In 2012, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Precious Metal Purchasing Act. SB3341 states
that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the [...]
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Mac Slavo
Though the following 2002 court case ended with the liberal Ninth Circuit ruling that, “the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution does not guarantee individuals the right to bear arms,” at least one judge stood in dissent. In his dissent, Judge Alex Kozinski argued with the very reasoning our founding fathers used to include the right to bear arms in the U.S. Constitution to begin with. It may be a decade since the Ninth Circuit [...] How on earth can this guy just spend $85 Billion a month of YOUR MONEY With NO CONGRESS APPROVAL! Drudge says PUMP! PUMP! PUMP! Feds continues to BUY BACK their own BONDS… and backs of the USA Tax Payer… from CNBC: The Federal Reserve held fast to its ultra-accommodative monetary policy Wednesday, solidified by what board members described as an economy weakened by fiscal policy. Interest rates will remain at historically low levels while the [...] MOSCOW (AP) — Russian prosecutors and tax police searched the Moscow headquarters of Amnesty International and several other rights groups Monday, continuing a wave of pressure that activists say is part of President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to stifle dissent…. READ MORE @ AP by Phoenix Capital Research
The Fed is growing increasingly splintered as an organization.
The media hasn’t really picked up on this issue yet. But once they do things could become quite problematic for the Fed.
Remember, the primary force that has held the financial system together since the Crash of 2008 was the view that the Fed could backstop everything.
However, dissent is now growing at the Fed… which means it will be harder for it [...] by Phoenix Capital Research Having moved to the sidelines due to the uncertainty of the US Presidential election and the Fiscal Cliff negotiations (as well as the holidays), investors are beginning to creep back in the marketplace. And they’re in for a surprise. First and foremost, the commitment of traders report indicates that investors are more bullish now than at any point since 2007. This is truly extraordinary given the sheer magnitude of [...] MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday angrily rejected what he described as attempts to enforce foreign patterns of democracy on Russia and vowed to preserve the nation’s identity against interference from abroad. Putin’s speech was his first state-of-the nation address since winning a third term in March’s election despite a wave of massive protests in Moscow. Putin has pursued a tough course on dissent since his inauguration with arrests [...] From FT: The expression of a dissenting opinion, especially when the opinion coincides with the view of a large part of the population of the respective country, generates the impression that discussions within the Governing Council are politicised, and that all members reflect national views. This may encourage pressures by national constituencies on the different ECB Council members to act on the basis of national interests, rather than the broader European [...] CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Unlike at the Republican convention, there will be no dissenting votes at the Democratic convention. President Obama is slated to receive the vote of every single credentialed delegate attending the Democratic convention, party officials say. The vote will be “unanimous,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse confirmed in an email. (Also on POLITICO: Full Democratic convention coverage) Though several perennial and long-shot candidates (including a convinced felon) won enough votes against Obama to qualify [...] The Pentagon has renewed its shipment of weapons to the Yemeni military, having finally ended the nearly one year halt put on such shipments because of public protests and the military’s crackdown on popular dissent.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/18/pentagon-resumes-weapons-shipments-to-yemen/
Yemen is in trouble… ADEN, Yemen, Aug. [...] (Reuters) – For Israel to carry out a long-threatened strike on Iranian nuclear sites, it would have to overcome dissent within its governing coalition reflecting public fear of igniting an unprecedented missile war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that scenario would be “dwarfed” by the prospect of an Iranian bomb, which he describes as tantamount to a second Holocaust – language that seems to herald a Jewish call to arms. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-iran-nuclear-israel-resilience-idUSBRE87C0LB20120813 (Reuters) – Three women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a “punk prayer” on the altar of Russia’s main cathedral went on trial on Monday in a case seen as a test of the longtime leader’s treatment of dissent during a new presidential term. The women from the band ‘Pussy Riot’ face up to seven years in prison for an unsanctioned performance in February in which they entered Moscow’s Christ the [...] Tony Cartalucci Scratching just below the surface of the Western media’s headlines are stories carrying greater implications – stories the West believes are better left untold. “Operation Damascus Volcano” Followed Weeks of Warnings of Impending NATO Psy-Op. Beginning last week, headlines were overrun by a coordinated NATO-backed “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) offensive and an assassination bombing in Damascus, timed so close to each other and the UN Security Council vote on [...] World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah: “They will be at war, we will be hunted down” Paul Joseph Watson World Net Daily editor and prominent Obama administration critic Joseph Farah revealed how his secluded property was buzzed by a spy drone – part of what Farah fears is a “war” being waged by the administration against its political adversaries. “I’m taking my dog for a walk and guess what [...] A Court source tells Salon the chief justice wrote the majority opinion and much of the dissent in the ACA case This weekend CBS News’ Jan Crawford reported that Chief Justice John Roberts switched his vote in regard to upholding the bulk of the Affordable Care Act. Crawford reports that Roberts voted with the rest of the court’s conservatives to strike down the individual mandate, but in the course of drafting his opinion [...] One of the few bright spots in last week’s Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s health care overhaul was a political one: The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts argues that Obamacare is constitutional under the taxing powers of Congress. The Obama administration’s advocate before the Court, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, made this case during oral arguments, and Roberts bought it. The decision, in a sense, formalized what many [...] Information deemed “maliciously harmful to government” Paul Joseph Watson A political website that contained stinging criticism of the Obama administration and its handling of the Fast and Furious scandal was ordered to be shut down by the Obama campaign’s ‘Truth Team’, according to private investigator Douglas Hagmann, who was told by ISP GoDaddy his site contained information that was “maliciously harmful to individuals in the government.” Hagmann, CEO of [...] MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin targeted those who dare oppose him Tuesday, introducing draconian new fines for protesters and handing out Kremlin jobs to widely detested lieutenants despite the public anger they have generated. A new law introducing a 200-fold increase in fines for taking part in unsanctioned protests was given preliminary approval by the Kremlin-controlled lower house, setting the stage for toughening Putin’s crackdown on dissent. Opposition lawmakers denounced the new [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Afran, talk about the significance of the extent to which she struck down this statute. BRUCE AFRAN: Well, it’s quite incredible, in a sense, because it’s rare that statutes are struck down completely. Judge Forrest struck down the entire provision of the NDAA governing indefinite detention of civilians and U.S. citizens. She said this provision is overbroad. She said it clearly embraces speech, even if it doesn’t intend to. And she [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Bruce Afran, talk about the significance of the extent to which she struck down this statute. BRUCE AFRAN: Well, it’s quite incredible, in a sense, because it’s rare that statutes are struck down completely. Judge Forrest struck down the entire provision of the NDAA governing indefinite detention of civilians and U.S. citizens. She said this provision is overbroad. She said it clearly embraces speech, even if it doesn’t intend to. And she [...] by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds We Are Not Powerless: Resisting Financial Feudalism It’s comforting to think “I can’t do anything to resist the Central State and its financial Plutocracy,” but it’s not true. There are many of acts of resistance you can pursue in your daily life; here are 12 perfectly legal ones. That we are powerless is one of the key social control myths constantly promoted by the Status Quo. What [...] The “Banker’s Dozen” were served with arrest notices one month after the U.S. Bank on UC Davis campus closed its doors for good, following weeks of protests against the university’s privatization, its collusion with corporate profiteers, and the banks’ role in increasing student costs and student debt. Twelve people are now threatened with 11 years each in jail and one million dollars in fines for a conspiracy to sit down. [...] In an extraordinary act of civil dissent, captured in a clip uploaded on YouTube, Iranian citizens in the southern city of Bandar-Abbas rushed into the path of the car carrying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a visit to the city, and directly confronted him to complain about their economic plight. In the footage, an elderly man is shown at the side of the car, shouting “I’m hungry, I’m hungry,” as Ahmadinejad’s [...] (Reuters) – Billionaire George Soros warned on Monday that the euro crisis is growing deeper, tearing at the fabric of European Union cohesion, because policymakers are prescribing the wrong remedies. “I’m afraid that the euro crisis is getting worse. It’s not over yet, and it is going in the wrong direction,” Soros said in discussion with Denmark’s economics minister hosted by the daily newspaper Politiken. “The euro is undermining the political cohesion [...] While largely uneventful to most, the tomorrow’s FOMC statement redline to the January one will be promptly scoured by algos everywhere for even the tiniest mention of the word inflation, as that will not only push back any hopes for a quick QE episode, but may temper expectations that ZIRP will last through 2014 (as the shaky 3 Year auction earlier indicated). And if JPMorgan’s Michael Feroli is right, inflation is [...] Ryan W. McMaken In some places, such as Maine and Minnesota, Ron Paul is likely to outperform the straw polls in terms of proportion of delegates won. As Lew Rockwell has noted, here and here, Ron Paul activists are sometimes able to take control of the local machines. Sometimes, however, the opposite apparently happens. As The Washington Times reported on March 10th, Paul actually underperformed his vote tally in Wyoming with local caucuses [...] Infowars.com Alex woke up angry this morning at the fact that You Tube had arbitrarily deleted thousands of subscribers to the Alex Jones Channel. Not only that, reports are pouring in of subscribers to the channel not receiving the videos. Yet more evidence of the fact that Google-owned You Tube is gradually silencing voices of dissent on its platform. The standard response of “well just don’t use You Tube [...] Colbert’s mother is reported to be ill, and her emergency illness caused the canceled show (via Huffington Post and MSBC). It is highly unlikely his show will be canceled because his ratings are so high.
For all the carpet-chewers here, please go educated yourself about who owns American media:GE, Walt Disney, Newscorp, Time Warner, Viacom, CBS Corp. If you need it spelt out for you, Anything on your TV screen has already been [...] Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper must be stoped at all costs. My fellow Canadians it’s time for you all to wake up and take a stand and defend your rights, freedoms and liberties both on and off the internet. Canadians it’s time for you to wake up, stand up and defend your rights, freedoms and liberties both on and off the internet because if you don’t then say bye-bye to your life [...] AP/Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and pulled all American diplomats out of Syria. Officials say Ambassador Robert Ford and other diplomats left Syria on Monday. It’s the most dramatic U.S. move so far after 11 months of a violent crackdown on dissent by President Bashar Assad’s regime. The State Department warned last month it would close the embassy unless Assad’s government stepped [...] |
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