The Anti-Free-Market Federal Reserve
I believe in democracy, freedom, capitalism, and a free market. Why does the Federal Reserve keep insisting that it knows better by implementing anti-capitalistic plans and perpetually fucking around with the market? Please let the market operate! Let it go! Prices are what they should be! That's the definition of a free market! When they manipulate the market it's no longer free.
This includes the proprietary trading systems at investment banks. If the bank can invest its own money, it can influence the market in any way it sees fit. Want to tell politicians that a particular law or not passing a particular law would cause the market to drop (or rise)? They can trigger it. This is called Terrorism, and it was used to pass the bank bailout bill in late 2008. Investment banks investing their own money is a conflict of interest to democracy, their own clients, and the interests of the economy.
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The FBI should be investigating that act of Terrorism by the banks and Federal Reserve System. Even if the people didn't know (and thus weren't afraid), the politicians were threatened directly to pass the bailout bill. Influencing law is exactly what terrorism is designed to do... at it seemed to work, unfortunately.
Official says Fed might buy more mortgage-backed securities
The Federal Reserve would consider reopening its program to support the mortgage market if interest rates spiked or the economy showed new weakness, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley said in two new interviews.
The Fed is buying $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities in its effort to prop up the economy but has said it will end those purchases March 31.
They need to stop manipulating the market immediately.
This manipulation introduces distortion in the market. That distortion is not singular. It ripples out through the economy. These ripples required more fixes and those even more until it's the Katrina Hurricane of the financial market.
In order to force the market to be focused on people, this bailout money would have been better placed into the hands of the people. At least the distortion would have been citizen oriented instead of banker bonus oriented. Then again, it's corporate America that gives politicians the money to convince us to vote for them; so it's not too surprising that this didn't happen.
In all, there should have been no bailouts. Failure for companies that are too weak. Success for those that could fill their place. Would there have been pain? Yes. But, that short term pain is much smaller than the long term pain we are now in for now.
Why the Euro is important
Moving debt around isn't going to ultimately solve the problem... The problem is that Money is Debt.
Google Threatening To Leave China Over Hacking, Email Leak
Google Threatening To Leave China Over Hacking, Email Leak
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country after discovering that computers hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change-of-heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for Google, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws that require some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results that are available in other countries
Google disclosed in a blog post that it had detected a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China." Further investigation revealed that "a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists," Google said in the post written by Chief Legal Officer David Drummond.
Google did not specifically accuse the Chinese government. But the company added that it is "no longer willing to continue censoring our results" on its Chinese search engine, as the government requires. Google says the decision could force it to shut down its Chinese site and its offices in the country.
It's about time that the economic and war on and of ideas get going. I'm quite glad to see that Google is on the side of freedom and freedom of speech on this battle. Clearly, they are not happy with the Chinese Communist Government.
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.
First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.
Second, we have evidence to suggest that a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Based on our investigation to date we believe their attack did not achieve that objective. Only two Gmail accounts appear to have been accessed, and that activity was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves.
Third, as part of this investigation but independent of the attack on Google, we have discovered that the accounts of dozens of U.S.-, China- and Europe-based Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China appear to have been routinely accessed by third parties. These accounts have not been accessed through any security breach at Google, but most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on the users' computers.
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These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
I'm hoping that other search engines will follow this lead.
Lastly, if our government tries to interfere with this decision it would show the depths to which the American Federal Government would fall to eliminate capitalism.
Orwell Rolls In His Grave
The Problem of War on Terror
Just like all the other modern "wars" we run in the USA, the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't working. Here is why:
Terrorists are smart and adaptive people... just like we are. Only, we use war against these people which is like building a gun that you can only fire at a solid wall. It looks impressive but is completely useless. "Terrorists" use this system against us because it's not flexible. When you start a war in Iraq, that's where it stays. They've moved on. We have not.
This is why you cannot fight terror with violence. They don't have the rules that nations do and we can't let them exploit that. They are using it, and we are falling for it.
We should end both these wars. They are illegal anyway, but that is apparently no problem for people. They should be ended because terrorists moved on. The got us stuck there, almost, as they intended. We are emptying our reserves on something so expensive that it costs $400 per gallon of gas and $1,000,000 per year to keep one troop on the ground there. This is insane.
All the while, the Chinese have Universal Health Care. They have a hard time covering all the people yes but their economy is stronger for it. How many decades of double digit growth have they had? Really, the profits on the insurance industry could be kept in the actual businesses that provide value in order to hire more people, make more investments, and grow faster. In the USA we have leeches on the economy. The more they leech, the stronger they get and the harder it is to reform. They have a HUGE lobby branch which they have shown are willing to spend a LOT of money upon.
China doesn't need to go to the moon to make real advancements. They just built the 'world's fastest train link'. In the wealthiest nation in the world, why aren't we doing stuff like that? Ah, it's because we buy nearly everything from China.
We have become a depleted country. A part of that is from the hugely expensive wars we inflict upon the world and a part of it is that we don't save money or produce much any more. The only thing we seem to be really good at is printing money. Even that is starting to look like a destitute adventure.
9/11 Truth – The Pentagon Attack
National Security Alert - Citizen Investigation Team
To whom it concerns, i.e., everyone:
In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day.Be forewarned: Our findings are extraordinarily shocking and frightening. They are also deadly serious, and deserving of your immediate attention. This is not about a conspiracy theory or any theory at all. This is about independent, verifiable evidence which unfortunately happens to conclusively establish as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a false flag "black operation" involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception.
If you are skeptical of (or even incensed by) this statement we do not blame you. We are not asking you to take our word for it, nor do we want you to do that. We want you to view the evidence and see with your own eyes that this is the case. We want you to hear it directly from the eyewitnesses who were there, just as we did.
Please understand that this information is not being brought to your attention simply for educational purposes. It is presented within the context of a “call to action” accompanied by a detailed step-by-step strategy intended to inspire and empower you to do something about it. But first, please familiarize yourself with the evidence by viewing and paying close attention to the 81-minute video presentation, National Security Alert.
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Citizen Investigation Team
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Make up your own mind.
When you look at the impact on the building ask yourself, where is the damage from the wings and engines?
Already at Economic War with China
Gold "Targets $1100" as Beijing Insider Says China "Can't Buy Enough Gold"
Trading near $1090 and €735 an ounce for US and Eurozone investors, gold was up 4.3% and 3.5% respectively for the week so far.
Crude oil crept back above $80 per barrel. The US Dollar slipped on the forex market as the European Central Bank and Bank of England kept their key interest rate on hold at record lows.
"Despite current resistance [in gold], we see the downside well protected and dips should still be bought." --Walter de Wet at Standard Bank
"The question now is who buys the rest of the IMF gold?" asks Bart Melek at the $375 billion BMO Capital Markets in a note to clients.
Following India's surprise 200-tonne purchase announced on Tuesday, "We suspect it may be China, other Asian countries, Russia or even India again," says Melek.
The world No.1 producer since 2008, China is now also the world No.1 private gold consumer market.
"They hold relatively little gold relative to their very large foreign exchange reserves, and may want to diversify away from US Dollars."
"It's cheaper for us to buy gold from the Chinese market," agreed an un-named People's Bank official
"Even if China bought half the world's annual gold supply, it would only cost a few tens of billions of dollars, which is tiny compared to China's huge reserves.
The Chinese are purposefully devaluing our currency against gold.
I suspect the Chinese government is using their US Dollar Reserves to help their citizens buy gold by subsidizing it. This helps the Chinese move out of US Dollars while decreasing the value of the dollar against gold. It even uses their own citizens money to buy the stuff. Thus keeping inflation of their own currency down. It also puts the value into its citizens hands. Being a Communist country, they could easily confiscate it all in 5, 10, or 20 years so they don't care who actually possesses the gold so long as it's in their country.
If Obama were smart, he'd subsidize gold purchase by US citizens to compete with the Chinese instead of bailing out banks and other companies. He may (or may not) tell us that China has already declared economic warfare against us but he does need to call people to action, face reality, and actually do something to save the America economically. I would say the second step is real and sound money without the fractional reserve system or banks as master controllers. Auditing the Federal Reserve would be the great start we need to move down this path.
In my view, this is one of the strongest cases that gold, silver, and other metals are extremely undervalued. The people saying gold at $50,000 per ounce and silver at $1,000 do have logic behind their statements.
Well, we keep printing money out of thin air. Due to the exponential function we need to print more and more just to keep up. The dollar is being dumped by foreign everything. China and India are pumping up gold and transferring wealth into their countries. We are starting to look like the Titanic... only no one will know it until it's too late.
The Iraq War and the Afghanistan War are really just smoke and mirrors to what the real threats are to this country.
China brands US ‘protectionist’
China on Friday accused the US of protectionist and biased trade policies less than a week before president Barack Obama’s first visit to Beijing.
In a stinging rebuke to Washington, China’s commerce ministry promised to take measures to protect its domestic industry after the US slapped anti-dumping duties on $2.6bn of Chinese steel pipe imports. The duties are part of a growing roster of trade conflicts between the two countries, despite a high-level meeting last week in China aimed at reducing tensions.
16 total complaints between China and the US. Half (8) just this year.
Will the economic war between China and America turn into anything more?
Soldier has recived orders for October
WOW. The soldiers are getting ready. Even if this is not true... Be prepared.