Puppet MastersS


Bad Guys

Is the gold market rigged?

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Every major metal you have invested in over the past few years likely wasn't worth the price you paid for it at the time. Does that bother you?

The puppet masters are controlling the commodity markets to best serve their own interests. This is nothing new, and has been going on for decades. In the book The Forgotten Man it was documented that FDR would determine the price increase or decrease in gold for the day, from his bed, based on what number he thought was lucky. A twenty-cent increase in the price of gold on a Wednesday was normal if FDR thought it would bring good luck and help his progressive agenda.

Nowadays, the world's most powerful institutions are creating false pricing, to the upside and down, on virtually every major metal that is traded globally.


Comment: It has been said that the futures markets aren't manipulated, they are the manipulation.


Comment: Related articles:

Chris Powell (GATA) on gold price suppression
Be your own central bank


Pistol

Strategy of Tension in Ireland: Sectarian 'divide & rule' was started, and is maintained by, British secret police

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© Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonAn Irish flag flies beside a mural in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast displaying an image of a I.R.A. gunman November 5, 2013.
Revelations about the British Army's collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland 'troubles' went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit.

The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes 'drive-by' shootings of Republican IRA suspects.

It's taken 40 years for taxpayers to be told the truth about how their money was being spent by Edward Heath's 1972 Conservative government. Around Belfast's 'no-go' areas, under Nationalist control, at least one hidden firearm was thought to be held at every street barricade. Anyone manning or even walking past these piles of rubble blocking off side roads was seen by some in the MRF as a legitimate target to gun down.

Comment: Many examples of similar covert 'High Crimes' by intelligence agencies can be viewed in the excellent documentary Strategy of Tension.


Target

JFK: 'The CIA murdered me'

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JFK's commitment to pull out of Vietnam, his challenging the industry cartels, his instituting dramatic social and economic reform, his embracing and encouraging the Civil Rights movement, and his efforts to end the Cold War led to an "intra-administration war" which JFK revealed in the following NYT op-ed through journalist Arthur Krock, which specified that "if the US ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the Govt, it will come from the CIA. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."


Stormtrooper

Britain's War of Terror in Northern Ireland: 'Military Reaction Force' murdered innocents at random (BBC Panorama full video)

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© Unknown.An account by BBC investigative journalist John Ware on what he learned about “Britain’s secret terror force”, the Military Reaction Force.
10 pm, May 7 1972, Belfast: a 16-year-old youth emerges from a school disco with his girlfriend. Like many other youths in this part of Catholic, nationalist west Belfast, he had previously thrown stones at the British army.

Suddenly there is a burst of machine gun fire from a car. As it speeds off, the boy writhes in agony from bullets in the stomach and arm.

A few weeks later a car cruises into view of a bus stop. The driver is said to have waved a friendly wave, only for a machine gun to flame into life from a rear window, cutting down three men chatting to each other.


USA

Stupid government policy is more dangerous than terrorism

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The Shocking Reasons that Americans Are Right to Be More Afraid of Bad Government Policy than Terrorism

Preface: I am not so much anti-government as anti-stupid policy. (Moreover, the problem is not solely "bad government" or "corrupt corporations". The deeper problem is that the two have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relation.)

Multiple polls show that Americans are more afraid of our own government than of terrorists.

Sure, the government - not Al Qaeda - is taking away virtually all of our Constitutional rights. And that includes reserving to itself the right to assassinate or indefinitely detain American citizens.

But stupid government policy is threatening us in other ways, as well.

The Police

You are approximately 9 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist. This is a result of bad policy: the over-the-top militarization of American police forces.

Financial Crisis

The financial crisis will also lead to quite a few early deaths. The government - together with Wall Street - caused the financial crisis ... not Al Qaeda.

Government policy has also redistributed wealth from the average American to the super- rich. (Indeed, the government and big banks - not Osama - have destroyed free market capitalism in the U.S.)

Wolf

India's Minister for Justice, Law & Order and Communications Kapil Sibal blames food price hikes on poor people eating more than one choice of vegetable

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In an insensitive statement which seems like pouring salt on the wounds of the poor, Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has said that price of vegetables has risen because the poor are able to purchase vegetables...


Star of David

The daylight between Israel and the West

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Israel's French representative Francois Hollande introduces his Don to some delicious 'quenelle'.
This week the 5+1 are back negotiating the easing of economic sanctions against Iran and new unprecedented rigid inspection regimen including daily reactor checks to certify compliance.

According to US State Department reports the agreement calls for a six-month "reversible" $10 billion relief reducing the cost of sanction against Iran from approximately $100bn to $90bn.

Leaked excerpts from the draft accord compel Iran to limit its enrichment to less than 20 per cent (19.75) purity and convert its 20pc stockpile-enriched uranium into fuel rods, "rendering it unusable for the higher level enrichment necessary for nuclear weapons".

Following the breakthrough, the US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs flew to Tel Aviv to brief Israeli officials on the impending agreement.

Fearing an accord with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius urging him to delay the signing giving him an opportunity to leach his US lobbyists to force the US government to back off.

Chess

Turkey pushes crossroads politics

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While everyone is concentrated on the possibility of a tectonic shift in US-Iran relations, and while a solution may be found for the Syrian tragedy in another upcoming set of negotiations in Geneva, Turkey is silently toiling in the background. Let's see what these sultans of swing are up to.

We start on the internal front. Abdul Mejid I, the 31st Ottoman sultan (in power from 1839 to 1861) always dreamed of a submerged tunnel under the Bosphorus linking Europe to Asia.

It took "Sultan" Erdogan, as in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to make it happen, when last month he inaugurated - on the 90th anniversary of the founding of Ataturk's Republic - the US$3 billion, 76-kilometer Marmaray rail system which, in the hardly hyperbolic words of Mustafa Kara, mayor of Istanbul's Uskudar district (where the tunnel comes out), will "eventually link London to Beijing, creating unimagined global connections". [1]

It certainly helps that this technological marvel fits right into China's extremely ambitious New Silk Road(s) strategy which, just like the original Silk Road, starts in Xian, and aims to cross to Europe via, where else, Istanbul. [2]

Arrow Up

Best of the Web: Where new JFK evidence points

Media specials are on tap for the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's murder, but none will explore the troubling new evidence that has been declassified in recent years - and that undercuts the Official Story of the Lone Gunman.

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© Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning NewsPresident John F. Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas shortly before his assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.
In late 1991, film director Oliver Stone released JFK, his film about the investigation of the murder of President John F. Kennedy by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. To say the film was controversial does not begin to describe the furor which surrounded its reception. Six months before the film was in theaters, stories began to appear in large newspapers criticizing a film no one had seen yet.

When the film was finally shown, there was an interesting dichotomy. Whereas most of the film critics liked it, editorials and news stories about the movie attacked it. One critic actually lost her job over a positive review of the film.

But the film did two things relevant to the state of the evidence in the matter of President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. At the end of his film, Stone had shown a title card saying that the files of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) had been classified until the year 2029.

Embarrassed - and faced with public outrage - Congress held hearings. Many people testified including Stone, and the last chief counsel of the HSCA, Robert Blakey. As a result, the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was created, tasked with finding and releasing all documents held by public and private entities in America concerning the murder of President Kennedy. Eventually, two million pages of classified files were open to the public.

The second thing the film did was arouse the curiosity of many people who were not aware of the evidentiary problems that had haunted the Kennedy case for nearly 30 years. Stone's film was the first time in over a decade that millions of Americans had been exposed to things like the Zapruder film, Oswald's odd relationships with the FBI and CIA, his associations with right-wingers in Dallas and New Orleans, the investigative failings of the Warren Commission, the problems with the autopsy of President Kennedy, and much, much more.

These new people who were drawn into the case had fresh perspectives to offer and new insights. Between the newly declassified documents and this new generation of writers, the information base about both Kennedy and his murder grew exponentially in a relatively short time.

But this week's 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination will be marked almost entirely by television specials that will be silent about this new and plentiful information, which alters the calculus of the Kennedy case. That is because, despite the uproar created by Stone's film, the defenders of the Warren Commission's narrative circled the wagons and protected the Establishment's preferred solution to the assassination - that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Dollar

End the 1 percent's free ride: Taxing land would solve America's biggest problems

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© Lev Radin via Shutterstock/Reuters/Steve Marcus/Jim Young/SalonDonald Trump, Mitt Romney, Lloyd Blankfein

Appealing to the overwhelming majority of Americans who believe the tax code is so complex that it needs "major changes or a complete overhaul," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., have adorably started a joint Twitter handle: @simplertaxes. The bipartisan love fest is no doubt a heartfelt effort, but not very convincing from men who acquired the fancy titles by opening and maintaining loopholes for the ownership class. Baucus' hot-off-the-presses tax reform proposals predictably simplify the code very little.

At present, neither party advocates the tax code so elegant it can reduce inequality, mitigate poverty, stimulate productivity, prevent asset price bubbles, stem community-shredding gentrification and drain the distended Wall Street cabal of its ill-gotten gains - in just one tax.

Land value. If we want a real overhaul/simplification of the tax code, the way to do it is to tax land value. It might be the only tax we need. No sales tax. No income tax. No payroll tax to fill a Social Security trust fund. No corporate income tax that, as we can plainly see, offshores profits. No need to tax labor and industry at all. Just tax the stuff that humans had nothing to do with creating, and therefore have no basis to claim ownership over at all. You'll find that almost all of it is "owned" by the fabled 1 percent.