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Economy Watch

The Russian embassy had been due to transfer less than $5,000 to the Sogaz Insurance Group for regular services rendered, according to the Financial Times, but JPMorgan halted the transaction as Sogaz was part-owned by Bank Rossiya, one of the targets of US sanctions announced on March 20.   Continue reading “Russia Threatens Retaliation After JPMorgan Blocks Embassy Money Transfer”

ABC News – by EILEEN SULLIVAN

The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans’ communications as part of the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations that target foreigners located outside of the U.S., the administration’s top intelligence official confirmed in a letter to Congress disclosed Tuesday.

These searches were authorized by a secret surveillance court in 2011, but it was unclear until Tuesday whether any such searches on Americans had been conducted.   Continue reading “US Confirms Warrantless Searches of Americans”

Liberty Gold and Silver

For the last few weeks, one of the lead stories in precious metals news has been the various lawsuits and international criminal investigations of the world banking cartel’s alleged gold market price fixing. However, several key stories regarding another important precious metal, namely palladium, have largely been pushed off the PM news radar.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This is certainly true in the case of palladium. Please see below the last two months palladium chart.   Continue reading “Geopolitical and Labor Crisis Set to Push Palladium Higher”

Newsmax – by Cathy Burke

Three ATF officials let a key figure in the flubbed Fast & Furious gun-running operation collect his government paycheck while on leave and working for financial giant JP Morgan, a Justice Department report has found.

The Washington Times reported Monday that the department’s inspector general’s findings, released last week, determined that former ATF official William McMahon’s bosses “exercised poor judgment” in approving his paid leave while he worked elsewhere, and created potential conflicts of interest.    Continue reading “Justice Dept: ATF Paid Agent on Leave While He Worked Elsewhere”

KTVB 7 News – by Jamie Grey

PAYETTE COUNTY — A Washington state man driving a car with Colorado license plates says police sought him out and accused him of having illegal drugs because he’s from a state where marijuana is legal. On Wednesday, he filed a lawsuit in federal court.

Darien Roseen says he was driving through Idaho on a snowy winter day in January 2013 when an Idaho State Police trooper stopped him, and Roseen claims, violated the driver’s civil rights.   Continue reading “Wash. man says ISP profiled him for being from state with legalized marijuana”

Sent to us by Dorothy who said: This is all with the North American Union.  I expect to see Chinese Troops coming down this road that is being built by American dollars.

Sierra Vista Herald – by CAROL BROEDER

WILLCOX — A district engineer from the Arizona Department of Transportation is scheduled to speak in Sunsites April 8 regarding changes to Highway 191.

ADOT Senior Engineer Bill Harmon, who will make a presentation at the The Pearce/Sunsites Chamber of Commerce meeting beginning at 5:45 p.m. at the Sunsites Community Center, 1270 Treasure Road, in Sunsites.   Continue reading “Increase in border truck traffic due to NAFTA will impact Arizona highway”

Ready Chimp – by Code Breaker

What happens to a society when thinking outside of the box or being righteously enraged about your government going in the wrong direction becomes an excuse to be sedated and re-educated? It seems we don’t have to go too far back in history to find out.

The Soviet Union used new mental illness for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.   Continue reading “Creativity and Non-Conformity Now listed as a Mental Illness by Psychiatrists”

ProgressNow NM, March 5, 2014

With two major law enforcement agencies under criticism for their uses of force – including the Albuquerque Police Department under DOJ investigation – the state board responsible for police training has hired a new “paramilitary” director who dumped responsible use of force training in favor of more “shoot first” scenarios.

A New Mexico State Police officer made national news in October when he opened fire on a van full of children after the mother drove away from a rural traffic stop.   Continue reading “New militarized police training introduces “shoot first” policy for New Mexico cops”

Breitbart- by MATTHEW BOYLE

President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security caught then released 68,000 aliens who had previously been convicted of a crime, a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows.

The report, provided to Breitbart News ahead of its late Sunday evening release, reviews internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) metrics to conclude that the Obama administration released 35 percent—or 68,000—convicted criminal aliens back into the U.S. general population when they could have been deported. “The criminal alien releases typically occur without formal notice to local law enforcement agencies and victims,” CIS’s Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author, added.   Continue reading “Report: Obama Admin Released Tens of Thousands of Illegal Immigrant Criminals”

Sent to us by a reader who said: 

They are doing this to everyone for either having an out of state plate from a state that has legalized the stuff or if you have Idaho plates and are entering Idaho.

I have heard (I do not have any first hand conformation) that if you refuse to consent to a search they arrest you on the spot and search anyway (without a warrant).   Continue reading “Colorado man claims license plate led to pot search”

Aviation Week – by Bill Sweetman

As far as I know, this sort of thing has happened only once since 1956.

That was when British magazines started getting eyewitness accounts and grainy photos of the Lockheed U-2, then operating out of RAF Lakenheath on its first spy flights over the Soviet Union. Classified programs have been exposed in all sorts of ways since then – for example, the A-12 Blackbird was disclosed under a degree of pressure – but until the RQ-170 Sentinel was seen at Kandahar in 2007-09 there has been no such aircraft photographed before it was declassified. (And in the case of the RQ-170, the operational security people were not trying too hard.)   Continue reading “Mystery Aircraft Over Texas”

Common Dreams – by Jacob Chamberlain

For the first time in history the Israeli Supreme Court will hear evidence next week against officials who are accused of committing war crimes in Lebenon and Gaza.

The charges against senior Israeli political and military officials, including Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni among others, will call into question the attack on Lebanon in summer 2006, Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in late 2008, and an attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla in May 2010, according to Al Jazeera.  Continue reading “Israeli Officials Face War Crimes Charges in Supreme Court”

Web of Debt – by Ellen Brown

“As things stand, the banks are the permanent government of the country, whichever party is in power.”

– Lord Skidelsky, House of Lords, UK Parliament, 31 March 2011)

On March 20, 2014, European Union officials reached an historic agreement to create a single agency to handle failing banks. Media attention has focused on the agreement involving the single resolution mechanism (SRM), a uniform system for closing failed banks. But the real story for taxpayers and depositors is the heightened threat to their pocketbooks of a deal that now authorizes both bailouts and “bail-ins” – the confiscation of depositor funds. The deal involves multiple concessions to different countries and may be illegal under the rules of the EU Parliament; but it is being rushed through to lock taxpayer and depositor liability into place before the dire state of Eurozone banks is exposed.   Continue reading “Banking Union Time Bomb: Eurocrats Authorize Bailouts AND Bail-Ins”

Sent to us by Michael.

Muckety

Here are some of our favorite Muckety maps over the years. After viewing the story, you may want to click on the “View large map” link that appears below each map, so you have more room to expand connections.   Continue reading “Relationships Maps”