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ATOM BOMB NEARLY EXPLODED OVER NORTH CAROLINA IN 1961

Featured image: Atomic Explosion. SOURCE: Dept. of Energy (Public Domain) ILLUSTRATION ONLY.

From The Blase Sep. 20, 2013 11:59pm 

LONDON (Reuters) – A U.S. atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.

The Guardian newspaper said the document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gave the first conclusive evidence that the United States came close to a disaster in January 1961. . . . Read Complete Report

Don’t Bother Raising The Minimum Wage (+) U.S. silver history 1961 to 1974 (Video)

From The Intel Hub

by Gary Gibson
The Dollar Vigilante
March 26, 2013

EXCERPT

. . . “The minimum wage in the two years before 1966 was five 90% silver quartersThat 90% silver $1.25 is roughly $25 in today’s money. Let me be clear: if the minimum wage had stayed at a mere $1.25 an hour and the central bank had not debased the money supply forcing the reduction or removal of the silver content, minimum wage workers would have been roughly two or three times better off today in terms of real purchasing power than they currently are with a nominal minimum wage nearly six times the nominal amount prior to 1966. Because of money supply inflation, the minimum wage is nearly six times as high…but buys roughly half as much…or less.” . . . Read Complete Report 

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From youtube  uploaded by Bi Metalism

U.S. silver history 1961 to 1974: Step by step from silver and gold backed dollars to ?

Published on Jul 16, 2012

“Nation’s money no longer linked to precious metals gold, silver” and other headlines from the 1960s tell the tale of 90% silver dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars, and silver certificate paper money that could be exchanged for silver coins… and what happened to them both.