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Liberty Rebellion
09-09-2011, 04:33 PM
Found some good nuggets in today's 5 Minute Forecast from Agora Financial

http://5minforecast.agorafinancial.com/the-costs-of-war/


Here’s one measure of the wars’ cost in terms of personal liberty.

The Patriot Act authorized “sneak and peek” search warrants — where you, the suspect, don’t have to be notified of the search until after the fact. If you’re a patriot and thought those powers would be used to fight terrorism, well you would be wrong.

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Meanwhile, the National Security Agency (NSA) has opened a massive $2 billion, 1 million-square-foot complex in the Utah desert… devoted to storing and sorting through emails, web searches and business transactions. Perhaps yours.

A similar complex is being built near San Antonio. By 2015, according to journalist James Bamford, the NSA will store data equivalent to 1 septillion printed pages. That’s a 1 followed by 24 zeroes.

“Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today,” wrote Bamford yesterday, “the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide…”

“At the NSA, thousands of analysts who once eavesdropped on troop movements of enemy soldiers in distant countries were now listening in on the bedroom conversations of innocent Americans in nearby states…”

“A surveillance system capable of monitoring 10 million people simultaneously this year will be able to monitor 100 million the next year — at probably half the cost. And every time new communications technology appears on the market, rest assured that someone at the NSA has already found a way to monitor it. It’s what the NSA does.”

Isn’t technology great?





Somewhere in Europe, there’s no doubt a mechanism to scoop up emails, web searches and electronic transactions — just like the NSA in the United States.

And that mechanism is about to get a much better handle on the gold that people buy and sell.

“Austrian banks have now been ordered to restrict the sale of gold and silver bullion purchases,” says Mac Slavo at the SHTF Plan site, “and are limiting personal acquisitions of precious metals to 15,000€ (approximately $20,700 USD) at a time, or 11 ounces of gold at today’s prices.”

This took place within the last 30 days, according to Slavo, just back from a visit to Europe. “As Austria is one of the more developed nations in the eurozone, there is a strong likelihood that they are not the sole country implementing these new policies — and that this has been, or soon will be, implemented across the entirety of EU nations.”

That might seem ominous enough… but combined with a new law in France, it looks downright diabolical. Effective Sept. 1, metals purchases in France can no longer be made with cash.

There’s no indication that similar limits are coming into play in the United States. Not now, anyway. We just pass this along as a word to the wise.




More at the link
http://5minforecast.agorafinancial.com/the-costs-of-war/

Liberty Rebellion
09-09-2011, 10:50 PM
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