DOES THE EXISTENCE OF THE STATE CAUSE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST?

My phone is tapped. My mail is read.
They know the thoughts inside my head.

The money I deposited
is now reported to the Fed.

They chip my hand, dispense my bread.
I think they watch me go to bed.

I don’t object. I’m glad instead
to be controlled until I’m dead.

http://www.gonzotimes.com/962/does-the-existence-of-the-state-cause-conflicts-of-interest/

gold bar

GOLD

There has been little new reported about the rumors of counterfeit gold bars which are actually gold-plated tungsten. One Chinese company has a Web site (www.tungsten-alloy.com) where it offers to provide tungsten as a gold substitute. On the first page of its Web site, just below a picture of gold ingots, it states, “Also, it is widely adopted in making faking coins . . .” To the extent that counterfeit 100- and 400-ounce gold bars exist, this company almost certainly could fabricate them.

In the meantime, I have heard rumors that all gold bars at the central banks in France and China are being checked for counterfeits. Central banks would have a strong desire to keep such stories from becoming public knowledge, even if no counterfeits were uncovered. If, however, the public got a whiff that one or more major central banks were holding counterfeit gold bars, that could spark a gold-buying panic.

Gold Blast-Off Starts Friday?

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=8134

Goldman's Lies Of Omission

Submitted by Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-goldmans-lies-omission

The Next Step in the Bank Implosion Cycle???

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/next-step-bank-implosion-cycle

The Coming "Council of Regulators"

The Federal Reserve could order a financial institution to sell a risky division or stop dangerous trading activity if the central bank determined there was a threat to the US financial system, under a draft law released on Tuesday.

The bill drawn up by the Treasury and the House financial services committee sets up a "Council of Regulators" charged with snuffing out systemic risks and gives the government and the Fed sweeping powers over financial companies at home and overseas.

The bill does not address how this "Council of Regulators" will attain supreme wisdom to rule on markets. Nor does it mention that the Federal Reserve denied, in the middle of the housing bubble, that there was a housing bubble.

And it comes nowhere near identifying the Federal Reserve's money manipulations as at the core of the business cycle.

Thus, what we have in the proposed "Council of Regulators" is one further step in the direction of total political control of the financial system.

This is not your granfather's America.

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/coming-council-of-regulators.html

George Soros, Enemy of Free Markets

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/10/george-soros-enemy-of-free-markets.html

Alan Grayson is right: Linda Robertson IS a k-street whore!

http://www.skepticaleye.com/2009/10/alan-grayson-is-right-linda-robertson.html

Lock Up Your (Sons) and Daughters: Steny Hoyer Is Coming For Their Voluntary-Mandatory Health-Insurance Contributions!

http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/28/lock-up-your-sons-and-daughter

Copenhagen Treaty will destroy US economy

According to current documents the Copenhagen Treaty, if signed by President Obama in December, will ultimately make the U.S., along with other "developed nations", financially responsible for the CO2 emissions of "developing nations". Read the document here.

http://www.examiner.com/x-22717-Charlotte-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Copenhagen-Treaty-will-destroy-US-economy