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		<title>The Roaring Voice Of The Truth Movement Cannot Be Silenced Through Censorship Nor False Flag Cyber Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Gucciardi
July 21, 2010

The censorship of the Obama Deception awoke the sleeping giant that is the patriot movement. Google has made a very large statement by reinstating The Obama Deception, after the film was mysteriously pulled along with other top documentary films created by Alex Jones. Not only is this the first time that the [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Anthony Gucciardi</strong><br />
July 21, 2010</p>
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<p>The censorship of the Obama Deception awoke the sleeping giant that is the patriot movement. Google has made a very large statement by reinstating The Obama Deception, after the film was mysteriously pulled along with other top documentary films created by Alex Jones. Not only is this the first time that the mega-corporation has restored a political video of such nature on Youtube, but the restoration also came after Google’s search engines were blasted with hard-hitting search topics.</p>
<p><span id="more-1720"></span>With searches such as “Obama Deception Censored” reaching number 1, it was clear that the people were not happy with the censorship. Initially, Obama Deception was the hottest search on Google Trends, but it was later pushed down the list despite a high volume of searches.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">It was the immense response from concerned patriots that led to proper justice and reinstitution. With The Obama Deception being in the spotlight once more, it allowed for hundreds of thousands of people around the world to injected with a high-potency formula of truth. Censorship only enabled the video to become even more mega viral. Censorship simply does not work, and it only creates a full backlash against the corporation or governmental institution that is issuing the censorship. The roaring voice of the truth movement cannot be silenced, and only grows louder with each intellectual battle against tyranny.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>This Is Not The First Incident Of Internet Censorship</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Internet censorship has been extremely prevalent in the past few years, with Infowars and Prison Planet <a style="color: #003366; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.infowars.com/frightening-taste-of-internet-censorship-as-major-free-speech-websites-blocked/" target="_blank">being blocked by filters around the world</a>. Beyond censorship of individual websites promoting peaceful demonstrations and resistance to tyranny, the Cybersecurity Bill gives Obama <a style="color: #003366; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.infowars.com/cybersecurity-bill-gives-obama-dictatorial-power-over-internet/" target="_blank">complete control over the internet</a>. This, of course, will most likely be abused beyond all imagination.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The internet has been a vassal of truth and information for years, and corrupt politicians are starting to voice their opposition to the internet and its informational database. Jay Rockefeller, of the Rockefeller family, <a style="color: #003366; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">stated that the internet should never have existed</a>. The Rockefeller family have deep ties with eugenicist ideology, and helped to found IBM through financial funding.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jay Rockefeller has been <a style="color: #003366; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjOkF2ZVzI" target="_blank">confronted by We Are Change</a>, a group that seeks to uncover the truth about 9/11 and other topics, about his position on internet censorship and his ties to eugenics. Instead of providing any answer, Jay Rockefeller begins to run away. One member asks about the famed Bilderberg group, in which he replies with a non-answer, saying that it is not part of the discussion. This is the man who gets a say in whether or not we are able to have an unregulated and uncensored internet.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Criminal Censorship Techniques Wake Up More People</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The internet is the medium of choice for most people to display their work, read the news, or stay in contact with friends. When they find out that the internet is being assaulted by outlandish policy, they are going to be furious. If one person’s video is censored, then soon it will be your video. The very ability of free speech is what needs to be protected. Free speech can only be protected as a nation, by protecting the free speech of every single man. On the other side of things, it has already come out that in Britain they <a style="color: #003366; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6534319/State-to-spy-on-every-phone-call-email-and-web-search.html" target="_blank">hold every phone call, email, and web search for one year</a>. Telecom companies are required to do this by law.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong>Many People Are Fully Aware Of What Is Going On</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The censorship of the Obama Deception is a testament to the ability of the people. Millions are aware of what is going on, and they have the intellectual power to create change through peaceful means. Completely dominating the global trends on Google Trends is but one way that the people have flexed their muscle. The Obama Deception has been seen millions of times, with the censored video receiving more than 6.6 million views, and it will continue to be seen by millions more (granted that the internet remains up and well). Continue to promote The Obama Deception and other truth films, and flex the muscle of the truth movement.</p>


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		<title>Full-body scanners ‘useless,’ air security expert says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Schmidt
Canwest News Service
April 23, 2010

Boasting he could easily slip through one of Canada’s new full-body scanners with enough explosives to blow up a jumbo jet, a leading Israeli airport security expert says the federal government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.
“I don’t know why everybody [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Sarah Schmidt</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
Canwest News Service<br />
April 23, 2010</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1009" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="airport-body-scans_0" src="http://americareclaimed.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/airport-body-scans_0-300x231.jpg" alt="airport-body-scans_0" width="300" height="231" /></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Boasting he could easily slip through one of Canada’s new full-body scanners with enough explosives to blow up a jumbo jet, a leading Israeli airport security expert says the federal government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="more-1706"></span><span style="color: #000000;">“I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada on Thursday.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">“That’s why we haven’t put them in our airport.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Sela, former chief security officer at the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, helped design the security apparatus at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. He spoke to MPs on the House of Commons transport committee via video conference from Kfar Vradim, Israel.</span></p>


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		<title>Thai PM May be Forced Resign, Dissolve Parliament as Street Protests Continue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambika Ahuja and Nick Macfie
  Reuters
April 17, 2010

Thai anti-government protest leaders staged a dramatic escape from police on Friday after the authorities vowed to crack down on “terrorists” ahead of a planned televised address by the prime minister. See the video below.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Ambika Ahuja and Nick Macfie</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
</span> <strong><span style="color: #000000;"> Reuter</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">s<br />
April 17, 2010</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Thai anti-government protest leaders staged a dramatic escape from police on Friday after the authorities vowed to crack down on “terrorists” ahead of a planned televised address by the prime minister. </span><strong><span style="color: #000000;">See the video below</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">One protest leader slid down a rope from a balcony, while others were rescued from riot police by hundreds of “red shirts”, who heavily outnumbered security forces at a Bangkok hotel owned by the family of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had been due to hold his first news conference in four days at 1 p.m. (0600 GMT) but it was delayed. No reason was given.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">So what happens now?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">IS VIOLENCE ABOUT TO ERUPT AGAIN?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">It is unlikely in the short term. The failed attempt to eject protesters from one of their encampments last Saturday, which turned into violent clashes, embarrassed the military. It is now on a public relations offensive to explain that security forces were targeted by &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. The army is unlikely to come out in full force again, risking its reputation to protect Abhisit, whose political capital appears to be dwindling.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The protesters have consolidated at the Rachaprasong intersection shopping district. The geography of the area and the presence of families, tourists and expatriates in luxury hotels and apartments make it very unlikely the troops will move in.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">A state of emergency is in effect, banning public gatherings of more than five people, yet thousands remain on the streets. Army chief Anupong Paochinda said &#8220;political problems require a political solution&#8221;, another indication the army is unwilling at this point to crack down on behalf of the embattled government.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">COULD ABHISIT CAVE IN?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Abhisit may well have to dissolve parliament soon or resign. Pressure will mount on him if the protests continue to paralyse the capital&#8217;s commercial heart. The government has said it does not want to give in to mob rule, but Abhisit has offered few clues as to how he will resolve the crisis.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Complicating his future, Thailand&#8217;s poll watchdog has set in motion a procedure that could lead to the disbanding of his Democrat Party over suspected funding irregularities. A similar ruling ended a Thaksin-supported coalition government in 2008.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Some in the establishment, however, are believed to be manoeuvring for Abhisit to quit, paving the way for a temporary &#8220;national unity government&#8221; that would bring all parties, including the Thaksin-allied opposition, into the fold. That could take the red shirts off the streets and buy time before fresh polls are called. But Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said on Thursday that Abhisit had no intention of standing down.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">WILL THE VIOLENCE HURT THE ECONOMY?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The short answer is yes. Credit rating agencies and economists say the escalation of violence will hit tourism revenue, foreign direct investment and economic growth.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">But Thailand has had 18 coups since 1932 and protests by yellow shirts, red shirts and others are a way of life, even if Bangkok has not seen such violence since 1992. Until the declaration of a state of emergency last week, Thailand along with the rest of Southeast Asia had seen a surge in foreign investment inflows, with $1.8 billion coming into Southeast Asia&#8217;s second largest economy from Feb. 22 to March 7.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Stocks dived 2.7 percent on Friday, extending a 3.6 percent fall before the three-day New Year holiday. Airports of Thailand AOT.BK fell 5.6 percent and national carrier Thai Airways THAI.BK 4.9 percent. Tourism has taken a hit, with occupancy rates at hotels about a third of expectations.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In January, the central bank predicted economic growth of 3.3-5.3 percent this year. Private economists expect 4-5 percent. They say that despite the problems, the export-driven economy should perform well due to the global recovery.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">IS THERE A CHANCE OF ANOTHER COUP?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">It&#8217;s not totally out of the question if the government teeters and the influential men in green who traditionally play a pivotal role in politics risk losing behind-the-scenes clout.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The army is well aware that another coup will not sit well with the international community and could provoke a violent response in the bitterly divided country. Some within the army may prefer the use of &#8220;soft power&#8221; to push Abhisit out and install a new leader to buy time before the next poll is held.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Analysts say large numbers of soldiers in the lower ranks and some senior officers sympathise with the red shirts. Many of the military&#8217;s top brass are at the other end of the political spectrum, allied with royalists, business elites and the urban middle classes who wear yellow or pink at counter-protests and broadly back the 16-month-old government.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Adding to the mix is the question of the eventual succession to 82-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has been in hospital since Sept. 19, and whether this might lead to a change in the balance of power in the military, traditionally closely aligned with the palace.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">WHO ARE THE RED SHIRTS AND WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR?</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">They are mostly supporters of Thaksin, drawing from the rural poor and increasingly from the urban working class.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Their formal name is the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). They wear red shirts to distinguish themselves from the pro-establishment yellow shirts.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">They back Thaksin because of his welfare and rural development policies while in office from 2001-2006. Many of them believe his conviction for corruption after he was ousted in a 2006 military coup was an attempt to keep him out of politics after the coup. Not all red shirts back Thaksin unreservedly, but all are angered by the manner of his removal and believe democracy is being undermined by powerful, unelected figures.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The red shirts say Abhisit&#8217;s coalition government is illegitimate because it was not elected but pieced together with the backing of the army in a &#8220;silent coup&#8221; in December 2008 after a ruling pro-Thaksin party was dissolved. It wants new elections, which it is confident the pro-Thaksin Puea Thai Party would win.</span></p>


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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Wyckoff
Kitco
April 14, 2010 

A weaker U.S. dollar index and higher crude oil prices are supporting fresh buying interest in Comex gold futures Wednesday morning. June gold was last traded up $5.70 an ounce at $1,159.10. Traders viewed Tuesday&#8217;s price setback as a buying opportunity as the overall technical picture for gold remains fully bullish.
Underlying [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Jim Wyckoff<br />
Kitco</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
April 14, 2010 </span></p>
<p style="font-size: 13px; color: #000000; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-194" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="gold" src="http://americareclaimed.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/39197167_gold1-300x257.jpg" alt="gold" width="300" height="257" /></p>
<p style="font-size: 13px; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><span style="color: #000000;">A weaker U.S. dollar index and higher crude oil prices are supporting fresh buying interest in Comex gold futures Wednesday morning. June gold was last traded up $5.70 an ounce at $1,159.10. Traders viewed Tuesday&#8217;s price setback as a buying opportunity as the overall technical picture for gold remains fully bullish.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><span id="more-1692"></span><span style="color: #000000;">Underlying support for gold continues to come from Greece&#8217;s sovereign debt situation and the efforts of the European Union to deal with it. While more steps were taken this week to offer financing to Greece, many gold traders remain very skeptical that Greece can ultimately get out from under its huge debt burden without further economic and financial harm to the EU. That is leading to further buying interest in gold as a hedge against European currencies.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: 13px; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In overnight news, a report said first-quarter investment in gold dropped from the year-earlier period, but added that fresh investor demand could drive gold prices to a new all-time high. The U.K. firm GFMS said investor demand for gold will become greater in the coming months. The firm said inflation concerns and worries about European Union debt are the main bullish forces for gold.</span></p>
<p style="font-size: 13px; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The London A.M. gold fix was $1,159.00 versus the previous P.M. fixing of $1,148.25.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; padding-left: 4px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Technically, June Comex gold futures bulls have upside near-term technical momentum. Prices hit a fresh four-month high on Monday. Prices are still in a two-month-old uptrend on the daily bar chart. For June gold, shorter-term technical resistance is seen at this week&#8217;s high of $1,170.70 and then at $1,175.00. Buy stops likely reside just above those levels. Sell stops likely reside just below shorter-term support at the overnight low of $1,151.00 and then at this week&#8217;s low of $1,145.40. Today&#8217;s key near-term Fibonacci pivot level for June gold: $1,139.00. From a longer-term perspective, an examination of the monthly continuation chart for nearby Comex gold futures shows a solid longer-term price uptrend remains firmly in place, which suggests that in the coming months, the path of least resistance for the precious yellow metal will remain sideways to higher.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Comex silver futures are also higher in early trading Wednesday. Prices hit a fresh three-month high Monday. The silver bulls have upside near-term technical momentum. May silver last traded up 17.1 cents an ounce at $18.42. May silver finds shorter-term technical resistance at this week&#8217;s high of $18.604 and then at $18.75. Buy stops likely reside just above those levels. Shorter-term technical support for May silver is located at the overnight low of $18.21 and then at this week&#8217;s low of $17.955. Sell stops are likely placed just below those levels. Today&#8217;s key Fibonacci pivot level for May silver futures is located at $17.82.</span></p>


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		<title>Medvedev: Israeli Strike On Iran Could Spark Global Catastrophe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters
April 13, 2010

An Israeli strike of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral into a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called &#8220;smart&#8221; sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its nuclear program.
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April 13, 2010</p>
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<p>An Israeli strike of Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities could spark a nuclear conflict, which could spiral into a global catastrophe, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC on Monday, adding that he supported what he called &#8220;smart&#8221; sanctions on Tehran as part of attempt to make it abandon its nuclear program.</p>
<p><span id="more-1688"></span>The Russian president is in the United States for a 47-nation nuclear summit convened by U.S. President Barack Obama aimed at thwarting nuclear terrorism, and which may also center on a U.S.-back attempt to hit Iran with new nuclear sanctions.</p>
<p>Russia and China remain two important missing links in Obama&#8217;s drive to sanction Iran over its nuclear program. Referring to the possibility that Israel may attack Iran if negotiations over its contentious nuclear programs fail, Medvedev told Good Morning America that &#8220;it would be the worst possible scenario,&#8221; adding that &#8220;war means lives lost.&#8221;<br />
The Russian president also tried to estimate the meaning of what he sees as a war in the Middle East erupting as a result of such a move on Israel&#8217;s side, saying &#8220;everyone is so close over there that nobody would be unaffected. And if conflict of that kind happens, and a strike is performed, then you can expect anything, including use of nuclear weapons.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And nuclear strikes in the Middle East, this means a global catastrophe. Many deaths,&#8221; Medvedev said.</p>
<p>Earlier Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned Obama&#8217;s nuclear summit, calling it humiliating to humanity.  U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting the summit, which is focused on preventing nuclear terrorism but where world leaders are also set to discuss his push for new sanctions against Iran&#8217;s atomic program.</p>
<p>&#8220;World summits being organized these days are intended to humiliate human beings,&#8221; Ahmadinejad told delegates at a domestic tourism industry event, according to IRNA news agency.</p>
<p>Iran was not invited to the summit, which is being attended by leaders of China and Russia whose consent will be required to impose new sanctions which Obama wants agreed in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad had harsh words for politicians who claimed to represent the international community: &#8220;These foolish people who are in charge are like stupid, retarded people who brandish their swords whenever they face shortcomings, without realizing that the time for this type of thing is over.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran has said it will complain to the United Nations about what it sees as Obama&#8217;s implied threat to attack it with nuclear weapons. Addressing the United States, Ahmadinejad said: &#8220;Your gift to the world is a nuclear bomb while Iran presents &#8230; humanity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iran says sanctions will not force it to stop its pursuit of nuclear technology which it says is entirely peaceful. The West fears it is seeking to gain nuclear weapons.</p>


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		<title>Support for Repeal of Health Care Plan Up To 58%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramussen Reports
April 12, 2010

Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Ramussen Reports</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
April 12, 2010</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1243" style="border: 1px solid black;" title="healthcare" src="http://americareclaimed.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/healthcare-300x225.jpg" alt="healthcare" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters nationwide finds 38% still oppose repeal, including 32% who strongly oppose it.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">For the previous two weeks following passage of the controversial plan, 54% of voters have favored repeal and 42% have opposed it. But only 38% of voters think it is even somewhat likely that the health care bill will be repealed. Fifty-one percent (51%) see repeal as unlikely. Those figures include 11% who say it’s very likely to be repealed and 18% who say repeal is not at all likely.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Still, 52% believe the health care plan will be bad for the country. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think it will be good for the country, and one percent (1%) more say it will have no impact. These numbers have changed little since the March 21 House vote to pass the health care bill.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Rasmussen Reports will track support for the repeal effort on a weekly basis for as long as it remains a significant issue. New updates will be released each Monday morning. Prior to passage of the law, Scott Rasmussen wrote a </span><em><span style="color: #000000;">Wall Street Journal </span></em><span style="color: #000000;">column explaining </span><a title="http://tinyurl.com/RR1199" href="http://tinyurl.com/RR1199" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">“Why Obama Can’t Move the Health Care Numbers.”</span></a></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters believe </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/april_2010/47_say_repeal_of_health_care_law_will_be_good_for_economy" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">repeal of the health care bill will be good for the economy</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Republicans and 54% of voters not affiliated with either major party favor repeal. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Democrats are opposed. Republican support for repeal is up eight points from a week ago, while Democratic opposition is down seven.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ninety-four percent (94%) of those who consider themselves part of </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2010/tea_party_48_obama_44" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">the Tea Party movement</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> favor repealing the health care bill. Sixty-five percent (65%) of </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2010/65_now_hold_populist_or_mainstream_views" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">the Political Class</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> oppose repeal, while 75% of Mainstream voters think repeal is a good idea. Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats and most unaffiliated voters (53%) say repeal of the bill is unlikely. A majority (54%) of Republicans feel otherwise and think repeal is at least somewhat likely.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Seventy-eight percent (78%) of the Political Class says repeal is not very or not at all likely. Seventy percent (70%) of Democrats say the health care plan will be good for the country. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of GOP voters and 56% of unaffiliateds disagree. Generally speaking, the partisan and demographic breakdowns have shifted little since passage of the health care bill. Those groups who opposed the bill tend to support repeal and those who supported the bill oppose repeal.</span></p>
<p style="padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Most voters have believed for months that the quality of health care will suffer if the plan becomes law and that </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/march_2010/54_say_cost_is_biggest_problem_with_health_care" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">costs will go up</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">. Voters strongly believe the health care reform plan will cost more than official estimates, and 78% expect </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/march_2010/57_predict_health_care_plan_will_hurt_the_economy" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">an increase in taxes on the middle class</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> to pay for it. Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters believe </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/taxes/april_2010/66_say_america_is_overtaxed" target="_self"><span style="color: #000000;">America is already overtaxed</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p>


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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Weber
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April 11, 2010

The Army reserve unit that became infamous after some of its members were charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison six years ago is returning to Iraq. The Pentagon said Friday that the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., has been mobilized for its first deployment since 2004,The Associated Press [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Christopher Weber</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
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April 11, 2010</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">The Army reserve unit that became infamous after some of its members were charged with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison six years ago is returning to Iraq. The Pentagon said Friday that the 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown, Md., has been mobilized for its first deployment since 2004,</span><a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/abu-ghraib-unit-to-return_n_532341.html"><span style="color: #000000;">The Associated Press</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> reported.</span></p>
<p><span id="more-1679"></span><span style="color: #000000;">The 372nd is scheduled to leave April 29 for up to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by deployment overseas.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The unit made headlines around the world when seven of its soldiers faced charges in connection with the mistreatment of detainees at the prison. All were convicted, and six served prison time.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">A military spokesman said the current unit is made up of few former members.</span></p>


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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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April 8, 2010

The four new studies conducted by Canadian researchers conclude that the traditional seasonal flu vaccine seems to have boosted the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 swine flu by almost double. 
In one study, the researchers revealed to use ongoing sentinel monitoring system in order to assess the frequency of prior [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Prakash Sharma</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
Top News<br />
April 8, 2010</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">The four new studies conducted by Canadian researchers conclude that the traditional seasonal flu vaccine seems to have boosted the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 swine flu by almost double. </span></p>
<p><span id="more-1675"></span><span style="color: #000000;">In one study, the researchers revealed to use ongoing sentinel monitoring system in order to assess the frequency of prior vaccination with the seasonal flu vaccine in people suffering from H1N1 swine flu in 2009 compared to people without swine flu.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The study discovered that seasonal flu vaccination was linked with a 68 percent boosted risk of falling in prey to swine flu.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">“I do think that they did the best they could with the data they had”, said Dr. Mark Loeb, an infectious diseases expert at McMaster University in Hamilton who was not part of the study and who seems to be sceptical about the study’s conclusion.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The studies, published April 6 in the online journal PLoS Medicine, attributed to the combined of over 40 researchers including many of Canada’s top influenza experts. The data is reported to be fetched from four studies that draw cases from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">However, the studies failed to show the presence of a true cause-and-effect link between seasonal flu vaccination and subsequent swine flu illness, or it is due to presence of a common factor among the people in the study.</span></p>


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		<title>Obama excludes Iran in ban on US nuke strikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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April 6, 2010

US President Barack Obama plans to release a review of the US nuclear arms strategy that purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most non-atomic states except Iran and North Korea. The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which the US Congress requires all US administrations to submit at least once during their [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Press TV</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;"><br />
April 6, 2010</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">US President Barack Obama plans to release a review of the US nuclear arms strategy that purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most non-atomic states except Iran and North Korea. The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which the US Congress requires all US administrations to submit at least once during their tenure, will be issued one day before Obama leaves for Prague to sign a new nuclear-arms treaty with Russia.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="more-1672"></span><span style="color: #000000;">Despite the US claim of planning to stop funding for the development of future nuclear weapons, in its new budget request for 2011 the Obama Administration dramatically increases the funding for new US nuclear weapon production facilities while calling for a spending freeze for such domestic programs as education, nutrition, air traffic control and national parks for three year.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The development comes as Iran prepares to hold an international conference on nuclear disarmament late this month dubbed “Nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for none.” Representatives from 60 countries are to participate in the two-day conference that focuses on the complete elimination of nuclear weapons across the globe.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The new NPR by the Obama Administration is also to encompass restrictions on the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries. So far, nuclear retaliation has been reserved as an option for the US government to use in response to chemical or biological attacks.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The exception will remain for a possible nuclear attack on countries that are not in compliance with non-proliferation treaties ‘from the US perspective.’</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">In a Monday interview with The New York Times, Obama clarified what Washington meant by non-compliance with non-proliferation treaties by claiming that the loophole for violating the stated restrictions would apply to what he called “outliers like Iran and North Korea.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Israel, India, and Pakistan are the only regimes with nuclear warheads that have refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But, Obama made no reference to any of those nuclear-armed powers. Although Israel has not declared its possession of nuclear weapons, it has neither denied it, nor has it submitted to any international inspection.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Israeli regime is widely believed to possess over 200 atomic warheads.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">While North-Korea has withdrawn from the NPT, Iran has been a long-time member of the pact, in accordance to which its civilian nuclear activities have been placed under wide-ranging supervision by the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The much-awaited review is expected to include an announcement for massive reductions in the United States’ nuclear arsenal, as Obama pledged last April, during a major speech in Prague, which won him the Nobel peace prize.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">However, based on reports released last month, the US is likely to reduce its arsenal by dismantling costly-to-maintain, older nuclear warheads no longer deployed (warheads that cannot be loaded onto ready for launch missiles).</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The new treaty to be signed with Russia already calls on both sides to reduce their nuclear warheads to 1,550, about one-third below current levels. In the review, Obama’s government is also expected to ‘clarify’ that the purpose of the remaining US nuclear arsenal is fundamentally for deterrence.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The new policy is also to renounce US development of any new nuclear weapons. In 2003, the George W. Bush administration decided to engage in research for a new generation of small nuclear weapons, especially “earth penetrators”.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000;">The budget passed by the US Congress in 2004 eliminated funding for some, but not all of such research.</span></p>


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		<title>Wikileaks Leaked Video Of Civilians Killed In Baghdad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony</dc:creator>
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April 5, 2010

&#8220;WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad &#8212; including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The [...]


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April 5, 2010</span></p>
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&#8220;WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad &#8212; including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. &#8221; &#8211; Wikileaks. </span><strong><span style="color: #000000;">See the video below.</span></strong></p>
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