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EPISODE 46 – It’s All Good News from here on out Folks!!!

We are now living in the most bizarre times imaginable. Yet, the changes that will take place here (in this country) will be like nothing we’ve ever seen before. Nearly every day, week, month, and year that goes by… this circus becomes more of a joke as the facade builds and the powder keg inches closer to explosion.

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Episode Notes: Topics of discussion include… Whites that now understand the serious threats that we face, Sneaky Kike Jews Swindling the Masses of Idiots and Blaming Whites for everything under the Sun. More Disgusting Sick Fag Shit, more Negro Savage Animal Behavior, and more Holohoax Reparations. We will also touch on “White Liberal Apartheid”, 20 More Years of War, the Continued push towards complete Debt Slavery, and the Severity of the next Crash, as the Marxist “Kike Jew” Police State continues to harass the Village Idiots… soon to be you!

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Sneaky Kike Jew Soros increases his Gold Position by more than 75%

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After bashing Gold (& PM’s) just a few weeks back, this sneaky little fuck Soros just upped his position to 240mm in Gold.

You can’t make this shit up folks!!! These Kike Jews… are the master swindlers.

Over $239mm In Gold Positions, Buys $25mm In Call Options On JuniorsCreepy Kike Jew (George Soros) Above

In a 13-F release issued by the SEC after market close yesterday, it was reported that Soros Fund Management LLC, founded and chaired by billionaire financier George Soros, significantly increased its gold related holdings, most notably, through the purchase of over $25 million dollars worth of call options on the GDXJ Junior Gold Miners index. This stunning move by one of the world’s top performing hedge funds, suggests a powerful surge ahead for gold equities. It should be noted, that in the forty years prior to 2010, the Soros Fund averaged a 20% annual rate of return.

A breakdown of the 13-F data indicates that during the first quarter, the Soros Fund:

1. Maintained a $32mm stake in individual miners.

2. Added a staggering 1.1 million shares of GDX to its holdings, at a reported price of $37.84 per share. Total Soros Fund GDX holdings now stand at 2.666 million shares, at a reported value of over $100,000,000.

3. Reduced it’s long position in the GDXJ Junior Miners Index fund, from 1.998 million shares to 1.2 million shares—only to turn around, and purchase 1.510 million call options on the same index, at a reported value of $25,200,000.

4. Lastly, the fund reduced its stake in the GLD gold fund from 600k shares to 530k shares, for a total reported value of $82,000,000. In summary, as of May 15th, 2013, Soros Fund Management LLC reported owning over $239.2 million in gold related positioning, with over $25 million dedicated to call options on junior mining stocks.

Bottom Line: While debate continues as to how far gold and gold equities will continue to drop, the Soros Fund is lightening up on physical gold in exchange for gold mining equities and call options on the extremely volatile junior mining stocks. There couldn’t be any stronger indication by the fund as to its beliefs about the timing of this bottom (outside of selling everything and going all-in on call options of course). It remains to be seen whether these positions will end up in the green or not? SOURCE

15-year-old girl learns the truth about the Holohoax, submits a report & gets an A

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A 15-year-old girl from Southern California who attends a public high school tells the story of how she recently became aware of questions concerning the holocaust. After hearing the establishment’s version of the ‘shoah’ in her history class for weeks along with persistent rumors that Obamacare included provisions for microchipping all Americans, she was very upset at all the frightening and traumatizing details. But then she had an encounter which led her to question what she had been taught, and decided to conduct her own investigation.

Upon completion of her research, she decided to submit a report for a school project in an elective class she was taking for extra credit. She titled it ‘Holohoax,’ and got an A on the report! Unfortunately for the regime, the widely accepted version of the ‘holocaust’ which has been passed down for generations and constantly promoted through Hollywood propaganda films is not enough to brainwash the youth, who are increasingly thinking for themselves, outside the box.

READ HER ESSAY BELOW:

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A lie known worldwide, spreading to clueless people and creating disaster everywhere, has caused so many German lives to be spitefully taken. The “Holocaust”, an alleged story of millions of Jews being tortured in concentration camps, has been proven time and time again to be inaccurate, For the acclaimed number of murdered Jews to be true is impossible, proven so not only by logic, but also the fact that the “survivors” of these evens have been known to and even admitted to being paid to lie about it. This in itself should be proof enough of this act of misleading propaganda being false, but there is indeed more evidence.

One reason to believe that the Holocaust is a lie is that the Jews claimed to have been murdered in gas chambers, groups as a time. However, no evidence of such occurrences has been shown or documented. According to scientists who were assigned to study the bodies of the victims of World War 2, “Most of them died from typhus epidemics. Most of the rest of them died from starvation and lack of medical supply care resulting from allied bombing raids against food and medical supply lines. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holohoax) The Jews show pictures of hair and clothing of women and children, claiming that they were used for soap and rugs after their owners being stripped of them and brutally killed. However, the truth lies in the fact that “The Germans were against typhus, which was the real reason for shaving heads, fumigating buildings, and cremating corpses.” (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holohoax) Also, heads were shaved and people were gathered top be treated not with lethal gases in order to commit genocide, but with repellant, to stop the epidemic of head lice spreading throughout the camps.

Another thing that contradicts the lies of faulty “survivors” is that the number of Jews said to be killed in the camps was inaccurately stated. Six million Jews were supposedly killed in the Holocaust, when not even such an amount existed in Europe entirely, let alone Germany. “In 1939, there were nearly 15,700,000 Jews in the world. After the Second World War that number had risen to over 18,000,000 Jews. What this means is that of the 15,000,000 original Jews on the planet, 6,000,000 were gassed, leaving only some 9,000,000-plus. Then, the world Jewish population rebounded and doubled to over 18,000,000 in less than nine years – an astronomical feat, which astounded biologists and baby doctors everywhere!” (http://exposing-the-holocaust-hoax-archive.blogspot.com/2009/09/fun-facts-holohoax-for-dummies.html) Not only were the Jews not murdered, but were give a choice. “For that we must go back to one Ilea Ehrenburg,* chief Soviet propagandist during the Second World War and later on to die in Israel, who coined the mythic number on Dec. 22, 1944 – BEFORE tens of thousands of Jewish internees, given the choice of staying to be “liberated” by the Communists or going with their German captors, did not hesitate to choose the latter option!” (http://exposing-the-holocaust-hoax-archive.blogspot.com/2009/09/fun-facts-holohoax-for-dummies.html) Thus proving that the Jewish population was not forced to concentration camps to be scalped and gassed.

Not only do we have visible proof of the holocaust being a lie, but also some very trustworthy witness: The American Red Cross. The Red Cross was asked to do an investigation and search of the camps and corpses, and make accurate reports on their findings. “Says the Report: ‘In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 … In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorized to stay in each camp …’ (Vol. III, p. 83).” (http://www.ihr.org/books/harwood/dsmrd01.html)

In reading this, one may conclude that the Germans did not intentionally kill the Jews, but strove to maintain lives. Many of the allegations against the Germans made by Jews involved gas chambers, which they claimed to be stripped, shaved, and gathered into for a mass killing. However, in order for a gas chamber to exist on a premise, there must be airtight doors and high chimneys, neither of which was found at the former “death camps.” Also, there is no proof of the gassed Jews except for allegations made by hired phony witnesses. According to the Red Cross, “Though six million Jews supposedly died in the gas chambers, not one body has ever been autopsied and found to have died of gas poisoning. We have been shown piles of bodies from World War II, but most of these persons died of typhus or starvation or Allied bombings and a great many of those were murdered Germans – the equivalent of ten football fields should be packed full of gassed bodies to present as evidence, yet not one body has ever been discovered.” (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/holohoax.htm) If this is not proof enough, what else is needed? What excuse can be made in retort?

This is not to say that the Holocaust did not take place. It is only to prove that it did not happen as it was told according to the Jews. Not only in the camps, but all over the world, people died; suffered from starvation, typhus and bombing raids in World War 2. Lastly, without being given the evidence that it did happen as it is told, we are shown clues that the effects on Europe of World War 2 was much different; not a story that would benefit the Jews, giving them compensation each month for some thing that was simply a hyperbole. SOURCE

Enjoy Your Swim in “Shit” this Summer

In Case You Hadn't Noticed Its Hot

Majority of pools are contaminated by poop, CDC says

There’s poop in public pools, according to a new report. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found genetic material from E. coli bacteria in 58 percent of public pools they tested during the summer of 2012. This shows that “swimmers frequently introduced fecal material into pools,” which could spread germs to other people, the researchers wrote in their report. E. coli bacteria are normally found in the human gut and feces. They also found genetic material from bacteria, which can cause skin rashes and ear infections, in 59 percent of pools. The fecal material in pools comes from swimmers not showering before getting into the water, and from incidents of defecation in pools, according to the report. The average person has 0.14 grams of fecal material on their “perianal surface” that can rinse into a pool if a person doesn’t shower first, according to the report.  SOURCE

Good News: US in for 20 more years of ‘war on terror’ – official (Pentagon)

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The US is no closer to the end of its “war on terror” than before, even after having beheaded al-Qaeda in the 2011 operation that wiped out the terror group’s leader Osama Bin Laden. Now a senior Pentagon official has predicted another 20 years of the mission against al-Qaeda. Speaking to the Senate Armed Services early Thursday, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Michael Sheehan said the Pentagon wasn’t yet planning to wrap up its “war on terror.” When asked how long it might take the US to beat down terrorists, the official said: “At least 10 to 20 years.”

The Senate committee on Thursday lashed out against Michael Sheehan over these prospects and the fact that the Bush-era anti-terror bill called the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) gave its commander-in-chief overboard powers that justified a widening war against insurgents, reaching out as far as to Yemen and Somalia. In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act updated this law to grant the President power not just to target overseas terrorists, but suspects believed to be “associated forces.”

Sen. Angus King stressed Thursday the AUMF was kept in place largely because it justified a war that would otherwise be illegal. “You guys have invented this term, associated forces, that’s nowhere in this document…It’s the justification for everything, and it renders the war powers of Congress null and void,” Mr. King said. “[The AUMF] does suit you well because you’re reading it to fit everything, and it doesn’t, the general rule of war applies.” he added. US troops are officially to pull out of Afghanistan in 2014. But if estimates are true, the actual “war on terror” may extend through the 2030s. SOURCE

Jew Controlled USA Officially Bans all Gold Sales to Iran Starting July 1st

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Gold Wars: U.S. Undermining Iranian Currency By Blocking Gold Imports

Currency wars are set to continue and deepen which will support gold. The United States government is to rigorously enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran from July 1. They are planning to block sales of gold to Iranians in order to undermine the Iranian currency, the rial, and to step up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program, U.S. officials said yesterday according to Reuters and Bloomberg. The U.S. will now ban sales of gold by anyone to either the Iranian government or to Iranian citizens, a senior U.S. Treasury official said yesterday.

Washington has warned Iran’s neighbours Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, key regional centers of the gold trade, to stop gold sales to Iran, said David Cohen (JEW), treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. “We have been very clear with the governments of Turkey and the UAE and elsewhere, as well as the private sector that is involved in the gold trade, that as of July 1 all must stop, not just trade to the government,” he said.

Gold fell 0.43% and silver finished -0.71%. Nothing has changed regarding the positive fundamentals of the physical gold market. All that has changed is that the price of gold is again lower due to the machinations of technical traders and speculators. Paper gold sales are again trumping massive physical demand however this cannot go on for much longer and the patient will again be handsomely rewarded. U.S. markets are again having a wild party and all speculators are invited. Stocks are at an all-time high, the country is basking in its new found energy ‘independence,’ there is a perception that the housing market is showing green shoots of recovery and the great bellwether, the employment numbers, showed better than expected gains in April.

Tragically, it appears, the U.S. and other investors are again borrowing to buy stocks, confident that prices can only go in only one direction. All of this euphoria can be traced to the monetary expansion policies of the U.S. Fed and across the sea to Europe to the Bank of England and the ECB, and over to Japan and the ‘la la land’ of ‘Abenomics’. Does history repeat itself? Can we learn from money printing throughout history? Of course we can.

Global currency debasement on a scale never before seen in history will not end well – for savers and most investors. Currency wars are set to continue and deepen which will support gold. The United States government is to rigorously enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran from July 1. They are planning to block sales of gold to Iranians in order to undermine the Iranian currency, the rial, and to step up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program, U.S. officials said yesterday according to Reuters and Bloomberg.

The Iranian rial is the official currency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  The conventional market quotation is the number of rials per U.S. dollar.  The rial is a fiat currency which like most paper currencies today is a managed, floating currency.  The Central Bank of Iran has abolished the multi-tier exchange rate regime and established a single rate in its place.

The U.S. will now ban sales of gold by anyone to either the Iranian government or to Iranian citizens, a senior U.S. Treasury official said yesterday. Washington has warned Iran’s neighbours Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, key regional centers of the gold trade, to stop gold sales to Iran, said David Cohen, treasury under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. “We have been very clear with the governments of Turkey and the UAE and elsewhere, as well as the private sector that is involved in the gold trade, that as of July 1 all must stop, not just trade to the government,” he said.

Cohen (JEW) told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. government continues to find new ways to isolate Iran from the international financial system. “In particular, we are looking carefully at actions that could increase pressure on the value of the rial,” he said. “One thing that we have seen in the course of the last year is when the rial depreciates and depreciates rapidly, that begins to create a dynamic in Iran that has an effect.” The rial has lost 34% against the dollar since 2008 having fallen from 9135 rial per $1.00 to 12258 per $1.00 today. The dollar has fallen by 52% against gold in the same period having fallen from $920/oz to $1,380/oz.

Iranian people are suffering from the currency devaluation with the very significant increase in the cost of living. “It has an effect on the elites and their perception of how the country is behaving.” The move to block gold sales is part of the effort to further weaken the rial, he explained. “There’s a tremendous demand for gold among private Iranian citizens, which in some respects is an indication of the success of our sanctions.” “They are dumping their rials to buy gold as a way to try to preserve their wealth. That is I think an indication that they recognise that the value of their currency is declining.”

Cohen (JEW) and another senior official, U.S. State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (JEW), told the committee that sanctions were having a deep impact on Tehran. He said a ban on oil exports was costing Tehran between USD 3 and 5 billion a month and caused the economy to contract by as much as eight percent last year. Sherman (JEW) said 14 out of 20 importers of Iranian oil have ended their purchases, and the other six — China, India, Turkey, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan — have significantly reduced their imports. “We are continuing, of course, to press them for further significant reductions as is required under the law,” she told the committee.

Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and sponsor of several Iran sanctions laws questioned whether the administration is doing enough to enforce its own prohibitions on Iran’s gold trade issued last summer. He cited estimates in a report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Roubini Global Economics that Iran has imported more than $6 billion in gold, mainly from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, since the administration’s ban on gold trade with Iran’s government took effect last summer. That’s equivalent to about 10% of Iran’s 2012 oil exports of $60 billion, Menendez said.

“We are actively enforcing” the gold ban, Cohen (JEW) said. “We have been very clear with countries that are exporting gold to Iran, principally Turkey and the UAE, on precisely what the law permits and what it forbids, and we are following the information very carefully.” Cohen (JEW) reminded lawmakers that this July 1, the ban will extend to private sales. To date, though, the administration hasn’t penalized any entity in Turkey or the UAE for trading in gold with the Iranian government. This is another manifestation of the war on gold. Central banks and their minion banks have won the recent battles but the finite money par excellence gold and owners of physical gold will again win the war as they have throughout history.  SOURCE

This Chart is Truly Amazing Folks!!!

Chart of the Week: Growth of Government Assistance Adds to National Debt

More than 41 percent of the U.S. population is “enrolled in at least one federal assistance program,” adding tens of billions of dollars to the national debt each year, according to new research by The Heritage Foundation’s Patrick Tyrrell and William W. Beach.

That means that a startling number of people in the United States draw income from money their family earns as well as money transferred to them from U.S. taxpayers via some form of federal assistance spending, according to the report from the Center for Data Analysis at Heritage. The rate of growth of those receiving federal assistance spending grew 62 percent from 1988 to 2011. Those government expenditures help drive the deficit and add to the perilous federal debt, now approaching 100 percent of GDP, the authors said.

In their Backgrounder issued earlier this week, the authors outlined the alarming rate of growth in the number of people receiving federal government benefits. From 2000 to 2011, that number jumped by 34 million, from 94 million people to 128 million people, or 41.3 percent of the total U.S. population. As Tyrrell and Beach point out, this is not a total number of those dependent upon government expenditures, but rather, those who receive any form of federal government assistance:

Many of those who receive benefits from the federal government could live well without them, so they do not count as truly dependent on the federal government. Warren Buffett is the beneficiary of a federal program—Social Security—but, since he does not rely on that income for his livelihood, he should not be considered dependent on government programs. Others depend on the programs for nearly all of their income, housing, health care, food, and other needs and so fall under the classification of truly dependent on the government. Still others are somewhere in between, depending on government financing for, say, college, but little else. Consequently, it is important to note that stating that 128.8 million people receive benefits from a government program does not mean that all of them are dependent on the government.

Here are some of their key findings:

•128,818,142 people are enrolled in at least one government program.
•48,580,105 people are on Medicaid.
•35,770,301 people receive their retirement income from Social Security.
•43,834,566 people are on Medicare.
•39,030,579 people are living in a household where at least one person accepts food stamps.
•6,984,783 people are living in subsidized rental housing.
•2,047,149 people are receiving a higher-education subsidy.

It is important to note that the above categories overlap; for example an individual may receive both subsidized rental housing and food stamps. The total number—128,818,142 people on at least one government program does not double count individuals, however. The 128,818,142 figure for people enrolled in at least one program is surely an undercount: The CPS responses are well known to undercount those receiving Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, State Children’s Health Insurance, higher-education support, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.  SOURCE

Infowars Comment Section Blasting the Kike Jew!!!

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rustymason says:

The real Sicilian mafia were pikers compared to the Jewish mafia, which currently holds all the money and power.

The Jewish mafia “went legit” and now they own the major world banks, Wall Street, the MSM, and most of Washington D.C. and the associated regulatory agencies. In short, they have bought control of the entire world and everyone in it through their ability to make money (debt, in reality) from thin air.

Anonymous says:

in the mid 1930s italian gangster lucky luciano and his close friend jewish gangster meyer lansky said
to the warring criminal gangs ,lets cut out the fighting and come together and form a commision and
work together for our common good.so they did,they also created there own version of the un army
murder inc. to deal with any member who got out of line.and when jewish gangsters dutch shultz and
buggsey seigal bucked the commision the jews on the commision voted to kill them, being a jew
didn,t save them.this is what were facing today, but on a global scale, jews and nonjews working
together for there good ,not ours

Germany was trying to defend its own people and Europe against the Marxists, who were murdering 10′s of millions of Christians next door at the time. Japan had been blockaided and provoked into war by a communist president (FDR) and his bankster family. Italy was being squeezed, and Egypt was a U.S. puppet state. Germany, Italy, Egypt, and Japan were all trying to defend traditional values against the Russian, British, and American progressives. But they lost and the communists won. Thier NWO rules the world now through the socialist U.S. and its military. And guess which tribe is in charge of it all? The same tribe that ran the USSR.

 

The Marxist Police State isn’t here yet… Sure it’s not!

Video: California Police Break into Private Residence, Taze Person Filming

A video depicting police from the City of Cotati, California forcing their way into someone’s home and then tazing the person filming the incident is causing an uproar on YouTube and LiveLeak.

Displaying utter disregard for the US Constitution, one of four police officers announces they will enter the home due to a domestic violence call, as the persons inside the house argue, “There is no domestic violence, just an argument with yelling,” and relay sections of the Fourth Amendment that dictate probable cause and a warrant be obtained prior to police entering someone’s home. Around twenty seconds into the video, one of the officers is seen holstering either a firearm or a Taser.

The officer in charge next asks how many children are in the house, likely assessing the amount of psychological trauma that will soon be dealt out, before asking the persons inside the home why they’re not coming out, to which the person filming answers, “Because we don’t live in a police state, sir. Martial law has not been established in this country.” Ignoring the person’s response, the officer tells the residents to get down on the floor with their hands behind their backs “because we’re gonna kick the door.”

What comes next is a chilling example of what could happen to anyone in any home in America if police are allowed unrestrained free rein. Although difficult to pinpoint exactly why police found it necessary to invade the person’s home and privacy, it can be assumed that the documented home invasion, constitutional violation and destruction of property would likely have never been brought to light if the person had not filmed the event. SOURCE

Breaking News: Two More White Babies Murdered by Niggers

Fox 6 – Milwaukee – Black male arrested for the murder of white girlfriend’s three year old. Marcus Johnson. Arrested for murder of three year old Hunter Wise, in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.

Fox 6 – Alabama – Black male charged with beating his white girlfriend’s two year old to death. Arrested and charged with beating Cody Rollins, age 2, to death.

Blacks males commit femicide at 9 times the white rate. However, this number is even higher when you look at black male/white female interracial couples. One major study on spousal homicide showed that white females married to black males were victims of femicide at 12.4 times the rate of white females married to white males. However, it isn’t always the woman who is killed. We constantly see cases where friends, family members, and children of white females involved with black males are killed by the male. There were just two different incidents of black males killing the babies of white girlfriends. In both cases, the baby is from a previous relationship and is white. SOURCE

Students Refuse to Affirm Transgender Classmates Face Punishment

Last week the Massachusetts Department of Education issued directives for handling transgender students – including allowing them to use the bathrooms of their choice or to play on sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify. The 11-page directive also urged schools to eliminate gender-based clothing and gender-based activities – like having boys and girls line up separately to leave the classroom. Schools will now be required to accept a student’s gender identity on face value.

“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate. According to the Dept. of Education, transgender students are those whose assigned birth sex does not match their “internalized sense of their gender.” They said gender nonconforming students “range in the ways in which they identify as male, female, some combination of both, or neither.”

“The responsibility for determining a student’s gender identity rests with the student,” the guidelines dictate. “One’s gender identity is an innate, largely inflexible characteristic of each individual’s personality that is generally established by age four…As a result, the person best situated to determine a student’s gender identity is that student himself or herself.”

The new rules would also prevent teachers and administrators from telling parents with which gender their child identifies. “School personnel should speak with the student first before discussing a student’s gender nonconformity or transgender status with the student’s parent or guardian,” the directive states. The guidelines were issued at the request of the state board of education to help schools follow the 2011 anti-discrimination law protecting transgender students. SOURCE

Liberal US city charged with apartheid

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It’s nationally known as one of the most liberal cities in the country, blacks make up a majority of the city board, and the official policy that favored blacks over whites and Hispanics was the subject of a Supreme Court case. So what’s the NAACP say about New Haven, Conn.? It practices apartheid. That’s according to the New Haven NAACP chapter, which likens the city’s practices to the South African system that maintained official policies of racial segregation that included political, legal and economic discrimination against blacks. The NAACP in New Haven, which was ranked 15th most liberal city in the nation in a report by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, has released a report making the accusation.

The report, in fact, is called “Urban Apartheid.”

It alleges that “low-income people of color” in New Haven “continue to be separated from the country’s social and economic mainstream in part as a direct result of current local, regional, state, and national policies.” It cites the differences in circumstances between those with low incomes and those with higher incomes. It points out that 58 percent of blacks live in low-income neighborhoods, while only 21 percent of whites live there. And 63 percent of Hispanics live there. The report also points out that only 10 percent of families in low-income neighborhoods make more than $100,000 while 43 percent of those in high-income neighborhoods make more than $100,000 a year.

The report also says cases of asthma, diabetes and high blood pressure are higher in low-income neighborhoods. It recommends that more affordable housing units be allowed, health conditions be improved, voter registration needs to be improved, politicians must be accountable to “minority communities,” pipelines should be created to put “young black and Latino residents” in civic leadership roles, and the barriers to employment need to be removed for those “formerly incarcerated residents.” Ilana Mercer, a WND columnist and author of “Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,” left South Africa in 1995. She is highly critical of the NAACP’s “promiscuous use of the apartheid pejorative,” telling WND, “It is as ignorant as it is glib.”

“Like antibiotics that lose their potency through over dosage – yelling ‘apartheid’ at people just because they are richer and more educated than you makes you look ridiculous,” Mercer added. Besides its ranking as the nation’s 15th-most liberal city, the city also voted for a liberal Barack Obama over a more conservative Mitt Romney by a 9-1 margin in 2012. Also, it’s home to Yale. Many features of New Haven’s legal and political system don’t seem to fit the definition of apartheid. Under apartheid, “racism and segregation became thoroughly rigid and institutionalized; they permeated all aspects of life, and government repression became more ruthless,” according to a Michigan State University study. The South African government purposefully separated students by race, and blacks did not have the right to vote or hold political office under apartheid.

In contrast, blacks in New Haven have a disproportionate share of seats in the city’s government. New Haven is 35 percent black, 27 percent Hispanic, and 32 percent white. Of 30 aldermen, 16 are black, 7 are Hispanic, and seven are white. Only one of these alderman responded to a WND request for comment on the city’s “apartheid.” That alderman, Justin Elicker, described himself to WND as a ‘progressive Democrat.” Elicker, who is white, says, “I would not choose the word ‘apartheid’ to describe what is happening in New Haven.” He noted that “[t]he word apartheid indicates that individuals are intentionally targeted and suppressed. “I don’t believe most members of our society are intentionally keeping others down,” he says.

Elicker, however, did criticize “the structure that has been created to limit opportunities for those individuals who find themselves in poverty,” including such perceived problems as “a public transportation system that is inefficient making it time consuming and difficult to get to work.” Despite the accusation of “apartheid,” the most prominent instance of race-based politics in recent New Haven history was the city’s official discrimination against white and Hispanic firefighters in favor of blacks. That discrimination was the subject of the important Ricci v. DeStefano Supreme Court case.

Since 1976, the city has had an official affirmative action plan. Today, the affirmative action plan states: “The City of New Haven continues to be firmly and aggressively committed to a program of affirmative action designed to assist members of protected classes in gaining employment opportunity in all aspects of employment with the city.” New Haven is 35 percent black, and 25 percent of all government jobs are held by blacks. The city is 27 percent Hispanic and Hispanics hold 14 percent of government jobs. Whites are 32 percent of the city, and they hold 57 percent of government jobs.

The city’s corporate counsel, city clerk, director of the commission on equal opportunities, and community services administrator are black. These officials declined to respond to repeated requests to comment on their leadership roles in the city with “apartheid.” Other major cities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Chicago do not publicly provide the racial breakdown of government jobs. New Haven publicly posts a chart showing its government workforce racial representation, another policy which doesn’t fit the traditional definition of apartheid.

The New Haven NAACP did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the accusation of apartheid. But the organization states in the report, “We chose the term ‘Urban Apartheid’ as the title of this report because low-income people of color in America’s urban areas, including the Greater New Haven metropolitan area, continue to be separated from the country’s social and economic mainstream in part as a direct result of current local, regional, state, and national policies.”

The report points to various inequalities in housing, health, and education, mostly based on economics. Mercer rejects the notion that these inequalities constitute some form of injustice. “If one assumes (as only an ass would) that aptitudes and abilities never vary by culture or ethnicity, as well as from one individual to another, one will indeed blame the absence of a perfect state of equality on the endemic racism of The Hated Other, whites for the NAACP,” Mercer says.

As the NAACP report noted, “Apartheid is any policy or practice of separating or segregating groups. It was an official policy formerly practiced in South Africa against non-whites.” However, the NAACP report does not explain how health issues or affordable housing constitute a regime of “apartheid.” Jim Rawlings, head of the local NAACP, said he knew there would be resistance to the report. “These are the same issues we’ve been going through for the last 200 years,” he claimed.  SOURCE

Israel seeks fresh Holocaust reparations deal with Germany

Minister for Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan is seeking to reopen the 1952 reparations agreement between Israel and Germany. Eitan, the minister in charge of the talks with Germany on reparations for Holocaust survivors and retrieving Jewish property, intends to discuss the matter with the German finance minister when he comes to Israel in two weeks’ time.

Eitan told Haaretz that the original reparations agreement, the Luxembourg Agreement, did not take into account many issues relating to Holocaust survivors and should therefore be reopened. That agreement stipulated that Germany would give Israel $833 million in money and merchandise, and Israel would look after the survivors, who would not be permitted to sue Germany directly.

A state comptroller’s report on the treatment of Holocaust survivors, released this past August, said that in the 50 years between 1954 and 2004, the government had spent some $3.5 billion on the survivors, more than four times the sum transferred by Germany.

“We see Germany as responsible for the Holocaust survivors,” Eitan told Haaretz. “The agreements with them had many holes. Nobody estimated the high cost of the last stage of life in the modern era, or that people would live at least ten years longer on average than they did in the 1950s.”

The Luxembourg Agreement also failed to take into account the arrival of many additional survivors to Israel. “Nobody thought that 175,000 Holocaust refugees from the former Soviet Union would come to Israel,” Eitan said. “That changed the entire picture, even if the Germans aren’t interested.” SOURCE

Black violence surges from D.C. to the Master’s

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It has been a busy month for black mob violence, starting in the nation’s capital. Just one day before journalists and celebrities from around the world gathered for the White House Correspondent’s Dinner on April 27th, police prepared for mob violence. Not from Georges Will or Clooney. But from a black mob that created violence the day before at Union Station just a few blocks from the White House. And was rumored to be preparing an encore performance.

On a Friday conference call, police convinced each other they were ready. Turns out they were not. This episode of black mob violence, as are many others on the Washington Metro, was caught on tape: Anywhere from 70 to 150 black people fighting, destroying property and taking over the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station. “Despite the added police presence, the brawl grew too large and the officers were forced to call for backup,” reported WTOP in Washington, D.C. A few people were arrested but many more were grateful they were not in the middle of it.

In December, WND reported a black mob attacked two white women on the Metro, taking their phones. Caught on video. And in the summer of 2011, dozens of black people were caught on tape fighting, destroying property and creating mayhem at the same Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro stop. Black mob violence is a regular feature of life on the Metro. Police know it. Riders know it. Up the freeway in New York, a group of black Muslims allegedly was taunting a Jewish man on the subway.

“Assalamu Alaikum,” Steven Stowe said in April to the man, using a common greeting among Muslims that means, “Peace be with you,” court documents allege. When the man ignored the greeting, Stowe allegedly became combative,” said the New York Daily News. “I’m going to kill you right now,” Stowe said, according to cops and court records. He then swore at the man, according to cops and court records, and in an apparent reference to the Holocaust added, “They should have killed all of you,” said the Daily News. When they arrived at the next station, police were waiting. So was a large crowd of black people who tried to stop the police from arresting Stowe. The crowd surrounded police and disregarded orders to disperse. All on video.

“Why y’all doing this,” shouted Sheniqua Joseph, over and over, protesting the arrest. They arrested her too after she was “yelling and standing too close to officers, put her hands on officers while they were trying to arrest Stowe, and punched and kicked at an officer,” said the Gothamist. The crowd did not like that either. But by that time 50 more of New York’s finest were on the scene, and the crowd decided to go on their way. Let’s head down to Chester, near Philadelphia, for a two-fer: A mob of black people attacked a fellow student at Chester High. The punching, kicking and chair-throwing at an unsuspecting student in the library was captured on video as one student promised to keep it “real.” The victim was taken to the hospital with bruises and he required stitches for a cut to the head.

School officials did not notify police of the attack. And police only found out when one of the alleged assailants, Edward Stanley, posted it on his Facebook page. Right next to the videos from him and his friends about how they constantly like to smoke marijuana. Another video from his Facebook is equally as interesting: It shows Stanley lighting and throwing a Molotov cocktail. Back in New York in the middle of April, two high school students were attacked by a black mob of more than a dozen men and women. They beat the honor students with fists, umbrellas, belts and kicked them in the face. All on video. The two students told police it had also happened the day before and the mob promised to do it again. One of the women had two black eyes and a broken nose. No arrests have been made.

These incidents are part of more than 500 examples of black mob violence from around the country documented in the book “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media is ignoring it.” If you are in a New York State of Mind, let’s head over to the Bronx, where last week six black men attacked a man, robbed him, beat him and kicked him in the face. All on video. All while brandishing a gun. No one has been arrested. We cannot forget Augusta, Georgia – home of the Masters. Late last month, a few dozen black people fought and fired guns outside of the Soul Club in downtown Augusta. All on video. No one was arrested, but lots of people were plenty scared when that gun went off. The last video shows the least amount of violence, but it could be the most revealing. Last weekend, police responded to a noise complaint at 2 a.m. at an off-campus party at the University of Southern California.

The party was attended from somewhere between 150 and 400 black people, depending whom you believe. When police told them to wrap it up and turn off the amplifiers, they refused. But maybe the music was not loud and maybe they did not refuse, depending whom you believe. Soon after, people started throwing rocks and bottles at the two cops on the call. Or maybe that never happened, depending whom you believe. Soon 80 members of the LAPD were in the streets, in riot gear. Six people got arrested. There were no bloody heads or hospital visits or scraped knees. Everyone agrees on that. But there were a lot of hurt feelings from black students at USC who said the police were targeting black parties for no reason whatsoever. Other than racial animosity, that is.

One student called the police action – or inaction, depending whom you believe – “an atrocity.” Said Makiah Green, a film student: “I had flashbacks to an era I wasn’t even alive to suffer through. I was too scared to go outside, legitimately fearing that an officer would see me and arrest me for being black and inquisitive.” That is probably called Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder. There was a lot of that, all over the Los Angeles local news: People were mad the cops showed up. At all. “I’M A SCHOLAR, NOT A CRIMINAL,” said Makiah. Several lawyers contacted for this article said they were not aware of any scholarly exemption from noise ordinances in the penal code. One of her friends gave her some props at Makiah’s blog: “Bravo, as a minority student at SC too, I feel you. White students are treated differently than minority ones and the Row has crimes on it every single week. But, these are rich white kids so their crimes get hushed up … smh.”

In some discussions of black mob violence, a common response is that other racial groups also have a pattern of wild and violent goings-on. But Makiah and her friends keep forgetting to attach the videos. The University of Southern California abuts South Central Los Angeles, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in America. Campus security is tight, and students are constantly warned about the sometimes-fatal dangers waiting for them just a few feet off campus. To Makiah, that’s just another expression of racism. And instead of locking the neighborhood criminals out, USC should invite them in: “To me, protection means opening our gates even wider for at-risk youth who are in desperate need of positive role models, not locking them out after 9 p.m.,” she said. “I will feel welcomed when I see a public statement from President Nikias acknowledging the discrimination and blatant racism that my people have had to endure since we were first admitted into this school.”

For the next incidents, the members of the black mob responsible for the violence were not thoughtful enough to post any video of their lawless behavior. Even so, let’s head down to Fort Meyers, Fla., to the Pulse Night Club, downtown. Earlier this week, police responded to a large mob of black people fighting at 1:50 a.m. Police tried to break up the crowd, but Henry James Jenkins decided he still had some partying he wanted to do. So he stayed where he was, shouting at people and challenging them to fights. Police eventually took Jenkins into custody, but only after shooting him with a Taser. Then it got real: “After Jenkins was detained, a large crowd started to gather around the arresting officers, and an unidentified person fired shots from a gray sedan traveling south on Hendry Street,” according to the Fort Meyers News-Press. According to the Fort Meyers’ CBS affiiate, “We’re learning this is not the only time in the last week violence like that has broken out in city streets. We found a YouTube video posted last week, titled ‘Fight on Hendry Street Fort Myers’ under the name of Nik Bahrami, Pulse Nightclub owner. You can hear yells and car horns honking as the brawl blocks the street.” No one else was arrested.

In Salisbury, N.C., one day after the Washington Metro riot, police had to pepper spray 200-300 students at a black college to stop what police call a riot. It started with a fight at a graduation party in the school gym, and it ended with students blaming police for causing the black mob violence all over the campus. Outside police departments were called in for assistance. “The students said there were people in the crowd who were shouting racial slurs, cursing at the officers and did not comply with the officers’ commands to disperse,” said the Salisbury Post. Two student were arrested, and Bobleto Latta was shot with a Taser for resisting. “Latta said the barbs struck him in the stomach,” reports the Salisbury Post. “He said it was painful and brought him to tears. He admits to ‘trash talking,’ but said he didn’t deserve to be shot with the Taser and to have officers place their knees in his back as he was on the ground.” At least one student commented she knew the real reason behind the violence. “If you don’t attend Livingstone College, then your opinion doesn’t really matter,” Resie Marie, a student at Livingstone College, said in comments to the Salisbury Post. “I attend Livingstone, and the way we are portrayed to the community is ridiculous. We aren’t as ‘ghetto’ as people think we are. We are simply young African-American men and women trying to get an education and make it out in the world. … Being a black man or woman in Salisbury is already hard enough, we don’t need any more troubles from the police.”

Back up the road in Aberdeen, Md., a black mob attacked an ambulance at the end of April. The paramedics were in the neighborhood responding to a call for help, but when they arrived, they had to dial 911 to get help for themselves: The black mob was fighting in the street around their ambulance, with several objects hitting their vehicle. They were either attacking the ambulance, or not, depending whom you believe. No one was arrested. No one got hurt. And the woman they had come to treat refused to talk to police. But police say that more and more often, police have to accompany emergency vehicles because some places are too dangerous to go.

See all the video evidence that has accumulated: HERE

Detroit May Run Out Of Cash Next Month

Another day, another US city on the brink of insolvency. This time it’s Detroit, whose recently appointed emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr said may run out of cash next month and must cut costs such as long-term debt and retiree obligations. According to Bloomberg, “Orr’s report says the cost of $9.4 billion in bond, pension and other long-term liabilities is sapping the ability to provide such basic services as public safety and transportation. He listed cutting debt principal, retiree benefits and jobs among options he may take. “No one should underestimate the severity of the financial crisis,” He called his report “a sobering wake-up call about the dire financial straits the city of Detroit faces.”

Funny, the above bolded sentence, because we have long since crossed into a stage where absolutely everyone is underestimating the severity of the financial crisis, which incidentally is long over if one listens to the broader media. As for Detroit, may we suggest the same medicine that the “expert economists” prescribe for every other instance of overlevered insolvency: just issue more debt. Surely with worthless Greek bonds soaring, there must be some Japanese investment funds that can’t wait to buy up all that paper on nothing but promises of untold riches courtesy of the endless carry trade that apparently can do no wrong.

Then again, Detroit may not be Greece: The Motor City is caught in a downward spiral of revenue from a shrinking tax base — it has lost two-thirds of its postwar peak population — while unemployment at 18 percent is twice the state level, according to Orr’s report. Managing an area larger than Boston, San Francisco and Manhattan combined has become increasingly difficult. Without a significant restructuring of its debt, the city will be unable to break the cycle of damaging cutbacks in essential municipal services and investments,” according to Orr’s report. He also cited the need for concessions from unions, and revamping the police and fire departments to protect residents beset by crime and arson-inviting blight. Detroit’s long-term obligations are at least $15.7 billion, including unfunded pension and retirement benefits. The general fund this fiscal year, with revenue of about $1.1 billion, will pay about $461 million for debt and health costs, according to the report. All the city’s revenue couldn’t pay off its debt in 20 years, said Bill Nowling, a spokesman for Orr. “If we don’t change and restructure, we are going to run out of cash,” he said yesterday by telephone. “That shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody.”

Maybe Detroit can pull a Cyprus and just confiscate a few billion from the savings accounts of the locals. Oh wait. So with that option out of the picture, the only other one is to scare everyone into the domino theory of M.A.D. unless someone ponies up and injects some more good money after bad: “We want to be very clear and strong: This is exactly the situation the city is in, and our creditors need to know that,” Nowling said. “Some do. A lot don’t.” Orr’s plan lays out alternatives for dealing with long-term debts, including reducing interest rates, stretching out payment schedules, outright forgiveness of principal or refinancing. The city’s credit rating is below investment grade. It will be difficult to reach consensus among debt holders, said Doug Bernstein, a bankruptcy lawyer with Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based Plunkett Cooney PC. Curbing pension benefits will be crucial to gaining an agreement from bondholders to cut debt costs without resorting to bankruptcy-court protection, he said. “That’s an optimistic view, that you can do it by consensus,” Bernstein said. “Maybe when they read the numbers, they’ll agree. But given the number of different credit classes and collective-bargaining units, I don’t see them conceding voluntarily.”

So if a collective effort of sticking heads in the sand here is out of the question, the only other option is bankruptcy. Sure enough: Orr’s report is probably a prelude to the city’s seeking Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, said Manny Grillo, the New York-based head of restructuring practices for Goodwin Procter LLP. He said there are too many creditors, including 48 employee unions, to reach a consensus without court intervention. “No one is ever going to be the first to cut a deal,” Grillo said. Michigan, led by Republican Governor Rick Snyder, may step in with financial help “to fill in the gaps” only after deals have been struck to lower debt costs, Grillo said.

And just in case there is any confusion about what the future holds for the once proud headquarters of America’s automotive genius, the next steps include the city going dark. Literally. Orr wants to continue an effort to turn over the aging streetlight system to a public lighting authority by 2020. The plan calls for eliminating almost half of 88,000 streetlights, concentrating replacements in more populous areas. The plan also says Detroit should exit the business of supplying electricity to businesses and municipal operations.

Finally, the vision of the creator of RoboCop, which was set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the “near-future” seems to have been 100% spot on: Hiring a new police chief and restructuring the department will happen soon, Nowling said. Given cuts in the city workforce over the past few years, additional employees may be needed in the short term to implement more efficient practices, including the replacement of outdated computer systems, according to Orr’s plan.

So will the Detroit PD soon be staffed entirely by bulletproof cyborgs as a cost-cutting strategy? Perhaps they can be funded by whatever profits the robotic vacuum tubes that are the only traders left in this farce of a market. And what happens once said robocops begin a universal suffrage and demand a legal right to vote in one of their robotic brethren into public office? Surely, more insane things have happened in the new centrally planned abnormal.  SOURCE

Gold Bears Pull $20.8 Billion as BlackRock Says Buy Now

Gold Bears Pull $20.8 Billion as BlackRock Says Buy: Commodities

Is the Party Over for Commodities?

Hedge funds increased bets on lower gold prices after investors pulled a record $20.8 billion from bullion funds this year while BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s biggest money manager, said it’s still bullish. Speculators held 67,374 so-called short contracts on May 7, 6.4 percent more than a week earlier, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. The net-long position dropped 10 percent to 49,260 futures and options. Net-bullish wagers across 18 U.S.-traded raw materials climbed 5.8 percent to 582,265, with gains for cocoa, cotton and hogs.

Gold is having its worst start to a year since 1982 after dropping 14 percent and sliding into a bear market in April. Holdings in exchange-traded funds backed by bullion tumbled to the lowest since July 2011 even as central banks print money on an unprecedented scale to boost growth. BlackRock’s President Robert Kapito said May 9 he would still buy the metal, echoing billionaire John Paulson, who’s sticking with a bullish view even after losing 27 percent in his Gold Fund last month.

Fund Outflows

Money managers withdrew $1.27 billion from gold and precious-metals funds in the week ended May 8, according to Cameron Brandt, the director of research for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based EPFR Global, which tracks money flows. This year’s outflows of $20.8 billion are the largest withdrawals since the firm began tracking the data in 2000.

A majority of the 38 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg last month predicted the metal will decline in 2013, ending a 12-year bull run. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said May 2 that gold has no appeal even after the rout. The drop in global ETP holdings wiped $37.4 billion of value from the assets this year, while more than $4.6 trillion has been added to the value of global equities, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

Paulson favors the metal even after his Gold Fund saw declines of about 47 percent this year, according to two people familiar with the matter. Paulson & Co. is the biggest investor in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the largest bullion ETP. The metal helps diversify portfolios, BlackRock’s Kapito said in an interview with Tom Keene on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” Kapito said he would “still be a buyer of these short-term technical blips.” BlackRock is the top investor in the iShares Gold Trust.

India, China

Physical demand for gold drove an 8 percent gain in prices from a two-year low on April 16. Indian imports reached more than 100 tons in April, now valued at $4.7 billion, and shipments probably will top that again this month, according to refiner MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. The country’s gold imports were 860 tons last year, the London-based World Gold Council estimates. Consumption in China rose 26 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the China Gold Association said May 7.

Gold surged 62 percent since the end of 2008 as the Fed was joined by central banks in Europe and Japan in printing unprecedented amounts of money, almost doubling sovereign debt to more than $23 trillion, a Bank of America index shows. Twelve analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise this week, with 10 bearish and five neutral.

‘Lining Up’

“People are still lining up in China and India to buy the physical gold,” said John Kinsey, who helps manage about C$1 billion at Caldwell Securities Ltd. in Toronto. “Europe has got a stimulus program. The U.S. has a stimulus program. Japan has a stimulus program. You’d think there would be huge inflation coming with all this debt that’s being printed.”

Even as economists at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse Group AG predict policy makers will keep deploying stimulus, consumer prices have remained stable. Inflation expectations as measured by the break-even rate for five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities on April 18 reached the lowest since November.

Cheapest Places to Live in Latin America

Beautiful Argentina Countryside

“Forbes” magazine lists Brazil and Argentina as cheap overseas countries for relocation. These two countries are familiar tourist spots with relatively low housing costs, if you do not live in their capital cities. Another South American country for consideration is Ecuador. In Ecuador, food, housing and entertainment are higher than in Brazil or Argentina, but the cost of these necessities is much cheaper than what it costs in the U.S. In Ecuador, outside of the capital city of Quito, the average cost of food, housing, travel and entertainment is less than $600 a month.

When it comes to value and ease of moving, Latin America is a no-brainer. If you live in the U.S. or Canada, your best bet is probably somewhere to the south of Texas. Most of these countries welcome foreigners with savings or a pension with open arms. Health care costs are reasonable and in cities at least, the quality is on par with home. Sometimes better: a doctor in Uruguay or Ecuador will make a house call for $40 or less and a doctor’s visit in Mexico includes free follow-up visits to check progress. It’s not unusual to see health care costs anywhere south of the Rio Grande for 1/5 or even 1/10 the cost of the U.S. – and that’s in major hospitals with more well-trained doctors and nurses waiting on you. The doctor will hand you a card with his/her cell phone number in case you need it.

This is often the easiest region for a trial run too: you typically get to stay three or six months on a tourist visa. Becoming a permanent resident is about 100 times easier than it is for foreigners coming to the U.S.

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$500 per month 2BR/2Bath apartment in central Cuenca, Ecuador
Here, for example, is what’s required to become a legal resident of Guatamala: pension and/or investment income of US$1,000 per month and additional income of US$200 per month for each dependent. Show them the money and a clean police record and you’re done. If you don’t want to become permanent, this is an easy place to kick back for a few months and then leave. (It’s one of HoboTraveler Andy’s favorites.) Find a $200 apartment on Lake Atitlan and chill…
Your living expenses will drop massively, even in Mexico, if you don’t try to keep the exact same lifestyle you had at home. I actually upgraded my family’s life substantially living in Mexico (eating out and traveling more) and still spent 2/3 what I do at home—in a popular tourist town. Here’s what EscapeArtist.com says about costs in one of my favorite small towns in Honduras: Copan Ruinas:
There are apartments and houses tucked away all over the village. While there are no real real estate offices most locals will point you in the right direction. Within the city limits a house will rent for anywhere from $80 to $300 (3 bedrooms, 3 baths, maid service, laundry hookups, garage area, etc). Room and Board (3 homecooked meals a day) in a modern furnished room will go for about $200 or less per month. Note that these are the higher end places, there are many many houses and rooms available for less, it is a matter of looking around.
In general, the most expensive places are the most developed and have the most foreigners (Santiago, Buenos Aires, Panama City, coastal Costa Rica, San Miguel de Allende, Ajijic), though even those will be less than home for many expenses and you might not need a car. The only places in the Americas you’ll probably spend more than in the U.S. are Brazil and Canada.
So where are the absolute cheapest places in Latin America? It depends on urban/rural and buying/renting, but in general Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Ecuador are the best values. Be advised though that the last one is seeing a deluge of retirees. International Living has been singing its praises for years and the last retirement seminar they ran there got hundreds of attendees flying in. Any prices you see for Cuenca that are in an article more than a year old are probably prices you won’t get anymore. Keep an eye on Argentina. Many economists see a huge second crisis on the way soon. Last time one hit, prices dropped like a rock.
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