for a land war in Europe.  So we sit here and wait for the outcome , waiting to see who will win this game.

I look at our foreign affairs and I see a child going thru a zoo poking sticks into every animal in the zoo to anger them into attacking.  That about sums up our foreign policies.  Afghanistan , Iraq, Ukraine, Iran and lots of smaller actions that make us hated over most of the world.

It looks today that Russia has out maneuvered us in this latest Game of Thrones game.  In trying to control world energy resources we have in fact pushed some big players into the Russian tent. Time will tell who wins this game.

AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The last 30+ years have driven the average working man from a position of financial security into a stance for some that you can only call desperate.  Job gone, pension gone, health care gone, a decent wage gone , generally gone. house gone. self respect gone.  This group is very large, one has to think that this group watching the world of the 1% getting richer and richer , while they get poorer and poorer cannot not be a recipe for a peaceful society.  When 59% of the workforce earning minimum wage , with all hands in the family working sometimes two and three jobs , leaving no family time, no hope for a future, they toil away with only hope left to drive them.

So here we sit with huge unemployment , low incomes, little chance of improvement , we are told you need to get more education and the masses set out to run up huge debts for college education.  But wait a BA is not enough, you need a MA and so you run up your bill into a huge monkey on your back when it come payback time.  Then the real ballbuster hits, you have done all the abobe and graduated with a MA only to find out that what once looked like a viable career path now provides damn few opportunities , so back to living with your parents.

When looking at career paths of the future there are damn few good paying ones left to choose from.  While you are out busting your ass to get a career, the 1% are out inventing machines to replace the job you are now doing.  Somewhere I read that in a decade half of current jobs will no longer exist.

Which leaves the question, what the hell are we going to do with all these unemployed or under employed people.  If the current atmosphere of not wanting to offer support to these people presents us with the threat of a revolt highly probable.

On top of all this we sit and watch our government armor up our police forces with combat weapons which seems to have changed the temperament of the cops to one that goes straight to deadly violence.   An example : A kid on a playground waving around a gun, cops respond and shoot the child dead in 2 seconds.  There seems to be more and more of these actions which appear to be aimed at the black community.  It is just a matter of time before this turns ugly.  Remember 1968?

I am worried about the apparent need for instant gratification in our daily lives.  Watch folk young and old alike walk down the street , face in their iphone, oblivious of all around them   They sit side by side on park benches tweeting one another , The  spoken word is disappearing.  Iphones, compuers and tablets gain our attention while our  MSM delivers the one or two top stories of the day over and over again supported by tweets and other citizen inputs, essentially makes so called news immaterial.
We watch our world where student loans have to be paid, no bankruptcies for them , Meantime company after company goes bankrupt , while stealing retirement funds, busting pay checks, shedding jobs while the masses are harassed by loan collectors.

There is more to be said but this is a start, over the year I will attempt to address areas of concern to me in the hopes I can cause you to react.

STATE OF THE UNION TIGER STYLE

Approaching the New Year we need to take a look at the real state of the union.  All charts in this post are extracted from SHADOW STATS.  You will notice they have no resemblance to the numbers the government pushes at us.  The reason for the difference is Shadow Stats uses the original formula for each not the adjusted ones used by the government.    So let's get started.
To view other charts click on the SHADOW STATS LINK ABOVE.  Extracting some of the numbers in my last post  and insert them into the effect on the below charts and you will probably come to the conclusion that things are not as good as we are told.  Again using the numbers from my last post , when look at what folks believe , you won't come away optimistic of our immediate future.  


UNEMPLOYMENT

.While we are told unemployment is 5 or 6%  this chart shows you that unemployment has been in  the 22 or 23 %  range all the way back to 2008.  On top of that many of the jobs that have been added are low wage service jobs.  Huge numbers of 18 to 34 year old are living with their parents out of necessity.  Without a return of manufacturing we will not have a sustainable ecoomy.

GDP

Official GDP this quarter is supposed to be 5 1/2 % but it actually has been in the -2%  range for years.  The resulting numbers as you can track one another but vary by a large amount.

INFLATION

50 NUMBERS YOU'LL FIND HARD TO BEIEVE

This piece written by other I am posting to give you a better picture of what your fellow citizens think.
Some you will find hard to believe and might even try to disprove,(If you do send me the link)

HERE'S THE STORY

A GAME OF CHANCE

The big bad US is mad at Russia and is stamping it's feet like a spoiled brat.  We are trying to surround Russia with enemies in our Shift to Asia, problem is Russia is responding and countering our moves with moves of their own.

First out of the barrel they make beg gas deals with China and Turkey.  Now China is stepping up an backing Russia all the way. We of course say we can counter the Chinese moves, somehow I can't believe that they can.  The bottom card is the threat of nuclear war.  Even our leaders as stupid as they appear to be cannot possibly believe the world can survive a nuclear war.

If you have been following my posts you know that all of the accusations we have flung at Russia are pure bullshit.  MH 17 shoot down and been without a doubt pinned to Ukraine itself. It was a bald faced attempt to get Russia a stupid move , but Putin is smarter than that.  The danger is that we now  are shipping weapons to the Nazi's in power in Ukraine.   Even crazies like them cannot possibly think they can beat Russia.  If you compare armaments of Nato and Russia for a land war Russia is better equipped.

When you look at the big picture and want to get a feel for how this could work out, just look at the Christmas presents as you unwrap them, whoops, made in China.  The populace would scream bloody murder when that supply chain was stopped.  Of course China would hurt like hell for awhile but nowhere as bad as we would.. It would take a large amount of time to rebuild our manufacturing base.

So far in this contest Putin in my estimate has made better moves than the Obama administration.
The BRIC alliance has the potential of knocking the dollar off the reserve podium which would be one hell of a curve ball to hit.

Just days after starting to normalizing relations with Cuba , saying that 50 years of sanctions against them have not worked , we put sanctions on Russia..  Take note that Cuba survived aided by the Venezuelan government just like China stepping up to back Russia.  It appears to me to be another fight we will loose.  Time will tell, so pay close attention.
HERE'S the story that bought this on.

AN EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT MANIFPUALTION

 

SILVER CONTRACTS

After all my talk of manipulation of markets by the government deserve a picture to show that most of what I have been talking about is actually happening.   This graph depicts how after the market closes shares are traded when lite volume exists to buy huge blocks of contracts to move the price up or down.  The drop between the black indicators shows government action to drive the price down.  This same action takes place in a lot of markets.   

HERE IS THE STORY BY ROBETS

CONTROL FREAKS

You and I sit here and wonder at the working of the modern world, not really knowing that what were watching is a giant shell game.  First you see it and then you don't.  What seems to be the problem here.
The simple answer is we are being presented horse shit instead of the truth.  Damn near all the info you are presented on the TV is straight bullcrap.

A present example in all the stories circulating about Russia.  An easy one to point out this theory is the story making it's rounds this week is that Russia is selling Gold because of the collapse of oil prices which is 50% of Russian income.  A look at what is going on is pretty easy to see.  Oil prices have tanked and gold has gone right along with it.  A little know fact is that the Ruble is backed by gold. Another fact is Russia is sitting on a pile of dollars because oil is traded in dollars.

 

VALUE OF THE DOLLAR

 

RUBLES TO BUY DOLLARS

So what would a smart Russian government be doing, simple eh what, use your oil based dollars to buy gold..  Since Russia is the number 2 oil producer in the world they have a lot dollars as a result of that.
Strangely you would think that Gold would be going up given all the shenanigans going on around the world but the exact opposite is true... Gold value is down.

  All of this action has been caused by the good ole USA jawboning the Saudi's to lower oil prices to bankrupt Russia and at the same time pushing the price of Gold down by flooding the market with naked short selling of the gold contracts.

The US has also placed sanctions on Russia in order to bring their economy down.   It could work if they put the right sanctions in place but so far all they have accomplished is to force Russia into making huge deals with China , India and Turkey.  Placing sanction on Russia and in the same breath remove some sanctions with Cuba saying that 50 years of sanctions of not had the required effect.  So if it don't work in one case we should try it again..Kinda like hitting your left finger with a hammer and then hitting the right one to get a different effect.

All this being just one facet of a multiple pronged attack to bust Russia so we can complete our goal of world hegemony.   The guiding forces behind this plot are desperate as they are running out of plays.  So desperate are that they are on record saying that a nuclear war is winnable.

So if you are confused about the world , don't worry , you have lots of company. 

“America uber alles.” or WATCH THE EAGLE FALL

This piece my Paul Craig Roberts a former republican official and now a good guy ( I guess) but that aside he has been putting info on line in sync with my thoughts of world events.   Read HIS ARTICLE.

The one piece of good news in this piece is among the final  thoughts, Economic Collapse is more survivable than a Nuclear War.+

His post is more an item list of the wrongs done to us over the last few decades by both parties, Items you have seen listed here over time.  The problem is the majority are deep asleep and could care less.  There seems  to be no organization or leader on the horizon to jerk the public awake.

The latest attack on Ukraine as been successfully linked to Putin which is a flat our lie orchestrated by the good ole US.  We want to reduce the power of Russia and China making our Pivot to Asia possible.

We are being told that the sanctions on Russia are really working and their economy is collapsing which is far from the truth.  While we have been busy putting the blame on Putin he has been out there making huge deals with China ,India and others not just in oil and gas, but also a new economic system to counter the IMF.  If the info I read today is correct , Putin is sitting there with a big grin on his face and a pocket book full of American that he will use to buy back his rubles at rock bottom prices.

So my take on this is Russia will come out just fine, but we will be short a bunch of expensive oil producers.  Of course you and I  will pay for this mess now that they have moved derivatives under FDIC.  One thing is certain and here I will hedge my bet , the world as we know it will be gone in a very few years.  What will replace it is unknown to at least me at this time.. Do you have a guess, let's here it.