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The Synapse: Learning Something New & Taking Action

2011-01-31T13:39:00.000-08:00

The Synapse: Learning Something New & Taking Action

http://whoisracheljackson.com/2011/01/stop-eating-your-seed/

2011-01-28T15:01:00.002-08:00

Secret To Creating Wealth Building Habits: Stop Eating All Your Seed!

2011-01-28T15:01:00.000-08:00

Secret To Creating Wealth Building Habits: Stop Eating All Your Seed!

Ask RJ #4: Video Editing, MLM Madness, Bookworm & RJ Raffle: FREE BROWNIES

2011-01-18T10:20:00.000-08:00

The Best Video Marketing Services

2010-11-16T11:53:00.000-08:00

The Best Video Marketing Services

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2010-11-04T14:53:00.000-07:00

5/13 McAlvany Weekly Commentary

2009-05-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

http://www.mcalvany.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/ica2009-0513.mp3

Walter Block, an Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

What are interest rates going to do?

Which bonds need monetization?

5/6 McAlvany Weekly Commentary

2009-05-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

http://www.mcalvany.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/ica2009-0506.mp3

Why people who thought the crash of 1929 was over, missed the "B wave" and lost almost 90%. Get informed by this temporary "Hoo-rah" in the Stock Market:

- How to Make Money In The Stock Market
- When to Pull Out (an actual time period)
- How Interest Rates Get Manipulated
- Securing Your Families Future

...and more!

http://www.mcalvany.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/ica2009-0506.mp3

TwitterNation

2009-04-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

Chances are unless you've been completely living in the dark for the past couple of months - you've been hearing about the phenomenon called Twitter.com.

Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most amazingly popular social media networking site on the World Wide Web. Now with over six million users (and growing!) this microblogging site has attracted everyone from President Obama to NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal.

Twitter is the must-be-on place right now on ther internet. It actually trumps Google but getting "real time" date about literally ANYTHING that is happening in our society today.

Admittedly, I didn't jump on the Twitter bandwagon immediately. I heard about it over a year ago and I definitely underestimated the importance of how powerful this site really is.

But now, along with Facebook & YouTube, Twitter is one at the top of my priority list for Social Media.

I just renovated my twitter page, check it out:
http://www.twitter.com/rachelsoc

So recently, a friend and colleague of mine was able to generate over 75 leads for his business just by sending out 1 tweet to his list of over 15,000 dedicated
followers.

How insane is that!?

75 Leads in 2 minutes...for FREE? Those same leads would cost $1-9 from a home based business lead provider. Say they averaged $4 each - that would have cost $300 for prospects that THEN YOU have to COLD CALL (blegh!)

Using Google Adwords? Probably would have cost DOUBLE THAT.

Check out his Twitter page here:
http://www.twitter.com/emiliokaram

If you are looking to amass SERIOUS WEALTH online, then you need to be "tweeting."

So, I've compiled a step-by-step guide thanks to my training with the MLM Mastermind System on how to dominate Twitter.

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Step #1. Create an Account
Go to www.twitter.com and create an account if you haven't already. Be creative with your bio and make sure you include your website link. This could be a blog or a splash/squeeze page.

Step #2. Set up a Professional Looking Background
Check out the free tools like: http://www.twitbacks.com or http://www.mytweetspace.com.

Step #3. Manage your Twitter Account Automatically
Go to http://www.tweetlater.com and set up a free account with this ESSENTIAL Twitter tool. This will allow you to automate your "welcome/thanks for following" messages and create settings to unfollow those who do not follow you back. You can also schedule tweets throughout your day!

Step #4. Purchase Twitter Friend Adder for $50
Go to http://twitteradder.thecardteacher.com to purchase this highly recommended tool. It's not NECESSARY, but if you want a way to automatically add Twitter friends and build a following - this is is. If you're on a shoe-string budget? Just add friends one-by-one by finding other people of like-minded values.

Step #5. Find Like-Minded Individuals to Follow
http://www.twellow.com
http://search.twitter.com
http://www.twollo.com

Step #6. Free Tool to Manually Unfollow Those Who Aren't Following You
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma, but if you have Twitter Friend Adder, you do not need this because it does it for you.

Step #7. What To Tweet?
Make sure your tweeting is full of useful content. DO NOT SPAM YOUR LINK OR OPPORTUNITY. Twitter success is dependent your willingness and ability to share content and info with your network.
Share anything:

*Interesting
*Educational
*Funny
*News-worthy

Step #8. Re-Syndicate Content You Like
Can be your own videos, blogs, articles, or it can be stuff created by other people (especially popular content). http://www.digg.com is create source for other people's interesting content.

Step #9. It's All About Relationship Marketing
Don't just add friends. Interact with them! Send them DM (direct messages) or use the @-feature by typing @theirusername to reply and message to their Twitter page.

Step #10. Here are some other great Twitter tools:
http://www.tweetdeck
http://www.twitpic.com
http://www.bubbletweet.com

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So that's it! There are many other Twitter tools, but these are the ones I've compiled as of lately. Once you build a solid foundation of tweeting and building trust/rapport with your Follows, sharing valuable content, you can send out a tweet here and again promoting yourself or your product/sevice.

C'mon Tweeple! Let's start tweeting and twittering and twollowing each other!

Hope you enjoy this email. Take action now if you're wanting to leverage is fast growing social networking site in now time!
Stay tuned for more great content...

See You At the Top!
Rachel Jackson
rachel@thecardteacher.com

P.S. If you haven't done so yet, make sure you follow me at:

http://www.twitter.com/rachelsoc

You'll get real time updates and more great marketing strategies :)

FOOD SHORTAGES LOOM FOR AMERICA...

2009-02-26T12:54:00.000-08:00

We in America are spoiled. We have so many choices at the grocery store that it is beyond the imagination that food won’t be there. Although there are many right here in the United States who go to bed hungry on a regular basis, the true food shortages which have sparked riots in other countries have thus far escaped the USA. It is foolish to think we are immune forever.

Wendell Berry mentioned in his book “The Unsettling of America” 31 years ago that food was too important to be used as a weapon. People have ignored that idea for three decades because – WE have food on the grocery shelves and it can’t be that bad.

Society looked the other way as dairy farmers struggled to hang on to herds of a couple hundred cows and maintain their lifestyle. It looked the other way again when small hog farmers were buried under 9 cent hogs, a price that meant ham alone brought twice what the whole pig cost. Some farmers gave hogs away as it would cost them to sell or keep them.

This eliminated many alternatives for our food. While we see now that with oil those who have it can, will, and do dictate the price people do not see the flashing neon sign that our food supply is in the same situation. Indeed, consumers are for the most part so unaware of it that they continue to purchase on cost, generating revenue for the handful of corporate entities that hold the majority of our food supply.

Archer Daniels Midland – ADM – bills itself as “supermarket to the world” and had a 67% increase in profits while Cargill – resented by small farmers the world over – had an 86% profit increase.

Most consumers have no idea what some ingredients in their products really are.
For example, sorbitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol derived from corn, which is used in sugarless gums and candy, as well as being an ingredient in polyurethane.

As one of the largest processors of oil seed, ADM produces soybean powder and meal for human and animal use. Extracted from that is a crude oil used not only for edible oils, vegetable oils and lecithin, but also for industrial oil, biodiesel, and polymers.

Cargill – enjoying record profits – has its hands in baked goods, cereals, beverages from alcohol to soft drinks to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic (think sports drinks, vitamins!), meat and poultry, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods (condiments, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and much more) and snack foods. You won’t see “Cargill” on grocery store shelves openly labeled just like you won’t see the other majority players, but it’s there and much of what you eat comes from them.

Rest assured when it comes to maintaining those record profits that they will have that in mind before those too poor to buy their foods. Cotton farmers in India, pushed out by Monsanto cotton, have committed suicide at the prospect of losing their livelihood, and farmers in many other countries do not even want them as neighbors. If it comes to their finances or yours – theirs will take precedence. Monsanto and Cargill each own 50% of a company that markets genetically engineered foods worldwide.

Monsanto eagerly pushes farmers into courtrooms where a small farmer has no chance of winning, whether or not they’ve ever planted their seed. One farmer was held accountable for planting their genetic altered seed on land he didn’t even own – which made no difference in the courtroom. Absolute power corrupts absolutely is an appropriate adage to describe what’s happening.

With these corporations holding the vast majority of our food supply…what happens when they raise prices and demand more profits? We can do without fuel – but we cannot do without food. Unfortunately, the headlights are approaching and American consumers don’t have a clue to move off the road.

Corporate America exists for one thing – profit. They might give a token amount for charities but profit comes before anything. Lower costs drive the ‘reasons’ for GMO products, which most people don’t want to eat and farmers don’t want near their fields.

If your checkbook is drained and they’re showing record profits do you think they will barter with you as small farmers will? Do you think they will feel sorry and say “here’s groceries until you get on your feet? Not going to happen – it cuts into their profit. Farmers have seen it – consumers don’t and are unaware of it.

And THAT takes food shortages to a whole different level.

Investing in Gold is BORING! Or...maybe not...

2009-02-09T06:46:00.000-08:00

Imagine a star that’s a third of the size Rhode Island but with the same mass as our Sun. Just a teaspoon of the mass from such a star would weigh hundreds of billions of tons.

These tiny giants are known to astronomers as neutron stars, and they’re increasingly rare in the universe today.

When two of these tiny powerhouses smashed together, it resulted in an explosion that’s beyond imagination or description.

Never before or since has the universe seen so much mass and compression exerted in a single event. And it’s estimated that just one in a million of the resulting particles turned out to be gold.

This was the only time in history during which gold was formed.

That’s right. Gold was a one-in-a-million creation that came from a one-in-a-million type of event during a very limited time in the universe’s history. And that’s it.

The resulting gold particles were spread throughout the universe. And they can be found in relatively minuscule quantities throughout the universe...making gold a very scarce resource

Case in point; the entire world’s supply of gold would fit inside a 50’ by 50’ cube that would itself fit neatly under the Eiffel tower. The average amount of gold mined annually by the entire world would only fill the average family’s living room.

Add to this the fact that gold is highly valued across almost all of the world’s civilizations, and you’ve found an incredibly stable store of value and medium for exchange.

The gold supply cannot really be manipulated, nor can it be subjected to rapid or micromanaged inflation (to do so would suggest an intimate control over the whole world’s mining facilities). Gold cannot be duplicated, it cannot be pulled out of thin air, and it cannot be conjured up by the witchcraft of fractional reserve banking.

“I Will Maintain…”

Truth be told, we were simply fascinated by the origin story of gold…the most “boring” investment out there…and one that’s started to regain popularity in the last year.

As the global financial system started to come tumbling down and most of the world’s “experts” were exposed for who they really are, the world’s wealthy – and not-so-wealthy – are flocking to the reliable, tangible value of gold.

Because the value of gold isn’t about governments, promises or trust. Instead of the classic “In God we Trust,” prayer you see on most money, some gold coins were actually minted with “I Will Maintain Purchasing Power…”

But why is gold so boring?

Because – at the very least – it’s maintained its value for thousands of years.

Except – of course – during crisis. When gold is giving to spiking in value…sometimes even doubling overnight.

As Bill Bonner puts it, “Gold buys [at least] as much bread in 2009 as it did in AD 9.” To quote Ernst, one of our Austrian banking contacts, “In ancient Rome, an ounce of gold would buy a man a tunic. Today, an ounce of gold buys you a nice suit. See, not so much has changed.”

So, gold tends to be “boring” (as in stable) at least for most of the time.

But you’re wondering about those “crises” mentioned above. I highly recommend checking out ICA, at http://www.mcalvany.com for more information. International Collectors Associates (ICA), has grown into one of the largest full-service precious metals dealers in the United States.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 2008 - Fort Atkinson & Milwaukee, WI

2009-01-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

CHRISTMAS AT THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, Chandler AZ

2009-01-02T10:40:00.000-08:00

PASTOR LINDSEY WILLIAMS & HIS PREDICTIONS FOR 2009

2008-12-29T12:30:00.000-08:00

Pastor Lindsey Williams, author of The Energy Non-Crisis gives predictions of our country's future for the next 12 months. Listen very closely and take good notes.

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GERALD CELENTE on the ALEX JONES SHOW

2008-12-15T14:01:00.000-08:00

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RESOURCES - Water, Food, & Survival Seeds

2008-12-15T13:46:00.000-08:00

Ecolo Water Generator - The EcoloBlue 28 Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) provides you with ultimate drinking water self sufficiency Just plug it in and this revolutionary machine begins making fresh water...up to 7 gallons* in 24 hours! It requires no water source other than the humidity in the air. Each gallon of water uses, on average, $0.20 cents of electricity to produce. That's about $1.00 for every five gallons of water!

E-Foods Direct - Non-GMO stored food. The only sure thing about the future is that there is no sure thing. Storing food for your family is one of the most prudent actions you can take. No one knows what can or will affect the functioning of society or food distribution. With stored food, you eliminate the worry. (shelf life 12-15 years) Potential disruptions in the food supply can be caused by a number of factors: (Note the best estimates of the necessary time period for self-reliance.)

Job Loss/Unemployment
Economic Downturn
Quarantines
Erratic Weather - Droughts
Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Floods
Contamination of Food Supplies
To Avoid Dependency on Commercial Food Storage Centers
Transportation Disruptions

Survival Seeds - These are NOT ordinary seeds… they have been chosen for their truly extraordinary germination rates! Each Survival Seed Bank has a total of 22 varieties of OPEN POLLINATED “super seeds.” Also included are detailed growing instructions for each variety which includes helpful information on harvesting of seed stock for the following year in a survival situation. This is obviously very important because failing to collect seeds properly at harvest time could mean starvation.

THE MCALVANY INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR

2008-12-15T09:40:00.000-08:00

An in-depth monetary, economic, geopolitical and precious metals analysis

The information is very revealing. I would recomend reading it ASAP because the quality of information that Don writes each month on current economic and geopolitical trends is second to none and among the top 5 resources I rely on for global and economic trends. This issue really lays out what's coming ahead in 2009 with great detail and documentation, yet very easy to read.

Click here to download it on PDF!

FORECASTS FOR AMERICA

2008-12-13T12:52:00.000-08:00

Trends Forecaster Celente: Greece-Style Riots Coming To U.S.

Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, December 15, 2008

Frighteningly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente says that America will see riots similar to those currently ongoing in Greece and that the cause will be a hyper-inflationary depression, leading to the inevitable use of troops and mercenaries to deal with the crisis as Americans are incarcerated in internment camps.

Celente said that the troops now being brought back to America for “domestic security” would be used to suppress the riots.

As we have highlighted before, Celente’s accuracy is stunning - he predicted the 1987 crash, the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the “panic of 2008,” and is routinely cited even by mainstream news networks as highly credible.

The cause of the riots would be a hyper-inflationary depression, Celente told interviewer Lew Rockwell, causing Americans to revolt in similar circumstances that we have witnessed recently in Iceland and Greece. The trouble would be sparked off by Obama declaring a “bank holiday” whereby people won’t be able to withdraw their money.

“What’s going on in Greece with these riots has nothing to do with a 15-year-old boy being killed, that was only the spark that ignited the pent up, really hatred and disdain, people have for the scandals and corrupt government and the same thing is going on in this country as well,” said Celente.

Celente reiterated his prediction of a revolution and riots in America, and said that the first signs of it could even emerge before the end of the year. Celente said that the troops now being brought back to America for “domestic security” would be used to suppress the riots.

“There’s talk of opening all these detention centers and hiring the goon squads, the Blackwaters to run them, so these are realities going on as we speak,” said Celente, adding that the Halliburton subsidiary KBR had been awarded a half a billion dollar contract to build “national emergency” internment camps in the name of detaining illegal immigrants but that they would be used to hold rioting Americans.

“We’re really in a period of ‘off with their heads’ and its going to be the people against the politicians,” said Celente. Celente said that a breakup of the United States was possible and that the secessionist movement was strong.

“The government owns and runs the largest mortgage company, owns the largest insurance company, they’re going to be owning a piece of the oil industry, so it’s a fight against a totalitarian government…so there’s going to be rebellions and things will change for the better if we break up these criminal governments that are in place now,” said Celente.

The forecaster added that the government was killing people for a false reason in Iraq and robbing people blind with the bailouts at home. Listen to the interview here.

MONEY AS DEBT VIDEOS

2008-12-13T11:39:00.000-08:00

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WEDDING SLIDESHOW

2008-12-13T10:16:00.000-08:00

GRATITUDE

2008-11-26T14:50:00.000-08:00

As we say "goodbye" to another year, it's the perfect time to reflect upon our choices that have made 2008 what it was. For us, it was certainly the year of change, as it was for many others. The number 8 represents new beginnings...and looking back over 2008 - it was exciting, challenging, tiresome, wonderful, empty and complete all at the same time.

This was a year of growth. 2007 was a year we had been pruned, beaten and scorned. This last year we threw our ego's out the door and became teachable, coachable, with a true desire to help others.

We've been blessed with 2 amazing bulldogs, Peanut & Chanel - our little girls! Extremely supportive family and friends who would do anything for us and booming businesses thanks in part to some of you. During Thanksgiving we often speak of our gratefulness and gratitude, yet by Christmas Eve—we are worn and discouraged as our pocket books run slim, turkey consumption is at it's max, and one more viewing of "It's a Wonderful Life' could cause a mental breakdown.

It's important that as we roll into the New Year, we continue our pledge and practice of gratitude. In business, we teach "Appreciation wins over Self-Promotion." Don't you think if everyone lived their life by that we'd be in a much happier place? Our constant state of gratitude is what makes our not-so-perfect-yet-oh-so-new-beginnings of 2008 seem absolutely necessary.

We are grateful for things that cannot be measured and even down to the little indulgences like gambas con ajo from Pita Jungle, the beauty of white Christmas lights on our back porch and a warm coffee with hazelnut creamer on a wintry Arizona day.

Each and every morning, start your day off with love and appreciation "I am so happy and grateful that…"
...You'd be surprised where that will lead you.

During this time of year I can't help but reflect on the things that I believe in. I'd like to share with you some of my beliefs, and challenge you to take a moment to write your own list, along with the daily commitment to take time to reflect life's blessings.

I believe that you can do anything you set your mind to.
I believe that we all have something to contribute to the world and have a choice to greatness.
I believe what you send out you get back.
I believe that the written word is powerful and can change lives.
I believe it's important to act on our promptings.
I believe that you must live each day as if it's your last. And to ask yourself, where am I going after this is all gone?
I believe that we're changing the world one card at a time.
I believe on living off of 10% of your income and giving away 90%.
I believe in paying cash for just about anything and not having any debt.
I believe that you can create anything as long as you have desire.
I believe that 2009 will bring more hardship for those who are mediocre and opportunity for those who are extraordinarly innovative.
I believe in Jesus Christ and I cherish the annual celebration of his birth.
I believe it is OK to tell you what I believe because I respect you for what you believe.
I believe we all have different Value and Belief's windows. It is not my job to make your window align with mine.
I believe in focusing on the core belief that we all have the desire to love and be loved.

God bless everyone!

Peace Out
~RJ