Tuesday, July 2, 2013

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS


NSA CIA & FBI All Tapping EU Embassy?

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People are just starting to wake up that there are other people behind the curtain who just feel that have to know everything everywhere all the time. When our model correctly forecast the collapse of the Russian economy and the London Financial Times broadcast that all over the place, things started to get dicey at Princeton Economics. The CIA called and said they wanted me to go to Virginia and build the model for them. I declined, but offered to run any study they wanted. The responds – no – they had to own it.
The world of intelligence gathering is real. We had one client in Geneva that was a large grain company. But the requests we kept getting were for studies of just about everything other than grains. At a lunch in Geneva, I asked a banker I knew there about the firm and he bluntly told me they were a front for the KGB.
One of the reasons I stopped managing person money in the late 1980s was because I just could no longer be sure who was who. We had an account that I thought was a Saudi and it turned out to me Qaddafi. Then I thought I was dealing with the Gaon family out of Geneva, of whom Albert died in 2010. I was invited to the Grand Opening of Herald Square in New York. That turned out to be a front for the ownership of Ferdinand Marcos, which originally opened in 1982 as a retail mall on the old E.J. Korvette site, but was secretly owned by Marcos and the NY Post thought was fronted by New York brothers Joseph and Ralph Bernstein. It turned out Marcos was involved with Qaddafi and Adnan Khashoggi (b 1935)When Marcos fled the Philippines, the FBI came into my office and asked me where Marcos stashed the gold. They assumed I knew him and was the largest gold adviser so they connected the dots.
Starovoytova Galina (1946-1998)This is just the tip of the iceberg. There was Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova (1946-1998) who was assassinated in her apartment. She was going to run against Yeltsin. In Russia they tried to slander her portraying her as a puppet of a Western Financier. That turned out to be me. Why? Her son worked in our London office so again they connected the dots.
What goes on behind the curtain you would not believe. Everybody is eavesdropping on everyone all because they think they might miss something. I have simply found that the people react to events they do not cause them. Nevertheless, this does not stop this idea that if they gather absolutely everything, somehow they will figure it all out. Sorry – it just does not work that way. They are putting the cart before the horse. Meanwhile, we lose everything worthwhile that once made our society “free”predicated first on human rights. I have been often referred to as the man that knew too much. Perhaps. Who really knows?

Metals Bull or Bear?

Gold 400 oz Bars
QUESTION:
Dear sir
I have read your articles extensively and i have a few questions…
You have repeatedly said that the tree must be shaken (for gold) but as far as i know gold and silver are in a BEAR market. This is not a correction in a bull market any more but a bear market (due to technical analysis). So my question is this: how can you be so sure that the metals will resume the bull trend sometime through 2014-15 and make new highs to 2020?
My second question is about stagflation… If we are moving to stagflation then the commodities should be in a bull trend, not bear trend as now…
Gold-bug
ANSWER: As wild as it might sound to the non-Goldbugs, the metals are actually not in a bear market. The truth is they did not breakout into a long-term bull market and that will not take place until silver exceeded the 1980 high and gold breaks through the $2300 level.
NYSILV-Y
How sure? This is about a 100% probability. The issue is not the metalsALONE. It is everything interconnected. For the metals to enter a REAL bear market gold must close BELOW $680 on an annual basis and silver BELOW$8.50. This rise in metals AFTER 2015 will be in general chaos and the drop in confidence in government. We are NOT at that stage now and there willNEVER be an HYPERINFLATION that is total nonsense.
DeFINF-CLThe STAGFLATION is being cause by the fact that the cost of government is rising rapidly. Any small town is an example. They have 10 policemen and 5 now reach their 20 year retirement point. They now have to pay them 100% healthcare for life and then they have to replace them so the net cost is the equivalent of hiring 15 policemen. These politicians assumed that there was an endless pot of revenue and people will pay whatever they demand. They then exclude the cost of government from your cost of living so this is the real rise in INFLATION but it acts like a black hole sucking in everything around it. Because it is government and not industry, it consumes the national wealth and contributes nothing to the productive capacity of a nation. Thus, the rising cost of government because DEFLATIONARY and notINFLATIONARY from an economic productive perspective. Hence we end up with STAGFLATION never HYPERINFLATION for the state and local government cannot increase the money supply. The unfunded liability at the state and local level dwarf that of the feds.
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It is not that the METALS will rise alone, this is the trend for TANGIBLE(Private) assets compared to INTANGIBLE LIABILITIES (Public) assets. Weather is also in a chaotic trend and we will see rising food prices. The excessive rain in Europe and in part of the USA is starting to reduce supply. So it is never possible to forecast the future unless you have EVERYTHING put together for we are never alone – it is all connected.
Dominoes
The metals had to come down or else interest rates could not have begun to rise. This is a series of dominoes and once the first goes, the second must follow. It is unfortunate that the gold promoters have tarnished the role of metals and filled the airwaves with such nonsense. They have done far more damage to the metals than people realize because the next rally will begin only after the TREE HAS BEEN COMPLETELY SHAKEN and the bulls ate thoroughly discredited.

Brave food sovereignty heroes destroy 6,000 genetically-modified sugar beets in Oregon

http://www.naturalnews.com/041044_GM_sugar_beets_food_freedom_fighters_Monsanto.html

It appears as though some Americans may finally be waking up to the grim reality that calling their politicians and signing petitions is simply not enough to stem the tide of evil that has overtaken this once free country. For perhaps the first time since genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced back in the 1990s, food freedom activists have literally taken to the fields to destroy them, making a bold public statement that We The People have had enough of being forcibly poisoned by these genetic abominations.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/041044_GM_sugar_beets_food_freedom_fighters_Monsanto.html#ixzz2XuJfO3gv

Monday, July 1, 2013

Tell Congress: Investigate NSA abuses and protect our constitutional rights


The following e-mail is from Daniel Ellsberg, a heroic whistleblower whose leak of the documents that became known as the Pentagon Papers was a game-changing event that altered public attitudes about Vietnam and helped Americans understand what the government was doing in our name. Daniel started a petition on org.credoaction.com, where activists can launch their own campaigns for progressive change.

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Tell Congress: Investigate NSA abuses and protect our constitutional rights

In 1975, Senator Frank Church, who led a committee charged with investigating and making public the abuses of American intelligence agencies, spoke of the National Security Agency in these terms:
"I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
The dangerous prospect of which he warned was that America's intelligence-gathering capability – which is today beyond any comparison with what existed in his pre-digital era – "at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left."
That has now happened. And so we need a new congressional committee like the one Senator Church led to investigate the revelations by Edward Snowden. The existing Intelligence Committees in House and Senate, gagged by secrecy and coopted by the intelligence community they supposedly oversee, have failed to check dangerously excessive surveillance of Americans’ communications.
We need a new Church Committee that is fully empowered to investigate the abuses of the NSA and make public its findings, and that is charged with recommending new laws to ensure the U.S. government does not violate our constitutional rights.
Pressure by an informed public on Congress to form a select committee to investigate these revelations might lead us to bring the NSA and the rest of the intelligence community under real supervision and restraint and restore the protections of the Bill of Rights.
Daniel Ellsberg
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36 Tough Questions About The U.S. Economy That Everyone Should Be Asking

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-01/36-tough-questions-about-us-economy-everyone-should-be-asking

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
If the economy is improving, then why aren't things getting better for most average Americans?  They tell us that the unemployment rate is going down, but the percentage of Americans that are actually working is exactly the same it was three years ago.  They tell us that American families are in better financial shape now, but real disposable income is falling rapidly.  They tell us that inflation is low, but every time we go shopping at the grocery store the prices just seem to keep going up.  They tell us that the economic crisis is over, and yet poverty and government dependence continue to explode to unprecedented heights.  There seems to be a disconnect between what the government and the media are telling us and what is actually true. 
With each passing day the debt of the federal government grows larger, the financial world become even more unstable and more American families fall out of the middle class.  The same long-term economic trends that have been eating away at our economy like cancer for decades continue to ruthlessly attack the foundations of our economic system. 
We are rapidly speeding toward an economic cataclysm, and yet the government and most of the media make it sound like happy days are here again.  The American people deserve better than this.  The American people deserve the truth.  The following are 36 hard questions about the U.S. economy that the mainstream media should be asking...

Edward Snowden Issues Statement From Moscow, Slams Obama

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.
On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.
For decades the United States of America have been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.
I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.
Edward Joseph Snowden
Monday 1st July 2013

Obama retreats on Snowden

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/06/20136289750269657.html

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MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS

US Warned by Europe NSA Spying Must Stop Immediately

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Congress is circling the wagons to protect the US spying effort against everybody everywhere. The pretense or terrorism is absurd. They do not need to be storing every possible phone call and email in Utah, which is in fact what they are doing. The revelation that the NSA is even spying on the European politicians grabbing all their emails and phone calls demonstrates that the US has gone way too far.
Despite all of this evidence, Congress has circled the wagons to deny everything and protect the NSA claiming their need this to fight terrorism. The bullshit is getting so deep we passed the shovel stage. It is far worse than the press has reported. The degree of protecting the NSA in Washington has seriously damaged the entire respect for the United States and had revealed it has become the hated Stasi. Even Putin has come out and told Snowden to stop the leaks because this is really revealing the USA is way off base and the more that comes out it compels even Russia to then respond. With Europe, France is warning it may now even stop trade negotiations.


What If Everyone Used The Model?

ECO-1895-MA
QUESTION: Good morning.
This question is for Martins blog (Martin then, I guess).
What will happen if everyone starts to act according to the forecasts made by the computer, AND use Martin Armstrongs knowledge / advice as a basis when trying to be proactive to the developments forecasted.
Is the human nature and creativity diverse enough, so that the different wishes / goals / preferances makes for diverse enough output to maintain “checks and balances” / cycles? Or will fluctuations be reduced in any way if this very hypothetical scenario manifests?
Best regards
TG
ANSWER: This is a common question that always arises. Human Nature as it is there is no evidence that you can ever reach 100% consensus is anything. Even Thomas Jefferson conceded that politics will always break-down into two opposing forces. All I can do is speculate since no such period has ever existed. Let us assume that everyone followed the Economic Confidence Model. The end result would simply be that the cycle would still function on time. Perhaps we would reduce the volatility, but the turning points would be the same.
The reason why the cycle cannot be altered is because at the core is the fact that it is the blueprint of nature. Weather is in there and cannot be altered. The strange weather patterns are impacting everything. Much of the fruit for Europe is having to be important because of too much rain. Crops in the US were also impacted. Here in New Jersey the weather is turning very tropical with violent downpours late in the day that remind me of Singapore. This is impacting even consumption of beer in Europe that has fallen to a 20 year low.
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So it does not matter. This cycle has been functioning for 6000 years. Government’s have tried to intervene thanks to Marx and Keynes. Vut Communism and Socialism have failed because we cannot change the Business Cycle no matter how many laws we create or people we imprison. They killed Kondratieff because he said the cycle would defeat Communism. He was right and they killed him for that. In Latvia, when the economy turned down in 2007 and an economist Dmitrijs Smirnov warned of an economic decline, the government imprisoned him for such a forecast. Meanwhile, ordinary Latvians have received the intended message sent out by the Security Service. When asked by a BBC journalist whether Smirnov had he changed his views on the Latvian economy in light of his arrest and imprisonment, he responded without hesitation: “[o]f course. I will be more careful. I don’t want again to go to prison.”
They have tried to do everything thinking they can merely silence me and that will prevent the Business Cycle from unfolding. It is not me. It is not my model. I have merely revealed what has been taking place for thousands of years. It would be like killing Copernicus and somehow then all the planets will revolve around the earth.

European Politicians Are Realizing – Blackmail is the Game

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A revelation is dawning that the excuse of the NSA looking for terrorists but taking absolutely everything, is at last causing a light to go off. European politicians realize that they are targets and the name of the game is to blackmail anyone that the NSA simply does not like.
They realize that the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was targeted when he tried to go after the Wall Street Investment Bankers everyone today calls theUNTOUCHABLES. After he got rid of Hank Greenberg at AIG for Wall Street not realizing he was doing them a service, when he turned on them that was his serious mistake. They suddenly discovered checks to a hooker and his hotel in Washington was bugged when he met with her. Since then, no one has dared to investigate Wall Street.
Then there was Dominique Strauss-Kahn who again became a target when he was the IMF chief and began to comment critically on the role of the world financial system. I was personally invited to Washington where Edmond Safra of Republic National Bank paid for the IMF dinner that rented the entire National Gallery. I was invited to demonstrate to me how the NY Investment bankers had the IMF in their pocket. That is how the whole Long-Term Capital Management crisis developed because they bribed the IMF to keep the loans going to Russia so they could by their bonds paying outrageous amounts of money. Strauss-Kahn was sent a maid to create a sex to shut him up when he saw the corruption in the IMF.
These and other REALIZATIONS (see Goldman Sachs v Armstrong) behind the curtain are poking at the politicians that these sort of DATA is being used for blackmail. Europeans are now even talking about going the the International Court as the NSA spy scandal is hitting new levels behind the curtain. The NSA scandal was forced in the open by Snowden. However, it was well known that this was going on behind the curtain as we reported on December 30th, 2012.
This is not about terrorists. This is about monitoring society and blackmailing politicians to do as the un-elected bureaucracy demands. Our computer models even in politics have correctly forecast the outcome of every election. The German pressed reported our forecast in 1996 that Clinton would win. This is NEVER personal opinion – just the trend.
Back in November 2012, we published that blackmail was taking place politically. On the Hill, I personally made inquiries as to the shadow common force that seemed to be moving the legislation. There was no individual responsible for all the Draconian legislation appearing. However, connecting the dots, each piece was shaping up to be a common agenda. When I asked that question on the Hill behind closed doors, I was told that the politicians all had a common issue – they could be blackmailed. I wrote at that time:
“Thanks to Lindsey Graham you have no right to a lawyer or to a trial. Why did he champion that? The rumor was he is an alleged closet homosexual and he would be exposed if he did not eliminate the right to lawyers and a public trial. What was done to Raleigh can be done to anyone now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ni-nPc6gT4
Then there is Charles B. Rangel who gets caught not remembering to pay his taxes and strangely then introduces tax bills to prosecute more people for doing what he did. Curious coincidence?
I do not write this stuff out of any political animosity. I write ONLY based upon facts. My sources are EXCELLENT and always have been. I do not SPECULATE. I will only put something to writing after investigating. What I personally think is irrelevant. I will never put that to writing without verification. Those who know me well, above all else, know this point is absolutely true.
Behind the Curtain politicians are targets NOT TERRORISTS and the agenda is to blackmail them to direct the political changes the UNELECTED bureaucracy demands. This is the real object of collecting absolutely everything. People on Capitol Hill have told me personally they suspected their emails were being sucked up and that has been for the last 2 years. European politicians are now starting to wake up that they too are targets and that blackmail is the game.

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Special Report from Sister Ciara

 “It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Prize, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.”
 Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of WikiLeaks
Special Report from Sister Ciara
During the past two months I’ve watched in absolute awe and amazement the events which have seen a 30-year-old American high-school dropout consciously declare a personal war against the entire United States Federal Government that to this very day continues to shock the entire world, and so much so that even Russian PresidentPutin is now in fear of what this man may reveal next.
This most unlikely of hero’s is named Edward Snowden, whose skills and computer expertise allowed his rise through the both the US Central Intelligence and National Security Agencies to his final job at the American mega-intelligence defense firm of Booz Allen, a position he acknowledged he took in order to gain access to Americas most closely guarded secrets.
As to why this seemingly normal man would deliberately place himself in open conflict with the most dreaded and feared nation on earth was explained this past weekend by the intrepid and fearless London Guardian Newspaper reporter Glen Greenwald, who explained [see video HERE] that Snowden’s motives were simple…He no longer wanted to live in the world being created by the United States that believed in its rights to destroy forever and completely the privacy and freedoms of all humanity.
By declaring his war against the United States Government, Snowden, also, freely acknowledges his life, for all intents and purposes, is over, and even though he knows his final fate may very well be spent in a dark prison hole never to again see the light of day, at best, or at worst be killed for actions, he declared it was his duty as a citizen of the United States to defend his nations Constitution against those who are destroying it, no matter how powerful his enemies would be, or what personal cost to him it would cost.
Now contrary to what you may think, Snowden’s life is not only in danger because of the secrets he is revealing, but rather the fear he has instilled in Americas power-elite that such a lowly person of courage has risen against them. And as history has long proven, revolutions always start with one ordinary person’s act of courage, which becomes contagious, then infectious, and finally explodes to overturn all that previously existed.
One such person was named Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, a 27-year-old Tunisian man who on 17 December 2010 set himself on fire in protest to the humiliation he suffered by hands of his nations elite class.  The fire stared by Bouazizi continues to burn to this very day, called the Arab Spring, and has brought down, so far, at least 5 governments, and, as many fear, could likely be the final spark needed to set off World War III.
Snowden’s actions, likewise, are threatening to ignite an already smoldering American public who just this week are faced with the astounding paradox of a 40-year-old California man named Jeff Olson who faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages on sidewalks in chalk (and the US Judge has ordered that he can’t use his First Amendment Rights as a defense), while at the exact same time former Goldman Sachs banker and Governor of New Jersey, and staunch Obama regime backer Jon Corzine has learned he will not face prosecution for stealing over $1 billion of his customers money.
After all, asserts the Obama regimes Attorney General Eric Holder, whereas ordinary US citizens, like Olsen, are faced with the harshest of punishments for even the smallest sign of disobedience to the state, elites like Corzine are simply “to big to prosecute or jail.”
Now into this volatile mix comes Snowden, whose revelations have shown the truth of what we have been telling all who cared to listen for over a decade…Your government is watching you every day in every way for the sole purpose of criminalizing your very existence, and should you even dare to show any type of courage against them you’ll be destroyed.
At the very top of this page, in fact, are two top-secret documents released by Snowden showing the truth that not only is everything you do is being captured and stored by the US government, but that the very top-brand Internet companies (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc.) are helping them do it!
And not just to everything you do on the Internet either is no longer private, but a new document released by Snowden now reveals that the NSA is capturing over 1 billion cell phone calls a day so they can store them and listen to them too.
But the worst of what Snowden has yet to reveal is what has caused former US President George W. Bush to rush to Tanzania to meet with Obama and for Putin to say today that Snowden may stay in Russia, if he wants to, but only if he stops activities aimed against the United States.  “There is one condition if he wants to remain here: he must stop his work aimed at damaging our American partners. As odd as it may sound from me,” Putin told a media conference in Moscow.
However, as “odd” as Putin’s statement may be to others, for those of us who have seen what Snowden has to tell there are no words to describe the terror his revelations have the potential to unleash upon the entire world.
The truth about the events of 11 September 2001 and who was behind it?  Snowden’s got it.  The truth about the many assassinations of prominent researchers and scientists investigating viruses?  Snowden’s got it. The truth about what are called chemtrials? Snowden’s got it. The truth about crop circles and the “power” behind their making? Snowden’s got it.

Militia Magazine

July Issue – Militia Magazine Update

1 copyToday all the hard work of contributors and staff culminates in one single digital magazine.  The magazine has barely been published and we’re already working on the August issue… but I’m getting ahead of myself.
We know that sharp change is coming to our nation, and the militia needs to be a sword and shield to protect the populace from the violent aspects of that change.  Whether cleaning up and providing security after a natural disaster, defending innocents from the violence of potential riots, or shielding communities from regime forces and tyrannical policies; the militia must be prepared to fend off threats to Liberty and security.
We don’t know how short the time is or what future events will look like, but we know that life will be harder before it gets easier.  Using all means at our disposal, we want to help others prepare.  Militia Magazine is but one additional medium to pass along important information.  We feel that we can reach a lot of folks through this format.
I want to give a heart felt ‘thank you’ to all who have supported us with their links, words, and other varying contributions.  Without you, there would be no Militia Magazine; without your words, there would be little joy found in the tedious work of digital publishing.  We all have full time jobs aside from this magazine and I personally have invested my own money in the expensive software, hardware, and travel required to get this magazine started.  Please support us through reading.  One thing that helps offset these costs are advertising and PDF sales.  If you are so inclined, please consider advertising with us.  For our readership base, we have extremely inexpensive ad rates.
(I should also say that if you’re a member of the FreeFor blogosphere and you’re interested in self-publishing, let me know.  I have everything you need to publish digitally.)
If you would, please help us spread the word about Militia Magazine.  I ask that you email friends, and share on social media or your blog.
We’re always looking for contributors, especially writers in the FreeFor blogosphere and community.  If you have an opinion or article that speaks directly to the needs of the militia movement, please pass it along.  We’d love to throw it into a future issue.  We need great content for the magazine and that means we have to get y’all involved.  If you run a business or blog, we can link to your website from within your submitted article.  Simply let us know how we can support you in return.
We’re tentatively planning to link up with Max Velocity later this month for the August issue.  If you run a course or know of an event that Militia Magazine could cover, please let us know [media (at) militiamagazine.com].
Also, I’ll be interviewed on Radio Free Redoubt in the next week or so.  I fully support the American Redoubt model and am very glad to appear on John’s program.
http://guerrillamerica.com/2013/07/july-issue-militia-magazine/
Here’s the first edition.

Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out

Glenn Greenwald speaks via Skype to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago regarding Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's mass surveillance program. Introductions by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater and the filmmaker behind Dirty Wars, and Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism. #Socialism2013 #Snowden #NSA

Check out more audio and video recordings from the Socialism 2013 conference at www.wearemany.org




http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Uulv4ve6RJ8

Egypt’s Army Gives Morsi an Ultimatum

BREAKING NEWSMonday, July 1, 2013 11:06 AM EDT
Egypt’s Army Gives Morsi an Ultimatum
Egypt’s armed forces threatened on Monday to intervene in the country’s political crisis, warning President Mohamed Morsi and other politicians that they had 48 hours to respond to an outpouring of popular protests that have included demands for his resignation.
In a statement read on state television, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the head of the Egyptian military, said the mass demonstrations that intensified over the weekend, including the storming of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo early Monday, reflected an “unprecedented” expression of popular anger at Mr. Morsi and his Islamist backers in the brotherhood during his first year in power.
It was unclear from the general’s statement whether the military was specifically demanding that Mr. Morsi resign. But the statement said that if Mr. Morsi did not take steps to address demands for a more inclusive government, the armed forces would move to impose its “own road map for the future.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/world/middleeast/egypt-protests.html?emc=edit_na_20130701

Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Records Of Your Credit Card Transactions

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/multiple-government-agencies-are-keeping-records-your-credit-card-transactions

Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private?  If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble.  As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions.  And in turn, those government agencies share that information with other government agencies that want it.  So if you are making a purchase that you don't want anyone to know about, don't use a credit card. This is one of the reasons why the government hates cash so much.  It is just so hard to track.  In this day and age, the federal government seems to be absolutely obsessed with gathering as much information about all of us as it possibly can.  But there is one big problem.  What they are doing directly violates the U.S. Constitution.