Watch this short cartoon and listen to the Hasbara Neocon
projection expressed by the British colonial officers. 'Humanism'
seems to be a pre-text for genocide. Eventually, the indigenous people
are destroyed in the name 'liberal ethics' and even 'anti racism.' It
is obviously there to remind us of the Zionist crime in Palestine.
This anti immigration/anti diversity film deserves attention - it
contends that 'liberal tolerance' is actually inherently intolerant.
This issue is becoming a priority, so it seems.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Is America a Free Country?
“America does not have a functioning democracy – Jimmy Carter on NSA
by Justin Raimondo
Jimmy Carter is making waves:
“America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,”
he told a meeting of the American Bridge, held in Atlanta, when asked
about Edward Snowden’s exposure of Washington’s secret global surveillance system. Looks like the only outlet that covered the meeting was Der Spiegel, but word is spreading and it won’t be long before the Usual Suspects start ranting about what a flake
Carter is, and that he should shut up already and go lock himself in
his presidential library. But think about it: for a former President to
say this is unprecedented in modern times.The NSA spying scandal, he went on to tell his audience, is subverting democracy around the world: he warned that one consequence of the Snowden revelations will be increasing suspicion of American online platforms, such as Facebook and Google, both of which he characterized as major factors energizing pro-democracy movements abroad.
Carter’s previous statements about the Snowden affair were mildly supportive: he told CNN he thought “the secrecy that has been surrounding this invasion of privacy has been excessive,” and that Snowden’s bringing the secret surveillance of Americans “to the public notice has probably been, in the long term, beneficial.” Yet this new statement goes way beyond that: it is a sweeping condemnation of the current regime. That a former US President would say such a thing has got to be the scariest public pronouncement I’ve heard since the Watergate era. What’s even scarier: Carter is right.
America is no longer a democracy in the sense we have traditionally meant it. This is really the essence of what Snowden has revealed. The various surveillance programs he’s exposed – PRISM, “Boundless Informant,” Tempora, the telephony “meta-data” dragnet, etc. – are all tools necessary for the construction of what can only be called a police state.
An authoritarian regime has no way to measure public discontent except in this manner: since there is no free media, no political pushback to the regime’s depredations, and no way to discover what people really think, the only way to track – and crush – dissent is by spying on the population. The Soviets and their allies did this – and now it is the turn of their American successors.
Oh, but how can you say that? – I can hear the objections before they’re even vocalized. After all, America has free elections, a free (unregulated) media, and all the accouterments of a Western liberal democracy.
Except all of the above is mostly untrue.
Sure, America has elections, but how democratic are they, really? There are only two political parties in this country, and both of them are privileged by the state over all other political entities and parties: they get automatic ballot status, while other parties must jump over the most onerous hurdles to be listed on the ballot. “Third” parties are effectively outlawed. Hardly what one might expect of a nation so zealous to export “democracy” to the rest of the world, but then lack of nerve was never an American shortcoming.
Given this electoral duopoly, it is quite easy for the political Establishment to manage the system and make sure it doesn’t go “out of bounds” in nominating – or, worse, electing – a candidate dubbed too “extreme” by the Powers That Be, and so duly labeled by our compliant media. Which brings me to the “free” media question….
There is no censorship of the media in the US – because it isn’t necessary. The media censors itself quite willingly. More than that: as the Snowden affair has shown, the “mainstream” media is even more fanatical than US government officials about shutting down dissent. It was David Gregory, you’ll note, and not the Attorney General, who demanded Glenn Greenwald give a reason why he shouldn’t be arrested along with Snowden. None other than longtime respected reported Walter Pincus, of the Washington Post, echoed Gregory’s remarks. And of course there’s the minor league pundits, like MSNBC’s Joy Reid – on the “left” side of the spectrum – alongside neocons like Bill Kristol and some of the more unhinged among the Fox News crowd, who have been calling for Snowden’s head from Day One.
This is not to say there aren’t voices of dissent in America – there are. But there are similar voices in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and I don’t hear anybody hailing that country as a bastion of liberal democracy. Russia, too, has an uncensored media, and for precisely the same reason we do – because official censorship is redundant. The media self-censors without even being asked.
Okay, there’s an imprecise formulation up there: “for precisely the same reason” isn’t very … precise. The reason we stand virtually alone in the world in having a media uncensored by government is this document we call the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, which guarantees citizens the right to speak freely. However, this right has been abridged over the years to the point that it can be violated by government officials almost at will: the WikiLeaks case proves that beyond any doubt.
The Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers is an important part of that generalized assault on the Constitution because tyranny requires one big ingredient in order to take root and metastasize: secrecy.
There are two views of the process by which the US government created a vast surveillance apparatus that scoops up virtually all data transmitted over fiber optic cables in the US and abroad. There’s the naïve liberal view, which says it was a gradual and largely undirected process that eventually got out of hand and created the infrastructure of an American police state by accident. It was all a big mistake!
This view makes zero sense, and should be dismissed out of hand. The reason: the dirty deed was done in the dark. Not even members of Congress knew about it, and those who did were forbidden from telling their constituents the truth. They could only drop hints, here and there, ambiguous warnings that Big Brother is bigger than anyone imagined. It took Snowden to unveil the face of the Leviathan for all to see.
The other view of this is mine: that the whole procedure was (and is) part of a deliberate plan, a long term project by our wise rulers to ready themselves for the day when their power confronts a serious challenge. No, I’m not talking about the American state defending itself against a terrorist attack, or any kind of external threat – I mean a homegrown threat, one perhaps provoked into action by an economic crisis or some other cathartic event.
Anybody who thinks PRISM, “Boundless Informant,” Tempora, or any similar outrages against liberty still be to exposed have anything but a tangential relation to our government’s “war on terrorism” is living in a fool’s paradise. Sure, we want to spy on foreigners, as our European allies have discovered to their chagrin, but don’t kid yourself: the real purpose of the Panopticon is spying on the American people. READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE : ANTIWAR.COM
BREAKING: Chinese media says there has been an explosion at Beijing airport
An explosion at the arrival hall of Beijing’s Capital International Airport shocked travellers and may have killed one person, according to messages and photos posted by several different witnesses on China’s popular social media platform Weibo.
The strong explosion occurred at about 6.24pm on Saturday at Terminal 3 of the Beijing airport, according to these accounts.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1287064/breaking-news-explosion-beijing-airport-one-may-be-dead-witnesses
Pictures:
https://twitter.com/ska_kongshan/status/358533507389218816/photo/1
https://twitter.com/exosarang/status/358542936427880448/photo/1
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPnOTBWCYAAAfbm.jpg
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-07/20/c_132558572.htm
Wheelchair user blasts Beijing airport, injures himself
A man in a wheelchair was responsible for an explosion that rocked Beijing Capital International Airport, Chinese media said. He allegedly attempted to blow himself up to protest a brutal police beating that left him disabled, Twitter reports claimed.
The suspect behind the blast in the arrivals hall of terminal three of the Beijing airport has reportedly been identified as Ji Zhongxing from Shangdong, CCTVNews reported. The Sina Weibo microblog of state broadcaster China Central Television said a man detonated a package of black gunpowder used to make firecrackers just outside the international arrivals exit.
Local media quoted by the South China Morning Post said the man was rushed to hospital. His condition remains unknown.
http://rt.com/news/beijing-airport-china-explosion-362/
Man in a wheelchair detonates small device at Beijing International Airport terminal
There has been an explosion at Beijing Capital International Airport’s Terminal 3, with a man in a wheelchair apparently detonating a device.
Photos posted on China’s Weibo microblogging site showed a dark-haired man waving a white package in the air before the blast.
Later images showed the wheelchair on its side with officials treating a man on the floor.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23388448#TWEET828242
NEWSMAN
Gold And Silver – When[?] Precious Metals Bottom Is Irrelevant To Your Financial Health
by Michael Noonan
As ardent as Precious Metals, [PMs], buyers are, a good many of them do not comprehend
their importance. Everyone agrees they are resoundingly better than any fiat currency, as
history has amply proven. However, few consider the why PMs are so anathema for all
central bankers.
There was a time in this country when gold and silver were the coin of the realm. Actually,
they still are! The Coinage Act of 1792 has never been repealed, and that means, by law,
gold and silver are, [read section 20], the current money of account of the United States.
There is a very potent message within that Act, and like we said last week, Knowledge is
not of value, using it is.
Here is what not enough people know, even in the PM community: The qualities within a
gold coin are title, rights, and interest. When gold was used to purchase anything, all title,
rights, and interest transferred from the gold coin to whatever was purchased. It was paid
in full.
By contrast, thanks to the Rothschilds, the genesis for the entire Western world’s financial
system, central bankers have replaced ALL title, rights, and interest in whatever you buy
with commercial debt instruments, liens. All Federal Reserve Notes are evidences of debt.
They are not “dollars,” even though the word is printed on them, and the Federal Reserve
has admitted as much. Federal Reserve Notes, [FRNs] are commercial debt instruments,
and they are issued by the privately owned corporation, The Federal Reserve.
Debt is not money. It never was and never will be. The lie has been sold to the public, and
the public has bought it, in its entirety. As an aside, if you have not yet looked up cognitive
dissonance, this would be a good time. What is a FRN? It is not Federal; it is issued by a
private corporation. Look up Federal Reserve in any government blue pages in the phone
book. It ain’t there. You will find it closer to Federal Express in the white pages.
There are no reserves backing a FRN. It is the same as monopoly money. Each have the
same intrinsic value. One is believed [cognitive dissonance, again] to be of value, the other
is known as play money. A few know the truth and see the two as equal.
It is not a note. There is no promise to pay anyone anything at anytime. Any questions?
Debt is a lien, so whenever you use FRNs to buy anything, whatever you purchase carries
with it a lien. This is why when you purchase a house or a car, the government keeps real
title, and all you get is an equitable title, usage, like a rental because you pay annual rent
back to the government. Whenever you sell your house or car, the lien transfers with it.
No matter what you “buy,” a house, a car, furniture, equipment, etc, the lien of 100% goes
along with it, because you used a FRN, and all title, rights, and interest fully belongs to the
creditor, the Federal Reserve. Also, for the privilege of using a FRN debt instrument, you
get to pay a tax on them. [Enter IRS]
With gold and silver, you paid in full for whatever you bought, and you received all rights,
title, and interest. The government has no claim against you. You do not need the
government because you are dealing with coin of the realm that gives you absolute right,
title, and interest. Can you better understand why Socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt
ran the scam he did for the New World Order to have all “persons” turn in their gold, an
order issued by Executive Order. Few knew that Executive Orders only applied to those
within the employ of the federal government! Of course, the federal government did
nothing to dissuade those who falsely believed otherwise, and still do.
Why are gold and silver so important to your financial health, and why are they so fiercely
opposed by governments? Three words: Rights, Title, Interest. By stripping people of
their most accessible form of wealth, they became dependent upon the government. How
many people are dependent upon Social Security, [another scam], Medicare, and now the
largest growing segment, Food Stamps?
If you have wealth, and gold and silver are forms of wealth, [no matter how anyone would
say otherwise], you do not need fiat; you do not need the government. However, the
government needs you! By taking away your wealth and leaving you only with debt, you
are caught up in their web.
The above explanation has been the primary reason why the New World Order has taken
over each Western country’s currency, replacing all gold and silver backed lawful currency
with [worthless] paper fiat. As Chuck Colson, then Special Counsel to Nixon back in the
1970s, was quoted as saying, “When you’ve got them by the [financial] balls, their hearts
and minds will follow.” Guess where the New World Order has you?
Think about this when you next use your credit card, or fiat FRNs. Prior to the 1930s,
Americans used coin of the realm, and United States Notes, [actually issued by the US]
that were backed by gold and silver, with a promise to pay metal specie if one wanted to
have their lawful money so redeemed. Now, thanks to fiat, the United States has slipped
into Third World status, just not yet recognized by the masses. It is going to continue to
get worse.
The above issue has now been compounded by the growing concern that central bankers
have little to no gold left, even though they have been leasing, releasing, and scamming
everyone with their previously unquestioned practices. There are numerous “stories”
relating this latest ongoing scam, so we need not dwell any further on it.
There are two situations going on. Some express it as “the price of gold, or the gold price.”
We do not know what that means? What is the price of gold, if not the gold price? Having
some clever form of expression will never resolve the problem.
One more time. Buying and holding physical gold and silver gives you rights, title, and all
interest, aka full ownership. Acquiring them during theses tumultuous times is your best
form of wealth protection moving into an increasingly uncertain future. If you want to
attach physical ownership to the paper prices that are fully controlled by central bankers,
you can, but it misses the point for your future financial well-being.
If you choose to play the lien game and deal in fiat, with a lien attached to everything you
have, that, too, is a choice with a guaranteed certainty of uncertainty for the future. There
is one thing on which almost all can agree, the central bankers are not about to give up
their uber-wealthy fiat scam, and if they cannot meet their obligations to make delivery on
physical PMs, they will [forcefully] buy people off and keep their game alive.
How long can they keep their game going? Longer than most expect. For that view of
artificial reality, we turn to the charts.
There is no evidence of a change in trend. That means gold can still go lower, possibly
move sideways, and have occasional rallies, a natural feature of all bear markets. Know
that it takes time to turn a trend around. If you keep a focus on what the intrinsic value
of gold and silver offer, [rights, title, interest], you may feel less pressure to have price
turn around to the upside and more secure in your holdings. At current low prices,
opportunity is so ripe.
Mention was made that rallies are a normal feature of any bear market, and it is possible
gold may break through the immediate resistance area of 1,300, as we show on the daily
chart. If you look at late June, when price declined under 1,300, there was a brief two-day
rally that failed.
Compare those two trading days then with the last seven now. Price is not reacting away
from that resistance. We often state that the how of a price reaction, or lack of one, is the
market’s way of telling us what is likely to happen. It appears that buyers are absorbing
sellers defending 1,300, and it may give way, next week.
The two strongest volume days in July did not result in any downside follow through, and
that, in itself, is a message. You will read more and more articles touting how gold and
silver have bottomed. They have not, at least according to price behavior as determined by
actual buyers and sellers in the market.
One has to suspend reliance on the natural order of supply and demand in the PMs, for
now, until the unnatural forces of faux supply, pretend non-existent interest of demand
by central bankers plays itself out.
We can say with certainty that there has been greater buying than selling at the lows in
both metals, and that shows clearly in the silver weekly chart. We do not know how much
is simply short-covering, still a positive sign, and how much may be actual new longs being
accumulated by smart money.
The daily silver is similar to but not as strong as gold. Still, evidence is growing to expect
some sort of rally. Until we see the how and the extent of any rally, there can be no change
in the assessment that the trend remains down.
We have been urging our readers each and every week, buy physical gold, physical silver,
price is not the issue. Having it is! Perhaps now you better understand why. In addition
to buying either or both, we also continue to advocate holding it personally. If you do not
hold it, you do not own it. Your financial health depends on it.
As ardent as Precious Metals, [PMs], buyers are, a good many of them do not comprehend
their importance. Everyone agrees they are resoundingly better than any fiat currency, as
history has amply proven. However, few consider the why PMs are so anathema for all
central bankers.
There was a time in this country when gold and silver were the coin of the realm. Actually,
they still are! The Coinage Act of 1792 has never been repealed, and that means, by law,
gold and silver are, [read section 20], the current money of account of the United States.
There is a very potent message within that Act, and like we said last week, Knowledge is
not of value, using it is.
Here is what not enough people know, even in the PM community: The qualities within a
gold coin are title, rights, and interest. When gold was used to purchase anything, all title,
rights, and interest transferred from the gold coin to whatever was purchased. It was paid
in full.
By contrast, thanks to the Rothschilds, the genesis for the entire Western world’s financial
system, central bankers have replaced ALL title, rights, and interest in whatever you buy
with commercial debt instruments, liens. All Federal Reserve Notes are evidences of debt.
They are not “dollars,” even though the word is printed on them, and the Federal Reserve
has admitted as much. Federal Reserve Notes, [FRNs] are commercial debt instruments,
and they are issued by the privately owned corporation, The Federal Reserve.
Debt is not money. It never was and never will be. The lie has been sold to the public, and
the public has bought it, in its entirety. As an aside, if you have not yet looked up cognitive
dissonance, this would be a good time. What is a FRN? It is not Federal; it is issued by a
private corporation. Look up Federal Reserve in any government blue pages in the phone
book. It ain’t there. You will find it closer to Federal Express in the white pages.
There are no reserves backing a FRN. It is the same as monopoly money. Each have the
same intrinsic value. One is believed [cognitive dissonance, again] to be of value, the other
is known as play money. A few know the truth and see the two as equal.
It is not a note. There is no promise to pay anyone anything at anytime. Any questions?
Debt is a lien, so whenever you use FRNs to buy anything, whatever you purchase carries
with it a lien. This is why when you purchase a house or a car, the government keeps real
title, and all you get is an equitable title, usage, like a rental because you pay annual rent
back to the government. Whenever you sell your house or car, the lien transfers with it.
No matter what you “buy,” a house, a car, furniture, equipment, etc, the lien of 100% goes
along with it, because you used a FRN, and all title, rights, and interest fully belongs to the
creditor, the Federal Reserve. Also, for the privilege of using a FRN debt instrument, you
get to pay a tax on them. [Enter IRS]
With gold and silver, you paid in full for whatever you bought, and you received all rights,
title, and interest. The government has no claim against you. You do not need the
government because you are dealing with coin of the realm that gives you absolute right,
title, and interest. Can you better understand why Socialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt
ran the scam he did for the New World Order to have all “persons” turn in their gold, an
order issued by Executive Order. Few knew that Executive Orders only applied to those
within the employ of the federal government! Of course, the federal government did
nothing to dissuade those who falsely believed otherwise, and still do.
Why are gold and silver so important to your financial health, and why are they so fiercely
opposed by governments? Three words: Rights, Title, Interest. By stripping people of
their most accessible form of wealth, they became dependent upon the government. How
many people are dependent upon Social Security, [another scam], Medicare, and now the
largest growing segment, Food Stamps?
If you have wealth, and gold and silver are forms of wealth, [no matter how anyone would
say otherwise], you do not need fiat; you do not need the government. However, the
government needs you! By taking away your wealth and leaving you only with debt, you
are caught up in their web.
The above explanation has been the primary reason why the New World Order has taken
over each Western country’s currency, replacing all gold and silver backed lawful currency
with [worthless] paper fiat. As Chuck Colson, then Special Counsel to Nixon back in the
1970s, was quoted as saying, “When you’ve got them by the [financial] balls, their hearts
and minds will follow.” Guess where the New World Order has you?
Think about this when you next use your credit card, or fiat FRNs. Prior to the 1930s,
Americans used coin of the realm, and United States Notes, [actually issued by the US]
that were backed by gold and silver, with a promise to pay metal specie if one wanted to
have their lawful money so redeemed. Now, thanks to fiat, the United States has slipped
into Third World status, just not yet recognized by the masses. It is going to continue to
get worse.
The above issue has now been compounded by the growing concern that central bankers
have little to no gold left, even though they have been leasing, releasing, and scamming
everyone with their previously unquestioned practices. There are numerous “stories”
relating this latest ongoing scam, so we need not dwell any further on it.
There are two situations going on. Some express it as “the price of gold, or the gold price.”
We do not know what that means? What is the price of gold, if not the gold price? Having
some clever form of expression will never resolve the problem.
One more time. Buying and holding physical gold and silver gives you rights, title, and all
interest, aka full ownership. Acquiring them during theses tumultuous times is your best
form of wealth protection moving into an increasingly uncertain future. If you want to
attach physical ownership to the paper prices that are fully controlled by central bankers,
you can, but it misses the point for your future financial well-being.
If you choose to play the lien game and deal in fiat, with a lien attached to everything you
have, that, too, is a choice with a guaranteed certainty of uncertainty for the future. There
is one thing on which almost all can agree, the central bankers are not about to give up
their uber-wealthy fiat scam, and if they cannot meet their obligations to make delivery on
physical PMs, they will [forcefully] buy people off and keep their game alive.
How long can they keep their game going? Longer than most expect. For that view of
artificial reality, we turn to the charts.
There is no evidence of a change in trend. That means gold can still go lower, possibly
move sideways, and have occasional rallies, a natural feature of all bear markets. Know
that it takes time to turn a trend around. If you keep a focus on what the intrinsic value
of gold and silver offer, [rights, title, interest], you may feel less pressure to have price
turn around to the upside and more secure in your holdings. At current low prices,
opportunity is so ripe.
Mention was made that rallies are a normal feature of any bear market, and it is possible
gold may break through the immediate resistance area of 1,300, as we show on the daily
chart. If you look at late June, when price declined under 1,300, there was a brief two-day
rally that failed.
Compare those two trading days then with the last seven now. Price is not reacting away
from that resistance. We often state that the how of a price reaction, or lack of one, is the
market’s way of telling us what is likely to happen. It appears that buyers are absorbing
sellers defending 1,300, and it may give way, next week.
The two strongest volume days in July did not result in any downside follow through, and
that, in itself, is a message. You will read more and more articles touting how gold and
silver have bottomed. They have not, at least according to price behavior as determined by
actual buyers and sellers in the market.
One has to suspend reliance on the natural order of supply and demand in the PMs, for
now, until the unnatural forces of faux supply, pretend non-existent interest of demand
by central bankers plays itself out.
We can say with certainty that there has been greater buying than selling at the lows in
both metals, and that shows clearly in the silver weekly chart. We do not know how much
is simply short-covering, still a positive sign, and how much may be actual new longs being
accumulated by smart money.
The daily silver is similar to but not as strong as gold. Still, evidence is growing to expect
some sort of rally. Until we see the how and the extent of any rally, there can be no change
in the assessment that the trend remains down.
We have been urging our readers each and every week, buy physical gold, physical silver,
price is not the issue. Having it is! Perhaps now you better understand why. In addition
to buying either or both, we also continue to advocate holding it personally. If you do not
hold it, you do not own it. Your financial health depends on it.
FEDERAL RESERVE PLAN STOCK MARKET COLLAPSE – PETER SCHIFF: “DOLLAR IS GOING TO COLLAPSE BEFORE THE MARKET DOES”
Federal Reserve Plan Stock Market Collapse
2013 the year the US Dollar will collapse, US Dollar slippery slope to economic collapse
PETER SCHIFF: “DOLLAR IS GOING TO COLLAPSE BEFORE THE MARKET DOES”
I had the opportunity this week to reconnect with Peter Schiff, CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital.
It was a powerful interview, as Peter indicated the Fed is trapped in a long-term position of destroying the dollar, while mainstream voices cheer resultant new highs of the stock market. Such dollar debasement Peter explained, means “the price of gold is going to skyrocket”—once the negative propaganda wears off.
When asked if continued money printing is setting the stage for an equities market collapse, Peter said, “I think the dollar is going to collapse before the market [does]…The Fed is propping up asset prices by debasing the dollar—the currency with which those asset prices are denominated.”
“So if you’re going to destroy your currency, then asset prices are not going to collapse…Another way you can look at it is expressed in gold…Stock and real estate prices expressed in gold are going to go down significantly over time.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/peter-schiff-dollar-is-going-to-collapse-before-the-market-does/
2013 the year the US Dollar will collapse, US Dollar slippery slope to economic collapse
PETER SCHIFF: “DOLLAR IS GOING TO COLLAPSE BEFORE THE MARKET DOES”
I had the opportunity this week to reconnect with Peter Schiff, CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital.
It was a powerful interview, as Peter indicated the Fed is trapped in a long-term position of destroying the dollar, while mainstream voices cheer resultant new highs of the stock market. Such dollar debasement Peter explained, means “the price of gold is going to skyrocket”—once the negative propaganda wears off.
When asked if continued money printing is setting the stage for an equities market collapse, Peter said, “I think the dollar is going to collapse before the market [does]…The Fed is propping up asset prices by debasing the dollar—the currency with which those asset prices are denominated.”
“So if you’re going to destroy your currency, then asset prices are not going to collapse…Another way you can look at it is expressed in gold…Stock and real estate prices expressed in gold are going to go down significantly over time.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/peter-schiff-dollar-is-going-to-collapse-before-the-market-does/
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