The Truth About US Government Education +

Julie Borowski: You may have heard about Common Core standards that are being implemented in US public schools. This video is a brief explanation of some parts of Common Core.

Chinese Housewives vs. Goldman Sachs: No Contest + Is This The Start Of China's Gold Miner Buying Spree?

By Jeff Clark: Goldman Sachs is once again predicting that gold will fall, setting a new near-term target of $1,050.
Never mind the schizophrenic gene that would be required to follow the constantly fluctuating predictions of all these big banks; it's amazing to me that anyone continues to listen to them after their abysmal record and long-standing anti-gold stance.
Sure, the too-big-to-fails can move markets—but they say things that are good for them, not us.
When I visited China two years ago, guess who no one was talking about? Goldman Sachs. There was news about the US, of course, but the regular diet of journalistic intake consisted of Chinese activity, not North American. And surprise, surprise, the view from that side of the big blue ball was materially different than what we hear and read here—and in some cases, the opposite.
Not only has the average Chinese housewife, perhaps the most frugal and cautious species of savers in the world, probably never heard of Goldman Sachs and their call for $1,000 gold—if she had, she would think: 垃圾! (Rubbish!)
Here's some evidence. Since January 1, gold ETF holdings have fallen by roughly a quarter (26%, according to GFMS). But Chinese housewives aren't refraining from buying and certainly aren’t selling:

George Galloway vs the Lame Stream Media - Galloway wins every time

NotPercy203: Due to the fact the George opposes all middle eastern wars due to them killing more people than problems they don't solve and constantly wins democratic elections when the public are allowed to vote the UK lame stream media has treated him absolutely awfully in the past (and still do!) This video compiles some of the best footage of this evident bias, showing that the UK lame stream often, far from being impartial, often goes with the propaganda against him created by government agencies

You can't "vote" for change - The BBC Suck O Cocks News

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"Nothing changes with these pigs, they are all on the side of the banksters! It's not just the Tory party, they are all fucking nasty."
"We must disable party politics."

Forbes Calls Goldman CEO Holier Than Mother Teresa

By Matt Taibbi: I got a lot of letters from folks this week about an online column for Forbes written by a self-proclaimed Ayn Rand devotee named Harry Binswanger (if that's a nom de plume, it's not bad, although I might have gone for "Harry Kingbanger" or "Harry Wandwanker"). The piece had the entertainingly provocative title, "Give Back? Yes, It's Time for the 99% to Give Back to the 1%" and contained a number of innovatively slavish proposals to aid the beleaguered and misunderstood rich, including a not-kidding-at-all plan to exempt anyone who makes over a million dollars from income taxes.

This article is so ridiculous that normally it would be beneath commentary, but there's a passage in there I just couldn't let go:

Britain threatened by incurable BBC pandemic

In the Kingdom of the Blind, is there a one-eyed man?

The Slog: BBC (British Blindness Condition) is a unique sensory disease in that, although its attack on the nervous system is blindingly obvious, the vast majority of the United Kingdom population neither know nor accept that they have it – or that, importantly, it is now in its tertiary stage….and thus almost insoluble, or even partly reversible. Very few politicians of whom I know (or have met) accept it in any real sense, for were they to do so, it would mean admitting what everyone who recognises BBC* knows perfectly well: it is their job to fix it, and they clearly do not have to remotest iota of a notion how they might even begin to do that. Thus their ‘solution’ is to witter on about innuendo, exaggeration, hysteria, and how Britain is just the same as it ever was. When you can’t deter something, better to deny it: Chamberlain managed it for five years with Hitler, as did Laval and Daladier. It’s much less painful than dealing with it. For a while.

*I should say at this point that, while the other BBC (the British Broadcasting Corporation, or Beeb or British Brainwashing Corporation) stands implicated in several features of BBC, it is more a sufferer from BBC than BBC itself. Thus you will see and hear the Beeb twisting, ignoring, recalibrating and generally obfuscating facts, but is far from being the only medium with a desire to stifle Free Speech.

Hero Snowden's Leaks Help NWO NSA Critics in Government Surveillance Lawsuits

By Brendan Sasso: For years, the government has successfully suppressed lawsuits by civil liberties groups challenging the constitutionality of its surveillance programs.

"No matter what you think of the lawfulness of these programs, I think everyone should think their legitimacy or illegitimacy is better debated in public and decided by a court," Alex Abdo, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said. 
The Justice Department has traditionally argued that groups like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) cannot prove that they have been affected by the surveillance, and they are therefore not in a position to challenge the programs in court—a legal concept known as "standing."
The courts have consistently sided with the government on the issue and, earlier this year, the Supreme Court threw out an ACLU lawsuit over warrantless wiretapping, concluding the group could not show it had standing to sue.
"Simply put, respondents can only speculate as to how the attorney general and the director of national intelligence will exercise their discretion in determining which communications to target," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.
But the Snowden leaks have changed all of that. In response to a leaked court order, the NSA acknowledged that it is collecting data on all U.S. phone calls. The data collection includes phone numbers, call times and call durations, but not the contents of the conversations. 
"For years, the government has shielded its surveillance practices from judicial review through excessive secrecy,"

$17 Trillion U.S. National Debt? Try $211 Trillion! + A victory for Merkel will only mask Germany's long-term economic problems

By Mark O'Byrne: “If you add up all the promises that have been made for spending obligations, including defense expenditures, and you subtract all the taxes that we expect to collect, the difference is $211 trillion. That’s the fiscal gap,” he says. “That’s our (US) true indebtedness.”

Today’s AM fix was USD 1,321.75, EUR 978.71 and GBP 824.34 per ounce.
Friday’s AM fix was USD 1,355.25, EUR 1,002.18 and GBP 845.39 per ounce

Gold dropped $39.30 or 2.92% Friday, closing at $1,325.30/oz. Silver slid $1.27 or 5.84%, closing at $21.74. At 3:32 EDT Friday, Platinum fell $31.30 or 2.1% to $1,427.50/oz, while palladium slipped $18.53 or 2.5% to $713.97 /oz. Gold was up 0.16% and silver was down 2.03% on the week.

Gold has been up and down in choppy trading in London today as investors digest the U.S. Fed’s decision to wait on tapering until perhaps next month. Comments on Friday from James Bullard, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President affected the markets.  He said, “a reduction of the Fed’s $85 billion monthly bond purchase program beginning in October was possible and that the Fed can be patient in deciding when to scale back its pace of asset purchases”.

Misandry: The War on Male Students

Jonathan Taylor: A reposted/updated version for a few people who are/may be interested in showing it to others.

TV is God, the Body Without Organs, Downton Abbey - The BBC Sucks O Cocks News

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Obama's Al-CIA-da Attacks Mall in Kenya

AJ: Alex is joined by guest host David Knight to break down bombshell info in the ongoing Kenyan mall attack, whose death toll has risen to 68 with at least 175 wounded. The attack was conducted by the same CIA groups Obama supports in Syria and other parts of the world.

#friendbomb - Build Your Network and Accelerate the Awakening

StormCloudsGathering: Looking for new ways to rock the boat?