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A Grand Inquisitor’s villa, a Pope’s fort and a Venetian island will be sold off to fill Italy’s depleted state coffers, local media reports. It’s hoped the 50 historic sites will raise 500 million euros needed to obey strict EU austerity rules.

The plan to offer some of Italy’s state-owned real estate to private investors is part of an emergency decree aimed at keeping the country’s 2013 budget deficit within 3 percent threshold set by Brussels, the Corriere della Serra newspaper reports.  Continue reading “Cash-for-Castles: Italy sells off historic sites to plug budget holes”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The U.S. Constitution leaves too many areas open to interpretation; a New Constituion of 2,300 pages (+ 200 redacted secret pages) is the solution.

The Obama Administration has proposed replacing the current U.S. Constitution (4,543 words, including the signatures with a 2,300-page “new Constitution” that in the words of an administration spokesperson, “clears up the gray areas in the current Constitution.”   Continue reading “Obama Administration Proposes 2,300-Page “New Constitution””

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks to the United Nations Security Council after it voted unanimously in favor of a resolution eradicating Syria's chemical arsenal during a Security Council meeting at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Keith BedfordReuters – by John Irish and Paul-Marin Ngoupana

France will boost its troop presence in the Central African Republic by the end of the year under a forthcoming U.N. resolution to help prevent the country from spiralling out of control, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday.

Fabius and the European Union aid chief, Kristalina Georgieva, are in the country to drum up support and international interest for a largely forgotten crisis.   Continue reading “France to increase troops in Central African Republic”

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As the Bobtail trucker convoys entered the heart of Washington DC this morning, Metropolitan police recognized that truckers were in an organized formation, and signaled their support to constitutional truckers.

Ernest “General” Lee said on GNM Live this morning, “This is incredible. Police gave us a salute, they are in support”.  Continue reading “Protesters in DC take barriers from monuments and dump them at White House gates”

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I was thinking about this earlier today, or last night. Before the “Economic Traitor” bomb got dropped.

During the French Revolution, the leftist (they were leftists) totalitarian government attempted to inflate away its problems by just printing up a crapton of paper money. This was a very early example of paper money. Technically, it wasn’t money per se, but rather each bill represented a share of the government’s eventual “profits,” if you can call them that, from the sale of property they had confiscated from the Catholic Church and from aristocrats declared traitors.   Continue reading “Obama’s Empircal Rationalist Patriots Settle on New Talking Point: People Who Disagree With Our Profligate Spending are “Economic Traitors””

Breitbart – by WYNTON HALL

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had three-and-a-half years to build the Obamacare exchanges. Now, GOP House members in charge of oversight want answers as to how the online system that cost taxpayers over half-a-billion dollars has failed on such a grand scale.

On Thursday, House GOP members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent aletter to Sebelius requesting an oversight briefing to occur no later than October 16th. The letter says Sebelius’s staff told lawmakers that the Obamacare exchanges were “proceeding on schedule and did not identify any problems like the ones now being experienced on HealthCare.gov.”    Continue reading “Experts: Obamacare Tech Failures only Beginning”

Before It’s News

I love it when anyone puts aside bias and peer-pressured inclination, reads history from more than one side and connects the dots with common sense logic.

We’ve all heard the allegations about Bush Senior and IBM and the Corporate world of that time supporting the economic miracle that took Nazi Germany from a sleeping-in-the-streets economy to the most powerful one in Europe (from 1933 to 1937 during the Great Depression) Germany refused to enter into debt to the controlling banking elite and issued its own debt- and interest-free currency from its own central bank, just like North Dakota has done for over a hundred years.   Continue reading “The Bush Family has been Running the White House Since 1980”

Breitbart – by MARTHA MENDOZA, AP

From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet with red flag terms to confuse would-be snoops.

Policy makers, privacy advocates and political leaders around the world have been outraged at the near weekly disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that expose sweeping U.S. government surveillance programs.   Continue reading “Growing Backlash to Government Surveillance”

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients can expect an historically small increase in benefits come January 2014. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)Yahoo News – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect historically small increases in their benefits come January.

Preliminary figures suggest a benefit increase of roughly 1.5 percent, which would be among the smallest since automatic increases were adopted in 1975, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Social Security raise to be among lowest in years”

souza13.jpgRed Flag News -by Michael Connelly

Resolution Impeaching Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Resolved, That Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:   Continue reading “Formal Articles of Impeachment of Obama Prepared for the Congress of the United States”

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Remember this next time the corporate media are trying to sell the next war…

Before the White House’s Syrian War flop, networks like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and Bloomberg TV wheeled out at least 22 different men who they claimed were “pundits” and “commentators”, but in actuality were merely bomb and missile salesmen – who held director, board and shareholding positions with military giants like Raytheon, DC Capital Partners and BAE Systems.   Continue reading “At Least 22 Defense Industry Stakeholders Used as ‘Pundits’ by US Media to Sell Syria War”

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More DC Truckers along with many other vehicles have continued to pour into the nation’s capital today, as day three of Ride for the Constitution commences.

Convoy spokesman, Ernest “General” Lee (photo, left) was busy Saturday coordinating new incoming convoys.

From early Sunday morning, Lee reported that the vehicles on the roads have been building. Lee stated, “We got flags flying, horns honking, rigs, trucks and other vehicles stretching 10 miles along interstate 495 in Maryland. I cannot see an end to it, everyone has their flashers on”.   Continue reading “Day 3: Negative US Media Coverage Fails to Stop Constitutional Truckers and Veterans Moving Into DC”