USA Will Return To A Gold Standard

Saturday, 1 September 2012

USA Will Return To A Gold Standard

US 'will return to gold standard', says Euro Pacific Capital chief Peter Schiff

A major US investor has predicted the world's leading economy will return to the gold standard, giving further weight to Republican moves to set up a commission to look at the issue.

The gold standard has returned to mainstream US politics for the first time in 30 years with a 'gold commission' becoming part of official Republican party policy Photo: Reuters

By Andrew Trotman

2:22PM BST 31 Aug 2012

Peter Schiff, chief executive of Euro Pacific Capital, has argued that the US is heading for a currency crisis, and an immediate move to peg the dollar to gold is needed as the economy is caught in a "phony recovery".

"Eventually we will be back on a gold standard, not because politicians want it, but because the public demands it and the situation requires it," he told King World News.

"We are headed for a currency crisis, and the only way we’re going to stop it is by putting real value back into the paper dollar. So we have to tie it to gold.

"The sooner we do it the better because the sooner we start to repair the problems the easier it is. The longer we wait, the bigger the problems get. But I think it’s happening soon [a return to the gold standard]."

The economy is so bad, Mr Schiff argues, that despite Ben Bernanke's speech today in which he is expected to dampen hopes of further monetary policy stimulus, the Federal Reserve chairman will soon be forced into another round of quantitative easing.

“QE3 is coming. You know we’ve got a phony recovery, so it’s going to fail. So we are going to get more QE. It’s not that we need it, but if we don’t have QE3, then we are back in recession," said Mr Schiff, who ran as a candidate in the Republican primary for the US Senate seat in Connecticut in 2010.
"We have a lot of problems, and if we cure them it’s going to mean a short-term recession as we repair the damage. Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never going to have a recovery."
Added to North America's economic woes, a "fiscal cliff" is looming. A number of tax increases and spending cuts are due at the end of the year that are expected to weigh heavily on growth and possibly drive the economy back into a recession.
Mr Schiff believes this will push the US into currency and debt crises, paving the way for a return to the gold standard.
"They want to keep growing the government, growing the deficits. That eventually means we will have a currency crisis, and a sovereign debt crisis, which will lay the foundation for a return to the gold standard."
The gold standard has returned to mainstream US politics for the first time in 30 years with a “gold commission” becoming part of official Republican party policy. This commission will look at whether a return to the gold standard is feasible.
Marsha Blackburn, a Republican congresswoman from Tennessee and co-chair of the committee, recently told the Financial Times: “These were adopted because they are things that Republicans agree on. The House recently passed a bill on this, and this is something that we think needs to be done.”
The proposal evokes memories of the Gold Commission created by Ronald Reagan in 1981, 10 years after Richard Nixon broke the link between gold and the dollar during the 1971 oil crisis. That commission supported the status quo.
Some argue a return to the gold standard would foster economic stability and prosperity, primarily by creating price stability, fixed exchange rates and placing limits government deficit spending as well as trade imbalances.
However, opponents believe it would limit the flexibility of governments and central banks in managing economies, restricting the ability to adjust money supply, government budgets and exchange rates.
Gold rose 0.3pc to $1,660.95 an ounce on Friday.

http://blogbywiggy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/usa-will-return-to-gold-standard.html

WND EXCLUSIVE

FEDS ANYTHING BUT TRANSPARENT ON 'NUDE SCANNERS'

By blocking public comment, TSA's invasive searches shielded from judicial review

Published: 08/31/2012 at 5:20 PM

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More than three years after installation of the infamous nude-image body scanners at U.S. airports, the federal government still has not instituted the required period of public comment, but Obama administration attorneys contend there’s been no unreasonable delay.

The argument comes from U.S. Justice Department attorneys Mark Stern and John Koppel in a brief opposing a request to start the rule-making process immediately.

Privacy and health advocates have raised numerous concerns about the full-body scanners, which the Transportation Safety Administration began to widely implement in 2010.

In a case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and dozens of other groups, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that while the screening would be allowed to go ahead, the Department of Homeland Security “failed to conduct notice-and-comment rulemaking” as required.

At the time, the court said, “Few if any regulatory procedures impose directly and significantly on so many members of the public.” The court ordered the government to “act promptly” on the routine process.

According to EPIC, a year has passed since that order for “prompt” action – and some two and a half years since the machines were first installed in the U.S. The group went to court asking for a mandate for immediate action.

Administration lawyers, however, responded that they now expect the process will be handled “by or before the end of February 2013.”

“TSA has been keenly aware of the importance of implementing the court’s directive, and has given high priority to the … rulemaking,” the attorneys said.

They blamed “personnel losses” in the agency for the time frame and said “almost all of the staff available to conduct the required economic analysis” had been assigned to the project.

“There has been no unreasonable delay in complying with the court’s mandate, much less the type of egregious delay that would warrant exercise of the court’s mandamus powers,” they wrote.

EPIC addressed the requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act and said the time had come for the “court to end the agency’s unreasonable delay, and to set a date certain for the agency to issue a proposed rule or, in the alternative, to vacate the rule on which the agency relies.”

Once the rule is issued, there are various challenges that are possible, including “judicial review under the APA … which provides that a court may ‘set aside agency action … found to be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,” EPIC argued.

EPIC noted the administration decided in April 2009 to use the body scanners and set the decision in motion “without explicit statutory authority and without publishing a proper rule as required.”

The court decision in July 2011 said “the TSA has advanced no justification for having failed to conduct a notice-and-comment rulemaking.” EPIC said the court right now should “remove the [scanner] program from this ‘administrative limbo.’”

“In the three years since EPIC’s original petition to the agency for a rulemaking so that independent experts might express their views on the agency program, scientific evidence strongly suggests that WBI machines pose health risks to travelers,” the EPIC court filing continued.

And at the same time, members of Congress have determined the machines are “ineffective,” it wrote.

The delays are especially egregious because they “shield” the agency actions from judicial review under the APA, EPIC said.

Administration attorneys contended, however, “There has been no ‘waiting’ and no ‘delay.’ Petitioner’s repeated mandamus petitions reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of notice-and-comment rulemaking and the time and resources required to develop a proposed rule.”

Not so, challenged EPIC.

“The WBI program was first implemented more than three years ago, yet the secretary has not issued any notice of the rule or accepted public comments. This court made clear … that it may order the secretary to take action in response to its order within a date certain, or else set aside the unlawful action.”

Just weeks ago, the director of information policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, launched a petition drive to force action.

The petition, which later was taken down by the White House, had sought to “require the Transportation Security Administration to follow the law.”

The security procedures being ramped up by the TSA have made headlines in recent months. An agent groped a member of Congress and another patted down a hysterical 4-year-old. Several passengers staged protests by stripping nude for their TSA security check.

A separate challenge to the use of the enhanced procedures also has been beaten back by a federal appeals court, based on a “secret” order from the TSA. It was Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. who cited the undisclosed document in rejecting a complaint from passengers and pilots that the TSA invaded their privacy and violated their rights by demanding pat-down inspections or full-body scans.

The government, insisting that the “secret” order contains “sensitive security information,” has refused to make public the document outlining the procedures, according to John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute.

Institute attorneys had argued that since the TSA “order” has remained “secret,” there has been no opportunity for the public to comment on it, and “passengers and pilots are not only being deprived of their Fourth Amendment rights, but also their due process right to a fair hearing on their challenge to the secret TSA policy.”

Whitehead said the ruling is a dark cloud.

“This ruling does not bode well for attempts to ensure transparency in government or efforts to safeguard Americans against virtual strip searches and other excessive groping of our bodies by government agents, especially when there’s no suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said.

“When civil liberties are tossed out the window – by government agents or by the courts – we all lose. No American should be forced to undergo a virtual strip search or be subjected to such excessive groping of the body as a matter of course in reporting to work or boarding an airplane when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing,” he said.

The fight over the invasive TSA procedures has been raging for several years. The government agency has implemented “enhanced” security screenings that present two options: an X-ray that is a virtual strip search of a passenger and a pat-down that critics have likened to sexual assault in public.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, earlier proposed a change in the law that would specify that screeners are “not immune from any U.S. law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person.”

“It means they are not above the laws the rest of us must obey,” he wrote at the time.

On the state level, Texas fell narrowly short of moving forward with a bill that would have required “probable cause” for agents to act against a passenger. While the plan was under consideration, the federal government threatened to close down air traffic to and from the state.

U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy asserted that federal agents must be allowed to touch people when and how they want.

“The proposed [Texas] legislation would make it unlawful for a federal agent such as a TSO to perform certain specified searches for the purpose of granting access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation,” he told Texans at the time. “That provision would thus criminalize searches that are required under federal regulations in order to ensure the safety of the American public.”

Perhaps among the most dramatic expressions of concern came from Miss USA Susie Castillo, who was reduced to tears by federal agents ensuring she was not a terrorist.

Castillo produced a viral video describing her experience at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

“I mean, she actually… touched my vagina,” Castillo said through her tears. “They’re making me … choose to either get molested … or go through this machine that’s completely unhealthy and dangerous. I don’t want to go through it, and here I am crying.”

In a commentary at the Tenth Amendment Center by Connor Boyack with Brian Roberts and Michael Boldin, the organization supported plans to address the traveling public’s concerns.

“Castillo isn’t the only person who would be protected under this Texas legislation. All other innocent travelers would likewise be shielded. That includes the six year old girl who made the headlines last month for being groped by a TSA agent (an action which the TSA defended as being alright since it ‘followed the current standard operating procedures’), as well as the eight-month-old infant subjected to a pat down while cradled in the arms of her mother.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/feds-anything-but-transparent-on-nude-scanners/

Subject:	Debtors' Prison Is Back -- and Just as Cruel as Ever - DailyFinance
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:11:58 -0600

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/30/debtors-prison-is-back-and-just-as-cruel-as-ever/

Debtors' Prison Is Back -- and Just as Cruel as Ever

By Ross Kenneth Urken

Posted 12:25PM 08/30/12 Posted under: Credit, Personal Finance, Debt

To most of us, "debtors' prison" sounds like an archaic institution, something straight out of a Dickens novel. But the idea of jailing people who can't pay what they owe is alive and well in 21st-century America.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, debt collectors in Missouri, Illinois, Alabama and other states are using a legal loophole to justify jailing poor citizens who legitimately cannot pay their debts.

Here's how clever payday lenders work the system in Missouri -- where, it should be noted, jailing someone for unpaid debts is illegal under the state constitution.

First, explains St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the creditor gets a judgment in civil court that a debtor hasn't paid a sum that he owes. Then, the debtor is summoned to court for an "examination": a review of their financial assets.

If the debtor fails to show up for the examination -- as often happens in such cases -- the creditor can ask for a "body attachment" -- essentially, a warrant for the debtor's arrest. At that point, the police can haul the debtor in and jail them until there's a court hearing, or until they pay the bond. No coincidence, the bond is usually set at the amount of the original debt. As the Dispatch notes:

"Debtors are sometimes summoned to court repeatedly, increasing chances that they'll miss a date and be arrested. Critics note that judges often set the debtor's release bond at the amount of the debt and turn the bond money over to the creditor -- essentially turning publicly financed police and court employees into private debt collectors for predatory lenders."

Standing Up for Those Who Can't Pay

The practice -- in addition to putting an additional squeeze on poor people -- turns courts and police into enforcers for private creditors, from payday lenders to health care providers. The situation prompted Illinois legislators in July to pass a bill "to protect vulnerable consumers from being hauled to jail over unpaid debts," in the words of state Attorney General Lisa Madigan. The Debtors' Rights Act of 2012 requires two "pay or appear" court notices to be sent to debtors before an arrest can be made, and also prevents creditors from calling for multiple examinations unless the debtor's financial state has significantly changed.

Many of the victims, Madigan noted at the time, were living on funds that are legally protected from being used for outstanding debt judgments, such as Social Security, unemployment insurance or veterans' benefits. In one case she cited, an Illinois court brought a "pay or appear" order against a mentally disabled man living on legally protected disability benefits of $690 a month. The man told the court of his circumstances but was still ordered to pay $100 a month or appear in court once a month for a three-year period.

"It is outrageous to think in this day and age that creditors are manipulating the courts, even threatening jail time, to extract whatever they could from people who could least afford to pay," Madigan said. "This law corrects that gross oversight and puts a stop to throwing people in jail for being poor while still allowing fair debt collection when people have the means to pay their debts."

Illinois notwithstanding, the modern-day debtors' prison probably isn't going away anytime soon given the current economic climate: More than a third of U.S. states allow borrowers who can't or won't pay their debts to be jailed.

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CIA Agent "NEVER watch television"!!

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Incredible thinker Alan Watt on the dangers of television "programming".
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SCOTUS to Review Eligibility Case Sept. 24th

Good grief!  Shouldn't this be making headlines somewhere instead of "buried" here?

from Devvy Kidd

SCOTUS to Review Eligibility Case Sept. 24th

08/16/2012

08/16/2012

The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date to review Liberty Legal Foundation’s petition of the Georgia eligibility case. On September 24th the Court will meet to discuss several petitions, including our Georgia eligibility petition.
 Please see http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/historical/temp/12-5.htm.

This is a relatively early date in the Court’s fall cycle for reviewing petitions. We are hoping that this is a sign that the Court has recognized that this issue must be resolved before the November election. Typically the Court announces its decisions regarding acceptance of petitions within a few days after such conferences. So, we should know whether the Court has accepted our petition before the end of September.

The Mr. Obama’s attorney waived his right to respond to our petition. This is not unusual. Often the Court will order opposing attorney to file a response after the opposing attorney has filed a waiver. This has not yet happened in our case.

Some have suggested that the Court’s failure to order the President to respond to LLF’s petition is a sign that the Court has already decided that it will deny our petition. Normally it is true that if the Court is interested in a case it will order the opposing side to file a response to the petition. However, because of the importance of this case it could be that the Court has decided to accept the case without needing to review a response from Mr. Obama. It is also possible that the Court has recognized that ordering a response could delay the case beyond the November election.

As we learned last June, it is very difficult to determine what the Supreme Court will do in any given situation. We are glad to know that we will have an answer before the end of next month.

"President" Tim Turner arrested on Grand Jury indictment

I WARNED and WARNED about Tim Turner.

Told folks what he was "selling" is bullshit.

Analyzed and picked apart the premises of the "Restore America" project.

Showed how what was being promoted was NOT the truth.

And George, you just sent around an email that was promoting the mixed up argument that the US government is a "corporation".

Maybe the US government is a corporation,

BUT the "proof" that is used for this argument is NOT proof, it is phrases that are taken OUT of CONTEXT. And instead of READING the entire document the phrase was taken from, you grown men just swallow the shit...hook, line and sinker.

Darrell, I even went to "one of the Republic meetings" with you, and NO ONE had a CLUE as to the TRUTH.

A federal GRAND JURY indicted Tim Turner.

link:  http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/September/12-tax-1126.html

..wait...I can here it now...the Grand Jury that indicted Turner was "de facto" and not "de jure"

and the stupid court case that no one (except me) actually read....is going to be used to call the Grand Jury "de facto"

Get REAL folks.

You can't believe the "sound bites" that are fed to you.

Before you throw your towel in with someone, or with some "cause" be a GROWN UP and research the crap they are feeding you.

TROY...you have been dancing with the devil in what you are doing. SAME SHIT as what Turner was pulling, just a different color.

I get to write this email and tell you, "I told you so."

I'm not there to play mama and babysit you guys.

There is some SERIOUS work that we all did together.

That work is jeopardized when you don't do your research and fall into these traps.

You will be remembered as a person that got suckered into:

Restore America

Dinar RV

Nesara

gold fringe on the flag--Admiralty Law

and the list goes on....and OUCH I just stepped on some toes, didn't I?

...Instead of being remembered as a person that stood by your neighbor who was in need, or

spoke before the legislature about our rights, or

helped another who had been abused by the corrupt courts.

Your credibility is destroyed when you align yourself with the "patriots for profit", the folks that have a really good story and a silver bullet.

And when YOUR credibility is destroyed, people shut their ears and will not listen, because you are "one of those kooks".

Jack Graham--You lumped me into the "crazy sovereign citizens group". Given the plethora of scam artists cheating people under the guise of "sovereign citizen education", I can understand your (albeit erroneous) position. And given how the "general public" is duped into these types of scams, I can understand your belief that "juries are stupid and only lawyers understand the law".

Everyone else--bringing this country out of the current chaos depends upon you. How you FIRST handle your relationships with people: your family, neighbors, even the grocery store clerk. Do those relationships abide with Natural Law? Are you personally the source of solutions or problems in your daily (even minute by minute) life? Take responsibility for YOUR part in personal conflicts. Until and unless you bring your own life into order, into peace--you are useless in bringing order back to this country.

Peace. Be well.

and use your cognitive reasoning

Nancy Lazaryan [nancylazaryan@yahoo.com]

Now Its Missing, Now Its Not

BREAKING NEWS: Now Its Missing, Now Its Not

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Tom Heneghan explosive intelligence briefings ALL patriot Americans MUST know, with sources inside American/European intelligence agencies and INTERPOL, reporting what is really going on behind the scenes of the corporate-controlled, fascist, extortion-friendly propaganda U.S. media's massive deceptions

Thursday September 20, 2012

Now Its Missing, Now Its Not

by Tom Heneghan, International Intelligence Expert

Central Bank of Iraq
source

UNITED States of America - It can now be reported that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has identified "misplaced" Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds that were some how parked in a secret Citibank-JP Morgan proprietary account at none other than the Central Bank of Iraq.

The IMF and European INTERPOL has frozen the account, which has ties to Marc Rich's Glencore Commodities aka trading accounts of the Israeli and Iranian diplomatic core.

P.S. It is now clear that the latest run up in risk asset markets in advance of the privately-owned Federal Reserve's decision to bail out crooked banks without any real stimulus was linked to helping trading interests at the Central Bank of Iraq.

P.P.S. At this hour, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he can not bomb a rock pile in Iran so as to make money on his own personal trading position.

In closing, the IMF continues to order massive asset redemption and repatriation plus real collateralization with immediate Protocol implementation.

Stay tuned for future intelligence briefings, in which we will further disclose the extensive radiation threat from the Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactor.

Radiation Rape & Ruin Of San Francisco

Anthony J Hilder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWbTMRzfpgA

BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN.

 BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN.

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BILL HAS DONE IT AGAIN. 'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk:  Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be...  And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.  And then I heard the father talk.  Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.  These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.  Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?  People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?  People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?  What part of Africa did this come from?? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ..... I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid. I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !  With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.  We have got to take the neighborhood back.  People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read.  We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.  Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.  We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.. We cannot blame the white people any longer.'  Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D. WELL SAID, BILL It's NOT about color...

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