7 Jul 2013
"Should the Government Subsidize...Silly Walks?
Snowden: NSA is ‘in bed with the Germans’
RT: Hero fugitive Edward Snowden has accused Germany and the US of
partnering in spy intelligence operations, revealing that cooperation
between the countries is closer than German indignation would indicate,
Der Spiegel magazine reported.
“They are in bed with the Germans, just like with most other
Western states,” the German magazine quotes Snowden as
saying, adding that the NSA’s has a Foreign Affairs Directorate
which is responsible for cooperation with other countries.
Partnerships are orchestrated in ways that allow other countries to “insulate their political leaders from the backlash,” according to Snowden, providing a buffer between politicians and the illegal methods of snooping. He accused the collaboration of grievously “violating global privacy.”
“Other agencies don't ask us where we got the information from and we don't ask them. That way they can protect their top politicians from the backlash in case it emerges how massively people's privacy is abused worldwide,”
Partnerships are orchestrated in ways that allow other countries to “insulate their political leaders from the backlash,” according to Snowden, providing a buffer between politicians and the illegal methods of snooping. He accused the collaboration of grievously “violating global privacy.”
“Other agencies don't ask us where we got the information from and we don't ask them. That way they can protect their top politicians from the backlash in case it emerges how massively people's privacy is abused worldwide,”
The smart money is quietly buying more gold
By Richard Dyson: Five or six years ago, few private investors were very concerned about the
price of gold. Then came the financial crisis. When major banks were
failing, a sense of apocalypse focused investors' minds on the value of
physical assets as never before.
As the crisis rumbled on, increasing numbers of private investors used these
ETFs to speculate, or as part of their planned portfolios, so that from
owning about 800 tons of gold in 2007, total ETFs owned almost 3,000 tons by
2012. The gains enjoyed by the investors during that period were terrific,
sucking in yet more money, stimulating further appetite, and so on.
Now the gold price is in reverse and ETF investors are selling their holdings
fast.
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"Can you imagine the hairy goat legged fucker?
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"Can you imagine the hairy goat legged fucker?
...Don't wet your pants!"
The fear mind screw
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China Radio: "The U.S. And Europe Have Always Suppressed The Rising Price Of Gold"
Submitted by Tyler Durden: Sometimes, such as after pervasive
liquidations in precious metals (or is that AAPL? Has it become clear
yet that with widespread "quality" collateral shortages, gold and AAPL
stock have become unexpected and almost interchangeable collateral
replacements) it is easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. A
forest, in which the New York Fed is procuring (through the open market)
the rehypothecated gold that the Bundesbank demanded for repatriation in January; in which JPMorgan's gold holdings have plunged by 75% since said stunning Bundesbank announcement and
hit new record lows on a weekly basis paradoxically just as the price
of spot gold keeps sliding ever lower; and in which China is importing
unprecedented amounts of gold and adding more and more each month.STOKE POGES – its role in the global morality meltdown
The good news from Stoke Poges: the local Conservative Party is globally on message – and obviously offside
Grieving for democracy
The Slog: I have been sent a hilarious trail of email correspondence ‘c0mmenting’ on a recent Slogpost
about Michael Gove’s ‘Open 10,000 academies, win a Home in Downing
Street’ project, and its deep attachment to the Camerlot principles of
local democracy, green belts, cultural integration and so forth. I’ll
take you through the highlights in a few paragraphs time, but in the
meantime I thought some global context might serve to highlight the
irony of the pathetic attempt at a defence by the local Conservatives in
Stoke Poges.