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They're coming after our team

Dear friends,

The pressure on a few of my staff at Avaaz is reaching a breaking point: they've received death threats, had their computers and emails hacked, been threatened on television and radio, and one even had his car tampered with! Our campaigner Wissam was detained at the Cairo airport while delivering our call to stop Egypt's largest mass execution in recent history, taken into a windowless room and interrogated for hours -- drilled with chillingly well-informed questions about his personal life, travel, and work with Avaaz!

I've gotten threatening messages and hacks, but nothing compared to the threats these campaigners face. Let's stand behind these brave people who speak our community's truth to power.

The threats will get worse as we become larger and more effective, taking on some of the most entrenched and powerful players on the planet. That's why Avaaz needs to triple-reinforce our security systems, including legal counsel to stand ready for emergencies, media support to raise the alarm if people are threatened, better encryption, and the resources to move staff to a safe location when the pressure gets to be too much.

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The campaign we're running to Egypt right now -- opposing the mass execution of hundreds of people -- has been hugely powerful, reaching the highest levels of the government. Wissam had permission to enter Egypt and had a meeting scheduled with the Grand Mufti Allam, who has the moral power to stop the mass killings. This is why we came under attack -- Wissam says the two generals who interrogated him knew everything about Avaaz, our campaign, and his own life and travel. The government was clearly watching us closely.

And as soon as Wissam was sent home, news outlets around the world from the Washington Post to Al-Arabiya picked up the story immediately, putting more pressure on the Egyptian government to act to protect human rights.

But we know the threats will get worse as we get more effective. Our people-powered campaigning has taken on the world's worst actors directly, in ways that genuinely hurt them -- from the Syrian and Russian regimes to Rupert Murdoch, Big Oil, and organized crime. The Syrian dictatorship even called our campaigner 'the most dangerous man in the world'.

We're not backing down, and our team is focused on winning the campaign in Egypt -- but we also need to keep the team and the movement safe. That's why there was broad legal, media, and diplomatic pressure lined up in case Wissam wasn't freed in Cairo -- and I want to make sure we always have what we need to respond to emergencies like these. With all of our small pledges added up now, we can:

• Build industrial-scale security and hire top technologists, so that no attack can stop us from campaigning.
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With 35 million members, we’ve become the largest global civic movement of our kind ever, and our campaigns pose a real threat to brutal regimes and corrupt corporations. Two years ago, our website came under massive attack, threatening our ability to keep campaigning. Our community came together and donated to protect it and now our tech systems are reinforced and fully prepared for almost any kind of cyber-attack. But now they’re coming after a few of our staff. Let's prove that no matter what tactics they use, attacking our movement only makes us stronger.

With hope and gratitude,

Ricken and the Avaaz team


MORE INFORMATION:

Egypt: Stop the Mass Execution (Avaaz)
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_mass_execution_loc/?fr

Egypt deports man lobbying against mass death sentences (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/04/us-egypt-deported-idUSBREA330RY20140404

Egypt Bars Lebanese Man over Death Sentence Petition (Almanar)
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=144362&frid=21&seccatid=19&cid=21&fromval=1

Egypt bars Lebanese activist over death sentence petition (AlArabiya)
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/04/04/Egypt-bars-Lebanese-activist-over-death-sentence-petition-.html

Hundreds of Egyptians Sentenced to Death in Killing of a Police Officer (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/world/middleeast/529-egyptians-sentenced-to-death-in-killing-of-a-police-officer.html

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Foreigners Sell A Record Amount Of Treasurys Held By The Fed In Past Week

To: "V.K.Durham"
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 4:56:37 PM
Subject: Fwd: Foreigners Sell A Record Amount Of Treasurys Held By The Fed In Past Week

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/14/2014 10:51 -0400 inShare42 A month ago we reported that according to much delayed TIC data, China had just dumped the second-largest amount of US Treasurys in history. The problem, of course, with this data is that it is stale and very backward looking. For a much better, and up to date, indicator of what foreigners are doing with US Treasurys in near real time, the bond watchers keep track of a less known data series, called "Treasury Securities Held in Custody for Foreign Official and International Accounts" which as the name implies shows what foreigners are doing with their Treasury securities held in custody by the Fed on a weekly basis. So here it goes: in the just reported latest data, for the week ended March 12, Treasurys held in custody by the Fed dropped to $2.855 trillion: a drop of $104.5 billion. This was the biggest drop of Treasurys held by the Fed on record, i.e., foreigners were really busy selling. This brings the total Treasury holdings in custody at the Fed to levels not seen since December 2012, a period during which the Fed alone has monetized well over $1 trillion in US paper. So is this the proverbial beginning of foreign dumping of US paper? Could Russia simply have designated a different custodian of its holdings? No, because as of most recently it owned $139 billion in US paper, or well above the number "sold" and a custodial reallocation would mean all holdings are moved, not just a portion. For another view, here is what the bond experts at Stone McCarthy had to say: We don't have a ready explanation for the plunge in custody account holdings. One thing that is striking about the drop is that the last several days was not a period of heavy market buzz about "central bank selling" of Treasuries, at least to the best of our knowledge. China and Japan are by far the largest holders of Treasuries, with holdings of $1.269 trillion and $1.183 trillion in holdings at the end of December, respectively. China's holdings are more skewed to central bank holdings. Selling of Treasuries would appear to be at odds with China's recent effort to depreciate its currency, although on March 5 and 6 there was a brief correction in that trend. As for the timing: ... the Wednesday-to-Wednesday decline was much larger than the weekly average decline in Treasury holdings of $46.6 billion. That implies that the plunge in Treasuries occurred later in week rather than earlier. Some further thoughts from SocGen: Weekly data from the Fed for US Treasury securities held in custody on behalf of foreign institutions and central banks fell sharply over the past week and may offer a plausible explanation as to why the USD has been offered pretty much all week against its major counterparts. EUR/USD in particular has stayed strongly bid since last week’s council meeting (to the bemusement of the ECB) and touched a high of 1.3967 yesterday before easing back after the exchange rate comments from president Draghi. The reduced appetite for USTs and strong demand for EUR debt and equity securities underlines the difficulties the ECB is encountering to stop the strong EUR from reducing inflation expectations in the euro area. Foreign holdings of US government securities held at the Fed dropped by a whopping $104.5bn in the week to Wednesday 12 March according to the data published overnight (see chart below). This marks the biggest single weekly fall on record and compares with just a $13.5bn drop the previous week and a 4-week average fall of $1.5bn. The previous largest fall came in mid-2013 (26 June, a week after the FOMC meeting) when holdings fell by $32.4bn. The selling over the last week coincides with the latest US employment statistics, a run of weak data from China and the escalation of the situation in Crimea and Ukraine. Russia has threatened to respond with sanctions of its own should economic measures be imposed by the EU and the US after the referendum in Crimea this weekend. Russia currently holds $138.6bn of USTs (based on December data) and the country has been a net seller for a combined $11.3bn of USTs over the last two months for when data is available. China sold $47.8bn alone in December. The latest Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for January are only due next week so we won’t find out officially until May how much Russia’s US government debt holdings dropped in March. So either China selling TSYs and buying EURs to make European import power stronger, if not so much its exports (much to Draghi's ongoing horror). Or Russia, which may be dumping USTs to support the ruble... Or dumping just because. Visit stage3alpha at: http://s3alpha.net/?xg_source=msg_mes_network PROBABLY A "REVERSE MONEY LAUNDERING" FORCING THE FED BUYING BACK DUE TO "BOGUS DERIVATIVES" Former US Treasury Asst Sec'y Paul Craig Roberts spills beans on Federal Reserve's Belgium money laundering operation to hide weakness of dollar from Americans: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/13/the-federal-reserve-and-an-unsustainable-empire/

TNT

TNT:

omegaman: May 17, 2014 at 2:38pm I have confirmation from my platform...rates to go live on FOREX sunday night...

Kaper:  a platform is used in trading - could be stocks, forex, options etc.. trading platforms are very common- optionexpress, metatrader, etrade etc

mndin:  reports from 4 people that we should see it on forex by sun or mon

Lizardlips:   Actually my friend whom got me into this, his friend that works in the UST told him Wednesday that the Rv would be the thrid week of May... we shall see

NewCreation:  Friend of my trades, said lots going on should be Monday morn....thought it was going this am...not sure how high his rank is...