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No More Exposés in North Carolina

February 1, 2016, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/opinion/no-more-exposes-in-north-carolina.html?_r=0

Factory farm operators believe that the less Americans know about what goes on behind their closed doors, the better. That’s because the animals sent through those factories often endure an unimaginable amount of mistreatment and abuse.

Nearly always, this treatment comes to light only because courageous employees – or those posing as employees – take undercover video and release it to the public. The industry’s lobbyists have taken the opposite approach, pushing for the passage of so-called “ag-gag” laws, which ban undercover recordings on farms and in slaughterhouses.

These measures have … been enacted in eight [states]. None has gone as far as North Carolina, where a new law that took effect Jan. 1 aims to silence whistle-blowers not just at agricultural facilities, but at all workplaces in the state.

That includes, among others, nursing homes, day care centers, and veterans’ facilities. Anyone who violates the law – say, by secretly taping abuses of elderly patients or farm animals and then sharing the recording with the media or an advocacy group – can be sued by business owners for bad publicity and be required to pay a fine of $5,000 for each day that person is gathering information.

This is a clear violation of the constitutional freedoms of speech and the press, as … argued in a federal lawsuit filed in January.

Note: This law was passed following the widely publicised release of video footage showing toxic cesspools around North Carolina farms. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles about corruption in government and in the corporate world.

Source: http://www.wanttoknow.info

http://www.miningweekly.com/article/illegal-mining-threatens-long-term-viability-of-anglogolds-idled-obuasi-mine-2016-02-16

Worth the time to read!!

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/was-justice-scalia-murdered-forget-conspiracy-theory-this-is-real/

And we ain’t in it.

Here’s Why (And How) The Government Will “Borrow” Your Retirement Savings

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

According to financial research firm ICI, total retirement assets in the Land of the Free now exceed $23 trillion.

$7.3 trillion of that is held in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

That’s an appetizing figure, especially for a government that just passed $19 trillion in debt and is in pressing need of new funding sources.

Even when you account for all federal assets (like national parks and aircraft carriers), the government’s “net financial position” according to its own accounting is negative $17.7 trillion.

And that number doesn’t include unfunded Social Security entitlements, which the government estimates is another $42 trillion.

The US national debt has increased by roughly $1 trillion annually over the past several years.

The Federal Reserve has conjured an astonishing amount of money out of thin air in order to buy a big chunk of that debt.

But even the Fed has limitations. According to its own weekly financial statement, the Fed’s solvency is at precariously low levels (with a capital base of just 0.8% of assets).

And on a mark-to-market basis, the Fed is already insolvent. So it’s foolish to think they can continue to print money forever and bail out the government without consequence.

The Chinese (and other foreigners) own a big slice of US debt as well.

But it’s just as foolish to expect them to continue bailing out America, especially when they have such large economic problems at home.

US taxpayers own the largest share of the debt, mostly through various trust funds of Social Security and Medicare.

But again, given the $42 trillion funding gap in these programs, it’s mathematically impossible for Social Security to continue funding the national debt.

This reality puts the US government in rough spot.

It’s not like government spending is going down anytime soon; it already takes nearly 100% of tax revenue just to pay mandatory entitlements like Social Security, and interest on the debt.

Plus the government itself estimates that the national debt will hit $30 trillion within ten years.

Bottom line, they need more money. Lots of it. And there is perhaps no easier pool of cash to ‘borrow’ than Americans’ retirement savings.

$7.3 trillion in US IRA accounts is too large for them to ignore.

more http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-15/heres-why-and-how-government-will-borrow-your-retirement-savings

Nice to see we’re above $1200 at least for now … knock on wood. We’ve got some gains to digest.

GoGold Announces Financial Results for the Quarter ended December 31, 2015

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gogold-announces-financial-results-quarter-210000858.html

Freeport-McMoRan Announces Agreement to Sell a 13% Interest in Morenci Mine for $1.0 Billion in Cash

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/freeport-mcmoran-announces-agreement-sell-060000986.html

Hecla Reports Record Silver Reserves for the 10th Consecutive Year of 175 Million Ounces and Gold Reserves of 2.1 Million Ounces

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hecla-reports-record-silver-reserves-113000267.html

Goldstrike / Petro One Business Combination Receives Supreme Court Approval

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldstrike-petro-one-business-combination-124500968.html

Kootenay announces option with Pan American Silver

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kootenay-announces-option-pan-american-130000894.html

Permitting Progresses at IDM Mining’s Red Mountain Underground Gold Project

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/permitting-progresses-idm-minings-red-140000284.html

Sierra Metals announces financial results for Q4-2015 at its subsidiary Sociedad Minera Corona in Peru

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sierra-metals-announces-financial-results-120000398.html

is great. wj

SM futures slipping a little, there’s still a lot of day ahead…

Ipso – definitely seems we have the same type of psycho’s that reincarnate themselves century after century. COTS definitely have won the last couple of days but I’m pleasantly surprised to see us bouncing back a little this am.

Maddog – if the window almost shut once it will surely try to shut again. I see Duetsche Bank is down almost 5% today after the temporary bounce. I still think something is breaking but I guess we’ll see.

have left huge weekly gaps to the upside on all US charts…which if filled will confirm a pull back only…ie potential for sling shot move higher.!!!!!!

sri no link as behind paywall.

they have been shut out for last 2 weeks, the short term ie upto 6 mnths has not closed, as it did in 2008……This is why they had to “save” the SM/banks over the weekend and hope the long term debt mkts recover…if not the short term mkts will freeze and then it’s back to 2008 !!!!!!!

Classic squeeze is hitting the TBTF banks….Under Nirp they can’t earn much if any money on deposit taking, no-one of sound mind will buy their crap derivatives and unless you have GS’s network, insider trading is not paying much. Plus they are still paying staff as if it was 2006 !!!!

So lenders are rightly demanding higher rates on Long Term Bonds/Notes, to lend to a crap business model, just as the Banks ability to pay anything is falling apart……. …..they have at last screwed themselves……..it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/health/3947771-some-shocked-estate-claims-after-signing-mnsure