Category: Politics

Diversifying with “Gold Gives Investors the Biggest Advantage” – State Street Global Advisors

From Birch Gold Group

SSGA: Gold Allocation Gives Savers Best Advantage

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: A pro-gold reassessment of savings allocations is on the way, how a Biden presidency could boost gold through inflation, and treasure hunter opts for jail to keep his discovery of gold coins hidden.

State Street Global Advisors: 10% of savings in gold gives investors the biggest advantage

In a recent web seminar held by State Street Global Advisors, two gold experts went over why November’s institutional outflows from the gold market are not only inconsequential for the metal, but also go against what participants can expect from funds moving forward. State Street Global Advisors’ chief gold strategist George Milling-Stanley and World Gold Council’s manager of investment research Adam Perlaky expanded upon the bullish prospects that gold is facing in 2021 and onwards.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – General Patton relieves Allies at Bastogne – 1944

Via History.com

On December 26, General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, during the brutal Battle of the Bulge.

The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive through the Ardennes forest. Bastogne provided a road junction in rough terrain where few roads existed; it would open up a valuable pathway further north for German expansion. The Belgian town was defended by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, which had to be reinforced by troops who straggled in from other battlefields.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Eyes blinded by the fog of things
cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things
cannot hear truth.
Brains bewildered by the whirl of things
cannot think truth.
Hearts deadened by the weight of things
cannot feel truth.
Throats choked by the dust of things
cannot speak truth.”

Harald Bell Wright – The Uncrowned King

 

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The Big Short: Human Style

Submitted by cz

Alison McDowell is a mother and dedicated researcher studying the working parts of the World Economic Forum’s declared “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and the global takeover of industries and public policies by the central banks, multinational corporations, big tech technocrats and billionaire funded foundations.

Our Upside-Down Post-Election World

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via RealClearPolitics.com,

After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?

Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone.

Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks?

The old pre-election truth was that new vaccines take years to develop. The new postelection truth is that it’s no big deal to bring out new vaccines in nine months.

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Is “It’s A Wonderful Life” The Perfect Christmas Film?

There was also this classic – https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/12/26/it-was-a-wonderful-life/

 

Authored by Alexander Larman via The Critic,

This Christmas, more than any other, people will be slumped in front of their televisions, glass of something strong and dark in hand, looking in vain through the schedules to see if anything worthwhile is on. While some may be disappointed at the absence of festive ghost stories, entertainment will usually come down to a few old warhorses that viewers are trying to derive their annual distraction from, with the light and frothy likes of The Holiday and Love Actually vying for attention with Miracle on 34th Street or one of the innumerable versions of A Christmas Carol.

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Christmas Awokenings

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

And so, on Christmas morning, having suffered the night visitations of vexing spirits — or was that just the strange interaction of Zyprexa and Zolpidem — Joe Biden woke up (in a manner of speaking) to find himself transformed. He was no longer dogged by the prospect of being president of the US, but, rather, was convinced he had become the provincial plenipotentiary of a Chinese overseas possession known as Golden Wok West, where CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping can order up any asset for take-out. What a relief, Joe thought, as they brought in his morning meds. Here, now, was a one-horse pony of a different color, Joe mused, chugging down his 5mg of Haldol.

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Pepe Escobar On ‘Political’ Jesus

Authored by Pepe Escobar,

Let’s hit the road in the search for the real Jesus.

Galilee, Year 27: baptized by an itinerant preacher, John the Baptist. That’s when the story really begins. We know virtually nothing of his life till then.

Galilee is ruled by shabby client kings of the Roman empire – first Herod, then his son Herod Antipas. Jesus only enters imperial jurisdiction later, when he moves to Judaea, a Roman province since Year 6.

Galilee is all about agricultural and fishing land, surrounded by way more sophisticated Greeks and Phoenicians. Jesus grows up in a context of simple peasant life; increasing taxes; population explosion; and then non-stop fragmentation of peasant land, causing the proverbial pressures on traditional family life.

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A Short History Of Christmas In America

What is wrong with the picture below? Everything.

Jesus wasn’t born on Dec.25th … or, even in December.  He wasn’t visited by three Kings. Christmas trees had nothing to do with it. He wasn’t born in a barn/stable surrounded by farm animals. He wasn’t laid on a wooden manger.  There was no literal star, or other celestial body, hovering over Bethlehem.  Two gospels conflict whether or not Jesus was even born in Bethlehem.  We don’t know if angels were present at the manger. And until  about 400 A.D., the early church knew absolutely nothing about celebrating Jesus’ birth.

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