PNN #198 Show Notes http://bit.ly/1aaA6Oy
http://WeUseCoins.com
Ebay Blogs About Bitcoin
http://deals.ebay.com/blog/whats-the-deal-with-bitcoins-anyway/
Boehner Won’t Meet with Russia
http://rt.com/news/congress-speaker-russian-mp-435/
Russians Send Destroyer to Mediterranean
http://rt.com/news/russian-destroyer-mediterranean-report-424/
Morale Concerns Over Quitting Soldiers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10274897/Surge-of-soldiers-wanting-to-quit-prompts-morale-concerns.html
AFL CIO Admits Obamacare Unintended Consequences
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/09/04/afl-cio-president-trumka-employers-restructuring-workforce-29-12-hour#ixzz2dwtDWx9o
National War Tax Resistance Meetup
http://nwtrcc.org/meetings.php
Friday, September 6th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 24 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 125 dollars. Peace News Now is brought to you in part by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com. Learn about bitcoin at http://WeUseCoins.com
Ebay wrote about bitcoins on their blog this week. With a fun, colorful, and easy to understand video, ebay presented bitcoins as a new method of payment. It communicates some of the most important facts about bitcoin: that they make it possible to pay someone across the globe instantly and anonymously. Bitcoin is decentralized, so they don’t depend on a bank or a government to issue them, and they’re impossible to counterfeit. Speaking of governments, no one can take your bitcoins, like they can your bank account. Learn more from the cool video in the show notes, or visit http://WeUseCoins.com . Also of note: Peter Theil, the founder of PayPal, is a huge fan of bitcoins, as is their current CEO.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner is 3rd in charge of the US Empire. RT reported yesterday that he refused a proposal to meet with agents of the Russian Government to discuss the situation in Syria. The Duma members plan to visit Washington next week to persuade their American counterparts not to attack Syria. Later, Putin hammered the US secretary of state, saying that John Kerry lied to the American Congress, quote, ““They lie, plainly. I watched the Congressional debate. A congressman asked Mr. Kerry ‘Is there any Al-Qaeda [in Syria]? There are reports they have been growing stronger.’ [Kerry] replied, ‘No. I say with all responsibility: there is no [Al-Qaeda] there.’”
He explained that the most active terrorist organization in Syria, the so-called Al-Nusra Front, pledges allegiance to Al-Qaeda and that the US is well aware of that. “Well,” Putin continued, “[Kerry] is lying. And he knows that he’s lying. This is sad.”
Putin may correctly call Uncle Sam a liar, but perhaps it takes one to know one: The Russian Navy is deploying a destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean, and say it has *nothing to do* with the crisis in Syria. Syria’s port in the Mediterranean is Russia’s only foreign port, making it a strategic and valuable stronghold for the superpower. According to a ministry spokesman’s statement on Tuesday, the key task of the Russian standing naval force in the Mediterranean is, quote, “comprehensive monitoring over the air, underwater, and surface situation in the zone of its deployment.”
A senior Naval Source told reporters, quote, “…it would be wrong to draw any connection between the rotation of our ships in the Mediterranean region and events in Syria.”
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In the UK, a surge of soldiers want to quit the army. According to their own numbers, the latest round of Army applications to leave early was 40 per cent oversubscribed by volunteers wanting to quit. The highest percentage of those throwing in the towel? Officers. Less than 2/3ds of those who applied to leave were let go.
One senior Army source said, quote, “It’s the worst I have seen it … we are talking about highly experienced middle-ranking officers who have spent the last 12 years in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
The national War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is meeting this November 1st to the 3rd in Manhattan. If you’d like to show your resistance to the war, perhaps you’ll consider joining the millions of Americans who choose not to file income taxes this year. You know what the politicians are doing with your money, and you don’t condone it. At some point, you’ve got to stop sending it to them. Learn more by searching, “National War Tax Resistance.”
Speaking of tax resistance, Obamacare’s excessive taxes are forcing employers and employees alike to make unwanted concessions. They’d both *like* to keep working the same number of hours, but the law forces employers to make unwanted cutbacks to avoid a newly introduced penalty. During a recent interview, even the AFL-CIO President admitted the unintended consequences of Obamacare are leading employers to, quote, “[restructure] their workforce to give workers 29 and a half hours so they don’t have to provide them healthcare.” Perhaps the solution is less meddling by bureaucrats in other’s private affairs.
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