Saturday, June 1, 2013

"THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC", Part 32

"THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC",
Part 32
by Sherman H. Skolnick 4/21/03
U.S./IRAQ Plots and Secret Weapons
Both the U.S. and Iraq have the same secret weapon and they share in joint plots. Without publicity, the U.S. used the weapon in Persian Gulf War One. Iraq, recipient of the same technology from Daddy Bush and others when Saddam Hussein was his private business partner in the 1980s, may use it in Persian Gulf War Two.
A huge body of details, known to us, is necessary to try to understand this report by those who may not be well-informed and/or, in years past have not been much interested in knowing about these matters that we put into our reports.
A summary of some of those details
[1] Both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were created by the American CIA, with the aid and connivance, among others, of Daddy Bush, and despite appearing to be on the outs with their creators, continue to play sophisticated "games" with the CIA and others, seldom understood by or explained to common Americans. The oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press tells us all less than ten per cent of the truth, ninety per cent fairy tales, to protect The Establishment, the "powers-that-be", the Ruling Class , or whatever you call "THEM".
[2] Our reports right after the multiple bombings of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building, in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995, were often misunderstood and widely heckled by poorly informed persons. Despite that, we continue to try not to deal wit h readers of our reports, listeners of our radio shows, and viewers of our non-commercial tv shows, as if such persons are all eight year olds, the rotten way the press-fakers keep the public as dumb as possible.
(a) right after April 19, 1995, we wrote exclusive reports which appeared on one or more websites, years before we had our own website. (We believe they may still be archived by Brian Redman, who has been running a superior website, "Conspiracy Nation", although we are NOT conspiracy theorists.)
(b) We said that multiple weapons were used to take down the building in Oklahoma City. We later interviewed some of those who came from some distance as volunteer rescuers with their sniffing dogs, searching for possible survivors. We found later that some of them were suffering from radioactive fall-out ailments. AND, that their skilled dogs thereafter died. For various reasons becoming suspicious, the volunteers dug up the carcasses of the dead animals and a laboratory determined they had huge amou nts of radioactive material in their lungs. The volunteers themselves were suffering from diseases associated with having been heavily exposed to radioactive materials. Government doctors told the volunteers if they did not SHUT UP about the subject, th at their ailments would not be dealt with, that they would receive no medical attention, and doctor/hospital bills would NOT be paid.
Who among the press prostitutes mentioned the independent-minded investigators who came to the bomb site with Geiger Counters, to measure radioactive fall-out and were astounded what they found? Nuclear experts who permitted us to talk to them on the pr omise of extreme secrecy, informed us that the residue substance discovered in the bomb site was TRITIUM. It is described as "A rare radioactive hydrogen isotope with atomic mass 3 and half-life 12.5 years, prepared artificially for use as a tracer and as a constituent of hydrogen bombs". Excerpt of our interviews
Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts "Why are you whispering to me?"
Nuclear expert "You are a layman. You do not know what you are messing with in discussing tritium, sir."
Weapons experts prefer tritium because it has a half-life, when it is still potent, much, much less than better known plutonium.
The press whores, in a position to know about these things or even to ask questions, were silent and censored all mentioned of anything linked to this. If anything, they steered up know-nothings to privately blast us as "liars". The press raised no ques tions when the FBI, to cover up the radioactivity, quickly demolished what was left of the Murrah Building and cemented over the site, calculated to keep the radioactive residue from being further measured and detected.
[3] As we detailed in various of our stories posted on websites of pals of ours, we mentioned that starting before April 19, 1995, were efforts by dissident "flag officers", slang for Admirals and Generals, to seek to arrest their Command-in-Chief Bill Clinton, a real-life "Seven Days in May". They felt authorized under the Uniform Military Code to arrest Clinton. If he arrested them for mutiny, if they were not immediately assassinated, they were prepared to heavily document to defend themselves at C ourts Martial with data proving Clinton met from time to time with the head of the Red Chinese Secret Police, Wang Jun, and turned over to him, U.S. financial, industrial, and yes, MILITARY secrets. The Red Chinese being sworn enemies of the U.S., these acts by Clinton fit the classic U.S. Constitution definition of treason (Article 3, Section 3).
[4] Right after April 19, 1995, Clinton went as a surprise on CBS's "60 Minutes" Sunday tv program, and proclaimed that the "militia" (then much in the news) were dedicated, he said, "to try to overthrow the U.S. Government", a false notion Clinton well knew. Clinton and his cronies, the Bush Crime Family, clearly had prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City Bombings. Clinton's purpose was to divert attention from the political debacle of the 1994 Congressional Election, wherein the GOP took control, afte r many years, of the U.S. Congress.
5] In 1992, members of our investigative group spent about four months extensively interviewing Michael Riconoscuito. Described by those who knew him well as a weapons and electronic genius, which we verified he is/was, he ran afoul of the American CIA because he divulged to a Congressional Committee the dirty business of Daddy Business and others in the "spook" industry. [The federal jails, in various places in this nation, have put away by frame-ups, several former CIA pilots who blew the whistle o n dope shipments, CIA covert operators and such, all on the outs with the spy cartel, and put in jail on long sentences. Riconosciuto was framed up on a 28 year rap.]
As we confirmed, Riconosciuto helped invent and develop a sub-atomic weapon he and others called "blue lightning". We talked to him in the Federal "Triangle", one of the few buildings in the U.S. shaped with three sides and being the Federal jail in the Windy City. He was brought to Chicago from another jail, while he waited to be brought before a very, very Special Federal Grand Jury supposedly investigating corruption of the U.S. Justice Department and the American CIA.
In charge of the Grand Jury was retired former Chicago U.S. District Judge Nicholas J. Bua. Was it a mere coincidence he was a key member of the secret group P-2 (Propagana Due), dedicated to overthrowing representative governments in Italy, France, Eng land, and U.S? P-2 is made up of top level judges, cabinet members, legislators, media brass, and bosses of the secret political police. (A history of P-2, from various publications available through web search engines, shows they specialize, for exampl e, in bombings to blame onto innocent dissidents.)
Get this! Former Judge Bua in 1992 was the Special Counsel for the U.S. Justice Department. Neat trick! Investigating themselves, a perfect whitewash. Little known or understood is that every person has a fundamental right to find the foreperson of the Grand Jury and submit to that person evidence and testimony that the Grand Jury may wish to investigate. Of course, no outsider has a right to ask a Gr and Juror what they are deliberating on behind the unmarked door. I located the foreperson of Bua's Grand Jury, as she was walking on the way to the secret door. I told her I and associates of mine had testimony and evidence for the Grand Jury. Bua's as sistant, not wishing to know the law that applied authorizing what I was doing, tried to right there arrest me. When I told Bua, who knew me for several decades, that I will sue him and his assistant for false arrest, Bua called off his vicious dog.
[6] A secret copy of Bua's whitewash report was somehow delivered to us. We found out that Bua had without evidence he could refer to, condemned Riconosciuto and any mention of the "blue lightning" weapon. Shortlly thereafter I and an associate of mine and Riconosciuto brought a suit in the Chicago Federal District Court against Bua and others. We claimed they were unlawfully blocking our evidence and testimony before the Federal Grand Jury, an offense known as obstruction of justice. A fellow Judge o f Bua, without allowing us to appear even once in his courtroom, secretly dismissed our case, stating no reason for doing so.
[7] During Persian Gulf War One, 1991, without publicity, or if ever mentioned at all, soft-pedaled, the U.S. Military used Riconosciuto's invention "blue lightning" to blast away and incinerate great numbers of Iraqi troops. Riconosciuto and others fam iliar with the weapon, contend it releases a form of sub-atomic power. A residue left over in or near where it is used is TRITIUM, same residue left over after the multiple blasts at the Oklahoma City bombings, April 19, 1995.
8] For many years after the Oklahoma City disaster, I was the only one writing exclusively about how domestic dissidents whether they were fully aware of it or not, were actually surrogates for Iraq playing a dirty game in the U.S. for the American CIA and others. At the close of Persian Gulf War One, as I exclusively described, Daddy Bush, then President, quietly brought into the U.S., four thousand supposed elite Iraqi military and intelligence division defectors, some of them skilled pilots. Bush and later Clinton, were in a position to know that some of them were actually double agents.
In a heavily censored and watered down story, CBS's "60 Minutes" tv program mentioned that 550 such supposed "defectors" were housed and became residents, with their families, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Not mentioned was the real details. Namely, that 2,000 of such were set up, with federal subsidies for them and their families, housing, rent, food, and such IN OKLAHOMA CITY. AND, that they were involved in using Timothy McVeigh, and others as surrogates, whether directly or immediately known by him and ot hers or not.
Many years after my original exclusive stories, a huge documented book came out. It documented how between 4 thousand and 13 thousand such Iraqis were brought into the U.S.and vast sums spent on them. AND YET, the report states, U.S. citizens, as former soldiers, were often being DENIED benefits from the Veterans Administration.
"Final Report---On the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building April 19, 1995", by The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, 2001, P.O.Box 75697, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73147, pages 476-477. [9] Just prior to the Timothy McVeigh trial, his Chief Defense Counsel, Stephen Jones, filed in the Federal Appeals Court, a special petition against the trial judge, Richard Matsch. Jones sought to compel the trial judge to release records of the Ameri can CIA and others, that showed there was, among other things, an Iraqi connection, and that defendant Timothy McVeigh was a domestic dissident surrogate for Iraq apparently seeking revenge on U.S. soil against the U.S. The government and the trial Judg e contended that the CIA was a different unit of the U.S. government and Jones could only seek records from the Justice Department. That is like claiming someone has money in another pocket of his jacket or pants. In his 185 page petition Jones surprisi ngly refers to both the public Court Record AND THE SECRET COURT RECORD as to the Iraqi connection.
The press were silent about Jones' petition which was summarily refused and denied. Recently, a group of those whose loved ones died in the Oklahoma bombings, brought a damage suit against the government of Iraq. Evidently they were seeking to get at, b y way of damages, Iraq funds frozen within the U.S. jurisdiction. The monopoly press said little about this.
[10] On April 4, 2003, a spokesman purportedly for the Baghdad government, stated that the Iraqis had what he described as a non-military surprise for the U.S. Military forces acting as foreign invaders in his country. He denied it was a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Was he hinting that "blue lightning", made available to Iraq by Daddy Bush at a time Bush was a private business partner of Saddam Hussein, would be used to teach the U.S. a lesson in how a small nation of 24 million people could resist a monstrous, wel l-equipped aggressor of 280 million people?
Some unanswered questions
===Will "blue lightning", a sub-atomic weapon, apparently not as serious as a nuclear weapon, be used, for example, against the huge airport near Baghdad, once called Saddam Hussein International Airport, renamed by the U.S. Military as Baghdad Internat ional Airport? Are the makings of "blue lightning" in the tunnels and passageways under that airport?
===Will the "blue lightning" weapon, if used by Iraq, tend to unravel Daddy Bush and his crony, Bill Clinton, and their prior knowledge and complicity as to the Oklahoma City multiple bombings? And maybe, even expose Daddy Bush and monsters in the U.S.
Military brass having carried out the disasters of September 11, 2001, falsely blamed on "Arabs", but calculated to destroy the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights? Remember, how to do such a thing was documented in the book "Body of Secrets" by James Bamford which came out right before 9-11, as to how the top U.S. Military in 1962, "Operation Northwoods", planned to commit horrible violence against fellow Americans to blame onto Cuba to justify the U.S. invading Cuba.
===If the truth about "blue lightning" comes out, will ordinary Americans find out what really took down, as by controlled demolitions, the World Trade Center twin towers and WTC Building 7 in Manhattan, September 11, 2001?
===Will common Americans come to understand that 9-11 is part of a long series of events, to Overthrow the American Republic?
===In the process of finding out about "blue lightning", as a direct or side issue, will common Americans come to wonder about the following One of the first network reporters to show up to cover the Oklahoma City bombings was Dan Raviv, CBS News International/National Correspondent. Is it just a mere coincidence that he co-authored the book about The Mossad, Israeli Intelligence, "Every Spy A Prince The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community", co-authored with Yossi Melman, 1990. Also, the same two co-authored "Friends in Deed Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance". Did a faction in The Mossad have prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombings and in vain, informed Daddy Bush and Bill Clinton, who for geopolitical and other power purposes allowed it to happen? And did The Mossad have prior knowledge of 9-11 and, in vain, informed the George W. Bush White House who allowed it to happen anyway to be falsely blamed onto "Arabs"? FBI Deputy Director John P. O'Neill, a leading counter-terrorist expert, was blocked by the Bush White House from continuing to investigate Osama bin Laden. Why? Because it would l! ead back to the Bush Crime Family, the Carlyle Group, and others.Quitting FBI about August, 2001, O'Neill became the Security Chief of the World Trade Center, lured at the last minute into one of the buildings, and there perished.
AND, who mentions that George W. Bush's younger brother Marvin, was a director of an insurance company having coverage of the twin towers and he apparently cancelled his company's coverage BEFORE the disaster. Further, Marvin Bush was a director of a fi rm that arranged the security of the twin towers. [Put MARVIN BUSH into a good website search engine and see what all you pull up.]
My stories are unacceptable to the monopoly press. Do not heckle me, demanding that I make available stories like this to the newsfakers---as if I am responsible for them censoring stories like this.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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What You Need to Do Now - 28 Action Steps to Secure Your Financial Independence

05/30/2013


What You Need to Do Now - 28 Action Steps to Secure Your Financial Independence Excerpted from What You Need to Do Now Here’s a summary of the action steps found throughout my book, What You Need to Do Now:
  1. Secure your debit and ATM cards.
  2. Make sure you have cash reserves equal to a minimum of three months’ spending, and preferably six months’ or even a year’s. Store this money where it is safe and readily accessible.
  3. Buy a safe for precious and valuable items that you cannot replace, and keep a written inventory of these items elsewhere.
  4. If you have equity in your house, take out a loan now and save the proceeds.
  5. Talk to your employer today about its plans for securing the company’s viability in the event of disaster.
  6. If you are a business owner or corporate executive, assemble your key staff and begin to implement disaster-recovery strategies today.
  1. Compare today your current health insurance policy to the alternatives discussed in this book. If you don’t think your policy is best, start shopping for a replacement immediately.  If your employer provides your policy, talk with your human resources department about available options.
  2. Avoid accident and dread-disease insurance; if you have this coverage, cancel it in favor of other, better policies (after confirming that you qualify).
  3. Ask yourself: How much life insurance do I have?
  4. Ask yourself: If I die, who would suffer financially?
  5. If you are insurable, apply for life insurance today -- before an accident, injury, or time makes you uninsurable.
  6. Ask yourself: How long do I want to keep my life insurance policy? Your answer will help determine which type of policy is best for you.
  7. If you have many older life insurance policies, see if you can exchange and consolidate them for newer ones. Doing so could save you money.
  8. Even if you aren’t absolutely sure which type of life insurance is best for you, apply for a policy right now. You can always change it later.
  9. Buy disability income insurance today. Get help from a financial or insurance advisor when selecting and buying the policy.
  10. If you are 50 or older, buy long-term-care insurance. If your parents are over 50, make sure they have it. Seek a financial advisor’s or insurance agent’s help on buying the right policy.
  11. Ignore government minimums for auto insurance policies and instead carry the maximums that your state permits.
  12. Buy a homeowner’s or renter’s insurance policy today if you don’t have one. Make sure your policy provides liability coverage of at least five times your annual household income or twice your family’s net worth (whichever is greater). If you’re a homeowner, make sure your home is insured for its replacement cost and that the policy reflects its current value.
  13. If you live in an area susceptible to floods or earthquakes, make sure your home is insured against these risks. Get the coverage you need today.
  14. Buy an umbrella liability insurance policy today.
  15. Increase each insurance policy’s deductible to save money.
  16. Decide today “who gets what” in the event of your death. Then make an appointment with an estate attorney as soon as possible—preferably today.Tell the attorney about your plans or ask for his or her help in forming them. If you don’t have a lawyer, ask your financial planner or tax preparer for a referral, seek names from friends or family, or contact your local bar association.
  17. When you meet with your attorney, be sure to ask for a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. Sometimes these two documents are combined into one, called a Medical Directive.
  18. When you meet with your attorney, be sure to ask for a Durable General Power of Attorney.
  19. After granting someone your Power of Attorney, take a copy to your bank and financial advisor to confirm that they’ll accept it.
  20. Talk with your family today about your estate plan.
  21. If you have money in investments that you plan to spend within 3 years, move that money to your cash reserves today.
·  If you haven’t done so already, build a carefully designed, highly diversified, long-term portfolio today—even if it means selling or repositioning your current investments. If you don’t know how to create such a portfolio, schedule an appointment immediately with a financial planner.
If you believe that any item on this list is important for you, complete it today. You might not get the chance tomorrow.   LINK

THE HUNGER STRIKE AT GUANTANAMO AND THE PROMISES OF OBAMA

THE HUNGER STRIKE AT GUANTANAMO AND THE PROMISES OF OBAMA
Posted By: IZAKOVIC [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 31-May-2013 15:10:44

29.05.2013
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/29-05-2013/124681-guantanamo_concentration_camp-0/
The hunger strike in the prison has gone on for 100 days. The United States and President Obama are in the worst possible way dealing with the issue. It is known that 90% of the detainees were never officially charged with any crime. After five years of government, it is past time for the president to fulfill his campaign promises.
By Steven Hsieh, of AlterNet
Last Friday (17th) marked the 100th day since the beginning of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, which recaptured international attention to the prison that President Obama promised to close when trying to get elected five years ago.
Military officials said 102 of the 166 prisoners are participating in the strike. Lawyers for the prisoners say that number is close to 130.
Since the hunger strike began 100 days ago, international groups, including the European Parliament, the Commission on Human Rights and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and several nations with prisoners at Guantanamo pressured the Obama administration to release the detainees or close the prison.
Here are four of the most disturbing facts about the situation in Guantanamo.
1. The torture of forced feeding
Thirty of the 166 prisoners held at Guantanamo are being forcibly fed - a practice that is considered torture and a violation of international law by the human rights office of the UN. Earlier this week, the ACLU (abbreviation for "American Civil Liberties Union"), and also a considerable number of human rights organizations sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, highlighting the order on forced feeds at Guantanamo.
While the military says it would be "inhumane" to let prisoners starve, several medical groups and human rights organizations disagree.
"Under these circumstances, to go ahead and feed people by force is not only an ethical violation, but can be raised to the level of torture or ill-treatment," said Peter Maurer, coordinator of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The military forced feeding procedure involves pushing a tube in the nose of the prisoner through the sinuses, throat and into the stomach. The process inflicts great pain and discomfort.
According to an analysis of military documents made by Al Jazeera, prisoners are shackled and forced to "remain seated wearing masks over their mouths for about two hours" as a nutritional supplement is pushed into their stomachs." At the end of the feeding, the prisoner is removed from the chair and led to a 'dry cell' no running water," says the Al Jazeera account. "Then a guard watches the prisoner for 45-60 minutes 'to oversee any indication of vomiting or attempts to induce vomiting. If the prisoner vomits, they fasten him in his chair."
2. Alleged attempts to "disintegrate" the strikers
There were several allegations that guards at Guantanamo are abusing the strikers with the purpose of "disintegrating them." Lawyers of Yemeni prisoner Musaab al-Madhwani say the guards chase strikers denying them drinking water, forcing them to drink from unsafe water taps, and maintaining their cells at temperatures "extremely icy," reported Agence France-Presse.
Another lawyer told Russia Today that guards are pulling prisoners on the strike out of general living spaces and forcing them to live in individual cells to weaken them mentally.
3. Over half of the Guantanamo prisoners had their cases clarified to be released. Ninety percent were never accused of any crime
Of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, 86 have had their cases dismissed to be released, but legal and bureaucratic barriers still keep them imprisoned indefinitely.
First, Congress imposed restrictions on transfers of detainees, requesting evidence that the possible transfer never would offer any kind of threat to U.S. national security in the future. At a press conference last month, President Obama reiterated this fact, saying that he "would need help from Congress." Yet, as several analysts have pointed out, Congress also secured from Obama the power to transfer prisoners, a power he never exercised.
Complicating the process are 56 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo. As explained byAlex Kane, Yemen is "a powerful U.S. ally who also has problems with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that planned attacks against the U.S.. After a terrorist plot that supposedly originated in Yemen was intercepted, the Obama administration has decided to prevent the repatriation of prisoners to Yemen. "
4. No chance to escape but a coffin
The hunger strike began as a response to the abuse of personal items such as prisoners' Korans, committed by prison guards. But many analysts, organizations and prisoners pointed out that this was just the last straw. The strike is the frustration of prisoners being kept away from their families in inhumane conditions, some held for more than 11 years.
"These men are not starving to become martyrs ... They do it because they are desperate," said Wells Dixos one of 5 lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees. "They are desperate to be free from Guantanamo, they see no other option than to leave in a coffin."
Samir Naji Al Hasan Moqbel, explained in a phone conversation published in the opinion page of The New York Times, that the hunger strike is conducted as a last resort:
"The situation is now desperate. All prisoners are suffering deeply ... I've vomited blood.
"And there is no end to our forecast imprisonment. To refuse eating and risking my life every day is the choice we made."
"I just hope that, because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will return to Guantanamo before it's too late. "
* Steven Hsieh is an editorial assistant, writer for the website AlterNet.
Carta Maior
Translated from the Portuguese version by:
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru

IZAKOVIC
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Privacy World's June 2013 Newsletter Issue 1Jun

Subject: Privacy World's June 2013 Newsletter Issue 1Jun


> Privacy World - The WORLD'S SHREWDEST PRIVACY NEWSLETTER
> 
> Switzerland to Allow Its Banks to Sidestep Secrecy Laws
> 
> The Swiss government said on Wednesday that it would allow its banks
> to disclose information on American clients with hidden accounts,
> a watershed move intended to help resolve a long-running dispute
> with the United States over tax evasion.
> 
> The decision, which comes amid widening scrutiny in Europe of tax
> havens, is a turning point in what has been an escalating conflict
> between Switzerland and the United States.
> 
> Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Switzerland's finance minister, said the
> move would enable Swiss banks to accept an offer by the United
> States government to hand over broad client details and pay fines
> in exchange for a promise by United States authorities not to indict
> any banks.
> 
> Switzerland Weighs Deal in Tax Cases (May 28, 2013) -
> 
> Disclosure of actual client names and account data, which American
> authorities have been aggressively seeking, would take place under
> a taxation treaty between the two countries that the American side
> has not yet ratified. Banks under criminal scrutiny that agree to
> cooperate with the decision could still face deferred-prosecution
> or nonprosecution agreements, a lesser punishment than indictment.
> 
> Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf declined to say how much banks might have to
> pay. But she said the Swiss government would not make any payments
> as part of the agreement. Sources briefed on the matter say the
> total fines could eventually total $7 billion to $10 billion,
> and that to ease any financial pressure on the banks, the Swiss
> government might advance the sums and then seek reimbursement.
> 
> "It is important for us to be able to let the past be the past,"
> Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said at a news briefing in Bern, Switzerland. She
> declined to give any details about the program, but said banks
> would have one year to decide whether to accept the American offer.
> 
> American clients whose names are handed over by Swiss banks but
> who have not voluntarily disclosed hidden accounts to the Internal
> Revenue Service would probably face criminal tax-evasion charges,
> lawyers said. Dozens of Americans have been indicted or charged in
> recent years for failing to disclose their accounts.
> 
> Until now, the Swiss government has been resisting cooperation
> because the secrecy of its banking system has long made country an
> offshore money haven for wealthy foreigners.
> 
> The country is also under growing pressure from the European Union
> to assist in ferreting out citizens who have sheltered money using
> offshore private banking services. Switzerland is not a member of
> the European Union, but nations including France and Germany have
> tired of watching their citizens squirrel away cash with impunity
> right across their borders.
> 
> The European Union is pushing member nations like Luxembourg and
> Austria to update their own secrecy rules, meaning the Swiss could
> soon be without an ally in the bloc and be left vulnerable to
> pressure from other nations.
> 
> Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said the government would work with Parliament
> to quickly pass a new law that would allow Swiss banks to accept
> the terms of the United States offer, but said the onus would be
> on individual banks to decide whether to participate.
> 
> "If banks were not authorized to cooperate with the U.S. authorities,
> the initiation of further criminal investigations or charges
> concerning banking institutions could not be ruled out," a Swiss
> government statement said. It added that "the uncertainty for the
> financial center would continue to exist."
> 
> In 2012, the United States Justice Department indicted Wegelin &
> Company, Switzerland's oldest bank. The bank pleaded guilty in
> January, putting it out of business, and prosecutors have indicated
> in recent months that more indictments could be coming.
> 
> Calling the decision "a good, a pragmatic solution for the banks to
> emerge from their past," Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf said, "We expect this
> to create the base for banks to again gain some room for maneuver
> so that calm can return to the sector."
> 
> There is no certainty that Parliament would pass the law after
> two of Switzerland's biggest parties, the Social Democrats and the
> People's Party, voiced their opposition and a third, the Christian
> Democratic People's Party, said it disagreed with the urgency the
> new law was put forward.
> 
> Igor Moser, a spokesman for Zürcher Kantonalbank, one of about a
> dozen Swiss and Swiss-style banks under criminal scrutiny by United
> States prosecutors, said that if the Swiss Parliament approved
> the government's decision, the bank "will be able to agree on
> an individual solution with the U.S. authorities." He added that
> "a possible penalty will be part of this individual agreement."
> 
> Ms. Widmer-Schlumpf hinted that the repercussions for banks that
> actively helped clients evade taxes after 2009 would be bigger than
> for those that stopped such activities that year. "All banks knew
> after 2009 that they can no longer do all sorts of businesses,"
> she said.
> 
> It was in 2009 that UBS, the largest Swiss bank, agreed to enter into
> a deferred-prosecution agreement with the United States. The bank
> eventually turned over 4,450 client names and paid a $780 million
> fine after admitting criminal wrongdoing in selling tax-evasion
> services to wealthy Americans. Justice Department authorities were
> incensed that after the UBS deal, other Swiss banks took in American
> clients fleeing UBS to provide shelters for their income, according
> to court documents in cases of some indicted American clients.
> 
> Also in 2009, Switzerland and the United States signed a protocol
> amending a 1996 tax treaty governing exchanges of information on
> Americans suspected of avoiding taxes. While the protocol has been
> approved by the Swiss Parliament, it has been held up in the United
> States Senate, blocked by Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from
> Kentucky. The protocol makes it easier for American authorities to
> seek client and account data from Switzerland.
> 
> The Swiss decision on Wednesday to turn over any American client
> names appears to be contingent on the American side passing
> the protocol. The decision said any names release would "occur
> exclusively within the scope of administrative assistance procedures
> based on a valid double taxation agreement."
> 
> In the meantime, Swiss banks would be free to disclose to American
> authorities broader statistical data about American clients, like
> information about business relationships. Such disclosure would then
> pave the way for banks under criminal investigation to negotiate
> settlements with United States authorities.
> 
> "This is an important step for the banks; it will apparently allow
> them to disclose statistical information, such as the number of
> accounts with U.S. beneficial owners, the number of accounts with
> foreign corporations or foundations, and the amount of assets
> under management," said Scott Michel, a tax lawyer in Washington,
> D.C. "The I.R.S. and D.O.J. can use this information as the basis
> for financial penalties under settlement agreements, which might
> be deferred-prosecution agreements or nonprosecution agreements."
> 
> The decision also requires Swiss banks that cooperate with the
> Justice Department to protect their bankers and employees from, among
> other things, being fired for cooperating. American authorities have
> indicted more than two dozen Swiss bankers, lawyers and financial
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Dinar Rumors - 5/31/13

05/31/2013


MarkZ] paradisegirl all he had to do was stay in a holiday inn express....

[MarkZ] It is ending just not as quickly as we all wanted. With today's news though I think tbull could cover it.

[Readynow] MarkZ can you tell more, please

[MarkZ] Readynow Progress is still being made and we are sitting on the front edge of our seats. The 24 hour news cycle has us all amped up like we are on redbull.

[tbull] Markz.. what's going to be the story .. next week when these people are hurting because it was so close .. but it never happens

[MarkZ] tbull I still see it like I did yesterday. I thought today would be wildly optimistic because of logistics.

[FrenchTexan2] MarkZ Has Iraq come out of CH7?
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[MarkZ] FrenchTexan2 They basically announced that they are close to announcing.... I feel bad for the Iraqi people, pawns in a world wide game of financial chess.

[tbull] How can you keep telling these people its so close... for months... that's not close

[MarkZ] tbull We have been close and I have been just as frustrated as anyone else. Dig deep, keep working and make plans as if this may never happen so you won't be frustrated everyday.

[okrocks] MarkZ right and all agencies get the same hope passed on to them and have to wait for it to go, correct? Its still wildly optimistic ... is my take, yours too?

[MarkZ] okrocks pretty accurate. I honestly do feel good about where we are and what I know. I stopped saying it has to happen by..... long ago, that was hard on my nerves and my mental well being. Live within your means and keep living life... This will happen, when it happens. I personally think that will be very soon though.

[burk50] MarkZ r u still optimistic about Mon or Tues for ce? Thx

[MarkZ] burk50 yes

[treasure4e] And we all should be thankful because they do not have to do this and do not get paid to do this

[MarkZ] treasure4e I thought you were paying me in cookies.... hehe

[HIGHERGROUND] I also don't believe they would mislead us every day or week as some have suppositioned.... however, I do know when anyone is hurting... hurt people want to lash out and hurt other people.... not really intending too necessarily but the hurt is clouding their judgement...

[MarkZ] HIGHERGROUND We have many that are hurting I know personally some that are losing their houses. This ride has been a VERY painful ride.

[keiji] MarkZ so you say that you guys are on the edge of your seats with anticipation? I take it that we have made great progress

[MarkZ] keiji slow progress but steady

[xfilesfan2013] MarkZ I do appreciate all you bring in here...always with the understanding things change quickly...why cant some in here get that too...I guess they being negative....ty again

MarkZ] xfilesfan2013 that would be a miserable way to live.

[justbelieve7] MarkZ Thanks for your detailed post last night and for coming in tonight....God Bless

[MarkZ] justbelieve7 very welcome. I really did stop by now to say hi. I will come in later and share.

[xfilesfan2013] MarkZ any idea when you plan on coming back

[MarkZ] xfilesfan2013 probably about 10, I am enjoying some time with my perfect children this evening, my youngest son and I already went for some mexican for late lunch.

[keiji] MarkZ If you are still optomistic about Mon/Tues ce then I would assume that e-mails over the weekend could be a good possibility?

[MarkZ] keiji I am still optimistic

[MarkZ] back later. Everyone take a little time to send prayers out west...

[burk50] Lets all pray this in tonight Amen

[MarkZ] burk50 I like that



DEBRA LOWE


5/31/13
To my children, I give to you a mandate, a directive and it is for those who believe, that will receive. I can speak to ten thousand people and out of ten thousand, two will believe Me, and those two will walk away whole. So I say to you this day, if you believe that the fires are ignited on the inside of you, you will receive that fire lit on the inside of you. That fire burns everything on the inside out, it takes away those things that are hiding on the inside, that have hidden places and recesses in your mind and your heart and the fire burns every thing that it comes in contact with. It brings about newness after it passes by and then new things begin to come up.

New life begins to be created from the very fires that seem like it is a destructive fire, yet it is a fire of new growth. So, if you believe that this day, then you will receive a new growth like never before. Things that you thought were dead, I Am restoring back to you, those things that were right, those things that were from Me. Those things that the enemy tried to steal from you I am restoring them back unto you again.

You will see says the Lord, I Am not done with you, I Am not finished with you. We're almost there and you are about to do something awesome for the Kingdom of God because you believe and you receive and something supernatural will be done in your life. Count it as done, says the Lord. For I have said so and I Am not like man that I should lie, but every promise I give you is a yes and amen. You can take that as genuine and see it in my Word. Every time I have spoken, I fulfill My promises. I will fulfill them for you now! Those who believe and receive that fire burning on the inside of them!

"Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock [of most stubborn resistance]? Is not My word like fire [that consumes all that cannot endure the test]? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks in pieces the rock [of most stubborn resistance]?" (Jer. 23:29)

"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23).

"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." (Joel 2:25)

The Word of the Lord for June 2013 & Beyond

Phyllis Ford Carpenter’s Touch Ministries, Arlington, Texas
www.carpenterstouch.org 

The Word of the Lord for June 2013 & Beyond
Now that we are crossing over from the way man operated in the world’s standard of living and we are now living our lives according to Lord’s standards and ways. We also cross over to the domain of the king and as we enter into the king’s court we must learn how to rule, reign, and walk in dominion. We have not been this way before because this is not the old path that has to do with the present world systems and how things are done on their level. But we are on a course of moving forward according to the instructions of the Lord as kingdom citizens. The Lord is releasing a strategy to his people. So as we begin to understand that even though we live in this world that we are not of this world. We walk in Christ Jesus with the understanding that we have been formed in the Father’s likeness and made in his image.

Therefore no matter what problems present circumstances may bring, as we follow the Lord’s word, his leading, and understand with humble hearts we will be victorious and we will be able to overcome situations that will be seem impossible by his grace. Jesus, our king never wanted us to live beneath our privilege. The more we remove our thinking from the systems of this world and renew our minds in kingdom understanding we will begin to see clearly what He has called us to do.

The Lord has revealed to me that as we embrace this understanding it will reposition us and we will grab hold to the keys to that He has provided for us now. As his sons, the Lord has set a walk that is predestined for us, we have been chosen and appointed for this hour.* A big question that is being asked right now is: “How can a people overcome all the trouble that is occurring in our present times.” Many of these things have been revealed in God’s word and the answer is within the confines of knowing who are and what we have been created to be. The book of Revelation unveils an end-time wisdom on how to conquer and prevail even in the midst of that which will come upon the earth. *(Romans 8: 14-19), (Galatians 4:4-7, Phil 3:17-20, Ephesians 2:4-6.)

These are the words that the Lord released to me for this hour:

“I am opening up before you light and revelation—clarity and keen discernment, so that you may see not only that which is visible but even know that which is about to occur before you. And those who seek me in this hour will understand even beyond that, in the spiritual realm. I am revealing and providing clarity of others’ motives, even the enemy’s plans to counter-attack and that which would try to discourage you from continuing along the path of my will in your life now.”

“Now you will know where I am leading you and why I am bringing you in. And as I enlighten you concerning everything that is surrounding you—take heed, avoid and move away from that which is unclean and that which yields to you no good thing. Move forward into the place of readiness and diligence for there is much to do. Be careful not to judge others as this is a time of being assessed and everyone have to deal with their own issues and make decisions to resolve things for themselves before moving ahead. Remove all anger, forgive and release those around you because it can set in problems that will hinder you and the plans that I have for you until present issues are resolved. Criticism and harshness towards others will hinder you from entering into a new beauty and glory that awaits you.”

“Now as you are arriving upon the shores of this awakening you must understand that it does not give you the authority to look at others with a jaundiced eye. You are still going through a refining, a purging, and even a pruning back for the purpose for greater growth and maturity. Your divine turnaround is right before you and even nigh at your door. I have fashioned you in this time to walk in the fullness of the beauty of the kingdom.”

“As you enter into before me, many things that you have prayed for, cried out for and even waited for are about to take place. This is a time of possessing the kingdom, understanding the domain of the King and you will know what awaits you through my covenant promises. You will operate out of a different realm not as the world dictates to you that you must do to survive, but you will come to know honor and royalty: it is that which I have placed in you so you may deal with everyday situations from a different perspective. As you pray before my presence you will enter into new doors and avenues as I usher you through with great favor and mercy. Did I not call you a kingdom of priest? (Exodus 19:6) Have I not said that you are a royal priesthood and a holy nation? (1 Peter 2:9)”.

“Now that you have crossed over into this light of understanding to know that I created you for great service and great leadership, raised you in royalty for I have created you to be Kings and Priests. And you will walk as an heir of my covenant and hold to your faith with great conviction---you will go forth to rule and reign as I have guided you.”

Revelation 1:5-6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

“Your past has dictated to you how to operate as a captive of the world but I have freed your hands to build and to war, and to speak forth my words. When you do as I will lead you, you will see things shift and your circumstances will give way to the words that you speak as I reveal them to you in this hour. This is the time that I am releasing before you the strategies of Kings. The true pathway is being laid out before you and you must move forward with a humble heart and embrace the power being handed to you in this hour. You will walk the way I walk, speak the way I speak, and advance in the way of Kings.”

Ecclesiastes 8:4 “Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

“Do not forget what you have endured through the hardness of trials and the crucible of sufferings. The trying of your faith, even the lack and the times of aloneness were difficult but they have prepared you to come into the understanding of your true identity. Allow your mind to be purified and receive the knowledge that I have called and ordained you for to advance My Kingdom. Embrace my domain and enter into my dwelling place where you will, as my sons, walk in the power and manifestation of light that I am placing upon you.”

“I have hidden many of my kingdom remnant in the secret place of my covering and as they prayed I begin to mold them, shape them and make them more and more like me. Now is the hour of my unveiling and my revealing—you must carry the truth that I have placed in your heart to the nations to walk in my power and dominion. These next two months, June and July, you will see times of great acquisitions in the realm of the spirit and the things which you need the most will be provided—remember do not squander what I release to you. It is for others and then it is also for you.”

“You will see the life that follows your time of confinement and as you struggled to come out of one place know that I was preparing you, forming you and with wings I breathed upon you new life as you broke out of your cocoon and began to take flight. The transformation has begun and it is about to be a time of great exploits as you press forward, press in and press through all that tries to oppose you.”

“So allow your hands of praise to be uplifted as it will strengthen you in times of great shifting. As I guide you through in the power of my light. Know that it was well worth it so let your praise carry you along the way to keep you from being weary as you move forward in the night. There is a distinct order now in all that you do. You are still abiding under the shadow of my presence, hold on to me now, hold on to me tight.”

Revelation 3:20-21 “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.”
Revelation 5:9-10 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

Then He spoke to me about an old praise song that I use to sing in church.

“Go forth, Go forth into the ripened fields, for they are white unto harvest. The time, the time of reaping is at hand, For the souls of men to be gathered in, What was sown in tears--Will now be reaped in joy. The Word of the Lord will not return void. Cast out your nets all you fishers of men. In the power of the Spirit revival begins”

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Reader sends video - for people who don't yet understand that banks create money out of nothing when making loans
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Sent by reader H in Australia:

RV ---- Finally GREAT NEWS ---- ACCESS ON TUESDAY

Finally GREAT NEWS 
8:40 AM

[8:32:31 AM] Starting Tuesday, the White Knight began the process of "moving" into place
the collateral for the 8 new currencies they added last Friday to the basket of currencies "revaluing" against the current, but on life-support, U.S. dollar before it is replaced during the U.S. Financial Announcement. "Moving" into place does not necessarily involve the physical transfer of, say, gold bullion from location A to location B, other than, possibly, within the confines of one of the world's several repositories/bunker -warehouses. In most cases, the owners of the asset in question (e.g., a precious metal...) sell it which results in title to it being transferred to the new owner, who/which then pledges it to back (collateralize, if you prefer...) a currency. Naturally, that resulting paperwork must be certified to be genuine (as opposed to having been counterfeited...) and then filed with the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
This process was to finish today in time for the new exchange rates for the 25 currencies to appear on front-office ForEx trading screens early enough today for the remaining 1st Five trading programs' document packages to be delivered today
However...
The White Knights became aware that some (more than one, but I don't know how many...) of our funding banks (which had to have demonstrated Basel III compliance in order to qualify to have money transferred-in from Vancouver 6 - 8 weeks ago...) were now out of compliance. Why? So that their senior management could, as they had done for years - until recently - could hypothecate our money and trade the resultant loan proceeds for their benefit. Had those banks remaining Basel III compliant, their hypothecation would have become apparent in real time. Therefore, and with malice aforethought, they obfuscated their illegal activity by not reporting as Basel III accord's regulations require. Moreover...
When confronted, the baking criminals/banksters were defiant! The took the position that, since Basel III had not be proclaimed in the USA, they needn't be bound by it and, until that happened, they'd just keep on hypothecating our money and trading the loan proceeds they lent themselves and each other!! That's classic Illuminati arrogance. In response...
The White Knights designated tomorrow as Delivery Day 1. Delivering to 70% of the Big PrOgram's Hallelujah recipients (the names in the database that Bill Wilson kept for Clyde Hood...) remedies the sole deficiency that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission discovered when it audited the Wilson database (the "Kodosky" database was out of the SEC's reach, having been kept "overseas"...). Do you remember the nature of the deficiency? Regardless...
While delivering the remaining 1st Five trading programs' document packages remedies that deficiency, it doesn't simply allow the White Knights to broadcast the U.S. Financial Announcement. It compels them to by the end of the next business day unless Delivery Day 1 is a Friday, in which case, the Announcement must be made before the next business day. Naturally, the Announcement includes the proclamation of the Basel III banking accord in the USA, thereby taking the wheels forcibly off the banksters' Little Red Wagons and mandating a Basel III compliance audit starting on Monday. That audit will identify the persons participating in the many instances of hypothecation and the associated trading, which will result in their immediate removal for cause and replacement. Basel III's coming formally into effect in the USA this weekend will result in mandatory real-time compliance, which will allow the U.S. Treasury to identify any non-compliance as it happens.
Because there's no way to accurately forecast precisely how long it will take to grab these recalcitrant banks by the scruff of their necks and institute compliance, 
we may not be able to access the first tranche of either or trading profits or Fines & Penalties money until Tuesday or, perhaps, Wednesday. Even if there were no money in the envelope that will be delivered (don't worry, there is some, but I don;t know how much...) 
tomorrow, I could quite happily wait until Wednesday, if need be, having received my legal title to my share of the Big PrOgram's pay out.
Kindly note that today's White Knight response is very different that what we had to become familiar before last Friday's Day of Profound Loss of Face changed the White Knights' decision-making team or woke it up to reality. They were honorable men, but were too naive to compete with their (and our...) street-fighting opponents. Their unworkable position seems definitely to have been abandoned. The WKs in charge last week would never have made this tactical - and workable - change. Thank God/Goddess/All That Is/ The Force that current White Knight cadre has some street smarts and has demonstrated that its members can adapt and has adapted!
More later, as news and/or other circumstances warrant. It's 5:39 PM PDT on Thursday, 30 May, 2013. Copyright
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Friday, May 31, 2013

25 Signs That Military Veterans Are Being Treated Like Absolute Trash Under The Obama Administration

25 Signs That Military Veterans Are Being Treated Like Absolute Trash Under The Obama Administration

Obama And The MilitaryWhy does the Obama administration treat our military veterans like human garbage?  Every year on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Barack Obama and our other politicians make very nice speeches, but the truth about how they feel about our veterans can be seen in how they are treated every single day.  In the United States today, there are well over half a million veterans that have been waiting for at least 125 days to have their benefit claims processed.  Many of them will ultimately have their claims sent back or denied just so a government employee somewhere can get a bigger bonus.  Meanwhile, conditions at VA facilities all over the country are absolutely abysmal, and many veterans have to wait more than half a year just to get an appointment at one of those facilities.  Once you start looking into how this country really treats military veterans, it becomes easier to understand why 22 military veterans commit suicide in America every single day.  Our vets have a higher rate of unemployment, a higher rate of poverty, a higher rate of homelessness, a higher rate of depression and a higher rate of divorce then the general population.  It is a crying shame.  One of the ways that any society is judged is by how it treats military veterans, and the truth is that America has failed miserably.  This has been particularly true since Barack Obama has been in the White House.
The following are 25 signs that military veterans are being treated like absolute trash under the Obama administration…
1. The average claim for veteran benefits takes more than half a year to be processed.
2. The Department of Veterans Affairs has a backlog of more than half a million overdue claims for benefits that are at least 125 days old.
3. In 2009, the number of veterans that had been waiting for more than a year to have their benefits approved was 11,000.  Today, that number has soared to245,000.
4. Thousands upon thousands of military veterans that are waiting for their claims to be processed are dealing with absolutely horrible injuries
Of those who have sought VA care:
• More than 1,600 of them lost a limb; many others lost fingers or toes.
• At least 156 are blind, and thousands of others have impaired vision.
• More than 177,000 have hearing loss, and more than 350,000 report tinnitus — noise or ringing in the ears.
• Thousands are disfigured, as many as 200 of them so badly that they may need face transplants. One-quarter of battlefield injuries requiring evacuation included wounds to the face or jaw, one study found.
5. At one VA hospital in Wisconsin, one military veteran with a broken jaw that was seeking treatment still had not had his jaw fixed after a month and a half.
6. Today, it takes military vets an average of seven months to get an appointment at a VA facility.
7. Many VA facilities are in absolutely horrific condition.  A while back, ABC News conducted an investigation of conditions at VA facilities across the United States.  What ABC News discovered was absolutely shocking.  The following are just a few of the things that they found during the course of their investigation
*Bathrooms filthy with what appeared to be human excrement
*Dirty linens from some patients mixed in with clean supplies
*Examining tables that had dried blood and medications still on them
*Equipment used to sterilize surgical instruments that had broken down
*Some patients were forced to beg for food and water
*Veterans that were neglected so badly that they developed horrific bedsores and dangerous infections
8. As I have written about previously, applying for veteran benefits is extremely complicated, and VA employees are actually paid bonuses for denying claims…
The truth is that we have made it extremely difficult for our military veterans to claim the benefits that we have promised them.  Vets have to fill out an absurdly complicated 23 page application and if they make even one small mistake their applications can be stonewalled for years.  The U.S. Veterans Administration actually has a policy under which they pay large bonuses to employees that meet certain application processing goals.  This explains why approximately 70% of the claims submitted to the Veterans Administration are refused or sent back to be redone.  In fact, using the Freedom of Information Act, one local NBC station was able to learn that $250,000 was paid in bonuses to VA employees who work inside the Poff Federal Building in Roanoke, Virginia in just one year alone.
9. Large numbers of military veterans that legitimately should be getting benefits are having their claims denied by the federal government.  Just check out the following example from a Veterans Today article
In one case, we found a veteran with 40 percent of his brain removed found to be healthy and employable.  He was also missing his right arm.  The physician who examined him over looked the arm and failed to note the cognitive degeneration the traumatic brain injury had caused.
10. Last year, more than 85,000 military veterans were treated for sexual abuse that they suffered while serving in the military.  40 percent of them were men.
11. According to a recent Defense Department survey, approximately 14,000 men in the U.S. military were sexually assaulted by other men during 2012.
12. According to the Washington Post, there is an epidemic of sexual assaults being committed by military recruiters.  The Pentagon is pledging to do something about the problem…
“The secretary has made it clear that we will spare no effort to rid our military of sexual abuse,” said George Little, the Pentagon press secretary. “The fact that there have been problems of sexual abuse during the recruiting process is simply intolerable.”
13. The number of active members of the U.S. military that are killing themselves now exceeds the number that are dying on the battlefield.
14. Since the beginning of the Iraq War, twice as many members of the Texas National Guard have killed themselves as have been killed in combat.
15. According to one recent study, 22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.
16. At this point, combat veterans account for about 20 percent of all suicides in the United States.
17. The unemployment rate for military veterans is significantly higher than for the population as a whole.  This is especially true for younger veterans.
18. On any given night, approximately 200,000 military veterans are homeless in the United States.
19. All over America, monuments that honor military veterans are crumbling and falling apart.  For much more on this, please see this article.
20. Under the Obama administration, many military veterans have had to pay to have their medals shipped to them.  For example, one soldier actually had to pay a 21 dollar shipping fee to get his Purple Heart.  The following is from the Huffington Post
War comes with an incalculable human cost. And apparently a shipping fee of about $21.
Retired Sgt. Major Rob Dickerson says that’s the price he was forced to pay when his Purple Heart — the medal issued to soldiers wounded in action — arrived at his door, C.O.D.
Instead of being awarded the military honor in a formal ceremony, the vet with 29 years in the service was handed his award, and a shipping invoice, by a FedEx deliveryman outside his Sioux Falls, S.D., home.
21. In some areas of the country the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been caught banning the words “God” and “Jesus” during funeral services for veterans.
22. Today, the federal government provides “end of life” literature to veterans that helps them to determine when their lives are “no longer worth living“…
“Your Life, Your Choices” presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political “push poll.” For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be “not worth living.”
The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to “shake the blues.” There is a section which provocatively asks, “Have you ever heard anyone say, ‘If I’m a vegetable, pull the plug’?” There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as “I can no longer contribute to my family’s well being,” “I am a severe financial burden on my family” and that the vet’s situation “causes severe emotional burden for my family.”When the government can steer vulnerable individuals to conclude for themselves that life is not worth living, who needs a death panel?
23. One study discovered that approximately one-third of all military veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq were officially determined to be mentally ill by government officials.
24. All over America, “mental illness” is being used as a reason to take guns away from military veterans.
25. The federal government is increasingly labeling military veterans as “potential domestic terrorists” if they express viewpoints that are critical of the government.  The following is from a recent article by John Whitehead
Making matters worse, thanks to Operation Vigilant Eagle, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009, military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are also being characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” As a result, these servicemen and women–many of whom are decorated–are finding themselves under surveillance, threatened with incarceration or involuntary commitment, or arrested, all for daring to voice their concerns about the alarming state of our union and the erosion of our freedoms.
An important point to consider, however, is that the government is not merely targeting individuals who are voicing their discontent so much as it is locking up individuals trained in military warfare who are voicing feelings of discontent. Under the guise of mental-health treatment and with the complicity of government psychiatrists and  law-enforcement officials, these veterans are increasingly being portrayed as ticking time bombs in need of intervention.
Are you upset yet?
You should be.
The way that the federal government is treating military veterans is absolutely shameful.