http://www.naturalnews.com/039177_gun_range_targets_pregnant_women_Homeland_Security.html
a U.S. based company called "Law Enforcement Training, Inc." has been selling millions of dollars worth of "no hesitation" targets to the Department of Homeland Security.
These targets (see images below) are used to train DHS employees to shoot American citizens and they depict pregnant women, old men, children and even young moms with guns. The purpose of the targets, according to the company that sells them, is to "eliminate any hesitation" that U.S. government employees might normally feel in shooting to kill pregnant women, children and old men.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039177_gun_range_targets_pregnant_women_Homeland_Security.html#ixzz2LYIAGRY1
Thursday, February 21, 2013
California pharmacy floods population with free antibiotics, promoting deadly superbugs and environmental pollution
http://www.naturalnews.com/039178_free_antibiotics_pharmacy_superbugs.html
antibiotics are 100% medically useless against influenza, because antibiotics don't treat viral infections. They only treat bacterial infections, and the "flu" is viral, not bacterial.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039178_free_antibiotics_pharmacy_superbugs.html#ixzz2LYAFM7BA
antibiotics are 100% medically useless against influenza, because antibiotics don't treat viral infections. They only treat bacterial infections, and the "flu" is viral, not bacterial.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039178_free_antibiotics_pharmacy_superbugs.html#ixzz2LYAFM7BA
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POST
Gold 15795
The key support on the weekly level in gold lies at 15795. A weekly closing below that will eventually be followed with a test of the 14100 to 14600 level. This is the bottom of the channel where gold should eventually test. The time for a rally in gold remains after 2015.75. This has been a lot of hype, but in “real” terms adjusted for inflation, gold has yet to breakout above the 1980 high whereas the Dow has. Eventually, gold will come into its own. However, it is just a question of time. That is what our computer is damn good at.
The golden rule about fundamentals is they are interpreted according to the trend. When everything is bearish, good news is interpreted as “not good enough” and when the trend is bullish, bearish news is always ignored. It is not the news, it is always, and without exception, the sentiment that counts.
The next Golden Rule is the majority MUST always be wrong. This is the actual mechanism that drives the market trends. When the majority are caught on one side, panic strikes for they have to shift direction and there are few on the opposite side to absorb the trade. Thus, like Japan, everyone was long the Nikkei. The market could not rally for 23 years because the weak longs were always there to sell rallies. Flash crashes take place because everyone who is LONG tries to sell and there is no bid. It is not shorts.
Consequently, shaking the weak longs out of the trees is healthy for a market for it is renewing the future buying capacity and removing those who will be selling rallies. The Sovereign Debt Crisis Conference in Philadelphia March 16th, is going to be very important for the average person to understand the nature of the beast that we are confronted by. As Hoover wrote:
The Chart That Tells You All You Need To Know About Gold
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/2/20_The_Chart_That_Tells_You_All_You_Need_To_Know_About_Gold.html
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Obama like all Marxists
Obama, like all Marxists, must realize that you cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. These people assume they possess the ultimate power to dictate to the world unsound finance for they have refused to even ask – Has anyone tried this before?. They cannot grasp even WHY Communism failed and have the audacity to play with our future. Consequently, we indeed remain ignorant of the past which is why we are condemned to repeat it. It is forever the same patterns over and over again.
Ron Paul Reacts to State of the Union Address - Fox Business 2/12/2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxe6msE-yRE
Peter Schiff: Coming debt crisis will make 2008 look like a Sunday school picnic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTlsDepd08
U.S. Banks Bigger Than GDP as Accounting Rift Masks Risk
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/u-s-banks-bigger-than-gdp-as-accounting-rift-masks-risk.html
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POST
Obama is Insane!!!!
Obama wants MORE tax increases and no spending cuts. This man is totally insane. He must have taken the little bus to schools because his logic is anything but logic, and his observation powers are myopic for he cannot see what France is doing. His constant insane rantings against anyone who has money should cough it up rather than he reduce a single dime in spending is nuts. All the job cuts will be in the PUBLIC sector. About time! The average family REQUIREStwo incomes because they have to support a 45 year old orphan they never raised but insists they must pay him because he wants to retire. There is a government employee for every family! They use to raise money asking you to adopt a poor child in a foreign land. Hey – we did that, but we kept it home! Obama said:
“If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness. It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research,” Obama warned in a speech at the White House, flanked by emergency workers. “It won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day.”
Everything the government does could be done a hell of a lot cheaper if it is even necessary. There were 7 agencies all regulating the banks that ALL approved the mortgaged backed CDOs. Who needs these shit? Merge the SEC & CFTC. The UK and everyone else has one agency. We have one agency for every flavor of ice cream.
Obama has repeatedly called for a blend of spending cuts chiefly affecting entitlement programs like Medicare and new tax increases achieved by targeting loopholes that chiefly benefit the wealthy and rich industries. How about this – tax the trading PROFITS of banks regardless where they make them in what subsidiary Leave the little small business man alone who just so happens to employ 70% of the civil work force. Oh – sorry, the bankers are always exempt. They are not the “rich” nor the “super rich” they are the Illuminati that sell the debt and provide light to Washington.
These people are just insane. They will utterly destroy everything and lead to massive civil riots when the people cannot pay for all the promises Obama and his predecessors made to government workers for decades. Government workers, by the way, are PUBLIC SERVANTS for they do not produce anything toward the wealth of a nation – they only consume. They are no different than if you hired a maid. You pay her to make your life easier, but she does not contribute to household income – she consumes it. Government employees are the same – they cost a fortune.
Townships with police retiring after 20 years of service at 45, now have to pay them almost the same as if they were working. Now they have to hire a replacement yet still pay the last one. Guess what! The cost of government employees isDOUBLING over the next 10 years. We have reached the breaking point. Perhaps we should all send a small mirror to everyone in Washington writing a note on it –It’s you!
Paul Craig Roberts: America Shamed Again: A Colonized People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34008.htm
Monday, February 18, 2013
Chris Hedges: Profiting From Human Misery
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33995.htm
We have abandoned the common good. We have been stripped of our rights and voice. Corporations write our laws and determine how we structure our society. We have all become victims. There are no politicians or institutions, no political parties or courts, that are independent enough or strong enough to resist the corporate onslaught. Greater and greater numbers of human beings will be consumed. The poor, the vulnerable, the undocumented, the weak, the elderly, the sick, the children will go first. And those of us watching helplessly outside the gates will go next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CySzoJFkTA8#!
We have abandoned the common good. We have been stripped of our rights and voice. Corporations write our laws and determine how we structure our society. We have all become victims. There are no politicians or institutions, no political parties or courts, that are independent enough or strong enough to resist the corporate onslaught. Greater and greater numbers of human beings will be consumed. The poor, the vulnerable, the undocumented, the weak, the elderly, the sick, the children will go first. And those of us watching helplessly outside the gates will go next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CySzoJFkTA8#!
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Gold – The view
The computer is short 4 positions. The major support lies at 15795 on a weekly closing basis. Only if that gives way will we break through the bottom of this channel. Gold remain vulnerable since 2012 was 13 years up on a closing basis. Given the pervasive amount of bullishness convinced that the dollar will collapse simply because the Fed has increased the money supply ignoring everything outside the USA, in order for gold to resume a major bull market we must reduce the degree of bullishness and that will set the stage for the final rally after 2015.75.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Paul Craig Roberts: While Left And Right Fight, Power Wins
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33975.htm
Saturday, February 16, 2013
THE NATIONAL-SECURITY STATE AND THE DARK SIDE
http://fff.org/2013/02/13/the-national-security-state-has-led-us-to-the-dark-side/
what all too many Americans have to confront but yet find it so difficult to confront — that the very threat that has caused America to move to the dark side with measures that genuinely threaten our freedom and well-being at the hands of our own government — has been produced by the U.S. national-security state itself.
To put it another way, if the U.S. national-security state wasn’t butting into the affairs of other countries, there would be no anti-American terrorist threat, the threat that U.S. officials use as the excuse for adopting all those dark-side policies, policies that are characteristic of dictatorial regimes, some of which the national-security state has installed, supported, and trained in the name of “national security.”
Are you under the spell of media hypnosis? Take this simple test and find out
http://www.naturalnews.com/039117_mass_hypnosis_mainstream_media_test.html
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Are We Headed Toward Another French Revolution?
I have been warning that the objective of modern government everywhere is to eliminate cash to ensure 100% tax collection. There is absolutely NO INTENT to return to a gold standard and give up the ability to borrow whatever they desire forever (as they see it). It is now coming out that France intends to outlaw any payment to be in cash greater than €1000. I can say when I was recently in Paris, the ATM machine maximum amount you could get was €200 whereas in Germany and Switzerland there was no problem getting even €1000 euro or Swiss at an ATM.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/14/france-plans-to-prohibit-cash-payments-over-e1000/
The antique shows held in Paris since World War II have been cancelled. The government wants notice of anyone buying or selling anything period. Commerce in Paris that has been there for decades has left town. Reports from sources show there are many French just leaving now headed to Ireland, Switzerland, and Spain at the top of the lists. Politicians just refuse to reform. They will destroy free civilization rather than give up any power whatsoever.
There is discussion now in Washington to shut off the ability to wire ANY funds out of the USA without prior clearance. The $3,000 limit of the Patriot Act was not good enough. How this has ANYTHING to do with terrorism is beyond me. I guess they are now worried about terrorists leaving America rather than coming in. Bin Laden was the only person to change the American Constitution. Hitler. Stalin, Mao could never do anything. Bin Laden succeeded in eliminating American Liberty. They should put his picture on a $1 billion now.
We are in such desperate times where it “feels” like the Iron Curtain is now descending around the countries in the West and anyone leaving is viewed with suspicion. Any package sent out of the country must now reveal the contents. The latest – you cannot mail computers with lithium batteries. The new excuse, it is a risk for airplanes. Does that mean they will start to confiscate computers as carry on’s? Who is dreaming up this stuff?
Unfortunately, there seems to be no stopping this massive contraction in the global economy. The data that showed European GDP negative, would NORMALLYhave been grounds for a decline in rates in the USA in anticipation of further economic decline. Rates did not decline sharply warning that this trend is also coming to an end. Our warning that Europe will be the WORST area for economic growth this year is already off to a good start. This proves politicians could care less about the people. This is all about retaining power.
The solutions are so simple and straight forward, but they are based on what is best for the people not the bureaucrats. This is shaping up into what can only be likened to similar events in history when government just did not care. As the said in France – let them eat cake. At the Sovereign Debt Crisis Conference on March 16th, in Philadelphia, we will be looking at the problem, the solution, and what to do individually to survive.
Unfortunately, the French never really had a revolution that restored the rights of the people. They merely exchange tyrants. Will they explode into civil unrest when they realize all the politicians did was chase everyone out who would invest and hire people? What will happen when the people wake up and realize there are no rich left? Who will pay for the unfunded promises then?
Russia Puts Nuclear Bombers On High Alert Over American UFO Attack
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1659.htm
NOT WHAT THE TITLE IMPLIES.
READ ALL THE LINKS.
MANY THINGS GOING ON BEHIND 'THE CURTAIN'
OF MAINSTREAM PROPAGANDA THAT KEEPS YOUR
MIND DISTRACTED WITH TRIVIA AND LIES.
NOT WHAT THE TITLE IMPLIES.
READ ALL THE LINKS.
MANY THINGS GOING ON BEHIND 'THE CURTAIN'
OF MAINSTREAM PROPAGANDA THAT KEEPS YOUR
MIND DISTRACTED WITH TRIVIA AND LIES.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Obama signs far reaching, cybersecurity executive order ahead of State Of The Union, expands powers of DHS
http://www.randpaulreview.com/2013/02/obama-signs-far-reaching-cybersecurity-executive-order-ahead-of-state-of-the-union-expands-powers-of-dhs/
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Obama's Secret Court for Killing
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33940.htm
International law and the law of war, to both of which the U.S. is bound by treaty, as well as federal law and the Judeo-Christian values that underlie the Declaration of Independence (which guarantees the right to live) and the Constitution (which permits governmental interference with that right only after a congressional declaration of war or individual due process) all provide that the certainty of the identity of a human target, the sincerity of the wish for his death, the perception of his guilt and imminent danger are insufficient to justify the government's use of lethal force against him. The president may only lawfully kill after due process, in self-defense or under a declaration of war.
The reasons for the constitutional requirement of a congressional declaration of war are to provide a check on the president's lust for war by forcing him to obtain formal congressional approval, to isolate and identify the object of war so the president cannot kill whomever he pleases, to confine the warfare to the places where the object's military forces are located so the president cannot invade wherever he wishes, and to assure termination of the hostilities when the object of the war surrenders so the president cannot wage war without end.
International law and the law of war, to both of which the U.S. is bound by treaty, as well as federal law and the Judeo-Christian values that underlie the Declaration of Independence (which guarantees the right to live) and the Constitution (which permits governmental interference with that right only after a congressional declaration of war or individual due process) all provide that the certainty of the identity of a human target, the sincerity of the wish for his death, the perception of his guilt and imminent danger are insufficient to justify the government's use of lethal force against him. The president may only lawfully kill after due process, in self-defense or under a declaration of war.
The reasons for the constitutional requirement of a congressional declaration of war are to provide a check on the president's lust for war by forcing him to obtain formal congressional approval, to isolate and identify the object of war so the president cannot kill whomever he pleases, to confine the warfare to the places where the object's military forces are located so the president cannot invade wherever he wishes, and to assure termination of the hostilities when the object of the war surrenders so the president cannot wage war without end.
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Follow the Money – It leads even to a Body of Dead Popes Put on Trial
The Pope’s resignation has inspired many articles about how Popes have even been imprisoned. To set the record straight, the battle with the Papacy has usually been about money. Yes, many Popes have been put through the ringer and others have been appointed like the Manchurian Candidate to control the Papacy. So yes, there is some truth to the stories, but as always, they are typically slightly off the mark.
France has always been obsessed with getting taxes. The Papacy taxes, however, were restricted to the clergy. Clergy would still inherit property from their family and many priests were wealthy as a result of family money that was often used to create monasteries by donating family land. This would later become a major conflict when the French King Philip IV (1285-1314) wanted to tax the clergy himself directly. Hence, the obligation to pay taxes to support the Crusades was imposed as a universal obligation upon all Christian men.
The was the time when banking was emerging from the Dark Ages. The first real major banking center was Siena and it was there when Orlando Bonsignori’s firm became known as the Gran Tavola (Great Table) and the largest banking operation. This is of course a reference to the fact that these banking operations were conducted in the open. The company took on this name in 1255 after his brother Bonifazio died. Orlando then created a consortium that became the most powerful bank in all of Europe, only after the death of Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254). Once Orlando formed this new consortium, the Gran Tavola then became the exclusive deposit taker for the Papal States and under Pope Clement IV (1265-1268), the firm became the banker for the ecclesiastical tithes for the Holy Land until 1270.
Pope Clement IV continued the struggle against the Germans and the Hohenstaufen family that held Sicily. Clement IV appointed Charles of Anjou (1226-1285) King of Naples and Sicily (1266-1285). The Gran Tavola thus also supported Charles and was a lender to his cause. Since Charles was victorious, the Gran Tavola benefited from this sovereign loan and relationship. This made the Gran Tavola a target for greedy kings.
The Gran Tavola expanded with branches in Bologna, Genoa, Marseille, Pisa, and Paris. It continued to retain the position of the banker to the Papacy. There was rising political unrest throughout central and northern Italy with factions whereas the Papal cities were Florence, Bologna, Montepulciano, and Orivieto, confronting the pro-Imperial cities of Pisa, Siena, Pistoia, and Arezzo. The Bonsignori were in the wrong city at the wrong time. Their branches helped to mitigate the problem with the anti-Papal Ghibellines, but that could not hold the political chaos at bay forever. Their Geneva branch was run by Guglelmo Leccacorvo. During this later phase, they expanded into Catalonia in addition to their branches in France and England. It would be this model of the Piccolomini and the Bonsignori that set the tone for all future merchant banking families. Because Sienna was pro-Imperial, Pope Boniface VlII (1294-1303) began to shift the Papal deposits to the pro-Papal city of Florence. This would set in motion, a shift of the Financial Capitol of Europe from Sienna to Florence. Orlando Bonsignori had died in 1273, and thus the Gran Tavola had expanded into lending to King Philip IV (1285-1314) of France, which would prove to he a fatal mistake, for not merely was there a conflict between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperor, but .the King of France was hell bent upon doing as he pleased and was dead against Boniface VIII.
The German historian C. Bauer argued in 1928 that the Papal finance is what enabled the emergence of capitalism. Indeed, the people who donated to the Papacy were widespread. That meant you needed a banking operation that was international. Hence, it was the Papacy that helped create the financial market in Europe and to develop the economy without any plan to do so. It was a natural evolutionary process.
Edward I of England and Philip IV of France seized bankers to prevent lending to an adversary. It was Philip the IV who seized the Papacy and moved it to France installing his own popes all to grab the money. It is always about money with governments.
The most dramatic political struggle over money was demonstrated by the trial of Pope Formosus (891-896) that took place nine months after his death by the succeeding Pope Stephen VI (or VII)(896-897). Stephen was a family member of Italian aristocrats who Formosus abandoned and crowned Arnulf, a East Frankish king, Holy Roman Emperor. Once Stephen seized the Papacy, he sought to destroy Formosus’ supporters, and had the corpse of Formosus redressed in papal vestments and propped up on the papal throne to stand trial. Stephen appointedadeacon to answer for the corpse. He naturally convicted the corpse and since Formosus had appointed Stephen bishop of Anagni and there were charges of his irregularity, by finding Formosus guilty of illegally seizing the papal throne, he vacated all of Formosus’ allegations against himself. As punishment for his crimes, his fingers of consecration were cut off and eventually his body was thrown into the Tiber river after being stripped of all vestments. This illustrates the great problem that existed when kings were stacking the papacy for personal gain and control.
The REAL history of the Papacy is all about money and control. Many criticize the Papacy and point to people who had wives and did all sorts of things. What they leave out is the fact that kings were intimidating cardinals to vote for their stooges all to manipulate taxes and grab power. It was never like these notorious popes were actually men of God. They could care less any more than politicians really give two-shits today about doing the right thing. It is always economic survival. They are attacking the Vatican again demanding it report all money movement for tax purposes.Just follow the money – it always reveals tyranny.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
How Law Enforcement and Media Covered Up the Plan to Burn Christopher Dorner Alive
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33948.htm
Bush Was a Total Disaster ... Obama Is WORSE
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-02-14/bush-was-total-disaster-obama-worse
Specifically, income inequality has increased more under Obama than under Bush.
Indeed, inequality in America today is worse than it was in Gilded Age America, modern Egypt, Tunisia or Yemen, many banana republics in Latin America, twice as bad as in ancient Rome – which was built on slave labor – and worse than experienced by slaves in 1774 colonial America.
MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POST
European Economic Suicide
The EU Commission is moving forward on a Financial Transaction Tax. This is pretended to impose more discipline on traders. The problem is there is nobody in government that even understands trading to regulate anything. This is just another tax and grab scheme. The supporters say it is nothing just 0.1%. That is how they always start. The US income tax was insignificant – just 3% on the rich. That rose to 98% within 50 years.
The most disturbing thing is only 11 members out of 27 agreed. This shows that when the major players, Germany and France want something, all others will be dictated to. This is clearly a step in the destruction of the EU and the Euro. Once the tax is in, they will raise the rate significantly convinced people will just pay rather than change their behavior.
This is always all about money – never reform. They cannot raise enough money to pay all the pension to themselves that they promised themselves all along. This is how EVERY empire, nation, and city state has failed throughout history – the impossibility to tax enough to pay whatever they owe.
Nations die by economic suicide whenever there has been debt. Rome faced also its unfunded pension of the military. Once people realized they would never be paid fair value, armies began to to sack their own cities as a right to pay. The future is getting very interesting. This is another reason why Britain may leave the EU in a referendum.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Bill Bonner: Failure of Leadership
http://dailyreckoning.com/failure-of-leadership/
It’s not that leaders are always a waste of time. It’s just that leadership is subject to the law of declining marginal utility — just like everything else. A little, occasionally, may be useful. Any more, and you’re headed for trouble.
Read more: Failure of Leadership http://dailyreckoning.com/failure-of-leadership/#ixzz2Kj4PhzGm
It’s not that leaders are always a waste of time. It’s just that leadership is subject to the law of declining marginal utility — just like everything else. A little, occasionally, may be useful. Any more, and you’re headed for trouble.
Read more: Failure of Leadership http://dailyreckoning.com/failure-of-leadership/#ixzz2Kj4PhzGm
MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POST
The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions
The one thing that surprised me running around the globe on this last trip was how much the United States has fallen from grace. The legal system is seen as the most corrupt in the world and that is the important essential cornerstone of commerce. When Margaret Thatcher spoke at our conference in 1997, she was asked which country would she invest in – Russia or China? Her response was“neither” because they did not respect the rule or law at that time. The rule of law is the foundation of everything. If courts change transcripts and rule only for government as the US conviction rate is now virtually 99%, then capital is not safe and cannot invest for there is no way to vindicate your rights be they to property, human, or constitutional.
The United States’ failure to prosecute banks and anyone from NYC has left such a bad taste in the mouths of everyone around the world that the USA is just collapsing. It is no longer the financial capital of the world for business has fled. Many hedge funds run by overseas managers will not keep money on deposit in NYC. China said either they buy US bonds directly from the US Treasury and not the NY bankers or they will not buy. The USA carved out an exception to sell directly to China.
Outside the USA where the press is not controlled like the American version of Pravda, all the stories are NEGATIVE and how the Obama Administration has disgraced itself. They call the NY Bankers – the Untouchables. Goldman Sachs’ reverse take over of government was Brilliant. They can do as they wish knowing they will NEVER be criminally prosecuted regardless of their actions. The US legal system has become an international embarrassment. It is the last straw that signals the end of any empire, nation, or city state. Once there is no rule of law, the very purpose of forming a civilization is defeated. Here is a sample of this perspective from London.
North Korea Is Believed to Have Conducted Third Nuclear Test
BREAKING NEWS Monday, February 11, 2013 11:53 PM EST
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