A Grain Standard

A Great Harvest of Corn

The Federal Reserve has been printing a trillion Dollars a year and slipping it to Wall Street for the term of the Obama Presidency because the people there are great political contributors whilst supping on other people’s money, sweat and tears. 

The “other people” have not been born as the T-Bonds justifying the new money have been “put on a shelf” as there were no open market buyers per law.  Had our laws been observed this money would not have been printed. It is without basis or legality.  It will be paid for by the next two or three generations of taxpayers or we will collapse completely and entirely.  The store shelves will be bare, the electricity and water will stop.  The New Gestapo will be at your door.  It is just that simple in the world of “fiat” money; that printed without basis.

Before 1971 our money was backed by gold.  When seriously examined this is a silly concept, but for the fact it limits the amount of money that can be printed and prevents inflation to that degree, but it also curbs appropriate growth. Now inflation has reduced the value of the Dollar 98% since 1913 with most of the decline since 1971 after Richard Nixon’s action of taking us off the gold standard.

Gold really has very little value other than that imputed to it by rarity, luster, permanence, use in jewelry and electronics, but not enough to justify today's  price.  A far better standard would be grain as that has been the real wealth of nations for thousands of years.

If we stop wasting grain on ethanol production to make bad motor fuel and restore it to its’ rightful place in the economy it is a simple matter to write the equations to determine the amount of money that should be in circulation to support the amount of commerce justified by said grain. Please believe this is a simple math problem in three easy equations and two hard ones.

When the harvest is great we will see more economic activity and when it is not, less and excess banknotes in circulation only produce inflation with the destruction of existing deposits and asset value.  That is the real disaster of "fiat" money.  The damage of “Quantitative Easing” has yet to be realized, but it will be in years to come.  Count on it.

Grain market prices decline on greater than normal harvests, but that can be due to government not using grain to promote international objectives.  This is a hungry world; grain is the key and all the more reason to be standard for the printing of money.

More than anything this is a mathematical problem in a computer age well able to deal with it.  What could be more important for us than to solve the ever-present question and eliminate manipulation by government with the stability of our currency?   The key is a grain standard.

Adrian Vance                                                                      

No Peace, No Money

“Blacks” are threatening us with “No justice; no peace.” This translates into license to beat up white police officers, take their guns and kill them if you are stopped when someone of your description was taped committing a strong-armed robbery.

No one denies we had slavery until 1865 and “Jim Crow” until 1965 with  injustice and brutality in southern states under Democratic Governors and state legislatures.  We are the only nation in history to fight a war to free our slaves.  Slavery continues today in Africa, give us a break, brothers.  Most of us really want to be friends.

It was a Senate Republican majority that passed the civil rights bill Lyndon B. Johnson crowed about as if he were totally responsible when he was not and to which one-third of his party was totally opposed; including Al Gore's father and Bill Clinton's mentor, Senator J. William Fulbright.  Lying, now dying, major media represses these facts.

We can put an end to mobs like those seen in Ferguson, Missouri by taking the name and address of every person in the mob and cutting all government benefits for a month on first offense and double it every day they are caught in such a demonstration.  We should also take away all government benefits for one year for anyone caught looting.  No expensive proceedings or trial:.  If we identify you there, goods in hand, you lose.

For those not carrying identification we pen until identified and all will be photographed, fingerprinted, DNA sampled and voice recorded as that can now be an identifier.

Liberals will wail this is “unconstitutional,” but there are no provisions in the Constitution for welfare or government benefits.  They could be found unconstitutional if liberals sue for them and get to the Supreme Court.  Then, they all lose!

All black churches participating in political activities should lose tax free status and be taxed as businesses at the 39.4% Federal and whatever the state has too.  In California it is 13%.

“Black” people complain we say they are stupid.  Given their behaviors in Watts, California in 1965 and now Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 what else are we to think?  

They are a minority with 13% of the population, but want to violate laws, not show up on time, not pay bills, steal from us, sell our kids drugs and get mad at us when their own people are responsible for 90% of the murders in their communities!

The “black” culture is committing suicide, with the assistance of Planned Parenthood.  40% of all abortions are “black.” If current trends continue they will all be gone by 2060.

More importantly, they poison their children with angry ideas, defeatist attitudes and hopeless outlooks such that they turn to crime; angry, hate-filled, violent crime to boot.  No other minority in America in the last 150 years has had these attitudes and all others have been very successful.  It is time for “No peace, no money.”

Adrian Vance

The Barry Farber Show

Barry and I did another segment of our "Unexplained" project on a subject that is near and dear to my heart having spent some time on the high seas during the seven years a major part of my business was in SCUBA diving and underwater photography for the publishing and film businesses as well as doing features for SKIN DIVER magazine, much of it in the Bermuda Triangle.

The seas are rich with stories of vanishing ships and while I have never seen a rogue wave, one that rises from a calm sea and swallows a vessel in a single gulp, they do exist.  Over 100 cargo carrying vessels vanish from the world's oceans every year, two per week.  These are professionally managed and piloted multi-million Dollar vessels with the latest equipment, but in a blink they vanish!  No cruise ship has yet suffered that fate, but the day is coming.

I have found five ways these waves could form and a sixth way the boats could go down, literally in seconds. We discuss them in this show. I have also developed a concept that would give good warning of these waves, but not deal with the phenomenon that is literally gulping ships from the sea in the Bermuda Triangle.  That is a problem yet to be solved in the world of the unexplained.  (Click on the link.)

THE BARRY FARBER SHOW

When You Have Lemons...

The Asian carp is notorious for aerial displays on hearing boats coming and have made their way up the Mississippi River and its tributaries from a few releases apparently in the New Orleans area. This has alarmed biologists and ecologists who know how much damage they can do to existing species living on minnows that eat fresh water plankton, the free-floating algae.  Asian carp are voracious plankton eaters and starve out the minnows.

Asian carp become quite large, 20 pound fish as they are extremely good at consuming free-floating algae.  Wherever they become established the indigenous fish are usually extinquished.

In yet another lesson the government cannot do anything right they have thrown million grant Dollar study after study at the problem, but proposed no solution.  So much for pointy headed, Ph.D. ecologists.  Academia strikes again!  Enter, stage right, free enterprise...

American Heartland Fish Products has ventured into the business of carp-rendering with the objective of turning this invasive species into food for humans and livestock.  The Asian carp is very bony with lots of tiny bones making it difficult to deal with on a plate and in your mouth.  It is just not attractive at dinner to be expectorating bones every minute.  You do not serve this fish to ladies.  They are not great sports about bone spitting..  Guys don't care...  This is a real "guy fish," served with beer and football.

The Heartland Fish strategy is to run the carp through a grinder that rips up the bones and meat to make a protein mush that is then pressed into pellets for animals or humans if attractive recipes can be developed.  It is clear that “fish loaves” could be developed that would be a lot more tasty than “Vegie-burgers,” super nutritious, no fat and some fish oil, all the rage in health food.  I have one for Mackerel and "It is to die for, already."

It is not widely known dogs are wild about fish.  When I was diving and would come home with a bag of Sheepshead my German Shepard would go nuts until I gave him one to eat. Just pour some sardine oil on your dog’s dish with his usual pellet chow and get out of the way as he will be in there quicker than a possum can jump a June bug.  A dog food maker who catches onto this has his next million on the map.

When the carp first became a problem several American fish companies were selling ours to China, but then both governments got into the act with regulations making it uneconomic in their usual way of screwing up anything.  That Chinese market could exist, but for Washington and Bejing.

Heartland and Schafer Fisheries are developing this new market and product line which with all the potentials could not only control the Asian carp and save our indigenous catfish, bass and crappies, but make a lot of money.  So it all comes back to, “When you have lemons…”

Adrian Vance

Never Again

U.S. Army Major General Harold Greene was buried August 26, 2014 at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, including a caisson, two escort platoons, casket team, firing party, colors team, and a caparisoned horse. 

The U.S. Army band, “Pershing’s Own,” played softly as the funeral procession made its way down the long hill past the rows of simple white gravestones to bring General Greene to his final resting place. He was assassinated by a Muslim we were trying to save from tyranny, such is the insanity of these people.

The graveside service began with a few words, followed by a 13-gun salute. The major general’s widow, Dr. Susan Myers, was seated in the front row. To her right was their son 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, his daughter Amelia Greene and Major General Greene’s father, Harold Greene, Senior.

After three rifle volleys and the playing of “Taps,” the American flag, once placed on the major general’s casket, was carefully folded as the band played “America the Beautiful.” U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno presented the flag to his widow, and additional flags to his children and father.

General Greene, 55, is the highest-ranking military fatality in the Afghanistan war an Afghan military police officer opened fire on him Aug. 5th, 2014.

Notably several normally present at such funerals: the President, Vice President and Secretary of State were absent.  Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel did attend.  President Obama was playing golf at the time of the funeral. 

I do not believe America will ever elect another "black man" President of the United States given the depth of disgust we see in this and in Ferguson, Missouri, to say nothing of the nation in last six years;  never again.

Adrian Vance

Work Ethic R.I.P.

The Cato Institute released an updated 1955 study in 2013 showing welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia . Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states. They found welfare benefits have increased faster than the minimum wage. 

Conclusion: It is more profitable to stay home than it is to work. 

Hawaii is the leader, where welfare recipients get $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly for doing nothing.  Hawaii leads the list:

1. Hawaii : $60,590

2. District of Columbia : $50,820

3. Massachusetts : $50,540

4. Connecticut : $44,370

5. New York : $43,700

6. New Jersey : $43,450

7. Rhode Island : $43,330

8. Vermont : $42,350

9. New Hampshire : $39,750

10. Maryland : $38,160

11. California : $37,160

12. Oregon : $34,300

13. Wyoming : $32,620

14. Nevada : $29,820

15. Minnesota : $29,350

16. Delaware : $29,220

17. Washington : $28,840

18. North Dakota : $28,830

19. Pennsylvania : $28,670

20. New Mexico : $27,900

21. Montana : $26,930

22. South Dakota : $26,610

23. Kansas : $26,490

24. Michigan : $26,430

25. Alaska : $26,400

26. Ohio : $26,200

27. North Carolina : $25,760

28. West Virginia : $24,900

29. Alabama : $23,310

30. Indiana : $22,900

31. Missouri : $22,800

32. Oklahoma : $22,480

33. Louisiana : $22,250

34. South Carolina : $21,910 

The median middle class annual income is now $50,000, down from $54,000 at the beginning of the Obama Recession.  Hawaii, DC, and Massachusetts pay more in welfare than the average working person earns.   That is not the end of Federal largesse:

The pension of US Presidents $180,000 for life. Salary of House/Senate - $174,000 for life!  

Pension of Speaker of the House - $223,500  

Pension of Majority/Minority Leader - $193,400.  

Average Salary of a teacher - $40,065

Average Salary of Soldier in a foreign war - $38,000 

Nancy Pelosi will retire as a CongressPerson at $174,000 Dollars a year for life. She has retired as Speaker at $223,500 a year. Plus she will receive an additional $193,400 a year as Minority Leader. That's $590,900 a year for life including free medical which is not available to us.  

Lois Lerner's retirement pay is approximately $150,000 a year from the IRS, but we have no way of knowing what she is getting from the DNC.

Contributed by John Dusak.   Edited by Adrian Vance

USA Newspapers Explained

An easy guide to keeping political news in perspective:

1.       The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2.       The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country

3.       The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country, and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4.       USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't understand The New York Times. They do,  however, like statistics  in pie charts.

5.       The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could find the time and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6.       The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a poor job of it, thank you very much.

7.       The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8.     The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something scandalous while intoxicated.

9.    The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

10.   The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are gay, handicapped, minority, feminist, atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

11.    The National Enquirer is read by people waiting in grocery store lines.

12.    The Seattle Times is read by people who have birds in cages or need to wrap some fish scales, guts and heads.

And that is our analysis of the state of the newspapers of America, a dying medium in well-deserved death throes.

Adrian Vance

Mr. Obama’s Numbers

As one who has been on the high seas hoping to find an island, praying my navigation was right, planning how I would correct it, if wrong, the real art of "dead reckoning," the cavalier way the Obama Administration handles, manipulates and distorts figures at the helm of America insults me profoundly.

At the beginning of the year they said our economic growth rate was plus one tenth percent, “+0.10,” and then it was “corrected” to “-2.1%” and on an annualized basis that would be “-8.4%,” a record decline that I can believe having friends in business who now have no business.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports the Gross Domestic Product was up 4% for the second quarter of 2014.  This compares to a revised -2.1% growth in the first quarter.  Why do I  not believe 4%?

The estimate of 4% growth will be revised four times before we know the actual number as this is the way this bureau functions. The variation can be great and likely the way they want it to be.

For instance, in the first quarter of 2014, the estimates were +0.1% then -1.0% then -2.9% and finally -2.1%. That's a variation of almost 3%, meaning the first estimate of 4% for the second quarter could be revised substantially, and likely downward, as inventory growth is a "best guess."  

And, we are told they are counting unsold inventory!  That is almost as bad as Mr. Obama wanting to include the billions in the “black economy” of illegal drugs and “replica” ripoff goods.

Looking at the average for the first two quarters, the first quarter the number was dragged down by bad weather, according to the Administration. The second quarter number was pulled up by consumption deferred in the first quarter due to weather and the rather large build-up of inventory.  The economy may have actually grown 1% for the first half of the year.

Democrat economists are forecasting growth will exceed 3% for the third and fourth quarters, but that includes employment figures rendered meaningless by Mr. Obama’s insistence part-time employees be included with full-time employees.  His standard is so low if you worked one hour per week you would be "an employed person!"  This is fraud.

The Obama Administration claims we are adding 200,000 jobs per month, but that includes replacements for the 80,000 workers who die while employed and have to be replaced.  With 333,000 new working age people coming into the economy every month he is losing ground by at least 213,000 jobs per month, but we can be sure of one thing:  We will see more of Mr. Obama’s numbers.

Adrian Vance