Precious Metals Remain Under Attack by Governments
France has outlawed buying or selling of precious metals for cash and has now outlawed even mailing them, In Germany, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat have decided to increase VAT on silver coins to 19% trying to make it unprofitable for investors to go out of the system using the tax increases. By the beginning of next year, Germany will be attacking the precious metals as well.
France has outlawed buying or selling of precious metals for cash and has now outlawed even mailing them, In Germany, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat have decided to increase VAT on silver coins to 19% trying to make it unprofitable for investors to go out of the system using the tax increases. By the beginning of next year, Germany will be attacking the precious metals as well.
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Snowden – Supreme Court held the Judge can sentence you for Acquitted Conduct Making Juries Irrelevant
Glenn Greenwald of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper said Edward Snowden chose the semi-autonomous Chinese region Hong Kong because it was the least bad option open to him. Greenwald said that Snowden wanted to remain out of the “clutches” of the U.S. government for as long as possible but is fully aware that he won’t succeed. Snowden MUST go to China where he will be protected. There is ZERO chance for a fair trial. The US system is so bad, the jury means nothing.
People do not realize by if a jury acquits you on 9 out of 10 charges, the judge can STILL sentence you to prison on the very conduct the jury rejected!!!! Yes – this is American Justice rendering the jury nothing but a nuisance. The government does not pay attention to what the jury says in federal court. The landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) rendered the mandatory and controversial Federal Sentencing Guidelines (“the Guidelines”) merely advisory. In so deciding, the Supreme Court created uncertainty that rippled through the federal circuit and district courts, resulting in inconsistencies regarding several elements of the now “advisory”. Perhaps the most contentious controversy unleashed by the Booker decision is the constitutionality of a judge’s consideration of acquitted conduct in enhanced sentencing (“acquitted-conduct sentencing”).
Judges are word-smiths. They can justify anything. Sentencing you for crimes you were NOT found guilty of is the latest breakdown in the rule of law that means it isIMPOSSIBLE to obtain a fair trial in the United States – PERIOD!!!! In United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148, 154 (1997) the Supreme Court justified this practice writing:
“As we explained in Witte, however, sentencing enhancements do not punish a defendant for crimes of which he was not convicted, but rather increase his sentence because of the manner in which he committed the crime of conviction.”.
This is why the government charges so many counts on a single event. They twist each event into so many charges just to get one and then they can sentence you to the whole set of counts even when the jury fails to convict you. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was the terrorist they did put on trial in New York and was supposed to be their best case. On November 17, 2010, a US jury in New York found him guilty of one count of conspiracy, but acquitted him of 284 other charges including all murder counts. Basically, the jury found he may have “agreed” with the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but that he did NOT participate himself. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Lewis Kaplan for the one count when he was acquited of any murders. Under US law, the Judge has “descretion” to sentence you to whatever he desires for he is not nullifying the jury’s decision, but “increas[ing] his sentence because of the manner in which he committed the crime of conviction.”
This would be like your father beating you for saying you did not do something, but he says it is not whether or not you did what he accused you of, he didn’t like the tone of your answer.
Judges have changed the law so much that what once was respectful of human rights is now considered “liberal” and unpopular. Justice Field wrote in a dissenting opinion what has become standard practice today in the way they charge crime.
“The State may, indeed, make the drinking of one drop of liquor an offense to be punished by imprisonment, but it would be an unheard-of cruelty if it should count the drops in a single glass, and make thereby a thousand offenses, and thus extend the punishment for drinking the single glass of liquor to an imprisonment of almost indefinite duration.”
Glenn Greenwald of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper said Edward Snowden chose the semi-autonomous Chinese region Hong Kong because it was the least bad option open to him. Greenwald said that Snowden wanted to remain out of the “clutches” of the U.S. government for as long as possible but is fully aware that he won’t succeed. Snowden MUST go to China where he will be protected. There is ZERO chance for a fair trial. The US system is so bad, the jury means nothing.
People do not realize by if a jury acquits you on 9 out of 10 charges, the judge can STILL sentence you to prison on the very conduct the jury rejected!!!! Yes – this is American Justice rendering the jury nothing but a nuisance. The government does not pay attention to what the jury says in federal court. The landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) rendered the mandatory and controversial Federal Sentencing Guidelines (“the Guidelines”) merely advisory. In so deciding, the Supreme Court created uncertainty that rippled through the federal circuit and district courts, resulting in inconsistencies regarding several elements of the now “advisory”. Perhaps the most contentious controversy unleashed by the Booker decision is the constitutionality of a judge’s consideration of acquitted conduct in enhanced sentencing (“acquitted-conduct sentencing”).
Judges are word-smiths. They can justify anything. Sentencing you for crimes you were NOT found guilty of is the latest breakdown in the rule of law that means it isIMPOSSIBLE to obtain a fair trial in the United States – PERIOD!!!! In United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148, 154 (1997) the Supreme Court justified this practice writing:
“As we explained in Witte, however, sentencing enhancements do not punish a defendant for crimes of which he was not convicted, but rather increase his sentence because of the manner in which he committed the crime of conviction.”.
This is why the government charges so many counts on a single event. They twist each event into so many charges just to get one and then they can sentence you to the whole set of counts even when the jury fails to convict you. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was the terrorist they did put on trial in New York and was supposed to be their best case. On November 17, 2010, a US jury in New York found him guilty of one count of conspiracy, but acquitted him of 284 other charges including all murder counts. Basically, the jury found he may have “agreed” with the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but that he did NOT participate himself. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Lewis Kaplan for the one count when he was acquited of any murders. Under US law, the Judge has “descretion” to sentence you to whatever he desires for he is not nullifying the jury’s decision, but “increas[ing] his sentence because of the manner in which he committed the crime of conviction.”
This would be like your father beating you for saying you did not do something, but he says it is not whether or not you did what he accused you of, he didn’t like the tone of your answer.
Judges have changed the law so much that what once was respectful of human rights is now considered “liberal” and unpopular. Justice Field wrote in a dissenting opinion what has become standard practice today in the way they charge crime.
“The State may, indeed, make the drinking of one drop of liquor an offense to be punished by imprisonment, but it would be an unheard-of cruelty if it should count the drops in a single glass, and make thereby a thousand offenses, and thus extend the punishment for drinking the single glass of liquor to an imprisonment of almost indefinite duration.”
O’Neil v. Vermont, 144 U.S. 323, 340 (1892)
Back then, it was prohibition. The act that was designed to get the Irish and Italian Catholics who were flooding the country as immigrants and were drinkers. By outlawing booze, they hoped to stop the immigration. The Department of Just-Us can and will take a single event of Snowden revealing the NSA illegal seizure of everything and turn each document into a separate criminal count. Today, they are taking that single glass of wine and criminalizing every individual drop. So the jury can believe you did NOTdrink a single drop, but you “agreed” to drink one drop (conspiracy) but did not actually drink it, and then the judge can sentence you as if you drank every drop in that glass because the jury said they believe you intended to drink (conspiracy). Guilty of one drop entitles the judge to do whatever he desires irrespective of the jury decision. Today, you WILL be sentenced for drinking every drop despite the fact you did not.
Neither can Snowden argue that it should be illegal to prosecute a whisleblower. That is called jury nullification. The judge will instruct the jury it is NOT their right to sit in judgment over congress. They can pass a law making it a crime if you do not kill your first born as Abraham was ordered to do. The jury is NOT permitted to say such a law is unprincipled. The only question the jury can decide is if you obeyed the law Congress wrote.
Snowden – I hope someone shows you this. You cannot get a fair trial in the USA. The press in London reported what you revealed. The US press has focused on your girlfriend dancing with a pole and that you dropped out of school. So somehow this makes whatever the NSA does to our rights OK because of what you did in school and your girlfriend dancing with a pole.
The institutionalized American press will ENSURE you are convicted. Even good journalists cannot write the truth for their editors get the last say. The American Press will never print what I have just revealed about the federal jury system because they are part of the propaganda machine that keeps Americans in line and subservient to the non-elected bureaucratic government. In my own case, just days into it, the Assistant US Attorney Brian Coad was in our office joked about my assertion of a constitutional speedy trial right that should have been 90 days max. When an employee asked what about that right, the reply was a laugh bluntly stating then and there that there would never be a trial. That was correct and dictated the entire case.
There is NO federal judge that I am aware of who will defend anyone in New York City against the demands of the government. So forget it, There will NEVER be a fair trial in the USA. It is IMPOSSIBLE! Juries mean nothing. They throw so many counts in there so that the jury feels they have to give the government something as was the case inGhailani.
Back then, it was prohibition. The act that was designed to get the Irish and Italian Catholics who were flooding the country as immigrants and were drinkers. By outlawing booze, they hoped to stop the immigration. The Department of Just-Us can and will take a single event of Snowden revealing the NSA illegal seizure of everything and turn each document into a separate criminal count. Today, they are taking that single glass of wine and criminalizing every individual drop. So the jury can believe you did NOTdrink a single drop, but you “agreed” to drink one drop (conspiracy) but did not actually drink it, and then the judge can sentence you as if you drank every drop in that glass because the jury said they believe you intended to drink (conspiracy). Guilty of one drop entitles the judge to do whatever he desires irrespective of the jury decision. Today, you WILL be sentenced for drinking every drop despite the fact you did not.
Neither can Snowden argue that it should be illegal to prosecute a whisleblower. That is called jury nullification. The judge will instruct the jury it is NOT their right to sit in judgment over congress. They can pass a law making it a crime if you do not kill your first born as Abraham was ordered to do. The jury is NOT permitted to say such a law is unprincipled. The only question the jury can decide is if you obeyed the law Congress wrote.
Snowden – I hope someone shows you this. You cannot get a fair trial in the USA. The press in London reported what you revealed. The US press has focused on your girlfriend dancing with a pole and that you dropped out of school. So somehow this makes whatever the NSA does to our rights OK because of what you did in school and your girlfriend dancing with a pole.
The institutionalized American press will ENSURE you are convicted. Even good journalists cannot write the truth for their editors get the last say. The American Press will never print what I have just revealed about the federal jury system because they are part of the propaganda machine that keeps Americans in line and subservient to the non-elected bureaucratic government. In my own case, just days into it, the Assistant US Attorney Brian Coad was in our office joked about my assertion of a constitutional speedy trial right that should have been 90 days max. When an employee asked what about that right, the reply was a laugh bluntly stating then and there that there would never be a trial. That was correct and dictated the entire case.
There is NO federal judge that I am aware of who will defend anyone in New York City against the demands of the government. So forget it, There will NEVER be a fair trial in the USA. It is IMPOSSIBLE! Juries mean nothing. They throw so many counts in there so that the jury feels they have to give the government something as was the case inGhailani.
Economic Decline Returning Marriage to Historical Norms
The Hollywood ideas of love at first sight have been also fading as marriage is starting to turn back to its historical roots. The birth of contracts and pensions took place with the marriage contract that was a REAL contract. Men were required to establish themselves FIRST before taking on a bride. If a man was broke, had nothing and showed up to ask for the hand of someone’s daughter and the father asked what do you have and he replied “nothing” , but I love her – it would have been met with shock and laughter.
Philip II by Titian
Traditionally, the money paid for the woman, in many cases went actually to the woman NOT to her family. This was the early establishment of marriage – the contract that PROVED the man could take care of the woman if she choose to marry him. Women were not forced to marry into poverty. Among royals, they were compelled to marry for political purposes. That was seen more as a duty or obligation. When Mary of England married Philip of Spain, his portrait was painted by Titan and sent to her for her approval.
With the economy turning down in Europe and unemployment among the youth rising to 60%, many young girls are returning to the historical marriage roots. They are looking for older ESTABLISHED men to ensure they have a future since socialism is collapsing. It is a choice between a life of hardship or a life that is acceptable. It does not require billionaires or exceptionally wealthy men. This is men who have a modest nest egg and are established wage earners. We will have the full historical report on this trend in the upcoming special report on interest rates and pensions.
Minorities – the New Majority
The day has arrived when Minority Births are now the New Majority. There were actually more non-Hispanic white deaths than births last year. In Demographic Watershed for U.S., Newborns Among Non-Hispanic Whites Are Surpassed by Others. This is traditionally what took place in every mature society documented since Roman times. The more economic prosperous a nation becomes, the lower the birth rate and the once MAJORITY fades away.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303879604577408363003351818.html
Syria – The Next Gulf of Tonkin?
There is a U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit that is already in Jordan, on the ground. They may be sent into Syria to become a ‘tripwire’ that if attacked by Syrian forces will become the Gulf of Tonkin excuse to expand the war. Let’s see what develops. Next week is a turning point.
The Collapse in Liquidity = Rising Volatility
The primary increase in volatility ahead is the continued erosion of liquidity, which on a global scale is still about 50% of 2007 levels. The more insane these regulations, the less economic investment, and this will result in the continued rise in unemployment. Government is clinging to power. The more they do, the worse the future becomes. That cannot see what they are doing. Even the sanctions they impose on Iran and Korea become pointless. These are governments who do not care about the impact upon their people, it is all about retaining power. If the people rise up, the government will just kill them as is taking place in Syria. Dictators ALWAYS view the world only through their eyes.
This is why the listening programs are also so dangerous. It is government acting no different than any dictatorship – it is all about them and not the people. “1 billion” is the Average number of Verizon Wireless calls connected each day. So when Obama says nobody is listening to your calls, they lack the staff to do that so computers do it for them. They want everything. The Constitution requiredPROBABLE CAUSE to gather such power. Obama as a lawyer knows what he is doing. You CANNOT have 100% collection of everything. How are you going to explain the next Boston Bombing when you collect everything? This will be like the SEC. They have NEVER prevented any economic crash and the excuse is they need more power with each event. Government is inherently corrupt. It always is.
Verizon’s advertisements “Can you Hear Me Now?” were perhaps truthful insofar as they just omitted who was listening – the NSA.
What the Obama Administration fails to get is the dampening effect this has on doing business in the USA. Calling the United States ensures the US is recording your conversation and storing it in Utah for LIFE!
This is just another step in the total destruction of Western Civilization. Tracking every dime and this obsession with getting their hands on money, they have forgotten what makes an economy function – FREEDOM. The controls being placed on everything are just insane and this makes wealth contract, and this investment decline.
Euro – Weekly Outlook
The next key weekly target for a turning point will be the week of June 17th. This Friday, a closing BELOW 13133 will warn that the euro is starting to weaken once again after this short-cover rally. The key support remains 12137 and this is where a weekly closing beneath this level will signal the breakdown in the Euro. Additional weekly support lies at 12665 and 12411. Weekly closings beneath these areas will provide short-term sell signals.
To see a buy signal, we need a weekly closing above 13298 followed by 13432. The major Weekly Bullish stand at 13913 and 14437.
To see a buy signal, we need a weekly closing above 13298 followed by 13432. The major Weekly Bullish stand at 13913 and 14437.
We have an important turning point the week of 07/22 and a panic cycle going into the turning point for the ECM 8/07.
Euro Forecast
The Euro made its new high today on the 17.2 frequency. We did not exceed the key resistance and if we now close lower, we should see a retest of support. A closing below 13180 will confirm a sell signal. The market volatility began on target so now watch the closing. Going into next week, volatility will remain high. We need to elect some definitive sell signals here to confirm the change in trend that the cycles indicate are possible for now.
Keep in mind that the markets are going to remain fairly choppy and indecisive until the ECM turns of August 7th. Then we have the German elections in September and everything should begin to trend.
German High Court Introducing More Euro Chaos
Germany is obsessed with hyperinflation just as the US is obsessed with reliving the Great Depression. Neither one even understands their own history. This interesting aspect is that despite all the press at the time, FDR did not follow the austerity advice of his Brains Trust who were lawyers. It was George Warrenwho saved the day and it was not STIMULATION of increasing the money supply that turned the tide, but the devaluation of the dollar.
Germany, on the other hand, simply remembers the hyperinflation. It’s view of history is so distorted it is as if it assumed that because someone eat a carrot and died, then that was the cause. They completely miss the point that it was a revolutionary government that INVITED the communists from Russia to come in and take Germany. The revolutionaries defaulted on all previous government debt as this 8th issue 1918 German War Bond and nobody in their right mind would put money in a bank or buy bonds from a bunch of zealot thugs. Hence, all they could do is print and they lived in a dream world where communism would create a perfect society and thus the state could just print whatever it needed as if it were money from above. There was NO concept of even how to run an economy. Grover Cleveland said it best during the Panic of 1893 from observing the consequences of fiscal mismanagement. Capital can refuse to invest, move offshore, and hoard. But the average person cannot hoard his own labor and survive. Attack capital and you destroy the economy – what is so hard to understand about this?
Only after the collapse of the Wiemar Republic did Germany sell tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I and the chaos of hyperinflation caused by the revolutionary nut jobs. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II. Then that debt was defaulted on again.
The German fear of hyperinflation is just crazy. No mainstream government has EVER expired in such a manner. The danger of mature economies is deflation as government needs money, increases taxes, and sucks the lifeblood out of everything. How exactly is austerity going to create jobs for the 60% unemployed youth? You cannot oppress capital in such a manner for it results in precisely what Europe is experiencing – the collapse in economic growth. Mature economies die by their own hand – it is always suicide.
The German high court will rule on the ECB policy of stimulating and whether or not it is within their legal authority. It is not. So this is going to be interesting as to how Europe shakes out. The flight to quality has people shifting to German bonds on the assumption that the collapse in the Euro will mean they get Deutsche marks.