Protecting Your Financial Self

For your information, gold above $782 by 3% means $882 - $889 and then on to $1050.
It does not matter if it is next week or next month. It is coming as the price of gold makes its way to $1650.
I have no doubt that $1650 will come. My concern is not that it will not happen, but that I am much too conservative in my long-term price objective since 2000.
Last week’s story is becoming too common to ignore. Keep in mind that all this damage has occurred because of a small part of the gigantic mountain of over the counter derivative paper, which if official figures are correct is only 5% of the total. What do you think the financial landscape would look like if 1/3 of the OTC derivative mountain were to melt? It will.If major international investment banks can be torn apart how can we have faith in the small local institutions that hold most of your ready cash? How about all those retirement plans that prevent you from securing ownership without the need to pay a penalty tax? When I said “This is IT,” it is not something that I take lightly. Never in 49 years in finance have I seen a set of circumstances so challenging to the man in the street.If there is a severe financial challenge to the man in the street, there is possible decimation on the top. Decimation may well be too conservative a statement because that means one out of ten. Right now it looks like 80% of major names have problems from their principle position in the issuance of over the counter derivatives. It should not be a shock because the financial capacity to perform on these instruments depends on the balance sheet of the loser in the transaction. Add to that no clearinghouse financial structure and performance is not improbable but impossible in a crunch.That I am getting at is a simple question. Are you prepared?You would be amazed how little space $1,000,000 in gold coins takes up. $100,000 looks like a small loaf of bread. Now you can see the actual transformation from the US dollar to gold as a currency of choice. It has happened.When gold is purchased as money there is no reason why you should play it as a speculative item trying to buy it cheaply as it may well leave you in the lurch.It becomes more important now to take delivery of whatever investments you have in shares as paper certificates. Whenever a broker tells you it cannot be done it is either self-serving or rank stupidity. Once you do have them in your position DO NOT lose them.The basic goal now is to eliminate intermediaries between your assets and yourself. What do you stand to lose by taking this action, a few percentage points interest, and a tax advantage? You gain the advantage of possession in the financial world that is separating people from billions, probably trillions of dollars. It cannot be contained among the Blue Blood International Investment firms. This is coming our way and you cannot simply weave and duck to avoid it. You need to be your own bank, your own broker and your own central bank.If the once most respected international investment firms are teetering, if not already broke, how can you sit by without taking precautions? You have nothing to lose and your fortune to protect. If there is no need for the actions I am suggesting then simply put it back. No bank will refuse your money if you wish to deposit it. No broker will turn you away if you want to convert your paper certificate back to a transfer agent’s computer entry.
Author:Jim Sinclair http://www.jsmineset.com/

comet 17P/Homes

A most amazing eruption is occurring on comet '17P/Holmes'. The size of this comet was at 17 magnitude on October 24th, then suddenly began to brighten like crazy. Now it has already reached 3rd magnitude and is easily visible to the naked eye as reports from Japan indicate. "Perseus does not look familiar to us (astronomers) due to the bright stellar object now. The comet looks like a bright, yellow star, and only magnification reveals a fuzzy coma around the dusty core." '17P/Holmes' was discovered in 1892 thanks to a similar outburst, and hope is that the further development will be similar now: the coma should expand over time but stay bright for a week or more.

Storms

A central Queensland hospital was damaged and lost power after storms continued to pummel the state for the fifth straight day.An Emergency Management Queensland spokesman said incoming rain caused a blackout at Moura hospital after a roof was blown off.He said the roof came off an elevated walkway between buildings at the hospital. Back-up generators were used as electricians worked to restore power and emergency crews repaired the roof. Falling trees damaged two Moura homes and another at nearby Biloela. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Wide Bay and Burnett areas north of Brisbane at about 7.50pm (AEST) on Thursday. A spokesman said "very dangerous thunderstorms" were detected near Dalby, Bell, Bunya Mountains, Kingaroy and Kilcoy, west of Brisbane - an area that copped a battering on Wednesday night. Twenty-two homes in Jandowae, west of Brisbane, were damaged, with 15 partially losing their roofs and three homes completely without their roofs.A bureau spokesman said a more general severe thunderstorm warning was also current for the Central Coast and Whitsundays, Capricornia in central Queensland, Maranoa and Warrego, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, west of Brisbane, and parts of the Central Highlands and central west.He said golf ball sized hail was reported to have fallen 60km north of Alpha, in the state's central west, at 3.30pm (AEST).The wild storms have been felt all the way into the corridors of power in Queensland.Premier Anna Bligh told state parliament of the "chaos" when an official state function was affected by a lightning strike earlier this week."The first of those storms here in south-east Queensland earlier this week saw 10,000 lightning strikes across the Brisbane region in just a few hours," she said.Ms Bligh told parliament that crews had restored power to more than 160,000 homes and businesses in south-east Queensland since Sunday. "There is always a silver lining, though. We have had some rain, which is great to see," Ms Bligh said. "In the last 24 hours we have seen 19mm into the Wivenhoe Dam and 218mm into North Pine (dam)."

Lismore storm

Extra State Emergency Services (SES) crews are being sent in to help the clean-up effort after hailstorms left a path of destruction across parts of northern NSW.
The SES is racing to deal with about 400 calls for help before more storms which are predicted to hit the area on Wednesday afternoon. An extra 15 crews started arriving in the Lismore area on Tuesday night, with the remainder expected on Wednesday morning.Hailstones, described as being the size of tennis balls, smashed homes and cars during two storms on Tuesday. Lismore was hardest hit when the first storm swept through about 2pm (AEST), followed by another wave of hailstones an hour later. An SES spokesman said crews were dealing with hail damage to roofs and water damage. He said it was too early to estimate the cost of the storms, but there had been a lot of damage. "We need to make sure we get waterproof barriers up if predicted storms come through this afternoon," he said. "There's been a lot of damage to roofs, windows and cars." A school at Lismore asked for SES help after the storms smashed more than 100 of its windows. School holidays meant no students were put at risk by the breakages.
Churches, police stations and hospitals are also on the list of public buildings amaged by the storms.A 70-year-old man, who fell off his roof during the first storm and was taken to hospital in a stable condition, was the only person reported to be injured, a NSW Ambulance spokesman said. Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile arrived at Lismore on Tuesday and a spokesman said he had already seen significant damage to crops outside the city. Mr Vaile is likely to tour the damaged city on Wednesday.

prophecy

New Zealand Maori Elder Warns of Coming Earth Changes
related: Stan's August 1998 report
September 10, 2007 by Karen Lyster
The following story is a true event that happened to me personally. We have all heard about the warnings and prophecies of coming earth changes that could affect all of us if even a small portion of whats been predicted eventuates. Every country has its original people, for America it is the Native Americans, for Australia it is the Aboriginals, for New Zealand it is the Maori. What do these people all have in common? They are spiritually gifted, closely knit people who generally keep to themselves, share their tribal prophesies with very few outsiders and generally lead simpler lives closely tied to the Earth.The story I am about to relay to you involves a Maori Elder who visited me some time ago and shared some of her gifted insights with me. I have a very deep respect for the Maori culture and have found over the years that they have a certain knowledge and understanding that westernised people have somehow lost over the many decades or "improving" ourselves. Could it be that we have lost some vital link to our subconscious mind that the indigenous peoples of this planet have not? Why is it that these people are so much more intune with the natural forces of our planet. One can not but wonder and be amazed that the similarities of these ancient peoples prophecies that seem to carry so many of the same warnings. Have we stepped so far over the line in trying to "civilazise" ourselves that we have become out of tune with the natural harmony we once shared with this planet? This story started on Tuesday the 4th of August 1998, when I was visited by a lady who was a Elder of one of the Maori Tribes. Even though she's probably only about 45, she's a descendent from the Royal Bloodline of the Maori Queen. She has what is called, great "Mana", and although there isn't an English translation for the word, it means that the person has to have great wisdom, earned INCREDIBLE respect, and has abilities like inner visions and intuition. So if you equate her to one the Hopi Elders, you can see what I mean about her presence.
She told me that a few weeks ago she was "called" to go and visit Cape Riangi - which is the furthest most point of the North Island here in New Zealand. She tried getting there three times; but had car trouble and other obstacles "put" in her way; so she returned home back. But again, she was told to go there; and, this time, the "fire in her belly" (as she put it) was far too strong to ignore. She thought it best if she go by bus tour to make sure she got there! Now, when the bus arrived, there was a lighthouse which most of the other tourists went to look at; but, she was drawn to go out to the farthest most point of the Cape... literally the "top" of the North Island. She said she stood on the cliff face and closed her eyes,... letting the cool breezes brush her face. Then, when she opened her eyes, she was looking at a totally different landscape. The sea was completely gone; and there was land as far as her eyes could see. She said it seemed to go on forever. She also felt as it the land itself had "lifted" much higher than it had been previously. After taking it all in, she once again closed her eyes; then opened them once again; and the scene was back to normal.(Of course this fits in well with many predictions which have stated that New Zealand will gain heaps of land and will be joined to Australia .I asked her if the whole of New Zealand would go under the sea before coming back up again; and she held out her hand and made a rolling and twisting motion, saying that, unfortunately, most of the country would go under; but some areas would stay above water Now, before she left, she gave me a big hug and told me that the next morning I would wake up to the news that a dike in China had collapsed killing 100's of people. I woke up the next morning at 8am; turned on the radio; and that's exactly what was being said. I couldn't believe my ears. I rushed to my computer and looked up the news story on the Internet. How could she have been so spot on? How did she know?Because of the significance of what had just happened I emailed Stan Deyo in Australia as I knew he would be interested in hearing what had happened. Over the next few days Stan and I would keep in touch as more of the story unfolded. As it turned out, my contacting Stan was another "link".That link became very apparent two days later then I received another visit by the same Maori Elder, who asked me if I would print out all the data, maps etc from Stan Deyo's website. This included all of Jim Berkland's seismic work who also studied earthquake activity and other earth changes.So she left my home loaded up to the eyeballs with printed matter to take back to the other Elders for them to study. I was amazed that she even knew of Stan Deyo, because these kind of Maori keep VERY much to themselves; and I was told during one of her visits that they had no phone, no TV, no radio, no video. During her second visit she told me that Lake Taupo would "blow" (her words); and, she added, she could take me to nearby places where there were valleys that would be filled with 100's and 100's of bodies just floating there after Taupo blows. Then, she went on with her other explanations of how the whole of New Zealand would be effected with all the twisting and turning it would have to endure (not a pretty thought!). Of course, I asked her when all this would happen and - just like the Hopis - she said "soon, very soon" but she did go a little further than that. She said that there would be an event that was unrelated; but when this event happened, it would be a trigger for many major earth changes.... Again, this was to be in China. Not knowing much about China I didn't know what she was explaining to me until I again contacted Stan with her latest predictions. She told me that in China there was a project that involved creating a dam, that they'd been working on for years, and it was not yet complete. She said work had stopped on it for various reasons; then she told me that up above this "channel" there were 1000's of logs or timber that were perched at the top of this "channel". Furthermore, over time, some had been stolen; but most were still there. She said that soon these logs would come crashing down killing 1000's; and, when this happened, it would be a sign for her people that these Earth changes were about to happen with great intensity. Well since this made no sense to me whatsoever as I wasn't up on the play in China, I emailed Stan and asked him if he knew what she was talking about. Stan replied immediately, telling me that he knew exactly what she was talking about as it was a "trigger" for him as well. It was the Three Gorges Dam Project in China which is to dam the Yangtze River. It will consume over 130,000 acres and stretch some 400 miles along the Yangtze. The trees are being cut and have been stockpiled for later uses including dikes. The Green group, the US Gov't and the World Bank - ALL have tried to stop this project as an environmental nightmare. It has displaced 2 million Chinese from their homes. Well, when I received this confirmation in from Stan I really was shocked. Could this come true, was the Maori Elder correct? She certainly was 100% correct about the other prediction she'd given me. Time will tell if she is right about the second one. We really are living in strange times.
http://www.wovoca.com/prophecy-maori-earth-changes.htm

Change and evolution~ascension

Is "all this Ascension stuff" for real, or is it just the imbecile
fantasy of people deeply divorced from reality? Here is what the
media never tells you, at least not all at once. We all know that the Earth is experiencing global warming and other changes, whether the petroleum giants like it or not. Just read the headlines.
What we may NOT know is the following:
SUN: The Sun's magnetic field is over 230 percent stronger now than it was at the beginning of the 1900s, and its overall energetic activity has sizably increased, creating a frenzy of activity that continues to embarrass NASA's official predictions. VENUS: Venus is now glowing in the dark, as is Jupiter's moon Io.
EARTH: In the last 30 years, Earth's icecaps have thinned out by as much as 40 percent. Quite inexplicably, just since 1997 the structure of the Earth has shifted from being slightly more egg-shaped, or elongated at the poles, to more pumpkin-shaped, or flattened at the poles. No one at NASA has even bothered to try to explain this yet. MARS: The icecaps of Mars noticeably melted just within one year,
causing 50-percent changes in surface features. Atmospheric density had risen by 200 percent above previous observations as of 1997.JUPITER: Jupiter has become so highly energized that it is now surrounded by a visibly glowing donut tube of energy in the path of the moon Io. The size of Jupiter's magnetic field has more than doubled since 1992. SATURN: Saturn's polar regions have been noticeably brightening, and its magnetic field strength increasing. URANUS: According to NASA's Voyager II space probe, Uranus and Neptune both appear to have had recent magnetic pole shifts – 60
degrees for Uranus and 50 for Neptune. NEPTUNE: Neptune has become 40 percent brighter in infrared since 1996, and is fully 100-percent brighter in certain areas. Also, Neptune's moon Triton has had a "very large percentage increase" in atmospheric pressure and temperature, comparable to a 22-degree Fahrenheit increase on Earth.
PLUTO: As of September 2002, Pluto has experienced a 300-percent increase in its atmospheric pressure in the last 14 years, while also becoming noticeably darker in color.Everything you have just read is referenced from mainstream media sources, and the full list of relevant links can be found within chapter eight of Divine Cosmos. The whole key to mass media control is to ensure that these facts are never seen all at the same time. It becomes "all too weird" once we add in the ever-increasingly
stressful socio-political events on Earth, such as a "perpetual war against terrorism," along with the fulfillment of many other ancient prophecies, including those of the Judeo-Christian Bible. When this solar-system- wide process is complete, estimated to be within the timeframe of 2010-2013, we can expect an "Omega Point" event that is literally "beyond our wildest dreams." The changes in the Solar System are only the more obvious and physical result of these changes, where the energy of consciousness itself is being upgraded, causing mass evolution to occur.