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Move over games and make room for medicine. A growing number of developers are tapping into a treasure trove of U.S. government healthcare data and coming up with innovative iPhone apps that help consumers make better medical decisions.
Here are three iPhone apps that point towards a future of patients having more medical data at their fingertips…
Kitco – Commentaries – Lorimer Wilson
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Nielson Probability of US Hyperinflation or Debt Implosion
By Lorimer Wilson
Jul 22 2010 10:04AM
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“The collapse of U.S. economy is a certainty – only the manner of the economic collapse has yet to be determined. In time the global derivatives bubble will produce the same result which has occurred to every other currency not backed by gold throughout history: those currencies, our “money”, will become worthless.”
Those were the alarming words of Jeff Nielson of BullionBullsCanada.com in a recent speech* which I have edited and reformatted below (with his permission) for the sake of brevity and clarity.
Derivatives: An Unregulated $1 Quadrillion Market
“Warren Buffett once described derivatives as ‘financial weapons of mass destruction’ – and for a very good reason. While U.S. ‘unfunded liabilities’ are larger than the entire global economy, the derivatives market is 20 time…
It’s not surprising that we’re seeing these sorts of “calls” to increase earthquake preparedness in CA. And, people should be taking this time to look at their preparations and update them where needed. To be sure, the governments will never be as prepared as they need to be, as it costs real money to make the proper preps and money is scarce in CA right now.
If you like in a location that has a history of earthquakes you should be making sure that your preps are up to date. We’re clearly seeing an increase in dangerously strong earthquakes around the globe. Even though scientists say that these quakes aren’t related, I would say that since they have no ability to predict a quake they cannot be certain that these quakes are unrelated. I’m not trashing the earthquake science, only making an observation that this is a very complex system and we simply don’t have that great of an understanding of it yet.
If you’re in an earthquake zone, make sure that you carefully study what happened in these large quakes, especially in the aftermath. This info will help you make better decisions on how to make your preps.
Rob
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Study Reveals Californians Need to Increase Earthquake Preparedness Efforts
Less Than 20 Percent Have Prepared Their Homes; Only 40 Percent Have Sufficient Water
State and Local Agencies are Better Prepared Today, but Weakest Link is Citizen Preparedness
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire/ — A majority of Californians have taken initial steps toward earthquake preparedness but more than 60 percent of Californians have not done enough to make their homes safer and guard their personal finances in preparation for an inevitable, large-scale earthquake, according to a recent California Earthquake Preparedness Survey.
Although state and local public safety and emergency management agencies are better prepared than ever before, California residents have focused on easy preparedness activities such as collecting supplies and making back-up copies of important documents but they have not done more difficult and expensive activities such as securing the contents of their home or purchasing earthquake insurance, according to the survey.
Key findings of the survey were:
- Fewer than 20 percent of households have structurally reinforced their homes or had their homes inspected for earthquake resistance.
- Only 40 percent keep the recommended minimum of three gallons of water stored per person.
- Fewer than 20 percent of California households have purchased earthquake insurance.
- More than 80 percent of households have first aid kits, flashlights and batteries in their house but only 40 percent of Californians have made family disaster plans.
As I’ve been perusing through the preparedness, survival and information blogs over the past few weeks, I’ve come across a recent theme that suggests that when the US Dollar crashes and the FedGov tries to implement a new fiat currency, the American people will be too smart and reject it. That they will, instead, call for a gold or silver backed currency.
Really? Is that what’s going to happen? I’m not so sure.
In today’s USA Today poll, when asked how they plan to save money in 2010, 23% of the respondents stated that they hope to win the lottery. That’s it? That’s their plan to save money; hoping to win a contest with incredibly bad odds? Now the total of all responses was greater than 100%, so people responded more than once, but I think it still gives us a look into what people are thinking.
If, as a people, we were going to reject any economic instrument that would shackle us as inflation-slaves, we would have already done so by calling for an end to the Federal Reserve and a resounding NO! to the bailouts. It’s not happening.
To be sure, there are many people that want to see this happen, but not nearly enough that it will have any effect. It will be the same with the new US dollar, if there is one. There just won’t be enough people who know enough to care or make a difference.
Along these lines, I see too many people making plans for the EOTW scenario and not spending enough time planning for the MLTH (most likely to happen). Your preparedness plan should include ETOW scenarios, just in case they happen, but you should be mainly focusing on those things that are most likely to affect you and your family on a daily basis.
For example, the first things to accomplish in your preparedness plan is to make sure you have the proper insurance (car, health, home, fire, flood, life, etc.).
Rob
If you haven’t been following what Gerald Celente has been saying, he’s not painting a rosy picture for the US. Assume, just for a minute, that what he’s forecasting comes to be, are you prepared for something like this? Are you prepared for another economic upheaval? (I say “another” because many people think that we’re out of the woods now).
What are your backup plans if you can’t stay in your home? Do you have the food storage to last for months without going to the store? What are your alternate sources of income? How will you provide for and take care of your family?
It’s not a matter of whether or not Celente’s predictions come true; it’s a matter of whether you’re prepared for it or not.
Survival is the art of being prepared. Are you prepared?
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Survivor, America: “it’s only going to get worse,” gerald celente says: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
Survivor, America: “It’s Only Going to Get Worse,” Gerald Celente Says
“It’s only going to get worse,” is the sobering forecast of Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute.
As discussed in a prior segment, Celente believes the “bailout bubble” is going to burst and the U.S. economy will slip back into recession, if not worse, in 2010.
