Tony Lepage

Harper hopes he’ll be able to pass of small, vague bills, through parliament and we won’t notice their similarity with bills passed south of the border. This article announces some of the first steps Canada will take toward becoming part of the “North American Union.” In early November, George W. Bush introduced a proposal for legislation that’ll force recalls of products deemed unsafe by the FDA.

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Ron Paul has truly started something big. No matter the outcome of this upcoming election, Ron Paul has let loose a beast. A beast of discontent. An intelligent beast. Once liberty takes root, it grows quickly.

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The North American Summit is taking place in Quebec this week. George, Felipe and Stevie—also known as the three amigos, will be discussing matters of security, prosperity and partnership. It sounds pretty innocent; probably issues limited to national sovereignty. And since there won’t be anything that’s important enough to concern the rest of the country, why not invite some top business leaders who probably have nothing better to do than to discuss SPP.

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I’m just livin’ out the American dream
And I just realized that nothin’ is what it seems

Shelved 2 months after Iraq was invaded, I managed to find this gem on youtube.

Madonna says this album is her favorite. It sold the most copies in countries opposed to the war (ie, France). If you give the album a spin you’ll find are some great lyrics, with real messages. And, not surprisingly, this album is her worst selling.

Is it any wonder why all the mainstream stuff is fluff? We wouldn’t have it any other way.

Keith Olbermann hits a home run again. I can’t get enough of this guy. I love how his commentaries build up, and up, and teach a little history too. Then he throws in a nice shot or two, and leaves the viewer quite pleased. Well, anyone that isn’t red

I am happy he is on tv… go msnbc!

“Every man and woman in the street knew something nasty was up ahead. But the politicians just had their Munichs. Peace in our time. Many of us were skeptical, we thought something pretty awful was going to happen, but when it did happen, everybody suddenly grew happier, they found that instead of life being somewhat aimless, as it is now, they all had positive things to do. If you were young it didn’t seem all that bad. ”

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“A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.” - Keith Olbermann

And how did things get like this? One word: Complacency.

If you think you can’t make a difference, you deserve nothing different.

Is anyone else afraid to travel to the USA?

No sooner did I post that last article and I felt I needed to address something else.

I purchased gold a little over one year ago. It hasn’t yet translated into real large gains for me. Why is that? Gold is a currency and a damn fine one. But so is the Canadian Dollar. The Canadian dollar is the 4th best performing currency. It is right behind the Swiss Franc, which is right behind the Aussie Dollar. What is ahead of every single currency? Gold!

In fact, here’s how Gold is doing when related to a few other currencies:

• Japanese Yen is seeing gold at a 14 year high.
• Norweigan Corona is seeing gold at a 25 year high.
• British Pounds, its at a nine year high.

GROWING PROTECTIONIST SENTIMENT

If you DO NOT have gold or silver, you will be leaving yourself open to some major financial trauma that is coming very shortly. Simply looking at the trade deficit as a percentage of GDP through history, you can see that any time the trade deficit has approached 4 or 5% of the Gross Domestic Product of a country; the economies were experiencing hyperinflation and went into deep recessions and or depressions. In the current case of the United States of America, because they are the international reserve currency, it will affect the whole world. Two years ago, this percentage was 3% of GDP, now it is 5% and pushing towards 6.5% of GDP.

Examples include Argentina in 1980, was experiencing hyperinflation. Brazil, in 1981 was experiencing hyperinflation. Bolivia, German–the tipping points of all these countries was when the trade gap as a percent of GDP had approached 4.5, 5, 6% of GDP.

The signs of trouble are becoming very visible. The cracks are evident and getting bigger. The global trade imbalance is the hallmark of the problems with the US economy and we’re in the middle of the danger zone right now.

There are several large lies being told and it only takes a few minutes of looking at the world to see them. Lies. Inflation and the CPI, we’re told inflation is 2-3% CPI is obviously under reporting inflation. To the average person, it means your income is NOT keeping up with your expenses. What happens when you can’t afford to buy anymore? We’ll buy fewer products and thus, Asia will have less to reinvest into the United States and then interest rates will become even harder, if not impossible to control.

Major problems:

1. The US dollar is extremely vulnerable to an extreme devaluation.
2. The US economy will slow
3. The Euro will no longer be an alternative to Gold as an alternative to the US dollar as it has its own difficulties.
4. Derivative and hedge funds will have large problems.
5. You’ll make money, let alone save your money, if you buy gold and silver bullion. You’ll make the most buying gold mining stocks. There will be the best returns especially within the junior mining sector. It’s like buying IBM in 1991; you’ll make money, but not as much money if you would have purchased Cisco Systems.