Silk Road just part of the Fed's battle against Bitcom

By Bill Bonner
Paris, France

“Uh… did you sell those Bitcoins, like I suggested?”

Your roguish economist has four sons. Several of them invested in Bitcoins. They thought it was the money of the future.

“Watch out,” cautioned their father. “Governments always try to look into the future… and prevent it from happening. And this is a future the feds are especially keen to stop. They have a monopoly on money. And there is no way they’ll give it up without a fight.”

Yesterday brought news that the fight had begun. The Financial Times is on the story:

Blow to Bitcoin as $3.6 million seized

The feds began with a flank attack. They shut down The Silk Road, which they described as a “black market

Obamacare Hotline Number Says It All!

                     

Do you need health insurance? The Obama administration has you taken care of. Just dial 1-800-FUCKYO and you will reach the next available health care information representative. It's the Obamacare Hotline Number.

That is not a mistype - that’s the actual and official number that Health and Human Services wants Americans to dial

Media Withholds Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter

Networks don’t want to risk losing $2.4 billion in ad revenue from pharmaceutical giants
by  Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 18, 2013


Despite every indication that Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis was on SSRI drugs that have been linked to dozens of previous mass shootings, the mainstream media has once again avoided all discussion of the issue, preferring instead to blame the tragedy on a non-existent AR-15 that the gunman didn't even use.

Obama Promises Syria Strike Will Have No Objective

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— originally published in The New Yorker

Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.”

“Let me be clear,” he said in an interview on CNN. “Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave.”

US To Fund Over $423 Million in Mortgages - For Palestinians!

A vineyard near the West Bank city of Nablus
. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

(CNSNews.com) - Story by Terence Jeffery - The U.S. government will fund $313 million in home mortgages for Palestinians living on the West Bank, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.

The U.S. will also guarantee $110 million in loans to small- and medium-sized businesses located on the West Bank.

The mortgage and business-loan activities will be conducted by the federal Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). “OPIC is the U.S. Government’s development finance institution,” says OPIC’s website. “OPIC provides financial products, such as loans and guaranties; political risk insurance; and support for investment funds, all of which help American businesses expand into

Feds Raid Legal Marijuana Dispensaries in Washington

Abby Ohlheiser

As state laws decriminalizing marijuana begin to take effect (and grow in number), proponents of access to the drug have been holding their breaths to see how the feds would react. And in Washington State, it looks like several medical marijuana dispensaries found out the answer today as the Drug Enforcement Administration confirmed a series of raids in the Seattle area.

Colorado and Washington State have decriminalized the drug, while

The orchestra with instruments built from the landfill - where they lived!