Banks...

... Would you take 50% of your retirement savings and invest it into a failing institution?

Well, thanks to recent US Treasury Dept. approved portions of Dodd-Frank Reform, the bank now has the right to seize 50% of your deposits and convert it into Bank Stock during a crisis like 2008.

There are various ways in which your bank can legally freeze or confiscate your money!

"Bank Failure Survival Guide" is from GSI Exchange and covers all of the threats including; Orderly Liquidation Authority, Crypto-SDR's, Petro/Gold/Yuan Contracts, and Money Market Reform are all neutralized when you make the simple choice to buy Gold & Silver!

Naturally, the above is a sales pitch copied from GSI

I have a copy of the "one-time download PDF" in case any one is interested.

It is not easy to read, as the text-to-background contrast varies widely.

The PDF was not exactly designed for readability, making it a crummy sales tool.

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Robert Baer
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You could restore the contrast with GNU GIMP (it's free) or some such similar image manipulation program.

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Cursitor Doom

Why would anyone have 50% of there retirement savings in a bank? Any real money I have invested in a Total Stock Market Index. (VTSAX or VTI) I have a few thousand in a bank checking just to pay bills.

But, it sounds like some people could get screwed, if any of that below comes to pass. Mikek

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amdx

I have never seen a program actually increase contrast of an image; they all make the full image lighter or darker and worsen the contrast.

Just look at a screen copy of pages 3 and 4:

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Now page 5 is 10% readable, but that seems to be rare.

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Robert Baer

The wall will cost a hundred billion dollars to complete and they're ready to spend your money, take your land, whatever.

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bitrex

You really ought to learn how to use your image processing software. There should be options to alter contrast, colours and brightness and many will allow you to warp the midrange. Histogram equalisation will often do a dceent job with almost no user input and let you preview the result as you make changes.

Produced by rank amateurs for rank amateurs to read. Simplest way to make it more or less legible is wind up the colour saturation or flood fill the distracting background with carefully chosen parameters.

Any of GIMP, PSPro, Elements or Photoshop should easily do it. The other alternative is convert to a fixed pallette image and manually alter the entries for the text to brilliant red, green and yellow.

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Martin Brown

  • What i use for "image processing software" is Paraben Screen Capture or CorelDraw. Just LOOK at page 3 or 4 (page 4 is worst); Black on black just do not cut the mustard.

Just TRY that on page 3 or page 4..

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Robert Baer

Separate to R G B colour planes then. But if it is a website download the damn thing as HTML and kill the background image.

Apart from the JPEG artefacts and the word "all" which is closely matched to the background grey it gets the rest pretty well.

It is a website designed by clueless muppets for other clueless muppets.

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Martin Brown

  • CANNOT be done; it is a PDF behind a conditional paywall.
  • Yew cann sey that agin!
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Robert Baer

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