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Introduction to Commodities

profits234 asked:


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0cularStream asked:


in town. There are over 85000 Federal and regional governmental institutions: school districts, water and power authorities, country and city governments — and they own over 70 percent of the stock market. This is an absolute must-see to pull back the curtain of lies on the private takeover of our society. This tape also includes an interview with Joe Banister, former IRS Special Agent exposing how the IRS is a collection agency for the private, run-for-profit Federal Reserve. …

Sambo asked:


Every day I go to bloomberg.com and check what oil is trading at. Usually if its down today, tommorrow its up. Last week oil dropped to $125 (about) per barrel, and was in a three day slide. The next day, (Friday) oil jumped over $10 per barrel in one day. Then on Monday, the speculators sell and its down again. I could be wrong, but it seems like every Thursday for the last month or so, oil is down, only to go back up on Friday (the markets are closed on weekends). Its becoming almost routine. JMO, but I believe if the FED would raise interest rates, that the speculators would pull money out of the commodities market (oil) and the dollar would strenghten, bring the price down. Your thoughts?

private_state_citizen asked:


James Traficant’s U.S. Bankruptcy Speech

The Bankruptcy of The United States

United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303

Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:

“Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.

It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States.”

Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be “money” in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or “currency.” Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not “money.” A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not “money.” The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money, gold and silver coin.

It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any “money.” Most Americans have not been paid any “money” for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are “bankrupt,” along with the rest of the country?

Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.

Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) – a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.

There is a fundamental difference between “paying” and “discharging” a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of “good & valuable consideration.” Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.

Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates o
Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.
This has been going on for over eighty years without the “informed knowledge” of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.
Why don’t more people own their properties outright?
Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?
Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.

The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a “Canon Law Trust” as their model, adding stock and naming it a “Joint Stock Trust.” The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal “person” to duplicate a “Joint Stock Trust” in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]
The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.

Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.
Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) “Hypothecated” all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a “beneficiary” of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their “subjects,” the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.
In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit “money substitute” it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their “economic slaves”, the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.
We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.
America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country.”
ON INFORMATION AND BELIEF A GOVERNMENT LOOSES ITS SOVEREIGNTY WHEN I GOES BANKRUPT TO ITS CREDITOR. PERHAPS ITS CREDITOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND ARE RUNNING THE SHOW FROM BEHIND THE SCENES OVER ALL THESE ACTORS IN WASHINGTON.

How Do Day Traders Make Money?

Kenneth M asked:


And what does the term “Day Trader” mean? I heard some one refer to people that generate income from trading stocks as a “Day Trader.” Anyway, heres my question How do people generate any reliable income from trading stocks? I have a basic understanding, very basic of the stock market. I use to visit etrade & just watch the dow go up & down. But I have no experience & haven’t read anything about it. I watched this documentary, and seen this guy who was really rich. I read later in an article that he is a “Prosperous Commodities trader” So now here i am trying to figure out how he makes money. Like what is the process? how do these guys recognize opportunity in stocks? And at what point does your opinion count in a company, as a share holder? Please, if anyone can educate me on this. And maybe suggest a book or books, or websites w/good info on this? I have read Rich dad poor dad, and I am now going to be an entrepreneur, I have just quit my job to pursue my entrepreneurship & I am 22 years old in the Los Angeles area. Please, all information, suggestions, advice! Everything! I know I have to be a good listener to be successful, so here I am, I will soak up all the information you provide. I need all I can get, I will read pages & pages of what u have to tell me, you will not waste your time, typing up long answers. Thank you very very much!

Beige Brown Blues asked:


What makes virginity a big deal?
When younger…Fear, NOT of God, but of public ridicule and rejection kept me a virgin.

I also saw myself as being less “valuable” if i were to trade in this “gift”.

Once gone, that mind set did not disappear, i still saw sex as a commodity in the relationship. I would withhold or give depending on my esteem (my esteem being based on how DESIRABLE i was). Personally, I wish my mother had taught me self worth instead of religious fear.

This one time act is a distant memory, not painful or endearing…it is one.

However, now that I know my worth…i’m even MORE careful to make sure that i enter into a physical act with a person i care about….so that i can really let loose…knowing that it is only ONE aspect of the relationship.

I don’t see the point of waiting for marriage, as i have seen many young people rush into commitment, only to being a slow let down process as sexually immature prisoners.

While I do plan to teach my daughter to wait…i wont stress marriage. . . just physical and emotional maturity. I don’t plan to bribe her with a false sense of worth or an ultimatum with God.

Your thoughts.

Commodity Trading

Transactions on the commodity exchanges fall into two broad categories: cash contracts and futures contracts. Accordingly, the commodity exchange may be a cash market or a futures market, or may combine both. The cash contracts for the purchase of commodities are those which call for payment of the full contract price, in cash, on delivery. Such contracts are also referred to as physical contracts, in the sense that they deal in actual or physical products. The cash or physical contracts may be sub-divided into two sub-classes: spot contracts and forward contracts.

Spot transactions are those cash contracts which involve the payment by the buyer and the delivery of the specified grade of goods by the seller immediately, or within a short time. These contracts relate to the purchase or sale of commodities on the spot. The essence of such contracts is the ready delivery and acceptance of the delivery of the goods sold. Forward dealings are those cash contracts made in the cash or physical market, which call for the delivery of goods and payment of the price after a specified period, on a fixed date.

As against cash contracts, which require the payment or cash against the physical delivery of goods immediately on the spot or after a specified period, a futures contract is a special type of agreement made strictly under the rules of a commodity exchange, which may or may not call for the actual delivery of goods and payment of price in cash on a future trade.

A future contract can be defined as a contract for the future delivery of some commodity without reference to specific lots, made under the rules of some commercial body, in a set form, by which the conditions as to unit of amount, the quality and time of delivery are stereotyped and only the determination of the total amounts and the price is left open to the contracting parties.

By: Peter Emerson

About the Author:
Commodity Trading provides detailed information on Commodity Trading, Online Commodity Trading, Commodity Futures Trading, Commodity Day Trading and more. Commodity Trading is affiliated with Online Commodity Brokers.
sense asked:


“Leading energy experts across the country agree that recent, unprecedented jumps in crude oil prices are due, in large measure, to rampant speculation in the energy commodities markets.”

“19 of the nation’s top trade associations, consumer groups and labor organizations, the coalition urges “immediate reform in the widely-speculative energy commodity futures markets.”

http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_Id=a0267544-59b1-4cd7-b41e-8f0e55738999

Have $5,000 American, How Best to Invest?

Michael F asked:


Looking at commodities market, particularly gold, copper, aluminum, and oil. Willing to look at socks, cash deposits, and money market accounts. Have $10,000 I can tie up for 2 years. Am interested in high yeild mutual funds. Thanks for any and all help you can lend. I am interested in specifics. Am interested in trading currency, as well
Looking for books, DVD’s, learning courses, and any additional information available.
Web Sites appreciated.
It’s so real, just kept re-asking for more information. Thanks for your help.

Why Did MEXICO Stop Buying American Beef?

D. J asked:


http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/26/news/international/mexico_meat.reut/index.htm?postversion=2008122616

Mexico suspends purchase of U.S. meat

Mexico temporarily stops meat purchase from 30 U.S. meat plants, citing sanitation issues.
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December 26, 2008: 4:39 PM ET

CHICAGO, (Reuters) — Mexico has suspended purchases from 30 U.S. meat plants, some of which are the largest in the country, due to sanitary issues, but U.S. analysts argue Mexico is retaliating for a U.S. meat-labeling law that allegedly could hurt Mexican meat sales here.

Mexico denied the retaliation charge and said purchases from the affected plants could resume as early as Monday.

USDA on Friday listed the affected plants on its Web site, but the suspensions became effective on Wednesday. The listed plants produce beef, lamb, pork and poultry and can be found at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OFO/export/lmexico.htm.

Mexico is a leading buyer of U.S. meat, and news of the suspensions sent cattle and hog futures sharply lower on Friday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Many of the banned plants are owned by the largest U.S. meat companies, including Cargill Inc, Tyson Foods Inc (TSN, Fortune 500), JBS, Seaboard (SEB) and Smithfield Foods. (SFD, Fortune 500)

“If everything goes well, the plants could be re-listed next Monday,” Mexico’s agriculture ministry said Friday.

The ministry said the affected plants fell short on standards like packaging, labeling and some transport conditions.

CANADA, MEXICO OPPOSED LAW

Under the labeling law, commonly called Country-of-Origin Labeling or COOL, meat packages in U.S. supermarkets must carry labels stating the countries where the meat animals were raised.

U.S. consumer and farm groups say the labeling rules will distinguish U.S.-grown food from imports on the grocery shelf and fulfill the shopper’s right to know about products.

Canadian and Mexican officials have opposed the law arguing that it will have U.S. meat plants and consumers discriminating against non-U.S. animals and meat. Both countries ship livestock into the United States.

Earlier this year, Mexico had warned many U.S. meat plants of alleged “point of entry violations,” and Friday’s suspensions may have been related to that, Jim Herlihy, spokesman for the U.S. Meat Export Federation, said early on Friday.

Point of entry violations could be a number of things including incorrect paperwork or labeling issues, he said.

ANALYSTS NOT CONVINCED

While Mexico denied retaliating for COOL, U.S. analysts were not convinced.

“It appears they are using this to send a signal to our government that they don’t like COOL,” Don Roose, analyst at U.S. Commodities, said of Mexico’s action.

Prior to Mexico saying shipments could resume on Monday, Roose had predicted the bans would be short, because Mexico needs the meat for its population.

“You have to feed the masses,” he said.

News of the bans prompted selling in U.S. cattle and hog markets at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Friday, closing the markets lower.

“That is bad news,” Jim Clarkson, Chicago-based analyst at A&A Trading said of Mexico’s action. “They (Mexico) are fighting COOL.”

After Mexico denied it was retaliating for COOL, Clarkson still predicted the labeling law may have helped prompt the bans.

Due to the holiday period, attempts on Friday to reach USDA officials and many of the U.S. meat companies were unsuccessful.

Food price rise could last another two years

A cult BBQ brand stages a comeback
Time to boycott all product from Mexico ESPECIALLY illegal aliens! They can eat sewer rat as far as I’m concerned!

Time to vote out all politicians who want open borders! Heck just vote them all out of office they’re all crooks just look at the state of our nation.

Career Politician = Career Criminal

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