Monday, August 5, 2013

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NSA Collects Word for Word According to PBS

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Certainly one of the more reputable news organizations has published the fact that the NSA is collecting word for word of all domestic communications – PBS. Anyone who thinks this is just about terrorism will have another thing coming. This info is being shared to hunt down money on a grand scale. This is all about the financial crisis and this is how ALL governments have collapsed – sheer economic implosion as they turn against their own people. As I have said before. You will pray for the hyperinflation where government simply prints and does not try to confiscate assets. That has just never been the case in developed nations where assets exist. Hyperinflation is associated with governments that are typically new and revolutionary where hard assets are hoarded and not present in banks and there is not debt market for nobody will lend to them. We are not at that stage at this time. We first have to see confidence collapse and the bond market implode with nobody buying. But where does ca[ital then go since there is no alternative? The future is just not going to be such a easy way out.

How Empires Collapse – A Orderly Path to Conclusion?

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A number of people have asked what does the future really hold with the civil unrest/war cycle turning up next year. GovernmentNEVER collapse because of revolution. Let’s get this one very straight. Any government as long as it is strong will crush into dust any resistance. The key to the collapse of empires is the die from inside normally by their own hand. Communism fell of its own accord. We did not do a damn thing. Communism was economically unsustainable. As that worked its way through the veins of power, their economies simply imploded.
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This is why I am warning that socialism is collapsing. Government is hunting down every penny it can find. It will destroy the economy in the process and that is the ultimate irony. Western government are simply unsustainable. We cannot constantly confiscate assets and pour them into interest and pension to sustain government. The economy grows weaker and the revenues decline as they become more and more aggressive.
TankMan-060589The Barbarians were at the gates of Rome for more than a century. They could not make any headway until the 3rd century when the financial of Rome were imploding. Undermine the economy, you weaken the government, and then it falls. The rise of people in arms is NEVER the actual event the changes the cycle. It is the final act that completes the cycle. The cycle is already declining and then when the people cannot take it any more, they will rise up. They get the credit, but in fact, the government is declining just as we saw in China. When the man stood before the tanks, it did not take long for the government to really fail.
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Revolution is the final act, never the first. Here is a famous Maryland Propaganda Note intended to justify war because of the injustice of the King. The king of England played a game with the American colonies. Anything they bought from England had to be paid in silver or gold. However, whatever they sold to England was paid in copper. Hence, he was extorting the American Colonies and bleeding them dry. First comes the economic decline – then comes the Revolution. So what must take place FIRST is the economic collapse and that will then lead to discontent. Why do you think they are passing all these laws one step at a time that follows a planned path only an idiot cannot see because they do not wish to.


CIA & Benghazi

The Secret CIA Operation In Benghazi is starting to surface and there are a lot of questions. This smells like yet another cover-up and the best guess is the illegal shipment of arms flowing from there into Syria. The talk around town is that the Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (April 18, 1960 – September 12, 2012) was involved in non-diplomatic actions and that his death was connected to a pay-back retribution that may have even emerged from within the CIA. Who knows what is really going on any more. Nothing but nothing is ever what it is pretended to be.

Confiscation of Gold – Possible or Not?

QUESTION: Do you think gold would be confiscated by government as was the case by Roosevelt?
ANSWER: Absolutely. It is a question that we must confront. As long as they think money is tangible and they seek to satisfy the bankers by servicing the debt, then they will do whatever it takes to retain power. You stand ZERO chance of preventing that in a court of law.
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The confiscation of gold was NOT a law enacted by Congress. It was simply an executive order directed by the White House. The Supreme Court upheld that so the “people” never elected members of Congress to even vote on the subject. The President can do the same thing without warning today. Ask yourself this question. How many Jews would have survived had Hitler been endowed with the powers of the NSA today? They could have located everyone and then any questions would have been resolved with a DNA test.
Obama lost the gun issue. So what is he doing? He has every agency buying all the ammunition so there is a huge shortage. Then he is implementing registration of ammunition. There is no democracy. The people have no say in anything. They are out to preserve their power – that is it. As long as they THINK money is physical in some manner rather than truly electronic, then they will continue to hunt down assets and expand their confiscation to justify their actions.
The King of England used the criminal law to raise money. He first created the concept of the King’s Peace to interject himself into every private dispute and demand fines after Magna Carta shut down his right to simply fine people at will. At the time of the American Revolution, he had more than 200 felonies all carrying death penalty because that enabled him to confiscate all your assets and your family were thrown out on the street. He then created misdemeanors, which he could not justify death so he sold you as a slave and shipped you off to America as an “indentured servant”. You had to work for whoever bought you and when you were done, nobody sent you home. They destroyed families all because of money.Philip IV France
Governments have been confiscating assets for centuries. That is what they do. Rome forgave all taxes of Romans because they confiscated so much wealth from Carthage. The French have a long history of confiscating assets dating back to Philip IV (1268-1314) who confiscated the assets of Italian bankers, the Knights Templar, and then seized the Catholic Church and moved it to France. Edward I (1239 – 1307) confiscated all the assets of the Jews when he could not repay his loans and expelled them from Britain. Spain used the Spanish Inquisition to confiscate assets of the Jews and Arabs.
Maxentius-BasilicaAll governments abuse their position to simply take whatever they want when they want and justify it by enacting a law. The communist revolution confiscated all the assets of everyone. Constantine the Great (272-337AD) claimed to be Christian seeing a cross in the sky to defeat Maxentius who built the first Christian church in Rome and then confiscated all the assets of all the pagan temples who had been the ancient bankers.
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When the French Revolution took place, yes they too issued currency that went into hyperinflation because the smart rich fled to Geneva and they issued more notes than there was backing. They issued currency backed by the assets they confiscated from the Catholic Church. Napoleon even imprisoned a Pope. The assignats were a paper currency redeemable at first paying 5% interest. They were issued over the strong objections of many members of the National Assembly, who still remembered the disastrous inflation caused by John Law’s bank in 1720. The notes were intended as short-term obligations pending the sale of confiscated crown and church land. They were made legal tender in Apr., 1790, and subsequent issues bore no interest. French citizens could use the notes to buy the confiscated lands, and the notes paid into the treasury were to be destroyed. The currency rapidly became inflated for two reasons: (1) As the government sold off the lands, the backing for the notes was reduced, and (2) Notes paid into the Treasury were usually not destroyed, but spent as corrupt government official were pocketing the redeemed notes on a grand scale.
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During the American Revolution they too issued currency that went into hyperinflation backed by assets they confiscated from British citizens. Most people do not realize the extent of this confiscation of assets by the American Colonies and that despite that fact that the war was over, the British had not completely abandoned the United States. Tensions remained high and some British troops refused to leave even after the treaty had been signed. British troops refused to leave the forts in Detroit, Otsego, and New York all because the colonial governments refused to return land confiscated from Tories during the war.
The Marine’s Hymn begins “From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli.” Yet most people have no idea what Tripoli in Libya has to do with the Marines. American sailors were no longer under British protection after the Revolution and were being captured and sold into slavery by North African pirates from Tripoli. In 1785, pirates from Algiers captured an entire crew from an American merchant ship off the coast of Portugal.
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In the USA, following the surrender of the British at Yorktown, Washington moved over 11,000 troops to the town of Newburgh in New York. After waiting several months, the men of the Continental Army were ready to take up arms against the government for its lack of payment. Officers from the Army came together to take action against the Continental Congress and in June 1783, they marched on Philadelphia. The soldiers threatened to hold members of the Congress hostage until their wages were paid. The Pennsylvania militia refused to assist the members of Congress and they were forced to relocate. Eventually, George Washington came to their aid and encouraged the soldiers not to act violently. He stated, “Do not open the flood gates of civil discord and deluge our rising empire in blood”. According to legend, Washington pulled out a copy of the letter that he had received and told the officers his eyes had grown blind in service to the nation. Respecting Washington’s lifetime of service, the officers stood down and the revolt was averted at perhaps the most vulnerable time in the nation’s history.Thanks to Washington’s involvement and words to the soldiers, no violence erupted. Nevertheless, this rebellion became known as the Newburgh Conspiracy that the history books often leave out.
Countless governments have confiscated assets calling it “nationalization” when governments move into economic meltdown. You have Argentina seizing all pension funds. Nigeria in their coup nationalized oil as did Iran. This is standard operating procedure. To even say that government will not confiscate gold is absurd. They know everyone who has bought it. They could just as easily issue an executive order as they did before and confiscate anything. They routinely confiscate all assets of anyone caught with drugs even if they had noting to do with drugs. If you travel with a lot of cash they just seize it and assume it is illegal. This is commonly called Policing for Profit. They have transformed the drug laws of money laundering into tax evasion claiming anyone with a foreign account not reporting that money is engaged in money launderingand they get to confiscate everything you have and you go to jail for up to 25 years.
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Barbara Boxer’s Highway Bill included the right to revoke your passport if the government even think you owe $50,000. Anyone who think government CANNOT or WILL NOT confiscate gold is dreaming. Load up your pockets and try to get on a plane. Bet they call it money laundering. You can do nothing. The Iron Curtain is closing and they are intent to make it air-tight.

Obama Trying to Cover Up Another Investigative Program

Reuters has published an exclusive report documenting that Obama Administration has been directing agents to cover up another program being used to investigate Americans using the very phone calls they claim nobody listens to that has nothing to do with terrorism.

This latest “terror” claim that is undefined and worldwide has all the earmarking of total bullshit. Nothing will happen and then they will claim conveniently that see, all out snooping on American saved lived – nothing happened. It is curious that the time of this is perfect with all of these revelations that the Obama Administration has gone totally insane.
al QaedaThe illogical statements that come from politicians of BOTHparties are enough to ask just what the hell are these people running for – to be personally loved like Anthony Weiner who is in Trouble Again! Then there is Obama and his famous speech BEFORE all these revelations of snooping where he declared the War on Terror was over and that al Qaeda was just a hollow “shell” of its former self.
If the War on Terror was over, and the latest threat they are claiming was a communication they intercepted, then since this was outside the USA and the targets are some overseas embassy, then why do we need to collect every email, track whatever you search thanks to Google, create Windows 8 that reports back to Microsoft/NSA any non-Microsoft software installed in your computer to the point that even NASA stopped using Microsoft for to create a back door to report to them means that can be hacked and someone can enter your computer. NASA dumped Windows because hackers would be able to takeover space.
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They need this stuff for TAXES – not terrorism. Bloomberg News has reported that Federal courts now allow the IRS to issue summonses to US banks at the request of the Norwegian government, to hunt down their citizens with assets in the USA.  All of these government are hunting money – not terrorists. This is the collapse of fiscal mismanagement. Forget the hyperinflation. These people will not go quietly into the night or light. They are kicking and screaming and will die like an insane madman in a violent oppression of the people.

EU Commission Staged Coup Against Berlusconi in Italy

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What is emerging over elections in Italy is really amazing. We have had the EU claim that the Italian Mafia is controlling elections inJune. However, what is now starting to emerge is that the EU Commission played an active role in staging a coup to oust the former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi and replace with Goldman Sach’s Mario Monti. Is the Mafia stacking the deck for themselves, or are they fighting back against the EU Commission or are they doing nothing and the EU Commission is using them as an excuse to inject its own authoritarianism?
Fabrizio Goria of the Italian news site Linkiesta researched a remarkable story that is not yet making headlines in the major international press. During the fall of 2011, interest rates on Italian government bonds rose to a record highs. The EU Commission then staged a political coup and demanded that the then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi must be replaced by the former Goldman Sach’s Mario Monti.
This report of a Brussels coup being organized by the EU Commission is showing the lack of democratic respect that the EU Commission has for the people of Europe that Nigel Farage has been yelling about. By the end of October, the then Italian Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, was on a phone call with President Jose Manuel Barroso who was the then head of the EU Commission. The call came during a meeting, and Maroni turned pale according to a number of people present in the meeting. Barroso instructed in no uncertain terms:
“I do not want you to take it personally. Neither you nor the other members of the government. But you have to replace Berlusconi. ”
Barroso explained that the EU strategy will be that the Italian Prime Minister should be attacked from all sides politically from all European politicians: Everyone would then say that Berlusconi was inappropriate. Then Barroso instructed, Maroni, should rise to power.
Both the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and then French President Nicholas Sarkozy also began in late October telling the press that they questioned the “credibility” of the Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi and his government. Then at the G20 meeting in Cannes, on November 2nd, the day before the start of negotiations, the head of the UK Finance Adair Turner said: “In our view, Italy is in much bigger problems than Greece. A solution should be found quickly.” At Cannes over the next two days, Barroso and EU Council President Herman van Rompuy, announced that Italy by itself is willing to be monitored by the IMF. Finally, on November 9th, Berlusconi resigned. The former Goldman banker Monti then emerged with support from Brussels and suddenly announced a reform program and Mario Draghi made sure that the interest rates for Italy fell once again and the press was called in to twist the coup into a positive event for Italy and the Euro..
There was no real radical reform program that was actually implemented. The ECB pumped in massive amounts of money to fund the Italian banks who were now able to buy Italian government bonds. This now really calls into question the attack upon Berlusconi and the Italian high court upholding his sentence to prison for in tax fraud case. The more interesting aspect of this was the court entered a political ban on Berlusconi from ever again holding office. This is highly interesting for it was B who stated publicly that Italy should leave the Euro in December 2012.
Nothing is ever what it seems on the surface, There are so many power-plays and they always center around curiously using the criminal law to try to alter politics. Ross Perot backed out of the race claiming it was the privacy of his daughter when in fact. I supposed to meet with him that weekend on my way back from Tokyo. The real story – it withdraw or there would be an investigation of his free airport. Lyndon LaRouche was a presidential candidate eight times between 1976 to 2004 who was suddenly sent to prison for tax fraud ending his campaign where he began taking national TV adds. Taxes are always used to imprison anyone who the government does not like for political reasons. Why did the court ban Berlusconi from holding office again. Did they too get a call from the EU Commission?
What is going on Behind the Curtain to retain power over a financial system that is imploding is truly getting out of hand. The Euro was fatally flawed and no amount of political machinations will sustain that power. Europe has once again followed the idea that a strong currency shows a good job done. The price of everything is at least 50% higher in Europe when sold by the same chain in America. The standard of living is declining and the youth have been deprived of a proper education exploited by universities charging a fortune when most people RARELY work in the field that they majored in. As long as you have a degree in something, that is sufficient. It could be basket weaving. It really does not matter outside of the law and medical field.
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Educators do not want to talk about the famous head of Goldman Sachs who saved the firm after the Great Depression and the New York Times called “Mr. Wall Street”. Sidney James Weinberg (1891–1969) dropped out of school at 13 and began working at the firm as a janitor. Bill Gates dropped out of college, Albert Einstein was also a drop out and Winston Churchill was also a notorious bad student. The people who can create are often called “dreamers” and schools do not like them because they do not conform to mindless memorizing of their propaganda. Most CFOs I have ever met tend to be engineers because they are taught to think out of the box when other fields like economics are taught to conform. Between taxes retarding the growth of small business to create future jobs robbing society to pay the pensions of state workers, and the education system burdening down the youth with debt because of excessive costs for questionable education that fails to prepared them for the real world, the future appears very bleak indeed.
All government can do is oppress the people more to sustain their crumbling power. The global financial system is a patch-work, never designed by any rational people tested by the trials of time and circumstance, and it is now unraveling as they turn to authoritarianism out of their self-interest – not those of the people. The system is collapsing. The question is what will be left standing when the dust settles. We need major reform that stands up to the test of time and circumstance with proof from history that we are on the right course for the future.

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