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\nA Dog\u2019s Life <\/strong>
\nRichard (Rick) Mills
\nAhead of the Herd
\nAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
\nDisregard disease (Ebola), rising sea levels, simmering religious tensions, the potential for wars over resources. Disregard financial calamity, malfunctioning governments and lying sleazebag politicians leading us down the garden path. Is Europe going to be Balkanized? Is it to be inflation, disinflation, deflation or stagflation?
\nNothing important, to me anyway, seems to matter much anymore. The herd\u2019s got other things on its mind.
\nJustin Bieber got thrown into jail, Oprah\u2019s fat, Jennifer and Angie had a catfight over Brad, there\u2019s a new iphone coming and America\u2019s supposedly Got Talent.
\nMaybe the following will wake the herd up. It\u2019s only the best reason any of us has ever heard for owning some gold and silver bullion in an easily accessible stash. It\u2019s something so devastating, so cataclysmic, so life changing, so unstoppable that the only way to survive the resulting wasteland would be to own precious metals and guns. Something so indefensible against, something so game changing that I\u2019m talking about each and everyone one of us on this planet taking a forced trip back in time.
\n\u201cExtreme solar storms pose a threat to all forms of high-technology. They begin with an explosion–a “solar flare”\u2014in the magnetic canopy of a sunspot. X-rays and extreme UV radiation reach Earth at light speed, ionizing the upper layers of our atmosphere; side-effects of this “solar EMP” include radio blackouts and GPS navigation errors. Minutes to hours later, the energetic particles arrive. Moving only slightly slower than light itself, electrons and protons accelerated by the blast can electrify satellites and damage their electronics. Then come the CMEs, billion-ton clouds of magnetized plasma that take a day or more to cross the Sun-Earth divide.\u201c NASA Science<\/a><\/em>
\nOn July 23 2012, the sun unleashed a massive cloud of plasma. The plasma cloud, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), comprised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years. This plasma cloud exploded from the sun and headed straight through Earth\u2019s orbit – and missed us by a week! Yep, if it had happened just a week before the plasma cloud would of had a catastrophic encounter with Earth\u2019s atmosphere.
\n\u201cThe consequences could be devastating for commerce, transportation, agriculture and food stocks, fuel and water supplies, human health and medical facilities, national security, and daily life in general.\u201d Steve Tracton, Capital Weather Gang
\nThe event on July 23 2012 was a \u2018perfect storm.\u2019 A couple of much smaller previous solar storms had cleared the way, no interference would of weakened it\u2019s power, it was lined up exactly opposite the orientation of Earth\u2019s protector, our magnetic field. All that power would of had not only a cleared out path straight at us but would of slammed into us with our defenses out of alignment to the storm and not giving us anywhere near maximum protection.
\nFortunately, the point of eruption on the sun wasn\u2019t Earth-facing.
\n\u201cI have come away from our recent studies more convinced than ever that Earth and its inhabitants were incredibly fortunate that the 2012 eruption happened when it did. If the eruption had occurred only one week earlier, Earth would have been in the line of fire.\u201d physicist Daniel Baker, University of Colorado.<\/em>
\nSEVERE SPACE WEATHER EVENTS\u2014UNDERSTANDING SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS<\/a>
\nAccording to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, the cloud could have knocked out electrical and communication grids causing more than $2 trillion in damage globally. NASA said anything that plugs into a wall socket or electrical outlet could of been disabled \u2013 and since everything we use is, somewhere along the line of its existence, eventually plugged in\u2026well you get the idea.
\nMaybe we\u2019re without our electrical and communications grids for years \u2013 think about that, think about facing, think about living without electricity for an extended indefinite period of time. You\u2019ve just been knocked back to a pre-electric age and your ticket \u2018back to the future\u2019 does not have a departure time\/date stamp.
\nIs this science fiction? Perhaps some chicken-littleism on my part?
\nSorry but no, solar physicists have compared the 2012 storm that missed us to the Carrington solar storm of September 1859, a storm that didn\u2019t miss us and was named after Richard Carrington who documented the event.
\nA space storm’s impact is measured in nano-Teslas (nT) – the lower the figure, the more powerful the storm. A moderate storm is around -100 nT; extreme storms log in around -300 nT. The Carrington solar storm was three times more powerful than the strongest space storm in modern memory – the one that cut power to an entire Canadian province, Quebec, in 1989.
\nThe 1989 coronal mass ejection that centered on Quebec measured -589 nT.
\nCarrington\u2019s 1859 solar storm was estimated to have been -1,760 nT.
\nIn the 1859 event global telegraph lines sparked and shorted out, setting fire to telegraph offices in Europe and the U.S. knocking out the entire existing global communication network.
\nWe\u2019re as completely unprepared, and our much more delicate electronics are even more exposed and unprotected today then the wiring of our early communication grid 155 years ago. It doesn\u2019t take much of an imagination to figure out what would happen to today\u2019s modern electronics if an event of such magnitude were to hit us again.
\n\u201cAn extreme space weather storm \u2014 a solar superstorm \u2014 is a low-probability, high-consequence event that poses severe threats to critical infrastructures of the modern society. The cost of an extreme space weather event, if it hits Earth, could reach trillions of dollars with a potential recovery time of 4-10 years. Therefore, it is paramount to the security and economic interest of the modern society to understand solar superstorms.\u201d research physicist Ying D. Liu, China\u2019s State Key Laboratory of Space<\/em>
\nWhat\u2019s the chances of a Carrington magnitude event hitting us over the next decade or so? I\u2019m going to leave you with the following\u2026
\n\u201cIn February 2014, physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc. published a paper in Space Weather entitled “On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events.” In it, he analyzed records of solar storms going back 50+ years. By extrapolating the frequency of ordinary storms to the extreme, he calculated the odds that a Carrington-class storm would hit Earth in the next ten years. The answer: 12%.\u201d Pete Riley, Predictive Science, \u2018On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events\u2019<\/em>
\nHerd, I want a divorce, you go live your little doggie life – if you can\u2019t eat it, piss on it or screw it ignore it. I\u2019m a boy scout, I believe in being prepared. Frightening odds, consequences, a little common sense preparation and precious metals are all on my radar screen. You need to put them on yours. Are they?
\nIf not, they should be.
\nRichard (Rick) Mills
\n\"\"<\/a>Richard lives with his family on a 160 acre ranch in northern British Columbia. He invests in the resource and biotechnology\/pharmaceutical sectors and is the owner of Aheadoftheherd.com. His articles have been published on over 400 websites, including:
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\nWallStreetJournal, USAToday, NationalPost, Lewrockwell, MontrealGazette, VancouverSun, CBSnews, HuffingtonPost, Beforeitsnews, Londonthenews, Wealthwire, CalgaryHerald, Forbes, Dallasnews, SGTreport, Vantagewire, Indiatimes, Ninemsn, Ibtimes, Businessweek, HongKongHerald, Moneytalks, SeekingAlpha, BusinessInsider, Investing.com and the Association of Mining Analysts.
\nPlease visit: www.aheadoftheherd.com<\/a>
\nIf you are interested in advertising on Richard\u2019s site please contact him for more information, rick@aheadoftheherd.com
\n***
\nLegal Notice \/ Disclaimer
\nThis document is not and should not be construed as an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase or subscribe for any investment.
\nRichard Mills has based this document on information obtained from sources he believes to be reliable but which has not been independently verified.
\nRichard Mills makes no guarantee, representation or warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability as to its accuracy or completeness. Expressions of opinion are those of Richard Mills only and are subject to change without notice. Richard Mills assumes no warranty, liability or guarantee for the current relevance, correctness or completeness of any information provided within this Report and will not be held liable for the consequence of reliance upon any opinion or statement contained herein or any omission.
\nFurthermore, I, Richard Mills, assume no liability for any direct or indirect loss or damage or, in particular, for lost profit, which you may incur as a result of the use and existence of the information provided within this Report.
\n <\/p>\n

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\nAs publisher of The Morgan Report, he has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, and BNN in Canada. He has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Futures Magazine, The Gold Report and numerous other publications. If there is only one thing to teach you about this silver bull market it is this… 90% of the move comes in the last 10% of the time!<\/strong> Where will you be when this happens?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
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