Archive for July 18th, 2013

by JacobSloan DisInfo.com July 17, 2013 The spying’s purpose isn’t to keep us safe from the terrorists. Digital Journal writes: Contradicting a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at least 7 months prior... »

Julie Beal Activist Post.com Thursday, July 18, 2013 If you think the economy is simply going to collapse, think again. The bankers, the corporations, and the United Nations have got ecosystem accounting ready to rock and roll, and it’s set to change everything…. … the plan is brilliant. You reduce the number from 7+... »

44% also favor the government forcing journalists to give up their news sources. Kit Daniels Infowars.com July 18, 2013 A recent national poll shows that 34% of Americans believe the First Amendment “goes too far in the rights it guarantees.” The Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center, based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, conducted... »

By: Jesse Market Oracle Jul 18, 2013 Benny made it perfectly clear in his Humphrey Hawkins testimony today that QE, in whatever forms and permutations, is here to stay at least for this year. And when the Fed expands its Balance Sheet, it is most certainly ‘creating money,’ although as I have said often... »

Kimberly Paxton TheDailySheeple.com July 18th, 2013 Now not only does the TSA thoroughly inspect your person and your carry-on bags – they can order an inspection of the car you left behind also. A New York woman was shocked to return home from a trip to find a notice on her car informing her... »

BY LAWRENCE SELLIN Sonorannews.com JULY 17, 2013 The Preamble explicitly declares that “We the people…do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The federal government is entirely a creature of the Constitution. It is a government of delegated powers, possessing no authority not expressly or by implication granted to it... »

by Karl Denninger TheMarketTicker.com 2013-07-17 You might not have caught it, but if you didn’t you weren’t thinking. One of the last questions and answers given by Bernanke was “what if rates rise?” His answer? The economy will tank. Did that tell you everything you needed to know? It should have. He can’t exit.... »

Charles Hugh Smith OfTwoMinds.com July 17, 2013 As Voltaire observed, “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” This is precisely how empires collapse. Correspondent Kenneth D. recently made the case that the Social Contract in America is broken. Kenneth offered two links for context: Social Contract (Wikipedia) and OECD calls time on trickle... »

By Ryan Kierman and Michael W. Chapman CNSNews.com July 17, 2013 IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins, who at... »

Gold Core GoldSeek.com Thursday, 18 July 2013 Gold remains in backwardation signifying a very tight physical market and premiums in China remain high at nearly $30 per ounce with gold trading at $1,308.27/oz on the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) this morning. This would ordinarily would lead to a rally but the COMEX paper players... »