Wheat prices in biggest one-day rise
By Javier Blas in London and Isabel Gorst in Moscow
Published: February 25 2008 20:18 | Last updated: February 25 2008 20:18
Prices of top-quality wheat jumped 25 per cent to a record high on Monday in their largest one-day increase as Kazakhstan, one of the largest grain exporters, said it would impose export tariffs to curb sales.
The move, which follows similar export restrictions in Russia and Argentina, is likely to put further pressure on already tight global wheat supplies, analysts said. ...
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Canada & U.S. agree to use each other's troops
What is the definition of "civil emergency"? Will Canadian troops respect the US Constitution when policing in America?
Canada, U.S. agree to use each other's troops in civil emergencies
David Pugliese , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, February 22, 2008
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other's borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas.
The U.S. military's Northern Command, however, publicized the agreement with a statement outlining how its top officer, Gen. Gene Renuart, and Canadian Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, head of Canada Command, signed the plan, which allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency. ...
Canada, U.S. agree to use each other's troops in civil emergencies
David Pugliese , Canwest News Service
Published: Friday, February 22, 2008
Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other's borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.
Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas.
The U.S. military's Northern Command, however, publicized the agreement with a statement outlining how its top officer, Gen. Gene Renuart, and Canadian Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, head of Canada Command, signed the plan, which allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency. ...
Foolish Law Enforcement Operation
Shootout report cites confusion
HOMER AIRPORT: Two years after fugitive was killed and son shot, questions persist.
By TOM KIZZIA
tkizzia@adn.com | tkizzia@adn.com
Published: February 24th, 2008 12:01 AM
Last Modified: February 24th, 2008 12:19 AM
HOMER -- On the day before the fatal 2006 shootout at the Homer Airport, Alaska State Troopers were approached by federal marshals seeking help to apprehend a dangerous fugitive. The troopers decided they wanted nothing to do with the marshals' plans.
...
The question of who shot young Jason is likely to be a point in a civil lawsuit against the marshals and the city of Homer being prepared by lawyers for the former girlfriend and mother of Anderson's two children, Cherry Dietzmann.
Regardless of who shot the boy, the lawyers said, he was the victim of "a tragic and foolish law enforcement operation." ...
HOMER AIRPORT: Two years after fugitive was killed and son shot, questions persist.
By TOM KIZZIA
tkizzia@adn.com | tkizzia@adn.com
Published: February 24th, 2008 12:01 AM
Last Modified: February 24th, 2008 12:19 AM
HOMER -- On the day before the fatal 2006 shootout at the Homer Airport, Alaska State Troopers were approached by federal marshals seeking help to apprehend a dangerous fugitive. The troopers decided they wanted nothing to do with the marshals' plans.
...
The question of who shot young Jason is likely to be a point in a civil lawsuit against the marshals and the city of Homer being prepared by lawyers for the former girlfriend and mother of Anderson's two children, Cherry Dietzmann.
Regardless of who shot the boy, the lawyers said, he was the victim of "a tragic and foolish law enforcement operation." ...
Tips For Knee-Friendly Skiing
Although there are many ways in which knee injuries can occur in skiing, this pamphlet concentrates on the two most common scenarios, the Phantom Foot and the Boot Induced.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Government Economic Trouble
Scott Bittle said:
“Eventually, if nothing is done, by 2040 every dollar the federal government has will be taken in by Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the money we’ve already borrowed... Right now, one of the few areas of bipartisanship in Washington is the willingness not to deal with the problem... The war is certainly making our financial problems worse. But it’s not the sole cause and it’s not the sole answer."
“Eventually, if nothing is done, by 2040 every dollar the federal government has will be taken in by Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the money we’ve already borrowed... Right now, one of the few areas of bipartisanship in Washington is the willingness not to deal with the problem... The war is certainly making our financial problems worse. But it’s not the sole cause and it’s not the sole answer."
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Rule by fear or rule by law?
Rule by fear or rule by law?
Lewis Seiler,Dan Hamburg
Monday, February 4, 2008
Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.
...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.
...
Lewis Seiler,Dan Hamburg
Monday, February 4, 2008
Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.
...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of "terrorist" organizations, or who speaks out against the government's policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens alike.
...
Monday, February 18, 2008
Failing Banks
Northern Rock takeover marks risky bet for U.K.
Surprise move reveals global crisis' depth; holders decry action
Alistair Macdonald And Carrick Mollenkamp, Wall Street Journal
18 Feb 2008 05:31
LONDON -- The U.K. government has decided to take full control of troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC, in a surprise move that reflects the depth of the global credit crisis and represents an embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Surprise move reveals global crisis' depth; holders decry action
Alistair Macdonald And Carrick Mollenkamp, Wall Street Journal
18 Feb 2008 05:31
LONDON -- The U.K. government has decided to take full control of troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC, in a surprise move that reflects the depth of the global credit crisis and represents an embarrassment for Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Spy On US
American taxpayer money is spent on spy satellites that are turned to spy on Americans.
Domestic Access to Spy Imagery Expands
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.
The charter and legal framework for an office within the Homeland Security Department that would use overhead and mapping imagery from existing satellites is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
Domestic Access to Spy Imagery Expands
By EILEEN SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.
The charter and legal framework for an office within the Homeland Security Department that would use overhead and mapping imagery from existing satellites is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Congress Gives Away Your RIght To Privacy
Senate Protects Telecom Immunity in Spy Bill
By William Branigin and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 12, 2008; 2:53 PM
The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program ...
By William Branigin and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 12, 2008; 2:53 PM
The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program ...
Thursday, February 07, 2008
President Bush On Iraq
President Bush says Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Federal Reserve Manipulates Price Of Gold
Anybody Seen Our Gold?
The gold reserves of the United States have not been independently audited for half a century. Now there is proof that those gold reserves and those of other Western nations are being used for the surreptitious manipulation of the international
currency, commodity, equity, and bond markets.
The Federal Reserve’s general counsel, J. Virgil Mattingly, acknowledged as much when he told the Federal Open Market Committee on January 31, 1995, that the Treasury Department’s Exchange Stabilization Fund had undertaken gold swaps.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged as much in testimony to Congress on July 24, 1998, when he said that “central banks stand ready to lend gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.”
Barrick Gold Corp. acknowledged as much in a filing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on February 28, 2003, disclosing that the mining company was the agent of the central banks in shorting the gold market.
The Bank for International Settlements acknowledged as much on June 27, 2005, when the head of its monetary and economic department, William S. White, declared at a convention of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland, that a major purpose of international central bank cooperation is “the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices — especially gold and foreign exchange.”
Since last May the U.S. Treasury Department’s weekly report of the government’s international reserve position has cited loans and swaps from the U.S. gold reserves.
Since 2004 four major international investment houses — Sprott Asset Management, Cheuvreux, Citigroup, and Redburn Partners — have issued reports stating that Western central banks have been manipulating the gold market.
The objective of this manipulation is to conceal the mismanagement of the U.S. dollar so that it might retain its function as the world’s reserve currency. But to suppress the price of gold is to disable the barometer of the international fi nancial system so that all markets may be more easily manipulated. This manipulation has been a primary cause of the catastrophic excesses in the markets that now threaten the
whole world.
Gold’s recent rise toward $900 per ounce shows that the price suppression scheme is faltering. When it is widely understood how central banks have been suppressing gold, its price may rise to $3,000 or $5,000 or more.
Surreptitious market manipulation by government is leading the world to disaster. We want to expose it and stop it.
Who are we?
We’re the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc., a non-profi t, federally tax-exempt civil rights and educational organization formed by people who recognize the necessity of free markets in the monetary metals. In May 2001 we gathered representatives of fi ve gold-producing African countries in Durban, South Africa, at the GATA African Gold Summit. In August 2005 we brought gold market experts and investors from around the world to the Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, excerpts of which you can watch
on the Internet here: www.GoldRush21.com
Now GATA is marching on the Treasury Department to demand, via the Freedom of Information Act, that the U.S. government come clean about its gold reserves — to disclose how much gold is left and how much has been compromised by leases, swaps, and other encumbrances undertaken for surreptitious market intervention.
So that we may explain how the unfolding world fi nancial disaster can be mitigated and why free markets in the monetary metals are essential to free markets everywhere, we invite you to join us at our next conference — “GATA Goes to Washington: Anybody Seen Our Gold?” — to be held Thursday through Saturday, April 17-19.
For information about that conference and GATA, visit www.GATA.org.
“GATA” by Alain Despert
GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE INC.
7 Villa Louisa Road, Manchester, Connecticut 06043-7541 USA • CPowell@GATA.org
GATA welcomes fi nancial contributions, which are federally tax-exempt under Section 501-c-3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
GATA is not a registered investment adviser and this should not be considered investment advice or an offer to buy or sell securities.
William J.
Murphy III
Chairman
Proprietor of
the Internet site
of fi nancial
commentary,
LeMetropole-
Cafe.com in
Dallas, former
commodities
trader, and
former wide
receiver for the
Boston Patriots.
Chris
Powell
Secretary-
Treasurer
Managing
editor of the
Journal Inquirer
in Manchester,
Connecticut,
and legislative
chairman of
the Connecticut
Council on
Freedom of
Information.
Ed
Steer
Director
Edmonton,
Alberta-based
market analyst
for Casey
Research LLC.
Wistar
Holt
Director
Portfolio
manager for
Holt & Shapard
Capital
Management
LLC, St. Louis.
Catherine
Austin Fitts
Director
President of
Solari Inc. in
Hickory Valley,
Tennessee;
former managing
director of
Dillon, Read &
Co. Inc.; and
former assistant
secretary of the
U.S. Department
of Housing
and Urban
Development
The gold reserves of the United States have not been independently audited for half a century. Now there is proof that those gold reserves and those of other Western nations are being used for the surreptitious manipulation of the international
currency, commodity, equity, and bond markets.
The Federal Reserve’s general counsel, J. Virgil Mattingly, acknowledged as much when he told the Federal Open Market Committee on January 31, 1995, that the Treasury Department’s Exchange Stabilization Fund had undertaken gold swaps.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged as much in testimony to Congress on July 24, 1998, when he said that “central banks stand ready to lend gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.”
Barrick Gold Corp. acknowledged as much in a filing in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on February 28, 2003, disclosing that the mining company was the agent of the central banks in shorting the gold market.
The Bank for International Settlements acknowledged as much on June 27, 2005, when the head of its monetary and economic department, William S. White, declared at a convention of central bankers in Basel, Switzerland, that a major purpose of international central bank cooperation is “the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices — especially gold and foreign exchange.”
Since last May the U.S. Treasury Department’s weekly report of the government’s international reserve position has cited loans and swaps from the U.S. gold reserves.
Since 2004 four major international investment houses — Sprott Asset Management, Cheuvreux, Citigroup, and Redburn Partners — have issued reports stating that Western central banks have been manipulating the gold market.
The objective of this manipulation is to conceal the mismanagement of the U.S. dollar so that it might retain its function as the world’s reserve currency. But to suppress the price of gold is to disable the barometer of the international fi nancial system so that all markets may be more easily manipulated. This manipulation has been a primary cause of the catastrophic excesses in the markets that now threaten the
whole world.
Gold’s recent rise toward $900 per ounce shows that the price suppression scheme is faltering. When it is widely understood how central banks have been suppressing gold, its price may rise to $3,000 or $5,000 or more.
Surreptitious market manipulation by government is leading the world to disaster. We want to expose it and stop it.
Who are we?
We’re the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc., a non-profi t, federally tax-exempt civil rights and educational organization formed by people who recognize the necessity of free markets in the monetary metals. In May 2001 we gathered representatives of fi ve gold-producing African countries in Durban, South Africa, at the GATA African Gold Summit. In August 2005 we brought gold market experts and investors from around the world to the Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, excerpts of which you can watch
on the Internet here: www.GoldRush21.com
Now GATA is marching on the Treasury Department to demand, via the Freedom of Information Act, that the U.S. government come clean about its gold reserves — to disclose how much gold is left and how much has been compromised by leases, swaps, and other encumbrances undertaken for surreptitious market intervention.
So that we may explain how the unfolding world fi nancial disaster can be mitigated and why free markets in the monetary metals are essential to free markets everywhere, we invite you to join us at our next conference — “GATA Goes to Washington: Anybody Seen Our Gold?” — to be held Thursday through Saturday, April 17-19.
For information about that conference and GATA, visit www.GATA.org.
“GATA” by Alain Despert
GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE INC.
7 Villa Louisa Road, Manchester, Connecticut 06043-7541 USA • CPowell@GATA.org
GATA welcomes fi nancial contributions, which are federally tax-exempt under Section 501-c-3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
GATA is not a registered investment adviser and this should not be considered investment advice or an offer to buy or sell securities.
William J.
Murphy III
Chairman
Proprietor of
the Internet site
of fi nancial
commentary,
LeMetropole-
Cafe.com in
Dallas, former
commodities
trader, and
former wide
receiver for the
Boston Patriots.
Chris
Powell
Secretary-
Treasurer
Managing
editor of the
Journal Inquirer
in Manchester,
Connecticut,
and legislative
chairman of
the Connecticut
Council on
Freedom of
Information.
Ed
Steer
Director
Edmonton,
Alberta-based
market analyst
for Casey
Research LLC.
Wistar
Holt
Director
Portfolio
manager for
Holt & Shapard
Capital
Management
LLC, St. Louis.
Catherine
Austin Fitts
Director
President of
Solari Inc. in
Hickory Valley,
Tennessee;
former managing
director of
Dillon, Read &
Co. Inc.; and
former assistant
secretary of the
U.S. Department
of Housing
and Urban
Development
UK Gov't Plan To "Coerce" Brits
Leaked UK gov't doc reveals plan to "coerce" Brits into national ID register
Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 29, 2008 3:01 AM
Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget -- note the call to action there. We've got a sensitive government document revealing the British government's plan to trick us into a database state ...
Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 29, 2008 3:01 AM
Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget -- note the call to action there. We've got a sensitive government document revealing the British government's plan to trick us into a database state ...
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