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A Day For Remembering
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Monday May 29, 2006
Vol. 8 No. 105 |
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In Today's Letter:
Happy Memorial Day!
Comment: Day for Remembering
Retirement: Turn Your Retirement Plan into Profits
Wealth: Profit 160% - 300% Even When Markets Tank
Privacy & Rights: Neither Liberty nor Safety
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A Day for Remembering
Dear A-Letter Reader:
Today we celebrate Memorial Day - a day when Americans pause and focus on the ultimate price so many have paid over the centuries to win and preserve our freedom. This day also reminds us that each generation must take up and continue the unending struggle to protect liberty.
There's a hip phrase amongst young folks -- "To die for..." In essence that means that some object or person is so enticing that the attractiveness suggests a willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice to obtain it.
But how many Americans today would be willing to die for, as more than a million have done, the freedoms and liberties we are said to enjoy? And ask yourself -- do we really still have those liberties. Or have they been slowly taken from us, devaluing the sacrifice of all those who died. Did they die in vain? In his eloquent Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln suggested that what we do will determine the answer to that question.
Americans live in an era of overwhelming numbers; the bloated national debt, the huge budget and trade deficits, opinion polls, holiday weekend highway fatalities, hurricane and tsunami deaths. But many seem more concerned about the latest American Idol winner or the stock market than they do about the very real loss of freedom.
The cruelest numbers of all are those some say are senseless. Nearly 3,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war, as well as untold thousands of Iraqis. Aside from the merits of this war, each of these Americans, many of them very young, were unique individuals. Each with his or her own life, loves and each with great potential in the eyes of God. Was this really necessary? It's worth considering in comparison that in all the wars America has fought, including our own Civil War, 1,290,200 died.
In The A-Letter we often speak of freedom and liberty, usually in terms of very real threats to both of these precious commodities. To observe that so many have died in the American cause over so many centuries only accentuates the meaning and importance of the cause for which they died. They died before their time, much of their promise unrealized, and in the service of their country. Their very real sacrifice for our liberties makes it all the more important that we guard against diminution of those liberties in our own time -- whether the threat is from abroad, or from within our own government.
The call to duty and service to country remains distant and unreal to far too many Americans. As a nation we need always to be certain that in any war, including the so-called "war on terror," our cause is defensible and just. And we should never forget and always pray that those departed may rest in God's eternal peace.
That's the way that it looks from here.
BOB BAUMAN, Editor
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Radical New Approach to Asset Protection & Privacy
In 2004, more than nine million Americans had their identity stolen and approximately 1.8 million were sued. And laws like the USA PATRIOT Act greatly expand warrantless searches and permit government property seizures without proof of wrongdoing.
Big Business and Big Brother want to keep you and your wealth in plain sight, to be profitably tracked and conveniently seized. However, you can still legally create international 'lifeboats' of wealth and privacy that are practically invulnerable to snooping or confiscation.
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LINK: http://www.isecureonline.com/reports/190SLIFE/E190G534
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Beat a Bear Market in Stocks and Bonds and
Turn Your Retirement Plan into an All-weather Profit Producer...
In the face of rising interest rates, stocks and bonds have been taking a beating lately. So it's important to realize you have far greater choices for your retirement plan than these two asset classes. When structured properly, you can use your tax deferred retirement funds to invest in investments far beyond Wall Street's typical offerings. Specifically, you can buy...
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This is just a hint of the true investment potential of your tax-deferred retirement plan. To learn more,
check out Larry Grossman's Ultimate Retirement Protection Plan.
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The Virtues of Hedging: 160% - 300% Profits as the Markets Tank
"Ouch" - what else can you say about the markets the last two weeks? Since May 15, the markets have been in a freefall with very little rebound. Commodities have gotten slaughtered in the worst correction since last October. And trigger-happy investors are responding by panic-selling everything. But Eric Roseman's Commodity Trend Alert has posted 160% to 300% profits during the correction thanks to some prudently chosen puts. Eric remains long-term bullish on commodities but he instituted the puts because all bull markets experience corrections, especially those getting a bit long in the tooth. But it's a good lesson to learn. When you're bullish on a particular sector or region, modest hedging (a few trades against your bullish bias) can help you better withstand corrections... even while you continue to profit from the long-term bullish trend.
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Neither Liberty nor Safety with On-Street Surveillance
It was Philadelphia's famed son, Ben Franklin, who said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Now Philadelphia has another claim to fame - this historic city's residents just voted to have surveillance cameras placed on their streets, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. And not only did Philadelphians vote to allow this surveillance, supporters can't wait to get these cameras on the streets. Residents keep calling the City Councilman's office asking for cameras to be installed in their neighborhoods. Old Ben must be spinning in his grave.
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The Financial Shell Game Twice the Size of the Global Economy
The 10 top U.S. banks now hold over $600 billion worth of these "bets". They've been behind nearly every major economic catastrophe of our generation... from Black Monday to the collapse of mega hedge fund LTCM... to the destruction of the formerly rock-solid 135-year-old Barings Bank (formerly the bank of the Queen of England). To learn how you can safeguard your bank accounts and investments, click below.
LINK: http://www.isecureonline.com/reports/190SFFFA/E190G531
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