What gold nationalization really means - SovereignMan.com / Stand Fast In Liberty by Chuck Baldwin, July 25, 2013- People are strange creatures. (((((((And sometimes Christians are the strangest. One would think that people who experience freedom in Christ would be the first ones to desire and defend the entire gamut of liberty.))))) / Islamic No-Go Zones / Maybe you're not interested in the Royal Baby. But if the news media obsess over the Prince of Cambridge, that means less coverage for all of Obama's problems. So the White House loves it. / Bloomberg placed personal calls to Hickenlooper during gun control debates / BLOODBATH IN CAIRO / Obamacare Call Center Hiring Part-Time Workers, Not Providing Healthcare... / Pentagon to deploy huge blimps over Washington, DC for 360-degree surveillance /It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And Today / Canadian agency attacks Jenny McCarthy for demanding mercury-free vaccines / JPMorgan To Exit Physical Commodity Business / VIDEO: Hyperinflation The Fall of the American Dollar / What Would You Do If A Bank Stole Everything You Owned? / Obama Wants Higher Taxes, Arming Syrian Rebels, House Effort to Restrict NSA Fails & More --( NOTICE! NO POSTINGS FOR A FEW DAYS - LOOK TO START UP ON TUESDAY- OR - WED.)--

July 25, 2013 Vienna, Austria Gold owners are almost universally familiar with the story of Franklin Roosevelt criminalizing the ownership of gold back in 1933. Executive Order 6102 was signed on April 5, 1933, and it forbade the "Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates within the continental United States." Roosevelt further ordered that citizens in the Land of the Free surrender their gold to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per troy ounce in Federal Reserve notes. The term gold 'nationalization' is often thrown around. But remember, with nationalization, it's the state that takes control of an asset. Executive Order 6012 took assets from private individuals, and then gave those assets to a private company-- the Federal Reserve. This isn't nationalization. It's just theft. You'd think that the entire nation would have been in an uproar. But surprisingly, this wasn't the case. In fact, the Executive Order didn't even make the front page of the New York Times, whose main headline the day after was "BEER LEGAL AT MIDNIGHT".  It just so happened that prohibition was starting to be repealed right when Roosevelt's order was going into effect. So people were too distracted with their pent-up, alcohol-induced euphoria to really notice. Very clever timing. Of course, Roosevelt was not the first, nor the last, to confiscate citizens' gold. One of my favorite stories involves Charles I of England, who commandeered 200,000 pounds of gold in 1638 as the English Civil War was approaching. This gold belonged to private citizens, not to Charles. The rightful owners trusted their king and were storing their gold at the national mint for safe keeping. This trust proved to be misplaced. And Charles seized the gold, calling it a 'loan' (upon which the English government subsequently defaulted). This theme is consistent across history-- governments have a notorious, unblemished track record of fleecing their citizens, particularly in times of desperation. History shows that the likelihood of a government pillaging its citizens' wealth is directly proportional to that government's fiscal health. Looking back, it seems so obvious. I'm sure the day after the bank account freeze in Cyprus earlier this year, people were probably thinking, "Wow, I can't believe I didn't see that coming..." Nearly the rest of the West is in the same position, or worse off, than Cyprus-- overextended banking systems, interminable deficits, unsustainable debts, and strong precedents of setting the law aside to violate people's freedom. All the warning signs are there. And just as in Cyprus, or in 17th century England, it's going to be so obvious looking back. This is one of the reasons why it's so important to be proactive now and move a portion of your assets abroad where they can't grab it. As an example, there's a fantastic private, secure storage facility here in Vienna called Das Safe that I've been writing about for a long time. Das Safe has been around for three decades. And because they're not connected to any bank or government, it's possible to anonymously rent a safety deposit box where you can store gold. Under current US law, this is not reportable... so you can truly hold your savings privately, outside the banking system. Of course, gold is just one asset to think about. There's another asset that I'm even more concerned about governments stealing: retirement accounts. More on that another time. SovereignMan.com / Stand Fast In Liberty by Chuck Baldwin, July 25, 2013 - People are strange creatures. (((((((And sometimes Christians are the strangest. One would think that people who experience freedom in Christ would be the first ones to desire and defend the entire gamut of liberty.))))) http://barry-julie-liberty.blogspot.com/2013/07/stand-fast-in-liberty-by-chuck-baldwin.html / Putin Controls the Chessboard, Obama’s In Deep Trouble  / Cliff Collapse Caught on Video: Tourists and locals alike in the Normandy region of France are being warned to watch where they step after an estimated 30,000 tons of rock came crashing down onto the sand.  / Backwards storm: Kansas lashed by 100 mph winds, and soft-ball size hail  / Jihadist Camps in America: A Ticking Time Bomb  / Coming soon: America's own Islamic 'no-go' zones Expert on terror training camps says expansion plans in works Islamic No-Go Zones

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Maybe you're not interested in the Royal Baby. But if the news media obsess over the Prince of Cambridge, that means less coverage for all of Obama's problems. So the White House loves it.

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Bloomberg placed personal calls to Hickenlooper during gun control debates
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No Drone Zone
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BLOODBATH IN CAIRO
---Dozens killed, hundreds injured...
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Paul Ryan: House To Vote On Citizenship In October...

'Comprehensive'...

Makes announcement at 'bilingual listening session'...
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Gunman among 7 dead after FL apartment shootout...

Footage captures moment SWAT team storms building...
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Obamacare Call Center Hiring Part-Time Workers, Not Providing Healthcare...
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Japanese Communism on the Rise – Tokyo to Re-Arm
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Michael Savage – Charles Strange Father of SEAL Michael Strange Reveals Suspicious Details of Death

 

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Hepatitis B Vaccine Discontinued After Three Newborn Babies Die Natural Blaze - On July 21, the nation’s health minister, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, sent her condolences to the families of the deceased infants, ordering vaccine e keep calm” and continue vaccinating their children.
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U.S. Says Ring Stole 160 Million Credit Card Numbers nytimes.com - A prolific gang of foreign hackers stole and sold 160 million credit card numbers from more than a dozen companies, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, federal prosecutors charged on Thursday in what they described as the largest hacking and data breach case in the country.
The scheme was run by four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian, said the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, who announced the indictments in Newark.
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Pentagon to deploy huge blimps over Washington, DC for 360-degree surveillance RT - A pair of high-tech Army blimps is coming to the greater Washington, DC area, and soon they will be able to provide the military with surveillance powers that spans hundreds of millions of acres from North Carolina to Niagara Falls, Canada.
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These Are The 217 People Who Voted To Preserve NSA Surveillance Zero Hedge - Presenting the full roll call breakdown of the Amash Amendment (as described previously) to shutter the NSA's surveillance function.
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It Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And Today Economic Collapse - If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008? That is a very timely question, because so many of the warning signs that we saw just before and during the last financial crisis are popping up again.
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VIDEO: 400,000 Foreclosure Settlement Checks Sent To Wrong Address
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Natural gas rig keeps burning in Gulf of Mexico CNN - The fire that severely damaged a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico subsided Thursday as sand and mud stopped up a natural gas well that blew out earlier this week, federal regulators said.
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Canadian agency attacks Jenny McCarthy for demanding mercury-free vaccines (NaturalNews) How ensconced is Big Pharma in our lives these days? Apparently so much so that entire governments have become cheerleaders for the poison they push. Consider the case of actress, model and devoted mother, Jenny McCarthy. 
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords cnet.com - The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
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JPMorgan To Exit Physical Commodity Business
---Breaking: JPMorgan To Sell Physical Commodity Business! -  With JPMorgan’s COMEX gold vault down to all-time historic lows and the firm looking at a $1 billion settlement with FERC over Blythe Masters’ manipulation of the electricity market, JPM has just announced shocking news that the firm is seeking a sale, spin off or strategic partnership of its physical commodities business.
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VIDEO: Hyperinflation The Fall of the American Dollar

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What Would You Do If A Bank Stole Everything You Owned? - With millions of Americans across the country facing default and foreclosure banks are hiring outside firms to take possession of their homes. It is often the case that those living in homes that have been repossessed by their lender stay until the very last minute, or simply aren’t aware of their final eviction date. In such cases these firms simply enter the home
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Europe is Cracking Apart… Are You Ready For a Crash?

Gregor Peter
Rumor of German sovereign downgrade. Bunds / Schatz under pressure … any such downgrade would be very political as elections loom
European Economy Continues to Implode – Martin Armstrong
The French government plans to pump billions more in aid desperately trying to save the Peugeot factory in Aulay. Hollande refuses to realize that raising taxes causes economic decline and a greater proportion of money goes to government.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/07/25/european-economy-continues-to-implode/
Cyprus Deposits

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Obama Wants Higher Taxes, Arming Syrian Rebels, House Effort to Restrict NSA Fails & More