No. Really no. Please tell me you didn't believe that.

Here's a palate cleanser for Barry:

This is from my buddy Cowboy Blob from last weekend. I haven't done a match for months now. If I could find any ammo for sale, I might be interested again come cooler weather.

I was at Walmart yesterday. Their pistol and rifle ammo case is *serious* slim pickins. Not a damn thing worth buying. I bought their last box of 12 ga. 00 buckshot and a couple more boxes of #7 shot, but that was it.

Now if someone were to put together a shotgun only match, I could participate.

Yes yes, I know there are online stores that sometimes sell pistol and rifle ammo. But my 7.62x39 has gone up over 50% when it can even be found, and I haven't even tried to price my .45 lately.

(lyrics modified by Desert Cat...)

When are you gonna come home
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you could hold me forever
I signed up for life with you
But I'm not a bottle that you can drain dry
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

(chorus)
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dark clouds are starting to howl
You can't lock me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old coyote woods
Hunting the jackalope herd
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plans
It'll take you a couple of Pabst Blue Ribbons
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a prayer
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your mind is not your own
Your heart sweats, your body shakes
Another kiss is what it takes

You cant sleep, you cant eat
There's no doubt, you're in deep
Your throat is tight, you cant breathe
Another kiss is all you need

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
Yeah

Its closer to the truth to say you cant get enough, you
Know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

You see the signs, but you cant read
You're runnin' at a different speed
You heart beats in double time
Another kiss and you'll be mine, a one track mind

You can't be saved
Oblivion is all you crave
If there's some left for you
You don't mind if you do

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
Yeah

Its closer to the truth to say you cant get enough, you
Know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love

Guitar solo (once around)

Your lights are on, but you're not home
Your will is not your own
You're heart sweats and teeth grind
Another kiss and you'll be mine

Whoa, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh
Yeah

Its closer to the truth to say you cant get enough, you
Know you're

Gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love
Might as well face it, you're addicted to love

Love addicts--40 questions
Love Addicts Anonymous

Woe is me, for I am fearfully messed up...

That's what she wants. Just some dolt to do her bidding.

"Come fix my shit and then get out of my life!"

What I gotta do to make you love me?
What I gotta do to make you care?
What do I do when lightning strikes me?
And I wake to find that you're not there?

What I gotta do to make you want me?
What I gotta do to be heard?
What do I say when it's all over?
Sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation.
And it's getting more and more absurd.
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over?
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word.

What do I do to make you want me?
What I gotta do to be heard?
What do I say when it's all over?
Sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation.
And it's getting more and more absurd.
It's sad, so sad
Why can't we talk it over?
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Yeh. Sorry

What I gotta do to make you love me?
What I gotta do to be heard?
What do I do when lightning strikes me?
What have I got to do?
What have I got to do?
When sorry seems to be the hardest word.


..............................................

And you've spent years. You've wasted years, on a vain hope, that things might change for the better, if only you tried hard enough to please her, if only she could be made to see how cruel and insensitive she can be.

She cannot see. The very thing that makes it impossible for her to love you is the same thing that keeps her from seeing herself. Oh she thinks she sees. But she does not, and cannot. Her ability to perceive the world as it really is, is skewed. And it is also why she can never be happy. Not with you, not with anyone else, and especially not alone. Not really. Not for long.

And you. Hopeless dreamer. Naive fool. You, blinded for decades by your own syndrome that makes "change" an object of terror. You hold on, long long after normal men would have fled, long after anyone even a little bit less naive and trusting and pathologically optimistic would have cut their losses and ran for the hills. Ranting, begging for understanding, talking until you are blue in the face, and she has backfilled her ears with concrete and rolled them up hours ago. You are barking up an elm tree, hoping for apples. You are peering down a well, looking for water, but all you see is that vast pool of deep, bitter pain that was there when you met her, and was there in her from years before.

Oh, but together with the rest of your siblings you have that messiah complex. You can make it better, you said. You can make her happy, you said. "Yes, we can." You knew it in your heart. You just had to try hard enough.

But you were wrong.

And now you have a sad, pathetic old Elton John running through your head, as you muse the raw spot in your heart where decades of delusion used to reside, where you used to hide the hurt behind the mistaken belief that "someday it will get better".

It won't. It can't. Accept it and...move on. Yes, I know those are hard, hard words for you. You *like* things to stay the same. Sure you want them to improve, but dear God, not at the expense of a reboot and starting over!!

Still, how much more proof do you need? What else has to happen? Ten years of "marriage counseling" and the only conclusion was, you're an asshole and she's a princess. She's good, you know. She told you years ago about how counseling with her mother when she was a teen ended when her mother realized that she was just manipulating the therapist and telling him things he wanted to hear. So what then? You're not even as perceptive as your mother-in-law? It is part of what is so maddening about dealing with people with her disorder who are so very capable of twisting reality around to fit their own version of it. They are fully convinced themselves. They nearly are able to convince those around them, and make the people around them begin to question their own sanity.

Years and years you listened to her rant and rave, hoot and holler against you in the next room, telling the counselor of your many failings. And when your turn came, the counselor told you how to mollify her, how to placate her, and how, in her damaged state, you needed to be the one to bend and change and give her grace.

Yeah, that's the thing to tell someone with a huge aversion to positive cathartic reordering of one's life, and a deep-seated need to make someone else happy. "Let me hang on that lover's cross for you some more, baby."

Another whole decade more, as it turned out.

...........................................

I can't fully bring myself to accept all of this. But I need to write it out, lest I forget and fall back into the ditch that I have been crawling through for far too long.

But as I see more, I begin to think there can hardly be a more toxic combination that to match a man with vestigal Asperger's issues to a woman with borderline Borderline Personality Disorder. It gives the woman someone who won't leave her, despite the pain she causes him with her toxic personality and lack of love/compassion, and it gives the man someone who may threaten to leave him when she's black, but ultimately stays with him when she switches back to white, despite his social awkwardness, relational cluelessness and occasional ranting meltdowns.

But in the midst of it all is a bloody field where dreams are dashed and hurts are multiplied like locusts descending upon a pleasant garden.

When do you man-up and say it is not worth it? When do you pull up, take stock of the wreckage of your wasted life, and find a way, even if alone, to the end of it in peace?

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August 14th, 2009 at 10:47 am
# Wendall Dennis said:

Greetings. I enjoyed the article. I, a seventy five years old retired carpenter; having lived in the real world of trading my time for my living for about sixty of those years, I didn’t need the graphs. First A question, then a commentary.

If the United States is a “Christian” nation, as is widely claimed, why was the quicksand of debt chosen as the foundation of its government? Per Luke 6: verses 48/49, the foundation is the most critical component of any structure: Quote:

Chapter 6 verse 48: He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

Chapter 6 verse 49: But, like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.” The Answer To The Question Is: They Didn’t !

Though this debt based system was considered and rejected at the close of the Revolution, one failed attempt followed another, until, with the passage of the Federal Reserve legislation in 1913, the bankers succeeded in altering the original foundation.

At that time, Great Britain’s royal system was instituted, with the goal of, over time, securing title to all wealth, whether individually or collectively owned. Income, occupation, and business taxes, in conjunction with debt based “money,” has since, either confiscated, or encumbered our wealth, as it is created.

To our detriment, the harder and more efficiently we work, the more expeditiously the plan progresses. We are literally forging the shackles with which we are bound; the current bailout completes the process.

While our “leaders” are visualizing the restructure of irredeemable debt, I am realistically acknowledging an unsustainable world created by sacrificing our future, on the alter of manufactured reality, institutionalized debt, and calculatingly induced, mass stupidity. Sprawling suburbs, composed of houses so large that the occupants can no longer afford to either heat or cool them, (even if they could pay for them) and located at a distance precluding the expense of a daily commute.

An increasing number of people are finally acknowledging the Federal Reserve to be the most lavish and successful Ponzie scam the world has ever seen.

While screaming for its abolishment, apparently few, if any, appear cognizant of the fact that our manufacturing industry, our wealth producer, has been totally supplanted by the law & currency manipulation industry, wealth consumer, extraordinaire.

“If You Don’t Work You Don’t Eat,” This, the pronouncement of Captain John Smith, in 1607 saved the Jamestown Colony from starvation. Four hundred years ago, virtually all work existed at the productive level, thus, specifics were unneeded. Not so today: although productive is assumed, the facts are, work now exists in three categories: productive, non-productive & counter productive.
The New York City, and the Washington DC, law and currency manipulation “work” force as well, are of the counter productive variety! Self preservation is the “Feds” sole mission; the obligation, and sole purpose of the Law & Currency Manipulation workforce, is feeding its ravenous apatite!

An industry numbering in the multi-millions of employees, indeed skyscrapers crammed with computers and people, all dedicated to keeping the records of what is increasingly being recognized as a centuries old, now world wide criminal empire. An empire encompassing every phase of criminality known to man, from extortion to murder, (war) while masquerading as lawful government!

While the foundations of the skyscrapers housing the human and technological machinery is grounded on bedrock, the foundation of the structure upon which our very lives are dependent, is “grounded” on the quicksand of lies, mystery, obfuscation, coercion, and death & suffering beyond measure.

Most everything produced by either, is relatively detrimental to my well being, and that of multi-millions of other Americans. A point in fact, if either of these “work forces” vanished tomorrow, the nation as a whole, would benefit from their absence.

Thanks to the success of their “work” at destroying our domestic industry, our wages are stagnant, or non existent; our youth have not been instructed in productive work, nor even its necessity, and we are now totally dependent upon the under compensated labor of millions of foreign citizenry, for our very survival.

The worth of the Federal Reserve Note has steadily declined since the 1960‘s. Since the beginning of the 21st century, that decline has accelerated markedly, the inflation created by the proposed bailout, totally destroys the remaining perception of its value. This predicament launches a real crisis.

Accepted data reveals the average journey of every meal enjoyed by the residents of, or visitors to NYC, and many other eastern cities, including DC, to be 1500 miles. When the dethroned US dollar, no longer trades for oil, and either the lack of, or cost of fuel idles the trucks now transporting the food in, and the waste out, neither NYC, DC nor the many other currently “bustling” cities, are going to be very pleasant places to either live or visit.

Our profit based criminal justice “system;” government imposed insurance and taxation “enterprises,” and a “financial” (read loan) industry composed of six hundred trillion dollars of debt derivatives, or, is that depravities, constitute a very small example of “businesses,” supporting an army of well paid lawyers, all devoted to the servicing of the “Fed.”

Justice cost money, how much can you afford,“ personifies our mercantile legal system. This monopolistic replacement for our system of common law, is comprised of a nest of lawyers, (government “ordained” priest of the system) with the duty of both writing and interpreting the “law,” thus, symbiotically preying on those citizens requiring rescue, from their manufactured “need.”

As supported by history, extending into the mist of antiquity: At the point that a governments survival has evolved to the plunder stage, the cost of acquisition, soon exceeds the value it returns; the government/nation dies in bankruptcy.

Thank you for your work, and thoughts.

Wendall Dennis

Thank *you* Mr. Dennis. You've helped clarify in my mind just who is the harlot of Revelation: the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and perhaps the central banks of some other major nations--in short the world banking system and the people who run it, together with the Occult Religion that guides their actions.

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth. Rev 17:18

Who rules us today? Democratically elected leaders, or those who wield absolute fiat power over the financial world?

After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. With a mighty voice he shouted:
"Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!
She has become a home for demons
and a haunt for every evil[a] spirit,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.
For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
for her sins are piled up to heaven,
and God has remembered her crimes.
Give back to her as she has given;
pay her back double for what she has done.
Mix her a double portion from her own cup.
Give her as much torture and grief
as the glory and luxury she gave herself.
In her heart she boasts,
'I sit as queen; I am not a widow,
and I will never mourn.'
Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her:
death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,
for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

"When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her. Terrified at her torment, they will stand far off and cry:
" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
O Babylon, city of power!
In one hour your doom has come!'

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more— cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.

"They will say, 'The fruit you longed for is gone from you. All your riches and splendor have vanished, never to be recovered.' The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out:
" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls!
In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!'

"Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, 'Was there ever a city like this great city?' They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and mourning cry out:
" 'Woe! Woe, O great city,
where all who had ships on the sea
became rich through her wealth!
In one hour she has been brought to ruin!
Rejoice over her, O heaven!
Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets!
God has judged her for the way she treated you.' "

Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:
"With such violence
the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
never to be found again.
The music of harpists and musicians, flute players and trumpeters,
will never be heard in you again.
No workman of any trade
will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
will never be heard in you again.
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
Your merchants were the world's great men.
By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
In her was found the blood of prophets and of the saints,
and of all who have been killed on the earth." Rev 18

Mainstream Media Economic Recovery Propaganda, False Profits and Some “Surprises to the Upside�
Politics / Mainstream Media Jul 31, 2009 - 04:35 PM

By: The_Gold_Report

Politics

Best Financial Markets Analysis Article321gold.com founder Bob Moriarty never fails to get a rise out of The Gold Report readers, simultaneously raising hackles and awareness. In this interview, his fifth with us since last November, he rails against continuing business, media and government shenanigans. He prophesizes bankruptcy, riots and revolution. But he also sees a bit of silver lining in the thunderheads, predicting “a lot of surprises to the upside” in the resources sector.

The Gold Report: Just reading the papers today, we’re seeing lots of interesting news. We see GM has come out of bankruptcy, we see Goldman Sachs, BofA and Citigroup all recording record profits. We’re even hearing, in some cases and some places that home sales are increasing. What is going on?

Bob Moriarty: That’s an example of how total the distortion is in the news media in the United States. First of all, 96% of the news media is controlled by six people. Their vested interest is not in telling the truth; their vested interest is in selling products. What we call the news media is really better termed a propaganda media. It’s all propaganda.

Let’s take, for example, year-on-year railway shipping of automobiles is down 49%. Nobody in creation could honestly believe that GM is in better shape now than they were a few weeks ago. Coming out of bankruptcy is a legal maneuver; it’s not a financial maneuver. They’re out of bankruptcy; it’s perfectly true and perfectly meaningless at the same time. The government now controls GM.

As negative as I am toward American management in business today, the only people who are far worse would be government bureaucrats. For example, in mid-July I saw Paulson’s testimony about how they threatened bankruptcy when BofA’s negotiations with Merrill Lynch almost came unglued. Bank of America President Lewis didn’t take care of his shareholders, which he has a legal obligation to do. He pandered to the government and Paulson said, “We’ll just replace you.” Since when did we become a communist society or socialist society? It’s no longer capitalism; it’s government control of industry.

On one hand, we’ve got the financial system totally controlled by Goldman Sachs. On the other hand, we’ve got government control of Chrysler and GM and major segments of the economy. We have the worst of all possible worlds.

As to the record profits you mention, we’re in a depression. If these guys are making money, it’s because they’re manipulating the markets and stealing from the taxpayers. There’s a difference.

TGR: We have this big push for more government oversight and if we already are allowing banks to steal money, what will additional government oversight going to give us?

BM: Congress gave these guys the ability to steal. There’s been something like $14 trillion total in government guarantees and loans and giveaways. In 5, 10 or 20 years from now, we’re going to look back and say this was absolutely unbelievable. That money is simply evaporating. The government talks about the deficit going over $1 trillion dollars this year. In the first six months, the actual debt of the United States increased $2 trillion. On a $14 trillion economy, the debt is going to go up $4 trillion this year. That’s never happened before in history. It’s just absolutely amazing.

TGR: Speaking of debt, as you probably know, California is not hinged on either financial industries or the auto industry, but it’s been paying government contracts with IOUs.

BM: California is a disaster waiting to happen. It could fire every state employee and still not balance its budget. California has the eighth largest economy in the world and although they threw together a budget at the 11th hour, the prospect of having to declare bankruptcy still looms.

One thing that no government bureaucrat will do at any level in the United States today is decrease spending. We’re bankrupt; we can’t afford to pay the debt that we already have. Obama is just expanding power and size of government enormously. What we must do at all levels is reduce government spending and these guys don’t want to do it. The government always wants to increase their power, not decrease it. The way they gain power and votes is to spend money. So they say there’s no alternative.

TGR: Isn’t it true that no U.S. state can declare bankruptcy?

BM: Oh, of course, they can declare bankruptcy. Cities go bankrupt all the time; so can states. We have 37 states that are not going to be able to balance their budgets.

This is so simple and it’s been happening for millennia. Periodically you go through a time where there’s too much debt. You’ve got to wipe out debt and start all over again. Nobody wants to admit that. California’s not going to pay their debts, and neither is the United States. They can’t.

TGR: Thinking about potential bankruptcy and the debt of the Federal government, one of your common themes is that there will be riots in the streets. You talk about this on an international level, but you also apparently expect it to also happen in the U.S. So far, it hasn’t happened. Do you think part of that is because social legislation is making the U.S. population complacent?

BM: I don’t think so. I will say the U.S. population is complacent to just an incredible degree. We saw a lot of attention focused on Iran over charges of malfeasance in their elections. The last two presidential elections prior to Obama coming in were absolutely stolen by the Republicans. It was so crooked, it was unbelievable the American population didn’t do anything. But when I’ve talked about rioting in the streets in the United States, you can look and see what’s happening in China right now. Everybody in the world is sitting on a powder keg and it would take very little to ignite that and it absolutely is going to happen. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It just means I’m wrong with the timing, but my call was for this summer and we’ve still got some summer to go.

TGR: Shifting from social unrest to financial unrest, when we last interviewed you, you were talking about the $600 trillion of outstanding derivatives and the potential—if it begins to unravel—of putting heavy selling pressure on the financial markets. Do you see that beginning to happen?

BM: Absolutely. The big crash that took place from last July through November was unusual because it had far more to do with unwinding or deleveraging of derivatives. For the first time in about 10 years, derivatives actually went down. I’ve been making the comment since 2001 that derivatives were a financial time bomb and the bigger they grew, the bigger the explosion was going to be.

Here are the numbers you need to focus on. According to the latest figures put out by the BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce), derivatives decreased by about $100 trillion from July through December 2008. But for derivatives to deleverage $100 trillion, it wiped out $50 trillion worth of net asset value. For us to knock that $600 trillion to something more manageable—like $50 trillion—could wipe out $250-$275-$300 trillion worth of assets. There isn’t $300 trillion worth of assets in the whole world.

So the simple explanation is that there is far more debt in the world than assets to cover it. We have not come to grips with that. We’ve not seen the bottom of the stock market and I believe there will be a massive deleveraging starting shortly. The bankruptcy of CIT or the situation in California could well be what starts it.

TGR: Do we necessarily have to unwind all of the debt? Can’t we live peacefully with some amount of derivatives?

BM: No. With derivatives, people bet on things that make no financial sense. There’s nothing gained financially. It’s a giant crap game, where everybody’s playing with Monopoly money, and the game is rigged. I’ve been saying that for years. I’m the last guy in the world to believe in conspiracy theories, but Goldman Sachs just brought criminal charges against one of their programmers for stealing a software program that allowed them to front-run their own customers. I think 87% of their trades were profitable and they were doing $100 million a day in profit. They were stealing from their own customers.

TGR: How is it they’re suing this programmer and not the management?

BM: The programmer stole the code and was going to take it to another company. But in their criminal complaint, they said the software would allow someone to manipulate the stock market—that the software was designed to manipulate the stock market.

TGR: If the papers are filed and they’re admitting that the software is designed to front run and cause abnormal profits, why isn’t someone bringing Goldman Sachs to court?

BM: Goldman Sachs owns our government. The government of the United States is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.

TGR: How do we break that link?

BM: We go bankrupt, we have riots, we have a revolution. You hang people from the nearest yardarm.

TGR: Your conversation about the riots and the bankrupt and the further crash in the stock market goes back to something you’ve been saying all along—to invest in gold and silver. In fact, you suggested that the percentage of gold and silver in investors’ portfolios should equal the probability of financial collapse they expect. You’re talking about 100% probability for financial collapse, and the last time we talked, you were 100% in gold and silver and various forms of it. But your recent writings suggest that you’re moving out into some other sectors now. What’s the story?

BM: I was a little bit inaccurate in what I said. Here’s a more accurate way of putting it. The very most important thing that anyone can do for themselves and for their family is to have an insurance policy of physical gold, physical silver or physical platinum. Those are insurance policies. Once you get past the insurance policy, the very safest things that you can invest in right now are producing gold or silver mines, near-term producing gold mines or energy.

The scary thing about energy is that it goes up and down. Natural gas right now is an absolute disaster. Nobody is making money in natural gas. We could still have more declines in the price of natural gas and oil. However, we have passed peak oil. Demand has continued to increase even with a depression and we’ve got not only peak oil, but we’ve got peak food.

Potash is interesting. Potash hasn’t come down very much. It got up to about $1,000 a ton and it’s about $550 a ton now. There are three or four or five really good potash companies and I think they’re very attractive.

But you want to invest in real things, tangibles that produce something that is valuable in real-world Economics 101—silver, gold, platinum, potash, oil and natural gas. So when I talk about gold being insurance against financial collapse, all of the rest are, too, to varying degrees.

TGR: Thank you for clarifying that. You mentioned your focus on producing or near-term producing gold and silver. You’ve been saying this all along, and in fact, we give you credit for calling a couple of great companies in this sector. One is Evolving Gold (TSX.V:EVG), which just this week has gone up 225%. You also called Minco Silver Corp. (TSX: MSV).

BM: Those are not great predictions on the part of Bob Moriarty. The stock market got absolutely creamed last October and November, so hundreds of stocks were up hundreds of percent. That said, I really like Minco and Evolving Gold. I like Passport Metals Inc. (TSX-V:PPI.V) in potash. I went to see Great Panther Resources (TSX:GPR) and Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX:EDR) (NYSE.A:EXK) earlier this month. These are producing companies with good management and those are exactly what you want to be buying. I also saw Silvermex Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: SMR) on that trip.

TGR: What’s new with these companies?

BM: I was the first person to ever write about both Endeavour and Great Panther, and I’ve reported on them since then. I’ll be following up on the reports that I did a couple of years ago. I’d never been to Silvermex before. Interestingly enough, it’s run by the same management of Timmins Gold Corp. (TSX.V:TMM). But I am extremely biased as anybody who knows me knows and I love Mexico. I think it’s a great mining environment.

TGR: Any others on your radar?

BM: I just recently visited Hawthorne Gold Corp. (TSX.V:HGC), too, a near-term producer in Canada. They own a mill in Jade City, BC, and they’re going back into production. Pediment Gold Corp. (TSX:PEZ) (OTCBB:PEZGF) (FSE:P5E) came out with an announcement in mid-July that they’re going to get started on a drill program at their gold project in Sonora. I want them to do what they’re doing; I just want them to do it faster. Timmins is on track. They’ll be producing gold either the third quarter or fourth quarter, good management, good project. They’re financed now. And these are all kind of things that you want to be looking at.

TGR: Are there any other companies that you’d like to point out as potential rising stars?

BM: I came across a really interesting company that’s very attractive called Commerce Resources Corp. (TSX.V:CCE) (PK SHEETS:CMRZF) It has the world’s next tantalum and niobium project; it’s still an exploration play at this point.

TGR: Any more?

BM: Actually, there are hundreds of gold companies, silver companies, resource companies selling very cheaply. They are cheaper than they’ve ever been relative to the price of gold and silver and that creates good opportunity. Gold is very cheap at $940, silver is pretty cheap at $13.40.

But it’s important to understand that even though prices have come down, the supply of commodities has dwindled faster than demand has decreased, so we could see explosions in the price of copper or lead or zinc or niobium or tantalum or silver or gold. There will be a lot of surprises to the upside. Shares of resource companies are still at record lows, so you could see lots of companies go up 1,000%. Evolving Gold is one of my favorites. It got down to 14 cents in November and has been trading around $1.80 recently.

TGR: With supply falling faster than the demand, what other metals should we be watching for surprises?

BM: All of them. We’re all familiar with the concept that demand for metals goes down when you go into a depression. That’s absolutely true. Rail car shipments of metals in the United States are down 40%. But the key is a lot of these mines have high-cost operations, and when the price of metal goes down, they just put the mines into care and maintenance. So the surprise in the metals will be a surprise to the upside.

TGR: When do you expect all of the government’s infusion of currency into the system to produce inflation?

BM: Everybody is talking about deflation. We don’t have deflation. Housing prices may be down, but we have inflation and it’s a lot higher than most people realize. Ignoring the reported numbers because any government numbers today are fantasy, what do you suppose the core inflation rate is today? What do you feel from your experience?

TGR: I would say not quite double digits.

BM: You called it very well. I’ve told people for years that their own experience is as good as or better than anything else. John Williams from shadowstats.com is saying that inflation is close to 9.5%. That’s what the real numbers are. We have a lot of inflation right now and it’s only going to get worse.

TGR: But at the same time, aren’t a lot of the discount stores in essence keeping prices capped?

BM: They are. The opportunities are shocking now. It’s extraordinary. I’m just knocked out when I go to the stores and see the number of items on sale.

That said, though, the consumer is broke. If you don’t have the money, it doesn’t make any difference if there are sales going on or not. But for the core items, I see a lot of things going up. I just sent a book, interestingly enough, overnight from Florida to Colorado. For a five-pound book, it cost me $42. I was in absolutely shock. I thought it would be $10 or $15 or maybe $20 tops.

TGR: Any parting comments?

BM: There are opportunities, as I said, but we are not out of the woods. The economy is not recovering. Unemployment is still shooting through the roof and things are going to get far worse before they get better. We have another crash coming this fall.

TGR: We look forward to one day when we say things are looking up.

BM: We’re going to have to smarten up first. We can’t keep doing incredibly stupid things like all these recovery programs. They’re nothing but giveaways for the vested interests.

DISCLOSURE: Bob Moriarty: I personally and/or my family own the following companies mentioned in this interview:Evolving Gold, Minco Silver, Passport Metals,Pediment. At 321gold.com we receive money for advertising from the following companies: Evolving Gold, Minco Silver, Endeavour Silver, Great Panther, Passport Metals, Pediment, Timmins, Commerce Resources.

Wanting to give others a foundation for investing in resource stocks, Bob and Barb Moriarty brought 321gold.com to the Internet almost nine years ago, and later added a second resource site, 321energy.com, which coves oil, natural gas, gasoline, coal, solar, wind and nuclear energy. Both sites feature articles, editorial opinions, pricing figures and updates on the current events affecting both sectors. Before his Internet career, Bob was a Marine F-4B pilot with more than 820 missions in Vietnam. A Captain at age 22, he was one of the most highly decorated pilots in the war.

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