Dead mother kept by Austrian son in basement

Jack Guy and AJ DavisAustrian police have found the body of a woman who, they say, was mummified by her son so he could keep claiming her social security.

The 66-year-old man confessed to keeping his mother’s body in the basement of a property in the Innsbruck-Land region of western Austria after officers visited the house on Saturday, according to a police statement sent to CNN on Friday. Continue reading

Complete Collapse of Everything [Video]

AckermanGreg Hunter – Analyst, financial writer and professional trader Rick Ackerman points out that you cannot underestimate the extreme amount of debt and money printing propping up the economy.  Ackerman thinks, “It’s an inflationary bubble, and that’s why I think it’s going to bust.  I think it’s going to last as long as the bull market lasts. . . .

Companies go out and borrow money to buy back their own shares.  It feels like a perpetual motion as far as a bull market in stocks, but even that ends.  It’s created a bubble, and bubbles only pop.” Continue reading

Denied Social Security Disability Benefits? Here’s What You Can Do . . .

benefitsMost people assume that applying for disability benefits is like applying for most other forms of government assistance: they fill out a (sometimes lengthy) form, print out their bank statements and pay stubs, staple it all together and viola! Application complete! From here they can simply mail or drop off their applications and, most of the time, within a few days, their benefits will be ready to go.

The truth is actually much different. When you decide to ask for disability benefits, you are signing up for an involved and sometimes even invasive process. Often you will be required to track down and supply your caseworker with your medical records. You might even need to go in for new exams to make sure that your case worker has the most up to date information. There is a lot of room for error and the process can take months to complete. Then, even if you’re positive you’ve done everything correctly and you meet the SSDI requirements, you can still get denied.

First Steps After a Denial

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You’ve Been Robbed

Paul Rosenberg – You work long, hard days, but you never have enough to be secure. Your husband or wife probably works too, and yet you still never get ahead. Now think about this: Your great-grandparents worked hard, and they did get ahead. You work just as hard, but you don’t make the same progress.

Was great-grandpa really that much better than you? Not likely. So, how was it that he could get ahead on one income, but you can’t?

moneyTake a good look at this graph: The top line shows how many years of living expenses your great-grandfather would have accumulated as a hard-working young man. The bottom line shows what you can save.

After working for five years, great-gramps had seven years of living expenses in the bank.

Doing the same things, you’d have less than two.

You’ve probably avoided this comparison[1] , because it makes you feel bad. If so, that was your big mistake, because it was never your fault.

When great-gramps worked hard, he kept the money. There was no income tax and no sales tax. (The government survived anyway.) There was no Social Security tax either, and the streets weren’t  full of starving old people. Families were able to take care of their own.

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Did you receive this email from the Social Security Administration?

securitySimon Black – If you are a taxpayer in the Land of the Free, you may have recently received a love letter from the Social Security Administration that went something like this:

“Dear [Medieval serf paying into an insolvent pension fund]:”

(OK I added that part myself)

“Starting in August 2016, Social Security is adding a new step to protect your privacy. . .”

Whoa. Full stop. I love it already.

My dear Uncle Sam, who spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to spy on absolutely friggin’ everybody, is suddenly interested in protecting my privacy.

“This new requirement is the result of an executive order for federal agencies to provide more secure authentication for their online services.”

This part is hilarious. The US government has been hacked so many times over the last several years that it is the laughing stock of global cybersecurity.

Hackers have stolen 5.6 million government employee fingerprints, tens of millions of social security numbers, and financial and medical records from 19.7 million people who had been subjected to a government background check.

And those are just a few of the data breaches that we know about, and only over the last couple of years.

The US government is a veritable goldmine for identity thieves.

Social Security and Date of Birth data can sell for $30 on the black market. Stolen health records go for $10 to $50 each, and bank details can fetch up to $300.

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