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Gold Vaults To New Record High, Shy Of $1,900

Tatyana Shumsky
Wall Street Journal
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:32 UTC
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Gold ended at a new record high amid growing speculation the U.S. won't be able to resist another round of stimulus and broader worries about the global economy.

Meanwhile, a six-month-long civil conflict in Libya is drawing towards a conclusion, re-igniting concerns about political instability in the region.

The most actively traded contract, for December delivery, gained $39.70, or 2.1%, to settle at a record $1,891.90 a troy ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract touched an intraday record of $1,899.40.

Thinly traded August-delivery gold settled at a record $1,888.70 a troy ounce, up $39.80, or 2.2%, after touching an intraday record of $1,895.00.
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Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoarding the Country's Wealth

David DeGraw
Alternet
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:49 UTC
With an unprecedented sum of wealth, tens of trillions of dollars, held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history. Not even the robber barons of the Gilded Age were as greedy as the modern-day economic elite.

As American philosopher John Dewey said, "There is no such thing as the liberty or effective power of an individual, group, or class, except in relation to the liberties, the effective powers, of other individuals, groups or classes."

In my report, The Economic Elite vs. the People, I reported on the strategic withholding of wealth from 99 percent of the US population over the past generation. Since the mid-1970s, worker production and wealth creation has exploded. As the statistics throughout this report prove, the dramatic increase in wealth has been almost entirely absorbed by the economic top one-tenth of one percent of the population, with most of it going to the top one-hundredth of one percent.

If you are wondering why a critical mass of people desperately struggling to make ends meet are still not fighting back with overwhelming force and running the mega-wealthy aristocrats out of town, let's consider two significant factors:
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BBC Admits Role in 1953 Iranian Coup


Press TV
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:30 UTC
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The BBC Persian TV channel has at last acknowledged the role of the BBC Persian radio in the toppling of the democratically elected government of Iran in the 1953 coup.

The coup overthrew the government of the then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh leading to the restoration of absolute monarchy under dictator Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi who was later toppled in the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

In a documentary aired on August 18 on the anniversary of the coup, BBC Persian channel admitted for the first time to the role of the BBC Persian radio as the propaganda arm of the British government in Iran.
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Mayan Secrets to Be Revealed by Mexican Government in '2012' Doc

Steve Pond
The Wrap
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:00 UTC
The Mexican government is releasing state-held secrets about the end of the Mayan calendar to the makers of a documentary, Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond, TheWrap has learned.

The information -- protected for 80 years -- is expected to reveal Mayan beliefs in future catastrophes and wisdom characterized as "shocking," producer Raul Julia-Levy, son of actor Raul Julia, told TheWrap.

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The end of the Mayan calendar in December 2012 has long given rise to theories and speculation about the end of the world.

The agreement will allow Julia-Levy to film in never-before-seen locations.

"The Mayans used to construct one pyramid over another," tourism minister for the Mexican state of Campeche Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado told TheWrap. "In the site at Calakmul (pictured below right), workers for INAH [the National Institute of Anthropology and History] have discovered rooms inside the pyramid that have never been seen or explored before.

"And we're letting this documentary film there, to see what has been discovered inside the pyramid.
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Tit for tat? Straus-Kahn's successor at IMF comes under fire for corruption in Sarkozy government


Reuters
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:49 UTC
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A French court which is investigating International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has cited "anomalies and irregularities" in her decision to approve a huge payment to a businessman when she was finance minister, a French news website said.

Mediapart published a 9-page court document explaining the legal reasoning behind an August 4 ruling that Lagarde should be placed under investigation for approving the 285 million euro payment to Bernard Tapie, a friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The document by a commission of three judges at the Court of Justice of the Republic, which has special powers to judge ministers, states that Lagarde appeared to have contributed to events whose legality was uncertain.

"The minister seems to have personally contributed to the events, notably by giving voting instructions to the State's representatives" in the arbitration procedure, the court document published on Mediapart read.
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Iran sentences US spies to 8 years in jail


Press TV
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:35 UTC
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US detainees Shane Bauer (L) and Joshua Fattal
Iran has sentenced each of two American nationals detained in the country on charges of illegal entry and espionage to eight years in prison, a top judiciary official says.

"The Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court has sentenced Shane Michael Bauer and Joshua Felix Fattal each to eight years in prison," Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told reporters on Sunday.

He added that the two US detainees have 20 days to appeal against the verdict, ISNA reported.

Tehran prosecutor also noted that the case of Sarah Emily Shourd, who was released in September 2010 on a $500,000 bail, is still open and will be investigated later.

Although Shourd has announced she will not attend the court session, her trial will not run counter to the law, he said.
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The Cartel Strikes Back: S&P Downgrades Venezuela to B+ Rating After Chavez Recalls Country's Gold

Maria De Wind
12160.info
Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:04 UTC
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You didn't think that the cartel would just sit there and politely hand Mr. Chavez his 210 tons of gold back now, did you?

The first retaliatory shot has been fired in the great gold war.

In another Friday night shocker, S&P tonight downgraded Venezuela's credit rating to B+ from BB-.

Shockingly, S&P actually admitted that the reason for the downgrade was Hugo Chavez demanding Venezuela's gold be repatriated from the Bank of England (kept by JP Morgan and friends)!

S&P "expressed concern" that Venezuela's gold will no longer be held at The Morgue.

Bwahahaha!
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Netanyahu: Gaza Strikes 'Only the Beginning' of Retaliation

Jason Ditz
Anti-War.com
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:54 UTC
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Insists Slain Leaders Were Responsible for Thursday's Attacks

Speaking today at Soroka Hospital, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the PRC leaders slain in yesterday's bombing attack on the Gaza city of Rafah were responsible for the Thursday attacks inside southern Israel. He also said they were "only the beginning."

"We have a policy of extracting a very high price from anyone who causes us harm," insisted Netanyahu, who thanked the military and Shin Bet for "wiping out the leaders" of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) in the attack. The PRC has denied responsibility for the attacks.

This leaves the question of what retaliation is possible, if, as Netanyahu put it, "those who gave the order to murder our citizens while hiding in Gaza are no longer among the living." He gave no indication who else would be bombed.

Comment: "Those who gave the order" probably came from inside Israel:

Another Israeli False Flag?

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Another Israeli False Flag?

Stephen Lendman
sjlendman.blogspot.com
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:05 UTC
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Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel's Security Agency) have long, odious histories of committing them. More on that below.

At issue now is whether the August 18 bus and other attacks inside Israel were committed by external elements or Israel, and if so, why?

Also at issue always is cui bono? In fact, Hamas and various Palestinian resistance groups have nothing to gain. Clearly Israel benefits greatly at least two ways:

(1) The upcoming September UN General Assembly vote on Palestinian self-determination Israel very much wants to derail.

(2) Weeks of nationwide internal social justice protests Netanyahu also wants to diffuse and end.
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UK government openly backs Zionist funded EDL


Press TV
Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:42 UTC
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Analysts have voiced their concerns over British government's miscarriage of justice, sentencing a boy for stealing a bottle of water to six months imprisonment, but gave away an EDL thug attacking a mosque with £ 200.

British government has taken one more step in favor of Zionist funded English Defence League (EDL) by passing very light sentences on its members who overtly shouted "we'll burn your mosques."

During last week's massive unrests across England, thousands of people were arrested and appeared in courts and received harsh sentences even on minor crimes, since the cabinet ministers reportedly violated the judiciary's independence.

Following the widespread unrests in England, two men were sentenced to four years in prison for inciting riots on Facebook and one man was sentenced to 18 months for having a stolen TV in his car.
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