Writing's On The Wall: Texas Pulls $1 Billion In Gold From NY Fed, Makes It "Non-Confiscatable"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 17:00 The lack of faith in central bank trustworthiness is spreading. First Germany, then Holland, and Austria, and now - as we noted was possible previously - Texas has enacted a Bill to repatriate $1 billion of gold from The NY Fed's vaults to a newly established state gold bullion depository..."People have this image of Texas as big and powerful … so for a lot of people, this is exactly where they would want to go with their gold," and the Bill includes a section to prevent forced seizure from the Federal Government.  Is this the first step down a road to secession?

Globalists Plan to Ram Through TAA Next Week

by Kurt Nimmo, Infowars:
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions warns there will be another attempt in Congress on Tuesday to push through TAA and fast-track authority.
“If that happens, it will empower the President to form a Pacific Union encompassing 40 percent of the world’s economy and 12 nations—each with one equal vote. Once the union is formed, foreign bureaucrats will be required to meet regularly to write the Commission’s rules, regulations, and directives—impacting Americans’ jobs, wages, and sovereignty,” Session says in a statement posted on his Senate web page. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) would allegedly protect workers from the consequences of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Speaker John Boehner crafted TAA as a compromise to nudge Democrats who fear a backlash from constituents.
TAA, however, would not protect workers as transnational corporations continue to pillage industries and move jobs offshore under TPA and fast-track.
Read More @ Infowars.com

The War On Cash: Officially Sanctioned Theft

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 22:15 While the benefits to banks and governments of banning physical cash are self-evident, there are downsides to the real economy and to household resilience. Why are governments suddenly acting as if cash money is a bad thing that must be severely limited or eliminated?

California Water Wars Escalate: Government Orders Massive Supply Cuts To Most Senior Rights Holders

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 21:30 Just two weeks after California's farmers - with the most senior water rights - offered to cut their own water use by 25% (in an attempt to front-run more draconian government-imposed measures), AP reports that the California government has - just as we predicted - ignored any efforts at self-preservation and ordered the largest cuts on record to farmers holding some of the state's strongest water rights. While frackers and big energy remain exempt from the restrictions, Caren Trgovcich, chief deputy director of the water board, explains, "we are now at the point where demand in our system is outstripping supply for even the most senior water rights holders."
 

FDA Pushing New Regulations to Shut Down Small-Scale, Artisanal Food Producers

by Ethan A. Huff, Natural News:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to sidestep an amendment to the infamous Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that was originally intended to exempt small food producers from having to comply with excessively burdensome food safety protocols appropriate only for large factory producers.
The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA) recently issued an “Action Alert” calling on the health freedom community to contact the FDA and demand that the agency relent in trying to pass a new rule that would make it difficult, if not impossible, for small-scale artisanal food producers to stay in business.
The proposed rule would subject all small food producers who don’t produce their food on a farm to the same onerous paperwork and compliance requirements outlined in FSMA for large-scale producers. Many of these small-scale producers would likely go out of business as a result, further widening the reach of the factory food industry.
Read More @ NaturalNews.com

Artist's Impression Of US Cyber-Attack Protection

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 20:00 Presented with no comment...

ISIS Colonel was Trained By Blackwater and U.S. State Department for 11 Years

by Cassius Methyl, Activist Post:
A former police commander from Tajikistan was featured in an ISIS video recently where he admitted he was trained by the U.S. State Department and former military contractor Blackwater all the way up until last year. At a Blackwater facility in North Carolina, Col. Gulmurod Khalimov received “counter-terrorism training.”
“From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov participated in five counterterrorism training courses in the United States and in Tajikistan, through the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program,” said US State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala.
According to CNN’s fearmongering report, “The program is intended to train candidates from participating countries in the latest counterterrorism tactics, so they can fight the very kind of militants that Khalimov has now joined.”
Read More @ ActivistPost.com

The Fed And Most Economists Are Nothing More Than Glorified Weather Rock Analysts

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 20:45 The issue at hand is: far more people have discovered whether by chance or direct analysis of their own, both the Fed., as well as their gaggle of cohorts throughout academia, as well as in the financial media, are all watching and gaining their clues – from the same “rock.” Furthermore: It’s now self-evident to anyone willing to look. It’s not to see if the rock is wet, dry, or anything else. It’s to make the rock wet, dry, or anything else needed for the narrative. Because today; narrative trumps reality in today’s economic disciplines.

The Warren Buffet Economy, Part 4: Why Its Days Are Numbered

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 19:15 After 27 years, honest price discovery has been destroyed, thereby reducing the nerve centers of capitalism - the money and capital markets - to little more than gambling casinos. Accordingly, speculative rent-seeking in the financial arena has replaced enterprenurial innovation and supply side investment and productivity as the modus operandi of the US economy. This has resulted in a severe diminution of main street growth and a massive redistribution of windfall wealth to the tiny share of households which own most of the financial assets. Warren Buffett’s $73 billion net worth is the poster boy for this untoward state of affairs. The massive and systematic falsification of asset prices which lies at the heart of this deformation of capitalism is a direct and unavoidable consequence of monetary central planning.

Saudi Warplanes Destroy 2,500 Year Old Heritage Site In Yemen

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 18:30

The Index Of Evil: Who's The Bad Guy Now?

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 17:45 It’s easy to see evil in dead people. Stalin... Hitler... Pol Pot... people who tortured and killed just to feel good. The jaws of Hell must open especially wide to let them in. But who should go to the devil today?

Why Goldman Is About To Become The Biggest HFT Firm In The World

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 15:54 And just like that, Goldman wins again.

If The Fed Put Its Interest Rate Where Its Mouth Is...

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/13/2015 - 15:30 "but it's different this time..."

Staying cool without Air Conditioning: Tips for cooling off during a Power Outage

from Off Grid Survival:
Every year summer storms cause power outages throughout the United States. For those who are unprepared, these power outages, combined with summertime heat waves, can be a deadly combination. That’s why knowing how to cool yourself and your home without air conditioning is an important piece of knowledge you should possess.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, an average of 675 people die from heat-related illness each year in the United States, making it one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the country. During a severe heat wave that hit Chicago in 1995, over 700 deaths were directly attributed to the heat. In 2006 in California, a deadly heat wave killed 655 people during a two-week period.
Read More @ OffGridSurvival.com

TPP TYRANNY: Fast Track Not Dead

from Bill Still:

Secret War on Cash: “Discussions at Bilderberg Centered Around Capital Controls, Abolition of Cash”

by Alex Thomas, SHTFPlan:


 
According to some, a very quiet stealth war on cash has begun.
May your bank account, debit card and gold reserves be on guard…
The world’s elite are meeting in secret this week at the Bilderberg meeting, set at a luxury resort in Telfs-Buchen, Austria.
Investigative journalists have confirmed that the private discussions among top power brokers across the globe include arrangements to restrict currency and penalize – or ultimately even ban – cash.
Read More @ SHTFPlan.com

Happy Birthday Magna Carta

from Paul Craig Roberts:
Monday, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. In his book, Magna Carta, J.C. Holt, professor of medieval history, University of Cambridge, notes that three of the chapters of this ancient document still stand on the English Stature Book and that so much of what survives of the Great Charter is “concerned with individual liberty,” which “is a reflexion of the quality of the original act of 1215.”
In the 17th century Sir Edward Coke used the Great Charter of the Liberties to establish the supremacy of Parliament, the representative of the people, as the origin of law.
A number of legal scholars have made the irrelevant point that the Magna Carter protected rights of the Church, nobles, and free men who were not enserfed, a small percentage of the population in the early 13th century. We hear the same about the US Constitution–it was something the rich did for themselves. I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
Read More @ PaulCraigRoberts.org

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