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It is no secret that gold is solid protection for your long-term wealth against market uncertainty. But in the event of another gold confiscation, some types of gold are less likely to be confiscated. How can you potentially prevent your gold from being taken by the government?

As currencies around the world including the U.S. dollar continue to fail, gold prices will continue to soar. Top economists are predicting $5,000 an ounce for the yellow metal over the next four years! Such staggering prices could result in a return to the gold standard in the not too distant future. While a return to the gold standard would require banks to increase their gold holdings and could make owning some types of gold illegal like it did back in 1933, we could see gold prices climb to $10,000 an ounce.

It is exactly these types of economic conditions that could lead to another GOLD CONFISCATION. Before you purchase gold, make certain you are buying the gold with the strongest benefit to you -- gold that may not be eligible for confiscation by the government. NOT ALL GOLD IS CREATED EQUAL!

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Cop Punches Another #OccupyWallStreet Protester in the Face

Published by Mona
http://freakoutnation.com

At some point here we have to discern the New York Police Department’s intentions because clearly they are here to ‘protect and serve’ someone other than the public. Financial Giants have been putting the NYPD on their payroll for some time now.

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Curiously:

" We are occupying the public space in front of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank on 5th Ave. and 10th St. We are occupying this space as a form of continuous protest. This location was chosen for various reasons. As one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and the recipient of a federal bailout, Chase Bank paid no taxes in 2010 while hardworking Americans continued to see their wages fall and the social safety net collapse. While continuing to fund Mountain Top Removal and the pill epidemic through their holdings in the pharmaceutical industry, their actions have been directly detrimental to West Virginia and Appalachia. Due to Chase donations to the NYPD, Wall Street protesters are arrested while Wall Street criminals run free. Chase Bank is representative of the corporate control of American democracy. "

Just after those dubious donations by Chase Bank to the Police department, the brutality we are witnessing recently took place. The force the police are using against protesters is almost as if they are trying to incite a riot.

This is why we rage. Even our police force, who are paid by taxpayer dollars [that's us] are bought and paid for by the Big Banks, who control everything around us, even our own safety.

UPDATE:

The female being punched in the face was apparently a male, Felix Rivera-Pitre. My bad.

Special thanks to OccupyLove2011.

Many thanks to the Huntington News.

OWS Protester gets Run over by a Cop on Video – Right Wing Spins it as Fake

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During the impromptu march after the Occupy Wall Street protesters’ triumphant victory of avoiding eviction from Liberty Park, one protester, reportedly a lawyer, was run over by a police officer on his motorcycle. With videos and pictures of the incident now circulating, I was curious as to what spin the right wing would give this, after all, the motorcycle is on top of the man’s leg as the cop saunters off leaving him in agony.

Here’s the picture clearly showing the cop after he got off of his motorcycle leaving the man on the street in pain under the motorcycle.

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The Gateway Pundit ‘reports’ their denial:

" Don’t get too upset. The whole incident was totally staged. The protester wasn’t even in front of the police officer. He just laid down and started writhing in pain like he had been hit. "

By all means, don’t prove it, just say it enough times until it’s a fact. How very Fox News of them.

Republicans are attempting to deny any police brutality has taken place from the onset. Even when the initial pepper spraying incident took place showing two females in a video screaming on their knees — one of them couldn’t weigh more than 100 pounds dripping wet wearing a Polly-Annish looking dress, yet somehow Tea Party Republicans justified it.

The spin on this is amazing. Tea Partiers deem these protesters as ‘dirty hippies’ yet they are ‘patriots’. Their pomposity is overwhelming, given that we would defend them if we saw the prevalence of police force. Their smug feigning of righteousness of all that is good while dismissing clear facts right in their tea party faces is absurd. These are the people that were voted in, thus taking control of the House. These are the people that wanted to shut the government down.

Their denial is simply a jealous tea party temper tantrum. Time Magazine’s new survey resulted in 54 percent of Americans having a favorable impression of the protests; just 23 percent have a negative impression. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey, meanwhile, found that 37 percent of respondents “tend to support” the movement, while only 18 percent “tend to oppose” it. In fact, Occupy Wall Street has more public approval than Congress, the Tea Party and President Obama. I’m sure they’ll deny those statistics too.

I’m sure this isn’t really an officer’s arm about to smack that guy upside his head.

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The Limits Of Free Speech

by Joyce Arthur

Joyce Arthur is a writer, activist and founder and Coordinator of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group. This article originally appeared on the RH Reality Check blog, and is being reprinted here with the express permission of the writer.

" The popular catchphrase of free speech defenders is a quote attributed to Voltaire: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Civil libertarians often defend and support the notion that the right to freely express offensive opinions is a bedrock human right that should not be abridged except under very narrow circumstances—typically for hate speech that directly incites violence against a person or group of persons. However, I support broader prosecution of hate speech—defined here as speech that disparages a person or class of persons based on an immutable characteristic (colour, race, origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and age), or their occupation, family or marital status, and religion or lack of religion. Proscribing hate speech more broadly would, I believe, foster a more inclusive, tolerant, and safer society.

Many western countries already do criminalize hate speech [6] in a more encompassing way, although enforcement is often weak and spotty. A typical example is Canada, where it is illegal to “expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt…on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination” (Canadian Human Rights Act [7]) and to “wilfully promote hatred against any identifiable group” (Criminal Code of Canada [8]). The United States, however, stands almost alone in its veneration of free speech at almost any cost. The U.S. Supreme Court insists that the First Amendment protects hate speech unless it constitutes a “ true threat” or will incite imminent lawless action [9].

But societies should take action against hate speech without requiring that a few specific words by themselves must directly and immediately incite violence, or be likely to. That sets a very high bar and is difficult to prove. It also allows purveyors of hate to evade responsibility simply by not making explicit calls for violence. Further, our new digital world raises the stakes—the Internet has spawned a proliferation of hate speech along with useful information such as bomb-making instructions or the home addresses of abortion providers. This has enabled others to commit violence long after the words were first published.

Violent acts of hate are generally preceded by hate speech that is expressed publicly and repeatedly for years, including by public figures, journalists, leading activists, and even the state. Some examples include Anders Behring Breivik’s terrorist acts in Norway (June 2011), the assassination of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller (May 2009) and other abortion providers in the 1990’s, the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis (1994), the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995), and the Nazi Holocaust.

Courts of law should be able to look at broader patterns of hate speech in the culture to determine whether a hateful atmosphere inspired or contributed to violence, or would likely lead to future violence. When hate speech is relatively widespread and acceptable (such as against Muslims or abortion providers), it’s not difficult to see the main precursor to violence—an escalation of negative behaviour or rhetoric against the person or group. Dr. George Tiller endured a previous assassination attempt and a decades-long campaign of persecution waged by the anti-abortion movement, which worsened over time, especially in the last year or two of the doctor’s life. Anders Behring Breivik had actively opposed multiculturalism for years and had immersed himself in Christian Right propaganda about the supposed threat of Muslim immigration to Europe, a view popularized only in recent years by a growing army of anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing journalists.

As these examples illustrate, we can often pinpoint the main purveyors of hate speech that lead to violent crimes. In the Norway shootings, the killer Breivik relied heavily [10] on writings from Peder Jensen (“Fjordman”), Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Mark Steyn, Jihad Watch, Islam Watch, Front Page Magazine, and others. Such individuals and groups should be charged with incitement to hatred and violence. Similar culpability for the assassination of Dr. George Tiller should rest on the shoulders [11] of the extremist anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly.

In general, anyone spewing hate to an audience, especially on a repeated basis, could be held criminally responsible. This would include politicians, journalists, organizational leaders and speakers, celebrities, bloggers and hosts of online forums, and radical groups that target certain categories of people. We also need to hold people in accountable positions to a higher standard, such as government employees and contractors, ordained religious leaders, CEOs, and the like.

Criteria by which to assign culpability could include a speaker’s past record of prior hate speech against a particular person or group, how widely and frequently the views were disseminated, and the specific content and framing of their views. In cases where violence has already occurred, judges could determine how likely it was that the violent perpetrators had been exposed to someone’s specific hate speech, and hand down harsher sentences accordingly.

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