Happy to respond Peter

Let me point out again that markets can be manipulated(as we've seen this past year with petrol & gold) but prices in the food stores have been rising, and I fear will steeply after the holidays pass. Keep in mind that decreased purchasing power is another form of inflation. I'd also point out that 20,000 troops have been brought back to the US to quell internal unrest. Can't think of who offhand but members of Congress have recently discussed the likelihood of civil unrest and of course troops in California have recently begun assisting(sic) CHP's roadblocks. The point being "preparations are being made" for something outrageously unAmerican to transpire. Mind you, I hope I, and those that advise me, are terribly wrong, except there are far more indicators than those above. I'm just saying ... everyone oughta think about making some basic preparations. Look at the tent cities developing around the country.

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it." - John Kenneth Galbraith

Anyhow ... I continue to attempt fair warning, there has to be a settling of accounts and I dispute the notion that the long term treasury bond is a good sign when coupled with 1-2% return on CD's and savings accounts. And of course the Feds(central banks all over the world) reducing there discount rates to historic lows. That's madmen trying to temporarily stave off an inevitable catastrophic readjustment. A problem I contend that was created by design by these maniacal monsters. But most of that is beyond most folks willingness to comprehend:

"Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

“Cognitive dissonance theory...has shown how individuals cannot easily dismiss a belief or attitude they hold, even when the attitude is directly contradicted by evidence or events. People will sooner adopt farfetched ideas to explain events than relinquish their preconceptions. In so doing, they avoid having to face the dissonance between what they see and what they have long believed. The dismissal of plain reality can happen when people are confronted by challenges to their ingrained patriotism, their prejudices, or their religious values. Under these circumstances, they may ignore cruelty, hypocrisy, or incompetence, or create elaborate rationalizations rather than challenge the principles espoused by their leaders.” (Cults, p.152) - Marc Galanter

... It is error, and error alone, that needs human support; and whenever men fly to the law or sword to protect their system of religion, and force it upon others, it is evident that they have something in their system that will not bear the light, and stand upon the basis of truth. ...

As for me, I'm with HDT: "Any truth is better than make-believe... rather than love, than money than fame, give me truth."

Hope you folks didn't loose your power, or that it's back on. Given to understand some areas of NH will be without into this weekend.

How about the golden, and quite lovely silence of watching your child sleep Mick! Or walking a field while the snow fly's! Or the sweet silence of prayer. (Perhaps you'd reference that last as meditation.)

Sorry gentlemen, I don't pop in as regular, or as in this case, things slip my mind until it dawns on me I should have expected, or owe, a reply and I do a search. Gotta go ... go new shafts & razors to pick up.

Though I love music Peter, I value the liberty -even of the evil jerks I know- far more.

respects to Peter & Mick

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” —Robert Louis Stevenson