As the editor of the Silver Bear Cafe, I spend most of my time researching current events. I explore the markets, the economic war that is being waged on the middle class, precious metals, the Federal Reserve, energy, and how to go about surviving financially. In this weekly column I will attempt to condense the week's events and examine how the news might affect your pocketbook. JSB

Financial Markets

This past week marked the twelfth year anniversary of the destruction of the twin World Trade Center Towers in New York City, along with the destruction of a third tower, Building Seven. In some ways, for me, that event was not unlike the murder of John F. Kennedy. I, like most people old enough to remember Kennedy's death, know exactly where we were and what we were doing on November 22, 1963. When I heard the news, I was a sophomore at McLean High School in Virginia, in a third period SMSG Math Class. That was back before they quit educating public school students in America. We were let out of school early. I was fifteen and, admittedly, more excited about an unexpected furlough than of how JFK's assassination would subsequently affect my entire life.

911 has also affected my life in a profound manner. And, as it turns out, it (my life) has been, much for the same reasons, forever changed. Although it took me many years of growing up and then many more years suffering the onset of a burning curiosity, and then even more years of obsessive research, to arrive at the conclusions that I have concerning JFK, the realization that the events of 911 were also a result of a high level, insider conspiracy came to me in a epiphytic moment right after it I saw (or thought I saw) the second plane, a United Airlines 767, strike the building. The combined research and investigation of, literally, tens of thousands architects and engineers, and other highly intelligent persons all over the world, have simply reinforced what I already knew to be true. There was no way that those building could have been brought down like they were (falling into their own footprints) without months of inside preparation. That means that conspirators worked, for many hundreds of hours, prepping the internal structure to dissolve upon a series of incredibly sophisticated explosive devices to be detonated in concert. The perps didn't even pretend that there was a reason that Building Seven collapsed. Anyone, with half a brain would immediately realize that Building Seven collapsed as a result of a controlled demolition. That this happened on the same day, albiet several hours later, suggests that the nature and cause of its collapse was absolutely and undenialbly the result of a heinous conspiracy.

Now I realize that the consideration of such a possibility (fact) is, for all intents and purposes, unbearable to most. Much as a child covers their eyes during a horror movie, so have the vast majority of sheeple covered their eyes to the reality of 911. To coin a phrase I came up with several years ago, they have become SOP (stupid on purpose). And stupid, to this day, they remain. Those that continue to deny the obvious and apparent reality are, in my opinion, pretty much worthless and damaged goods. Certainly, they are not persons that you could possibly depend on to cover your back in any situation.

What could have been the motive to murder JFK? What could have been the motive to destroy the World Trade Center buildings, and thousands of people with them? I propose that the motive was the basest of all motives, wealth and power. In the case of JFK, it enabled the perps to continue to exploit and profit from the Viet Nam war. 911 provided for the initiation and profit from the Iraq war and later, our involvement in Afganistan. By successfully dumbing down the populace, the perps successfully eliminated the checks and balances that were set up to prohibit such repugnant behavior. Unfortunately, the entire country has been Bushwacked (pun intended) by an insane cabal of gutter slime who have criminally exploited the apathetic nature of the citizenry to further an insidious agenda. The agenda includes the stealing of all of the wealth, ruling the world, and massively depopulating the planet. Being one who believes that present day technology already provides for the generation of free energy, and that the application of that free energy would allow the production of a sufficient quantity of food to feed everyone, and that the additional application of that free energy would allow mankind the ability to colonize other planets, thus solving the overpopulation concerns. I consider the miscreants cited above as being nothing more than feral perverted moronic throwbacks who suffer from a condition that incites them to frequently shove their collective heads up their collective asses.

What I guess I am saying is that I, personally, would opt to pursue a utopian dream rather than continue to put up with a dystopian nightmare.

This week I chose to highlight a prescient report from Ben Swann as well as a piece I came across only this morning from a young woman named Shannon who provides us with a web site called Angelicview. Although several of the YouTube videos featured in her piece have already been presented on "the Bear" there are some that I had not yet seen. Please take the time to follow this link and get Shannon's take on the events of 911.

From Ben Swann:

Although it received little media attention at the time, the third-worst structural building failure in modern history occurred on September 11, 2001. World Trade Center (WTC) Building 7 was a 47-story, steel-framed, fire-protected, high-rise office building located about a football field's length from the WTC North Tower. Unlike its two taller cousins, WTC 7 was never hit by an aircraft, yet it fell to the ground suddenly, displaying the classic signatures of explosive controlled demolition.
The evidence (discussed in this article) was ignored, mishandled, and/or covered up by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal agency tasked with explaining its unprecedented destruction.
A Mysterious Catastrophe

Although Building 7 was never hit by an airplane and had only isolated pockets of fires on about 10 floors, it suddenly imploded – coming down neatly, symmetrically, and completely at 5:20 p.m. The official story, according to NIST, is that WTC 7 collapsed due to "normal office fires" which created a "new phenomenon" in high-rise fires: destruction due to thermal expansion of steel beams, leading to the progressive collapse of nine floors. This ultimately caused the failure of column #79 – which was followed within seconds by all the rest.

Some observers had speculated that stores of diesel fuel inside the building might have produced exceptionally intense fires leading to the unusual collapse. However, NIST has officially acknowledged that diesel fuel was not involved. NIST also ultimately concluded that the impact of debris from the North Tower was not a significant contributor to the collapse, although it was blamed for starting the fires. What NIST's top engineers failed to explain – and often even to acknowledge – in their Final Report were the many features of the building's destruction that are normally seen only in explosive controlled demolitions.

The collapse of WTC Building 7 represents one of the worst structural failures in modern history. The official story contends that fires weakened the structures, resulting in a gravitational collapse. The evidence, obvious to so many researchers but omitted from NIST's Final Report, supports a very different conclusion – one that points squarely to explosive controlled demolition.

If WTC 7 was intentionally brought down, then clearly it becomes a 'smoking gun" that must be investigated. Who were the terrorists that had access to this highly secure building, occupied in part by the CIA, FBI, Dept of Defense, IRS, SEC, and others, and the technology required to prepare it for demolition? The 1,000 strong Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth present the scientific forensic data, evidence, and eyewitness and video testimony. We do not speculate as to who might have been responsible or how they have, so far, gotten away with the crime of the century.

The destruction of the Twin Towers must be re-evaluated as well in light of the WTC 7 evidence. We therefore call for an unimpeachable investigation with subpoena power into the destruction of all three WTC skyscrapers. We ask you to do your part as a citizen to join us in making it happen.

On the Economc War Front

The fact that we are constantly being lied to by TPTB via the mainstream media, from dawn 'til dusk and then all night long, explains, in part, the nature of our current state of affairs. Most are, understandably, mislead by the lies, having been conditioned to, not only believe, but also depend, on this tainted information. Some of this information can be valuable, such as the ramblings of the Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke. In his case you can actually depend on the opposite of whatever comes out of his mouth to occur. In Bernanke's case I think he believes what he is saying. Unfortunately, he has no idea what he is talking about.

The knowledge of Ben's shortcomings can be handy when trying to project the moves and directions of the markets, in ways that are affected by the machinations of the Federal Reserve. It is something I find myself absorbed with on a daily basis. Consequently, the same can not be said about all the propaganda the we are forever being showered with. Although our fearless leader is pretty much clueless, his Zionist advisors are pretty clever when it comes to covering their tracks. Most people (and I mean over 90% of them) have no earthly idea why we are involved in Syria. For that matter, most people don't have any idea why the sky is blue. Most people are of no use when it comes to attempting to save the world. It just stands to reason then that, as a result, most people will not be saved. They will, however, busy themselves following the advice of their government and its propaganda machine which is, and has been for many years, to simply "Duck and Cover".

James Howard Kunstler graces us with the reality of the propaganda machine in this week's installment of Clusterfuck Nation.

From James Howard Kunstler:

First: Paul Sabin's stupid op-ed in The New York Times Saturday shows how intellectually bankrupt and pusillanimous the "newspaper of record" has become, in step with the depraved and decadent empire whose record-keeper it supposedly pretends to be. Sabin is flame-keeper for the theories of the late cornucopian demi-god Julian Simon, a business school professor whose great idea stokes the wishful thinking that has overtaken a class of American leaders who ought to know better, and spread through the public they serve like a fungal infection of the brain. The core of Julian Simon's great idea is that material resources don't matter; human ingenuity will overcome all limits.

Maybe that's a temporarily comforting thought for leaders in business, media, and politics, who don't want to face the realities of peak resources and climate change, but it guarantees a harsher economic outcome since the wishful public will do nothing to prepare for the very different terms of daily living that are already shoving them into hardship and desperation.

Now oil is well over $100 a barrel, a price that the American economy, as currently configured, cannot endure. That price is crushing the kind of activity we have depended on lately: the house-building and lending rackets associated with the creation of suburban sprawl. $100 oil is especially corrosive to the problems of capital formation, because without more racket-driven "growth," we can neither generate new credit, nor pay the interest on old credit. We've used accounting fraud in banking and government to cover up this failed equation. But it has only led to greater deformities in markets and a general fiasco in the management of money all around the world, and it is spinning out of control right now.

The American public is getting pushed deeper and deeper into a financial abyss, haunted by re-po men, lying bank officers, verminous lawyers, and chiseling hospital administrators.

All this is a recipe for a political explosion. What happens if the US Government starts gassing its own citizens? It happened in 1967. That one only made people cry. Maybe next time, they'll use a different kind of gas

Precious Metals

Who among us believes that, along with all the other economic malfeasance, the price of precious metals has not been manipulated? The evidence is staggering, but the motives of the manipulators have not been exposed cohesively enough for "Joe Six Pack" to understand. "Joe" still rolls his eyes back and wonders why anyone would consider the possibility that there are forces, behind the scenes, controlling high levels of government in our country that are not working in "We the People's" best interest.

In an attempt to continue to purvey the "big picture" in the silver market, here are some interesting facts for your consideration.

Silver is as important a strategic commodity as oil. The need for a supply of silver in times of war is so essential, that a shortage of the metal could pose dire and direct consequences to the continued defence of our country. With the evolution of technology, silver has become so intrinsically important, that a lack of it will adversely affect America's national security. Meanwhile, as a result of the collusion between industrial users, central bankers, bullion bankers, the Commodity Futures Trade Commission, (CFTC), the Chicago Board of Trade, (CBOT), and government regulators, spanning the past sixty years, inventories have all but disappeared.

How and why have our silver reserves been so radically depleted? The major causal factor for the growing scarcity of silver in the United States is an organization called the Silver Users Association, (SUA). This group was founded in 1947 for the sole purpose of controlling the price of silver, and has since manned a small army of lobbyists. These lobbyists represent some of the biggest corporations in the country. As the industrial uses for silver are quite diverse, so are the types of companies that engage the services of the SUA. It is their job to lobby politicians and persuade them to suppress, depress, repress, oppress, or do what ever it takes to maintain a grip on the price of silver. The SUA co-ordinates campaign contributions between association members and complicit politicians in return for quasi-legal legislation designed to keep the price down. It does not matter to them whether the means of suppression are legal or illegal, so long as the price does not rise.

SUA members include corporations like Eastman Kodak and Polaroid who use great quantities of silver for the production of film. Obviously, the price of silver plays an important role in their bottom lines and it is of great advantage to keep the price of silver as low as possible. Other clients include Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, American Superconductor, and Intermagnetics General who use even greater quantities of silver for the production of super conducting cables, missiles and torpedoes. All companies that produce electrical components for use in weapons, high tech aircraft, fighting vehicles, ships, communication devices, almost everything that has to do with the war machine, depend heavily on silver.

An interesting thing to point out is that when a missile or torpedo explodes, as much as 1400 ounces of silver is vaporized (silver halide batteries). This is one of the industrial reasons why the above ground stockpiles of silver have already been depleted to the point of scarcity. The artificial capping of the price of any commodity is not unlike the insertion of a huge cork in a volcano. This can result in nothing less than the massive explosion of its price in the immediate future.

I will forever espousing the attributes and benefits of silver and the undeniable reasons why forward thinkers should be accumulating as much "physical" as they can. Silver stackers unite!

From John Miller:

Silver: Gold's Not-So-Ugly Stepsister

Bullion investment now represents a quarter of total world demand for silver. However, while investment demand rose sharply over the past five years, this demand did fluctuate significantly each year. To predict future price moves it is helpful to look at current investment trends and couple this information with demand trends for silver in industry.

The Silver Institute breaks silver investment demand into two useful categories: implied net investment and coins & medals. To simplify, implied net investment represents physical silver bars such as those held by an ETF's custodian. Coins are government minted bullion bearing a denomination with medals being similar but from a private mint and lacking a denomination.

The iShares Silver Trust (NYSEMKT: SLV ) dominates the silver ETF market with over $8 billion in assets reflecting more than 10,000 tonnes of silver. Because of its size, the Silver Trust provides a good directional proxy to the implied net investment category mentioned above. Additionally, flows are regularly updated at the iShares website. The following chart shows ounces the Silver Trust held in January each of the past four years. Note: the height of holdings was 366 million ounces in April of 2011. Through August of 2013 the Silver Trust held 339 million ounces. This continuation of increased demand seen through 2012 is bullish for silver prices.

Silver bullion coins from government mints in the United States (American Silver Eagle), Australia (Kookaburra, Lunar), Canada (Maple Leaf), Mexico (Libertad) and Austria (Philharmonic) lead the coins & medals segment. These coins are generally sold through secondary vendors to retail investors and collectors.

Among these coins, the American Silver Eagle is the best directional proxy for demand in this segment representing approximately one third of ounces sold. Additionally, actual sales figures are updated frequently on the United Sates Mint website. The following chart shows American Silver Eagle bullion coin sales during the past four years. Even taking seasonality into account, 2013 should easily be the record year for sales. This return of demand levels seen in 2011 is bullish for silver prices.

Energy

According to the World Trade Organization (another front for the Darkside) "human needs can be supplied by private entrepreneurs for a profit, unlike a human right which accrues equally to everyone." National and international trade associations like the WTO and NAFTA define water as a "commodity" and have agreements requiring governments to permit water exports under specified conditions.

Commodification and privatization go hand in hand. Even though the evidence for water scarcity is overwhelming, governments and global bureaucracies, influenced by lobbyists, and, in many documented cases, outright bribery, are disposed to call water a commodity, to transfer what remains to private corporations, and to let the market determine who gets water and the price they pay for it.

The commodification of water, internationally, is on the horizon. The day will come when no one will be able to collect it without a permit. Many persons throughout the world will be prosecuted for its illegal possession. It will happen here.

I guess it all boils down to human nature. There are and always will be the haves and the have nots. In their insatiable quest for profits, "the Dark Side", using their agents in trans-national corporations, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank, have successfully brought us to the brink of the abyss. Knowing full well the gravity of the situation and the only solution, they are now poised to solve the problem. There are far too many people on the planet. The time has come for contraction.

The world is no longer capable of economic expansion. We are entering a period of civilization where the keyword is sustainability, not growth.

Sustainability is job one. In order to incite the massive contraction that is desperately needed, economics will be used as a weapon. It is the weapon of choice when it comes to survival. The possession of Hard Assets, Energy and Fresh Water will rule the day. In a world of $100/barrel oil, the weak die and the strong survive. In a world of $100/barrel water, there will not be 7.5 billion people on the earth. Actually I expect the number to be more in the 500 million range.

From Tom Murphy:

Sometimes considered a taboo subject, the issue of population runs as an undercurrent in virtually all discussions of modern challenges. Naturally, resource use, environmental pressures, climate change, food and water supply, and the health of the world's fish and wildlife populations would all be non-issues if Earth enjoyed a human population of 100 million or less.

The subject is taboo for a few reasons. The suggestion that a smaller number would be nice begs the question of who we should eliminate, and who gets to decide such things. Also, the vast majority of people bring children into the world, and perhaps feel a personal sting when it is implied that such actions are part of the problem. I myself come from a long line of breeders, and perhaps you do too.

Recently, participating in a panel discussion in front of a room full of physics educators, I made the simple statement that "surplus energy grows babies." This is motivated by my recognition that population growth bent upwards when widespread use of coal ushered in the Industrial Revolution and bent again when fossil fuels entered global agriculture in a big way during the Green Revolution. These are really just facets of the broader Fossil Fuel Revolution. I was challenged by a member of the audience with the glaringly obvious statement that population growth rates subside in energy-rich nations—the so-called demographic transition. How do these sentiments square against one another?

So in the spirit of looking at the numbers, let's explore in particular various connections between population and energy. In the process I will expose the United States, rather than Africa, for instance, as the real problem when it comes to population growth.

The Fed

As you all know, waking you up to the realities of the Federal Reserve provides your editor with cause for a one man crusade. Actually, I realize that more and more folks are becoming cognizant of the fact that central bankers in general, and the Federal Reserve in particular are pernicious devil worshipers, and bear the blame for most everything that is wrong with the world. I suspect that, if I tried hard enough, I could even discover their complicity in global warming (although the latest scientific findings portend the beginning of another ice age).

The Fed is not your friend. Their Pit Bull collection agengy, otherwise known as the IRS is not your friend either. Their madated agenda provides for your ruination. They should be considered Public Enemies, and treated as such. As George Carlin so aptly put it:

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

As I have repeated on many occassions;

"The truth shall set you free, but first it will make you sick".

From Don J. Grundmann:

The biggest financial crime in the history of the United States

In this short article I will discuss the basic mechanics of the biggest financial crime in the history of the United States and some elements of how this crime, conducted by the Federal Reserve System, is cheating all Americans every day out of the wages which they receive for their labor. A future article will discuss how the savings which Americans are putting aside for their future are being slowly and steadily stolen by this same group. But there is first a even more important question to ask : While you have recently seen the media discuss the financial scandal regarding the Enron corporation why haven't you heard one word about what I am about to discuss which in size makes Enron look like a ant compared to Mount Everest?

From the beginnings of our nation there was a great debate and battle over many years regarding a basic question of how the nation will function : Who shall issue the money of the nation? The answer to the question of who shall issue ( make ) the money of the nation boiled down to 2 possibilities -

The summated result of this action is that the private corporation, unaccountable to the people of the nation, controls the nation as it controls the flow of money within the nation. As part of a mountain of evidence that the private corporation controls the nation .

While the history of our nation has included many battles over the question of who shall issue the money of the nation, that after the last victory of the private corporations in their attempt to control the money issuance ( and hence life ) of the nation there has been a virtual complete blackout of the facts and truths regarding money issuance and its vital importance to the nation. I refer to this phenomenon at various places as " The Matrix " - the coordinated control of the mass media in order to both suppress information and to indoctrinate the citizens of the nation as to how they will think, what they will believe, and how they will act. Due to " The Matrix " the information which you will discover regarding the truth of money issuance in our nation is not published in newspapers, discussed on television, spoken of on the radio, printed in magazines, or taught in college ( or even any academic ) courses. Even CPA's and many other professions with college degrees of advanced standing will not know of the simple and vital truths regarding the issuance of our nations money.

Financial Survival

This week, I have presented several different takes on the same theme, which is, I suppose, what I do every week, on and on, ad nauseam. The fact that I believe that there is an agenda, through which an attempt to alter the nature of global society, and human culture, is being pursued, is bolstered by the fact that this pursuit is, in one way or another, the theme of almost every article I ever post.

Mr. Rappoport uses the framework of the Matrix to describe and explain the process being employed, by the bad guys, to insure that we become, and remain, docile. I find his analogy easily understandable and as such, an effective means of outing the Darkside as consisting of those that occupy the deep recesses of our present day enemies. Those enemies are not unlike every enemy that we have, as a species, risen to face and defeat, since time immemorial..

From Jon Rappoport:

SmartMan, who worked for the US Department of Control, often went into deep meditation during the prescribed afternoon periods, utilizing the prescribed DOJ mantras.

It was during one of these meditations that he discovered something that shook him to the core.

He promptly ran out into the street, to get away from the office, and walked up and down the block, to calm himself down, and finally sat in the park across the from the Capitol Building.

He opened his Gov124r and began searching through his Major Names file. He found one, made a coded call, and waited.

An hour later, NoMan appeared to his left and took a seat on a bench, where he opened a brown paper bag and began throwing crumbs on the grass for pigeons.

SmartMan walked over and sat down next to his old CIA friend.

"What is it?" NoMan said.

"I was just meditating," SmartMan said, "and I found a loophole. Actually, it might be a wormhole, and its implications are devastating."

You must first realize that there are, present in our lives, enemies. You must then know who those enemies are and act accordingly.

Eliminate as much debt as possible, especially “variable rate” debt, such as credit cards and lines of credit. Interest rates will be rising, so the elimination of debt offers a “real return” of escaping rising rates by creditors.

Get some control over some fresh water.

If you are depending on Social Security, stop.

Follow the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well...

Its not what you don't know that will screw you up, it's what you think you know that is wrong. The spin you hear from the mainstream media is intended to mislead you. Open your eyes and face the future. If you leave your head in the sand and ignore it, you are only leaving your butt exposed for the world to kick. This all may sound like gloom and doom, but when you get a handle on what is going to happen, you will have a future filled with opportunity. Fortune favors the Informed.

More next week...

May the Great Spirit be with you always,

Johnny Silver Bear
Chief cook and bottle washer, The Silver Bear Cafe

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