The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.

- Alan Greenspan

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Six Faculties of the mind you can develop to become a better you that they don’t even teach you at school

• Perception
• Reason
• Will
• Memory
• Imagination
• Intuition

Perception
This is our point of view or how we view things, situations, people or circumstances. Usually we focus on the negatives, however if we were to look for the positives in those situations which we find negative then the dynamics would change. Writing out problems on a piece of paper, setting it on a table and viewing it differently will help us shift our attention from the problem. Another thing to do is to take something which you find negative for example: – being shy around people. Then write out the opposite to that, in other words write out 50 times when you were not shy around people but confident.

Reason
This is our ability to think logically or gather information. It is the freedom to choose our own thoughts and make our own decisions to guide us towards our goals in life.

Will
This is our ability to discipline our mind, to focus our attention on what we are doing in any given situation, regardless of apparent distractions. A good way of developing this is to focus on a candle or a dot above your desk at eye level. Focus on it for five minutes and if you find your attention wondering off bring it back. Doing this everyday will really improve your focus.

Memory
We think in pictures, therefore using mental association can help you remember and recall information. There are plenty of books on this subject and it is worth spending some time on it to develop your memory.

Imagination
“Imagination is everything. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein
All great inventors had great imaginations. They had a very strong image of that which they wanted to create, and eventually it became reality. They manifested in the physical or external world what they imagined in the internal world – their mind. “What one holds in his consciousness tends to become real in the external world”.
What do you want? What do you really want to create in your life? Take a pad and start writing out your goals, dreams and desires. What you want to create, what kind of life you want to be living, what you want to be, to do and to have.

Intuition
This is best described as feeling, gut instinct or sometimes our inner voice talking to us. Intuition is the feeling or vibration we pick up from someone. Have you ever asked someone how they feel only for them to say “I am okay” when you know in your heart something is bothering them – that is your intuition, everyone has got it, we just have to become more aware of it.
Giving some time and attention to the faculties of the mind and developing them will change your life. The one and only thing that really successful people agree on is that “we become what we think about”. We are the living embodiment and the sum total of our thoughts and we have the power to choose our own thoughts. This is what separates man from all other species on the planet – his mind. We are creative beings with infinite potential and a perfect mind -start to use it.

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AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
During the Spanish occupation of many South and Central American countries in the 15th through 17th Centuries, much Gold was taken back to Spain via Fort San Lorenzo in Panama. Panama held the Gold awaiting shipment back to Spain under heavy artillery guard. When Spanish galleons would arrive at Fort San Lorenzo, they would be quickly loaded and sent on their way bound for Spain’s refinery. On their journey back to Spain, the galleons would be attacked by pi-rates, normally British. However, when the pirates acquired the Gold, they had difficulty selling it even on the black market because its authenticity of purity would come into question.
This issue of authenticity guarding against counterfeiting is as old as the subject of precious metals them-selves.
COUNTERFEITS
For most of history, coins were valued based on the precious metal they contained. Whether or not a coin was actually made by the claiming party was of secondary importance com-pared to whether or not it contained the correct amount of metal, i.e., correct weight and fineness (purity).
Unlike Silver, Gold is denser than al-most all other metals; hence, when something is made of Gold, it is extremely hard to fake. Simple determination of weight and volume should be sufficient. A coin that is the right size but is not Gold (or has too much base metal) will be “light;” alternately, a coin that weighs correctly will be somewhat larger.
ONE IN A MILLION
In the next few sections of this article, I am going to share something with you that very few people know about in my industry. The reason very few people know about it is be-cause only a small percentage of the population can afford to buy large quantities. When buying large quantities of Gold in smaller forms, large purchaser’s can face a problem. Let’s say you were to purchase US$2Million or more worth of Gold in small ingots, coins, wafers or small bars. To do this is no problem at all; however, an issue arises when you want to liquidate such large quantities back into cash!
NOT SO EASY
Think about this for a moment: If you had US$10Million in one-ounce Gold coins, this would physically be just over a quarter of a tonne in Gold! Now imagine loading your car up and heading down to your local coin dealer or jeweller to liquidate your Gold into cash. Firstly, the average car would be sitting on its axles looking quite odd as you drove down the highway which would draw considerable attention to your-self along with running the risk of being pulled over by the police and having to ex-plain just exactly what you were up to. Then upon arriving at the coin dealer, the proprietor would want to inspect all of the coinage for authenticity if he accepted to transact. This would take him literally a few weeks to do so without attending to his other clients. Also consider the multiple security issues between your premises and the coin dealer’s premises. Then comes the clincher – most coin dealers just don’t have US$10Million in the bank to accommodate such an acquisition in one transaction.
There are so many other issues to consider when it comes to larger liquidations, but there isn’t time to go into them here. I am sure you can think of some once you begin to think on this subject in real practical terms. It’s just not as easy as most people think it is to liquidate Gold into cash.
SECURITY VAULTING
AND TRANSPORT
There are three vaulting and security companies within the LBMA system that meet approval to be accepted. They are:

VIA MAT International Limited

G4S International

Brink’s Limited

INSURANCE
I know personally that VIA MAT?s security vaulting and transport is insured by an underwriter of Lloyd’s of London insurance. In walking around VIA MAT?s vaults, each vault is segregated by two-foot thick security vault doors. The actual insurance on each vault door is US$50Million. When the contained metal value exceeds this insurance value, an-other vault is required to remain within insurance parameters. By having insurance initiated in this manner, the insurance covers the replacement of the Gold itself. In comparison, many insurance companies only insure safe deposit boxes by dollar value. When the Gold exceeds this value, the insurance will not be sufficient to replace total ounces of Gold in storage.
SYSTEMIC RISK
So how does someone purchase large quantities of Gold given the current systemic risks within the banking system today? Many banks over the past few years have simply collapsed or been taken over by larger banks, because their balance sheets have been „written down? by many billions and trillions of dollars. Not only that, there is also large counter-party risk on the bank’s books. If a bank offers storage of Gold, yet on the other side of their business their assets are be-coming less valuable or worthless, this puts the Gold in storage under consider-able risk in the case of a write down of the banks assets, or worse, collapse through bankruptcy.
TAKE NOTE
Within today’s current system there are many accredited investors who lack the sophistication to realize that by not staying within the chain of integrity, they will have issues in liquidating metal holdings of large quantity. Even in the recent past there have been particular banks which have asked their clients to re-move their Gold and Silver holdings outside of the system not realizing that they have broken the LBMA chain of integrity.
Until next time,
Simon Heapes, Treasury Secretary

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• Gold and Silver only money that is not simultaneously someone’s debt
• Gold and Silver has functioned as money for 5000yrs.
• Gold and Silver always been the King of Assets and Asset of Kings
• Gold and Silver always been universally recognizable
• Gold and Silver have always been very liquid
• Gold and Silver have never suffered a confidence crisis
• Gold and Silver always free market money of choice
• Gold and Silver Geo-political and Financial “barometer”
• Gold and Silver maintain stable “Purchasing Power”

If you want to get your own gold or silver check out my gold shop

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Combating Annuities With Gold, Silver and Oil.

Refreshing article on gold and how it is grossly devalued, it also touches on hyper inflation and the paper we call money!

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When you read this have the intention of linking the information to your goals in the following areas.
1) Career/Wealth
2) Relationships
3) Spiritual
4) Physical
5) Intellect/Mind

1. Animal
Fight or flight, react or respond to the environment, people and circumstances you are in. Your paradigms , belief systems, habits, lies that you think you are. “Sure I have always done that, that is just the way it is”

2. Mass
Following the crowd, doing what everybody else does without questioning it. ie finances, paying into pensions, having one source of income, the list goes on. Conformity is people acting like everyone else without knowing why or where they are going. “A wise man makes his own decisions an ignorant man follows public opinion” Chinese Proverb

3 Aspiration
(Desire without action)
Begin to wake up to be do or have more, your spirit is fuller, yearning to express and manifest itself through you.
“One of these days……
“I have been meaning to do that…..
“As soon as the year begins I will go to the gym”
We claim a mental model of perfection but delay – Aspire to – but no action taken. We fail to take deliberate action which is also frustration for everyone around them.
Why, why , why is there desire without action?
Well it is a combination of ignorance and lacking belief we can and are worthy “that type of life is impossible.”

4 Individual
This is where we begin to express our own uniqueness. We begin to take action. “I am writing my book” We are stepping outside our comfort zone into the unknown. Filling the gap between knowing and doing. You start taking action towards your goal and then you hit the terror barrier and are often met with failure, disappointment and challenges from those closest to you. “Why do you work so hard”, Why are you taking such risks in personal growth, “You spent how much money on that course? Etc a nice soft landing! They don’t want to see you hurt, REALLY they are afraid of YOU changing and leaving them behind.

5 Discipline
This is where you give yourself a command and follow through. Keep it inside out, are you willing to pay the price, trade your life for your goal. “I will meet with success”. There is a great reward – new level of awareness – feedback from self confidence.

6 Experience
Real learning , doing and performing your task to the best of your ability, you bring out the best in YOU. Practice will endure efficiency, plant seeds of success and form the habits of doing things failures don’t like to do.

7 Mastery
You have got to stay in control. Every thought is a good investment, everyday is a good investment. Do you wish to succeed? Gain a right understanding and apply the right method. Are you focused on the problem? Focus on the good you desire, not the solution. Stick and study with this every day, listen to self development CD’s, find yourself a mentor, associate with successful people through mastermind groups or network marketing, there are many ways but the most important thing is to start, TAKE THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS YOUR GOAL.

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The miracle is not that there is life within the universe;

the miracle is that there is a universe within life.

The miracle is not that consciousness evolved out of the universe;

the miracle is that the universe evolved out of consciousness.

The miracle is not that the here/now contains a you;

the miracle is that you contain a here/now.

Oh, my ancient companions, wake from your long sleep.

There is so much i have to show you.

*From the Translarian Record, an unfinished manuscript by the author, which chronicles the spread of sentient life throughout the Milky Way galaxy.

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1930 – 1 Ounce of Gold = $20
2010 – 1 Ounce of Gold = $ 1000+
The Amount of Gold stays the same.
The Amount of Dollar has increased.
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF MONEY
1) Government /Central (Fiat currency)
2) Free Money Market (Gold & Silver)
YOU will learn from the Experts, how does that effect us & why we do need to have Gold & Silver !

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This will absolutely blow your mind folks. I have watched it a few times now and it really puts the message across about inflation and whats to come -- hyper inflation. You can take action now and set up your very own gold savings plan to prevent chaos in your own financial world. You can also learn about the largest financial deception and cover up to man kind ever created in human history that 7 billion people are still unaware of. Please share your thoughts and view points.

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• We want to BE, DO and HAVE more in life.
• We want to control our own time.
• We want someone to show us the way to wealth.
• We want to live from savings not debt.
• We want financial security.
• We dream of passing on an inheritance.
• We’re looking for a real way to realize our dreams.
• We want to possess systems to compound out time and labour through Multiple Streams of Income. (MSI’s)

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