Lt. Col Matthew Dooley, a West Point graduate and highly-decorated combat veteran, was an instructor at the Joint Forces Staff College at the National Defense University. He had 19 years of service and experience, and was considered one of the most highly qualified military instructors on Radical Islam & Terrorism. 

Gold closed down $6.50 to $1377.80 (comex closing time).  Silver fell by 13 cents to $22.44  (comex closing time)

In the access market at 5 pm gold and silver are the following :

gold: $1375.80.
silver: $22.45

Gold was on a tear last night reaching $1400.00 by 2 am est last night, before the bankers showed up at their usual time and blasted gold down to around $1359.00.  At that point, gold started its ascent and was ready to navigate a back to back positive upside day reversal when again it was paper attacked and our ancient metal of kings closed down $6.50 to $1377.80. The chance that gold would end positive after a huge reversal yesterday was slim at best. 

It’s not a stretch to suggest that Americans are over medicated. In 2011 doctors across the nation wrote an astounding four billion medical prescriptions, amounting to an average of 13 prescriptions for every  man, woman and child in the United States.

In the next few weeks the American Psychiatric Associations is releasing their updated fifth version their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5); the so-called ‘bible’ of psychiatric diagnoses. The new manual promises to take mental illness and the use of prescription drugs to a whole new level.

Attack on the Press

You know that the Department of Justice tapped scores of phone lines at the Associated Press.