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Wednesday, 1 April 2015
ECB’s Draghi dashes expect additional LTRO low cost lending products
ECB’s Draghi dashes expect additional LTRO low cost lending products
Arizona Breakfast Club, Saturday - April 4th, 2015 - Coco's PV Mall - 8-10 a.m. AZ TIME
Dara Venesian will be promoting the Arizona FreedomFest in Kingman, AZ from May 1-3, 2015….come enjoy the liberty loving community and have some fun while meeting other liberty-loving activists…
http://arizonafreedomfest.com/Arizona_FreedomFest/Join_Us.html
The Liberty movement is alive and well, and waiting for YOU to reconnect at Arizona FreedomFest 2015! Mark your calendars now so you won’t miss Arizona Freedom Fest! It’s coming up quickly, from Friday, May 1st to Sunday, May 3rd.
Beat the heat this summer while supporting Freedom!
Arizona FreedomFest is an independent, non-partisan festival where Freedom and Liberty loving people meet to celebrate great entertainment, great speakers, great ideas, great music, and great thinkers in a fun and inspiring environment.
The Arizona FreedomFest Kingman is a dry camping (optional) festival being held at SHOTS Ranch on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of May 2015. SHOTS Ranch is a pristine wooded, 1300 acre private shooting range at a cool, 5000+ foot elevation. All ages are welcome to participate in a wide variety of fun entertainment, shooting opportunities and competitions, informative speakers, live music…along with dancing, great food, shopping, and much, much more.
For Liberty and Freedom oriented Americans, Arizona FreedomFest is the premiere festival of the Southwest!
Confirmed speakers include:
•Joel Skousen of World Affairs Brief
•Angela Keaton from AntiWar.com
•Derrick Grayson (TMOT), the “Minister of Truth” and 2014 U.S. Senate candidate
•Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs’ and Police Officers’ Association (C.S.P.O.A.)
•Patrick Wood, famed author of Technocracy Rising
•Earnest Hancock, founder and editor of Freedoms Phoenix
•Mark Herr, president and co-founder of the Center for Self Governance
•And many more!
E.D.M. Arms is bringing their famous .50 caliber rifles to test fire. E.D.M. is the manufacturer of the most accurate large caliber rifle on the planet. If you have never fired one of these babies before, hold on!
Are you a sharp shooter? Then test your skills at one of these fun events!
•AR 15 Elite Competition – sponsored by Quentin Defense (featuring Liberty guns made for specifically for the Arizona Liberty Foundation). AR Elite and ammo provided.
•Glock 19 handgun completion – Shooting 5 steel silhouettes under time constraints sponsored by SHOTS Ranch. Glock 19 and ammo provided.
•Shotgun Clay bird shooting competition – Shotgun provided if you don’t bring your own (Applies to shotgun competition ONLY).
•Multiple winners of outdoors and firearms related prizes!
RAFFLES:
In addition to the speakers, events for the kiddos, and shooting fun, Arizona FreedomFest is the place the place to hear live music the first weekend of May. From bands playing rock to country music, the dance floor is sure to be busy. Don’t miss the live concert from legendary songwriter and guitarist JORDAN PAGE of PAGE against the MACHINE.
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Iran Nuke Talks Head for Overtime
Iran Nuke Talks Head for Overtime
by Stephen Lendman
Negotiators on both sides in Lausanne indicated talks may continue past midnight into April 1.
Senior Iranian negotiator Hamid Baidinejad said “Iran does not want a nuclear deal just for the sake of having a deal, and a final deal should guarantee the Iranian nation’s nuclear rights.”
“We will continue the talks until we reach an agreement over disputed issues.”
Un unnamed US official close to talks said “(w)e will, of course, keep working if we are continuing to make progress, including into tomorrow, if it’s useful to do so.”
“At this time, no decisions have been made about our travel schedule.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov left talks on Monday – saying he’d return if a deal was immanent.
He’s back saying “(w)e have an opportunity to realize our chances if no party to the negotiations tries to raise the stakes at the last moment to get something extra instead of keeping a balance of interests.”
If a preliminary framework deal is reached in any form, Security Council members should end sanctions on Iran straightaway, he said.
“We do not recognize (unilaterally imposed sanctions) in any situation, whether it is Iran or any other country,” he explained.
An unnamed Iranian source said “(w)e are working meticulously to produce a document.”
“If all goes well, the signing ceremony may take place in Geneva rather than Lausanne.”
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: “I think we will stay overnight” into Wednesday.
According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest:
“Our negotiators have determined…that they’re going to continue these conversations tomorrow…if necessary, as long as the conversations continue to be productive.”
“It doesn’t make sense if we are getting serious engagement from (Iran) to just abruptly end the talks based on (an artificial midnight) deadline, because the fact is if we are making progress towards the finish line then we should keep going.”
Kerry spokeswoman Marie Harf indicated talks will continue into Wednesday. Whether another day makes a difference remains to be seen.
After months of talks, key sticking points remain. They include sanctions, nuclear R&D, uranium enrichment, and where enriched stockpiles will be stored.
Earnest suggested both sides are working to produce a text with few specifics – with accompanying technical documents indicating areas where further talks are needed.
Accomplishing this much would allow negotiators to claim a “new phase” of talks will follow – not just a continuation of incomplete current ones.
If talks end inconclusively, congressional hardliners intend pushing for imposing more sanctions – possibly with a veto proof margin.
Doing so would wreck talks. Things would go back to square one. All bets would be off.
Late Tuesday Lausanne time, senior Iranian negotiator Hamid Baeidinejad said agreement was reached on removing sanctions.
Minor issues remain to be resolved, he indicated. “Sanctions have many aspects,” he explained.
“There are unilateral sanctions, US sanctions, EU sanctions, UNSC sanctions.”
“I should say that many of these aspects have been resolved, but still there are some limited areas that also need to be resolved, and we are now concentrating on those remaining technical aspects with regard to the sanctions.”
He expects oil, gas, and banking sanctions to be lifted as soon as a comprehensive deal is implemented, saying:
“The termination of oil sanctions, gas sanctions, financial banking…many of them have been resolved.”
“But still there are a limited number of areas that are still under negotiations, which we hope we can resolve them and then we can admit that the whole issue of sanctions is resolved.”
“We are now concentrating on some limited aspects of issues related to the overall sanctions, particularly sanctions of the UNSC, and only we are concentrating on those limited aspects now.”
Talks will continue as long as it takes for both sides to resolve things enough to claim success (true or false) and move forward for a comprehensive agreement by June 30, he explained.
Whether any agreement, if reached, is meaningful going forward remains to be seen
Decades of anti-Iranian sentiment haven’t changed. Washington tolerates no independent governments.
Expect no fundamental change in US Iranian policy going forward – especially with the power of Israel and its Lobby going all-out to prevent normalization.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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Iran Nuke Talks Head for Overtime
Will Gold Win Out Against the US Dollar?
It is an essential impossibility to solve problems created by excess debt and artificial liquidity with more of the same. That’s our credo here at Casey Research, and the reason why we believe the gold price will turn around and not only go higher, but much, much higher.
While fellow investors around the world may not agree with gold-loving contrarians like us, they are buyers: gold is up in euros and almost everything else, except the dollar.
The dollar’s rise has been strong and seems all but unstoppable. But look at it in big-picture terms, as in the chart below, and ask yourself how sustainable the situation is.
I’m skeptical of reading too much into such charts. A peak like the one in the early 1980s would certainly take the USD much higher, and for several years to come. But still, this is an aberration. It’s not the new normal, but rather the new abnormal.
More to the point, gold hasn’t collapsed since the dollar began its latest surge last July. Just look at this one-year chart of gold vs. the US dollar. The dollar is up sharply (in EUR, as a proxy for everything-not-the-dollar and for comparability to the chart below), but gold is only moderately down.
Gold has been trading almost sideways over the last year.
That might seem like damnation by faint praise, but it’s critically important. With the USD skyrocketing and commodities plummeting, gold should be dropping like—well, like a gold balloon—if the critics are right and it has no practical value at all, except to dentists and fashion accessory designers.
But gold is money, the best store of wealth millennia of human experience have devised, and more and more people are recognizing this.
Consider this chart of gold vs. the euro, which documents my contention that people outside the US do not see gold as a barbarous relic, but as an essential holding to safeguard their future.
Pretty much everywhere but in the US, gold is up, not down.
This chart supports my view that gold rebounded last November when it breached its 2013 low because international buyers saw that as an opportunity. The US has gone from primarily exporting inflation to exporting gold and inflation.
The fact that the dollar has risen faster than gold has dropped has important, positive effects on miners operating outside the US. If costs are paid in Canadian dollars, Mexican pesos, euros, or really hard-hit currencies like the Brazilian real, then those costs have just gone way down relative to the price of gold.
Of course, there’s a good chance that there’ll be more sell-offs before the gold bull resumes its charge… but they should be regarded as opportunities. Because once the gold market rises again, the best small-cap mining stocks have the potential to go vertical.
Watch eight industry experts discuss where we are in the gold cycle, and how to prepare your portfolio for gains of up to 500% or even 1,000%, in Casey’s recent online event, GOING VERTICAL. Click here for the video.
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Will Gold Win Out Against the US Dollar?
SUPPORT NEVADA BILL AB408 - #1 MOST PUBLICLY SUPPORTED BILL IN THE NEVADA
SUPPORT NEVADA BILL AB408 – THE BILL IS THE #1 MOST PUBLICLY SUPPORTED BILL IN THE NEVADA LEGISlATURE, BUT THE OPPOSITION IS INCREASING.
My Friends,
It is simple, the land belongs to the people.
The natural resources of America are being stolen from the people and claimed by the federal government. Everything we eat, wear, live in, use and so on comes from the earth. If we lose access to the land and natural resources we become beggars to those who control access. Without doubt this is the greatest immediate threat to the individual person and people as a whole. More lives, liberties and property can be taken under this threat than any other we see.
The Nevadan’s Resource Rights Bill (NRR) AB408 has only had a number for five days and is is already the most publicly supported bill in the session, out of nearly a thousand. However, we are starting to see opposition to the bill mount by those that want the federal government to own and control all the land and resources. We need to make sure we are louder than them. If you have not already done it, please go to the link below and show your support for the bill. If you can come to Carson City to support the bill on March 31st, please clink on that link and let us know.
Here are the links
Go this link to show support for the bill, https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/Opinions/78th2015/A/ select bill number AB408, select FOR, and put in your name and address. This is the official website for the Nevada Legislature and legislators use it to determine public support. If you are a citizen of Nevada it is a bonus, but it does not matter where you live, we need the support of all the States around us including those out east. Please click on the link and fill in the form to show your support for the bill.
Show up in Carson City, March 31st at 9 am. Over 15 Nevada State Legislators sponsored the NRR bill and have asked that we fill the house during the committee hearing. We must show up in person and make our presents known. If we fill the house, the committee will pass it and the talk of the 2015 session will be the NRR bill (AB408). With enough of your physical support in Carson City the committee will pass the NRR bill and it will have a substantial chance of becoming Nevada law soon after. We have many rooms booked and buses chartered from Las Vegas and Phoenix. If you plan on coming to Carson City click on this link to receive further information. https://docs.google.com/a/valetfleet.com/forms/d/1PqDPvH7FKhsYrgmZlBRSYrpW62kKv4yvpikA4Qwun1I/viewform
Send this email to your family and friends and ask them to support as well.
Thank you,
Ammon Bundy
Nevadan,s Resource Rights Bill (NRR) – AB408
“It is simple, the land belongs to the people”
AN ACT relating to the right of an individual to beneficially use the natural resources on public land, the right of private property owners to beneficially use the natural recourses on deeded property, the right of the public to access public land; prohibiting the Federal Government from owning or regulating certain lands or other natural resource including minerals and the right to use public waters without proper cession from the state as set forth in the U.S. Constitution; requiring the State Land Registrar to adopt regulations that provide for the appropriation and registration of grazing, logging, mineral development or other beneficial use rights on public lands; requiring the State Land Registrar to sell permits for grazing, logging, mineral development or other beneficial uses on public lands for which such rights are not registered and appropriated; requiring the Board of County Commissioners of each county to impose a tax on unit product sold from the beneficial use of public lands or other natural resource including minerals; providing for the administration and defense of the peoples right to the land and resources.
Link to the NRR AB408, http://1drv.ms/1xyphWe
NEVADAN’S RESOURCE RIGHTS BILL (NRR) AB408 – Word Doc
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Some Form of Formal Partititoning Is Still the Answer for Iraq
Unfortunately, in the 24/7/365 media age, fear mongering has never been easier. The around-the-clock cable news coverage of an extremely rare event — a co-pilot’s alleged mass murder of passengers aboard one of 40 million flights worldwide annually — is a case in point. But the cynical use of fear happens with more mundane things too — for example, in advertisements for mouthwash and filtered water. To stay alive all of these millennia, the human race became susceptible to fear baiting, even when that fear is quite irrational.
As happened after the fiasco that was the Vietnam War — when the “Vietnam syndrome” led to Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter being wisely chary of U.S. foreign interventions — the American public and even potential Republican presidential candidates became less interventionist after the long quagmires in Afghanistan in Iraq. Unfortunately, this second round of preference for overseas restraint didn’t last very long. After the radical Islamic State group lopped off a few American heads on video, the public has increased its support for U.S. military intervention, the Obama administration went back into Iraq to help battle what is more of a threat to the Middle East region than to the United States, and Republican presidential candidates — even Rand Paul — have become more hawkish.
Yet at the same time, foreign policy “experts,” such as Fareed Zakaria and the Republican-leaning Richard Haass, have finally seemed to land in the camp of more U.S. restraint overseas. On his program GPS (for “Global Public Square”), Zakaria recently discovered that most of the Islamist terror groups are mainly threats to their region, but when the United States supports autocratic regimes against them, only then do they start attacking the United States. Zakaria then quoted George W. Bush as having said that decades of supporting authoritarian governments hadn’t improved U.S. security. Hurray for Fareed; he finally gets it! Unfortunately, as Zakaria pointed out, Bush may have gotten this part right, but his solution — invading a country to attempt to eliminate the autocrat — went terribly wrong, only generating terrorism, chaos, and civil war.
On the same show, Haass announced that the United States, from now on, would need to intervene less directly overseas and instead help one side or the other in conflicts with money or arms. He also opined that Iraq was no more and was in fact effectively now three partitioned entities — the south controlled by the Shi’i government (really Iran-backed Shi’i militias), the northeast controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga militias, and the northwest controlled by the Sunni Islamic State group. He further said that the United States might need to accept this states of affairs, including an Iranian-dominated south.
A few of us have been making the points of these newly converted luminaries for years and have gotten very little credit for being right. It has long been apparent that Americans prefer to remain ignorant of the fact that their own government has had a big role, stretching back to the Cold War, in facilitating the rise of Islamist radicalism in one way or another. As for the devolution of Iraq, I counted only four analysts — including me and Joe Biden before he became vice president — who thought the United States could extricate itself from Iraq by helping the three groups — Shi’a, Sunni, and Kurds — peacefully devolve into a loose confederation of autonomously governed entities or even an outright “soft” partition by negotiation. In my book Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq, written some years ago but never more relevant now, I said that if Iraq was not partitioned peacefully, it would be divided by war. Unfortunately, the latter has occurred.
Yet the U.S. government and other governments — with their own restive minorities, which give them an interest in preventing the disintegration of foreign countries — still haven’t faced this reality. Some argue that even if some form of partition occurred, the groups would fight anyway over the new borders, such as they did in the bloody partition of South Asia into India and Pakistan in 1947. Carefully drawing the boundaries between groups would be necessary but is not impossible. Academic research shows that the bloody partitions of South Asia and Northern Ireland and Ireland resulted from boundary creation that left a large minority population inside the line, thus threatening the majority populace. The research shows that if the boundary lines are drawn so that 10 percent or less of the population is of the minority group, the majority group will not be fearful, and peace has a greater chance. For example, when Northern Ireland and Ireland divided, about a third of Northern Ireland was Catholic and the rest was Protestant, leaving the majority fearful and leading to decades of strife. In contrast, Ireland has a Protestant minority that makes up less than 10 percent of the population, and much less violence among the groups has occurred there than in the North.
In Iraq, the idea would be to draw boundaries close to ethnic or sectarian lines — which the British and French failed to do after World War I in the Middle East — but perfection is not necessary. When creating autonomous regions or even new countries, the central government is thus dissolved or weakened so that the groups don’t fight over control of it. The history of Iraq has been one group controlling the central government and using it to oppress the other groups. Although historically it was the government of a Sunni minority oppressing the others, since the U.S. invasion and occupation, it has been a majority Shi’i government oppressing the others as payback.
The brutal Islamic State group gets support from Sunni areas of Iraq because the Sunnis fear it less than they do oppression by the Shi’i government and its militias. If Sunnis were allowed to govern themselves in an autonomous area or as a new country, they would no longer fear the Shi’i central government and would be more likely to throw out the Islamic State group, as they did its predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, during the U.S. occupation.
Since much of the conflict in the Middle East now is rooted in the Shi’i-Sunni divide, partitioning in some form — so that state borders more accurately reflect ethno-sectarian boundaries — may be a good solution elsewhere as well. It is an urgent need in Iraq now.
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Some Form of Formal Partititoning Is Still the Answer for Iraq
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