Rush To Safety: Americans Buy Nearly Half a Billion Dollars Of Gold and Silver In January

							Rush To Safety: Americans Buy Nearly Half a
Billion Dollars Of Gold and Silver In January
Mac Slavo
SHTFPlan.com
Jan 31, 2013




While public officials may be ignoring the continued deterioration of our economy, job losses to the
tune of hundreds of thousands of people weekly, and the unprecedented demand for government
emergency support services like unemployment insurance and food assistance, Americans who sense
uncertainty in the air are flocking to the safety of physical resources.
Our first point of interest is a recent report from the Federal Reserve that indicates some $114 billion
dollars in cash was withdrawn from the nation’s largest banks in the last thirty days. Those holding
their money at bailed out financial institutions are understandably concerned because the government’s
$250,000 deposit insurance guarantee program, originally implemented to restore confidence in the
wake of the 2008 financial crisis, expired at the end of 2012. That and the US fiscal situation has never
been worse, with one Obama official recently having said the solution to the country’s woes is to
simply kill the dollar.
This suggests investors and cash savers are no longer confident in the purported safety of the country’s
“too-big-to-fail” institutions.
The next obvious question then is, “where did this money go?”
Part of the mystery may have been unraveled when the US Mint released its latest sales and inventory
report.
According to the mint, investors purchased nearly half a billion dollars in gold and silver in the
last 30 days. There was, in fact, so much money shifting into physical precious metals in January that
the mint was actually forced to cease operations because they couldn’t meet demand.

A massive 7.4 million Silver Eagles were purchased from the U.S. Mint in January,
considerably higher than the previous record from early 2011.




After halting Silver coin production/sales for over a week, the Mint re-opened yesterday
and demand once again surged.

Having almost doubled from the first week in January, there remains two more days before
the book is closed on January’s sales.

At 140,000 ounces, the Mint has also sold the most ounces of gold in January in almost three
years, suggesting the rising ‘currency wars’ are stoking people’s ongoing rotation from
paper-to-physical assets as their ‘wealth’ slowing loses its value.


With a Silver Eagle trading at around $31 per ounce and the gold spot price at near all time highs of
$1650, the US Mint saw some $460 million dollars shift into precious metals in the month of January
alone.
What’s equally as interesting, and perhaps a harbinger of the coming chaos, is that the People’s
Republic of China is also shifting a large amount of its cash reserves into physical resource based
investments that include agriculture, energy, and precious metals, a move that has caused confusion
among experts at the United Nations.
With the political situation in this country rapidly dwindling because of government interference on all
levels, a recession for 2013 already baked into the cake, and aglobal economy on the brink of collapse,
there is one primary motivating factor driving money into gold and silver.
Uncertainty.
As we’ve seen recently with shortages in emergency food rations and supplies,firearms and magazines,
and now gold and silver, Americans are no longer confident in the stability of the system as a whole,
and they are diversifying their assets intophysical resources that will retain value should the global
financial, economic, monetary, and geo-political systems come unhinged.
END THE FEDERAL RESERVE NOW!!!!
The Linchpin Lie: How Global Collapse Will
Be Sold To The Masses
Brandon Smith
Alt Market
Jan 31, 2013




In our modern world there exist certain institutions of power. Not government committees, alphabet
agencies, corporate lobbies, or even standard military organizations; no, these are the mere “middle-
men” of power. The errand boys. The well paid hitmen of the global mafia. They are not the
strategists or the decision makers.
Instead, I speak of certain institutions which introduce the newest paradigms. Who write the
propaganda. Who issue the orders from on high. I speak of the hubs of elitism which have initiated
nearly every policy mechanism of our government for the past several decades. I am talking about the
Council On Foreign Relations, the Tavistock Institute, the Heritage Foundation (a socialist organization
posing as conservative), the Bilderberg Group, as well as the corporate foils that they use to enact
globalization, such as Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Carlyle Group, etc.
Many of these organizations and corporations operate a revolving door within the U.S. government.
Monsanto has champions, like Donald Rumsfeld who was on the board of directors of its Searle
Pharmaceuticals branch, who later went on to help the company force numerous dangerous products
including Aspartame through the FDA. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have a veritable merry-go-
round of corrupt banking agents which are appointed to important White House and Treasury positions
on a regular basis REGARDLESS of which party happens to be in office. Most prominent politicians
are all members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization which has openly admitted on
multiple occasions that their goal is the destruction of U.S. sovereignty and the formation of a “one
world government” or “supranational union” (their words, not mine).
However, one organization seems to
rear its ugly head at the forefront of
the most sweeping mass propaganda
operations of our time, and has been
linked to the creation of the most
atrocious military methodologies,
including the use of false flag
events. I am of course referring to
the Rand Corporation, a California
based “think tank” whose influence
reaches into nearly every sphere of
our society, from politics, to war, to
entertainment.
The Rand Corporation deals in what
I would call “absolute gray”. The
goal of the group from its very
inception was to promote a social
atmosphere of moral ambiguity in
the name of personal and national priority. They did this first through the creation of “Rational Choice
Theory”; a theory which prescribes that when making any choice, an individual (or government) must
act as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at an action that maximizes personal advantage.
Basically, the ends justify the means, and moral conscience is not a factor to be taken seriously if one
wishes to be successful.
Hilariously, rational choice theory has been attacked in the past by pro-socialist (collectivist) critics as
“extreme individualism”; a philosophy which gives us license to be as “self serving” as possible while
feeling patriotic at the same time. In reality, the socialists should have been applauding Rand
Corporation all along.
What Rand had done through its propaganda war against the American people was to infuse the exact
culture of selfishness needed to push the U.S. towards the socialist ideal. At the onset of any
communist or national socialist society (sorry socialists, but they do indeed come from the same
collectivist mindset), the masses are first convinced to hand over ultimate power to the establishment in
order to safeguard THEMSELVES, not others. That is to say, the common collectivist man chooses to
hand over his freedoms and participate in totalitarianism not because he wants what is best for the
                                     world, but because he wants what is best for himself, and he
                                     believes servitude to the system will get him what he wants with as
                                     little private sacrifice as possible (you know, except for his soul…).

                                     The psychologist Carl Jung notes in his observations of
                                     collectivism in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia that most
                                     citizens of those nations did not necessarily want the formation of a
                                     tyrannical oligarchy, but, they went along with it anyway because
                                     they feared for their own comfort and livelihoods. Many a German
                                     supported the Third Reich simply because they did not want to lose
                                     a cushy job, or a steady paycheck, or they liked that the “trains ran
                                     on time”. Socialism is by far the most selfish movement in history,
                                     despite the fact that they claim to do what they do “for the greater
                                     good of the greater number”.
Rand also used Rational
Choice Theory as a means
to remove questions of
principle from the debate
over social progress.
Rational Choice
propaganda commonly
presents the target
audience with a false
conundrum. A perfect
example would be the
hardcore propaganda based
television show ‘24’
starring Kiefer Sutherland,
in which a government
“anti-terrorism” agent is
faced with a controlled
choice scenario in nearly
every episode. This choice
almost always ends with the agent being forced to set aside his morals and conscience to torture, kill,
and destroy without mercy, or, allow millions of innocents to die if he does not.
Of course, the real world does not work this way. Life is not a chess game. Avenues to resolution of
any crisis are limited only by our imagination and intelligence, not to mention the immense number of
choices that could be made to defuse a crisis before it develops. Yet, Rand would like you to believe
that we (and those in government) are required to become monstrous in order to survive. That we
should be willing to forgo conscience and justice now for the promise of peace and tranquility later.
This is the age old strategy of Centralization; to remove all choices within a system, by force or
manipulation, until the masses think they have nothing left but the choices the elites give them. It is the
bread and butter of elitist institutions like Rand Corporation, and is at the core of the push for
globalization.

In my studies on the developing economic disaster (or economic recovery depending on who you talk
to) I have come across a particular methodology many times which set off my analyst alarm (or spidey-
sense, if you will). This latest methodology, called “Linchpin Theory”, revolves around the work of
John Casti, a Ph.D. from USC,
“complexity scientist” and “systems
theorist”, a Futurist, and most
notably, a former employee of Rand
Corporation:
http://www.viennareview.net/vienna-
review-book-reviews/book-
reviews/john-casti-an-optimist-of-
the-apocalypse
Casti introduces his idea of
“Linchpin Theory” in his book “X-
Events: The Collapse Of
Everything”, and what I found most
immediately striking about the idea
of “Linchpin Events” was how they
offered perfect scapegoat scenarios
for catastrophes that are engineered
by the establishment.
Linchpin Theory argues that overt social, political, and technological “complexity” is to blame for the
most destructive events in modern human history, and it is indeed an enticing suggestion for those who
are uneducated and unaware of the behind the scenes mechanics of world events. Casti would like you
to believe that political and social tides are unguided and chaotic; that all is random, and disaster is a
product of “chance” trigger events that occur at the height of a malfunctioning and over-complicated
system.
What he fails to mention, and what he should well know being a member of Rand, is that global events
do not evolve in a vacuum. There have always been those groups who see themselves as the “select”,
and who aspire to mold the future to there personal vision of Utopia. It has been openly admitted in
myriad official observations on historical events that such groups have had a direct hand in the advent
of particular conflicts.
For instance, Casti would call the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria an “X-event”,
                                                       or linchpin, leading to the outbreak of WWI,
                                                       when historical fact recalls that particular crisis
                                                       was carefully constructed with the specific mind
                                                       to involve the U.S.

                                                        Norman Dodd, former director of the Committee
                                                        to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations of the
                                                        U.S. House of Representatives, testified that the
                                                        Committee was invited to study the minutes of
                                                        the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
                                                        as part of the Committee’s investigation. The
                                                        Committee stated:
                                                        “The trustees of the Foundation brought up a
                                                        single question. If it is desirable to alter the life
                                                        of an entire people, is there any means more
                                                        efficient than war…. They discussed this
question… for a year and came up with an answer: There are no known means more efficient than
war, assuming the objective is altering the life of an entire people. That leads them to a question:
How do we involve the United States in a war. This was in 1909.”
So, long before the advent of Ferdinand’s assassination, plans were being set in motion by globalist
interests to draw the U.S. into a large scale conflict in order to “alter the life, or thinking, of the entire
culture”. When a group of people set out to direct thinking and opportunity towards a particular
outcome, and the end result is a culmination of that outcome, it is obviously not coincidence, and it is
definitely not providence. It can only be called subversive design.
In the economic arena, one might say that the collapse of Lehman Bros. was the “linchpin” that
triggered the landslide in the derivatives market which is still going on to this day. However, the
derivatives market bubble was a carefully constructed house of cards, deliberately created with the help
of multiple agencies and institutions. The private Federal Reserve had to artificially lower interest rates
and inject trillions upon trillions into the housing market, the international banks had to invest those
trillions into mortgages that they KNEW were toxic and likely never to be repaid. The Federal
Government had to allow those mortgages to then be chopped up into derivatives and resold on the
open market. The ratings agencies had to examine those derivatives and obviously defunct mortgages
and then stamp them AAA. The SEC had to ignore the massive fraud being done in broad daylight
while sweeping thousands of formal complaints and whistle blowers under the rug.
This was not some “random” event caused by uncontrolled “complexity”. This was engineered
complexity with a devious purpose. The creation of the derivatives collapse was done with
foreknowledge, at least by some. Goldman Sachs was caught red handed betting against their OWN
derivatives instruments! Meaning they knew exactly what was about to happen in the market they
helped build! This is called Conspiracy…
One might attribute Casti’s idea to a sincere belief in chaos, and a lack of insight into the nature of
globalism as a brand of religion. However, in his first and as far as I can tell only interview with Coast
To Coast Radio, Casti promotes catastrophic “X-Events” as a “good thing” for humanity, right in line
with the Rand Corporation ideology. Casti, being a futurist and elitist, sees the ideas of the past as
obsolete when confronted with the technological advancements of the modern world, and so, describes
X-event moments as a kind of evolutionary “kickstart”, knocking us out of our old and barbaric
philosophies of living and forcing us, through trial by fire, to adapt to a more streamlined culture. The
linchpin event is, to summarize Casti’s position, a culture’s way of “punishing itself” for settling too
comfortably into its own heritage and traditions. In other words, WE will supposedly be to blame for
the next great apocalypse, not the elites…
X-Events : Unpredictable Catastrophic
Events VIDEO BELOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=hoBrMa3n2xs

I might suggest that Casti’s attitude seems to
be one of general indifference to human
suffering in the wake of his “X-Events”, and
that he would not necessarily be opposed to
the deaths of millions if it caused the
“advancement” of humanity towards a
particular ideology. His concept of
“advancement” and ours are likely very
different, though. I suspect that he is well
aware that X-Events are actually tools at the
disposal of elitists to generate the “evolution”
he so desires, and that evolution includes a
collectivist result.
With almost every major economy on the globe
on the verge of collapse and most now
desperately inflating, taxing, or outright stealing
in order to hide their situation, with multiple
tinderbox environments being facilitated in the Pacific with China, North Korea, and Japan, and in the
Middle East and Africa with Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Mali, etc., there is no doubt that we
are living in a linchpin-rich era. It is inevitable that one or more of these explosive tension points will
erupt and cause a chain reaction around the planet. The linchpin and the chain reaction will become the
focus of our epoch, rather than the men who made them possible in the first place.
                                                     Strangely, Casti’s theory was even recently featured
                                                     in an episode of the ABC mystery/drama show
                                                     “Castle”, called “Linchpin” (what else?), in which
                                                     a writer turned detective uncovers a plot by a
                                                     “shadow group” to use the research of the innocent
                                                     Dr. Nelson Blakely (apparently based on Casti) to
                                                     initiate a collapse of the U.S. economy by
                                                     assassinating the ten-year-old daughter of a
                                                     prominent Chinese businessman, triggering a dump
                                                     of U.S. Treasuries by China and fomenting WWIII:
                                                     http://www.alterna-tv.com/castle/xevents.htm
                                                     Now, I think anyone with any sense can see where
                                                     this is going. Casti and Rand Corporation are
                                                     giving us a glimpse into the future of propaganda.
                                                     This is what will be written in our children’s
                                                     history books in the globalists have their way. The
                                                     fact that Linchpin Theory is featured in a primetime
                                                     television show at all is a testament to Rand
                                                     Corporation’s influence in the media. But, as for
the wider picture, are the trigger points around us really just a product of complex coincidence?
Not a chance.
Each major global hot-spot today can easily be linked back to the designs of international corporate and
banking interests and the puppet governments they use as messengers. Casti claims that “X-events”
and “linchpins” cannot be accurately predicted, but it would seem that they can certainly be purposely
created.
The globalists have stretched the whole of the world thin. They have removed almost every pillar of
support from the edifice around us, and like a giant game of Jenga, are waiting for the final piece to be
removed, causing the teetering structure to crumble. Once this calamity occurs, they will call it a
random act of fate, or a mathematical inevitability of an overly complex system. They will say that
they are not to blame. That we were in the midst of “recovery”. That they could not have seen it
coming.
Their solution will be predictable. They will state that in order to avoid such future destruction, the
global framework must be “simplified”, and what better way to simplify the world than to end national
sovereignty, dissolve all borders, and centralize nation states under a single economic and political
ideal?
Is it the Hegelian Dialectic all over again? Yes. Is it old hat feudalism and distraction? Yes. But, I
have to hand it to Casti and Rand Corporation; they certainly have refined the argument for
collectivism, centralization, technocracy, slavery, moral relativism, and false-flag dupery down to a
near science…

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