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#1 Why are sales of physical silver coins breaking all sorts of all-time records? The U.S. Mint is on pace to sell more silver eagles during the first month of 2013 than it did during the entire year of 2007.
#2 Why has Germany announced that it will be moving gold from New York and Paris to its own vaults back home? Is this a sign of a breakdown in trust among global central banks?
#3 Why is China systematically hoarding gold?
#4 Why have billionaires such as George Soros and John Paulson been hoarding massive amounts of gold?
#5 Why are billionaires buying up so much ranch land up in Montana?
#6 Why is Russia warning that we are rapidly approaching a global "currency war"?
#7 Why has Barack Obama chosen this moment to launch an all-out attack on the Second Amendment?
#8 Why does Barack Obama want doctors to ask their patients questions about firearms?
#9 Why is there an incredibly severe nationwide ammunition shortage all of a sudden?
#10 Why has a bill been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that "would ban Internet or mail order ammunition purchases"?
#11 Why are gun control advocates such as Piers Morgan pushing for us to become more like the UK when the UK actually has a much higher violent crime rate than we do?
#12 Why was a Forbes article that made a connection between the use of psychiatric drugs and the mass shootings that we have seen in recent years almost immediately taken down from the Internet?
#13 Why does the federal government want to start putting "black boxes" in all new motor vehicles?
#14 Why are some U.S. states now using computers to predict "future crimes"?
#15 Why are "black-clad federal SWAT teams" raiding farms and ranches all over the United States?
Originally posted by EllaMarina
The Book of Revelation is one long acid trip requiring ambiguous interpretations that never quite seem to fit. I can say this about a lot of the current events going on here in much simpler terms: a shifting of the balance of power through money hoarding. The more money you have, the more powerful you are, and vice versa. And no one likes to share power.