American Teen Gets 11 Year Sentence For Pro-ISIS Tweets That Taught People How To Use Bitcoin

American Teen Gets 11 Year Sentence For Pro-ISIS Tweets That Taught People How To Use Bitcoin

Tweeting about Bitcoin and saying that ISIS needs a website is a crime?

by Mike Masnick | Techdirt | August 31, 2015

Earlier this summer, the DOJ proudly announced that a Virginia teenager, Ali Shukri Amin, had taken a plea deal for “providing material support to ISIL” (the terrorist organization that everyone outside of the US government calls ISIS). This is back in the news now that Amin has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Let’s get this out of the way: ISIS is clearly a horrific and dangerous organization. But does what Amin did really deserve 11 years in prison? The details of the case against him also seem to raise some serious First Amendment questions about what counts as “material support.”

First: the one area where Amin’s actions do seem fairly questionable are when he helped another Virginia teen travel to Syria, apparently to join ISIS. That part definitely seems like it stepped over the legal line. But, the rest of the charges against him seem… like a teenager using Twitter and other social media to discuss stuff he’s interested in. Amin ran a Twitter account called @AmreekiWitness, which had about 4,000 followers. He tweeted pro-ISIS propaganda, but that still seems to be a form of protected speech, last I checked. And, his big “crime” appears to be linking to an article about why ISIS supporters should use Bitcoin.

The following are examples of the defendant’s use of Twitter in furtherance of his conspiracy to provide material support to ISIL:

On or about July 7, 2014, using the @AmreekiWitness account, the defendant tweeted a link to an article he authored entitled “Bitcoin wa’ Sadaqat al-Jihad” (Bitcoin and the Charity of Jihad). The link transferred the user to the defendant’s blog, where the article was posted. The article discussed how to use bitcoins and how jihadists could utilize this currency to fund their efforts. The article explained what bitcoins were, how the bitcoin system worked and suggested using Dark Wallet, a new bitcoin wallet, which keeps the user of bitcoins anonymous. The article included statements on how to set up an anonymous donations system to send money, using bitcoin, to the mujahedeen.
On approximately August 1, 2014, the defendant showed support for ISIL and his desire to help garner financial support for those wanting to commit jihad. Through @AmreekiWitness the defendant discussed methods to provide financial support for those wanting to commit jihad and for those individuals trying to travel overseas.
On approximately August 19, 2014, the defendant showed support for ISIL and desire to support ISIL. The defendant tweeted that the khilafah needed an official website “ASAP,” and that ISIL could not continue to release media “in the wild” or use “JustPaste.” Through various tweets, the defendant provided information on how to prevent the website from being taken down, by adding security and defenses, and he solicited others via Twitter to assist on the development of the website.

The defendant also operated an Amreeki Witness page on the website ask.fm. The defendant used these accounts extensively as a platform to proselytize his radical Islamic ideology, justify and defend ISIL’s violent practices, and to provide advice on topics such as jihadists travel to fight with ISIL, online security measures, and about how to use Bitcoin to finance themselves without creating evidence of crime, among other matters.
The defendant also created the pro-ISIL blog entitled, “Al-Khilafah Aridat.” On this blog, the defendant authored a series of highly-technical articles targeted at aspiring jihadists and ISIL supporters detailing the use of security measures in online communications to include use of encryption and anonymity software, tools and techniques, as well as the use of the virtual currency Bitcoin as a means to anonymously fund ISIL.

Tweeting about Bitcoin and saying that ISIS needs a website is a crime? One that deserves over a decade in jail? Obviously, aiding ISIS in any way is incredibly stupid, but it seems like a pretty slippery slope to argue that teaching people how to use Bitcoin or saying that ISIS needs a website rises to the level of “material support for ISIS” by itself. It seems like such a definition could lead to many, many people at risk. If you disagree with US policy for dealing with ISIS and say so — at what point does it cross over the line? It seems way too easy to twist this into criminalizing dissent, rather than actually supporting a designated terrorist organization.

I’m all for coming up with ways to stop the spread of ISIS, and to prevent further attacks by the group. But jailing an American teenager over his tweets seems… excessive. 

http://www.infowars.com/american-teen-gets-11-year-sentence-for-pro-isis-tweets-that-taught-people-how-to-use-bitcoin/

 

Tumultuous August ends with Dow decline

Tumultuous August ends with Dow decline

Biggest monthly loss on Wall Street since 2010

 

Published: 5 mins ago

Jerome R. Corsi

 

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks were down again Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 114.98 points to close at 16,528.03 as a wild month of trading on Wall Street, dominated by fears over China, came to an end. The Dow suffered a monthly loss of about 6.6 percent, the largest loss since May 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported at the close of trading Monday.

The roller-coaster ride in August rekindled investor fears that the economy at the end of the Obama administration is about enter a recession even deeper than the financial crisis of 2008, when Obama entered office.
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With the Dow dropping as much as 1,000 points in a few opening hours of trading, “mom and pop” investors have pulled out of mutual funds in droves.
As WND reported Friday, Credit Suisse has found important evidence that middle America is leaving both the stock market and the bond market in numbers that have not been seen since 2008.
Household investors, who constitute 90 percent of U.S. mutual fund investors, pulled billions out of both stock mutual funds and bond mutual funds for two months in a row, first in July and now again in August. It’s a phenomenon not seen since the fourth quarter of 2008, when the global economy entered a prolonged worldwide recession.
Bloomberg Business reported last week that Credit Suisse’s estimate was correct: In July, $6.5 billion left equity mutual funds, while $8.4 billion was pulled from bond funds.
Investment Company Institute data suggest the mutual fund withdrawals continued through the first three weeks of August, when investors withdrew yet another $1.6 billion from stock funds and $8.1 billion from bond funds.
China leading global stocks downward
August 2015 seems destined to go down in financial history as the month in which China’s stock market led global stock markets into a steep downward correction, wiping out trillions of dollars in investors’ capital across the globe.
China’s Shanghai Composite index traded down 12.5 percent in August, marking its third straight month of declines. After trading above 5,000 as recently as June 15, it dipped down to 3,000 last week.
The Shanghai Composite Index suffered its own “Black Monday” Aug. 24, when the index dropped 8.5 percent, its worst single-day loss in more than eight years.
The Wall Street Journal estimated that China’s “gang of bailout entities” known as the “national team,” consisting of banks, brokers, pension funds and government agencies, spent 900 billion yuan ($141 billion) in August buying falling Chinese stocks to stabilize the market. Meanwhile, the government sold more than $100 billion of U.S. Treasuries in an attempt to boost the value of the yuan.
When state-owned “private enterprises” in China are added to the “national team” that has been forced to buy Chinese stocks at high values in a sinking market, as much as 3.5 trillion yuan ($548 billion) may end up being pumped into the Chinese stock market, with no assurance the downward correction can be stopped.
Losses on those stock purchases could end up being 40 to 60 percent of the initial purchase price. Some $3.5 trillion yuan ($548 billion) of stock purchased at top price could fall in only a few weeks to between 2.1 trillion yuan ($329 billion) and 1.4 trillion yuan ($219 billion).
Daniel Altman, senior editor of economics for Foreign Policy magazine, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business explained how China’s stock market became yet another financial bubble phenomenon.
“Because rates in China’s regular banking industry are heavily regulated, banks have been offering high-yield alternatives to regular deposits,” Altman wrote.
He described “shadow banking” as a leveraging phenomenon that allowed average Chinese workers to buy stocks at high margins, simply by investing in high-yield speculative alternatives offered by brokers to compete with regular, low-yielding bank deposits.
“By promising high fixed returns, they attracted billions of dollars from Chinese savers, and much of this money went into the stock markets,” Altman continued. “But in the process, the banks created a huge amount of leverage that has made the post-bubble markets uncontrollable.”
For his article in the current edition of Foreign Policy, Altman interviewed Viral Acharya, his colleague at the Stern School of Business, who estimates the consequences of the meltdown in the Chinese stock market may end up being as severe as the collapse of mortgage backed securities in the United States at the end of George W. Bush’s second term.
“Shadow banking in China has grown tremendously in dollar terms, to more than $2 trillion,” Acharya explained. “It is made up of attempts by regulated banks to issue deposit-like products – but not actual deposits – and offer higher interest rates to investors, given that deposit rates are regulated and suppressed.”
The end result, Acharya explained, was that the Chinese began gambling in the stock market, with institutional buyers acquiring the more risky components of structured securities backed by buying speculative stocks that produced high-yields only while the bubble continued growing.
Altman estimates the Chinese stock market will collapse another 35 percent before the leverage added by “shadow banking” gambling with high-yield speculative Chinese stocks comes to an end.

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Drone Operator Admits He Was Ordered To Kill Countless Innocent Civilians, Including Children

Drone Operator Admits He Was Ordered To Kill Countless Innocent Civilians, Including Children

August 31, 2015 in News by RBN

Political Blindspot | M. B. David


After six years in the U.S. Air Force, a former drone operator has started opening up about the psychological toll of killing large numbers of innocent people.

 Brandon Bryant, 27, from Missoula, Montana, killed scores of innocents – by his own admission – simply by pressing a button from a control room in New Mexico.

Bryant couldn’t take any more after following orders to shoot and kill a child in Afghanistan. He knew that following the orders was wrong, but the very fact that he had been ordered to murder people who it was clear to all were innocent, told him that he was fighting for some very bad people.

 “I saw men, women and children die during that time,” he said in an interview with Spiegel Online. “I never thought I would kill that many people. In fact, I thought I couldn’t kill anyone at all.”

 Bryant joined the military when he was told that he could go to college for “free” if he enlisted. It was shortly thereafter that he found himself shooting innocent people by remote.

The very first time he fired a drone missile, Bryant killed two men instantly and cried all the way home.
“I felt disconnected from humanity for almost a week,” he explained.
“I saw men, women and children die.”
“These moments are like in slow motion,” he said further.
After seeing a flash on the screen – an explosion – and a building collapsing on a child right next to it, he had a sick feeling in his stomach.
“Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the drone operator who was sitting next to him.
“Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the more seasoned operator coldly replied.
Now, he says, he “can’t just switch and go back to normal life.”
Bryant has left the military and is living back at home in Montana, and has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
(Article by M.B. David)

http://republicbroadcasting.org/drone-operator-admits-he-was-ordered-to-kill-countless-innocent-civilians-including-children/ 
 

Cybercriminals Beware, Cyberpol has arrived

Cybercriminals Beware, Cyberpol has arrived

By World News Tommorrow on August 30, 2015

 

ECIPS PRESS RELEASE Friday, August 21, 2015 No of Pages 2 CYBERCRIMINALS BEWARE: CYBERPOL HAS ARRIVED!
World News: The European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) recently approved by Statutory Royal Decree has received the final approval from the Belgian government to proceed with the International Cyber Policing Organization abbreviated CYBERPOL as the international cyber policing organization.
The agreed Head Quarters of the new CYBERPOL is to be located according to Article 1 of the Decree, in Antwerp, Belgium to remain the main location within the European Union. The ECIPS who was the international organizational initiation body of the CYBERPOL program and legally acquired IPO during 2014 together with its seniority rights have been the main driving force behind the CYBERPOL program.
This secured the position of the CYBERPOL institution located and indefinitely will be hosted within the European Union. This was made possible with the support of ECIPS and several other international law-enforcement agencies with an extensive lobbying process during the last few years.
ECIPS was established in office by Statutory Royal Decree No WL22/16.594 on the 14th of June 2015 in terms of the Act of 27th June on the International Organisations and Foundations, Articles 46 and 50, 1, respectively modified by Article 282 and 284 of the program act of 2007 December 2004 in conformity of the purpose with Article 46 of the aforementioned law Brussels, by King Fillip of Belgium and the Minister of Justice under Article 2 of the Order, the minister who has Justice in assignments is responsible for the execution of the present Statutory Royal Decree of both ECIPS and CYBERPOL Statutory Royal Decree.
Cyber criminals should be aware that their days might be counted for good and that CYBERPOL has become a reality, it has arrived and CYPERPOL is here officially. It is predicted that the CYBERPOL Agency could outlast most other international agencies due to its futuristic name and its Statutory Royal Decree that makes it impossible for the International Policing Organization to be dismantled by any outsiders or political influences.
The official elected President of ECIPS, Mr. Ricardo Baretzky, also the current elected interim President of CYBERPOL, said that cyber criminals should know that their future is short and amnesty won’t count in the new laws to come proposed by the European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS).
He pointed out that several organizations presently using the name of CYBERPOL illegally and those who do, should know that it will have dire consequences in the future when involved in the illegal use of the CYBERPOL IPO name.
Several critics from the CYBER Law-enforcement welcomed the decision by the Justice Department and said that this is a step in the right direction to fight international cyber crime. The International crime figures shows that more than 53% of all internet transactions could be involved in some kind of cyber crime and that computer hacking is on the sharp rise since 2014. The President would not comment much and said that everybody has to wait for the official public press conference scheduled in late November 2015 to be held in Brussels, Belgium.
Baretzky urged all law-enforcement agencies to work together and said during his short interview with Media: “Dear Colleagues, Law-enforcement officers and cyber crime investigative units. We have waited long for this day to arrive and now is the time to proceed with a proper international coordinated cyber crime prevention programs to clean up the web, as fast and swiftly as possible before the quantum age arrive, already at our doorstep.”
Certainly a wake-up call for cyber criminals. The CYBERPOL website has been constantly subjected to cyber attacks since last month with an average of 240 000 cyber attacks per day logged onto the website. The CYBERPOL CIB Cyber Crime Unit said that even should the CYBERPOL website be hacked no harm can be done since the website is not linked to any data in any form. The official new CYBERPOL.INT website is expected to go live during next month.
Both Decree’s approved copies can be found on CYBERPOL DECREE LINK: http://cyberpol.org/cyberpol-cyber-police_003.htm and ECIPS DECREE LINK: http://ecips.eu/european_centre_for_information_policy_and_security_033.htm
By James Lee IFJ federation journalist correspondent for ECIPS.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/30/cybercriminals-beware-cyberpol-has-arrived/

To: Money history (real money that is) you never knew because it is so well hidden!

To: Money history (real money that is) you never knew because it is so well hidden!

Posted By: sonofthewind
Date: Monday, 31-Aug-2015 13:07:04

Everywhere you look, there is a “genuine” and there is a “counterfeit”! History, medicine, law, religion, economy, science, energy, foods and even entertainment. They all have counterfeits and the list is endless.
Everywhere you look, there are “hosts” and there a “parasites”! I'm sure it is not hard for you to make up this list.

This is several years old data but in Germany, every day there were 1.1 billion Marks were spent on interest. To whose interest was/is this spent, you ask? One thing is certain. Not to the German people but by the German people.

It is most likely - because of diligent and thorow cover up - you never heard of “Silvio Gesell”. Especially if you are English speaking individual.

Silvio Gesell was a German born economist who lived not that long ago and came up with an economic system “free money” for everybody that almost changed the course of the entire human race for the better.

However, the tragic and painful fact is that the Gesellian economic form was successfully suppressed and almost completely eliminated from the face of the Earth by the Marxists of those days and today. You know who the Marxists are! Those who make you believe they are Jews but they are not. These are not my words, by the way! I had to be shown about this great deception.

If the Gesellian economic form would have been taken over the whole Earth, we all would live in paradise now. The never sleeping Marxists won by their devious, cunning tactics and mankind was given poverty not paradise by them. Poverty is one of the fruits of Marxism and the good natured but ignorant population of the day swallowed hook, line and sinker of this repulsive, despicable, unequal, brute counterfeit system that is so close to the genuine.

The Marxist and Gesell economic forms are like two railroad tracks running side by side. At least for a while that is, but by the time you realize you are on the wrong track....it is too late. One is genuine (Gesell) the other is counterfeit (Marxist). You also have to realize, that a “good” counterfeit is very close to the original and almost impossible to tell the difference. Sort of like Tungsten gold, if you remember.

Oh, by the way, there was a reason why big Karl (Marx that is) never mentioned banking in his famous work “Das Capital”. He talked about everything under God's heaven EXCEPT banking. Not even the non-hidden, open form of banking!

At the moment, you are under a Marxist style monetary system, where you work FOR money. Because of this crime, money became your master (your god) and consequently, you became its slave.

Are you promoting and spreading the “gold standard” or some other kind of economic “reforms” other than “free money”?
If you do, you don't know what you are doing and your useless rulers love you for it!
How about you, K Hudes?
Aren't you a “whistle blower”?
How could you be a “whistle blower” about corruption when the ENTIRE money system is corrupt and counterfeit?
Is there another possibility about your “whistle blowing”?
Are you promoting the “gold standard”, the return of gold or “free money” for EVERYBODY?
What about the other “whistle blowers”?
What are you promoting?
Another version of the same old stinky status quo monetary system or “free money” for everybody?
Are you a traitor or benefactor of humanity?

Anybody who promotes other economic standards than the Gesellian “free money” for everybody, is either willingly or unwillingly ignorant and works for the demise, destruction of the entire human race, which is almost accomplished already by the Marxists. A parasite doesn't care if the host dies.

Money supposed to be given to everybody for FREE! I'm talking about the genuine money, not the counterfeit money that flooded the entire Earth.

You find some interesting video clips here about Silvio Gesell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdPIOUTd2k

https://www.youtube.com/user/spiritoftruth123/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd

Rest assured readers! This topic about history and the hidden sides of banking are very dangereous and suppressed topics. It will attract more status quo agent's attention than any other topic. Save it, put it away, copy it, print it, give it to people so they'll know what is really going on in the banking field. Of course, what you read here is only a tiny portion of the banking scam you are victim of.

And yes, don't forget to curse everyone of those, their familes and family members who force their wills and volitions on you directly or indirectly by any means without your full, explicit and open consent.

In other words, don't let the "buck" stop at you because it will hurt if you let it stop. Pass it back to the sender where it came from! The meaning, the principle and purpose of chain letters are screeming to your face and tell you what to do but you think it is nonsense. Every contract (nothing happens without contract) MUST be advertised. It makes no difference where or how! As an example, the Fuggers advertised their contract with Martin Luther on the plaque that is still hanging on the wall of their family home.

Of course, don't forget! You read about these matters here in Rumormill. As its name indicates, there are only rumors here.  

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=26480 

10-year-old Girl Expelled after Trimming Violin Strings with Pocket Knife

10-year-old Girl Expelled after Trimming Violin Strings with Pocket Knife

School officials contend the tiny knife the girl brought to a May school orchestra concert violated the state’s Safe Schools Act

by Victor Skinner | EAG News.org | August 31, 2015

Parents of a 10-year-old student in Pennsylvania are suing their daughter’s former private school after officials expelled the girl for carrying a 1 ¼ inch blade to an orchestra concert to trim her violin strings.
Brian and Jennifer Cunkelman received a letter this summer informing them that their daughter is no longer welcome at the Valley School of Ligonier she attended last year. School officials contend the tiny knife the girl brought to a May school orchestra concert violated the state’s Safe Schools Act, which imposes a zero-tolerance policy on students who bring “weapons” to school, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.
The private school allowed Abbigail Cunkelman to finish the school year, but the Cunkelmans argue in court records that the nonsensical expulsion left a “defamatory stigma” in her record that continues to cause issues with enrolling in the Blairsville-Saltsburg School District, according to CBS Pittsburgh.
It’s unclear whether Cunkelman was denied enrollment, or how exactly the May incident impacted her enrollment in the Blairsville-Saltsburg school district.
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No Paychecks After Cashless Society “Glitch”

No Paychecks After Cashless Society “Glitch”

Do you really want gov't to control how you spend your money?

by Infowars Nightly News | August 31, 2015

If you want to know what the abolition of cash looks like, just ask those who haven’t been able to access their accounts due to notorious banks suffering an “IT glitch.”

http://www.infowars.com/no-paychecks-after-cashless-society-glitch/

Rogue Terrorism for a Greater Israel

Rogue Terrorism for a Greater Israel

Posted By: BATR
Date: Monday, 31-Aug-2015 06:36:13

Most peoples that resist the power politics of Zionism condemn aggressive actions of the outlaw Israeli state regularly. Yet most of the western democracies that are under the control of Talmud media and Khazar finance continue to defend the apartheid policies that are designed to purge any prospect of Palestinian, right to return, to the land of their forced removal. No matter what your politics are regarding the Middle East, the indisputable fact exists that the Greater Israel design for expanded territory is a core impediment of this interminable conflict.

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Malaysia's ex-PM calls for 'people power' mass protests to topple govt [PHOTO]

Malaysia's ex-PM calls for 'people power' mass protests to topple govt [PHOTO]

Posted By: NaturalWisdom
Date: Monday, 31-Aug-2015 01:18:34

Malaysia's ex-PM calls for 'people power' mass protests to topple govt
RT
Aug 30, 2015
http://on.rt.com/6q5e

[snip]

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad called for the current prime minister to be ousted in a speech to tens of thousands of people, who have gathered for a second day of anti-government protests in Kuala Lumpur.

The protesters want PM Najib Razak to resign over a financial scandal.

"The only way for the people to get back to the old system is for them to remove this prime minister," Mahathir told media before going to the protests in downtown Kuala Lumpur.

  

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KUNG FU LASSIE

KUNG FU LASSIE

Federal Appeals Judges Overturn Blocking of NSA Mass Telephone Spying

(So are the NSA collation actions considered Classified Material, and therefore all information can be collected, but We The People are not allowed to prove it?)

 

Federal Appeals Judges Overturn Blocking of NSA Mass Telephone Spying 

Law allowing the call collection had been ruled unconstitutional in 2013

by Steve Straehley | AllGov | August 31, 2015 

A panel of three appeals court judges—all appointed by Republican presidents—found a way Friday to allow the National Security Agency’s spying on Americans’ telephone conversations to continue.
The panel ruled (pdf) unanimously that the plaintiffs, led by conservative activist Larry Klayman, couldn’t prove their calls had been swept up because their calls were handled by Verizon Wireless, not Verizon Business, which had previously been found to have turned over calling data to the National Security Agency (NSA). This ruling came despite government documents released earlier this month that showed the NSA had also swept up Verizon Wireless data.
Judges Janice Rogers Brown, appointed by George W. Bush, and Stephen Williams and David Sentelle, both appointed by Ronald Reagan, sent the case back to the trial court, forcing the plaintiffs to try to prove their specific records had been obtained by the NSA.
“The court declined to consider the critically important questions of whether the U.S. Constitution allows the government to secretly shift from targeted to mass surveillance of the telephone calls (and associations) of Americans,” Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote. “….Instead, it endorsed the government’s argument that no public, adversarial court can review its actions unless those seeking review can prove with some certainty that they were one of the millions whose records were collected.”
Although the law allowing the call collection had been ruled unconstitutional in 2013, the injunction the trial court issued had been stayed to allow the government to appeal the ruling. So, the ruling Friday will merely allow the status quo to continue.
The law being challenged will be supplanted on November 29 by provisions of the USA Freedom Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 2.

http://www.infowars.com/federal-appeals-judges-overturn-blocking-of-nsa-mass-telephone-spying/ 

"Iran Has Been Giving North Korea Money And North Korea Has Been Transferring Missile And Nuclear Technology To Iran."

(Is this really True for which North Korea can kill their own Christians and have their own Nuclear weapons when they have no major oil to go after, Yet Iran has loads of oil, so they are a threat to know how to have a Nuclear Power Plant?)

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"Iran Has Been Giving North Korea Money And North Korea Has Been Transferring Missile And Nuclear Technology To Iran." -Gary Bauer        Republican elites in Congress want to hold a vote on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (we call it the Corker Betrayal), legislation that will give the terrorist regime of Iran nuclear weapons... and Republican elites in Congress want to hold that vote even though the Corker betrayal EXPRESSLY PROHIBITS non-compliance and secret side deals.        So... why would Congress vote to enact legislation in spite of the fact that the mullahs of Iran and Barack Obama have already VIOLATED IT?        They're doing it because they believe that you're stupid. Sadly, some of them could care less whether Iran obtains nuclear weapons. But at the same time they want to puff and pontificate and tell you that they voted against it.        Fortunately, there is a way to stop this raw deal with Iran. It's time to disabuse our elected officials of the ridiculous notion that you're stupid... right here and right now. Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the United States Senate. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every of the United States Senate. That's 100 Blast Faxes. Send My Blast Faxes The Corker Betrayal Is Now Moot. Iran Has Violated It. Barack Obama Has Violated It. So What Is Stopping The Senate From Jettisoning It And Telling Obama NO?        Some will say that spineless Republicans, led by Senator Bob Corker, voted to effectively suspend Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution back in May.        Instead of following the Constitution and requiring that a 2/3rds vote of the United States Senate would be needed to ratify this treaty, the "Corker Betrayal" turned the Constitution on its head and effectively required that it would now take a 2/3rds majority of both Houses of Congress to nix the treaty.        And so, you might be asking... what can be done to stop Barack Obama now that feckless Republicans have ceded their Constitutional authority?        Well... there's even more to this story, so fasten your seat belt... because the details on how this con game works will disgust you...        Under the Corker Betrayal, Iran's ballistic missile and conventional military weapons programs were NEVER supposed to be part of the deal.        Andrew McCarthy, writing for National Review explains what is really going on: "Congress and the public were led to believe that the administration was negotiating to deprive Iran of nuclear capabilities. The president, in stark contrast, has struck an agreement that obliges the United States and other nations to build up Iran's nuclear capabilities. That is not just outside the scope of what Obama led Congress to believe he was doing; it is the opposite of what he said he was doing -- and patently unacceptable."        You read that right... Obama has already violated the terms of the Corker Betrayal... that means that the Corker Betrayal is now moot and every Member of Congress knows it... even though many of them are simply hoping that you won't catch on to this little game of bait-and-switch.        And now that Barack Obama and Iran have violated the terms of the Corker Betrayal, Congress has the right and the duty to jettison it and tell Barack Obama to go pound sand. Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the United States Senate. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every of the United States Senate. That's 100 Blast Faxes. Send My Blast Faxes What Did Republicans In Congress Know And When Did They Know It?        McCarthy goes on to say: "That is not what Iran and the Obama administration led the American people and its elected representatives to believe they were negotiating. Indeed, Iran has claimed all along -- implausibly but assiduously -- that its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful and have nothing to do with weaponizing uranium and plutonium.... It was over the nuclear program alone that the administration told Congress it was negotiating; that is why the statutory sanctions against that program are the narrow subject of the Corker Bill."        Yes, Obama and the mullahs of Iran pulled a bait-and-switch on Congress... But for all we know, some Members of Congress were well aware that a bait-and-switch was unfolding and willingly went along with it. But even if that is not the case, shame on Corker and stupid Republicans for allowing themselves to be snookered in the first place, and shame on them if they choose to continue the charade.        What matters now is that the deception is out in the open. That being the case, McCarthy also explains what must happen next: "If you scrutinize President Obama's Iran nuclear deal, you find that [Obama] ignores the existence of the Corker process. So should Congress... The Congress, particularly the Senate, has not only a clear justification but a constitutional duty to scrap the legally defective and, now, factually nigh-irrelevant Corker review process, codified as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015."        Game... set... and match...        But that's not all... after pulling the wool over the eyes of our elected officials who were all too willingly fooled, Barack Obama unveiled his double-cross by announcing that he was taking his treaty to the United Nations BEFORE Congress even has the opportunity to vote in accordance with the now moot Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.        And such dictatorial sleight-of-hand should not go unanswered. The steps our elected officials must now take should be apparent. The Obama bait-and-switch and the ensuing double-cross must not be allowed to stand, but whether or not they find the backbone to do what must be done is now in your hands. Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every Republican Member of the United States Senate. Or alternatively, send your urgent Blast Faxes to each and every of the United States Senate. That's 100 Blast Faxes. Send My Blast Faxes More Obama Lies...        You already know why this Obama-Iran Raw Deal is a nightmare. As Frank Gaffney, the Former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, put it: "The notion that we can safely negotiate with an Islamic supremacist and jihadist nation such as Iran is ludicrous on its face. Yet that's exactly what our reckless Commander-in-Chief has done."        Why were we negotiating in the first place? Perhaps concealing the answer to that question is why Obama has lied throughout the entire process and continues to lie. Here are some of the bigger Obama whoppers:        "Today... We Have Stopped The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons In This Region." That's a blatant lie. Even if Iran does not renege on the deal (and they will), the deal still gives Iran a clear pathway to obtain nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future. Moreover, Obama has actually ensured that an arms race in the Middle East will now escalate. As former UN ambassador John Bolton put it: "We have given Iran the path it has been seeking for almost 35 years. The other states in the region are not going to sit idly by, which is why in effect the nuclear arms race is already underway."        "Inspectors Will Also Be Able To Access Any Suspicious Location... Where Necessary, When Necessary." That's another lie. According to this faux arms treaty, there is a potential window of up to 24 days from the time when a request is made to visit a suspicious location to the time when the visit may actually occur. Of course, such a window would give Iran more than enough time to conceal any violations of the deal. Also, an "independent commission" will be empowered to review all requests and the provisions of the so-called "deal" also allow Iran to contest the request and even reject it outright.        "If Iran Violates The Deal, All Of [The] Sanctions Will Snap Back Into Place." Yet another lie. More than being false, this Obama fabrication is probably the most fanciful, as "snapping back" any sanctions is tantamount to closing the barn door after the horses have fled. The United States is required to release $150 Billion dollars in frozen assets to Iran immediately. If Iran breaks the deal, how is the United States going to get those frozen assets back from Iran? Answer: It's impossible. Moreover as ForeignPolicy.com reports: "The phrase 'snap back' is vivid, and conveys precisely the sort of rapid, alert, and decisive action skeptical hawks have been demanding... But if sanctions really do 'snap back' as promised, it would be an unprecedented episode of economic diplomacy."        There are more lies, but you get the picture. The question that sane Americans should be asking is why did the Obama Regime tell so many lies and engage in so many bait-and-switches to enable the world's greatest sponsor of global terrorism to obtain nuclear weapons?        Another question we should be asking is why are some of our Republican elected officials ... men and women who pledged to stop the radical Obama agenda ... enabling this disgusting kabuki charade as they pretend to oppose it?        We'll allow you to answer those questions yourself, but one thing is clear: The Corker Betrayal is now moot and as Andrew McCarthy says, Congress "has not only a clear justification but a constitutional duty to scrap the legally defective and, now, factually nigh-irrelevant Corker review process, codified as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015."        It's time for Congress to scrap the Corker Betrayal and simply tell Barack Obama NO! 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The coming deflation could destroy America

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 by John Myers

 

 

 

“I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The Depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the Depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be far, far worse. We don’t do this now; we won’t have an economy on Monday.” — Ben Bernanke, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti in the 2011 TV movie “Too Big to Fail” 

For weeks, I’ve been telling Personal Liberty® readers that there are no aliens from Mexico or anywhere else in the galaxy and that neither ISIS nor even the evil governments of Iran, Russia and North Korea are the biggest threats to the United States. 

The enemy that has cloaked itself so well and is the real threat to the nation is the federal government of the United States.

The federal government has piled up $18 trillion in debt. It’s acted recklessly with its Orwellian powers over Americans to play its shell game of calling out urgently for some false interdiction. The wars on drugs, terror and poverty have all fit the bill to some extent. But the real threat reared its ugly head last week and in the first hours of trading on Monday.

Over six trading days, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1,600 points. If you think this is a case of justice against fat cat investors, you are woefully mistaken. I understand this because I have been through the bear markets of 1982, 1987, 1989 and the granddaddy in my lifetime, the stock market crash of 2008. In every case, the crunch on equities came months after a continual erosion of global commodity prices. 

According to the CRB Commodity Index, commodity prices have fallen by a third in the past year. None have been more devastating than crude oil, which has fallen from more than $100 per barrel 14 months ago to its current price this week of less than $40 per barrel.

The demise of commodities that represent real wealth is taking a baseball bat to global markets. It is either amazing or sinister that our representatives in Washington have completely forgotten the capital crash of 2008, especially when you consider that Poland’s government has never forgotten a Russian invasion dating back four centuries.  I see this as wishful thinking on the part of Washington or perhaps abject irresponsibility on the part of our elected leaders.

With the election just over a year away, presidential hopefuls, both Democratic and Republican, are talking about our need to be more politically correct or how America’s biggest challenge is “anchor babies.” Congress should understand that if this bear market of 2015 progresses and is not bought off with Treasury money, in just a decade millions of Mexicans will be complaining about American “anchor babies.”

If there is one thing the Mexicans are good at, it is living in poverty and not going on murderous street protests.
This won’t be your grandfather’s Depression. I have heard too many stories from my father and uncle about hobos who would come to the family homestead looking for a morsel of food. My grandparents had lost all of their savings during the commodity crash of the late 1920s but owned the homestead outright, and my grandmother never refused a hungry man a plate of food. My dad used to stay it was a different era and that some of the neighbors who couldn’t afford to give a potato away were never robbed or abused by desperate men. 

We have seen quite a change over the past 85 years. Now, parts of the community believe it is their right to riot for no greater purpose than a liquor store closeout sale or that it’s their God-given right to jack a safe full of narcotics from a community drugstore. These crimes are occurring during relatively prosperous times. Guns and race rage will make 1929 seem like a slow year compared to the coming Armageddon.

Intelligent elected officials rail against the possibility of a financial collapse, even though the nation barely escaped an economic meltdown seven years ago. It has become too much of a habit for our federal government to obscure the real risk and focus on silly things, such as whether Iran may have a nuclear weapon a decade from now.

If this economic crisis goes into full swing, Iran won’t waste the money attacking what was once the United States of America.

In good times and bad,
–John Myers
 

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NRA is offering free training to National Guardsmen

Anti-gun groups are angry that the NRA is offering free training to National Guardsmen

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 by Sam Rolley 

 

 

 

Gun control groups are upset that the National Rifle Association is offering Indiana National Guardsmen free firearm safety training after the state’s Republican governor permitted guardsmen to concealed carry at military bases and training centers in the interest of increased security.

 

In response to the recent attack on a military recruiting office in Tennessee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence directed his state’s military bases and training centers to beef up security. 

Part of his order included providing guardsmen in the state with NRA’s world-class firearms training, which has honed the skills of more than 65,000 U.S. law enforcement officers.

The gun advocacy organization even announced it would conduct the training at no charge.

But according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Indiana National Guard should have declined the free training because the NRA is “first and foremost” a “lobbying organization.”

Instead, the anti-firearm organization says the U.S. military should conduct the concealed carry training.
“There is no institution better equipped to train our servicemen and women than the US military itself,” 

Brady president Dan Gross told the Associated Press. “This is not a job for lobbyists.”

The NRA responded to the criticism, suggesting that Brady should spend more time researching the organization before demonizing its mission.

“If anyone has done their research or knows a little bit about the NRA, they would know that we were founded on the principles of marksmanship, and have continued till this day to teach firearm competency and safety to civilians through a network of over 120,000 certified instructors,” said a post on the NRA’s website. 

“No other organization in the world does more than the NRA to educate people on the safe and responsible use of firearms.”

The NRA was started in 1871 by Union Civil War veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate. 

Dismayed at the bad shooting skills of the men with whom they had served, they wanted to “promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis.” 

The organization spent the early part of its existence focused on shooting safety, hunter education, and law enforcement and military training.

And while the NRA has become an increasingly vocal lobbying group since setting up its legislative action network in the 1970s, for more than 140 years it has been training civilians, peace officers and, yes, National Guardsmen in the finer points of marksmanship.

THANK YOU NRA!!!

http://personalliberty.com/anti-gun-groups-are-angry-that-the-nra-is-offering-free-training-to-national-guardsmen/