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Florida Makes Off-Grid Living Illegal – Mandates All Homes Must Be Connected To Electricity & Water Grid
Robin Speronis lives off the grid in Florida, completely independent of the city’s water and electric system. A few weeks ago, officials ruled her off-grid home illegal. Officials cited the International Property Maintenance Code, which mandates that homes be connected to an electricity grid and a running water source.
That’s like saying our dependency on corporations isn’t even a choice. The choice to live without most utilities has been ongoing for Robin, the self-sufficient woman has lived for more than a year and a half using solar energy, a propane camping stove and rain water.
In the end, she was found not guilty of not having a proper sewer or electrical system; but was guilty of not being hooked up to an approved water supply.
Speronis is still being hassled by the municipality of Cape Coral for not having a connection to city water, nor proper sewage. That. regardless of the fact the city capped her sewers themselves.
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Yes could be any day now, we set this farm up for 2 workers so now it's non stop for me started breading the goats and have them down to milking just once a day but it's still loads of work.
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I read that somewhere are well but really how much stuff can a guy watch and still do his day job
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You know maybe? it has been lower and the world didn't stop turning but IMO it doesn't look good!
The world economy seem like it is going to implode but I still cant help but feel like when this is over or at least different that I will be standing here saying "How did I not see that coming?" Lol...
now we both know that Oil, silver, gold and the like are leading indicators and they are going off like a tornado warning system right now!
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Going to get a load of fuel
EU Yields — What's In Your Wallet?
While wondering what to write about today I remembered seeing something that was shocking even though I was aware of it. I have not paid much attention recently to 10 yr. yields in the Eurozone. The non logical yields had just slipped through the cracks of my cognitive memory. The story I read pointed out the various countries in Europe where their 10 yr. yields were trading below U.S. rates, in some cases, WELL below. I knew many Eurozone countries were below U.S. rates but the vast majority?
For example, the rates in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Ireland 10-Year, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France and the UK are all trading with yields lower than U.S. Treasuries. The only two with yields higher are Portugal (3/4% higher) and Greece (a basket case). Looking at this from a broad perspective, it should tell you several things. First, either the U.S. is underpriced or the Eurozone is overpriced. Another way to look at this is either market participants are currently making a bet the U.S. is more "risky" or Europe is "safer" by comparison. Of course the same could be said about the currencies themselves, maybe market participants feel the euro will do better in the future versus the dollar? This really does not add up though as the dollar has been strengthening and the euro weakening. Is it because there is fear of deflation in the Eurozone which theoretically should cause interest rates to drop? Or maybe "growth" estimates? I might be on to something with these two?
Let's walk this "insanity" through to see why it makes no sense. Let's assume the market participants are correct and the U.S. will grow faster than Europe (I do not make this assumption personally because both are on the same Titanic). There is one question which is not entering the equation, this question is the one of "solvency". In other words, will the issuer of the bonds have the ability to pay back the interest and principal? What I am saying here is "risk" has absolutely zero input to the pricing of all of these bonds! Do you really believe Spain will remain solvent? Or Italy? France? Or whomever? Remember, these countries have no ability whatsoever to "print" the euro currency, they can only borrow more to pay current retiring obligations. It is the same thing in the U.S. but at least we know that enough dollars are always readily available via the Fed. Maybe this is it? This is why "deflation" is the expectation in Europe?
They can't print as fast as we can?
But hold on a second, deflation? How would any of these sovereigns be able to pay their outsized debt loads back during an outright deflation? The answer of course is "they can't", because individually no Eurozone country has the ability to print, which is a core problem. Let's look a little further at the "deflation" question as it does pertain to gold and silver. Of course, deflation is the reason put forth by the Harry Dent's of the world as to why PM prices are down and will collapse ... So we assume the deflationists are correct, what happens to the currencies of these countries (including the U.S.) who have such low interest rates because inflation is "too low"? This is THE question, what happens to the currencies? If sovereign after sovereign fall to boogeyman of deflation, they go bust or "restructure" their debt somehow, right? And we are to believe the currencies issued and backed by their "full faith and credit" will remain the same value ...or somehow strengthen? Really?
Let's take Spain for example, but it could be anyone. Spain's economy just plain sucks. Real estate is glutted and has crashed, unemployment, particularly of younger workers is 25% or more. They are already in recession ...again. Looking out past the end of your nose, they will default. What sense does it make to invest for 10 years in a piece of paper promising less than 2% per year? Oh, and the promise is ...to give you back more pieces of paper which MUST be inflated just to pay current obligations, forget about future ones! This is not even logical.
Let's compare this situation to that of instead putting your money into ounces of Gold. I will do this exercise in dollars for sake of ease (mentally) for me. If you invest $1,200 today into a U.S. Treasury you will get back 2% per year for the next 10 years. Assuming you compound this money into some more "safe" Treasuries along the way, maybe your total return will be 23-25%, so you get back a total of let's say $1,500. Compare this to purchasing one ounce of gold at $1,200 (even though you cannot purchase gold or Silver at paper spot). You have "risk" here as opposed to the Spanish bonds because "gold might go down", right? You don't get any contract explaining what you will receive. In fact, you won't receive anything over the 10 years. So in owning gold instead of Spanish Treasuries, you assume risk your gold "might go down" AND you don't even get any interest as compensation for your risk! (What I just did by the way is give you the spiel Warren Buffet and the other elite misdirectionists will give you).
Now for the reality. Gold doesn't pay interest, it isn't "FDIC" insured, it is not legal tender (except at stupid face values), and it isn't guaranteed ...but the Spanish bonds ARE all of these. They pay interest, backed by the sovereign government of Spain, any bank will accept them as deposit, payment or collateral. ...But who guarantees Spain? Germany? Who guarantees Germany? The U.S.? Because we have all these reserves of gold which we can't give back to Germany? Sorry for the rant, I hope you get my point?
What I am trying to say here is the "sovereign bond" markets don't make any sense at all. The various yield curves are out of whack and don't make sense. This market is now larger than $100 trillion! The principal can never be repaid in current currency values and if interest rates ever normalize to 6%, neither can the interest. Think about it, can the world's sovereigns really support over $6 trillion of interest payments annually? The problem in a nutshell is this; the global bond market is now THE biggest bubble in the history of history. It was so much fun "spending" the borrowed money, it always is ...but the hard part is paying it back! ...And this is exactly where we are now.
We have been at a crossroads for several years now as to "how" will all of this be paid back. In Europe there was (past tense) waffling between austerity and (U.S./Japan) "pedal to the metal" policy, this is no longer because each effort at austerity was met by "oops" market temper tantrums. None of the current Western sovereign debt can or will be paid back in current currency values, this is mathematically so. What we are watching now is nothing but "dancing".
Think about this for a moment, have you ever had anyone who owed you money, "dance" while explaining they'll "have it next week"? This is where we are today. Yes, sovereigns have borrowed to pay interest and roll debt over for years, and it worked ...but we have hit the ceiling so to speak twice now. First, we hit the ceiling prior to 2000 when debt built up to unsustainable levels...the answer of course was lower rates. Then another reflation (debt orgy) took place and we are again at unsustainable levels but rates can go no lower. The answer? Hyperinflate and devalue currencies as there are no other options. The only way to "pay" is to not pay ...in current values.
Let me finish by mentioning the "deflation" option which is no option at all. If by "mistake" deflation does take hold, all fiat currencies will be deemed worthless because the issuing sovereign will have bankrupted. In other words, the currencies will still end up busted and we will experience hyperinflation by another road. With either inflation (printing) or deflation (defaults), all fiat currencies will bust. Do you hold or save these? As the advertisement says, "what's in your wallet"?
Regards, Bill Holter
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Those links are to the actuate court doc's, how could that not be true?
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I know a place that needs ideas like that for there IBOX Lol...
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KU Journalism Major Shreds “Case” Against Mike Brown
Shelby Lawson is a student at the University of Kansas, majoring in Journalism and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Lawson posted the following to her Facebook page:
“Alright y’all. I’d like to clear a few things up. This is a general address to the long list of misconceptions and inconsistencies and abuses of power that exist surrounding the killing of Mike Brown. I have researched these points and provided sources in case you wish to do some reading of your own.
-The most common misconception I’m hearing is that Mike Brown was significantly larger than Officer Wilson. This is incorrect. On page 198 of the official grand jury transcript, you can see that Officer Wilson testifies he is 6 ft 4 and weighs 210 lbs, the same size as Mike Brown.
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-Mike Brown was NOT stopped because he was a suspect in crime. He and his friend Dorian Johnson were stopped for jaywalking, as Darren Wilson testifies to on page 208 of his grand jury testimony.
-Mike Brown WAS fleeing from Officer Wilson when he was fatally shot. Wilson confirms this on page 281 of his grand jury testimony.
-Officer Wilson broke police self-defense protocol, which teaches to disarm and incapacitate rather than kill and teaches officers to go for body shots. Officer Wilson shot Mike Brown twice in the head, after he shot him four times in his arm and torso.
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-Ferguson Police ignored protocol and refused to interview or take a statement from the eyewitness present from Officer Wilson’s initial contact with Mike Brown until his death.
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-The forensic examiner broke protocol by failing to take crime scene photos. On page 95 of the grand jury transcript, she claims that this was because her camera had died, however, she goes on to describe how she immediately followed Wilson to the hospital in order to photograph his “injuries.”
-Forensic investigators broke protocol by failing to test Officer Wilson’s gun for fingerprints, since Wilson claims that Brown grabbed his gun and caused it to misfire. Page 39, grand jury transcript.
-Darren Wilson was then allowed to break protocol by washing the blood off of himself before it could be photographed, making it impossible to analyze blood spatter patterns and determine what position Mike Brown was in when Wilson first shot him. Wilson recounts this on page 10 of his official police interview.
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-While Officer Wilson’s story of what happened that day has changed at least three times, six separate eyewitnesses, four of whom have never met each other, all have identical accounts of what happened. They were never interviewed by police.
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-These eyewitnesses all agree that Darren Wilson was the aggressor and that Mike Brown was shot while surrendering, with his hands in the air and that his last words were “I don’t have a gun. Stop shooting.”
-This is backed up by Mike Brown’s autopsy, which suggests that Mike Brown would have had to be in the hands-up position for the bullets to enter his hand and arm the way they did.
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-Furthermore, in a press conference, the coroner who performed Mike Brown’s autopsy relays that there was no trace of gun shot residue anywhere on his body, proving that Wilson’s claim that Mike Brown grabbed his gun, causing it to misfire, is impossible and untrue.
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-Ferguson Police lied about the distance Mike Brown was from Officer Wilson when he was killed. They reported it was 35 ft. but it was in fact 148 ft.
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-Owner of Ferguson Market states that he did not call police to report a theft of cigars, that the theft had nothing to do with Mike Brown, and that the man on the security footage is not Mike Brown.
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-The prosecuting attorney for the case against Darren Wilson has helped raise $600,000 in donations for Darren Wilson, creating a clear conflict of interest.
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-The police department that Officer Wilson worked for prior to coming to Ferguson was disbanded after multiple instances of racial profiling.”
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I read your entry price post and then today I was laughing my ass off thinking about how well you timed that entry. I was looking for some KILOS that JM had on sale but they were gone during that low.
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That is hilarious! I'm one of the biggest silver bulls you will ever come across but I was thinking exactly the same thing Lol...
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P.S. Very volatile here IMO
It wasn't that long ago I was talking about a spike low, it would be the candle before Bert's candle Lol...
Now on the other hand I'm still not convinced, need to see a few more candles...
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Seamed fitting Lol...
If you and me are on with 1/2 of what we think it will become very tough for everyone, I think the day we woke up and the world was a different place already happened but it will happen again IMO and if we can position our self's correctly the rules will be different.
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P.S. Oil and silver still tanking this Sunday evening.
I was reading last week that Russia warned investors to move out of USD ASAP! That was last Wednesday, something is up IMO
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I am just starting to work on the center piece of my raised bed garden. it's a 10' x 14' rack wall block round corner box about 2' deep and then I will add 6 more 3' x 12' wooden boxes and a small green house.
I was just reading last night that you can eat Salal berries and make tea out of the leafs that make great cold medicine, this struck me as strange, I grew up thinking this was poison.
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The top one looks like the current silver chart Lol...
The move I find most interesting is the chart showing the 2008-2009 decline from $145 to $35 that is a big move IMO
I personally see this as a leading indicator for many things going on in the world today.
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I'm sure there is! Lol...
Either way it will not go good IMO and NO they cant have there gold! Lol... first we would have to have it to give it back....
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Yah I'm like that! Lol... if i want to see what something is doing I build a board for it.
I should probably put something in the Ibox
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Good call on both accounts IMO
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Where have you been? we rarely agree on anything but you always put a big smile on my face Buds!
Now this time you are probably right about the price action, the down side potential seams greater than the upside IMO
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I put up a CL\F15 board today just so I can watch what is going on and now it is showing $73.15 like today never happened? strange...
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OPEC's message to US shale: Drop dead
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We need to watch this commodity closely IMO with the state of world affairs.
I didn't make myself a mod here so I cant build an IBOX
Seams strange to me that this was not an existing board.
That thing has got "little smokey" written all over it! Lol...
I think it would be really cool to have a ride like that but the cash out lay would just be out of control IMO
Side note: my three year old told me he wanted a big truck with a gun on the back so he could drive around and shoot people, two hours later I had final convinced him of why it not OK to shoot people! I still cant figure out where he came up with that shit but for sure it wasn't me...
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That is a dam nice stack there! I have always wanted to make a video like that but then I would be admitting that I actually had a stack! Lol...
You can always tell a fellow stacker, you show them a picture of silver and they get excited love that!
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I only have theories.
Cant really use the chart or much of anything else for that matter, small market with some hardcore paper controls
My next stack will be at $17.48 or $14.10 and I don't know what will come first? Lol...
I personally would love to see some $10 physical or less, I have a tight hand on my personal stack and can hold indefinitely if needed.
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Happy T day all!
Happy T day stackers!
Magic 8 balls says that diesel storage tank may be in my future! Lol...
Happy T day buds!
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The music is starting to play really fast! Do you have your chair picked out?
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Base forming today
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I don't have a good feed for that! we can see Seattle on line and it looks like you don't want to be there but I will look for a feed to the real action.
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Well yah! what did you think was going to happen, thanks for the heads up, have the riots started yet?
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Seattle police gearing up for riots over Ferguson decision! and i don't need a link i'm there watching it!